Americans certainly don't waste much of our limited TV-time and mutated brain-power seeking insight from our past failures, as our global industrial complex has so screwed-up humanity itself that the work-a-day citizen must stay focused on basic survival on Earth today. So, as a quick review of the distinctly American political views and interests of yesterday, as they shaped the world today, scan some highlights from the 1973 Presidential tapes of great visionary Republican leader Richard Nixon, among his White House staff, and know these people and their followers have shaped our national interests, civil rights, and international and humanitarian policies ever since - this is the legacy and culture influencing our post-Nixonian Industrially Complex President Obama, who is shaping our national interests, civil rights, and international and humanitarian policies today...

 Nixon offered sharp skepticism at the views of William P. Rogers, his secretary of state, about the future of black Africans.

“Bill Rogers has got — to his credit it’s a decent feeling — but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing because he’s been in New York,” Nixon said [1]. “He says well, ‘They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.’ So forth and so on.

“My own view is I think he’s right if you’re talking in terms of 500 years,” he said. “I think it’s wrong if you’re talking in terms of 50 years. What has to happen is they have be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.”

“The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” Mr. Kissinger said. “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

“I know,” Nixon responded. “We can’t blow up the world because of it.”

“I don’t want any Jew at that dinner who didn’t support us in that campaign,” he said. “Is that clear? No Jew who did not support us.”

“What it is, is it’s the insecurity,” he said. “It’s the latent insecurity. Most Jewish people are insecure. And that’s why they have to prove things.”

“I didn’t notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam on any of those lists; I don’t know how the hell they avoid it,” he said, adding: “If you look at the Canadian-Swedish contingent, they were very disproportionately Jewish. The deserters.”

“The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.”

“The Irish have certain — for example, the Irish can’t drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I’ve known gets mean when he drinks. Particularly the real Irish.”

“The Italians, of course, those people course don’t have their heads screwed on tight. They are wonderful people, but,”

These quotes, reported in the December 11, 2010 New York Times [2], are the words and views of the leaders of America who shaped my world until I was 12, and have continued ruining it since.

Too bad there aren't Ford Tapes... Carter Tapes... Reagan Tapes... Bush Tapes... Clinton Tapes... Bush Tapes... and, most important, Obama Tapes.

We have more transparency into the 1973 Nixon White House than we shall ever have into the 2010 Obama White House, and what we see of Nixon and his people is pathetic.

Has the mental state of our leadership improved, in the last 40 years, or gotten worse?

Our President of 1973 thought Blacks had potential, in 500 years, through inbreeding... but the industrial complex has certainly mutated Americans further with industrial pollution since 1973... are Americans becoming better or worse human beings... was President Nixon right about Blacks?:

“What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.”

I find Nixon and our other American leadership demonstrate the opposite reality, that Americans are far too genetically mutated for the greater world's good.

And Nixon-youth Obama is certainly adding to American and global mutation, with his post-Nixonian commitment to the Industrial Complex's war, global inhumanity, pollution and social injustice.

On that, I believe, most of the world will agree.

Blackened Pork: Liquid Coal Subsidies Sneak into Senate Tax Bill [3]

Today the National Wildlife Federation has learned the Senate version of tax legislation includes subsidies for liquid coal fuels. Section 704 of the Senate tax bill as written right now would extend the Alternative Fuel Tax Credit to liquid coal, giving a 50-cent tax credit for each gallon of liquid coal sold or used in a fuel mixture. While many senators have fought to include important clean energy provisions in the the tax package, the National Wildlife Federation strongly opposes expanding alternative fuel tax credits to cover dirty liquid coal.

Is regular coal not dirty enough for you? Meet liquid coal fuel! Destructive to mine, water-intensive to manufacture, devastating to our climate at every step of the way – liquid coal is one of the world’s dirtiest fuels. Liquid coal production emits twice as much global warming pollution as gasoline & requires at least four gallons of water per gallon of fuel produced.