Did This Billboard Get Buffett To Sell PetroChina? The 'WSJ' Says Maybe.

Posted by Bess Levin, Oct 12, 2007, 2:14pm

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Having cut its stake to 652.9 million shares, down from 2.3 billion at the end of 2006, Berkshire Hathaway now owns less than 5 percent of PetroChina, and won’t be required to file additional updates on stock sales, leading analysts to believe that the rest of it could have been sold already. Some people want to know why. Money or genocide? (You know what we think).

Earlier: Why Doesn’t Warren Buffett Want To Fund Genocide Anymore?

Buffett's PetroChina Sale [WSJ]

*We say yes. The message, which Buffett is rumored to have seen before it was cleaned up, read, “Will your conscience let you off on a technicality? The answer is ‘no,’ you stupid Sudanese-killing motherfucker.” That would affect even the most calloused among us.

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Posted by PTR, Oct 12, 2007 4:43PM

We're up another 11.82% today!

Suck it, beeee-atcHHHH!

Posted by Lee D, Oct 12, 2007 4:43PM

How is ANYBODY divesting themselves of their stake in PetroChina going to save Darfur?

If the whiny limosine liberals really wanted to save Darfur they should hire Blackwater. I know that Depp, Pitt, Jolie and Penn together could afford it.

Failing that, they should hire the A-Team. Those guys never got a dime for any of their jobs. Cheapest. Mercenaries. Ever.

Posted by Calgary Schmooze, Oct 12, 2007 4:47PM

Wow... only 5+ years after Talisman was pressured to sell their stake in GNPOC to ONGC...

And to think that I could have had a job in Khartoum for said operation back in '99...

Posted by The Understander, Oct 12, 2007 5:58PM

You have to understand that "billboard castigations" in Omaha tend to freak the shit out of the locals. You can be sure that everyone coming back from the airport (near where the sign is located) talked about nothing else for days. The entire community is probably hunched over in shame wearing their bib overalls or Husker red leisure suits (with white stitching) and wondering why that billboard has been put upon the city.

And for God's sake remember: It's BEE-at-triss !!

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