Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.
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I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
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Afghanistan: Unified Friendly Government Required?
Who will unravel twisted paths
on road to war what really
prompted invasion Afghanistan?
Let us review sly oiled palms crossed
on fascinating road to Afghani invasion?
Who are the players what plot timeline?
Oil Date 1991-1997
fat honey bee major U.S. oil companies
BP Amoco, Enron, ExxonMobil, Shell,
Texaco, Unocal and other players directly
invest billions cash bribing heads of state
in Kazakhstan to secure their equity rights...
what is up for steak prime cuts on table?
huge oil reserves in these regions sly oil
companies commit to direct investments
in Kazakhstan $35 billion more pending
but are not willing to pay exorbitant prices...
why pay Russia to use Russian pipelines?
major oil companies need control options
have no way to recoup their investments?
Oil Date December 4,1997
invited guests representatives of friendly
Taliban arrive at Texas Unocal headquarters
to negotiate pipeline support subsequent
reports indicate negotiation failure allegedly
greedy Taliban wanted too much money...
Oil Date December 4,1997 February 12,1998
later rising star to become favoured status
a shiny Special Ambassador to Afghanistan
Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca testifies
before House International Relations Committee
a single unified friendly government is required...
in place in Afghanistan before a trans-Afghani
pipeline tall order needed to monetize oil can
be built to liberate site vast Afghani oil reserves?
See No Evil Tell No Lies in 1998 the CIA ignores
warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer that Saudi
Arabia is harboring an al-Q'aeda cell led by known
terrorists two next a detailed list of known terrorists
August 2001 offered to Saudi intelligence is refused...
Oil Date April 1999
Enron is in a bind with a $3 billion investment
to build an electrical generating plant at Dabhol
India because Enron loses access to the plentiful
LNG supplies from Qatar to fuel electrical plant
remaining options to make investment profitable...
Unocal must build a trans-Afghani gas pipeline
from Turkmenistan terminating near the Indian
border at the city of Multan to save outlay Enron?
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I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
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We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.
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What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
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Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.
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Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.
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Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was.
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But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
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But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.
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In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.
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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
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Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
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