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Voting Machines have been HACKED!

Delysidz — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:51:32 GMT

** Voting Machines have been HACKED! ** So not only has it been shown that the Diebold voting machines can be manipulated using malicious code or a 'virus' to flip votes and spread itself to other machines without ever leaving any evidence trail...it has now been shown that every one of these voting machines has the same generic key which can easily be copied to gain unauthorized access to them. Oh and if that wasn't enough...you can even remotely access these voting machines using a little known Backdoor! In other words you can hack into them from another location... Other vulnerabilities on other voting machines from other corporations have also been found! No this isn't conspiracy theory rhetoric. Research it yourself if you care. Check out the Princeton UNIVERSITY website as well as the others I've included below... -----------LINKS------------- http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.html <--Princeton University http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3467 <--Brad Blog - HACKED: VIRUS IMPLANTED http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066 <--Brad Blog - Voting Machine Key Copied -------------------------------- Between this and the marginalizing of the black community from voting in Florida and Ohio(google 'American Blackout') ....I don't know how anyone can still believe that the election was NOT stolen.

Radioactive Tobacco

Delysidz — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:15:07 GMT

And you wonder why they call me paranoid? Hmmm, I think I'm just getting sick of the stench of lies. I've known about this for awhile and everybody I talk to about it shrugs this off as rhetoric. WAKE UP. We're being poisoned everyday with sp many different things, so that some dickless asshole can make an extra buck. All I ask is that you please spread the truth! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Radioactive tobacco by David Malmo-Levine (02 Jan, 2002) It's not tobacco's tar which kills, but the radiation! http://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_tobacco.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cannabis is often compared to tobacco, with the damage caused by smoking tobacco given as a reason to prohibit use of cannabis. Yet most of the harms caused by tobacco use are due not to tar, but to the use of radioactive fertilizers. Surprisingly, radiation seems to be the most dangerous and important factor behind tobacco lung damage. Radioactive fertilizer It's a well established but little known fact that commercially grown tobacco is contaminated with radiation. The major source of this radiation is phosphate fertilizer.1 The big tobacco companies all use chemical phosphate fertilizer, which is high in radioactive metals, year after year on the same soil. These metals build up in the soil, attach themselves to the resinous tobacco leaf and ride tobacco trichomes in tobacco smoke, gathering in small "hot spots" in the small-air passageways of the lungs.2 Tobacco is especially effective at absorbing radioactive elements from phosphate fertilizers, and also from naturally occurring radiation in the soil, air, and water.3 To grow what the tobacco industry calls "more flavorful" tobacco, US farmers use high-phosphate fertilizers. The phosphate is taken from a rock mineral, apatite, that is ground into powder, dissolved in acid and further processed. Apatite rock also contains radium, and the radioactive elements lead 210 and polonium 210. The radioactivity of common chemical fertilizer can be verified with a Geiger-Mueller counter and an open sack of everyday 13-13-13 type of fertilizer (or any other chemical fertilizer high in phosphate content).4 Conservative estimates put the level of radiation absorbed by a pack-and-a-half a day smoker at the equivalent of 300 chest X-rays every year.5 The Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety at Michigan State University reports that the radiation level for the same smoker was as high as 800 chest X-rays per year.6 Another report argues that a typical nicotine user might be getting the equivalent of almost 22,000 chest X-rays per year.7 US Surgeon General C Everett Koop stated on national television in 1990 that tobacco radiation is probably responsible for 90% of tobacco-related cancer.8 Dr RT Ravenholt, former director of World Health Surveys at the Centers for Disease Control, has stated that "Americans are exposed to far more radiation from tobacco smoke than from any other source."9 Researchers have induced cancer in animal test subjects that inhaled polonium 210, but were unable to cause cancer through the inhalation of any of the non-radioactive chemical carcinogens found in tobacco.10 The most potent non-radioactive chemical, benzopyrene, exists in cigarettes in amounts sufficient to account for only 1% of the cancer found in smokers.9 Smoke screen Surprisingly, the US National Cancer Institute, with an annual budget of $500 million, has no active grants for research on radiation as a cause of lung cancer.1 Tobacco smoking has been popular for centuries,11 but lung cancer rates have only increased significantly after the 1930's.12 In 1930 the lung cancer death rate for white US males was 3.8 per 100,000 people. By 1956 the rate had increased almost tenfold, to 31 per 100,000.13 Between 1938 and 1960, the level of polonium 210 in American tobacco tripled, commensurate with the increased use of chemical fertilizers.14 Publicly available internal memos of tobacco giant Philip Morris indicate that the tobacco corporation was well aware of radiation contamination in 1974, and that they had means to remove polonium from tobacco in 1980, by using ammonium phosphate as a fertilizer, instead of calcium phosphate. One memo describes switching to ammonium phosphate as a "valid but expensive point."15 Attorney Amos Hausner, son of the prosecutor who sent Nazi Adolf Eichmann to the gallows, is using these memos as evidence to fight the biggest lawsuit in Israel's history, to make one Israeli and six US tobacco companies pay up to $8 billion for allegedly poisoning Israelis with radioactive cigarettes.16 image: Adbusters Organic solutions The radioactive elements in phosphate fertilizers also make their way into our food and drink. Many food products, especially nuts, fruits, and leafy plants like tobacco absorb radioactive elements from the soil, and concentrate them within themselves.17 The fluorosilicic acid used to make the "fluoridated water" most of us get from our taps is made from various fluorine gases captured in pollution scrubbers during the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers. This fluoride solution put into our water for "strong teeth" also contains radioactive elements from the phosphate extraction.18 Although eating and drinking radioactive products is not beneficial, the most harmful and direct way to consume these elements is through smoking them.19 The unnecessary radiation delivered from soil-damaging, synthetic chemical fertilizers can easily be reduced through the use of alternative phosphate sources including organic fertilizers.20 In one test, an organic fertilizer appeared to emit less alpha radiation than a chemical fertilizer.21 More tests are needed to confirm this vital bit of harm-reduction information. Organic fertilizers such as organic vegetable compost, animal manure, wood ash and seaweed have proven to be sustainable and non-harmful to microbes, worms, farmers and eaters or smokers. Chemical phosphates may seem like a bargain compared to natural phosphorous, until you factor in the health and environmental costs. To ensure that cannabis remains the safest way to get high, we must always use organic fertilizers and non-toxic pesticides. We should also properly cure the buds, take advantage of high-potency breeding and use smart-smoking devices like vaporizers and double-chambered glass water bongs. These will all help to address concern over potential lung damage far more effectively than either a jail cell or a 12-step program. Tobacco smokers can also use this information to avoid radioactive brands of tobacco. American Spirit is one of a few companies that offers an organic line of cigarettes, and organic cigars are also available from a few companies. You can also grow your own tobacco, which is surprisingly easy and fun. Until the public has an accurate understanding of how phosphate fertilizers carry radiation, and why commercial tobacco causes lung cancer but cannabis does not, there will be many needless tobacco-related deaths, and increased resistance to the full legalization of marijuana. References 1. Winters, TH and Franza, JR. 'Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke,' New England Journal of Medicine, 1982. 306(6): 364-365, web 2. Edward A Martell, PhD. 'Letter to the Editor,' New England Journal of Medicine, 1982. 307(5): 309-313, web 3. Ponte, Lowell. 'Radioactivity: The New-Found Danger in Cigarettes,' Reader's Digest, March 1986. pp. 123-127. 4. Kilthau, GF. 'Cancer risk in relation to radioactivity in tobacco,' Radiologic Technology, Vol 67, January 11, 1996, web 5. Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. Website, 2001, web 6. Office of Environmental Health and Safety, Utah State University. 'Cigarettes are a Major Source of Radiation Exposure,' Safety Line, Issue 33, Fall 1996, web 7. Nursing & Allied Healthweek, 1996, 8. Herer, Jack. The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 11th edition, 1998. p. 110, web 9. Litwak, Mark. 'Would You Still Rather Fight Than Switch?' Whole Life Times, April/May, 1985. pp 11, web 10. Yuille, CL; Berke, HL; Hull, T. 'Lung cancer following Pb210 inhalation in rats.' Radiation Res, 1967. 31:760-774. 11. Borio, Gene. Tobacco Timeline. Website, 2001, web 12. Taylor, Peter. The Smoke Ring. Pantheon Books, NY, 1984. pp. 2-3, web 13. Smith, Lendon, MD. 'There Ought to Be a Law,' Chiroweb.com, November 20, 1992, web 14. Marmorstein, J. 'Lung cancer: is the increasing incidence due to radioactive polonium in cigarettes?' South Medical Journal, February 1986. 79(2):145-50, web 15. Phillip Morris internal memo, April 2 1980. Available online at www.pmdocs.com, web 16. Goldin, Megan. "'Radioactive' cigarettes cited in Israeli lawsuit." Reuters, June 23, 2000. 17. Health Physics Society, 'Naturally occuring radioactive materials factsheet,' 1997. see also: Watters, RL. Hansen, WR. 'The hazards implication of the transfer of unsupported 210 Po from alkaline soil to plants,' Health Physics Journal, April 1970. 18(4):409-13, web and web 18. Glasser, George. 'Fluoride and the phosphate connection.' Earth Island Journal, earthisland.org, web 19. Watson, AP. 'Polonium-210 and Lead-210 in Food and Tobacco Products: A Review of Parameters and an Estimate of Potential Exposure and Dose.' Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1983. Florida Institute of Phosphate Research. 20. Burnett, William; Schultz, Michael; Hull, Carter. 'Behavior of Radionuclides During Ammonocarbonation of Phosphogypsum.' Florida State University, Florida Institute of Phosphate Research. March, 1995, web 21. Hornby, Paul, Dr. Personal communication, 2001. • David Malmo-Levine: email dagreenmachine@excite.com • American Spirit: 1-800-332-5595; web www.nascigs.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This confidential Philip Morris document admits the presence of radioactive polonium-210 and lead-210 in the smoke of their commercial cigarettes. It explains that this is because there is crushed up uranium rock contained in the fertilizer they use on their tobacco plants. The document says that the problem could be remedied by changing to another type of fertilizer but that is "probably a valid but expensive point." Click below to see the memo: http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/issues/documents/landman/radioactive/rad1.gif

