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Zapata
I was recently pointed to the following Wikipedia entry and found some fascinating allegations. When searching this forum Zapata could not be found so I assume this has never been discussed before .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation and whether the events surrounding the formation, operation and activities of Zapata continue to have any relevance for current world affairs given the role of GHWBush in this entity. And no, it's not the name of a Cheech & Chong movie ..... |
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What else is there to say? It's all there. Who doesn't recall where they were when they heard Kennedy was shot? Bush was in Dallas and so was Nixon right before and of course so was Johnson. Three people who never would have been president if Kennedy didn't die were all there when he was killed. It would have changed everything. And if Poppy hadn't become President we wouldn't have the current fortunate son. So yeah I would say it's relevant.
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CFL asks:
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http://houston.craigslist.org/pol/709642171.html You can probably make a case that it was Nazi influence that killed both John and Robert Kennedy. JFK was initially tough on Communist Cuba but was considered soft when he backed out of supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion. Both he and Bobby's support for civil rights in the U.S. could have been too much for the Nazis to bear. JFK also equivocated on another anti-communist effort, the Viet Nam conflict which was left to his survivor, Johnson, to prosecute and his successor, Nixon, to end, in failure. So the Nazis or Nazi influence and power conspired to kill JFK..? Zapata had a contract with Kuwait. They also drilled off shore Cuba which is now being drilled by the Chinese. This must be giving GHW and GW apolexy. GW Bush the other day called for resumption of off shore drilling in the U.S. in response to the oil price crisis engineered by everything he has done so far. Resumption of off shore oil drilling could ressurect Zapata innovations in this field. They have since become Pennzoil, best known for supplying crankcase oil for automobiles. But daddy's brain child, Zapata, could rise again! Does that help answer your question? |
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Or this one:
http://houston.craigslist.org/w4w/
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Are you
saying the interlocking directorates and financial alliances brought up in the references provided are either (choose one): 1. fabricated/fantasy 2. a coincidence 3. real but of no bearing on events, current or otherwise Are you saying that the history of Prescott Bush and the Bush dynasty is false as presented? Are you saying extreme white wingers, excuse me, right wingers, such as the John Birch Society are a fantasy? And while the possible tie-ins with the JFK asssination are no doubt intriguing to some, are you saying more importantly what we are enduring now in the Iraqui quagmire and the runaway oil prices has no relationship with the current occupant of the White House given his history? That he has not lied and manipulated the Iraqui war in order to a. attain revenge against Saddem for threatning to assasinate his father b. create instability in the oil market to drive up prices c. create opportunities for war profiteers such as Haliburton and KBR d. divert resources from Afghanistan because of its importance in the heroin trade ookay. I guess we can keep referencing personal ads then. |
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Don't know who this was directed to since you didn't use the quote function but it is a combination of 1 and 3.
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According to the 1960 census, the population of the city was 679,684 (it is now 1.2 million).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...allas%2C_Texas http://www.census.gov/ ETA default is quicker than I. I blame my stubby fingers (its why I had to play the cello instead of violin). |
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Thanks for your opinion. So it seems rather than choosing one you choose two which sorta contradict each other. The existence of the interlocking directorates mentioned in the quotes are a matter of record even if you think they either didn't exist or if they did were of no relevance.
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For people like yourself and others I suppose its a matter of ideology. They say their leaders can do no harm, have done no harm and stand by them no matter how badly they are hurt by them or how corrupt they are. We have seen this with Mayor Curly in Boston who ran the city from his jail cell with the help of such supporters. And we've seen it with Mayor Daly Sr in Chicago and I supppose elsewhere, I suppose wherever corrupt politicians have a following or are tolerated. It's your constitutional right to get shafted if that's what you want. |
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You make the worst debating mistake of all by attacking the speaker rather than the argument.
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Nuts. I thought, from the title, this was going to be a discussion of the Mexican revolution of the early part of the 20th century, or even of -- do I remember this right? -- Marlon Brando's rendition of a Mexican Indian revolutionary.
Instead it is some horse pucky blaming the Bush family for the world's ills. I think Jeb, Neil, and W. were playing with their pop guns on 22d November and whoops, well, you know the rest. |
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And you make arguments attributing things I didn't say to me...you have graduated from the Alex Jones school of strawman building. Here they forgot to give you your diploma...
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Maybe we can report this to the mods as a false flag thread. It masqueraded as a peon... no, that's wrong... As a thread about Marlon Brando's greatest movie role. And what do we get instead? Barbara Bush shot JFK. (Probably aiming for Jackie because of the latter's annoyingly overpowering fashion sense.)
Jeez louise... |
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Finally a descent response, I’m Mexican born there but raised here in the U.S. I know more about U.S. History. I should know better that to listens to this. I’m not remembering my Mexican History which I have to freshen up. But I do agree with you in this history fact. I honestly though I would have been a more provoking discussion.
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I seriously doubt that I need you to teach me history.
