AN ACT Related to Cannabis pre-filed for 2022

A video is presented by WHAS11 as to the pre-filing of a Cannabis Bill 22 RS BR 325 at the link at the bottom of the page.

State Representative Nima Kulkarni, D-Louisville, pre-filed legislation on Nov. 29. 

This Bill would allow citizens 21 years and older to posses  and use up to an ounce of Cannabis as well as buy and sell it.  Up to 5 plants allowed for cultivation and use and removal of penalties of paraphernalia.

If approved by 3/5th’s of the House and Senate in Kentucky  approve it during the 2022 legislative session an AMENDMENT would go on ballot in November.

Please see more information at this link:

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/kentucky/bill-kentucky-deciminalize-legalize-marijuana-nima-kulkarni-prefiled/417-016744b7-da5c-4128-b143-2018cac3e8a9

PRESS RELEASE: USMjParty CHAIRMAN WILLIAM (WAYWARD) CHENGELIS TO RETIRE

**PRESS RELEASE***

This is hard for me.

Due to a diagnosis of unknown origin of Stage 4 cancer I hereby reliqish my title and job to Tom Johnson , Chairman, U.S.Marijuana Party Pennsylvania.

Congratulations Tom your are now Chairman, U.S.Marijuana Party.

I will continue in an advisory capacity and will return to my original position of Chairman, U.S.Marijuana Party Colorado.

I am on a daily RSO regimen. At 70 years I find that time is of the essence so I am augmenting that with chemotherapy.

My last official duty will be representing the U.S. Marijuana Party at the 51st Annual Smoke-in at the White House, High Noon July 4th, 2021, Lafayette Square Park.

It’s now me and God Orderly Direction.
Peace, Pot, Politics,
Wayward Bill Chengelis
Chairman, U.S.Marijuana Party (Ret)
Spokesperson, West Coast Yippie Collective
waywardwon@hotmail.com

ATTN: Steve Bloom, Steve Elliott, Denver Westword, The Denver Post

***PRESS RELEASE***

12:10 PM 5/26/2021

Stimulus Dollars Available for Hemp Farmers and Small Businesses

U.S. Hemp Roundtable info@hempsupporter.com

Great news from Capitol Hill: Stimulus Dollars Available for Hemp Farmers and Small Businesses Moments ago, the U.S. House passed the U.S. Senate’s $2 trillion economic stimulus bill, sending to the President’s desk a relief package that will help address the devastating physical and financial distress caused by the COVID-19 virus and response.  Read the entire bill here. There is great news for hemp farmers as well as small businesses in the hemp space.  While the word “hemp” does not appear in the bill, economic relief is available for the hemp industry through some of the following provisions: $349 billion for the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Business Loans Program Account $17 billion for the SBA’s Business Loans Program Account for payment of covered loans guaranteed by SBA under the Small Business Act $10 billion for SBA’s Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loans program $265 million for SBA’s Entrepreneurial Development Program $9.5 billion to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for providing support for impacted agricultural producers, including producers of specialty crops $20.5 million to the Rural Business Program Account for the cost of loans for rural business development programs under the Farm and Rural Development Act In general, those with federally-backed mortgaged loans secured by USDA may request forbearance for up to 180 days, during which no fees, penalties, or interest will accrue It is important to note that under this SBA policy guidance, unlike direct marijuana businesses, legal hemp small businesses are explicitly eligible for SBA’s assistance programs. Information about how to apply for SBA’s COVID-19 programs can be found here and here. The USDA is expected to release more information about how farmers and businesses can apply for that agency’s COVID-19 programs at this website in the coming days. We will keep Hemp Supporters updated as circumstances develop.  Please stay safe and healthy! SOURCE: RECEIVED BY EMAIL ON FRIDAY 3-27-20

RE: Spencer Boston,

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House Judiciary Passes MORE Act to Decriminalize Marijuana at Federal Level

Nov 20, 2019

Washington, D.C. –Today, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 3884, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, by a vote of 24-10. The MORE Act is one of the most comprehensive marijuana reforms bills ever introduced in the U.S. Congress. The MORE Act aims to correct the historical injustices of failed drug policies that have disproportionately impacted communities of color and low-income communities by decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level, reassessing marijuana convictions, and investing in local communities. U.S. Senator Kamala Harris introduced the companion bill in the Senate.

Yesterday, Chairman Nadler and other Members of Congress held a press conference to highlight the legislation. Watch here.

“I have long believed that the criminalization of marijuana has been a mistake, and the racially disparate enforcement of marijuana laws has only compounded this mistake,” said Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). “While states have led the way in reform, our federal laws have not kept pace with the obvious need for change. With the passage of the MORE Act today, the Judiciary Committee has taken long overdue steps to address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs and to finally decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.”
“As more states legalize marijuana, millions of Americans with marijuana-related convictions continue to face overwhelming barriers to jobs, education, and housing,” said Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA). “That is why we must act to remove the burden of marijuana convictions and make sure these individuals have the support needed to move forward. It is also critical that everyone — especially people of color who have been disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs — has a real opportunity to participate in this growing industry. This is a matter of racial and economic justice. I am grateful for Chairman Nadler’s partnership on this issue and for his leadership in moving this legislation forward. I look forward to the House of Representatives passing our legislation soon.”

“This is an incredible step forward in righting the wrongs of the failed and racist War on Drugs. The federal government has lagged behind as states continue to modernize how we regulate and decriminalize cannabis. As Co-Chair of the bipartisan Cannabis Caucus, I’ll keep pushing to ensure Congress makes our cannabis policies are fair, equitable, and inclusive,” said Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA). “I applaud Chairman Nadler for his leadership, and look forward to seeing the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment & Expungement (MORE) Act get a vote on the House floor.”

“This will be one of the most historic events in our movement,” said Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). “The MORE Act is the most comprehensive cannabis legislation to date. I am proud to have worked with Chairman Nadler to develop this bill and applaud his leadership to bring it in front of the committee. This is a major step forward. We are making outstanding progress in our blueprint to end the federal prohibition of cannabis and address the injustice brought on by the war on drugs.”

“With today’s mark-up of the MORE Act, the United States is coming one step closer to ending the devastating harms of marijuana prohibition, which have fallen so heavily on Black and Brown people,” said Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “This legislation won’t make up for the full scale of harm that prohibition has caused to its victims. It’s not going to return anyone their lost dreams, time lost at the mercy of the criminal justice system; or the years spent away from their families. But this legislation is the closest we’ve come yet to not only ending those harms at the federal level, but also beginning to repair them. Now it’s up to Congress to do the right thing and swiftly pass the bill to ensure justice is not delayed a moment longer.”
“We’re thrilled that House Judiciary made history today by voting the MORE Act out of Committee,” said Ed Chung, Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress. “This represents a significant victory for marijuana reform and for communities of color that have borne the brunt of this country’s punitive drug enforcement policies. The House must build on today’s momentum and swiftly move the MORE Act to the floor for a vote from the full body. Congress has an extraordinary opportunity to ensure equity leads today’s marijuana reform policy.”

“The House Judiciary Committee’s consideration of the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act is a significant step towards ending the failed war on drugs and correcting some of the harms that it has caused,” said Charlotte Resing, Policy Analyst, ACLU. “The bill not only deschedules marijuana at the federal level, but it also provides a roadmap for states to legalize in a just and equitable manner. The MORE Act also provides resentencing and expungement for those with marijuana convictions and mandates the inclusion of those most impacted by the criminalization of marijuana in the newly legal marijuana industry. The ACLU is pleased to support the MORE Act and its efforts to counter the over-criminalization, over policing, and mass incarceration stemming from the war on drugs.”

