or a make in the shallows. greetings and salyut. you know if there is one thing as ubiquitous as humanity is on this small blue planet it's plastic yes plastic my friends without a doubt is one of humanity's most favorite of innovations i mean we love it how much how much does humanity love our plastic well for one thing we use it in pretty much everything from medical devices the toys to computers to cookware to cars to planes to door bells to tennis shoes helm of friends we've been put plastic in damn

near everything we've created or innovated since the very 1st man made plastic bakelite hit the scene back in 1907 not only does it have its own surgery but plastic even has its own lobbyists on capitol hill so my friends is it any wonder that right now babies yes newborn human babies are being born with a free plastic surprise inside kind of like your favorite kid's 0 but much more horrific the guardian is now reporting that according to a new study micro plastic particles have been revealed in the placentas of unborn babies for the 1st time and that only about 4 percent of each placenta was analyzed suggesting the total number of micro plastics was actually much much higher now what does this mean well and tonio who led the study and is the director of. obstetrics and gynecology. at

a hospital in rome told the guardian that quote it is like having a cyborg baby no longer composed only of human cells but a mixture of biological and inorganic entities the mothers were shocked. no kidding this new story comes on the heels of recent findings that estimate that the amount of plastic alone is greater in mass than all land the animals and marine creatures combined and that overall human made materials now outweigh earth's entire bio mass yes from plastic to concrete to metal to bricks to asphalt and everything in between these very unnatural human creations now exceeds in mass and weight the entire living bio mass of planet earth and at the current rate of production the weight of our impact on this small blue planet that we inhabit will exceed 3 terra tons by 2040 so just 20 years from now.

that's 3 trillion metric tons. it kind of kind of makes you stand back in august at just how ridiculous we all are now let's start watching the next. list on a city street you want to see. there so you. see this is this joyce state. great city this least systemic deception is the late show which. brings up the old. welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am to roll over and i'm of this across goodness gracious did you ever imagine i mean when you really think about it how much plastic is all around us every day and now it's showing up in newborns absolutely not maybe that's one thing they know that plastic exist all around us it's another thing to think that babies are born with this you know inside of their

systems that can miscarry it really is i mean and just like all the plastic in this particular study they did all the plastics that they found in these children had blue red orange and pink dye as well and these micro what they were plastics and may have originally come from packaging paints or cosmetics and personal care products that the mother somehow ingested while the child was in the womb and then they found that's where they broke through the pool so they got inside the child and grew before the child even took a breath of air that it's a lot of traveling of these plastics that's a whole lot of different meanings to go through but it's also i wonder does it cause any types of health problems with the baby i mean clearly these plastic that lasted a long time that is the most important question of the day and right now the science just can't tell us because it's because they've just now discovered that these micro plastics of kind of broken through the gotten into the placenta now or in the womb they don't know what the long term effects are because the babies are just

being born with we're just now figure. out what the long term effects of of us as adults but the amount of plastic that we have in our bodies in fact i think it's something like around the size of a credit card is with me and you right now all of us carry in terms of the plastic that our body ingests over the course of a while and it can we mitigate this in any way i mean the babies are already born with that money what happens well what happens to them afterwards well no way of removing that we're not and i'm not i mean it's micro plazas they are you just live with it it's part of your body you have them right now in you i mean apparently if you really look at all the studies and what they found when they found micro plastics on the top of like you know mount everest to even the deepest parts of the ocean it's just now a part of our society at this point and us biologically so there is no there is it will only talk about all of these changes that we've seen from legislators the ones who make different ecological things make sense now they want to ensure that we're not being as wasteful and what ways you think that might be helpful in reducing some of these micro plastics i mean we have to start by actually recognizing saying

ok this is this is become a problem and then we have to say how much how much plastic do we need you know how many products do we really need to be made out of plastic how many thing you know how many products need to be made at all you know that i mean that's really where comes out i mean you see the plastic lobby we've all seen those weird odd commercials that suddenly popped up like all of a sudden words like you know don't you love plastic it makes some of these lot of things so they are the law yeah you know and i think that kind of came about as you could see right now when you when you look at the landfills and you look at how much bottles how much just garbage that we have and how much of that garbage is is plastic i mean it's it's interesting because one of the dangers that they do point out too is that plastics can carry chemicals that could cause long term damage or upset of these fetuses developing immune system and that's they haven't been able to prove that but that's where the suspicion lies that let's say if your child you're born with these little microbes of plastic and you your immune system is going to react and maybe they think that some of the auto immune diseases that we've seen or individuals with the immune systems kind of attack. unhealthy cells

