Clinton, Burkle and Friends (vanity)

Occidental Petroleum - Board of Directors http://www.oxy.com/Corporate%20governance/board.htm

Since February 2005, Mr. Abraham has been a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, a public policy research center headquartered at Stanford University and devoted to the study of politics, economics and political economy as well as international affairs. He served as the Secretary of Energy, United States Department of Energy from 2001 through January 2005. Prior to that, he was a United States Senator, representing the State of Michigan, from 1995 to 2001. From 1993 to 1994, he was of counsel to the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone. He was a co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1991 to 1993 and chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1983 to 1991. Mr. Abraham has a juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Burkle is the managing partner and majority owner of The Yucaipa Companies, a private investment firm that invests primarily its own capital. He is the controlling shareholder of Golden State Foods, the largest supplier of food products to McDonald’s and is trustee of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, trustee of The J. Paul Getty Trust and a member of the Board of The Carter Center. Mr. Burkle is also a director of KB Home and Yahoo!.

Mr. Chalsty has served as Chairman of Muirfield Capital Management LLC since 2003. He was Chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., an investment banking firm, from 1996 through 2000 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1986 to 1996. He is also a director of AXA Financial, Inc., Sappi, Ltd., Metromedia Companies and Creditex.

Ambassador Djerejian has been founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University since 1994. Before that, he had a career in foreign service that included serving as United States Ambassador to Israel from 1993 to 1994, as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 1991 to 1993 and as U.S. Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic from 1988 to 1991. Ambassador Djerejian is also a director of Baker Hughes, Inc. and Global Industries, Ltd.

Since 1994, Mr. Dreier has been Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Ryland Group, Inc., one of the nation’s largest home builders and a leading mortgage finance company. Mr. Dreier is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Loyola Marymount University, a director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and a member of the California Business Roundtable.

Since 1995, Mr. Feick has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a major stockholder of Matrix Solutions Inc., a provider of environmental remediation and reclamation services. He is also Chairman and a partner in Kemex Engineering Services, Ltd., which offers engineering and design services to the petrochemical, refining and gas processing industries. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of Novacor Chemicals, a subsidiary of Nova Corporation, from 1984 to 1994. Mr. Feick is also a director of Fort Chicago Energy Partners LP.

Dr. Irani, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental from 1990 to January, 2005, and a director since 1984. He served as President from 1984 until July 1996. He was Chief Operating Officer from 1984 to 1990. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. (now Nexen Inc.) from 1987 to 1999, and was Honorary Chairman of the Board from 1999 to 2000. Dr. Irani is also a director of Cedars Bank, KB Home and Lyondell Chemical Company.

From 1992 until his retirement in 1998, Mr. Maloney was President and Chief Executive Officer of Dataproducts Corporation, which designs, manufactures and markets printers and supplies for computers.

Mr. Segovia is on the Executive Committee of Inversiones Sanford, a diversified investment group with emphasis in petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and plastics. A former president of the Colombian national oil company (Ecopetrol) as well as Minister and Senator of the Republic of Colombia, he has been president and CEO of Sanford’s PVC company and, from 1996 to 1998, of its polypropylene venture. In 1999, he was visiting Professor of Management at Lehigh University.

Mr. Syriani has served since 2002 as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Olayan Group, a diversified trading, services and investment organization with activities and interests in the Middle East and elsewhere. From 1978 until 2002, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of The Olayan Group. Mr. Syriani is also a director of The Credit Suisse Group.

Miss Tomich has been owner of the Hope Cattle Company since 1958 and the A. S. Tomich Construction Company since 1970. She is also Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Livestock Clearing, Inc. and was a Founding Director of the Palm Springs Savings Bank. Miss Tomich is also on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California School of Business Administration, the Board of Councillors for the School of Letters and Sciences at the University of Southern California and the UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors.

Mr. Weisman is a private investor and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Medical International, a multinational hospital firm now part of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation. Mr. Weisman is a director of Fresnius Medical Care AG, Community Care Health Network and Maguire Properties, Inc. He is also a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Institute of Technology, Sundance Institute, Public Broadcasting Service and Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

I was looking to see if AlGore followed in daddy's footsteps and found Clinton's pal, Ron Burkle as director of Oxy. Also, Spencer Abraham!

Why we never hear about Clinton/Gore/Big Oil....well... and then from: Flowchart For McCarthy-Priest-Goodfellow-Et Alia Posted by Prost1 to bessay On News/Activism 04/26/2006 11:04:22 AM PDT · 22 of 51

The SAME Anthony Lake who withdrew his nomination as CIA Director under Clinton...

and who http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1997/vo13no08/vo13no08_lake.htm "But Lake was directly involved in another national security-for-campaign contributions transaction. Writing in the April issue of The American Spectator (which was published just shortly before Lake's withdrawal), national security analyst Kenneth Timmerman observed that Lake "helped Occidental Petroleum, a California firm, obtain an exemption from the 1996 anti-terrorism act in order to pursue a lucrative oil deal in Sudan -- a country that is on the State Department's list of international terrorist nations -- by ordering the Treasury Department to write regulations that took the teeth out of the law. Occidental returned the favor with large donations to both the DNC and key congressional democrats." Sudan, it should be noted, plays a vital role in the radical Islamic network that Lake tapped into to create the Iran-Bosnia arms pipeline.

Furthermore, Occidental Petroleum is the firm established by the late Armand Hammer, the American businessman who served as Lenin's "path" to American capitalism. As we have pointed out previously (see "Al Gore's Red Connections" in our March 31st issue), among Hammer's most intimate business associates was Al Gore Sr., who was given a $500,000-a-year position as the head of Occidental's coal division as a reward for helping Hammer obtain access to foreign political leaders and deterring FBI investigations into Hammer's Soviet connections. It appears that Lake was willing to perform similar services for the post-Hammer Occidental Petroleum firm."

Please note: Ambassador Djerejian under Bill Clinton. Dr. Irani is also a director of Cedars Bank, KB Home and Lyondell Chemical Company. (KB Homes is one, if not, the largest low income [federal $] home builder in the U.S.) Mr. Segovia ...A former president of the Colombian national oil company (Ecopetrol) as well as Minister and Senator of the Republic of Colombia... Miss Tomich has been owner of the Hope Cattle Company since 1958 (anyone say CATTLE FUTURES...) Mr. Weisman is a private investor and He is also a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Institute of Technology, Sundance Institute, Public Broadcasting Service and Samuel H. Kress Foundation. (PBS!)

These are Bill Clinton and Al Gore's friends. And this is just the tip!

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