Tesla Ordered to Pay More Than $3 Million to Black Man in Racial Harassment Case

From [HERE] Tesla Inc. TSLA -0.30%decrease; red down pointing triangle secured a financial reprieve when a jury ordered the company to pay more than $3 million to a Black former worker in a racial harassment case, a fraction of the payout the company initially owed.

It was the second time in as many years that the case was presented to a federal jury here.

In 2021, a jury found Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle maker liable for subjecting the former factory worker to a racially hostile work environment and failing to prevent racial harassment. That jury awarded the former worker, Owen Diaz, $137 million in damages. Mr. Diaz was an elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory in 2015 and 2016.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick cut that award last year to $15 million, calling the original damages excessive. Mr. Diaz rejected that reduced award.

Jurors in the second trial were asked to assume Tesla is liable and assess how much the company should pay in damages. The eight-person jury on Monday ordered Tesla to pay Mr. Diaz $175,000 in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages. 

Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Tesla, declined to comment on the verdict, as did the company’s general counsel.

Attorneys for Mr. Diaz expressed disappointment with the outcome. “I don’t think that the truth drove the decisions here. I think it was a show whereby Mr. Diaz was attacked and his credibility was questioned,” said Larry Organ, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers.

Mr. Diaz’s attorneys have asked Judge Orrick to declare a mistrial, saying Tesla improperly sought to introduce evidence that prejudiced the jury against Mr. Diaz.

Bernard Alexander, another lawyer for Mr. Diaz, asked jurors last week to award more than $8 million in compensatory damages and some $150 million in punitive damages. “If Tesla refuses to protect Black employees inside the workplace, then it is unsafe for them,” Mr. Alexander said in his closing statement.

Mr. Spiro called that damages request “unwedded to law” and accused Mr. Diaz of lying repeatedly. “Justice is not lying to get an advantage,” Mr. Spiro said.

The jury in the earlier trial found Tesla liable for subjecting Mr. Diaz to a racially hostile work environment; failing to prevent him from being racially harassed; and negligently retaining and supervising one or more of Mr. Diaz’s supervisors. The San Francisco Bay Area factory where Mr. Diaz worked was Tesla’s only car assembly plant at the time.

Tesla’s then-head of human resources said in 2021 that the company believed the verdict wasn’t justified.

Tesla also is facing a lawsuit in state court from the California Civil Rights Department, which sued the company last year alleging that Tesla ignored years of complaints from Black factory workers. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission came to similar conclusions, Tesla has said.

Tesla has criticized the California agency’s investigation and said it “strongly opposes all forms of discrimination and harassment.” The company said earlier this year that it was arranging mediation with the federal commission. [MORE]

After Being Exonerated From Texas’ Death Row, Clarence Brandley Never Received “Justice.” Black Man’s Trial Featured Perjured Testimony and Witness Intimidation from Racist Police and Prosecutors

From [HERE] Clarence Brandley (pictured) was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1981 in Texas for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old white girl. From the outset, he was targeted based on his race. On the day of the murder, a police officer said to the two janitors at the school who had found the deceased, “One of you two is going to hang for this.” Then, turning to Brandley, said, “Since you’re the n****r, you’re elected.” 

Brandley was finally exonerated and freed from Texas’ death row in 1990. Judge Perry Pickett ordered a re-trial for Brandley, which eventually resulted in the prosecution dropping charges. Judge Pickett remarked from the bench, “In the 30 years this Court has presided over matters in the judicial system, no case has presented a more shocking scenario of the effects of racial prejudice, perjured testimony, witness intimidation, an investigation, the outcome of which was predetermined, and public officials who, for whatever motives, lost sight of what is right and just.” 

After his exoneration, Brandley sought compensation for himself and his five children from the state through various avenues but was repeatedly denied. He died on September 2, 2018, but his family continued efforts to obtain restitution. None of the officials involved in the wrongful conviction ever faced any repercussions, and even after Brandley’s release, the case was not reopened or investigated further. 

Since charges against Brandley were simply dropped by the prosecution, he needed a declaration of innocence to qualify for compensation under Texas law. In October 2018, his brother, Ozell Brandley, met with Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon, who agreed to hire a private investigator and provide an update in 3-6 months. Four years later, the DA’s office wrote in an email to the family that “we are unaware of any developments from this investigation.” A 2019 letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott seeking a posthumous pardon remains unanswered, as well.

Ozell Brandley remarked, “Silence reigns with no remedy…there is no justice for those wrongfully convicted, incarcerated, and sentenced to death. No justice in the courtroom. No justice in compensation for those whose lives and families have been devastated and suffered unmerciful humiliation and shame.”

Supreme Court Declines to hear ‘Angola 5’ member David Brown’s Murder Appeal. Prosecutors Withheld Info that Another Person Confessed to the Crime. Black Man Remains on Death Row

From [HERE] The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the case of David Brown, the “Angola 5” member whose death sentence for the killing of a prison guard during a 1999 escape attempt was overturned by a state judge, then reinstated in February by the Louisiana Supreme Court.

The denial marked a victory for Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick’s office.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The case centers on how far the precedent decided in Brady v. Maryland stretches. Known as “Brady material,” the Brady court required prosecutors to disclose information favoring a criminal defendant to the defendant. This doctrine stems from the interests of justice, where the legal system seeks to avoid wrongfully convicting an innocent person.

Brown, who was sentenced to death in 2011 after his conviction of first degree murder for the 1999 death of a prison guard during a prison escape, never confessed to killing Captain David Knapps. While Brown admitted to involvement in the first phase of the assault on Knapps, he stressed during the trial he was not at the scene for the murder of Knapps. The prosecutor obtained information that Barry Edge, who is currently serving a life sentence after his own conviction of first degree murder, confessed that he and another man, Jeffrey Clark, were involved in the murder. This confession came before Brown went to trial, and the prosecutor withheld this information from Brown and his counsel. As a result, Brown was still convicted.

The dissenting justices argued that if the prosecutor disclosed Edge’s confession to Brown following the Brady doctrine, “There is a reasonable probability that at least one juror might have viewed Brown’s culpability in a different light.” Essentially, Brown may have not be on death row if the material had been allowed in during trial.

This decision comes a month after the Supreme Court allowed the execution of Donald Dillbeck, rejecting his argument that his death sentence violated the Eighth Amendment because it was not cruel and unusual punishment.

A Study by a Leading Expert in Sequencing Methods for DNA and RNA finds that COVID mRNA Shots Contain Excessive Quantities of Bacterial DNA that Cause Severe Health Risks

by Michael Palmer, MD and Jonathan Gilthorpe, PhD

From [HERE] Recent studies by Kevin McKernan, a leading expert in sequencing methods for DNA and RNA, have revealed that batches of the modified mRNA vaccines produced by both Pfizer and Moderna contain a high proportion of contaminating bacterial DNA. In all, the DNA accounts for up to 20-35% of the nucleic acids contained in each of the vaccine batches. These alarmingly high concentrations far exceed the levels deemed safe by standard-setting organizations such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This document summarizes the evidence of that DNA contamination and discusses what possible health risks it implies to the recipients of the vaccines.

1. The role of DNA in the manufacture of mRNA vaccines

1.1. General background

Most readers will be aware that

1. the synthetic RNAs contained in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines encode the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein;

2. in living mammalian cells, the instructions for building a given protein molecule are stored as a gene within the DNA inside the nucleus;

3. to build a given protein molecule, the cell first transcribes its gene into RNA and modifies the two ends of this molecule to form messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA is then transported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where it induces the cell’s protein factories—the ribosomes—to translate the mRNA’s nucleotide sequence into the corresponding amino acid sequence and assemble the protein.

