Examining the NGOs behind the Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit

Does your wife work for Chevron or not?

Phony rhetoric?  This entire article is phony rhetoric.  The ADC is paid by the government of Ecuador??  Are you kidding?  Your proof? You have none, because it's absolutely false.  And your source is Zennie??  The clueless blogger who just spits out Chevron talking points? You just included it because it gets traction in the echo chamber of the Chevron defenders--many of whom are getting all-expense-paid travel to Ecuador to write favorable blogs because the company is losing the battle in the mainstream media.  The ADC is in fact, a real grassroots NGO in Ecuador that has monthly meetings, has hundreds of members, has gov't recognition (the equavilent of 501 c-3 status in the US, and it was given by a right wing administration years ago), by-laws, etc. etc.  If you bothered to actually look into it, it's extremely evident, and a google search to find the webpage for the group took approximately .24 seconds. But this inconvenient truth doesn't fit well with your rhetoric. But I'm glad you 'exposed' the scandalous fact that foundations fund NGOs...What a bombshell!

Fact: ADC has never revealed their funding.  If they want to clear up the “misinformation” then they should reveal their funding.  Seems like the coward hiding behind the name “Truth Out” doesn’t understand that transparency by ADC would clear all this up.  But the coward just keeps pushing the typical propaganda that is so typical of folks supporting these organizations.  Talk about phony! Why don’t you tell us who you are?

and your wife???  does she work for Chevron or not?

Alex- does your wife work for Chevron?

Glad you've come to Alex and Chevron's rescue Craig! He call you and ask you to post? Funny thing is, NY courts don't seem to think the case is baseless, and neither does mainstream media.  And Chevron's attempts to blame state oil company Petroecuador in separate legal actions have also been defeated in Washington DC courts, and the Supreme court declined to accept Chevron's counter claims.  I guess the courts, and  CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, Forbes, NPR, 60 Minutes, among others ALL got this story wrong.  Thanks for setting the record straight--we'll all take the husband with an ax to grind's word for it. You'd think someone writing a blog "exposing" who funds NGOs might also want to declare, at the beginning of the blog instead of having to follow link after link to figure it out, that his wife is a policy advisor for Chevron.

These are pretty common talking points by Truth Out.  Most likely a paid tool for one of the anti-Chevron groups.

Truth Out seems to know a lot about this case, but he can’t answer the question about who funds the Amazon Defense Coalition.  I’ll through in another one for him.  Who pays Hinton Communications to spread their propaganda?

Alex is probably the only one on here using his real name, so the distraction about my online name is just that, a distraction. Don't you agree Peter "Outlaw"?  All you Chevron defenders are classic--repeat the company's talking points, bury your heads in the sand when faced with facts, try to claim the case is baseless when the courts and legitimate news sources clearly disagree...it's almost as if you guys worked for Chevron... Or had a family member who does...

Alex, you've proved you can cut and paste from the internet...but we're still waiting for that disclosure about your wife...

And how much does Chevron spend on their propaganda?  The full page ads in the U.S. and in Ecuador?  The phony "news reports" by Gene Randall? Their DC lobbying to punish Ecuador before the USTR for allowing the case to proceed in its courts? How many millions of dollars in fees to their legal team (s)?  Could probably have spent that on some potable water systems, or put it towards ACTUALLY cleaning up the waste pits...

That's it really.  Unless Truth Out tells us what he's all about.  His credibility is zero.  Still can't answer any of the questions put to him.  Just keep attacking and not answering any questions.  That's what I would call a lightweight intellectual. 

And, let’s not forget that it was Truth Out that kept pushing the issue regarding disclosing everything about Alex. But now he fails to tell what he is all about.  The only thing distracting here is that Truth Out can’t answer a single question that has been put to him.

Now the boy has to resort to making fun of my last name.  Very weak.

Did Peter Outlaw and DC James just erroneously try to cut and paste the exact same thing within 2 minutes of each other? Hmmm....me thinks you both might be the same person, using two different online pseudonyms....but what do I know, I'm just a light weight intellectual.

Thank you Truth Out.  By not being able to answer a single important question put to you, you've revealed that you truelly are a phony.  Still don't know who you are, who you represent and who funds the ADC and Hinton Communications.

And we still don't know who you all are, who you represent, what your interests are, why you run to Chevron's defense, etc.--other than Alex, who doesn't seem to want to admit it himself here, but whose wife works for Chevron and when she got called on it, he started this here blog). But it's a great smoke and mirrors tactic--don't ask why Chevron used cheap technology in Ecuador that dumped millions of gallons of crude and some billions of gallons of toxic waste water, decided it was too expensive to line waste pits so contamination didn't get into the drinking water of local communities, why it merely pushed dirt over waste pits and called it a clean up, why the company fought for 10 years for the case to be moved to Ecuador and now suddenly, on the verge of a verdict, has decided it doesn't want to be tried here, and on and on and on.....Don't ask these critical questions, just use the ole' Burson-Marsteller play book and yell fire in the other direction to distract the eyes of the world.  Too bad for you all, and Chevron, the world isn't buying it.

He did acknowledge that his wife works for Chevron in his first response.  He even posted a link which contains an entire article that talks about the issue and the lies that ADC’s pr firm keeps spreading.  You’re the one who keeps repeatedly attacking other peoples’ motives without telling us who you are.  Based on your cut-and-past talking points, you’re a tool hired by Hinton Communications.  That probably explains why you can’t answer any of the questions put to you – you’re just repeating talking points given to you by Karen Hinton.  You have no answers to the questions put to you, just talking points that you keep repeating.

A simple question for Truth Out:  Who funds the ADC?