From Common Dreams in the USA:
Thursday, December 1, 2005
War Profiteer Knows How to Party
by Sarah Anderson
Over the past few months, I’ve gotten all kinds of flak from CEOs who were the subject of a report I co-authored about executive pay among defense contractors.
Jack London of CACI International, whose employees interrogated prisoners at Abu Ghraib, denounced what I wrote as “shameful” and “ignorant.”
A United Technologies official accused me (falsely) of slander.
But the man who got the worst skewering was silent.
David H. Brooks, CEO of bulletproof vest maker DHB Industries, earned $70 million in 2004, 13,349 percent more than his pre-9/11 compensation, according to “Executive Excess,” co-published by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
On top of that, Brooks sold company stock worth about $186 million last year, spooking investors who drove DHB’s share price from more than $22 to as low as $6.50.
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:37:50 -0400
From: hapi22
Subject: *GOP Blocks Measures Boosting Taxes on Oil Companies’ Profits*
As long as we have two oil men in the White House and REPUBLICANS in
charge of Congress, we will never have any relief from the oil
companies’ price gouging.
You see, these REPUBLICAN ghouls enable the oil companies to make their
obscene profits — while we go broke paying for gasoline and heating
fuel — and then the oil companies pour their ill-gotten gains back
into Republican campaign coiffeurs so they can rob us blind all over
again.
The REPUBLICANS and the oil companies are joined at the hip.
The only way to stop the oil companies’ price gouging is to throw the
REPUBLICANS OUT of the White House and OUT of Congress — ALL of them,
forever.
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*GOP Blocks Measures Boosting Taxes on Oil Companies’ Profits*
Provisions Passed by Senate Would Raise About $5 Billion
by Jonathan Weisman
The Washington Post
April 26, 2006
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Read this at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042501738_pf.html
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:00:57 -0400
From: hapi22
Subject: *Pelosi gives ’em hell*
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi rips one off to the House
Republicans and Bush (I think it was) yesterday.
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*Pelosi gives ’em hell*
video at: http://www.democraticleader.house.gov/video/NP424.wmv
by Atrios
April 26, 2006
transcript
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Read this at:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_04_23_atrios_archive.html#114599492383745032
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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:55:22 -0400
From: hapi22
Subject: *Exxon Mobil profit rises on soaring prices*
Boycott all Exxon and Mobil gas stations.
The oil giant is making obscene profits and handing that money over to
its executives.
They should be lowering gasoline prices and keeping their profits to
something reasonable.
Boycott.
Do NOT buy Exxon/Mobil gasoline.
It is the only way to fight back against greedy, grasping, lying creeps
like the retiring CEO of Exxon.
He should be shunned by polite society and Exxon should be deprived of
income.
Here’s more on the Exxon CEO’s compensation package and pay:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/business/13exxon.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/business/15pay.html
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12356099/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/exxon_pay;_ylt=AoRF7dRaRcVpzweWtVljBDEDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhcmljNmVhBHNlYwNtcm5ld3M-
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*Exxon Mobil profit rises on soaring prices*
Reuters
April 27, 2006
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Read this at: http://tinyurl.com/qj2zh
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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:02:51 -0400
From: hapi22
Subject: *will oil prices drop dramatically within 12 months?*
It MAY be that we are being snookered by the Big Oil companies and there
is NO oil shortage.
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It’s possible the price of oil could fall dramatically within the next
12 months.
I don’t know any more about this than you do, but this is worth reading.
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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:07:51 -0400
From: hapi22
Subject: *Big-mouth Bush told Clinton how to handle OPEC*
Gosh, having the Intrnet is wonderful.
And videotape is magical.
Roll the tape.
Oil was at about $18 a barrel during the Clinton years and heading “up”
to about $21 a barrel when candidate Bush decided to give President
Clinton some “advice.”
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*Big-mouth Bush told Clinton how to handle OPEC*
by Evelyn Pringle
The Smirking Chimp
April 27, 2006
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evelyn.pringle@sbcglobal.net
Read this at:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=25856&mode=nested&order=0
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Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:21:09 -0400
From: hapi22
Subject: *Thieves in the White House*
Here’s something to ponder when the whore pundits tell us that the high
gasoline prices are being caused by a shortage of oil.
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That means SIXTY MILLION of the seventy-five million dollars in BRIBES
went to the REPUBLICANS.
Do the math.
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*Thieves in the White House*
by Deborah E. Gauthier
Milford Daily News
April 29, 2006
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Deb Gauthier can be reached by e-mail at dgauthie@cnc.com
Read this at:
http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=90777&format=text
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From Google cache:
New Norwegian government: troops out of Iraq Comments: 5
Date: 9/13/05 at 11:48AM
Mood: Listening Playing: War, by Edwin Starr
In the elections of Norway, the center right governing coalition was beaten by the center left.
The new Prime Minister, Social Democrat Jens Stoltenberg, has said: The US Bush administration will “notice that we pull back our soldiers from Iraq”.
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