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The Counterculture Colonel By Martin A. Lee
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CN Source: North Bay Bohemian July 10, 2008 USA

Dr. James S. Ketchum, a retired U.S. Army colonel, was into weapons of mass elation, not weapons of mass destruction. He oversaw a secret research program that tested an array of mind-bending drugs on American GIs, including an exceptionally potent form of synthetic marijuana. (Most of these drugs had no medical names, just numbers supplied by the Army.) "Paradoxical as it may seem," Ketchum asserted, "one can use chemical weapons to spare lives, rather than extinguish them."

Dr. Alexander ("Sasha") Shulgin, a critic of chemical mind-meddling by the military, was wary when he first met Ketchum at a 1993 event honoring the 50th anniversary of the discovery of LSD. But Ketchum is not your typical military bulldozer type. An intelligent, gracious man with a disarming sense of humor, in his own way Ketchum has always been a free spirit. He and his wife, Judy, who currently reside in Santa Rosa, became close friends with Sasha and his formidable partner, Ann. They stayed in frequent contact and occasionally socialized together. When the Shulgins invited them to Burning Man, the Ketchums joined the caravan of RVs driving to the desert.

US Government Patents Medical Pot
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uly 3rd, 2008 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
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The extent of the federal governmentâ??s hypocrisy on the issue of medicinal cannabis truly knows no bounds. Donâ??t believe me? Just click here.

(Thanks to Huffington Post blogger Brinna for the link.)

US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants

Application: filed on 2/02/2001

US Patent Issued on October 7, 2003

Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services

And there you have it. The same federal government that steadfastly denies pot has any medicinal value also holds the medical patents on the plantâ??s various therapeutic cannabinoids. And they arenâ??t the only ones who do.

NORML podcaster Russ Belville and I will be discussing this issue in depth â?? as well as the related issue of whether or not Big Pharma is behind the prohibition of pot â?? on the Daily Audio Stash next week.

Stay tuned.
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Cannabis extract made by Parke, Davis & Co. circa 1910
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Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs
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Blank Spots on the Map Mother Jones
Books: Blank Spots on the Map | Mother Jones

For all his talk of transparency, Barack Obama now heads a secret governmentâ??4 million Americans with security clearances generating 250 million pages of classified documents a year, and a "black budget" of as much as $60 billion. In this fascinating attempt to trace the physical contours of this parallel intelligence world, geographer Trevor Paglen investigates everything from suburban office parks staffed by spooks to clandestine airstrips and extralegal prisons. He engagingly blurs the line between research and sleuthing. From the 18th floor of a Vegas Strip casino, he watches charter flights between the city airport and top-secret desert bases; he visits a Virginia PO box that receives mail for 168 "sterile identities" maintained by the CIA; and he meets a Canadian hobbyist who catalogs spy satellites that can become virtually invisible. (It involves mirrors.)

Blank Spots on the Map By Gilbert Cruz Time
Blank Spots on the Map - TIME
The Gist:

From Area 51 to the once-secret prisons of Afghanistan, there are certain places that the U.S. government has tried its best to erase from most maps. But as author and geographer Trevor Paglen writes early on in his book, the absence of such places â?? the titular blank spots â??inherently inform us of their exact locations: "Secrets, in other words, often inevitably announce their own existence." Over the next 250 pages, Paglen goes on to sketch out a survey of the dark corners of the United States' national security apparatus from the early 20th century to today.

The Elkhorn Manifesto
SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA
An Open Letter to All Americans
The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate
Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization
An Open Letter to All Americans
By R. William Davis

Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance
Between the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis -
Before, During and After World War II - up to the Present.

Before the Gatewood Galbraith for Governor Campaign in 1991, few Kentuckians knew that the plant that the federal government had demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth," was, in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in the world until the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry, and most important source of revenue, for over 150 years.

Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's unjustifiable suppression of our state's right to develop our most valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing opposition from an informed public. Hemp is now recognized as the number one agriculturally renewable raw material in the world, and perhaps the only crop / industry which can guarantee us industrial and economic independence from the trans-national corporations.

"Shadow of the Swastika" is a follow-up to my earlier work, "Cannabis Hemp: the Invisible Prohibition Revealed," which I wrote and published in support of the Galbraith Campaign. Since publication of that booklet, there has been growing public acceptance of the evidence that Marijuana Prohibition was created in 1937, not to protect society from the "evils of the drug Marijuana," as the Federal government claimed, but as an act of deliberate economic and industrial sabotage against the re-emerging Industrial Hemp Industry.

