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The (IOM)Institute of Medicine's cannabis report
http://homepages.go.com/homepages/m/a/r/marthag1/ddc.htm
concludes the medicinal value of cannabis. That it is not addictive, not a stepping stone to white powders and it has never killed anyone. The Government buried this info and then voted to suspend any future funding. The DC medicinal marijuana vote has not been released to date.
Driving studies conclude cannabis safer than alcohol and even abstenence in heavy traffic.
http://mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/HEMP/IHA/iha01206.html
and still;
Every 45 seconds we create an American criminal for possession of cannabis.
http://www.norml.org
2 million have gone through the criminal system under Clinton.
Forfeiture laws steal homes to the spoils of WoD.
87% of WoD is allocated to cannabis.
99.28% of the cannabis eradications are non psychoactive ditchweed.
$17 Billion is allocated to the 99 WoD.
99.28% of 87% of $17B is;
$14,683,512,000.00 to save our kids from rope, canvas burlap, clothing, shelter, biomass fuel, and the most nutritionally complete food on the planet!
http://www.pacifichemp.com/
Corporate Petro Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Alcohol, Timber, Cotton, Meat and Tobacco interests in competition with cannabis have lobbied sucessfully for years to keep cannabis illegal. With the governments, corporate media and the major religions assistance. All on fabricated lies, secret backroom "riders", myth's and lack of a truthful press.
So it seems we are a stiffnecked race and if food, fuel, fiber and FARMaceuticals doesn't Legalize it, the Physics of cannabis having a greater mass than anything living, more tensil strength than cotton or wood. Or the Historical knowledge that cannabis helped build this country and the Smithsonian is denying its existance. Or that cannabis was probably mankinds first cultivated crop and used by almost every culture, or that no other plant can provide the 12 fruits of the tree of life except cannabis.
Rev22:2
http://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/Religion/Bahai/Texts/EN/Revelations/Revelations-22.html
And if the business and agricultural aspects of a cash crop with 100,000 products potential including dozens of medicinal ailments isn't convincing.
Jack Herer
http://www.jackherer.com/
HighTimes
http://www.hightimes.com
IHA
http://mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/HEMP/IHA/
Medicinal
http://www.rxmarihuana.com/
http://homepages.go.com/~marthag1/medical.htm
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/
Or that it can replace the booze in alcoholism. Allowing healthier living. Yet the Zero Tolerence, Manditory minimums Gestapo tactics continue.
Stripping Americans of their Constitution and caging cannabis activists B.E.Smith, Will Foster, Steve Kubby, Gideon Isreal, Peter McWilliams, Todd, Martin and 2 million more.
http://www.november.org/

All that and its still illegal?
OK, then here's another reason to legalize cannabis;
Peace or WoD?
DdC
Cannabis and Religion Linx

Enjoy!

Scythians
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/jul95/scythians.html

Kaneh Bosm
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/mayjune96/kanehbosm.html

Visions of a Sacred Tree
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/fall95/split.html

When Smoke Gets in My Eye
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/apr95/smoke_in_my_i.html

Christ and Cannabis, Jesus Used Marijuana
http://www.cannabisculture.com/magazine/cc11/christ.html

Prohibition and the Bible
http://www.olywa.net/when/bible-toc.html

Anthropology at Amazon.Com
http://www.onestopcom.net/ll/socsci/anthro

Marihuana and the Bible(Coptic)
http://home.powertech.no/normal/txt/sos04bib.htm

Marijuana and the Bible(Coptic)
http://www.iahushua.com/T-L-J/Mbib.html

Marijuana and the Bible(Coptic)
http://www.dark-secrets.com/hackersecrets/drugs/marijuan/bible.txt

Rastafarian MC Mystic
http://www.mcmystic.com/mcmystic.htm

The Religion of Jesus Church
http://www.hialoha.com/konagold/church/holyherb.html

Religious Uses of Cannabis Hemp
http://chain.sinbad.net/~warmgun/sm408.html

Use of Marijuana as Insense
http://www.etext.org/Politics/CRC/incense

Evidence Indicating the Semitic Origin of Cannabis
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4689/pages/OR/Jewish.htm

Church of the Universe
http://www.iamm.com

Universal Life Church Ministries
http://www.ulc.net/related.html

Marijuana South Africa
http://www.goyane.co.za/Valleys/NatureValley/Tree12/

Books

Green Gold the Tree of Life Marijuana in Magic and Religion(Chris Bennet)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/00962987220/qid%3D927422792/002-9742891-4236818

