December 27, 2003

Miscellaneous Subjects #199: We Will Not Get Fooled Again


Hello everyone

I know I was not supposed to send you anything else this year and I wish I could avoid sending you what follows but there is just too much that came to my attention in the past few days that seems rather urgent and thus can't wait for another week.

See my comment below at the top of item #1 "Bush's Christmas Terror Alert" as to why this can't wait.

Now is certainly not the time to get fooled again by another all-too-transparent plot and to allow ourselves to go into "fear" thinking.

Peace, Light and Love will prevail!

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
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LAST MINUTE ADDITION:

YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY LOOK AT THIS!!

Beside Condi, Who Else Had Foreknowledge Of 911?
http://www.rense.com/general46/who.html
(...) Martial Law is just 'around the corner' in America, and our group have decided to request Americans to use their last chance to express their views freely by writing to us regarding the subject: OUTSIDE OF CONDI, WHO ELSE HAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 911? (...) Americans! ... you took the most wonderful country in the world, and turned it into something which is little different today than a Nazi camp. Did you try to fly lately? and the White House announced today that all tourists to the USA will be photographed AND fingerprinted starting in January! All that, to maintain the fictional 'war on terrorism'! Your nation was the flame of freedom for the rest of the world, and now you are forcing us to slide into hell with you. You are too stupid to realise it, but, you WILL realise it soon, very soon. Just listen to CNN 'predicting' that the second 911 is coming! And your government EVEN said that it may be much worse than the first one.

Bush Concealed Iraqi Chemical Weapons Plant in Florida which shipped WMD to Saddam Just Prior to Gulf War I
http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=30&mode=&order=0&thold=0

Both recommended by Ken (NCEpanacea@aol.com)


"A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgement baffled by its perversion."

- Winston Churchill


"President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq. I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait. James Baker [US Secretary of State] has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. .... "

- April Glaspie, US Ambassador to Iraq, in conversation with Saddam Hussein, US State Department transcripts, 25th July 1990, eight days before the invasion.


Worthy of Your Attention

An extremely effective presentation of the 9-11 deception
http://www.radiofreeamerica.tv/video/2003-12-12/911-group.swf
"There is a war going on; it is a war against freedom, and we have to get involved," says the physicist Michael Elliot, who manages http://911review.org , and who is here interviewed for Radio Free America. Recommended by "Boudewijn Wegerif" wegerif@telia.com>

