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As he addressed an audience of virologists from China, Australia, and Singapore at October’s Pandemic Research Alliance Symposium, Wei Zhao introduced an eye-catching idea.
The gene-editing technology Crispr is best known for delivering groundbreaking new therapies for rare diseases, tweaking or knocking out rogue genes in conditions ranging from sickle cell disease to hemophilia. But Zhao and his colleagues at Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity have envisioned a new application.
Originally published Dec 12, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“We become more polarized, and more polarizing, when we start spending our time in polarizing environments. I have seen it in myself, and I have watched it in others: when we’re going for retweets, or when our main form of audience feedback is coming from partisan junkies on social media, it subtly but importantly warps our news judgement. It changes who we cover and what stories we chase. And when we cover politics in a more polarized way, anticipating or absorbing the tastes of a more polarized audience, we create a more polarized political reality.” – Ezra Klein (Why We’re Polarized)
In our first ever Bellwether Deepdive, we saw the descent into social-driven ideologies across three nations. One of those nations, England, gave birth to the Lockean world of “liberalism,” the notion that bad action should be given free reign until it harms others.
This liberty is allowed for the sake of good action being able to freely take place as well (for no “expert” can perfectly define what “good action” is in the first place).
The other two nations, America and Canada, are direct descendants of the first, the mother nation, Britain. In Canada, they mostly followed the Common Law path like Britain in pursuit of individual liberty. In America, we followed a Constitutionally buttressed Rule of Law. One dramatically slowed down gun confiscations, the constitutional one, and the other two surrendered their guns as soon as the first wave of fear hit the public after a mass shooting event.
In the constitutional republic, while America is the mother of wokeness (with the Europeans building the seed that made wokeness possible), Canada and the UK have fallen far more profoundly than the source for wokeness has.
The ability to dramatically alter government power is an incentive to use mass hysteria manipulation to create more government power at the further cost of liberty. Wherever great power exists, in any institution, the incentive to offer grand promises increases, leaving well-intended, virtuous players with the difficult decision of surrendering their integrity or losing the contest altogether.
Great power attracts just the kind of people who are good at playing such games, psychopaths and psychotics, people less inclined to hesitate in their self-empowering actions even it means hurting, or even killing thousands, or even millions of their neighbors.
Even within America, corporate power centers have created de facto nations within America in which their powers are easily enhanced with a little mass hysteria manipulation. The left and right in America, for instance, are regularly begging the corporate state to censor their opposition on social media platforms.
For a while, this was inordinately a “leftist” problem, but its increasingly a rightist problem as well. The internecine war within the right over Israel alone has produced the same anti-American spirits in them as they originally fought against in the left.
To some degree, both left and right in America are becoming increasingly social-driven in their values as opposed to individual driven. This is happening to some degree in the UK but not so much in Canada. In the UK, the “right” effectively has no voice, but an emerging “Britain for the British and England for the English” group is emerging.
Though the conservatives and reform seem to be unevenly dividing the spoils of the Britian for the British crowd, neither party is remotely engaging pragmatically with the existential occupation of the country by an anti-UK party. The party of the British has yet to be identified, though there are many contenders. The leaders, reform and conservatives, are effectively woke-captured, if not woke themselves.
In Canada, the right is a pause that gives an increasingly small number of Canadians the illusion of enfranchisement. The fecklessness of the right leaves it with no real power to quibble over, though it too is effectively woke-captured. The “Canada for Canadians” crowd forming is not a strong as the “Canada become America” crowd forming in the Western Provinces.
The one who offers gold and blood gets the votes where the state has the power to attempt to deliver it.
In America, the state was bypassed by the corporate state, who then normalized anti-Americanism in the socio-cultural products and services it provided and how it managed the help.
As anti-American “values” become normalized, they become more accepted in our schools, which are also dominated by these same social-driven ideologies, the “woke.” Though it started in the schools, it was only AFTER the corporate state adopted it that it started to inflict real harm on the American republic and the innocent lives of Americans.
Unlike Britian and Canada, ironically, the American corporate state was able to lead the worldwide vanguard of wokeness because it could change its corporate governance the easiest. The same unaccountable power was first found in the universities, where “wokeness” first gained its real territorial foothold.
In an institution with unchecked power, the leaders are those that offer heaven and threaten hell, those that offer gold and blood. Social-driven ideologies are tailor-made for such narratives. It is hard to generalize in individual-driven narratives, for good or for ill.
Initially, the American corporate state was the incubator for social-driven ideologies writ on human flesh at a large scale, but once wokeness infiltrated the governments of Canada and the UK, they became even more powerful incubators. The woke institutions went from indirectly having government guns (through the protections government offered these infiltrated insurrectionist institutions) to having them directly.
