DIVERSE SANCTUARY & THE "WEB OF LIFE" Discussions - THE DIVERSE SANCTUARY NETWORK

PAST WARNINGS FROM RON K & MYSELF, PART OF WHAT WE TRIED TO WARN YOU ABOUT

2009-05-30T05:50:58.575Z

SOME PAST WARNINGS OF THE MANY

http://www.diversesanctuary.ning.com/forum/topics/2141787:Topic:643

http://www.diversesanctuary.ning.com/forum/topics/2141787:Topic:1247

http://www.diversesanctuary.ning.com/page/how-to-market-freedom-why-the

http://www.diversesanctuary.ning.com/page/my-reponse-to-legalization

WHAT ARE ONE OF THE THINGS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW THAT WE TRIED TO WARN YOU ABOUT ???

http://www.diversesanctuarysnews.ning.com/forum/topics/to-all-cannabis-activist

IRAQ: THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS OF DEMOCRACY

2009-04-12T14:23:48.452Z

AN OLD ENTRY FROM MY MYSPACE BLOG STILL AN IMPORTANT POINT TO LOOK AT WHEN WE CONSIDER THE THINGS TAKING PLACE IN OUR WORLD TODAY, WHO IS REALLY TURNING THE WHEELS, HOW, THE REASONS WHY THINGS OCCUR.... AND WHO IS GAINING OR PROFITING THE MOST FROM IT ALL.
ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.

WHY LEGALIZE ? WHEN WE CAN DECRIMINALIZE THE PLANT.

MUCH PEACE & LOVE TO...
Patti
& Class Action Declaration Of Interdependence
Date: May 7, 2007 3:28 PM

The "legalization" orgs are about to finally be "successful" in some areas such as "industrial hemp" and "medical cannabis.
The way the patent laws stand combined with Monsanto and others posturing for the genetic stronghold, all legislative efforts to "legalize" cannabis can only result in complete corporate control through genetic engineering and private ownership.
This will also lead to all naturally occurring varieties still being outlawed do to the pollination contamination threat to protected by law patented varieties.
Monsanto has already laid a foundation in case law that paves the way for the above stated coming reality which in its implementation with cannabis will then pave the way to do the same to all naturally occurring varieties of whatever plant or animal species they have genetically raped and engineered for patenting.
That means one day only GMO patented plants and animals will be legal and all others will be marked for eradication.
The cannabis issue provides the legal standing and opportunity to stop all this dead in its tracks, yet the "legalization' orgs refuse to understand and act on the severity and urgency of the matter even as they play strait into the hands of the nightmare.
Here is an example of the model now in place that Monsanto intends to bring to the world…

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/Iraq_and_seeds_of_democracy/iraq_and_seeds_of_democracy.HTM

Iraq and Washington's 'seeds of democracy'

By F. William Engdahl, 5 June 2005
(Previously published in Current Concerns)

'The reason we are in Iraq is to plant the seeds of democracy so they flourish there and spread to the entire region of authoritarianism.' - George W. Bush

