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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Black Market Drug Profits Propped Up Global Banking System in 2008
From StopTheDrugWar.org
"Prohibition: UN Drug Chief Says Black Market Drug Profits Propped Up Global Banking System Last Year
Profits from the global illicit drug trade helped keep the international banking system afloat during the crisis that swept the global financial system during the second half of last year, the UN's leading drug fighter said in an interview with the Austrian magazine Profil, which was made available Sunday. Drug money was almost the only available capital for banks, said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costa. Costa's remarks came as the Profil interviewer questioned him about the size of the global drug market. "If you look at agriculture markets, it is the most important," Costa replied. "According to our calculations, the wholesale value of illegal drugs is more than $90 billion, in the range of world meat and grain trade. The street trade, we assess at a volume of over $320 billion.
While profits from the illicit drug trade fund political violence by the likes of the Taliban or Colombia's leftist FARC insurgents and rightist paramilitaries, they are also finding their way into the coffers of the world banking system at a critical time, Costa said. The drug business is one of the few global growth industries right now, he noted. "
The system is corrupt and it's cleaning time. Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum recommends all hempsters read the book Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free .
Though the word hemp is not mentioned in her book, any conscious hempster who reads it can see the why hemp is illegal. The illusion of banking could not stand if people were able to grow their own money. Everybody seems to understand that the war on drugs is an excuse to support industry and keep people down.
A hemped greenback system with a currency shift that allows money to be created by the government, instead of made up by banks, would do a lot to solve our economic problems.
Please demand an end to the drug war now. We can use those resources saved to save ourselves.
Below is the entire StopTheDrugWar article.
"Prohibition: UN Drug Chief Says Black Market Drug Profits Propped Up Global Banking System Last Year
Profits from the global illicit drug trade helped keep the international banking system afloat during the crisis that swept the global financial system during the second half of last year, the UN's leading drug fighter said in an interview with the Austrian magazine Profil, which was made available Sunday. Drug money was almost the only available capital for banks, said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
UNODC chief Antonio Maria CostaCosta's remarks came as the Profil interviewer questioned him about the size of the global drug market. "If you look at agriculture markets, it is the most important," Costa replied. "According to our calculations, the wholesale value of illegal drugs is more than $90 billion, in the range of world meat and grain trade. The street trade, we assess at a volume of over $320 billion."
While profits from the illicit drug trade fund political violence by the likes of the Taliban or Colombia's leftist FARC insurgents and rightist paramilitaries, they are also finding their way into the coffers of the world banking system at a critical time, Costa said. The drug business is one of the few global growth industries right now, he noted.
"The drug trade at this time could be the only growth industry, with little unemployment," Costa explained. "The money that is being made is flowing only partly back into illegal activities, in parts of Asia, Africa, and South America, where it is used to bribe politicians, buy elections, or finance insurgents, such as the Talibans in Afghanistan, the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, or the FARC in Colombia, for example."
The rest of the profit, Costa said, "is fed into the legal economic circulation through money laundering. We do not know how much, but the volume is imposing. As such, seen from the macroeconomic effect, this is simply bringing in investment capital. There are indications that these funds also ended up in the finance sector, which has been under obvious pressure since the second half of last year. In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital, to buy real estate, for example," Costa continued. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."
When pressed on just how this was accomplished, Costa responded: "It appears that interbank credits have been financed by money which comes from the drug trade and other illegal activities. It is naturally hard to prove this, but there are indications that a number of banks were rescued by this means."
Costa noted that money laundering controls put in place to stop drug trafficking have "ironically" resulted in drug traffickers sitting on large stashes of cash -- the ultimate liquid financial instrument. "To get around the electronic surveillance of bank transactions, now criminals stash their funds in cash sums which can be up to hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the way they try to hold these funds liquid."
There go those drug dealers propping up the global economy."
"Prohibition: UN Drug Chief Says Black Market Drug Profits Propped Up Global Banking System Last Year
Profits from the global illicit drug trade helped keep the international banking system afloat during the crisis that swept the global financial system during the second half of last year, the UN's leading drug fighter said in an interview with the Austrian magazine Profil, which was made available Sunday. Drug money was almost the only available capital for banks, said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costa. Costa's remarks came as the Profil interviewer questioned him about the size of the global drug market. "If you look at agriculture markets, it is the most important," Costa replied. "According to our calculations, the wholesale value of illegal drugs is more than $90 billion, in the range of world meat and grain trade. The street trade, we assess at a volume of over $320 billion.
