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Phelim McAleer Opinion The New York Post 10/5/2014 …The Farrow visit was part of a campaign centered on an Ecuadorian court ruling that found against Chevron and ordered it to pay more than $9 billion in compensation, the largest civil penalty in history. But, as Farrow knows from her other performances, there is often a […] October 6th, 2014 | Tags: Chevron, Ecuador, extortion, fraud, Mia Farrow, Raphael Correa, RICO charges, Steven Donziger | Category: corruption, Crime, Energy, Hollywood, New York, Progressives | Comments are closed
Rob Wile Business Insider 11/26/2013 The Chinese have taken control of Ecuador’s oil sector, Reuters’ Joshua Schneyer and Nichoals Medina Mora Perez report. Finding themselves largely shut out of credit markets since defaulting on $3.2 billion in debt in 2008, Ecuador turned to China. In exchange for covering 61% of the country’s $6.2 billion financing […] November 27th, 2013 | Tags: Ecuador, national debt, oil, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), PetroEcuador, Rafael Correa | Category: California, China, Energy, Socialism, South America | Comments are closed
Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by Ecuador over fears he could be extradited to the US and face the death penalty. Martin Beckford and Rosa Silverman The Telegraph [UK] 16 Aug 2012 The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in the South American country’s London embassy for almost two months as […] August 16th, 2012 | Tags: asylum, Ecuador, embassy, sexual assault, Sweden, WikiLeaks | Category: corruption, Crime, Europe, Great Britain, law enforcement, South America, United States | Comments are closed
Cashing in on her respected family name and legacy, Kennedy raked in tens of thousands of dollars and was given a 0.25 percent stake — worth as much as $40 million — if the $18 billion judgment handed down by an Ecuadorean judge is ultimately upheld. Steven Hayward PowerLine 1/16/2012 Yeah, I know, […] January 17th, 2012 | Tags: Chevron, Ecuador, hypocrisy, Kennedy family, Kerry Kennedy, oil companies | Category: Environment, lobbyists, Media accountability, Progressives, South America | Comments are closed
Carol Greenberg Conservative Outlooks 2/15/2011 Please see my previous posts on this subject, each will link back to the previous. In the last installment the Ecuadoran plaintiffs had hired a new high-powered attorney. Chevron reacted by filing RICO charges against dozens of people and companies in this corruption, collusion-filled 18 year old lawsuit. FYI the […] February 16th, 2011 | Tags: Chevron, Ecuador, lawsuit, Rafael Correa, RICO charges, Texaco, The Hague | Category: corruption, Energy, Environment, South America, United States | Comments are closed
“SEIU Local 73 was all across the nation in 2008 assisting Barack Obama in his historic run for the White House. Members and SEIU Local 73 staff worked the primaries not only in Illinois, but in Ohio and other key states. The Purple Army was out in force to turn […] January 30th, 2011 | Tags: Colombia, Ecuador, FARC, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Gaza flotilla, Global Exchange, Hamas, Joe Iosbaker, Matt Brandon, Raul Reyes, Republican National Convention, riots, SEIU 73, Tom Burke | Category: Barack Obama, FBI, Marxism, South America, terrorism, Unions | Comments are closed
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