Ralph welcomes old friend, former running mate, and now hemp farmer, Winona LaDuke as well as filmmaker Michael Henning to talk about how industrial hemp can transform the U.S. from a polluting hydrocarbon economy to a healthier carbohydrate economy. And Maryland state senator, Paul Pinsky joins us to promote his bill that will close loopholes and make corporations pay their fair share in state taxes. Plus, Ralph answers your questions.
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What a HOME RUN this PROGRAM is !!.!!
(1) HOW WE CAN USE & APPLY A “CITIZENS SUMMIT”
(2) FARM AID (Endorsed by Willy Nelson) to GR02
INDUSTRIAL HEMP for the FAMILY FARMER (as a “PEOPLES CROP”
It does NOT need USBIDIES from the PRIVATE CORPORATE GOVT.
Since HEMP will set the Seed into REPRODUCING,
the last thing a farmer wants is Marijuana.
FOOD…………F00D for ANIMALS & PEOPLE
FUEL ………. DIESEL from SEED
FIBER……….. HEMP CONCRETE
MEDICINE ….FEED STOCK for CARBON CAPTURE &
making HYDROGEN: OUR NEXT GLOBAL ENERGY.w. WATER
**** 8 HOME RUNS **** BLESS YOU & THANK YOU ALL**** ****
Carbohydrates are the enemies of health. I’d rather drink unrefined crude oil than eat Ammurrican bread.
Typical elitist comment.
Thanks for addressing my comment on creating a non-profit corporation media conglomerate. While it may be similar in some ways to the Audience Network, you seem to have missed the key difference.
The Audience Network didn’t happen because it required congressional action.
The media conglomerate I am proposing just needs you to get it started.
You could set up the non-profit and start selling shares and buying up/starting up media right now without needing any congressional action.
Why wait another forty years for congressional action that is not going to happen when it could just be done now by you and citizens alone?
The reason for hemp containment is the timbe & paper industries profits!
Henry Ford’s soybean based car 1941. Hemp would probably work just as well.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/soy-bean-car/
If our lives were actually spent “working in the fields during the day and reading Shakespeare at night,” it would hardly matter what was being grown in the fields, although it would be a great further benefit if it were hemp.
The answer to “who is opposed to hemp” is answered in the same list of types of products derived from it that is used to promote it: food, fiber, fuel & medicine. Just put “industry” after each one. I’d suggest one more: agriculture itself: I’ve read that problems of lack of soil fertility correspond to a lack of carbohydrate more than the commonly assumed nitrogen. A mixed fallow crop of a legume and hemp could fertilize soil for whatever crop that follows and reduce dependence on hydrocarbon-derived purified nitrogen fertilizers, the excess use of which has wrecked havoc in many aquifers.
Has the pro-hemp movement looked seriously into the energy balance of hemp farming? That is, while hemp itself can readily replace products formerly derived from hydrocarbons (“petrol chemicals” being more clear if not lending itself to promotional slogans), its cultivation is still dependent on petrochemicals, at this point. Can the hemp derived fuel (bio-diesel) be shown by calculation to truly provide the fuel needed to raise the next crop?
Bio-diesel proponents are sure on the right track but the infrastructure and energy expended to produce it severely makes the EROEI – energy return on energy invested (see acronym in Wiki) – equation difficult to register in the “+” area. I’d suggest that while research is being done, as explained, into the design of specific harvesting machinery, there should also be an effort to find how farm engines can be modified to burn hemp oil (starting point for hemp diesel) directly as fuel without the need steps of the diesel-producing process.
Some further comparison between the Audience Network and my proposal for a non-government initiated non-profit corporation media conglomerate.
The non-government media conglomerate can use the 1.5 billion (or more) to start the corporation right now.
The Audience Network will need to raise much more than 1.5 billion just to get Congress to consider the Audience Network and even more to get passed into law and implemented as proposed and will take YEARS if it can happen at all.
The non-government conglomerate will be producing 100% of the content that the Audience Network would only provide in small amounts of the other media’s content.
The non-government conglomerate could put on a Washington Journal type program that has guests like Ralph Nader and guests on the Radio Hour instead of the usual suspects that dominate Washington Journal now. (have you been on Washington Journal since 10-24-2018?)
Then when our phones lines are all backed up with callers and Washington Journal is left with two callers and five people tweeting they might try improving the quality of their program to get viewers back.
The same might also work against the cable news networks, newspapers, and other media when their advertisers don’t want to pay to for ads that no one will see because they getting their news from the non-government conglomerate.
We can use the same approach the oligarchs use to circumvent democracy to protect democracy.
A variation on the “Irresistable” movie.
Isn’t there a way to convert organic hemp into a liquid which can be used in 3D printers. This’d change EVERYTHING!