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Consent of the Governed, Where Art Thou?

Consent of the Governed, Where Art Thou?

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Basically, the State is asserting that it has the right to sentence you to increased risk of death and disease by purchasing (using tax dollars), mandating (vaccines for children program), distributing, enticing, and marketing an injectable product while censoring or defaming (using modern psychological warfare technologies) any and all who disagree or even have the temerity to question the decisions and rights of the State to do so.

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Christmas 2020 in Germany: The Gift of the BioNTech Vax

Christmas 2020 in Germany: The Gift of the BioNTech Vax

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The German vaccines regulator, the PEI – which is responsible for batch release of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine throughout the European Union – has acted more like a partner of BioNTech, enabling the development and commercialisation of its drug, than an arms-length regulator overseeing it. The outgoing president of the PEI, Klaus Cichutek, who announced his retirement last week, has even published a paper with BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin on developing a Coronavirus vaccine. 

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BioNTech Goes to Africa on the Public Dime

BioNTech Goes to Africa on the Public Dime

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While Covid-19 vaccine critics are busy celebrating the fall of Pfizer’s share price and its legal troubles in the USA, the German company BioNTech, the actual legal manufacturer of the so-called “Pfizer vaccine” and the main financial beneficiary of its sales, is continuing its expansion with the full and open support of Germany and the EU. On Monday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and BioNTech co-founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci gathered in the Rwandan capital of Kigali to celebrate the inauguration of BioNTech’s new African mRNA vaccine manufacturing site.

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Are Safety Reports from Covid mRNA Shots Due to Lack of FDA Ingredient Clarity? - Brownstone Institute

Are Safety Reports from Covid mRNA Shots Due to Lack of FDA Ingredient Clarity?

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Not providing ingredient transparency and assuring quality via an appropriate sampling methodology is a fundamental and basic requirement of the FDA. In fact, it was the primary reason for the formation of the FDA! Don’t Americans deserve better transparency, oversight, and “truthful labeling” laws when it comes to our pharmaceuticals – especially since those laws were made over 100 years ago?

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Scientific Meta-Analysis is Broken

Scientific Meta-Analysis is Broken

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Systematic review and meta-analysis should not just be a reflection of power — who can fund the most RCTs, who can perform the most statistical wizardry. They should be about gathering the most high quality information from wherever we can find it to create the most comprehensive picture of any problem and any proposed remedy.

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FDA Fails to Address DNA Adulteration Concerns

FDA Fails to Address DNA Adulteration Concerns

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It must be concluded that the risks associated with DNA plasmid fragment adulteration when delivered with the highly active lipid nanoparticle formulations of COMIRNATY and SPIKEVAX are both real and uncharacterized, and consistent with US Federal statute CFR Title 21, CHAPTER 9, SUBCHAPTER V § 351, the products must be withdrawn from the market until the necessary tests have been performed and safety demonstrated.

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Pfizer Sued for “False and Deceptive” COVID-19 Vaccine Claims

Pfizer Sued for “False and Deceptive” COVID-19 Vaccine Claims

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced this week that he’s suing Pfizer, saying the company “intentionally misrepresented the efficacy” of its vaccine and censored people “who threatened to disseminate the truth” about the vaccine in public discussions.

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White House Covid Task Force Members Cashed in on Pandemic Panic

White House Covid Task Force Members Cashed in on Pandemic Panic

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Operation Warp Speed and the resulting Task Force operation was, by all objective accounts, a catastrophic blunder, but that didn’t stop many of its members from parlaying their roles on the high visibility government detail into successful post service gigs. So we thought now would be a good time to take a look at some of the healthcare/pharma-related government officials responsible for some of those fateful decisions, and where they are today.

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EUA Countermeasures are Neither Investigational nor Experimental

EUA Countermeasures Are Neither Investigational nor Experimental

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Judge Hughes is correct that it is “false and irrelevant” to call Covid injections experimental and dangerous. It is false because EUA is not experimental and can never be. It is irrelevant because safety is irrelevant to EUA, which gets issued based on opinions and not approved based on data. There is no way to collect clinical trial data and collate it such that an assessment of risk benefit (as defined in FDCA) can be made.

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Covid mRNA Vaccines, a Military Countermeasure, Required No Safety Oversight 

Covid mRNA Vaccines Required No Safety Oversight 

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The FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccines was based on clinical trials and manufacturing processes conducted with no binding legal standards, no legally proscribed safety oversight or regulation, and no legal redress from the manufacturer for potential harms. (This last point is being challenged in multiple court cases, so far to no avail.)

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