Emperor wears no cloths
Hemp for Health
Be Here Now,
Urantia

Libraries and Older Linx

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/potbible.htm
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~konagold/holyherb.html
http://www.psykedelbok.se/green_gold.html
http://www.csp.org/entheogen2.html http://www.csp.org/new.html
http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/a_title.html
http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/high_culture.html
http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/a_author.html
http://www.csp.org/
http://www.csp.org/docs/walker-neutrality.html
http://www.spiritweb.org/
http://www.csp.org/docs/telr.html
http://www.csp.org/docs/zeff_cat.html
http://www.erowid.org/entheo.shtml

God's pot

Enthogentic Religions
Marijuanna and The Bible
http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/bible.html
Bill of Rights& Tribulation
http://www.iahushua.com/WOI/BOR.html
Psycoactive Sacrements
http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/a_chrestomathy.html
Entheogen's and the Law
http://www.csp.org/docs/telr.html
Bieberman-Phanerothyme
http://www.csp.org/docs/bieberman-phanerothyme.html
Church Hemp Giveaway
http://norml.org/news/archives/96-08-19.shtml
Hemp as Sacrement
http://norml.org/news/archives/97-03-27.shtml
Rasta Religious Freedom
http://norml.org/news/archives/96-02-08.shtml

News Agencies
Marijuanna News dot Com
http://marijuananews.com/
Cannibis News
http://www.cannabisnews.com/
Hemp Net News
http://www.hemp.net/news/[/url
Drug Sense
http://www.drugsense.org/
Media Awareness Project
http://www.mapinc.org/
New Scientist
http://marijuana.newscientist.com/
Progressive Drug News
http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/drugs.htm

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For
nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws
which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is
closely connected with this."
- Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921

Please Visit our online Community, Cannibis Inspiration
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/4689/rant_godspot.html

Peace not WoD!
Cannabis:Food, Fuel, Fiber, FARMaceuticals!
http://homepages.go.com/homepages/m/a/r/marthag1/ddc.htm

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Cannabis is: Food, Fuel, Fiber & FARMaceuticals]]> Kosovo War ddc https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4398 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4397 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:43:00 +0000
In the name of all of us....I HOPE I'AM WRONG!
Georg]]> Kosovo War georg https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4397 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4396 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:11:00 +0000 Kumanovo on 9 June, military representatives of the
Atlantic alliance and Serbia reached an agreement on the
Serbian military's withdrawal from Kosova. NATO air
strikes ceased shortly thereafter, although spokesmen
for the alliance in Brussels stressed the strikes have
not been officially suspended. According to the
agreement, the Serbian military must leave Kosova within
11 days in stages along prescribed routes. NATO had
previously demanded that the Serbian forces leave within
seven days. In Kumanovo, Yugoslav General Svetozar
Marjanovic said that "the war has ended." In Belgrade,
crowds appeared in the streets to celebrate. State-run
media reported that Yugoslavia had reached an agreement
"with the UN."

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Clinton and Slob Milo both claim the victory. I only think it was all one big tragedy. I also hope that Slob Milo will be lifted from his bed by a couple of well trained British spearhead airbornes or marines and bring him to The Hague. True deomcracy can only be without him.

For the rest, I hope Nato is not too chicken to investigate their own blunders and wrong doings. Democracy will be served by doing so.

Zoja]]> Kosovo War zoja https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4396 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4395 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:21:00 +0000
Way to go!

There is always a fine line between standing up for your opinion and name calling. It is time that individual people stand up for themselves and think for themselves, instead of running like a dog after a so called leader, whether he is called Milosevic or Clinton, it does not matter. I think the Internet can be a good start to do just that!

Zoja]]> Kosovo War zoja https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4395 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4394 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:30:00 +0000
What I hope for...

I don't know how we'll become a people so adverse to violence that we develop the capability to talk about the things that concern us most. To name a problem, however eloquently, is not to solve it. As the bombings cease, with death dealt (always unfairly) to all sides in this war, what could we do to prevent violence from reoccurring? We live in a world of too many acronyms, don't you think? The KLA, NATO, FRY -- but these all are people. I know it sounds simplistic in light of what's gone on for the past eleven weeks. My question: Does it sound simplistic in light of all human history? Aren't all graves ultimately alike? Aren't the joys and dreams of children (including, give or take a few years, all of us) what we must concentrate on? Can we get beyond that old child's game of heroes and villains, power and none, to find something true and shining in our souls?

Maybe we're too animal for that; maybe the animal in us is inevitable; maybe not. But even the animal craves love...

I'm sorry if I seem to be straying from specifics. But I don't know how else to pray for a good outcome. Maybe just knowing we all face death could be the beginning. It's hard to learn how to live fully otherwise -- at least that's my experience. I pray for the accusations to stop. It tears at our energy, destroys the joy and curiosity that's our birthright at least as much as our craving for power and ownership.

