Fellow Dems Say Willow Approval Leaves 'Oil Stain' on Biden Climate Legacy - CommonDreams

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Fellow Dems Say Willow Approval Leaves 'Oil Stain' on Biden Climate Legacy - CommonDreams

Progressives on Capitol Hill joined climate advocates and Indigenous leaders across the country Monday in blasting U.S. President Joe Biden for his administration's approval of ConocoPhillips' Willow oil project on federal land in Alaska.

"The Biden administration has committed to fighting climate change and advancing environmental justice—today's decision to approve the Willow project fails to live up to those promises," declared U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) along with a trio of House Natural Resources Committee leaders, Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.).

The four Democrats argued that "their decision ignores the voices of the people of Nuiqsut, our frontline communities, and the irrefutable science that says we must stop building projects like this to slow the ever more devastating impacts of climate change."

In a move widely seen as an attempt to temper criticism of the decision to greenlight Willow, the Biden administration on Monday also announced new restrictions for offshore oil lease sales in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska's North Slope.

"While we acknowledge that the administration also just announced that it is conserving new public lands and waters in the Arctic, split decisions in the face of the climate crisis are not good enough," the Democrats said.

Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-congress-biden-willow-alaska

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1. And...

Biden Denounced for 'Appalling' Approval of Willow Oil Project - CommonDreams

Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-approves-willow-project

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2. And...

Green Groups Vow Fight After Biden Climate 'Betrayal' - CommonDreams

Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-approves-willow-project-2659589341

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Last US President to stand up to Big Oil was Jimmy Carter.

How a Deep State Plot Sank Jimmy Carter

PETER DALE SCOTT
WhoWhatWhy.Org, 11/02/14

The Safari Club was an alliance between national intelligence agencies that wished to compensate for the CIA’s retrenchment in the wake of President Carter’s election and Senator Church’s post-Watergate reforms. As former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal once told Georgetown University alumni,

In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not write reports, and it could not pay money. In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting Communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran. (1)

After Carter was elected, the Safari Club allied itself with Richard Helms and Theodore Shackley against the more restrained intelligence policies of Jimmy Carter, according to Joseph Trento. In Trento’s account, the dismissal by William Colby in 1974 of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton,

combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to start working with [former DCI Richard] Helms [then U.S. Ambassador to Iran] and his most trusted operatives outside of Congressional and even Agency purview. James Angleton said before his death that “Shackley and Helms … began working with outsiders like Adham and Saudi Arabia. The traditional CIA answering to the president was an empty vessel having little more than technical capability.”(2)

Trento adds that “The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed . . . the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine.”(3) Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who had been forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by Theodore Shackley:

Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like [Edwin] Wilson, the Safari Club—operating with [former DCI Richard] Helms in charge in Tehran—would be ineffective. . . . Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to [CIA] resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced. (4)

Continues…

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/the-deep-state-plots-the-1980-defeat-of-jimmy-carter/

Saudi Roils and Petroligarchs HATE democracy.

[tritsofme]

4. CommonDreams bashing President Biden? Shocking!

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5. How Is Reporting That People Are Upset, Bashing ???

When Democratic Senators, Congress People, and allied Environmental Groups all cry foul, it's a story.

You'd prefer it was ignored ?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

12. Because Common Dreams is a non-stop anti-Democratic propaganda organization

that's being cited on a pro-Democratic (in theory) website.

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13. Was Their Reporting Wrong ???

Because I personally know more than just a few Democrats that are upset with the Willow Project approval.

Which site do you suggest we use, to reflect that here ?

[Rob H.]

25. Doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong

Common Dreams didn't fawn over Clinton in 2016 or Biden in 2020 and some people have apparently decided to do everything in their power to die mad about it.

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26. Ah... What's Gonna Happen If We Ever Have An Open Primary ???

I mean... we could have Democrat going after Democrat.

I mean...... we could have POLITICS breaking out all over the place !!!

[Rob H.]

