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After a routine pick-up game of senior softball today, I was sitting at the picnic table eating pretzels and having a beer with a few other guys discussing "stuff" when Homer, the "softball liberal" made a comment about how evil Haliburton and Dick Cheney were. I've had to put up with this "Haliburton/Cheney" crap for 8 years now and for the life of me, I have yet to figure out why Haliburton and our V.P. Cheney have been so demonized by the socialists. I normally do not post threads or vanities but the time has come to get some answers...

Want some old fashioned black helicopter, conspiracy goofiness? Check out the frenzied work of HufPoster Joseph Palmero who imagines that if Obama becomes president members of Blackwater security services or Haliburton would somehow decide to assassinate him.

     Could a strange substance found by an Ark-La-Tex man be part of secret government testing program?  That's the question at the heart of a phenomenon called "Chemtrails."  In a KSLA News 12 investigation, Reporter Jeff Ferrell shows us the results of testing we had done about what's in our skies.     "It seemed like some mornings it was just criss-crossing the whole sky.  It was just like a giant checkerboard," described Bill Nichols.  He snapped several photos of the strange clouds from his home in Stamps, in southwest Arkansas.  Nichols said these unusual clouds begin as normal contrails from a jet engine.  But...

Actually, need your help. I am an investor for a living, and during the day enjoy exchanging information and viewpoints with other knowledgeable investors - primarily through the use of Yahoo Message Boards. To the problem...I am an investor in HAL...and the Yahoo board has been permanently inhabited by escapees from DU..seriously sick demented people..Hal is the object of their anger as it is a "symbol" of Cheney, Bush....their vile and outrageous posts disrupt anything one wishes to discuss. They are VERMIN....if any of you have a chance. Please come over and help stomp out the crazies....there is more than...

NYTimes: Still Hasn't Apologized and Corrected the Record Posted by Warner Todd Huston on June 18, 2007 - 04:23. On may 29th, the AP reported that Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service to eliminate the records of visitors to the Vice President's mansion on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. fitting with the MSM's claims that the VP is "too secretive." Cheney’s office countered with the fact that he had written orders to save those records. Naturally the New York Times jumped on the bandwagon with a June 3rd piece that went wild-eyed and...

Houston-based KBR, formerly the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., has a contingency contract in place with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback confirmed yesterday in a telephone interview that the KBR contract for $385 million was awarded initially in January 2006 for a one-year base period with four one-year options. It has been extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005. Zuieback told this writer the primary intent of the KBR...

Any thoughts on Haliburton's decision to move from Texas to Dubai? Any concern about U.S. Security being compromised considering all the military contracts Haliburton has? Any outrage over U.S. tax dollars going to contracts with a firm which relocates to an Islamic Country and destroys American jobs in the process? Any concern about national security being compromised by having employees from Dubai working for Haliburton? Any connection between this and the past attempts to have Dubai manage U.S. Port operations? What the heck is going on here? Doesn't this BOTHER anybody? I did a keyword search and found nothing on...

This week marks the 43rd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by a pro-Castro Marxist moonbat in Dallas, Tex. Well, that’s if you believe little things like photographs, eyewitnesses, spousal testimony, ballistics, fingerprints, personal history, the suspect’s pattern of assassination attempts, motive, opportunity, and an incriminating flight complete with cop killing. For the rest of America, especially the tinfoil hat crowd, this week is the 43rd anniversary of JFK being killed by Castro, right-wing extremists opposed to Castro, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the mafia, the Soviets, the Elks’ Lodge, magic bullets, the second gunman, the third gunman, the...

Exclusive: U.S. Troops Abandoned Me, Says Convoy Driver September 27, 2006 11:16 AM Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report: A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year. Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene. "They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline.

A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year. Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene. "They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline. The tape shows an armored personnel carrier leading the trucks that Wheeler says was from the Virginia National Guard. Once insurgents...

