The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules that Arkansas’ 3 Drug Protocol Used to Murder the People on It's Mostly Black Death Row Is not Cruel and Unusual Punishment Under the Imaginary 8th Amendment

Although Arkansas is Only 16% Black, It's Death Row is 50% Black

From [HERE] The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Tuesday held that Arkansas’ three-drug execution protocol does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The case, Stacey Johnson v. Asa Hutchinson, was initially brought by death-row prisoners seeking to avoid the execution protocol in Arkansas. Though Arkansas’ supply of the three drugs has expired, the ruling means that the death-row prisoners still could face execution.

Arkansas death row is 50% Black despite the state being overwhelmingly white, 68%.

The court affirmed an earlier district court ruling which also found the death-row prisoners failed to establish that the three-drug execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment. Death-row prisoners first brought the case in 2017 when Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson scheduled their execution ahead of when the state’s supply of one of the drugs was set to expire. Four of the scheduled executions occurred, but courts halted the other four. At the time, the prisoners asked the court to find the three-drug execution protocol in violation of the Eighth Amendment and to stay their executions.

Following trial, the district judge ruled that the death-row prisoners failed to prove that the three-drug execution protocol created a substantial risk of severe pain. The judge also noted that the death-row prisoners failed to present a feasible alternative to reduce the risk of severe pain they alleged was presented by the three-drug execution protocol.

The three-drug execution protocol used by Arkansas relies on midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Midazolam is meant to sedate the death-row prisoner. Vecuronium bromide then stops the lungs. That is then followed by potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

At issue before the appeals court was whether the district court erred in finding that the three-drug execution protocol presents an unsubstantial risk of severe pain. At the heart of the death-row prisoners’ argument was the so-called “ceiling effect” presented by midazolam. The prisoners argued that while the drug effectively sedates the death-row prisoner, they are still aware of the pain that comes with the issuance of the second and third lethal drugs. Both the state and the prisoners presented competing scientific evidence.

Ultimately the court found “With no scientific consensus and a paucity of reliable scientific evidence concerning the effect of large doses of midazolam on humans, the district court did not clearly err in finding that the prisoners failed to demonstrate that the Arkansas execution protocol is sure or very likely to cause severe pain.”

Arkansas has not executed any death-row prisoners since the start of the case in 2017. Arkansas’ supply of the three drugs used in the execution protocol has since expired and has not been replaced.

Evictions Spike, Rent Soars Causing a National Emergency for Mostly Non-White Tenants w/Black Women Most at Risk. Will Biden Do Anything Tangible for Blacks/Latinos Besides Appointing Token Rolebots?

Black Homeowners in an Affluent White Area File Suit Alleging a White Realtor, “20/20 Valuations” and loanDepot Undervalued Their Home in a Racial Conspiracy to Deny their Refinance Loan

From [HERE] Claiming racial discrimination, a pair of Black homeowners in an affluent neighborhood of Maryland called Homeland claim in a federal complaint that they missed out on historically low interest rates because Loandepot.com would not refinance their mortgage on the basis of a low appraisal conducted by 20/20 Valuations.

The complaint states:

Plaintiffs Dr. Nathan Connolly and Dr. Shani Mott bring this action for damages, injunctive relief, and declaratory relief against Defendants Shane Lanham, 20/20 Valuations, LLC, and loanDepot.com, LLC (“loanDepot”), to seek redress for violations of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq., the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1982, and Maryland Fair Housing Laws, Md. Code, State Gov’t § 20-702 et seq.

Defendants Lanham and 20/20 Valuations discriminated against Plaintiffs by dramatically undervaluing their home in an appraisal because of Plaintiffs’ race and their home’s location adjacent to a Black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood. Defendant loanDepot discriminated against Plaintiffs by knowingly relying on that appraisal to deny Plaintiffs a refinance loan and retaliating when Plaintiffs explained why the appraisal was discriminatory.

Homeland is a historic neighborhood in Baltimore. It is predominantly white. Plaintiffs bought a four-bedroom, 2600 square foot single-family detached house in Homeland and moved there in 2017. They are professors at Johns Hopkins University. Both are Black.

Plaintiffs applied to Defendant loanDepot in mid-2021 to refinance their existing mortgage debt and take advantage of historically low interest rates. loanDepot approved their application for a loan with a 2.25% interest rate, subject to confirming the $550,000 estimated value of the home with a formal appraisal. loanDepot’s loan officer wrote to Plaintiffs that “we should be good” because the estimated value was “pretty conservative.”

loanDepot contracted with Defendant Shane Lanham’s company, Defendant 20/20 Valuations, for the appraisal.

Lanham conducted the appraisal, which was inconsistent with professional appraisal standards in many ways. He improperly limited his search for comparable recently-sold properties to a very small portion of Homeland, north of Northern Parkway (and, still, chose a comparable from outside the neighborhood boundary); failed to consider houses throughout Homeland, both north and south of Northern Parkway, that were more similar to Plaintiffs’ house than ones he used for his valuation; made excessive downward adjustments to the sales prices of the houses he used; failed to make appropriate upward adjustments to reflect features those houses lacked but that Plaintiffs’ house has; and failed to account for substantial improvements Plaintiffs made to their home in 2020. Lanham also questioned whether Plaintiffs were legitimate residents of Homeland by asking if they paid dues to the Homeland Association.

Lanham appraised Plaintiffs’ home for only $472,000, over $75,000 below the loan officer’s “conservative” estimate of value. Defendant loanDepot denied Plaintiffs’ loan application because of the low valuation.

Plaintiffs were shocked at the appraisal and recognized that the low valuation was because of racial discrimination. They told this to their loanDepot loan officer and challenged the appraisal in a detailed letter.

loanDepot maintained its application denial and did not provide any substantive response to Plaintiffs’ communications about the discriminatory and flawed nature of the appraisal. Instead, the loan officer stopped responding to Plaintiffs’ phone calls.

Plaintiffs applied to another lender in early 2022 to refinance their mortgage debt. This time they “whitewashed” the house prior to the appraisal, removing the many indicia that a Black family lived there, such as family photos and their children’s drawings of Black people, and replacing them with items borrowed from white friends. Plaintiffs enlisted a white colleague to be present when the appraiser came and stayed away from the house themselves.
The home appraised for $750,000. Plaintiffs obtained their refinance loan on that basis, but at a higher interest rate than they would have received from loanDepot. Defendant Lanham’s dramatically lower valuation reflected his beliefs that a

Black family did not genuinely belong in Homeland and could not be the owners of a higher- valued home, and also that their home was less valuable because it was at the edge of an area with a predominantly Black population. Lanham violated professional standards to devalue Plaintiffs’ home because of these racist beliefs. Defendant loanDepot relied on Lanham’s appraisal despite being informed that it was infected by discrimination and stopped answering or returning Plaintiffs calls once they challenged the appraisal on that basis.

Defendants’ actions reflect intentional racial discrimination and retaliation against Plaintiffs for identifying those actions as discriminatory. Defendants’ actions have caused financial and emotional injury to Plaintiffs for which they seek declaratory and injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages. [MORE]

Catholic Order of Jesuit Priests, who Unjustly Enriched Themselves Off Slave Labor and Sales for Over a Century, Claim its Struggling to Raise Money after Promising to Atone for African Genocide

From [HERE] A prominent order of Catholic priests vowed last year to raise $100 million to atone for its participation in the American slave trade. At the time, church leaders and historians said it would be the largest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to make amends for the buying, selling and enslavement of Black people in the United States.

But 16 months later, cash is only trickling in.

The Jesuit priest leading the fund-raising efforts said he had hoped that his order would have secured several multimillion-dollar donations by now, in addition to an initial $15 million investment made by the order. Instead, only about $180,000 in small donations has flowed into the trust the Jesuits created in partnership with a group of descendants whose ancestors were enslaved by the Catholic priests.

Alarmed by the slow pace of fund-raising, the leader of the group of descendants that has partnered with the Jesuits wrote to Rome earlier this month, urging the order’s worldwide leader to ensure that the American priests make good on their promise.

The American Jesuits, who relied on slave labor and slave sales for more than a century, had discussed plans last year to sell all of their remaining former plantation lands in Maryland, the priests said. They discussed transferring the proceeds, along with a portion of the proceeds of an earlier $57 million plantation sale, to the trust. Money from the trust will flow into a foundation that will finance programs that benefit descendants, including scholarships and money for emergency needs, and promote racial reconciliation projects.

But the remaining land has yet to be sold and the proceeds from prior land sales have yet to be transferred to the trust, Jesuit officials and descendants say.

