[cia-drugs] Global Marijuana March is May 5, 2007! 200 cities signed up soon.

[Eco Man]

<http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmmbannersflyers>

* Global Million Marijuana March (GMM-MMM) is May 5, 2007! *

* GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org - click
here.*<http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.org/>
*Around 200 cities worldwide. *

* 2007 city list mirrors. Click
here.<http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2007map.htm>
2. <http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2007map.htm> **
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*

* GMM Photo Galleries. Click here.*
<http://gallery.marihemp.com/years>Many photos, posters, flyers, and
banners.

*Wikipedia on GMM. Click
here.*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March>
* *

*2007 wiki page. Click
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* *You can add links yourself!

* MySpace GMM page. Click here. <http://www.myspace.com/ecommm> *

GMM events worldwide are held the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts.
Please send info/updates to: gmm(at)globalmarijuanamarch.org and Dana Beal
dana(at)phantom.com - You can also call in info/updates to Dana Beal. His
phone number is 212-677-7180. Substitute @ for (at) in the above email
addresses.

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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmworld
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction

Chart of cumulative installed photovoltaic power in the IEA PVPS countries
1992 to 2005. In megawatts:
http://www.iea-pvps.org/isr/images/2005_graph01.gif
Cheap solar power is here!:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1351
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/02/19/ccview19.xml
Why are the sheeple following oil companies into Iraq and possibly Iran?
Solar power in detail:
http://www.iea-pvps.org/isr/index.htm

[cia-drugs] Onward Christian Soldiers. Drug War. November Coalition.

[Eco Man]

From a drug war prisoner.


-article begins-

http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/05/0527.html


  *Onward Christian Soldiers*

*Thou Shalt NOT Kill*

*By G. Patrick Callahan, Prisoner of the War in America*



As I surfed the radio waves the other night I flicked by a so-called
Christian radio station. For some reason these stations seem to get away
with broadcasting on a quarter million watts. The moderator was using a
caller in the usual sounding board way, lamenting that Christians everywhere
were under attack, were the most hated group in the country. This was
overstated, but fact remains that religious intolerance is despised by many
people. Christ himself was the model of forgiveness, a thing called grace. I
pondered the moderator's comments and, next day chanced upon an episode of
the 700 Club on the CBN Channel which underscored the entire issue. Phony
Christians often do deserve contempt - and by all means must be kept on a
very short leash.

The 700 Club episode centered around teenage drug use. Of course, by a large
margin, the most problematic drug use among teens is alcohol, left unsaid.
The 700 Club focused their interview on a few of the more visually
illustrative teens attending a rock concert. There was a pierced nose neo-
nazi looking boy who's hair stood up like he'd put an appendage in a light
socket and a girl dressed like Morticia Adams with purple lipstick. A small
boa constrictor encircled her neck, just your average teen. The alleged
Christians asked this colorful duo about their drug use and they responded
in a surprisingly candid, articulate way. Essentially, they said the
government was spewing road apples about the whole drug scene and they could
pound sand, yet another D.A.R.E. failure.

The camera then switched back to the studio where Pat Robertson and an
overstuffed woman had the most sanctimonious faces I've seen since I glanced
at the prosecution after my guilty verdict. Pat then introduced a glare-eyed
fellow who has written a book urging the government to sic the Navy Seals on
all the drug lords and their operations in Mexico. The talk became
animated-funny how it does that when someone rattles his saber-with the
author crying that drug lords have declared chemical war on American
children (the old child wedge) and that the sky was otherwise falling. I was
reminded of James Madison's caveat about crisis being the rallying cry of
the tyrant. Pat and the comfortably padded woman nodded their anointed heads
eagerly as the writer spun the glories of a preemptive strike and military
expeditions into Old Mexico. You might have believed it to be 1847. I had
visions of Vera Cruz and Chapultepec. I flashed back to Viet Nam:
helicopters, M-60's and AK-47's bratting; blood slickened ponchos and the
stink of JP-4 exhaust: a most un-Christ like scenario. I did a tour there in
1967 with the Marines, the ones who took Chapultepec the first time.

But Jesus Christ said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." [Matthew 22:39]

We already provide squadrons of helicopters to Mexico, replete with mini
guns and other lethal hardware, ostensibly to fight the drug war. Doubtless
the Mexican government will use it against insurgents in Sinaloa and
Jalisco. The American military largesse consigned to foreign countries to
fight the drug war has often been used to do in dissenters in Bolivia,
Venezuela and Colombia. Thousands of people in other countries have died
violently for OUR war on drugs. Putting this expensive, high tech arsenal in
the hands of the military in Mexico has an element of irony, too, for some
of it will inevitably be used to move kilos from one place to the next on
its way north to Gringoland. I say this with utter conviction, for the last
Mexican drug czar was also a drug lord-a military general eventually
arrested for being in league with some of that country's largest drug
barons. Thirty-four other high ranking military officers were also
subsequently charged, but, of course, their profiteering shoes were
instantly filled, because every drug arrest creates a job opening.

Corruption is called La Mordida in Mexico, which literally means "the bite."
La Mordida is endemic to Latin America, a virtual way of life. The U.S. has
as much chance of changing it as it has of changing the weather over
Montana. Because of the drug war, La Mordida is becoming as American as
apple pie as well, and Barry McCaffrey, our drug czar, knows this, although
he prevaricates when interviewed on the subject. As a matter of fact, the
Mexican military has a long history of protecting contraband and
transporting it. This unsurprising phenomenon has also unsurprisingly been
observed in the U.S., and probably began when we took over from the French
in Viet Nam. Our C.I.A. flew opium for Asian drug lords.

Pat Robertson's belligerent guest author blathered on about unleashing our
special forces to make surgical strikes at the drug bosses and their armies,
like that surgical strike we pulled off i

[cia-drugs] The Nation. Iran/contra/cocaine. 20 Years Later, What It Means. David Corn.

[Eco Man]

---
Iran/*contra*: 20 Years Later and What It Means
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=143725
By David Corn, of The Nation. Posted 11/28/2006.

It's the 20th anniversary of the Iran-contra scandal. Two decades ago, the
public learned about the bizarre, Byzantine and (arguably) unconstitutional
actions of high officials in the post-Watergate years. But many Americans
did not absorb the key lesson: the Iran/*contra* vets were not to be
trusted. Consequently, most of those officials went on to prosperous
careers, with some even becoming part of the squad that has landed the
United States in the current hellish mess in Iraq.

Before tying the then to the now, let's revisit the basic narrative. When
Congress, by fair vote, decided in the 1980s that the United States should
not assist the *contras* fighting the socialist Sandinista government of
Nicaragua, the Reagan White House concocted several imaginative ways to pull
an end-run around democracy. This mainly entailed outsourcing the job to a
small band of private sector covert operators and to foreign governments,
which were privately requested or pressured by the Reaganites to support the
secret *contra* support operation. The "Iran" side of the scandal came from
President Ronald Reagan's covert efforts to sell weapons to Iran to obtain
the release of American hostages held by terrorist groups supposedly under
the control of Tehran--at a time when the White House was publicly declaring
it would not negotiate with terrorists. The two clandestine projects merged
when cash generated from the weapons transactions with Iran was diverted to
the *contra* operation.

Conservatives for years--make that decades--have argued there was nothing *
really* criminal about the Iran/*contra* affair and that it was merely a *
political* dispute between the pro-*contras* Republicans in the White House
and the Democrats controlling Congress. Yet at the time the architects of
these schemes worried they were breaking laws and placing Reagan in jeopardy
of being impeached. Look at how the National Security Archive, a nonprofit
outfit that gathers national security records,
summarizesa
memo documenting a key White House meeting on the clandestine
*contras* program:

*At a pivotal meeting of the highest officials in the Reagan Administration
[on June 25, 1984], the President and Vice President [George H.W. Bush] and
their top aides discuss how to sustain the Contra war in the face of
mounting Congressional opposition. The discussion focuses on asking third
countries to fund and maintain the effort, circumventing Congressional power
to curtail the CIA's paramilitary operations. In a remarkable passage,
Secretary of State George P. Shultz warns the president that White House
adviser James Baker has said that "if we go out and try to get money from
third countries, it is an impeachable offense." But Vice President George
Bush argues the contrary: "How can anyone object to the US encouraging third
parties to provide help to the anti-Sandinistas…? The only problem that
might come up is if the United States were to promise to give these third
parties something in return so that some people could interpret this as some
kind of exchange." Later, Bush participated in arranging a quid pro quo deal
with Honduras in which the U.S. did provide substantial overt and covert aid
to the Honduran military in return for Honduran support of the Contra war
effort.*

The Iran arms-for-hostage-deal was also illegal--or so Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger thought. At a December 7, 1985 White House meeting,
Weinberger argued the Iran missile deal was wrong and criminal, according to
his 
notesof
the session. Weinberger pointed out to Reagan that selling missiles to
Iran would violate a U.S. embargo on arms sales to Iran and that even the
president of the United States could not break this law. Nor, Weinberger
added, would it be legal to use Israel as a cutout, as was under
consideration. Both Secretary of State George Shultz and White House chief
of staff Donald Regan, who were each present, agreed that a secret weapons
deal with Iran would be against the law. Reagan, though, insisted on
proceeding, noting he could answer a charge of illegality but not the charge
that he had "passed up a chance to free hostages." Weinberger then quipped,
"Visiting hours are Thursdays"--meaning the deal could land someone in jail.
After the meeting, Regan told Weinberger he would try to talk Reagan out of
the deal. He failed to do so.

Soon both the clandestine *contras* program and the secret Iran deal were
underway, with the relevant agencies--most notably, the CIA, the Pentagon
and the State Department--providing back-up and National Security Council
officers Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter and Oliver North overseeing
operations. In suppor

[cia-drugs] Hemp fairs worldwide. Calendar online.

[Eco Man]

Hemp fairs worldwide. Calendar online.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/hempfairs.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/hempfairs.htm

Feel free to copy it to other web pages, etc.. Copyleft.

Please let me know of more hemp fairs worldwide.

tents444 at yahoo.com (Be clear in your email title),

or use the contact form on my website:

http://corporatism.tripod.com/webform.htm

regards,
eco,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction
http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm
http://corporatism.tripod.com
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2007map.htm Over 150 cities signed up so
far for the Global Marijuana March on or about May 5, 2007.

Feel free to pass on this email anywhere.



*MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):
*http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction
*Newsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:
"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died
in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that
suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation'
and 'blunt force injuries.' ... A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal
broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi
support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent.
Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."*



---

[cia-drugs] Bangkok Post. Thaksin must be tried. 2500 drug-war killings. Death squads

[Eco Man]

The original article may no longer be on the Bangkok Post website. The URL can 
be found at Google News, 
http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Thaksin+must+be+tried+for+deaths%22
but the URL doesn't currently work:
 http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/20Nov2006_news01.php
 
 But many others are forwarding the article around:
  http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Thaksin+must+be+tried+for+deaths%22
  
  There are newer articles on the issue:
  http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/23Nov2006_news13.php
  http://www.bangkokpost.com/231106_News/23Nov2006_news99.php
  
Keep looking around that site. Things may be in flux. People protecting 
elements in the police, etc.. So save the articles in case they disappear later.
 
 For photos and more info:
 http://gallery.marihemp.com/akha
http://www.akha.org 
 
 Please forward widely.
 
 -


article begins---
 

 From Nov 20, 2006 Bangkok Post

 Thaksin 'must be tried for deaths'

 Govt urged to ratify convention on court


 PRADIT RUANGDIT


 The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Lawyers Council of 
Thailand are pressing the government to ratify the convention on the 
International Criminal Court so deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra could 
be tried for crimes against humanity over his controversial anti-drugs campaign.


 The council and former lawmakers accused the Thaksin administration of having 
blood on its hands for waging its so-called war on drugs which killed more than 
2,000 people, most of them drug traders and traffickers. The government must 
bring Mr Thaksin to justice or the Sept 19 military coup which swept it to 
power would amount to nothing but a public deception, they said.


 Somchai Hom-laor, chairman of the council's human rights committee, said 
evidence came to light supporting the belief that state officials were 
responsible for the deaths of 2,500 people in the anti-drugs campaign. The 
death toll was recorded from two phases of the campaign, the first from 
February to April 2003 and the second in 2005.


 Officials were obeying a Thaksin policy which included a well-organised plan 
to issue a "licence to kill" with approval from Mr Thaksin, the then interior 
minister Wan Muhamad Nor Matha, and the then interior permanent secretary 
Sermsak Pongpanich.


 "They all signalled policy approval for the killing," Mr Somchai said at a 
discussion yesterday organised by the Press Association of Thailand.


 The government and the coup engineers, the Council for National Security 
(CNS), had no choice but get to the bottom of the drug-related killings and 
punish officials who perpetrated them, both for disciplinary and criminal 
violations, he said. The policy-makers, including Mr Thaksin, could end up 
facing charges of crimes against humanity.


 "Saddam Hussein [the former president of Iraq] was charged with committing 
crimes against humanity for the killing of 170 people. In that case, the 2,500 
deaths we witnessed here must constitute crimes against humanity," he said.


 The Attorney-General's Office should handle the issue should it become a case, 
as that agency answers to obligations governed by an international court 
agreement. But first, the government must ratify the convention on the 
International Criminal Court. Thai courts of justice must then formally 
acknowledge the legal interpretation of the definition of crimes against 
humanity for the admissibility and adjudication of such an offence to be 
established in Thailand. Without acknowledgment by the court, there was no 
chance of prosecuting Mr Thaksin.


 Mr Somchai said the Thaksin administration did not bother to ratify the 
convention. If the present government went ahead with the ratification, it 
would effectively restrict Mr Thaksin's mobility.


 The former prime minister, in self-imposed political exile overseas since the 
coup, has travelled from China to Indonesia on a diplomatic passport he has 
used since he was in power. "Signing the convention would prevent Mr Thaksin 
from popping up here and there, especially in European countries which are 
signatories to the convention," he said.


 Mr Thaksin could be brought to trial if he landed in the wrong country.


 Mr Somchai said restoring the rule of law required reforming the police force 
and subjecting police criminal investigations to scrutiny by the court.


 Wasant Panich of the NHRC said the drugs war policy was clearly a mistake, for 
which Mr Thaksin must be held to account. He cited the discovery of an official 
letter sent to people in Samut Sakhon's Ban Phaeo district at the height of the 
campaign, warning them to report to a local drugs war centre or their "safety 
could not be guaranteed".


 Mr Wasant added that a letter allegedly signed by an interior permanent 
secretary at the time was distributed to provincial governors outlining three 
ways to cut the number of drugs traders and producers. The suspects could be 
"arrested, face extra-judicial killings, or lose the

[cia-drugs] Ecuador e-vote system collapses during vote count! Nevada marijuana intitiative.

[Eco Man]

   For more info: http://www.bradblog.com or http://www.blackboxvoting.org Without free elections all our activist efforts take longer. Please forward widely. See Nevada marijuana initiativeinfo at the end. Links, yard signs, videos.     -     http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BED4D1513-6EBB-4D32-80A7-04F17AB97CB8%7D)&language=EN        Electoral
 employees counts the presidential voteEcuador Vote System Collapses  Quito, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador s Brazilian E-VOTE rapid vote-count system collapsed at dawn Monday after 70 percent of the votes were counted, which partial count was accused of irregularities as well.      Ecuador, Correa Sure of Runoff Win [Link]  Electoral Supreme Court (TSE) member Patricio Torres confirmed E-VOTE broke its five million dollar contract commitment to deliver presidential election results on Sunday and congressional winners after midnight Sunday.     The TSE is meeting today to analyze the situation while TSE chief Javier Cazar said the 10-month planning allowed the election itself to
 proceed without a hitch.     However, Jimmy Jairala, spokesman for the center-rightwing PRE -- Roldosist Party, affirmed that "hackers" entered the country and carried out a digital fraud, including scanning so votes were not secret.        ---end of article-     I wrote this at the Nevada marijuana initiative forum:http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=152     I hope that there are some groups and media doing exit polling. It is about the only way to nail down election fraud quickly after an election.      Does Nevada use any black box voting without paper ballot backups? If so, then I hope the campaign, and/or some of its supporters and backers, pays for some exit
 polling for some of those precincts.      I have been researching election fraud in the USA in 2000 and 2004, and also in Mexico in the last federal election. It is amazing how much election fraud is being exposed continually. I have been editing wikipedia pages on it too.      Election fraud occurs in many minor and major ways. And it is definitely effecting the results of some elections. Especially the close ones.      The fraud is not necessarily coordinated either. All kinds of people are involved. Many are involved on their own. Or only at a local level. Or only for their particular voting machine. Or only for their particular company that supervises those voting machines.   There is a lot of money in selling and maintaining voting machines lately. It is in their financial interest not to let mistakes show up in the results of their voting machines. So they fudge the results to
 make them appear consistent with hand counts, etc.. So they can keep selling their voting machines. The profit motive has thus been introduced into vote fraud.      I am very serious about all this. I hope a lot of people become election monitors at their local precincts. Find out how you can work or observe where the voting occurs. Take a lot of notes about any irregularities, weirdness, or glitches. They are invaluable later on.      For more info look up Black Box Voting or Brad Blog.     -end of forum post---     For more info: http://www.bradblog.com or http://www.blackboxvoting.org      -     http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/misc/yard_sign.jpg       Many YouTube videos on the Nevada marijuana initiative:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nevada+marijuana     Yard signs:http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/yard_sign     Home page:  http://www.regulatemarijuana.org      Forum:http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/forum      Poll:  http://gallery.marihemp.com/albums/nevada2006nov7/august2006poll.gifhttp://gallery.marihemp.com/nevada2006nov7 ---MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest
 torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Wikipedia on Global Million Marijuana March in May.

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   This is also archived with links intact here:http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1328      The permanent link for the version below is:  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_Marijuana_March&oldid=79027866      Wikipedia page begins---     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March   Global Marijuana MarchFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search     The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is an annual rally held at different locations across the planet. Cannabis-related events occur on the first Saturday in May, or that weekend, or thereabouts. Marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, info-tables, etc.. The home page is at GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org     The Global Marijuana March also goes by the name of the Million Marijuana March (MMM). Over 400 different cities worldwide have participated since 1999. [1]
 There are local names for the event too. Such as: World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, Global Space Odyssey, Ganja Day, J Day, etc..     The Global Marijuana March is a celebration of the business of embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Participants unite to discuss, promote, entertain and educate both consumers and non-consumers alike.     One of the main organizers since 1999 is Dana Beal and his website Cures-Not-Wars.org. Another of the main organizers is CannabisCulture.com and its publication, Cannabis Culture Magazine. Both Dana Beal and CannabisCulture.com people have mailed thousands of GMM-MMM posters worldwide over the years.  [edit]Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  The rally at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada is a city tradition since 1999. The 2006 Toronto Cannabis Week featured events, live music and entertainment across the city from Thursday, May 4th until Wednesday, May 10th. 25,000 people attended.[2] [3]  [edit]External linksGlobal Marijuana
 March home page with 2005-2007 city lists.   2005 GMM-MMM world map and city list with many links.   Over 400 different cities worldwide that have signed up since 1999.   GMM-MMM photos, posters, and flyers worldwide since 1999.   Cures-Not-Wars.org.   CannabisCulture.com history of GMM-MMM.   Links to many GMM-MMM web pages worldwide. 2.   Links to many GMM-MMM photos, posters, and banners worldwide. 2. 3. 4.   2006 cannabis event posters, flyers, banners. Including GMM-MMM. 2005. 2004.   GMM-MMM Yahoo Group with public archive.   Compilations of GMM-MMM links and reports over the years.   GMM-MMM 2000-2004 cities in Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland. 2005.   CannabisWeek.ca - The Global Marijuana March of Toronto, Canada.   Toronto GMM 2006 photos and videos.   "Marching for freedom". 2004 global reports and some photos. Cannabis Culture magazine article.   Ganja Day - 4th May 2002 - London. 4th MMM in London, UK. Many photos.   Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March"Categories: Cannabis | Protest marches | 1999 establishments     In other languages  Norsk (bokmål)   Српски / Srpski   Toolbox  What links here   Related changes   Upload file   Special pages   Printable version   Permanent link   Cite this article
   ---end of wikipedia page        The external links section in the above wikipedia article links to some GMM-MMM pages hosted for free on ad-supported web hosts. If problems occur, try one of the mirror pages linked at the top and/or bottom of those pages.     Please forward widely. Sign up for the Global Marijuana March!     MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words
 like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Martin Luther King compares Vietnam to Iraq, West Bank, Lebanon.

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   Henry Kissinger is advising Bush. From the grave Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tells us farther down what Kissinger's advice has brought us to today. Please forward widely. Please vote November 7, 2006. Only public opinion and a new Congress can end this madness. Public opinion is the only way to force some Democrats to grow a spine. U.S. troops need sane political leaders and advisers. Bush is an Armageddonist and Rapture Wacko who prefers to invade Iran than to seek a just Middle East regional peace. Almost 40 years of US-funded Israeli fundamentalist settler occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is the root cause of Mideast tensions. It is US-armed Holy War and Jihad.Jewish and Palestinian moderates want peace. Even Iran has said it would honor a Palestinian-Israeli peace treaty. American soldiers in Iraq are fed up with Bush's lies. The Lebanese people
 are fed up with war in general.      --        Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.http://www.princeton.edu/pr/mlk/images/mlk_mainpic2.jpghttp://www.harley.com/people/images/martin-luther-king-speech.jpg  - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, April 1967 at Manhattan's Riverside Church:http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-13.htm---Excerpts begin---Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. ...And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam, my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak now not of the soldiers of each side, not of the junta in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades. ...They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese proclaimed their own independence in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation and before the communist revolution in China. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we
 refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its re-conquest of her former colony. Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not "ready" for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. With that tragic decision, we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some communists. For the peasants, this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives. ...After the French were defeated it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the Geneva agreements. But instead there came the United States, determined that Ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and the peasants watched again as we
 supported one of the most vicious modern dictators, our chosen man, Premier Diem. ...When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace. The only change came from America as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept and without popular support. All the while, the people read our leaflets and received regular promises of peace and democracy, and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs. So they go. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres
 of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers destroy their precious trees. They wander into the hospitals, with at least 20 casualties from American firepower for each Viet Cong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children. ... Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call "fortified hamlets." ... What of the NLF, that strangely anonymous group we call VC or communists? What must they think of us in America when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the South? How can they believe in our integrity when now we speak of "aggression from the North" as if there were nothing more essential to the war? How can they trust us when now we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of Diem,
 and charge them with violence while we pour new weapons of death into their land? ...Somehow this madness must cease. ...This is the message of the

[cia-drugs] Woodward book exposes many follies of Iraq War. Kissinger, too.

[Eco Man]

   Kissinger!!?? advising the President. That explains almost everything. That psycho death-squad-supporter responsible for so much hatred towards the USA in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Kissinger can hardly travel outside the USA because so many judges worldwide want to question him about his death squad knowledge. The USA is in peril. Please forward widely. This message is archived with links and images intact here:http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1326      Kissinger may be able to explain this:     Newsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like
 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."     --Washington Post article begins---        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092900368.html     Card Urged Bush to Replace Rumsfeld, Woodward Says  By William HamiltonWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, September 29, 2006; 1:50 PM  Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card on two
 occasions tried and failed to persuade President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to a new book by Bob Woodward that depicts senior officials of the Bush administration as unable to face the consequences of their policy in Iraq.  Card made his first attempt after Bush was reelected in November, 2004, arguing that the administration needed a fresh start and recommending that Bush replace Rumsfeld with former secretary of state James A. Baker III. Woodward writes that Bush considered the move, but was persuaded by Vice President Cheney and Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, that it would be seen as an _expression_ of doubt about the course of the war and would expose Bush himself to criticism.  Card tried again around Thanksgiving, 2005, this time with the support of First Lady Laura Bush, who according to Woodward, felt that Rumsfeld's overbearing manner was damaging to her husband. Bush refused for a second time,
 and Card left the administration last March, convinced that Iraq would be compared to Vietnam and that history would record that no senior administration officials had raised their voices in opposition to the conduct of the war.  The book is the third that Woodward, an assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, has written on the Bush administration since the terrorist attacks of September, 11, 2001. The first two were attacked by critics of the Bush administration as depicting the president in a heroic light. But the new book's title, "State of Denial," conveys the different picture that Woodward paints of the Bush administration since the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. Excerpts of the book will be published in the Sunday and Monday editions of The Post.  Woodward writes that there was a vast difference between what the White House and Pentagon had known about the situation in Iraq and what they were saying publicly. In memos,
 reports and internal debates administration officials have voiced their concern about the conduct of the war, even while Bush and cabinet members such as Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have insisted that the war was going well.  Last May, Woodward writes, the intelligence division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated a secret intelligence estimate predicting that violence will not only continue for the rest of this year in Iraq but increase in 2007.  "Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year," said the report, which was distributed to the White House, State Department and other intelligence agencies.  The report presented a similarly bleak assessment of oil production, electricity generation and the political situation in Iraq.  "Threats of Shia ascendancy could harden and expand Shia militant
 opposition and increase calls for coalition withdrawal," the report said.  Woodward writes that Rice and Rumsfeld have been warned repeatedly about the deteriorating situation in Iraq.  Returning from his assignment as the first head of the Iraq Postwar Planning Office, retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner told Rumsfeld on June 23, 2003, that the United States had made "three tragic mistakes" in Iraq.  The first two, he said, were the orders his successor, L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer, had given banning members of the Baath Party from government jobs and disbanding the Iraqi military. The third was Bremer's dismissal of an interim Iraqi leadership group that had been eager to help the United States adminis

[cia-drugs] Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat. New York Times.

[Eco Man]

   New York Times article is farther down.   This administration must be kept in line. Only a new Congress can do that. Along with public opinion. So, please forward widely.   The USA is being drained of resources and hope by this insane President.     It is all one big fascist lie. WMDs in Iraq, "we are winning the war on terrorism," black box voting machines, astronomical incarceration rates, approved torture to near death (waterboarding), etc.. Torture should only be used to stop nuclear terrorism. A Congressional committee should have to sign off on each case, and the details should be declassified in ten years or less. There must be accountability for such a serious breach of human rights. Only truly massive threats should justify torture. All other torture just creates more bombers. Truly dumb. Here is what torture has given us: 
    Newsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."   -start of New York Times article        New York Times. Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?hp&ex=1159070400&en=003f596f66422cfd&ei=5094&partner=homepage     [This is the full article. Some newspapers are reprinting it, but may leave out parts.] By MARK MAZZETTI  Published: September 24, 2006  WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.  The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or
 in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.  The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.  An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.   The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,” said one American intelligence official.   More than a dozen
 United States government officials and outside experts were interviewed for this article, and all spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a classified intelligence document. The officials included employees of several government agencies, and both supporters and critics of the Bush administration. All of those interviewed had either seen the final version of the document or participated in the creation of earlier drafts. These officials discussed some of the document’s general conclusions but not details, which remain highly classified.   Officials with knowledge of the intelligence estimate said it avoided specific judgments about the likelihood that terrorists would once again strike on United States soil. The relationship between the Iraq war and terrorism, and the question of whether the United States is safer, have been subjects of persistent debate since the war began in 2003.  National Intelligence Estimates
 are the most authoritative documents that the intelligence community produces on a specific national security issue, and are approved by John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence. Their conclusions are based on analysis of raw intelligence collected by all of the spy agencies.   Analysts began working on the estimate in 2004, but it was not finalized until this year. Part of the reason was that some government officials were unhappy with the structure and focus of earlier versions of the document, according to officials involved in the discussion.  Previous drafts described actions by the United States government that were determined to have stoked the jihad movement, like the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, and some policy makers argued that the intelli

[cia-drugs] Afghanistan. Taliban control south. Drug war to blame. Starvation.

[Eco Man]

- http://www.truthout.org http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090706O.shtmlPhoto: http://www.truthout.org/imgs.art_01/3.091806BR2_sm.jpg       September 18, 2006 | "Please bring security and stability," said Daulat Khan, a local man, at a meeting Sunday in the Andar district of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. A report from the Senlis Council, an international policy think tank that has
 reported extensively on Afghanistan over recent years, says "a humanitarian crisis of starvation and poverty has gripped the south of the country." The report blames "the US and UK-led failed counter-narcotics and military policies" for this situation. (Photo: Saurabh Das / AP )      Go to original:http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34595      Afghanistan: "Taliban Taking Over"  By Sanjay Suri  Inter Press Service      Tuesday 05 September 2006     London - The Taliban have regained control over the southern half of Afghanistan and their frontline is advancing daily, a
 group closely monitoring the Afghan situation said in a report Tuesday.     The report on the reconstruction of Afghanistan marking the fifth anniversary of 9/11 is based on extensive field research in the critical provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Herat and Nangarhar.     "The Taliban frontline now cuts halfway through the country, encompassing all of the southern provinces," the Senlis Council report says. The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul, London, Paris and Brussels.  The report from Senlis, which has reported extensively on Afghanistan over recent years, says also that "a humanitarian crisis of starvation and poverty has gripped the south of the country." The report blames "the U.S. and UK-led failed counter-narcotics and military policies" for this situation..    
 "The subsequent rising levels of extreme poverty have created increasing support for the Taliban, who have responded to the needs of the local population," the report says.     "We are seeing a humanitarian disaster," Emmanuel Reinert, executive director of The Senlis Council told IPS. "There are around Kandahar now camps with people starving, kids dying almost every day, and this is obviously used by the Taliban to regain the confidence of the people, and to regain control of the country."     The poppy eradication programme has been a disaster, he said. "It is a direct attack on the livelihood of the farmers, so there is a clear connection between the eradication and this humanitarian crisis. All this is being used by the Taliban to say that when we were there we were maybe hard and cruel, but you could feed the family, now look what's going
 on. They are more and more providing support, social services to the local population."     The U.S.-led nation-building efforts have failed because of "ineffective and inflammatory military and counter-narcotics policies," the report says. "At the same time there has been a dramatic under-funding of aid and development programmes."  The disastrous policies could have created the very circumstances for a growth of terrorism that the United States set out to fight, the report says. "The U.S. policies in Afghanistan have re-created the safe haven for terrorism that the 2001 invasion aimed to destroy," Reinert said.     "The reason that the international force is in Afghanistan for the last five years is to make sure that Afghanistan will never again be a safe haven for international terrorists," Reinert told IPS. But the rise of the Taliban
 is still short of a rise in terrorism, he said.     "Right now we cannot say we see a lot of foreign elements; we see the Taliban in Afghanistan," he said. "We see basically the neo-Talibans as they are called, they are Afghans, they are people from the communities, they are from the Pashtun tribes who have been fighting in the south for so many years. In a way it is a civil war which is being waged over there."     Hunger is leading to anger, the report says. Lack of funding from the international community means the Afghan government and the United Nations World Food Programme are unable to address Afghanistan's hunger crisis, the report says. "Despite appeals for aid funds, the U.S.-led international community has continued to direct the majority of aid funds towards military and security operations."     "Five years
 after 9/11, Afghanistan is still one of the poorest countries in the world and there is a hunger crisis in the fragile southern part of the country," said Reinert. "Remarkably this vital fact seems to have been overlooked in funding and prioritisation of the foreign policy, military, counter-narcotics and reconstruction plans.     Consequently the international community has lost the battle for the hearts and mind of the Afghan people, the report says..     The report warns of difficult conditions in "makeshift, unregistered refugee camps of starving children a

[cia-drugs] New "Hubris" book, Senate report, blast Bush Iraq war lies.

[Eco Man]

   Bush has to go before we can make any sustainable progress in the USA.Only public opinion and/or a Democratic Congress can stop funds for Iraq.The new book "Hubris", and the Senate report that just came out, blow   Bush's Iraq war lies right out of the water. Many more details:     ---start. Please forward widely. Please register to vote. Emphasis added.--     http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/hubris_the_pres.php   September 06, 2006  HUBRIS: The Press Release     HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War starts arriving in bookstores today--though it may take a day or two to reach all the stores (given that the release date was pushed up). Below is a copy of the press release that is being sent out by Crown. It teases just some of the revelations in the book. As for the boilerplate language hailing the book, the Crown PR team is responsible for this. But, of course, it's all true.      **     "Hubris is a bold and provocative book that will quickly become an explosive part of the national debate on how we got involved in Iraq." -- Tom Brokaw     "The selling of
 Bush's Iraq debacle is one of the most important-and appalling-stories of the last half-century, and Michael Isikoff and David Corn have reported the hell out of it." -- Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor, The New Yorker     March 2003: The United States invades Iraq.  September 2006: The world finds out why.     HUBRISThe Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War  by Michael Isikoff and David Corn     What was really behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? As George W. Bush steered the nation to war,
 who spoke the truth and who tried to hide it? HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown, September 8, 2006) takes us behind the scenes at the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress to answer all the vital questions about how the Bush administration came to invade Iraq. HUBRIS, a gripping narrative, is filled with new revelations. The book disclosures include:     * President Bush was driven by a visceral hatred of Saddam
 Hussein, which he privately demonstrated in expletive-laden tirades against the Iraqi dictator. In May 2002--months before he asked Congress for authority to attack Saddam-Bush bluntly revealed his ultimate game plan in a candid moment with two aides. When told that reporter Helen Thomas was questioning the need to oust Saddam by force, Bush snapped: "Did you tell her I intend to kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?" In a meeting with congressional leaders, the President angrily thrust his middle finger inches in front of the face of Senator Tom Daschle to illustrate Saddam's attitude toward the United States.     * As part of an aggressive prewar covert action program--codenamed Anabasis (after an ancient text about a botched invasion of Babylon)--the CIA was authorized by the White House in the winter of 2002 to blow up targets in Iraq and engage in "direct action" (an agency euphemism for assassination) to weaken Saddam's
 regime and to prepare for his ouster by the U.S. military. For Anabasis, the agency smuggled Iraqi exiles to a top-secret site in the Nevada desert and trained them in sabotage and explosives. The Iraqi force, known as the Scorpions, was being trained to seize an isolated Iraqi military post-in order to create a provocation that could trigger a war with Iraq.     * When Bush was first briefed that no WMDs had been found in Iraq, he was totally unfazed and asked few questions. "I'm not sure I've spoken to anyone at that level who seemed less inquisitive," the briefer told the authors.     * Colin Powell remains intensely bitter and angry about his UN Security Council Speech, during which he presented the case for war. After it became clear that much of his speech was wrong, he refused to have anything to do with CIA director George Tenet. "It's annoying to me," Powell told the authors. "Everybody focuses on my
 presentationWell the same goddamn case was presented to the U.S. Senate and the Congress and they voted for [Bush's Iraq] resolutionWhy aren't they outragedThe same case was presented to the President. Why isn'' the President outraged? It's always, 'Gee, Powell, you made this speech to the UN.'"     * After the invasion, Dick Cheney's aides desperately sifted through raw intelligence nuggets in search of any evidence that would justify the war. On one occasion they sent the WMD hunters in Iraq a satellite photo that they suspected showed a hiding place for WMDs. But it was only an overhead photo of a watering hole for cows.     * A critical memo in the CIA leak case was based on notes of a State Department official that were (as this official told the authors) inaccurate. This memo reported that former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA employee who played a key role in sending him on his trip to
 Niger. 

[cia-drugs] David Corn. What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA. [The Nation].

[Eco Man]

   This article just came out and is amazing.    Our nation's resources are being sucked dry by Bush's little pet war in Iraq.  A war that this article reveals he started working on before 9/11.  Bush's lies about WMDs in Iraq started before 9/11.   Valerie Plame was in charge of the team tasked to find the WMDs.   They did not find them. They did not exist, and Bush knew.  We can't advance on other activism until this little runt Bush is GONE.  Or his money is taken away by a new Democratic Congress.   We must act now. Planetary Peace is at stake. Bush is a psychotic  fundamentalist Rapture Wacko who is self-fulfilling his Armageddonist   interpretation of the Bible. He is loco. Everything else pales in consideration. 
    -article begins. Please forward widely.---     The Nation. Sept. 5, 2006. What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA.http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/cornhttp://mparent.livejournal.com/12056874.html  article | posted September 5, 2006 (web only)    What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA    David Corn  In the spring of 2002 Dick Cheney made one of his periodic trips to CIA headquarters. Officers and analysts were summoned to brief him on Iraq. Paramilitary specialists updated the Vice President on an extensive covert action program in motion that was designed to pave the way to a US invasion. Cheney questioned analysts about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. How could they be used against US
 troops? Which Iraqi units had chemical and biological weapons? He was not seeking information on whether Saddam posed a threat because he possessed such weapons. His queries, according to a CIA officer at the briefing, were pegged to the assumptions that Iraq had these weapons and would be invaded--as if a decision had been made.   Though Cheney was already looking toward war, the officers of the agency's Joint Task Force on Iraq--part of the Counterproliferation Division of the agency's clandestine Directorate of Operations--were frantically toiling away in the basement, mounting espionage operations to gather information on the WMD programs Iraq might have. The JTFI was trying to find evidence that would back up the White House's assertion that Iraq was a WMD danger. Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.   Her specific position at the CIA is revealed for the first time in a new book, Hubris: The Inside
 Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, by the author of this article and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff. The book chronicles the inside battles within the CIA, the White House, the State Department and Congress during the run-up to the war. Its account of Wilson's CIA career is mainly based on interviews with confidential CIA sources.   In July 2003--four months after the invasion of Iraq--Wilson would be outed as a CIA "operative on weapons of mass destruction" in a column by conservative journalist Robert Novak, who would cite two "senior administration officials" as his sources. (As Hubris discloses, one was Richard Armitage, the number-two at the State Department; Karl Rove, Bush's chief strategist, was the other. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, also talked to two reporters about her.) Novak revealed her CIA identity--using her maiden name, Valerie Plame--in the midst of the controversy ignited by former ambassador Joseph
 Wilson, her husband, who had written a New York Times op-ed accusing the Bush Administration of having "twisted" intelligence "to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."   The Novak column triggered a scandal and a criminal investigation. At issue was whether Novak's sources had violated a little-known law that makes it a federal crime for a government official to disclose identifying information about a covert US officer (if that official knew the officer was undercover). A key question was, what did Valerie Wilson do at the CIA? Was she truly undercover? In a subsequent column, Novak reported that she was "an analyst, not in covert operations." White House press secretary Scott McClellan suggested that her employment at the CIA was no secret. Jonah Goldberg of National Review claimed, "Wilson's wife is a desk jockey and much of the Washington cocktail circuit knew that already."   Valerie Wilson was no analyst or paper-pusher. She was an operations
 officer working on a top priority of the Bush Administration. Armitage, Rove and Libby had revealed information about a CIA officer who had searched for proof of the President's case. In doing so, they harmed her career and put at risk operations she had worked on and foreign agents and sources she had handled.   Another issue was whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there. Hubris contains new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. In an interview with the authors, Douglas Rohn, a State Department officer who wrote a crucial memo r

[cia-drugs] Black Box Voting (.Org) Toolkit. Top 20 things you can do. Election 2006.

