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Al Gore's New Warming Theme
Monday, March 01, 2010 – by
Staff Report
Al Gore
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy – the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century. – NYTimes/Al Gore opinion
Dominant Social Theme: There are lots of important reasons to go green – more than you think.
Free-Market Analysis: We were surprised yesterday to read the above excerpt in the New York Times because we had written about this possibility the day before. We note this not to blow our own horn (honestly) but only because it confirms generally the thrust of the Bell and its analysis of dominant social themes. It is difficult for most people to internalize these themes because the idea of being manipulated so secretively and thoroughly is repugnant to the human spirit. But in fact the Bell's focus is borne out, over and over, in reality. On Saturday we wrote the following:
Over the past hundred years or more, a mostly Anglo-American elite has built a nearly seamless structure of think tanks, government agencies, non profits, external research authorities, educational establishments and media structures to promote fear-based themes that centralize control and generate wealth for a mere handful. ... Perhaps there is no global warming, but those in charge are not about to discard the idea of a greener future. ... No, these are marching orders, we think. And we will bet it is not too long before we may all be reading factoids in major publications about how going green produces jobs and is an antidote to a world running out of oil.
Read More: Elite Rewind: Green Best for Jobs
Please note that last line. "And we will bet it is not too long before we may all be reading factoids in major publications about how going green produces jobs and is an antidote to a world running out of oil." This was written in response to the recent green conference in Bali (see Bell link) that attracted officials supposedly from over 160 countries. According to reports, the conference featured a theme that downplayed arguments about global warming in favor of arguing that green policies and green industry were necessary because the world was running out of oil and because green industry created more jobs than the current oil and gas industry.
Now the New York Times has published an editorial on the continued necessity for green policies from Al Gore (pictured above), one that was actually headlined throughout the day on Drudge Report, seen by millions. Gore does play up global warming (how could he not) but sings a new tune as well: "Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy – the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century."
We can see how Gore hones in on the themes of peak oil (vanishing energy) and the "race to develop ... the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century." Is this a coincidence? It echoes the themes of the Bali conference which in turn no doubt echo the themes of various white papers (hastily composed, perhaps) soon to be issued out of institutes of "higher" learning and a slew of complaisant think tanks. Yes, these papers will be issued in the usual "peer reviewed" torrents (if they haven't been already) to buttress the latest, most fashionable fear-based arguments, as mentioned above. The elite apparently will stop at nothing to create a future in which governments control and ration virtually all energy expenditures.
Will certain readers scan the above and write it off to coincidence and paranoia? You are welcome to. But in response, we offer the following, which we presented in a NOTED feature beneath the Bali article on Saturday. We featured two additional prognostications recently issued by the Bell. Here's an excerpt:
Head of IMF Proposes New Reserve Currency ... Dominique Strauss-Kahn (left), the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggested Friday the organization might one day be called on to provide countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar. "That day has not yet come, but I think it is intellectually healthy to explore these kinds of ideas now," he said in a speech on the future mandate of the 186-nation Washington-based lending organization. Strauss-Kahn said such an asset could be similar to but distinctly different from the IMF's special drawing rights, or SDRs, the accounting unit that countries use to hold funds within the IMF. It is based on a basket of major currencies." – ABC News [Ed note: it's uncanny isn't it? Just yesterday in an article on Jim Rogers and the pound, we wrote the following: "What would happen if the pound crashed? It would probably set off a real economic realignment globally. ... Let the power elite emerge from a "crisis meeting" and announce the formation of a comprehensive IMF currency to take the place of the dollar and see what happens. It wouldn't be greeted with the kind of respectful awe that Bretton Woods inspired." ... OK, now we shall see!
Read More: Jim Rogers on the Pound
We then wrote ...
This follows on the heels of our prediction that a violent incident of American protest would be used by the powers-that-be to tarnish the tea-party movement and free-market Congressman Ron Paul. In fact, the very next day a plane crashed into an IRS building in Texas and Time Magazine immediately rushed to smear freedom loving Americans. Dear reader, you can be a prognosticator too! Just read the Bell and follow along with the memes of the power elite. It's not hard.