CDC Study Raises Level of Suspicion (Dec 23 -- ABSOLUTE MUST READ!!)
http://www.insightmag.com/news/573542.html
CDC coverup: Children likely poisoned by mandatory vaccines - Canned tuna or canned poison? That was the teaser for a CBS 2 News "HealthWatch" Report of Nov. 22 that focused on high levels of mercury found in tuna and the possible health risks associated with them. CBS 2 News reporter Paul Moniz quoted a number of physicians, who observed of the toxic substance that, "Once it gets into our bodies, a substantial part of it will end up in our nervous system, in our brains, and it's there that it causes a variety of symptoms." A pediatrician is quoted as saying, "We know that high levels of mercury can impair the cognitive development as well as the growth and development of a young child." What the report appears to be revealing is that while overweight Americans may flee to fish to lose unwanted pounds, too much of that tasty tuna could reduce the IQ more than the waistline. What the critics of mercury in vaccines find provocative about this report is the acknowledgement by physicians that the high levels of mercury ingested from canned tuna can cause severe health risks. One such critic, the mother of an autistic child, wonders "why everyone gets up in arms over ingesting small amounts of mercury from fish or from breaking a thermometer but finds it acceptable to inject an even more toxic form of mercury directly into the bloodstream of infants. The evidence is overwhelming that hundreds of thousands of children were damaged by gross overexposure to mercury through vaccines [containing thimerosal] and millions more were and continue to be put at risk, yet network news has not addressed this in any significant way. The public needs and deserves to know the truth - not only about the biggest medical bungling in our history, but also about the extraordinary efforts of both the pharmaceutical industry and government agencies to cover it up." A pharmaceutical and government cover-up? It is a familiar enough accusation, and this time the fuse was lit by yet another study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this one titled Safety of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines: A Two-Phased Study of Computerized Health Maintenance Organization Databases. The report concluded that "no consistent significant associations were found between TCVs [thimerosal-containing vaccines] and neurodevelopment outcomes." Critics scoff at such a conclusion. "Sure," laughs one, "they say you can't eat tuna because the level of mercury you ingest isn't good for you, but there's no health risk associated with injecting high levels of mercury directly into a newborn baby?" The CDC study, released in the November 2003 issue of Pediatrics, seemed to puzzle news media, with most who took note of it making at least a mention of the fact that the lead author, Thomas Verstraeten, was an employee of GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical giant and vaccine manufacturer, when he submitted the study for publication. (...) The data used in this first phase actually revealed a significant association between TCVs administered to infants and later developmental abnormalities such as speech and language delays and neurodevelopment problems in general, such as tics and the alleged hyperactivity symptoms of attention-deficit disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. However, this conclusion was not included in the final draft; it was only made public afterward when Verstraeten's notes were revealed in another forum, according to specialists. The notes, not published with the CDC study, showed that the "relative risk" for autism was 2.48 times higher for children who received 62.5 micrograms or more of mercury from TCVs by 3 months of age. (...) "We went to Atlanta," he continues, "to the CDC, and looked at the VSD data. There is thimerosal-containing DTaP [diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine] and thimerosal-free DTaP, so we asked a question: Among children that got a minimum of either three consecutive thimerosal-containing DTaPs or three consecutive thimerosal-free DTaPs, was there a difference in the number of autism cases in the two groups? We found mega differences. More than 20 times higher. The rate of autism in the children that got more than three doses of thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccines was much, much higher. Almost all the children that have autism in that group were the ones that got the thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccine. The more thimerosal the greater the cases of autism." Mark Geier says, "Believe us, there is no scientific issue here. This is fraud. The CDC and the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] know what is happening. They just can't admit it because it is one of the worst things ever to have happened to this United States. If a terrorist had done this, we wouldn't attack them, we'd nuke them. We're talking about one in eight children in the U.S. that currently are in special education, and that number is going to change to about one in five. What percentage of our young population can we destroy before we realize how serious this is?" CLIP


CONTENTS

1. Bush's Christmas Terror Alert
2. The Martial Plan
3. Liz Michael for Senate - Ghost of Christmas Future
4. Peace and the U.S. petro-city
5. Kucinich Releasing World Peace
6. Initiative Diesel soot is big factor in global warming
7. IT'S NOT SADDAM: A story calling for investigation
8. America's War for Global Domination
9. Demolitions started at Akaba - Protest may still make a difference
10. DEMOCRACY CRUMBLES UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS


See also:

US media, government scramble to obscure criminal dealings with Hussein (Dec 24, 2003)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/huss-d24.shtml
Despite the orgy of self-congratulation that greeted the capture of Saddam Hussein, this is yet another “victory” that is proving to have unforeseen and bitter consequences for the Bush administration. As reports begin to seep into the press of the history of dirty dealings between the former Iraqi president and the administrations of Reagan and Bush senior, one must suspect that the present occupant of the White House, not to mention his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, regret that the military forces that located Hussein did not shoot him on the spot rather than take him into custody. Now the administration confronts the danger that a trial of Hussein—especially one held under international auspices that affords the ex-president the opportunity to mount a genuine legal defense—will expose the direct and deep involvement of the United States government in the most serious crimes of which Hussein stands accused, particularly the use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Recently declassified national security documents draw a devastating portrait of Washington’s use of Hussein in pursuit of its geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Even as it became aware that Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish insurgents, the US government continued shifting its policy to provide critical political, military and economic support to Hussein’s regime. This history exposes the administration’s rationale for invading and occupying Iraq and placing Hussein on trial as utterly false and hypocritical. Iraq’s use of chemical weapons, alongside its alleged possession of other so-called weapons of mass destruction, was a principal justification for the war. The documents establish irrefutably that key figures in the Reagan and Bush administrations were Hussein’s enablers and accomplices in his crimes. CLIP