Previous investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to the suppression of free-market competition from the hemp industry, and focused on the activities of three prominent members of America's corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the mid- to late-1930s:

From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support?

Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism.
Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1.
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High on Hemp
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864,

"The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
It's either Us or Them!"
Benito Mussolini Address, from Palazzo Venezia balcony October 27, 1930

"The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led."

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..."
HARRY J ANSLINGER
Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed Aug. 2, 1937; effective Oct. 1, 1937.)

"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag - a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini together in the heyday of 1930s fascism.

"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth that is what I am after...
I will have no intellectual training.
Knowledge is ruin for my young men."
Adolf Hitler quoted by John Gunther "The Nation"

"Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder."
- Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)

Battle Lines in the Drug War thenewamerican.com/tna/1997/vo13no22/vo13no22_battle.htm
From Triangle of Death, a novel written by former federal undercover agent Michael Levine
"Make La Reina Blanca (crack) available in a country and within weeks a significant and predictable portion of the population is turned into murderous, uncontrollable zombies doomed to a slow, expensive death,"
"How can you be so good at what you do and have so little understanding of what really pulls your strings?" the CIA officer wearily responds. "Don't you realize that there are factions in your government that want this to happen -- an emergency situation too hot for a constitutional government to handle."

"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it."
- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.

"They that start by burning books will end by burning men."
(German) "Dort, wo man Bcher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen."
--Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), from his play Almansor (1821)

"The mission of the Christian Coalition is simple," says Pat Robertson. It is "to mobilize Christians -- one precinct at a time, one community at a time -- until once again we are the head and not the tail, and at the top rather than the bottom of our political system." Robertson predicts that "the Christian Coalition will be the most powerful political force in America by the end of this decade." And, "We have enough votes to run this country...and when the people say, 'We've had enough,' we're going to take over!"
--Pat Robertson

"We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America." --Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan addressing the anti-gay rally in Des Moines, 2-11-96

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue,
The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93

A Short History of FBI COINTELPRO
A Short History of FBI COINTELPRO

More information on COINTELPRO in the Bari case is available at the Monitor Judi Bari index. M Judi Bari Resources

America's Secret Police: FBI COINTELPRO in the 1990s A-Infos (en) [AFIB] America's Secret Police: FBI COINTELPRO in the 1990s

Alternet.org - Spying and Lying: The FBI's Dirty Secrets http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13316

Armies of Repression Armies of Repression:

COINTELPRO COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO - FBI counterintelligence programs to repress political dissent in the United States. http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm

A Short History of FBI COINTELPRO COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO Tool - Manufacturing Consent since 2002 The Fred Willard Fan Site

Lip Magazine - Invade Iraq: Bush's Real Reasons - Puts forward reasons that the Bush Administration is determined to attack Iraq militarily. LiP | Feature | Invade Iraq: Bush's Real Reasons

Media Filter - Bari vs. FBI - Explores some of the shadowy law enforcement actions surrounding the bombing of Bari's car and her subsequent standing as the prime suspect in the crime. Bari vs. FBI

The 1960s and COINTELPRO: In Defense of Paranoia - The 1960s and COINTELPRO: In Defense of Paranoia by Daniel Brandt From NameBase NewsLine, No. 10, July-September... http://www.pir.org/news10.html

TomPaine.com - The FBI's New Style Is '80s Retro Chic - John Rieger interviews author Ross Gelbspan about the FBI's investigation in the 1980s with Americans branded as "terrorists." From June 2002.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5730

Village Voice - John Ashcroft On Trial - Nat Hentoff reports on the challenge by civil libertarians to the Attorney General's nuvo 'COINTELPRO' programs. New York News - John Ashcroft on Trial - page 1

Village Voice, The - Unleashing the FBI - James Ridgeway criticizes the FBI's reorganization under John Ashcroft and compares it to the COINTELPRO era. New York News - Unleashing the FBI - page 1

COINTELPRO - Please go to COINTELPRO and update any links you may have More results from: http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointel.htm

COINTELPRO The Sabotage Of Legitimate Dissent COINTELPRO

JUDI BARI VS FBI TRIAL COVERAGE Judi Bari Resources

Judi Bari Home Page The Judi Bari Website

MKULTRA: CIA Mind Control C O N T E N T S http://www.parascope.com/ds/document...ring/index.htm

MKULTRA: CIA Mind Control http://www.parascope.com/ds/mkultra0.htm

MKULTRA CIA Mind Control Peyote : the divine cactus

Resources on Drug Experiments Performed by the U. S. Government
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/hu...iment/lsd.html

MKULTRA: CIA Mind Control
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment & Linx
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