Yes, this is how crazy it gets!
Up until Dick Cheney became our VP, his company, Halliburton's Dresser subsidaries did business with Iraq, Iran and Libya under agreements he made as the CEO of Halliburton.
Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense under Bush The Senior when the Gulf War took place.
So, as The Secretary of Defense he bombed the heck out of Iraq.
Well, business is business.
So when you bomb an oil facility, who is the best one to come in and rebuild it?
You got it.
Dick Cheney and his company Halliburton.
Who is our current VP under Bush The Younger?
(I know it sounds like an insane script).
And who ran the company of Halliburton until he became our VP?
Dick Cheney!!!!!
Who has been doing business with Binladin and the Chinese and Japanese to get the gas and oil shipped to them from Turkmenistan?
Halliburton!!!!!
Here are the articles detailing Hallibuton's illegal deals with Iraq, Iran and Libya.
I will have to reproduce it in full since I have it from WSJ.
What will follow is another article from WSJ fron last February showing Cheney heading a Halliburton office in Iran, then an article dated 4 days before 911 about Halliburton getting a HUGE contract to build a gas facility in Japan.
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Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said; Affiliates Had $73 Million in Contracts
Colum Lynch
06/23/2001
The Washington Post
FINAL
Page A01
UNITED NATIONS -- During last year's presidential campaign, Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.
"Iraq's different," he said.
According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based company.
Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries say that, as far as they knew, there was no policy against doing business with Iraq. One of the executives also says that although he never spoke directly to Cheney about the Iraqi contracts, he is certain Cheney knew about them.
Mary Matalin, Cheney's counselor, said that if he "was ever in a conversation or meeting where there was a question of pursuing a project with someone in Iraq, he said, 'No.' "
"In a joint venture, he would not have reviewed all their existing contracts," Matalin said. "The nature of those joint ventures was that they had a separate governing structure, so he had no control over them."
The trade was perfectly legal. Indeed, it is a case study of how U.S. firms routinely use foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures to avoid the opprobrium of doing business with Baghdad, which does not violate U.S. law as long as it occurs within the "oil-for-food" program run by the United Nations.
Halliburton's trade with Iraq was first reported by The Washington Post in February 2000. But U.N. records recently obtained by The Post show that the dealings were more extensive than originally reported and than Vice President Cheney has acknowledged.
As secretary of defense in the first Bush administration, Cheney helped to lead a multinational coalition against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War and to devise a comprehensive economic embargo to isolate Saddam Hussein's government. After Cheney was named in 1995 to head Halliburton, he promised to maintain a hard line against Baghdad.
But in 1998, Cheney oversaw Halliburton's acquisition of Dresser Industries Inc., which exported equipment to Iraq through two subsidiaries of a joint venture with another large U.S. equipment maker, Ingersoll-Rand Co.
The subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad through French affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, U.N. records show. Ingersoll Dresser Pump also signed contracts -- later blocked by the United States -- to help repair an Iraqi oil terminal that U.S.-led military forces destroyed in the Gulf War.
Former executives at the subsidiaries said they had never heard objections -- from Cheney or any other Halliburton official -- to trading with Baghdad.
"Halliburton and Ingersoll-Rand, as far as I know, had no official policy about that, other than we would be in compliance with applicable U.S. and international laws," said Cleive Dumas, who oversaw Ingersoll Dresser Pump's business in the Middle East, including Iraq.
Halliburton's primary concern, added Ingersoll-Rand's former chairman, James E. Perrella, "was that if we did business with [the Iraqi regime], that it be allowed by the United States government. If it wasn't allowed, we wouldn't do it."
Dumas and Perrella said their companies' commercial links to the Iraqi oil industry began before the U.N. Security Council imposed an oil embargo on Baghdad in the wake of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
They returned to dealing with Iraq after the council established the "oil-for-food" program in December 1996, permitting Iraq to export oil under U.N. supervision and use the proceeds to buy food, medicine and humanitarian goods. The program was expanded in 1998 to allow Iraq to import spare parts for its oil facilities.
