This has many implications on my job. Time to climb the corporate ladder.

Mordis: This has many implications on my job. Time to climb the corporate ladder.

Are you getting a kick out of some of these replies?

New markets? Halliburton has been doing business with Iran for years, despite the ban.

NBC, March 2005, Video: U.S. companies in Iran -direct to video. (Note, based on style of clothing, stock footage of chanting crowds from the 80s. A media favorite)

Persepolis: (Note, based on style of clothing, stock footage of chanting crowds from the 80s. A media favorite)

That's pretty classic.

Do you have some sort of bot that notifies you of any greenlight containing the search term "Iran"?

Perhaps Dubai doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US. Sooner or later some of these crooks will be charged with something.

Persepolis: NBC, March 2005, Video: U.S. companies in Iran

Interesting--According to the video, they were under investigation for violating US bans on doing business with Iran in 2005. I don't remember any USA from Texas being fired....

Wonder what happened to that investigation.

Ha ha, it'll be funny how all the people in Houston who make a career out of sucking Halliburton's dick will accept this news.

Probably makes it harder for US prosecutors to get a hold of key records if they move the HQ outside of the US. Or it could be that haliburton has decided it's time to launch their world takeover tour and they don't want to do it where a bunch of US troops could easily shut them down.

Alternatively, I should stop watching Jericho. I could easily see haliburton funding the Ravenwood group.

Skleenar: Are you getting a kick out of some of these replies?

I am in fact!

This may be a powerplay by Halliburton to keep from getting their operations in Dubai shut down. Many LOGCAP employees have been arrested in Dubai for various offenses, drunk & disorderly, cultural insensitivity, drugs and the like. Dubai needed a little extra grease to keep the wheels turning.

Persepolis:

Good to see you. Hope you are doing well.

General Electric, the parent company of NBC, decided to not take any more orders from Iran AFTER Halliburton pulled out.

I, for one, welcome the relocation of our corporate overlords - to the other side of this shrinking planet.

Skleenar: Do you have some sort of bot that notifies you of any greenlight containing the search term "Iran"?

I have a phone under glass on my desk, it rings when I'm needed.

Mordis: Good to see you. Hope you are doing well.

Thanks dude. I'm on a semi-sabbatical from fark. This is me caving in.

Persepolis: This is me caving in.

Heh... you can't just quit cold turkey!

Persepolis: I have a phone under glass on my desk, it rings when I'm needed.

Cool!

Do you have one of these, too?

Mordis: Heh... you can't just quit cold turkey!

Don't I know it.

bullcrap article on a bullcrap site.

title sucks too.

So yeah... is anyone else here a little skeptical of the veracity of this because of the site hosting the article?

...and they're taking your tax dollars with them.

Why can't we quit linking to kos?

we can have some sort of exchange... no kos/littlegreenfootballs..

etc..

/can't we all just get along?

The thing you Libs need to understand is that Halliburton is the only company capable of moving its headquarters to Dubai.

MadCat221

So yeah... is anyone else here a little skeptical of the veracity of this because of the site hosting the article?


The AP has it to. It's time to screw down your tinfoil hat.

Well, duh.

What's the point in starting a war to get all those tax dollars if you're only going to pay the dollars back in taxes?

Well, if as a corporation, you want to avoid US taxes, on your skezillion$ made offa war profiteering, it makes perfect sense.

/farkers >:(

i live out here - havent heard/read ANY buzz to that effect in the news/papers

its a KOS artice - so it does look iffy

its a KOS artice - so it does look iffy

Normally i'd agree with you, but it's also being reported on yahoo.news.

Will be interested to see if there are Federal tax breaks associated with this move.

Spoke too soon (p)

DAMN. damn damn DAMN

So does this move make them a foreign company? And if so, will that affect there many 'no-bid' contracts for the DOD?

at80eighty [TotalFark]


its a KOS artice - so it does look iffy


Some of you are just officially out of your goddamed minds. It's in 1000 papers on the google. Do try to keep up.

sigdiamond2000: The thing you Libs need to understand is that Halliburton is the only company capable of moving its headquarters to Dubai.

Hmm? I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate please?

This is good news for Hugo Chavez. He can finally move his company to the US.

Weaver95: Normally i'd agree with you, but it's also being reported on yahoo.news.

i know man :-) - searched for corroborating articles after posting - silly me :-/

Will be interested to see if there are Federal tax breaks associated with this move.

Seeing as there are lucrative tax breaks for sending labor overseas, moving an entire company off-shore will be a huge windfall.

MadCat221:
So yeah... is anyone else here a little skeptical of the veracity of this because of the site hosting the article?

No.

http://www.halliburton.com/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/news .jsp?newsurl=/default/main/halliburton/eng/news/source_files/press_release/200 7/corpnws_031107.html

Rovian: Do try to keep up.

here (pops)

sigdiamond2000: The thing you Libs need to understand is that Halliburton is the only company capable of moving its headquarters to Dubai.


Heh. Nice one.

*goddamned* n n n n n n n

Meh:
http://tinyurl.com/ynvkdw

(Goes to same press release, but doesn't break URL)

Horatio_Algernon: Well, if as a corporation, you want to avoid US taxes,

Not the only reason. Moving the company out of the US gives more leverage when dealing with other countries. Since you are no longer an US company you can do business with countries that dislike the US or with countries that won't do business with the US.

This could be a move to create stability since most of their work is in the US. If the US market falls then many people are out of work. But if they make a move to a more global work force then instead of doing mass lay-off's, they can shift the workforce to where the work is.

At least that's what my company does. They are Caribbean based with only 20% of their work in the US. It creates a great deal of job security.

Take it easy on at80eighty, it's not his fault neo-cons don't do research and just spout the party line and discredit any 'liberal' souce.

Bah, not going to happen. The US will stamp a "proprietary" label on the company and ban it from moving.

BGates: Since you are no longer an US company you can do business with countries that dislike the US or with countries that won't do business with the US.

Not that thats a real issue, there are ways around that. See 3rd post in this thread.

"As the decades-long hostilities between the United States and the former Soviet Union in the Middle East have come to an end with the end of the Cold War, this important region of the world has reemerged as the arena for rivalries between the major capitalist powers of the world over sources of oil that is vital for their economies. Locked in interimperialist competition for control of raw materials, cheap labor, new markets, and higher rates of profit across the globe, the chief imperialist powers found in Iraq and Iran (and potentially Syria) the potential for an alternate power center to control and regulate the flow of oil, which has become the key strategic commodity that will determine the success or failure of one or another of the rival capitalist powers in the world economy well into the twenty first century."

/Berch Berberoglu, Globalization Of Capital And The Nation-State, page 82.
//Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the graduate studies sociology department at the University of Nevada, Reno
///I'm taking his mid-term tomorrow.

at80eighty
SoonToBeBannedOnACF
MadCat221

lib buh rul uh huh huh huh

Halliburton War profiteer execs just want to get a piece of that prime real estate.

Globalization is hell.