KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of ( Read more... )

TO SEE

(for Dr. Con)

I have an authorial eye
a friend says.

“Author” comes from the Latin “augere”
which means to increase.

My theory is that it comes
from the Greek “auto” (self) and “horo” (see)

which means to see for myself
or to see inside myself.

To see. See the day move on
its colors this morning ( Read more... )

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The last uncontacted Indians in South America outside the Amazon basin have been spotted, apparently fleeing the rapid destruction of their forest home.

The forest where the Indians live is now being destroyed at a faster rate than the Amazon. The area is being illegally bulldozed to open up the land for cattle ranching.

The Indians are members of ( Read more... )

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White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow
Trees moving in rivers of wind
The clouds arise
as on a wave, gigantic eddy lifting mist
above teeming ferns exquisitely swayed
along a green crag
glimpsed thru mullioned ( Read more... )

PORTERVILLE, Calif. - National forests and parks _ long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels _ have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

The grow sites have taken hold from the West Coast' ( Read more... )

John Walters Backs a Mexican Proposal Far More Sweeping Than U.S. Measures He Has Opposed...

(Washington, D.C.) The Marijuana Policy Project today congratulated White House "drug czar" John Walters for backing a Mexican government proposal that would remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana.

"I can't believe I'm ( Read more... )

Bicycle Boy Pedals Pot While Cops Shrug

Delivers weed to bankers, tech guys, media beasts: ‘I feel like I’m at Viacom every other day’

by Spencer Morgan  |  October 28, 2008
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This article was published in the November 3, 2008, ( Read more... )

City of Transformation
Paul Virilio in Obama's America
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~Arthur and Marilouise Kroker~

It is surely the fate of every engaged political theory to be
overcome by the history that it thought it was only describing. So
too, Paul Virilio. His writings have captured brilliantly these
twilight times in which we live: ( Read more... )