HEMP - THE MIRACLE PLANT ?

Today if you mention Hemp the first thing that pops into most peoples heads is STONED GROOVY LOVE MAN HIPPY TYPES.

But Hemp can be used for so much more.
I will give a short list to give you an idea of uses for Hemp -
FOOD,
NUTRITIONAL SUPPLIMENTS,
DIETARY SUPPLIMENTS,
MEDICINE,
FIBRE,
BUILDING MATERIALS,
COMPOSITE MATERIALS,
PAPER,
JEWELRY,
FABRIC,
CORDAGE,
ANIMAL BEDDING,
WATER AND SOIL PURIFICATION,
WEED CONTROL,
FUEL,
BIOFUEL,
CLOTHING,


Hemp (from Old English hænep) is the name of the soft, durable fibre that is cultivated from plants of the Cannabis genus, cultivated for commercial use. In modern times, hemp has been used for industrial purposes including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, construction, health food, fuel, and medical purposes^[1] with modest commercial success.^[2][3] In the past three years,^[when?] commercial success of hemp food products has grown considerably.^[4][5]

Hemp is one of the faster growing biomasses known,^[6] producing up to 25 tonnes of dry matter per hectare per year,^[7]. A normal average yield in large scale modern agriculture is about 2.5-3.5 t/ac (air dry stem yields of dry, retted stalks per acre at 12% moisture). Approximately one tonne of bast fiber and 2-3 tonnes of core material can be decorticated from 3-4 tonnes of good quality, dry retted straw.^[8][9]

The Hemp Plant, Humankind's Savior

The hemp plant was one of humankind's first cultivated plants and there is quite a lot to educate oneself about this greatly historical plant. With the help of the hemp plant we, as a society could eliminate smog from current fuels, create a cleaner energy source that can replace nuclear power, remove radioactive waste from the soil, and eliminate smog from our skies in more industrialized areas. The hemp plant could assist in eliminating non-biodegradable plastics and cars by reintroducing Henry Ford's 100 year old dream of building cars made from hemp with a plastic hemp car body that can withstand a blow 10 times as great as steel without denting, weighs 1 thousand pounds less than steel, hence improving gas mileage, can run on a vegetable oil based all natural hemp fuel, and has a completely biodegradable body. Nationwide hemp production could eliminate deforestation by converting current paper to hemp paper which can be recycled up to 8 times where as our current wood pulp is only recyclable up to 3 times, and we could thrive from eating hemp seeds and feeding it to our animals and livestock.

Industrial hemp can make our future roads, highways and freeways from hemp based concrete, which lasts for centuries. Society can benefit from the hemp plant's attributes such as oxygen production, hemp's dense root structure, and hemp's nutrient and nitrogen production back into the soil. Chemicals in cannabis can be used in medicines and are estimated to treat around 250 diseases and illnesses, from which studies have shown inhibits the growth of cancer cells in rats, as well as a long list of other ailments. Finally, we could make an estimated 50,000 products ranging from building composites, cellophane, dynamite to shampoo, textiles, twine and yarn. If the US grew industrial hemp it could stop wars, save the environment, boost our economy, improve general health and well being, virtually end our reliance on any foreign entity, and save humankind from itself. But wait, wait, wait. I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me start from the beginning.

Studies have shown that hemp's biomass can be converted into energy and could replace nuclear power and our current fossil fuels.[Belle, Mika] Just by farming 6 percent of the US's acreage this could be achieved. "Hemp grown in biomass could fuel a trillion-dollar-per-year industry, while at the same time create more jobs, clean our air, and distribute wealth to our communities and away from centralized power monopolies." Hemp's biomass can be converted into gasoline, methanol, and methane at a fraction of the current cost of oil, coal, or nuclear energy.

An article from Montana State University states, “When burned in a diesel engine, bio-diesel replaces the exhaust odor of petroleum diesel with a smell something akin to french-fries. Bio-diesel is 11 percent oxygen by weight and contains no sulfur, so instead of creating sulfur-based smog and acid rain as by-products, it produces 11 percent oxygen instead. Bio-diesel can be made from domestically produced, renewable oilseed crops such as hemp.” The hemp grown through government farming and regulation is called “industrialized hemp” and contains no more than 0.03 percent THC content, which is not a high enough percentage for drug use. Canada, China, and England are examples of countries who have never prohibited, but instead have responsibly grown, produced, and thrived off of industrialized hemp [Hemp].

Imagine being able to dump our nuclear waste somewhere that wouldn't have any adverse effects on the surrounding environment. The hemp plant can help with that as well. A nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Russia had a meltdown April 1986 and experiments have shown that the hemp plant can help remove the toxicity in the soil. “There is an estimated 30,000 sites in the United States are estimated to be needing hazardous waste treatment” and the hemp plant is the answer to this terrible environmental issue.[The McGraw Hill Companies]. [...]