[Eco Man]

   There have been several lawsuits (some successful) against paperless voting.  Google and Google News search shortcuts:  http://www.google.com/search?q=paperless+voting+lawsuits   http://news.google.com/news?q=paperless+voting+lawsuits        Please forward widely.        start of forwarded message---  Black Box Voting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:From: "Black Box Voting" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: New info is up in the
 Black Box Toolkit - Top 20 things you can do to protect election 2006Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:21:55 -0700Full citizen's tool kit is now available in a single document - http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf Citizens are concerned. They want to know what they can do. Here's your chance to get started on meaningful elections reform action that will make a real difference in November. The above link contains all 20 stand-alone modules in one consolidated document(make sure you have Adobe Acrobat installed to read the pdf files. You can download it for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html )SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO TAKE BACK YOUR ELECTIONS: 1. Pick any module. 2. Choose any action within the module. 3. Then just follow through on it.4. Every action in the Tool Kit
 starts another pebble rolling down the hill.NEW MODULE IS UP: Pertains to fundraising for local elections reform people: ACTIONS FOR HIGH NET WORTH INDIVIDUALShttp://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit-affluent.pdf NEW MODULE IS UP: About ACTIVATING CELEBRITIES in the election oversight issue:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit-celebrities.pdf Candidates in three states have already notified us that they are already making use of the module to help CANDIDATES protect their own elections (The toolkit just went up a few days ago!):http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit-candidates.pdf THIS TOOL KIT IS A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FOR CITIZENSIt's time for you to recognize your own power.You don't need us.You don't have to
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[cia-drugs] LA Times. CIA-Contra-Crack Connection, 10 Years Later.

[Eco Man]

   See also: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1313         ---start--        http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0818-33.htm      Published on Friday, August 18, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times The CIA-Contra-Crack Connection, 10 Years Later  Reporter Gary Webb was the victim of his own hyperbole, but he never got credit for what he got right.  by Nick Schou   Ten years ago today, one
 of the most controversial news articles of the 1990s quietly appeared on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News. Titled "Dark Alliance," the headline ran beneath the provocative image of a man smoking crack — superimposed on the official seal of the CIA.The three-part series by reporter Gary Webb linked the CIA and Nicaragua's Contras to the crack cocaine epidemic that ripped through South Los Angeles in the 1980s.Most of the nation's elite newspapers at first ignored the story. A public uproar, especially among urban African Americans, forced them to respond. What followed was one of the most bizarre, unseemly and ultimately tragic scandals in the annals of American journalism, one in which top news organizations closed ranks to debunk claims Webb never made, ridicule assertions that turned out to be true and ignore corroborating evidence when it came to light. The whole shameful cycle was repeated when Webb committed suicide in December
 2004.Many reporters besides Webb had sought to uncover the rumored connection between the CIA's anti-communism efforts in Central America and drug trafficking. "Dark Alliance" documented the first solid link between the agency and drug deals inside the U.S. by profiling the relationship between two Nicaraguan Contra sympathizers and narcotics suppliers, Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, and L.A.'s biggest crack dealer, "Freeway" Ricky Ross. Two years before Webb's series, the Los Angeles Times estimated that at its peak, Ross' "coast-to-coast conglomerate" was selling half a million crack rocks per day. "[I]f there was one outlaw capitalist most responsible for flooding Los Angeles' streets with mass-marketed cocaine," the article stated, "his name was 'Freeway' Rick." But after Webb's reporting tied Ross to the Nicaraguans and showed that they had CIA connections, The Times downgraded Ross' role to that of one "dominant figure" among many. It
 dedicated 17 reporters and 20,000 words to a three-day rebuttal to "Dark Alliance" that also included a lengthy musing on whether African Americans disproportionately believe in conspiracy theories. All three major U.S. dailies, The Times included, debunked a claim that Webb actually never made — that the CIA deliberately unleashed the crack epidemic on black America. The controversy over this non-assertion obscured Webb's substantive points about the CIA knowingly doing business south of the border with Nicaraguans involved in the drug trade up north.The Washington Post titled one of its stories "Conspiracy Theories Can Often Ring True; History Feeds Blacks' Mistrust." The New York Times chipped in with a scathing critique of Webb's entire career, suggesting that he was a reckless reporter prone to getting his facts wrong. "That article included virtually none of the good things Gary did," said Webb's former Cleveland Plain Dealer colleague, Walt
 Bogdanich, now a New York Times editor. "It didn't include the success he achieved or the wrongs he righted — and they were considerable. It wasn't fair, and it made him out to be a freak."There is no denying that the papers were right on one serious count — "Dark Alliance" contained major flaws of hyperbole that were both encouraged and ignored by his editors, who saw the story as a chance to win a Pulitzer Prize, according to Mercury News staffers I interviewed. Webb asserted, improbably, that the Blandon-Meneses-Ross drug ring opened "the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles," helping to "spark a crack explosion in urban America." The story offered no evidence to support such sweeping conclusions, a fatal error that would ultimately destroy Webb, if not his editors.At first, the Mercury News defended the series, but after nine months, Executive Editor Jerry Ceppos wrote a half-apologetic
 letter to readers that defended "Dark Alliance" while acknowledging obvious mistakes. Webb privately (and accurately) predicted the mea culpa would universally be misperceived as a total retraction, and he publicly accused the paper of cowardice. In return, he was banished to a remote bureau in Cupertino, Calif.; he resigned a few months later.Meanwhile, spurred on by Webb's story, the CIA conducted an internal investigation that acknowledged in March 1998 that the agency had covered up Contra drug trafficking for more than a decade. Although the Washington Post and New York Times covered the report — which confirmed key chunks of Webb's allegations — the L.A. Times ignored it for f

[cia-drugs] Partial recount confirms Mexico election fraud. NarcoNews.com

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   See also: "Mexico's Election Fraud: More Questions Raised". ePluribus Media article, August 14, 2006.   http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/8/13/112542/316         Please forward widely. Maybe there will be democracy and honest elections in the USA someday, too? How can we hope for much change through elections in the USA if many of the elections are not fair? This is relevant to all activism. Runoff voting is also needed to cure fake democracy.      ---start---        http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2010.html         English | Español | Portugués     August 15, 2006 | Issue #42  Set Color:Print This Page Comments   Search Narco News  Narco News Issue #41Complete Archives  The Other Campaign   La Otra Campaña   A Outra Campanha   L’Altra Campagna   Die Andere Kampagne   L’Autre Campagne   «کارزاری ديگر» (Farsi)Contact:  Publisher  Editor  Opening Statement, April 18, 2000¡Bienvenidos en Español!Bem Vindos em Português!  Sign up for free alerts list:English  Lista de alertas gratis:Español  Lista de alertas grátisPortuguês  Narco News is supported by:The
 Fund for Authentic JournalismEditorial Policy and Disclosures  Site Design: Dan Feder  All contents, unless otherwise noted, © 2000-2006 Al Giordano  The trademarks "Narco News," "The Narco News Bulletin," and "School of Authentic Journalism" © 2000-2006 Al Giordano   RSS 1.0   Mexico’s Partial Vote Recount Confirms Massive and Systematic
 Election Fraud  With Less than 9 Percent of Precincts Recounted, More than 126,000 Votes Are Found to Have Been Disappeared or Illegally Fabricated  By Al Giordano  Part V of a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin  August 14, 2006     Finally, the hard numbers are starting to come in. In the “partial recount” of paper ballots from the July 2 presidential election in Mexico, ordered by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (known as the Trife), the recount has been completed in 10,679 precincts of the 11,839 ordered by the court (about 9 percent of Mexico’s 130,000 precincts). From these precincts, Narco News has obtained the following preliminary numbers that confirm the massive and systematic electoral fraud inflicted on the Mexican people: 
   In 3,074 precincts (29 percent of those recounted), 45,890 illegal votes, above the number of voters who cast ballots in each polling place, were found stuffed inside the ballot boxes (an average of 15 for each of these precincts, primarily in strongholds of the National Action Party, known as the PAN, of President Vicente Fox and his candidate, Felipe Calderón).   In 4,368 precincts (41 percent of those recounted), 80,392 ballots of citizens who did vote are missing (an average of 18 votes in each of these precincts).   Together, these 7,442 precincts contain about 70 percent of the ballots recounted. The total amount of ballots either stolen or forged adds up to 126,282 votes altered.   If the recount results of these 10,679 precincts (8.2 percent of the nation’s 130,000 polling places) are projected nationwide, it would mean that more than 1.5 million votes were either stolen or stuffed in an election that the first official
 count claimed was won by Calderon by only 243,000 votes.   Among the findings of this very limited partial recount are that in 3,079 precincts where the PAN party is strong and where, in many cases, the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not count with election night poll watchers, one or more of three things occurred: Either the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) illegally provided more ballots than there are voters in those precincts, or the PAN party stole those extra ballots, or ballots were forged. “Taqueo and Saqueo”These preliminary recounts demonstrate mainly two kinds of fraud: “taqueo,” or the stuffing of ballot boxes with false votes as if putting extra beans inside a taco, and “saqueo,” or “looting,” that is, the disappearance of legitimate ballots cast. 
    A significant problem, now, for Mexican democracy (for those who claim that the election was fair, and also for those who view this evidence as proof of electoral fraud) is that there is no way to tell, inside each ballot box, which of the ballots were legal and which were not; nor which ballots were stolen and which were not.     In some past post-electoral disputes for state and local offices, the Trife electoral court has opted, based on this kind of evidence, to annul the results from those precincts where stuffing or looting occurred.     If the Trife follows the law and its own established precedents, and annuls the results in these 7,442 precincts where the fraud took place, it would reverse the official results and López Obrador would emerge the victor by more than 425,000 votes nationwide.  Specifically, Calderón would lose 1,225,326 votes from his tally, while López Obrador
 would lose just 556,600; a difference of 668,726. W

[cia-drugs] [Eurodrug] The Pressure is Working...(Off topic)PLEASE help end this murderous madness [Fwd]

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   Please forward widely!  Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt MSc ( www.usersvoice.org.uk ) says it is  OK to forward this "As far and wide as possible"        forwarded email begins---andria efthimiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:08:23 + (GMT)From: andria efthimiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Eurodrug] The Pressure is Working...(Off topic)PLEASE help endthis murderous madnessThe Pressure is Working...Dear Friends,As the awful civilian death toll rises above 1000 in Lebanon and Israel, people around the world are seeking a place to voice their frustration and concern. Over the last 4 days, 200,000 people from
 148 countries have signed the ceasefire petition. At this rate, we could soon be the largest global online petition in history.The pressure is working. The global outcry over this crisis has pushed the Ambassadors to the UN Security Council to work around the clock to achieve an immediate ceasefire.The latest word is that the Council may be close to a final vote today or tomorrow, but we've been this close before and negotiations have fallen apart. We need more pressure now to close the deal.Please forward this email on, spread the word to your friends, family and colleagues, post a link on your blog, bring up the campaign in discussions, and urgently encourage people around you to join this global wave of protest by signing up at the link below:http://www.ceasefirecampaign.org/mo/en.html The pressure is working. Let's ratchet it up.With hope,Ricken Patel,
 Ceasefire Campaign___Subscription Management:This is a message sent for Ceasefire Campaign via MoveOn.org Civic Action. To change your email address, update your contact info, or remove yourself (andria efthimiou-mordaunt) from this list, please visit our subscription management page at:---snip---___Eurodrug mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://encod.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eurodrug   -end of forwarded email-MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and
 Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."  
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[cia-drugs] List of messiah claimants. Wackos Gone Wild. Israeli occupation.

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   Wackos Gone Wild! The Middle East today. Killing in the Name of God. If Israel gave back the West Bank and Gaza much of the hatred   would disappear in the Middle East. All the Armageddonists on all sides  wouldn't have any real issues to use to inflame the hatred.   Life would go back to normal. Hell, the USA trades with Vietnam and   Germany and Japan. Americans travel freely in those places.  It's all about the occupation. Don't be distracted by side issues.  The USA is at great risk due to its arming of Israel and its   occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The US needs to force  Israel to end the occupation. Sorry if this is offtopic in some lists.But this is an extremely dangerous time, and Americans need to   WAKE
 UP!     start---        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiahs        List of messiah claimantsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  (Redirected from List of messiahs)  Jump to: navigation, search  This is a list of people who have been said to be a messiah either by themselves, or by their
 followers. The list is divided into categories, which are sorted according to date of birth (where known).Contents[hide]1 Jewish messiah claimants   2 Christian messiah claimants   3 Muslim messiah claimants   4 Other messiah claimants   5 See also   6 Bibliography   7 References [edit]Jewish messiah claimants  Main article: Jewish Messiah claimants  This list features people who are said, either by themselves or their followers, to be the Jewish Messiah.Judas of Galilee (Ezekias)(c. 4 BCE)   Simon (c. 4 BCE)   Athronges (c. 4-2? BCE)   Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BCE–c. 30CE) (placed here because he was Jewish)   Theudas (44-46) in the Roman province of Judea   Menahem ben Judah partook in a revolt against Agrippa II in Judea   Simon bar Kokhba (died c. 135), defeated in the Second Jewish-Roman War   Moses of Crete (5th century)   Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan lived in Persia during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (684-705).   Yudghan, lived and taught in Persia in the early eighth century disciple of Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan   Serene (Sherini, Sheria, Serenus, Zonoria, Saüra) (c. 720)   David Alroy or Alrui (c. 1160)   Abraham Abulafia (b. 1240)   Nissim ben Abraham (c. 1295) active in vila.   Moses Botarel of Cisneros (c. 1413)   Asher Lemmlein (1502) a German near Venice.   David Reuveni and Solomon Molko early sixteenth century.   Sabbatai Zevi (alternative spellings: Shabbetai, Sabbetai; Tvi, Tzvi) (1626-1676)   Barukhia Russo (Osman Baba), succesor of Sabbatai Zevi.   Miguel (Abraham) Cardoso (b. 1630)   Mordecai Mokiaḥ ("the Rebuker") of Eisenstadt (active 1678-1683)   Jacob Querido (d. 1690), said to be the reincarnation of Shabbetai Zevi.   Löbele Prossnitz (Joseph ben Jacob), early eighteenth century   Jacob Joseph Frank (1726-1791), founder of the Frankist movement.   [edit]Christian messiah claimants  This list features people who are said, either by themselves or their followers to be Jesus Christ, or a Messiah under the umbrella of Christianity.Aldebert (eighth century)   Tanchelm of Antwerp (c. 1110)   Ann Lee (1736-1784) central figure to the Shakers.   John Nichols
 Thom (1799-1838), Cornish tax rebel   Hong Xiuquan, China (1812-1864), claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus.   Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), claimed to be the promised one of all religions, and founded the Bahá'í Faith.   Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975), Messiah of the Rastafari movement. Never claimed himself to be messiah, but was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey, amongst others. Was saddened by people who thought he was the messiah.   Georges-Emest Roux (1903-1981), the Christ de Montfavet, founder of the Eglise Chrétienne Universelle   Abbott "Vaughn"
 Meader (1936-2004), grammy-winning comedian and impersonator.   Vince Taylor (1939-1991), rock and roller who ended his career by claiming to be Jesus.   Michael Travesser, born Wayne Bent (b. 1941). Claims to be the beginning of the Second Coming of Jesus.   Inri Cristo (b. 1948) a claimant to be the second Jesus in Curitiba, Brazil   David Koresh (1959-1993)   Maria Devi Christos (born 1960), founder of the Great White Brotherhood   Sergei Torop (b. 1961) who started to call himself "Vissarion," founder of the Church of the Last Testament   [edit]Muslim messiah claimants  Main article: People claiming to be the Mahdi  This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.  Islamic tradition has a prophecy of the Mahdi, who will come alongside the return of Jesus. The following people claimed to be the Mahdi.Syed Mohammad Jaunpuri (1443 - 1505) of Northeastern India.   The Báb in 1844 declared to be the promised Mahdi in Shiraz, Iran.   Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892): Here as well as he'd been born Shiite and relates to both Islam as well as Christianity.   Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 - 1908) of Qadian, 'the Prom

[cia-drugs] Mass action. Mexico election fraud listed point-by-point. Cartoons.

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   Millions protesting in Mexico City for weeks now.The plutocracy is about to fall in Mexico. Is the U.S.  Bush-ocracy about to fall, too? Will your vote count in the USA?  Is revolution imminent in the USA too?  The Emperor Wears No Clothes! See images at the end.     See much more detail here:  http://www.alternet.org/story/39763 http://www.narconews.com http://www.phillyimc.org/or/2006/08/27235.shtml         Forward please---     http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2006/08/breaking-mass-action-follows-mexicos.html     Sunday, August 06, 2006BREAKING - Mass Action Follows Mexico's Election Tribunals Order of Only a Partial Recount   Supporters of Manuel Lopez Obrador have stormed the streets of Mexico City and threatened to occupy the airport after only a partial recount of the disputed July 2 presidential election was ordered by the Federal Electoral Tribunal.(http://www.examiner.com/printa-206051~Thousands_of_Mexicans_Protest_Election.html)"Vote by Vote!"
 chants drowned out the judge's statements as the decision was announced on television. A recount of 12,000 polling places was ordered, while claims of arithmetical errors in at least 72,000 have been raised. Lopez Obrador has appealed for calm, but the situation remains unstable.Lopez Obrador and his supporters have occupied the streets of Mexico City for several weeks. Over a million supporters massed last Sunday. The announced winner, Felipe Calderon, is a member of the ruling PAN party, and would likely continue the corporate-friendly practices of current president Vincente Fox. Lopez Obrador has called for policies to build Mexico's economy from within. His plans have been likened to those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Evidence of possible fraud were itemized at the Philadelphia Independent Media Center in an August 2 story by Jonathan David. The list
 includes:(quote)Mexican television news reporters hacked into the computers of the IFE and found that the IFE and PAN had been sharing data on registered voters before the election, in clear violation of the nation’s election laws.  Most exit polls showed AMLO [Lopez Obrador, from his initials "Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador"] ahead throughout the day of the election. In the preliminary vote count on the evening of the election, July 2, Calderón never trailed. (Ian Welsh, July 16, 2006)  The IFE preliminary results of the election showed Calderón ahead from the beginning. At first the margin of lead was by 7 %. As the night wore on, Calderón’s per cent lead declined to under 1 % but
 the actual number of votes that he remained ahead remained constant. Political scientists and statisticians have claimed that this irregularity is not really possible. Some have suggested that a silent algorithm may have been added to the computerized tallies. Others have suggested that the tally may have begun with Calderon having a pre-existing bank. (James K. Galbraith, “Doing Math In Mexico: While Mexicans take to the streets over the presidential vote, democracy's fairweather friends are standing silent.”)  There was a significant drop off of votes for López Obrador as the actual ballot counting raced toward the finish line. “Vote drop offs” mean that while a ballot was caste and tallies were recorded for local officials and for legislators, no choice for presdent had been
 made. Thus, there were many more ballots caste than there were votes for president. Election specialists maintain that this kind of drop off never happens: voters are motivated to vote by the person at the top of the ticket, not by those at the bottom. (Ian Welsh, July 16, 2006)  All reports of ballot boxes that have been opened and recounted show that the recounts differ significantly from the official tally sheets (called acta-s) recorded on election day. The difference has been that López Obrador received more votes than officially noted and Calderón received fewer than recorded. Even New York Times, through its reporters Ginger Thompson and James C. McKinley Jr has noted this trend. (Ian Welsh, July 16, 2006)  Current
 President Vincente Fox of the PAN consulted on the telephone with the head of the electoral commission (IFE) on the night of the elections, in apparent violation of Mexico’s electoral laws (http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1961.html  López Obrador has turned over a 900 page document to the TRIFE of evidence of fraudulent practices close to half of Mexico’s 133,000 polling places. Aside from the evidence of massive vote drop off, ballots have been found in the trash on the side of roads videos made of workers stuffing ballet boxes and changing tallies sheets, recordings were made of telephone conversations between PRI and PAN workers to challenge PRD in some voting places, and the intervention of current President Vincente Fox. (Radio interview with Matt Pascarella podcast on KPFT)  In a potential conflict of interest, one of Calderón’s brother-in-laws co-founded a computer company named Hildebrando hire

[cia-drugs] Is Hezbollah launching Iran's Armageddon? Philadelphia Inquirer.

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   Iran's Armageddonists fighting the US-supported Armageddonists. See also:  http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1305     --Start. Please forward widely.        http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/15193481.htm         Posted on Fri, Aug. 04, 2006email this  print thisCommentary  Is Hezbollah launching Iran's Armageddon?  By Omar Fadhil  It's common wisdom to say that the war between Hezbollah and Israel is a regional struggle that also includes Iran and Syria, who have supported and supplied Hezbollah. What seems to be less understood is that this is the first war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, via Iran's proxy Hezbollah, and that its overarching purpose is to advance Iran's ambitions to export the Islamic revolution throughout the Middle East.     Thus, while religion has always played an important role in prior
 Arab-Israeli wars, this time it has moved to center stage. It is the theological aspect of this conflict that makes it so explosive and could lead to its expansion.     As an observer of the conflict from Iraq, I see the signs that Iran may be starting to launch the mullahs' version of an Armageddon, exploiting the religious beliefs of devout Shiites in the region. While this may sound more the stuff of prophecies than international relations, it is important to understand - especially in countries such as Lebanon and Iraq that have large Shiite populations.     President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran and the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq are both devout believers in the "Imam" of Shia Islam. Also known as "Imam Mehdi" - hence the name of Sadr's militia, the Mehdi Army - he was the 12th grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. According to certain branches of Shia Islam, the return of the "hidden Imam" must be prepared
 by his followers, in a particular sequence of events. Chaos and rampant violence in the region are supposed to be among signs leading to the main battle in which the Imam will return to lead Shiites to victory.     Whether Ahmadinejad and Sadr personally believe that it is their duty to prepare the ground for the rise of the Imam, or whether they are merely exploiting religious mythology for their own political purposes, Iran and its agents in Iraq are starting to make the connection between the current conflict and the return of Imam Mehdi.  In eastern Baghdad, where Sadr's militias are based, there has been a sudden appearance of banners and writings on the walls carrying religious messages that refer specifically to Imam Mehdi. A large number can be seen near the Interior Ministry complex, home to police forces loyal to Sadr. And reports are surfacing that Sadr's militia is recruiting fighters to travel to Lebanon. 
    It is not coincidental that these banners appeared within 24 hours of Hezbollah's kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers. The messages on these banners, with their unstable mixture of religion and policy, are ominous, written in a tone that invokes the rise of the Imam. One reads: "By renouncing sin and by integration for the sake of afterlife, we become the best soldiers to our leader and savior, the Mehdi." Integration is one of those words Sadr often uses in reference to preparations for the afterlife.     Throughout Islamic history, rulers have used divine texts to consolidate their power. They did this either by twisting the meaning of the written texts, or by inventing thousands of alleged sayings of the prophet. In this case, it looks like the way is being paved for the "imminent" arrival of the Imam to be announced through the Mumahidoon (those who pave the way for the Imam), which is how Sadr and his
 followers describe themselves.     In the last quarter of a century, Iran's dreams of exporting the Islamic revolution were stopped by the once strong pan-Arab nationalism in the region. No more. Once the mullahs consolidated their power in Iran through their recent "electoral coup," in which they prohibited close to a thousand candidates from running in the last parliamentary elections and thus eliminated the reformist movement from the political scene, they were able to look outward. Now they are positioning themselves to fill the ideological vacuum left by the demise of pan-Arabist socialist ideologies with Islamic fundamentalism.     Iran's ambitions present a danger not only to Israel, but also to the free world, whose values are fundamentally opposed to those of radical Islamic fundamentalism. It is therefore critical that the West unite behind a clear strategy to thwart Iran's ambitions.  A first step
 is to recognize that Iran's calculations, which may seem irrational, factor in its potential to exploit deep religious feelings and mobilize Shiite followers to fight in Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere in preparation for the return of the Savior Imam. It is a wily strategy that must be recognized and addressed by the West, lest Iran's Armageddon Day become a self-fulfilling

[cia-drugs] Daily Show. Rapture Watch 2006. Video online. More.

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   Go to the first web page linked below to see the video. Turn ActiveX on to see it. Or turn your browser security to medium.        http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20060804_daily_show_rapture         --Check this out too-        http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/terry_jones/2006/08/armageddonists_of_the_world_un.html      guardian.co.uk/commentisfree > Terry
 JonesNice one, George  Those of us who support Armageddon have naturally been greatly cheered by way the US president has embraced our cause.Terry JonesArticlesLatest   Show all   Profile  All Terry Jones articles About Webfeeds    August 4, 2006 09:54 AM | Printable version     Those of us who have long been supporters of Armageddon have naturally been greatly cheered by way the president of the United States has been embracing our cause. Our
 desire to bring chaos, death and destruction to a greater swathe of humanity has, in the past, often been frustrated by peacemakers and do-gooders of all shades of the political spectrum.      For too long, our aspirations have been derided and criticised. In fact, to be blunt, for more than two millennia we have had to put up with opprobrium and vilification, but now all that will be a thing of the past, for in George Bush we have found an ally - indeed, we have found a leader. A man who is prepared to place himself at the head of the forces of destruction and misery, and who is unafraid of the opinion of the rest of the world.     George Bush has finally put Armageddon firmly on the political agenda, and it is likely to stay there for the foreseeable future.     This means that we Armageddonists need keep to the shadows no longer. Bush and his colleagues in the White House have given us
 credibility and respectability. They have made our goal their goal, and death, disease, war and famine are now the most likely fate for more people in the Middle East than we Armageddonists had ever dared to hope for.     What is also particularly gratifying - after this long wait - is that George could not have chosen a better spot on Earth for the "End of Things" to begin, nor a more appropriate agent than Israel to get the ball rolling.     After all "Armageddon" is a Hebrew word. It has come to signify "the end of times" or the arrival of catastrophic events, involving huge loss of life. In its origins, however, Har-Mageddon meant simply "the mountain of Megiddo" - Megiddo being a site in Israel close to the border with Lebanon.     It is certainly a place that has seen a lot of catastrophe in its time. Although there has not
 been a city at Megiddo for over 2,000 years, there are, nevertheless the remains of more than 20 different cities on the site, dating from 3,000 BC. That's an awful lot of human death and destruction.      So it's the perfect place for George to unleash the horsemen of the Apocalypse, and, as Armageddonists, we applaud him. The current assault on Lebanese civilians is sure to swell the ranks of would-be terrorists beyond even our wildest dreams, spreading the violence and mayhem not only throughout the Middle East but into the homelands of America and Britain.      As for the country of Lebanon itself, we Armageddonists predict that, like Iraq, it will sink into a morass of sectarian violence that will fill morgues of the future that have not yet been built. But more than that, we Armegeddonists confidently look forward to chaos and havoc quickly getting out of hand and beyond the control of those who started the
 conflict. It's all part of the fun.So Armageddonists of the world! Let us unite in praise of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Let us thank these men for bringing our dreams of violence and disorder to fruition.      Let us hope that whatever half-baked notions fill what passes for their minds, they will continue on this irreversible path to perdition from which the whole world recoils, but seems powerless to stop.  Digg this | Add it to Del.icio.us | See who is
 linking here  This entry was tagged with the following keywords: unitedstates lebanon israel georgewbush hizbullah armageddon         -end-                These are the same people that caused the USA to have the highest incarceration rate in the world.  With the drug war gone
 mad.           http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/forfeit.htm and http://corporatism.tripod.com/forfeit.htm and http://multi19.fortunecity.com/forfeit.htm MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional 

[cia-drugs] Fwd: MMM: U / SA Prisons [from Andre in South Africa]

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 Album: Cape Town, South Africa. 7 May 2005 MMM. Global Million Marijuana March. Photos:http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2005mmm http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2004mmm http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2003mmm http://gallery.marihemp.com/capetown2002mmm      Andre helps organize the MMM in Cape Town.     ---start--  André du Plessis wrote:  To: "'Eco Man'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: MMM: U / SA PrisonsDate: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:03:05 +0200From: André du Plessis  Hi there Eco,     Thought you might like this article;     http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20060731030920724C728139     Mass release of SA convicts likely - expert   By Tony Carnie   The periodic mass release of South African prisoners will continue for several years because the country is unlikely to "build itself" out of the problem of overcrowded jails.This is according to American sociology and criminal justice researcher Dr Susan Smith-Cunnien, who has been studying the issue of overcrowded prisons and mass prisoner releases in South Africa and the US.The University of St Thomas (Minneapolis) researcher told the World Congress of Sociology in Durban last week that the US and South Africa had among the highest rates of incarceration in the world according to a recent United Nations survey.The US topped the list and currently locked up nearly 738 out of every 100 000 citizens (almost one in 100 people), while South Africa had the 23rd highest incarceration rate in the world, at 344 prisoners per 100 000 citizens.The world average is about 187 prisoners per 100 000 people.In drawing comparisons between the two countries, Smith-Cunnien said the
 US had a total population about six times larger than South Africa.Whereas South Africa currently had 240 correctional service facilities and 190 000 inmates, the US had about 2,1-million prisoners in more than 5 000 federal or state prisons, or confinement centres.South Africa had a murder rate of about 40 victims per 100 000 people, whereas the US murder rate was about five victims per 100 000 people.Rape rates in South Africa were more than three times higher than in the US. The burglary rates were similar, but the theft rate in the
 US was almost twice as high as in South Africa.Smith-Cunnien said one of the inevitable results of high crime rates in both countries was prison overcrowding and periodic mass releases of prisoners.In South Africa, the prison population had grown enormously between 1995 and 2000, partly because of an increase in crime and partly because of a surge in the awaiting-trial population.In July 1998, about 9 000 prisoners were released early to coincide with former president Nelson Mandela's birthday, and in September 2000 the government announced it would release 11 000 awaiting-trial prisoners, with another 7 000 prisoners getting early releases.In July 2003 the Correctional Services Department announced plans for the early release
 of another 7 000 prisoners, while another 18 000 prisoners were released in June last year.There had been similar mass releases in the US in the past 30 years, although prisoners were released in smaller batches from individual jails rather than in system-wide releases.By the 1980s, overcrowding was so severe in parts that some states passed emergency release laws.The US also saw a huge surge in prison populations, with inmates increasing from 500 000 in 1980 to more than 2-million in 2004. This was attributed to new minimum sentences and a surge in drug-related convictions. Apart from mass releases, the US had responded with a major programme to increase the number of prisons between the 1980s
 and 1990s.Further mass releases were unlikely to happen in the US, she said, but were likely to continue in South Africa as a matter of necessity until the country was able to establish a new, more informal community correctional system."While the South African government has been willing to invest in prison construction and renovation, the reality is that other issues facing the nation - education, health and family support - are more pressing than those faced in the US."Thus from a financial perspective, it is unlikely that South Africa could 'build itself' out of the prison overcrowding system even if that should be the path it would
 prefer."This article was originally published on page 5 of The Pretoria News on July 31, 2006Published on the Web by IOL on 2006-07-31 03:09:00         André du Plessis  InternAfrica  +27 72-324-5010     http://www.internafrica.org/           --No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/403 - Release Date: 2006/07/28      --end of forwarded message-       
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[cia-drugs] Coast-to-Coast Medi-pot J4J in Oakland, CA. Journey for Justice.

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   "Grandma" Kay Lee, co-founder of the original Journey For Justice, has been reporting on J4J number 7 on her webpages.http://www.angelfire.com/planet/bikeride http://j4j7.info   http://www.google.com/search?q=Kay+Lee+J4J      -forwarded messge begins. J4J info is after the meeting and event notices.---     Rebecca Saltzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:16:08 -0700From: Rebecca Saltzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [asa-ca] ASA CA Weekly AlertAction
 Alert1) Help Journey for Justice Continue Cross-Country Medical Marijuana Bike Ride!ASA Chapter Meetings2) Saturday, July 1st, Yuba City: Yuba-Sutter ASA Meeting3) Saturday, July 1st, Modesto: Central Valley Patients Coalition4) Thursday, July 6th, Guerneville: Sonoma ASA Meeting5) Tuesday, July 11th, San Diego: SD ASA Meeting6) Tuesday, July 11th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting7) Thursday, July 13th, Fullerton: Orange County ASA Meeting8) Thursday, July 13th, Sacramento: Sac ASA MeetingCity & County Hearings9) Tuesday, July 11th, Bakersfield: Kern County Board of Supervisors to Vote on Dispensary Regulations10) Tuesday, July 11th, Fremont: City Council to Vote on Banning DispensariesCourt Support11) Monday, July 17th, Sacramento: Court
 Support for Bryan EpisSpecial Events12) Saturday, July 1st, Oakland: Greeting Celebration for the Journey for Justice @ the Bulldog Coffee Shop13) Friday, July 7th: 420 Report Radio Show hosted by Ed RosenthalAction Alert1) Help Journey for Justice Continue Cross-Country Medical Marijuana Bike Ride!Ken Locke is the recipient of a $500 grant from ASA, which has helped him get this far along his journey. Now he needs your support. Please help out if you can.You can read more about Ken's journey & story in ASA's February Newsletter (scroll to the end of the newsletter).A message from Mark Pedersen:This is Mark Pedersen. I am a member of Journey For Justice Seven.  I am writing to you on behalf of Ken Locke and crew. Journey for Justice is currently
 made up of three people, Ken Locke, the founder of this journey and our lead biker, Tony Ball, biker and support truck driver, and myself, support truck driver and tech. person.The purpose of our cross-country bicycle trip has several facets. Our primary goal is Ken’s personal medical test to either prove or disprove cannabis as a viable preventative for seizures.Ken sustained a life-threatening injury in 2001, when he was struck in the head by a nine foot tree limb that had fallen 80 feet from the top of a tree he was cutting down.  His injury caused him to be prone to seizures and forced him to take prescription drugs that were virtually as dangerous as the seizures, themselves. After a difficult year of trying to cope with the side effects of the prescription meds and several severe seizures, Ken spoke to his doctor, then flushed his pharmaceuticals and started a cannabis-only regiment.  That was four years ago, and he has not had a seizure
 since.Ken has undertaken this grueling, physically punishing journey to either prove or disprove the medicinal value of cannabis to prevent seizures, even under the harsh conditions we have faced over the last two months.  This test achieved a whole new level when he suffered low blood-oxygen in Fairplay, Colorado.  The doctors in the emergency room were amazed that not only had he not suffered any seizures from the ordeal, but his lungs were amazingly clear for a cigarette smoker. Beyond a doubt, whether Ken makes it to San Francisco or not, this goal has by far been met.Our secondary goal is to bring awareness to the plight of the medical cannabis patient and to educate any and all who would listen concerning the truth behind all the lies our government has been circulating.  As we have traveled, we have spoken with newspaper, radio, and television news media.  We have spoken to thousands along the way and been overwhelmed by the 98%
 approval by the general public. Along the way, I have been conducting video testimonies from medical patients, their families, and their care givers.  Our goal is to place these testimonies on our website for open viewing and to provide them wherever they might do the most good.We have journeyed 2800 miles across this country, from Charleston, South Carolina to Sacramento, California, where we are right now.  We have done so without regard to our personal safety,  to benefit those without a voice, the chronically and terminally ill, who rely on cannabis as their medicine. We are currently here in Sacramento. We are 91 miles from our goal, the beaches of San Francisco. As of five days ago, what little grassroots support we were receiving dried up. As of today, we have only $35 to get the three of us and our support vehicles down the road, wherever we might find sanctuary. We were told that once we reached California that we would have
 sanctuary, and yet, we had not been in this campground two hours before we were hassled by the po

[cia-drugs] Mostly civilian deaths. +4000 Palestinians. +1000 Israelis. Conflict deaths.

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   Please forward widely. West Bank and Gaza. Occupied since the 1967 war. This may be offtopic in some email lists, but I believe the USA is at risk right now.     The rest of the world seems to get this. But not the USA. The hatred engendered by almost 40 years of Arab land being occupied by Isarel is being increased by the unconditional US support for Israel no matter what Israel does, no matter how many civilians that Israel kills in Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, etc.. Nothing threatens the USA more than this increasing hatred. 9/11 may just be the tip of the iceberg concerning future terrorism against the USA. It is NOT in the interest of the USA to remain anywhere in the Middle East. Israel has nukes and does not need the USA to defend itself. It only needs US help
 to continue occupation.      Almost 40 years of bloody Israeli occupation paid for with much US help and arms.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel      Check out this counter banner: http://www.stop-us-military-aid-to-israel.net/stop-us-military-aid-to-israel-banner.gif    Number of Palestinian and Israeli conflict deaths since 2000. Most were civilians. For sources and more Mideast casualty counters and banners:   http://www.geocities.com/tents444/counters.htm Past Israeli "peace" proposals offer to remove many of the Israeli settlements on stolen West-Bank land only after decades. In January 2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell said in Switzerland that Israel must offer Palestinians more than a "phony state diced into a thousand different pieces."   http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/1566490.php"Some 90 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and its population plunged into new miseries from which more hatred and radicalism will surely boil up." - From July 21, 2006 Australian newspaper article. Number killed in the last few weeks.http://www.smh.com.au/news/editorial/hard-line-begets-a-harder-war/2006/07/21/1153166583148.html -Excerpt from July 24, 2006 Canadian newspaper article begins:- http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/index.cfm?iid=1611&sid=11996 Until now, in spite of the daily rocket attacks on Israel, no Israeli civilians had been killed. The rockets fired by
 Hamas were simply an irritant, which gave Israel an excuse to torment the Palestinians. Every day Palestinians were killed, but everything was par for the course until Israeli soldiers were captured and Israeli civilians were killed. The world never questions the misery and death of Palestinians. Are we surprised Hamas abducted a soldier after the killing of an innocent family having a picnic on a beach in Gaza? And then came overkill, or maybe a better word is barbarism, from Israel. The Israelis killed an innocent family; Hamas captured a soldier. Don’t forget the sequence. No one batted an eyelash when Israeli razed Gaza in retaliation for a captured soldier. Did the Israelis expect to be able to kill Palestinians at will forever? Is it any wonder that finally the unjust nature of the Arab-Israeli situation is echoing around the globe, through the efforts of ordinary individuals? The Israeli excursion into Lebanon is, according
 to the media, in retaliation for the abduction of more Israeli soldiers. This time Hezbollah are the culprits. They attacked Haifa. Wait a minute. Does no one remember why Haifa was attacked? It was after Israeli warplanes savagely bombarded Lebanon for five days leaving 130 civilians dead. Hezbollah says it captured the soldiers in order to secure the release of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. Whatever the reason, they captured soldiers. Soldiers are fair game, Yet now, dead Lebanese women and children and even Canadians on holiday are casualties of war. Their lives are empty of meaning. How is it possible we know the names of every Israeli soldier and the names of their brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles and ignore the Lebanese? Contrary to what the G8 and the press feed us, the actual timeline of events indicates Israel attacked first and also committed the first acts of terrorism. As well as killing the family of seven on the
 beach on June 9, Israel clearly killed 11 Palestinians, including nine civilians, in Gaza on June 13 using a missile strike on a van. Israelis argue there were terrorists in the van and that the civilians just happened to be in the way. If Israel can use that argument, Hamas can claim that its later June 25 killing of two Israeli soldiers and the capturing of another was an attack on legitimate targets in retaliation for the first two Israeli actions. -end of excerpt---     --     Excerpt from this page:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories      The United Nations Security Council (in Resolution 446, Resolution 465 and Resolution 484, among others), the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention[

[cia-drugs] $3.5 million matching grant for MPP! Marijuana Policy Project.

