Remember how this story barely made the mainstream media?

[SHRED]

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I am sure that most of America is ignorant of all this.

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Halliburton bails out of Iraq, KBR and now America
12 March 2007

WASHINGTON, March 12 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- “With various ongoing investigations, Halliburton's sale of KBR and the move to UAE are tantamount to fleeing the scene of a crime,” said Jim Donahue, co-director of Halliburton Watch, in response to the company’s announcement today that it will move its headquarters to Dubai, UAE.

Halliburton is moving to UAE at a time when it is being investigated in the U.S. for bribery, bid rigging, defrauding the military and illegally profiting in Iran. It is currently in the process of divesting all of its ownership interest in the scandal-plagued KBR subsidiary, notorious for overcharging the military and serving contaminated food and water to the troops in Iraq.

Although Halliburton will still be incorporated inside the United States, moving its corporate headquarters to UAE will make it easier to avoid accountability from federal investigators. The company has proven adept at using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent restrictions on doing business in Iran and to elude responsibility for paying benefits to former employees.

Halliburton has also used its operational structure for contracts in Iraq and post-Katrina -- especially multiple layers of subcontractors -- to elude oversight and accountability to taxpayers.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/dubai.html


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[gateley]

1. Most people probably feel it doesn't affect them. nt

[tom_paine]

2. A story like this is not permitted to be presented to more than 10,000 people at once

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/dubai.html

That way, the Plausible Deniability exists because it WAS REPORTED, just NOT WHERE ANYBODY WOULD READ IT.

I stand astonished and amazed at how this works so well without thousands of beetle-browed KGB-types to enforce it, and yet it works as well as if such existed.

Wow. Future historians will learn as much from the New Totalitarianism established by the Bushies, as they learn today by studying Old Totalitarianism established by Nazis and Commies.

I will admit, that by comparison, living under a Bushist Tyranny is much nicer, day-to-day, than living under a Nazi or Soviet Tyranny. Hooray.

OTOH, we cannot be sure how true that it until we see what Final Solutions the Bushies have planned, and whether they will give the Imperial Subjects of Amerika a break from the rape by allowing a Democrat to occupy the Imperial Throne, something which I have my doubts about.

[pretzel4gore]

3. lol. it's they who'll find the strictures a goddam hassle

the funny thing with police states/totalitarian empires is that the promise (ie the enjoyment of absolute corruption) extends only to a few weenies at the top, a papa doc or a king farouk or a youngster bush- men who are so corrupt they caint even wipe their own arse to begin with!
it defies logic that such punks as murdock and limbah humbug or tim russert/the hunt family/the nytimes editorial board/exxon etc think they can screw every little kid they see, and for that pleasure they destroy the country?
fukking creeps....

[zeemike]

4. The final solution will include a memory hole

that all stories like this are deposited in and a rewriting of history.
100 years from now if things go there way children will learn in school that bush was a super hero that saved us from defeat and protected us like a big brother. And all the factual details will be wiped out of history for good.

[loves_dulcinea]

7. not 100 years

fifteen, possibly twelve.

[formercia]

6. It's funny you mention the KGB and limited distribution..

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published the Gulag Archipelago , the Soviets claimed that they also published his work. Technically it was true but there were only a few copies made, bound in red leather and squirreled away in the archives of the KGB, Politburo and a few other libraries where few Russians would ever see them.

The CIA managed to get one and printed 5000 identical copies and shipped them to the Soviet Union where they were widely distributed.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Whoa! K & R. Kick! nt

[TalkingDog]

8. Their logic? Besides avoiding extradition (none to US from there)

No taxes, no war crimes and best of all....Cheney and Bush have a very well equipped private army that can and will act should the need arise for troops who won't hesitate to shoot American citizens in case martial law is ever imposed.

ya' know...like...*cough* *cough* if there is some sort of *cough* *cough* National Emergency.



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[bbgrunt]

9. k and r