27. Exactly! Imagine how horrifying that would be!

[womanofthehills]

29. OMG! Common Dreams is left/progressive

Overall, we rate Common Dreams Left Biased based on story selection and op-eds that favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-dreams/

[womanofthehills]

30. Hello?? Common Dreams is a progressive site

Left. Left. Left

[Just A Box Of Rain]

34. I guess we have very different concepts of what's "progressive."

Left. Left. Left. I won't argue with.

[Hortensis]

9. :) Yes, typical. Extremely, deludingly off balance and simplistic -- just right for

confirming emotional predispositions, enabling a Limbaugh's dittoheads-type leap to conviction of being informed on subjects of passionate involvement -- without being informed.

Even one properly informative article would shine a light through many deceiving holes and distortions in this one. The biggest of all -- where the reasons why should be. So readers could understand and evaluate.

[Kaleva]

6. Disapproving or approving Willow won't make a difference.

There's no evidence that not extracting oil from Willow will cause humans worldwide to consume less oil .

"World War II-style rationing could be an effective way to reduce carbon emissions, according to new research from the University of Leeds."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230220121859.htm


The situation is so severe that extraordinary measures will have to be taken in order to minimize the effects of climate change.

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7. Well, There Was A Thread Recently That Discussed The Difference It Might Make In Votes In 2024

In Tennis, it's called an "Unforced Error".

[Kaleva]

8. It isn't going to matter who is in office.

[GGoss]

10. I Hear Ya, The Planet Doesn't Give A Fuck About Political Affiliation

That said, I would like OUR party to be on the right side of history.

[Kaleva]

11. I think our party should be honest with the people

and tell us to start preparing as best we can

[Tarc]

14. Commondreams is a Jackpine Radicals outpost

Nothing new or illuminating.

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16. Yeah... Ya Just Can't Trust A Site That Would Feature Authors Like These, Right ???

Common Dreams has featured original articles by the following authors:

Eric Alterman
Noam Chomsky
Alexander Cockburn
Jeff Cohen
Juan Cole
Joe Conason
David Corn
Linh Dinh
Robert Fisk
Amy Goodman
Tom Hayden
Bob Herbert
Jim Hightower
Arianna Huffington
Molly Ivins
Jesse Jackson
Kathy Kelly
Naomi Klein
Paul Krugman
Michael Lerner
Michael Moore
Ralph Nader
Laura Packard
Harold Pinter
Ted Rall
Robert Reich
Frank Rich
Arundhati Roy
Bernie Sanders
Robert Scheer
Cindy Sheehan[6]
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Howard Zinn

From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Dreams#:~:text=Common%20Dreams%20NewsCenter%2C%20often%20referred,of%20serving%20the%20progressive%20community.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

17. I don't think that many of the authors on that list help your case. Frankly.

Ralph Nader? For fuck's sake???

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18. You Said "Many", You Named ONE... Please Go On... I'm Here To Learn

[Just A Box Of Rain]

19. I will decline the bait.

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20. Smart Move

[Just A Box Of Rain]

22. I'm more than aware.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

23. BTW Jill Stein is another Common Dreams contributer.

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28. Lol, Cindy Sheehan? Ralph Nader?

10 pounds of shit in a 5-gallon bag, as gramps used to say.

[womanofthehills]

31. Common Dreams has a top rating for being truthful

[BannonsLiver]

15. Boo hoo.

[PatSeg]

21. Does anyone understand why the Biden administration

approved this project? It is pretty inconsistent with most of his agenda so far.

I rarely disagree with Biden, but in this case, I really don't know enough about the situation.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

24. As we transition to cleaner energy--which is happening--we can either help fund

Vladamir Putin, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and other oil producing countries with abysmal human rights records, or we can avail ourselves of domestic supplies.

[womanofthehills]

32. I feel the same. Why would he ok a project that is super unpopular?

Many mega wind farms are being built. Sun Zia in NM will produce 3500 MW of power.

[Sogo]

33. IMO, the segment Chris Hayes did on this topic tonight

will put to rest the concern over this issue in most minds....

Basically what they said was development of alternatives will outpace (due to provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act) the need for fossil fuel drilling and that includes Willow. By the time any drilling takes place there, it will essentially be obsolete and probably not happen.