People are still calling on Fitz at FDL to come and save us. Visited today for the first time in awhile and on the thread about Hayden someone said we need an Independent Counsel and someone wrote Fitz! - even if Fitz were not dirty as his handling of the 93 bombing of the WTC with Chertoff indicates, his utter lack of any convictions or results and his refusal to testify before Congress when asked and keeping his investigative files from Congress indicate his complicity and/or incompetence.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/30/1159/29124
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Kos supports the Junta
Kos & Chevron, Will you join us?
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Boycott Kos until Chevron ad is dropped
Everyone has seen it and marveled at the disconnect between progressive ideas and taking money from a evil petrocorp. Its been rationalized and poo-poo'ed. I saw the ad myself just a couple of days ago. In the past week it has taken on a new significance as the situation in Burma has gone from bad to worse. It is especially significant today since this is International Blogger's Day for Burma.
Several kosnics have brought it up the past week. And the usual suspects just say something sarcastic about how this has "been discussed before" so shut your fucking pie hole and don't let the door hit you on your way out.
The Kos junta can not be moved by the pleas of of the people in the people-powered movement. But the greater blogosphere is a buzz with Anti-Chevron fervor
Amy Goodman poked a stick in their eye
The image was stunning: tens of thousands of saffron-robed Buddhist monks marching through the streets of Rangoon [also known as Yangon], protesting the military dictatorship of Burma.
The monks marched in front of the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was seen weeping and praying quietly as they passed. She hadn’t been seen for years. The democratically elected leader of Burma, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since 2003. She is considered the Nelson Mandela of Burma, the Southeast Asian nation renamed Myanmar by the regime.
After almost two weeks of protest, the monks have disappeared. The monasteries have been emptied. One report says thousands of monks are imprisoned in the north of the country.
No one believes that this is the end of the protests, dubbed “The Saffron Revolution.” Nor do they believe the official body count of 10 dead. The trickle of video, photos and oral accounts of the violence that leaked out on Burma’s cellular phone and Internet lines has been largely stifled by government censorship. Still, gruesome images of murdered monks and other activists and accounts of executions make it out to the global public. At the time of this writing, several unconfirmed accounts of prisoners being burned alive have been posted to Burma-solidarity Websites.
The Bush administration is making headlines with its strong language against the Burmese regime. President Bush declared increased sanctions in his U.N. General Assembly speech. First lady Laura Bush has come out with perhaps the strongest statements. Explaining that she has a cousin who is a Burma activist, Laura Bush said, “The deplorable acts of violence being perpetrated against Buddhist monks and peaceful Burmese demonstrators shame the military regime.”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, at the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said, “The United States is determined to keep an international focus on the travesty that is taking place.” Keeping an international focus is essential, but should not distract from one of the most powerful supporters of the junta, one that is much closer to home. Rice knows it well:
Chevron.
Fueling the military junta that has ruled for decades are Burma’s natural gas reserves, controlled by the Burmese regime in partnership with the U.S. multinational oil giant Chevron, the French oil company Total and a Thai oil firm. Offshore natural gas facilities deliver their extracted gas to
Thailand through Burma’s Yadana pipeline. The pipeline was built with slave labor, forced into servitude by the Burmese military.
The original pipeline partner, Unocal, was sued by EarthRights International for the use of slave labor. As soon as the suit was settled out of court, Chevron bought Unocal. Chevron’s role in propping up the brutal regime in Burma is clear. According to Marco Simons, U.S. legal director at EarthRights International: “Sanctions haven’t worked because gas is the lifeline of the regime. Before Yadana went online, Burma’s regime was facing severe shortages of currency. It’s really Yadana and gas projects that kept the military regime afloat to buy arms and ammunition and pay its soldiers.”
The U.S. government has had sanctions in place against Burma since 1997. A loophole exists, though, for companies grandfathered in. Unocal’s exemption from the Burma sanctions has been passed on to its new owner, Chevron.
Rice served on the Chevron board of directors for a decade. She even had a Chevron oil tanker named after her. While she served on the board, Chevron was sued for involvement in the killing of nonviolent protesters in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Like the Burmese, Nigerians suffer political repression and pollution where oil and gas are extracted and they live in dire poverty. The protests in Burma were actually triggered by a government-imposed increase in fuel prices.
Human-rights groups around the world have called for a global day of action on Saturday, Oct. 6, in solidarity with the people of Burma. Like the brave activists and citizen journalists sending news and photos out of the country, the organizers of the Oct. 6 protest are using the Internet to pull together what will probably be the largest demonstration ever in support of Burma. Among the demands are calls for companies to stop doing business with Burma’s brutal regime.