Starseed

Delysidz — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:09:56 GMT

Starseed Transmitted from Folsom Prison by Dr. Timothy Leary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Kohoutek will have a pale blue and yellow tail stretching out for somewhere between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 miles — the yellow portions of it in the shape of a scimitar. It will first be seen by the naked eye in mid-November and will look dull. But since it will be approaching the Sun at 250,000,000 miles an hour, it will brighten and from mid-December to Dec. 28 the peoples of the world will have the finest Christmas star ever." How about that, Chump? Do you still believe everything out there "just happened by accident." —From a "memo to a friend who is an atheist" in Bob Considine's September 16 column in the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. The quoted paragraph is from a release by the American Museum, Hayden Planetarium. The illustration facing the title page is from a photograph taken by Jose Tamez of an oil painting by Dali-Ah. ©1973 by Joanna Leary. All rights reserved Published for Joanna Leary by Level Press, San Francisco Cover design by Tim Leary & Dana Reemes THIS SIGNAL IS BEING TRANSMITTED from a cell in Folsom Prison, which is the Black Hole of American society. A Black Hole is a dense space with a heavy gravitational pull. Matter which falls into a Black Hole fades from view and disintegrates in the stress of gravity. Given sufficient time, its radiation becomes too feeble to be detected from without. Although the matter of the Black Hole cannot re-escape as matter, some of it may manage to escape in the form of feeble red radiation. Some cosmologists suggest that Black Holes are the link to another realization of matter. They may be passageways to another universe, just as the manholes of Paris lead to a world beneath the street. Well, the maximum security prison is a fine place from which to scan the universe. it's beyond pure, undiluted bad. As good as good can be. Out here, beyond good and evil, one sees America in pain, injured nervous systems propelling robot-bodies in repetitious, aimless motion along paths labeled rights and wrong. I watch hardened criminals watching Ehrlichman on television protesting that his personal rights have been violated. Sri Krishna Prem, the wisest man in India, sat on the floor of his little mountain-top ashram showing me pictures from medieval alchemical books. He pointed to the design of a man standing naked with devil on one shoulder, angel on the other. He said, "When you understand that, you can go on to the next lesson." The next lesson was a parable about a great castle that was separated from shore by a swamp. Pilgrims, searchers, warriors seeking the castle disappeared into the marsh because each rock they stepped on sank from view. The Hero and his mate sat on the bank and watched for days. Then He rose and held his hand to Her. He whispered the instructions that Sri Krishna Prem transmitted to me: "Leap from rock to rock more swiftly than they sink. The trick is simple. Have courage and keep moving." Each spot we stand on crumbles beneath us, becoming a launching pad for the next stride. From the far future, I transmit these messages back to planet earth. Beware of the Hindu trap. It's anti-sexual. The guru, God, and the swami universe is a soft. sweet custard mush. Undifferentiated unity. True unity is contacted through increasing precision of differentiations. Psi-phy. Philosophy of science. The universe is not chaos ruled by casual chance. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is pessimistic nineteenth century fraud. Tensile structures emerge and lawfully evolve because of the underlying magnetic charging. Positive-negative. WoMan. Life is an interstellar communication network. Life is disseminated through the galaxies in the form of nucleotide templates. These "seeds" land on planets, are activated by solar radiation. and evolve nervous systems. The bodies which house and transport nervous systems and the reproductive seeds are constructed in response to the atmospheric and gravitational characteristics of the host planet, the crumbling rock upon which we momentarily rest. Evolution is concerned with nervous systems and the sexual attractive efficiency of bodies, the expansion of consciousness. The human being is the robot carrier of a large brain, conscious of being conscious. A robot designed to discover the circuitry which programs its behavior. The nervous system is the instrument of consciousness. When mankind discovered the function and infinite capacities of the nervous system, a mutation took place. The metamorphosis from larval earth-life to a higher destiny. The person who has made this discovery becomes a time-traveler. A Psi-Phy entity. When Astronaut Mitchell saw the green jewel of earth against the black velvet expanse of interstellar distance, he became Psi-Phy. Ecology is a low-level distraction. Psi-Phy boy scouts picking up trash. The genetic goal is communication. Telepathy. Electronic sexuality. Reception and transmission of electromagnetic waves. The erotics of resonance. The entire universe is gently, rhythmically, joyously vibrating. Cosmic intercourse. This is a message of hope and interstellar love from the Black Hole. Irrepressible optimism. Yes, it is true that repressive pessimists now control planetary politics. This is a larval phase. Life has been evolving for three and a half billion years and has just reached the half-way point. This message of neurological resonance can be censored, imprisoned but cannot be crushed because it comes from within, from the DNA nucleus inside each cell, from the evolving nervous system. The Higher Intelligence has already stepped on planet earth and its script is writ within our bodies, emerging in every generation. In 1963 I began searching for a spot on this planet where a station could be set up for time experiments. In that year, I was expelled from Harvard, from Mexico, Dominica, Antigua. No crimes alleged or committed. Just too much energy transmitted. Blew out the local fuses. In 1966, G. Gordon Liddy led several midnight raids, helicopter assaults on our center at Millbrook, New York. We were literally under siege. No evidence of illegal activity was found, but I was forced to leave the county. G. Gordon Liddy went straight to the White House on the basis of this harassment. The relentless web of Karma. Thus I helped to create Watergate. Howard Hunt was a White House narcotics expert, directing the campaign of surveillance, raids, and arrests, which eventually drove me to exile in Algeria and Switzerland. Too much energy. Keith Richards and Anita reported the same problem. Exiles on Main Street. The only solution seemed to be a boat. A new society of timeships, sailing the high seas. The Noah myth. Premonitory preparation for the emigration from planet earth. Load the boat with transmitting equipment. Radio Free Earth. Imagine looking at a map of earth. Scattered around the oceans are a hundred little golden spots, clustering in the Caribbean, moving through the Indian Ocean, the South Pacific. Timeships carrying the first global citizens. A moving transient community of mutants who form a new nation, who transcend their former nationalities. How do they support themselves? They are the wisest, strongest, best-endowed. Mutants have to be. Joanna and I were at St. Moritz for Christmas. She was born there in the Palace Hotel. Chancellor Kreisky of Austria had invited me to come to Austria to make an anti-addiction film. We had sent probes to Ceylon and Bali to look for a boat. We were offered a three-story ambassadorial house. They wanted us to help them bring Austria into the twentieth century. Why didn't we stay? Poutzi in St. Moritz said, "Now that you've found each other, you must slow down." Something kept us moving. We flew from Vienna to Beirut where we stayed with the son of the ex-president. At the Kabul airport the official from the American embassy grabbed my passport illegally and the Afghan police busted me for not having a passport. We were kept under armed guard for three days and driven to the airport. The Afghani policeman wept and the Army Major told me the pilot of the airplane would return my passport. Armed American narcotics agents escorted me back to prison. Dumped in a solitary confinement cell for four months I wrote Neurologic. At the escape trial I testified under oath that I felt like a man from the 21st century being boiled in a pot by superstitious savages. Now is the time in the SCI Fl books for the cosmic intelligence agency to send the extra-planetary rescue ship. The first time I visited the Folsom Prison library I picked up Lovell's book on outer space. The last chapter presents a drawing of the remnant of a living organism found on a meteorite. A nucleic acid molecule. The first signal from extra-terrestrial life. Help is on the way. Prisoners began to etch the design on silver pins and leatherwork handicrafted in the hobby shop. We