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2006-06-28T11:30:00.000-07:00

~<::::::>==;---,will(wil)n.1.the power of making a reasoned choice or of controlling one's own actions 2.determination 3.attitude toward others [good will] 4.a)particular desire, choice,etc. of someone b)mandate [the will of the people] 5.a legal document directing the disposal of one's property after death-vt.1.to desire; want [to will to live] 2.to control by the power of the will 3.to bequeath

2006-04-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one nation the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without justification. It leads also to

2006-03-27T19:45:00.000-08:00

Democracy and Security The Bush Doctrine is alive and well. The Wall Street Journal / Editorial Page March 26, 2006 The publication earlier this month of the Bush Administration's National Security Strategy was greeted with a combination of media indifference and contempt. "Bush clings to pre-emptive force," was one news agency's sum-up of the 49-page document. Readers of these columns might

2006-03-21T12:56:00.000-08:00

Filling the voidin Indian law doctrineby: Editors Report / Indian Country TodayMarch 17, 2006The U.S. Supreme Court has made ''a mess'' of Indian law, to quote one prominent scholar. After decades of increasingly arbitrary decisions, the closest thing it has left to a basic principle is the almost totally discredited ''doctrine of discovery.'' This artifact of 16th-century European rivalries was

2006-03-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

Articles of Impeachment by Jason K. Feldman, Esq.Submitted by bob fertik on Sat, 2005-12-31Articles of ImpeachmentDRAFT, Articles of Impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, by Jason K. Feldman, Esq.Articles of ImpeachmentOfGeorge W. Bush, President of the United States,Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States andDonald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of

2006-02-12T11:34:00.000-08:00

God and man at NASA:A change in climate Editors Report / Indian Country TodayFebruary 10, 2006A rebellion at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is highlighting a shift in the debate over climate change, a shift which leaves the Bush administration looking like religious obscurantists and indigenous prophets looking like the best scientists.This debate has been running for at least

2005-12-31T16:47:00.000-08:00

US Intelligence Service Bugged Website Visitors Despite Banby Suzanne Goldenbergfrom: The Guardian UKDecember 30, 2005Agency apologises for use of 'cookie' tracking files. Exposure adds to pressure over White House powers.The intelligence service at the centre of the row over eavesdropping tracked visitors to its website, despite US government regulations. Monitoring files, known as "cookies",

2005-12-21T14:14:00.000-08:00

Judge Resigns in Protest, Newspaper SaysDecember 21, 2005(12-21) 04:18 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --A federal judge has resigned from a special court set up to oversee government surveillance to protest President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program on people with suspected terrorist ties, The Washington Post reported.The action by U.S. District Judge James Robertson stemmed from

2005-12-16T23:02:00.000-08:00

All Roads Lead Back To Cheneyby Wayne MadsenDecember 14, 2005Halliburton's connection to low wage slave trading in the Middle East and espionage inside the Vice President of the United States' White House office. Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, has some interesting partners in its work in occupied Iraq. On Dec. 11, WMR reported on links between Halliburton/Kellogg, Brown &

2005-11-29T17:07:00.000-08:00

We Do Not Have Clean Hands In Afghanistanby Karl W B SchwarzKarlSchwarz200811-27-5A scant percentage of Americans know that ten days before President Kennedy was assassinated, he made a speech at Columbia University, during which he made the following statement:"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must

2005-11-23T15:11:00.000-08:00

A Day to Give Thanks? by Ward Churchillby gobble gobble 11/20/2001 gobble gobble! Thanksgiving is the day the United States celebrates the fact that the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony successfully avoided starvation during the winter of 1620-21. But from an American Indian perspective, what is it we're supposed to be so thankful for? Does anyone really expect us to give thanks for the fact

2005-11-06T22:49:00.000-08:00

I-100 author smokes foesby Alan Gathright / Rocky Mountain News November 3, 2005 23-year-old turns tables on drug war with Denver victory It's not even noon and Mason Tvert already has hit seven television and five radio news shows in his post-election victory lap as the architect behind an effort to make Denver the first U.S. city to legalize adult marijuana possession. Tvert has drawn

