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Posted in: Former Olympus president Kikukawa, 6 others arrested
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Sorry WhiteHawk - did you say the state makes more on gas than the gas company? Due all respect sir but I would have to disagree. The oil companies make Hollywood accounting look honest. Their profit margins are the highest in any so-called "every day industry". And remember that most of the crude they're pricing at 120 bucks per barrel was actually taken from the source at about 10 bucks per barrel. We're dealing with an industry that thrives on the ignorance of the arm chair analyst. Are you familiar with West Texas? Spend six years down there and you'll know how the BP's, Chevrons et al make billions on crude they literally take out of the ground for free. And the logs are hardly, if ever, verifiable. The API paid my way through six years of schooling so I should really be grateful but... dude I was in Angola at the height of the little war and you wouldn't believe it but Gulf and Tennaco personnel were sharing the same billets with N.Korean and Russian military advisors. The US was buying 90% of it's DoD aviation class crude in Angola at less than 3 dollars a barrel. In the US the oil shippers claim full repair, upgrading and laying costs on infrastructure that is shared by the industry. They are getting away with legalized false booking of expenses. Hey in Japan they jack the price up on crude delivered three years ago when somebody in Nigeria sneezes - yet they get no supplies from there. The Arabian Oil Company scandal is a point to note - they pumped crude out of the Khafgi Field for over 30 years at no more than $3 a barrel (until around 2002) when SArabia gave them the boot.
Posted in: Clinton focuses on Obama's opposition to gas tax plan
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The more I hear HC the more I start to see a reason why people will push Obama to run as an independent in November is she's the dem nominee.
Posted in: Superdelegates line up behind Democratic candidates
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Mark Fields' little side business this was. Ford should have looked into it - coming from IBM and getting this huge contract for IBM smells a wee bit fishy to me especially since Mazda is contracted to so many other companies for the same services.
Posted in: Mazda, IBM extend outsourcing agreement
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Failing to meet the "bottom line" ha ha ha... And according to informed sources, "The crack is starting to show. SO adjustments are being made along the frontline.
Posted in: Underwear maker Triumph to close 48 outlets
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Listen up y'all. Go back to October 1997 and see what the crisis is all about. The Zimbabwe story is going to make a Ludlum thriller look as interesting as "My Pet Goat". Remember how the reader ends up feeling a misture of pity and sorrow for Iago? Well you might just feel that way for one man in Zimbabwe some day.
Posted in: Tsvangirai urges U.N. intervention in Zimbabwe
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Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't Jendayi Frazer half Zimbabwean? And wasn't her name Tendayi (Shona for "be grateful") a few years ago?
Posted in: U.S. says Mugabe lost election
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What? No ticket? Sounds like a terrorist to me. They should have carried out their duties.
Posted in: Blair caught riding London train without ticket
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skipthesong
sorry for the confussion. The farmers stopped crop delivery from October 1997. After waiting for a few months and realizing that there indeed was somethinf fishy going on Mugabe asked them to state their allegence - to Zimbabwe or to South Africa. They ran to London and called Peter Hain to talk to Mugabe. Mugabe then told them to lay down their ploughs. The war veerans who had been a constant thorn in Mugabe's side said, "We told you so. These farmers are traitors." And they started to invade the farms. I spent most of '83-'85 in a group that was responsible for beating the hell out of war veterans who were squatting on farms. Mugabe was not taking too kindly to their demands for any land. In 1997 -98 he gave the farmers the benefit of the doubt since many denied any knowledge of the Standard Bank document (I have the original newspaper article if you're interested. Nov. 2 1997 - even though the bank was calling it a mere coup scenario and should not be taken seriously the farmers were no longer applying for their annual Forex. And worse was that under Zimbabwean law (carried over from Rhodesia) commercial crop production was restricted to white farmers only. Mugabe had a major headache but the foreign media didn't seem to have a clue of what was being created. Add to that Peter Thatchel, Peter Hain and Claire Short and we have a disaster.
Posted in: U.S. says Mugabe lost election
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****Intervention? How?
bebert - remember IDS? He went out singing "I was right about Mugabe". Only problem is, he was the problem. Remember him asking the South African Parliament to crash Zimbabwe's economy? Forgot? 1981. He said you can do it in 3 months and Mugabe will be history. Well the South Africans promptly informed Bob and... Scary though how all the obituries forgot that Smith sought the help of another country to destroy his own. This is precisely what has happened to Zimbabwe again. Zimbabweans - white and black destroyed their own economy in return for the proverbial thirty pieces of silver. They took money to collapse their economy. Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa was the architect of the plot. See the Herald - Nov. 2 1997. The entire plot is exposed. ANd Mugabe didn't arrest any farmer or business owner for accepting the South African money offers to topple him. African leaders also joined - in return for harboring Zimbabwean farmers for 18 months they got huge cash amounts - Chisano, Masire, Obasanjo et al...
So how can they call Mugabe a beast? Zimbabweans are dying - who is causing it? Their actions definitely constitute crimes against humanity. There is no saint in Africa. And Australia, New Zealand, Britain and a certain Asian country know the real story about Zimbabwe's crisis hence this talk of intervention is total pig swill.
Posted in: Zimbabwe intervention calls mount
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Scrote: "What does Mbeki say?"
What can he say? He's trembling in fear. What you and the rest of the world don't realize is that Mbeki was in on the deal to crash the Zimbabwean economy. I've been sitting on the evidence since November 1997 and the press have ignored me. Mandela and a certain Asian country did Mugabe in for his intervention in the Congo. It cost South African and certain Asian entities a mint in cancelled sweet heart deal mining concessions in Katanga province. Mugabe is sitting on piles of smoking guns - pointing to Mbeki and all the SADC (Nigeria included) heads of state. No African leader will dare open his mouth against Mugabe since it is quite easy to prove that that leader took cash and other inducements between October 1997 and March 1998 when the coup plot against Bob was hatched. Mazda declined the 32 Million US it was offered to destroy Zimbabwe's economy. Call Mazda and they'll dig up the evidence for you. Mugabe is the only one telling the truth about the crisis. The so-called advocates for regime change in Zimbabwe are the culprits that created the monster Mugabe is said to be today. Call Edwina Gibbs of Rueters Tokyo - I phoned her no less than four times in 1997 to tip her off about the plot (at the time Japanese companies were being given cash inducements...). She told me, "Nobody would be interested in your story. Multi-nationals do coups in Africa all the time..." This one was different I said. The documents hand delivered to Mazda clearly stated that the objective was to cause such terrible economic hardships on the blacks that after "their beloved Mugabe failed to ease their suffering, they will rise up and overthrow him... you Mazda will have no blood on your hands. The people doing the coup will be the black ZImbabweans themselves. Mugabe has to go for his intervention in the COngo and for now talking about taxing tobacco production to raise funds for his army...". 18 months is all it'll take they said and " we have the total support of all white businesses and farmers in Zimbabwe. In fact as we speak the farmers have agreed to cease delivery of crops to the government collection points until Mugabe is gone. We are payng them for their support. And a new head of state has already been nominated out of Mugabes cabinet. They are all in with us. We have no problem with the government of Zimbabwe. It's just him - Mugabe, he's become to difficult for us to handle." sic
Heck even the SUN balked at publishing. The world isn't as morally straight as it's pretending to be.
Posted in: U.S. says Mugabe lost election