A few examples confined just to Halliburton Company involving alleged seriously "bad acts" could be expected to help inform readers' understanding as to the brothers-in-arms (literally) as well as the public and not so public evident dominance of Halliburton whether formal or informal very often by former CEO and Chairman of the Board Dick "Pigheart" Cheney in deference to his corporate and political power, degree of cunning persistence, depth of ruthlessness and seemingly unbounded capacity for depravity should anything like a person, law, nation or necessary war to destroy it (other than its oil producing assets) in any way dare interfere with an enormous need for the fulfillment of rank greed and power to the lowest insatiable level.
As to its apparent unflagging intensity it almost seems akin (but completely contrary to) the drive to achieve a near unconquerable lofty goal of perceived monumental human greatness one feels the draw of destiny to accomplish ultimately to give thanks and express gratitude, but he here somehow rather instead drilling ever downward into some filthy black muck rather than soaring ever higher to help all humankind finally to accomplish the distant promise of the greatest of gifts fulfilled. But with such will instead buttressed by a malevolent crumbling foundation of corruption it is destined for a wretched collapse from the shattered individual up to its entire global enterprise with an unimaginable (and unacknowledged) capacity for "collateral damage" to both the innocents (and not so innocents) caught up in what to some is a seemingly clearly scripted course for disaster producing tragedy of potentially apocalyptic proportions for an untold and often largely unpredictable population of all inhabitants of the Earth expected and not.
The first of just a few instances of Halliburton Company's frequent proximity to controversial events of catastrophic proportions raised here is the disaster of the "Deepwater Horizon" deep sea drilling platform series of explosions and the resulting loss of human and other life and as well as the viability of a huge body of water that this world cannot afford to have threatened, harmed nor killed resulting in extensive persistent pollution (often hidden by the "BP cleanup" by mixing it with the notorious toxin Corexit which mixes with oil only to form a more toxic semi-solid layer of poison hovering just feet below the surface where regulators cannot so readily see it) in the Gulf of Mexico and much of its coastline. Halliburton Company in the "Deepwater Horizon" case ended up paying out $1.1 billion to settle litigants' claims against it.
The Wikipedia entry linked to below is an excellent source of material on allegations of and subsequent action on several further deeply troubling and distressing events which can be read about in more detail there continuing with Halliburton Company coming to take a leading role as a federal contractor with Dick "Pigheart" Cheney having assumed the Vice President of The United States position. In the run-up to the allegedly long planned invasion of Iraq with Cheney's avid support before the United States even invaded Iraq in 20003 Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract described as unusual as no one else was allowed to bid. Cheney had been CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995-2000, retired from the company with a $36 million severance package during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election which miraculously landed both he and not really elected "President" George "little shrub" Bush in their respective positions despite their ticket having won neither the popular nor electoral vote. Cheney's Halliburton severance was later "augmented" by Halliburton amounting to almost another $40 million by 2004.
Cheney reportedly stayed in frequent contact with Halliburton management according to some sources which meanwhile was the subject of a variety of continuing complaints now focusing more on allegations of Halliburton's demands of favoritism, special treatment and the like since Cheney took public office. Too lengthy to list here but worthwhile for background on Blackwater featured in this story because of its apparent close ties with and even possible growing out of some elements of Halliburton in some form like another former Halliburton subsidiary KBR which among other things was charged with having committed 38 rapes of women in boxcars and having left them their for 24 hours with no food or water.
Meanwhle when BP brought claims that Halliburton had destroyed documentation demonstrating Halliburton's responsibility for the "Deepwater Horizon" tragedy Halliburton subsequently was found guilty of destroying evidence. Later yet the Nigerian government brought corruption charges in 2010 against the ever-busy Cheney and Halliburton which were settled by Halliburton for $250 million. Beyond this but not limited to it readers may also be interested to know that the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database details 10 instances since 1995 of Halliburton misconduct in this regard resulting in penalty payments of $791 million per offense. Also a further 22 such instances of misconduct have been determined to relate to former Halliburton Company subsidiary KBR.
The Ninth Amendment because of the longstanding conduct of Cheney and related often intertwined companies believes it important to share with readers the background culture of Blackwater ("Blackdeath") which after several name changes to relatively threatening names in the wake of lawsuits finally began changing its name to shall we say less laden more or less forgettable names in the wake of a large numbers of charges, lawsuits and presumably settlements at least at locations not fully known but most likely spanning the globe. In another post previously reported here Blackdeath at one point was even given embassy security duties always traditionally the positions manned by marines.
In Pakistan Blackdeath was performing outdoor "crowd control" which they accomplished by beating U.S. visa applicants with billy clubs as they tried to stand in line waiting to get in the embassy to apply for visas. Later local police arrested the Blackdeath contractors and took them back to their "business office" where they were charged with keeping a large stash of illegal (even in Pakistan) arms including blackjacks, sawed-off shotguns and similar thuggery weapons. An older Ninth Amendment post based on recent information at the time examined reports that Cheney in his Blackdeath and related and subsequently named business endeavors had managed to assemble one of the largest private security forces in the world often comprised of felons, early release prisoners, killers and large numbers of skilled or at least willing fighters and veterans with mercenaries and similar types as well filling its ranks.
In any case please refer for detailed accounts of the trial that finally took place after an amazing series of U.S. prosecutorial blunders such as letting the statute of limitations for bringing charges lapse such that the prosecution had to be saved by a murder charge to the New York Times article and BBC report linked to below. Blackdeath to our knowledge came to prominence not surprisingly with Cheney achieving high office and access to U.S. Government funds which apparently were quite soon put to use at first reportedly preparing for the American military by building sub-standard housing, providing sub-standard meals and building aircraft runways that cracked apart on U.S. planes arriving on them in Iraq. Cheney's preferred method of payment as previously reported here was $100 bills wrapped and lowered on pallets from helicopters. In any case as these non-professionals became "security services" the incident which brought some of these actors to justice clearly demonstrates their unfitness and inappropriateness for such jobs that should properly be done by trained U.S. servicepeople.
Together with a reported predisposition in their Blackdeath culture that was "anti-Iraqi" although the United States and later some of the U.S. dutiful reluctant partners that showed up on behalf of the United Nations were reportedly there to "help" (the U.N. Building not built purposely inside the "Green Zone" subsequently tragically was destroyed by a truck bomb which with it killed the former Argentinian Secretary-General of The United Nations) on the day of the incident in question in the trial reported on here the Blackdeath security group for some reason heavily armed killed 14 Iraqi men, women and children stuck in a traffic intersection with "Guard" Slaten the sniper and the use by "Guards" Liberty, Slough and Heard of weapons including rocket propelled grenades and machine guns while the American military watched in apparent horror. Under United States law the use of a machine gun in the commission of a violent crime carries a mandatory thirty (30) year prison sentence. The attached BBC link reportedly includes some of the footage of the murders that took place that day.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29727314
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton
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