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Post by Kee on Apr 27, 2004 14:45:00 GMT -5
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Post by Kee on Apr 28, 2004 0:58:33 GMT -5
I have the most fascinating little footnote on Condoleeza and Cheney. Funny how those most prominent in the Bush administration keep popping up all over the place (and repeatedly!) when it comes to oil and money.
In another thread, I've touched on the United States interest and consequent positioning in a proposed new oil pipeline in the area of Afghanistan and what was formally the Soviet Union. So let's take a peak at how these two happened to be involved there as well, and before their current roles in the White House, might I add.
The pipeline race began in 1993 when Chevron entered a forty year deal with the government of Kazakhstan to exploit the Tengiz oil field and export its oil through a proposed new pipeline complex across the Caspian Sea to Baku and from there to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiisck. To fast forward over some detail, it's notable that the project is also a joint venture with Russia. An arrangement that irritates the U.S. as we want to see oil and gas leaving Central Asia without pkmtyolping through either Russia or Iran.
The list of people who backed the Kazakhstan pipeline reads like a who's who of Republican oil politicians. Chevron's chief advisor was Condoleeza Rice, then a Stanford University professor who joined the Chevron board in 1991 after serving for a year on Bush Senior's National Security Council. She received a $35,000 a year annual retainer, plus generous stock options and other perks, and stepped down a decade later, just days before becoming Bush Junior's national security advisor. The press often refers to her as Chevron's "main expert on Kazakhstan " although she has never published anything about Central Asia. (The only book she has ever written without a collaborator is her doctoral dissertation, The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance {1984}.) Chevron was nonetheless so pleased with her role that it named a 129,000-ton Bahamian-registered supertanker after her. In late April 2001, the company quietly renamed the ship the Altair Voyager "to eliminate the unnecessary attention caused by the vessel's original name.": Although sailors regard it as a bad omen to rechristen a ship, the vessel is, at least, a double-hulled tanker.
Dick Cheney, Bush Senior's secretary of defense and Bush Junior's vice president, helped broker the deal, while out of office, between Chevron and Kazakhstan as a member of Kazakhstan's Oil Advisory Board.
This gets even a little more interesting, but alas.....I want to do some reading before bed, and so perhaps tomorrow.
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Post by genesda on Apr 28, 2004 5:01:16 GMT -5
I have the most fascinating little footnote on Condoleeza and Cheney. Funny how those most prominent in the Bush administration keep popping up all over the place (and repeatedly!) when it comes to oil and money.
In another thread, I've touched on the United States interest and consequent positioning in a proposed new oil pipeline in the area of Afghanistan and what was formally the Soviet Union. So let's take a peak at how these two happened to be involved there as well, and before their current roles in the White House, might I add.The pipeline race began in 1993 when Chevron entered a forty year deal with the government of Kazakhstan to exploit the Tengiz oil field and export its oil through a proposed new pipeline complex across the Caspian Sea to Baku and from there to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiisck. I see. Then Clinton, Algore, the lesbian, Donna Shalala, and the rest of Clinton's cabinet must have been involved, right? [/color] To fast forward over some detail, it's notable that the project is also a joint venture with Russia. An arrangement that irritates the U.S. as we want to see oil and gas leaving Central Asia without pkmtyolping through either Russia or Iran. Yes, a real irritation. [/color] The list of people who backed the Kazakhstan pipeline reads like a who's who of Republican oil politicians. Chevron's chief advisor was Condoleeza Rice, then a Stanford University professor who joined the Chevron board in 1991 after serving for a year on Bush Senior's National Security Council. She received a $35,000 a year annual retainer, plus generous stock options and other perks, and stepped down a decade later, just days before becoming Bush Junior's national security advisor. How much money did Clinton get for allowing Communist Chine to steal military and satilite secrets from the super secret satilite that they "launched" for the USA, which had to be aborted?[/color] The press often refers to her as Chevron's "main expert on Kazakhstan " although she has never published anything about Central Asia. (The only book she has ever written without a collaborator is her doctoral dissertation, The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance {1984}.) Chevron was nonetheless so pleased with her role that it named a 129,000-ton Bahamian-registered supertanker after her. In late April 2001, the company quietly renamed the ship the Altair Voyager "to eliminate the unnecessary attention caused by the vessel's original name.": Although sailors regard it as a bad omen to rechristen a ship, the vessel is, at least, a double-hulled tanker. Then it should be named the Kerry. He has a double opposing answer for every topic. [/color] Dick Cheney, Bush Senior's secretary of defense and Bush Junior's vice president, helped broker the deal, while out of office, between Chevron and Kazakhstan as a member of Kazakhstan's Oil Advisory Board.That's called business. [/color] This gets even a little more interesting, but alas.....I want to do some reading before bed, and so perhaps tomorrow.Perhaps you'd be better off reading the scriptures, judging by some of your other stuff. [/color]
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Post by PhilipDC78 on Apr 28, 2004 8:00:19 GMT -5
Perhaps you'd be better off reading the scriptures, judging by some of your other stuff. [/color][/quote] Sheesh gene, perhaps you need to take a Christ pill and start acting in a more loving manner towards your brothers and sisters. You may not agree with other people's political views, but these personal attacks and insults need to stop. They definately are doing very little for your witness as a disciple of Christ. Kee, the same goes for you too.
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