Jill Stein came to New York today and made more money for her recount project. Which is very good news for companies like Exxon Mobile, Lockheed Martin, etc. She has already $8,500,000 in such firms, so she is a loyal investor. Many in the GOP no doubt approve.
And since she raised over $6,000,000 for the recount of the votes this November in the US, she is going to have a lot more. Which some people think was going to be spent on the recount. In fact that was the premise of her solicitation.
But that is not where the money went. She could have had a recount in Pennsylvania, but she did not want to pay the state fee of $1,000,000 to pay for their workers. Maybe she expected them to do it for free. And keep the money she raised.
Arriving in New York at 10am, she headed for the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, across from which she made her speech. The press was there in great force, but only to listen to her. When I showed them the information about her, they rudely ignored it. They know she has lots of money and makes an easy story just showing up to ask for more money.
Most of the passersby knew that too. While the press was rude, the crowd reached out to me, and when I told them the facts about Stein were easy to check - and FREE - they wanted to know why the journalists were acting like petulant brats. Lots of disgust from both Democrats and Republicans on this. I ridiculed them for hours - and told one fool who wanted only an easy scoop that I could face every single American in the face after having done my bit They acted bored and stupid. They did squirm as I pointed them out, and had to endure my honest criticism for their dishonest and sloppy work.
CNN was especially rude, and this after assaulting me on 9 November when I asked them why they were only reporting one side to the story. I had to threaten them with arrest. CNN treats American with contempt by not telling the whole story, ignoring issues like hemp, Clinton's sexual abuse of Cathy O'Brien, etc.
Other outlets are also full of stupid lazy hacks. Just look at the lack of articles on hemp - compared to the multitude of articles on Kim Kardashian. Or dope. Written by dopes.
So while I am not against a recount, Jill Stein is NOT the person to be trusted with it and lots of money. Who knows what she is really doing with it. And how many fools there are in the Green Party to allow someone with the kind of investment she has to be their candidate.
That said, in case someone wants to accuse me of being some kind of right wing activist, go on this very blog and see how many times I supported Cynthia McKinney when she was the Green Party presidential candidate. A black woman FYI. The press ignored her since she went after Bush, and did not just allow hypocrisy in the Democrat party.
So there. Let's see what Trump will do with the hemp issue, bear in mind that two top Republicans were mor in support than either Greens or Democrats, I am referring to Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, both Senators from Kentucky - and let's not forget Ron Paul, retired Congressman from Victoria, Texas, the town in which my sister runs Minawear ( www.minawear.com ).
And of course, I was wearing Minawear hemp clothing - Jill Stein was not. Very few in the Greens really support hemp now with her as their candidate, maybe they smoke dope. Must be to be giving her money.
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Monday, December 05, 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Rolling Stoned
As a hemp blog, this is certainly bound to be confused with, and share some attention with, drug sites. Hemp is, after all, Cannabis sativa, perhaps the world's most used drug, with a wide range of applications medicinally and many varieties of hash and marijuana.
However, I happen to be a drug free person; and I am also a victim of drug related violence, when here in Manhattan I was held down and stabbed on East 23rd Street at the notorious Kenmore Hotel, which was later taken over, with some assistance on my part, by local, state and federal law enforcement.
Enigma thus casts its shadow over my work, with my hand forced to deal with a wide range of issues and characters, including marijuana. And much as I endorse making both industrial hemp and marijuana legal, I am not about to support in any way drug addiction or the sick, violent world of drug dealing.
As a victim of violent drug dealers, I am disgusted by the recent article in Rolling Stone in which not only a drug dealer, but a terrorist who has killed American citizens while living in the lap of luxury from his ill gotten gains, is interviewed by Sean Penn. This self serving thespian sees no duty to turn in a criminal; he gains attention and money from his chat with the lowlife, and does not take into account the deaths of his fellow American, many of them babies and children, who die each year due to the greed of drug dealers.
In some countries what he has done is illegal. It is immoral anywhere. The only interaction with El Chapo should be to make an arrest, such as I performed on drug dealers here in Manhattan, after they came to my attention by slashing the face of a former Marine. Navy man that I am, I did not see fit to let this go. And it did not have to be a fellow serviceman who was their victim; I feel the same obligation to anyone, including babies and children, and that is the reality that Penn and Rolling Stone seem to lack awareness of. In the world of Hollywood and hip mags, drugs are just par for the course or even way cool.
They are not. Drugs kill, drugs destroy lives, and drugs are a MAJOR part of the economic woes in America today. But noting such issues and caring for them is NOT cool in some circles; in fact, it can get you sneered at.
