The Center For Public Integrity points out KBR’s human trafficking issues
DEFENSE: War Contracting Commission Cites Center Article on Trafficking
By Nick Schwellenbach | July 28, 2010
The Center For Public Integrity
During a hearing on the oversight of subcontractors in war zones, the Wartime Contracting Commission on Monday cited the Center for Public Integrity/Washington Post investigation into the difficulty of enforcing a U.S. ban on contractors engaging in sex trafficking. It also delved into numerous instances of human trafficking and pressed government witnesses and contractors, especially Houston-based Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), on what they’re doing to stop these abuses.
Subcontractors are companies that work for “prime” contractors, which have a direct contractual relationship with the Pentagon or U.S. government.
“We all saw recently a news article that says the buck is being passed around here” regarding allegations of human trafficking, said Charles Tiefer, a commission member. “And that is, the IG sends it to somebody else, the criminal people say it’s not ours, and the program manager says it’s not ours.”
“I wonder whether you would favor formalizing the responsibilities, so the program manager has to follow up any allegations,” Tiefer asked three government witnesses. That means a subcontractor or military contracting officer would be “obliged to follow up any allegations of human trafficking and cannot simply say ‘I’ve delegated that to somebody else’.”
All three endorsed Tiefer’s proposition — Edward Harrington, an Army procurement official; Cathy Read, the State Department’s head of acquisition; and Drew Luten, a U.S. Agency for International Development official. Another commission member, Katherine Schinasi, pointedly asked the government witnesses if they knew of any companies barred from competing for contracts because of human trafficking. None did.
During questioning of a KBR official, Commissioner Grant Green asked how the company made sure its subcontractors comply with the U.S. government’s anti-human trafficking clause, which is mandatory in federal contracts.
“We do have a very robust program to monitor the trafficking-in-persons flow down requirement to our subcontractors,” responded Cheryl Ritondale, KBR’s director of procurement. KBR has a team of professionals to inspect labor camps in foreign countries and other means of detection “so we can identify any problems,” she said.
Green wasn’t satisfied with Ritondale’s answer: “You say you have a robust plan. Let me read a couple examples here to you, if I might,” Green said before recounting the following KBR-related incidents:
- A Nepalese company, Moonlight Consulting, charged a number of Nepalese men a “large fee” and transferred them to Morningstar, a Jordanian job brokerage company, which in turn transferred the men to a KBR subcontractor, Daoud & Partners “for a substantial profit,” Green said. The men “relinquished their passports,” were “held in a dark windowless room,” and were told they would be paid only three-quarters of what they were promised while in Jordan, he said. When they finally went to Iraq to work, they travelled in an unprotected convoy on a highway from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad. Insurgents attacked the convoy, hijacked it, and publicly executed 12 of the Nepalese men.
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- First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting Company, a KBR subcontractor, gave Indian men plane tickets that identified their destination as Dubai, United Arab Emirates, but promptly flew them to Iraq instead. Another group of Nepalese men in Jordan were transferred to First Kuwaiti and driven to Iraq. “Their passports were taken and with the burden of a large recruiting fee hanging over their heads, they had little or no choice other than to go,” Green said.
- After a group of Sri Lankan men brought to Kuwait refused to go on to Iraq, First Kuwaiti General Trading “gave them an ultimatum: agree to travel to Iraq and get more food and water; refuse and get nothing. Be put out in the street in Kuwait City and find your way home. Their [the Sri Lankans’] response: ‘We could not go back, we did not have a ticket, a passport, or money,’” Green said.
“I’ve got more [examples] if you want to hear them,” Green added.
KBR’s Ritondale responded she was not familiar with those specific cases. “But I will tell you that as part of the trafficking persons inspections today, and even into the past, monitoring that the fact those employees are each holding their passport, and that those passports are not being withheld from those employees, is an important element of the inspections that we do.”
“These must have just been exceptions then,” responded Green.
“I believe these may be older instances, but I can check and get that information back to the Commission,” Ritondale said.
Last year, Jo Frederiksen, a former KBR manager, filed an employment harassment lawsuit that also alleged some KBR managers in Iraq were co-owners of a brothel in Thailand. Her Texas lawsuit accused the managers of violating the trafficking-in-persons clause of KBR’s contracts with the federal government.