1.2. Steps in the manufacture of mRNA vaccines

Since the spike protein is a large molecule, so is the mRNA which encodes it. The total chemical synthesis of large mRNA molecules is not practical at scale. Therefore, in order to obtain the mRNA molecule encoding spike, the process by which cells produce their own mRNAs is mimicked in vitro. This involves the following steps:

1. A DNA copy of the gene for the spike protein is inserted into a bacterial plasmid. This is a ring-shaped, double-stranded DNA molecule which can exist in a bacterial cell independently of the cell’s own chromosomal DNA, and which can also be copied and passed on to both daughter cells when that cell divides.

2. The recombinant (artificial) plasmid carrying the spike protein gene is introduced into a cell of the bacterial species Escherichia coli (E. coli ). Since E. coli cells divide very rapidly, this one cell can within a short time be grown up to a very large number of cells. Each of these progeny cells will contain their own inherited copies of the plasmid, and therefore of the spike protein gene.While there is a certain chance of the plasmid being lost from some of the offspring during successive cell divisions, we can enforce its maintenance by giving it a selectable marker, which ensures that only those cells which retain the plasmid will survive. With the plasmids used by both Pfizer and Moderna, this selection marker is a gene which endows the host cells with resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin. To apply the selection, the bacteria are simply grown in the presence of kanamycin.

3. After growing up a sufficient number of bacterial cells in a nutrient broth containing kanamycin, these cells are broken up and the plasmid DNA is purified from the other bacterial cell components.

4. The ring-shaped plasmid molecules are converted to linear form using a restriction enzyme, which cleaves both strands of the DNA molecule at a specific, unique site which is located downstream of the spike protein gene. This step is needed to prevent the formation of RNA molecules that are overly long and might have undesired effects in vivo.The linearized DNA molecules can be purified from remaining circular ones, but in what manner and how efficiently this may be done in the production of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines is not public knowledge.

5. An RNA polymerase is used, in the presence of the necessary nucleoside building blocks and cofactors, to copy the spike protein gene from the DNA version on the linearized plasmid into the mRNA version. Both Pfizer and Moderna employ the T7 RNA polymerase, which is derived from the eponymous bacteriophage. This enzyme binds to a cognate promotersequence likewise derived from T7 that has been engineered into the plasmid upstream of the gene for the spike protein. This interaction between polymerase and promoter initiates the transcription.At this stage, the synthetic nucleoside N-methyl-pseudouridine (mψU) is incorporated into the artificial RNA instead of the natural uridine nucleoside. When delivered in the form of a vaccine, RNA modified in this manner is less stimulatory to the innate immune system than is RNA containing the natural uridine. It is also more efficiently translated into protein, and under certain conditions more resistant to degradation [1]. Both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines contain mψU instead of uridine.

6. The two ends of each RNA molecule are coupled enzymatically to certain moieties that are also found at these positions within natural mammalian mRNAs, and which enhance its biological activity and stability in vivo.

This steps provide a functional mRNA which is capable of instructing the cells’ ribosomes to produce the spike protein. However, at this stage the product is not yet pure—all of the bacterially derived template DNA is still present. The latter should not be included in the final drug product, because it poses health risks to the recipients (see Section 4). To get rid of this DNA, another enzyme called DNase is added. This should break up the DNA into smaller fragments, which can then be removed from the much larger RNA molecules by filtration and other purification techniques. In the final step, the mRNA is combined with a lipid mixture in order to package it into lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), which induce human cells to take up the mRNA molecule and to make the spike protein.

2. What did we know previously about the DNA contamination problem?

In a nutshell, very little. The FDA’s assessment reports on both vaccines [2,3] do not mention the issue at all. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) assessment report on the Pfizer vaccine mentions that “The robustness of the DNase digestion step is not considered comprehensively demonstrated” [4, p. 17]. Similar language is used in the EMA report on the Moderna vaccine [5, p. 19f]. However, based on this sparse information alone, it is impossible to say whether the problem was considered serious, and what remedies were required by the regulator, if any.

3. Independent evidence about DNA contamination of mRNA products

As of April 3, 2023, Kevin McKernan has described his recent findings in three articles on his Substack site [6–8]. The experiments described in the first two reports were carried out on samples of newly introduced “bivalent” vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. These preparations resemble the previous “monovalent” ones in their chemical composition, i.e. they should contain highly pure mRNA, complexed with a mixture of lipid (fat-like) molecules into mRNA /lipid nanoparticles. The only difference between the two varieties is that the bivalent vaccines contain a mixture of two mRNAs encoding two antigenic variants of the spike protein. This has no bearing on the technical problem of DNA contamination as such. We note, however, that the extent of DNA contamination may vary between production batches, and that only a small number of batches has so far been characterized in this regard.

3.1. McKernan’s first report

In an initial study [6], McKernan characterized both the RNA and the DNA contained in the mRNA vaccines.

3.1.1. Extraction and direct characterization of nucleic acids from the vaccines

The first step consisted in stripping away the lipids in order to obtain the pure nucleic acids. The solvent-based method that he used does not discriminate between DNA and RNA—if both are present, both will be recovered. The extracted nucleic acids were separated according to size. This revealed not only the expected regular, full-length spike mRNA species, but also smaller fragments, which had been noted previously both by the regulators and in work published by one of the manufacturers [9]. More surprisingly, RNA species larger than the full-length mRNA were also found. These species remain uncharacterized.

3.1.2. Amplification of the extracted nucleic acids

As a preparatory step for determining the exact nucleotide sequences of the extracted nucleic acids, they were amplified by PCR methods. In the case of the RNA, PCR was preceded by reverse transcription into DNA using a dedicated enzyme (reverse transcriptase). Since this study’s primary goal was to study the RNA rather than the DNA, this amplification step was biased against DNA through the addition of actinomycin D, which under the given experimental conditions selectively inhibits DNA synthesis. Accordingly, relatively low amounts of DNA were recovered in the amplified sample. Nevertheless, in case of the Pfizer vaccine, the amount of DNA determined to be present already exceeded EMA’s arbitrarily decided limit for the maximal permissible proportion of DNA per RNA.

3.1.3. DNA sequencing results

With both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s products, DNA sequences of complete DNA plasmids were obtained, although some ambiguity remained in the case of the Moderna plasmids. The features of the plasmid sequences will therefore be discussed in connection with McKernan’s second study, which used more and more pure DNA for sequencing and therefore provided more reliable results.

3.2. McKernan’s second report

The second study [7] focused on quantifying and characterizing the DNA contamination that was qualitatively detected in the first one.

3.2.1. Plasmid DNA contained in the mRNA vaccines is competent to propagate in bacterial cells

In the first experiment, it was determined whether the plasmid DNA whose presence had been inferred from the previous sequencing results is indeed biologically functional, to the extent that it can be introduced into and persist within bacterial cells. To this end, nucleic acids were again extracted from the vaccine samples. These nucleic acids were mixed with a suspension of E. coli cells that had been rendered competent for DNA uptake.

After inducing these cells to take up the DNA and giving them some time to recover, they were spread onto Petri dishes filled with solidified growth medium containing kanamycin. As noted earlier, kanamycin will kill any E. coli cells that do not contain a resistance gene to it. Therefore, the observed growth of bacterial colonies on those Petri dishes confirmed that some cells had indeed acquired resistance to kanamycin by taking up and propagating the plasmids. This was observed with both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccine samples.

In this context, we should note that only circular plasmid molecules, but not linearized ones, can be efficiently introduced into bacterial cells. The success of this experiment therefore suggests that some of the plasmid molecules had escaped the linearization step (step 4 in Section 1.2) and made it all the way through the production process in the circular form which exists in bacterial cells. On the other hand, since the number of bacterial colonies observed in this experiment was not high, it is likely that most of the DNA had indeed been linearized. Because the biological hazards of foreign DNA within our own body may vary depending on whether it is linear or circular, the likely presence of both forms in the vaccines is worth noting. The exact proportions of circular and linear DNA in the mixtures remain to be determined.