Chomsky: Selective memory and a dishonest doctrine (Dec 21)
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1071961807419
(...) Last December, Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary, released a dossier of Saddam's crimes drawn almost entirely from the period of firm U.S.-British support of Saddam. With the usual display of moral integrity, Straw's report and Washington's reaction overlooked that support. Such practices reflect a trap deeply rooted in the intellectual culture generally - a trap sometimes called the doctrine of change of course, invoked in the United States every two or three years. The content of the doctrine is: "Yes, in the past we did some wrong things because of innocence or inadvertence. But now that's all over, so let's not waste any more time on this boring, stale stuff."Last December, Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary, released a dossier of Saddam's crimes drawn almost entirely from the period of firm U.S.-British support of Saddam. With the usual display of moral integrity, Straw's report and Washington's reaction overlooked that support. Such practices reflect a trap deeply rooted in the intellectual culture generally - a trap sometimes called the doctrine of change of course, invoked in the United States every two or three years. The content of the doctrine is: "Yes, in the past we did some wrong things because of innocence or inadvertence. But now that's all over, so let's not waste any more time on this boring, stale stuff."

Games and deception: The war-year in review
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/talking_politics/documents/03465390.asp
IT WAS THE worst of times, and it was the worst of times. The 12 months labeled, stored, and referenced as "2003" will be forever remembered as a "war year." And wars are the worst of things upon which to waste years. In January, the nation passed the halfway mark of the court-appointed Bush administration. A hardy lot, Americans had survived two years and a day of excruciating corruption, skullduggery, and embarrassment. It was about to get worse. All the best halftime shows took place at peace rallies. The media's electronic war drumbeat was providing George W. Bush with the kind of cacophonous distraction he needed to defy logic, decency, public opinion, and constitutional law. All winter, Bush considered exactly zero outside opinions as he stuck his head in the sand about his war in the desert. No matter how much bottled water it took, he was hell-bent on quagmire. On January 15, the littlest prez said, in full cowboy bluster, "Time is running out on Saddam Hussein - he must disarm. I'm sick and tired of games and deception."

If Libya Can Disarm...Why Not Israel? We Can No Longer Ignore The World's Fifth-Largest Nuclear Power (Dec 22)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1111554,00.html
There's a logic to these things. Muammar Gadafy, growing older, and his isolated Libya, growing poorer, were getting nothing worthwhile from the atomic bomb they hadn't built yet or chemicals they had scant residual use for. Logic - and common sense - meant changing tack. Good for logic. But logic doesn't stop there. What next? If weapons of mass destruction are a menace in unstable regions such as the Middle East, if their availability must be reduced, then logic begins to move us closer to the confrontation we never seek with the nuclear power we - let alone Messrs Bush and Blair - seldom mention: Israel. Nobody, including the Knesset, quite knows what happens inside the Dimona complex, but if you put together a compote of usually reliable sources (the Federation of American Scientists, Jane's Intelligence Review, the Stockholm Institute), a tolerably clear picture emerges. Ariel Sharon probably has more than 200 nuclear warheads this morning - more if the 17 years since Mordechai Vanunu's kidnapping have been devoted to building stockpiles. That makes Israel the world's fifth largest nuclear power, boasting more bangs from Washington's bucks than Blair's Britain. And over in the other WMD basket, nobody much dissents when a report by the office of technology assessment for the US Congress concludes that Israel has "undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities" and is "generally reported as having an undeclared offensive biological warfare programme". Bombs, missiles, delivery systems, gases, germs? Tel Aviv has the lot. We only forget to remember because it's not a suitable subject for polite diplomatic conversation. (...) An Israel bristling with nuclear hardware it cannot talk about and chemical horrors it could negotiate away does not make itself, or the world, any safer. On the contrary, it makes a hypocritical farce of too much Washington bargaining, buries too many initiatives deep down Hypocrisy Gulch and gives rogue groupings in ex-rogue states every reason to carry on developing, stealing or buying the devices that keep Mr Blair awake at night. Does Tel Aviv see that connection? Does it want to bring a whole region in from the cold? Such things are becoming possible. But first we need the honesty to follow where logic leads; and begin to talk about them.

