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Concluding Question: The Meta-Group and the United States Government It seems clear that the meta-group, with its influential connections on at least three continents, was powerful enough to effect changes, through the Russian 9/11, in Russian history. The question arises whether they could similarly effect changes in American history as well. As we have seen Russian sources claim that the U.S. Government has had access to he meta-group, for such especially sensitive projects as the assassination of Abu al Walid al-Hamadi. They claim the meta-group's involvement in a number of U.S.-sponsored regime changes in eastern Europe, from the overthrow of...

Boston - Some analysts and money managers here would pick Chevron Corp to beat CNOOC Ltd in the emerging race to acquire Unocal Corp, though they hope US politics won't be the deciding factor. CNOOC, China's biggest offshore oil company, has formally bid $18.5bn for Unocal. That's about $1.5bn higher than the proposal by Chevron, which in April announced a pact it had hoped to seal within the next several weeks. "I think Chevron's going to win because I think there will be some economic consequence to the regulatory hurdles that CNOOC has to do," money manager Mike Holland said....