Washington -- Dennis J. Kucinich was 33 when, having been drummed out of the
Cleveland
mayor's office, he set out on what he calls his "quest for meaning." His city
was in
financial default — the embarrassment of the nation. His political career was in
tatters, his bank account dangerously low. Not even the radio talk shows would
hire
him.

So he left the Rust Belt in the winter of 1979, headed west to California and,
eventually, New Mexico, to write and think. There, in the austere beauty of the
desert
outside Santa Fe, he sought out a spiritual healer who, he says, led him on a
path
toward inner peace. "That," Mr. Kucinich said, "is where I discovered that war
is not
inevitable."

Now, after a stunning political comeback that culminated with his election to
the House
of Representatives in 1996, Mr. Kucinich — the boy mayor who was so bombastic he
fired
his police chief live on the 6 o'clock news — is seeking the White House, on a
platform
of "nonviolence as an organizing principle of society." He wants to pull out of
Iraq,
sharply reduce the Pentagon budget and establish a cabinet-level Department of
Peace.

At 57, he keeps to a strict vegan diet; on a cold December night in Cleveland,
Mr.
Kucinich padded about his kitchen in stocking feet — no shoes are allowed in the
Kucinich home — and ate Chinese bean curd for dinner. He is twice divorced but
open to
a new relationship, even going so far as to advertise his availability during a
candidates' debate. His campaign manager is a "transformational kinesiologist" —
a
practitioner of the healing arts — who has never before worked in politics.

As he hopscotches around the country, delivering speeches that blend the themes
of John
Lennon with an ardent defense of the working class, Mr. Kucinich — a slim man at
5-foot-7, 135 pounds — has become the boutique candidate for peace activists and
Hollywood liberals. Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt are the headliners of a
fund-raiser
concert for him this week. Ed Asner, the actor, likens Mr. Kucinich to "a
prophet
speaking the truth."

Yet his poll numbers are in the single digits, and not one member of his own
Ohio
Congressional delegation has endorsed him. He has raised $5 million, vastly more
than
the Rev. Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun, but a pittance compared to the $40
million raised by Howard Dean.

Still Mr. Kucinich runs, perhaps because that is all he knows how to do. Perhaps
it
fulfills his belief, held since boyhood, that the White House is his destiny. Or
perhaps, those who know him say, Mr. Kucinich runs out of a deep-seated desire —
forged
as the eldest of seven children in a desperately poor family — to rise above his
roots.

"I think he has had to fight a terrible emptiness that many of us have been
blessed not
to have," said Tim Hagan, a former Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio who
has
known Mr. Kucinich for 30 years. "I think that's what drives him. He is driven
by a
sense of affirming to the world that he counts, that his voice should be heard,
that he
is somebody to be taken with real seriousness."

That he does not seem to stand a chance does not faze Mr. Kucinich. He is
convinced, he
says, that there is "a readiness on the part of the electorate to embrace" his
vision
for America, if only they have an opportunity to hear it. No matter that voters
outside
the ethnic wards of Cleveland can barely pronounce his Croatian surname. (It is
pronounced koo-SIN-itch.)

The candidate says they will learn.

"I make the impossible possible," he told a radio interviewer in Houston, from
the
cellphone in his kitchen that cold December night. "That's what I specialize
in."

Setting a Goal

St. John Cantius School, a tiny Roman Catholic high school on Cleveland's west
side,
has been shuttered for years now, a victim of declining enrollment. Lorene
Wolski
Mihalko remembers the first day she saw Dennis Kucinich there, at their freshman
induction ceremony in the fall of 1960, a sprite of a boy delivering "the most
dynamic
speech" she had ever heard.

"He looked," Mrs. Mihalko said, "like he was 9 years old."

He was the kind of kid who threw himself into everything. He played basketball,
and, at
4-foot-9, 97 pounds, third-string quarterback. ("I was the football," Mr.
Kucinich
says.) He was an editor of the school newspaper, a member of the debate team, a
candidate for student council president, one of many races he would lose.

Yet by the time he was a senior, young Dennis Kucinich was declaring he would be
president one day. Once, he told his best friend, Dan Backus, he would be mayor
of
Cleveland by the time he was 30. "He always had a plan," Mr. Backus said.

If Mr. Kucinich immersed himself in school, perhaps it was because life at home
was so
difficult. His father, Frank, a truck driver, and mother, Virginia, struggled to
make
ends meet. By the time he was 17, Mr. Kucinich had lived in 21 places, including
an
orphanage, where he and his siblings spent Christmas one year while their mother
fought
post-partum depression. Between apartments, the family stayed in a car.

"The car," Mr. Kucinich recalled, "was parked near a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant.
My
mother would go down to the store and ask them to heat up a bottle for the baby.
We'd
go to a delicatessen and buy processed foods and come back and eat. My dad was
trying
to keep working. It was total chaos."

Out of that chaos came a populist streak that has characterized Mr. Kucinich's
career
since he first ran for office in 1967 at age 21, taking on a veteran City
Council
member. He pulls out his union card — he is a member of the cameramen's union —
every
chance he gets. As president, he says, he would withdraw from the North American
Free
Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization. He advocates universal health
care,
through a single-payer system.

Mr. Kucinich lost that first race. But a decade later in 1977, after a stint as
Cleveland's clerk of courts, Mr. Kucinich's boyhood prediction to Mr. Backus
just about
came true. At 31, he became the youngest mayor of any major American city.

The nation knew him as "the boy mayor." But in Cleveland, he was Dennis the
Menace,
impetuous to a fault, surrounded by aides who were young and arrogant and ready
for a
fight. By August 1978 he had narrowly survived a recall.

"When Dennis would take on a fight, he saw things in terms of good and evil,"
said
Joseph Tegreene, who served as Mr. Kucinich's finance director and had such a
bitter
falling out with his old boss that they did not speak to each other for 15
years.

The blowup that cost Mr. Kucinich his job was a showdown with Cleveland's banks
and the
City Council over the city's public utility company, known as Muny Light. The
banks,
holding city loans, demanded the mayor sell Muny Light. Mr. Kucinich refused;
Cleveland
went into default. In November 1979, voters turned him out of office. Thus began
what
the congressman describes as a period of "almost relentless reflection" into the
deepest corners of his life, and why it was so filled with conflict.

"I never had the time to do that before," Mr. Kucinich said. "The people of
Cleveland
gave me something I never gave myself: time off."

He began by going to California, where he turned to a friend, Shirley MacLaine,
the
actress known for her excursions into the metaphysical. She introduced Mr.
Kucinich to
Christine Griscom, a self-described spiritual teacher and healer whose Light
Institute
in Galisteo, N.M., promises "multi-incarnational exploration" and "access to
your
higher self."

"Chris is the person who has really worked on matters relating to peace, both
inner
peace and peace in the world," Mr. Kucinich said. "I met her and began a series
of
discussions on the nature of life, truth, purpose."

That conversation, Ms. Griscom said, continues today; she and Mr. Kucinich have
discussed matters like abortion and Iraq. "He comes to New Mexico to
contemplate,
regenerate himself, but he always brings the world with him," Ms. Griscom said.
"He
doesn't come here for retreat. Dennis doesn't know what that word means."

His political exile was as difficult personally as it was professionally. His
second
marriage (his first had ended in divorce) broke up in 1986, five years after the
birth
of his daughter. With a master's degree in communications, Mr. Kucinich
supported
himself by lecturing and consulting, but he was desperate to get back into
politics.

"But every time I tried," Mr. Kucinich said, "I couldn't win."

A Career Revival His big break came in 1993. A reporter for The Cleveland Plain
Dealer
was investigating Mr. Kucinich's decision not to sell Muny Light, and concluded
that
the move benefited consumers. Mr. Kucinich was "on a beach in Malibu, watching
the
dolphins play," he said, when the reporter called for his comment.

With a light bulb as his logo and the slogan "Because he was right," Mr.
Kucinich won
election to the Ohio Senate in 1994, and the United States House in 1996.

After 15 years in the political wilderness, the boy mayor — calmer, less
impetuous, as
determined as ever — was back.

On Feb. 17, 2002, Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, was a
featured
speaker at a conference sponsored by the Southern California Americans for
Democratic
Action. As co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Mr. Kucinich had
made a
name for himself as an outspoken foe of what he sees as the Bush
administration's
bellicose foreign policy.

One thousand people packed a hall at the University of Southern California to
hear him
attack the war in Afghanistan and the buildup to war in Iraq, the primary
antiterrorism
legislation and the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

The "prayer for America" speech, as Mr. Kucinich called it, was, like many of
his
speeches, long on passion and short on policy specifics. But to people in the
hall, it
was electrifying.

"It was like someone singing opera," said Judith Bustany, president of Southern
California Americans for Democratic Action.

Soon, peace activists were pressing Mr. Kucinich to run for the White House.

"The response," Mr. Kucinich said, "was something I never could have predicted."
He
decided 2004 was his year.

On the Campaign Trail

This is what the Kucinich for president campaign looks like:

The candidate is jammed into the backseat of a little red Honda at 9:30 p.m. on
a
bitter cold night in Cleveland, cellphone pressed to his ear, telling yet
another radio
interviewer how he is the only candidate who has actually voted against the war
in
Iraq. He ends, as he always does, saying "how grateful" he is for the
opportunity to
express his views.

On a swing through New Hampshire, Mr. Kucinich is invited to address union
members —
whom he calls "brothers and sisters" — at  a low-slung wood-paneled hall outside
Manchester. Burly men in union jackets usher him into a holding room while his
rival
Howard Dean is rushed to the podium like some kind of rock star. Mr. Kucinich
shrugs
off the indignity, saying he came a little ahead of schedule.

It would be easy to dismiss Mr. Kucinich as nothing more than a vanity
candidate, to
mock his veganism and his relationship with Shirley MacLaine, and some do. One
member
of Congress, a Republican, called him "a flake." A Democrat, more charitably,
described
him as a loner, "a solo guy."

But those who know Mr. Kucinich best insist he is a serious man with serious
ideas, who
believes with every fiber of his being that it is his obligation, his duty, to
offer
his vision for repairing the world.

"He's a good politician, and he knows that in this country, people vote their
pocketbook," said Paul Tipps, a lobbyist in Columbus who has known Mr. Kucinich
for
decades. "But that doesn't mean that Dennis has to campaign for their
pocketbook. He's
willing to campaign for their hearts and their minds."

There is almost an ascetic quality about Mr. Kucinich; his home, in a forlorn,
working-class section on Cleveland's west side, is so sparsely furnished as to
be
practically bare. He appears to have little life outside his work. He had a
girlfriend
for eight years, a Cleveland lawyer two decades his junior, who, he said,
remains "very
important to me." But the relationship broke off because "the partnership stuff
was
just too hard."

Some say Mr. Kucinich runs because there is no reason not to. His campaign has
elevated
his name recognition, which could come in handy if he decides to seek the Ohio
governor's office or run for the Senate. Besides that, Mr. Kucinich clearly
enjoys
being on the campaign trail and has raised enough money to do so.

"He doesn't need a lot of money," said Jerry Austin, an Ohio Democratic campaign
consultant. "He stays in Motel 6's and takes Southwest Airlines. He'll stay in
as long
as he can afford to get from one place to another, because he wants to be
heard."

Running, though, has not been without its costs. A longtime opponent of
abortion, Mr.
Kucinich now supports Roe v. Wade, a decision he says he reached after
consulting with
"the women in my life." That, plus his firm embrace of gay marriage, has put him
at
odds with many voters in his largely Roman Catholic district.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Kucinich is constantly asked when he will pull out of
the
race. The questions irritate him, and he has lately taken to berating the media
for
focusing only on polls and money.

But he still seems aware of the challenge he faces. At a fund-raiser in an
Italian
restaurant in Cleveland's downtown, the Ohio primary, in March, was on his mind.
He
swept into the room and stood on a chair, delivering a brief speech that, in its
simplicity, perfectly summed up his campaign.

"We are in a position in this room to redirect the future of this country," Mr.
Kucinich said, to much applause.

"But," he added, "we've got to deliver Ohio."

Complete Title: Past Defeat and Personal Quest Shape Long-Shot Kucinich Bid
Author: Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.— Gandhi

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Democratic Presidential nominee, Dennis Kucinich, put in writing that as
PRESIDENT He
WILL: "DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA" -"in favor of a drug policy that sets reasonable
boundaries
for marijuana use by establishing guidelines similar to those already in place
for
alcohol."
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News that one of the Democratic candidates -- a sitting member of Congress --
is also calling for an end to marijuana prohibition. This is from Congressman
Kucinich's Web page.
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php
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Democratic presidential candidate opposes war on pot by Pete Brady
Cannabis Culture: (22 Dec, 2003)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3240.html

Courageous congressman Dennis Kucinich needs grassroots help

The Congressman has proposed lifting criminal penalties for most
marijuana-related
activities, and although he stops short of recommending full-on legalization of
the
herb, he is the only candidate for president who is generating enthusiasm among
the
marijuana community.
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WILLIE NELSON ENDORSES KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT
From: "g_etzkorn" Wed, 02 Jul 2003

One of the most beloved figures in popular music and culture has endorsed the
populist
presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich.

STATEMENT FROM WILLIE NELSON "I am endorsing Dennis Kucinich for President
because he
stands up for heartland Americans who are too often overlooked and unheard.  He
has
done that his whole political career.  Big corporations are well-represented in
Washington, but Dennis Kucinich is a rare Congressman of conscience and bravery
who
fights for the unrepresented, much like the late Senator Paul Wellstone.  Dennis
champions the environment, peace, individual freedoms privacy, safe food laws
and
family farmers.  A Kucinich Administration will put the interests of America's
organic
family farmers, consumers and environment above the greed of dangerous genetic
engineered and industrial agribusiness.

"I normally do not get too heavily involved in politics, but this is more about
getting
involved with America than with politics.  I encourage people to learn more
about
Dennis Kucinich at
http://www.kucinich.us I will be doing all I can to raise his profile with
voters.  I
plan to do concerts to benefit his campaign."

"It's an honor," commented Rep.  Kucinich, "to earn the support of a man who has
come
to symbolize the best values of America."

"ON THE ROAD AGAIN": With Willie Nelson's endorsement, momentum continues to
build for
our insurgent campaign -- as we increase our support base, our volunteer base,
our
endorsements and fundraising.

RALPH NADER, on last night's CNN Crossfire, said "If Dennis Kucinich gets the
nomination, it'll be less reason to have a third-party challenge.  He's a very
progressive Democrat..."

Dare to dream.  We can win this nomination.  With so many candidates in the
race,
everyone is a long shot, not just us.  To see why KUCINICH WILL DEFEAT BUSH,
check out
http://kucinich.us/electable.htm

The Grateful Dead
Fri  July 4 2003 Willie Nelson's Picnic @ Two River Canyon Amp Austin, TX
http://www.dead.net
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Kucinich gets lifted
Kucinich's position on the drug war has made him the subject of this article at
Cannabis Culture
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Kucinich was the first Democratic candidate interviewed by link-tv.
The transcript from last Thursday is up at
http://www.linktv.org/press/pdf/kucinich_transcript_12_16_03.pdf
The interview is front and center on the home page and streaming video is
mentioned...
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Cancer Changes Lawmaker's Mind on Drug By Steven Walters
Source: Journal Sentinel January 01, 2004
Madison -- After doctors removed his cancerous prostate, Gregg Underheim was
frozen by
uncertainty: Had the cancer spread? Would he need chemotherapy and, if so, would
the
treatment itself make him miserably ill? Underheim, chairman of the Assembly's
Health
Committee and a Republican, began thinking of others who had waged brave and
painful
battles with cancer. Some, like his father, had lost the fight.
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Republican Power Means Less for States By Jim Abrams
Source: Associated Press January 02, 2004
Washington -- Traditionally the champions of small government and states'
rights,
President Bush and his allies in Congress have aggressively pursued policies
that
expand the powers of Washington in the schoolroom, the courthouse, the home and
the
doctor's office.  Sometimes over the objections of states--and often at the
behest of
business--Republicans have passed or are promoting legislation and regulations
that
make Washington the final arbiter on environmental standards, class-action
lawsuits,
medical malpractice cases and Internet taxes.
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Editorial: Marijuana, Again?
Source: News-Miner January 02, 2004
Alaskans learned this week that they will once again be asked to vote on the
state's
curious, and perhaps still-developing, relationship with marijuana. This latest
initiative, which followed a contentious path through the lieutenant governor's
office
and the court system, would decriminalize marijuana possession for people age 21
and
over. It is the third ballot measure regarding marijuana use following the 1990
initiative that recriminalized the drug. Prior to that measure's easy passage,
people
over age 18 could possess less than 4 ounces of marijuana in their home or in
some
other private place.
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Editorial: The Pot Law May Stand, but It Still Needs Fixing
Source: Globe and Mail January 02, 2004
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled last week that Parliament has the power to
make
possession of marijuana a crime. It did not rule on whether the government
should
continue to do so. Its ruling did not make the law a better law, and it did not
undercut the campaign to decriminalize simple possession of small quantities of
marijuana. Prime Minister Paul Martin should revive his predecessor's
legislation to
move minor possession out of the Criminal Code.
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001 Canada: New Prime Minister Worries 'Prince Of Pot'
002 CO: Medical Pot Figure Targets DEA Agents
003 WA: Seattle City Council Names Pot Panel
004 Emperor of Hemp?
005 US: Pot Luck
006 IL: Cancer changes lawmaker's mind on drug
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Home Despot: America's Do-It-Yourself Bush Fundraising Store?

President Bush, after a major fundraiser in Baltimore on December 5, made a stop
at a
nearby Home Depot to talk about the economy. But the site confused some people,
so much
so that the Baltimore Sun ran an article entitled "A Presidential Mystery,"
which
concluded that "nobody seems to know why" he was going to the Home Depot.

Well, a little digging provided the answer to this mystery: Home Depot is a
major
contributor to President Bush's campaigns . Home Depot executives, employees and
their
families have given more than $1.5 million to the GOP since 1999, most of it in
"soft
money," before that practice was outlawed last year. The company's political
action
committee has also already contributed $31,000 directly to the Bush-Cheney 2004
re-election campaign.

And guess what? Buried in two small paragraphs on page 710 of the massive,
stalled
energy bill is a measure that would lift a tariff on Chinese-made ceiling fans -
with
Home Depot being the largest retailer of said fans. The measure, inserted during
a
closed-door conference committee and undebated in either house of Congress,
would save
Home Depot and other smaller companies about $48 million, at taxpayer expense,
of
course. Other fun facts uncovered by Public Citizen:

- Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli, who flew up from Atlanta on Dec. 5 to join Mr.
Bush,
has made at least three trips to the White House since 2001.
- Home Depot's #2 person, Executive Vice President Francis Blake, left his job
as
Bush's deputy energy secretary in 2001 to work for Home Depot.
- Karen Knutson, wife of Home Depot's top in-house lobbyist Kent Knutson, was a
former
top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and deputy director of Cheney's secret
energy
task force.

As noted by Frank Clemente, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch, "The
president
has managed to turn policy pronouncements into free PR for his most generous
political
supporters."

Perhaps you are unwilling to make your hardware and related purchases at a chain
that
is helping to undermine democracy - pumping money into an Administration that
puts
contributors' profits ahead of the public interest and then looking for paybacks
at
taxpayer expense. If so, and you would like to let Home Depot CEO Nardelli know
about
it, you can contact them by pointing your browser here
http://www.citizen.org/redirect.cfm?ID=1

Please pass this email on to your friends and colleagues!
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which provides information about President Bush's fundraising
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People’s History of Headwaters Forest! Boycott Home Despot!

The towering ancient redwood trees of Headwaters Forest form the backdrop of the
dramatic Timber Wars raging in Northern California. In 1985 Maxxam Corporation
of Texas
orchestrated a hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber and began liquidating
old-growth
groves and endangered species habitat. In 1986 Earth First! activists hiked into
Headwaters and were amazed to discover how wild and pristine these groves were
compared
to the redwood parks.
Continued...  http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org/faq/index.html#Anchor-44591

Circle of Life Foundation
http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org

Pacific Lumber Company/Maxxam (PL/Maxxam) owns approximately 210,000 acres of
forestland, all of which is located in Humboldt County. PL/Maxxam is best known
for its
scofflaw attitude toward environmental laws, as well as its wanton destruction
of the
last remaining ancient redwood forests in private hands. Much of the current
savage
logging style can be traced to a 1986 take-over of the company by Texas
junk-bond baron
Charles Hurwitz and his Maxxam Corporation.
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/THP/PacificLumber/

Pacific Lumber Logging By Method
1996-2000 Approved Plans
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/THP/PacificLumber/plsilvmeth.html

Maxxam's Lawless Logging in Perspective
(Article from the Spring 99 Wild California)
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/wildcalifornia/1999_Spring/pl_spring99.html

Pacific Lumber's Criminal Logging Record
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/THP/PacificLumber/pl_record.html

The State of the World's Old Growth Forests
http://www.homedepotsucks.com/home.htm
* The United States has already lost 96% of its old growth forests
* Only 22% of the world's old growth forests are still intact
* 76 countries have already lost all of their old growth forests.
* Eleven more countries are on the verge of losing their old growth forests.
* 70% of the world's remaining old growth forests are in Brazil, Russia, and
Canada.
* Outside of the world's cold boreal regions, 75% of the world's old growth
forest is
threatened.
* Global wood consumption has increased 2.5 times since 1950.
* Wood consumption in the United States and Canada is three times the level in
underdeveloped countries and double that of other industrialized nations.
* North American wood consumption is expected to increase 46% by the year 2040.
* We already have the technology to reduce our wood consumption by 75-90%.
Source: Rainforest Action Network

Business & Human Rights : Home Depot
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Companies/Individualcompanies/H/H\
omeDepot

Environmental group targets Home Depot
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0503/15forest.html

Lumber and Paper Giants to Announce Ban of Indonesian Wood and Pulp May 15, 2003
Georgia-Pacific and Home Depot Refuse to Cut Ties with Illegal Logging in
Endangered
Forests
http://www.earthisland.org/borneo/news/articles/030505article.html

Don’t Be Duped By Phony Timber Industry Ecolabel
San Francisco — On Wednesday, November 12, Rainforest Action Network and a
coalition of
leading environmental groups will launch Don’t Buy SFI, a consumer campaign to
educate
Americans about the truth behind the timber industry’s phony new SFI
(Sustainable
Forestry Initiative) ecolabel. The Don’t Buy SFI campaign will launch concurrent
with
the North American Wholesale Lumber Association convention in Dallas.
Continued...
http://www.dontbuysfi.com/media/

The Environmental Protection Information Center Linx
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/links.html

Home Depot is still sourcing and selling old growth Redwood and other old growth
trees.
Ask Home Depot to send you a letter stating that they will stop using old growth
lumber
period.
The Home Depot 2455 Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30339 (770) 433-8211

Home Depot headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia sources and sells old growth trees
such as
redwoods, mahagony, Douglas Fir, Ramin, Cedar, Lauan, luan, meranti, Philippine
Mahogany for lumber. Our rainforest is being clearcut, our old growth and
indigenous
people in tropical and temperate rainforests are being driven into extinction
along
with endangered species. In the Pacific Northwest, Maxxam and Pacific Lumber are
destroying old growth forests - these are not renewable resources.

Rainforest Relief, Action Resource Center, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and
others
protest with direct non-violent action to save our tropical rainforest and
old-growth
forests and endangered species. We must prevent our old growth forests from
becoming
lumber yards.

Home Despot Sucks
http://www.homedepotsucks.com/home.htm
Stealing Home Coalition
http://www.homedepotsucks.com/stealing-skull.gif
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Cannabis Building Materials & Housing
http://www.electricemperor.com

Practical, inexpensive fire-resistant construction material, with excellent
thermal and
sound-insulating qualities, is made by heating and compressing plant fibers to
creat
strong construction paneling, replacing dry wall and plywood. William B. Conde
of
Conde's Redwood Lumber, Inc. near Eugene, Oregon, in conjunction with Washington
State
University (1991-1993), has demonstrated the superior strength, flexibility, and
economy of hemp composite building materials compared to wood fiber, even as
beams.

Isochanvre, a rediscovered French building material made from hemp hurds mixed
with
lime, actually petrifies into a mineral state and lasts for many centuries.
Archeologists have found a bridge in the south of France, from the Merovingian
period
(500-751 A.D.), built with this process. (See Chenevotte habitat of Rene, France
in
Appendix I.)

Hemp has been used throughout history for carpet backing. Hemp fiber has
potential in
the manufacture of strong, rot resistant carpeting - eliminating the poisonous
fumes of
burning synthetic materials in a house or commercial fire, along with allergic
reactions associated with new synthetic carpeting.

Plastic plumbing pipe (PVC pipes) can be manufactured using renewable hemp
cellulose as
the chemical feedstocks, replacing non-renewable coal or petroleum-based
chemical
feedstocks.

So we can envision a house of the future built, plumbed, painted and furnished
with the
world's number-one renewable resource - hemp.
When Hemp Saved George Bush's Life

One more example of the importance of hemp: Five years after cannabis hemp was
outlawed
in 1937, it was promptly reintroduced for the World War II effort in 1942.

HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/index.html
Energy Farming in America
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html
HEMP PLYWOOD Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/plywood.html
Lynn and Judy Osburn
http://www.osburndefensefund.com

Hemp vs Cotton
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P21931295
Organic Cannabis/Tobacco vs Chemical Cigarettes
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V1E931555
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
Applicable Information
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S43F259D6
Hemp vs Dioxins
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y23D21B45
Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M23C12B45
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Dean Sellout
http://www.corvusworld.com/deansellout.htm
Bush/Dean Occupation
http://www.corvusworld.com/deanoccupation.htm
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Dennis Kucinich.
http://www.kucinich.us
http://wwwgroups.yahoo.com/group/Kucinich4President
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Pat Robertson: God Says Bush Will Win in 2004
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107258,00.html

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious
instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is
built on
air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from
faith . . .
we need believing people."
Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933,
from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi Vatican Concordant of
1933

The Anti-Pat Robertson/Christian Coalition Site
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/patrobertson.html

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as
his
father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the
generation of
Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson, 1823

Sacramental Cannabis
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/Sacramental.
Cannabis Culture Archives: Sacrament
http://www.cannabisculture.com/library/dbarticles.cgi?head=SACRAMENThtml

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is
always
in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his
own.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1814

America was NOT founded on Christianity!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I20312A85

Neither the trappings of robes, nor temples of stone, nor a fixed liturgy, nor
an
extensive literature or history is required to meet the test of beliefs
cognizable
under the Constitution as religious. So far as our law is concerned, one
person's
religious beliefs held for one day are presumptively entitled to the same
protection as
the beliefs of millions which have been shared for thousands of years.
-- Judge Jack Weinstein, New York State, 1977

The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America
http://www.chestnutcafe.com/cafe/US_History.html

The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
-- George Washington & John Adams, in a diplomatic message to Malta.

Invisible Prohibition
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
  -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Evil Lurking
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36620.gif

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of
men
whatever,  in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I
was
capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a
free and
moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there
at all.
  --Thomas Jefferson

Ancient Temple Hashish Incense! Did Jesus Inhale?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2ED63D45

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he
must
more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be
frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in
the
belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort
and
pleasantness you feel in its exercise...
  -- Thomas Jefferson, in a 1787 letter to his nephew

DdC/The Philosopher’s Stone
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J51242B46

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never
give
assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham
Lincoln

American High Society
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T28152A85

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold
this
prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest
characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till
usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in
precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the
consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to
forget it
-- James Madison.

The PotHeads Will Survive
Israeli's using cannabis anti nerve gas protection...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D59145A85

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their
own
choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent
that
they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are
promulgated,
or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day,
can
guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how
can
that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
-- James Madison, Federalist Papers 62

JC/DC
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A2F252A85
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/40/40295.gif

Never could an increase of comfort or security
be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
  -- Hillaire Belloc

"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998

Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E59052E36

Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R14513E36

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Marijuana Joins List of Banned Drugs in Sport By The CTV.ca News Staff
Source: CTV January 03, 2004
As of the new year, world anti-doping regulations added marijuana to the list of
banned
substances. It will start testing for it at competitions where anti-doping
testing is
already done.  Canadian Olympic diver Philippe Comtois says he supports a ban on
marijuana -- and any other kind of drug. Comtois says he's seen other athletes
use pot
and doesn't like the effects.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18081.shtml

Lawsuit Allowed in Drug Raid Case By Claire Cooper
Source: Sacramento Bee January 03, 2004
San Francisco -- Four Placer County sheriff's deputies must answer to a lawsuit
accusing them of violating the civil rights of a woman and child during a 1999
marijuana raid of their Citrus Heights home, a federal appeals court ruled
Friday. The
judges said the undisputed facts of the civil suit filed by the family of Chris
Miller
showed the deputies pointed guns at Miller's wife and 10-year-old daughter for
10 to 15
minutes.
Read More...
http://www.sacbee.com/content/community_news/placer/story/8039144p-8974816c.html
Discussion: http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18080.shtml

Political Fears May Stymie Pot Legislation By Mike Nichols
Source: Journal Sentinel January 02, 2004
Here's the latest buzz.
Republican state Rep. Gregg Underheim's push for legal, medicinal marijuana
seems
likely to start a whole new round of questions about whether folks ever partook
of the
stuff themselves - for less than therapeutic reasons. And that's a flashback
politicians aren't always eager to experience.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18079.shtml

Republican Power Means Less for States
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18078.shtml

Courageous People of 2003
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3245.html

Todd McCormick
http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/317/toddmccormick.shtml

Grant Krieger is appealing his controversial pot conviction from last month.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J1DD213F6

The Supreme Court decisions in Canada should have been printed at great length
if not
their entirety by some of the largest newspapers in Canada. John Turmel has now
gotten
around to his commentary on the decisions and is kind of a one man newspaper on
this
important event- http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MedPot/message/1097

Reason for cancelling Jessie Ventura's show
"MSNBC President Erik Sorenson disclosed the move in a staff memorandum this
week,
saying he wanted to focus the network's resources next year on prime-time hours
Monday
through Friday, the spokeswoman said."
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/381740.cms

Over 80% support in WI
In Feb. 2002, Is My Medicine Legal YET? released a pol we commissioned on
support for
mmj in Wisconsin. It found 80.3% support statewide, with little variation among
those
identifying themselves as GOP, Democrat or Independent or any other demographic.
Opponents are in the minority. They represent like 16%.

IMMLY WI MMJ POLL
http://www.immly.org/poll.htm
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore

Saturday, January 3 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 003
001 US: Comcast Censors Medical Marijuana Group
002 AK: Marijuana, Again?
003 Canada: Editorial: Up in Smoke?
004 MS: Hallucinogens Could Unlock Mystery Of The Brain
005 WI: New Look at Medical Pot
006 NV: Pot Shot - Ad Targets High Marijuana Use Among Nevada
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"Common Dreams" News & Views | 01.02.2004
commondreamsdaily_reply@...
http://www.commondreams.org
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2004 -- The Year of the Law and of Living Dangerously - by Michael C. Ruppert:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/123103_danger.html
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9/11 Prior Knowledge/Government Involvement Archive
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archiveprior_knowledge
Mariani vs. Bush - The 9/11 Lawsuit
http://www.septembereleventh.org/ellenmariani.php

War in Iraq cited as reason for '04 Bush defeat
http://www.injersey.com/news/backstories.pl?id=880752&paper=9
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In case You haven't heard:
Democratic Presidential nominee, Dennis Kucinich, put in writing that as
PRESIDENT He
WILL: "DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA" -"in favor of a drug policy that sets reasonable
boundaries for marijuana use by establishing guidelines similar to those already
in
place for alcohol."
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17917.shtml
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Dean supporters- status quo on mmj
http://www.granitestaters.com/guide/dean.html

Here's Howard Dean stating he would keep U.S. troops in Iraq FOR YEARS!!!!!!!
http://www.corvusworld.com/deanoccupation.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/deansellout.htm

"If I don't win the nomination, where do you think those million and a half
people,
half a million on the Internet, where do you think they're going to go?" he said
during
a meeting with reporters. "I don't know where they're going to go. They're
certainly
not going to vote for a conventional Washington politician."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2ED113F6

Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6
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Couldn't find a link for this report so I posted it at the cybrary...DdC
Talking Points for Democrats: 3 Jan 2004
Bush Crimes Against Humanity
From: "bc cb" uxor522@... / bobzimmerman@...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K58D263F6

The Bush-led Neocon (neoconservative) Agenda
http://www.newamericancentury.org

Bush is Waging War on America’s Children
http://www.everychildmatters.org

Bush is Waging War on the Environment
http://www.nrdc.org

Bush Seeks to Rescind the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
http://www.aclu.org

Bush Favors Political Fundraising Over Attending the Funerals of the
Soldiers who Gave Their Lives Fighting His Elective War in Iraq
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org

The American Challenge
http://www.atlasbooks.com/americanchallenge/excerpts.htm
Summary of The American Challenge
For lovers of peace, humanitarians, working people, retirees, and
environmentalists
nothing is more important for the future of the world than assuring the early
retirement of Bush and Cheney. Working together, we can mobilize the electorate
to end
the reign of neo-con plutocrats. The future is ours to create by... continued...
http://www.atlasbooks.com/americanchallenge/index.html
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Papa Bush - Crimes Against Humanity and the American People
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D15D253F6

Bush's Crimes Against Humanity (Part 1)
http://www.brainboxmag.com/essays/2003/crimes.htm

OPERATION BUSH FREEDOM
http://www.wildnesswithin.com/impeachim.html#anchor995504
Impeachment Resolution Against President George W. Bush
http://www.wildnesswithin.com/impeachim.html
Vote to Impeach
http://www.votetoimpeach.org

Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct,
warrants impeachment and trial,  and removal from office.

(In memory of Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez - R.I.P.
- and H. Res. 86, 102nd Cong., 1st Sess., Jan. 16, 1991.)

Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is author of
Foundations of
World Order, Duke University Press, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, and
Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, by Clarity Press. He can be
reached at:
FBOYLE@...
http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle01172003.html
CounterPunch - January 17, 2003

C R I M E S    A G A I N S T    H U M A N I T Y
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH

the Bush Crime Family
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/cahBCF.html

Truthout: Crime Against Humanity by John Pilger
http://truthout.org/docs_03/041403D.shtml

Google: Bush Crimes Against Humanity
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Supreme Farce
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Here's the audio to Willie and Dennis Live........
begins with Willie singin' "Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth?"
http://www.corvusworld.com/willie-dennis.htm

Willie/Kucinich Poster
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DEA Should Give Back Patient's Pot

Oh, it's good to be the king. You float high above the law and plunder your
subjects
with impunity.

Or so it seems in Routt County, where the local cops bring along a federal drug
agent
on their raids in hopes that his presence will immunize them from the sticky
strictures
of the Colorado Constitution. It's time someone told them they answer to state
law, not
the whims of a federal agent who happens to be hanging around.

