I smoked lots of pot way back when. Stopped after a few years. It made me too lethargic. But I don't believe it's a dangerous drug or that it leads to other drug use. Of course people with a tendency towards addictive behavior will try pot and then move on to something stronger. But that doesn't mean the pot played any role in that move.
In my opinion it's no worse than wine and better (both socially and healthwise) than beer.
Just one of many names in fact. CFS, ME, FMS, ALS, GWS, and a lot of others including even some old favorites like MS, all these names refer to essentially the same cluster of symptoms.
That's what I was afraid of. Would he have a happy home without you? I've had to leave dogs behind a couple of times in my life and it's one of the hardest things I ever had to do. Fortunately in both cases I was able to make sure they had good loving homes with people they already knew.
Under current United States law, set forth in the USA PATRIOT Act, acts of domestic terrorism are those which:
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping;
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States."
Thus a bomb scare would indeed fall under the Patriot Act and be considered domestic terrorism.
As to whether or not the Patriot Act would allow a citizen to be arrested and held without charges and without counsel, that is debatable.
Alone, the Patriot Act would only allow such abuses on foreigners. But in conjunction with the Military Commissions Act it would allow any US citizen to be declared an enemy combatant and stripped of all rights.
And now, with the National Defense Authorization Act declaring the US to be a battlefield, it will be very easy to declare any person an enemy combatant, without rights.
That's not some sort of far-fetched paranoid hysteria. It is exactly the intent behind this progressive step-by-step erosion of our rights.
Yeah me too. And of course the internet does allow us to expand our search.
But having traveled a lot and knowing just how big oceans are, I think that we should start our search near to home and expand outward instead of starting and the antipode and working our way back.
True, there is nobody personally monitoring us individually (unless we have already somehow caught their attention).
False, that that means we are not being closely monitored.
Everything we write is scrutinized. Not just for terrorist activity but also for our opinions, activities, interests, whereabouts, past, spending habits, contacts etc etc etc.
For such profiling computers are even more tireless, tedious, and meticulous than humans. And they're not bothered by any sort of human scruples when it comes to assigning negative labels to people on skimpy circumstantial evidence. They don't lose any sleep.
The time is coming in the near future when the ruling establishment is going to need a lot of enemies to justify the police state they are setting up.
In the past they would have chosen a racial minority to villify. But nowadays computers will be pulling carefully selected patsies out of their virtual hats and linking them together to form imaginary terrorist rings.
And since the laws have been changed to allow detention without trial or due process, how can someone clear their name once the computer points is finger at them?
The biggest mistake of the OP is to imagine that government is generally well intentioned and benevolent.
That may have been the case some decades ago. But it certainly isn't the case now.
The PNAC/Tri-lateral strategy for world dominance has always been to progressively isolate and China, especially from energy sources. That was to be the way to get wealth back from China, by cutting her off (and everybody else too) from all sources of oil except through the US.
That's the reason the US occupied Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq to prevent China from buying Iraqi oil and Afghanistan to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean in order to sell oil to China.
That's the reason the US provoked the breakup of Yugoslavia too. Kosovo is the gateway for Asian oil to enter Europe, and now it's a US protectorate.
The Global warming scam was also part of the sameproject. Trying to force developing countries to not develop their oil resources.
Iran was always the Achilles heel. It was Iran that set up the first oil market that traded in Euros and other currencies and not just in dollars. That's what really precipitated the collapse of the dollar. The housing bubble collapse was just the first visible manifestation. Once countries didn't need dollars to procure oil the dollar was doomed due to its debt and inflation.
It shouldn't take a nuclear war for China to be able to dissuade the West from attacking Iran. All China has to do is reduce its purchase of US T-bills and the effect would be greater than a nuclear bomb.
The US strategy of trying to pressure China to go along with the attack on Iran was wishful thinking. It's typical of the west to grossly underestimate the mental acuity of the Chinese.
How can anybody fight against the government and the entire homeland security department which includes all the military, all the police and all other armed agencies.
It's not like the US revolution when both sides were using muskets. Any attempt at rebellion would just be labeled terrorism and would subject entire areas to immediate arrest.
The time to fight was in the political arena decades ago before we got to this point.
The time for flight was back before the beginning of the crash. It's almost too late for that. Everything costs more and visas are harder to get.
I think it's almost time to pray. Yep it's come to that.
1. Paid insurgents, whose role is to commit atrocities and thereby justify a longterm occupation by a UN type force.
2. a devastated national infrastructure
3. massive hunger in what was once a prosperous country
4. a legacy of bad will that will last for decades
5. Lots of depleted uranium dust that will be deadly for another two billion years.
6. The biggest US embassy in the world, full of all sorts of CIA types to oversee the proxy insurgents and the US installed puppet regime until the UN moves in to maintain the occupation.
One natural treatment to prevent cancer that has proven itself over time is a diet high in amygdalin, a natural compound present in many types of seeds and new growth on many plants.
In the presence of certain enzymes, amygdalin breaks down into glucose, benzaldehyde, and hydrogen cyanide (which is poisonous).
The interesting thing is that the only cells that produce those enzymes are cancer cells. So amygdalin travels through the body harmlessly unless it encounters cancer cells, in which case it releases a powerful poison that kill the cancer cells.
The value of amygdalin in preventing cancer is indisputable. However, as always there were scams that built up around the basic truth, by people trying to get rich.
Cancer treatment involving laetrile (a product derived from amygdalin) has involved a lot of scams. I don't promote laetrile.
But I do recommend that people eat things like apricot seed kernels on a regular basis as part of a healthy diet in order to reduce the risk of cancer.
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RE: What is your point of view on marihuana
I smoked lots of pot way back when.Stopped after a few years.
It made me too lethargic.
But I don't believe it's a dangerous drug or that it leads to other drug use.
Of course people with a tendency towards addictive behavior will try pot and then move on to something stronger. But that doesn't mean the pot played any role in that move.
In my opinion it's no worse than wine and better (both socially and healthwise) than beer.