called it STARSEED. The symbol of Psi-Phy. In early July the New York Times carried a story about a newly discovered comet entering the solar system. Unexpected. Named after its finder, an East European astronomer, it would be visible during the fall of 1973 with a brilliance greater than the full moon. Here was the greatest astronomical event in recorded history appearing right on schedule. We named it Starseed, new light, new life, bright reminder of our extraterrestrial origin and future. Symbol of freedom. Joanna began telling the story on radio and television and to everyone she met. Paul Kantner and Grace Slick offered to write a song heralding the new coming. As the weeks went by a curious fact emerged. There was no more publicity about Starseed. Nothing in the scientific magazines in the prison library. No one else had read about it. I wondered if I had dreamed it out of longing anticipation. Mysterious. Why so little publicity about the greatest light in the sky? Since returning to the united States many other mysterious things had happened. Watergate began to leak two days after my incarceration. The United States began to sink in the swamp. The dollar collapses. Food shortages. Energy crisis. Even the King of Afghanistan took a dive. Was it possible that the American government had kidnapped me back to help out? The worst thing to observe was the mental depression, the cerebral pollution. No one was speaking clearly about what was happening. No new solutions. A glum stagnation. A damp nostalgia. A frivolous melancholia. Prison provides a clear perspective. I sat in the dim light of solitary confinement and wrote a complete systematic philosophy: cosmology, politic, epistemology, ethic, aesthetic, ontology, and the most hopeful eschatology ever specified. I keep telling other prisoners: society can't take care of itself, so it can't take care of us. It's up to us to provide the vision. It always happens this way. New light from the Black Hole. And nobody said anything about the comet. Then Paul Kantner sent in a report. On March 7, 1973, Dr. Lubos Kohoutek, a Czechoslovakian astronomer, at Hamburg Observatory, Bergedorf, West Germany, discovered a new comet. As with most modern discoveries, this one was made photographically. Later, a prediscovery image plus numerous subsequent ones have enabled astronomers to compute the comet's orbit with considerable precision. During July through September, it will be too close to the sun's direction for optical observation, but in mid-October, at a distance of about 168 million miles from the sun, its brightness should increase to a magnitude of between 8 and 12. From then on it should brighten quickly and is expected to reach naked eye visibility about mid-November. It will then be in the morning sky, in the south-east, about two hours before the sun (from San Francisco). It is not possible to predict with precision what form the comet's tail will take nor what brightness it will attain, but indications are that it will exceed that of Halley's comet, last seen in 1910 and not due again until 1986. There is a possibility that its magnitude at perihelion (closest to the sun—only about 13 million miles) may approach that of the full moon, making it one of the brightest ever seen by man. This confirmed the coming but renewed the question: why the silence, the lack of interest? The newspapers were filled with stories anticipating the advent of the football season. Another sign of the times. The philosophic perspective has been lost. There exists a repression, a taboo about facing the implications of the recent scientific findings which compels a total revision of our concepts of life and of human nature. Einstein's equations. Nuclear energy. The revelation of DNA code as literally a code to be deciphered. Neurological imprinting. Anti-matter. Mankind clings to the old myths, avoiding the new truths. It happened before. "Towards the end of the sixteenth century, Giordano Bruno aroused the groggy world, asking it to fling its mind far beyond the planets. He speculated that the cosmos extended to infinity. "This in itself was not so shocking; but Bruno went considerably further—he postulated a multiplicity of world: suns and planets with life, unseen companions for the race of man. He toyed with man's conception of himself; for this, and for magical claims and political entanglements, he was burned in 1600." The Discovery of Our Galaxy, Charles Whitney. "Shortly before Bruno's death, in 1600, Tycho Brahe made the first announcement of a 'new' star in the sky. A few years later he observed a comet, and proved that it moved among the planets; thus he shattered the crystalline spheres which had been supposed to carry the planets and stars about the heavens." Tycho's star set off excited controversy because it forced a change in the cosmology. Current theories held that the stars were fixed. But the new evidence was there flashing in the sky. The stars moved. Cosmology is not a peripheral hobby, specialty of scientific experts. Every aspect of human life is based on the answers to the cosmological questions: where did we come from? Where are we going? Tycho's star appeared exactly when Christendom was unsettled by the Reformation. Luther's challenge to the immovability of Catholic theology. You could get busted those days, as Galileo discovered, for advocating the idea that the earth moved. Joanna came to the visiting room of the prison with the next round of information. Joanna is a star. She suddenly appears in the sky brilliantly transmitting radiation. Super-nova. All-out energy, high fidelity. She turns Her electron-telescopic girl eyes on you searching for the signal. She was asking people she met: what's your cosmology? Never mind your sexual need, your bread problem, your ideas on Watergate. What's your cosmology? How did you get here? The seven days of Genesis? The chance play of amino acids heaped up aimlessly like bricks? Does God play dice with the cosmos? If not, what's the master plan? What's your cosmology? One young man smiled and said he was a graduate student in astronomy at Stanford. No one, he said, was certain about the path of the comet Starseed spinning into our solar system. It might come dangerously close to planet earth. Might even collide. Joanna and I are sitting in the visiting room of a maximum security prison logically computing the possibilities, while in the sky above, Sky Lab circled the globe, telescopes trained on the sun. Why hasn't Sky Lab mentioned this flying object hurtling into view, until now? There are two alternatives: 1. The comet means danger to earth; or, 2. It will pass through our system with spectacular inoffensiveness. Alternate one. It may be dangerous. It may disrupt the earth's atmosphere. It may smash into the earth's surface. If this were known, would it be announced by the men who control America and Russia? The Soviets have chosen Mars as their planet of choice. If the comet were to hit earth? Enormous tidal waves? Destruction of civilization? Who would survive? A weird Sci-Fi Noah's Ark horror story. Who would end up in the safety caverns dug deep, by the joint chiefs, into the western mountains? The grim significance of the Cold War takes on another dimension. We knew about it all along but it was never talked about. The very men who bomb Cambodia, provoke the Russians to accelerate the missile race, are the ones who have designed and built the secret hide-away caverns. How many cases of whiskey and tons of steak are deep-frozen in the bomb shelter cities? Who gets to get saved? The president and his family? The military, of course. Is Agnew on the friend list or the enemy list? Does Bebe Rebozo get saved? Does Ellsberg? We recall the irritation of the Air Force with U.F.O. reports. The negative finding of the Condon report that no extra-terrestrial sightings had been confirmed, was not surprising. What disturbed was the obvious emotional bias, the fact, and this is the crucial experimental datum, that the Air Force didn't want people thinking about extra-terrestrial intervention. Just as the Catholic hierarchy and its Scholastic philosophers four hundred years ago didn't want people thinking that the stars might move. The ancient, basic cosmological fears and hopes. If you start speculating about Higher Intelligence visiting planet earth, a galaxy of embarrassing issues gets raised. What would the celestial visitors think of how we are running the planet? Whose selfish securities and biased superiorities would be threatened? The Air Force U.F.O. study included, indeed, emphasized a factor which infuriated the "flying saucer" partisans. A team of psychologists studied the personalities of those who reported the sightings. How clever of the Air Force to suggest that those whose cosmologies, however vague, included the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, were themselves "kooks." In wider perspective, we can only endorse the Air Force psycho-diagnostic attempt. It may be that the contact with extra-planetary intelligence, the discovery of the