Last October a drug "task force" of nine, count 'em nine, agents, acting on a
tip and
armed with a warrant, raided Don Nord's home in Hayden.

A major drug bust it was not. They came away with three marijuana plants, a
couple of
ounces of pot, some special lights and other growing equipment. They didn't
arrest him;
possession of that amount is a misdemeanor and they left behind a ticket.

They were not dissuaded in the least when Nord, who has suffered from cancer and
diabetes, showed them a certificate saying he's registered in the state's
medical
marijuana program, which was established by a vote of the people in November
2000.

The ticket commanded him to show up in Routt County court Nov. 4. But the
government
somehow lost its copy of the ticket and Judge James Garrecht dismissed the
charges. The
district attorney's office could have chosen to refile, but declined to do so.

Kristopher Hammond, Nord's lawyer, then asked the county to return the marijuana
and
the paraphernalia. After all, the medical marijuana amendment specifically says
that
goods seized "shall not be harmed, neglected, injured or destroyed" while in the
possession of law enforcement and must be returned immediately after acquittal,
dismissal of charges - or a decision not to prosecute.

The judge gave law enforcement 21 days to return the marijuana and equipment.
You might
call it a writ of habeas cannabis. Some of the equipment was returned but the
U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency - one of whose agents had been in on the raid - said the pot
had
been shipped to its lab in San Francisco and would not be returned.

"Federal law supersedes state law and the federal government does not recognize
the
medicinal use of marijuana," said DEA spokesman Bill Grant with that effortless
superiority the feds are so good at.

But Hammond complained that in fact there was nothing federal about the case.
The
warrant had been issued by a state judge. "The feds can't just steal the
marijuana and
therefore make it federal property," he said.

But they try, and they convince local law enforcement officials that even they
don't
have to obey Colorado law.

As Hammond puts it, "It's no secret that the federal government claims to be for
states
rights - until the states do things they don't like, such as enacting a medical
marijuana statute."

He's asking the judge to cite the DEA with contempt. We hope the judge does just
that.
If he doesn't, or if the DEA brushes off the citation as if it were a gnat,
perhaps
Hammond should try again in federal court.

Even if it isn't found in contempt, the DEA is clearly guilty of violating the
old mob
dictum: "Never steal anything small."

Editorial: DEA Should Give Back Patient's Pot
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18085.shtml
Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News (CO) January 04, 2004
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/

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Marijuana Fight Continues
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18070.shtml
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http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18061.shtml
National Issue Hits Home
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18052.shtml
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Denmark Enclave Tears Down Hashish Stands By Jan M. Olsen
Source: Associated Press January 04, 2004
Copenhagen, Denmark -- Residents and hashish dealers who have openly bought and
sold
illegal drugs in Copenhagen's famed hippie enclave Christiania for decades
demolished
their booths Sunday to avoid a crackdown they fear would lead to their eviction.
The
government wants to build upscale housing in the 84-acre area, a former naval
barracks
that is now a community of about 1,000 people. The government and Danes have
been
calling for a crackdown on the area's drug sales, which have long been tolerated
by
police.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18086.shtml

Hippies besieged: Prepare to make war - not love
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q42332AE6

Poster exhibits in tune with the turbulent, technicolor '60s
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01022004/friday/125490.asp
The Salt Lake Tribune By Christy Karras 03 Jan 2004

Los Angeles Center for the Study for Political Graphics.
Probably the largest collection of political posters
from early  in the Twentieth Century to today.
They mount exhibitions with various themes around the US regularly.
They are always looking for new posters to ad to their collection,
email: mailto:cspg@...  cspg@...
voice: 323-653-4662
web: http://www.politicalgraphics.org
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Forced Out of Canada? By Vin Suprynowicz
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal January 04, 200
Steve Kubby, 55, the 1998 Libertarian candidate for governor of California, was
a
leading force behind the passage of that year's referendum which legalized
medical
marijuana there.  But it was after voters approved Proposition 215 that
California
police broke into Kubby's Lake Tahoe home, busting him and his wife Michele for
growing
what they contended was "too much" marijuana.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18084.shtml
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He's a Weedman With a Mission By Monica Yant Kinney
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer January 04, 2004
Coming soon to a candidate's debate and courthouse near you: Ed Forchion, the
professional provocateur who just might be the most persistent pothead on the
planet.
Surely, you remember Forchion. He's the "N.J. Weedman."
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18083.shtml
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Year Ends with Weed, Whacko and Whacked By Alan Young
Source: Toronto Star January 03, 2004
Marijuana, Michael Jackson and murder made the headlines in the final days of
2003.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada ended the protracted cannabis debate in
our
courts by ruling that the crime of marijuana possession is constitutionally
sound.
Later that week, Michael Jackson made a pre-emptive strike by starting to call
his
defence to child molestation charges when he testified in the superior court of
television.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18082.shtml
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Lawsuit Allowed in Drug Raid Case
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18080.shtml
Marijuana Joins List of Banned Drugs in Sport
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18081.shtml
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Retraction: This is Ron's real name and new addy... sorry Ron and Opey.
From Ron Harold studioron@...
Here's the audio to Willie and Dennis Live........
begins with Willie singin' "Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth?"
http://www.corvusworld.com/willie-dennis.htm
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There's so many things going on in the world
Babies dying Mothers crying
How much oil is one human life worth
And what ever happened to peace on earth

We believe everything that they tell us
They're gonna' kill us
So we gotta' kill them first
But I remember a commandment
Thou shall not kill
How much is that soldier's life worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

(Bridge) And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

So I guess it's just
Do unto others before they do it to you
Let's just kill em' all and let God sort em' out
Is this what God wants us to do

(Repeat Bridge) And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

Now you probably won't hear this on your radio
Probably not on your local TV
But if there's a time, and if you're ever so inclined
You can always hear it from me
How much is one picker's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

But don't confuse caring for weakness
You can't put that label on me
The truth is my weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free

(Bridge) And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth? By WILLIE NELSON

Willie wrote this song on Christmas,
2003, and will perform it for the first time at the Kucinich for President
fundraising concert in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 3, 2004.
From: "tesla" tesla_42@... 30 Dec 2003
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Cleveland Truck Manufacturing Plant Workers Letter to Gov Dean.
http://www.Groups.Yahoo.com/Group/Deans_Labor_History
We have been consistently disappointed that the leadership of some of  our
nation's
largest unions has come to your side.  The leaders of AFSCME and SEIU have
turned their
backs on the rank and file members of their unions.  If we were the leaders of
these
unions, we would retract our endorsements and find a candidate who has a record
of
standing up for the rights of workers, and not someone who has put his thumb in
its
eye.

Special Kucinich Video For Kucitizens
http://www.corvusworld.com/williek.htm

Here's the audio to Willie and Dennis Live........
begins with Willie singin' "Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth?"
http://www.corvusworld.com/willie-dennis.htm

Willie/Kucinich
http://www.corvusworld.com/willieback.jpg
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Giant Floating Purple Pills By Mark Morford
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F275125F6
Are those creepy prescription-drug commercials on TV trying to kill you?
SF Gate 21 November, 2003

Purple Prozac Prescribed for PMS
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1D4545F6

Seeking Rest From the Terrors, New York Pops Pills By Jonathan Landreth
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B215125F6

Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Jack Herer
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/07/ECH07_00.HTM
Asthma, Glaucoma, Tumors, Nausea/Cancer Chemotherapy, Epilepsy, Multiple
Sclerosis,
Back Pain & Spasms, Antibiotics & Antibacterial CBDs, Herpes, Cystic Fibrosis,
Arthritis & Rheumatism, Expectorant, Sleep & Relaxation, Emphysema, Stress,
Migraines,
Appetite, Salivation, AIDS, Depression

Compassionate Cannabis & Cruel Cops
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/07/ECH07_18.HTM#cruel
War on Drugs
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/07/ECH07_20.HTM#war

SLEEP AND RELAXATION

Cannabis lowers blood pressure, dilates the arteries and reduces body
temperature an
average of one-half degree, thereby relieving stress. Evening cannabis smokers
in
general report more restful sleep. Using cannabis allows most people a more
complete
rest with a higher amount of "alpha time" during sleep as compared with
prescription or
sleep-inducing patent sedatives. Prescription sleeping pills (the so called
"legal,
safe and effective" drugs) are often just synthesized analogs of truly dangerous
plants
like mandrake, henbane and belladonna. As late as 1991, doctors, pharmacists and
drug
companies were fighting off new legislation to restrict these often abused
compounds.
(L.A. Times, April 2, 1991).

Unlike Valium, cannabis does not potentiate the effects of alcohol. It is
estimated
that cannabis could replace more than 50% of Valium, Librium, Thorazine,
Stelazine,
other "-zine" drugs and most sleeping pills. It is unconscionable that, over the
past
two decades, tens of thousands of parents have committed their own children,
aged 11 to
17, to be treated by massive doses of so-called "-zine" drugs in order to get
them off
pot, at the urging of parent groups, the PDFA, the feds and administrators and
doctors
from federally approved, private and high-profit drug rehabilitation centers.

The assassins of youth...DARE/PDFA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W68824DD5
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/36/36796.gif

Often, "-zine" drugs do work to stop these youths from using pot. They also stop
a kid
from loving his or her dog, too - and children stand a one-in-four chance of
suffering
from uncontrollable shaking for the rest of their lives.* But at least they're
not
high. * The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said that 20-40% of
"-zine"
drug users have or will develop permanent lifetime pasies (shakes), November
1983.
These prescription neurotoxins are chemically related to the pesticide and
warfare
nerve gas Sarin. Hundreds of private drug-rehabilitation centers and their
leaders keep
this policy alive and in front of the media, often quoting discredited reports
from
NIDA or DEA (see Chapter 16, debunking)

The Official Story Debunking “Gutter Science”
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_00.HTM

- because they earn fat profits selling their useless or destructive "marijuana
treatment" for children. After all, a relapse just means using marijuana against
after
a number of bouts with an "authority." This is mind control and an attempt to
destroy
individual free will.

Jeffrey's Journey
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J34112BB6

RX Marijuana Uses: PMS, Depression...
http://marijuana-uses.com

Testimony of Lester Grinspoon MD
http://www.rxmarihuana.com/testimony.htm
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
The PotHeads Will Survive
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D59145A85

White House To Ban Ephedra, Sources Say
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18066.shtml
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Top Bush Scandals of 2003
http://www.democrats.com/view2.cfm?id=18639

Reporting Civil Rights
http://www.reportingcivilrights.org

Book Review: Revolution in the Air
http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/elbaum.html

"I don't make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers
http://www.lakhota.com/spirit/path.cgi?f=walk

HARRY J. ANSLINGER
"The Father of the Drug War"
http://www.heartbone.com/no_thugs/hja.htm

Amnesty to be offered to treasonous drug  warriors
who pledge to stop violating Constututional law.
http://65.18.211.65/terror

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy

WAR IS A RACKET by Smedley Darlington Butler
http://veteransparty.us
http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/anti-govt/war-is-a-racket.htm

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With this conspiratorial look back at the most offbeat stories of the year,
we show that, in 2003, Nu-z had to go to extremes to get the news...

The Metro Santa Cruz is a "local weekly", free to locals...
and can be purchased for LTE's and the cartoons and article graphics, not
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The Great Marijuana Massacre (Jan. 8)

What should law enforcement officers do if they find a bunch of towering
marijuana
plants growing in your backyard?

(A) Destroy all the plants and arrest you on sight?

(B) Destroy only some of the plants, if you can prove that you really are a
medical
marijuana patient?

(C) Count and photograph the plants, take some samples, and ask you to show a
medical
marijuana recommendation, ASAP?

Sheriff's deputy Kim Allyn says C is the preferred option in liberal ol' Santa
Cruz
County.
(Let us not forget that it was machine-gun-toting feds, not the Sheriff's
Department,
that whacked WAMM's 167 plants back in September 2002.) http://www.wamm.org

So, why then did the Sheriff's Department chop 30 plants belonging to medical
marijuana
patients Wilfredo DeJesus and Kali mBula, only two weeks after the WAMM raid?

"Because they were in their house with an expired prescription, shitloads of
magic
mushrooms and a bunch of cash. What were we supposed to do?" says an exasperated
Allyn.
"If the pair had wanted to be diligent medical marijuana patients, they should
have
kicked out the people selling the mushrooms, not grown an army of plants, and
kept
their prescriptions up to date."

Readers may recall that DeJesus and mBula were found with lapsed medical
marijuana
recommendations, 12 pounds of psilocybin mushrooms and $12,000 cash in their
residence.
But another tenant ended up being booked for the 'shroom possession. And after
DeJesus
and mBula provided updated prescriptions and enlisted the help of attorney Ben
Rice, a
judge ordered their 10 pounds of pot returned, which it was by year's end, which
would
have been a nice belated Christmas present, had it not all been "a la moldy."

Wo/Men's Medical Marijuana Alliance co-founder Valerie Corral agrees that it
isn't a
good idea to cloud the issue with something like an expired prescription when
you're
growing marijuana.

"But that still doesn't take away your right to take your medicine," says
Corral,
adding that there are many reasons why a person's medical marijuana
recommendation
could have lapsed--including the fact that some doctors may charge $250 to
prescribe
the green stuff.

But while DeJesus, who has had several run-ins with the Sheriff's Department
before,
wishes the deputies had at least left him "seven plants like before," Rice, who
is on
WAMM's legal defense team, says the group fears a numbers system would be
inappropriate
and too conservative.

Some jurisdictions, including the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco,
have
already established guidelines as to how many plants a medical marijuana patient
can
grow, but, as Rice points out, legislating the number of plants doesn't address
how
much pot you will actually end up with.

"That's influenced by whether you grow in a container indoors, or outdoors and
in the
ground, and whether plants are in shade or in sunlight," says Rice, who
describes
DeJesus' and mBula's dopeless dilemma as "outrageous."

"Cutting down plants puts people who are ill in the position of having to buy
medicine
on the street, where they risk getting ripped off or buying stuff that's been
chemically messed with, via fertilizers and steroids. That's bad if you're
already
sick. The deputies should have simply counted the plants and let the DA's office
make
the call."

Meanwhile, deputy Allyn acknowledges that "with the DEA eliminating all of
WAMM's
resources, a lot of patients are giving their excess plants to the beleaguered
cooperative. But trying to regulate medical marijuana is like a can of oil--it's
hard
to maintain integrity."

"And don't go screaming at the sheriff's office because your marijuana's gone
soggy,"
says Allyn. "Are we in the business of managing a marijuana farm?"

Well, hopefully not, 'cause judging from that mold it would be the crappiest
marijuana
farm ever! However, as huge fans of Super Troopers, Nüz has to admit that would
be
pretty cool. (Meow.)

The Lazy Nüz Conspiracy (Jan. 8)
The Fake Tree Incident (Feb. 26)
The Curse of the 52 Pickup (March 19)
The Vanilla Sky Psych-Out (April 23)
The Planet X Hoax (May 14)
The Great Sex Doll Cover-Up (June 25)
The Summer Starbucks Sabotage (July 23)
The Smoking Bimbo Prophecy (Aug. 27)
The UCSC Professor Switcheroo (Oct. 8)

The Santa Cruz Conspiracy Bake-Off (Oct. 15)

Will challenging the Bush administration get you on a special list? That's the
question
people have been asking ever since the Patriot Act was rushed into law two years
ago,
bringing with it the paranoid suspicion that McCarthyism was really just Big
Brother
Lite by comparison.

But just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you, a
point that
was brought home to local residents last month when a couple of seemingly
suspicious,
but possibly random, events went down at Emily's, the bakery owned by Santa Cruz
Mayor
Emily Reilly.

As Reilly reports, her bakery was first robbed by parties unknown then surprised
with a
visit from the Food and Drug Administration, all within two weeks of her joining
five
other members of the City Council in voting to send a letter to the House
Judiciary
Committee demanding an inquiry into whether Bush committed any impeachable
offenses.

"We voted to send the letter Tuesday (Sept. 9), and the following Saturday night
my
computer and all the backup files were stolen--but not the monitor--and without
setting
off the motion detector," says Reilly, who happened to be at the bakery six days
later,
when it got an unannounced visit from an FDA inspector--the first in the 21
years
Reilly's been operating the bakery with the zebra logo on Mission Street.

"The guy was really nice. He wanted to know if I used artificial food coloring
and
whether I send a lot of stuff across state lines, but it was still intimidating
and
scary," says Reilly, who asked the FDA official if he had any other inspections,
since
the visit took less than an hour.

"When he said, 'No,' I said, 'Well, I guess you could go to the beach,'" recalls
Reilly, noting that the official gave no reason for the inspection. As for her
thoughts
on the matter, all Reilly is saying is "that it happened, and I don't know why,
but
quite possibly it was all just one big coincidence."

Asked if any other bakeries in town have been inspected recently, FDA public
affairs
specialist Mary Ellen Taylor said the agency "doesn't do too many bakeries, but
we
definitely do inspections in Santa Cruz area every year."

According to Taylor, inspections fall into three categories--random, complaints
and
assignments-- with the FDA looking for specific things, "such as food allergens
in
bakeries," when conducting inspections that fall into the "assignments"
category.

Asked if the inspection could have been connected to a recently announced
requirement
that all food products be registered with the FDA to guard against terrorism,
Taylor
said that provision does not become law until Dec. 12.

The Case of the Missing Energy Money (Nov. 12)
The Protocols of the Elders of Sausage (Nov. 19)

Metro Santa Cruz
http://www.metcruz.com
msc@...
For the Week of December 31, 2003-January 7, 2004
Cover Story: Nüz of the Weird by Nüz
Everything is Under Control
Looking back at a truly strange year in local news.
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/12.31.03/nuz-0401.html
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The second "local weekly" cover... by Kimberly Wild
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4676.jpg
Good Times January 1-7, 2004
http://www.gdtimes.com
Santa Cruz County's News and Entertainment Weekly

GT_2003 in review excerpted stories complete article @
http://www.gdtimes.com/Issue.2004-1-7/cover

The Scoop(excerpted)
Editor´s Note: It´s our year-end roundup. GT decided to take a look back at some
of the
stories that turned heads. 2004 will be anything but boring —Greg Archer

Beyond He & She
Transgender News Update (January 9)
Breaking Point (February 27)
Richard de la Paz
Confessions of a Modern-day Spinster (June 5)
A Lawsuit is Born (June 12)
Growing Dry (June 26)
Play it Again Spam (July 24)

Patriots in Action (Sept. 4)

The Scoop: In the summer of 2003 at Henfling´s, three friends sit and discuss
current
events over beers. The conversation turns toward the Patriot Act and the federal
government´s perceived assault on personal privacy and civil liberties. That
discussion
morphs into the Santa Cruz Bill of Rights Committee, a group of about 30 local
citizens
concerned about protecting civil rights. The group´s first action is to approach
the
Santa Cruz City Council with a request to pass an ordinance “outlawing” the
Patriot Act
locally. Using a similar law passed in Arcata as a model, the proposed ordinance
would
have directed the police and other city employees to uphold the U.S.
Constitution, even
if that meant not complying with the Patriot Act.

Things That Happened: The story leaves off with the group having collected 1,500
signatures in support of the proposal, and awaiting an appearance before the
council.
It never happens. Citing that the ordinance would violate the city´s charter,
councilmembers never let the proposal on the council´s agenda. The city´s
charter
forbids the Council to direct city staff—that´s the city manager´s job. Besides,
the
city already passed a resolution condemning the Patriot Act.

Action Plan: The committee isn´t finished. The group continues meeting weekly at
Charlie O´s Restaurant in Scotts Valley (Mondays at 6 p.m.). On Dec. 14, the
one-year
anniversary of the Patriot Act, the group holds a rally and concert in downtown
Santa
Cruz. Co-founder John Gibson says the group plans to approach the City Council
again.
Committee members, he says, are convinced that there´s a way to bar compliance
with the
Patriot Act without violating the city´s charter. If they still don´t get
anywhere with
the City Council, Gibson says, the group might consider launching a ballot
initiative.

Art Attack (October 9)

The Scoop: Santa Cruz officially becomes a modern artist colony with new
live-and-work
communities. It begins when local art titan Angelo Grova goes out on a creative
limb
and forks over some of his own hard-earned cash to build a swank
art/live-and-work
complex right off Highway 9, near MichaelAngelo Studio, the hip art collective
he
brought to life several years ago. Plans for the much-talked-about Salz Tannery
Arts
Project across the street gets under way. That plan is expected to include about
100
live-and-work units for artists and an additional 100 to 120 work studios. Plans
for a
theater performance space are also included. Buzz happens.

Got Color? When Features Writer Christa Martin last spoke with Grova, it was
right
before move-in day for the seven live-and-work artists in his new community.

What´s changed? Honestly, not much, except that the tenants are all doing just
what
they´re supposed to be doing: living and working.

In The ´Hood: A glassblower, a painter, a woodworker, two quilters and two
writers.

Parting Thoughts: “We had a nice party last week, everybody got together [and
talked
about the] artistic process,” Grova says. “They are very comfortable in the
environment
and they feel they can work without any interruption. … I think [the Salz
Tannery
project] will be a good merger, like having one gallery versus having five
galleries on
the same street. It becomes a stronger community of artists.”

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More Than They Deserve By Ed Bradley
Source: CBS News - 60 Minutes January 05, 2004
CBS -- The population in federal prisons has quadrupled from 43,000 inmates in
1987 to
173,000 today - at a cost to taxpayers of $4 billion a year.   How did that
happen? In
the wake of the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, Congress passed harsh sentencing
guidelines and mandatory-minimum sentencing laws - requiring federal judges in
most
cases to impose long jail terms on anyone convicted of drug trafficking, no
matter how
small their crime.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18091.shtml
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Denying College Aid Over Drugs Faces Fight By Bonnie Miller Rubin
Source: Chicago Tribune  January 05, 2004
Thousands of college-aid applicants have been denied federal money over the last
five
years because they were convicted of possessing or selling drugs--a policy
supporters
say serves as a deterrent to drug use and ensures that aid goes to those who
deserve
it.  But opponents are gearing up to jettison the provision when the Higher
Education
Act comes up for renewal this year, arguing that education should not be used as
a
weapon in the war on drugs. The policy disproportionately hurts lower-income
families
who are least able to afford college tuition, they say, while noting that
punishment
for such offenses is already meted out in court.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18090.shtml
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West Africa's Cash Crop By G. Pascal Zachary
Source: AlterNet January 05, 2004
What if a poor African country could grow a plant that would fetch healthy
prices in
the U.S? What if the plant could be grown on small farms, encouraging democracy
in this
poor African country by putting cash into the hands of its poorest and most
powerless
people? What if such a plant could reduce the poor African country's dependence
on the
U.S. for aid?  Of course, the U.S. would cheer such a plant and the country that
grows
it. And President George Bush would be especially glad, since improving living
standards in Africa is one of his key global objectives.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18089.shtml
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Editorial: Medical Pot: Detroit has Important Vote Ahead
Source: Detroit Free Press January 05, 2004
Detroit voters will enter the national debate over legalizing the medical use of
marijuana in August, when the issue will be on the city's primary ballot. The
idea of
permitting physicians to recommend the drug to relieve chronic pain, reduce
nausea,
restore appetite and treat multiple sclerosis and glaucoma makes sense.  Make no
mistake, marijuana is a drug that can have harmful side effects. But so do many
prescription drugs, including the painkillers Vicodin and OxyContin, to say
nothing of
legal drugs like alcohol and nicotine.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18088.shtml

Hashbash: John Sinclair Marijuana Revolution
http://www.luminist.org/Archives/marijuana.htm
Big Chief Productions
http://spyboy.org/home.html
John Sinclair Links
http://spyboy.org/links.html

30th Hash Bash To Fill Diag This Weekend
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9280.shtml
http://www.michigandaily.com/
Time is Now To Push for Pot Legalization
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9273.shtml
PRAyes
http://www.prayes.com
Ann Arbor Hashbash
http://www.hashbash.com
Cannabis News Service Ann Arbor Hash Bash
http://www.cannabisnewsservice.com/hashbash.html

Marijuana Ballot Proposal In The Works
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9106.shtml
Editorial Special Section: Free the Weed - PDF Format
http://www.michigandaily.com/edit/pdf/hashbash.pdf

It ain't fair, John Sinclair
In the stir for breathing air
Won't you care for John Sinclair?
In the stir for breathing air
Let him be, set him free
Let him be like you and me

They gave him ten for two
What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free

If he'd been a soldier man
Shooting gooks in Vietnam
If he was the CIA
Selling dope and making hay
He'd be free, they'd let him be
Breathing air, like you and me

They gave him ten for two
What else can the judges do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free

They gave him ten for two
They got Ali Otis too.
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free

  Was he jailed for what he done?
Or representing everyone
Free John now, if we can
From the clutches of the man
Let him be, lift the lid
Bring him to his wife and kids

They gave him ten for two
What else can the bastards do?
Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta,
gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta set him free

Ten for Two
John Lennon - John Sinclair

I Heard Lennon and Yoko sing this watching Grass,
the movie by Ron Mann. ¶8)
We need more music to free the weed!
DdC

Grass: Ron Mann Chronicles Pot Prohibition
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14795.shtml
Grass The Movie
http://www.grassthemovie.com/
The soundtrack
http://www.grasssoundtrack.com

Marijuana Revolution Sinclair
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/35/35602.gif
Cannabis Revolution DdC
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/35/35603.gif
ten for two
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Three Students Arrested For Pot Possession in Md By Hera A. Abbasi
Source: Harvard Crimson January 04, 2004
In an incident which sparked international media coverage, Albert Gore III and
two
other Harvard students were arrested over winter break for possession of
marijuana. On
Dec. 19, Gore, the son of former Vice President Al Gore, Yann V. Kumin and Marc
G.
Hordon were arrested in downtown Bethesda, Md.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18087.shtml

Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T525230E6
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Monday, January 5 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 005
001 Denmark: Wire: Denmark Enclave Tears Down Hashish Stands
002 MI: Editorial: Medical Pot: Detroit Has Important Vote Ahead on Issue
003 Trinidad: Buju's Troubles With 'Babylon' & Ganja
004 IL: Denying college aid over drugs faces fight
005 Re: Restore-Digest V2004 #4
006 Drug Truth Update 01/05/04

Sunday, January 4 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 004
001 Wis Rep Supports Medical Marijuana Bill
002 WI: Bill Would Ok Medical Pot Use
003 OR: Column: Chronic Pain - The Hidden Epidemic
004 CO: Editorial: DEA Should Give Back Patient's Pot
005 Las Vegas Review-Journal: Forced Out of Canada?
006 Dennis Kucinich on the Drug War
007 Dennis Kucinich on Medical Marijuana
008 Dennis Kucinich on Marijuana Decriminalization
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MPP issues final grades to presidential candidates
From: Rob@... Mon, 5 Jan 2004

Dear Friend:

The Marijuana Policy Project's campaign to influence the presidential candidates
in New
Hampshire was covered three days in a row last week by major news outlets.

On December 30, CNN's "Inside Politics" covered our campaign to pressure the
nine
Democratic candidates to adopt good medical marijuana positions. Then, on
December 31,
The Washington Post published an article that started with this:

KEENE, N.H. -- At a retirement home here on a recent Monday morning, a young man
asked
presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) about federal drug raids on
people
smoking marijuana for medical purposes.

Two hours later and 80 miles away on the campaign trail, another concerned
citizen
waited patiently to ask former Vermont governor Howard Dean that same question
at a
town meeting in Exeter.

That evening in Concord, the state capital, 10 protesters picketed the local
Comcast
cable television office because the company refused their ads outlining each
presidential candidate's position on marijuana issues.

An uninitiated observer could be forgiven for thinking a full- blown marijuana
movement
had sprung up in famously conservative New Hampshire. And that, said activist
Aaron
Houston of the Washington-based Marijuana Policy Project, was the point.
"Everyone is
paying attention now, and it gives us the opportunity to get our message out,"
he said.

As the Jan. 27 presidential primary here nears, Houston's crew has plenty of
company
along New Hampshire's other campaign trail. Capitalizing on media attention --
and the
unrivaled access to candidates the political culture here affords -- interest
groups
are waging a parallel drive to push their issues to the top of the national
political
agenda. (See http://www.mpp.org/states/site/quicknews.cgi?key=5881 for the full
article.)

And, on January 1, The Washington Post ran another story --
http://www.mpp.org/NH/news_5882.html -- this time on how the presidential
campaigns and
MPP are using auto-calls to educate New Hampshire voters on the candidates'
positions.
"At least one interest group campaigning in the state -- the Washington-based
Marijuana
Policy Project -- has also adopted the technique" of calling mass numbers of
voters,
the Post reported.

Media coverage isn't the goal, however. It is but one tool that MPP uses to
increase
its credibility with the presidential campaigns. And it is working.

A few weeks ago, MPP notified all nine campaigns that we would be assigning
final
grades to the nine Democratic candidates on January 1, saying that any candidate
who
did not pledge to end the DEA's raids on medical marijuana patients would
receive an
"F" -- the same grade as President Bush. As late as 8:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve,
we
were still negotiating with one of the campaigns to improve the position of
their
candidate.

Please visit http://www.GraniteStaters.com to view the candidates' final grades.
Between now and January 27 -- when New Hampshire will hold its
first-in-the-nation
presidential primary election

-- we will be using TV ads and mass literature drops to educate Democratic and
independent voters about the candidates' positions on medical marijuana.

When we launched this campaign in April 2003, we underestimated the amount of
attention
and credibility our campaign would be able to garner in just eight months.
Incredibly,
MPP has persuaded six of the nine candidates to adopt positive positions on
medical
marijuana, to varying degrees.

A+ - Dennis Kucinich: On May 29, Kucinich was quoted in the San Francisco
Chronicle as
supporting medical marijuana "without reservation" and indicated that as
president he
would be
willing to sign an executive order permitting its use.

A  - Carol Moseley Braun: When asked at a campaign stop in Durham on November 3
if she
would sign legislation allowing seriously ill people to use medical marijuana
with
their doctors' approval,
Moseley Braun responded, "Yes ... You don't have to record me, I'm already on
record on
this."

A- - John Kerry: During a town hall meeting in Henniker on Sept. 20, an MPP
staffer
asked Kerry, "Would you stop the raids, as president?" Kerry responded by saying
simply, "Yes."

B+ - Wesley Clark: During a November 13 town hall meeting in Portsmouth, a
volunteer
for MPP's campaign asked Clark if, as president, he would stop the DEA's raids
on
seriously ill medical marijuana patients in the nine states that have removed
the
threat of jail for medical marijuana patients. Clark replied, "In a simple
yes-or-no
answer: Yes."

B  - Al Sharpton: When an MPP volunteer asked Sharpton on December 9 if, as
president,
he would stop the DEA's raids on medical marijuana patients, he replied, "I
think that
medical marijuana patients should not be arrested for using medical marijuana. I
think
that's something that I wouldn't do."

D- - Howard Dean: At a town hall meeting in Hampton on November 13, an MPP
volunteer
asked Dean if he would promise to permanently stop raids on medical marijuana
patients
in the states that have reduced or eliminated criminal penalties for the
medicinal use
of marijuana. Dean responded, "I don't believe in what Ashcroft's doing about
medical
-- putting people in prison who
are, who have AIDS. Let me tell you what we have to do on medical marijuana. I
stopped
a medical marijuana bill in my legislature, and I'll tell you why. Because I'm a
doctor, I think substances taken into your body have to be treated the same if
they're
meant to be medicines, no matter what they are. And I don't like people -- for
the same
reason I'm pro-choice

-- I don't like people who are not in a position to make decisions about
people's
lives, like politicians particularly

... In the meantime, you know, I'm not in favor of legalizing marijuana -- I
mean,
maybe for medicinal use ... And so I'm not in favor of the kinds of raids that
John
Ashcroft is doing in
those states where people have decided that medical marijuana is okay. I don't
agree
with the way it came about from a political process, but I'm not in favor of
locking
people up for medical marijuana like John Ashcroft is doing." Dean has called
for a
one-year moratorium on the DEA's raids; the notion of restarting the raids after
one
year, in combination with his actions as governor, have earned him a D- grade.

F  - George Bush, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, and Joe Lieberman: We tried
our best,
but Edwards, Gephardt, and Lieberman simply would not pledge to end the DEA's
raids on
patients. Edwards is particularly hypocritical, given that he admitted to having
smoked
marijuana recreationally.

Yours truly,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. Please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate if you want to make a donation to
MPP's
work. Or you can send a check to MPP at P.O. Box 77492, Washington, D.C. 20013.
Thank
you ...

Wesly Clark - drugwar fascist?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F39D22AE6
Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6
Dean supporters- status quo on mmj
http://www.granitestaters.com/guide/dean.html
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Here's Howard Dean getting laughed off the stage 5 Jan 2004
http://www.corvusworld.com/unawaredean.htm
when he said: "I am gonna balance the budget,
and I'm gonna do it in my sixth or seventh year of my administration."
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RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie Says MoveOn.Org Should Apologize for Ads Comparing
Bush to
Hitler
http://www.rnc.org/moveon2.mov
http://www.rnc.org/images/MoveOnHitler.gif
http://www.rnc.org/moveon-h2.mov
http://www.rnc.org/images/MoveOnHitlerPartII.gif

RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie is calling for all Americans to join the Simon
Weisenthal
Center to fight MOVE-ON.ORG for having posted an anti-Bush commercial on their
website,
because it utilizes images of Hitler in the anti-Bush ad.

Gillespie appeared on CNN today BITCHIN' about this anti-Bush ad. When it was
pointed
out to him that the ad was part of a contest sponsored by Moveon.Org, and was up
on
their site for only two weeks, Gillespie couldn't respond well when asked why
did the
Republican Party put it on their own website for all to view?
http://www.rnc.org/moveonvideo.htm

MoveOn.org Should Apologize for Ads Comparing Bush to Hitler
Second Ad Posted on MoveOn.org Web site Also Compares Bush to Hitler
From: "Ron Harold" studioron@... Mon, 5 Jan 2004
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Bush Crimes Against Humanity
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K58D263F6
Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6
Agenda
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N16125CD6
AWOL Bush
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S14125CD6

Abbie List: Reefer Madness & Free Speech
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S258322E6
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REPUBLICAN-OPERATED CNN SUPPORTS AND DEFENDS HOWARD DEAN -
BADMOUTHS THE REMAINDER OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES

On CNN today, as usual lately, CNN is VERY, VERY BUSY defending Howard Dean
tooth and
nail; That's right, shameless George Bush supporters CNN anchor Judy Woodruff,
CNN
political analyst Bill Schneider, and CNN reporter Candy Crowley are shamelessly
defending Howard Dean, promoting howard Dean, speaking for Howard Dean, and
championing
Howard Dean over the other candidates, as if they were Democrats actually
supporting
Howard Dean.......this Republican CNN crew shamelessly supported Bush all during
Selection2000, AND attacked Al Gore INCESSANTLY all during
Selection2000........what
does their current support of Howard Dean tell you?