“It is becoming obvious to all who look beyond words that Jesuits are not delivering in deed,” Joseph M. Stewart, president and chair of the Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation, wrote in his letter to the Rev. Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general. “The bottom line is that without your engagement, this partnership seems destined to fail.”

In his letter, Mr. Stewart warned that “hard-liners” within the order maintained the position that they “never enslaved anyone and thus do not ‘owe’ anyone anything.”

In an interview, Mr. Stewart said he believed that the Jesuit leadership remained committed to the partnership, describing ongoing meetings and conversations. The point, he said, was that the descendant community needed the priests to do more than talk. [MORE]

Political Activity on Campuses a Thing of the Past? Colleges Function as 'Corporate Profit Centers' Producing Cloned Mandroids (docile, conformist sheeple) ‘Strangely Oblivious’ to Corporate Power

From [RALPH NADER] When it comes to corporate power and control over their lives, now and into the future, today’s college students are perilously dormant.

When it comes to putting pressure on Congress to counter the various dictates of corporatism, there is little activity other than some stalwarts contacting their lawmakers on climate violence.

Much of campus activity these days focuses on diversity, tuition, student loans, “politically correct” speech demands and conforming conduct.

This campus environment is strangely oblivious to the corporate abuses of our economy, culture and government. This indifference extends to the endless grip of corporate power over the educational institutions that the students attend.

Companies see universities and colleges as profit centers.

Corporate vendors influence or control the food students eat on campus, down to the junk in vending machines, along with their credit cards, iPhones, very expensive textbooks and, of course, student debt.

College boards of trustees are dominated by corporate executives or corporate-affiliated people.

Corporate science is — as from drug companies, biotech, military weapons and fossil fuelcompanies — co-opting, corrupting or displacing peer-reviewed, academic science, unencumbered by corporate profiteering.

Corporate law firms dominate law schools, with few exceptions, seriously distorting the curriculum away from courses on corporate crimes and immunities and courses that show how corporations have shaped public institutions such as Congress, state legislatures, and the Pentagon along with state and federal regulatory agencies.

Business schools, except for a few free-thinking professors, are finishing schools for Wall Street and other businesses. They operate in an empirically starved environment regarding what is really going on in the world of global corporate machinations, while feeding their student’s dogmatic free-market fundamentalism.

Engineering departments narrowly orient their students toward corporate missions, without educating them about the engineering professions’ ethical and whistleblowing rights and duties.

Social science courses are largely remiss as well. There are very few courses on plutocratic rule and uncontrolled big-business ways of getting commercial values to override civic values.

Teachers may be wary of raising such taboo topics, but the enthusiastic student response to Professor Laura Nader’s course on “Controlling Processes” at The University of California, Berkeley over the years might indicate deep student interest in courses on top-down power structures.

Active students in the 1960s and 70s took their environmental, civil rights and anti-war concerns directly to Congress. They, with other citizen groups, pushed Congress and got important legislation enacted.

Students in about 20 states created lasting full-time student advocacy groups called Public Interest Research Groups or PIRGs.

Today the PIRGs are still making change happen in the country. However, few new PIRGs have been established since 1980.

Students need to embrace how important, achievable and enduring such nonprofit independent PIRGs can be. With skilled advocates continuing to train students in civic skills and providing students with extracurricular experiences for a lifetime of citizen engagement, the PIRGs create a vibrant reservoir for a more functioning democracy.

As a leading European statesman, Jean Monnet said decades ago — “Without people nothing is possible, but without institutions nothing is lasting.”

Students need to think about the civic part of their years ahead and focus on building the pillars of a democratic society that dissolve the concentrated power of giant corporations and empower the citizenry as befits the “We the People” vision in our Constitution.

"The Military Industrial Academic Complex" and "The Illusion of Wisdom:" US Universities are Pipelines to the Defense Industry - Knowledge in Service of Weapons of Destruction, Surveillance and Death

FOR MORE SEE The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-industrial-academic Complex AND EMPIRE OF ILLUSION

From [HERE] In his 1961 farewell address, Dwight D Eisenhower warned the nation against the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex. But a lesser known part of the speech was addressed to universities: “In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”

We didn’t listen.

For the better part of the pandemic, I’ve been researching the defense industry’s ties to college campuses as part of an investigative fellowship for the magazine In These Times. On 11 August, we published a 4,300-word feature article on Lockheed Martin’s sweeping recruitment on college campuses.We found an environment in which Stem students are funneled into the defense industry through recruitment, research, financial assistance or some combination of the three.

Lockheed offers cash-prize competitions, scholarships and paid internships to students which have served as pipelines to employment. In 2020, the company hired 2,600 interns and claimed over 60% of graduating former interns converted to full-time jobs.

On campus, Lockheed has set up recruiting tables in the lobbies and hallways of student buildings and hosts workshops on everything from space exploration to résumé-building. At the University of Texas at Arlington, a $1.5m donation resulted in one of their buildings being renamed the Lockheed Martin Career Development Center.

But the company’s signature recruiting event, which is hosted at more than a dozen universities, is something called Lockheed Martin Day. Recruiters attract students with virtual reality demos, flight simulators and, in some cases, landing their helicopters directly on campus. Company officials have been known to offer on-the-spot job and internship opportunities to students during the event.

Additionally, Lockheed has poured resources into the financial support and recruitment of students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), earning its place as the number one industry supporter of HBCU engineering institutions for seven years in a row.

But before anyone says this is a good thing, it’s worth pausing to ask ourselves how we got here in the first place.

When Black women hold the highest average student loan debt ($41,466), it’s hard to argue against additional financial support no matter where it comes from. Unless you start with a more basic question: why do Black women graduate with the largest debt burden? Why are HBCU endowments, on average, 70% smaller than other universities?

Why is $1.7tn for Lockheed’s F-35 fighter jet considered a worthwhile investment but $1.7tn in student debt relief considered a handout?

Why is $1.7tn for Lockheed’s F-35 fighter jet considered a worthwhile investment but $1.7tn in student debt relief considered a handout?

The answer boils down to what priorities we set as a nation and the investments we are willing to make based on those priorities.

US Housing Affordability in June Was the Worst Since 1989

From [HERE] It was more expensive to buy a U.S. home in June than it has been for any month in more than three decades, as record-high home prices collided with a surge in mortgage rates.

The National Association of Realtors’ housing-affordability index, which factors in family incomes, mortgage rates and the sales price for existing single-family homes, fell to 98.5 in June, the association said Friday. That marked the lowest level since June 1989, when the index stood at 98.3.

Existing-home sales have declined for five straight months. During that period, interest rates shot up while home prices steadily climbed, leading to the sharpest erosion of affordability for the U.S. housing market in years and pricing more buyers out of the market. Even with fewer transactions, prices continue to rise from a year ago because the number of homes for sale around the U.S. remains below historical levels.

The drop in affordability makes it especially hard for first-time buyers to enter the market and access the main path for the U.S. middle class to build wealth. First-time buyers typically need to save up for a down payment and can’t benefit from selling a previous home.

Conditions have eased a bit in recent weeks. Mortgage rates hit a 13-year high in June but have ticked lower since. Some sidelined buyers re-entered the market in July and August, according to real-estate agents.

“Thankfully, the worst in affordability could already be over for this cycle,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “Mortgage rates have calmed down in recent weeks, and the consistent wage growth ... is narrowing the gap with home-price growth.”

Existing-home prices have jumped 46% nationally in the past three years, according to NAR, fueled for much of that period by buyers seeking more space during the pandemic. Still, home buying remained relatively affordable in 2020 and 2021 because mortgage rates dropped to record lows, offsetting much of the price increases for buyers. [MORE]

Cops Want to Kill Blacks and Any Excuse Will Do: Video Shows White Denver Cop Shoot Black Man After He Put Gun Down, Put Hands Up. In Disregard of Life Cops Shot in Front of a Crowd, Hit 6 Bystanders

From [HERE] and [HERE] The Denver Police Department has released the bodycam video of the police shooting that left six bystanders injured in Lower Downtown on July 17.

Police say they shot Jordan Waddy after he pointed a gun at them. But the newly released video tells a different story, as it shows Waddy tossing his gun and putting his hands up just as officers began firing.

Bodycam video shows Waddy pulling the handgun from the lefthand side of his hoodie and throwing it onto the ground as he raises both hands into the air before police began firing at him from the front and the side.

Yamilette Bravo said “He did put the gun down, he threw it down and he backed away. He was in a surrendering position and yet they still shot,” Bravo said.

