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Dead SEALSBy Karl Schwarz
8-9-11
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Karl Schwarz: 9/11 truth is a nonpartisan issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTp9sSuzpI
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Unocal
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Burma (Myanmar)
Late in 1996 a lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles District Court, Doe v Unocal cv-96-6959 RAP, which sought reparations for Unocal's complicity in the Myanmar regime's behavior in areas relevant to a pipeline that is under construction. Unocal is not the only company involved with this project, known as the Yadana Natural Gas Pipeline Project.A French oil company, Total has a 31.24% investment in the project, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand(PTT) has a 25.5% stake in it, the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) has a 15% cut in the deal. Unocal has the remaining 28.26%. Even Halliburton got involved when its joint venture with Saipem of Italy, European Marine Services installed the necessary 365 kilometer offshore portion of the pipeline.[4]
The lawsuit alleged a series of crimes committed by the Myanmar paramilitary and intelligence organization, SLORC, (which stands for the State Law & Order Restoration Council. After a nine year run, SLORC's personal was downsized on November 15, 1997 and renamed the State Peace and Development Council(SPDC). MOGE is not seperate from the Myanmar regime and directly benefited from the violent actions of SLORC and the current enforcements of SPDC.[5] In fact, everyone involved in the Yadana Pipeline Project benefits from the violent displacement, forced labor, rape and forced prostitution, death and destruction of local towns that has occurred by the hand of SLORC to minimize costs and communications and to maximize profit and control of the resources being made available.
http://www.gibbsbruns.com/bridas-corporation-v-unocal-corporation-et-al-01-01-1998/
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Bridas Corporation v. Unocal Corporation, et al.
We represented Unocal Corporation in action brought by Bridas Corporation alleging tortious interference with Bridas’s alleged agreements with the governments of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan across Pakistan. We successfully obtained summary judgment for Unocal. The summary judgment was affirmed by the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston. We then successfully obtained an antisuit injunction prohibiting Bridas from bringing its threatened action in the Sharia courts of Afghanistan.
Affirmed by the Fourteenth Court of Appeals at Bridas Corp. v. Unocal Corp., 16 S.W.3d 893 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2000, pet. denied).
Antisuit injunction also affirmed at Bridas Corp. v. Unocal Corp., 16 S.W.3d 887 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2000, pet. dism'd w.o.j.).
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7066237
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http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7066237
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BP Agrees to Sell its Interests in Pan American Energy to Bridas Corporation
Release date: 28 November 2010
BP announced today that it has entered into an agreement to sell its interests in Pan American Energy (PAE) to Bridas Corporation. PAE is an Argentina-based oil and gas company owned by BP (60 per cent) and Bridas Corporation (40 per cent).
Bridas Corporation will pay BP a total of $7.06 billion in cash for BP’s 60 per cent interest in PAE. The transaction is expected to be completed in 2011.
The sale of its interests in PAE is part of BP’s plan, announced in July 2010, to divest up to $30 billion of assets by the end of 2011. Before the agreement to sell its interests in PAE, BP already had sales agreements in place totalling some $14 billion. The proceeds of the sale announced today will be used by BP to increase the cash available to the group.
BP group chief executive Bob Dudley said: “Today’s agreement further demonstrates both the high quality and attractiveness of the assets throughout BP’s global portfolio and also the company’s ability to meet our significant financial commitments arising from the Gulf of Mexico tragedy.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_911_74.htm
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They had to have that pipeline across Afghanistan and the Taliban / Bridas Corporation were blocking the way. Chevron and Condoleezza Rice had to have been sitting in that boardroom down there, too, trying to figure out ways to get control of that pipeline so the oil and gas could get out.
Now they want a pipeline through Georgia and the Ukraine to the Black Sea too, so that is in part what the hubbub is over in Ukraine in regard to the U.S., Republican International, National Democratic Institute ["NDI"] and George Soros' efforts to control that election.
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
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1999 January Turkmenistan's foreign minister visits Pakistan; says pipeline project still alive.
February Carlos Bulgheroni, co-chairman of Bridas, visits Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia for talks with leaders.
March Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Sheikh Muradov meets with Mullah Omar in Kandahar to discuss pipeline.
April Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Taliban sign agreement to revive pipeline project.
May Taliban delegation signs agreements with Turkmenistan to buy gas and electricity.
This timeline owes a heavy debt to Ahmed Rashid's excellent study, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Yale UP, 2000). Wherever possible, the information has been cross-checked against Unocal and BP Amoco Argentina's archives of press releases, Pratt's Oil Digest, Oil and Gas Magazine, Pravda, Moscow's Interfax News Agency, the ITAR-TASS news agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bulgheroni
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Carlos Alberto Bulgheroni was born in Rufino, Santa Fe Province. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a juris doctor in 1970. Bulgheroni later joined Bridas Corporation, a leader in the Argentine energy sector specializing in petroleum- and natural gas-related activities, and in 1993, was named president and chairman. He later also became president Pan American Energy, in 1997, of Allis-Chalmers's energy unit, in 2006, and of EDIC, a company specializing in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the North African, Russian, Central Asian, and Middle and Far Eastern markets.[1]
During 1997, Bulgheroni was involved in a negotiation between Bridas and the ruling Taliban faction in Afghanistan to built the Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.[2] These negotiations were in competition with those undertaken by Unocal,[3] and although an agreement with Unocal-led corporation CentGas was reached, the deal was forfeited in January 1998 in favor of one with Bridas.[4] Instability in Afghanistan delayed construction of the pipeline, however, and following the United States Invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the Bridas contract was rescinded in favor of the former one with Unocal. In 2006, Bulgheroni indicated interest in Bridas' involvement with the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project, which continued to be hampered by the ongoing chaos in the Central Asian nation.[5]
Bulgheroni is a co-founder of the Colón Theatre Foundation (1978) and of the Federal District Police Foundation (1989); the latter helps maintain the Churruca Police Officers Hospital, in Buenos Aires. He is also a member of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange,
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201189165143946889.html
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So there is no single meaning in what is happening in London and elsewhere. But there are connections that we can make, and that we should make. We have a major problem with youth unemployment. There have already been cuts in services for young people. State education in poor areas is sometimes shockingly bad. Young people cannot afford adequate private housing and there is a shortage of council-built stock. Economic inequality has reached quite startling levels. All this is the consequence of decisions made by governments and there is little hope of rapid improvement. The same politicians now denouncing the mindless violence of the mob all supported a system of political economy that was as unstable as it was pernicious. They should have known that their policies would lead to disaster. They didn't know. Who then is more mindless?
