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News. See: News sources. Facebook: GCM-420. Social media: Tags. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [4]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote! 6 Dec 2019: Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Chicago residents can smoke legal weed in their backyards or balconies without being ticketed.  27 Nov: Poopy lettuce strikes again, sickening 67 with E. coli-tainted romaine. 25 Nov: Our food is tainted with E. coli, yet Trump's FDA is rolling back safety rules.
 Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Do not buy most most cannabis stocks. There is a huge inventory of unsold cannabis: 17 Oct: Democrat Governors Of Northeastern States Adopt Coordinated Marijuana Legalization Plan. 9 Oct: Pennsylvania. Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed steps on marijuana legalization. 
 Chart from: 16 July 2019: Scotland has highest drug death rate in EU. [14]. BBC News. Data is latest available at article publication. 218 deaths per million for Scotland in 2018. 217 for US in 2017. Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home.
 9 Oct: America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. CBS News. Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home.  7 Aug: Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise possession, sale, and production of cannabis. Coalition of Liberals, Social Democrats, Greens. [26][27][28].  Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home. Global Cannabis March and 420.  President Vladimir Putin. Screwing up elections at home and abroad. Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow City Duma election. And: Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow protests. And: Moscow Mitch blocks election security bills in the US Senate, and nearly all cannabis reform legislation!
Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home. 22 Jul 2019: Philippine march for cannabis. Quezon City, part of Metro Manila. [30][31][32].
US Republican leaders are out of touch with mainstream Americans and Canadians. 21 Jul: Canada. THC slushies, pirate radio, and cannabis-driven boom in a Mohawk community.
19 Jul 2019: Texas Republican Leaders Want You to Know They Really, Really Hate Marijuana. [35][36][37][38]. 18 Jul: Texas Republican Lawmaker Lies about Pot & Veteran Suicides to Block Medical Access. [39][40].  17 Jul: Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It. Time magazine. Return to top. Or: Table top. Or: News. Or: Home. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also: Trump approval hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in AP–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. [43]. Bring back democracy: Remove Presidential veto power. And: Senate 60% rule.   See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. And: Cannabis polls. Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out. Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool - Ballotpedia. Enter address. Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [44][45][46]. Timeline. Trump's staggeringly low approval ratings compared to other presidents. Scroll down. Run mouse cursor over Presidential charts. Updated continuously.
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Local links Edit
Wikipedia: Cannabis by country.
Search for marijuana march videos. And more.
2019, 2018 Global Marijuana March. Crowd photos.
- Alberta. Cannabis-related links.
- Canada. Cannabis-related links.
- Facebook:
- Calgary420.ca. Events and rallies.
- Wikipedia: Grant Krieger
- Marijuana Case Studies. Research Index - Calgarycmmc.com. And Calgarycmmc.org.
- Marijuana Seeds Canada.
City info Edit
- Google Maps: Calgary.
- Google images.
- Wikipedia: Calgary.
- Wikitravel: Calgary.
- WeBeHigh.com: Calgary.
Global Marijuana March Edit
GMM (years signed up).
Google site search is no longer working well. It only finds a few yearly city lists containing a city name.
Special:Search works. Add city name, and state/province/nation as needed. This will pull up all years in which the city is listed here through 2012. For more years go here.
This city participated or signed up one year (or more) for the Global Marijuana March (GMM), or the Million Marijuana March (MMM).
225 cities from 42 nations signed up for May 4, 2013 or thereabouts.175 cities from 33 nations signed up for May 5, 2012 or thereabouts.
See also: 4/20 event lists. 1034 cities have participated from 85 different nations or subnational areas since 1999.
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Latest links for Global Marijuana March.
See GMM: basic city lists, detailed city lists, graphics, photos, maps, regions, links, years. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches.
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2019, 2018 Global Marijuana March. Crowd photos.
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2012 Edit
GMM:
- Facebook: 8th Annual Calgary Global Marijuana March.
- Events - Global Marijuana March.
