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PEACENIKS FOR HALLIBURTON
Byron Bay might be better known as Australia’s Moonbats-By-The-Sea; a zombie enclave of naked war protesters, Che-cultist teachers, idiot writer festivals, and futile peace carnivals. Truly, Byron Bay is making a name for itself on the world map for its propensity to push peace.
But it now emerges that Byron Bay has a hideous connection to American imperialist war-mongering evil! In fact, Byron Bay residents are actually funding this evil, as Byron Bay Echo letter-writer John Weiley points out:
Ratepayers of Byron Bay may be surprised to learn that Byron Shire Council has chosen [Halliburton subsidiary] KBR to manage the upgrade of the Bangalow sewerage works ...
Can our elected Councillors really believe that we would wish to see our rates used to further enrich war criminal Dick Cheney by even one cent?
Councillor Tom Tabart, who voted in support of the Halliburton tender, cranked out some standard Byron Bay lines (“Halliburton[’s] odious connections to the Cheney neo-cons ...”) in an otherwise fence-sitting reply:
The sad truth is that these corporations now control the world’s political systems and until we can get governments off their corrupt teat we are going to be forced to deal with them.
On the other hand, I wish I had voted against the KBR tender. If it had been rejected the subsequent media furore would have made it worth the risk. Next time ...
(Via Raff, our man in Byron Bay)
UPDATE. Raff’s scoop reaches the national media.
The sad truth is that these corporations now control the world’s political systems and until we can get governments off their corrupt teat we are going to be forced to deal with them.
No you aren’t. Do the work yourselves, like good collectivists. Or is it just too icky for you prissy preening fops?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 14 at 02:46 PM • permalinkWell, they obviously control Byron Bay. Hey, can we stash a few renditions in the tanks, mates? Shoulda read the fine print…
Oh, and just so you know, your loos can now monitor your phone calls…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 02:52 PM • permalinkActually, I’m hoping that KBR will get a food concession in Byron Bay. Then we can feed those clueless socialists and ancient hippies plastic turkey.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 14 at 02:57 PM • permalinkSounds like KBR’s work contract might include special tinfoil lining for the sewage pipes…
More seriously, WTF does “If it had been rejected the subsequent media furore would have made it worth the risk” mean? Does he really think the media would have hounded them for rejecting a friggin’ contract tender? And what risk, fer chrissakes? Was Dick Cheney personally gonna send the black helicopters after the council members or something?
Haliburton (originally Haliburton, Brown and Root) has a really interesting history if you are interested in that kind of thing and you believe their website.
Actually the most sinister project of Haliburton at present is to mastermind the steady reduction in the size of standard coffee cups on the lower north shore in Sydney. This has been apparent for a couple of years (at least the smaller coffee cups, if not the role of Haliburton) and more probing research is required to find if this is a global conspiracy.
Of course, this means that any time a resident of Byron Bay takes a dump, they’re contributing to the Chimpy McHitlerburton drive for global domination.
Bob Ellis’s columns don’t count.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 04:27 PM • permalinkI wonder how long before the leftie spin machine in Byron Bay will come up with the story that this is a good thing…..since, after a fashion, they’ll be crapping on the Evuuullll Haliburton Chimpire™ every day.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 14 at 04:38 PM • permalinkthese corporations now control the world’s political systems ...
Oh, really?Of course, what I found shocking was the revelation that apparently nobody in Australia knows how to dig a sewer…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 14 at 05:06 PM • permalinkJust say no, blogstrop. I have faith in you.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 14 at 08:01 PM • permalink10: Yeah, my folk came over from England as indentured servants (“transportation”, they called it, typically a commutation of a death sentence handed out for one of the two hundred or so capital crimes they had in those days); two centuries later, you get hippies, gangsta rappers, and professors of “transgender” literature. My theory is that an extremely strong economy just naturally generates so much wealth that it can sustain great masses of societal froth.
In the Latham Daries the fallen ALP leader talks about how the Shoppies’ Union was trying to determine Labor policy on stem cell research to which Latham replied with the words to the effect of: “Why would a sixteen year old checkout chick be worried about stem cell research? Wouldn’t she be worried about a pay rise?”
So in the same vein, if Tom Tabart was elected as a councillor for Bryon Bay then he should shove his tree hugging up his arse and start worrying about the community he gets paid to represent! If Halliburton’s tender is good for his area then he should vote for it and ditch the neo-con rhetoric.
Halliburton stole my cat… and raped my car!
Yeah it’s hilarious that these idiots think Cheney still holds shares in Halliburton. Do even simple facts matter to them? But you have to be deeply, childishly naive anyway to think that a polity as big and complex as the US is run by a procurement company.
