Gaia Community: Satyagrahi's Blog

Kenyan Human Rights Lawyer on the Messiah Within / The P.M.

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

The following is by Njonjo Mue, a human rights lawyer and the head of advocacy at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.

“What we do now will determine what kind of country our children will inherit. Do not be fooled by the perception that it does not matter what we do. The choices we make today shall have irreversible consequences for generations to come. We are the people who shall save or lose Kenya. We are not perfect and we will make mistakes, but the greatest mistake we can make now is to do nothing.

So, do something!

First, we must disregard the futile search for a messiah who will come and fix everything for us. The messiah we look for is to be found inside each one of us. We must each take personal responsibility in defining and enforcing our new social contract. We must say no to any person who seeks to exploit us and use us as a stepping stone to power. We must find the courage to believe in ourselves again and say no to their destructive favours and demeaning patronage for which we have hitherto sold our birth right. It is time to impose a new set of rules: a paradigm that puts country above personal comfort, and our children’s inheritance and collective security above individual gain. “

What weapons shall our army wield? Our conviction, our minds, and our bodies. We shall scale the citadels of oppression to proclaim our humanity to those who have forgotten what it is to be human. We shall shun violence in all its forms – violence of thought, language, and action. We shall engage in non-violent direct action when necessary to draw attention to our concerns and to bring about positive change. In everything we do, we shall conduct our struggle on the high plane of integrity and honour. This is not in seeking to conquer our opponents, but to convert them, for our fight is not against persons, but against injustice, against indignity and against oppression.

COUNTING THE COST: WHAT RISKS DO WE FACE?

The forces pitted against us are many, varied and vicious. Before we engage, we must count the cost. It will cost us – all of us – our very lives. The cause for which we fight will be here long after we have all passed the baton to a new generation. Some of us may have to go before others, for the entrenched forces we oppose are not benign. Therefore, like any other army, the army of ordinary people requires you to prepare to pay the supreme price for your convictions. You and I could die. This is a reality we must be prepared to come to terms with before signing up.

If we wage our struggle with honour and discipline, and raise our cause above ourselves, even if we die in the struggle, death becomes redemptive. Hundreds and thousands will rise up to take our place; our blood shall water the tree of freedom and invigorate our nation. Soon, our nation shall be truly free!

We could go to prison. But this should not perturb us unduly because for countless people who endure life in the slums or live under the spectre of urban insecurity or rural poverty, there is a sense in which our country is one large prison today. Should we end up behind bars, we should take solace in the fact that in those very prisons are men and women, both jailers and jailed, who need to hear our message of hope. We will go to prison willingly and shall ‘transform our jailhouses from dungeons of despair into havens of freedom’. Soon, both prisoner and prison warden shall be free.

We could endure physical injury, but this is not an unfamiliar occurrence. We are already bleeding from a thousand wounds. We suffer the daily indignities of hunger, oppression and disease. We must regard every blow that lands upon our unarmed bodies as the blow of a hammer and chisel that will shape the stones that wound us into the forms of people. In doing so, we may liberate both the oppressed and the oppressor, forever throwing off the shackles of fear and brutishness from around the neck of our nation. Soon, both the oppressor and the oppressed shall be free!

AND WHAT IS IN IT FOR US?

I can promise you only hardship and persecution. These are the only guarantees. Our country did not get to the dark place where it finds itself today overnight, nor will it escape from this reality overnight. It will get worse before it gets better. But I also promise you destiny. We were born for such a time as this. Future generations shall be beholden to the army of ordinary people – young men and women who had the courage of their convictions.

I call upon you to give up the material comforts of today to build a nation for tomorrow. I dare you to cross the line of the familiar and into the unknown in pursuit of a vision for another country, a better homeland. I challenge you to sow the seeds of a tree you may never personally sit under, that another generation may reap the fruit of dignity, security and prosperity for all. I call upon you to invest in a future we may both never see, that your children and mine might never again be called the children of a lesser god. “

*Mue’s blog can be found at www.uhurugeneration.blogspot.com.
* Please send comments to editor@pambazuka.org or comment online at www.pambazuka.org.
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Here's my contribution for effective activism in the USA:
http://progressivemanifesto.us/

Any comments/suggestions on that would be appreciated.
Peace

Tags: human rights, democracy, activism, revolution, progress, nonviolence, justice

Debunking the Top 2 Myths on Why You Must Eat Meat to be Healthy

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:58:43 GMT

The 2 things most people think of when they hear someone promoting veganism is, “I wont get enough complete protein” & “I wont get enough vitamin B12”. I discovered both of these myths are untrue. Please share this with others.

1) Hemp seeds, Soy, Spirulina, Amaranth, Buckwheat and Quinoa are COMPLETE PROTEINS, it's a lie that you need to eat meat to get all the protein you need. Eating meat is another act of common violence in society normalized through deception (like wars based on lies); humans are scientifically shown to be herbivores.

“Protein [0] is essential for many bodily processes, including building and repairing tissue. You use protein [1] to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. Plus, your hair and nails are mostly made up of protein. It is an important building block of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin [1], and blood.

Protein is made of smaller components called amino acids, 12 of which are manufactured by the human body. Another 9, called essential amino acids [2], must be obtained from food.

A complete protein [3] or whole protein is a protein that contains all of the essential amino acids.

Vegetarians will be happy to know that complete proteins can also be obtained through certain plants, such as soy [3], spirulina, hemp seed, amaranth, buckwheat, and my fave quinoa [3].

Foods can be combined to make complete proteins like pairing beans with rice or corn. There are other combinations [4] as well. Beans and seeds, beans and nuts [4], and beans and grains will form a complete protein. When you eat hummus [4] and pita bread, nut butter [4] on whole grain bread, pasta with beans [4], veggie burgers on bread, split pea soup with whole grain bread, and tortillas [4] with refried beans, you are eating complete proteins.

Fit's Tips: Recent studies [5] show that the beans and the grains don't even need to be eaten at the same meal, so if you eat beans for lunch and rice with dinner, you've got yourself a complete protein. You may spread your food combination over a 2-day [6] period.

Source URL:
http://www.fitsugar.com/165298

Links:
[1] http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/guide/benefits-protein
[2] http://www.vegsource.com/attwood/complete_protein.htm
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein
[4] http://www.theveggietable.com/articles/protein.html
[5] http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Vegetarian_eating?OpenDocument
[6] http://www.vegsource.com/attwood/complete_protein.htm ”

Also the myth that you can't get enough vitamin B12 unless you eat meat is another LIE

http://www.goveg.com/

Vegan Video

Tags: diet, meat, health, herbivore, vegan, veganism, protein, vitamins, nutrients

Short & Accurate Healthy Diet Plan (+ videos on cancer treatment)

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:27:18 GMT

Even though I do not follow the following plan completely, it is not due to lack of confidence in it's effectiveness, I believe this is the most accurate/commonsense health advice for increasing well-being as well as preventing disease like cancer. For more info on getting healthy and protecting your freedom to use natural medicine, check out: http://www.holistichealthtopics.com/HMG/default.html

If you did the following, your health and well-being would improve dramatically:

o Consume a diet that focuses on whole, organic, unprocessed foods (whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, seeds, etc.)
o Be sure the air in your home/work is as fresh and clean as possible (good circulation, filtered).
o Drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of water (filtered, without fluoride if possible) daily. Brush AND floss your teeth daily.
o Avoid body-care products, household cleaning products, lawn care products, clothing, furnishing (especially beds/blankets/pillows) that contain toxic ingredients.
o Reduce (or eliminate, if possible) use of animal products (meat and dairy), tobacco, alcohol and coffee.
o Instead of coffee, try the many varieties of Organic herbal tea available (White Tea is especially healthy).
o Avoid soft drinks completely, especially those containing aspartame.
o Avoid white bread, rice, refined flour and refined sugar products. They are devoid of essential nutrients, including omega-3 essential fatty acids and others. Eat whole grains, etc.
o Avoid margarine and all commercial cooking oils. Use Vegan Butter and Organic cold pressed Olive oil instead.
o Consume a multi-vitamin/mineral supplement (with cancer fighting vitamin B17, or obtain it from a natural source like raw apricot/apple seeds) & organic Hemp Seed Oil and/or Flax Seed Oil daily for all the Omega fatty acids (fish meat/oil can be toxic and hemp/flax have all the Omegas: 3,6 and 9). Concentrated marijuana oil is an effective anti-cancer treatment that can be taken orally or topically as well.

- 1931 Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for showing that cancer thrives in anaerobic, without oxygen, or acidic, conditions.
- Research by Keith Brewer, PhD and H.E. Satori has shown that raising the pH, or oxygen content, range of a cell to pH 8.0 creates a deadly environment for cancer.
- This information has been available for over 70 years but it is certainly not "Common Knowledge" it has been buried in favor of more “profitable” treatments.
- Surgery, Chemotherapy and Radiation treatments accounted for more than $360 billion dollars in the United States last year. If the same number of patients were treated with pH therapy the cost would have been much less than $1 million.

As long ago as 1925, two-time Nobel Prize winner Dr. Otto Warburg found that cancer cells are anaerobic; meaning they thrive only in a low-oxygen state. Cesium and Calcium make your body less acidic, in other words they raise your body pH, which cancer cells can't thrive in. Cesium is nature's most alkaline mineral capable of significantly raising the pH of malignant cells until the cancer cells die --- usually within days.

o Avoid unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs, as well as vaccines that may contain toxins. For most cases, try the natural medicine/treatment before drugs or surgery.

o Perform a parasite, colon, kidney, and liver cleanse at least once a year. (It's recommend that you do the colon cleanse and the parasite cleanse first, followed by the kidney cleanse and then the liver cleanse.)

o Minimize radiation exposure (cell phones, wireless internet, power lines, TV/computers, radon gas, etc.)

o Get regular exercise (at least one hour, three times a week).Perform a relaxation exercise (yoga, meditation, tai chi, visualization, prayer, etc.) at least 10 minutes each day.

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Health videos of interest:

RUN FROM THE CURE - The Rick Simpson Story (Part 1 of 7)

Cancer Cure Vitamin B17 01

Tags: cancer, nutrition, truth, diet

Meditation, Manifestation, Lucid Dreaming, Tantra and Morality

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:09:12 GMT

Surya Meditation:

the purpose of meditation is to discover the true Self

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From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eternalbliss :

1:12.    SELF: the Self is

infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss.

Those are five words

pointing towards one awareness.

Awareness-love-bliss are not three,

they are one.

1:13.    The Self is

the background of awareness.

1:14.        Because almost all humans

are in the habit of looking outward

towards thoughts, the body, the world,

people, places, things, etc.,

it appears as though

the background of awareness (the Self)

wakes up in the morning

and goes to sleep at night.

1:15.    If one turns the attention

towards the background of awareness,

eventually it will be discovered that

the background of awareness is continuous.

1:16.        Because almost all humans

are in the habit of looking outward

towards thoughts, the body, the world,

people, places, things, etc.,

it appears as though

the background of awareness is limited.

1:17.    If the attention is turned

towards the awareness

that wakes up in the morning,

instead of towards

people, places, things, thoughts, etc.,

eventually it will be discovered that

that awareness is:

infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss.

1:18.    The background of awareness

that wakes up in the morning

is there during all the waking hours

until one goes to sleep at night.

1:19.        Thoughts come and go,

but the background of awareness

that is aware of the thoughts

is there during all the waking hours

and does not come and go.

1:20.    The background of awareness

is the true Self.

The ego is not the Self. The Self is not the ego. Some definitions of
the word Self as the word Self are used in this book are above in this
message.