It tells you they believe Dean is the WEAKEST of all the Democratic candidates,
since
they would prefer to run against Dean than any of the other Democratic
candidates...r o
n
From: "Ron Harold" studioron@... 5 Jan 2004
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The Profits Journey
http://www.greatmystery.org
The Great Rethinking
We warmly invite you to join us in awakening the world to new ways of thinking
and
being.

Dr. Don Beck will be joining the exceptional faculty coming together in Palm
Springs,
California the weekend of March 12-14, 2004 for The Great Rethinking: The
Prophets Palm
Springs. Dr. Beck will be joining Ram Dass, Marianne Williamson, Larry Dossey,
M.D.,
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Andrew Harvey, Thom Hartmann, Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., Jan
Phillips, Howard Martin, Nicki Scully, Olga Kharitidi, M.D., Consuelo Luz, and
Cameron
Hough.
Information at: http://www.greatmystery.org/ps2004conference.html
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CHRONIC PAIN - THE HIDDEN EPIDEMIC by Rick Bayer, MD
Source: Alternatives (Salem, OR) Thu, 01 Jan 2004
Contact: editor@...
Website: http://www.alternativesmagazine.com

While the science of pain control has progressed,
the politics of pain control remains in the Dark Ages.

In 1998, the American Pain Society (www.ampainsoc.org) published Chronic Pain In
America: Roadblocks To Relief. They report that 9% of American adults (25
million)
suffer from moderate to severe pain, 2/3 of whom have had pain over 5 years.
Continued...  http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/28/bayer.html
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Dr. Nickles and Mr. Hyde Feel Your Pain By Janet Brazill
September 15, 1999

Our valued American principle, "freedom of religion," can have no meaning unless
it
includes freedom from other people's religions.

Few would disagree with this. Most of us treasure our individuality and our
freedom to
decide just what to believe. This, after all, is the American way. It started
with our
founding fathers who saw the trouble European nations experienced from church
interference with the state, and opted for a strictly secular government in this
country. By maintaining strict neutrality toward religion, this new government
could
assure freedom of religion to all. Americans would be free to believe or not
believe,
as they chose.

Unfortunately, some of our current legislators violate this principle and use
their
governmental powers to impose their personal beliefs on others.

The "Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 (PRPA)" is a case in point. This bill,
sponsored
by Senator Don Nickles and Representative Henry Hyde, both Catholics, would
amend the
Controlled Substances Act to make it illegal to use scheduled drugs to assist in
hastening a death. Anyone "intentionally dispensing, distributing, or
administering a
controlled sub-stance for the purpose of causing death or assisting another
person in
causing death" would be subject to federal prosecution and a prison term from 20
years
to life. Continued... 
http://www.infidels.org/secular_web/feature/1999/pain.html

"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998

Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E59052E36

Conservative Addiction Good! Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R14513E36

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A safe, free and just America is undermined, not bolstered, by the costly and
ineffective War on Drugs. While well-intentioned, this misguided policy ---
which
emphasizes criminalization over treatment -- has led to increased violent crime,
misdirected resources of law enforcement and restricted Constitutional
liberties.

Despite billions spent yearly on the drug war, addiction is up. Our country must
rethink a policy that produces many casualties, but benefits only the
prison-industrial
complex. Non-violent drug offenders often receive Draconian sentences, tearing
apart
families.

Racial bias in the enforcement of drug laws is pervasive. According to a Human
Rights
Watch report based on FBI statistics, blacks were arrested on drug charges at
nearly
five times the rate of whites. Drug use is consistent across racial and
socioeconomic
lines -- yet in the state of New York, for example, 94 percent of incarcerated
drug
offenders are Latino or African-American, mostly from poor communities.

Countries in Europe and elsewhere are turning away from failed policies. They
are
treating addiction as a medical problem and are seeing significant reductions in
crime
and violence -- with fewer young people becoming involved with addictive drugs
in the
first place. In our country, due to misplaced priorities and resources, only one
bed
exists for every ten people who apply for drug treatment. Addiction is a medical
and
moral problem that should be treated by professionals, not dumped on the
criminal
justice system.

Most Americans believe that medical marijuana should be available to help
relieve the
suffering of seriously ill patients, and eight states have passed laws to allow
it. But
the Bush administration has harassed medical marijuana patients in an effort to
assert
federal authority. This is another aspect of the drug war that should be ended.
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/drugwar.php

From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@... 04 Jan 2004
*********************
Dennis Kucinich supports legalizing the medical use of marijuana. Granite 
Staters for
Medical Marijuana has graded the candidates' positions and  given only Kucinich
an A+.
Read more here:
http://www.granitestaters.com/guide/kucinich.html

The overwhelming majority of Americans support legalizing medical marijuana.
Alaska,
Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, and Oregon have
adopted
measures to allow patients access to this beneficial drug, which has been found
to
provide broad-spectrum relief from a variety of ailments. Patients suffering
from
cancer have discovered that marijuana reduces pain without the myriad
side-effects
associated with many conventional painkillers. AIDS sufferers report that
marijuana
effectively counteracts the appetite loss and nausea associated with HIV drugs.
In
addition, marijuana has shown promise as a treatment for glaucoma, epilepsy,
multiple
sclerosis, and post-polio syndrome. Containing over 400 different molecular
compounds,
the marijuana plant may have other beneficial uses waiting to be discovered by
researchers.

Unfortunately, the current administration has chosen to ignore the vast
potential of
medical marijuana in favor of intensifying the destructive "war on drugs." Most
medical
marijuana clinics are non-profit collectives treating terminally ill patients.
Currently, the DEA raids marijuana clinics, destroying property and arresting
patients.
These actions are an extension of a punishment-based approach to drug policy
that
favors large-scale incarcerations. Our nation already keeps nearly half a
million drug
offenders behind bars. At a time when the federal government should be focused
on the
threat of terrorism, it makes no sense to waste manpower and resources arresting
and
jailing doctors and their patients for practicing a proven alternative medicine.

A Kucinich administration will formulate drug policy based on a rational
examination of
scientific evidence. Two main goals of a compassionate health care system are
the
treatment of disease and the alleviation of patient suffering. A growing body of
evidence suggests that marijuana has vast potential in both of these areas.
Therefore,
the current policy of categorically rejecting marijuana as a legitimate medical
treatment directly opposes these goals. As president, Dennis Kucinich will issue
an
executive order allowing marijuana for medical purposes, effectively ending DEA
raids
on medical marijuana patients and their providers. Disease sufferers should not
have to
turn to dangerous black markets to obtain this beneficial drug. Instead, doctors
should
be free to prescribe marijuana and marijuana-based medicines to their patients
as
needed to treat illness and manage pain. This will be an important step toward
joining
our friends in the UK, Spain, Germany, and Portugal in moving away from
criminally-enforced prohibitions that divert resources from domestic projects
and
distract law enforcement officials from critical national security issues.
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/medicalmarijuana.php

From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@... 04 Jan 2004
via  "Roger Dodger" proteus@...
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Dennis Kucinich on Marijuana Decriminalization

With the enactment of the Volstead Act in 1919, America embarked on asocial
experiment
known as Prohibition. Prohibitionists rejected the ideathat people could be
trusted to
drink in moderation, arguing that alcoholuse inevitably led to moral corruption
and
undesirable behavior. Accepting these premises led Congress to conclude that a
federal
ban on the production and sale of alcohol would go a long way toward reducing
crime,
and addressing a variety of other social problems. Within a decade, however,
Americans
discovered that the criminally-enforced prohibition of alcohol produced harmful
side
effects. The rise of black markets empowered organized crime to an unprecedented
degree. In some of America's largest cities, local governments had been heavily
corrupted by the influence of organized crime. The black market provided minors
with
easy access to bootlegged alcohol, which was frequently of poor quality and
unsafe to
drink. Faced with the disastrous consequences of Prohibition, Congress decided
in 1933
to repeal the Volstead Act. Since that time, the government has implemented the
much
more successful policy of focusing law-enforcement efforts on irresponsible
alcohol
users who endanger the rights of others.

Unfortunately, current drug policy fails to take into account the lessons of
Prohibition. The law regards all users as abusers, and the result has been the
creation
of an unnecessary class of lawbreakers. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime
Report,
more than 734,000 individuals were arrested on marijuana charges in 2000. This
number
far exceeds the total number of arrestees for all violent crimes combined,
including
murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Eighty-eight percent of those
arrested
were charged with possession only. Convicted marijuana offenders are denied
federal
financial student aid, welfare, and food stamps, and may be removed from public
housing. In many cases, those convicted are automatically stripped of their
driving
privileges, even if the offense is not driving related. In several states,
marijuana
offenders may receive maximum sentences of life in prison. The cost to the
taxpayer of
enforcing marijuana prohibition is staggering97over $10 billion annually.

The harsh nature of punishments for marijuana offenses is even more disturbing
if one
considers the racial bias of the war on drugs. According to data collected by
the
National Household Survey, on an annual basis the overall difference between
drug use
by blacks and whites is quite narrow. However, a recent national study found
that
African-Americans are arrested for marijuana offenses at higher rates than
whites in
90% of 700 U.S. counties investigated. In 64% of these counties, the
African-American
arrest rate for marijuana violations was more than twice the arrest rate for
whites.
Questions of racial bias affect the integrity of investigations, arrests, and
prosecutorial discretion. If we truly aspire to the ideal of "Justice for All,"
then
these unjust racial disparities are unacceptable outcomes for the American
justice
system.

The rationale for continuing this draconian policy of marijuana prohibition is
unclear.
Statistical evidence shows that marijuana use follows a pattern very similar to
that of
alcohol. Most marijuana users do so responsibly, in a safe, recreational
context. These
people lead normal, productive lives, pursuing careers, raising families, and
participating in civic life.

In addition, marijuana has proven benefits in the treatment of numerous
diseases, such
as providing a valuable means of pain management for terminally ill patients. In
either
of these contexts, there is no rational justification for criminally enforced
prohibitions. These unnecessary arrests and incarcerations serve only to crowd
prisons,
backlog the judicial system, and distract law enforcement officials from
pursuing
terrorists and other violent criminals.

New Mexico's 2001 state-commissioned Drug Policy Advisory Group determined that
marijuana decriminalization "will result in greater availability of resources to
respond to more serious crimes without any increased risks to public safety."
This
finding is backed by the successful implementation of such policies in twelve
states.
The state governments of Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota,
Mississippi,
Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Oregon approved these
measures
after the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended that
Congress
adopt a national policy of marijuana decriminalization. A recent CNN/Time
magazine poll
indicates overwhelming public support for this approach, with 72% of Americans
favoring
fines as a maximum penalty for minor marijuana offenses, and 80% approving of
marijuana
used for medical purposes.

A Kucinich administration would work to implement a drug policy that removes
responsible recreational users and medical users of marijuana from the criminal
justice
system, in order to redirect resources toward the following goals:

Enforce penalties for those who provide marijuana to minors.

Enforce penalties for those who endanger the rights of others through
irresponsible
use,
such as driving under the influence.

Develop drug treatment programs focused on rehabilitation, rather than
incarceration.

Support the efforts of state governments in developing innovative approaches to
drug
policy.

Improve drug education by emphasizing science over scare tactics.

Implement a Department of Justice program that would review the records of, and
consider for sentence reduction or release, inmates convicted for non-violent
marijuana
offenses.
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php

From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@... 04 Jan 2004
via "Roger Dodger" proteus@...
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Courageous People of 2003
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3245.html

Democratic Presidential nominee, Dennis Kucinich, put in writing that as
PRESIDENT He
WILL: "DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA" -"in favor of a drug policy that sets reasonable
boundaries for marijuana use by establishing guidelines similar to those already
in
place for alcohol."
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php

Candidate Says Law Should Treat Pot Like Alcohol
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17917.shtml

Various Kucinich Bumper stickers
http://www.dems.us/kucinich/index.htm
In 2004 Vote Kucinich Bumper Sticker
http://www.cafeshops.com/irregulargoods.5899418
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From Ron Harold studioron@...
Here's the audio to Willie and Dennis Live........
begins with Willie singin' "Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth?"
http://www.corvusworld.com/willie-dennis.htm
http://www.kucinich.net/nelson_poe_song.php

Special Kucinich Video For Kucitizens
http://www.corvusworld.com/williek.htm

Willie/Kucinich
http://www.corvusworld.com/willieback.jpg
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Kucinich Platform on the Drugwar
A safe, free and just America is undermined, not bolstered, by the costly and
ineffective War on Drugs. While well-intentioned, this misguided policy -- which
emphasizes criminalization over treatment -- has led to increased violent crime,
misdirected resources of law enforcement and restricted Constitutional
liberties.
Continued...
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/drugwar.php

Kucinich Platform on Marijuana Decriminalization
With the enactment of the Volstead Act in 1919, America embarked on a social
experiment
known as Prohibition. Prohibitionists rejected the idea that people could be
trusted to
drink in moderation, arguing that alcohol use inevitably led to moral corruption
and
undesirable behavior. Accepting these premises led Congress to conclude that a
federal
ban on the production and sale of alcohol would go a long way toward reducing
crime,
and addressing a variety of other social problems. Within a decade, however,
Americans
discovered that the criminally-enforced prohibition of alcohol produced harmful
side
effects. The rise of black markets empowered organized crime to an unprecedented
degree. In some of America’s largest cities, local governments had been heavily
corrupted by the influence of organized crime. The black market provided minors
with
easy access to bootlegged alcohol, which was frequently of poor quality and
unsafe to
drink. Faced with the disastrous consequences of Prohibition, Congress decided
in 1933
to repeal the Volstead Act. Since that time, the government has implemented the
much
more successful policy of focusing law-enforcement efforts on irresponsible
alcohol
users who endanger the rights of others.  Continued...
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php

Kucinich for President, Inc
http://www.kucinich.net
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Wesly Clark - drugwar fascist?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F39D22AE6
Howard Dean Speaks to MMJ
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N25E12DC6
Dean supporters- status quo on mmj
http://www.granitestaters.com/guide/dean.html
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Here's Dennis's position on the patriot act:  Just 45 days after the September
11,
2001, attacks, President Bush rammed the "PATRIOT Act" through Congress with
virtually
no debate. This law poses an unprecedented threat to Americans' individual
freedoms and
is a violation of our civil liberties. Many provisions of the act had been long
sought
after by law enforcement and repeatedly rejected by Congress in the past.

Without a warrant or probable cause, the FBI can now search your private medical
records or access your library records. Your doctor or local library is
forbidden from
notifying you when these searches take place. The government may search your
home while
you are away and in some cases even confiscate your property. Judicial oversight
of
these measures is virtually nonexistent. These are only a few of the PATRIOT
Act's
provisions that compromise our civil liberties.

Dennis Kucinich believes the only way to stop these unconstitutional
infringements on
basic American freedoms is to revoke the exorbitant powers the PATRIOT Act has
granted
the government. He is the only presidential candidate who voted against the
PATRIOT
Act. As president, one of his first moves will be to repeal it.

Kucinich, along with 20 other members of Congress, has introduced the Benjamin
Franklin
True Patriot Act, which would repeal several major sections of the law. It would
eliminate the PATRIOT Act's subjective search-and-seizure provision, unwarranted
incarcerations, and the authority of federal officials to search our private
records
without probable cause. The act would restore the fundamental right of
attorney-client
privilege, revoke various Department of Justice secrecy orders, and repeal
provisions
harmful to the rights of immigrants. In addition, it would restore transparency
to
Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security administrative
procedures by
revoking Freedom of Information Act secrecy orders.

Benjamin Franklin said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase
a
little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." In eroding our
civil
liberties, President Bush has taken our freedom while making us no safer, no
better
protected against terrorism. The "PATRIOT Act" is not what American patriots
fought and
died for. As Americans, we cannot allow fear and scare-mongering to lead us to a
place
where we abandon our most precious traditions.
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Kucinich: No Expansion of "PATRIOT" Act
http://www.kucinich.us/statements.htm#122903

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S258322E6
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4535.jpg
Agenda
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N16125CD6
AWOL Bush
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S14125CD6

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6
Bushit: Timeline of Treason
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2C0261B6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6

Bush Crimes Against Humanity
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K58D263F6
Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6
Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Bulletin on Narcotics 1960 Issue 3 - 002 (With Footnotes)
Cannabis as a medicament (Excerpted)
http://www.unodc.org/bulletin/bulletin_1960-01-01_3_page003.html

Within the scope of a systematic study of antibacterially effective substances
present
in the flora growing in the temperate climate of Czechoslovakia, we have
undertaken to
investigate more than 3,000 different plant species. In this way we came upon
the
Indian hemp plant - Cannabis sativa var. indica - which has been investigated in
detail. The subsequent finding of the antibacterial effect of the extract from
Cannabis
indica - direct evidence was provided some years ago at our Institute of Hygiene
-
stimulated much interest in cannabis from the medical point of view, and
resulted in
numerous reports published from different institutes and departments. 
Independently
from us the antibacterial effect of the extracts from Cannabis sativa was
described and
studied some years later, particularly by Ferenczy and Drobotko. The interest of
our
clinicians was aroused in this respect by the very good results achieved with
the
antibacterially effective substances from various plants referred to in the
literature.


The preliminary results obtained were published in 1952 in L?karsk? listy[47]
and in a
compilation of communications submitted at the scientific conference held by the
university in Olomouc in 1955. A survey of our work was published in the
journal, Die
Pharmazie, 1957-1959

Our paper is divided into the following sections:

1.Treatment with cannabis in ancient, folk and official medicine up to the
beginning of
the twentieth century.

2.A brief survey of the methods of isolation and the physical and chemical
properties
and structures of the isolated antibacterial substances.

3.Methods and results of the bacteriological experiments.

4.Survey of clinical experiences.

Continued...  http://www.unodc.org/bulletin/bulletin_1960-01-01_3_page003.html

Webster's Dictionary 1952
Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp]
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and
intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also
employed
in medicine, for its anodyne, hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also
spelled
bang, beng.

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979

No Medical Value?
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Cannabis sativa var. indica
http://www.unodc.org/images/bulletin/bulletin_1960-01-01_3_page003_img001_small.\
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The abuse of paregoric in Detroit, Michigan (1956-1965)
http://www.unodc.org/bulletin/bulletin_1966-01-01_3_page004.html
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The Eradication of Cannabis sativa L. with Herbicides
in the Hunter River Valley, N.S.W., Australia
http://www.unodc.org/bulletin/bulletin_1973-01-01_3_page006.html

EU Scientists Legalize Controversial Herbicide Paraquat
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K17652026
Genetic fungus
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H42C25B45
Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=669
Official Corruption: Carlton Turner
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_18.HTM#Turner
Phony Paraquat Kits
Poisoning Pot Smokers
Urine Testing Company
Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be
permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine
purity
policy in place to show their loyalty.  Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into
high-tech
corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what
has now
become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.
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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land,
neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
(Ezekiel 34:29)
**************CANNABIS NEWS**************
Hashish & the War on Terror By Ron Jacobs
Source: Counter Punch January 06, 2004
In the late 1970s, I used to visit with a Lebanese fellow who lived next door to
my
friends in Anaheim, California. This man had been a member of the rightwing
Phalangist
militia and had escaped the guns of other Lebanese militias with the help of the
Israelis.  Usually our conversations revolved around safe topics like his
children, his
wife, and his growing interest in baseball, but on those occasions when he
joined my
friends and I in draining a fifth or two of bourbon, darker stories would emerge
from
the recesses of his memory.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18098.shtml

Fight Terrorism Grow Your Own
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Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige
of
civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All
that
matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international
cause
that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban
rulers of
Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the
world
today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in
addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and
rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will
of
God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's
the ban
on drugs that catches this administration's attention.  Continued...
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

Taliban ask Bush to block sanctions
http://www.dawn.com/2000/12/15/top4.htm
KABUL, Dec 14: The Taliban on Thursday wished a "big congratulation" to George
Bush
for winning the US presidency and urged him to block fresh UN sanctions against
them.

Terrorism Link in Drug Ads Whips Up Backlash
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12117.shtml
Drug War' Opponents Blast White House Policy
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12100.shtml
Drug Czar Accused of Supporting Terror
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12099.shtml
walters terrorist
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Denmark Enclave Tears Down Hashish Stands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3585453,00.html
Danes Tear Down Illegal Hashish Stands
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040104_1258.html
Napal Hashish
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/31/31918.jpg
Eden Hashish
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/33/33272.jpg

The Hashish Club
The name given to a the group of French writers and artists who first banded
together
in the years just before the Second Republic to experiment with, and record
their
experiences, of hashish ....... All were united in a search for new forms of
expresssion and enlightenment ....... the assembled writers (and painters)
comparing
their symptons under hashish or opium, and speculating on how their imagination
and the
writer's art might be stimulated or betrayed by drugs". Continued...
http://www.algroup.co.uk/wpb/hashish.htm

American High Society Linx
Did the Founding Fathers of the United States of America smoke cannabis?
Some researchers think so. Dr. Burke, president of the American Historical
Reference
Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early
presidents
as cannabis smokers. Continued...  http://makeashorterlink.com/?T28152A85
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McCrackin Steps Down as Stratford Principal By Seanna Adcox
Source: Post and Courier January 06, 2004
Mounting pressure over a controversial drug raid has prompted the principal at
Stratford High School to voluntarily step down after 20 years. "I realize it is
in the
best interest of Stratford High School and of my students for me to make a
change,"
George McCrackin said in a prepared statement released Monday by Superintendent
Chester
Floyd. Floyd appointed Mildred Brevard, a former assistant principal at the
Berkeley
County school, to serve as interim principal for the rest of the school year.
The
search for a permanent replacement will begin in the spring.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18097.shtml

Goose Creek Principal Leaving Post
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18096.shtml
Principal Resigns Over School Drug Raid By The Associated Press
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18093.shtml
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Breaking News: Montel Williams Goes To Pot
Source: Herald Sun January 06, 2004
On November 3, Montel Williams was briefly detained at Detroit Metro Airport,
where
baggage screeners found a glass pipe and residue of a marijuana by-product in
his bags.
That's when the talk show host, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was outed
as a
user of the herb for medicinal purposes. In his first interview after the
airport
discovery, Williams makes no apologies. In fact, he devotes several chapters to
the
case for medical marijuana in his new autobiography, "Climbing Higher," in
bookstores
today. He clears the air to TV Guide Online.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18095.shtml

Montel Williams Show: Feedback form
http://www.montelshow.com/show/tell.htm
Montel Williams Caught with Medical Marijuana
http://www.marijuana.com/article.php?sid=7760
Talk Show Host Fined For Drug Paraphernalia
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17732.shtml

References on Multiple Sclerosis and Marijuana
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/medical/ms_mj_ref.htm
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Seattle Approaches Sensible Drug Policy By Kathleen Taylor, ACLU Director
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18094.shtml

The Seattle Hempfest turned twelve last year. In its short history, Hempfest has
become
the planet's largest marijuana policy reform rally. Drawing a record-breaking
crowd in
2002 of over 175,000, people from every walk of life participate in the free
celebration of pot pride!
http://www.hempfest.org
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Dope’s New Hope By Brian Seals
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel January 05, 2004
Santa Cruz — On a wall in the back room of her Westside office, Valerie Corral
points
to pictures of her deceased friends. "She died just a few months after the
raid,"
Valerie says, pointing to a photo on the wall of a woman smoking from a glass
pipe. The
raid that Valerie refers to, conducted by the Drug Enforcement Agency in
September of
2002, shut down the marijuana farm that she and her husband Mike had operated in
Davenport.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18092.shtml

Santa Cruz, Cannafornia ... My Kynd Of Town... DdC
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Jan 23 04 KION Radio 04:00 PM
Monterey California USA
LEAP Speaker Judge Jim Gray will discuss issues related to drug prohibition
at 4 pm on KION Radio, 1460 AM, Monterey.

Jan 24 04 WAMM Conference 11:00 AM
Santa Cruz California USA
LEAP Speaker Judge Jim Gray will hold a conference with WAMM
(Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana) leader Valerie Corral
at 815 Almar, #2, Santa Cruz, California.
Visit the WAMM web site at http://www.wamm.org

Jan 25 04 Sonoma Libertarians 06:30 PM
Santa Rosa California USA
LEAP Speaker Judge Jim Gray will present to the Sonoma Libertarians
at Finley Community Center located at 2060 W. College Ave., Santa Rosa,
California

Jan 29 04 Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals 12:00 PM
Los Angeles California USA
LEAP Speaker Judge Jim Gray will be meeting at noon with the Coalition of
Concerned
Legal Professionals at the Main Los Angeles Public Library on Hope Street.

Jan 30 04 Temple Isaiah 08:00 PM
Newport Beach California USA
LEAP Speaker Judge Jim Gray will discuss the issue of drug prohibition at the
Temple of Isaiah of Newport Beach, 2401 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach, California.
From: ekim on January 05, 2004
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U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana
laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in
2001.
Keith Stroup,  (NORML) http://www.norml.org
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The War On Terrorism Is Both

On 911, the American public became quite terrified by an act of terror in our
homeland.

And so we declared a “War On Terror.”

War? Usually a war is declared against something you can find on a map. America
has a
real problem in this regard. We didn’t declare war on something as solid as a
nation
state. Instead, we declared war on terror itself.

So what is terror? Well, it’s a feeling. Like pornography, you know it when you
feel
it.

And what happens when you declare war on a feeling? What does that give you
license to
attack?

The answer is, anything you want to.
The War On Terrorism Is Both By Peter Moore ... Continued
http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/index.html
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In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org
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HEMPhasis Magazine Introductory Statement
From:  Bob Newland newland@...
Date:  Sun Jan 4, 2004

The following editorial is the introductory statement which will appear in Vol.
1,
Number 1, of HEMPhasis magazine. The magazine's premier issue is set to roll off
the
press Feb. 1, 2004.

Posted by Bob Newland
http://www.HEMPhasis.net
http://www.SoDakNORML.org

While it's obviously addressed to readers of HEMPhasis magazine, I thought some
of you
might like to read it here and now. If you want to acquire a copy of HEMPhasis
magazine's first edition, see...
http://www.hemphasis.net/sitemap.htm

You can view this editorial piece in more accurate format
(with bold, italic, different-sized fonts) at...

Crazy? Malicious? Merely stupid? by Bob Newland Publisher; HEMPhasis
An observation on the present state of affairs.
http://www.hemphasis.net/0101.htm#opening
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Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
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"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist
regimes
into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy
the seat
of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S.
Ambassador to
Germany, 1937.
Continued... http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
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Alternatives Magazine
http://www.alternativesmagazine.com
. . . subverting the dominant paradigm one relationship at a time.

Search the Alternatives site.
Place " " around your search request to further refine your query.
Ex: "Garlic and Marijuana"

Atomz Search/Drug War
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Atomz Search/"Marijuana"
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Atomz Search/Hemp
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign
ideas,
alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let
its
people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is
afraid of
its people.
-- President John F. Kennedy
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MPP issues final grades to presidential candidates
http://www.GraniteStaters.com

A+ - Dennis Kucinich
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17917.shtml
A  - Carol Moseley Braun
A- - John Kerry
B+ - Wesley Clark
B  - Al Sharpton
D- - Howard Dean
F  - George Bush, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, and Joe Lieberman

Protest Songs
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  Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power.  Mussolini
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html
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God is not a right-wing zealot By Leslie R. Guttman

The Rev. Albert Pennybacker is a Bible Belt preacher with a drawl who's urging
people
to support   "basic religious values." But he's no Jerry Falwell clone. In the
heart of
the Bluegrass, a Bible Belt preacher is rallying people to political action
around
what he calls "basic religious values." Think you can describe his politics?
Think
again. This man of the cloth wants "regime change" in Washington. Continued...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/24/pastor/index.html

photo link http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/24/pastor/story.jpg
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"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes,
Hispanics,
Philipino's and Entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from
marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with
Negroes,
entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics
testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed August 2 1937; effective Oct.1, 1937)

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic
"plastic fibers" from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation.
http://www.electricemperor.com

From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?

Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business
community
and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists,
including the
likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals,
and
strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort,
sharing
military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi
government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and
early
1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday
Evening Post,
New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini
as the
man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism. Continued...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Parenti/BlackshirtsReds_Parenti.html

Waldo's Insolence
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Racist Ganjawar
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Primary Reasons
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PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
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Kinks' Ray Davies Shot in Robbery Attempt By KEVIN McGILL
Singer Shot in Leg While Chasing Mugger
Updated: 01-05-04 03:27 PM EST AP file

Davies' classic songs include 'Lola' and 'You Really Got Me'

NEW ORLEANS (Jan. 5) - Singer-songwriter Ray Davies of the celebrated British
rock band
the Kinks was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who snatched a purse from a
woman
he was with, police said Monday. He was not seriously injured.

Police said Davies, 59, and the woman were walking near the edge of the French
Quarter
when the shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Davies was treated and
released at
a hospital, said Capt. Marlon Defillo, a police spokesman.

One suspect was captured within hours and another person was being sought. The
woman
was not hurt.

Deke Arlon, Davies' manager in London, said: ''He should be up and about in a
day or
so. The message that came back to me was that he is in good spirits.'' Neither
he nor
police would say who the woman was with Davies.

Talk About It · Post Messages ...

The shooting happened blocks away from Bourbon Street, which was awash with
people in
town for Sunday night's Sugar Bowl, the Bowl Championship Series game between
LSU and
Oklahoma. Police were stationed on every corner of the area and were able to
respond
quickly to the shooting, Defillo said.

The Kinks, part of the 1960s British invasion, had a string of hits including
''You
Really Got Me,'' ''Sunny Afternoon,'' ''All Day and All of the Night'' and
''Lola.''
Davies founded the band, known for its hard-edged, guitar-driven sound and witty
lyrics, with his brother Dave.

Last week, Davies received royal honors in London. Along with singer-guitarist
Eric
Clapton, he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at a
ceremony on
New Year's Eve.

Arlon said Davies was spending time in New Orleans as part of a seasonal break.
The
manager declined to name the hospital where the star was treated.

The shooting site is a largely residential area on the border of the French
Quarter and
the Faubourg Marigny area.

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Weed Watch: Democrats on Drugs - Part II By Jordon Smith
On Jan. 6, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Marijuana Policy Project issued
its
final report cards for each of the major presidential candidates, grading them
based on
their support for medical marijuana. In just eight months of campaigning and
lobbying
the candidates, the MPP reports success in persuading six of the nine major
candidates
to adopt various positive positions on medical marijuana. Topping the list is
Ohio Rep.
Dennis Kucinich, who earned an A+.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18106.shtml

Related News Brief from The Austin Chronicle
Local drug reformers this week announced the formation of Texans for Medical
Marijuana,
whose goal is to have the Texas Legislature pass a medical marijuana bill to
guarantee
that seriously ill patients have safe and legal access to the drug. The group is
targeting Houston and Dallas districts, but needs volunteers across the state.
For more
info, contact Karen Heikkala, TMM's public relations director, at
kheikkala@...,
or by mail to TMM, PO Box 12905, Austin, 78711. -- J.S.
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Imler: Best Days Still Ahead By Rosanna Mah
Source: Los Angeles Independent January 07, 2004
To many, Scott Tracy Imler’s life might have seemed over. He had lost his job,
been
branded a felon and undergone lung surgery without knowing if he would survive.
But
Imler begs to differ and looks ready to take on the world again, albeit one slow
breath
at a time.  Imler, 45, who was head of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center
in West
Hollywood, gained notoriety when Drug Enforcement Agency agents raided the
center on
Oct. 25, 2001 and shut it down.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18105.shtml

Osburn Defense Fund
http://www.osburndefensefund.com

HEMP SEED: THE MOST NUTRITIONALLY  COMPLETE FOOD SOURCE IN THE WORLD
Part One by Lynn Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed1.html
Part II, Hempseed Oils and the Flow of Life Force
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/hempseed2.html
HEMP, THE PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/index.html
Energy Farming in America
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/eFarming.html
HEMP PLYWOOD Becomes a Reality by Lynn and Judy Osburn
http://www.ratical.org/renewables/plywood.html
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Press Release: National NORMLcast
Source: NORML January 07, 2004
NORML introduces the 'National NORMLcast', a weekly news and review of all
things
relating to cannabis-n-culture, pot-n-politics and language-n-law. Your host is
radio
personality, libertarian and Tampa-based entrepreneur Glenn Klein. Each
Wednesday
evening, starting at 10:00 PM (eastern), Glenn explores the 'world of weed' on
air with
producer and Executive Director of The NORML Foundation Allen St. Pierre.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18103.shtml
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Marijuana Initiative Going To Ballot By Sheila Toomey
Source: Anchorage Daily News  January 07, 2004
Legalization -- Small amounts would be OK for personal use; two other proposals
expected. A proposal to legalize marijuana use in private by people older than
21 has
become the first initiative approved for the 2004 general election ballot. Lt.
Gov.
Loren Leman, a public opponent of legalization, announced Tuesday that he has
certified
the 28,783 petition signatures required to place the initiative before voters.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18102.shtml

Alaskans To Vote on Marijuana Decriminalization By Reuters
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18101.shtml
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Prosecutors Say Bills Were Inflated For Drug Ads By Brooke A. Masters
Source: Washington Post January 07, 2004
New York -- For five years now, the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
has
startled the public with in-your-face ads linking illegal drug use to car
crashes, teen
pregnancy and  -- during the 2002 Super Bowl -- international terrorism.  "Tell
your
brother you forgot to pick him up because you were getting stoned. He'll
understand,"
reads one advertisement. "Parents: The Anti-Drug" says another.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18100.shtml

Advertising Executives Charged with Cheating U.S. By Larry Neumeister
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18099.shtml
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Montel Williams Goes To Pot
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18095.shtml

Ethan Russo MD on January 06, 2004
Cannabis and Depression
I have written quite a bit on this topic. See my chapter, "Cannabis, A Breed
Apart" in
Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs, Haworth Press, 2001.

Additionally, I have two book chapters with Ester Fride and Lester Grinspoon
dealing
with this topic currently in press. Finally, an article on what I call clinical
endocannabinoid deficiency will be published in Neuroendocrinology Letters in a
couple
of months.