“There are so many civilians in that area, you basically shot innocent people. Why couldn’t you think of different ways?” Murillo inquired after watching the video.

Both students say the trust is trying, especially after seeing this video, which has now led to many people wondering what to do in this situation.

Guadalupe Murillo observed: “He did surrender, he did what almost everyone should do and officers still shot him, which is very disturbing for me.”

“I think also punishment. They did shoot innocent people. What’s going to be their punishment? If I were to go out on the street and I had a gun and I shot someone, I know I would have to serve time, I know I would have a punishment,” Bravo explained.

In a news conference, Matt Clark the commander of the Denver Police Department’s Major Crimes Division said the officers attested they had feared for their lives or the lives of their fellow officers, so they fired their weapons.

The officer on the sidewalk, who was several feet away to the right of Waddy, said he was aware of the crowd outside the Beer Hall and “explained he worked to obtain a clear sight picture of Mr. Waddy before firing one round. The officer stopped firing their weapons when they believe Mr. Waddy was no longer a threat,” Clark said in a critical incident briefing. 

The video show the cops statements are lies.

Investigators have not found any evidence that Waddy ever fired the weapon they say he pulled and the officers who fired their guns did not alert the crowd they were going to shoot, nor did they tell them to clear the area beforehand as they did not have time to do so, the commander said. [MORE]

Sacramento to Pay Only $1.7M to Stephon Clark’s Parents. White Cops Murdered Black Man, Shot at Him 20X Without Warning as he Held a Phone in Backyard and After he Fell to His Hands and Knees

From [HERE] The city of Sacramento on Friday said it had agreed to pay $1.7 million to the parents of Stephon Clark, an unarmed Black man who was shot seven times by city police officers in March 2018.

The payment settled the final portion of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by his parents and ends the family’s legal action against the city, the city attorney, Susana Alcala Wood, said in a statement.

Mr. Clark was 22 years old when two officers in the Sacramento Police Department chased him into his grandmother’s backyard and shot at him 20 times, killing him. His death ignited widespread protests in the capital city and prompted the city and the state to change their policies around the use of deadly force by police officers.

In October 2019, the city agreed to pay $2.4 million to Mr. Clark’s two sons, then ages 2 and 5, after his family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city and the two officers involved in the shooting. A later court ruling left his parents as the sole remaining plaintiffs, the statement said.

The two white officers who shot Mr. Clark, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, did not face criminal prosecution because Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a racist suspect liberal democrat declined to file charges. In fact she has Not Charged Any Cop in Over 30 Separate Shooting Investigations

Both white officers are still employed by the police department, a police spokesman said.

"The involved officers . . . fired 20 shots striking (Clark) approximately eight times," including shots as he was going to the ground and shots after he had already went down to the ground. At the time of the shooting, DECEDENT was unarmed, with nothing but a cell phone in his hand.”

"The conduct of officers Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet was willful, wanton, malicious, and done with reckless disregard for the rights and safety" of Clark, the lawsuit alleges. It says the officers violated Clark's basic civil rights.

At the time of the shooting Clark posed no immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to either Officers TERRENCE MERCADAL or JARED ROBINET, or any other person, especially since he was unarmed and since he was going to the ground or already on the ground when he was shot, including multiple shots to his back.

Officers did not give Clark a verbal warning that deadly force would be used prior to shooting him multiple times, despite it being feasible to do so and they did not issue appropriate commands to Clark. Further, the involved officers did not announce themselves as police prior to the shooting.

Further, Clark was not suspected of committing any serious crime, the involved officers did not observe him commit any crime, the involved officers had no information that he was armed with a weapon, and there was no information that he had physically injured anyone.

The involved officers shot Clark even though he was not an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officers or anyone else and there were other less than lethal options available. Officers TERRENCE MERCADAL and JARED ROBINET did not show a reverence for human life.

The involved officers are responsible for every single shot they fired and this was not an immediate defense of life situation.

After striking Clark approximately eight (8) times, TERRENCE MERCADAL and JARED ROBINET did not provide or summons timely medical attention for Clark, who was bleeding profusely and had obvious serious injuries, and TERRENCE MERCADAL and JARED ROBINET also did not allow and prevented responding medical personnel on-scene to timely render medical aid/assistance to him. [MORE]

An analysis of police video footage by The New York Times found that the police officers continued to shoot Mr. Clark after he had fallen to his hands and knees.

The killing ignited protests to demand accountability, with demonstrators stopping traffic in downtown Sacramento and on a major interstate that runs through the city.

Mr. Clark’s brother, Stevante Clark, said at a news conference on Friday that he would continue to call for the officers involved to be fired, charged and prosecuted, the local NBC affiliate KCRA reported.

“There’s no reason I should be out here talking about my brother’s legacy, defending my brother’s legacy, when the officers who murdered him should be proving their innocence in court,” Mr. Clark said. “We always have to relive the death of Stephon.”

Stevante Clark said that he had organized a protest for Saturday afternoon and that events would be held throughout the weekend in honor of what would have been Stephon Clark’s 27th birthday on Aug. 10.

“Stephon Clark’s death was a tragedy that brought pain and sorrow to his family and to our entire city,” the mayor of Sacramento, Darrell Steinberg, said in the city’s statement about the settlement. “Everyone wishes this heartbreaking event had not occurred.”

Investigations by the city, county and state and federal agencies found that the officers acted within the rules of the police department and the laws of the state.

“The fact that the officers acted within the law does not diminish the tragedy of what occurred,” Ms. Alcala Wood said in the statement. “This case has led our city to implement meaningful improvements to policy, and it will continue to do so.”

Mr. Clark’s death prompted California to raise the legal standardfor when police can use deadly force to “only when necessary in defense of human life.” Previously, the law allowed for the use of deadly force when “reasonable.”

The Sacramento Police Department also updated its body camera, foot pursuit and use-of-force policies.

Although Lexington, Mississippi is 85% Black, Elite Whites are in Control of Everything of Value. Said Phenomenon which Defies Statistical Laws of Probability is Finally Questioned in Police Lawsuit

THE WORLD IS 90% NON-WHITE BUT EVERYWHERE WHITES AND BLACKS LIVE TOGETHER THE WHITES ARE IN CONTROL. THERE IS NO SYSTEM OF BLACK SUPREMACY IN EXISTENCE

Truthout reports that “A flagrantly racist and violent ex-cop is bringing national attention to a small town in Mississippi where Black residents say they were systematically “terrorized” by police and the court system. Civil rights advocates condemn the officer’s actions and say they are a symptom of a larger problem that extends far beyond one rural community and a “bad apple” among the local police.

A lawsuit filed in federal court this week claims white police in the rural, majority-Black town of Lexington, Mississippi, targeted Black residents and subjected them to false arrests, brutality, excessive fines and unreasonable searches. The department’s discriminatory intent was made clear by a leaked recording of Sam Dobbins, the former police chief, hurling racist and homophobic slurs and bragging about killing 13 people as an officer, the lawsuit argues. In the recording, Dobbins relishes the idea that residents “fear” him.

Dobbins made national headlines after a Black officer secretly recorded 17 minutes of audio capturing his former boss repeatedly using words such as “faggot” and “N—–” while boasting about police brutality. Dobbins patrolled the streets of Lexington “with impunity” despite a well-known history of harassment, racist remarks and allegations that he jailed a man on bunk charges while working for a different Mississippi county in 2013 and nearly beat the man to death, according to the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, which first revealed the audio recording. The officer who secretly recorded Dobbins reportedly resigned on July 19.’

Local aldermen voted 3-2 to fire Dobbins on July 20 to applause from Black residents. However, those residents and activists say the problem of racist policing in Lexington and across the South is much bigger than Dobbins. Jill Collen Jefferson, founder and director of JULIAN, the Mississippi-based civil rights group that filed the lawsuit, said it’s time to shine a light on the ongoing racist abuses in Lexington. Representing several local Black plaintiffs, the group is asking a federal judge for a temporary restraining order on Lexington police to protect Black residents.

Civil rights groups and local plaintiffs are also calling on the Justice Department to investigate, as federal officials have done in larger cities with patterns of racist police abuse, a practice that was temporary halted under former President Donald Trump before resuming under President Joe Biden. Allegations included in the lawsuit also come from witnesses working for the Lexington police, who reported that Dobbins and other officers brutally beat residents after handcuffing them or dragging them out of the back of patrol cars. 

“There needs to be a formal, federal investigation, and not just of the one office or two offices or the police department, but of this entire town,” Jefferson said in an interview. “It’s really hard to explain [to outsiders], but every branch of government in Lexington is corrupt, every branch of government is controlled by white supremacy.”