When George W. Bush spoke of planting the 'seeds of democracy' few realized he might have had in mind Monsanto seeds.
Following the US occupation of Iraq in March 2003, the economic and political life of that country changed radically. Iraq is under the complete economic control of the occupying power, the United States.
Despite nominal national elections earlier this year, control over the Iraqi economy is still run out of the Pentagon. In May 2003 Paul Bremer III, was put in charge with the imposing title, Administrator, of a newly created Coalition Provisional Authority or CPA. Bremer, a former US State Department terrorism official, had gone on to become a Managing Director of the powerful consulting firm of the former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger's Kissinger Associates.
As head of the CPA, Bremer moved swiftly to draft a series of laws to govern Iraq, which at the time had no constitution, nor legally-constituted government. The new laws of the US occupation authority numbered 100 in all, and were put into effect in April 2004. One of the Orders mandates that no elected Iraqi government will have the power to alter the US-imposed laws. The new laws, or Orders, as they were called, would insure that the economy of Iraq would be remade along lines of a US-mandated 'free-market' economic model.
Bremer pushed through more drastic economic changes in one month than the International Monetary Fund managed over three decades in Latin America. Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel Prize laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, described Bremer's reforms as 'an even more radical form of shock therapy than pursued in the former Soviet world.'
Bremer's first act was to fire 500,000 state workers, most of them soldiers, but also doctors, nurses, teachers, publishers, and printers. Next, he opened the country's borders to unrestricted imports: no tariffs, no duties, no inspections, no taxes. Two weeks after Bremer came to Baghdad in May 2003, he cynically declared Iraq to be 'open for business.' Whose business he didn't say but it soon became clear.
Before the invasion, Iraq's non-oil economy had been dominated by some 200 state-owned companies, which produced everything from cement to paper to washing machines. In June, 2003 Bremer announced that these state firms would be privatized immediately. 'Getting inefficient state enterprises into private hands,' he said, 'is essential for Iraq's economic recovery.'
CPA Order 37 lowered Iraq's corporate tax rate from roughly 40 percent to a flat 15 percent. Without tax revenues, the state would be unable to pay a role in anything. Order 39 allowed foreign companies to own 100 percent of Iraqi assets outside of the natural-resource sector. This ensured unrestricted foreign business activities in the country. Investors could also take 100 percent of the profits they made in Iraq out of the country. They would not be required to reinvest and they would not be taxed.

Bremer's Order 81
The CPA explicitly defined the legal importance of the 100 Orders to leave no doubt that they were, indeed, orders. An Order was defined as, 'binding instructions or directives to the Iraqi people that create penal consequences or have a direct bearing on the way Iraqis are regulated, including changes to Iraqi law.' In other words, Iraqis were told, 'do it or die.' The law of occupation was supreme.
Buried deep among the Bremer laws was Order 81, 'Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law'.
At the heart of Order 81 was the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) provision. Order 81, states: 'Farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph (C) of Article 14 of this Chapter.'
In plain English, this gives holders of patents on certain plant varieties, i.e. large foreign multinationals, absolute rights for 20 years over use of their seeds in Iraqi agriculture. The protected plant varieties are Genetically Modified or Gene Manipulated (GM) plants, and an Iraqi farmer who chose to plant such seeds must sign an agreement with the seed company holding the patent that he would pay a 'technology fee' and an annual license fee for planting the patented seeds.
Any Iraqi farmer seeking to take a portion of those patented seeds to replant in following harvest years would be subject to heavy fines from the seed supplier. Iraqi farmers would become vassals, not of Saddam Hussein, but of multinational GM seed giants.

Iraqi seed treasure destroyed
Iraq is part of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, where the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers created ideal conditions for crop cultivation. Iraqi farmers have existed since approximately 8,000 B.C. and had developed the rich seed variety for almost every variety of wheat used in the world today. They did this through a system of saving a share of seeds and replanting, developing new naturally resistant hybrid varieties through the new plantings.
For years, the Iraqis had held samples of such precious natural seed varieties in a national seed bank, located, ironically, in Abu Ghraib, the city made infamous as a US military torture prison site in 2004. Following the US occupation and various bombing campaigns, the historic and invaluable seed bank in Abu Ghraib vanished, a possible further casualty of the Iraq war.
Bremer's Pentagon advisers had very different plans for Iraq's food future.
Iraqi agriculture was to be 'modernized,' industrialized and reoriented away from traditional family multi-crop farming, into US-style agribusiness enterprises, producing for the 'world market.' Serving the food security needs of hungry Iraqis would be purely incidental to that plan.
The CPA's Order 81, behind the cover of complicated legal jargon, in effect, turned the food future of Iraq over to global multinational private companies, hardly the liberation most Iraqis had hoped for.
Order 81 on Intellectual Property Rights, was not negotiated between a sovereign government and the WTO, or another government. It was imposed on Iraq without debate, from Washington. According to informed Washington reports, the specific details of Order 81 on plants were written for the US Government by Monsanto Corporation, the world's leading purveyor of GMO seeds and crops.1

