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Rising fascism in the US

 
 
Walter Hinteler
 
  2  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:22 am
@Lash,
Lash wrote:
Stockholder at BioNTech?
No, but I can read the European databases.

What was again YOUR source that OTHER large studies databases had flagged this safety issue?
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Glennn
 
  -1  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:23 am
@Frank Apisa,
You think being lied to is funny?
Frank Apisa
 
  3  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:27 am
@Glennn,
Glennn wrote:

You think being lied to is funny?


I think you are funny, Glennn.

Laughing
Glennn
 
  -1  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:31 am
@Lash,
Here's the first 50 of over 1000 experimental-injection studies:

Cerebral venous thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccination in the UK: a multicentre cohort study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01608-1/
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia with disseminated intravascular coagulation and death after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1052305721003414
Fatal cerebral hemorrhage after COVID-19 vaccine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33928772/
Myocarditis after mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, a case series: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666602221000409
Three cases of acute venous thromboembolism in women after vaccination against COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213333X21003929
Acute thrombosis of the coronary tree after vaccination against COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1936879821003988
US case reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after vaccination with Ad26.COV2.S (against covid-19), March 2 to April 21, 2020: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33929487/
Portal vein thrombosis associated with ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccine: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(21)00197-7/
Management of cerebral and splanchnic vein thrombosis associated with thrombocytopenia in subjects previously vaccinated with Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca): position statement of the Italian Society for the Study of Hemostasis and Thrombosis (SISET): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33871350/
Vaccine-induced immune immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis after vaccination with COVID-19; a systematic review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022510X21003014
Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome associated with COVID-19 vaccines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735675721004381
Covid-19 vaccine-induced thrombosis and thrombocytopenia: a commentary on an important and practical clinical dilemma: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033062021000505
Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome associated with COVID-19 viral vector vaccines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0953620521001904
COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune-immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: an emerging cause of splanchnic vein thrombosis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268121000557
The roles of platelets in COVID-19-associated coagulopathy and vaccine-induced immune thrombotic immune thrombocytopenia (covid): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1050173821000967
Roots of autoimmunity of thrombotic events after COVID-19 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568997221002160
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis after vaccination: the United Kingdom experience: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01788-8/fulltext
Thrombotic immune thrombocytopenia induced by SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejme2106315
Myocarditis after immunization with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in members of the US military. This article reports that in “23 male patients, including 22 previously healthy military members, myocarditis was identified within 4 days after receipt of the vaccine”: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2781601
Thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104882?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article
Association of myocarditis with the BNT162b2 messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine in a case series of children: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34374740/
Thrombotic thrombocytopenia after vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCov-19: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article
Post-mortem findings in vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (covid-19): https://haematologica.org/article/view/haematol.2021.279075
Thrombocytopenia, including immune thrombocytopenia after receiving COVID-19 mRNA vaccines reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X21005247
Acute symptomatic myocarditis in seven adolescents after Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/06/04/peds.2021-052478
Aphasia seven days after the second dose of an mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Brain MRI revealed an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICBH) in the left temporal lobe in a 52-year-old man. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589238X21000292#f0005
Comparison of vaccine-induced thrombotic episodes between ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and Ad26.COV.2.S vaccines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896841121000895
Hypothesis behind the very rare cases of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049384821003315
Blood clots and bleeding episodes after BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination: analysis of European data: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896841121000937
Cerebral venous thrombosis after BNT162b2 mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1052305721003098
Primary adrenal insufficiency associated with thrombotic immune thrombocytopenia induced by the Oxford-AstraZeneca ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (VITT): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0953620521002363
Myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with COVID-19 mRNA: practical considerations for care providers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0828282X21006243
“Portal vein thrombosis occurring after the first dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine in a patient with antiphospholipid syndrome”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666572721000389
Early results of bivalirudin treatment for thrombotic thrombocytopenia and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis after vaccination with Ad26.COV2.S: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064421003425
Myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiomyopathy after COVID-19 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1443950621011562
Mechanisms of immunothrombosis in vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) compared to natural SARS-CoV-2 infection: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896841121000706
Prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia after COVID-19 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006497121009411
Vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia: the dark chapter of a success story: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589936821000256
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis negative for anti-PF4 antibody without thrombocytopenia after immunization with COVID-19 vaccine in a non-comorbid elderly Indian male treated with conventional heparin-warfarin based anticoagulation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871402121002046
Thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccination: possible link to ACE pathways: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049384821004369
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in the U.S. population after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with adenovirus and after COVID-19: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109721051949
A rare case of a middle-aged Asian male with cerebral venous thrombosis after AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675721005714
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after COVID-19 vaccination: report of two cases in the United Kingdom: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S088915912100163X
Immune thrombocytopenic purpura after vaccination with COVID-19 vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCov-19): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006497121013963.
Antiphospholipid antibodies and risk of thrombophilia after COVID-19 vaccination: the straw that breaks the camel’s back?: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XzajasO8VMMnC3CdxSBKks1o7kiOLXFQ
Vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a rare but severe case of friendly fire in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic: What pathogenesis?: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0953620521002314
Diagnostic-therapeutic recommendations of the ad-hoc FACME expert working group on the management of cerebral venous thrombosis related to COVID-19 vaccination: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0213485321000839
Thrombocytopenia and intracranial venous sinus thrombosis after exposure to the “AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33918932/
Thrombocytopenia following Pfizer and Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33606296/
Severe and refractory immune thrombocytopenia occurring after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33854395/
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Glennn
 
