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Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003
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The Economy | Clinton learned it early: Keep the bond traders happy
By Andrew Cassel
Inquirer Columnist
“The Bush administration recently acknowledged that this year's deficit alone will top $450 billion, and the chances that this President will cut spending or hike taxes to plug the gap are slim to none. Where's the money going to come from?
From borrowing, of course. Lots and lots of federal borrowing, which drains national savings and fuels inflation. This week alone, the Treasury is selling $60 billion in new debt, and there's plenty more to come. With all that supply flooding the market, how could rates not rise?
It's too early to know if higher rates will indeed choke the recovery. But if they do, there will be no mystery about how it happened. Clinton figured it out it years ago.”
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/columnists/andrew_cassel/6466315.htm
“Where's the money going to come from?”
The first answer is “increased efficiency”. The second answer is “increased awareness”, leading to a more comprehensive understanding. Leading to the third answer, which is “more hemp”.
Think of plant material as stored solar energy, and you will see that any plant which produces lots of biomass and oil, without chemicals, all over the world, is a good plant to grow a lot of. Energy is the basis of man’s economic system. Because we have invested in expensive, toxic, unevenly distributed, unsustainable energy resources, our economic system has perverted itself, and the protect the government which depends on increasing revenues from public awareness that the government exists largely to perpetuate a privileged agenda, protecting itself and maintaining control.
To truly understand economics, I recommend reading
“The Iron Heel” by Jack London
listening to the first few lines of
“Too Late For Prayin’” by Gordon Lightfoot
and take deep breaths, eat good things, and practice guided meditations, and just feel the love in you, to clear your head and keep the energy flowing.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003  |
Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
The President's Council on Bioethics
Washington, D.C., October 2003
http://bioethics.gov/reports/beyondtherapy/fulldoc.html
Dear People,
This report raises issues of policy having to do with behavior modification, from a scientifically objective, though transparently directional viewpoint. Policy decisions concerning present and future biotechnology products naturally encompass the policies toward existing, much safer and less expensive, holistic, drug and herb use, substantially broadening the discussion of an individual's right to choose from a variety of altered states of consciousness.
I wonder if this is what Bush really had expected when he signed the Executive Order commissioning the report -- along the lines of 'careful what you wish for'. Until informed otherwise, I prefer to think that the scientists involved have thrown the Drug War dinosaurs a curve-ball, or perhaps kicked-open a backdoor, through which a failed system of prohibition is suddenly transformed into an expensive, exclusive pharmaceutically manufactured, genetically-engineered gold rush. This is what has happened to agriculture.
Natural substances and the people who value them languish in prisons built to house the masses who recognize the true value of a competitive, regional, agricultural economy. The obvious sense in growing your own fuel and food, medicines, paper, etc ...while conditioning the soil and feeding wildlife, and providing seasonal windbreaks, screening, etc...etc... In the face of an overwhelming current of new and dangerous substances to oversee, the DEA has finally admitted that they can't stop people from dealing and using drugs. This is the time to press the issue of Cannabis freedom.
Here is the address of a complaint that is growing louder as the true value of Cannabis becomes common knowledge.
http://www.formalcomplaint.blogspot.com
With the end of Cannabis prohibition will come a new economic dynamic that will help balance the ills of this world caused by imposed essential resource scarcity and increaseing consumption, with regional abundance and sustainable efficiency.
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Dear Eurodrug Group,
As a Californian, I naturally assume some additional measure of responsibility for the U.S.
government's actions. Through random happenstance this soul was born into the U.S. instead of
Bolivia, so perhaps what I write may have some slightly greater influence on U.S. policy than
voices from "outside" of the minds, apparent concern and consciousness of the occupying political
forces there. I feel it my obligation therefore to add my voice to the outrage of others in "my
country", including such truth-tellers as filmmaker Michael Moore, the hundreds-of-thousands of
people being mobilzed by MoveOn.Org, and thousands more who support the Drug Policy Alliance and
many other activist groups.
My intention is to put into words an extreme of individual opinion to maximize individual
non-violent influence, in denouncing the current American Presidential coterie as a truly
terrorist regime, illegally appointed and subject to prosecution under the Rules of Common Law
governing all of human society. The Bush regime is Constitutionally accountable for imposing
criminal, immoral and sociopathic policies on peaceful people in many countries, including
Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Iraq and in the United States itself.
The Formal Complaint posted at
http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/
is intended to serve as a legal document, and is offered as a template for others to register
their own individual complaints, whose cumulative power and proper legal standing is afforded by
two Presidential Executive Orders and several International treaties cited therein. It is hoped
that this may be of some benefit when applied in advance of, and in order to avoid, a coordinated
tax-revolt, which may at some point prove necessary, to regain the fundamental and "self-evident"
freedom to farm, for all.
for peace,
Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
--- encod wrote:
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> Dear friends,
>
> On Friday 17 October the masses of protesting mineworkers and farmers
> forced Bolivian president Gonzalo (“Goni”) Sánchez de Lozada to resign.
