Let's stop the charade please. ALL large companies have "government organization relationship", throughout the world. Some relationships are a little closer than others, but far more often than not, the people intermingle making deals and making babies like anywhere else. To claim that this one is somehow different is specious, at best. Business and government are a single entity. Plain old money is its blood, actually our blood is its real currency, just like the Aztecs. Save us all the platitudes, and observe nature at work.

If you're so worried about ISIS, stop funding them, or at least stop trading with the people (like the Saudis) who do.

And, under the circumstances, the word is "captured", not "kidnapped".

Had your thesis a shred of basis...

Your past performance on these issues throughout. as per standard procedure, you are simply dwelling on the person.. You wanted war, you got it. Be happy. Maybe you'll get one of your own tribe back into the white house in a couple of years. Such is the ebb and flow in your political musical chairs.

They are hired killers. Nobody works for free. And there is no way to convince me that the state can't defeat them with its little finger without outside meddling. And I don't know what you mean by "complicated". I spell out basic motivations in the simplest way I know how. This is business. That is what war is.

I'm not sure, but the coal is probably for export. The mines will remain open regardless of domestic needs. And you really can't make money and manipulate markets with wind like you can with coal.

Well, they could use the excess to desalinate and pump more water inland.. Just a thought..

Yeah, I guess you're one of those types that don't believe that water is wet, or that humans live and work under the same influences as everything else in nature without proof. Most of the evidence you want can be seen on Animal Planet. And then please try to distinguish us from the rest. Yes, it is that obvious. If you still don't want to believe me, go visit Walmart on your average Black Friday. Your veneer of civility is extremely thin and translucent, to say the least. The system is driven by instinct. The "intellect" is there to serve. Or maybe you're the fish, asking, "What the hell is water?"

What "evidence" are you looking for? Are you not able to deduce anything from your own observations?

You're just mad it's not Romney, or McCain running the war... I have to give you props though. If you want to actually win a war, you gotta be crazy enough to do it. You know, kill everybody that doesn't unconditionally surrender on the spot.

It's a difference of perspective...

That's exactly how I put it. Or you can say it's a difference of target. That is what distinguishes a terrorist from an American "freedom fighter"... But the thing is that power is power You put all the labels you want, but the goal is the same amongst all of them...

You win... That's all I can say...

Whew! I thought you were gonna say Pete Townshend...

You get last word, if you wish... IOW you win the internets.

Peace to you!

And what do you want to do, reduce the 200,000 dollar income to 18,000, so that everybody only gets 18,000?

As long as there is faith in American labor, the dollar has and will survive many collapses.

...you're spending too much of it...balance the fucking budget.

Hey, don't you know there's a war on? Buy bonds, and turn off that light!