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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 05:19 PM
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What is privatization of military services and Halliburton move to Dubai leading to?
Edited on Sun Mar-11-07 05:27 PM by blm
Bush1 and Dick Cheney started privatizing the US military back in 1991. That privatization of logistics has led to tragedies like the USS Cole bombing, the gouging for basic needs for our soldiers, the loss of billions of our tax dollars in Iraq, and the breakdown of services at Walter Reed.

Now we hear that Halliburton is moving their HQ from Houston to Dubai. Once there, the global corporatism will take hold firmer and stronger than at any other point we have witnessed in the past.

And the US will be left bankrupt and broken in too many areas to get it fixed in any expedient way.

No financial problems for the incredibly FLUSH global corporations who have been lining their pockets at our expense for the last twenty years, though.

Want to bet that Halliburton and Bechtel will have Blackwater and other private armies at their disposal while our military struggles to recoup?

We have GOT to stop Halliburton's move of all their documents and paperwork.

We need to MAKE Congress get involved the way we did with that Dubai ports deal.

The answers this nation needs are in those papers.

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 05:22 PM
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1. Absolutely are.
And the answers to the favors provided to Dubai for the port deal are pretty important.
Everything is Quid Pro Quo. Every single thing.
We need to email Keith and maybe even Chris Matthews on this.
This is an outrage.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 05:28 PM
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3. I think we expose it if we all stay on this.
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pwb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 05:28 PM
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2. contracting has destroyed every agency in our government already
the neocons are wrong about everything.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 05:30 PM
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4. A return to vigilante armies
who answer to no one and who can and will go to war purely for profit and purely because they can. This is all about returning to barbarism at it's most brutal.
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 05:47 PM
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5. Halliburton ,Cayman islands, Dubai
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 06:26 PM
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6. Yes. The OP has got it right.
:kick:
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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 06:36 PM
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7. ....
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 06:46 PM
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8. Cheney's new lair?
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:11 PM
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9. a little trivia....

