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Saturday, 19 June 2021

Why YouTube is doing my head in!

The Many Problems With YouTube

By Dark Politricks

I have just listened to a podcast about physcopaths and then watched a few episodes of Kyrstal and Saagar's new show Breaking Points on YouTube after they left Rising, on The Hill.. It seems they left as it was just going to become another YouTube "pretend" #altnews entity, that is really a gatekeeper for establishment views.

It seems YouTube's new algorithm is really screwed up and not just in the manner that we all know. It is now another pro-establishment Silicon Valley tech God, that thinks it can control free speech, and does in fact do so in numerous ways. 

It's no wonder people are leaving on their own for other streaming channels that have all sprung up due to YouTube's heavy handed new approach. It seems to be trying to turn itself into more of a Television station, constant adverts for those that don't pay a monthly subscription fee, and why would you, when you could lose your favourite channels due to strikes, or Joe Rogan moving to Spotify, or other "tweaks" to their algorithm that has really done me in. I am not going to pay a monthly fee, but the amount of adverts and survey's that break up videos, when they used to just play one at the beginning of a clip is getting too much.

Not only does the removal of many of my favourite channels piss me off and make me less likely to ever pay for a subscription - not that I would, but here are some other reasons why people are leaving the service for other streaming apps that don't limit free speech.
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  • Channels given strikes without a clear reason to why apart from "breaking their terms of service"
  • De-Monetising many of my favourite channels, leaving them to have to earn money from either paid subscriptions, super chats where people pay for comments to be read out, "Freedom" T-Shirt stores and other paywalls.
  • The amount of people they unsubscribe without their knowledge from their favourite channels.
  • Pushing pro-establishment media to the front of your view list such as MSNBC, BBC, CNN, TYT, and seemingly giving them top search results despite low viewing figures or low likes.
  • Channels that have low likes or viewing figures like the White House channel or MSM, yet they are still supported and promoted above real content, due to YouTube's split algorithm that pushes pro-establishment videos and propaganda over home grown entities that it was supposedly to be all to be about.
  • And for me, worst of all seeing that as part of Google it tracks everything I do, it still seems to repeat the same videos after one I had selected rather than moving onto another one related to the video I had just watched. This is the worst for me. I used to go to bed listening to a 3 hour interview with Joseph Farrell and wake up with another one of his videos playing or something related to it. Now all I get is the same speeches from Universities, and interviews with Jordan Peterson that I may have half watched months ago. I've even tried to just let the video play out to see if YouTube will note that I have watched it and not automatically give it to me again. Nope it still does. Meaning I have to have the controller for my SmartTV constantly nearby to change back to my relevant list. It has my history list of all that I have watched so why is it so stupid that it keeps repeating the same video over and over again? I could fix that for them with a few hours coding time spare. I'd do it for free it's so annoying actually.

The thing is as all these channels are being "cancelled" and either removed or had too many strikes so that they cannot be seen by outside viewers. They have now set up accounts on Bitchute.com or DTube or any of the other myriad of YouTube alternatives that have sprung up, in defence of "Free Speech", and offer the content producers payment either in crypto-currency, or other methods if not showing adverts. You can find a list of the best alternatives to YouTube here and for free speech here.

However the problem with these new applications is that my SmartTV doesn't have any options that allow me to watch these channels so I have to stream from my phone or laptop to watch them. When you want to drift off to sleep without having to keep your phone on, knowing your TV will switch off in 2 hours automatically instead of waiting for your phone battery to die then it is more than annoying.

I have a Roku on one TV but that doesn't offer many alternatives apart from Vimeo, which isn't really like YouTube. Plus I want to see my favourite alternative commentators on my TV with an easy way to switch to the channel and press play. In the old days knowing that after the video I had selected finished it would just move on to the next relevant item now it keeps going back to a video I have seen dozens of times  and just makes me have to turn the app off, when I am fed up of exiting a video I have seen a hundred times to search for something new.

I don't know if this is related to YouTube putting their MSM channels at the top of the search algorithms when you want to find something to watch or a consequence of it. However it is bloody annoying.

Google owns YouTube so it does the same cancelling of a channel and blog in sync. I had a whole business model, totally automated as I am a computer coder, that was taken down in one day and destroyed the company in a flash. Not only did my sites and social media outlets related to it get removed in a single day but this was well before Alex Jones and Trump had similar issues. 