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   I heard a great MPP plug from Jim Hightower on Air America today.  He said that the 40 thousand marijuana prisoners in the USA are more than the combined total of prisoners (for all crimes) in 8 European nations. Actually, it is more than the combined total of prisoners in around 25 European nations. See:  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.php   http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/world.htm         -Please forward widely. Start.  Marijuana Policy Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Tue, 18
 Jul 2006 11:50:14 -0700Subject: Philanthropist pledges $3.5 million matching grant to MPP!From: "Marijuana Policy Project" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Marijuana Policy Project Alert     July 18, 2006 Philanthropist pledges $3.5 million matching grant to MPP!      
 The Marijuana Policy Project has received a commitment from a major philanthropist to match the first $3.5 million we can raise from the rest of the planet.     This is a huge opportunity for MPP and all of us who are working to end marijuana prohibition. If we succeed at securing $3.5 million + $3.5 million = $7.0 million in revenues this year, all of the projects mentioned below will be fully funded this year ... and into next year.     Would you please help make this financial windfall a reality by making your own contribution today?     The matching funding comes in two stages. The first $2.3 million that you and other MPP allies donate will be matched by $2.3 million from the philanthropist. Then, if we can raise an additional $1.2 million from you and other allies, the philanthropist will again match that with $1.2 million of his own.     We've already raised $2,026,479 this year. If each of the 101,000 subscribers on this e-mail list were to donate just $5 each, we would immediately jump over the $2.3 million hurdle.     But not everyone on this
 e-mail list will donate $5 — or even read this e-mail message — so please consider donating $10, $50, $250 (you'll receive a DVD of MPP's TV debates and other highlights), or $1,000 (you'll become a Lifetime Member of MPP).     Does money really make a difference? In a word, "Yes." Please consider these two thoughts:     - Because 78% of the American people already support allowing patients to use marijuana "to reduce pain and suffering," according to the latest Gallup poll, the only thing that's preventing us from making medical marijuana legal in Michigan, Ohio, Florida, and all 50 states is our ability to
 hire lobbyists and/or to put medical marijuana initiatives on the ballot.     - Because 36% of the American people say "the use of marijuana should be made legal," according to Gallup, we need to continue dedicating resources to educating the public on the harms of marijuana prohibition ... until a majority of voters agree.     In short, money is one of the most critical factors that will determine how quickly we — which includes you — can end marijuana prohibition.     It's not the academic commitment of the people who agree with MPP ... or the righteousness of our cause ... or our
 willpower, or our intelligence.      These elements are all important, but it's money that translates good ideas into good laws.     If you're able to help us reach the $3.5 million milestone — preferably by October 1, so that we can actually use the money to pass key ballot initiatives this November 7 — we'll be able to fully fund the following:      - MPP's ballot initiative in Nevada to end marijuana prohibition entirely, which Nevadans will be voting on this November.      - The ad campaign we recently launched on Jim Hightower's national radio show.      - Local ballot initiatives to make adult marijuana offenses the lowest law enforcement priority for local police in Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Missoula County (Montana), and Portland (Oregon) ... which all five communities are voting on this November.      - The medical marijuana initiative in South Dakota that — if passed by a majority of the voters this November — would make South Dakota the 12th medical marijuana state ... and the first medical marijuana state in the midwest.    
  - Public opinion polling to help us determine where to run similar statewide medical marijuana initiatives in 2007 and 2008.     Will you please help achieve what you believe in by voting with your dollars today? MPP is doing everything it can to end the government's war on marijuana users, but we need the financial means to achieve the goal.     I want to thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Financial support from supporters like you is literally
 the only thing that makes our work possible.     Sincerely,  Rob KampiaExecutive DirectorMarijuana Policy ProjectWashington, D.C.     P.S. If you join MPP's pledge program at a level of $5 or more per month, you'll receive your choice of MPP's colorful "Stop Arresting Patients" t-shirt, a DVD of the award-winning medical marijuana documen

[cia-drugs] Bush-supported Endless Wars. Drugs Iraq Lebanon Mexico Colombia ...

[Eco Man]

   It is 5 and a half years into the Bush theocracy, and the US has been at war for almost 5 years of it, starting in Afghanistan. Even more if one counts the Endless War on Drugs.      Bush's wars are very profitable for war corporations, prison guards, prison construction, the intelligence industry, mercenaries, black-budget industries, etc..      I could go on for pages and pages, hours and hours. If you are reading this, you probably know the drill already.      What to do?     Bush's wars are Endless because he conveniently refuses to negotiate with the "Enemy"      Who the hell else does one negotiate with in a time of war?     According to Bush all the "Enemies" are "Evil" and are "Terrorists" and Bush does not negotiate with "Terrorists".     Even drug
 users are "Terrorists" because according to Bush's worldview... drug use and the drug trade support "Terrorists" and therefore drug users and the drug trade are "Terrorists" and part of narco-"Terrorism"     The Emperor Wears No Clothes. And the Emperor is a MORON!     And the majority of Americans do not support Emperor Bush, the Iraq War, the future War on Iran, or any other wars the moron-in-chief decides to start.      The easiest way out of most of this is to just leave the Middle East. Why shed any more American blood in the Middle East? Why keep sending billions of dollars and tons of military equipment to Israel? It only emboldens them to endless war, too.      If Israel didn't have Uncle Sam to back them up they would have negotiated a just peace long ago with the Palestinians instead of continually building more
 settlements on Palestinian land. With US support and arms.      Israel has plenty of nuclear weapons and can defend itself just fine. It doesn't need US help. Except to expand into more Palestinian land.     Let's leave the Middle East.  Let's declare drug peace.   Let's allow Mexico to have fair elections instead of ChoicePoint-style  elections.  Let's allow fair elections in the USA with paper ballots and optical scanners.     Above all, let us vote out the Bush supporters in Congress in the 2006 elections.     The world is depending on us.     -      MMM (Global Million
 Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."  
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[cia-drugs] NY Times. Hundreds of thousands rally in Mexico City. Election fraud.

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   Please forward widely.     Quote from the New York Times article below:  "At 1:30 p.m. Sunday [July 16, 2006], Mr. López Obrador led about 200,000 supporters down one of the city’s main thoroughfares and into the Zócalo, as the city’s main plaza is known. About 200,000 more were already waiting there."      "Some 800,000 supporters of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador marched through Mexico City in support of a recount of the July 2 vote won by Felipe Calderon, according to police estimates.(AFP/Luis Acosta)"     Hundreds of photos found with this
 Yahoo News image search:  http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=mexico+election&c=images              
 ---        ---start-      Crowds Rally Again to Demand Recount in MexicoNew York Times, United
 States - 3 hours ago... filled this city’s historic central plaza to demonstrate their support for his demand for a vote-by-vote recount of Mexico’s disputed July 2 election. ...              Crowds Rally Again to Demand Recount in MexicoJennifer Szymaszek for The New York Times  Andrés Manuel López Obrador waves to thousands of supporters who gathered in Mexico City to
 back his call for a recount of the election. By GINGER THOMPSON  Published: July 17, 2006   MEXICO CITY, July 16 — For the second time in eight days, thousands of supporters of the leftist presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, filled this city’s historic central plaza to demonstrate their support for his demand for a
 vote-by-vote recount of Mexico’s disputed July 2 election.      The crowds at this rally — several hundred thousand — were considerably larger than the last and seemed to indicate that the movement started by the embattled former mayor of Mexico City remained strong.     Mr. López Obrador told the throngs of people roaring his name that a recount was not too much to ask to resolve the political crisis that has gripped the nation since election officials declared his conservative opponent, Felipe Calderón, who appeared to be the winner by less than 1 percent of 41 million ballots cast.  
    That victory has yet to be certified by the Federal Electoral Tribunal as it weighs a legal challenge from Mr. López Obrador. In the meantime, he seems determined to keep up pressure on the tribunal to grant his demand for a recount.     Mr. López Obrador and supporters who helped organize the rally urged his followers to conduct nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, including boycotts of products made by Mexican companies that opposed his candidacy as well as those of some American companies, without explaining why.      He also asked them to stage sit-ins starting Sunday at the 300 district election offices across the country. The purpose, he said, was to prevent any tampering with ballot boxes.      At one point during his speech, Mr. López Obrador smiled as the crowd chanted, “You are not alone.” He told them that the movement he was leading was about more than one
 man or one political party. He said it was about the future of this country’s fragile democracy.     “I have the deep conviction that despite all the machinery of the state, and all the money of a privileged group, they will not be able to stop the free will of millions of Mexicans,” he said. “That is the greatest force of a democracy.”     Mr. Calderón and his supporters say that their victory is legitimate and that a recount will do more harm than good to an electoral system that was meticulously engineered to move Mexico toward democracy after decades of autocratic, one-party rule.     They have described Mr. López Obrador as so obsessed with power that he will stop at nothing to win, even using mass marches to try to bully his way to power over the decisions of the democratic institutions it has taken Mexico more than a decade to build.     Arturo Sarukhan, a
 leading adviser to Mr. Calderón, said his candidate would accept a recount if one was ordered by the electoral tribunal. But he said his candidate did not believe a recount was legally necessary, since the votes were counted on election night by citizens recruited at random to be poll workers.     “They are seeking to pressure the tribunal to say this is too complicated, let’s annul the whole thing,” Mr. Sarukhan said. “We are convinced this is not about a recount. This is about annulment.”     In a voluminous complaint before the electoral tribunal, Mr. López Obrador charged that the voting was riddled with mistakes and rigged against him by President Vicente Fox, who openly supported Mr. Calderón, who is from the same party.     He also accused business leaders of meddling in the election by conducting a campaign that depicted Mr. López Obrador as a danger to the political and economic
 stability Mexico has enjoyed over the last six years.      At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Mr. López Obrador led about 200,000 supporters down one of the city’s main tho

[cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Why Democrats Don't Count. USA versus Mexico.

[Eco Man]

   Quotes from the article farther down:  "Right now in Mexico’s capitol, nearly a million ballots sit in tied bundles uncounted. That’s four times the “official” margin of victory of the ruling party over Lopez Obrador. Supposedly, they’re 'votos nulos' — null votes, unreadable. But, not surprisingly, when a few packets were opened, the majority of these supposedly unreadable votes were Lopez Obrador’s  "Here’s a nasty little fact about voting in the Land of the Free not reported in your newspapers: 3,600,380 ballots were cast in the November 2004 presidential election that were never counted. In 2000, the uncounted ballots totaled just under two million."        Please forward widely. Start--        http://www.gregpalast.com/why-democrats-dont-count#more-1452   WHY DEMOCRATS DON’T COUNT     Published by Greg Palast July 14th, 2006 in Articles    Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico[Watch “Florida con Salsa,” Palast’s 15-minute investigative report from Mexico City for Democracy Now!]  The Exit polls said he won, but the “official” tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president — like ballots with hanging chads.     And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to
 re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change the outcome.     You’ve heard this story before: Gore 2000. Kerry 2004.  But Lopez Obrador 2006 is made out of very different stuff than the scarecrow candidates who, oddly, call themselves “Democrats.”     For six years now, I’ve had this crazy fantasy in my head. In it, an election is stolen and the guy who’s declared the loser stands up in front of the White House and says three magic words: “Count the votes.”     This past Saturday, my dream came true. Unfortunately, it was in Spanish — but I’ll take what I can get. There was Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential challenger, standing in the “Zocalo” —
 the square in front of Mexico’s White House, telling the ruling clique inside, “Count the votes!“     Most important, his simple demand was echoed by half a million pissed-off, activated voters chanting with him, “Vota por vota!” — vote by vote.     And you know what? I think they are going to have to listen. I suspect that the rulers of Mexico, a vicious, puffed-up, arrogant elite, may well have to count those votes. But, for that to happen, someone had to ask them to do it — in no uncertain terms.     Traveling the USA, I’m asked again and again ‘Why don’t Democrats stand up when their elections are stolen?’  The answer: for the same reason jellyfish don’t stand up… they’re invertebrates.     I’m beginning to find that answer a bit too glib (though darn funny). Because it’s not about electoral cojones; it’s about a devotion to democracy deep in the bone. Yet weirdly, candidates that call themselves “Democrats” seem kind of, well, indifferent to democracy.     Why? Elections are the radical tool of the working class — the great leveler of the powerless against the too-powerful. But the candidates themselves, both Republican and Democrat, tend to come from the privileged and pampered class. Votes are just the surfboards on which their ambitions ride.     Right now in Mexico’s capitol, nearly a million ballots sit in tied bundles uncounted. That’s four times the “official” margin of victory of the ruling party over Lopez Obrador. Supposedly, they’re “votos nulos” — null votes, unreadable. But, not surprisingly, when a few packets were opened, the majority of these supposedly unreadable votes were Lopez Obrador’s.     If you think that’s a Mexican game, think again. Because that’s exactly what happened in Florida and Ohio.  In Florida, 179,855 ballots supposedly showed no vote for President. A closer look by the US Civil Rights Commission statisticians showed that 54% of those Florida “votos nulos” were cast by African-Americans. Did Black folk forget to vote for President, couldn’t make up their minds or, as one TV network implied, were too dumb to figure out the ballot? Not at all. Machines can’t count some ballots.
 But people can. For example, several voters wrote in, “Al Gore,” which the machines rejected as his name was already printed on the ballot. The write-in could fool a machine but a human has no problem figuring out that voter’s intent.     The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago reviewed all 179,855 “uncountable” votes and found the majority attempted to choose Gore. And they would have been counted — but Florida’s Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, ordered a halt.     So Bush was elected not by counting the votes but by preventing their count. And he was reelected the same way in 2004 when a quarter million votes were nullified in Ohio.     But why fixate on Florida
 and Ohio? 

[cia-drugs] More details of Mexican election fraud. Frontera NorteSur.

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   More Mexican election info. Please forward widely.  Many more details of corruption, fraud, theft, irregularities, etc. .  Many Spanish-language sources listed at the end.     It is important to know the pure evil ingenuity of the international Axis of Evil. Consisting of cross-border multi-national corporatists,   their hired government suits, Big Media, and the prison industrial police state.  NarcoNews.com has been documenting the incredible police brutality in the   last few months in Mexico. http://www.narconews.com      From the article below:  "Takahasi's findings coincide with an initial analysis by the Mexican election watchdog group Civic Alliance that revealed a pattern of more votes for senators than for president in states where Lopez Obrador had
 strength, and more votes for president than for senator in states where Calderon enjoyed popular support. In the Lopez Obrador strongholds, 312,450 more votes for senators than president were tallied, while in the pro-Calderon zones, 403,740 more votes for president than senators were tabulated."           -article begins---     http://www.mexidata.info/id963.html        July 8, 2006 [date is from the end]     Mexico’s Election Results Challenged by AMLO     Frontera NorteSur [ http://frontera.nmsu.edu ]     Registering second place in Mexico’s official vote count, presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the center-left For the Good of All Coalition, led by the Democratic Revolution Party, intends to challenge the election results. Lopez Obrador announced on July 6 that he will
 ask Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF, aka TRIFE) to review the election results that gave rival candidate Felipe Calderon of President Fox's National Action Party (PAN) a majority of slightly more than one quarter-million votes. "We can't accept these results. There are many irregularities," Lopez Obrador declared. "I don't know of any place in the world with such a competitive election where the count is done in 24 hours and than sent to the tribunals." According to Lopez Obrador campaign coordinator Ricardo Monreal, the presidential hopeful seeks a "vote-by-vote, precinct-by-precinct" recount. The Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), Mexico's government agency that organized and oversaw the elections, reports that Calderon chalked up 15,284,000 votes to obtain 35.88 percent of the total ballots cast, while Lopez Obrador got
 14,756,350 votes, or 35.31 percent of the total. The two candidates were trailed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) Roberto Madrazo, Patricia Mercado and Roberto Campa, in that order.  Lopez Obrador backers are openly charging the election was a fraud. Elements of Lopez Obrador's pending legal challenge were laid out at a July 5 press conference in Mexico City attended by leaders of the former Mexico City mayor's electoral coalition. In a strong statement, Leonel Cota, national president of Lopez Obrador's PRD, alleged "a state election" was manipulated by "the group in power that seeks to hold power at all costs because their interests are at risk." Building their case, Cota, other leaders of the PRD ,and the allied Labor party contended that more votes than voters were registered at 781 precincts. Also more votes than ballots were counted in 52,000 electoral tallies and, strangely, voter turnout in some places exceeded 100 percent.
 Lopez Obrador supporter Gerardo Fernandez said impossible turnouts occurred in the states of Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Jalisco, and Guanajuato, among others – all Calderon strongholds.Adding that the Lopez Obrador campaign had contacted the European Union with its concerns, Cota said his campaign was soliciting international organisms to request that Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) "clean-up the election" so that the next Mexican president is "not illegitimate like Carlos Salinas de Gortari was after 1988."  Under fire for his agency's handling of the preliminary vote results, and then speeding along the official results, IFE President Luis Carlos Ugalde defended the July 2 voting as "a clean and transparent election." Ugalde said, "The citizens have manifested their will by a very narrow margin never before seen in Mexico. It's the most competitive presidential election in the history of Mexico." In a public statement just prior to the
 vote count, the IFE assured it would scrupulously follow all the legal conditions laid out for vote counting.In one victory speech, Felipe Calderon sounded conciliatory but his supporters booed when the virtual president-elect mentioned Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s name. Repeating a mantra from the campaign, and one that is fast reemerging in the press as protests against the election mount, Calderon made a curious reference to a supposedly violent opposition that virtually any journalist would have been hard-pressed to find during the long election race."The peaceful force expressed at the polls won over the v

[cia-drugs] Vast corruption detailed in Mexican election. John Ross.

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   Please forward widely. Mexican election fraud detailed.   Big Media corruption in Mexico also discussed in great detail. And much more.         Some quotes from the article below:  "Another Mexico state ballot box was listed 20 times in the preliminary count. Whereas voters in states where the PAN rules the roost, cast more ballots for president than for senators and congressional representatives, voters in southern states where the PRD carried the day cast more ballots for congress than for the presidential candidates. Among the PRD states that purportedly followed this surreal pattern was Tabasco, the home state of two out of the three major party presidential candidates ­Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the PRI's Roberto Madrazo. ..."     "As the
 day progressed, PAN and PRI electoral officials, charging Lopez Obrador's people with trying to obstruct the process, repeatedly rejected PRD demands to open the ballot boxes and recount the votes inside one by one in instances where Lopez Obrador's tally sheets did not coincide with numbers in the PREP or were different from the sheets attached to the ballot box. When a recount was allowed such as in one Veracruz district, Lopez Obrador sometimes recouped as many as a thousand votes."   -article begins-        http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07072006.html         July 7, 2006  Mexico's Surreal Elections  Anatomy of a Fraud Foretold  By JOHN ROSS     Mexico City.     Mexican elections are stolen before, during, and after Election Day. Just look at what happened in the days leading up to the tightest presidential election in the nation's history this past July 2nd.     By law, the parties and their candidates close down their campaigns three days before Election Day. On Wednesday night June 28th as the legal limit hove into sight, a team of crack investigators from the Attorney General's organized crime unit descended on the maximum security lock-up at La Palma in Mexico state where former Mexico
 City Finance Secretary Guillermo Ponce awaits trial on charges of misuse of public funds ­ much of which he appears to have left on Las Vegas crap tables.     During his nearly six years in office, outgoing president Vicente Fox has often used his attorney general's office against leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to counter his growing popularity, including a failed effort to bar the former Mexico City mayor from the ballot and even imprison him.     Now. in a desperate last minute electoral ploy by Fox's right-wing National Action or PAN party to boost the fortunes of its lagging candidate Felipe Calderon, the agents tried to pressure Ponce into testifying that AMLO and his PRD party had used city revenues to finance his presidential campaign but Ponce proved a stand-up guy and
 ultimately rebuffed the government men.     The imprisoned finance secretary's refusal to talk greatly disappointed both Televisa and TV Azteca, Mexico's two-headed television monopoly that together have waged an unrelenting dirty war against Lopez Obrador for months and even years. Indeed, TV crews were stationed out in the La Palma parking lot to record Ponce's thwarted confession for primetime news and both networks had reserved time blocks on their evening broadcasting, forcing the anchors to scramble to fill in the gap.     That was Wednesday night. On Thursday June 29th, Lopez Obrador's people awoke to discover that the candidate's electronic page had been hacked and a phony message purportedly signed by AMLO posted there calling upon his supporters to hit the streets "if the results do not favor
 us." Although officials of Lopez Obrador's party, the PRD, immediately proved the letter to be a hoax, the pro-Calderon media broadcast the story for hours as if it were the gospel truth, eventually forcing the PRD and its allies to reaffirm that AMLO would abide by results released by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), the nation's maximum electoral authority, even if the IFE's numbers did not favor the candidate.     The PRD pledge was a reiteration of a "pact of civility" that Televisa had browbeat PRD president Lionel Cota into signing in early June. "Hackergate", as the scandal quickly became known, was designed to prevent Lopez Obrador's supporters from protesting the fraud that the electoral authorities were already preparing.     That was Thursday. On Friday, June 30th, after more than five
 years of false starts, Fox's special prosecutor for political crimes placed former president Luis Echeverria under house arrest for his role in student massacres in 1968 and 1971. Not only was the long overdue arrest portrayed by big media as a feather in Fox's ­ and therefore, Calderon's ­ cap but it also put the much-hated Echeverria, a pseudo-leftist with whom Calderon has often compared Lopez Obrador, back on the front pages. Since Echeverria is an emeritus member of the PRI, the bust killed two birds with one very opportunist stone.     That was Fri

[cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Left-leaning voters scrubbed from lists. Mexico election.

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It is much harder to change cannabis and drug policy if these coup d'etats continue in elections in the USA and Mexico. In Mexico we need more honest elections and more honest voter registration and more voting machines in poorer Mexican neighborhoods (sound familiar?) and more voting machines along the border. Also, simple runoff election would solve many problems, too. The Mexican election vote was divided mainly between the 3 main candidates. A runoff election between the top 2 candidates would elect the left leaning candidate.      In Canada the Conservative Party only won a minority of the votes but now its leader is the Prime Minister. The other parties to the left of the Conservative Party had far more votes, but the lack of runoff voting, and the screwy system for selecting the Prime Minister means that Canada also has been taken over by the War Corporatists, Big Oil, and the Prison
 Industrial Complex.      They all kiss George Bush's butt, and want more war, more unfair trade, less wages, no adequate increases in the minimum wage, more prisons, more wasteful government spending, huge deficits, more pollution, more Big Oil instead of Big Ethanol, etc...        From the July 8, 2006 Guardian article below:  "As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations team on the ground in Mexico City this week found voters in poor neighbourhoods, the left's turf, complaining that their names were "disappeared" from the voter rolls."        ---July 8, 2006 Guardian article begins--     http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1815601,00.html       
 Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America Greg Palast  Saturday July 8, 2006  The Guardian   There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was Mexico's first "clean" election. But that requires we close our eyes to some very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games played in Florida in 2000 by the Bush
 family. And indeed, evidence suggests that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist.     Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida, I reported in the Guardian that its governor, Jeb Bush, had ordered the removal of tens of thousands of black citizens from the state's voter rolls. He called them "felons", but our investigation discovered their only crime was Voting While Black. And that little scrub of the voter rolls gave the White House to his brother George.      Jeb's winning scrub list was the creation of a private firm, ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia. Now, it seems, ChoicePoint is back in the voter list business - in Mexico - at the direction of the Bush government. Months ago, I got my hands on a copy of a memo from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, marked "secret", regarding a contract for "intelligence collection of foreign counter-terrorism investigations".    
  Given that the memo was dated September 17 2001, a week after the attack on the World Trade Centre, hunting for terrorists seemed like a heck of a good idea. But oddly, while all 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, the contract was for obtaining the voter files of Venezuela, Brazil ... and Mexico.      What those Latin American countries have in common, besides a lack of terrorists, is either a left-leaning president or a left candidate for president ahead in the opinion polls, leaders of the floodtide of Bush-hostile Latin leaders. It seems that the Bush government feared the leftist surge was up against the US's southern border.      As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations team on the ground in Mexico City this week found voters in poor neighbourhoods, the left's turf, complaining that their names were "disappeared" from the voter rolls. ChoicePoint can't know what use the Bush crew makes of its lists.
 But erased registrations require us to ask, before this vote is certified, was there a purge as there was in Florida?      Notably, ruling party operatives carried registration lists normally in the hands of elections officials only. (In Venezuela in 2004, during the special election to recall President Hugo Chavez, I saw his opponents consulting laptops with voter lists. Were these the purloined FBI files? The Chavez government suspects so but, victorious, won't press the case.)      There's more that the Mexico vote has in common with Florida besides the heat. The ruling party's hand-picked electoral commission counted a mere 402,000 votes more for their candidate, Felipe Calderón, over challenger Andrés Manuel López Obrador. That's noteworthy in light of the surprise showing of candidate Señor Blank-o (the 827,000 ballots supposedly left "blank").      We've seen Mr Blank-o do well before - in Fl

[cia-drugs] Ex-president declares innocence in Mexico massacre. Wash. Post

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   --article begins---     http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070501410.html  Ex-president declares innocence in Mexico massacre     By Lorraine Orlandi     Reuters  Wednesday, July 5, 2006; 7:52 PM      MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, under house arrest for a 1968 student massacre, told a judge on Wednesday he was not guilty of genocide and moved to have the charges dropped.     Echeverria, 84, made his first court declaration at home in a private audience with the judge, who now has until Sunday to decide whether to proceed with
 a trial or dismiss the case, defense lawyer Juan Velasquez said.     The ex-president is being held under house arrest due to his age and health concerns.  In a surprise ruling last week, two days before Mexico's presidential election, an appeals court found enough evidence to support a charge of genocide against Echeverria and ordered the former leader's arrest and trial.     Echeverria, president from 1970 to 1976 at the height of a so-called dirty war against leftists, denied any wrongdoing in a written statement provided to Reuters by his lawyers.     "There is no proof that I was author of or participated in a crime," he said in the statement to Judge Ranulfo Castillo. Echeverria also argued no genocide occurred and too much time has passed prosecute him.     He was interior minister in charge of national security when government troops stormed a
 student rally in the capital on October 2, 1968, days before the opening of the Mexico City Olympics, in a tragedy that remains an open wound for many.     Officials said about 30 people were killed in what became known as the Tlatelolco massacre. Witnesses and rights activists put the death toll as high as 300.  Outside Echeverria's sprawling Mexico City residence, survivors of the bloodshed demanded that his hearing be public. They carried signs reading, "Prison for the assassin."     The arrest, after two failed attempts to charge Echeverria with genocide, was a breakthrough in outgoing President Vicente Fox's halting drive to punish those responsible for past government brutality. Fox leaves office in December.     Prosecutors say Echeverria oversaw a systematic campaign to wipe out dissidents under autocratic, one-party rule and planned the 1968 crackdown with that in mind. His
 defense team argued that the attack did not constitute genocide.     Evidence shows 43 protesters and troops were killed that day in clashes but not as a result of any "state policy of extermination," Echeverria's legal team said.     Judge Castillo had earlier rejected the genocide charge against Echeverria but his decision was overturned on appeal.     Voters went to the polls on Sunday in the first presidential election since 2000, when Fox ousted the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for seven decades, at times using repression to crush dissent.     The latest election is seen as a test of Mexico's young democracy. But on Wednesday the top contenders were running neck-and-neck in a vote count drama riveting the nation.     (Additional reporting by Jorge Silva)       
 -end of article        -     For more related articles click the link below, and then the links for the monthly archived articles:MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed
 that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."  
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[cia-drugs] Re: Greg Palast. Assassination of Hugo Ch�vez. Big Oil corporatists.

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   Hempahol for Victory!     The following is in response to this CIA drugs message:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/35425      --     The Brazil system works because for years now new cars sold there must accept 100% ethanol fuel. The same system would work here if new cars were required to safely accept ethanol fuel. It would create a huge market for ethanol fuels.      The economies of scale cause the ethanol fuel to be cheaper than gasoline fuels. And that is true no matter how it is calculated. The fair way to compare is in miles per dollar of fuel, not in miles per gallon.      It isn't true now because many new American cars can't safely accept 100%
 ethanol or methanol  fuel. So the market for the fuel isn't large enough to keep the price competitive, and to make the fuel widely available.      When all new cars are required to accept ethanol fuel, then it soon costs nothing to make the changes required for those cars, because of the economies of scale involved. The changes are minor when designed into the car, and put in during the initial factory build of the new car.     eco manhttp://corporatism.tripod.com  -  Does anyone remember my mentioning how we had to pay nearly $1,000 to repair the carbecause of ethanol in fuel?  Arlene JohnsonPublisher/Authorhttp://www.truedemocracy.net        -Original Message----- From: Eco Man Sent:
 Jul 4, 2006 11:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Assassination of Hugo Chávez. Big Oil corporatists.    More on who is really in charge.   Dallas and Houston are the Big Oil puppet masters manipulating the Pat Robertson Armageddonists, the Israeli lobby, and the war industries (which includes the U.S. prison industrial complex). Just follow the oil money. My favorite quote from the book excerpt:  "The public, American public included, does not have to remain hostage to the Saudi-Houston cartel."    
 We could be following Brazil's successful ethanol model instead. And we could add hemp stalks to the biomass used to produce ethanol and methanol. Hempahol for Victory!   ---web page begins The Assassination of Hugo Chávez. Excerpt from Greg Palast's new book "Armed Madhouse."http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1764  snip---     MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that
 suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations."  
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[cia-drugs] GregPalast.com - Bushwhacking Mexico's Election.

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   Please forward widely. Found the following Greg Palast and Matt Pascarella report near the top of the results for this Google News search:http://news.google.com/news?q=mexico+election         -report beginshttp://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4973         Bushwhacking Mexico's ElectionGreg Palast.com - Greg Palast / Matt Pascarella - We’ve said again and again: Exit polls tell us how voters say they voted, but the voters can’t tell pollsters if their vote will
 be counted. In Mexico, counting the vote is an art, not a science — and Calderon’s ruling crew is very artful indeed. The PAN-controlled official electoral commission, not surprisingly, has announced that the presidential tally is too close to call.www.GregPalast.com    STEALING IT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYESGreg PalastJuly 3rd, 2006Matt Pascarella in Mexico CityGreg Palast in LondonMonday, 3 July for The GuardianDispatch from Mexico City  Gore v. Bush.Kerry v Bush.Lopez Obrador v Calderon.     As in Florida in 2000, as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive
 candidate, but the race is “officially” too close to call.     But they will call it — after they steal it. Reuters News agency reports that, as of 8pm Eastern time, as voting concluded in Mexico, exit polls show Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the “left-wing” Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) leading in exit polls over Felipe Calderon of the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN).  We’ve said again and again: Exit polls tell us how voters say they voted, but the voters can’t tell pollsters if their vote will be counted. In Mexico, counting the vote is an art, not a science — and Calderon’s ruling crew is very artful indeed. The PAN-controlled official electoral commission, not surprisingly, has announced that the presidential tally is too close to call.     Calderon’s election is openly supported by the Bush Administration.  On the ground in Mexico City, our news
 team reports accusations from inside the Obrador campaign that operatives of the PAN had access to voter files which are supposed to be the sole property of the nation’s electoral commission.     We are not surprised.     This past Friday, we reported that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had obtained Mexico’s voter files under a secret “counterterrorism” contract with database company ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia. (See BUSH TEAM HELPS RULING PARTY “FLORIDIZE” MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.)     The FBI’s contractor states that, following the arrest of ChoicePoint agents by the Mexicangovernment, the company returned or destroyed its files. The firm claims not to have known collecting this information violated Mexican law. Such files can be useful in challenging a voter’s right to cast a
 ballot or in preventing that vote from counting.     It is, of course, impossible to know if the FBI destroyed its own copy of the files of Mexico’s voter rolls obtained by Choicepoint or if these were then used to illegally assist the Calderon candidacy.  But we can see the results: as in the US, first in Florida then in Ohio, the exit polls are at odds with “official” polls.     In November 2004, US Republican Senator Richard Lugar, in Kiev, cited the divergence of exit polls and official polls as solid evidence of “blatant fraud” in the vote count in Ukraine. As a result, the Bush Administration refused to recognize the Ukraine government’s officialvote tally … which proves once again that Republicans are incapable of irony.     The foreign mainstream press has already announced, despite the polling discrepancies, that Mexico’s elections were fair and clean — which would
 be a first for that country where Lopez Obrador’s party has seen its candidates defeated by “blatant fraud” before. The change this time is that the fraud is simply less blatant.          Watch for our video reports from Mexico City at www.GregPalast.com to be carried on Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman, this Wednesday, July 5. Rick Rowley, in Mexico City, contributed to this report.     Matt Pascarella is North American producer for GregPalast.com. Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “ARMED MADHOUSE: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal ‘08, No Child’s Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.”     For interview requests contact: Fiona McMorrough at FionaM ( at) fmcm.co.uk or interviews (at) gregpalast.com  
 Stay informed. Subscribe and get the best of PEJ News by email. Free.         end of report page-        ---        For  related articles from multiple sources:  http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages/1252    MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who hav

[cia-drugs] Al Giordano. Mexico. 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear. NarcoNews.com

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   Please forward widely. NarcoNews web page begins---        July 5, 2006. Al Giordano. In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear.  http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1962.html        English | Español | Portugués  July 5, 2006 | Issue #42  Set Color:Print This Page Comments (1)   Search Narco News:       Narco News Issue #41Complete
 Archives  The Other Campaign   La Otra Campaña   A Outra Campanha   L’Altra Campagna   Die Andere Kampagne   L’Autre Campagne   «کارزاری ديگر» (Farsi)Contact:  Publisher  Editor  Opening Statement, April 18, 2000¡Bienvenidos en Español!Bem Vindos em Português!  Sign up for free alerts list:English  Lista de alertas gratis:Español  Lista de alertas grátisPortuguês  Narco News is supported by:The Fund for Authentic JournalismEditorial Policy and Disclosures  Site Design: Dan Feder  All contents, unless otherwise noted, © 2000-2006 Al Giordano  The trademarks "Narco News," "The Narco News Bulletin," and "School of Authentic Journalism" © 2000-2006 Al Giordano   RSS 1.0      In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear: López Obrador Reduces Calderón’s Official Margin to 0.6 percent  IFE’s Claim that 98.5 Percent of Votes Had Been Counted Was False: Authorities Now Oppose Recount  By Al Giordano  Part I of a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin  July 5, 2006     Today, in Mexico, begins a “recount” of votes cast in Sunday’s presidential election… in which the umpires are refusing to recount the votes.     Election authorities of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials)
 closed ranks on Tuesday with the National Action Party (PAN) of President Vicente Fox and candidate Felipe Calderón to oppose the actual recounting the votes. This, on the heels of Tuesday’s “discovery” of 2.5 million votes hidden by IFE since Sunday’s election, added to a growing body of evidence – and corresponding public distrust in the institutions – that a gargantuan electoral fraud has been perpetrated.     The partial “recount” began at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, in Mexico’s 300 election districts – each with an average of 400 polling places and 140,000 votes to tabulate – and sparks are already flying over the struggle to conduct an authentic count in the sunlight of public scrutiny. Attorneys and party bosses of the PAN – whose triumphalism has turned to visible panic in recent hours – have orders from headquarters to universally oppose the reopening of any ballot boxes and subsequent public
 accounting of the actual number of votes cast for each candidate. On the other side, representatives of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador and many outraged citizens armed with video cameras have besieged the 300 recount locales demanding an actual ballot-by-ballot recount.  This first stage of the process is likely to take days: Results from more than 11,000 precincts (the ones hidden by IFE – in most of them, López Obrador won the vote) that must be recounted, vote-by-vote, in accordance with Mexican electoral law. That is an average of almost 40 polling places per district. And with two well-organized sides battling over whether the votes will be counted aloud, combined with the stonewalling incompetence that has been IFE’s trademark, an already fragile process is coming apart at the seams.      
   Police cordon a Nezahuacoyotl garbage dump where ballots and ballot-boxes from three precincts won by López Obrador were discovered on Tuesday.Photo: D.R. 2006 El UniversalOne of the major problems for IFE and the Fox administration is that if they were to allow the bread-and-butter recount that the public demands, the ugly truth would come out that an unknown number of ballot boxes have “disappeared” in the past two days. The ballots from three precincts in the city of Nezahuacoyotl – a López Obrador stronghold – were discovered yesterday in the municipal garbage dump. The results from two of those precincts have been missing, since Sunday, from IFE’s vote tallies. An IFE official, ambushed by television reporters, exacerbated the crime
 yesterday when she blamed the Mexican military: the Armed Forces, not IFE, are supposedly guarding the ballots, she said, in defense of her bureaucracy. This, sources close to the military told Narco News, produced significant anger among the military generals and troops who – if the public does not believe or accept IFE’s final decision – will be called upon to quell the national rebellion that follows.     The Armed Forces are understandably concerned about the very real possibility that history will be repeated: that they will be turned into the scapegoats of a process-gone-awry. If, as in the 1960s and 1970s, the military is to be called upon to repress a civilian population’s protests, highway blockades, strikes and occupations of government centers – steps that are inevitable if IFE refuses to recount the votes in public – the genera

[cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Bush "Floridizing" Mexican election July 2, 2006

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   Americans! Please register now. Call and check your registration status, and latest voting location. Locations change due to redistricting and requirements for disabled access. Registration can be revoked arbitrarily, or if you haven't voted in awhile, or if you have moved. Be sure to vote. Even if there is vote fraud, the exit polls will show it again. In the long run, the cure for fake democracy and 2-party tyranny is exit polls, runoff voting, consecutive term limits, and paper backup ballots with regular audits. Vote early to better insure you get to vote. Drive people to the polls!     -Please  forward widely. article begins--     http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S7.htm 
   Greg Palast: Stealing Mexico Saturday, 1 July 2006, 1:37 pmOpinion: Greg Palast STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential ElectionBy Greg Palast     Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "ARMED MADHOUSE: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China
 Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War."       Friday, June 30, 2006 -- GEORGE Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency.       It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: "9/17/2001," six days after the attack on the World Trade towers. It's nice to know the feds got right on the ball, if a little late.       What does this have to do with jiggering Mexico's election? Hold that thought.       This document is what's called a "guidance"memo for using a private contractor to provide databases on dangerous foreigners. Good
 idea. We know the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf Emirates. So you'd think the "Intelligence Collection" would be aimed at getting info on the guys in the Gulf.       No so. When we received the document, we obtained as well its classified appendix. The target nations for "foreign counterterrorism investigation" were nowhere near the Persian Gulf. Every one was in Latin America -- Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and a handful of others. See one of the documents yourself.    Latin America?! Was there a terror cell about to cross into San Diego with exploding
 enchiladas?       All the target nations had one thing in common besides a lack of terrorists: each had a left-leaning presidential candidate or a left-leaning president in office. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, bete noir of the Bush Administration, was facing a recall vote. In Mexico, the anti-Bush Mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was (and is) leading the race for the Presidency.       Most provocative is the contractor to whom this no-bid contract was handed: ChoicePoint Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia. ChoicePoint is the database company that created a list for Governor Jeb Bush of Florida of voters to scrub from voter rolls before the 2000 election. ChoicePoint's list (94,000 names in all) contained few felons. Most of those on the list were guilty of no crime except Voting While Black. The disenfranchisement of these voters cost Al Gore the presidency.       Having chosen our President for us, our
 President's men chose ChoicePoint for this sweet War on Terror database gathering. The use of the Venezuela's and Mexico's voter registry files to fight terror is not visible -- but the use of the lists to manipulate elections is as obvious as the make-up on Katherine Harris' cheeks.       In Venezuela, leading up to the August 2004 vote on whether to re-call President Chavez, I saw his opposition pouring over the voter rolls in laptops, claiming the right to challenge voters as Jeb's crew did to voters in Florida. It turns out this operation was partly funded by the International Republican Institute of Washington, an arm of the GOP. Where did they get the voter info?       In that case, access to Venezuela's voter rolls didn't help the Republican-assisted drive against Chavez, who won by a crushing plurality.       In Mexico this Sunday, we can expect to see the same: challenges of Obrador voters in a race, the polls say, is
 too close to call. Not that Mexico's rulers need lessons from the Bush Administration on how to mess with elections.       In 1988, the candidate for Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR), who opinion polls showed as a certain winner, somehow came up short against the incumbent party of the ruling elite. Some of the electoral tricks were far from subtle. In the state of Guerrero, the PDR was leading on official tally sheets by 359,369. Oddly, the official final count was 309,202 for the ruling party, only182,874 for the PDR. Challenging the vote would have been dangerous. Two top official

[cia-drugs] Narconews. Giordano: And the Winner in Mexico Is... The Zapatista Other Campaign

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June 30, 2006
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Dear Colleague,

Mexico's hotly contested presidential election is only two days away. 
In The Narco News Bulletin today, Al Giordano files some final 
predictions and analysis on what might be in store for the country 
after Sunday.