- Educate, not agitate, the focus of Saturday's Global Marijuana March - 660News.
2011 Edit
GMM:
- Events - Worldwide Marijuana March 2011.
- Worldwide Marijuana March 2011 (Calgary).
- Forum: Marijuana March aims to educate and bring awareness about cannabis.
2010 Edit
Calgary: Keith Fagin Events(at)Calgary420.ca 403-863-2071 http://Calgary420.ca/ . Meet at Çity Hall- 800 Macleod Tr. SE 1 PM.
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thivierr/sets/72157623848985573
2009 Edit
Calgary: Keith Fagin Events(at)Calgary420.ca 403-863-2071 http://Calgary420.ca/ . Meet at City Hall- 800 Macleod Tr. SE 1 PM.
GMM. May 2, 2009:
- Facebook: 2009 Global Marijuana March (Calgary).
- Link: http://calgary420.ca/events/details/4-wwmm.html
- Photos: http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=12206649276&view=all
- Photos: http://calgary420.ca/gallery.html?func=viewcategory&catid=39
- Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thivierr/sets/72157617531879405
- Forum: http://calgary420.ca/forum/index.php?&topic=1748.0
- Facebook video: Videos from 2009 Global Marijuana March (Calgary): Calgary 5th Annual Worldwide Marijuana March
Feb. 27, 2009 event:
- Facebook: 'Resolving Marijuana Prohibition' - Calgary.
- Google Map: Calgary Central Public Library Theatre.
2008 Edit
Calgary: Keith Fagin keith(at)Calgary420.ca (403) - 863-2071 http://Calgary420.ca/ Meet at Mount Royal Park on 17th Ave. and 8th Street S.W. March to Olympic Plaza
GMM. May 3, 2008:
- Link: http://calgary420.ca/events/details/46-calgary-4th-annual-worldwide-marijuana-march.html
- Photos: http://calgary420.ca/gallery.html?func=viewcategory&catid=39
- Facebook: marijuana march over 200 cities one day come join CALGARY AS WE MARCH
- Facebook video: Calgary 2008 World Wide Marijuana March
2007 Edit
GMM:
- Link: http://calgary420.ca/events/details/27-global-marijuana-march.html
- GMM forum. 2.
- Photos: http://calgary420.ca/gallery.html?func=viewcategory&catid=40
- Forum with photos. With video links.
- Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thivierr/sets/72157600182713473 - this set of photos is under this CC license:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
- So the photos can be uploaded here or to wikipedia.
2006 Edit
GMM:
- Link: http://calgary420.ca/events/details/20-global-marijuana-march.html
- Photos: http://calgary420.ca/gallery.html?func=viewcategory&catid=41
- Images: http://kanman.ca/gmm
- Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HTxiLKXaiUA
- Report (from old GMM site):
Keith Fagin founder of Calgary 420 Marijuana Community organized the 2006 Calgary Global Marijuana March.
Attendance increased tenfold this year. The biggest pro marijuana event Calgary has ever experienced to date. It was real nice to see the pro marijuana support growing in the most long term hard core conservative city in Canada.
Four local hemp stores and five marijuana magazines committed donations for prize give aways.
Many people did light up joints and pipes openly and were not bothered by the Calgary Police Service (CPS). I had took the time to negotiate with the CPS and the City of Calgary long before the event took place. The best sight I have ever seen is when the marchers started to pour in to the Olympic Plaza concrete bowl with many more marchers behind them pouring in the huge Olympic Plaza bowl. Like a sea of people growing by the second, it was an awesome sight.
2007 Calgary Global Marijuana March will attract thousands. Live bands at Olympic Plaza starting at 12:00 PM then the March starts at 2:00 PM around Calgary streets until the marchers end back at the Olympic Plaza for free prizes and entertainment.
2005 Edit
GMM:
- Link: http://calgary420.ca/events/details/19-global-marijuana-march.html
- Photos: http://calgary420.ca/gallery.html?func=viewcategory&catid=42
More info, links, years Edit
Cannabis is safer Edit
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [56]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [57][58][59][60][61].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [62]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [63][64][65].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [66]. December 2015.
 Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008. |
- Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [67]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
USA. The state of the nation Edit
Return to top. See:
There were 70,200 overdose deaths in 2017 in the US under the Republican-led drug war under Trump. Multiple drugs were involved in many of the deaths.
Vote out most Republicans Edit
Return to top. Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
Prosperity for all is not sustainable without universal healthcare, progressive taxation, higher taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the middle class, a high minimum wage, and a sustainable population. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [68]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!
Money wasted on health insurance companies, drug wars, and most ground wars, helps no one.
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
US Republican cannabis war Edit
Return to top. See also: Cannabis is safer.
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
| Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis added): |
| Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans. Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C. |
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Register and vote for cannabis.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
- 23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
| 2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. |
Trump vetoes democracy. He does so via the threat of presidential vetos requiring a 2/3rds vote of Congress to override. No European democracy has such authoritarian executive vetos. Their kings, presidents, and prime ministers were stripped of such power.
USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump
GOP Senate blocks cannabis. The Republican US Senate is a pseudo-democracy. A minority of Republicans block federal rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis. They block many bills that have majority public support. They do so via a radically expanded filibuster rule that requires 60% votes to pass anything, thus allowing a minority of 40% to rule.
See Wikipedia: Nuclear Option. It can bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate. Stop the:
Republican Senate filibuster against rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis. Still true.
| 16 July 2018: Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again). |
| 10 July 2018: Republican Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments. |
Republican mass incarceration Edit
- US still has the world's highest incarceration rate. The Republican-led drug war and Republican/NRA-led implementation of mandatory sentencing caused it.
| The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world due to the Republican-led drug war, and the Republican/NRA-led campaign for mandatory minimum sentencing. 29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4. 30 April 2019: How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits. |
Incarceration rates compared Edit
OECD (developed democracies). Incarceration rates in chart below. See source info. And: Wikipedia:List of countries by incarceration rate. And: Wikipedia: Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries.
We need to look at Portugal! Edit
Return to top. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. From 2016 chart in article. Also, see chart below.
Portugal had 6 overdose deaths per million people.
Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. See chart:
How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
Cannabis versus cigarettes Edit
Return to top. See: Cannabis is safer.
Chart is for regular marijuana and cigarette use by 12th graders in the USA in the past 30 days. For cigarettes actual daily use is measured. For marijuana it is for use on 20 or more occasions in the past 30 days. Green line is for marijuana. Dark blue/purple line is for cigarettes. Percent of 12th graders using over the years. Note the drastic and welcome drop in cigarette use. Marijuana use has stayed relatively low and steady.
Life for Pot. Under Trump Edit
USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump
70,200 deaths in US in 2017 Edit
During Trump's drug war. Edit
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There were 70,200 overdose deaths in 2017 in the US under the Republican-led drug war under Trump. Multiple drugs were involved in many of the deaths. See the numbers for the various drugs in the chart just below.
Chart source. Among the more than 70,200 deaths in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids) with 28,466 deaths.
Chart source. Total US drug deaths by year. The 2 lines are for male and female numbers.
Trudeau's Canada legalized Edit
Trudeau is not a socialist. Edit
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada. Recreational cannabis is legal in Canada.
Canadian healthcare myths Edit
Return to top. See: Canadian healthcare myths.
| Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. |
Single Payer costs less and Edit
Canada is not socialist. Edit
See charts in these articles:
- Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
- Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
| Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare. | |
| Charts. USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada got better outcomes, spent half as much per person, and thus has a higher median wealth. So: 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.) | Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.) |
| Country | Median wealth per adult 2018. US dollars | Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2017 | Murder rate per 100,000. 2016 |
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| Canada | $106,342 | $4,826 | 1.7 |
| USA | $61,667 | $10,209 | 5.3 |
| US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.) |
| Country | Life expectancy 2016 (2) | Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2017 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015 |
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| Canada | 82.8 years | 5.1 | 7.3 |
| USA | 78.5 years | 6.6 | 26.4 |
It has higher minimum wage Edit
A higher minimum wage is also not socialist. Canada has a higher minimum wage than the US. See: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
It has a lower murder rate, Edit
US; more handgun owners. Edit
See chart in previous section. Canada has a much lower homicide rate, and a much lower rate of handgun ownership. Even clueless Trump pinheads might figure out the connection. It is that simple.