Just so you know how the business worked it was totally automated on my own server that hosted the WordPress site I had installed - not because it was a good piece of software, it isn't, but because it was free and allowed me to hack about in the PHP code. 

Plus with the help of these two plugins that automated SEO, tagging, and Tweeting it got the site to the top of Google for a number of terms and also helped people find related content. The plugins I used were Strictly AutoTags that found the most relative words, names, corporations (Department of Defence, Axis of Evil etc), and Acronyms (NATO, AIPAC, MI6 etc), and changed them to increase SEO or linked them to other related pages about that subject.

The other one was Strictlty TweetBOT that allowed you to wait x seconds after the post before sending out any Tweets, and then even gaps between Tweets if sending to multiple Twitter accounts using different formats and hash tags. These were usually made up from the post-tags Strictly AutoTags had found. Only if a relevant article related to a subject was found would it Tweet them out in a format you set.

You can get a free or premium version of the plugin here > https://www.strictly-software.com/plugins/strictly-auto-tags and it works perfectly with another plugin from the same site > https://www.strictly-software.com/plugins/strictly-tweetbot these two along with a BOT I had written were the most important ingredients of making an automated information clearing house. This is just so you know how it worked if you are thinking of writing your own site.

So along with my information clearing site which you are viewing the 6th version of except now all articles are written by me, I had a business that I automated with the same tools, so I had to do as little work as possible with it and using the aforementioned plugins I managed to get it to the top of some Google searches for some hot long keyword terms. 

However one day after a dispute with YouTube where I had 100+ videos up which I had edited to add in little boxes and messages at certain points, in fact most were just a subscription list from other channels where I wanted to show certain clips. In no way did I ever claim they were mine but of course at Google and YouTube trying to find a human to talk to is almost impossible. When I started to get strike and take down orders from YouTube I tried to find someone to talk to - no go. So I went to the actual site that was claiming copyright infringement and even they agreed I had done nothing wrong. Despite this they did nothing to help me by contacting YouTube or removing their take down requests. So as they did nothing to help me retain my channel, suddenly on one day, everything was removed. It was all synchronised which just shows how Silicon Valley are all inter-related and I lost:

-My YouTube channel and all subscribers and videos.
-My Google+ community with 1000's of members - when Google+ was still a thing.
-My multiple Twitter accounts.
-My Facebook page with thousands of REAL followers and LIKES - not bought like many new companies now do for Black Hat SEO.

So that basically ruined my business by taking out all my social media hubs and routes in for people to join the site. I tried many a time to email FB, Google, YouTube, Twitter but all I got were useless knowledgebase articles.

Anyway that was 10yrs ago now. However I still have this site which is now on it's 6th hosting platform due to being on the naughty list > http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2020/02/am-i-going-down-google-plug-of.html for many articles that have somehow got me labelled either a Soros Paid Dis-Info Agent, a Russian Election Hacker, A Pro/Anti Israeli blog and many many more, all because I don't follow the establishment lies and their pretend history of the world they like to believe in. 

I guess in this day and age if you are not being labelled a Syrian Assad paid dis-info agent by The Young Turks, like Aaron Mate is currently being slandered, or being called a sexual abuser, like Jimmy Dore, after 5 years by a woman who is Armenian and works for a show called the The Young Turks then you are doing something wrong.

Here is a recent Tweet from Aaron about the slander being thrown at him by The Young Turks about his award winning reporting on the fake Syrian chemical attacks that the US used as a pretext for their bombing and invasion by CIA paid jihadists. . 


I find it very odd, that an Armenian, has joined a group called The Young Turks, as that's the name of the people who committed the massacres against her ancestors. Also at the time Anna Kasparian was Jimmy's superior so if he had really sexually abused her she could have easily sacked him at any point, not waited 5 years before sending him a DM blackmailing him, which he got out in front of her with a video explaining what happened but it is only causing a rift between supposed liberals and real journalist who don't take corporate money. This is only coming out now to smear Jimmy Dore, due to his show debunking the Syrian Gas Attacks, Russiagate, and being anti-war, as well as calling out shit-libs who were attacking Trump for doing exactly the same things Biden is now continuing to do. The timing tell's everything you need to know about this attack on Jimmy.