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EarthRights continues to pound Chevron
The protests began on August 19th, when the military’s decision to sharply increase the price of natural gas and other fuels sent shockwaves through the economy. The military has recently responded with violence, killing at least several protestors (including monks) and arresting hundreds more. But the oil and gas corporations themselves, who are partnered with the military government in gas export projects, have shown no sign of trying to prevent further bloodshed.
Instead, Daewoo International and the Thai gas company PTTEP initially announced plans to export more of Burma’s natural gas, and on September 25 PTTEP issued a statement assuring the public that their investment was not jeopardized by the unrest. A third company, India’s ONGC Videsh, along with India’s Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, traveled to Burma amidst the protests to sign three new deals to extract and export natural gas. And Chevron Corporation, the largest remaining U.S. company in Burma, has simply remained silent.
Other bloggers are joining in. Here is what was on the Huffington Post - The most widely read lefty blog had to say on the ads and the Burma situation.
Chevron's green wash of an ad campaign could shape its global policy. My colleague, Judy Dugan, at OilWatchdog.org makes a great argument in calling on Chevron CEO David O'Reilly to "immediately sever Chevron's ties to Myanmar's brutal government and personally speak out against its violent suppression of peaceful protest."
Judy really socks it to O'Reilly on the hypocrisy front. Her letter:
"Dear Mr. O'Reilly,
"Chevron's lavish new image-advertising campaign makes your 65,000 employees look like the Peace Corps, sowing harmony and good feeling across the world. Yet as you well know, the smiling families, poets and sports coaches shown in your 2.5-minute debut television ad, "Human Energy," don't make corporate policy.
"Chevron's continued lucrative investment in the natural gas fields of Myanmar fuels a despotic regime that has focused its "human energy" on violently suppressing its citizens -- including the murder of Buddhist monks and the apparent point-blank killing of a Japanese news photographer.
"You could have divested the Myanmar fields when Chevron bought their operator, Unocal, in 2005. Chevron said last year that it was considering such action, but failed to take it.
"You and your corporation have been silent as Myanmar troops fired on democracy proponents, beat them and incarcerated them. You have been silent about the continued imprisonment and intimidation of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose overwhelming 1990 election to lead the nation was overturned by force.
"Your ad campaign, which a Chevron official said would cost 'in the high tens of millions' of dollars, portrays a company that deeply cares about the world and its future. Given your investment in Myanmar alone, that is a gauzy, gorgeous lie.
"We urge you to immediately sever Chevron's ties to Myanmar's brutal government and personally speak out against its violent suppression of peaceful protest."
Now let's see if Chevron finds any truth in its advertising.
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Human Energy. Is that like people-powered? Even Kos sister Firedoglake nipped at Chevron Brave bloggers and their friends outside Burma are trying to keep information flowing to the outside world. Firepup Bob in HI sent me a set of great links he found in the WSJ - including Mizzima News, Irawaddy News which reminds us of the international oil companies including Chevron still doing business in Burma, and Democratic Voice of Burma.
Many Blogs will be staging more protests in the upcoming days. Docudharma is onboard too.
Kisses Budda CORRECTION: Buhdy and DocuDharma just support posting images and not doing much else. They fully support Kos running the ad
CALL TO ACTION!
We will be holding the CHEVRON PROTEST through FAX and PHONE calls on TUESDAY October 9th from 1:00pm-3:00pm Pacific Time (9:00pm-11pm GMT).
Chevron pays millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties to the current military junta. We will demand that they put these royalties in escrow for the legitimate, elected government of Burma headed by Aung San Suu Kyi. These monies are being pocketed by the military leaders - it is not their money.
Below is the contact info for each Chevron office throughout the world.
http://protestchevron.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Chevron Protest on TUESDAY October 9th 2007
Buddhist Monks and Dissidents still being tortured and arrested.
Along with many other, I will boycott Chevron and promote the boycott of Chevron in churches and elsewhere until you stop the oppression and slavery of the Burmese people.
chevronprotester@gmail.com <chevronprotester@gmail.com>
* Chevron pays millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties to the current military junta every year. This keeps the junta in power.
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* We will demand that they put these royalties in escrow for the legitimate, elected government of Burma headed by Aung San Suu Kyi. These monies are being pocketed by the military leaders - it is not their money.
* We are also asking that Chevron contribute significantly to humanitarian efforts in Burma. Such donations should be directly to the NGO's and not through the military government.
Below is the contact info for each Chevron office throughout the world.
