Daily Archives: October 25, 2010

Prop. 19, Monsanto, and GMO Terminator Cannabis

By Conrad Justice Kiczenski
KPFZ

Cannabis prohibition has served to redirect human evolution from that of a decentralized agrarian lifestyle and natural economy, to a centralized petro-chemical military dictatorship controlled through the artificial economic will of private banks and other trans-national corporate interests. The next stage in continuing this control is in the regulation, licensing and taxation of Cannabis cultivation and use through the only practical means available to the corporate system, which is through genetic engineering and patenting of the Cannabis genome. Proposition 19: The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 lays the foundation, writes Conrad Kiczenski.

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Murder Mystery in Flushing, NY: Chinese dissident dead

By John Kusumi

Hu Changxin

In this photo, Hu Changxin (Center) is flanked by Isak Baldwin (L) and leading Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng (R)

At the hands of violence, under suspicious circumstances, Hu Changxin was murdered on Saturday, October 23, 2010.

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Heathens Hold the Line as Californians Reject Corporate Takeover

Michael Collins

The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina.

Among likely voters in the governor’s race, Brown leads Whitman 50% to 38%. In the race for United States Senator, two term Senator Barbara Boxer maintained an 8% lead. The leads by Democrats come from a brand new constituency, those who “never” go to church. More on that later.
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Behind the French veil ban: The Doha Debate

By Rady Ananda

What France has done with its ban on the face veil is deem protection from a statistically remote threat (terrorists dressing in veils) superior to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of dissent. The excuse of national security is not supported by the facts, so what can be the real reason for the ban?

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