Detroit is dieing because of robots.

Ever wonder why Detroit is dyeing when the car companies are making so much money?the answer is that people no longer make cars.Robots do. Heres a link to a Google search for Robots in manufacturing.You will notice that there are no people in any of the photos.The car companies used the stimulus money to completely automate the car industry and cutting out thousands of employees. This is a threat to every American worker.We now have the ability to replace you with robots we dont need you any more."We" being the ultra wealthy.It is the plan to replace every worker in the U.S. with robots and cut out their dependence on the average worker. This will plunge Most of Americans into absolute poverty.

Wanderingbear's Sweet Ganja butter

Recipe: two tablespoons of powered ganja to sticks of butter and a cup and a half of sugar .Blend together in a sauce pan carefully heat the mix to a boil and let boil about five minutes. Careful it is very hot at boiling.Let cool before tasting.Oh ya you might want to strain the ganja pulp out.But dont waste the pulp Its great on toast.

Hippies: Back in Style?

We are all Hippies now.

There are four films in Made in Seattle: Homegrown Documentaries (a two-day series at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center), and each deals with a significant social/political/cultural issue or project. Though all of the films are worth watching and talking about, one, Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle, fascinated me more than the others. The documentary, which is by Kevin Tomlinson, is about a community of hippies filmed in rural Washington in 1988—the last year of the 20th century (that century ran between the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989). To fully understand why this is interesting, one needs to watch another documentary, Milestones, which is four times longer than Back to the Garden and was filmed by Robert Kramer and John Douglas and completed in 1975. In Milestones, we see the end of the hippie revolution. The dreamers of peace, love, and nature leave the woods and return to capitalist realism—finding a job, paying rent, and going into debt. The film is filled with sorrow. The hippies are totally defeated. They changed nothing at all. Indeed, society is even more conservative than even more conservative than when they left it. Social democracy is dead. The 30-year agreement between unions and capital is reaching its end. Ronald Reagan is around the corner. In Back to the Garden, however, we see that some hippies did not give up the fight, did not surrender their dreams, but continued dancing to African drums, worshipping Mother Earth, and growing their own food. But here is where the documentary becomes very interesting: In 1988, the rural hippies looked just plain crazy (the director even says as much), talking endlessly about nature this, sustainability that, and the like. But today, they sound totally sane and even urban. The director reinterviewed some of the hippies in 2008, and it's clear that they now live in a world that's realizing more and more of their dreams—using cloth diapers, recycling waste, turning to solar energy, breaking with Judeo-Christian morality, and seeing humans as just one life form among many. The hippies have moved from the cultural fringe to the center of rational discourse. We need more arts, more communal cooperation in the care of our children, more free time to enjoy life, more trees, more food grown without chemicals, more sources of renewable energy—the list goes on and on. We are all hippies now. Rainier Valley Cultural Center, April 5–6. recommended

Breaking: Obama Justice Department serves Oregon officials with warrant seeking the identities of the state’s medical cannabis patients | MyFDL

The Seattle Post Intelligencer has reported that the US Department of Justice secured a court order demanding that the state agency in Oregon that oversees the provision of medical cannabis to Oregonian patients who are suffering from serious, and in some cases, life threatening diseases to turn over records that personally identify patients, care givers and suppliers of the medicine.
The search warrant was filed in November of 2012 and requires the Oregon Medical Marijuana Project to turn over the names, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, and driver’s license numbers of “patients, growers and care givers in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program database files.”
The state officials who register patients and suppliers were ordered by the US Department of Justice to not disclose the existence or contents of the search warrant. The federal demand for patient records was discovered in public court filings.
A spokesperson for the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program was concerned to ensure that Oregon patients understand that the agency’s patient records are stored in a secure location and cannot be accessed without a written request from a patient, in the same fashion that other sick American’s medical records are protected. The agency’s spokesperson said that while the privacy of the state’s medical cannabis patients is of paramount importance, the agency was compelled by the federal government to turn over the otherwise safeguarded patient identifying records.
The federal investigator who sought the demand for the patient’s records from the courts said in his request for the warrant; “I am familiar with narcotics trafficker’s tactics in using the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program to shield their activities…(and I have) cause to believe that the records from the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program will contain evidence of…conspiracy to commit marijuana and trafficking offenses.”
Patients who suffer from debilitating, chronic and terminal diseases have been able to receive prescriptions for medical cannabis from doctors in Oregon since 1998. During that period of nearly 15 years; during the final 2 years of the Bill Clinton presidency and over the 8 year course of the George W. Bush presidency, there are no previous warrants known to have been served upon the Oregon Medical Marijuana Project for patient’s private medical records by the federal government.