The clause and the company’s own new policy forbid contractor employees from being involved in the operation of brothels, since it is often unclear if the women working in them are there voluntarily or are trafficking victims. The new KBR policy was first revealed in May on a blog called Ms. Sparky run by Debbie Crawford, a former KBR employee who tracks allegations of human trafficking and abetting of prostitution by contractors.
KBR denies Frederiksen’s allegations of workplace harassment and that some KBR employees co-owned a brothel in Thailand.
“When she resigned, Ms. Frederiksen told KBR the reason for her departure was because she wanted to return home and be with family,” Heather Browne, a KBR spokeswoman, said in an e-mail to the Center.
“KBR’s investigation has not substantiated the remaining allegations raised in Ms. Frederiksen’s complaint. The company maintains and enforces policies prohibiting trafficking in persons and requires all employees to participate in training on these policies. KBR also maintains and enforces policies prohibiting retaliation as alleged by Ms. Frederiksen,” Brown wrote.
Recently, Crawford’s blog broke news of a July 20 memo from the U.S. military’s Central Command ordering contractors to return employees from nations that prohibit them from working in Iraq – such as Nepal and the Philippines – to their home countries. “In the past three weeks, eight third country nationals (TCNs), several from countries whose current domestic laws prohibit their citizens from working in Iraq, were discovered to have been left behind by their previous employers at various contractor controlled camps (A.K.A. ‘mancamps’) throughout Iraq,” the memo states. (click HERE for the original article)
Other Related Posts From Ms Sparky
- More DoD Investigations of Allegations of U.S. Contractor-Fueled Human Trafficking
- KBR Subcontractor Accused of Human Trafficking Continues to Win U.S. Contracts
- Is KBR guilty of Human Trafficking in…..Americans?
- Your Tax Dollars Are Supporting Human Trafficking In Iraq
- KBR, Partner in Iraq Contract Sued in Human Trafficking Case
Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 12:44 pm |
And one more thing. As far as Ms Frederiksen’s reason she stated for leaving KBR….“When she resigned, Ms. Frederiksen told KBR the reason for her departure was because she wanted to return home and be with family,” Most people don’t give the true reason to HR when they leave. I didn’t. That just gives KBR more reason to deem you a disgruntled employee, list you as “Not Eligible For Rehire”, fire you before you can get DEMOB and if they think you are really angry and a security risk they very well could confine you to your room with a security guard. You walk out of there on eggshells. You can’t really breathe a sigh of relief until you are at Dubai International Airport. If HR and KBR management gave no support while employed, what makes anyone think they would give it on demobilization. Plus there is no guarantee that is actually what Frederiksen put on her DMOB paperwork. KBR HR is known for changing it. I put “No comments at this time” hard telling what mine actually says.
Wednesday, July 28th 2010 at 5:50 pm |
You always put no comment, hell if you really write what you feel then of course you will be black balled by any company. Come on sparky spread the wealth so KBR was the only that got roasted about human trafficking and they said nothing about Fluor or those other companies? I see some fuzzy math here. Fair and balanced reporting yeah right.
Saturday, August 14th 2010 at 1:00 am |
There are plenty of other corporations (some from the USA) that engaged in similar activities. But not the extent of trickery and holding passports. Even the gov was involved putting people on mil-air flights that crossed borders but that stopped eventually.
Although the true definition would be Human Smuggling, because the employees (from asia and africa) are willing and active participants in the transportation. Some major airlines charged special fees to transport them to a transit airport (kuwait, istanbul, dubai) if they could prove they had a ticket on an onward flight into the country. There are also airlines and companies that specialize in getting paying people in and out of theater.
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 3:04 am |
THIS IS TO “ACTUALLY”
YOUR TERM “WILLING” IS NOT THE CORRECT TERM AND YOU SHOULD BE MORE AWARE THAT “WILLING” IS NOT A MATTER OF “FAIR CHOICE” THERE ARE DIFFERENCES…….