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Can you produce this newsletter? Why should I pay attention to what some anonymous person rambles about? Are you? Come again? What "Nazis"? Yes, Steve? Are you going to answer that question - or leave a trail of unfinished sentences and half-claims? So? So? Not really. You are talking about history (e.g., Zapata merged with South Penn Oil and other companies in 1963) - hardly "current affairs". So, I ask again: What role does GHWBush play in current world affairs? |
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Steve, c'mon!
Go read fifty google results on any of the connections to Bush or Nixon or even Hoover being in Dallas that week. The worst sort of connect-the-dots journalism you can find. Is it that hard to think of reasons why Bush might be in Texas? Johnson? Even Nixon? Oh, but wow, man... on the same day? Amazon (should have) said: People who like this book also ordered "More Crud by Daniel Hopsicker". Have fun. Since no evidence is required, you can read up on this for weeks. And everything you find will be the same sort of argument from incredulity. Oh, and personally? I think Joan Crawford did it. |
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Actually on one of those sites I mentioned (okay, I didn't read fifty during this run, but I have over the last couple of years)... They mention the Pepsi loss of their Cuban sugar plantation and Joan's utter fury over that. And connecting the dots... well, obviously she talked to their corporate council, a certain R.M. Nixon about it and then he and his CIA buddies took care of that traitor, Kennedy. And... and... then the CIA orchestrated Watergate to get rid of Nixon (to replace him with Agnew or Rockefeller or Ford??? well, it's their idea, not mine), and gave him a penthouse in New York to shut him up. Or something like that. It's hard to make sense of them as they seem to be having a creative writing contest, and everyone has their primary dots connecting to all sorts of different dots. Sorta like the in-fighting in the 911 Truth Movement. (And, as proof, well it's obvious! As you can see, the omnipotent NWO/CIA/Illuminati achieved their goal. We took over Cuba in '64 and repatriated all the wealth to the American companies who had been wronged.) BTW, the above somewhat tongue-in-cheek paragraph reminds me.... To all conspiradroid who actually believe in these tenuous connections proving anything: Why is it that they can cover up the assasination for 45 years, take down the WTC, fake a moon landing, snuff a princess, crash Ron Brown's plane, and all those other fantasist beliefs (which, it should be added, would run counter to the wishes of almost all Americans),.... And yet they couldn't muster the power to convince a few important individuals to broker a small water with Cuba - something that probably more than half the country would have supported at various times? Russia hasn't been a threat for over fifteen years. And those same NWO rulers are still in place running everything (according to Tarpley and Hopsicker and friends) and the evil Commies are still running Cuba? How's that? Did they change their minds? |
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Just to put this thread back on the rails and to set the record straight regarding the title Zapata, I provide the following quote from the URL originally provided in the OP which apparently a few people decided not to look at before voicing therir opinions on the title.
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No, I did follow the OP, I just thought this was about the silliest thing I'd seen in, say, the previous 15 minutes. I felt I was giving the OP the response it deserved.
Tell me more about this women's shoe thing... There is something about women's shoes.... |
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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So you find the debate over offshore drilling silly? oookay.
http://www.alligator.org/articles/20...80701_eddy.txt
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It is also indisputable that current oil prices have created a huge opportunity for GHW Bush’s company, Zapata and its various subsidiaries, as a provider of equipment and support services for U.S. off shore drilling which has become not only financially attractive but necessary, another important influence of GHW Bush on current affairs. |
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But what really jarred me in the wikipedia article was the allegation that Zapata also may've acted as a CIA front in time for the Cuban adventures including the JFK-messed up Bay of Pigs invasion. GHW Bush, of course, later became one of a long line of CIA Directors. So another question of the CTers is whether he was in office at the CIA long enough to get all the Zapata related documents destroyed?
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Let's get this back on track.
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Then, you are quoting something that you can't verify - and don't care if you can.
Steve, it doesn't matter if it makes sense to people. Astrology makes sense to some people. Fath healing makes sense to some people. Mediumship makes sense to some people - you included. No, you didn't. You opened the possibility that it was Nazi influence that both JFK and RFK. Now, you back down from that. Once again, you try to twist things. I asked you which "Nazis" you meant. I didn't say I wasn't familiar with the ones you now mention. There were many groups who found JFK/RFK's support for civil rights "too much to bear". Why specifically mention the American Nazi Party and the neo-Nazi groups? Why do you want these groups to be connected to the Bush family? Or, is it the other way around? You want the Bushes to be connected to Nazis? That doesn't answer the question. I asked if you think the Nazis or Nazi influence and power conspired to kill JFK. Do you? So what? Lots of companies had a contract with Kuwait. Do you know, or are you merely guessing? Why? Very tenuous line of reasoning, Steve. Your argument is weak, and is based on speculation, non-existing evidence and pure conspiracy thinking. |
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When I was born, my parents purchased 1 share of Zapata Oil to commemorate the birth. I still have that certificate somewhere, 47 years later. Hmmm, I wonder how much it might be worth, if anything.
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probably not much, according to wikipedia they did 1-for-10 reverse split in 2001, which means your one stock would just take a cash payment, which wouldnt be much, otherwise they wouldnt be reverse splitting, lol
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance-- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." --Steve Martin |
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