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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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 Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: Halliburton Will Move HQ To Dubai |
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Halliburton Will Move HQ To Dubai
By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer
Sun Mar 11, 9:01 PM ET
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Oil services giant Halliburton Co. will soon shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial powerhouse of Dubai, chief executive Dave Lesar announced Sunday 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/emirates_halliburton;_ylt=Ajnc02QDK2BKwXm8x9.0A8gDW7oF |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:52 am Post subject: |
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Globalization marches on......wonder what percentage of Halliburton is owned by evil Mi-gooks....
I hope it's a big number. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| It's not globalization, it's avoiding prosecution. |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:29 am Post subject: |
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What???
The Fevered brains of leftists are always entertaining.
Of course, it shouldn't be surprising that the choices a global company makes would be lost on those stuck in the non-profit nirvanaland-of esl teachers/extended University.
Try to imagine EFLtrainer......if you were presented with the choice to move Hallibuton's hdqt's from Houston to Dubai.....
What would YOU DO ? |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| sundubuman wrote: |
What???
The Fevered brains of leftists are always entertaining.
Of course, it shouldn't be surprising that the choices a global company makes would be lost on those stuck in the non-profit nirvanaland-of esl teachers/extended University.
Try to imagine EFLtrainer......if you were presented with the choice to move Hallibuton's hdqt's from Houston to Dubai.....
What would YOU DO ? |
Well, I certainly wouldn't move my headquarters to a place like this:
| a while back, sundubuman wrote: |
So technically speaking, a camel jockey could be of any race. But last time I heard anything about camel jockeys, they were enslaved, starved, sexually molested Bangladeshi and Indian boys working the races in the United Arab Emirates.
http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/resources/cameljockeysgallery/gallery.htm
http://www.uaeprison.com/camelkids.htm
If I say that this child slavery is another wonderful aspect of Arab culture, like honor killings, enslaved Filipino maids, suicide bombs, lack of freedom, hijackings, beheadings......
am I being racist?
or observant? |
I'd say inconsistent. And too dumb to remember what you yourself have written before.
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=52292&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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The firm is moving because it is an oil services firm who does most of their business in the Middle East. They have continued to trade with Iran, despite the embargo, by going through a shelter company in Cayman.
Also, UAE does not charge expats income tax, which is like a 40% raise for the CEO comin from the USA.
The firm that is involved in Iraq is typically Kellog, a subsidiary.
I posted a link to a documentary about these firms just yesterday. They charge the military 99$ for a bag of laundry, and 45$ for a 6-pack of coke. There will be consequences for this. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: |
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The firm is moving because it is an oil services firm who does most of their business in the Middle East. They have continued to trade with Iran, despite the embargo, by going through a shelter company in Cayman.
Also, UAE does not charge expats income tax, which is like a 40% raise for the CEO comin from the USA.
The firm that is involved in Iraq is typically Kellog, a subsidiary.
I posted a link to a documentary about these firms just yesterday. They charge the military 99$ for a bag of laundry, and 45$ for a 6-pack of coke. There will be consequences for this. |
I wonder how much they got of the 2.3 trillion dollars in US military spending that is unnaccounted for. |
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bixlerscott
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
Location: Near Wonju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| And corruption rocks on.... |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| sundubuman wrote: |
What???
The Fevered brains of leftists are always entertaining.
Of course, it shouldn't be surprising that the choices a global company makes would be lost on those stuck in the non-profit nirvanaland-of esl teachers/extended University.
Try to imagine EFLtrainer......if you were presented with the choice to move Hallibuton's hdqt's from Houston to Dubai.....
What would YOU DO ? |
Well, I certainly wouldn't move my headquarters to a place like this:
| a while back, sundubuman wrote: |
So technically speaking, a camel jockey could be of any race. But last time I heard anything about camel jockeys, they were enslaved, starved, sexually molested Bangladeshi and Indian boys working the races in the United Arab Emirates.
http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/resources/cameljockeysgallery/gallery.htm
http://www.uaeprison.com/camelkids.htm
If I say that this child slavery is another wonderful aspect of Arab culture, like honor killings, enslaved Filipino maids, suicide bombs, lack of freedom, hijackings, beheadings......
am I being racist?
or observant? |
I'd say inconsistent. And too dumb to remember what you yourself have written before.
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=52292&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 |
Well, thankfully in Dubai, things have improved and there is no longer child slavery at the camel races. From what I've read.
And seriously, companies, like individuals, are free to move from city to city, and increasingly, country to country.
I , for one, think it is good to put the blowhards in DC on notice that making a punching bag out of a global company like Halliburton isn't necessarily a wise thing to do. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
The firm is moving because it is an oil services firm who does most of their business in the Middle East. They have continued to trade with Iran, despite the embargo, by going through a shelter company in Cayman.
Also, UAE does not charge expats income tax, which is like a 40% raise for the CEO comin from the USA.
The firm that is involved in Iraq is typically Kellog, a subsidiary.
I posted a link to a documentary about these firms just yesterday. They charge the military 99$ for a bag of laundry, and 45$ for a 6-pack of coke. There will be consequences for this. |
yeah, i saw that documentary. It is disgraceful how little Congress has done about it. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Punching bag, my ass.
Get out of the yeshiva and learn something real. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| They are the worst kind of war profiteers, in FDR's day they would have been put on trial and thrown in jail, that is the executives. Scumbags. Anyone who claims to "suppport the troops" cannot possibly support or defend this company. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| They are the worst kind of war profiteers, in FDR's day they would have been put on trial and thrown in jail, that is the executives. Scumbags. Anyone who claims to "suppport the troops" cannot possibly support or defend this company. |
Speaking Of FDR ( & the origins of AmeriKa's military industrial behmoth )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
One of America true heros.
Smedley Darlington Butler
(July 30, 1881 � June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
Butler was awarded the Medal of Honor twice during his career, one of only 19 people to be awarded the medal twice. He was noted for his outspoken anti-interventionist views, and his book War is a Racket was one of the first works describing the workings of the military-industrial complex.
After retiring from service, Butler became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, communists, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s. Butler came forward in 1934 and informed Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Anyone else familiar with the coup attempt?
WAR IS A RACKET
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Thanks for saving me the trouble, folks. I hate liars. My response would have been one Sherman would have been proud of. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| Octavius Hite wrote: |
| They are the worst kind of war profiteers, in FDR's day they would have been put on trial and thrown in jail, that is the executives. Scumbags. Anyone who claims to "suppport the troops" cannot possibly support or defend this company. |
Speaking Of FDR ( & the origins of AmeriKa's military industrial behmoth )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
One of America true heros.
Smedley Darlington Butler
(July 30, 1881 � June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
Butler was awarded the Medal of Honor twice during his career, one of only 19 people to be awarded the medal twice. He was noted for his outspoken anti-interventionist views, and his book War is a Racket was one of the first works describing the workings of the military-industrial complex.
After retiring from service, Butler became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, communists, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s. Butler came forward in 1934 and informed Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Anyone else familiar with the coup attempt?
WAR IS A RACKET
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm |
My my. Smedley Darlington? What an unfortunate name. |
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