Of Lexington’s roughly 1,800 residents, about 85 percent are Black, but former Police Chief Dobbins, the local prosecutor, the judge, the mayor, and other top officials are all white and politically intertwined with one wealthy white family, according to Jefferson. Katherine Barrett Riley, the city’s attorney and a member of the family Jefferson described, did not respond to a request for comment. 

Despite his checkered past, Dobbins was hired by city officials to “control” the local Black population and boost revenue with fines and legal fees, Jefferson said. Residents reported hundreds of roadblocks set up in the tiny town to target and stop Black drivers. Two plaintiffs, both Black men, say they were targeted and arrested on bogus charges — including for possessing marijuana that was allegedly planted by police — after speaking out about police harassment at a community “know your rights” meeting earlier this year.

Former resident Tasha Walden said she fled Lexington and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to protect her family from Dobbins, who repeatedly wrote baseless tickets and made “repeated excuses” to arrest her son without a warrant. Walden’s son, who followed her and now lives in Memphis, is one of several plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which lays out a disturbing pattern of racial profiling, excessive force and sexual harassment by Lexington police.

“It’s a nightmare, it’s terrible, people are afraid to even walk down the street to go to the store to pay bills, because every time Black people come out, it’s always a problem,” Walden said over the phone on Thursday. “No matter if you ride or if you’re walking, it’s still a problem, especially the young Blacks, the younger generations, it’s a problem for them.” [MORE]

Anon states:

Q: Are you saying blacks cannot be racist toward whites?

A: That’s correct. Of course, all people can be hateful or prejudiced. Those terms describe individual behaviors, not systematic power. Racism is the COLLECTIVE behaviors of a group. A white individual within a system of racism/white supremacy has the implicit or explicit support of that system IF they choose to practice racism.

If a poor man robs a rich man at gunpoint that doesn’t mean the poor man is more powerful (economically and politically) than the rich man. The poor man is an individual who committed a crime of opportunity. There are no powerful institutions or systems that support his right to rob the rich man, but there are institutions and systems that allow the rich man to rob the poor man - which is why he doesn’t need a gun to do it.

A black person who mistreats a white person doesn’t mean black people are more powerful (economically and politically) than white people. Never confuse the actions of a black individual (or a group of black individuals) that mistreats someone white as proof that black racism exists. Their “power” is limited ONLY to what they can do as individuals. There are NO black institutions or systems that support, defend, or finance the right of blacks to mistreat whites.

There are NO black individuals or black organizations that have the power to strip whites of their collective right to live where they want, work where they want, get an education wherever they want, or control what white people do collectively in ANY area of human activity. There are NO black institutions that are more powerful than white institutions. Therefore, blacks do not have the COLLECTIVE POWER to diminish the quality of life for the white collective. [MORE]

SYSTEM OF RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY IS A BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM OF SURVIVAL. In reality, persons who classify themselves as Whites make up less than 10% of the world's population. That is, 90% of the world's population of 7 billion people are non-white. [MORE]

Dr. Bobby Wright observed, “although the world is 90% non-white, everywhere one finds whites and blacks in close proximity to each other, whether it is Chicago or Zimbabwe, the whites are in control. Yet Blacks rarely question this extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every know statistical law of probability.” [MORE]

Dr. Amos Wilson, a true rebel to lionize, similarly stated, "[Blacks] must question how is it that a minority people [whites], a very small percentage of mankind, a people who are essentially resourceless in terms of their natural resources, maintain the power they have. Why is it that the peoples [Afrikans] whose lands contain the wealth of the earth are the poorest people? This implies that there must exist a political, social situation wherein the mental orientation of our people must be so structured that the power and the ability of the Europeans to rule this earth are continually maintained.' [MORE] 

Dr. Blynd explains, "Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self-perpetuating and systematic." White Supremacy is a “power group dynamic” involving the relationship between whites and Blacks in a vast system of unequal power. It 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. [MORE] 

Fuller states, "in a socio-material system dominated by White Supremacists, all major decisions involving non-white people are made by White Supremacists. The White Supremacists are their bosses, their masters, and their major decision-makers. Whatever a Black person gets, and/or is allowed to keep, is the result of decisions made by White Supremacists. This is the functional meaning of White Supremacy (Racism) that many people — particularly non-white people — prefer not to acknowledge. 

Wilson asks Black people, 

‘Who has control of your food? Who has control of your electricity? Who has control of your water? Of your jobs? Who tells you what to wear when you go to work? Who tells you when to come to work...when to leave...when to go to lunch...how to speak...how to write...how to do this...how to do that...and how are these things taught, and how they are conditioned?"-- It is by reward and punishment. " You do this you get paid; you don't do this you don't get paid; you get a raise, you get docked. What do we have here?’

To live under the power of another people is to be created by that people. To be rewarded or punished by that people is to be created by that people. We are living under them as the result of the exercise of the power of another people over us. Therefore, if we wish to change this situation (i.e., the conditions under which we live), then we must change the power relationships. If we are to prevent ourselves from being created by another people and are to engage in the act of self creation, then we must change the power relations.’ [MORE]

NAACP Confuse 'Demands' with Begging and 'Public Servant' with Master. Authorities Keep Policies, Reports Secret in Fanta Bility Case. 8 Yr Old Girl Murdered by Cops who Fired Recklessly Into a Crowd

Larken Rose explains, “In the United States there is a ruling class and a subject class, and the differences between them are many and obvious. One group commands, the other obeys. One group demands huge sums of money, the other group pays. One group tells the other group where they can live, where they can work, what they can eat, what they can drink, what they can drive, who they can work for, what work they can do, and so on. One group takes and spends trillions of dollars of what the other group earns. One group consists entirely of economic parasites, while the efforts of the other group produce all the wealth. In this system, it is patently obvious who commands and who obeys. The people are not the “government,” by any stretch of the imagination, and it requires profound denial to believe otherwise.” [MORE]

Among other things FUNKTIONARY describes the NAACP as the Negro-Anglo-American Corporate Preserve or National Association for the Advancement of Confused People. [MORE]

From [HERE] The NAACP Darby branch and several community groups on Thursday called on the Sharon Hill mayor, police chief and borough council to release current police policy and procedures on deadly force.

Sheila Carter, president of the NAACP Darby branch, said she filed a freedom of information request on Aug. 2, seeking the deadly force policies and the contents of a heavily redacted report on the nine-month investigation by Kelley Hodge, a lawyer at Fox-Rothschild LLP, into the shooting death of Fanta Bility last August.

“If I am not going to get the recommendations from Ms. Hodge, then give me and the residents of Sharon Hill and as president of the NAACP, a copy of the policies and procedures that are in place for your officers,” said Carter, who is a Sharon Hill resident and a former county police officer.

Carter made her comments at a news conference outside of the Sharon Hill Borough Council Hall. She was joined by Cathy Hicks, president of the NAACP Philadelphia Chapter; Malcolm Yates, convener of the Delaware County Black Caucus; Alascal Wisner, executive director of the Minority Center for Participation and a representative of the United Coalition for Fanta Bility.

Bility was shot in August 2021 as she walked with her mother following a football game at Academy Park High School.

Three officers, identified as Brian Devaney, Sean Dolan, and Devon Smith, fired their weapons as the game was letting out in response to gunfire they heard in the vicinity that was unrelated to the football game.

They fired 25 shots at a black Chevy Impala, which they believed was where the shots were coming from.

That vehicle was passing the exiting crowd, which included Bility. Each officer was charged with 10 counts of reckless endangerment and one count of manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter, according the to the charging documents.

After a grand jury investigation, three Sharon Hill police officers were arrested in January and charged by Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer with manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

The police officers have been released in lieu of $500,000 unsecured bail and are awaiting trial.

In a letter to the Sharon Hill mayor, Borough Council and police chief, Carter wrote:

“As a community leader and resident of Sharon Hill, I have a right to know what rules and regulations, policies and procedures you have in place to ensure all residents, including myself and my family feel safe. I have a right to know that all officers are properly trained to be able to respond to active shooter incidents without doing harm to innocent bystanders. As a mother, my heart aches for Fanta’s family. The tragedy that took place on August 27, 2021 should have never happened. We all know and can agree to that fact. The Bility family is still in mourning and, they, along with the residents and leaders of Sharon Hill and vicinity are left one year later with more questions than answers. Therefore, we are asking for you, the Mayor and Police Chief, to provide the public with some answers. Having this information won’t bring Fanta back, but it will allow us to feel safer and know that the Sharon Hill Police Department has policies, procedures and proper training for officers in place to ensure what took place last year never, ever happens again. In order to make things right, you have to acknowledge what went wrong and tell us how you are correcting the problems that exist within the department. Full access to the independent report that was commissioned by Borough Council would do that, but in the interim, we hope you will do the right thing. Transparency is key and the residents of Sharon Hill and our community deserve answers and information.”