3.2.2. The abundance of contaminating DNA

The second major finding of this study is the quantitation by PCR of both DNA and mRNA contained in the vaccine samples. As you may be aware, in a PCR reaction, a chosen segment of a nucleic acid sequence is reduplicated by enzymatic synthesis in several successive reaction cycles. From the number of cycles (or doublings) necessary to reach a certain threshold concentration, we can calculate how many copies of the target sequence were present at the outset.

In these experiments, the chosen experimental format was multiplex PCR, i.e. two target sequences were amplified in a single reaction mixture. One of these targets was within the spike protein gene, and it thus should be present both on the plasmid DNA molecules and on the spike mRNA molecules transcribed from them. In order to include the mRNA molecules in this amplification, PCR was again preceded by reverse transcription.

The other target sequence was within the kanamycin resistance gene, which should be present only on the plasmid DNA. By comparing the number of cycles required for each of the two targets to cross the threshold, it was determined that up to 35% of the total nucleic acid contained in the vaccines is in fact DNA. For comparison, the EMA has stipulated that DNA should not amount to more than 0.033% of the total nucleic acids.

3.2.3. Determination of plasmid DNA sequences

The plasmids that had originally been contained in the vaccines and then been introduced into bacterial cells (see Section 3.2.1) were again isolated from those bacterial cultures, and their complete DNA sequences were determined. Such sequences were provided in full in McKernan’s first study [6], but he indicated that he was still working on corroborating and refining the sequencing data. Meanwhile, the functional features of the plasmid DNA found in the Pfizer vaccine samples are shown in Figure 1. They will be discussed in connection with the risk assessment.

FACTS: Halting the Use of the Death Penalty Did Not Result in an Increase in Homicide Rates

From [HERE] Stephen Oliphant’s recent study on the death penalty’s effect on homicide rates published in Criminology & Public Policy found “no evidence of a deterrent effect attributable to death penalty statutes.” Oliphant first discusses deterrence theory, which “posits that punishment, or the threat of punishment, discourages individuals from committing crime,” and its role in capital punishment discourse, where proponents of the death penalty have argued that the threat of the death penalty discourages homicide, and that abolition (or a halt to the use of the death penalty) would lead to increased murder rates. 

The research focused on four states which imposed moratoria on the death penalty—Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington—and examined the homicide rates in each state in the years preceding and following the state’s institution of a death penalty moratorium. Compared to predictions based on homicide rates in similar states, none of the four saw an increase in homicides attributable to the moratoria, contrary to the deterrence argument for the death penalty. Illinois, New Jersey, and Washington actually had reduced homicide rates following their moratoria, even controlling for other influencing factors.

The 2022 US Vaccine Damage Report says COVID Injections Have Caused 300,000 Deaths, 26.6 Million Injuries and 1.36 Million Disabilities. Shots Increase Risk of Myocarditis, Lead to Neurological Harm

From [HERE] and [PDF] STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The 2022 U.S. Vaccine Damage Report revealed a sobering glimpse into the true carnage that occurred at the hands of the COVID-19 shot campaign

• COVID-19 shots resulted in 300,000 excess deaths, 26.6 million injuries and 1.36 million disabilities

• Total economic costs due to the shots are estimated at $147.8 billion, including $89.9 billion from related injuries, $52.2 billion from disabilities and $5.6 billion from excess deaths

• A preprint systematic review found the mRNA-based COVID shots increased the risk of myocarditis, with a mortality of about 1 to 2 per 200 cases

• Evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction, was also found from the shots

We're beginning to see the fallout from the mass COVID-19 shot campaign, which has been referred to as the "greatest violation of medical ethics in the history of medicine, maybe humanity."1

Former BlackRock analyst and fund manager Edward Dowd is one of the few trying to get the word out about COVID-19 shot risks, and he's been using data and statistics to prove his point and publicize the undeniable increase in deaths and disability among young, healthy adults that has occurred since the shots' widespread rollout.2

This group — the 148 million employed Americans between the ages of 18 and 643 — is typically a healthy crowd. This is why private insurance companies love to sell group life insurance policies to large Fortune 500 corporations and mid-sized companies —they hardly ever have to pay out on a claim. But this is changing.

Dowd's 2022 U.S. Vaccine Damage Report4 revealed a sobering glimpse into the true carnage that occurred at the hands of the COVID-19 shot campaign, and its results are striking.

300K Excess Deaths, Millions of Injuries, Billions in Costs

Dowd and colleagues published their 2022 Vaccine Damage Project at their website, Phinance Technologies.5 It revealed the following estimated human and economic costs:6

To put this into perspective, John Leake writes on Courageous Discourse, "Note that this death count in one year is 5.2 times the number of men killed in 10 years of combat in Vietnam," adding:7

"Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this state of affairs is that most Americans don't know it's happening. Every day, young people are dying from heart attacks, strokes, and seizures caused by COVID-19 vaccines. Most of their families and friends are led to believe that they just died — suddenly and unexpectedly — of acute conditions that were extremely rare in young people prior to 2021."

The report included data from employed individuals between the ages of 16 and 64, and categorized the impact into four broad groups:

1. No effect or asymptomatic

2. Mild to moderate outcome including a temporary or short-term, long-term or permanent injury

3. Severe outcome that leads to a disability

4. Extreme outcome leading to death

While group 1 was the largest, comprising an estimated 82% of the population, the authors pointed out that these groups are dynamic, and individuals in one group could move into another, particularly in the case of progressing from no or minor injury to severe injury, such as we've seen with elite athletes suddenly dropping dead on the field:8

"While these groupings characterize different levels of damage from the inoculations, they are not static and could interact with each other. For instance, there might be individuals who had no visible effects after vaccination but nonetheless could still be impacted from the inoculations and could therefore be represented in the sub-group of injured individuals.

In a similar way, individuals with mild injuries from the inoculations could, over time, develop severe injuries to the extent of being disabled, or an extreme outcome such as death. The likely path of outcomes would be from injury to disability to death.

We need to consider, however, that to a lesser extent there could be individuals who suffer extreme outcomes when they had previously only experienced mild injuries until then. We can relate this with the anecdotes of otherwise healthy athletes suffering heart attacks during sports competitions at an alarming rate since the 2021 inoculations."

'The Multiplier Effects Are Massive'

The effects in the report are only what can currently be measured, and are likely to also be fluid. In terms of economic effects, for instance, the report notes that mortuary companies are likely to benefit while life insurers will be harmed, leading to a reallocation of resources.

Meanwhile, in terms of economic costs, milder damage is associated with greater cost, since a larger portion of working age individuals are affected. For instance, those with mild to moderate injury made up a sizeable 18% of the population. According to the report:9

"We make the assumption that the pool of potentially vaccine-injured individuals is about 18% of the population, which is, the rate of related adverse events reported in the Pfizer clinical trial (minus the baseline rate). These injuries will likely manifest a loss of productivity since, as these individuals are likely to have higher absentee rates and, consequently, higher lost worktime rates, than the pre-2019 baseline.

In fact, we performed an analysis of absence rates and lost worktime rates10 in full time workers (using data provided by the BLS). We observed a large increase in absence rates starting in 2020, but accelerating in 2022. Absence rates in 2022 were about 28.6% higher than in 2019, representing a 11 standard deviation variation."

Further, many other economic costs are harder to account for, such as a worker who's still at work but not able to work to their full potential. When these types of scenarios are factored in, the damages could be even more massive. Dowd tweeted:11

"Our economic damage estimates are what we can measure. The knock effects such as lost productivity due to a worker being present but working at say 50%-75% of capacity is missed plus burn out from those picking up slack. Also supply chain delays are not captured etc and etc. The multiplier effects are massive."

Systematic Review Reveals Serious Harms

A preprint systematic review of papers with data on serious adverse events associated with COVID-19 shots again points to significant risks.12 The review was conducted by Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., a former medical scientist with the University of Adelaide and former reporter for ABC News in Australia and Professor Peter Gøtzsche, a Danish physician-researcher who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993.

