Remdesivir = Run Death is Near: FDA Rubber-Stamps Remdesivir for Infants w/o Evidence of Safety. Experimental Drug Used To Treat COVID in Hospitals Causes Liver/Heart/Kidney Failure and Kills Adults

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From [CHD] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the use of the antiviral therapy, remdesivir, to treat COVID-19 in infants four weeks and older.

Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a press release:

“As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option, there continues to be a need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatment options for this population.

“Today’s approval of the first COVID-19 therapeutic for this population demonstrates the agency’s commitment to that need.”

According to the press release, the FDA’s decision to approve the therapy, marketed under the name Veklury, is supported by a clinical study conducted on infants 4 weeks and older weighing a minimum of 6.6 pounds.

The study is underway and will not be completed until February 2023. There are no published results.

However, Gilead Sciences, maker of remdesivir and sponsor of the study, provided the following details in a company press release:

  • A total of 53 hospitalized pediatric patients were enrolled in the clinical study.

  • 72% suffered adverse events.

  • 21% suffered serious adverse events determined to be unrelated to the drug.

  • Three children died from either underlying conditions or COVID-19.

Nevertheless, Gilead Science assured that “no new safety signals were apparent for patients treated with Veklury.”

The study was of single-arm, open-label design.

A single-arm study has no control group, making it impossible to compare its effectiveness against standard of care.

Open-label means participants and investigators were aware they were receiving the drug, making it impossible to separate placebo from drug effect.

Studies show little or no benefit

Beyond the absence of any publicly available data on the efficacy and safety of this drug in humans of this age, available studies on older subjects indicate remdesivir offers no more than a meager benefit to those who survive its use.

In fact, this is why the World Health Organization (WHO) in November 2020 recommended against the use of remdesivir to treat COVID-19. The WHO only recently (April 22, 2022) updated its recommendation to support the drug’s use in patients who are at high risk for hospitalization.

Nevertheless, the FDA explains its long-standing support of remdesivir use in adults here, citing six studies that had the greatest impact on the agency’s position.

Here is a summary of the findings of each study from the FDA’s webpage:

  1. ACTT-1 Trial: Time to clinical recovery was shortened from 15 days to 10 through the use of remdesivir. There was no difference in mortality. The drug was no better than placebo when administered to patients who required high-flow oxygen, non-invasive respiratory support, mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at baseline. A benefit was seen only in patients who required low levels of supplemental oxygen.

  2. Discovery Trial: There was no clinical benefit of remdesivir in hospitalized patients who were symptomatic for >7 days and who required supplemental oxygen. There was no difference in mortality between remdesivir and standard of care. Investigators judged three of 429 participants who received remdesivir died from the drug.

  3. WHO Solidarity Trial: Remdesivir did not decrease in-hospital mortality or the need for mechanical ventilation compared to standard of care. Four hundred and forty patients in this study were also enrolled in the Discovery trial above.

  4. Journal of the American Medical Association (moderate disease): After 10 days of treatment with remdesivir, clinical status was not significantly different from standard of care.

  5. New England Journal of Medicine (severe disease): No difference between five and 10 days of remdesivir treatment. No placebo group, thus “the magnitude of benefit cannot be determined.”

  6. PINETREE study: Three consecutive days of IV remdesivir resulted in an 87% relative reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death when compared to placebo.

As demonstrated, the first five studies used to justify the FDA’s approval of remdesivir showed little, if any, benefit to hospitalized patients with moderate or severe disease.

This is in contrast to the sufficiently proven benefit of off-label use of the previously licensed medications hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

Only the PINETREE study investigated the benefit of remdesivir for outpatient use. In that study, the drug provided a substantial benefit in preventing hospitalization when given in three separate doses over three days.

However, only eight individuals under the age of 18 were enrolled in the study, and none were younger than 12.

The primary endpoint, a composite of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death from any cause, did not occur in the under-18 group.

In other words, the study — funded by Gilead Sciences — showed the drug offered no benefit in this cohort.

Nevertheless, in reporting on the FDA’s approval of remdesivir for infants and young children, CNN found someone to support the FDA’s decision.

CNN wrote:

“The FDA’s approval of remdesivir for young children is ‘great,’ said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an instructor in clinical medicine and associate research scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University.”

Safety ‘not established’ in pediatric patients

Not only is there scant evidence that remdesivir is an effective treatment for COVID-19, the drug’s safety is debatable.

With regard to its use in infants, even the FDA must acknowledge nobody knows how safe it is.

After all, the manufacturer’s label states:

“The safety and effectiveness of VEKLURY (remdesivir) have not been established in pediatric patients younger than 12 years of age or weighing less than 40 kg.”

With regard to pharmacokinetics (where the drug distributes in the body) the label states:

“The pharmacokinetics of VEKLURY in pediatric patients have not been evaluated.”

An indictment of the drug regulatory process

Let’s reflect on what the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research saidregarding the approval of remdesivir for treating COVID-19 in infants 4 weeks and older :

“As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option, there continues to be a need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatment options for this population. Today’s approval of the first COVID-19 therapeutic for this population demonstrates the agency’s commitment to that need.”

To summarize:

  • Some children do not have a vaccination option.

  • They need a safe and effective treatment.

  • The FDA meets that need by approving a drug with no safety and efficacy record in children.

Safety and efficacy apparently can be conveniently established by fiat, not evidence.

In the end, the FDA’s approval of remdesivir is not an assurance of the drug’s safety and efficacy but an indication the agency is no longer interested in protecting the public from potentially harmful and ineffective therapies — or, in other words, in doing its job.

There will undoubtedly be doctors like Griffin who welcome this approval.

However, I don’t believe every pediatrician will accept the FDA’s guidance so readily.

It’s not easy to place an intravenous line to administer remdesivir in the tiny vein of an irritable baby coming from home with a positive rapid test. And then do it again the next day. And the day after that.

At some point, clinicians’ sensibilities will be challenged enough to compel them to actually examine how the FDA arrived at its conclusions.

Guidelines are meaningless if doctors choose not to abide by them.

Following the Science or the Bullshit? Numerous Studies Worldwide Demonstrate Children have Zero Risk of Death from COVID and the Risks from Experimental, Deadly COVID Shots Outweigh Any Benefit

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C​​hildren have virtually zero risk of serious complications from COVID. From [HERE] A large study conducted in Germany posted on medRxiv showed zero deaths for children ages 5-11 and a case fatality rate of three per million in all children without comorbidities.

A Johns Hopkins study monitoring 48,000 children diagnosed with COVID showed a zero mortality rate in children under 18 without comorbidities.

A study in Nature Medicine demonstrated that children under 18 with no comorbidities had virtually no risk of death.

Data from England and Wales, published by the UK Office of National Statistics on January 17, 2022, revealed that throughout 2020 and 2021, only one child under the age of five, without comorbidities, had died from COVID in the two countries, whose total population is 60 million.

According to The Lancet, the infection fatality rate (IFR) from coronavirus in all children age seven and younger is 0.0023%. Nearly all fatalities in this age group had one or more underlying health conditions. With the emergence of the Omicron variant, the IFR is even lower.

The medical literature also shows that healthy children are more easily able to heal from this virus than adults and therefore do not need this vaccine.

A study in Nature Communications from April suggests children’s bodies clear the virus more easily than adults.

A study in Nature Immunology, published in December, demonstrated how children efficiently mount effective, robust and sustained immune responses.