Giordano writes:

"Anything can happen on Sunday, including an attempted electoral 
fraud, as occurred here in 1988. But this time the Mexican people 
will not swallow it. If Mexico's dubious Federal Electoral Institute 
(IFE, in its Spanish initials) tries to repeat that dark history, the 
revolution will begin on Monday. Those in power can't be that stupid. 
Or can they?

"All objective signs - if the vote is to be tabulated fairly and 
accurately - point to a punishing electoral victory by former Mexico 
City Governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The big boys - at least 
the domestic ones who seem to believe their own hype that López 
Obrador is a 'leftist' (foreign capitalists are much more sanguine 
about the probability of victory by the candidate with the initials 
AMLO) - have tried everything to stop it. In 2005, they tried to 
remove López Obrador from the ballot with a legal maneuver called the 
desafuero. They only ended up making him stronger. Lately, they've 
attempted an Election of the State to impose a whiney little man 
named Felipe Calderón of the PAN (National Action) party as Fox's 
successor, but this week they were caught red-handed trying to rig 
the voter lists, among other old-style maneuvers, on Calderón's 
behalf. They were undone at each step through a medium known as the 
Internet, which did not exist in Mexico in 1988. They may still 
attempt to impose Calderón on Sunday but your correspondent doubts it 
because, if so, it bears repeating, a revolution will break out on 
Monday.

"The Mexican business and political elites are left with two other 
possible scenarios to try and stop the unstoppable: The first would 
be a 'surprise' victory by Roberto Madrazo, candidate of the PRI 
(Institutional Revolutionary Party), a man who has trailed the two 
frontrunners all year long according to the polls. Obviously, that 
scenario would be suspected by many as a fabrication and would not 
stand for long.

"The other possible scenario - now being spoken of openly in some 
corners of the Mexican press - would be to 'annul' Sunday's election 
results (there certainly have been enough documented irregularities 
to justify such a maneuver) and install an 'interim president' named 
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. That last scenario would fascinate those above, 
since it was Cárdenas who acquiesced to the historic 1988 election 
fraud that robbed him of the presidency then, and who, of late, has 
shown an apparent bitterness that López Obrador, and not he, is his 
party's candidate today. In that scenario, the system would try to 
sell a Cárdenas bait-and-switch as a kind of latent display of 
'justice,' the realization of a long-denied advance, eighteen years 
after the fact. But down below, few would be wowed or impressed by 
any play so cynical and mocking of an electorate's dignity. And there 
is that pesky little force down below and to the left that, seen or 
unseen, would put a stop to it faster than one can say 'national 
rebellion': the Zapatista Other Campaign."

Read the full story in The Narco News Bulletin, including some 
remarkable revelations of electoral crimes on the part of the PAN 
that have gone virtually unreported in the international press:

http://www.narconews.com 

There will be more coverage of this potential turning point in the 
history of Mexico during the coming days in these pages, so keep 
reading. All eyes seem to be focused above now, but as Giordano 
explains, the deciding force for the country's future is "below and 
to the left."

>From somewhere in a country called América,

Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin
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[cia-drugs] Greg Palast explains who the war corporatists are exactly.

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   Please forward widely.  Was the Invasion of Iraq A Jewish Conspiracy? by Greg Palast in July/August 2006 Tikkun, a progressive Jewish magazine.   http://www.gregpalast.com/was-the-invasion-of-iraq-a-jewish-conspiracy     Amazing article is farther down. We are all being manipulated by Houston and Dallas. The neocons, the Christian Zionists, Bush, and the fundamentalists are all being steered by Big Oil. You know, Big Oil is also the overseer of the petrochemical pharmaceutical drug-war complex too. Petro = Oil. Petrochemicals are derived from petroleum. Hmmm. The drug warriors are just flunkies for Big Pharma, Big Oil, and beer companies. It's all about corporatism and war corporatism. Bush is still the president though, and he is a
 fundamentalist nut at heart. Bush is itching to go into Iran, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, etc.. To self-fulfill fundamentalist Armageddonist prophecies, the Rapture, and all that. They are completely nuts. Better to just leave the region completely. That would be the fastest way to force Israel to negotiate in good faith with the rest of the fundamentalists in the region. Many Israelis believe they have a right to "Judea" and "Samaria" (the Old Testament names for the West Bank) because of their own self-fulfilling fundamentalist prophecies. A region of lunatics. I would hate to be a moderate living in that region.        Tikkun magazine is a progressive Jewish magazine.     --Greg Palast article in July/August 2006 Tikkun magazine begins-     http://www.gregpalast.com/was-the-invasion-of-iraq-a-jewish-conspiracy   Was the Invasion of Iraq A Jewish Conspiracy?   Published by Greg Palast June 26th, 2006 in Articles   Tikkun Magazine JULY/AUGUST 2006     Did the Jews do it?     The US Congress will open hearings this week on the War in Iraq — a wee bit late one might think. But one question at the forefront of the minds of many on both the Left and the Right is sure not to be asked: Did the Jews do it? I mean, after killing Jesus, did the Elders of Zion manipulate the government of the United States into invading Babylon as part of a scheme to abet the expansion of Greater
 Israel?     The question was first posed to me in 2004 when I was speaking at a meeting of Mobilization for Peace in San Jose. A member of the audience asked, “Put it together — Who’s behind this war? Paul Wolfowitz and Elliott Abrams and the Project for a “Jew” American Century and, and, why don’t you talk about that, huh? And…”     But the questioner never had the full opportunity to complete his query because, flushed and red, he began to charge the stage. The peace activists attempted to detain the gentleman — whose confederates then grabbed some chairs to swing. As the Peace Center was taking on a somewhat warlike character, I chose to call in the authorities and slip out the back.     Still, his question intrigued me. As an investigative reporter, “Who’s behind this war?” seemed like a reasonable challenge — and if it were a plot of Christ-killers and Illuminati, so be
 it. I just report the facts, ma’am.And frankly, at first, it seemed like the gent had a point, twisted though his spin might be. There was Paul Wolfowitz, before Congress in March 2003, offering Americans the bargain of the century: a free Iraq — not “free” as in “freedom and democracy” but free in the sense of this won’t cost us a penny. Wolfowitz testified: “There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money.”     A “Free” Iraq     And where would these billions come from? Wolfowitz told us: “It starts with the assets of the Iraqi people… The oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the next two or three years.”     This was no small matter. The vulpine Deputy Defense Secretary knew that the number one question on the minds of Americans was not, “Does
 Saddam really have the bomb?” but “What’s this little war going to cost us?”     However, Wolfowitz left something out of his testimony: the truth. I hunted for weeks for the source of the Pentagon’s oil revenue projections — and found them. They were wildly different from the Wolfowitz testimony. But this was not perjury. Ever since the conviction of Elliott Abrams for perjury before Congress during the Iran-Contra hearings, neither Wolfowitz nor the other Bush factotums swear an oath before testifying. If you don’t raise your hand and promise to tell the truth, “so help me, God,” you’re off the hook with federal prosecutors.     How the Lord will judge that little ploy, we cannot say.     But Wolfowitz’s little numbers game can hardly count as a Great Zionist conspiracy. That seemed to come, at first glance, in the form of a confidential 101-page document slipped to our team at BBC’s
 Newsnight. It detailed the economic “recovery” of Iraq’s post-conquest economy. This blueprint for occupation, we learned, was first devised in secret in late 2001.     Notably, this program for Iraq’s recovery wasn

[cia-drugs] Videos. War Corporatism, The New Fascism.

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   Iraq war, Drug War, and more. Please forward widely. While you still can. :)Google search for corporatism and war corporatism:http://www.google.com/search?q=corporatism   http://www.google.com/search?q=war+corporatism      Great video on Iraq war corporatism:     Flash video version here:  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12017.htm      QuickTime video version here:  http://www.knife-party.net/flash/barry.html      ---    
 Another great video. This one is about  the drug war. Multiple video formats:  http://leap.cc/audiovideo/LEAPpromo.htm      "Anyone concerned about the failure of our $69 billion-a-year War on Drugs should watch this 12-minute program. You will meet front line, ranking police officers who give us a devastating report on why it cannot work. It is a must-see for any journalist or public official dealing with this issue."  -- Walter Cronkite        It is a good video to download and to listen to in the background while surfing the web.        -   http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm      War Corporatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Corporatism     War Corporatism is the belief that a country engaged in warfare for a considerable period creates a corporate reliance upon war. (Also referred to as the Military-industrial complex.) The arms and related industries therefore end up attempting to control the outbreak of war in order to increase profits for their shareholders, large investors, and top corporate executives. War corporatism implies
 that companies who reap the benefits of war will constantly fight to keep the economy on a war footing in order to continue to profit and balance the economics of society as a whole. People critical of the US arms industry claim that the United States has become a prime example of war corporatism as it has been involved in near-constant warfare in some part of the globe since 1950, and point to the close ties of the political and industrial elites in the US. The links between Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton are often used as an example.See alsoSmedley Butler and War is a Racket   Military-industrial complex   Profiteering   War economy         --        Military-industrial complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Military-Industrial_Complex_Speech      Military-industrial complexFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   The term military-industrial complex (MIC) usually refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political and commercial interests, which grew rapidly in scale and influence in the wake of World War II. The term may also be used for militarism, in
 reference to any such business partnership between industry and military.      As pejorative terms, the "MIC" or the "Iron Triangle" refer to an institutionalised collusion among defense contractors (industry), The Pentagon (military), and the United States government (Congress, Executive branch), as being against the public interest, and driven by profiteering.     Origin  The term was first used publicly by President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower in
 his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are
 all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.   In the penultimate draft of the address, Eisenhower initially used the term military-industrial-congressional complex, indicating the essential role that U.S. Congress
 plays in propagating the military industry. But, it is said, that the president chose to

[cia-drugs] Part 4. Robert Kennedy. Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

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   -Part 4 begins. Please forward widely-        Rolling Stone magazine article. Parts 1 through 4:http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/2 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/3 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/4 Part 1 with footnote URLs exposed for plain-text copying and emailing: http://mparent.livejournal.com/9080969.html         Was the 2004 Election Stolen?        Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.         They certainly weren't invalidated by faulty voting equipment: a trifling one percent of presidential ballots in the twelve suspect counties were spoiled. The more likely explanation is that they were fraudulently shifted to Bush. Statewide, the president outpolled Thomas Moyer, the Republican judge who defeated Connally, by twenty-one percent. Yet in the twelve questionable counties, Bush's margin over Moyer was fifty percent
 -- a strong indication that the president's certified vote total was inflated. If Kerry had maintained his statewide margin over Connally in the twelve suspect counties, as he almost assuredly would have done in a clean election, he would have bested her by 81,260 ballots. That's a swing of 162,520 votes from Kerry to Bush -- more than enough to alter the outcome. (183)      ''This is very strong evidence that the count is off in those counties,'' says Freeman, the poll analyst. ''By itself, without anything else, what happened in these twelve counties turns Ohio into a Kerry state. To me, this provides every indication of fraud.''  How might this fraud have been carried out? One way to steal votes is to tamper with individual ballots -- and there is evidence that Republicans did just that. In Clermont County, where optical scanners were used to tabulate votes, sworn affidavits by election observers
 given to the House Judiciary Committee describe ballots on which marks for Kerry were covered up with white stickers, while marks for Bush were filled in to replace them. Rep. Conyers, in a letter to the FBI, described the testimony as ''strong evidence of vote tampering if not outright fraud.'' (184) In Miami County, where Connally outpaced Kerry, one precinct registered a turnout of 98.55 percent (185) -- meaning that all but ten eligible voters went to the polls on Election Day. An investigation by the Columbus Free Press, however, collected affidavits from twenty-five people who swear they didn't vote. (186)     In addition to altering individual ballots, evidence suggests that Republicans tampered with the software used to tabulate votes. In Auglaize County, where Kerry lost not only to Connally but to two other defeated Democratic judicial candidates, voters cast their ballots on touch-screen machines. (187)
 Two weeks before the election, an employee of ES&S, the company that manufactures the machines, was observed by a local election official making an unauthorized log-in to the central computer used to compile election results. (188) In Miami County, after 100 percent of precincts had already reported their official results, an additional 18,615 votes were inexplicably added to the final tally. The last-minute alteration awarded 12,000 of the votes to Bush, boosting his margin of victory in the county by nearly 6,000. (189)     The most transparently crooked incident took place in Warren County. In the leadup to the election, Blackwell had illegally sought to keep reporters and election observers at least 100 feet away from the polls. (190) The Sixth Circuit, ruling that the decree represented an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, noted ominously that ''democracies die behind closed doors.'' But the
 decision didn't stop officials in Warren County from devising a way to count the vote in secret. Immediately after the polls closed on Election Day, GOP officials -- citing the FBI -- declared that the county was facing a terrorist threat that ranked ten on a scale of one to ten. The county administration building was hastily locked down, allowing election officials to tabulate the results without any reporters present.     In fact, there was no terrorist threat. The FBI declared that it had issued no such warning, and an investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer unearthed e-mails showing that the Republican plan to declare a terrorist alert had been in the works for eight days prior to the election. Officials had even refined the plot down to the language they used on signs notifying the public of a lockdown. (When ROLLING STONE requested copies of the same e-mails from the county, officials responded that the
 documents have been destroyed.) (191)     The late-night secrecy in Warren County recalls a classic trick: Results are h

[cia-drugs] Part 3. Robert Kennedy. Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

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   --Part 3 begins. Please forward widely---         Rolling Stone magazine article. Parts 1 through 4:http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/2 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/3 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/4 Part 1 with footnote URLs exposed for plain-text copying and emailing: http://mparent.livejournal.com/9080969.html    Was the 2004 Election Stolen?      Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.            The long lines were not only foreseeable -- they were actually created by GOP efforts. Republicans in the state legislature, citing new electronic voting machines that were supposed to speed voting, authorized local election boards to reduce the number of precincts across Ohio. In most cases, the new machines never materialized -- but that didn't stop officials in twenty of the state's eighty-eight counties, all of them favorable to Democrats, from slashing the number of
 precincts by at least twenty percent.(136)      Republican officials also created long lines by failing to distribute enough voting machines to inner-city precincts. After the Florida disaster in 2000, such problems with machines were supposed to be a thing of the past. Under the Help America Vote Act, Ohio received more than $30 million in federal funds to replace its faulty punch-card machines with more reliable systems.(137) But on Election Day, that money was sitting in the bank. Why? Because Ken Blackwell had applied for an extension until 2006, insisting that there was no point in buying electronic machines that would later have to be retrofitted under Ohio law to generate paper ballots.(138)     ''No one has ever accused our secretary of state of lacking in ability,'' says Rep. Kucinich. ''He's a rather bright fellow, and he's involved in the most minute details of his office. There's no doubt that he knew the
 effect of not having enough voting machines in some areas.''     At liberal Kenyon College, where students had registered in record numbers, local election officials provided only two voting machines to handle the anticipated surge of up to 1,300 voters. Meanwhile, fundamentalist students at nearby Mount Vernon Nazarene University had one machine for 100 voters and faced no lines at all.(139) Citing the lines at Kenyon, the Conyers report concluded that the ''misallocation of machines went beyond urban/suburban discrepancies to specifically target Democratic areas.''(140)     In Columbus, which had registered 125,000 new voters(141) -- more than half of them black(142) -- the board of elections estimated that it would need 5,000 machines to handle the huge surge.(143) ''On Election Day, the county experienced an unprecedented turnout that could only be compared to a 500-year flood,'' says Matt Damschroder,(144) chairman
 of the Franklin County Board of Elections and the former head of the Republican Party in Columbus.(145) But instead of buying more equipment, the Conyers investigation found, Damschroder decided to ''make do'' with 2,741 machines.(146) And to make matters worse, he favored his own party in distributing the equipment. According to The Columbus Dispatch, precincts that had gone seventy percent or more for Al Gore in 2000 were allocated seventeen fewer machines in 2004, while strong GOP precincts received eight additional machines.(147) An analysis by voter advocates found that all but three of the thirty wards with the best voter-to-machine ratios were in Bush strongholds; all but one of the seven with the worst ratios were in Kerry country.(148)     The result was utterly predictable. According to an investigation by the Columbus Free Press, white Republican suburbanites, blessed with a surplus of machines, averaged waits of only
 twenty-two minutes; black urban Democrats averaged three hours and fifteen minutes.(149) ''The allocation of voting machines in Franklin County was clearly biased against voters in precincts with high proportions of African-Americans,'' concluded Walter Mebane Jr., a government professor at Cornell University who conducted a statistical analysis of the vote in and around Columbus.(150)     By midmorning, when it became clear that voters were dropping out of line rather than braving the wait, precincts appealed for the right to distribute paper ballots to speed the process. Blackwell denied the request, saying it was an invitation to fraud.(151) A lawsuit ensued, and the handwritten affidavits submitted by voters and election officials offer a heart-rending snapshot of an electoral catastrophe in the offing:(152)        From Columbus Precinct 44D:''There are three voting machines at this precinct.
 I have been informed that in prior elections 

[cia-drugs] You gotta check this out... [Videos. fwd Renee Boje]

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   ---forwarded email begins--  renee boje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:46:40 -0700From: "renee boje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RB: You gotta check this out...Hello friends,If you haven't heard the song "When the President talks to God" yet by Bright Eyes, you gotta check it out. You will absolutely love it... guaranteed! Here is a link to it live on Jay Leno:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyhSE2SUNE&search=when+the+president+talks+to+god Spread it around. :)And, while you are at it, there is an awesome film coming out about the US Drug
 War, starring Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves & Robert Downey Jr. called "A Scanner Darkly" that you can check out the trailer for. Here's a description from their website and the link to the trailer below that:"A Scanner Darkly:Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an undercover cop, Fred, is one of many agents hooked on the popular drug, Substance D, which causes its users to develop split personalities. Fred, for instance, is also Bob, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, Fred sets up an elaborate scheme to catch Bob and tear down his operation."http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/ascannerdarkly.html Enjoy!Love & Freedom,Renee--To unsubscribe from freerenee, send a message to[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the
 command "unsubscribe"http://www.reneeboje.com/      --end of forwarded email--MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis
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[cia-drugs] BBC. Injection rooms are in most Swiss cities. Working well, too.

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Sanity, lower crime, more vibrant inner cities, higher survival rate.   Versus insane U.S. astronomical incarceration rate, higher crime rates, lower property values in most inner cities.     ---article begins--  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5007962.stm      Swiss injection rooms lead the way By Imogen Foulkes BBC News, Berne, Switzerland   An independent panel of experts has called for heroin injection rooms - where users could legally inject drugs - to be trialled in the UK.   This may be a radical idea in Britain but in Switzerland such rooms have become standard.  Berne's injecting room is in the heart of the cityThey were first introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s in response to rising levels of HIV infection among intravenous drug users and as an attempt to control Switzerland's notorious "open" drugs scene, where heroin addicts
 took their drugs in city parks and squares.   The Swiss government also has a strong drug abuse prevention programme, but says the injection rooms are there to help the addicts for whom everything else has failed. Berne's heroin injection room is in the heart of the city, and it is a busy place. At the entrance is a counter dispensing needles, syringes, sterile water, and antiseptic swabs. "We give out 1,500 needles every day," explains Ines Buerger, the social worker in charge of the injection room. "And people bring their used needles back." As she speaks, one woman arrives and dumps at least 30 used needles and syringes into the disposal bin.   Medical help   Addicts don't have to take their heroin in the injection room however, they can just pick up clean needles and leave again. But they are encouraged to use the room rather than go back on the streets. Three
 people at a time are allowed into the room, which means a queue often forms between it and the needle dispensary. Inside a nurse is on hand; she will help addicts find a vein if they need that, but she is also there to offer medical advice and treatment.Some of these addicts have already tried more than 10 times to come off heroin. They need their drugs, and they can't stop just like that Ines BuergerSocial
 worker  Drug-injecting rooms backed   "We are here to offer treatment for all the different ailments addicts get," Ms Buerger said. "A doctor comes once a week too." In fact, injection room is not really the right way to describe the facility, it is actually more of a centre.   Addicts can get a shower, there is a small restaurant providing nutritious food, and even a corner with comfortable armchairs and table football. But perhaps the most important thing the centre provides, apart from the clean needles, is psychiatric support. Most
 doctors who treat long-term addicts agree there is always a point when an addict is ready to give up heroin, and there are staff here to watch for those signs, to counsel, and to refer patients for therapy. "We know all the clinics in the region which have vacancies," Ms Buerger explained. "So we can advise addicts on the best place for them, and refer them."Addicts can deposit used syringes, and get food and counselling  But Ms Buerger admits that getting people off drugs is not the primary aim of the centre; instead the real goal is harm reduction.   "Of course it is great if we can refer people to a rehabilitation clinic,"
 she said. "But the point is some of these addicts have already tried more than 10 times to come off heroin. They need their drugs, and they can't stop just like that.   "We know from experience that if we weren't here they would still take heroin, but out on the streets. What we are trying to do is help them survive this phase of addiction."   Social order   There are injection centres in nearly every Swiss town and city now. Smaller villages often have dispensing machines with clean needles and syringes, and many chemists will also exchange clean needles for used ones.   Initial public concern that the policy was tantamount to official support for drug abuse has virtually evaporated in the face of evidence that HIV infection rates among drug users have stabilised. In addition, neighbourhoods once blighted by the open drugs scene were largely cleaned up as more addicts began to use the injection rooms.  
   The Swiss police support the policy too; they are under orders to prosecute addicts injecting openly in public but will also point heroin users in the direction of the nearest injection room. So while other countries continue to debate the pros and cons of injection rooms, in Switzerland they seem here to stay. For many ordinary people the biggest argument in favour of them is that they have proved they contribute to something very dear to Swiss hearts: social order.  E-mail this to a friendPrintable version DRUGS IN THE UK   STORIE

[cia-drugs] Have dinner with MPP and Tommy Chong in New York City [Marijuana Policy Project]

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   http://www.mpp.org  forwardMarijuana Policy Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:10:45 -0700Subject: Have dinner with MPP and Tommy Chong in New York CityFrom: "Marijuana Policy Project" [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Marijuana Policy Project Alert     May 18, 2006 Have dinner with MPP and Tommy Chong in New York City         Come out and party with the Marijuana Policy Project, comedian Tommy Chong, and many others at ...  MPP Awards Gala6:00 p.m., Monday, June 12Capitale, 130 BoweryNew York City  Tommy Chong and his wife, Shelby, will perform a comedy routine,
 and national radio personality Jim Hightower will co-emcee the dinner gala. National touring act Medeski Martin & Wood — a recent addition to MPP’s VIP advisory board — will provide musical entertainment, and Showtime will be filming the event for an upcoming documentary.  Our host committee includes eight members of Congress, six members of the New York State Legislature, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Mary-Louise Parker, the ACLU, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and others. (Please see www.mpp.org/NYgala for a complete list.)  TV talk show host Montel Williams, philanthropist Peter Lewis, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, and many VIPs from the entertainment industry are confirmed to attend.  Will you please join us for cocktails, dinner, and an awards celebration to mark the progress we’ve made as a movement toward ending marijuana prohibition?  Please visit www.mpp.org/NYgala to purchase your tickets today, so that you won’t miss out on this exclusive event. All proceeds will be used to support MPP’s work to end marijuana prohibition in the U.S.  And whether or not you’re able to attend, please contact MPP’s Jess Ellis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you’d like to buy an ad in the event’s tribute journal.  Ticket prices increase after May 31, so please don’t delay purchasing your tickets.  I hope to see you on June 12.  Sincerely,  Rob KampiaExecutive DirectorMarijuana Policy ProjectWashington, D.C.  P.S. The documentary “a/k/a Tommy Chong” — director Josh Gilbert’s chronicle of how the U.S. Justice Department targeted Chong and sent him to prison for nine months for selling on the Internet glassware that could be used to smoke marijuana — will have its New York theatrical premiere on June 14.Buy your tickets today!Visit www.mpp.org/NYgala to join us for MPP's awards gala in New York City.   Raised in '06$1,678,978Goal in '06$3,500,000Days until Election Day173MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in our 2006 strategic plan if you and other allies are generous enough to fund our work.  Popular Links:• MPP's home page• Prohibition facts• State-by-state medical marijuana laws• MPP news releases• 2006 strategic plan• Download hand-outs• About the Marijuana Policy Project• MedicalMarijuanaProCon.org   
   MPP e-mail list optionsSmall Print …You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to MPP's e-mail alerts. To unsubscribe, click the link at the bottom of this message. Removal may take up to 48 hours. To contact MPP, please click here or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is MPP, P.O. Box 77492, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013.   -end of forwarded messageMMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63
 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] POT MARCH PHOTO MONTAGE [MMM Global Million Marijuana March]

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Thanks to Aron (the Pieman) for this MMM search shortcut for images!:http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&q=marijuana+march&m=text      Can people with some time please break the Flickr image search results down into URLs for each city? And then send the city URLs to   [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to   tents444 at yahoo.com     So we can add the image links to the MMM city lists here:http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006 and here:  http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.org/2006.php      Here are some photo and video page links that have been found so far for 2006 GMM-MMM
 cities. The city links are clickable here too:http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006       Arcata, California, USA. Budapest, Hungary. 2v. 3. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 2. Copenhagen, Denmark. Dallas, Texas, USA. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Kiev, Ukraine. Madrid, Spain. 2. Mexico City. Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, USA. Moscow, Russia. New York City. 2. Nimbin, New South Wales, Australia. 2. Oslo, Norway. Portland, Oregon, USA. Prague, Czech Republic. 2. 3. 4. Rome, Italy. 2. 3. Sofia, Bulgaria. Stockholm, Sweden. 2. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2v. 3v. 4v. 5. 6. 7. Tucson, Arizona, USA. 2. Washington, DC, USA.     high regards,  eco man     --  ARON KAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  To: "last train to cloggsville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>From: "ARON KAY"
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:21:15 -0400Subject: [mayday] POT MARCH PHOTO MONTAGEhttp://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&q=marijuana+march&m=text     --MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like
 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
	
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[cia-drugs] Narconews. Valentina Palma. Ordered to Lay Head In Pool of Blood.

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forwardDaniel Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Daniel Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:55:35 -0500Subject: [narconews] Valentina Palma: "They Ordered Me to Lay My Head In a Pool of Blood"May 12, 2006Please Distribute WidelyDear Colleague,Perhaps nothing so far in the pages of the Other Journalism with the Other Campaign communicates so clearly the terror and suffering that the Mexican government unleashed in the town of San Salvador Atenco last week like the recently published testimony of Valentina Palma Novoa. Unlike most of the political prisoners of Atenco who continue to languish in prison, Palma, a Chilean citizen who has lived in Mexico for eleven years, was quickly released and deported
 to her home country. Palma suffered intense physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of the police, and saw even worse crimes being committed against others. Upon returning to Chile she began courageously denouncing this state violence in radio, television and press interviews. She also wrote an lengthy, eloquent letter detailing what she had seen and experienced, which we publish today in English in Narco News:http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo An excerpt:"I came down from the roof slowly, terrorized by the sight of the boys being beaten in the head. Two police officers took hold of me and pulled me forward while others beat me on the chest, back and legs with their clubs. My cries of pain increased when I heard the voice of someone asking my name for the list of arrested. I responded, 'Valentina... Valentina Palma Novoa,' while a
 police officer ordered me to shut my mouth and another hit me in the chest."A man's voice ordered the officers to cover me with shields so people could not see how badly they had beaten me. They paused to one side of the church and ordered me to join the rest of the arrested, then forced me to kneel and put my hands behind my head. They continued to beat us. My cell phone rang and a voice ordered me to turn over my bag. In that moment, I was separated from my video camera, my cell phone and my small purse containing my identification and fifty pesos."They pulled me up by my hair and said, 'Get in the truck, bitch.' I could barely move but they demanded that we move incredibly quickly. They tossed me on top of other wounded and bleeding bodies and ordered me to lay my head in a pool of blood. I didn't want to put my head in the blood, but the black boot of a police officer forced me to do it. The truck
 started and began to move. Along the way, I was groped by the hands many police officers. I just closed my eyes and clenched my teeth, hoping that the worst would not happen."My pants were down when the truck stopped and I was ordered to get off. I got down awkwardly and a female police officer said, 'Leave this bitch to me,' then hit my ears with both of her hands. I fell, and two police officers took me through a line of police who kicked us as we moved towards a bus."Once on the bus, another female police officer asked me my name, while two male officers grabbed my breasts violently and threw me on top of the body of an old man whose face was nothing more than a crust of blood. The old man cried out in pain when he felt the weight of my body on top of him. I tried to move but a kick to the back stopped me. My own shout made the old man scream out again, asking for God's mercy."The Mexican government
 has several hundred more people locked up (not to mention the scores of missing and "disappeared" whose fate remains unknown) as a result of the May 4 raid on San Salvador Atenco, each another story like this one waiting to be told. Each day that these people remain in prison strengthens the indictment of Mexico's so- called democracy, only adding credibility to Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos' case that there is no remedy for the country's political crisis under the current system of government.The Other Journalism's reporting from the front lines of that crisis continues, so stay with us...http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo From somewhere in a country called América,Dan FederManaging EditorThe Narco News Bulletinhttp://www.narconews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]Narco News is supported
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[cia-drugs] J4J7 CROSS-COUNTRY BICYCLE RIDE is Stuck North of Topeka Kansas-Needs Help Now Please. [fwd]

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-forward-Kay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  To: "MTWT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>From: "Kay Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:29:12 -0400Subject: DW. J4J7 CROSS-COUNTRY BICYCLE RIDE is Stuck North of Topeka Kansas-Needs Help Now PleasePLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY  Saturday, May 13, 2006 1:17 AM   Journey for Justice-7 cross-country bicycle ride is stuck north of Topeka Kansas-needs help now please.The crew left Folly Beach South Carolina on April 7th.  They are now in Kansas.   If you would, please help them finish the journey and send this to your 'list' of contacts.     Friends & Comrades,     This years Journey for Justice is now stuck and broke about 15 miles north of Topeka Kansas, and needs help now!   (www.j4j.info)      They've gotten 1/2 of the way to their goal, but have ran into unforseen problems.     Their Pay-Pal was shut down by someone who had the access, and is not the activist he claims to be.  We are in communication with paypal at this time.   The journeyers are at the Shawnee State Forest Lake campgrounds and have used all of their money for the campground fees tonight, Friday May
 12th.     I can't think of anything else to do from here in Oregon tonight but put the word out to as many people as possible.  We're hoping many of you who recieve this message are or know people/groups along the route [http://www.angelfire.com/planet/bikeride/route.html], and everyone can help by forwarding this message to assist and/or post on their local/national MJ sites     Ken Locke, lead bicycle rider and team leader can reached at 828 506 8659 or [EMAIL PROTECTED];       Rev. Mark Pedersen, who is driving the support 'Rolling Petition' Van and providing all communication while in route + 1,001 other things can
 be reached by email [EMAIL PROTECTED]  or by cell phone at 314 422 4524.     My email addresses is  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  and  Key Lee, journey webmistress/coach can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED].  We request that whoever you contact, you will cc all of us so we can see what is accomplished and what still needs to be done for them to get to their final destination, Seattle Hempfest.     Thanks in advance,  Jim Greig  ***  Eugene, Oregon 
    PS: If you can provide the journeyers food, shelter or gas for the vehicles, they can continue without much else. To finish the entire Journey is only about five more weeks riding time, but the gas prices are going up rapidly. Please spread the word that they need help. Kay Lee      PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE  YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "drugwarnews" on the web.     To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]     Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.       ---end of forwarded
 message-MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Seeking photo pages, video links. Global Marijuana March. Marihemp gallery.

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Hey all,     Please forward this widely. GMM-MMM. Global Million Marijuana March 2006 news.     I am adding GMM-MMM photo and video links (by city) to the 2006 Marihemp gallery:  http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006     Go to the above page to see the latest photo and video links. Here they are so far:        Links to GMM-MMM 2006 photos and videos. "v" stands for video. You can help upload photos and videos to the Marihemp gallery. The cities in bold format have albums in the gallery: Darwin, Australia. Madrid, Spain. Mexico City. New York City. Oslo, Norway. Sofia, Bulgaria. Toronto, Canada. 2v. 3v. 4v. 5.        The above cities are clickable. Unless you are getting this as plain text. If there is a problem go to the source for clickable links:  http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006         Feel free to send me GMM-MMM photo and video links that people send to you.     You can use the online contact form too: http://corporatism.tripod.com/webform.htm     To upload images, audio, or video directly please go to this page: http://gallery.marihemp.com/uploadmmm - Anybody can upload items for multiple cannabis events. For any year. No need to login or register.     To see many, many 2005 GMM-MMM photo and video links:http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2005map.htm      regards,  eco     --
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[cia-drugs] We are the media. MMM Global Million Marijuana March. Videos photos.

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   High!     Feel free to forward this anywhere.     I am looking for videos, especially ones we create, and more photos and posters, for the Toronto MMM 2006 gallery: http://gallery.marihemp.com/toronto2006mmm and for cities worldwide:http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006 http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers Upload here: http://gallery.marihemp.com/uploadmmm      NPR Weekend Edition Sunday morning radio news covered the Toronto MMM. NPR (National Public Radio) is heard across the USA. The "thousands" at the Toronto, Canada GMM-MMM rally were also mentioned during the syndicated national radio news at the top of the hour during the Art Bell show. Lisa Garr was
 substituting for Art Bell Saturday night on Coast to Coast AM, a radio show heard across the USA and Canada.http://www.coasttocoastam.com      I believe with the advent of the web, newspapers have had a 50% drop in daily reading. So people get a LOT of their info from the web nowadays.     The Marihemp gallery gets thousands of hits per month. We are our own media nowadays. The many, many MMM posters, banners, and flyers produced and posted worldwide each year reach and educate an incredible amount of people. Some of the posters produced are amazingly well-done and packed with information. The 2005 flyers page is one of the most popular albums in the gallery:http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2005flyers     The MMM pages, totaled together, are the most popular pages on my website, and
 generate thousands of hits per month. Click the stats link for popular pages at the top left of this very popular page: http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2005map.htm      A search for "marijuana march" or "marihuana march" (in quotes) on the web pulls up literally hundreds of thousands of pages:http://www.google.com/search?q=%22marijuana+march%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22marihuana+march%22   Once there, also click the images search link to pull up thousands of images.     We get some MMM coverage from the mainstream corporatist media too:GMM-MMM 2006. Google News results archive: http://multi19.fortunecity.com/e/mmm2006.htm
      NPR, National Public Radio, is non-profit.http://www.npr.org and http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=10      To upload images, audio, or video please go to this page: http://gallery.marihemp.com/uploadmmm - Anybody can upload items for any cannabis event anywhere in the world for any year. No need to login or register. Please upload videos, and your highest-resolution, sharpest images!      --MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44
 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Archive for 2006 GMM media coverage. Global Marijuana March. Photos, too.

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   A partial archive for 2006 GMM media coverage: http://multi19.fortunecity.com/e/mmm2006.htmPhoto gallery for 2006 cannabis events: http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006Posters for 2006 cannabis events: http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers         2006 Global Marijuana March city list with links:http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2006map.htm  2 Google News search shortcuts for marijuana, marihuana, dagga, OR cannabis.http://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+OR+marihuana+OR+cannabis+OR+daggahttp://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+OR+marihuana+OR+cannabis+OR+dagga&scoring=d     Mexico City 2006 GMM media coverage is separated out and is found on this page:http://multi19.fortunecity.com/e/mexicocity2006mmm.htm        ---More to come--     Int'l Marijuana
 Day to be celebrated in TA, J'lemJerusalem Post, Israel - May 5, 2006Millions of people will celebrate International Marijuana Day, which calls for legalizing the private use of the cannabis plant, in over 150 cities throughout ...Inspectors close down 'Marijuana Day'Ynetnews, Israel - 22 hours agoPeople across the world, including Israel, marked on Saturday the International Marijuana Day. Special events were held in honor ...Israelis celebrate Int'l Marijuana DayJerusalem Post, Israel - 23 hours agoIn over 150 cities throughout the world on Saturday, millions of people celebrated International Marijuana Day, which calls for legalizing the private use of ...Int'l Marijuana Day to be celebrated in TA, J'lemJerusalem Post, Israel - May 5,
 2006Millions of people will celebrate International Marijuana Day, which calls for legalizing the private use of the cannabis plant, in over 150 cities throughout ...Tel Aviv: Dog park to get pets out of Yarkon ParkJerusalem Post, Israel - May 5, 2006A special park for dogs will be established in the Ganei Yehoshua park in Tel Aviv in the coming days. The Tel Aviv municipality ... Pot advocates light it up at legislatureLondon Free Press, Canada - 7 hours agoBy CP. TORONTO -- Thousands of marijuana smokers defiantly sparked up joints yesterday in front of Ontario's legislature to create ...  This grass has weedToronto Sun, Canada - 4 hours agoBy KEVIN CONNOR, TORONTO SUN. Thousands of pot smokers converged on Queen's Park yesterday where they sparked up joints of "skunk ...Dopers puff up a stormEdmonton Sun,  Canada - 5 hours agoBy SUN MEDIA. TORONTO -- Thousands of marijuana smokers defiantly sparked up joints yesterday in front of Ontario's Legislature to ...Potheads light up for legalizationOttawa Sun,  Canada - 8 hours agoBy CP. TORONTO -- Thousands of marijuana smokers defiantly sparked up joints yesterday in front of Ontario's legislature to create ... Group gathers to promote OK of medical marijuanaFlint Journal, MI - 1 hour agoBy George Jaksa. FLINT - A local group again is pushing to legalize the use of marijuana by
 sick and dying patients. Supporters of ...Pravda  Little marijuana-riot in UkrainePravda, Russia - 22 hours agoYoung people gathered in central Kiev, beating drums and smoking cigarettes, to urge the government to legalize marijuana in Ukraine March marks medical marijuana milestoneBakersfield Californian (subscription), CA - 8 hours agoBY EMILY HAGEDORN, Californian staff writer. In front of the Liberty Bell on Truxtun Avenue, Douglas McAfee asked if anybody had a light. ...Supporters of medicinal marijana marchKGET 17, CA - 13 hours agoBAKERSFIELD -
 Organizers said Saturday’s march was part of a world wide march, supporting marijuana user rights around the globe. ... Thousands 'stink it to the man' in pot rallyEdmonton Journal (subscription), Canada - 1 hour agoTORONTO - Thousands of marijuana smokers defiantly sparked up joints Saturday in front of Ontario's legislature to create a cloud of support for the drug's ...'Stop the prohibition'Times-Standard, CA - 2 hours ago... driving on LK Wood Boulevard just before noon Saturday were greeted by a strange and odoriferous chorus of protesters who offered packed marijuana pipes and ...Proud potheads take part in marchToronto Star,  Canada - 7 hours agoToronto was one of 200 cities around the world to take part in Global Marijuana March,
 promoting the legalization of marijuana and the acceptance of the right ...Pot advocates light it up at legislatureLondon Free Press, Canada - 7 hours agoTORONTO -- Thousands of marijuana smokers defiantly sparked up joints yesterday in front of Ontario's legislature to create a cloud of support for the drug's ...March marks medical marijuana
 milestoneBakersfield Californian (subscription), CA - 8 hours ago... And from the rush of lighters presented to him, he lit up a joint of marijuana, took a long drag and exhaled. Then he held up the joint for everyone to see. ... Advocates of legalisation of marijuana meet in PragueCzech N

[cia-drugs] Photos. Toronto GMM. NPR National Public Radio in USA on it.

