Holy Shit! Has anyone heard that Haliburton is being sued for SLAVE trafficking?

[Tigress DEM]

http://tinyurl.com/Haliburton-Slave-Trade

I was looking for some movie that is coming out about slave trading (in the US I thought). I heard just a snippet and Ashley Judd is supposedly support the cause against slave trading.

So I googled slave trafficking and who pops up but our resident villian Cheney's company Haliburton?

http://tinyurl.com/Haliburton-Slave-Trade

Halliburton sued for human trafficking
September 1, 2008

Twelve men recruited in Nepal died after forced transfer to Iraq, lawfirm says

((( Seems they got it from RAW STORY http://tinyurl.com/RAW-Story-Aug-28 )))

By John Byrne

Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court.

The Nepali men, each between the ages of 18 and 27, were allegedly hired as kitchen staff by the then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR and its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud & Partners. Once they arrived in Jordan, however, their passports were seized and they were dispatched to Iraq.



..... (out of 12)

<snip>
Only one man survived. After he was released by Iraqi rebels, he said he was assigned to work as a loader/unloader in a US military warehouse facility supervised by KBR. He asserts that he was held for 15 months against his well, before the firm finally allowed him to return home to Nepal.

Cohen, Milstein is suing on behalf of their families and the remaining survivor, Buddi Prasad Gurung. According to the law firm, their families went deep into debt to pay recruiting fees to Halliburton’s contractor in order to get promised jobs.

[seemslikeadream]

1. Cynthia McKinney was right and I bet Rumsfeld never answered her questions

[Tigress DEM]

5. How does Haliburton / KBR do this? I heard one time about 17 suits but most never got news time

It was earlier and the government and the media were still really sewn up. Male prostitute throwing softball questions and such in the White House Press room etc..

BUT NOW when they are saying the SURGE is working... Well, NOT for everybody!

[Tigress DEM]

9. They weren't "slave trading" but probably KBR and other subs not doing the jobs ..

KBR and other sub contractors weren't doing the jobs they had been hired to do and America was pouring billions down the hole, lots of them without any receipts. Remember the 8.8 billion that got documented as "misplaced funds" or something like that? Bribes to the locals, whatever, we never got an explanation.

I remember thinking at the time, I wouldn't hand my mother 8.8 billion dollars without getting a receipt. "Sorry, Mom, it isn't my money and if someone asks me about it I want them to know it's in good hands."

She's my sainted mother as it were now, but still.

Haliburton drives me up the wall.

[Alameda]

19. why do you have a photo of that #$@% damned woman!?

[Tigress DEM]

24. Didn't you read the title? It's a truth in advertising warning label. nt

[liberalmuse]

2. Oh my god.

If true, I hope the people responsible are brought before the Hague. This is unbelievable!

[malaise]

6. This was posted here before

To the Hague!

[Tigress DEM]

10. Good. I was on vacation around that time so I missed it.

But it still isn't getting any mainstream coverage.

I think it would be good to point that out to them.

[Tigress DEM]

16. Did you save the link? Was it posted in August or more recently?

[Mabus]

35. Posted Aug. 28 by babsbunny

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3872809

This is the one I remember.

(edited to add: I think the board was pretty lit up and excited about Biden's speech the night before and anticipating Obama's acceptance speech later that evening.)

[tilsammans]

3. !!!

As if Haliburton's conduct couldn't be more reprehensible! They are lower than scum. :mad:

And WE taxpayers are paying for this.

Wake up, people!

[Tigress DEM]

12. I wonder if "NOT IN OUR NAMES" has this ammo?

Huh. They closed shop,


It is with some sadness, but with eyes still cast on a better world, that we inform our supporters, our comrades in the struggle, and all who have held the Not in Our Name project close to their hearts since its founding in March 2002, that we closed our national office and related infrastructure on March 31, 2008. Below is a final statement from the Steering Committee.

http://www.notinourname.net

[Jamastiene]

4. Holy Shit is right. K&R.

This news is BIG.

