Well timed. That is how it landed. A book about the Oil And Gas Industry and a big chunk of the book was about the craziness and the corruption in the ukraine. Then it was the playing field. I didnt intend it to land it that way. Well, now of course mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time. And it is kind of uncanny, a lot of the things that i wrote about in the book that came out in the first trump impeachment. The whole reason that i wrote the book is because we were consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry. How much sway it has over politicals and governments here and around the world. I thought there was a need for a explainer and how the industry could explain. If something is happening that does not make sense on the surface it helps to look at the industry and see if they are maybe The Hidden Hand, when politics fail or governments are bad. This is a place to look. One thing to say here is the hidden power that is making it possible or impossible and call
he asked for support on behalf of food bills has sent to congress and he said should virtually eliminate poverty as a source of malnutrition. 2,000 delegates to the conference streamed into a washington hotel. they included corporation executives, welfare mothers, labor leaders, doctors, young social activists and mexican americans and bureaucrats. some lobbied for ideas to end hunger. the conversation was opened by president nixon. he said now is the time to do something for the estimated 15 million americans too poor to buyan enough food. until this moment, in our history, as a nation, the central question has been whether we as a nation would accept the problem of mall nourishment as a national responsibility. that moment has passed. on may 6th, i asserted to the congress that the moment is at and hand to put an end to hunger for itself for all time. and speaking for this administration, i not only accept the responsibility, i claim the responsibility. i, richard nix
is about supplying baby formula to mothers. of all of the baby formula sold in the united states more than half purchased by mothers on wic assistance and because thisth ia federal seprogram, there are restrictions on the exact kinds of formula you can get. ifla you re lucky enough to fin formula on the shelves, but that is not a wic approved brand or size, you are out of luck. and so today, congress tried to fix that. the democratic controlled house ofat representatives has voted a bill appropriately named the access to baby formula act. which would knock down some of that red tape. to expand access to baby formula under the wic program. and it sounds like a no-brainer, right? in the middle of a nationwide formulaof shortage, let s make just a little easier for the poorest mothers to access baby formula. it s almost impossible to come upit with a reason to be agains it. and yet, nine republicans, nine of them,ic voted no on that bil. representatives like margely
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