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petrochemical nation

by oil addiction feeds war Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at 2:09 AM

The united states is a nation addicted to the needle of petrochemical industry, our occupation of Iraq feeds this constant crude oil craving..

The petroleum from Iraq pumped through Halliburton finds its way to the refineries of Houston Texas where many products are formed from crude oil, from petrochemical plastics to gasoline, pesticides and pharmaceuticals used by psychiatrists to silence dissenting activists labeled paranoid..

..similar to Nazi Germany where the "mentally unfit" where forced to wear black triangles in the concentration camps..

When we discuss petroleum addiction as a problem of every American, we also recognize the various industries that profit from the petrochemical addiction. While the occupation of Iraq continues (as long as there is oil to be pumped), the lives lost by both young American soldiers and Iraqi women/children are tallied up by the CEO/execs of corporations like DuPont/Dow/Exxon/Novartis/etc.. which they balance with the increase in financial gains from so much free petroleum..

The byproducts of crude oil/petroleum feed the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industry equally well. Any percieved disorder such as "road rage" (low level carbon monoxide poisoning from inhalation of combusted petroleum exhaust) has a petrochemical cure from your local psychiatrist/pharmaceutical peddler partner..

When we look at the parallels between the industrial powers of Nazi Germany and America, both had a centralized economy based on petroleum. Rockefeller, Ford, Hitler, Prescott Bush, DuPont, IG Farben and other industrial giants were trading information across the Atlantic while the so-called "War to end all Wars" was proceeding in the mass media. American heroism post WW2 masked the collusion and funding between Bush, Rockefeller and Hitler. The push for asphalt (another crude oil byproduct) paving in Germany for the "autobahn" occurred almost simultaneously with suburbanization and freeway paving here in america. According to these industrial giants, better facism than communism, and the KPD (Kommunist Partei Deutschland) was burned out of Germany after the 1933 Reichstag fire as the American left was attacked after 9/11..

We are a mobile nation dependent on the petrochemical industry for so many products, but there was always another option, though this would not have made as much money for the centralized industrialists like Rockefeller (Standard Oil, Esso, Exxon)..

Hemp can be grown and processed into biodiesel, biodegradable plastic and food on a local level. This distributes the wealth to the growers and processing can be done locally, it is harder to monopolize than petroleum. The cellulose from hemp (77 percent) is enough for most plastic products, and they can be recycled back into food for the next crop. This creates a cycle of sustainablilty where the hemp farmer can maintain themselves. no one individual will become exceptionally wealthy from hemp, but the local community will benefit and prosper from a local economy..





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OAFW

by oil Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at 2:33 AM

>The push for asphalt (another crude oil byproduct) paving in Germany for the "autobahn" occurred almost simultaneously with suburbanization and freeway paving here in america.

That one line blew the whole article up.

The autobahn came into existance during the reign of Hitler in the mid-1930's. The US interstate system was modeled after the autobahn but built in the 1950's, almost 20 years later. That's a lifetime in a 20th Century innovation time-line. But to claim that the building of roads somehow connects Nazism to modern day America is more than a streatch anyway, and this is one of the poorest ways I've even seen it attempted to be connected. Might as well say that the railroads build from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the 1870's was a precurser to Nazi Germany. The connection is just as clear.

Hey, if hemp is the answer, you should be developing it and marketing it to the public. Inventors and visionaries of the past didn't sit around picking their ass saying they could build a better mouse-trap, they did it. I suggest you throw your lifeblood into the project and make it happen. Or are you all talk and no action?

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autobahn and freeways

by oil addiction feeds war Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at 3:04 AM

almost is not defined by years, from the pre war propaganda of Hitler's autobahn building and post war American freeway building/suburbanization showed the industrial oil execs had the same idea in Germany and here..

..part of this included the phase out of public transit systems like LA's trolley tracks being paved over by Ford/GM/Esso cabal so they could sell more cars/oil/asphalt etc..

..though Germany still has public transit, the asphalt autobahn (built by Slavic/Jewish slave labor) and individual "Volkswagen" vehicles was pushed by Nazi propaganda as more natural than transit..

..nothing is ever exact in a mirror image, the idea of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany came from the American governments treatment of indigenous people in Reservations (forced relocation and genocide). These two parallels did not occur simultaneously either, though Hitler did state he got the idea of a systematic genocide from the American Native Reservation system..

..world war 2 was also fought for control of crude oil deposits..

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Do you have a source?

by Truthdetector Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at 5:16 AM

"Hitler did state he got the idea of a systematic genocide from the American Native Reservation system.. "

This is an interesting statement. Do you have a source for this?

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OAFW

by oil Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at 1:51 PM

>almost is not defined by years, from the pre war propaganda of Hitler's autobahn building and post war American freeway building/suburbanization showed the industrial oil execs had the same idea in Germany and here..

Uh.... Eisenhower saw the autobahn's in Germany and thought they would be a good idea here, which they are. Because some country imitates a good idea from another country doesn't mean it wants to imitate everything that country does.

Quit smokin' the hemp and turn it into fuel, could ya??

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Highways and boulevards

by Dagny Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003 at 4:50 PM

The Germans built the autobahns for the same reason Napolean III and Haussmann built the Parisian boulevards in the 19th century. And it has nothing to do with oil execs.

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