Rolling Stone has to learn to draw the line. It does not need to give the perception of glamorizing drug dealers, terrorists and fools to remain hip. I count myself among its readers, partly for the music angle, and partly for works by veteran journalists such as Matt Taibbi. But I am in the mood to boycott this publication and call upon everyone in America to do the same.
A tough line against drugs and any parties promoting drugs or making them seem cool is what is needed. But before I call a boycott - standing outside their 6th Avenue midtown offices with posters and sign up sheets, I would like to talk to them and work on remedy.
If they are man enough to meet with me, we can work this out. If not, and I end up 'talking to the hand' with unanswered emails and labyrinth like phone systems to waste my time, then I am left no choice but to get in their face, like I did when drug dealers got out of line.
I am a man. A man stands up for real issues and meets the needs in his society. Talking to El Chapo may be 'way cool' and help to sell magazines, but it is not how to meets no need. Arresting him and having information on his whereabouts is; and that part took real men, not hipster actors.
Real men, in fact, died performing that, while actors went to the bank and partied, seeking the attention they did not deserve; and Rolling Stone was a vehicle for them to grab this attention.
Enough already. Rolling Stone will be hearing from me, with an amicable remedy in hand.
Part of which will be not about what they published; which, as one politician succinctly said is grotesque, but about the conspicuous absence of any major article on C. sativa as hemp. That is not just a cool issue, but one which affects the US economy. Hemp gives farmers an easy to cultivate crop, producing a raw material that was used, incidentally, in the making of the first American flag. Let's hope that Rolling Stone did not run short on resources giving Penn and his pal the limelight, but that they are able to allocate time and funds to a seminal piece about something that has place in America's past, present and future.
Or would that just not be their kind of cool?
However, I happen to be a drug free person; and I am also a victim of drug related violence, when here in Manhattan I was held down and stabbed on East 23rd Street at the notorious Kenmore Hotel, which was later taken over, with some assistance on my part, by local, state and federal law enforcement.
Enigma thus casts its shadow over my work, with my hand forced to deal with a wide range of issues and characters, including marijuana. And much as I endorse making both industrial hemp and marijuana legal, I am not about to support in any way drug addiction or the sick, violent world of drug dealing.
As a victim of violent drug dealers, I am disgusted by the recent article in Rolling Stone in which not only a drug dealer, but a terrorist who has killed American citizens while living in the lap of luxury from his ill gotten gains, is interviewed by Sean Penn. This self serving thespian sees no duty to turn in a criminal; he gains attention and money from his chat with the lowlife, and does not take into account the deaths of his fellow American, many of them babies and children, who die each year due to the greed of drug dealers.
In some countries what he has done is illegal. It is immoral anywhere. The only interaction with El Chapo should be to make an arrest, such as I performed on drug dealers here in Manhattan, after they came to my attention by slashing the face of a former Marine. Navy man that I am, I did not see fit to let this go. And it did not have to be a fellow serviceman who was their victim; I feel the same obligation to anyone, including babies and children, and that is the reality that Penn and Rolling Stone seem to lack awareness of. In the world of Hollywood and hip mags, drugs are just par for the course or even way cool.
They are not. Drugs kill, drugs destroy lives, and drugs are a MAJOR part of the economic woes in America today. But noting such issues and caring for them is NOT cool in some circles; in fact, it can get you sneered at.
Rolling Stone has to learn to draw the line. It does not need to give the perception of glamorizing drug dealers, terrorists and fools to remain hip. I count myself among its readers, partly for the music angle, and partly for works by veteran journalists such as Matt Taibbi. But I am in the mood to boycott this publication and call upon everyone in America to do the same.
A tough line against drugs and any parties promoting drugs or making them seem cool is what is needed. But before I call a boycott - standing outside their 6th Avenue midtown offices with posters and sign up sheets, I would like to talk to them and work on remedy.
If they are man enough to meet with me, we can work this out. If not, and I end up 'talking to the hand' with unanswered emails and labyrinth like phone systems to waste my time, then I am left no choice but to get in their face, like I did when drug dealers got out of line.
I am a man. A man stands up for real issues and meets the needs in his society. Talking to El Chapo may be 'way cool' and help to sell magazines, but it is not how to meets no need. Arresting him and having information on his whereabouts is; and that part took real men, not hipster actors.
Real men, in fact, died performing that, while actors went to the bank and partied, seeking the attention they did not deserve; and Rolling Stone was a vehicle for them to grab this attention.
Enough already. Rolling Stone will be hearing from me, with an amicable remedy in hand.
Part of which will be not about what they published; which, as one politician succinctly said is grotesque, but about the conspicuous absence of any major article on C. sativa as hemp. That is not just a cool issue, but one which affects the US economy. Hemp gives farmers an easy to cultivate crop, producing a raw material that was used, incidentally, in the making of the first American flag. Let's hope that Rolling Stone did not run short on resources giving Penn and his pal the limelight, but that they are able to allocate time and funds to a seminal piece about something that has place in America's past, present and future.
