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To: John Carragher who wrote (199101)	3/13/2007 6:40:26 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 794011

Perhaps the next corp move could be someone like xon. Pile on taxes, restrictions etc and these companies are free to move a more favorable country for business investments. Halliburton's move is straight from the Friedman book "The World is Flat". In the quest for profits, big business is no longer bound by a single nation's borders. Tom Friedman the author said in an interview, "It's a problem actually. The flat world is a friend of Infosys and of Al-Qaeda. It's a friend of IBM and of Islamic jihad. Because these networks go both ways. And one thing we know about the bad guys: They're early adopters. Criminals, terrorists – very early adopters. The person who understands supply chains almost as well as Sam Walton, is Osama Bin Laden. We have an issue there with the most frustrated and dangerous elements of the world using this flat planet in order to advance their goals, to recruit over the internet, to inspire over the internet, and to transfer orders and raise money over the internet. So they're using the flat world as much as anybody else. Our job is to try to soak up those tools, so that we can use these collaborative tools in a more constructive way. But I have no doubt the flat world is a friend of both Infosys and Al-Qaeda." The flat world has spawned incredibly successful flat or nearly flat organizations. One of them is AQ. They are explained in the book "The Starfish and the Spider".