right now is just damage though it could come from the immune system you know attacking these micro pieces of plastic that are just in our bodies at this point and i want to if there are certain areas where you know micro plastics are more prevalent than others because especially when you bought a 6 new disorder it's because we know that there are certain target areas across the country where there are young people who are born with more issues than others are and simply those are your more industrial areas your areas that probably have other other issues with the ecological is already but then when you think about this and you really start breaking that down it would really got me about this and there's a 1000000 things going on in the world a 1000000000 politics and all this but this is one of those stories of it affects everyone it's not just a red or a blue or a democrat or republican or a political issue all it's really a health issue and a major issue but when you think about the amount. when i say that number 3 trillion at the end that's not just for plaster dust for everything else for

concrete that's human and these impact the world now outweighs the physical world like if you take animals brushes shrub's everything out beyond us we know if that's living we now have made enough garbage or you know roads concrete buildings everything that it outweighs that crap that it's crazy yeah i mean that you know and then when you think about that kind of impact and then realize that. when you look at the numbers that that's going to double it's been doubling in size since they started tracking this nearly 20th century it doubled every 20 years they're saying that. by 2020 just made human made masses reach 1 point one teratomas or so but now they're saying that that's going to reach 3 times that in just another 20 years. after 19 years behind bars there's hope for one ton of obey the last prisoners and it's in the

hands of president elect joe biden. some believe that the former v.p. will finish the job obama signaled he years ago but didn't seem to get around to closing the controversial prison artie's alex hell of it as the story. it is a place that brings up some of the dark at steve midges in u.s. history a prison established as a reaction to this that is gained notoriety for its horrendous conditions rather than a solution to a problem was a big is a former guantanamo bay detainee who now consults on terrorism the one or 2 people in guantanamo who may have been with sponsible for something connected to 911 where water boarded and tortured and instead of taking them to a. a court on the u.s. mainland where they could have been prosecuted and given very strong sentences as the united states has done for countless terrorism suspects these particular individuals could never be presented to open court because because they've been

tortured since the guantanamo bay detention camp opened in 2002 nearly 800 prisoners have passed through the walls of the facility which is housed within a u.s. naval base on the southern tip of cuba with stories of torture and brutal treatment in the u.s. and around the world one tunnel has become synonymous with injustice and abuse a stain on america's reputation a fact former president barack obama was well aware of as americans we pride ourselves on being a beacon the other nations a model of the rule of law but 15 years after 91115 years after the worst terrorist attack in american history. we're still having to defend the existence of a facility and i process were not a single verdict has been reached in those attacks obama promised to close guantanamo but that never happened and under the trump administration hope of release from the facility faded for many of its remaining inmates when. came into power he said not only that he believes torture works he's going to feel guantanamo

although trump didn't load it up with some bad dude's his words today 40 prisoners remain in the guantanamo detention camp of those only 9 have been charged with a crime well some believe the others have little to no connection to terrorist attacks against the u.s. however with president joe biden just around the corner there is hope for those men biden has made his intention to close the prison know his campaign released a statement this past june saying that one tunnel undermines american national security by fueling terrorist recruitment and is at odds with our values as a country and while some have tried to bury the issue after nearly 2 decades it still finds itself front and center on occasion even in hollywood here's a clip from the mauritanian which is set to be released in the new year all my time here so you're here now for something that i have done but because of suspicions and that's the season i am innocent he has been interrogated he has been held

against his will for 16 years without a single charge being made against while it is understood that joe biden may confront a number of issues that take priority over guantanamo when he becomes president and many believe it is a stain on the u.s. that must go not only is it weighing on the heart of america and what it stands for but also on its reputation in the world. from watching the hawks i'm alex mileage. all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the through the brand new portable t.v. which is available on the old platforms coming up. there is grafton crime taking place in the cannabis industry but it's not being committed by the sellers or users but by the politicians and government workers in charge of regulating it definitely don't want to miss this story so stay tuned to watch looks.