Read More: As the Bell Predicted, IRS Plane Attack Hits Freedom
No, it is not hard if one accepts that an unelected and unaccountable elite is engaged in a deliberate, organized, intergenerational effort to centralize power, authority and wealth worldwide and especially in the West. Once one adopts this view, which we fought against, collectively, for decades, everything falls into the place. The corruption of science, central bank ruination of economies, stock market manias and corresponding busts, the plethora of devious think tanks, the endless lacunae of media coverage combined with constant fear-based "bad news" articles, and above all the torrent of regulations pouring out of Western governments all cannot be mere coincidence. There is an animating hand, as difficult as it may be to accept.
Who and what is this power elite? It is a small group, in our opinion. But beyond that, we leave it to you decide, dear reader. We are in the business of observing the fruits of its labor, of establishing the reality of its manipulations and the perverseness of its solutions. We have also suggested, humbly, that fear of the power elite and the inevitability of its triumph is yet another dominant social theme – sponsored and spread by the power elite itself, and subject to the Internet's formidable educational pushback. The mainstream media is not so involved in this latter meme, but we are aware of myriad Internet websites that promote this sort of fear – the invulnerability of the power elite – either knowingly or not.
Conclusion: What are sensible people doing, from our perspective? They are not allowing themselves to be paralyzed by fear or disgust. They are educating themselves (by reading the Bell?) and by internalizing the truths about the free-market and Austrian economics available on various glorious websites on the Internet. They are buying – or contemplating the purchase of – gold, silver or both, and perhaps taking delivery. They are reducing debt and securing their incomes as best they can. Perhaps they are buying guns for self-defense. They are living as adults, planning for their future and the future of their families without trusting to the government to take care of them.
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Posted by Peter M. Lutterbeck on 3/1/2010 4:37:58 AM
Regarding Global Warming: Yes we are having warmer days, but the issue is whether humans are responsible and if so to what extent. It should be recalled that global warming has occured at approximate intervals of 1500 years plus or minus 500 years for millions of years.
The last period called the "Medieval Warming" just around 1500 years ago had temperatures warmer than they are today. Truly independent, non-agenda dedicated climatologists highly incriminate the sun for this cyclical occurrence. It's very complicated to understand but the radiation of special isotopes that occur some every 12 to 13 years is responsible for these mini-cycles.
Also, there is a great deal of circumstantial evidence during the "Medieval Warming" when peoples, agriculture, diseases and wanderings support the presence of warmer days.
The "Al Gore Agenda" is consistent with the goals of "The New World Order" where the objective is to control populations all over the world by installing carbon taxes and the installation of monitoring microchips into every energy consuming contraption.
In other words, a massive tax predominately burdening middle and lower income groups everywhere. We are only witnessing the "tip of the iceberg" of this policy. The dumbing-down of the Western countries are easily manipulated to go along with this fraudulent tactic.
The main stream industry-contolled media is entirely complicit by being manipulative toward these ends and only blogs such as this one can identify those who do their homework. The same absurdities are being propagated when claiming how limited the world's oil reserves are. Mexico and Venezuela each alone harbor as much as the world's reserves.
Now comes Brazil having recently discovered vast quantities off its shores. Surely located in awkward locations, but there are hundreds of yet undiscovered oil/gas reserves in the world lasting well enough to last centuries. Of course, no one will go public on this as that would not serve well amongst the oil industry. Oil is essentially a product useful to justify military and social containment throughout the world. The near future will surely illustrate this awareness, at least to a few.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
There is no doubt now that the peak oil promotion was related to the global warming meme.
Posted by Tibor R. Machan on 3/1/2010 6:03:24 AM
I write with reference to the question that starts your above conclusion, namely, "What are sensible people doing, from our perspective?" I suggest that you drop "from our perspective" in the above and in any subsequent commentary.
On the one hand, of course it is from your perspective--who else's would it be? On the other hand, the question is valid as it stands, no matter what "perspective." Indeed, adding that phrase suggests relativism or even subjectivism (epistemologically). Thus, you undermine your qualification of "sensible people." Being sensible is not a matter of a perspective! It is a matter of taking into account what matters for human beings.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thank you, Mr. Machan.
(It's just that we don't want to come across as overly didactic.)
Posted by David Friedman on 3/1/2010 7:29:04 AM
We in California are headed for one of the greatest known cases of group economic suicide in 2012. That is the year that new restrictive green laws go into effect.