The Halliburton subsidiaries joined dozens of American and foreign oil supply companies that helped Iraq increase its crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18 billion in 2000. Since the program began, Iraq has exported oil worth more than $40 billion.
The proceeds funded a sharp increase in the country's nutritional standards, nearly doubling the food rations distributed to Iraq's poor.
But U.S. and European officials acknowledged that the expanded production also increased Saddam Hussein's capacity to siphon off money for weapons, luxury goods and palaces. Security Council diplomats estimate that Iraq may be skimming off as much as 10 percent of the proceeds from the oil-for-food program.
Cheney has offered contradictory accounts of how much he knew about Halliburton's dealings with Iraq. In a July 30, 2000, interview on ABC-TV's "This Week," he denied that Halliburton or its subsidiaries traded with Baghdad.
"I had a firm policy that we wouldn't do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal," he said. "We've not done any business in Iraq since U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq in 1990, and I had a standing policy that I wouldn't do that."
Cheney modified his response in an interview on the same program three weeks later, after he was informed that a Halliburton spokesman had acknowledged that Dresser Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump traded with Iraq.
He said he was unaware that the subsidiaries were doing business with the Iraqi regime when Halliburton purchased Dresser Industries in September 1998.
"We inherited two joint ventures with Ingersoll-Rand that were selling some parts into Iraq ," Cheney explained, "but we divested ourselves of those interests."
The divestiture, however, was not immediate. The firms traded with Baghdad for more than a year under Cheney, signing nearly $30 million in contracts before he sold Halliburton's 49 percent stake in Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. in December 1999 and its 51 percent interest in Dresser Rand to Ingersoll-Rand in February 2000, according to U.N. records.
Perrella said he believes Halliburton officials must have known about the Iraqi links before they purchased Dresser. "They obviously did due diligence," he said.
And even if Cheney was not told about the business with Baghdad before the purchase, Perrella said, the CEO almost certainly would have learned about it after the acquisition. "Oh, definitely, he was aware of the business," Perrella said, although Perrella conceded that this was an assumption based on knowledge of how the company worked, not a fact to which he could personally attest because he never discussed the Iraqi contracts with Cheney.
A long-time critic of unilateral U.S. sanctions, which he has argued penalize American companies while failing to punish the targeted regimes, Cheney has pushed for a review of U.S. policy toward countries such as Iraq, Iran and Libya.
In the first expression of that new thinking, the Bush administration is campaigning in the U.N. Security Council to end an 11-year embargo on sales of civilian goods, including oil-related equipment, to Iraq.
U.S. officials say the new policy is aimed at easing restrictions on companies that conduct legitimate trade with Iraq, while clamping down on weapons smuggling and other black-market activity.
If the plan is approved, there would be "nothing to stop Iraq from importing [as many] oil spare parts as it needs" from Halliburton and other suppliers, according to a British official who briefed reporters on the proposal when it was introduced last month.
Cheney resigned as chairman of Halliburton last August. Although he has retained stock options worth about $8 million, he has arranged to donate to charity any profits from the eventual exercise of those options, Glover Weiss said.
Confidential U.N. documents show that Halliburton's affiliates have had broad, and sometimes controversial, dealings with the Iraqi regime.
For instance, the documents detail more than $2.5 million in contracts between Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. and Iraq that were blocked by the Clinton administration. They included agreements by the firm to sell $760,000 in spare parts, compressors and firefighting equipment to refurbish an offshore oil terminal, Khor al Amaya.
The Persian Gulf terminal was badly damaged during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War and later was destroyed by allied warplanes during Operation Desert Storm. At the time, Cheney was secretary of defense.
Washington halted the sale because the facility was "not authorized under the oil-for-food deal," according to U.N. documents. Under the terms of the oil-for-food program, Baghdad is permitted to export crude oil, subject to U.N. supervision, through only two terminals, Ceyhan in Turkey and Mina al Bakr on the Persian Gulf.
The equipment was never delivered to Iraq, but Baghdad subsequently repaired the Khor al Amaya facility on its own.
A senior Iraqi oil ministry official, Faiz Shaheen, told an official Iraqi newspaper that Iraq would soon be able to export about 600,000 barrels a day of crude oil from the terminal.