Carter and the group planned a protest at the Sharon Hill Borough Council meeting Thursday evening (after Tribune presstime) to address the Council and “ensure what took place last year in the case of Fanta Bility never happens again.”

On Aug. 2, the borough released its heavily redacted version of a police report about procedures. At the time, the Sharon Hill Borough Council solicitor, Courtney Richardson, said the goal of the report was to “provide measurable information that can guide future planning, training and resources allocation.”

But releasing the redacted report was a public relations disaster and was blasted by Bruce L. Castor Jr., the attorney representing the family of Fanta Bility, who said the report was “completely unacceptable.”

According to the DA’s office, the tragic incident started with gunshots on the 900 block of Coates Street in Sharon Hill after a verbal altercation between a 16-year-old Sharon Hill teenager and Hasein Strand, 18, of Collingdale.

The DA’s office said the gunfire included two shots in the direction of the police officers, who were monitoring the crowd leaving the stadium after that night’s football game.

The police officers discharged their service weapons in the direction of the Academy Park football field. The investigation by Stollsteimer’s office concluded that the shots from one of the officers killed Fanta and wounded three others who were passengers in a car traveling nearby.

Genocide: UK Government Data Shows 1,000 More People than Usual are Dying Each Week from Illnesses and Conditions Other Than COVID. Since May, Nearly 10,000 More Deaths than the 5yr Average

From [DAVID ICKE] and [HERE] and [HERE] The effects of lockdown could be causing more deaths than Covid as nearly 10,000 more deaths than the five-year average are recorded, ONS data has found.

Released on Tuesday, the Office for National Statistics’ figures for excess deaths in the UK has revealed that about 1,000 more people than usual are dying each week from illnesses and conditions other than Covid.

This makes the rate for excess deaths 14.4 per cent higher than the five-year average, meaning 1,350 more people have died than usual in the week ending 5 August.

Covid-related deaths made up for 469 of them, but the remaining 881 have ‘not been explained’. Since the start of June, nearly 10,000 more deaths unrelated to Covid have been recorded than the five-year average, making up around 1,089 per week.

This figure is over three times the number of people who died from Covid, 2,811, over the same period.

ONS analysis takes into consideration the ageing population changes, yet still found a ‘substantial ongoing excess’.

The Telegraph has reported that the Department of Health may have ordered an investigation into the concerning numbers as there is potential for them to be linked to the delays in medical treatment as a result of the ongoing strain on the NHS.

Lockdowns pushed back treatment for conditions including cancer, diabetes and heart disease, with the British Heart Foundation telling the publication it was ‘deeply concerned’ by the findings.

The Stroke Association said it had been anticipating the rise in deaths for some time.

Noting a ‘disturbing’ number of mental health conditions, undetected cancers and cardiac problems, chief executive of private GP service Doctorcall Dr Charles Levinson said: ‘Hundreds and hundreds of people dying every week, what’s going on?

‘Delays in seeking and receiving healthcare are no doubt the driving force, in my view. Daily Covid statistics demanded the nation’s attention, yet these terrifying figures barely get a look in. A full and urgent government investigation is required immediately,’ he told the Telegraph.

Only last week England-wide statistics showed that emergency care standards in hospitals hit an all-time low, with over 20,000 patients facing a 12+ hour wait for medical treatment.

CDC Data Shows COVID Injections are Killing and Causing Cancers. A Substantial Increase in Cancer Rates Since 4/21. The Dependent Media Ignores Blight Supremacy (genocide) b/c They are Complicit In It

Shamburgers/Plandemics: CDC Not Advising to Stop Eating at Wendys after 37 People Get Sick from E-Coli. If Their Food Kills as Many People as COVID Shots (30,000) Will CDC Shut it Down or Mandate it?

UNLIKE COVID INJECTION PROVIDERS, MANUFACTURERS AND ADMINISTRATORS, WENDY’S CAN BE SUED BY PEOPLE FOR INJURY AND DEATH CAUSED BY CONSUMING ITS UNHEALTHY FOOD.

From [HERE] Wendy’s restaurants have been associated with an E. coli outbreak reported in four states, with 37 people infected and 10 hospitalized, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. 

No deaths have been reported.

A specific food has not been confirmed as the source of the outbreak, according to the CDC, but 22 of 26 sick people reported eating sandwiches at Wendy’s restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania before getting sick.

As a precaution, Wendy’s is removing the romaine lettuce being used in sandwiches from restaurants in that region, since most sick people reported eating sandwiches with romaine lettuce, according to the agency.

The CDC said it is not advising that people avoid eating at Wendy’s restaurants or that people stop eating romaine lettuce. 

The agency is investigating to confirm whether romaine lettuce is the source of the outbreak, and whether the lettuce used at the Wendy’s stores was served or sold at other businesses. [MORE]

Meanwhile VAERS data released Friday, August 5, 2022 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 1,371,474 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 29,981 deaths and 249,116 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 29, 2022.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new data showing a total of 1,371,474 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 29, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). That’s an increase of 13,534 adverse events over the previous week.

VAERS is the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.

The data included a total of 29,981 reports of deaths — an increase of 191 over the previous week — and 249,116 serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 1,430 compared with the previous week.

Of the 29,981 reported deaths, 19,348 cases are attributed to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, 7,981 cases to Moderna, 2,603 cases to Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and no cases yet reported for Novavax.

Excluding “foreign reports” to VAERS, 851,372 adverse events, including 13,894 deaths and 87,050 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 29, 2022.

Foreign reports are reports foreign subsidiaries send to U.S. vaccine manufacturers. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, if a manufacturer is notified of a foreign case report that describes an event that is both serious and does not appear on the product’s labeling, the manufacturer is required to submit the report to VAERS.

Of the 13,894 U.S. deaths reported as of July 29, 7% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 54% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.

In the U.S., 603 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered as of July 27, including 357 million doses of Pfizer, 227 million doses of Moderna and 19 million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

Every Friday, VAERS publishes vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed.

Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for 6-month-olds to 5-year-olds show:

• 2,622 adverse events, including 81 cases rated as serious and 3 reported deaths.

• 4 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of “myocarditis,” which excludes cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the emergency department.

• 15 reports of blood clotting disorders.

• 25 reports of seizures.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for 5- to 11-year-olds show:

• 12,379 adverse events, including 315 rated as serious and 9 reported deaths.

• 24 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

• 47 reports of blood clotting disorders.

• 102 reports of seizures.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for 12- to 17-year-olds show:

• 32,910 adverse events, including 1,850 rated as serious and 45 reported deaths.

The most recent report of a death in the 12- to 17-year-old age group was that of a 17-year-old male from Pennsylvania (VAERS I.D. ​2396146) who died from lymphocytic myocarditisapproximately five months after receiving his first dose of Pfizer. The patient had no relevant medical history, according to the report.

The report states the “patient was just hanging with buddies at a soccer game, patient just collapsed, just died right there, EMT rushed patient to hospital and tried 42 minutes of CPR — nothing happened. Once autopsy was done, the patient definitely had myocarditis, and think it was lymphocytic myocarditis.”

The patient did not receive any other vaccine within four weeks of his first dose of Pfizer. The batch and lot number have been requested and “will be submitted if and when received.” However, this information will not be available to the public. 

According to the CDC, “VAERS data available to the public include only the initial report data to VAERS. Updated data which contains data from medical records and corrections reported during follow up are used by the government for analysis. However, for numerous reasons including data consistency, these amended data are not available to the public.”

• 63 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death — with 97% of cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

• 658 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis with 645 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

• 165 reports of blood clotting disorders with all cases attributed to Pfizer.

• 20 cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) with all cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

U.S. VAERS data from Dec. 14, 2020, to July 29, 2022, for all age groups combined, show:

• 20% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.

• 55% of those who died were male, 41% were female and the remaining death reports did not include the gender of the deceased.

• The average age of death was 73.

• As of July 29, 5,684 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines, including 1,777 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.

• Of the 3,629 cases of Bell’s Palsy reported, 51% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 40% to Moderna and 8% to J&J.

