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<blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 32909" data-attributes="member: 130">A television reporter says, &quot;John Ross Ewing the third and his wife Pamela are unique among the richest people in the world.&nbsp; Together they alone own Lone Star Investments, the company which contains the vast majority of their wealth, and so together they hold the third spot on the Forbes list at sixty-one point eight billion dollars and growing.&nbsp; Lone Star is a private investment company, which holds onto twelve percent of Trident, making them the single latest investor in the giant energy company.&nbsp; Lone Star is also the largest investor in the electric car company Faraday; Line Star owns one third of oil field services giant Ewing Oil, one of the world&#039;s largest family owned businesses.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lone Star owns half of the South Fork Ranch with ranching operations in the U.S. and Canada.&nbsp; The company is a large investor in the newly formed Manama Corporation and Long Capital Company and owns all of AmHoldings and the mercenary business Branchwater along with hundreds of other businesses and investments in real estate and communities around the world.&nbsp; Lone Star serves as a family office which provides financial services and insurance to the whole of the Ewing family.&nbsp;&nbsp; The couple own houses in Braddock County, Texas; rural Albert, Canada; and on their own island among the U.S. Virgin Islands.&nbsp; They have four children and give exclusively through the Ewing Family Foundation which oversees several family funds set up for charitable purposes, the most note worthy is their contribution to cancer research though the JR Ewing Cancer Center in Dallas.&nbsp; Initially, most of their wealth came to them via the family trusts set up by his father and grandfather, John Ross Ewing One and two, as well as her father, Cliff Barnes and his mother Rebecca Wentworth.&nbsp; Together they are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Americans Society and the Trilateral Commission among other international groups.Tonight we look at the power couple on The World&#039;s Rich and Famous.&quot;&nbsp; The report goes to a history of the Ewing brothers and Digger Barnes.&nbsp; John Ross mutes the television and says to Mateo and Liam, &quot;I don&#039;t like my private life discussed like this.&quot;Mateo says, &quot;Better like this where you e had done behind the scenes influences than some place totally out of your control.&quot;&quot;I suppose.&nbsp; So, Sergei Vaino and the Rosnova Group.&nbsp; The Russians are going after Ewing Oils debt.&quot;Liam says, &quot;All company&#039;s operate off the management of debt.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think they were surprised that the Ewing&#039;s have means to manage their debt not available to most.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;What&#039;s his next target?&quot;Pamela sits across from an executive.&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;So what you&#039;re saying is you&#039;ve kept information from me.&quot;&quot;No, what I&#039;m saying . . .&quot;&quot;Let&#039;s not make this any more difficult than it is.&nbsp; You knew something I didn&#039;t. You should have given me the information, yet you didn&#039;t.&nbsp; So, now my company&#039;s facing a lawsuit.&nbsp; Unless you have some startling reveal that changed that fact let&#039;s no dig ourselves any deeper.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; She picks up the phone and names a call, to which she says, &quot;Settle out of court.&nbsp; Then tell her to see me first thing when she returns.&quot;&nbsp; Pamela hands up and look back across the the man in front of her desk. &quot;So the information I need now is you&#039;re not good at your job.&nbsp; And that&#039;s to handle things so I don&#039;t have too.&nbsp; Instead you discriminate against someone who is clearly smarter than you.&nbsp; There&#039;s problem number two.&nbsp; See I don&#039;t have a damn that you&#039;re smarter than me.&nbsp; Of course you are.&nbsp; It&#039;s why I hired you.&nbsp; But for you, your comfort stands in the way of you doing your job.&nbsp; So, I have to let you go.&nbsp; Your severance package will be handled by Monica. See he on your way out.