Depression is biochemically heterogeneous, and not everything works for a given
person.
Endogenous cannabinoids possess a neuromodulatory role on pain, memory and
emotion, and
will have a large role in treatment of their derangements in future years.
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Copenhagen Vows to Press Drug Crackdown
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040105_2057.html

Hashish war ignites bonfire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O19B22FF6

Ganja Peace
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Restore-Digest
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Wednesday, January 7 2004      Volume 2004 : Number 007
001 US: More Than They Deserve
002 N: US WA: OPED: Seattle Approaches Sensible Drug Policy
003 Drug Truth Update 01/07/04
004 HI: DEA Helps Bust Paraphernalia in Hawaii
005 AL: Column: Law And Judicial Disorder
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Tuesday, January 6 2004       Volume 2004 : Number 006
001 Ghana: West Africa's Cash Crop
002 UK: Hoping Hemp Will Make Comeback
003 CA: Dope's New Hope
004 SC: Principal Resigns Over School Drug Raid
005 UK: Country Property: A Builder's Guide to the High Life
****************OTHER NEWS****************
GW still eating red meat, but public should still be weary...
http://mojones.com/news/dailymojo/2003/12/12_535.html

PRESIDENT WAVERS ON PLEDGE TO HELP FIND LEAKER
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1298140&l=13649

President Served Friday With Personal 9-11 RICO Complaint by Tom Flocco.com
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X4E623AF6

U.S. media blackout continues as New Hampshire widow´s attorney also served
multiple
government officials and moved to examine new evidence while preparing subpoenas
and
written interrogatories for individual depositions. This, as corporate media
execs
continue to withhold important stories about presidential foreknowledge of
attacks,
military stand-down, and evidence of controlled demolition of third WTC Building
7,
containing critical Securities and Exchange Commission corporate fraud
investigation
documents.

Permanent Bases: Leave Iraq? Hell No, We Won't Go!
http://www.counterpunch.org./giebel01062004.html

Iraq Police Chief Says U.S. Army Gunned Down Family
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq-tikrit-killing.html

Bush's Ugly War: Three US Soldiers Discharged for Brutality to Prisoners
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E18B21FF6

Leak Investigation: FBI Asks Bush Officials to Release Reporters from
Confidentiality
Agreements
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,570189,00.html

The Taliban-Bush-Enron Deal That Led to War
http://www.geocities.com/dong_nam_a/0202/SEA-talebangas.html

Condi Afraid of the 9/11 Commission
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,565974,00.html

Bush Doesn't Want To Be Compared To Hitler, Then Stop Talking Like Hitler!!!
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/01/con04003.html

D E A N F E S T   2 0 0 4
http://www.corvusworld.com/deanfest.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/deanoccupation.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/deansellout.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/WAFFLEHOUSEDEAN.jpg

HOWARD THE COWARD By RALPH PETERS
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/4965.htm

Howard Dean says he'll raise taxes on the average family by more than $1900.00 a
year.
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=113

Attack ad by anti-tax group too close for Dean's comfort
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=113#

Dean Wrong on Bush Tax Cut
He falsely claimed most middle-class people got no cut
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=113

Transcript of today's NPR presidential debate
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W5AB22FF6

The Annenberg Political Fact Check
http://www.factcheck.org/MiscReports.aspx?docID=70#
Contact
http://www.factcheck.org/MiscReports.aspx?docID=9

God is not a right-wing zealot By Leslie R. Guttman
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2BB32FF6
photo link http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/24/pastor/story.jpg

US KY: Officer Kills Suspect In Failed Drug Bust
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n031/a06.html?397
"...the subject (19) fled and in the course of that, the subject was shot three
times
in the back,"

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History repeats itself: Past, Present & Future of nazi America
From: "Bill Mandel" wmmmandel@... 7 Jan 2004
=====================================
I’m totally amazed that Hartmann believes that van der Lubbe set fire to the
Reichstag. The Nazis did. I have the clearest memory of that event and its
consequences
for a reason that is obvious from my autobiography:

“I was trying to do what I had seen that hunchbacked Communist news-vender
doing in
Hamburg within sight of Storm Trooper headquarters the summer before Hitler came
to
power. But, in Germany, the authorities recognized that selling printed matter
was an
exercise of freedom of the press, until the Nazis took office. In New York, and
pretty
widely across the U.S., the cops did not permit such civil liberties.

“Americans were very conscious of Germany in 1933. Not only was Hitler
disbanding all
labor unions, outlawing the Communist Party that had just gotten six million
votes in a
country with one-quarter the population of ours, as well as the
Social-Democratic
Party, which had done even better in the polls, but he was also putting all
activists
in concentration camps. (His indiscriminate physical attacks against Jews, and
even
simply against their places of business, began five years later. Mass
extermination was
even farther down the road). But the attention of the entire world was focused
upon
Germany by one of the most spectacular political trials ever held anywhere. This
was
before the Stalin show trials.

“’Spectacular’ is the precise word for it. The Nazis had burned down the
Reichstag building – the equivalent of the Capitol in Washington – and
blamed the
Communists. Hitler’s followers, and a large part of the world public, were too
politically unsophisticated to realize that such an act made no sense from a
Communist
point of view. Hitler, to demonstrate an international Communist conspiracy –
no, he
didn’t borrow that phrase from our House Un-American Activities Committee;
they
borrowed it from him – put on trial three Bulgarian Communists who were then
in
Germany, plus a German Communist who headed the very large body of Communist
members of
parliament.

“The American Civil Liberties Union and similar organizations worldwide
demanded the
right to send observers to the trial. Since Hitler had no military strength as
yet, and
wanted to gain the time to create it, he agreed. The case was tried by
Germany’s
Supreme Court.

“The German defendant denied guilt but showed no initiative. One of the
Bulgarians,
George Dimitrov, simply won the admiration of the entire world, with the
exception of
the ultra-Right. He proudly and brilliantly upheld his beliefs and
cross-examined
Hitler’s right-hand man, Hermann Goering, to the point at which the latter,
leaving
the courtroom, turned around and shouted from the doorway, ‘Wait till I get
you
outside!’ That finished it. The court, all holdovers from the pre-Hitler
period,
found the defendants not guilty. Joseph Stalin, in a brilliant political stroke,
conferred Soviet citizenship on the three Bulgarians, and demanded that Hitler
turn
them over to the USSR. In his politically and militarily weak situation, the
Nazi
Fuehrer complied.

“Dimitrov became a hero to the whole world. In 1934, when socially-conscious
theater
suddenly sprang into being in the U.S., a great American actor, J. Edward
Bromberg,
later a victim of McCarthyism, declaimed Dimitrov’s lines to the cheers of
thousands
in a one-act reconstruction of the trial. I was there. It was part of a
double-bill
with the pioneering labor-strike play, Clifford Odets’ ‘Waiting for
Lefty’. And I
resolved that if I ever found myself in a situation similar to Dimitrov’s –
after
all, the Sacco-and-Vanzetti and Tom Mooney and Angelo Herndon cases were already
part
of my life experience – I would try to live up to his standard.�

[I did, when subpoenaed by the McCarran (U.S. Senate Internal Security)
Committee in
1952, by Joe McCarthy (U.S. Senate Government Operations) Committee in 1953,
watched by
the entire American TV audience live (someone acted me in a play,
“McCarthy,� that
had a long run in Los Angeles 35 years later), and by the House Un-American
Activities
Committee in 1960, which stupidly piped the entire hearing outside via
loudspeakers to
a large demonstration of students, who responded by launching the 1960s among
whites.
Black students had begun a couple of months earlier with their coffee-counter
sit-ins
in the Deep South.]

William {Bill} Mandel
=====================================
My autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Introduction by Howard Zinn), is a history
of how
the American people fought to defend and expand its rights since the 1920s (I'm
85)
employing the form of the life of a 30s AND 60s activist, one who was involved
in most
serious movements: student, labor, 45 years of efforts to prevent war with the
USSR,
civil rights South and North, women's liberation [my late wife appears on 50
pages], 37
years on Pacifica Radio [where I invented talk radio], civil liberties. You may
hear/see my testimony before the three different McCarthy-Cold-War-Era
witch-hunting
committees [used in six films and a play]) on my website,
http://www.billmandel.net  I
am the author of five books in my academic field, and have taught at UC Berkeley
and
elsewhere.

The book is available through all normal sources. For an autographed copy,
send me $24 at 4466 View Pl.,#106, Oakland, CA. 94611
******************************************
"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist
regimes
into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy
the seat
of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
  - William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937. Continued...
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
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Neo-cons go on offensive against political prisoners & their supporters...
http://www.stopsundiata.com
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US KY: Officer Kills Suspect In Failed Drug Bust
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n031/a06.html?397
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/01/05ky/wir-front-shot0105-11864.h\
tml
"...the subject (19) fled and in the course of that, the subject was shot three
times
in the back,"
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The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corners,
They did not know we had these guns,
And the Red-neck Miners mowed down these troopers,
You should have seen those poor boys run.
Woody Guthrie, from "Ludlow Massacre"
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Woody Guthrie's Fascist Killer
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/27/27442.jpg

Bob Dylan's Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/guthrie.html

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic "plastic fibers"

From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Parenti/BlackshirtsReds_Parenti.html

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the
vast
masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than
they
are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds
renders
them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often
tell
little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8,
1935
**********
United States' Answer To Drug War Proves Harmful
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N261231B6
Rainbow Farm Massacre
http://www.mapinc.org/find?200

Bush Crimes Against Humanity
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K58D263F6
Bushladen and the Terrorists Carlyles Groups
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J6A0231B6

All You Really Need To Know About John Ashcroft
http://www.hightimes.com/News/2002_01/opinion.html
STATE OF THE UNION: CORRUPT
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V295254F5

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing
no
allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this
invisible
government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt
politics
is the first task of the statesmanship of today." - President Theodore Roosevelt

Nazism or WoD
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36285.gif

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
Bushît Hypocrisy & Double Standards
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1E0221B6
Blindness of the Prohibitionist Paradigm
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H581251B6

Crimes Against Nature
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A1DF240B6
EU Sceintist Legalize Paraquat!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2E1611B6

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2AC11FE6
U.S. prison population largest in world
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X690121B6

Ganja Peace: Walters House of DEAth
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If you'll gather 'round me children, A story I will tell.
About Pretty Boy Floyd the outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well.
It was in the town of Shawnee, On a Sunday afternoon.
His wife beside him in their wagon, As into town they rode

There a deputy sheriff approached them, In a manner rather rude.
Using vulgar words of language, And his wife she overheard.
Well Pretty Boy grabbed a long chain, And the deputy grabbed his gun.
And in the fight that followed, He laid that deputy down.

Well he took to the trees and timber, To live a life of shame.
Every crime in Oklahoma, Was added to his name.
Yes he took to the trees and timber, By that Canadian river shore.
But Pretty Boy found a welcome, At many a farmer's door.

Yes there's many a starving farmer, The same old story's told.
How that outlaw paid his mortgage, And saved their little home.
Others tell you of a stranger, That came to beg a meal.
And underneath his napkin, Left a thousand dollar bill.

It was in Oklahoma city, It was on a Christmas Day.
There came a whole carload of groceries, With a letter that did say.
"Well they say that I'm an outlaw, They say that I'm a theif.
  Well here's a Christmas dinner, For the families on relief"

Now as through this life I've rambled, I've seen lots of funny men.
Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.
But as through this world you ramble, And as through this world you roam.
You won't never find an outlaw, That'd drive a family from their home.
PRETTY BOY FLOYD by Woody Guthrie
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Oklahoma: Free James Geddes 90 Years/5 plants
http://hr95.org/Geddes,J.html
Release Petition
http://hr95.org/geddes.petition.htm
Oklahoma: Will Foster 93 Years For Cannabis
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O35755DD6
Oklahoma: Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6

The Ganjawar Comes to the The Rez
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2FC33BD6
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4414.gif

Federal Appeals Court OKs Medical Marijuana
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R272127D6

CA: Todd McCormick
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I288152E6
CA: Free Tommy Chong!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2C1421B6
CA: Bryan Epis Protest Pictures & Articles
http://freedomtoexhale.com/protestpics.htm

Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K512241B6
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DID HE INHALE?
The "drug free student aid" measure is the brainchild of Congressman Mark
Souder,
a Republican from Indiana. Who left the question blank.
Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6
jive souder
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4619.gif

  It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"

The Joseph McNamara Collection
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcntoc.htm
Time article
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,186579,00.html

Joseph McNamara is a former police chief in Kansas City, Mo. and San Jose, Ca..
He holds a doctorate in public administration and is presently a research fellow
at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Stop the War - A Former Police Chiefs Plea to the New Drug Czar
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn1.htm
America's Plague of Bad Cops
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn8.htm
Anguish in Blue Needn't Become Deadly
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn2.htm
Bombs and the Bill of Rights
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn10.htm
Cops on the Dole
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn7.htm

Cop's View of the Drug War
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn9.htm
End the War by Anthony Lewis
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn3.htm
Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liar's Club?
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn6.htm
Reinventing the LAPD
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn12.htm
The National Guard is Not a Police Force
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn4.htm

Code of Silence Must Come to an End
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn11.htm
Holding the Line Between Pursuit and Punishment
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn5a.htm
Drug Peace
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn18.html
Shootings by Police - Broken Trust
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/shootings_by_police.htm
NY Times Letter to the Editor - April 18, 1999
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn19.htm

cops against the drug war
http://www.drcnet.org/cops/question.html
police chiefs question merit of drug policy
http://www.drcnet.org/guide1-96/police.html
Bonus Payment To Informant Draws Criticism
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9855.shtml
RAC...KET...EERING
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36123.gif
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/message.shtml?1x36121
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Have We Lost The War on Drugs?
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9881.shtml
Like Vietnam, Drug War is Futile
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9865.shtml
The Delusional Drug War
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9589.shtml
Editorial: Time To End War on Drugs
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread9371
Political War On Drugs Makes Medical  Casualties
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9879.shtml.shtml

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level,
that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand
it.
Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower,
the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
Bennito Mussolini

Just Say No... Ron&Nan
**********
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
http://ssdp.org
Students Vs. The Drug War
http://www.cannabisnews.com
Police Terrorize Students in Ill-Conceived Drug Raid
Goose Creek Police stormed the school and detained 107 students at gunpoint
Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs
Drug Ruling Worries Some in Public Housing
Justices Rule Drug-Eviction Law Is Fair
It Was Not the Drug, but the Criminalisation
Collateral Consequences
Denial of Basic Social Services Based Upon Drug Use

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe
simply
because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything
simply
because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply
because it
is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the
authority of
Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and
analysis, when
you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of
one and
all.
Then accept it and live up to it."
The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutta
**********
Fighting Back in the Fascist War on Some Plants...

November Coalition
http://www.november.org
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
(FAMM Foundation) http://www.famm.org
Drug Sense
http://www.drugsense.org
M.A.M.A.
http://www.mamas.org
F.E.A.R.
http://www.fear.org

Cannabis News
http://www.cannabisnews.com
MAP Inc.Org.
http://www.mapinc.org

N.O.R.M.L.
http://norml.org
Human Rights and the WoD
http://www.hr95.org
DrugSense
http://drugsense.org
Drug War facts
http://drugwarfacts.org
Drug Reform Coordination Network
http://drcnet.org
VCL- Lawyers and Judges against the drug war
http://vcl.org
**********
Call out the instigators, Because there's something in the air.
We've got to get together sooner or later.
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's......right

And you know that it's right.
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together......Now

Lock up the streets and houses, Because there's something in the air.
We've got to get together sooner or later.
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's... ...right.

And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together... ...Now

Hand out the bongs and ammo, We're going to blast our way through here.
We've got to get together sooner or later.
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's... ...right.

And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together Now...

Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman
(Orig., "bongs" was "arms",
but I've never met anyone who ever lived through an armed conflict with a Badge,
Bongs are a different story imho ... DdC)
**********
D.E.A.th Deceptions
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html
Cannabis Revolution
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/35/35603.gif

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Hardrug, Booze & Petro-Chem Alternative
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Drug Warriors Try to Censor their Opponents By Ted Galen Carpenter
Source: Cato Institute January 08, 2004
Representative Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) has discovered a mortal threat to the
republic.
The threat is a display ad placed by a pro-drug legalization group, Change the
Climate,
Inc., on Washington D.C.'s bus and subway system. The ad showed a young couple,
with
the caption: "Enjoy Better Sex! Legalize and Tax Marijuana."  And to deal with
this
outrage, Istook has introduced a measure to financially penalize Washington's
Metro
transit authority for running the ad. Moreover, Istook's bill would prohibit any
transit system that receives federal funds from running advertising from a group
that
advocates decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18111.shtml

Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6
Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E280651B6
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9 Officers Cited for Contempt in Pot Case By Ellen Miller
Source: Rocky Mountain News January 08, 2004
In a collision of federal and state drug laws, nine law enforcement officers,
including
a federal drug agent, were issued contempt citations Wednesday and ordered by a
judge
to appear in court Feb. 2 to explain why they shouldn't be jailed or fined.
Routt
County Court Judge James Garrecht had ordered the officers to return 2 ounces of
marijuana seized in an October raid of Don Nord's apartment.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18109.shtml
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Up in Smoke By Victoria Edwards
Source: Michigan Daily January 08, 2004
In Ann Arbor, the difference between getting up to a year in jail and a simple
$50
ticket for the use of marijuana can depend wholly on which police agency issues
the
citation. Ann Arbor passed an ordinance in 1972 that decriminalized the use of
marijuana, making it the only city in Michigan with such an ordinance.  The Ann
Arbor
Police Department can enforce the city ordinance with a $50 ticket in its
jurisdiction,
which comprises the city of Ann Arbor outside of University property.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18108.shtml
*******
Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2003 By Kevin Nelson
Source: AlterNet January 08, 2004
With the American public's attention firmly directed toward the daily events of
the
Bush Administration's "War on Terror," the US-led and exported "War on Drugs"
continues
to exact crippling costs to taxpayers, minority groups, the environment, civil
liberties and struggling democracies around the world.   While terror alerts
rise and
fall and states struggle to fund their law enforcement budgets, the total number
of
marijuana arrests far exceed the total number of arrests for all violent crimes
combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated
assault.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18107.shtml
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Legalization Initiative To Be On November Ballot In Alaska.
Good Prospects for Winning. It Should Influence Debate In Canada.
Marijuananews by Richard Cowan
This new initiative would eliminate civil and criminal penalties for people 21
years or
older who "grow, use, sell or give away marijuana or other hemp products." I
hope that
the cannabis communities unite in support of this very important initiative. The
prohibitionists will tell any lie to defeat it.  My overly long analysis of
Canadian
Supreme Court ruling is being delayed until next week, but this development in
Alaska
is vitally important.)  Read Full Story...
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=725

Alaska Pot Liberalization Initiative Certified For November Ballot
NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- January 8, 2004
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18110.shtml
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Drug Policy Alliance News
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news
Text Version
http://www.drugpolicy.org/contact/textversion.cfm
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MPP's strategic plan for 2004
Rob@... 8 Jan 2004

MPP NEWS RELEASES --
9 January 2004 -- TV Ad Campaign Supports Medical Marijuana Bill
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr010904.html

7 January 2004 -- Medical Marijuana Group Issues Final Report
Card; Most Democratic Contenders Would Stop Raids on Patients
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr010704gsmm.html

MPP Michigan
http://www.mpp.org/MI/overview.html
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Hasn't America seen enough of the exclusionary, prejudicial,  vote-suppressing,
racial
profiling, inner city-ignoring, confederate flag-waving, Bob Jones 
University-loving
attitudes of the radical right?   
Patrick Kennedy
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Waldo's Insolence
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4218.gif
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UK and Worldwide Cannabis News
http://www.high-land.co.uk/news.html
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Cannabis Culture
http://www.cannabisculture.com
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Courageous people of 2003
If you watch the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, you may note that the theme of
the
movie is that there is a pervasive evil force in the world, a force typified by
an urge
toward domination implemented through massive armaments and armies, as well as
destruction of the earth.
F U L L S T O R Y  http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3245.html
*******
CN ON: 6 Cops, 40 Charges
http://www.mapinc.org/newscc/v04/n044/a10.html?397
Entheogenesis Conference
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3113.html
Marc Emery's Summer of Legalization Tour
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3026.html
American Nurses Association backs medical pot
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3149.html
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
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DENNIS KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT
BuzzFlash/Kucinich Interview Transcript
So, our thanks to Congressman Kucinich. Maybe some of the other candidates are
just
afraid that if they interview with BuzzFlash, the RNC might launch a smear
campaign
against them.

Too bad, they are missing 100,000 progressive activists who turn to BuzzFlash
each
weekday.

The RNC isn't going to vote in the Democratic primaries, but the BuzzFlash
readers are.


Continued... http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/01/int04002.html
From: Ron Harold studioron@... 8 Jan 2004
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KURTZ:" Well, not quite. The Dean plan would cover only 30 million of the 45
million
uninsured. "
-Howard Kurtz on Wolf Blitzer Reports
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/07/wbr.00.html
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Narco Terror: Crime, Drug Prohibition and Terrorism: An Evitable Convergence
http://www.narcoterror.org
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FEB 2004 HT INTERVIEW: WINONA LADUKE
http://www.hightimes.com/mainsite/Politics/content.php?bid=101&aid=2
"I don't think that life forms should be patented.
Patents are for toasters.
Not for seeds or food or life."
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WINONA LADUKE
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K46653207
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Frankenfood with History
http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/00-11-07.htm
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AVENTIS SA:  STARLINK CORN CONTROVERSY SPOTLIGHTS
LARGE PHARMACEUTICAL & CHEMICAL COS.
http://www.saep.org/forDB/forDBNov00/BIOTEKstarlinkAE001114.htm
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Monsanto Lawyer Cliarence Thomas
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4376.gif
Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm
Monsanto's Species-Wide Patent on Trial
http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/soybeanEPO.pdf
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Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
Hemp vs Dioxins
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y23D21B45
Hemp vs Cotton
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P21931295
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Please Read and Distribute Immediately
From: Newagecitizen@... Thu, 8 Jan 2004
http://www.newagecitizen.com

Exporting jobs is not free trade
Charles Schumer and Paul Craig Roberts NYT
Wednesday, January 7, 2004
http://www.iht.com/articles/123898.htm

Happy New Year:

You MUST read the materials at the end of this message and distribute them to
all of
the "thinkers" and activists that you know.  I won't have the opportunity to
update the
"New Age Citizen" website http://www.newagecitizen.com for a few days and it is
critical that people start understanding that we must completely rethink and
challenge
the economic policies that Bush is implementing as we sit here like a bunch of
silly
lemmings.

Already this year he is out to wipe out your overtime and grant amnesty to
millions of
illegal aliens while millions of American workers continue to loose their jobs
and
their standard of living. Bush explicitly supports the accelerating offshoring
of
American jobs while simultaneously bringing in foreign H1B and L1 workers.  This
is not
compassion it is insanity.  As far as I am concerned, if Bush wants to locate
the
world's most dangerous terrorist and a traitor  all he has to do is look in the
mirror.
  What he is ushering in is going to make the Great Depression (1929) look like a
summer
festival.

The materials I am referring to involve a most revealing and disturbing analysis
of
where globalization is going to take Middle Class America if we do not
immediately
challenge the agenda of President Bush and the Single Party Plutocracy (which is
composed of the Democratic and Republican Parties).  And this analysis is not
coming
from some "nutcase", it is coming from Economist Paul Craig Roberts of the
Hoover
Institute.  Furthermore, I am quite certain that the dominant media (e.g, CNN,
ABC,
NBC, CBS, MSNBC) will not give adequate coverage to the dire predictions that
Roberts
makes.

I fully believe that these "traitors" fully understand that the continued
offshoring of
American jobs is going to destroy the livelihoods of millions and millions of
Americans
over the next 10 years.  And while I do not have all of the answers I am certain
that
the current economic course will result in a tyrannical empire consisting of
small rich
elite and a vast impoverished underclass.

We need to send this information far and wide across the Internet and through
hard copy
for those not connected to the Internet.  And in short order we need to begin
planning
actions (e.g., protests, media events, seminars) that will force these
revelations into
the mainstream media so that all of America understands exactly what is at stake
if we
do not challenge the Bush agenda immediately!

First read the op-ed piece: Exporting jobs is not free trade by Charles Schumer
and
Paul Craig Roberts NYT  (below) Next read the C-SPAN transcript of the
discussion: FREE
TRADE IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY: A DISCUSSION ON THE STATE OF U.S. TRADE POLICY
(C-SPAN by following this link: 
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20040107.pdf

I would be interested in hearing any feedback you may have after reading through
these
materials.

In the most sincere Christian tradition I believe it is high time we "do unto"
Bush
Inc. what they are trying to "do unto" us.

Yours in Freedom, Professor Hemp
******************************************
Diallo kin accept city's $3M, apology
By Jose Martinez, Michele McPhee and Maki Becker
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/152612p-134355c.html
Knight Ridder January 7, 2004
http://www.nydailynews.com
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News from The Smoking Gun
editor@...
Investigators probing the recent death of singer/songwriter Elliott Smith could
not
rule out that he was actually stabbed to death, since several aspects of his
demise
were not consistent with suicide. Details at:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/esmithaut1.html
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Carnegie group says Bush made wrong claims on WMD
by Julian Borger in Washington
The Guardian January 8, 2004
The Bush administration will today be accused of "systematically
misrepresenting" the
threat posed by "Iraq's weapons of mass destruction" in a comprehensive report
on
post-war findings.
Continued...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1118424,00.html
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A Lesson From The Sixties By Wayne Barnes
radtimes resist@... 07 Jan 2004
http://www.FrontPageMagazine.com
Several months after the Black Panther Party's shootout with the Los Angeles
Police
Department in 1969, the militant organization was in disarray. Two leaders, each
supported by a block of followers, emerged from the rubble:  Huey Newton and
Eldridge
Cleaver. Cleaver was a wanted fugitive and had departed the United States for
Algeria.
A group of Cleaver-faction former Panthers started a new group, the "Nation of
Nigretia." They described themselves as a country without land, ostensibly,
descendents
of black slaves brought from Africa and now spread throughout the U.S. It took
little
time for a sixth investigative sense to tell the FBI agents assigned to
"extremist
matters" that something was afoot.
Continued... http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11622

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"In a civilised society, it is the duty of all citizens to obey just laws.
But at the same time it is the duty of all citizens to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Hearing New Voices on The Campaign Trail By Kristin Proulx
Source: Concord Monitor January 09, 2004
Manchester -- In all his days spent meeting and greeting his way through New
Hampshire
convenience stores and living rooms, Sen. Joe Lieberman had never been asked
that
question. So, when a member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy wondered
whether, as
president, Lieberman would repeal the portion of the Higher Education Act that
prevented students with prior drug convictions from receiving federal loans and
grants,
Lieberman just didn't know. He'd have to do a little more research, but his
preliminary
answer was yes.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18115.shtml

SSDP http://www.ssdp.org
CannabisNews Justice Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/justice.shtml
*******
Kerry: End Medical Marijuana Prosecution
Source: Associated Press January 09, 2004
Manchester — At a campaign stop in Manchester yesterday, Democratic Presidential
hopeful John Kerry told an audience of college students he opposes federal
prosecutions
in medical marijuana cases in states that have legalized the practice, pledging
to
reverse Bush administration policy on the issue.  More broadly, he said he
wanted to
wait for the completion of a study to see what other alternatives might be
available to
medical marijuana before deciding whether to legalize it in all states.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18114.shtml

Democratic Presidential nominee, Dennis Kucinich, put in writing that as
PRESIDENT He
WILL: "DECRIMINALIZE MARIJUANA" -"in favor of a drug policy that sets reasonable
boundaries for marijuana use by establishing guidelines similar to those already
in
place for alcohol."
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17917.shtml

You will never, ever hear of George W. Bush or any Republican
talk about raising the minimum wage.
In 1991, Congress raised minimum wage to $4.25 per hour.........
it's only gone up 90 cents since then. 9 Jan 2004
That's not enough money to live on. We need a living wage.
Vote Dennis Kucinich for President.
http://www.kucinich.us
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Friday, January 9 2004        Volume 2004 : Number 009
001 Canada: Armed Grow Rippers Strike Out Again
002 Canada: Krieger faces fresh pot charge
003 DrugSense Weekly, Jan. 9, 2004, #332

Friday, January 9 2004        Volume 2004 : Number 008
001 Canada: Charges Bring Calls For Inquiry
002 Canada: Battle continues on cannabis
003 Canada: Calgary Pot Crusader Charged Again
004 Remember Medical Marijuana Week? (fwd)
005 CA: Imler: Best Days Still Ahead
006 Canada: OPED: Marijuana Smokescreen
007 AK: Ballot Measure
008 US: Montel Williams Goes to Pot
009 Canada: Battle Continues On Cannabis
010 Canada: Web Of Rumour
011 Canada: Medicinal pot crusader busted
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Drug War Chronicle #319 - January 9, 2003
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/319
******************************************
We'll be offering news reports and commentary, and fielding questions about
current
events regarding the drug war and democracy in Latin America, plus elaborating
more on
our plans - and soliciting your ideas - for the re-launch of Narco News in the
coming
weeks.

If you already have a NY Times online account (it's free), simply go to this
link at 9
p.m. ET on Monday:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2AC13407

If you don't yet have one, you can sign up for one here:
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login

In the meantime, if you would like to submit questions in advance, just email
me.
From somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin
narconews@...
http://www.narconews.com
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Past Fascism: Jaxfest: hunted in Florida by Christopher Largen (05 Jan, 2004)

Pepper spray and police harassment at Florida's hemp-friendly Jaxfest.

I sit on a beachside bench next to my friend George McMahon, one of five US
citizens
granted the right to smoke federal marijuana. He uses it to provide relief from
pain,
spasms, and nausea. McMahon and I have just driven from Texas to Jacksonville,
Florida.
We've passed through plains and swamps, but we haven't left Bush country.

We're attending the Sixth Annual Jacksonville Hempfest at the Seawalk Pavilion
in
Jacksonville Beach. We're scheduled to speak along with Fat Freddy, Kevin Aplin
and
Jodi James of the Florida Cannabis Action Network (CAN), Heath Wintz of Students
for
Sensible Drug Policy, Doug Klippel of the Libertarian Party, Ken Hurley of the
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and The Reverend Roland A Duby. Organizers expect
a crowd
of 10,000.

Fat Freddy sits across from us. He has turned himself into the living embodiment
of the
famous Freak Brother cartoon. Freddy claims to take marching orders directly
from God.
I believe he means it.

The Reverend Roland A Duby (a comedian and Libertarian sheriff candidate) sits
in a
booth near us. The Reverend is shiny bald. A gentle giant with a razor
intellect, his
huge belly is matched only by the size of his heart. He's been trucking with
Freddy for
months.

It feels good to be with friends. We have unique paths, but the same goal to
educate
and liberate. Gentle winds temper the sun, a perfect day for teaching.
Continued...
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3076.html
*******
Fat Freddy Freak and the War of the Weed
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G54D12407
*******
Laurence Cherniak presents Fat Freddy
With Freedom Fighting Heros including but not limited to featuring Jack,
Jeannie, Todd,
Peter, Renee, Shaun, Dana, Kaleb, Chis, Rythm, Steve, Frank, Michael, Brian,
Ben,
Linda, Alan, Sarah, Melissa, Doug, Rich, Larry, David, Kevin, Aerial, the Trash
Cans,
Perry, Russ, Greg, Herbert, el Nathano, Jess, and Laurence of Lancelot known for
his
TRUE LOVE and faithful lover Constance of Comelot.
http://www.cherniak.com/FatFreddyDocs/FFPosterComicCover2default.html
Poster:
http://www.cherniak.com/FatFreddyImages/FFiss2pgs/%20FF2PageSpreads/FF2Pg1and48_\
72dpi.jpg
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furry freaks
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/31/31765.gif
*******
George McMahon, one of the remaining patients in the federal medical marijuana
program and a founding member of Patients Out of Time
http://www.trvnet.net/~mmcmahon
*******
Free Tommy Chong!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2C1421B6
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In this weeks Issues & Alibis ...
http://issuesandalibis.org
From: "Uncle Ernie" issues_alibis@... 9 Jan 04

* Naomi Klein presents, "The Year Of The Fake."
* Uri Avnery asks, "Who Needs An Imitation?"
* Robert Scheer goes all metaphysical on us in, "Lord Knows What Robertson
Wants."
* Norman Solomon muses, "George Will's Ethics: None Of Our Business?"
* Jim Hightower reveals, "Halliburtons Built-In Gouge."
* Kirwan explains, "That Was Then - This Is Now!."
* Ted Rall is having, "Pipe Dreams."
* Helen Thomas cheers, "Courts Hold Bush's Anti-Terror Excesses In Check."
* William Rivers Pitt shouts, "Two Loud Words."
* Elisabeth Bumiller reviews, "Border Politics As Bush Woos 2 Key Groups With
Proposal."
* Harley Sorensen gets hip in this weeks, "View From The Left."
* Sean Hannity wins the "Vidkun Quisling Award!"
* Molly Ivins passes the menu in, "Anyone Up For Vegetarian?."
* Maureen Dowd has a, "Tizzy Over Lezzies."

And finally in the 'Parting Shots' department 'The Whitehouse.Org' says,
"Preisdent
Bush Responds To Iran's Rejection Of His Magnanimous Offer" but first Uncle
Ernie
uncovers, "The Death Of A Beef Eater."

This week we spotlight the cartoons of Vic Harville with additional cartoons
from Gus
St. Anthony, Micah Wright, Bruce Yurgil, MoPaul, Betty Bowers, Rex Babin,
Paul-Désiré
Trouillebert and Political Strikes.

Plus we have all of your favorite departments! Welcome one and all to "Uncle
Ernie's
Issues & Alibis." We hope you enjoy your stay!
http://issuesandalibis.org
*******
ABBIE HOFFMAN
From: "Astroastro54@... 9 Jan 2004
WEB PAGE
http://theaction.com/Abbie
BRIGADE
http://users.lmi.net/bblackie/ahb
LINKS
http://theaction.com/Abbie/ahlinks.html

Abbie List: Reefer Madness
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Soldiers for the Truth by David Hackworth
http://www.sftt.org
DoD Reports up to 22,000 U.S. Casualties
According to retired Army Colonel David Hackworth, "Lt. Col. Scott D. Ross of
the U.S.
military's  Transportation Command told me that as of Dec. 23, his outfit had
evacuated
3,255 battle-injured casualties and 18,717 non-battle injuries. Of the battle
casualties, 473 died and 3,255 were wounded by hostile fire." That is a total of
21,972
casualties. Some may have been counted twice if they were transported more than
once or
injured more than once. This new count is far higher than the report from Mark
Benjamin
at United Press International. Veterans want to know: what is the true casualty
count?
*******
Cleveland Truck Manufacturing Plant Workers Fwd:
Protect Your Overtime Pay (From Bush Agenda)
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/n1quxmd1spfO/UAW
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BUSH ACTS TO REWARD COMPANIES WHO CUT OFF SENIORS' DRUG COVERAGE
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1688472&l=13953
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1688472&l=13954
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Conservative Crack-Up Will libertarians leave the Cold War coalition?
By W. James Antle III
http://www.amconmag.com/11_17_03/cover.html
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Subject: upcoming forum in DC
From: Ron Jacobs rjacobs@... 08 Jan 2004
*Lessons From the 1960s: Choices, Consequences, and the Future.*

This panel brings together three key activists from the 1960s and 70s movement.
Former
Black Panther Party head Elaine Brown will join Students for a Democratic
Society/Weather Underground veteran Cathy Wilkerson, and Heather Booth, early
civil
rights and women's liberation activist and founder of the Midwest Academy, an
influential community organizing institute, to discuss their growth as
activists, their
different choices and the contexts that helped produce them.  Far more than an
exercise
in nostalgia, this discussion aims to share relevant lessons for activists
working in
our present dangerous moment. Co-sponsored by Positive Force DC, and moderated
by PF
co-founder Mark Andersen
January 24, 2004 American University 2pm
******************************************
Hippie shop to close By Barry Flynn
From: radtimes resist@... 08 Jan 2004

The Infinite Mushroom has sold bongs,
black lights and other paraphernalia for more than 3 decades...