“The passage of the MORE Act represents the first time that the Judiciary Committee has ever had a successful vote to end the cruel policy of marijuana criminalization,” said NORML Political Director Justin Strekal. “Not only does the bill reverse the failed prohibition of cannabis, but it provides pathways for opportunity and ownership in the emerging industry for those who have suffered most. In 2018 alone, over 663,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana related crimes, a three-year high. Now that Chairman Nadler has moved the MORE Act through committee, it is time for the full House to vote and have every member of Congress show their constituents which side of history they stand on.”

The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act:

• Decriminalizes marijuana at the federal level by removing the substance from the Controlled Substances Act. This applies retroactively to prior and pending convictions, and enables states to set their own policy.

• Requires federal courts to expunge prior convictions, allows prior offenders to request expungement, and requires courts, on motion, to conduct re-sentencing hearings for those still under supervision.

• Authorizes the assessment of a 5% sales tax on marijuana and marijuana products to create an Opportunity Trust Fund, which includes three grant programs:
  • The Community Reinvestment Grant Program: Provides services to the individuals most adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, including job training, re-entry services, legal aid, literacy programs, youth recreation, mentoring, and substance use treatment. 
  • The Cannabis Opportunity Grant Program: Provides funds for loans to assist small businesses in the marijuana industry that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
  • The Equitable Licensing Grant Program: Provides funds for programs that minimize barriers to marijuana licensing and employment for the individuals most adversely impacted by the War on Drugs.

• Opens up Small Business Administration funding for legitimate cannabis-related businesses and service providers.

• Provides non-discrimination protections for marijuana use or possession, and for prior convictions for a marijuana offense:
  • Prohibits the denial of any federal public benefit (including housing) based on the use or possession of marijuana, or prior conviction for a marijuana offense.
  • Provides that the use or possession of marijuana, or prior conviction for a marijuana offense, will have no adverse impact under the immigration laws.

• Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect data on the demographics of the industry to ensure people of color and those who are economically disadvantaged are participating in the industry.

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S. 2227: MORE Act of 2019

LINK TO DOWNLOAD PDF

This Is The Way It Works…

11/19/2019  By:  Cris Ericson

Let’s say for example, you win the lottery and spend a lot of money making television ads to promote your campaign as a candidate for the November 3, 2020 Election for U.S. Congress, and you don’t say much, just the usual “Hope” and “Change” and words that people fall for, and because you are dressed nicely and speak softly with a very slight sex appeal, you get elected.

Maybe you hire a professional voice dub-over, a person to speak in the commercials, and people think its your voice, but its not (did you notice Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had the sexiest softest voice in the world in her radio commercials, and then she won the election and in real life she sounds like a hag with a sore throat?).

Well, O.K., so let’s imagine you win. Now what?

You go to Washington, D.C. and you are going to make marijuana LAWFUL and you are going to repeal every single stinking no good for nothing marijuana law. You are going to propose an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, like ending alcoholic beverage prohibition, back when alcoholic beverages were actually illegal in the United States.

But then something terrible happens!

Speaker of the House, Nanny Pelosi, informs you that SHE is the Speaker of the House and SHE will assign YOU to whichever Committee SHE wants to assign you to.

Huh?

Where is the freedom of association guaranteed by the US Constitution? Why can’t you join any committee you want to join – like agriculture! Yeah, that’s the ticket – the Agriculture Committee! Make all plants legal!

Oh, but no, no, no, no, no, no! Speaker of the House, Nanny Pelosi will screech and scream at YOU if you DARE expect to join any committee you want to!

Then, guess what?

You might think you can go visit any committee hearing room you want to, but this is not so!  You would be kicked out on your ass!  The uppity close friends of Nanny Pelosi like to have THEIR hearing rooms in secret!

Why?

Why don’t you get any freedom of speech and freedom of association so you can do what you need to do to make marijuana LAWFUL?

Ah ha!

FOR EXAMPLE, if you are on a medical type committee, then the in-crowd in that committee room writes up a Bill to give the N.I.H., National Institute of Health, billions of tax dollars which the N.I.H. gives to researchers who patent their inventions of pharmaceutical drugs, and then they start their own new pharmaceutical corporations and then they give the members of the Congressional Committee “kick-backs” of political campaign contributions and their Lobbyists wine and dine them and give them very special favors.

Huh?

Isn’t that some kind of combination of bribery and money laundering and witch craft? Yeah, but no one complains because the committee hearings are in secret, and you can’t get in because Speaker of the House Nanny Pelosi has the lock and key to every room.

And so it goes, the U.S. Congress is the number one crime gang in the entire world. Guns, pharmaceutical drugs, weapons, bombs for sale to our “allies”! 

Yep, everything is all for sale with a nice kick-back to the very specially selected members of US Congress, who Nanny Pelosi picks to be in certain committee rooms, and then she gets HER kick-back, you better believe it! And YOU get assigned, by Nanny Pelosi, to the toilet paper committee!

So, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS? HOW DO WE CHANGE THE BULLSHIT GOING ON IN WASHINGTON, D.C. SO WE CAN MAKE MARIJUANA TRULY LAWFUL?  AND, restore our God-given Human Rights as well?

We must promote the alarming and shocking new idea that members of the US Congress should have equal rights.  The same as each other.  If they don’t have equal rights the same as each other, then the people in the States that they represent do NOT have equal representation! We must DEMAND that all of our elected US Senators and US Congressmen and US Congresswomen and US Congress, LGBT and US Congress-sexless people have EQUAL RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION TO JOIN ANY COMMITTEE THEY WANT TO JOIN, AND TO ENTER ANY HEARING ROOM THEY WANT TO ENTER, AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO HAVE AN EQUAL TURN TO TALK ABOUT A SUBJECT.

THAT’S THE BOTTOM LINE.

The shocking story behind Richard Nixon’s ‘War on Drugs’ that targeted blacks and anti-war activists

Scholar @Mark_J_Perry   June 14, 2018

This Sunday, June 17 will mark the 47th anniversary of a shameful day in US history — it’s when President Richard Nixon’s declared what has been the US government’s longest and costliest war — the epic failure known as the War on Drugs. At a press conference on that day in 1971, Nixon identified drug abuse as “public enemy number one in the United States” and launched a failed, costly and inhumane federal war on Americans that continues to today. Early the following year, Nixon created the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) in January 1972 to wage a government war on otherwise peaceful and innocent Americans who voluntarily chose to ingest plants, weeds, and intoxicants proscribed by the government. In July 1973, ODALE was consolidated, along with several other federal drug agencies, into the newly established Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a new “super agency” to handle all aspects of the War on Drugs Otherwise Peaceful Americans.

But as John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s counsel and Assistant for Domestic Affairs, revealed in 1994, the real public enemy in 1971 wasn’t really drugs or drug abuse. Rather the real enemies of the Nixon administration were the anti-war left and blacks, and the War on Drugs was designed as an evil, deceptive and sinister policy to wage a war on those two groups. In an article in the April 2016 issue of The Atlantic (“Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs“) author and reporter Dan Baum explains how “John Ehrlichman, the Watergate co-conspirator, unlocked for me one of the great mysteries of modern American history: How did the United States entangle itself in a policy of drug prohibition that has yielded so much misery and so few good results?” As Baum discovered, here’s the dirty and disgusting secret to that great mystery of what must be the most expensive, shameful, and reprehensible failed government policy in US history.

Americans have been criminalizing psychoactive substances since San Francisco’s anti-opium law of 1875, but it was Ehrlichman’s boss, Richard Nixon, who declared the first “War on Drugs” in 1971 and set the country on the wildly punitive and counterproductive path it still pursues. I’d tracked Ehrlichman, who had been Nixon’s domestic-policy adviser, to an engineering firm in Atlanta, where he was working on minority recruitment. At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away.