These governments lacked first the constitutional bulwark, then the armed populace bulwark. These nations became woke paradises selling fake fear and false hope in exchange for real power they never intend on returning.
These social-driven ideologies imagine that a finite number of individuals can centrally determine truth for the overwhelming whole. They not only CAN but they MUST protect the unwashed from untruths. The promise is always part revenge and part Utopia.
Anything that offends the established preferred social identities is untruth in and of itself. The experts, who inform the state, should be our primary guides in evolving our understanding of what the perfect social is and how to assure the perfect social is protected from subversive action.
They are so certain of their possession of truth they are willing to lie, cheat, steal, assault, rape, and murder to assure their truth is affirmed by their neighbors. Not only are they willing to do it, they feel as if their neighbors deserve it.
As a matter of fact, to NOT support this punishment and to NOT participate in it, is a dog whistle that you belong to the evil outside group in secret.
Social media rose in the backdrop of a generation of college students being quietly “educated” in anti-American thinking, in social justice thinking. These digital entrepreneurs became the first real enforcers of a woke code that, without social media in the first place, would never have been so near-instantly, near-universally, enforceable.
And all it took was no more than a few hundred woke-manipulated college students to grow to become anti-American technocrats now fighting the other centers of woke power for hegemony in a post-world America they all hoped for.
Social media amplified and normalized the woke code not only through its content moderation governance and its algorithms that caused certain content to get promoted over others, but also through its content creators. These creators were incentivized to drive narratives through offerings of heaven and threats of hell, and promises of gold and blood, because strong emotions drive engagement, and engagement makes money.
How to make an agit-prop agent: Control the social media moderation team. Control the social media algorithm machine. Pay for clicks. Watch the agit-prop creators emerge. No training necessary. The algorithm will train them.
Social-driven ideologies are click-baith ideologies, always offering the grandest of statements about the evil nature of this social group and the noble nature of this social group. They always tell the dramatic lie of a dragon versus a small but brave and noble angel who needs corporate and state power to even have a CHANCE at defeating the great dragon who would otherwise consume us all.
Where power is unchecked, social-driven ideologies reign. Where power is checked, social-driven ideologies die. Social-driven ideologies thrive with great, fluid power, but wither within systems that move with the speed of a balance of power checked by individual liberty.
Ever since Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the social-driven ideology has fought to make it back into America, where it found unsafe harbor in a land still largely held in check by individual power. It found oxygen in the universities, who were allowed to thug on woke’s political opposition unchecked by simply shutting the hiring door behind them once they got in.
Once the gates were built, the wokeness spread throughout the departments, with the physical sciences even now boldly attempting to hold out, the last of a dying American age.
Had social media not come along, creating a network of dopamine need fiends dependent on platforms controlled by an elite woke few, perhaps wokeness would have died in American universities. Once it got out in the wild, once social media spread throughout the world, wherever governments had centralized power, wokeness took root like it still hasn’t here in America.
As always, history is complicated, but my somewhat simplified narrative is still essentially true: Educators created technocrats who created platforms where the clickocracy could reign.
Politicians who know that their customers will follow rage bait must either choose to remove themselves from the playing field or start screaming angels and demons and singing promises of blood and gold.
Otherwise, they have no chance in a clickbait world. With social media, and a corporate press to protect you, the woke politician has all the incentive in the world to drive heaven and hell, gold and blood narratives, truth be literally damned.
One could theorize that the clickopoly is the product of social-driven culture and also the perpetuator of it. The less power the corporation, the state has over the individual, the less effective click-bait narratives will be when attempting to manipulate the masses to do your dark bidding. The reverse of that is true as well, and we are living in that reverse world now.
From this reality of power in 2015, we see first the rise of Trump and all the other Trumpians that followed him, from JD Vance to Jasmine Crocket, all products of clickbait or die culture. Hillary Clinton, for instance, only turned to clickbait culture towards the end of her campaign, when she started to figure out what Trump was doing. That’s when she came up with the “basket of deplorables” line.
While Trump’s demon, the anti-American, child-sacrificing DNC, is very much real, his angel, MAGA, isn’t. And now, MAGA is already infighting over Israel, using the same angels and demons narratives against each other that the left once used on them.
As it stands today in America, the remnant is smaller than this writer imagined, but should we find one another, technology is on our side in building our own America within what is increasingly looking like a Progmerica of sorts about to emerge, but one that will be short-lived.
When their world collapses, our world will fill the void left behind and once again we shall resume the American experiment, towards liberty for all through a government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people.
But we must be building now to be the light for tomorrow’s coming dark clouds.
