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What’s the Matter With the United States

July 6th, 2010 admin

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THE UNITED STATES

By Dr. Jay Polmar

Having lived 62 years, some of them outside of the US looking in from an international viewpoint, I can clearly see the big bully threatening all the smaller kids in the school yard for their lunch money.

“Where did they go wrong?” The long time idolizers of the mighty United States wail. Go wrong?? They have been bullies for a very long time. After the Clinton administration left office over a not so pretty young lady and their rather sloppy indiscretion, the embarrassment went from Bill Clinton dropping his shorts to the mainstream press making it less likely that men everywhere would get to enjoy things that were almost everyday occurrences.

Since then, the US has been invaded. Or has it? Whether anyone believed it or not, Osama was immediately blamed along with Saudi participants. But, why have they still not found Osama? The US has the greatest satellite network in the world and can look inside your home, inside your underwear, and probably do a cat scan (CT) on you from outer space. It is very likely that if they could get you to stay still long enough, they could probably do a laser lobotomy from 50 miles in space with perfect accuracy. My suggestion is; when you’re dealing with the US, keep your head low and keep moving!

What direction is the US moving towards? Essentially, they blame other countries for everything and make anything you do that is inconvenient to the government bureaucracy a criminal offense. It’s a crime to write negative press about the US President (George W. Bush, the Junior) who stole the presidential election by fraud and software manipulation, not once but twice! Amazingly, most of the people in the rest of the world consider George W. Bush (little King George) to be the anti-Christ. People have been held by the FBI (now the new Internet Police) for writing negative emails about Bush to his war buddy friends. A war hero was even taken into custody. Freedom laws, speech laws, all gone. Bill of Rights, right? No rights. They are gone, just taken away. If you don’t pay taxes, for example (which is technically only a voluntary donation anyway because it has never been approved by the full congress), you go to jail. Don’t pay child support; go to jail. Yell at your neighbors too much; yep, you go to jail. And there are no get out of jail free cards!

Long ago, a Northeastern study analyzing the outcomes from teaching ethics in the third grade showed that for the 20+ year length of study; students who had been taught ethics had reduce instances for committing crime, getting into trouble, serving jail time etc. So, why don’t they teach ethics in the third grade?? Because THEY aren’t ethical. Who are THEY?? Anyone who would have anything to do with a government agency, work, service, employ, anything at all! And the majority of the schools in the US are governmentally run public schools.

Well, perhaps the health care industry has a better record? Nope, it’s not honest. Nor is it even good quality medicine. The US is rated in the top 30 countries in the world for health care, but didn’t make the top 20. Medical care is expensive and the quality is actually pathetic. In addition, you pay top dollar to insurance companies who give you horrible healthcare and customer service while they deny you benefits that could save you or someone you love’s life! What gives with these insurance companies?

Insurance companies: yep, they’ll save the day. Hah! When the insurance companies realized that families in Hawaii were faking car accidents just so they could get disability benefits, car replacement, and undeserved compensation; their PR departments and the media had a field day with it! News of the “frauds” in Hawaii spread around the world. So, the insurance companies proceeded to use the authority of the US government to make stricter laws. Now, everyone who gets injured but doesn’t die is assumed to be a fraud and a criminal. Claims are indiscriminately denied and the insurance companies have their own detectives, police-like and threatening. They have their own hit squads too. The hit squads are called ……. doctors, and their attack animals are the lawyers, protecting their interests.

Lawyers: Why is it that when there is only one lawyer in town there is never enough business, but when there are two lawyers in town there is always too much business? Of course, lawyers bring out the worst in all of us, because they simply reflect what we see in them (varmints, sharks, and worse). What’s worse than a lawyer? A grown up lawyer! Or a politician. Someone who knows the law, bends the law, and sells it off to the highest bidder for private party interests. A politician uses the law, friends, and anything he can to never to go to jail or prison for what he’s done wrong!