Adding insult to injury is Arnold Schwartznegger spouting off every time a camera is in the room, that green jobs are our savior. He even lists statistics about green jobs being the fastest growing portion of our work force. This in a state that is bleeding jobs with a real unemployment rate of about 20.
Further a UC study recently concluded that at its peak, green jobs will never account for anything more than a tiny fraction of jobs in CA.
None in the mainstream media even bother to question the lies Arnold seemingly makes up on the spot. He is not even a good liar. I miss the good old days when the lies of greatest concern were focused on oral sex in the oval office and not the ruin of my home state.
Posted by David Brown on 3/1/2010 7:39:57 AM
I just don't know about this power elite. Looking back over the history of human enterprise, it seems like ignorance and stupidity are major mediators of human prosperity and happiness. Have you Daily Bell folks read "The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman or "Collapse" by Jared Diamond?
Reply from the Daily Bell:
We find Barbara Tuchman seems to leave a lot out.
Posted by DRUNK AND DISORDERLY on 3/1/2010 7:59:54 AM
My theory on the Power Elite is that you are giving them too much credit. I certainly agree that the U.S. economy and political structure are controlled by a relatively few very rich and powerful individuals. Conspiracy theories seem to include the idea that the Power Elite is highly organized. Does this mean that they hold meetings, elections, offices, have rules or laws of conduct ala the Mafioso?
No doubt there is communication and cooperation to facilitate personal gain but these people are competitors and suspicious of one another.
Between the rabble and the Power Elite lies a symbiotic connection; the Power Elite must have a lower social, working class for both economic and psychological support. Without the rabble, who would do the grunt work of society? Who would so predictably and foolishly respond to their control? The Power Elite needs the rabble like a house needs a foundation.
Posted by Lyfo on 3/1/2010 8:02:38 AM
I have always believed that off-the-grid, "Green" type technology would have been a thriving movement and thriving business if it weren't for the prohibitive, crony style stranglehold held by large corps in the USA and around the world.
Due to the regulations and prohibitions small industry has not thrived. And whose fault is it but the Governments' for taking the bribes to pass the legislation and enforce a million worthless laws and regulations. Well yes, who bribed them and why?
As I recall German industry used to call it "appropriate technology" that they sold in Latin America and perhaps Africa, but were really scaled down tools or whatever and contained less expensive materials than those items sold in first world countries.
If US industry had remained competitive it would be thriving today, duh. Instead Hummers were the answer to not selling the right (smaller) car to a world market 30 or 40 years earlier.
If TINKERERS (inventors, industrialists) were even allowed thrive wouldn't we already have a thriving green industry?
Reply from the Daily Bell:
The free-market, if left alone, would quickly sort out the nation's and the world's "energy dilemma."
Posted by Rev. Dean Kavouras on 3/1/2010 8:09:48 AM
Your conclusion is true, comforting and liberating! Thank you for removing the shackles.
On another subject FYI, you might want to see how a deflationary depression is likely the only thing that can happen now in America (and this will ultimately be the best cleansing event for us). The best the elites can do with 'printing' is create money to replace the toxic sludge, that just puts them even inflation-wise (and is no small job even for them).
But by this article, people are saving, deleveraging, not spending and starving govt to death. If they raise the rates it will kill spending even more. I think and I hope that this will starve the elites to death but good, or make them so weak from mal-nutrition that they'll be nothing but flaccid has-beens. I think that short of a bloody revolution, which I am loathe to wish for, death by starvation will do the job nicely.
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Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thanks. We expect to write an analysis showing how far belief in elite memes has slipped recently. We believe we are correct in our larger analysis that the promotion of dominant social themes has nearly collapsed in America. This is not disastrous for Americans, as you point out, but for the elite itself which will find influencing society harder and harder without resorting to outright force. And force is incredibly unpredictable - which is why they don't like to use it. It is all complicated by the Internet and that medium's watchful eye.
Posted by TeresaE on 3/1/2010 8:36:56 AM
The ability of these crooks to duck and jive is unbelievable. Even more unbelievable are the numbers that drink the collective kool-aid.