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Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:37 am
@Frank Apisa,
No, frank. You think being lied to is funny. You don't care that the CDC lied about mining VAERS data for safety signal? That's rare, frank.

You obviously believe that they were justified in lying. You're one of those rare persons who sees the wisdom of defending liars and continuing to believe their every word. That's rare, frank.
Frank Apisa
 
  3  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:47 am
@Glennn,
Glennn wrote:

No, frank. You think being lied to is funny. You don't care that the CDC lied about mining VAERS data for safety signal? That's rare, frank.

You obviously believe that they were justified in lying. You're one of those rare persons who sees the wisdom of defending liars and continuing to believe their every word. That's rare, frank.


You are very funny, Glennn.

I enjoy laughing at you.
Walter Hinteler
 
  2  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 10:58 am
@Frank Apisa,
https://media.tenor.com/OTwGGdAybHgAAAAC/shirley-temple-too-funny.gifIndeed!
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hightor
 
  2  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 11:32 am
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The pathogenesis of this thrombotic syndrome was attributed by most authors to the presence of platelet-activating antibodies against PF4- polyanions, mimicking those found in the heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) syndrome, where PF4 is bound to heparin. However, as most patients suffering from VITT/TTS were not previously exposed to heparins, the genesis of the anti-PF4 autoantibodies is still controversial. Thus, the fundamental issue to be addressed concerns the cause responsible for the enhanced secretion of PF4 associated with ChAdOx1-nCov-19 vaccine administration. Based on known mechanisms employed by adenoviruses and coxsackieviruses to attack and enter the host cells, a plausible interpretation to our opinion can be put forward. Adenoviruses and coxsackieviruses interact in fact with coxsackie-adenovirus-receptors (CAR) and adhesion molecules (CD62) on platelets, endothelial cells, and other various cell types in the brain, heart, and intestine. This could be the same for ChAdOx1 as well. Stone et al., showed in fact that the delivery of the recombinant adenovirus-based vectors (serotype 5, Ad5) used for therapy, caused platelet activation and sequestering, followed by their entrapment in the liver with final capture by Kupffer cells . Moreover, Ad5 interacts also with the platelet adhesion molecule CD62 (P-selectin), mediating the interaction of activated platelets and endothelial cells with leukocytes . The platelet adhesion to endothelial cells and their activation may also be one of the causes of severe thrombocytopenia observed in these cases. This biological phenomenon is also crucial in the process of thrombus formation and growth. Greinacher et al. observed in fact a strong activation of platelets by ChAdOx1-nCov-19 but interpreted this phenomenon as a mere in-vitro artifact. Instead, a plausible interpretation is that ChAdOx1nCov-19 particles, after vaccination and consequent possible viremia, can directly reach different cell types. Among these cells there are also platelets and endothelial cells, which can be activated, via CAR and CD62 binding, releasing PF4 and polyphosphates, contained in the α- and dense platelet granules, respectively. PF4-polyphosphates-Ig immunocomplexes bind to FcγRIIA on the surface of platelets and thus cross-link these receptors, inducing platelet activation and perpetuating over time a platelet activation/consumption and prothrombotic state even without heparin. Moreover, polyphosphates contained in the dense granules of platelets are able to induce autoactivation of FXII and trigger the contact phase-dependent coagulation cascade. M. Cattaneoreported in fact that both the intravenous infusion of immunoglobulins (IVIg) at high doses (2 gr/Kg body weight over 2 to 5 days) and the potent thrombin inhibitor argatroban are efficient agents to inhibit the two fundamental steps responsible for triggering TTS, that is platelet activation (FcγRIIA ligation by PF4-polyanions-IgG complex) and activation of the coagulation cascade (FXII activation by polyphosphates), respectively. The unusual sites of venous thrombosis observed in this syndrome, particularly in cerebral venous sinuses, could be attributed to being CAR strongly expressed in the developing central nervous system, where it is thought to mediate neurite outgrowth. In addition, the expression of CAR is readily detectable in the adult nervous system and cerebral vasculature, where ChAdOx1-nCov-19, under particular conditions, could induce thrombus formation triggered by ChAdOx1-nCov-19-activated platelets, leukocytes, and endothelial cells. Further clinical and biochemical studies are needed to validate this intriguing hypothesis.


