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HALLIBURTON LOOPHOLES: SOLVING CHALLENGES WITH CRONY CAPITALISM
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 44: Communication 1
IronBoltBruce's Kleptocracy Chronicles for 30 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0044c1)
How many examples of greed and corruption must you see before you act?
"Halliburton Company is an oilfield services company. The Company's two
business segments are the Completion and Production segment and the Drilling
and Evaluation segment. The Company provides a range of services and
products for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural
gas around the world. It conducts business in approximately 80 countries.
The business operations of its divisions are around four primary geographic
regions: North America, Latin America, Europe/Africa/CIS, and Middle
East/Asia. During the year ended December 31, 2010, based on the location of
services provided and products sold, 46% of the revenue was from the United
States. It has 170 international and 109 United States field camps, from
which it delivers its services and products. In October 2011, the Company
acquired Multi-Chem Group LLC."
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"Halliburton has become the object of several controversies involving the
2003 Iraq War and the company's ties to former U.S. Vice President Dick
Cheney. Cheney retired from the company during the 2000 U.S. presidential
election campaign with a severance package worth million. As of 2004,
he had received 8,548 in deferred compensation from Halliburton while
Vice President. Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from
1995 to 2000 and has received stock options from Halliburton... In the
run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a billion contract for
which 'unusually' only Halliburton was allowed to bid. Bunnatine
Greenhouse, a civil servant with 20 years of contracting experience, had
complained to Army officials on numerous occasions that Halliburton had been
unlawfully receiving special treatment for work in Iraq, Kuwait and the
Balkans. Criminal investigations were opened by the U.S. Justice
Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Pentagon's
inspector general. In one of Greenhouse's claims, she said that military
auditors caught Halliburton overcharging the Pentagon for fuel deliveries
into Iraq. She also complained that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's
office took control of every aspect of Halliburton's billion Iraqi
oil/infrastructure contract. After her testimony, Greenhouse was demoted
for poor performance. Greenhouse's attorney, Michael Kohn, stated in The
New York Times that "she is being demoted because of her strict adherence to
procurement requirements and the Army's preference to sidestep them when it
suits their needs."
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When Halliburton came under investigation by the Justice Department
Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations of improper dealings in
Iraq, Kuwait and Nigeria in 2007, it opened a second corporate headquarters
in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai and moved its chairman and chief
executive, David J. Lesar, there... Halliburton remains a US company
subject to US laws, but Dubai has no extradition agreement with the United
States, meaning that Mr. Lesar could not be compelled to return to the US to
testify, stand trial or serve any sentence related to any Halliburton
activities under investigation... According to a 2004 GAO report, the
company is incorporated in Delaware, but had 17 subsidiaries in tax-haven
countries... In February 2007 Whitley Strieber wrote "Congress was told
that .7 billion paid to Halliburton and its subsidiaries and
subcontractors for work done in Iraq was either excessive or unsupported.
Another upcoming investigation that affects Halliburton is the [then]
current scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Washington Post
reported that the Army agreed to privatize the operation of Walter Reed by
awarding a 0 million contract to IAP Worldwide Services, a contractor
with connections to KBR, [at that time] a Halliburton subsidiary."
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In February 2011, Desmogblog.com outed Halliburton and other oil and gas
companies who together set up "Energy in Depth", an industry front group
that claims to represent "small and independent" operators. EID's website
was registered by a PR firm experienced in working for companies engaged in
scientific deception (e.g. Big Tobacco). EID was set up to fight back after
investigative journalists began to expose problems with hydraulic fracturing
("fracking") - notably ProPublica.org and the producers of the
Oscar-nominated documentary "Gasland".
www.halliburtonwatch.org
'It was reported that Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) filed charges against former U.S. Vice-President and Halliburton CEO
Dick Cheney and officials from five companies, including Halliburton and
KBR, over a bribery scheme involving the construction of a liquefied natural
gas (LNG) facility in Nigeria (see pending KBR and Halliburton instances,
"Nigeria LNG Contracts Bribery (UK Prosecution)"). In December 2010, EFCC
agreed to drop the charges against Cheney. News accounts reported
Halliburton agreed to pay 0 million in fines; however, Halliburton stated
in a press release that the amount was million (".5 million to the
FGN [Federal Government of Nigeria] and an additional .5 million for FGN's
attorneys' fees and other expenses.")'
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On 12 October 2011 the U.S. Interior Department formally cited BP and its
two chief contractors - Halliburton and Transocean - for numerous safety and
environmental violations in the operation of the doomed Deepwater Horizon
well. The citations, which could lead to millions of dollars in fines,
arose from an investigation of the April 2010 explosion that killed 11
workers and led to the worst offshore oil spill in American history. The
department and the Coast Guard found in a report issued last month that BP,
Transocean and Halliburton had failed to operate the Gulf of Mexico drilling
rig in a safe and responsible manner, had heedlessly endangered their
workers, had not followed proper well control procedures and had not
properly maintained safety equipment, including the blowout preventer. The
actions against Transocean, which operated the drilling rig, and
Halliburton, which performed the well cementing job, are the first time that
the government has cited contractors rather than just a well's principal
owner, in this case BP, for safety violations.