> This situation gives a whole new perspective on the war on drugs in Latin
> America.
>
> The motive for the protests was the proposal of the government to allow a
> consortium of European multinational companies to export a part of the
> Bolivian natural gas reserves to the United States and Mexico. However, the
> reason must be sought in the widespread marginalisation of large parts of
> the Bolivian population, whose interests are not defended by the current
> political elite.
>
> Following the Bolivian Constitution, the presidency has now passed to
> former vice-president Carlos Mesa, who earlier this week dissociated
> himself from the repression of the protests. Mesa has said that he
> considers his government to be transitional, and that elections may be
> organised before the term of the present legislature ends (June 2007).
>
> It is excepted that various measures taken by former president Sánchez de
> Lozada, which have caused the massive uprising, will now be cancelled.
> Among them is the proposal to allow the export of Bolivia’s natural gas to
> Chile and the United States, the process of privatisation of state owned
> companies and the forced erradication of coca leaves in Bolivia.
>
> One of the main leaders of Bolivian coca farmers, Evo Morales Ayma, has now
> become a crucial political figure to ensure the pacification of the
> country, which has been severely affected by massive violence, strikes and
> road blockades during the past month. So it seems unlikely that the new
> government will be able to carry out further repression of coca cultivation.
>
> However, it is also unlikely that the US Government will accept such a
> decision. It may well threaten the Bolivian government with so-called
> ‘decertification’ making it a non-eligible country to receive co-operation
> from the US and other international actors, such as the World Bank and the
> IMF.
>
> When asked what the consequences would be of this, Evo Morales commented in
> an interview with ENCOD in September this year: “It would be a total
> violation of mutual respect, which is the basis for diplomatic
> relationships. The United States has to stop imposing their will upon us.
> Coca cultivation is of crucial importance to our life, in every meaning of
> the word. In stead of erradictaing coca leaves, we should elaborate them in
> products that can serve the entire humanity”.
>
>
>
> EUROPEAN NGO COUNCIL ON DRUGS
> Lange Lozanastraat 14
> 2018 Antwerpen
> Belgium
> Tel. 00 32 (0)3 237 7436
> Fax. 00 32 (0)3 237 0225
> E-mail:encod@glo.be
> Website: www.encod.org
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Sunday, October 19, 2003 |
I would be interested to learn whether the harm reduction theory I envision is of interest. The
most direct line of thinking that I have to contribute is what I believe to be the most broadly
compelling relevance of Cannabis seed nutrition. As I see it, this would have the strongest pull
for a fundamental shift in overall harm reduction policy. It would then be reasonable to set a
timetable for finalizing further rational and objective drug policy reform.
My background is in ethology with particular interest in population dynamics, holistic healing and
biodynamic agriculture. I would be interested to know if you share my feeling that this aspect of
the conversation could "bare fruit" with some additional attention.
To my way of reasoning, food security and health issues carry the most weight with the greatest
number of people across the broadest spectrum of human society. It is tough for governments to
dodge the issue of food security, especially now, when GMOs are being considered in spite of the
risks justified by food shortages. Because Cannabis seed occupies an extraordinarily unique and
essential nutritional realm, as does salt, there can be no question of prohibiting Cannabis from
public availability.
According to the two Presidential Executive Orders which are the legal foundation of this formal
complaint
http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/
we all have an clear obligation, to present and future generations, to reverse the effects of
prolonged, unlawfully induced, essential resource scarcity. Cannabis is a determinate
organicagricultural resource, the unavailability of which creates radical imbalance at the most
profound levels of social evolution than is readily perceivable. Consider that many of the
chemicals used to control pest infestation in other agricultural crops can be replaced with
derivitives from the Cannabis plant. As a rotational crop, Cannabis has several beneficial effects
on the soil and for wildlife. The most fundamental way to reduce harm is to rebalance the economy.
The predictable effect of an end to any part of the prohibition of Cannabis, is a re-valuation of
other useful aspects of the plant, which as you know are vast and in several ways quite critical.
In addition, the social and economic balances that result from decriminalized 'marijuana' and
hashish availability (i.e. Holland) on the prevalence and abuse patterns of alcohol and other
addictive hard drugs is dramatic.
"There are many reasons for the rise of crystal meth in Hawai'i...officials say the rise in the
use of this drug paralleled the growing scarcity and high cost of marijuana following successful
drives to tamp down, if not eliminate, the marijuana trade in the Islands.
To the degree this is true, it was a bad tradeoff because crystal meth has
far more potential to make the user harmful to others than marijuana. Ideally, of course, there
would be no use of illegal drugs in the Islands, from marijuana through crystal meth. But that is
unrealistic. Indeed, even if all illegal drug use ceased today, there would still be social harm
and work for law enforcement and health authorities due to the abuse of legal drugs such as
alcohol and tobacco."
I welcome any comments or suggestions you might care to make.
With best wishes to all for
peace, health, enlightenment,
Paul
PS Click on the "Blogger" button posted below to Blog your truth to the world!
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