It included 18 systematic reviews, 14 randomized trials and 34 other studies, noting that "most studies were of poor quality" and additional randomized trials are needed. Still, their review revealed multiple red flags, including:13

• Adenovirus vector vaccines increased the risk of venous thrombosis and thrombocytopenia

• mRNA-based shots increased the risk of myocarditis, with a mortality of about 1 to 2 per 200 cases

• Evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell's palsy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction, was found

• Severe harms, defined as those that prevent daily activities, were underreported in the randomized trials

• Severe harms were very common in studies of booster doses after a full round of shots and in a study of vaccination of previously infected people

Further, not only have drug regulators and public health authorities been slow to follow up on safety signals showing serious harms from the shots, Demasi notes, but, "Population-wide recommendations for COVID vaccination and boosters ignore the negative benefit to harm balance in low-risk groups such as children and people who have already recovered from covid-19 (natural immunity)."14

Australian Safety Report — 24-Fold Increase in Adverse Events

It's can be difficult to parse out adverse effects from COVID-19 shots and those due to COVID-19 infection. The Western Australia Vaccine Safety Surveillance (WAVSS) 2021 Report, however, shows a unique viewpoint that made this possible. At the time, there was virtually no COVID-19 circulating in the community, yet the area had a 90% vaccination rate among those 12 years and over.15 Umbrella News reported:16

"There are few regions in the world where most of the population was vaccinated before the spread of Covid in the community. Sealed off from the rest of Australia, and the world, for 697 days, WA's closed border earned it the moniker of the 'hermit kingdom'.

State Premier Mark McGowan noted WA's unique role in the global vaccination trial, remarking to a press conference in early 2022, You see, Western Australia is an experiment. We basically have had very few Omicron cases, we have very high vaccination levels, and we have a very compliant population."

So, what happened in an area of the world that had very few COVID-19 cases and very high rates of COVID-19 shots? An "exponential increase" in reports of adverse events following immunization (AEFI), such that it necessitated changes to the vaccine safety surveillance program at the department in order to manage them.17 According to the report:18

"The number of AEFI reported to WAVSS was significantly higher in 2021 than in previous years (10,726 compared with an average of 276 per year for the 2017-2020 period) due to the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccination program."

As Umbrella News reported, the peak of AEFI reports coincided with the rollout of shot mandates, culminating in a rush of hospitalizations that strained area hospitals:19

"In 2021, AEFIs for Covid vaccines were reported at almost 24x the rate of AEFIs for all other vaccines combined … In the latter half of the year, as AEFIs peaked, the media regularly reported that WA hospitals were under strain, despite the lack of Covid cases.

The highest month for AEFI reports was October, the same month that vaccine mandates were announced for most of the workforce, the vaccine eligibility criteria were expanded to people aged 18 and over, and walk-in vaccinations became available."

Other standouts from WA's report include a 35% increase in myocarditis and a 25% increase in pericarditis compared to background rates. "Shockingly," Umbrella News noted, "the risk of pericarditis in the age group in the age group 25 to 29 years old was 53.5 cases per 100,000 doses of Spikevax. It is perhaps unsurprising that chest pain was the fifth most common reported AEFI for COVID vaccines in 2021."20

COVID Shot Efficacy 'Grossly Overestimated'

While the risks of adverse effects have been downplayed, the efficacy of COVID-19 shots has been overstated from the beginning. Writing in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, a research team revealed that multiple biases, including background infection rates and cross-overs from unvaccinated to vaccinated in the early days of the campaign, led to an overstatement of COVID-19 shots' effectiveness.21

"We conclude that "real-world" studies using methodologies popular in early 2021 overstate vaccine effectiveness," the study notes.22 Board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough explained that from the lack of efficacy alone, the shots should be removed from the market. And the case gets even stronger when you factor in the significant number of related disabilities and deaths:23

"Multiple sources of bias created illusion that vaccines worked as they failed in the real world … claims that the COVID-19 vaccines worked to reduce spread of infection, hospitalization, and death must be rejected.

The burden of proof has not been met and threats to validity have not been overcome. All of the COVID-19 vaccines should be removed from the market and we should begin the investigative phase into how this massive program failed to stop COVID-19."

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According to Conservative Underreported CDC Data, Over 35k Deaths Have Been Reported Following COVID Shots, which is More Deaths than all other Vaccines Combined over the Past 30 Years

Not Safe or Effective. COVID Shots are the Most Dangerous "Vaccine" in History, Causing More Injuries and Deaths than All Other Vaccines Combined. COVID has a 99% Recovery Rate (the same as the flu)

From [HERE] Data published today by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) show  1,541,275 adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were reported between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 31, 2023. This includes 287,651 reports of serious injuries and 35,048 deaths.

Of the 35,048 reported deaths, 21,870 cases are attributed to Pfizer, 9,914 to Moderna, 2,993 to Johnson & Johnson, and 18 to Novavax. Of the reported deaths, 9% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, and 13% occurred within 48 hours.

VAERS is a voluntary reporting system co-managed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designed to detect vaccine safety signals.

In the U.S., 673 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered as of March 27, including 401 million doses of Pfizer, 252 million doses of Moderna, 19 million doses of Johnson & Johnson, and 82,000 doses of Novavax.

Bivalent Booster Data

As of April 5, the CDC reported 55.3 million people had received an experimental bivalent booster dose targeting the no-longer-existing Wuhan strain and obsolete BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants.

Since the rollout of bivalent boosters in September 2022 and March 31, there have been 27,173 adverse events reported to VAERS, with 40% attributed to Moderna’s booster and 60% attributed to Pfizer/BioNTech. The data included 234 deaths, 2,093 serious injuries, and 80 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation).

The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of myocarditis. To meet the case definition of myocarditis, people must have had “symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath and feelings of having a fast-beating, fluttering or pounding heart, and medical tests to support the diagnosis of myocarditis and rule out other causes.” This allows them to exclude cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes, and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the hospital, obtain a diagnosis, or “dies suddenly.”

The CDC website does not state what happens to these cases, but there is no indication they are tracked or included in the CDC’s myocarditis numbers.

Data for 6-month-olds to 5-year-olds

• 6,068 adverse events, including 261 cases rated as serious and 14 reported deaths.

• 5 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

• 48 reports of blood clotting disorders.

• 59 reports of seizures.

Data for 5- to 11-year-olds

• 17,260 adverse events, including 836 rated as serious and 34 reported deaths.

• 48 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

• 76 reports of blood clotting disorders.

• 193 reports of seizures.

Data for 12- to 17-year-olds

• 41,659 adverse events, including 4,670 rated as serious and 140 reported deaths.

• 276 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment, or resulted in death.

• 1,355 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis, with 1,186 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

• 312 reports of blood clotting disorders, with 285 cases attributed to Pfizer.

• 33 cases of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) were attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.

Data for all age groups to VAERS

• 16% of deaths were related to cardiac disorders.

• 53% of those who died were male, and 41% were female. The remaining death reports do not list the gender of the deceased.

• The average age of death was 72.

• As of March 31, 9,071 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines, including 5,248 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.

• Of the 17,189 cases of Bell’s palsy reported, 73% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 22% to Moderna, and 5% to J&J.

• 3,279 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

• 10,413 reports of anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.

• 8,562 reports of myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest.

• 46,416 reports of blood-clotting disorders. Of those, 31,886 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 10,475 reports to Moderna, and 3,979 reports to Johnson & Johnson.

• 25,591 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, with 19,439 cases attributed to Pfizer, 5,640 cases to Moderna, and 452 to Johnson & Johnson.

• 80 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with 66 cases attributed to Pfizer, 12 to Moderna, and 2 to J&J.

• 720 cases of POTS, with 532 cases attributed to Pfizer, 158 cases to Moderna, and 29 cases to Johnson & Johnson.

