COVID Injections and the Virus Itself Cause Neurological Disorders — But There’s a Difference, Study Says
/From [HERE] I stumbled upon this article in mainstream media, which linked to the Medpage Today review of an important study detailing functional neurologic disorders (FND) after COVID-19 infection or vaccination.
I don’t usually bother to re-publish items from Medpage Today because of their extreme bias against physicians and scientists who have spoken out about the pseudo-mRNA vaccine. I am making an exception because they actually published this review without bias.
I am posting sections of the article here for educational purposes only.
Please note the subtitle from Medpage article below, “Long COVID functional manifestations differ from post-vaccine effects.”
Within the body of the text, Medpage admits adverse events from the vaccine are more common than previously thought! Is this evidence that the tide of misinformation from medical journals geared toward physician education may be decreasing? One can only hope …
In my experience, post-vaccination twitching is almost as common as tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Based on this casual observation, I suspect that post-vaccination FND is quite common, which (if true) is likely to predict long-term neurologic consequences for a large fraction of the population.
According to “Functional Neurological Disorder Emerges After COVID Infection, Vaccines — Long COVID functional manifestations differ from post-vaccine effects,” Medpage Today, March 24, 2023:
“Patients with functional neurologic disorder (FND) after SARS-CoV-2 infection had different symptoms than people with FND after COVID vaccines, retrospective data showed.
“Patients with post-COVID FND tended to be older, had more insidious onset, and had higher disability, according to Araceli Alonso-Canovas, MD, PhD, of Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, and co-authors.
“Those with FND after COVID vaccination more closely resembled classic FND: they were younger, had an acute onset, and tremor was the most common phenotype, the researchers reported in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
“‘We show for the first time evidence from a multicenter national study that FNDs after COVID-19 infections and vaccines are more common than previously reported and have distinct clinical profiles,’ Alonso-Canovas told MedPage Today.
“The findings point to a need to consider FND when diagnosing patients with post-COVID neurologic symptoms, she added.
“’Long COVID is an umbrella term and many different circumstances have to be considered,’ Alonso-Canovas said. ‘If there are neurological symptoms, a careful history and examination is mandatory to rule out FND, as it is a well-defined clinical condition that is potentially treatable.’
“FND refers to disorders caused by an abnormality in brain signaling with no significant structural brain damage. It occurs in an estimated four to 12 people per 100,000 per year and accounts for about 6% of outpatient neurology visits.
“Vaccinations can trigger FND, as can other stressors including infections. While experts maintain some people with FND might be long COVID patients, little research has been conducted to evaluate this.
“’If the neurological examination is not searching for these features, the diagnosis will be missed,’ Espay told MedPage Today. ‘Given the therapeutic implications, ascertaining the functional subtype of long COVID is imperative.’
“Phenotype was purely motor in 65% of FND patients and mixed sensorimotor in 32%. One patient had isolated sensory syndrome. Fatigue (72%), pain (57%), and cognitive difficulties (30%) were common.
“People in the post-COVID group were older (46 vs 35 years in the post-vaccine group) and had higher disability (76% vs 31%, respectively). The post-COVID group also trended toward having more men (24% vs 15%), more people with previous psychological difficulties (50% vs 23%), and less frequent abrupt FND onset (38% vs 62%).
“In the post-COVID group, 58% had previously received a long COVID diagnosis, and FND symptoms started within the convalescence period in 87% of patients. In the post-vaccine group, FND symptoms started within 1 week after vaccination in most cases.
“Overall, 22 FND patients (48%) required treatment with psychiatry or psychology specialists, 15 (33%) needed physical therapy, and one needed speech therapy. After a mean follow-up of 14 months from onset, 46% had improved, 39% remained stable, and 9% had worsened. Three patients were unavailable for follow-up after diagnosis.”
The actual scientific article may also interest readers, therefore highlights from that are posted below. Again, the main article is behind a paywall.
