The history of cannabis and 4/20

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were de



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Noninterference vs Mass Broadcast

--We live in sad times. After two students are shot in the face and no one was caught for it, VA Tech decided it was best to send out emails to warn the students instead of a using the Public Address system to warn of the danger.
--Pre 9/11 there was a ton of information on Bin Laden using our planes against us, USA waited till after the attack then went to war with a different country, instead of making our airlines more secure. It cant be too difficult to make sure everyone going on a flight has proper identification and no metal objects.
--Thailand's tsunami is another example. A huge earthquake hit at 07:58:53 local time. Sensors around the world knew it hit 22 minutes after the huge quake. The first waves started hitting at around 10:00:00 local time. Between the 2 hours, there could have been MASS broadcasting to all coastal areas to get to higher grounds.

Why doesn't this occur? I have a few thoughts on it.

Leaders would rather have dead people on their hands then to be wrong, cause a mass panic, and be sued by everyone. Also, even though we can transfer data at light speeds around the world, the peoples airwaves have been stolen from them from the "leaders" who set up the system. And since the system has been divided up unequally between too few, nothing works together and at its no way near its full potential. The people on this planet need an awakening and it will never happen, we love competition, being better then other people, and having power over others. That's why when these events happen, it makes me angry at society for being so secretive. To exist in society (my job, my health, my food...not my private life), there should be NO encryption, which doesn't bother anyone other then the people in charge who have secret corporations, and money under the desk deals. We as a people should outlaw EVERY PRIVATE SECTOR and have a free and equal society. Every closed circuit, every government deal, every bandwidth should be out in the open for the world to see.

Please comment on how you feel, how you can improve this society, or why I am a total jackass.

"Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radical" pre 9/11 report by France

French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday. One document prepared in January 2001 was entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals",



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Bush rejects any Iraq pull-out deadline

US President George W. Bush, ahead of talks with lawmakers pushing for an Iraq withdrawal timetable, warned Monday that he would reject a pending war-funding bill if it comes with a deadline. Bush accused Democrats of trying to "legislate defeat in this vital war."



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Free ride is over: IRS taxing online sales

As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.



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FIFTY PERCENT of CIA hired since 9/11

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, after nearly a year as head of the nation's premier intelligence agency, says his biggest challenge is absorbing all the newly hired analysts and the case officers who have been hired since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.



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Bush OKed the Firing of US Atty Iglesias, per Sen Domenici's Request

Gonzales told Domenici he would fire Iglesias only on orders from the president. Domenici called Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president. Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue. The conversation occurred sometime before Iglesias firing.



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Is Depleted Uranium Killing our Troops?

Dustin Brim went into the Army a healthy man. A year later, he returned home. His body was riddled with incurable cancer. Could his own weapons and armor — made with a byproduct of enriched uranium — have been the cause



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AMAZING eisenhower speech - Bush presidency is unamerican!

"Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.""Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those"



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Stem Cell Bill Approved by Senate

A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new medical treatments.



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Bush's Sudan Ambassador: There Is No Genocide in Darfur (Video)

In an extremely heated exchange with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday, President Bush's ambassador to Sudan Adrew Natsios defiantly refused to characterize the violence there as genocide.



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Jon Stewart Evaluates the ‘08 Republican Field

Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart ran through the GOP frontrunners and evaluated their electoral prospects. The jab at Senator Kerry at the end is hysterical.



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Senate Panel Wants Those Missing White House e-Mails -- Let e-Gate Begin!

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy challenged the White House assertion, saying, "It's not a question of e-mails being lost, it's e-mails they don't want to retrieve."



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Presidential Candidate: U.S. In Danger of Dictatorship

Congressman Ron Paul warns elite believe they own us and are “always prepared” to take our liberties. The US is now at a crisis point because the people have been so neglectful of protecting their liberties and big government has been so effective in eroding them.



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New Royal Dutch Shell Patent Could Mean Oil For $30 A Barrel, US #1 Source

Royal Dutch Shell is patenting a technique to convert shale to petroleum at a cost of only about $30/barrel. If it works, the world's single largest source of oil would be... the United States. What would the world be like if all the oil in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria, and elsewhere was suddenly nearly worthless?



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Bush wants to create new "War Czar?"

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.



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Fox News: If not for Clinton, Americans would be afraid of Black president

Dick Morris: "MORRIS: But you know, back to your question of scared. You have to ask yourself, the first black man is running for president and nobody's afraid of him, because everybody's afraid of Hillary."



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Black is White. War is Peace. It's just another White House press briefing.

WH Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said Bush's "surge" strategy is a response to polls showing that most Americans disapproved of Bush's bungling of the war . "The American people have wanted change in Iraq " Perino said. "The president announced a new policy on January 10th that was quite different and divergent from where we were before."



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Right Wing Uses Cropped Photo To Downplay Size Of Iraq Protest

"After thousands of demonstrators gathered in Najaf, Iraq, yesterday to protest the U.S. occupation, the Bush administration was quick to downplay the size of the gathering. State Department official David Satterfield said, “I think the small size of those demonstrations is an indication of the limited appeal of Muqtada al-Sadr’s.."



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Bush's New Spy Chief Wants More Agressive Powers

Surveillance could include planting listening devices and hidden cameras, searching luggage and breaking into homes to make copies of computer hard drives.



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