The Young Turks took millions from the same donors as the Clintons, and stopped showing pieces on their show called "Guess the Camel Toe", and "Whose Cooch Is This", and have become a promoted YouTube version of MSNBC.

If you want to know more about the online war between TYT and Jimmy Dore which started after Jimmy's campaign for the Justice Democrats, who were sent to Washington to disrupt the Democratic party and bring it to the left yet did nothing when they could have used their numbers to force a floor vote for #Medicare4All, then you should watch this video with Jimmy Dore here or on YouTube.




Also if you look though this site you will probably notice a number of blank videos, or unplayable ones, I do try from time to time to see if there is a backup version on Bitchute.com etc but there isn't always. Sometimes when people are "Cancelled" by the establishment and the all too powerful Silicon Valley nexus they are literally cancelled....as Alex Jones and Donald Trump know far too well.

So before this version of Dark Politricks, it was an information clearing site which you can still see old articles from on the wayback machine e.g the latest I can find which should have the most content is > https://web.archive.org/web/20191114104402/http://www.darkpolitricks.com/, the site being https://web.archive.org/ in which you just enter the URL of the site you want to see and a calendar will appear. Pick a date and then you will be taken to the snapshot of the site. 

I use this site a lot when I realise I wrote a good article some time back and want to get a copy of it however you will notice that none of the YouTube videos play. If the channel still exists that is. Then this is how you can watch them.

So, to watch the broken videos on any Wayback Machine linked website.
  • Go to the video.
  • Right Click on Share in the top right corner.
  • Copy the video URL (top option).
  • Open it up in a new tab. 
Just go to the link I just posted, and the first article will be about Tulsi Gabbard and how she calls Hillary Clinton a Chicken Hawk and am Insane Schizoid. An interesting article to re-read from The Duran, all about all the illogical reasons why Hillary thinks she lost the 2016 election apart from her being the most hated war monger in the country, so much that Donald Trump was a more appealing choice than she was.

She blamed everyone for being a Russian dis-info agent, stealing votes away from her. When in fact most voters who would have voted 3rd party such as the Green Party, also labelled a Russian outfit, would have either not voted at all or voted for Trump. 2016 really was a choice between 2 despicable human beings that people didn't want to vote either way for and when you get to 2020, Biden has not been the "change" that America needed. He even admitted to his rich Wall St donors that "nothing would fundamentally change". 

How about making them paying back some of that Trillion dollar upward wealth transfer that didn't "Trickle down" into new jobs and wage hikes for the staff, but was used for buying back stock, bonuses, and anything apart from helping the economy recover.

He has carried on building Trump's wall, broken most of his liberal campaign promises such as
  • A $15 min wage.
  • A public health option, or reducing the age that Medicare can be taken up.
  • A rebate on University fees.
  • Is still keeping kids in cages at the border something the shit-libs were crying out at Trump for doing, despite it being an Obama/Biden creation, and now Biden is in power what do we hear from those people? Nothing. 
That is what you call hypocrisy, when your side is in power you can do no wrong, when the other side does exactly the same thing they are evil and must be stopped at all costs.

If the channel and video still exists you can watch it there. I just watched it and reminded myself of the delusional #Russiagate narrative that was pushed by Clinton, the MSM and anyone unhappy Trump got elected rather than looking at themselves and seeing that:

a) Bernie Sanders at that time was more popular than both Hillary and Trump and would have got elected - not that the DNC and Democratic party wanted a real liberal left winger in control of their corporate, wall St backed, MSM gatekeeping, right wing party and they did everything to stop him getting those delegates.
b) All the MSM news stations gave billions of dollars worth of free air time to Trump, rather than cover any Democratic rally. Even showing empty stadiums for hours waiting for him to come on. There coverage of Trump gave everyone a chance to hear what he had to say, rather than let Bernie Sanders or Hillary talk to her donors.
c) The Democrats had nothing to offer their voters apart from a chance not to have Donald Trump in office and the Biden election has just reconfirmed that they cannot be trusted during elections, and will most likely let voters down. They use the public when they need them for votes, but once in power they keep their corporate donors happy, not the people of the country,.
d) That Tulsi Gabbard was and is still is a serving US Military member. She served in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 as part of the Hawaii Army National Guard and was stationed in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader.
e) Tulsi Has been to real war zones that have been created and stoked by "Chicken Hawk Hillary", and what a disgrace it was for someone like Hillary as a psychopath (see next article), to call her that. 