Although healthcare providers are required by law to report vaccine adverse events to VAERS, research shows very few do. It is essential that anyone who experiences an adverse event report their own injury.

Since the COVID Vax Rollout there has been a Marked Increase in Near Miss Crashes and Medical emergency-related Fight Diversions. CHD asks DOT Secretary Buttigieg to Investigate

From [HERE] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today called on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to investigate the spike in near-misses and narrowly averted airline accidents resulting from pilots incapacitated by health emergencies since 2021, coinciding with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the U.S.

In a letter to Buttigieg, Kennedy wrote:

“Secretary Buttigieg, the safety of pilots, cabin crew, airline passengers, and the general public is not and never has been a partisan issue. Everything contained within this letter pertains to fundamental issues of public health and safety, which you, the DOT, the FAA, and the Biden Administration profess to uphold and to protect.

The changes to FAA guidelines and the lack of publicly available evidence on which these changes rest, along with the increasing number of incidents involving the incapacitation or vaccine-related injury of pilots, are highly concerning.”

A Children’s Health Defense (CHD) analysis of raw data obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) determined there was a marked increase, on a per-flight basis, in medical emergency-related flight diversions in both 2021 and 2022, compared to 2019 and prior years, Kennedy said.

Similarly, there was a marked increase in medical emergency diversions on a per-passenger basis in 2021 compared to 2019 and prior years, while the 2022 figure is higher than those for 2018 and 2019, indicating an increase in medical emergencies occurring in the air, when adjusted for the reduced number of flights and passengers in the 2021 and 2022 calendar years compared to the pre-2020 period.

Kennedy said the FAA violated its own guidelines by recommending COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use for pilots, contrary to the agency’s policy of prohibiting pilots from taking any medical product that has been on the market for less than 12 months.

Kennedy’s 13-page letter citing 69 sources detailed evidence the FAA loosened medical restrictions for conditions such as myocarditis and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, both documented adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines.

The letter outlines 12 questions Kennedy said Buttigieg and the FAA need to answer for the American public and demands a thorough investigation into whether COVID-19 vaccines may be endangering pilots, flight crews and the public.

‘COVID Shots are a Biological Weapons Project Run by the US Department of Defense,’ according to a fmr Big Pharma Executive

From [HERE] The U.S. government’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is a biological weapon project run by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), according to Alexandra Latypova, a former pharmaceutical research and development executive with 25 years of industry experience.

Latypova, who oversaw compliance for more than 60 clinical trials, knows the regulatory standards pharmaceutical companies historically were required to meet before bringing a product to market.

“People misunderstand that this is just another instance of Big Pharma corruption,” she told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense, during an episode of “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast.” “It’s much, much bigger than that.”

Latypova said we have government reports describing the COVID-19 vaccines as a biological weapon. “I have a question to our government,” she said. “What is it that they’re exactly forcing on us?”

The DOD is “fully in charge” of the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials and the vaccine’s manufacturing and distribution, and it owns the vaccine “until it is injected into a person,” she said.

By creating a “pseudo-legal structure” over time that included Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and other transaction authority agreements — called OTAs — the U.S. government allowed the military to take over the distribution of vaccines without adhering to historical safety testing guidelines or product recall procedures.

According to Latypova, the notion that the COVID-19 vaccines met regulatory standards for safety and effectiveness was the “biggest lie that was sold to the public.”

“I am describing a very illegal structure that’s made legal on paper,” she said. “It’s unlawful. They — the government — are driving this.”

Kennedy agreed with Latypova and pointed out that OTA was designed to allow the Pentagon to quickly buy weapons and weapons systems without paying attention to any existing regulatory authorities.

Kennedy said:

“What they’ve done is they’ve taken that authority and they’ve applied it to the vaccines so they’re purchasing the vaccines under OTA as a demonstration product.

“It’s all a huge military operation and the involvement of the drug companies is a kind of window dressing.”

The DOD paid the pharmaceutical companies for their brand names so people would think they were getting something from Pfizer or Moderna — but all of the distribution and manufacturing is done by the military, Kennedy said. The pharmaceutical companies were brought in to put their name on it and then to pretend to do clinical trials, he said.

Latypova and Kennedy discussed how the military accomplished this without most workers involved in the production and distribution of the vaccine catching on.

They also discussed how citizens and lawyers might effectively challenge the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccination project in the court system.

Class Action in South Africa says Pfizer’s COVID Injections are Harming and Killing People and Providing No Benefit. Supports Factual Clam that Pfizer Knew from the Beginning Vax was Deadly w/Data

From [HERE] The Freedom Alliance of South Africa (FASA) filed a show cause action on Monday with the High Court of South Africa. FASA is calling for an urgent judicial review of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine over concerns the product is harmful. 

The filing includes a real-world data analysis showing an association with increasing death from both COVID and non-COVID causes in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.

The plaintiffs are asking the court to review and rescind Pfizer’s emergency use authorization used to distribute the vaccine immediately. If the case proceeds, it would be the first time Pfizer has had to answer for its vaccine side effects. 

In an interview, cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhorta said FASA, a grassroots movement made up of supporters, media, doctors, lawyers, and experts brought a case to the high court calling for a judicial review of Pfizer’s products stating the evidence suggests Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is not safe or effective. 

“What that means is that if it is successful, it will result in Pfizer’s product being removed from the market,” Malhotra said.

“What they’ve said is the medical regulator in South Africa did not do its duty — the suggestion is they approved this vaccine on the basis of irrationality, you know because the data that was used to make these decisions were based upon Pfizer’s own data which was commercially conflicted. “

Malhotra continued: 

“They designed the analysis — the suggestion is there was manipulation of the data from real-world evidence because they told us at the beginning it was 95% effective at preventing infection. That very quickly turned out not to be true. That really is what this case is about. “

“It’s also important to emphasize, that, of course, there’s been a real problem getting this discussion and both sides of the story into the mainstream media. That will not be an issue in a court of law. In a court of law, all sides will get an airing, and all sides will be heard,” he added. “When you look at the totality of the evidence its a very different picture from what we were told in the beginning that this was safe and effective. “

Malhotra has been calling for a complete suspension of COVID vaccines because the evidence suggests the harms are considerable and the benefits are negligible. Malholtra’s father died prematurely from an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine injury. 

This case will go forward in the upcoming months and proceedings will be open to the public.

Robert Kennedy’s Class Action Alleges Biden Admin and Feds Colluded with and Pressured Social Media Companies to Suppress Speech About the Dangers of Deadly, Experimental COVID Injections

From [HERE] On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Children’s Health Defense (CHD) et al., filed a class action lawsuit against President Joe Biden and numerous other federal agents and agencies in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Monroe Division. The complaint alleges that the defendants have colluded with, encouraged and pressured social media companies to suppress speech that the government does not want the public to hear and to silence specific speakers who are critical of federal policy.

This class action, brought on behalf of all Americans who access the news from social media platforms, seeks nationwide injunctive relief on behalf of those Americans. Instead of seeking monetary damages, the claim asks the court to declare that the Defendants’ conduct violates the First Amendment and to prohibit them from engaging in any form of social media censorship in the future.

The complaint calls the government’s campaign to censor online speech one of “the gravest threats to free speech this country has ever faced.”

“Because of the historically unprecedented power wielded by a handful of behemoth social-media companies over the content of American public discourse, the federal government’s systematic campaign to induce these companies to censor speech is among the gravest threats to free speech this country has ever faced. …

Since 2020, an army of federal officers, at every level of the government—from the White House itself to the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, the CDC, the Office of the Surgeon General, and numerous less-well-known federal entities—has been engaged in the effort to induce those companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.”

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said, ‘Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.’ It also violates the constitution,” CHD Chairman and Chief Litigation Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said. “The collaboration between the White House and health and intelligence agency bureaucrats to silence criticism of presidential policies is an assault on the most fundamental foundation stone of American Democracy.”

