First one outta the gate...... Introduction to follow
Blessings and peace be to all my relatives
As some that follow my FB presence know, I have been slogging through Peter Dale Scott's epoch revelations in "American War Machine" of the 'War on Drugs/Terror', I combine those because they are directly related, something I had suspected and now realize how insignificant and ignorant that perception was at the time. His books can be found here; http://peterdalescott.net/
I recall telling my friends at the end of Bush 2's regime that the US' economy is now law enforcement and any career therein should be very lucrative. Now I realize I should've added, "VERY" on that!
Note: From here on when you see "()" the brackets note my personal reflections in living around what Sir Scott relays throughout. I quote from page 239, "Protecting the Drug Traffic as a Function of the War Machine" "The message of this book is that there is a deep politics of drug trafficking in America and that this deep politics of drugs has contributed to the rise of the offensive American war machine.(Which only happens Stateside) It also helps explain why the United States is in Afghanistan, how it fights the war, and why it will not speedily withdraw. We have already seen numerous informed expose's by experts of why we should not be sending troops to Afghanistan, just as we have seen numerous well-reasoned accounts of why prohibition will be no more successful dealing with drugs than it was during the 1920's dealing with alcohol. Nearly all these accounts will fail to have any influence until they into account the presence within the war machine of highly placed 'traffic protectors' - those who work from inside the system not to protect the civil society from the the drug traffic but to protect the drug traffic from civil society."3
The "3" indicates a footnote which is; 3. For example, an intelligent overview of Afghan history by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould endorses the same proposal of the Senlis Council, an international think tank, that "would see the conversion of Afghan opium into medicine(Something I have harped upon for over a decade, the opium production is central to the morphine and opiate needs of Big Pharma), with the ultimate beneficiary being the rural Afghan villager"(Ask an American farmer how his/her wheat crop reflects the price of bread, or, the rancher's price of feed corn, and the wheat farmer's bottom line) Paul and Elizabeth's "Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story Pg 322. But sanity does not guide the formation of narcotics policy, highly positioned traffic protectors do{as David Musto discovered in 1980}.
Now, consider Bill and Hillary Clinton's actions before and especially after his Administration and what Peter has just laid to bare! Hillary will never be held accountable because of the skeletons she can bring into the light of day if arrested!
More to follow my loved ones..........
Here's another observation, Ever heard of a broad-leaf nuisance weed called gypsum? All I ever knew of this plant is it was the only vegetation that hogs won't bother in their lot. Also, Grandmother would always warn me not to mess with it, as it was 'poison' and "make me very sick if I got any of it in my mouth!" Love ya Grandma Mikel
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Well, it seems this was brought to North America with the Puritans and the informational research into this fact is on-going..... I know it was called, "Locoweed" by Grandfather. I find this very interesting when you consider that the term, "Marijuana" was developed to throw a phantom-shadow over cannabis as the feds moved from alcohol prohibition, which Sir Scott referenced above, to scaring the public perceptions of the cannabis plant when it was needing to be removed from the landscape. Even though it had almost been eradicated from the United States when the War Department discovered Hitler's Germany had developed it as a cash crop for the Reich, and that was one of the main reasons for the wild hemp still growing across the "Fly-Over" country, as it is called since the Don's election, today.
Enjoy