Portugal's drug decrim Edit
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
We need to look at Portugal, where their overdose death rate, HIV, and hepatitis rates, were all drastically reduced after decriminalization and a public health, universal healthcare, treatment-for-all approach.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
It has now been 18 years since Portuguese decriminalization in 2001.
Healthcare for all costs less Edit
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Total healthcare cost per person in Canada and Europe is half of what Americans pay per person in taxes, deductibles, copays, and premiums. This is because health insurance companies have much less to do with healthcare there. Drug prices are negotiated. And universal healthcare is about prevention and keeping people well, and not about continually "treating" them and keeping them profitably sick. See info, charts, and videos in this article:
| Charts. US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. - Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.) |
| Country | Per capita spending on health. Public and private costs. USD - PPP. 2017 | Healthcare costs as a percent of GDP. 2017 | % of health costs paid by gov't. 2016 |
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| (refs> | 6. | 7. | 8. |
| Australia | $4,543 | 9.1 | 67.8 |
| Canada | $4,826 | 10.4 | 70.3 |
| France | $4,902 | 11.5 | 78.8 |
| Germany | $5,729 | 11.3 | 84.6 |
| Japan | $4,717 | 10.7 | 84.1 |
| Sweden | $5,511 | 10.9 | 83.9 |
| UK | $4,264 | 9.7 | 79.2 |
| USA | $10,209 | 17.2 | 49.1 |
| USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.) |
| Country | Life expectancy (years). 2016 | Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016 | Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015 |
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| (refs> | 1. | 2. | 3. 4. 5. |
| Australia | 82.9 | 3.8 | 5.5 |
| Canada | 82.8 | 4.9 | 7.3 |
| France | 82.9 | 3.9 | 7.8 |
| Germany | 81.0 | 3.8 | 9.0 |
| Japan | 84.2 | 2.7 | 6.4 |
| Sweden | 82.4 | 2.9 | 4.4 |
| UK | 81.4 | 4.3 | 9.2 |
| USA | 78.5 | 6.5 | 26.4 |
Drug company price fixing Edit
12 May 2019: Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices. On 60 Minutes. CBS news. From article: "But 1,215 generics, many of them the most prescribed drugs, jumped on average more than 400 percent in a single year. ... 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in this country are filled with generic drugs."
Huge cost of deductibles Edit
2 May 2019: Trumpcare: Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills. Los Angeles Times. 26 Mar 2018: Why thousands of Americans Are Risking It and Skipping Health Insurance. Bloomberg News.
Medicare for all costs less Edit
16 Jul 2018: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. New York Times.
10 Apr 2019: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [69][70]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:
Related charts. See image source on Facebook.
And is not socialist. Edit
US drug war is expensive Edit
Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
Cash bail costs taxpayers Edit
Return to top. - Republicans will do almost anything to maintain a high incarceration rate.
| 29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4. |
24 Jan 2017: Our Money Bail System Costs U.S. Taxpayers $38 Million A Day. On HuffPost.
Ground wars are costly Edit
$5.9 trillion is the cost of America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc..
Peace-keeping forces are much less expensive in money and lives. They actually prevent US involvement in ground wars for the most part. The US should not be fighting the ground wars of others. If that happens it often means the US is propping up authoritarians, dictatorships, fake democracies, and corporate wars. See: Wars, drug wars, black sites, and dictators on demand.
