Is Chevron an Environmental Company?

Extreme Propaganda

We have reached a very cynical state. PR firms now not just partially lie, but completely lie about what a company does. From watching Chevron ads on television (or dropping by its website) it would appear as if they are an alternative energy company. They speak about a “clean future.” Exxon’s ads have so much wildlife in them it appears as if they administer zoos.

Co-Opting Website

This site below is designed to co-op the naive into thinking Chevron is concerned with the environment and with clean fuels. Goebbels would be proud.

http://www.willyoujoinus.com/

Chevron’s Real Record

Chevron is a truly putrid company with horrid ethics run by people who apparently really really like money.

1. They have been extracting and exploiting the Nigerian oil fields for decades and are pushing the region towards a civil war.
2. Secondly they, along with every other major oil company, has fought tooth and nail against environmental regulation and spill oil in different marine habitats with little concern for ecosystems or wildlife.

However, the produce these propaganda videos that would make a Soviet Commissar blush. They seem to love to discuss their concern for the environment and their focus on alternative fuels – at least in the videos. They probably give these away to schools as “educational curricula.”

What Does Chevron Really Do?

Does Chevron manage an environmental co-op? Do they manage wildlife sanctuaries? No. Chevron makes its money the old fashioned way, by pulling oil out of the ground and then refining it, and then carrying it to taxpayer subsidized gas stations which are attended by poorly paid workers and stocked with piles of high margin junk food. They squeeze the profits out of the station owners who can then not keep the air or water pumps working and can barely keep clean bathrooms. That is the part that we can see. However, what is unseen is far worse. They oppose environmental regulation and have lobbied for energy research dollars to use their present energy infrastructure to produce hydrogen — a scientifically illiterate misdirection of research dollars which is a dead end. Its very simple and if you read it first here, better now than never. Hydrogen will never ever ever develop into an alternative fuel option. How can we be sure? It violates the laws of physics. Generally its best to go with the laws of physics. Not only is Chevron creating a dirty and corrupt present, they want a dirty and corrupt future as well.

Does the Lying Ever Stop at Chevron?

No need to push a line of lies about a clean future and pretending they are Greenpeace, there are many things Chevron could do right now to just act like a moral corporation. Of course they will do none of this.

But they will continued to run ads.

Moronic and Misleading Chevron Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMsoUnXz4Y

References

http://www.chevron.com/deliveringenergy/

See their website above, and now compare against the charges against them

http://www.amnestyusa.org/Chevron_Corp/Chevron_in_Nigeria/ page.do?id=1101656&n1=3&n2=26&n3=1242http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12532http://www.corporatepredators.org/top100.html#Briefs

Martin Luther King? Hero for the US Government?

All the celebration regarding Martin Luther King day is a bit confusing if one remembers how Dr. King was treated when he was doing his most important work. During the civil rights movement King was surveilled by the FBI and considered a public enemy. As described by Howard Zimm:

“If you look into the history of the FBI and Martin Luther King-which now has become notorious in that totally notorious history of the FBI-the FBI attempted to neutralize, perhaps kill him, perhaps get him to commit suicide, certainly to destroy him as a leader of black people in the United States.”

This was no minor involvement. Under the freedom of information act, 3165 pages on Dr. King are now available on the web, (four times as many as they held on Adolf Hitler). From these papers we found this quote:

“On November 1st, 1975, former FBI Assistant Director, Domestic Intelligence Division, William C. Sullivan said King was the target of an intensive campaign by the FBI to neutralize him as an effective civil rights leader. Sullivan stated that in the war against King, “no holds were barred.”

This record shows over 20 years of surveillance of King and his associates. This was a major surveillance and suppression program by the FBI, and demonstrates the threat that King posed to concentrated power interests. The surveillance of King can not be justified on security arguments. King was a proponent of non-violence, however, Malcolm X, who gave far more concerning speeches has little more pages available under the freedom of information act (4065 pages), indicating that the FBI surveillance programs over the two men were comparable. Both of them fared better than Fred Hampton, (4000 pages) who was eventually killed by the Cook County Police department, which was in strong collusion with the FBI. Before this killing, he was actually sentenced to 2 years for the supposed theft of $72 worth of ice cream. Fred Hampton has no holiday named after him and is mostly lost to history aside from those who lived through the time or study black studies.

Taking History from the Government

Strangely while once King was to be considered an enemy, he now has a government sanctioned holiday. So by doing this is the government saying that it was wrong what they did? Do they admit or publicize what they did to help prevent it from happening again. Why is it that every MLK day this is undiscussed? Its very hard to keep who are our enemies and who are our friends or heroes are straight, especially when listening to government or the main stream media.

References

http://mediafilter.org/MFF/FBI.html

http://www.isreview.org/issues/21/fbi_repression.shtml

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/king.htm

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/malcolmx.htm

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/fredhampton.htm

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