Or would that just not be their kind of cool?
Monday, July 21, 2014
Hemp string bags for New York City; a solution to economic problems in the US
An article in the New York Daily News ("Money in the Plastic Bags" by Corinne Lestch) on 19 July talked about the possibility of the city imposing a fee on plastic bags in an effort to eradicate them; they produce a mess and cost millions to the taxpayer to clean up.
Yet the 'solution' of charging a fee is not a solution; just a way to raise money. So what is the solution? Objectively, it is not right to be simply negative and not offer a positive alternative. So let me step up to the plate and talk from experience; years ago, people in many countries used string bags, 'file' they were called in Istanbul - and they were re-used many times. When it was time to throw them out, they could be recycled easily into paper. And nations that used them were not obligated to source the materials for these bags from other nations; string could be made from many plant fibres, most notably, and easily for the US - from hemp.
So imagine! A patriotic solution (most readers probably know already that the first US flag was made of hemp) - and one that would start an industry in the US using American grown raw materials.
But does the New York Daily News give a damn? The perception exists that for the many years, in fact decades that I have tried, along with others, to get even one little story on hemp for the US economy or the environment in their paper, they do not; it seems they are a bunch of fools spitting on the American dream as they make money off of chopping down trees for paper made, not in America, but in Southeast Asia. And their paper, like the billions of plastic bags in New York, becomes pollution.
What is their solution to my caustic - yet pertinent - remarks? Prove me wrong; write about hemp and help the campaign to grow hemp in America, start a string and string bag industry, and along with it, paper recycling so Americans, not just city slicker reporters working for a billionaire, can have jobs.
Or, they can do nothing; and prove me right.
I implore the reader to contact the New York Daily News and put pressure on them. But only if you want jobs in the US.
Yet the 'solution' of charging a fee is not a solution; just a way to raise money. So what is the solution? Objectively, it is not right to be simply negative and not offer a positive alternative. So let me step up to the plate and talk from experience; years ago, people in many countries used string bags, 'file' they were called in Istanbul - and they were re-used many times. When it was time to throw them out, they could be recycled easily into paper. And nations that used them were not obligated to source the materials for these bags from other nations; string could be made from many plant fibres, most notably, and easily for the US - from hemp.
So imagine! A patriotic solution (most readers probably know already that the first US flag was made of hemp) - and one that would start an industry in the US using American grown raw materials.
But does the New York Daily News give a damn? The perception exists that for the many years, in fact decades that I have tried, along with others, to get even one little story on hemp for the US economy or the environment in their paper, they do not; it seems they are a bunch of fools spitting on the American dream as they make money off of chopping down trees for paper made, not in America, but in Southeast Asia. And their paper, like the billions of plastic bags in New York, becomes pollution.
What is their solution to my caustic - yet pertinent - remarks? Prove me wrong; write about hemp and help the campaign to grow hemp in America, start a string and string bag industry, and along with it, paper recycling so Americans, not just city slicker reporters working for a billionaire, can have jobs.
Or, they can do nothing; and prove me right.
I implore the reader to contact the New York Daily News and put pressure on them. But only if you want jobs in the US.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Clear drying, good tasting Ukranian hemp oil
Monday, June 24, 2013
New York Times article on legal pot
The following article, by Emily Gogolak appeared in the New York Times on 14 June. It underscores the absurdity of the fact that pot can be legal - but industrial hemp is not? We know the Founding Fathers used and cultivated the latter, but were they really into skunk? Rare is the reporter or politician who seems to have the slightest bit of knowledge of the real issue here, which is industrial cannabis, i.e. hemp.
Kalvin Savanh grew up in Portland, Ore., and, during high school, he said, he grew marijuana. About 15 years later, Mr. Savanh, 33, still helps grow it — but now it is legal.
Kalvin Savanh grew up in Portland, Ore., and, during high school, he said, he grew marijuana. About 15 years later, Mr. Savanh, 33, still helps grow it — but now it is legal.
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
Andrew Jon Thomson, center, founder of Terpene Power, was among representatives from 18 start-up companies who attended a conference organized by the ArcView Investor Network, a group of entrepreneurs looking to invest in legal cannabis companies.
On Friday, Mr. Savanh and a childhood friend, William Serafica, the co-founders of Dynamiq Lightning, a Portland-based company that sells products for indoor cannabis cultivation, met near Wall Street with about 40 potential investors to encourage them to enter the cannabis industry at a time when 19 states have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
The two were among representatives from 18 start-up companies who attended a conference organized by the ArcView Investor Network, a group of entrepreneurs looking to invest in legal cannabis companies. The companies represented do not grow or sell marijuana, but rather provide services to the industry — like security, lighting and storage.
