A stain on the justice department

Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

I'm watching this and wondering who the fuck this little weasel Lanny Breuer is and so I pull up his wikipedia page. Jebus, no wonder he was as useless as teats on a boar.

"He represented...Moody's Investor Service in the wake of Enron's collapse, Halliburton/KBR in a hearing conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform..."

It's hard for me to watch this stuff. I had never seen a mortgage file in my lfe before May of '06 and I figured this shit out. I never said anything because I couldn't at the time.

Gasland (2009)

Uddate Sept 19, 2011 "Gasland" Wins an Emmy!

Gasland.
Aw jeez, 15 minutes in I thought "Fuckin' Halliburton, fuckin' Dickhead Cheney."

"...Mr. FOX: But there's a kind of gas drilling syndrome that people have been identifying which has to do with a kind of a peripheral neuropathy. But the symptoms for these - exposures to this kind of chemicals range from, you know, skin and eye irritation, to respiratory irritation, to cancer. And those chemicals - the ones that we do know about have Manufactures Safety Dash Sheets that list those possible effects and a lot of them are carcinogenic..."

And the EPA is like many regulatory agencies in the US these days - either bought and paid for, or hog-tied by the industries that they are supposed to be regulating and protecting us little people from. This is one of the companies in the documentary. I guess their bullshit works, because they are making money.

Hmmm. Japan is actively searching for alternative energy supplies. Hmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmm. Hmmmm

Does this 'splain Cheney's last heart attack?

Reprot: BP, Halliburton Knew Well Cement was Unstable Before They Used it

On second thought, no, it wouldn't have caused a heart attack, the company is based in Dubai.

Think "fracking" ain't fucking your water supply?

Well water, that is.



Ahhh, Halliburton's lawyers are busy. They just can't seem to stay out of trouble, can they? Good thing they moved to Dubai .

Bet they hate this website:
Halliburton Watch

They probably weren't wild about this post of mine, either, since I have had an interest in gas and oil exploration because it wreaks environmental havoc:

halliburton.com landed here, wtf?

Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'

Putting this mofo (and everyone else who cooperated with this arrogant dickhead) on trial at the Hague is the only way the US will ever reagain any credibility. Do I belive that this piece of shit Cheney will fall on his sword for his country?

Fuck No I don't believe that, too much money for Halliburton to make in the oil, and gas and war biz in Iraq and Iran.

Democracy Now covers the anthrax case

Amy Goodman talks to Glenn Greenwald and Dr. Meryl Nass. Links to more from them on the Democracy Now page (click on title link).


Bradblog

Olbermann



TPM Muckraker

Am I the only one who automatically looks for the defense contractor, Homeland Security contractor, and who in the administration sits on the board? All those guys sit on a million different boards. They all make money off of this shit.

Better to convict (in the mainstream media) the dead guy who had a patent on some of his anthrax vaccine work than to look at what might be hinky connections right?

Bullshit.

Cui Bono?

Rummy made money at Gilead, Cheney made money at Halliburton; they got their war, and that's all war is to those sick fucks, it's cha ching time, and Oh, who's this?
From Brownieland, it's Joe and this little board that he's director of got two federal grants totaling $4.5 million for development of its botulism and next-generation anthrax vaccine candidates, reported here July 29, 2008

The Complex and the Gulag

Since my friend is ok, ( 5.4 aint no big deal ) & I'm sick of bad news, I think I'll just read today. These two titles together make me think of Blackwater and Halliburton.


Predators of press freedom

Bilbray sighting in San Diego

Dang, where's my rotten tomatoes when I need them?

Another KBR Rape Case

...That dawn, naked, covered in blood and feces, bleeding from her anus, she found a US soldier she did not know lying naked in the bed next to her: his gun lay on the floor beside the bed, she could not rouse him and all she could remember of the night before was screaming and screaming as the soldier anally penetrated her while a colleague who worked for defense contractor KBR held her hand--but instead of helping her, as she had hoped, he jammed his penis in her mouth...