LET ME ENLIGHTEN YOU ON THIS SUBJECT:
WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH “FOREIGN WORKERS” WHO ARE “CONSTANTLY SUBJECTED TO ABUSE AND NEGLECT” BY GOVERNMENT AND “AMERICAN COMPANIES” WHO PERPETRATE THE “CRIME OF HUMANITY” AGAINST MOST OF THESE WORKERS “HUMAN BEING”
THEY ARE DISCRIMINATED ON TERMS OR WAGE, LIVING CONDITIONS, OPPORTUNITY AND “CONSTANTLY BEING “SUBJECTED” TO ABUSE OF POWER BY THE “WESTERN AND EUROPEAN NATIONS” DEVELOPED NATIONS “BENT” ON MAKING MONEY ON THE BACKS OF “FOREIGNERS” WHO SEEK A BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES AND LIVELIHOOD…..THEY SEEK THE SAME AS WE “AMERICANS” BUT THEY ENDURE 10 TO 20 TIME THE “PUNISHMENTS” WE EVER RECIEVED AS “AMERICAN WORKERS” SO……..BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR “WORDS” AND CHOOSE THEM WITH “SENSITIVITY” IN MIND….YOU ARE DEALING WITH “HUMANS” NOT ANIMALS…..
THEY ARE IN A “SURVIVAL MODE” NOT AS A WILLING VICTIM…..NOBODY IN A “FAIR STATE OF MIND” WITH PROPER CHOICES IN LIFE WOULD BE “WILLING” AS YOU SAY TO “SUBJECT THEMSELVES” TO THIS TYPE OF “HUMILIATION AND PREJUDICE” BY WESTERN EUROPEAN COMPANIES WHO CONSTANTLY USE “LABORERS” FOR “CHEAP LABOR” AND GAIN MASSIVE PROFIT, SO THE “PREVILEDGE, DEVELOPE EUROPEAN NATIONS” CAN GO ON LIVING YOUR “PREVILEDGE AND SPOILED LIFE” WHILE OTHER “NATIONS AND COUNTRIES’ HAVE TO SUFFER AND SUBJECTED TO THIS TYPE OF TREATMENT AND “HARVESTING” OF PEOPLE……….
SO, STOP BEING SO DAMN ARROGANT AND CHOOSE YOUR WORDS CAREFULLY AND BE MORE UNDERSTANDING RATHER THAN “MOUTHING OFF” IGNORANCE AND ARROGANCE……………
YOU HEARING ME “ACTUALLY”, I SAID DO YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!! I WANNA HEAR YOU SAY “SIR” YES SIR, YES I DO SIR………NOW!!!!!!!
HOW DOES THAT FEEL????? IF I “SAID THAT TO YOU” WOULD YOU BE “WILLING”?????????
DO YOU UNDERSTAND ?????
Wednesday, November 17th 2010 at 11:12 pm |
Does Trafficking in persons include confiscating- holding employees passport and making them sign for them whenever they need them and if so why do Government Agency’s still award contracts to companies and Sub-Contractors that knowingly do this.
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 2:37 am |
It’s called “CORRUPTION” and “WASTA” COUPLED WITH AMERICAN CORPORATE CRIMINALS THUGS “DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST” Hustling and perpetrating the “CRIME” yet they tell “other COUNTRIES” THAT IT MUST BE CONDEMN……”DOUBLE STANDARDS OF AMERICAN POLICY” my friend…..it’s all about “MONEY” and “GREED”….
THAT’S WHY “AMERICA” IS IN A “FINANCIAL TURMOIL” BECAUSE OF IT’S LEADERS AND CORPORATE “SPENDING” AND ENGAGING IN UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICE, WHILE THE “GOVERNMENT” AND KUWAITI SPONSOR, TURNS A “BLIND EYE” TO IT’S PEOPLE. AMERICA HAS “SOLD OUT” THEIR PEOPLE AND AMERICA IS “FOR SALE” TO ALL WHO CAN “AFFORD IT” INCLUDING “FOREIGN INVESTORS”
IT IS ILLEGAL TO HAVE “A COMPANY” TO HOLD YOUR PASSPORT. THE “COMPANY” CAN ONLY “HOLD” YOUR PASSPORT, FOR THE AMOUNT OF TIME “THE COMPANY” PROCESSES YOUR “VISA”, BUT THE “COMPANY” CAN NOT HOLD YOUR “PASSPORT” IT MUST BE RETURN TO YOU, WHEN YOUR “VISA”/CIVIL ID IS DONE. OTHERWISE, IT IS A VIOLATION UNDER “F.A.R.” AS A PRIME CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. MILITARY/U.S. GOVERNMENT AND IT FALLS UNDER “TRAFFICKING OF WORKERS” AND COERCION.