“Functional neurological disorders after COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: a national multicentre observational study,” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, a BMJ Journal. [MORE]
Pfizer, CDC Withheld Evidence of Myocarditis After COVID Shots, New Documents Reveal. Dependent Media Conceals Story on Behalf of Their Masters
/From [HERE] Pfizer and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withheld evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations led to an increased risk of myocarditis, especially in young males, according to two sets of documents made public this week.
Confidential Pfizer documents leaked Thursday by Project Veritas show the company had “evidence that suggests patients who receive a COVID-19 vaccine are at an increased risk of myocarditis.”
And heavily redacted CDC documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate the agency provided an undercounted figure of post-COVID-19-vaccination myocarditis cases to Israel’s Ministry of Health in early 2021.
The latest revelations come as Germany, Japan and other governments are raising questions about the significant numbers of severe adverse events recorded in individuals following administration of the COVID-19 vaccines.
According to researchers at the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, or it may result directly from a toxic effect such as a toxin or a virus.
“More commonly the myocarditis is a result of the body’s immune reaction to the initial heart damage,” researchers said.
Severe myocarditis can permanently damage the heart muscle, possibly causing heart failure.
Internal documents contradict Pfizer claim of ‘low incidence of myocarditis’
An internal Pfizer document leaked to Project Veritas on Thursday, updated Feb. 11, 2022, and authored by eight scientists in Pfizer’s Drug Safety Research & Development division, indicates that the drugmaker was aware of a connection between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and higher incidence rates of myocarditis within two weeks of vaccination — particularly following the second dose of the primary series.
“There is evidence that suggests patients who receive a COVID-19 vaccine are at an increased risk of myocarditis,” the document read.
“Onset was typically within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (from Pfizer or Moderna), and cases have occurred more often after the second dose than the first dose.”
Pfizer cited CDC data to make this determination:
“Since April 2021, increased cases of myocarditis and pericarditis have been reported in the United States after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna), particularly in adolescents and young adults (CDC 2021).”
“The pattern of cases conform, as per the label, to a pattern of myocarditis cases occurring in majority of young males below 29 years of age within the first two weeks post-vaccination.”
“The reasons for male predominance in myocarditis and pericarditis incidence post COVID-19 vaccination remain unknown.”
Although Pfizer couldn’t identify a “clear mechanism” behind the increased risk in males, it did identify several possibilities.
These included direct cardiotoxicity, acute/active viral infection, genetic predisposition and pre-existing conditions, a prior history of myocarditis, immune-mediated mechanisms and vaccine-associated autoimmunity, molecular mimicry to the spike protein and sex-related effects.
These cases occurred, according to the document, despite a claimed low incidence of myocarditis during the clinical trials for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
“Within the participants 16 years of age and older from the Pfizer clinical trial dataset, two cases of pericarditis were reported through the data cut-off date of 18 June 2021,” the document read. “These cases originated from the Phase 3 clinical study C4591001 and both were deemed not related to study treatment by the Investigator.”
“There were no cases of myocarditis reported as serious adverse events through the data cut-off date of 18 June 2021,” the document added.
Based on these incidences of myocarditis, the document states the product labels for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine were updated to state:
“Post marketing data demonstrate increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly within 7 days following the second dose of the 2-dose primary series.
“The observed risk is higher among males under 40 years of age than among females and older males. The observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age.”
This change had already been made as of August 2021, according to a document released as part of the so-called “Pfizer documents” — documents pertaining to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) issuance of Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The “Pfizer documents” were released last year by court order following a FOIA request filed by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.
Another internal Pfizer document from these same “Pfizer documents” states that on July 13, 2021, it was suggested that myocarditis and pericarditis be added “to the PVP” (pharmacovigilance plan).
This addition appears to have taken place.
The Pfizer pharmacovigilance plan of July 28, 2021 — also contained within the “Pfizer documents” release — lists myocarditis and pericarditis as “important identified risk[s]” identified in Pfizer’s safety database on June 18, 2021.
A pharmacovigilance plan “proposes activities to better characterize and assess the risks during the lifecycle of a medicine. (e.g., to investigate frequency, severity, seriousness and outcome of a risk under normal conditions of use, and/or which populations are particularly at risk).”