Some definitions of the word ego as the word ego will be used in this
book are in previous messages.

The word "ego" and the word "imposter" are used synonymously in this
book.

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Breath Meditation:

Sit comfortably with spine erect ( on a meditation bench or cushion, cross legged on a mat, or on a chair). Make sure you have eliminated possible disturbances as much as possible (phone off, tell roommates not to disturb you with a meditating sign on your door, etc.)
Begin to focus your attention on your breath.
Breath normally, without controlling the depth or shallowness of the breath.
When you become distracted by your thoughts, your body or outside noises, etc. return your attention to your breath.
You can count (on every exhale) to 10, and then repeat, or simply mentally verbalize “inhaling” when inhaling and “exhaling” when exhaling, or you can purely focus on the nuances of each breath without any mental labeling.

Continue for at least 15 minutes. It is ideal to meditate once in the morning and once at night, every day if possible.

Huna/Law of Attraction/ New Thought/ Religious Science, etc.

“The purpose of visualization is to gain control of the mind, become skilled in creating mental constructions, make contact with power forces (themselves the products of mind) and achieve higher states of consciousness...”

-John Blofeld, “The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet”

“In order to change society, we must change our selves. Society is its members and their belief systems, a self-perpetuating pattern designed to preserve itself; but within us lies the urge to grow and change, to flow with evolution. This inner quality shows outwardly in individuals and groups who question social standards and refuse to accept tenets that limit individual self-actualization. It is not enough just to become aware that society is strangling and destroying individuals, we must understand how society does it, and recognize the part each of us plays in the process. Each of us perpetuates limiting beliefs by passing them on to others. As we become aware of these beliefs we can eliminate them and substitute others designates to bring about growth, progress and ultimate fulfillment.

And as we change our lives into satisfying and exciting adventures, we perceive the possibility of changing our society into one that is progressive and full of opportunities for all to achieve self-fulfillment.”

-”Huna: A Beginner's Guide”, p.187-188

Huna Manifestation:

“You can manifest many things in your life with the following technique:

State firmly what you want when you are in a happy, clear mood.
Hold your concentration on the goal with a clear picture. See it in your mind's eye, and do not change the picture while working on it.
Release all resistance and negativity within yourself to it.
Make certain it does not affect other people [or animals].
Feel that you already have it and visualize this state of being. Imagine how you would feel if you had money, had health, had energy, had success, etc. [It may help to try “remembering” the visualization, as though it already happened and you are remembering it, so that the feeling will more closely correspond to the vision without doubts being mixed in.]
Gather man [vital energy] by deep breathing.
Ask your Basic Self [Subconscious] to cooperate with you in bringing the mana to your High Self [Superconscious] in order to realize your goal.
Never question how it will be given to you and never doubt that it will come to you.
Do not tell anyone [who may be negative or discouraging] what you are working on. When you tell others that are not supportive, their negative feelings and doubts could affect the outcome.
Know that there is an infinite supply of everything you need in the universe and that you can draw it to you. [That doesn't mean infinite material resources; over-consumption/consumerism is harming the planet].

“Faith is the head chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.”

-Napolean Hill, “Think and Grow Rich”, p.66

“[Y]ou may benefit, by passing on to your subconscious mind, any desire which you wish translated into its physical, or monetary equivalent, in a state of expectancy or belief that the transmutation will actually take place. Your belief, or faith, is the element which determines the action of your subconscious mind.”

-p.69

“In order to take control of our lives and accomplish something of lasting value, sooner or later we need to learn to Believe. We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the soldiers of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.”

-Benjamin Hoff, “The Tao of Pooh”, p.120

Below are meditation practices that are very effective in fostering personal transformation. By redirecting your attention inward, one can avoid becoming continually distracted and agitated by the outside world, so that, in turn, the outside world can be transformed through practices leading to visualization and manifestation of a better world. The more you are aware of and connected to your Higher Self, the more effective the manifestation of whatever it is that you want in life will be. In order to make that contact, one's concentration skill will most likely need to be improved first. An ethical, mindful and meditative life is necessary in order to make progress with concentration-building practices, by removing karmic disturbances from the mind, which is needed to gain insight and understanding. Thorough guidelines for such a way of living is described expertly by the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path; a more succinct explanation can be found in “The Fundamentals to Path to Self-Realization” from the Hindu Tradition, the “Five Precepts” from the Buddhist tradition and some of the “Ten Commandments” (excluding those referring to “God”, for its lack of practical use).

“Fundamentals to a Path to Self-Realization”

Vegetarianism
No Intoxicants
Morality
Meditation

The Five Precepts

No Intoxicants
No Stealing
No Sexual Misconduct
No Lying
No Violence

“The 10 Commandments” (reduced to 6)

No Killing
No Lying
No Sexual Misconduct
No Stealing
No Coveting (of anything belonging to someone else)
Honor Your Parents

The more meditation and morality is practiced, the more likely Insight will start arising in your life, that is, truths of your life that are valuable. It is recommended that you keep a journal for such thoughts, so one can utilize them for the future. This may be called an “Earth School” journal, or Insight journal, or whatever you want. The extremely distracting products of the entertainment and advertising industries impede our ability to concentrate, which lessens our ability to progress with meditative practice and Insight realization. Corporate (i.e. fascist/backwards minded) controlled media also hinders are ability to see through propaganda and get to the real roots of social/economic/political problems, so that we may actually solve them. For these reasons it is recommended that the amount of TV, movies (especially violent ones), commercial radio, corporate media, etc. that one takes into their mind is reduced as much as possible. Listen to public radio, watch public TV, play your own music (commercial free), watch informative and positive documentaries, etc. Also work to have billboard advertisements banned from your home town, as was done in Sao Palo, Brazil recently.

Awareness of Awareness (AOA) Meditation, Know Thyself Meditation: ending mind pollution by directly realizing the truth of oneself as pure, undifferentiated consciousness through Self Inquiry, connecting with one's blissful Inner Self/ Buddha Nature.

From “The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Enlightenment” by Michael Langford:

Shut your eyes.
Notice your awareness.
Observe that awareness.
Turn your attention away from the world, body and thought and towards awareness watching awareness.
If you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought and back towards awareness watching awareness.

“When you step into the Now... gaps arise in between thoughts – spaciousness, stillness. You begin to realize how much vaster and deeper you are than your thoughts.”

-Ekhart Tolle, “Stillness Speaks”

“Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for outside their own consciousness, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.”

-Keith Floyd, “Of Time and the Mind”

AOA meditation # 2 (from ”Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way” by Serge K. King, p.118):

[Practice the “Breathing Meditation” for at least 10 minutes to settle and focus the mind.]
Ask yourself questions like these:

Who is aware of sitting here? Who is aware of this body, these feelings, these thoughts? Who is aware of being aware?
Keep asking such questions about every sensation, feeling or thought that comes into your awareness, without demanding, making up, expecting, or looking for any answers.
After a time (sorry, I can't be more specific), you will break through into a greater awareness, which is the direct contact with your High Self.

Third Eye Meditation:

Focus your attention in between your eyebrows (the location of the pineal gland, which is said to be a spiritual center in the body, along with the pituitary gland).
You should feel a pull/pressure in that area after sometime, this is a good sign, and is showing you exactly where to focus your attention.
Focus on that pull/pressure feeling for as long as you'd like, at least 15 minutes would be good. You can use that point, your “third eye”, as a focus for concentration building meditation, as you can do with your breath (see breath meditation).
Also try incubating, or envisioning, a lucid dream after activating your third eye through this mediation, just before sleep; you may find your success in becoming lucid while dreaming will be greater. Also try the Huna manifestation meditation/visualization after this mediation, you may find it accelerates and compliments the manifestation process.

The Law of Attraction

This practice is explained well in the book “The Secret”. There are other sources on this topic, as the book and movie explain, this is not a new philosophy, but one that has been shared by various individuals through history.

Quantum Physics

“[G]eneral relativity and quantum theory are simply two complimentary aspects of a deeper theory that will involve a kind of cosmic consciousness as the key concept.”

-Michael Talbot, “Mysticism and the New Physics”

Interconnection as the fundamental political, social and spiritual idea for positive change. If our minds are interconnected to the material world, what interaction and manifestation may be possible?
We must better ourselves, removing our insanity and evil so that the world, which our minds are interconnected with, can lose its insanity and evil as well.

Lucid Dreaming

“You are the originator of your own dreams. This allows you to take responsibility for your life situation.”

-Mindful Recovery, p.186

Lucid Dreaming can compliment and strengthen Huna/LOA/Religious Science/AOA practice when the dream manifestations aren't changed upon becoming lucid in the dream, but instead are interpreted as subconscious symbolism, so that subconscious blocks to the manifestation process can be directly confronted and surpassed.

The basic process:

The first step is always to keep a dream journal.
As you're falling asleep say to yourself "When I'm dreaming tonight, I'll know that I'm dreaming."
Try "incubating" a dream by visulaizing something to appear in your dream, that will remind you that you are dreaming when you see it.

Most people have been taught that dreams are of little significance, and to pay little attention to them. In so doing, we end up ignoring about a third of our entire life, that actually has very profound potential for personal benefit and growth. We've also been conditioned to ignore our waking “dreams”, or hopes for the future, our passions and active use of our imagination. This keeps the destructive status-quo in place; human creativity and imagination are the main opposing force to the current paradigm, since it survives by convincing the populace that there is no better alternative worth supporting.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his [or her] own dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he [or she] has imagined, he [or she] will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -- Henry David Thoreau

“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg... Dreams are the seedlings of reality.”

“Pure Consciousness is Compassion”

“Freedom is Happiness”

Synchronicities

A term created by Carl Jung, on a phenomenon that has been studied by mankind long before him. Otherwise known as meaningful coincidences, synchronicities are a personal experience of guidance through seeming random events, images, sounds, actions, thoughts, etc. that correlate to one another, usually in a short time frame, possibly even simultaneously, giving one a message or indication of something. This could be an impression that is non specific to anything action-based, as in calling for a certain action to be done, and just be a message that one is “on the right track”, or could be very specific: get this book, talk to this person, look into this topic, etc. The ancient Mayans sought to live in a constant state of synchronicity, wherein the interactive and interconnected nature of Reality was continuously perceived. Being in such of state constituted a higher level of consciousness where one was in direct contact and communication with a Divine Intelligence, and Infinite Intelligence, that was seeking to help you in your pursuits of a better, happier more satisfying life.

You may want to keep a synchronicity journal, along with your dream and Insight journals (they could all be in the same book), to remind yourself of the interconnectedness that you have perceived to varying degrees in your past.

“Most of us find synchronicities to be unusual occurrences in our lives, but for the Mayans, it was the norm; synchronicity was a constant reality that they strove to stay a part of, a reconnecting with out divine and eternal selves.”

People that are weary of the idea of guidance, because of an association with hierarchal power structures (which is warranted), may be to quick to disregard synchronistic guidance if it enters their lives. If this is the case for you, consider the possibility that the guidance is actually coming from a part of your self (your Higher Self, as described in Huna), that is connected with the outside world in a very conscious way. Synchronicities may be our Higher Self communicating with us through interaction with the material world, giving us guidance through synchronous events, images, etc. similar to how our subconscious mind communicates to us through dream symbolism...

Common questions concerning synchronicities are: “How can I increase the amount of them in my life?” And “How do I know it was a real synchronicity and not just some imagining of my mind?” The answer to the first is simple: by purifying your mind and body, being more fully in the present moment and more open minded to the possible channels of synchronicity, you will be much more likely to experience them more often. The answer to the second question is also simple: If it is not completely obvious to you that a synchronicity has occurred, it probably has not. One of the characteristics of synchronicity is much they stand out to us in our daily life; they are so unusual, so beyond a chance occurrence, that we take notice right away. It's not something that has to be thought about much, it is more an intuitive, and therefore instant, experience.