When you call or fax ask for David O'Reilly, the CEO, to register your concern and protest Chevron's activity in Burma and ask that they put the royalty money in escrow for the elected government of Burma or sell their stake in the Yanada project.
* When you call aslo ask about their earnings surprise that they will come in well BELOW expectations. Is this the right time for them to be in a country like Burma?
Please email us at chevronprotester@gmail.com with any questions.
1.Chevron Corp.
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road
San Ramon, CA 94583
United States
* Phone: +1 925-842-3232
Fax: +1 925 842 3530
Ask for David O'Reilly, CEO or Investor Relations. Make sure you speak to an actual person within the company.
AND Call Chevron TOLL FREE in US and enter all zeroes for your credit card #: 1-800-243-8766 - ask for a supervisor and register your concern Email: shrrelations@melloninvestor.com
40.Please contact Chevron Investor Relations:
Phone: +1 925-842-5690
Email: invest@chevron.com
Bill Clutter, Assistant Manager
As of 11:15 AM this morning the ad is
STILL running. They just dont care. Or like other petty dicators MAMZ will just keep running it to prove how macho he is. Fuck you dirty hippies.
PRAISE THE MARTYR carlos oaxaca!!
I go out of my way to buy CITGO. The money from CITGO is being used for the benefit of the people of Venezuela. The greedy Int. Oil Corps have all been divested of their control over the natural resources of Venezuela. Also, Chavez even provided cheaper oil for America's poor. Imagine, we have sunk so low that a foreign government has to look out for the poor in this country, as their own government ignores them.
Banned for Critisizing Kos on Chevron. UPDATED.
by carlos oaxaca
Thu Oct 04, 2007
1 year ago, peter pan, was banned from DailyKos after this blog:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Chevron was a greedy destructive corporation then, and it is now.
I have done 3 diaries the last 3 days with a Boycott Chevron Poll.
Each one had 85%+ Yes, Boycott Chevron.
But the question was been asked before by peter pan. keep reading please...
POLL from the diary in 10/2006
Boycott Chevron?
Yes, burning gas could flood earth's coasts.
46% 29 votes
No, if Markos approves of Chevron, it must ok.
11% 7 votes
What a stupid poll. Only the GOP can be corrupted by oil money.
41% 26 votes
| 62 votes
ya, so i WAS peter pan.
it was the 2nd time i've was banned from this site.
i often feel like i m gonna get banned again here.
CHEVRON Blog Ad POLL by Peter Pan
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how much is chevron paying markos?
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I don't care who loves Chevron... Enough with these diaries about Chevron...we get the point, you and others here obviously dislike the ad...it ain't going away--get over it, buy a subscription and block it if it gives you acid reflux. by michael1104 on Wed Oct 11, 2006
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has kos blogged on global warming since?
(1http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/4/201242/585i was also banned as common terry for blogging on palestine.
i know other good people have been banned here :
http://www.dailykos.com/...
the Ghost of Frank Zappa was BANNED
for asking these questions about Speaker Pelosi months ago.
by Johnny Double Adams on Mon Oct 01, 2007
thank you Meteor Blades for posting "For the Burmese, We Can Do More than Talk and March" on the front page.
Let me recommend, as others have done, that we start with the giant Chevron, in part because its many retail outlets throughout North America provide a ready-made forum for reaching lots of rank-and-file Americans. Just print and tape your own succinct mini-poster onto pumps urging customers to pick another place to buy their gasoline because Chevron props up the murdering generals of Burma by providing them with millions of dollars in oil revenues natural gas royalties each year. Those posters will no doubt disappear, but it’s easy enough to replace them frequently.
If you're up for it, pick a place on the public sidewalk in front or your local Chevron to picket and pass out leaflets and converse with would-be customers. Between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, October 9, join the call-in to Chevron HQ at 925-842-1000. Ask to speak with CEO David O’Reilly. You can also fax the company at 415-894-6817. If you own shares of Chevron, make your concerns known by calling investor relations at 925-842-5690.
Will Kos just stop running the Chevron ad once and for all. Or at least run this as well?
Kos junta clamps down
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China is paralyzing UN Security Council action on Burma. They are the main economic, military, and political supporters of the military junta. For fifteen years China has refused to press its closest ally to allow its people human rights, and used its veto power to block the UN Security Council from acting. As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. We are calling on people of conscience throughout the world to boycott the 2008 Chinese Olympics, join our efforts.
Reports: Regime Burning Bodies of Protestors, Including Those Still Alive in Crematorium
The military is now utilizing violence against monks and other non-violent protestors. They have beaten and arrested hundreds of people, and it is reported that more than a hundred have been killed. We are tired of the international communities just making statements - they must ACT.
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