• 907 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome, with 42% of cases attributed to Pfizer, 30% to Moderna and 27% to J&J.

• 2,298 reports of anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.

• 1,750 reports of myocardial infarction.

• 14,303 reports of blood-clotting disorders in the U.S. Of those, 6,401 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 5,145 reports to Moderna and 2,722 reports to J&J.

• 4,287 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis with 2,627 cases attributed to Pfizer, 1,456 cases to Moderna and 188 cases to J&J.

• 14 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with 8 cases attributed to Pfizer, 5 cases to Moderna and 1 case to J&J.

• 272 cases of POTS with 167 cases attributed to Pfizer, 87 cases to Moderna and 17 cases to J&J.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) asks anyone who has experienced an adverse reaction, to any vaccine, to file a report following these three steps. [MORE]

Trying to Kill Us: Canadian Province Ends Monthly Reporting after Its Data Shows "the Vaccinated" are at Higher Risk of Dying From COVID and Being Hospitalized and No Survival Benefit for the Boosted

[CHD] reports that Manitoba, population 1.4 million, was the first Canadian province whose public health agency reported data showing those who are fully vaccinated (not boosted) for COVID-19 are at higher risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals.

The age-standardized data are from May 2022, but last appeared in Manitoba’s August 3 report:

For the month of May, Figure 6 (above) Manitoba Public Health reported that unvaccinated individuals were 40% less at risk of COVID-19-associated death than fully vaccinated individuals, and their risk was the same as boosted individuals.

Though three months old, the May data are, as of this writing, the last reported by the Canadian province.

Unvaccinated people also were 30% less likely to require hospitalization than vaccinated people, and 10% more likely to be hospitalized than boosted people.

Unvaccinated people were more likely to require ICU admission — 20% more than fully vaccinated people and 80% more likely than boosted individuals.

Manitoba did not report on these outcomes for the month of June or any time period since.

Manitoba’s latest report, dated August 11, announced:

“Monthly updates about severe outcomes after vaccination have been discontinued starting Week 31 [July 31-Aug. 6]. Manitoba Health will continue to monitor COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and report periodically when data allow.”

At the time of this writing, Manitoba Public Heath had not responded to a request to explain why it stopped reporting this data.

Despite their latest data showing an increased risk of death and hospitalizations in vaccinated individuals and no survival benefit in the boosted, the authors paradoxically summarize:

“COVID-19 vaccines continue to provide important protection against serious illness following infection due to all variants of concern (VOC) of COVID-19.”

Public health agencies stop reporting inconvenient data

Though independent journalist Alex Berenson brought attention to this official data, there have been no news reports in the mainstream media about this disquieting trend in Manitoba.

Nor have the media reported on why Manitoba suddenly stopped releasing this data. This appears to be part of a larger trend of public agencies ending reporting on severe COVID-19 outcomes by vaccination status.

For example, the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC), like Manitoba, for a time produced weekly reports that included age-stratified data on severe COVID-19 outcomes by vaccination status.

But at the end of July, the BC Centre for Disease Control website stated, “As of July 28, the Outcomes by Vax and Vax Donut Charts have been retired.”

CTV News Vancouver, a Canadian news station, asked the BC Ministry of Health for an explanation. An emailed response from a ministry spokesperson read, in part:

“As most of the population has now been vaccinated with at least two doses of vaccine and many more have been infected with COVID-19, the data became hard to interpret.”

Ontario, next door to Manitoba, also used to report weekly on severe COVID-19 outcomes by vaccination status.

However, the “COVID-19 Vaccine Data in Ontario” website now states that hospitalization by vaccination status data and cases by vaccination status data will no longer be published as of June 30, and that case rates by vaccination status and age group data will no longer be published as of July 13.

Ontario continues to report deaths by vaccination status, but as raw data in a CSV file that can be downloaded and that requires the person who downloads it to generate the graph.

Scotland stops reporting data due to ‘increasing risk of misinterpretation from growing complexities’

Scotland releases weekly reports and used to report severe COVID-19 outcomes by vaccination status.

In the weekly report released on March 2, Public Health Scotland (PHS) announced that severe outcomes by vaccination status “will no longer be reported on a weekly basis from 16 February 2022.”

Officials said:

“Due to the increasing risk of misinterpretation from growing complexities as the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year (as described below), PHS has taken the decision to no longer report COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status on a weekly basis.”

If we examine Scotland’s last published comparative data, we see the unvaccinated enjoyed significant protection from infection compared to the vaccinated: [MORE]

Whistleblowers say Military Members are Forced to Take Emergency Use COVID Shots, Not the Approved Shot which is Unavailable in US - Violates Rights to Refuse Emergency Vaccines and Medical Treatment

From [CHD] A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) service member alleges the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is administering COVID-19 vaccines from vials of Pfizer’s Comirnaty-labeled vaccines that are not produced at U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved manufacturing facility.

Lt. Chad R. Coppin, in a July 30 declaration submitted with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) under penalty of perjury, detailed his personal investigation into the availability and origin of Comirnaty-labeled COVID-19 vaccine vials at U.S. military facilities.

Coppin also relayed his concerns in an interview with The Defender, as did Holly Freincle, the wife of a U.S. military service member stationed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, who corroborated Coppin’s claims that Comirnaty-labeled vaccine vials are appearing at military service facilities.

Freincle told The Defender Comirnaty-labeled vaccines are being administered at Fort Detrick and that her husband’s retirement is currently in jeopardy if he does not accept vaccination with this “FDA-approved” vaccine.

Until now, the DOD has claimed the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered under an FDA-issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), is “interchangeable” with the fully licensed Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine — which until recently, was said to be unavailable at military facilities.

The controversy surrounding Pfizer’s EUA vaccine versus the FDA-approved Comirnaty vaccine has figured prominently in several lawsuits involving the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates for military service members.

That’s partly because FDA regulations prohibit the mandatory administration of EUA products, despite the DOD’s claim that Pfizer’s EUA vaccine can be mandated because it’s “interchangeable” with Comirnaty.

In November 2021, a federal judge determined, as part of a broader order involving a military vaccine mandate lawsuit, that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Pfizer Comirnaty vaccines are not “interchangeable.”

Comirnaty-labeled vials at military facilities not produced at FDA-licensed facility

In his July 30 declaration, Coppin, who has served with the USCG since March 2002, reported that after a long period of unavailability, the “Comirnaty” vaccine began to appear at U.S. military facilities in June.

This included the Juneau, Alaska, USCG medical clinic where Coppin is stationed and where “a shipment of 60 Comirnaty vials packaged in six boxes of ten vials” was delivered on June 10.

According to Coppin, “prior to this date, only emergency use authorization shots have been available” at the Juneau facility and other military installations.

Coppin said the sudden availability of Comirnaty-labeled vaccine vials raised suspicions.

“I found [the delivery of Comirnaty-labeled vials] interesting as they arrived unannounced to any service members and to date, FDA approved Comirnaty labeled vials had never been seen in the USA,” he wrote in his declaration.

This, along with a sense of duty, led Coppin to investigate the matter further and eventually come out as a whistleblower.

Coppin stated:

“As a commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, it is my responsibility to uphold the Coast Guard’s core values of Honor, Respect, and Devotion to Duty.

“It is for this reason that I present … information that brings into question the ability of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue to push the lawful order of making service members partake in the injection of the ‘Comirnaty labeled’ COVID-19 shots that recently appeared at select military installations across the country.”

Medical staff at the Juneau facility told Coppin the Comirnaty-labeled vials were shipped there from the U.S. Army installation at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

In a subsequent phone call to the Maryland facility, Coppin alleged a U.S. Army civilian contractor told him the Comirnaty “grey cap” vials were “sent to Ft. Detrick from the Kalamazoo, MI Pfizer plant.”

Upon inquiring for information about where the Comirnaty-labeled vials were manufactured, he was told that he “would have to call Pfizer at Kalamazoo, MI for any additional information.”

In a July 7 phone call with a Pfizer customer service representative, Coppin said he was informed the Comirnaty-labeled vaccines with lot number FW 1331 that were shipped to the Juneau facility were “manufactured in France” on Jan. 28, 2022, and had an expiration date of Dec. 31, 2022.

However, he was provided “no other specific information regarding what Pfizer location, city or address in France” the vaccine was produced in.

The phone call between Coppin and Pfizer’s customer service representative was recorded and made publicly available as part of a podcast hosted by Dr. Samuel Sigoloff, a doctor who granted medical exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and who subsequently was ordered not to discuss COVID-19 or see patients.