“This is a historical moment,” said Troy Dayton, 36, chief executive officer of the ArcView Group. Likening the rise of the cannabis industry to the technology boom of the 1990s, he said he saw marijuana as the next frontier. “We’re announcing to Wall Street, this is the real deal,” he said.
Still, those involved in the business face a twofold challenge. On one hand, many states — including New York — have not legalized marijuana for medical purposes. Many in the industry also acknowledge that marijuana faces a lingering image problem.
Brendan Kennedy, 41, whose Seattle-based private equity firm, Privateer Holdings, invests in the cannabis industry, said he worried that his firm would be thought of as “the cannabis guys,” adding, “We learned most preconceptions are wrong.”
The key, he said, is in presentation. Pointing to a corporate-looking sign for the company Leafly, a Web site that allows users to review medical cannabis strains and dispensaries, he said: “There aren’t pot leaves. There is no Grateful Dead. There are no nurses in bikinis.”
While those in the industry spoke optimistically about marijuana moving from the fringe to the mainstream in the next several years, and of more states legalizing it, resistance remains.
In New York, it is doubtful that the Legislature will vote to legalize marijuana this year. While the Assembly approved a measure last week, the Senate has never brought it up for a vote. In a radio interview in April, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said: “I think we have to be very, very careful. Yes, there are potential upsides. But you don’t want to increase the distribution of drugs by creating another system.”
Still, those gathered at the conference on Friday were upbeat about their long-term prospects.
Daniel Williams, 35, the president of Canna Security America, a Denver-based security solutions company for the medical marijuana industry, was optimistic. “I believe once we hit the 25-state mark, that will be the tipping point of federal legalization.” Besides, he said, “the cannabis industry is growing so quickly, there’s no stopping it.”
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 19, 2013
An article in some editions on Saturday about the cannabis industry’s efforts to attract Wall Street investment misstated the surname of the chief executive of the ArcView Group, an investor network. He is Troy Dayton, not Danton.
Correction: June 19, 2013
An article in some editions on Saturday about the cannabis industry’s efforts to attract Wall Street investment misstated the surname of the chief executive of the ArcView Group, an investor network. He is Troy Dayton, not Danton.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Interview with Greta Gaines
This is an interview with Greta Gaines, a musician and hemp activist, and supporter of the petition to President Obama.
Q: You are a woman. An American woman. Most of the American politicians who are keepinghemp illegal, and keeping America from profiting from hemp - which is much a part of its heritage -are men. How do you feel about that - do you respect them as men, as the protectors and defenders of yourcountry or might you agree that they do not deserve respect?
Q: Why do you think that hemp is legal in so many other countries?
Hemp is legal in all industrial countries of the world because it is the finest plant known to man. no other plant has has many uses, as many essential fatty acids..no other plant has made itself more useful to mankind from the dawn of mankind then hemp. the big question is: why isn't it legal here?
Q: How do you feel as an American seeing these other countries make moneyfrom the plant that was used for the first American flag, for the US Navy, for medicine,for textiles and many other products in the US?
I think it's least patriotic thing in the world to turn one's back on hemp...the dog of the plant world..the plant that was used as currency here for hemp's sake! i call it the greatest coup of a natural resource in US history when the marijuana tax stamp was passed in 1937. the issue was never about making marijuana as a drug illegal it was about the greatest industrialists in the country wanting hemp out of the picture competing with standard oil, the Hearst paper mills, Dupont's new synthetic fibers and the alcohol and cotten cartels. it was heist and the american public got screwed and is to this day. an out and out travesty in my opinion.
Q: Should states cultivate hemp once it is legal and disregard the federal laws thatprohibit cultivation?
yes!!
Q: You are a woman. An American woman. Most of the American politicians who are keepinghemp illegal, and keeping America from profiting from hemp - which is much a part of its heritage -are men. How do you feel about that - do you respect them as men, as the protectors and defenders of yourcountry or might you agree that they do not deserve respect?
On a fundamental level I do feel that hating on hemp does hand in hand with hating on mother nature. we humans and males i particular have a history of hating on plant based medicines. why use a beautiful plant given to us by the great mother nature when you can pull out a chemical compound from that plant, patent it and make lots of $$ on it while keeping the plant illegal. so yes as a woman i am resentful of any affront to mother nature's bounty.
Q: What other women in the US are doing anything about hemp - what do you think of Cynthia McKinney, MinaHegaard or any others in the fray?
