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dixiegrrrrl's JournalBP logs $6.5 billion loss for 2015 as oil prices collapse
gee...all those oil profits they did not want to spend to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, now gone.
What a...co-incidence.
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/694418155670601728
OMG, people are ROASTING Cruz @TedCruz
Morning is coming and I have to be indoors by sunrise." - #TedCruz
This is the kind of speech you'd see in the opening scene of a movie about a dystopian wasteland ruled by warlords.
Congratulations Senator Cruz! You win the Iowa Caucus, and carry on the tradition of Presidents Huckabee and Santorum
#TedCruz talks about the horrors of the Obama administration then declares "Yes we can!" hmmm, just read the prompter, Teddy.
I rarely do this, but I am going to recommend a book... Pls see :
Book is by Tim Weiner, author of four books and co-author of a fifth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.
Enemies: A History of the FBI
His newest book is "One Man Against The World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon."
Now this is why the Nixon book is so important.
Weiner had access to newly declassified records, diaries, papers of people in the Nixon WH.
for us Boomers, the book tells the back story of the things we knew about during Nixon's reign of terror.
for those too young at the time, it is great very readable history of how the White House can be so subverted by a very dangerous man,
one more dangerous that even we knew at the time.
Here is an example:
Nixon bombed Cambodia in secret. The secret leaked out years later.
the book not only tells how and why the bombing was kept secret, and of Kissinger's role in it.
but now we learn of the top secret results of that bombing.
For example:
The flight records for the B-52 bombers carrying out the attacks would be falsified by the top American commander in Saigon, Gen. Creighton Abrams. His accomplice would be the commander of American forces in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, whose son, later a senator, was a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“In order to set the stage for a possible covert attack, and clear the books on this matter within the Bureaucracy, we should send a message to General Abrams authorizing him to bomb right up to the Cambodian border,” Kissinger told Nixon in writing before the plans were executed. A routine request for a B-52 strike on a Communist target in South Vietnam would serve as a cover for a Menu strike in Cambodia. The B-52 pilots and navigators (not the rest of the crew) would receive secret orders from ground controllers directing them to strike targets inside Cambodia.
On the bombers’ return, two sets of flight reports would be filed, one true, one false.
and here is how the results of those bombings were discovered years later:
In November 2000, Bill Clinton became the first American president since Nixon to visit Vietnam. To help in the search for unexploded bombs, which remained a lethal threat there and in Laos and Cambodia, Clinton made public an air force database that contained a staggering statistic.
Between March 1969 and August 1973, America dropped 2,756,727 tons of bombs on Cambodia. That figure was nearly five times greater than previously known, exceeding the tonnage of all Allied bombing during World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
No one knows how many Cambodian civilians were killed, perhaps one hundred fifty thousand.
I consider this an essential book, esp. for those of us who lived thru the anti-war times back then.
We're doomed..............In 50-49 vote, US Senate says climate change not caused by humans
The Republican-controlled Senate defeated a measure Wednesday stating that climate change is real and that human activity significantly contributes to it. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, offered the measure as the Senate debated the Keystone XL pipeline, which would tap the carbon-intensive oil sands in the Canadian province of Alberta.
The Senate voted 50-49 on the measure, which required 60 votes in order to pass.
“Only in the halls of Congress is this a controversial piece of legislation,” Schatz said.
Hillary just said: "Single payer health care will never, ever happen"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-single-payer-health-care-will-never-ever-happen/Michale Moore is asking us to sign a petition to have Synder arrested.
"We now have over a half million signatures calling for #ArrestGovSnyder for poisoning Flint:
At the link there is his scathing letter to Snyder and the petition.
He promises to keep all info confidential.
http://michaelmoore.com/ArrestGovSnyder/#signup-form
( Pls. kick for morning crowd)
Listen to what Michael Moore just said:
Hillary says it's not practical to offer free college for everyone. You can't get more practical than the Germans - & they do it! Many do!10 yrs ago we were told gay marriage would never be the law of the land. Good thing we didn't listen to those who told us 2 be "pragmatic."
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