2005-10-28T23:47:00.000-07:00

2,000 US TROOPS DEAD IN IRAQ:ONE SURVIVOR TELLS HIS STORYFrom Ryan Parry in Kansas City, Missouri27 October 2005I went to fight in Iraq to get revenge for 9/11... I found out Bush had led us into a war that was immoral and totally wrong. - IVAW Member, Tomas Young Brave Tomas Young saw it as his patriotic duty to join the Army three days after 9/11. Tomas, 25, wanted revenge on the terrorists

2005-10-24T02:26:00.000-07:00

Fast Car - Shadows On A Lonesome RoadBy John Kaminskiskylax@comcast.netOctober 22, 2005 "you got a fast car and I want a ticket to anywhere maybe we make a deal maybe together we can get somewhere" -- Traci Chapman, Fast Car Top speed, headed toward the cliff, you're in the backseat hanging on for dear life, trying to catch at least a glimpse of the madman behind the wheel. Fox puts these

2005-10-20T14:23:00.000-07:00

Money for Nothingby Philip Giraldi / The American ConservativeOctober 24, 2005 IssueBillions of dollars have disappeared,gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.The United States invaded Iraq with a high-minded mission: destroy dangerous weapons, bring democracy, and trigger a wave of reform across the Middle East. None of these have happened.When the final page is written on America’s

2005-10-17T00:10:00.000-07:00

WILD GOOSE CHASE by STEEL PULSE I thought the destruction Of creation Would be nuclear power And radiation I thought judgement Would come When dem drop De neutron bomb And man was heading For extinction with With contraceptive pills That was made to kill Legal murder They call abortion I thought the invention Of robots yes yeh All forms of life Would eventually stop But now dem dog gone

2005-10-10T23:59:00.001-07:00

Daniel Estulin: Breaking the Silence ... Bilderberg exposed!Award-winning investigative journalist Daniel Estulin writes: When presidents, prime ministers, bankers and generals rub shoulders with European royalty at the annual secret Bilderberg meeting, they discuss the business of running markets and wars without being accountable to the public.Bilderberg's Plans for the WorldThe Bilderberg

2005-10-07T22:00:00.000-07:00

Hidden History Columbus & the Colonial Legacy by S RICKY ROGERS‘ new internationalist issue 226 - December 1991 In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.’ Wayne Ellwood explores the myth of discoveryand looks at the famous mariner’s impact on the land and people of the Americas. On a fine summer’s day the twin spires of the Martyr’s Shrine are clearly etched against a cobalt blue sky.

2005-10-01T23:08:00.000-07:00

The Pretense Of Innocence In A Poisoned GameRemember those halcyon days of youth when they taught us how to kill?By John Kaminskiskylax@comcast.net9-29-5Show me a man who shoots a good game of pool and I'll show you a wasted youth.- Damon RunyonIn order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S

2005-09-27T12:09:00.000-07:00

Editors Note: A good friend has foward this video short -http://filmstripinternational.com/The Storm That Ate The GOPWho will pity the soulless Republican Partynow that Katrina is mauling their regime?by Mark Morford / SF Gate ColumnistSeptember 14, 2005Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a

2005-09-22T13:13:00.000-07:00

BUSH'S BOOZE CRISISby JENNIFER LUCE and DON GENTILEPublished on: 09/21/2005Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady

2005-09-19T20:43:00.000-07:00

U.S. leads the world in sale of military goodsby Frida BerriganSpecial to the Star-Telegram09/12/05"Star Telegram" -- As insecurity mounts from Najaf to New Orleans, more weapons and high-tech military equipment are flowing into some of the globe's most vulnerable and war-torn regions.The Congressional Research Service recently found that global arms sales rose to $37 billion in 2004 -- the

2005-09-16T18:23:00.000-07:00

Follow the Money for the Real Storyby Molly IvinsThe Chicago TribuneThursday 15 September 2005Austin, Texas - Here's a good idea: Consumer groups and progressive congress-folks have joined in an effort to stop hundreds of thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina from being further harmed by the new bankruptcy law, scheduled to take effect Oct. 17. This law was written of, by and for the consumer

2005-09-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

Gold Hits 17 Year High9-15-5NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. benchmark gold futures powered to a 17-year high Thursday as concerns about inflation and U.S. economic growth drew safe-haven buying and fund interest into the market, traders and analysts said.The rally came as gold was in the rare position of breaking from its close inverse relationship with the dollar, which climbed against the euro on