No seeds to plant
It would at first seem that only those seeds which Iraqi farmers chose to buy from international seed companies would fall under the new US-imposed Iraqi law on patents, that farmers were free to choose. The reality was far different. Iraq was being turned into a huge laboratory for development of food products under control of giant GMO seed and chemical giants such as Monsanto, DuPont and Dow.
In the aftermath of the 1991 Iraq war and the devastation, Iraqi farmers most often turned to their government Agriculture Ministry for new seeds if they were to plant. Here was the open door for Bremer's insidious takeover of the future Iraqi food supply.
Iraqi farmers had endured not only the embargo of needed agriculture equipment during the years of US-UK-led embargo. Iraq had also endured three years of severe drought prior to the 2003 war, a climate misfortune which caused Iraqi wheat crops to decline severely. Years of war and economic embargo had devastated Iraqi agriculture, and by 2003 grain production had fallen to less than half the level of 1990 before the first Iraq-US war. Much of the Iraqi population had depended on UN oil-for-food food rations to survive up to 2003.
The US State Department AID and the US Agricultural Reconstruction and Development Program for Iraq (ARDI) stepped in after 2003, to transform traditional Iraqi agriculture, all in the declared name of 'modernizing' Iraqi food production. The US Government replaced the UN as food supplier. The key Washington agriculture czar for Iraq at that time was Daniel Amstutz, former US Department of Agriculture official and former Vice President of the giant grain conglomerate, Cargill Corporation. Amstutz wrote the US demands on Agriculture during the GATT Uruguay Round which led to creation of the World Trade Organization in the early 1990's.
Order 81's alleged aim was 'to ensure good quality seeds in Iraq and to facilitate Iraq's accession in to the World Trade Organization.' 'Good quality' was to be defined by the US, of course. WTO accession meant Iraq had to open its markets and laws to rules dictated by the WTO and the powerful industrial and financial interests dominating WTO policy, the so-called 'rich mens' club.
As soon as Order 81 had been issued, USAID began delivering thousands of tons of US-origin 'high-quality, certified wheat seed" for subsidized, initially near cost-free distribution through the Agriculture Ministry, to desperate Iraqi farmers. The USAID refused to allow independent scientists to determine whether the seed was GMO seed or not. Naturally, should it prove to have been GMO wheat seed, within one or two seasons, Iraqi farmers would find themselves suddenly dependent on paying royalty fees to foreign seed companies to survive.