The global economic crisis is at least as political as the riots we've seen in the last few days. It has lasted far longer and done far more damage. We need not draw a straight line from the decision to bail out the banks to what's going on now in London. But we must not lose sight of what both events tell us about our current condition. Those who want to see law and order restored must turn their attention to a menace that no amount of riot police will disperse; a social and political order that rewards vandalism and the looting of public property, so long as the perpetrators are sufficiently rich and powerful.
http://www.answers.com/topic/irsa-inversiones-representaciones
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Bridas Corporation will pay BP a total of $7.06 billion in cash for BP’s 60 per cent interest in PAE. The transaction is expected to be completed in 2011.
The sale of its interests in PAE is part of BP’s plan, announced in July 2010, to divest up to $30 billion of assets by the end of 2011. Before the agreement to sell its interests in PAE, BP already had sales agreements in place totalling some $14 billion. The proceeds of the sale announced today will be used by BP to increase the cash available to the group.
BP group chief executive Bob Dudley said: “Today’s agreement further demonstrates both the high quality and attractiveness of the assets throughout BP’s global portfolio and also the company’s ability to meet our significant financial commitments arising from the Gulf of Mexico tragedy.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_911_74.htm
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They had to have that pipeline across Afghanistan and the Taliban / Bridas Corporation were blocking the way. Chevron and Condoleezza Rice had to have been sitting in that boardroom down there, too, trying to figure out ways to get control of that pipeline so the oil and gas could get out.
Now they want a pipeline through Georgia and the Ukraine to the Black Sea too, so that is in part what the hubbub is over in Ukraine in regard to the U.S., Republican International, National Democratic Institute ["NDI"] and George Soros' efforts to control that election.
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm
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1999 January Turkmenistan's foreign minister visits Pakistan; says pipeline project still alive.
February Carlos Bulgheroni, co-chairman of Bridas, visits Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia for talks with leaders.
March Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Sheikh Muradov meets with Mullah Omar in Kandahar to discuss pipeline.
April Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Taliban sign agreement to revive pipeline project.
May Taliban delegation signs agreements with Turkmenistan to buy gas and electricity.
This timeline owes a heavy debt to Ahmed Rashid's excellent study, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Yale UP, 2000). Wherever possible, the information has been cross-checked against Unocal and BP Amoco Argentina's archives of press releases, Pratt's Oil Digest, Oil and Gas Magazine, Pravda, Moscow's Interfax News Agency, the ITAR-TASS news agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bulgheroni
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Carlos Alberto Bulgheroni was born in Rufino, Santa Fe Province. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a juris doctor in 1970. Bulgheroni later joined Bridas Corporation, a leader in the Argentine energy sector specializing in petroleum- and natural gas-related activities, and in 1993, was named president and chairman. He later also became president Pan American Energy, in 1997, of Allis-Chalmers's energy unit, in 2006, and of EDIC, a company specializing in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the North African, Russian, Central Asian, and Middle and Far Eastern markets.[1]
During 1997, Bulgheroni was involved in a negotiation between Bridas and the ruling Taliban faction in Afghanistan to built the Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.[2] These negotiations were in competition with those undertaken by Unocal,[3] and although an agreement with Unocal-led corporation CentGas was reached, the deal was forfeited in January 1998 in favor of one with Bridas.[4] Instability in Afghanistan delayed construction of the pipeline, however, and following the United States Invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the Bridas contract was rescinded in favor of the former one with Unocal. In 2006, Bulgheroni indicated interest in Bridas' involvement with the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project, which continued to be hampered by the ongoing chaos in the Central Asian nation.[5]
Bulgheroni is a co-founder of the Colón Theatre Foundation (1978) and of the Federal District Police Foundation (1989); the latter helps maintain the Churruca Police Officers Hospital, in Buenos Aires. He is also a member of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange,
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201189165143946889.html
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So there is no single meaning in what is happening in London and elsewhere. But there are connections that we can make, and that we should make. We have a major problem with youth unemployment. There have already been cuts in services for young people. State education in poor areas is sometimes shockingly bad. Young people cannot afford adequate private housing and there is a shortage of council-built stock. Economic inequality has reached quite startling levels. All this is the consequence of decisions made by governments and there is little hope of rapid improvement. The same politicians now denouncing the mindless violence of the mob all supported a system of political economy that was as unstable as it was pernicious. They should have known that their policies would lead to disaster. They didn't know. Who then is more mindless?
http://www.answers.com/topic/irsa-inversiones-representaciones
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