Pipelineistan effréné
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Irrésistible, infatigable, insatiable, le Grand jeu énergétique continue de plus belle... Peu de gens devaient connaître le sieur Ryan Zinke, obscur secrétaire à l’Intérieur de l’administration Trump, avant sa sortie fracassante qu’il convient de citer...
U.S. eyes West Coast military bases to export coal, gas -report | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-coal/update-1-us-eyes-west-coast-military-bases-to-export-coal-gas-report-idUSL2
President Donald Trump’s administration is considering using West Coast military facilities to export coal and natural gas to Asia, according to an Associated Press report on Monday, citing U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
The move would help fossil fuel producers ship their products to Asia and circumvent environmental concerns in Democratic-leaning states like Washington, Oregon and California that have rejected efforts to build new coal ports.
In an interview in Montana, Zinke told AP “it’s in our interest for national security and our allies to make sure that they have access to affordable energy commodities” and proposed using naval facilities or other federal properties for exports.
Zinke, a former Navy SEAL, said the former Naval Air Facility Adak in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands could be used to export natural gas. He did not specify any others.
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The idea drew praise from the U.S. coal industry, which is eager to overcome a dearth of export terminals on the U.S. West Coast. Currently, U.S. coal exported into the Pacific basin must go through Canada’s British Columbia.
Pipelineistan effréné
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Irrésistible, infatigable, insatiable, le Grand jeu énergétique continue de plus belle... Peu de gens devaient connaître le sieur Ryan Zinke, obscur secrétaire à l’Intérieur de l’administration Trump, avant sa sortie fracassante qu’il convient de citer...
Alaska becomes latest state to request limits on U.S. offshore drilling
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-offshore/alaska-becomes-latest-state-to-request-limits-on-u-s-offshore-drilling-idUS
Alaska Governor Bill Walker said on Tuesday he has asked U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to pare back a Trump administration plan for oil and gas leasing off the state’s coast.
While Walker supports offshore oil development, he said the Interior Department should focus on the most prospective areas off Alaska – the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in the Arctic and Cook Inlet in southern Alaska – and drop all others from the leasing plan.
In asking for proposed lease sales to be dropped, Walker, an independent, joins governors of several other coastal states after Zinke’s unexpected move to exempt Florida from the department’s plans soon after the initial announcement.
”Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is a partner with Alaska in many resource development projects, but a key threat in the effort to achieve a vibrant offshore program in Alaska is creating the false impression that there is an imminent attempt to foster development along our entire coast,” Walker said in a statement.
Proposed lease sales for other offshore regions in Alaska, in areas spanning the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, should be removed from the plan, Walker said. The Interior Department should also maintain long-established buffers for Native Inupiat whalers and a traditional 25-mile no-leasing buffer along the Chukchi coast, the statement said.
About-Face Tweet on Florida Drilling May Backfire on U.S. Agency - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/about-face-tweet-on-florida-drilling-may-backfire-on-u-s-agency
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke just handed offshore drilling foes ammunition for lawsuits by declaring the Florida coast off limits.
Zinke declared he would dial back a proposal to auction drilling rights in as much as 90 percent of U.S. coastal waters less than a week after the plan was unveiled. The decision, announced Tuesday in a tweet, appeared to circumvent a detailed process laid out in federal law and came without any detailed explanation to justify the changes.
“It’s politically unwise and legally unwise,” said Michael Livermore, an administrative law professor at the University of Virginia. "They have a draft out there, and there is a formal process for making changes to the draft. And they’re circumventing that."
Zinke’s declaration followed a meeting with one of the plan’s top Republican opponents, Florida Governor Rick Scott.
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At least 11 governors have asked the Interior Department to leave their states out of any new leasing plan. Some of them responded to Zinke’s pronouncement by demanding meetings with the Interior secretary to argue against new offshore drilling near their shores.
“New York doesn’t want drilling off our coast either,” the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said on Twitter. “Where do we sign up for a waiver?”
Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, said Zinke did “not justify discriminatory agency action in favor of Florida over other states” and offered “no evidence other governors can’t be trusted.”
