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Lips Still Sealed
A Houston judged has decided to keep the doors closed on a trial pitting truckers against Halliburton/KBR for allegedly sending the drivers into a known area of combat. The complaint contends that the truckers were decoys sent out to draw fire and attacks from the Iraqi insurgency. They were nothing more than sitting ducks who were ordered to [...]
Danubia Kicked Out of Iraq?
You read it here first (sort of):Perhaps it has to do with the rumor that Danubia personnel are accused of indiscriminately shooting Iraqi civilians? And The Wall Street Journal follows, filling in the details on June 20: Meanwhile Danubia is wrestling with another controversy. This one stems from an April clash near the Baghdad airport, in which [...]
KBR Trucker Road Advisories
This one: Then this one: Then another one: And another one:
My Lips are Sealed
If a federal judge in Houston rules that court documents should be unsealed on Thursday, this is what we may learn: (The) Halliburton case dealing with 7 deaths, multiple casualties, and their complete disregard for the lives of their employees... has been the subject of a large-scale cover-up. The evidence will disclose a profit motive and a [...]
Waxman’s Rant
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Cal., has this mantra about contracting in Iraq: Waste, fraud and abuse. Unfortunately, much of what he has been railing about has now been proven to be far more accurate than what his congressional opponents claim. US and coalition powers (the coalition being about 1 percent of the authority) have spent over $50 billion on [...]
Competitive ‘Crap’ on Iraq Contract
A multibillion dollar Iraq contract handed without competition to Halliburton's KBR unit in 2003 by the Pentagon triggered a cloudy skepticism over the whole contracting process in the Bush administration's War on Terrorism. Now, Judicial Watch released new documents -- after a protracted court battle with the Defense Department -- that reveal [...]
‘Our Job Is to Be a Bullet Sponge’
And a money sponge? The private security firm interviewed by CNN's Nic Robertson earlier this week in Iraq agreed to go on camera if the company was not named.... But, of course, the company's manager Amy Clark, agreed to use her name. The last I heard she was working for Danubia Global. The Romanian company is rumored to have been purchased from [...]
Some Things Never Change
I am waiting.
Bullshit Jobs
Stanley Bing's latest book, 100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them, shares which media jobs were made for bullshit artists. Here is blogger: Bad money, but if you're nasty enough, lots of power. Try to establish yourself as someone qualified to rattle on for screen after screen with no reporting involved. Several years ago, when I was writing for [...]
Some Things Never Change
Our field is changing rapidly. Technology is overtaking us at an unheard-of pace. The journalists of tomorrow may not look anything like the journalists of today. I mean, literally. For all we know, they might have gills and three buttocks. That's how fast things are changing. But rest assured that, however dizzying the rate of change, when what's [...]