Pfizer’s July 28, 2021 pharmacovigilance plan stated that two serious adverse events of pericarditis were reported during the C4591001 clinical trial, although “both [were] deemed not related to study treatment by the Investigator.”
The document also refers to data from Pfizer’s safety database, stating that among people 16 and older, “490 cases reported events related to myocarditis and 371 cases reported events related to pericarditis (in 38 of these 823 cases, the subjects developed both myocarditis and pericarditis related events).”
Of these 490 cases, 26 were later definitively rejected as not being myocarditis, leaving 464 cases ranging from “definitive case” to “reported event.” From there, 459 were listed as “serious,” 337 required hospitalization, and 14 resulted in death.
Nearly 71% of these cases were recorded in males.
Of 371 reported pericarditis cases in individuals 16 and over, all but one was listed as “serious,” 206 required hospitalization, and 3 resulted in death.
Pfizer, in the same pharmacovigilance plan, claimed that no myocarditis or pericarditis cases were recorded in C4591001 trial participants ages 12 to 15.
However, its safety database recorded 11 possible cases of myocarditis — all but one among males, 10 of which were “serious” and nine of which required hospitalization.
Four cases of pericarditis among males between the ages of 12 and 15 also were recorded in the safety database, three of which were considered serious and one of which required hospitalization.
However, in the July 28, 2021 pharmacovigilance plan, Pfizer told the FDA:
“Considering the low rates of myocarditis and pericarditis reported following vaccination, balanced with the risk of death and illness (including myocarditis) caused by SARS-CoV-2, the public health impact of post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis is minimal.”
Nevertheless, in another leaked document publicized by Project Veritas, dated May 2022, further confirms Pfizer was aware of the increased incidence of myocarditis.
According to the leaked document:
“Adverse events (AEs) following COVID-19 vaccination are of high clinical importance: even adverse events with small incidence may be seen in appreciable numbers given the massive scope of the vaccination effort.
“There is evidence that suggests patients who received a COVID-19 vaccine are at an increased risk of myocarditis.”
CDC undercounted myocarditis cases in 2021
Documents provided by the CDC in response to an Oct. 12, 2022 FOIA request submitted by CHDreveal the agency provided an undercounted number of recorded myocarditis cases following COVID-19 vaccination to the Israeli Ministry of Health.
The FOIA request asked the CDC to “provide all emails sent by any of the relevant individuals or received by any of the relevant individuals (whether directly or via cc or bcc) containing the search word ‘myocarditis’” between Oct. 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021.
“There has been considerable public discussion of and controversy about how to weigh
the risk of myocarditis that is associated with COVID-19 vaccines,” the request stated. “The public has a significant interest in having a full understanding of how U.S. public health agencies have addressed this issue.”
Following a response by the CDC, CHD on Nov. 17, 2022, narrowed down its request to include only documentation containing the term “myocarditis” within 25 words of “(covid or report* or child* or adolescent* or young*or teen* or male or fatal* or death* or die* or serious or severe or hospital*).”
The heavily redacted 985-page tranche of documents provided to CHD included a Feb. 28, 2021 request, on page 692, from Israel’s Ministry of Health. The request, logged on that date by CDC’s internal task tracking system, stated:
“We are seeing a large number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young individuals soon after Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. We would like to discuss the issue with a relevant expert at CDC.”
A CDC email, dated March 10, 2021, and found on pages 710-714 of the document, read:
“They are investigating a safety signal of myocarditis/myopericarditis in a younger population (16-30 years old) following administration of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
“The Ministry of Health stated they received reports of around 40 cases of this adverse event.”
In the March 10, 2021 response, page 861, sent by the CDC to the Israeli Ministry of Health stated:
“A search of the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) conducted on February 23, 2021 revealed 27 cases (6 cases of myocarditis, 7 cases of myopericarditis, 14 cases pericarditis).