Il y a 23 états côtiers aux É.-U. (dont 4 (hors Floride) sur le Golfe du Mexique pour lequel l’appel d’offres pour les permis d’exploration à déjà été publié.
Waters Near Florida Still Being Considered for Oil Drilling - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/waters-near-florida-still-being-considered-for-oil-drilling
Despite Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s Jan. 9 declaration that Florida is “off the table” for offshore oil drilling, that activity is actually still on the table.
The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made clear Friday that Zinke’s decision, announced on Twitter and described to reporters in the Tallahassee airport, doesn’t stop a formal process of considering whether to sell drilling rights in waters near the Florida coast.
“It is not a formal action,” Walter Cruickshank told a House subcommittee. That means waters around Florida, including the south Atlantic and eastern Gulf of Mexico, remain under consideration. “They are still part of the analysis until the secretary gives us an official decision otherwise.”
Une chose est sure, la bataille de lobbies bat son plein.
Et cette déclaration ressemble bien à une tentative de désamorçage des recours auxquels la déclaration de R. Zinke a ouvert un boulevard.
U.S. to Roll Back Safety Rules Created After #Deepwater_Horizon Spill - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.html
The Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
A proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which was established after the spill and regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations as part of President Trump’s efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production.
Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce “unnecessary burdens” on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years.
“This proposed rule would fortify the Administration’s objective of facilitating energy dominance” by encouraging increased domestic oil and gas production, even as it strengthens safety and environmental protection, the proposal says.
In April Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to “reconsider” several oil rig safety regulations. Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, at the time did not specify which specific equipment regulations would be reviewed, saying only the review would apply “from bow to stern.”
C’est vrai quoi #l'environnement_ça_commence_à_bien_faire …
Donald Trump recule sur les importations de trophées d’éléphants
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2017/11/18/donald-trump-recule-sur-les-importations-de-trophees-d-elephants_5216769_322
Sous la pression d’organisations de protection de l’environnement mais aussi de son parti, le président américain a gelé une mesure très controversée.
La Maison Blanche n’a pas mis beaucoup de temps pour battre en retraite. Le président Donald Trump a annoncé sur son compte Twitter, vendredi 17 novembre en début de soirée, qu’il gelait jusqu’à nouvel ordre la décision publiée le jour même sur le Federal Register, l’équivalent américain du Journal officiel d’autoriser à nouveau l’importation de trophées de chasse à l’éléphant tués au Zimbawe et en Zambie.
L’USFWS assurait pour se justifier que l’importation de trophées de pachydermes tués au Zimbabwe et en Zambie entre le 21 janvier 2016 et le 31 décembre 2018 « améliorera la survie de l’éléphant d’Afrique », en se fiant dans le premier cas aux assurances données par les autorités locales.
Sous la pression, M. Trump a décidé de ne pas attendre. Le secrétaire à l’intérieur, Ryan Zinke, un fervent défenseur de la chasse, a soudainement jugé « essentielle » la protection des animaux.
Une photo du fils aîné du président, réputé, tout comme son frère cadet, pour sa passion de la chasse, était revenue avec insistance après l’annonce du revirement américain. Sur le cliché, Donald Trump Jr. posait fièrement en 2011 à côté du cadavre d’un pachyderme. Un souvenir devenu encombrant.
Interior Secretary Proposes Shrinking Four National Monuments - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/us/bears-ears-utah-monument.html
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Utah — Parts of this sprawling region of red-rock canyons and at least three other national monuments would lose their strict protection and could be reopened for new mining or drilling under proposals submitted to President Trump by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday, according to congressional aides and others who have been briefed on the report.
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The people briefed on the plans said that along with Bears Ears, Mr. Zinke had proposed reducing the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, also in southern Utah, and two others.
A White House spokesman referred to Mr. Zinke’s submission as a draft and said Mr. Trump wanted more time to study it. Some issues need to be explored in greater detail, the spokesman said in a statement.
27 National Monuments Are Under Review. Here Are Five to Watch. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/11/climate/doi-monument-review-five-to-watch.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com
Not all of the monuments are truly in the administration’s cross hairs, and Mr. Zinke has already declared some of them safe from changes. While any of the others could be altered, critics and supporters of the review say only a handful face significant scrutiny. Here are some of the big ones to watch.
