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We the people, the inhabitants of the U.S. and the Earth, have a responsibility to solve the problems that we helped to create...the very problems that began when we let greed, fear, ignorance and arrogance, a lack of respect for the Earth (that we inherited from our ancestors and will pass on after we expire), and by allowing the visual and aural propaganda to influence our daily thoughts and decisions.

We owe it to the unborn and yet to be thought of, to rediscover what it means to be "human," responsible, to work together and solve problems, to distinguish fact from fiction, to recognize that not everyone in this country has the same "standard of living," and that all change must first begin with ourselves.

We must demand that the automakers quit playing "brand new" when it comes to non-gasoline powered vehicles as Henry Ford's first Model T ran on ethanol produced from hemp and was built using a combination of flax, wheat, hemp, spruce pulp, and soy beans, with steel only being used for the frame. Rudolph Diesel, the "inventor" of the diesel engine worked on the idea of a solar engine between 1880 and 1890. In 1900, he unveiled a diesel engine that ran on peanut oil at the World's Fair Exposition in Paris, France. The research, automobiles, and ideas of Ford and Diesel should already be known to the automobile manufacturers and now to us. However, for us to understand why this "technology" has been stifled for so long, we must understand the continuum that began once Sir Percy Cox and others at the end of World War I carved up the Ottoman Empire and created the "Middle East."

The new boundaries within the old Ottoman Empire were designed to guarantee conflict and keep the region divided so that "oil concessions and royalties would be easier to negotiate." The instability created within the "Middle East" combined with a petroleum shortage fear in the 1920's, the "Red Line Agreement" of 1928, and big business defining policies in Washington helped to spiral a domino effect nationally and internationally that still exists in 2006. [The "Red Line Agreement" gave the Near East Development Corporation (consortium of 5 large U.S. petroleum companies) 23.75% of the Turkish Petroleum Company's (TPC) shares in the new British mandate, Iraq, and joint development of other petroleum fields in the other countries within the Red Line.]

This continuum has coexisted with and has been a primary cause of the following: tax on "marihuana"-Marijuana Tax Act,

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