But if PF4-polyphosphates-Ig immunocomplexes bind to FcγRIIA on the surface of platelets and thus cross-link these receptors, inducing platelet activation and perpetuating over time a platelet activation/consumption and prothrombotic state even without heparin doesn't this raise a significant objection? It seems speculative and hypothetical – I'd like a better explanation.

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glennn loves to entertain! What a clown!
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izzythepush
 
  3  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 11:44 am
@Frank Apisa,
I don't that someone that delusional and self centred who is also obsessed with guns is nothing to laugh at.

Those are the sort of people who commit mass shootings.
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Lash
 
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Fri 20 Jan, 2023 12:02 pm
@Frank Apisa,
Frank Apisa wrote:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iKG5iwe9xMY/hqdefault.jpg

BlueAnon says what?
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Lash
 
  -3  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 01:23 pm
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/

IN MID-DECEMBER 2020, Nina Morschhaeuser, a lobbyist for Twitter in Europe, emailed colleagues with a dire warning. The drugmaker BioNTech, along with the German government, had contacted her with news of an imminent “campaign targeting the pharmaceutical companies developing the COVID-19 vaccine,” she wrote.

“The authorities are warning about ‘serious consequences’ of the action, i.e. posts and a flood of comments ‘that may violate TOS’ as well as the ‘takeover of user accounts’ are to be expected,” wrote Morschhaeuser. “Especially the personal accounts of the management of the vaccine manufacturers are said to be targeted. Accordingly, fake accounts could also be set up.”

The campaign they were concerned about was the launch of an international push to force the drug industry to share the intellectual property and patents associated with coronavirus vaccine development. Making the patents available, in turn, would allow countries across the world to swiftly manufacture generic vaccines and other low-cost therapeutics to deal with the ongoing pandemic.

Morschhaeuser, while alerting several site integrity and safety teams at Twitter, forwarded on an email from BioNTech spokesperson Jasmina Alatovic, who asked Twitter to “hide” activist tweets targeting her company’s account over a period of two days.

Morschhaeuser flagged the corporate accounts of Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca for her colleagues to monitor and shield from activists. Morschhaeuser also asked colleagues to monitor the hashtags #PeoplesVaccine and #JoinCTAP, a reference to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool, a program promoted by developing countries to accelerate the development of vaccines through the equitable sharing of research and manufacturing capacity. She noted that the group Global Justice Now was spearheading the action with an online sign-up form.

It is not clear to what extent Twitter took any action on BioNTech’s request. In response to Morschhaeuser’s inquiry, several Twitter officials chimed in, debating what action could or could not be taken. Su Fern Teo, a member of the company’s safety team, noted that a quick scan of the activist campaign showed nothing that violated the company’s terms of service, and asked for more examples to “get a better sense of the content that may violate our policies.”

But it shows the extent to which pharmaceutical giants engaged in a global lobbying blitz to ensure corporate dominance over the medical products that became central to combatting the pandemic. Ultimately, the campaign to share Covid vaccine recipes around the world failed.

