ExxonMobil Rebel Shareholders Want To Confront Climate Change
An old friend, now a law professor at Georgetown, writes about this: Today is the showdown between ExxonMobil and rebel shareholders trying to convince the company to confront climate change and install four new independent directors. The vote will come at today’s ExxonMobil annual meeting. The country’s biggest pension funds have openly sided with rebel shareholders, and the votes of the major fund managers — BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street — hung in the balance. (more…)
A surprise to no one, Trump is decrying the actions that the Justice Department is taking against him as an extension of the original witch hunt. He can be counted on to say precisely this whenever he’s attacked legally, at least as long as there are people who believe that.
A friend sent me this, “a powerful image of what Memorial Day is all about.” It is indeed powerful.
What Galbraith said here was true until recently. The election of Trump started an epoch in which the modern conservative is so involved in hate, cruelty, deceit, science denial, and conspiracy theories that it no longer is in search of a moral justification for anything.
Think of the type of world we would have if the Dalai Lama’s words here informed the way we live our lives.
As illustrated in the brief discussion below, it’s always easy to pick something that’s going wrong in the world, and blame a politician you don’t like for it. I don’t fault Trump for being unable to keep Kim Jong-un from testing nuclear weapons or failing to end Israeli/Palestinian hostility, though he is certainly culpable as a liar and a criminal.
The most interesting thing about the limits on outrageous behavior from Republican congresspeople is that there are none.
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