&quot;&nbsp; The man stands and leaves the room. Pamela goes back to work reviewing financials.&nbsp; Lucy pushes a stroller through the Fort Worth Zoo when she comes across Mitch.&nbsp; Stunned to see him, they hug. She introduces him to Jordan and Little Sue Ellen.&nbsp; &quot;What are you doing here?&quot;&quot;I was looking into a donation to the zoo.&nbsp; I got a call from Andrew Bradley.&nbsp; He&#039;s in the board here.&nbsp; Asked me to come out today.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#039;s been showing me around.&nbsp; He had to go take a call.&quot;&quot;I know Andrew.&nbsp; He&#039;s an old friend if the family.&nbsp; We call him Junior.&nbsp; So why would he call you about a donation?&quot;&quot;He heard that in other cities where I&#039;ve lived, I&#039;ve been involved with the zoo&quot;&quot;I see.&nbsp; Anything here get your attention?&quot;&quot;Not yet.&nbsp; We just started the tour.&quot;&quot;Well keep me in mind.&nbsp; Maybe I can add to what ever it you choose to do.&quot;&quot;Sounds like a plan.&nbsp; Say do you mind my walking with you, while I wait for Andy?&quot;&quot;Of course not.&quot;In the phone in his study John Ross says, &quot;So they&#039;re walking together than.&nbsp; Great.&nbsp; Thank you.&nbsp; You know we&#039;ll have to have you over sometime for a barbecue, talk to Emily, how we can help with the zoo . . .&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh yes, we&#039;d like to get involved.&nbsp; Maybe something with the lions named after JR Ewing.&quot;Chris sits in George&#039;s office and says, &quot;What Trident needs is a replacement for Manama.&quot;&quot;I would certainly agree but what do you suggest?&quot;&quot;Maracaibo.&nbsp; I have some connections down there.&quot;&quot;Regardless of your connection, dealing with Maracaibo isn&#039;t possible unless you plan a regime change.&quot;Chris nods.&nbsp; &quot;Really.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ve got a couple ins for us to start with, Ewing Oil owns a storage tank in the US Virgin Islands, fifty/fifty with Petroleos Maracaibo.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;They own Dortgo.&nbsp; Trident and Dortgo battled it out for fifteen years over a failed merger plan. West Star eventual bought their plays while refining and marketing ended up in the hands of Maracaibo.&quot;&quot;You know your history.&nbsp; I also had some dealings with Vicenete Cano.&nbsp; He wanted in on my methane extraction process.&nbsp; Truth is he was working with my Uncle Cliff.&nbsp; His Maracaibo partner approached me several years ago, but I&#039;d lost control of the technology by then.&nbsp; I still have the connection.&quot;&quot;How do we proceed?&quot;In his study John Ross meets with Pamela, Liam and Mateo.&nbsp; He says, &quot;I put the bug in Chris&#039;s ear.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now we need to proceed. I&#039;ve got a Meeting in Ulm, Germany next week with the Welser Family Foundation, which controls a large part of the giant Ilargus Bank.&nbsp; The Welser family is very interested.&quot;&quot;And how do you know them?&quot; Pamela asks. &quot;I went went in search of partners.&nbsp; We aren&#039;t the only ones with an interest in South American oil.&quot;Lia adds, &quot;China.&nbsp; Maracaibo and other South American counties have been turning to China as a way to lessen dependence on the US.&nbsp; China&#039;s even building a canal through Nicaragua to lessen American influence.&quot;&quot;Generous of them,&quot; John Ross says.&nbsp; &quot;This is JR&#039;s last play.&quot;Pamela sighs, &quot;I should have guessed.&quot;&quot;My grandfather went to South America provide some support for sone friends in Venezuela.&nbsp; They were hoping to over through the government and get Venezuelan oil out of the hands of the government.&nbsp; My grandfather was murdered.&nbsp; JR found out by who but couldn&#039;t get at them.&nbsp; Jocks friends did but nothing changed with the oil that he was making a play for.&nbsp; These friends are in Maracaibo.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;So we&#039;re suppose to get at Maracaibo oil?&quot; Mateo asks. &quot;We&#039;re suppose to stem the tide of Latin America&#039;s nationalization of oil.&nbsp; A policy which causes great harm to their people, I might add.