Schroeder takes over guidance job at Gazprom consortium Already in its term of office as chancellors Gerhard Schroeder was noticeable because of its good contacts to the Kremlin. Now he transfers a prominent role in the consortium, which builds the disputed Baltic Sea pipeline from Russia to Germany. Babajewo - the old Federal Chancellor becomes a supervisory board boss of the pipeline consortium NEGP company actively, said the boss of the Russian gas company Gazprom, Alexej Miller, today in Babajewo at the edge of the ceremony to the commencement of construction of the pipeline. It is to represent the interests...

Ever since Ronald Reagan proclaimed in his 1981 inaugural address that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," leaders at all levels of government, Democrats and Republicans alike, have been outsourcing as much work as possible to the private sector. This is generally a good idea, but when it comes to the military, this trend may have gone too far. Peter W. Singer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of "Corporate Warriors," estimates that there are 20,000 to 30,000 civilians in Iraq performing traditional military functions, from maintaining weapons systems to guarding supply...

NEW ORLEANS - New measurements of Hurricane Ivan's erosion of beaches, dunes and barrier islands along the Gulf of Mexico underscore how vulnerable the American shoreline is to such storms, a U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) oceanographer says. Ivan's center made landfall Sept. 16 at Gulf Shores, Ala., with 115 mph wind and a storm surge estimated at 10 to 13 feet high. Ivan washed away as much as 164 feet of beach in places, according to Abby Sallenger, an oceanographer for the Geological Survey's Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. He presented his...

The White House's Halliburton Honeymoon is already history. Only two days after President Bush declared victory in his quest for a second term, the company once run by Vice President Cheney dropped a political bomb. In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, the oil services company said that the Justice Department expanded its investigation into Halliburton, that government probes have found that bribes may have been made in Nigeria and that A. Jack Stanley, a former senior executive, may have been involved. The latest news about alleged shenanigans at Halliburton, some of which may have occurred...

BC-Halliburton-Contracts,170 URGENT AP NewsBreak: FBI begins investigating how Halliburton got Bush administration contracts By JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices. The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company. FBI agents this week sought...

I've Sold Out; So What Else Is New? Yes, I now got a paying job writing radio ads for anti-Bush organizations. You may say it's selling out, but I say... Screw you! I like money! You can hear the first one by clicking here (and, no, that's not me doing any of the voices).

House Panel Expands Iraq [House Dems Try to Defend Saddam's Bribery]By Judith Miller WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - A House subcommittee investigating the United Nations oil-for-food program expanded its inquiry on Tuesday to the Bush administration's postwar stewardship of Iraq's oil money. Yielding to pressure from his panel's Democrats, Representative Christopher Shays ... agreed to subpoena documents on the administration's management of oil revenues and, if necessary, audits on contracts for reconstruction projects, including one given to Halliburton, the oil services giant once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. ... The agreement came after subcommittee Democrats staged a surprise revolt at...

We can all agree that Dick Chaney made mince meat out of John Edwards last night, and actually performed much better than Bush did last week. However, it seems that Chaney did not have a good response to Edward’s attacks about Chaney’s relationship to Haliburton. In corresponding with my 19 year old son today (who is a sophomore student at liberal George Washington University in D.C. and who writes a column of conservative political commentary for the school newspaper), I thought the readers of Free Republic would find his comments on this subject of interest. Here’s what he wrote: Hey...

Halliburton is a favorite whipping boy of the Kerry Campaign because of the no-bid contract at the start of the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein. I was wondering who besides Schlumberger would have been a competitor of sufficient size, strength and in area capabilities to take on the job that was expected before the invasion to liberate Iraq especially considering Saddam Hussein’s torching the wells and the need for extensive repair to the existing facilities? The second question is which Democrats hold large positions in these competitor companies?

I just saw a few minutes of Kerry's speech this morning. I may have missed the point as I did not see the context before or after the statement so help me out with this.. Did Kerry just recommend we give reconstruction contracts to "local (Iraqi) construction companies"? Isn't the local construction giant in that region OBL's family? Hmmm.... Outsourcing American jobs to the Bin Ladin clan, what next?

