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A Whistle Blowers Tale:
-Growers Continued from front page
We have identified some of the areas of concern:
Clones:
If you purchase clones,
please,pleasebeware.Know your source! If
those little babies were sprayed with miticide, they
have absorbed it and it will remain in the plant tis-
sues all the way through flowering. This is a major
source of contamination. The same caution goes
for any purchased nursery plant, even those
grown from seed.
Sub-Contractors:
If you work with a sub-contractor, whether a friend
minding your garden while youre away or a share-
cropper, be certain to educate them. They may not
have the same sensibility as you do; some might
just be trying to save their butts and the crop in an
emergency infestation. If they spray while you are
away, your crop will be unsaleable. It will be
worthless.
Soil:
One possible avenue of contamination is the
compost that people are trucking in to Humboldt
from Sonoma County. We suspect that much of it
comes from composted vineyard waste, which
could be heavily contaminated withMyclobutanil.
The best option is to not buy soil, but tobuildit
organically or biodynamically. If you must buy soil,
make sure to have ittestedif it hasnt already
been.
Products from the Internet:
Just like prescription drugs, products sold over
the internet from other countries such as Canada
are frequently mislabeled, sometimes deliberately.
That new organic pesticide promoted as the best
thing ever? It could be that it is not organic at all.
It could be Avid- Abamectin with a bogus label.
This happens all the time. Beware the sales pitch
and use only OMRI* certified products.
We are finding the following and what it seems -
growers are using products off-label and because
the plant is not ingested thinking it is OK
THESE ARE NOT OK:
Spinosad, Permethrin, Palcobutrazol, Bushload
by General Hydroponics
Gravity by Emerald Triangle
Flower Dragon by Grow Envy
Phosphoload by Dutch Master
I am very concerned for the Humboldt community.
So many growers choose not to become legal.
This is a problem. They are used to the old sys-
tem. No longer will a dispensary be able to buy
product from your local dealer.
At this moment we must be vigilant.
Wemustproduce safe product for the legal mar-
ket-- and all markets.
Who wants to poison people for profit?
Not the Humboldt I know and love.
And not the Humboldt I promote.
Karyn Wagner
Chief Culture Evangelist
paradigmcannabis.com
*Organic Materials Review Institute- www.omri.org
In a sustainable society,
nature is not subject to systematically increasing:
Concentrations of substances from the earths crust
(such as fossil CO2 and heavy metals)
concentrations of substances produced by society
(such as antibiotics, and endocrine disruptors,)
degradation by physical means (such as deforestation
and draining of groundwater tables).
And in that society there are no structural obstacles to
peoples health, influence, competence, impartiality
and meaning. www.thenaturalstep.org
In this era of the tweet, it is stylish in a trumpish sort of way to fire
someone with a text message such as: effective todays date
your participation on the (human rights) commission is no
longer required and I am rescinding your appointment. So
saith Estelle Fennel to Christ Weston. Chris had managed to
serve all of 3 months and one day as a representative on the Human
Rights Commission from District 2, Estelles district.
He had serious problems with the Chairman of the Commission,
Jim Glover. Glover's the guy that caused Nezzie Wade to resign
when he suppressed testimony from a human rights combat zone:
SoHum, and turned it all over to one of the implicated parties, Es-
telle Fennell. Said Glover apologetically several times at subsequent
Public meetings, I didnt know she was a member of Locals On
Patrol.
Weston's journey begins and ends after he had called County Council office to ask if a specific email,
sent only to Human Rights Commissioners by Chair Glover, was compatible with the Brown Act. In this
email it appears to intentionally hide a back room deal among HRC members absent public knowl-
edge. He goes on to state that I was summarily firedwithin less than two hours. His Open Letter
was a follow up with Humboldt DA Maggie Flemming at the instruction of the California Attorney
General.
Weston wanted a ruling. This firing he says appears to be more than a coincidental sequence of events.
It appears to be punishing a whistle-blower and enabling a particular commissioner to silence me on
the HRC.
