02/04/2024
This is a super long - but VERY important post if you care to read:
Today I am celebrating National H**p Day!
Am I the only one wondering how different our planet would be, if a handful of corrupt plutocrats in the late 1930’s, didn’t squash hundreds of years of sustainable, green alternatives for food, fuel, fiber and shelter?
We would have lower carbon emissions from cars; we would have textiles that would last year’s - not month’s; our soil would be healthier; farmers would still own their farms (not Bill Gates or China); toxic petrochemicals could be eliminated; microplastics would not be filling the bellies of our ocean friends; there would be more land reclamation and soil remediation; developing Third World populations would have a perfect protein staving off famines – without deforestation for cattle production; and natural disasters like flood and fires would be less devastating on manmade structures.
The passage of the “Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 ushered in prohibition, as it required importers to register and pay an annual tax of $24 (about $527.82 today). Industrial H**p was affected by this ‘Reefer Madness,’ which made production much more expensive, especially for farmers who were in the midst of The Great Depression.
As tax season approaches, please remember that in Colonial times, people were able to pay their taxes in H**p. Our founding fathers knew what an important and useful crop H**p is. There has even been speculation that the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, were indeed written on Dutch h**p paper.
Abraham Lincoln said his favorite things were, "….. sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet h**p and playing my Hohner harmonica.”
George Washington said "Make the most of the Indian H**p Seed, and sow it everywhere." Thomas Jefferson noted that "H**p is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation."
However, the following capitalists exploited the system with their greed, and are responsible for H**p’s demise over the past 9 decades. All because they were threatened by H**p, ‘America’s new billion dollar crop, with over 25,000 applications,’ as reported in Popular Mechanics magazine in 1938. They devised individual schemes that diminished H**p’s potential use by excessive taxation, passing unjust laws, and by pushing what we would identify today as, ‘fake new.’
These were the players:
Andrew Mellon of Mellon Bank (DuPont’s financier) appointed his nephew-in-law to criminalize H**p, “as it accounted for nearly all paper, textiles, rope and lighting oil.” This led to the formation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs/FBNDD which became the Drug Enforcement Agency/DEA.
FYI the Mellon Bank was the financier of the DuPont Petrochemical Company that invented nylon. DuPont was also the leading munitions manufacturer in the U.S.A. and H**p could be utilized for the war effort to make ropes, rigging, military uniforms, parachutes, bedding, maps, and documents, making H**p a major competitor to their synthetic textiles.
Prohibition also festered with Yellow Journalism (coined in the 1890’s to describe sensational stories) by William Randolph Hurst’s publishing empire, in which H**p threatened his timber and paper mills all over the U.S.
"Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If H**p had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet." We could save about 4 billion trees annually (which take 30 years to grow) if we switched back to H**p, which takes 4 months to maturity. By using only 6% of land in the U.S. we could sequester enough H**p bio-fuel to make us energy independent.
Even more notably was JD Rockefeller a robber baron, who as an oil oligarch held over 90% of the energy market beginning in the late 1800’s. H**p biodiesel would have jeopardized his lucrative petroleum monopoly.
Big Pharma was created during this period, and was in favor of H**p prohibition because “the raw drug cannabis is unpatentable (because it requires no chemicals) and the legal drug industry joined in the fray to ‘wipe out the natural competition.’ “
Rockefeller realized the potential of oil and chemicals to dominate the medical marketplace. Along with Andrew Carnegie, they dismantled the holistic sector, by discrediting naturopaths, and their influence erased most herbal remedies from text books. By pumping $100 million (in the 1930’s dollars or is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,836,802,395.21 in 2024,) into hospitals and medical scientific grants – plants would be studied, their healing chemicals identified and then PATENTED with those formulations aimed at making maximum profits. He then created the Rockefeller Foundation.
The origins of ‘extramural medical research grants’ in the U.S. began in the second half of the twentieth century marked a signal shift in support for medical research in the United States. The programs and support of the Rockefeller Foundation had a dramatic impact on medical research in the United States and globally. A research paper in the Medical Library of Medicine, through the National Institutes of Health/NIH “finds direct and indirect influence by the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as parallel developments in these two monumental programs of support for medical research.”
Did you also know that Rockefeller founded the American Cancer Society in 1913? Now 111 years later, there is still no cure for cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute/NCI the “national costs for cancer care were estimated to be $208.9 billion in 2020 (U.S. dollars), an increase of 10 percent that is only due to the aging and growth of the U.S. population. These cost estimates include cancer-attributable costs for medical services and oral prescription drugs.”
