Is it Voodoo or a Lack of Dependent Media Propaganda that is Preventing COVID From Spreading in Haiti? Only 649 Total Deaths in a Country of 11 Million People Not Wearing Masks, Less than 1% Vaxed

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No Dependent Media in Haiti, No COVID Hoax; Haiti to Send Back Expiring US Moderna Vaccines. From [HERE] Haiti, which has one of the lowest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the Western Hemisphere, will be returning thousands of unused doses donated by the U.S. to keep them from expiring. 

According to the NY Times Haiti, where the August earthquake killed at least 2,200 people, has fully inoculated less than 1 percent of its population. [MORE] In a country of roughly 11 million people, there have been an astoundingly low 649 deaths due to Covid-19 since the pandemic began. In December 2020 there had been a reported 234 deaths. The country has only reported 22,731 cases.

The COVAX Facility, which provides free and subsidized vaccines to the poorest nations, confirmed in an emailed statement Wednesday that the doses returned by Haiti will be redeployed elsewhere to “minimize any potential wastage.”

“Hundreds of thousands” of doses expiring in November will be sent to COVAX with the understanding that Haiti will receive a new batch in the future, Le Nouvelliste newspaper reported, citing health ministry officials. The exact number of vaccines being sent back was not confirmed by the government or the COVAX facility.

The U.S. donated 500,000 doses of the Moderna Inc vaccine to Haiti in July through COVAX -- an abbreviation for COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access. According to Haiti’s health ministry, fewer than 66,800 doses have been administered and only 20,354 people in the Caribbean nation of 11.4 million are fully vaccinated. 

Lots of Problems in Haiti but COVID Isn’t 1 of Them: Doctor says Hospitals are Not Overrun w/COVID Patients in Crowded, Poor, Unvaccinated Country Not Practicing Social Distancing or Wearing Masks

Prior to the earthquake in December 2020 the Miami Herald reported: In Haiti, they are acting like COVID-19 doesn’t exist. Mask-wearing is an exception and not the norm; bands are playing to sold-out crowds; and Kanaval, the three-day pre-Lenten debauchery-encouraging street party is back on for February. . .

Across the border in the neighboring Dominican Republic, with roughly the same population, the pandemic has killed almost ten times the number, 2,364. Jet off to Miami-Dade County, home to one of the larger Haitian communities in the United States, and the death toll is even higher: 4,002 in a population of 2.7 million.

What’s going on? Nobody is sure. “We don’t have a large quantity of people who are in bad shape,” said Dr. Sophia Cherestal Wooley, deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in Port-au-Prince. “They don’t get sick to the point that they need to be hospitalized and we don’t have the same quantity of people who have died here like in the Dominican Republic.

Shortly after the first imported case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Haiti on March 19, epidemiologists raised alarms. Taking into account Haiti’s weak health system, crowded living conditions and the population’s skepticism about the virus, they feared that the country, which has seen so much tragedy, would be overwhelmed by COVID-19 infections. At best, there would be 2,000 deaths, the models predicted. At worst, around 20,000. Even the Pan American Health Organization, citing a surge of Haitians crossing the border from the Dominican Republic to escape a spike there and the country’s ongoing political and humanitarian crises, voiced concerns about a pending crisis.

But fears that the deadly pandemic could unleash civil unrest and an even deeper humanitarian crisis have so far not proven accurate. “Today Haiti has been mildly affected compared to other countries in the region,” Dr. Sylvain Aldighieri, incident manager at the Pan American Health Organization, said. “But the collateral effects, the socioeconomics, health and nutritional are considerable.” Still, the low number of deaths is especially surprising because of the government’s own chaotic response and lax enforcement of its own rules.

Ministry of Health surveillance data show that Haiti experienced a first peak at the end of May into early June, and hospitalizations, while rising at one point, never reached critical levels. [MORE]

No Responsibility to Come to the Defense of Others b/c Uncle Brother Does it for us: Slave Like Obedient Citizens Held up Phones and Watched as a Black Woman was Raped on a Philadelphia Train

 From [HERE] A man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia harassed her for more than 40 minutes while multiple people held up their phones to seemingly record the assault without intervening, authorities said.

More than two dozen train stops passed as the man harassed, groped and eventually raped the woman, the police chief for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said at a news conference Monday.

Police do not believe a single witness on the train dialed 911. They are investigating whether some bystanders filmed the assault.

Both the man and woman got on the train at the same stop Wednesday night in North Philadelphia. Officers pulled the man off of the woman at the last stop. They responded within about three minutes of a 911 call from a transportation authority employee, authorities said.

“What we want is everyone to be angry and disgusted and to be resolute about making the system safer,” SEPTA Police Chief Thomas J. Nestel III said at the news conference.

Arrest records show Fiston Ngoy, 35, was charged with rape and related offenses.

The affidavit of arrest for Ngoy detailed times of the assault, including that during those 40 minutes the woman appeared to repeatedly push Ngoy away.

Nestel would not give an approximate number of witnesses and it was unclear from the affidavit how many passengers were present for those 40 minutes. Authorities have not released the surveillance video.

“I can tell you that people were holding their phone up in the direction of this woman being attacked,” he said.

Elizabeth Jeglic, a psychology professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, researches sexual violence prevention. She said if people feel uncomfortable physically intervening, there are other options like calling the police.

“When we have multiple people, people don’t necessarily intervene,” she said. “However, more recent research actually suggests that looking at video footage of more extreme circumstances that up to 90% of cases we do see people intervening. So it was actually somewhat of an aberration in this case that somebody did not step forward to help this individual.”

Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt, of the Upper Darby Police Department, has said surveillance footage showed other riders were on the train and someone “should have done something.” Messages for Bernhardt were left Monday.

The New York Times reported Bernhardt said that people who recorded the attack and failed to intervene could possibly be charged, but that would be up to the Delaware County District Attorney’s office to determine.

There were no calls made to 911 in Philadelphia. Nestel said police were still waiting for Delaware County 911, which covers the last two train stops, to determine if it received any calls.

Investigators said in the affidavit that Ngoy sat down next to the woman about a minute after he boarded the train car, shortly after 9:15 p.m. The video shows her pushing him away multiple times until he is seen ripping her pants down at about 9:52 p.m.

Bernhardt said officers arrived at the 69th Street terminal on the Market-Frankford Line, the busiest route on SEPTA, around 10 p.m.

A SEPTA employee who was in the vicinity as the train went past called police to report that “something wasn’t right” with a woman aboard the train, Bernhardt said.

