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California Governor Unveils Emergency Rules To Ban Hemp Products With Any ‘Detectable Amount’ Of THC

Six years after Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp at the federal level, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is attempting to rein in the proliferation of products that contain intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids. While many support the aims of the proposal, some stakeholders contend it could ultimately limit access to federally legal CBD products.

Newsom announced new emergency regulations on Friday that would outlaw hemp products with any “detectable amount of total THC.” Hemp products that don’t have THC would be further limited to five servings per package, and sales would be restricted to adults 21 and older.

The proposal comes less than a month after the state legislature effectively killed a governor-backed bill that would have imposed somewhat similar restrictions on intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids.

Newsom said in a press conference that he expects the new rules to take effect after a “very short” administrative process.

Standing next to a table piled with largely unregulated products containing hemp-derived cannabinoids, including beverages and gummies, Newsom expressed disgust that they’re now widely sold at grocery stores, gas stations and convenience stores. Hemp-derived THC-infused sparkling water, he lamented, can be found—including by minors—alongside more benign products like La Croix.

“It’s a disgrace and it’s a shame,” the governor said, “and the industry bears full responsibility for not policing itself, for the proliferation of these intoxicating products that are hurting our children.”

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The Trajectory of Emergency Lands on Price Controls

The US’s serious bout of inflation – mirrored in many countries in the world – was set in motion in the first week of March 2020, like much of the rest of our ongoing emergency. This was a fortnight before the lockdowns were announced, indicating that much was going on behind the scenes. The Federal Reserve turned on a dime to provide enormous liquidity to the system, just days following the CDC’s briefing of the national press of coming lockdowns, about which the Trump administration seemed then to know next to nothing. 

The fiscal and monetary fun lasted only so long. Following the inauguration of the new president, the first round of bills started coming due, and that has continued until the present, rapidly wiping out the value of the stimulus payments that seemed to have made everyone suddenly rich without working. 

Only after two years and after some 10 months of resulting declines in purchasing power, along with supply chain breakages that left so many goods in shortage, did the Fed start to worry and raise interest rates from zero percent. That was presumably designed to sponge up the excess liquidity that had been injected directly to the veins of economic life. The Fed’s action slowed but did not end what they had unleashed to deal with the virus that was widely advertised as universally deadly even though every specialist knew otherwise. 

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WHO declares $Moneypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and plans to roll out two vaccines

The claim is that 3.7% of cases result in death—which is higher than what was claimed for COVID at the start: 14,000 cases and 524 deaths (most in children) in 2024. This is extremely unlikely for a number of reasons.

Addendum: In the 2 hrs since the WHO announced the numbers above at its press conference today, the WHO’s numbers (in a press release) have risen: over 15,600 cases and 537 deaths.

a) This is 20 times higher than the death rate for the 2022-23 monkeypox outbreak

b) Obtaining an accurate death rate in the Democratic Republic of Congo where there are few roads and very little modern infrastructure is impossible. In fact Dr. Ogoina, chair of the WHO expert committee, said in today’s press conference that there is underreporting of cases. He also noted that some deaths were in patients with advanced HIV disease.

c). We were initially told that monkeypox had a 1-10% mortality rate in Africa, which may or may not be true, but the mortality rate in the west was more like 0.1%

Dr. Ogoina also said this is a “new form of monkeypox” with “atypical lesions”—so what we need is to look at the genome and get an idea where it came from.

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On habeas corpus, probable cause, warrants, detention and extrajudicial state killing under declared public health emergencies.

Below are excerpts from email exchanges about HHS-CDC’s demonstrated use of quarantine authorities under 42 USC 264, 42 CFR 70 and 42 CFR 71, to arrest and detain 3,000 cruise ship passengers at US military bases in March 2020, killing at least 10 people while they were held in detention.

Sasha Latypova is working on a second report about this. Her first report was published in June 2024 in video (Jane Ruby interview) and written format:

The information below is from my replies to readers seeking more information about federal quarantine law.

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WHO Director Considers Declaring Public Health Emergency Over Mpox Virus Outbreak

The World Health Organization’s director-general said the United Nations health body is considering declaring an emergency for mpox, also known as monkeypox, amid an outbreak in Africa.

“But more funding and support for a comprehensive response are needed,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday. “I am considering convening an International Health Regulations emergency committee to advise me on whether the outbreak of mpox should be declared a public health emergency of international concern.”

By Tuesday, it was unclear when the WHO would declare the emergency or issue any warnings about the virus.

A statement from Tedros published by the journal Science added that “this virus can and must be contained with intensified public health measures including surveillance, community engagement, treatment and targeted deployment of vaccines for those at higher risk of infection.”

“A further scaling up of the mpox response underway in affected countries is urgently needed amid the expanding outbreak,” his statement said, calling for “more funding for a comprehensive response” that factors in diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.

A public health emergency of international concern is the strongest designation for an outbreak. Notably, such a declaration was made for COVID-19 during the early onset of the pandemic in 2020.

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Wisconsin ‘Emergency Rule Making’ Is Election Fraud

Independent journalist Peter Bergnegger is calling out Wisconsin election corruption:

Wisconsin Patriots call to action: the Wis. Election Commission and squatter Meagan Wolfe are up to their tricks again – in an email by WEC attorney written by Jim Witecha, he said it was too late to go through the normal rule-making process (required in our state) on election observer rules. 

So he unlawfully declared (paraphrasing) “so we’ll have to do it via Emergency Rule Making”. Citizens there is election fraud right there  – again. As WEC had all kinds of time to address the rules pertaining to election observers if they wanted, years in fact. Instead, they waited until it was too late and then jumped to the use of “Emergency Rule-making.” The election fraud is there is no emergency, they can’t even tell you what the emergency is. Ask them: what is the emergency? And ask them where/when did they publish it? 

