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Exxon's Obsession With Paying For Anti-Global-Warming Propaganda

Their Propaganda Expenditures Against Global Warming

In case you're wondering where all the propaganda against global warming is coming from, a large part of it comes from ExxonMobil. Take a look below at this breakdown of where Exxon has spent money specifically pushing its anti-global warming agenda.

ExxonMobil's payouts

Thinktanks:

$1.38 million Competitive Enterprise Institute
$310,000 George C Marshall Institute
$312,500 Heartland Inst.

Racial organizations:

$40,000 Congress Racial Equality
$75,000 National Black Chamber of Commerce

Journalism:

$95,000 Techcentralstation.com
$50,000 Media Research Center

Religious:

$155,000 Action Institute for the Study of Religious Liberty

Consumer:

$252,000 Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
$317,000 Consumer Alert

Science:

$10,000 Science and Environmental Policy Project
$427,500 Annalpolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy
$55,000 Center for the Study of CO2 and Global Change

Legislature

$712,200 American Legislative Exchange Council

Large Thinktanks:

$950,000 American Enterprise Inst.
$340,000 Heritage Foundation
$140,000 Hoover Inst

Some related information can be found here:
exxonsecrets.org and exxposeexxon.com.

National Science Teacher's Assocation

Strangely, this organization rejected 50,000 free copies of Al Gore's DVD on global warming. Why? Because they accepted $6 million from ExxonMobil and others. HuffingtonPost story.

Their wild attack on investigative journalist Greg Palast

Palast has exposed their wrongdoing as regards the Exxon Valdez.

Recently Palast was filming Exxon's Baton Rouge facility when Exxon filed a complaint with Homeland Security.

PrisonPlanet story.

Their Hoover Institution connection

More proof that thinktanks are home to second-rate thinkers. On ExxonMobil's board sits Hoover Institution member and Stanford economics professor Dr. Michael Boskin. It is important to note, before you assume he is intelligent because he works at Stanford, that modern economics is not a science. Nor could it ever be, since you can't create a controlled experiement that you aren't a part of. Economics is basically a pseudo-religion whose purpose is to justify the actions of the rich when the rich harm everyone else.

Tax Avoidance

In addition, from 2001-2003, ExxonMobil paid only 2.8% in US state taxes and 15% in federal taxes.

Connection to American Enterprise Institute

From Wikipedia in 2006:

"Lee Raymond, CEO of ExxonMobil, is the vice chair of American Enterprise Institute's board of trustees."

"[AEI] has emerged as one of the leading architects of Bush administration's public policy; more than two dozen AEI alumni have served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions"

Connection to Halliburton

From TheyRule.net:

ExxonMobil and Halliburton have a very tight connection: they have a director in common named William R. Howell.

Tobacco's anti-global warming propaganda

It has been revealed that tobacco companies are also behind some of the propaganda. Guardian story.

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