master plan will not come via radio telescopic contact. And certainly the anticipation of "saucers" transporting humanoid bodies is naive. It is more likely that extra-planetary contact will be received by the instrument which was designed over three and a half billion years ago to pick up electromagnetic vibrations. The human nervous system itself. The Air Force psychiatrists might have done better if, instead of administering Rorschach personality tests, they had performed intensive neurological examinations, brainwave studies on the wild-eyed "saucer-sighters." Maybe some of the kooks carry nervous systems more receptive to electromagnetic impulses. I am standing in the main yard at Folsom Prison talking to a group of inmates about the Starseed conspiracy story. There is enthusiastic laughter about the Psi-Phy possibilities. We are being watched from five gun-towers by guards armed with high-powered rifles, who scan the yard with binoculars. They are especially worried when a group of convicts clusters in conversation. Every prisoner has, during long lonely night hours, scanned the liberating possibilities of catastrophe. Folsom is near the San Andreas fault. What if nuclear war is declared? Johnny James, a tough guy, clubs down hope. "The guards have instructions. In case of catastrophe the orders are to lock inmates in their cells and abandon the prison." Folsom is half a mile below the Folsom Dam. It is agreed that I should send out a message posing the Starseed questions. Could there be a secret conspiracy to censor extra-planetary contact? Thoughts of Dallas, Sirhan, Martin Luther King, My Lai, Cambodia, Liddy, Hunt, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman run through the computers. Many inmates are convinced that Hunt will never live to testify; that "they" are planning to have me killed if I start broadcasting any messages. Walking back to the cell-block Chaslon says, "Do you know that the odds on your getting offed may have just jumped a hundred times?" Michel-Gustav Hauchard, French swindler extraordinaire, my protector-sponsor in Switzerland, friend of J. Edgar Hoover, and admitted CIA contact, used to muse aloud: "The simplest thing would be for them to kill you." "No, mon ami, the technique now is to say the dissenter is crazy. Anyone who opposes the monolithic system must be crazy." Joanna said, "If there's only four months before holocaust everyone should be told. Stop everything and finally learn all-out fulltime love. I'm not afraid of dying. I know we'll be together. But I want to be on the same side of the wall with you...." The second alternative: comet Starseed flashes into our view and leaves. Each person who reads these words will, in the coming months, stand on earth looking up at this spectacular sight. Will it leave us transfigured? Lift our eyes up to universal perspective ? The comet Kohoutek, Starseed, can mean nothing or it can mean everything. It can be a reminder that this planet is just a brief crumbling stepping stone in the voyage of life across the galaxies. That the Higher Intelligence has already established itself on earth, writ its testament within our cells, decipherable by our nervous system. That it's about time to mutate. Create and transmit the new philosophy. Behold a great light appears in the sky. The offer is made. The signal is flashed. Resonate with it or die eye-ground and bored. Bob Hyde, the strongest, wisest man in the prison system, who has sold a lot of used cars in his time, scanned this print-out and shook his head. "Too general and inspirational. Thousands of years from now they'll point to your Starseed signal as the only factual item coming from the twentieth century. But right now people are confused. They want to be told what to do. Something to give their time and money to. Like Ralph Nader. "Ralph Nader is a monster. A puritanical, moralistic, efficiency robot. We gave them the first true, hopeful cosmology in history. That's bread and dope for a thousand years at least. We gave them their nervous systems. More practical and useful than the wheel. We gave them a sign of rebirth in the sky and a Starseed symbol and showed them how to activate and hook-up their circuitry. We liberated them to ecstasy." "Not enough," said Hyde, who once sold two hundred repainted Philadelphia taxis in Holyoke, Massachusetts. "They want everything, but they want to pay for it. Your mistake was to give it free. They want to be told what to do." "Let's try again," I said. SHINE LIKE STARS! ENERGIZE, ELECTRIFY EVERY WORD AND DEED! Cosmologist Hyde now suggests that creation emerges, not uniformly throughout the universe, but in regions of high density and intense activity, such as a developing Black Hole. Contractions and expansions take place at scattered points within the universe. Astronomers used to think that the radiation which energizes the universe originated from one Big Bang. Now it seems possible to explain creation as the product of Black Holes. The old menopausal-Stoic view of galaxies as quiescent swirls of stars, gas and dust is giving way; signs of creative upheaval are everywhere. Stepping stones in the pool of time popping up and disappearing. When Black Holes find their places in cosmology (and local politics), neurologicians will have written the most complete revision of the creation story since the days of the first ancients. Bob Hyde, Leo, strongest man in the prison, smiled gently and tried again. He'd like to believe that I'm the wisest man who ever lived. He's an impulsive man of action, who has learned patience in the Black Hole. There's all this violent power here, crushed together, waiting to explode in the next cycle of creation. He's learned to talk Psi-Phy. "Look. The energy is there. You're the only one that knows how to organize it. Like every genius, you are blind to the reality. Money and power." Hyde presses hard because he knows he'll never get out of prison until the whole system changes. "The alchemy of power takes time," I said. "Neurological politics. The wizard does as little as possible. The organization is already there. It just takes the slightest move at exactly the right time to turn it on. Connect the wires. The alchemist and his mate wait, sometimes for thirty years, disclosing substances, boiling elements, breathing fumes, and blowing on the flames. Praying. And then, when the elements are in order, the stars are in position, the heart's love pure: it happens. Transfiguration. Now is about time. Starseed is the signal." All the signs whispered it. The time had come. Strange how everyone feels it, the dissolution of the old structure, but no one can get the perspective to see it. Americans are too close to read the portents. Superstitious is good. It means to stand above. Back away from it, climb above it for a moment and see it as a Shakespearean epic or a Greek tragedy. There is this throne of ultimate power. The lethal crown of world empire. The Curse. Roosevelt dies. Truman retires in disgrace. Ike immobilized into grinning idiocy by a heart attack. Kennedy killed. L.B.J. ruined. Bobby slain. Wallace crippled. Muskie wept. Eagleton crumbled. Teddy's hopes drowned. Nixon and Agnew revealed as criminals. Form focuses energy. It is the institution, the two hundred year old structure, that is wrong. The horse-and-buggy American political system, pre-technological design, can't handle the energies released in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The White House should be museumed, replaced by a towering glass pyramid, visible, shining, hooked-up by two-way electronics with every neighborhood in the land. It is time for prophecy. The omens are obvious. The moment of spiritual reckoning approaches. Karmic plague sweeps the globe. Scan the headlines. Drought. Famine. Shortage. Pollution. Malaise. Disorder. Tyranny. Espionage. Watergate is the American word for a world-wide epidemic of government illegalities. Torture in Greece. The new repression in Russia. Israeli air piracy. Libyan mania. Every week another country captured by its own military police. The Higher Intelligence scanning these developments from the high perspective of time sends a signal. Bob Hyde walks to my cell with a newspaper clipping. Third Sky Lab will study Comet. "N.A.S.A. beat you to the media. They'll try to co-opt the comet. The human interest angle for increased space appropriations. Cute little comet like the cute little spider. You better get your Starseed essay out." Timing is important in energy alchemies. Maybe this message is too late. Well, here it is. The comet Starseed comes at the right time to return light to planet earth. The structure for the new way is already here. Starseed will turn-on the new network. In the next transmission we shall describe how the new organization will unite us in joyous communication. Isn't that what you really want? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed by: Peter Webster last updated: --> -->-->#flastmod file="starseed.shtml"--> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Legalize it in colorado!

