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• Woman Who Claims Sexual Assault Wins $3 Million From Former Halliburton Division

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  Tracy Barker Says State Department Employee Assaulted Her in Iraq – Feds Refused to File Charges abc news By DREW SANDHOLM Nov. 20, 2009 Tracy Barker, who says a U.S. State Department employee sexually assaulted her in Iraq in 2005 has won $2.93 million in arbitration from KBR, the military contracting ...
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• Poisoning Troops

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Brita Belli EMagazine.com Military defense contractor Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) is facing a class-action lawsuit for burning toxic chemicals in Iraq and Afghanistan, posing serious health threats to as many as 100,000 U.S. military. The lawsuit combines 34 separate lawsuits against KBR for allegedly burning ...
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• Rape victim upset KBR trying to modify $3M arbitration award

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Sahil Kapur The Raw Story (Tracy Barker (left) & Jamie Jones) Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated ...
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• Halliburton Must Pay Rape Victim $3 Million

  
  Red vs. Blue Blog — Authority: 120
  A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case. Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc., its former parent company Halliburton and several affiliates in May 2007, claiming she was sexually ...
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• KBR Arbitration Awards Another Assault Victim [Justice For None]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 816
  Former military construction contractor Tracy Barker was raped in Iraq in 2005 while on the job. Barker went through arbitration and won a settlement, but her former employer, Kellogg Brown & Root, is still trying to screw her over. KBR has released a typically douchey statement: "However, the decision ...
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• This arbitration settlement against KBR seems a little light.

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 539
  Many people have written about the lawlessness and chaos that existed under American rule in Iraq. The book Fiasco , by Thomas Ricks, chronicles one mistake after another that led to the lawlessness that we saw for almost 5 years. There are many other books (including Naomi Klein’s, Shock Doctrine ) and magazine ...
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• Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By JUAN A. LOZANO AP HOUSTON – A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case. Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc, its former parent company Halliburton and several ...
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• Shame on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 127
  By now, you’ve probably heard about the story of Jamie Leigh Jones. In 2005, she was working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq when she was gang-raped by coworkers. Four years later, Jamie is still being denied justice. Jamie can’t pursue justice in criminal court because the rape took place overseas, and a ...
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• Bryan Zepp Jamieson: Monkeys on a Stick

  
  The Lonesome Mongoose — Authority: 113
  The grotesque dance of corporate legislators. Bryan Zepp Jamieson, November 15, 2009 One of the early fallouts of “tort reform”, the ongoing drive by corporations to put themselves beyond the reach of the law, has been the widespread use of waivers mandating private arbitration in the event of any dispute. ...
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• The REAL Welfare Fraud.

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 487
  This started as a comment on a comment, on Eric’s post about HR-3962. You forgot, C Ella, to mention subsidies to Big Pharma like penis pumps (which used to be called “sex toys”) Cialis and Viagra (which can be gotten on Medicare and Medicaid, but Not CONDOMS because they’re birth control, IUDs and The Pill ...
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• halliburton and erka ltd. added to “burn pit” suit by veteran

  
  iraq update — Authority: 107
  Iraq “burn pits” suit over toxic smoke filed against Halliburton, KBR, by 2 Ky. menBy Brett Barrouquere, APLOUISVILLE, Ky. — An Air Force veteran and a one-time contractor who served in Iraq are suing military contractors Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc., accusing the companies of exposing them to toxic fumes and ...
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• Just Looking Out for the Tax-Payers...

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Theres this: KBR/Halliburton may have poisoned 100,000 in Iraq... Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company. At least 22 separate ...
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• KBR/Halliburton may have poisoned 100,000 Troops/Contractors/Etc in Iraq

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 439
  Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.
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• KBR may have poisoned 100,000 people in Iraq

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 134
  So many ways to rip off the government and so little time.  KBR, once again in the spotlight for yet more malfeasance.  Back in May we found that KBR was paid $80 million in bonuses for contracts to install electrical wiring in Iraq , wiring that electrocuted American soldiers.  Now we find they may have exposed ...
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• Risk-Based Compliance: A Framework for Analysis

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 420
  by Thomas Fox, FCPA Compliance AttorneyIn order to assess any risk a company must have a framework in place to begin this analysis. The benefits of a risk-based compliance system are clear. To make this risk-based determination, a company must institute a structure to make an appropriate assessment. (This is only a ...
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• 47 Sexual Assault Victims Associated with Halliburton, KBR and Subsidiaries

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  by Dog Gone Politicus USA Forty seven women have come forward reporting similar experiences to those recounted by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang raped by employees of defense contractors Halliburton and KBR. I had previously identified the number at 11, from earlier information in my research; the higher number ...
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• Eager to Tap Iraq’s Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 580
  by Jason Leopold – TruthOut Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power. That April 2001 report, “Strategic Policy Challenges for ...
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• Rape Victim Tells Sen. Vitter Off For His No Vote On Franken Amendment

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 557
  This woman is my shero for confronting Sen. David Vitter on his vote against the Franken Amendment that prohibits the government from hiring contractors that won’t allow victims of sexual violence to take their cases to court. Transcript via The Huffington Post : WOMAN: It meant everything to me that I was ...
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• Editorial: The Halliburton Loophole

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  If hydraulic fracturing is safe, the oil and gas industry should not fear regulation that will come when a dubious loophole is closed.
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