Surprised the hell out of my history teacher when I had the answer for what number President Warren Harding was. Took me a minute and a half to get to that point of the song though lol
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Tom Hanks made a movie parodying this 40 years ago. Yale grad goes on a mission to Thailand with the Peace Corps to build a bridge "for the community" but it's a CIA operation to create a trade route for a heroin drug lord. This used to be common knowledge
Not even that. He was headed to Cuba, the US government forced him to be in Russia.
"NSA leaker Edward Snowden got stuck at a Moscow airport after Cuba, feeling pressure from Washington, warned that it would not allow an Aeroflot flight from Russia to land in Havana if he were aboard"
Well TIL, I always thought that executive orders were a way to bypass Congress. I know that there was a Democratic Congress in 1971, I wonder why they rubber stamped that for Nixon.
That has never stopped presidents before. In response to inflation in 1971 President Nixon issued an executive order making it illegal to raise prices for several months and before him FDR went even farther with rationing and controlling wages.
Inflation is actually super easy to control. You just need to be willing to threaten business leaders with serious jail time.
41% of the land in the US is used for meat production, and 1/3rd globally. The Amazon rainforest is being slashed and burned for cattle farming. Animal agriculture means habitat destruction and is a large part of why 21 species were declared extinct in the US this past year. We can and must fight them both.
Well we wouldn't have to worry about global warming anymore