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The Worse It Gets the Better It Gets
If you're standing in the wrong spot on the planet, you are hungry, while Global Broiling and ozone depletion have both just klicked another degree higher than the often-reported global average. Your immune system loses another measure of integrity, a few more cancer cells form in your colon and the plants around you wilt a bit more, under the increasing UV radiation. This is all "good news."
Apparently there must be a low-point to the quality of life, the result of dysfunctional leadership, to which we as a species need to fall, before the influence of science, logic and reason are reintroduced as decision-making factors, determining the course of human endeavor. Otherwise, very soon, there just won't be any.
An inarguable condition of global emergency has made clear that there is one entirely achievable, fundamental priority right now. The atmosphere has become a proximate, unpredictable, incomprehensible threat. There can be no remaining doubt that we have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself.
The next steps we take must be the first steps to resolving Global Broiling, finally recognised as an absolute certainty by all but the petrol-appointed president's" immediate coterie. Discontinuing the use of all non-essential chemicals known to damage the atmosphere is urgently called for. 'Time' must be recognised as the limiting factor in the equation of survival.
To replace many of the chemical-intensive industrial processes that we are economically addicted to presently, Cannabis can be grown to produce environmentally responsible substitutes for plastics pharmaceuticals, biocides, and GMO soy, just to begin with. In recognition of the plant's exceptional potential for benefit and abundance, wherever possible, the free and open rotational planting of Cannabis for production of food, fuel, phytotherapeutic remedies, building materials, agricultural biocides and thousands of other essential commodities must be immediately implemented. Restrictions on scientific investigations must be lifted and intensive, global organic and biodynamic developmental Cannabis research initiated.
Plant resources, used in products made with respect to the Laws of the Natural Order, must be substituted for toxic, unevenly distributed products. Respect for Natural Law must be prioritized over profit. In particular, agricultural biocides (insecticides and herbicides) can and must be replaced with plant extracts that do not contaminate ground water and poison the air. Plastics that are not bio-degradeable don't need to be made. We could easily, and logically we must, replace petroleum plastics with plastics made from plant resins and fibers.
The technology exhists to accomplish these essential measures. Why then are these products not being actively phased-in? When we know that chemical pollution is not worth the price of extinction, why do we continue to finance our own destruction and follow the ignorant?
How bad do conditions have to get before we take the first logical steps toward protecting the quality of life on Earth for ourselves and future generations of Earth's inhabitants? Exactly whose permission do you or I need to survive? If I can plant a crop of Cannabis and harvest something of value, then the laws that give me that right can never be taken away.
As I see it, two things are needed to reverse Global Broiling. The first is an impeccably accurate documentary film, explaining the true value of Cannabis to mankind's existence within a functional Natural Order. The second is the political will at the grassroots level, to do the right thing. The incumbent regime will not change because of economic self-interest. Attempts will be made to control Cannabis production and pervert the organic evolution of agriculture.
Values will suddenly shift because a major resource is being reintroduced and the instinct to support survival will accelerate the change. The question remains, how long before we get to that point in our social evolution? Will we have enough time left to fix what's broken? How do we get to that point in the quickest way possible?
Individual rights are the rocket fuel of change, but only when joined together. The legal entwining of individual rights is the springboard for change, the catalyst that we have been waiting for. If only one of us stands up for the truth, with everyone else standing with them, then prohibition could end tomorrow. The only way to benefit from the sacrifices of previous generations is to honor them with gratitude for the freedoms that we are truly blessed to enjoy.
People have sacrificed on an inconceivable scale, to protect the freedoms that are being taken from us by the stroke of a pen or two. Unless people achieve consensus sooner than later, and agree to end prohibition of the world's most nutritious and useful "herb bearing seed," then there won't be anyone around in a hundred years to argue about it anymore.
That's for sure.
for peace,
Paul J. von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace
posted by projectpeace @
11:15 PM
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Friday, October 14, 2005  |
Subjects: Freedom to farm, natural rights, essential resource prohibition, environmental health, spiritual freedom...
"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the kings' bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly."---J. H. Fabre
Dear friends,
"World Rural Women’s Day 2005: "What rights for women as rural citizens?"
http://www.rural-womens-day.org/
FACTS ON RURAL WOMEN
* Rural women, mainly farmers, are at least 1.6 billion and represent more than a quarter of the total world population.
* Women produce on average more than half of all the food that is grown: up to 8O per cent in Africa, 6O per cent in Asia, between 3O and 4O per cent in Latin America and Western countries.
* Women own only 2 per cent of the land, and receive only one per cent of all agricultural credit.
* Only 5 per cent of all agricultural extension resources are directed to women.
* Women represent two third of all illiterate people.
* The number of rural women living in poverty has doubled since 197O.
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Dear friends,
Cannabis seed is the best available source of organic vegetable protein on Earth, and the only common seed with three essential fatty acids (EFAs). Cannabis (hemp, 'marijuana') also produces more fuel per acre, sustainably, and can be made into more useful products than any other plant. "Freedom to farm" Cannabis could not be more critical and relevant to many of the problems faced by rural women in all parts of the world.