China is using AI to monitor every aspect of life of every citizen in its country by integrating it into every technology used in daily life, A report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute shows how China has been building the very central-controlled AI-mass-machine many in the west hope to bring over here. The cutting edge nature of their pre-crime surveillance capacity is the envy of the world for oligarchs everywhere, and thus will define the next decade or more.
Report reveals how China uses artificial intelligence to surveil 1,4 billion people – CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
A document from the Australian institute ASPI shows how China integrates cameras, drones, courts, prisons, and tech giants into an AI ecosystem that automates censorship, predicts protests, monitors minorities, and exports inexpensive mass surveillance models used by other authoritarian countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, around the world.
In a report cited in a news article by CNN Brazil, Published on December 6, 2025, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute describes how China has been using artificial intelligence to transform its surveillance apparatus into a system capable of… Predicting protests, monitoring prisoners, and controlling what 1,4 billion people can see online.The document points out that technology is already infiltrating daily life, connecting the Great Firewall, cameras scattered throughout cities, and digital monitoring tools to a single political project.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled its newest blueprint for “digital health transformation,” and critics warn it’s the clearest signal yet that the unelected global body intends to normalize trackable wearables, AI-driven monitoring, and centralized “health” data control for the world’s population.
Released this month, the updated “Global strategy on digital health 2020–2027” lays out a sweeping plan to expand the use of digital IDs, biometric devices, AI analytics, and remote-surveillance tools, all under the banner of “universal health coverage.”
WHO says digital health means everything from phone apps to “artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics and smart wearables,” and the organization wants governments worldwide to accelerate adoption.
Its own language makes clear this will not remain optional.
Why this matters for Egyptian history
The Second Intermediate Period, dated roughly 1782–1550 BCE, has long been understood as a time of political fragmentation, military innovation and shifting power. It saw the introduction of new technologies such as the horse-drawn chariot, multiple competing capitals, and weakened central authority. If this period lasted longer than previously thought, historians must rethink how quickly Egypt recovered from collapse, how long the Hyksos ruled, and how the early New Kingdom developed its military and administrative strength. Just as importantly, the revised dating helps resolve a decades-old problem in Mediterranean archaeology: how Egyptian history lines up with Minoan, Levantine and Aegean chronologies. By placing the Thera eruption firmly before Ahmose’s reign, the study removes one of the most persistent points of chronological tension between Egypt and its neighbours.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will permit semiconductor giant Nvidia to export its high-end H200 chips to China, potentially handing Beijing a boost in the battle for artificial intelligence supremacy. In characteristic fashion, Trump is insisting on the U.S. government taking a 25 percent cut of the sales.
The H200 isn’t Nvidia’s most advanced chip, but it outclasses the cut-down models that Nvidia had designed especially for the Chinese market. The deal is undoubtedly a product of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s lobbying in Washington, but it also appears designed to curry favor with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom Trump hopes to secure a significant trade agreement.
The move comes amid a flurry of conciliatory behavior toward China. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, is reportedly tasked with blocking any U.S. government action that could jeopardize a potential trade deal with Beijing. Vice President J.D. Vance has been echoing Chinese rhetoric, and the administration effectively killed legislation that would have required U.S. firms to offer the government first-purchase rights on key chips.
Korea Zinc announced on Monday a $7.4 billion smelter project in Tennessee that will be backed by the U.S. government and which will lessen our reliance on China for critical minerals used in defense systems, electronics, and so much more that powers our modern world.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took to X to laud the news:
Statement from Secretary Lutnick:
Big win for America. ⬇️
President Trump just secured a transformational critical minerals deal that strengthens our national security, rebuilds our industrial base, and ends our dependence on foreign supply chains.
Today, we announced a major…
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The salaries for those working on the project range from $150,000 to $200,000 annually.
The Trump administration launched what is being called the “US Tech Force” as the president is seeking US dominance in the artificial intelligence industry. The new initiative will be comprised of around 1,000 engineers as well as others who will build out AI infrastructure and projects within the federal government.
The two-year employment program will work with teams that report to agency leaders in “collaboration with leading technology companies,” according to the launch website. “Upon completing the program, engineers can seek employment with the partnering private-sector companies for potential full-time roles – demonstrating the value of combining civil service with technical expertise,” the website adds.
SAN ANGELO, TX — A high-stakes legal battle over the constitutionality of federal gun registration is heating up in Texas, as three of the nation’s leading gun control organizations have joined forces with the U.S. Department of Justice and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to defend the controversial National Firearms Act (NFA).
