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Woman Who Claims Sexual Assault Wins $3 Million From Former Halliburton Division

ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Woman says U.S. gov. employee assaulted her in Iraq; feds refused to prosecute.

Halliburton Must Pay Rape Victim $3 Million

Red vs. Blue Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case. Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc., its former parent company Halliburton and several affiliates in May 2007, claiming she was sexually attacked by a State Department employee while working as a civilian contractor in...

Max Baucus and War-Profiteers

publishaletter.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Dear Editor: Please do a story on the contributions Senator Max Baucus of Montana receives from lobbyists in the healthcare and other industries, so that your readers will know why he votes the way he does, putting profits before people. He seems to be one of the most corrupt politicians we have seen in recent times but his conflicts or interest are rarely highlighted in the media. I'd also like to...

Need A Reason To Drink Pepsi? Here's 10 Trillion.....Coca-Cola leads cheering section for 1-world climate change taxes

Chicagoray (Free subscription) | yesterday

All of a sudden the world's liberals love being in bed with those mean old dastardly corporations they supposedly hate so much when they get on board with one of their pet causes, then for them it's all "water under the bridge" for these people, who would sell their grandmothers and their souls to move their agenda of neutering the US. They would cuddle up to freakin' Halliburton if they...

Rape victim upset KBR trying to modify $3M arbitration award

Raw Story (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated Press reports. "It took me a long time to get here. I'm happy about the award," she told [...]

Can We Call Healthcare Reform LOGCAP Instead?

Old Fashioned Patriot (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

LOGCAP III and LOGCAP IV are the contracts given to former Halliburton subsidiary KBR and two other companies. Halliburton's former subsidiary will glean about $80 billion from the two contracts before "bonuses." These multi-year contracts would pay for nearly one year of health care which we are told the nation can't afford. Even poor Dick Cheney has to pay for his healthcare out of his

Who needs IPv6?

Cisco IOS hints and tricks (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

One of the most common questions asked by our enterprise customers is “Who needs IPv6?” Since IPv6 does not add any significant new functionality (apart from larger address space), you can’t gain much by deploying it in an enterprise network … unless you’re huge enough that the private IPv4 address space (RFC 1918) becomes too confining for you. A good case study is Halliburton;...

Gene Lyons: Why Is There Always Money For The Latest War?

Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Gene Lyons in Salon on the myriad forces that insist we can't afford health care, but just as strongly assure us that $6.73 trillion for the war in Afghanistan is perfectly doable. (That's $1 million per soldier, per year.) Go read the whole thing: For all its brutality, the Taliban rebellion is mainly a localized, nationalist effort to expel foreigners -- one reason Gen. McChrystal hopes to be able...

• There’s Always Money for War - Suburban Guerrilla

KBR Rape Victim's Arbitration Award Not So Final Yet

Hair Balls (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Just when it looked as if the legal battle between former KBR contractor Tracy Barker and Halliburton, which used to own KBR, was about to come to a multi-million dollar conclusion, filings made ...

Any Afghan 'Surge' a Snare and a Delusion

Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Given the record of Goldman Sachs (as detailed in McClatchy's five-part series), AIG, Halliburton and other supposedly upright U.S. corporations, it's a tad arrogant to complain about the corruption of other countries. Endemic or not, the wink-wink, nod-nod deals of much of the Third World amount to peanuts when compared with the rip-offs visited on taxpayers, investors and consumers here at home....

Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

HOUSTON - A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle...

• Arbitrator awards nearly $3 million in KBR rape claim - Houston Chronicle
• Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR - Seattle Times
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Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3 million to settle her claims that she was raped in Iraq by a State Department employee in 2005 while working for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary.

Halliburton to do work for Total in Indonesia

The Houston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Halliburton Co. has been awarded a three-year contract by French energy giant Total SA valued at $122 million. (HAL)

Letter to Shareholders from Tremont Fair, Inc.

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following is a letter to shareholders from Cyrus J. Boga, President of Tremont Fair, Inc. Dear Shareholders: I am pleased to announce the following progress made by the company since our last shareholder communication in August. ● In October 2009, Todd Graff joined the company as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Previously, Todd worked for ten years at Halliburton...

Compassionate Conservatism: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Edition

Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Raw Story reports the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent out a mass email asking supporters to lobbying against Amendment 2588 . The legislation forbids the Defense Department from doing business with any contractor that requires "employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims. The amendment was written by Al Franken , in response to Jamie Leigh Jones...