K&R.

:kick:

[Tigress DEM]

17. Thanks!

[Jamastiene]

7. I wish I could kick and recommend this one twice.

Damn, that's modern day slavery. Holy fucking shit!

Can we impeach them now? Can we do anything?

[Tigress DEM]

14. I'd settle at the moment for smearing it all over this administration so it sticks.

My thought is to harrass the media about not covering it.

We could hand it to Keith Olberman and see if he would run with it. MSNBC has him hidden now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

RACHEL MADDOW
[e-mail] < [e-mail]>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

Send it in to the Air America Radio hosts.
http://airamerica.com/


Iraq Vetrans Against the War could probably use it to do some damage to the shiny image that the war is working now that we have the surge.
http://ivaw.org/

World Can't Wait
http://www.worldcantwait.org/

UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=18

CODE PINK
http://www.codepink4peace.org/

[vanderBeth]

8. Well, Shit!

Things gets less and less shocking every day.

[Tigress DEM]

18. Makes one a little numb around the brain.

How low will they go?

[firedupdem]

11. Unbelievable! The corruption and lies and crooked people! n/t

[Tigress DEM]

21. What was that island they were sending girls from China to be sex slaves?

A US Territory and all those Senators had been out there and it was all connected to Abrahmoff?

Northern Mariana Islands rings a bell.
AH YES.. It's all coming back to me now. These rethuglikan boys are stuck in some sick patterns.

GOD Bless our bloggers!!

Tom's Civil Liberties Blog
Did the Bush Administration Promote Sex Trafficking in the Northern Mariana Islands?
Tuesday October 17, 2006


http://tinyurl.com/ush-s-sex-trade

I'm not really in the habit of reading John Aravosis' AMERICAblog, but there are times when he brings attention to things that we should be outraged about, but aren't. Here's a good example: In at least one instance, the Bush administration actually fired an official due to his opposition to sex slavery in the Northern Mariana Islands--simply because the government of the Islands, a U.S. protectorate, was represented at the time by then-powerful, now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. I can't put it any better than Aravosis did--and this is a case where his sledgehammer rhetoric is entirely justified:
Remember how just two years ago George Bush claimed he wanted to put a stop to human trafficking - i.e., women being forced into sexual slavery?

Then why was the Bush administration's premiere advocate for stopping such sexual slavery forced out of his job a while back?

According to the Sunday Los Angeles Times, he was fired because convicted criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff was representing one of the countries that most profits from sexual slavery and human trafficking, the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff wanted this Bush administration official fired because the official's anti-human-trafficking agenda - now George Bush's agenda - posed a direct threat to Abramoff's pro-sex-slave client.

[gblady]

13. at a psychotherapy seminar....

about the latest treatment for PTSD and Trauma...
one of the presenter's passions was helping victims of sex and human trafficing...

he said it was the third largest money maker in the world...
behind war and weapons, and drugs.

[Tigress DEM]

15. There is a movie coming out about it. An independent film.

IF we could tie the two together, maybe it could become a wave raising the tide of awareness like An Inconvient Truth did for global warming.


Still looking.. may have found it. Looks like CNN did a blurb on their website Aug 28

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/human_trafficking


leads to a story about Ashley Speaking out against slave trade in June

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20204360,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn

[gblady]

22. here is a link to the resources and information...

this presenter has on his website...

http://www.johnbriere.com/links.htm

[jwirr]

20. No one should be surprised. Once upon a time Halliburton was directly

linked to the same company that used concentration camp slaves and had links to Prescott Bush. After the war it was taken over by American interests and built into what it is now - a very fascist company.

[Tigress DEM]

23. OK. Forget surprised. How about OUTRAGED?!

[jwirr]

33. Better.

[ejbr]

25. They PAID for this abuse?! Some people are going straight to hell. n/t

[Tigress DEM]

27. They paid because they THOUGHT they were getting jobs.

And yeah, I'm sure several seats are reserved for the Haliburton/KBR stars of Satan's Follies Here ON Earth.