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  Some major or well-known Haliburton shareholders, from NASDAQ.com Holder - Institution or Fund Shares Held % Float Holdings Value Date Rpt'd Capital Research and Management Co 31,725,000 7.21 $964,122,730 31-Mar-04 Morgan Stanley 31,103,924 7.07 $945,248,231 31-Mar-04 Wellington Management Co, Llp 21,452,500 4.87 $651,941,461 31-Mar-04 FMR Corporation 14,933,628 3.39 $453,832,945 31-Mar-04 Barclays Bank Plc 14,668,197 3.33 $445,766,497 31-Mar-04 State Street Corporation 12,255,771 2.78 $372,452,873 31-Mar-04 Lord Abbett & Co 9,845,491 2.24 $299,204,465 31-Mar-04 Putnam Investment Management, LLC 9,102,124 2.07 $276,613,542 31-Mar-04 A I M Management Group Inc. 8,890,691 2.02 $270,188,094 31-Mar-04 Vanguard Group, Inc. 8,746,746 1.99 $265,813,605 31-Mar-04 Citigroup, Inc 7,301,271...

What should I put on bushandhaliburton.com? Recently, I've noticed many TV ads by the Media Fund (basically an anti-Bush group) attacking Bush and Cheney for their connections to Halliburton. They don't give a lot of details in their ad, but instead they direct viewer to their website: www.bushandhalliburton.com , which is full of distortion and one-sided rhetoric attacking Bush. Now, of course, when I tried to spell Halliburton, I thought it only had one 'l' not two. Most of the friends I asked thought it only had one 'l', too. So I thought for sure the Media Fund would also...

UNITED States legislators are demanding an inquiry into whether Dick Cheney, the vice president , helped his old firm, Halliburton, secure contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq. The latest edition of Time magazine claimed it had seen a Pentagon e-mail which stated that action on a no-bid Halliburton contract to rebuild Iraq’s oil industry was "co-ordinated" with Mr Cheney’s office. Mr Cheney was chief executive officer of the oilfield services giant from 1995 until he joined George Bush’s presidential ticket in 2000. Senator Patrick Leahy said yesterday the e-mail provided "clear evidence" of a relationship between Mr Cheney and multibillion-dollar...

Halliburton surely got lambasted last week recently by John Kerry. "This war brings billions of dollars to big companies, either to those that manufacture weapons or those who reconstruct Iraq, like Halliburton and its sister companies," he thundered. "And from here it becomes clear who benefits from the outbreak of wars and bloodshed: war traders and vampires who administer world politics from behind the curtain." Oops, sorry. That wasn't John Kerry. That was Osama bin Laden, or at least someone claiming to be him on an audiotape. When the rhetorical lines blur between the leader of the Democratic Party and...

A Coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of IraqFables of the Reconstructionby Jason VestApril 20th, 2004 10:00 AM In Focus: Iraq War Gulf of Talkin' Valid or not, comparisons to the deviously escalated Vietnam War are hard to dismiss these days. Condoliar Rice Perhaps with lies and delusions the Bush administration is looking for a mistrial. Things Fall ApartMondo Washington: U.S. Turns to MercenariesMossback: The Wrong Answer Modern war presidents donâ??t let facts get in the way of military conquest. See More ... s the situation in Iraq grows ever...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Halliburton, the oil and construction conglomerate formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, dramatically reduced what it spent on lobbying Congress and the federal government after the Bush-Cheney administration took office in January 2001.</p> <p>During the last two years of the Clinton administration, Halliburton reported spending $1.2 million lobbying the Senate, House of Representatives, and various executive branch departments, according to records reviewed by the Globe. In comparison, during the first two years of the Bush administration, Halliburton reported spending just $600,000.</p>

SURT, Libya — In one of the largest construction projects in the world, engineers are trying to "mine" ice age rainfall, now locked in the sandstone beneath the Sahara, and convey it to Libyan cities and farms along a vast waterworks. The project is almost invisible, except when something goes wrong. Bashir O. Saleh, a Libyan engineer trained at the University of Texas, has devoted his professional life to the project, the $27 billion Great Manmade River. In an interview, he described what had happened repeatedly on the first 500-mile segment of the pipeline system that taps a series of...

