Would you like to see what the globalists really fear?
OK, here’s a picture:
“What? A protest? Pffff. The controllers of the global conspiracy don’t care about a little protest, James,” you scoff, scrolling on to the next post in your never-ending feed of doomporn.
But if that is what you think when you see this picture, then you don’t understand this picture.
So, if you’re willing to forego your next dose of ragebait conspiritainment for a little while, bear with me while I explain what the global cabal lives in mortal fear of and what we can do to flip the script on the would-be rulers of the world.
Are you ready?
THE PROTEST
The picture that we looked at above—the one that depicts what the globalists really fear—is, as you have correctly surmised, a picture of a protest. So, let’s nail down some facts about that particular protest.
It took place on March 9, 2024.
It was part of a Canada-wide anti-WHO rally put on by Stand United, a group of activists in British Columbia who, according to their website, are “prepared to take appropriate actions to ensure our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Bill of Rights will be honoured here in Canada” and whose “major focus is on the signing of the upcoming WHO Treaty.”
The protest in the photograph took place in Edmonton, Alberta, and was hosted by Alberta4Liberty, which posted video of the event on its Facebook page.
The event consisted of a rally in which the assembled protesters:
played a game of “Is it 1984 or is it now?” (guessing whether various headlines were ripped from the pages of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four or from present-day Canadian newspapers);
listened to speeches by a variety of speakers; and
gathered on a street corner with their homemade “Exit the WHO” and “#STOPTHETREATY” signs.
You can watch the trailer for the event that was put out in advance of the protest and read the post that Alberta4Liberty made announcing and promoting the event on its aforementioned Facebook page, and you can even watch the full video of the speeches that the group posted the day after the rally.
So far, so seemingly staightforward. A handful of protesters made some signs and held a little “Exit the WHO” rally in Edmonton last month. Good for them.
. . . But why are we here talking about it, James? It’s not that big a deal, is it?
WHAT IT MEANS
If you were going to speculate about why I’m drawing attention to this particular protest, you might guess that it has to do with the protest’s location. After all, as you may or may not know, I’m Albertan myself, so perhaps I’m just excited to see some fellow Albertans standing up to the WHO tyranny at long last.
And, if that is your guess, then . . . .congratulations! You’re technically correct. (The best kind of correct!)
What prompted me to stop scrolling through my own never-ending feed of doomporn and click on the article about the protest—”Protesters surround CTV demanding coverage of WHO pandemic treaty” posted on The Counter Signal on March 11, 2024—was indeed the fact that it was an article about an Exit the WHO protest in Edmonton.
But that isn’t why we’re talking about the protest.
No. This is why we’re talking about this protest:
Do you see that? No? Let me zoom in on it for you:
That’s right: CTV.
The protesters weren’t protesting outside some government building or bureaucratic office. They weren’t protesting outside Alberta Health Services or the provincial legislature. They were protesting at CTV.
For the non-Canadians in my audience, CTV is Canada’s largest privately owned television network and is a major news source for many Canadians.
As the above-linked The Counter Signal article explains:
Edmonton protesters gathered outside a CTV building demanding coverage of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) plans for a legally binding global pandemic treaty.
So, what was the result of this action? Did the protests end up on the evening news?
Nope.
But here we are talking about it.
I know that doesn’t sound miraculous at first blush, so let me spell it out for you. The fact that we are here taking a moment to focus on this protest tells us two things:
You (and many, many people like you) no longer have your news dictated to you by CTV or CBC or the equivalent television networks in your country.
Protesters are finally starting to recognize the importance of the most powerful weapon in the world.
“Huh? What’s the most powerful weapon in the world?” you ask.
Patience! I respond. We’re getting to that!
. . . But first, let’s take a second to appreciate the import of point number one.
In order to better appreciate that point, let’s turn to a recent comment on corbettreport.com. In this comment, Corbett Report member b887 explains why it’s so important that we are here in this digital space looking at information the establishment media doesn’t want to talk about.
Sometimes I forget how informed we are here.
