Mon Mar 12, 2007 — by Glenn Hauman

Plex moves to Mars, version 0.1

Life imitates comics again

One of the more disturbing things about Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! was how many little things it got right-- from the use of digital actors (later to be used in former studio-mate Frank Miller's films) to some of the overarching political threads. Chief among those in Flagg! was how the powers that be, after taking as much money out of the US system as they could, relocated their corporate headquarters to Mars and acted as absentee landlords.

Fast forward to today, where Halliburton announced they're moving their corporate headquarters to Dubai. Halliburton (Dick Cheney's old company) has millions of no-bid contracts from the US government, including a lot of jobs critical to the war effort in Iraq, and they're not going to pay any taxes on their profits. Oh, and if they're not a US company, that means they can get around sanctions on US corporations doing business with Iran. And a foreign company will be doing a lot of things for the US military, which could be a major security risk. What fun.

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