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	Why War? Keywords: Kellogg, Brown and Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kellogg, Brown and Root is an American company, a private military contractor and a subsidiary of Halliburton.
		Brown and Root was founded in Texas in 1919 by two brothers, George Brown and Herman Brown with money from their brother-in-law, Dan Root.
		Brown and Root had a well-documented relationship with Lyndon Johnson which began when he used his position as a Texas congressman to assist them in landing a lucrative dam contract.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/organizations/Kellogg_Brown_and_Root (627 words)

	Kellogg, Brown and Root - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The legacy of Brown and Root is many contracts with the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as during World War II and the Vietnam War.
		Brown and Root was founded in Texas in 1919 by two brothers, George R. Brown and Herman Brown with money from their brother-in-law, Dan Root.
		Brown and Root had a well-documented relationship with U.S. President Lyndon Johnson which began when he used his position as a Texas congressman to assist them in landing a lucrative dam contract.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kellogg,_Brown_and_Root (1878 words)

	Halliburton's Kellogg Brown and Root Defense Contracts
		Brown and Root Services Corporation, Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $14,624,275 modification to a cost plus award fee contract for a level of effort negotiated and definitized for continuation of support to US Forces in Haiti during the time period October 1, 1995 through April 30, 1996.
		Brown and Root Services Corp., Houston, Texas, is being awarded a $48,174,833 increment as part of a $270,450,167 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity with cost plus award fee task orders issued against basic contract for sustainment of logistical support services for the U.S. Forces in the countries of Hungary, Bosnia and Croatia.
		Brown and Root Services, Houston, Texas, is being awarded $500,000 as part of a not-to-exceed $70,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the establishment of temporary expansion facilities to augment existing Immigration and Naturalization Service facilities in the event of a significant influx of undocumented aliens into the United States.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /dod-kbr.htm (4050 words)

	Kellogg Brown and Root - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Formerly known as Brown and Root Services, KBR was scrutinized in 2000 by the GAO for overcharging and providing unnecessary services in the Balkans.
		Brown and Root's open-ended logistics contracts from the Army and Navy --indeed much of the military privatization campaign -- are grounded in a 1992 study the company did for the Defense Department that several analysts said formed the template for privatization of logistics for a downsized U.S. military.
		Brown and Root won the first five-year LOGCAP contract in 1992, but lost the second to rival DynCorp in 1997 after the GAO criticized the Army for not adequately controlling contracting costs in Bosnia.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Brown_and_Root (971 words)

	Brown Root Rot in Alfalfa
		Brown Root Rot of Alfalfa - A New Disease for Vermont?
		Brown root rot of alfalfa caused by the fungus Phoma sclerotiodes, was detected during the 2003 growing season in the Miner research plots across the lake in Chazy, NY.
		Brown root rot may already be an undiagnosed problem in Vermont alfalfa fields.
	www.uvm.edu /pss/vtcrops/articles/BrownRootRot.html (579 words)

	News & Opinion: The Candidate From Brown and Root (Austin Chronicle . 08-28-00)
		Whatever it is, Brown & Root, arguably the most famous construction company in Texas, is once again near the center of a presidential race.
		Brown & Root is a subsidiary of the Halliburton Company, the Dallas-based oil services conglomerate that until July 25 employed Dick Cheney as chairman of its executive board and CEO.
		Brown & Root, which had been a small Belton-based road-building company, was working on the dam even though Congress had not approved the $10 million project.
	weeklywire.com /ww/08-28-00/austin_pols_feature2.html (1780 words)

	Cheney's Close Ties to Brown and Root
		For example, in mid November 2001, Brown and Root was paid $2 million to reinforce the U.S. embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, under contract with the State Department, according to the New York Times.
		More recently Brown and Root was paid $16 million by the federal government to go to Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, to build a 408-person prison for captured Taliban fighters, according to Pentagon press releases.
		In February 2002, Brown and Root paid out $2 million to settle a suit with the Justice Department that alleged the company defrauded the government during the mid-1990s closure of Fort Ord in Monterey, California.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles3/Chatterjee_Iraq-BrownRoot.htm (951 words)