“Twelve cases occurred after dose 1, 7 cases after dose 2, and the dose was not reported for 8 cases. Four patients had comorbid conditions that could suggest alternate etiologies for the adverse event.
“During this analysis period the reporting rate of myopericarditis following administration of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines was low and estimated to be 0.7 per million doses of vaccine administered.
“However, the limitations of passive surveillance such as under-reporting, lack of a control group, missing and incomplete data make it challenging to assess causation.
“Thus, FDA has not made a final determination regarding the causality between myopericarditis and the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.”
However, up to Feb. 23, 2021, VAERS had actually received 36 reports of myocarditis — although at that time, the database was significantly backlogged.
It is unclear why data from a Feb. 23, 2021 search was provided by the CDC, when the request from Israel’s Ministry of Health was submitted on Feb. 28, 2021. There is no indication that there was contact from the Israeli health ministry with the CDC regarding this issue prior to Feb. 28, 2021.
While reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed, the system has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.
Studies have found further deficiencies in the VAERS system, including deleted or missing reports, the delayed entry of reports and the “recoding of Medical
Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) terms from severe to mild.”
Out of the deleted or missing reports, 13% pertained to deaths and 63% represented severe adverse events.
VAERS data is publicly accessible on the internet and presumably would already have been available to the Israeli Health Ministry as a result, therefore it is unclear why the CDC appears to have relied on this data in its response to Israel.
Moreover, by March 10, 2021, the presumed date of the CDC response to the Israeli Health Ministry, 14 more cases of myocarditis were reported to VAERS, for a total of 49 such cases identified in the database.
Of the 36 myocarditis cases reported to VAERS by Feb. 23, 2021, 25 were in males, 21 involved the Moderna vaccine (15 males), and 15 involved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (10 males).
And of the 49 cases recorded by March 10, 2021, 35 were in males, 26 involved the Moderna vaccine (20 males) and 23 involved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (15 males).
The average age of the patients was 33.6 and median age was 31.5 — with the average age of male cases being 31.1 (median 28) and the average age of females 40.8 (median 36.5), indicating a higher incidence in younger males.
The average number of days before onset and diagnosis following vaccination was 5.4, with a median of 3 days.
With hundreds of pages’ worth of redactions, it is unclear if there are more documents or data that would provide further insights into the response provided by the agency to Israel’s Ministry of Health.
In its Feb. 24 response, the CDC claims the redacted documents are protected by statute, confidentiality laws or privacy laws.
Notably, on the same day as the Israel Ministry of Health’s request to the CDC, Pfizer published a document — released as part of last year’s “Pfizer Documents” release from the FDA — titled “Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) received through 28-Feb-2021.”
BNT162B2 refers to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA.
This document indicated that 25 cases of myocarditis were reported by Feb. 28, 2021 as part of a list of “adverse events of special interest” (AESI).
This figure drew from several databases, including the Brighton Collaboration (SPEAC), the EU’s ACCESS protocol, U.S. CDC (preliminary list of AESI for VAERS surveillance) and the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
Studies show COVID shots lead to increased risks of myocarditis
Several recent studies have shown an increased prevalence of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination.
“Delayed Vigilance: A Comment on Myocarditis in Association with the COVID-19 Injections,” by Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D. and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., published Oct. 17, 2022 in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, found that two months after COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out to the public, a statistically significant safety signal for myocarditis in males ages 8 to 21 appeared in VAERS.
However, as previously reported by The Defender, even though this safety signal was visible as early as Feb. 19, 2021, CDC officials waited until May 27, 2021 before alerting the public.
By then, over 50% of the eligible U.S. population had received at least one mRNA COVID-19 vaccine — and the FDA expanded the EUA of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to include adolescents 12 and older.
Another study, released April 15, 2022 by seven Israeli researchers, examined the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in adults previously were infected with COVID-19, between March 2020 and January 2021.
Despite arguments that an increase in myocarditis diagnoses may be attributed to COVID-19 infections instead of the vaccines, the study “did not observe an increased incidence of either pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.”