[Kaleko]

26. It think the United Arab Emirates also confiscate the passports of foreign workers

and condemn them to live in sub-human squalor.

[Tigress DEM]

28. Thanks. Remind me not to ever get a job there. nt

[Tigress DEM]

29. I will be back but I have to go get groceries or the cat & hubby will starve. nt

[tilsammans]

30. Keep this kicked!

I am red-hot, spitting MAD!!!

:kick:

[juno jones]

31. K&R! n/t

[Jamastiene]

32. Kicking again.

:kick: because this is important to know.

[Judi Lynn]

34. Thanks, thanks, thanks. Going to share this thread. It needs to be seen. K & R. n/t

[Tigress DEM]

39. Thank You also.

[faithfulcitizen]

36. what the hell has our Nation become?

:evilfrown:

[Jamastiene]

37. Kicking again. n/t

[Tigress DEM]

38. With massive voter dis-enfranchisement we could get stuck with them again.

Make sure your drivers lisense matches your voter registration EXACTLY.

[lonestarnot]

40. Yes. Saw that somewhere.

[pleah]

41. K&R

:kick:

[spooked]

42. Slave Labor was also used to build the US EMBASSY IN IRAQ!

http://www.shunpiking.com/ol0405/0405-WD-DP-howusemb.htm
How the US Embassy in Baghdad Was Built

"EVERY US LABOUR LAW WAS BROKEN"

http://gaspantspress.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/27/862015-us-embassy-in-iraq-being-built-with-trafficked-slave-labor-

U.S. embassy in Iraq being built with trafficked slave labor

"The illegitimate US Palace in Baghdad is being built on the foundations of human trafficking, labor abuse, and human rights violations. Well, why not. The unbelievable range and number of atrocities already committed in Iraq is so vast, I suppose piling more on this legacy won't hurt."

THE LARGEST EMBASSY IN THE WORLD! RIGHT IN BAGHDAD...







Saddam would have liked the pool...

[barbtries]

43. i had heard about it

but it's good to see it pop up again. there are just so many...crimes. it's really impossible for me to keep up and i spend hours upon hours here and all over the web trying to.

[undergroundpanther]

44. doesen't suprise me

Dyncorp was selling sexual slavery,rape of kids etc.It was in the news awhile ago.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11119

When will people realize the corporations are psychopaths and the people that run them the CEO's are evil thugs and should have all their heads on a chopping block,or in a noose if there was any justice in this world.
Instead the pig parasites get multi-million dollar'golden parachutes.

[Mandate My Ass]

45. Halliburton watch has been reporting this for years

That's how that obscene pleasure palace -- oops, I mean U.S. embassy -- got built so quickly in Iraq.

www.halliburtonwatch.org

[eppur_se_muova]

46. As soon as I saw the title I thought of those dozen Nepalis.

Forcibly hauled off to work in Iraq after being told they would not be sent to Iraq. It's kidnapping at the very minimum, endangerment for certain.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

47. But you did not think of yourself?

The system works!

"U.S. capitalism built on slavery, genocide"
Captain John Smith from England helped colonize what is now the U.S. state of Virginia for profit. In 1624, he glowingly referenced the Spanish method for dealing with indigenous people: "... you have twenty examples of the Spaniards how they got the West Indies and forced the treacherous and rebellious infidels to do all manner of drudgery work and slavery for them, themselves living like soldiers off the fruits of their labors." The model of limitless brutality to accumulate resources can be seen through out U.S. history.
<>
Columbus and those like him are heroes to the capitalists. They understand that the cruelty and exploitation that marked the colonization of the Americas benefited them. The capitalists' unyielding search for profits and superprofits leaves them neither conscience nor morality.

Although legal chattel slavery no longer exists in the Americas, capitalist exploitation of poor and oppressed people continues to this day. This is the legacy of Christopher Columbus.

http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=90

We have met the slaves and they are us. (Apologies to Pogo)