If you want to know the people who really hate going to war, ask someone who has served in a war zone and seen the bodies close up, not a chicken hawk who laughs at the cruel execution of Col Gadfdafi, after he gave up his nuclear weapons, and then faced a rebel insurrection funded by the west and helped by our Air campaign of destroying. Libya who once had the highest birth survival rate in Africa, free health care, free houses for people getting married and more. 

It is now a country split into at least 3 where the "official" government has to meet on a boat out at sea to prevent it from being attacked by al-Qaeda / ISIS jihadists who have brought back open air slave markets.. Now Biden is back in power to continue the Obama / Clinton policy of world domination you may want to read about Biden's war crimes in Syria that is if you want to read a narrative that is not pro war, and comes straight from the Pentagon.

You can watch the video with Tulsi and Clinton labelling her a Russian asset right here, or go to the censoring, cancelling, anti-free speech YouTube site if you want:



Obviously Google owns YouTube and doesn't want competition but if they are going to try and turn themselves into a TV station, only show pro-establishment media videos, and de-rank those #altnews videos that come from real journalists then they will soon find out how few visitors they get despite them fiddling with the numbers already to promote MSM videos, and those from the White House despite all the Thumbs Downs, and miniscule views they get.

All whilst videos that were getting millions of views per month such as Jimmy Dore, are being de-ranked in their new algorithm, to make it look like they are getting less viewers.  They are even talking about getting rid of the "Thumbs Down" button, probably due to all the down votes on content their new algorithm is promoting instead of videos people want to watch.

So this site is now purely filled by articles written by myself, apart from some old articles I had to save before they were wiped off the web such as bin-Laden's interview in Sep 2001 with reporters who could find him, whist the CIA apparently couldn't where he admitted he had nothing to do with the 9.11 attacks, or the 4 piece FOX NEWS report on Israeli spying. 

Yes Israel is the no 1 hacker the US has to deal with interfering with their infrastructure and main servers and telecommunications,  not Russia or China. So AIPAC got FOX to remove Carl Cameron's 4 part series in-case it stirred anti-Semitic responses and therefore not so commonly updated apart from the Twitter newspaper at the top (turn Brave Guards off, and ensure JavaScript is enabled if you cannot see it)

I also have a real #altnews search engine using Googles own tools where I have put the major sites from the 550+ to be banned into it so that if you want to get news that is not from a state paper or the MSM just use the bar at the top or go to > https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=005138288515408039386:xatdxpwn9on#gsc.tab=0

So here are some more reasons not to use YouTube, apart from the fact many SmartTV's don't have apps for many of the new alternatives:

1. You’re giving Google even more data, which adds to an even more accurate ‘user profile’. The alternatives  might serve you ads but they won’t have much more than what you’ll provide them with your profile.
2. You’re getting stuck in the ‘filter bubble’. Google thinks that it knows what you want and serves you the search results that match your profile and your interests. Leaving any other information outside your ‘filter bubble’.
3. Broaden your horizons. Not all the high quality videos that are available on the internet are on YouTube. If you are looking for fresh ideas for a scientific project – why not check TED? Or maybe you like old movies that can’t be found anywhere else – then check out the Internet Archive.

So if you’ve had enough of YouTube’s crackdowns on free speech, constant demonetization, and excessive promotion of mainstream media outlets, take a look at these alternatives which each give power back to users in different ways.

If you have any other recommendations for other "free speech" sites that reward content makers as YouTube used to do before "Cancel Culure" kicked in, or good quality sites that could replace YouTube, with easy ways to watch these sites on SmartTV's and Roku / Apple sticks etc, then please add them in the comment section.

All I want is to watch uncensored content from my favourite REAL journalists without being forced to watch MSM videos, or the same video over and over again when they know I have seen it or been offered the option to see it a million times already then please let us have the details!

It is time to leave these big Silicon Valley - Democratic - Pro War - Establishment sites that think that they can limit our free speech to history. We just need our TV apps to catch up or maybe it's the other way round and these sites need to make apps that can be used on TV's,

Anyway, whatever the solution is, we won't find it on YouTube.com.


By Dark Politricks

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Sunday, 25 November 2012

Get Corruption Out Of Our Politics - 75% of Americans Agree!