The Infinite Mushroom -- as close to an Orlando institution as you can get and
still be
a head shop -- is closing after 35 years at the sometimes awkward intersection
of
capitalism and what used to be called the counterculture.  What a drag.
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Marijuana Buzz Linked To Runner's High - US Study By Paul Simao
Source: Reuters January 09, 2004
Atlanta -- The same family of chemicals that produces a buzz in marijuana
smokers may
be responsible for "runner's high," the euphoric feeling that some people get
when they
exercise, U.S. researchers say.  High levels of anandamide were found in young
men who
ran or cycled at a moderate rate for about an hour, according to a study made
public
this week by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of
California,
Irvine.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18117.shtml
*******
Grant Krieger, Medicinal-Pot Crusader Busted
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n047/a09.html?999
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High Time for Marijuana By Tim Christie
Source: Register-Guard January 10, 2004
After five years on the books, Oregon's ground-breaking medical marijuana law is
experiencing a boom. A recent round of favorable federal court rulings appears
to have
prompted more ailing Oregonians to seek state-issued cards allowing them to
smoke, grow
and possess marijuana and at the same time emboldened more doctors to endorse
the
practice. "It's all adding up to just a tremendous amount of growth in the
program,"
said John Sajo, director of Voter Power, a Portland-based medical marijuana
advocacy
group.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18122.shtml
*******
Medical Marijuana Advocates Seek To Ease Rules By Tim Christie
Source: Register-Guard January 10, 2004
Voter Power, a medical marijuana advocacy group in Portland, is about halfway
toward
its goal of putting an initiative before voters in November that would
liberalize the
state's medical marijuana law. The initiative would increase the amount of
marijuana
that patients could grow and possess, and allow for state-regulated
dispensaries.
Read More...   http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18121.shtml
*******
Montel Williams: 'Climbing Higher'
Book Review: Montel's Struggle With MS
Source: CBS News January 10, 2004
(CBS) -- For years, television host Montel Williams helped guests deal with
their
problems. But he was forced to reveal his own problems - a battle with multiple
sclerosis - to pre-empt a 1999 story in the tabloids.  In his new book,
"Climbing
Higher," Williams writes that he had been struggling with MS symptoms for years
but it
wasn't until a painful episode while shooting the CBS television show "Touched
by an
Angel" that he was finally diagnosed.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18120.shtml
*******
House of Hemp By Roberta Avery
Source: Toronto Star January 10, 2004
Dalston, Ont. -- Kelly Smith and Greg Herriott built their new home as an homage
to
hemp. The walls of Smith and Herriott's 4,500-square-foot house are filled with
hemp
weed, the floor and ceiling beams are stained with hemp oil, the roof is
shingled with
hemp composite and they plan to use hemp oil in the furnace.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18119.shtml

Electric Emperor
http://www.electricemperor.com
*******
Fines, Jail Possible for Police By Jeremy Browning
Source: Craig Daily Press January 10, 2004
Attorney Kristopher Hammond has found himself in the middle of what he calls an
"interesting irony." On Feb. 2, he'll be sitting in a Routt County courtroom, in
front
of a Routt County judge, listening to a Routt County Sheriff's deputy and other
law
enforcement officers explain why they shouldn't be punished for disobeying the
judge's
order.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18118.shtml
*******
D.A.R.E. teen attends special session at FBI headquarters
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C11822507
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Just Say No Again by Renee Moilanen
The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education
http://www.reason.com

The assassins of youth...DARE/PDFA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W68824DD5
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/36/36796.gif
*******
P.I.G.S. leads to Hogtown cop corruption crackdown
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n045/a09.html?999
*******
BC: Battle Continues On Cannabis
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n046/a09.html?999
*******
Shooting report submitted By LAURA BAUER
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Police send outline of investigation to prosecutor; FBI also investigating.
In another development, the FBI said yesterday that it is investigating the
death of
19-year-old Michael Newby, who was shot three times in the back by an undercover
police
officer during an alleged attempted drug buy.
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Saturday, January 10 2004      Volume 2004 : Number 011
001 OR: High time for marijuana
002 US OR: Medical marijuana advocates seek to ease the rules
003 Dr. Leveque

Saturday, January 10 2004      Volume 2004 : Number 010
001 MA: An Acceping Culture Is Cited as School Eyes Marijuana Use
002 US: Targeting Marijuana
003 US: Marijuana buzz linked to "runner's high"
004 NJ Weedman, Ed Forchion
005 !!!CO: 9 Officers Cited for Contempt in Pot Case
006 Need MMJ Patient Stories
007 Interview: Loretta Nall, President, US Marijuana Party
008 Canada: Editorial: Presumed Dangerous
009 CO: Fines, Jail Possible For Police
010 UK: Pro-Cannabis Trader Jailed
011 NH: Kerry Says He Opposes Federal Persecution Of Medical Marijuana

****************OTHER NEWS****************
Cancer warning over Scottish farmed salmon
Guardian, UK - Jan 8, 2004
Levels of cancer-causing toxins in Scottish farmed salmon are so high that
consumers
are being advised not to eat more than one portion every two months... 
Continued...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1119242,00.html

New warning over poisons in farmed salmon - The Herald
http://www.theherald.co.uk/7685.shtml
Salmon industry hits back over cancer report - The Times (subscription)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-957489,00.html
Consumers concerned about health risks of salmon - Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1120159,00.html

Cloned meat a step nearer US menus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,1075572,00.html

Faith in the food
America jumps the gun on GM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,2763,955515,00.html

Mercury poison or hemp oil?
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/mercury.html

The hippie kitchen's long strange trip . . . into your local supermarket
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Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
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* “The hemp seed is the highest of any plant in essential amino acids and
essential
fatty acids. These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune
response...and
contribute to…more disease resistance.” (Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn).

* Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by
tuberculosis, a
severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away.
(Czechoslovakia
Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955.)

* Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it
is also
easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils
than soy.
These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp also resists
UV-B
light, which is a kind of sunlight that is blocked by the ozone layer. Soy beans
do not
take UV-B light very well. If the ozone layer were to deplete by 16%, which by
some
estimates is very possible, soy production would fall by 25-30%. We may have to
grow
hemp or starve -- and it won't be the first time that this has happened. Hemp
has been
used to "bail out" many populations in time of famine.
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Austrias biggest producer of Energydrinks with own label.
energy@...
http://www.waldboth-energy.at
00436769355612

Battle of Christiania Flares as Hash-Seller Burn Own Stands
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/319/christiania.shtml
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Trial judge worked for firm that acted for Monsanto by Duncan Campbell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1119903,00.html

Google: http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1A742507
* Conflict issues over judge in Monsanto price-fixing case
* Judge in Monsanto case accused of conflict
* Bias Issue Faces Judge in Monsanto Case
* Trial judge worked for firm that acted for Monsanto

Monsanto's Cliarence
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4376.shtml
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4376.gif
Hemp vs Dioxins
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y23D21B45
Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M23C12B45
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Watch How They Choreograph The News By Marjorie Tietjen
http://www.rense.com/general47/watch.htm
A Few Buzzwords
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I27123B16

Rense
http://www.rense.com
US Hawks Present War Manifesto To Bush
http://www.rense.com/general47/manif.html
Perle's Manifesto And The State Of The Union
http://www.rense.com/general47/tere.htm
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Hippie shop to close
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I21311507
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Adamson: 'Soft eviction' is modern version of Manifest Destiny
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1073423749
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Lo, yonder, the Holy Place!
We warmly invite you to join us in awakening the world to new ways of thinking
and
being.
http://www.greatmystery.org/southwest.html
Terence McKenna on science and magic
http://www.greatmystery.org/sound/Terence-magic.rm
Terence McKenna on psychedelics
http://www.greatmystery.org/sound/Terence-psychedelic.rm
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Muddying the world's conscience
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1119542,00.html
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Sentencing of Worthington coffeeshop in UK
http://www.hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=320&highlight=
From the LCA exec Jan 10, 2004
The Worthing coffeeshop court case has finished and sentance has been passed.

Chris Baldwin: 6 month sentence as a result of a previous suspended sentence of
15
months and 3 x 6 month sentences concurrent to that. The Judge has said he must
not
serve more than half of this (3 months) and that he had no alternative but to
put him
into custody.

Winston Mathews: 4 x 4 months conditional discharge, including possession of 1/4
kilo
of grass and 1/4 kilo of hash and 2 cases of selling £10 deals to undercover
police in
the coffee shop.

Mark Benson: 6 months 12 hours curfew, for being involved with the running of
the
coffee shop.

None of them got any sentence or punishment for possession or personal amounts
or for
the cultivation of plants for medical and recreational use.

The Judge said "They should all be given credit for their guilty pleas" he
accepted
there was NO monetary motivation and accepted that they were all medical users
and that
they will probably continue to be, he said "Chris Baldwin was a sincere and
honest
person"

Iraq and misinformation. 55 pages
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/truth.pdf
Ref:  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18114.shtml#14

FDA says they may sue to keep out imported pills
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18117.shtml#23
Two cities actually are already importing pills to reduce cost violating federal
law at
extreme risk when they abandon FDA protections. The pills from Canada could
carry SARS
or mad cow or the much dreaded eh? disease. It is hard to believe that someone
in the
FDA could spout the garbage in this article- Continued...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P26512507

From:Virgil on January 09, 2004
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18117.shtml#28
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Kucinich: 'Anger' doesn’t work
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=31316

Kucinich: Creating the Voice for Peace
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-01-09/pols_feature3.html

First Ever National Referendum on the Fate of Rush Limbaugh
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0109-04.htm

Take the animated poll on Rush: 1500 have in the first two hours!
http://www.drugpolicy.org/rush

The Story Behind Saddam's Arrest by Ritt Goldstein
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0109-03.htm

End US Oil Addiction! Demand Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses
http://jumpstartford.com/action

Big Brother At The Airport We didn't know 9/11 terrorists were left-wingers
http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/newsstand/2002-12-11/news_citizen.html

The Domination Effect: In the past, propaganda involved managing the media.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1118402,00.html

Full text: From: Nuevo Mexican on January 09, 2004
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18114.shtml#17
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Safe Sacramental Cannabis, Food, Fuel, Fiber, FARM-aceuticals
Hardrug, Booze & Petro-Chem Alternative
Eliminated by Legislation and Administrated Education Depravation!
Welcome
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"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the case which is to be decided"

"If a juror feels that the statute [law] in any criminal offence is unfair, or
that it
infringes upon the defendant's natural God-given unalienable or Constitutional
rights,
then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all
and
that the violation of it is no crime at all - for no one is bound to obey an
unjust
law"
Judge Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-1946
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Kucinich, Proudly Individualistic, Shuns The Pack By Carla Marinucci
Source: San Francisco Chronicle January 11, 2004
The presidential campaign of Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich has been nothing if not
fiercely
individualistic -- spiritually, culturally and even politically -- compared to
the rest
of his Democratic presidential rivals.  While the lion's share of presidential
candidates rub elbows with supporters in California at fund-raisers with a
$250-and-up
price tag, Kucinich shares coffee and cookies with backers at modest $30
meetings --
and assures them "no one will be turned away for lack of funds."
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18126.shtml

Cybrary: Dennis Kucinich for President
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X27825707
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'Kesey's Jail Journal' Published By Jeff Barnard
Source: Associated Press January 11, 2004
Pleasant Hill, Ore. -- When Ken Kesey was kicked loose after spending the 1967
Summer
of Love in jail for a marijuana bust, the guards asked the famous author,
psychedelic
explorer and prankster if he was going to write a book and include them in it. 
"I
think so," Kesey replied.  Thirty-six years later and two years after the
author's
death, "Kesey's Jail Journal" (Viking, 2003) is out, including two dozen color
plates
of collages he made from ink drawings entwined with his handwritten reflections
laid
down in notebooks smuggled out by a buddy who got busted with him.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18124.shtml

Sparks fly upwards: Remembering Ken Kesey
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/30/LVGTP3AF7O1.DTL
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Arizona Plane Crash Conflicts with an Army Account
Source: Associated Press January 11, 2004
Tucson, Ariz. -- The pilot of an Army skydiving plane caused a crash that took
his life
two years ago in Marana, according to a Federal Aviation Administration report. 
The
military plane collided with a civilian skydiving plane over Marana Northwest
Regional
Airport on March 15, 2002. The military pilot, who was flying a plane for the
Golden
Knights parachute team based in Fort Bragg, N.C., slammed into the ground. The
pilot of
the civilian plane managed to land his damaged plane safely.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18125.shtml

PDFA - Slickly Packaged Lies
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T530131B6
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore

Sunday, January 11 2004       Volume 2004 : Number 012
001 Canada: Pot Centre Opens
002 Njweedman indicted for refusing to submit DNA; faces jail time
003 Canada: Former Molson Site Goes To Pot
004 CA: Officers Followed Noses to Pot Farm
005 US: Study: Marijuana Buzz Linked To 'Runner's High'
006 Canada: Pot plants found in raid on B.C. gov't aide's property
007 Canada: Marijuana crops alarm drug cops
008 Interview: Loretta Nall, President, US Marijuana Party
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Narco News
http://www.narconews.com

From the Drug War to the Military Occupation of The Amazon 6/16/03
http://www.narconews.com/comments/view/2/p31.40#000210

The cure is worse than the disease 5/09/03
http://www.narconews.com/comments/view/2/p11.20#000069
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Hemp City
http://www.hempcity.net

Archives: Is The War On Cannabis A Cult? by Richard Cowan 4-4-3
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=659
Taking Cannabiphobia To New Depths Of Absurdity. A Method to Their Madness?

11-4-3 Agriculture: Cannabis is to join the rest of the
organic vegetable world today and go Metric.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i1024

FOUR:TWENTY a documentary short series about the war on cannabis.
http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2463346

Pro-Cannabis Trader Jailed
http://www.thehempire.com/pm/comments/P/1741_0_1_0/
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skunk.co.uk is dedicated to the finer aspects of living.
http://www.skunk.co.uk
The World View on Cannabis
http://www.skunk.co.uk/skunk/overview/worldview.asp
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Post Dec 03, 2003: Yesss.. first step from Russian federation !
We have it now !!! A little add to federal law - no prison for personal use MJ !
And
the penalty for a BIG doze... penalty, no prison ! Its very small step, but its
first
step on the long road... i hope, we will see the light at the end of the
tunnel...
*******
BIG congratulation from over here..
That looks good, progress at last...
Spain has the same system, I live there now, Russia will be a better place for
us peole
now too!
Thanks for letting us know!!
*******
This is good news, ... ! Now let's hope it will also be arround the globe
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Greek PM calls early election 1-11-4
Younger voters praise him for backing such causes as the decriminalisation of
cannabis
usage.
http://www.thehempire.com/pm/comments/P/1743_0_1_0/
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Sep 9 2003 AN anti-drug group in North Wales
last night voiced its support for a cannabis campaigner.
http://www.thehempire.com/pm/comments/1282_0_1_0_C/
The Hempire.com
http://www.thehempire.com
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What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/news.jsp

Worldwide war against cannabis
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2848.html
This Fantasy World of Drug Prohibition
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15600.shtml
“Appeal to reform the UN Conventions on Drugs”
http://www.radicalparty.org/lia_paa_appeal/index_en.php
World wide attack on cannabis and its users launched!
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15600.shtml#4
Open Democracy.net
http://www.opendemocracy.net
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Editor's Note: The new days of rage 11-27-3
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q13F52807
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Life Without Parole for LSD Manufacture Conspiracy 10-17-3
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/313/pickard.shtml
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Sir Mick His Satanic Majesty's Royal Knight By RON JACOBS 1-4-4
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs01032004.html
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Bush and the Holy Grail
http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/oily_grail1.htm
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Lord Knows What Robertson Wants
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107258,00.html
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Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival
of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein

Hemp Food Association
http://www.hempfood.com

Has fish had its chips? by Stephen Khan
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1120704,00.html
If you have suddenly lost your appetite for salmon,
don't get too fond of the other options.
Trouble is brewing for all farmed seafood...

Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45

Has cod had its chips?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/842990.stm
What's wrong with our food?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/food/0,2759,178225,00.html
The BSE crisis
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/bse/0,8250,388290,00.html
The GM food debate
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/gmdebate/0,2759,178400,00.html
Foot and mouth disease
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/Guardian/footandmouth/0,7368,441391,00.html
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Confessions of a White House Insider
A book about Treasury's Paul O'Neill paints a presidency where ideology and
politics
rule the day
By JOHN F. DICKERSON Jan. 10, 2004
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040119-574809,00.html
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Fully Informed Juries to Nullify Bogus Law!!!
Its the American Way!
DdC

Juror Dismissed “For Handing Out Constitutional Propaganda”
http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/suprynowicz/042301.htm

Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
http://freedomtoexhale.com/trialpics.htm

Woman Wins Medical Pot Case by John L. Mitchell
LOS ANGELES: A woman who said she grew marijuana to treat the effects of
sickle-cell
anemia was acquitted of several drug charges Monday despite overwhelming
evidence that
her personal stash was for more than medical use.

Police testified that they found more than 200 pounds of marijuana plants in
Somayah
Kambui's backyard when she was arrested Oct. 5. They believed she was using her
medical
condition as a ruse to run a distribution operation out of her South Los Angeles
house.

Also seized were six pounds of marijuana in large glasses, an additional 13
pounds in
packaging, 34 marijuana cookies, 32 small brown vials of hash oil, and a pot on
the
stove with three liters of oil. But after six days of testimony, a Superior
Court jury
spent only three hours deliberating before finding Kambui, 51, not guilty on all
five
counts.

"The evidence was clear that it was a violation of the law," said a disappointed
Sean
M. Carney, the deputy district attorney who prosecuted Kambui. "But she is a
very
sympathetic figure. She does have sickle-cell anemia, and the jury, I think,
gave a
nullification verdict." Continued...
http://www.masscann.org/News/articles/03_19_2002_b.htm

Sister Somayah Found NOT GUILTY on 15 Medical Hemp Charges
http://www.geocities.com/sistersomayah/trialupdate.htm
DEA Raids MMJ Garden of L.A. Patient Sister Somayah
http://www.geocities.com/sistersomayah
HARVEST TIME: YEP!!! IT'S THE DEA THIS TIME THOUGH
http://www.geocities.com/sistersomayah

In Jury Rooms, Form of Civil Protest Grows — Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/jury080299.htm

The Common Law Court of the United States of America
http://www.civil-liberties.com/commonlaw/common.html

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the
Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln

How FIJA Saved My Life!
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4055.shtml

Fully Informed Jury Association
http://www.fija.org
Jury rights quotes — Lone Star FIJA
http://www.io.com/lsfija/quotes.htm

Erowid Freedom Vault : Jury Nullification
http://www.erowid.org/freedom/jury_nullification/jury_nullification.shtml

Trial by jury — Cato Institute
http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-09-98.html

The History of Jury Nullification! --International Society for Individual
Liberty
http://www.jersey.net/~njdevil/history_of_jurynullification.htm

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man, by which
government
can be held to the principles of its constitution"
President Thomas Jefferson (1789)

"The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in
controversy"
Chief Justice John Jay USA

"It is not only his Right but his duty to find the verdict according to his own
best
understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the
direction of
the court"
John Adams (Second USA President)

"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts"
Samuel Chase, US Supreme Court Chief Justice 1796

"The Jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact"
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Near this site William Penn and William Mead were tried in 1670 for preaching
to an
unlawful assembly in Gracechurch Street. This tablet commemorates the courage
and
endurance of the jury, Thomas Vere, Edward Bushell and ten others, who refused
to give
a verdict against them although they were locked up without food for two nights
and
were fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty. The case of these jury men was
reviewed on a writ of Habeas Corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the
opinion of
the court which established the Rights of Juries to give their Verdict according
to
their conviction."
Plaque Outside Old Bailey, London

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972:"unreviewable and irreversible power [of the
jury]
to acquit in disregard of the instruction of the law given by the trial judge.
The
pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative
to
disregard
instructions of the judge"

=====
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We've waited a long time to get something on you. You honest men are such a
problem
and such a headache. But we knew you'd slip sooner or later - and this is just
what we
wanted."

>>>"You seem to be pleased about it."

  "Don't I have good reason to be?"

>>>"But, after all, I did break one of your laws."

"Well, what do you think they're for?"

Dr. Ferris did not notice the sudden look on Rearden's face, the look of a man
hit by
the first vision of that which he had sought to see. Dr. Ferris was past the
stage of
seeing; he was intent upon delivering the last blows to an animal caught in a
trap.

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris.
"We
want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy
scouts
you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful
gestures.
We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real
trick,
and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only
power
any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there
aren't
enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that
it
becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of
law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of
laws
that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you
create
a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the
system, Mr.
Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to
deal
with."
Excerpted Excerpt Beginning on page 411 of the 35th Anniversary Edition of Atlas
Shrugged... continued... 
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/JohnGalt/Excerpt2.htm

The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist ... DdC
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2AB13B45
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Pot Bust Worth $30-million, Police Say By Oliver Moore
Source: Globe and Mail January 12, 2004
The mammoth scale of two Toronto-area marijuana grow-operations busted on the
weekend
shows that “commercial marijuana factories have reached epidemic proportions in
Ontario,” police said Monday. A joint operation by officers of the Ontario
Provincial
Police and the Barrie Police Service at a former Molson brewery, a stone's-throw
from a
busy  highway, turned up thousands of plants. A raid on another building nearby
netted
thousands more plants. The total street value of the drugs is estimated at
$30-million.

Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18130.shtml
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CFTO Toronto: Massive Barrie, Ontario pot-grow operation stuns police with its
magnitude and costs -- 4:55
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V30623C07
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Here's More Pictures from Puff_tuff
With apologies to Frank Discussion: http://frankdiscussion.netfirms.com/
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771096-1.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771098-2.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771100-3.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771104-4.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771107-5.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771110-6.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771111-7.jpg
http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771114-8.jpg
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18129.shtml#3
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All according to script, so far
kaptinemo on January 12, 2004
"Script?", I hear someone say. "What do you mean, 'script'?".
The following is a link to an in-depth local broadcast stream:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2B552C07

Take special note of the newsreader interviewing a local police chief.

The newsreader asks the chief directly, "Wouldn't decriminalization solve the
problem?"

and the chief does not answer directly, but instead goes off on a wild tangent
about how they have to end organized crime operations.

Of course, it's no answer...because they don't have any. The same old song and
dance...
and practically scripted from the DEA's playbook. No deviation. Never answer
directly.
Steer the conversation away from legalization back to the influences of
organized
crime...
which, of course, wouldn't receive their funds if the weed were legal.

But then again, neither would the police. Continued...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18130.shtml#10
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Police Investigation Rattles B.C.'s Liberal Party By Mark Hume
Source: Globe and Mail January 12, 2004
Vancouver -- "It's obviously a money trail," the man with a rich Indo-Canadian
accent
said, talking on his cellphone as he weaved through heavy traffic. "There are a
few
individuals involved . . . these guys all came from the Island. They worked
actively on
Paul Martin's campaign and probably brought in a whole lot of money. . . .
That's the
real nitty-gritty of the story."
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18128.shtml
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OPP High on Big Brewery Bust
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18129.shtml
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Medical Pot Case Tests Federal Law By Mike McPhee
Source: Denver Post January 12, 2004
Don Nord did not want to get caught up in a conflict between state and federal
law over
whether he can keep and use marijuana.  The Hayden man, who has a state Medical
Marijuana Registry card allowing him to use the drug for pain caused by his
cancer and
phlebitis, just wants to recover the marijuana confiscated from him by a federal
agent.

Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18127.shtml
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Hemp and Marijuana: Myths & Realities by David P. West, Ph.D.
for the North American Industrial Hemp Council (Excerpted)
http://naihc.org/hemp_information/content/hemp.mj.html

Hemp and Marijuana Myths & Realities

A Botanical and Biochemical Introduction

Hemp. Has there ever been a plant so fraught with confusion and controversy? The
word
itself carries a confusing history. "Hemp" was for medieval Europeans a generic
term
used to describe any fiber.  With European expansion, fiber plants encountered
during
exploration were commonly called "hemp." Thus we have a bewildering variety of
plants
that carry the name hemp: Manila hemp (abacá, Musa textilis), sisal hemp (Agave
sisalana), Mauritius hemp (Furcraea gigantea), New Zealand hemp (Phormium
tenax), Sunn
hemp (Crotalaria juncea), Indian hemp (jute, Corchorus capsularis or C.
clitorus),
Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum), bow-string hemp (Sansevieria cylindrica).

This botanical confusion was compounded by the introduction of a new word to
describe
hemp-marihuana (now commonly written "marijuana"). The word was first coined in
the
1890s, but was adopted by the Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s to describe all
forms of
Cannabis and to this day U.S. drug enforcement agencies continue to call the
plant
marijuana without regard to botanical distinctions. Indeed, a recent conference
held in
Jefferson City, Missouri and sponsored by Drug Watch International and the Drug
Enforcement Administration was entitled, "Marijuana: Myths, Concerns, Facts"-yet
much
of the discussion concerned industrial hemp and the legal products made from it.

The conflation of the word "marijuana" and the word "hemp" has placed a heavy
burden on
public policymakers. Many believe that by legalizing hemp they are legalizing
marijuana. Yet in more than two dozen other countries, governments have accepted
the
distinction between the two types of Cannabis and, while continuing to penalize
the
growing of marijuana, have legalized the growing of industrial hemp. The U.S.
government remains unconvinced.

To understand the difference between hemp and marijuana, let's begin with two
botanical
analogies: field corn and sweet corn; breadseed poppies and opium poppies.

Reality: Feral hemp, or ditchweed, is a remnant of the hemp once grown by U.S.
farmers.
A study of feral hemp in Kansas showed that it contains extremely low levels of
THC,
from 0.5 percent to as low as 0.05 percent and less [41]. It has no drug value,
but it
does offer an important environmental benefit as a desirable nesting habitat for
birds.
Yet 99 percent of the "marijuana" being eradicated by the federal government-at
great
public expense-consists of this harmless ditchweed.
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Blatent Bigotry (Excerpted from The Emperor Wears NO Clothes)
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/04/ECH04_08.HTM#bigotry
Starting with the 1898 Spanish American War, the Hearst newspaper had denounced
Spaniards, Mexican-Americans, and Latinos.

After the seizure of 800,000 acres of Hearst’s prime Mexican timberland by the
“marihuana” smoking army of Pancho Villa,* these slurs intensified.

* The song “La Cucaracha” tells the story of one of Villa’s men looking for his
stash
of “marijuana por fumar!” (to smoke!)

Non-stop for the next for three decades, Hearst painted the picture of the lazy,
pot-smoking Mexican—still one of our most insidious prejudices. Simultaneously,
he
waged a similar racist smear campaign against the Chinese, referring to them as
the
“Yellow Peril”.

Hearst, through pervasive and repetitive use, brought the word ‘marijuana’ into
English.

From 1910 to 1920, Hearst’s newspapers would claim that the majority of
incidents in
which blacks were said to have raped white women could be traced directly to
cocaine.
This continued for 10 years until Hearst decided it was not “cocaine-crazed
Negroes”
raping white women—it was now “marijuana-crazed Negroes” raping white women.

Hearst’s and other sensationalistic tabloids ran hysterical headlines atop
stories
portraying “Negroes” and Mexicans as frenzied beasts who, under the influence of
marijuana, would play anti-white “voodoo-satanic” music (jazz) and heap
disrespect and
“viciousness” onto the predominantly white readership. Other such Jim Crow
(apartheid)
offenses resulting from this drug-induced “crime wave” included: stepping on
white
men’s shadows, looking white people directly in the eye for three seconds or
more,
looking at a white woman twice, laughing at a white person, etc.

For such “crimes,” hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and blacks spent, in
aggregate,
millions of years in jails, in prisons, and on chain gangs, under brutal
segregation
laws that remained in effect throughout the U.S. until the 1950s and ’60s.
Hearst,
through pervasive and repetitive use, pounded the obscure Mexican slang word
“marijuana” into the English-speaking American consciousness. Meanwhile, the
word
“hemp” was discarded and “cannabis,” the scientific term, was ignored or buried.

The actual Spanish word for hemp is “cáñamo.” But using a Mexican “Sonoran”
colloquialism—marijuana, often Americanized as “marihuana”—guaranteed that no
one would
realize that the proper terms for one of the world’s chief natural medicine,
“cannabis,” and for the premier industrial resource, “hemp,” had been
outflanked,
outlawed, and pushed out of the language.

The authorized on-line version of Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” 
text
from
“The Emperor Wears No Clothes” © Jack Herer CD-ROM and web presentation © Milo
and
MichaelM

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Hemp Cyberfarm Mathew's views...
http://www.hempworld.com/Hemp-CyberFarm_com/htms/linksviews/myviews.html
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ACLU defends Rush Limbaugh in court
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7691982.htm
MIAMI (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) took
sides with
Rush Limbaugh on Monday by complaining that Florida investigators violated the
conservative radio host's rights when they seized his medical records.

Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K512241B6
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CHANNELGATE!
From: Basil Venitis venitisonline@...
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004
TV Channel 10 of Greece accused the Greek Government of jamming its  broadcast
during
the speech of the opposition leader Costas  Karamanlis! State employees were
caught
redhanded with jamming equipment near the antenna of channel 10 at the exact
time of
the blackout of its signal!  The employees refused to stop the jamming until
they get
orders from their higher ups in ERT, the state organization that supervises the
brodcasting media!  This is the Watergate of Greece that might ruin the
reputation of
George Papandreou, the new leader of the governing socialist party PASOK. 
Messages of
sympathy are pouring in to channel 10 from all over the world.  People see how
power
corrupts officials and statists.  Today members of the opposition party have
promised
to bring the issue for discussion at the Greek Parliament.
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Freak summers 'will happen regularly'
Costly extremes of weather will become the norm, study suggests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1120801,00.html

Cannabis Fuel
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/Fuel.html
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Democracy on the retreat
Beijing's increasing control over Hong Kong's politics has hit hopes of
democratic
reform on the island, writes Jonathan Watts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1121231,00.html
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THE RIDDLE OF THE TRICKSTER by Thunderspud of Dragonfhain
From: "Holly & Jack" 12 Jan 2004
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos071.htm
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Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq? By CBS News 11 January 2004
Iraq War Planned Pre-9/11?
A year ago, Paul O'Neill was fired from his job as George Bush's Treasury
Secretary for
disagreeing too many times with the president's policy on tax cuts.  Now,
O'Neill - who
is known for speaking his mind - talks for the first time about his two years
inside
the Bush administration. His story is the centerpiece of a new book being
published
this week about the way the Bush White House is run.  Continued...
http://truthout.org/docs_04/011204B.shtml

Kucinich on O'Neil 1-12-4
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18127.shtml#5

Kucinich Wants New Laws Against Dumping Steel 12-21-2000
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/213488/detail.html
CLEVELAND -- U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (pictured, below) wants new laws to be
passed
that would stop foreign companies from dumping steel in the U.S. at
bargain-basement
prices.

Dennis Kucinich for President
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X27825707
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Bush in 30 sec. Awards Show To Be live via Webcast 1/12/04
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3D012C07
f you'd like to tune in, the event will be webcast live, beginning at 8p EST/5p
PST.
We'll be announcing the winners around 10:45pm EST.
To tune in to the webcast and view the winning ads after they're announced, just
go to:
http://www.bushin30seconds.org

Top Ten Conservative Idiots (#139)
January 12, 2004 · Moonbase Dubya Edition
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/139.html

Democratic Underground Forums "DU2"
http://www.democraticunderground.com
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The exercise of power for control
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18128.shtml#10
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US Treasury seeks probe into papers taken by O'Neill
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K12121C07
The U.S. Treasury has asked the U.S. inspector general's  office to investigate
how a possibly classified document appeared on Sunday in a televised interview
of ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, a department spokesman said on Monday.
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The Bush Hitler Thing by SL/Wisconsin (Excerpted)
t r u t h o u t | Reader Submission 09 January 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/010904A.shtml
So far, I've seen nothing to eliminate the possibility that Bush is on the same
course
as Hitler. And I've seen far too many analogies to dismiss the possibility. The
propaganda. The lies. The rhetoric. The nationalism. The flag waving. The
pretext of
'preventive war'.