Women and men are uniting on this issue. i get really inspired by Willie Nelson's wife Annie who is helping to put together a clothing line with Willie, Ziggy Marley and Woody Harrelson. Mina's line of products are also soo inspiring!
Q: Are there any US politicians who you think are really making a difference?
I think Jared Polis and Barney Frank both are in the fray and really get this issue.
Q: Would you care to comment on the irony of the fact that guns, military grade semi-automatic guns - are completely legal, yet hemp is not?
what can you say? guns and money vs hemp and health? our society is still very much skewed toward violence and dis-ease instead of peace and harmony.
Q: What do you think about the press - or rather lack of press - on hemp?
Those of us who are into this issues are obsessed and outraged that there hasn't been a national sit in demanding that hemp become re-legalized. i feel the tide is turing and that in the next 5 years it will be re-legalized, what a wonderful legacy Obama would leave if he made it legal on his way out of office. i guess talking about hemp is not as sexy as talking about medical marijuana but it is really just as important to the health of the nation, we are just getting left in the dust by Canada and the rest of the world. Everyone i turn onto hemp becomes so sure of it's benefits that they add it to their daily diets and feel immeasurably better and different for it.
Q: Would you support an initiative to have hemp activists contact their local journalists and press for features on hemp, or should we just sit back and wait for them to discover the issue?
Absolutely!!
Q: Would you also support an intiative for hemp activists to contact their Congressman (or woman) and Senator and lobby for hemp, making a note of those who refuse to do so and putting that record up on the internet for other Americans to see?
Of course!
Q: Are politicians in America guilty at to any extent of betraying their country by not supporting this issue - especially when they seemto have so much time to support frivolous issues?
One of our tee shirt designs at my online store Cannibuzz.com is called the patriotic pothead tee. they sport quotes on the back from our founding father's as to the wonders of hemp. politicians today are guilty of pure laziness in not educating themselves as to the wonders of hemp. our Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper wrote me back a letter when i wrote to him about re-legalizing hemp with the most ridiculous and uninformed response. his form letter said essentially that he can't support growing industrial hemp because that would make it too difficult for law enforcement to bust outdoor illegal marijauna grows. his letter showed a stupefying level of ignorance about the plant and the huge differences between industrial hemp and medical cannabis.Q: Let's say the press ignores, or as it did in the past, maligns the issue - what would you think of picketing outsidemajor press offices in cities like New York to shine a spotlight on this issue?I would be willing to picket. i think the time has come!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
No Public transport in New York City/Ferry to Roosevelt Island/
My last post was about Hurricane Sandy's destruction, which is compounded by the politicians' lack of preparedness; what comes to mind right away is the lack of transportation, the lack of pumps in the subways which are now flooded, and the lack of any alternate transportation; such as ferries.
NY has a history of these, so there is precedent - and no excuse not to have them. One does run from the tip of Manhattan to Staten Island, which has no subway - and for what it's worth, one to Governor's Island, which was closed earlier this year when I went with a friend to take a ride - but other ferries are not to be found. One in particular, or the lack of one, hits home, as I visit a friend who is housed in a hospital on Roosevelt Island. It has only one vehicular access bridge, from Queens; a tram, and a subway. All of which are out of order now, and the hospital being surrounded by water and on low ground, I am worried about my friend and cannot get him on the phone.
So it brings to mind a conversation I had with residents of the island and 12th Congressional District candidate-to-be Wade Emory Johnson, when he asked about a ferry, which could run to Queens, Manhattan and other parts. It was said that the MTA opposed the idea as it would compete with the train
America is about competition. Competition would have created a way to get to work for the hundreds of workers in the hospital, some of whom ended up trapped at the hospital. Ferries do not need expensive tunnels and are not confined to fixed routes. They serve a need and can be rerouted as needed in emergencies. And they are fun to ride.
So why no ferry? Ask the mayor, the borough president, the congressman, and everyone else involved in this rotten thieving administration. Maybe the answer is that they stole so much money there was none left for this.
And ask them what they are doing about hemp, which could provide jobs for Americans, and from which ferries can be powered.
But don't expect an answer. They have hijacked this country and will not give it back.
Hurricane Sandy hits New York
I'm here in New York, watching stunned as the unpreparedness for the storm has left people wounded, hungry, or dead. In Kinsgsbridge, there is a large armory, which you would expect to be open at a time like this, but no; it houses a few national guardsmen, and to hell with the taxpayer. 10 acres of land put to no use in the middle of a great metropolis.Where was the mayor or Rubin Diaz, the borough president?
Power is out in areas of Kingsbridge, with fallen trees straddling what was once cars, fences and houses. But this is a haven compared to Manhattan and Brooklyn, where whole neighbourhoods are flooded, power is out, Con Ed exploded, buildings caved in, and there is no transportation; not that there is any here in the Bronx, which is connected to three other boroughs by the subway; this has ground to a halt with entire stations under water. Buses do not run. Bridges and tunnels are closed.
