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POPSGeorge Washington's Hemp Crop The father of our country had painful wooden teeth. And cannabis is a potent painkiller found in traditional medical practices the world over going back thousands of years. Fiber hemp farmers don't separate the male from female plants. Marijuana farmers remove the male plants (which display their sex first) before they fertilize the females so that the females then produce lots of THC. Fertilized female plants produce very little THC, putting their energy into making seeds instead. Male plants produce almost no THC. I'm just sayin...
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POPSBritain BC / Britain AD Episode 1 of 2 (BC) and 1 of 3 (AD). Fascinating new understandings of British culture, history, and archaeology. Rather than being solely the inheritors of Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman invaders, Pryor demonstrates that there was a sophisticated homegrown British culture that didn't just roll over when the next group of heavily-armed foreigners in boats showed up. And that in the absence of outside "civilizers" Britons didn't just revert to mud-wallowing barbarians.
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POPSSparta Reconsidered The Spartan public educational system, the agoge, was admired almost universally by contemporaries, from historians such as Herodotus and Xenophon to philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Although Spartans were proud to say that they built their monuments "in flesh"—meaning that the virtue and courage of Sparta's citizens were the greatest monuments a city-state could possess—they were not lacking in architectural and artistic achievements, as was well catalogued by the Ancient Greek tour-guide, Pausanias. Spartan music and dance were famous throughout the ancient world, and the oldest recorded heterosexual love poem was the work of a Spartan poet praising Spartan maidens. Spartan wit and mastery of rhetoric were so widely admired that ancient Greek scholars collected "Spartan sayings" and the "Laconic" style of speech was studied and imitated in intellectual circles. & as a culture, not all that gay[/u
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POPSGay British Soldier on the cover of British Army Magazine more: Let us hope we achieve the same success soon. The arguments about troop morale, already quite evidently manifest codswallop , are just laughable when the British military has 10 years of convincing evidence to the contrary. There is no intellectual honesty in the unit cohesion argument anymore, if there ever was; only bigotry.
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POPSDisemvoweler: A Moderators Best Friend I've had a stated rule in my profile that I will delete comments in threads I clip that descend into personal attack. What the disemvoweler does is confiscates the offending poster's vowels. That way as the clip moderator, I can delete & repost their comment with only the offending segment edited. An example: "I think the politician you support has a history of lying and taking bribes. You must be a mental deficient or inherently corrupt for supporting him." becomes "I think the politician you support has a history of lying and taking bribes. Y mst b mntl dfcnt r nhrntly crrpt fr spprtng hm." Confronting peoples positions, facts, ideas, logic, or arguments. Just don't get personal or you lose your vowels. So says the moderator
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POPSThis is how Grandpa was traind to kill Nazis/Imperial Japanese More "How Grandpa Learned to Kill" video: Kill Or Be Killed . Grappling is for sports & competition. Soldiers are supposed to Kill The Enemy . Currently, we're training our soldiers to grapple. The fad for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu/grappling has swept military combatives recently. Some active duty service-members think this is a bad idea. They think we are teaching our soldiers how to die rather than kill.
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POPSSaint Nicholas Timeline SHORT STORY RESEARCH . MORE: 1845 The Netherlands A new picture book by Jan Schenkman shaped modern Dutch customs by establishing Sint Nicolaas arrival on a steamboat from Spain with a Moorish assistant. Crowds still enthusiastically greet their arrival each year in mid-November. 1864—1886 Thomas Nast draws Santa Harper's Weekly features Nast's Santas with flowing beards, rotund shapes, fur suits, and clay pipes. 1931 Coca-Cola Santa Each year from 1931 to 1964 Haddon Sundblom created a new Santa for Coca-Cola's "thirst knows no season" campaign. His life-size Santas in white fur-trimmed red suits are now the American Santa Claus. 1994 St. Nicholas Defense Action committees in the Netherlands tell Santa Claus to stay away until after St. Nicholas Day, December 6th.
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POPSThe History of Weed This makes the war on MJ look like a waste of time and resources. I never knew its use had been so present throughout history.
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POPSIs there really an ancient hatred between Jews & Arabs? Zionism as a political movement espoused the idea that the only place Jews could be safe from the history of pogroms, persecution, and murder they had suffered was in a Jewish state. That's fine as far as it goes, except they chose Palestine to establish this homeland, and espoused the motto A land without a people, for a People without a land . That was a lie. Palestine had people living there continuously for generations, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. Was there a country called "Palestine" in the early 20th century? No, up until the end of WW1, most of the middle east was just "The Ottoman (Turk) Empire". Today's map of the Middle East was drawn in the 20th century in the aftermath of WW1. Israel declared itself a state in 1948. But to say that Palestine was, at the beginning of the 20th century, "A land without a people" was a lie. http://ifamericansknew.org
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POPSAmerica used Chess, not torture, on the Nazis Does this mean Nazis are nice people who should be treated nicely? No. Nazis suck and espouse hate and violence. What this means is that the professionals understand that torture does not provide good intelligence . Torture is cruelty as cruelty, as intimidation, as a message to others who hear about it and think about resisting what we want. Torture is a political tool, not a professional intelligence gathering one
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POPSCannabis helped defeat Hitler! 1942 government film giving this history of industrial uses of the cannabis plants (a.k.a. hemp), and encouraging farmers to grow it for the war effort. Industrial hemp won't get you high if you smoke it. And people growing ganja to smoke would never think of hiding it in a field of industrial plants, as pollination from the industrial plants would ruin the ganja's smokability. see also: - The Hemp Revolution
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POPSThe Hemp Revolution [documentary] I firmly believe that economic and environmental imperatives will compel America to re-examine our relationship to this plant. It's going to get to the point where people realize that, aside from recreational use, it's just too damn useful a plant and it grows damn well just about anywhere. The cannabis plant helped defeat Germany and Japan. HEMP FOR VICTORY!
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POPSSweet Misery: A Poisoned World [Aspartame documentary] That diet soda is probably destroying your brain. If you don't want to get overweight, drink water and get more movement into your life. But please, STOP DRINKING THIS CANCEROUS CHEMICAL THAT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE SO MUCH MONEY OFF! And for HEAVEN'S SAKE, please don't give this stuff to your kids. That's borderline abuse.
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POPSNSA Secret Files Revealed after 40 years The National Security Agency Central Security Service has after 40 years revealed its Secret Files. June 6th was the 40th anniversary of the murder of 34 innocent servicemen and 173 casualties , some very serious. The miracle was that the ship didn't sink with all hands as the lifeboats had been deliberately destroyed when launched. WW3 might well have started as US nuclear armed aircraft were intending bombing Cairo as revenge for the sinking of USS Liberty by the Egyptians as planned by the real perpetrator, Israel. Fortunately the Liberty got off a signal in time.
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