There isn't much doubt in my mind - anyone who compares the history of Hitler's
rise to
power and the progression of recent events in the US cannot avoid the parallels.
It's
incontrovertible.
Is Bush another Hitler?  I'm afraid now, that what may still come to pass is a
reign
far more savage and barbaric than that of the Nazis.
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t r u t h o u t Poll 1-12-4 @ 5:45pm pacific
Who is your preference for Democratic presidential nominee?
Kucinich 43.9%
Dean 32.0%
VOTE: http://www.truthout.org
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James Baker III Helped Finance Saddam
The Associated Press 11 January 2004
WASHINGTON - Now assigned the task of reducing Iraq's debt, presidential envoy
James A.
Baker III once gave crucial support for continuing a billion-dollar loan program
to
Saddam Hussein's government that accounts for most of the money Iraq still owes
the
United States. Continued...
http://truthout.org/docs_04/011304A.shtml
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Norman Solomon: Dixie Trap for Democrats In Presidential Race
http://truthout.org/docs_04/011304E.shtml
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Open Door Policy By Karen Kwiatkowski
The American Conservative January 19, 2004 issue
A strange thing happened on the way to the war.
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon insider, concludes her
observations
on the run-up to the Iraq war in this last of a three-part series.
As the winter of 2002 approached, I was increasingly amazed at the success of
the
propaganda campaign being waged by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and
neoconservative mouthpieces at the Washington Times and Wall Street Journal. I
speculated about the necessity but unlikelihood of a Phil-Dick-style minority
report on
the grandiose Feith-Wolfowitz-Rumsfeld-Cheney vision of some future Middle East
where
peace, love, and democracy are brought about by pre-emptive war and military
occupation. Continued...  http://www.amconmag.com/1_19_04/article1.html
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Bushit Rumcheney Cocktail:Fascist Nationalism and MKULTRA
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
O!  Had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear,
I would today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule,
blasting  reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.
For it is not light that is needed, but fire;
it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
The feeling of the nation must be quickened;
the conscience of the nation must be roused;
the propriety of the nation must be startled;
the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed;
its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
-- Frederick Douglass
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Today I viewed someone I have never really watched, by coincidence I turned on
the tube
and there was Montel Williams discussing his new book Climbing Higher. The book
I knew
of, and the fact he uses medicinal Ganja for his MS. But this was straight up
advocating on prime time mainstream TV and that would be almost historical. I
believe
he blew the doors off the place with very credible references in the audience
and not
one member of the audience scoffed or even questioned or commented against it.
Not one.
Patients testifying and Doctors testifying. Very moving, especially for
television.
Almost total truth though he did slide into politics a little. I can't blame the
medicinal users for feeling more worthy because of their illnesses. I've helped
them
get it a few decades now and have all the compassion I can for them... but,
I'll never change my feelings of the fact that healthy people using shouldn't be
in
cages either. That religious or re-creational use has absolutely nothing to do
with the
medicinal benefits, and can in no way shape or form, change the physical
properties of
Ganja used to treat a wide range of symptoms for a wide range of illnesses. Or
that
anyone would give up legal Pharmaceuticals that worked, and suffer through their
symptoms just to smoke pot that didn't work, quasi legally. Its always been an
either
or, is or isn't and now finally its all being corroborated on nationwide
television. It
was informative TV and I always thought that was mostly an oxymoron.
I'm waiting for the transcript. Hope this is replayed. Maybe then someday
they'll
realize Hemp doesn't change its tensile strength or versatility because of users
either. The Ganjawar exists because people profit on it, it has very little to
do with
the dangers of using Ganja because the "dangers" are in the prohibition. If
there were
no profits in this war, no one would show up to fight it.
Peace, Love and Liberty or DEAth
DdC

CLIMBING HIGHER
http://www.montelshow.com/show/todays.htm
Today Montel Williams says he will experience one of the most difficult shows he
has
ever participated in. With the help of fashion model, Emme, Montel will put
himself in
the hot seat and answer some very painful questions about his experiences with
MS.
He'll discuss in detail some of his most personal information that he has
written about
in his new book, Climbing Higher. For the first time he'll reveal the depths of
depression that he has been suffering from ever since his diagnosis with MS -
including
terrifying thoughts of suicide. He'll discuss the physical torture of neuralgia
- the
terrible nerve pain that MS patients are afflicted with - and how it has
affected his
life. Montel will also open up about some of the treatments he has used to help
him
cope with the daily pain he lives with.
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Today's Show: Climbing Higher

Montel will be joined by Dr. Adam Kaplin, chief psychiatric consultant at the MS
Center
at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who will explain the depression
that is
so common for MS survivors. Graham Boyd, director of the ACLU drug policy
litigation
project, Mark Barondess a fellow MS patient and friend will be on the show as
well as
Larry Grobel, Montel's co-author of his new book, Climbing Higher.

Emme: Supermodel, television host, author, lecturer, and clothing designer who's
an
advocate for MS awareness will be on the show to interview Montel about his new
book,
Climbing Higher

Dr. Adam Kaplin: Chief psychiatric consultant to the MS center at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine who is featured in Montel's new book

Nancy Davis: [On Videotape] MS patient and founder of The Center Without Walls
who
awarded Montel "The Man of Courage Award" for his decision to come forward about
having
MS and his encouragement of others to become more active in fighting MS

Graham Boyd: Attorney with the ACLU who will share his experiences with the
political
war on drugs and prescription medications http://www.ACLU.org

Larry Grobel: Co-author of Climbing Higher who will talk about the writing
process he
shared with Montel Mark Barondess: Lawyer and MS patient who is friends with
Montel

Jackie & Jana: Sisters who wanted to give their support to Montel and his goal
of
broadening awareness about MS

Is there an episode of MONTEL that you just have to add to your video library?
Maybe
you missed an episode that everyone's talking about...Don't worry, it's simple
to order
your video cassette or transcript. Just call Burrelle's Transcripts directly at
(800)
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All you need is the topic and airdate.
Tuesday 1-13-4: CLIMBING HIGHER
http://www.montelshow.com/show
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UK Trial Results On Value Of Cannabis For MS
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17753.shtml
Marijuana May Help MS Patients
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17747.shtml
Major Study of MMJ Indicates It Helps in MS
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17746.shtml
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Montel Williams Show: Feedback form
http://www.montelshow.com/show/tell.htm
Montel Williams Caught with Medical Marijuana
http://www.marijuana.com/article.php?sid=7760
Talk Show Host Fined For Drug Paraphernalia
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17732.shtml
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IA, Lakota Sioux meets with Kucinich 13 Jan 2004
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X37241E07

DES MOINES (AP) - Dennis Kucinich presented the spiritual leader of the Lakota
tribe
with a ceremonial blanket Sunday, saying that as president he would work to heal
wounds
between the government and American Indians.

Looking Horse said America needs a president who will honor the original intent
of the
Constitution.
By Laura Rauch, AP

Kucinich, one of nine candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination,
met
with Chief Arvol Looking Horse during a diversity celebration at a downtown
hotel,
blocks from where a Democratic debate was to be held later in the evening.

"I pledge to you a presidency that embraces the spirit of being of America long
before
it was established as the United States, but an America which connects with the
values
of Native Americans to the Mother Earth," Kucinich told Looking Horse.

The Ohio congressman said he would work to heal the breach that exists between
the
government and American Indians.

"There is much so healing to do," he said, noting their long suffering at the
hands of
the U.S. government.

Looking Horse, who gave a blessing in his native language, said America needs a
president who will honor the original intent of the Constitution.

"We need a person who can make a difference and bring peace and honor back to
Mother
Earth," he said.

Looking Horse, of the Eagle Butte, S.D.-based Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, is the
19th
Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota and
Nakota
nations.

A diverse crowd of about 100 people, spanning all ages and ethnic groups,
crowded into
the hotel meeting room to hear Kucinich and Looking Horse.

The crowd was entertained by "Democracy in Creation" a group of singers and
dancers
from Santa Cruz, Calif., touring to raise political awareness among young
voters.

Jenise Hibbeler, 35, a massage therapist from Des Moines, set up a massage table
in one
corner of the room, giving massages to raise money for Kucinich's campaign.

"There are a lot of people not feeling nurtured in the world and when you do
feel
nurtured you're less willing to 'GRRRR,'" Hibbeler said, growling. "He wants to
nurture
us as people. He truly is a loving, caring and passionate man and he really
works from
the heart."

  "To those of us locked away in here, there's nothing more important than being
remembered"
Leonard Peltier September 1998 Leavenworth Prison

The Drug War Comes To The Rez
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4413.shtml
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MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THY PEOPLE YOU'RE DYING
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mycount.html#top
--- NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/nowthat.html#top
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Kucinich on O'Neill Revelations- January 11, 2004
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J18226E07
http://www.kucinich.us
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Paul O'Neill interview on CBS' 60 MINUTES
http://www.corvusworld.com/oneill.htm
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Kucinich On Wolf Blitzer Reports
http://www.corvusworld.com/konwolf.htm
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"One person can make a difference" -- Dennis Kucinich
http://Kucinich.us

Dennis Kucinich for President
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X27825707
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The Buzz on Hemp By Mike Strobel
Source: Toronto Sun January 13, 2004
The big pot bust in Barrie brings back heady memories. Lazy August afternoons.
Bees
abuzzin.' Crows cawing on a soft breeze. My old man checking the cannabis crop.
"Lookit
how tall it is," he would say, head back in wonder.  It was 10, 12 feet high.
The corn
no longer hid it. The OPP cruised by regularly, peering in from Talbot Rd. "The
cops
were really suspicious," my dad chuckles down the line from Maple Manor, in
Tillsonburg.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18133.shtml
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Getting Rid of Unwanted Weed By Curtis Rush, Staff Reporter
Source: Toronto Star January 13, 2004
Now that police have broken up the biggest pot growing operation in Canadian
history,
they face a second problem: how to dispose of 30,000 marijuana plants.
"Something this
large, there is no normal practice," said Barrie Police Sergeant George Cabral. 
"That
may present some difficulty in itself." The plants will either be burned or
buried.
But there's so much stock, the police aren't exactly sure how they should
proceed with
the process.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18132.shtml
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Huge Marijuana Factory Was One Strange Joint By Peter Cheney
Source: Globe and Mail January 13, 2004
Barrie, Ont. -- For the workers at Canada's biggest indoor marijuana farm, there
was no
summer, no winter, and no day or night. Instead, there was the artificial glow
of more
than a thousand industrial lights, the gurgle of chemicals and mattresses set in
windowless concrete rooms. And of course there was the endless task of caring
for more
than 30,000 high-grade marijuana plants that produced an annual cash crop worth
an
estimated $100-million.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18131.shtml
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore

Tuesday, January 13 2004       Volume 2004 : Number 013
001 Canada: Pot bust biggest ever
002 Canada: Tangled Police Investigation Rattles B.C.'s Liberal
003 canada: Pot growers worked shifts, slept at plant
004 CO: DEA agent accused of defying state constitution, judge's order
005 CA: Hayward Hempery Closed by Eviction
006 Canada: Huge marijuana factory was one strange joint
007 NJ:  Weedman mission hits a serious snag
008 Canada: Budding 'epidemic'
009 Canada: The buzz on hemp
010 WI: OPED: Law allows medical marijuana in capsule form
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Change the Climate
http://www.changetheclimate.com
War on Drugs: Pot Shot
http://www.changetheclimate.com/news/potshot.php
Overworked About An Ad on the Metro
http://www.changetheclimate.com/news/wp_editorial.php
Marijuana Ad On Metro Infuriates Lawmaker
http://www.changetheclimate.com/news/istook.php
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Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U2D4222D6
Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M6E5220E6
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Dick Gephardt on David Letterman last night.............
http://www.corvusworld.com/gephardtondave.htm
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'Free' to be: N.O. school gets loving look By Renée Peck
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R49212E07
TV Focus editor January 11, 2004

In the late '60s and early '70s, desegregation prompted an explosion of private
schools.

The local anti-establishment movement prompted one.

Founded in 1971 by self-proclaimed dreamers and hippies who saw education as a
means of
social change, The New Orleans Free School was one of many "free" schools
nationwide
that sought not to keep the races apart, but to bring them together. Racially
balanced
and rule-free, these "open classroom" schools were centered on the individual
child. No
grades. No desks. No textbooks. No classrooms.

Most free schools fell by the wayside within a year or two, but the New Orleans
version
is still operating three decades later. With one great irony: The school that
was
started as a protest against public education now operates as a New Orleans
public
school, probably the only public free school in the country.

First-time filmmaker Mika Buser-Ferris chronicles the 30-year history of this
one-of-a-kind institution in "The Free School," an engaging documentary that won
the
2002 New Orleans Film Festival's Louisiana Filmmaker's Award. Free School alums
need
not fear a dry, textbook take on their freewheeling alma mater. Buser-Ferris, a
former
Free School student himself, shows a creative hand at storytelling, with a
lucid,
chronological storyline, judicious use of archival clips and footage and
in-depth
interviews with students, teachers and parents. Original music by Matt Johnson
plays to
advantage as upbeat background.

The New Orleans Free School tale is timely, not only as a historical document,
but also
in light of the contemporary debate in education. "No child left behind" could
well
have summed up the Free School philosophy, as idealistic teachers sought to
maximize
the potential of every child in their care.

The experiment in non-structured education went through many growing pains.
Total
freedom brought creativity, but also a lack of discipline. The term "chaos" pops
up in
more than one interview. But it was financial restraints that ultimately pushed
the
Free School where no similar institution had gone before: into the arms of the
New
Orleans Public School system. For more than two decades the two have maintained
an
uneasy truce, as the Camp Street school attempts to maintain its open-learning
concept
and the system demands structure.

These days the New Orleans Free School still doesn't give grades or mandate a
dress
code, but you will find textbooks, desks and a structured curriculum there. The
racial
balance of earlier years has given way to a predominantly African-American
population,
and the concept of small numbers (29 students in 1971) has yielded to the
demands of an
urban location, with hundreds of students today.

But the spirit of social reform remains, and the school continues to coax
creativity
and push mental processes. As one former student says on camera, "I couldn't
spell, but
I was very politically aware."

"The Free School" looks back, and by doing so raises important questions about
what
lies ahead.

Watch it and learn. TV Focus editor Renée Peck can be reached at
rpeck@...
or (504) 826-3431.
From: radtimes resist@... 12 Jan 2004
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Ken Kesey's '60s lockup memoir debuts
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01112004/nation_w/128022.asp
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Sign Online the UNESCO Global Culture of Peace Manifesto 2000
Become a Global Culture of Peace Messenger by using
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The campaign for a US Department of Peace
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Steps for Peace "Truth Force Walk"
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Life and Liberty in the Balance: A Film Documentary
http://www.uneco.org/llb.html
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The Great Rethinking: The Prophets Journey Palm Springs.
http://www.greatmystery.org/ps2004conference.html
Howard Martin—Energetic Empowerment ‘04
http://www.heartmath.com/ABC.html
The Magnificant American Southwest Sacred Pilgrimage of Healing and Renewal
May 17-27, 2004 is available at:
http://www.greatmystery.org/southwest.html
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The energy at the Hammerstein Ballroom last night was incredible.

The winning ad, "Child’s Pay," by Charlie Fisher, 38, of Denver features young
children
working in difficult service and manufacturing jobs -- washing dishes, hauling
trash,
repairing tires, cleaning offices, assembly-line processing and grocery checking
--
followed by the line: "Guess who’s going to pay off President Bush’s $1 trillion
deficit?"

Charlie Fisher is an advertising executive who was a registered Republican until
the
end of the first Bush administration, in 1992. He is currently on assignment in
Denmark
and flew in to attend the awards ceremony with his cameraman, P. Dreyer.

"I was thrilled just to participate in this contest," Fisher said. "When we
finished
editing ‘Child's Pay,’ I felt it was nice -- maybe a little too nice. Perhaps I
learned
that you don't have to paint a bulls-eye on someone’s forehead to be effective.
Most
importantly, my Republican father said this when I told him I was making an ad
for this
contest, not knowing what his reaction would be: ‘I am proud of you for taking
part and
acting in the world around you.’"

Thanks again to all the entrants who participated and thanks to everyone who's
making
it possible to put these ads on the air. We're going to take our country back.

Sincerely,
--Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
The MoveOn.org Team
January 13th, 2004

View the contest winning ad, "Child's Pay", and help us take it to the Super
Bowl.
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/donate/creditcard.html

MoveOn.Org Videos 13 Jan 2004
http://www.corvusworld.com/moveonvideos.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/4.mov
From: "Ron Harold" studioron@...
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"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes,
Hispanics,
Philipino's and Entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from
marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with
Negroes, entertainers and any others."
-- Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics to Congress,
why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed August 2 1937; effective Oct.1, 1937)

In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org

*The MAJORITY of the 2 million U.S. inmates are incarcerated due to the drug
war! The
Drug-War Industrial Complex. The U.S. drug-war inmate MAJORITY is calculated by
adding
together inmates committing drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to
get
money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug-related parole
violations, etc..

U.S. prison population largest in world
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X690121B6
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2AC11FE6

The USA has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's 8 MILLION
prisoners.
The USA surpassed Russia in the year 2000, and so the USA again has the world's
highest
incarceration rate! It is now 5 to 17 times higher than all other Western (long
democratic traditions) nations. The US incarceration rate has nearly QUADRUPLED
since
Reagan's election in 1980. 6.5 million adults, or 1 in 32 adults in the USA, or
3.1% of
adults, were under correctional supervision (in jail, in prison, on probation,
or on
parole) at yearend 2000. Statistics, references, links, and charts:
http://drugwar.8m.com/majority.htm and U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10
billion
annually enforcing marijuana laws. According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were
arrested on marijuana charges in 2001. Keith Stroup,  (NORML)
http://www.norml.org

Monsanto and the drug war...
Besides the toxic drift poisoning bystanders like Paul Wellstone,
Monsanto profits on the billions spent eradicating "marijuana"
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=669

Annual Global Cannabis March
http://www.cures-not-wars.org
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did, and it never will.
Find out just what people will submit to,
and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and
wrong which will be imposed upon them;
and these will continue until they are resisted with
either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants
are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
-- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857

Free Tommy Chong!
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Oh, Mother Earth,
With your fields of green
Once more laid down by the hungry hand
How long can you give and not receive
And feed this world ruled by greed
And feed this world ruled by greed.

Oh, ball of fire
In the summer sky
Your healing light, your parade of days
Are they betrayed by the men of power
Who hold this world in their changing hands
They hold the world in their changing hands.

Oh, freedom land
Can you let this go
Down to the streets where the numbers grow
Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways
Or trade away our children's days
Or trade away our children's days.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways
Or trade away our children's days.

Mother Earth by Neil Young
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/ohmotherearth.html
A-Z Lyrics Neil Young
http://www.azlyrics.com/y/young.html
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Transcript: Montel Williams' Battle With M.S. Hannity & Colmes
Source: FoxNews.com January 14, 2004
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Television veteran -- don't you hate that word, veteran?
--
Montel Williams -- It would apply to people that are old in this business, have
been in
it for a long time.  Huge success with his daytime talk show, but since 1999
he's also
been fighting constant pain and depression from multiple sclerosis. In his new
book,
"Climbing Higher," he talks how he almost took his own life and why his love for
his
children gave him the strength to go on living.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18136.shtml
*******
Editorial Smoke Up in A2
Source: Michigan Daily January 14, 2004
Ann Arbor is the only city in Michigan to decriminalize marijuana use, a move
that
dates back 32 years. But this notoriety carries a unique caveat for those who
attempt
to take advantage of the law.  While the Ann Arbor Police Department enforces
city law
which including the ordinance decriminalizing marijuana, the University and the
Department of Public Safety should enforce state law instead. Therefore, if a
student
or another individual is caught possessing or using marijuana on University
property,
the crime is treated as if it did not occur in Ann Arbor.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18135.shtml
*******
Woman's Aim To Use Pot Law Rebuffed By Sharon Michael
Source: Olympian January 14, 2004
Olympia -- Monica Ginn says she grows marijuana for medical uses, but she wasn't
allowed to use that defense at her trial on drug charges Tuesday.  Judge Thomas
McPhee
ruled a day earlier that Ginn does not meet all of the requirements to justify
using
that defense against charges of growing and distributing marijuana, a controlled
substance.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18134.shtml
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Canadian Supreme Court Decision Leaves Cannabis Users With A Minor Victory
But A Major Loss of Freedom for All Canadians.
Source: Richard Cowan on 2004-01-14
http://www.marijuananews.com
There are consolation prizes for us in the dissenting opinions, and even a
little in
the majority.  The problem for society as a whole is that if one can justify
arresting
people for using cannabis, one can justify arresting people for almost anything.
Read
Full Story...
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=726
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore
Wednesday, January 14 2004      Volume 2004 : Number 014
001 WA: Monica Ginn....Help Needed
002 ASA Emergency Alert to Federal Arrests of Patients
003 Olympia, WA: MMJ TRIAL, Day 2
004 Canada: Grow busts booed
005 Canada: Editorial: Time Feds Got Off The Pot
006 Canada: Pot right under their noses
007 WA: Woman's aim to use pot law rebuffed
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Homegrown's all right with me.
Homegrown is the way it should be.
Homegrown is a good thing.
Plant that bell and let it ring.

The sun comes up in the morning,
Shines that light around.
One day, without no warning,
Things start jumping up from the ground.

Well, homegrown's all right with me.
Homegrown is the way it should be.
Homegrown is a good thing.
Plant that bell and let it ring.

"Homegrown" by Neil Young
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/homegrown.html

Fight Terrorism Grow Your Own!!!
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/40/40150.jpg
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
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"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy rotten system."
Dorothy Day

Can popping fish-oil pills stop this tantrum?
Since a compelling experiment was shown on the BBC's Child of Our Time
last week, sales of Omega-3 supplements have rocketed. continued...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/parents/story/0,3605,1122449,00.html
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Omega 3: Fish v Hempseed Oil
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F11E31117
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Protein: Mad Cows v Hempseed
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H17E22117
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Paper No. 23-0  ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF SULFUR IN COALS
CHOU, Chen-Lin, Illinois State Geological Survey
615 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820-6964
From: Simon Wareing/SEU-OuterCircle
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J5FA13F07
*******
The largest single source of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is the burning of
fossil
fuel (coal, oil and gas), which currently accounts for ~80% of the annual
emission of
CO2 into the atmosphere. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/intro/matthews.01

"Biodiesel as an alternative fuel is considered a more cost efficient choice
among the
available technologies for transit systems this size," said Richard Matthews,
Transit
Director of Athens. "The high capital costs associated with renovating the
maintenance
and fueling facilities to operate equipment on compressed natural gas is not
present
with biodiesel. The only facility modifications needed are a separate fuel
storage tank
and pump. continued... http://www.bae.uga.edu/outreach/biodiesel

Hemp Plastics- now independantly valued at US$900m industry
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/plastic0103.html
Natural Fibres for Car Componenets with DaimlerChrysler
http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/mercedescoconuts.html
Hemp Plastic
http://www.hempplastic.com

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power." --Mussolini

THE OIL WAR OF 1872
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G37512B45

Power of fossil fuel producers exposed
http://www.climateark.org/articles/1999/wrldenee.htm
From Rio to Buenos Aires: World Bank Fossil Fuel Lending (1 of 272)
http://www.seen.org/db/Dispatch;jsessionid=a2jxO0twQar4?action-History:-go=1&ind\
ex=0
http://www.seen.org
Kingpins of Carbon - Table of Contents
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/carbon/kocinx.asp
Inventory of World Bank Fossil Fuel Projects (1of 307)
http://www.seen.org/db/Dispatch?action-History:-go=1&index=1
FOSSILE FUEL SUBSIDIES FACT SHEET
http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/fuelsubfact.htm
An analysis of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
fossil fuel project lending since the 1992 Earth Summit (1 of 308 )
http://www.seen.org/db/Dispatch?action-History:-go=1&index=2

PLAN COLOMBIA TARGETS OIL, NOT DRUGS
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11242

http://www.enn.com
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Cheney Target of Criminal Investigation by David J. Sirota
The Progress Report January 9, 2004
Though neglected by major media in the United States,  international news
sources
report that French law enforcement authorities have made Vice President Dick
Cheney the
target of a criminal investigation for his role in a massive bribery scandal
during his
time as CEO of Halliburton. Le Figaro, one of France's biggest (and most
conservative)
newspapers, reports "aninvestigative judge is looking into allegations of
corruption
during construction of a natural gas complex in Nigeria by Halliburton and a
French oil
company." Continued...
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17521

VP boosts Campbell at Denver fundraiser By Julia C. Martinez
The $1,000-per-person event was expected to raise about $500,000 for Campbell's
re-election campaign, spokeswoman Cinamon Watson said. Campbell is running for a
third
six-year term. Following a roughly 15-minute speech, Cheney held a private
reception
with supporters who paid $4,000 to have their pictures taken with the vice
president.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G47B65117
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5 Steps 2 Fascism
corvusworld.com/5steps2fascism.htm
Remembering the First Fight Against Fascism
http://www.bartcop.com/421102.htm
Stop Fascism
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4258.gif
"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist
regimes
into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy
the seat
of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S.
Ambassador to
Germany, 1937. Continued...
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
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Dohrn makes strange transition from wanted list to movie promoter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jan. 12, 2004
Hollywood  - To see Bernardine Dohrn promoting a movie is a tiny bit jarring.
Granted,
it's a documentary in which she plays a prominent part. True, it has been
reported by
Variety, the entertainment Bible, to be headed for an Oscar nomination.  Still,
Dohrn,
the former Whitefish Bay girl who became one of the most polarizing figures of
the
Vietnam War movement, is the only speaker at the TV industry's two-week press
preview
marathon here who was once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.  Dohrn and her
husband and
fellow ex-fugitive, Bill Ayers, came to talk about "The Weather Underground,"
which
will be shown on PBS in April.  Continued...
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/jan04/199292.asp
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Berlusconi to go back on trial
World: Constitutional court rules that prime minister is not above the law.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1122633,00.html
Italy Seeks To Bring in Tough Law on Drugs
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z110211B6
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FLORIDA ELECTION FIASCO FILM
A CUTTING-EDGE FILM FROM GLOBALVISION ON THE UNTOLD
STORY OF THE 2000 ELECTORAL FIASCO IN FLORIDA:
COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY: Narrated by OSSIE DAVIS AND RUBY DEE
Produced and Directed by Danny Schechter
http://www.votermarch.org/FloridaFilm.htm
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Bush's Scab Imports
http://www.intellivu.com//main.asp?brand=aolsvc.intellivu.aol.com
Bush Plans To Spend $1.5 billion on his "Marraige Initiative."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W1CA21117
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A Case Against the Case Against the Case For Howard Dean:
Can We All Stop This Madness?
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0827-04.htm

K u c i n i c h F o r P r e s i d e n t
http://www.corvusworld.com/kutunnel.htm
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Friendly Fascism by Daniel R. Fusfeld (excerpts)
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Specter_FriendlyFascism_FF.html
"As long as an economic system provides an acceptable degree of security,
growing material wealth and opportunity for further increase for the next
generation,
the average American does not ask who is running things or what goals are being
pursued."

Friendly Fascism
The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross 1980
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Friendly_Fascism_BGross.html
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USA: Total Drug/Cannabis Arrests
Year    Drugs     Cannabis
1980    580,900   401,982
1990  1,089,500   326,850
1995  1,476,100   588,964
1998  1,559,100   682,885
1999  1,532,200   704,812

Year      Sales   Possess
1980     63,318   338,664
1990     66,460   260,390
1995     85,614   503,350
1998     84,191   598,694
1999     84,271   620,541

In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US.
Of those, 46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana
laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in
2001.
Keith Stroup,  (NORML) http://www.norml.org
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Cybrary:Dennis Kucinich
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X27825707
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"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is
carried
out by experts who have had the  best training in the world -- in the field of
advertizing -- and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ...
Yours
are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the
fundamental
difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You
tend to
believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours."
Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S.

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"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to
see
paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched
sort of
life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8,
1935
******************************************
"Marijuana user waiting for the smoke to clear"
From: David Crocket Williams gear2000@...

Victor Allen Love is imbedded in his favorite La-Z-Boy recliner, ignoring the
parade of
Democratic presidential contenders kissing Iowa babies on the television set in
the
corner.  Though the smoke has cleared, the acrid sweetness of marijuana is still
strong
in the room. The inch-long stub of Love's breakfast joint is still in an ashtray
nearby, next to his Bible -- cold now and awaiting his inevitable pang of
afternoon
arthritis. Love, bearded and barefoot, wants me to know it's OK. He has a
doctor's note
for his pot. Two, actually, from two doctors. And reams of material about the
Compassionate Use Act of 1996, the country's first medical marijuana law.

The law, enacted as Proposition 215, permits Californians with certain medical
problems, including cancer and HIV, to grow and use marijuana to knock back pain
and
nausea, but only on the recommendation of a physician.

To Love, who says he also suffers from gout and asthma, the law is a godsend. He
placed
a sign citing the law in the 35-by-10-foot garden out in back of his
double-wide, in
the Lake Isabella-area burg of Mountain Mesa. It stood there like a scarecrow
against
sheriff's deputies and others who would question his right to grow.  It didn't
do him
much good. Continued...
http://www.bakersfield.com/columnist/local/price/story/4461327p-4494905c.html
Bakersfield Californian req.reg. Comment and Article mirrored at...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z16814417
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2001-2010 is the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace
and Non-Violence for The Children of The World"
http://www.unesco.org/manifesto2000/default.asp?part=IND/USA/585/QCW
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Oppose the DEA War on Medical Marijuana in California!
California NORML: http://www.canorml.org

Urge California's Senators to Sponsor Federal Medical Marijuana Legislation!
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=3669116&type=TA&id=358
Protests planned in event of raids. Phone (888) 929-HEMP for info.
http://www.safeaccessnow.org

US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hears key medical marijuana cases challenging
constitutionality of Controlled Substances Act. Decision expected in spring
2004. (Sep
& Oct 2003).
http://www.canorml.org/news/9thcircuit_raichhearing.html
News Releases
http://www.canorml.org/newsindex.html
***************CANNABIS NEWS***************
Supes Set To Act on Gallegos' Pot Guidelines By Emily Gurnon
Source: North Coast Journal January 15, 2004
New medical marijuana guidelines for the county could soon be in place if the
Board of
Supervisors takes action Tuesday on a proposal brought by Supervisor Roger
Rodoni.  If
supporters get their way, the new ordinance would set in stone the guidelines
established by District Attorney Paul Gallegos. Or it could create new, more
restrictive guidelines.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18143.shtml

“In the past we have had officers of this department shot and killed by
marihuana
addicts and we have traced the act of murder directly to the influence of
marihuana,
with no other motive.  We have found from long experience and dealing with this
type of
criminal that marihuana is probably the most dangerous of all our narcotic
drugs.”
J.F. Taylor, Chief of Detectives L.A.P.D  -
[Fraternal Order of Police Journal - Jan. 1933]
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Council To Form Marijuana Committee By Maureen Trantham
Source: UW Daily January 15, 2004
Sit back, roll a joint and relax. There's little to worry about, thanks to
Seattle's
voter-approved Initiative 75. Passed in November 2003, the initiative mandates
the City
of Seattle to regard adult personal use of marijuana as its lowest
law-enforcement
priority.  However, the Seattle City Council is reviewing the effects of the law
and
forming a panel to consider whether the law is beneficial to the city and its
public
image.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18142.shtml

In some districts, inhabited by Latin Americans, Filipinos, Spaniards and
Negroes, half
the violent crimes are attributed to marijuana craze.  Dr. Lee Rice of San
Antonio
reports that eighty per cent of all the murders committed by Mexicans are done
while
the killers are drugged by marijuana.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY  - June 29, 1938
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Grower Found Guilty in Medical Marijuana Case By Heather Woodward
Source: Olympian January 15, 2004
Olympia -- A jury found Monica Ginn guilty Wednesday of charges that she grew
and
distributed marijuana, sparking ire among medical marijuana advocates.  Jurors
also
decided Ginn, 53, qualifies for a more severe sentence because her growing
operation
was within 1,000 feet of a designated school bus stop. She faces up to five
years in
jail, but her attorneys promised to appeal the case as high as the Washington
Supreme
Court.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18141.shtml

HIGH SCHOOL, youngsters who turn to banditry for thrills, girls who leap from
skyscraper windows, striplings who chop their parents to death . . . .The list
of
holdups, sex crimes, murders and suicides by marijuana addicts could be
multiplied
indefinitely.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY  - June 29, 1938
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Dude, Where's The Sense in Our Pot Laws? By Linda Williamson
Source: Toronto Sun January 15, 2004
Let's stop beating around the marijuana bush, shall we? We can start by
acknowledging
the many ironies inherent in this week's massive pot bust in Barrie - Canada's
largest
ever.   First, the weed was grown in the very place where another (legal)
intoxicant
was once produced: a brewery. A brewery that had employed some 400 people, but
which
Molson apparently could not keep afloat, despite the ongoing popularity and
demand for
its product.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18140.shtml

Marijuana causes far more than mere moral degeneration--
it breaks down the mentality of its slaves.
THE KEYNOTE - Jan/Feb 1941 - Detroit Federation of Musicians Union
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Man Owns Both Pot Buildings, Police Say By Betsy Powell and Roberta Avery
Source: Toronto Star January 15, 2004
Barrie -- Two buildings where massive indoor marijuana grow operations were
discovered
during raids last weekend are owned by real estate magnate Vince De Rosa, police
confirmed yesterday.  "He owns both spots and there's marijuana growing at both
spots.
We'll definitely be looking into that coincidence," Staff Sergeant Rick Barnum
of the
Ontario Provincial Police said yesterday.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18139.shtml

-- Winner -- Great math of the year award:

Investigator found abandoned in fields in Iowa and Minnesota between 12,000 and
15,000
pounds of harvested hemp -- enough to make thirty billion [Marihuana] cigarettes
and to
drug the whole population of the United States.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY  - June 29, 1938
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Marijuana Initiative No Way To Change Law By Tom Carr, Seattle City Attorney
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer January 14, 2004
Initiative 75 is a half measure that undermines our democratic system. In a
democracy,
all power comes from the people. If, as a society, we believe that marijuana use
should
be legalized, we should work to make that the law. That's the way democracy
works.
Being unable to do this, Kathleen Taylor of the American Civil Liberties Union
(Seattle
approaches sensible drug policy, Jan. 6) advocates and applauds telling the
police and
prosecutor to look away in certain cases.  This undermines the rule of law and
our
democratic system. Change is possible. We can work to make change happen but
I-75 is
not the way.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18138.shtml

The Joseph McNamara Collection
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcntoc.htm
Joseph McNamara is a former police chief in Kansas City, Mo. and San Jose, Ca.
He holds a doctorate in public administration and is presently a
research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Stop the War - A Former Police Chiefs Plea to the New Drug Czar
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcn1.htm

[Marihuana’s] bodily reactions usually include muscular-trembling, increased
heartbeat,
accelerated pulse and a ringing in the ears.  Often the user feels hot in the
head,
becomes dizzy and has sensations of cold in the hands and feet.  Later he
experiences
muscular contractions, constrictions in the chest and dilation of the eye
pupils.
These effects lead to either vomiting or stupefaction, followed by restless
sleep
filled with bizarre kaleidoscopic visions.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY  - June 29, 1938
******************************************
Montel Williams on his use of Medical Marijuana
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2416.html
Montel Williams has Multiple Sclerosis and uses medical marijuana to treat his
disease.


MS News
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/mscowboy.html
Transcript: Montel Williams' Battle With M.S. Hannity & Colmes
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18136.shtml

Cybrary: Ganja treatment of Multiple Sclerosis/Spasms, Pain
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H38813217
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MS, Marijuana and Me
http://www.cbc.ca/webone/alison/index.html
Alison Myrden has Multiple Sclerosis. Her condition causes her constant pain,
bladder
problems and leg spasms. The drugs prescribed for her condition render her
comatose.
Instead, Alison chooses medical marijuana. Come spend a day with her and find
out why.
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Lynn and Judy Osburn Defense Fund Website
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/articles/ca030214.htm
Lynn and Judy Osburn’s Medical Marijuana Trial Update
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/articles/ca030630.htm
Osburn Defense Fund
http://www.osburndefensefund.com
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World Wide Cannabis News
http://www.dutch-passion.nl/news/News.html
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There's No Stamping Out This Magick
No matter how hard they try By Preston Peet
For the November issue of the New York Waste
http://www.newyorkwaste.com
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Beginning of the End of Democracy in America?
by Bill Douglas September 23, 2003

What does this flag stand for again?
A man in some country was recently taken, handcuffed, down into a subterranean
interrogation room in the bowels of a police station and asked by a police
investigator, "when I look into your writings will I find anything subversive? 
This
sounds like something one might have heard coming out of the former Soviet
Union.
However, it wasn't. The country was America, the man was me, and the
interrogation room
was in the basement of the massive and imposing Kansas City Jail on 12th street
(Tuesday, Sept 16th, 2003). (I'm a writer, who's contributed to many
publications
worldwide, including the Kansas City Star, and the Kansas City Business
Journal). This
event emblazoned into my mind that something has drastically changed in my
America . .
. our America.
http://www.drugwar.com/douglasenddemocracy.shtm

Drug War.com
http://www.drugwar.com
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Weedman mission hits a serious snag (Jan. 13, 2004)
"The Weedman strikes again. This time, his antigovernment attitude
- not his drug habit - may send him back to jail."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jersey/7695360.htm
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Million Marijuana March. May 1 Global Liberation.
MMM 2004. From: eco man tents444@... Jan 14, 2004

101 MMM cities worldwide confirmed so far for May 1st 2004!
Drug War.com
http://www.drugwar.com/episnorml03.shtm

Million Marijuana March. Global March for Cannabis Liberation.
Rallies, marches, concerts, raves, etc..