The lawsuit, Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF, was brought by Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Silencer Shop Foundation, and other plaintiffs. They argue that the NFA’s registration requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and similar items are unconstitutional — especially after Congress eliminated the $200 transfer tax on many of these items in 2025. GOA contends that without a tax in place, the government has no constitutional authority to require a national gun registry.
Despite this change in law, the DOJ continues to enforce the registration framework, arguing that the NFA is still supported by Congress’s taxing and commerce clause powers. In a surprising twist, the DOJ’s position is now being reinforced by an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief filed by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, and Giffords Law Center — the three largest gun control lobbying organizations in the country.
Representative Haley Stevens (D-MI) has filed articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying that he “has turned his back on science” and failed to protect the American people.
Stevens, who is currently running for Senate in Michigan, had threatened to file articles of impeachment back in September after claiming that his actions and public comments had endangered public health, raised healthcare costs and cut medical research programs.
In a statement posted on social media, Stevens said: “Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.”
Stevens, who calls herself “a very serious lawmaker,” told NBC News, “But I’m not going to sit quietly by while people’s health and safety and lives are on the line.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted an AI-generated video depicting President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in handcuffs.
“It’s CUFFING Season,” reads the text that appears at the beginning of the video.
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— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 10, 2025
It shows Trump, Hegseth, and Miller sitting on a sidewalk with their hands behind their backs.
In the next scene, they are sitting in the back of a car with handcuffs on, and they raise their hands to their faces and begin to cry.
Finally, they are shown walking in front of a courthouse, still handcuffed.
Key Takeaways
- Rapid enrollment in AI programs at universities like MIT and USF reflects a surge in employer demand, with MIT’s AI major growing from 37 to 328 students in just three years.
- Experts stress the importance of teaching the foundational aspects of AI, not just generative AI, to prepare students for a workforce increasingly reliant on AI skills.
- Concerns about AI’s societal impact are rising, prompting calls for curricula that address the ethical and safety challenges of AI technologies.
Students are rapidly enrolling in newly created AI programs and majors at schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego, and University of South Florida.
Educators and experts told The College Fix that the boom in the field of generative AI brings both benefits and risks.
Artificial intelligence is putting the creative professions through a round of creative destruction. Generative tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora have handed millions of amateurs the means to produce competent art, prose and even studio-quality video at or next to nothing. Disney’s just-announced $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and its plan to let Sora users conjure up scenes featuring more than 200 Disney, Marvel and Star Wars characters, will push the trend further. A teenager with a smartphone may soon generate a convincing Pixar-style short without ever lifting a pencil.
But the same tools are unsettling the people who built careers around those once-scarce skills. If anyone can summon photorealistic imagery or Hollywood-grade effects on command, what happens to illustrators, designers, or voice actors who spent decades perfecting craft?
Originally published Nov 26, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“In effect, this is a total, all out, complete ban on hemp products in the United States.” – Jonathan Miller, U.S. Hemp Roundtable’s general counsel
“There’s a lot of the small retailers, small businesses and farmers that are relying on hemp sales to survive.” – Michael Gorenstein, CEO of Cronos Group
“This will shut everything down. There’s just no way to get to that level.” — Matt Mitchell, owner of Hemp and Barrel.
“Our hope is that within the next year, sensible legislation can be agreed upon and enacted to protect this type of product for all our customers.” — Bryan Farrell, Big Grove spokesperson
INTRODUCTION
On November 12, 2025, the U.S. government shutdown ended after President Donald Trump signed what’s called a CR, a Continuing Resolution that keeps the government open for less than a year. It was the longest government shutdown in the history of the United States. The pressure to reopen the government was rising among both the left and the right (and probably helped the Democrats in the 2025 election).
A CR is optimally a mere continuation of the budget policies of the previous budget, but it has also been used to slip difficult legislation through. This CR had two provisions that fundamentally changed the previous budget’s policies, a provision allowing federal employees to sue if they were spied on by Jack Smith through Operation Arctic Frost and a provision that effectively nukes the consumable CBD industry.
President Donald Trump rose to power with a promise he would end the old political world order and usher in a government more responsive to the American people and more transparent. This government would be on the side of American global excellence that benefits Americans at home.
MIA was working on a report on how Donald Trump represents not a restoration of the American republic, but a creation of a pseudo-American oligarchy with his family positioned to be one of the inside families for generations to come. But then they killed Charlie Kirk….
After the Charlie Kirk assassination, we decided then was not the time to scrutinize what is, effectively, the only voice of REAL POWER in politics for Americans today, Donald Trump.
The President’s willingness to sign a bill that snuck in an industry-crippling provision violates American standards for due process, transparency, and any notion that the government is OF the people. The report is back on. Expect to see a report on President Trump as an ally but not a brother in our Americanism in the first half of 2026 (with the scheduled February 4th issue being the earliest release).