SEPTA police waiting at the next stop found the woman and arrested Ngoy, who they had pulled off of the woman. She was taken to a hospital.

According to the court documents, the woman told police that Ngoy ignored her pleas to go away.

Ngoy claimed in his statement to police that he knew the victim, but couldn’t remember her name and said the encounter was consensual.

Ngoy, who listed his last address as a homeless shelter, remained in custody on $180,000 bail. His initial court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 25. Court records show he had not requested a public defender as of Monday.

SEPTA issued a statement calling it a “horrendous criminal act” and urged anyone witnessing such a thing to report it to authorities by calling 911, pressing an emergency button on every train car or using the authorities emergency safety app.

“There were other people on the train who witnessed this horrific act, and it may have been stopped sooner if a rider called 911,” the authority said.

Contrary to Cult Logic that Billionaires and Global Pharmaceutical Corporations are Only Motivated by Good, Pfizer, Moderna are Projected to Rake in Combined $93 Billion in 2022 COVID Vax Sales

From [HERE] Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna are projected to generate combined sales of $93.2 billion in 2022 nearly twice the amount they’re expected to rake in this year, said Airfinity, a health data analytics group.

Airfinity put total market sales for COVID vaccines in 2022 at $124 billion, according to the Financial Times.

Pfizer vaccine sales are predicted to reach $54.5 billion in 2022, and Moderna’s will hit $38.7 billion. The estimates blow the earlier figures — $23.6 billion for Pfizer and $20 billion for Moderna — out of the water.

“The numbers are unprecedented,” Rasmus Beck Hansen, CEO of Airfinity, told the Financial Times.

Sales of the mRNA shots will continue to rise in 2022 due to boosters and countries stockpiling to ward off variants, Airfinity said.

Pfizer will generate 64% of its sales, and Moderna 75% of its sales, from high-income countries in 2022, the analysts predicted.

In April, Pfizer predicted 2021 COVID vaccine sales of $26 billion. After second-quarter results were reported, Pfizer upped the figure to $33.5 billion. Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal said the company could ring up an additional $10 billion in vaccine sales in 2021.

Gal wrote:

“The numbers are going to be much higher. The guidance of $33.5B reflects contracts signed to today which reflect total commitment to sell 2.1 million doses (at average price of $15.95). Pfizer notes they expect to manufacture 3 million doses. Presumably much of those will be sold as well, albeit at lower average price as consumption shifts to emerging markets. This is probably another $10 billion.”

“The second quarter was remarkable in a number of ways,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said. “Most visibly, the speed and efficiency of our efforts with BioNTech to help vaccinate the world against COVID-19 have been unprecedented, with now more than a billion doses of BNT162b2 having been delivered globally.”

On a conference call, Bourla said that while “it’s very early to speak” about the company’s sales expectations for next year, he put Pfizer’s 2022 production capacity at 4 billion doses.

According to ActionAid International — a global federation working for a world free of poverty and injustice — Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech are reaping “astronomical and unconscionable profits” due to their monopolies of mRNA COVID vaccines.

Moderna and BioNTech are reporting 69% profit margins, with Moderna and Pfizer paying little in taxes, the People’s Vaccine Alliance said Sept. 15.

Thanks to patent monopolies for COVID vaccines — development of which was supported by $100 billion in public funding from taxpayers in the U.S., Germany and other countries — the three corporations earned more than $26 billion in revenue in the first half of the year, at least two-thirds of it as pure profit for Moderna and BioNTech.

The Alliance also estimated the three corporations are over-charging, pricing their vaccines by as much as $41 billion above the estimated cost of production.

“Big Pharma’s business model — receive billions in public investments, charge exorbitant prices for life-saving medicines, pay little tax — is gold dust for wealthy investors and corporate executives but devastating for global public health,” said Robbie Silverman, private sector engagement manager for Oxfam.

Silverman said pharmaceutical companies are prioritizing their own profits by enforcing their monopolies and selling their  vaccines to the highest bidder. “Enough is enough — we must start putting people before profits,” Silverman said.

According to an analysis by the People’s Vaccine Alliance, based on work by MRNA scientists at Imperial college, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech have charged up to 24 times the potential cost of production for their vaccines.

Analysis of production techniques for Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which were developed only thanks to $8.3 billion of public funding, suggest these same vaccines could be made for as little as $1.20 a dose.

‘We’re Done With Fear’ Black Surgeon General in Florida Pushes Back on Irrational Vaccine Mandates

From [HERE] America’s Vaccine-Only Covid-19 policy and its conversion into a full-fledged police state to enforce that policy has made it the worst place on Earth to suffer the effects of the virus. With the so-called “vaccines” now proven to be an utter failure and killing at least 16,000, the state of Florida has made a bold move with the appointment of Dr. Joseph Ladapo as the state’s new Surgeon General and Secretary of the Florida Department of Health.

Born in Nigeria, he came to this country at the age of 5 with his family.  His father, a microbiologist, came here to continue his studies.   The 45-year-old Black man holds a Harvard Medical School degree in Internal Medicine and a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.   His primary research interests include reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease and ending tobacco use.  He and his wife are the parents of three young children.

Dr. Ladapo came to public attention as part of a group of physicians called America’s Frontline Doctors, which stepped forward early last year and exposed the fact that successful Covid-19 treatments were being suppressed by the corporate-controlled American government, media and health care system.  Dr. Ladapo opposes  the mandatory vaccines, mask mandates, lockdowns that have been imposed by elected officials on the federal, state and local level.

  No laws have been enacted requiring these methods.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are all administrative agencies  with no power to make law.   All of these corporate-controlled government agencies are accused of implementing a depopulation program rather than a health care system and are named defendants in multiple lawsuits 

A medical doctor and scientist, Dr. Ladapo insisted that science, not fear, must drive public policy:

“We’re done with fear. That’s been something that’s been unfortunately a centerpiece of health policy in the United States ever since the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s over here(Florida). Expiration date. It’s done.”

Dr. Ladapo vigorously defends the individual human right to reject being vaccinated. “Vaccines are up to the person. There’s nothing special about them compared to any other preventive measure,” he noted during Governor Ron DeSantis’ September 21 press conference announcing his appointment: “It’s  been treated almost like a religion, and it’s just senseless. There are lots of good pathways to health and vaccinations are not the only one,” he stated. They include losing weight, exercising more, and eating more fruits and vegetables.”

He emphasized that Florida will completely reject fear as a way of making policy in public health.

Dr. Ladapo also opposes mask mandates and lockdowns.  “Viruses inevitably spread, and authorities have oversold face coverings as a preventive measure,” he penned, in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled “Masks Are a Distraction From the Pandemic Reality” (10/28/20).