The writers here come from all around the world. An attempt to speak one language, made of many languages, has been made -- a beginning. I hope we'll treat that beginning with respect and with gratitude. Ten, twenty, a hundred years from now, no one will remember what the KLA, or NATO, or FRY even mean. No one will remember any of us, but what we do and say and put forth now will certainly contribute to the making of the world.

We have the bumper sticker: "Life sucks, then you die." And another one: "Practice random acts of kindness." Another one: "My child is an honor student at ." And in reply to that: "My child beat up your honor student at ."

So? What're we gonna do about it?]]> Kosovo War nancy https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/3/#post-4394 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4393 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:06:00 +0000
by Nicholas Hellen
Media Correspondent

SIR John Birt, director-general of the BBC, failed to declare to
governors of the corporation that he was a paid-up member of the
Labour party at the time of his appointment.

The disclosure of Birt's political links coincides with controversy over
Greg Dyke, another Labour supporter and a candidate to replace Birt
when he leaves in April next year. Final interviews are to be held early
next week and a verdict on the successful candidate is expected shortly.

Dyke, the millionaire chairman of Pearson Television, has given
approximately £50,000 to Labour over five years, including
£10,000-£12,000 to Tony Blair's leadership campaign. Last week
William Hague, the Conservative leader, said it was "unacceptable" for
anyone who had funded a political party to become director-general.

Senior broadcasters have expressed dismay at the apparent breakdown
in the BBC's vetting procedures. Sir Paul Fox, the former managing
director of BBC Television, said: "I find it surprising that this was not
discovered by the governors or declared by Sir John Birt at the time of
his appointment." Lord Bragg, a Labour peer, added: "He should have
declared it."

Birt was a paying member of the Labour party until March 4, 1992, eight
months after he was designated director-general by the BBC board of
governors. He served as deputy director-general, with responsibility for
news and current affairs, from 1987 until January 1993, when he took
over the top job.

Governors who appointed Birt said this weekend that they had not been
informed of his support for Labour. Baroness James, the novelist P D
James, said: "I was not aware that he was a member of the Labour
party."

The BBC came under fierce attack from the Conservatives for its alleged
pro-Labour bias during Birt's term as deputy director-general. Lord
Tebbit, who as Conservative chairman led the attack, said this weekend
that the disclosure justified his criticism. "It confirms my long-held view
that the staff of the BBC are left-wing in view.

"If John Birt was a member of the Labour party at the time he was
appointed, he should have informed all the governors of that fact and,
indeed, they should have made it public had they been so informed."

Birt was unavailable for comment, but the BBC released a statement
which said: "John Birt gave up his membership at least a year before
becoming director-general and there is no suggestion that, prior to that,
he played any active role in the party."

A Labour spokesman said: "John Birt has not been a member of the party
since he became director-general of the BBC and he has never since then
contributed to party funds."]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4393 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4392 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:41:00 +0000
Media Advisory:
WHAT REPORTERS KNEW ABOUT KOSOVO TALKS -- BUT DIDN'T TELL
Was Rambouillet Another Tonkin Gulf?

June 2, 1999

New evidence has emerged confirming that the U.S. deliberately set out to thwart the Rambouillet peace talks in France in order to provide
a "trigger" for NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.

Furthermore, correspondents from major American news organizations reportedly knew about this plan to stymie the Kosovo peace talks,
but did not inform their readers or viewers.

FAIR's May 14 media advisory, "Forgotten Coverage of Rambouillet Negotiations," asked whether the media had given the full story on
Rambouillet. News reports almost universally blamed the failure of negotiations on Serbian intransigence. The headline over a New York
Times dispatch from Belgrade on March 24--the first day of the bombing--read "U.S. Negotiators Depart, Frustrated By Milosevic's
Hard Line."

But the evidence presented in "Forgotten Coverage" suggested that it was U.S. negotiators, not the Serbs, who blocked an agreement.

Now, in the June 14 issue of the Nation, George Kenney, a former State Department Yugoslavia desk officer, reports:

An unimpeachable press source who regularly travels with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told this that,
swearing reporters to deep-background confidentiality at the Rambouillet talks, a senior State Department official had
bragged that the United States "deliberately set the bar higher than the Serbs could accept." The Serbs needed,
according to the official, a little bombing to see reason.

In other words, the plan for Kosovo autonomy drafted by State Department officials was intentionally crafted to provoke a rejection from
Serb negotiators. In his Nation article, Kenney compares this plan to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Providing further confirmation of Kenney's account, Jim Jatras, a foreign policy aide to Senate Republicans, reported in a May 18 speech at
the Cato Institute in Washington that he had it "on good authority" that a "senior Administration official told media at Rambouillet, under
embargo" the following:

"We intentionally set the bar too high for the Serbs to comply. They need some bombing, and that's what they are going
to get."