We see the bankers instigating wars, we see the puppets being selected to carry out these orders, we see the poison being added to the processed foods, we see the neurotoxins in the tap water…
The other day a coworker asked me why I collect my own spring water when the tap water is “clean”. I gently mentioned that I can’t trust the tap water in America and then I brought up the Flouride lawsuit against the EPA.
He didn’t look up the information I was telling him, he didn’t ask me where I heard about this, he didn’t care where I heard it, he just assumed I was crazy and changed the subject.
That’s why I appreciate New World Next Week, thanks for the upload
You see, it wasn’t that long ago that if something wasn’t being covered by the establishment media—either in the newspaper or on the major TV or radio networks—there was almost no chance that people would even know about it. But this is 2024, and things have changed completely. Despite the fact that the WHO proposed pandemic agreement is being almost completely ignored by the dinosaur press, people are nonetheless aware of it.
Oh sure, there are always those who will turn away from this information or choose to ignore it, but here we are talking about it anyway. Not only that, but we’re forming national protest movements and coordinating days of action around a topic that most people have never seen on TV or read about in the paper.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate what a drastic shift this represents?
OK, on to point number two.
“Don’t leave us hanging, James. What is the most powerful weapon in the world?”
No? Well, the link’s right there. Go ahead, click it!
Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with that article, you’ll know that the most powerful weapon ever invented is narrative. After all, as I pointed out four years ago:
With a gun you can kill a man. With a bomb you can kill a family. With a nuke you can level a city. But with a story you can control the world.
So, let’s think about the significance of an “Exit the WHO” movement deciding to hold a protest at the local CTV offices.
Protesting media silence on the WHO’s machinations (or on any other taboo topic) is an overt acknowledgment of the fact that the media propagandists don’t simply tell us what to think about the news of the day. They tell us what to think about, period. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a WHO pandemic agreement is about to be signed in Geneva and the TV talking heads don’t mention, will the public know it’s even happening?
And so it makes perfect sense for a group of protesters to concentrate their efforts not on the phoney, corrupt politicians, but on the people who really matter. The general public. And how do you reach the people? Why, through the media, of course. Thus, we have a protest outside CTV.
It’s perfectly logical and a fitting recognition of the fact that it is general public opinion, not some rigged political process, that really matters when it comes to effecting change in society.
But there’s an even deeper level to this protest. The very fact that these protesters are gathered together outside the CTV offices, demonstrating over something they didn’t hear about on CTV, proves we no longer need CTV—or any of CTV’s dinosaur media brethren.
We are informing each other.
We are organizing ourselves.
We are writing our own narrative.
Welcome to the globalists’ greatest fear.
UNITE AND WIN
As it turns out, what the establishment really fears is what they have always feared: the masses—you and I—waking from our slumber and realizing that we don’t need to listen to the media talking heads to know what to think about. That we don’t need the oligarchs and their control system to run our lives for us.
This is why the powers-that-shouldn’t-be invest so much of their time, energy, resources and political capital in propagandizing the public: to stop us from coming together and setting our own agenda.
A perfect case in point manifested itself over a decade ago, when both the Tea Party and the Occupy protesters, alarmed over the global financial crisis, pointed the finger at the real threat to humanity: the banksters. Disturbed at the existential threat that these two movements represented to their system of control, the kakistocrats mustered all the resources at their disposal—including, of course, the bought-and-paid-for talking heads and propagandists of the mockingbird media—to derail them, using classic divide-and-rule tactics.
What’s truly remarkable is that the Tea Party and Occupy had essentially the same correct diagnosis of our societal conundrum—namely, that the unelected, unaccountable, too-big-to-jail banksters are looting our economy and threatening civilization itself for their own benefit and that the politicians who are supposed to “regulate” these entities are in fact beholden to them. What’s even more remarkable is that, within a few short years, both movements had been completely neutralized.
How? They were split along the fake left/right divide, with “Teabaggers” becoming a punchline among the trendy, Daily Show-consuming liberal Occupiers while the Tea Party—having been hijacked by the Republican Party and its donors—began spending more time fighting the “dirty hippies” in Occupy than confronting the banksters themselves.