Tantra

Tantra can be considered the “Middle Way” of Sex; it is the balance between indulgence and denial, so that higher state so f consciousness can be reached, realizing Interconnectedness through loving union, a transcendental sexual embrace where the two become one with the Universe. Also referred to as an “Alchemical Marriage” in Gnostic Christan teachings, as described in the movie “Sex: The Secret Gate To Eden”, found on www.gnosticteachings.org. The crucial practice, that discerns quality Tantric teachings from the rest, is the insistence on retention of the male orgasm accompanied by ejaculation; this is fundemenatla to channeling the Kundalini energy upward through the seven Chakras, until it reaches the Third Eye and Crown Chakras, which “illuminates” or “enlightens”, the practitioners to Higher Truth.

Book recommendations:

Tantra - Discovering the Power of Pre-Orgasmic Sex – by Yogani

Introduction to Tantra : The Transformation of Desire – by Lama Yeshe

Also crucial is the complimentary teachings and practices found in the book “Tantric Reiki” by Gail Radford.

Tags: Meditation, Manifestation, Lucid Dreaming, Tantra, Morality, Self-Realization, Awareness, Consciousness

Unified World Theory and the obvious change we need to make

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:25:12 GMT

So what does this actually mean as far as how you live your life? Nonviolence. And what does that mean? You dont kill anybody right? Do you eat meat? GOVEG.com
Veganism can save our ecosystem, health and the lives of countless billions of helpless animals. Stop ignoring that truth!

Unified World Theory - Rabbi Abraham

Tags: transformation, consciousness, enlightenment, progress, truth, 2012

Anti-war Movement: Focus on the FOUNDATION of the destruction

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:42:06 GMT

I attended the rally and march against the war in Seattle last year and came to a conclusion that has stayed with me since then. The thousands of people that were there held signs and sang chants that I am familiar with from other marches I’ve attended against the Iraq war (and other Bush/Cheney actions/policies) in other cities over the past few years. What became very clear to me during this last one was a sense of futility, a sense that our protest was having no effect, the war would go on, we will not get our rights back, their will be no impeachment proceedings, no clean energy revolution, etc. And why is that? What is it that allows the Bush Administration to get away with treason, mass-murder and war crimes?

The answer is very simple, and yet I’ve seen over and over otherwise intelligent people (like you?) suddenly become disabled in their ability to think critically and with common sense when it comes to this answer: The official story on 9/11. That ridiculous and proven to be false story is their “get out of jail free card”, it is their eternal “justification” for all of their actions, it is the reason we are told impeachment proceedings are “not appropriate”, etc. The sooner the anti-war/fascism/tyranny movement realizes this, the better. Are we going to allow another entire year to go on, with no accountability, no end to the mid-east violence, no restoration of constitutional rights?

Mainstream and independent media have be chronicling the destruction of our democracy, the hellish reality in the middle east, the rise of police state measures within America, the coming collapse of our eco-system, etc. and yet this information does not stop the direction our “leaders” are taking us. Why? Again, there is only one real reason: The official story on 9/11. Those like Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, etc. have all been impotent in actually having any real effect against what’s going on, because the one issue they avoid, 9/11, is the one issue that could actually end the craziness and destruction that is going on. Because of the so-called “war on terror” all of this insanity moves forward under the guise of protection and security.

Until we start openly talking about the obvious falsehood of the 9/11 story that has been the foundation for this Administration’s entire agenda, nothing is going to change, it is likely to just keep getting worse. The question you need to ask yourself is “Can I blindly trust the Bush Administration on the story that has been their very life-blood and reason for their existence, after they have lied about so much else”? Even better though, is to ask yourself that question after reading and watching the following sources of information, (these in particular, not all 9/11 Truth sources are high quality):

a) Book: "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” by David Ray Griffin
b) Book: "Crossing The Rubicon” by Michael Rupert
c) Book: "The Terror Timeline" by Paul Thompson
d) Organizations: Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice: http://stj911.org, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: http://www.ae911truth.org/
e) The documentaries "9/11 Press For Truth” (http://911pressfortruth.com/ )
& "9/11 Mysteries” (http://www.911Mysteries.com/)

These high quality books, documentaries and orginizations show beyond any reasonable doubt, the official story on 9/11 is a fraud. So doesn’t that make them of the utmost importance to the anti-war movement since the official 9/11 story is the real reason why these wars are still going on?

If you have been dismissing the 9/11 Truth movement, read these two books and see these two documentaries. Do you still find the official story more convincing? And if not, then say something! Add re-opening the 9/11 investigation to your personal activist or activist organizations’ agenda! Put it on the top of the list!! Otherwise, as recent history has shown, nothing is going to change, and it will probably just continue to get worse, with a war in Iran, etc., using “the war on terror” as the justification once again. Please wake up America, and use your common sense to end the insanity.

Peace

http://www.impeachbush.tv/
http://stj911.org/

'True Lies' by Taalam Acey

Tags: peace, war, solutions, freedom, iraq, iran, rights, police, truth, 9/11

Mother Earth & Meat

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:50:14 GMT

* Number of acres of U.S. forest which have been cleared to create cropland to produce a meat-centered diet: 260 million
    * How often an acre of U.S. trees disappears: Every 5 seconds
    * At present rate of deforestation, number of years before not a single tree will remain standing in the United States: 50
    * Amount of trees spared per year by each individual who switches to a pure vegetarian diet: 1 acre
    * Driving force behind the destruction of the tropical rainforests: American meat habit
    * Amount of meat imported annually by U.S. from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama: 200 million pounds
    * Amount of meat eaten by average person in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama: Less than the average American housecat consumes
    * Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests and related habitats: 1,000 species a year

John Robbins

Source: http://www.foodrevolution.org

The illegitimate fascist war criminal [IFWC, if you like] Bush Administration, keep using their official story on the events of 9/11/01 as an excuse to label dissenters of their policy “terrorists”. [They use that bullshit story as “justification” for their illegal occupations which have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, the torture, the illegal detentions, etc. too, and that's why 9/11 Truth is so important, but I better get back to isolating a single issue, lest I break journalistic rules.] This false labeling of individuals as terrorists has been used especially with environmental and animal rights activists, and this phenomenon has even been given a name by activists: “The Green Scare”. This title is of course referring to the “Red Scare” fear mongering police state measures of the 1950's which the current IFWC's are repeating in the 21^st century in a new form. What is of particular concern here is that environmentalism and animal rights happen to be the most important issues concerning the saving of our planet's ecosystem, and hence, us. How so? I'm glad you asked.

We should obviously care about how we are affecting the Earth’s’ ecosystem for the worse because the health and survival of our species depend on in it. This exceedingly obvious statement is considered a radical notion however by the petroleum, nuclear, coal, logging and livestock industries. That’s how backwards their current relationship to the earth, and common sense, has become in 21st century America. The glaciers keep melting, the temperature (and cancer rate) keeps rising, the weather becomes more destructive, and we just let these corporate fascists continue to lead us on a path of devastation and suffering. Earth Day passes once again while the obvious solutions to our sick ecosystem, hemp paper/fuel, solar/wind/tidal/geothermal energy, electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, etc. still remain mostly unsupported by those who undemocratically control our tax dollars. Most Americans would love to power their homes with sun and wind and have their car run on plant-based fuel or renewable-sourced electricity, but cannot due to high costs and lack of availability. (Oh sure, we can vote for candidates that support clean energy, once they start counting all our votes, and we have campaign finance reform, but that's another issue.)

There are some things that affect the environment though that we have power over on a daily basis. Albert Einstein said: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"

Here's an amazing fact that is extremely underreported: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that animal wastes pollute U.S. waterways more than all other industrial sources of water pollution combined. And yet instead of calling for an end to factory farming, environmental groups often suggest reforms that would have little impact. And its not just the water that the livestock industry is polluting.

From ODE magazine, December 2007:
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a report in 2006 called Livestock's Long Shadow.
"The FAO concluded that the livestock industry accounts for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. That's more than is produced by every form of transportation combined.”

“Consumers are told to conserve by switching to energy-efficient light bulbs, to take public transportation more often, to turn off the TV when they're not watching. Why aren't environmental organizations telling them to eat less meat?”

Vegetarianism is the “elephant in the room” that isn't being discussed because of ingrained conditioning as to what a “normal” diet is.

Native Americans, as I’m sure you know, honored the animals that they killed with their own hands, and said prayers of blessings for the spirit of the animal. They also used as much of the animal’s body as possible, for not only food, but clothing and shelter materials as well. Modern treatment of animals however, through factory farming and scientific experimentation, shows anything but honor and respect for these forms of life. Modern North Americans have almost completely lost daily reverence and communion with the wildlife (still surviving) and domesticated animals that share this continent with us. This is most apparent when we look at the consumption of animals as our food.

Could you slaughter your own lamb, chicken or piglet? If not, transferring the work to another person or machine is simply an act of transmuted violence. This violence no longer has to be so commonplace. Getting vegetarian foods today, especially at the supermarket, is extremely easy. The supermarket near my home sells many vegetarian foods, along with veggie meats, even vegetarian corndogs. So today it has become just a matter of choosing the real meat or the veggie meat while in the market, no more effort is required to choose the non-animal selections. Both are high protein, but one involved suffering, violence and environmental destruction, one did not. As Americans we no longer must hunt animals for survival, we only have to make choices at the supermarket, farmers market, a community garden, or even your own garden.

I have seen video of the hellish experiences cows, pigs, chickens, etc. go through during captivity, transport and slaughter; it is perhaps the greatest motivator to change to a vegetarian diet. Short documentaries like “Meet Your Meat” show you first hand the painful history of the animal flesh we eat, often without any thought of where and how it made its way to our mouth. If ever there was a hell on earth, it is the experience many animals go through in becoming our food and during animal experimentations. Isn’t there something ethically wrong with tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves against us? Rather than go into the gorish details of what I know occurs, I will leave it to you to investigate this for yourself.

I have heard some repeated counter-arguments to adopting a vegetarian diet, and all have been unjustified. To the argument that we were “meant to” eat meat, I ask “says who?” Did you have a conversation with God and she/he/it told you so? I doubt it. And for those of you who read the Bible and eat meat, you should re-read the first page! And I quote from the book of Genesis, page 1:29:

“Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

Also from the recently discovered Dead Sea Scrolls it is written that Jesus said: “For I tell you truly, man is more than beast. But he who kills a beast without cause, though the beast attack him not, through lust for slaughter, or for its flesh, or its hide, or yet for its tusks, evil is the deed which he does, for he is turned into a wild beast himself.”
(Ch. XXII)

To assume that animals were “made for humans to eat” lacks any plausible foundation. Seed bearing fruit however is obviously designed and intended to be eaten, so its seeds can return to the earth in fertilizer, so new fruit may grow. And many plants, like hemp for its nutritious seed, and many vegetables, can be harvested over and over again without resulting in the death of the plant; another indication of its design to be used for food. We do not find such obvious design for food consumption in animals, who feel enormous amounts of physical and emotional pain like we humans do when are bodies are cut or our children are taken away from us and killed. A vegetarian diet is also better for own well-being; meat and dairy products are generally loaded with fat, hormones, antibiotics and pesticides. All of these can lead to disease and cancers. (Some also believe that eating animal flesh lowers our vibration due to the violence associated with it, and is therefore an obstacle to a spiritual path.)