Time's "Person of the Year" selection is appropriate - if we're talking about which person got screwed over the worst in 2003 (Dec 22, 2003)
http://www.unknownnews.net/031222a-mz.html
Time magazine has named its annual Person of the Year and it is - get this - "The American Soldier." Are the people at Time really this clueless, or is this supposed to be some kind of sick joke? I mean, is having a fake honor bestowed upon them by a large media conglomerate supposed to make up for the fact that American soldiers are getting screwed out of their benefits, serving longer tours of duty than they ever signed up for, waiting in big concrete warehouses for months for medical care after they're wounded, paying their own airfare home for their alleged "leaves," and watching their comrades commit suicide in record numbers, not to mention the enormous number getting wounded and killed? CLIP

Once again doing what he does best (Dec 23) http://www.unknownnews.net/031224a-lf.html
Listening to this arrogant unelected son of a liar go on about the crimes of another un-elected liar is enough to make one vomit. G.W. Bush, the man who would be President, Navy action figure, Conqueror of Babylon, and Thanksgiving Day turkey is once again doing what he does best, being a hypocrite. With Saddam Hussein in custody, Mr. Bush is calling for his head. Speaking of Saddam's many crimes, the wannabe President can't wait till Saddam is tried and convicted, so he can once again swagger up to the podium at the White House press room to take credit for saving civilization. However, what no-one in the corporate-controlled press is talking about is the fact that according to international law, Mr. Bush, his administration, Congress, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are all war criminals. International law states that a country that attacks another country without provocation is indeed in violation, and its leaders guilty of war crimes. Mr. Bush believes his policy of attacking any country on earth, for what he and his advisors see as being a potential threat sometime in the future, is totally justified. What is particularly damning to Bush's policy of preemption is the fact that none of the weapons of mass destruction, the rationale for war on Iraq, have been found, further criminalizing this enterprise. So we now witness the spectacle of war criminal Bush and his Democratic war criminal rivals, most of whom voted for the war in public debate, now completely ignoring any personal responsibility for the ongoing violence, chaos, death, and mutilation of Afghans, Iraqis and American servicemen. Adding to this foreign policy debacle is an "economic recovery," as Bush likes to call this sinking ship that has lost, and continues to lose, millions of jobs paying a livable wage ˜ replaced with a Wal-Mart job market where the few benefit while the many suffer. Americans neither want nor need a government which is totally corrupt and immoral, who would commit war crimes and support the war crimes of its few remaining allies in the name of the American people.

BIG BROTHER COMES TO WAL-MART (June 11, 2003)
http://www.lizmichael.com/bigbrowm.htm
Starting this week, the nation's largest discount retailer will quietly begin selling tracking-chipped products to clueless shoppers. The first volley in their war against our privacy is set to start at their Brockton, Massachusetts store. Wal-Mart will put Radio Frequency I.D. sensors on shelves stocked with RFID-tagged Gillette products, but they'd rather you didn't know about it, because, hey, you might not like it, and then you might make noise and then they'd have a big PR mess on their hands. You might even stop buying Gillette products or, say, refuse to shop at Wal-Mart. These chips, researched at M.I.T.'s Auto-ID Center are about the size of a grain of sand. Chipsters say the technology will only be used to help retailers keep track of inventory - like bar codes. But privacy-loving consumers question the very concept of a device that sends out radio waves to "readers" that not only identify the article, but where and with whom it's going. The Big Brother implications of this thing need little hyping to get your skin crawling. Wal-Mart's putting the pressure on its top 100 suppliers to make sure their inventory is all chipped by the end of next year. CLIP