Then, suddenly, the woke culture wars came along, completely displacing any talk about banksters and revolution. The partisan masses, having been pitted against each other by Woke Hollywood, by right-wing radio and by Mainstream Alternative Media, have all but forgotten where real power in society lies—much less how close we once were to making our power count.
But now all that is changing. And that change is apparent in this picture:
Scoff if you will, but your incredulity only belies your inability to understand the nature of the change that is taking place around us.
As b887 says: “Sometimes I forget how informed we are here.”
Well, it’s time to take note of how informed we really are. It’s time to realize that we are in the midst of a truly revolutionary period. It’s time to appreciate the fact that, as Zbigniew Brzezinski once fretted:
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. There are only a few pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the world that are not politically alert and engaged with the political turmoil and stirrings that are so widespread today around the world. The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination.
Brzezinski—himself a toadie currying favour with the establishment—understood this global political awakening as a threat.
But we know better. We know it represents our inevitable victory.
We are only starting to understand our power. We may be protesting outside CTV today, but tomorrow we will prove that CTV is completely unnecessary. We will have replaced it.
And, once we push this revolution through to its logical conclusion and stop ceding our power and authority to the banksters and their globalist technocratic minions, we will be unstoppable.
The answer to divide-and-rule is remarkably simple: unite and win. And that, in the final equation, is what the globalists fear most.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director Robert Califf noted before a House committee on April 11, 2024, that there is no justification for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to postpone making the much-anticipated decision to move cannabis from Schedule I to III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
However, Califf suggested that the DEA might treat recreational cannabis differently from medical cannabis, a move that could significantly impact the American marijuana industry. Analysts have speculated on the implications of such a potential distinction, noting that it might result in tax advantages for medical cannabis enterprises over recreational ones.
Califf’s remarks were made during a comprehensive hearing convened by Representative James Comer (R), who chairs the Oversight and Accountability House Committee. Comer raised concerns about the FDA’s oversight of new tobacco products used for nicotine vaporization and its reluctance to regulate products derived from hemp, such as CBD. In response to Comer’s criticisms, Califf shifted the responsibility to Congress, asserting that the current regulatory frameworks are inadequate for CBD and advocating for the establishment of new regulatory measures.
Califf’s discussion on the potential reclassification of cannabis was prompted by a query from Representative Nancy Mace (R), a prominent advocate for cannabis reform. Mace sought updates on the DEA’s assessment of the FDA’s findings from last year, which acknowledged the medicinal value of marijuana and recommended its reclassification to Schedule III.
Califf refrained from providing specific details, noting that he wouldn’t tell even if he knew. However, he emphasized the absence of justification for any delay on the part of the DEA, stressing the need for consideration of existing regulations. He also emphasized the importance of congressional guidance in navigating the cannabis regulation issue.
Drawing a line between recreational and medical cannabis, Califf highlighted the distinction between their respective purposes and routes of validation. While acknowledging the medical benefits of cannabis when used for therapeutic purposes, he cast doubt on its utility for recreational use, suggesting that it lacks medicinal value in such contexts. It remains unclear whether Califf’s insights will affect how the DEA makes a decision.
According to a DEA official, the agency typically takes up to six months to evaluate recommendations from health authorities regarding scheduling changes. This timeframe aligns with the duration since the current assessment of cannabis began. These discussions occurred amid the Biden administration’s efforts to promote marijuana pardons and oversee the cannabis scheduling review.
The entire marijuana industry, including leading companies such as TerrAscend Corp. (TSX: TSND) (OTCQX: TSNDF), will be waiting with bated breath to know what final decision the DEA makes regarding the rescheduling of marijuana under the CSA and the resultant implications for the trajectory of the industry.
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Since legalization, we have seen cannabis events play an integral and multifaceted role in shaping the trajectory of the Canadian cannabis sector. Sampling events, in particular, have grown in popularity, fostering a more informed and empowered industry.
These educational events provide a unique and cost-effective opportunity for brands to showcase products and unique selling points to those who influence consumer purchasing decisions. For retailers and Budtenders, these events offer a chance to explore new products and understand emerging trends in the market, enabling personalized recommendations to consumers and empowering them to make informed choices about which products to stock.