In addition, most children already have had COVID and have fully recovered. Recent studies show waning effectiveness of the COVID vaccine in children 5–11 years old after the first few weeks.

It’s time to follow the science. The risks demonstrably outweigh the benefits of COVID vaccination in young children.

While the CDC says that myocarditis is a mild disease, cardiologists know otherwise. CDC’s own preliminary data, reported at the February 4, 2022 ACIP meeting, revealed that nearly half of the young people diagnosed with myocarditis still had symptoms three months later, and 39% had their activity restricted by their physician. We know this serious adverse event frequently occurs in teenagers. But no one knows how often it occurs in younger children. This is of major concern for babies and younger children.

A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseasesout of Hong Kong showed 1 out of every 2,700 12- to 17-year-old boys were diagnosed with myocarditis following the 2nd dose of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, or 37 per 100,000 vaccinated.

A study from Kaiser posted on medRxiv found the same rate of myocarditis in 12- to 17-year-old American boys, 1 in 2,700.

VAERS Data

VAERS COVID-19 vaccine data from Dec. 14, 2020, to March 25, 2022 shows:

The science was never on their side.

Pfizer’s application for EUA of two doses of its vaccine failed in clinical trials as it did not produce antibodies in children 2 to 5 years old. They were forced to withdraw the application in February 2022 and will now apply to the FDA for a three-dose series once more data is available in early April. Take part in our “Protect the Children: Don’t Break our Hearts” campaign to stop the FDA’s approval.

Pfizer was ordered by a U.S. District Judge to release the data submitted to FDA from its clinical trials in support of a COVID-19 vaccine license. Prior to the ruling, the FDA planned to suppress the data for the next 75 years which the agency claimed was necessary, in part, because of its “limited resources.”

This denied the American people access to the information that would have allowed them to make a decision based on informed consent. Pfizer released a 38-page report including an Appendix: “LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST,” that lists 1,291 different adverse events.

This is one of the most dangerous vaccines in the history of the U.S. vaccination program and we at Children’s Health Defense have called upon the FDA to remove it from the marketplace. Also, we ask that Congress overturn the Emergency Powers Act that allows Federal officials to take away the rights of citizens, repeal the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act and the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program that provides immunity to vaccine manufacturers.

Report Shows "The State of Black America" Hasn't Progressed Since 1965. But Urban League Urges Powerless Blacks to Keep Voting for Better [Masters] Dems to Solve Disparities Caused by White Supremacy

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POWERLESS CLASS. Voting heavily for Black and friendly White politicians has not helped Black people solve their problem of neutralizing white supremacy and the system of authority.

Amos Wilson states, ‘The VESTED INTERESTS ARE ever quick to remind the Black electorate of the historical struggles necessary to achieve their right to vote. It indicts the community for its electoral apathy and seeks to evoke guilt feelings in those who do not participate in the electoral process — making such ritualistic participation emblematic of democracy and first-class citizenship. This is of special interest when it is realized that very few, if any, of the major political, economic and social goals achieved by Black America, including the Voting Rights Act, were accomplished through Black voting prowess. The ballot box has been a relatively impotent weapon in the achievement of major victories by the Black community. Suddenly vigorous protest and direct-action legal suits and extralegal processes such as boycotts, sit-ins, and the like, which were used so effectively by the community to achieve its sociopolitical ends and to fight injustice and oppression, have fallen far behind the election of Black politicians to achieve the same ends. [MORE]

From [FINAL CALL] The National Urban League’s recent finding that the current State of Black America is grim is unsurprising.

And in 2022, since ratification of America’s Constitution in 1788, the League’s Equality Index finds that Blacks are about three-fifths along the way to experiencing equal status with White Americans.

The Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the United States. Beyond the statistical gaps and lack of opportunity, a 2022 State of Black America opinion poll revealed the constant mental anguish and insecurity Blacks endure. Blacks were far more likely than Whites to worry “about being paid less, passed over, having to work harder for the same amount, and even being discriminated against,” the poll found.

Blacks were more worried about basic survival, putting food on the table, getting enough working hours, losing a job, being unable to pay the mortgage, and spending savings to make ends meet.

When it comes to the numbers, the median Black household income was $43,862 versus $63,823 for Whites. Blacks still trail Whites in homeownership, the traditional path to wealth building in the country, and their homes were valued less than Whites.

Urban League president Marc Morial noted that there has been almost zero change in Black wealth since the heyday of civil rights. Black-White wealth disparity has increased, he admitted.

unquestioned beliefs own black PEOPLE. Many sheEple belive they live in a democracy and that a democracy is a good thing b/c that’s what they are programmed to believe.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY

democracy - a commercial form of "government" (exploitation and theft via force, deception and involuntary participation) of the mob, by the mob, and/or the mob, i.e., Mob-Rule. 2) a guise rubber stamping of an alternative royalty into overruling power. 3) the worst possible form of government because the majority rules whether they be good, evil, or misled by a minority. 4) slavery of the people, by the people, for the people. 5) equality achieved through force. 6) a system where only the majority need to befooled. 7) advertised equality. 8) a parody of a free society that only ethical anarchism or voluntaryism can usher into existence. "Democracy has always been seen (and is still seen today) as equality of rights (granted privileges), not conditions. To the hypothetical equality of rights there has always corresponded a substantial inequality of conditions. And instead of being related to the nature of their individuality, differences between people have always been those marked by the different basic conditions they live in as they struggle against the suffocating artificial divisions imposed on them by power." —Alfred M. Bonanno. Democracy is a euphonious term created mainly to serve as sheepskin for Leviathan, Doggy and the Crimethlnc. All-Stars. 9) Dictatorship camouflaged as freedom 10) a whitewashed plutocracy with a pastel eggshell finish. Democracy, next to "monetized debt," and direct taxation (on labor) is the biggest con-game perpetrated on a population. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain and sustain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that lie, they make wonderfully submissive and self-maintained slaves.[MORE]

The death rate of Black men from prostate cancer has nearly tripled, according to the report. Black women were nearly 60 percent more likely to die in childbirth and 31 percent more likely to die from breast cancer. On average Blacks could expect to live four years less than Whites, added the report, which was released April 12.

According to federal statistics, in police interactions Blacks were more likely to suffer use of force and threats than Whites and, if arrested, Blacks were three times more likely to go to jail.

That’s not all: While in 2020 Black voters were praised for stopping the “assault on democracy” by defeating the reelection bid of Donald Trump, there has been an all-out assault on Black voting rights. Trumpsters and Trump-lite political leaders and activists are working at the local and state level to curb voting rights: Some propose private police forces to investigate voting in urban areas. Others want to erect more barriers to voting. And in states like Florida, congressional districts are being redrawn to eliminate, limit or dilute Black voting areas.

Mr. Morial described the effort as political operatives, state and federal lawmakers and even violent extremists working to “dismantle” American democracy. He called for a “national mobilization to protect and defend our most sacred constitutional right.” “The anti-democracy wave that began to rise after record-high Black voting rates in 2008 and crested with the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder to gut the Voting Rights Act has now broken against ‘The Big Lie,’ the relentless campaign to invalidate the 2020 election,” Mr. Morial noted in an essay, “Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy.”