Get Corruption Out Of Our Politics - 75% of Americans Agree!

By Dark Politricks

This is a YoungTurks video about getting corruption out of politics and is a leader to my article and a subsequent video.


This second video shows how people from any political persuasion whether it be from the left or right of politics, green, libertarian, conservative or liberal can actually get corruption out of politics and gives us a road map to doing so.

75% of people across the country agree that big money = votes and there are some very surprising stats in the next video which show how very few people actually control Congress and the Presidential Elections through their use of their money.

These "influencers" are literally in the hundreds!

Whilst everyone may have a vote to chose their President or Congressman, the power of money influences the choices brought before the electorate in the first place.

The Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court was a decision that was hated by Conservatives and Liberals alike.

Crony Capitalism and Corporate Interests overriding the public interest has been firmly cemented into the US political arena and with most ex-politicians becoming K-Street Lobbyists there is a series of revolving doors that prevents change from occurring within the establishment.

It's akin to asking to a builder to stop laying bricks and not get paid. Nearly all politicians act in their OWN interest and not the PUBLIC INTEREST.

My own essays have repeatedly called for getting money out of politics so that politicians don't have to sell their soul to the devil to get elected and then re-elected. Personally I would also append term limits and a way to reduce the influence of lobbyists from politics from any grass up anti-corruption movement.

Politicians should take the wishes of the people who voted for them into consideration over any rich benefactor or paymaster and in this day and age we should not find it too hard with modern technology to give more power to interested people to influence decision making.

People who don't care about politics or know nothing about complex issues are likely to vote on gut feeling alone, the latest anti-immigrant leaflet that comes through their door or not bother voting at all.

People who are interested in the issues of the day do vote but are constantly dismayed over the lack of progress or gridlock in their own government that prevents real change from ever occurring.

We currently have an over reaching US government that has broken free from the constraints of the constitution.

Starting wars without consent, constant spying of their citizens, and ignoring the "piece of paper" that is there to limit NOT expand the Presidents executive power. It is actions like these that make the ignorant or carefree politically active.

In my own country the UK it is the same, the 3 main parties are all fighting over centre ground and there is no real choice.

For a new party or a small one like UKIP or the Greens to have any influence at home only a fairer system in which televised political debates involve more parties and new parties can get on the ladder. We need every party to be able to fight on an even footing if it is to be fair for the future.

In this regard I can only see publicly funded elections as a means to bringing more political parties to the forefront.

To prevent a two man band of crazies getting the same amount of money as a major party the amount of public purse given to any political party should be decided on the number of votes they can muster. The better they do the more money they get.

Further money should only come from small donations and not big business looking to block the next big issue on the horizon.

There are a lot of choices out there for anyone looking to change the current way our governments work. However the most important aim is to reduce the influence of a tiny few super rich people and give more "real" choice to the people when they go to vote.

The next video shows how corrupt the current system is and gives the people a route to changing it.



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Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Why the Grand Bargain will prove Obama isn't a liberal and it's business as usual in Washington

Why the Grand Bargain will prove Obama isn't a liberal and it's business as usual in Washington

By Dark Politricks

There has been a lot of talk lately about the "Grand Bargain" that is going to be made between Obama and the GOP to try and balance the books and prevent the government's having to deal with the "deficit cliff" that would massively reduce spending and raise taxes.

This is something Cenk Uygur talks about in this video. About how the real aim is to let the right of centre President Obama make a deal with the Republican party in the lame duck session so that business can continue as usual. The real aim being to once again lett the poor and the middle class suffer by giving away cuts to their services and benefits in exchange for tax cuts to the wealthy. Once again the poor get screwed so the rich can get richer.

This is something that Cenk's math's shows is totally unnecessary and can be avoided just by letting the George W Bush tax cuts expire by kicking the ball into the long grass and waiting for a Democratic controlled house.

Although Cenk is obviously a liberal he is someone who attacks both Obama for his non progressive views and his right of centre beliefs.

