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  1. Catherine,
    Have you had a representative from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) on for your interviews? I did a search on the site and did not find anything. It may be good to (re) introduce your readership to them. I can’t remember if I heard of them through your blog or not. Be well.

    Chad

  3. Hi Catherine,

    As the former Assistant Secretary of Housing I’d thought you’d get a kick out of the new series on Netflix called The Get Down. It takes place during in 70’s Bronx and one of the underlining themes is gangs being paid to burning down tenement buildings for insurance money to make way for the rainbow utopia new housing built by mob bosses. You wonder why it made me think of you.

    The plot is thin and built on a lot of stereotypes but it’s interesting how the director incorporated vintage reels of what happened into the plot.

    Best,

    Najat

  4. FYI, Catherine. I find it outrageous that the DOJ will essentially say that seizing cash from individuals with what appears to be no more than reasonable suspicion in many cases (probable cause is needed to make an arrest) is OK and then in another breath say that they won’t prosecute HSBC or Wachovia for willfully and intentionally laundering drug money, because of these banks’ alleged systemic importance. It’s a sad day when fedgov focuses on the small fish for a pittance under dubious circumstances and then lets the big fish swim away with a fine that the banks can pay with their subsidies from the federal reserve. On top of the fact that there are no real investigations of these banks. Ridiculous. I would be embarrassed to be an agent doing this type of thing (at least how it is portrayed in the article).

    Chad

    http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/08/12/detroit-metro-among-airports-dea-targets-cash-grabs-travelers/88560606/

    1. They are implementing a coup d’etat – one cut in thousands of cuts at a time. “Control and concentration of cash flow.”

  5. Hi Catherine,

    I found a fun blog from a site called EWO (Earth We Are One, interesting title huh?) on a “rediscovered” ancient Egyptian manuscript found in Cairo. Apparently, the manuscript was discovered 70 years ago and has been recently “rediscovered,” is 8 feet in length, and tells the tales of “supernatural” beings.

    Quote: “The ancient Egyptian manuscript was adorned with peculiar, colorful drawings of ‘divine’ and ‘supernatural’ beings.”

    Could it be “they” are slowly leaking the truth? Could there announcement of alien life be next?

    One to watch,

    Najat

    http://www.ewao.com/a/4000-year-old-ancient-egyptian-manuscript-measuring-8-feet-found-egypt/

  6. Chemical Pesticides and Human Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947579/pdf/fpubh-04-00148.pdf

    Catherine. The following recently published article complements the series on sustainable communities and agriculture. The article outlines critical 21st century human health and food security issues that communities across the globe are/will be facing. Our rabid use of chemical insecticides and pesticides are finally catching up to us with undeniable evidence of deleterious effects on the human population that cannot be ignored any longer. These Greek and Belgian researchers outline the main classes of agri-chemicals that pose greatest risk to human populations. They present a thoughtful, coherent and multi-disciplinary perspective to this set of issues with examples of governance steps already being taken in Europe (such as the declaration of Nyéléni). The article is open access and free for downloading.

    Full citation.
    Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Maipas, Kotampasi, Stamatis, Hens. Chemical Pesticides and Human Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture. Frontiers in Public Health. 2016 Jul 18;4:148. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00148. eCollection 2016.

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