“A hallmark of Covid-19 pandemic policy has been the failure of political leaders and health officials to anticipate the unintended consequences of their actions.  This tendency has haunted many decisions, from lockdowns that triggered enormous unemployment and increased alcohol and drug abuse, to school closures that are widening educational disparities between rich and poor families. Mask mandates may also have unintended consequences that outweigh the benefits.”

“Most of the randomized trials of community or household masking have shown that wearing a mask has little or no effect on respiratory virus transmission,” he cited from a May 2020 review published in the CDC’s journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control. 

“In March (2020), when Anthony Fauci said, ‘wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think it is,’  his statement reflected scientific consensus, and was consistent with the World Health Organization’s guidance. Almost overnight, the recommendations flipped. The reason? The risk of asymptomatic transmission,” wrote Dr. Ladapo.  “Health officials said mask mandates were now not only reasonable but critical. This is a weak rationale, given that presymptomatic spread of respiratory viruses isn’t a novel phenomenon in public health.   Asymptomatic or mild cases appear to contribute more to Covid-19 transmission, but this happens in flu cases, too, though no one has called for mask mandates during flu season.”

He concluded that “Shifting focus away from mask mandates and toward the reality of respiratory viral spread will free up time and resources to protect the most vulnerable Americans.”

Since the end of last month, daily deaths in the state of Florida have dropped 48% (from 376 to 195) and daily new cases have dropped 60% (from 9,112 to 3,596) according to The New York Times COVID-19 tracking system.

The growing resistance army against America’s Covid-19 aggressive, hostile vaccination campaign argues that the numbers of cases across the country are skewed to promote fear, but even then, the skewed numbers in Florida should be exploding, not decreasing at twice the rate compared to America as a whole.  They contend that statistics indicate the decline, which began before Dr. Ladapo’s appointment, stems from Florida’s abandonment of masks, social distancing, and shutdowns long ago.

Nationwide, the CDC claims that the number of people now in the hospital with COVID-19 has fallen to somewhere around 75,000 from over 93,000 in early September. New cases are on the downswing at about 112,000 per day on average, a drop of about one-third over the past 2 1/2 weeks.  Deaths attributed to the virus are also declining, averaging 1,900 a day versus more than 2,000 less than a week ago, the Associated Press reported on October 1.

Dr. Ladapo harshly criticized his colleagues in the healthcare system, saying that their failed approach to treating COVID-19 “was a direct result of scientists—my colleagues, some of them—taking the science and basically misrepresenting it to fit their agendas, their interests, what they wanted to see people do. …And this idea that people don’t get to make their own decisions on issues of health related to their own their own personal health is wrong, and it’s not something that we’re going to be about.” [MORE]

Supreme Court Upholds the Qualified Immunity Double Standard on Violence: Citizens are Bound by the Law but Cops are Bound by the Law of the Jungle, in Accord w/their Superhuman Powers and Costumes

From [HERE] The US Supreme Court issued two unsigned orders Monday regarding qualified immunity for police officers.

The first of the unsigned orders involves Rivas-Villegas v. Cortesluna, a case based on an incident in 2016. Daniel Rivas-Villegas is a police officer who responded to a 911 call from a 12-year-old girl reporting that she, her sibling, and her mother had barricaded themselves in a bedroom because Ramon Cortesluna, her mother’s boyfriend, was threatening them with a chainsaw. Officers arrived and ordered Cortesluna to come out of the house with his hands up. He did, and officers saw he had a knife in his front pocket. They ordered him to keep his hands up, but he put them down, and officers shot him twice with bean bag rounds.

After he was face down on the ground, Officer Rivas-Villegas straddled Cortesluna, placing his left knee on the left side of Cortesluna’s back for no more than eight seconds before he stood up again. Cortesluna brought suit claiming that Rivas-Villegas used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. While the district court granted summary judgment to Rivas-Villegas, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision. The circuit court held that existing precedent put the officer on notice that his conduct constituted excessive force, therefore he was not entitled to qualified immunity.

However, the Court noted that the Ninth Circuit relied on a single case, LaLonde v. County of Riverside, to put Rivas-Villegas on notice of excessive force. The Court found that the facts, in that case, were sufficiently different to be materially distinguishable from the facts here. LaLonde did not give Rivas-Villegas fair notice, thus he is entitled to qualified immunity.

The second case was City of Tahlequah v. Bond. On August 12, 2016, Rollice, who was intoxicated at the time, was in his ex-wife’s garage and would not leave. She called 911, explaining that the situation would “get ugly real quick” if the police did not come. Not long after the police arrived, Rollice picked up a claw hammer and raised it over his head as if to swing or throw it at them. Two officers shot and killed Rollice. Rollice’s estate sued, alleging that the officers had violated his Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force.

The district court found the officers’ use of force reasonable, and even if it was not, qualified immunity applied, preventing the case from going any further. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, ruling that it was the officers’ conduct that led to the shooting and that certain Tenth Circuit precedents meant that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity. The Court, however, chastised the Tenth Circuit and sent a message to the other circuits “not to define clearly established law at too high a level of generality.”

A rule must not merely be suggested by existing precedent if must be so well-defined as to be clear to an officer that his conduct is unlawful. That specificity is especially important in the context of excessive force, where it can be difficult for an officer to know how to apply legal doctrines to the factual situation they face on the ground. The Court also rejected the decisions that the Tenth Circuit cited, saying that none of them “comes close to establishing that the officers’ conduct was unlawful.” The officers involved in Rollice’s shooting were therefore entitled to qualified immunity.

The Smearing of Kyrie Irving Illustrates that MSM Only Elevates Black Voices That Toe the Establishment Line

From [FTP] Kyrie Irving, star of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets has announced that he will not be taking the covid-19 vaccine. This decision has put his career in jeopardy as he stands to lose his 8 figure annual salary and potentially a 9 figure four-year contract. Instead of respecting the privacy of Irving’s personal medical decisions — as his decision is his alone — the mainstream has taken to a virtual tar and feathering of the NBA super star, proving that black voices only matter to them if they toe the establishment line.

“The financial consequences, I know I do not want to even do that,” Irving said. “But it is reality that in order to be in New York City, in order to be on a team, I have to be vaccinated. I chose to be unvaccinated, and that was my choice, and I would ask you all to just respect that choice.”

Unfortunately for Irving, however, “respect” is the last thing he’s getting.