2005-09-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

A Little Black History A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people. At first these white people breathe a sigh of relief. At last,

2005-01-12T14:53:00.000-08:00

Gary Webb, African-American Paranoia, And the Black Consensus By Bruce A. Dixon from: http://www.blackcommentator.com/120/120_dixon_webb.html Gary Webb, former investigative reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, passed away December 10, an apparent suicide. BC mourns his passing. In 1996 Webb broke a story detailing how CIA and DEA "assets" used cocaine shipments that ended up on the streets

2005-01-12T14:52:00.000-08:00

By Bruce A. Dixon from: http://www.blackcommentator.com/120/120_dixon_webb.html Gary Webb, former investigative reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, passed away December 10, an apparent suicide. BC mourns his passing. In 1996 Webb broke a story detailing how CIA and DEA "assets" used cocaine shipments that ended up on the streets of black Los Angeles to fund the Reagan administration's

2004-12-15T13:50:00.000-08:00

Secret Patriot Act II to Give Hitler's Powers to Bush NOTE: The info below sounds like science-fiction but isn't--e.g., "Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person had inferred from conduct that he/she was not a US citizen." From:

2004-12-01T16:43:00.000-08:00

Canyon In The Heart By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 1 December 2004 An abyss of icy silence divides those who care from those who don't. In my dream, I am looking out over the edge of a vast cliff, searching the infinite distance for a word. How to describe the great divide between these two warring factions of the American psyche? In the distance I seem to see two

2004-11-24T23:45:00.000-08:00

Tony Black Feather Still Standing Strong! STRONGHOLD TABLE, S.D. Lakota elder Tony Black Feather told the United Nations that the American flag represents a racist nation that violates natural and spiritual laws, dishonors treaties and engages in a game plan of corporate greed. In his statement delivered to the United Nations and distributed here on Stronghold Table, Black Feather

2004-11-23T11:49:00.000-08:00

The Fate of Medical Pot By Raymond Cushing, AlterNet.com/ November 22, 2004 The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether the feds have the right to arrest medical marijuana patients. But will the justices have all the facts? The end of November marks the beginning of what could be the final act for the medical marijuana movement. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to take from Nov

2004-11-22T11:19:00.000-08:00

The True Thanksgiving (Milk) Story By Robert Cohen Forom: Not Milk.com 21 November 2004 The Sunday before Thanksgiving has become America's unofficial "Redeem Your Free Turkey" coupon day. The busiest food shopping day of the year will not be dampened by USDA's official Mad Cow Disease announcement. Bureaucrats correctly reasons that to release bad news or any news at this moment would result in

2004-11-16T14:10:00.000-08:00

A War Crime in Real Time: Obliterating Fallujah By Francis Boyle / Counterpunch 15 November 2004 www.globalresearch.ca 16 November 2004 The obliteration of Fallujah continues apace. Article 6(b) of the 1945 Nuremberg Charter defines a Nuremberg War Crime in relevant part as the ". . . wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages. . ." According to this definitive definition, the Bush Jr.

2004-11-14T01:09:00.000-08:00

Yuppie Banker Apology In 2008 By Ted Twietmeyer tedtw@frontiernet.net 11-14-4 A Yuppie International Banker's Apology to his children in 2008 just before he disappears from public view: "On behalf of my generation and all others like me, please accept my apology for those acts listed below: 1. Forgive me for allowing my

2004-11-13T01:40:00.000-08:00

Rule by Theft: Reconstructing the Crime The Black Commentator 11 November 2004 Issue Massive irregularities in the November 2 presidential vote count "will probably lead to congressional hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary," predicts Rep. John Conyers, the committee's ranking Democrat and longest sitting member of the Congressional Black Caucus. If tampering is found, said the Detroit

2004-11-06T10:35:00.000-08:00

American Sunset "Look, dear! Don't the chemtrails look lovely tonight..." By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 11-6-4 Oh, the gnashing of teeth, the beating of breasts, the wailings of woe. Bush and the Republicans stole the election! Big surprise, eh? The neocon Nazis have done nothing but break the law since before they ever took office. You were expecting fair play from them, perchance?

