It is time the U.S. "steps-up to the plate" and starts "swinging" aggressively at the oil cartel. There is a simple solution to high gas prices and the oil crisis.

Plain and simple:

The U.S. must withhold sending military intelligence services, weaponry, planes and arms to Saudi Arabia until that nation leads the OPEC nations in increasing oil production.

The law of supply and demand would settle the oil and gas crisis.

If it did this today, the U.S. within weeks would see a cut in oil and gas prices.

So, why is our Congress so complacent and willing to sit back and watch as Americans pay more and more at the gas pumps?

The time to act is now!

 

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Sixty unions from ten Latin American countries united in Buenos Aires on May 7 to launch the Latin American Federation of Coca-Cola Workers (FELATRAC) under the aegis of the IUF. The federation is the concrete result of the long-standing work of the IUF Latin American Regional Secretariat to build up company- and sector-wide organizations in close cooperation with the affiliates. FELATRAC elected a president (Raúl Álvarez, general secretary of the Argentinean Federation of Workers of the Carbonated Water Industry (FATAGA), vice-president (Francisco Argüeta, general secretary of Guatemala's STECSA), and four coordinators: one for each sub-region of the regional secretariat.

Interviewed at the founding meeting, Argüeta commented: “These efforts to consolidate IUF's activity within Coca-Cola are coordinated with our efforts to design a union structure that will provide coverage for all the workers of company in Guatemala. Now, together with the FELATRAC, we have to strengthen the efforts of our sister organizations in Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, and continue to move forward until every Coca-Cola worker is unionized.”
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=5051&v...

Billion Dollar Crop

The ONLY way our past foreign policy, and present war, can be justified is if we accept the fundamental premise that WE NEED OIL TO SURVIVE. We must believe that oil is our only source of energy and without it civilization as we know it would collapse. In order to justify more "precision bombing" and selling weapons to terrorists, we must believe that protecting our oil-based economy is the same as protecting the people of America.

This quickly leads to the concept of "overpopulation" and the idea that our planet cannot support this many people, so some have to die. The people of the First World take all the oil we need, while the people of the Third World have to fight for clean food and water, because it is better for them to die than for us to die. Better for Arabs to die than Christians. Better black people die than white people. Better for my neighbor to die than me.

At every level, we allow the fundamental fear of starvation to justify our ignorance and hatred toward anybody who seems different and is therefore perceived as a threat to our family and friends. When self-preservation is our only goal, we can safely justify any actions that seem to protect our lives, no matter how violent, because it is "self-defense."

Unfortunately, this desperation and fear of death is based on a century of lies.

WE DON’T NEED OIL AND NEVER HAVE.

Our forced dependence on the limited supply of petroleum is due entirely to greedy politicians protecting their own business interests instead of the American people.

Everything now done by fossil fuels can be done cheaper and better with renewable natural resources grown on American soil by American farmers. For more than 12,000 years before it was banned in 1937, the world’s number one natural resource for food, fiber, fuel and natural oil was hemp.

WILL THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HELP RESCUE THESE THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED POORER AMERICANS ??


**** JUSTICE NO LOBBY, NO US SENATE ASSISTANCE ! NO $$ NO LOBBY == 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS FALSELY IMPRISONED IN US. ****TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN PRISON INMATES NEED INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR LEGAL FEES IN HELPING THEM ATTEMPT TO EXONERATE THEMSELVES FROM THE US PENAL COLONIES !!



Most Americans are well aware that there are plenty of innocent poorer US citizens in our prison systems nationwide,but very few of us have ever heard about our US Congressional representatives who are mostly lawyers themselves, denying our Middle Class and Working Poor Americans proper legal counsel for their federal appeals.
When any poorer American is charged with a Federal crime all legal costs and appeals are paid for,but when one is charged in the various 50 states and run out of higher court state appeal opportunities and need to appeal to the Federal courts,it appears that these poorer and mostly uneducated prison inmates are left to their own best lawyering skills to attempt to write a federal appeal that could sway a US Federal judge to grant them a new retrial.
Our US Congressional Representatives sleep soundly every night knowing there are reported to be an estimated 100,000 innocent Americans (some residing for decades even on death row) in our US Prisons who have been denied proper legal counsel to help them attempt to exonerate themselves with their Federal Appeals?

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