Leak reveals Rex Tillerson has been the director of ExxonMobil's Russian subsidiary since 1998

[Miromme]

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/18/leak-rex-tillerson-director-bahamas-based-us-russian-oil-company[/url]

[QUOTE]Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.

Tillerson – the chief executive of ExxonMobil – has been a director of the oil company’s Russian subsidiary, Exxon Neftegas, since 1998. His name – RW Tillerson – appears next to other officers who are based at Houston, Texas; Moscow; and Sakhalin, in Russia’s far east.

The leaked 2001 document comes from the corporate registry in the Bahamas. It was one of 1.3m files given to the Germany newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source. The registry is public but details of individual directors are typically incomplete or missing entirely.

Though there is nothing untoward about this directorship, it has not been reported before and is likely to raise fresh questions over Tillerson’s relationship with Russia ahead of a potentially stormy confirmation hearing by the US senate foreign relations committee.[/QUOTE]

[the rifleman]

I welcome our new Russian overlords, града путин!

[Sableye]

lovely.

[purvisdavid1]

Drain the swamp and fill it with permafrost.

[sir whoopsalot]

Time to start working on your Russian, folks. So uh, сука блять and иди нахуй, everyone!

[Hail Satan]

Boy huh that seems like a huge conflict of interest

[elix]

Is this what making America great looks like?

[BlackMageMari]

Power, Corruption and Lies. Just like in Britain. Power, corruption and lies...

[Missing User]

Boy I'm glad the swamp was drained and replaced with fracking fluid and shady banks

[isak]

[QUOTE=Code3Response;51548664]Boy I'm glad the swamp was drained and replaced with fracking fluid and shady banks[/QUOTE]

Wasn't ever drained. He just got confused. Now that the wall's not going to happen, it's become "drain the wall" and "build that swamp ten feet higher."

[Thelurker1234]

Flooded the swamp with vodka

any russians want to help me learn the language of the overlords so that I will be able to get a job, and not just live in the new American ghettos?

[BuffaloHops]

[QUOTE=Code3Response;51548664]Boy I'm glad the swamp was drained and replaced with fracking fluid and shady banks[/QUOTE]

But don't worry, guys, he's not Crooked Hillary and he can do no wrong! :hammered:

[karimatrix]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51548672]Flooded the swamp with vodka

any russians want to help me learn the language of the overlords so that I will be able to get a job, and not just live in the new American ghettos?[/QUOTE]

Da, come to our thread. We'll squat it out.

[Chris™]

Those darn commies

[That Deer]

Oh, he'll drain the swamp.

Specifically the Everglades so they can try to find more oil.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;51548923]Oh, he'll drain the swamp.

Specifically the Everglades so they can try to find more oil.[/QUOTE]

don't forget every swamp on federal lands that oil companies think may contain oil

[Fouytan222]

Currently, Russia is moving oil drilling operations up north, keeping in pace with the Artic's receding ice sheets, a direct result of global warming.

With so many direct ties to the Russian oil industry, I wouldn't be surprised if Tillerson, along with the rest of Trump's cabinet, go [I]past[/I] climate change denial and straight into climate change [I]acceleration[/I].

I don't expect that Trump will get up on stage and declare that as official policy, mind you, but by destroying the EPA, climate change research, and any corporate environment regulations, his cabinet will effectively be doing the same thing.

This is going to be a fucking awful four years.

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;51548923]Oh, he'll drain the swamp.

Specifically the Everglades so they can try to find more oil.[/QUOTE]

Would make me like him more tbh.

[OvB]

[QUOTE=Fouytan222;51549093]Currently, Russia is moving oil drilling operations up north, keeping in pace with the Artic's receding ice sheets, a direct result of global warming.

With so many direct ties to the Russian oil industry, I wouldn't be surprised if Tillerson, along with the rest of Trump's cabinet, go [I]past[/I] climate change denial and straight into climate change [I]acceleration[/I].

I don't expect that Trump will get up on stage and declare that as official policy, mind you, but by destroying the EPA, climate change research, and any corporate environment regulations, his cabinet will effectively be doing the same thing.

This is going to be a fucking awful four years.[/QUOTE]

Tillerson and Exxon do not deny climate change. In fact, Tillerson argued for a carbon tax in 2009.

Not that he's a clean technology proponent... But you know, he knows it's a thing. Not sure if that makes it better or worse actually.

[sYnced]

guys

its oil, cmon

[garbage ellie]

[QUOTE=sYnced;51549188]guys

its oil, cmon[/QUOTE]

liquid money

[benzi2k7]

[QUOTE=OvB;51549163]Tillerson and Exxon do not deny climate change. In fact, Tillerson argued for a carbon tax in 2009.

Not that he's a clean technology proponent... But you know, he knows it's a thing. Not sure if that makes it better or worse actually.[/QUOTE]they still fund tens of millions into climate change deniers

[Map in a box]

Of course high level Exxon execs believe in climate change lol, they're not idiots. They're really smart at converting populaces to idiots, though.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=OvB;51549163]Tillerson and Exxon do not deny climate change. In fact, Tillerson argued for a carbon tax in 2009.

Not that he's a clean technology proponent... But you know, he knows it's a thing. Not sure if that makes it better or worse actually.[/QUOTE]
Exxon still sponsors climate change deniers as well as basically funding all the noteworthy republicans in congress such as Inhofe and his friends.

[FlamingBlizza]

blyat