Roll call for representatives with financial investment in the tarsands and TransCanada's KeystoneXL

[Fire Walk With Me]

Follow the money.


"Hailing her longtime role as a 'trusted adviser,' President Barack Obama formally named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his next national security adviser on Wednesday."
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/05/18772869-obama-appoints-susan-rice-as-national-security-adviser?lite

"Potential Secretary of State candidate Susan Rice holds as much as $600,000 of shares in TransCanada, the company seeking State Department approval to build the Keystone XL pipeline."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84355.html

The SEC Mulls An Investigation Calls Grow For John Boehner To Resign
http://www.politicususa.com/2012/01/28/john-boehner-resign.html

Speaker Boehner owns shares in seven different Canadian tar sand companies
https://www.facebook.com/OMCorg/posts/184196495016974

Congressmembers Implicated in Insider Stock Trading on TransCanada, Keystone XL Pipeline
http://www.desmogblog.com/congressmembers-implicated-insider-stock-trading-transcanada-keystone-xl-pipeline

The GOP’s Senate Oil Whores Get $22.3 Million From Keystone XL Backers
http://www.politicususa.com/2012/02/02/senate-keystone-xl.html



Biased extra reading:

‘Every Plant And Tree Died’: Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/18/2167151/every-plant-and-tree-died-huge-alberta-pipeline-spill-raises-safety-questions-as-keystone-decision-looms/?mobile=wt

Police Trained to Treat Keystone XL Protesters as 'Terrorists' (View TransCanada's PowerPoints)
http://www.alternet.org/environment/transcanada-trains-police-arrest-keystone-xl-activists-anti-terrorist-statues

[leftyohiolib]

1. what a disgrace

[johnnyreb]

2. As if Americans are such pushovers...

[Octafish]

3. 'Corruption in public office is treason.'

...is how Adlai Stevenson, Jr. put it.

[90-percent]

5. correction to Adlai

It would only be treason if it happened in the time of a declared war.

According to Lawrence O'donnel's strict reading of the portion of the Constitution that covers the definition of treason.

However, it is a beautiful word I intend to continue to use incorrectly.

One example of my incorrect usage:

All our elected officials should be tried for TREASON because of their failure to uphold their oath's of office.

-90% Jimmy

[Bluenorthwest]

11. I think it would depend on what form the 'corruption' took. Big word, big term of art.

It is very possible to commit treason during peacetime, particularly when holding office. And by the way, this here is not peacetime, we are 'at war'. Yep. See how that works?

[90-percent]

12. Yes

The perpetual war on dandruff!


-jim

[OnyxCollie]

4. K&R. nt

[Moostache]

6. I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I say! *sarcasm*

This is about the LEAST surprising thing I have heard this month...these people disgust me. I wish there was a way for them to be forced to live in the areas destroyed by their "investments"...

[xchrom]

7. du rec.

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

[matthews]

9. Controversial State Department Keystone XL Climate Study the Basis of David Petraeus' CUNY Seminar

Controversial State Department Keystone XL Climate Study the Basis of David Petraeus' CUNY Seminar

Further digging into records obtained via New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) also reveals "a survey of the global economy to set the stage for the course" - as stated in an email from Petraeus to an unknown source due to redaction - utilizes the U.S. State Department's Keystone XL environmental review written by Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group) to argue that Transcanada's tar sands export pipeline deserves approval.

"[Redacted], atttached is a document that my Harvard researchers and I put together for the seminar I'll lead at Macaulay Honors College of CUNY," wrote Petraeus in the email. "It is intended to be a survey of the global economy to set the stage for the course...[It] will have considerable value, I think, for the undergrads in the course."

Key context about the "favorable report" completely lacking from the course survey: it was written by API dues-paying member Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group). Since the June 2008 proposal of Keystone XL, API has spent over $22 million lobbying for it.

ERM Group was chosen by TransCanada to do the report with the blessing of the State Department, and may have committed a federal crime by lying on its conflict-of-interest form when it said it did not have an ongoing business relationship with Transcanada. In fact, ERM has ongoing business ties with Transcanada in Alaska, contrary to what it said on its conflict-of-interest form, and is helping the company's attempt to recieve approval of its South Central LNG pipeline project.

http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/07/25/controversial-state-department-keystone-xl-climate-study-basis-david-petraeus-cuny-seminar

[mtasselin]

10. standard

I thought this administration was going to set new standards for being above corruption, oh yea hope and change, fooled me twice.