Speaking of Jail and Prison: The US Federal and State Prison Systems have become the largest hotel chain in the world. They charge, on average, $30,000 a year per inmate. For their $30,000 they give bad food, bad conditions, lousy mattresses, and abusive treatment. Inmates in certain prisons even live in tents, dungeons, and on concrete slabs. No wonder they develop attitudes that increase the effect of whatever criminal mind or mentality they have. Only 10% of prisoners who are released stay free. So, you’ve got a regenerating prison system to make money on housing for those who are incarcerated for whatever reason. Any reason, poor reasons, made up reasons, here’s one — 24% of all prisoners in US jails and prisons are there for marijuana offenses. Marijuana doesn’t hurt or kill, but alcohol and tobacco do … but there aren’t three-quarters of a million tobacco smokers or alcoholics in prison. Prejudice against Marijuana?

Marijuana/Pot: Once, this medicinal plant was considered a phenomenal treatment for headaches and migraines, nausea from chemotherapy, and pain control, etc. It has now been made illegal, even though it was created by God and the universe for the treatment of pain. In Latin American countries, it is ground up and mixed with either alcohol or cream and massaged into injured places on the body. My grandmother (and probably yours too) smoked one of those marijuana cigarettes bought at the local Pharmacy in the 1920′s for her problems. Even though it’s totally natural, more so than tobacco or alcohol, it’s illegal because the government thinks it should be, instead of going into the business and eliminating government debt on the profits.

Government Debt: In 2000, when William Clinton left office in shame due to Lewinski and her pathetic excuse for a bad girl act, one of the better presidential administrations actually left a surplus in the government budget. That surplus disappeared in the first few months of George W. Bush’s vacation, I mean, presidency. George Bush declared war on Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran. War stimulates the economy, but creates debt. It’s expected that the US Government’s debt, when King George the Bush leaves office at the end of this year, will exceed $1,000,000,000,000. ONE TRILLION dollars. The biggest debt ever known by any country at any time in history. And why? Payback for his Dad and Saddam Hussein having bad communication together? Now this Bush formerly appointed dictator to Iraq has has now been assassinated by the Bush team. All of this war was, of course, related to US petroleum appetite. Oil, the disappearing mineral resource.

Petroleum: the US is the greatest consumer of Petroleum in the world. Second only to perhaps China. No longer a major producer of oil for the last 30 years, the US has been buying up all the available oil from anywhere they can get it. They have continued to start war after war to get more oil. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran. Ready for this?? Because the US is so much in debt, the price of oil which is based on the unstable US dollar, continues to rise over $100 per barrel. Why? Because the dollar currency it’s traded in has been aimed into a recession. The economy is also in recession. Talented people are out of work and national sales figures have dropped off by about 10% so far.

Sales Figures are Down: The economy lives and breathes the trust of the US consumers, and their view of the economy is reflected in the international marketplace. When the rest of the world realizes that the US has a declining economy, and the figures verify that fact, no matter what the President does, or the head of the treasury, the world is impacted. Imported goods increase in price severely, and the local produce is more expensive as many countries float their currency based on the US currency. The US currency is not holding its own because the consumers don’t believe in the President, or Congress, or the future.

Belief in the President or Congress: People believe that their country is working for them when gains are made for humans, families, schools, and hospitals. That ended in 2000 and since then everything has changed in the current war economy. Most Americans believe that waging a war over oil is wrong. Those who believe that it is right have issues to deal with before they die and get judged and wind up in Hell, but realism shows that war painfully terminates innocent lives. It gains no victory and only sacrifices the lives of volunteers. We’ve know that since the 1950′s the US hasn’t won a single war. War only demonstrates who’s got the most powerful tools; it’s a show of how big your balls are!

How Big are Your Balls: Well, I’m not going to go exactly there, but there are a multitude of ball games that Americans love. And these games create national heroes. Heroes that make more money per year, sadly, than that the guy with the 95 IQ that’s supposedly running the country. Oh, yes, the current president has a 95 IQ, past cocaine and alcohol addiction, and now uses artificial sweeteners instead of sugar. Everyone knows that artificial sweetener eats holes in your brain! Can you imagine a holey-brained 95 IQ President? That’s what they’ve got and this guy is the protector of the country and the free world.