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Nixon’s invention of the War on Drugs as a political tool was cynical, but every president since — Democrat and Republican alike — has found it equally useful for one reason or another. Meanwhile, the growing cost of the Drug War is now impossible to ignore: billions of dollars wasted, bloodshed in Latin America and on the streets of our own cities, and millions of lives destroyed by draconian punishment that doesn’t end at the prison gate; one of every eight black men has been disenfranchised because of a felony conviction.

MP: As much as Prohibition (The War on Alcohol) was also an expensive, epic and misguided failure of government policy, it didn’t have its origins in any type of equivalent sinister and evil plot like the War on Drugs to destroy enemies of the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1919. In fact, President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, but the House and Senate both voted quickly to override the veto and America started the War on Alchohol Otherwise Peaceful Americans Who Voluntarily Chose to Ingest Beer, Wine, and Spirits in 1920.

If the real goal of the War on Drugs was to target, convict and incarcerate subversive anti-war “hippies” and black Americans, as Ehrlichman describes it, it sure worked as the chart above of the male incarceration rate in the US shows. During the nearly 50-year period between 1925 and the early 1970s, the male incarceration rate was remarkably stable at about 200 men per 100,000 population, or 1 US male per 500, according to data from Bureau of Justice Statistics. By 1986, about a decade after the War on Drugs started locking up drug users and dealers in cages, the male incarceration rate doubled to 400 per 100,000 population. Then within another decade, the male incarceration rate doubled again to more than 800 by 1996 before reaching a historic peak of 956 in 2008 (about one in 100) that was almost five times higher than the stable rate before the War on Drugs. The arrest and incarceration data show that the War on Drugs had a significantly much greater negative effect on blacks and Hispanics than whites, making the Drug War even more shameful for its devastating and disproportionate adverse effects on America’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.

Since the 2008 peak, the male incarceration rate has been gradually declining in each of the last seven years of available data through 2016, possibly because of three trends: a) decriminalization of weeds at the city and state level, b) the legalization of medical weeds at the state level, and c) now legalization of recreational weeds at the city and state levels.

While there could have been other factors that contributed to the nearly five-fold increase in the male incarceration rate between the early 1970s and the peak in 2008, research clearly shows that the War on Drugs, along with mandatory minimum sentencing in the 1980s and the disparate treatment of powdered cocaine and “crack cocaine” (powdered cocaine processed with baking soda into smokable rocks) were all significant contributing factors to the unprecedented rate of incarcerating Americans. Here are some conclusions from the 2014 book The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (my emphasis):

1. The states’ combined incarceration rates increased across all crime categories between 1980 and 2010 (see chart above). Most striking, however, is the dramatic increase in the incarceration rate for drug-related crimes. In 1980, imprisonment for drug offenses was rare, with a combined state incarceration rate of 15 per 100,000 population. By 2010, the drug incarceration rate had increased nearly 10-fold to 143 per 100,000. Indeed, the rate of incarceration for the single category of drug-related offenses, excluding local jails and federal prisons, by itself exceeds by 50% the average incarceration rate for all crimes of Western European countries and is twice the average incarceration rate for all crimes of a significant number of European countries.
2. Arrest rates for federal drug offenses climbed in the 1970s, and mandatory prison time for these offenses became more common in the 1980s. Mandatory prison sentences, intensified enforcement of drug laws, and long sentences contributed not only to overall high rates of incarceration but also especially to extraordinary rates of incarceration in black and Latino communities. Intensified enforcement of drug laws subjected blacks, more than whites, to new mandatory minimum sentences—despite lower levels of drug use and no higher demonstrated levels of trafficking among the black than the white population.
3. As a result of the lengthening of sentences and greatly expanded drug law enforcement and imprisonment for drug offenses, criminal defendants became more likely to be sentenced to prison and remained there significantly longer than in the past. The policy shifts that propelled the growth in incarceration had disproportionately large effects on African Americans and Latinos. Indeed, serving time in prison has become a normal life event among recent birth cohorts of African American men who have not completed high school.

Bottom Line: Even without the nefarious, vile, and veiled origins revealed by Ehrlichman in 1994, the War on Drugs Otherwise Peaceful Americans Who Voluntarily Choose To Ingest or Sell Intoxicants Currently Proscribed by the Government, Which Will Lock Up Users or Sellers in Cages if Caught would represent one of the most shameful chapters in America’s history. But with its intention to destroy the black community and anti-war peace activists, which has certainly been “successfully” achieved for the black community, the shamefulness of the War on Drugs is elevated to a much higher level of despicable, evil immorality.

Mark J. Perry

Scholar

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The Censorship of Stop5G begins with the purge of John Kuhle’s Facebook Group “Stop5G”

California is Fighting 50,000 New 5G Cell Towers Linked to Cancer Risk. Bills in THESE States Will Permit Their Installation in YOUR Backyard.  LINK

Yelena | February 12, 2018

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Below is an article with information concerning the use of “5G” and its probable harm to the people for which it is considered to be a “service” to – allowing high speed internet and surveillance across the Country. 

Please read thoroughly and carefully consider the evidence provided by Bruce Cain, who has been researching this issue for a number of years, and seeks to inform the people of it’s harms.

smkrider

I have been suspended 5 times — 30 days each — since October 2018 by Facebook.  That was bad enough as I did NOTHING and have been on suspension close to 50% of the last year.  But what happened on 09/27 really “takes the cake.”  I was in good standing with the “Stop5G” group and its creator John Kuhles.  Both of us were banned from “Stop5G” on 09/27.  I cannot even view the “Stop5G” group and was previously (09/27) removed from moderating the group for which I probably posted the most content of anyone. 

What I have discovered, over the past year, is that all the “Big Tech” platforms were founded with funds from DARPA.  So in a sense these platforms now serve as the “Roach Hotel” for Anti-Globalists.  Facebook started in 2004 and now has 2-3 BILLION members.  After Trump won (2016) they realized their globalist agenda was hampered by his win, though Trump is not without  his own globalist problems: he is a big advocate of 5G.  By July 2017 they went after Alex Jones: love him or hate him he also has 1st Amendment rights.  By 2019 they are going after us “little fish.”  I’m sure this has happened to thousands of people.  The common denominator is not merely censorship of conservative speech but rather Anti-Globalist Speech.  You want to keep your guns?  You want a pause in immigration?  You want an end to 5G?  Yep that is who gets censored.  It could eventually effect Cannabis activists as well.  What if the Feds decide you can’t grow your own any more, like in Michigan. 

Freedom of speech is dying in the US and around the world.  That is a problem.

Facebook was originally supported by DARPA to gather info on everyone.  Now it is being transformed into a tool for censorship. 

Bruce Cain 

The Censorship of Stop5G Groups begins with the purge John Kuhle’s Facebook Group “Stop5G”

This  is a link to a PDF, (11 pages) – Please open and read!

If you’ve read through the attachment you will know that I was banned from 2 of the largest “Stop5G” groups on 09/27/2019.  And on top of that a 30 day suspension from Facebook.  I did nothing and it is clear “someone” wants to silence me.  If this were happening when I was a Cannabis Activist (really still am) we would have gotten nowhere.  On top of all of this John — creator of “Stop5G” — has never provided an account of how he was removed as administrator of his own group AND the last email I got from him was on 09/27.  My takeaways:
* Something very fishy is going on here.
* I am actually worried that something may have happened to John.
* I expect this form of censorship to escalate.
* This morning his website would not load.  It has been up till this morning.
http://stop5g-resistance.whynotnews.eu/

What good does “legalizing” Cannabis do if we are now going to get exposed to increased radiation, from 5G, 24/7, 365 days a year?

