In this funny, informative talk, David Schmader makes the case for thinking more broadly about what a marijuana user is and can be. David Schmader is a multi-talented writer, playwright, newspaper columnist, and performance artist. With wit and intelligence he blends personal experience and biting humor to provide insight on difficult cultural issues. He creates autobiographical solo plays that include, Letter to AXL, (homophobia and the unifying power of anger), Straight (“pray away the gay” conversation therapy), and A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem (angst, escapism, and forgiveness). His shows have toured the country, with productions at New York City’s Dixon Place, Los Angeles’s Highways Performance Space, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and the Wexner Center of the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
Drug Smuggler Speaks Out About Incarceration and Marijuana | Richard Stratton | TEDxFultonStreet
Richard Stratton’s education helped him to vacate a coercively harsh sentence, and now he speaks out to help others who are behind bars unjustly. The irony is not lost on Stratton, that recent cannabis legislation has legalized many of the activities for which people are still locked up. He offers a unique glimpse into the mind of an underworld leader, an award-winning writer and filmmaker, and a human rights advocate. Richard Stratton is a former international cannabis smuggler, CEO of a multi-million dollar operation. Arrested in 1982, he was convicted under the “Kingpin Statute” and sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
Making peace with cannabis | Zachary Walsh | TEDxPenticton
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Talk explores human beings’ dynamic relationship with the cannabis plant and what recent developments might mean for our health and well-being.
UT Austin sociologist Sarah Brayne spent 2.5 years conducting field research with the LAPD as they rolled out Predpol, a software tool that is supposed to direct police to places where crime is likely to occur, but which has been shown to send cops out to overpolice brown and poor people at the expense of actual crimefighting.
Brayne observed and interviewed more than 75 cops to get a picture of how the job of policing is changed by big data-based “predictive” tools. She found that the tools changed police from a law-enforcement agency to an intelligence agency, concerned more with surveilling people who had not committed a crime than to interdicting or solving crimes in the world. . . . Read Complete Report
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States, with nearly 10,000 officers serving a population of over 3.8 million. In 2010, LAPD needed an investigative platform that could be used to quickly find connections between disparate data sources, increase situational awareness, and respond to crime in real time. LAPD chose Palantir Law Enforcement as its data integration and analysis solution.
The historic Nov. 2016 ballot initiatives to legalize cannabis brought a resounding win for freedom in several states, with the exception of Arizona. There, voters narrowly rejected decriminalization, in no small part due to a massive anti-pot propaganda campaign funded in-part by Big Pharma.
Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics gave $500,000 to a group called Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, which amounted to 10 percent of the group’s total money used to manufacture and disseminate anti-pot propaganda. Some of the scare tactics Insys used itself was to claim that legalization “fails to protect the safety of Arizona’s citizens, and particularly its children,” and that production of “narcotic raw materials” promotes abuse.
Both of these claims are patently absurd coming from a pharma corporation under investigation for bribery and marketing fraud relating to its synthetic opioid Subsys — . . . Read Complete Report
Late last week President Trump threatened US military action against Venezuela because “people are dying” there. CIA director Mike Pompeo amplified Trump’s statement by claiming that Venezuela is a threat to the US because the Cubans, Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah are all there. Why are they ramping up the war propaganda?
Along with assurances that we’re facing an imminent takeover of industrial production by robots and other artificial intelligence (AI), we’re also being told that AI can develop its own systems of communication and operation, without help from humans.
Here is a sprinkling of quotes from the mainstream and technical press:
The Atlantic, June 15, 2017: “When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.”
Tech Crunch, November 22, 2016: “Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language.”
Wired, March 16, 2017: “It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language.”
The suggestion is: AI can innovate. It can size up situations and invent unforeseen and un-programmed strategies, in order to accomplish set goals.
Who benefits from making such suggestions? Those companies and researchers who want to make the public believe AI is quite, quite powerful, and despite the downside risks (AI takes over its own fate), holds great promise for the human race in the immediate future. “Don’t worry, folks, we’ll rein in AI and make it work for us.”
Beyond that, the beneficiaries are technocratic Globalists who are in the process of bringing about a new society in which AI is intelligent and prescient enough to regulate human affairs at all levels. It’s the science fiction “populations ruled by machines” fantasy made into fact.
“AI doesn’t just follow orders. It sees what humans can’t see, and it runs things with greater efficiency.”
Let’s move past the propaganda and state a few facts. . . . Read Complete Report
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Amazing! Conversation Between Robots – The Hunt for AI – BBC
Marcus Du Sautoy meets robots that learn about their own body from their reflection and begin to communicate, a step closer to artificial intelligence? Taken from The Hunt for AI.
We return to this story because we feel that this is the most despicable page in the united States history. It spanned two Administrations, those of Bush and Obama. Rick and I personally believe that Fast and Furious had nothing to do with tracing guns and nothing to do with the “War on Drugs”.
We know that from our years of watching the ever slowly movement of the actual elitist Controller to bring our great country to its knees in order to overthrow our Republics Freedoms and Liberties.
In a rational mind there is no lawful purpose for this operation. In what way did this further this Country’s phony 50 year so-called “War on Drugs”?
We have presented, here in the pages of THEI for over 25 years, the evidence of the REAL importers of these Killer Drugs and the mildly stimulant medical hemp, or as their propaganda started calling it by the Mexican name “Marijuana” (for purely financial reasons) so that the citizens back in the 1930’s who knew the many uses of the herb hemp, which was a major crop of the farmers of that time, would not realize the government were taking away one of their most important crops which threaten the elitist families their their major money cows; pharmaceutical, big oil, synthetic cloth and paper products just to name a few.
The major importers of drugs into this Country have been exposed many times; The CIA, The Bush and Clinton Crime Families, and their Cabal of elitist crooked pals.