1st Saturday in May, or that weekend.

Worldwide since May 1, 1999...
May 6, 2000 * May 5, 2001 * May 4 2002 * May 3 2003 * May 1, 2004

* Please confirm cities yearly in order to get on the posters and web pages.
* Send in updated contact info (email addresses and web page URL address links)
for
your city.
* To be safe please use both methods below, because messages disappear for many
reasons.
* Submit and resubmit info, as often as necessary, after checking the 2004 city
lists
online.
* Send email with "MMM" in the title to Dana Beal at dana@...
http://www.cures-not-wars.org

Also use contact forms online at...
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/contact.php

Please forward this widely. It is one big way people in new cities discover MMM,
and
then join in! The page is in a 60-character-wide, narrow-column format that is
good for
email.

Images remote load for first link below when page there is emailed in HTML mail.
MMM 2004 city list mirror pages:
http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2004.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2004.htm and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2004.htm

A similar MMM 2004 city list (with more info and links):
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/navigator.php

236 MMM 2003 cities marched, rallied, partied and danced in early May 2003!
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2003.htm and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2003.htm

101 MMM 2004 confirmed cities list below is taken from the last part of a Dana
Beal
message archived here: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmworld
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Massive Statewide Billboard Campaign Proclaims: "Medical
Marijuana: Compassion Not Federal Prison" (excerpted)
http://www.canorml.org/news/billboardepiscampaign.html
In all federal medical marijuana prosecutions jurors are not told about the
medical
issues for which marijuana was being used. In Bryan’s case the jury was not told
that
he nearly died in an automobile accident in 1983 when a VW Beetle in which he
was a
passenger hit a pole. He had 15 inches of lacerations in his skull, his Sternum
was
fractured, two ribs were broken and the T2 and T3 vertebrae suffered compression
fractures. The surgery just to stitch his head together lasted 2 1/2 hours. He
was in a
coma for two days. The surgeon said he was lucky not to be a vegetable or dead.
Bryan
began two years of physical therapy. He was told that the compression fractures
would
never heal. He suffers from chronic pain. He was prescribed codeine and Vicodin
for the
pain. In 1983, his orthopedic surgeon recommended marijuana as a drug that could
relieve pain. Bryan used cannabis from 1983 to 1997. Using marijuana reduced the
pain
level from level 10 to level 1. While using cannabis in his treatment, he
finished high
school; finished the grueling program for a Bachelor of Science degree in
Electrical
Engineering from California State University at Chico in May 1991 (only 1 in 5
who
enter the program graduate); and finished law school at California Northern
School of
Law in May 1998. Bryan claims to have been growing marijuana for him and other
seriously ill patients.

The DEA took my dadda away!
http://www.hr95.org/pix/0209.asa.dadda.jpg
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CALIFORNIA MEDICAL MARIJUANA CHRONICLES: A WIDENING CONFLICT
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1900/a12.html?124
Prop 215 (Cal HS 11362.5),
http://www.hr95.org/Prop215.html
November Coalition
http://www.november.org
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CANNABIS A MEDICAL MIRACLE - IT'S OFFICIAL
Scientific Tests Of 'Wonder Drug' Give Patients New Hope.
Cannabis is a 'wonder drug' capable of radically transforming the lives of very
sick
people, according to the results of the first clinical trials of the drug. Tests
sanctioned by the Government are proving far more successful than doctors,
patients and
cannabis campaigners ever dared hope. Some of the patients are simply calling it
a
'miracle'. continued...
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1858.a01.html
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Cannabis From The Chemist
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/1625124.stm
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Government To Overhaul Employee Drug Tests
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18137.shtml

Pisstasters Stealing the 5th Amendment
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4356.gif
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/drug_testing.shtml
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4356.shtml

“The onset of physical degeneration caused by continued smoking of hemp appears
to be
long delayed. Several years may pass before deterioration becomes obvious.  One
hashish
addict, admittedly an unusual case, lived for 20 years in spite of excessive use
of the
drug.  Eventually, however, he died insane. “
The American Scholar (Phi Beta Kappa Society) Winter 1938/39
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Bush's painful obsession with medical pot by Kate Scannell, M.D.
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/articles/ca031026.htm
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U.S. president Bush unveils space vision... Star Wars II
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/01/14/313022-ap.html

NASA take on ozone depletion.
http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/HALOE-Ozone.html

White House Makes False Claims about the 'Health Benefits' of the Space Program
From Ron Harold" studioron@...
On the afternoon of Wed., Jan 14, Scott McClellan was asked by a reporter why
Bush is
spending billions on space instead of putting that money into education, jobs,
and
healthcare here on Earth, Scott McClellan's response was an outrageous lie. He
pointed
to the "great healthcare benefits" that have come from the space program,
specifically
citing the kidney dialysis machine as a "product" of the program. What a hoot!
The
kidney dialysis machine, originally called "the artificial kidney" was developed
by
William Kolff in the 1940s using cellophane, sausage skins, and discarded metal
industrial drums. Didn't exactly require a $400 billion dollar space program! If
you
want the real kidney dialysis story, here's a link - it only PROVES that money
is best
spent here on Earth on people, not space ships.
Just think what Kolff could have done with a decent budget!!
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/library/2002c_cit.shtml
Willem J. Kolff: Pioneer in Artificial Organ Research
http://members.aol.com/amaccvpe/history/kolff.htm
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Americans must realize what the Bush Administration has done...
http://www.corvusworld.com/karbala.htm
http://www.corvusworld.com/iraq.htm
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US concocts a recipe for unrest By K Gajendra Singh
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FA14Ak01.html
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Comparing the Dem Candidates: The 'Vote by Issue' Quiz
http://www.WBUR.org
http://www.votebyissue.org
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O'Neill Reveals Surrealistic Meeting
Where Bush Advisors Sang Hymns as Plans for Covert Assassinations were Reviewed
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/14/1073877904634.html

Equal Rights for All!
http://www.equalrights4all.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=links

National Security Archive
http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/archives/cat_national_security.html
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US Funded Death Squads
Dear Friends:

We are coming to the conclusion that it is the DEA behind the racist policies of
the
Thai death squads. We urgently ask that you send this picture to your congress
person
or parliamentarian and demand a stop to US funded Death Squads in Thailand. The
DEA
just formed a special Thai DEA unit for speeding up intel to Thais. You can see
what
the intel of these un-elected Americans is doing. I knew this man for two years,
he
survived a village forced relocation. He was executed without a trial of his
peers.

Matthew McDaniel
Akha Weekly Journal
http://www.akha.org
See photo here
http://www.drugwar.com/akhadeathsquads.shtm
(Editor's note- this photo is graphic evidence of the brutality of those the US
government supports with US tax dollars because they profess anti-drug
philosophy and
practice anti-drug policies.)

US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H440131B6
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What They Don't Want You to Know (Jan. 13, 2004)
"By a simple mathematical comparison of American and al-Qaeda terror, the latter
is a
lethal flea. In the past 50 years, the US has supported and trained state
terrorists in
Latin America, Africa and Asia. The toll of their victims is in the millions."
http://www.johnpilger.com/print
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This Islamic guide is for non-Muslims who would like to understand Islam.
http://www.islam-guide.com
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A Straw Poll in Suburban Pennsylvania Spells Trouble for Beltway Democrats &
Dean
http://www.counterpunch.org./lindorff01142004.html

Carol Braun Drops Out Of Race - Backs Dean
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040115/ap_on_el_pr/braun&cid\
=694&ncid=716
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Dennis Kucinich On Greta Van Facelift - F O X N E W S
http://www.corvusworld.com/kongreta.htm
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Sulfur in Coal
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J5FA13F07
Omega 3: Fish v Hempseed Oil
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F11E31117
Protein: Mad Cows v Hempseed
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H17E22117
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Total Bust
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/culture/media/4/4695.gif
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Some of the so-called “jazz hounds” who think that their talents show off the
best when
“high [on Marihuana]” should take a trip to Eloise Hospital and see the wrecked
human
beings there, gibbering idiots  . .  Now they can’t think at all!
THE KEYNOTE - Jan/Feb 1941 - Detroit Federation of Musicians Union

Tight Like That "Gage "(Ganja) By Louis Armstrong
http://www.shellac.org/wams/wgage.html

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"The people about us are unaware of what is really happening to them: They gaze fascinated at one or two familiar superficialities, such as possession and income and rank and other outworn conceptions. As long as these are kept intact, they are quite satisfied. But in the meantime they have entered a new relation: a powerful social force has caught them up. They themselves are changed.  What are ownership and income to that?  Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings."

- Adolf Hitler in a letter to Hermann Rauschning

Aftermath News Service

Bizarre Mysteries, Crimes and Corruptions Update - Jan 14, 2004
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THE BRITISH ROYAL SCAM UPDATE

The royal family

LORD CLINTON PROPOSED FOR ANCIENT BRITISH ROYAL MASONIC HONOR
Clinton put up for ancient British military honour
Former United States President Bill Clinton has been put forward for what is considered to be Britain's oldest military honour. If he accepts the offer to become Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a post which can be traced back to 1226, he would be technically responsible for repelling an invasion of the south-east coast of England. "We were asked who we would personally like to see as Lord Warden and I think I caused a bit of stir when I said Bill Clinton," Joe Trussler, speaker of the Cinque Ports and mayor of the town of Sandwich, told Monday's Independent newspaper.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1024224.htm

NOTE THAT EVERY PERSON EVER NAMED TO THIS ORDER IN BRITISH HISTORY WAS EITHER ROYALTY OR AT LEAST A HIGH-LEVEL BRITISH FREEMASON
Lord Clinton suggested for ancient British masonic military honour  
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been put forward for what is considered to be Britain's oldest military honour. If he accepts any offer to become Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a post which can be traced back to 1226, he would be technically responsible for repelling an invasion of the southeast coast of the country.
The office has previously only been given to Britons or members of the Commonwealth, such as King George V, Winston Churchill and former Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies. Other nominees for the ceremonial role to succeed the Queen Mother, the last warden who died in 2002, are former South African president Nelson Mandela, former British prime minister John Major as well as Prince Andrew and Princess Anne. The choice will be made by Prime Minister Tony Blair and the queen and is expected by the end of February.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J52132907
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I23112907

RELATED
The Order of DeMolay
Since 1919, the Order of DeMolay has seen millions of members take this pledge in Chapters that have spread to all fifty states and several countries. Young men from all walks of life have benefited from membership in DeMolay. Our ranks have been honored by such notable names as: Walt Disney, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bill Bradley, President Bill Clinton and many more (see www.demolay.org for a complete Hall of Fame).
http://www.albertpikedemolay.org/about/aboutdem.html

Clinton and Mandela recommended for ancient English military honour
The honorary title of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports has been reserved for members of the country's nobility since ancient times, but that could be about to change. The position has remained vacant since the death in 2002 of the Queen Mother, who served as the last warden to the association of 14 ports - including the original five ports of Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings. Joe Trussler, the speaker of the Cinque Ports and the Mayor of Sandwich, has asked the Queen and the Prime Minister to consider a number of public figures, including Bill Clinton, John Major and Nelson Mandela, for the post.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=480359

http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/

RELATED:
Mandela leads Rhodes celebrations
Having Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as speakers at your student reunion is rather better than the average rubber chicken affair put on for most graduates. But then the Rhodes scholars, celebrating their centenary in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, have always produced a pretty elite bunch. The scholarships were set up by former British imperialist Cecil Rhodes to help people from the Commonwealth and America study at Oxford University. Mr Clinton was quick to joke about the eminence of the thousand Rhodes scholars gathered for the celebration - and to launch the Mandela Rhodes foundation in the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3039730.stm

RELATED
Secrets of the Bilderberg
One-World Altruist or the most Pernicious Cabal of the Twentieth Century?
John Ruskin the noted English social critic and philosopher, revived these ideals in the 1870s through his teachings and writings at Oxford. He wanted to motivate the upper classes to use their education, breeding and money to ‘civilise’ the world. Cecil Rhodes the founder of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South African diamond millionaire, who was a devoted disciple of Ruskin used his fortune to promote this grand scheme of federating the English speaking peoples around the globe and bringing all of it under their ‘benign’ imperial control. To this end Rhodes and other acolytes of Ruskin, formed a secret society known as the Round Table Group in 1881. This group of academics, dreamers and aristocrats were able to gain access to Rhodes’ fortune after his death in 1902. Under the trusteeship of Lord Milner, another arch-imperialist, they sought to spread and carry out the ambitions that Rhodes derived from Ruskin.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/secrets_of_the_bilderberg

Lord Warden decision 'imminent'
A mayor from Kent has called on the Queen and the Prime Minister to make a decision over the appointment of the next Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Councillor Joe Trussler, Mayor of Sandwich Town Council, is frustrated that a successor to the Queen Mother has not yet been chosen. Councillor Trussler has said he wants the new Lord Warden to be another high profile figure, such as former US president Bill Clinton, or Nelson Mandela.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3381773.stm

The most recent Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, H.M. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (right) 1900 - 2002

RELATED INFORMATION:
ONLY HIGH-LEVEL MASONS SUCH AS WINSTON CHURCHILL AND BRITISH ROYALTY HAVE BEEN NAMED AS "LORD WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS", AN ADMITTED PIRACY CABAL INVOLVED IN SMUGGLING,  FREE TO PLUNDER AT WILL ABOVE THE LAW
The most recent Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, H.M. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 1900 - 2002
The Cinque Ports.
It seems that often the ships and men from these Towns would often carry on fighting after peace had been reached and for many years got away with what amounted to open piracy around the Kent and Sussex coast. One book I have read on the subject, "The Channel" by Shirley Harrison, refers to the Cinque Ports as a "legalized mafia". According to the original Charter, the members of the Cinque Ports had the right to:
"soc and sac, tol and team, bloowit and fledwit, pillory tumbril infangentheof, outfangentheof, mundbryce waives and strays, flotsam and jetsam and ligan". I hope that no-one asks me for a translation but basically it really meant that the sailors from these Ports could do what they wanted, when they wanted and this included wrecking, grounding and plundering other ships. An extremely good foundation for the smuggling that eventually became the vocation of many of the men from around this part of the coast and these Towns in particular. The five original towns that formed the Cinque Ports were Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings.
http://www.digiserve.com/peter/cinque.htm

Buckingham Palace denies new cover-up story
Buckingham Palace denied a tabloid newspaper report today that it covered up allegations a royal maid was attacked by a trainee royal chef. The Daily Mirror reported today the woman, who was said to be in her 20s, was allegedly beaten up by the man, identified as Richard Evans, after a late-night drinking session in her room at the palace. Despite being shaken and bruised, the woman decided not to press charges after being advised by senior royal staff it was better ``for all concerned," the newspaper said.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q1D522F07

DOES THE QUEENS' PRIVY COUNCIL CONTROL SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES? SEE THE DOCUMENTS ON "HER MAJESTY'S" OWN WEBSITE. AMERICA IS STILL VIEWED BY THE QUEEN AS ONE OF HER POSSESSIONS AND AS A COLONY OF GREAT BRITAIN!
From Her Majesty's Stationery Office
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/about/hmso.htm
Whereas at London on the 13th February 1984 an Agreement on social security between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement") and an Administrative Agreement for the implementation of the Agreement (hereinafter referred to as "the Administrative Agreement")[1] were signed on behalf of those Governments and effect was given to the Agreement by the Social Security (United States of America) Order 1984 (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Order")[2]:
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1997/97177801.htm

Bank of England accused over BCCI
BCCI was founded in 1972 by a group of prominent Pakistanis.
It operated in 60 countries and its regulation was split between the Bank of England, the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, which led to difficulties when it was being wound up. During the 1980s, evidence emerged of BCCI's links with terrorist organisations, arms shipments to Arab states and South American drug cartels.
The case, which could turn out to be one of the most expensive in legal history, is demanding damages of up to £1bn from the Bank. According to Deloitte, which is representing 6,500 UK-based depositors, the Bank of England wrongfully granted BCCI a licence, and did not act quickly enough to withdraw it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3391379.stm

MORE ON THE MISSING AND THE ASSASSINATED

Top secret US files could hold clues to death of Diana
Michael Burgess, the royal coroner, is coming under intense pressure to ask US intelligence agencies to hand over top secret files on Princess Diana which may provide vital clues as to how she died. The National Security Agency admits it has files on Diana, and there is also speculation that the Central Intelligence Agency may hold useful information for British detectives investigating the car crash which killed Diana, her boyfriend, millionaire playboy Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur, Henri Paul.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1120462,00.html

Charles didn't do it: UK poll

NO, BUT THE SECRET SERVICE SURELY DID, ON BEHALF OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR AND THE NWO
ONE in three Britons believes Princess Diana was the victim of a murder conspiracy, according to a poll taken in the wake of sensational, beyond-the-grave claims that she believed Prince Charles had plotted her death so he could wed Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles facing the public amid the storm of publicity last week. It appears he retains popular confidence - at least on his alleged involvement in Diana's death. However, only 15 per cent of respondents to the YouGov poll said they believed Prince Charles was capable of causing Diana's death. More than 60 per cent said they did not believe he would deliberately harm her.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8370589%255E401,00.html

Police have doubts over the authenticity of a chauffeur's blood sample, used in a French inquiry which concluded that Princess Diana was killed by a drunk driver. The car in which they were travelling is shown. AFP/Pierre Boussel

Police have doubts over Diana driver's blood sample
Police have doubts over the authenticity of a chauffeur's blood sample, used in a French inquiry which concluded that Princess Diana was killed by a drunk driver. The Times said it has learned that senior police officers have what it called "high-level concerns" over the specimen and that French police have not carried out a DNA test which would prove it came from her chauffeur Henri Paul.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040110/323/ej36i.html

Britons doubt Blair over naming of weapons expert: poll
Half of British voters believe British Prime Minister Tony Blair lied over the outing of David Kelly, the Ministry of Defence expert on Iraqi weapons who killed himself last year, poll published on Sunday shows. Dr Kelly, 59, was found dead with a slit wrist on July 18 not long after he was exposed as being behind allegations that the Prime Minister's office "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction to rally support for the US-led war.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1023642.htm

Hutton frustrated by lack of hard evidence
LORD Hutton has complained about the quality of some of the evidence supplied by the government to his inquiry into the death of weapons scientist David Kelly, it emerged last night. Days before the publication of his potentially devastating findings into the circumstances leading to Kelly’s suicide, Hutton complained that official notes of conversations between senior government figures were "very sparse and of no relevance".
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/politics.cfm?id=34592004

BLAIR: I'LL OUIT IF HUTTON SAYS I LIED
TONY Blair yesterday said he would resign if the Hutton report showed he had lied to Parliament. Under pressure from Tory leader Michael Howard, Blair denied he had lied over his role in the naming of government scientist Dr David Kelly. During Prime Minister's questions in the Commons, Howard put Blair on the rack over his role inDr Kelly's name becoming public a crucial event in the days leading to his death.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V27123907

Case of missing computer expert reflects a growing trend
INTERPOL is still hunting for a Welsh computer expert who has not been seen since 2002.
Father-of-two Russell Scozzi was seen in Swansea at the city's Quadrant bus station in May, 19 months ago.He was then sighted in Looe, Cornwall, but has not been seen since. He gave up a high-salary IT job with a multi-national company a year before he went missing.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T59123907

Suspect charged in Sweden assassination
A man charged Monday with the stabbing death of popular Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said voices in his head told him to kill her. His confession painted a litany of mental confusion that could ultimately send him to the psychiatric hospital instead of prison.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-01-12-sweden-assassination_x.htm

Confessed Lindh Attacker Says Did Not Mean to Kill
The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said at the start of his trial Wednesday he had not meant to kill but was unable to resist inner voices urging him to stab. "I was on my way out but I took a wrong turn. I saw Anna Lindh. Then the voices came," said Mijailovic. In his confession last week, he said inner voices speaking in the language of his parents from former Yugoslavia had told him to attack and that he believed it was the voice of Jesus. "I could not resist the voices," he told the court, insisting he had not planned to kill the 46-year-old mother-of-two. Althin said a combination of anti-depressants his client was taking might have been wrongly prescribed and Mijailovic might therefore not have been accountable for his actions.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4126270

RISE OF ITALIAN FASCISM AND CORRUPTION

Italian court rejects Berlusconi immunity law
Italy's highest court delivered a stunning slap in the face to Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, when it ruled on Tuesday that the judicial immunity law that froze his trial on corruption charges was invalid. The Constitutional Court in Rome said the legislation, which Mr Berlusconi's centre-right government pushed through parliament last June, violated the principle that all citizens were equal before the law. The government cannot appeal against the ruling.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z5E512F07
 

Italy's Berlusconi soon back in court
Immunity law struck down in Milan
In a major setback today for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's Constitutional Court ruled the immunity law that blocked his bribery trial is unconstitutional, paving the way for the case to return to the courtroom. But the Constitutional Court, Italy's highest court for constitutional matters, ruled the law violates the constitutional principle that all citizens are equal before the law. The court's decisions cannot be appealed.
Berlusconi's critics, who had long contended that the legislation was designed to rescue the billionaire media mogul from possible conviction, praised the ruling.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F19552F07

Secret flight to Libya on a Parmalat jet
U.S. envoy met Gadhafi in '86 Clerics ferried in`God's helicopter'
Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi ferried prelates and politicians on his fleet of planes and yachts and supplied the executive jet that flew a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican on a secret, unauthorized trip to Libya in 1986, officials told Associated Press. From the early 1980s until last year, the reserved and media-shy Tanzi kept up his high-powered connections, although he's now behind bars, accused in the massive fraud case that has bankrupted the Italian dairy giant. The Parmalat helicopter was known as "God's helicopter'' because it frequently ferried Roman Catholic clergy, including the Vatican's former Number 2 official, then-secretary of state Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, to a lecture near Genoa in 1993, church officials said.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T21D23D07

FTAA PAN-AMERICAN DECEPTION TOWARDS A ONE-WORLD DICTATORSHIP

BUSH: "...JUST SO LONG AS I'M THE DICTATOR"....
Bush Attacks Cuba and Other Latin America Rivals
"Through our democratic example, we must continue to stand with the brave people of Cuba, who for nearly half a century have endured the tyrannies and repression," Bush said at the summit's inaugural ceremony.
"Dictatorship has no place in the Americas." he said.
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/378408|top|01-12-2004::22:31|reuters.html
 

Fox, Bush vow to work on opening borders
Mexican President Vicente Fox in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., September 2001.
Meeting at the start of a two-day Summit of the Americas, the two leaders agreed to put aside past differences and work together on more open borders. "What we want is the plan presented by President Bush," Fox said, calling it "a very important step forward" that would let illegal workers come into the open with full legal rights. In response to a question from a Mexican reporter, Bush acknowledged that the election-year proposal could have a political benefit. Skeptics, including some leading Mexican commentators, have suggested that the plan is primarily intended to boost Bush's support among Hispanics voters.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/7694138.htm

Unpopular Proposals
Most Oppose Bush Immigration Plan; If Created, Two-Thirds Favor Limit
Most Americans oppose President Bush's proposal to offer legal status to illegal immigrants — and if it does happen, two-thirds favor a limited-duration program, not an open-ended one.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WorldNewsTonight/immigration_poll_040112.html

Poll Hints Bush Immigrant Plans Unpopular   
More than half of Americans oppose President Bush's plan that would allow some illegal immigrants to stay for several years to work jobs U.S. citizens don't want, a poll indicates.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1F025117

Bush and Fox "amigos" again at Americas summit
U.S. President George W. Bush and his estranged "amigo," Mexico's Vicente Fox, put aside their dispute over Iraq on Monday, praising each other for their work on U.S. immigration reform and the war on terror. The two presidents met at an Americas-wide summit in Mexico, their up-and-down friendship boosted by Bush's new plan to overhaul immigration laws and Mexico's recent tightening of airport security for U.S.-bound flights. The Mexican leader, a former Coca-Cola executive, congratulated Bush on the recent capture of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Bush and Fox took office at about the same time three years ago and quickly developed a close friendship, sharing a taste for cowboy boots and life on the ranch.
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?storyID=4113701&type=bondsNews

CORRUPTION AT THE TOP OF THE AGENDA ALRIGHT
Free Trade, Corruption May Top Agenda at Summit of the Americas
Leaders of some 20 western hemisphere nations have arrived in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey for a special summit of the Americas, which will take place there Monday and Tuesday. President Bush is to arrive Monday. Officials meeting in advance of the summit opening have encountered some areas of disagreement in preparing a draft statement.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=2E3BFA58-2A17-49B6-A0D5976A5ED63D79

Immigration and the Myth of Unwanted Jobs
Mexican President Vicente Fox is calling for open borders across North America, and his American counterpart is two fingers shy of shaking on it. George Bush's plan: A temporary worker program granting amnesty -- in three-year chunks -- to illegal immigrants with American jobs. "Out of common sense and fairness," he says, "our laws should allow willing workers to enter our country and fill jobs that Americans are not filling." "Those darn Americans just don't want to work," says John Frecker, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, mimicking the president in a letter to his organization's 9,000 members. Frecker calls Bush's immigration agenda "insulting" -- "a slap in the face."
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/morris/2004/morris011304.htm

EVEN THE FASCISTIC NEO-CONS ARE COMING OUT AGAINST BUSH. BUT THEY WILL NEVER ADMIT HIS MORE EGREGIOUS ACTS OF TREASON: COMPLICITY IN 9/11, ESTABLISHING AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL POLICE-STATE AND BOGGING US DOWN IN A PERPETUAL WAR FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
Savage: Impeach Bush over immigration plan
Conservative talk-radio star, author says amnesty is betrayal of country
In the latest indication President Bush is having problems with his conservative core political constituency, Michael Savage, one of talk radio's biggest stars, tonight called for the impeachment of President Bush over his plans to legalize millions of illegal aliens. "This is the worst betrayal of our country in my lifetime," said Savage, whose program is heard on more than 350 stations with an audience reaching some 6 million. His book, "The Savage Nation," last year was No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller's list for five weeks. His follow-up, "The Enemy Within," out just one week, is already No. 8 on the list. Both were published by WND Books.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36567

The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave
Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD’s rule against enforcing immigration law.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

Fox Accepts Invitation to Bush Ranch   
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Monday accepted an invitation to visit President Bush's Texas ranch in March, another sign that the two leaders' sometimes rocky relationship is on the mend.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I20112117

THE BUSH MOBSTER SYNDICATE UPDATE

The rise of the House of Bush
In "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush," Phillips examines the Bush family of the 20th century — its involvement in the oil and energy business, the political and personal connections that created its wealth, and its roots in what Phillips calls our "national security state," America's increasing investment in and dependence on military hardware, covert intelligence and arms sales. This family saga begins with two wealthy Midwestern businessmen, George Herbert Walker and Samuel Bush. Both increased their fortunes through oil, finance and armaments production. Walker was an immensely wealthy man, who at one point was a director of 17 corporations (his interests are detailed in an appendix). Several, including the W.A. Harriman investment firm (Walker served as its president) were owned or run by the Averell Harriman family. In the 1930s, these firms heavily invested in Russian and Central Asian oil fields and funneled money into shipping and manufacturing firms that participated in rearming Germany.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T21112907

PROJECT MOON-BASE, A NEW WORLD OF ADVENTURE

ARE THE ELITES PLANNING TO ESCAPE THIS PLANET BEFORE THEY DESTROY IT ALTOGETHER? BUSH SINKS A WOBBLY US INTO DEEPER DEBT                                                                 

Bush Seeks Massive Cash Boost for Moon Base Project
US president George Bush will seek to boost Nasa’s budget by 1 billion (£550 million) over five years to help pay for his plan to put a base on the moon and to mount a manned expedition to Mars. Bush’s election-year vision calls for establishing a permanent presence on the moon within two decades and putting astronauts on Mars some time after 2030. “The spirit is going to be one of continued exploration ... seeking new horizons and investing in a programme that ... meets that objective,” Bush said yesterday during a trip to Mexico. To pay for the space initiative, which he is due to outline in a speech tonight, Bush would increase the space agency’s budget by £111 million a year for five years.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2406525

Ad showing kids laboring to pay off deficit wins MoveOn contest
Images of children toiling on a grocery line and in a tire factory coupled with a simple line of text — "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1 trillion deficit?"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S33622F07

Neo-Cons and the greatest con of all
These latest security measures have merely confirmed the suspicion of the US’ detractors that the country is making a slide towards authoritarianism, with its government showing decidedly fascistic proclivities
There is a saying that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler: “If you want to tell a lie, then tell a big one.” Granted that telling the difference between lies, half-lies, half-truths and truths deemed too truthful to be told is growing ever more difficult these days, but one still needs to have the will and courage to speak the truth to power as was shown most explicitly in the exemplary life of the late Edward Said, who did so with conviction and not to mention a fair amount of eloquence to boot. But these days the lies are raining down on us thick and fast, and nowhere is this hailstorm of lies so strong as it is in the corridors of power in Washington.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_11-1-2004_pg3_4

BUSH-APPOINTEE AND ZIONIST FANATIC DANIEL PIPES FIGHTS AGAINST "CONSPIRACY THEORIES", CONFLATES CONSPIRACISTS WITH OCCULTISM. BELIEVERS ARE DANGEROUS NUTCASES. SETS STAGE FOR BRANDING THEM AS "MENTALLY ILL". GEEZ! WHAT IF THEY GET INTO POWER?
Conspiracy Theories' New Twist
Some people believe in the lost continent of Atlantis and in unidentified flying objects. Others worry about an eighteenth-century secret society called the Bavarian Illuminati or a mythical Zionist-Occupied Government secretly running the United States. What if these disparate elements shared beliefs, joined forces, won a much larger audience, broke out of their intellectual and political ghetto, and became capable of challenging the premises of public life in the United States? This is the frightening prospect, soberly presented by Michael Barkun in his just-published book, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (University of California Press, $24.95). The connection of conspiracy theorists and occultists follows from their common, crooked premises. First, "any widely accepted belief must necessarily be false." Second, rejected knowledge -- what the establishment spurns -- must be true. The result is a large, self-referential network. Flying saucer advocates promote anti-Jewish phobias. Antisemites channel in Peru. Some antisemites see extraterrestrials functioning as surrogate Jews; others believe the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are the joint product of "the Rothschilds and the reptile-Aryans." By the late 1980s, Barkun finds, "virtually all of the radical right's ideas about the New World Order had found their way into UFO literature." Ufology's wide appeal transmits these political ideas to a large new audience of ideological omnivores, informing them that 9/11 was either an Illuminati operation or the Assassins (a medieval Muslim group) attacking Freemasons.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U16526F07

Oh, Danny Boy,
The Pipes, The Pipes...
Daniel Pipes, Bush appointee to US Institute of Peace, August 2003.
Well, he's another neo-Conservative who's gained a reputation for genius by behaving in a manner that combines the soaring intellect of a Richard Pearl of Wisdom Perle, the chickenhawk ideology of Paul Howlin' Wolfowitz, the fundamentalist convictions of a John the Baptist Ashcroft, and the kill-for-peace delusions of Don Quixote Rumsfeld all rolled into one. Add to this gumbo of goofiness a ton or so of Biblical myopia, and you've pretty much got the picture. Or, to be specific, yet another abundantly educated, philosophically bankrupt fool eager to suckle at the public teat while regaling our leader with stupid ideas. Among other things, Pipes is the man whom CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations claims many Muslims consider the most virulent Islamophobe in America. Quite a distinction in today's home of the quivering brave.
http://www.rense.com/general41/danny.htm

Daniel Pipes, Peacemaker?
Daniel Pipes says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. So why has President Bush nominated him to the board of the government's leading peace think-tank?
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/05/we_420_01.html

HOW THE "ENVIRONMENTALIST" MARXIST GREEN PARTY WANTS YOU TO LEARN TO LOVE GM FRANKENFOOD

GREEN PARTY ANNOUNCES GM CROPS ARE "INEVITABLE" AND CANNOT BE STOPPED SO WE MUST HUMBLY LEARN TO CONSUME THEM AND LEARN TO ENJOY OUR SERVITIDE
Germany drafting law to regulate genetically modified crops
Germany is drawing up a law to regulate cultivation of bio-engineered crops, Consumer Minister Renate Kuenast said Monday, admitting that the controversial technology was here to stay. Kuenast, a member of the pro-enviromentalist Greens party, said the government saw no consumer health risks in genetically modified (GM) foods.
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040112100853.36f26b2w

GERMAN GREEN PARTY GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO GM CROPS
Germany backs modified crops
BERLIN Germany is drafting a law that would allow farmers to plant bioengineered crops, the country's consumer affairs minister said on Monday, and she predicted that genetically modified sweet corn would be on sale in European Union supermarkets this year. The minister, Renate Kunast, a member of the Greens party, said that the government saw no health risks in genetically modified foods. The minister, Renate Kunast, a member of the Greens party, said that the government saw no health risks in genetically modified foods.
http://www.iht.com/articles/124613.html

GM farm crops come a step closer
The full-scale production of genetically-modified food could come a step closer today with the publication of a key study on the controversial farming method.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/8565317?source=Evening%20Standard

ELITE PEDOPHILE RINGS AND CHILD-ABUSE UPDATE

Sex scandal taints Chile's elites
A Chilean congresswoman is suggesting that some of her own political allies might be involved in an alleged ring of prostitution and child pornography.
Congresswoman María Pía Guzmán is a strait-laced conservative who has suddenly and unexpectedly become an outcast at the Congress building here. Sometimes her fellow legislators murmur an insult when she comes within earshot: ``Witch!'' Congresswoman Guzmán did not unleash the sex scandal now rocking Chile's political and social elites, a sordid tale centered on a millionaire businessman and some runaway teenagers. But she did publicly link a handful of congressmen and senators to the case, suggesting that some of her own political allies might be involved in an alleged ring of prostitution and child pornography. And for that, some of her fellow legislators will not forgive her. When she enters elevators with other congressmen, they often step out. ''There is a very strong psychological warfare going on,'' Guzmán said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7634655.htm

Chile tackles child-sex trade
A new law protecting children went into effect last week in the wake of a major scandal.
It's 5 a.m. on Providencia Street in Chile's capital, and you can still see children as young as 5 peddling red flowers as their parents look on from the shadows. They've been working all night, and flowers aren't the only thing they sell. Child prostitution is a problem that has plagued much of Latin America for decades. But just as Chile has been sheltered from the rest of the region's economic problems, to most people here this was a social problem that existed only elsewhere.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0113/p06s01-woam.html

In Santiago, seamy politics
Sex scandals with political overtones are rare in Chile, which explains why the media and the public have been riveted to a pedophile scandal casting a shadow over the next presidential and congressional elections. The case came to light in October when a politically connected businessman, Claudio Spiniak, was arrested and charged with operating a pedophile ring. Spiniak, who made a fortune from a chain of gyms, admitted that he had organized parties at his mansion at which children of both sexes were sexually exploited.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A33541F07

Child pornography crime risen 15-fold since 1988
In Britain, a new report has found that crimes involving child pornography have shot up 15-fold since 1988. The report was commissioned by the British charity organisation, NCH, and finds that the dramatic rise is largely because of the Internet, and it predicts that advances in technology will give paedophiles even more chances to offend.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1024793.htm
 

Mobile phones linked to internet may fuel rise in child porn offences
Child porn crimes have rocketed 1,500 per cent since 1988 - and a fresh avalanche of porn could be unleashed by internet mobile phones, warns a report out today. The massive rise in child porn offences is mainly due to the increase in use of the internet, according to the report from children's charity NCH (formerly National Children's Homes). And the launch of mobile phones which can connect to the internet will make the trade more widespread and harder to combat, experts fear. Child welfare professionals are worried the new phones will be used by paedophiles to visit child sex sites, take pictures of sex with children and trade in images of abuse.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=480353

Safety of flu vaccine questioned
It has been a nagging issue for a number of years. Can children be hurt by the mercury-derivative Thimerosal, which has been used as a preservative in a number of vaccines? Barbara Loe Fisher with the Vaccine Info Center says there is little dispute that mercury is something to be avoided. "Mercury is a known neurotoxin, it's known to be toxic to the brain." A suspected link between Thimerosal and autism in children has mobilized parents and some lawmakers, including Indiana's Dan Burton, who believes mercury-containing vaccines had a frightening impact on his own grandson. "He flapped his arms, ran around banging his head against the wall, lost his ability to communicate."
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=1597409&nav=9TaiK95T

GLOBAL CANNIBALISM SCENE UPDATE

Police uncover global cannibal network
GRUESOME DIET: Investigators revealed two more people may have fallen prey to a worldwide network that has been linked to German maneater Armin Meiwes
Detectives investigating the sensational trial of the self-confessed German cannibal Armin Meiwes revealed on Monday that two other people in Europe may have been eaten. New evidence in the trial of Meiwes, 42, accused of killing and eating a man he met on the Internet, shed light on a global network that links maneaters from Austria to America, the police told the court.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/01/07/2003086676

Secret world of the suburban cannibal
In Germany a man is on trial for killing and eating an acquaintance - by mutual consent. Peter Fray reports on the ultimate taboo. They exist under half-names and phoney identities in the darkest crevices of cyberspace. People such as Laura, who pleads her bona fides in poor English: "Please don't tell me I'm sick," she writes.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/14/1073877901829.html

Brandes: He and partner had been planning summer holiday.