Documents Reveal Pharma Plot to Stop Generic Covid-19 Vaccine Waiver
The Intercept accessed Twitter’s emails after the company’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, granted access to several reporters in December. This is the second story I have reported through access to these files. The first centered on the Pentagon’s network of fake Twitter accounts used to spread U.S. narratives in the Middle East.

In reporting this story, as with the last, Twitter did not provide unfettered access to company information; rather, they allowed me to make requests without restriction that were then fulfilled on my behalf by an attorney, meaning that the search results may not have been exhaustive. I did not agree to any conditions governing the use of the documents, and I made efforts to authenticate and contextualize the documents through further reporting. The redactions in the embedded documents in this story were done by The Intercept to protect privacy, not Twitter.

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. BioNTech’s Alatovic, in response to a request for comment, stressed that the firm “takes its societal responsibility seriously and is investing in solutions to improve the health of people regardless of their income.”

A spokesperson for the German Federal Office for Information Security, the cybersecurity agency that Morschhaeuser said contacted Twitter on behalf of BioNTech, emailed The Intercept after publication of this article to say that the agency had raised a “cyber security alert” out of concern the People’s Vaccine campaign amounted to a “DDoS attack.” The agency further claimed that this warning “independent of any content-related or political orientation of an online campaign such as the one planned here.”

IN NOVEMBER, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published a lengthy report showing that pharmaceutical companies went to great lengths to stifle efforts to share pandemic-related patents and IP, including threats to the leadership of Belgium, Colombia, and Indonesia. The Intercept has also detailed the domestic lobbying push to block support for a special World Trade Organization waiver necessary for the rapid creation of generic pandemic medicine. German media has similarly reported on the aggressive effort by BioNTech to build support from the German government in opposing the waiver at the WTO.

In May 2021, the Biden administration reversed its earlier position and that of the Trump administration and voiced support for the WTO waiver, making the U.S. one of the largest wealthy countries to support the idea, backed by a coalition led by India and South Africa. But infighting at the international trade body, along with staunch opposition from other wealthy countries, prevented any effective progress on the

The largely successful assault against the creation of generic vaccines resulted in an unprecedented explosion in profit for a few select biopharmaceutical drug interests. Pfizer and BioNTech generated a staggering $37 billion in revenue from its shared mRNA vaccine in 2021 alone, making it one of the most lucrative drug products of all time.

Moderna, which made $17.7 billion from vaccine sales in 2021, recently announced its plan to hike the price of its Covid shot by about 400 percent.

The high cost of vaccines and concentrated ownership meant supplies in 2021 were hoarded in the European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan, and other wealthy countries, while much of the developing world was forced to wait for excess vaccines the following year.

“To try and stifle digital dissent during a pandemic, when tweets and emails are some of the only forms of protest available to those locked in their homes, is deeply sinister.”

“For more than two years, a global movement has been speaking out against pharmaceutical greed and demanding that everyone, everywhere has the tools to combat pandemics,” said Maaza Seyoum, a campaigner for the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

“Whatever nasty tricks companies and governments pull,” she added, “we cannot and will not be silenced.”

Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, noted that at the time of BioNTech’s censorship request, much of the world was under various lockdown orders, making digital forms of protest all the more vital for influencing public policy.

“To try and stifle digital dissent during a pandemic, when tweets and emails are some of the only forms of protest available to those locked in their homes, is deeply sinister,” he said.

The headquarter of biopharmaceutical company BioNTech, September 18, 2020 in Mainz, Germany.The headquarters of biopharmaceutical company BioNTech on Sept. 18, 2020, in Mainz, Germany. Photo: Yann Schreiber/Getty Images

THE BIONTECH REQUEST was not the only channel through which vaccine-makers sought to shape content moderation actions at Twitter.
Stronger, a campaign run by Public Good Projects, a public health nonprofit specializing in large-scale media monitoring programs, regularly communicated with Twitter on regulating content related to the pandemic. The firm worked closely with the San Francisco social media giant to help develop bots to censor vaccine misinformation and, at times, sent direct requests to Twitter with lists of accounts to censor and verify.

Internal Twitter emails show regular correspondence between an account manager at Public Good Projects, and various Twitter officials, including Todd O’Boyle, lobbyist with the company who served as a point of contact with the Biden administration. The content moderation requests were sent throughout 2021 and early 2022.