The Protector of the Free World: That’s a big job and not something to be taken lightly. It includes protecting your own country, and the unspoken mandate to not conspire with others to do damage to your own people. It is also to allow US citizens their natural god given and constitutionally granted rights in their lives. Now, all gone. At the hands of a man, who can’t with every spy satellite in the world, find his arch enemy Bin Laden who was once one of Bushy boys friends and business alliance.Whose family by the way, was whisked away to safety (with presidential approval) when no other planes were flying in the US due to 9/11 and all the airports and flights were shutdown. The government helped the culprit’s family slip away? Or were they just the pawn of more sinister plans? Weren’t the Bin Laden partners with Senior Bush in business? What gives here? And why let the arch enemy’s family get away?

Get Away: US ex-patriates live in countries around the world, remembering the proud country they left. They left for a reason, whether it was financial, or philosophical. Some return for visits, and some never return. What do they find in the third world, that they can’t find in the US? Peace of mind, lower cost of living, a more luxurious life, beautiful views, no political pressure, and no negative influences unless they watch the news. From a distance, the expat’s can see what went wrong with the U.S. although few would talk about it with anyone … because you never know, they could be CIA!

Dr. Jay Polmar

http://www.speedread.org/think-right.php

Dr. Jay Polmar, is the founder of Speedread.org, and Speedread America. He’s outspoken and a powerful advocate for freedoms, freedom of speech, freedom of love, freedom of rights. He’s left the US to pursue his writing career, 40 books plus more ghostwritten for others, in a country that has greater freedom and better medical care at 10% the cost.

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Unfortunate History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States

June 4th, 2010 admin

Most Americans associate marijuana use with the hippie movement of the 1970’s. Little do most know, marijuana was very important to this country when it was founded. In 1610 the Jamestown colony mandated that every household cultivate the native Indian hemp. They used it to make clothes, fiber, cloth, and medicine. In fact, the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776 on hemp paper. In 1850, the Census Bureau estimated that 8,327 plantations nationwide grew hemp. It took all the way until the early 1900’s for the United States to suddenly have a problem with plant.

Southern California and Texas were flooded with immigrants from Mexico around 1910. After long days of laboring they would often smoke marijuana to relax. The US abolished slavery in 1865 but equal rights for non-whites were still far from being realized. As a result, the public started unfairly associating marijuana use with the Mexican immigrants, who they didn’t like because they looked different. El Paso was the first place to outlaw marijuana in 1914 because of a bar fight attributed to “loco weed.” Texas’ first law against marijuana read, “All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff is what does it to them.” After marijuana was outlawed there, it was only a matter of months before the government enacted The Harrison Act of 1914, followed five years later with The Alcohol Prohibition of 1919. These laws effectively robbed taxpaying citizens’ access to substances that had been legal since the beginning of time.

Fearful of the spread of this terrible “Mexican crazy drug” the government began to put out massive propaganda to discourage the spread of marijuana use. Marijuana use was a conflict of interest for our government because they made tax revenue from doctor-prescribed cocaine, heroin, and morphine. They feared that Americans would obtain marijuana to use as a substitute to these substances and they couldn’t get their hand on those tax dollars. The first campaigns were launched immediately and the commissioner of Federal Bureau of Narcotics proclaimed, “Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

During the Great Depression, massive unemployment increased public resentment and fear of Mexican immigrants, escalating public and governmental concern about the use of marijuana.  This instigated a flurry of research which linked the use of marijuana with violence, crime and other socially deviant behaviors, primarily committed by racially inferior or underclass communities. By 1931, 29 states had outlawed marijuana.

The hemp industry was obviously disappointed with the turn of events that was unfolding. To make matters worse, due to the Industrial Revolution it was quickly becoming cheaper for the industry to import hemp instead of producing it domestically. With international politics becoming increasingly tense, the US was cut off from most of its Eastern hemp import around 1942. The government needed more rope for its WWII ships and so the government started huge hemp farms in the Midwest to manufacture rope. In one year American hemp farmers harvested 375,000 acres of hemp. In 1944 the New York Academy of Medicine issued an extensively researched report that declared contrary to popular belief, use of marijuana does not induce violence, insanity or sex crimes, or lead to addiction or further drug use.