Dumas said he was not aware of the dispute over the Khor al Amaya terminal. It was unlikely, he added, that Cheney or other top Halliburton executives would have known about the specific deals. "We had great independence in running our business," he said.
U.S. officials say the Bush administration is prepared to allow Iraq to resume exports from Khor al Amaya, as long as the earnings are placed in a U.N. escrow account that is used to pay for humanitarian supplies and further improvements to the oil industry.
"The U.S. attitude towards Iraqi exports has evolved considerably," said James A. Placke, a Washington-based analyst for Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consulting firm. "They used to tightly restrict Iraqi oil exports, and now there is no limitation on Iraqi exports."
Iraq's power to entice foreign investment, meanwhile, has increased with the soaring demand for oil. U.S. companies, which have been able to trade with Iraq only through foreign subsidiaries and middlemen, are wary of dealing with Baghdad but eager to get a piece of the action, according to industry sources.
"The American oil industry is very interested in trying to enter Iraq," said J. Robinson West, chairman of Petroleum Finance Co., a consulting firm. "But I think that they are quite respectful of U.S. policy towards Saddam Hussein. There is a very strong feeling that in fact he is the greatest threat to oil production in the Middle East."
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Contact: http://www.washingtonpost.com
Also basically same information at:
http://www.spotlight.org/01_05_01/Cheney_Profits_from_Iraq_Deals/cheney_profits_from_iraq_deals.html
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Halliburton
Connected to
Office in Iran
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Firm Cheney Headed
Says It Doesn't Breach
U.S. Sanctions Law
By Wall Street Journal staff reporters Hugh Pope in Tehran , Iran, and Neil King Jr. in Washington
02/01/2001
The Wall Street Journal
Page A17
Halliburton Co., the U.S. oil-services giant until recently headed by Vice President Richard Cheney , has opened an office in Tehran and operated in Iran in possible violation of U.S. sanctions.
Since 1995, U.S. laws have banned most American commerce with Iran. Halliburton Products and Services Ltd. works behind an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is "non-American." But, like the sign over the receptionist's head, the brochure bears the Dallas company's name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world.
Mr. Cheney 's spokesman, Juleanna Glover-Weiss, declined to comment, except to say that "the vice president is no longer head of Halliburton and has severed all ties to the company."
But a U.S. official said a Halliburton office in Tehran would violate at least the spirit of American law. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control declined to comment on a specific company, referring inquiries to a Web site summary of Iran sanctions that bans almost all U.S. trade and investment with Iran, specifically in oil services. The Web site adds: "No U.S. person may approve or facilitate the entry into or performance of transactions or contracts with Iran by a foreign subsidiary of a U.S. firm that the U.S. person is precluded from performing directly. Similarly, no U.S. person may facilitate such transactions by unaffiliated foreign persons."
An executive order signed by President Clinton in March 1995 prohibits "new investments [in Iran] by U.S. persons, including commitment of funds or other assets." It also bars U.S. companies from performing services "that would benefit the Iranian oil industry." Violation of the order can result in fines of as much as $500,000 for companies and up to 10 years in jail for individuals.
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said the Tehran office didn't violate the Treasury Department's restrictions on foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms operating in Iran.
"This is not breaking any laws," Ms. Hall said. "This is a foreign subsidiary and no U.S. person is involved in this. No U.S. person is facilitating any transaction. We are not performing directly in that country." Ms. Hall suggested that other companies were performing in a similar fashion in Iran but did not elaborate.
The Halliburton brochure in Tehran says the company has performed oil-drilling services on two offshore drilling contracts in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf. One is the Sirri field, being developed by France's TotalFinaElf SA, and the other is Phase 1 of the South Pars field, being developed by an Iranian company. "We are committed to position ourselves in a market that offers huge growth potential," it says.
Halliburton's Tehran subsidiary opened nearly a year ago, workers in the building said. At that time Mr. Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive officer. He was such an outspoken critic of U.S. sanctions policy that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott related last week that Mr. Cheney once called him "to complain vigorously about how we handle sanctions, unilateral sanctions, and what it was doing to undermine the ability of American companies to be competitive."