The entire campaign, newly available tax documents and other disclosures show, was entirely funded by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a vaccine industry lobbying group. BIO, which is financed by companies such as Moderna and Pfizer, provided Stronger with $1,275,000 in funding for the effort, which included tools for the public to flag content on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for moderation.

Many of the tweets flagged by Stronger contained absolute falsehoods, including claims that vaccines contained microchips and were designed to intentionally kill people. But others hinged on a gray area of vaccine policy through which there is reasonable debate, such as requests to label or take down content critical of vaccine passports and government mandates to require vaccination.

One tweet flagged by the BIO-backed moderation effort read, “if a vaccinated person and an unvaccinated person have roughly the same capacity to carry, shed and transmit the virus, particularly in its Delta form, what difference does implementing a vaccination passport actually make to the spread of the virus?”

Public health experts and civil libertarians strongly debated the constitutionality of such passports, an idea that was eventually discarded by U.S. policymakers.

Joe Smyser, the chief executive of Public Good Projects in charge of the Stronger campaign, said his organization’s work was a good-faith effort to battle disinformation. “BIO contributed money and said, ‘You guys are planning on running a pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine misinformation effort and we will give you $500,000 [per year] no questions asked,’” said Smyser.

Many pharmaceutical lobby groups made exaggerated claims about the danger of sharing vaccine technology. PhRMA, another drug industry lobby group, falsely claimed on Twitter that any effort to allow the creation of a generic Covid vaccine would result in placing all 4.4 million jobs supported by the entire American drug industry at risk.

I asked Smyser whether his group ever flagged any content distributed by the pharmaceutical lobby as “misinformation.”

Smyser agreed that policy debate was important, and if misinformation was spread by pharmaceutical companies, any global citizen “should be aware of it,” but that his organization never flagged or focused on any drug industry content.

“I understand why someone would be skeptical, because as a researcher, it matters where your money comes from,” Smyser said. But, he argued, “my job is, how do people figure out where to go get vaccinated? And how do I encourage them to get the vaccine? That was it.”

IN A DECEMBER 2020 email thread further discussing how to monitor BioNTech and respond to the vaccine equity campaign engaging in “spammy behavior” potentially in violation of the social media company’s policies, Holger Kersting, a Twitter spokesperson in Germany, offered several links to tweets in potential violation of the policy.

Two of the tweets were from an account owned by Terry Brough, a retired bricklayer in a small town outside of Liverpool. The messages called on the chief executives of Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca to share vaccine technology with “poor countries.”

Reached for comment, Brough reacted with surprise that his messages were being monitored for possible fake content.

“I’m actually 74 and still living,” said Brough with a chuckle. “I was a bricklayer all my life just like my dad. I’m no Che Guevara, but I’ve been an activist, a trade unionist, and a socialist. And all I did was sign a tweet. I wish I could’ve done more, really.”

Update: January 17, 2023
The piece has been updated with a comment from the German Federal Office of Information Security received after publication.
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Supporting links and primary docs at link. Out society is almost 100% propagandized to enrich oligarchs.
Glennn
 
  -2  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 02:34 pm
@Lash,
Hey Lash, it turns out the FAA widened the EKG parameters for pilot to beyond the normal range. And they widened it by a lot. And it was done after the vaccine rollout.

But there's a bunch of coincidence theorists here who are going to giggle about that because the alternative is to deal with what it means.
Lash
 
  -3  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 02:49 pm
@Glennn,
I know. I don’t pay much attention to them.

I just think this is a time capsule of sorts of this era. I want to record what I think is important.

I don’t care about the coincidence theorists’ 😂 responses.
______________


https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2023-01-12/news-outlets-seek-access-to-evidence-in-paul-pelosi-attack

Excerpt:

SAN FRANCISCO — A coalition of news organizations, including The Associated Press, filed a court motion in San Francisco seeking access to evidence against the man charged in last year’s attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi.

During a Dec. 14 preliminary hearing, the San Francisco district attorney’s office introduced audio and video evidence against David DePape, the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi. But it has refused to release the evidence to the media.

Attorneys for the coalition said in the motion filed Wednesday that “the public and press have standing to assert their rights of access to court records and proceedings.”

The coalition also includes The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Press Democrat, CNN, Fox News, CBS, ABC, NBC and KQED, an NPR-member radio station in San Francisco.