It makes a part of me (albeit a very small part) want them to pass this crap. Starvation and a middle class that is working just to see nothing left at the end of the week, might serve to open a few eyes.
But, I doubt it, and realize the destruction would far outweigh the cost of enlightenment. For most of my adult life I contemplated how Hitler could rise to power. How could seemingly intelligent, god fearing, family-oriented citizens allow such a monstrosity to grab hold of their country?
Watching these modern themes play out opened my eyes. Evil takes over an inch at a time, and in the name of the "greater good."
Thanks for spreading truth. It is greatly appreciated.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thank you. But please, don't be such a pessimist! One of the last remaining dominant social themes is that the power elite is untouchable and impregnable. They have devoted an inordinate amount of time, money, books, speakers and even Internet sites to establishing their godlike powers. But they are not gods. "The rich are different than you and me," Fitzgerald said. "Yes," Hemingway supposedly replied. "They have more money."
Posted by Frank Ross on 3/1/2010 10:04:43 AM
Energy resources and energy technology are a means to an end. If it were viable technology then it would be inexpensive and have low labor input cost, and certainly not be an engine for job growth. Sure, if there were a magic technology then an inventor or company could profit short term when it is under patent.
The whole idea that "green jobs" is the future revolution of the US (or European) economy is preposterous.
I guess it reflects the socialist-Keynesian mentality that we can gain prosperity by printing money and digging ditches and filling them again. Similarly, they believe that encouraging inefficient energy technologies by grants, subsidies and taxes on conventional energy will somehow bring prosperity.
I recommend a book called "Gusher of Lies" by Robert Bryce that reflects on how the U.S. loses the plot when it comes to energy. Just like anything else, energy would benefit from free markets.
Posted by Civil Westman on 3/1/2010 10:20:58 AM
As a sensible individual, I recognize that I cannot affect the direction of my country in the historical sense. Most likely, the 'last, best hope for humanity' - the US - is in a death spiral as a nation, along with Western Europe. The elites are only accelerating this process with the likes of the manmade global warming hoax and efforts to create a global currency.
What can I do as an individual? Lower my standard of living voluntarily by decreasing my income and thereby paying far less in taxes (freedom from slavery); supply my family with the means to stay home unassisted (with all that entails) for a very long period of time ( self-sufficiency). Both are done.
I am blessed, having been born in 1944, thereby having lived in a period free from material want. As things have unfolded, I find myself wondering whether, perhaps, human beings are hard-wired to function best at the subsistence level of existence.
Given that few generation of us (in historical time) have been freed from the toil of subsistence, it just may be that such freedom unleashes some kind of mass insanity and flight from reality in most individuals. In others, I suppose it results in an overweening mad desire to control vast masses of humanity, thereby creating a grand illusion of having power in a world in which our shared destiny is eventually dust.
My own view is that our progeny in much of the world will likely face a new dark age of several centuries. Only a few recognize the vast manipulations taking place. Perhaps this spark will suffice to reanimate some still-fertile minds. I fear for the worst, however, and it may take centuries to re-discover what has been so hard won over the past 500 years or so.
Posted by Jerry Rivas on 3/1/2010 11:54:38 AM
So where does the crow go to crow? At a pub, one called The Daily Bell! Don't take too much credit as I thought of these the day before you did. Haha How many times has the oil run out? How many times did Mao die before he finally did? How many times has the dollar been trashed? A look back in history says all the predictions will be proved correct some day, but not before Nostradamus has his way!
Reply from the Daily Bell:
We were not presenting these predictions to crow but to illustrate the utility of analyzing power elite memes.
Posted by Ranger on 3/1/2010 12:57:51 PM
How you know Global Warming/Catastrophic Climate Change is a lie:
1. The permanent Government, media, economists, grant supported academia, and political elites promote it.
2. Opponents of this promotion are demonized.
3. All proposed solutions require gigantic new taxes to be imposed on the private economy.
4. All proposed solutions require gigantic government bureacracies to use force in its implementation.
A 10 year old child can make the right decision every time by applying these criteria to any looming "problem".
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Yet not everybody does?
Posted by Swainsong on 3/1/2010 2:55:23 PM
The funny thing is: we ALREADY have the answer, to both peak oil and a 'greener economy. It's right there in your hand when you crack open a pint and spark up a reefer at the end of another long day earning tax revenue to fund the friendly folks at the Federal Reserve for bailing us out of the economic crisis they themselves created.
