Macon Hawkins, of Kosciusko, Texas,
\na diabetic 69-year-old American hostage
\nreleased on his birthday (today) said,
\n“I have no animosity toward them at all.
\nI’ve seen their little villages, they’re dirt poor,
\npoor as field mice.”<\/p>\n
Nigerian militants want a greater share
\nof proceeds from the oil pumped
\nfrom beneath their southern lands,
\nwhich remain deeply impoverished.<\/p>\n
Report Released on February 23, 2006
\nNigeria (1.174 million barrels per day)
\nexported to the Good Ol’ Addicts US of A<\/p>\n
What US abet we owe atonement,
\nand the dues are way past due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Macon Hawkins, of Kosciusko, Texas, a diabetic 69-year-old American hostage released on his birthday (today) said, “I have no animosity toward them at all. I’ve seen their little villages, they’re dirt poor, poor as field mice.” Nigerian militants want a greater share of proceeds from the oil pumped from beneath their southern lands, which remain … Continue reading ““We have to get over our addiction to oil” – George W. Bush”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}