Pentagon is a money pit. Edit
17 Mar 2019: The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit. By Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. "Despite being the taxpayers’ greatest investment — more than $700 billion a year — the Department of Defense has remained an organizational black box throughout its history. It’s repelled generations of official inquiries, the latest being an audit three decades in the making, mainly by scrambling its accounting into such a mess that it may never be untangled."
Hemp for all Edit
- Google search: The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Jack Herer. Chris Conrad.
| 12 Dec 2018: Veto-proof Farm Bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress. American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp. It could spark a boom for the $1 billion marijuana-linked CBD industry. 2. |
Children's Climate ActionEdit
Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.
Facebook video with captions. A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. See comments and number of views by clicking on the video after it starts. Another popular version. Her videos have many tens of millions of views. See the full version on Youtube. It has a transcript in the description. There are many versions online. See Wikipedia: 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference. See: Thousands of UK Students Skipped Class to Protest Climate Change. Feb 15, 2019. Many photos.
- Wikipedia: Greta Thunberg. And: Wikipedia: School strike for climate. Many events worldwide.
- Google search: greta climate. Twitter: #FridaysForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate #ClimateStrike.
- Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries. Youth have more sense than US Republican climate change deniers.
Darwinian evolution turning into US Republican politician evolution:
Green Love. Warming & Edit
Democrat Congresspeople in the US support cannabis reform and the environment much more than Republican leaders. Republican misogyny as represented by Donald Trump is only matched by Republican misogyny for Mother Earth. Partly due to Trump the number of Democrat women in Congress increased in record numbers after the 2018 midterm election. The number of Republican women in Congress declined after the 2018 election. See Wikipedia: 2018 United States elections.
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Nevada 2018. First US state with majority-female legislature.
18 Dec 2018: Nevada becomes first US state with majority-female legislature. This was partly due to voters dumping the trump morons (Republican leaders) who opposed recreational cannabis. Nevada legalized recreational cannabis in 2016.
Overpopulation Edit
Overpopulation is the main driver of global warming. Free birth control is part of the solution. The Little Ice Age is believed to have been partly due to the reforestation that occurred during the hundreds of years of lower human population caused by the Black Plague worldwide.
Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control. July 5, 2015. New York Times.
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7 July 2015: As with cannabis legalization Colorado led the way.. More info. 2.3..
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Wikipedia: Population milestone babies.
- 9 June 2015: Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It? "According to a survey released by the Associated Press on Monday, abortions have dropped by 12 percent nationwide since 2010. ... the correlation between increased access to contraception and a decrease in unplanned pregnancy has been significantly documented over the last two decades. Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping to historic lows, a trend that has been connected to the change in social norms surrounding contraception and increased birth control availability."
- ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts. Free birth control.
Flood insurance Edit
Return to top. More socialism for the rich.
Taxpayers Get Soaked by Government's Flood Insurance for Risky Beachfront Property of the Rich. It's really a subsidy for rich banks to cover their mortgage risk. And it's not just money for rebuilding homes in risky places being overrun by ever-increasing high water from global warming. It's money for neverending dredging, too. "Up and down the coast, the Army Corps of Engineers dumped sand on hundreds of beaches."
Green energy costs less Edit
Oil subsidies are socialist. Edit
15 Aug 2019: Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits, study finds.
8 May 2019: Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending. By Tim Dickinson. Rolling Stone. From the article (emphasis added):
| It accounts for the “differences between actual consumer fuel prices and how much consumers would pay if prices fully reflected supply costs plus the taxes needed to reflect environmental costs” and other damage, including premature deaths from air pollution. |
9 Sep 2019: EU countries still giving breaks to fossil fuel industries, new study says.
President Eisenhower was Edit
A progressive Republican. Edit
He wasn't a socialist. His Edit
- They tried to call FDR and the New Deal 'socialist' too. Here's how he responded. By Michael Hiltzik. Feb 13, 2019. Los Angeles Times.
91% top marginal tax rate Edit
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here’s the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Make America Progressive and Prosperous for More Again. 
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [71][72].