Suit la liste. Il est acquis que le Grand Canyon ne devrait pas être concerné…
Trump to Order Oil Drilling Study Off California Coast, Sources Say - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-25/trump-said-to-order-review-of-oil-drilling-off-california-coast
President Donald Trump will open the door to new oil and natural gas drilling in Pacific waters off the coast of California with a directive Friday that sets up a certain clash with environmentalists.
Trump will order the Interior Department to review locations for offshore oil and gas exploration and consider selling drilling rights in territory that former President Barack Obama put off limits, according to people briefed on the order who spoke on the condition of anonymity before it is issued. That includes U.S. Pacific waters, as well as Arctic and Atlantic acreage left out of the five-year schedule of lease sales issued by Obama in November.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Tuesday nothing is off the table.
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While he is moving to expand offshore access, Trump on Friday also is slated to direct a review of regulations safeguarding offshore oil and gas exploration, including a well-control rule triggered by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The industry is also lobbying for changes to mandates for Arctic drilling.
Opening Arctic for Drilling Is Trump Priority, Key Senator Says - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-10/opening-arctic-for-drilling-is-trump-priority-key-senator-says
Senator Lisa Murkowski said President Donald Trump is interested in opening up new coastal waters for oil and gas drilling and reversing Obama-era policies that restrict energy development in Alaska.
Both Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are weighing ways to expand opportunities to drill in Arctic waters though the changes could take years to accomplish administratively, Murkowski said in an interview on the sidelines of the CERAWeek conference in Houston.
“It’s fair to say we are looking at how we might be able to — how the administration might be able to — allow for opportunities within this important area, offshore Alaska,” Murkowski said.
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Among her targets: making it easier to develop parcels in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a 23-million-acre (9.3 million hectare) region set aside 94 years ago because of its oil and gas potential, and allowing the activity in part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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The Trump administration also is weighing how to undo an executive order that President Barack Obama used to withdraw almost all U.S. Arctic waters and underwater canyons in the Atlantic Ocean from future oil and gas leasing. Environmentalists say it would be unprecedented for any president to rescind such a designation, and the reversal would almost certainly be challenged in court.
Pour la petite histoire, Lisa Murkowski est devenue sénatrice au Congrès en succédant à son papa qui l’avait été 20 ans : venant d’être élu gouverneur de l’état d’Alaska, il a dû démissionner de son mandat et a immédiatement utilisé ses nouvelles fonctions pour désigner sa fille pour lui succéder.
Depuis, et à la suite d’un référendum, le gouverneur de l’Alaska a perdu cette compétence…
The biggest problem for Trump’s border wall isn’t money. It’s getting the land.
Tamez fought the government in federal court. During seven years of litigation and negotiation, she became famous for resisting the border fence. The government eventually paid her $56,000 for a quarter-acre the fence sits on and gave her a code to open a gate so she can access her land to its south.
Imagine this playing out over and over again along the 1,300 miles of borderlands that President Trump wants to wall up. “We will soon begin the construction of a great wall along our southern border,” Trump promised Tuesday night in an address to Congress. “It will be started ahead of schedule, and, when finished, it will be a very effective weapon against drugs and crime.”
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/03/the-biggest-problem-with-trumps-border-wall-isnt-money-its-getting-the-land/?postshare=2361488659805129&tid=ss_tw
#aménagement_du_territoire #terres #murs #barrières_frontalières #résistance #frontières #USA #Etats-Unis
cc @daphne @albertocampiphoto @marty @reka
Sur le même sujet dans le passé...
Donald Trump’s Great Wall of eminent domain
Randal John Meyer of the Cato Institute has an interesting article explaining how Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall across the Mexican border would require the use of eminent domain to forcibly displace large numbers of American property owners: What Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know about his plan to build a “Great Wall” between the U.S. and Mexico: He’d need to steal private property from Americans to build it.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/04/01/donald-trumps-great-wall-of-eminent-domain
#propriété_privée
Landowners Likely To Bring More Lawsuits As Trump Moves On Border Wall
Hundreds of irate landowners along the river have protested what they call a government land grab to install the controversial fence. Their cases landed before U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville. He calls himself “the fence judge.”
