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Dana Beal <dana@...> wrote:
From: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:50:31 -0400
Subject: [mayday] GMM 2005 #42: FDA Wireheadz!; Atlanta, Boone, Budapest, Florianopoles, Halifax, Jyväskala , Kristiansand, Lethbridge, Nanaimo, NIcosia, Oslo, Portland, Rome, Toronto, Tromsøe , Trondheim, Wellington Make 85 Cities Already Signed up for the May 6, 2006, the Million Marijuana March
Important: get your city on the list for the Million Marijuana March, May 6, 2006!So far we have confirmed 85 cities:
Albuquerque
Amsterdam
AntwerpAthensAtlantaAuckland
BakersfieldBaselBernBirminghamBoiseBoone
BoulderBudapestBuenos AiresCalgaryCapetownChicoChristchurchCordobaDallasDarwinDunedinEugeneFayettevilleFlorianopolesFt. Smith
HachitaHalifaxHartfordKansas CityJyväskalaKnoxvilleKristiansandLausanneLethbridgeLimaLocarnoLos AngelesLuxembourgLuzernLyonMinneapolisMoscowNagaokaNashuaNanaimoNashvilleNew YorkNicosiaNimbinOgdenOsloPaiaParisPhoenixPortlandPortlandPragueRaleighRio de JaneiroRoanokeRomeRosarioRostockRotterdam
SalemSan DiegoStavangerSteamboat SpringsSteven's PointSt. LouisStockholmTel AvivThunder BayTorontoTraverse CityTromsøeTrondheimTucsonViennaWarsawWashington, D.C.Wellington
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Great to hear from you.
I hope you're doing well.
Thanks for writing and letting us know about the 2006 mmm. We'll be discussing among us in the Collective and looking at options - please consider us tentatively as "on board", as usual.
And we'll back to you again in the neaer future to re-confirm. Thanks!
Herbally yours,
Petros-------------From: mainelynorml@...Dana,
We will be holding an event again. So sign us up.Faryl---------------------------------Email updated by phone--Atlanta: HOTLINE info@... 404-522-2267 CAMP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., PO Box 5718, Atlanta, Georgia 30117-5718 [Paul Cornwell 404-523-3712 1231 Druid Pl NE, Atlanta, GA 30307]--------------------------------------------------------------From: benziecountynorml@...Hey All,
It seems that the thunder-boomer we had early Sunday morn fried a phone box down the road from us and they didn,t get it fixed until 7pm last nite. I have just read 171 e-mails (since last Friday when I left for T.C.).
On "affiliates" list......Paul Chang is right about Walmart (consumer driven). Although I haven't been in Traverse City Walmart for years,I think I will go in just to make a big stink about not being able to get Willie's new release with cannabis leaves,re-affirm my PERSONAL boycott of them ( I agree with Keith on a national boycott),and then go purchase it from my usual "mom & pop" store. I met Willie here several years ago and he still rocks!! I am glad that he is on our side and HE HAS NEVER SOLD OUT ON HIS STAND ABOUT POT!! In ref. to the other e-mails,all I can say is "play nice,kids!!" (ha-ha)On "minorml-talk" list......such good news all the way around!! MICHIGAN NORML IS ALIVE & WELL!! Thank you,everyone who came to our conference in T.C. this week-end.....what a glorious time and everyone played nice together.I will always cherish the personal time that I got to spend with Jack Herer & Elvy and what a privilege to grill the ka-bobs for everyone.They were yummy!! COALITION FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE ROCKS!! Their best news was the approval letter from the city attorney and I am just waiting for the word on how I can help in the signature gathering,even if it is just to walk along with a T.C. resident or grill some more food for those doing the collecting.Good job on the booth,tables,& chairs Carol...great price and I have complete confidence in you,George S. on the banner.I hope that the "Warped Tour" is a huge success and that we may re-coup the cost for the stuff at it.If for nothing else,we will look professional & beautiful from now on! Hope you are feeling better,Mike....we missed you,Tamara,Richard,and all the others that couldn't make it.Keep writing those letters,Greg....sorry I didn't get to say good-bye to you & Amy.On a personal note....went to Interlochen Music Camp on Monday nite and sat outside in the park listening to Arlo Guthrie sing "Alice's Restaurant" & "Customs Agent Man" among others....wow,what a trip down memory lane and he still sounds good!!See youns later and keep on enjoying God's Herb!!
