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Influential Directors

Brent Scowcroft

Former Shareholder of Halliburton and Lockheed Martin[1], Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Co-Chair of the Aspen Strategy Group, and Chief Technology Officer of Conoco Phillips. As the National Security Advisor of former U.S. President & CIA Director George H.W. Bush, he was instrumental in the administration's adoption of the phrase "New World Order" to refer to U.S. Hegemony on the eve of the Invasion and Genocide of Iraq beginning in 1991.[2][3] He subsequently served as the Chairman of U.S. President George W. Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001-2004, during the second invasion and occupation of Iraq. [4]

Norman Augustine

Former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin and founder of In-Q-Tel, the CIA venture funding arm which helped launch Google, Facebook, Palantir, and other notable surveillance corporations. Board member of Phillips Petroleum and Conoco Phillips for over two decades during this time.[5]

Litigation

Climate Denial

The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit October 2022 against Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Chevron, British Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's most powerful lobbying group in which the five oil companies were members.[6]

The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court, states that the companies knew about climate change for decades and actively sought to conceal that information from the public. Instead, they funded PR campaigns aimed at confusing and misleading the public. [7]

The oil companies “concealed and misrepresented the dangers of fossil fuels; disseminated false and misleading information about the existence, causes, and effects of climate change; and aggressively promoted the ever-increasing use of their products at ever-greater volumes,” the complaint states.

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