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The Story of Operation Warp Speed Gets Worse

John Tamny / May 24, 2024 / Government, Pharma, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Quite understandably given the billions Moderna made from Warp Speed, Arbutus and parent company Genevant are suing for infringement. Which is where it gets weird, or actually not very weird. If government was going to lean on pharmaceutical firms to rush a vaccine, indemnity from liability had to come next. And so it is for Moderna via-a-vis Arbutus. The Department of Justice agreed last year to take on Moderna’s liability for patent infringement which, given the billions Moderna earned via federal largesse, could easily add up to billions.

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The Pandemic Treaty Will Compound Past Mistakes

Meryl Nass / May 24, 2024 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 15 minute read

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To simply vote no would leave the current situation – the situation that led to the many Covid-19 pandemic failures – unaddressed. But any putative “benefit” of the new treaty is likely to be marginal at best. More importantly, the treaty and amendments as they are currently written do enormous, identifiable harm and would leave everyone, except those with stakes in Big Pharma, IT services, and global finance, far worse off.

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A Fork in the Road of the EU

David Thunder / May 23, 2024 / Economics, Government / 5 minute read

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Sooner or later, EU citizens and political leaders will have to decide which Europe they wish to back: a highly integrated political union with major policies decided from Brussels, or an economic union of sovereign nations with central coordination reserved primarily for issues of mutual economic interest. Neither of these two options is guaranteed to succeed. But trundling along in a political and institutional halfway house, with policies that upset a lot of people but no serious attempt to articulate a shared vision of where Europe is headed or what it stands for, is a recipe for political mediocrity, disillusionment, and chronic instability.

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EcoHealth Funding Suspension is Pure Theater

Debbie Lerman / May 22, 2024 / Government, Public Health, Vaccines / 12 minute read

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Is the Committee’s work just another example of bureaucratic incompetence and “waste, fraud and abuse” of our precious taxpayer dollars? Or is it an intentional diversion, to distract us from the work the U.S. government was/is actually funding at bioweapons labs like the one in Wuhan, engineering pandemic potential pathogens and then deploying global public-private partnerships to develop medical countermeasures against those pathogens—all of which came together to create the catastrophe known as the Covid pandemic?

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WHO Accords Warrant Sovereignty Concern

Ramesh Thakur / May 20, 2024 / Government, Law, Public Health / 11 minute read

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The two sets of changes to the architecture of global health governance, I argued, will effectively change the WHO from a technical advisory organisation offering recommendations into a supranational public health authority telling governments what to do.

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What’s the Point of the Administrative Class?

Thomas Buckley / May 20, 2024 / Education, Government, Society / 7 minute read

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The administrative class – at all levels, in all organizations – portrays itself as indispensable. Nothing would get done without the smooth operation of the internal mechanics of a company, a government agency, any group you care to mention. Tasks must be performed, memos sent, regulations and procedures codified.

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Enough With These Dangerous Calculations

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 17, 2024 / Government, Media, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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All of which underscores the more general point: government and its connected scientists simply cannot be trusted with this kind of power. The last experience illustrates why people like Barry, and many others besides, cannot and should not be trusted with power. We have laws and guaranteed liberties that can never be taken away, not even during a pandemic. It is never worth ruining lives to fulfill anyone’s abstract vision of what constitutes the greater good.

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Perjury: The Case Against Peter Daszak

Brownstone Institute / May 16, 2024 / Government, History, Law / 7 minute read

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Though untruthful testimony pales in comparison to the crimes of the last five years, perjury may be the most effective charge to impose accountability on the wrongdoers behind the Covid Regime.

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Is There Hope for International Rule of Law?

Thi Thuy Van Dinh / May 14, 2024 / Government, Law, Public Health / 4 minute read

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Have governments realized that they have been misled by repetitive G20, WHO, and the World Bank’s messages that there would be more harmful pandemics to come and that the world urgently needs new pandemic agreements? If they return to their senses, there may still be time for them to use Article 56(5) IHR to raise disagreement with the WHO’s interpretation of Article 55(2) to the coming WHA, demanding a deferral of the vote until legal requirements are fulfilled.

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The WHO’s Proposed Pandemic Agreements Worsen Public Health

David Bell / May 14, 2024 / Government, History, Public Health / 7 minute read

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To summarize, while it’s sensible to prepare for outbreaks and pandemics, it’s even more sensible to improve health. This involves directing resources to where the problems are and using them in a way that does more good than harm. When people’s salaries and careers become dependent on changing reality, reality gets warped. The new pandemic proposals are very warped. They are a business strategy, not a public health strategy. It is the business of wealth concentration and colonialism – as old as humanity itself.

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Legal Context Behind the Bioweapon Hypothesis

Debbie Lerman / May 13, 2024 / Government, Law, Public Health / 6 minute read

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EUA was the type of authorization granted to Covid mRNA vaccines, along with hundreds of other medical products used during the declared Covid pandemic. Once we understand the basic legal framework, we can investigate the most important aspect of EUA that nobody ever discusses: the context in which EUA law operates.

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WHO Pandemic Agreement April Draft: Additional Concerns

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Thi Thuy Van Dinh / May 13, 2024 / Government, Public Health / 11 minute read

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The World Health Organization (WHO) negotiating body of the draft Pandemic Agreement to be voted on in late May produced yet another draft. As the previous text was dealt with in detail in a recent article, it seems relevant to provide a brief summary of the additional changes. As before, the document becomes vaguer but adds more activities to be funded, reinforcing the concerns that this process is being rushed without due review.

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