Rev.Steven B.Thompson,Director
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Call 509-998-3405 or Email President@... for moreinformation.-----------------From: gmm@...Hi Dana
I just wanted you to know that I got some mails from some cities that would join on your list. Already got them signed at globalmarijuanamarch.orgBoone North carolina US tarheel_josh@ yahoo.comBudapest Hungary juhaszp@...Florianopoles Brazil rhasttaff@...Halifax Canada chair@...Jyväskala Finland hamppujkl@...
Kristiansand Norway post@...Lethbridge Canada thehopefulcanadian@...Oslo Norway post@...Nanaimo Canada golden_angel2875@...Rome Italy 7maggio@...Toronto Canada gmm2005@...
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************************* BUSHWHACKED!! ***************************************************The London [Ontario, Canada] Free Press. July 24, 2005 article.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/07/24/1145182-sun.html
Western aggression fuels fanaticism
Britain and the U.S. are paying for 80 years of Mideast meddling in pursuit of oil, London's mayor says.
ERIC MARGOLIS, Sun Media Newspapers. 2005-07-24 03:04:08
Having witnessed the first London transit bombing on July 7, this week's fizzled bombings, exactly two weeks later, brought both nasty deja vu and deep relief that the attacks only disrupted transit and badly frayed nerves.
Thursday's incidents intensified the fierce war of words that has raged in Britain for the past two weeks over who was to blame for the original attacks.
Canadians should pay close attention because their latest dispatch of troops to Afghanistan, accompanied by adolescent tough talk, makes them a potential target for attack.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair keeps insisting the young British-Pakistani men who staged the July 7 bombings were motivated by a rabid, misguided view of Islam, and incited by fanatical imams preaching a cult of hatred against the West.
U.S. President George Bush and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard repeat a similar litany: Terrorism is caused by evil Muslims who hate the West because of its values, religion, freedoms and selfless efforts to bring the light of democracy and civilization to the benighted Islamic world.
They insist attacks by Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with the West's military actions in the Muslim world, its efforts to control or plunder oil, or the corrupt, despotic regimes installed there by the U.S., Britain and France. It's all the fault of run-amok Islam and hate-mongers.
British investigators believe the 7/7 attackers may have had links to radical Islamic groups in Pakistan, which is increasingly portrayed as the fount of Islamic terrorism. Pakistan's madrassas (religious schools) again came under heavy criticism for churning out young fanatics.
Embarrassed by Britain's angry charges, Pakistan's military ruler, President Pervez Musharraf, ordered his security services to round up the usual Islamic suspects. A "key al-Qaida terrorist" was suddenly arrested, Islamabad's standard response whenever Washington and London turn up the heat.
Two weeks ago, from London, I wrote that the underground bombings were the despicable but inevitable retaliation of angry young Muslims for Britain's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Unsurprisingly, I received a good deal of flak.
Still, an embarrassing leaked report from MI-5, Britain's security service, and a study by Chatham House, a leading U.K. non-partisan research group, confirmed links between the attacks, Afghanistan and Iraq. Polls show a majority of Brits agreed.
London's popular mayor, Ken Livingstone, spoke for this silent majority, blaming "80 years of western intervention in Arab land because of our need for oil."
The always-controversial Livingstone went on to accuse the U.S. and Britain of a double standard over terrorism.
Though Livingstone is way to the left of most Britons, his words, echoing those of rogue MP George Galloway, reflect what many Britons think, but Americans dare not say: U.S. political policies and wars in the Mideast were responsible for 9/11 and other terrorist attacks.