It was even ruled in Wisconsin Courts back in 2021 Covid did not rise to the level of an emergency.

WEC purposefully didn’t get their observer rules passed in time for the upcoming very important elections, they now want to cheat by doing a chicken little of “emergency, emergency”. WEC’s strategy is to not have the rules passed before the legislative session closed is their modus operandi…so they can proceed to make emergency rules without going thru the normal process of scrutiny through the legislative process. THERE IS NO EMERGENCY!

The State Legislative Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR), has the power to suspend these emergency rules once published in the admin. register.  Senator Nass (R) and Representative Neylon (R) are co-chairs for this JCRAR joint committee.

Rules are not valid if they exceed the bounds of correct interpretation per Wis Stat 227.11(2)(a).  WEC wants to clarify in these emergency rules: 1) What interactions are permissible between observers, voters, and election officials, 2) How a chief inspector may restrict which areas are open to observers, 3) What may count as disruptive behavior”.  

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New leftist British PM plans to use emergency powers to RELEASE 40,000 PRISONERS

Newly elected leftist U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is planning to use his office’s emergency powers to release approximately 40,000 so-called “non-violent offenders” in a bid to address overcrowding in England and Wales prisons.

The current prison system of England and Wales has a capacity of up to 88,815 inmates. However, the prison population in the United Kingdom has surged dramatically from approximately 41,000 in the early 1990s to over 87,000 last month due to tougher sentencing laws and court backlogs over the past few decades. (Related: Leftist Keir Starmer becomes new British prime minister, pledges to put “country first, party second.”)

Newly installed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood has been informed that only about 700 spaces remain in the male prison estate. If the day comes without intervention, these spaces are projected to reach full capacity by Aug. 1. Additionally, the British think tank the Institute for Government noted a 13 percent increase in the prison population over the past three years, with projections suggesting it could reach 99,300 by the end of next year.

As a temporary measure, a policy introduced last October permits the early release of some less serious offenders by up to 18 days, which was extended to 70 days in May. But then, the current situation needs more immediate action.

In an interview with BBC political editor Chris Mason a few weeks before the election, Starmer admitted that he could not “magic up a new prison on Friday morning” if elected prime minister.

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Colorado Governor Declares Disaster Emergency Over Bird Flu Outbreak

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued an emergency disaster declaration in his state over an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in northeastern Weld County as officials recently reported that 1.8 million chickens were impacted by the virus.

The governor “verbally” declared a disaster after “an avian flu outbreak in a commercial poultry facility in Weld County,” according to a news release from his office issued on Monday. Mr. Polis’s office did not name the facility that was impacted by the outbreak.

The declaration means that Colorado can use its emergency powers to “take all necessary and appropriate state actions to assist with response, recovery, and mitigation efforts.”

In an update issued on July 8, the Colorado Department of Agriculture confirmed that 1.78 million chickens were impacted by highly pathogenic avian influenza.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in a statement on July 3 that a dairy farm worker in northeastern Colorado was infected with the H5N1 bird flu and had direct exposure to cattle infected with the virus. His only symptom was conjunctivitis, colloquially known as pink eye, which was described by the agency as mild.

“He has recovered. This case is an employee at a dairy farm in northeast Colorado who had direct exposure to dairy cattle infected with avian flu. To protect patient privacy, additional details are not being provided,” the agency said last week in a news release.

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US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency

The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country.

The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation’s top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend marked by mass shootings that left dozens of people dead or wounded.

“People want to be able to walk through their neighborhoods and be safe,” Murthy told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “America should be a place where all of us can go to school, go to work, go to the supermarket, go to our house of worship, without having to worry that that’s going to put our life at risk.”

To drive down gun deaths, Murthy calls on the U.S. to ban automatic rifles, introduce universal background checks for purchasing guns, regulate the industry, pass laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.

None of those suggestions can be implemented nationwide without legislation passed by Congress, which typically recoils at gun control measures. Some state legislatures, however, have enacted or may consider some of the surgeon general’s proposals.

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Sen. Rand Paul could introduce a bill to repeal the US laws that enable worldwide, US-led pandemic-preparedness-and-response-predicated mutilation and killing programs.

Note posted by Rand Paul Review:

Covid-19 is officially exposed as a US Govt project. A virus engineered by US scientists using a bio lab in China.

We know Fauci never treated a single patient with Covid-19.

Fauci said people would give up on their “ideological bullshit” if governments made it difficult for people to live regular lives.

He insisted the “vaccine” should be forced on people, regardless of their objections.

We know Fauci lied about the efficacy of these so-called vaccines.

We know he lied about gain-of-function research.

He lied about experimenting on puppies.

The DOJ MUST prosecute Fauci immediately.

My reply:

Suggest Sen. Paul work toward stripping DoD, HHS, DHS, DOJ, DOS and other federal agencies of their global license to kill using EUA countermeasures and PREP Act liability shields, by repealing the enabling laws Congress and US Presidents have enacted.

Start with the Top 10 listed below.

Contact me if Sen. Paul or his staff would like help with drafting the repeal bill.

Top 10 repealable American federal laws enacted by US Congress and US Presidents, between 1944 and the present, to embed worldwide vaccination, mutilation and killing programs in US domestic federal law, and, through international pharmaceutical-military-weapons-product sales contracts and international mutual recognition agreements pertaining to pharmaceutical non-regulation, to embed the same programs in the national governance and laws of other countries.

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