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annabanana

(52,791 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:19 AM Oct 2012

"Halliburton lost WHAT?!?!?"

What will it take for major corporations like Halliburton to stop treating our safety like it was just a speed bump along their way to obscene profits from fracking?

It will take levying major fines on the corporation when it makes reckless, unbelievable mistakes -- like losing, for nearly a month, a radioactive rod used in the process of fracking wells in Texas, after it apparently just fell off a truck.1 That's right. Fell. Off. A. Truck.

Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Hold Halliburton accountable for its reckless carelessness with radioactive material.

On Monday, Halliburton finally found the device -- a 7-inch rod and "category three" source of radiation used for prospecting well locations for fracking -- along a highway seven miles from the fracking site, after losing it on September 11.


Creedo petition site at link:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/halliburton_radioactive/index_2012.html?utm_expid=16130742-22&rc=fb_share1&r_by=48740-746708-kFvTTEx&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F

Please k&r this petition!
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"Halliburton lost WHAT?!?!?" (Original Post) annabanana Oct 2012 OP
They found it by following the trail of the Javaman Oct 2012 #1
Yank their corporate charter. Fuck this shit. CrispyQ Oct 2012 #2
Lotsa Luck with that Wednesdays Oct 2012 #3
kickers. . . .n/t annabanana Oct 2012 #4
Reminds me of Lily Tomlin. lpbk2713 Oct 2012 #5
Look at the date they "lost" it on... KurtNYC Oct 2012 #6

CrispyQ

(36,470 posts)
2. Yank their corporate charter. Fuck this shit.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:37 AM
Oct 2012

Corporations - a tool that allows rich people to behave irresponsibly without consequences. The corpos are out of control. It wasn't always this way. It's time to rein these behemoths in.

Reclaim Democracy's corporate personhood page.

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-personhood/

snip...

Introduction to Corporate Personhood

Our Bill of Rights was the result of tremendous efforts to institutionalize and protect the rights of human beings. It strengthened the premise of our Constitution: that the people are the root of all power and authority for government. This vision has made our Constitution and government a model emulated in many nations.
But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800?s by establishing the doctrine of “corporate personhood” — the claim that corporations were intended to fully enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings.

We believe that corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges we willfully grant them. Granting corporations the status of legal “persons” effectively rewrites the Constitution to serve corporate interests as though they were human interests. Ultimately, the doctrine of granting constitutional rights to corporations gives a thing illegitimate privilege and power that undermines our freedom and authority as citizens. While corporations are setting the agenda on issues in our Congress and courts, We the People are not; for we can never speak as loudly with our own voices as corporations can with the unlimited amplification of money.

~more at link

Wednesdays

(17,380 posts)
3. Lotsa Luck with that
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 10:53 AM
Oct 2012

Halliburton freaking OWNS several towns here in Oklahoma, and saying the people are afflicted with Stockholm Syndrome would be an understatement... They'd nearly fight to the death to protect their "source of livelihood."

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
6. Look at the date they "lost" it on...
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 04:35 PM
Oct 2012

Perhaps this was another Reichstag Fire ? but they went with the Benghazi attacks instead?

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