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To: jim black who wrote (19317)	6/6/2007 12:41:36 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217917

jim- excellent post. "There are no nations anymore, only multinational businesses." i've long held that view ... and, i agree with you regarding ron paul as well. its all a very sad state of affairs. -rose

To: jim black who wrote (19317)	6/6/2007 2:31:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217917

Not so Jim, I don't: <The news is that the big business interests like war and the money it makes for them, a recent one liner in film "The Interpreter" being, "There are no nations anymore, only multinational businesses." Hence Clintons and Bushes want "globalism"> War doesn't make money other than for a very few companies. A LOT of money is going to go into medical and continuing care for the maimed. Salaries gobble up a huge amount. The threat of war is much better than actual war. Wars make people gun-shy and cause there to be long gaps in militarism. Far better to have everyone strutting around saluting, wearing funny hats with decorations on their chests and stripes on their arms, showing off their latest toys. Blokes love the latest toys and it's continuing obsolescence, as in the car industry, which gets the real money flowing. Blowing people and stuff up is harmful to economic activity. Far better to have a booming economy which can be taxed to the hilt to fund the military fervour. I am Big Business and I specifically do NOT want wars. I want people buying lots of CDMA with their loads of cash and I want them obsolete each year so they upgrade. Also, you shouldn't watch movies for guidelines to what's going on in reality. They'll mush your brains. Same for tv. Mqurice PS: During my BP Oil days, I do admit that I said "A bullet through the middle east would be great for profits". Removing competitors from a market is a time-honoured way of increasing profits. A couple of years after I made that comment, what a surprise, Saddam was tricked into invading Kuwait and the war was on and he wasn't allowed to sell oil. For one reason after another, there was one reason after another than his oil couldn't be sold. The real reason that profits were enhanced for all other energy suppliers by his oil being kept off the market. Note though there wasn't much actual war. More of a skirmish and then a long stand-off. That way there was continuing spending at a high level but without a lot of actual dead people and the oil embargo could be maintained. BP's profits in the 1990s and early 21st century were phenomenal.