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, misinformation, and intimidation are the tools being used to exclude Black voters and mainly benefit the Republican Party. “Politicians have used these tactics for generations, to exclude voters of color and to give their parties an edge,” Mr. Morial said. “But never before has the nation seen such an insidious and coordinated campaign to obliterate the very principle of ‘one person, one vote’ from the political process.”

These harrowing statistics, the anxiety and woe should lead us to decide to act differently than we have been acting. Despite warnings from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan against a blind faith in this world’s politics, the benevolence of White people, or moral appeals to White conscience, we have somehow believed that American society can change and fully embrace and include millions of the descendants of her once slaves.

She cannot.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us that America could not provide jobs for the millions of her own unemployed let alone provide good jobs for a people she despises and hates. He warned against believing in the false promises of an age-old enemy and believing in a fairy tale like transformation of an evil doer into an angel. His warnings have been true, and the country continues to go backward in race relations while a seething cauldron of race hatred against Black children, women and men erupts daily.

White people fear for their future and are fed up with acting in ways that show respect for Black and non-White people. They have simply had enough, which accounts for their love of past president Trump and those of his ilk. Anti-Blackness is only going to increase as will race-based clashes, humiliation, disrespect and murder. Wishing for better times and appealing to the moral conscience of an immoral nation is a foolish thing.

Our salvation lies in harnessing our economic, cultural, political and spiritual unity to the plow of self-determination, self-independence and self-sacrifice. With a spending power of trillions of dollars, brilliant Black men and women across every discipline and much of the world seeking alternatives to U.S. domination, our internal unity and external relations can yield great progress. 

And with that progress can come the proper harnessing of politics, economics and an independent vision that can improve our condition. This is the day of America’s downfall, and every indicator is bearing witness to the time. The time demands that we abandon all hope in the children of our former slavemasters and strike out on our own. We have nothing to lose but our chains and God Himself is with us.

Harvard University Releases a Report Describing How It Unjustly Enriched Itself from Slavery by Owning Black Slaves and Teaching Eugenics

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From [HERE] Harvard University has released a report detailing the school's involvement in the U.S. slave trade, including faculty and staff owning slaves and professors teaching racial eugenics. 

The full report contains “a list of human beings enslaved by prominent Harvard affiliates” [HERE]

In 2019, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow formed a committee that included representatives from all the schools on campus, and asked them to uncover Harvard's ties to slavery. 

The committee's work should "have a strong grounding in rigorous research and critical perspectives that will inform not only our understanding of facts, but also how we might address the ramifications of what we learn," he said at the time.

The committee found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783. 

Some of those who were enslaved lived on campus and were responsible for providing care for Harvard's presidents, professors and students.

Additionally, the report discovered many of the university's donors profited directly from the slave trade in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. 

Some used labor from enslaved people in the Caribbean and the American South. Others obtained their wealth from selling goods to plantations. Donors in the textile industry sourced cotton that was grown by enslaved persons. 

"During the first half of the 19th century, more than a third of the money donated or promised to Harvard by private individuals came from just five men who made their fortunes from slavery and slave-produced commodities," the report said.

The university also heavily supported the study of eugenics, the concept of encouraging selective breeding for the purpose of purifying the human race. 

Dudley Allen Sargent, director of Harvard's Hemenway Gymnasium from 1879 to 1919, "implemented a 'physical education' program that involved intrusive physical examinations, anthropometric measurements, and the photographing of unclothed Harvard and Radcliffe students," according to the study.

Harvard outlined several next steps it said it would take in an attempt to atone for its involvement in the slave trade, including monetary reparations for Black and Indigenous students who are descendants of enslaved persons in the U.S.

"The profound harm caused by the university's entanglements with slavery and its legacies cannot be valued in monetary terms alone," the study said. "Nevertheless, financial expenditures are a necessary predicate to and foundation for redress." 

The Legacy of Slavery Fund will be kept in an endowment "strategically invested to support implementation of these recommendations," the report said. 

The Ivy League school also plans to further partner with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through initiatives, such as appointing visiting HBCU professors to Harvard for one year and subsidizing summer, semester or yearlong studies at Harvard for HBCU students. 

The school said it is working to identify Black and Indigenous students who are direct descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. 

"We further recommend that, in recognition of this lineage, the university engage with these descendants through dialogue, programming, information sharing, relationship building, and educational support," it said. 

The recommendations will be evaluated through annual reports, Harvard said.

Disregarding the Jury, an Obama Appointed White Judge Reduces Black Man's $137 Million Race Harassment Verdict Against Tesla to $15 Million

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From [HERE] A federal court judge pared down last year’s jaw-dropping $137 million damages award against Tesla in a racial bias lawsuit.  As covered previously here, a San Francisco federal court jury awarded $6.9 million in emotional distress damages and $130 million in punitive damages to a Black former elevator operator who worked at Tesla’s Fremont facility for approximately one year before quitting his employment in 2016.  On April 13, 2022, the judge granted Tesla’s motion for a reduction in the amount of damages in part and denied Tesla’s motion for judgment as a matter of law that it is not liable.  The judge explained in his order: “Great deference is owed to the jury’s verdict, but after careful review of the record, I conclude that the award of compensatory damages was excessive.”

Specifically, the judge reduced the emotional distress damages to $1.5 million, the highest award supported by the evidence, as compared to the $300,000 for which Tesla advocated.  With an eye toward United States Supreme Court precedent imposing constitutional limitations on punitive damages awards, the judge reduced the punitive damages to $13.5 million—nine times the amount of compensatory damages—as opposed to the one-to-one ratio Tesla proposed.  While the judge described the jury’s award as “unconstitutionally large,” he rejected the argument that no punitive damages are warranted.  The court granted the highest possible ratio of punitive damages (9:1) under the United States Supreme Court’s guidance that it is unlikely awards exceeding a single-digit ratio between punitive and compensatory damages will satisfy due process.

The former Tesla employee may not accept the reduced damages and instead request a new trial on damages – and Tesla presumably will appeal to the Ninth Circuit as well.  As we’ve noted before here, here, and here, this case well exemplifies the advantages of arbitration for employers and employees alike—arbitration offers increased speed, finality, cost-efficiency, and predictability, which are all absent in a jury trial like this one.  We will continue to monitor this case and provide any relevant updates.

CROWN Act Passed by the House, Banning Race-Based Hair Discrimination

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From [HERE] The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act in a 235-189 vote. According to the bill, passed on March 18, 2022, the long-standing racial and national origin biases and stereotypes associated with hair texture and style result in racial and national origin discrimination in the workplace. Under the proposed legislation, employers would be prohibited from discriminating against individuals based on hair textures or hairstyles that are commonly associated with a particular race or national origin.

Proponents of the bill assert that African Americans or persons of African descent systematically suffer discrimination in the workplace, and that it is necessary to explicitly prohibit the implementation of grooming requirements that disproportionately affect these individuals. The bill lists examples of natural or protective hairstyles commonly worn by individuals of African descent, including hairstyles in which hair is tightly coiled or tightly curled, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros.

Some lawmakers have questioned whether the CROWN Act is necessary, arguing that existing laws banning race-based discrimination are already applicable. Namely, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin. However, proponents of the bill contend that, while discrimination against natural or protective hairstyles commonly worn by individuals of African descent violates existing federal law, federal courts have misinterpreted these laws by narrowly interpreting the meaning of race or national origin and permitting employment policies that result in race-based hair discrimination.

