--- R C Macaulay wrote: > Halliburton ... wound up in Dubai as a strange hybrid oil and gas/ defense contractor/ black ops/ go between with an uncanny ability to morph.
Speaking of morphing - or maybe it is more like shedding some ugly stinkin' fat, they just unloaded (at least they did it for 'show' i.e. - on the public record) one of their biggest black ops moneymakers: KBR http://danmuji.ddart.net/science/physics/physics_tutorial/Class/sound/U11L5d.html Kellogg Brown & Root, was a subsidiary of Halliburton until 2007, when bad publicity and civil and possible criminal indictments "forced" Halliburton to sell. IOW they did not want to follow KBR into bankruptcy when some 'liberal' jury awards one of the plaintiffs more than the net worth of the company - and that could happen. Another reason why Dubai is a highly favorable locale for the now slimmed-down version of Halliburton. According to the site above, "KBR financed Lyndon Johnson from the 1940s and into the Vice Presidential position, was rewarded after Kennedys assassination with lucrative contracts in the escalated Vietnam War." Given the sleaze with which they have operated since the sixties, and most recently in Iraq, it causes one to wonder, was KBR actually involved in the JFK assassination? I have never heard that possibility suggested, even from the nuttiest Conspiracy Theorists, but has it been ruled out? Jones