According to the CDC’s most recent data, approximately 3,888 people in the age range of 18-29 have died from covid-19. Given the fact that there are roughly 44 million Americans in that age bracket, the chances of Kyrie Irving even having complications from the disease — much less dying from it — are extremely rare, making the idea of forced vaccination that much more asinine.

While there are a few older folks in the NBA, like Vince Carter who retired last year at 43, the majority of the league (55%) is 25 years old or younger, meaning their risk of complications from covid-19 are also extremely low. What’s more, as the data currently illustrates, vaccinated individuals can catch, spread, and die from covid-19 as the immune response drops significantly over 6 months.

Nevertheless, the federal government has mandated that any business over 100 employees must force their employees to take the jab or face fines upwards of $700,000.

Not a single NBA player has died from covid-19 over the last 20 months. However, at least one has reported a vaccine injury that he says has ended his career. Brandon Goodwin, an NBA player with the Atlanta Hawks, recently announced that the vaccine injured him with blood clots and the NBA made him keep quiet about it.

“My back really started hurting bad,” Goodwin recalled in a recent Twitch stream. “Then, I’m like, ‘OK. I need to go to the doctor. That’s when I found out I had blood clots. That all within the span of a month.”

When explaining the reason for the blood clots, Goodwin claimed it was the vaccine while the NBA claimed it was a “minor respiratory condition.”

“I was fine until then,” Goodwin said. “I was fine up until I took the vaccine, I was fine.”

Blood clots are one of the primary side effects of the vaccines and although they are extremely rare, the fact is, they happen to some people. Goodwin says he is one of those people.

“People trying to tell you, ‘No. It’s not the vaccine.’ How do you know?” Goodwin asked. “You don’t know.”

“Yes, the vaccine ended my season,” Goodwin said. “One thousand percent.”

When news of this claim made it to social media, it was censored and labeled “misleading.”

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Florida law Requiring Felons to Pay Debts before Voting

From [HERE] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a 2019 Florida law that prevents felons from voting until they pay their legal financial obligations of fines, fees, and restitution. The court held that the voting requirement did not unconstitutionally discriminate against low-income women of color.

Several plaintiffs challenged the requirement asserting that as “applied to low-income women of color” who face financial instability, it “violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.” The plaintiffs further argued that low-income women of color “face unemployment, low wages, and difficulty paying off their financial debts at much higher rates than their male and white female counterparts.”

Circuit Judge Jill Pryor wrote the court opinion and began by noting that before the Florida legislature passed the 2019 voting law, a super majority of Florida voters amended their state constitution to permit most people with felony convictions to vote after completing “all terms of sentence.” To interpret “all terms of sentence,” Pryor pointed to a Florida Supreme Court advisory opinion to Governor Ron DeSantis stating that this phrase as used in the amendment “has an ordinary meaning that the voters would have understood to refer not only to durational periods but also to all legal financial obligations.”

In affirming the lower court’s decision, the circuit court observed that under Massachusetts v. Feeney, the plaintiffs had to show “intentional or purposeful discrimination” in their Equal Protection Clause Claim. As for the plaintiffs’ Nineteenth Amendment claim, the circuit court conceded that the US Supreme Court had never applied that requirement to Nineteenth Amendment claims.

Still, the court stated that “as an inferior court” it could not apply differing rules for the relevant amendments. The circuit court agreed with the trial court’s finding that the plaintiffs failed to “show that gender was a motivating factor in the adoption of the pay-to-vote system.” Hence, the circuit court deemed the legal financial obligation requirements to be constitutionally valid.

Although African Americans are Not a Majority of the General Population in Any State, Blacks Account for More than Half of the Prison Population in 12 States

From [HERE] According to a study, African-Americans account for more than half of the prison population in these 12 states.

Although black Americans do not constitute a majority of the general population in any state, they account for more than half of the prison population in a dozen of them, according to a report.

According to a new research released Wednesday by the Sentencing Project, these states are Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

The Sentencing Project is a non-profit research organization dedicated to criminal justice reform and decarceration.

In numerous states, including California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, the discrepancy between black and white jail populations is greater than 9 to 1. With a Black/White ratio of more than 12 to 1, New Jersey leads the nation in terms of incarceration disparities.

The report noted, “Truly meaningful adjustments to the criminal justice system cannot be made without acknowledging its racist origins.”

The Sentencing Project also discovered that Black Americans are nearly five times as likely as white Americans to be incarcerated in state prisons, while Latinx individuals are 1.3 times as likely as whites to be incarcerated in state prisons.

Wisconsin has the highest rate of Black incarceration in the US, with one out of every 36 Black individuals serving time in a state prison.

The report provided various recommendations to alleviate racial and ethnic inequities in prisons, including the repeal of mandatory minimum sentences and the elimination of arrests for minor narcotics offenses.

Researchers also urged politicians to incorporate an estimate of the policy’s impact on all demographic groups when developing crime bills.

[Trump Appt] Judge Clears the Way for Inhumane AL Authorities to Murder Another Intellectually Disabled Black Man on Thursday. Violentists Insist on Execution by Injection b/c He Filled Form Out Wrong

From [HERE] and [HERE] An intellectually disabled Black death-row prisoner has appealed a federal district court ruling that clears the way for his execution on October 21, 2021.

On October 17, a federal district court judge denied for a second time Willie B. Smith III’s claim that putting him to death by lethal injection violates his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Lawyers for Smith (pictured) on October 19, 2021 filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to stay his scheduled execution so he can appeal the district court’s decision. Smith’s motion “seek[s] to prohibit the State of Alabama from executing him in any manner other than with nitrogen hypoxia.”

Judge Emily Marks’ over-the-weekend ruling on October 17, 2021, comes two days after the circuit court reversed her prior holding that Smith lacked standing to file a claim under the ADA. A unanimous panel of the appeals court vacated that ruling on October 15, 2021 and directed Marks to address Smith’s ADA claim on its merits.

Smith, who a federal appeals court agrees qualifies as intellectually disabled under accepted clinical definitions of the disorder, was convicted in 1992 for the murder of a woman he had robbed and abducted at an ATM machine. His jury voted 10-2 to recommend the death penalty and, despite the non-unanimous sentencing recommendation, his trial judge imposed the death penalty. Three states — Alabama, Florida, and Delaware — permitted that practice at the time, and Alabama is the only one that still allows it. 