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   Toronto GMM Photos. Global Marijuana March:http://gallery.marihemp.com/toronto2006mmm     NPR Weekend Edition Sunday radio news covered the Toronto GMM. NPR is heard across the USA.  BBC news on the radio covered the Mexico City GMM.BBC radio news is heard worldwide.I also heard about the "thousands" at the Toronto, Canada GMM-MMM rally during the radio news at the top of the hour during the Art Bell show. Lisa Garr was substituting for Art Bell Saturday night on Coast to Coast AM, a radio show heard across the USA and Canada. http://www.coasttocoastam.com      NPR. National Public Radio:http://www.npr.org NPR Weekend Edition Sunday:http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=10      Toronto Global Marijuana March home:http://www.cannabisweek.caA few photos of many: http://www.mrbudder.com/gmm_2006   To upload images, audio, or video please go to this page: http://gallery.marihemp.com/uploadmmm - Anybody can upload items for any cannabis event anywhere in the world for any year. No need to login or register.   Please upload videos, and your highest-resolution, sharpest images! [550x413]  [550x413]  [550x413]001  058  126[550x451] 
 [800x599]  [500x399]345  1243232-MMM06-4web  Brian and me 
   [420x488]  [500x663]  [600x450]Brian at stage  DR Payne  March  [500x568]  [420x560]Marco  Steve Bacon  --MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Photos. World media on Mexico City Global Marijuana March and more.

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2006 photos: http://gallery.marihemp.com/mexicocity2006mmm 2005 photos: http://gallery.marihemp.com/mexicocity2005mmm 2004 photos: http://gallery.marihemp.com/mexicocity2004mmm http://www.ameca.org.mx http://www.suplementocannabico.blogspot.com 2006 posters: http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers?page=3      World media coverage of Mexico City Global Marijuana March and much more:http://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+%22mexico+city%22 andhttp://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+%22mexico+city%22&scoring=d   For much more related news see NarcoNews.com  http://www.narconews.com      To upload images, audio, or video please go to this page: http://gallery.marihemp.com/uploadmmm - Anybody can upload items for any cannabis event anywhere in the world for any year. No need to login or register.   [450x350]  [450x350]--     Drug Bill Veto Sparks Mexico City Marijuana Smoke-InFOX News - 11 hours agoAbout 500 protesters held a marijuana smoke-in in Mexico City, and a presidential candidate who
 visited the demonstration came out in favor of decriminalization ... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194552,00.html      Mexico sees fallout from drug law vetoContra Costa Times, CA - 1 hour ago... About 500 protesters held a marijuana smoke-in in Mexico City, and a presidential candidate who visited the demonstration came out in favor of decriminalization ... http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/14522785.htm Latin America news in briefSan Jose Mercury News,  USA - 1 hour agoAbout 500 protesters held a marijuana smoke-in in Mexico City, and a presidential candidate who visited the demonstration came out in favor of decriminalization ... http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14523027.htm
 Vetoed drug bill sparks marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...Canada East, Canada - 2 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's presidential election - held a smoke-in on the streets of Mexico's capital to ... http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060506/CPW/89548036 Drug-decriminalization veto protested in MexicoAZ Central.com, AZ - 3 hours agoAbout 500 protesters held a marijuana smoke-in in Mexico City, and a presidential candidate who visited the demonstration came out in favor of decriminalization ... http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0507mexico-drugs0507.html Fox accused of heeding US line on legalized-drug planArizona Daily Star, AZ - 4 hours ago... About 500 protesters held a marijuana smoke-in in Mexico City, and a presidential candidate who visited the demonstration came out in favor of decriminalization ... http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/128011 Drug law would have been misused, locals sayMonitor, TX - 4 hours ago... said Judith Bryan, a spokesman at the US Embassy in Mexico
 City, on Wednesday. ... the measure permitted the possession of up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of ... Vetoed drug bill sparks marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...Brooks Bulletin,  Canada - 6 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's presidential election - held a smoke-in on the streets of Mexico's capital to ... http://www.brooksbulletin.com/news/world_news.asp?itemid=52025
 Vetoed drug bill sparks marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...Macleans, Canada - 6 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's presidential election - held a smoke-in on the streets of Mexico's capital to ... http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=w050663A Vetoed drug bill sparks marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...940 News, Canada - 7 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's presidential election - held a smoke-in on the streets of Mexico's capital to ... http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php?cat=24&id=50663 Vetoed drug bill sparks
 marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...Canada.com, Canada - 7 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's presidential election - held a smoke-in on the streets of Mexico's capital to ... http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=1dd911d8-91dc-4cbc-acc7-39d15d79fafd&k=43072 Vetoed drug bill sparks marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...CBC News, Canada - 7 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's presidential election - held a smoke-in on the streets of Mexico's capital to ... http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060506/w050664.html Vetoed drug bill sparks marijuana smoke-in, becomes political ...Brandon Sun,  Canada - 7 hours agoMEXICO CITY (AP) - Marijuana-puffing protesters - backed by a candidate in July's
 presidential election - held a smoke-in on the 

[cia-drugs] Toronto MMM rally makes national radio news in USA, Canada. Global Marijuana March.

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I heard about the "thousands" at the Toronto, Canada GMM-MMM rally earlier today during the radio news at the top of the hour. During the Art Bell show still going on. Lisa Garr is substituting for Art Bell tonight on Coast to Coast AM, a radio show heard across the USA and Canada. http://www.coasttocoastam.com      Toronto GMM-MMM:http://www.cannabisweek.ca Toronto posters: http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S.
 custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] [DisclosureProject] Exopolitics Toronto Press Release. May 9 event. MMM May 6

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   :)~~~      Please upload your May 6, 2006 Global Million Marijuana March posters, flyers, and banners now for this image gallery: http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers      To upload images, audio, or video please go to this page: http://gallery.marihemp.com/uploadmmm - Anybody can upload items for any cannabis event for any year. No need to login or register. Click images below   to enlarge them.
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 why_aliens_visit.jpgLast comment May-09-2005.Viewed: 307 times. 
 Original caption: "Praying Mantis licking resin off its foot." Comment from original location of the image. gallery.marihemp.com/ProjectPEACE From: PvH (Oct-19-2005 02:00:58). "The Praying Mantis is standing on a Cannabis leaf, licking resin off of its anterior appendage. The image is a frame taken from the digital video documentary in production, entitled 'Return to Reason.' " PrayingMantisOnHemp.jpg  Album: Xalapa, Mexico. June 24, 2005 UFO fleet.Changed: Apr-26-2006. Contains: 7 items. Viewed: 209 times.       
 ---forwarded message---  Disclosure Project Updates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Disclosure Project Updates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 16:13:21 -0400Subject: [DisclosureProjectUpdates] Fwd: Exopolitics Toronto Press Release - May 1, 2006Subject: Press Release - For Immediate Distribution  From: "ZlandCommunications" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Date: Mon, 1 May 2006
 14:26:49 -0400  To: "ZlandCommunications" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  EXOPOLITICS TORONTO     Press Release     For Immediate Distribution   A Toronto Press Conference Tuesday May 9th on UFO Disclosure Sponsored by   Exopolitics Toronto with Dr. Steven M. Greer and the Hon. Paul Hellyer     Toronto, Ontario (Press Release) May 1, 2006 - Exopolitics Toronto and the Canadian Disclosure Initiative present an exclusive Press Conference on UFO Disclosure Witness Testimony. A press screening of authentic military, corporate and government witness testimony will present compelling evidence attesting to:        The reality of an extraterrestrial presence,    The authenticity and geo-political policy implications of unidentified aerial phenomenon of non-Earth origin and   The 58 year old military/government cover-up of this issue. This historic press event will feature statements and remarks by the Hon. Paul Hellyer
 former Minister of National Defense in Canada and   Dr. Steven M. Greer Director of the Disclosure Project Washington DC.  Exopolitics Toronto will screen a professionally produced Witness Testimony digital video film created by the Disclosure Project under the direction of Dr. Steven Greer on the theatre screen at the prestigious De La Salle Oaklands College in Toronto Ontario on Tuesday May 9th at 7:00 pm. The goal of this press conference is to present witness testimony by Brigadier Generals, Naval Photographic experts, military officers, ICBM Launch Commanders, an FAA Crash Site Senior Administrator, NORAD air traffic controllers and pilots that confirms authentic, first-hand encounters with intelligently controlled unidentified aerial craft of non-Earth origin.      Statements and remarks by Dr. Greer and the Hon. Paul Hellyer
 about the testimony’s policy and geo-political implications will follow the film’s screening. An open question period for the press will follow remarks by Dr. Greer and Mr. Hellyer.     <>For the first time in Canada, this provocative and unambiguous witness testimony provides all journalists an opportunity to study irrefutable, documented and shockingly compelling witness testimony about the presence of unidentified aerial phenomenon of non-Earth origin and the associated 58 year cover-up by military and government officials. 
     In fact, each witness has stated they are willing to testify, under oath, before Congress or Parliament as to the truth of their testimony; a bold personal and legal precedent set by these courageous military, government and corporate officials.     Understandably mainstream media has always been reluctant to approach this issue; dismissing it
 because of inconclusive evidence or skepticism. This is no longer the case.      Press now will have the right to unreservedly examine superior quality information assembled by researchers and experts in this field; information only accessible in the past to officials with the highest levels of security clearance.     This category of evidential material has been withheld from the press
 for over 58 years. Exopolitics Toronto’s disclosure press conference rectifies this situation; an event no journalist will want to overlook due to the gravity of the witness’ disclosures.      Abundant evidence and witness testimony also exists that establishes the existence of related covert projects that have develope

[cia-drugs] [narconews] Colombia's Secret Narco-Police [death squads, DEA, etc.. Fwd]

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-forward-Daniel Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Daniel Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:34:55 -0500Subject: [narconews] Colombia's Secret Narco-PoliceApril 29, 2006Please Distribute WidelyDear Colleague,Though it has barely registered in the U.S. press, a national scandal is currently unfolding in Colombia, where a jailed high official of the Administrative Department for Security (DAS) has been speaking freely with journalists about the extensive collaboration between the secret police agency and right-wing paramilitary groups.Rafael García lost his post as DAS' information technology chief after being charged with taking bribes from rightwing paramilitaries and narcos (often, one and the same). He now
 claims that DAS has been working for years, at least since Uribe's 2002 election, in conjunction with the "paras" and their narco allies, sharing documents and intelligence to help kill and intimidate activists and unionists, help powerful drug traffickers avoid prosecution and murder informants. And investigative journalists in Colombia have verified and shed more light on a number of these claims.Sound familiar? Narco News for the past four months has been uncovering a web of corruption linking the U.S.'s own DEA agents and other law enforcement personnel with drug traffickers and paramilitaries in Colombia. The new allegations about paramilitary and narco infiltration of the DAS make the "Kent Memo" (the internal Justice Department document claiming corruption in the DEA's Bogotá office) all the more believable. They give a picture of a war on "drugs and terror" in Colombia that is corrupt to the core, and in
 which the most powerful narcos are seasoned experts at working with the same law enforcement entities charged with bringing them down.Read a full report here, in The Narco News Bulletin:http://www.narconews.com From somewhere in a country called América,Dan FederManaging EditorThe Narco News Bulletinhttp://www.narconews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]Narco News is supported by:The Fund for Authentic JournalismP.O. Box 241Natick, MA 01760http://www.authenticjournalism.org The Fund receives online donations at this web page:http://www.authenticjournalism.org Apply for your co-publisher's account, here:http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php Subscribe for free alerts of new reports:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscríbete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en español:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes Inscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do último minuto emportuguês brasileiro:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil Yahoo! Groups Links<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews/ --end-MMM (Global
 Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
	
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[cia-drugs] Interfax Russia. Attempts to hold pro-marijuana march are provocative - drug service.

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Please forward. From Google News search for "marijuana march"     Attempts to hold pro-marijuana march are provocative - drug ...Interfax Russia, Russia - 9 hours agoMOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax) - Attempts by supporters of the legalization of marijuana to hold a march in Moscow in early May are ...         ---article begins-     Interfax Russia.http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11505912     Apr 27 2006 1:07PM   Attempts
 to hold pro-marijuana march are provocative - drug service  MOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax) - Attempts by supporters of the legalization of marijuana to hold a march in Moscow in early May are a provocative act, head of the Federal Drug Control service's interdepartmental affairs and information department Lt. Gen. Alexander Mikhailov told Interfax on Thursday.      "Russia is growing hemp for economic needs. The produce is limited to economic needs and everything else is the work of the devil. Legalizing the plant as a narcotic drug is out of the question. The issue should not even be discussed," Mikhailov said.      Supporters of the legalization of marijuana have asked the Moscow administration for authorization to hold a march in early May. Similar requests were made in previous years, but all of them were turned down.     
 --end of article---     About Interfax Group:  http://www.interfax.ru/e/A/AboutGroup/0.html      ---     2006 Global Marijuana March city list. Around 200 cities worldwide. May 6, 2006:http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2006map.htm and http://multi19.fortunecity.com/mmm2006map.htm      -     2006 Moscow MMM:  http://www.legaliz.info   legaliz at
 legaliz.info      2005 Moscow MMM:  *Moscow, Russia. Link. 2. 3. alena"at"drugpolicy.ru dasha"at"drugpolicy.ru goldyz"at"yandex.ru vital"at"drugpolicy.ruhttp://www.4may.by.ru   http://www.7may.da.ru   http://user.it-orbita.ru/~4may   2004 Moscow MMM:  Moscow: http://www.4may.by.ru Contact - vital"at"drugpolicy.ru ord-form"at"mail.ru or goldyz"at"yandex.ru ~ For photos:  http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2004mmm   For photos, reports, links and more:http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=849446      --     Marihemp Network Gallery :: Moscow, Russia. MMM 2004. Million Marijuana March in May.http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2004mmm      [450x449]  [450x307]  [450x388]borkoViewed: 2 times.  borko2Viewed: 2 times.  borko3Viewed: 2 times. 
   [450x338]  [450x600]  [450x338]cannabis1Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis2Viewed: 3 times.  cannabis3Viewed: 2 times.[450x600]  [338x450]  [450x338]cannabis4Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis5Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis6Viewed: 5 times.[338x450]  [450x338]  [450x338]cannabis7Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis8Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis9Viewed: 2 times.[450x338]  [450x338]  [450x338]cannabis10Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis11Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis12Viewed: 4 times.[450x338]  [450x338]  [450x338]cannabis15Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis17Viewed: 3 times.  cannabis18Viewed: 3 times.[450x338]  [338x450]  [338x450]cannabis19Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis20Viewed: 2 times.  cannabis21Viewed: 2 times.       2006 GMM and other cannabis event posters, banners, maps,
 flyers, handbills, etc.  worldwide:  http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] MPP. Initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Nevada. Nov. 7 vote.

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   ---forwarded message begins--  Marijuana Policy Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:33:58 -0700Subject: Want to join the team that will end marijuana prohibition in Nevada?From: "Marijuana Policy Project" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Marijuana Policy Project Alert     April 27, 2006      Want to join the team that will end marijuana prohibition in Nevada?       The Marijuana Policy Project’s ballot initiative campaign in Nevada is heating up, and we want you to be a part of it.     If a majority of voters passes MPP’s initiative on November 7, Nevada will become the first state to permit the legal cultivation, distribution, and sale of marijuana to adults aged 21 and older — and not just for medical use. This would be the biggest victory in the history of the marijuana
 policy reform movement.  MPP’s army of canvassers will be going door to door throughout Nevada to identify the opinions of voters, persuade those who are undecided, and register those who are supportive to vote. Between now and November, we plan to speak to hundreds of thousands of Nevada voters. (And only 600,000 are expected to vote across the entire state.)     If you want to be a part of the campaign team doing face-to-face outreach to voters (and you consider yourself a persuasive person), please think about applying for a campaign position. This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to end marijuana prohibition in the first state in the nation — and make history in
 the process. (You must be willing to move to Las Vegas or Reno in order to be eligible for these positions.)     If you don’t want to work on the campaign but you support what we’re doing, please make a financial contribution to help us pay for this massive canvassing operation.     We will continue to fight hard between now and Election Day on November 7, and we’re going to do what it takes to win.     Sincerely,  Rob KampiaExecutive DirectorMarijuana Policy
 ProjectWashington, D.C.     P.S. Visit www.RegulateMarijuana.org to read the campaign’s regularly updated blog.  On the RadioHear radio coverage of the campaign here.  Help fund MPP's projects  MPP hopes that each of the 100,000 subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please donate now.  MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic plan if you and other allies are generous enough to fund our work.     Popular Links:• MPP's home page• Prohibition facts• State-by-state medical
 marijuana laws• MPP news releases• 2006 strategic plan• Download hand-outs• About the Marijuana Policy Project• MedicalMarijuanaProCon.org  MPP e-mail list optionsUpdate your contact information or change your alert preferencesSmall Print …You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to MPP's e-mail alerts. To unsubscribe, click the link at the bottom of this message. Removal may take up to 48 hours. To contact MPP, please  click here or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is MPP, P.O. Box 77492, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013.   To remove yourself from this mailing, please click here.-end of forwarded message      MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed
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[cia-drugs] [narconews] Osuna: A Call for Translators to Collaborate with the Other Journalism. [Fwd]

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   -forwarded message begins--  Daniel Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Daniel Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:28:29 -0500Subject: [narconews] Osuna: A Call for Translators to Collaborate with the Other JournalismApril 25, 2006Please Distribute WidelySpreading the Word of the Zapatista Other Campaign to Mexico and the World:A Letter from Mercedes Osuna in ChiapasTo our readers of the "Other Campaign" led by Delegate Zero:The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign, worked by volunteers from different parts of Mexico and the world, reports the news along the path of the Other Campaign throughout the Mexican Republic with articles, chronicles, video newsreels and other
 audiovisual materials, whose translation to different languages - Spanish, English, Italian, French, German and Portuguese - is of great use to the cause.The reports and other materials are available gratis on the page:http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/ This is a call for anyone who is able to help us in the translation of this valuable material to the different languages.Thanking you in advance for your attention to this letter, I also send you cordial greetings.Sincerely,Mercedes OsunaGeneral Coordinator, The Other Journalism with the Other CampaignSan Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, MéxicoP.S. For any questions or clarifications please don't hesitate to contact us at:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links<*> To visit your group on the
 web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews/ -end of forwarded message-MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were
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[cia-drugs] Randi Rhodes site link. "narco-fascist drug war." Air America radio host.

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Randi Rhodes website http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/todaysshows   http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live   links to one of my webpages. See the "narco-fascist drug war" link below:   03.31.2006 Talk to The Randi Rhodes ShowLIVE (3-7pm ET) 1.866.303.2270  Randi's CHANGE for CHANGEWe've teamed with Habitat for Humanity to help rebuild the Gulf Coast.DETAILS | DONATECatch Randi TONIGHT on CNN’s Larry King Live (on after Bill Clinton)Sen. Russ Feingold’s censure resolution is debated in committee today.  Randi has the
 clips.The right wing corporatists show their true colors…"The millions of young men who are prisoners in our country can pick the fruit and vegetables." - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)Yep, prison slave labor.  The US comprises 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world prisoners thanks in large part to the narco-fascist drug war.  The US incarceration rate also is the highest in the Western World.And as we move closer to reopening debtor prisons in the US, the corporatists are scrambling to figure out how to profit off of all this.  Freedom’s on the
 march…man!Today also commemorates the second anniversary of Casey Sheehan’s entry into Baghdad.And today marks 2 years since Randi’s first show on Air America!These stories and much more on today’s Randi Rhodes Show.   --end of webpage excerpt--     -     The "narco-fascist drug war" link is to:  http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/ratesusa.htmMMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
	
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[cia-drugs] Mirrors, posters. 2006 GMM city list. Global Marijuana March. MMM. May 6. 200 cities soon.

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   The up-to-date May 6, 2006 Global Marijuana March (GMM) city list is here:http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.org      Below are some links for mirrors of the 2006 GMM city list. Go to the above link for the latest city list and links.  http://multi19.fortunecity.com/mmm2006map.htmhttp://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2006map.htm andhttp://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2006map.htm and     The mirror pages are useful when the globalmarijuanamarch.org page is down temporarily for any reason. As it is now.          Million Marijuana March. Banners,
 posters, handbills,flyers for 2004, 2005, 2006 MMM. Adapt for your needs! Click:http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2004flyers http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2005flyers http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers      For 2005 MMM city list with many reports, photos, and links: http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2005map.htm      For instructions and links on creating, editing, and distributing flyers, banners, posters, and handbills please go to the 2005 flyers page:http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2005flyers      - 
    Please send info/updates for the 2006 GMM city list to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]      For 2006 so far we have confirmed 190 cities so far (after Leon, Spain is added to the list below):Abbotsford  Albany  Albuquerque  Alva  Amherst  Amsterdam  Antwerp  Arcata  Athens  AtlantaAuckland  Bakersfield  Basel  Bergen  Berlin  Bermuda  Bern  Biel/Bienne  Birmingham  BoiseBoone  Boulder  Bratislava  Bryansk  Budapest 
 Buenos Aires  Buffalo  Burlington  Calgary  CanberraCapetown  Chelyabinsk  Chernovtsy  Chicago  Chico  Christchurch  Cincinnati  Colorado Springs  Columbia  ColumbusCopenhagen  Cordoba  Cork  Curitiba  Dallas  Darwin  Des Moines  Detroit  Dover  DublinDunedin  Eugene  Fayetteville  Flint  Florianopoles  Frankfurt  Ft. Lauderdale  Ft. Smith  Fuerteventura  Gainesville 
   Garberville  Gasteiz  Geneva  Hachita  Halifax  Hartford  Helsinki  Hilo  Houston  IndianapolisIowa City  Izhevsk  Jerusalem  Jyväskala  Kaliningrad  Kaluga  Kansas City  Kiev  Kingston  KnoxvilleKristiansand  Las Vegas  Lausanne  Lawton  Leipzig  Leningrad (St. Petersburg)  Lethbridge  Lexington  Lima  LjubljanaLocarno  London  Los Angeles  Luxembourg  Luzern  Lyon 
 Madison  Madrid  Malaga  MarysvilleMexico City  Minneapolis  Missoula  Montevideo  Montreal  Moscow  Nagaoka  Nanaimo  Nashua  NashvilleNewark  New Paltz  New York  Nicosia  Nimbin  North Battleford  Ogden  Orel  Orensburg  OsakaOslo  Oulu  Paia  Paris  Philadelphia  Phoenix  Portland  Portland  Porto Allegro  PragueRaleigh  Rapid City  Regina  Rio de Janeiro  Roanoke  Rochester  Rockford 
 Rome  Rosario  RostockRotterdam  Sacramento  Salem  Salt Lake City  San Diego  San Francisco  Santa Barbara  Santiago  Sao Paulo  SapporoSarasota  Sofia  South Bend  Spokane  Stalingrad (Volgograd)  Stavanger  Steamboat Springs  Steven's Point  St. Louis  StockholmSulphur Springs  Sydney  Tallahassee  Tampa  Tampere  Tel Aviv  Thunder Bay  Tokyo  Toronto  Traverse CityTromsøe  Trondheim  Tucson  Tupelo  Turku  Ukiah  Upper Lake 
 Vancouver  Vienna  VigoVladivostok  Waikiki  Warsaw  Washington, D.C.  Wellington  Wichita  Wilmington  Yuba City  Zürich     -        GMM. Global Marijuana March. 1st Saturday in May, or that weekend, or some day close to it. Over 390 different cities worldwide have signed up since 1999: 181 cities for May 7, 2005. 165 cities for May 1, 2004. 235 for May 3, 2003. 199
 for May 4, 2002. 119 for May 5, 2001. 104 for May 6, 2000. 30 for May 1, 1999. Million Marijuana March (MMM). World Cannabis Day. Global Space Odyssey. Cannabis Liberation Day. Rallies, marches, music, meetings, raves, info-tables, and cannabis events of all kinds. All GMM reports.2005 mirror page: http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2005map.htm     ---MMM (Global Million
 Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Re; 2006 Spring Offensive: Narco News Is "Going For Broke"

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   Hey everybody. Al Giordano is an ornery cuss, which is exactly why we should help him out again.http://www.google.com/search?q=ornery+cuss      NarcoNews.com has also reported on the Million Marijuana March in Latin America:http://narconews.com/Issue30/article779.html http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/5/4/03149/16199 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/10/231035/920 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmreports/message/146 http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Anarconews.com+%22marijuana+march%22     eco manhttp://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2005map.htm andhttp://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2005map.htm andhttp://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2005map.htm andhttp://multi19.fortunecity.com/mmm2005map.htm     ---forwarded email begins-"Alberto M. Giordano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From:Alberto M. Giordano
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:24:06 -0500Subject: [narconews] 2006 Spring Offensive: Narco News Is "Going For Broke"March 28, 2006Please Distribute WidelyDear Reader,My late mentor Abbie Hoffman opined in his autobiography that early in life we are faced with the choice of "going for the money or going for broke." The almost six-year-old project that began as The Narco News Bulletin has, each step of the way, chosen to go for broke: to speak and report uncomfortable truths even when it could lead to being sued by Mexican narco-bankers, threatened by Colombian paramilitaries, or summarily dropped by North American philanthropists who wanted to limit the scope of our investigations within "safe" borders. All of those things and more have happened to us over the past six years but each time we decided to "go for broke" and take the more risky, if less popular, path wonderful things
 happened in our América and the Authentic Journalism renaissance thrived anew.Kind reader: Today, in 2006, we are at that same crossroads again. We have had to decide whether to maintain our steady stream of reports "on the drug war and democracy from Latin America" on the modest budget provided in tens and twenties and the occasional larger contribution by readers, or whether to rise to the additional challenge of offering the only consistent multi-lingual coverage of the Zapatista "Other Campaign" that rumbles through Mexico this spring. After more than 300 original reports, video newsreels and translations since the first of January about that trek, as we have also continued our news reporting from the rest of the hemisphere, we are proud of what has been accomplished. But a consequence of "going for broke" - we've been here before - is also, often, that we go broke. And that's where we are. Flat broke. And yet we
 are here, ready to report again, with our sometimes blind faith that, as Gandhi said, "When the cause is just, the resources will come."I have just spent my last $400 dollars to rent a newsroom in Central Mexico from where our Road Team will cover the next month of Zapatista Subcomandante's tour through the nearby states of Michoacan, Morelos, Guerrero, the State of Mexico and Mexico City. Two reporters, two camerapersons, three video editors, one video director - all volunteering our labor - are at work here producing the next wave of video newsreels. You may have read some of the reports on which those newsreels will be based... From the Mexican states of Yucatán, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Querétaro... and from here in the Narco Newsroom we will also be able to monitor the story - and translate its news - from the sidelines.But - I ask you - do reporters and Authentic Journalists belong on the sidelines when we could
 be your eyes and ears there as the masked Subcomandante known as "Delegate Zero" convenes and listens to "the simple and humble people who struggle" and weaves one big fight from the many to shake the sleeping giant that is Mexico for years to come? Or should we be there, again, already, on the scene, working our fingers to the bone to break the information blockade? If you believe, as I do, that you deserve to have honest correspondents there to tell you the truth about the immediate history that occurs, then I ask you to donate so we can rent a car, put some gas in the tank, and get this Road Team back on the road.There are three things you can do today (pick one, please) to make that happen...1. The fastest way for you to do that is to donate right now, online, via The Fund for Authentic Journalism website, with your credit card:http://www.authenticjournalism.org/
 2. Or if you don't have a credit card, or have maxed out yours already on other costs of living, you can mail a donation to:The Fund for Authentic JournalismP.O. Box 241Natick, MA 017603. Or, if you have no money, if you have already "gone for broke" like us, there is something else you can do: You can write a letter - one like I am writing to you now - asking your friends, family, neighbors and anyone else you can think of, explaining why you believe this project in

[cia-drugs] 50,000 March in Rome!; Cork, Malaga Make 185 Cities on the Worldwide Marijuana March, May 6, 2006!! [Fwd. MMM]

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Dana Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:51:01 -0500  From: Dana Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: WWMM 2006 #13: 50,000 March in Rome!; Cork, Malaga Make 185Cities on the Worldwide Marijuana March, May 6, 2006!!  Important: Get your city on the website for the Worldwide Marijuana March, May 6, 2006!So far we have confirmed 185 cities:Abbotsford  Albany  Albuquerque  Alva  Amherst  Amsterdam  Antwerp  Arcata  Athens  Atlanta   
 Auckland  Bakersfield  Basel  Bergen  Berlin  Bermuda  Bern  Biel/Bienne  Birmingham  BoiseBoone  Boulder  Bratislava  Bryansk  Budapest  Buenos Aires  Buffalo  Burlington  Calgary  CanberraCapetown  Chelyabinsk  Chernovtsy  Chicago  Chico  Christchurch  Cincinnati  Colorado Springs  Columbia  ColumbusCopenhagen  Cordoba  Cork  Dallas  Darwin  Des Moines  Detroit  Dover  Dublin  DunedinEugene 
 Fayetteville  Flint  Florianopoles  Frankfurt  Ft. Lauderdale  Ft. Smith  Garberville  Gasteiz  GenevaHachita  Halifax  Hartford  Helsinki  Hilo  Houston  Indianapolis  Iowa City  Izhevsk  JerusalemJyväskala  Kaliningrad  Kaluga  Kansas City  Kiev  Kingston  Knoxville  Kristiansand  Las Vegas  LausanneLawton  Leipzig  Leningrad (St. Petersburg)  Lethbridge  Lexington  Lima  Ljubljana  Locarno 
 London  Los AngelesLuxembourg  Luzern  Lyon  Madison  Madrid  Malaga  Marysville  Mexico City  Minneapolis  MissoulaMontevideo  Montreal  Moscow  Nagaoka  Nanaimo  Nashua  Nashville  Newark  New Paltz  New YorkNicosia  Nimbin  North Battleford  Ogden  Orel  Orensburg  Osaka  Oslo  Oulu  PaiaParis  Philadelphia  Phoenix  Portland  Portland  Porto Allegro  Prague  Raleigh  Rapid City 
 ReginaRio de Janeiro  Roanoke  Rochester  Rockford  Rome  Rosario  Rostock  Rotterdam  Sacramento  SalemSalt Lake City  San Diego  San Francisco  Santa Barbara  Santiago  Sao Paulo  Sapporo  Sarasota  Sofia  South BendSpokane  Stalingrad (Volgograd)  Stavanger  Steamboat Springs  Steven's Point  St. Louis  Stockholm  Sulphur Springs  Sydney  TallahasseeTampa  Tampere  Tel Aviv  Thunder Bay  Tokyo  Toronto  Traverse City  Tromsøe  Trondheim 
 TucsonTurku  Ukiah  Upper Lake  Vancouver  Vienna  Vigo  Vladivostok  Waikiki  Warsaw  Washington, D.C.Wellington  Wichita  Wilmington  Yuba City  Zürich  -For updated website, go to http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.com   There is also some international MMM networking going on atthis CannabisCulture.com message forum:http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current - Million Marijuana March. Banners, posters, handbills,flyers for 2004 and 2005 MMM. Adapt for
 your needs! Click:http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2004flyers http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm2005flyers Or go to this other big MMM photo gallery. Click:http://gallery.encod.org/mmm and then click on "mmm2004"and then "Banners Posters Handbills" Many of the MMM 2004 banners, posters, flyers, andhandbills were converted from PDF files to the gif and jpgimages found here. The freeware Adobe Acrobat Reader and thefreeware IrfanView were used.http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html http://www.irfanview.com  - IrfanView is a free image editorthat is useful for adapting these flyers and banners foryour needs. Download the full-size gif images since
 they usefar fewer kilobytes compared to the 640x480 and 800x600 jpgversions of the same image. JPG image files are mainly forphotos and images with lots of color gradation. GIF imagefiles are much better for flyers and banners. IrfanView can  easily edit, reduce, or enlarge gif and jpg images.*!!!Global Marijuana March--May 6, 2006:  Updates,  Reports!!!*From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Subject: antiprohibitionist demonstration in rome 11 march 5 marchingItaly has passed the most cruel law against marijuana of the western hemisphere.itwent very quick as a decree bound to the existence of the Berlusconi governmentand it was
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[cia-drugs] Steve Kubby returns to jail. Medi-pot patient, Prop 215 coauthor, with cancer.

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For background, info, photos, and many links; go here:http://gallery.marihemp.com/auburn2006jan31 andhttp://gallery.marihemp.com/prisons andhttp://www.kubby.com      Please forward. Article below is full of links. Go to the first web address below, if necessary, to get to the article with the clickable links.        ---MarijuanaNews.com article begins-  http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=889   Top Story: Kubby to Return to Jail. Survival Depends on Marinol. Two and Half Years Probation to Follow. Triumph of Prosecutorial State. Special to MarijuanaNews. Posted by Richard Cowan on 2006-03-14 16:20:00 Source:      Posted March 14,
 2006 Special to MarijuanaNews.com     Having no choice, Steve Kubby pled guilty today to violating his probation and will have to return to Placer County jail for up to 60 days; however, it is expected that he will be released after serving just 20 days, inasmuch as the jail remains overcrowded.   SeeKubby Out of Jail, But Not Yet Free. (Are any of us?) Must Return to Court On March 14 On Probation Violation Charges. Exclusive to MarijuanaNews       Moreover, it is unlikely that Placer County would want to hold him beyond 20 days, because Steve has just enough Marinol to last him for that period. If Placer were to hold him longer they could then be confronted with
 a demand that they start paying for life-saving medicine for their prisoner, and we all know that would send the wrong message to children.     After he is released, he will then have to serve two and half years of felony probation, but no added time, and he will be allowed to use whole cannabis during probation. Of course, he will be homeless, his life in tatters, and he will be almost 60 years old with terminal cancer. The State of California and Canada will have spent huge sums to have brought him to this point. What a triumph of stupidity and evil!     As I have previously said, I think that it is unfortunate that this case is – however understandably – seen as just being about medical marijuana. Kubby needs cannabis to live, and the whole case began with an
 anonymous letter alleging that he was selling marijuana, but this case really should [stand out] as a complete failure of the California legal system. (And a disgrace to Canada, as well.)     SeeSteve Kubby’s Life Is In Danger Because Immigration Canada and California Law Enforcement Broke the Law. andSteve Kubby Is the Only One In This Story Who Has NOT Broken The Law, But He Faces the Death Penalty.      It is
 difficult to evaluate all of the individual cases such as Kubby’s to quantify the problem with prosecutors and the courts, but the facts about the state’s enormous prison system are there for all to see. The prisons are both the means and the end of the criminal justice system. The “system” is responsible for the prisons and the prisons are the system’s ultimate tool. (The death penalty has only limited utility.)      The February 24th 2005 edition of the The Economist reported, “The state's (California’s) imprisonment rate—455 out of every 100,000 people were inside in 2003—is a little below the national average and well behind Texas (702) and Louisiana (801); but it is still several times that of Britain or indeed any other developed country. California's jails now house 163,000 prisoners (each at an annual cost of $31,000); that is more than France, Germany and the Netherlands combined.     In an American context, California's prisons stand out for two things: overcrowding and recidivism. The state has only 32 prisons, which hold twice as many people as they were designed for. By contrast, New York state has 65,000 inmates in 70 prisons and Florida has 82,000 in 121 facilities. Worse, California's “correctional facilities” singularly fail to correct: three in four prisoners will be convicted of another crime within three years—and three out of five will be back in prison. (Nationally, a quarter are back in prison for new crimes and another quarter are back in prison for parole violations.)…      The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), which represents 31,000 guards, has been a generous donor to governors from both parties—and has been well looked after itself. The average guard's salary rose from $14,400 in 1980 to $54,000 in 2002, almost twice the national average for a prison officer.”      On October 11, 2005, an article in the LA Times By Maura Dolan, reported,"There is almost no aspect of California corrections, adult or juvenile, that is not subject to a court order, and almost all of those are the result of suits brought by the Prison Law Office," said Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency….  Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson reported that at least 34 inmates had died recently because of neglect, incompetence and "even cruelty" by medical staff. Henderson's action followed a lawsuit by the Prison Law Office.  On a

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[cia-drugs] Steve Kubby has lost 25 pounds. Medi-pot patient in jail. Prop 215 coauthor.