The argument that you can’t be healthy and get the protein you need without meat and dairy is completely false. You can, and the protein from vegetables is more easily absorbed by the body. The human body does not require meat to reach optimum health, and in fact some of the most fit and healthy bodies ever to walk this Earth were formed with vegetarian diets. Many of the world’s top athletes have vegetarian diets; the two men that first broke the four minute mile were vegetarians. Olympic track stars Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrel were both vegetarian when given the title as World's Fastest Man. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses was vegetarian, and the list goes on and on...

Our DNA is 98.3% identical to a chimpanzee; to separate ourselves from the animal kingdom as a wholly different being is foolish and illogical. When most people are asked why we can eat and wear animals, they usually answer with something like “because we are superior”. Unfounded claims of superiority have been used to justify slavery and genocide; could our notion of superiority over animals that supposedly justifies unnecessary mass killing for food also be unfounded?

Getting back to the environment, a major reason for continued deforestation, along with not using hemp, is the expansion of land used for livestock. Therefore a meat eating diet can be directly linked to an increase of global warming and all the destruction that will increasingly bring.

About ninety percent of all our agricultural resources are used for the feeding of livestock. This food could be used to feed the hungry and starving instead and for growing environmentally beneficial crops like hemp.

From page 191 of the book “the World Peace Diet”:
"Everyone on Earth could be fed easily because we currently grow more than enough grain to feed ten billion people; our current practice of feeding this grain to untold billions of animals and eating them forces over a billion of us to endure chronic malnutrition and starvation while another billion suffer from the obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer linked with eating diets high in animal foods. The drugs we take to combat these diseases are discharged through the urine, flow into the water and become yet another major stream that adds to the pollution of our Earth.”

From environmental destruction to inflicting torturous pain on other beings, the modern meat industry is a clear example of something “bad”. That's right, I made a moral judgment! I must be an extremist! (Or so says modern Sophists in America society conditioned into suppressing the use of their own conscience). The experience of pain in other mammals, birds and fish is virtually the same as our own. For those that say that there is no difference between killing plants and animals, the obvious answer to them is that they are ignoring the fact that animals feel pain, plants don’t. Animals have feelings, have consciousness on some level, and so therefore should be treated as such, not just as animated food. Would you like to be imprisoned, tortured and then brutally murdered so someone could eat your flesh for dinner? I didn't think so. Nonviolence remember? The foundation of the Revolution? Speaking of which here are some salient excerpts from the excellent book “The Nonviolent Revolution” by Nathaniel Altman: “In addition to its impact on animal welfare, a vegetarian lifestyle offers additional 'ahimsic benefits' towards one's body, the environment, and the right utilization of the earth's resources....The practice of feeding plant protein to livestock instead of directly to people places a tremendous strain on the earth's resources, and contributes to the shortage of food around the world... In addition, a vegetarian diet calls for far less water than a diet containing meat... [which] utilizes some 2,500 gallons of water per day (including irrigation ,animal drinking water, and the large amount of water needed for the actual processing of meat), while the pure vegetarian (vegan) diet uses only 300 gallons per day. [According to Dr. Aaron Altschul of Georgetown University]

Some more poignant information from Alternatives magazine, winter 07-08, in an article by Bruce Friedrich:

“Even leaving aside all the animal welfare issues, a vegan diet is the only reasonable diet for people in the developed world who care about the environment or global poverty... Environmental Defense, on its website, notes: “If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetables and grains... the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. Roads.” Imagine if we stopped eating animal products altogether... Vegan foods cut out the factory farms, the slaughterhouses, and multiple stages of heavily polluting tractor-trailer trucks, as well as the resources (and pollution) involved in each of those stages... Choose vegan – and preferably organic [and local] – foods. It's bad for the environment to eat animals. It's time to stop looking for loopholes.”

And since I'm a fan of being blunt and cutting through the bullshit when appropriate, I'll share such a statement from the book “The Real Forbidden Fruit: How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back” by Jeff Popick: “There are many well-intentioned people who consider themselves to be environmentalists, and yet many of these people eat animal products, even though it is animal products that are primarily responsible for the demise of the environment. Eating meat kills animals, people and the planet. To be an environmentalist, one must be vegan.”

I know black and white statements are unpopular among apathetic post-modern nihilists, but the truth must be told. (By the way, non-dualism/non-judgment is an idea that permeates all areas of modern culture, from those that are “cool” to those that are “square”, from the young to the old, from the academic to the spiritual, and it is corrupting the progress of mankind. Instead of citing those that have backwards/insane ideas about morality and the environment, why don't you stand up for the sane perspective?) If we want a healthy, peaceful and sustainable world, that means: No war, No nukes, No coal, No clear-cutting, No petroleum, and No meat.

Tags: earth, peace, love, compassion, environment, ethics, animals, jesus, nonviolence, violence, global warming

Native Americans & Hemp: A call for reverse colonization

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:25:25 GMT

Native Americans & Hemp: A call for reverse colonization through a new sustainable paradigm

I am fully aware that basically what is being proposed here is not a new idea to the Native Peoples of this continent; my contribution is only one of specificity. I begin with background information and arguments and finish with a short strategy plan that can be adopted by any tribe members that believe it will be effective. I humbly submit this in support of all Native Americans in hope that it may serve as a plan of action that can not only increase the health, wealth and well-being of Native Americans, but also heal Mother Earth from the ravages of the oil, coal, uranium, timber, chemical/GMO agribusiness and livestock industries, along with the systematic problems of corporate exploitation/forced dependence and tyrannical sovereignty violations (by the DEA and others). Also this sustainable and self-sufficient model will be an example to Americans outside of Native Land (of course it's really ALL Native Land) who have been thoroughly indoctrinated by corporate consumerism and participation in destructive industries and systems that harm the environment and their own health and well being.

Background

The amazing environmental and economic potential of Industrial Hemp is well understood, especially by Native Americans. The following is from an article by Winona LaDuke which appeared in Indian Country Today, September 19, 2001:

“The federal government should grant a waiver to Native Nations who seek to legalize the production of industrial hemp... Over the long term, the DEA's policies and actions set back the economic, environmental, and public health needs of not only Native America, but also the broader American community.”

“Decriminalizing industrial hemp is the way of the future. The sovereign status of Native Nations raises questions about the application of DEA regulations in the face of tribal ordinances. The need for alternative economies in Indian country supports the need for change.”

In a letter to the U.S. Attorney for South Dakota, Oglala Tribal President John Yellowbird Steele said:

“The Controlled Substance Act of 1970 did not divest the Lakota people of our reserved right to plant and harvest whatever crops we deem beneficial to our reservation... we regard the the enforcement of our hemp ordinance and production of our marijuana laws tribal matters... we ask for your government's compassion as we try to ease the pain of our poverty through hemp manufacturing... my nation needs to grow industrial hemp to aid our efforts at becoming more self-sufficient.”

Of course the immediate reaction of the US Federal Government/DEA will be something like: “Hemp is illegal to grow because it interferes with our ability to “eradicate” Marijuana.” One could argue that industrial hemp has no usable THC, and therefore marijuana laws are not relevant, and this is true. However, the backward politicians will always use marijuana as the excuse as to why Native (and non-Native) American farmers can not grow hemp, regardless of whether that makes sense or not. The “war on drugs” is of course a farce, the CIA and other governmental agencies have been involved in the illegal drug trade for a long time. They use this fake “war” to maximize profits and “justify” police state measure domestically and violence abroad. This is just like the “war on terror” which is based on the Big Lie known as the official 9/11 story (See the documentary “9/11 Press For Truth” (www.911pressfortruth.com) and the book “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” by David Ray Griffin, along with the research of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice (stj911.org) and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911truth.org)), that they use to “justify” an illegal war that has killed over a million Iraqis, and tortured and illegally detained countless others, while removing American citizens Constitutional Rights through treasonous bills like The Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, etc. I mention this here because it is necessary to openly reject these foundational lies if we are to move forward in the interests of sustainability, peace, justice and freedom. We must openly “honor, present and serve the truth”; it is the only way to effectively reject supposed “justifications” for the violence, oppression and destruction brought by a few ill-minded individuals in positions of power.

The oppression and tyranny imposed in the name of “the war and drugs” is well documented: illegal forfeiture (property seized from citizens who were not even charged with a crime), police-state surveillance, innocents killed in “drug raids”, Native American crops being destroyed, arbitrary arrests and unjust imprisonments, etc. All of this will go on as long as we accept the unjust prohibition of marijuana. The international illegal drug trade causes more harm then the drugs themselves, and prohibition supports the continuation of this criminal market. Drug abuse and addiction is a health problem and should not be criminal in itself; Education and treatment are far more effective and compassionate to those that suffer from drug addiction.

The hypocrisy and destructive insanity of US Federal policy can be found in numerous areas, including cannabis laws.

Industrial hemp is the tough, course fiber of the cannabis sativa plant, which contains less than 1 percent tetrahydrocannabinol - THC - the main active ingredient in marijuana. Marijuana is a strain of cannabis that contains much higher levels of THC. You can't get high from smoking hemp, and eating hemp foods will not make you test positive for marijuana use in a drug test.
Hemp can easily replace trees for paper and building materials with a higher-quality fiber, significantly reducing the deforestation that accelerates global warming and the extinction of wildlife and plant species. Hemp is also an alternative to cotton for clothing that does not require the use of toxic pesticides. Hemp seeds are a nutritious food source, and the high cellulose content of the hemp plant makes it ideal for conversion into ethanol fuel, which can be used by flexible fuel vehicles.

Industrial hemp is legal to grow in more than 30 countries, including Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, New Zealand, Romania, Russia and Spain. The U.S. federal government is certainly out of step with other countries concerning hemp policy. However, things are better at the state level: Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia have removed state-level barriers to industrial hemp production and research.

Drugs are placed into one of five schedules under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Marijuana is listed as a Schedule 1 drug, the most dangerous category, defined as having a high potential for abuse and having no currently accepted medical use in the United States. Claiming that natural marijuana has no medicinal value by placing it in the Schedule 1 drug category goes against the findings of doctors throughout the world, and is contradicted by the 10 states that have laws allowing seriously ill patients to use natural medical marijuana with their doctors' recommendation. It is also contradicted by the existence and use of artificial marijuana, known as Marinol, which is legal.

Many prohibitionists discredit the need for a hemp industry, saying hemp relegalization is being used as a vehicle to relegalize marijuana. The Drug Enforcement Administration said hemp legalization would interfere with its marijuana eradication program because of the similarities between the two types of cannabis plants. Therefore, hemp will probably never be relegalized as long as marijuana remains prohibited. Marginalizing the legitimacy of the call to legalize marijuana by focusing solely on hemp relegalization would be fruitless as well as wrong. After all, marijuana prohibition is an unconstitutional and oppressive policy, violating citizens' right to control their own bodies without harming others or their property. Therefore, the call for legalization should be for industrial hemp, medical marijuana and the private and responsible recreational adult use of marijuana.

Arguments

The many materials that hemp can produce including paper, cloth, and Biomass fuel, can be of great benefit to Native Americans and the environment. Why are we using toxic polluting fuels instead of clean renewable fuels like Biofuel, Solar and Wind energy? Why are we destroying forests, drastically altering the Earth’s ecosystem for the worse, when we can use hemp to create higher quality paper and construction products instead? One is left to conclude that the reasons for the restrictions on the use of this plant are not based on the well being of the American people (and certainly not Native People either), but rather this law serves the financial interest of industries/agencies that would lose money if hemp and marijuana were a legal commodity.