2004-11-04T10:04:00.001-08:00

2004-11-04T10:04:00.000-08:00

With a Handful of Exceptions, Most See Results as Dispiriting By Glenn Frankel Washington Post Foreign Service / page A44 November 4, 2004 Canada: "How could they?" "Totally bizarre" and "outdated," says spokesman for the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Studies.. LONDON, Nov. 3 -- Much of the world went to bed Tuesday night hoping and believing that John Kerry might win the White House

2004-10-30T01:55:00.000-07:00

Expanding Halliburton probe confirms Bush administration is most corrupt in US history By Patrick Martin 30 October 2004 On the eve of the 2004 presidential election, allegations about the corrupt relationship between the Bush administration and Halliburton Corp., the company formerly run by Vice President Richard Cheney, have taken center stage once again. Press reports Friday said that the

2004-10-25T18:26:00.000-07:00

Watch the Montel Williams Show on medical marijuana! * To view the show in RealVideo format, go to http://drugpolicycentral.com/real/csa/montel.rm * To view the show in QuickTime format, go to http://cannabiscoalition.ca/temp/montel.mov **** How John Kerry Exposed The Contra-Cocaine Scandal By Robert Parry October 25, 2004 Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the

2004-10-16T01:08:00.000-07:00

Our Kids Are In Big Trouble Govt Using Technology To Burden Their Future By Lawrence Lessig Wired Magazine 15 October 2004 There's a pesky flaw at the core of our democracy: How do we count those who can't vote? Not those who don't vote (they can take care of themselves by voting). But those people who can't vote, because they're either too young or not yet born. How, in other words, do we

2004-10-08T14:11:00.000-07:00

Election a 'win-win situation' for secretive Bonesmen By Kris Millegan September 30, 2004 GUEST VIEWPOINT Both major presidential candidates are members of a small secret society at Yale University - the Order of Skull & Bones. On different Sunday mornings, "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert asked George Walker Bush and John Forbes Kerry if they could talk about their memberships in this 172-

2004-09-27T19:21:00.000-07:00

Long Trip For Psychedelic Drugs By Kristen Philipkoski Wired.com 27 September 2004 Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name a just

2004-09-26T19:24:00.000-07:00

The East Hampton Star N.Y. 9 September 2004 By E.L. Doctorow – GUESTWORDS The Unfeeling President I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even

2004-09-19T18:39:00.000-07:00

Army Spokesman Denounces Iraq War West Virginia Reserve Leader Denounces Iraq War West Virginia Gazette-Mail 18 September 2004 West Virginia's top Army Reserve spokesman says the Iraq war was a mistake, and President Bush should be voted out of office. In a long interview with Gazette columnist Sandy Wells, Col. Lew G. Tyree of Charleston publicly revealed his feelings about the Iraq

2004-09-13T17:48:00.000-07:00

Powell Called Neo-Cons 'F***ing Crazies' - Report By Martin Bright The Observer - UK 9-12-4 A furious row has broken out over claims in a new book by BBC broadcaster James Naughtie that US Secretary of State Colin Powell described neo-conservatives in the Bush administration as 'fucking crazies' during the build-up to war in Iraq. Powell's extraordinary outburst is alleged to have taken place

2004-09-07T19:57:00.001-07:00

It's time to rethink and reform drug laws Thoughtful conservatives such as William F. Buckley are joining the call for sweeping reforms, including legalization, taxation and regulated sale of marijuana. The Denver Post / Editorial September 05, 2004 America's war on drugs is now in its 90th year. Federal law first restricted access to cocaine, heroin and related drugs in 1914. Marijuana was

2004-09-04T23:59:00.000-07:00

Altered Plants Pose New Drug War Threat by Dan Molinski Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia - Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick. U.S. drug agents are trying to confirm the existence of the purported

2004-08-30T10:20:00.000-07:00

Medical Insanity By Mark Sircus Ac., OMD International Medical Veritas Association August 28, 2004 When medical science abandons safe medical practices for highly dangerous ones we have a serious situation that we need to look at under a microscope. When the law protects organizations, people and corporations that inject, for example, mercury containing vaccines into newborn infants and children

2004-08-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets A death sentence here and abroad by Leuren Moret August 18, 2004 “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam” Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and