SO, IF YOU ALREADY HAVE YOUR “VISA/CIVIL ID” AND YOU STILL DON’T HAVE YOUR PASSPORT, GO GET IT. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING THEY ARE ASKING YOU TO SIGN, YOU SHOULD JUST BE GIVEN YOUR “PASSPORT” WITHOUT ANY QUESTIONS ASK. CONTACT YOUR “CONGRESSMAN” OR “GO TO PROPER AUTHORITIES…..
THESE “AMERICAN AND KUWAITI SPONSOR, CRIMINAL “THUGS” WILL “TWIST” LAWS AND REGULATIONS TO THEIR BENEFIT AND EVEN ENGAGE IN “COERCING” AND “ABUSE OF POWER” AS A TACTIC TO PUT “FEAR” ON THEIR WORKERS, TO DO THINGS THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO DO…….
YOU HAVE BEEN “MISLEAD AND TRAFFICKED” LIKE A “TCN” (THIRD COUNTRY NATIONAL) SAME PATTERN USED AGAINST THE “AMERICAN WORKERS” TO KEEP THEM IN CONTROL….AND TO “SAFEGUARD” THE CORPORATE AMERICAN “THUGS” DOING BUSINESS IN KUWAIT AND MIDDLE EAST, WITH THE “HELP” OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT “NOT” TO IMPLEMENT AN EFFECTIVE MEASURE TO CURB THE “PROBLEM”………
WE HAVE BEEN “SOLD OUT” AND WE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” TO THE FIGHT AGAINST “TERRORISM” WHICH THEY “USED” AS AN EXCUSE TO BRING ALL OF US HERE TO WORK AND BE SUBJECTED TO RAPE, SEXUAL HARRASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION, DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER, ABANDONMENT, FRAUD, CORRUPTION, BREACH OF CONTRACT, WRONGFUL DISCHARGE, RETALIATION, PURPOSELY PUT “US” IN HARMS WAY BY ENGAGING WITH A “CORRUPT” SPONSOR (USING “WASTA” SYSTEM) WHO ENGAGES “ONLY” ON THE “AMERICAN CORPORATE’S” INTEREST AND CUTTING CORNERS AND PUTING US AT “RISK” AS AMERICAN WORKERS, BROUGHT IN KUWAIT.
DEFINITION OF “WASTA”:
UNDERGROUND CORRUPTED “WELL ORGANIZE KUWAITI OFFICIALS” WHO USES MONEY, POWER AND THEIR INFLUENCE TO “BEND OR TWIST” THE RULE OF LAW….AND SO TO “ASSIST AMERICAN COMPANIES” TO ENGAGE IN “UNLAWFUL AND UNETHICAL” BUSINESS PRATICES, WHILE THEY “COLLECT” HUGE PROFITS……FROM INDIVIDUAL “AMERICAN WORKERS” BROUGHT TO KUWAIT…….
ALSO, THE REASON WHY THEY WANT YOU TO TURN IN YOUR “CIVIL ID” WHEN YOU LEAVE THE COUNTRY; IS BECAUSE THE “COMPANY” CAN “RECYCLE” IT WITHOUT “BUYING MORE” (THEY BUY THEM IN BULKS, FOR COMPANIES WHO REQUIRE “MAN POWER” IN KUWAIT) AND “BRING” ANOTHER AMERICAN VICTIM TO KUWAIT………WITHOUT “PURCHASING MORE” WORK PERMITS.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 2:36 am |
No Kuwait Official is well organized. Their 4 wives keep them in tow. Their maids wash their cars and keep their laundry clean because Kuwait women are too lazy. Maids look after their children and the cycle of laziness goes on. Their Indian and Lebanese staff do all the work.
We are putting pressure on them to end their other occupation – Human Trafficking and the law makers, MPs, Judges, and all who pretend to be concerned are all traffickers to one degree or another.
Even the Ambassador of Niger wants his maid to pay him 300 KD in order for her to go and get another job. There are over 100,000 Kuwaitis out of the 500,000 men engaged in selling visa on some scale or another. This Kuwait Wasta is nothing other than organized crime. The rule of law in Kuwait is based on palm reading, horoscopes, and reading tea leaves.