'Let them eat…Pasta?'
Under the USAID program, the State Department, working with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) set up 56 'wheat extension demonstration sites' in northern Iraq, 'introducing and demonstrating the value of improved wheat seeds.' The project was run for the US Government by Texas A&M University's International Agriculture Office.
This $107 million US AID agriculture reconstruction project had as goal the doubling the production of 30,000 Iraqi farms within the first year. The idea was to convince sceptical Iraqi farmers that only with new US 'wonder seeds' could they get large harvest yields. Desperation and a promise of huge gains would be used to trap Iraqi farmers into dependence on foreign seed multinationals.
Texas A&M's Agriculture Program describes itself as 'a recognised world leader in using biotechnology,' or GMO technology. With their new seeds would come new chemicals – pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, all sold to the Iraqis by corporations such as Monsanto, Cargill and Dow.
According to a report in The Business Journal of Phoenix, Arizona, 'An Arizona agri-research firm is supplying wheat seeds to be used by farmers in Iraq looking to boost their country's home-grown food supplies.' That firm is called the World Wide Wheat Company (WWWC), and in partnership with three universities including Texas A&M, it would 'provide 1,000 pounds of wheat seeds to be used by Iraqi farmers north of Baghdad.'
According to Seedquest, a website for the global seed industry, WWWC is a leader in developing 'proprietary varieties' of cereal seeds – i.e. varieties that are patented and owned by a particular company. These are the very same protected GMO seeds contained in the Order 81. According to WWWC, any 'client,' or farmer, as they were once known, wishing to grow one of their seeds, 'pays a licensing fee for each variety.'
Iraq was to become a giant live laboratory for testing GMO wheat, and the Iraqis were the human guinea pigs of the experiment.
Even more remarkable, reports the Phoenix Business Journal, 'six kinds of wheat seeds were developed for the Iraqi endeavour. Three will be used for farmers to grow wheat that is made into pasta; three seed strains will be for bread-making.' That means 50% of the grains being developed by the US in Iraq after 2004 are meant for export. Pasta is a food foreign to the Iraqi diet. Rather than produce food for the starving 25 million war-weary Iraqis, Bremer's Order 81 was designed to create industrialized agro-business, using GMO seeds for global export.
USAID has the aim to get the government out of food production. 'The idea is to make this completely a free market,' said Doug Pool, agriculture specialist with the USAID's Office of Iraq Reconstruction.
The USAID aim is to 'help' the new government phase out farm subsidies. 'The Minister of Agriculture has been quite good in doing that,' Pool said. State enterprises, such as the Mesopotamia Seed Co., 'need to be spun off and privatized,' he declared. He didn't mention who would have the cash in war-torn Iraq to buy such a state seed company. Only cash-rich foreign agri-business giants such as Monsanto or Cargill could be likely buyers. Control their seeds and control the food.
To facilitate the introduction of patent-protected GMO seeds from foreign seed giants, the Iraq Agriculture Ministry distributed the new GMO seeds at 'subsidized prices.' Once farmers were hooked on the GMO seeds, under the new Plant Patent Protection rules of Order 81, they would be forced to buy new seeds each year from the company. Under the banner of bringing a 'free-market' Iraqi farmers are becoming enslaved to foreign seed multinationals.
In a December 2004 interview, Iraq's US-educated interim Agriculture Minister, Sawsan Ali Magid al-Sharifi, stated, 'We need Iraqi farmers to be competitive, so we decided to subsidise inputs like pesticides, fertilisers, improved seeds and so on. We cut down on the other subsidies, but we have to become competitive.'2 In other words, money for Iraq's impoverished farmers to buy new seeds is earmarked for the buying of GMO 'improved seeds' from foreign multinationals like Monsanto.
In spring 2004 as Order 81 was promulgated by Bremer's CPA, supporters of the radical young cleric Moqtada al Sadr were protesting the closing of their newspaper, al Hawza, by US military police. The CPA accused al Hawza of publishing 'false articles' that could 'pose the real threat of violence." As an example, it cited an article that claimed Bremer was, 'pursuing a policy of starving the Iraqi people to make them preoccupied with procuring their daily bread so they do not have the chance to demand their political and individual freedoms.'
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1 Smith, Jeremy, 'Iraq: Order 81,' The Ecologist v.35, n.1, 1 Feb. 2005. Coalition Provisional Authority, Order 81. ''Iraq's new patent law: A declaration of war against farmers', by Focus on the Global South and GRAIN, www.grain.org.
2 IRIN, 'Iraq: Interview with Minister of Agriculture, 16 Dec 2004. www.irinnews.org. US Congressional Record, 'Kissinger Associates, Scowcroft, Eagleburger, Stoga, Iraq and BNL'. Statement by Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, US House of Representatives - April 28, 1992. [Page: H2694]

THE LEGAL CASE THAT MADE HISTORY AND NEARLY CHANGED HISTORY

2009-04-11T16:25:48.690Z

APPEAL TO BE FILED IN "WEB OF LIFE" CASE BY JULY 6, 2007

THIS IS AN INTERVIEW THAT WAS TAKEN BY HEMPROCK TV OF MYSELF, REV.MARY ABOUT THE "WEB OF LIFE" AT THE "AFTER PARTY" OF THE CINCI. OH. GLOBAL MARIJUANA MARCH IN MAY 07.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8413746831791487369&hl=en

SO KEEP IN MIND, IT WAS A LONG TRIP TO GET THERE, A LONG DAY, THEN ALOT HAD JUST TAKEN PLACE, THAT WASN'T A GOOD SCENE, I WAS TRYING TO LEAVE AND JUST WANT TO GET OUT OF THERE AT THIS POINT... WHEN STOPPED BY THE CAMERAS AND OTHERS, I HAD TAKEN A BRIEF MOMENT FOR SOME MUCH NEEDED MEDICATION, BECAUSE I WAS IN ALOT OF PAIN... WHEN I DID THIS INTERVIEW... SO LOL ! I WAS STRUGGLING WITH THIS INTERVIEW AND FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS... I SOMETIMES MISSED... YET, I AM SURE YOU'LL GET THE POINT I AM TRYING TO MAKE HERE.