I fear that Congresswomen Debbie Dingell may have a role in this though that would be impossible to prove.  All I know is the purge of “Stop5G” occurred just 3 days after I stopped by her office.  Debbie is on a Pro “5G Caucus” and has refused to reply to my concerns that 5G will have on our Health, Privacy and Freedom.  Of course what we also know is 5G infrastructure is stimulating the economy as 13 Trillion is predicted to be spent in the next few years.  If we stop it does the economy tank?

Anyway I’m just a bit frustrated.  Had to share with someone.  Freedom of Speech is under siege in a way I have never seen before. 

Bruce W. Cain

We can no longer allow 5G Proponents to silence the voices of the Global Stop5G Movement

Today 8 days have passed since the purge of the Facebook “Stop5G” group.  When the purge began (09/27/2019) the creator of the group, John Kuhles, was removed as administrator for his own group.  In August the Globalist Censorship Group, Disinformation Index, cited John Kuhles, specifically, as a 5G Conspiracy Theorist.  Less than 2 months later “someone” purged “Stop5G” removing John Kuhles (creator and admin for “Stop5G”) and Bruce Cain (significant daily contributor and moderator for “Stop5G”).  Having read through many articles from Disinformation Index it seems obvious that they don’t merely want to index “conspiracy theories” put forth by Stop5G activists: they want to make their essays and videos — and perhaps the activists themselves — disappear.  The purge of “Stop5G” is a perfect example.

On the day of the purge John Kuhles replied to my email and promised to provide an explanation for what happened on 09/27/2019.  He said this would be posted on his website, http://stop5g-resistance.whynotnews.eu/.  Someone did update the website on the day of the purge adding an old article and a globe widget showing the location of subscribers.  Both of those updates were dated 09/27/2019: the day of the purge.  8 days later John has not answered my numerous emails and no explanation has been provided on his website.  As I look back I cannot be certain that his email (09/27/2019) was actually authored by John.  On 10/03/2019 his website was not reachable, for about a day, yet no further updates were made to the website. Is he still alive?  I find this troubling as John and I were in good standing and there is no reason that I am aware, why he would not have provided an account of what actually happened.  Both John and I have essentially been “erased” from Facebook and the “Stop5G” group: we cannot even view the “Stop5G” group and we have both been erased from the Facebook directory.  I would also be that all of my hundreds of posts, to “Stop5G,” have also been erased.  In addition Facebook gave me my 5^th, 30 day suspension, meaning I cannot post or comment for 30 days.

I am sending today’s update to various groups, that support the Stop5G movement, in hopes that they can “get the word out” about the purge of the “Stop5G” group.  With 24,000 members it is possibly the largest “Stop5G” group on Facebook.  I cannot over emphasize the importance of this.  If our free speech is increasingly silenced how will we ever prevail in our attempts to stop the deployment of 5G antennas, throughout the planet and space?
What is happening is truly Orwellian (e.g., 1984, the book).  This “Disinformation Index,” and other Globalist Censor’s (GC’s) operate across all Big Tech Platforms – not just Facebook.  They appear to be very well financed and seem poised to silence both the Stop5G “Truth Movement” and any other groups that oppose a transition to a global government through imposition of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), the UN’s Agenda21 (local control) and the UN’s Agenda2030 (global control). 

What most people do not understand is the fact that those behind the rollout of 5G — the Rockefeller’s and the Rothschild’s — helped establish the United Nations many decades ago.  And from the very beginning these Globalists have admitted that they would use Climate Change as a means to usher in a One World Corporate Government.  Today the UN and the Rothschild’s, Crown Castle, are also among the most powerful groups pushing 5G under the auspices of fighting Climate Change.  The UN, the Extinction Rebellion (UK) and the New Green Deal (United States) are also largely financed by proponents for global rollout of 5G antennas throughout the globe.  The truth is (1) Anthropogenic Climate Change is a fabricated myth and (2) spending Trillions to reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions will only bankrupt first world nations, while having virtually no effect on Carbon Dioxide levels.

Our (1) Globalist Corporate Media, (2) all Big Tech Platforms (Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Twitter), (3) the Corporations supporting and profiting from 5G, (4) the Globalist Censor’s, (5) the Globalist Corporate Foundations (e.g., Rockefeller, Gates, Soros, Rothschilds etc.), (6) the United Nations and ancillary groups (e.g., the World Health Organization etc.), (7) most of our elected representatives (e.g., Thune, Dingell etc.)  and (8) even many governmental agencies (e.g., USAID) are now conspiring to become exactly what Orwell warned us about in his book “1984”: a Ministry of Truth (e.g., Propaganda).

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The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events.  As well as administering truth, the ministry spreads a new language amongst the populace called Newspeak, in which, for example, “truth” is understood to mean statements like 2 + 2 = 5 when the situation warrants. In keeping with the concept of doublethink, the ministry is thus aptly named in that it creates/manufactures “truth” in the Newspeak sense of the word. The book describes the doctoring of historical records to show a government-approved version of events.

Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

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At one end of the spectrum these groups, which compose this Globalist Ministry of Truth, simply remain silent about the existential dangers that 5G poses to our Health, Privacy and Freedom.  At the other end of the spectrum these groups are actively doing everything they can to silence our voices.  And way at the far end of the spectrum is the possibility that some of us could be targeted for extrajudicial assassination.  There are, after all, 13 Trillion dollars at stake here.  Until I hear from John I will entertain the possibility that John may be the first extrajudicial assassination of a Stop5G activist.  I am concerned.

My hope is that some of these groups – on my expanding mailing list – will get the word out about the purge of “Stop5G” (09/27/2019).  They can share this essay.  They can arrange an interview with me.  They can publish their own commentary of the “Stop5G” purge.  I can only say this.  If we allow our First Amendment Rights to be eviscerated our voices will be silenced.  And if our voices are silenced we lose our fight against 5G.  Please, help me get the word out.  Because 5G, Smart Cities, the Internet of All Things (and the control of all humans) are all connected and part of a war against the entire global population.  We the Stop5G community must prevail.

Finally please thoroughly absorb what is in this essay as well as the links and videos embedded within.  Together they perfectly elaborate and explain everything that I have just covered.

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Green New Deal and the Climate Movement. Trojan Horses for the Billionaire Class?

By Michael Welch, Naomi Wolf, and Cory Morningstar

Global Research, September 29, 2019

https://www.globalresearch.ca/green-new-deal-and-the-climate-movement-trojan-horses-for-the-billionaire-class/5690415

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All of us is all we need.  Let’s Stop5G together.

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Benjamin Franklin

[Statement at the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776-07-04), quoted as an anecdote in The Works of Benjamin Franklin].  Benjamin Franklin
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

This video, (above),  is about the purge of the Facebook Group “Stop5G” created by John Kuhles. I encourage Stop5G activists to share this video across all Big Tech platforms: Facebook, Twitter etc. If we are to stop the global deployment of 5G antennas, globally and in space (satellite) we all have to work together. All of us is all we need: See also: Green New Deal and the Climate Movement. Trojan Horses for the Billionaire Class? By Michael Welch, Naomi Wolf, and Cory Morningstar Global Research, September 29, 2019 https://www.globalresearch.ca/green-n… 5G: An Existential threat to our Health, Privacy and Freedom [This is the video of my testimony before the Dearborn Heights City Council, (7/23/2019) Approximately 40 minutes, 2600 views as of 09/25/2019] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPITu… Bruce Cain’s articles and videos on Stopping 5G and Smart Meters WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2019 https://www.facebook.com/notes/bruce-… A Primer on the threats of 5G/Smart Meters and the Internet of Things to our Health, Privacy and Freedom https://www.facebook.com/notes/bruce-…

Why can’t we Stop5G in my City of Dearborn Heights?