Sexual Assault Is a Crime, Not a Labor Dispute, Unless of Course You Work for Halliburton/KBR [VIDEO]

Jamie Leigh Jones Congressional Testimony
posted by Melissa McEwan | Thursday, December 20, 2007


'Tort reform' injustice
By Peggy Garrity
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Justice? These women won't get justice. Justice would be for whoever thought that writing binding arbitration clauses into employees' contracts in a war zone to experience the first paragraph grab up top of this post.

Frontline ----- Cheney's Law

If you believe that democracy has a place in US government, you'll wonder how this fucker (yes, I hate Cheney, with a purple passion) got so much power and managed to stay in the highest levels of government for so long.

5:29 PM 10/20/2007

I don't know how I got to energy supplies from Cheney (Halliburton?) but I can tell that now I'm about done---the links from Growth is Madness' links started MC Hammer in my brain. Man, I didn't even see Happy Feet

What's that giant sucking sound I hear?

Fluor, Dyncorp, KBR win contract
From Times Wire Services
June 29, 2007

Irvine-based Fluor Corp., Dyncorp International Inc. and KBR Inc., a former unit of Halliburton Co., were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract with a combined potential value of as much as $150 billion to provide services to the military in the Middle East.

The contract, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) IV, would be worth as much as $5 billion a year in business for each of the companies, with the potential duration of 10 years.

The Army said the contract was parceled out to three companies rather than just one to "more effectively manage the number and scope of LOGCAP actions required to fight the global war on terror."


Fluor Corp.

DynCorp in Colombia: Outsourcing the Drug War
by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch
May 23rd, 2001

Oh, that giant sucking sound.

That's just the sound of military-industrial-congressional-complex bankrupting the next few generations, Yeesh, you'd think that I'd never heard that before.

In Sudan, China focuses on oil wells, not local needs

China has invested billions in oil facilities and pipelines, but not in much else, say Sudanese locals.
By Danna Harman | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Page 1 of 4

Nah, say it ain't so....

Oh, what's this?

Australian killed in terror raids: report
June 25, 2007 03:45am

AN Australian man is believed to be among seven Islamist militants killed in a raid on their hideout in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, and three other Australians have been arrested in Lebanon over suspected links to hardline groups.

I find this amusing:

Major Hollywood movie to be filmed in Dubai
By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter
Published: June 25, 2007, 23:31
...The new Dubai film is said to be about a young economist who gets used by Iranian operatives in a scheme to damage the American economy. He has to go on the run in order to prove himself innocent....

Especially because of this:
Halliburton Moving C.E.O. From Houston to Dubai
By Clifford Krauss
The New York Times
Published: March 12, 2007

Denmark tolerates these Islamofacist fucktards, why?

Anniversaries today

Ahhh yes, four years ago today Cap'n Codpiece was cruel to the sailors on the Lincoln who could see land but couldn't get there because he wanted to strut around on their ship for photo-op. Halliburton is doing quite well: Welcome to Pottersville Mission Accomplished Year Four

Last year there were huge immigrant's rights marches across the country.

It seemed like an excuse for a bunch of kids to ditch school to me.

Will it happen again this year?

Immigration Activists Call for School Walkout on Tuesday Apr 30, 2007

I hope not.

More from KPBS today: Immigration & Border

10:23 AM 5/1/2007 So far there are a few kids in NY walking out. Not a big deal.

And some in Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, Los Angeles,

11:13 AM 5/1/2007

Orlando

Phoenix and Tuscon

(Long Beach) Port Truckers Join May 1 Boycott

The kids are in school, at least it looks like it from California News reports. But money is lost when kids aren't in school:

Testing Dates for State Assessments 2006-2007
CAHSEE, STAR, CELDT, PFT, and CHSPE.

Dates for the 2007 administration of the grade 4 and 7 California Standards Writing Tests are:

Tuesday, March 6, 2007, with make-up on Wednesday, March 7 for all schools, programs, and tracks in session on these dates.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007, with make-up on Wednesday May 2 for schools, programs, and tracks not in session during March.

The testing window for the Aprenda 3 for grades 5-11 is March 15 through May 14, with make-up testing until May 25

I'm thinking the little shits don't want to go to Saturday School, and they've been warned.