2004-08-20T00:06:00.000-07:00

Hungry world 'must eat less meat' By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable. Animals need much more water than grain to produce the same amount of

2004-08-03T07:46:00.000-07:00

Blind Loyalty to an Empire of Greed: The Corruptions of Patriotism By GLEN T. MARTIN 10/05/03 (Counterpunch) The United States administers a global empire. This used to be a secret. Through the 1990s, our government told us that we stood for democracy, freedom, and independence of nations worldwide (lying to us). But the majority of U.S. citizens refused to critically examine their government

2004-07-24T00:21:00.000-07:00

Some Dare Call It Treason: Wake Up, America! by Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Ret. We [who protest the Iraq war] are upholding the spirit of the American Revolution. We are preserving the freedoms that the troops in the desert have a right to come back to. I am a member of Veterans For Peace, an organization of thousands of combat veterans. All of us have put our life on the line for this

2004-07-19T19:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/warren07162004/ Friday, July 16, 2004 A Letter to the Black Caucus From a Black Woman Living in South Central By Donna J. Warren We respect your right to run Mr. Nader, now withdraw." -Elijah Cummings, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives To Representative Cummings and Members of the Black

2004-05-08T10:48:00.000-07:00

"Cannabis & Controlled Substances" Tax LATE BREAKING NEWS The State of Arizona has repealed the drug tax law. Presumably they didn't want to have to worry about whether a judge would finally make it impossible for them to prosecute drug dealers who had purchased the tax stamps. At any rate, you can no longer buy the stamps from the state for 35 cents each if you paid a $100 license fee. Now

2004-04-19T19:42:00.000-07:00

1 Punch, 2 Prosecutions, No Double Jeopardy, Justices Rule By DAVID STOUT April 19, 2004 WASHINGTON, April 19 — Billy Jo Lara had a tendency to get into trouble, of that there is no dispute. But the problems of Mr. Lara, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, hardly seemed the stuff of constitutional issues. Yet that is what they became on June 13, 2001,

2004-04-09T00:52:00.000-07:00

Peltier lawyers ask for FBI probe by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today April 01, 2004 WASHINGTON - The Leonard Peltier Legal Defense Committee has asked the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate the activities of FBI agents and informants in conjunction with activities on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970s. A plan to hold hearings on FBI informants that may have acted outside

2004-04-08T01:40:00.000-07:00

NIGHTMARE RAID By Marianne Garvey and Zach Haberman April 2, 2004 -- An 84-year-old Brooklyn man says he and his wife - who uses a walker - were terrorized by cops who invaded the wrong apartment looking for a drug dealer. As a result of their terrifying two-hour ordeal, Martin Goldberg said he has facial bruises and his 82-year-old wife, Leona, is in the hospital with an irregular heartbeat

2004-04-06T21:52:00.000-07:00

Kennedy Compares Bush to Richard Nixon By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press Writer April 5, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq has become “George Bush's Vietnam,'' Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Monday, calling the president deceitful and for the first time comparing him to former President Nixon, who resigned in disgrace. Saying that truth has become the biggest casualty of the Bush administration

2004-03-28T23:11:00.000-08:00

Family remedy By Will Evans / Sacramento Bee Staff Writer 28 March 2004 Shelly Arnold's home-grown answer to her son's pain tests the acceptance of medical marijuana For the first 13 years of his life, Mike Arnold's parents obsessed over three questions: What did "Mikey" have to eat, did he keep it down, and does he have a migraine. The migraines hit several times a week with

2004-03-26T14:32:00.000-08:00

Cannabis Notes 03/24/04 Anderson Valley Advertiser by Fred Gardner Invitation to an Ambush As reported here last week, Dr. Phil Leveque -the pro-cannabis Oregon osteopath whose license was suspended March 4- has been invited to testify before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources. Claudia Jensen, MD, got invited, too. No other doctors

2004-03-21T09:53:00.000-08:00

Will Schwarzenegger allow the feds to keepplaying Terminator with med-pot patients? by Biance Sind California's new Governator In October 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the new Governor of California. He replaced Gray Davis, a right-wing Democrat who had been re-elected in 2002. Davis had not been very supportive of the med-pot movement in his state, but medical marijuana advocates are