Alcohol, opposed to solar and wind and tidal fluctuations etc etc, is far less expensive, less technically complicated, and already available as an alternative to any and every petroleum based economy, um, which of course is why it has remained so far under the radar " or rather so aggressively suppressed since gasoline baron John D Rockefeller's successful financial support bankrupted a growing alcohol fuel industry.
And you thought Prohibition was about puritanical sin? Not to mention the vast number of American citizens intentionally poisoned with methanol by their very own government in the process, in the same manner Mexican marijuana plantations were poisoned by US endorsed paraquat spraying operations.Did you not know that hemp was the most important cultivated renewable resource on the entire globe for all of human history, because of it's multiple uses from medicine to textiles to pulp for paper etc etc, right up until the mid 1800s when chemical baron DuPont did the same to marijuana that Rockefeller did to alcohol?
Yup, ain't it funny how they use the exact same knitting pattern for all of the wool they pull over our eyes, eh.
David Blume has been promoting 'alcohol can be a gas for over two decades, and has a website named just that, not to mention heating and cooking fuels as well as an environmental regenerator. And Jack Herer has been trying to do the same for hemp with his free online book: The Emperor Wears No Clothes.Oh, and did I mention hemp can be converted into fuel just like Henry Ford used for his first race cars in the good olde days, and that you can make your own in your own back yard?
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Interesting, especially the analysis of prohibition. Thanks
Posted by West on 3/1/2010 4:21:55 PM
Interesting. Does the power elite have long term plans and do they collude, or do they compete with each other and muddle through? Or a bit of both? As someone noted above an elite needs social hierarchy and to maintain this they also need to tilt the playing field in their own favor, and the lower classes are necessary for the power elite to be the power elite.
Personally I think when the real warriors energized intellectually and spiritually by unity, strength and vision rise up, they will seize the hoarded up Gold and Silver from their vaults and release it into society so that it circulates as money and the current money masters will be de-throned and made into house servants serving the warriors.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
"Does the power elite have long term plans and do they collude, or do they compete with each other and muddle through?"
Here at the Bell, we are not trying to observe the internal INTERACTIONS of the elite (and do not attempt to analyze them), but the RESULTS of its promotions -- and their success or failure.
Posted by Adrian W on 3/1/2010 4:24:40 PM
Thank you so much for this article. You have put a large and troublesome piece of the "power elite's" puzzle together for me. The fear of their inevitable rise to domination and control may not be destiny, although, there is much buzz via alternative news sources to say otherwise. That "fear" of them growing uncontrollably stronger by every devious manipulation. Instead, it appears the 'elite' is as vulnerable as the "memes" they continue to force upon the masses.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
You have put it well. Thanks.
Posted by Mike on 3/1/2010 10:39:47 PM
I love your website and its articles. Finally I have discovered a group of thinkers who can eloquently discuss the idea of a conspiratorial elite without frothing at the mouth or going off on some wild tangent.Its refreshing
Posted by Nanoo Visitor on 3/2/2010 1:56:49 AM
Richard Maybury, in the Mar issue of EWR, points out that the secrecy lid may be blowing off in the US. One thing he pointed out is the 29Jan Bloomberg article "Secret Banking Cabal Emerges from AIG Shadows", by David Reilly.
Posted by Property Rights on 3/2/2010 3:30:01 AM
Just what are the real meanings of "Carbon Credits" , as seen by the banksters ? For a clue as to the horrors of this term, check out this article:
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Posted by Loyweston on 3/2/2010 2:51:30 PM
He seems a bit of a buffoon but I don't get your negative take on Glenn Beck. He does not articulate well your way of exposing the current administrations drive to centralize power so not on the same page but roughly reading from the same book so to speak. Could you be morespecific on what bugs you about him? Thanks and with sincere admiration.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
We were giving Beck the benefit of the doubt. But we watched him hound Ron Paul endlessly when he was over at CNN, and though he seemed to have changed on Fox, it's become evident once again he is still at heart pro-war, pro military industrial complex, etc. He is a walking bundle of contradictions but at the end of the day he is about manipulating the freedom-movement, not enabling it.