Devon, England, just stopped the deployment of 5G. Mar-a-Lago, Florida — home to elites like Donald Trump and Bill Gates — have stopped the deployment of 5G.  Brussels — a center for the world’s elites — have stopped the deployment of 5G.
So why can’t we do this in Dearborn Heights?
Why can’t other citizen’s do this in their cities?
Are we just considered “lesser” human beings: you know, like slaves, MK-ULTRA test subjects, lab rats?

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Devon, England: 10/07/2019
Town’s war with 5G: Devonshire officials ‘ban’ installation of new high-speed network after campaigners demand further research into its effects on health
by 5G Awareness | Oct 7, 2019
https://www.5gawareness.com/5g/towns-war-with-5g-devonshire-officials-ban-installation-of-new-high-speed-network-after-campaigners-demand-further-research-into-its-effects-on-health/

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On 10/04/2019 I saw 5 trucks on Marquette: just a few blocks west of Inkster Road in Garden City.  Garden City is just adjacent to my city of Dearborn Heights. The crew leader confirmed they just finished putting up 4 5G antennas on a single utility pole.  And as soon as the underground wiring is laid, and connected, these 5G radiation emitters will be turned on.  When I asked him when that might happen he said it could be in mere weeks or months.

Thank goodness my family is not living next to those 4, 5G antennas.
He then added that they have been installing 5G antennas throughout SE Michigan for the last 9 months.  How many 5G antennas have gone up in my city of Dearborn Heights? Was the Dearborn Heights City Council aware of this?  Why has the City Council not alerted me to this?  They obviously knew I was concerned.  I mean, I did do a 40 minute presentation, on the subject of Stopping 5G, before the Dearborn Heights City Council just 2 months ago (07/23/2019).

Why are the voices of the Global Stop5G movement not being heard or acknowledged?

Part of the reason is the Stop5G movement is being censored. Part of the reason is that our City Council (Dearborn Heights) seems interested, but has not acted to protect it’s citizens from the dangers of these Antennas. Is it not a primary duty of any government to protect the safety of it’s citizens? Do something!  It should not be up to me to come up with the solution.  This is what we pay you for.

Another part of the reason is — since I did my 40 minute presentation on Stop5G — I am finding myself being censored.  So it seems impossible to get the word out to my community.

* In August I was de-platformed from Nextdoor, the Facebook application for local communities after making a single post on 5G: a link to my testimony before the Dearborn Heights City Council.
* The Press and Guide was informed about my upcoming presentation against 5G and decided not to cover it. (07/23/2019)
* On 09/27/2019 I was de-platformed from the Stop5G group I moderated for over a year and a half by Facebook. This occurred just 3 days after stopping by Debbie Dingell’s office in Dearborn,  where I was reminding her assistant that I was waiting on her response to my concerns about 5G. Debbie is a ardent proponent of 5G technology and I have concerns she may have had something to do with it.  Of course that is mere speculation.  That same day Facebook suspended me from posting or commenting for 30 days.  This is my 5th, 30 day suspension, since October 2018.  And while I’ve done nothing wrong the edicts of Facebook are final: they are judge, jury and executioner.  And there is no legitimate mechanism to challenge the merits of a 30 day suspension.  This Facebook “Ministry of Truth” is Orwellian and an affront to free speech.

In all of this we are seeing 2 trends. One tactic of the 5G proponents is just to ignore us or just pay us “lip service” and move along without solving the problem. The Press and Guide did the former. The Dearborn Heights City Council did the latter. The second tactic is to censor the freedom of speech of the Global Stop5G movement. The censorship against the Stop5G movement is growing and the incident on 09/27/2019 is a perfect example.

I explain the growing censorship of the Stop5G movement in this video (below).  It is well financed and seems to have escalated since August 2019: right as the global deployment of these 5G antennas is also escalating.  It is obvious they want to silence our voices and Facebook does have an economic stake in 5G deployment.

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We can no longer allow 5G Proponents to silence the voices of the Global Stop5G Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIgAUMWVbE8&feature=youtu.be

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I don’t know what to tell my City Council. I do understand that the FCC have tried to hamstring cities from doing anything. I also understand that our City Council has a primary role in protecting our citizens. The City Council is not doing that.

Please have that figured out when I come to the next City Council meeting. Be prepared to explain, to me, how you are going to stop the deployment of these 5G antennas in our city.  Be prepared to explain to me how any 5G antennas, already place in our city, will be removed.

This is what we pay you for, so do it. I expect to hear an answer to that question soon.

Stop aiding and abetting the globalists that are shoving this crap down our throats: regardless of the science, regardless of the concerns of the citizens.  We are not going to be part of a Global Lab experiment where we humans are the guinea pigs.

To me the Dearborn Heights City Council — and City Councils throughout the world —  are really no better than the German people that did nothing, as Hitler put millions of Jews to death in the concentration camps.  About the only difference I see here is the globalists — behind the deployment of 5G — don’t even have to transport us to the concentration camps.  They will kill us right in our own homes — with 5G antennas that may be a mere 20 feet from our homes.

Screw that.  Do SOMETHING to stop this.

Bruce W. Cain
10/07/2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7544239/5G-campaigners-force-Devon-council-pause-installation-new-high-speed-network.html

From the article (above):

“Although the decision has no force in planning law, campaign leader John Kitson claims the action by Totnes town council is a warning to ministers that they cannot bring in 5G without further research into its effects on health.”

So basically even Devon (Devonshire) England is NOT going to have any real impact on stopping the deployment of 5G antennas.  Nope, unless you are the Gates or Trumps in Mer a Lago, unless you are the elite of Brussels you are left emasculated asking for the end of 5G deployments.  You might as well just go “massage” yourself.  LOL
I’m so fed up with your idiots like Martin Pall.  Don’t you understand why the censorship of the “Stop5G” community is so important.  How much money are you making on the Climate Crisis web seminars?  Do you not understand the true stakes here?

Yes I did work in Medical Research: Radiation Physics.  But any idiot could understand the dangers of this technology.  I mean I applaud your research but basically: even a glass eye in a dogs ass could see the problem with 5G deployment.  What we need is not more lectures: what we need is action.  Nope I’ve always been an activist.  I do have some foggy idea as to how we stop this bullshit.  You don’t.   You don’t even have a foggy clue and the deployments accelerate.  What are you thinking?

I think what is required is a global event against 5G.   Forget about the money from speaking.  This may be the only way to defeat the 5G deployment.  Yes, I sure you think it silly, but I did organize a global annual event that led to the legalization of “home grows” for Cannabis (e.g., Marijuana).  At the same time we MUST insist that our freedom of speech is preserved.  A doctor writing against vaccines gets banned from Facebook.  I’m on my 5th, 30 day suspension from Facebook since October 2018 idiot.   They — the globalists — are out to silence us.  Do you not understand the problem?
I have been silenced from posting to a Facebook group that has some of the largest membership when it comes to “Stop5G.”  Martin Pall I am talking to you.  They are trying to destroy our movement and you have yet to respond to me.  Very bad idea.  I’m here to help.
Debbie Dingell’s office finally got back to me today.  They said I’m not in here district and she could therefore not respond to my concerns about 5G technology..  I ran against her husband in 1996 and apparently they gerrymandered the district.   I have been in the same place since 1986.   I told the assistant that this had nothing to do with her district.  She is on a national “5G Caucus” — which effects all districts — and I had some serious concerns.