Oh look, Ruben Navarrette Jr. proves once again that he is wrong every fucking time. What a flaming asshole.

No Ruben, non-immigrants have the same concerns as immigrants, feeding their family is one of them. When people come in illegally and work for less than subsistence wages they drive down our standard of living. That may make your business friends cream their jeans, but it pisses some of us off. Got it, fucktard?

Halliburton moves headquarters to Dubai

20 Billion Later Halliburton moves Headquarters to Dubai

Deadeye Dick goes to bat for Israel...again

Or is it for the dollar?


Maybe the Halliburton detention camps are exactly what they say they are and the US government will round up the Mexicans, detain them and send them back to Mexico after the dollar completely implodes. Americans might have to pick their own vegetables, in fact, in order to eat they may be thrilled to pick vegetables and fruit.

Any way you look at it, the American way of life is going to change.

The rest of the world has suffered for far too long because of US foreign policy.

To stop and think

Okay, so I watch this video and I react with anger. Pure rage and then hatred for the Iraqis, for Iraq, mixed with a visceral loyalty for a fellow American. It happens in an instant before I even have a chance to think about it.

Troops abandon Halliburton truck driver video


And then I go read the following opinion piece, which slips in under the radar some history of the Middle East. Not something we get in our K-12 Education in the United States.

The erosion of the Arab state
By Soumaya Ghannoushi

Helllooooooooo?

Why not?

And didn't I see somewhere that Halliburton truck drivers are making three or four times what the Army privates that protect them are making?

Oh yeah, I did:
This factsheet revised January 30, 2006.

Defense CEO & Private Contractor Pay vs. Military Pay

Army Private:$24,278

Defense Contractor CEO:$100,000

General with 20+ Years Experience:$168,509

Private Military Contractor:$11,586,000

I'm not angry any more. I'm back to wondering why the fucking neocons were allowed to steal two elections and how much more damage they can do in the two years they have left.

war profiteering

The 10 Most Brazen War Profiteers
By Charlie Cray, AlterNet. Posted September 5, 2006.

Halliburton has become synonymous with war profiteering, but there are lots of other greedy fingers in the pie. We name names on 10 of the worst.

A few years ago (8 actually) I took some silly little business classes. One of my instructors couldn't say enough good things about Titan. I wasn't really aware at the time that Titan was a defense contractor, nor did I care. The only thing those business classes did for me was let me know I wasn't crazy, that there really were a whole bunch of greedy, selfish, self-centered assholes out there who would sell their mothers if they thought they could make a buck. This judgement of mine included students. Around that time some students at another school got caught cheating on a test in a business ethics class. Best laugh I had all year. The only part of those classes that I really liked were a couple of the extra credit assignments. On one of them I got to interview people regarding business practices in other countries. We are certainly not alone in the bribery game. People are people. They haven't changed much. And the wealthy and powerful have been benefitting off of wars since somebody decided war was a good idea, most likely someone who was already wealthy and powerful.


Guess what? Nothing changes if nothing changes.


WAR IS A RACKET
Smedley Darlington Butler


I haven't read this book, but what a fascinating title, eh?

Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict Black, Edwin


New Poll: 43% Still Believe Saddam Had Something To Do With 9/11
By: Jamie Holly on Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 9:30 AM - PDT

Why?














How many times we gonna get booty-bopped by this porcine little dweeb?

(this is a great picture, I couldn't resist snatching it, and I really had no idea when I used it that Atrios had gone batshit with it)

halliburton.com landed here, wtf?

Can anyone tell me why someone from halliburton.com in Houston Texas would perform a search using these words:

australia seismic whale dead interview

and then wade through 15 effing pages of Google results to hit on this particular entry?

On this silly little blog?

hmmmm?
LEAD: More than 140 whales die after beachings in Australia, NZ
Asian Economic News Dec 13, 2004
SYDNEY, Nov. 30 Kyodo
...More than 140 whales have died in three separate mass strandings in Australia and New Zealand since Sunday, according to government officials and media reports Tuesday....Sen. Bob Brown of the Australian Greens party said in a statement released Tuesday that seismic tests carried out in oceans to search for gas and oil should be stopped until the whale migration season ends.