These industries have something in common….they have poisoned our food, put toxic chemicals and fluoride into our water, introduced pharmaceuticals which have contributed to the rising death toll from opioids and fentanyl, destroyed the environment with their w**d killers and cleaning products-yet are still be rewarded financially in 2024.
Now let’s take a look at today’s greedy gangsters:
Did you know that at the recent Conference of the Parties/COP28 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates/UAE. The neighboring countries Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran. The UAE produces 3.2 million barrels of petroleum and liquids per day - 1/4 of its total proven reserves. The UAE exports 66% of its oil.
The COP28 falls under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change/UNFCC, a treaty that came into effect in 1994. That is held in Dubai last month, , and the summit was attended by hundreds of countries, including the world’s top 10 countries who are oil producers and polluters: #1 the good old U.S.A.; #2 Saudi Arabia, #3 Russia, #4 Canada, #5 China, #6 Iraq, #7 UAE, #8 Brazil, #9 Iran, and #10 Kuwait.
In 1960 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries/OPEC was formed by 1960 by five countries namely Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
These were additional Member Countries: Qatar (1961), Indonesia (1962), Libya (1962), the United Arab Emirates/UAE (1967), Algeria (1969), Nigeria (1971), Ecuador (1973), Gabon (1975), Angola (2007), Equatorial Guinea (2017) and Congo (2018). *Update: “Ecuador has withdrawn its membership; Indonesia has suspended its membership; Gabon terminated its membership in January 1995. However, it rejoined the Organization in July 2016. Qatar terminated its membership; Angola withdrew its membership.*
The final COP28 language did not call for the elimination of fossil fuels – only ‘reducing’ the use of them, due to the heavy resistance from OPEC’s opposition. They scrapped previous calls to 'phase out' coal, oil, and gas. The EU, U.S.A. and many island nations urged a phase out.
However, the conference did not dig deep or shed any light into how solar, wind and other ‘renewable’ energy sources will in turn create an entirely different set of environmental disasters and a greater dependency on China. As per these new initiatives and we move the world to all Electric Vehicles/EV’s please note that China controls one third of the world’s supply of lithium (including mines in Africa) and half of global cobalt production - both of which necessary to make batteries for EV’s.
Exactly one year ago, the current US administration announced a set of actions in their Inflation Reduction Act. These include (some might say unattainable goals) such as:
*500,000 EV chargers along America’s highways – a $7.5 billion investment in EV charging stations.
*EV’s to make up 50% minimum of new car sales by 2030 (6 short years folks) - a $10 billion investment in ‘clean’ transportation.
There are now calls for deep water exploration and mining of these precious sources. In turn this is just creating more environmental disasters. As we deplete these sources up here on dry land, think of the effect on marine life and the islands who depend on it for food and their livelihoods.“ …”It will be a death sentence….”
It looks like our planet will now be in the hands of new capitalist thugs, this time with a fancy, eco-friendly name.
GAIA means “the hypothesis that the living and nonliving components of earth function as a single system in such a way that the living component regulates and maintains conditions (such as the temperature of the ocean or composition of the atmosphere) so as to be suitable for life.”
The World Economic Forum/WEF has formed Giving to Amplify Earth Action/GAEA, and they claim “this is the best hope to safeguard the well-being of future generations,” by initiating “projects that focus on phasing out coal, creating sustainable rice value chains, advancing clean cooling options, increasing uptake of green steel and electric vehicles and scaling up offshore wind power.”
Their budget? $3.5 trillion annually. So now in 2024, after all these mega corporations have devestated our world, the WEF is supposedly going to rescue us. Really? The WEF was founded and is led by the nefarious Klaus Schwab (whose father was the director for the N**i regime’s industrial complex.) He is now the Global Co-Chair founder of GAEA, and who is calling for partners to come together to ‘finance climate and natural solutions:’
• Reach Net Zero (according to the COP28 by or before 2050)
• Reverse Nature Loss
• Restore Diversity
On this day, please take a bit of time to educate yourself about H**p. A great read is Jack Herer’s book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Or watch a documentary like H**psters with Woody Harrelson, or Culture High by Joe Rogan instead of the Grammys. You will see the level of corruption and to what lengths numerous American industries have affected H**p production and cultivation for the past century.
Most of our current climate issues could be solved by H**P!!!!
It’s way past time to restore H**p to its rightful throne.
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