▻http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516895052/landowners-likely-to-bring-more-lawsuits-as-trump-moves-on-border-wall
‘Impenetrable, physical, tall’: Colbert uses Trump’s speeches to calculate border-wall costs
If President Trump is the finicky client describing what he wants for a monstrous wall-building project along the Mexican border, Stephen Colbert is the flummoxed architect trying to fashion a blueprint from his bombastic adjectives.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2017/03/11/impenetrable-physical-tall-colbert-uses-trumps-speeches-to-calculate
#coût #prix #satire
Americans and Mexicans living at the border are more connected than divided
During my travels, I started thinking of the space between the two countries as a kind of “third nation.” I confess, I’ve never heard anyone in a border city refer to their turf as a third nation. Locals have many other ways of describing their special connection across the line, like “twin cities” and “ciudades hermanas” (sister cities). Some even call themselves “transborder citizens” living in a “transfrontier metropolis.”
▻http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/article138142578.html
#liens #connexions #échanges
Texans Receive First Notices of Land Condemnation for Trump’s Border Wall
The government offered $2,900 for 1.2 acres near the Rio Grande. If Flores chooses not to accept the offer, the land could be seized through eminent domain.
Interior secretary hints border wall could be on Mexican land
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said America can’t give away the Rio Grande to Mexico in the process of building President Trump’s signature border wall, implying the structure could wind up standing partially on Mexican land.
▻http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326292-interior-secretary-on-wall-were-not-going-to-cede-rio-grande-to
Why some Trump voters in Texas oppose Mexico border wall
With more than 300 acres, the #River_Bend_Resort is one of the few areas left in Brownsville, Texas, without a border fence. Many of the retirees who live there want to keep it that way, reports CBS News correspondent David Begnaud.
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-border-wall-proposal-deadline-brownsville-texas-river-bend-resort
Las grietas del muro
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▻http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/articulo/carlos-heredia-zubieta/mundo/2017/04/2/las-grietas-del-muro
The Trump Administration is Hiring 12 Attorneys to Seize Land for His Border Wall
The Trump administration is hiring a small army of attorneys to fight landowners so the government can seize the property needed to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump promised his supporters.
It is not clear how many Americans will have their land seized, how long the process will take, or how much it will cost, according to a new report published by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee Monday. But the administration is gearing up for a fight nonetheless.
▻http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-hiring-12-attorneys-seize-land-his-border-wall-710444
Le « mur » de Trump va bientôt traverser leur jardin
Dans la vallée du Rio Grande, la plupart des terrains où le mur de Donald Trump doit être construit sont privés. Les propriétaires tentent de résister face à un État qui a tous les droits, y compris celui de les flouer. Deuxième volet de notre série de reportages au sud du Texas, à la frontière mexicaine.
Rio Grande Valley Landowners Plan To Fight Border Wall Expansion
President Trump last week vetoed a congressional measure aimed at blocking his national emergency declaration. The next battle over that emergency declaration will likely be in the courts.
Meanwhile, planning for extending the border wall is already happening in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
More than 570 landowners in two counties, Hidalgo and Starr, have received right-of-entry letters from the government asking to survey their land for possible border wall construction.
Eloisa Tamez lives in El Calaboz, a small town outside of Brownsville, Texas. In 2007, she received a phone call that she describes as life-changing.
“I was notified by two border patrolmen, that ’did I know that my property was in the path of the planned construction of the border wall,’” Tamez said. “I told them I did not know.”
The government wanted permission to access her land to survey it, but she refused, so they took her court, where her case dragged on for months, but, eventually — she lost her case.
“Within 24 hours after he gave the order, they built that,” Tamez said, referring to the wall that now sits behind her property.
Next, came the battle for compensation.
The government originally low-balled her, she said, so she sued for more.
“The settlement that I got, which was $56,000,” Tamez said. “I converted some of that for scholarships for graduate nursing students.”