The State Department and the Army have sold out America’s integrity when they do not have Federal Minimum wage in the USG contracts.
The State Department in the Green Zone had 12 Global securitymen to a normal trailer – and would not approve an increase. THAT is discrimination. The State Department kept them at risk by denying them enough Hard Cars to transport themselves from BIAP to the Green Zone. THAT is discrimination and DCMA was behind that all the way.
WASTA is only a concept that is coming to the end of its life cycle just as slavery in Kuwait is too. Sorry Kuwaitis, you will actually have to GET ORGANIZED – your maids cannot do everything for you. But we are happy to keep you on the trafficking list.
The State Department hardly has room to talk and neither does the Army when they are hiring anyone other than Americans for any job that provides labor in these tough economic times in America. Wake up Hillary.
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 2:46 am |
IF THEY WON’T GIVE YOU, YOUR PASSPORT WITHOUT GIVNIG UP YOUR “RIGHTS” FOR YOUR ENTITLEMENTS AND TO HAVE YOU SIGN SOMETHING THAT YOU “SHOULD NOT”. THEN, GO TO THE U.S. EMBASSY AND TELL THEM YOU NEED A “NEW” PASSPORT BECAUSE “YOUR COMPANY” WILL NOT GIVE YOU YOUR “PASSPORT” WITHOUT GIVING UP YOUR “RIGHTS IN KUWAIT” AS AN “AMERICAN WORKER”
TELL THEM (EMBASSY), YOUR “COMPANY” LOST YOUR “PASSPORT” AND YOU WOULD LIKE A “NEW PASSPORT”
THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION….WITH THAT CRAP/B.S.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 2:38 am |
I agree with Pam for the most part as she hits the nail on the head. I do disagree with this part. Not all of it is forced labor. Intimidation does run rampant. It is actually the fear of no jobs at home that keeps people here and in fear and the employers know this very well. The sad part is that if we as Americans had been as frugal as some other people and not lived by credit we would not be here and abused. Again, much of the blame needs to be shared. For me, my bills have been paid off by at least a year or more and I am building up my savings. I took a step back and noticed what I did wrong. No more trips to exotic places, new cars, etc for me.So my blood pressure remains low now.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 12:31 pm |
TOM,
WHAT DO CONSIDER “FORCE LABOR” ANYBODY WHO IS NOT “ABIDING” BY THE MOST “BASIC PRINCIPLE OF LAW” IS CONSIDERED TO BE “FORCE LABOR”
LAWS ARE MADE AND THEY ARE USED AS “GUIDELINES” FOR THOSE WHO “EMPLOY” LABOR WORKERS. “FUNDAMENTALS” THAT NEED TO BE FOLLOWED…..JUST LIKE A “CONTRACT”.
ANYBODY THAT IS NOT WITHIN THIS SCOPE OF LAW(S) AND GUIDELINES ARE IN “VIOLATION” AND SHOULD BE “PUNISHED” IN THE COURT OF LAW, U.S. OR INTERNATIONAL…….. NO IF AND BUTS…NO CUTTING SLACK….
THIS IS CALLED “CALCULATED AND SYSTEMATIC FUNNELING OF WORKERS, TO HAVE THEM “COMMIT” THESE CRIMES…..AND CORPORATIONS WHO ENGAGES IN THIS TYPES OF “CALCULATED” FUNNELING OF LABOR WOKERS…..MUST BE PUNISH BY LAW….”CHOICES” LEFT SO THESE WORKERS WILL BE LEAD TO COMMITING THESE CRIMES; DUE TO THE ONLY CHOICES THAT THEY HAVE AND THAT’S TO COMMIT THE “CRIMINAL ACT” OR BREAK THE RULES, TO HAVE THE “OPPORTUNITY” WHICH IS NOT “THE FAULT” OF THE “LABOR WORKERS BEING EMPLOYED” BUT IT IS THE FAULT OF THE “EMPLOYERS” AND CORPORATIONS WHO “LEADS THEM TO THESE CHOICES”……CORPORATIONS, FOREIGN OR AMERICAN MUST ACT WITH RESPONSIBILITY AND WITH INTERGRITY……TO FOLLOW THE FUNDAMENTAL GUIDELINES “SET” BY LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
IT’S NO WONDER WHY WE HAVE “TRAFFICKED/SMUGGLED” WORKERS AS WE CONTINUE TO USE “DECEPTION, CORRUPTION AND USE OF FRAUD” AS TO CHANNELS THESE WORKERS TO BE HARVESTED FOR BIG “PROFIT” AND THEN WE “BLAME” THE WORKERS FOR “DOING WHAT A NORMAL PERSON WOULD DO” TO SEEK “OPPORTUNITY”
LET ME PUT IT TO YOU THIS WAY………TOM
IF I STARVED YOU FOR ONE WEEK OR NOT GIVE YOU WATER FOR (1) WEEK. THEN AS YOUR “EMPLOYER” I PRESENTED YOU FOOD AND WATER. WOULD YOU TAKE THE FOOD AND COMMIT THE CRIME…..OR WOULD YOU “REFUSE” AND TAKE THE CHANCE OF DYING OR STARVING?????????
