Is The Obama Administration At War With Alaska?

So is President Obama really declaring war on Alaska oil?  It would seem so.  Lisa Marcuski, and I guess that’s the one who’s up there, states that the President has set his mind to take apart the oil industry in Alaska piece by piece, almost as if part of some vendetta.  I hope I don’t have to now apologise to the “2016” people for getting it right after all.  Is it true for instance that President Obama will negotiate with Iran, but he won’t negotiate with Alaska.  We already have an Alaska pipeline that will hold more oil than it’s carrying.  We don’t have to build a new one.  The whole battle is over ANWR, or most people just say ANWAR.  This is oil that is on some sort of reserve but it’s always been a gray area.  Now ALL of that oil is taken off line by a decision of the President today plus other oil in a more established government reserve is made difficult if not impossible to get to.  Contrary to what you might think- - - I am not against all new energy development in North America.  It almost strikes me that here the President is striking out against conservative Republicans in Alaska.  It’s kind of like with the Greek thing with the EEC.  The people are asking for a life floatie, and getting one made out of lead.   My motive in supporting Alaska oil is not altogether altruistic.  I know that this will drive the price down further- - and therefore make more dangerous types of oil such as the tar sands and natural gas fracking- - less economically feasible, so they’ll do less of these things.

Today is asteroid fly-by day, but the asteroid is a tiny one, only a third of a mile across. They are showing the trailer to “Three and a Half Minutes” for the shooting death of Jordan Davis, who was gunned down in a hail of bullets because the car was playing their rap music too loud.  Unfortunately the movie is only being aired at the Sundance Festival in Park City Utah. Meanwhile, this one guy was sentenced to one thousand lashes given in shifts of fifty - - for writing unflattering articles about Islam.  Human rights groups around the world are protesting.  The Dow Jones Industrials is at about 17655 right now.  Someone wanted to know about “That yellow book over your left shoulder” the “Crash of 2016”.   I am reaffirming my admonition to sell your stocks that I first gave the evening of January 14^th of this year.  Since then the markets have trended up ever so slightly but largely flat.  There is no time like the present to do what you should.  This economy I now believe is doomed.  Greece has with the election of their new leader, opted to throw off the shackles of regulation by the European Economic Community.  Now let us only hope that others will “respect” Greek sovereignty.  Bernie Sanders praised the election results.  There are riots in Egypt by Muslim Brotherhood rebels in the four year commemoration of the short victory of “Arab Spring” in late January 2011.  President Acicci (?) came to power in a military coup with the support of the Egyptian people who celebrated the development.  My sympathies are with the government authorities on this one.

Thom Hartman again affirmed that if the Greeks went back to the drachma, they’d be going a whole lot of tourism.  Even on the international scene there are people who profit if Greece completely goes belly up.    Greece was ordered by the EEC (and people like Judy who side with greedy corporate bankers) that if Greece slashed social services and government pay but did NOT levy new taxes on their rich, then the “confidence fairy” of the private sector would move in and the economy would explode.  This didn’t happen.  Greece’s GNP collapsed and unemployment ballooned to 25%.   As you know I have been pretty gung ho on the government policy of supporting Ukraine against Russian rebels in the east.  However Bones has been strangely silent on this subject for months, even though I have mentioned the topic a time or two.  However most of the so called “on the spot news” is NOT from any Ukrainian city but rather “Moscow beauro” reporters who get military briefings from Kiev and report them in the NY Times and in the Washington Post as though they were factual.  But in reality it’s looking like our government and Russia in just another proxy fight in a puppet nation’s Civil War, just like Viet Nam.  I am reassessing my whole position now.

President Obama has been in India these past two days and will be leaving tomorrow for Saudi Arabia to pay his respects to King Solmon, the new leader of Arabia.  King Abdula died last week at age ninety and his half brother (?) is but s spry 79 year old. Of course everybody is making a big thing out of the US former “good relation” with Yemen, which is news to me because I thought they were the chief source of Al Qaeda terrorism.  But now that government is overthrown by rebels who hate Al Qaeda and now people on the right are saying what a horrible thing it is- - and how somehow it’s all Obama’s fault.  President Obama will not be going to Agra to see the Taj Mahall - - but did throw rose petals on the grave of Gandhi as part of a religious ceremony.  I hope readers are not too “put off’ by my bad spelling.  Meanwhile here in New York a lot closer- - they are predicting the worst major blizzard since at least Hurricane Sandy, perhaps ever.  They say there’ll be three feet of snow, which wouldn’t be bad if you were in Buffalo but in a city like New York “there are only so many places to put it”.  Now there is some new commercially available drone craft that was flying over the White House and the secret service is investigating the source of this unauthorized flight.  They said this was the fourth violation of the White House “no fly zone” in the past few weeks.

We might as well acknowledge that Japanese journalist who was beheaded last week by ISIS.  He was one of the good guys who just wanted to understand the story and put out whatever the Truth was.  I think as of pretty soon the President will yield to pressure to put "Boots on the Ground" and this might be a nice way of making John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham happy.  "American Sniper" scored number one at the Box Office last weekend again, grossing 64 million dollars.  I wonder how many clams that is?  As you may or may not know “American Sniper” got John Lennon’s condemnation in a statement a week ago.  He called it “pornographic violence”.   However I am only today piecing together the pieces I’ve learned about the movie in my mind to try and form an opinion about it.  On the Stephanie Miller show it is agreed that this movie leaves out a lot of key facts about the Iraq War- - and it’s almost as though George Bush had nothing to do with it.