Smith is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, Alabama’s default method of execution, because he failed to fill out a form distributed by Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials in which he could have designated an alternative method of execution. Per state legislation enacted in 2018, Smith and others on death row had 30 days from June 1, 2018, to choose whether to be executed by lethal injection or by execution nitrogen hypoxia. To opt for nitrogen hypoxia, prisoners who received the form needed to sign, date, and return a provided form. According to the Montgomery Adviser, several inmates received notice “a few days before the deadline and described a scramble to contact attorneys and understand the offer to them.” 

Smith received this form, but his legal team says he needed—and never received—assistance to understand its contents and what to do with it. Smith’s lawyers say that his “significant cognitive deficiencies” qualify him for the protection under the ADA and require Alabama to provide him reasonable accommodations in designating a method of execution. Had those accommodations been made, his lawyers say he would have designated execution by nitrogen gas. 

Alabama has begun building the physical infrastructure for nitrogen hypoxia executions, but does not yet have a protocol in place to carry them out.

Fully Vaxxed Colin Powell Dead from COVID b/c Injections Don't Prevent COVID. The Dependent Media Focuses on his Comorbidities w/o Asking Whether the Injection Caused Them (blood cancer/myelona)

From [HERE] Colin Powell, who helped steer U.S. national security policy in the post-Vietnam era as the country’s first black Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, White House national security adviser and secretary of state, has died at age 84.

His family cited Covid-19 complications in a statement on Facebook, adding he had been fully vaccinated. A longtime aide said Mr. Powell also had undergone treatment in recent years for a blood cancer, multiple myeloma, which is known to weaken the immune system. Family members didn’t say how long he had battled the effects of Covid. it is not clear whether the blood cancer or myelona was caused by the COVID injections or whether he had said conditions prior to being injected with experimental COVID products. There is also no indication that he had a history of those conditions.

Last year he criticized President Donald Trump openly for his handling in June 2020 of protests over the police murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police.

Vaxx Deadidency: Are We Witnessing Organized Mass Murder? In New Report a Fraud Expert Says the Number of Deaths and Serious Injuries Due to COVID Injections is 5X higher than what CDC has Reported

From [HERE] A new detailed analysis called the Vaccine Death Report implies that we may be witnessing the “greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world.”

Investigative journalist David John Sorensen and world renowned 'Physician of Presidents' and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize Dr. Vladimir Zelenko combined their knowledge to reveal something devastating to the world: the scientific data overwhelmingly shows how millions may have died from the covid injections, and hundreds of millions are suffering crippling side effects, that often permanently disable the victims for life. The Vaccine Death Report provides all the data, along with hundreds of references, for further investigation.

The report states “the purpose of this report is to document how all over the world millions of people have died, and hundreds of millions of serious adverse events have occurred, after injections with the experimental mRNA gene therapy. We also reveal the real risk of an unprecedented genocide.”

The full report is [HERE] BW has reproduced the following excerpts below:

COMPLICITY

The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world. The severity of this situation compels us to ask this critical question: will we rise to the defense of billions of innocent people? Or will we permit personal profit over justice, and be complicit? Networks of lawyers all over the world are preparing class-action lawsuits to prosecute all who are serving this criminal agenda. To all who have been complicit so far, we say: There is still time to turn and choose the side of truth. Please make the right choice.

AT LEAST 5 TIMES MORE DEATHS

CDC WHISTLEBLOWER SIGNS SWORN AFFIDAVIT

VAERS data from the American CDC shows that as of September 17, 2021, already 726,963 people suffered adverse events, including stroke, heart failure, blood clots, brain disorders, convulsions, seizures, inflammations of brain & spinal cord, life-threatening allergic reactions, autoimmune diseases, arthritis, miscarriage, infertility, rapid-onset muscle weakness, deafness, blindness, narcolepsy, and cataplexy. Besides the astronomical number of severe side effects, the CDC reports that almost 15,386 people died as a result of receiving the experimental injections. However, a CDC healthcare fraud detection expert named Jane Doe investigated this and came to the shocking discovery that the number of deaths is at least five times higher than what the CDC is admitting. In fact, in her initial communications to professor in medicine Dr. Peter McCullough, this whistleblower said that the number of deaths is ten times higher. The CDC health fraud detection expert signed an affidavit, in which she stated her findings. She carefully chose the wordings '...under-reported by a conservative factor of at least five', but as she revealed initially, the factor could also be ten. Here is an excerpt of the affidavit: 1

'I have, over the last 25 years, developed over 100 distinct healthcare fraud detection algorithms. ... When the COVID-19 vaccine clearly became associated with patient death and harm, I was inclined to investigate the matter. It is my professional estimate that VAERS (the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) database, while extremely useful, is under-reported by a conservative factor of at least 5. ... and have assessed that the deaths occurring within 3 days of vaccination are higher than those reported in VAERS by a factor of at least 5.'

The CDC is also vastly underreporting other adverse events, like severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis). The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) reported that a study showed how the actual number of anaphylaxis is 50 to 120 times higher than claimed by the CDC.2, 3 On top of that, a private researcher took a close look at the VAERS database, and tried looking up specific case-ID’s. He ound countless examples where the original death records were deleted, and in some cases, the numbers have been switched for milder reactions. He says:

'What the analysis of all the case numbers is telling us right now is that there’s approximately 150,000 cases that are missing, that were there, that are no longer there. The question is, are they all deaths?' 4

How severely criminal the CDC is, was also revealed a few years ago, when researchers investigated the link between vaccines and autism. They found that there indeed is a direct connection. So what did the CDC do? All the researchers came together and a large dustbin was placed in the middle of the room. In it they threw all the documents that showed the link between autism and vaccinations. Thus, the evidence was destroyed. Subsequently, a so-called 'scientific' article was published in Pediatric, stating that vaccinations do not cause autism. However, a leading scientist within the CDC, William Thompson, exposed this crime. He publicly admitted:

'I was involved in misleading millions of people about the possible negative side effects of vaccines. We lied about the scientific findings.' 5

The worst example of criminal methodology used to hide vaccine deaths is the fact that the CDC doesn't consider a person vaccinated until two weeks after their second injection. This means that anyone who dies during the many weeks before or the two weeks after the second injection, are considered unvaccinated deaths, and are therefore not counted as vaccine deaths. By doing this, they can ignore the vast majority of deaths following the injection. This is the nr 1 method used in nations worldwide to hide the countless numbers of vaccine deaths. 6,7

VACCINE DEATHS SUMMARY

IT IS FAR WORSE THAN WE THINK

• VAERS published 726,963 adverse events, including 15,386 deaths as of September 17, 2021

• CDC fraud expert says that number of deaths is at least five times, and possibly ten times higher

