Who’s Afraid of War Crimes Prosecution? – Cheney cancels Toronto speaking event (click title to entry - thank you)
by James Corbett
GRTV.ca
March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Elizabeth, have cancelled a planned speaking engagement at Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre next month, citing safety concerns. According to the president of the promotion company that booked Cheney for the April 24th speech, “He felt that in Canada the risk of violent protest was simply too high. They specifically referenced what happened in Vancouver.”
The reference is to a fierce protest of Cheney’s speech in British Columbia last September which necessitated the use of Vancouver riot police and kept Cheney locked inside the speaking venue for seven hours while crowds were dispersed.
Cheney is not the first credibly accused war criminal from the Bush Administration to cancel a speaking arrangement due to concerns about popular protest or even arrest.
In early 2011 former President George W. Bush was forced to cancel a trip to Switzerland to speak at a fundraiser for the United Israel Appeal after it was revealed that a number of human rights groups were planning to prosecute Bush for war crimes, including contravention of the Convention Against Torture to which the United States is a signatory....
Fortune Names Halliburton to ‘Most Admired’ List (click here)
In its March 19 issue, Fortune magazine will publish its annual World’s Most Admired Companies list for 2012. Halliburton is rated as fourth in the world for the “Oil and Gas Equipment, Services” sector.
Companies are evaluated based on innovation, people management, social responsibility and global competitiveness, among other attributes. The rankings are based on a survey of about 15,000 senior executives, outside directors and industry analysts.
It is a limited list. Halliburton is fourth on the Oil and Gas Equipment MOST ADMIRED. It is still 'most admired,' though. Does there have to be candidates with exploitative and shady operations on the list in the absence of any decent companies?
There is little work Halliburton did in Iraq that was admired, yet alone most admired. When is this self-stroking and hubris going to end with Wall Street. Moral is moral. Halliburton doesn't even come close. Maybe the MOST ADMIRED TRUTH about Wall Street is they are NOT moral!
Fortune's Most Admired Oil and Gas Equipment List (click here)
It is a limited list. Halliburton is fourth on the Oil and Gas Equipment MOST ADMIRED. It is still 'most admired,' though. Does there have to be candidates with exploitative and shady operations on the list in the absence of any decent companies?
There is little work Halliburton did in Iraq that was admired, yet alone most admired. When is this self-stroking and hubris going to end with Wall Street. Moral is moral. Halliburton doesn't even come close. Maybe the MOST ADMIRED TRUTH about Wall Street is they are NOT moral!
Fortune's Most Admired Oil and Gas Equipment List (click here)