	Herman Brown
		Brown was a strong opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
		Brown and Root now grew rapidly as a result of obtaining a large number of municipal and federal government projects.
		Brown and Root probably does as conscientious a job for the government as the next contractor.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKbrownH.htm (1916 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Brown and Root was widely known during the 1950s and 1960s for constructing United States air and naval bases (in Spain, France, and Guam) and roads, dams, bridges, petrochemical plants, and large offshore drilling platforms.
		Brown died on November 15, 1962, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston.
		Brown was a cofounder of the Brown Foundation.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/fbr86.html (490 words)

	sfbg.com
		Currently, Brown and Root estimates it has $740 million in existing U.S. government contracts (approximately 37 percent of its global business), most of which are in addition to the LOGCAP deal.
		Brown and Root's work in the Balkans has been the most profitable for the company – the General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates the company made $2.2 billion in revenue during the military operations there, building sewage systems, kitchens, and showers and even washing underwear for the 20,000 soldiers stationed there.
		A subsequent GAO report, issued September 2000, showed that Brown and Root was still taking advantage of the contract in the Balkans, noting that army commanders were unable to keep track of the contract, as they were typically rotated out of camps after a six-month duration, erasing institutional memory.
	www.sfbg.com /36/31/cover_soldiersoffortune.html (2462 words)

	Sample Contracts - Early Retirement Agreement and Release - Brown & Root Corporate Services Inc. and Tommy E. ...
		Brown & Root agrees to seek approval or consent of Officer's retirement as an early retirement by the appropriate person or committee which may be required under applicable policy and/or each of the plans of Brown & Root and Halliburton in which he participates.
		Brown & Root shall pay Officer his regular salary at the rate in effect on September 24, 1996 to the Termination Date.
		Brown & Root agrees that, if it requests Officer to devote any time greater than one hour to such request for information after the Termination Date, it shall compensate Officer for his time at a reasonable and mutually agreeable rate.
	contracts.onecle.com /halliburton/knight.sep.1996.07.10.shtml (2461 words)

	Michigan Sexual Harassment Law Firm :: Brown & Root Proposed Amended Statement of Claim :: Detroit Racial ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton,[1] provides logistical and supply support to the United States Military worldwide.
		Brown and Root also maintains a human resources employee at some of the bases it runs overseas, and a small Human Resources office in Kaposvar, Hungary, which has on-site responsibility for the European Theater, which consists of Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Hungary.
		Brown and Root's Houston Human Resources office, is also common to the issues raised by each of the Claimants because such office investigated each of the violations complained of herein, in order to respond to EEOC investigations.
	www.joshuafriedmanesq.com.cob-web.org:8888 /lawyer-attorney-1032025.html (5500 words)

	Entrepreneurial Beginnings
		Halliburton, Brown and Root, Dresser Industries and M.W. Kellogg were all founded early in the 20th century and shared a dedication to technological leadership, operational excellence, innovative business relationships and a dynamic workforce.
		Simultaneously, the Brown brothers, George and Herman, partnered with their brother-in-law, Dan Root, to found Brown and Root in Texas.
		At the time, Brown and Root was renowned as a road construction company, general contractor and builder of the world's first offshore platform in 1947.
	www.halliburton.com /about/history_entrep.jsp (303 words)

	BW Online \| September 15, 2003 \| Outsourcing War
		Widely known as Brown and Root, KBR is a unit of oil-services giant Halliburton Co. (HAL) -- Dick Cheney's old company.
		Brown and Root's military-contracting operation is an extension of the company's original business: engineering and construction.
		Brown and Root was called into combat for the first time in late 1992, accompanying U.S. forces into Somalia in support of a U.N.-sponsored intervention.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_37/b3849012.htm (4618 words)

	NPR : Halliburton Deals Recall Vietnam-Era Controversy
		The company's founders, Herman and George Brown, won the contract to build Mansfield Dam thanks to the efforts of Johnson, who was then a Texas congressman.
		More questions were raised when a consortium of which Brown & Root was a part won a $380 million contract to build airports, bases, hospitals and other facilities for the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam.
		Brown & Root also became a target for anti-war protesters: they called the firm the embodiment of the "military-industrial complex" and denounced it for building detention cells to hold Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1569483 (521 words)

	Brown and Root
		Kellogg, Brown and Root is an American engineering and construction company, a private military contractor and a subsidiary of Halliburton.
		The legacy of Brown and Root, has had many contracts with the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as during the Vietnam War.
		At the height of the war resistance movement of the '60s, Brown and Root was derided as "Burn and Loot" by protesters and soldiers.
	www.archaeologics.com /Business-AtoC/Brown_and_Root.php (1249 words)

	A Contract to Spend
		Under the new contract, Brown and Root will be reimbursed for every dollar it spends to support the troops, and will also receive a base fee of one percent, which will guarantee the company a profit.
		The GAO also charged that Brown and Root routinely either overstaffed operations, resulting in employees standing around on long breaks, or was over-eager in its hiring, paying employees to work around the clock for no apparent reason.
		Brown and Root will compile monthly project reports and the company's work will be evaluated -- and its award fee determined -- twice a year.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2002/05/halliburton.html (1837 words)