By playing Bush's Sancho Panza in the so-called war on terrorism -- seen by most Muslims as a western crusade against Islam -- Blair imported Mideast violence to Britain.
Blaming Islamist fanaticism allows Bush and Blair to decouple their aggressive policies in the Muslim world from counter-attacks by small groups of terrorists. Israel initiated this policy of denial, long insisting its repressive policies in the occupied territories had nothing to do with Arab terrorist attacks.
But anyone who claims you can bomb and occupy other people's nations and not get return fire is being either incredibly naive or untruthful.
Murdering civilians in London, New York or Tel Aviv is a heinous crime. So was, to Muslims around the globe, the trumped-up invasion of Iraq that violated every norm of international law. So, too, is the ongoing U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the agony of Palestine.Deporting or jailing loudmouth Muslim radical clerics, closing madrassas, or simply blaming Islam will not stop the dangerous jihadist movement. Terrorist violence is the effect, not the cause. The real solution to this growing violence is changing western policies in the Muslim world.
-----------------Gonzales Sets Stage for Roberts to Vote against Roe
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072705Z.shtmlNew Evidence Links Gitmo, Abu Ghraib Torture Tacticshttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072705Y.shtml$1.5 Billion Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill, Waxman Sayshttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072705T.shtml-------------------From: NeedelR@...Boycotting is my new drug of choice
by Heather MallickJuly 3, 2005
Like most of us, I spent my youth in thrall to "the toxic drive" - the human need to alter reality artificially. For others who stick with the thrall as they age, it's cigarettes, or beer. Wealthier people choose The Macallan. But in those days, when I was offered a pill I would just say yes.
The childhood roots of this were my doctor-father's entrancing, corruptive medical magazines with their ads for pharmaceuticals to cure ills I couldn't pronounce. Drugs could never harm, only heal, I thought, and though I wasn't as blasé as those people who take their pet's medications when they can't be bothered to see a doctor ("Hey, an antibiotic is an antibiotic, right?"), in adulthood it was pleasing to feel a drug smash the bacteria, sometimes within minutes.
In Grade 2, I remember illustrating a class project with a cover from Life magazine showing a stylized human body packed with hallucinogenically beautiful capsules, like little sorbets. I got an A. It is chilling to think I nursed this taste in the sixties when drugs like thalidomide and diethylstilbestrol were being casually prescribed to obedient women.
How times have changed, along with my enthusiasms. Having given up illegal drugs, I have begun trying to clear legal but possibly untrustworthy medications from my innards.
The great pharmaceutical firms began merging in the 1980s to keep their share prices high, which made them treat their researchers like slaves manning a Roman galley. Like the big record labels, Big Pharma is only as good as its hottest product, expensive to devise and promote.
This explains why Britney Spears defines today's music industry and anti-depressants and bio-sex drugs define Big Pharma. (Levitra, the latest, has a penis-on-fire logo that looks like an illustration in a teen sex pamphlet.) Now Viagra has been linked to blindness and an anti-depressant called Seroxtat has been said to make people kill themselves rather than cheering them up. Drugs are sent to market without long-term testing, with permission from a government that hungers for their campaign contributions. Yes, it has come to this sorry pass: Me, clean and sober. (I used to drink only French wine. I have now decided I should only drink wine in France.)
What shocked me into it was the latest news about autism. British parents had begun to suspect that the MMR shot, three vaccines in one, was responsible for the increase in autism. Corporations and governments said pish posh, what nonsense, and the issue faded.
Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the villain was the 1991 introduction of thimerosal, a mercury-based additive that preserved vaccines and made them more profitable for Big Pharma to inject en masse. It now seems that the mercury (especially in a triple dose) did terrible things to developing infant brains. Why would anyone have thought it would not, one wonders.
