Recently I posted about Iran torturing bloggers.
Now it seems they are trying to shut down bloggers altogether.
Dan Brickley writes "It appears that Iranian ISPs have been ordered to block a large number of popular Web sites, including weblogging, community, chat and email services. Web (particularly weblog) use has been increasing rapidly in Iran, with 64000+ weblogs published by Iranians via various sites. As of today, if the news is correct, the majority of these may be inaccessible to their authors, as will the email (eg. Yahoo) services they use to communicate with friends, colleagues and family worldwide. See stop.censoring.us and hoder.com for more details. The newly expanded blocks include PersianBlog, Blogger and the Google-hosted Orkut 'social networking' site, where Iranians come third after Brazil and USA, representing 7% of all users. How can we get our Iranian friends back in the Web?"
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Saturday, January 08, 2005
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Since Cheney "once headed" the company but has not for almost 5 years now, how is the company now linked to the Bush administration?
Again I see, as is usual with you, you do not read the articles you refer to. If you did you would have read this in the first paragraph:
"TEHRAN: US oil services company Halliburton, whose operations in Iran have come under investigation by US authorities, has won a tender to drill a huge Iranian gas field, an official said on Sunday. "
"Under investigation by US authorities"
There are sanctions in place to stop this kind of activity by American companies. What Halliburton are doing is using off shore companies to get around those santions. Even if what Halliburton are technically doing is legal, morally it is wrong and they should stop.
Most American's feel that Halliburton are acting in bad faith and are threating to withdraw investment money from the company.
"Halliburton Corp., the oil field services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, told the New York City Comptroller’s office that it won’t scale back its business dealings in Iran, despite concerns from the City’s Comptroller William Thompson about “corporate ties to states sponsoring terrorist activity,” which could force the New York City Police and Fire Departments to pull its $23 million investment in the company. "
Many other cities and individual investors are threating similar action.
As to "why" they are doing it, you will have to ask them.
"i'm glad US authorities are investigating the company which is still apparently helping to keep Cheney in the lifestyle he has been accustomed to."
Cheney had to put all of his investments, including any holdings in Halliburton, into "Trust" before he could run for VP. He has no control over their activities.
"As you can imagine, especially in the case of Iran, it is sometimes difficult establishing who is "good", and who is "evil" considering illegal trading with "rogue regimes", i'm only "looking for the truth in a sea of deceit" you see."
Then we look forward to your exposing other companies from other countries on your blog.
You might even want to investigate the inept and corrupt UN and report of that.
And if you're looking for the truth in a sea of deceit, you could even expose the rabid anti-American bias from the BBC and the Guardian.
Heck, before you know it, your blog might start to have some balance to it and not be so anti-American.
Regards.
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