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There’s much knowledge and folklore about hemp that’s been forgotten about. It used to be as prevalent as corn, wheat or bad TV shows.  Thomas Tusser, 16th century author of Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, has some things to say about hemp in his couplets

CANVAS works closely with the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC). Founded in 2002, the ICNC is funded entirely by Peter Ackerman who also chaired the board of Freedom House from 2005 until 2009.

Ackerman’s wealth derives from his time as special projects aide to junk bond king Michael Milken.   Having successfully escaped “the stench of Drexel,” Ackerman completed what BusinessWeek called “an improbable transformation from junk-bond promoter back to scholar.”

Also, a June 15, 2011 Press Conference at the UN Plaza Hotel. Presenting were former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Human Rights Activist Viola Plummer and International Actitivst Cynthia McKinney.

Lifta to make way for Jewish holiday homes

Jonathan Cook reports on plans by Israel to demolish the Palestinian village of Lifta, near Jerusalem, in order to build holiday homes for wealthy foreign Jews and to erase for Israelis “all troubling reminders of an earlier Palestinian presence”.

On a rocky slope dropping steeply away from the busy main road at the entrance to West Jerusalem is to be found a scattering of ancient stone houses, empty and clinging precariously to terraces hewn from the hillside centuries ago.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird met this week with Libya’s National Transitional Council, the rebel organization claiming to be the “sole representative of all Libya", even though it represents less than half of Libya’s tribes. The group’s leadership is almost entirely elitist, Arab, pro-Western businessmen with American Ph.D.s. It has formed a central bank to act as monetary authority over a country it does not control and has made contracts with foreign governments for oil in rebel-held territories.

Last week we learned that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had, in recent years, invested billions of dollars in oil revenues in several Western institutions, including Goldman Sachs. Today we're finding out exactly what Goldman bankers did with all that money. They lost it.

In an interview on Fox News, potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his Iraq strategy to Bill O’Reilly.

“In the old days when you had wars, you win, right?” Trump began. “You win. To the victor belonged the spoils. So when we go to Iraq, we spend $1.4 trillion so far and thousands of lives are lost, right? … And we’re going to leave and 15 minutes after we leave, Iran is going to go into Iraq.”

Libya has been one of the last nations in the world that had its own state run banking system, and control over its own money supply.  By having this system in place, they could demand oil purchases from their oil fields to be made in Libyan Dinar, and not the US Dollar.  It also means that Libya has ensured themselves a stable economy, with little inflation and currency devaluing as most of the industrialized world has under private central banks.

The push for the privatization of Canada's immense hydro assets started at the Bilderberg 1996 conference.  Canadian industrialst Maurice "carbon credits" Strong was a major force behind the push.  Now comes Dana Levenson, Chicago's  former Chief Financial Officer and present Managing Director - Head of Infrastructure Banking, Americas, of the Royal Bank of Scotland.  Levenson was behind the privatization of a slew of Chicago assets.  Privatization of Canada's hydro WILL raise energy prices to both US and Canadian energy consumers, and will result in price hikes on essential goods. 

A fine piece from our old friend Greg Bacon at Goon Squad.  Excellent info on the history of Zio-criminality in regards to Argentina and Patagonia.  Suspect he tuned in the TFC's 21 Oct broadcast with Adrian Salbuchi.  Very interesting and timely.

The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples' legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine.

By John Vidal, Mail & Guardian March 10, 2010

Awassa, Ethiopia -- We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 50 acres* -- the size of 20 soccer fields.

Assessing the Illusion of Recovery

by Andrew Gavin Marshall

Global Research, February 22, 2010

Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic Crisis

Ireland: The Arrest of Pat O'Donnell

In a country with the kind of tumultuous history that Ireland has it's not surprising that a man being arrested and jailed for seven months would escape the notice of the media, at least outside of Ireland. What should hopefully pique some interest is that this is a man with a long history of being bullied, intimidated, arrested and treated roughly by the authorities for his nonviolent resistance against Shell Oil's construction of a gas pipeline, and now the judge is calling him a bully and jailing him for seven months on the extremely dubious charge of intimidating an officer.

Australians for Palestine, 8 February 2010

The following questions elicit the same answer in each instance. No other country in the world conducts itself at home and in world affairs with such impunity as Israel.  This raises the question, why does Israel get away with it time and time again while other countries are condemned and punished?  It is time that we demand answers from are leaders and insist that Israel be held accountable for its breaches.

By Khalid Amayreh, Islam Online

..guess who the commissars want to starve next?