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Because of the Christian vision that lies at the heart of Zion Oil, founder John Brown felt that it was necessary for Zion to help give back to those in need, both in the United States and Israel.

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Narrator: It might seem like a small international oil company would face a number of challenges operating in a region that often inspires fear and concern as well as a number of questions for investors and shareholders. Will the Israeli government cooperate with an American company? How will political unrest and terrorism affect the future of the project? Will the project be of interest to enough people?

Zion’s Israeli team members Philip Mandelker, Elisha Roih and Dr. Eliezer Kashai use their background and expertise to address these situations on a daily basis. Along with Glen Perry and Zion’s CEO Richard Rinberg, the Zion team utilizes their extensive experience as oil and gas professionals, close ties to government agencies, and their status as full time residents of Israel to maintain relations and fulfill all legal regulations in order for drilling and production to move ahead as planned.

Richard Rinberg: How he became involved, people of Israel, safety.

Narrator: Due to the nature and location of the Joseph Project, Zion has attracted a significant amount of media attention over the past few years. Media coverage has not just been in the United States, nor is it limited to the evangelical Christian community. Media organizations from around the world have taken an interest in Zion’s story and have shared it with their respective communities. In the United States, coverage has appeared in print and television; the Zion Oil story has been told in major newspapers such as USA Today, The Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. Articles and interviews have also appeared in magazines such as the Oil & Gas Journal and Newsweek. On Television, Zion has been profiled on ABC News Nightline, CBS Evening News, The Christian Broadcast Network, Daystar and The Trinity Broadcast Network.

International coverage has been extensive as well, including stories in Israeli newspapers and magazines such as Ha’aretz, the Jerusalem Post and Yedioth Aharonot and around the world in publications including the Times of London, the Economist and in Norwegian, Swedish and Dutch newspapers. Zion Oil has appeared in television interviews and stories around the globe, from Channel 2 news in Israel, to Reuters, Sky News and CNN International, Dutch & German television news and even coverage in Russia.

Narrator: Success of the Joseph project means something important and unique to those affected by it on every level. To the company and its shareholders success means a profitable return on the investment of time and capital. For the State of Israel, success means a much needed source of fuel and commerce and the possibility of energy independence. For those that will benefit from Zion’s charitable trusts, it will mean support and refuge in times of need. And to people of faith it will be yet another proof that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob remembers His blessings and keeps His promises to the children of Israel.

Richard Rinberg: Marriage of faith & science, meaning and success of project.

Glen Perry: success of project.

John Brown: success of project

Narrator: Whether it is the biblical prophecy that points to the blessings upon the head of Joseph, or the geological study of the structures that lie deep beneath Israel’s surface, there is no doubt that this project is driven by both the passion of true faith and the scientific mind’s desire to discover. Zion Oil & Gas is truly on a quest to uncover the mystery of what lies buried in the rocks and hidden in the scriptures. Perhaps they are one and the same.

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The company had a deep and long-lasting impact in the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the so-called “banana republics” (a term coined by O. Henry). After a period of financial decline, United Fruit was merged with Eli M. Black’s AMK in 1970 to become the United Brands Company. In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International.

The United Fruit Company was frequently accused of bribing government officials in exchange for preferential treatment, exploiting its workers, contributing little by way of taxes to the countries in which it operated, and working ruthlessly to consolidate monopolies. Latin American journalists sometimes referred to the company as el pulpo (”the octopus”), and leftist parties in Central and South America encouraged the Company’s workers to strike. Criticism of the United Fruit Company became a staple of the discourse of the communist parties in several Latin American countries, where its activities were often interpreted as illustrating Lenin’s theory of capitalist imperialism. Major Latin American writers sympathetic to more independence from foreign governments and corporations, such as Carlos Luis Fallas of Costa Rica, Ramón Amaya Amador of Honduras, Miguel Ángel Asturias of Guatemala, Eduardo Galeano of Uruguay, Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia, and Pablo Neruda of Chile, denounced the Company in their literature.

The business practices of United Fruit were also frequently criticized by journalists, politicians, and artists in the United States. Little Steven released a song called “Bitter Fruit” about the company’s misdeeds. In 1950, Gore Vidal published a novel (Dark Green, Bright Red) in which a thinly fictionalized version of United Fruit supports a military coup in a thinly fictionalized Guatemala.

Eli M. Black (April 9, 1921 – February 3, 1975) was a Jewish-American businessman who controlled the United Brands Company. His son, Leon Black, is a founding member of private equity firm Apollo Management.

In 1975, the Securities and Exchange Commission uncovered a $2.5 million bribe that United Brands had agreed to pay Honduran president Oswaldo López Arellano in return for reducing taxes on banana exports.

A few weeks before the scandal broke, Black went to his office on the forty-fourth floor of the Pan Am Building in Manhattan, bashed out the window with his briefcase, and jumped to his death on Park Avenue.

After Black’s suicide, Cincinnati-based American Financial Group, one of millionaire Carl Lindner, Jr.’s companies, bought into United Fruit.

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