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;Alright.&nbsp; So you&#039;re starting with Chris,&quot; Liam states. &quot;I&#039;ve got an associate with DLV.&quot;&quot;DLV?&quot; Pamela asks. &quot;It&#039;s a Spanish oil company founded in Venezuela.&nbsp;&nbsp; At one time it owned Ewing Oil, but subsequently sold it.&nbsp; DLV has a great many friends in Venezuela and Maracaibo.&nbsp; In fact it&#039;s on a small list of foreign oil companies that they deal with.&nbsp; The woman who owned it lost it to a friend of my father&#039;s in Spain, Marcos Ortega of the Galicia Group.&nbsp; He&#039;s offered it to Lone Star.&quot;&quot;And you want me to buy this company?&quot;&nbsp; Pamela asks. &quot;Yes.&nbsp; Luis Cedeño is the man who Vicenete Cano worked for.&nbsp; Vicente played between Cliff and Cedeño, hoping to come out independent.&nbsp; Cedeño is one of JR&#039;s friends in Maracaibo, who&#039;s father work with Jock.&nbsp;&nbsp; We can count on him.&quot;&nbsp; Looking at Mateo he says, &quot;I want you to set up a meeting with Cedeño.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Alright.&quot;&quot;When we&#039;re done Ewing Oil will develop&nbsp; Maracaibo&#039;s oil for Trident.&nbsp; With that the tide of nationalism should give way.&nbsp; This was my grandfather&#039;s mission in the early eighties and this is what I need to accomplish.&quot;Beau walks down from the Capitol Building in D.C. with others talking about his appointment to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and its subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.&nbsp; He says, &quot;Having been deployed to South American, I can tell you, I&#039;m most concerned about how they&#039;re leaders depict us as invaders while they constantly leave them to suffer while making deals with other despots.&quot;&nbsp; They all agree with his statement.&nbsp; David walks into an office in Maracaibo with Sergei, George and Dia.&nbsp; Dia says, &quot;This is Brigido Ravard, President of Petroleos Maracaibo.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Ravard this is David Wendell, who&#039;s on the board of Trident with me and George Demarest the Chairman of Trident and this is Mr. Vaino, President of Rosnova Group, a friend.&quot;Brigido welcomes them, asking them to sit and says, &quot;I&#039;m sure you know Mr. Long and I&#039;ve been working together for some time.&nbsp; He has many friends on the board of PetroSino and we&#039;ve been working on extending our relationship with them.&quot;David says, &quot;Yes we had partnership in Petrochemicals with them that Dia was very helpful with.&quot;&quot;To be honest Mr. Wendell, there isn&#039;t much political will in this country to work with an American company.&quot;&quot;There may not be, but your country has been working the same plays for decades.&nbsp; Frankly, you&#039;d better start looking for someone with the technology you need before the richest oil country in the world goes broke.&nbsp; But that&#039;s why I asked Mr. Vaino to join us.&nbsp; I thought maybe the three of us could work something out.&quot;&quot;I&#039;ll also be frank with you.&nbsp; We have been discussing our issue with DLV, a Spanish company, which had been a Venezuelan company.&nbsp; They have the technology we need to develop new plays.&quot;&quot;Is that an exclusive deal?&quot;&quot;No it&#039;s not.&quot;&quot;Good than we haven&#039;t waisted a trip.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hear you also own a holding tank with Ewing Oil.&quot;&quot;Yes we do.&nbsp; As a matter of fact I have s meeting with Mr. Ewing later this week to discuss that very thing on an island his cousin owns in the US Virgin Islands.&quot;&quot;You&#039;d be best to proceed with caution when dealing with with Ewing&#039;s.&quot;&quot;I always proceed with caution Mr. Wendell.&nbsp; Mr. Vaino, what does the Rosnova Group hope to get out of this?&nbsp; It can&#039;t be oil.&nbsp; You&#039;ve got plenty.&quot;&quot;I&#039;m here to make sure that at the end of all of this we all agree to the same premise, to keep crude prices high.&nbsp; The Ewing&#039;s are determined to keep the price of crude low.&nbsp; That isn&#039;t good for either of our countries.&nbsp;&nbsp; No is it good for Trident.&quot;&quot;It certainly wouldn&#039;t seem to be a good thing for the Ewing&#039;s either.