U.S. companies feel left behind in the race to develop Iran's 90 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, about 9% of the world's total, and its natural-gas reserves, the second largest in the world. TotalFinaElf, Italy's ENI SpA and Asian companies have meanwhile ignored U.S. sanctions to sign up a potential $8 billion in deals since Iran opened up its oil industry to foreign investment in 1998.
Iranians are convinced that the new Republican administration in Washington will soon relax a policy that has crippled their economy for years. Already last year, Washington allowed renewed imports of Iranian carpets, pistachio nuts and caviar. In January, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.S. Senate that "differences need not preclude greater interaction, whether in more normal commerce or increased dialogue."
A January meeting in New York brought together Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and the chiefs of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Conoco Inc. "The [Iranian] oil ministry is even keeping certain fields back for the [U.S.] majors ... and is encouraging them very much," said Rocky Ansari, managing partner of Tehran legal advisers Cyrus Omron International. "A huge amount of investment is necessary for Iran to renovate the industry. That cannot only come from Europe."
Foreign Minister Kharrazi told the Iranian national news agency IRNA in January that the time is right for the U.S. to "rectify" its policies. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi likewise told an Iranian newspaper that there was a good opportunity for change and that Iran would give an "appropriate response" if the U.S. lifts sanctions.
"It's in our interest, as well as America's. We can buy anything we want via Europe. But they know we can't get it from America, so it's more expensive for us," said one senior Iranian official.
The official said Iran's mainstream conservative and reformist factions agreed on the basic need to restore relations broken after Iranian students seized 52 Americans in 1979 and held them hostage in the former U.S. Embassy for 444 days. Both Iranian factions agreed on what would be said when reformist President Mohammed Khatami appealed for an end to the wall of mistrust between the U.S. and Iran shortly after his election in 1997.
The Iranian official said Iran was subsequently upset by U.S. "preconditions" about discussing American allegations of Iranian backing of terrorism, nuclear programs and opposition to the Middle East peace process. But he hoped for a new beginning if Mr. Khatami was re-elected president in June.
A U.S. official in Washington said the U.S. was keen to sit down to talk with Iranian representatives "anytime, anywhere," but that Iran refuses to meet unless the U.S. puts aside all of its differences with Iranian policies.
"It is absurd to say that we have imposed conditions upon any dialogue with Tehran ," the official said. "But at the same time, we're not going to enter into a bargain with Iran that would have us agreeing to set aside all the issues that separate us in order to begin to talk."
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Alexei Barrionuevo in Houston contributed to this article.
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Halliburton , JGC Win Contract
09/07/2001
The Wall Street Journal
Page A8
DALLAS -- Halliburton Co.'s Kellogg Brown & Root unit, in a joint venture with JGC Corp. of Yokohama, Japan, won an engineering-design contract for a Shell Gas & Power gas-to-liquids plant.
Financial terms weren't disclosed, but Shell, a unit of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, said the contract was "worth tens of millions of dollars." The plant, whose location hasn't been determined, will convert gas to liquids free of aromatics and sulfur.
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: The importance of the continued unraveling of the BushLaden
: scandal is not simply to expose a single example of current
: corruption. The unraveling of this tangled web opens the
: way to see into the core of corruption that is threatening
: the very existence of the United States of America as
: defined by The Constitution and The Bill of Rights.
: I am seeing history repeat itself in the most uncanny ways.
: In fact, the same families, businesses and agendas show up
: again and again.
: This long-running play, now featured in Afghanistan involving
: the oil companies has been running for the entire last
: century. The families simply replace the actors with
: younger family members and update the costumes.
: The family traditional businesses have been passed down from
: the British Empire in the name of their GOD, (Gold, Oil,
: Drugs), through imperialistic policies enforced by their
: favorite business, arms; in polite company known as “the
: defense industry”.
: In the meantime the American public has lost the plot.
: Will America also become a lost plot?
: Will there come a time when those who dare to speak of the
: United States of America as defined by The Constitution and
: The Bill of Rights be considered a threat to The Homeland
: Security and be silenced?
: See and Speak America, while you can.
