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.
Saturday, 21. February 2009, 04:54:10
secret bank accounts, tax havens, class war, business as usual
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One of the things you learn in History class when you're growing up, is how Switzerland remained at peace through two world wars because they remained
neutral through those conflicts, and rarely does anyone bother to ask: if that strategy could have worked,
why didn't anyone else think of that strategy? That view is absolute nonsense, and if anyone bothers to question this, they are given an equally nebulous answer about how noone wants to take on the Swiss army-- like they are some crack Moussad-type outfit-- and there's absolutely no way of telling what kind of army they have because
they haven't fought a single war in at least a century! There's usually some vague, muttered reference to Swiss Army Knives, like an army of lederhosen-clad über-warriors brandishing corkscrews are going to drive off a German blitzkrieg!
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