Tag: halliburton
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#NewWorldNextWeek: When the Cops Steal Your Stuff They Call It ‘Equitable Sharing’ (Video)
Leaked emails show another massive bribery-for-oil scheme; “Justice Dept.” resumes asset forfeiture aka ‘equitable sharing’; and mass surveillance silences minority opinions.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Bribery-For-Oil, Equitable Sharing, Surveillance Censorship (Audio)
Leaked emails show another massive bribery-for-oil scheme; “Justice Dept.” resumes asset forfeiture aka ‘equitable sharing’; and mass surveillance silences minority opinions.
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econocrash updates: the audacity of austerity
audacity of ‘austerity,’ word of the year* unhappy birthday for the federal reserve* ultra-thin circuits in banknotes could give electronic security to paper currency* as wikileaks prepares for bank exposure, federal regulators cringe* overstock adds rico allegations to ongoing lawsuit vs goldman & merrill* flashback: interview w/ overstock’s ceo* dutch consider outlawing call for bank…
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Biowars/Envirohealth: Drills, Spills & Bellyaches
Preparedness gaps in training for oil spill: Terror drills preceded Gulf Oil disaster // Obama still granting BP environmental study waivers // Eugenicist Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases // Israeli-american microbiologist, Joseph Moshe, linked to deadly fungus // Storage of newborns’ blood samples raises privacy concerns
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Gulf Oil Updates: The Poison Is Still Spilling
Spill hits Freemason Island as BP preps to lower giant funnel // Interior Dept gave Deepwater Horizon operators Safety Award in ’09 // Obama was top recipient of BP’s donations // Halliburton may be culprit in oil rig explosion // Was Rush right about a BP/Horizon terror attack?
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oregon oddities: bankbombs, embezzlement & chemwars
video: federal charges considered in oregon bank bombing from kgw: Court records obtained by KGW suggest the two Oregon men charged in connection with a deadly bank bombing in December often talked about robbing a bank and even practiced a dry-run in Woodburn in 1994. Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua Turnidge are facing aggravated…
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kbr subcontractor holding 1,000 workers in iraq warehouses
from danger room: KBR, the defense services giant, and its subcontractors have been repeatedly accused of using slave labor in Iraq. But despite the lawsuits, and despite the Congressional hearings, KBR and its business partners keep getting busted for treating its workers like little more than chattel. The latest: “About 1,000 Asian men who were…
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halliburton sued for human trafficking
from raw story: Twelve men recruited in Nepal died after forced transfer to Iraq, lawfirm says… Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court. The Nepali…
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torture, rape & videotape
‘highly likely’ bush saw torture tapesfrom thinkprogress: Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent and State Department counterterrorism official, told The Bill Press Show this morning that it was “highly likely” President Bush had viewed the videotapes of the 2002 interrogations that were later destroyed: Bill Press: You said that you believe President Bush actually saw…
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gravel: why hillary scares me
from huffington post: During one of the debates I mentioned that my fellow Democratic candidates scare me. Hillary’s speech last week to the Take Back America conference gives me yet another reason to be afraid. In an indignant voice she decried the Bush administration’s “stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. .…
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henry rollins ‘tees off’ on halliburton-style privatization
from raw story: Punk singer-songwriter Henry Rollins took on Iraq War profiteers on his Independent Film Channel show this Saturday. “The invasion and occupation of Iraq and the resulting nightmare we are enduring are for some a depressing, ongoing catastrophe with no end in sight,” he said. “Yet for another group, it is the best…
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hired guns in iraq killing for amusement
from propaganda matrix/washington post: On the afternoon of July 8, 2006, four private security guards rolled out of Baghdad’s Green Zone in an armored SUV. The team leader, Jacob C. Washbourne, rode in the front passenger seat. He seemed in a good mood. His vacation started the next day. “I want to kill somebody today,”…
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news on the march
halliburton winds up iran workfrom afp: US oil services giant Halliburton said Monday it had wrapped up its work commitments in Iran and was no longer conducting any projects in the Islamic republic…Halliburton announced last month that it was relocating to the United Arab Emirates to capitalize on the Gulf region’s booming energy market. bush…
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halliburton’s suspicious dubai move
from abc news: Halliburton Co., currently the largest military contractor in Iraq with billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts, announced Sunday that it was planning to move its CEO and corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The move could eventually save the firm a fortune in U.S. taxes, but it is…
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bush prepares to impose martial law
from the chattanoogan: The Republican re-writing of the Insurrection Act gives Bush the authority to declare martial law. For the first time since 1878, the president has the power to deploy troops within the United States. Bush and future presidents now have a power that, in other countries, is reserved to the dictator. Despite the…