Fear is a major de-motivating factor, but it's not the primary imbalance. There is another
underlying warp that makes fear inevitable.

We live in a condition of imposed, essential resource scarcity. Most people are too scared to
admit that our money is toxic by design, 'because it's always been that way' in our lifetimes, and
in our parent's. If the basis for our economy was non-toxic and abundant, people would not be as
scared. People are harder to control when they're not scared. That's why governments have always
gravitated toward increased control, imposing scarcity, which generates fear and insecurity.

The good news is that the situation is fixable, if people wake up from the mass denial we all
participate in and perpetuate, in time to repair the atmospheric imbalances that we're still
creating, even when we know for certain that the planet is heating up, because of the poor choice
of fuels that was made three generations ago.

We have the communications ability to make the needed changes, but our systems of governance are
antiquated, still tied to the petroleum paradigm. The system needed for effecting needed changes
hasn't yet caught up with people's awareness of the problem, and our ability to communicate what
we're coming to understand.

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. The colllective quality of life on this
planet is the guage for approximating how much time is left to rebalance our species' fundamental
values, to regain economic harmony within the laws of the primarily significant Natural Order.

If women or men are afraid of losing their economic position, it is because they don't want to
acknowledge or fail to understand, how close to the edge of extinction we are pushing our
children. When America's court-appointed "president" uses radioactive bombs to commit war-for-oil,
it is so far beyond conventional crime that people are limited in their capacity to respond. 

We know full well that radiation from depleted uranium causes illness and birth defects. There is
something seriously wrong with everyone not saying something about it. If it takes massive labor
strikes and coordinated tax revolt to stop the contamination of our moral values by misanthropic
politicians, then that is every individual's responsibility. Regardless of people's fears, to
defend against moral conscription by an outlaw government, we have to stop giving that government
the money for the radioactive bombs.

When eminent thinkers like Dr. Helen Caldicutt estimating our chances for achieving survival at
about twenty years, then it is time to realize that there's really nothing to fear but the
atmosphere itself. I happen to believe that Dr. Caldicutt's is an optimistic estimate.

To prove the point, one question: What is the most nutritious, common seed on Earth? Answer:
Cannabis. 

When people come to understand the answer to that question, then much of the confusion will come
clear. Understanding is the best antidote to fear, but you can't eat it.

The greatest single shift in human values that would give the greatest economic benefit to the
greatest number of women, is to end Cannabis prohibition. That will only happen when people
understand the importance of nutrition in economics.

Freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is essential for humankind to find balance within the
Natural Order. A Council of Women might have the advantage of maternal instinct for coming to such
an understanding that much sooner.

Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace






--- Laurinda <laurinda.seabra@empowerment-gateway.com> wrote:
> Re: A Call to Women
>
> I have read the challenge and the comments on this topic and here's my
> reply to it.
>
> 1.  CREATE A "COUNCIL OF WOMEN" The "Council" mission is to motivate the
> masses, empower the masses, bring all the peace organizations together,
> and attract attention by the media. The Council will challenge every
> woman leader of peace organizations, every woman celebrity activist,
> every woman dignitary, and every women leader to enlist.
>
> Response: This is a very noble target, but in reality a difficult one to
> reach. I qualify my statement based on my own personal experience. I
> have personally been involved in South Africa with a similar vision and
> with a group that has the same vision, and as a result I regret that I
> have to agree with James comments, I and the other women in the group
> are failing. Why are we failing? ... there are various reasons but here
> are some of them:
>
> 1. Most women that would gladly participate in such an outreach are
> still being controlled by their male partners, society and the like ...
> as a result, and in contradiction to their own inner core they are
> controlled by FEAR! (in various forms) .. but nonetheless FEAR! Fear is
> the biggest block to this vision.
>
> 2. As most women become economically independent they don't want to
> change their status quo and earning capacity. Again FEAR plays a role
> (loss of economic stability is a great deterrent) .. once again there
> are controlling circumstances who prevent these women from declaring or
> participating in such an initiative ... these women are controlled via
> corporate and governmental rules, regulations and policies, etc.
> 
> In conclusion all the reasons that we have found that prevents SA women
> from uniting and really doing something about the status of SA and the
> world today are anchored in some form of fear!
>
> 2.  CHALLENGE ALL WOMEN
>
> As a catalyst, the "Council of Women" and the leaders mentioned above
> would ask women to challenge all women, in every city, in every state,
> in
> every country, to rise up and speak out for peace and support specific
> initiatives on specific dates!
>
> Strength will come from non-violence.  The masses eliminate fear, the
> largest obstacle.
>
>
> Response: I realize that you have taken recognizance of FEAR as the
> largest obstacle. The question is how to break it?
>
> And yes we would like to see what you propose! But believe me sometimes
> even I feel like giving up and go and sit on the top of a mountain and
> willing that I can forget that there is a world out there.
>
> Regards
>
> Laurinda Seabra
> Empowerment Gateway 
> www.empowerment-gateway.com