The Industrial Hemp Farming Act has been introduced in Congress, along with state -level legislation, but they have not passed because of “concerns about marijuana”. This will always be their excuse and that is why I believe we should reject both laws restricting the growing of industrial hemp and marijuana for responsible adult use. Only if marijuana is legalized is it likely that hemp will be legalized, and marijuana should be legal, so there is no good reason to separate the issues; the US Federal government continues to use lies about marijuana as their supposed justification to continue the destructive and oppressive status-quo.

Why are marijuana's many medicinal properties ignored by the federal government? Its placement as a Schedule 1 drug is in defiance to the conclusions of doctors and medical professionals from around the world. The debatable negative health effects of marijuana are minuscule when compared to the dangers of alcohol or tobacco, not one death has ever been attributed solely to marijuana use, while hundreds of thousands die from tobacco and alcohol every year in America. Defending the continued prohibition of cannabis in the interest of public health is completely ridiculous. The truth is the cannabis plant has been used as a safe and effective medicine throughout the world for centuries. A citizen’s responsible personal use of marijuana should no longer be a crime, it is an act that is certainly no more criminal then drinking wine or smoking tobacco.

The argument that marijuana prohibition protects our children is also not based in reality. Illegal drug dealers do not care how young a buyer is, and without legalizing and regulating marijuana, many children find it easier to buy than alcohol or tobacco. In Holland, where the sale of marijuana to adults is not criminalized, the percentage of teenagers using marijuana is less than half that of American teenagers.
Cannabis should be removed from the Schedule 1 category and be legalized and regulated like alcohol and tobacco - a minimum age of 21 for purchase and use, illegal for use while driving, and so on.
Marijuana and hemp prohibition costs billions every year to enforce, creates a black market that generates violence and corruption, and makes criminals out of millions of productive and harmless adults. Americans (both Native and non-Native) should once again have the legal right to use the cannabis plant for its many beneficial uses including medicine, paper, fuel, clothing and food. The book “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” by Jack Herer (http://jackherer.com/) and the documentary “The Hemp Revolution” directed by Anthony Clarke are two great resources for further information on the benefits of hemp.

For those who wish to use this plant responsibly for medical or private use, and those who wish to use industrial hemp to help end deforestation and provide a source of income, food, clothing, shelter and fuel for their families, the US Federal government acts as an oppressor. Legalizing marijuana and hemp for adult use would not be a promotion of drug use, it would be a promotion of freedom and liberty that we are all entitled to.

There is no reason why we should allow lies, propaganda and outright oppression and tyranny to continue on for another generation; they are few, we are many. All we need is an effective plan of non-violent action to overthrow the destructive paradigm with a sustainable, just and healthy one.

Action Plan

There are many hemp products on the American market today, and their popularity grows every year. There are hemp clothing stores (www.hempstores.com) throughout the country as well as hemp food products (www.manitobaharvest.com, www.naturespath.com, etc.) on the shelves of countless markets coast to coast as well All of the hemp that is used in these products is imported from other nations since it is “illegal” for Native and American farmers to grown hemp. There has been a lot of resistance to this from both Native and non-Native American farmers. There is the organizations Vote Hemp (www.votehemp.com), the Hemp Industry Association (www.thehia.org) which has a Hemp Business Directory, among many other environmental groups that support hemp legalization. There are online hemp stores like Hemp.com, the Hempest.com and SantaFeHemp.com. All of these should be business partners with Native Americans growing industrial hemp. The millions of dollars being made in this industry today can be made by Native Americans along with other hemp growers throughout the world.

When I buy hemp bread, cereal, hummus, waffles, hemp milk (www.livingharvest.com, a personal favorite), protein powder, hemp seed oil, etc. and I see the label “Product of Canada” etc., I think it should say “Product of the Republic of Lakota” (or any other tribe)! And I know I am not alone with this sentiment. Millions of Americans would support Native American business if given the opportunity; many Americans are aware of the history of European colonization, the genocide, the tyranny, the treaties that were all broken, etc. Many Americans of European descent like myself would love the opportunity to do anything, however small, in supporting Native American sovereignty and enterprise, especially when incorporating the industrial hemp industry, that all well-informed Americans support for the environmental and health benefits it offers. We would not only be helping Native Americans, we would be helping ourselves through the expansion of a sustainable industry that can replace the destructive and harmful petrol-chemical/coal/timber/nuclear, etc. industries currently dominating the market.

All of the stores that carry hemp products currently would certainly purchase from Native Americans instead of other nations if given the choice. And yearly, there are Hemp Festivals held throughout the country (www.hempfest.org, www.bostonhempfest.com, etc.) that promote the hemp industry and speak out against cannabis prohibition, these festivals would be ideal for spreading the word about Native American grown hemp. Also along the many cannabis law reform organizations that have chapters throughout the country like NORML (www.norml.org), MPP (www.mpp.org), the Drug Policy Alliance (www.drugpolicy.org) would surely support the movement for a Native American Hemp Industry.

If multiple tribes worked together and called on the support of these already existing businesses, organizations and festivals that support Hemp Legalization, it would be an unstoppable force. The Nazi-like DEA and illegitimate war criminal Bush Administration would be powerless once the lies behind their “war on drugs” and “war on terror” are exposed.

The potential for economic growth on Native reservations is astronomical, and of course this income is urgently needed due to the extreme poverty that currently exists on reservations. Who better than Native Americans to prosper from a new sustainable paradigm that incorporates the most beneficial plant known to man? Who better to openly reject and lead non-violent rebellion against the hypocrisy, ignorance, destruction and oppression of US Federal governmental policy? Like Winona La Duke said: “Decriminalizing industrial hemp is the way of the future.” Let's make the future happen in 2008!

Peace,

Colin Donoghue

Eugene, Oregon

Tags: native americans, hemp, environment, justice, revolution, colonization, industry, drug laws

Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act = Police State (Speak out!)

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:03:11 GMT

Freedom of Speech and H.R. 1955 pt. 1

While most opposers of the Bush Administration have been tricked into focusing on the 2008 elections early, and to forget about the necessity of impeachment and re-opening of the 9/11 Investigation... the neo-cons sneak in the...Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act! Goodbye bill of Rights, hello Police State! Why did you think Bush, Inc. wouldnt do any more harm over the next ELEVEN months?! Wake up and take action!

Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act Raises Fears of New Government Crackdown on Dissent

A little-noticed anti-terrorism bill quietly making its through Congress is raising fears of a new affront on activism and constitutional rights. The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in an overwhelming 400 to six House vote last month. Critics say it could herald a new government crackdown on dissident activity and infiltration of universities under the guise of fighting terrorism. The bill would establish two government-appointed bodies to study, monitor and propose ways of curbing what it calls homegrown terrorism and extremism in the United States. The first body, a National Commission, would convene for eighteen months. A university-based “Center for Excellence” would follow, bringing together academic specialists to recommend laws and other measures.Critics say the bill’s definition of “extremism” and “terrorism” is too vague and its mandate even more broad. Under a false veil of expertise and independence, the government-appointed commissions could be used as ideological cover to push through harsher laws.

Following last month’s approval in the House, the Senate version is expected to go before the Judiciary Committee this week.

House Passes Bill on “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism”

In news from Capitol Hill, The House of Representatives has passed the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act by a 404 to six vote. The bill creates a National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Ideologically Based Violence. Some critics have criticized the broad language used in the bill to describe homegrown terrorism. Under the bill any person that uses or plans to use force to advance political or social objectives would be considered a terrorist. One prominent critic of the bill has been the academic and author Ward Churchill.

Ward Churchill: “HR 1955, as I understand it, provides a basis for subjective interpretation of dissident speech that allows those in power to criminally penalize anything they considered to be particularly effective in terms of galvanizing an opposition that might conceivably in some sense disrupt or destabilized the status quo, so it’s to keep everything in that nice sanitized arena that I was just talking about where you’re actually a collateral functionary of the state by participating.”

This is what 9/11, an act of U.S. sponsored terrorism, was for domestically: to completely dismantle our Constititutional Rights and usher in a police state.... Stand up for your Rights and oppose this bill!

GO TO CONGRESS.ORG TO FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE /SENATOR CONTACT INFO.

Tags: 9/11, free speech, terrorism, Constitution, freedom, liberty, tyranny, despotism, fascism, peace, justice

Is democracy in the USA "off the table"?

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:25:40 GMT

IF IMPEACHMENT IS "OFF THE TABLE", THEN DEMOCRACY IN THE USA IS OFF THE TABLE ----------------------------> IMPEACHBUSH.TV

Why Impeach Bush and Cheney

Tags: JUSTICE, PEACE, DEMOCRACY, TRUTH

THE PROGRESSIVE MANIFESTO

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:46:07 GMT

http://progressivemanifesto.us/

Tags: solutions, democracy, fascism, truth, justice, activism, revolution, rights, constitution, compassion

Please Do Your Part For Peace & Justice

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:16:20 GMT

What’s needed now more than ever is 9/11 Truth to break into the mainstream, by referencing high-quality sources of evidence, like those I list below. This may be the only way to get the impeachment proceedings started, to re-open the 9/11 investigation, to get our soldiers out of the mid-east and to get our rights back. It is also the only thing that can prevent another act of state-sponsored terrorism.

Also please read this excellent article: “A Wake-Up Call” (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18037.htm) by Paul Craig Roberts, (he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review).

Please copy/email/fax/hand out, etc. what follows below and spread it far and wide:

Some of the Best sources for 9/11 Truth to investigate and share with friends, family, media and "representatives":

1. BOOKS:
-ALL OF DAVID RAY GRIFFIN’S BOOKS ON 9/11
-"9/11 REVISTED: THE NEW EVIDENCE" BY IAN HENSHALL
-“TOWERS OF DECEPTION” BY BARRIE ZWICKER.

2. DOCUMENTARIES:
-“9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH” (http://911pressfortruth.com/),
-“9/11 MYSTERIES” (http://www.911Mysteries.com/),
-“MARTIAL LAW: 9/11” (http://martiallaw911.info/),
-“9/11 REVISITED” (http://www.911revisited.com/),
-"ZEITGEIST" (PART 2, http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com).

3. WEBSITES:
http://stj911.org/
http://www.911smokingguns.com/
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
http://www.911sharethetruth.com/
http://www.911truth.org/
http://www.septembereleventh.org/

Tags: peace, justice, love, compassion, truth, 9/11, impeachment, bush, cheney, democracy, fascism

Support the Solution (Green Party and Democrats.com Action)

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:38:56 GMT

Back to GP.org

JOIN THE GREEN PARTY IN TAKING ACTION

Click the links below to send your message to newspapers and elected officials.

Impeach Bush! Write Congress Today!

In a representative democracy, the rule of law establishes the necessary premise that no one is above the law, the land, and the people. However, today we suffer under an administration which sees itself above the rule of law. The Bush administration has continuously lied to and manipulated the American people with illegal surveillance, mass detentions without judicial review, torture and signing statements that carve out exceptions to legislation. Today it is time for you to take action and tell the Bush administration we will no longer allow their abuse of power to go unnoticed.

Congress through various committees is in the process of conducting oversight investigations. Such oversight investigations have subpoena power and so this is the first step for Congress to move to a full blown impeachment. Your Congressperson needs to hear from you on this issue. Please send the sample letter or you can modify it in your own words.

We need your help in telling the Bush Administration that no one is above the rule of law. Help protect the rule of law in our country!