Children, stupid, ignorant children. God hippies are pathetic.
If they only knew that the real name of the founder of Halliburton is Schlomo Halliburtonstein…
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 14 at 09:14 PM • permalinksjens: Didn’t Cheney divest himself of any financial interest in Haliburton?
Close. In breaking ties, he negotiated to receive a yearly income from Halliburton™, which is fixed and (ergo, duh) does not depend whatever on H’s profits or losses.
Further, (I’m pretty sure), he arranged to have that “pensionish” income auto-diverted to some charity.
Further, (this I’m totally sure), this was before anyone had ever thought of using “Cheney” and “Vice President” in the same sentence.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2006 01 15 at 01:17 AM • permalinkAmos,
Halliburton stole my cat… and raped my car!
Ha! They turned me into a newt!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 15 at 01:29 AM • permalinkI’d say the councillor isn’t being ridgy-didge, he’s just, er, going through the motions. Council motions at that.
Paco : re #29 and “transgender literature” (sneer quotes’n'all) : Smile when you say that. I might just have a short-short published in an ANU magazine soon.
The sad truth is that these corporations now control the world’s political systems and until we can get governments off their corrupt teat we are going to be forced to deal with them.
If only there were more successful hippy-founded organic sustainable enviro-communal worker-owned co-ops in the modern sewage system business, we might not have to turn to evil “corporations”, with their hated “competency” and “resources”.
Posted by Aaron - Freewill on 2006 01 15 at 05:24 AM • permalinkMeanwhile in the editorial room at the Byron Bay Echo:
Ellis: “When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this… crap!”
Mungo: “It’s crap. Tofu is made out of crap. Halliburton are making our food out of turds. Next thing they’ll be force-feeding us like cattle for methane. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!”
” You tell everybody. Listen to me, Moonbat Ellis. You’ve gotta tell them! Tofu is excreta! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!”
* with apologies to the scriptwriter for Soylent Green#33 and #35:
Yeah it’s hilarious that these idiots think Cheney still holds shares in Halliburton. Do even simple facts matter to them?
and
sjens: Didn’t Cheney divest himself of any financial interest in Haliburton?Close. In breaking ties, he negotiated to receive a yearly income from Halliburton™, which is fixed and (ergo, duh) does not depend whatever on H’s profits or losses.
Further, (I’m pretty sure), he arranged to have that “pensionish” income auto-diverted to some charity.
Further, (this I’m totally sure), this was before anyone had ever thought of using “Cheney” and “Vice President” in the same sentence.
Now take a look at Terry Lane in the Sunday Age this morning 15/1/06:
“At the time of the invasion, Cheney held 433,000 Halliburton stock options worth $US241,498. Today they are worth $US8 million. Pin money for Cheney, but still worth a small war. And a war on Iran should double that.”
My view is that Terry Lane is more worthwhile big-game than Margo and Loewenstein put together. Can #33 and #35 provide their sources so I/we can do a job on Lane?Tim, percypup, et al — Terry’s lying, of course. Here’re the facts…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 10:43 PM • permalinkBut Mr Tabart said he had voted in favour of KBR because council staff had recommended its tender as the most cost-effective. He said refusing the tender on political grounds could have exposed the council to court action.
What a load of crap. The Green council was voted in with Byronians all too aware of their moonbat policies- they deserve the effects.
“And if you scratch any multinational you’ll dig up just as much dirt as you would on Halliburton, so what’s the bloody difference?”
So use a smaller contractor you feral-left shit, or as someone suggested already- do it yourself- rally the communists of Byron Bay (or at least get them to send their maids)
John Lazarus, a Green councillor who voted against the KBR proposal, said councils should think carefully before choosing multinationals such as Halliburton for such contracts.
“Halliburton has benefited enormously from contracts to the Iraq war,” he said. “We should be looking closely at corporations we are supporting financially and at what they are doing on this planet.”Uh-huh, the evil imperialist Coalition has had its day. I want to see what a Green-run council can do, as an example for the rest of the country. If they keep finding excuses to be pro-business, then no one is ever going to see what a society run by the Greens will be like!
percypup — Pleeeeeeeze learn how to format a link?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 15 at 11:56 PM • permalink#54: I used to try to do “links” and the links wound up everywhere except where I wanted them. But if humans can put a man on the moon, I can learn to add links correctly.
#51: Thanks, I will draft a letter to editor of Sunday Age. My chance of getting published will be 0.0001%. But I think I will add a rider: “You are free to not publish my letter and I am free to refer the case to the Press Council which will cause you a great amount of irritation and wasted time.”
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So, in a twist on Kerryesque vacillation, Tabart voted for Halliburton before he wished he had voted against it.