I guess the best client a business could have is the United States government: The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon’s own auditors had identified more than […]
If you ever had any doubt that one reason for going to war in Iraq was to help boot Halliburton then this story from the Post Chronicle might change your mind: Pentagon Spied on Houston Anti-Halliburton Activists by Houston Global Awareness Jan 24, 2006 A Houston-based anti-Halliburton group was spied on by a top-secret Pentagon […]
Yesterday I was sitting here wondering if I should continue one of my year of scam blogs, Helluvaburden. I started it to keep track of all the news surrounding Halliburton’s corruption. For the past couple months there hasn’t been too much news regarding them, then I wake up this morning and realize the debate that […]
An investigative division of the Pentagon has decided to turn the investigation of the no-bid contracts for Iraq, which were awarded to Halliburton over to the Justice Department for a possible criminal probe. The news came from Democratic Senators who have been holding hearings into the alleged contract abuse. The New York Times has more […]
Bill O’Reilly needs to retire. If he does not retire then FOX needs to fire him. He has taken his show, The O’Reilly Factor and turned it further into a partisan smear machine. He has done this by attacking the left wing web sites that disagree with him and has associated them with the Nazi […]
In June of this year, a panel of congressional Democrats held a hearing into the overspending and contracts involving Halliburton. During this hearing, testimony was given by some prominent individuals who are close to the situation. Rory Mayberry, who was a supervisor for Halliburton’s subsidiary Kellogg Root and Brown gave video testimony about rancid food […]
The following is an article that appeared today inAl Jazeera magazine which was original written by the Guardian. It seems to give a very accurate portrayal of what is going on in Iraq and the reasoning for our being there. Not “liberationâ€ÂÂ- An occupation The U.S. needs to put an immediate end to this […]
Whenever you see Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman giving an interview, you can be certain of one thing. At some point he will work in a statement that the Democrats have no vision. This is no shock from a product of the smearster himself – Karl Rove. Today in a Senate committee hearing, Senator […]
A group of veterans back from Iraq and Afghanistan are launching an AD campaign against our administrations lack of care for veterans. This is something well over do. These brave soldiers are sent to do something that none of us would want to do, and return to find their benefits have been cut by a […]
It had some of the atmospheric sense of the hearings that Rep. Conyers held on the Downing Street Memo. The only difference this time is that it was not being held in a basement room of the Capital. It was being held in an actual chamber of Congress. The hearing was however, only attended by […]