A Repressive Embarrassment (Dec 18)
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=7315676733687&A
Anyone who thinks the administration and its law enforcement chief, Attorney General John Ashcroft, aren't out to impede a free press need only hear how the federal government is treating foreign journalists coming to this country on assignment. Without notification to foreign media outlets, the immigration and customs people are arresting, detaining, and deporting journalists arriving here without special visas. This is so even when they come from nations whose citizens can stay for up to 90 days without a visa if they are arriving as tourists or on business. If that threatening form of registration is not enough, members of the press arriving without the visas, which no one told them they needed, are treated like criminals, handcuffed as they're marched through airports, photographed, fingerprinted, and their DNA taken.

Drought Has West in Chokehold
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-water22dec22,1,357836.story
States take drastic measures as reservoirs fall and economic losses rise. Relief is uncertain.- LAS VEGAS - After five years of distressingly low rain and snowfall, a
drought is hammering the West harder than ever, causing multibillion-dollar economic losses and prompting unprecedented measures in many states to cope with less water. With the start of winter, little optimism exists that the coming months will fix the problems. Weather forecasts are equivocal. Explosive population growth, environmental lawsuits to divert water for wildlife and below-average precipitation have put a strain on the big federal reservoirs that supply the West but were designed decades ago when the outlook was far different.

Bushes send greetings to a select 1.5m (Dec 24)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1112494,00.html
(...) But Vice-President Dick Cheney has been less careful and embellished his greetings with the brazen use of a taboo word. His card quotes one of the nation's founders, Benjamin Franklin, declaring: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" What empire might that be, the critics would like to know. Meanwhile, America's wildlife protectors have focused on the mention of a falling sparrow. They point to Mr Cheney's taste for downing birds in huge numbers, by shooting them in circumstances when it is hard to miss. On a November bird-hunting trip to the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in Pennsylvania, 500 pheasants were released directly in front of the vice-president and his 10-strong party. Only 100 of the birds survived the experience. Mr Cheney, who was under close secret service protection during the hunt, killed 70. America's Humane Society complained that the odds had been so heavily stacked against the pheasants that the event was more of a "mass killing" than a hunt.

DUDE, Where's my hydrogen?
http://www.evuk.co.uk/hotwires/rawstuff/art57.html
Michael Moore debunks another myth in a dream that's also a wake-up call. (...) the party's over and the game's definitely up in this, Moore's eerie vision of a post-oil era in which bewildered children ask not: "What did you do in the war, daddy?" but "What did you do in the battle to save the planet, daddy and mummy?" And so it is that Michael Moore finds himself chatting to little Anne - anno 2054 - about oil, the 'die-off' and the hydrogen fuel cell wash-out - here's an excerpt: Anne: What was it like when you couldn't breathe because of the dirty air caused by burning what you called gasoline? ... Michael: Ooh, ooh, that smell. It was nature's way of telling you something's wrong. What were we thinking?.. Anne: But it was poisoning you. And you didn't have breathing stations like we do now, so what did you do? Michael: People would just have to suck it up and breathe it in. This caused millions of people to breathe and die. No one wanted to say it was air pollution from burning fossil fuels that was making it hard to breathe.. (......) A: My sixth grade teacher told us one of your leaders believed "hydrogen fuel cells" would replace gasoline cars but they didn't. That was crazy! Today every kid knows that hydrogen is hard to get.Sure it's in H20, but it takes a lot of energy to break off the hydrogen - and a lot of energy was what you didn't have. Duh! M: You're right, Anne, we were all hepped up on so much Prozac and cable television we always believed what our leaders told us. We even believed them when they said that "hydrogen was the Second Coming - limitless, pollution-free energy that will soon replace oil!" We spent so much money on our military to make sure we had access to oil that our schools were falling apart, making everyone grow up dumb and dumber - and therefore, no one realised that hydrogen was not even a fuel at all! It got so bad , most college graduates didn't even know what H20 stood for! Soon things really got bad. We ran low on oil, and there wasn't any hydrogen to run our cars, so people got really mad. But it was too late. That's when the die-off began.  (...) Moore's Law states that: "People Power doubles every 18 months - once people wake up to the abuse of power by government, the media and giant corporations."