&quot;David says, &quot;Lone Star is so diverse it seems they&#039;re fine undercutting all of if to increase their market share.&quot;&quot;Sounds like the Saudis.&quot;&quot;They have many like minded friends but we are not among them.&nbsp; And I venture to believe, neither are you.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;No.&nbsp; No I&#039;m not.&nbsp; Awe gentlemen,&quot; Brigido says standing as another man enters the room.&nbsp; &quot;This is Luis Cedeno.&nbsp; He has a construction company here in Maracaibo, the Cedeno group.&nbsp; He&#039;ll be working on some new plays with DLV.&quot;&nbsp; David, Sergei, George and Dia all meet Luis.&nbsp; At John Ross&#039;s house in the US Virgin Islands Chris meets Brigido Ravard.&nbsp; He says, &quot;And, this is my daughter, Cilia.&nbsp; She attends Texas A and M&#039;s law school.&quot;The two shake hands.&nbsp; Chris smiles.&nbsp; &quot;Nice to meet you.&quot;&nbsp; Emily walks up to a bunch of kids at a private club&#039;s pool and says to a young swim coach in a speedo, &quot;Hello.&nbsp; I&#039;m Emily Ewing.&nbsp; Jeremy&#039;s mother.&nbsp;&nbsp; You must be Philip Michaels.&nbsp; Lucy brought the boys this morning.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jack and Jeremy come running up to Emily, soaking wet and chasing each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stevew, post: 32909, member: 130"] A television reporter says, "John Ross Ewing the third and his wife Pamela are unique among the richest people in the world. Together they alone own Lone Star Investments, the company which contains the vast majority of their wealth, and so together they hold the third spot on the Forbes list at sixty-one point eight billion dollars and growing. Lone Star is a private investment company, which holds onto twelve percent of Trident, making them the single latest investor in the giant energy company. Lone Star is also the largest investor in the electric car company Faraday; Line Star owns one third of oil field services giant Ewing Oil, one of the world's largest family owned businesses. Lone Star owns half of the South Fork Ranch with ranching operations in the U.S. and Canada. The company is a large investor in the newly formed Manama Corporation and Long Capital Company and owns all of AmHoldings and the mercenary business Branchwater along with hundreds of other businesses and investments in real estate and communities around the world. Lone Star serves as a family office which provides financial services and insurance to the whole of the Ewing family. The couple own houses in Braddock County, Texas; rural Albert, Canada; and on their own island among the U.S. Virgin Islands. They have four children and give exclusively through the Ewing Family Foundation which oversees several family funds set up for charitable purposes, the most note worthy is their contribution to cancer research though the JR Ewing Cancer Center in Dallas. Initially, most of their wealth came to them via the family trusts set up by his father and grandfather, John Ross Ewing One and two, as well as her father, Cliff Barnes and his mother Rebecca Wentworth. Together they are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Americans Society and the Trilateral Commission among other international groups. Tonight we look at the power couple on The World's Rich and Famous." The report goes to a history of the Ewing brothers and Digger Barnes. John Ross mutes the television and says to Mateo and Liam, "I don't like my private life discussed like this." Mateo says, "Better like this where you e had done behind the scenes influences than some place totally out of your control." "I suppose. So, Sergei Vaino and the Rosnova Group. The Russians are going after Ewing Oils debt." Liam says, "All company's operate off the management of debt. I think they were surprised that the Ewing's have means to manage their debt not available to most." "What's his next target?" Pamela sits across from an executive. "So what you're saying is you've kept information from me." "No, what I'm saying . . ." "Let's not make this any more difficult than it is. You knew something I didn't. You should have given me the information, yet you didn't. So, now my company's facing a lawsuit. Unless you have some startling reveal that changed that fact let's no dig ourselves any deeper." She picks up the phone and names a call, to which she says, "Settle