A COMPANY OR CORPORATION, WHICH USES THESE “CALCULATED TACTICS” FOR YOUR CHOICE TO MAKE, IS AN ACT OF “CRIME” BY THE “CORPORATION” WHO ENGAGES IN THESE TYPES OF BUSINESS AND TACTICS…..WHO “EXPLOIT” WORKERS THAT ARE ON “SURVIVAL MODE” WHICH BY NORMAL “SELECTION” WILL LEAD THEM TO COMMIT THESE ACTS AND BREAK THE LAW, DUE TO THEIR DESPERATION…….
EAT AND DRINK AND YOU “BREAK THE LAW”
REFUSE, AND YOU WILL RISK THE CHANCE OF STARVATION OR DYING………WHAT WOULD YOU DO
TOM…………..?????????
PUT YOUR SELF IN THEIR SHOES….BEFORE YOU SAY, NOT ALL ARE “FORCE LABOR” IT’S A MATTER OF CORPORATIONS ACTING “RESPONSIBLY” AND NOT WORKING TO EXPLOIT WORKERS AND NOT PUT THEM ON “CALCULATED CHOICES” TO COMMIT THESE CRIMES……MOST PEOPLE “DO NOT WANT TO BREAK ANY RULES” BUT, WHAT DO YOU DO; WHEN CORPORATIONS ARE THE ONCE WHO ARE “PUTTING” THESE EMPLOYEES INTO THESE “CHOICES” OR CALCULATED SYSTEMATIC SLAVERY OF “PEOPLE”
WELCOME TO “CAPITALISM” INVENTED AND PATENTED BY THE “EUROPEAN NATIONS AND DEVELOPED NATIONS”
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 12:48 pm |
HARVESTING PEOPLE, IS THE “CHEAPEST” WAY TO TURN “BIG PROFITS” FOR THESE DEVELOPED NATIONS AND CORPORATE AMERICAN “THUGS”
HIRE THEM AND REPLACE THEM WHEN THEY CAN “NO LONGER” SERVE YOU OR SERVE THE “PURPOSE” YOU “HIRED” THEM FOR…..
IT IS CHEAPER TO HIRE AND “HARVEST HUMANS”
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WATER THEM, FERTILIZE, AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE “DROUGHT”
WHEN THEY ARE TO WEAK AND THEY CAN NO LONGER “PRODUCE” YOU GET YOURSELF A NEW “FRESH MEAT” AND GET RID OF THE ONCE THAT CAN NOT PRODUCE……….
HARVESTING PEOPLE, IS THE CHEAPEST WAY TO TURN PROFITS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE DEALING WITH “FOREIGN CORRUPT BUSINESS PARTNERS”…….LIKE KRH AND QUEST……
“HUMAN FARMING AND HARVESTING” IN THE 21ST CENTURY……….WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF “INTERNATIONAL MAFIAS”, THUGS AND HUSTLERS…..CORPORATE AMERICA…..YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE…..I CAN SEE YOU AND YOUR “CALCULATED TACTICS” VERY CLEARLY……WORLD OF CONTROL AND CORRUPTED ABUSE OF POWER……TO THE PEOPLE…THAT WANTS TO CONTROL IT….
