Re: [Vo]:Fracture drilling and the "N" word

[R C Macaulay]

Howdy Jones,

KBR ( Kellogg/Brown and Root) was once two respected engineering 
constructors. MW Kellogg started along with Bechtel, Kaiser and boys 
building the Hoover dam .
Brown& Root started in Texas as a road builder and grew and grew.. closely 
connected to Texas politics ( LBJ)
That's how business was done.. but.. they never confused politics with 
getting the job done.. B&R and Kellogg were once great companies. Back in 
the 50's I worked with many of their engineers.. super people. same for 
Kellogg.
It wasn't until after LBJ and the Browns passed on that they forgot who they 
were and what they did best..
They bought a pig with the baggage carried by acquiring the rights to be 
sued by the asbestos lawyers. Probably why they turned rogue.. it happens.

Richard


--- R C Macaulay wrote:

Halliburton ... wound up in Dubai as a strange
hybrid
oil and gas/ defense contractor/ black ops/ go between
with an uncanny ability to morph.

Speaking of morphing - or maybe it is more like
shedding some ugly stinkin' fat, they just unloaded
(at least they did it for 'show' i.e. - on the public
record) one of their biggest black ops moneymakers:
KBR

http://danmuji.ddart.net/science/physics/physics_tutorial/Class/sound/U11L5d.html

Kellogg Brown & Root, was a subsidiary of Halliburton
until 2007, when bad publicity and civil and possible
criminal indictments "forced" Halliburton to sell.

IOW they did not want to follow KBR into bankruptcy
when some 'liberal' jury awards one of the plaintiffs
more than the net worth of the company - and that
could happen. Another reason why Dubai is a highly
favorable locale for the now slimmed-down version of
Halliburton.

According to the site above, "KBR financed Lyndon
Johnson from the 1940s and into the Vice Presidential
position, was rewarded after Kennedy's assassination
with lucrative contracts in the escalated Vietnam
War."

Given the sleaze with which they have operated since
the sixties, and most recently in Iraq, it causes one
to wonder, was KBR actually involved in the JFK
assassination? I have never heard that possibility
suggested, even from the nuttiest Conspiracy
Theorists, but has it been ruled out?

Jones



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