{"id":187,"date":"2003-02-11T22:18:17","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T22:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/business-training\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T01:46:14","slug":"business-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/business-training\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSINESS TRAINING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Thank you to the <a href=\"http:\/\/legitgov.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Citizens For Legitimate Government<\/em><\/a> newsletter for bringing this one to my attention)<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investrend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InvesTrend<\/a> website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investrend.com\/articles\/defaultFinancialWire.asp?level=160\" target=\"_blank\">Halliburton, GE, Conoco Accused of Terrorist Ties<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. has called for a &#8220;review&#8221; of three U.S. companies that &#8220;<strong> conduct business with terrorist-linked companies<\/strong>,&#8221; naming <strong>General Electric Co., ConocoPhillips and Halliburton Company<\/strong>. Thompson has submitted shareholder resolutions on behalf of the New York City Police and Fire Department Pension Funds to the companies, calling for a vote to establish a Board of Directors&#8217; committee to review the corporation&#8217;s operations with reference to &#8220;potential financial and reputational risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are trying to eradicate terrorism, we must ensure that companies in our portfolio are not using off-shore subsidiaries to legally evade United States sanctions against terrorist-sponsoring states,&#8221; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You mean just because a country harbors terrorists and produces weapons of mass destruction, we can&#8217;t do business with them? Say, what kind of <em>Amerricun<\/em> are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Thank you to the Citizens For Legitimate Government newsletter for bringing this one to my attention) From the InvesTrend website: Halliburton, GE, Conoco Accused of Terrorist Ties New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. has called for a &#8220;review&#8221; of three U.S. companies that &#8220; conduct business with terrorist-linked companies,&#8221; naming General Electric Co., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-31","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}