List of Halliburton subsidiaries

The following is a list of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions of Halliburton Co.
* Adute Pty Ltd. (Australia)
* AOC Services Limited - (Jersey, tax haven)
* Antilles Dresser-Rand (tax haven)
* Avalon Financial Services, Ltd. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Axelson
* Baroid Caribbean Limited Brown & Root (Overseas) Limited - (Jersey, tax haven)
* Baroid CIMBAR
* Baroid Drilling Inc
* Baroid Drilling Fluids
* Baroid Drilling Fluids/Plant
* Baroid Filtration
* Baroid Halliburton Offshore Services Inc.
* Baroid IDP
* Baroid of Nigeria Limited
* Baroid Pigmina Industrial E Comercial Ltda
* Baroid Plant
* Baroid Solids Control
* Baroid Tesoro Coastwide Svcs
* Baroid Warehouse
* Beheersmaatschappij Van Aandelen In Textielverwerkende O (Netherlands)
* Bentonite Performance Minerals
* Bitc (Us) Llc
* Bitc Holdings (Us) Llc
* Bredero Price Holding Bv (Netherlands)
* Breswater Marine Contracting Bv (Netherlands)
* Brown & Root
** Building Co
** Cayman Holdings, Inc.
** Condor Spa (Algeria)
** Construction Pty Ltd. (Australia)
** Environmental
** FWENC
** Government Services
** Industrial Services
** Log Jamss
** Skoda s.r.o.
* Caspian Transco Inc. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Cebar Sdn Bhd (Brunei Darussalam)
* C.I. Limited (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Cimbar Performance Mnrl Division
* CNOOC-Otis Well Comp Services Ltd
* Consorcio Contrina Snc (France)
* Corporacion Mexicana De Mantenimiento Integral Sde Rl De Cv (Mexico)
* Db Stratabit Gmbh (Germany)
* Deveron Facility
* Devonport Management Limited
* DII Industries
* Dorhold Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Downhole Motor Services
* Energy Services Group
* Falcon AFB Contract Mgmt Logistics Inc
* Fann Instrument
* G&H Management Llc (United States)
* Georgetown Finance Ltd. (Caymans Islands)
* Goddard SFC JOC
* Granherne Limited
* Granherne Pty Limited
* Grove Foreign Sales Corp. (Barbados, tax haven)
* Grove-Tk Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Guiberson AVA
* Guiberson Oil Tools
* GVA Consultants AB
* Halliburton Acquisition Company
* Halliburton Afrique S.N.C.
* Halliburton Argentina S. A.
* Halliburton Australia
* Halliburton Aviation Division
* Halliburton Baroid
* Halliburton Baroid Singapore
* Halliburton Benefits Center
* Halliburton Brunei
* Halliburton BV (Netherlands)
** Baroid
** Security DBS
** Sperry Sunn
* Halliburton Camp Facility
* Halliburton Canada Inc.
* Halliburton Canada/Guiberson
* Halliburton Company Austria G.m.b.H.
* Halliburton Company Germany GmbH
* Halliburton Company, Saudi Arabia Branch
* Halliburton Company/Tax Department
* Halliburton del Peru SA
* Halliburton de Venezuela SA
* Halliburton Denmark A/S
* Halliburton Energy Development (Kazakhstan) (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Halliburton Energy Services
** DEG
** Jet Research Center
** Training
** Sdn Bhd
** Special Services
** Technology Center
** Warehouse
** Well Control
* Halliburton Far East Pte Ltd
* Halliburton Geophysical Services (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Halliburton Global Account Management - ENI
* Halliburton Indonesia
* Halliburton Italiana S.p.A.
* Halliburton Latin America SA
** Base Neiva
** Base Yopal
** Bodega Sperry Sun
** Division Landmark
** Laboratorio Baroid
* Halliburton Limited
* Halliburton Landmark
* Halliburton Logging Services
* Halliburton Logging Svcs do Brasil-Serviços
* Halliburton Machine Shops
* Halliburton Manufacturing & Services Limited
* Halliburton Measurement Systems
* Halliburton Mfg de Venezuela
* Halliburton National Institutes of Health
* Halliburton Nigeria Limited
* Halliburton Oilfield Services India Limited
* Halliburton Oil Services Vietnam Ltd
* Halliburton Overseas Limited
* Halliburton Papua New Guinea
* Halliburton Reservoir Services
* Halliburton SAS - Paris
* Halliburton SAS - Pau
* Halliburton SAS/PES - Pau
* Halliburton Security DBS
* Halliburton Shell Project
* Halliburton Sperry-Sun Tunis
* Halliburton Subsea
* Halliburton Travel Division
* Halliburton Trinidad Limited
* Halliburton Jet Research Center
* Halliburton West Africa Ltd. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Halliburton Westport Tech Ctr
* Hall/William Mercer Ltd-Pension
* Halson Financial Svcs. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Hanson Division
* Harbison - Walker Rfctories Division
* Hbr Energy, Inc.
* Hbr Nl Holdings, Llc
* Hed (Indonesia), Inc.
* Hellenic Shipyards
* Hes Corp.
* Hes Holding, Inc.
* Hes Mexico Holdings, Llc
* Hes Oilfield Operations (Nigeria), Inc.
* Hewitt Associates
* HGS enterprises Inc. (Panama, tax haven)
* HLS Asia Limited
* Hobbymarkt Capelle Bv (Netherlands)
* Hobbymarkt Capelle De Mexico, Sa De Cv (Mexico)
* Howard Humphreys (T) Ltd
* Industrial Instrument Division
* International Admin. Svcs. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* International Oil Field Engr. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Ipem Developments Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
** Americas (BRES)
** Amoco
** Armor Center Support Services (ACSS)
** Atco
** Balden
** Bonney Island
** Braun
** Caldwell
** Cardinal
** Caledonia Ltd.
** Celanese
** Chatman
** Ciba
** Collins
** Contrina
** Contrina de Jose
** Dunbar
** DuPont
** DYKES
** Eastman
** Edmonton
** Environfuels
** Exxon Chem
** Exxon/Mobil
** Far East Pte Ltd
** Fort Benning JOC
** Georgia Pac
** Gonzales
** Joe D Hughes
** John Aylward
** KBR Caledonia (Nigg Fabrication Yard-Scotland)
** KBRCMSB
** Optimum Group
** Phenol-Maintenance
** Philip Morris
** QGPC Project
** Shell Chem
** Sincor
** Sonatrach
** Tampa Electric
** Tanura
** Technip-Q-Chem Project
** TECSA
** Tokyo Representative Office
** Union Carbide
** Wake
** Weyerhaeuser
* Kellogg-Chiyoda Services (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Kellogg Joint Venture
* Kinhill Kramer (Vanuatu, tax haven)
* Kinhill Kramer (Solomon, tax haven)
* Landmark Concurrent Solusi Indonesia
* Landmark Graphics Corporation - www.lgc.com
** GeoGraphix - www.geographix.com
** Global Account Management - ENI
** Munro-Garrett International Ltd
** Paris
** Petrodata
* Laut OAC Sdn Bhd
* LMK Resources (Halliburton's Landmark Graphics Division acquired its majority interest in 2001)
* Magic Earth, Inc.
* Mashhor Well Services Sdn Bhd (Brunei Darussalam)
* Masoneilan International, Llc
* Measurement & Controls
* Metro Fast Track II
* M I Drilling Fluids
* MW Kellogg Limited
* MWKL Field Services (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* New Iberia Threading Machining
* NUMAR Corporation -Sales
* NUS Laboratory
* Oilfield Innovations, Cv (Netherlands)
* Oilfield Services Receivable Corp.
* Omega Pump
* Otis Marine Maintenance Division
* Overseas Administration Servcs (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Paragon Engineering Svcs Inc
* Petrodata As (Norway)
* Petroleum Engineering Services Norge As (Norway)
* Petroleum and Industrial Maintenance Co. Ltd (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Professional Resources Ltd. (Bermuda, tax haven)
* Promzona 40, UPTOK Usinskstroi
* Property and Casualty Insurance
* P.T. Baroid Indonesia
* P.T. Halliburton Indonesia
* P.T. Indokor Sperry-Sun
* Pump Division
* Rockwater Holdings Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Rockwater Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Rotary Brown & Root
* Saudi Halliburton Logging Llc (Saudi Arabia)
* Seaforth Maritime Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Security DBS
* Security DBS (MEM) E.C. (Bahrain, tax haven)
* Security Rock Bits & Drlg Tls
* Service Employees Int'l Inc. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Servicios Halliburton de Venezuela SA
* Shaw International Ltd. (Barbados, tax haven)
* Sperry-Sun
* Sperry Sun Saudi Company Ltd. (Saudi Arabia)
* Studebaker Worthington (U.K.) Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Subsahara Serivces Inc.
* Sub Sea Offshore (Holdings) Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Subsea 7 - www.subsea7.com (Halliburton's 50% share in Subsea 7 was sold to Siem offshore in 2005)
* Swaco Geolograph
* Waterloo Plant & Sales Office
* Waukesha Engine Division
* Wayne Division
* Wellstream Inc.
* Wellstream Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Western Geophysical Services
* Westport Technology Center Intl
* Wheatley Valve Division
* Vann Systems: now called Perforating Solutions
* Zone Industrial Halliburton EDF
http://en.allexperts.com/e/l/li/list_of_halliburton_subsidiaries.htm


