New-Economies ALWAYS Start In California!!!!

[Mr. Shaman]

"Pot advocates started their push Friday to get a marijuana legalization measure on California's 2010 ballot with backing from a prominent state politician.

Former state Senate president Don Perata announced his support for the Tax Cannabis 2010 campaign, which began gathering signatures for the proposal at the annual meeting of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Though Perata did not appear as scheduled at a news conference launching the signature drive, he said in a statement that taxing legal marijuana was key to easing California's financial woes.

"In this time of economic uncertainty, it's time we thought outside the box and brought in revenue we need to restore the California dream," he said.

Under the proposal, adults 21 and older could legally possess up to an ounce of pot. Homeowners could grow limited amounts, and local governments would decide whether to allow pot sales."

O.K., "conservatives"....let's hear it.

You'd prefer this economy would be KEPT in the hands of criminal-elements, right??

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[Mr. Shaman]

"With panels on Mexican drug cartels and using marijuana legalization as a source of revenue for the government, NORML members discussed wasted law enforcement resources and the benefits.

Former NORML Director Richard Cowan estimated that 90 percent of the Mexican drug trade involves marijuana.

Drug Policy Alliance Director Ethan Nadelmann said the best way to deal with the violence of the Mexican drug cartels would be to end the prohibition of marijuana.

"Mexico would more or less be removed from this business," he said."

(....And, 3/4 of DEA-agents would have to find REAL jobs!)​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"Solar thermal power company eSolar Inc said on Friday it granted South African company Clean Energy Solutions exclusive rights to represent and distribute eSolar's concentrating solar power technology across seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Johannesburg-based Clean Energy Solutions develops renewable energy projects.

Initially eSolar will focus on on-grid applications and later will look toward more community-sized power plants in off-grid applications in Africa, said Paul LaFontaine, eSolar's vice president of international market development for Europe and Africa.

The South African government has set a goal to have 10,000 gigawatt hours of capacity from renewable resources by 2013.

The Pasadena, California-based companyhttp://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE59B2GZ20091012 has deals with U.S. utilities, including NRG Energy Inc to create more than 400 megawatts of solar thermal power plants in the U.S. Southwest. It recently opened its first commercial power plant in Lancaster, California."

Oh, the irony....

I'd assume Africans are quite thankful for "conservatives'" racism, as...."conservatives" never got close-enough, to Africa, to warn Africans about the "evils" of solar-energy!!​