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Good Morning, Cory Gardner,
Do you know where you live?
(And, no, I don’t mean in which Koch brothers’ back pocket . . . )
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/no-red-and-blue-divide-when-it-comes-to-renewable-energy-innovation-and-co2-rules/?mabReward=A5
Looks like the public isn’t on the same page as the critics, including Dems like Schumer, of the Iran deal thus far. Plenty of Republicans joining large majority of Dems in supporting the basis for the deal. Too bad Dems like Schumer and Bennet aren’t on board with strong support, instead giving credibility to Republican assessments that it’s worse than no deal, not tough enough, not verifiable enough. It’s being hailed internationally and among policy experts as plenty tough enough with instant outs if there is any sign of Iranian noncompliance.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/237852-poll-majority-back-nuclear-deal-with-iran
What is Bennet saying about this?
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post lies while trying to nudge Benet to the Pro-War position:
But polls indicate the public does support a fair and strong agreement:
Would anyone believe Americans are so stupid as to want another war having come to a draw and being unable to disengage from our 2 most recent wars of choice? Will Bennet join the Warmonger Caucus on the right who never met a country they wouldn’t bomb first?
“to give the American people a voice on a fundamental national security issue, and for ensuring continuity in U.S. policy after the Obama Administration.”
translation: Stop the deal, now.
Any politician unwilling to tackle this utter failure head-on and commit to its end isn’t fit for elected office…
A War Well Lost
Interesting article. I’d forgotten about the story that Billie Holiday was set up for a bust. She was definitely an addict, but people were using her for their own agendas, as well.
It happens to a lot of celebrities…sadly. It seems anywhere money and power flow…greed and evil are always stalking.
I have been telling the Harry Anslinger story since I joined NORML in 1970 and learned the truth. Almost a century of misery so one selfish fucker with NO scruples could improve his job. The professional, for profit penal system and the multi-billion dollar “War on Drug” industry were, in large measure, built on that aroma.
The unneeded suffering is unquantifiable.
…and Anslinger was married to Andrew Mellon’s neice (Mellon Banks); Mellon financed DuPont, Rockefeller and Hearst. Hearst particularly hated the Mexicans as he lost 800,000 acres of timberland to Poncho Villa in the Mexican War and was hell-bent on getting even.
Why does this theme sound all-too familiar?
This is why I refuse to use “the M word” to label cannabis. The government latched on to the word in order the solidify a connection between the plant and “those dirty Mexicans”.
The Take away in case you missed it- Drug use falls away once a population has other environments , socially sustained, self empowered (identity though work), a reason to be in the “present“.
The rise of misuse of prescribed pharma follows the collapse of the middle class, dwindling social upward mobility, pretend cures of austerity, trickle down hoaxes intent upon rewarding the wealthy.
Hardest hit are the ethnic minorities who turn to the only economy available ( The Wire) –travel agents to paradise
Ethnic minorities may be hardest hit but, thanks to Big Pharma, prescription drugs are the number one scourge now, overshadowing all the street drugs put together. The dire consequences, including death, reach through the middle classes into the most affluent.