Despite Industrial Hemp having 50,000 uses, Dupont, Rockefeller, Hearst, Mellon and their constituents cornered the industrial and medicinal market with political propaganda. Dupont created Nylon, owned General Motors and was “one of the top ten U.S. based petroleum and natural gas producers and refiners.”[DuPont] Rockefeller owned Standard Oil and was soon known as the “richest man in modern history.”[Rockefeller] This is a political science paper and can be viewed at one of my Blogs here at http://marijuana-tax-act-1937.blogspot.com/. But lets not get off topic, so big business and capitalistic politics thrived and outlawed the hemp plant that had sustained the United States of America, since the days of our founding fathers and all for someone else's selfish monopolistic goals.[Malmo-Levine, David] Henry Ford achieved his dream, but he was denied any true public recognition and any further industrial hemp progression. Every citizen of America was denied Henry Ford's hemp dream of a car made from the soil.

Hemp paper can be recycled up to eight times while the current pulp wood fiber can only be recycled three times. By farming hemp throughout the United States and even the world it could assist in reducing deforestation by 50 percent, or more.[Hemphasis] George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were two examples of historical spokespersons for growing hemp and in 1619 the Virginia Company made hemp cultivation mandatory, which increased commerce with England and helped the American economy thrive. Our Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper and our first American Flag was made out of hemp. [Schaffer, C.] These historical economical and industrial concepts and examples can easily be applied to present day.

“Hemp seeds contain beneficial omega fatty acids and amino acids, more than any other source.” The seeds can be used in a number of food dishes in baking, prepared as tea, any type of food like ice cream, and milk. Cultures all over the world have consumed hemp seeds in times of famine to prevent starvation which has saved millions of lives.[Saunders, Clare] The nutritional facts astounding, for example; hemp seeds contains 20 percent complete and highly digest-able protein.[Earth Friendly Network] Canadian Hemp seed exports surged 300 percent a few years back and China, and other eastern countries have to this day never prohibited hemps cultivation and use it extensively. [Hemp]

“Only 1 acre of hemp is said to produce more oxygen than 25 acres of current forest.” [Bryon, Alan D.] Theoretically, if our cities had greenhouses on top of all the office buildings, like in Los Angeles, filled with hemp then the massive output of oxygen would be a massive intake of carbon dioxide. This in turn should make our cities skies once again blue, healthy and smog free. Methane is one of the main producers of green house gases and one of the many major causes for dramatic global climate change. [Hopwood, Nick, and Jordan Cohen] Therefore, our farmers can grow hemp in our cow pastures, so the hemp plants can have first hand absorption of methane gases via cow farts, and burps. The cows can also eat directly from the hemp plants around them, which would eliminate the need to use hormones and steroids, due to hemp's nutritional facts.[Earth Friendly Network] [...]

Hemp can also be used in building composite material such as beams, studs, fire resistant building materials, fiberboard and even such things as paint, varnish, ink and carpet. There seems to be a consensus that hemp building composite materials are stronger, more durable and flexible than our currently used wood pulp composite building material. “In 1935, two years before being outlawed, 116 million pounds of hemp seed were used in the United States to produce paint and varnish.”[Robbins Pet Care] Is there anything hemp can't be made out of? Hemp wood composite is fire durable, which would benefit those who lived in fire sensitive areas.

http://www.voteindustrialhemp.com/

What do you think ?
Is growing and using HEMP practicable and cost effective ?
Could it be grown here to completely replace certain imports ?
Would the Country benefit from growing and using HEMP and HEMP related products?

WIGAN COUNCIL - HAVE YOUR SAY ON THE CUTS.

As we know that massive cuts to Wigans Public sector are having to be made due to the Treasonus and disgraceful managment of Britains economy by the Blair and Brown led New Labour governments.

Wigan MBC are now asking for suggestions to where these cuts should be made.

If you can think of an area of Wigan MBC budget that can be safely cut without any loss to the overall services provided you may do that here

The Spending Challenge – submit your savings ideas

Public sector services are facing testing times, and up and down the country local people, including council staff, are contributing to the debate about where in the public sector money can be saved.

A public sector that is only 75 per cent of what it is today will need to be one that takes a more limited role and one that offers targeted support only to those who need it most.

We will protect the frontline but we will focus on some different solutions that might work better and be better value –- focusing on causes rather than symptoms.