Just our opinion. If you ARE a freedom loving person why would you dress up in a military uniform to pose on the cover of your book?
"War is the health of the state ...."
Posted by Jerry Welch , Author on 3/2/2010 7:39:35 PM
How I hate coming in on the tail-end of these wonderful comments. I must be busy writing a thesis on corpacracy/corporacracy.
To those who refute global warming, say that the planet has cycles, and that there is plenty of oil available, I have some questions.
Were there internal combustion engines 1500,1000,500, or even 100 years ago?
How long did it take this planet to "manufacture" the gas and oil in our subterranean areas?
How long has it taken to significantly reduce our gas and oil reserves?
And finally, forget about warming.
Just walk down any street in our major cities and start worrying about BREATHING. We are all riding in the same carriage in our perception of the elite, but everyones reference to the "elite" or "power elite" is too abstract.
I agree. yes, the elite are out there. But where; and who are they? I suggest that they are a force that controls almost every aspect of our lives, have blended with government and are substituting for democracy. They are CORPORATE OFFICERS and it is called CORPACRACY.
Now where have you heard that before?
Posted by Ashlie Witt on 3/3/2010 1:33:06 PM
I've always found it interesting that Al Gore never speaks about de-forestation or the problems associated with the popular American meat-based diet.
Trees are our life-blood and do a fine job of reducing carbon in the atmosphere. I can attest to this as a resident of Seattle. Land for cattle requires clearing/burning forests as well. Something to think about.I am so fortunate to have discovered your publication! I read every day and keep a dictionary handy!
Posted by Brian on 4/21/2010 4:09:19 AM
Every day I hear about people wanting to scam the country for money. Why does our government still insist on foreign oil? Why do we still make paper from Trees? Why do we have pills that have hemp in them but you cant smoke it instead you have to pay 300.00 for a certain amount of pills they control just like the man made narcotics that cause dependence and addiction along with suicidal withdrawals.
Why would a doctor insist on someone with a pinched nerve to use a man made narcotic which is very good at relieving pain at first be then the patient needs more and will commit violent crimes to get them instead of just telling the man to smoke some Hemp and they should feel eased.
I always thought the doctors went by the Hippocratic oath but I guess the government stopped that important step. My point to all this is our system is all about money and this entire global warming scam is the biggest scam on earth.
Why do I say this. My question is why hasn't other people who are either claiming global warming or dispute it. Why isn't HEMP legal to grow everywhere possible in the US. I can tell you why and if the DEA or Obama or anyone says it is dangerous because it is a gateway drug or it may cause a white female to date a black male was what they used when they first banned it.
Henry Ford was planning to grow cars from the ground and he was going to use Hemp to achieve this goal. Mr. Ford was already using Hemp as fuel and he had made car parts from them also.
The tree industry did not want to compete with Hemp because the paper from trees is fragile compared to hemp paper. They wanted to make more money and trees were plentiful. Well today forests are gone and they cannot do their job which was to protect the earth.
Hemp could be used ever season over and over without hurting the ground. Do you realize how much money and trees we will save and all the money will stay in the US. If we started using hemp for fuel we could wean ourselves off of foreign oil after we change over pumps.
Even today people are starting to use Hemp seeds as food because they are the most nutritious of all foods. So why would the government either make you buy them from a controlled store instead of letting you grow and eat your own? Obama is wanting to have a huge health care industry but he has no way to pay for it without borrowing or raising money every workers taxes which will cripple the nation also.
If Obama wants people to be healthy then let people use hemp as medicine and stop discriminating between sick people or people who just need the natural plant as a stress reliever. George Washington told everyone to grow hemp and he said it was the most important plant on earth with so many uses. Even though Hemp was illegal in 1938 the US lifted the ban in 1942 for the war. The name of the campaign was "Hemp for Victory" You would love it and you can find it on YouTube.
People grew hemp and got paid for what they sold. People turned the plant into tents, clothes, rope, sails, and anything else the troops needed. Hemp won the war and it is the only thing that will save this country. Why no one has talked about this puzzles me. Does everyone like to see humans treated like slaves? Thanks and I hope to see a reply from you.
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We agree. Drugs should be legalized, not just hemp.
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