Ahead of StratCann’s Growing Relationships Events, Tether, a Canadian Budtender community of over 5,000, is breaking into two new markets and bringing its signature sampling events to Calgary, AB and Kelowna, BC.
Tether stands out in the industry for its commitment to learning directly from the source: Budtenders. Through annual surveys reaching over 200 individuals across Canada, Tether diligently gathers insights and feedback from Budtenders, allowing the organization to continuously refine its events and offer to national brands.
By harnessing these insights, Tether enables brands to tailor their strategies, products, and messaging to resonate with this influential segment of the cannabis community, ultimately fostering stronger partnerships and driving collective growth within the industry.
Five Ways Cannabis Events Strengthen the Industry
1. Retailer Engagement
In a sector where sensory experience and product effects play a pivotal role in sales, brand education and product knowledge are essential. At Tether’s upcoming sampling events, brands are afforded a golden opportunity to spotlight their offerings directly to retail buyers.
In Tether’s recent 2023 survey, Budtenders indicated that they want to learn directly from brands, with their primary source of education being through brand ambassadors and LP reps (up 31% from last year).
2. Education Through Sampling
Budtenders are influential individuals and play a crucial role in enhancing the consumer experience. Sampling events provide a channel to get product directly into the hands of Budtenders, enabling them to become valuable brand advocates.
Tether’s survey results indicate that sampling has become a powerful tool for education, evident in the 15% rise in Budtenders turning to events like those in Calgary and Kelowna for education and seeing over 95% of Budtenders surveyed wanting to try products firsthand.
Maximizing the potential of educational sampling involves encouraging Budtenders to actively share their insights and experiences through product reviews, feedback surveys, and social media platforms.
3. Making Connections
Tether’s sampling events extend beyond product showcases; they serve as platforms for networking, business expansion, and meaningful dialogue. The Calgary and Kelowna events will each see over 200 Budtenders, retailers, industry professionals, and community members, aiming to build sustainable business relationships.
For brands, participation offers a chance to expand their reach and strengthen their industry presence. Retailers seize the opportunity to broaden their product offerings and invest in their sales team’s growth.
Tether facilitates these connections, providing insights and marketing solutions for brands of all sizes. These events are designed to forge lasting connections in the cannabis industry while supporting the growth of retail environments.
4. Industry Progression
Provincial regulations regarding outdoor consumption areas are continuously evolving, presenting promising opportunities for hospitality and tourism. As these regulations become more accommodating, they pave the way for the establishment of cannabis-friendly consumption venues and events. Regulated sampling events are also integral to this process, playing a pivotal role in legitimizing the industry and dismantling social stigma.
While these changes may seem small, they represent significant strides toward reducing stigma and creating a more welcoming space for cannabis enthusiasts and the industry as a whole.
Beyond business, the Calgary and Kelowna sampling events will help build community. Cannabis enthusiasts, advocates, and entrepreneurs will come together to share their passion and celebrate progression. In Tether’s latest survey, over 90% of Budtenders express interest in attending events within the cannabis community, with 86% prioritizing building relationships with fellow Budtenders.
Lexaria, a global innovator in drug delivery platforms, has received approval for its GLP-1 human pilot study #2 by an independent third-party ethics review board
GLP-1 drugs are utilized in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, a huge market, and are typically administered by painful and expensive injection, offering a major opportunity for Lexaria’s oral delivery platform
This approval sets the company up for dosing within 30 days or less, with tentative study completion dates for this summer
The study will comprise two study arms, the second study arm will investigate whether Lexaria’s patented DehydraTECH(TM)-enhanced semaglutide can effectively absorb into the sublingual/buccal tissues of the mouth with fewer side effects
For Lexaria, this milestone brings it closer to its objective of forging strategic partnerships with leading industry players, ultimately growing shareholder value
Lexaria Bioscience (NASDAQ: LEXX), a global innovator in drug delivery platforms, just announced approval for its GLP-1 human pilot study #2 by an independent third-party ethics review board. The potential use of Lexaria’s oral delivery platform for GLP-1 drugs, typically administered by injection or stomach-upsetting tablets, represents a massive market opportunity. This study approval marks a milestone for the company, with the first dosing set to begin within 30 days or less, and with tentative completion dates for this summer (https://cnw.fm/QDjNj).