• A whistleblower from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) revealed how almost 50,000 people died from the injections. They represent only 20% of the U.S. population, meaning that if this data is applied to the entire population 250,000 have died 150,000 reports have been rejected or scrubbed by the VAERS system

• The actual number of anaphylaxis is 50 to 120 times higher than claimed by the CDC

• Everyone who dies before two weeks after the second injection, is not considered a vaccine death, which causes the majority of early vaccine deaths to be ignored

• Moderna received over 300,000 reports of adverse events in only three months-tim

• The Lazarus Report shows that only 1% of adverse events is being reported by the public The majority of the population is not aware of the existence of systems where they can report vaccine adverse events

• Aggressive censorship and propaganda told the public that adverse events are rare, causing people to not understand how their health problems stem from past injections

• The shaming and blaming of medical professionals who say anything against the vaccines, cause many in the medical community to avoid reporting adverse events

• The fear of being held accountable after administering an injection that killed or disabled patients, further prevents medical personnel from reporting it

• Having accepted financial incentives to promote, and administer the covid vaccines, also stops medical personnel from reporting adverse events

• Profit driven vaccine manufacturers have every reason not to report the destruction their untested experimental products are causing

• 200,000+ Facebook users comment about vaccine deaths and serious injuries

Contrary to Propaganda that "Vaccines" are Safe and Effective, Statistician Shows that Injections are More Dangerous than Driving a Car

From [HERE] Every day we hear health authorities claiming that the current crop of novel platform COVID vaccines are “safe and effective.”

Last week we presented you with evidence that points to the increasing failure of the global mass vaccination program — at least in relation to its purported aim of stopping transmission and building herd immunity with a view to helping societies to exit the pandemic.

In the light of this evidence, there is no scientific support for the “effective” claim which should be deemed scientific (or medical) misinformation.

This week, we look closer at the other side of the coin, the claim widely made by authorities that these novel vaccines are “safe.”

Safety signals ignored in the early clinical trials

You’ll recall that regulatory agencies around the world, following suit behind the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory products Authority (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), issued ‘emergency use authorizations’ (EUAs) early on to BioNtech/Pfizer, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Moderna — and slightly later — to  Janssen/Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

These were, by definition, experimental products being used on the public in a claimed “emergency” situation, one that the UK had already deemed was not the result of a “high consequence infectious disease.”

The data underpinning these decisions on both benefits and harms were very limited, derived from just two or three months’ worth of data. Efficacy data generally claiming in excess of 90% vaccine effectiveness was initially published in press releases by vaccine manufacturers.

Subsequently, safety and efficacy data for all three “vaccines” given EUAs in the U.S. were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine: here for Pfizer, here for Moderna and here for J&J.

The stratospheric numbers reflecting efficacy — Pfizer and Moderna’s level pegging at 95% and J&J’s at 94.1%, like none that had ever been seen before for a vaccine — were enthusiastically delivered by the media to a public that had been conditioned to be fearful of the new coronavirus.

In countries that had control of the supply of experimental products, carefully crafted advertising generated very high levels of uptake for these experimental gene therapy products that were widely perceived as the surest way out of the surreal existence so many had endured for close to a year.

However, as we showed last week, these figures would not be sustained for long in the real world, outside the clinical conditions of trials, especially not in the face of immune escape and functional mutations (new variants).

J. Bart Classen M.D., an immunologist and vaccine adverse events researcher who previously worked at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute for Allergy and infectious Diseases, headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, has long been concerned about lack of transparencyaround vaccine data.

He argued in the BMJ as early as 1999, that the public should be “fully informed that vaccines … may have long term adverse effects,” that “proper safety studies were needed” and greater transparency might result in the “development of safer vaccine technology.”

Classen has recently turned his attention to the New England Journal of Medicine datasets of Pfizer, Moderna and J&J COVID “vaccines,” supported by some additional data issued by relevant FDA advisory committees.

I don’t bemoan Classen’s choice of journal to publish his results. The vast majority of high impact factor journals have done a great disservice to science by refusing to carry articles that are in any way critical of the novel “vaccines’.”

Classen’s analysis, accepted for publication in late August, can be found in the recently launched Trends in Internal Medicine, a minor journal that has yet to be listed in the U.S. National Library of Medicine catalog.

Classen — doing what he was trained to do while in service to Fauci’s department — did what any halfway decent researcher would initially do at the start of an investigation: compare severe adverse events in those who were injected with the ‘real thing’ from each of the 3 manufacturers as against those injected with saline placebos.

No further digging was required to spot a problem. The top line findings are summarized in Table 1 below.

VARES Records Reveal a Substantial Number of Young Adults & Children Died Shortly After Getting COVID Injections, Many From Heart Issues Right After Shot

15-year-old Boy Injected w/the Pfizer COVID Product Collapsed and Died While Playing Soccer 4 Days later

From [HERE] A 15-year-old boy collapsed and died whilst playing football four days after he had been given a second dose of the Pfizer mRNA Covid-19 injection. 

The boy sadly lost his life on the 22nd July 2021 according to a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System report submitted on the 23rd July. The report, which can be found here under VAERS ID: 1498080, states that the child “collapsed on [a] soccer field while playing soccer at a local camp”. 

CPR was then reportedly started immediately before emergency services arrived and transported him to a medical centre. However, the boy sadly passed away. 

The VAERS report states the reason the boy collapsed was due to ventricular tachycardia; a condition which begins in the heart’s lower chambers, called the ventricles, causing a fast abnormal heartbeat defined as 3 or more heartbeats in a row, at a rate of more than 100 beats a minute.

If ventricular tachycardia persists for more than a few seconds at a time then it can become life-threatening, as the parents of this young boy have sadly discovered. [MORE]

2 Oregon State Senators Petition US Atty to Investigate CDC and FDA's Manipulation of COVID Statistics. Request Sought After a Sworn Whistleblower Claimed Vaccine Injuries/Deaths are Underreported

From [HERE] Oregon state Sens. Kim Thatcher and Dennis Linthicum, both Republicans, have petitioned Acting U.S. Attorney Scott E. Asphaug to launch a grand jury investigation into the measurement of COVID-19 statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Thatcher and Linthicum submitted the petition in a letter (pdf) on Aug. 16 after gathering signatures from 1,718 Oregonians and 53,032 Americans.

In the petition, the senators expressed concerns over the measurement and reporting of COVID-19 vaccine adverse reactions including fatalities and injuries.

The lawmakers stated that a whistleblower, under sworn testimony, said the data reported under the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System may have been underreported by a factor of five.