It was starting to become more obvious to the public that marijuana might not be so dangerous after all, so of course the government stepped in and imposed the Boggs Act of 1952 and the Narcotics Control Act of 1956. Together they set mandatory minimum sentences for first-offense marijuana convicts to 2-10 years along with fines up to $20,000. By 1958 the state of Virginia had a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years for first degree murder. Rape had a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. Possession of marijuana, however, carried a mandatory minimum sentence of 40 years. It wasn’t until 1970 that congress finally repealed most of the mandatory penalties for drug related offenses. It was short-lived though, because congress flipped their position in 1986 when President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, re-enacting mandatory sentences for marijuana-related offenses.

Finally in 1996 voters in California passed Proposition 215 allowing for the sale and medical use of marijuana for patients with serious conditions. This law stands today despite the DEA’s effort to override the law on a federal level.

Little has changed in the past 13 years as far as the federal government’s view on marijuana. There is hope however, as several elected officials are at least open to debate. Most notably, California governor Arnold Schwarzenneger said, “I think that we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs, what effect it had on those countries, and are they happy with that decision.” He added, “I’m always for an open debate on it.” He isn’t the only prominent political figure to show some support for the cause. San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano was asked by the San Francisco Chronicle whether legalizing marijuana was just a trick to increase the states revenue. (an estimated $1.3 billion annually) He replied, “It’s also about the failure of the war on drugs and implementing a more enlightened policy. I’ve always anticipated that there could be a perfect storm of political will and public support, and obviously the federal policies are leaning more toward states’ rights.”

There is still plenty more work to do because President Barack Obama is still strongly opposed to leaving marijuana legislation in the state’s hands. On March 26, 2009 the president offered to answer a few questions from the online audience. An overwhelming 3.5 million people voted to ask the president to consider legalizing marijuana to generate revenue. In response the president said, “Three point five million people voted. I have to say that there was one question that was voted on that ranked fairly high and that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation. And I don’t know what this says about the online audience but I just want — I don’t want people to think that — this was a fairly popular question; we want to make sure that it was answered. The answer is, no, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow our economy.” All we can do for now is continue to put the facts in front of our politicians and hope that they make the right decisions.

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21st Century Cultural Shift Towards Legalizing Marijuana In United States

May 21st, 2010 admin

Some states say that using marijuana for medical purposes is allowed, while the federal Drug Enforcement Agency enforces the nation-wide ban on pot in all states. Many medical marijuana clinics in California, for example, have been raided by the DEA, who seized hundreds of pounds of their inventory, despite the fact that medical marijuana is approved in California. This caused an outrage in the cannabis smoking society, and it heightens the overall hostility between citizens and the government when the issue at hand is legalizing weed.

Medical marijuana is currently legal in the following states: California, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Minnesota, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, and Rhode Island. Certain states have also decriminalized it, which basically means that there is little to no punishment if you’re arrested with the substance on you. Interstate commercialization of marijuana in smokable form is a federal crime, and has severe consequences to it. The hemp industry, however, is legal, and can be done between different states.

Doing research about your state and states around you is highly recommended. Any pot smoker should know the consequences of being caught by the police. If you’re a student, your college or high school likely has no-tolerance policies addressing the substance, so make sure you’re aware of those, as well; being caught with weed at school is not only going to get you in legal trouble, but it will go down on your permanent record for your entire academic life. Even if marijuana is legal in your state, you should still check your educational facility’s rules and regulations, as well as disciplinary policies.

If you want to have an impact on cannabis legalization in your state, there are certain things that you can do. One, you can contact your local county representatives or city councils, inquiring about any marijuana drug law reforms that they might be considering. For all you know, there might be a bill under review already that you don’t know about. Two, you can contact your Congress representatives over the issue, urging them to take steps towards drug law reform. You want to write / call / email your Congressman from the House of Representatives, because the Senate doesn’t deal with domestic issues as much as international ones. Third, it’s never a bad idea to personally meet with government officials, like your state governor or a county representative, if at all possible. Go to town council meetings. Find an appropriate time to bring this topic up. And make sure that there’s a right time for everything – don’t interrupt an ongoing meeting just to be heard. There’s a right way to do things, and there’s a wrong way to do things, and a sensitive topic like marijuana reform can’t be ignored, OR done wrong. It’s a slow process, but you can be a part of it.

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