Worse yet I really do believe she had something to do with my “erasure” from the “Stop5G” group.  It is beyond coincidence.  Can I prove it.  Sorry, don’t have that kind of money.  I just want some answers from Debbie “Dingbat.”  It has been 2 months since my first letter and she has yet to respond.  Yeah I’m sure a FOIA request would go a long way . . . said nobody.

We have to get serious about this.  And I will soon begin to call out anyone that is not serious about Stopping the deployment of 5G antennas throughout the planet and in space.

This is not some imaginary problem and odds are I could help.  Think about that.  I’m retired.  I’m not making any money off this.  And, obviously, I am concerned.  I want to help all of you stop this.  Are you listening?  Do you really give a shit?

And yes I am available to be interviewed.

Bruce W. Cain
10/07/2019

So another English city stops the roll out of 5G antennas.  Meanwhile I have been silenced from Facebook . . . for supporting the Stop5G movement.  We seem to be entering the age of “No Choice.”  We also seem to be entering the age of “No Voice.”  They are now forcing vaccinations in New York and California.  The democrats are talking about going house to house to take our guns away.  In my 65 years I can not believe the direction things are taking.  It is not just 5G that concerns me.

I will not support a world where the people’s will is ignored — as it is, worldwide — when it comes to the roll-out of 5G.  As I mentioned, the other day, I saw the first 5G antenna’s going up in Garden City just the other day: confirmed by the road crew putting them up.  I do understand the problem for ALL cities in the wake of the FCC decision (2018) to force these on our populations.  But at the same time it is the responsibility of our government officials to protect it’s citizens from harm.  They aren’t.

I’m sure I will come before the City Council in the coming weeks.  It would be really nice if you had a plan to stop this.  Because next time I’m before the council that will be my primary question: how are you going to stop this.

And Dr. Pall, sorry I was so harsh the other day.  I’m just frustrated: both in our inability to stop 5G and my undeserved suspension from Facebook: something that is not happening to thousands by the day.  I will not tolerate a “Ministry of Truth” that denies us the inalienable right to share what is on our minds.  It seems that totalitarianism has come to America.  Our founding fathers had a solution to that — one that I hope is entirely unnecessary. 

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For the town of Totnes, England, the 5G rollout will have to wait. Over 1,600 residents signed a petition for a moratorium based on a belief that 5G is not safe for human health.

One local resident named Rosi Gladwell claims she’s suffering from the effects of radiation. At night, Gladwell sleeps in a copper sleeping bag to prevent electromagnetic rays from entering her body.

The town temporarily conceded to Gladwell and the other vocal residents’ wishes, but the decision might not stand for the longterm. Totnes district council is hard at work developing a committee that ignores the town’s concerns, according to 9News.

“I don’t think we will get anywhere with it,” town mayor Jacqui Hodgson said on the ban.

“Our concern is there will be a much higher blanket of radiation all around us. “There hasn’t really been any assessment carried out to prove it’s safe to health and the environment.

“As a town council, we have very little powers, but we can at least stand up for our community and say what we believe.”
It isn’t just England that’s concerned over 5G, cities, and towns all over the United States have become increasingly concerned with 5G’s potential health impacts. Last year, Portland officials attempted to block 5G rollouts. A group of activists and residents in Encinitas, California recently protested 5G’s impending installations.

The United States government says that 5G is safe and that no scientific evidence of health risks exists. But some groups around the country continue to disagree. In California, residents in a smaller town outside of Sacramento claim a Sprint 5G tower increased childhood cancer instances. Sprint was eventually forced to shut down the tower.

5G is the latest social battleground that’s sweeping the globe. More and more countries are rushing to install it because they don’t want to fall behind in the technological arms race. 5G will substantially increase download times and improve capabilities in the health and military sectors. No country wants to be left behind, which is creating a grind between government officials and 5G activist groups.

England Town Bans 5G Rollout Amidst Growing Health Concerns
Jim Satney October 8, 2019
https://prepforthat.com/england-totnes-bans-5g-rollout-amidst-growing-health-concerns/?

If you want to get an idea of what will happen in the U.S. when the telecom companies start rolling out 5G networks with new towers in your local neighborhood, take a look at what is happening in Switzerland today, where 90% of the population is now exposed to the new 5G networks.  People are getting sick, and they are marching in the streets to show their opposition to the new networks.
Swiss Citizens Take to the Streets to Protest 5G Implementation as New Illnesses Start at Same Time…
https://healthimpactnews.com/2019/swiss-citizens-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-5g-implementation-as-new-illnesses-start-at-same-time/

Well a neighbor just told me he saw 5G antennas going up on Wilson — this time in Dearborn Heights.  And in Switzerland — where the 5G antennas are already operating — there are already reports of health problems due to the radiation these antennas are emitting.  Are we really going to wait, for our citizens to get sick, before we stop the deployment of these 5G antennas?

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In this essay I briefly overview the history of Electromagnetic Radiation since the introduction of electric street lamps in the 1880’s.  We cannot see EMF radiation which is one reason we don’t suspect it as a vector to a multitude of health effects.  What makes 5G radiation such a problem is they are putting antennas every 2-10 homes (like the 4 antennas on Marquette just West of Inkster) and both the radiation and wavelengths are going to be far more detrimental to our health relative to earlier rollouts of 1G to 4G.  And THAT is why I encourage public participation on the 22nd.  The only real solution is to stop the deployment.  And once again in Switzerland — an early adopter of 5G — we are already seeing negative health effects which has led to a citizen revolt.  So the question becomes: do we act proactively or simply wait until our children become sick from 24/7 exposure to the radiation?

Before, we had moved from gas lamps to electric street lamps (1880), the only EMF radiation we were exposed to was what is known as the Schumann Resonance to which all life is naturally tuned into. In fact since life evolved, some 3 Billion years ago, the Schumann Resonance was the only form of EMF radiation that all evolving life forms were exposed to. So in just the last 140 years the amount of EMF radiation has increased by a factor of one hundred million. Let that fact settle in for a moment. But because we cannot see it or feel it we have never really thought about it. Yet today we are just beginning to understand what this non-ionizing radiation is doing to the health of all life on planet Earth.
We must demand that Trump and our our political leaders – Globally – Stop the Rollout of 5G Death Antennas

Bruce Cain

August 15, 2019

https://www.facebook.com/notes/bruce-cain/we-must-demand-that-trump-and-our-our-political-leaders-globally-stop-the-rollou/3449913501701280/

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5G Technology – Smart Cities, Smart Dust, Internet of Things & Our Future
48,828 views•Aug 10, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGLKpmo_nEc&feature=share&

Around 9 minutes in the people of Montgomery CA are upset that their City Council will not represent them against the deployment of 5G.  That was roughly 2 years ago and the same thing is happening in our city of Dearborn Height: “Hey 5G may kill us but we, the council, can’t do anything about it.”  Wake up.  What happened there, 2 years ago, is happening here, now.  I already told you these antennas are going up in our neighborhoods.  A crew of 5G installers confirmed that to me on 09/27/2019.

The nightmare is here.  WE THE PEOPLE need to stop it.  And all of us is all we need.  And hopefully that will include the City Council finally telling the citizens that they are going to stop the deployment of 5G antennas.

Bruce W. Cain

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Japan will not develop and invest in the creation of fifth-generation mobile networks.

