Jamie Leigh Jones (born 1984) is a former KBR employee who claims that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven KBR employees in 2005 in Camp Hope, Baghdad, Iraq. She filed a civil lawsuit against KBR and its former parent corporation...
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Jamie Leigh Jones (born 1984) is a former KBR employee who claims that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven KBR employees in 2005 in Camp Hope, Baghdad, Iraq. She filed a civil lawsuit against KBR and its former parent corporation Halliburton in 2007. In 2009, the 5th Circuit Court f Appeals in New Orleans ruled Jamie Leigh Jones' federal lawsuit against KBR and some of its affiliates can be tried in open court.
Charlie Melancon may be a stone cold Dixiecrat, Dixiecrats in the south are notorious for pimping black and female voters , but he's trying to reinvent himself and his campaign may have found just the ticket to close the gap between himself and David Vitter. Charlie showed me a little something when he showed up at the New Orleans Town Hall despite initially planning on not attending, may be he's ready to get with the program. With his recent ads criticizing Vitter it looks... Read Full Story
Today is Blog Against Sexual Violence Day and I found this gem. Get out your barf bags. At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is just part of the workplace experience for women by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Like many viewers, I watched this ABC 20/20 report when it first aired in December with jaws-open, eyes-bugging horror. It told the story of two women workers for Halliburton/KBR who had been sent to Iraq. There, one, Jamie Lee Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by... Read Full Story
A lawsuit against two military contractors claims the companies' mistakes led U.S. soldiers to believe an American truck driver working for the contractors might be an insurgent steering a bomb-laden truck onto a U.S. military base. In a lawsuit filed in Houston this week, Kristen Martin accused Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc. of the wrongful death of her father, truck driver Donald Tolfree, who was killed at a Camp Anaconda checkpoint, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, in February 2007. The... Read Full Story
A lawsuit against two military contractors claims the companies' mistakes led U.S. soldiers to believe an American truck driver working for the contractors might be an insurgent steering a bomb-laden truck onto a U.S. military base. In a lawsuit filed in Houston this week, Kristen Martin accused Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc. of the wrongful death of her father, truck driver Donald Tolfree, who was killed at a Camp Anaconda checkpoint, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, in February 2007. The... Read Full Story
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress :
Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR's Treatment Of Rape — In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water … Read Full Story
Senator Al Franken (D-MN)
Well, frumps, every once in a while, things workout right – the chambermaid wins the lottery, the tornado misses your house, the amendment passes without getting the stuffing kicked out of it. That last one was just reported today. You might remember that one of Al Franken’s first legislative moves as a freshman senator was to draft an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill.
Oddly enough the amendment attached to the Defense spending bill... Read Full Story
The Daily Show , known in its current incarnation as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , is an American late night satirical TV show that dialed in its probing tragicomedy microscope on Republican's sick and twisted love affair with the likes of a profiteering war industry. ( See the clip here ) It's a shame a fake news show picked this up...while most mainstream media would rather report on f***ing "Balloon Boy." The Gist Republicans lined up in droves to vote against Franken Amdt. No. 2588... Read Full Story
A new Book is out by Pratap Chaterjee exposing Cheney’s dirty little Halliburton secrets, including:
• The network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving employees and subcontractors of Halliburton/KBR in Kuwait and Iraq.
• The inordinate number of no-bid government contracts that Halliburton/KBR has secured.
• How Halliburton/KBR botched the repair of Iraq’s oil fields using Iraq’s own money.
• The role Halliburton/KBR’s negligence has played in the deaths of... Read Full Story
Halliburton, KBR sued for unsafe conditions at Iraq base - Yahoo! News:
"WASHINGTON (AFP) – A civilian employee of US oil services giant Halliburton and government contractor KBR has charged in a lawsuit the companies exposed thousands of workers to unhealthy, contaminated conditions at an Iraqi military base."
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From Spain's Princess Letizia to Italy's Mara Carfagna, the game of politics is no stranger to beautiful, powerful women. Following is a list of women whose influence is matched only by their sheer hotness.
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