It is like the Joker in a Batman movie is having fun with us all, while the politicians, secretly his friends, do nothing; why was not more money spent on flood protection, why are armories sitting closed and idle, why did the backup generator at NYU hospital fail, why, why, why?
Because the public does not watch these people as they steal our money. Bloomberg's administration pilfered $80million in one campaign alone, which was ironically supposed to stop theft. It was theft. That money could have protected NY but it did not.
So I sit here wondering if I will get food to buy, or if ATMs will work, or if I can get to work
with no public transport. There were no pumps at the subway stations, just lots of CCTVs to watch your every move, like the Harvey Dent Act, again, in a Batman movie. At least I have a pound of hemp, which is high in nutrition, so I'll be eating an old fav, brocoli with hemp sauce, hemp seeds, garlic, peppers and cheddar. Hemp sauce is like soy sauce but does not use soy so is environmentally friendly.
And it makes me wonder if the destruction of the Amazon by soy loving jerks is not a factor it these storms. Katrina, Sandy, you name them, but you can't tame them.\Fast and furious they come, and man is reaping what he sowed.
It is time we changed our politicians and sowed hemp - which they refuse to let us do in the US.
Until we do we'll just have to endure more storms.
So make sure you have batteries, water, and a box of hemp seeds, you may be without power for a long time.
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Wade Emory Johnson for Congress
New York is not a big hemp state, although it was grown here back in the day. There are no hemp shops,
and only an occasional eatery that uses it, surprising the number of health conscious people there are here;
Whole Foods has several shops and is opening yet another on the East Side. They sell very little and yesterday after going to four of their outlets I came back with no hemp.
Politically, very few legislators care or know. The expection would be Jerrold Nadler, a long term incumbent
in the 8th Congressional District - which is the southern end of Manhattan to 34th St. on the West Side, + a smidgeon of Brooklyn. He is actually a co-sponsor of the Hemp Bill with Dr Ron Paul.
His thinking is more independent than most of his Democrat colleagues. But really, American needs more independents, and more hemp. And both were found unexpectedly one day while making my weekly visit to Roosevelt Island. Parenthetically, I am not sure which Roosevelt it is named after...Teddy turned Indepenedent but after naming his party the Bull Moose Party he lost the race...but I digress. This weekly visit is to see an elderly friend of mine who is staying in Coler-Goldwater and outside the subway stop was a man asking for signatures. The kind of thing I avoid, but for some reason he seemed a cut above and we got to talking. Turns out he is seeking the Independent candidacy for the 8th Cong Dist., which is the Upper East Side, Roosevelt Island, part of Queens and a bit of Brooklyn.
Usually these guys seeking office are a waste of time on real issues, so I shot him the hemp one. Not that he knew tons of info, but he did know, and I did not which impresses me - a place on East 17th that uses hemp oil and seed, so I will have to go and check it out (and blog about it here.)
Wade Emory Johnson is his name, he is an established human rights lawyer in New York and has dealt with a greatnumber of different nationalities in his day, so he has gotten to know the people. And the people seem to know him, as we had barely set foot in the Starbucks a week later when he was bring recognised and chatted up by former petition signers.
This was after he accompanied me to on my lonely vigil to see a patient there - and what surprises is that he walked both ways, it was a mile trek in the hot New York sun. But he wanted to see the island, which many policians neglect, as it has less than 12,000 people on it, and he took careful notes. At Coler, he spent not only time to walk around and listen to staff, but he spent almost an hour with me trying to help my friend, whose mental state is so bad he needs to be clothed and cannot dial a phone anymore.
Usually politicians want the camera crew and a make-up artist before they start kissing those babies, but Wade was just hanging out and observing. Coler, by the way, is well run - the staff have a very hard job with all the patients, mainly either amputees or senile. It is easy to forget these people, society and many politicians do.
Thus Wade scored a lot of points with me, and with the residents - he stopped to listen to housing complaints, proposals about a possible ferry, local history, the future of the hospital and the new tech campus they are going to build there, and even notes on the birdlife (so far, 14 species, half of them maritime birds such as grebes and coromorants).
One thing I wanted to bring of course was a copy of "Hemp for Victory", but I am packing again, going off to the Bronx for a while, things are in storage, so I'll get a copy mailed to him from Minawear (based, BTW, in Dr Ron Paul's constituency).
He has already googled it and disussed the main points with me, in particular how hemp provides jobs for Americans, and I know this will be a key issue. So I am supporting a candidate, and, if he gets the 3,000 signatures he needs on the ballot by this month, will be supporting his campaign here. My proposed slogan is: It's not just election day, it's INDEPENDENTS DAY.