According to Coppin, “The significance of the France manufacturing location is that it is not an authorized manufacturing location as per the FDA’s Comirnaty BLA Supplement Approval letterdated December 16, 2021,” which granted approval for the vaccine to be “manufactured at the Pfizer Manufacturing Belgium NV, Puurs, Belgium … facility.”

This is significant, Coppin said, because “we are being told that our military medical clinics at select locations across the country have the FDA approved Comirnaty” and that “Pfizer has stated on this recorded phone call that Lot number FW 1331 was manufactured in France which makes this not an FDA approved version for distribution in the United States of America according to the approved manufacturing locations declared in its BLA license.”

“Commanding Officers are using this shipment of Comirnaty from Ft. Detrick to try and convince and coerce the remaining unvaccinated service members into compliance with their order to receive a fully FDA approved Covid-19 vaccine,” Coppin alleged.

Refusal to receive ‘Comirnaty’ vaccine jeopardizing husband’s military retirement 

Freincle corroborated Coppin’s claims that Comirnaty-labeled vaccine vials are appearing at military service facilities and that unvaccinated service members are being pressured to get vaccinated with it.

She said her husband’s retirement, after 19 years of service, is now in jeopardy unless he receives the “Comirnaty” vaccine.

Freincle told The Defender:

“My husband … just had his administrative separation board after 19 years.

“They recommended separation, but said they would hold it for 60 days if he wanted to get the labeled Comirnaty vaccine before that point.”

According to Freincle, military officials also provided her husband “a list of duty stations that would have the ‘Comirnaty’ labeled vials.”

“To our knowledge, they are actually administering [Comirnaty-labeled vials] under the impression of receiving the FDA-licensed product,” Freincle said, adding that previously, “the EUA Pfizer-BioNTech doses were being used.”

According to Freincle, “All EUA doses are still being administered along with the new ‘Comirnaty-labeled’ doses,” despite previous DOD claims — alleged in lawsuits against the agency — that the “interchangeable” Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine would continue to be administered until doses of the Comirnaty vaccine become available.

Freincle confirmed the military’s claims of “interchangeability” between the Pfizer-BioNTech and Pfizer Comirnaty vaccines, telling The Defender:

“Service members who were given the EUA Pfizer BioNTech [vaccine] were told that they were receiving a dose with the same formulation as the FDA-approved shot and that they were being used interchangeably.

“The records we have seen all say Pfizer-BioNTech.”

Does the military have something to hide?

Neither the USCG nor Pfizer have refuted Coppin’s claims, he said.

“To date, Coast Guard medical clinics nor Pfizer [have] produced any documentation attesting to the manufacturing location of the Comirnaty labeled vials currently being offered to service members,” he wrote in his declaration.

In a subsequent communication with The Defender, Coppin added, “This France information punches a hole in that fabricated argument being pitched to us by our commanding officers and medical staff.”

Coppin alleged the DOD, federal government and Pfizer appear to be concealing evidence that would, “beyond any doubt,” confirm his allegations.

He told The Defender:

“In order to be absolutely sure, we need an insider at Pfizer to produce a printout showing the manufacturing location truly is France of this Comirnaty Lot FW1331, to back up my recorded phone call.

“I spoke to HHS [the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] and one of the lead doctors responsible for the rollout of EUA and BLA COVID shots to America got ordered to not talk to me. I can’t get my ‘where was Lot 1331 manufactured’ question answered in writing, by either HHS, Pfizer, DOD, FDA or USCG.”

Freincle expressed concerns over where the actions of the military and federal government may lead.

“So many, like my husband, have been lied to and coerced since last year. My husband’s retirement is now hanging in the balance after 19 years of dedicated service.

“I myself have multiple autoimmune diseases and rely on my monthly biologic medication. We also know there is a possibility of shedding with the vaccine, and I worry about that as an immunocompromised individual.”

Coppin concluded his declaration by stating his “hope that this information will generate an investigation to confirm the manufacturing locations of Comirnaty Lot FW1331 and other Lot numbers being shipped to US military installations.”

US Air Force Lieutenant Blows the Whistle but The Dependent Media is Not Listening: Medical Officer Claims Military Authorities are Covering Up COVID Injection Injuries

From [HERE] The U.S. military is allegedly covering up data on injuries from the COVID-19 vaccines, according to a whistleblower. Lt. Mark Bashaw, a preventive medicine officer with the U.S. Air Force, has stepped forward to reveal how vaccine injuries are being hidden from the public, and how the military’s database that tracks vaccine injuries has been altering data.

Liars at NYT who Destroyed Informed Consent with Myth-Information; ‘COVID Shots are Safe and Prevent COVID, Illness and Death, Stop Spread and Work Against Variants,’ Now Smear Dr Mercola Over DisInfo

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In July 2021, The New York Times (NYT) published the hit piece, “The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online,” in which they made several blatantly false claims about me

• In the NYT’s July 2021 hit piece, the author, Sheera Frenkel, cited an article I’d published in which I declared the COVID shots a medical fraud, as they don’t prevent infection, provide immunity or stop transmission. According to Frenkel, that was misinformation

• In early 2021, Bill Gates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mainstream media, Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Biden all said that if you got the shots, you would not get COVID and you would not transmit it to others. Fast-forward to today, and the reality of the situation is self-evident. The shots do not prevent infection or spread. Biden and Fauci, both double jabbed and boosted, have themselves admitted contracting COVID twice

• Now, the NYT is upping the ante with an entire documentary dedicated to yours truly, titled “Superspreader”

• The NYT documentary premieres Friday, August 19, 2022, at 10 p.m. Eastern and 10 p.m. Pacific time, on FX and Hulu

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From [MERCOLA PDF] In July 2021, The New York Times (NYT) published the hit piece,1 "The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online," in which they made several blatantly false claims about me. Now, the NYT is upping the ante with an entire documentary dedicated to yours truly, titled "Superspreader."

Ever since my book "The Truth About COVID-19" came out, the global cabal seems to have lost their collective minds. The New York Times has printed demonstrably false information about me on multiple occasions, CNN reporters have invaded my office and pursued me on my bicycle with unmarked vehicles, the president of the United States has utilized his federal agencies to target me — and my personal and business bank accounts were closed.

Twitter has banned anyone from sharing any link to my website, YouTube banned my account with over 15 years of content, while Facebook and Google have done everything possible to make me disappear. It certainly would be much easier to cave under the pressure, but if we don't stand up for our rights and freedom now — when will it be too late? I will continue 'superspreading' truth and health until my last days.

NYT Hit Parade Continues With 'Superspreader'

In an August 5, 2022, TV review, Alex Reif writes:2

"News can spread like a virus. In our fast-paced world, it doesn't take long for either to spread around, which is why it's so important to get your information from a good source. 

In the latest installment of the FX series The New York Times Presents, viewers will get a perfect example of this with 'Superspreader,' which takes a look at one doctor with a massive following, who is credited as being the top spreader of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 and vaccine in the wellness industry ...

One of the pre-credit notes at the end of the documentary states that FDA Commissioner Robert Califf considers misinformation to be the leading cause of death in the country and because of this ...

[A]nother highlight of the film is an interview with Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Encountering Digital Hate who ranked Mercola at the top of 'The Disinformation Dozen,' a numbers-based list of the twelve most influential people leading the COVID-19 anti-vaccination effort. 

We also see how Mercola was de-platformed by several social media companies and how that hasn't done all that much to stop the spread of misinformation. 

At face value, The New York Times Presents 'Superspreader' is about Dr. Joseph Mercola, the empire he built, and the people who believe everything he says without question. But what viewers ultimately walk away with is a reminder that if something seems too good to be true, it most surely is."

The NYT documentary premieres Friday, August 19, 2022, at 10 p.m. Eastern and 10 p.m. Pacific time, on FX and Hulu.

In the NYT's July 2021 hit piece, the author, Sheera Frenkel, cited an article I'd published in which she says I questioned "the legal definition of vaccines" and declared the COVID shots were "a medical fraud," for the simple reason that they don't prevent infections, they don't provide immunity and don't stop transmission of the infection.

According to Frenkel, that was misinformation. According to the U.S. government and its "experts," the COVID jabs worked like any other vaccine. Check out the short video above for a sampling of what Bill Gates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mainstream media, Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Biden were saying about the shots in early 2021.

The clear message — the promise — was that if you got the shots, you would not get COVID and you would not transmit it to others. Getting the population "vaccinated" would end the pandemic, for sure. Fast-forward to today, and the reality of the situation is beyond self-evident.

In February 2021, I warned that a medical fraud was being committed, and today, evidence from around the world show I was correct.

