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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:00 PM
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In the film, The Corporation, the then head of Burson-Marsteller's states
that the company's job is to sell corporations. Isn't that the firm that is selling Hillary? Funny coincidence, isn't it?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:13 PM
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1. sell corporations and CLEAN up their "mistakes"
Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 10:14 PM by seemslikeadream
Bhopal

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Three Mile Island

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Defending Big Tobacco

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http://www.cwatch.webbler.co.uk/?lid=395#regimes
Nigeria
B-M flacked for both the Nigerian Government and Royal Dutch/Shell during and after the Biafran war. Reports of instability and genocide at the time had hurt Nigeria’s international image, they hired B-M to discredit these reports<24>.
The relationship continued long after the Biafran war. From 1991-2 the Nigerian military junta paid B-M’s lobbying subsidiary, Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly (acquired in 1991) over $1m in fees<25>.

Indonesia
After the invasion of East Timor around 200,000 people, one third of the population were murdered, the Indonesian government has also been accused of genocidal policies against the peoples of Irian Jaya, amongst many other human rights abuses. In 1996, BM was hired by the Indonesian government to clean up its image<26>. B-M does however deny handling the issue of genocide in East Timor.

Argentina
BM worked for the Argentinian military junta led by General Jorge Videla, which seized power in a coup d'_tat in 1976. B-M’s job was to improve the country's international image and create the impression of stability to attract foreign investment. During Videla's reign, 35,000 people 'disappeared' and thousands of political prisoners were tortured. Videla is now serving a life sentence for murder.
Harold Burson commented that, "We regard ourselves as working in the business sector for clear-cut business and economic objectives. So we had nothing to do with a lot of the things that one reads in the paper about Argentina as regards human rights and other activities."<27>

Saudi Arabia, et al.
B-M has worked for a host of regimes with appalling human rights records including the notoriously repressive and corrupt government of Saudi Arabia, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu, and the governments of Sri Lanka and Singapore<28>. Three days after the September 11th attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, in which 13 of the 16 alleged suicide bombers were Saudis, Saudi Arabia again hired B-M to ensure that its national image remains untarnished<29>.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:14 PM
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2. Thanks. How can anyone trust Hillary if she is associated
with this firm? She needs to make a statement on this.
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 11:52 PM
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3. In other words, they are corporate propagandists for hire
Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 11:53 PM by killbotfactory
No client too sleazy.
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