Obama 2012?

Frank. Please don't feed the trolls. Some people don't have the mental capacity to open up new threads so they can take their completely irrelevant nonsense elsewhere.

Considering it has ABSOLUTELY nothing at all to do with the 2012 election of Obama, yes.

it'd be utterly ignored and mostly empty other then(sic) your incessant rantings.

That's a joke and you're a joke, Frank. If you had any interest in actually, seriously discussing any issue you wouldn't totally evade the stark fact situations that have been placed squarely in front of your nose.

You have pulled this same sort of bullshit in every discussion I've seen you engage in. You have absolutely zero respect for honesty and the truth.

If you were the least bit serious, you would have read the articles and listened/watched the videos that illustrate, again, starkly, just what a vicious, totally uncaring piece of excrement Reagan [and his band of criminals] was.

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We are dealing with my assertion that you comment about Reagan was hyperbole. Your comment was that Reagan was "one of the most vicious of war criminals/terrorists to ever walk the planet.”

That, JTT, is hyperbole.

U.S. to Be World’s Top Oil Producer in 5 Years, Report Says

Charlie Riedel/Associated Press
Increased oil production and new policies to improve energy efficiency mean that the United States will become “all but self-sufficient” in energy in about two decades, the International Energy Agency predicted.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: November 12, 2012

The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017 and will become a net oil exporter by 2030, according to a new report released on Monday by the International Energy Agency.

That increased oil production, combined with new American policies to improve energy efficiency, means that the United States will become “all but self-sufficient” in meeting its energy needs in about two decades — a “dramatic reversal of the trend” in most developed countries, the report says.

“The foundations of the global energy systems are shifting,” said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the Paris-based organization, which produces the annual World Energy Outlook, in an interview before the release. The agency, which advises industrialized nations on energy issues, had previously predicted that Saudi Arabia would be the leading producer until 2035.

The consequences are “potentially far reaching” for global energy markets and trade, the report said.

Mr. Birol noted, for example, that Middle Eastern oil once bound for the United States would probably be rerouted to China. American-mined coal, facing declining demand in its home market, is already heading to Europe and China instead.

There are several components of the sudden shift in the world’s energy supply, but the prime mover is a resurgence of oil and gas production in the United States, particularly the unlocking of new reserves of oil and gas found in shale rock. The widespread adoption of techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling has made those reserves much more accessible, and in the case of natural gas, resulted in a vast glut that has sent prices plunging.

Think what that will mean for our economy? WOW!~

Think what that will mean for our economy? WOW!~

Re: Frank Apisa (Post 5165400)
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We are dealing with my assertion that you comment about Reagan was hyperbole. Your comment was that Reagan was "one of the most vicious of war criminals/terrorists to ever walk the planet.”

That, JTT, is hyperbole.

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You are dealing with that extraneous bit of nonsense, Frank, in the same fashion that you seize on any extraneous bit of nonsense in all of your "discussions".

And this impacts on your comment about Ronald Reagan in what way????

Nicaragua

from the book

The CIAs Greatest Hits

by Mark Zepezauer


FDR once remarked of Nicaragua's dictator, "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." So when a later Somoza (the son of our son of a bitch) was overthrown in 1979, we spared no effort until Nicaragua was ours again.

When President Carter saw that the younger Somoza's days were numbered, he tried to ease him out of power, unaware that retired CIA agents were providing him with further weaponry. Carter's plan was to keep Somoza's private army, the National Guard, in power, while Somoza escaped to enjoy his $900 million fortune.

Most Nicaraguans, having suffered 46 years of the Guard's unrelenting brutality, were not thrilled with that plan. When Somoza fell, so did his hated National Guard.

Many of the Guard were evacuated on US planes. We reassembled them, armed and supplied them, had them trained by Argentinean death squads and sent them back to harass the new regime. Because the Guard was so despised in Nicaragua, they were given a new name-the contras (an abbreviation of the Spanish word for counter-revolutionaries).

The resulting bloodshed was perhaps the least covert of all CIA covert operations. President Reagan was perfectly candid about the goals-the second-poorest nation in the hemisphere was to be "pressured" until "they say 'uncle'."

The methods became part of the public record too-though not intentionally-when the CIA's Freedom Fighters Manual was leaked to the press. It gave detailed instructions on assassination, sabotage, kidnapping, blackmail and the slaughter of civilians.

The US lavished military and financial aid on the contras, whom they used to terrorize rural Nicaragua. Since many peasants were delighted that the new government was providing them with teachers and doctors (for the first time ever), the contras particularly targeted those professionals.

The CIA mined harbors and blew up fuel tanks, then told the contras to claim credit. The agency flew supplies to the contras, attempted to assassinate the Nicaraguan leadership and pumped millions of dollars into opposition politicians. And, as in Chile, they made the economy "scream".

Finally, in 1989, after ten years of warfare- both economic and military-the Nicaraguans gave up and voted for the US-backed slate of candidates. If any of them wondered what would happen should they fail to do so, they only needed to look south to Panama, which had just been invaded by the US the month before.


http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Nicaragua_CIAHits.html

When President Carter saw that the younger Somoza's days were numbered, he tried to ease him out of power, unaware that retired CIA agents were providing him with further weaponry.