Tuesday, March 3, 2009
HOW TO FIX OUR ECONOMY NOW!!!
There are two books referenced, both on Amazon, with solutions to the crisis we are in: Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D.’s THE WEB OF DEBT: THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT OUR MONEY SYSTEM AND HOW WE CAN BREAK FREE and Richard M. Davis’ HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.
The quick fix involves instituting a two part plan. First, implement Lincoln’s Greenback currency (including returning the Federal Reserve to the Federal Government). The “big banks” are bankrupt as is our money system. Congress must use their constitutionally ordained powers to create and distribute currency (a coin can have any value deemed) and reclaim the Federal Reserve.
Second, end hemp prohibition and encourage hemp commerce. Legalizing America’s #1 cash crop, hemp, frees a low cost, easily renewable resource material that can create energy, jobs and business opportunities quickly.
These simple shifts will complete the transition from the greed of the Industrial Age to the joyful abundance of the Information Age.
PART ONE –ISSUE GOVERNMENT (GREENBACK) CURRENCY FROM A FEDERALLY OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE
Reference Book - Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D.’s THE WEB OF DEBT: THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT OUR MONEY SYSTEM AND HOW WE CAN BREAK FREE, 2008.
Wisdom demands we stop pretending not to know that we have the ability to fix our economy by changing the way we look at it. It begins by replacing confusion with wisdom.
"As for you my fine friend, you're a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you have run away from danger, you have no courage. You are confusing courage with wisdom.” The Wizard of Oz to the Lion.
The Wizard of Oz solved impossible problems just by looking at them differently.” THE WEB OF DEBT page 367
The Greenback currency system is money issued by the government instead of the way it’s done now. In THE WEB OF DEBT Hodgson explains how banks, not the government, create money on their computer screens then overcharge us for money they ‘authorized.’ From this great page tearing book I learned that Abraham Lincoln’s greenback monetary system allows for the expansion of currency to fit the needs of the nation and if done right, the world.
The time has come to put away childish Ponzi schemes. “The 300 year old fractional-reserve Ponzi scheme has reached its mathematical end-point. The bankers’ chickens have come home to roost, and only a radical overhaul will save the system.” (pg. 400)
Hodgson makes many recommendations on how to fix our financial system including returning the Federal Reserve to the federal government.
Page 24 “A Game of Smoke and Mirrors
Illusion surrounding the Federal Reserve begins with its name. The Federal Reserve is not actually federal, and it keeps no reserves – at least not in the sense most people think. No gold or silver backs its Federal Reserve notes (our dollar bills). A booklet published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York states:
Currency cannot be redeemed or exchanged for Treasury gold or any other asset used as backing. The question of just what assets “back” Federal Reserve notes has little but bookkeeping significance.”
If President Obama is to successfully shift our economy in a long term meaningful way, he’s going to need a lot of political, social and physical protection.
Many people have died for trying to change our current failing system. Attorney Hodgson Brown wrote about how the deaths of Presidents McKinley (pgs. 112 & 138), Garfield (pg. 96), Lincoln (pgs. 82, 95 & 221) and Kennedy (pgs. 204-206) were connected to their trying to change the financial system.
Pg. 204 “Kennedy was the last President to take a real stand against entrenched Wall Street business interests. Kennedy was a Hamiltonian, who opposed the forces of “free trade” and felt that industry should be harnessed to serve the Commonwealth. He felt strongly that the country should maintain its independence by developing cheap sources of energy. The stand pitted him against the oil/banking cartel, which was bent on raising oil prices to prohibitive levels in order to entangle the world in debt.”
Page 205 “There is also evidence that Kennedy crossed the bankers by seeking to revive a silver-backed currency that would be independent of the banks and their privately-owned Federal Reserve.....
Although the puppeteers behind Kennedy’s assassination have never been officially exposed, some investigators have concluded that he was another victim of the invisible hand of the international corporate/banking/military cartel. President Eisenhower warned in his 1961 Farewell Address of the encroaching powers of the military-industrial complex.”
Her writing has me wondering about the death of the man who set up ‘The Roaring Twenties,” President Harding, the 4th Black president. I also wonder if restoring financial power to the government is the passed mantle that Ethel Kennedy was speaking of in her conversation with President Obama.
How to change the financial system so it works? Read THE WEB OF DEBT and encourage your friends to do the same. Then, implement the solutions proposed.
PART TWO: END HEMP PROHIBITION
Reference Book - Richard M. Davis’ HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION
Encouraging hemp commerce will stimulate not only the economy but the quality of life. Hemp can restore the family farm with an easy to grow quickly renewable crop that has more than 50,000 uses, reduce the need for health care via this 5,000 year old effective medicine, save prison costs for the 872,721 people in 2007 arrested for hemp, and remove the excess CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows.
One of the great sections in Davis’ book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION is his explanation of how to use hemp to solve our problems.
Pages 105-6 “Hempification
Global warming, environmentally caused cancers, and the wrecked American economy requires radical action to achieve the goal of an enriched, healthy environment. Here’s a step by step overview of what needs to be done now to re-hemp the planet.
1. In our ignorance, we have outlawed nature: Remove ALL legislative limitations on the hemp plant. Find out how much we need to grow.
2. A task force of hemp masters from around the globe should conference regarding the process of converting from oil to hemp. Their conclusions should be put on a Project Manager (i.e. Microsoft) and implemented immediately.
