Chevron (Kindasleezy's company) profiting from Myanamar oppresion

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Chevron and the Yadana Pipeline
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
EarthRights International released a new report, The Human Cost of Energy: Chevron’s Continuing Role in Financing Oppression and Profiting From Human Rights Abuses in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar), documenting Chevron’s ongoing role in financing and profiting from the military regime in Burma. This is the first comprehensive report on conditions in the Yadana pipeline region since Chevron acquired Unocal’s interest in 2005, and documents the continued serious human rights violations by pipeline security forces, including forced labor, murder, rape and torture. The report also describes Chevron’s continuing legal liability associated with abuses in the pipeline region. (See ERI's Press Release on the report.)

http://www.earthrights.org/

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1. Thanks

I've bookmarked the report for a good read

[Disturbed]

2. Has Ms Rice commented upon her former employer Corp.?

They did name a tanker after her but then painted over her name.

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7. My pleasure. I'm researching this topic as this window of opportunity

to expose the sleaze will close after another news cycle or so.

[Robbien]

3. Chevron also even named a tanker after her

Chevron and this Bush Admin have a lot to answer for in this mess.

The Bushies profit from it, support the death squads and now point a finger and call them bad guys as if the Bushies had nothing to do with them.

[malaise]

4. That's why I laugh when they talk about juntas

Most of them are despots who terrorize their own citizens while supporting Western corporations backed by their governments.
I am way too old to be fooled. What is presented as truth is an utter inversion of reality.

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6. We need a cartoonist to draw the SS Condoleeza with Rice as a

figurehead.




Condi Rice Renamed

Energy giant Chevron Corp. has quietly renamed one of its big oil tankers.


The Condoleeza Rice, named after the former Chevron director and current National Security Adviser to President Bush, was renamed the Altair Voyager, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in May.


In April, at a White House press briefing, assistant press secretary Scott McLellan was asked about the oil tanker.
The reporter put it this way: “Before she became National Security Advisor, was on the board of directors of Chevron Corporation. Chevron –– before she left –– named an oil tanker after her. There’s an oil tanker named the Condoleeza Rice. It’s a 136,000 ton oil tanker that carries oil around the world. Given that Chevron has been accused of human rights abuses with the Nigerian Mobile Police against civilians in Nigeria, I’m wondering whether the president thinks it’s wise to have this close a relationship with Chevron.”


McLellan said that he thought “the issue has already been addressed by Dr. Rice and she will uphold the highest ethical standards in office.”


When asked whether the president should call the CEO of Chevron and say, “Take the name off the tanker,” McLellan said, “I think the issue has been addressed.”
“We made the change to eliminate unnecessary attention caused by the vessel’s original name,” says Chevron spokesperson Fred Gorell.


Asked whether the White House had asked for the name change, Gorell told the San Francisco Chronicle “that’s not for me to discuss.”


In April, when the controversy was brewing, a spokesperson for Chevron said that the company would not rename the Condi Rice tanker. “If you remember, Carla Hills was on our board, and went off the board to take a role in the administration, and we did not rename the tanker,” the spokesperson said at the time.

multinationalmonitor.org/mm2001/01june/june01names.html

[SpiralHawk]

9. Bowsprit de Condi

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10. ROFL!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :applause:

Where do you guys come up with this stuff?

[Quantess]

5. Very interesting.

Nighttime kick.

[EFerrari]

8. That's right, and it begs the question of how much is Condi in bed with CHINA.

Is that a good relationship for our Secretary of State to have? :shrug:

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11. China has been supplying arms to the junta.