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Goldman Sachs dumps BP shares before Gulf disaster, Halliburton buys oil clean up Co.

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I'll bet someone else bought BP shares that same day...and someone else sold an oil cleaning services company. Stupid conspiracy theories...and stupider the people that believe them.
 

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I'll bet someone else bought BP shares that same day...and someone else sold an oil cleaning services company. Stupid conspiracy theories...and stupider the people that believe them.
While "stupider" is in the dictionary, "more stupid" would have been more proper.
I'll bet that people who bought and sold that same day didn't do so in the same mass quantities as Goldman Sachs did.
It's food for thought.
 

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Considering that the oil rig disaster off the coast of Australia last year had their cement job done by Halliburton (and look what happened), I wouldn't put it past him (them).
These guys are all about oil and insane profit (aka - greed).
 

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i knew cheney was behind this
LOL!
That's why DICK ended up in a hospital. That War Criminal DICK was afraid he would be subpoenaed for his part in issuing the permit for that Gulf BP Oil Rig in the first place!....


That POS should be in prison!
 

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Considering that the oil rig disaster off the coast of Australia last year had their cement job done by Halliburton (and look what happened), I wouldn't put it past him (them).
These guys are all about oil and insane profit (aka - greed).
Throw the Bush Administration with Halliburton and you have the perfect formula for a money machine.

After the U.S. Corporate Invasion of Iraq


More than 150 U.S. companies were awarded contracts for post-war work totaling more than $50 billion.
The American companies were hired, even though Iraqi companies had successfully rebuilt the country after the previous U.S. invasion. And, because the American companies did not have to hire Iraqis, many imported foreign workers instead. The Iraqis were, of course, well aware that American firms had received billions of dollars for reconstruction, that Iraqi companies and workers had been rejected and that the country was still without basic services. The result: increasing hostility, acts of sabotage targeted directly at foreign contractors and their work, and a rising insurgency.

Halliburton received the largest contract, worth more than $12 billion, while 13 other U.S. companies received contracts worth more than $1.5 billion each. The seven largest reconstruction contracts went to the Parsons Corporation of Pasadena, Calif. ($5.3 billion); Fluor Corporation of Aliso Viejo, Calif. ($3.75 billion); Washington Group International of Boise, Idaho ($3.1 billion); Shaw Group of Baton Rouge, La. ($3 billion); Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco ($2.8 billion); Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass. ($2.5 billion); and Contrack International, Inc. of Arlington, Va. ($2.3 billion). These companies are responsible for virtually all reconstruction in Iraq, including water, bridges, roads, hospitals, and sewers and, most significantly, electricity.
 

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I'll bet someone else bought BP shares that same day...and someone else sold an oil cleaning services company. Stupid conspiracy theories...and stupider the people that believe them.
So you are saying that not all the players could have conspired, but only some of them. That's deep, bro.
 

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firms that are the size of Goldman Sachs make multi-million dollar transactions everyday; i don't see the connection with the BP incidient. what's piques my interest, however, is how Halliburton reportedly purchased oil cleanup companies.
 

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It makes sense to me why Halliburton would buy this..or invest heavily.

They are in the oil construction business. It would be in their interest to invest and ensure a competant cleanup company was in place to ensure cleanups were handled.

It no different than me recognizing a product is a good idea and investing in it!
 
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