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Ecuador seizes control of US oil company
The Daily Telegraph ^
| May 19, 2006
| Jeremy McDermott
Posted on 05/18/2006 11:41:02 PM PDT by MadIvan
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The rise of idiotic, knee jerk socialism in Latin America is very disturbing.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:41:04 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:41:29 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
The rise of idiotic, knee jerk socialism in Latin America is very disturbing. The article fails to mention that the Canadian holdings were subsequently purchased by the Chinese...
FWIW, there may be a pattern here.
The Chinese have also been investing heavily in the Alberta tar sands.
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:44:43 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: MadIvan
All assets in the US of that government should be seized. Any US government bonds in its Treasury should be declared null and void. Any airliners, ships, or trucks from that country that enter US territory should be seized.
Respect for property rights must be reciprocal.
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:48:39 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Political & economic freedom: More important than gays burning flags at their weddings)
To: sourcery
Respect for property rights must be reciprocal.Since when do communists respect property rights?
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:56:14 PM PDT
by
Zero Sum
(Marxism is the opiate of the masses.)
To: MadIvan
Occidental ......that's going to hit Al Gore in the pocket book. LOL
My memory keeps telling me that Joe Wilson has something to do with Occidental too but I can't think what it is.
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:58:10 PM PDT
by
AmeriBrit
(ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, IT INCLUDES TERRORIST SLEEPER CELLS!!)
To: MadIvan
The proper response would be to withdraw financial aide from that country IMO.
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posted on
05/18/2006 11:59:40 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Zero Sum
I do find some irony in the fact that Occidental Petroleum was run by the biggest useful idiot of all time, Armand Hammer, winner of the Order of Lenin and friend of Stalin.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:00:16 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: A CA Guy
Kick them out of the WTO, if they are a member. Withdraw all aid. Call in any World Bank loans immediately and deny them any further finance.
If they want to be socialist, they should not expect capitalist nations to fund their folly.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:00:49 AM PDT
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
Can you say Zimbabwe? Result will be the same. They won't know how to farm the oil.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:03:04 AM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: MadIvan
Being socialists, they were probably self destructing and did this to create another avenue of future failure for themselves.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:03:23 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: A CA Guy
Without failures there'd be no socialists in power.
They create failures so they can justify their seizure of power.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:09:30 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: coconutt2000
Well, that is one thought.
Another could be that an appeal is made to the people that everyone should share, except the dictator/ruling class should get to share far more for themselves.
Communists and socialists in power always believe OTHERS should live modestly.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:12:19 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: MadIvan
"Occidental is the largest foreign investor in Ecuador and had been pumping 100,000 barrels of oil a day from the affected field in the Amazon."
Typical Lefty Loony stuff - killing the goose that laid the golden egg to make down feather pillows for the masses and throwing the meat away!
100,000 barrels a day will become 80k, then 60k and so on until they scream that their ignorance was the product of sabatage by the imperialist and call for the Chavez to bail them out. He will soak them!
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:14:02 AM PDT
by
truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: Kozak
An interesting time-line I found in a google search. It shows that the Gore family had a direct connection to the Hammer family, which were outright communists.
1919 Julius Hammer founds the American Communist Party.
1955 Armand Hammer kills a man in a "drunken brawl."
1961 J. Edgar Hoover memo: Hammer cannot be "pursued" because he is "protected" by Senator Al Gore Sr.
1973 Armand Hammer sells a zinc mine to the father of Al Gore, $160,000.
1973 Ten minutes after the above sale of land, Al Gore Sr. sells the zinc mine to his son, Al Gore, Jr., $140,000.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:17:24 AM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow......R.R)
To: MadIvan
Just another reason to get OFF the foreign oil habit, hey, I'm starting my second week of not smoking. The ironic thing is that we have already discovered non-oil, non-polluting, non-nuclear new energy sources; the PROBLEM is : if you give everyone a free KW, instantly they'll DEMAND free MEGAWATTS, then GIGAWATTS. Do the math : with 7 BILLION people all cranking out GIGAWATTS each of WASTE HEAT, where does it go? This is the EARTH guys, there is no "away", the only way the atmosphere gets rid of HEAT is by T^4 blackbody radiation. If you think global warming is bad now...be careful what you wish for. The movie is CHAIN REACTION, listen to what "shannon" says...
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:22:35 AM PDT
by
timer
To: MadIvan
I wonder if any of Hugo's new friends have ever heard of Operation Just Cause?
Cus' I remember this punk saying he had Bush Sr. "by the **lls" too.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:25:17 AM PDT
by
TeddyCon
To: MadIvan
Isn't Occidental Pet a major corp invested with Algae (Al. G.)?
From one slocialist owner to another slocialist owner.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:42:50 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl!)
To: MadIvan
Just think, if we didn't have Democrats, the US could supply all of its own energy needs and these other countries would have to figure out how to make a living.
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posted on
05/19/2006 12:43:55 AM PDT
by
TheLion
To: Smokin' Joe
The article fails to mention that the Canadian holdings were subsequently purchased by the Chinese... FWIW, there may be a pattern here. The Chinese have also been investing heavily in the Alberta tar sands.
Venezuela just seized some oil fields in which China has a stake. The common denominator here is theft. The Chinese government does it to a very limited extent (so as not to discourage foreign investors), but some Latin Americans are doing it on a wholesale basis. If Latin American countries aren't afraid of Uncle Sam with respect to seizing American assets, they're certainly not worried about possible retaliation from the Chinese 10,000 miles away.
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