Here is something else to add to the legacy of Al Gore, Sr.
As you are most likely aware, Occidental Petroluem was run by Armand Hammer, the son of a Russian immigrant doctor. Mr Hammer was a communist and was a close friend to every leader of the USSR till his death. He could walk through the doors of the Kremlin whenever he wanted.
Island Creek Coal Co, where Al Gore, Sr was president after his Senate defeat, had several shaft mines (some more than 1500 ft below the water surface) in Buchanan County VA. Many of these mines were bored in the 1960s, but others were bored after Gore, Sr became president of the coal company. To my knowledge all of the coal produced at these mines went overseas to Japan and Romania. These two countries provided most of the tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of dollars of capital to open these mines. The coal that was mined was the Pocahontas No 3 seam, highly regarded as the best metallugical coal on Earth. "Met coal" is used in the steel-making process.
Well, we know what happened in the 70s. An oil shortage occurred, which Occidental Petroleum greatly benefited in more ways than one. The "met coal" produced by Island Creek's Buchanan County mines and shipped to Japan was being used to build cars and other products. Many of the cars were exported, a form of dumping steel, to America to entice comsumers to purchase more fuel efficient autos.
I still haven't figured out what USSR-controlled Romania did with all the coal they received from Island Creek, but I think it's a good bet they weren't building cars. I strongly suspect many tools of war and destruction were built using all that coal.
The opinions of what was done with all that coal are mine, and I don't have 100% assurances of what I opined as being true. But, after thinking and pondering about the possible uses of all that coal, I think my opinions could have some validity.
How's about this:
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Uxi7g4rV7foJ:www.apfn.org/apfn/kgore.htm+jacob+schiff+gore&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
"Vice President Al Gore's Jr.'s daughter Karenna Gore, was recently married
to Andrew Schiff. Andrew Schiff is a descendant [great-grandson] of JACOB SCHIFF." [who helped finance the communist revolution in Russia in 1917.]
more from link:
"Jacob Schiff gave $20 Million Dollars in Gold (worth Five Hundred
Million, $500,000,000.00, in 1999 dollars) to LEVI BRAUNSTEIN, also known as
Trotsky, and Vladimir Ilich Blanc Ulanyoff, also known as Lenin."
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As Michael Savage has termed it: Red Diaper Doper Babies.