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The war industry's drums are beating...warned against and it takes into account the "privatization" of military jobs once done by soldiers -- such as driving supply convoys (Halliburton), guarding embassies and other U.S. facilities (Blackwater) and training Afghan soldiers... In this article: Stanley McChrystal, United States, Afghanistan, Taliban, Dick Cheney, Pentagon, Washington, Barack Obama, and Democracy |
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Dallas Morning News | October 28, 2009
Dick Cheney to endorse Kay Bailey Hutchison for Texas governor
...Masset, who is not involved in the governor's race. Cheney has known Hutchison and her husband, Ray, since the 1990s, when he lived in Dallas as the chief executive of Halliburton. He also has contributed to Hutchison's Senate...
In this article: Dick Cheney, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rick Perry, Washington, GOP, Texas, George W. Bush, Dallas, and The Dallas Morning News
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | October 29, 2009
Hutchison 'pleased' to have Cheney endorsement
Texas ties Cheney has strong ties to Texas and Texans. He lived in Dallas as CEO of Halliburton before Bush tapped him as his running mate in the 2000 presidential race. A former congressman from Wyoming, he served as defense secretary...
In this article: Dick Cheney, Kay Bailey Hutchison, George W. Bush, Texas, Republican Party, Rick Perry, Washington, and Dallas
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Independent.co.uk - Books | October 22, 2009
A Swamp Full of Dollars, By Michael PeelCrude World, By Peter MaassThe Squeeze, By Tom Bower
When Dick Cheney ran Halliburton, the controversial company with interests in oil industry services, he famously remarked that it was unfortunate that the good lord did not place all the world's oil beneath the soil of democratic countries.
In this article: Peter Maass, Nigeria, Dick Cheney, Democracy, Revenue, and Kleptocracy
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CBS News | November 02, 2009
Cheney Failed to Answer 72 FBI Questions
by Jim1900 November 2, 2009 7:08 AM EST by Biggest_Rick November 2, 2009 7:45 AM EST Let's see, Dick Cheney was once president of Halliburton. When he was elected vice president he resigned from Halliburton and all his stock holding...
In this article: Dick Cheney, FBI, Valerie Plame, CIA, Patrick Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson
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Deseret News | November 01, 2009
What about big crooks?
...in Iraq while George W. Bush and Dick Cheney looked the other way? ACORN's tiny public subsidy has been cut off, while Halliburton has sucked up billions in taxpayer money. Or does Beck's outrage extend only as far as organizations with...
In this article: Glenn Beck, Acorn, E mail, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Iraq
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Newsweek Top News | October 28, 2009
What French Convictions Say About Cheney and Halliburton
...president Francois Mitterrand, expose a vivid picture of the world in which Dick Cheney used to do business when he was the head of Halliburton in the 1990s. The case did not touch on the former vice president's activities directly, and he...
In this article: Pierre Falcone, Dick Cheney, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Conviction, George W. Bush, Paris, Angola, and France
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Breaking News, Analysis, Opinions, Multimedia and Blogs - TIME | August 18, 2009
Healthy Ties? Howard Dean and the Drug Companies
...any client that he does not want to assist. (One of McKenna's major lobbying clients is KBR, a former division of Halliburton which was previously led by former Vice President Dick Cheney.) So Dean's disclosure is welcome. It should be...
In this article: Tom Daschle, Howard Dean, HuffPo, Americans for Prosperity, Tax, and CNBC
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Description from Wikipedia:
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) is a US-based oilfield services corporation with international operations in more than 70 countries.
It is based in 1401 McKinney Street in Downtown Houston, Texas, in the United States. U.S. office locations are also in Anchorage, Alaska; Bakersfield, California; Denver, Colorado; Lafayette, Louisiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Halliburton recently opened a second headquarters in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in March 2007, where Chairman and CEO David J. Lesar will work and reside, "to Focus [the] Company’s Eastern Hemisphere Growth." Corporate offices will remain in Houston and the company will remain incorporated in the United States. The company will consider Houston and Dubai as dual headquarters.
Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides technical products and services for oil and gas exploration and production.
Halliburton's former subsidiary, KBR, is a major construction company of refineries, oil fields, pipelines, and chemical plants. Halliburton announced on April 5, 2007 that it had finally broken ties with KBR, which had been its contracting, engineering and construction unit as a part of the company for 44 years.
- Name:
- Halliburton
- Type:
- Public (NYSE: HAL)
- Location:
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Erle P. Halliburton
- Founded:
- 1919, Dallas, Texas, U.S.
- Stock Symbol:
- HAL
- Industry:
- Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
- Key People:
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- David J. Lesar
- <small>(Chairman) & (CEO)
- Products:
- Technical services to the petroleum industry; Construction
- Revenue:
- US$ 15.264 billion (2007)
- Operating Income:
- US$ 3.498 billion (2007)
- Net Income:
- US$ 3.499 billion (2007)
- Assets:
- US$ 13.135 billion (2007)
- Equity:
- US$ 6.866 billion (2007)
- No. of Employees:
- 55,000 (2008)
- Market Cap:
- US$ 32. 99 billion (2008)
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