Chairman Glover has a technical problem as well- He cant be a member of both the Human Rights
Commission and the Grand Jury- its against the rules of the Grand Jury. Commissions, Boards, Com-
mittees are appointed, as Chris Weston was, by a live politician with a live political agenda. We see how
that is turning out. A grand juror must have at least the appearance of independence while it appears
that Human Rights Commissions, state-wide, are establishment protectors, constructed to facilitate
cover up, suppression of evidence of official wrong doing, and flak-catching. The Commission will
sorely miss Glover who had an air of innocence that sugar-coated his ability to work that system.
Here is Westons experience as a Commission member with ideas of his own: The HRC Chairman, Jim
Glover put obstacles in my path. He repeatedly ignored my emails and texts. He repeatedly claimed he
did not receive my e-mails, then sometimes miraculously found them later. He refused to confirm he
agendize my topics and proposals for discussion and action, so I confirmed with Ana, Deputy Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors office that all commissioners are equal and their requests to agendize should
be respected. When I mentioned this to Mr. Glover on April 19, during a return trip from a special HRC
meeting in Willow Creek, he yelled, swore like a sailor, used the Almightys name in vain, and
pounded the steering wheel, such that I felt it necessary to request that he keep at least one
hand on the steering wheel. He then drove 70mph in a 35 mph zone coming into Eureka.
He asks DA Flemming to "please consider appropriate remedies to rectify the situation and make it clear
that nobody is above the law, not even Jim Glover." - The Peoples Whistle
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The idea that the US military can vanquish the
enemy with ferocious air power is certainly not
new, but history tells a different story. The US mili-
tary dropped over seven million tons of explosives
in south-east Asia and still lost the Vietnam war.
In the first days of the Afghan war, we were told
that US airpower was no match for the ragtag,
poor, uneducated Taliban religious fanatics. In-
deed, we saw the precursor to the MOAB used
right after the US invasion in 2001. It was the so-
called Daisy Cutter, named after the shape of the In a statement immediately after the MOAB ex-
crater it leaves, weighing 15,000 pounds. plosion, Democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee
The US military also dropped 5,000-pound bunker from California said: President Trump owes the
busters to blow up caves where Osama bin Laden American people an explanation about his escala-
was hiding in the Tora Bora mountains. The Bush tion of military force in Afghanistan and his long-
administration bragged that this awesome air- term strategy to defeat Isis. No president should
power would ensure the Talibans demise. That have a blank check for endless war, especially not
was 16 years ago, and now US military is not only this president, who is acting without any checks
fighting the Taliban but Isis, which first appeared or oversight from the Republican-controlled Con-
in this war-torn nation in 2014. gress.
So, are we really supposed to believe that releas- This mother of all bombs and Trumps new-
ing the deadly power of the MOAB will be a game found penchant for war will not help Afghan
changer? What will happen when it becomes mothers, many of whom are widows struggling to
clear, yet again, that airpower is not enough? take care of their families after their husbands
There are already about 8,500 US troops in Af- have been killed. The $16m cost of this one ex-
ghanistan. Will Trump drag us deeper into this plosion could have provided over 50 million meals
endless war by granting the US Afghan com- for Afghan children.
mander, Gen John Nicholson, his request for sev- Alternatively, with Trumps original playbook of
eral thousand more troops? America First a phrase which originated with
More military intervention wont win the war in isolationists and Nazi sympathizers in the 1940s
Afghanistan, but it will probably win Trump more the money spent on this one bomb could have
favorable ratings in the polls, as he discovered helped American moms by easing Trumps pro-
with the Syria missile strike. posed cuts in the after-school programs so criti-
Bombing other countries certainly takes the atten- cal for their children.
tion off Trumps domestic woes, but perhaps in- Trumps trigger-happy finger is careening the
stead of the congratulatory adulations by Trump world down a reckless and dangerous path, not
himself, and his fans and critics alike, we should
only deepening US involvement in ongoing con-
be asking: just where is this escalation leading? flicts but threatening new ones with nuclear pow-
This president does not have a track record for ers from Russia to North Korea.
deep thinking or long-term planning. Trump told Perhaps its time for a new resistance movement
reporters that this bombing was another very, called MOAB: the Mothers of All Babies, where
very successful mission, but when asked about women come together to stop this misogynist,
long-term strategy he remained elusive. He de- war-loving president from blowing up all our ba-
flected a question about whether or not he him- bies by starting World War III.
self had ordered the bombing by offering one of -Madea Benjamin
his canned responses about having the worlds www.codepink.org
greatest military.
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