The human pilot study will seek to explore Lexaria’s patented DehydraTECH(TM) technology and its overall effectiveness in the delivery of glucagon-like peptide-1 (“GLP-1”). It will involve up to 9 healthy volunteers and feature two study arms, each evaluating tolerability, blood absorption levels, and blood sugar control.
The first study arm will use a Rybelsus(R) composition processed with DehydraTECH and delivered within swallowed capsules. The second arm will explore an oral dissolvable tablet formulation with DehydraTECH-powered semaglutide from Rybelsus(R). This will mark the very first study design to investigate whether DehydraTECH-enhanced semaglutide can effectively absorb into the sublingual/buccal tissues of the mouth and throat with fewer side effects than from swallowed administration and with some adequate level of blood absorption.
Earlier in March, Lexaria announced having hired a contract research organization (“CRO”) to perform this specific study, described as a randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled investigation (https://cnw.fm/fq3mr). This ethics review board approval is a testament to the steady progress of the company. It also allows Lexaria to maintain its current momentum by meeting the study objectives and realizing the timelines set out at the beginning of the year. More importantly, these milestones inch the company closer to forging strategic partnerships with leading industry players, which would be integral in growing shareholder value.
“I am excited about this Study; the Lexaria scientific team believes that a dissolvable oral tablet that delivers an effective fraction of semaglutide along with reduced side effects could potentially offer valuable benefits to the pharmaceutical industry that might lead to a higher likelihood of favorable strategic partnering with leading industry players in GLP-1,” noted Chris Bunka, Lexaria’s CEO.
“Most GLP-1 drugs sold today are administered by painful and expensive injection devices. More effective and tolerable oral delivery of GLP-1 drugs could be extremely valuable to patients and to industry,” he added.
Previous studies have demonstrated DehydraTECH’s ability to improve the delivery of certain drugs destined for the bloodstream. Lexaria hopes to replicate these results in this study to usher in a new era in GLP-1 delivery without the need for painful injections or stomach-upsetting tablets. Its management is optimistic about the study results, and the ethics review board approval brings the company closer to realizing this objective.
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Since medical cannabis was first legalized in Colorado in 1996, nearly half the country has legalized marijuana for recreational use. Even more states have decriminalized weed or allowed marijuana to be used for medical purposes.
These maps show which states have legalized recreational or medical marijuana or decriminalized weed as of 2024.
(CNW) New York — Curaleaf Holdings, Inc., a leading international provider of consumer cannabis products, announced today the closing of its acquisition of Northern Green Canada (“NGC”), a vertically integrated Canadian licensed cannabis producer focused primarily on expanding in the international market through its EU-GMP certification.
The accretive acquisition amplifies the company’s strategic advantage in established European markets including Germany, Poland and the United Kingdomand provides a foothold in the emerging markets of Australia and New Zealand.
Integrating NGC’s international operation will equip Curaleaf with a secure and consistent high quality, non-irradiated, indoor EU-GMP flower supply, essential to maintaining its leading positions in Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland.
“We are thrilled to welcome NGC formally to the Curaleaf family of global brands,” said Boris Jordan, founder and executive chairman of Curaleaf. “This is an incredibly important deal for our international expansion strategy, as we’ll be able to bolster our supply of high quality EU-GMP certified flower immediately to key European markets as well as enter the fast-growing markets of Australia and New Zealand.”
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Researchers in Canada have released the results of a new study on the development of molecular tools for cannabis breeders and researchers.
The goal of the research is to help develop tools to more easily identify specific genetic traits in cannabis sought by breeders, such as selecting traits for specific cannabinoid ratios for medical or non-medical applications.
This study unveils high-value markers linked to essential agronomic and morphological traits identified through genome-wide association studies conducted on 176 drug-type cannabis samples.