>> Send a Letter to Your Member of Congress
>> Sign the GP impeachment petition
>> Send Letter to the Editor of your local or preferred paper

Email your Representatives to Impeach Bush:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/88
Email theHouse Judiciary Committee to Start Hearings on H.Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment for Vice President Cheney
http://www.democrats.com/topelosiandjudiciary

Tags: politics, impeachment, justice, peace, fascism, democracy, solutions, positive change

The Most Enlightening Movie I've Ever Seen

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:36:43 GMT

To see the full-length, 3 part movie for free go to:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Zeit·geist
German. Definition: the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.

This movie contains more crucial truth than any other I've ever seen, the information is so important, and is presented in such an intelligent and artistic way, that it becomes a profound educational expereince.

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If you want to view another documentary that supports the ideas presented in Part 1, watch "The Naked Truth" on google video & "The God Movie". For other documentaries that support the ideas presented in Part 2 of Zeitgeist, watch the videos concerning 9/11 on several other blog posts of mine here on Zaadz. For another good documentary that supports part 3, see "America: From Freedom to Fascism"

Tags: Enlightenment, Truth, Religion, Christianity, American Politics, Money, Revolution

Why you should give a shit about LOSING Habeas Corpus (MSNBC)

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:04:41 GMT

NONE OF YOUR BASIC RIGHTS MATTER WITHOUT HABEAS CORPUS

Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007.

http://restore-habeas.org/

I Did Not Speak Up And Now I Wish I Had

Tags: habeas corpus, freedom, tyranny, action, rights

Chew on This

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:36:57 GMT

30 Reasons to Go Vegetarian

FREE Vegetarian Starter Kit

Tags: Vegetarianism, animals, vegan

3 year-old article giving the truth the mainstream still ignores

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:23:29 GMT

9/11 - Commission or Coverup?
by Mike Hersh and E. O'Connell, April 30, 2004

As the 9/11 Commission winds down into the final phases of an apparent cover-up, lingering questions remain unanswered - even unasked. Aside from several oddities and unanswered questions - conflicts between the official "coincidence theory" and inexplicable facts including:

1. Absence of fighter jets which should have scrambled to interdict the hijacked airliners,

2. Incongruities between photographic evidence of damage to the Pentagon grounds building and an airliner impact,

3. The sequence of events at the World Trade Center which defy physics.

The 9/11 Commission should have investigated the possibility that some elements in the US military and / or intelligence services may have condoned if not orchestrated the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Inconceivable? Hysterical conspiracy theory? Unfortunately not.

November 7, 2001 ABC News reported that during the early 1960s, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff - the interface between the military and civilian leadership - entertained a strategy to manipulate the nation into war against Cuba. David Ruppe's story, Headlined "Friendly Fire" and sub-headed "Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba" detailed:

"Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities."

These US Government plans included "hijacking planes" and "orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities." The motivation, confirmed by ABC, was "to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro." ABC based its report on a book called "Body of Secrets," by reporter James Bamford.

ABC News explained, "America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: 'We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,' and, 'casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.'"

We have conclusive evidence highly placed officials formulated plans to "Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War." This is according to ABC News, not some internet conspiracy theory. The concept of killing innocent Americans with the avowed intention of driving us into war against a despot targeted as a threat to national security dates back to the John F. Kennedy years. In 1962, government officials targeted Fidel Castro's Cuba. Was it Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2001?

So we know government officials not only foresaw, but considered using terrorism as a tool to trick the public into supporting war in 1962, but is there any proof current administration officials would consider this? Yes.

PNAC - the Project for the New American Century - published a blueprint for remaking US Defense and Middle East polices. They advocated invasion of Iraq to establish a beacon of Democracy. In their January 26, 1998 letter to then-President Clinton, PNAC advocated "military action as diplomacy is clearly failing" and "removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power."

Among the signatories were Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as well as other high-ranking Bush Administration officials Elliott Abrams, Richard L. Armitage, and Paul Wolfowitz. See: www.newamericancentury.org

PNAC called for an aggressive military-based approach to American foreign policy in their document entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century A Report of The Project for the New American Century," dated September 2000.

Presaging Bush "Axis of Evil" rhetoric and policy, PNAC claimed "adversaries like Iran, Iraq and North Korea are rushing to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons." They considered Iraq an attractive pretext to establish US military control of the oil-rich Persian Gulf region:

"Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

These statements and others calling for an "increase in strength, more permanent basing arrangements" in the Gulf place the Bush Administration rush to war in Iraq in clearer context. According to these documents, top-level Bush policy-makers hoped to establish a large permanent military presence in the region, and they considered Iraq the ideal location.

Lamenting restraints "Domestic politics and industrial policy" placed on their ambitions, the PNAC members observed, "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." See: Rebuilding America's Defenses, pp. 16, 26, 29, 51.

How much different is Northwoods from PNAC and 9/11? Flash forward forty years. Taken together with the obstruction, secrecy and bald-faced lies from Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell and others, reports about plans to engineer support for war through a "new Pearl Harbor" (PNAC) or "hijacking planes" and "orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities" (Northwoods).

ABC reports, according to evidence Bamford uncovered, "The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years."

We don't have to wait four decades. We have the PNAC plans dating back to early 1998, as well as evidence the Bush/Cheney administration planned to carry out the PNAC plans within days after assuming power, several months before 9/11/01. This as revealed by former Bush Administration officials Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill.

We have conclusive evidence highly placed officials formulated plans to "Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War." This is according to ABC News, not some internet conspiracy theory. The concept of killing innocent Americans with the avowed intention of driving us into war against a despot targeted as a threat to national security dates back to the John F. Kennedy years. In 1962, government officials targeted Fidel Castro's Cuba. Was it Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2001?

These and other lingering questions remain unanswered - even unasked - in the carefully orchestrated, constrained and obstructed investigation into the most deadly attack on US soil in US history. In the wake of the Team Bush's catastrophic failure to keep us safe, we may not be able to force the Bush/Cheney PNAC Administration to come clean, but we can - and must - force them out of office.

Tags: 9/11, Truth, Justice

Howard Zinn on Impeaching Bush and Cheney

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:42:05 GMT

Has your state legislature introduced a resloution to have Bush and Cheney impeached for their war crimes and treason yet? If not get a Senator/Representative to sponsor one! This is how change actually happens, get active on the front line of resistance to this evil empire! Connect with other activists here:

http://impeachbush.meetup.com/

also check out: http://impeachbush.tv/ for more help in getting impeachment proceedings started!

This is crucial, please act if you care about peace, justice, and if you want a better country and world to live in!

Published on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by "The Progressive" magazine

by Howard Zinn

Courage is in short supply in Washington, D.C. The realities of the Iraq War cry out for the overthrow of a government that is criminally responsible for death, mutilation, torture, humiliation, chaos. But all we hear in the nation's capital, which is the source of those catastrophes, is a whimper from the Democratic Party, muttering and nattering about "unity" and "bipartisanship," in a situation that calls for bold action to immediately reverse the present course.

These are the Democrats who were brought to power in November by an electorate fed up with the war, furious at the Bush Administration, and counting on the new majority in Congress to represent the voters. But if sanity is to be restored in our national policies, it can only come about by a great popular upheaval, pushing both Republicans and Democrats into compliance with the national will.

The Declaration of Independence, revered as a document but ignored as a guide to action, needs to be read from pulpits and podiums, on street corners and community radio stations throughout the nation. Its words, forgotten for over two centuries, need to become a call to action for the first time since it was read aloud to crowds in the early excited days of the American Revolution: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government."

The "ends" referred to in the Declaration are the equal right of all to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." True, no government in the history of the nation has been faithful to those ends. Favors for the rich, neglect of the poor, massive violence in the interest of continental and world expansion—that is the persistent record of our government.

Still, there seems to be a special viciousness that accompanies the current assault on human rights, in this country and in the world. We have had repressive governments before, but none has legislated the end of habeas corpus, nor openly supported torture, nor declared the possibility of war without end. No government has so casually ignored the will of the people, affirmed the right of the President to ignore the Constitution, even to set aside laws passed by Congress.

The time is right, then, for a national campaign calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Representative John Conyers, who held extensive hearings and introduced an impeachment resolution when the Republicans controlled Congress, is now head of the House Judiciary Committee and in a position to fight for such a resolution. He has apparently been silenced by his Democratic colleagues who throw out as nuggets of wisdom the usual political palaver about "realism" (while ignoring the realities staring them in the face) and politics being "the art of the possible" (while setting limits on what is possible).

I know I'm not the first to talk about impeachment. Indeed, judging by the public opinion polls, there are millions of Americans, indeed a majority of those polled, who declare themselves in favor if it is shown that the President lied us into war (a fact that is not debatable). There are at least a half-dozen books out on impeachment, and it's been argued for eloquently by some of our finest journalists, John Nichols and Lewis Lapham among them. Indeed, an actual "indictment" has been drawn up by a former federal prosecutor, Elizabeth de la Vega, in a new book called United States v. George W. Bush et al, making a case, in devastating detail, to a fictional grand jury.

There is a logical next step in this development of an impeachment movement: the convening of "people's impeachment hearings" all over the country. This is especially important given the timidity of the Democratic Party. Such hearings would bypass Congress, which is not representing the will of the people, and would constitute an inspiring example of grassroots democracy.

These hearings would be the contemporary equivalents of the unofficial gatherings that marked the resistance to the British Crown in the years leading up to the American Revolution. The story of the American Revolution is usually built around Lexington and Concord, around the battles and the Founding Fathers. What is forgotten is that the American colonists, unable to count on redress of their grievances from the official bodies of government, took matters into their own hands, even before the first battles of the Revolutionary War.

In 1772, town meetings in Massachusetts began setting up Committees of Correspondence, and the following year, such a committee was set up in Virginia. The first Continental Congress, beginning to meet in 1774, was a recognition that an extralegal body was necessary to represent the interests of the people. In 1774 and 1775, all through the colonies, parallel institutions were set up outside the official governmental bodies.

Throughout the nation's history, the failure of government to deliver justice has led to the establishment of grassroots organizations, often ad hoc, dissolving after their purpose was fulfilled. For instance, after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, knowing that the national government could not be counted on to repeal the act, black and white anti-slavery groups organized to nullify the law by acts of civil disobedience. They held meetings, made plans, and set about rescuing escaped slaves who were in danger of being returned to their masters.

In the desperate economic conditions of 1933 and 1934, before the Roosevelt Administration was doing anything to help people in distress, local groups were formed all over the country to demand government action. Unemployed Councils came into being, tenants' groups fought evictions, and hundreds of thousands of people in the country formed self-help organizations to exchange goods and services and enable people to survive.

More recently, we recall the peace groups of the 1980s, which sprang up in hundreds of communities all over the country, and provoked city councils and state legislatures to pass resolutions in favor of a freeze on nuclear weapons. And local organizations have succeeded in getting more than 400 city councils to take a stand against the Patriot Act.

Impeachment hearings all over the country could excite and energize the peace movement. They would make headlines, and could push reluctant members of Congress in both parties to do what the Constitution provides for and what the present circumstances demand: the impeachment and removal from office of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Simply raising the issue in hundreds of communities and Congressional districts would have a healthy effect, and would be a sign that democracy, despite all attempts to destroy it in this era of war, is still alive.

Howard Zinn is the author, most recently, of "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress." For information on how to get involved in the impeachment effort, go to www.afterdowningstreet.org.

Tags: bush, cheney, impeachment, peace, justice

THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS (article)

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:38:28 GMT

THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS
By Paul Levy

We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.

We have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war on the consciousness of its own citizens - Us. If we aren't aware of this, we are unwittingly playing into, supporting and complicit in the evil that is being perpetrated in our name.