As of March 3, 16,641 cases of myocarditis were recorded in VAERS following the receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine or booster — with the number growing to 16,660 when including diagnoses of bacterial myocarditis, infectious myocarditis, mycotic myocarditis, post-infection myocarditis and septic myocarditis.
Of the latter number, 10,701 cases (64.2%) were recorded in males.
While the age of over half of the patients in these recorded cases was listed as “unknown,” in cases where an age was recorded, myocarditis diagnoses peaked in the 18-29 year age group, with high prevalence also found in the 6-17 and 30-39 age groups.
Of 2,778 cases in the 18-29 age group, 2,211 were recorded in males — further indicating the particularly high risk of myocarditis young males face following COVID-19 vaccination.
More governments raising concerns about myocarditis
As early as October 2021, Sweden’s Public Health Agency paused Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for people born 1991 and later, “as data pointed to an increase of myocarditis and pericarditis among youths and young adults that had been vaccinated,” according to Reuters.
At around the same time, Finland’s public health authorities also paused the vaccine in young people.
And in November 2022, Sweden paused the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for those under 30, due to an increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.
As reported by The Defender in June 2022, Novavax received EUA from the FDA despite “Multiple events of myocarditis/pericarditis” recorded during clinical trials.
Earlier this week, Yanagase Hirofumi, a member of Japan’s House of Councillors, accused the Japanese government of covering up injuries and deaths stemming from the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Hirofumi told the House of Councillors that in Japan’s vaccine-related adverse events tracking system, at least 2,001 deaths following COVID-19 vaccination have been recorded.
BREAKING
The excess mortality caused by vaccination is making waves in the Japanese Diet.
In Japan, the number of deaths after vaccination has increased by 210,000 since 2020, the highest number since the World War II.
People are dying immediately after vaccination, and… https://t.co/0dDnDtJndfpic.twitter.com/03vB4BYaDR
— You (@You3_JP) March 13, 2023
However, despite “approximately 260 cases in which the doctor in charge reported that there was probably a link between the vaccine and the death” and, citing Japan’s health minister, “52 cases where a pathologist has performed an autopsy, and reported that there is a link between the vaccine and the death,” the database indicates that “only one case has been found to have a causal relationship between the vaccine and death.”
Hirofumi cited the example of “a man in his 30s” who “died three days after receiving the second dose of the vaccine. The cause of death was myocarditis,” adding that “ as a result of the autopsy, doctors concluded that there was a link between the vaccine and the death.”
In an interview on Sunday, Germany’s federal minister of health Karl Lauterbach — previously a proponent of a national vaccine mandate who had stated the COVID-19 vaccines had “no side effects” —admitted that serious adverse events were prevalent and that the vaccine injured are being ignored by the authorities.
The False Messaging about COVID Shots Given to Pregnant Women by Media Liars [Consent to Medical Experiments Obtained by Inducement, Coercion, HalfTruths, Nondisclosures is Fraud, Battery or Murder]
/From [HERE] The mRNA “vaccines” were released globally in early 2021 with the slogan ‘safe and effective.’ Unusually for a new class of medicine, they were soon recommended by public health authorities for pregnant women.
Recently, a lengthy vaccine evaluation report sponsored by Pfizer and submitted to the Australian regulator (TGA) dated January 2021 was released under a Freedom of Information request.
The report contains significant new information that had been suppressed by the TGA and by Pfizer itself. Much of this relates directly to the issue of safety in pregnancy, and impacts on the fertility of women of child-bearing age:
1. The “vaccine” travels throughout the body after injection, and is found not only at the injection site, but in all organs tested, with high concentration in the ovaries, liver, adrenal glands, and spleen.
Authorities who assured vaccinated people in early 2021 that the vaccine stays in the arm were, as we have known for two years, lying.
2. A doubling of pregnancy loss in the intervention group represents a serious safety signal.
Rather than take this seriously, the authors of the report compared the outcomes to historical data and ignored the outcome because other populations had recorded higher overall losses. This analysis is alarming as remaining below the highest previously recorded pregnancy loss levels in populations elsewhere is not a safe outcome when the intervention is also associated with double the harm of the control group.