We all know that there are things that local councils have to do that will always be costly but so essential such as looking after children in care and protecting vulnerable people. But what about outside these areas? Is there anything the council should stop doing? Is there more the community could do for itself?

We also want to know about your money-saving ideas, ideas that come from your own experience managing household budgets, running local businesses and making ends meet.

The only thing we ask is to make your suggestions constructive and we’d really love to hear from you.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO WIGAN MBC

You may also like to give us suggestions as you can be sure that multiple suggestions that are on the same subject will not be overlooked like a single suggestion would be.

Please feel free to send your suggestions to Wigan BNP at -

wigan-leigh-bnp@live.co.uk

WikiLeaks: David Miliband 'championed aid to Sri Lanka to win votes of Tamils in UK'

David Miliband championed aid to Sri Lanka during last year’s humanitarian crisis to win the support of expatriate Tamils living in key Labour marginal seats, one of his own Foreign Office staff claimed.

Tim Waite, a Foreign Office team leader on Sri Lanka, was quoted in a leaked US Embassy cable explaining why the then foreign secretary was lavishing so much attention on the island’s plight.

“Waite said that much of (the government) and ministerial attention to Sri Lanka is due to the ‘very vocal’ Tamil diaspora in the UK, numbering over 300,000, who have been protesting in front of parliament since 6 April,” wrote Richard Mills, a political officer at the US Embassy in London.

“He said that with UK elections on the horizon and many Tamils living in Labour constituencies with slim majorities, the government is paying particular attention to Sri Lanka, with Miliband recently remarking to Waite that he was spending 60 per cent of his time at the moment on Sri Lanka.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8175415/WikiLeaks-David-Miliband-championed-aid-to-Sri-Lanka-to-win-votes-of-Tamils-in-UK.html

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO DEMAND THAT THEY ANSWER TO US FIRST ?

REMOVE THE VOTE FROM ALL IMMIGRANTS - ONLY THE INDIGENOUS BRITISH SHOULD HAVE THE VOTE IN OUR COUNTRY.

Soon we will be a minority then what do you think we will mean to our oppressors ?

We are already ignored by the Political classess are you happy being a WORTHLESS BRIT ?

A POLITICIAN TO WATCH

Morg
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Who does he remind you of?

BATTLE FOR BARKING

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-battle-for-barking/4od#3145017

Morg
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GOODBYE SWEDEN

Morg
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COMMENTS BY LAURA FARRIE ON HER BNP DOCUMENTRY - THE BATTLE FOR BARKING.

She was spat on. She was intimidated and threatened. Director Laura Fairrie bares her battle scars from charting The Battle for Barking, a documentary offering intimate insight into the belligerent general election campaigns of Labour and the BNP

You wouldn’t think the British National Party would give, of all people, a middle class woman privileged access to its shrouded party machine and leader. But that’s exactly what they did with film-maker Laura Fairrie in the run up to the general election. And the results are extraordinary.

Before their dismal performance in May, there was a very real fear that the BNP would prize the constituency of Barking – previously a Labour safe seat – from Margaret Hodge. There was reason to believe so; the BNP had twelve councillors in Barking and Dagenham. And under Griffin’s leadership, as he never fails to mention, the BNP had acquired a Jewish councillor and Black and Asian support, lending shaky credence to his self-styled title of moderniser.

That does little to detract from the BNP’s common conception as a band of thuggish suits in boots, an assumption Fairrie now takes issue with: “When I first started trying to get access to the BNP I had all these preconceptions about them as well, but I really wanted to go in with an open mind. What I found was this group of misfits that just were so alienated and cut off from society, who found this place to belong in the BNP, or the ‘BNP family’ as they’d call it. A lot of them were ex-Labour voters. A lot of them weren’t necessarily racist. They were just so fed up and confused. Of course there’s racism in the BNP, and of course here are some horrible characters, but there’s reason behind that racism, and they’re not all evil monsters.”

There are some who would have trouble digesting that; who would take offence with it even. “People thought I was awful for it. It became a real struggle with my own conscience. A lot of people were really critical of me for finding people who didn’t fit into the BNP stereotype. But like everything in life, it’s not just simply black and white. I was trying to be fair and non-judgmental. I was trying to give both sides a fair voice.”

Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time courted controversy for giving the BNP a legitimate platform; despite his performance being critically panned, the BNP claimed that it quickly resulted in 3,000 people registering to sign up as party members. So does giving the BNP “a voice” do their recruitment for them? “Look, a lot of people get angry with me for having made this film, but I think you can actually make more progress by giving them a voice. If you treat the BNP as monsters that must be ignored and just bashed on the head, it reconfirms their sense of being outsiders, of the establishment being against them. If you treat them properly, then suddenly they have to look at what it is they’re saying, and they have to be responsible for their actions.”