3. Make land and financing available to family farms and ancillary businesses. Identify growers and empower them to develop family farms and supportive ancillary industries like seed pressers, packagers, transportation and retailers.
4. Finance small on site hemp oil and fuel processing plants at the farms. Provide financing for the development, equipment and distribution start-ups.
5. Create a seed bank and distribute seeds like the EPA distributes fertilizer. Use the best seed for the job. Free Marc Emery so he can help out.
6. Publish growing tips for farmers. On line classes with camera hook-up in groups can teach small farmers how to grow hemp. A master’s series of classes on How To Grow Hemp can create an abundant crop for processing into fuel and other helpful products and services.
7. Adequately computerize participants with equipment and skills to help them maximize their acreage output and market opportunities.
8. Use ice bergs in the ocean to hydrate land and supply clean drinking water. Oil tankers who transport toxic energy can be used to harvest and deliver to shore intact ice bergs. This process has an added benefit by helping maintain the Salinization level in the ocean, which impacts on weather patterns.
9. Encourage the widespread use of Flex Fuel Conversion Kits: Converting cars to bio-fuel. Many jobs can be created doing the conversions. The nation’s Biofuel Distribution System needs to go on a project manager too.
10. If necessary open up no less than 10% of government land to grow massive quantities of hemp for bio fuel, building materials and other environmentally empowering uses.
11. A recreational hemp tax of 20% could compensate the program to finance and provide technical assistance to family farms to create HEMP FOR VICTORY.
Like in the days of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, the family hemp farmer can grow hemp on almost any land.
“We now understand that cannabis fixes CO2. And, an acre of cannabis fixes five times as much CO2 as an acre of forest. It could be an enormous help in turning around our global warming situation.
The oil that’s produced from the cannabis plant, Henry Ford used in his first cars. And people are again driving up and down the coast using biodiesel gasoline. It’s an alternative to using dead dinosaurs as a way of getting around on the planet.”
DR. WILLIAM L. COURTNEY—courtney@mcn.org
in an interview by Norman de Vall on KZXY/Z
The Politics Behind the Local News—WWW.KZXY.ORG
published in THE NEW SETTLER, Issue 142, Summer 2007”
PRODUCTION NOTES
As the founder of and a conductor on the Computer Underground Railroad, a cyber division of the original. over the last decade I’ve been blessed to work with the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing. The museum’s founder and curator, Richard M. Davis is the author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which is a topic guided museum tour. His inspirational book shows with museum exhibits how using hemp to fix our environment can help us fix our economy too.
While researching another book in the Hemp for Victory series, hemp and economics, he shared with me THE WEB OF DEBT, which without mentioning the word hemp, explains why hemp is illegal.
How could corporations sell us toxic medicine, building materials, foods, energy etc. if a safe, low cost non-toxic alternative is available from hemp?
How could the banks keep charging usury interest rates if the people could just grow hemp and exchange it for government issued money instead of bank issued loans?
How could the Prison, Inc. industry grow, designed to terrorize, de-humanize and control by throwing people into prison for something as simple as interacting with nature?
CONCLUSION
From the failing toxic petrodollars to “click your heels three times Dorothy,” let’s restore the ability to create money to the federal government and let hemp put the green back in greenback. We are limited only by our imaginations in solving these problems, which are vast. First Draft Written by J. Nayer Hardin
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Is Hemp Now Legal?
The following stories have been posted over the past week.
Medical marijuana: Is this now an American policy?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29430723/
"During his campaign, President Obama said he would stop the raids on legal medical marijuana dispensaries. Yesterday, the attorney general hinted that Obama's stance on the issue is now American policy.
Some say it is a step in the right direction for people who depend on medical marijuana, but the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department said the statement doesn't mean anything. They say growing and selling marijuana is illegal and it's going to stay that way.
"Do you expect those sorts of raids to continue?" a reporter asked the attorney general in a press conference. "No," Holder stated. That simple response ignited the medical marijuana issue once again. "
U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 27, 2009
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/26/MN2016651R.DTL
Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in California since Obama took office last month, Holder said the administration has changed its policy.
"What the president said during the campaign, you'll be surprised to know, will be consistent with what we'll be doing here in law enforcement," he said. "What he said during the campaign is now American policy."
Bill Piper, national affairs director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a marijuana advocacy group, said the statement is encouraging.
"I think it definitely signals that Obama is moving in a new direction, that it means what he said on the campaign trail that marijuana should be treated as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue," he said."
Arizona AG: Marijuana legalization could curb Mexican drug cartel warfare
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster Published: Friday February 27, 2009
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arizona_AG_Marijuana_legalization_possible_way_0227.html
"The entire trade, of course, is fueled by the selling and buying of drugs," said Chetry. "There are some who make the case, including a former deputy foreign minister of Mexico who now works for the Brookings Institution -- somebody by the name of Andres Rosenthal -- who says maybe we need to rethink our drug laws."Rosenthal is one of a growing chorus of former Latin American leaders who have voiced support for the legalization of marijuana. "He says, 'As with the repeal of prohibition, the US must follow a common-sense approach by thinking the unthinkable: The gradual legalization of some drugs. The US must realize that all drugs are not created equal,'" said Chetry. "They go on to say that marijuana, maybe some methamphetamines, do not have the same harmful effects and legalization might make a difference. Do you agree?"
Friday, February 27, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Black Market Drug Profits Propped Up Global Banking System in 2008
"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."
Hemp For Us News - Thank You Michael Phelps
"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!!!!