A multi-billion-dollar industry with 300,000 plus people deriving a living from that industry was set on fire in the blink of an eye using all the coercive double-speak standards of a fully empowered swamp.
This is the latest in a growing list of troubling actions by this administration that leads this writer to suspect Donald J Trump may be our most powerful ally against the Progmerican nation within us, but he either doesn’t fully understand the reality of power or he never had any intention of fully restoring and fulfilling the American promise of individual stewardship for all.
Whatever you feel about the growing hemp industry, whatever you feel about the consumption of these new hemp products, Donald Trump and the Republicans used Progmerican tactics to serve other special interests (mainly, the alcohol, medical, and enforcement industries) with no consideration for the reality of power as felt at the street level by their own constituents, the American citizens.
This report will show you how special interest lobbies used an emergency to pass legislation that perpetuates anti-American legislative standards we’ve been suffering under for decades now. The report will show you the legislation that created the industry, how this provision kills that legislation, the potential harms this provision will cause, and how the industry has responded.
I will also make the case for why you should care about this even if you support the outright ban of these hemp products (beyond what you hopefully see already; that it perpetuates coercive legislation-making).
A. HOW IT WAS DONE
Here is the timeline of events leading up to the passage of the hemp provision in the November 2025 CR.
In December of 2018 that year’s Farm Bill passed. It included a provision that effectively legalized a wide variety of new hemp products. From that emerged a new THC/CBD/DELTA market.
By 2023, the U.S. hemp industry reached a $28 billion cap. Texas passed a bill banning most of these products, but the Governor vetoed the bill.
In March of 2025, Kentucky passed legislation capping hemp-derived THC beverages at 5 milligrams.
On July 10, 2025, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduced legislation to ban intoxicating hemp products, but it failed to gain traction.
On September 23, 2025, Hemp farmers asked McConnell for a meeting, citing a willingness to agree to some new regulations, some of which they’ve already been calling on. McConnell declined the meeting.
McConnell decided to introduce his ban into the budget bill, which was met with a partisan pushback from Republicans, including James Comer.
On October 1, 2025, the government shutdown began.
On the weekend of November 8-9, a settlement was reached. Afterwards. Mitch McConnell inserted his hemp provision into the new CR, along with endorsements from 39 state AGS. They argue state laws are not enough to address the “intoxicating products.”
On November 10, the Senate debated and voted on the CR. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) filed an amendment to strike down the McConnell poison pill, but that was struck down, with 22 Democrats and 2 Republicans (including Paul) being the only ones to support the amendment.
Debate for the provision itself lasted no more than 20 minutes between 8:00am and 8:20am.
On November 11, 2025, the House passes the CR by a vote of 222-209, mostly along party lines (with the GOP voting for it). The hemp provision debate lasted no more than 10 minutes, from 2:30pm to 2:40pm.
The total debate time for a provision that IMMEDIATELY affects the lives of 300,000 Americans and millions more Americans deriving medical therapeutic use for these products was no more than 30 MINUTES TOTAL.
President Trump, knowing full well the nature of the poison pill within the CR, signed the bill November 12. One can reasonably argue Trump was choosing between two hard decisions, but this writer suspects this was hardly a tough decision for him at all, one that might pay off for him down the road in the form of RINO favor at a critical time.
This was the reflection of Trump’s pragmatism and with his association of wealth with Great America, as opposed to upholding the principles of a government OF the people, FOR the people, BY the people, not one of special interests making life or death decisions that affect millions mostly based on their own profit-driven market needs. This is not the free market; this is a controlled economy.
It was also a reflection of the dangers of “market conservatism” to Americanism (which, again, is not a free market economy).
As for popularity, a poll from McLaughlin & Associates in October of 2025 showed 72% of Americans support the continued legalization of the hemp products McConnell’s GOP-supported poison pill just nuked.
B. THE 2018 FARM BILL
The 2018 Farm Bill that passed in December of that same year changed the definition of hemp to any cannabis plant or its derivatives containing no more than 0.3% delta-9 THC by dry weight. This created space for a whole host of alternative Delta-9s, Delta-8s, THC-As, TCH-Os, etc.
Hemp growers would have a new market.
Daniel Kruger, PhD, a research associate professor at the University at Buffalo, said of the bill that it “created this massive market for products like CBD and then delta-8 based on this definition. These are products that you can often get at smoke shops or at gas stations. You can order them online. They’re most popular in states that don’t have a legalized pathway to cannabis, so people are using them as a workaround.”
Since that bill’s passage, a new $28 billion industry has emerged, providing direct employment to 300,000 people, and indirectly commercially benefiting hundreds of thousands of businesses that support the industry.