This is stated on the official website of the Ministry of High Technologies of the country. Officials expressed the opinion that the creation of a faster Internet than previously is dangerous for the population and may adversely affect people’s health and labor productivity. Japan A study by the University of Nagasaki provides figures confirming the increase in the number of mental disorders and fatigue among high-speed Internet users. According to scientists, the more a person manages to conduct intellectual operations per minute, the more he is prone to the development of stress, absent-mindedness and an increase in nervous excitement. The Ministry of Health supplements colleagues and assures that using 5G networks can reduce the average life expectancy in the country for the first time in 60 years, and the impact of high-speed Internet is comparable to the effects of radiation on the human body. “We need to think about the health of the Japanese. Our country has already accelerated economically so that today we have nowhere to hurry. It is necessary to stabilize this state. 5G is fraught with great danger. So we think not only we, yesterday this information was confirmed by the US ambassador to Japan. If America, China or the EU countries are ready to risk their people for the sake of progress, then such a strategy is unacceptable for our welfare state, ”said Nobunari Kabato, Minister of High Technologies. The bill to ban fifth-generation mobile networks in the country has already been submitted to the Japanese parliament.

Japan abandoned the development of 5G networks for the health of citizens.

Posted on 09.06.2019
https://web.archive.org/web/20190620143250/https://topnewsrussia.ru/09/06/2019/japan-abandoned-the-development-of-5g-networks-for-the-health-of-citizens.html

So there you have it.  Japan is willing to Stop5G to protect our citizens.  On the 22nd we will find out if our City Council feels the same way or is willing to let us all fry.  You had better think about this one.  You’ve got 8 days.

Bruce W. Cain

Wireless Industry Confesses: “No Studies Show 5G is Safe”
https://takebackyourpower.net/senate-hearing-wireless-industry-confesses-no-studies-showing-5g-safety/

All of us is all we need.

Get involved.

Arrange an interview with me: bcainw@comcast.net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPITup9oZRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIgAUMWVbE8&feature=youtu.be

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I Never Smoked Marijuana — But I’m Serving Life In Prison Over A Marijuana Charge

CESAL: I Never Smoked Marijuana — But I’m Serving Life In Prison Over A Marijuana Charge

By Craig Cesal

Aug 27, 2019

“I sentence you to a term of natural life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole.”

These were the words I heard just months after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. You see, at that time, the news was filled with theories that drug dealers finance terrorists, and I had just been convicted of my first felony: conspiring to distribute marijuana. This was the newest foray into the “War on Drugs.”

The government never claimed that I bought, sold, or even used marijuana, but rather my business repaired semi-trucks for a company that trafficked marijuana. I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong, as I didn’t do anything with marijuana. I was wrong, according to the federal court in Gainesville, Georgia. My business, nestled near Chicago, was auctioned by lawyers in Georgia to pay for their services to secure the life sentence, after my home and savings were spent.

Two months ago, recreational marijuana was approved for sale by the Illinois legislature. Some of my business equipment is likely being used again to repair trucks that haul marijuana.

For over 17 years, I have watched robbers, rapists and even murderers come and go from prison. Last year, a guy in my cellblock who killed two federal marshals was paroled after serving 30 years.

I’ve been watching the news, and I’m waiting to see if we prisoners will get the right to vote.

Here at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, the cornerstone, engraved with “A.D. 1937,” reminds me that the prison opened the same year the federal government made marijuana illegal. The construction workers likely used pot while they built the prison. Looking out from my job at the prison factory, where we make blankets for the military, I can see “Death House” — where Timothy McVeigh and others died. He spent less time in federal prison than me, although his current housing is likely worse.

From Cellblock D, a couple of weeks ago before the time I wrote this, John Walker Lindh, the so-called “White Taliban” who shot CIA agents in Afghanistan, went home after serving his 20-year sentence. He came in after me, and with good time credits, served only 17 years.

To my knowledge, he never aided others who schlepped marijuana. Whew, that’s a good thing, or he’d still be here in prison with me. He was convicted of providing aid to terrorists, but for anything related to marijuana.

Prison is intended to teach offenders not to violate the law again, or simply, for those, like me, the judge deemed irredeemable, to teach the public, who may be thinking of something related to marijuana. At times, I scratch my head trying to fathom who is learning what as a result of my sentence. Bradley Manning made WikiLeaks a household word, and President Obama sent him home because he wore a dress. Maxwell Klinger, of “M*A*S*H” fame, had no such luck.

Obama also turned down my clemency request. Just what am I, or anyone else, supposed to learn from my life-for-pot sentence?

The Terre Haute prison abuts the Wabash River, which separates Indiana from Illinois. From the right places, I can see Illinois across the river, where I lived, and where marijuana distribution, and thereby marijuana conspiracy, is encouraged by state tax collectors. Did I merely have bad timing in selling services to marijuana traffickers from my perch in Illinois? Nope, federal DEA agents are still nabbing distributors in Illinois, well, because they still can. Oh, and the money from the marijuana dispensaries likely pay their salaries. Hopefully, I’ll learn my lesson in prison.

I imagine I can learn from the Federal Bureau of Prison’s paycheck collectors charged with caging me. The prison buildings are surrounded by tall fences, razor wire and cameras. No one from the media, from a family, or from an auditor can get in to see what staffers actually do inside the fence. Guards often go days without so much as seeing an inmate, if they even show up for work. Most will spend more years receiving retirement benefits from the job than they spent actually working.

A sentence of life means a sentence until death. Staff are flummoxed trying to discern what to put in the Federal Bureau of Prisons Form for my release date. Death won’t work. It must be a number. The last time I checked, they were writing 2028. Remember, nobody is coming over the fence and razor wire to check on the paperwork. But no release is imminent.

The sentencing judge determined I am a marijuana reprobate. I am thus irredeemable, and unworthy of anything other than final damnation in prison. Murderers are released after 13.4 years on average, according to the Department of Justice, and a terrorist can go home after 17 years. But I am a prisoner of the War on Drugs. There’s no hope for me under existing federal law.

I’ve learned my lesson, and lawmakers should be pushed to learn a lesson. Federal drug laws, especially marijuana laws, are long overdue for reform. The “fix” must also include sensible relief for prisoners of the failed War on Drugs.

Craig Cesal is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole in Indiana’s Terre Haute prison for a “marijuana” offense. He co-owned a towing company that recovered and repaired trucks for a rental company, some of which were used by smugglers to transport marijuana. He graduated from Montini High School in Lombard, Illinois in 1977. His daughter, Lauren, has obtained more than 300,000 signatures on a petition calling for clemency.”

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Additional Links of Information for Craig Cesal:

https://www.facebook.com/FreeCraigCesal/

https://www.change.org/p/free-my-dad-serving-life-without-parole-for-marijuana

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/12/02/he-got-life-without-parole-for-pot-and-he-was-just-denied-clemency/

http://www.pow420.com/craig_cesal

https://www.civilized.life/articles/marijuana-lifer-craig-cesal/

Christmas Eve, 1912: The pharmaceutical company Merck files for a patent on MDMA (‘ecstasy’)

What is Molly?

MDMA (often called ‘Molly’ or ‘ecstasy’) has become one of America’s favorite drugs since the 1980s, when it ‘escaped’ from the world of professional MDMA therapy and became popular among partiers.  Usually taken as pills or capsules, the drug typically produces an energetic high with a profound sense of peace and joy that lasts for around 3-6 hours (depending on dosage and individual.)  It isn’t a true psychedelic, but it’s effects are richer and more ‘spiritual’ than those of simple stimulants like amphetamine.  Since it strips away emotional defense mechanisms and encourages socialization and bonding, some scientists have dubbed the drug an “empathogen.”  Among young adults (ages 19-30), about 14% have taken MDMA.