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New from http://www.kubby.com - Please forward.      - www.kubby.com update from Michele Kubby begins-        UPDATE   Spoke with Steve today. He's lost 25 pounds and has had blood pressure problems due to the poor diet he is being fed. He also has had shingles for three weeks, indicating that his immune system is failing.The jail feeds the inmates with the lowest quality, most processed food available. They do not believe this is affecting Steve's health, but his weight loss is getting quite dramatic. I am personally very concerned that he will not make it through this situation specifically because of the diet he is being fed.We are gathering information about the importance
 of diet and cancer because we are hoping to educate the jail about the danger they areputting Steve in with their poor food quality. So far, the jail has beenvery stubborn about offering Steve food that will nourish his body's particular needs.I am so angry at this poor treatment of Steve. Maybe if we all call the jail and try to educate them about the danger they are putting him in, they would relent and let us provide healthy food. So far, they won't even let us give him food.This is quite odd, because the jail has a deal with McDonald's to provide food from the outside.This is such a sick situation. I hope that it all ends up O.K. The girls and I have so many wonderful plans for our future together as a family. I pray we can see them come to fruition.-Michele        end of kubby.com excerpt---        --   
   Photos. Auburn, California, USA. Jan. 31, 2006. Steve Kubby court support rally.  http://gallery.marihemp.com/auburn2006jan31 Steve Kubby, Jan. 28, 2006, discussing his health in jail before and after receiving Marinol (the THC cannabinoid found in cannabis): "I entered the Placer County Jail around noon yesterday. At that time my blood pressure was one-seventy over one-twenty, and I reported that I had passed blood in my urine. I also reported that I had one of the most severe blood-pressure attacks of my life, with chest pains for the first time ever for me, and I became so disoriented that I collapsed and I injured my back and head." ... Pat McCartney: "Steve, did you receive the
 Marinol?" Steve Kubby: "Yes, that has been a godsend for me. The blood has stopped passing through my urine. My kidneys, which were just throbbing with pain, are starting to calm down, and it's not doing what cannabis does for me, but it's keeping me alive. I am so grateful for that." - Above excerpt is from this longer phone interview from jail:http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1799342_comment.php      UPDATE [from Michele Kubby at www.kubby.com around Feb. 23, 2006]. "Spoke with Steve today. He's lost 25 pounds and has had blood pressure problems due to the poor diet he is being fed. He also has had shingles for three weeks, indicating that his immune system is failing. The jail feeds the inmates with the lowest quality, most processed food available. They do not believe this is affecting Steve's
 health, but his weight loss is getting quite dramatic. I am personally very concerned that he will not make it through this situation specifically because of the diet he is being fed. We are gathering information about the importance of diet and cancer because we are hoping to educate the jail about the danger they are putting Steve in with their poor food quality. So far, the jail has been very stubborn about offering Steve food that will nourish his body's particular needs. I am so angry at this poor treatment of Steve. Maybe if we all call the jail and try to educate them about the danger they are putting him in, they would relent and let us provide healthy food. So far, they won't even let us give him food. This is quite odd, because the jail has a deal with McDonald's to provide food from the outside. This is such a sick situation. I hope that it all ends up O.K. The girls and I have so many wonderful plans for our future together as a family. I pray we can see them come to
 fruition."-Michele     -Copy the links below into forums or email-Much info on medi-pot patient, and Proposition 215 co-author, Steve Kubby's Jan. 26, 2006 arrest, incarceration, and dangerous medical problems in the Placer County jail in Auburn, California since then. Steve Kubby nearly died the first day or 2 in the Placer County, California jail in both 1999 and 2006 when he was without cannabis or cannabinoids such as Marinol (THC, a cannabinoid found in cannabis). His rare form of adrenal cancer, malignant metastasized pheochromocytoma, when untreated by cannabis, can produce dangerous adrenaline spikes that can cause hypertensive episodes of high blood pressure, which according to his doctors could kill him through heart attack, stroke, etc.. His doctors have said that he is one of the longest living survivors of this deadly adrenal cancer. Please go to kubby.com to see how you can help
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[cia-drugs] Steve Kubby info at indybay.org/drugwar. Medi-pot patient.

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   www.indybay.org/drugwar has latest Steve Kubby info. Medi-pot patient in   Placer County jail in Auburn, California.     One can use this site search shortcut to pull up many articles:  http://www.indybay.org/news/index.php?keyword=steve+kubby      Here are the articles below that are currently pulled up by the search shortcut. See first the article with the latest jail interview transcripts. It also has many other compilation links. Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, 2006 jail reports from Steve Kubby:  http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1799964.php     The compilation links are also at the end of this message.   Please forward.    
 Indybay.org site search results begin--   There's a chance Steve Kubby could be released within a matter of days! via ASA list 2006-02-04 12:34 AMThis news video reports Steve Kubby could be out of jail within a matter of days (text/plain + 1 comment)     Steve Kubby reports from
 jail. Feb 1-2. Jan. 31, 2006. Medi-pot patient. via list. 2006-02-02 11:24 PMMedi-pot patient Steve Kubby reports to Pat McCartney, the former city editor of the Auburn Journal. From the Placer County, California jail in Auburn, California. (text/plain + 2 comments)     1/3: Steven Kubby's Preliminary Hearing and Interfaith Prayer/Meditation via list 2006-02-02 5:49 PMWhat: Steven Wynn Kubby's Preliminary Hearing and Interfaith Prayer/Meditation Circle of Healing When: Friday, February 3, 2006 8 AM [Interfaith Prayer/Meditation Circle of Healing 7:30 AM]
 (text/plain)     Keep Incarceration from Becoming a Death Sentence Americans for Safe Access 2006-02-02 5:46 PMJoin the efforts to release or properly care for Steve Kubby and other medical marijuana patients who suffer from negligent medical treatment in prison. (text/plain)     CALL COURT T.V. 1-800-COURT-TV AND ASK THEM TO COVER KUBBY HEARING & REQUEST TO SMOKE POT Cris Ericson 2006-02-02 1:29 PMCALL COURT T.V. AND ASK THEM TO COVER STEVE KUBBY HEARING FRIDAY FEB. 3, 2006 TO REQUEST USE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN PLACER COUNTY JAIL (text/plain)     Steve Kubby appears in court cannabiscanuck 2006-02-02 9:42 AMupdate on Steve Kubby (text/plain)     News Junkie Scott's Blog (1/31/06) 911 Hoax 2006-01-31 6:38 PMAnti-abortion legislators on the move in five states. (image/gif)     Kubby Hearing @ the Placer County Courthouse freeman 2006-01-31 6:33 PMKubby Hearing @ the Placer County Courthouse (text/plain
 + 6 comments)     Steve Kubby still incarcerated & not allowed medical marijuana in jail for cancer Cris Ericson 2006-01-31 5:23 PMSteve Kubby still incarcerated and not allowed medical marijuana in jail for his disease of cancer. (text/plain)  Steve Kubby January 31, 2006 evening
 update: STILL IN CUSTODY IN JAIL! Cris Ericson 2006-01-31 4:30 PMSteve Kubby January 31, 2006 evening update: STILL IN CUSTODY IN JAIL! Will Steve Kubby be allowed to watch President George W. Bush's State of the Union Speech in Jail in Placer County, California? If not, why? (image/jpeg + 2 comments)     Steve Kubby jail interviews. Medi-pot patient in danger. Placer County, California. eco man 2006-01-31 12:10 AMSteve Kubby details the medical neglect and the many medical dangers he is experiencing in the Placer County jail in Auburn, California.
 (text/plain + 1 comment)     1/31:Press conference, rally at the Placer Co. Superior Court in support of Steve Kubby via list/HempEvolution 2006-01-29 11:21 PMWhen: Tuesday, January 31st, 2006; 12 Noon Where: Department 13, Placer Co. Superior Court; 11532 B Avenue; Auburn, California link to Mapquest (text/plain + 1 comment)  Michelle Kubby Alleges Steve Kubby Is The Victim Of Crime In Placer County Jail Cris Ericson 2006-01-29 3:36 PMMICHELLE KUBBY ALLEGES HER HUSBAND STEVE KUBBY IS THE VICTIM OF CRIME IN PLACER COUNTY JAIL, A CONSPIRACY BY PLACER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY BRADFORD R. FENOCCHIO TO COMMIT CRIMINAL CRUEL & INHUMANE TREATMENT, CA PENAL CODE SECT. 673 (image/jpeg + 2 comments)Steve Kubby in Solitary Confinement Michelle Kubby via list 2006-01-29 8:58 AMSteve Kubby has been placed in Solitary Confinement. (image/jpeg + 7 comments)     Kubby Update: Jail Allows Marinol via lists 2006-01-27 9:58 PMAttorney Bill McPike reports that Steve Kubby is to receive Marinol in the Placer County Jail! (text/plain + 2 comments)     ASA CA Weekly Alert Americans for Safe Access 2006-01-27 9:50 PM*Correction: Correct Address to Write to POW Robert Schmidt January 28th, Garden Valley: AAMC Meeting January 30th, Fresno: Court Support for Dustin Costa January 31st, Auburn: Court Support for Steve Kubby February 6th, Sacramento: Court Support for Bryan Epis February 6th, Pasadena: Court Support for Lynn & Judy Osburn February 7th, San Bernardino: Protest County's Vote to Join San DiegoLawsuit Against the State! February 11th-19th: Medical Marijuana Week! (text/plain)     STEVE KUBBY SICK IN JAIL AFTER ARREST AT SF AIRPORT California NORML 2006-01-27 12:45 AMSteve Kubby w

[cia-drugs] Steve Kubby jail interviews. Medi-pot user in danger. Auburn, California.

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   http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1799342.php Please forward far and wide.        Steve Kubby jail interviews. Medi-pot patient in danger. Placer County, California.  by eco man Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 at 12:10 AMSteve Kubby details the medical neglect and the many medical dangers he is experiencing in the Placer County jail in Auburn, California.Monday, January 30 2006 report from Steve Kubby in jail in Placer County, California. Followed by 2 phone interviews with Steve Kubby in the same jail. First
 interview farther down is from Sunday, January 29, 2006. It is followed by one from Saturday, January 28, 2006. Much info on Steve Kubby's arrest, incarceration, and dangerous medical problems is compiled on an ongoing basis at these links: http://www.kubby.com http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby&scoring=d http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1205086 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kubby http://technorati.com/search/steve%20kubby http://www.indybay.org/drugwar  Post with Steve Kubby jail interviews begins. From this forum thread:  http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1205086 Though the responses have been varied, your phone calls are having a real impact in Auburn as I can see from the messages posted to various lists. Again, please see the Alert: Steve Kubby Is in the Placer County Jail http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0322.html It has the contact information for much more than the jail. Thank You to Dale Gieringer for posting the following to the DPFCA list. (I have tried to make it a little easier to read by making each statement in the transcripts clearly separate, so any mistakes are mine). Yes, it is long, but tears came
 as I read thru it, both for Steve, and for his acknowledgement that the efforts you are making are having an impact. Richard Lake - A friend of Steve Kubby's, Fred Colburn, received a call from him early this morning (7:30 Mon). [January 30, 2006] He said he is in excruciating pain, vomiting, weak from inability to eat for the last several days, with blood in his urine, and without a blanket or even Tylenol. Supporters of Steve will be rallying tomorrow at noon at the Placer Co. Courthouse in Auburn, where there will be a hearing at 1 pm. Following are two lengthy telephone interviews with Steve conducted by Pat McCartney over the weekend: - Steve Kubby Phone call from Placer County Jail January 29, 2006 [Sunday] Around 5 p.m. SK: Please take notes of everything I'm going to tell you, and at seven you can get back to me.
 PM: Okay. SK: I am getting zero medical care. I'm unable to even get Tylenol for pain and headaches. PM: And you've requested it? SK: I have requested it repeatedly. I'm told I don't have a prescription for it. PM: Have you requested anything other than Tylenol? SK: Anything for pain, but most pain medications are a problem for me, and Tylenol is all I need. PM: Did you get the second shipment of the Marinol? SK: I don't know. They keep that. They are completely ignoring the bloody urine. I was told on Friday at noon when I came in, that they would test me for that, and they're not testing me. And I'm really concerned that they don't want to test me, that they don't want to document that I've got blood in my urine as the result of medical incompetence and torture that I'm getting here. PM: I hear you. SK: The first follow-up since admission Friday was today, about two
 hours ago they checked my b-p. [Blood pressure.] No other care or exam. By b-p on examination was one-sixty-six over one-oh-eight, which is way high for me. Now, I believe that the medical director thinks that I'm a fraud, or ignorant, or something, because when I told him that I cannot take - Well, I don't know if he even got the message. They said, you got to - They said, um - I told them I can't take regular meds, so they said, well then, you're refusing treatment. And I said I'm refusing conventional treatment, yes. So, you know I went through that whole thing with the deputy yesterday. After the confrontation with the hostile deputy PM: So you went through a similar thing today? SK: No, but after this confrontation with the hostile deputy, I'm afraid to push this issue and I need help from friends calling. And by the way, I'm getting the message that they're getting a lot of calls. I'm under the impression that
 I cannot expect any help from the medical director due to my refusal to take conventional medicines. PM: Now, is this what Michele put in her note? Beta blocker and alpha blocker, or something? SK: These things are deadly for me. My Doctor Conners in Canada understands, but people need to understand that I do not have [high] blood pressure, I have episodes of [high] blood pressure. So,

[cia-drugs] Steve Kubby jailed. Judge ignored doctor's warnings. Medi-pot need.

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   Judge who deported Steve Kubby is a prohibitionist, and ignored doctor's warnings. See:http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203550      Please forward widely. Forum for more info:http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Board=current  Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail:  http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203672      Many media articles on Steve Kubby are found with this Google News search shortcut: http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby Put quotes around "steve kubby" to narrow the results.      From Americans for Safe Access page on Steve Kubby.http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1804  Quote: When Steve was sent to jail for a few days, he was deprived of medical marijuana and became seriously ill. His blood pressure shot up to dangerous levels, and his doctor wrote a letter to the court explaining Steve's condition and warning the judge what could happen if Steve was further deprived of cannabis. "Please consider the consequences of Steve's condition not being controlled," DeQuattro wrote. "His tumor is manufacturing large quantities of norepinephrine (noradrenaline) and possibly epinephrine (adrenaline). Either compound in minute quantities
 could kill him instantly by causing sudden cardiac death due to arrhythmia or acute myocardial infarction, or sudden death due to cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral vascular occlusion."   ---Section 40 from the Canadian government webpage on Steve Kubby. From the part called "MR. KUBBY'S MEDICAL HISTORY" http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/decisions/public/kubby/kubby_e.htm#medical   Quote: Dr. Connors, an expert in the area of adrenal cancers, and whose curriculum vitae [57] suggests is highly knowledgeable in this area of medicine, testified at the hearing about Mr. Kubby's medical condition. According to Dr. Connors, Mr. Kubby's tumour releases, in excess quantities, hormones normally found in the adrenal gland that are called
 catecholamines. Excessive levels of catecholamines in Mr. Kubby's blood cause a range of separate symptomatic problems including paroxysmal headaches, sudden flushing or pallor of the skin, palpitations (rapid and irregular beating of the heart), hypertension (sudden dangerous rise in blood pressure), excessive sweating, sudden abdominal cramps and diarrhea, chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, sudden severe weakness and anorexia (loss of appetite). If not controlled, Mr. Kubby's symptoms could evolve further to the point where a myocardial infarction (heart attack) or cerebral vascular accident (stroke) could occur. [58]   Numbers in the above quote are for footnotes at the end of the webpage.      end-             From another forum thread:   
    http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203550      ladybud Stranger  Reged: Dec 29 2005 Posts: 13 Loc: TorontoRe: Failed pot refugee sent packing  [Re: Hudsonrulez]       #1203810 - Fri Jan 27 2006 11:25 AMEdit  Reply  Quote  
 Totally disgusting!!I guess this is old news about Paulah Dahns but I hadn't seen it before so I thought I would post this for others who also were not aware of her affilitions.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, January 8, 2003 CONTACT: Michele Kubby, 604-885-7651 Paulah Dauns, Adjudicator, 604-666-5946 Richard Jackson, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, 604-666-3778 Jean-Guy Fleury, Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board (613) 996-4752 KUBBYS FILE AGAINST REFUGEE JUDGE AS BIASED BY CATHOLIC ANTI-DRUG ACTIVITIES VANCOUVER -- A recent decision to deny protection to Steve Kubby was biased by the judge's involvement with a Catholic drug treatment house, according to an appeal that was filed today with the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board. "I was shocked and outraged when Steve and I learned
 that Paulah Dauns is a card-carrying drug treatment prohibitionist, who is deeply involved with the T.N. Libby Society, a Catholic drug treatment house in North Vancouver," complained Michele Kubby. "On the third day of our hearing, Steve challenged Ms. Dauns and said that her comments were prejudicial and that therefore she was incapable of providing a fair and honest decision. Steve specifically objected to her prohibitionist comments when questioning Michele and our other witnesses. We specifically requested that Ms. Dauns remove herself as the adjudicator, which Ms. Dauns refused to do," argued Mrs. Kubby. "For Ms. Dauns to rule that she was qualified and not reveal her background and to render the kind of senseless decision that she did, is all compelling evidence that Ms. Dauns should have disqualified herself. Because Ms. Dauns has decided not to disqualify herself, Steve Tuck and Ken Hayes face the very real possibility of being extradited and locked in a
 cage for years to come. I was ready to give Ms. Dauns the benefit of the doubt, but n

[cia-drugs] Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail. Medi-pot patient.

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   http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Board=current for more info.     http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203672         eco2man veteran   Reged: Nov 29 2000 Posts: 1921 Loc: Amerika, land of the Free? Ha! 2.3 million "free" inmates. 25% of world's prisoners!Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail.       #1203672 - Fri Jan 27 2006 02:15 AMEdit  Reply  Quote   Several articles below. More are found with this Google News search shortcut: http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby Put quotes around "steve kubby" to narrow the results. There is an article just out from Pravda in Russia too: Failed pot refugee comes back from Canada to face United States bonds. http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/27/71920.html - -SanFranciscoSentinel.com article begins- web page Jailed medical marijuana advocate said sick without treatment in Redwood City jail. January 26, 2005, 11:45 p.m. Bay City News contributed to this report REDWOOD CITY - A medical marijuana advocate arrested as he disembarked a Canadian flight at San Francisco International Airport tonight became ill in a Redwood City jail due to lack of medication, according to a spokesman for NORML. Steve Kubby, a cancer patient, began coming ill two hours after his 8:10 p.m. arrest following police refusal to provide Marinol, NORML spokesman D. Gieringer reported. San Francisco Police Officer George Swartz said Steve Kubby was taken into custody around 8:10 p.m. by San
 Francisco police. Swartz said Kubby, who had been deported from Canada, was arrested on a no-bail warrant and was booked into San Mateo County jail. "I'm really sick already," Kubby told Gieringer by telephone said from jail. "I'm gonna start puking my brains out." "He says his guards laughed at him when he requested Marinol. Kubby says he hasn't had marijuana for half a day and has begun to experience all of the symptoms of his life-threatening disease -- nausea, headaches, swollen kidneys. He has chills and has not been able to get a blanket from the guards," Gieringer stated. San Francisco airport police said that they had arrested him at the request of Placer County authorities. They said Kubby will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning, though it wasn't clear where -- in Redwood City, where he is being detained, or in Placer County. -end -- San Francisco Chronicle article begins web page Pot advocate arrested at SFO after arriving from Canada Chronicle Staff Report Thursday, January 26, 2006 Marijuana advocate and former gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby, a fugitive for several years, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday night on a plane that arrived from Canada, San Francisco police said. Kubby co-authored "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal" with marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal and in 1998 was the Libertarian Party candidate for governor. According to the New York Times, Kubby fled California in 2001 after police found 265 marijuana plants in his Squaw Valley home. He was sentenced to four months of house arrest and probation -- and fearing it would lead to an eventual prison term in which he would be unable to use medical marijuana to treat adrenal cancer, he fled to Canada.
 San Francisco police said he was arrested on a no bail warrant for fleeing the U.S. He was arrested at 8:10 p.m. at SFO following his deportation from Canada. -end- -- -Bay City News article begins web page MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE ARRESTED AT SFO January 26, 2006, 11:00 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (BCN) - A medical marijuana advocate was arrested tonight at San Francisco International Airport as he disembarked from his flight from Canada, according to San Francisco police. Police Officer George Swartz said Steve Kubby was taken into custody around 8:10 p.m. by San Francisco police. Swartz said Kubby, who had been deported from Canada, was arrested on a no-bail warrant and was booked into San Mateo County jail. end-
 Copy this!:  Post Extras:               -     Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:37:49 -0800 From: "renee boje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RB: Kubby arrest video footage     Steve Kubby Arrested At SFOPot-TVhttp://pot.tv/archive/shows/pottvshowse-4131.html    
 SAN FRANCISCO -- Medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby was arrested Thursday night at San Francisco Airport after spending years as a fugitive in Canada.     Kubby was arrested on a no-bail warrant and booked into San Mateo County jail, San Francisco police said.     Kubby's supporters and family were on hand as he boarded the flight escorted by his American lawyer, who worried he could die without access to pot in jail.     "The officials in Canada might be sending him back to a death sentence," said Bill McPike     Write George Bush, tell

[cia-drugs] Kubby deported Jan. 26. May die soon. Medi-pot patient.

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     Please forward.http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1202411   eco2man veteran   Reged: Nov 29 2000 Posts: 1901 Loc: Amerika, land of the Free? Ha! 2.3 million "free" inmates. 25% of world's prisoners!Kubby may die in days in a U.S. jail. [Re: escapegoat]       #1202411 - Tue Jan 24 2006 10:23 AMEdit  Reply  Quote   If Kubby is arrested in the USA, and held even for only a few days until he can bail out, he could die before he is able to bail out. Steve Kubby is not like most U.S. cancer patients who need cannabis to keep their food and medicine down. Those cancer patients, if jailed, could die in months due to wasting away, or inhaling vomit as Peter McWilliams did. Because U.S. jails and prisons have not allowed the use of cannabis.Here is some good info from an ASA
 article: http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1804   Quote: When Steve was sent to jail for a few days, he was deprived of medical marijuana and became seriously ill. His blood pressure shot up to dangerous levels, and his doctor wrote a letter to the court explaining Steve's condition and warning the judge what could happen if Steve was further deprived of cannabis. "Please consider the consequences of Steve's condition not being controlled," DeQuattro wrote. "His tumor is manufacturing large quantities of norepinephrine (noradrenaline) and possibly epinephrine (adrenaline). Either compound in minute quantities could kill him instantly by causing sudden cardiac death due to arrhythmia or acute myocardial infarction, or sudden death due to cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral vascular occlusion." Kubby family. Photo from that article:  Point 40 from the section called "MR. KUBBY'S MEDICAL HISTORY" in the Canadian government webpage on Steve Kubby: http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/decisions/public/kubby/kubby_e.htm#medical   Quote: Dr. Connors, an expert in the area of adrenal cancers, and whose curriculum vitae [57] suggests is highly knowledgeable in this area of medicine, testified at the hearing about Mr. Kubby's medical condition. According to Dr. Connors, Mr. Kubby's tumour releases, in excess quantities, hormones normally found in the adrenal gland that are called catecholamines. Excessive levels of catecholamines in Mr. Kubby's blood cause a range of separate symptomatic problems
 including paroxysmal headaches, sudden flushing or pallor of the skin, palpitations (rapid and irregular beating of the heart), hypertension (sudden dangerous rise in blood pressure), excessive sweating, sudden abdominal cramps and diarrhea, chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, sudden severe weakness and anorexia (loss of appetite). If not controlled, Mr. Kubby's symptoms could evolve further to the point where a myocardial infarction (heart attack) or cerebral vascular accident (stroke) could occur. [58] Numbers in the above quote are for footnotes at the end of the webpage.-Most importantly is the fact that Steve Kubby is a walking medical miracle. According to doctors people with his specific cancer just don't normally survive long. He has survived for many years due to his diet, cannabis, supplements, etc.. You would think that U.S. and Canadian healthcare would be doing everything in their
 power to figure out what exactly he is doing to learn from him, and use the information in order to save many lives. But instead of that, the U.S. and Canada are going to kill him. NO exaggeration. Incredibly dumb from a self-interest point of view. Our self-interest. Copy this!:  Post Extras:                     ---forward--renee boje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:49:07 -0800From: "renee boje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RB: Kubby to be deported in 2 daysFor Immediate Release:Monday, January 23, 2006For more info callRachel James, Immigration Enforcement Officer. (604) 666-3399Placer County District Attorney Bradford R. FenocchioChris Cattran, Assistant DA, Voice: (530) 889-7000, Fax (530) 889-7129Dale Gieringer, Ph.D, California NORML (415) 563-5858Michele Kubby, (250) 578-58422Kubbys Must Leave Canada By Thursday, January 26th.I don't want our daughters to see what US law enforcement will do to their father.VANCOUVER -- American cancer patient and medical marijuana refugee, Steve Kubby and his family have been ordered to leave Canada on or before Thursday, January 26th. Steve Kubby said, The Immigration
 Ministry claims that its departure orders are not subject to appeal, but we're still trying to get a court to simply grant us our due process and allow us to appeal.If the appeal is not successful, the Kubbys will all have to leave Canada no later than Thursday (January 26), according to Rachel James, Immigration Enforcement Officer.Placer County Assistant District Attorney Chris Cattran told the Auburn Journal on January 6th that Kubby would

[cia-drugs] Canada. Kubby Family Pleas for Public Support. Death imminent for medi-pot refugee.

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   http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby Google News search.     Death imminent for medi-pot refugee. Steve Kubby has adrenal cancer, and he shouldn't be alive according to doctors. But using cannabis daily is somehow keeping the adrenal cancer and wild hormone fluctuations in check. Doctors are baffled, but agree that the daily cannabis use is keeping him alive, and that he would soon die without it. Possibly in days. If extradited to the USA he would be imprisoned and probaby soon die since cannabis use is not allowed in US prisons and jails.     ---forward--renee boje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:06:43 -0800From: "renee boje"
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RB: Kubby Family Pleas for Public SupportFor Immediate release:January 9, 2006For more info call:Michele Kubby (250) 578-8422Kubby Family Pleas for Public Support,As Judge Delays His Decision on Whether Cancer Patient Must Be Sentto Die in US Jail.VANCOUVER -- Canadian Federal Judge, Yvon Pinard, has “taken underadvisement” the question as to whether to stay (stop) ImmigrationCanada’s attempt to send Steve Kubby, cancer patient and medicalmarijuana refugee, to die in an American jail this week. The judgesaid that he might decide ‘tomorrow’ or it could be ‘weeks.’Michele Kubby, who argued on behalf of her husband, said, “We areglad that the judge is at least considering the issues, but myhusband is already seriously ill and the added stress of not knowingwhen he may rule makes things even more difficult for Steve. We
 needeveryone’s help.”Despite a statement by Placer County California prosecutor, ChrisCattran, that Kubby would be jailed on his return to the US, andwould be sentenced to at least 120 days in jail, plus penalties forprobation violation, the Immigration Ministry’s counsel, KeithReimer, argued that there was no proof that Kubby would be arrestedif he is delivered to US authorities. Cattran prosecuted Kubby in1999 after a six month surveillance of the Kubbys’ home based solelyon an anonymous letter.Reimer also claimed that prisoners in US jails receive proper medicalcare, and can sue if they don’t get it. Mrs. Kubby pointed out thather husband needs cannabis regularly, and no US jail allows itsprisoners to have cannabis.After the hearing, Mrs. Kubby spoke to a large group of journalistsfrom the Canadian media. The Kubbys’ nine year-old daughter Brookewas also interviewed. The hearing was
 attended by Seattle lawyerDouglas Hiatt, who represented another American medical marijuanarefugee, Steven Tuck, who was held for a week in Washington Statejails without being given even antibiotics. Tuck was taken from aVancouver ER in handcuffs last October and forcibly returned to the US.Hiatt was not allowed to testify, but he did speak to the Canadianmedia about the conditions in US jails and prisons. He emphasizedthat the rights of medical marijuana prisoners are often violated,and most prisoners do not get proper medical care.Mrs. Kubby was distressed to find herself having to explain to thecourt that her husband’s death would clearly constitute “irreparableharm”, while the Immigration Ministry argued that not sending Kubbyto the US immediately would not be “convenient” for the Ministry."Considering that this was a routine request to issue a temporarystay while the court considers our motion, I have lost all
 remainingfaith in the court system and can only plead with people who hearabout our situation to call, call and call again until thoseMinisters who are responsible fix this legal nightmare," said Mrs.Kubby."Phone calls to the Ministers of Immigration, Health, Justice andPublic Safety may be our only hope now," added Mrs. Kubby.To find our more on how you can help the Kubby family please visit: http://www.kubby.com --To unsubscribe from freerenee, send a message to[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the command "unsubscribe"http://www.reneeboje.com/         -end--MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page 36:"The most recent evidence comes from autopsies of 44 prisoners who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan in U.S. custody. Most died under circumstances that suggest torture. The reports use words like 'strangulation,' 'asphyxiation' and 'blunt force injuries.' ...  A few months before the [Abu Ghraib] scandal broke [spring 2004], Coalition Provisional Authority polls showed Iraqi support at 63 percent. A month after Abu Ghraib, the number was 9 percent. Polls showed that 71 percent of Iraqis were surprised by the revelations." 
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[cia-drugs] Akha.org Funding. Stop murderous U.S. drug war in Laos, Thailand

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Go to www.akha.org - it is back online. Can donate there. See the donation info and links in the left column.Help stop the murderous U.S. drug war in Laos, Thailand, etc.. http://www.akha.org - Please forward widely.        --forwarded email begins---Matthew McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:46:53 +0700From: Matthew McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Akha Project Funding  For Release.  16 Dec. 2005     There are four projects that we are working on in Laos.    
 1. Publication of the Akha Journal 3 for bookstores in S.E. Asia. (Akha journal 2 sold out save for the last 200 copies on stands now. Set up cost $2800 for which we have raised $750 already.  Printing cost will be more when we get to that point. Probably a 5,000 copy print, will be submitted to Amazon etc. To be completed in the next six months, including publishing.     2. Humanitarian Aid Project in Laos. Malaria reduction for the Akha.  We are in the investigation and proposal phase of this project. We will continue to need approximately $1000 per month to continue our travel, photograhy, time with consultants and preparation of our paperwork to the Lao government for approval, as well as to funding agencies. This is a complex dance with ngo's who control the larger funds, have the contacts and government networking, as well as the many consultants we rely on to advise us on the technical and
 data requirements of getting any aid project approved. Projects must last for three years, must benefit the Lao people, must meet budget requirement minimums of $100,000 per year. Three year project.      3. Our ongoing Akha Language Corpus project.  The Akha identity is best defined as contained in their language. At this time Akha Literature is oral predominantly, in the words of elders, normally passed down to the young people in this fashion. However, western missions are bent on destroying this literature and identity by taking the Akha children or banning the culture in "converted" villages. For this reason it is crucial that the Akha langauge and literature be committed to paper for these security reasons. As well, the marking of tone is absolutely required to write accurately in Akha. Without a comlete dictionary committed to paper, with the tone marked accurately, there can be no stable basis for Akha written
 literature. That includes writing that the Akha will do now and in the future. Confusion will not help this tradition. For that reason we must have funding for this continued project in the four countries where the Akha reside in order to continue to add to the manuscripts which we now have to build up a complete library of Akha traditional literature and stories. Even now we have lost many valuable elders and their stories, before we could record them. The forced and coercive practice of western missions who would eliminate 95% of their identity included in the traditional langauge and recitals, is making this problem worse and our response efforts more urgent.      For this project we need an initial minimum of $3,000 to $4000 to cover computer costs and a minimum of $1200 per month to distribute to writers, editors and their recording, transcribing expenses. We are doing this over a four country area. At least one year but this project is
 ongoing.      4. Mobilization of Akha for Human Rights Violation Reporting in Thailand. This project requires $1,000 for training Akhas in Thailand to report human rights violations. Distribution of portable cameras, and their use. Training on computers and how to use email to transmit photos and detailed reports. A one year project.      As in all other areas of our project, all results and materials from these projects will be available on line.     Matthew McDaniel  The Akha Heritage Foundation---end of forwarded email        --MMM (Global Million Marijuana March):http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisactionNewsweek, Nov. 14, 2005, page
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[cia-drugs] RadioInsurgente.org and indigenous movement stop Bush cold.

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Continuing from my last message titled
"TV Telesur and progressive media in Latin America. NarcoNews.com "http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1213
 
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Who are we?RADIO INSURGENTE is the official voice of the National Zapatista Liberation Army (EZLN). RADIO INSURGENTE is a radio station which is completely independent from the bad Mexican government. It diffuses the ideas and contents of the zapatista struggle on FM and shortwave radio, as well as on this website and through its own CD-productions. It also informs about the progress made in building the zapatista autonomy through the Good Government Juntas and the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities.FM RadioRADIO INSURGENTE is a FM project which transmits from various places in Chiapas directed to the zapatista bases, the insurgentes and milicians, the commanders and local people in general. This program is broadcast not only in spanish, but also in the indigenous languages tzotzil, tzeltal, chol and tojolabal. The program
 mixes local, national and international news with music, educational and political messages, short stories and radio-novels. RADIO INSURGENTE is the media through which the zapatista communities spread their own music, words and thoughts.RADIO INSURGENTE is the only independent radio station in Chiapas transmitting in the various indigenous languages, and for this reason can be understood by women, men and children. In Chiapas, due to the catastrophic educational politics of the official mexican government, approximately a third of the men and half of the women cannot read and write. Most women do not speak or understand spanish. The RADIO INSURGENTE signal reaches isolated regions that have no electricity, where no newspaper goes and where entertainment mainly consists of playing basketball or soccer. For these communities, Radio Insurgente opens a window to the world, and brings information about the struggles of other peoples in other countries. The dozens of
 letters which reach the cabins every day demonstrate how important it's program is for the indigenous people of Chiapas.Radio Insurgente broadcasts daily on various frequencies in FM (according to the region).· For the Zona Altos de Chiapas (tzotzil, tzeltal, chol...) in the frequency 97.9 MHz en FM· For the Zona Selva Fronteriza (tzeltal, tojolabal...) in the frequency 97.9 MHz en FM· For the Zona Selva Tzeltal in the frequencies 100.1 MHz y 89.3 MHz en FM· For the Zona norte (tzotzil,tzeltal,chol...) in the frequency 102.1 MHz en FM· For the Zona zotz choj (tzeltal, tojolabal...) in the frequency 92.9 MHz en FMShortwave RadioIts weekly shortwave-program in spanish is particularly directed to the people of Mexico and the Americas, but also to all interested persons from civil society in
 Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It informs regularly on actual events in Chiapas, on the progress of constructing zapatista autonomy through the Juntas de Buen Gobierno and the autonomous rebel municipalities, on the history of the National Zapatista Liberation Army, indigenous women’s rights and many other subjects. It also entertains with a variety of music and short stories from Chiapas.On shortwave, Radio Insurgente transmits one hour per week on fridays from 3 p.m. (Mexico official time, GMT -6) on the frequency 6.0 MHz, 49-meter-band.This Web SiteOn this web page you can listen to or download the weekly shortwave RADIO INSURGENTE programs, as well as some special programs and samples of the FM program. You also can send an email to the Radio Insurgente team with your comments. The audio archives are in mp3 format (mono), compressed to 64 kbps for download and retransmission, and 32 kbps for listening. The National
 Zapatista Liberation Army invites all free and community radio stations to re-transmit Radio Insurgente’s program on their local frequency. Retransmission is free as long as the content aren’t changed.If you click on the PRODUCCIONES RADIO INSURGENTE logo, you can to listen some samples made in it's own recording studio. This includes the stories of Subcomandante Marcos' as well as Zapatista music. The CD's are also available for purchase. In the link 'Discursos' you will find speeches by the Comandantes and Comandantas and other Zapatistas authorities made during especial events. In the link 'Comunicados' you will find all communiques made by the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional. And in 'Como apoyar' you will find several ways you can support RADIO INSURGENTE.RADIO INSURGENTE ProductionsDuring the last three years, PRODUCCIONES RADIO INSURGENTE has been developing a digital recording
 studio in the Rebel Zapatista Zone as part of RADIO INSURGENTE. This is

[cia-drugs] TV Telesur and progressive media in Latin America. NarcoNews.com

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Telesur has recently gone 24/7 in its broadcasting in many nations in Latin America. Google News: http://news.google.com/news?q=telesur 
Google web: http://www.google.com/search?q=telesurWikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur "It began broadcasting on a limited schedule on July 24, 2005 and began full-time broadcast on October 31, 2005"
 
A few examples of progressive media: In the USA we have Air America. In Canada they have Pot.tv and CannabisCulture.com
 
Some history below of progressive and grassroots media in Latin America. From NarcoNews.comhttp://www.NarcoNews.com 
 
A model below for taking back the USA!
 
 
 
--Excerpt from July 24, 2005 Al Giordano article on Telesur begins--
 
 
http://www.narconews.com/Issue38/article1392.html
 

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Marcos by LatuffThe suggestion that a different kind of media could be invented came to many us first through the communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas. From our suffocated outposts around a world gone mad with money and technology, each new missive from the indigenous rebels of the Mexican Southeast brought us oxygen. We had to learn two things, first, to be able to receive them: how to use email, and how to read in Spanish. We had to learn many things after that in order to be able act upon them. The future of journalism and communications was happening in those communiqués but the journalists were (and continue to be) the last to take note of it.
 
Marcos, the writer (the journalist!) found humor in the seeming futility of launching “a war of words” into the din of an over-mediated world, where ideas do not easily gain traction. From his earliest known essay, the 1992 “Chiapas: The Southeast In Two Winds, a Storm and a Prophecy,” first published in 1994, he addressed the problem of media. His text brought the reader along on a tour through the impoverished Mexican state of Chiapas:

In Ocosingo and Palenque, Cancue and Chilón, Altamirano and Yajalón, the Indigenous people are celebrating. A new gift from the supreme government has made life a little happier for the peons, small landowners, landless campesinos and impoverished inhabitants of the ejidos. They have been given a local radio station that reaches the most isolated corners of eastern Chiapas. The station’s programming is fitting: Marimbas and rap music proclaim the good news. The Chiapaneco countryside is being modernized. XEOCH transmits from the township of Ocosingo and can be found at 600 Mhz AM from four in the morning till 10 at night. Its news shows abound with lies. They tell of the “disorientation” that “subversive” lay-workers spread among the peasantry, the abundance of aid credits that are never received by the Indigenous communities, and the existence of public works that have never been built. The viceroy is also given time on the air so that he can
 remind the population with threats that not all is lies and rap music; there are also jails and military bases and a penal code which is the most repressive in the Republic. The penal code punishes any _expression_ of discontent. The laws against demonstrations, rebellion, inciting to riot, etc., demonstrate that the viceroy is careful to maintain everything in order…

Marcos reported the existence of a different voice, a voice “from below.” He called it a wind…


Not everyone hears the voices of hopelessness and conformity. Not everyone is carried away by hopelessness. There are millions of people who continue on without hearing the voices of the powerful and the indifferent. They can’t hear; they are deafened by the crying and blood that death and poverty are shouting in their ears. But, when there is a moment of rest, they hear another voice. They don’t hear the voice that comes from above; they hear the voice that is carried to them by the wind from below, a voice that is born in the Indigenous heart of the mountains. This voice speaks to them about justice and freedom, it speaks to them about socialism, about hope…the only hope that exists in the world. The oldest of the old in the Indigenous communities say that there once was a man named Zapata who rose up with his people and sang out, “Land and Freedom!” These old campesinos say that Zapata didn’t die, that he must return. These old campesinos also say that the wind and the rain
 and the sun tell the campesinos when to cultivate the land, when to plant and when to harvest. They say that hope is also planted and harvested. They also say that the wind and the rain and the sun are now saying something different: that with so much poverty, the time has come to harvest rebellion instead of death. That is what the old campesinos say. The powerful don’t hear; they can’t hear, they are deafened by the brutality that the Empire shouts in their ears. “Zapata,” insists the wind, the wind from below, our wind.