While profits from the illicit drug trade fund political violence by the likes of the Taliban or Colombia's leftist FARC insurgents and rightist paramilitaries, they are also finding their way into the coffers of the world banking system at a critical time, Costa said. The drug business is one of the few global growth industries right now, he noted. "
The system is corrupt and it's cleaning time. Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum recommends all hempsters read the book Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free .
Though the word hemp is not mentioned in her book, any conscious hempster who reads it can see the why hemp is illegal. The illusion of banking could not stand if people were able to grow their own money. Everybody seems to understand that the war on drugs is an excuse to support industry and keep people down.
A hemped greenback system with a currency shift that allows money to be created by the government, instead of made up by banks, would do a lot to solve our economic problems.
Please demand an end to the drug war now. We can use those resources saved to save ourselves.
Below is the entire StopTheDrugWar article.
"Prohibition: UN Drug Chief Says Black Market Drug Profits Propped Up Global Banking System Last Year
Profits from the global illicit drug trade helped keep the international banking system afloat during the crisis that swept the global financial system during the second half of last year, the UN's leading drug fighter said in an interview with the Austrian magazine Profil, which was made available Sunday. Drug money was almost the only available capital for banks, said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
UNODC chief Antonio Maria CostaCosta's remarks came as the Profil interviewer questioned him about the size of the global drug market. "If you look at agriculture markets, it is the most important," Costa replied. "According to our calculations, the wholesale value of illegal drugs is more than $90 billion, in the range of world meat and grain trade. The street trade, we assess at a volume of over $320 billion."
While profits from the illicit drug trade fund political violence by the likes of the Taliban or Colombia's leftist FARC insurgents and rightist paramilitaries, they are also finding their way into the coffers of the world banking system at a critical time, Costa said. The drug business is one of the few global growth industries right now, he noted.
"The drug trade at this time could be the only growth industry, with little unemployment," Costa explained. "The money that is being made is flowing only partly back into illegal activities, in parts of Asia, Africa, and South America, where it is used to bribe politicians, buy elections, or finance insurgents, such as the Talibans in Afghanistan, the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, or the FARC in Colombia, for example."
The rest of the profit, Costa said, "is fed into the legal economic circulation through money laundering. We do not know how much, but the volume is imposing. As such, seen from the macroeconomic effect, this is simply bringing in investment capital. There are indications that these funds also ended up in the finance sector, which has been under obvious pressure since the second half of last year. In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital, to buy real estate, for example," Costa continued. "In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."
When pressed on just how this was accomplished, Costa responded: "It appears that interbank credits have been financed by money which comes from the drug trade and other illegal activities. It is naturally hard to prove this, but there are indications that a number of banks were rescued by this means."
Costa noted that money laundering controls put in place to stop drug trafficking have "ironically" resulted in drug traffickers sitting on large stashes of cash -- the ultimate liquid financial instrument. "To get around the electronic surveillance of bank transactions, now criminals stash their funds in cash sums which can be up to hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the way they try to hold these funds liquid."
There go those drug dealers propping up the global economy."
Thank you all hemp warriors. I'm confident that we will be free one day soon. Maybe even today.
Hemp For Us News - Thank You Michael Phelps
This article is by Debby Moore, Director of Research Hemp Industries of Kansas, sent to the USA Hemp Museum by Rev. Tom Brown who served 5 years for praying with a plant.
"I thank Michael Phelps, and others with winning spirits, for inspiring me to share these thoughts with you. "
Subject: Hemp For Us news
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7:18 AM
Knowledgeable of the probability of arrest and prosecution for speaking the truth, my FREE WILL impels my soul to shout, the time for Absolute Decriminalization of the plant Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp is now. Absolutely!
The United States is the only G-8 country, who does not recognize, productive cultivation of this bountiful, and multiple agricultural-business Cannabis Hemp crop.
My body, our bodies, are bio-chemically engineered to receive the nutritional benefits of Cannabis. Dr. Andrew Weil has repeatedly advised, if you want optimum health, you will include in your diet cannabis hemp every day.
