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Monday, March 12, 2007

Halliburton: Texas to Dubai


Remember Halliburton, the company who recieved billions of US government dollars in no-bid contracts to go overcharge US soldiers for food and gas in Iraq? Do you think this company whom the US trusted, via its subsidiary KBR, to wash soldier's clothes and latrines would be grateful to the government, or at least to former CEO Dick Cheney, and maintain its corporate headquarters in the US and paying US taxes?
Well, Halliburton is shifting its HQ from Texas to Dubai.

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