Halliburton Chief Moving to Dubai

[BornagainDUer]

Source: AP

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) -- Halliburton Chairman and Chief Executive Dave Lesar said Wednesday he'll leave for his new home and office in Dubai at week's end as the oilfield services conglomerate begins splitting its corporate headquarters between the United States and the United Arab Emirates.Halliburton announced the decision to create a second corporate office in March, saying it will place the company closer to important oil and gas markets.

Lesar, speaking at Halliburton's annual stockholder meeting in this Houston suburb, reiterated the company will gain no special tax or legal advantages from the move.

"Halliburton has been and will continue to be a U.S. company and therefore a U.S. taxpayer," Lesar said. "I personally will remain a U.S. citizen and a U.S. taxpayer."




Read more: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070516/halliburton_shareholders.html?.v=3

[fooj]

1. OMG! I am on OUTRAGE overload!

When the hell is this bullshit going to cease?

[Warpy]

6. It won't

There is no extradition treaty with Dubai, future home of Cheney.

[wicket]

17. No shit....

Never knew that. Damn criminals :grr:

[Blue_Tires]

18. what South America was to the escaped WWII Nazis

Dubai will be for this generations fascist power brokers

[Javaman]

36. The only comforting thought I have is...

when global warming hits in earnest, dubai will be underwater. :)

[lonestarnot]

37. Hope none of them can swim.

[xiamiam]

19. my first thought as well...these guys have systematically stolen the loot..

at the expense of about a half million iraqis, and thousands upon thousands of American families experiencing the hell of this war....

an international group of wounded and dead vital young men and women..

and you know cheney is in it up to his shiny bald head..disgusting...its time to get our money back...its on its way to dubai and paraguay..impeachment is too good for these guys...jail time..orange jump suits..and a demand for the looted dough, much of it legitimately garnered by vp sanctioned(no link..just know it) no bid contracts..every time he leaves his undisclosed location, there is dirty greedy power grabbing criminal work being done...this latet news (ha) just pisses me off...

[BornagainDUer]

29. No extradition treaty?

[BeHereNow]

12. Not in our lifetimes...that's when.

You know what I find even MORE outrageous.
I'll put money down right now that the average
US citizen has forgotten all about the Dubai deal to
control ports in duh'muikkka.
They never connect the dots.
Never.
Which is precisely how we got where we are today.
Fact is, most duh'murikkkans couldn't find Dubai, Iraq OR Kansas on a map.
BUT they CAN tell you who the latest American Idol contestant is.
BHN

[uppityperson]

2. all I can do is laugh.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Kenny Lay is already there

mixing the martinis

[valerief]

4. And serving one to Jerry Falwell. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Gee, I hadn't heard

that Hell had relocated to Dubai as well.

[valerief]

27. Some things you just never know. Like which rich white guy is really alive

and which rich white guy is really dead.

[BornagainDUer]

31. That wouldn't surprise me.

[Turbineguy]

7. Maybe he wants

his kids to be able to spend the night at Jacko's place.

[snappyturtle]

8. The Woodlands will be better off. nt

[3waygeek]

9. Does Dubai have an extradition treaty with the US? n/t

[cosmicdot]

15. list of extradition treaties

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties

[bluestateguy]

10. Then strip the fucker of his citizenship

and cancel all of his companies contracts.

[salin]

25. and strip the company of their US Govt contracts.

This is a big ole tax and regulation dodge. Fine - then stop getting rich off of tax payers money.

[GliderGuider]

11. One step ahead of the sheriff?

You can run, you scum, but you can't hide.

[AwareOne]

13. Dubai, the next playground for the super wealthy

I just read an article in my local paper that stated there are 45 five star hotels under construction in Dubai right now. Dubai is spending a ton of money on tourism promotion.

[CatholicEdHead]

14. They actually have a 7 star one

With the top rooms at $13,000 a night or so (I might be too low).

[cassiepriam]

16. All the billions stolen from the US treasury have to be spent somewhere....

Guess they can go to Dubai and have a lot of fun on our money.

[xiamiam]

20. i say we get it back..stop him from leaving..call waxman..have another hearing...stop everything...

if they really get the money....then they really get away with it...

the greatest heist in the history of america..the treasury robbed while nobody did anything about it..

how do you lose 387 million dollars?..how do you lose one billion of saddams money...how does bunny greenhouse lost her job by questioning no bid contracts?..what happened to the priceless irreplacable artefacts from the baghdad museum?...why are gas prices so high yet oil profits out of control?...why is cheney saber rattling against iran with the support of NOBODY in their right mind?.WTF

[cassiepriam]

26. Yep, the greatest heist of all times, and it was like taking candy from a baby.

And unless there are some consequences for all these crooks
the next set of sociopaths will just be waiting for their turn.

[Thor_MN]

35. Cheney is saber rattling against Iran because Iran CAN reach out and touch Dubai

The neocon's tirade of "Terra, Terrs, Terra" has nothing to do with protecting America (it dose have a lot to do with controlling Americans). The need to control militant groups in Iraq, Iran and Syria is because those groups have the capability to carry their fights to Dubai. America's natural defense of oceanic separation still works against large scale assault. The man-made tax and prosecution haven of Dubai does not enjoy the geographic separation. Chenney wants his escape plan to be to a peaceful Middle East - ironic that his dumbass policies, like all neocon wet-dreams, are self defeating. The sad part is the amount of destruction that occurs when they try to make over the world with force.

[xiamiam]

21. yep,frequented by all the criminals who just committed the biggest crime in the history of the world

[guruoo]

22. Good -collect his passport at the border before he goes n/t

[OneBlueSky]

23. so in the future, the world will be run from the Bush compound in Peru and . . .

the Halliburton headquarters in Dubai . . .

how con-ve-e-e-e-nient! . . .

[BornagainDUer]

30. and the US ports being owned by Dubai. This is totally weird.

[conspirator]

34. What bush compound in Peru? Can you give me info about that? nt

[tom_paine]

24. Shocking! Shocking, I say!

So, in the age of the Internet, the Bush Family Evil Empire will have offices in Paraguay and Dubai?

[donsu]

28. Dubai, the country that harbors US criminal suits

Dubai should remember, that what goes around, comes around.

[blm]

32. Dubai - Capital City of New World Order. Same financiers who started BCCI, folks.

.

[sofa king]

33. There's only one reason why this is happening.

Agreements and Treaties. No extradition or mutual legal assistance treaties (MLAT) exist between the United States and the UAE, although the two countries are exploring whether to negotiate an MLAT. The UAE is party to the 1988 UN Drug Convention, the 1961 UN Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, and the 1988 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances. The UAE has signed, but has not yet ratified, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/79207.htm

[BornagainDUer]

38. Sounds like a great place for crooks to live.

[Marie26]

39. Doesn't Dubai seem

like the new Disneyland for the super-rich?