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Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse 2018. Country links below are to Wikipedia articles.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars1 Iceland 203,847 2 Australia 191,453 3 Switzerland 183,339 4 Luxembourg 164,284 5 Belgium 163,429 6 Netherlands 114,935 7 France 106,827 8 Canada 106,342 9 Japan 103,861 10 New Zealand 98,613 11 United Kingdom 97,169 12 Singapore 91,656 13 Spain 87,188 14 Norway 80,054 15 Italy 79,239 16 Taiwan 78,177 17 Malta 76,116 18 Ireland 72,473 19 Austria 70,074 20 South Korea 65,463 21 United States 61,667 22 Denmark 60,999 -
& lower middle-class taxes Edit
Overall taxes on the middle class in the US were lower in the 1950s
Equaled prosperity for more Edit
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
- Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
Vs Republican Party today: Edit
GOP kleptocracy, drug war, Edit
| Republican Party. Greed, ground wars, drug wars, and mass incarceration. |
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Source. 22 Jan 2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A system that allows billionaires to exist alongside extreme poverty is immoral. -
Wage slave waking up -
See: map source. U.S. Dept. of Labor. Map of states with higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage. Note that slavery still exists in the Republican South. Wage slaves. -
Wikipedia: Minimum wage in the United States. Wikipedia: Fight for $15. -
That illegal smile Republican leaders don't like.
US Republican war on poor, Edit
Return to top. Income inequality and drug war.
Record US income inequality, Edit
26 Sep 2019: Income inequality in America is at its highest level in more than 50 years.
| Stock owned by richest 10%. | |
| 2016 | 84% |
| 2013 | 81% |
| 2001 | 71% |
The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
Rich get richer; while middle class wages are flat (inflation-adjusted), and the federal minimum wage (inflation-adjusted) has declined.
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
See chart. [3]. And source article.
Rich pay less taxes than you, Edit
9 Oct 2019: America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. CBS News.
8 Oct: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class. The Washington Post. From the article: "The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent. ... the tipping point came in 2017, with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The legislation, championed by President Trump and then-House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), was a windfall for the wealthy: It lowered the top income tax bracket".
6 Oct: The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. New York Times.
Flat inflation-adjusted wages, Edit
Return to top. See: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages are flat.
Chart. Homelessness is increasing under Trump. And: Inflation-adjusted wages are flat.
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
And lower minimum wage. Edit
USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years. US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [73].
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." See: Charts. See Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
Massive US student debt Edit
Facebook video: $1.5 trillion in student debt. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Read the heartbreaking comments. 10 Dec 2018: People Are Living With An Incredible Amount Of Debt From Student Loans And Credit Cards. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
= Republican loansharking Edit
See Wikipedia: Student debt. Roughly 1 in 4 adults. No bankruptcy rights. Much higher interest rates. Lifetime debt. Modern loansharking and predatory lending, approved by Republicans.
College at 16 is cheaper. Edit
Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries.
Scotland: Adult at age 16. Prolonged forced adolescence is a waste of time and money. Increased agency is better. Public high school in the USA costs an average of $12,509 a year per student in taxes. The money now spent for high school between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of college tuition, room, and board. See: Scotland. What can I do at my age? See: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. See: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe".
Massive US medical debt, Edit
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.
17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
Massive US household debt, Edit
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Household debt.
US household debt at all time high. Chart below from page 3 of PDF.
Total household debt. 1st quarter 2003 through 2nd quarter 2019.
Total Household Debt by Type:
Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.
Polls support legalization Edit
Return to top. See: Cannabis polls.
23 Oct 2019: 66% of Americans support legalizing adult use of marijuana. By Gallup Poll. 19 April 2019: CBS poll at 65% for legalization. This is after decades of activism such as cannabis marches, events, education, referendums, and more. See: cannabis polls and activism.
The majority of US Republicans now support full cannabis legalization, but many Republican leaders do not. We march until all the anti-cannabis US Republican leaders are removed from office.
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