Biden, fully vaxxed and boosted has had COVID twice. Ditto for Fauci and a long list of government officials around the world. Outbreaks have repeatedly occurred at events where every single person present was fully vaxxed. So, the reality is that, back in February 2021, I warned that a medical fraud was being committed, and today, evidence from around the world show I was correct.

The shots do not prevent you from being infected, and they don't prevent you from spreading it to others. As such, the COVID shots do not function as a vaccine at all, and mass vaccination cannot end the pandemic because you're just as infectious if you get the shot and contract COVID as you would be if you were unjabbed.

Yet, despite the fact that time has vindicated me, the NYT has decided to double down and put out an entire documentary to cement the "superspreader of misinformation" label to my name when it really should be permanently attached to their own. It probably is important to note that they started their efforts on this video last year, in 2021.

'Easily Disprovable' Assertions Are in Fact True

In her 2021 hit piece, Frenkel also highlighted my comments about the COVID shots' ability to "alter your genetic coding, essentially turning you into a bioweapon spike protein factory that has no off-switch." According to Frenkel, these assertions "were easily disprovable."

But did she disprove them? No. Here's the reality: mRNA vaccines are by definition a genetic instruction set. That's what messenger RNA (mRNA) is. And the mRNA created by Pfizer or Moderna are synthetic instructions that have never before existed in humans.

This is true for a variety of reasons, but the primary one is the substitution of pseudouridine for uridine to prevent the mRNA from being degraded. Natural mRNA is normally rapidly destroyed and this is by design as your body is very precise about producing proteins and does not produce them willy-nilly.

So is there an off switch? Absolutely not. There's no off-switch programmed into these jabs. They are relying on your body's normal degradation systems. The biotech industry has even referred to this reprogramming of your body as turning you into a "human bioreactor."3

If an off-switch existed, the manufacturers would have assured us of that fact by now. In fact, they probably would have used the existence of a timed off-switch as the justification for boosters, but that has never come up. We know for sure that the mRNA jabs last at least 60 days and that is all we have for hard data. They more than likely last for six months and in some cases could last for years.

Asking Pointed, Nuanced Questions Is Bad?

Next, Frenkel went on to state that:4

"When the coronavirus hit last year, Dr. Mercola jumped on the news, with posts questioning the origins of the disease. In December, he used a study that examined mask-wearing by doctors to argue that masks did not stop the spread of the virus ...

[R]ather than directly stating online that vaccines don't work, Dr. Mercola's posts often ask pointed questions about their safety and discuss studies that other doctors have refuted. Facebook and Twitter have allowed some of his posts to remain up with caution labels, and the companies have struggled to create rules to pull down posts that have nuance ..."

So, I not only committed the "sin" of correctly warning people about the vaccine fraud committed, and had the audacity to follow science and reference published research, but I was also guilty of the "crime" of asking pointed, nuanced questions?

When merely asking questions is deemed a dangerous, if not criminal, act, you know you're living under an authoritarian regime. It's certainly far outside the accepted norms of "democracy" and "freedom" that the United States has been a beacon of since its inception.

Ineptitude at Its Finest

Further on in her hit piece, Frenkel makes a truly crucial error that no respectable journalist would ever dare make:

"In an email, Dr. Mercola said it was 'quite peculiar to me that I am named as the #1 superspreader of misinformation.' Some of his Facebook posts were only liked by hundreds of people, he said, so he didn't understand 'how the relatively small number of shares could possibly cause such calamity to Biden's multibillion dollar vaccination campaign.'

The efforts against him are political, Dr. Mercola added, and he accused the White House of 'illegal censorship by colluding with social media companies.' He did not address whether his coronavirus claims were factual. 

'I am the lead author of a peer reviewed publication regarding vitamin D and the risk of COVID-19 and I have every right to inform the public by sharing my medical research,' he said. He did not identify the publication, and The Times was unable to verify his claim."

The problem with Frenkel's assertion is that I did identify the publication. In fact, I emailed her the direct link. So, she lied. Secondly, my paper is beyond easy to locate. Just put my name into PubMed and you'll find it. Believe it or not, you can even find it using the most biased search engine on earth, Google.

Daniel Engber, senior editor at the typically highly progressive mainstream media outlet, The Atlantic, commented on Frenkel's clear ineptitude or malicious prevarication in a tweet:5

"A truly bizarre moment in the NYT piece on Joseph Mercola ... you can literally verify the existence of this peer-reviewed publication in one second via googling. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33142828/"

Legal Notice Sent to NYT

July 26, 2021, my attorneys sent the following legal notice to Frenkel at the NYT, demanding a retraction of her false statements:6

"Dear Ms. Frenkel,

The undersigned law firm represents Dr. Joseph Mercola in connection with the attached article that was widely published on July 24, 2021. We are providing notice that you have made several false and defamatory statements in this article:

1. You identified that you could not validate that Dr. Mercola published a peer reviewed study on Vitamin D in the severity of COVID-19. Dr. Mercola provided the direct link in response to you (attached) and any journalist or fact checker would simply find the study by searching "Mercola" in PubMed.

2. Your article falsely states Dr. Mercola has been fined "millions" by the FDA. This is completely fabricated, Dr. Mercola has never been fined by the FDA.

... On behalf of Dr. Mercola, we hereby demand you immediately retract the article. We also request that you preserve all communications and documents that relate to Dr. Mercola."

Where's the Proof That I Am the 'No. 1' Misinformant?

To this day, the NYT insists I'm the No.1 spreader of misinformation online, based on the fabrications of a group called Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — a "foreign dark money group," to quote Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley,7 which sprang out of nowhere to create lists of people to be censored into oblivion.

The CCDH's data gathering is so questionable, even ultra-biased Facebook ended up publicly criticizing it. In an August 18, 2021, Facebook report, Monika Bickert, vice president of Facebook content policy, set the record straight:8

"In recent weeks, there has been a debate about whether the global problem of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation can be solved simply by removing 12 people from social media platforms. People who have advanced this narrative contend that these 12 people are responsible for 73% of online vaccine misinformation on Facebook. There isn't any evidence to support this claim …

In fact, these 12 people are responsible for about just 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook. This includes all vaccine-related posts they've shared, whether true or false, as well as URLs associated with these people."

At the time that Frenkel made her accusations, a Crowdtangle search for Facebook posts about the COVID jabs, from mid-June to mid-July 2021, also confirmed that my online reach was negligible. Topping the list of top performing Facebook posts expressing negative views about the COVID jabs was Candace Owens, followed by the mainstream news outlet ABC World News Tonight.9

The befuddling reality here is that most of the people identified as "top spreaders of misinformation" actually have negligible reach — at least compared to the people on this Crowdtangle list. None of the CCDH's "top vaccine misinformants" are on the list above, and our reach certainly has not improved or expanded since then.

If You're Targeted, You're On-Target

This naturally raises the question, why were we targeted in the first place? Is it because we have high credibility from being one of the first natural health sites on the web with the most followers? Is it because we've spent a quarter of a century gaining people's trust by mostly being correct about the health care system and criminal Big Pharma behavior?

Is it because we, more than others, have well-established credibility and are directly over the target? Is it because we have the experience and know-how to make accurate predictions? Is it because we see and explain the bigger picture?

Or is it some other reason entirely? It's a mystery, really, but what is clear is that we've been deemed a threat to the official propaganda narrative, and I, for whatever reason, am at the very top of that threat identification list. Well, I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I'm beyond truly honored to have been widely disparaged by one of the arms of the U.S. military and intelligence operations.

Being targeted in this fashion — tedious as it may be — is in fact a badge of honor. It tells me I'm doing the right thing, and that I've not misinterpreted the intentions behind the COVID machinations. More so than any intuition, it tells me I'm on target.

In the bright light of undeniable reality — as it is, a year later — it's clear that Frenkel's hit piece has not aged well. I doubt the NYT's "Superspreader" documentary will fare much better. In the final analysis, if you want any hope of controlling your health, and that of your family, you'd be wise to understand legacy media speaks in Orwellian Doublespeak and reality is the opposite of virtually everything they are telling you.

- Sources and References

• 1, 4 NYT July 21, 2021

• 2 Laughing Place August 5, 2022

• 3 Technology Review February 5, 2021

• 5 Twitter Daniel Engber July 24, 2021

• 6 Gab Mercola July 26, 2021

• 7 Twitter Josh Hawley July 20, 2021

• 8 Facebook August 18, 2021

• 9 FWIWnewsletter.substack.com July 16, 2021