"The purpose of the Day"
The day provides rural women and their organizations with a focal point to :
1. Raise the profile of rural women,
2. Sensitize both government and public to their crucial, yet largely unrecognized roles, and
3. Promote action in their support. Initiatives on how to celebrate this day are left to individual organizations and communities, according to their own traditions and requirements. Activities or events should be concrete and visible. This action undertaken by rural and farming women in all parts of the world on the very same day, in a spirit of solidarity and cooperation, would strengthen the impact of the day.
The most nutritious food crop on Earth is prohibited in most of the countries where poverty and crime are worst. Ending Cannabis prohibition for the production of food and fuel, building materials and herbal therapeutics would have a fundamental effect on the food security and agricultural abundance of many, if not all, regions where resource scarcity increases tensions, exacerbates poverty and induces aggression.
The effect that Cannabis prohibition is having on the quality of life, health, nutrition, and social evolution of our species goes far beyond the relatively inconsequential use of 'marijuana' as a euphoric. The natural distinction between drugs and herbs is a legally binding opportunity for the world's women to stand for Nature, and defend the right to farm "every herb bearing seed," including and especially Cannabis.
Healing the Earth's atmosphere will take time and require that all productive alternatives are considered. Currently, because of the suppressive effect of "the herb/drug war," the effect of Cannabis agriculture on environment, economics, and social evolution are not even being considered. In spite of spiritual, cultural, and scientific evidence that strongly suggests that Cannabis has much to contribute to people's chances for achieving sustainability, the pressure to exclude organic, Cannabis-based energy and food security solutions from agriculture is extreme.
Protein production determines carrying capacity. The oceans are polluted with mercury and dangerously over-fished, while Global broiling is reducing the protein content of food crops. In some areas of the planet, crops won't grow because of increased UV radiation. Deforestation, soil erosion due to wind and water, increasing aberrant weather, seismic and volcanic activity, accelerating species extinction, virulent strains of bacteria, birth defects from the use of depleted uranium weapons, and social upheaval are all symptoms of fundamental imbalance.
Inducing scarcity of the world's most useful agricultural resource has determined the character of the economic system and human values that steer our governments. The result of Cannabis prohibition imposed on the U.S. in 1937, is that human values are short-term, toxic, and unevenly distributed, just like our primary choice of fuels.
According to a report produced by The Micronutrient Initiative (MI)
"As many as a third of the world’s people do not meet their physical and intellectual potential because of vitamin and mineral deficiencies..."
( http://www.micronutrient.org/reports/default.asp )
Please do what you can to raise people's awareness of the urgency to end the agricultural prohibition that "throws the babyfood out with the bongwater," impoverishing billions and sickening billions more.
"...we tend to forget that originally, in worldwide mythology, food and drink were the gifts of Holy Beings, some of whom sacrificed their lives to make such gifts available. .. the sacred foods and drink...have for countless ages nourished our bodies and spirits.....and continue to do so..." -- Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
For more information about World Rural Women’s Day, October 15th, please see
http://www.rural-womens-day.org/
posted by projectpeace @
10:07 PM
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
"Dragging On Petrol"
or
"(My Country,) Without A Sober President"
The world holds our breath,
We wait.
Erected monkey "president" scatters weapons & families,
trolling for death with holy hate.
Sunny rose-garden days of drug war prisons
We die on chemicals we're sold, not given.
Instead of real food and safety and true religion
We're force-fed GMO soybeans that quell our passions.
Breathless, we know it may already be too late
Still we wait,
Without a real President,
to do what's smart,
To turn down the heat on our broiling fate.
Toxic inarticulisms
gush from smirking, preying chimpish-lips.
Faux-religious liars rape the Earth, the richassed petro-pimps.
Humping chemicals into our skins
Our bones desolve into our blood.
Kill their children first,
then our children next,
We put our time and our lives and our work into poisoning the One who offers herbal foods, the best.
We pay taxes to maim and slaughter
our young, bright sons and daughters.
Telling them Nature is bad
when they could be home in bed,
well-fed and safe.
Life does not have to be so sad.
Perhaps you are one of those fortunate Misters?
A legal drug dealer whose daughters birthday-kiss you?
For love of fine profits on Paxoff, Zolil and Prozoo?
Don't worry about competition,
from ganja farmers its true,
You had the foresight to buy stock in prison construction too.
Do you invest in the arms that blow off kid's legs
and wonder how how they will have to beg?
Will you stand and say that Cannabis is fuel and food and "Hey!
we won't pay for the chemical-drug-war-fighting-way?"
Will we demand organic abundance from hempen toil?
and methanol and hydrogen and diesel seed oil?
We will make dollars grow from herbs whose seeds we sow?
That give back a future to our here & now?
Or we will explain to our grand kids
that they have cancer at six ,
cause we just couldn't stop burning petrol
instead of growing hemp sticks..
Will ANWR fall to the herb prohibitionists?
Will people wake up and plant farms and finish it?
Will the atmosphere kill us with a million spears
and the wrath of Nature realize our greatest fear?
Or will we someday walk a sunny road in peace?
Doing all you can do for your brothers and sisters?
Or will we trade bombs in extinctionistic duel.
Trading souls for petrol.
You work like a dog to save a penny.
The "president" says "here's a plan,"
but there 's only a phoney.
If you really love your children,
you just won't have any.
posted by projectpeace @
10:45 PM
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