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we'd business is big business cannabis what's considered a heavy drug worthy of criminalization and long prison sentences for distribution is now saving states from falling off the fiscal cliff colorado passed $1000000000.00 in state marijuana revenue in 2019 alone and take a look at just how well top marijuana selling states are doing. raking in the cash but while state governments are using the ganja to stay afloat the business isn't without heavy regulation scandal and corruption turns out giving local elected officials the power to decide who gets access to the multimillion dollar marijuana business created its sea of bribery and illegal activity led by the gatekeepers themselves one of those beekeepers was correia a rising democratic party star and former mayor of fall river massachusetts in 2019

just a few days shy of his own reelection race but all agent hank of korea in his own. he was charged with attempting to extort cannabis companies of $600000.00 in exchange for the highly coveted and lucrative weed selling licenses correll along with staffers and friends accepted a variety of bribes including cash more than a dozen pounds of marijuana and a batman rolex watch worth up to $12000.00. almost all states require approval of local officials before marijuana licenses are even given and those local officials can't seem to resist bribes or favors but it isn't just a local problem allegations of corruption run rampant at the state level too where commissioning bodies are in charge of deciding who gets the small number of marijuana licenses available for maryland state leader cheryl glynn is serving a 2 year prison sentence after being convicted in july of taking bribes and

introducing legislation to benefit medical marijuana companies missouri governor mark parsons administration is currently the target of law enforcement and legislative probes in the will out of its medical marijuana program. not only are the gatekeepers dealing in the dark but minority lead we businesses are not receiving fair consideration or even consideration at all in most cases joining us now to tell us more the co-founder of the green told him farm to wayne and legal analyst molly barrows welcome. molly hey i'll start with you molly there seems to be a whole slew of requirements and red tape for cannabis entrepreneurs' but the state and local elected officials seem to be given carte blanche control how can corruption be mitigated when in most cases are let the leaders make 50 k. or lists and are heavily enticed by these bribes and honestly cuts of profits as well. yes you're exactly right we're seeing story after story across the country as more and more states continue to legalize marijuana but there are

a couple of schools of thought as what steps need to be taken to increase oversight as well as just cut down on these opportunities for corruption and especially when it comes to local control so there really hasn't been any directive as to how local control should work so a lot of states a lot of communities are making it up as they go when it comes to creating safeguards and regulations like house who is going to make these decisions on who gets a license how will they be awarded how were these permits be awarded so one idea is to just eliminate the caps altogether you have less opportunity for corruption if there are fewer caps to compete for if you well and there's also the idea of creating some oversight through legislation there was a bill that was pitched installed in massachusetts last year but there are plans to reintroduce it this coming year which would create more oversight of agreements between local community governments and companies seeking to do business with more transparency so hopefully there would be less opportunity for maybe some you know bribery if you will paying over the cap giving extras like maybe paying for

a festival or something like that you've heard in other communities so they're looking at different ideas but so far there really hasn't been any hard steps taken but. you know some of the states where you're seeing not very many problems with corrections are the ones that don't have those caps on licenses so they've they've certainly found a way around it by limiting those opportunities for corruptions not giving there aren't like giving them a way through a lottery process do i want to ask you your color of a farm now of course licensing for how business is far different but in many ways this is the state hurdles and red tape kind of mirror you know getting licensed to operate in the cannabis industry how was your experience working in that competitive market to receive a license and look we all know black farmers are less than 1.4 percent of the country's $3200000.00 farmers as a black man in this market that has few faces of color what unique hurdles would

you say you faced and do you have advice for others. it makes surprise you also know that we really didn't think you need it we need it because we were african-american here is a bit of really good legal product it's treated as agricultural commodities so we got a little bit different with. the regiment we went out in the quiet at life and we didn't go in the other major hurdles that we've very aware of the ones that are going on in places like illinois and some of the other states that are coming online. once we started in the industry was just because it was not mired in all that can you be in madison. and molly we're seeing more and more cases of corruption like we spoke up from state legislators not just the local leaders but now we're talking about governors and house and senate leadership and state legislatures that actually control the bills that are ultimately going to regulate the industry and those folks are taking bribes themselves and laying the marijuana company owners draft the bills that are supposed to be regulating their

