Unocal

dude; deal with taliban for pipe to link to enron 32

am amb to afganistaN z kHALIZAD, KARZAI FMR UNIOCAL (disputed?)

<h2>Unocal connection</h2>

There's been much debate over Karzai's alleged consultant work with <a title="Unocal" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal">Unocal</a> (Union Oil Company of California since acquired by <a title="Chevron Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation">Chevron</a> in 2005). In 2002, when Karzai became the subject of heavy media coverage as one of the front runners to lead Afghanistan, it was reported that he was a former consultant for them.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-csmonitor-84">[85]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-atimes-85">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-atimes-85">86]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-counterpunch-86">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-counterpunch-86">87]</a> Spokesmen for both Unocal and Karzai have denied any such relationship, although Unocal could not speak for all companies involved in the consortium.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-globalsecurity-87">[88]</a> The original claim that Karzai worked for Unocal originates from a 6 December 2001 issue of the French newspaper <a title="Le Monde" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde">Le Monde</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-globalsecurity-87">[88]</a> Barry Lane UNOCAL's manager for public relations states that, "He was never a consultant, never an employee. We've exhaustively searched through all our records."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-emperors-clothes-88">[89]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-usembassy.gov-89">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-usembassy.gov-89">90]</a> Lane however did say that <a title="Zalmay Khalilzad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad">Zalmay Khalilzad</a>, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was a Unocal consultant in the mid-1990s.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#cite_note-seattletimes-90">[91]</a>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad</a>

Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (<a title="Nastaliq" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastaliq">Nastaliq</a>: زلمی خلیلزاد - Zalmay Khalīlzād) (born: 22 March 1951) is an <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> counselor at the <a title="Center for Strategic and International Studies" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a> (CSIS) and president of Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He was the <a title="United States Ambassador to the United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Nations">United States Ambassador to the United Nations</a> under President <a title="George W. Bush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush">George W. Bush</a>. He has been involved with <a title="Politics of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States">U.S. policy makers</a> at the <a title="White House" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House">White House</a>, <a title="State Department" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Department">State Department</a> and <a title="Pentagon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon">Pentagon</a> since the mid-1980s, and was the highest-ranking <a title="Islam in the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States">Muslim American</a> in the <a title="Presidency of George W. Bush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W.Bush">Administration</a> of <a title="President of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States">U.S. President</a> <a title="George W. Bush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush">George W. Bush</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad#cite_note-ihouse-1">[2]</a> Khalilzad's previous assignments in the Administration include <a title="United States Ambassador to Afghanistan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Afghanistan">U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan</a> and <a title="United States Ambassador to Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Iraq">U.S. Ambassador to Iraq</a>.

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation</a>

Union Oil Company of California, <a title="Doing business as" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_business_as">dba</a> Unocal is a defunct company that was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. It was headquartered in <a title="El Segundo, California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Segundo,_California">El Segundo</a>, <a title="California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</a>, United States.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation#cite_note-0">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation#cite_note-1">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation#cite_note-1">2]</a>

On August 10, 2005, Unocal merged with <a title="Chevron Corporation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation">Chevron Corporation</a> and became a wholly owned subsidiary. Unocal has now ceased operations as an independent company, but continues to conduct many operations as Union Oil Company of California, a Chevron company.

69 sta barbara spill===gangs:Grossman concluded that one fulcrum for challenging a corporation
was its state-issued charter. And so POCLAD began seeking to
reviving an avenue of recourse that had often been used in the nineteenth
century to discipline errant corporations.
In 1998, POCLAD decided to launch its first experiment at making
a corporation’s charter into a target of action. POCLAD picked CaliforFIGHTING
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nia-based Unocal Corporation as its target, a corporation with a pattern
of collaborating with some of the most notorious governments in existence,
and with a long track record as a corporate scofflaw. Together
with dozens of environmental and human rights organizations,
POCLAD’s lawyers filed a book-length complaint with California’s
attorney general Dan Lungren, documenting the case against the oil giant
(Robert Benson, Challenging Corporate Rule: The Petition to Revoke
Unocal’s Charter as a Guide to Citizen Action. The Apex Press,
1999).
In the United States, Unocal had repeatedly been convicted of violating
environmental and worker safety standards, yet continued to
break the rules. In Burma, the company had taken advantage of the oppressive
conditions created by a ruthless military dictatorship and had
used slave labor to build its pipeline in that country. In Afghanistan, the
company had entered into a partnership with the notorious Taliban regime,
thus countenancing a range of crimes against humanity. Finally,
Unocal plead guilty to deceiving courts of law and with its own shareholders.
The POCLAD complaint asked the state of California to formally
address Unocal’s pattern of unlawful behavior by revoking
Unocal’s charter of incorporation.
To Attorney General Lungren, the request must have looked like a
message from outer space. The idea of revoking the charter of a large
corporation with billions in annual revenues, thereby forcing to be dissolved
as a legal entity, with its assets sold to new owners, was simply
unthinkable. And so Lungren dismissed the petition out of hand. But
POCLAD judged the experiment to have been a success. Slowly but
surely, the unthinkable was beginning to become thinkablethe first
step toward becoming real. The complaint against Unocal had helped
reawaken the notion that a corporate charter is not a natural right. It is
granted by the citizenry of a state, and by the same token that same citizenry
may revoke it.

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