Greens, Independents, Libertarians...Americans - unite. If you live in the 12th Cong Dist in NY get on his list now to make him a candidate and vote for Wade Emory Johnson for Congress. American needs its Independents, it needs jobs, it needs hemp and it needs you to vote.
and only an occasional eatery that uses it, surprising the number of health conscious people there are here;
Whole Foods has several shops and is opening yet another on the East Side. They sell very little and yesterday after going to four of their outlets I came back with no hemp.
Politically, very few legislators care or know. The expection would be Jerrold Nadler, a long term incumbent
in the 8th Congressional District - which is the southern end of Manhattan to 34th St. on the West Side, + a smidgeon of Brooklyn. He is actually a co-sponsor of the Hemp Bill with Dr Ron Paul.
His thinking is more independent than most of his Democrat colleagues. But really, American needs more independents, and more hemp. And both were found unexpectedly one day while making my weekly visit to Roosevelt Island. Parenthetically, I am not sure which Roosevelt it is named after...Teddy turned Indepenedent but after naming his party the Bull Moose Party he lost the race...but I digress. This weekly visit is to see an elderly friend of mine who is staying in Coler-Goldwater and outside the subway stop was a man asking for signatures. The kind of thing I avoid, but for some reason he seemed a cut above and we got to talking. Turns out he is seeking the Independent candidacy for the 8th Cong Dist., which is the Upper East Side, Roosevelt Island, part of Queens and a bit of Brooklyn.
Usually these guys seeking office are a waste of time on real issues, so I shot him the hemp one. Not that he knew tons of info, but he did know, and I did not which impresses me - a place on East 17th that uses hemp oil and seed, so I will have to go and check it out (and blog about it here.)
Wade Emory Johnson is his name, he is an established human rights lawyer in New York and has dealt with a greatnumber of different nationalities in his day, so he has gotten to know the people. And the people seem to know him, as we had barely set foot in the Starbucks a week later when he was bring recognised and chatted up by former petition signers.
This was after he accompanied me to on my lonely vigil to see a patient there - and what surprises is that he walked both ways, it was a mile trek in the hot New York sun. But he wanted to see the island, which many policians neglect, as it has less than 12,000 people on it, and he took careful notes. At Coler, he spent not only time to walk around and listen to staff, but he spent almost an hour with me trying to help my friend, whose mental state is so bad he needs to be clothed and cannot dial a phone anymore.
Usually politicians want the camera crew and a make-up artist before they start kissing those babies, but Wade was just hanging out and observing. Coler, by the way, is well run - the staff have a very hard job with all the patients, mainly either amputees or senile. It is easy to forget these people, society and many politicians do.
Thus Wade scored a lot of points with me, and with the residents - he stopped to listen to housing complaints, proposals about a possible ferry, local history, the future of the hospital and the new tech campus they are going to build there, and even notes on the birdlife (so far, 14 species, half of them maritime birds such as grebes and coromorants).
One thing I wanted to bring of course was a copy of "Hemp for Victory", but I am packing again, going off to the Bronx for a while, things are in storage, so I'll get a copy mailed to him from Minawear (based, BTW, in Dr Ron Paul's constituency).
He has already googled it and disussed the main points with me, in particular how hemp provides jobs for Americans, and I know this will be a key issue. So I am supporting a candidate, and, if he gets the 3,000 signatures he needs on the ballot by this month, will be supporting his campaign here. My proposed slogan is: It's not just election day, it's INDEPENDENTS DAY.
Greens, Independents, Libertarians...Americans - unite. If you live in the 12th Cong Dist in NY get on his list now to make him a candidate and vote for Wade Emory Johnson for Congress. American needs its Independents, it needs jobs, it needs hemp and it needs you to vote.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
RISE UP BY SITTING DOWN AND PROTESTING
As I sit and blog, I am protesting. And I am hearing protest outside the window at 53rd & 7th in Manhattan. Hundreds of marchers have convened on the Sheraton while Obama is in town. For many reasons, I am not going to quit my protest and join theirs. So much for their claim that they are the 99% - of what? And what are they accomplishing? How many of them are wearing hemp? Just about 0%; but how many of them support violence? 31%, one poll says. And how many of them even know the name of their reps and have written a letter to them?
After spending time with this bunch of arrogant rich kids - many may not know this, but far from being poor the leaders are so filthy rich that they sleep in $700-a-night hotel rooms - I came to the conclusion that it would lead to nothing. Journalists became very opinionated, either for or against them, with outlandish claims made on both sides, the New York Post in an all-out war with the New York Daily News over this, but did any of the reporting do any good? I talked to journalists about the hemp issue while I was there, but the journalists wanted outlandish images, and I ahd to challenge one by asking if he was an American and if so, would he not want to report on something that would make a difference to Americans? Hell no, he just wanted weird images of so-called protesters. To hell with America was the press response.
