"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica."You don't say....
"I inhaled frequently. That was the point."John Adams :
"We shall by and by want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."Thomas Jefferson :
"(Cannabis) is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country."Jimmy Carter :
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of (cannabis) in private for personal use..."George Washington :
"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."Ronald Reagan :
"I have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast."
"The Muslim Brotherhood is a weaponised, ideological arm of Saudi Arabia."
"The problem is there are different Washington agendas, White House, national security agencies, the CIA, the Pentagon."
"The next domino to fall, if we follow the agenda established by the Pentagon is Syria....The Pentagon is basically the Africa agenda, they want to win the war in Libya, install a Africa base in Africa....then there are the dominoes, Libya, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Somalia. So these are the next dominoes to fall, according to the Africa Pentagon agenda. Then later on the big dominoes would the countries where China has substantial interests. Example, Angola, Algeria, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea...."
"China...their counter strategy, if they see they're foundering in Africa....they would renew their ties with South America and Central Asia..."
I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future.
Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would measure the success of a night by the way, by the way, by the amount of piss and seed I could exude all over the columns that nestled the P.A.
Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped, I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a....
a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am peaceful and my knees are open to the sun.
I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me.
In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American; in heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist. And I have no guilt. I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce. We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore.
He spared the child and spoiled the rod.
I have not sold myself to God.
The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" — to the point that the "well-being and existence of many beings" is now threatened.
(The treaty) also establishes a Ministry of Mother Earth, and provides the planet with an ombudsman whose job is to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups...
..."Mother Earth has the right to exist, to persist and to continue the vital cycles, structures, functions and processes that sustain all human beings."
Canadian activist Maude Barlow is among global environmentalists backing the drive with a book the group will launch in New York during the UN debate: Nature Has Rights.
"...some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops.
"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
"So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real..."
So in 1997 the then US Defense Secretary held a press conference and announced those who threaten the United States were working on ethnic specific viruses, genetically modified insects to take out food crops and electromagnetic weapons that set of volcanoes and earthquakes.
That was in 1997.
It's 2011, 14 years later. How advanced today are those viruses and earthquake weapons?
Unless of course, Defense Secretary Cohen was just bullshitting to keep the United States in a state of Peak Fear, pumping new threats to ensure bigger Pentagon budgets, in the wake of the first attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Oklahoma Bombing.
Then again....
"...alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely...."
Are we living in the Age Of The Eco-Wars?
...many of the jobs in retail, hospitality and home health care, to name a few categories, are unlikely to pay enough for workers to cover the cost of fundamentals like housing, utilities, food, health care, transportation and, in the case of working parents, child care.And millions of them have jobs.
According to the report, a single worker needs an income of $30,012 a year — or just above $14 an hour — to cover basic expenses and save for retirement and emergencies. That is close to three times the 2010 national poverty level of $10,830 for a single person, and nearly twice the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.A single worker with two young children needs an annual income of $57,756, or just over $27 an hour, to attain economic stability, and a family with two working parents and two young children needs to earn $67,920 a year, or about $16 an hour per worker.
That compares with the national poverty level of $22,050 for a family of four. The most recent data from the Census Bureau found that 14.3 percent of Americans were living below the poverty line in 2009.
…since our societies - or rather their governments and big corporations - aren't willing to really go about solving our economic and social and political problems, they have hit upon a simple technique (technique, not solution) by which they are going to make us fit, rather than any solution fit. We, as human beings, will be changed so that the problems cease because we cease to be humans any longer, in any real sense.
Itinerant cigarette vendors have long been a fixture in some parts of the city, like bodegas that sell individual cigarettes in violation of state law. But with cigarette prices up and the number of smoke-friendly places down, the black market for loosies is now thriving on the streets.The Full Story Is Here
“The tax went up, and we started selling 10 times as much,” Mr. Warner said.
“Bloomberg thinks he’s stopping people from smoking. He’s just turning them onto loosies.”
In the four years since he began selling cigarettes, Mr. Warner recalls being arrested 15 times, generally on the charge of selling untaxed tobacco. He has been arrested so often that he can recognize 10 different plainclothes police officers, he claims.
“There are people who are known bad guys, and then there’s him,” said Russell S. Novack, the Legal Aid lawyer who represents many of Midtown’s hustlers, prostitutes, shoplifters and public drunks. “He’s like the goodwill ambassador of Eighth Avenue. And when he comes into court, he says hello to everybody.”For Mr. Warner, punishment usually means a few days in jail on Rikers Island, or a week of community service, some of it spent sweeping cigarette buts.
"Do you ever see those television shows where, like, something will happen – okay? – and the audience knows everything that's happening to the main character, but everybody else in the television show is going along with the main plot assumption?"
"This is one of those situations that, really quite unfortunately is one of those situations."Wonder if the police nabbed someone who was on his way to becoming a serial killer? He certainly fits the standard psychological profile, as unreliable as those sometimes turn out to be."I love animals. I love animals. I love animals more than I love people."
"....I have been possessed by a spirit, or I have been taken over by nanites or aliens or something like that and I've done it without my knowledge or my memory has been wiped."
Eventually, Phelps began to share about his interest in cats -- an animal he called "fascinating." He said they can sense electromagnetic activity and that, as scientists began to understand this, it could open the door to human telepathy."They can pick out who is in their own family without smell and everything," he said.
"...some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops.
"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
"So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real..."
So in 1997 the then US Defense Secretary held a press conference and announced those who threaten the United States were working on ethnic specific viruses, genetically modified insects to take out food crops and electromagnetic weapons that set of volcanoes and earthquakes.
That was in 1997.
It's 2011, 14 years later. How advanced today are those viruses and earthquake weapons?
Unless of course, Defense Secretary Cohen was just bullshitting to keep the United States in a state of Peak Fear, pumping new threats to ensure bigger Pentagon budgets, in the wake of the first attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Oklahoma Bombing.
Then again....
"...alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely...."
The Eco-Wars.
"the long read is a dying art"
"....there are so many claims on our attention. Very literate people admit they can't read books any more. And just as the literate brain is physically different to the illiterate brain, the digitally savvy brain is different again. It's a physiological change, not just a moral one."