“The most serious threat to free speech of our time—and probably one of the most serious in the nation’s history—is the federal government’s massive, concerted and extraordinarily successful effort to get social media companies to censor ideas and information the government doesn’t want people to see, say or hear,” said Jed Rubenfeld, co-counsel for Plaintiffs. “This lawsuit challenges that censorship campaign, and we hope to bring it to an end. The real victim is the public, which is why we’ve brought this suit as a class action on behalf of everyone who accesses news from social media.”

CHD President and General Counsel Mary Holland said, “If Government can censor its critics, there is no atrocity it cannot commit. The public has been deprived of truthful, life-and-death information over the last three years; this lawsuit aims to have government censorship end, as it must, because it is unlawful under our constitution.”

Representing the Plaintiffs in addition to Mr. Rubenfeld is Louisiana Attorney G. Shelly Maturin, II.

Uncle Brother and Facebook Targeting the Uhuru Movement

From [HERE] In March 2023, Regions Bank notified the black nonprofit African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) that the bank was “exiting” their 20-year relationship, closing accounts, withdrawing lines of credit and canceling mortgage loans.

This assault on the ability of African people to build economic self-reliance was the latest in a series of actions revealing government and corporate cooperation targeting the black community programs of the Uhuru (Freedom) Movement including its popular Women’s Health Center, Black Power Vanguard Basketball Court, “One Africa! One Nation!” Marketplaces, Gary Brooks Community Garden, Uhuru Jiko Commercial Kitchens and Bakery Cafe, Akwaaba Hall events venues, Black Power 96 radio station, Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles stores, Uhuru Foods & Pies and Uhuru House black community centers.

Facebook has blocked the ability for supporters to crowdfund for Uhuru programs through their personal pages. GoFundMe froze over $9,000 in donations for the Hands Off Uhuru! Legal Defense Fund for more than three months until the group’s lawyers took legal action to get the funds released. The Stripe payment processing company also blocked contributions to the group for a period of time.

On February 14, 2023 the Pinellas County Commission revoked $36,801 in funding that had been previously approved for WBPU 96.3 FM black community radio station in St. Petersburg, Florida after expressing political opposition to its association with the black power Uhuru Movement.

These economic sanctions have come on the heels of a series of violent government-initiated attacks on the Uhuru Movement that began in earnest with the July 29, 2022 militarized FBI raid on seven Uhuru properties and includes two acts of arson, one arrest and interrogation, censorship in the removal of a change.org petition and a U.S. state department announcement of a $10 million reward for information that could tie Uhuru leaders to Russian government interference in U.S. elections and public opinion influencing.

Ona Zené Yeshitela, Board President of APEDF, says “Our organization has built over 50 economic institutions, financed through our own fundraising work and the donations of thousands of people. These banks don’t want black people to be able to feed, clothe and house ourselves. They do not want money circulating in the black community.”

Omali Yeshitela is founder of the Uhuru Movement and Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party. He is considered the primary target of the FBI raids and threatened indictments on charges of serving as a pawn of the Russian government. A 1960s field organizer registering voters with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the 81-year-old Yeshitela has fought for Black Power for over 50 years. [MORE]

Grants Reveal Uncle Brother's Horrific Plans to Censor Americans’ Speech

From [HERE] The founding fathers should have included extra text in the First Amendment: “Congress shall not make any law, Executive shall not make any rule or order, Judiciary shall make no ruling” abridging freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceable  assembly and right to protest the government for redress of our grievances.

There is indisputable evidence that our own government is the driving vehicle to completely obliterate free speech in America. The Congress can rein in the Administration but unfortunately, many in Congress are complicit and even encouraging Biden and staff to intensify the attack.

The current trajectory of this war on the First Amendment will result in criminalizing speech, imposing penalties like fines, court cases and imprisonment. ⁃ TN Editor

Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet—the speech of journalists, politicians, religious organizations, advocacy groups, and even private citizens. Should those conversations conflict with the government’s viewpoint about what is in the best interests of our country and her citizens, that speech will be silenced.

While the “Twitter Files” offer a glimpse into the government’s efforts to censor disfavored viewpoints, what we have seen is nothing compared to what is planned, as the details of hundreds of federal awards lay bare. Research by The Federalist reveals our tax dollars are funding the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) technology that will allow the government to easily discover “problematic” speech and track Americans reading or partaking in such conversations.

Then, in partnership with Big Tech, Big Business, and media outlets, the government will ensure the speech is censored, under the guise of combatting “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

AI and ML Technology Will Monitor Everything We Say and Read

The federal government has awarded more than 500-plus contracts or grants related to “misinformation” or “disinformation” since 2020. One predominant area of research pushed by the Department of Defense involves the use of AI and ML technology to monitor or listen to internet “conversations.”

Originally used as a marketing tool for businesses to track discussions about their brands and products and to track competitors, the DOD and other federal agencies are now paying for-profit public relations and communications firms to convert their technology into tools for the government to monitor speech on the internet.

The areas of the internet the companies monitor differ somewhat, and each business offers its own unique AI and ML proprietary technology, but the underlying approach and goals remain identical: The technology under development will “mine” large portions of the internet and identify conversations deemed indicative of an emerging harmful narrative, to allow the government to track those “threats” and adopt countermeasures before the messages go viral.

With AI and ML identifying in real-time the origins of supposed influence operations and how the messages spread, the government will have the ability to preempt the amplification of the speech, squelching even true reporting before the general populace has an opportunity to learn the news. To appreciate fully the danger this poses to free speech requires Americans to consider the use of that technology with these seven additional details.

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once

First, the AI and ML technology under development will mine every conceivable mode of conversation for the government. Consider, for example, the databases monitored by just a few of the companies the government is paying to develop this AI and ML technology.

PeakMetrics, the recipient of a $1.5 million award, tracks millions of news sites, blogs, global social platforms, podcasts, TV and radio, and email newsletters.

Omelas Inc., which received more than $1 million in taxpayer money, culls data from “the most influential newspapers, TV channels, government offices, militant groups, and more across a dozen social networks and messaging apps, thousands of websites, and thousands of RSS feeds.”

Alethea Group, which received a Phase I award of nearly $50,000 to develop a “machine learning tool for proactive disinformation/misinformation detection, assessment, and mitigation,” boasts it covers data sources including mainstream and “fringe” social media platforms, peer-to-peer messaging platforms, blogs and forums, state-affiliated media sites, “gray” propaganda sites, and the dark web.

Newsguard, awarded $750,000 by the DOD, offers two databases, including its unreliable reliability ratings database of thousands of news and information websites and a second database of purported hoaxes.

Primer, which scored a $3 million award to develop its technology, offers a database that looks to news and media data sources, publicly captured images, the dark web, cyberattacks shared by the general public, and classified—presumably for government clients—and unclassified data sources. Primer also partners with Flashpoint, which adds “Telegram, Reddit, Discord, and “the deep and dark web” to the databases mined.

2. We’re Talking Americans, Not Just Russian Bots

It is also important to recognize that the AI and ML technology under development will not just mine foreign or state-connected actors, but will monitor everyone’s speech. Both the government grants and the web pages of the monitoring companies confirm this reality.

We also know from the “Twitter Files” that the government and its fellow residents in the Censorship-Industrial Complex view the speech of Americans as related to foreign influence operations merely because the viewpoint matches what they claim is an adversary’s perspective. And we know the government pushed for the censorship of ordinary Americans.

By its nature, AI and ML technology has unlimited potential to flag problematic speech on any imaginable subject. Here, the past is prologue: Speech need not involve terrorism, acts of war, or even our electoral process for our government to consider it within its purview to fact-check. (It also need not be false; see point 4).