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 7:11 am |
Those clauses they discuss are meaningless. Here is why. The U.S. Army and State Department both condone human trafficking in all its forms. DCMA and DCAA do not audit for it and the U.S. Army are too corrupt to ever suspend for it because they are documented on a scale not seen since WWII for taking kickbacks and bribes and NOT overseeing their contracts. In Kuwait they leave the trafficking violations to KRH, their cleaning company and QUEST. They receive kickbacks to look the other way. They have cleaners on the base under CSA making 17 cents per hour and other personnel making 200 dollars per month and that is ok with the US Army and DCMA. Americans need jobs and they should get first crack at it. At least they are American and can get clearances.
The U.S. Army cannot, even with a 3 year old Army Contracting Command oversee a contract for ANY of its terms and conditions. They cannot even conduct clean contracting. They are now in the process of wire fraud by hiding solicitations, and therefore the terms and conditions, the awardees who may, if anyone can monitor the award, human rights violations, bid-rigging (Army Specialty code now) let alone the other 50 plus clauses. They are hiding the solicitations under http://www.usmilitarycontracting.com which is tantamount to wire fraud. The site was purchased under a SFC Chadd Cobb using his gmail account. What does the ACC and General Joe Bass have to say about this.
Joe Bass is going to get called on this and it will cost Joe Bass his star. I will make a steak dinner bet on that.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 8:35 am |
IN the GCC countries that we are kissing the asses of – it is time to make a statement to those governments that won’t put an end to this:
* News
http://en.news.maktoob.com/20090000528612/Body_of_Indonesia_maid_found_in_Saudi_garbage/Article.htm
Body of Indonesia maid found in Saudi garbage
Nov 19, 2010 at 12:11
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[Indonesian member of parliament Rieke Dyah Pitaloka (C) speaks during a protest by Migrant Care Indonesia over the torture of domestic worker Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Jakarta on Nov. 19, 2010. Photograph: ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images]
Indonesian member of parliament Rieke Dyah Pitaloka (C) speaks during a protest by Migrant Care Indonesia over the torture of domestic worker Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Jakarta on Nov. 19, 2010. Photograph: ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images
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Indonesian minister heads to Saudi
By AP
JAKARTA – Indonesia demanded an investigation Friday into reports that a domestic worker was allegedly killed by her employer in Saudi Arabia and thrown into dumpster — the second case of maid abuse to emerge this week.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting called to discuss the need to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who flock to the Middle East in search of work.
Too many, human rights groups say, face slavery-like conditions, torture, sexual abuse and even death.
Indonesian Minister of Labor Muhaimin Iskandar said an embassy team was dispatched to the Saudi town of Abha to look into allegations the 36-year-old maid, Kikim Komalasari, had been killed by her bosses.
Her neck was slashed and she had severe cuts to the rest of her body, he said.
The US needs to cancel the deal to Saudi of the fighters and Kuwait needs no further help until maids are all sent back to their countries of origin. If the U.N had balls, they would declare that those countries that normally supply maids are no longer allowed to until trafficking, withholding passports and detention has ended and every ex-pat who enters the country is free. No, the U.S. is 2-faced and will continue to ignore Saudi, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, UAE, because we need their land to launch from. No, it is them that need US to not have the Iranians take over their countries. When will the US really get some ethics to go along with that BS Human Rights BS we babble.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Joel Millman was just in Kuwait to do a story on the maids. When will we see it Joel. It is not a story that can get written enough about – not until the Visa slavery system is abolished in every GCC country. But like reporter David Phinney – it probably won’t get written about because it isn’t sensational enough and these abused women don’t need a spokesman like you. They are locked in their Kuwaiti jails called homes and apartments with no freedoms while you are free to write or not write.
At least one Saudi prince who violated the Quran and being a homosexual and killing his maid in England did get justice. Is locking up maids part of the Quran. Is driving nails into their hands part of the Quran. Any muslims out there want to comment on this ? We Christians stopped that practice when the Romans disappeared off the face of the earth. Why are the muslims doing this. Any defenders of them.
Why are Muslim women so lazy that they need maids ?
It is time that American ethics, policies, and our standards are in our USG contracts and we set the rules. They don’t like it – too bad.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 11:15 am |
I don’t see any Muslims coming forward to stick up for your “Brothers” about the abuse of these maids in Kuwait and other GCC countries. Figures. Here is my email address if you want to write me direct.