Halliburton subsidiaries in offshore tax-havens.
AOC Services Limited - Jersey
Avalon Financial Services - Cayman Islands
Baroid Caribbean Limited Brown & Root (Overseas) Limited - Jersey
Brown & Root Cayman Holidings - Cayman Islands
Brown & Root International - Panama
Caspian Transco Inc. - Cayman Islands
Dresser AG - Liechtenstein
Dresser Anstalt - Liechtenstein
Dresser Investments - Netherlands
Antilles Dresser-Rand
C.I. Limited - Cayman Islands
Grove Foreign Sales Corp. - Barbados*
Halliburton Energy Development (Kazakhstan) Limited - Cayman Islands*
Halliburton energy Development - Cayman Islands
Halliburton Geophysical Services - Cayman Islands
Halliburton Latin America - Panama
Halliburton Offshore Servcs Inc. - Cayman Islands*
Halliburton Overseas Limited - Cayman Islands
Halliburton Products & Svcs. - Cayman Islands
Halliburton West Africa Ltd. - Cayman Islands
Halliburton Worldwide Ltd. - Cayman Islands*
Halson Financial Svcs. - Cayman Islands*
HGS enterprises Inc. - Panama
International Admin. Svcs. - Cayman Islands*
International Oil Field Engr. - Cayman Islands
Kellogg Foreign Sales Corp. - Barbados
Kellogg Int'l Services - Cayman Islands
Kellogg ISL Ltd. - Cayman Islands
Kellogg Overseas Corp. - Panama
Kellogg-Chiyoda Services - Cayman Islands
Kinhill Kramer (Vanuatu) - Vanuatu
Kinhill Kramer Solomon - Solomon
Landmark Sales Corp. - Barbados
MWKL Field Services - Cayman Islands
Overseas Administration Servcs - Cayman Islands*
Petroleum and Industrial Maintenance Co. Ltd - Cayman Islands
Professional Resources Ltd. - Bermuda
Property and Casualty Insurance
Limited - Vermont - Bermuda
Security DBS (MEM) E.C. - Bahrain
Service Employees Int'l Inc. - Cayman Islands
Shaw International Ltd. - Barbados