Free Will, is stifled by over regulation, numerous rules and punishments. It is my opinion, we can choke the life out of the US economy with a few more rules suppressing Free Will. The aggressive anti-drug war policy of past plenipotentiary, is again contaminating the scientific facts data of the plant, Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp. The United Nations, now in session, deciding the world drug policy of the next decade, with U.S. plenipotentiary of past administrations implementing their strategy, other nations are rejecting to continue failed policy.
Despite, what the U.S. anti-drug profiteers promote, use of Cannabis does not a loser make. Micro-soft, and Michael Phelps, are two extraordinarily successful energies. that immediately come to mind. The Latin motto published on many corporate logo's, "impress your friends, destroy your enemies", is a common occurrence, originating when the first pilgrims took aim at the Native American Indian. The principal teachings of the 1970's Harvard University class, *A RADICAL APPROACH TO ECONOMICS: BASIS FOR A NEW CURRICULUM *ADDICTIONS, DISTRACTIONS DEFINE WESTERN WORLD, reinforce these concepts to disenfranchise humans.
70 years since the state of Kansas wrote the federal plenipotentiary,"if you restrict the cultivation of Cannabis Hemp, it will economically devastate Kansas." The intentional miscommunication of this plant Cannabis, the restriction of Free Will by imprisoning those who speak upto change drug policy, continue. All the legislative body, and media can discuss, is the smoking of the plant, by its media promotional name,"Marijuana". U. S. citizens, should be building houses from the Cannabis crop, creating jobs for farmers, and manufactures.
If Kansas, (who was a major contributor in the cultivation of Hemp initiative, for the "Hemp for Victory" WWII efforts), were to restore Hemp as a respectful agri-business, Kansas farmers would enjoy exceedingly handsome profits, new processors would build new buildings. The state of Kansas could grow their own paper, building supplies, composite plastics, food, animal bedding, insulation, fabrics, 22,000 other products. A very healthy concept, keeping the profits from the Kansas citizens labor efforts, in Kansas.
I have a problem that our plenipotentiary, are given the opportunity, to invest in the business of building prisons, and the plenteous of mega support conglomerates, created to eliminate the Free Will of consuming Cannabis advocates. Ultimately, the same legislators, pass laws, guaranteeing the full-occupancy of the prison industry, feeding there turns of their investments, completely forgetting to honestly pay their own income taxes.
At my local Wal-Mart, I can now purchase lotions and oils made from Cannabis Hemp, to smooth my skin, wash my hair. I can fuel my body with the essential omega three protein acids. I can wrap my self in Hemp fabrics. I can drive a car made of Hemp plastic composites. Economically, not one single American Farmer can enjoy a profit from growing this bountiful Cannabis Hemp crop. All Cannabis Sativa L Hemp raw fiber resources, must be imported into the United States, including the paper, used to make the money you and I spend.
We need to insist our plenipotentiary, support the desires of the many states, whose state voters, have enacted law for medical marijuana to beavailable to its citizens. If we continue our failed path, the judicial system revolving door, our children, and grand children, will pass through, and live in fear of; the laws of disenfranchisement for using are stricted plant. These bad drug policy laws, will continue to destroy our futures, as a whole. Bad laws, which certainly negatively affect the poor in far greater proportions, than the wealthy. Bad laws, which will continue to fill the coffers of the plenipotentiary, corrupting governments, restricting free speech, and destroying the pride of ownership, through seizure. Bad laws, which are much more damaging to the individual, than the use of, cannabis, in itself. Bad laws that put the price of a drug test, and law enforcement expenses, in each and every product we sell and purchase.
I thank Michael Phelps, and others with winning spirits, for inspiring me to share these thoughts with you.
Respectfully yours, Debby Moore, Director of Research Hemp Industries of Kansas
http://www.hempforus.com/
debby@hempforus.com
P.O. Box 48258, Wichita, Kansas, 67201(316) 524 6001
"I thank Michael Phelps, and others with winning spirits, for inspiring me to share these thoughts with you. "
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7:18 AM
Knowledgeable of the probability of arrest and prosecution for speaking the truth, my FREE WILL impels my soul to shout, the time for Absolute Decriminalization of the plant Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp is now. Absolutely!
The United States is the only G-8 country, who does not recognize, productive cultivation of this bountiful, and multiple agricultural-business Cannabis Hemp crop.