The history of MDMA

Christmas Eve, 1912: The pharmaceutical company Merck files for a patent on MDMA (‘ecstasy’) as a precursor to a drug that they hoped would be effective in controlling bleeding. Their patent application is granted two years later (1914.) In spite of persistent rumors, there is no evidence that they were aware it was psychoactive or intended to market it as a product.

1927: Merck researchers perform some animal experiments, noting that the substance had some similarities (in structure and effects) to adrenaline.

1953-1954: The US Army conducts animal experiments with MDMA and a number of structurally related drugs. What they hoped to discover is unclear, but the research was labeled as sensitive and not declassified until 1969. It seems likely they were seeking new non-lethal chemical weapons or interrogation tools.

1959: Merck researchers again investigate MDMA’s potential use as a stimulant. There are rumors that it was investigated as a drug to keep aviators alert, but no evidence of human experiments has been found.

1965: Independently predicting that MDMA might be psychoactive, a chemist named Alexander Shulgin (above) synthesizes MDMA while working at Dow Chemical, but does not try the substance. Shulgin had made Dow a tidy sum of money with his prior work on a biodegradable insecticide, and as his reward was allowed to pursue whatever field of research appealed to him. Shulgin chose to study psychoactive drugs…a decision that would eventually impact the entire world.

1967: A student at the University of California/San Francisco describes having taken MDMA to Shulgin. Eventually, Shulgin tries the new drug himself…and is amazed.

1972: MDMA is seen in Chicago by police. Use is apparently slowly spreading, but it remains a rather rare drug.

1977: A friend of Shulgin’s, psychologist Leo Zeff, begins to prepare for retirement from his practice. While starting to clean out his office of memorabilia, he invites Shulgin over to see if the chemist would like any of the items. Shulgin, in turn, brings him a gift: A small vial of MDMA, and a suggestion that he might find the material worthwhile. Leo, who was experienced with psychoactive drugs and had used them in his practice for some patients, accepted the gift without committing to whether or not he might try it.

Several days later, Shulgin receives a phone call from Leo. He has tried the MDMA. He no longer wants to retire. Instead, he begins to use the new drug, first in his own practice, then introducing other therapists to it. The ability of MDMA to help patients overcome emotional barriers was so striking that one psychiatrist dubbed it “penicillin for the soul.” When Dr. Zeff passed away years later, his widow estimated that the network of therapists using MDMA had grown to about 4,000.

1984: All hell breaks loose. The growing networks of therapists, chemists and users, which had managed to stay largely below the radar of the government, becomes impossible to ignore when the young Michael Clegg begins openly selling MDMA in Texas, using advertising, a 1-800 number to place orders, and even offering shipping. A former seminary student, Clegg considered himself an ‘Ecstasy missionary’ (having given the drug that name himself) destined to help bring MDMA to the public. At its peak, he was delivering half a million pills a month to the Dallas area.

Responding to the crisis of people being able to get high without risking arrest, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced its intent to Emergency Schedule MDMA, placing it into Schedule 1 (the most restrictive class of drugs, such as heroin) for a year while it was decided how it should be permanently Scheduled.

Shocked and angered by the DEA’s plans to completely ban access to a drug that had become an important and valued part of their practices, psychiatrists, therapists, and other scientists and doctors challenged the Scheduling, resulting in government hearings on how MDMA should be Scheduled.

1985: The hearings began. The DEA appointed Judge Francis Young to hear the case. Months of testimony and sometimes bitter argument went by as the hearings dragged on through the summer, autumn and into winter.

1986: On May 22nd, Judge Young released his decision on the laws, science, and use surrounding MDMA, declaring that MDMA was safe when used under medical supervision, did not have a high potential for addiction, and had legitimate medical use. As such, Judge Young said, it was not legal to place MDMA higher than Schedule 3. This much less restrictive category would have allowed doctors to continue to use MDMA, but would have still made sale without a prescription illegal.

Angered by these findings, the DEA condemned Judge Young as biased, shortsighted, and incorrect in his interpretation of the laws. They rejected his non-binding ruling and declared MDMA permanently Schedule 1.

Outraged by the DEA’s attempts to re-write the laws and ignore the science, the groups that had first challenged the Scheduling of MDMA sued, taking the DEA to court.

1988: After several years of motions, hearings, and angry debate, the doctors and scientists appeared to have achieved victory: On January 27, the courts agreed with Justice Young’s original opinion and ordered the Drug Enforcement Agency to reassess its Scheduling decision. In the meanwhile, MDMA is removed from Schedule 1, becoming briefly legal once again.

The DEA, complying with the court order, ‘re-evaluated’ their decision. And decided that they had been right all along, and the doctors, scientists, and courts were the ones that were wrong about the science and the law. They permanently declared MDMA Schedule 1, taking effect on March 23, 1988.

Vindicated in their interpretation of the law, in the science and in court but beaten down by sheer political power, the doctors and scientists were defeated. The prohibitionist bureaucrats had lost every battle but won the war, and MDMA has remained in Schedule 1 since.

1991: Alexander Shulgin’s legendary book, “PIHKAL” is published, and the world discovers what ‘Sasha’ has been up to in the past few decades. (The book’s title is short for “Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved”, a reference to the basic chemical structure he based his work on.) The book itself is divided into two parts: The autobiographies of Alexander and his wife Ann; and a massive drug section describing the structures, dosages, effects, and synthesis of nearly 180 psychoactive drugs, most of which Shulgin had invented; many of which were new to science. (The Chemistry section is available on-line.) Within the book were also glowing descriptions of the effects of MDMA:

“I feel absolutely clean inside, and there is nothing but pure euphoria. I have never felt so great, or believed this to be possible. The cleanliness, clarity, and marvelous feeling of solid inner strength continued through the rest of the day, and evening, and into the next day. I am overcome by the profundity of the experience…”

Today, most of the psychedelic drugs that have been prohibited in America were born in Shulgin’s basement laboratory, and his work continues to inspire the invention of even more new drugs.

March, 2001: Alarmed by skyrocketing use of MDMA and their own clear inability to stop it, the US government increases penalties, making the distribution of MDMA ten times more severely punished, dose for dose, than heroin. In spite of being opposed by prominent scientists and even the former head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse as irrational and a diversion of resources from the control of truly dangerous drugs, the measure passes easily.

November 2, 2001: Revenge of the Scientists. The US Food and Drug Administration gives approval for human testing of MDMA for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. MAPS, a group made up of many of the same doctors and researchers that had originally fought tooth-and-nail to keep MDMA available to doctors, is conducting the research as part of their plan to gain full FDA approval of MDMA as a prescription drug. The next two years would prove to be a long, difficult struggle to gain IRB approval (Institutional Review Board oversight is needed to conduct human research.)

September 5, 2003: The infamous MDMA researcher George Ricaurte, who’s work had been the cornerstone of MDMA prohibition and anti-MDMA government ad campaigns, confesses: One of his most recent and sensational studies, claiming that a “common recreational dose” of MDMA could cause extensive brain damage and Parkinson’s-like symptoms never actually happened. The monkeys used in the experiment had actually been given near-lethal doses of methamphetamine; not MDMA!

September 23, 2003: With Ricaurte disgraced, the “it’ll eat holes in your brain” house of cards began to come tumbling down; MAPS was finally given approval for human research with MDMA.

April 6, 2004: The first dose of MDMA in MAPS’ post-traumatic stress disorder study is administered.

January 2017:  After years of careful research, the FDA agrees that MDMA shows promise as a prescription medication and gives approval for Phase III trials; the last stage of studying a new drug before it can become available by prescription.

To support or get more information on this ongoing research, visit MAPS.org. MAPS also maintains a complete record of the Scheduling fight, including government documents, testimony and court rulings.

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