EXCUSE MY CAPS I HAVE OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA, WHICH CAUSES BLINDNESS... I USE CANNABIS TO SLOW MY BLINDNESS, AMOUNG OTHER MEDICAL REASONS. SO

I AM A PATIENT.

I HAVE BEEN A CANNABIS ACTIVIST AND PUBLIC SPEAKER NEARLY 14 YRS. AS WELL AS I HAVE BEEN A MINISTER A LITTLE LONGER...

THE QUESTION IS

DOES MAN HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROHIBIT, LEGALIZE, MUTATE OR ERADICATE PLANTS...

PERSONALLY I DON'T BELIEVE GOD GAVE MEN THE RIGHT TO DO ANY OF THAT.

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IN GOD OR NOT

YOU MUST AGREE THAT WE

WE HAVE A NATURAL RIGHT TO UTILIZE ALL PLANTS FOR THE GOOD OF MAN.

AS WELL AS A MORAL DUTY TO PROTECT NATURE/THE "WEB OF LIFE"

ACCORDING TO THE LAST FINDINGS OF THE 9th CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS...

"THE BELIEF THAT MAN DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO PROHIBIT, LEGALIZE, MUTATE, PATENT OR ERADICATE PLANTS, BECAUSE ALL THINGS (LIFE) ARE JOINED IN NATURE, INTERDEPENDENT ON ONE ANOTHER, THROUGH THE BIOLOGY OR SCIENCE OF THE "WEB OF LIFE", AS TAUGHT TO US IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SCRIPTURE, ECT ... THAT EVEN THE EARTHWORM AND THE SPIDER HAVE A PURPOSE WITH-IN NATURE... INCLUDING PLANTS LIKE CANNABIS.

(SEE OUR PAGE) , IS NOT A RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND HAS NOR RELIGIOUS BASIS...???, IT IS A PHILOSOPHY.

SO... ACCORDING TO THEM THE FIRST AMENDMENT DOES NOT APPLY TO US ???

FURTHER MORE THE NINTH AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN ONLY FOR JUDGES ACCORDING TO THEM ???

PLEASE LOOK AT THESE AMENDMENTS/RIGHTS THEY ARE DENIGHING YOU IF YOU HAVE NOT.

LOOK AT THE LAWS OF THESE TWO GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AND THEIR DUTIES ARE THEY IN CONFLICT WITH ONE ANOTHER ???

EPA& THE ESA vs DEA& THE CSA

DOES THE ONE BASED ON SCIENCE AND THE PROTECTION OF THE "WEB OF LIFE"TRUMP THE OTHER ???

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE IN CONFLICT OF EACH OTHER ???, AS DO I, AND OTHERS...

PLEASE, CHECK OUT THESE TWO PETITIONS, AND SIGN IF YOU SUPPORT BOTH THESE FIRST AMENDMENT ARGUMENTS

ONE TO PROTECT RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS/BELIEFS AND SACRAMENTAL USE OF PLANTS...

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/theweboflifereligion

ONE TO PROTECT CANNABIS GROWING IN THE WILD...

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/302062790

THESE PETITIONS SUPPORT AN APPEAL CURRENTLY IN FEDERAL COURT IN THE RON KICZENSKI CASE.

TELL THE COURTS TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION !

ALSO PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO CONTACT THE COURTS ON THIS MATTER, THIS IS THE FINAL ROUND IN THIS CASE... YOU MUST TAKE ACTION THIS GO AROUND.

THIS CASE CAN END PROHIBITION OF ALL PLANTS.

BUT ONLY IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO ACT NOW !

IT ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO STOP ALL GMO"s

THIS AFFECTS YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH US OR NOT ; PROTECT THESE AMENDMENTS FROM EROSION.