2004-03-12T01:25:00.000-08:00

Hemp: The Bush That George Grew by Kenyon Gibson cannabissatival@hotmail.com mina@minawear.com 3-6-4 The first recorded planting of hemp by a colonial power in the New World took place in 1545, by Spaniards in Chile. Less than a hundred years later the Pilgrims followed suit in New England. Hemp was an essential item, and was quick to take root in North and South America. However, these

2004-03-08T00:07:00.000-08:00

Manufacturing the Love of Possession By Richard York In 1877, speaking at the Powder River Conference, Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota nation said of the European invaders who were destroying his people and their way of life, "The love of possession is a disease with them." Disease is an apt term, because it does not necessarily imply that the love of possession was inherent in the nature

2004-02-23T11:37:00.000-08:00

Former President Carter: "Americans generally oblivious to suffering elsewhere in the world." By David Peterson February 22, 2004: (Star Tribune) NORTHFIELD, MINN. -- Former President Jimmy Carter delivered a Saturday sermon to a standing-room-only crowd at St. Olaf College, condemning the American people as much as their leaders for what he called their indifference to the disease and despair

2004-02-21T20:10:00.000-08:00

If you will take the time to read these. I promise you'll come away with an enlightened perspective. The subjects covered affect us all on a daily basis! Written by Andy Rooney “A man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words.” Enjoy... I've learned.... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. I've learned.... That when you're in love, it shows

2004-02-16T00:06:00.000-08:00

Uncle Sam Wants You ... Dead! Our military is not fighting for freedom, it's fighting for corporate profits Only a desperate idiot would join today's U.S. armed forces By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net Do you remember how many U.S. soldiers died in the first Gulf War? On television at the time, they told you it was around 64. Later, as news agencies recalculated the total from a variety of

2004-02-13T21:08:00.000-08:00

Europe's Ancient "Magic" Plants: New Drug Sources? By James Owen for National Geographic News Two Belgian botanists have completed a piece of detective work to rival that of super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, their fictional fellow countryman. Marcel De Cleene, associate professor at Ghent University in Belgium, and fellow ethnobotanist, Marie Claire Lejeune, combed thousands of sources, including

2004-02-12T08:21:00.000-08:00

An Open Letter from Michael Moore to George "I'm a War President!" Bush February 11, 2004 (67th anniversary of the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike) Dear Mr. Bush, Thank you for providing the illegible Xeroxed partial payroll sheets (or whatever they were) yesterday covering a few of your days in the National Guard. Now we know that, not only didn't you complete your tour of duty, you were

2004-01-26T22:16:00.000-08:00

Oh, brother! January 9, 2004 Ah, it's nice to be Neil Bush. When you’re Neil Bush, rich people are eager to invest in your businesses, even though your businesses have a history of crashing in spectacular fashion. When you're Neil Bush, you'll be sitting in a hotel room in Thailand or Hong Kong, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a knock at the door. You answer it and a comely

2004-01-10T15:08:00.000-08:00

Jesus "healed using cannabis" - research claim The Guardian reported yesterday: "Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings". The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples

2004-01-08T10:02:00.000-08:00

West Africa's Cash Crop By G. Pascal Zachary What if a poor African country could grow a plant that would fetch healthy prices in the U.S? What if the plant could be grown on small farms, encouraging democracy in this poor African country by putting cash into the hands of its poorest and most powerless people? What if such a plant could reduce the poor African country's dependence on the U.S.

2004-01-04T14:07:00.000-08:00

Just The Facts - Marijuana Just the facts about marijuana in the United States is nothing less than disgusting. The Revolutionary War was about Freedom and justice. These facts and studies listed below will point to the absurd waste of valuable funds of Our Government. Via years of a moralistic draconian measures this government is far from the wishes of the majority of American's and way off in

2003-12-23T16:52:00.000-08:00

FOR A BETTER LOOK AT THE ISSUE OF MARIJUANA A Drug War Carol and by the way, please do take a look at this... Letter to the Iraqis from the U.S. BIA BUREAU OF IRAQI AFFAIRS (Formed March 20, 2003) Dear People of Iraq, Now that you have been liberated from your oppressors, we at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) look forward to our future relationship with you. As one of the oldest of

