BP Ceo should commit Hari Kari video

Did BP cronies sell stock early due to insider info?
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The Deepwater Horizon blew up on April 20th, and sank a couple of days later. BP has been criticized for failing to report on the seriousness of the blow out for several weeks.

However, as a whistleblower previously told 60 Minutes, there was an accident at the rig a month or more prior to the April 20th explosion:

[Mike Williams, the chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon, and one of the last workers to leave the doomed rig] said they were told it would take 21 days; according to him, it actually took six weeks.


Japan defies US 2001 signs oil deal with Iran, defies US warning
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TEHRAN, July 9 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Despite U.S. pressure on its allies to refrain from making oil and gas deals with Iran, Japan has signed a letter of intent with the country, agreeing to pay $10 million to participate in a seismic study of the southwestern Azadegan oilfield, which holds a 26-billion barrel oil reserve.

The agreement came in a joint statement issued Sunday evening, following a meeting between visiting Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, news agencies reported Monday.

"Japan is not affected by U.S. pressure," Hiranuma said during the signing ceremony in Tehran.

Hugo Chavez seizes land owned by Irish tycoon
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His government announced it had taken control of 3,700 acres owned by the Dublin-based Smurfit Kappa Group.

Socialist leader Chavez said he was making the move because the land was being used to grow eucalyptus, a cardboard component, instead of food in violation of Venezuelan law.

Earlier this week Chavez ordered the takeover of a Venezuelan unit of US agriculture giant Cargill.

Venezuela moves to seize US owned telecom
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Jan. 21, 2007, 9:03 p.m. EST
Venezuela moves to seize U.S.-owned telecom
Chavez orders takeover of Verizon property without prior compensation
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez moved Sunday to take over Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, known as CANTV, without first compensating its U.S. owner, Verizon Communications Inc., and said the government won't pay market price for the telecom, according to media reports.

Chavez to seize more companies
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Chavez also expressed concern about "water that transnational companies have privatised", and he mentioned Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

"That must be reviewed quickly," he said. "That water in the first place belongs to the people. Water is social property."

Hugo Chavez v Monsanto
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VENEZUELA: Chavez dumps Monsanto
Wednesday, November 17, 1993 - 11:00
Jason Tockman, Caracas

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil, possibly establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the western hemisphere.

Though full details of the administration's policy on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are still forthcoming, the statement by President Hugo Chavez will lead most immediately to the cancellation of a contract that Venezuela had negotiated with the US-based Monsanto Corporation.

Before a recent international gathering of supporters in Caracas, Chavez admonished genetically engineered crops as contrary to interests and needs of the nation's farmers and farmworkers. He then zeroed in on Monsanto's plans to plant up to 500,000 acres of transgenic soybeans in Venezuela.

"I ordered an end to the project", said Chavez, upon learning that transgenic crops were involved. "This project is terminated."

Chavez seizes food
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In addition to assets belonging to Polar, the government has been seizing control of plants belonging to US food giant Cargill, Mexican bread maker Gruma and taken almost full control of the nation's coffee industry with the seizure of the country's two largest coffee processors, Fama de America and Café Madrid. In 2010 the process has taken a new turn with Chávez turning his attention to the retail sector and taking control of the Exito retail network controlled by French grocery giant Casino. This move followed a devaluation of the bolivar, with Venezuela obliged to cut the value of its currency to improve the financial position of state oil firm PdVSA - one of the main sources of government revenues. However, the move is expected to stoke inflation, which is already the highest in Latin America and we are currently forecasting headline inflation to reach 40% by year-end - clearly a dangerous situation for a government which derives much of its popularity from pledges to increase standards of living.

Cargill v Hugo Chavez
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"Begin the expropriation process with Cargill," he said in a nationally televised speech in which he accused the company of growing specialized forms of rice in an attempt to evade price controls.

The leftist president called the company's practices "a flagrant violation of everything that we have been doing."

Chavez: Venezuela looks to seize banker's assets
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Chavez says government to seize assets of Venezuelan opponent after bank shutdown

JORGE RUEDA
AP News
Jun 17, 2010 00:04 EDT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday said his government is looking to seize the assets of an opponent whose bank was taken over by regulators, and warned that might include his minority ownership stake in an anti-government television channel.

Chavez suggested that bank owner Nelson Mezerhane, who is in the United States, will owe the government to recoup losses after officials took over management of Banco Federal, which he said is broke.

"Now I'm finding out about all the businesses these people own," Chavez said in a speech to graduating doctors, saying that the government is to start seizing more properties such as apartments or other properties "if the owners of the bank don't show up."

He mentioned that among Mezerhane's assets are shares in Globovision — the country's only TV channel that takes an anti-Chavez line.

"He should get on a plane to come show his face," Chavez said of Mezerhane, who was in Florida at the time banking regulators seized control of his bank on Monday.

Mezerhane has said he has no plans to return to Venezuela for now. He has condemned the bank takeover as political retribution against him and Globovision, saying the bank was in sound financial shape but the government had been pressuring him and had withdrawn large deposits to try to undermine the bank.

Targeting Toyota US economic war directed against Japan
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Targeting Toyota: US Economic War Directed Against Japan
by TheTotalCollapse.com on February 26, 2010

Targeting Toyota: US Economic War Directed Against Japan
Feb 26, 2010 11:47 AM
from http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17804
Does anyone really believe that Toyota is being pilloried in the media for a few highway fatalities?
Nonsense. If Congress is so worried about innocent people getting killed, then why haven’t they indicted US commander Stanley McChrystal for blowing up another 27 Afghan civilians on Sunday?

Business
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2/25/2010
Toyota's Problems Shift into New Gear
Grueling Congressional Hearings Over, but Slew of Federal Investigations on Horizon

The Japanese government often allows Japanese corporations to tackle their problems in private. But the uproar over Toyota has the Japanese government listening. Celia Hatton reports.

Toyota President and CEO Akio Toyoda (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

(AP) Even as Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda wrapped up a grueling appearance before Congress, the head of the world's largest automaker wasn't leaving his problems behind.

Toyota faces a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company. Its beleaguered U.S. dealerships are facing repairs to potentially millions of customer vehicles that have been recalled. The company is offering customers new reimbursements for rental cars and other expenses.

European Roundtable of industrialists
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Michael Smurfit - Smurfit Kappa Group (Jefferson Smurfit) 1995 - 2006