For example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has previously held that dreadlocks, though culturally associated with race, are not immutable characteristics of Black persons, and therefore could not serve as the basis of a Title VII race discrimination claim. E.E.O.C. v. Catastrophe Mgmt. Sols., 852 F.3d 1018, 1021 (11th Cir. 2016). The court ultimately held that the employer did not violate Title VII when it rescinded an applicant’s job offer after the applicant refused to cut her dreadlocks pursuant to the employer’s grooming policy. Id. Similarly, a court in South Carolina held that an employee could not establish a Title VII race discrimination claim, where she alleged that she was terminated for declining to chemically straighten or cut her natural African American hair. Nelson v. Town of Mt. Pleasant Police Dep't, No. 2:14-CV-4247-DCN-MGB, 2016 WL 11407774, at *4 (D.S.C. June 28, 2016), report and recommendation adopted, No. 2:14-CV-4247-DCN, 2016 WL 5110171 (D.S.C. Sept. 21, 2016).

Given Republican opposition to the bill, the fate of the CROWN Act as it proceeds to the Senate remains uncertain. However, even if the legislation is unsuccessful in the Senate, employers should be aware that many states have already enacted state laws prohibiting race-based hair discrimination. California was the first state to pass its version of the CROWN Act in 2019 and several other states and municipalities have enacted or are considering similar legislation. In light of this trend, employers should review their grooming and appearance policies as they relate to hairstyles.

Federal Prosecutions of Corporate Criminals Hit Record Low in 2021. Biden Upholds the Racist Misperception that "Criminals" are Black People Arrested in the Street

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From [HERE] Despite the Biden administration’s pledges to be tougher on corporate crime than its business-friendly predecessor, a new report published Monday shows that corporate prosecutions reached a record low in 2021, continuing a decline that accelerated under former President Donald Trump.

Citing data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Corporate Prosecution Registry, the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen notes in its analysis that just 90 corporations either pleaded guilty or were found guilty of federal crimes last year even as the Department of Justice (DOJ) — led by Attorney General Merrick Garland — announced policies aimed at strengthening enforcement efforts against white-collar offenses.

The previous record low was 94 corporate prosecutions in 2020, down from a peak of 296 in 2000.

“The Biden DOJ’s policy changes away from Trump’s soft-on-corporate-crime approach suggest enforcement against corporate lawbreakers should be ramping up, but the numbers for 2021 don’t reflect those changes,” Rick Claypool, a research director for Public Citizen and author of the new report, said in a statement.

“Deterring corporate monopolists, polluters, fraudsters and workplace abusers requires the DOJ to bring tough prosecutions,” Claypool added.

“It’s the only way to show big business that the cost of crime outweighs any perceived benefit of profit-driven lawbreaking … Garland must prioritize prosecuting these cases, and President Biden and Congress need to provide the DOJ with the resources to do the job.”

Public Citizen also found that the Justice Department’s use of so-called corporate-leniency agreements as an alternative to bringing criminal charges against law-breaking companies remains “extraordinarily high” under Biden.

Such agreements, according to Public Citizen, made up 26% of all concluded federal cases against corporations in 2021 — a decline from 32% in 2020 but a massive increase over 1996, when federal prosecutors entered leniency agreements with companies just 1% of the time.

“The rationale for the DOJ’s use of these agreements with corporations is that they facilitate corporate compliance with the law,” the report notes.

“The empirical evidence, however, shows that corporations that receive leniency agreementsinstead of facing prosecution are not deterred from reoffending.”

Image credit: Public Citizen analysis of US Sentencing Commission and Corporate Prosecution Registry data

Public Citizen points out that the Biden Justice Department has taken a number of promising steps aimed at cracking down on corporate crime, an effort that is widely popular among U.S. voters.

“Two weeks after Inauguration Day, Biden’s DOJ rescinded Trump-era policies to weaken enforcement against corporate polluters,” Public Citizen observed.

“In October of 2021, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced changes to the DOJ’s corporate enforcement policies, including ratcheting up penalties for corporate repeat offenders, widening the scope of individuals who can be implicated in corporate investigations and directing a squad of FBI agents tasked specifically with targeting white-collar crime.”

But the administration’s push to intensify enforcement has been hampered by a number of factors, including U.S. attorney vacancies and recalcitrance from Republican members of Congress. [MORE]

Biden Grants Clemency to 78 People During "Second Chance Month"

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From [HERE] Yesterday, in the first use of his clemency power, President Brandon granted clemency to 78 people, including three pardons and 75 communtations. The Statement by President Joe Biden on the Clemency and Second Chance Month(link is external) begins with these words: 

America is a nation of laws and second chances, redemption, and rehabilitation. Elected officials on both sides of the aisle, faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and law enforcement leaders agree that our criminal justice system can and should reflect these core values that enable safer and stronger communities. During Second Chance Month, I am using my authority under the Constitution to uphold those values by pardoning and commuting(link is external) the sentences of fellow Americans.

Today, I am pardoning three people who have demonstrated their commitment to rehabilitation and are striving every day to give back and contribute to their communities. I am also commuting the sentences of 75 people who are serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses, many of whom have been serving on home confinement during the COVID-pandemic—and many of whom would have received a lower sentence if they were charged with the same offense today, thanks to the bipartisan First Step Act.  

The full Clemency Recipient List is available here(link is external).  The following three people were pardoned: 

Abraham W. Bolden, Sr. – Chicago, Illinois
Abraham Bolden is an 86-year-old former U.S. Secret Service agent and was the first African American to serve on a presidential detail.  In 1964, Mr. Bolden was charged with offenses related to attempting to sell a copy of a Secret Service file.  His first trial resulted in a hung jury, and following his conviction at a second trial, even though key witnesses against him admitted to lying at the prosecutor’s request, Mr. Bolden was denied a new trial and ultimately served several years in federal custody.  He has steadfastly maintained his innocence, arguing that he was targeted for prosecution in retaliation for exposing unprofessional and racist behavior within the U.S. Secret Service.  Mr. Bolden has received numerous honors and awards for his ongoing work to speak out against the racism he faced in the Secret Service in the 1960s, and his courage in challenging injustice.  Mr. Bolden has also been recognized for his many contributions to his community following his release from prison.

Betty Jo Bogans – Houston, Texas
Betty Jo Bogans is a 51-year-old woman who was convicted in 1998 of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in the Southern District of Texas after attempting to transport drugs for her boyfriend and his accomplice, neither of whom were detained or arrested.  At the time of her conviction, Ms. Bogans was a single mother with no prior record, who accepted responsibility for her limited role in the offense.  Because of the harsh penalties in place at the time she was convicted, Ms. Bogan received a seven-year sentence.  In the nearly two decades since her release from custody, Ms. Bogans has held consistent employment, even while undergoing treatment for cancer, and has focused on raising her son.   

Dexter Eugene Jackson – Athens, Georgia
Dexter Jackson is a 52-year-old man who was convicted in 2002 for using his business to facilitate the distribution of marijuana in the Northern District of Georgia.  Mr. Jackson was not personally involved in trafficking marijuana, but allowed marijuana distributors to use his pool hall to facilitate drug transactions.  He accepted full responsibility for his actions at the time he was charged, and pled guilty.  Since his release from custody, Mr. Jackson has converted his business into a cell-phone repair service and hired local high school students through a program that seeks to provide young adults with work experience.  Mr. Jackson has also worked to build and renovate homes in a community that lacks quality affordable housing.

IsrAlien Zionist Group Gets White Liberals to UnInvite Alice Walker to Bay Area Book Festival Over Her Advocacy for Palestinians in "Democratic" Israel

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From [DI] Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.

There is a steep price to pay for having a conscience and more importantly the courage to act on it. The hounds of hell pin you to the cross, hammering nails into your hands and feet as they grin like the Cheshire cat and mouth bromides about respect for human rights, freedom of expression and diversity. I have watched this happen for some time to Alice Walker, one of the most gifted and courageous writers in America. Walker, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Color Purple,has felt the bitter sting of racism. She refuses to be silent about the plight of the oppressed, including the Palestinians.

“Whenever I come out with a book, or anything that will take me before the public, the world, I am assailed as this person I don’t recognize,” she said when I reached her by phone. “If I tried to keep track of all the attacks over the decades, I wouldn’t be able to keep working. I am happy people are standing up. It is all of us. Not just me. They are trying to shut us down, shut us up, erase us. That reality is what is important.”

The Bay Area Book festival delivered the latest salvo against Walker. The organizers disinvited her from the event because she  praised the writings of the New Age author David Icke and called his book And the Truth Shall Set You Free “brave.” Icke has denied critics’ charges of anti-Semitism. The festival organizers twisted themselves into contortions to say they were not charging Walker with anti-Semitism. She was banned because she lauded a controversial writer, who I suspect few members of the committee have read. The poet and writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who Walker was to interview, withdrew from the festival in protest.

Walker, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, has been a very public advocate for Palestinian rights and a critic of Israel for many years. Her friendship with Icke has long been part of the public record. She hid nothing. It is not as if the festival organizers suddenly discovered a dark secret about Walker. They sought to capitalize on her celebrity and then, when they felt the heat from the Israel lobby, capitulated to the mob to humiliate her.

“I don’t know these people,” Walker said of the festival organizers who disinvited her. “It feels like the south. You know they are out there in the community, and they have their positions, but all you see are sheets. That’s what this is. It’s like being back in the south.”

Vax is Causing Death: A Study of 200 Countries Shows Since the Vaccine Rollout COVID Deaths Have Increased by 42% and Overall Deaths from All Causes is Higher, Excess Death Rate is Up 33% Worldwide

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From [JOEL SMALLEY]

Expectations

COVID death rates and cumulative excess mortality rates should begin to trend lower after the initial COVID outbreaks due to1: 

  1. Deaths being brought forward from later periods; 

  2. Depleted vulnerable population;

  3. Greater protective herd immunity;

  4. Attenuation of the virus;

  5. Better treatments (more early treatment with neutraceuticals, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, less mechanical ventilation2).

The Vaccine Hypothesis

The vaccine is claimed to be substantially effective in reducing COVID mortality (by the policy-makers but not the vaccine manufacturers) and also to be safe. If these claims are true, we should expect even fewer deaths than expected above due to significantly lower COVID deaths and insignificant vaccine deaths, i.e. lower all-cause excess mortality over all.

To be certain, we should also expect to see a negative correlation between the vaccination rate and the COVID death rate, i.e. the more a country is vaccinated, the greater the decrease in COVID death rate should be observed.

Empirical Results

The COVID death rate is higher after mass vaccinations.

There is a discernible reduction in the rate of COVID deaths in just 38 out of the 202 countries studied (19%). Therefore, in the vast majority of countries, both the rate and the number of COVID deaths after vaccination programs is higher than before.

In fact, the COVID death rate (deaths per million per day world average) rises from 1.4 to 2.0 after mass vaccinations begin, an increase of 42%. Confounders be damned!

Pay close attention to Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Guyana, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Monaco, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Turks and Caicos, UAE, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Wallis and Fortuna to see what happens when you aggressively vaccinate a naïve population, especially in the middle of an outbreak.

All-cause excess mortality rates are higher after mass vaccinations.

In 69% of the countries that report all-cause mortality (70 out of 101), the rate of cumulative excess mortality is higher after COVID vaccination programs. In not one single country is cumulative excess mortality lower than it was at the time mass vaccination programs began.

In fact, the excess death rate (deaths per million per day world average) rises from 3.1 to 4.1 after mass vaccinations begin, an increase of 33%.

The rate of increase in COVID mortality appears to be positively correlated with the vaccination rate. In other words, those countries that have lower vaccination rates (e.g. numerous African countries) also have lower increases in COVID mortality. Conversely, those countries that vaccinated early and aggressively (e.g. Europe, North America and Israel) have suffered comparatively worse.

Incidentally, it also seems that those countries with lower vaccination rates also had lower COVID mortality rates prior to vaccination campaigns, possibly indicative of having fewer interventions.

Nevertheless, the rate of increase in the COVID death rate after mass vaccinations is also positively correlated with the vaccination rate.

Multiple linear regression confirms the results. Analysis of the COVID death rate after vaccinations as a function of vaccinated population and COVID death rate before vaccinations reveals statistically significant positive correlation with both variables (p= 3.6% and 0.0% respectively) and explains almost 40% of the variability.

In other words, the COVID death rate after mass vaccination continues in the same manner as it did before but is exacerbated in proportion to the rate in which the population is vaccinated. This is, of course, the exact opposite of what you would expect if the vaccine were effective in reducing COVID mortality.

Observing each of the 202 countries in the study, the following patterns are apparent:

  1. The COVID death rate continues in much the same rate after mass vaccination as before;

  2. The COVID death rate increases after mass vaccination or emerges where prior to mass vaccination, it was insignificant or completely absent;

  3. The COVID death rate decelerates where there the population vaccination rate is low.

Conclusion

The Safe and Effective™ vaccine hypothesis is rejected.

In fact, according to the evidence, the more obvious conclusion is that the COVID vaccine has caused more death, not less, so much more in fact, that it has actually wiped out the expected natural declines and caused yet more death still.

The signal is significant in terms of temporal proximity and consistency across countries regardless of geography and demographics.

Applying the Bradford Hill criteria3:

  1. Strength of association - vaccinated (richer) countries have relatively more COVID death than less vaccinated (poorer) countries.

  2. Consistency across countries and continents.

  3. Specificity - the vaccine kills people.

  4. Temporality is observed in a significant number of countries, especially those vaccinating aggressively in the middle of outbreaks.

  5. Biological gradient - there is an evident positive correlation between vaccination rate and COVID death rate and increase in COVID death rate.

  6. Biological plausibility - the 2-week period of immunosuppression immediately post injection has been very widely observed and reported, as have the plethora of fatal adverse events. The evidence suggesting that variants are spawned due to unnatural selection is also growing4.

  7. Coherence - we get the same information from analyses of vaccine adverse event reporting systems, hospital records, national surveillance systems, even the vaccine trial data itself (albeit hidden in the data appendices)5, and other independent mortality analyses with different methods6.

  8. Experiment - the entire world has been subjected to a massive clinical trial without consent. Fortunately, different countries had different rates of vaccine uptake so comparative study has been possible to demonstrate causality, especially between countries with similar geographic and demographic qualities.

  9. Analogy - Marek’s chickens (1970)7.

This is a global public health failure of truly unprecedented and epic proportions.

DC Shooting Sounds Like Bullshit: A 23 year Old Latino Guy Fires 200 Shots at Upper Crust School and Strikes 4 People. Then Confesses on Wikipedia. Could Afford 2 Expensive Apts in DC and Fairfax

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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY::

false flag – staged psychological operations by government operatives and shadow elite orchestrated and perpetrated against the civilian population. False flag operations does not necessarily mean that oftentimes real people don’t die.

In DC, citizens essentially have no 2nd Amendment rights but its not a big deal to most of its liberal white votary who advocate for less rights and more government control over their lives. Dr. Blynd explains that a gun ban is a precursor to slavery. Larken Rose explains,

"Transforming independent individuals into slaves requires exten­sive indoctrination. The way they view life, the world, and them­selves must be molded into an outlook that is compatible with tyranny. They must be trained to be scared of the world, and always to be seeking some "authority" to protect and take care of them. Whenever a problem arises, they should look to their rulers for the solution rather than taking it upon themselves to fix it. 

One of the main problems that the peasants must be trained not to deal with themselves is violent conflict. It is imperative that they view you (and your enforcers) as the only protection against rob­bery, assault, and murder. In short, they must be indoctrinated in such a way that they do not even want to be able to defend them­selves. The reason is simple: if the peasants feel capable and enti­tled to "enforce justice" themselves, they might just decide to enforce a little justice against you. And that obviously won't do. [MORE]

From [HERE] Raymond Spencer, the 23-year-old police say fired more than 200 rounds from a Northwest D.C. apartment window Friday, had no criminal record at the time of the shooting.

According to the journalism-free dependent media, who only parrot information provided to them by the police, he fired randomly at people 200 times, striking four. Yep 4 out of 200 for a sniper?

“Authorities expressed amazement that more people were not struck or even killed, and said it will take police many days to collect evidence and fully document the damage over a vast number of city blocks.” [MORE]

The Washington Post further stated this

“Officials said police have not developed a motive for Friday afternoon’s shootings in the Van Ness area, but it appeared the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Raymond Spencer of Fairfax County, Va., engaged with Wikipedia pages related to the recent subway attack in New York City and a 2018 school shooting in Florida.”

“Engaged with Wikipedia pages? “He allegedly read about those highly publicized [false flag] events on his computer and?

Then, after shooting up the street he logged onto Wikipedia to write about what he had done and then snitch on himself on 4Chan. The WashPost states,

A Wikipedia page for the Edmund Burke School was searched several times and edited, including a line added about an hour after police said the shooting started when Spencer wrote: “A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022. The suspect is still at large.”

On a separate online forum, called 4chan, a user identifying as Raymond Spencer posted four minutes after the reported shooting started, “Dear God please forgive me.”

The following post seemed to taunt police: “They’re in the wrong part of the building right now searching XD.” Later the user wrote: “Waiting for police to catch up with me.”

It also states,

On Wikipedia, Spencer last updated his user page at 3:58 p.m. Friday, soon after the shooting. The page said he was an “a AR-15 aficionado” in his biography. The page has since been removed from the platform. [right]

Sounds like circumstances in other false flags- which always are open and quickly closed with a confession from a diary, manifesto, social media or a press-release (ISIS) and unidentified neighbor. Like a movie, the villain is always quickly apprehended without issue (see the Dylann Roof slow speed chase lol or the recent ff arrest in NYC), killed or commits suicide.

Spencer attended Wheaton High School in Montgomery County as recently as 2016 according to the school district. He was living in a new apartment building in Fairfax County at the time of the shooting.

He moved into an apartment in Fairfax County in February 2021 but also rented the apartment on Van Ness in January 2022. The median price to buy an apartments in that all-white upper crust neighborhood start at $500k. Rental costs in said area and the 70% white Fairfax area are off the chain, $3k a month or so? Where did our poor shot, 23 year old, “AR-15 aficionado” get his millions from?

Police found six firearms in the D.C. apartment -- four long guns and two handguns, three fully automatic -- and three additional firearms in the Fairfax apartment.

The Post stated,

Multiple law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive investigation, said Spencer’s only known tie to the District appears to be that sparsely furnished apartment at the AVA Van Ness, in which they found assault rifles, at least one handgun, a tripod stand for a firearm and a mattress on the floor.

The apartment that police are describing as a “sniper’s nest” overlooks Edmund Burke School in the 2900 block of Van Ness Street, which appears to have drawn the shooter’s attention at afternoon dismissal.

Spencer’s parents still live in Silver Spring, Md. Neighbors tell 7News the family was quiet and polite.

“I was surprised to hear, but anything is possible in this day and age,” one family neighbor said when he learned Spencer was the chief suspect in Friday’s shooting.

Police said Spencer set up a "crows nest" in a D.C. apartment Friday. Images posted to the anonymous chat 4Chan under the name "Raymond Spencer" show a sparsely furnished apartment full of guns. Police believe Spencer assembled at least one of those weapons himself.

More than 800 unspent rounds were also found in the D.C. apartment and thousands of rounds were found in the Fairfax County apartment, he added.

White Supremacy is the Ultimate Affirmative Action: Steve Nash’s $9 Million a Year Non-Coaching Failure is Proof of White Privilege, 'an invisible package of unearned assets bequeathed to Caucasians'

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

 White privilege – an invisible package of unearned assets bequeathed to all Caucasians. 2) an invisible weightless knapsack of advantages including but never limited to: special provisions and dispensations, over-passports, code words, maps, signs, codebooks, visas, clothes, vistas, tools, etc. of which most Caucasians are oblivious to wearing or utilizing.

 white supremacy – White Presumacy. (See: Racism, Windigo, Yurugu, Western Civilization & White Presumacy)

White Hood Removed: Name of Cop who Killed Patrick Lyoya Released [where Cops are Too Slow/Weak to Stop a non-dangerous Person, it's Unlawful to Use Deadly Force to Make an Arrest (for whites only)]

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COPS ARE SERVANTS WORKING FOR US? Larken Rose explains, ‘In this system, it is patently obvious who commands and who obeys. It is claimed that “the government works for us; it is our servant.” Again, such a statement does not even remotely match the obvious reality of the situation; it is little more than a cult mantra, a delusion intentionally programmed into the populace in order to twist their view of reality. And most people never even question it. Most never wonder, if “government” works for us, if it is our employee, why does it decide how much we pay it? Why does our “employee” decide what it will do for us? Why does our “employee” tell us how to live our lives? Why does our “employee” demand our obedience for whatever arbitrary commands it issues, sending armed enforcers after us if we disobey? It is impossible for “government” to ever be the servant, because of what “government” is, To put it in simple, personal terms, if someone can boss you around and take your money, he is not your servant; and if he cannot do those things, he is not “government.” However limited, “government” is the organization thought to have the right to forcibly control the behavior of its subjects via “laws,” rendering the popularly accepted rhetoric about “public servants” completely ridiculous. To imagine that a ruler could ever be the servant of those over whom he rules is patently absurd. Yet that impossibility is spouted as indisputable gospel in “civics” classes.

From [HERE] Christopher Schurr is the Grand Rapids police officer seen in video shooting Black man Patrick Lyoya to death after an April 4 traffic stop, Chief Eric Winstrom confirmed Monday. Lyoya was shot in the back of the head. The liar white cop claimed he had to do so because he said Lyoya was reaching for his taser. Video appears to contradict said statement.

"In the interest of transparency, to reduce ongoing speculation, and to avoid any further confusion, I am confirming the name already publicly circulating — Christopher Schurr — as the officer involved in the April 4 officer involved shooting," Winstrom said in a statement. 

Schurr remains on administrative leave without police powers while an investigation into the shooting continues, Winstrom said.

Among other things such as prosecution and arrest Lyoya's family, lawyers and others have been demanding the release of the officer's name.

“An intentional three-week delay in releasing the name of the involved officer, which they clearly knew at the moment of the shooting, is offensive and the exact opposite of being ‘transparent,'" Ven Johnson, one of the family's attorneys, said in a statement. "Once again, we see the Grand Rapids Police Department taking care of its own at the expense of the family’s mental health and well-being.”

National Action Network founder and president the Rev. Al Sharpton, who eulogized Lyoya at his funeral Friday, also had called for police to release the officer's name.

“Every time a Black man or woman is arrested in America, their name is immediately put out," Sharpton said Monday in a statement. "But when this officer put the gun to the back of Patrick Lyoya’s head and decided to pull the trigger, his family had to wait three weeks to find out the name of the man who killed him. Transparency is the first step toward justice in Patrick Lyoya’s name, but it certainly isn’t the last.”

IF COPS ARE TOO SLOW OR WEAK TO CATCH SOMEONE CAN THEY EXECUTE THEM? Police said Lyoya was stopped for having an improper license plate on his vehicle. After the stop, he attempted to run from the officer, who chased and tackled him. The cop was too physically weak to control the black man, so rather than let him go he executed him.

As stated, Lyoya was under arrest for a traffic violation, which is a minor misdemeanor. As such, he was not a fleeing felon. At any rate, the Supreme Court has explained the use of deadly force to prevent escape is unconstitutional, at least in regard to white citizens that is. The Court has explained,

The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. 

A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead… Where the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a threat of serious physical harm, either to the officer or to others, it is not constitutionally unreasonable to prevent escape by using deadly force. Thus, if the suspect threatens the officer with a weapon or there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm, deadly force may be used if necessary to prevent escape, and if, where feasible, some warning has been given. 

Tennessee v. Garner - 471 U.S. 1 at page 11 (1985).

Who's Crazy? White Tulsa Cops Taunt and Laugh @ a 70 Year Old Black Woman in Mental Distress before Brutally Assaulting Her. ['Racism is a virus in the mind, making its hosts and entire society sick']

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From [HERE] Racist suspect Tulsa police officers taunted and laughed at a 70-year-old black woman having a mental health crisis before violently arresting her, recently released bodycam footage shows.

The video has sparked outrage, but the Tulsa Police Department says its officers followed protocols when they kicked down a bathroom door and tackled LaDonna Paris in an incident last October. Paris had locked herself in the bathroom of a Habitat for Humanity store and refused to leave. She has late-onset bipolar disorder and was having a manic episode.

The Tulsa Police Department says Paris had an aerosol can and a lighter and was trying to set the bathroom on fire. It's what happened before police kicked down the door, though, that's drawing attention. The body camera footage shows a Tulsa police officer arcing her taser, asking Paris if she wants to get tased, and rattling the door to taunt the clearly distressed woman.

"This is gonna be so fun," the officer says as she and her partner wait for another officer to arrive and kick down the door.

Tulsa has a special response team to handle people experiencing mental health crises, but it was busy at the time. Instead, police tackled Paris, bloodying her face. She spent a month in jail on charges of arson, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other charges before a judge dropped all of the charges.

The Tulsa Police Department released full footage of the incident and defended the arrest.

"To be clear, the banter between the officers outside of the presence of the suspect can be received as unprofessional and has been addressed with the officers," Tulsa Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg said in a statement. However, Meulenberg said that the "overall actions of the officers and the way in which the call was handled is within the policies of the Tulsa Police Department."

The Solomon-Simmons Law office is now representing Paris."The TPD officers involved were fully aware that Ms. Paris was suffering a bipolar manic episode, yet they still viciously provoked and attacked Ms. Paris while laughing off her disability as if it were a joke," the law firm said in a statement. "We are disgusted by this outrageous behavior caught on video and the fact that the Tulsa Police Department has attempted to shift the blame for the incident onto the victim of a mental health episode and police brutality."

According to "FUNKTIONARY, THE KEY HOLDERS ENPSYCHLOPEDIA:"

mind viruses – memes with both the anchor and carrier embedded into its payload. Mind viruses are stealth psychopathogens in that they can mutate to penetrate our natural defenses undetected, pretend to be part of us, and compel us to spread them further. (See: Memes, Memetics, Evolution, Religion, Government, Corporate State & Taxation)

Racism -  White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy. Racism—a psycho-socio-economic reality based on a pseudo-scientific biological myth—is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured and enforced institutionalized and systemic injustice, oppression and power over another group. Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self-perpetuating and systematic. Racism is economic discrimination by one group over and against another for the purposes of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control, misinformation, indoctrination, genocide and oppression. Racism is the socioeconomic and cultural bequest of colonialism, neo-colonialism and the vestiges of the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans and their descendants. Racism has its bio-physiological origins in the immune response of primitive life-forms to foreign matter and has its geo-psychological roots in the response of primitive humans encountering more intelligent ones based on the meme of scarcity and the fear of genetic annihilation through genetic assimilation. "Racism destroys men—and women—as much by what it denies them as by what it metes out to them." -Isaiah Thomas. "It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting moral suasion on a people who have no ethics or morality where race is a variable." -Bobby Wright.

"If you can't keep something but you can't give it up, you have to render it unrecognizable; racism has been defined out of existence and repackaged so that whites could retain its perks, especially the psychological ones. It has undergone existential plastic surgery. To keep it buried alive in its unholy grave, a host of Strangelovean anti-intellectualisms have been developed and honed." -Debra J. Dickerson. Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick. White Supremacy (Degeneracy) is socially engineering Black Consciousness and/or also responsible for the falsification of Black consciousness. "If you don't understand racism white supremacy, everything else you think you know will only confuse you." -Neelly Fuller, Jr. (See: White Supremacy, Yurugu, Park Day, Declaration of Endependece, Ma'afa & Caucasion). [MORE]

Will the Same Child Actors be Available to Pop-Up and Do Encore Performances as Witnesses at the Parkland False Flag Trial? Jury search restarts anew amid dispute

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From [HERE] The judge overseeing jury selection for a man who murdered 17 people at a Florida high school declared that the process will start over Monday, after prosecutors and defense attorneys argued that she erred when she didn't question 11 potential jurors who said they would not follow the law before she dismissed them.

In granting the motion filed by Nikolas Cruz 's prosecutors over the strong objection of his attorneys, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer nullified two weeks of work by prosecution and defense lawyers, forcing them to begin the entire process anew Monday.

As a result, almost 250 potential jurors who had said they could sit for a four-month trial will not be called back next month for further questioning over whether they could fairly judge Cruz, who pleaded guilty in October to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. More than 1,200 candidates had been screened.

The 12-member jury that will be selected after a two-month winnowing process will decide if Cruz, 23, is sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. The restart will push back opening statements from June 14 to June 21. They had already been delayed from May 31. [MORE]

Justice Department Finds Unconstitutional Conditions at Mississippi Prison

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From [EJI] The Justice Department announced last week that it uncovered unconstitutionally dangerous conditions at Mississippi State Prison at Parchman, the state’s oldest and largest prison, located on the site of a plantation where enslaved people were forced to labor.

In a 59-page report detailing the findings from its two-year investigation, federal prosecutors wrote that Mississippi “routinely violates” the constitutional rights of people incarcerated at Parchman by failing to protect them from violence and self-harm, denying them adequate mental health treatment, and subjecting them to prolonged periods in solitary confinement.

“Our investigation uncovered evidence of systemic violations that have generated a violent and unsafe environment for people incarcerated at Parchman,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of DOJ’s civil rights division, said in a statement.

The Justice Department found that the Mississippi Department of Corrections “allows widespread violence to occur at Parchman” through its lack of staffing, poor supervision, untimely response to serious incidents, inadequate investigations, and other failures.

Investigators identified at least 10 known homicides since 2019, including three in a single week in January 2020 “where one incarcerated person suffered 89 stab wounds, a second incarcerated person similarly suffered 75 stab wounds, and a third incarcerated individual died from strangulation.”

Staff are so unresponsive that it took over three hours to discover that a man had been stabbed to death in a shower area, the report found, and people who have been attacked and stabbed have set fires in their own cell and punched an officer in desperate attempts to get medical attention.

The prison’s lack of mental health treatment, failure to take adequate suicide prevention measures, and overreliance on solitary confinement has contributed to 12 deaths by suicide in the past three years, investigators found.

All 12 occurred in restrictive housing, where incarcerated people are held for months and even years in dilapidated, crumbling buildings with collapsing ceilings and holes in the walls and floors. DOJ found that people are locked down in dark cells with no lights, working toilets, or clean water, and temperatures that often reached over 100 degrees and climbed as high as 145.1 degrees.

The Justice Department concluded that the “severe, systemic” conditions at Parchman are exacerbated by chronically deficient staffing and supervision.

“[P]ersonnel is an issue that we need to continue to improve,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves acknowledged, while also noting that his state is one of the poorest in the country.

But investigators concluded that the problems could not be blamed wholly on lack of resources. Poor management of the complex, stemming from a lack of accountability and effective supervision, also contributed to the violent and squalid conditions at Parchman, they wrote.

The Justice Department observed that state officials failed to act despite knowing about these conditions for years. Their “deliberate indifference” in the face of widespread reports about unlivable and unsanitary conditions, rising numbers of violent murders and suicides, dangerously low staffing levels, and mounting concerns that gangs were filling the void contributed to an outbreak of violence on December 31, 2019, that continued for weeks.

Even though prison officials knew about these crises, the report explains, “records show a staff that was caught off guard, utterly overwhelmed and ultimately unable to adequately and quickly respond to fighting and significant injuries in multiple buildings.”

The Justice Department’s investigation of conditions at Parchman and three other Mississippi prisons began in February 2020. Ms. Clarke said her department’s investigations at the Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility are ongoing.

The department is also looking into reports of abuse and neglect at prisons in Georgia and five detention facilities for juveniles in Texas, according to The New York Times.

Federal prosecutors can sue the state if it fails to remedy the unconstitutional conditions at Parchman, but Ms. Clarke said she believes state officials will work with the department to address the problems.

The Justice Department made similar findings about unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men in 2019, but when Alabama’s Department of Corrections failed or refused to correct conditions, federal prosecutors filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state in December 2020.

Iowa and Mass Courts Rule that ‘Business Interruption Insurance’ Doesn't Cover COVID Loss from Government Shelter in Place Orders that Quarantined All Healthy People During Plandemic

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From [HERE] The top state courts in Iowa and Massachusetts have ruled that restaurants can’t recover COVID-19 shutdown losses from "business interruption" policies.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled April 22 (here and here), while the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 21 (here), report Reuters and Law.com.

The Associated Press and the Des Moines Register also have coverage of the Iowa ruling, while Law360 also has coverage of the Massachusetts ruling.

The Iowa court ruled against the Wakonda Club and Jesse’s Embers, both located in Des Moines, Iowa. They claimed losses under business-interruption insurance after Gov. Kim Reynolds’ orders caused them to close in March 2020 and then limit operations.

The restaurants’ business-interruption insurance had covered a direct physical loss or damage to property. The Iowa Supreme Court said the shutdown didn’t constitute such a loss.

“The mere loss of use of property, without more, does not meet the requirement for a direct physical loss of property,” the Iowa Supreme Court said.

The Iowa Supreme Court said its decision was based on Iowa law, but it noted that every other federal appeals court that has ruled on similar policy language has ruled for insurers.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Coppa, Toro and Little Donkey restaurants in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The case also involved insurance policies that cover a direct physical loss or damage to property.

“We conclude that ‘direct physical loss of or damage to’ property requires some ‘distinct, demonstrable, physical alteration of the property,’” the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said.

Two restaurants had shut down in-person dining and a third closed for business following a March 2020 order by Gov. Charles Baker. All three allowed limited in-person dining in June 2020 when Baker modified his order.

IsrAliens Commence Their Annual Ramadan Blood-Spilling [Neuropeans go on Pretending they Have a Genetic, Cultural, Ancestral Connection to Afrikan Hebrews, the original people who occupied Palestine]

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From [HERE] JERUSALEM, PALESTINE – We are barely halfway into the month of Ramadan and already the toll has gone beyond 20 Palestinians dead and countless wounded. Al-Aqsa mosque has been raided and the images of militarized Israeli police storming the mosque, beating and shooting indiscriminately at worshipers, demonstrate what was clear from the beginning: Israel wants this month to be as bloody as possible for Palestinians. There must be someone among the Israeli decision-makers who believes that spilling endless amounts of Palestinian blood and desecrating Al-Aqsa will satisfy the beast of Israeli public opinion. History has shown that that person is wrong.

People will often ask what is the “end game” for Israel, or what is it that Israel really wants – assuming that the violence and shedding of Palestinian blood is just temporary, and perhaps somewhere there is a loftier goal. However, the answer is looking us right in the face: Israel wants to destroy all that is dear to Palestinians – holy places, historic monuments, Palestinian homes and institutions, the Palestinian landscape – and to take as many Palestinian lives as possible in the process. It has been more than one hundred years since the Zionists set foot in Palestine, and Zionism and its crowning achievement, the apartheid regime of Israel, demonstrate clearly what the “end game” is for Israel.

 First Palestine

The boundary between religion and nationalism was intentionally blurred by the Zionists very early on. Zionism claims that the Jewish religion is a nationality and therefore religious symbols have become symbols of national identity and importance. Starting with the concept of “the Holy Land of Israel – most of which, though not all, exists within Palestine – Zionists turned what was always a religious, spiritual yearning into a national symbol. For thousands of years, Jewish people prayed for the Messiah so that we could live in a world without wars, a world where all people worship their creator in peace. However, even though the Jewish people never made such a claim, the Zionists claim that the Jewish scriptures are proof that Palestine belongs to them.

The Zionists turned religious yearning into a national goal that has to be achieved by force. They purposefully misinterpreted the yearning to pray in Jerusalem as a desire to gain sovereignty at all cost, thus turning one of the most sacred places for both Jews and Muslims into a bloody battleground.

 Then Al-Aqsa

What almost became the Zionist national anthem, and is perhaps better known around the world than that anthem, is the song Jerusalem of Gold. This song was commissioned by Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek just a few weeks prior to the 1967 Israeli assault on Arab countries, an assault that became known as The Six Day War. The name “six days” is also a reference to Jewish scripture, where it is stated that the Almighty created the world in six days. [MORE]