He says this is why the odious U.S. Senator Bill Frist this year added to an anti-terrorism bill a rider that bans compensation for children brain-damaged by thimerosal in vaccines, and actually devised something called the "Eli Lilly Protection Act." (In Canada, thimerosal does remain in some vaccines. Google "thimerosal" to obtain the Public Health Agency of Canada's June statement on this.)
The scandal gets worse and more complicated, but the reasoning behind concealing Big Pharma misdeeds apparently is that if millions of children in the West and in poor countries, where the leftover tainted vaccines have been sent, were poisoned, the industry would go under. It would be Thalidomide II: Bankruptcy.
Read Irvine Welsh's prescient 1996 short story Fortune's Always Hiding: A Corporate Drug Romance, in which a thalidomide executive retires to Bavaria with his wife and new baby. He has secrets, shall we say, but their life is content. One day, the baby is . . . gone. A parcel arrives. It contains two baby arms. No one can comprehend such a thing. But the father? He goes into the garage and blows his head off with a shotgun. He knows what he did to keep thalidomide selling.
Thalidomide is back. It is said to help treat leprosy, Mantle cell lymphoma and pancreatic cancer. A year ago, a baby was born in Kenya without arms and legs. Thalidomide is being used in Kenya. The parents say their son Freddie is the only victim to appear because babies like him are killed at birth. Freddie sits in a baby chair shaped like a flower pot.
It's the confluence of stories about the hideous effects of inadequately tested drugs that has turned me against pharmaceuticals. Big Pharma, in partnership with docile governments, is getting its way because both bow to the pressures of the market. If ever there were an unacceptable face of capitalism, this is it.
This month, I began withdrawing my bank savings, for inflation meant I was losing money daily. I will find a faintly profitable place to stash them, but I should mention that when I was shown glossy mutual funds with excellent rates of return, they were filled with Big Pharma, with the banks I had just deserted, and companies such as Nestlé that I have boycotted for years.For this is my substitute, my new habit. I have become a boycotter. I don't buy American goods if I can avoid it, never buy from big Bush donors, only buy Fairtrade food and organic food so that farmers aren't forced to buy genetically modified seeds, and so on.
It's intellectually absorbing, this boycott habit of mine, though not nearly as much fun as filling my young body with drugs without thought for the morrow. 'Tis a thin gruel to feed the toxic drive. But it has its own satisfactions.
Heather Mallick's column is in The Globe and Mail eachSaturday. It appears on Sunday in rabble.ca.-------------------------------------------------------William McKenzie:
A religious freedom case could reveal a lot about where Roberts falls
12:02 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Partisans on both sides are trying to divine John Roberts' beliefs about the right to privacy, the doctrine upon which the Supreme Court legalized abortion.
But a case far less famous than Roe vs. Wade could tell us a lot about Judge Roberts and how he interprets religious freedom. For a conservative, Gonzales vs. O Centro Espirita presents a nightmare of competing claims, as tight a bind as any abortion-rights case. And, unlike a frontal assault on abortion, the Gonzales case comes up in November and, assuming a Senate confirmation before October, would force Judge Roberts to show his hand right out of the box.
The Gonzales case stands out because it pits religious conservatives against law-and-order conservatives, as University of Texas law professor Douglas Laycock describes it. Think of it as a tug of war between Jerry Falwell and Rudy Giuliani.
It also will test how much Judge Roberts believes in judicial restraint - which, of course, is what all conservatives want from him. To rule with the government, he must oppose Congress' intent in a major religious freedom act. We've all heard conservatives from the Tom DeLay school howl that judges shouldn't overturn lawmakers' wishes.
The tension started building when a lower court and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Uniao do Vegetal sect's right to use a tea known as hoasca. It's made from Brazilian plants that contain a hallucinogen banned by the Controlled Substances Act. The two courts concluded that UDV, as the sect is known, had a legitimate claim under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
That act is holy ground for religious conservatives. They worked hard to pass it to stop government from interfering with religious-minded Americans. The Christian Legal Society and National Association of Evangelicals filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of UDV.