Tamez said she didn’t want the money and just wanted her land, without a wall.
Tamez’s experiences in dealing with the government back then is similar to what other landowners went through — they fought, they lost, the wall was built.
Now it seems like those legal skirmishes will begin again.
Efrén Olivares, director of the racial and economic justice program at the Texas Civil Rights Project, said this time around it seems more people will be impacted, but is hopeful more residents now know their rights.
“What happened last time ... a lot of people didn’t know they didn’t have to accept the first offer, so they signed without knowing they were giving up their rights,” Olivares said.
Olivares said landowners in the Rio Grande Valley should know the courts can weigh in on the surveying and the compensation amounts.
In this latest effort to extend the wall, Congress has required the federal government to meet with local officials to discuss design and alignment of the border barrier.
In Starr county, Roma Mayor Roberto Salinas said he met with local Border Patrol officials three weeks ago to try to negotiate on behalf of his community.
“Right now what’s planned below the center of town is an 18 feet steel fence,” Mayor Salinas said. “We think that would be a detriment to tourism, instead what we would like to see is something more like a concrete barrier built with some decorative fencing on top of it that would enhance tourism.”
Salinas said the border patrol officials were receptive, but there’s no official contract.
Mayor Salinas said he understands both sides of the wall debate.
“Border Patrol and Homeland Security say they need the fence in order to do their jobs. I’m a big supporter of Border Patrol and Homeland Security and if they say they need it, I think we should comply and give them what they need,” Salinas said.
The mayor said border officials assured him no homes would be displaced during the construction of a new border wall, but he’s skeptical because they’ve walked back commitments in the past.
Ninety-year-old Elvira Canales lives in Salineño, a 15-minute drive west of Roma.
She said she recently talked to the Army Corps of Engineers about an upcoming road construction project near her property by the Rio Grande. Canales said she’ll take legal action if the government tries to take her land for the road, or for the proposed wall.
“I won’t sell it, or I won’t give it permission because it’s my property for generations and generations,” Canales said.
The Canales family has not yet received an official letter from the government asking for permission to survey their land.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials provided NPR with a statement saying they prefer to avoid homes and other structures, and are in the preliminary stages of planning and designing in Starr County. CBP also said it has not finalized border wall construction timelines for the county.
▻https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704116416/rio-grande-valley-landowners-plan-to-fight-border-wall-expansion?t=155306324746
Border wall goes up, landowners continue to fight
The #Cavazos family is still taking a stance against the border wall as construction continues in other parts of the Valley.
Freddy Cavazos, property owner along the US-Mexico border, is reminded of what his grandmother useD to say to him when we was kid.
“She said never sell this property, our grandma kept telling us,” said Freddy Cavazos.
The Cavazos family hasn’t sold it, instead they’ve continued to fight against the federal government’s eminent domain.
“We were supposed to have this all cleared up in June, but they keep postponing and postponing,” said Freddy Cavazos.
The 60-acre property is owned by several family members, Reynaldo Azaldua Cavazos is one of them.
“How much are you getting? $3.98,” responded Reynaldo Azaldua.
The Cavazos family settled for $350 for the government to access their land for 12 months.
An offer that originally stood at $100.
“It just shows, the low ball offers, the pennies on the dollars, that the government is willing to offer these border wall properties,” said Rick Garza, Staff Attorney for Texas Civil Rights Project representing the Cavazos family.
Now government officials have made their way onto the Cavazos family ranch for the next step.
“We had appraisers here last week, they looked at every structure here,” said Reynaldo Azaldua.
According to the Texas Civil Rights Project, the government’s offer can come in the next few days or even months.
For now, it’s a waiting game and family members say they are willing to play as long as they try to keep their grandmothers ranch.
“She would probably tell us keep fighting, hijos keep fighting, even if you lose in the end,” said Freddy Cavazos.
The Cavazos family’s next court date is scheduled to be in December.