Cop Says Legalize Marijuana in 2012! Protect Kids, treat it like alcohol.

Oregon Kills Medical Marijuana Deduction For Food Stamp Applicants

Oregon and two other states will no longer allow certain food stamp applicants to deduct medical marijuana expenses from their incomes after federal officials threatened the states with penalties. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a nationwide memo to regional directors of the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, after The Oregonian contacted the agency about the practice last week. The newspaper surveyed 17 states that permit marijuana for medicinal use and found three – Oregon, New Mexico and Maine – allowed certain applicants to deduct the cost of the drug from their income when applying for the benefit. In determining whether a family is poor enough to receive food stamps, Oregon allows applicants to deduct medical expenses from their incomes. Since voters legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal use in 1998, the state has counted the cost associated with obtaining medical marijuana as a qualifying medical expense. Only elderly or permanently disabled Oregonians who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance could claim the deductions. Although the change is expected to affect a small percentage of food stamp recipients, the government's move was a symbolic blow for medical marijuana advocates. "It's a sad day when we have to see this kind of retreat based on what appears to be federal pressure and federal intimidation," said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, the country's largest medical marijuana advocacy group. "It makes one wonder when the federal government is going to come around and realize this is indeed a public health issue and address the problem accordingly. It's a problem only in the sense that the federal government is creating the problem." The Oregon Department of Human Services on Tuesday received the memo from the USDA ordering states to discontinue the deduction. The memo states that under federal law, marijuana "has no currently accepted medical use and cannot be prescribed for medicinal purposes." "States that currently allow for the deduction of medical marijuana must cease this practice immediately and make any necessary corrections to their state policy manuals and instructions," wrote Lizbeth Silbermann, director of the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service's program development division. "States that are not in compliance may face penalties for any overissuance of SNAP benefits," she wrote. Gene Evans, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Human Services, said the agency forwarded the memo to the Oregon Justice Department for review. The department advised the agency to drop the practice. The Department of Human Services on Thursday told agency staff that the state will stop allowing medical marijuana deductions on food stamp applications. New Mexico and Maine officials also told The Oregonian on Thursday that they, too, have heard from federal authorities and will no longer allow the deductions. In an email to The Oregonian Thursday, Erinn Kelley-Siel, the director of the Oregon Department of Human Services, acknowledged that out-of-pocket medical expenses are a challenge for low-income elderly and disabled food stamp recipients. "While we recognize that Oregon voters have declared marijuana to be medicine, this new guidance from the federal government sets clear direction on allowable medical expenses under federal law," she wrote. She said officials will suspend approval of any new medical marijuana deductions on food stamp applications; correct the state policy manual to reflect the change; and provide new instructions for staff and food stamp recipients about medical marijuana deductions. She said the agency also will identify all recipients who previously submitted medical marijuana deductions on their paperwork and "work with them to make corrections to their eligibility and benefits." In Oregon, the number of people eligible for the deductions was small. About 33,000 food stamp recipients are elderly and qualified for social security disability insurance -- roughly 8 percent of the total food stamp caseload. It's not known how many of them are medical marijuana patients, but Evans said such cases were not common.

Oregon Voters To Decide On Marijuana Legalization This Fall

Last month we reported that the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act needed help to get on the ballot, and we are happy to report the final push was successful in getting marijuana legalization on the ballot this fall. The OCTA got over 33,000 valid signatures in less than a month, giving it over 88,000 total, about a thousand more than needed. The initiative will appear on the Oregon ballot as “Measure 80.” According to the campaign, Measure 80 would “regulate cannabis (marijuana) for adults 21 years of age and older, with commercial sales only through state-licensed stores. Ninety percent of tax revenue, estimated at more than $140 million annually, would go to the state’s battered general fund. Seven percent of tax proceeds would go toward funding drug treatment programs, and much of the remaining revenue would be directed toward kickstarting and promoting Oregon’s hemp food, fiber and bio-fuel industries.” 420times 000010878161XSmall1 150x150 Oregon Voters To Decide On Marijuana Legalization This FallAnd now advocates must work even harder in the next 4 months to make sure voters are aware of Measure 80 and what it means for them. But it seems like legalization supporters in Oregon have the kind of ”ground game” needed to get things done. Oregon joins Washington and Colorado in the exclusive group of states that have cannabis legalization on the ballot this fall.