Delysidz — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:01:43 GMT

** Please forward this to ANYONE who lives in Colorado and might want to make marijuana legal * You MUST be registered to vote by this coming Tuesday, October 10th to make marijuana legal for adults in Colorado this November If you are NOT registered: 1. Download a registration form 2. Fill it out as COMPLETELY as possible 3. Send it to your county clerk by this SATURDAY, October 7th or submit it in person at your county clerk's office If you ARE registered and wish to VOTE BY MAIL: 1. Download an absentee/mail-in ballot request form 2. Fill it out as COMPLETELY as possible 3. Send it to your county clerk ASAP (by 10/27) 4. Complete your ballot upon receiving it and BE SURE to VOTE YES on 44! 5. Send it to your county clerk by November 3 If you ARE registered and wish to VOTE EARLY: Early voting begins October 23rd There will be vote centers in the following counties: Adams Broomfield Denver Douglas Grand Larimer Teller Weld Contact your county clerk to learn more about early, mail-in or absentee voting For more information on voting: FairVoteColorado.org or GoVoteColorado.com For more information on Amendment 44: <

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Delysidz — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:31:23 GMT

Who's going to earthdance then?

"Legalize it" in Colorado!

Delysidz — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:31:23 GMT

Come on people, it's time to exercise your constitutional rights to effect change! The time is now, LETS DO IT! ----------------------------------- http://saferchoice.org/index.html Dear Friend: This past week the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative Committee launched the campaign for Amendment 44, which would make marijuana legal for adults under state law if it is approved by Colorado voters this November. During the next 60 or so days leading up to the election, the campaign will be going to great lengths to 1) educate the voters about the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol and 2) ensure every possible supporter is registered and aware of the opportunity to vote. If you support this historic initiative and would like to help make it a success, please make a contribution to the SAFER Voter Education Fund -- which is supporting the campaign -- with your credit card via PayPal. The campaign is in the process of getting a variety of materials produced, including lighters, buttons, T-shirts, flyers, and yard signs, among others. However, funds are currently VERY low following the petition drive to place Amendment 44 on the ballot, and we really need your help today to make sure the campaign can purchase these items and get them distributed around the state as soon as possible. Now that the campaign is up and running, we encourage anyone in Colorado interested in volunteering to sign up on our Web site if you have yet to do so already. More importantly, please be sure you're registered to vote and do whatever you can to encourage your friends, family and coworkers to get registered as well. You can simply direct them to http://www.GoVoteColorado.com . We also encourage anyone around the country to contact us if there are any products or services you might be willing to donate to the campaign or provide at a discount. As I mentioned, the campaign is really low on funds right now and needs any and all help it can get. Thus, I encourage you to visit our Web site and make a contribution to the SAFER Voter Education Fund today. Or, if you would prefer to make a contribution in the form of a check or money order, please make it payable to SAFER Voter Education Fund (or SVEF) and mail it to SAFER, P.O. Box 40332, Denver, CO 80204. http://saferchoice.org/index.html Finally, we have received a variety of suggestions concerning our Web site, so we are pleased to announce we will be launching a new campaign site that will be up and running in about a week. On that note, we strongly encourage you to check out our campaign blog, which has really picked up over the past week and will now be updated on a daily basis. In particular, you might be interested in reading our take on the DEA's recent attempts to campaign against our initiative. Otherwise, we will certainly be keeping you posted on the campaign's progress, and we encourage you to contact us if you have any questions about the campaign or making a contribution. Thank you again for your support in this historic venture! Sincerely, Mason Tvert Campaign Director, SAFER PS. Please forward this message to any friends, family or coworkers who might be interested in hearing about and/or supporting the campaign. THANKS! http://saferchoice.org/index.html

THE PENTAGON HAS LOST $3.3 TRILLION DOLLARS I REPEAT TRILLION NOT BILLION!!!!

Delysidz — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:04:31 GMT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gUKJNxdmX6Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU Get ready for the big one! ~ The SHIT just hit the fan ~ Body: On Sept 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld announced the US gov't could not account for more than$2.3 trillion, as in trillion, not billion dollars. That was FY 1999, and for FY 2000 DOD reported another $1.1 TRILLION missing. THAT'S $3.3 TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS! That's about 40% of our ENTIRE national debt! IN JUST TWO(2) YEARS TIME!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ THIS IS REAL ~ THIS IS SERIOUS ~ THIS IS NOT A JOKE ~ THIS IS NOT A SPOOF ~ THIS IS NOT A SATIRE ~ THIS IS NOT A LIE ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rumsfeld is on the record ADMITTING THIS and CBS news even covered it! Also Cynthia Mckinney is on tape confronting Rumsfeld about it! Check out the defense departments own audit report! Never heard about this before? Not a suprise! Don't believe me? Well then look it up, do the research for yourself. I've included links for as well. Then start telling everybody you know, tell all of your friends, family, congress, and even random strangers! As rumsfeld himself said, this is a matter of LIFE or DEATH. This shit is beyond reason and way out of hand! We may be facing a serious economic collapse soon as a result Cynthia Mckinney takes on Rumsfeld "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." --Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address <----click here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said. He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat. "In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death," he said. Rumsfeld promised change but the next day Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten. Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending." More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends. "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted. $2.3 trillion that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million. "We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records. "The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery. He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off. "They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job." The Pentagon's Inspector General "partially substantiated" several of Minnery's allegations but could not prove officials tried "to manipulate the financial statements." Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the "accounting games." He's still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse. "Those numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year," he said. Another critic of Pentagon waste, Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, commanded the Navy's 2nd Fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary, in 1976. In his opinion, "With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

Earthdance 2006 ! 195 Locations WORLDWIDE Joined For PEACE!

Delysidz — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:25:56 GMT

Earthdance 2006 ! 195 Locations WORLDWIDE Joined For PEACE! http://www.earthdance.org/ <hr> Facts & Figures for Earthdance since its inception in 1996: Over 1,000,000 attendees at Earthdance events in over 360 cities in 70 countries. Over 14 million flyers and posters printed worldwide. Over 1,000,000 visits to our website annually. Over 600 million media impressions via international press and media. Over 50 million online media impressions via the global webcast, promoters' websites, and press downloads. Over $1,000,000 donated to local and international charities. <hr> On Sept. 15-17th, Onetribe presents: EARTHDANCE, a 3-day festival celebrating community, peace, art, music, and spiritual well-being Earthdance, the Global Dance Festival for Peace has grown to become the world's largest simultaneous music and dance event. Founded in 1997, with 22 cities and 18 countries participating, Earthdance has grown to over 222 locations in 50 countries participating in 2005, with locations ranging from the club-lands of New York to the rainforests of Brazil. Every year, in alignment with the International Day of Peace, over 200,000 people unite in dance with hundreds of thousands more joining online in support of global peace and humanitarian aims. The Colorado Earthdance will take place at a beautiful (+ legal and permitted) outdoor location about 1.5 hours from Denver. There will be 3 stages to accommodate all musical tastes, workshops, and visionary artists painting live. This will be a showcase of some of the best electronic and live music and art in Colorado. Psytrance Stage Onnomon (Soular Records, Philadelphia) - live One of the premier Psytrance producers in the US, with a distinctive deep, funky and intelligent sound. His 2004 album 'No Monno' has drawn rave reviews. In the past 3 years, he has performed all over the US, as well as festivals in the UK, Israel, and Morocco. His new album will be released in the next few weeks. Deeper in Zen (Soular Records, SF) - live Deeper in Zen is producer James Brian, the founder of Soular Records. Deeper in Zen aspires to create music with a pure psychedelic intention. Always incorporating an aspect of spiritual transformation into the music, Deeper in Zen consistently seeks to channel intelligent infinity through the use of sound and vibration. Dylalien (Fractal Cowboys; Mistress of Evil, Manic Dragon, SF) ..and more Vendors: Handmade jewelry, Art, Prints Massage booth Full kitchen and showers on site. Meal plans available. $20 in advance, $30 @ the door Portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Indigo Mountain Wolf Rescue and Sanctuary <i>Tickets online and out at outlets in Denver and Boulder soon. <b>More info on http://www.onetribeproductions.org

BUSTED - The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters VIDEO

Delysidz — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:53:30 GMT

BUSTED - The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters ~KNOW YOUR RIGHTS~ [[Do yourself a favor and save yourself from going to jail!]] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NmC5wHfCdM

Save the Internet!