As I previously stated if Obama WAS a true liberal he would not be doing any of the following:

  • Allowing the Federal government to go after State legal pot dispensaries for medicinal marijuana.
  • Also threatening the new states Colorado and Washington who have recently legalised recreational marijuana with the DEA. Both wasting time, money and ignoring the wishes of the states population. See the Anti State Rights Pledge here.
  • Continuing the war on terror in a more forcible way than his predecessor George W Bush. Including drone strikes that kill 49 civilians to every 1 terrorist.
  • Letting soldiers based in America use Playstation controllers to kill people halfway across the world as if it was just another version of Call of Duty. Then already de-sensitised by not having these soldiers in the "kill zone", seeing the carnage they have wrought first hand, they use a double tap method to kill anyone else who comes to the aid of the victims whether they are women, children or other non combatants.
  • Introducing blatantly anti-liberal laws such as the NDAA, continuing the State of Emergency enacted after 9.11 and letting the PATRIOT ACT continue on harassing and spying on citizens and journalists alike who are trying to bring some accountability to the government.
  • Allowing his much "celebrated" health care act to become a piece of legislation that both liberals and conservatives hate in that it forces people to pay for a product they may or may not want or use. He modelled it on a Republicans health care plan (Mitt Rommey) and is basically forcing people to become customers of the health insurance companies. A true liberal would have gone for a public option or none at all not giving an already rich sector of business a market that is compelled to buy their product.

Also if Obama was NOT an establishment stooge he would surely be doing all of the following:

  • Locking up the banksters that brought the USA and then the world to it's knees financially.
  • Not allowing the FED to continue printing money and devaluing the dollar in a race to the bottom that is killing savers and de-meaning true capitalism.
  • Not appointing neo-con and right wing ministers to head up agencies in Homeland Security, the DEA, the CIA and the Department of Defence.
  • Cutting and not increasing the Department of Defences already bloated budget and using the money to fund projects that help middle class Americans NOT the military industrial complex.
  • Reeling back the intrusive surveillance state that has seen a million Americans become holders of top secret intelligence clearance and introduced huge city sized databases such as the one being built under UTAH. All to hold all the information gained by spying on American and Europeans bank records, phone calls, text messages, CCTV footage (see TRAPWIRE) and Internet usage.
  • Allowing big business and well funded lobbyists to dictate his policy instead of trying to take corporate money out of politics.
  • Following the right wing pro-Israeli line that all American Presidents seem to take. Forgetting all their breaches of international law, illegal wars, assassinations in foreign lands, illegal settlement buildings and illegal blockades that Israel constantly inflict on Palestinians and their neighbours.

However Obama is not a true liberal.

He is a centre right politician who is both an establishment stooge and someone beholden to big business and the banksters who robbed the country.

He is also someone all too willing to compromise what little beliefs he has to get bi-paritsan support in Congress whether or not that means sacrificing whatever little principles he may or may not hold.

As Cenk says:
"First of all, let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget. If they did, they would love this so-called Fiscal Cliff. It raises taxes and cuts spending, so it would massively reduce the deficit. Isn't that what all of Washington has been pretending to care about all of this time?

Second, understand that this so-called compromise they are talking about in order to avoid this supposed calamity is a trick. In fact, it'll be the greatest robbery in American history. Think about it -- they say they are worried about all those tax increases and spending cuts. But that's not true. The Grand Bargain would dramatically increase spending cuts, not alleviate them. So, in fact, the only thing they care about is paying less taxes, as always."
Watch Cenk explain his maths and the unfairness of the "Grand Bargain" below.




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Sunday, 11 November 2012

The failed war on drugs and the anti-states pledge

The failed war on drugs and the anti-states pledge

By Dark Politricks
As you may or may not know when America went to the polling booths last weeks to vote for their President they also had a chance to vote for numerous other politicians at various levels of the government as well as state level ballot initiatives which are a referendum of the people on a certain subject.

The two most pertinent ones to this post are the ballots in Washington and Colorado that legalised Marijuana in those states for recreational use. Not just medicinal use as many other states have already done but pure recreational use.

Now my position on drugs is clear. All drugs should all be legalised and regulated. The fact that they are illegal causes so many social and health problems as well as draining resources from the government it is unbelievable.

Cigarettes and alcohol are much more dangerous to society and to peoples health yet they remain legal. In a logical world they would be banned and other drugs that claim many less lives per year - mainly due to their impure nature because of their illegality - would be legalised.

In these times of austerity would you rather you local policeman was out looking for rapists and murderers or bashing down the door of a teenage pot smoker?

On top of that just imagine if drugs were probably regulated and sold at their real price instead of the over inflated prices they are currently are sold at due to their illegality.

