Yes Neil, and little things like the following: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/26/Report_Halliburton_to_pay_559_million/UPI-71951233006602/
Report: Halliburton to pay $559 million Published: Jan. 26, 2009 at 4:50 PM WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- The Haliburton company has agreed to pay $559 million to settle U.S. charges one of its subsidiaries bribed Nigerian officials, industry observers say. The alleged bribery involved the awarding of contracts for the construction of a gas plant, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal said the amount would be the largest paid by a U.S. company in a bribery investigation, far more than the record $44 million fine against U.S. oil-field services firm Baker Hughes Inc. in 2007 for alleged improper payments in Kazakhstan. The reported settlement amount would still be less than that collected from Germany's Siemens AG, which agreed in December to pay $800 million in U.S. fines. The fines settled bribery investigations involving alleged payments worldwide to government officials to win contracts. Neither Baker nor Siemens admitted to the allegations as part of the settlements. The U.S. Justice Department declined to comment on the Halliburton case, and Halliburton, an oil-field services company, declined to say whether it would admit the charges in the proposed settlement, the Journal said. The report said investigations are continuing in Europe and Nigeria. On Jan 26, 6:57 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I travelled a lot doing "transition economics" for the World Bank and > others as the Soviet Empire collapsed - this was basically just some > bull I learned to get me on this particular bandwagon. Once violent > conflict between groups has subsided, or some vile regime has > collapsed, what is the best way to make a transition to civil society? > Do former enemies need to ‘come to terms with their past’ if they are > to live peacefully? If such a reckoning is required, what are the > strategies of transition available to the parties? An almost total > disbeliever in "economics" of any kind, I used to speak on the field > of transitional justice, which involves the philosophical, legal and > political investigation of the aftermath of wars, cold and otherwise. > The history and difficulties associated with the operation of the two > most important transitional policies: war crime tribunals and truth > commissions - or the desire amongst the formerly suppressed to avoid > continuing the "war" through revenge. There is a tension between a > desire for calm after war or regime collapse and the importance of > putting human rights violators on trial, the need, as part of a > political transition, to create a reliable historical record of past > abuses, the promise and limitations of international criminal law and > the coherence of forgiveness in politics. > > There is much work on the difficulties associated with war crime > tribunals, the dilemmas involved in the operation of truth commissions > and the possibility of forgetting as a response to mass atrocity - we > often say we can forgive but not forget, but frankly our memories and > history are generally pathetic. Generally, if we need a 'new way', > how do we go about ensuring, as far as we can, that we don't just let > old default squabbles ruin any chance we have? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
