[ex-Texan]

Look like this is a Big "Oops!" to me .... But then, what do I know about Conflicts of Interest as I am only a Member of the Bar, and not the Chairman of Federal Commission ?

[secretagent]

FYI

[sinkspur]

YOU'RE a member of the Bar?

Yikes!

[genefromjersey]

Well, Ex-Tex, it's also worth noting Amerada Hess was and may still be the primary "cash cow" for the Democratic Party's Central NJ Wilentz "machine". ( One of the Wilentz crew married Leon Hess' daughter MANY years ago to cement the alliance.)

This "machine" also has had ties to a certain fraternal organization that has become notable over the years for its " downsizing methods ".

[gaspar]

Sorry to keep beating a dead horse, but the author of this piece is a Canadian professor of economics who runs his own vanity shop out of a center at the U. of Ottowa. He publishes pieces from "progressive" authors dealing with the dagers of Globalization. As I have noted many time before, the word "progressive" is the new keyword for Marxist. As a committed anti-capitalist you can expect the usual biases in anything that comes from him or his shop. PS. He has been trying to prove that Bush knew about 9/11 before hand and has recently written a book titled "War and Globalization; The Truth Behind 9/11." If FR is to be taken seriously it should not pander to the dim-bulbs of the left without identifying them as such to FR readers.

[LadyDoc]

Osama is the black sheep of a large large family (his father was a polygamist). And considering all his brothers and sisters and cousins, everyone who did any business in Saudi Arabia probably worked directly or indirectly with his father's construction company or with a company partly run by one of his relatives.

Heck, even George B Sr. had business connections with the family.