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"Corporate insiders peddling the claim that drilling for methane gas will
solve America's energy needs just scored big in Washington - and for these
insiders fracking for gas is very lucrative business. House Resolution
1380, given the feel-good moniker of the 'New Alternative Transportation to
Give Americans Solutions Act' or 'NAT GAS Act', was announced on Wednesday,
April 6 [2011], in the U. S. House of Representatives. The bill is 24-pages
long and rewards the fracking industry with tax credits and products to help
"drive" consumption. The bigger the vehicle, the more tax credits given.
This initiative to expand the controversial fracking process - which has
already resulted in contaminated wells and rivers and even ignitable tap
water for some - is being spearheaded in Congress by Reps. John Sullivan
(R-Oklahoma), Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma), John Larson (D-Connecticut), and Kevin
Brady (R-Texas). The bill has 77 co-sponsors, with 40 Democrats in support
and 37 Republicans, from 33 different states. But, perhaps its most
powerful supporter or potential supporter is President Barack Obama...
Though hailed by [T. Boone Pickens] and other uncritical observers as an
"energy efficient solution" and a "clean" energy resource, this PR spin
ignores the true dangers and consequences of fracking and of the methane
distribution and consumption process. Fracking - using a drilling technique
pioneered by Halliburton that forces a concoction of hazardous chemicals and
drinkable water into shale - has been well-documented in movies like
Gasland, as well as by the Center for Media and Democracy's Water Portal, as
a dangerous and destructive process that shortchanges land owners, enriches
drillers, and spoils land and water."
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"Public fears are growing about contamination of drinking-water supplies
from the chemicals used in fracking and from the methane gas itself. Field
tests show that those worries are not unfounded. A Duke University study
published in May found that methane levels in dozens of drinking-water wells
within a kilometer (3,280 feet) of new fracking sites were 17 times higher
than in wells farther away. Yet states have let companies proceed without
adequate regulations. They must begin to provide more effective oversight,
and the federal government should step in, too... In 2005 Congress - at the
behest of then Vice President Dick Cheney, a former CEO of gas driller
Halliburton - exempted fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking
Water Act. Congress needs to close this so-called 'Halliburton loophole',
as a bill co-sponsored by New York State Representative Maurice Hinchey
would do. The FRAC Act would also mandate public disclosure of all
chemicals used in fracking across the nation."
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IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT OF THE LAST 14 U.S. PRESIDENTS, 7 HAVE BEEN
DEMOCRATS AND 7 HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS.
Our Kleptocracy-controlled media focuses on America's two-year election
cycles as if who wins or loses in the swinging of the pendulum was a matter
of life or death, when in fact even at the Presidential level it makes no
more difference than the outcomes of Monday Night Football, American Idol,
Dancing With The Stars, Hillbilly Handfishing or the trial of Michael
Jackson's doctor. U.S. elections are staged primarily to give Sheeple the
illusion of control so they will (a) vent their frustrations and expend
their energy, emotions and resources supporting or attacking the Puppet on
the Left hand or the Puppet on the Right, and consequently (b) never
recognize and challenge the common omnipotent Puppetmaster.
There was no real change in 2008. There was no real change in 2010. There
WILL be real change in 2012, but it won't be coming from tele-brainwashed
couch potatoes, manipulated voter lists, rigged voting machines or
predetermined ballot counts. It will be coming from us...
The 99 Percent
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I AM NOT ANONYMOUS. I AM AN AMERICAN.
I am not just a Consumer. I am a Citizen.
I will no longer be labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative,
Demopublican or Republocrat.
I will no longer follow Puppets labeled Left or Right, Liberal or
Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.
I am the People. And I am coming for the Puppetmasters.
I am part of the 99 Percent. And I demand the following:
1. End the Fed.
2. Reverse Citizens United.
3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.
4. Expose 9/11 Truth.
5. End Profit Wars.
6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.
8. Single Term Limits.
Or, if these demands are not addressed promptly:
1. Regime Change.
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LABELS (A POEM OF PROTEST)
"Democrat", "Republican",
The parties of the system;
Puppets both, for sale their votes,
No character or wisdom.
"Liberal", "Conservative",
For change or status quo?
Pick either one, the change is none,
All charlatans and whores.
Far "Left" we place the Anarchists,
Libertarians claim far "Right";
Yet both decry the government:
False continuum brought to light.
For oil, "We" bomb their mud huts,
Strip them bare, then offer "Aid";
And fake their retribution as
Pretext - a false flag raised.
Unarmed hundred thousands killed
By weapons of "Defense",
While rights are lost for "Freedom" sake -
On profit, all depends.
With stroke of pen, the "Patriot" Act,
And patriots' gifts are taken;
Then "Citizens United" leaves
Our citizens forsaken.
We protest loss of liberties,
Put "World Wide Web" to use;
Cloudmark Authority censors us
For "messaging abuse".
They label us to finger-point,
With labels, "They" deride us;
Their labels keep us all at bay,
For with labels, "They" divide us.
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