TELL THE COURTS TO STOP THE EROSION OF YOUR RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION !

MUCH PEACE & LOVE TO ALL,

REV. MARY

Hey, the following link is the mailing address to the 9th circuit court along with the 'rules' for communicating:

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/Documents.nsf/519a025470af2daf88256406008016b...

here is the homepage for the court:

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/

and heres the list of judges:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THE JUDGES OF THIS COURT IN ORDER OF SENIORITY:

Mary M. Schroeder MMS Chief Judge

James R. Browning JRB Senior Circuit Judge

Alfred T. Goodwin ATG Senior Circuit Judge

J. Clifford Wallace JCW Senior Circuit Judge

Joseph T. Sneed JTS Senior Circuit Judge

Procter Hug, Jr. PRH Senior Circuit Judge

Otto R. Skopil ORS Senior Circuit Judge

Betty Binns Fletcher BBF Senior Circuit Judge

Jerome Farris JF Senior Circuit Judge

Harry Pregerson HP Circuit Judge

Arthur L. Alarcon ALA Senior Circuit Judge

Warren J. Ferguson WJF Senior Circuit Judge

Dorothy W. Nelson DWN Senior Circuit Judge

William C. Canby, Jr. WCC Senior Circuit Judge

Robert Boochever RB Senior Circuit Judge

Stephen Reinhardt SR Circuit Judge

Robert R. Beezer RRB Senior Circuit Judge

Cynthia Holcomb Hall CHH Senior Circuit Judge

Melvin Brunetti MB Senior Circuit Judge

Alex Kozinski AK Circuit Judge

John T. Noonan, Jr. JTN Senior Circuit Judge

David R. Thompson DRT Senior Circuit Judge

Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain DFO Circuit Judge

Edward Leavy EL Senior Circuit Judge

Stephen Trott SST Senior Circuit Judge

Ferdinand F. Fernandez FFF Senior Circuit Judge

Pamela Ann Rymer PAR Circuit Judge

Thomas G. Nelson TGN Senior Circuit Judge

Andrew J. Kleinfeld AJK Circuit Judge

Michael Daly Hawkins MDH Circuit Judge

A. Wallace Tashima AWT Senior Circuit Judge

Sidney R. Thomas SRT Circuit Judge

Barry G. Silverman BGS Circuit Judge

Susan P. Graber SPG Circuit Judge

M. Margaret McKeown MMM Circuit Judge

Kim McLane Wardlaw KMW Circuit Judge

William A. Fletcher WAF Circuit Judge

Raymond C. Fisher RCF Circuit Judge

Ronald M. Gould RMG Circuit Judge

Richard A. Paez RAP Circuit Judge

Marsha S. Berzon MSB Circuit Judge

Richard C. Tallman RCT Circuit Judge

Johnnie B. Rawlinson JBR Circuit Judge

Richard R. Clifton RRC Circuit Judge

Jay S. Bybee JSB Circuit Judge

Consuelo M. Callahan CMC Circuit Judge

Carlos T. Bea CTB Circuit Judge

Milan D. Smith, Jr.

Sandra S. Ikuta MDS

SSI Circuit Judge

Circuit Judge

( PLEASE REPOST WITH LINKS, TY ! )

JUST 1 LINK IN OUR MYWEB 2.0 LIBRARY OF LINKS

2009-02-20T22:12:31.614Z

Mending the Web of Life: Chinese Medicine and Species Conservation
by Elizabeth Call

http://www.mendingtheweb.com/images/book1.jpg
Mending the Web of Life: Chinese Medicine and Species Conservation is a book for students and practitioners of Chinese medicine, conservationists and anyone interested in endangered animals and plants used in the Chinese materia medica.

It begins by providing an overview of international conservation agreements, the concept of sustainable use and identification and nomenclature and their impact on the trade of endangered medicinal species.

By using philosophical ideas of the medicine itself as a motivation for protection, it offers a paradigm for conservation that can be understood and supported by practitioners of Chinese medicine from any culture or country.

