did you know that condoleeza rice was a chevron director from 1991 to 2001?

[spanone]

i didn't know that.

Below is a picture of the oil tanker before Chevron quietly renamed it the "Altair Voyager" and before President George Bush appointed Ms. Rice as National Security Advisor.



Condoleezza Rice was a Chevron Director from 1991 until January 15, 2001 when she was transferred by President George Bush Jr. to National Security Adviser. Previously she was Senior Director, Soviet Affairs, National Security Council, and Special Assistant to President George Bush Sr. from 1989 to 1991.

Another Chevron Corporation giant in the Bush administration is Vice President Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world’s largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron. Lawrence Eagleburger, a seasoned Bush counselor who held top State Department posts under George Bush Sr., is a director of Halliburton Corporation.

http://www.aztlan.net/oiltanker.htm

[Bluebear]

1. Here is a pic of the actual tanker. Very rare to be able to find the photo anymore

They renamed it lickety split when she became part of The Oil Presidency

[islandmkl]

3. good catch...and it is very hard to find shots of condi's namesake...

[Jeanette in FL]

4. Yeah, it disappeared shortly after * took office

And I believe that they renamed the ship. I suppose they didn't want the appearance of any kind of conflicts of interest.

Great that you still have a picture of that.

[NightWatcher]

2. here's the pic from ABC

gee, oil men (and women) in charge of the government? stop it

[bbinacan]

5. Yes I knew that. n/t

[spanone]

7. i thought it was the 'oil men' in the white house. now it's 'oil men & women' in the white house

[Bluebear]

11. This whole administration is dripping in oil. And now we have record gas prices.

Good thing we all "wanted to have a beer" with rootin-tootin' George Bush.

[spanone]

14. i bet junior is a hard liqour guy

[bdamomma]

35. dripping in oil, and probably have it in their veins.

[mmonk]

6. Too bad she wasn't at Unocal. With both her and Hamid Karzai

working for the same company, maybe we would have just stayed in Afghanistan.

[Beausoleil]

29. But Zalmay Khalilzad was at Unocal

"He acted as a special liaison between UNOCAL and the Taliban regime. He is one of the original members of Project for the New American Century" (of course).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad

[mmonk]

31. Well there had to be some connection. But I was thinking her

high profile may could have kept us there if she was with Unocal instead of seeking Iraq's oil reserves.;)

[Beausoleil]

32. Once the pipeline deal fell through

Iraq was where the action was. Khalilzad went from Ambassador to Afghanistan to Iraq and now UN. Obviously, Rice is his boss.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. And yet another copy of the pic...

...from your friends at The Truthiness Encyclopedia:

[EFerrari]

9. Sure. And while the workers were appealing to her to stop

government slaughter of union organizers, she ignored them.
Chevron killed a bunch of people via the Nigerian government and that was just fine with Condi. Great gal!

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Links please!

Come on sfexpat, you can't tease everyone like this...

[EFerrari]

19. I'm on a temp machine that doesn't load stuff very well.

Let's see -- these look good. The short version is: Union workers were protesting Chevron and Chevron armed the government to kill them. The board, where this person served, ignored the people.

http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/04-07-04/discussion.cgi.94.html

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/int/2004/04/12/flanders

http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/09/condi-rice-and-bush-do-the-katrina-thing-in-myanmar/

[ColbertWatcher]

24. Did this happen in South America? Where her "assistant" Negroponte got his start? n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

25. Okay, nevermind the firedoglake link says Nigeria.

And they're still fighting that crap today.

[EFerrari]

38. Yes, Nigeria. And yes, those poor people ARE still fighting this crap. n/t

[underseasurveyor]

26. There was this great website

called moles.org/projectunderground that followed and detailed the onslaught of these ruthless oil companies and mining companies all around the world and their crimes against people (including enslaving them to work for the oil companies and murdering them), whole villages decimated and whole eco-systems destroyed.

Unfortunately, like many other of the best information sources on the internets, their website has been shut down. I googled and found this remnant of The Ogoni of Nigeria and the Blood, Oil and Death story.

Prepare yourself :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/Ogoni.pdf

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

10. You know, that seems like a very unexplored story

I knew that she had a tanker named after her, but I never thought to ask the question: WHY did she have a tanker named after her? What did she do that was soo extraordinary that Chevron would name her a Director and name a tanker after her? Even more extraordinary because at the time, wasn't she an academic and the provost of Stanford?

Who knows the answer?

[EFerrari]

15. It's all over but we never hear it.

She signed off on the murder of labor organizers in Nigeria. Search Condi Rice, Nigeria, Chevron.

[ben_meyers]

18. Probably affirmative action and

a token for the board room. She in no way has the credentials to have earned any of it on her own. Plus she is a twofer, female and black.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. I don't know how she achieved the accolades from Chevron but your post is damn offensive.

[ben_meyers]

28. Maybe she was sleeping with the chairman of the board

I've heard here that's how she got her job in the White house, you know Bush's mistress and all.