The Fast and Furious Gun Running Operation was implemented for only two reasons; to blame the legal gun merchants along our Southern Border for putting guns into their partners in crime the drug cartels, to further the Globalist’s continuing agenda of passing gun laws to get guns out of the hands of honest citizens and patriots so that if the citizenry ever wakes up to their major agenda of taking over this Republic to force us into a New World Order consisting of the elitist members of the Secret Societies as the rulers and we the people as slaves to their worldwide plantation had no means to fight back.
Second to insure the ATF, CIA and the other Agencies in their control more black budget money to further the Agenda by getting more Americans Addicted to their imported drugs so the can not do anything to stop the Controllers agenda, or, most likely will not care.
With this in mind we here at THEI will not rest until we wake up as many of our citizens to their many ways of manipulation to achieve their nefarious deeds. Fast and Furious was one of the worst.
Another point. When I decided to return to this most horrible government crime I searched YouTube for “Fast and Furious”. It took me three pages to find the information. The first two and a half pages led to videos on the movie series about fast cars, “Fast and Furious.” It’s more important to lead a search er to entertainment that to this most government disgrace. Hide in plain Site. . . Your Editor Dennis Crenshaw.
Trey Gowdy Gets ATF Special Agent To Admit “Fast & Furious” Obama Administration Scandal!
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of “gunwalking” sting operations between 2006 and 2011. These operations were done under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico by interdicting straw purchasers and gun traffickers within the United States. “Gun walking” or “letting guns walk” was a tactic whereby the ATF “purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders.”
The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.
Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene of the death of at least one U.S. federal agent, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The “gunwalking” operations became public in the aftermath of Terry’s murder.
In this video, we explain the buzzword of the week, Deep State. Ever since Donald Trump has taken office this issue has come up many times with what looks like an internal power struggle in the White House. With people being compromised and leaks flowing to the main stream media we try to give you some context to this important story and what is really happening.
Celebrating 420 Day in shadow of AG Jeff Sessions’ anti-cannabis …
www.seattletimes.com/…/marijuana/celebrating-420-day-in-shadow-of-ag-jeff-sessions-a…
3 hours ago – April 20 marks 420 day, a day to celebrate cannabis culture and push for cannabis legalization.
(Part 5) Watching You and Everything You Do ~ Agenda 2030
[Shadow Government] Pablo Escobar’s Son Reveals His Dad “Worked for the CIA Selling Cocaine” — Media Silent ~ CIA Drug Running Over the Years
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How the CIA Plants News Stories in the Media
YouTube ~ Posted by The Corbett Report Extra Published on March 22, 2017
It is no longer disputed that the CIA has maintained an extensive and ongoing relationship with news organizations and journalists, and multiple, specific acts of media manipulation have now been documented. But as long as the public continues to ignore the influence of intelligence agencies in shaping or even fabricating news stories, the agency will continue to be able to set the policy that drives the American war machine at will.
Politics – Insider Confirms CIA Controls CNN
YouTube ~ Posted by Today’s Alternative News
Published on Mar 14, 2017
Today’s Alternative News Channel – Insider Confirms CIA Controls CNN.
Our CNN insider had been out of touch with us for several days. We were starting to wonder what was going on, but in our latest communication, our CNN insider did confirm our biggest fears. The CIA is indeed attempting, with all their might, to control the message to the masses!
CNN Headquarters sign in New York City by Dennis Crenshaw. You may use this photo in your presentations under Fair Use.
CNN/CIA THE ENEMY WITHIN THE MASTERS OF DECEPTION
by voxfux
The chilling reality of our time is that our biggest enemies are within.
CNN is one such enemy.
The New World Order crusaders know that it is better to control people and nations with the scientific application of fear and lies rather than the more unpredictable and expensive methodology of bullets and bombs.
So forty years ago, the CIA’s, “Operation Mockingbird,” went into full swing. The goal of the program was simply to control all mechanisms of opinion – the print news, the public opinion polls and the television news media. Their thinking was, if you control what people think, you’ve won the war before it has even begun.
And they have been frighteningly successful at achieving their goal – Since the 1950’s all major news and polling organizations have, to one degree or another, been absorbed into the sphere of control of the intelligence agencies. Now, the hard truth, which is simply too fantastic for most people to believe much less even comprehend in the first place is that the major news media is in actuality, mind controlling, opinion forming, population control mechanisms, and little else.
CNN is such a mind control machine.
CNN Being wholly a government propaganda machine, an organ of the CIA, and indeed as claimed by many in the right as well as left, extraordinarily influenced to the point of near subservience to a Zionist political agenda (more so than any discernible American agenda), . . . Read Complete Report
Operation Mockingbird CIA Influenced Media
YouTube ~ Posted by XVII LXXVI
Published on Nov 29, 2016 Operation Mockingbird was a campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, and was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA. The organization recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network to help present the CIA’s views. . . . Read Complete Description
Media Lies (1995 SPIN) unauthorized footage
YouTube ~ Posted by Conspiracy Insomniac
Fake News Network
YouTube ~ Posted by XVII LXXVI
Published on Mar 17, 2017
Satanic CIA illuminati FAKE NEWS Exposed!! This is as hardcore as it will ever get when it comes to proof you’re being brainwashed and lied to by the news media!
Denzel Washington Destroys the Liberal Media over “Fake News”
YouTube ~ Posted by MRCTV
SCRIPT – Top 10 Staged Media Events
YouTube by ThoughtCrime7
Fake News, Fake Reporters, Staged News, Blatant Omissions, Political Spins, War Propaganda and More!
Rulers In The Shadows
YouTube ~ Posted by XVII LXXVI
Published on Jan 21, 2017
Who Rules America?
Who Controls The U.S. Media?