3. There were higher rates of fetal malformations in each of the 12 categories studied. Of the 11 categories where Pfizer confirmed the data is correct, there are only 2 total abnormalities in the control group, versus 28 with the mRNA vaccine (BNT162b2). In the category which Pfizer labelled as unreliable, there were 3 abnormalities in the control group and 12 in the vaccinated group.
As with the increased pregnancy losses, Pfizer simply ignored the trend and compared the results with historical data. This is very significant as it is seen across every malformation category. The case control nature of the study design is again ignored, in order to apparently hide the negative outcomes demonstrated.
These data indicate that there is NO basis for saying the vaccine is safe in pregnancy. Concentration of LNPs in ovaries, a doubled pregnancy loss rate, and raised fetal abnormality rate across all measured categories indicates that designating a safe-in-pregnancy label was contrary to available evidence.
The data implies that not only was the Government’s “safe and effective” sloganeering not accurate, it was totally misleading with respect to the safety data available.
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COVID Injections Have Killed 50% More People than "COVID" According to a Joel Smalley Analysis
/From [JOEL SMALLEY] Frankly, there’s not much more evidence we can add as proof that pretty much every excess death, health injury and economic woe of the last few years is due to government intervention, ably aided and abetted by the mainstream media and the zombie plebs.
Anyway, whilst waiting for the (Don’t) Care Quality Commission (CQC) to actually provide data in a usable format so that I can lay bare the full extent of carnage visited upon care home residents in England, I approached the Office for Flawed Statistics (ONS) to update the deaths by date of occurrence and age dataset I commissioned. Thy wanted another £360 and 8 weeks… Oh well, I guess a few more people will die unnecessarily because I can’t be bothered if they can’t be bothered.
Struggling for anything really new to report, I thought I would revisit South Korea (mortality data, not the country, unfortunately - not that I’ve ever been but I would like to. There was a nice chap I befriended on LinkedIn in the very early days who said I would always be welcome as his guest - “I miss the smiles”).
So, here is the evidence, and nothing but…
Exhibit 1: there was no unexpected or unusual death in Korea for the first 18 months of the global, ahem, “pandemic” - not until almost the entire country was jabbed at any rate, near enough 100% of the adult population. Weird that.
Exhibit 2: as a matter of fact, Korea experienced less mortality than expected for the first 18 months of the “pandemic”, including a rather meagre 3,000 “COVID” deaths. Post-vaccination, excess deaths soared. COVID deaths really took off too but nowhere near as much as overall excess deaths. The most recent data (to Jan-23) shows just over 33,000 COVID deaths and more than twice as many excess deaths at almost 70,000.
Based on the evidence, and a massive dose of logic 1 (and no censorship because I’m not beholden to any indoctrination education establishment or publishing in any controlled “medical” journals, I consider the COVID deaths to be jab deaths, as well as all the other excess deaths - unless you really think that “lockdown” deaths only coincidentally occur after jabs, naturally…).
So, that’s roughly 70,000 jab deaths on a vaccinated population of around 38.7 million. In other words, a jab fatality rate of 0.18% which is pretty consistent with quite a few other studies, including the infamous Skidmore one retracted involuntarily.
If we extrapolate that across the whole “vaccinated” world (5.57 billion according to OWID), I estimate just over 10 million people have been killed by the jab. That compares to 6.9 million “COVID” deaths (which includes a whole load that are actually jab deaths as I have set out above 2), i.e. at least 150%.
I know it’s a collective effort but that would put all the world “leaders” who sanctioned the democide in their countries at 4th spot in the table of most murderous dictators, behind Hitler (17 million), Stalin (23 million) and Mao Zedong (50+ million).
The difference is that most people don’t even realise…1
The logic being that after 18 months, for Korea to experience such a massive increase in “COVID” deaths implies that either the virus became more virulent or the host (that's us humans) became more vulnerable. Despite not being an epidemiologist or a virologist, I have spent rather a lot of time in the last few years with decent scientists across the spectrum and no-one can provide me credible evidence of a respiratory pathogen mutating to become more virulent. Conversely, I've personally read several dozen papers and articles setting out myriad modes of action on the part of the novel mRNA product subverting the immune system. And you know what a fan I am of Occam's razor?! 2
If you accept the jab-induced COVID hypothesis, it's not unreasonable to remove around 3 million of these deaths from the COVID side.
Gov Data (VAERS) COVID Shows Shots have Caused 1,544,510 Adverse Events (288,607 Serious Injuries and 35,096 Deaths) VAERS Under Reports by a Factor of 4 to 5 times, w/an Accuracy Rate as Low as 1%
/From [HERE] Data published Friday by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) show 1,544,510 adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were reported between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 7, 2023. This includes 288,607 reports of serious injuries and 35,096 deaths.
Of the 35,096 reported deaths, 21,905 cases are attributed to Pfizer, 9,920 to Moderna, 2,995 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 12, the CDC reported 55.5 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 April 7, there have been 28,141 adverse events reported to VAERS, with 40% attributed to Moderna’s booster and 60% attributed to Pfizer/BioNTech. The data included 240 deaths, 2,187 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
6,122 adverse events, including 264 cases rated as serious and 14 reported deaths.
5 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.
36 reports of blood clotting disorders, which means the CDC throttled at least 12 reports of blood clotting over the previous week.
61 reports of seizures.
Data for 5- to 11-year-olds
17,298 adverse events, including 840 rated as serious and 34 reported deaths.
48 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.
76 reports of blood clotting disorders.
195 reports of seizures.
Data for 12- to 17-year-olds
41,692 adverse events, including 4,683 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.
1,357 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis, with 1,187 cases attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
313 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 April 7, 9,085 pregnant women reported adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines, including 5,259 reports of miscarriage or premature birth.
Of the 17,209 cases of Bell’s palsy reported, 73% were attributed to Pfizer vaccinations, 22% to Moderna, and 5% to J&J.
3,293 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
10,420 reports of anaphylaxis where the reaction was life-threatening, required treatment or resulted in death.
8,580 reports of myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest.
46,538 reports of blood-clotting disorders. Of those, 31,967 reports were attributed to Pfizer, 10,510 reports to Moderna, and 3,985 reports to Johnson & Johnson.
25,621 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, with 19,461 cases attributed to Pfizer, 5,643 cases to Moderna, and 454 to Johnson & Johnson.
83 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with 67 cases attributed to Pfizer, 15 to Moderna, and 2 to J&J.
727 cases of POTS, with 538 cases attributed to Pfizer, 158 cases to Moderna, and 30 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.
Analysis Demonstrates Police Disproportionately Kill Black People, Year After Year
/From the 2022 POLICE VIOLENCE REPORT by Mapping Police Violence. Police killed at least 1,195 people in 2022. Black people were 26% of those killed by police in 2022 despite being only 13% of the population.
Bi-Partisan System of Racism [injustice]: Unarmed Black Man Fleeing on Foot Shot 47X by a Gang of Barbaric White Cops in a City Run by White Liberals. White Ohio Republican AG Says No Crime Occurred
/Whether a gun was fired is simply police misdirection and distraction from the only material issue which is whether the black man posed a threat as he fled on foot from police. He had no object in his hand and the cops never saw a gun, because it was on the car seat.
GUNNED DOWN WHILE RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. A grand jury in Ohio has decided not to charge eight Akron police officers in the death of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot 47 times by the police after an attempted traffic stop for unknown reasons and an unnecessary manic chase to enforce the traffic code last summer during the state’s attorney general said on Monday.
Mr. Walker was murdered on June 27, 2022 Eight officers fired dozens of rounds at Walker following a car and foot chase. Autopsy records show that eight officers fired more than 90 rounds at Walker, with more than 60 striking his body. Seven of the cops were white. Police said it began when they tried to pull him over for unknown, minor equipment violations and he failed to stop, cops then claim he fired a shot from his car 40 seconds into the pursuit.
