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Uh oh another inconvenient truth
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quote:But now, a top official of the United Steelworkers union, International Vice President Jon Geenen, has discovered an inconvenient truth about the whole boycott campaign.
Seems the Kochs run one of the most heavily unionized operations in the country, providing some of “the best-paid manufacturing jobs in America.”
Which means that any negative impact said boycott might have on Georgia Pacific (which makes consumer goods like facial tissue, napkins, paper towels, etc.) could “make union workers collateral damage” and “the first casualties of a boycott.”
Oops.
Indeed, notes Geenen on the union’s Web site, 80% of GP’s mills are under contract with one or more labor unions.
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quote:Soros Hedge Fund Bought Petrobras Stake Worth $811 Million
By Jeb Blount and Miles Weiss - August 15, 2008 05:13 EDT
George Soros, billionaire investor
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding. As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 percent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management LLC, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Petrobras has since slumped 28 percent.
Soros has increased his mining and commodities holdings, a move that accelerated in the first quarter with purchases of such companies as Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest iron-ore producer, and Talisman Energy Inc., a Canadian oil and gas company. In November, Petrobras announced the discovery of Tupi, a field with as much as 8 billion barrels of reserves, making it the largest find in the Americas since 1976.
``Petrobras has something that other oil companies don't have: oil -- lots of it and they're going to find more,'' said Ricardo Kobayashi, equity fund manager with UBS Pactual SA in Rio de Janeiro, which manages about $5 billion of stocks, including shares in Petrobras. ``If you can buy now and hang on, if you have the staying power, it's great.''
quote:Originally posted by seeweed:
You can think them damm Birchers are wonderful but I will not be fooled. I have delt with Birchers in the past, and as a bunch, they are far out there.
Birchers are pretty close to anarchist as any organized group can be. These particular ones, want no regulation at all on any environmental issues.
Whatever- if this is the sort of government you want, you are too far gone to realize what it can bring.
quote:Originally posted by seeweed:
You can think them damm Birchers are wonderful but I will not be fooled. I have delt with Birchers in the past, and as a bunch, they are far out there.
Birchers are pretty close to anarchist as any organized group can be. These particular ones, want no regulation at all on any environmental issues.
Whatever- if this is the sort of government you want, you are too far gone to realize what it can bring.
quote:Originally posted by tigrtrek:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/o...PBV5vlavIVhuMR7n01IN
Uh oh another inconvenient truth
quote:Originally posted by b50m:
Nice video, but it was not either Koch brother speaking.
quote:Originally posted by b50m:
Like Soros for the flip side?
quote:Originally posted by b50m:
Soros pulls the strings for the whole left and that doesn't bother you?
quote:Originally posted by The Propagandist:quote:Originally posted by b50m:
Soros pulls the strings for the whole left and that doesn't bother you?
At least he's on the correct side.
Koch, anyone?
quote:Originally posted by The Propagandist:quote:Originally posted by b50m:
Soros pulls the strings for the whole left and that doesn't bother you?
At least he's on the correct side.