A government's war on the consciousness of its own citizens is by no means unique to the Bush administration. Abusing power over others so as to limit their freedom is an archetypal process that has been endlessly re-enacted by governments throughout history in various forms. With the Bush administration, however, the pathological aspect of this process has become so exaggerated and amped up to such a degree that it is just about impossible not to notice its staggering malignancy. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that has played out in our government over many years is becoming overwhelmingly obvious for all to see. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that informs systems of government that are based on "power over" instead of "liberty for" is coming out from hiding in the shadows. Instead of being acted out underground, our government is acting out this evil above ground, in plain sight for all who are courageous enough to look.

Impeaching Bush and Co. ultimately won't change anything unless we deal with the corrupt powers which control and direct them. George Bush is just a finger-puppet of the hidden hand which animates him. Bush only has apparent power, as he himself is a minion of far more powerful predator-like forces whose nefarious interests he serves. Whether we call it the illuminati, the global elite, a shadow government, or a secret cabal, there is no doubt that there are darker, self-serving forces that have insinuated themselves into and taken over our government. The terrorists that we should be worried about are domestic terrorists who are actually implementing their agendas from deep within our very system of government itself.

The United States Government itself has become a "front" for the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that animates it. This is not to say that there aren't many good, well-meaning people in our government – they are simply prohibited by the very nature of the corrupt system they are in from reforming it. Our system of government is rigged in such a way so that there is no way to transform the system within the system itself.

The underlying core of our government has become rotten such that the entire operation simply feeds into and is an expression of the same underlying corruption. All of the scandals continually coming out are like the superficial skin rash of a much deeper systemic disease, like a cancer that is infecting the greater body politic. Citizens who are not aware of our government's insidious intrusions into our lives are unwittingly feeding the corruption they are looking away from in their very act of looking away.

The "powers" that have taken over our government have become concentrated and centralized in just a few elite hands, proving how easy it is for the few to control the many. They almost control all the levers of power: financial, political and judicial. In this war on consciousness, these powers-that-be are using the most advanced mind-control technology that our world has ever known to make its takeover complete. The essence of mind-control is information control, which is one thing our overly secretive current administration is very good at.

MIND-CONTROL

The private interests that control our government have an incredible mind-control/propaganda machine at their disposal in the form of the mainstream media, which if not quite fully owned and controlled, is certainly under their "influence" enough to serve their underlying self-serving agenda. George Orwell once said that omission is the greatest form of lie – this perfectly describes the corporate owned media of today which is nothing other than the propaganda organ of the state. The corporate world and our government are becoming indistinguishable, which is one of the hallmarks of fascism, or more accurately – corporatism.

In addition to information, our government is adept at putting out dis-information, whose intention is to create distractions and confusion so as to cover its tracks and hide its true intentions. It will purposely leak stories that are not true simply to cover-up what it is really doing. By putting out misleading information, the government hides behind its self-generated smokescreen like an octopus squirting ink.

Quite often, right at the moment when people's focus is moving towards some area of criminality in the White House, the administration will even create a diversionary event for the public to put their attention on. Memories of those color-coded terror alerts that always seemed to happen right when something bad was starting to happen for the Bush administration come to mind. In creating distractions, our government is able to steer our collective attention in directions that allow it to successfully accomplish its malevolent goal of grabbing all the power it can get.

In a diabolical ploy, the administration will even feed stories to a compliant press, and then reference these stories as justification for enacting its pre-planned agenda. One glaring example is when the administration fed Judith Miller of the New York Times stories about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Once this propaganda appeared on the front page of the Times, the administration was only too happy to use it as evidence for why we should go to war.

WMD could easily stand for "Weapons of Mind Deception", as our own government is continually trying to "Deceive" our "Minds", which is the battlefield in which the war on consciousness is being fought. We are all on the front lines in the war on consciousness, whether we know it or not. Instead of shooting us, our government is using cutting-edge mind-control technology to psychically emasculate us. In order to be able to deal with the evil that the Bush regime is perpetrating, we first have to become acquainted with that very same potential evil in ourselves so as to be able to recognize it in the outside world. The way to vanquish our adversary is to be found hidden within the very nature of our own awareness, which contains the key to its own freedom.

The corporate-mainstream media "captivates" our attention, capturing a part of our self-reflective, discriminative awareness, thereby restricting the range of our conscious awareness, which is what hypnotism is all about. Once the attention of the masses becomes entranced, the corporate/government media can then "play with" our mind. This unholy trinity of corporate/government/media can create an obsessive fixation on certain superficial events that "seize" the collective psyche. For example, it feeds the masses sensationalized stories such as Anna Nicole Smith ad nauseam so as to divert our attention from the evil that is being done behind the scenes in our name.

Ex-CIA director Allen Dulles used to say that the most effective way to disguise a secret is to pretend to openly share information. The Bush administration isn't interested in solving problems as much as creating good PR (Public Relations) for itself. With one hand the Bush administration will try to appear like it is openly sharing information and being transparent, while with its other hand it will be actively obstructing the very process it is seemingly supporting. A vivid example is the government's 9/11 commission, whose aim was allegedly to shed light on what happened on 9/11, while covertly – behind the scenes – the Bush administration was doing everything it could to hinder the commission's inquiries (see, for example, 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, by David Ray Griffin). All one has to do is investigate the numerous ties to the core cabal of the neocon Bush administration that the members of the 9/11 commission have and the degree to which it was a deliberate operation to obscure the truth becomes apparent. It was as if the White House was investigating itself; the foxes truly guarding the henhouse. The 9/11 commission and its report, just like the Warren Commission and its report on the Kennedy assassination, was a façade, a show, a display in which it appeared like our government was giving us what we wanted, while actually being part of a deceptive game of smoke-and-mirrors. It is like a magician has hypnotized us, and is stealing what's in our pockets while they have us under their trance in which we believe they are serving us.

As if by a perverse Jedi mind-trick, the Bush administration has bewitched us into believing that it controls the national dialogue, when in a democracy the opposite is actually true. One of many examples – when confronted with overwhelming evidence that we have been torturing our adversaries, Bush responds by saying he "rejects" that claim, and the conversation stops right there and moves on to other, more superficial topics. Our government is supposed to represent us, which is to say that they are our employees. Bush has turned this around and put himself in the role of the dictator with us as his subjects. And somehow we have allowed him to get away with this. There is no escaping our individual and collective complicity in this sad state of affairs.

One difference between what is happening in our country and the state-controlled media of the old Soviet Union, is that in the Soviet Union, most people were quite aware that what was being presented to them by their corrupt government as news was nothing but mind-warping propaganda. Many Americans have fallen so under the spell of the Bush regime's criminal lies that they don't even know they are being lied to. It is like we are living in a land of state-controlled zombies who think they are free citizens of a free country.

It is as if millions of our fellow citizens have fallen asleep, as if they have become hypnotized and brainwashed by the powers-that-be's incessant "managing" and "massaging" of reality. These powers simply manipulate an already gullible and highly suggestible public into a game of "divide and conquer." They get rich off of other's blood - they incite conflict, and covertly support both sides, as they themselves reap the benefit of the conflict.

The corporate war machine, which is co-dependently entangled with our government, profits wildly from our invading other sovereign countries. The government-military-industrial complex's solution to the very problem that they created by instigating wars – more war! It's completely sick and totally insane. And we, in our dulled denial – like hypnotized sheep - simply go along and allow the whole parasitic enterprise to be fed by offering our sons and daughters as fodder. To the extent that we are not shedding light on the utter criminality and insanity of what the Bush administration is doing and saying "No," we are all complicit in feeding our own genocide.

Bush and our Congressional leaders are mouthpieces for the advertising campaign of distortion and falsehood that is being "bomb-arded" into our psyches on a daily basis. Our "leaders" repetitive slogans and incantations brand and imprint themselves deep into our unconscious, where many who do not have enough psychic resistance fall under the spell. (please see Chapter 8 – "Breaking Bush's Spell", in my book The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis). People's ability to discern truth from fiction has been rendered inoperative by our own government's pattern of routinely taking liberty with the truth. Government propaganda has inverted the perception of what is actually happening, as lies are presented as truths, and up is portrayed as down in a truly Orwellian universe of confounding doublespeak. Through the "Big Lie" – which is based on that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for people to see the truth - the government has transformed myth in to seeming fact, and has achieved its goal of muddling our minds so as to dis-empower us.

Many of us haven't developed the psychic immunity to be able to fully ward off the toxic effects of our government's covert, fear-based psychological warfare. An expression of the success of our government's psy-ops against US is the fact that there's so little awareness about the government's assault on our minds that it's hardly even a part of our national dialogue. The insidiousness of the government's covert manipulation of our minds is even found in the very term "Global War on Terror". "The Global War on Terror" is a crazy-making, self-contradictory statement, as we can never stop terror with a war – on the contrary, wars induce terror! This term carries with it a false and self-negating premise that if we accept we've already given away our power. If we leave this underlying assumption unquestioned, we unwittingly allow them to frame the agenda on their terms. We have then already fallen under their spell without knowing it, as our capacity to think and respond creativlely is undermined. Our inability to creatively respond to the war on our consciousness is an expression of being immobilized in fear as if frozen in trauma. The war on terror is really a war on our psyche. The war on terror is ultimately about control – control of our minds.

What Bush and our Congressional leaders are doing is so morally outrageous that it is literally off the charts of accepted, "normal", ethical, sane human behavior. In the words of French poet Andre Chenier, Bush and Co. are committing "crimes that make the laws tremble," as they are covertly undermining our very legal and political system itself. The corruption that has infected our body politic is like a virus that is exploiting weaknesses in our political immune system so as to feed and spread its pathology.

Those of us who are somewhat sane can easily lack the imagination for the depth of depravity that the Bush administration regularly acts out in the world. Our lack of imagination works to the government's advantage, as it allows them to continue to act out the darkness in a manner which is incomprehensible to us. This is why the great doctor of the soul C. G. Jung counseled us to develop an "imagination for evil," as being able to imagine the scope of evil that human beings can fall prey to and act out empowers us to see it clearly and thereby deal with it more effectively.

Our government's lying and criminality is so pervasive that we have become desensitized to their corruption. Their evil has become so "normalized," that just like someone watching TV becomes numb and anesthetized to the violence, we have become desensitized to the horror of what Bush and his cronies are doing right in front of our very eyes day after day. We've learned – or, shall I say, become programmed - to accept the fact that the Bush administration is almost always lying, for, as we are told "All governments lie".

DEFRAUDING US OF THE TRUTH

Bush and Co., with the help of the US Supreme Court and the approval of Congress, rigged the 2000 and 2004 elections (see, for example, Fooled Again by Mark Crispin Miller). Then, with the help of the corporate media which is dependent on the good graces of military and government budgets and operations, Bush and Co. put out mind-numbing propaganda that no such hostile takeover had even taken place, to the point where after a little while most people forgot that anything out of the ordinary had occurred. The government's propaganda machine plays with our minds, putting us in a somnambulistic state so that we eventually begin to accept the version of reality (in our example, that Bush has been "elected" to be our president) that serves its underlying agenda.

Once the office of "perception management" convinces a critical mass of people of a particular viewpoint, there is a "consensus" or "agreement" that is reached among the masses as to what is objectively true. The agreed upon version of reality takes on a "weight" and becomes the established dogma of what is collectively imagined to be really happening. Like a "religious" truth, it is irrationally believed like an act of faith by its card-carrying members, even if overwhelming evidence points to the contrary. Anyone who doesn't buy into the arbitrarily established story is marginalized and demonized, and either called crazy, a conspiracy theorist, or even a terrorist ("You're either with us or you're with the enemy").