▻https://valleycentral.com/news/local/border-wall-goes-up-landowners-continue-to-fight
Trump admin preparing to take over private land in #Texas for border wall
The Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin taking over private land in Texas to build a border wall as early as this week, say officials.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-preparing-take-over-private-land-border-wall-n1082316?cid=sm_np
Noël à Wall Street : l’indice Dow Jones se rapproche de 20 000
▻http://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2016/dec2016/pers-d22.shtml
L’évènement clé est l’élection de Trump. Après une chute initiale suite au résultat inattendu du vote, la bourgoisie est rapidement parvenue à un consensus sur le fait qu’elle avait beaucoup à gagner d’un gouvernement Trump. Les cours se sont envolés, et malgré quelques interruptions mineures, la flambée continue depuis.
Dire que le climat des affaires a changé relève de euphémisme. L’oligarchie américaine célèbre un Noël de rêve. Elle anticipe, à juste titre, que le gouvernement Trump sera celui de l’oligarchie financière. La cabale de milliardaires, de banquiers, de PDG, et de généraux qui constitue son cabinet ministériel et le cercle intérieur de la Maison Blanche est engagée à lever toutes les contraintes qui pèsent sur la capacité des riches de piller la société.
Les banquiers comptent obtenir l’élimination des restrictions mineures sur la spéculation imposées par la loi bancaire Dodd-Frank de 2010 et, en plus, des taux d’intérêt plus élevés. C’est garanti par la présence de trois ex-banquiers de Goldman Sachs au gouvernement : le néo-fasciste Stephen Bannon (stratège en chef de la Maison Blanche), Steven Mnuchin (chef du département du Trésor) et le président de Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn (président du Conseil national économique).
Il est donc peu étonnant que les actions bancaires aient été au cœur de la flambée des cours ; les actions Goldman Sachs ont augmenté de plus de 33 pour cent, ce qui représente un quart de la hausse du Dow. JPMorgan Chase n’est pas à la traîne non plus (montée de 22 pour cent).
Les sociétés énergétiques comptent éliminer toutes les contraintes sur l’exploitation des mines, le forage et la pollution, et obtenir une politique étrangère leur assurant le contrôle des ressources mondiales. Rex Tillerson, PDG du pétrolier Exxon-Mobil, dirigera la diplomatie américaine. Des serviteurs attitrés du patronat opposés à la réglementation écologique dirigent l’Agence pour la protection de l’environnement (le procureur général de l’Oklahoma Scott Pruitt), le Département de l’Energie (l’ex-gouverneur du Texas, Rich Perry) et le Département de l’Intérieur (le représentant républicain du Montana, Ryan Zinke).
Les actions des sociétés industrielles montent en vue de baisses des salaires, d’augmentations des cadences et de baisses d’effectifs sanctionnées par par les secrétaires du Commerce, le milliardaire Wilbur Ross, et du Travail, le magnat du fast-food Andrew Puzder, qui critique l’existence d’un salaire minimum.
Les actions des géants du transport et du bâtiment, dont Caterpillar, grimpent suite à l’annonce par Trump d’un plan d’infrastructure de mille milliards de dollars. Ceci prépare des privatisations et l’octroi de contrats juteux garantissant aux entreprises des réductions d’impôt allant jusqu’à 80 pour cent, liées à la construction d’infrastructures dont elles seront alors les propriétaires, leur assurant des revenus à perpétuité.
Les entreprises de défense attendent avec impatience une flambée de leurs bénéfices, grâce à une augmentation massive des dépenses militaires sous Trump.
Les grandes entreprises s’attendent toutes à une hausse de leurs bénéfices grâce à la réduction de 20 pour cent des impôts sur les sociétés ; à l’éviscération des règlements sur la santé et la sécurité des travailleurs ; aux coupes claires dans l’assurance maladie, les retraites publiques, les aides au logement, et l’éducation publique imposées par des réactionnaires sociaux dont le chef milliardaire du Département de l’ Education Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson à l’Aménagement urbain, et Tom Price au Département de la Santé et des Services sociaux. Ils comptent réduire sévèrement la part des bénéfices, tirés de la sueur des travailleurs, qui finance ensuite les services publics, ce qu’ils considèrent être un détournement intolérable de leurs richesses.