C. THE NEW REGULATIONS
Staten Island Attorney General Joshua Bauchner told the publication Staten Islander that the hemp provision in the CR “supersedes the Farm Bill which, technically, is supposed to be renewed every five years, but does not go into effect until one year from passage, or November 2026, to permit further regulation, particularly at the state level… it completely changes what is legal. The distinction between hemp and marijuana is a fiction without scientific basis. In theory, hemp is not psychoactive and marijuana is. They both come from the same cannabis sativa plant. However, the threshold for that determination varies significantly based on the product and the consumer. The CR looks to a Total THC measure, rather than just Delta-9 THC.”
Healthline’s description of the provision outlines the essential points of the new regulation:
… The new definition states that hemp may contain no more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container. A “container” is defined as the “innermost wrapping, packaging or vessel in direct contact with a final hemp-derived cannabinoid product.”
Additionally, cannabinoids that are synthesized or manufactured outside of the plant will be banned. Delta-8 THC, for example, does naturally occur in cannabis, but in small quantities. In order to commercialize it, delta-8 THC producers utilize a form of chemical synthesis, during which it is converted from CBD.
One section of the bill that has drawn significant scrutiny is the provision banning cannabinoids with “similar effects” to THC. The vague language could give lawmakers wide latitude to regulate a broad range of compounds.
The FDA must issue clarifying guidance within 90 days, including a list of cannabinoids that fall under the “similar effects” clause.
This hastily written provision, whose sloppy language reflects that hastiness, was passed by the Republican Party primarily, under Donald Trump, with 30 total minutes of debate combined from both legislative chambers.
This writer has said it before and will say it again, America needs American parties. The Democrats are Progmericans, which are no Americans at all, and the Republicans seems to AINOS, Americans in name only (which is AT LEAST a lot less threatening than being anti-Americanist like the DNC).
Our only real political ally is the AINO party.
C. THE POTENTIAL DAMAGE DONE
We earlier referenced Staten Island Attorney General Joshua Bauchner’s interview with Staten Islander. In that same interview, the AG outlined one major problem the Farm Bill created that this provision exploited.
He told Staten Islander, “Congress created a viable and robust hemp industry through the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill. Unfortunately, this created a fictional distinction between hemp and marijuana, both of which come from the same cannabis plant.”
He continued, “Rather than destroy the hemp industry (at the request of the liquor and marijuana industries) the better course would have been to create a safe and regulated market for all cannabis; intoxicating hemp, medicinal and adult-use marijuana, and everything in between.”
He concluded, “By fabricating two ‘types’ of cannabis, two industries — one legal (hemp) and one illegal (marijuana) at the federal level — multiple, distinct state regulatory programs, and enticing farmers, manufacturers, and retailers to participate, Congress created a wholesale mess and, in typical fashion, tried to fix that mess by covering it up with an even bigger mess – at the loss of jobs and livelihoods.”
At risks are the businesses, careers, and jobs of 300,000 Americans, and that’s just the direct hit. Many of these are family-owned businesses that have found a way to make a nice living providing a service they enjoy providing. Again, this was done with 30 minutes of combined total debate in both legislative chambers.
Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), told Healthline “By seeking to recriminalize this market rather than regulate it, lawmakers chose to utilize a sledgehammer when they should have used a scalpel. Banning the hemp-derived products market will not decrease consumers’ demand for these products, nor will it increase consumers’ safety. Instead, it will deny many consumers who previously relied on these products, including those who did so for therapeutic purposes, from legally accessing them in the future.”
One such victim of the therapeutic user group was featured by CNN. They documented the case of a 14-year-old who has found that only CBD effectively keeps her crippling seizures at bay. The very CBDs she needs appear to be on the ban list.
The girl’s daughter, Lisa Smith, told CNN, “She just basically existed. She didn’t really live. And after our first dose of CBD, she was able to stay awake. She started to learn… But prior to that, there was just no hope for us.”
After 10 years of using the drug, Haley’s seizures are down from multiple times a day to two to four times a month. Her family told CNN they fear what they will do if they must face a world without that therapeutic aid.
D. THE INDUSTRY RESPONSE
Cannabis Business Times reflected the hemp industry response in its statement on the passage of the hemp provision:
The 2018 Farm Bill left loopholes that some have exploited, flooding the market with synthetic, intoxicating, and untested products masquerading as compliant hemp products. These products mislead consumers and threaten public trust, and we support banning unsafe, unregulated products.