Four key productivity-related traits were identified—fresh biomass, dried flower weight, sexual maturity, and harvest maturity, as well as stem diameter, canopy diameter, height, internode length index, and node counts. Samples showed a significant variety in all of these traits, from low and high total biomass, height, flowering time, etc.
One challenge in this type of work with cannabis, as explained in the research paper, is that the cannabis gene pool has been severely limited to prohibition and the specific demands of the commercial cannabis market. Despite this, cannabis still exhibits a notable level of phenotypic variation.
This limited gene pool for cannabis is a problem for breeders as the plant lacks the robust wild-type or landrace gene pool available to many other commercially cultivated plants. Although hemp-type cannabis is somewhat distinct from “drug-type” cannabis varieties, they share enough common features that it can make identifying genetic variations difficult but a “critical necessity.”
Because of this, the findings, although requiring further analysis, can play a role in more efficiently and effectively identifying the desired genetic traits different breeders seek. This will require continued and growing collaboration between researchers and industry to utilize this new genetic knowledge and translate it into practical, innovative, and sustainable breeding strategies.
“Our findings open new avenues for advancing cannabis breeding programs and addressing the diverse needs of emerging industries,” concludes the paper. “The application of a high-density genotyping approach yielded an extensive catalogue of high-quality SNPs, effectively capturing the genomic diversity of drug-type cannabis.
“The distribution of these markers across different chromosomes, coupled with high quality phenotypic data, facilitated the identification of molecular markers associated with complex agronomic and morphological traits. These markers hold great promise for further investigations to elucidate their functional links with phenotype variations, making them valuable assets for precision breeding efforts.”
Not a day goes by when we shouldn’t be thinking about ways to help heal the planet, and Earth Day draws attention to this cause. EARTHDAY.ORG sets an overall theme for the annual event, and this year’s focus is on ending plastic pollution to improve environmental and human health. Global plastic production is set to double by 2040, but the organization demands a 60% reduction over the next 15 years.
The Problem with Plastic
Microplastics are impossible to avoid and pose a serious threat to all living creatures. They contain toxins that seep into waterways, soil, food, and skin. We all breathe and ingest plastic particles daily, and animals on land and in the sea also succumb to plastic overtaking their natural ecosystems.
Simply put, there is too much plastic on this planet. But there are concrete ways to reduce our dependency on it and, in many cases, avoid it completely. EARTHDAY.ORG has several suggestions.
Avoid Fast Fashion
It’s no secret that the fashion industry is a grind on the environment and many of our natural resources. Did you know that washing clothing made of synthetic materials accounts for 35% of all microplastics found in the ocean? When shopping for clothes, look for companies that make ecologically and socially responsible items. Sustainable fashion is typically of good quality; you might pay more, but hopefully, you’ll keep the items longer. Plus, your social conscience will thank you; supporting eco-friendly clothing companies and reducing how much you buy can go a long way in the fight against plastic pollution.
The #PlasticDetox Social Media Challenge
Who doesn’t love a good challenge? The #PlasticDetox challenge encourages you to reduce plastic use by avoiding single-use items like bags, straws, bottles, and other packaging. Ditch the sandwich bags for washable cloth bags. Forget cling wrap; beeswax plate coverings do a better job and are easier to use. Buy refillable bottles for soaps and natural cleaning solutions rather than throwing them out after you finish the product. Share your progress and inspire others to make simple changes on social media using #PlasticDetox. Once you find ways to ditch single-use plastics, you’ll never go back. Promise.
Join The Great Global Cleanup
The Great Global Cleanup is about encouraging governments, citizens, and businesses to do their part by organizing or participating in a community cleanup. These are fun community events where you can chat with friends and neighbors while collecting garbage and making an impact on Earth Day and beyond. That’s right; it’s not too late to plan something like this! You can register your event or find nearby cleanups at EARTHDAY.ORG. The website also offers tips for planning an event, encouraging participation, and how the cleanup should unfold.
Garden Initiatives
Of course, Garden Culture has come up with plenty of ways you can help combat plastic pollution in and outside of the garden. Here are some of our suggestions:
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