Delysidz — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:45:06 GMT

--------Spread this message please-------- This is very important ~Save the Internet Now~ Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign. Call your local representatives, sign the internet petition, tell everyone you know, donate money if you can, please help to save the internet! www.savetheinternet.com ~Protect Network Neutrality~ Call congress now! 202-224-3121 --------Spread this message please--------

apogaea 2006

Delysidz — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:50:17 GMT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52655006@N00/

POLICE BRUTALITY - REPOST

Delysidz — Mon, 15 May 2006 08:31:13 GMT

fascism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fshzm) n. often Fascism 1)A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.<br> 2)A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. Oppressive, dictatorial control. This video is shocking beyond rational belief. You know, as an Ex NYC Police Officer, this makes me fucking sick. Every Police officer in this video is wrong, and has one foot in the door of Fascism. They had a responsibility to protect these people at this demonstration, and protect their constitutional rights. Instead they clearly act like Nazi secret police, right out of a 40's news reel! The first thing you are taught in the Police Academy IS THE CONSTITUTION! This video makes you wonder what classes they have been taking lately, for "homeland security". Are we going to allow this to happen in AMERICA Do not stand for this. I don't care how you feel about government. I don't care if you don't think government can do anything for you. I don't care if you've never participated. YOU CAN NOT SIT IDLE WHILE THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY Do something about this! Spread the word about this. The more people that see this film, the more people will learn about what is going on in our country today. The Eye Of The Storm http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf?u=YUhSMGNEb3ZMMk52Ym5SbGJuUXViVzkyYVdWekxtTmtiaTV0ZVhOd1lXTmxMbU52YlM4d01EQTNNalUwTHpVeUx6UXlMemN5TlRRd01qUXlOUzVtYkhZPQ==&d=802

Bohemian Grove - PROOF - ILLUMINATI - NEW WORLD ORDER

Delysidz — Mon, 15 May 2006 07:55:33 GMT

THIS SHIT IS TRUE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. THIS IS COMING OUT SO HELP SPREAD THE WORD. ----------------------------- Alex Jones has real VIDEO footage of these weird ritualistic mock sacrifices done in front of a 40 foot stone owl with people dressed in hooden robes @ a secret all-male retreat in California that the highest peepz in power like presidents, government, military, corporate, etc gather together every year in july: (SHORT) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2250898039328445412&q=bohemian+grove (LONG) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7148200091656749096&q=bohemian+grove ----------------------- Ralph nader interview on Bohemian Grove: http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/ "You CANNOT give this enough attention" -Ralph Nader --------------------------- This shit sounds crazy but look it up, there is tons of evidence everywhere, even the local county residents are complaining. If there was an illuminati, then this is it. THE MEDIA WON'T COVER THIS. LOOK IT UP. LISTEN. THINK. INFORM YOURSELF. SPEAD THE TRUTH. THIS IS IMPORTANT. THIS IS YOUR FREEDOM.

Some good Quotes!

Delysidz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:40:34 GMT

Just a few quotes I've collected from some of the greatest thinkers of all time & humankind! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous." --Gloria Steinem The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. --Robert A. Wilson "I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them." "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei "Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --Albert Einstein" "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." "For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs -- as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions." --Charles Darwin "What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide on how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary." "I do not believe in a personal God." --Stephen Hawking "If one began with fear and hate as the major premise, one would have to go on the conclusion." --Aldous Huxley "God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, he is weak -- and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful -- which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak andspiteful and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?" "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" --Epicurus "Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it." (p. 130) --Michael Shermer "Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life." --Aristotle "Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." --Friedrich Nietzsche "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." --Voltaire "The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism." --Steven Allen "The trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker." --Sir Francis Bacon "I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them." "Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand." - Why I Am Not A Christian "A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the word uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence." "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." --Bertrand Russell "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions" --Blaise Pascal "The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind." --Edgar Allen Poe "The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history." "Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense." -- Robert A. Heinlein "Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian." --Shakespeare "Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion---several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven." "In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true." --Mark Twain "It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men." --Carl Sagan If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail. -- Abraham Maslow The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it. --Kenneth V. Lanning "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." --Karl Marx "I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing." --Umberto Eco "Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature." --Luther Burbank FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. --Ambrose Bierce There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages. --Ruth Hurmence Green "It is becoming quite clear that religion is at the heart of so many civil wars and international struggles. People seem willing to kill, maim, torture and die for a religious or spiritual belief which moves them to believe that their source of the divine is the only source...Consider: In the name of God, a fatwa against Salman Rushdie. In the name of God, murder in the Balkans. In the name of God, the bombing of the World Trade Center. In the name of God, the siege at Waco, Texas. In the name of God, Hindus and Muslims kill each other in India. In the name of God, bloody warfare between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland. In the name of God, Shi'ites and Sunnis are at each other's throats in Iraq and Iran, as are Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. In the name of God, a doctor is murdered because he believed in a woman's right to choose. In the name of God, what is going on?" --Shirley MacLaine "The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God." --Susan B. Anthony "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." --Seneca the Younger "To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." "Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." --Isaac Asamov I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. --Isaac Netwon "The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it." -- George Santayana "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." --Benjamin Franklin "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel." --Thomas Paine "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies." "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." --Thomas Jefferson "The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma." When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. "It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity."..... "My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christion scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them." --Abraham Lincoln "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! --John Adams "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business." --Jesse "The Body" Ventura "Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?" --Robert G. Ingersoll "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." --Doug McLeod "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" "The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers." --Denis Diderot "The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." --Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." --Napoleon Bonaparte Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" --Annie Dillard "Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here." --"Rev." Donald Morgan "I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god." --Marilyn Manson There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. --Steven Wright "I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock." --Howard Stern The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. --H.D. Thoreau, Walden "You'll never find a dead Christian in a foxhole who didn't pray." "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." "Only Sheep need a shepherd!" "Atheism is a non-prophet organization" --UNKNOWN Doubt everything. Find your own light. --Last words of Gotama Buddha, in Theravada tradition

Taoismz!

Delysidz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:38:30 GMT

Taoismz Current mood: complacent Taoism - Tao·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (douzm, tou-) n. A principal philosophy and system of religion of China based on the teachings of Lao-tzu in the sixth century B.C. and on subsequent revelations. It advocates preserving and restoring the Tao in the body and the cosmos. For the Classic Version check: http://www.zhongwen.com/dao.htm For the Modernized Version check: http://www.beatrice.com/TAO.html For a GNL Hacked Version: http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v4.html Aleister Crowleyz Magick Version: http://deoxy.org/taowley.htm

American Prayer - Poetry by Jim Morrison (The Doors)

