Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions, journalist Jason Leopold reported on [Globalresearch.ca], the website of a Canadian research group. He cited sources intimate with the business dealings of Halliburton and Kish.

The story is particularly juicy because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from getting nukes, was president of Halliburton in the mid 1990s, at which time he may have advocated business dealings with Iran, in violation of U.S. law.

Leopold contended that the Halliburton-Kish deals have helped Iran become capable of enriching weapons-grade uranium.

Leopold filed his report in 2005, when Iran’s new hard-line government was rounding up relatives and business associates of former Iranian president and defeated mullah presidential candidate Hashemi Rafsanjani, amid accusations of widespread corruption in Iran’s oil industry.

Leopold also reported that in 2004 and 2005, Halliburton had a close business relationship with Cyrus Nasseri, an Oriental Oil Kish official who the Iranian government subsequently accused of receiving up to $1 million from Halliburton for giving them Iran’s nuclear secrets.http://honoluluweekly.com/cov...

Found this on the net 

After news of the foiled attack reached President George W. Bush, he gave a brief speech on the tarmac of the airport in Green Bay, Wis., where he was to attend a Republican fundraiser. Calling the attempts proof that the nation is still at war with “Islamic fascists,” he went on to say, “This country is safer than it was prior to 9/11. We’ve taken a lot of measures to protect the American people. But obviously we still aren’t completely safe, because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in.” The Bush administration has been consistently accused of stoking the embers of fear in the American psyche to gain political points by convincing the public that only the current regime can keep them safe from the ambiguous, shadowy threat of terrorists. The basis of this accusation is evident in such statements as those made by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales during an Aug. 10 press conference after the foiled terrorism plot: “As we have stated many times before, we are a nation at war. Today’s actions are a stark reminder that the threat is real and that we have a deadly enemy who still wakes every morning thinking of new ways to kill innocent men, women and children, and dreams every night about wreaking destruction on freedom-loving countries.” In an Aug. 15 press conference at the National Counterterrorism Center just outside Washington, Bush further pumped up the War on Terror, adamantly declaring that America is not safe from terrorists. Bush said, “The enemy has got an advantage when it comes to attacking our homeland: They’ve got to be right one time and we’ve got to be right 100 percent of the time to protect the American people.” However, the terrorist boogeyman—at least the Islamic fascist kind—has yet to rear its head here in the states. Mueller, the author of the “A False Sense of Insecurity?” article that originally ran in a Cato Institute publication, says in his recent Foreign Affairs article, “There are over 300 million legal entries by foreigners each year, and illegal crossings number between 1,000 and 4,000 a day—to say nothing of the generous quantities of forbidden substances that the government has been unable to intercept or even detect despite decades of a strenuous and well-funded ‘war on drugs.’” He adds, “If al Qaeda operatives are as determined and inventive as assumed, they should be here by now. If they are not yet here, they must not be trying very hard or must be far less dedicated, diabolical and competent than the common image would suggest.” http://honoluluweekly.com/cover/2006/09/fear-fa ctor/" title="http://honoluluweekly.com/cover/2006/09/fear-fa ctor/" target="_blank"http://honoluluweekly.com/cov...

The odds of you dying

1 in 88,000 of a terrorist attack
    1 in 1,500,00 of a terrorist-caused shopping mall disaster assuming one such incident a week and you shop two hours a week
    1 in 55,000,000 in a terrorist-caused plane disaster assuming one such incident a month and you fly once a month ( 1 )
 

1 in 55,928 of death by lightening  &nb sp;
    1 in 20,605 in your clothes igniting
    1 in 10,455 of dying in your bathtub
    1 in 10,010 by falling from a ladder or scaffolding
    1 in 9,396 due to excessive heat
    1 in 8,389 due to excessive cold
    1 in 7,972 in a drowning accident
    1 in 6,842 in a railway accident.

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