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 Aug 20, 2008 4:42pm  (10 reviews) drugs, politics http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/409.htm...-
Hemp: The Outlawed Plant
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Tobacco - 450,000 US deaths per year
Alcohol - 150,000 US deaths per year
Prescription drugs - 106,000 US deaths per year
Caffeine - 10,000 US deaths per year
Cocaine/Heroin - 5,200 US deaths per year
Aspirin - 1,000 US deaths per year
Marijuana - 0 US deaths per year
Grown worldwide for millenia as a source of food, medicine, fiber and paper, hemp was banned for the first time in human history in 1938 by the United States.
The original impetus for outlawing the hemp plant came from the DuPont and Mellon families with an important assist from William Randolf Hearst. Hearst owned timber rights for millions of acres of forest land, the raw material for newsprint. DuPont had patents for numerous synthetic products that hemp is competitive with.
Basically hemp was banned in order to fatten the wallets of a few already extremely wealthy families and their paid-for politicians.
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- Criminalizing natural healing
- Aug 9, 2008 4:30pm
 (4 reviews) health, politics http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/191.htm... - From the page: "Criminalizing natural healing"
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- The New York Times: Making Nuclear Extermination Respectable
- Aug 9, 2008 4:30pm (1 review) politics http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?c...
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The New York Times: Making Nuclear Extermination Respectable
[ftp] On July 18, 2008 The New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians - 12 times the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust.
What does the publication by the New York Times of an article, which calls for the nuclear incineration of 70 million Iranians and the contamination of the better part of a billion people in the Middle East, Asia and Europe, tell us about US politics and culture? For it is the NYT [unfortunately], which informs the `educated classes' in the US, its Sunday supplements, literary and editorial pages and which serves as the `moral conscience' of important sectors of the cultural, economic and political elite.
The New York Times provides a certain respectability to mass murder, which Morris' views otherwise would not possess if say, they were published in the neo-conservative weeklies or monthlies. The fact that the NYT considers the prospect of an Israeli mass extermination of millions of Iranians part of the policy debate in the Middle East reveals the degree to which Zionofascism has infected the `higher' cultural and journalist circles of the United States. Truth to say, this is the logical outgrowth of the Times' public endorsement of Israel's economic blockade to starve 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza and the Times' cover-up of Israeli-Zionist-AIPAC influence in launching the US invasion of Iraq leading to over one million murdered Iraqi citizens.
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- & Like the Little Satans We Are
- Aug 4, 2008 12:46pm (2 reviews) activism, ethics http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE?p=...
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Like the Little Satans We Are
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." - William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
[ftp] Self-delusional and mentally masturbatory as it may be, we human animals invest insane amounts of energy into maintaining our perverse illusion that we are separate from the "natural world" and possess an omnipotence that enables us to bend the forces of nature to our wills.
We mercilessly and thoughtlessly abuse, exploit, and slaughter commodified non-human animals [by the billions] simply to amplify our personal pleasure and fatten our wallets. Despite the slow and choppy moral progress we've made in how we treat our fellow human animals, we are still acculturated to view non-human animals as enslaved property or lesser beings, unworthy of the basic rights to life, freedom, and protection from torture.
Occasionally, "civilized people" stumble upon an undercover PETA video that exposes factory farms for the Auschwitzes they are, cringe in horror, and decry the [truly] shocking cruelty. Yet an hour later many of those same "born again empathizers" have no problem grabbing a burger from McMurderers, the principal catalyst for the emergence of the factory farm system.
"The question is not, `Can they reason?' nor, `Can they talk?' but rather, `Can they suffer?'"
- Jeremy Bentham, social reformer
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- Lab chimps show same stress symptoms as tortured humans - Scotsman.com...
- Aug 4, 2008 12:46pm (2 reviews) animals, ethics http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Lab-chi...
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Lab chimps show same stress symptoms as tortured humans
CHIMPANZEES subjected to laboratory experiments suffer similar levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as humans who have been tortured, according to a new study. [there's a surprise]
The study, which will be presented to a scientific conference in Edinburgh tomorrow, will fuel calls for a Europe-wide ban on the use of primates in medical and pharmaceutical trials.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Jul 29, 2008 6:05am
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- Healthy lifestyle triggers genetic changes: study| Health| Reuters
- Jun 17, 2008 4:33pm (6 reviews) health, genetics http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNew...
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Healthy lifestyle triggers genetic changes
[ftp] Comprehensive lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can lead not only to a better physique, but also to swift and dramatic changes at the genetic level, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
In a small study, the researchers tracked 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who decided against conventional medical treatment such as surgery and radiation or hormone therapy.
The men underwent three months of major lifestyle changes, including eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products, moderate exercise such as walking for half an hour a day, and an hour of daily stress management methods such as meditation.
After the three months, the men had changes in activity in about 500 genes -- including 48 that were turned on and 453 genes that were turned off. The activity of disease-preventing genes increased while a number of disease-promoting genes, including those involved in prostate cancer and breast cancer, shut down, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- Astronomers find batch of super-Earths | Reuters.com
- Jun 17, 2008 3:34pm (1 review) astronomy, science http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/art...
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Astronomers find batch of 'Super-Earths'
European researchers said on Monday they had discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well. They said their findings, presented at a conference in France, suggest that Earth-like planets may be very common.
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- Scientists Find Smallest Form of Life, if It Lives
- Jun 16, 2008 3:42pm (5 reviews) biology, science http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/...
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- The BBC as an Imperial Tool?
- May 5, 2008 9:20am (2 reviews) uk, propaganda, media http://rinf.com/alt-news/media-news/the-...
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The BBC - An Imperial Tool
At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world's most relied on is not - the BBC. It's an imperial tool, as corrupted as its dominant counterparts, been around longer than all of them, now in it for profit, and it's vital that people know who BBC represents and what it delivers.
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