Delysidz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:35:23 GMT

American Prayer - Poetry by Jim Morrison (The Doors) Do you know the warm progress Under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys To the kingdom Have you been borne yet & are you alive? Let’s reinvent the gods, All the myths of the ages Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests [have you forgotten the lessons Of the ancient war] We need great golden copulations The fathers are cackling in trees Of the forest Our mother is dead in the sea Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v. The moon is dry blood beast Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers In the next block of green vine Amassing for warfare on innocent Herdsman who are just dying O great creator of being Grant us one more hour to Perform our art & perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying We live, we die & death not ends it Journey we more into The nightmare Cling to life Our passion’d flower Cling to cunts & cocks Of despair We got our final vision By clap Columbus groin got Filled with green death (I touched her thigh & death smiled) We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life Flee the swarming wisdom Of the streets The barns are stormed The windows kept & only one of all the rest To dance & save us With the divine mockery Of words Music inflames temperament (when the true king’s murderers Are allowed to roam free A 1000 magicians arise in the land) Where are the feasts We are promised Where is the wine The new wine (dying on the vine) Resident mockery Give us an hour for magic We of the purple glove We of the starling flight & velvet hour We of arabic pleasures’s breed We of sundome & the night Give us a creed To believe A night of lust Give us trust in The night Give of color Hundred hues A rich mandala For me & for you & for your silky Pillowed house A head, wisdom & a bed Troubled decree Resident mockery Has claimed thee We used to believe In the good old days We still receive In little ways The things of kindness & unsporting brow Forget & allow Did you know freedom exists In school books Did you know madmen are Running our prisons Within a jail, within a gaol Within a white free protestant Maelstrom We’re perched headlong On the edge of boredom We’re reaching for death On the end of a candle We’re trying for something That’s already found us Wow, I’m sick of doubt Live in the light of certain South Cruel bindings The sevants have the power Dog-men & their mean women Pulling poor blankets over Our sailors I’m sick of dour faces Starong at me from the t.v. Tower, I want roses in My garden bower; dig? Royal babies, rubies Must now replace aborted Strangers in the mud These mutants, blood-meal For the plant that’s plowed They are waiting to take us into The severed garden Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful Comes death on a stranger hour Unannounced, unplanned for Like a scaring over-friendly guest you’ve Brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings Where we had shoulders Smooth as raven’s claws No more money, no more fancy dress This other kingdom seems by far the best Until it’s other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law I will not go Prefer a feast of friends To the giant family

PNAC - Project for a New American Century

Delysidz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:32:23 GMT

Dig a lil Deeper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 3, 1997 American foreign and defense policy is adrift. Conservatives have criticized the incoherent policies of the Clinton Administration. They have also resisted isolationist impulses from within their own ranks. But conservatives have not confidently advanced a strategic vision of America's role in the world. They have not set forth guiding principles for American foreign policy. They have allowed differences over tactics to obscure potential agreement on strategic objectives. And they have not fought for a defense budget that would maintain American security and advance American interests in the new century. We aim to change this. We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership. As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world's preeminent power. Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades? Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests? We are in danger of squandering the opportunity and failing the challenge. We are living off the capital -- both the military investments and the foreign policy achievements -- built up by past administrations. Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world. And the promise of short-term commercial benefits threatens to override strategic considerations. As a consequence, we are jeopardizing the nation's ability to meet present threats and to deal with potentially greater challenges that lie ahead. We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan Administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities. Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its power. But we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise. America has a vital role in maintaining peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. If we shirk our responsibilities, we invite challenges to our fundamental interests. The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire. The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership. Our aim is to remind Americans of these lessons and to draw their consequences for today. Here are four consequences: we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future; we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values; we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles. Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next.

The New Billion Dollar Crop (old)