	The Bush - Cheney Drug Empire (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is not the first time that Brown and Root has been connected to drugs and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain domination of the half trillion dollar a year global drug trade and its profits.
		One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos.
		Having had some personal experience with Brown and Root I noted carefully when the Los Angeles Times observed that on March 22, 1991 that a group of gunmen burst into the Ankara, Turkey offices of the joint venture, Vinnell, Brown and Root and assassinated retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant John Gandy.
	www.fromthewilderness.com.cob-web.org:8888 /free/ciadrugs/bush-cheney-drugs.html (4100 words)

	George R. Brown
		After studying at Rice University and the Colorado School of Mines, Brown served in the US Marines during the final stages of the Second World War.
		Brown worked as a mining engineer in Butte, Montana, until he suffered a serious injury during a mining accident.
		On the death of his brother, Herman Brown, George Brown became president of Brown and Root.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKbrownG.htm (2045 words)

	Brown Girdling Root Rot, Canola
		Brown girdling root rot is the most serious disease of canola in the B.C. Peace.
		Rotate with cereals for three to four years and control weeds of the mustard family and volunteer plants to help prevent a build-up of root pathogens in the soil.
		Plant breeders are making good progress on the development of Polish varieties with resistance to brown girdling root rot.
	www.agf.gov.bc.ca /cropprot/bgrr.htm (266 words)

	Brown & Root wins $7M Navy cell-building contract - Washington Business Journal: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brown and Root Services, a unit of Arlington, Va.-based Kellog Brown and Root, won a $7 million contract to build steel holding cells for a U.S. Navy detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
		Brown and Root didn't say how many units the Navy ordered, but the company says each unit will measure six feet-by-eight feet and include a bed, toilet and basin with running water.
		Brown and Root is ultimately a unit of Halliburton, a Texas energy company Dick Cheney led until becoming Vice President in 2001.
	www.bizjournals.com /washington/stories/2002/04/01/daily45.html (438 words)

	Vermont Crops and Soils : University of Vermont
		The root rotting fungus can be spread by wind, machinery or grazing animals.
		Crowns and lower stem tissues can also be infected although the disease is mainly a root pathogen.
		Infection and decay take place in the late fall through early spring (most root infection likely occurs between 35-40 degrees F.) while the plants are dormant.
	www.uvm.edu /pss/vtcrops/?Page=articles/BrownRootRot.html (618 words)

	CHENEY'S BROWN AND ROOT IS THE US GOVERNMENT [Free Republic]
		Under these regulations, Brown and Root was obligated to use good business sense and pursue legitimate means to reduce these sorts of costs and thereby hold down the cost to the USG.
		Brown and Root is used by the NWO for its genecide and it useless waste of US troops.
		Brown and Root is used by the NWO for its genocide and it useless waste of US troops.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a398c751d569b.htm (5553 words)

	Amazon.com: Offshore Pioneers: Brown & Root and the History of Offshore Oil and Gas: Books: Joseph A. Pratt,Tyler ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brown and Root's achievements are obviously highlighted while their defeats are understandably downplayed.
		Brown and Root did play a large role in the development of the offshore oil and gas industry, from constructing the first platforms out into the Gulf of Mexico, engineering massive North Sea structures, laying pipe in several environments, building construction barges and performing project management.
		Brown and Root was a participant in this project.
	www.amazon.com /Offshore-Pioneers-Brown-Root-History/dp/0884151387 (1381 words)

	Brown and root jobs in iraq (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	brown-and-root-jobs-in-iraq.musikoplevelser.dk.cob-web.org:8888 (404 words)

	BROWN & ROOT LTD (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Brown and Root is one of the world's largest and diverse engineering and construction companies with areas of expertise in Chemical, Petroleum and Petrochemical Complexes; Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas facilities; Pulp and Paper Mills; Manufacturing and Process Plants; Industrial Facilities and Power Plants.
		Brown and Root Marine headquarters in Wimbledon is the largest of the division within the group.
		Brown and Root provides engineering capabilities in Refining, Chemicals, Polymers and Oil and Gas processing, with proprietry technology in ethylene and ammonia.
	www.energyweb.net.cob-web.org:8888 /OSO/oso0368.htm (165 words)

	George Brown and the Assassination of JFK - The Education Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a letter written to Lyndon B. Johnson, George Brown, admitted the company was set to make a $2,000,000 profit out of the deal.
		On the death of his brother, Herman Brown, in 1962, George Brown became president of Brown and Root.
		During the Vietnam War Brown and Root/Halliburton got the lion's share of construction contracts to build American military bases in Vietnam.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=5197 (625 words)

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