The amount of money brought in as tax revenue would probably close the UK's deficit in a year. The reason so much crime is committed by addicts to pay for their drugs is due to their over pricing which is also due to them being illegal. Cut the price, cut the crime. Make them available on prescription, cut all the crime.

Just imagine  the money that could be saved by not having the Police force, who are already being cut back due to lack of funds, from wasting their time on small drug busts. Or the cost of insurance claims from people who have had their houses or cars broken into so an addict can pay for their next fix.
Before 1968 and then the 1973 Misuse of Drugs Act in the UK Heroin and Cocaine addicts could obtain their fixes easily from their local doctor. It was called the British Experiment.

Doctors can still obtain special licences to dispense heroin if they wish but it is much more tightly regulated and there are very few who do this apart from some drug addiction treatment centres where they are trialing giving addicts heroin in a safe and clean environment. The evidence from these trials show that not only does giving addicts heroin in a clean environment cuts crime but it also cuts their use of street drugs as well.

However the UK government would rather give addicts a more addictive drug instead - Methadone.

A drug that has been known to kill small children when they stumble across it due to it's sweet taste and one that is much more addictive and harder to come off than Heroin due to the length of time it stays in the body.

However it is used, despite the addict still wanting to take Heroin - for that is their drug of choice, because:
  1. It's cheaper.
  2. It comes in liquid form so it can be reduced in small levels easily over time and,
  3. It doesn't give the addict any form of high (unless they drink the whole bottle) - another reason most Methadone users still use Heroin on top of their prescription.
In my eyes these are 3 good reasons to give heroin addicts heroin and not Methadone as if they are still out committing acquisitive crimes (robberies, shoplifting, burglaries etc) to get money to pay for the drug they really want, rather than the drug they are given, the scheme is not working.
Now this article is not about Heroin in the UK it is about the failed war on drugs in total.

Just like the war on terror which will never be won by dropping bombs from drones on Pakistani villagers, especially with a 49 innocent victims to a single Terrorist kill rate. The war on drugs is a war that will never be won.

This is due to evolved human beings innate desire to give themselves a "rush" whether it be through natural highs like exercise, adrenaline rushes from bungee jumps or chemical highs from stimulant drugs or their desire to block out the pain of a cruel and horrible world that we live in (some worlds more horrible than others) through downers whether it be drinking alcohol, popping pills or smoking opium.

Since the beginning of time man has been altering his mental state with naturally growing herbs, mushrooms and plants and if you are a religious person then you must be a believer in Genesis in which it states quite clearly that God filled the world with plants for man's use.

Why would God bother creating the Opium poppy, Marijuana plants, Salvia, Magic Mushrooms, the Coca plant and all the other naturally occurring vegetation that covers the earth yet also changes man's mental or physical state when consumed?

Also if you are a believer in States rights as many Republicans are or you see the Federal Government as an all too powerful system that infringes on the right of the state to make their own choices then surely you would be supportive of these ballot initiatives to legalise pot in Colarado and Washington?

If you are hypocritical enough to hold both positions at the same time e.g you want more state rights for the things "you believe in" whilst denying those other fellow citizens then I think you should take the pledge Cenk Uygur gave out on the Young Turks show the other night.
ANTI STATES RIGHT'S PLEDGE
"I have never actually believed in state's rights. Every time I mentioned it I was lying. I promise to never, ever mention it again as long as I shall live."
Not only should Republicans who rattle on about State Rights but support the failed war on drugs make this pledge but so should President Obama who has appointed a right wing, Bush era, Czar to head the DEA - Michele Leonhart.

This should be a sign to anyone on the right who thinks Obama is actually a progressive liberal that he is nothing of the sort. For if he were a true liberal he would be dismantling the failed structures that incarcerate so many people in US prisons every year for mere pot possession. Instead he would be embracing the wind of change that is floating from state to state not battle it with the full force of the Federal government.

That is what a real progressive and liberal President would do.

The fact that he is promising a war against the states who have legalised marijuana for recreational use and already attacked states that have medicinal marijuana shops PROVES he is a right of centre politician and no liberal.

You can watch the Young Turks video in which Cenk Uygur asks hypocritical states rights enthusiasts who don't believe in the ballots to legalise marijuana to make the Anti States Pledge.

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