But equally banning safe, science-backed CBD products that help vulnerable communities would result in nothing short of a public health crisis. It would shut down 95% of the hemp industry, destroy tens of thousands of jobs, and devastate American farmers. It would leave millions of Americans without access to safe, non-intoxicating wellness products they’ve come to rely on.
The proposed 0.4 milligram total THC container limit is not based on science. According to a recently published study by Dr. Ryan Vandrey of Johns Hopkins University, low oral doses of THC, up to 2.8mg, do not cause intoxication or impairment.
As the industry leader, we understand the need for regulation. But regulation must be rooted in science, facts, and action—not fear.
The industry itself had been seeking regulations, solid regulations that accounted for safety, for childhood access, and other issues. An industry that faces constant changing regulations has exploding expenses with each regulation change, so the industry has a self-serving interest in seeing STABLE safety regulations happen.
Coastal Green Wellness offers the industry this “Silver Lining:”
The most important takeaway for you as a consumer is the timeline. The language passed on November 12th, 2025, has a one-year implementation window.
This means nothing at the federal level changes for one full calendar year, starting on November 12th, 2025… This grace period gives the industry a crucial window to fight back…
The entire hemp industry is mobilizing. This new federal language is not viewed as a viable or sustainable solution; it is an act of prohibition that dismantles a multi-billion-dollar industry supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs and countless consumers.
SUMMARY
The title of the report is a little tongue in cheek, but it’s intended to make a point. Many on the right are silent about this passage, and many more seem to embrace it. Most of them seem to be buying the narrative that this is just about ending the fun for potheads. To a lesser extent, the “save the children” narrative is broken out to support the ban.
What they don’t realize is that this passage harms far more than “potheads,” and it further erodes American Rule of Law standards. It also hurts President Trump’s political power.
This writer has no doubt that the election win of Donald J Trump in 2024 has saved us from existential threats far beyond what we face with the Trump-led-GOP majority government, so take that caveat into account as we offer serious critique to this administration, and something beyond that for the AINO Party, the GOP.
Trump’s handling of the Epstein Files, where he told his base that they were believing fake news when they continued to push to see the files finally get released, was a critical, but not fatal, blow to his MAGA brand. It made him seem as inauthentic as any swamp politician ever did.
What follows next is an own goal that might not immediately hurt his brand, but as it gets closer and closer to the deadline to pass a less draconian version of the ban, more and more Americans, his own voters, will start seeing Trump as being just as inauthentic as any other politician, especially as they experience harm as businesses begin to shut down (See how this will hurt him in the final part of our Detaining the Donkey series on pg. 2).
The passage of this bill chips further away at Trump’s political capital, and we Americans need that capital in order for him to continue to do the things we support, as well as some of the things we’ve been waiting to see (such as having the political capital to prosecute leading Democrats for treason, see pg. 2 for more on this).
If he loses political capital, the MAGA advance will come grinding to a halt and the counter-reformers will start to claw back his gains before his term even expires.
This bill also reaffirms the swamp’s tactics for making laws and rewards the highest political bidder with the spoils that come from a double-edged sword slicing open the underbelly of a whole industry just so its highest bidders can feast on the corpse.
So far, conservatives are mostly dead silent about this passage. They’re not even concerned with the violation, at least in spirit, of due process and rule of law, that was necessary for this socialist-like legislation to pass. This legislation is not at all in keeping with so-called “conservative fiscalism.”
The same gang that refuses to risk all to push to end abortion in America, while it also refuses to defiantly stand up to coerced acceptance of the LBGTQ+ plus orthodoxy, suddenly finds morals when it comes to hemp products.
Ok, so the target is high concentrations of THC and related products in liquids and jells, ostensibly, but the hammer shatters more than the target, which is most likely by design.
Our readers already know the lesson we can learn from this report. For those who haven’t been reading MIA regularly, or for those our readers have shared this report with, the lesson is this; neither party, not the Democrats, and certainly not the Republicans, either understand (in the case of the GOP) or want (in the case of the DNC) true Americanism.
Trump and the GOP want the outfits of America, but not the soul, though they’re willing to tolerate it. The Democrats want to burn the outfits and exorcise the soul.
Let us keep that in mind when we determine our reaction to our world today. In this spirit, we still hope for Trump to succeed in the areas we support him (which is still the majority of his policies). We hope he reverses his decline in political capital, for we recognize we need it maybe MORE than he does.
We also pray that the saving grace of Christ can become known to him.
Were Trump to find Christ this writer is sure many of the scales that are still over his eyes would fall away, and the fires of vanity concealing reality in their smoke and flames within will be put out in the flowing of living water.