2003-12-17T10:07:00.000-08:00

FOR A BETTER LOOK AT THIS ISSUE... A Drug War Carol "Tell the 'Whole' Truth" We are the Children of Love and God's truth! We are the Hope and the Flower of youth! We know the difference between Good and Bad. We see examples our parents had! No Cocaine, Herion, Ice or Booze. These are Hard drugs we know Not to choose. But tell the Whole story of God's greatest Herb and let true Blessings remain

2003-12-15T23:24:00.000-08:00

A Net of Control Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works By Steven Levy Newsweek International Issues 2004- Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where

2003-12-09T19:49:00.000-08:00

*********************************************************************** I DO NOT TRUST POLICE! Anyone who will cage a human for using a plant IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED! They fail the litmus test. -- anonymous "The government's drug-reform policy is driven by a fundamentalist Christian sense of morality that sees any of these illegal substances used as evil!" -- John Sperling, Arizona

2003-12-05T11:18:00.000-08:00

Chong Family Values by Steven Mikulan December 5 -11, 2003 Sometime in the pre-dawn dark of February 24, Tommy Chong and his wife, Shelby, were awakened by determined knocking on the door of their Pacific Palisades home. When their visitors announced themselves as police, the Chongs assumed the cops were chasing some neighborhood prowler. The couple quickly surmised otherwise after Tommy

2003-12-03T00:29:00.000-08:00

***************************************************************************** "The more taboos and inhibitions there are in the world, The poorer the people become... The more articulate the laws and ordinances, The more robbers and thieves arise." -- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching "He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,

2003-11-30T16:41:00.000-08:00

Ever since a referral to Genesis 1:29, i have been intrigued by the Judaic-Christian-Muslim responses to this "War On Some Drugs" and do wonder when will the lessons of the first Book of the Torah - Bible be really understood and enter into our societies Heart and Soul. This information below is from a "justifiable" view using the Torah - Bible as a Gateway of Interpretation and a Means of

2003-11-26T23:10:00.000-08:00

The First Thanksgiving From the Community Endeavor News, November, 1995, as reprinted in Healing Global Wounds, Fall, 1996 The first official Thanksgiving wasn't a festive gathering of Indians and Pilgrims, but rather a celebration of the massacre of 700 Pequot men, women and children, an anthropologist says. Due to age and illness his voice cracks as he talks about the holiday, but William B.

2003-11-21T13:12:00.000-08:00

Historical and Current Perspectives David Barsamian interviews Ward Churchill Ward Churchill is professor of American Indian Studies in the Center for Studies in Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Among his many books are Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, and Indians Are Us? His two new books are Since the Predator Came and

2003-11-18T23:04:00.000-08:00

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches". -- Will Rogers "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we are going to have a serious problem coming down the road". -- George W. Bush said to Al Gore- 1st Presidential Debate "The terrorists hate our freedoms; our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom

2003-11-13T22:36:00.000-08:00

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= And make not Allah's name an excuse In your oaths against doing good, or acting rightly, Or making peace between persons; For Allah is One Who heareth and knoweth all things. -- Surah 2, verse 224 - Quran ~~~~ "I think that people need to be held responsible for the actions they take in life. I think that's part of the need for a

2003-11-07T21:55:00.000-08:00

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2003-11-05T13:40:00.000-08:00

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake. The feeling of

2003-10-31T22:12:00.000-08:00

~*Blessings & Blissings*~=<+>="in Celebration of the"=<+>=**Día de Todos Santos*=+=+=+=+([+])=+=+=+=+<<<<"All Saints Day”>>>>*Dia De Los Muertos*~~=+=+<{+}>=+=+=~~<<<<“All Souls Day”>>>>

2003-10-29T20:25:00.000-08:00

Turtle Island Why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend with friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny "We may be brothers

2003-10-25T15:44:00.000-07:00

********************************************************** "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion -when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those that deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer

2003-10-22T18:44:00.000-07:00

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~<::::::>==;---, will(wil)n.1.the power of making a reasoned choice or of controlling one's own actions 2.determination 3.attitude toward others [good will] 4.a)particular desire, choice,etc. of someone b)mandate [the will of the people] 5.a legal document directing the disposal of one's property after death-vt.1.to desire; want [to will to live]