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• Just Looking Out for the Tax-Payers...

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  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 ...
  11 hours ago

• KBR/Halliburton may have poisoned 100,000 Troops/Contractors/Etc in Iraq

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  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.
  19 hours ago

• 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 ...
  22 hours ago

• Risk-Based Compliance: A Framework for Analysis

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 422
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• 47 Sexual Assault Victims Associated with Halliburton, KBR and Subsidiaries

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Eager to Tap Iraq’s Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 603
  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: 565
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: The Halliburton Loophole

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  If hydraulic fracturing is safe, the oil and gas industry should not fear regulation that will come when a dubious loophole is closed.
  1 week ago

• vitter, slimy piece o steamin shite

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 445
  and i dont say that lightly he just doesnt fucking get it. hes (perhaps) boinking prostitutes (is that on the family values platform by the way?) while spewing his morality on me and mine. THEN he fucking walks away from a rape victim when she asks him why he voted AGAINST protecting rape victims (he walked away ...
  1 week ago

• “Diaper Dave” Vitter Tells Rape Victim, “BLAME OBAMA!!!”

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 476
  The DC Madam’s special little fella didn’t care much for a rule that would make it impossible for corporations that permit employees to be raped to get Federal contracts. This isn’t much of a surprise, since Diaper Dave obviously has some deep-deated issues with women. I think I can say without sounding too ...
  1 week ago

• Following the Money on Cap and Trade

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is under attack by some of its members for its opposition to the Cap and Trade bill. The Natural Resources Defense Council, through its blogs and through the website whodoesthechamberrepresent.org maintains a running watch on those altruistic companies who have either quit the Chamber ...
  1 week ago

• Letter from David Arkush on the Franken amendment in Washington Post

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 495
  The following letter was published Thursday, October 29, in the Washington Post . Stand up to Halliburton, and sign our petition ! In her Oct. 25 column, Kathleen Parker defended the 30 GOP senators who opposed Al Franken’s amendment to the defense appropriations bill. The amendment would restore access to ...
  1 week ago

• Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: ADBE, HAL, GCI, GT, IMAX, URBN ...

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Halliburton (HAL) , Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR ) was upgraded at Jefferies to Hold from Underperform following Q3 results. The firm believes the Wavecom acquisition integration is progressing better than expected ...
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• Urge Congress not to weaken Franken amendment

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 495
  By now, you are probably aware of an amendment to a bill funding the Department of Defense that would prohibit the U.S. government from doing business with defense contractors who deny employees who have been raped or sexually assaulted, like Jamie Leigh Jones , the right to hold them accountable in court. This ...
  1 week ago

• Protecting Halliburton’s Honor…..

  
  Left Side of the Moon — Authority: 421
  First off for the fucking record:  KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton.  Halliburton = the parent; KBR = incorrigible child.  KBR was the “contracting, engineering and construction unit” part of Halliburton until April 5, 2007.  They then became “separate and independent of each other.”  Prior to that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Halliburton May Face U.K. Charges

  
  The FCPA Blog — Authority: 492
  Halliburton disclosed Friday in its latest SEC filing that the U.K.s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) may bring civil claims or criminal charges against it under various British laws. In February this year, Halliburton and its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, admitted paying Nigerian officials at least $182 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs

  
  INCOG MAN: Sick of all the BS... — Authority: 491
  Dont read if you want to keep your head in the sand.
  2 weeks ago

• What’s Good for the Great Lakes Goose …

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 433
  Quotes for the Day: NYC Water Pollution and NatGas Drilling“The nine million New York residents who depend upon Catskill-Delaware water deserve the same amount of protection as those New Yorkers who depend upon Great Lakes surface waters.” —New York City’s acting environmental commissionerIt would cost the ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC Water and NatGas Drilling

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 433
  Quotes for the Day: What’s Good for the Great Lakes Water Users …“The nine million New York residents who depend upon Catskill-Delaware water deserve the same amount of protection as those New Yorkers who depend upon Great Lakes surface waters.” —New York City’s acting environmental commissionerIt would ...
  2 weeks ago

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