In interviews with FAIR, both Kenney and Jatras asserted that these are actual quotes transcribed by reporters who spoke with a U.S.
official. They declined to give the names or affiliations of the reporters.

The revelation that American reporters knew about a U.S. strategy to create a pretext for NATO's war on Yugoslavia--but did not report
on it--raises serious questions about the independence of mainstream news organizations.

More reporting is needed on the origins of this war, as well as the opportunities for peace that may have been overlooked.

This release will be updated as new information becomes available.


This media advisory was written by FAIR media analyst Seth Ackerman.]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4392 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4391 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:34:00 +0000
Please contact national media outlets and ask why they did not cover the June 5 march on the Pentagon, and why they have sidelined
anti-war activists since the start of the bombing.

New York Times
229 W. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-556-1234
Fax: 212-556-3690
letters@nytimes.com

Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW, Washington, DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000
Fax: 202-334-7502
ombudsman@washpost.com

ABC
47 W. 66 St., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
Fax: 212-456-4297 netaudr@abc.com

NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-4444
Fax: 212-664-5705 nightly@nbc.com

CBS
524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893

The NewsHour
3620 South 27th St., Arlington, VA 22206
Phone: 703-998-2150 newshour@pbs.org]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4391 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4390 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:29:00 +0000 Media Ignores Major Anti-War March

June 7, 1999

On June 5, 1999, thousands of anti-war activists protested the bombing of Yugoslavia by rallying in Washington, D.C. and marching from
the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial to the Pentagon. A June 7 Nexis search of the major American news outlets (including newspapers such
as the New York Times and the Washington Post, along with ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS's NewsHour) revealed that none of them so
much as mentioned the protest (CNN aired brief mentions of the protest, none of which appear in the transcripts of their broadcasts).

The protesters represented a wide swath of the political spectrum, but they all condemned NATO's aggression and called for an immediate
end to the bombing. Many raised concerns that NATO may be preparing for a long-term occupation of the Balkans. Sounds like not
everyone bought the mainstream media's declarations of a NATO victory.]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4390 https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4389 Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:12:00 +0000
BIG PROTEST HELD AGAINST AVIANO AIR BASE STOPPED
NATO FLIGHTS FOR 3 HOURS
Aviano, 6 June - Coming from whole Italy, around 20,000 protesters
rallied around all the perimeter of the NATO Air Base in Aviano,
guarded by thousands of policemen in addition to the reinforced
military surveillance.

Original "Il Corriere Della Sera" article URL

The protest, organized by around 200
organizations (including, just to name
some, political parties, trade unions,
ecologists, pacifists and "Women in
Black"), took place from 2:00pm to
5:00pm and was the biggest one out of
many organized almost on daily base so
far around the base since March 24.

No flights were authorized from the Base during the rally in order to
avoid violent reaction from the protesters. The suspension of the
flights was based on an express request by the Italian government to
NATO command in order to comply to the terms of an accord
arranged in Rome, on June 2 (just after the sensational pacifist blitz
in Rome on Republic's Day), between the Italian Interior Minister,
Rosa Russo Jervolino, and the protest organizers.

Therefore, there were almost no incidents, apart some minor
episodes, such as the launch of stones inside the base perimeter
and some minor damage inflicted to the base fence, all occurred
without police intervention. Most popular slogans and banners were
"Clinton, D'Alema… Murders! Murders!" , "Americans Go Home" and, by far, the most common,
"Stop The Bombs".

"If there were no incidents it is not because of the huge police
presence, but thanks to the fact that the Italian Government
respected the pacts, demanding and obtaining from NATO the
suspension of the attacks during the manifestation" said Luca
Casarini, spokesperson of the North-East Italian leftist movement of
"Autonomi". In previous pacifist blitz, Casarini, with local civilian
officials and a priest, invaded the NATO Air Base of Istrana (also in
North East Italy) and successfully unfolded a huge pacifist banner on
the runway, after illegally invading the base by cutting the fence
which surrounds it and before the military surveillance was able to
remove the protesters.
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Despite the objective importance
and the success of the Aviano
protest, and while the European
parliaments vote approaches,
quite predictably, the government
controlled Italian State TV
devoted to the manifestation a
"report" of less than 10 seconds in the most followed evening news.
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HUGS, Pietro]]> Kosovo War daniela https://www.viexpo.com/kosovo-war/archive-through-june-10-1999/paged/2/#post-4389