Changing the Game

When the game goes bad, you change the game. Drug War economics are obviously a losing game. This
is confirmed by the illegal Supreme Court installation & subsequent phoney election that usurped
control of the US White House by the military industrial chemical multinational consortium,
imposing prohibition on competitive sustainable organic agricultural industries.

If people figure out what's really valuable, inclusive of "environmental externalities" that
threaten our existence, then the basis of the current economic system will necessarily change.
Economic inertia will then shift away from prohibition of the world's most useful plant, as it
must. It may have to happen by this Spring. No one can say for sure. Dr. Helen Caldicutt has
estimated that we have twenty years to save the planet, but I think she's being optimistic.

Cannabis is a critically determinate resource for achieving organic, agricultural sustainability.
This is essential to regulation of the Earth's carbon cycle and stabilization of the global
warming trend.

Ask the people in Madagascar who have to go further and further from home to find wood, where the
soil has been washed into the sea because the trees were cut for fuel. Don't you yhink they would
rather have grown hemp for fuel? Then ask why didn't they? Now ask why aren't we?

Mankind still behaves, economically, as if there is no consequence to chemically and radioactively
bombarding the Natural Order. The warped values of our species reflect the toxic, unevenly
distributed, finite, expensive chemicals that our money is based in. Bad choice, but we perpetuate
it through prohibition.

Sustainable resources are not optional, yet prohibition treats the most critically determinate
piece of a very complex puzzle as though it weren't worth anything. How ironic that the first crop
cultivated by early man would be the one most criminalized by modern man.

The economics of poison and punishment have acheived predictable, inevitable, albeit temporary
supremacy. In spite of obvious conclusions drawn from credible science, objective legal and
sociological opinion, ancient global tradition, historically proven best sustainable agricultural
practices and "self-evident" collective majority of reason, the prohibition of the world's most
useful crop still stands. Harm reduction is still misrepresented by frontmen for the prison and
pharmaceutical industries, and continues as an institutionally wounded policy and HIV/AIDS wins
many more precious lives than it ever, ever should.

With such developments, then harm reduction has become a legal matter, for an objective court to
settle. As an individual, speaking for those who cannot speak, I certainly will not be conscripted
into supporting extinctionism. A sustainable carbohydrate economic dynamic is preferrable to the
toxic stew people are investing their time and labor into. I will not serve that paradigm of
radioactive, chemical death, led by an arrogant falsely wealthy man who cannot even properly
pronounce the word "nuclear."

Attacking Nature has become a sport for American oligarchs who will drive the world into the
ground to insure that their economic base is perpetuated, generation after maleable generation. I
sympathize with your evident frustration, Peter. The illusionary world in which drug policy is
being decided can be recognized by the effect it is having on the courage of compassionate people
who are stand up to it.

Thank you and Andria and others for being on the front line to witness the turning point. That's
what this must be, as it adds up more and more clearly as a direct and immediate threat to graeter
and greater numbers of people. Consensus is possible for the first time in the history of our
species. Our system of governance must obviously evolve in accord with our ability to communicate
the truth.

Essential civilian demand, as described in Executive Order 12919, backed by non-violent civil
disobedience, in the form of coordinated tax revolt and labor strikes, may be the only way to
reclaim our "self-evident" freedom to farm. Civil disobedience to restructure the global economy
could be the surest, most peaceful and lawful means that people have for initiating a new set of
values.

A new economic paradigm must be consciously created, in coordination with a new system of
governance, that places respect for the integrity of the Natural Order at its apex. The Laws that
govern the seasons, the atmosphere and the ocean currents upon which our lives depend, are the
practical manifestation of whichever "God" people choose to credit with devising complex
synergistic systems within which we are barely managing to exist, for not much longer.

Perhaps it really is necesary for the illogic, which is causing so much illness and death, to
become so pervasive that even the most adamant prohibitionist who loses a loved one to cancer or
AIDS, or heart disease or diabetes, must recognize the tragic absurdity in the notion that a
unique and essential healing herbal food resource could ever be within the rightful jurisdiction
of any court.


PvH