FEMA, Michael D. Brown, Joe Allbaugh, and Halliburton

I really should be drawing diagrams of this -- but let's see if we can make it clear with words alone:

- Michael D. Brown is presently the head of FEMA, even though he has no experience or qualifications for the job.

- Brown was hired as FEMA's general counsel in February 2001 because his old college roommate, Joe Allbaugh, was the director. Allbaugh had no qualifications either, but he had been Bush's campaign manager and before that his chief of staff back in Texas. (Remember Funeralgate? That was Allbaugh.)

- When FEMA was folded into Homeland Security in March 2003, Allbaugh moved on to greener pastures as a lobbyist and left his old buddy running the show. "Allbaugh's lobbying disclosure form says the company will 'educate the congressional and executive branch on defense, disaster relief and homeland security issues.' " (http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2005/03/another-day-another-halliburton.asp)

- Among those greener pastures is a lobbying job with Halliburton. (See above link.)

- Halliburton has now been hired to do storm cleanup after Katrina:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685


(Are we having fun yet?)

You have the right of citizen's arrest.

Where have we heard that name before starroute?

Dots correctly connected.

The Bush/Cheney gangsters have their fingers in EVERY pie out there!


Halliburton, Dresser merge

$7.7-billion deal forms world's largest oil services firm with 100,000 workers

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Halliburton will hold nine seats on the new 14-member board. William E. Bradford, chairman of Dresser, will be chairman of the new company. Halliburton Chairman Richard Cheney -- and former U.S. Defense Secretary -- will be chief executive.
Halliburton was advised by Goldman Sachs and SBC Warburg Dillion Read. Dresser was advised by Salomon Smith Barney.

http://money.cnn.com/1998/02/26/deals/halliburton/

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A Brief History of Bush


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Dresser Industries - oil drilling supply company. W.A. Harriman paid $4,000,000 for Dresser in 1928. Later, Prescott refinanced the company maintaining control. In 1930, E. Roland Harriman and Prescott Bush became members of the Board of Dresser. Bush made Henry Neil Mallon, a Yale classmate, chairman of the Board. Mallon and Bush became lifelong friends. In 1948, Mallon hired George W. Bush to work for Dresser. George W. Bush named one of his sons Neil Mallon Bush. In 1998, Dresser merged with Haliburton and is now known as Haliburton Company.

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After the War Bush got involved with the Texan Oil business and through his father's connections became employed at Dresser Industries. George Bush's son, Neil Mallon Bush is named after his employer at Dresser, Neil Mallon. Mallon remained a close family friend of the Bushs. Later Dresser merged with Haliburton, one of the former CEOs of Haliburton is Dick Cheney who was campaign manager for George H.W. Bush, and then Secretary of Defense. And now Cheney is Vice President of George W. Bush. In the 1970's Bush was on the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly.

http://home.earthlink.net/~thetabus/BushHist/BushHist01.htm

From my post above:

"Halliburton will hold nine seats on the new 14-member board. William E. Bradford, chairman of Dresser, will be chairman of the new company. Halliburton Chairman Richard Cheney -- and former U.S. Defense Secretary -- will be chief executive.
(Halliburton was advised by Goldman Sachs and SBC Warburg Dillion Read. Dresser was advised by Salomon Smith Barney.")

Enron sells trading unit
January 15, 2002: 2:06 p.m. ET

UBS Warburg pays nothing upfront for flagship unit; Enron gets third of profits

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Enron Corp. sold its energy trading business to UBS Warburg for only the promise of a share of its future profits, according to documents released Tuesday, while questions circulated about stock transactions of chief executive Kenneth Lay.

Investment bank UBS Warburg will pay nothing to Enron for the energy trading business that was Enron's flagship division during its heyday. Nor will it take on any of Enron's substantial debt. Instead, it will give a third of the division's future profits to Enron and the bankrupt company's creditors.

The transaction, which must be approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, federal regulators and the Justice Department, was just the latest phase of a rapidly developing implosion whose shock waves are being felt from Wall Street to the White House. More...

http://money.cnn.com/2002/01/15/companies/enron_loan/

making profit from death. :puke: