Pfizer, FDA Hid Data Showing Clinical Trials Failed, Says Former BlackRock Advisor

From [CHD] In an interview with Naomi Wolf, of the Daily Clout, investment advisor Edward Dowd discussed why investors are dumping COVID-19 vaccine makers’ stocks.

Dowd, a former managing director with BlackRock from 2002 to 2012, grew BlackRock’s growth strategy from $2 billion-$14 billion over 10 years.

Wolf introduced Dowd:

“He’s the extraordinarily kind of courageous, well-informed whistleblower who has come forward to explain to audiences why in his view, Pfizer has committed a fraud.”

Dowd described how his initial caution about taking the experimental COVID vaccine led him to research data related to Pfizer’s clinical trials.

Dowd told Wolf:

“I learned from a friend in the biotech industry that Pfizer had failed its all-cause mortality endpoint in the initial trial … All-cause mortality is the gold standard in any drug trial at the FDA. When you fail that endpoint, the drug is not approved.”

When Big Pharma and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were unwilling to release vaccine safety data, Dowd grew even more skeptical about the vaccines, he said, and was compelled to speak out privately and publicly about what he believed was a major deception:

“I got more loud about fraud when the FDA decided to hide the clinical data for 75 years. I’m an investor, so let me just say how I think about the world. I don’t wait for people to tell me what just happened. My job was to come up with an analysis, mosaic and investment thesis, and then over time I’d be proven right.

“So I don’t wait for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post to tell me anything. Because by the time that happens, the opportunity to make money is lost. So I started screaming fraud as soon as I saw that — because it’s unprecedented to hide data from the public.”

It was a report from the CEO of a major life insurance company that confirmed Dowd’s doubts:

“If this vaccine was as deadly and injurious as we thought, we’d see the insurance companies and the funeral home results. These are databases that aren’t being hidden from us by the government. So, unfortunately, in early January, a signal was launched by One America.

“The CEO didn’t really know what he was saying or the implications of it — because he didn’t think it was the vaccine, but he got on a Chamber of Commerce call in Indiana, and he said that in the second half of 2021, he was seeing a 40% increase in all-cause mortality —  non-COVID. And to put some meat on those bones, a 10% increase he said would be a three-standard deviation [increase], which in math in my world is a big deal.”

Dowd described the impact on the financial world and on his current work:

“Wall Street is listening to me now because they’re nervous and a lot of them are jabbed as well. And if you look at the stocks of Moderna and Pfizer, Moderna is down 70% and Pfizer is down 20 plus percent.

“So my goal has been to raise consciousness across the country and the globe, by pointing out that even though the mainstream media is not going to save us — and it doesn’t seem like the politicians or the regulators are, because they’re in on it — we have to spread the word.”

Wolf asked Dowd about the repercussions of his public position:

“One of the things you’ve said, unequivocally, not mincing words — this is fraud. So if you are not right, that’s actionable, I believe, and Pfizer and Moderna could come at you with a libel suit or a slander suit. But I believe that has not happened yet. Will you speak to that?”

Dowd replied:

“I don’t have a medical license to take away. I don’t have a bar license to take away. I’m an investor. And throughout the history of Wall Street, investors have what we call a thesis. So I present this as a thesis — I’m a hundred percent convinced it’s fraud. I’ve laid out my case and it’s starting to appear, it’s coming to light that it is, but I can say this is freedom of speech. They can sue me if they want. I don’t suspect they will.”

Dowd said he’s been waiting for a “hit piece on me,” but there haven’t been any yet. He said because what he’s presenting is an investment thesis, he’s protected under free speech laws.

“Here’s the problem, Dowd said. “The proof of the fraud is showing up in real-life results. And that is becoming undeniable and impossible to hide.”

High Vaccination Rate (86%) Not Preventing COVID Deaths in South Korea

From [HERE] Korea’s whole population is currently 86% vaccinated, one of the highest in the world, with about 63% of its population boosted as well. Of countries with 10 million or more people, South Korea is the third most vaccinated in the world and one of the most boosted. By January of 2022, the Korean Herald reported that 93% of the population aged 18 and up had been “fully vaccinated” with either the two-dose AstraZeneca, Pfizer, or Moderna series or single dose of Johnson and Johnson. Among the elderly, 94% have been fully vaccinated and 78% boosted. All the booster doses have been mRNA-based vaccine product from Pfizer or Moderna

4th COVID Shot Offers Little Protection Against Infection, Israeli Study Shows

From [CHD] Researchers at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, conducted a small study that found the efficacy of a fourth dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines resulted in only marginal protection from SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Their results, reported as a correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine, stated:

“The interim results released show that the [fourth dose of the] vaccine offers little to no protection against contracting the virus when compared to young and healthy individuals vaccinated with three doses.”

According to the study, the fourth Pfizer dose showed 30% efficacy in preventing infection and Moderna’s fourth dose showed 11%.

The study’s authors noted, however, that the fourth dose provided “moderate protection against symptomatic infection” (Pfizer = 43%; Moderna = 31%). Symptomatic infection was defined as a fever lasting either more or less than 48 hours.  Other systemic symptoms included fatigue, myalgia, and headache.

However, these efficacy numbers fall short of the required 50% threshold for Emergency Use Authorization (EAU) in the U.S.

No hospitalizations or deaths from COVID occurred in either the control or treatment groups. The majority of all COVID cases in participants were asymptomatic or had negligible symptoms.

However, 25.2% of fourth dose recipients experienced moderate-to-severe local reactions and 6.5% had moderate-to-severe systemic reactions to the second booster.

The investigators concluded that a second booster did not result in an immune response any greater than the first booster did:

“Along with previous data showing the superiority of a third dose to a second dose, our results suggest that maximal immunogenicity of mRNA vaccines is achieved after three doses …”

“Thus, a fourth vaccination of healthy, young health care workers may have only marginal benefits.”

Dr Julian Tang, clinical virologist, Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester (UK), commented on the study:

“If Omicron continues circulating and we are still using the current first-generation COVID-19 vaccines against it, then I agree with the authors that the benefits to otherwise healthy, younger people will be marginal — and any 4th dose boosters will be more beneficial to the older and more vulnerable groups (e.g. those with comorbidities).”

Implications for the U.S.

As health officials raise questions about the usefulness and safety of additional booster shots, Moderna and Pfizer are making public appeals for additional shots.

Moderna on March 17 applied for EAU for a fourth dose for people 18 and older, and Pfizer on March 15 submitted its application for a fourth dose for people age 65 and older.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla during a March 13 appearance on “Face the Nation” said a fourth shotwould be necessary, citing data that the vaccine maker submitted to the FDA but did not yet make publicly available.

Some doctors and scientists have noted the repeated administration of booster shots may have a “detrimental effect” on the immune system.

As reported by Dr. Joseph Mercola:

“Artificially inflated antibodies signal to your body that you’re always infected, and the resulting immune response could prove to be detrimental to your health.”

Keeping the immune system in a heightened state of alert can ”accelerate the development of auto-immune disorders,” according to Mercola.

The European Medicines Agency also raised concerns about repeated booster shots. As The Defender reported:

“According to the European Medicines Agency, continued booster doses every four months could pose a risk of overloading people’s immune systems and lead to fatigue.

“‘While use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy,’ the EMA’s head of vaccines strategy, Marco Cavaleri, said Tuesday during a press briefing.”

The White Supremacy Myth Falls Apart in the Face of Equitable Opportunity. Racists Lower the Bar to Promote Unqualified Blacks Like Ketanji, thereby Making Mediocre Whites Appear Superior/Fantasy Real

WHITE OVER BLACK SYSTEM. TO BIDEN, DEMS AND THEIR BLACK FOLLOWERS, THE MOST QUALIFIED BLACK WOMAN IS NOT NECESSARILY THE MOST QUALIFIED BLACK PERSON OR WOMAN AND IS NOT THE SAME PERSON AS THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON.

From [HERE] President Biden has made his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. She has a thin appellate record. At least on regulation and business questions, she’s probably to the left of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. We’ll see what Senate vetting brings, but the GOP shouldn’t indulge in the left’s scorched-earth tactics.

Judge Jackson’s elevation wouldn’t change the Supreme Court’s direction in the near term, since she’d replace a fellow liberal. But at age 51 she could serve for three decades. Although Judge Jackson clerked for Justice Breyer, she might lack his pragmatic and independent streak. He is less hostile to business and religious liberty than Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

What about Judge Jackson? It’s hard to know for sure. She was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit last June, but her first opinion didn’t arrive until this month. It was a victory for public-employee unions on a matter of administrative law. It was also unanimous, as was her second opinion. As a district judge since 2013, Judge Jackson made hundreds of rulings. That is a different kind of work, involving judicial fact finding and so forth, and we’ll soon discover how much can be gleaned from it.

Mr. Biden’s other criteria that must be mentioned, unfortunately, are race and sex. He promised in 2020 to put a black woman on the High Court, and Judge Jackson is a black woman. But the Senate should focus on her record. “I’ve experienced life in perhaps a different way than some of my colleagues because of who I am,” she said last year. But she added that “race would be the kind of thing that would be inappropriate to inject into my evaluation of a case.”

All the day's Opinion headlinesIt’s notable, though, that Mr. Biden seems to have made the choice that most progressives wanted. Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, whose endorsement in the 2020 South Carolina primary helped Mr. Biden win the White House, pushed for district Judge J. Michelle Childs. She attended state schools, which is another form of diversity the Supreme Court lacks, and she was the first black woman to be partner at a major South Carolina law firm.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham all but said he’d vote for Judge Childs. Yet progressives smeared her as corporate stooge, and President Biden is nothing if not a man who follows his party. Reacting to the nomination of Judge Jackson, an Ivy Leaguer, Mr. Graham was wary. “The radical Left has won President Biden over yet again,” he tweeted Friday. “I expect a respectful but interesting hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Harvard-Yale train to the Supreme Court continues to run unabated.”

As Mr. Graham says, the public is owed hearings that are respectful, thorough and, yes, even interesting. Judge Jackson is on Harvard’s board of overseers, while the Supreme Court is poised to consider the school’s racial preferences in admissions. Some of her prominent rulings as a district judge were reversed. Another has a footnote on the first page to explain that it “uses the term ‘noncitizen’ in lieu of the term ‘alien.’”

All fair game. But Republicans should refuse to engage in the politics of personal destruction that Democrats routinely wage. Many Republicans may be frustrated that they don’t have more leverage, but elections have consequences. Mr. Biden won in 2020, and then President Trump’s claims of a stolen election in Georgia cost the GOP control of the Senate. Conservatives are paying the price again.

The ABA [elite whites] Recommend Ketanji Jackson b/c She is a Safe Negro; Showing "No Signs of Bias to Criminal Defendants" [who are disproportionately Black] and "Is Not Soft on Crime" [on Blacks]

From [HERE] The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary gave U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson its “well qualified” rating after receiving consistent praise from those who knew her and reviewed her writing, committee representatives told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Judges and lawyers who spoke with the standing committee said Jackson showed no signs of bias toward criminal defendants, senators were told. [Criminal defendants are overwhelmingly, disproportionately Black]. The bias issue has been raised by some Republican senators who have criticized Jackson as being “soft on crime,” particularly in her sentencing of child pornography defendants.

Those who were interviewed, as well as experts who reviewed her writings, were consistent in their praise of Jackson’s integrity, professional competence and judicial temperament, the three characteristics considered by the ABA, the ABA evaluators told senators. The written explanation of the rating is here.

“Quite frankly, ‘well qualified’ was a rating we were compelled to reach after our exhaustive comprehensive peer review,” said retired U.S. Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams, the standing committee’s chair. The committee sought information from 2,800 judges and lawyers, 250 of whom spoke with the ABA about their firsthand knowledge of Jackson.

“Everyone we talked to, interviewed or had substantive contact with uniformly gave the highest praise: ‘brilliant,’ ‘beyond reproach, ‘first rate,’ ‘patient,’ ‘insightful,’ ‘impeccable,’ ‘A-plus,’” Williams said. “The question we kept asking ourselves: How does one human being do so much, so extraordinarily well?”

The lead evaluators were the standing committee’s representative from the District of Columbia Circuit, D. Jean Veta of Washington, D.C., and its representative from the Federal Circuit, Joseph M. Drayton of New York City.

Veta said the standing committee spoke to lawyers and judges throughout the country.

“What was remarkable was how consistent they were in their comments about how everyone gets a fair shake,” she said.

No judge, attorney or other respondent raised a concern about bias in the current evaluation, nor did they raise such a concern in prior evaluations by the ABA when Jackson was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021 and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2012.

Freedom from bias is one characteristic that the standing committee considers when looking at a judicial nominee’s temperament. Among the prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., who spoke with the committee, all rejected any claim that Jackson is “soft on crime.”

“I vehemently disagree” with the allegation, said one high-ranking prosecutor.

Another federal prosecutor who appeared before Jackson at least 10 times said there is no bias toward defendants. Such an allegation was “absolutely not borne out based on my experience with her,” the prosecutor said. Another prosecutor from the office said Jackson was regarded as “a good draw” because “she is a smart judge without any biases, which is all we’re asking for.”

The standing committee began its evaluation of Jackson Feb. 25, the date that President Joe Biden nominated her to the Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

In addition to speaking with judges and attorneys who had worked with Jackson, the standing committee heard from three reading groups who reviewed Jackson’s published opinions, briefs and law review articles. Two academic reading groups comprised professors and academics from the University of Illinois College of Law and Stanford Law School. A third practitioners reading group comprised nationally recognized lawyers, many with Supreme Court experience.

Her integrity

Jackson “has a sterling reputation for integrity,” according to the standing committee statement. “Judges and lawyers who have known her in every capacity uniformly praised her character, calling her integrity ‘beyond reproach,’ ‘first rate’ and ‘impeccable.’ She also uniformly received high marks for her industry and diligence. Lawyers and judges consistently described her as ‘thorough,’ ‘hardworking’ and ‘extremely well prepared.’”

Other representative comments included:

• “You write the word ‘integrity,’ and then you put her initials next to it.”

• “She is off-the-charts in terms of her integrity and judicial temperament. She’s fair, honest, respectful, even-tempered, kind and understanding with everyone she interacts with.”

Her professional competence

“Judge Jackson’s professional competence is exceptional,” according to the standing committee statement. “Judge Jackson has a strong educational background and a broad spectrum of professional experience.”

Jackson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and cum laude from Harvard Law School. She clerked for a federal district judge, a federal appeals judge and for Breyer. She has civil litigation experience from work at Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin, Goodwin Procter, and Morrison & Foerster. She worked as a federal public defender and served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission as an assistant special counsel and as vice chair and commissioner. She has over eight years of experience as a federal district judge and has served as a federal appeals judge since 2021.

During her eight years as a federal district judge, only 10 of Jackson’s 578 opinions, dispositive orders or orders affecting injunctive relief were reversed on appeal. One reversal was again reversed by the Supreme Court. Four decisions were vacated and remanded, and three opinions were affirmed but criticized on appeal. No one interviewed thought that the reversals reflected negatively on Jackson.

Representative comments included:

• “She is one of the brightest legal minds in the country with a well-rounded set of experiences in the legal system and judiciary that will make her an exceptional Supreme Court justice.”

• “She’s absolutely brilliant as a jurist.”

• “She’s very, very smart. She’s very agile and able to think on her feet.”

• “Studying her opinions is like a master class in judicial writing. Her opinions are organized, methodical and reflect respect for the litigants. … She has spent most of her time as a judge on the district court but wrote opinions in her cases similar to what you would see from an appellate court.”

• “I cannot think of anyone more qualified or better suited to sit on the high court.”

Her temperament

“The praise for Judge Jackson’s judicial temperament was universal,” according to the standing committee statement.

Representative comments included:

• “Judge Jackson has the perfect temperament for a judge. She is unfailingly respectful, courteous and warm in every situation and to everyone, regardless of whether they are a litigant, colleague or courthouse employee. She is always prepared, and when she speaks, she has always considered every aspect of the topic, and her colleagues listen carefully and give great weight to her contributions to meetings and discussions.”

• She is “humble” and “with no sense of entitlement.”

• “Judge Jackson exhibited prototypical judicial temperament. She was engaged and curious, her questions were direct but respectful, she listened intently to the answers given by counsel, and she treated each argument and each party even-handedly and with dignity.”

The standing committee doesn’t consider philosophy, political affiliation or ideology in reaching its nonpartisan rating. In response to questions by Republican senators, the ABA representatives said the standing committee members are appointed by the ABA president, but there is no interaction with the ABA in the ratings process.

LeBrain Robbery White Propaganda=you're utterly unlike (opposite to) me. You Can Lose Most of the Time and Still be Champ. Media Use LebronSexuals to PropAgendize Lebron as GOAT Despite Losing History

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

cognitive dissonance – a psychological condition where one’s mind involuntarily rejects (summarily spits out) information not aligned or accord with previous misconceptions, beliefs, belief systems, ideology, conditioning, indoctrination, programming or actions. 2) denying a painful incongruence between one’s truth and the reality that refutes it. 3) a disconnect between conscious desires and unconscious beliefs derived from experience. The term ‘cognitive dissonance’ was coined in 1956 by psychologist Leon Festinger. Festinger also noted that “human beings engage in the most amazing mental gymnastics to justify their hypocrisy. You could just as easily say the same for people’s religions. When our core beliefs collide with the objective facts, we’re overwhelmingly inclined to throw out the evidence, censor it or seek to destroy it in order to protect and fortify the belief system. Cognitive dissonance means there is a disagreement or disconnect between behavior and beliefs. “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that worlds against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable. And because it is so important to protect the core belief they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.” ~ Frantz Fanon. Our brains so completely block perception of facts that might create cognitive dissonance such that they become invisible to us. Dogma is living through, with and by the results of other people’s thinking and experiences. Most people are very uncomfortable with things that do not match the way they think or imagine the world should be. When you face reality, you will learn to leave truth to its own devices. (See: Fear, Sunset, Ideology, Hypocrisy, Religion, Desires, Neural Plasticity, Intentions, Core Beliefs, Willful Ignorance,

As articulated by  cognitive dissident Yahemy Nah:

WHATS YOUR STATUS?

Nut-Sector 1 - “Lebron James Enthusiasts” - those who think LeBron James is not only a great player, but considers him in the conversation along with Michael Jordan as the greatest player ever. These phlegmatic fans are somewhat knowledge about basketball, fairly reasonable, very opinionated yet sufferable. You can have a conversation where they apply at least some modicum of logic, facts, reason with the propensity to be swayed by the exchange of facts based in context and reality.

Nut-Sector 2 - “Bronfans” - People who admire Lebron’s Flop-Heavy basketball accomplishments, stat-packing, teammate-recruiting, team-stacking, team-hopping and ring-chasing exploits. They are not dealing in (or with) reality that well, but at least still in touch with it, seemingly sincere but sincerely misguided and deliberately over-reaching and hyperbolic in anything spoken about their idol, not to mention being apologists for anything he does (abandoned in rationalization land), while buffering with false praise and traveling with a suitcase of excuses. Bronfans abstract reality into utter make-believe coming just one imbecilic comment shy of needing cover under the Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program.

Nut-Sector 3 - “Bronsexuals” - woefully misguided and fanatical blind-witnessing fanboys of LeBronze whose manhood is intertwined with their fanhood. Bronsexuals attempt to conflate what he does philanthropically or family-related off the court with actual basketball accomplishments on the court while dismissing the 6 out of 10 Finals losses (and 2 embarrassing sweeps) in comparison to the GOAT MJ with 6 for 6 finals victories (with 6 Finals MVP’s, not to mention they came as 2 separate three-peats). That stat line 6 for 6 with 6 gives Bronsexuals the devil (like flashing a cross to a vampire). Bronsexuals don’t come out of the closet, they come out of the locker. Bronsexuality is a portal to examining other mental mal-adaptiveness and cognitive dissonance to basic reality like Trumpism, naive “Covidians” and deeply disillusioned cops.

Nut-Sector 4 - “Bronsexualites” - delusional fabulist true-believers and self-deceivers ever-ready to lie, hate and bloviate. Bronsexualites are those who, with cult-like religious fervor, wear his jockstrap on their head backwards (so that the cup doesn’t interfere with their otherwise tea-bagged view and blind-witnessing) not only as a questionable fashion statement but also as a visible means of identity-crisis, not unlike the funny-looking stage costumes the so-called Hebrew Israelites wear. They worship their eidolon (Bron-Bron) as savior of their machizzlum-riddled mundane loser-friendly lives. These gormless insufferable Le’o-lumps (always on the verge of vorge) are oblivious to just how compromised their mental health is and refuse to acknowledge that help is needed to treat the underlying severe DSM-5 behavioral disorder negatively affecting what’s left of their feckless lives.

Next time you interact with Lebron James fans, ask if they know their sectionality “status”.

Which “Squadrant” (Nut-Sector) are they on? Which windowpane stains their clear and sane view?

• Scribed by photojournalist Yahemy Nah living near Ft. Lauderdale reporting live for Brown-Watch (always questioning your view while expanding too). Rethink! It ain’t illegal yet!

Coin Operated NGHRS Perform for Their Masters at the Oscars. Would SNigger Will Smith Assault a White Man Like That? [Its a Good Thing Obedient Black Chris Rock Doesn’t Believe in Self-Defense]

NGHRS LOVE EVERYTHING BUT THEMSELVES. Coin Operated, NGHRS Dance, Sing, Joke and Fight Each Other to Gain the Approval of Their Masters [elite racists] at the Oscars. FUCK THE OSCARS.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

coin-operated – the apt name for ravenous, puerile and greedy (“mine-controlled”) folk who only act if there is money, power or fame in the game (endeavor)—typically and consciously undertaken underhandedly at another’s expense. 2) anyone with a sell-out-slot that doubles as a mouth or who easily bends south—a south-bender repeat offender. 3) the subsumable drive for money, prestige, influence and power. 4) those that calculate and manipulate to get what they want— usually at the expense of others whom they claim to represent. 5) the description of (and name for) someone whose sole motivation is ‘paper-chasing.’ The living-larger supercilious sell-outs have to use the cracks of their arse as a discredit card swiper—since the stakes are higher and call for more drastic measures and high-volume transfers (the booty of sell-out treasures) can only be accessed in the form of plastic pleasures. They call them token Negroes because they are coinoperated. If you put money in them they will dispense (‘espew’—espouse and spew) the view, vision, wishes, ideas, thoughtforms, ideology, hopes and dreams of the customer. “The price of a dollar is a lot cheaper than the price we pay for violating our own inner integrity.” ~Rafael Catalá. You can easily spot coin-operated people because they always have one dry itchy hand out (waiting to be greased or bribed), the other groping for a handout, and their mouth-slots are always open. Some coin-operatives are equal orifice deployers, i.e., they will use both ends to satisfy others’ desires as a means to achieve or finance their own desired ends—these are better known as CO-HO’s. (See: Piece-Activists, Sniggers, Massa’bators, BOHICANs, Purcheat, Greedy, Ho-Reps, Selfishness, NSA Position, Politicians & Racism White Supremacy)

Niggeroe – one who seeks to create or profit from degrading and distorted images of all-things-Afrikan, dark, or black.

Court Ordered Release of FDA Documents Reveals that Pfizer's COVID Shot has 1,291 Side Effects. Govt Knew but Failed to Publicly Disclose Before Mandating Deadly Shots, Destroying Informed Consent

While the Public Was Distracted by “Cover Stories” a Court Ordered Release of FDA Docs Revealed that Pfizer's COVID Shot Caused 1,291 Different Adverse Events During Clinical Trials

From [HERE] [HERE] and [HERE] This release of documents follows U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman’s decision on January 6 to deny the request from the FDA to suppress the data for the next 75 years, which the agency claimed was necessary, in part, because of its “limited resources.”

This release of documents follows U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman’s decision on January 6 to deny the request from the FDA to suppress the data for the next 75 years, which the agency claimed was necessary, in part, because of its “limited resources.”

RIO DE JANEIRO– In a 55,000-page set of documents released on Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) is for the first time allowing the public to access data Pfizer submitted to FDA from its clinical trials in support of a Covid-19 vaccine license.

This follows U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman’s decision on January 6 to deny the request from the FDA to suppress the data for the next 75 years, which the agency claimed was necessary, in part, because of its “limited resources.”

When Pfizer applied for FDA approval, they were aware of almost 158,000 adverse events. This really does not paint them in a favorable light. And now, a 38-page report features an appendix with a list that says Pfizer’s COVID vaccine has 1,291 side effects.

The list includes acute kidney injury, acute flaccid myelitis, anti-sperm antibody positive, brain stem embolism, brain stem thrombosis, cardiac arrest, cardiac failure, cardiac ventricular thrombosis, cardiogenic shock, central nervous system vasculitis, death neonatal, deep vein thrombosis, encephalitis brain stem, encephalitis hemorrhagic, frontal lobe epilepsy, foaming at mouth, epileptic psychosis, facial paralysis, fetal distress syndrome, gastrointestinal amyloidosis, generalized tonic-clonic seizure, Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, hepatic vascular thrombosis, herpes zoster reactivation, immune-mediated hepatitis, interstitial lung disease, jugular vein embolism, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, liver injury, low birth weight, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, myocarditis, neonatal seizure, pancreatitis, pneumonia, stillbirth, tachycardia, temporal lobe epilepsy, testicular autoimmunity, thrombotic cerebral infarction, Type 1 diabetes mellitus, venous thrombosis neonatal, and vertebral artery thrombosis among 1,246 other medical conditions following vaccination.

“This is a bombshell,” said Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president and general counsel Mary Holland.

“At least now we know why the FDA and Pfizer wanted to keep this data under wraps for 75 years. These findings should put an immediate end to the Pfizer Covid vaccines. The potential for serious harm is clear, and those injured by the vaccines are prohibited from suing Pfizer for damages….”

Download the documents here.

BlackRock Portfolio Manager Estimates COVID Injections Killed at Least 61,000 Americans Aged 25 – 44 During Fall-Winter 2021. “Excess Deaths Accelerated When COVID Mandates and Boosters Hit"

From [HERE] An analysis of figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database has revealed that 61,000 people, supposedly in the prime of their life, aged 25-44, died of vaccine-related causes in the U.S. in the fall and winter of 2021.

Edward Dowd, a former BlackRock portfolio manager, made the appalling revelation during the March 10 episode of “The Alex Jones Show.”

According to Dowd, an investment adviser on Wall Street, an insurance industry expert who is part of his team stumbled upon the buried truth when, looking for something else, he broke down the CDC figures by age and created his own baseline death rates from there.

Showing charts the actuarian plotted from the figures, Dowd pointed at chart four as the punch line.

“Basically, you see that millennials experienced 84 percent excess death in the fall and winter of 2021. So excess deaths accelerated when mandates and boosters hit,” Dowd told Jones.

“And this age group is important because they’re healthy. And you can’t say that they, you know, miss their cancer screenings. This is ages 25 to 44. So this is just devastating evidence that the vaccines are causing this age group to die at an accelerating rate. 

“I know I showed percentages in that chart, but the actual bodies are 61,000. That’s the Vietnam War event that just occurred to the millennial generation – 58,000 died in the Vietnam War.”

Dowd said he’s certain the vaccines are the culprits because the acceleration started in the summer when the mandates started hitting in August and September last year.

“And then [President Joe] Biden came out [announcing the mandates]. And boosters were also authorized and started happening. So let’s call this what it is. This is death by government mandate or democide, death by government. That’s what’s going on here.”

BlackRock and Vanguard, two of the world’s “Big Three” asset managers, also are among the top three shareholders of COVID vaccine makers Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — which means the two investment giants stand to benefit from these companies’ soaring profits and the resulting rise in those companies’ stock prices.

BlackRock and Vanguard don’t just benefit from sales of COVID vaccines. As it turns out, they also have ownership stakes in technology companies developing vaccine passports and digital wallets.

The insurance companies have pointed at the alarming spike in vaccine-related deaths before, but the government refused to heed the warning and proceeded with the mass injections.

Dowd could only speculate on why the “pyschos” in government did this.

“Well, there’s two ways to look at this. Just good old-fashioned power and greed, or there was a plan hatched by some very evil people. I’m going with power and greed for now. But you know, as we roll through this very active fraud, it’s being exposed. There’s more and more evidence coming to the front that this is part of some sort of bigger grand plan.”

Dowd’s suspicion grew after noticing that what’s happening in the U.S. is being replicated by other global governments that have mandated the vaccines.

Government’s war on people

“So this is a worldwide tragedy. And it’s a war. And whether the government knew it was a war on people, they’re currently at war on their own people. And it’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Dowd related that a board member of a German insurer approached him two weeks ago and revealed their government was underreporting vaccine-related injuries by a factor of 25 to one. That is based on approximately three million Germans, or 3.6 percent of the total population, who were injured by vaccines enough to seek medical treatment.

No wonder, Dowd is leaning toward the grand plan scheme now.

That’s why his team is going to drop more charts, all interpreting the CDC data, until the true reason why there were more deaths in 2021 than 2020 is exposed.

Citing more figures, Dowd said the over 65 generation saw 306,000 excess deaths in the second half of last year until February. “That is a World War II event,” explained Dowd, noting over 291,000 Americans died in the war. Dowd also pointed out that there’s a little over 1.1 million people in excess deaths in the U.S. since the pandemic began.

Putting that figure into perspective, Dowd said “1.1 million excess deaths equates to 4,000 World Trade Center events.”

And still, the mainstream media is talking about Ukraine, Dowd lamented. “We just literally had a war here on our own soil. “We’re at war with someone and it’s occurring.”

Watch the video below for Alex Jones’ full interview of investment adviser Edward Dowd from minute 15 onwards –

“I have so many soldiers being destroyed by this vaccine." Whistleblower Doctor Tells Court She Was Ordered and Threatened Not to Testify About the High Incidence of Vaccine Injuries in the Military

Under federal law 18 USC 1512, it is a crime to intimidate or threaten a witness with the intent to influence, alter or withhold their testimony. On the evening before our hearing, I was overviewing testimony with our witness, Lt. Col. Teresa Long, when she received a call from her commander.

After leaving the room to take the call, she returned visibly shaken. A superior officer higher than her immediate commander had ordered her not to testify regarding certain critical information relevant to our case!

I have never witnessed anything like this. The government intentionally threatened a witness under subpoena on the eve of testimony in a federal court. But once again, it showed that the Biden administration thinks the law does not apply to them.

The scene in the courtroom the next day was dramatic. [MORE]

From [LC] and [HERE] Dr. Theresa Long, a medical officer with the United States military, has testified in court that she was ordered by a superior to suppress Covid-19 vaccine injuries following the Biden regime’s mandate.

On March 10, Liberty Counsel, the law firm representing thirty members of the military who are fighting the military vaccine mandate, returned to federal court to defend the preliminary injunction Judge Steven Merryday granted two military plaintiffs that allowed them to skirt the military vaccine mandate. The Department of Defense (DoD) asked the judge to set aside the injunction while the case was on appeal.

Judge Merryday is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

During the all-day hearing, Liberty Counsel presented compelling testimony from the Navy Commander of a surface warship and three military flight surgeons, Lt. Col. Peter Chambers, Lt. Col. Teresa Long and Col. (Ret.) Stewart Tankersley, M.D. In contrast, the DOD declined to present witnesses.

Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver said in an interview with the Blaze’s Daniel Horowitz on Monday that there have been three hearings now in this case, and the DoD has not yet offered a single witness. Instead of witnesses, the government “sends these declarations,” Staver explained. He said the judge has urged them to bring live witnesses to court so they can be cross examined, but they just refuse to do it. “So they send these declarations that some JAG attorney writes, and somebody in the military signs off on them.”

Staver said that the information the DoD has been presenting in court is “outdated, wrong, and would really be subject to dismantling under cross examination.” He added that cross examinations of his witnesses have only made their case stronger. “So they really don’t have anything to cross examine our witnesses with,” he said.

Staver told Horowitz that Judge Merryday has chastised the DoD lawyers during the hearings, telling them they have “a frail case,” and are “acting as though they are above the law.”

Col. Teresa Long, a doctor abd flight surgeon who holds a master’s degree in Public Health and is specially trained in the DMED, gave emotional testimony on March 10.

She and two other flight surgeons reviewed DMED last year and made some stunning discoveriesabout the high incidence of apparent vaccine injuries among members of the military.

According to the whistleblowers, certain disorders spiked after the vaccine mandate went into effect, including miscarriages and cancers, and neurological problems which increased by 1000 percent.

Dr. Long testified that she was contacted by high level officer the night before the hearing, and told not to discuss her findings regarding the explosive military medical data in court.  The whistleblower reportedly said she felt threatened after she tried to get her superiors to address the findings, “fearing for her life and for the safety of her children.”

Since the whistleblowers came forward with the DMED data, the DoD has thrown cold water on their conclusions, saying the increase in vaccine injuries was caused by a “glitch in the database.”

Politifact contacted Peter Graves, spokesperson for the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division, who said the data for 2021 is correct, but for some reason, the data for the five years prior was inaccurate. Graves told PolitiFact by email that the division reviewed data in the DMED “and found that the data was incorrect for the years 2016-2020.”

In other words, for five straight years, the data was seriously corrupted and none of the DoD’s data analysts figured this out, and then it fixed itself on its own in 2021. The DoD has since put out new numbers showing more illnesses among the troops for the years prior to 2021.

Staver asked Long a question about the DMED data during the hearing, and she answered: “I have been ordered not to answer that question.”

Judge Merryday reportedly asked Long: “Ordered by who?,” and the doctor explained what happened the night before the hearing.

Staver then asked Long if the information the military ordered her to withhold was relevant and helpful for the court and the public to know. She said, “yes,” and Staver asked her why.

Long reportedly paused and choked back tears as she told the judge: “I have so many soldiers being destroyed by this vaccine. Not a single member of my senior command has discussed my concerns with me … I have nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking about it. I’m OK with that because I am watching people get absolutely destroyed.”

Dr. Long said she is inundated morning, noon and night regarding people who have been injured by taking the COVID shots. Those injured are “predominantly pilots, and pilots have to meet one of the highest fitness standards.”

She also said she is aware of at least two people who committed suicide under pressure to get the shots and threat of punishment for refusal.

Dr. Long also testified that based on the VAERS database, deaths of military members from the vaccines exceed deaths from COVID itself.

Soldiers are in despair over the pressure to get the vaccine and are experiencing suicidal ideation. Morale is tanking in the military, and current policies undermine “good order and discipline.”

Staver later told Horowitz that the DoD’s order for her not to discuss DMED amounted to witness tampering, especially since Long has whistleblower protections.

“They not only violated the Whistleblower Act, they potentially intimidated a witness and tried to change that witness’ testimony,” he said during the Conservative Review podcast on Monday.

The doctor said she is constantly contacted by people who have been injured by the genetic vaccines, and that many of those injured are pilots, who are expected to meet high fitness standards. Long told Staver that in just one afternoon she heard from four pilots who had just gotten MRIs back showing that they had myocarditis.

Morale is tanking in the military, she testified, with soldiers are in despair over the pressure to get the vaccine, and some are even having suicidal thoughts.

Long said she was aware of at least two people who have committed suicide over the pressure, and the threat of punishment for refusal.

She said the current regime’s policies are undermining “good order and discipline.”

In addition to Dr. Long, an unnamed Navy commander testified about his commander’s attempts to punish him for refusing the experimental injections.

On February 2, Judge Merryday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Navy from punishing the Commander because of his vaccination status. Judge Merryday ruled the Navy violated the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

When the court ordered the Commodore to comply with the law, he filed an affidavit saying he had “lost confidence” in the Commander because the Commander had not taken the COVID shots.

The judge then entered a preliminary injunction, and the DOD and the Navy filed a motion asking the court to set aside his injunction, arguing that due to their “lost confidence” in the commander, his ship could not deploy.

However, at the time the ship was allegedly unable to be deployed, the commander was actually far out to sea testing the ship and training the crew.

While many Commanders fail to complete these operations timely, the Commander completed the mission early and the ship deemed “safe and ready.”

In a dramatic moment, the Commander said he should not have to be there in court defending religious freedom. “Generals and admirals should be here saying what I am saying today to uphold religious freedom. Our religious freedoms are being attacked.”

Also testifying last week was Dr. Pete Chambers, a Purple Heart recipient who is in the Texas National Guard defending the southern border where 10,000-20,000 illegal immigrants are flooding through every week. “My job is to keep our soldiers safe,” Chambers said.

Chambers was hoping to retire from the military in 2023 after nearly 40 years of service, but his adverse reaction to the Moderna shot derailed his plans.

Trusting the military that the shots are “safe and effective,” and not knowing at the time that aborted fetal cells were used in the testing and/or development, he took the shot. He now suffers from demyelination, a condition affecting the central nervous system caused by the injection.

After his Moderna injury, Dr. Chambers met Lt. Col. Long. They reviewed the DOD’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), the military equivalent to the federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), where he discovered other military members also developed a demyelination disease after the COVID shots.

Chambers, a military flight surgeon and one of only six Green Beret surgeons, was told that his job was to get soldiers to vaccinated. His superiors told him that religious exemptions would be automatically denied.  “Soldiers will try. Soldiers will fail,” this commanders said.

He pointed out that shots are not effective in preventing infection, and estimated that about 75-80% of soldiers getting infected are “double vaxxed” compared to only about 15% of soldiers who are not vaccinated.

Like Long, Chambers also testified that many soldiers are being injured by the COVID shots, and that “this is not normal.”

Dr. Stewart Tankersley, a flight surgeon who retired in September 2021 at the rank of Colonel, testified that the injections are neither safe nor effective.

Tankersley said he has personally treated over 200 COVID patients with no fatalities, and the group of doctors with whom he is associated has treated over 18,000 COVID patients with deaths only in the single digits.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in the military or civilian world, the lack of dialogue, the suppression of scientific dialogue.” Tankersley said on the stand.

Dr. Tankersley explained one of several reasons there are so many injuries from the COVID shots. The mRNA vaccines require a Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) as a delivery mechanism because the RNA quickly degrades without being encased in the LNP. The combination bypasses the natural immune system and creates inflammation that can inhibit the body’s innate immunity.

Dr. Tankersley testified that the shots are neither safe nor effective. He also testified that there are safe and effective treatments for COVID, including nasal rinsing and ivermectin.

Liberty Counsel argued that the DOD’s position that the only one way to combat COVID and ensure military readiness is to force the injections and kick out the unvaccinated is “untenable,” and that the mandate is undermining military readiness and harming morale.

Staver said: “I am honored to serve the brave men and women of the military. I am dismayed by the abuse and propaganda forced upon them from the White House and the Department of Defense. The truth will prevail, and freedom will win.”

Dr. Pierre: If You're Vaccinated and Test Positive You Can Go To Work but If You're Unvaccinated and Negative You're Fired. Have The Clowns Have Taken Over? Useless COVID Shots are Not Vaccines.

Sick MF's [the Biden Administration] Push Genocidal COVID Injections for Kids in Tax Funded Ads Using Black Rolebots. Destroying Informed Consent, It Fails to state the Risk of Injury/Death from Shots

PICTURED ABOVE: BIDEN’S RAGGEDY BLACK ROLEBOTS. Yup, thats a jeri curl.

From [CHD] The Biden administration last week launched an advertising campaign urging parents to vaccinate their young children against COVID.

The campaign, funded by taxpayers through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, features emotional pleas from leaders of some of America’s largest professional healthcare associations.

The ads — a pair of 60-second spots titled “Oath” and “Trust” — were posted to social media March 18, and are scheduled to appear on TV screens beginning this week.

“You can trust us” is the underlying message of the campaign, which relies heavily on professional credibility and emotional appeal — rather than data — to make the case for childhood COVID vaccination.

The healthcare professionals offer heartfelt testimonials implying that because they trust the vaccines for their kids and grandkids, so should the viewer.

In one spot, the three doctors and one nurse state:

“COVID vaccines are safe and effective for kids … What’s not safe is getting COVID. So we want you to know we trust the COVID vaccine or ourselves, for our patients, for our kids. So should you.”

The ads also point out that some of the doctors are grandparents.

There is no mention in any of the ads of the potential risk of injuries or death associated with the vaccines.

Emotional claims versus factual data

One of the few factual claims used in the ads to support vaccination in pre-teens references raw case numbers:

“We know that millions of cases of COVID have been in kids … in kids … in kids,” says a chorus of three of the healthcare professionals.

While this statistical reference may technically be correct, it also may not give an accurate picture of the risks for children. That’s because the data on cases don’t differentiate between asymptomatic or mild cases and those that involved serious infection or hospitalization in children.

At the height of the Omicron surge, Professor Mark Woolhouse, an infectious disease expert at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland, told The Guardian:

“This is a very discriminatory virus. Some people are much more at risk from it than others. People over 75 are an astonishing 10,000 times more at risk than those who are under 15.”

Research shows many cases of COVID in pre-teen groups are asymptomatic and the vast majority of children experience nothing more than mild symptoms.

Perhaps because of this, many parents have chosen not to vaccinate their young children. More than four months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first recommendedthe vaccine for children as young as 5, just upwards of a quarter of kids 5 to 11 have received both shots. Close to two-thirds of children 12 to 17 years old are “fully vaccinated.”

The latest data from CDC surveys show 33% of parents of children aged 5 to 11 said they would “probably [not] or definitely will not” vaccinate their children against COVID. Another 26% said they would probably get their children vaccinated or were still unsure.

Benefits don’t outweigh risks, data show

According to COVID-NET data, as of the end of 2021, the weekly rate of COVID-associated hospitalization in the 5 to 11 age group ranged from zero to a peak of 1.1 per 100,000.

However, as The Defender reported Monday, the CDC on March 14 removed from its data tracker website tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of the deaths it had attributed to children.

In a statement to Reuters, the CDC said it made adjustments to the mortality data because its algorithm was “accidentally counting deaths that were not COVID-19-related.”

“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error,” the CDC’s website states. “This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories.”

At the time of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) December 2021 risk-benefit assessment, used to recommend the vaccine for children 5 to 11, the overall weekly average COVID-associated hospitalization rate for this age group was approximately 0.4 per 100,000 children.

Before the CDC made its adjustments to COVID mortality rates, the total number of COVID hospitalizations for children under 18 in 2021 was 2,100. The total number of COVID-related hospitalizations for children under 5 was 920.

By comparison, the CDC reports that on average 58,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized each year with respiratory syncytial virus.

The CDC also published a study on March 11 in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report estimating that two shots of the Pfizer vaccine were only 31% effective against Omicron variant infections in children ages 5 to 11 in an analysis of data from July 2021 to February 2022.

This followed a study released February 28 that found the Pfizer vaccine was only 12% effectiveagainst Omicron in children 5 to 11 and adolescents 12 to 17 in an analysis of data from Dec. 13, 2021, to Jan. 30, 2022.

Despite the low numbers, there remains a strong push for the FDA to authorize COVID vaccines for the last remaining age group: infants and preschoolers.

Originally, Pfizer had expected to submit its authorization request for this group to the FDA as early as last month, but then delayed it until next month due to initial results showing no clear benefit for this group.

The lack of evidence proving the vaccines are of more benefit than risk was underscored by Pfizer’s latest trial for children 5 to 11, in which both the vaccinated and the placebo groups showed no incidents of hospitalization or death.

Last week, Florida followed Norway in recommending against COVID vaccines for young children.

Federal Court Stops Barbaric Liberals in DC From "Vaccinating" Children Without Parental Consent in Its Mostly Black Public Fool System

From [HERE] A federal judge is temporarily blocking D.C. from enforcing a law that allows children to be vaccinated without parental consent.

Judge Trevor N. McFadden, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said on Friday that it violates parents’ religious liberty.

The D.C. Council passed the Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act in 2020, which says that a child as young as 11 can get a vaccine without their parents’ knowledge, if a provider decides they are capable of consent.

Two lawsuits were brought in 2021 by D.C.-area parents.

Uncivilized South Carolina GOP Authorities Approve the Use of a Firing Squad to Murder Inmates [SC Death Row is 51% Black]. Inmates Will Be Restrained w/a Hood Over Their Head During Scheduled Murders

From [HERE] and [HERE] Executions by a state-approved firing squad are now able to be carried out in South Carolina, the state's Department of Corrections announced Friday(link is external) (article available here(link is external)).

The S.C. Department of Corrections informed the state’s Attorney General Alan Wilson Friday that it is now able to execute people on death row using a three-person firing squad using live ammunition if an inmate chooses that method. The state spent $53,600 in renovations to the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution. Among the renovations was installing bullet-resistant glass and a firing squad chair with restraints for the person to be killed.

The legislature passed a law in 2021 that makes the electric chair South Carolina’s primary method of execution, but gives inmates the option to choose death by firing squad or lethal injection if available. Lethal injection has been unavailable for years in South Carolina.

To carry out the execution, the agency said the firing squad will stand behind a wall and use rifles. But the department did not specify what type of rifle or what kind of ammunition. All firing squad members will be volunteers. The rifles will not be visible to the witness room, and, unlike the electric chair, the witnesses will only be able to see the right side of the inmate’s profile.

The inmate, wearing a prison-issued uniform, will be strapped into the execution chair and a hood will be placed over their head.

A “small aim point will be placed over his heart by a member of the execution team,” at which point the warden will read the execution order and the team will fire, the department said.

South Carolina has 35 people now on death row. The last execution was carried out in 2011. The state has been unable to carry out executions because it lacks the drugs necessary for the lethal injection method.

South Carolina is now one of four states that offer the firing squad as an execution option. The other states are Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah. Since 1976, three people were executed by firing squad.

[No Need to Honor Campaign Promises When You Have Token Ketanji] As Data Shows Police Killings of Black People Have Increased, Racist Suspect Biden Calls for More Funding to Law-Enforcement

Borkena states: State of the Union address by Joe Biden mocks and dismisses the demands of antiracist movements across the United States

A website which monitors the number of people dying at the hands of law-enforcement officers reveals that the problem is worsening. The mass demonstrations and rebellions which have arisen over the previous two years are in direct response to the hostility and aggressiveness of police agencies in the U.S. Among the masses of African American working class people, and their counterparts within other oppressed and marginalized population groups, there is no indication that attitudes towards the police have improved. 

When the issues of security are discussed outside the ruling interests of the U.S. and its allies, there is a disconnect between proponents of increased support for the criminal justice system and those who are the victims of police brutality. Even the increase in domestic violence and street crime cannot be attributed to the lack of funding for law-enforcement. The overall social crisis in the U.S. due to economic distress aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020, is never considered by the corporate media as a major triggering factor in interpersonal conflict.

Statistic.com says of the present situation: “Sadly, the trend of fatal police shootings in the United States seems to only be increasing, with a total 138 civilians having been shot, nine of whom were Black, as of March 2022. In 2021, there were 1,055 fatal police shootings, and in 2020 there were 1,021 fatal shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 38 fatal shootings per million of the population as of March 2022.” (https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/)

Under Liberal Mayor Deblasio Rikers became a Hell Hole and It Remains that way Under Strawboss Adams. Report says Inmates (89% Non-White) are Held Pre-Trial in Unconstitutionally Unsafe Conditions

The demographics of the inmate population of the Jail Complexes on Rikers Island are 56% Black, 33% Latinx/Hispanic, 7.5% White, and 3.5% Mixed Race/Other6 with roughly 85% of the population in pre-trial confinement. Economically disadvantaged individuals who are unable to pay bail are more likely to be remanded on Rikers Island. According to a 2008 report on the educational expansion on Rikers Island roughly 80% of inmates do not hold a GED, and nearly one third of all 18 to 21 year old inmates do not read past a 5th grade level

From [HERE] Steve Martin, the federal monitor appointed in 2015 to help remedy excessive force and escalating violence on Rikers Island, has been involved in corrections for more than 40 years. He’s served as everything from a probation officer, to prosecutor, to corrections executive, to consultant and attorney, and been an expert witness in dozens of cases.

Suffice it to say, he has looked at corrections from every angle, all over the country, for far longer than many of those held on Rikers have been alive. That makes it all the more alarming to read the frustration, anger and patent disbelief in his reports to the federal court overseeing the class action lawsuit, the latest of which came last week.

Chiding what he calls an “entrenched culture of dysfunction,” Martin lays out the same deficiencies that have plagued Rikers for years now, including poor staff supervision and chronically high absenteeism, ineffective security practices and a lack of consequences for misconduct — as well as their gruesome results: detainees effectively running large parts of the facility and inflicting sadistic violence on others with no consequence.

This all despite what the monitor describes as “the bloated size of [the Department of Correction’s] workforce and its extraordinary budget,” with spending per incarcerated individual at least three times higher than in Los Angeles or Chicago. Despite this high headcount, officers often don’t show up to work, partly as a result of a contract granting effectively unlimited sick leave for officers.

The most important part of the new report comes near the end, in the form of a series of specific recommendations. These include the periodic reevaluation of staff on sick leave; the appointment of a security operations manager to develop and implement a security plan; a management system for violent offenders; and better communication between the monitor and DOC staff. Deadlines are set for each.

Under the last mayor, Rikers became a hell hole. It remains one today. If a new mayor and commissioner can’t swiftly dig out, the feds must take the keys.

The introduction of the report states:

The Monitoring Team is issuing this Special Report to advise the Court and the Parties of the continued imminent risk of harm to incarcerated individuals and staff in the New York City jails. The first few months of 2022 have revealed the jails remain unstable and unsafe for both inmates and staff. The volatility and instability in the jails is due, in no small part, to unacceptable levels of fear of harm by detainees and staff alike. Despite initial hopes that the Second Remedial Order (dkt. 398), entered in September 2021, would help the Department gain traction toward initiating reform on the most immediate issues, the Department’s attempts to implement the required remedial steps have faltered and, in some instances, regressed. These failures suggest an even more discouraging picture about the prospect for material improvements to the jails’ conditions. Furthermore, the Department’s staffing crisis continues and the New York City Mayor’s Emergency Executive Order, first issued on September 15, 2021, and still in effect (through multiple extensions) as of the filing of this report, acknowledges that, among other things, “excessive staff absenteeism among correction officers and supervising officers has contributed to a rise in unrest and disorder.”1 The Monitoring Team’s staffing analysis, discussed in detail below, reveals that the Department’s staff management and deployment practices are so dysfunctional that if left unaddressed, sustainable and material advancement of systemic reform will remain elusive, if not impossible, to attain.

The goal of the Consent Judgment and corresponding Remedial Orders is to ensure that the City and Department operate safe jails that meet Constitutional standards. It is the responsibility of the City and the Department to develop and implement the reforms accomplished by the City and Department alone and will require the addition of some outside expertise. The gravity of the current situation demands a comprehensive and tangible shift in the City’s and Department’s focus and priorities, and a corresponding shift in the work of the Monitoring Team in order to catalyze the necessary reforms as soon as possible. The Monitoring Team has concluded that simply proceeding with monitoring-as-usual (i.e., bi-annual reporting on the panoply of requirements, providing recommendations and the requisite technical assistance) would only further protract the reform process and lead to the extension of oversight, rather than hastening its end. Instead, more contemporaneous in-depth reporting on a more limited set of issues, a change in focus with concrete steps and timelines, and appropriate enforcement mechanisms and external resources are necessary if the agency is ever to be reformed. In order to support the Court’s and Parties’ efforts to devise the appropriate remedial scheme, this report provides a summary of the entrenched dysfunctional culture, a description of the persistently unsafe conditions caused by deficient security and staffing practices, initial findings of the Monitoring Team’s staffing analysis, an update on the Department’s efforts to implement the Second and Third Remedial Orders, and finally, recommendations for next steps. [MORE]

Legal Aid Society Lawsuit Claims the NYPD is Taking People's DNA Without Their Consent and Unlawfully Storing It in a Database in Violation of so-called Constitutional Rights

From [HERE] Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over her friend’s car for a traffic infraction. After she got out of the back seat, the police searched her and found nothing illegal.