(Source: Halliburton 10-K, Exhibit 21, filed with the SEC in 2000)
http://www.citizenworks.org/admin/press/halliburtonlist.php



Foreign Contractors

It may come as a surprise to people who've always assumed that America's defense is in the hands of Americans to learn that the list of top Pentagon contractors includes 95 companies, or in some cases government agencies, with headquarters in foreign countries. Three foreign governments made the list—Canada, Germany and Japan—as did the Italian Post, Telephone and Telegraph Service.

The German and Japanese contracts primarily pay for costs associated with U.S. bases located in those countries. The Canadian contracts are all through the Canadian Commercial Corp., a government-owned agency that handles contracts from Canadian exporters, and according to its own description "wraps the Canadian flag around their proposal, providing a government-backed guarantee of contract performance."

But most of the Pentagon's foreign suppliers are corporations—many with U.S. subsidiaries. The biggest supplier by far is the United Kingdom, whose companies earned more than $14 billion in defense contracts. Germany is second with $5.9 billion (including the contracts with the government itself). Next are the Netherlands, France, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Bermuda and South Korea—all with contracts exceeding $1 billion between 1998 and 2003.

Some of the companies are multinationals—like DaimlerChrysler or Royal Dutch Shell—that have a considerable U.S. presence. Others have U.S. subsidiaries, or, like Japan's Sumitomo Heavy Industries, they provide products and services used by U.S. forces overseas.

The list of foreign companies also includes Tyco International., which operates mainly in the United States, though the company is actually incorporated in Bermuda. (Bermuda is also home to the consulting firm Accenture). And the roster includes a contractor listed as "European Utility Companies" that refers not to a single firm, but a whole category of utilities suppliers based throughout Europe.

Here's the list of countries whose governments or corporations have received major Defense Department contracts over the past six years:

Country / Total Contracts / No of Contractors
England $14,467,558,907 19
Germany $5,875,778,292 11
Netherlands $2,898,934,824 7
France $2,793,612,113 7
Canada $2,207,393,181 1
Denmark $1,913,819,561 1
Japan $1,888,060,336 8
Bermuda $1,641,013,751 2
South Korea $1,505,901,909 8
Saudi Arabia $915,458,201 2
Greece $744,127,512 1
Sweden $672,661,339 3
Kuwait $651,366,569 1
United Arab Emirates $506,285,005 2
Italy $440,520,415 3
Belgium $422,022,106 2
Bahrain $419,219,209 2
Qatar $399,636,545 1
Singapore $358,651,458 1
Spain $308,251,413 1
Switzerland $284,346,086 2
Greenland $258,745,272 1
Luxembourg $144,833,745 1
Netherlands Antilles $144,424,966 1
New Zealand $128,625,559 1
Israel $127,402,358 1

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Europe-Moret26feb06.htm
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DemReadingDU Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:23 PM
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10. that's a lot!
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:31 PM
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11. this list is more than a little fishy
exxonmobil is not a subsidiary of halliburton, nor are many other companies listed.

perhaps this is a list of everyone they've ever done business with??
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:36 PM
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12. I think it's the 'affiliates'...
but that being said, I have no doubt that the major stock-holders of Halliburton, have a good chunk of change invested in those 'affiliates'.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:46 PM
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14. well then, it's an inappropriately broad use of the term....
Edited on Sun Mar-11-07 07:46 PM by unblock
"affiliate" has a meaning in the corporate world, and this is not it.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:55 PM
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15. I'm sorry....I mis-spoke..
the link above as well as here:
http://en.allexperts.com/e/h/ha/halliburton.htm
has the information...I do not. I should not have offered any opinion on the terms used, as I did not compile this data.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:39 PM
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19. can you say clusterf!#%. WOW! nt
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:37 PM
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13. Big Private Military Force of some kind.
:scared:
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:18 PM
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16. Do you have a reference for that?
URL, or did you hear it on CNN? Important for this to be documented, as Dubai's head of state is one of Osama's old falcon hunting pals.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:36 AM
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27. There are several threads in GD about the move
and their are newslinks in those threads.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 12:01 PM
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29. Here's a link if you still need one.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:27 PM
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17. National Security demands that the US government seize Halliburton.
All assets, all documents, everything. Turn it over to a receiver to run it while the investigation continues along a more serious vein.