Abolish.Visa18and20@gmail.com
Kuwait’s Arab Times have heard from me a few times when they start defending this abuse. They cannot even ever name the abusers. Kuwait does like to hide their criminals. They did it when 15 Kuwaitis were going to raid Camp Arifjan and they do it when the Kuwait women abuse and kill the expat maids.
I just dare one of these Kuwait women to try to put some nails in an American’s hands. That just might be their last day on earth. The sooner these lazy Kuwaitis lose their maids – the sooner Kuwait will be on its way to getting off our Sh!+ – List.
I am standing by waiting for any defense for the Saudi’s killing their maids and putting nails in their hands or cutting their lips with sizzors. Or to defend the Kuwaiti’s staging murders of their maids, putting nails in them, setting them on fire, locking them up, or the other 3 or 5 stories I see in the Arab Times every day.
Maybe one of these Muslims can explain why they lock their maids in apartments so that they have to rappel down to escape their kidnappers.
I am waiting………
Colonel John Alexander seems to have the need for these maids and his wife wants to pay them only 60 KD per month. Geez Colonel Alexander – what got into your wife ?
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 11:40 am |
Monkey see, Monkey do…….
Welcome to Kuwait and it’s major “business” and has earned them “AAA” rating around the world…….for “TRAFFICKING/SMUGGLING IN WORKERS”
Nothing new, just plain “corruption” and the lack of “respect” for others……is what drives this “middle east economy” and it’s “black gold”
AMERICA, IS IN TROUBLE “THESE ARABS” ARE BUYING UP PROPERTIES IN LONDON,UK AND THE UNITED STATES, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE “ECONOMIC SLOW DOWN” IN U.S. AND THE WORLD AND THEY ARE “PENETRATING FROM ALL FRONTS” THROUGH “CORRUPTED” AMERICAN AFFILIATES….IN UNITED STATES.
AMERICA, HAS CHANGED AND WE ARE “ALL” AT “RISK” AS AMERICANS AND AS A NATION……
Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 11:41 am |
I don’t see that one Muslim has stepped forward to defend this coward Kuwait man and his wife who held this woman down and drove nails into her hands on multiple occasions.
They don’t condemn it either. But they collectively sure as hell shut their mouths.
We need the United Nations not to shut their mouths on this and to file an international Human Rights Abuse case against the Government of Kuwait for not immediately ending their system of slavery called Visa 20.
Who from the Kuwait ruling family wants to be on the other end of a Human Rights Violation case. Name them and let’s get these charges filed on behalf of the maids of Kuwait. It is time that the 5th Century Kuwaitis learned about some 21st century justice.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 3:10 pm |
GCC Countries Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Torture Pictures 21st Century After Death of Christ Against their Slaves (so-called maids)
http://www.scribd.com/full/43382270?access_key=key-2m413gjxf8e7lomxtm5o
Here are 2 examples of Muslims torturing their slaves in the 21st Century after the Death of Christ.
In the Roman Era, nails were used on men between the 6th Century BC through the 3rd Century AD.
It is time for the United Nations to demand that no more slaves be allowed to go to any GCC countries until slavery is abolished. Kuwait Airways is a modern-day slave-ship of Kuwait and the slavers troll India, Philippines, Nepal, and Indonesia looking for their victims.
Who wants to defend these Muslims and these lazy GCC women and men who abuse these women and who keep imprisoned in apartments and houses – then torture them and are killing them at an aggregate of over 50 per week between all the GCC countries. Suicide is a murder. Passport withheld. Denied going home. Overworked. Sexually assaulted.
If this doesn’t embarrass you and your religion then no doubt your suicide bombers coming from your religion don’t either.
We – Christians – have had enough. I would say these maids have had enough of the GCC country’s abuse too. You don’t lock up your maids and you don’t torture them. We chose who we do business with and don’t think for a second we owe one Arab one thing just because we want keep Iran in check.
If you are an offended Muslim – too bad. Get on your countrymen and women.
– Douglas Frederick
Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 7:54 pm |
just as I thought – not one person, man or woman can defend the abuse of maids in the Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, or the UAE, yet it was a husband and wife that held her down while the hammered nails into her hand. Those 2 are Lazy cowards.