Delysidz — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:23:22 GMT

http://www.parascope.com/mx/hempin.htm The Billion-Dollar Crop From 1901 to 1937, the U.S. Department of Agriculture repeatedly predicted that hemp was on the verge of becoming America's number one farm crop. In fact, in 1938, Popular Mechanics ran an article entitled "The New Billion Dollar Crop," predicting a bright future for the hemp plant. In the same year, Mechanical Engineering Magazine called hemp "The most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown." Why the sudden excitement? After all, the demand for hemp had existed for thousands of years. The earliest known fabric was made from hemp, which came into use around 8,000 B.C. From 1,000 B.C. until after the American Civil War, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, used to make fabric, lighting oil, paper, incense, medicine, and food oil, as well as being an important source of protein for human and animal consumption. During periods of shortage between 1763 and 1767, farmers in Virginia were threatened with jail sentences for NOT growing hemp. There were at least sixty tons of hemp on the U.S.S. Constitution alone; the original draft of the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp on their plantations, and the flag sewn by Betsy Ross was made from hemp fabric. In fact, it was Ben Franklin's cannabis paper mill which allowed the colonies to operate a free press without having to beg for paper from England. And without the hemp thread used by our Founding Mothers who sewed soldiers' clothing at spinning bees in the early days of the Revolution, the Continental Army would have frozen to death at Valley Forge. Hemp fibers were extracted from cannabis and used for textiles, rope, canvas, paper and other industrial uses. For millennia, this was an extremely labor-intensive process, although the results were deemed worthy of the effort. Hemp is softer, warmer and more water-resistant than cotton, and has three times as much tensile strength. Although in the 1820s Eli Whitney's legendary cotton gin launched cotton as America's number one textile, hemp remained the second most popular natural fiber until the 1930s. Which brings us to 1937. Human technology had finally reached the point at which hemp could be processed economically. Machinery such as George Schlichten's "decorticator," which could strip fiber from any plant, did for hemp what Whitney's gin did for the cotton industry: production labor was reduced by an order of magnitude. Hemp-based newsprint could be produced at half the cost of inferior wood-based newsprint. Superior hemp fabric could easily compete with cotton. And scientists had just begun to explore the medical uses of marijuana. In 1937, hemp was a rapidly growing industry with virtually unlimited potential, which, according to conservative estimates, would currently generate $500 billion per year -- if it had not been criminalized by a group of elite industrialists with very different plans for industry in the 20th century. Hemp posed a dire threat to key American industrialists in the 1930s. Cheap, durable hemp paper threatened Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division, Kimberly Clark (USA) and other timber and paper companies, who stood to lose billions of dollars and possibly face bankruptcy. In 1937, DuPont patented processes to manufacture plastics and synthetic fibers from oil and coal, as well as new processes to produce paper from wood pulp. According to DuPont's own corporate records, these new processes would account for more than three quarters of its industrial output for the next fifty years. These industrial interests knew they could not compete with hemp, yet they were stuck with billions of dollars invested in products, processes and holdings which would be overwhelmed by hemp's rapid expansion. Industrial cannabis production had to be nipped in the bud, so to speak. The attack on the hemp industry was two-fold: a massive propaganda campaign demonized cannabis in the eyes of the public, and the power of government was used to cripple and eventually exterminate industrial uses of hemp. In DuPont's 1937 Annual Report, the company urged its stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical products. Although stalks of hemp were rising on the horizon, DuPont anticipated "radical changes" from "the revenue raising power of government... converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization." The first legal assault on hemp was actually rooted in the National Firearms Act, passed in June 1934. This Act was the first piece of legislation to impose an unconstitutional prohibitive tax under the guise of public safety. Congress did not ban machine guns with the National Firearms Act, but instead required the payment of a $200 transfer tax (the equivalent of about $4,000 today) in order to purchase such a firearm. Herman Oliphant, general counsel to the Treasury Department, was the first to deploy the power of taxation against cannabis. He modeled his Marijuana Tax Act bill after the National Firearms Act, and introduced it to Congress on April 14, 1937 -- just two short weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the anti-machine gun law. Meanwhile, William Randolph Hearst, king of yellow journalism, was going berserk. His massive timber holdings, endangered by cheaper, cleaner and more durable hemp paper, brought him face-to-face with financial catastrophe. Hence, a car wreck in which a marijuana cigarette was found stayed on the front page of his newspapers for weeks, while news of alcohol-related wrecks, which outnumbered marijuana-related wrecks by more than a thousand to one, was relegated to the back pages. Hearst warned his readers of Negro men raping white women while under the influence of marijuana and anti-white "voodoo-satanic" jazz music. Not only that, but "Negroes and Mexicans," inflamed by the hell-spawned herb, dared to step on white men's shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than a few seconds, look at a white woman twice, and even go so far as to laugh at white people in public. The sheer horror of it all! According to Hearst -- and this, he said, "is not an overstatement" -- "If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana he would drop dead of fright." Hysterical stories with headlines such as "Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days: Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust" whipped readers into a paranoid frenzy. The public, which had no idea that this sensational propaganda was based on thin air and motivated by big money, began calling upon their representatives to protect their children from the "demon weed." But not everyone wanted to see hemp repressed, least of all the American Medical Association. Dr. James Woodward testified against the marijuana tax bill before the House Ways and Means Committee, saying that no real testimony had been used in the passage of the bill, and that in fact federal testimony was based exclusively on tabloid sensationalism disseminated by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. The AMA was completely taken by surprise, only realizing two days before Marijuana Tax Act hearings that the "killer weed from Mexico" was actually cannabis sativa, the plant from which so many crucial medicines were safely derived at the time. "We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman," Woodward said, "why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation, even to the profession, that it was being prepared." Woodward and the AMA were quickly denounced and summarily dismissed from the hearings. The Marijuana Tax Act passed and was signed into law in December, 1937, outlawing hemp in America. Over the next few years, Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger prosecuted more than 3,000 AMA doctors for "illegal prescriptions" derived from cannabis. In 1939, the AMA backed down and halted its dissent on the marijuana issue. After that, only three doctors were prosecuted for prescribing cannabis-derived drugs. Anslinger played a key role in marijuana's criminalization. He was hand-picked to head the FBN by his uncle-in-law, Andrew Mellon, owner and largest stockholder of the Mellon Bank. The Mellon Bank was at the time the sixth largest bank in the United States, and one of DuPont's only two bankers from 1928 to the present. Anslinger was known to make references to "ginger-colored niggers" in letters to department heads on FBN stationary. He told Congress that fifty percent of all violent crimes were committed by Latinos, Negroes and Greeks, and that these crimes could usually be traced back to marijuana. Anslinger did not consult FBI statistics, which would have told him that at least 65 to 75 percent of all murders in the United States were related to alcohol -- just as they are today. Anslinger later contradicted his claims that pot inspired violence and began warning Congress that the communists were using marijuana to turn American fighting men into pacifists who would be unwilling to make war with Stalin's commie hordes. Marijuana was criminalized, and the hemp industry died on the vine, guaranteeing untold trillions in revenue for petrochemical monopolies and related industries. Millions of aggregate life-years have been spent in prisons by people engaged in a victimless crime, while tens of billions are spent to keep them there and to bring in new cellmates. The Drug War has been used as an excuse to erode the Bill of Rights, just as hysteria over "Marihuana, the Assassin of Youth" was used to destroy the burgeoning hemp industry. Meanwhile, with the prohibition of marijuana, use of cannabis as a drug increased tenfold. It's a damn shame, when you consider the repressed potential of the hemp plant The potential uses and benefits of hemp are so vast, it seems utterly absurd that its industrial uses should be barred because a small percentage of the population would rather stick it in a bong than a pulp mill. As noted earlier, there are numerous maritime uses of hemp. Hemp is also perfect for textiles, and is less harmful to the environment than cotton. Hemp requires no chemicals and has few insect foes to contend with; by contrast, fifty percent of all agricultural chemicals currently used in the United States are used to grow cotton. Hemp also produces 4.3 times as much pulp fiber per hectare than trees. Hemp paper products can be recycled seven times, while white paper made from wood pulp can only be recycled three times. The criminalization of marijuana in 1937 presented some difficulties in World War II, when the Japanese seized the Philippines, the source of America's cordage at the time. (The Philippines were seized forty years earlier by the United States during the Spanish-American War, a war which Hearst worked very hard to help initiate -- but that's another story.) Hemp was temporarily re-introduced in 1942 to fill the hemp gap, and films such as the USDA's Hemp for Victory encouraged patriotic American farmers to make good use of cannabis. George Bush, whose War on Drugs would send untold American citizens to prison, was actually saved by hemp during World War II: the webbing of the parachute he used after bailing out of his burning airplane over the Pacific was made from -- that's right -- hemp. But the practical uses of hemp extend far beyond saving the lives of Rockefeller Republicans. In 1935, 116 million pounds of hemp seed were used in the United States to produce paint and varnish. DuPont got most of that business after hemp was criminalized. More significant that paints and rope, however, is hemp's potential as a source of biomass energy. Biomass can be converted to methane and gasoline below the current costs of fuel oil, and instead of creating sulfur-based smog and acid rain as by-products, it produces oxygen instead. Plus, biomass is a truly sustainable fuel resource; costs will not rise as resources become scarce. Widespread use of biomass fuel -- and hemp is one of the best sources of biomass around -- would drastically cut our imports of foreign oil, increasing our economic independence as a nation and saving us big bucks at the fuel pump. With world food reserves currently at an all-time low and bad weather hampering this year's crops, it is worth noting that hemp seed is an excellent source of food. High in protein, oil from hemp seeds has the highest percentage of essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats. Tons of drought- and weather-resistant hemp seed can be produced on a relatively small plot of ground. The medical uses of cannabis are far too vast to examine in detail here, but to mention a few: --Marijuana is useful in treating approximately eighty percent of all asthma patients, and could replace toxic legal medicines which reap huge profits for pharmaceutical companies. --Marijuana could be used to reduce ocular pressure in ninety percent of all glaucoma patients, without the toxic side effects associated with legal medicines. --Federally-funded research at the Medical College of Virginia was shut down after it was discovered that cannabis was very successful in reducing many types of cancerous tumors. --Marijuana can be used to control nausea resulting from AIDS medication and chemotherapy. --Cannabis is useful for treating many forms of epilepsy, reducing the intensity of the seizures and in many cases out-performing legal pharmaceutical drugs. Marijuana can also stimulate appetite (as any pot smoker who's had "the munchies" can attest), relieve migraine headaches, relieve pain and stop an attack of insomnia dead in its tracks. Science Digest and Omni Magazine have reported that energy costs account for eighty percent of every dollar of living expense in America. Eighty-two percent of the value of all stocks traded in the world's major exchanges are tied directly to energy supply companies, energy transportation, refineries and retail fuel sales. Many Americans are painfully aware that they spend a third of their work-year paying off their taxes. But fewer people realize that they spend more than three quarters of the work week just to cover the energy cost of whatever it is they spend their money on. Our society, along with the colonized masses of the "developing" world, is being transformed into a global system of totalitarianism controlled by a financial elite. Virtually unseen, this "hidden hand" and their thousands of minions worldwide have manipulated legitimate governments and converted the democratic process into a thinly-veiled sham. The global elite use numerous tactics in their struggle for one-world economic hegemony, and one of the main pressure points is the oil industry. If you can control a nation's fuel supply, you can exert tremendous influence over that nation's affairs. You can make it do your bidding. The fossil fuel leg of the globalist pyramid would be yanked out by widespread use of biomass fuel, of which hemp is probably the best source. Hemp would also dislodge certain pharmaceutical monopolies, who charge exorbitant prices for drugs which cost pennies to produce and whose effects can be readily replicated by cannabis-derived drugs. Ah, but what about the timeless argument that "You people are just using all that as an excuse to smoke pot"? No doubt, the prime motivator for some marijuana decriminalization activists is that they simply enjoy smoking it. Evidence in this article provides plenty of other compelling reasons to support legalization, but the argument can still be made. Well, what of it? According to the federal Bureau of Mortality Statistics and the National Institute of Drug Abuse, tobacco kills 340,000 to 425,000 per year. Alcohol -- NOT including 50 percent of all highway deaths and 65 percent of all murders -- kills more than 150,000 Americans per year. Even aspirin takes out between 180 and 1,000 people per year. According to these same figures, marijuana kills not one person per year. Zero. Zilch. Nada. So pick your poison! In light of the vast economic potential of hemp, does it really matter that some Americans who smoke marijuana anyway would be able to do so legally? In addition to putting a Vulcan nerve pinch on a number of key corporate monopolies, decriminalization of marijuana would cripple the illicit drug trade's use of cannabis to achieve its dirty ends. So what kind of world do we really want here? One in which we give the Beast eighty cents on its dollar for the roofs over our heads and the shirts on our backs? Or one in which a natural, clean, proven resource -- hemp -- pries the greedy fist of the New World Order out of at least a couple of our pockets? How much are we really willing to pay for a lie contrived in the 1937 Congress at the behest of industrial elitists? Think about it carefully before you answer. There's a reason you've never been told both sides of the marijuana story. ======================================== Anyway if you want more sources just dig dig dig and see for yourself....