The Vice-President of the United States is floundering in bloodied water, and the sharks are circling, writes Marian Wilkinson. Any Nigerian Government investigation into a bribery scandal would usually be dismissed in Washington with guffaws, especially if a potential witness was reported to be the second most powerful man in America, the Vice-President, Dick Cheney. But not today. When the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission announced two weeks ago that it was joining the Paris public prosecutor's office in examining $US180 million ($227 million) in alleged secret payments to Nigerian officials, Cheney's political enemies took note. The controversial US...

This is the dream job of a lifetime.

Jack Kelly: The Halliburton huff The oil services firm did nothing wrong in Iraq Sunday, January 11, 2004 By Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Web logger John Cole noted a fascinating difference between the news accounts accusing Halliburton of overcharging on a contract to deliver oil in Iraq, and the accounts of Halliburton's subsequent exoneration. Here's the AP's Matt Kelley on the original charge: "A Pentagon audit has found Vice President Dick Cheney's former company may have overcharged the Army by $1.09 a gallon for nearly 57 million gallons of gasoline delivered to citizens in Iraq, senior defense officials say." Here's...

The panel on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend salivated about how Democrats should be able to use "crony capitalism" as an issue against President Bush with Chris Matthews regretting how Democrats are supposedly called "unpatriotic" when they raise the subject. Time's Joe Klein recommended: "I think crony capitalism is gonna be a big issue. All of the connections between the Bush White House and companies like Haliburton and the deals on energy and the environment and so on, I think the Democrats are gonna use that." Klein insisted this is not just bashing the rich: "This is...

<p>The Army Corps of Engineers has exonerated Haliburton Co. of any wrongdoing in a Kuwait fuel-delivery contract that Pentagon auditors claimed has overcharged the U.S. government by more than $100 million.</p>

I just have to laugh....yesterday, the AP was spinning out blatantly misleading articles trying to link Cheney with a recent accounting error by the company he no longer runs, and boy was that PR maneuver blasted out of the water today by news of Saddam's capture! Serves them right for spiralling so far out into reuters-land that they'd sacrifice the truth to get sensational anti-establishment stories printed.

<p>VIENNA -- Iraq's oil minister, in his strongest overtures so far to foreign investors, invited international oil companies to pitch investment ideas to Baghdad and said the country's interim government plans to quickly seek outside help in developing its vast but dilapidated petroleum industry.</p>

Judge Removes Self From Hudak Trial By RICHARD BENKE | Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge who was about to put a Canadian antiterrorism expert on trial on charges of having 2,400 missile warheads withdrew from the case Monday, delaying it again while the man remains jailed without bail. Senior U.S. Judge John Conway gave no reason for withdrawing. He had repeatedly urged defense attorneys Robert Gorence and Tim Padilla last week to avoid trial, which had been set for Tuesday, by working out a plea agreement for David Hudak. Gorence said that was an unacceptable option. Gorence...

Judge refuses to dismiss charges in Roswell multi-missile case David Hudak Last Update: 08/11/2003 11:54:20 AM By: Kurt Christopher A judge has refused to toss out charges against a Canadian man accused of amassing thousands of warheads and running a counter-terrorism training program in Roswell. U.S. District Judge John Conway also ruled Monday during a hearing in Albuquerque that a jury could hear testimony about Halliburton Corporation's role in the case. Halliburton, which was formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was selected this spring to perform repairs of the Iraq oilfields in the aftermath of war. David Hudak has...

UNITED States oil services giant ,Halliburton, already under fire over accusations that its White House ties helped win a major Iraqi oil contract, has admitted that a subsidiary paid a multi-million dollar bribe to a Nigerian tax official. Halliburton,the world's number two oilfield services firm once run by Vice President Richard Cheney, revealed the illicit payments, worth 2.4 million dollars, in a filing last Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). "The payments were made to obtain favourable tax treatment and clearly violated our code of business conduct and our internal control procedures," Halliburton said. Halliburton's subsidiary Kellogg Brown...