The “Twitter Files” and recent events provide Americans a glimpse into the breadth of the topics the government may deem harmful narratives worthy of censor—from elections, to vaccines, to runs on grocery stores. Underlying the government’s obsession with silencing misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information is the “Great Power Competition” perspective of foreign relations, under which China and Russia represent a constant threat to America’s power, influences, and interests.

With the government viewing foreign relations through the Great Power Competition paradigm, speech on any topic, touching even tangentially on America’s “power, influences, and interests,” will be fair game for censorship efforts.

3. The Great Power Competition Renders Everything Fair Game for Censorship

While to convincingly prove this reality requires a deeper exposé—coming soon—on the Great Power Competition’s connection to the government’s focus on misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information, last week Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, showcased the current thinking inspiring our leaders. During a conference call with the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation about the Silicon Valley Bank bailout, Kelly asked whether there was “a way to censor information on social media to prevent a run on the banks.”

Kelly’s question was “couched” “in a concern that foreign actors would be doing this,” Rep. Thomas Massie told Public, but, according to Massie, Kelly “didn’t suggest the censorship should be limited to foreigners or to things that were untrue.”

The move from the censorship of terrorism to the silencing of supposed interference in elections to censoring posts about “bank runs” follows naturally from the shift in foreign relations paradigms from the War on Terror to the Great Powers Competition. The latter views anything affecting American power or influence as fair game. We also saw this shift with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) proposal to consider “financial misinformation” within its purview.

The government’s censorship efforts won’t stop at supposed “financial misinformation,” however, because anything and everything journalists report and citizens discuss affects America’s “power, influence, and interest.” So, the government’s development of technology to monitor the entirety of the internet foretells a much more dangerous threat than apparent on the surface.

4. The Government Brands True Speech Misinformation

The threat to free speech stemming from the government’s monitoring of the internet is further increased by our overlords’ willingness to brand true speech “misinformation, disinformation, or mal-information” and then seek to censor it. The “Twitter Files” also exposed this reality, with our government and its lackeys seeking the censorship of true facts that might lead to “vaccine hesitancy” or reveal runs on grocery stores.

That our government would seek to silence true speech on such matters gives Americans reason to fear further censorship of true information.

5. Faulty Analysis and Biased Censors

The “Twitter Files” also revealed that censorship demands by the government, think tanks, and academic institutions relied on faulty misinformation analyses, including ones that identified innocent Americans as foreign actors. Also, many of those involved in the disinformation industry maintain left-leaning bias and a penchant for targeting conservatives.

In furthering its plans to monitor the internet for supposedly harmful narratives to silence, the government is continuing to work with biased groups, including ones that pushed faulty analyses, adding to the threat to free speech.

6. The Government’s Partners Are Poised to Censor

The government’s push to develop AI and ML technology to mine the internet is even more terrifying knowing that a Censorship Complex has already been built. The “Twitter Files” revealed the breadth and depth of the complex, with every alphabet-soup federal agency working with the social media giants and an array of think tanks and academic institutions, and with the legacy media providing an assist when censorship requests went ignored.

While Elon Musk may have exited Twitter from the group, the Censorship Complex still stands tall and ready to silence the speech of those who dare dissent. This public-private collaboration makes the government’s move to monitor the internet even more threatening to free speech. [MORE]

US Government Authorities Secretly Acquired Geolocation Tools that Can Covertly Track Cell Phones around the World without the Phone user’s Knowledge or Consent

From [HERE] Israel’s controversial cyber security firm NSO Group has made deals with the American government. According to a report in the New York Times, a deal was reached in November 2021 in which NSO Group provided the U.S. government access to a geolocation tool that can covertly track mobile phones around the world without the phone user’s knowledge or consent. The Times describes this as one of the company’s most powerful weapons.

This arrangement was reached just days after the administration of President Joe Biden publicly chastised NSO Group for its alleged activities in aiding dictatorships with the surveillance of political critics and journalists by hacking their mobile phones.

The Times reported that the deal was made with an American firm called “Cleopatra Holdings.” But a small New Jersey-based government contractor called Riva Networks was the intermediary used by the FBI when it acquired NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus spyware when Donald Trump was still in office.

The spyware was also used by none other than the ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS.

The New York Times said that the White House denied any knowledge of the matter when asked about it.

Israel Cybersecurity firm NSO Group develops ways to break through encryptions and security systems. Last July, it was revealed that NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware software aids in the violation of people’s human rights around the world and that the company has known all about this. Specifically, they were charged with helping governments hack the telephones of journalists.

NSO Group was eventually blacklisted by the U.S. government in November 2021. And it was reported that NSO Group Pegasus spyware was used to track American embassy employees in East Africa. Specifically, 11 U.S. Embassy employees working in Uganda had their iPhones hacked by the program.

In 2022, the U.S. government scuttled plans by the American firm L3Harris to acquire NSO Group’s technology. [MORE]

Video: A White DC Park Cop Crept Into the Backseat of Parked Car and then Violently Woke Up Sleeping Black Teen. Cop Faced No Imminent Harm as Teen Drove Away but Still Shot Him to Death, Feds Review

From [HERE] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Thursday opened a civil investigation into the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin by a US Park Police officer on March 18 in Washington, DC. The announcement comes two days after the US Park Police released police bodycam footage of the shooting.

The investigation is set to probe into the shooting, which occurred when Washington Metropolitan Police and US Park Police were called to a neighborhood in northeast Washington, D.C. on the morning of March 18. Once there, officers found Martin in the driver’s seat of a suspected stolen car with the ignition on. The video shows the teen was asleep in the drivers seat of the car. The seat is reclined all the way down

“Here’s the plan,” one of the officers is heard saying in the video. “He’s knocked out. The back window is just plastic. I’m going to try to cut that out quietly. If he gets startled, doesn’t wake up, then we’re going to try to get in there, grab him before he puts that car in gear.” In response, another officer said, “If he takes off, he takes off. Just don’t get caught inside of that car.”

It’s not clear why the police didn’t simply just gently knock on the window to wake up the teen.

OFFICERS FACES ARE BLURRED OUT BY THE POLICE TO PROTECT THE SYSTEM OF AUTHORITY - A SYSTEM BASED ON FORCE AND INHERENTLY UNACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC IT RULES OVER.

Family demands name of US Park Police officer involved in shooting that killed teen. Government keeps cop’s identity secret.

An Officer is seen sneaking into the vehicle through the backseat doors of the car and the driver’s side door, startling Martin, who puts the car into gear and drives away with a US Park Police officer in the backseat. The officer in the video is heard yelling “Stop. Stop or I’ll shoot!” before firing his gun at Martin. The car then crashes into a house, and officers pull Martin out to attempt resuscitation.

In a statement, the DOJ US Attorney’s Office said, “The loss of a life is always tragic but is especially heartbreaking when it involves a child.” The investigation is an open matter, so no additional comment or release regarding it is currently provided.

US Invites Authoritarian Regimes to Conference Named a ‘Summit for Democracy’ [a ‘summit for free range prisons disguised as a democracy’]

From [HERE] The US government organized a conference of its allies which it misleadingly called a “Summit for Democracy”, but which actually featured numerous anti-democratic, far-right regimes.

The State Department invited 120 global leaders to participate in the summit on March 29 and 30. They did so virtually, via video calls.

Several of the heads of state who spoke represent governments that even Western officials, corporate media outlets, and mainstream human rights organizations have admitted are authoritarian, including Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Andrzej Duda of Poland, and Narendra Modi of India.

The Joe Biden administration also invited Pakistan’s unelected coup regime, which came to power following a US-backed regime-change operation against democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022. (Islamabad, however, decided not to attend, as it faces mass protests and instability at home.)

Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni participated in the summit as well. Meloni is a defender of former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. She started her political career as the leader of the youth wing of a fascist political party founded by war criminals from Mussolini’s regime.

Meloni’s far-right political party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) still uses the same symbols and colors of Mussolini’s fascist movement. An important leader of her party has a bust of the late dictator in his house, and was investigated for doing Nazi salutes.