Surely it must have been difficult trying to allay their fears and breach that deep-seated mistrust. “It was a constant process of negotiation with the BNP. They let me in, but I constantly had to persuade them that I wasn’t secretly filming and that I wasn’t going to stitch them up. When they were out walking the streets, leafleting six hours a day in the freezing cold, I was there with them. They saw that I wasn’t just coming in as a journalist to grab a few soundbytes and run off. But they still didn’t trust me, right up until the end. Especially as a woman, I think. They just couldn’t work out what the hell I was doing there as a woman on my own with a camera. Even now I hear from some of them saying that their expectations are low, that they’ll be made to look like evil idiots.”

Have any of them seen it? What did Nick Griffin make of it? “I’ve tried to show it to Nick Griffin. They all made such a big fuss the whole time I was making the film. I was intimidated, threatened even, and I’ve since not been able to show it to any of them. Maybe they just don’t want to relive an awful, awful result and a complete humiliation.”

Despite a year of increased national exposure, the BNP suffered a crushing defeat, finishing third behind Hodge and the Conservatives. “They didn’t stand a chance. They were so disorganised. The media were building them up as this viable threat, but that wasn’t what I was seeing. They were just going around with their photocopied leaflets, shoving them through doors. That was the extent of their campaign.”

No one can forget Bob Bailey’s scuffle with some Asian youths while canvassing. Was it not frightening filming alone – Laura didn’t have a film crew – when there was a constant threat of violent confrontation? “I did feel vulnerable and scared on my own. Without money it’s very difficult to get people to commit people to a year’s work. I had a tiny budget. I can’t really say how much because I think my executive producer would be embarrassed! Many people assumed I was BNP. I was even spat on. Sometimes going home on the tube I would think “what the fuck am I doing? I’ve got two young kids.” There were times when I just didn’t feel safe, especially when I was out with Nick Griffin walking the streets. There was a real sense that someone would come and kill him. Cars would drive by slowly, and they’d drive off, and then another would drive up really close.”

Was her access to Griffin – whether canvassing or in the café – predicated on her skin colour? “I thought that maybe it did help a bit, but then they were so keen to prove that they weren’t racist. During the election, BBC Panorama sent a TV crew with a black cameraman. The BNP were so lovely and friendly and welcoming to him. Nick Griffin went out of his way to be nice to him, and they’d all given me such a hard time for months and months. So it’s difficult to say…”

Laura tells me that some people feel the BNP come off better than the Labour Party in the film. Does she feel the camera inhibited their honesty? “I was there so much with the BNP, and they got so used to me being around, that often they’d forget I was there. So there is a lot of honesty in the film. Having said that, Nick Griffin is incredibly calculating and incredibly careful. So I didn’t get the Holocaust denial moment or whatever else it is that people are hoping to get out of this!”

What does Margaret Hodge make of it? “She’s disappointed. It’s not the film she wanted. She wanted something that was going to show all the brilliant work she was doing in Barking to reconnect with the white working class vote, something that would show what monsters the BNP are. But once Nick Griffin announced he was standing, she wobbled a bit and for a while she wasn’t so keen for me to make the film. It became quite difficult because I started moving between both sides. One day I’d be in the Labour Barking office, and the next I’d be in the back of a BNP van. But to her credit she allowed me to carry on making it even in the times she was terrified, when she thought she would lose.”

The BNP ran a dirty campaign against Hodge in Barking, calling her ‘Margaret the Egyptian Hodge’ because she was born in Egypt, before coming to Britain with her Jewish parents, who were fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria. What about Labour’s campaign? “I very much had the sense that Labour was playing just as dirty a game as the BNP. Margaret’s whole thing on the doorstep was: “the BNP are Nazi fascists. You either vote for me or the Nazis.” And that’s demonising and calling everyone who wants to vote for the BNP in her community a fascist. Well there are reasons they are voting for the BNP – they’ve been so let down by the Labour Party. They’ve been left to rot in revolting tower blocks for seventeen years without a chance of being moved, with no one to listen to them.”

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I think we as a party came across very well. At least it should have nailed the lie that the BNP are a bunch of neo-nazi skinheads.

All I saw were people who are trying to save our country and its people from the direct and indirect Anti-White racism that the foreigners already here show to the Indigenous British, with racist comments aimed at the BNP such as "WHITE C***S F***K O** before you get Blown away or words to that effect, from an immigrant to the BNP in the first 5 or 10 minutes of the programme.

Good to see that Hodge, who said she was trying to reconnect with the White Working Class vote, didn't bother and went to the Islamists and african voters to mobilise their vote.