Ron Paul's bill for hemp farming in the US was not once discussed by any of these journalists or rich kid bagels-n'-lox eating louts. Or the poor louts among them who slept rough and defecated on people's doors. Instead, they ran around and many of them, including Joshua Fellows, broke the law in the most hypocritical of ways. The 'peaceniks' actually managed to get arrested for having unlicenced handguns. Great. Welcome to NY, you're here to save the world. But getting a licence for your gun, or even for you car, is beyond your capabilities.
What would happen if this lot were granted power? Things are bad. And they would change. For the worse.
So anyone reading this who thinks the OWS is out to save you, please do not waste your time with them. Instead, join the real protest and write a letter to your reps in support of hemp and Ron Paul's hemp bill - making sure you point out that this would give jobs to Americans.
Jobs is something the OWS does not seem to get their heads around. It's not about $700-a-night hotel rooms for spoiled idiot organisers, it's not about illegal guns and driving dangerously and illegally, it's about the economy stupid...and hemp is a viable part of that, well worth protesting about. Please do; but in a fashion that is effective.
After spending time with this bunch of arrogant rich kids - many may not know this, but far from being poor the leaders are so filthy rich that they sleep in $700-a-night hotel rooms - I came to the conclusion that it would lead to nothing. Journalists became very opinionated, either for or against them, with outlandish claims made on both sides, the New York Post in an all-out war with the New York Daily News over this, but did any of the reporting do any good? I talked to journalists about the hemp issue while I was there, but the journalists wanted outlandish images, and I ahd to challenge one by asking if he was an American and if so, would he not want to report on something that would make a difference to Americans? Hell no, he just wanted weird images of so-called protesters. To hell with America was the press response.
Ron Paul's bill for hemp farming in the US was not once discussed by any of these journalists or rich kid bagels-n'-lox eating louts. Or the poor louts among them who slept rough and defecated on people's doors. Instead, they ran around and many of them, including Joshua Fellows, broke the law in the most hypocritical of ways. The 'peaceniks' actually managed to get arrested for having unlicenced handguns. Great. Welcome to NY, you're here to save the world. But getting a licence for your gun, or even for you car, is beyond your capabilities.
What would happen if this lot were granted power? Things are bad. And they would change. For the worse.
So anyone reading this who thinks the OWS is out to save you, please do not waste your time with them. Instead, join the real protest and write a letter to your reps in support of hemp and Ron Paul's hemp bill - making sure you point out that this would give jobs to Americans.
Jobs is something the OWS does not seem to get their heads around. It's not about $700-a-night hotel rooms for spoiled idiot organisers, it's not about illegal guns and driving dangerously and illegally, it's about the economy stupid...and hemp is a viable part of that, well worth protesting about. Please do; but in a fashion that is effective.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
SUN AND WIND
Thursday the New York Times had an article on rooftops in New York being potential spots for solar energy - my last post was on a NYT article about how wind energy in Oregon is making everyone rich in Sherman County.
So why is New York not making this work? With all the geniuses here and there money...trouble is, most of them just talk and talk and that's it.
If this is to be done, we must write the Congressmen and get them the case - if they are not too busy sexting...yesterday New York lost Anthony Weiner, so there's one rep who is not available. I reside in Jerrold Nadler's consittuency, so he will be getting a letter from me about this and about hemp - which has been supported by Congressman Ron Paul, in whose Texas district I also spend some time - years ago I joined the navy there. And what with his support of hemp and other issues - I am supporting his bid to the White House - so check out my other blog at
http://www.rp45.blogspot.com/
Let's hope he gets in and hemp is legal again...and of course, we expect him to put up solar panels on the White House - which Jimmy Carter put up years ago. So why are we just reading about all this now as if it were a new idea?
Saturday, January 08, 2011
MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACTIVIST BUSTED FOR PIPE
MS sufferer, medical-cannabis advocate and former TV talk-show host Montel Williams was cited for possessing a wood marijuana pipe on Tuesday, 4 January. TSA at Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee found the pipe in the Williams' carry-on bag. He paid a $484 fine and then departed for New York.
Williams explains on his Facebook page: "I was in Wisconsin for a follow up appointment on a groundbreaking study that I've been involved in through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This study could have tremendous impact on the lives of people with MS, as well as people with other neurological disorders such as traumatic brain injuries.
I only hope that the news of my experience encourages people to continue to push for legislation that will allow Americans who need help to have the safe access they deserve: medication without criminalization."
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