out of court. Then tell her to see me first thing when she returns." Pamela hands up and look back across the the man in front of her desk. "So the information I need now is you're not good at your job. And that's to handle things so I don't have too. Instead you discriminate against someone who is clearly smarter than you. There's problem number two. See I don't have a damn that you're smarter than me. Of course you are. It's why I hired you. But for you, your comfort stands in the way of you doing your job. So, I have to let you go. Your severance package will be handled by Monica. See he on your way out." The man stands and leaves the room. Pamela goes back to work reviewing financials. Lucy pushes a stroller through the Fort Worth Zoo when she comes across Mitch. Stunned to see him, they hug. She introduces him to Jordan and Little Sue Ellen. "What are you doing here?" "I was looking into a donation to the zoo. I got a call from Andrew Bradley. He's in the board here. Asked me to come out today. He's been showing me around. He had to go take a call." "I know Andrew. He's an old friend if the family. We call him Junior. So why would he call you about a donation?" "He heard that in other cities where I've lived, I've been involved with the zoo" "I see. Anything here get your attention?" "Not yet. We just started the tour." "Well keep me in mind. Maybe I can add to what ever it you choose to do." "Sounds like a plan. Say do you mind my walking with you, while I wait for Andy?" "Of course not." In the phone in his study John Ross says, "So they're walking together than. Great. Thank you. You know we'll have to have you over sometime for a barbecue, talk to Emily, how we can help with the zoo . . . Oh yes, we'd like to get involved. Maybe something with the lions named after JR Ewing." Chris sits in George's office and says, "What Trident needs is a replacement for Manama." "I would certainly agree but what do you suggest?" "Maracaibo. I have some connections down there." "Regardless of your connection, dealing with Maracaibo isn't possible unless you plan a regime change." Chris nods. "Really." "I've got a couple ins for us to start with, Ewing Oil owns a storage tank in the US Virgin Islands, fifty/fifty with Petroleos Maracaibo." "They own Dortgo. Trident and Dortgo battled it out for fifteen years over a failed merger plan. West Star eventual bought their plays while refining and marketing ended up in the hands of Maracaibo." "You know your history. I also had some dealings with Vicenete Cano. He wanted in on my methane extraction process. Truth is he was working with my Uncle Cliff. His Maracaibo partner approached me several years ago, but I'd lost control of the technology by then. I still have the connection." "How do we proceed?" In his study John Ross meets with Pamela, Liam and Mateo. He says, "I put the bug in Chris's ear. Now we need to proceed. I've got a Meeting in Ulm, Germany next week with the Welser Family Foundation, which controls a large part of the giant Ilargus Bank. The Welser family is very interested." "And how do you know them?" Pamela asks. "I went went in search of partners. We aren't the only ones with an interest in South American oil." Lia adds, "China. Maracaibo and other South American counties have been turning to China as a way to lessen dependence on the US. China's even building a canal through Nicaragua to lessen American influence." "Generous of them," John Ross says. "This is JR's last play." Pamela sighs, "I should have guessed." "My grandfather went to South America provide some support for sone friends in Venezuela. They were hoping to over through the government and get Venezuelan oil out of the hands of the government. My grandfather was murdered. JR found out by who but couldn't get at them. Jocks friends did but nothing changed with the oil that he was making a play for. These friends are in Maracaibo." "So we're suppose to get at Maracaibo oil?" Mateo asks. "We're suppose to stem the tide of Latin America's nationalization of oil. A policy which causes great harm to their people, I might add." "Alright. So you're starting with Chris," Liam states. "I've got an associate with DLV." "DLV?" Pamela asks. "It's a Spanish oil company founded in Venezuela. At one time it owned Ewing Oil, but subsequently sold it. DLV has a great many friends in Venezuela and Maracaibo. In fact it's on a