Regarding the diagnosis of COVID-19 through widely-used PCR tests, the senators said that the CDC and the FDA’s setting of one particular test parameter—the cycle threshold—generated “false positives resulting in inflated numbers of COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.”

Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Michael Mina told The New York Times in August 2020 that tests with too high of a threshold may detect not just live viruses but also genetic fragments. Mina suggested setting the cut-off at 30 cycles or less.

Thatcher expressed concern over the cycle threshold of 28 when testing vaccinated individuals. According to the petition, a low cut-off is likely to “eliminate false positive results and thereby reduce the number of vaccine ‘breakthrough’ cases.”

Thatcher and Linthicum said that they consulted large groups of doctors, epidemiologists, and virologists on the subject of COVID-19 statistical reporting.

“Additionally, we are profoundly concerned that the scientific literature continues to provide empirical evidence that safe and effective treatments and management strategies for COVID infections exist but are not being made available to Americans most in need,” continued the letter.

Stand for Health Freedom (SHF), a non-profit organization that helped with the petition, said in a statement that the petition was submitted one month before public release to “protect those involved.”

SHF also cited a March 2020 study (pdf) alleging that the CDC over-emphasized COVID-19 as the cause of death in compiling its statistics while “circumvent[ing] multiple federal laws” in the process.

For What Reason Can a Papaya Test Positive for COVID? Because PCR tests Don’t Work. The Plandemic is as Real as the Tests. And the Tests Don’t Accurately Diagnose Infection

From [Off-G] The PCR tests don’t work to diagnose active infection with covid19.

We all keep saying that don’t we, but we don’t seem able to grasp what it means, because even though we know PCR tests don’t work to diagnose infection we keep accepting all the statistics that are produced as a result of assuming PCR tests diagnose infection. 

We say – “0h wow, covid numbers rising despite the lockdown”. Or “massive spike in people getting covid in THIS care home despite precautions”. Or “look the ‘vax’ doesn’t work because people who get it still catch covid”.

No. Wrong. They’re not “covid numbers”, they’re positive-test numbers. It’s not a spike in people ‘getting Covid’ in the care home, it’s a spike of people testing positive. The people who get the vax don’t “still catch covid”, they still test positive. 

And the reason why these ‘anomalies’ happen, the reason why vaxxed people can still test positive, etc etc is the same reason a papaya can test positive – because the PCR tests don’t work.

We know it but keep forgetting it. So let’s say it again. 

The PCR tests don’t work. 

The PCR tests. Don’t. Work. 

We all know the danger of false positives if too many cycles are run. This is admitted even by Fauci. 

If you run your tests at 30 cycles or more the results are very likely to be junk and any positives meaningless. And, incredibly, most labs performing these tests have been doing just that – running cycles of 30 or more, even up to 45.

But this well known and important fact hides the even more important fact that even when the tests are done properly they still don’t work – in that they are not designed to do what they are being used for.

They don’t diagnose infection or detect active infection. They aren’t, for the most part, even specific for SARSCOV2. They just look to see if you have some random fragments of RNA in your body that someone has identified as being similar to some types of assumed viral RNA. 

Even if the test truly finds this stuff inside you, and isn’t just spewing out nonsense from having its cycle threshold set too high, there is literally nothing to show this bit of junk has anything to do with your runny nose, sore throat, pneumonia or death. It might, but much more likely does not.

They weren’t even designed using real viral RNA from the (alleged) Sars-Cov-2 virus. They used “synthetic RNA” or “contrived sources”, because there were no isolated samples of Sars-Cov-2 available.

The CDC says that the 59 different PCR tests on the market can’t have their performance` compared…because they all used different “contrived samples” for their production.

So, in terms of diagnosis or epidemiology, the information we get is little better than if we took a six-sided die, labeled one side ‘positive’ and five sides ‘negative’ and started rolling. 

Looked at like that, the mystery of post-vaccine “breakthrough infections” or “repeat infections” or “lockdown spikes” etc is not so mysterious is it? Turns out there’s one simple answer to all of them.

Why can you test positive and then negative and then positive again on the same day? 

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why do ‘breakthrough cases’ turn up? 

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why do ‘spikes’ sometimes happen during lockdowns? 

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why can you ‘catch covid’ more than once? 

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why can you ‘have covid’ without symptoms? 

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why does covid only ‘kill’ people already dying of something else? 

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why can you test positive after getting vaxxed?

Because the tests don’t work. 

Why can a piece of fruit have covid?

Because the tests DON’T WORK. 

Why does all-cause mortality not show any sign of a real pandemic? 

Because theres isn’t one, because the killer bug is an illusion created by tests – that don’t work. 

Absorb this fact. Internalize it. Stop talking about ‘cases’, stop buying the fundamental lie which sells all the other lies.

The pandemic is as real as the tests. And the tests don’t work. 

The powers that be have even basically admitted it. Over and over again.

Why did the WHO start warning about false positives and high CT values after the vaccines were “approved”?

Because they know the tests don’t work.

Why is the CDC testing vaccinated people at lower CT values than unvaccinated people?

Because they know the tests don’t work.

Why are vaccinated people told to “skip routine testing”?

Because they know the tests don’t work.

Why has the NHS been told to disregard “incidental covid”?

Because they know the tests don’t work.

Do you get it yet? 

You can die in a traffic accident, fall down the stairs, get bacterial pneumonia, have a coronary thrombosis, die of old age, or shoot yourself in the head – and a PCR test can make you a ‘Covid death’. 

You could be vaxxed every other Tuesday or develop “natural immunity” a million times…but that scientifically meaningless PCR can still turn you into a case any time that chance (or the approved cycle threshold) decide. 

That’s why no one will ever reliably ‘have immunity’ and this pandemic can last forever. 

The pandemic will never end because it never really began.

It’s a scam, a pea and thimble game of phony stats designed to keep you locked down, afraid and isolated while an insane new cult moves its agenda into play.

That agenda is being clearly stated and has been from day one, and we have spent the last 16 months talking about it. It involves the biggest wealth and power transfer ever envisaged, the mass destruction of small businesses, home ownership, personal autonomy. 

It involves apartheid and the demonization of anyone questioning the prevailing narrative – especially those refusing the experimental ‘vaccine’. 

That the pandemic has been invented in part to sell the various potentially toxic non-vaccines is undeniable. Profit is part of the motive. Never underestimate the ruling psycho-archy’s eagerness to make a quick buck. 

But is that really all it is? Any rational person has to ask why they are pushing these experimental chemical brews on people like an evangelical preacher selling salvation. Do these lunatics really want global depopulation as some are suggesting? 

