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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Halliburton lost WHAT?!?!?"
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!
Javaman
(62,530 posts)glow in the dark jackrabbits and coyotes.
CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)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/
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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)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."
annabanana
(52,791 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)"We are Halliburton.
We don't care what you think."
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Perhaps this was another Reichstag Fire ? but they went with the Benghazi attacks instead?