: Hopefully, one day soon it will be appreciated that the oil
: outside of our country is not ours.
: We do not have the right to go in and manipulate foreign
: governments and kill their civilians to obtain their
: resource.
: Perhaps it will be seen that our current leaders are in fact
: simply heads of transnational corporations who pursue a
: global power.
: These “American” leaders are willing to send American citizens
: to die for their sick agendas.
: Our “American” leaders are in fact selling America out.
: The current series of meetings with China and Russia have
: nothing to do with stopping global terrorism; they are all
: about their Family businesses.
: In fact, all the wars in the middle east have been about the
: same thing.
: This illegal war is the latest Terrorist Attack commanded by a
: few who dare to call themselves our leaders.
: While I can speak I will dare call this treason.
: OK, we know that a large part of the agenda for our current
: presense in Afghanistan has to do with oil and gas.
: The Caspian Sea region with its vast oil and gas reserves has
: been the scene of a “feeding frenzy” with many oil
: companies jockeying for position.
: The pipeline projects going west to Europe have been been
: sorted out through The Balkan Wars.
: The most profitable and outrageous U.S. “Silk Road” projects
: originate in Turkmenistan and are to get natural gas and
: oil to China and Japan.
: THE LASTEST INFORMATION VERIFYING THIS IS AS FOLLOWS: BATEMAN,
: A SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANY, USING AMERICAN MONEY AND WORKING
: WITH A HALLIBURTON COMPANY, HAS JUST FINISHED A GAS
: COMPRESSION PLANT IN TURKMENISTAN!!!
: Bateman Project Holdings Ltd., (BATEMAN), is not a native
: South African company; the board members and executives are
: mostly German with some Israelis and British.
: The plant was started in 1998 and opened as scheduled this
: month.
: It may only be coincidence that the U.S. had plans prior to
: 911 to invade Afghanistan in October.
: The gas compressing equipment was supplied by Dresser-Rand, a
: Halliburton company until it was sold for $536 million last
: year.
: Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton until he became the VP.
: BATEMAN has merged with U.S. companies and has many global
: projects including in the U. S. and Columbia. Besides their
: usual energy and mineral joint projects, one involves water
: processing plants here in the U.S., a plan to soon sell us
: water!
: From their website with photos under BATEMAN GLOBE 23:
: “Besides acting as the main contractor for the project,
: BATEMAN was also instrumental in making the financial
: arrangements covering 100 % of the project cost. In the
: process, several ‘firsts’ were established, as this was the
: first time that the Export-Import Bank of the United States
: (Ex-Im) financed a gas transaction in Turkmenistan and that
: Ex-Im entered into a joint financing agreement with the
: credit agencies of Israel (IFTRIC) and the Czechoslovakian
: Republic (EGAP) for a project in Central Asia.”
: http://www.bateman.co.za/go.htm
: In 1998, the U. S. financed a feasibility study for the then
: U.K. company Mobil, along with Halliburton and Exxon to do
: projects in Turkmenistan.
: Mobil and Exxon have since merged.
: http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntc82686.htm
: The Halliburton company, Brown and Root, has been involved in
: the Turkmenistan pipeline projects since at least 1995.
: Since then as well, Exxon has been reported to be working with
: China and Japan on Turkmenistan pipeline projects.
: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/RESOURCES/CASPIAN/inf_p53.html
: http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/country/000801txener.htm
: There are other articles about Exxon and Halliburton working
: with China and Japan on U.S. funded oil and gas projects
: out of Turkmenistan but I can only access them through the
: WSJ’s Dow Jones Publication Library. If someone wants them
: I can copy and post.
: Exxon also sold off on of it’s oil field ventures to an
: Israeli company, Bara Group Ltd. (C.BAR). So again, we see
: the involvement of Israel.
: Please keep in mind this oil and gas is to go to China and
: Japan.
: There is also an article at WSJ from last year with a very
: interesting title describing how many gas companies have
: been in China to make deals for the expected LNG (liquified
: natural gas), demand. It is: SLOW BOATS MAY SOON BE ON THE
: WAY TO CHINA FOR NEW OPIUM.