My body, our bodies, are bio-chemically engineered to receive the nutritional benefits of Cannabis. Dr. Andrew Weil has repeatedly advised, if you want optimum health, you will include in your diet cannabis hemp every day.
Free Will, is stifled by over regulation, numerous rules and punishments. It is my opinion, we can choke the life out of the US economy with a few more rules suppressing Free Will. The aggressive anti-drug war policy of past plenipotentiary, is again contaminating the scientific facts data of the plant, Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp. The United Nations, now in session, deciding the world drug policy of the next decade, with U.S. plenipotentiary of past administrations implementing their strategy, other nations are rejecting to continue failed policy.
Despite, what the U.S. anti-drug profiteers promote, use of Cannabis does not a loser make. Micro-soft, and Michael Phelps, are two extraordinarily successful energies. that immediately come to mind. The Latin motto published on many corporate logo's, "impress your friends, destroy your enemies", is a common occurrence, originating when the first pilgrims took aim at the Native American Indian. The principal teachings of the 1970's Harvard University class, *A RADICAL APPROACH TO ECONOMICS: BASIS FOR A NEW CURRICULUM *ADDICTIONS, DISTRACTIONS DEFINE WESTERN WORLD, reinforce these concepts to disenfranchise humans.
70 years since the state of Kansas wrote the federal plenipotentiary,"if you restrict the cultivation of Cannabis Hemp, it will economically devastate Kansas." The intentional miscommunication of this plant Cannabis, the restriction of Free Will by imprisoning those who speak upto change drug policy, continue. All the legislative body, and media can discuss, is the smoking of the plant, by its media promotional name,"Marijuana". U. S. citizens, should be building houses from the Cannabis crop, creating jobs for farmers, and manufactures.
If Kansas, (who was a major contributor in the cultivation of Hemp initiative, for the "Hemp for Victory" WWII efforts), were to restore Hemp as a respectful agri-business, Kansas farmers would enjoy exceedingly handsome profits, new processors would build new buildings. The state of Kansas could grow their own paper, building supplies, composite plastics, food, animal bedding, insulation, fabrics, 22,000 other products. A very healthy concept, keeping the profits from the Kansas citizens labor efforts, in Kansas.
I have a problem that our plenipotentiary, are given the opportunity, to invest in the business of building prisons, and the plenteous of mega support conglomerates, created to eliminate the Free Will of consuming Cannabis advocates. Ultimately, the same legislators, pass laws, guaranteeing the full-occupancy of the prison industry, feeding there turns of their investments, completely forgetting to honestly pay their own income taxes.
At my local Wal-Mart, I can now purchase lotions and oils made from Cannabis Hemp, to smooth my skin, wash my hair. I can fuel my body with the essential omega three protein acids. I can wrap my self in Hemp fabrics. I can drive a car made of Hemp plastic composites. Economically, not one single American Farmer can enjoy a profit from growing this bountiful Cannabis Hemp crop. All Cannabis Sativa L Hemp raw fiber resources, must be imported into the United States, including the paper, used to make the money you and I spend.
We need to insist our plenipotentiary, support the desires of the many states, whose state voters, have enacted law for medical marijuana to beavailable to its citizens. If we continue our failed path, the judicial system revolving door, our children, and grand children, will pass through, and live in fear of; the laws of disenfranchisement for using are stricted plant. These bad drug policy laws, will continue to destroy our futures, as a whole. Bad laws, which certainly negatively affect the poor in far greater proportions, than the wealthy. Bad laws, which will continue to fill the coffers of the plenipotentiary, corrupting governments, restricting free speech, and destroying the pride of ownership, through seizure. Bad laws, which are much more damaging to the individual, than the use of, cannabis, in itself. Bad laws that put the price of a drug test, and law enforcement expenses, in each and every product we sell and purchase.
I thank Michael Phelps, and others with winning spirits, for inspiring me to share these thoughts with you.
Respectfully yours, Debby Moore, Director of Research Hemp Industries of Kansas
http://www.hempforus.com/
debby@hempforus.com
P.O. Box 48258, Wichita, Kansas, 67201(316) 524 6001
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
"The View" Elisabeth Hasselbeck Attacks Michael Phelps For Smoking Marijuana--Whoopi Defends
Thank you Whoopi Goldberg for saying you smoked hemp.
It's time to restore sanity to government.
TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA TO LET OUR HEMP PLANT GO!!!!
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