That's right. Two leading evangelical groups support a South American Christian sect's right to use a substance on the watch list of the Controlled Substances Act. Not your everyday partnership.
What's more, UDV teachings claim that its members in the U.S. and elsewhere need to use this concoction to know God. You can't think of a belief more offensive to evangelicals.
Nonetheless, on both fronts, the groups stood up for UDV's rights to pursue its faith. That took guts.
On the other side, there's the law-and-order crowd, led by the Bush administration and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They hang much of their case on the Controlled Substances Act. It regulates drugs like heroin, marijuana and, yes, the bad stuff in hoasca.
The hallucinogen meets the act's standards for most dangerous substances. That's why customs agents seized a bunch of the concoction when it was shipped into the U.S. in 1999. And that's why authorities confiscated 30 gallons of it from the apartment of the New Mexican to whom the substances were shipped. We're not talking candy.
The administration also argued the substance violates a United Nations treaty, which a government lawyer claimed the U.S. had a "compelling interest" not to violate. (You read that right: The Bush administration arguing for a U.N. treaty.)
As I said, this case has everything. Religious freedom. Law and order. Heck, even foreign policy. And, oh, yes, it offers up a heck of a showdown between prominent GOP wings. The laws in this case stem from different traditions, both rooted in American conservatism.
Judge Roberts' decision will be complicated by the lower courts' siding with the religious freedom side. Those courts concluded that the tea poses no health risk to the sect's members or the larger public, so the Controlled Substances Act doesn't trump religious rights. Does he overturn those strong rulings?
The Bush administration naturally will want him to do that. It will argue that the sect doesn't have the ultimate rights in this case.
Which way will Judge Roberts go?
I don't know. But we'll learn a lot about him from this case. If he gets past the Senate, this dispute will be waiting on his desk.
You might as well hang a sign on it: Welcome to the big leagues, sir.William McKenzie is a Dallas Morning News editorial columnist. His e-mail address is wmckenzie@....****!!! IBOGAINE TREATMENT NOW EURO 1500 IN HOLLAND--CALL SARA, 0113134-624-1770 !!!****From:dana@... Subject:[Ibogaine] Wireheads
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/21/1657242
FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 21, @01:27PM
from the shocking-developments dept.
Duke Machesne writes "On Friday, the FDA approved a new therapy for the
severely depressed who have run out of treatment options: a pacemaker-like
implant that sends tiny electric shocks to the brain. The Food and Drug
Administration's clearance opens Cyberonics Inc.'s vagus nerve stimulator,
or VNS, as a potential treatment for an estimated 4 million Americans with
hard-to-treat depression - despite controversy over whether it's really beenproven to work."From:captkirk@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Wireheads Uh huh, it's perfectly ok to shove some electro shock shit in the head without knowing what it does but it's NOT ok to do Ibogaine??????? Ahhhhhh 4 million plus Americans plus rest of the world equals a lot of money for a patented treatment , of course, ya can't patent Ibogaine. Not until they have spread Genetically modified everything throughout the planet ŠŠ
I;'m going to start hoarding seeds and growing as many herbs and plants as I possibly can. And build glasshouses. Keep the nasty seeds out.
