ATDTDA (2): "criminal acts of the rich" (32.21)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Continued:

President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States 
up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of 
pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil 
company, and other industries, according to US State 
Department papers seen by the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1501646,00.html

President Bush has ditched the only international 
treaty to stop global warming. As far as Bush is 
concerned, US corporations have the right to 
pollute the entire planet. People and the 
environment don't matter.

So who's paying Bush? One corporation stands 
out from the rest. ExxonMobil donated more dollars 
to get Bush into the White House than any other oil 
company. They don't want clean energy from wind, 
wave and solar power to replace oil, coal and gas. 
Fuelling America's oil addiction means big profits 
for ExxonMobil.

http://www.earthfuture.com/stormyweather/action/past/0107.asp

A study by the US Union of Concerned Scientists reports that 
ExxonMobil funded 29 climate change denial groups in 2004 
alone. Since 1990, the report says, the company has spent 
more than $19 million funding groups that promote their 
views through publications and Web sites that are not peer 
reviewed by the scientific community. [2]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ExxonMobil

But while President Bush publicly embraced the community 
of holocaust survivors in Washington last spring, he and his 
family have been keeping a secret from them for over 50 
years about Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. 
According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence 
and US government archives, President George W. Bush's 
grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off 
Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an 
heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed 
in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president 
George Herbert Walker Bush.

http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/14/feature3.php


The Bushes and the military-industrial complex: George H. 
Walker and Samuel Prescott Bush were the dynasty's 
founding fathers during the years of and after World War I. 
Walker, a St. Louis financier, made his mark in corporate 
reorganizations and war contracts. By 1919, he was 
enlisted by railroad heir W. Averell Harriman to be 
president of Wall Street-based WA Harriman, which 
invested in oil, shipping, aviation and manganese, 
partly in Russia and Germany, during the 1920s. 
Sam Bush, the current president's other great-grandfather, 
ran an Ohio company, Buckeye Steel Castings, that 
produced armaments. In 1917, he went to Washington 
to head the small arms, ammunition and ordnance 
section of the federal War Industries Board. Both men 
were present at the emergence of what became the 
U.S. military-industrial complex.

Prescott Bush, the Connecticut senator and grandfather 
of the current president, had some German corporate 
ties at the outbreak of World War II, but the better 
yardstick of his connections was his directorships of 
companies involved in U.S. war production. Dresser 
Industries, for example, produced the incendiary 
bombs dropped on Tokyo and made gaseous diffusion
 pumps for the atomic bomb project. George H.W. Bush
 later worked for Dresser's oil-services businesses. 
Then, as CIA director, vice president and president, 
one of his priorities was the U.S. weapons trade and 
secret arms deals with Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and 
the moujahedeen in Afghanistan.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0208-05.htm