Mending the Web of Life also presents profiles that include the distribution, biology, threats and conservation strategies of these species, which will enable the reader to appreciate them beyond their medicinal use as unique and valuable life forms in their own right.

It also provides the results of a peer reviewed, survey of practitioners on substitutions and replacements for these species in traditional formulas.

There is a chapter on the importance of cultivation in conserving medicinal plant species, and also on United States Laws and Treaties that govern their import or export.

Finally, there is a list of suggested actions the reader can take that will instill hope and a sense of direction for medicinal species conservation.

Ultimately, the model for protection outlined in Mending the Web of Life can be applied to any species threatened by extinction and helps humans gain perspective on their responsibility in preserving biodiversity for the health and well being of people as well as the Earth.

REF. SITE

http://www.mendingtheweb.com/

A LEGAL DEFENSE OR LAW SUIT DESIGNED FOR THE COURTS TO PROTECT SACRED PLANTS AND THEIR USE ~ "OUR LEGAL RIGHT ~ OUR CASE"

2008-12-06T08:20:20.261Z

IF YOU STUDY ALL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IN THIS GROUP

YOU WILL FIND A LEGAL CASE THAT WAS ONLY KICKED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT DUE TO AN APPEAL BEING FILED A DAY LATE

WHY DID IT NEED TO BE APPEALED ?

THE COURTS SAID, "HE HAD FAILED TO PROVE THE "WEB OF LIFE" BELIEF HAD ANY BASIS IN RELIGION OR THE HISTORY OF RELIGION."

SO THEN HE CONTACTED ME.

AS YOU WILL SEE IN OUR DOCTRINE FOR DIVERSE SANCTUARY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS HERE IN THE U.S. DISAGREED WITH THEIR COURTS ON THIS ISSUE.

WHY OUR DOCTRINE WAS WRITTEN

TO SHOW THE COURTS THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS

DIVERSE SANCTUARY WAS AROUND BEFORE THIS CASE AND THIS WAS OUR DOCTRINE THEN AND IT IS OUR DOCTRINE NOW, ONLY NOW IT IS WRITTEN FOR THE COURTS TO SEE... THAT RON KICZENSKI WAS NOT ALONE IN HIS BELIEF OF THE "WEB OF LIFE" BEING RECOGNIZED AND HAVING BASIS IN RELIGION, OR THE USE OF CANNABIS BY THE CHURCH THROUGH OUT HISTORY.

THIS CASE ALMOST FREED ALL PLANTS FROM MAN'S MUTATION, DESTRUCTION, OWNERSHIP AND YES, EVEN PROHIBITION.

IT SAT ON THE SUPREME COURT FOR 3 YRS.

AND WON MANY APPEALS.

IF A CHURCH WAS TO STAND ON IT, ANY GROUP, OR AN INDIVIDUAL

COMBINED WITH THE RELIGIOUS DOCUMENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES USE OF SACRAMENTAL PLANTS

INCLUDING CANNABIS

SUCH AS THE TORAH, SONGS OF SOLOMON, ECT...

WE/THEY CAN/COULD BEAT THEM IN COURT

WE HAVE ALL THE EVIDENCE AND IT IS ALL RIGHT HERE IN THE PAGES AND LINKS OF THIS GROUP.

SO PLEASE... DO CONSIDER THIS GROUP A TOOL TO HELP PROTECT YOUR MINISTRY, YOURSELF, LIFE AS A WHOLE.

THE "WEB OF LIFE"

AND PLEASE KNOW THAT THE MAN WHO FOUGHT THIS "HISTORICAL" LEGAL CASE IS A MEMBER OF DIVERSE SANCTUARY

AND WE ARE HERE TO HELP AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

MUCH PEACE & LOVE...
REV. MARY

SOME OF OUR MYWEB 2.0 BOOKMARKS

2008-07-23T16:39:28.541Z

SEE ATTACHED FILES JUST BELOW, MARKED ATTACHMENTS

FOR ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE "WEB OF LIFE" SCIENCE, RELIGION, COURT CASE AND THEN SOME...