MEMBER BLOG TAG: enron
| Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:52AM | | | | Peace With Taliban? commerce | Tags: new nations around Caspian Sea, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP, Amoco, Shell, Enron, Iran, Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower, Atoms for Peace, Iranian hostages, state sponsor of terror, WMD, Kurds, Hezbollah, Dabhol, Uzbekistan, Halliburton, Taliban, Pakistan, Centgas, Texas, Zalmay Khalilzad, Project for the New American Century, Dick Cheney, John J. Maresca, ISI,
| | | | Commerce: Brzezinski wrote, “the most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.” (The Grand Chessboard)
The Soviet Union collapse in 1991 created several new nations around the Caspian Sea. Major US oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP, Amoco, Shell and Enron, invested billions in these Central Asian nations, bribing heads of state to secure equity rights in the huge oil reserves. US companies owned approximately 75% of the rights. However, Russia owned the pipelines and could control the quantity and price of transporting the oil. (New Yorker 7/9/01, Asia Times 1/26/02)
The natural route for pipelines would be... | | | | | | | Friday, February 18, 2011 2:48PM | | | | Guns R God | Tags: guns, women, Christians, Leviticus, taxes, Ten Commandments, entitlements, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Muslims, brown people, blacks, gays, claymores
| | | | I am a hunter, a gun owner, a Marine, an evangelical Christian, a native of Texas where the Land Commissioner believes a bullet is the best answer, and I have been married to the same woman for 57 years. Guys like me have a lot to fear. Without guns we would be as incidental as women, as superfluous as Palestinians. Guys like me pledge allegiance to one nation, divisible, under guns with all the liberty and justice you can hang on to with AK-47s and cop-killer bullets.
We fear losing profits. We don’t make guns but we can make money with guns. Sure, you can hold up a pick-and-pack store and scrounge a few bucks if you pack heat but you can sell a gun... | | | | | | | Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:58PM | | | | 9/11 Conspiracy Conclusion | Tags: funeralgate, SCI, Senator Cornyn, 935 lies, Halliburton, ENRON, Texas Miracle, Unocal
| | | | The pervasive mendacity of George Bush and his close associates was known before the 2000 election. As a candidate for the Texas legislature his campaign literature stated that he was a former Air Force pilot. Bush did for a while attend meetings of the Texas Air National Guard but when AP asked him to justify the claim, Bush said, “I was in the Air Force for over 600 days.” An Air Force spokesman said anyone in the Air National Guard is always a guardsmen and not a member of the Air Force. (The Nation 8/04) Nevertheless, Bush claimed to be a veteran joined the American Legion and boasted that he had “been to war.”
Bush campaigned for president on “the Texas Miracle,” falsified accounts... | | | | | |
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