small list of foreign oil companies that they deal with. The woman who owned it lost it to a friend of my father's in Spain, Marcos Ortega of the Galicia Group. He's offered it to Lone Star." "And you want me to buy this company?" Pamela asks. "Yes. Luis Cedeño is the man who Vicenete Cano worked for. Vicente played between Cliff and Cedeño, hoping to come out independent. Cedeño is one of JR's friends in Maracaibo, who's father work with Jock. We can count on him." Looking at Mateo he says, "I want you to set up a meeting with Cedeño." "Alright." "When we're done Ewing Oil will develop Maracaibo's oil for Trident. With that the tide of nationalism should give way. This was my grandfather's mission in the early eighties and this is what I need to accomplish." Beau walks down from the Capitol Building in D.C. with others talking about his appointment to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and its subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. He says, "Having been deployed to South American, I can tell you, I'm most concerned about how they're leaders depict us as invaders while they constantly leave them to suffer while making deals with other despots." They all agree with his statement. David walks into an office in Maracaibo with Sergei, George and Dia. Dia says, "This is Brigido Ravard, President of Petroleos Maracaibo. Mr. Ravard this is David Wendell, who's on the board of Trident with me and George Demarest the Chairman of Trident and this is Mr. Vaino, President of Rosnova Group, a friend." Brigido welcomes them, asking them to sit and says, "I'm sure you know Mr. Long and I've been working together for some time. He has many friends on the board of PetroSino and we've been working on extending our relationship with them." David says, "Yes we had partnership in Petrochemicals with them that Dia was very helpful with." "To be honest Mr. Wendell, there isn't much political will in this country to work with an American company." "There may not be, but your country has been working the same plays for decades. Frankly, you'd better start looking for someone with the technology you need before the richest oil country in the world goes broke. But that's why I asked Mr. Vaino to join us. I thought maybe the three of us could work something out." "I'll also be frank with you. We have been discussing our issue with DLV, a Spanish company, which had been a Venezuelan company. They have the technology we need to develop new plays." "Is that an exclusive deal?" "No it's not." "Good than we haven't waisted a trip. I hear you also own a holding tank with Ewing Oil." "Yes we do. As a matter of fact I have s meeting with Mr. Ewing later this week to discuss that very thing on an island his cousin owns in the US Virgin Islands." "You'd be best to proceed with caution when dealing with with Ewing's." "I always proceed with caution Mr. Wendell. Mr. Vaino, what does the Rosnova Group hope to get out of this? It can't be oil. You've got plenty." "I'm here to make sure that at the end of all of this we all agree to the same premise, to keep crude prices high. The Ewing's are determined to keep the price of crude low. That isn't good for either of our countries. No is it good for Trident." "It certainly wouldn't seem to be a good thing for the Ewing's either." David says, "Lone Star is so diverse it seems they're fine undercutting all of if to increase their market share." "Sounds like the Saudis." "They have many like minded friends but we are not among them. And I venture to believe, neither are you." "No. No I'm not. Awe gentlemen," Brigido says standing as another man enters the room. "This is Luis Cedeno. He has a construction company here in Maracaibo, the Cedeno group. He'll be working on some new plays with DLV." David, Sergei, George and Dia all meet Luis. At John Ross's house in the US Virgin Islands Chris meets Brigido Ravard. He says, "And, this is my daughter, Cilia. She attends Texas A and M's law school." The two shake hands. Chris smiles. "Nice to meet you." Emily walks up to a bunch of kids at a private club's pool and says to a young swim coach in a speedo, "Hello. I'm Emily Ewing. Jeremy's mother. You must be Philip Michaels. Lucy brought the boys this morning." Jack and Jeremy come running up to Emily, soaking wet and chasing each other. [/QUOTE]

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