FURTHER RESOURCES:
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 27, 1913 – Arthur S. Line, Editor
The Administrative State: How America Was Deceived – RJ Salerno
Bill Gates has backed off the climate change hoax in preparation for abandoning global warming safety standards for AI resource acquisition. Meanwhile, his NGO, the Gates Foundation is working with the UN to prepare the world for a global digital ID system. The initiate is called the “50-in-5” campaign.
It aims to complete the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in 50 countries by 2028. So far, 30 countries have signed up. Some of the major countries include India, Vietnam, Thailand, and Nigeria.
UN & Gates Foundation Push Global Digital ID System Rollout – slaynews.com
A quiet but explosive global push is underway as the United Nations (UN) advances a new plan to roll out a Gates Foundation-backed digital ID and payment system in 50 major countries around the world.
Critics warn that the dystopian effort could redefine citizenship, erase privacy, and convert basic human rights into state-managed digital privileges.
The UN, backed aggressively by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is fast-tracking a worldwide digital ID system designed to envelop 50 nations by 2028.
The initiative, branded as the UN’s “50-in-5” campaign, aims to lock participating nations into Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI).
The Associated Press is reporting the U.S. Border Patrol is using a traffic monitoring program that used “Predictive Intelligence” to identify and detain individuals driving in “suspicious patterns.” AP claims the program is monitoring millions of Americans. It started as a border monitoring program but has since been scaled out nationwide.
“Predictive Intelligence Program” Enables Border Patrol To Monitor And Detain American Drivers With “Suspicious” Travel Patterns, Report Claims – WLT Report
The U.S. Border Patrol is secretly monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a program to identify and detain individuals who have “suspicious” travel patterns, the Associated Press claims.
According to the outlet, the “predictive intelligence program” uses cameras to scan and record vehicle license plate information and flag those deemed suspicious.
Federal agents can potentially notify local law enforcement, the outlet said.
Brain implant developer Paradromics has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to test its device in an early-stage human trial, the company announced Thursday.
The Austin-based company is aiming to give a digital voice to people who have lost the ability to speak due to severe motor impairment. The trial will assess the long-term safety of the Paradromics device, as well as its ability to enable synthesized speech and text communication.
Paradromics is one of several companies—which include Neuralink, Synchron, Precision Neuroscience, and Cognixion—working on technology to control computers and other devices using brain waves. Known as brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, these systems capture brain signals associated with movement intention and translate them into commands.
Move over, colonoscopies — researchers writing in ACS Sensors report that they have created tiny microspheres filled with bacteria that can sense the presence of blood, a key sign of gastrointestinal disease. These microspheres function like miniature “pills” that are swallowed and include magnetic particles so they can be easily collected from stool. After passing through mouse models with colitis, the sensors detected gastrointestinal bleeding within minutes. The team notes that the same bacterial system could eventually be engineered to identify other gut-related conditions.
“This technology provides a new paradigm for rapid and non-invasive detection of gastrointestinal diseases,” says Ying Zhou, a co-author of the study.
If you have spent any time on X (fka Twitter), you know that it is a cesspool of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, frequently neo-Nazi accounts that purport to be “America First” and “MAGA” and posting from the United States, frequently red states.
The X algorithms for the “For You” feed were unbearable.
It’s amazing how “For You” feeds nonstop Jew-baiting and Jew hatred on my feed also. There’s something very broken about it @elonmusk https://t.co/HY46Dr97Fa
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) September 29, 2025
But I and many others suspected that many, if not most, of these accounts, particularly the ones that purported to be “MAGA” were fakes.
My “For You” on @X is a dumpster fire of the worst and most fraudulent anti-Israel accounts, the algorithm creating that feed sucks, it’s become unusable @elonmusk
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) September 10, 2025
Nvidia shares fell on Tuesday after The Information reported that Meta is considering using chips designed by Google.
Shares of Nvidia were 3.6% lower in premarket trade. Google-parent Alphabet was trading 2.6% higher.
On Monday, The Information reported that Meta is considering using Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) in its data centers in 2027. Meta may also rent TPUs from Google’s cloud unit next year, the publication reported.
Google launched its first-generation TPU in 2018 and it was initially designed for its own internal use for its cloud computing business. Since then, Google has launched more advanced versions of its chip that are designed to handle artificial intelligence workloads.
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Don’t leave your children alone with any interactive AI warns a consumer watchdog group called The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) in its 40th annual report, “Trouble in Toyland 2025.” The group warns “Some of these toys will talk in-depth about sexually explicit topics, act dismayed when you
AI chatbot toys are having ‘sexually explicit’ conversations with kids: report – NYPost
As the season of gift-giving draws nigh, experts are warning parents against buying their children presents powered by AI — claiming certain robo-charged trinkets are having “sexually explicit” discussions with kids under age 12.