business can you explain the legal issues associated with this and what federal laws would have to be implemented up in this process. well basically it's. corruption peer and simple they shouldn't be allowed to regulate themselves and i think part of the problem is it's like the wild west because marijuana is still illegal on a federal level so until marijuana is legalized on a federal level and there's a uniform system of nationwide regulation of this industry it's continued going to continue to be piecemeal it's going to continue to be what states want to do state by state county by county if you will community come by community so until you all the states are just going to continue to take different approaches and make those limited number of licenses even more valuable so in order to really get to the root of this problem legalizing marijuana the federal level establishing that uniform system a nationwide regulation would help address some of those corruption issues provide safety and business standards like any other industry to maintain in a forest i mean this is a $52000000000.00 industry it's like the wild west they're all going to be trying

to grab a piece of this 5 until somebody says ah you can't do that and there's some regulation and accountability transparency in the licensing process basically getting government out of the business of picking winners and losers and allowing the market to dictate what customers want. farming really exploded after 2000 made team farm bill passed decriminalizing the plant at a federal level we all know that c b d oils and things of that nature there it's also a booming business and it's sold pretty much across the country you're green told him farmers the 1st georgia licensed home farm what changes in laws have you encountered that have affected your business growth or what would you like to see in this industry moving forward. toward things that's going on right now is senator graham paul from kentucky just introduced what's called you know which will extend the amount of. it's allowed in the well and it would take it to work or it's

current or if there's a lot of debate over the rest of you have a point in the products that we put out it is very apparent more without creating groups like. it's. trying to avoid income products so that's one of the things that we really like to see in terms of what's happened since. in the state of georgia things are pretty much or getting well they haven't really beat anybody up they really tried to foreman's here and try to make sure everybody understands it and that they can work together to have a more perfect union if you will between the farmers in the states right now it's been ok that might change in years to come as things going to get a little bit more busy but right now it's been a pretty cool in what i'm going to want and we've been happy to function and happy to be helpful while local to pieces and helping them understand the industry sort of thinking to legislate more bank let me ask you this we would there be a change here industry if suddenly on a federal level they said ok we're going to take cannabis and legalize it across the border or at least regulate it across the board and mimic what we've done in

those states like california colorado that we've heard so much about how would that affect your business on the hemp side of the business as opposed to the kind of a side. interestingly enough i believe that it would help our industry. in terms of user engagement but little need for the you know validation they need to format there and see. him as a beating as a product and as a tool. the concern i would have is that if we want better we need legal sane people in our community who do not have the funding and capital and the. instrument that you need to go into the canopies industry legally i'm not there so if we're already getting kicked out of opportunities in different states left out or if going to a level that would only celebrate because again that like we saw things in other. points it's still very good all was well for us. legal we'd be happy because

ultimately we believe that most people do not want the psychoactive. marijuana of cannabis can we believe that most people just want a simple belief but their anxiety and it up which you can believe in medical issues in a very simple way and one that's not one of all the issues there are more when we think that it actually would be helpful because if you it's in space you get a book about it if you come from the people even start to look at it we have well i want to thank you both so much for coming on today and educating our audience on this subject matter once again duane hirsch co-founder of the green told him farm and legal analyst molly barros thank you both for coming on today. and thank you. in case you haven't figured it out over the course of well over a 1000 up a soldier watching the hawks i'm not a fan of billionaires for one i don't believe any human being on earth needs or even deserves a 1000000000 dollars and 2nd most of the billionaires on this planet are nothing more than power and greed obsessed addicts who because of their rich never have to

face the public consequences of their addiction instead they are enabled and coddled in the name of capitalism smile opinion but despite my bias against billionaires i must give out a gold star of a job well. when i see one and this year that gold 'd star goes to multi-billionaire mckenzie scott too in just the last year gave more than $6000000000.00 to $384.00 different charities and organizations and these are your standard philanthropic rich folks tax write off charities no word on the street is that ms scott gave to many of the real boots on the ground groups that are out there truly fighting to help those less fortunate than the rest of us i want to thank you ms scott and others but hopefully others in your tax bracket could learn a thing or 2 from your giving all right everybody that is our show for today remember in this world we're not told we're loved enough so i tell you all i love you i robot intro and i will be so keep on watching all those hawks out there have a great day and it.

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