STICKY POST
Saturday, 31. October 2009, 01:14:56
evil, abomination, Multi-National Corporations, oil companies
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1. Starbucks
2. Microsoft
3.
WalMart4. The Gap Corporation (including The Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic-- I suppose they think the last name is supposed to be funny)
5. AT&T
6.
Whole Foods (abominable labor practices under the pretext of being "cool")
7.
Nike8. GATT (General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs), which effectively negates the sovereignty of Nations (with their annoying labor, quality & environmental regulations) and allows nations to be sued for enforcing those regulations on other nations which choose to ignore socially/environmentally/etc. conscious manufacturing practices
9. Wells Fargo (who however, because of their entirely ruthless banking practices, will undoubtedly turn out to be the "Last Bank Standing")
10. Oil companies in general:
Exxon,
Chevron,
11.
De Beers (blood diamond trade)12. Halliburton - a.)
After Democrats take control of Congress in January, 2007 (after sweeping into office in the November, 2006 elections on the failure of (primarily) ex-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney's disasterous policy decision to invade Iraq, and handing nearly trillions of dollars of no-bid contrats to his old company, those patriotic souls at Halliburton turn tail and move their base of operations out of the US, to their welcoming tax haven (heaven) of United Arab Emirates in Dubai.
b.)
selling nukes to Iran;
this list to grow as I add (probably perpetually) to the list
Saturday, 31. October 2009, 05:58:50
Merchants of Death, evil, Iran, Halliburton
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Halliburton "sold nuclear technology to Iran"Senate hearing on foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies dealing with IranHalliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish
as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. This clip shows Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) grilling Sherry Williams, V.P. and Corporate Secretary for Halliburton about the company's deplorable ethics and questionable practices.
Sunday, 24. June 2007, 21:29:20
corporate hegemony, debate, Iraq War, Halliburton
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Yesterday, when I put up the post about the alleged "PC" handbag, the was a (festival? gathering? contrived military recruitment installation?) to "support the troops" going on across the street. Several military recruiters had tents set up...
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