Sigh I despair of this world.Kirk LFrom:tinkerbell.sarah@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
THE WORLD IS FUCKED!!!!!be there in a mo, kirkie...From:captkirk@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
.............Then I get up pre-dawn and watch the sky give this awesome deep
pink colour show, turning oranges and reds and remember why it's not all
bad. (Heh, and THEN I read this list!!! And remember it IS!! Haaaa j/k of
course ;o)From:ptpeet@... Subject:[Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
I remember reading sci-fi stories about wire-heads back in the 80s, early cyber-punk books, where there were folk addicted to having the pleasure centers of their brains wired, where they could simply find a source for juice and plug into the wall and off the went to la-la land. But many had moved on beyond simple zapping of the pleasure centers on to manipulation of the actual psychy of the mind, giving people the ability to act in ways their brains previous told them were impossible but under these internal biological programs, they could perform in much better and more enhanced manner- the PI hero of the books would use programs called things like "Sherlock Holmes," or some super althelite, and his brain and body would perform as though he really were these charactors, but then the next day his body and brain would have to pay the price of performing in ways it wasn't designed to do. Great freakin' books, but I can't remember the titles nor the author. I wish I could because I'd like to reread them. I remembered as recently as 10 years ago, because I managed to find one used copy of one book of the short series on St. Marks then, but now the author's name complete escapes me. It was in the lower end of the alphabet, Eddings, or Eddington. (I know there's an author of sci-fi fantasy with the last name Eddings, or am pretty sure, and that it's not the right person, so Dana, if you think of him, don't bother, it's not the right guess). I think the author used three names, first, middle and last, I think, if, again, I'm remembering what little I am correctly.The stories though were excellect sci-fi action cyber-punk, some of my favorite fiction if and when I take time to actually read fiction (I go through phases). If anyone has any guesses of who I'm thinking of, I'd be happy to hear them.
Peace and love,Preston PeetFrom:bleshins@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads Neuromancer, by William Gibson?From:tinkerbell.sarah@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
and "Mona Lisa Overdrive"
tink
HI BORIS!!!From:ptpeet@... Subject:[Ibogaine] (Not Really OT- Reading material) Re: [Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
(I'm cross posting this to DrugWar too, in case anyone there can think of the writer I'm thinking of.)
No, it was something LIKE David Eddings, but that's not right, he's another writer I'm pretty sure, who doesn't write cyber-punk. The guy I want wrote some really cool cyberpunk stuff, with the wireheads (so is this off topic really?) and other means of getting "high" using a combination of machine and body. Very interesting stuff.
William Gibson's Neuromancer and his other books too (in that series and not as well) are all pretty cool, and he's the one that really got the ball rolling concerning cyberpunk fiction, whether he first wrote it or not, or even first published it or not (I mean, Philip K. Dick, who I Have to admit I haven't read much of because I haven't enjoyed much of what I have read- with the exception of Barefoot in the Head, and of course Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was good) could certainly be called cyber-punk in my estimation, even though he'd never heard of an "internet" or "virtual reality" so far as I know).
For those who haven't heard of him and like sci-fi of the really amazing kind, try Ian. M. Banks. Also, for those who enjoy great writing of any kind but especially the really tripped out buggy kind, look for the little gem of a book called "The Wasp Factory," by Ian Banks (who publishes his sci-fi with that extra M. in the middle of his name, and his non-sci-fi stuff, also very good, without the M. That way you know if you're getting sci-fi or not. But his sci-fi Culture series is flat out brilliant.) Anyway, The Wasp Factory is one of those books I've never ever forgotten and have ever since highly recommended to all and sundry. It's Banks' first book, and it's incredible- WELL worth whatever measly fee Barnes and Nobel will charge (or Amazon).
Peace and love,Preston PeetFrom:dana@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
The most mainstream s.f. writer to employ wirehead addiction as a gimmick or plot device, I believe, is Larry Niven.
Dana/cnw
From:ptpeet@... Subject:Re: [Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads In which book, as I've read a lot of Niven's work and don't remember that little tidbit, but don't doubt you Dana- just curious as to which work of his contains this.From:matt@... Subject:RE: [Ibogaine] (OT) Re: [Ibogaine] Wireheads
I was going to respond to this earlier but decided not to, but since you
asked and I know the answer; it was in one if the later ringworld books.
The main character gets addicted to constant electro-stimulation of his
brain's pleasure centers. I read it when I was still strung out on heroin
and was actually a little disappointed by the same character's ability to
just let his addiction go later in the book. Not a fair representation ofthe helplessness of addiction I thought.
To join the Mindvox ibogaine list just send an email to ibogaine-subscribe@... if you please.
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