The Biden administration organized the first so-called “Summit for Democracy” in 2021, in attempt to unify US allies in a bloc to wage a new cold war on China and Russia, which were not invited to either summit.

These intentions were made obvious when the US pressured all invitees to sign a joint statement denouncing Russia over the proxy war in Ukraine. The left-wing governments in Brazil and Mexico refused to support Washington’s denunciation of Moscow.

For its part, China’s Foreign Ministry condemned the summit as an attempt to “draw lines between countries in the world according to US criteria and interfere in their affairs based on US interests”, in a way that “reflects how arrogant, intolerant, selfish and domineering the US has always been, and how it contravenes and tramples on democracy as part of the common values of humanity”.

The US government exposed its cynical political designs by inviting Ukraine and Taiwan to participate in the summit, despite the fact that Taiwan island is not a country, but rather a province of the People’s Republic of China.

When the US government normalized relations with China in 1972, it signed the first of three communiqués, in which it legally recognized that Taiwan is part of China.

Violating its formal diplomatic commitments, the Biden administration publicly illustrated Washington’s support for separatists in China’s Taiwan province by inviting them to both of the so-called “Summits for Democracy”.

Ukraine’s leader Volodymy Zelensky spoke at the conference as well, in spite of his brutal attack on democracy at home. Zelensky’s regime has banned all communist and socialist parties, while imposing some of the most aggressive anti-worker legislation in the world, suspending collective bargaining rights and essentially making it illegal to form a union.

Even the New York Times reluctantly acknowledged that Ukraine has imposed authoritarian control over the media. While Zelensky’s supporters maintain that this is necessary due to the ongoing war, his draconian crackdown began well before Russia invaded. In 2021, Zelensky’s regime banned critical media outletsdeemed to be “pro-Russian”, while arbitrarily persecuting and arresting opposition politicians.

Two NATO members were not invited to the so-called “Summit for Democracy”: Türkiye (formerly known as Turkey) and Hungary. This was clearly a politically motivated sign of disapproval by the Biden administration, because the two countries have tried to balance the West against Russia, maintaining good relations with both sides.

The democratically elected socialist governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua were not invited either. Instead, Washington invited right-wing US-sponsored opposition activists from both Latin American countries, including Lesther Alemán, who played a major role in a violent coup attempt in Nicaragua in 2018.

Also participating in the summit was the notorious CIA cutout the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which Washington has used to meddle in foreign countries all across the planet, organizing regime-change operations and funding “color revolutions”.

As a key foreign-policy strategy, the Biden administration has weaponized rhetoric about “democracy” to advance US geopolitical interests.

In his first State of the Union address in 2022, Biden claimed that Washington’s new cold war on China and Russia was a “battle between democracy and autocracies”.

But European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said otherwise in a speech in October, criticizing the deceptive “democracies vs. authoritarians” framing. [MORE]

The BLM Protester Murdered by TX Cop was White. Greg Abbot's Pardon Sends Message to Non-Racist White People [those who resist white supremacy], 'If You Try to Help Black People You Will Be Killed’

WHITE MAN TRYING TO HELP BLACK PEOPLE WAS LAWFULLY CARRYING A GUN WHEN MURDERED BY RACIST COP. From [HERE] Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced plans over the weekend to pardon Army sergeant Daniel Perry, the man convicted last week in the 2020 murder of a legally-armed 28-year-old at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin.

On July 25, 2020, Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old white man, was murdered in Austin, Texas by 30-year old Daniel Perry, a white police officer. 

The move—which came just one day after Perry’s conviction—is unprecedented, and constitutes a stunning assault on the rule of law, legal experts said. “Profoundly wrong,” as former prosecutor Rick Cofer told the Austin American-Statesman. “Pure politics.”

Foster, who had been legally open carrying an AK-47, had walked up to Perry, who shot and killed him. Perry claimed that he had acted in self-defense, but in April 2023, a jury found Perry guilty of murder. He was acquitted of an aggravated assault charge. He is currently awaiting sentencing, and faces between 5 years to life in prison.

Perry had made numerous posts and direct messages on social media where he had expressed his desire to shoot protesters, which, along with contradictory statements to eyewitness accounts, brought into question his claim of self-defense.

Perry's trial for the murder of Foster took place at the end of March 2023 to the beginning of April 2023, nearly three years after the incident. The prosecution argued that since Foster had been exercising his right to open carry, there was no justification for Perry shooting him. The prosecution revealed that Perry had made multiple posts and direct messages on social media expressing his desire to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters, writing in messages, "I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex," and "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters." A friend of Perry's responded to him warning him of instigating protesters, stating, "We went through the same training ... Shooting after creating an event where you have to shoot, is not a good shoot." Perry had expressed his support for violence against protesters on at least three social media posts, suggesting in one post to "shoot center of mass" because "it is a bigger target", and in another stated, "Send [protesters] to Texas we will show them why we say you don’t mess with Texas." [MORE]

WHAT IS RACISM/WHITE SUPREMACY? [A TEAM EFFORT]

Racism White Supremacy - psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD. [MORE]

Here, by attempting to pardon a white cop who murdered a white man who was participating and defending people protesting the police murders of Black of people, a racist suspect governor is sending a message to all persons, but particularly non-racist white people, that ‘if you try to help Black people you will be murdered.’ As explained, Garrett Foster, an armed white BLM protester, was murdered by Daniel Perry, a white police officer during a BLM protest.

All white people are not racist, but most are. All racists seek to have master-servant relations with non-white people. Here, we will presume that Garrett Foster was not racist and that officer Perry and Governor Abbot are racist. According to Neely Fuller, a racist is 'any person who "appears" to be "White," who is "classified" as "White," and/or who functions as an "acceptable member" of "The White Nation" (Race/Racist Nation), and who willfully and deliberately says or does anything that indicates a willingness to participate in any speech, action, or inaction that helps to establish, maintain, expand, and/or refine the practice of White Supremacy (Racism) in any one or more areas of activity. If a White person is able to be a Racist (White Supremacist), he or she may be one and should be suspect (Racist Suspect).

FUNKTIONARY explains that

racists - “upholders, supporters and perpetrators of the institution of the White Supremacy Dynamic. An often misunderstood term confusing bigotry (personal dislike of a clan of men and women) with that of a system of oppression (structured and perpetuated injustice—racism) by merchants, institutions, industrialists and slavers (Corporate State and their bastard, equally fictitious but deadly offspring, mega corporations). Caucasians can be racists, but racism is systematic (collective institutional) oppression. (See: Bigot, Racism White Supremacy, Corporate State, Corporations & Person)”

A racist suspect is any white person who is capable of practicing racism against non-whites. In general, if a White person is able to be a Racist (White Supremacist), he or she may be one and should be presumed to be Racist. According to Neely Fuller, as long as white supremacy exists, every person classified as "white" should be suspected of being Racist (White Supremacist). [MORE]  Since all whites are able to practice racism in a white supremacy system if they choose to do so, it is correct (and logical) to use the term “racist suspects” to identify whites who do not openly function as white supremacists (racists). [MORE]

Neely Fuller explains that white people who resist white supremacy are not racist/white supremacist - but this is only during the period when he or she is actually speaking and/or acting, effectively against white supremacy." No non-white person can be a white supremacist/racist. [MORE]

Dr. Welsing states, "people who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice." [MORE] White people who claim to not be racist should be actively opposing and resisting white supremacy. Such people should be identifying racists because it is very difficult for non-white people to always determine who is racist and who is not. [MORE] White people who do nothing to oppose white supremacy are its silent partners benefiting from this worldwide social political economic arrangement of domination. Those who do nothing about it or cooperate with it are also racist/white supremacist. Neely Fuller explains, "any white person who is able to speak and/or act against white supremacy, even under threat of death, and who does not do so, is, during any period when he or she is not doing so, a white supremacist." [MORE]