If only one person believed the propaganda-created consensus version of reality, they'd be thought of as crazy. If a small group of people believed it, they'd be thought of as a cult. When a certain critical mass of people irrationally believe this fictionalized version of reality (in our case, that Bush has been "elected" by the people) to be objectively true, however, they are considered normal.

Mass psychology then becomes the order of the day, as our species, animated and inspired by fear – which Bush and his regime are only too happy to cultivate - reverts to the primitive psychology of the herd. A collective amnesia ensues, continually fed by a self-generating web of endless denial, as the manufactured consent is recreated anew every moment. A field of force which literally resists conscious reflection becomes conjured up around those who have fallen under the seductive spell of the agreed upon and artificially constructed consensus reality. Anyone reflecting back their unconscious condition is considered to be the enemy. Dissociating from their own darkness, they fight with it outside of themselves as it is projected into and reflected back by the world. Believing the agreed-upon fantasy, they collectively fall into their unconscious together and reinforce each other's delusions in a self-perpetuating feedback loop, which is another way of saying that they have fallen into a collective psychosis.

Bush was not elected by the people. The military-industrial-financial crime syndicate's minions and operatives had already insinuated themselves into key positions of power so as to accomplish their long-planned for covert takeover of the government. Some of their cronies had already infiltrated the Supreme Court, where they literally derailed the democratic process and decided, with no basis in law, to unconstitutionally invest themselves with the authority of bestowing the election upon Bush. Bush's seeming "election by the people" was in fact a strategically implemented political coup d'etat. Very few even noticed this act of violence because of the criminal syndicate's control of the mainstream media. Their propaganda machine succeeded in managing our perceptions just the way they wanted, which is a polite way of saying they successfully pulled the wool over most of our eyes, or pulled the rug out from under us without too many of us even noticing.

In a diabolical feedback loop, the underlying crime syndicate, by putting out propaganda (that Bush has been elected president) creates the very situation (Bush becoming president) which confirms the truth of their propaganda, like in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Being in a position of power, they are tapping into how they can shape the world in their own image, which they are imposing on the world through forceful means. They have in some perverse way begun to access how they can seemingly manipulate and create "reality".

Because of their position of power, these sick few can control the masses by manipulating events in the world, as well as playing with our perceptions. They are tapping into how in managing our perceptions, they can literally create events, and in creating events, they can manage our perceptions. This is a divine secret, but in tapping into it with an impure heart, where power is prioritized over love, it is always destined for failure. In the end, these black magicians will ultimately self-destruct, there is no question about this whatsoever. It is simply a question of mitigating the disaster as they create their own ruin.

Another example of our government's attack on our consciousness: After the 9/11 attacks, there is only one thing certain – the official story put out by our government, itself a conspiracy theory, is not true. There is no question about this to any thinking person who has even minimally studied the evidence. (see, for example, 911truth.org). The fact that our own government is not telling the truth to us about what happened on 9/11, as well as actively obstructing any investigation into what actually did happen, is a huge red flag – why would our own government be lying, and covering up their lie?* Who knows (maybe the shadow?) at this point whether 9/11 was a false flag operation, covertly perpetrated by our own government against us, or whether they knew about it beforehand but simply allowed it to happen so as to gain political advantage? Something's very fishy about the whole thing. The fact that our country, except on the margins, is not even having an open discussion about what

really happened on 9/11 – the official version put out by the government is blindly accepted by millions of people as the objective truth - is another expression of our government shaping our dialogue, both nationally and within our own minds. The government's distorted story about what happened on 9/11 is itself an expression of the deeper and more general underlying conspiracy of our government to defraud us of the truth.

The last thing this criminal enterprise wants is for us to see what it is doing. These criminal war lords want us to believe that we live in a democracy. For example, in a diabolical sleight of hand, we are given the illusory stage-show of free elections, while there is overwhelming evidence that the elections were rigged. Even to be in a position to run for president you have to be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars – this itself is the entrance fee to the game. In addition, the only people who would be allowed by these robber barons to be in a position of power such as "Commander-in-Chief" is someone they control. Barack or Hillary? It's an illusion of choice, a stage-managed distraction from what's really going on. We are left with the appearance, and a misguided belief, that we live in a government run "by the people and for the people." In a very real sense, the Democrats and Republicans are simply various factions who are fighting for the right to represent the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that owns and operates our government. Those who control "our" government want to keep their operations covert, beneath our conscious awareness. For if enough of us become conscious of the evil and depravity that they are perpetrating in our name on the entire planet, their gig is up.

HOW TO ACHIEVE VICTORY IN THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS

The powers that have taken over our country will do anything in their sorcerer's bag of tricks to distract us and keep up the illusion that they are protecting us so as to maintain power. These banking and corporate pirates are willing and more than ready to intimidate, buy off, or destroy any and all critics. It is important for us to realize the depth of evil we are dealing with here – they are willing to kill as many people as needed to accomplish their aims. It is shocking to realize that the very entity that is supposed to be protecting us – our government – is the very thing from which we need protection. It is shattering to realize that our leaders are genuine psychopathic criminals who are trying to take over our planet, impose full-spectrum dominance, enact a new world order and centralize power and control. Instead of this being a conspiracy theory, the evidence is all around us, as it is everywhere we look if we have the eyes to see beyond the carefully crafted and disseminated spell that is being perpetually woven all around us.

What is happening in our world has more the "feeling" of an invasion from a parallel universe than a physical coup d'etat. This is because the intrusion is taking place on the plane of mind, and only secondarily on the physical plane. If we could stop this covert incursion into our minds it would be much easier to mitigate the outer wars that plague our world.

These criminals clearly have way more power than we do in terms of guns, tanks, media and technology, but they are no match for us if we activate the inherent brilliance of our consciousness – a force with unlimited potential. Part of the spell they are casting is that there's nothing we can do, that we are powerless to stop them from doing whatever they want, like when Cheney mentioned it doesn't make a difference what Congress or the American people want, this administration is not going to be stopped from sending more troops to Iraq.

The Bush regime's worst nightmare is for us to wake up to how we've been manipulated, hoodwinked and played by them like fools. The last thing they want is for us to access the natural intelligence inherent in being consciously aware, and connect with each other through the open-heart of lucidity. The powers-that-be's greatest fear is for us individually, as well as collectively, to connect with our intrinsic God-given power to create.

Once we clearly see what is being perpetrated in our name, we can come together and "conspire to co-inspire" so as to awaken – and mobilize – our collective genius, which is a power greater than any weapon of mass destruction. In actuality, our connecting in shared lucidity is the antidote to all WMD's – it is what I call a WMC – a "Weapon of Mass Consciousness". It is what becomes activated when enough of us come together and see (i.e., become conscious of) what is happening.

Connecting with each other is crucially important, as the more of us that consciously associate with each other - as if re-membering (putting our "members" back together to form a unified body) - the stronger the field of unified force that we are able to generate. Once enough of us sync up, we become more able to collectively invoke and channel through our expanded awareness a power that is able to dis-arm any WMD: the power of consciousness infused with wisdom and compassion. Genuine compassion can be very fierce, however, as it both demands and empowers us to come together and say "No" to the evil being done in our name. We can step out of the fear-based reality in which we appear to exist separately from each other in any moment and consciously connect with each other through the open-heart of lucidity. When we are truly serving what is best for the whole – for everyone – a world-changing power becomes available to us.

The solution to winning the war on consciousness is for us to RECOGNIZE the nature of the war we are in, which can only happen through the agency of our consciousness. Realizing that the true war we are in is an assault on our own minds is the expansion of consciousness which is itself simultaneously the solution. From a deeper, more expansive perspective, the war on consciousness is itself the very catalyst and instrument for consciousness to awaken to itself.

It is our turn to come together so as to render powerless these sick criminals who have been terrorizing us. We can help each other to access our intrinsic heart-centered power and collectively turn the light of truth upon them so that they have nowhere to hide from their lies and corruption. For "truth", to quote the infamous Nazi Hermann Goering, is "the greatest enemy of the state." Bush and the private interests who keep him in power and profit richly from his actions are absolutely terrified of one thing - the truth. As the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." Like pouring water on the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz", when the true light of awareness is shed on what Bush and the real powers behind him are doing, their illegitimate power over us is dis-spelled as the illusion it always was.

Paul Levy is an artist and a spiritually-informed political activist. A pioneer in the field of spiritual awakening, he is a healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like nature of reality. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, which is available at his website www.awakeninthedream.com. Please feel free to pass this article along to a friend if you feel so inspired. You can contact Paul at paul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections. © Copyright 2007.

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Impeachment Is Not Off the Table (article)

http://legalizehemp.gaia.com — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:30:45 GMT

Impeachment Is Not Off the Table

By Peter Phillips

Nancy Pelosi declared on national television “impeachment is off the table.” Impeachment, it seems, is too divisive for a 2008-oriented Democratic Party leadership and will interfere with the business of Congress over the next two years.

The Democrats seem to be giving a pardon to Bush and Cheney without even having a trial. Impeachment is the people’s option to end corrupt government. According to the Lancet Medical Journal 650,000 civilians have died in Iraq since the start of the US invasion. US aerial bombing in civilian neighborhoods have caused over a third of these deaths including whole families—children, grandparents, moms and dads.

We now know that Bush and Cheney lied about the weapons of mass destruction. According to the Downing Street Memos from July 2002, “Military action was [in order to justify the invasion of Iraq] seen as inevitable…justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD…the intelligence facts were…fixed around the policy.” Bush and Cheney misled the American people, frauded Congress, violated their constitutional oaths of office. Impeachment has never been more warranted. Yet the Democrats say it is off the table, and can only muster a mild non-binding rebuke in the House as the surge goes on. How many more thousands of people must die before Americans say “enough”?

We have seen the gross profit engorgement of oil companies and private military contractors as of result of the 9/11 wars. Pro-war interests exert significant influence on members of Congress with money and lobbying, while the public relations machines of private industry and government work full time through the corporate media to keep us fearful of terrorists.

Yet, the values and moral core of the American people are based in love, hard work, family and justice. With all our faults, we are basically a good people being led astray by a neo-conservative cabal seeking nothing less than total military domination of the world. We recognize the awfulness of war, decry torture, and understand the connection between of military spending and infrastructure depletion including: housing, education, health care, and employment.

The American people voted against the war in November. Opinion polls show two-thirds oppose the war, and over half support impeachment. We have the individual choice of being “Good Germans” and hiding our heads in the sand, or taking united action to dethrone the imperial powers through the people’s option of impeachment.

New avenues of resistance are emerging to challenge the illegal occupants in the White House. On February 17-18 some twenty-five organizations met in New York for an emergency impeachment conference. The result of the weekend planning was the formation of a new coalition of activists to pursue the impeachment of Bush and Cheney through an increase in public pressure, lobbying, media activism, advertising, creative actions and civil disobedience over the next few months. (www.worldcantwait.org)

Plans to push impeachment include massive marches in major cities on March 17-18, a national Hip-Hop Not War Tour, a global US corporate and chain store shopping boycott April 15(tax day) to April 22 (Earth Day) (www.wearenotbuyingit.org), and the declaration of National Impeachment Day April 28 (www.a28.org).

To allow this administration to ride out the next two years without impeachment is to sanction a lying treasonous presidency and set precedence for future presidents to ignore Congress and the will of the people. A democracy cannot tolerate an imperial power centered in the Whitehouse. If we choose to defend our Constitution we must pressure Congress to go beyond political partisanship and serve the best interests of America.

Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and co-editor with Dennis Loo of Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney.

http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/impeachment.htm

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