I don’t know. Frankly, back in 2019 even considering the PTB might have such an agenda seemed hysterical. But after 16 months of the New Insanity, it doesn’t seem like something to rule out unconditionally. 

Why did the vax manufacturers get permission to sell these protocols without any previous testing? 

Why are these brews still being sold despite unprecedented numbers of adverse reaction reports? 

What exactly will the much-discussed spike proteins end up doing to their hosts? 

Depopulation or just cynical exploitation of an opportunity to shift those damn mRNA “vaccines” never previously approved for human use (because the animal trials were a disaster)?

Who knows right now in this new Matrix of madness. 

All we know for sure is the ‘pandemic’ is a lie being used to promote the interests of the most brutal, crazed, fanatical, reality-denying sector of the uber-wealthy – and your safety is NOT their priority. 

Oh, and – in case it slipped your mind again already – the tests don’t work. 

New Report says NY Authorities have Created 'a New Death Penalty.' More Have Died in Prisons in the Last Decade than the Total Number of People Murdered During 300 Yrs of NY's Death Penalty

From [HERE] More people have died in New York State prisons in the last decade than the total number of people put to death during the 300 years capital punishment was permitted in the state of New York. 

That's according to new data published by the Columbia University Center for Justice, which found 1,278 people have died while in the state prison system in the last ten years — a number which advocates say illustrates the need to overhaul the parole system. 

"An increase in punitive sentencing, repeated parole denials and keeping older people behind bars for longer has created a new death penalty and led to thousands of New Yorkers dying behind bars at an alarming rate," the report reads. 

Earlier this year, lawmakers failed to reach a compromise on two major pieces of legislation that would have overhauled the laws governing parole. Advocates are now hoping the recent attention around the crisis on Rikers Island and the overall state of jail and prisons across the state will bring renewed action and attention to the proposed measures. 

The Elder Parole bill would give incarcerated individuals who are 55 years and older and who have already served 15 years in prison a chance to go before a parole board. A second proposal, known as the Fair and Timely Parole bill would change the standards of parole, centering release on a person’s rehabilitation while incarcerated, not on the original crime.

Prior to its ban, New York ranked second in most executions of any state in the country — executing 1,130 people over a 300 year period. Advocates say those numbers pale in comparison to trends being recorded now. 

According to the report, titled "New York State's New Death Penalty," since 1976 — when New York first began collecting information about people dying in custody — 7,504 people 55 years and older have died inside New York state prisons and jails. 

Valerie Gaiter, was incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and serving a sentence of 50 years to life, which made her ineligible to come before the parole board until she was 73 years old.  Gaiter died last year, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. She was 61 years old and had been in prison for nearly 40 years at the time of her death. She was the longest-serving woman in a New York State prison. 

The report also found Black people account for a disproportionately high percentage of in-prison deaths, making up 41% of all deaths. 

Advocates say the system is particularly cruel to incarcerated people who become terminally ill while in custody. That was the case for Melissa Tanis and her father who died in 2016. 

"About a month before he passed away I basically had no communication with him because he was in such a bad state," Tanis told NY1. "He was in a wheelchair, he couldn't talk on the phone, he couldn't come to a visit room and all of that made it harder for me to process that grief."

Tanis, who helped author the report said the state should consider overhauling its parole laws which she says are often left out of reform proposals. 

"Part of what is going on is there have been reforms for de-carceration so our numbers have been going down," Tanis said. "But a lot of times some of these reforms can leave out people who are older and serving longer sentences because those are the people most likely convicted of violent crimes." 

Tanis said in the case of her father, who was terminally ill, it was clear he would have no longer been a threat to the community. However he was denied emergency or compassionate release. 

Columbia University will release the report's findings on Tuesday.

The ‘stepchild of lynching’: How the death penalty targets Black people

From [HERE] In 1904, a violent mob set upon the jail in the city of Huntsville, Alabama, occupying the first floor and demanding the jailors release Horace Maples, a Black man accused of killing an elderly white farmer named John Waldrop. When police refused, the crowd set fire to the jail to smoke him out.

Armed men kept the fire department from putting out the blaze. A sheriff eventually made Maples jump out of the second-floor window into the throng of people below, estimated to be about 2,000 people strong. The lynch mob soon had a rope around Maples’s neck, and dragged him onto the county courthouse lawn.

Waldrop’s son confronted the panicked man. Maples admitted to the murder, though it’s hard to imagine a confession more forced. He was strung over a nearby tree. The crowd filled his body with bullets, then took his fingers and clothing as souvenirs.

Seven alleged members of the mob later went on trial, and all were acquitted.

A year after Horace Maples was lynched, the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy installed a monument to Confederate soldiers in front of the courthouse, a reminder of just what justice meant in Huntsville for a Black man in 1904. It was replaced in the 1960s with a replica, during the height of the civil rights movement.

Lynchings may no longer terrorise the South in such great numbers, but America has never stopped feeding Black people through a system of rough justice that often uses public, exceptional violence to end their lives.

In the present day, the death penalty singles out people of colour by virtually every measure. More than just a passing similarity, though, the history of capital punishment in the US is tightly bound up with the rope and tree. Both are among America’s “peculiar” institutions.

Black people are vastly over-represented on death row. The US Black population is about 13 per cent in America, according to census data, while death row’s Black population was almost triple that, as of this spring. Those who kill white people are 17 times more likely to get the death penalty than those who kill Black people, according to a landmark 2020 study. Meanwhile, people of colour made up 63.8 per cent of modern wrongful death sentences, according to one analysis.

Beginning with the first executions that occurred in British colonies in North America to the present, capital punishment has always been applied unevenly, according to Elisabeth Semel, a law professor who heads University of California Berkeley’s Death Penalty Clinic.

“From its inception, in this country, the death penalty and racism were inseparable,” she told The Independent. “That history is defining. It just is defining.”

Disparities are found in nearly every facet of the process, in every location in the country that still practices the death penalty, she added: who gets accused of capital crimes; who gets good legal representation; who gets sentenced to death; and who is able to appeal the epidemic of wrongful convictions. Juan Melendez, 70, believes racism played a major role in sending him to Florida’s death row for a murder he didn’t commit. He was imprisoned for 17 years before being exonerated in 2002, after it was shown prosecutors witheld exculpatory evidence of another man confessing.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in his family’s native Puerto Rico, Juan went back to the US looking for adventure and opportunity when he turned 18 and went to work in American fruit fields on an agricultural visa programme.

“I was one of them looking for an American dream, and it turned out to be an American nightmare,” he said.