More on Bechtel: Bechtel: Oil Gas and Mining http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6671
Bechtel Wins Iraq War Contracts http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6532 Bechtel's Friends in High Places http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6548 Bechtel's Water Wars http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6670 Big Dig, Big Bucks http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6549 Bechtel's Nuclear Nightmares http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6669 Also: A Time to Break Silence: U.S. complicity in Saddam's crimes against humanity http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/time.html Hewlett Packard and Bechtel aided Iraq's WMD Programs http://idaho.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/484.php Daddy Warbucks Bush Pals Get Rich Off Iraq http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0312/mondo1.php The Bidders: Campaign Contributions Since 1999 Bechtel Group Inc. Halliburton Co. Fluor Corp. Parsons Corp. Louis Berger Group Inc. http://www.capitaleye.org/iraqchart.3.12.03.asp Postwar Profiteers How a handful of construction firms got an early invitation to rebuild Iraq. http://www.TomPaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7408 Ultimate Insiders http://www.seen.org/pages/media/20030414_crude_nytimes.shtml Say It Slowly: It Was About Oil http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15748 Which Companies Will Put Iraq Back Together? Bush Post War Plans Amount To History's Biggest Giveaway To Political Buddies nytimes/2003/03/23 http://villagenews.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader$7685 The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12525 How Much Were Bush and Cheney Involved? http://www.alternet.org/letters_ed.html?BulletinID=13 List of US Companies That Sold Weapons Technology to Iraq http://eatthestate.org/07-09/ListCompaniesSold.htm And so on. Best Keith >Icarus Solem wrote: > >>Yes, it seems true. There is a guy named Chris Floyd on the web who has >>been writing about that for some time. Apparently, the fossil fuel lobby >>is behind all these people (even the Gore family has $500,000 + in >>Occidental Petroleum stock), and the Bush Administration >>Cheney-Halliburton, Rice-Chevron, Whitman-Amoco, Bush-Harken (use their >>full names,now) reads like a who's-who - not even bothering to use proxy >>politicians anymore - of the 'Seven Sisters' of Standard Oil. > >Don't forget Rumsfeld: > >http://www.TomPaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7577 > >Rumsfeld's Old Flame > >Everyone's heard of Vice President Dick Cheney's ties to >Halliburton, a company standing on the brink of a bonanza as the >government doles out post-war reconstruction dollars. But not enough >has been revealed about Bechtel, a reported finalist for the first >round of contracts, and its connections to another of the war's >architects: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. It's a sordid little >tale, and one that calls into question the depth of Rumsfeld's >virtuous claims about his intentions to liberate the Iraqis. > >[more] > > >In "Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus >On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein" the Institute for Policy >Studies reveals that the diplomatic pressure from Rumsfeld and the >Reagan administration happened during and despite Hussein's use of >chemical weapons. Behind the scenes, these officials worked for two >years attempting to secure the billion dollar pipeline scheme for >the Bechtel corporation. The Bush/Cheney administration now eyes >Bechtel as a primary contractor for the rebuilding of Iraq's >infrastructure. > >- From: "Rumsfeld Ignored Weapons Of Mass Destruction In Pursuit Of >Oil Pipeline" >http://www.seen.org/pages/reports/crude.shtml > >http://www.ips-dc.org/crudevision/crude_vision.pdf > >>It is the >>old game of global domination and control, based on the world trade in >>fossil fuels, backed up the fact that oil must be traded in dollars. Who >>pays the price? The people of Argentina, the Middle East, Columbia, >>Venezuela, California, etc. > >Closely tied to the military... I've been watching this unfolding >since the 70s, especially after the fall of the Shah of Iran, with >the sneaky step-by-step back-door moves of what was then called the >Rapid Deployment Force to station US troops in Saudi Arabia, finally >accomplished with Gulf War v1, and, I'm certain, a, or even the, >major goal of Gulf War v1. Horrific consequences have been predicted >for 25 years, including by me. Sept 11 fits the bill pretty well. >How much simpler it would have been just to have dealt honestly and >honorably with Mossadeq in Iran in the 50s in the first place, >instead of a sleazy CIA-backed coup to salve the paranoias of the >Seven Sisters. And what a sad and futile