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HEMP FACTS
Compiled by Ezra Soiferman
Sept. 2005
The history and future of hemp is now at your fingertips.Koreas Set Up Joint Venture in Pyongyang
By Park Song-wu
The Korea Times - Sept. 30, 2005
North and South Korea to invade with hemp.
Why FEMA Was Missing in Action
By Peter G. Gosselin and Alan C. Miller
LA Times - 9/05/05
While the federal government has spent much of the last quarter-century trimming the safety nets it provides Americans, it has dramatically expanded its promise of protection in one area — disaster. Since the 1970s, Washington has emerged as the insurer of last resort against floods, fires, earthquakes and — after 2001 — terrorist attacks. But the government's stumbling response to the storm that devastated the nation's Gulf Coast reveals that the federal agency singularly most responsible for making good on Washington's expanded promise has been hobbled by cutbacks and a bureaucratic downgrading.
Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be 'asked to resign'
By Brett Arends
The Boston Herald - 9/03/05
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows. And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.
Washington Ignores Aid Coming from Cuba
By Richard A. Serrano and Nicole Gaouette
LA Times - 9/06/05
Over 1,500 doctors, 26 tons of medicines and medical equipment badly needed in the states affected by hurricane Katrina are waitng for US OK to be shipped
Floor Statement of Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich:
The Supplemental for Hurricane Katrina
This amount of money is only a fraction of what is needed and everyone here knows it. Let it go forward quickly with heart-felt thanks to those who are helping to save lives with necessary food, water, shelter, medical care and security. Congress must also demand accountability with the appropriations. Because until there are basic changes in the direction of this government, this tragedy will multiply to apocalyptic proportions.
Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects
By Richard A. Serrano and Nicole Gaouette
LA Times - 9/04/05
To cut spending, officials gambled that the worst-case scenario would not come to be. For years, Washington had been warned that doom lurked just beyond the levees. And for years, the White House and Congress had dickered over how much money to put into shoring up century-old dikes and carrying out newer flood control projects to protect the city of New Orleans.
No Doubts: Global Warming Is Real, U.S. Experts Say
Reuters - 12/3/03
There can be no doubt that global warming is real and is being caused by people, two top U.S. government climate experts said.
Many Ice Caps Likely To Disapear Within 15 Years
Ohio State University Research Communications - 2/18/2001
Many glaciers and ice caps atop mountains in Africa and South America will probably have melted within the next 15 years because of global warming and little can be done to save them, an Ohio State University researcher explained today.
Four in 9/11 Plot Are Tied to Qaeda in 2000
By Douglas Jehl
The New York Times - 8/09/05
Washington - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress. In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, and the former intelligence official said Monday.
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Crimes Against Nature
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rolling Stone - 11/19/2003
Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's environment for more than thirty years.
Biomass Could Reduce CO2 Emissions, Report Says
Reuters - 11/19/2004
Using biomass, a type of fuel made of materials such as wood and manure, instead of coal to generate electricity could lower the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and create jobs, a report said Thursday.
Court Rules Hemp Products Not Drug Related
Associated Press - 2/7/04
Rejecting one front of the government's drug war, a federal appeals court has ruled the United States cannot ban the sale of food made with natural hemp that contains only trace amounts of the psychoactive chemical in marijuana.
Global Warming: the Quadrillion Dollar Question
By Alister Doyle
Reuters - 10/27/03
With solutions costing up to a mind-numbing $18,000,000,000,000,000, it is among the most expensive questions in history -- "How do you stop people from causing dangerous global warming?"
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An Ancient Alternative to Oil 
By Zed B. Starkovich
The ONLY way our past foreign policy, and present war, can be justified is if we accept the fundamental premise that WE NEED OIL TO SURVIVE. We must believe that oil is our only source of energy and without it civilization as we know it would collapse. In order to justify our more "precision bombing" must believe that protecting our oil-based economy is the same as protecting the people of America. But its all a lie. WE DON'T NEED OIL AND NEVER HAVE.
Genocide and the Drug War
By Zed B. Starkovich
I sent this letter to Col. Fletcher Prouty, author of JFK and The Secret Team, as well as the basis for 'Man X' in Oliver Stone's film JFK (based on Prouty's book). Col. Prouty served as the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years and was directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA. He was at the epicenter of the events that shaped our history and his work provides an invaluable glimpse into the murky corridors of military power. His patriotism and lifelong service to the people of this country will serve as a true inspiration to anybody interested in the past and concerned about the future of our great nation.
Why Socialism?
By Albert Einstein
Monthly Review - May, 1949
Most of the major states of history owed their existence to conquest. The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
A Note From Hunter S. Thompson
From "Kingdom Of Fear " 2003
Let's face it, the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what he is told to do, says what he is told to say, poses the way he is told to pose. He is a fool.
"Dick" Cheney Made Millions Off Oil Deals with Saddam Hussein
By Martin A. Lee
During former defense secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief executive of Halliburton, Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a $34 million retirement package last July when he became the GOP's vice-presidential candidate.
160,000 Said Dying Yearly from Global Warming
By Alister Doyle, Reuters - 9/30/03
MOSCOW (Reuters) - About 160,000 people die every year from side-effects of global warming ranging from malaria to malnutrition and the numbers could almost double by 2020, a group of scientists said on Tuesday. The study, by scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said children in developing nations seemed most vulnerable.
Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74
By Raymond Cushing, AlterNet - May 31, 2000
The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.
The Dutch Connection: How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis
By John Loftus - 10/7/00
Note: This article's author, John Loftus, is a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.
War is a Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler, Forum magazine, September, 1934
WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Hemp for Victory
By the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Here's the film our Federal Government made, and now says doesn't exist. If you think Hemp as a natural resource is a Hippie pipe dream, try not to blow your mind on the truth.
New Billion Dollar Crop
Popular Mechanics, 1938
During the World War II raw materials shortage Henry Ford built a car "grown from the soil" that ran on hemp ethanol fuel and was built from hemp based organic plastic that was ten times stronger than steel.
The Ford Hempmobile
Popular Mechanics, 1941
This famous article from 1938 was written just months before congress quietly destroyed the hemp industry by declaring that the "demon weed marijuana" was the most "violence causing drug known to man" and that it "made Mexicans and Negroes rape white women." When the article finally ran, the promise of a second industrial revolution had been choked to death before its first breath and left to die on the dusty road of history.
The Cannabis/Hemp FAQ
By Brian S. Julin
This hypertext paper is packed with important information and the answers to all your Cannabis and Hemp questions.
Modern Uses for Hemp
This handy diagram shows how different parts of the Hemp plant can be used for thousands of items currently produced with expensive and toxic petrochemical materials and processes.
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By Paul Roberts
From the Inside Cover:
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as the only means to industrial success; and a Western middle class that refuses to modify its energy dependent lifestyle.
But within thiry years, by even conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is easily accessible. And well before then [like, NOW] the side effects of an oil based society - economic voliatility, geopolitical conflict, and the climate chhanging impact of hydrocarbon pollution - will render fossil fuels an all but unacceptable solution.
How will we break oour addiction to oil? And what will we use in its place to maintaon a global economy and political system that are entirely reliant on cheap, redily available energy?
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By Christopher Bryson
From the Inside Cover:
The Fluoride Deception unearths the mystery of how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the cold war was added to our drinking water and toothpaste.
A chronicle of abuse of power and of the manufacture of stste-sponsored medical propaganda, The Fluoride Deception reveals how a secretive group of powerful industries, all of which faced extensive litigation for fluoride pollution, collaborated with officials from the National Institute of Dental Research to launder fluoride's public image.
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Updated 9/30/05
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