After midnight on January 1, 1994 when the Zapatistas seized four city halls in the region, they also seized another s

[cia-drugs] Guardian. Powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,,1635066,00.html 
 
 
The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America's revolt Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters Naomi KleinSaturday November 5, 2005The Guardian 
When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in south-west Colombia, ringed by soldiers, rightwing paramilitaries and leftwing guerrillas, strangers asking questions is never a good thing. 
 
The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which leads a political movement that is independent from all those armed forces, decided that Rozental, its communications coordinator, had to get out of the country - fast. He had been instrumental in campaigns for agrarian reform and against a free-trade agreement with the United States, and the association was certain that those strangers had been sent to kill Rozental - but by whom? The US-backed national government, which notoriously uses rightwing paramilitaries to do its dirty work? Or the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), Latin America's oldest Marxist guerrilla army?
 
Oddly, both were distinct possibilities. Despite being on opposing sides of a 41-year civil war, the Uribe government and the Farc agree that life would be infinitely simpler without Cauca's indigenous movement, which is part of an increasingly powerful political force sweeping Latin America, challenging traditional power structures from Bolivia to Mexico. 
 
Prominent indigenous leaders in Northern Cauca have been kidnapped or assassinated by the Farc, which seeks to be the exclusive voice of Colombia's poor. And indigenous authorities had been informed that the Farc wanted Rozental dead. For months rumours had circulated that he was the worst thing you can be in the books of a leftwing guerrilla movement: a CIA agent. But there had been other rumours too, spread through the media by government officials. They held that Rozental was the worst thing you can be in the books of a rightwing, Bush-bankrolled politician: an "international terrorist". 
 
On October 27 the association, representing the roughly 110,000 Nasa indians in the region, issued an angry communique: "Manuel is no terrorist. He is no paramilitary. He is no agent of the CIA. He is a part of our community who must not be silenced by bullets." The Nasa leaders say they know why Rozental, now living in exile, has come under threat. It is the same reason that two peaceful indigenous villages in Northern Cauca were turned into war zones in April after the Farc attacked police posts, which the government used as an excuse for a full-scale occupation. 
 
All of this is happening because the indigenous movement in Cauca, as in much of Latin America, is on a roll. In the past year the Nasa of Northern Cauca have held the largest anti-government protests in recent Colombian history and organised local referendums against free trade that had a turnout of 70%, higher than any official election (with a near-unanimous no result). And in September thousands took over two large haciendas, forcing the government to make good on a long-promised land settlement. All these actions unfolded under the protection of the Nasa's unique Indigenous Guard, who patrol their territory armed only with sticks. 
 
In a country ruled by M16s, AK47s, pipe bombs and Black Hawk helicopters, this combination of militancy and nonviolence is unheard of. And that is the quiet miracle the Nasa have accomplished; they have revived the hope that died when paramilitaries systematically slaughtered leftwing politicians, including dozens of elected officials and two Unión Patriótica presidential candidates. At the end of the bloody campaign in the early 90s, the Farc understandably concluded that engaging in open politics was a suicide mission. The key to the Nasa's success, Rozental says, is that they are not trying to take over state institutions, which "have lost all legitimacy". They are instead "building a new legitimacy based on an indigenous and popular mandate that has grown out of participatory congresses, assemblies and elections. Our process and our alternative institutions have put the official democracy to shame. That's why the government is so angry." 
 
The Nasa have shattered the illusion, cherished by both sides, that Colombia's conflict can be reduced to a binary war. Their free-trade referendums have been imitated by non-indigenous unions, students, farmers and local politicians nationwide; their land takeovers have inspired other indigenous and peasant groups to do the same. A year ago 60,000 marched demanding peace and autonomy; last month those demands were echoed by simultaneous marches in 32 of Colombia's provinces. Each action, explains Hector Mondragon, a Colombian economist and activist, "has had

[cia-drugs] LIAFAX. UN to open drug war office in China.

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UN/USA brutality in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and now China. Photos of drug war dead and tortured. With links, and maps of border region:
http://gallery.marihemp.com/akhahttp://www.akha.org 
 
 
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21/10/2005 DRUGS: UNODC TO OPEN OFFICE IN BEIJING, THE DANGEROUS LIAISONS OF PROHIBITIONISTSChinese Government Enthusiastic about Future Partnerships, Signs Memorandum of Intent
According to the UN Information Service, on 19 October, the Government of China, represented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) which paves the way for the establishment of a UNODC programme in Beijing. UNODC Director Antonio Maria Costa and MFA Assistant Minister Shen Guofang also discussed possible strategies to further reduce the impact of illicit drugs in the region. Both officials agreed that a balanced approach, focusing on both prevention and control, is critical in the campaign to eliminate drugs and crime.
In a UNIS press release, Mr. Costa was quoted as saying "This MOI is tangible evidence that the Chinese Government is both serious and forward-looking regarding the drug and crime problems it faces. China recognizes the need for international cooperation to counter non-traditional security threats -- drug production and trafficking in particular." adding also that "China is taking the lead, meeting these threats head-on, and in many cases, stopping drugs even before they cross that nation's borders. The Government is also sharing best practices in drug control with its neighbours -- exactly the kind of outreach we need to see in Asia right now."
Marco Perduca, Executive Director of the International Antiprohibitionist League and UN Representative for the Transnational Radical Party commented on the UNODC-China agreement rimind how “until 2004 China used to execute people in public on the occasion of the 'celebrations' of the International Day Against Drugs- if sure a head-on response, killing traffickers, and 'addicts' is not necessarily the most humanitarian among the best practices available in the field of 'drug control'”. 
The new Programme Office, set to open in 2006, will focus initially on the threat of HIV/AIDS, which is spreading via injecting drug use, and, in some cases, through a lack of awareness regarding sexual transmission. The UNODC Office in Beijing will also target the fast expanding trafficking and consumption of amphetamines, control of precursor chemicals, illicit manufacture and trafficking in drugs, as well as drug prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Mr. Perduca, who recently participated in a conference on drug policies in Tiblisi, was also particularly skeptical on the type of forward looking commitment that an autoritarian country like China could ensure on issues such as HIV/AIDS; “in fact,” steted IAL Director “just like her avian flu cases a couple of years ago, China has been in denial both on its AIDS crisis - which originated from the selling of blood by desperatly poor peasants kept in the dark about the existance of the virus and not because of intravenous drug injection - and the issue of narcotics consumption. Knowing too well how the Chinese Government operates to 'control' the activities of the Chinese people, we can only expect hundreds of new little and silent tienammens around the country sanctioned by the agreementy with UNODC for the sake of ridding China of evil substances. This is certainly not what UN Agencies should be about”.
After the announced Mr. Costa also said "China's enthusiastic welcome for a new UNODC Programme Office in Beijing holds great promise for our partnership against illegal drugs. UNODC can advise nations committed to countering drugs, and offer technical assistance, but we cannot do it alone," adding that "there's an old saying, 'actions speak louder than words,' and China's willingness to take this very important step bodes well for everyone involved. UNODC looks forward to working with the Chinese Government, to turning plans into progress, and to getting the new Office in Beijing up and running as quickly as possible." 
“Would the noise of police raids and the scream of tortured suspected Chinese 'drug traffickers' or 'users' be loud enough for Mr. Costa?” concluded Mr. Perduca.
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ITALYGiulio Manfredi of the Comitato Nazionale Radicali Italiani: Lapo Elkann’s case, just one more of the endless and needless products of prohibitionism, should prom

[cia-drugs] Laos. Akha Journal. Genocidal US Drug War. Forward widely.

[Eco Man]

For much more info see the links after the forwarded email.Akha hill tribes regional map. Thailand, Laos, China, Burma.http://gallery.marihemp.com/akha/akharegionalmap

 
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: Matthew McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:36:48 -0700 (PDT)Subject: [AkhaWeeklyJournal] Akha Journal: Czech Movie, Web Hits, Current Situation, Genocidal US Drug War


Dear Friends:
 
Things are tough enough. We keep helping how we can in the villages, there is a lot of fever and malaria and no food, no mosquito nets, a real big mess.
 
There is no alternative for it, the US DEA, the UNDP, the UNODC all got together and decided that no opium was better than a lot of dead Akha and that is what happened, America super cop creating a genocide of a mother of a drug war on the poorest of the poor, America the believer in some kind of fascist freedom, there are no other words for it.
 
It makes one ashamed to be an American when seeing what was done here. I have never seen people in real life as poor as this and after 13 years in Thailand and Burma one might think they had seen most of it.
 
Smug fat NGO's, lots of dead Akha, and no one who can explain why the Akha don't have mosquito nets or food or health care.
 
It makes me puke to think that an untold number of these Akha were killed for the insane US Drug War and that the UN and US people who did it really don't care who was effected. There is no excuse for it. I hear a lot of excuses though, what uncle sam does just has to be right, doesn't matter how impoverished people are while safe america calls the shots.
 
The Czech Movie on Missionaries in Thailand was a big hit, lots of good comments.
 
The website has gone over a million hits since Jan. 2004. Not bad.
 
A couple bucks buys a mosquito net here, we put out what we can.
 
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Photo gallery. Thailand, Laos. USA/UN-aided drug-war torture, death squads, camps.
http://gallery.marihemp.com/akha 
 
Matthew McDaniel of the Akha Heritage Foundation. http://www.akha.orgAkha.org site search. Click link and then add search terms:http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.orgGoogle search shortcut that pulls up links to hundreds of drug war articles on the Akha.org site:http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.org+"drug+war"
 
These search shortcuts will pull up many Laos articles. Add or substitute search terms as needed to get better or different results. For example; substitute 'thailand' for 'laos' in the searches.For the Akha.org site:http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.akha.org+%22drug+war%22+laosFor the DrugNews.org site from 1997 to date:http://www.mapinc.org/find?BK=laos&YY1=1997For the Akha Weekly Journal Yahoo Group public archive:http://www.google.com/search?q=laos+inurl:yahoo.com/group/AkhaweeklyjournalFor the Akha discussion Yahoo Group public archive:http://www.google.com/search?q=laos+inurl:yahoo.com/group/akha
 
Yahoo Groups.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal andhttp://www.noplanetb.org/default.html  a mirror of some of the above Akha email list.http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:www.noplanetb.org Google search of list archive. Add terms.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/messages Titled index of Akha list.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akha An Akha discussion list with an archive.
 
May-2003. U.S.-aided Thailand death squads go on. 1000's dead. Drug war and more. DEA, U.S. police, and U.S. military involvement with Thailand. Akha Foundation, Indymedia, etc..http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/1614635_comment.php andhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages/849 Many illustrated messages.http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2997.html andhttp://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2119.html and
 
*July 7, 2004 New York Times article. "LETTER FROM ASIA; She Tilts Against Power, but Don't Call Her Quixotic." By Jane Perlez. Article quote: "Among those either killed, or missing and presumed dead, were campaigners against logging, dams and wastewater projects." Another article quote: "She reminded those audiences, she said, that more than 2,000 people suspected of breaking drug laws were killed during a three-month 'war on drugs' by the Thaksin government last year [2003], a move that prompted the State Department to criticize Thailand's 'worsened' human rights record."http://www.akha.org/article-102--0-0.html andhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/international/asia/lett.html?ex=1246939200&
 

 
 
































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[cia-drugs] Drug-war search shortcuts. Akha, Thailand, Laos. Photos, too.

[Eco Man]

The following search shortcuts pull up many drug-war pages on the Akha.org site for Thailand, Laos, etc.:
 
Akha.org site search. Click link and then add search terms: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.orgGoogle search shortcut that pulls up links to hundreds of drug war articles on the Akha.org site:http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.org+"drug+war" 
 
I notice that Google is now comprehensively indexing the Akha.org site! 
 
Google finds over 28 THOUSAND pages on the Akha.org site. Click and see results number:http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.org
 
There is a Google search box in the left column on pages of the Akha.org site. Please use it because Akha.org gets some of the ad revenues from the result pages. Cooperation with Google may be another reason why they are now so comprehensively indexing the Akha.org site.
http://www.akha.org 
 
There is a drug war links page here:
http://www.akha.org/content-cat-21.html
 
But it only has a few links to Akha.org pages. 
 
There is also an Akha.org site search engine here too:
http://www.akha.org/search-17.html
 
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Photo gallery.
http://gallery.marihemp.com/akha
 




Thailand. U.S.-aided drug-war torture, death squads.  

 
The gallery editor wrote up this intro with the links. The photos and photo captions are from Matthew McDaniel. 
 
Thailand's brutal U.S.-aided death-squad drug war. Photos of dead, tortured, wounded, scars, families, etc.. This introduction is in the public domain. Please forward widely. 
 
For the latest info go to The Akha Heritage Foundation. Home page: http://www.akha.orgAkha.org site search. Click link and then add search terms: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.orgGoogle search shortcut that pulls up links to hundreds of drug war articles on the Akha.org site:http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.akha.org+"drug+war" 
 
*May-2003. U.S.-aided Thailand death squads go on. 1000's dead. Drug war and more. DEA, U.S. police, and U.S. military involvement with Thailand. Akha Foundation, Indymedia, etc.. http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/1614635_comment.php and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages/849 Many illustrated messages.http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2997.html and http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2119.html and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal andhttp://www.noplanetb.org/default.html  a mirror of the above Akha email list.http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:www.noplanetb.org Google search of list archive. Add terms.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaWeeklyJournal/messages Titled index of Akha list.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akha An Akha discussion list with an archive.http://www.akha.org Akha Heritage Foundation. 
 
 
*July 7, 2004 New York Times article. "LETTER FROM ASIA; She Tilts Against Power, but Don't Call Her Quixotic." By Jane Perlez. Article quote: "Among those either killed, or missing and presumed dead, were campaigners against logging, dams and wastewater projects." Another article quote: "She reminded those audiences, she said, that more than 2,000 people suspected of breaking drug laws were killed during a three-month 'war on drugs' by the Thaksin government last year [2003], a move that prompted the State Department to criticize Thailand's 'worsened' human rights record."http://www.akha.org/article-102--0-0.html andhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/international/asia/lett.html?ex=1246939200&
 
US Drug War Deaths of the Akha - US Tax Dollars kill the Akha. The photos below are from this webpage:http://www.akha.org/content-467.html 
 
The link below is better for copying the photos because the filenames for the photos have more info. The image filenames are in this format:villagename-familyname.jpghttp://www.akha.org/content-477.htmlPlease share these photos widely, and put them in many galleries. The filenames make it easy to alphabetize galleries. Especially galleries using software that can automatically use the filename as the image caption. 
 
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Christianists, Zionists, and Islamists all support Drug Wars and "Holy" Wars.Braindead spiritless fundamentalists hogtied to their religious texts. 
Most were civilians: 

MMM (Global Million Marijuana March).First Saturday in May, or that weekend, or thereabouts.Hundreds of different cities worldwide. Email list and public archive:http:

[cia-drugs] [Eurodrug] ENCOD bulletin. 3 hemp fairs, Barcelona, London,

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"We will attend three hemp fairs in Barcelona and London, as well as the DPA Conference in Long Beach in November. ... As a platform of more than 120 
grassroots organisations from 27 European countries, ENCOD is ..."
- Quote is from the bulletin below. Please forward widely. See also:
http://www.encod.org 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/encod http://encod.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eurodrug 
 
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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:17:56 +0200To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: encod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [Eurodrug] ENCOD BULLETINDear friends,Herewith I send you the ENCOD bulletin of October 2005. Please note that you are wellcome to send this bulletin (that also is published in Dutch and Spanish) to organisations or individuals who may be interested in becoming a member. You are wellcome to translate it in your language and send it back to me so i can put it on the encod website.This month, we launch the "Freedom To Farm" campaign agreed upon at the latest General Assembly in Berlin. During the next two months we hope to reach many people with the www.encod.org/freedomtofarm.pdf flyer that will be ready this week. Please let me know if you want to receive an amount flyers to distribute in your country.We will attend three hemp fairs in Barcelona and
 London, as well as the DPA Conference in Long Beach in November. And we hope to receive the financial support to start organising the Drug Policy Conference (for civil society, regional/local authorities and Members of European parliament) in the European Parliament.Finally, the financial perspectives for the continuation of the ENCOD - secretariat continue to be an issue of concern. In order to find out the potential of ENCOD members to collect the necessary funding for next year, I am sending out a survey to all members today. Please fill it out and send it back to me as soon as possible.Best wishes,JoepCLIMATE CHANGEIn less than 1000 days time a United Nations meeting will be held at which crucial decisions will be taken on the future of global drug policies. In the spring of 2008, governmental delegates will need to decide if they will continue criminalising at least 200 million
 people in the world for being involved in producing, distributing or consuming illicit drugs. It will be ten years after the last UN Summit on Drugs in New York in 1998, where commitments were made to reduce ‘significantly’ the supply and demand for illicit drugs before 2008. After 1986 and 2000, it will be the third time that a deadline, set by the UN in order to measure the progress of the war on drugs, will pass without the slightest indication that such progress has actually occurred.Around the globe there are several networks or major actors aiming at this purpose. One of them, REFORMA, from Latin America had its conference in Buenos Aires early September. In Brazil and Argentina, the harm reduction movement is strong and inventive, dealing with food provision and other basics of survival among homeless users and of course drug user specific problems, such as dealing with the consequences of blood borne diseases, and
 the prevention of their transmission. Meanwhile in Chile, a new sister magazine to the Spanish Cañamo is growing strong, thanks to volunteers and in spite of a lot of resistance from distributing companies.In Peru and Bolivia, militarization and eradication of coca have set in motion a strong movement for coca leaf legalisation. It is one of the major demands of an indigenous uprising that until now has been relatively peaceful, but no less historic in its significance. Evo Morales, leader of Bolivia’s coca growers, stands a very good chance of becoming president in the December 2005 general elections. And last but not least, Jamaican Prime Minister Patterson might very well legalise the ganja culture and economy sometime this coming winter.Similar proposals were made at the end of September by the Senlis Council, a think tank on drug policy funded by a Swiss millionaire. In a conference in the Afghan capital, Kabul, they
 presented a proposal to legalise parts of the Afghan opium production in order to produce morphine and other opium based medicines for both domestic use and export. Meanwhile, in view of the increasing oil prices and the need for renewable substitutes, Info-Chanvre from Switzerland offered to organize supplies of hemp fuel oil for Switzerland, and called for other hemp farmers to pressure the government to obtain suppression of taxes on vegetable oils destined for domestic heating purposes.As a platform of more than 120 grassroots organisations from 27 European countries, ENCOD is trying to raise the voice of citizens who want to replace injustice and stupidity in drug policy by justice and effectiveness. Our membership is by no means wholly drawn from the 10% of the European population (35 million people) who actively use currently illicit drugs, but also their parents, health workers, e

[cia-drugs] Escape to Canada. Premieres Sept. 19. Cannabis featured, too. Documentary.

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Escape to Canada will premiere at Montreal at the Cinema Quartier Latin on September 19 at 4:20 (of course) and the theatre is located on 350 rue Emery! (I kid you not) So if you are in the area come out!!! and Show your support for all the issues in this documentary! It will also play in Calgary on Sept 30 (9:30) and Oct 1 (midnight) http://www.calgaryfilm.com/schedule.php?fd=98 

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Goodster wrote under my name by mistake:  Melissa and I are going to be there. We were invited because we are both in the film. They quote Melissa from the Million Marijuana March in Toronto and me at the cafe. They also filmed at the cafe for about a week getting interviews and stock b-reel footage. Melissa is the one holding the Cannabian Flag in the bottom left hand corner of the picture below at Fill The Hill in Ottawa. Matt Mernaugh is the one smoking the joint and I know that grey hared guy in the middle but can't remember his name.  Chris Puff Mama Cookies For Sale At The Up In Smoke Cafe Post Extras:           





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Looking forward to getting out of province for a little vacation. The trailer for this film is amazing. I can't wait to watch. Not quite sure if Christian will be travelling with us or having a vacation of his own with his grandparents??? Chris and I are still in the midst of this discussion... See y'all there. P.S. My avatar photo was taken at this time with the photo above where I am holding the Cannabian Flag in the bottom left hand corner. It was actually for the Bush Go Home protest in November 2004. That grey hared guy in the middle of the picture comes in to the store every once in a while. At least that is where I remember him from, although, I do not remember his name either. Edited by Goodsters Wife (Wed Sep 14 2005 05:24 PM) Post Extras:           





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I have been waiting for this movie for almost a year it seems. Any idea if it's going to be played in the Toronto area? I had problems with my appetetite so my buddy gave me a joint, it worked so well I smoked half of it and ate the other. - Rodney Dangerfield Post Extras:           





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 Re: "Escape to Canada" premieres in Montreal Monday! *DELETED* *DELETED* [Re: Goodsters Wife]       #1151519 - Wed Sep 14 2005 06:57 PM 




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Yes.Chris tells me that they are going to be taking the movie to BC, Alberta, the prairies and then back to Toronto by the December. The producers hope that they will be granted a limited release by December.I will ask some questions when I am there and post my answers here once home again. Post Extras:      
     
 
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[cia-drugs] Get some FREE Willie Nelson ROLLING PAPERS!!! Countryman CD [Fwd]

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Please forward widely. I heard Willie Nelson's great cover version of the Jimmy Cliff  reggae song "The Harder They Come".http://www.reggae-reviews.com/hardertheycome.htmlHeard it on VH1 or MTV recently. There is also a sound clip on the webpage linked below. Willie's "Countryman" CD is out now.
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Help out Willie. Get papers. 
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The Harder They Come
Well they tell me of a pie up in the sky Waiting for me when I die But between the day you're born and when you die They never seem to hear even your cry 
So as sure as the sun will shine I'm gonna get my share now of what's mine And then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, One and all Ooh the harder they come the harder they'll fall, One and all 
Well the oppressors are trying to keep me down Trying to drive me underground And they think that they have got the battle won I say forgive them Lord, they know not what they've done 
'Cause as sure as the sun will shine I'm gonna get my share now of what's mine And then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, One and all Ooh the harder they come the harder they'll fall, One and all 
And I keep on fighting for the things I want Though I know that when you're dead you can't But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave 
So as sure as the sun will shine I'm gonna get my share now of what's mine And then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, One and all Ooh the harder they come the harder they'll fall, One and all 
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[cia-drugs] Marc Emery rallies made front page of Google news today! Cannabis Liberation Week.

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Vancouver Sun (subscription)Pot activist rallies supportGlobe and Mail - 19 hours agoBy AMY CARMICHAEL. Vancouver — Marc Emery took a quick hit from a joint as his fans smoked and screamed for his freedomin front of the US consulate. The self-proclaimed Prince of Pot, faces extradition for ...
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[cia-drugs] Buenos Aires. Sept 7-9 Latin American Antiprohibitionist meeting for drug-policy reform.

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From: "Silvia Inchaurraga" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fw: LATIN AMERICAN ANTIPROHIBICIONIST MEETING FOR DRUG-POLICY REFORMDate: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:37:40 -0300




  

LATIN AMERICAN ANTIPROHIBICIONIST MEETING FOR DRUG-POLICY REFORM
 
1st REGIONAL LEGISLATORS AND JUDGES SYMPOSIUM ON DRUG POLICIES
 
September 7, 8 and 9, 2005
Buenos Aires
 
The Latin American Drug-Policy Reform Network (REFORMA) wishes to invite the Latin American and international news media to join us at the Latin American Antiprohibicionist meeting for drug-policy reform; the 1st Regional Legislators and Judges Symposium on Drug Policies.
The Latin American REFORMA coalition seeks to reform the region’s drug policies from an antiprohibitionist legislation perspective and a Harm Reduction approach to health policies in view of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGASS) to be held in Vienna in 2008.
Both forums will begin on Wednesday September 7, 2005 at 17h30 and will continue on the 8th and 9th, ending at 19h30. The conferences will be held in the “Manuel Belgrano” chamber of the Senate House of the Republic of Argentina (Congress Zone) in Buenos Aires. 
REFORMA is composed of a Coordinating/Exective Comité with representatives from Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Jamaica and Uruguay. The members of this Committee represent Latin American organizations with wide experience in drug policies and Harm Reduction, and the coalition’s founding principles are the defense of Human Rights and social justice. 
The symposium will address:

Drug-policy reform in the face of the failed war on drugs, the global and regional impact of drug prohibition 
Comparative legislative and criminal justice approaches, a critical approach to drug conventions 
Legal and judicial aspects of decriminalization and legalization, legislative proposals in Latin America 
Harm reduction and its role in drug policy reform and peasant and social movements confronted by prohibition.
Cooperating and participating institutions include the Tides Foundation, the International Antiprohibitionist League (LIA), Drug Reform Coalition DRCNET, the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD), the Argentinean Harm Reduction Association (ARDA), the Uruguyan group El Abrojo, the Colombian academic and human rights association Mama Coca,
 NORML Jamaica and Brazil’s Psicotropicus. A number of the region’s legislators will play a key role in this meeting to assess legislative proposals to reform drug policy in the name of Human Rights.
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Dra. Silvia Inchaurraga, Executive Comittee REFORMA, ARDA President [EMAIL PROTECTED] – (0341)155325208 . 
 
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[cia-drugs] 1000s dying NOW in New Orleans! Bush feds?

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An interview by the New Orleans mayor was played again just NOW on the Air America radio network. He asks people to keep talking about this. Please forward internationally. Maybe we can embarrass Bush out of his inaction, and little but talk.He is PLEADING FOR HELP. He and the interviewer both broke down at the end of the interview. The FEDS are hardly helping. Bush is hardly helping. It is all talk and little action. CONVERGE ON NEW ORLEANS NOW. GO YOURSELF IF NECESSARY AND DRIVE PEOPLE OUT ---Stop everything you are doing and pass this info on. It is a crisis NOW!15,000 people still in convention center in New Orleans NOW this morning! Thousands in the SuperDome. People still stuck in attics.All they need is to be driven out! There is no drinking water. Dehydration can kill in a day if people are already suffering from infections, illness, cuts, stress. Much of the
 looting is for safe water and other liquids, clean clothes, food, etc.. There is no way to clean clothes. There is NO WATER!!!It is Friday 4 days after Hurricane Katrina hit. And Bush still refuses to immediately send in the Federal National Guard, buses, gasoline, and water to get the dying people out of New Orleans NOW. Hundreds have died in New Orleans while waiting on immediate Federal help. They are DYING NOW.The feds need to commandeer everything that can be driven and boated into New Orleans. NOW!-Article begins-http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1452244.htmLast Update: Friday, September 2, 2005.In quotes: Chaos in New OrleansNew Orleans has descended into chaos in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Katrina. Following are quotes about the situation on the
 ground.---CNN reporter Chris Lawrence, who is holed up with a group on the roof of a police station in the middle of New Orleans:"Right now it's the only safe place to be in the city. We were on the street earlier but the police said under no circumstances would you be safe on the street.""They said anybody walking in the streets of New Orleans is basically taking their life in their hands."As they hustled us off the street some of the officers told us that groups of young men had been looting the city, shooting at people, attempting to rape young women."They directed some of the young women to get off the street immediately."Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco:"Three hundred of the Arkansas National Guard have landed in the city of New Orleans."These troops are fresh back from Iraq, well trained, experienced, battle-tested and under my orders to restore order in the
 streets."They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded."These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will."Thomas Jessie, a 31-year-old roofer, who spent a night in the New Orleans convention centre:"We got dead bodies sitting next to us for days. I feel like I am going to die. People are going to kill you for water."This is America, I don't understand the lack of communications between the authorities and the people."It is disgusting, we feel we have been forgotten."A New Orleans police officer, who asked not to be identified:"This city knew something like this would happen a long time ago. They did nothing to prepare for this. They just rolled the dice and hoped for the best."People were raped in [the Superdome, where refugees were living]. People were killed in there. We had multiple riots."You can't be trapped in there for so long
 without going crazy. People were locked in the dome like prisoners."There was no ventilation. We had 80 to 90-year-old people who needed medication and couldn't get it."Baron Duncan, describing the time he spent inside the Superdome:"The last few days were utter hell. The stench was unbearable. We were treated like animals."There was shooting, our lives were in danger. A seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy got raped."Audrey Jordan, who also sought refuge in the Superdome:"We were treated like this was a concentration camp. One man couldn't take it. He jumped over the railing and died."Japanese tourist Ryo Gotanda, who is trapped in New Orleans:"We are lost. We are tourists. We don't know how to get around, how to protect ourselves. It is like being in a jungle."People were staring at us, waving clubs [when we walked through one inner-city neighbourhood]."I was scared. For the first time in my
 life I thought I would die."Australian woman Kelly-Rae Smith, whose parents are hiding on a road overpass with 40 other tourists after their hotel was flooded:"The violence is escalating. There are shootings. They have three dead bodies at the bottom of the stairwell where they are."They have a payphone but have to strategically plan when they go."There's so much violence going on even the SWAT team has locked themselves in their building."Robert Lewis, 46, after spending two days at a shelter before being shifted to Houston:"Call it bib

[cia-drugs] USA seeks life in prison for Marc Emery! Vancouver Sun. Images.

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Please forward widely. 
Cannabis Culture Forum. Current News and Events.http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Board=current 
Marc Scott Emery. Free Canada's Prince of Pot!  

http://gallery.marihemp.com/marc-emery
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U.S. seeking life sentence for selling seeds.http://news.google.com/news?q=marc+emeryhttp://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d3aa799f-0e0a-45b3-9a56-2ddea3403741http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1126032http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1126516 

















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Uncle Sam orchestrates Vancouver pot busts
 
'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery Nabbed in Halifax: Seed shipping business shut down by police



 

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While pot advocate Marc Emery was being arrested in Halifax, his supporters gathered outside his Hasting Street store to protest the U.S.-directed raid on the premises with signs and flags.
 

Pot advocate Marc Emery was arrested Friday in Halifax after his marijuana-seed shipping business on Hastings Street was shut down by police as part of a sweeping investigation instigated by U.S. authorities.
Vancouver police raided Emery's multi-million-dollar business on a request from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), while angry protesters gathered outside chanting "Go home USA."
Emery, 47, referred to as "The Prince of Pot" on the search warrant, was arrested by the RCMP and police in Halifax.
He is charged in the U.S. with several drug-related charges, including conspiring to distribute marijuana seeds and launder money.
Gregory Keith Williams, 50, and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek, 34, both alleged to be involved in the long-established business, were also arrested in Vancouver on similar charges.
Tempers flared in Vancouver Friday when four protesters were arrested after attempting to block a police van loaded with seized goods from Emery's company, Mark Emery Direct, which is located in a storefront at 307 West Hastings.
The store also houses the office of the B.C. Marijuana Party and Pot-TV.
Chris Bennett, manager of Pot-TV, said he was working in Emery's Vancouver office Friday morning when two undercover Vancouver police officers approached him.
"I was on the phone and these guys walked in -- they looked like hippies or something -- and they told me to hang the phone up," Bennett said.
"I said, 'What's this all about?' and they said they were the VPD."
Bennett was told to leave the premises while police began their search and seizure.
"They just sent me out," he said. "They didn't even search my body."
The search warrant included all records pertaining to the Marc Emery Direct seed-selling business, including client lists, invoices and employee records from as a far back as September 1995.
Police took down storefront signs and covered the windows with paper, while about 25 chanting protesters banged on makeshift drums outside.
Two American flags were hung upside-down on a nearby fence.
"This is a place where people could pull out a joint and not have to fear being reported to the police, and that was okay with Canadians," said David Malmo-Levine, who was one of the four protesters later arrested.
"It's really an attack on our sovereignty."
The search was requested by the U.S. government through the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, a federal law administered by the Department of Justice.
The warrant was authorized Thursday in B.C.'s Supreme Court, based on an affidavit provided by a Vancouver police officer.
U.S. authorities say the warrant was the result of an 18-month investigation of Emery's international seed-selling business.
The investigation involved about 38 DEA offices across the U.S. and allegedly linked marijuana seeds sold by Emery to indoor grow operations in several states, including New Jersey, Michigan and Florida.
Jeff Sullivan, assistant U.S. attorney, alleged Friday during a news conference that more than 75 per cent of the seeds sold by Emery were sold to people in the U.S., and Emery was making about $3 million a year selling seeds and marijuana-growing equipment.

"He is a drug dealer," Sullivan said of Emery, who has been in business since 1994.
"The fact is, marijuana is a very dangerous drug. People don't say that, but right now in America, there are more kids in treatment for addiction to marijuana than every other illegal drug combined."
Sullivan said Emery is facing a maximum sentence of life in prison.
U.S. authorities have requested that Emery remain in custody until extradition proceedings are concluded, but Sullivan 

[cia-drugs] Barcelona cannabis tradeshow. Oct. 10-17, 2005. 20,000 expected.

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For much info in English: 
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MARIHUANA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
From: "MARIHUANA" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: sobre la marihuna, about marihuana, feria, tradeshowDate: 28 Jul 05 01:20:00 +0100

La feria del (cañamo cannabis marihuana) más grande del mundo.. Visitela y disfrute de una semana en Barcelonadel 10 al 17 de Octubre 2.005.
http://www.cometohighlifebcn.com/
The biggest hemp tradeshow in the world. Come to visit it during one week in Barcelona from October the 10th to 17th 2005
http://www.cometohighlifebcn.com
 
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Highlife BCN, apart from being just a trade show, is a festival where you can discover the newest product developments related to the world of cannabis while enjoying music, performances, interesting expositions, fashion shows, seminars and much more. 
The fair venue, La Farga de l'Hospitalet , is located in the heart of the city. Access is easy from the airport (10 minutes in taxi) or from Barcelona center in train, metro, bus, or taxi. Both pay and free parking is available close to the fair in an industrial zone. Those who wish to stay the weekend in Barcelona have at their disposition hotels of all categories situated in downtown Barcelona and in the city of Hospitalet . 
The most important Cannabis fair in the world, after the success of the 2004 event, is about to return to Barcelona the 14, 15, and 16 th of October this year. It will be an unmissable opportunity for anyone and everything that has anything to do with the world of marijuana, whether you're a professional or afficionado. 
After organizing the Highlife BCN fair in 2004 and more than eight years of experience in Highlife Utrecht, all of it's collaborators, prestige, and convocation capacity make the base which will convert Highlife BCN 2005 into an event of worldwide reference with a projected public count of over 20.000. If you add to all this the famous climate, food, hospitality, and easy living of the Mediterranean people, it should follow that the forecast for this year's fair is naturally perfect. 
If you have a business, are a wholesaler, or manage an association it is essential that you are represented in the largest cannabis festival in the world. The most important brands and wholesalers in the sector are already signed up. Don't hesitate to send us your application with your personal or company information by internet or post. You will find the registration forms on our website along with prices, offers, and availability. 
 
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[cia-drugs] Akha Journal: Across Laos, Vietnam, China Akha. [Fwd]

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Dear Friends:
 
Due to security reasons I can not disclose full details but we make some very good progress for the Akha in travels to Laos, Vietnam and China.
 
The traveling in China is very rough. 
 
Laos is a very beautiful country.
 
Vietnam, well, if there was a road from hell, we found at least part of it, and the bus that runs on that road too.
 
We still have much to do and we very much need your financial support at this time to help cover costs of work we do on behalf of the human rights situation of the Akha at this very moment.
 
Please make a donation at this time to support this ongoing effort we are engaged in.
 
The situation for the Akha in Laos is more secure than in Thailand though there are problems.  However the situation for the ethnic people in Laos over all appears to be more secure.
 
We will have more news to report shortly as we are able.
 
We thank you for your donation to this effort.
 
We also want to thank the Akha who are putting in valiant efforts and to our friends in Czech Republic, Germany, England, the US, Africa, Canada, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, France, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Laos, Peru and Switzerland who are helping out with this case. And many more who I must thank.
 
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[cia-drugs] CIA and War on Drugs. July 21 article, photos. Minneapolis press.

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The CIA and the War on Drugs. July 21, 2006. Pulse of the Twin Cities - Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper.Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1949
 
 




THE FIX:Thursday 21 July @ 21:29:55 

The CIA and the War on Drugsby Ed FelienPreface The British East India Company exercised monopoly control of the growing of opium in India and its transport and importation to China as early as 1750. Chinese Emperors objected. They issued edicts against its use. Foreign traders were ordered to surrender their opium in 1839. The British sent in warships, beginning the First Opium War. In 1841 the British defeated the Chinese. The Chinese had to pay a large indemnity and surrender Hong Kong. A little later some Chinese threw chests of opium into the sea in imitation of the American Revolution. The British were not amused. The British and French
 renewed hostilities toward the Chinese, beginning the Second Opium War. The British won large indemnities and the importation of opium was legalized in 1856. As early as 1800 the British Levant Company was purchasing opium in Turkey for importation to the U. S. Smuggling was the sport of the ruling class in the first years of the 19th century. In 1805 Charles Cabot (of the Boston Cabots) was involved in trade from the British to the Chinese, and John Jacob Astor purchased 10 tons of opium in Turkey to sell to the Chinese. A lot of that opium found its way to America, either directly through importation to New York City or through the immigration of Chinese and consequent opium dens in San Francisco.Heroin was invented by Heinrich Dreser in 1895 while working for Bayer Drug Company. Bayer introduced it as a substitute for morphine. By 1903 heroin addiction
 had risen to alarming rates. By 1924 heroin was made illegal and the black market and the underworld were born.In the early years of the 20th century, Corsican gangsters purchased opium from Turkey and from Burma through the French colony of Vietnam. They refined it in Marseilles, making it into heroin, and they brought it to New York to be distributed by the Mafia. 

World War II, the Mafia and the OSS
World War II disrupted trade routes. Germany controlled much of the eastern Mediterranean, and the Japanese controlled Burma and Vietnam. The French convinced Hmong farmers to cultivate opium to insure a regular supply, but distribution routes to the United States were upset because Mussolini had virtually wiped out the Mafia in Sicily. With Lucky Luciano in prison and the European connections cut off, the American Mafia was in a sad state of disrepair in 1942. But then, Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky had a great idea: “Why not join the war effort, liberate Sicily and restart the business?” He was able to sell the OSS (the Office of Strategic Services, the early precursor of the CIA) on his idea that the Mafia in Sicily would operate as a local resistance movement. The Mafia would assist in the liberation of Sicily if they could run Sicily and Naples after the United
 States left. Also, Luciano would have to be released from prison. The OSS agreed and thus was born the first of many “bargains with the devil” that was to become the mold in which all future relations with the underworld and criminal class were cast. Most people in the OSS probably had no idea of the extent of the relationship. Many of those who did turned a blind eye to the role the Mafia played in the transportation of heroin to New York City. But some others did see the OSS setting up the drug smuggling operation on very similar lines to what would happen in Vietnam. [See, in particular, “A Pledge Betrayed,” Part 5, The OSS in Europe.]
Vietnam
When the French lost at Dienbienphu in 1954, they agreed to leave Vietnam. They and the Viet Mihn agreed to a temporary partition of the country into North and South Vietnam, and then in a year there were to be national elections and unity. Eisenhower, in his book, “Mandate for Change,” admits the United States couldn’t let elections happen because the Communists would have won them. So, even though the United States signed the agreements and said they would abide by them, the United States sent “advisors” into South Vietnam to set up a series of puppet governments to maintain the fiction of two Vietnams. The CIA also inherited the Meo tribes and the Hmong in the mountains. These people had been clients of the French, now they were clients of the Americans. They continued to grow opium and planes still flew the opium to Marseilles, but now they were U.S. planes from Air America, the new CIA charter airline.Narconon International says in the 1950s, before there were overt hostilities, “U. S. efforts to contain the spread of Communism in Asia involves forging alliances with tribes and warlords inhabiting the areas of the Golden Triangle, (an expanse covering Laos, Thailand and Burma), thus providing accessibility and protection along the southe

[cia-drugs] Gaza. Jewish settler parallels to Christianist schooling.