: Here on RMNs, UselessEater reported the U.S. joint Oil and Gas
: Industry Forum met in 1998 in Beijing and 1999 in Houston.
: http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=12380
: The BBC Monitoring (again from WSJ) reported another meeting
: involving China and Japan about Turkmenistan oil and gas in
: Houston in May of 2000.
: In fact, there is a Special Advisor to the President and
: Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy. In a
: speech in December 1998, he said some very revealing things
: about “U.S. energy policy” in the Caspian Sea region.
: “The fundamental objective of U.S. policy in the Caspian,
: therefore, is
: not simply to build oil and gas pipelines. Rather, it is to
: use those
: pipelines, which must be commercially viable, as tools for
: establishing a political and economic framework that will
: strengthen
: regional cooperation and stability and encourage reform for
: the next
: several decades.”
: …” In addition to serving as an honest broker of these sorts
: of
: discussions, the U.S. Government views its proper role with
: respect to
: Caspian pipelines as a catalyst on financing through our trade
: finance
: and investment agencies. Last May, we announced our Caspian
: Sea
: Initiative, an unprecedented effort by the U.S. Government's s
: three
: finance and investment agencies, the Trade and Development
: Agency
: (TDA), the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and
: EXIM
: Bank, to coordinate their efforts to promote investment in
: energy
: projects throughout the Caspian region. The first major step
: in this
: effort was TDA's launching last June of a feasibility study
: for a
: trans-Caspian gas pipeline. In October, TDA announced a new
: grant of
: $823,000 to BOTAS, the Turkish pipeline consortium, for U.S.
: technical
: assistance. The grant will allow BOTAS to gain access to U.S.
: expertise on technical, financial, environmental, and legal
: matters
: associated with negotiation of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline
: and the
: trans-Caspian gas pipeline. TDA, OPIC, and EXIM Bank are also
: opening
: a Caspian Trade and Investment Finance Center in Ankara. The
: Center,
: staffed by representatives of the three U.S. Government trade
: finance
: agencies, will spearhead U.S. efforts to mobilize financing
: for
: projects in the region. Congress also has underscored its
: support for
: the Caspian Sea Initiative by including language in this
: year's report
: language for the Foreign Operations Act that encourages OPIC
: to raise
: its internal limits on participation in Caspian energy
: projects,
: subject to normal due diligence and prudent underwriting
: practices.”
: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/morning.htm
:
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: Well, as I mentioned, history repeats itself in the most
: uncanny ways.
: Exxon, now Exxon Mobil, is the company formerly known as John
: D. Rockerfeller’s Standard Oil.
: Standard Oil has a very interesting history on 2 counts.
: It was the first company able to give businesses the same
: rights as individuals.
: A very important issue that our forefathers, who wrote The
: Declaration of Independence, had with England was British
: Crown Companies.
: To avoid this situation, in the U.S., a corporation was
: granted a charter by a State. The State had the right to
: revoke the Charter if the corporation was shown to be
: harmful to State or citizen.
: Back in the early part of the century, New York refused to
: grant Standard Oil a charter. So they went over to New
: Jersey and got one and then got the laws changed in court
: to give a corporation the same rights as an individual.
: Later Standard Oil was cited with violations against The
: Trading with the Enemy Act for continuing to supply
: Hitler’s Germany with oil during WWII.
: Oddly enough so was the Harriman company, that became Root and
: Brown, a Halliburton company.
: The Harriman family along with W. Bush’s grandfather ran the
: Harriman company.
: Halliburton was Cheney’s company.
: For some of the Standard Oil history of Exxon and article
: titled: EXXON UNLEASHED: How the world’s most powerful
: corporation plans to dominate the new age of oil
: exploration. See: http://www.businessweek.com
: :/print/magazine/content/01_15/b3727001.htm?mainwindow
: For the connections to Hilter and WW II see: BUSH FAMILY
: HISTORY OF TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
: http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=12439
: For more history about Standard Oil see:
: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/energy.htm
: For an exquisite account of the ANCIENT HISTORY of the
: corrosive effect of the corrupt oil corporations on the
: government of the United States see:
: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-159.html
: Phoenix
