Third World: The US in 2030

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According to a report issued by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) titled, Global Trends 2030:Alternative Worlds, food and water shortages will reduce the United States to third-world status. They indicate that it is not 'carved in stone  however it does seem that with the current trends by our government, it will happen, unless an alteration of course is pursued in the very near future.

I feel that most Americans are too trusting of the government and the propaganda they are bombarded with by the privately-owned major media. Most Americans still believe that the media represents some truth in journalism standards that will keep what the government tells us as being truth. it seems obvious that nothing can be further from the truth.

We live in a world that is becoming more totalitarian every day. keeping people in fear of wars and terrorism has created a generation of people who fear that only the government can save them from certain death. The people of America are terrorized more by the so-called Transportation Safety Administration than they have been by any terrorists.

Government mandates, regulations, and taxes have driven farmers into bankruptcy or out of business before they faced bankruptcy and/or foreclosure. Many have sold out to corporate food producers like ADM, Burlington, or Monsanto, who have replaced healthy and naturally grown foods with genetically modified organisms that been banned in some nations because of their detrimental effects to the health of the consuming public.

It would seem logical that these mutant strains will eventually be incapable of supporting life, and hence the predictions of the Global Trend 2030 document may become reality. There is a solution.

We must stop the proliferation of these GMO foods. Legislation alone will not do it. We need to support the local farmers who use heirloom seeds and grow their crops without modern chemical fertilizers. These chemical are also contributing to decline of potable water. 

Desalination using sun and wind power sources like Israel does, will provide the necessary potable water for drinking and irrigation. Most importantly is to reduce dependence on government and free the markets to grow once more. 

Don't expect the government to capitulate to the people when they have demonstrated their disregard for the well-being of the people and embrace the corporate lobby. Demanding a return to constitutional limitations of the government will only work when the States protect and support their own residents against the tyrannical federal government.

End Prohibition

I have never advocated the use of drugs regardless where they are obtained. That being said, I do advocate the use of herbs and natural remedies of all types.

Hemp is an industrial valuable plant. The ability of hemp to be useful in so many ways other than as a 'drug' is overwhelming testimony to the plants diversity.

I am not going to list all of the many uses of hemp in this blog post because it is well known to many that hemp has been useful for thousands of years in making clothing, rope, sails, etc. Smoking hemp is the only focus of our overbearing government. The media plays the game with them.



I do not drink alcohol nor do I take any prescription drugs at all. The last time I did was when I had my left hip replaced back in 1997, and only until I was released from the hospital. I did use cannabis in several forms to help with pain and swelling. I have smoked cannabis for over 40 years and contrary to the spin regarding it being a "steppingstone drug" I have never had the desire to try other drugs as a step up from cannabis.

I currently possess a medical marijuana card issued by the State of Oregon. It appalls me to learn that growers and providers cannot dispense the medicine for a profit. The State is afraid of that because that will ire the DEA and that means agents including the FBI will come to Oregon to "bust" the grow sites and dispensaries. Well it appears to me a quite simple solution is at hand.

First the State must end prohibition of hemp in all forms. Then it must include the language that explicitly includes the State and County law enforcement agencies with the authority to protect the citizens who choose to grow, provide, and use cannabis from the federal government. We the People must do more than merely complain about this, we must elect representatives at all levels of government who will do the right thing.

Here in the Congressional district represented currently by Peter DeFazio, we must elect Art Robinson to that seat in the House and vote for Ron Paul as our 45th President of the United States.

Iowa - Foaming at The Mouth - Panic!

Eastern Goldfinch eyeing soy beans

From a Concerned Reader:

Eastern Goldfinches eating entire 2012 Soy Bean Crop? Cows ignore rumors of Corn growing from Wild Rose Bushes. Hogs dismiss foaming at the mouth and climb down out of Oak Trees all over the state? All 3,046,355. Human residents crowd into Des Moines and chant "Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" in an obscure ancient northern dialect of Mandarin Chinese? 

DeMoines Chanters

Well, that is what the privately owned major media would have you believe and should be immediately discounted. The only ones foaming at the mouth don't live and work in Iowa. Farmers who provide over ten billion dollars worth of crops and livestock annually, closely follow important national issues and weather; otherwise, the Nation Would Starve.

Modern Iowa Farmer

 The good Citizens of the Hawkeye State are much more rational and sensible than the the sources of national news. The State of Iowa will not disappear in a flurry of caucus ballots. The State Motto "Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" means they take our rapidly withering Rights seriously. They understand Liberty is paramount and that the Freedom to choose can not be ignored.

They know the identity of who the only one that is campaigning for States Rights and economic sanity: it's not Mitt Romney. Only one candidate stands and always has stood for Constitutional Rights, Liberty, and Freedom: it's not Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, or Rick Santorum. It  absolutely makes no difference if you are a Democrat or a Republican, if your rights are dismissed or your freedom is discounted. What will the Hogs and Cows do Next?

Cows ignoring everything

Food, Health and Nutrition

It seems that the government wants to protect us once again, and the Food Safety Modernization Act, as its disclaimer suggests, 


"The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4th, 2011. It aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus of federal regulators from responding to contamination to preventing it."


Well I do not buy it. It is yet another expensive government program that will create more expense for the growers, add more workers to government payroll (that is more tax revenue spent on public sector jobs) while putting many small farms out of business because they cannot afford the new "safety" regulations.


The major source of contaminated food is imported. It is obvious that we cannot control the safety of food unless it is inspected thoroughly upon arrival into U.S. ports, and that seems like a very daunting and expensive exercise. But the legislation is loaded with fees that will drive many small businesses into closing because only the large corporate processors will be capable of paying the many fees included in this poorly written bill.


For example, and this is directly from the FDA website:


Q: How will FDA calculate the total fee assessed?
A: For Fiscal Year 2012, the hourly rate is $224 if no foreign travel is required and $325 if foreign travel is required. The total fee that is assessed will depend on the number of hours FDA spends directly on the reinspection-related activities or food recall activities associated with a recall order. 
Reinspection-related activities could include conducting compliance reinspection at the facility, making preparations and arrangements for the reinspection, traveling to and from the facility, analyzing records, analyzing samples, preparing reports or examining labels, and performing other activities as necessary to determine compliance with the requirements found to be violated in the initial inspection. 
Food recall activities associated with a recall order could include conducting recall audit checks, reviewing periodic status reports, analyzing the status reports and the results of the audit checks, conducting inspections, traveling to and from locations, and monitoring product disposition.


Here in the Pacific Northwest there are many family farms, local growers who depend on the small profit margins to sustain their business and provide healthy produce to their customers. Local packaged food processing will be driven out due to these high fees and regulatory hoops they must jump through. But who will monitor the produce in Costa Rica that is imported by American food processors?