Cannibal victim 'no wish to die'
A German engineer killed by another man after allegedly answering Internet ads seeking a willing victim for "slaughter and consumption" never expressed any desire to die, his former partner told the self-confessed cannibal's murder trial. When his trial opened December 3, defendant Armin Meiwes confessed in detail to the March 2001 killing of 43-year-old Bernd Juergen Brandes at his home. Brandes, who had traveled from Berlin after answering his ads, wanted to be stabbed to death after drinking a bottle of cold medicine to lose consciousness, Meiwes testified.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/12/germany.cannibaltrial.ap/

Cannibal victim never told lover Bernd-Juergen Brandes had never expressed a death wish, his former lover Rene Jasnik told the court. An engineer who was a self-confessed cannibal's willing victim never told his partner that he wanted to be killed and eaten, a German court has heard. Bernd-Juergen Brandes had never expressed a death wish, his former lover Rene Jasnik told the court. Mr Brandes died after answering internet adverts placed by Armin Meiwes seeking a volunteer for "slaughter". Mr Meiwes, 42, has admitted killing and eating the engineer, but says he is not guilty of murdering him. Mr Jasnik, 27, the victim's partner at the time, told the court in Kassel: "He had no thoughts of suicide."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3390293.stm

Cannibal 'wanted to get married'
Meiwes was described in court as friendly and sensitive
Self-confessed German cannibal Armin Meiwes was a "childlike" figure who wanted to marry and have children, two female witnesses testified on Friday. The women, who were not identified, gave evidence on the eighth day of Mr Meiwes' trial in the city of Kassel. They said he had tried to develop a relationship with each of them, but they denied having had sex with him. Mr Meiwes, 42, has admitted killing and eating Bernd-Juergen Brandes, but says he is not guilty of murder. Prosecutors accept that Mr Meiwes had his victim's consent, but claim that he killed for his sexual gratification.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3384037.stm

VARIOUS POLITICAL CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS

Mao's grandson a big chip off the old block
He usually refers to his illustrious forebear as Chairman Mao, or simply Chairman, reserving the full name of China's once-deified leader for when he cites his political canon. "In this new century, this new period of history, to publicise Mao Zedong's thought, to carry forward Chairman Mao's glorious image, this work is even more important than before," he says, intoning a well-rehearsed sermon.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M41123117

China still struggles with its past
EVEN after two and a half decades of reform and opening to the outside world, Chinese rulers are not ready to discuss the chaos of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), when tens of millions of families suffered tragedies. "Still in China there is very little chance of a thorough examination of that period," says Carma Hinton, who was studying in a Chinese school when Mao Zedong urged bands of "red guards" drawn from the ranks of students and disaffected workers to "bombard the headquarters."
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8371304%255E401,00.html

Top U.S. General Making Visit to China   
U.S. military ties with China have been slow to recover from the forced landing of a Navy spy plane on a Chinese island more than two years ago. But the prospect of closer military relations as well as Washington's push to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear program are among the chief reasons for a trip to Asia by the top U.S. general. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left Saturday for a tour that will take him to Japan, Mongolia, China and Australia.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I24115117

Argentina politician arrested on torture charges
An Argentine provincial lawmaker accused of human rights abuses in the 1976-1983 "Dirty War" was arrested on Monday, a court official said, after alleged victims identified him as a torturer dubbed "the syringe". Juan Barrionuevo, elected as a deputy in the southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego in 2003, was recently charged with torture during the bloody dictatorship that killed up to 30,000 mostly leftist opponents.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12209944.htm

SICK, DISGUSTING AND ROTTEN, TOP TO BOTTOM, SAME AS AMERICAN POLITICS
No-hopers join Russia's one-horse election race
In a practice not seen in Russia since Soviet times, the Kremlin has put forward its own men to stand against Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in March. The move has proved necessary because Mr Putin, whose support is estimated at 70 to 80 per cent, is so dominant and his stranglehold on Russian politics so tight that leading opposition candidates have all refused to stand. Fearful that the election will be seen as undemocratic, or that turnout might fall below 50 per cent if the result is considered a foregone conclusion, the Kremlin has persuaded a leading liberal and a host of unknowns to join the race to try to spice it up.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/12/1073877765591.html

Drugging the Troops
Many U.S. soldiers are being treated with a malaria drug that can cause psychotic episodes. Is this a good idea?    The problem is Lariam—also known by its generic name, mefloquine—can cause serious neuropsychiatric side effects. It says so on the label. Let me tell you about mine. I had the weirdest dreams of my life on the stuff. It was almost as if I was hallucinating. I took just one pill during the weeklong DOD trip, which ended up being to the headwaters of the Amazon River in Iquitos, Peru, for drug interdiction. And I was supposed to take the drug for a month or so when I got back. That's when the nausea and dizziness started. I ended up deciding that malaria was better than feeling so sick and I stopped taking it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3918713&p1=0

SEX SELLS THE UN
Too sexy for their cause
A GLOSSY picture book featuring French screen siren Emmanuelle Beart on charity missions has highlighted the use of an unlikely new weapon in the war on want - the "humanitarian playmate". While the United Nations has recruited celebrities as "ambassadors" for decades, its current preference for stars with sex appeal is prompting disquiet in the aid world. Beart's book, Sous Nos Yeux (Before Our Eyes), shows her tearfullly consoling a Thai woman who told the actor her mother sold her into prostitution at age 10. Elsewhere, she is seen cuddling babies and helping vaccinate children in Mali. It is these artistic images of a soulful-looking Beart in the wilds that prompted murmuring in Paris about humanitarian playmates. "Emmanuelle Beart has no credibility or legitimacy in the task of reducing malnutrition in Mali," said Rony Brauman, founder of the Nobel prize-winning aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8370604%255E13780,00.html

In Martin, United Nations finds a cheerleader
New PM well-regarded at U.N.
He's expected to push multilateralism [ WORLD GOVT. ]
It's not widely known, but Prime Minister Paul Martin has been doing some moonlighting. For the United Nations, in fact, where he has been co-chairing a blue-ribbon commission exploring ways to convince the private sector to invest in projects that can meet the U.N.'s anti-poverty agenda. That work, which he undertook even as he was waging the battle to become the next prime minister, is an indication of just how deeply interest in the U.N. runs in the Martin political pedigree. In fact, you might say that Martin — who has promised to repair Canada's relations with Washington — is regarded as something of a golden boy at U.N. headquarters in New York.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P29F52607

Raids tied to trade of inside information
Police probe whether federal Liberal offered B.C. officials benefits for sensitive information
The political link to a police investigation that led to searches at the legislature involves possible violations of two sections of the Criminal Code dealing with government corruption, The Vancouver Sun has learned. Sources say the investigation is focusing on the offer of a favour or benefit from someone linked to the federal Liberal party in return for sensitive information from provincial government officials.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P69826017

Italy Indicts Three Ex-SS Members   
An Italian court indicted three former members of the Nazi SS Monday on charges of having carried out a massacre of 560 people in a Tuscan village, a local news agency reported. In August 1944, some 300 of Hitler's elite SS surrounded Sant'Anna di Stazzema, which had been flooded with refugees, in what was supposed to be a hunt for partisans. Instead, they rounded up all villagers they could find — 80 percent of whom were women, children and elderly — and began shooting them, according to witnesses. Others were herded into basements and enclosed spaces and killed with hand grenades.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T22161117

CARLYLE GROUP'S SOROS LIKES DEAN BEST, BUT IS FOND OF KERRY AND CLARK... MORE BREAD AND CIRCUS
Soros funds fight against Bush
BILLIONAIRE financier George Soros has reiterated his determination to prevent President Bush winning the election this year, comparing his first term in the White House with George Orwell's grim political fables, and pledging to bankroll the opposition Democrat campaign. Soros said he particularly supported Vermont governor Howard Dean to be the Democratic challenger although he liked the foreign policy platforms of Senator John Kerry and retired general Wesley Clark.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid72895?source=

King Seeks Funds for Palaces for 11 Wives  
Swaziland's King Mswati has asked his government for funds to help redecorate three main palaces and build others for each of his 11 wives, a royal palace source said Sunday. The Times of Swaziland reported that Mswati -- sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch -- was seeking about $15 million in a country where landless peasants make up 80 percent of the population. "It is true that we will rehabilitate the palace of his majesty and his wives," the palace source told Reuters. "The king's office has put in a request to parliament and to cabinet for approval," said the source, without giving a figure. Two months ago, Mswati hand-picked 17 family members and loyalists to fill cabinet posts. The wealth of the king is considered a state secret. Last year, $1.5 million was spent on luxury cars and homes for Mswati's elder relatives. Swazi taxpayers lost $45 million on a down payment for a luxury jet for Mswati's personal use when the deal fell through.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G13154117

U.S., India to Expand Hi-Tech Cooperation   
Signaling improved U.S. relations with India, President Bush announced Monday an expansion in dialogue on missile defense and cooperation on nonmilitary nuclear activities and high-technology trade.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M56121117

Blair presses Bush to act on global warming
Tony Blair is persuading President George Bush to launch a new international initiative to fight global warming. The move, in part an attempt by Mr Blair to shrug off the label as the President's "poodle", is the result of a series of behind-the-scenes meetings between high-level officials, The Independent on Sunday has learnt. The two leaders are close to agreement on combating climate change at the next two G8 meetings of the world's most powerful leaders.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=480085

Pentagon auditors doctored documents
The Pentagon's auditors spent 1,139 hours altering their own files in order to pass an internal review, say investigators who found that the accounting sleuths engaged in just the kind of wasteful activity they are supposed to expose. When the auditors in the New York City office learnt in advance which files a review team would check, they spent the equivalent of 47 days doctoring and updating records from several audits, the Defence Department's inspector general discovered. Administrative staff, audit supervisors and other employees also participated. The fabrication at the Defence Contract Audit Agency "certainly violates the spirit and intent" of government auditing standards and rules on ethical conduct, said the inspector general's report. The agency, which audits government contracts, is the same one that recently reported that Halliburton, Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company, may have overcharged the army $61m (£33m) for petrol in Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=480298

Cannabis Reclassified
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3396517.stm

Cannabis laws eased by Blunkett
Cannabis is to be reclassified as a less dangerous drug to free-up police
resources to
fight hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine, Home Secretary David Blunkett has
announced.  Continued...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2120116.stm
On 29th January 2004, cannabis will be reclassified from a Class B to a Class C
drug across the UK.  As a controlled drug, production, supply and possession
remains
illegal.
Cannabis Reclassified Q & A
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1616100.stm
****************CANNABIS NEWS****************
Kucinich's Own Crusade By Steve Miller
Source: Washington Times January 15, 2004
Fairfield, Iowa — The smell of incense and cinnamon hangs in the air during a
reception
for Dennis J. Kucinich at a country mansion outside this "meditation community,"
a town
of 9,500 and the home base of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Natural Law Party. 
Star-spangled
"Elect Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat, President" stickers are displayed
everywhere, from
the backsides of the young folks to the shoulders of the older.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18146.shtml

DK has interview at Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17567

D E N N I S K U C I N I C H I N I O W A
16 Jan 2004: http://www.corvusworld.com/kuchblast.htm
DIAL: http://www.corvusworld.com/kuchwhydialup.ram
DSL: http://www.corvusworld.com/kuchwhydsl.ram

Here's Carol Mosley Braun Insisting that Kucinich's
single-payer healthcare plan is the ONLY way to go.
http://www.corvusworld.com/kuchblast.htm

OT: Kucinich article at Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040114-113844-3797r.htm
Kucinich on Ganja
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/marijuana_decrim.php

IA, Lakota Sioux meets with Kucinich
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-01-12-kucinich-sioux_\
x.htm
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Pot Grower's Verdict Irks Marijuana Activists
Source: Associated Press January 16, 2004
Olympia -- A verdict against an admitted Olympia pot grower is drawing fire from
medical marijuana advocates.  In a verdict Wednesday, Thurston County Superior
Court
jurors convicted Monica Ginn, 53, of growing and distributing marijuana, and
decided
she qualifies for a more severe sentence because her growing operation was
within 1,000
feet of a designated school bus stop.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18151.shtml
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Couple Busted for Pot is Turned Over To Feds By Josh Richman
Source: Oakland Tribune January 16, 2004
An Oakland man who went to state court this week to mount a medical defense to
marijuana charges was instead handed over to federal authorities, who have filed
charges that could put him and a co-defendant behind bars for the rest of their
lives.
David Davidson, 52, an Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative member, and Cynthia
Blake,
53, of Red Bluff, are to be arraigned today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory G.
Hollows
of Sacramento.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18149.shtml

Ed Rosenthal: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/trialpics.htm
WAMM: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/valc.htm
Bryan Epis : http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/protestpics.htm
DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Club: http://freedomtoexhale.com/raid.htm

"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948

Unrepentant Junkie
Sen.Joseph McCarthy
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J537219B6
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Donor Keeps Marijuana Dispensary Alive By Michelle Meyers
Source: Tri-Valley Herald January 16, 2004
Hayward -- A 30-year-old Hayward businessman spent $11,000 to keep Hayward
Hempery
owner Cheryl Adams -- someone he had never met -- from being evicted from her
downtown
shop.  The man, a Tennyson High School graduate, said he had once visited The
Hempery
and its medical marijuana dispensary. A medical marijuana patient himself, he
read with
interest about her business' potential demise in an ANG Newspapers' publication
and
decided to bail her out, he said.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18148.shtml
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Police Chief Acknowledges 'Muddle' Over Drug Law By Jason Bennetto
Source: Independent UK January 15, 2004
Britain's most high-ranking police chief admitted yesterday that there was
widespread
confusion and "muddle" surrounding the changes to the law on cannabis due to
take place
at the end of the month. Sir John Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police,
said some people mistakenly believed that the drug was being legalised. He said
there
was a "massive amount of muddle" over the changes, which will see cannabis
downgraded
from a class B to a class C drug on 29 January.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18147.shtml

“Marihuana is “a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine.”  Authority for
this
statement is United States Commissioner of Narcotics H. J. Anslinger. . . . the
drug is
adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical
demoralization,
and mental breakdown.”
Scientific American - May 1938
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NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- January 15, 2004
Source: NORML January 15, 2004
Medical Marijuana Patients In California Top 75,000, California NORML Estimates
January 15, 2004 - San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA: The number of patients in California using marijuana
medicinally
under a doctor's supervision is rising dramatically and now tops 75,000,
according to
estimates released this week by California NORML. The total is more than double
the
total number of patients estimated by the organization in a 2002 survey of
patients'
groups, registration programs, and physicians that appeared in the March 2003
issue of
the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics.
Read More...  http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18145.shtml
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The War on Drugs Starts at Foot Locker By Joe Donatelli
Source: SHNS January 15, 2004
Stunning news from the world of science - the same family of chemicals that
helps
marijuana smokers catch a buzz might also be responsible for "runner's high,"
the
joyful feeling that some people experience when they exercise.  Researchers from
the
Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California Irvine spent
three
weeks following Phish around the Midwest in a rainbow-colored bus inside which
they
smoked an ounce of kind bud a day and scrawled their findings on the inside of
an empty
case of Old Milwaukee.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18144.shtml
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"Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results
of the use of marijuana." Ronald Reagan 1974

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979

High Times for Alzheimers
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14254.shtml
Alzforum Website - Marijuana
http://www.alzforum.org/res/adh/hyp/#marijuana
Pharmos to Test Cannabis-Like Drug for Memory Loss
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13551.shtml
CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Restore-Digest
http://thc-foundation.com/restore

Friday, January 16 2004       Volume 2004 : Number 016
001 Canada: Bette Midler cracks up Toronto audience with Canuck jokes
002 WA: OPED: Marijuana initiative no way to change law
003 Canada: Most want pain relief, not a marijuana high
004 Canada: Man Owns Both Pot Buildings, Police Say
005 PA: Man Sells Ton of Pot Through Restaurant
006 DrugSense Weekly, Jan. 16, 2004, #333

Thursday, January 15 2004      Volume 2004 : Number 015
001 CA: Kern Co. MMJ Advocate Faces Charges
002 Monica Ginn Convicted
003 Canada: Wacky Weed?
004 Re: CA patients arrested by Feds in state court
005 WA: Grower found guilty in medical marijuana case
006 UK: Cannabis Reclassified
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Drug War Chronicle, Issue #320 (14 articles)
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/320

Pain Relief Network Joins National Physician and Patient Groups
in Denouncing Florida's Hearings on Pain Drugs 1/16/04
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/320/paindrugs.shtml

Dr. Nickles and Mr. Hyde Feel Your Pain
http://www.infidels.org/secular_web/feature/1999/pain.html
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Bush Administration Admits to Leaving Communities at Risk from Toxic Waste in
2003
(Jan. 11, 2004) "In other words, pot growers and drug users are bad, toxic 
waste
pollution and polluters not so bad." Full story...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/011104G.shtml

Hemp vs Dioxins
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y23D21B45
Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M23C12B45
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Bush Installs Pickering on Appeals Court
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040116/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_p\
ickering

Pickering Biography
http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/pickeringbio.htm
Whitehouse Judicial Nominations
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees
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Romania: Shooting Blindly in the War on Drugs by Dumitru Balaci
Transitions Online 12 January 2004 puff_tuff (Excerpted)
http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&Nr\
Section=1&NrArticle=11443
HEMP FARMERS TARGETED
Against the backdrop of ever-changing laws and half-measures in Romania’s war on
drugs,
legitimate hemp farmers have paid a high price.   According to the report, "From
an
exporter, Romania [became] an importer of hemp due to incoherent and
inconsistent
monitoring of hemp fields and the use of inadequate indicators, which led to
overstatements regarding the actual danger of cultivating this plant for
industrial
purposes."   Indeed, faced with the prospect of 15-year prison terms and the
glare of
the media over government raids on fields where hemp was being grown for legal
industrial purposes--but was wrongly identified as cannabis--many farmers have
simply
given up. In 2003 only 2,000 hectares of hemp were registered, down from 50,000
hectares in 1990, according to Agriculture Ministry official Elena Tatomir.
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US Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P55221265
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11B23B45
Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z34261265
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Coast man accused of growing marijuana in his home
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/7613766.htm
MOSS POINT, Miss."Agents with the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County
received a tip
on Tuesday."  "This is a top-grade type of marijuana he had been growing for
several
months," said Cmdr. Louie Miller. "He grew it with high-grade fertilizer and
special
lights for a source of heat to help the marijuana plants grow." Miller said it
was an
expensive, special breed of marijuana called hyber weed. He said it could be
sold on
the streets for $1,000 an ounce." "We're glad to have him back in jail where he
belongs
and off the streets," Miller said.

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2AC11FE6
U.S. prison population largest in world
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X690121B6

Investigator found abandoned in fields in Iowa and Minnesota between 12,000 and
15,000
pounds
of harvested hemp -- enough to make thirty billion [Marihuana] cigarettes
and to drug the whole population of the United States.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY  - June 29, 1938

The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America
http://www.chestnutcafe.com/cafe/US_History.html
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THC in collaboration with Dope Britannia present the latest cannabis news to hit
the
net. Dynamically updated from the Dope Britannia database...
Please call back to this page on a regular basis to view the most recent
cannabis news.

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Hoping Hemp Will Make a Comeback - 05/01/04
http://www.high-land.co.uk/news.html?sel_article_id=614
Country Property: A Builder's Guide To The High Life - 04/01/04
http://www.high-land.co.uk/news.html?sel_article_id=615
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UK and Worldwide Cannabis News
http://www.high-land.co.uk/news.html
Dope Britannia
http://www.dopebritannia.com
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HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: The Canadian Holocaust

Through the Canadian residential school system, the Christian churches along
with state
authorities, the judiciary, doctors and the police implemented a policy of
genocide
against the native population.

(The following is an edited extract from the report, "Hidden From History: The
Canadian
Holocaust - The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples by Church and
State
in Canada - A Summary of an Ongoing, Independent Inquiry into Canadian Native
'Residential Schools' and their Legacy", by Rev. Kevin D. Annett, MA, MDiv. The
report
is published by The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada, a public
investigative
body continuing the work of previous Tribunals into native residential schools:
The
Justice in the Valley Coalition's Inquiry into Crimes Against Aboriginal People,
convened in Port Alberni, British Columbia, on December 9, 1994, and The
International
Human Rights Association of American Minorities Tribunal into Canadian
Residential
Schools, held in Vancouver, BC, from June 12-14, 1998. Editor.) Continued...
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/canada.html

Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2 (February-March 2002)
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@...
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
From our web page at: http://www.nexusmagazine.com
by Rev. Kevin D. Annett, MA, MDiv
2001 The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
Email: kevinannett@...
Email: kevin_annett@...
Website: http://annett55.freewebsites.com
From: "Jon" ramatu3927@...
jesuswithpropeller@yahoogroups.com
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The Drug War Comes To The Rez
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg7x4413.shtml
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4414.gif
MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THY PEOPLE YOU'RE DYING
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mycount.html#top
--- NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/nowthat.html#top

"[Marijuana] is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem
where there are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes.
"New York Times- Dec. 3, 1933 - Pg. 6, Sec. 4.

Primary Reasons
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4260.gif
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/13/ECH13_00.HTM
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A People's History of the United States
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/PeoplesHistory_Zinn.html
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Cannabis-Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed...
"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist
regimes
into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy
the seat
of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S.
Ambassador to
Germany, 1937. Continued...
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
Shadow of the Swastika
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
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Kind Reader, Narco News launches an experiment to receive your comments about
the news
and commentary we publish: Here it is! Your comments page. Continued...
http://www.narconews.com/viewcomments.php?ForumID=2#inst?ForumID=2
More Narco News
http://www.narconews.com
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The Democrats' dream has become Blair's nightmare by Jackie Ashley
The Guardian Thursday January 15, 2004
It has come to this - a Labour leader rooting for a US Republican victory
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=32663

"Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton 1992
Klintoon preserving rights
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/27/27346.gif
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Dean's Trooper: What Did He Know About Abuse Allegations; When Did He Know It?
By Brian Ross, Chris Vlasto and Rhonda Schwartz ABCNEWS.com
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/dean_domestic_abuse_040114.html
http://a.abcnews.com/media/WNT/images/ho_dean_madore_040114_nh.jpg
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Ann Richards endorses Dean
http://www.investigate911.com/binladensez.htm
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Dean accuses Clark of being a Republican with no place in Democratic primary
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer January 14, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/01/14/politics1921EST0\
840.DTL
Howard Dean on Wednesday accused Wesley Clark of being a closet Republican,
sticking to
his word to strike out at rivals encroaching on his lead in the Democratic
presidential
race.  "I think General Clark is a good guy, but I truly believe he's a
Republican,"
Dean told a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, where Clark is narrowing Dean's
lead in
the polls. "I do. Harry Truman once said if you run a Republican against a
Republican,
the Republican's going to win every time."  In response, Clark told reporters
after a
national security speech in New Hampshire: "I'm a Democrat."
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Gephardt questions Dean's honesty, motives
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-01-14-gepha\
rdt-dean_x.htm
From: "Ron Harold" studioron@...
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“ ‘Ghost Soldiers' and Lies Equals Bodybags,”
http://www.sftt.org/dw02272002.html#3
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Unlisted%2edb&command=vie\
wone&id=6&rnd=471.1319328179919
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Hack's Target: Bring What On? By David H. Hackworth
Http://www.hackworth.com is the address of David Hackworth's home page. Sign in
for the
free weekly Defending America column at his Web site. Send mail to P.O. Box
11179,
Greenwich, CT 06831. His newest book is “Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts.”
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target.db&command\
=viewone&op=t&id=24&rnd=59.011081656339115
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"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS."
White House Drug Czar Carlton Turner 1986
Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his
disgrace,
Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry:
urine-testing.  Official Corruption/Carlton Turner
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/15/ECH15_18.HTM#Turner

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FB112E6
*******
Ottawa Strangely Silent on DEA By Paul Willcocks August 25, 2002
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread13877.shtml
*******
Newsbrief: Canada Judge Rips DEA Law Violations 8/16/02
http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/250/canadajudge.shtml
*******
U.S. Delayed Canada's Medical Marijuana Program
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr051402.html
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Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n572/a11.html?1979
NIDA Blocks Medical Marijuana Research
http://www.mpp.org/archive/MAPS.html
*******
BC justice calls illegal US Drug Enforcement Administration activities in Canada
an "abuse of process"
http://www.cfdp.ca/dea.htm
*******
US Drug Authorities Seize Canadian Hemp Products
http://www.life.ca/nl/70/kenex.html
*******
DEA Raids/Canada/DEA and MPP Museums (archives)
http://www.drugwar.com/pmppsept6.shtm
Please see ... http://www.mpp.org/states/site/quicknews.cgi?key=1467
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr090202.html
http://www.mpp.org/TargetAmerica
Sincerely, Rob Kampia
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PM Puppet
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36842.gif
PM Says No To Looser Drug Laws
http://www.masscann.org/News/articles/2001/05_29_2001_b.htm
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DEA Attacks Med-Pot and Hemp
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12993.shtml
Pot Policy Scandalizes Drug Czar
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13146.shtml
CannabisNews DEA Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/DEA.shtml
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DEAth Flunky
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4237.gif
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pma/dea.pdf
Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S200461B6
*******
DEA Reversal Means Hemp Back In Business
The January 2000 Issue of Natural Foods Merchandiser News
http://www.naturalfoodsmerchandiser.com/nfm_backs/Jan_00/dea_reversal.cfm
Hemp Food Stays in Stores
DEA Backs Down in Face of Imminent Court Action
http://www.nutiva.com/about/media/2002_02_08.php
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D.E.A.th Deceptions
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/ddc/DEAth.html
The Village Idiots
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T290151D5
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I know of at least one instance where a person was
killed in police custody in Cologne's Eigenstein
police station.
     Subsequent investigation revealed the imprint of a
police boot in the dead man's face, after he had been
arrested.
--- admin@... wrote:
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> "Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and
> therefore deprive them of their arms."
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> - Aristotle, "Politics"
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>
> "When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet
> because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the
> sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
> When they took the second amendment, I was quiet
> because I didn't own a gun. Now they've taken the
> first amendment, and I can say nothing about it."
>
> - Fred Albury
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> Aftermath News Service
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> Global Techno-Orwellian Police State Dictatorship
> Nightmare Update - Jan 16, 2004
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> Homeland Security Reichsfuhrer Tom Ridge, left, and
> U.S. Customs and Border Protection Oberfuhrer Mary
> Armbrust look on as an unidentified passenger from
> Delta flight 104 from Santiago, Chile has his
> fingerprints taken by the US-VISIT system in customs
> at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in
> Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 5, 2004. The fingerprints and
> then photo are displayed on the monitor. The system
> then checks him through a database. (AP Photo/Ric
> Feld)
>
> U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security Launches US-Visit
> Program
> The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today
> launched US-VISIT, a new program to enhance the
> nation's security while facilitating legitimate
> travel and trade through our borders. New entry
> procedures took effect today for most foreign
> visitors with non-immigrant visas at 115 airports
> and cruise ship terminals at 14 seaports. The system
> utilizes biometrics, which are physical
> characteristics unique to each individual to verify
> identity. Biometric technologies are the basis of an
> extensive array of highly secure identification and
> personal verification solutions.
>
http://nyjtimes.com/cover/01-12-04/UsVisitProject.htm
>
>
> Where's the beef? Applied Digital knows
> Implantable chip tracks the nation's beef fupply
> from birth to table
> After a year in which Applied Digital Solutions had
> to defend its viability, the publicly owned company
> finds its most prized asset being touted to
> electronically monitor the nation's beef supply.
> Palm Beach-based ADS was featured in numerous news
> reports recently as the parent company of Digital
> Angel Corp., which manufactures an implantable
> microchip used to track livestock and wildlife. Its
> radio-frequency technology is being discussed as a
> potential solution for a national animal
> identification program, in response to recent
> beef-safety concerns following a confirmed case of
> mad-cow disease in December in Washington.
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?E15623F07
>
>
> Police Still Lock Up Suspects And Beat Them Up, Says
> Rights Group
> Torture, illegal arrests and corruption are still
> rampant in the police force, one year after the
> ruling Coalition swept to power with a pledge to
> stamp out the vices. An incident in Nairobi's Riruta
> Satellite estate during the just ended festive
> season may provide a good example of just how little
> the brutal face of the police force has changed. Mr
> Akapu Otieno was severely beaten by a policeman
> attached to Riruta Police Station allegedly because
> he would not bribe the officer, as incidents of
> police harassment appeared to climb a notch higher
> during the Christmas holidays. Otieno says he is
> seeking legal redress over the matter.
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200401120422.html
>
>
> Security ranking for all US travellers
> All travellers boarding at United States airports
> will be given a score and a colour that ranks their
> perceived threat to the aircraft under a vast
> security system to be introduced this year. The US
> Government will push ahead with the system to
> investigate the backgrounds of all passengers
> despite resistance from airlines and privacy
> advocates. Airlines will have to hand over all
> passenger records for scrutiny from as early as next
> month. Another program will be introduced to allow
> frequent flyers to pass quickly through security
> lines if they provide personal information to the
> government. The measures follow the decision last
> week to fingerprint and photograph millions of
> foreign visitors on arrival in the US.
>
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/12/1073877763863.html
>
>
>
>
> GPS Locator Watch
> www.bluewatersecurityprofessionals.com
>
>
> Wider use of GPS may remap how we live
> An elderly woman had been caring for her husband
> afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. He would take a
> walk daily within a prescribed zone around their
> home. One day he began wandering farther afield.
> Frantic, the wife sought and found the means to keep
> tabs on her confused mate. She bought a device she
> could attach to her husband's wrist that would keep
> her informed of his exact whereabouts. The device
> used global position system, or GPS, technology that
> utilizes satellites to track its location. Such
> devices are being used to keep track of children and
> pets as well as the elderly. But such monitoring is
> only one way GPS technology is being used today. GPS
> is transforming the way we live and communicate much
> more fundamentally, many think, than the Internet.
>
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~1884842,00.html
>
>
> All Air Fliers To Be Assigned Threat Ranking
> Volunteering Personal Information Would Shorten
> Security Wait
> As early as next month, the government could order
> airlines and airline ticket bookers to hand over all
> their passenger records. The Washington Post
> reported that the government is moving ahead with
> plans for background checks, despite a lack of
> cooperation from airlines. The computerized system
> would assign all travelers a number and a color code
> that ranks their potential threat. A separate
> program would speed business travelers and other
> frequent fliers through security lines if they
> volunteered personal information.
>
http://www.nbc5.com/travelgetaways/2757093/detail.html
>
>
> Megabucks for homeland security
> ON Oct 1, 2003, President George W Bush approved
> US$37.4 billion in the FY04 budget for the US
> Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Of that,
> US$918.2 million is for science and technology, and
> US$839.3 million for information analysis and
> infrastructure protection. With a US$1 billion
> budget for research alone, the DHS has become one of
> the leading R&D agencies of the US federal
> government. The lion's share of that - US$918.2
> million - is earmarked for science and technology,
> says the American Association for the Advancement of
> Science (AAAS). 'This is more than eight times the
> budget originally slated for the purpose in 2002 -
> and except for US$2 million for overhead - all of it
> will be spent on R&D,' says the AAAS. 'The
> directorate has also asked for US$365 million to
> devise counter-measures to make biological attacks
> less likely and minimise their impact.'
>
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/story/0,4567,104940,00.html
>
>
> South Korean riot police block anti-war protesters
> marching toward the National Assembly hall, in
> Seoul, Dec. 23, 2003. South Korea is to send 3,000
> troops to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in late
> April to help reconstruction efforts, cabinet and
> military officials said Tuesday. Photo by Kim
> Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z31636F07
>
>
>
> The 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt is displayed on the floor
> of
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