[Eco Man]

 
This is background for the Boaz Wachtel articles. Can anybody say "kaneh bos" - Hebrew for cannabis in the Old Testament. In the Hebrew Kaneh-bosem is plural. The singular then is rendered Kaneh-bos. :)
 

 
These unfortunate kids being indoctrinated in fundamentalist Jewish, Christianist, and Islamist schools. Cannon fodder for their parents' spiritual ignorance.
 
 
 
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World Peace Herald. July 15, 2005.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050715-034151-4027r
 
 

Children's role in Gaza protest sparks concernBy Amelia ThomasMiddle East Times Published July 15, 2005 
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza -- In readiness for Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza, anti-disengagement activists are lugging huge loudspeakers into Jewish settlements in Gush Katif that are designated to be dismantled. They intend to broadcast messages from local children to try to persuade frontline Israeli disengagement forces to refuse orders to remove the settlers.  This is not the first time that children will be brought into the conflict between the settlers and the state. In the much-publicized children's letter-writing campaigns to the Israeli cabinet and Sela, the Administration for Assistance to Gaza Residents included such phrases as "Elei Sinai is our home, and I'll never leave it," and "It is not fair to expel us from here," written by children as young as eight.
Some commentators feel that Gush Katif's children, however young, are every bit as entitled as their parents to have their views heard by the world. Moreover, having lived in the area their entire lives, they are seen as astute observers of the Gaza settlements, and of their current precarious situation.  "Anne Frank was only young," said one Neve Dekalim parent, "but she knew what was right and what was wrong, and what the enemy had in store for her."  Others, however, believe that parents like this are unfairly indoctrinating their children, since the disengagement is not an expulsion they say, but a move towards peace. Thus, the children are forced into a frightening situation of paranoia, they argue, being encouraged to believe in an Israeli 'enemy' which does not in fact exist.  Still
 others believe that some irresponsible settler parents are simply using young children as pawns in the game, encouraging them to write letters and attend protests in a thinly veiled attempt at emotional blackmail.  But whatever the reasons behind the public outcry coming from Gaza's some 3,000 Jewish children, the effect on their psychological health, say experts, is grave.  According to a study conducted in early 2002 by the Adler Center for Child Welfare and Protection at Tel Aviv University, 11 to 13 year olds in Gaza settlements have been exposed to five times more terror incidents than their 'mainstream' Israeli peers. This, says researchers, has led to high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder: the rate of settler children receiving counseling far exceeds the national average.  Moreover, youth coordinator
 Amatzia Yehieli of the Gaza Shore Regional Council recently expressed her concerns over Gush Katif's older teenagers, who are heavily involved in the demonstrations sweeping the country. Should the disengagement proceed, she said recently, the youth suicide rate could leap dramatically. The greater the teenagers' determination to succeed, she added, the greater their sense of loss on the 'day after'.  But despite the emotional hurdles they face, Gaza's younger Jewish generation is rising to the challenge of fighting the disengagement plan in every way possible.  Video footage of the frequent roadblocks plaguing Israel's roads show that the majority of the protestors are teenagers, and with schools broken up for the summer, they are free to protest as often as they wish.  The younger people are, by and large, those who
 stand at traffic junctions, distributing anti-disengagement orange ribbons to passing vehicles. At the beginning of July, it was teenagers who managed to infiltrate a Gaza army base - albeit only for a few minutes - in order to attempt to persuade disengagement soldiers to disobey orders.  Young people were responsible for the recent takeover of a Palestinian home in Muasi, near the Neve Dekalim settlement, and the subsequent lynching of 18-year-old Hilal Majaida.  Youth leaders in Gaza, however, are keen to stress that most of those involved in these crimes were not Gaza children, but the more radical, violent West Bank 'hilltop youth'.  Many teenage protestors from both Gaza and the West Bank have already been arrested for their involvement in these activities, and are serving time at Israel's Massiyahu prison in
 Ramle.  One 13-year-old girl was recently jailed for 35 days for refusing to identify herself to state authorities: In preparation for massive illegal protests over the summer, the State Prose

[cia-drugs] Alei Yarok offers new toke on pullout. Jerusalem Post.

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From a Google News search for Boaz Wachtel, an organizer for the Tel Aviv, Israel "Global Marijuana March," a yearly event in around 200 cities worldwide in early May.
Google News:
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Global Marijuana March:
*Tel Aviv, Israel. Link. 2. Media. 2. 3. CCthread. Gallery. wachtel"at"shani.net lior"at"alternative.org.il eran"at"alternative.org.il (substitute @ for "at" in the email addresses)
 

 
 
Jerusalem Post, Israel.
Alei Yarok offers new toke on pullout
 
 
Jun. 27, 2005 2:05  | Updated Jun. 27, 2005 5:07Alei Yarok offers new toke on pulloutBy NINA GILBERT










 

Activists of the pro-cannabis Alei Yarok party are on a mission to bring relaxation to Gaza during disengagement. 
On Sunday, party chairman Boaz Wachtel and group members campaigned in Gaza for the government to issue a temporary order to allow settlers and security personnel to use cannabis during planned evacuation of settlements in August to reduce the level of violence. 
However, Wachtel and his cohorts, who support the disengagement plan, mostly got a negative response to their idea. 
"A brawl started and we were nearly tossed out of the Maoz Hayam Hotel" where settlers were holed up, he said. 
The group also blocked a few roads in Gaza to give settlers "a taste of their own medicine in an act of defiance of their violent behavior." 
Wachtel said that according to research, cannabis is known for its relaxant properties and for its ability to reduce aggression and violent behavior. 
He said a sizeable amount of cannabis was grown in Gush Katif and the Palestinian area of Gaza. "In the extreme settlements there is a wideuse of cannabis," he claimed. 
During the visit, he said a few young settlers approached the group and expressed support for cannabis use to reduce violence. 
Wachtel had planned to quit politics in 2003 after a second unsuccessful run, but activists encouraged him to continue his efforts. He said he had a feeling that elections would be called inNovember, but emphasized that the party was operating year round to support medical use of cannabis. 
He said he was not concerned that supplies would diminish after the pullout from Gaza, attributing government prohibition to encouraging a high price on the black market. He blamed the government for what he said was terrorists making money off of the marijuana trade. "Itcontributes to the strengthening of terrorist organizations," he said of the prohibition.
 
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Alei Yarok offers new toke on pulloutJerusalem Post, Israel - Jun 26, 2005On Sunday, party chairman Boaz Wachtel and group members campaigned in Gaza for the government to issue a temporary order to allow settlers and security ... 



Settlers Urged to Smoke Pot During Gaza EvacuationCNSNews.com, VA - Jun 27, 2005... of cannabis among the settlers during the disagreement period in order to help avert violent behavior among adults," party chairman Boaz Wachtel said in a ... 



Settlers Urged to Smoke Pot During Gaza EvacuationTown Hall, DC - Jun 27, 2005... of cannabis among the settlers during the disagreement period in order to help avert violent behavior among adults," party chairman Boaz Wachtel said in a ... 
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[cia-drugs] Settlers Urged to Smoke Pot During Gaza Evacuation. CNSnews.

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From a Google News search for Boaz Wachtel, an organizer for the Tel Aviv, Israel "Global Marijuana March," a yearly event in around 200 cities worldwide in early May.
Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?q=boaz+wachtelGoogle web:http://www.google.com/search?q=boaz+wachtel
Global Marijuana March:
*Tel Aviv, Israel. Link. 2. Media. 2. 3. CCthread. Gallery. wachtel"at"shani.net lior"at"alternative.org.il eran"at"alternative.org.il (substitute @ for "at" in the email addresses)
 

 
 
CNSNews.com, Virginia. Cybercast News Service.
 
 
Settlers Urged to Smoke Pot During Gaza EvacuationBy Julie StahlCNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau ChiefJune 27, 2005Gush Katif, Gaza Strip (CNSNews.com) - Activists of all stripes are flocking to the Gaza Strip, some to lobby for pet causes, while others dig in to resist the Israeli government's disengagement plan.In a sideshow on Sunday outside a previously abandoned hotel in Gush Katif, which was recently reoccupied by settlers, activists from the Green Leaf Party urged Jewish settlers to use cannabis during the evacuation of the Gaza Strip, scheduled to begin in August.The Green Leaf Party, which won 1.2 percent of the vote in the last national elections (not enough for admittance to the Knesset) is promoting the legalization
 of marijuana.Members of the Green Leaf Party said in a statement that they were visiting the settlements in Gaza to "present a proposal to reduce violence and friction" during the disengagement.Their proposal was based on the claim that "medicinal use of prohibited drugs is common to fight severe pain and lethal threats." Morphine is a derivative of heroine; atropine (a nerve gas antidote) comes from an illegal, toxic hallucinogenic and cannabis is safer than aspirin, they argued."It is therefore our strong belief that the legal adviser to the government...should issue a temporary order and instruct the police not to enforce the prohibition of personal consumption of cannabis among the settlers during the disagreement period in order to help avert violent behavior among adults," party chairman Boaz Wachtel said in a statement handed out at the site.Wachtel said that the use of cannabis is high among settlers aged 18-30. But there was no way of
 confirming his comments.One man living at the hotel screamed at activists that the settlers aren't drug addicts and didn't want to be aligned with marijuana smokers.He shoved a Green Leaf activist who had a marijuana leaf insignia on his T-shirt. Police broke up the shoving match before it could escalate.Later, the cannabis activists blocked the road in Gush Katif as a "reprisal" for being kicked out of the hotel area."We blocked the traffic for a number of minutes so they would feel [what it is like]," said Wachtel later in a telephone interview in regards to the anti-disengagement activity of blocking roads as a form of civil disobedience.Send a Letter to the Editor about this article.
 
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[cia-drugs] Steve McWilliams. Press, rallies, remembrances. Med-pot activist.

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Google web:http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Steve+McWilliams%22
 
Google News:
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Medical marijuana activists plan memorial for Steve McWilliamsNorth County Times, CA - Jul 17, 2005SAN DIEGO - Medical marijuana activists plan to hold a memorial at City Hall Tuesday for Steve McWilliams, who killed himself on his 51st birthday Monday. ... 



A Martyr to a Cause, a Trouble Maker, or a Misguided FoolVoice of San Diego, CA - Jul 19, 2005... winning side. Steve McWilliams earned his hero status in September 2002 when he was arrested while trying to help others. Steve ... 



Mourning for Activist Brings Attention to Government's War on ...Drug Policy Alliance, DC - Jul 20, 2005... draped in black around Capitol Hill, protesters joined groups across the nation on Tuesday in mourning the loss of medical marijuana advocate Steve McWilliams. ... 




Medical pot backers plan vigils to mourn activistSan Diego Union Tribune, CA - Jul 17, 2005... public square where he poked government in the eye so many times, where he smoked marijuana in the open and even handed out samples, Steve McWilliams will be ... 



Medical Marijuana Activist MournedKFMB, CA - Jul 19, 2005A memorial service is being planned in several cities for medical marijuana activist Steve McWilliams, who committed suicide last week. ... 



Memorial To Be Held For Medical Marijuana Pioneer10News.com, CA - Jul 17, 2005SAN DIEGO -- Medical marijuana activists plan to hold a memorial at City Hall Tuesday for Steve McWilliams, who killed himself on his 51st birthday Monday. ... 



Feedback from our readersSan Diego CityBEAT, CA - Jul 20, 2005Activists everywhere were saddened to read of Steve McWilliams’ death [“The Front Lines,” July 13]. He worked constantly for ... 



proponent diesSan Diego CityBEAT, CA - Jul 13, 2005CityBeat was deeply saddened Tuesday morning to learn that Steve McWilliams, a long-time San Diego medical-marijuana activist, had died earlier that day. ... 



Medical pot activist honoredSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - Jul 20, 2005... In Washington, DC, 50 people marched from the Supreme Court to the Capitol, carrying placards declaring "The Federal Government Killed Steve McWilliams. ... 



HEALTH NEWSWashington Blade, DC - Jul 22, 2005... SAN DIEGO — A public memorial was held this week for medicinal marijuana advocate Steve McWilliams, who killed himself last week, the San Diego Union-Tribune ... 



Medical ReportHoustonvoice.com, TX - Jul 22, 2005... SAN DIEGO — A public memorial was held this week for medicinal marijuana advocate Steve McWilliams, who killed himself last week, the San Diego Union-Tribune ... 



HEALTH NEWSSouthern Voice, GA - Jul 22, 2005... SAN DIEGO — A public memorial was held this week for medicinal marijuana advocate Steve McWilliams, who killed himself last week, the San Diego Union-Tribune ... 



HEALTH NEWSSovo.com, Southern - Jul 22, 2005... SAN DIEGO — A public memorial was held this week for medicinal marijuana advocate Steve McWilliams, who killed himself last week, the San Diego Union-Tribune ... 



Medical ReportNew York Blade, NY - Jul 22, 2005... SAN DIEGO — A public memorial was held this week for medicinal marijuana advocate Steve McWilliams, who killed himself last week, the San Diego Union-Tribune ... 
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Vigils Honor Steve McWilliams : San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia.
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Vigils Honor Steve McWilliams

07/13/2005 MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENT AND PROVIDER, IN MENTAL AND PHYSICAL PAIN, TAKES LIFE
 Steve McWilliams committed suicide by overdose on July 12th. Read Steve's Last Words and commentary from his wife. He had been fighting federal charges for growing a small garden for the Shelter from the Storm Collective, in San Diego, was saddened over the Supreme Court decision in the Raich v. Ashcroft case. He was in a lot of pain, since he had been denied access to medical marijuana since his arrest in 2002. He had had to take powerful pharmaceutical opiates, anti-nausea, anti-migraine, etc. drugs in far higher amounts than when
 he had been able to medicate with marijuana. Apparently these medications were used in the overdose. Read more Americans for Safe Access put out a call for people all over the US to organize vigils to honor Steve McWilliams for the patient, caregiver, and activist he was. On July 19th vigils were held in 16 or more cities. In San Francisco, a vigil was held at 12 noon at Civic Center Plaza. In Oakland, there was a vigil at 5:30pm before the City Council meeting. There was a vigil in Santa Rosa at 8pm. More info about
 Steve's activism and the vigils | Indybay's Drug War Page 
 
 

 
 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd. [UncleSamSucks] Re: Crackdown on Christianist schools. Onward Christian Soldiers. Drug war.

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Various replies compiled below. I highly recommend reading the full article 
by Vietnam veteran Stan Goff that was excerpted in one of the replies below:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5224.htm
 
Replies are from these archived messages. Join the Yahoo Group to read the archive.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unclesamsucks/message/37508 andhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/unclesamsucks/message/37503 andhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/unclesamsucks/message/37505 andhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/unclesamsucks/message/37501
 
Date: Sun Jul 24, 2005  1:50 pm Subject: RE: [UncleSamSucks] Crackdown on Christianist schools. Onward Christian Soldiers. Drug war.
 Lest we get carried away with our anti-Christian rhetoric, let us identify the real problem here. It is not Christianity, per se, it is religious zealotry, and/or complacency 
 I am a Christian, have been for years, and plan on staying that way. That being said, you should understand that I, and many others, want to end the War On Some Drugs. The answer is not in religion forcing government's hand in a certain direction (remember how well that worked in the Middle Ages?), but in reminding religion of it's job- to be compassionate and offering a hand up to those who wish it, not pushing for more draconian laws and tactics. 
 I submit that those who do want those things have not read with any comprehension, any of the Gospels. Maybe I'll write a bit entitled, "The Drug War, what would Jesus do?" Hint, it would not mention imprisonment for those who enjoy using these substances.
 "Christians" these days have become lazy and complacent, as well, thus leading them to the conclusion that the government, and submission to it, is the Way, this means that we all get more time at ice cream socials and rummage sales- the backbone of Godliness, as you know. Support of thugs and whores is not what following Christ's teaching was about, though leading them from such, is.
 Any decent church keeps it's doors open to those in need. Those that are closed due to having gone on Crusades might want to ponder what their own "handbook" says regarding such behavior.
Randall, Pro-gun, drug, booze, and Liberty for all Christian
 
 
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Date: Sun Jul 24, 2005  7:32 pm Subject: Re: [UncleSamSucks] Re: Crackdown on Christianist schools. Onward Christian Soldiers. Drug war.
To me vietnam was a thin blue line on the horizon. Ship sailors never see much of the carnage but the 5" shells that we sent to coordinates called in by ground troops surely caused much of it.  Even on ship we had some cases of PTSD and more than a few anti war supporters. 
on 7/24/05 2:20 PM, ** wrote:
"They are your enemies--The Suits" 
 
 
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[ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5224.htm ]

Stan Goff: 'Hold on to your humanity: An open letter to GIs in Iraq'By Stan Goff (US Army Retired11/15/13: (CounterPunch) Dear American serviceperson in Iraq,I am a retired veteran of the army, and my own son is among you, a paratrooper like I was. The changes that are happening to every one of you--some more extreme than others--are changes I know very well. So I'm going to say some things to you straight up in the language to which you are accustomed.In 1970, I was assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, then based in northern Binh Dinh Province in what was then the Republic of Vietnam. When I went there, I had my head full of 
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I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Ourdestruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.From the inattention of the people to the concerns of theirgovernment, from their carelessness and negligence, I mustconfess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that theymay place too implicit a confidence in their public servants,and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this waythey may be made the dupes of designing men, and becomethe instruments of their own undoing.-- Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." ~Plato
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[cia-drugs] London Free Press. Western aggression fuels fanaticism.

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Quote from the article. Bracketed word was added later:
"The real solution to this growing violence is changing western [Christianist] policies in the Muslim world."
 
Just like the solution to the gang violence involved in the drug war is harm reduction and not violent Christianist drug war.
 
article begins
 
The London [Ontario, Canada] Free Press. July 24, 2005 article.http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/07/24/1145182-sun.html
 
 
Western aggression fuels fanaticism
Britain and the U.S. are paying for 80 years of Mideast meddling in pursuit of oil, London's mayor says.
 
ERIC MARGOLIS, Sun Media Newspapers. 2005-07-24 03:04:08
 
 
Having witnessed the first London transit bombing on July 7, this week's fizzled bombings, exactly two weeks later, brought both nasty deja vu and deep relief that the attacks only disrupted transit and badly frayed nerves. 
 
Thursday's incidents intensified the fierce war of words that has raged in Britain for the past two weeks over who was to blame for the original attacks.
 
Canadians should pay close attention because their latest dispatch of troops to Afghanistan, accompanied by adolescent tough talk, makes them a potential target for attack. 
 
British Prime Minister Tony Blair keeps insisting the young British-Pakistani men who staged the July 7 bombings were motivated by a rabid, misguided view of Islam, and incited by fanatical imams preaching a cult of hatred against the West. 
 
U.S. President George Bush and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard repeat a similar litany: Terrorism is caused by evil Muslims who hate the West because of its values, religion, freedoms and selfless efforts to bring the light of democracy and civilization to the benighted Islamic world. 
 
They insist attacks by Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with the West's military actions in the Muslim world, its efforts to control or plunder oil, or the corrupt, despotic regimes installed there by the U.S., Britain and France. It's all the fault of run-amok Islam and hate-mongers. 
 
British investigators believe the 7/7 attackers may have had links to radical Islamic groups in Pakistan, which is increasingly portrayed as the fount of Islamic terrorism. Pakistan's madrassas (religious schools) again came under heavy criticism for churning out young fanatics. 
 
Embarrassed by Britain's angry charges, Pakistan's military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, ordered his security services to round up the usual Islamic suspects. A "key al-Qaida terrorist" was suddenly arrested, Islamabad's standard response whenever Washington and London turn up the heat. 
 
Two weeks ago, from London, I wrote that the underground bombings were the despicable but inevitable retaliation of angry young Muslims for Britain's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Unsurprisingly, I received a good deal of flak. 
 
Still, an embarrassing leaked report from MI-5, Britain's security service, and a study by Chatham House, a leading U.K. non-partisan research group, confirmed links between the attacks, Afghanistan and Iraq. Polls show a majority of Brits agreed. 
 
London's popular mayor, Ken Livingstone, spoke for this silent majority, blaming "80 years of western intervention in Arab land because of our need for oil." 
 
The always-controversial Livingstone went on to accuse the U.S. and Britain of a double standard over terrorism. 
 
Though Livingstone is way to the left of most Britons, his words, echoing those of rogue MP George Galloway, reflect what many Britons think, but Americans dare not say: U.S. political policies and wars in the Mideast were responsible for 9/11 and other terrorist attacks. 
 
By playing Bush's Sancho Panza in the so-called war on terrorism -- seen by most Muslims as a western crusade against Islam -- Blair imported Mideast violence to Britain. 
 
Blaming Islamist fanaticism allows Bush and Blair to decouple their aggressive policies in the Muslim world from counter-attacks by small groups of terrorists. Israel initiated this policy of denial, long insisting its repressive policies in the occupied territories had nothing to do with Arab terrorist attacks. 
 
But anyone who claims you can bomb and occupy other people's nations and not get return fire is being either incredibly naive or untruthful. 
 
Murdering civilians in London, New York or Tel Aviv is a heinous crime. So was, to Muslims around the globe, the trumped-up invasion of Iraq that violated every norm of international law. So, too, is the ongoing U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the agony of Palestine. 
 
Deporting or jailing loudmouth Muslim radical clerics, closing madrassas, or simply blaming Islam will not stop the dangerous jihadist movement. Terrorist violence is the effect, not the cause. The real solution to this growing violence is changing western policies in the Muslim world. 
 
 
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[cia-drugs] Crackdown #2 on Christianist schools. Armageddonist march. Drug war.

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Know your enemy. Christianists are the root of all evil. Arch drug warriors.
War mongers and code-word racists. Armageddonists
who want a greater Israel (at Palestinian expense) so that God can fullfill
"prophecy," commence World War 3 Armageddon, and kill all those unbelieving
Jews. And everyone else who isn't Christianist and taken up by The Rapture. Just
a regurgitated KKK of pseudo-Christians.
 
  



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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/9/171831/355
 
(UPDATED) Racism alive and well in a N. Carolina school by Plutonium Page Thu
Dec 9th, 2004 at 14:18:31 PDT

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with
pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it
was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food,
clothes, and good medical care.
 
Quiz:
Those are passages from:
a. a book used in a Southern school in 1950
b. a book to be used in a Southern school in 2004

If you answered "a", you're wrong.

More below the fold.
 
Update [2004-12-10 4:9:11 by Plutonium Page]: Right on! E-mail does work.
They've decided not to use the pamphlet. Here's the press release (pdf).
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The passages I posted are from a booklet entitled 'Southern Slavery, As It Was'.
The booklet is to be used as part of the curriculum at Cary Christian School in
Cary, North Carolina.
School defends slavery booklet
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using
"Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical
justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as
people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to
different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is
used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South
and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern
perspective," he said.
The booklet isn't the only connection its two co-authors have with the school.
One of the authors, Douglas Wilson, a pastor in Moscow, Idaho, wrote a book on
classical education upon which the school bases its philosophy. Wilson's
Association of Classical and Christian Schools accredited Cary Christian, and he
is scheduled to speak at the school's graduation in May.
And the book's other author?
The booklet's other author, Steve Wilkins, is a member of the board of directors
of the Alabama-based League of the South. That is classified as a "hate group"
by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights group.
"Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins have essentially constructed the ruling theology
of the neo-Confederate movement," said Mark Potok, editor of the Southern
Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report.
Potok said people who argue that the South should secede again have latched onto
the writings of Wilson and Wilkins, which portray the Confederacy as the last
true Christian civilization.
I'm sure this isn't the only proud dad who thinks it's great:
Marcus Ranch, who has three daughters at Cary Christian, said he has no problem
with the school using the booklet. He said it offers an accurate portrayal that
is overlooked of how many slaves were treated kindly by their owners.
"That book is fine," Ranch said. "It does a good job with that particular
perspective."
 
When do the kids get their white hoods?
 
 

 
-snipped off many interesting comments-
 
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Another article:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=376
 
 
Taliban on the Palouse?
A religious empire based in Idaho is part of the far-right theological movement
fueling neo-Confederate groups
By Mark Potok
 
Some 350 students and others protested against Doug Wilson's 'Revolution &
Modernity' conference at the University of Idaho this February.
(Rajah Bose)
MOSCOW, Idaho -- The fliers showed up one day last fall, scattered around the
sprawling campus of the University of Idaho at Moscow and looking for all the
world like a routine advertisement for a couple of visiting scholars.
"Meet the Authors!" the one-page announcements shouted, referring readers to an
upcoming February conference on campus that would be featuring speakers Douglas
Wilson and Steven Wilkins, the co-authors of Southern Slavery, As It Was. There
followed five excerpted "highlights" from their book.
"Slavery as it existed in the South ... was a relationship based upon mutual
affection and confidence," the excerpts r

[cia-drugs] Crackdown on Christianist schools. Onward Christian Soldiers. Drug war.

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Know your enemy. Christianists are the root of all evil. Arch drug warriors. 
Bush's number one supporters. War mongers and code-word racists. Armageddonists 
who want a greater Israel (at Palestinian expense) so that God can fullfill 
"prophecy,"  commence World War 3 Armageddon, and kill all those unbelieving 
Jews. And everyone else who isn't Christianist and taken up by The Rapture. 
Just a regurgitated KKK.
 

 
 
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/9/171831/355
 
(UPDATED) Racism alive and well in a N. Carolina school by Plutonium Page Thu 
Dec 9th, 2004 at 14:18:31 PDT
Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with 
pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it 
was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence... 
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, 
clothes, and good medical care.


Quiz: 
Those are passages from: 
  a. a book used in a Southern school in 1950
  b. a book to be used in a Southern school in 2004 
If you answered "a", you're wrong. 
More below the fold. 


Update [2004-12-10 4:9:11 by Plutonium Page]: Right on! E-mail does work. 
They've decided not to use the pamphlet. Here's the press release (pdf).
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The passages I posted are from a booklet entitled 'Southern Slavery, As It 
Was'. 
The booklet is to be used as part of the curriculum at Cary Christian School in 
Cary, North Carolina. 
School defends slavery booklet 
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using 
"Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical 
justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as 
people think. 
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to 
different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet 
is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the 
South and explore what the Bible says about slavery. 
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern 
perspective," he said. 
The booklet isn't the only connection its two co-authors have with the school. 
One of the authors, Douglas Wilson, a pastor in Moscow, Idaho, wrote a book on 
classical education upon which the school bases its philosophy. Wilson's 
Association of Classical and Christian Schools accredited Cary Christian, and 
he is scheduled to speak at the school's graduation in May.


And the book's other author? 
The booklet's other author, Steve Wilkins, is a member of the board of 
directors of the Alabama-based League of the South. That is classified as a 
"hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights 
group. 
"Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins have essentially constructed the ruling theology 
of the neo-Confederate movement," said Mark Potok, editor of the Southern 
Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report. 
Potok said people who argue that the South should secede again have latched 
onto the writings of Wilson and Wilkins, which portray the Confederacy as the 
last true Christian civilization.


I'm sure this isn't the only proud dad who thinks it's great: 
Marcus Ranch, who has three daughters at Cary Christian, said he has no problem 
with the school using the booklet. He said it offers an accurate portrayal that 
is overlooked of how many slaves were treated kindly by their owners. 
"That book is fine," Ranch said. "It does a good job with that particular 
perspective."





When do the kids get their white hoods? 

 
-snipped off many interesting comments-

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Another article:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=376

Taliban on the Palouse?
A religious empire based in Idaho is part of the far-right theological movement 
fueling neo-Confederate groups
By Mark Potok


  Some 350 students and others protested against Doug Wilson's 'Revolution & 
Modernity' conference at the University of Idaho this February.
(Rajah Bose)
 

MOSCOW, Idaho -- The fliers showed up one day last fall, scattered around the 
sprawling campus of the University of Idaho at Moscow and looking for all the 
world like a routine advertisement for a couple of visiting scholars. 
"Meet the Authors!" the one-page announcements shouted, referring readers to an 
upcoming February 

[cia-drugs] Witch Hunts on Weed Rally [Renee Boje. Fwd]

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forwarded email begins
renee boje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: "renee boje" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RB: Witch Hunts on Weed RallyDate: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:54:34 +My name is Renee Boje and I am helping to organize a rally to raise awareness about the women on our planet who are being persecuted due to their association with cannabis, a sacred & healing herb. At the rally we will be highlighting various women who are going through what I like to refer to as modern day witch trials. A few of the cases we will be protesting are my own ( http://www.reneeboje.com ) for I face 10 years to life in the US for assisting a cancer and AIDS patient with their medicinal garden in California where medical cannabis was considered legal & I am currently fighting extradition from Canada to the US. We will also be highlighting Schapelle Corby a 27 year old Australian woman facing the death penalty in Indonesia
 for being caught at the Indonesian airport with cannabis and Lynn Wood, a pregnant mother of 3 living in New Brunswick, who is facing time for her involvement with a medical cannabis club there. The speakers involved will also be highlighting other women who are victims of the global war on cannabis, for there are many!The rally will take place on September 3rd at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 750 Hornby Street, downtown Vancouver. The time is not yet confirmed. We will be meeting at the gallery to enjoy lectures, music, performances and more and then we will march to the Indonesian Conulate together in protest of Shapelle Corby's imprisonment in Indonesia.I am looking for female musicians, dancers, poets and speakers to join in this very important event.We also welcome any male speakers to contact us who are interested in speaking at this event. We already have an incredible lineup of powerhouse female activists who
 have joined our cause, including Rielle Capler, of the BC Compassion Club Society, Professor Susan S Boyd who is the author of an enlightening book called "From Witches to Crack Moms", Bethan Rees, of the Bethan Rees Quartet ( http://www.siegelent.com/Acts/Receptions/Bethan%20Rees/act.htm ) and more! There are many incredible women who are interested and have yet to confirm so I shall keep their names hush hush for now, but thus far it looks like this is going to be an amazing rally!Please let me know if you would like to contribute in any way or if you have suggestions on women I might contact who may be interested in joining this very important cause.Thank you so much!Love & freedom,Renee Bojehttp://www.reneeboje.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[cia-drugs] Trial reopens. Schapelle Corby needs witness immunity. Bag Handlers planted pot.

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Schapelle Corby is a top story again in Google News worldwide:
http://news.google.com/ - Please forward widely.Prosecutors have previously said that they wanted to appeal her 20 year sentence in order to seek life in prison. All for the crime of finding cannabis in unlocked bags after they passed through many baggage handling areas notoriously known to be used for drug smuggling. Bag handlers in one airport pass on drugs to handlers in other airports. The handler-smugglers forgot to take the cannabis out of Corby's bags.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schapelle_Corby Google. Web: http://www.google.com/search?q=schapelle+corby Google News: http://news.google.com/news?q=schapelle+corby 
 
 
Police escort Corby into her appeal trial hearing Wednesday.
 

 
Only one witness took the stand on Wednesday
 
 
Corby dreads the court walkAdvertiser Adelaide - 46 minutes agoBy Marian Carroll in Denpasar, Bali. SCHAPELLE Corby had been dreading the reopening of her trial in Bali today because of one thing - "The Walk". That is what she calls the 50m ordeal she goes through when ... Corby arrives at court AustralianSchapelle Corby drug appeal opens CNN InternationalMelbourne Herald Sun - NEWS.com.au - Reuters.uk - Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - all 162 related »
 
From clicking the "162 related" link just above:
 




Corby dreads the court walkAdvertiser Adelaide, Australia - 44 minutes agoBy Marian Carroll in Denpasar, Bali. SCHAPELLE Corby had been dreading the reopening of her trial in Bali today because of one thing - "The Walk". ... 



Schapelle Corby's trial reopensBBC News, UK - 1 hour agoThe trial has reopened of an Australian woman sentenced to 20 years in a Bali jail for drugs smuggling, but key witnesses have failed to appear. ... 



Offer on Corby witness immunityMelbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 48 minutes agoJUSTICE Minister Chris Ellison today invited the defence team of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby to apply for immunity for anyone they believed could ... 



Corby gets 'last chance'ABC Online, Australia - 1 hour agoSchapelle Corby's legal team has won two extra weeks to put forward more witnesses for special hearings in her High Court appeal against her drug smuggling ... 



Corby faces court as case reopensThe Age (subscription), Australia - 1 hour agoConvicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's legal team has been given another two weeks and a final chance to find new evidence to back her claim of innocence. ... 



Corby case reopens in BaliABC Online, Australia - 1 hour agoSchapelle Corby's drug smuggling trial has reopened in Bali but key witnesses the defence had hoped would testify have failed to appear. ... 



Bali court gives Corby 2nd chance in drug trialReuters.uk, UK - 1 hour agoBALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - A Bali court on Wednesday gave Schapelle Corby, a convicted Australian drug smuggler, a second chance to call witnesses who her ... 




This is your last chance, judge tells CorbySydney Morning Herald (subscription), Australia - 2 hours agoSchapelle Corby's legal team has been given two weeks to find new evidence backing her claims of innocence. The trial of the 28-year ... 



Corby arrives at courtAustralian, Australia - 3 hours agoSCHAPELLE Corby has arrived to chaotic scenes outside a Bali courthouse where her drugs trial is being reopened today. Dozens of ... 



Get me out: Corby plea to CanberraNEWS.com.au, Australia - 3 hours agoCONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has pleaded with the Australian Government to help get her out of her Bali jail cell, saying she has had enough. ... 



Schapelle Corby drug appeal opensCNN International - 3 hours ago(CNN) -- Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's appeal trial has opened on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali Wednesday amid chaotic scenes. ... 



Corby pleads for help with witnessesABC Online, Australia - 5 hours agoConvicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has expressed disappointment that no witnesses from Australia will appear at her court hearing in Bali today. ... 



CORBY APPEAL BEGINSSpecial Broadcasting Service, Australia - 6 hours agoThe appeal hearing for convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby begins today in Bali but her lawyer says he will ask for an adjournment. ... 



Corby's lawyer: I have bag handler namesSydney Morning Herald (subscription), Australia - 8 hours agoSchapelle Corby's Jakarta lawyer says both Qantas and the Sydney Airport Authority have supplied him with the names of personnel who handled the convicted drug ... 



Corby legal team struggling for witnessesABC Online, Australia - 10 hours agoBy Indonesia correspondent Tim Palmer. Plans by Schapelle Corby's lawyers to present a series of witnesses to reopened hearings into ... 



Owner of Corby drugs `will testify'Advertiser Adelaide, Australia - 15 hours agoBy CINDY WOCKNER in Denpasar. ON THE eve of her re-opened drugs trial, Schapelle Corby's lawyers have revealed a sensational claim ... 



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[cia-drugs] Script of the Christianist Jihadists.

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It is a script. And Christianist Jihadists follow it religiously. :)
 
These are the same people fighting most hard for the drug war, 
and against the "demon weed." Please forward.
 

 
 
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Here is the script. An Australian TV station ran this show October 22, 2003.
 
Someone posted the transcript of the show at the link below. There is also video of the show there. You have to turn down your browser security down to at least medium to view the video.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5062.htm
 
Christian Jihadists 
Majority Leader Tom DeLay actively lobbies against a Palestinian state, based in part on his interpretation of the Bible. This politician is a hero at the prophecy conference.  
 




Left Behind: SBS. Australia. Datline: Broadcast 10/22/03


A storm erupted in Washington last week over an uneasy mix of religion and politics. A senior defence department official was castigated for claiming that God put George Bush into the White House to fight Satan. Controversial for some but for two American authors, religion and politics have proved astoundingly successful, clocking up book sales of 58 million. Bronwyn Adcock has more.
TRANSCRIPT:REPORTER: Bronwyn Adcock SPEAKER: Our goal is to challenge every person within the sound of our voices today, with the truth that soon Jesus Christ is going to come, and the central question is this - if Christ were to come today, are you ready for him to come? Getting ready for the second coming of Christ is why these people are here at this conference on prophecy in Houston, Texas. The guest today is a superstar in the world of biblical prophecy. Dr Tim LaHaye is an expert on the Bible's Book of Revelation, which some Christians interpret as a literal account of how the world will end. DR. TIM LAHAYE: Here we have the Rapture of the church is going to come at any time, possibly within the lifetime of many of us. After that there's a little 7-year tribulation period when God will shake the earth and give man an opportunity to who missed the Rapture to receive Christ. Dr LaHaye has turned his
 interest in prophecy into a publishing phenomenon, with a fiction series based on the Book of Revelation. Called 'Left Behind', the series begins with the key event in Revelation - the Rapture, when all believers are taken up to heaven and non-believers are left behind. Five of the books in series have debuted at number one on the US best-seller list. They regularly outsell authors like John Grisham and Stephen King. DR. TIM LAHAYE: That's happening all over America. Tim LaHaye says he got the inspiration on a plane trip 15 years ago when he was thinking about the Rapture. DR. TIM LAHAYE: And I was sitting there and the captain came out of the cabin and started flirting with a flight attendant. And I looked down and I noticed he had a wedding ring on but she didn't. And the sparks between them were obvious, and I began to think, Well now, what would happen if when he went back into the cabin, if she's pounding on the door and she's screaming,
 "Captain, there are 100 people missing from our aircraft?" MOVIE SCENE: They're not here, they're not anywhere, OK. Their shoes, their clothes, ... it's crazy. All left behind. The people are gone. 'Left Behind' has been made into a movie. While the film never came close to the success of the books, it tells the same story. The central character is the plane's captain. DR. TIM LAHAYE: And so he comes back and he turns to the co-pilot and he says, "You don't suppose this is that Rapture that my wife's been telling me about?" And then it dawns on him. If it is, when I get home, she'll be gone 'cause she was a Christian and I'll be left behind. And he becomes the hero for the entire series. While Christians are taken up to heaven, those left behind wage a 7-year battle on earth against forces led by the anti-Christ. REPORTER: I mean can you see why these books are so popular now? DR. TIM LAHAYE: Well,
 basically because there's an element of truth. It's fiction characters that describe the truth and so people want to know about the future and these books give it to them in a very short dose, an interesting manner. It's an excellent tool for education. WOMAN: I think you're amazing and I absolutely love the books, love them. It's not surprising that at the prophecy conference sales are booming. But this is a nationwide phenomenon. Including offshoots like children's books and videos, 58 million copies have sold, the vast majority in America. LaHaye claims the books have converted many people to Christianity. MAN: From reading 'Left Behind' series, I went on to read Revelation itself and I went on to read the Book of Daniel and I'm goin' on to study the Bible and just overall I've just got such a deep interest in it now. I can't believe it. I think about it every day. Everything I do causes me to think prophecy, future, God, Jesus, and it's all
 I think about. WOMAN: I think it was a brilliant idea that the