But when a gun was found in another passenger’s bag, everyone in the car was arrested, charged with weapon possession and taken to a precinct. There, Ms. Leslie waited for more than 12 hours without getting anything to eat or drink, she said — until officers brought her into an interrogation room and gave her a cup of water.

Eventually, she was released, and the charge against her was dropped.

But weeks later, Ms. Leslie learned new details about the night of her arrest that rattled her: The police had taken the cup and collected her DNA from it without asking. Officials later tested it and used it to determine that she had not handled the gun. “I was shocked, upset. I just felt violated,” said Ms. Leslie, 26, a hair stylist. “I completely lost trust for N.Y.P.D.”

Her DNA was entered into a city database that contains tens of thousands of profiles, and her lawyers say it remained there, even though that night three years ago is the only time she has ever been arrested.

Ms. Leslie is a plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit filed late Monday by the Legal Aid Society, which accuses the city of operating an illegal and unregulated DNA database in violation of state law and constitutional protections against unreasonable searches.

The suit calls for DNA profiles that lawyers argue were gathered unlawfully to be expunged and for the database to be shut down entirely.

“Thousands of New Yorkers, most of whom are Black and brown, and many of whom have never been convicted of any crime, are illegally in the city’s rogue DNA database,” Phil Desgranges, a lawyer in the Special Litigation Unit at Legal Aid, said in a statement.

“We simply cannot trust the N.Y.P.D. to police itself, and we look forward to judicial review of these destructive practices to bring our clients the justice they deserve,” he said.

Sgt. Edward Riley, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said in a statement that officials would review the suit, adding that they believe the use of DNA helps bring justice.

“The driving motivation for the NYPD to collect DNA is to legally identify the correct perpetrator, build the strongest case possible for investigators and our partners in the various prosecutors’ offices and bring closure to victims and their families,” he said.

The city medical examiner’s office, which maintains the database, said that it complies with applicable laws and is operated “with the highest scientific standards,” set by independent accrediting bodies.

The dispute underscores tensions that have erupted in cities across the country over efforts to increase the use of technology and surveillance tactics in policing and comes amid a highly charged local debate over elevated gun violence. In New York, Mayor Eric Adams has called for expanding the use of facial recognition and software to identify gun carriers, which he argues could aid in crime fighting.

But civil liberties advocates and privacy groups have contended that the advancements come at the expense of communities of color, infringe on the rights of people who have not been convicted of crimes and place them at risk of wrongful conviction if errors are made.

“You can change your Social Security number if you’re a victim of identity theft. You can’t change your DNA,” said Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. “You’re creating this constant threat not for months, not for years, but the rest of your life, that you can be targeted by this information.”

The genetic database has come under fire in recent years for the tactics the police use to collect DNA samples, often without a person’s consent, lawyers say. The department’s Detective Guide instructs detectives to offer a water bottle, soda, cigarette, gum or food to someone being questioned in connection with a crime whose DNA is sought — and to collect the item once they leave.

Those practices have invited scrutiny in high-profile cases, like when detectives offered a McDonald’s soda to a 12-year-old boywho was facing a felony charge in 2018, took the straw and tested it for DNA. The boy’s profile did not match crime-scene evidence but remained in the system for over a year.

New York State law requires a conviction or a court order before someone’s DNA can be stored in the state-run databank. But the city’s database, which contains more than 31,800 profiles and is known as the Local DNA Index System, includes DNA from people like Ms. Leslie, who have been arrested or questioned but not convicted.

The specific demographics of those in the database are unclear, but they most likely reflect arrest patterns in the city, where about 75 percent of people arrested over the past decade were Black or Latino.

The suit in New York mirrors one filed last year in Orange County, Calif., in which lawyers argued that a database of DNA samplesmaintained by the district attorney’s office ran afoul of state law and violated residents’ right to due process. (That county’s database, which contains 200,000 DNA profiles, is significantly larger than New York City’s, even though its population is much smaller.)

While state and federal DNA databases are subject to legislative oversight, New York City’s lacks independent supervision, which civil liberties groups argue often leads to a failure to address questions over legality, privacy, effectiveness and data security.

Facing criticism, the Police Department overhauled rules for the database in 2020. It conducted an initial audit and flagged for removal samples that were more than two years old and had not been linked to an ongoing investigation. Officials pledged to routinely repeat the process for new profiles, and about 4,000 have been removed since then.

State legislators have also weighed a bill that would ban New York City and other local governments from operating their own DNA databases.

Howard Baum, a former assistant director at the city medical examiner’s office who helped build the system, has said it has grown far beyond its intended purpose, size and scope.

“There’s this perception that the bigger the database, the better for public safety — and that hasn’t been borne out,” said Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at Duke University who has extensively studied the use of DNA evidence. “The more innocent people’s stuff you have in these databases, the more its crime-fighting ability is harmed.”

The White Supremacy Mystery Around Peter Spencer’s "Hunting Trip" Death is Now Solved: White DA Says the White Men who Shot Him to Death Said It was Self-Defense, So Case Closed

From [HERE] Authorities will not bring any charges against the man accused of fatally shooting Jamaican immigrant Peter Spencer nine times on a camping trip in western Pennsylvania last December.

"We believe in this case that there is enough evidence presented for self-defense that we are not going to be able to overcome our burden and show this was not self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and for that reason, there will be no charges filed against the suspect in this case," District Attorney Shawn White told reporters Tuesday.

"This is my call," he added. "I believe it's the right one."

Spencer who is Black, went on a camping trip with a co-worker, who is white, in Rockland Township, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 11, 2021. A few hours after going on the trip, in the early hours of Dec. 12, Pennsylvania State Police were called to the scene and Spencer was found on the front lawn of the rural cabin with nine bullet wounds in his body, including six in his chest.

White said Spencer was using hallucinogenic mushrooms and started "acting crazy" as he fired multiple rounds from an AK-47 he had brought with him. White said Spencer was "not ambushed" and that he began firing the gun and ordered other campers to stay at gunpoint. Spencer's co-worker then shot him.

Police said they found multiple firearms, "ballistic evidence" and controlled substances at the cabin.

The case was brought to the Heritage Affairs Team, which investigates hate crimes, but Corp. Aaron Allen, the liaison for the office, said he also will not be bringing charges.

"We also have been making sure that there isn't any hate and/or bias detected throughout this investigation, and I can tell you right now that there's not been any sort of hate and/or bias detected," Allen said.

The Spencer family said it is not giving up despite the announcement charges will not be filed.

"We are not surprised by it, this is the type of behavior we have seen from the PA State Police and Venango County District Attorney from the outset," Paul Jubas, the attorney for Peter Spencer's family, said in a statement.

While state charges will not be filed, it is possible that there could be federal hate crime charges brought. Cindy Chung, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, will make that decision.

"If you want to know from a federal standpoint whether there's any hate crime, I'm not competent to testify to that or give you an answer," White said. "That's her jurisdiction, she's aware of the facts. Give her office a call."

Spencer's family said it will host a press conference next week with independent forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht to discuss their next steps.