[spanone]

13. here's a story from sfgate 2001

Leaving a wave of controversy in its wake, one of the most visible reminders of the Bush administration's ties to big oil - the 129,000-ton Chevron tanker Condoleezza Rice - has quietly been renamed, Chevron officials acknowledged yesterday.

"We made the change to eliminate the unnecessary attention caused by the vessel's original name," said Chevron spokesman Fred Gorell.

The double-hulled, Bahamian-registered oil tanker carrying the moniker of Bush's national security adviser was renamed the Altair Voyager, after a star, Gorell said.

The unannounced decision to rechristen the tanker was made by Chevron officials in late April, after "we had been in discussions with (Rice's) office," said Gorell. Asked if Rice or the White House had specifically requested the name change, Gorell said, "that's not for me to discuss."

Rice's spokeswoman, Maryellen Countryman, did not return calls on the matter yesterday.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/05/MN223743.DTL&type=printable

[scarletwoman]

16. Yes, I knew that -- it was actually common knowledge in the early days of DU.

In 2001 we were all busy digging up whatever dirt we could find on the bushies, and Condi's Chevron connections were often cited.

I'm very glad you've brought it up again, because some of this earliest collective knowledge has gotten buried in the subsequent avalanche of horrors we've had to live through over the past 7+ years.

Thank you,
sw

[Greyhound]

17. Yes. Did you know the "Mayor of Kabul" was a representative for Chevron? n/t

[EFerrari]

21. Exxon. n/t

[Greyhound]

37. Oops.

[Dervill Crow]

20. Yes. nt

[underseasurveyor]

22. Of course

I was shocked at how many didn't know. I thought is was wide common knowledge because hell I knew it before the failure in chief was installed n office. And I didn't pay attention to politics much at all then.

Well I guess being involved in environmental issues was the reason I knew.

Condi is as cutthroat, if not more, as they get.

[spanone]

23. i actually knew of the tanker, but never realized why it was named after her.

[tammywammy]

30. Yes. n/t

[WhiteTara]

33. they had to change the name of the tanker

after the Valdez spill

[bdamomma]

34. yea, you can see where her priorities lie in a tanker and being

involved in oil. WTF

[Stinky The Clown]

36. This is pretty commonly known, albeit not mentioned much in the last half decade or so .....

An article about the ship's renaming: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/05/MN223743.DTL&type=printable

Where is she now?: http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=C6OK

She appears with her original name on this (Merchant Marine) list: http://www.usmm.org/socalships.html

From the Coast Guard: http://www.e-vrp.com/Vessel_Details.asp?VesselID=33306&PlanNum=793

A better picture of the ship, before renaming:

http://media.shipspotting.com/uploads/thumbs/Ship+Photo+Condoleezza+Rice/535309_800.jpg

A stern view of the ship, before renaming:

http://media.shipspotting.com/uploads/thumbs/Ship+Photo+Condoleezza+Rice/535310_800.jpg

[Solly Mack]

39. Yes and all I got was a war criminal executive for the knowing

[Occam Bandage]

40. Oh, sure. Might want to get rid of the lame photoshop in the OP, though.

[Cleita]

41. Yes, Bush's association with oil people including Rice was known by those

of us who eschewed the main media and bothered to research this Presidential candidate. I wonder that Gore never threw all this out in his campaign. If he did, it was never covered in the media. Maybe it wasn't deemed important at the time by his campaign, but it sure raised a red flag for me. Also, Dick Cheney raised a huge red flag, especially his part in the Nixon administration.

[iamthebandfanman]

42. yes

and lord knows we screamed and holler'd about the connections to big oil by EVERYONE in the administration...but nobody gave two flying shits.
im pretty sure alot of people still dont care.

everything this administration has done has been to the benefit of big oil... and now that theyve gotten what they want in the middle east, they are trying to get alaska and offshore...

its no coincidence that gas and oil are at the highest prices under this administration... its exactly what they want... theres not a family in this administration whos not making money off of oil profits.

its sad people wont open their eyes.

i had a republican say to me ' if this was all about oil like you democrats said it was then wheres all the oil and why is gas so high' ...
to which i responded.. 'well that depends on who you thought the oil was for. if you thought the oil was for the american people , then sure , it would appear it wasnt... if you thought this was about oil companies getting the oil so they could make more profit... then its clear as day .. because the oil companies DO have the oil.'

[Lefty48197]

43. Shocking...

I do hope they put all of her oil stocks into a blind trust so that she won't have any idea that she's profiting from the Bush oil war.

[Hekate]

44. I knew that, but I never understood how she got there. What kind of career trajectory is that?

Dr. Rice was an academic Sovietologist by training, then a high administrator at a major university, where she was not all that much in favor of Affirmative Action, so I've heard.

So how did she get catapulted onto the board of an oil company and become so influential that they named a freaking tanker after her? I've never quite understood that.

Hekate

[Karenina]

45. Birds of a feather...