On the Web, an Amateur Audience Creates Anti-Bush Ads (December 21)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/fashion/21MOVE.html?ei=5062&en=752006413be9b176&ex=1072587600&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=

G.I. Joke Action Figure (Hilarious!)
http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazine/files/onthestands/ots_437/6.html

Humor: George W. Bush found in a dirt-tunnel hideout, 20 feet beneath the White House
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DBY312A.html

Lead Iraq weapons seeker 'to quit' (Dec 19)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994506
The man leading the US hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq is to resign, according to reports. The loss of David Kay is being interpreted by many analysts as signalling the end of the major effort to discover any hidden weapons.

Amnesty says Miami police may have broken UN laws (Dec 19)
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-19/s_11493.asp
MIAMI - Police in Miami may have violated various international laws and covenants on civil rights and use of force when they crushed protests against a free trade meeting last month, rights group Amnesty International said.

African countries 'ignoring ban on ivory trade' (Dec 16)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=473729
More than four tons of illegal ivory is on sale in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal, which have failed to regulate a trade that encourages poaching and threatens the survival of elephants, wildlife conservation groups say. The three nations - which have nearly wiped out their elephant populations - have virtually ignored a world ban on the ivory trade and their flourishing illegal markets are "driving elephant poaching" in West and Central Africa, according to a report released yesterday by Traffic, an organisation which monitors trade in endangered species, and the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Mapuche Lands in Patagonia Taken Over by Benetton Wool Farms (November 25 )
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=9189
In Patagonia, turquoise rivers divided by wire fences are a common sight. The snow capped mountain range in the southern Andes that runs along the border of Argentina and Chile, or the Cordillera as the locals call it, is one of the most pristine in the world. Under the mountains lies flat earth filled with bushes and vegetation that sheep and cattle graze on. The gold and quartz inside the mountains of Argentina's southern province of Chubut have recently brought in mining companies such as Meridian Gold, and now Benetton, for its exploitable and vast plains - perfect for the mass production of wool. To the Mapuche Indians in southern Argentina, the Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton is the newest conquistador in 10,000 years of land struggles in Patagonia. Today Benetton is the largest landholder in Argentina, owning 900,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) in the resource-rich region of Patagonia. With 9% of Patagonia's most cultivatable land, their holdings amount to 40 times the size of the capital city of Buenos Aires, the second largest city in Latin America. CLIP - This is confirmed in "Land of the Living Wind" at
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0401/feature3/index.html
Once the sole domain of sheep farmers, the wind-whipped tip of South America is drawing a new generation of pioneers and adventure seekers.

U.S. House of Reps. Approves Bill to Censor American Citizens fromVoicing Opposition to U.S. War on Drugs
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1455
Washington -- December 9, 2003 -- A little-known provision buried within the omnibus federal spending bill that the U.S. House of Representatives approved yesterday would take away federal grants from local and state transportation authorities that allow citizens to run advertising on buses, trains, or subways in support of reforming our nation's drug laws. If enacted, the provision could effectively silence community groups around the country that are using advertising to educate Americans about medical marijuana and other drug policy reforms. Meanwhile, this same bill gives the White House $145 million in taxpayer money to run anti-marijuana ads next year.

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