path we've all travelled >since then, and still travel now, because of these blind, arrogant, >murderous and downright insane fools. Christians they call >themselves, huh. Three blind monkeys they worship - greed, fear and >hatred. > >http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/ma_273_01.html >MotherJones.com | News > >The Thirty-Year Itch > >Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington's >hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's >oil. Now, with the same strategists firmly in control of the White >House, the Bush administration is playing out their script for >global dominance. >By Robert Dreyfuss >March/April 2003 Issue >P L U S : >Oil and Arms: An In-Depth Look > >If you were to spin the globe and look for real estate critical to >building an American empire, your first stop would have to be the >Persian Gulf. The desert sands of this region hold two of every >three barrels of oil in the world -- Iraq's reserves alone are >equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia, the United States, >China, and Mexico combined. For the past 30 years, the Gulf has been >in the crosshairs of an influential group of Washington >foreign-policy strategists, who believe that in order to ensure its >global dominance, the United States must seize control of the region >and its oil. Born during the energy crisis of the 1970s and refined >since then by a generation of policymakers, this approach is finding >its boldest expression yet in the Bush administration -- which, with >its plan to invade Iraq and install a regime beholden to Washington, >has moved closer than any of its predecessors to transforming the >Gulf into an American protectorate. > >[more] > >>Sometimes two plus two does add up to four. >> >>Unfortunately, people with ties to the US economic system can't seem to >>think beyond the amount of cash in their pockets. The double-blind >>system, where individuals see their 'fund performance' and funds see their >>'companies performance' and CEO's serve their shareholders first, and >>their upper management second, and their lower-level staff and communities >>last...well, this 'double blind' means that the average citizen doesn't >>see the harm done by keeping their money in these funds - which is how >>they like it, not having any moral dilemma to deal with. They don't >>realize that all they are doing is arguing over who gets the first-class >>rooms on the Titanic, while putting all their faith in the captain's >>decisions. Personally, I had my head down in books for years because I >>thought renewables were scientifically sound, and when I couldn't seem to >>make progress within the system, I started to ask why? And the answers >>were most unpleasant... > >Yes, aren't they just... > >Do CEOs serve their shareholders first, or just themselves, these days? > > >What Ronald Sugar [Northrop] also forgot to mention is that as >contracts have been divvied up, defense contractor CEO pay has also >been on the rise: Sugar's pay rose from 7.3 million dollars in 2000 >to 9.2 million in 2002. The CEO of Lockheed Martin, the number one >defense contractor, raised his pay from 5.8 million in 2000 to 25.3 >million in 2002. They are not alone. Forbes reports that median pay >for CEOs at U.S. defense contractors climbed 79 percent from 2001 to >2002, while overall pay for CEOs increased only 6 percent. > >- From: "Northrop Grumbling", May 2, 2003, MotherJones.com >http://www.motherjones.com/news/dbriefing/ > >See also Paul Krugman's "For Richer" - excellent: >http://faculty.purduenc.edu/arw/gbg344/For%20Richer.htm >NYT Magazine October 20, 2002 > >Best > >Keith > > >>On Fri, 2 May 2003, Kris Book wrote: >> >> > I believe that when the truth is told about our current >> > regime (Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush), this period in >> > history will be called the most corrupt government of all >> > time. Even the Barbarian Horde did nothing more sinister >> > and evil than these good ol' boys. >> > >> > That's right, I'm saying that the same group has been in >> > power since 1981, and with the exception of Jimmy Carter >> > this group probably goes all the way back to the Johnson >> > administration. >> > >> > kris >> > >> > --- MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > > http://www.wanttoknow.info/911timeline10pg >> > > > >> > > > This guy uses mainstream media to tell the real story, >> > > or >> > > > at least a more believeable story than the Republican >> > > spin >> > > > we've been getting. >> > > > >> > > > kris >> > > >> > > >> > > Thank you Kris! That's quite a bit of documentation >> > > about -- >> > > The 9/11 Timeline 10-Page Summary >> > > Was 9/11 Allowed to Happen? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Rent DVDs Online - Over 14,500 titles. No Late Fees & Free Shipping. 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