''The whale strandings of recent days come exactly a year after a similar stranding on Tasmania's west coast,'' Brown said. ''In both cases, seismic testing occurred in the preceding days.''

Seismic testing is sound bombing of the ocean bed to search for oil and gas. There is growing evidence that such activities may impact whales and dolphins but research data are inconclusive.

''However, the precautionary principle should apply, and the tests, until shown to be safe, should stop -- at least in whale migration seasons,'' Brown said...

or maybe halliburton was looking for this or this?


Greg has some info on the oil barons..

THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD FOR BIG OIL
Greg Palast Aug 03, 2006


Um, Greg? They hate sunlight.

In PA, Big-Time GOP Donors Show True Colors: Green
By Justin Rood - August 2, 2006, 5:51 PM
A Halliburton lobbyist giving money to the Green Party?


Santorum, the Green Party, and some very strange bedfellows

...James Holman (misidentified in FEC records as "Howmen"); California publisher, $5,000:Holman publishes a string of pro-life, Catholic newspapers across California (and, highly incongruously, an alternative paper, the San Diego Reader. According to this article, he pumped a whopping $1.1 million last year into Proposition 73, a parental notification measure that Holman called in ads "the first 'pro-life measure to be voted on in the state of California.'" ...

Oh yeah, good times here in the 50th. oily congresswhore Bilbray votes

He and other local congresswhores along for the slip n slide ride:

North County Reps vote to lift offshore drilling ban

Anybody who thinks San Diego doesn't have any serious problems is a moron, a tourist, or they've spent way too much time with their heads up their asses.

So what is the truth?

Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust?
An analysis of media rhetoric on its way to war against Iran - Commenting on the alleged statements of Iran's President Ahmadinejad.
By Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann
Translation to English: Erik Appleby
04/19/06
...There again we find the quotation already rendered by n24: "In the name of the Holocaust they created a myth." We can see that this is completely different from what is published by e.g. the DPA - the massacre against the Jews is a fairy-tale. What Ahmadinejad does is not denying the Holocaust. No! It is dealing out criticism against the mendacity of the imperialistic powers who use the Holocaust to muzzle critical voices and to achieve advantages concerning the legitimization of a planned war. This is criticism against the exploitation of the Holocaust...

(my emphasis, and don't get me wrong here, I'm definitely no fan of Islamists, I think they way they dismiss women's right is self-defeating and stupid in the long run. Religious fanatics of any brand make me head for the nearest exit, peace out. )

The west must recognise that Israel's agenda is in conflict with its own The Olmert government, Hizbullah and Hamas are tacitly united in rejection of any moves towards a compromise peace
By David Clark
07/17/06 "The Guardian

Americans Want U.S. Out of Mid-East War
Angus Reid Global Scan : Polls & Research
July 17, 2006

(umm, hellllllooooooo? any of our "representatives" aware of this nifty little factoid, or are they on the phone to their brokers trying to dump Halliburton stock, now that the no-bid deal has ended?)

Lopez Obrador leads protest in Mexico

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 16, 4:49 PM ET

M-I-C

Lockheed Martin Uses Questionable Facts to Steer Spending Bill
June 16, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jennifer Gore jgore@pogo.org or (202) 347-1122

Duncan Hunter: Is he behind the Switfboating of Murtha?
By: John Amato on Saturday, June 24th, 2006 at 3:01 pm

KBR Fingered in Iraq Contract Fraud
By Paul Kiel - June 23, 2006, 6:11 PM
Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown, & Root? War profiteering? Iraq? Shocked!

Light bulb

How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?
1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;

2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed;

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;

4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb;

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished;

7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark;

8. One to viciously smear #7;

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;

10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

I've been trying to ignore this

March 16, 2006
Dachau's 73rd "Grand Anniversary" Celebrated
By CLANCY SIGAL at Counterpunch
Feds Schedule $385 Million Concentration Camp To Be Built By Halliburton Subsidiary

Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler wont let me

I have a friend who makes me laugh when he says to me "Womens be thinkin' too much." Okay then.