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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 08:56 AM Original message |
1904 Cartoon of Standard Oil |
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Voltaire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. I think they may have invented some forms of bastardism. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
3. I should point out, people loved the oil back then... |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 09:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Hmmm, then it looks like over the years they consilidated and morphed into what they were against |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 09:15 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Anti-trust, anti-monopolies relates directly to oppostion to big bussiness today. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:38 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. +1000 |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. That is so true. And the truth really does hurt. ALL of us. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
5. Not only that, but most of them (including BP) have some tie |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. The "Trusts" were broken up, for a good reason |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Capital, ya just can't keep an avaricious system down |
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corkhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
8. updated by a beginner photoshopper... |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 11:02 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Very nice! |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. |
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
10. Nice art work |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yes...n/t |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
13. The History Of The Standard Oil Company (by Ida Tarbell) |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Bless you !!!! |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. "There Will Be Blood" is a movie loosely based on Upton Sinclar's novel "Oil". |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. The Tarbell book is available in pdf form here: |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 02:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That's a great site. THANKS! |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. If you google free e books/free online books |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:09 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I'm familiar with some of those sites, but not the one now under disussion. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
14. Of course |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
16. see oil companies are friends with the underwater wild life |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
17. No, sometimes they were assholes. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
18. Read Ludwell Denny's "We Fight for Oil" |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. Yes, look at the Teapot Dome Scandal and all that. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
27. Tea Pot Dome |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
29. There's something about seeing cash come out of the ground that changes a person. |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
30. CD cover art, 2008... |
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