A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
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Anyone who supports secrecy is complicit in the crime being hidden. There’s no good reason to hide facts.
Glennn
 
  -3  
Fri 20 Jan, 2023 02:51 pm
@Lash,
I admire your decorum.
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Real Music
 
  1  
Sat 21 Jan, 2023 03:03 am
After the 2022 midterms brought meager gains to the GOP, Democrats are now officially governing more Americans
at the state level than Republicans.Smile Smile Smile MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the midterms and how they reshaped
political power across the nation as partisan voting maps are re-evaluated. Melber in particular examines Michigan
politics, where Democrats won both the House and Senate for the first time since 1984, and explains how Democrats’
surprising midterm gains could reshape the future of campaigns and American democracy.


Published January 20, 2023


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Lash
 
  -3  
Sun 22 Jan, 2023 08:48 am
This is horrifying. A direct result of the intentional defunding of public services during a global health crisis.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/15/britain-excess-death-rate-covid-nhs-cost-of-living

Excerpt:

Britain’s excess death rate is at a disastrous high – and the causes go far beyond Covid
Owen Jones

A deadly, avoidable crisis is under way, fuelled by NHS cuts, the neglect of social care, inequality and the soaring cost of living
Sun 15 Jan 2023 09.09 EST

When most people hear that phrase “humanitarian crisis”, they think “abroad”, “somewhere far away”, and certainly not in Britain. But how else to describe the tens of thousands of bodies avoidably piling up in the nation’s mortuaries? One funeral home worker says that they’ve run out of spaces for the deceased and “are having to keep some encoffined in office rooms”; another hospital porter reports that the mortuary has been near capacity for two weeks. This national issue should be splashed on every front page and leading every bulletin. It isn’t: why?

Last year in the UK there were nearly 40,000 excess deaths – that is, deaths above a five-year average. That’s nearly as many as were killed by the Luftwaffe in the blitz. In the last two weeks of 2022, deaths were a fifth higher than the average from 2016 to 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), and that’s taking into account factors such as a bigger, ageing population.

According to the Office for National Statistics, there have been about 170,000 excess deaths in England and Wales since the pandemic began. Most of these can be directly attributed to Covid-19 itself: after all, the virus’s name is scrawled on the death certificates of more than 212,000 UK citizens. Some of those who died may have been vulnerable or infirm, but in other circumstances years away from death. As the pandemic waned, we could have expected excess deaths to shift to below average levels over time. This has not happened.
By the beginning of last year, the number of deaths was similar to 2019. As the actuary Stuart McDonald points out, we had been through the worst of a pandemic in which many frail members of society died, and normally mortality falls year on year, so to only equal the death toll of 2019 was already indicative of a worrying trend.

Lash
 
  -2  
Sun 22 Jan, 2023 08:51 am
Perhaps Brits could visit the homes of those who voted to defund the NHS and persuade them to attend to this situation immediately.
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Lash
 
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Sun 22 Jan, 2023 09:31 am
Chris Hedges and Sabrina Salvati remind us of who Joe Biden has been in American history.
https://youtu.be/E_6mAGMzLT0

A singularly damaging legacy—particularly to black Americans.
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vikorr
 
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Sun 22 Jan, 2023 02:25 pm
@Lash,
I'm surprised you would put on a 'Rising Fascism' thread - Health budget issues for a Country that actually funds health care, as opposed to the US which does not.

Your article did not talk about a 'defunding of public services during a global health crisis'. Read it again - funding to social services dropped over the previous decade. English law requires the hospital to keep an otherwise medically fit person in hospital if they need support (ie. the social work cuts have affected hospitals). Health spending increased, but not in terms of keeping up with the health needs of an aging population (an issue which all countries are facing). The system was unable to fully cope.

https://fullfact.org/health/spending-english-nhs/

https://fullfact.org/media/uploads/DHSC_budget_graph.JPG

133 Billion is around 2000 pounds for every baby, child, adult, and retired/pensioned/unemployed adult in England. Ie. it is much higher per individual tax payer

As of November 2022, the current average salary in the UK is £27,756

(Yes Izzy, I know England and UK aren't the same, but close enough for this post)
vikorr
 
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Sun 22 Jan, 2023 02:55 pm
@vikorr,
To put this into further context:

English health budget is 2/28th of their wage - for every person in England (including non tax payers).

US annual salary of $55,640

2/28th of 55,640= $3,974
x
US population of 336 million
=
1.335 trillion
 

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