-Hoot
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:10 PM
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23. Agreed. (nt)
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riderinthestorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 10:02 PM
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25. Uh right.
The US government currently under *'s control (and BFEE and Cheney and Halliburton etc.)???

Never. Never, never, never, never. I predict Halliburton skates out of town with the highest governmental assistance in US history.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 12:14 PM
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30. That's exactly why they're leaving.
They know that when the Dem's take over they will most likely be blacklisted by the government and all their previous government contracts will be investigated. They're moving so they can stay in business and not have their assets seized to pay for the money they've misappropriated. It's looking more and more like Bush/Cheney & company are preparing to flee the country.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 12:17 PM
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31. What Dem president will work to expose the BFEE on this?
Bill Clinton wouldn't do it and, instead, protected them at every turn during his time in office.

So....what Dem administration does the BFEE really fear?
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 12:39 PM
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32. Most of the real fraud has occurred in the last 6 years.
Clinton probably exercised more oversight to begin with so there was less fraud to investigate. Besides Clinton wasn't spending anywhere near what these guys have spent in Iraq. I know what you're trying to say but the level of looting during Clinton's term was nowhere near what it has been during Bush's. Not enough to make them want to flee the country anyway. The war in Iraq has been a gravy train of graft.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 12:42 PM
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33. I don't think Clinton was in the business of doing ANY looting - I think he made
the choice to look the other way while Poppy Bush continued on with his agenda WITHOUT the cumbersome aspect of being under constant investigation by a few Democrats in Congress and the Senate.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:36 PM
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18. Exactly correct imho. I sent out a request thru my networks to contact Waxman
on this. I can't believe it, I was just on HuffPo and this was listed as if an insignificant story. This needs immediate action on the part of Chairman Waxman, and the outrage of the American people. Thanks blm, I believe it is URGENT to get this story out there. Contact Chairman Waxman, your senators and spread thru your networks. Also, don't forget KO.

Thanks.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:40 PM
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20. Oh we absolutely need to get involved in this.
It's simple - Halliburton fucked up. And they fucked up big time. And they're planning to escape and get away scot free. They need to be held accountable.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:41 PM
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21. Its stealing the taxpayers money by using these front companies
funneling Billions so they can be stolen

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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:51 PM
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22. The United States is being slowly deconstructed - on purpose.
These men controlling our government - think they're incompetent? No way. They are systematically destroying the middle class and the defense of this country and it's so much bigger than who is or becomes our next president. Our National Guard and AD troops have been sent to Iraq and over the last 4 years have weakened and depleted not because of fuck ups, but because it was planned that way. It's the ultimate outsourcing because the elite power brokers of the world have no allegiance to any one country. The world is theirs and the rest of us are mere commodities.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:20 PM
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24. You have nailed it completely
Edited on Sun Mar-11-07 09:20 PM by jimshoes
The Army and Marine Corps are nearly in shambles and if the Air Force and Navy get used up in an Iran conflict, that leaves the USA with exactly spit for defense of this country. That is their plan I believe and the tranfer of all US assests into some Halliburton subsidiary.
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Sirveri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 04:43 PM
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35. The Navy will be a hard ship to sink.
What with 12 Aircraft carriers those alone can cause a tremendous ammount of pain since each one is the 8th largest airforce in the world. I don't think there is any country which can even think about taking down our navy, even a global concerted effort to that effect would have problems. But at the same time, taking down those aircraft carriers completly destroys the majority of our force projection capacity.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:39 AM
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28. This is what I've believed since I first learned of DynCorp's 'armies' 6 years ago.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:23 AM
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26. They're getting in position to take over those bases we paid them
to build in Iraq?

So, is Halliburton some culmination of a White Supremacists wet dream? Or is it just the creation of a new country based on oil alliances?
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34. I think 'countries' will be passe.... Don't think global fascism has room for countries
anymore.
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