Watch at your own peril. The Left in Chicago have been going nuts over this subject.A_R

KUWAIT (Reuters) - A prominent Iraqi exile said on Saturday only a democratically elected government should be allowed to sign the massive contracts needed to reconstruct the country. Former Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi criticized Washington over its plans for a U.S.-led civilian authority to hand out reconstruction contracts without the approval of an elected Iraqi government. No one has the right to commit Iraq to obligations and costs," he told a news conference in Kuwait. "Only an Iraqi government can do that. A parliament should also endorse the agreements." The U.S. government on Thursday awarded Bechtel Corp. a $680-million-contract to...

Anyone who watched Aaron Brown on CNN tonight probably felt their stomach churn when they talked of the "rebuilding of Iraq and the ties to Vice-President Cheney." But the report in fact exonerated Cheney.... First, after showing leftist prostestors who have now taken this (Cheney/Haliburton/Iraq rebuilding) as their cause several things were pointed out: -Cheney's salary of $150K from Haliburton, which is deferred, has nothing to do with company performance. -the VP has no say in the handing out of wartime contracts to corporations. -it is occupational suicide for any corporate leader to try and call in favors from the...

<p>The Cheney Innuendo The media and Democrats gin up a phony Halliburton scandal.</p> <p>Democrats in Congress purport to be troubled over Halliburton's accounting when Dick Cheney was CEO, even threatening to hold televised hearings. Well, maybe they should. If they're serious, the Members would have to probe the nuances both of asbestos liability and of what the green eye-shades call "percentage of completion" accounting.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 1996 promotional videotape has surfaced that features Dick Cheney praising Arthur Andersen LLP for going above and beyond routine audits for the company he ran for five years.</p> <p>The oil services firm the vice president once headed, Halliburton Co., is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the way it accounted for cost overruns on construction jobs during Cheney's tenure. Cheney and the company were sued on Tuesday by a watchdog group alleging fraudulent accounting practices, a suit the White House dismissed as lacking merit.</p>

                                                    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                                                       NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS                                                                    DALLAS DIVISION     STEPHEN S. STEPHENS, LYLE LIONBARGER AND DEANNA J. LIONBARGER as trustees for the LW & Deanna J. Lionbarger Family Trust Dated 06/25/96, Plaintiffs, v. HALLIBURTON COMPANY, D/B/AHALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES;RICHARD B. CHENEY; DAVID J. LESAR; RAY L. HUNT; ROBERT L. CRANDALL; CHARLES J. DIBONA; LAWRENCE S. EAGLEBURGER; WILLIAM R. HOWELL; JAMES LANDIS MARTIN; JAY A. PRECOURT; CECIL J. SILAS; DOUGLAS L. FOSHEE; JERRY H. BLURTON; CEDRIC BURGHER; ROBERT CHARLES MUCHMORE, JR.; ANDERSEN;ANDERSEN WORLDWIDE;ARTHUR ANDERSEN, LLP;TERRENCE EDWARD HATCHETT;and DOES 1-20, inclusive, Defendants.___________________________________                                        Civil Action No.  COMPLAINT; DEMAND FOR JURY...

It is time that we march on Washington!!!! We need to gather as we did in Oct. 1998 for the March For Justice, where thousands of us gathered at the Washington Monument. Why? to demand an accounting from the Congress and the Senate on the monies (our Taxes) that they are spending. We are the shareholders of this country. There are salaries being paid to people in Washington who are not contributing to the upholding of our Constitution. Money is being spent without the "Shareholders Aproval" It is time we demanded to know where our money goes, how it is...

Suit Claims Fraud by Cheney, Oil Co. Wed Jul 10,10:41 AM ET By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) - A watchdog group on Wednesday sued Vice President Dick Cheney ( news - web sites) and Halliburton Co., the oil services company he ran for five years, based on allegations of accounting fraud. Photos Reuters Photo   Washington-based Judicial Watch filed a shareholder lawsuit against Cheney and Halliburton, alleging that the accounting fraud led to shareholder losses. The lawsuit claims Halliburton overstated revenues by $445 million from 1999 through the end of 2001. "Halliburton overstated profits that many American...