Police body camera video showed Walker eventually bailed from his slowly moving car while wearing a ski mask and ran into a parking lot, where pursuing officers opened fire. On video police chased Walker for about 10 seconds before officers fired from multiple directions in a burst of shots that lasted 6 or 7 seconds. A county medical examiner said Walker was shot at least 40 times. A handgun, loaded magazine and wedding ring were found on the driver’s seat of the car.
Unnamed Officer(s) claim that they thought Mr. Walker had fired a weapon from his car during the high speed chase and that they feared he would fire again, prompting them to shoot him. How police could hear one gun shot during such a high speed chase is a white supremacy mystery. Nevertheless, whether a gun was fired is simply police misdirection and distraction from the only material issue which is whether the black man posed a threat when he fled on foot from police. He had no object in his hand and the cops never saw a gun, because it was on the car seat.
Insofar as it applies to white citizens, the Supreme Court has explained, ‘a police officer can use deadly force to prevent the escape of a fleeing felon ONLY where he has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer or to others.’ Tenn v Garner, 475 US 1 (1985). The Court stated,
The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. A police officer may not seize an unarmed, nondangerous suspect by shooting him dead. [MORE]
Walker was not a fleeing felon, he had no criminal record and police manically chased over an unknown traffic violation. He posed no reasonable threat to police as no officers even claimed to have seen him brandish a weapon and he was running away from police when he was shot over 90 times. As such, it is not rational that police reasonably believe they faced an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.
Powerless black people must begin to acquire some independent power to prevent whites from practicing racism - rather than to continue based their futile struggle on moral suasory and the unnecessary begging of elite whites.
As explained by Dr. Bobby Wright racists function as a psychopaths in the presence of color and in their relations with Black people. That is, racists know the difference between right and wrong and generally observe it in their relations with other white folks but disregard the difference between right and wrong with Blacks. Wright explained,
“psychopaths simply ignore the concept of right and wrong. By ignoring this trait in the White race (the lack of ethical and moral development) Blacks have made and are still making a tragic mistake in basing the worldwide Black liberation movement on moral suasion. It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting to use moral suasion on a people who have no morality where race is the variable.”
Akron is a city run by white liberals as Democrats control all branches of government. Attorney General Yost of Ohio, who is a white Republican, took over the investigation last summer at the request of Akron police. Yost claimed on Monday that Mr. Walker had fired at least one shot at the police from his car. Yost did not explain when exactly the gun was fired or how he knew it was fired at police or whether he shot through his windows. Previously it had been reported that there was no forensic evidence that a gun was fired. Few other details have presented from the disinterested white media.
Eight white Akron police officers fired a total of 94 shots at Mr. Walker, and he sustained 46 gunshot wounds, the attorney general’s office said. Mr. Yost said that the police did not know that Mr. Walker had left his gun in his car. It was found in his 2005 Buick Century after the shooting.
According to the autopsy report, his body arrived handcuffed at the coroner's office.
Walker had no criminal record, Bobby DiCello, one of the family’s attorneys, told The Washington Post. DiCello said the family was supporting a call by U.S. Representative Emilia Strong Sykes, a Democrat who represents Akron, for an investigation by the Justice Department into the patterns and practices of the Akron Police Department. He said the family also planned to file a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city and the Police Department.
“They are distraught, they are saddened, they are sickened by what’s happened,” Mr. DiCello said in a phone interview on Monday evening. “They are not done with this fight. They feel as though they’ve lost a battle but certainly not the war for justice.”
Demetrius Travis Sr., a cousin of Mr. Walker, said in a text message to The Akron Beacon Journal that “disappointment cannot began to express how I feel about this decision,” even though he had expected it “based off many actions by the city of Akron, to protect their buildings and block off streets.”
“Whatever happens because of this decision is not on the Walker family, it is due to a continuing disregard for the lives of Black and Brown people in the United States of America,” Mr. Travis wrote.
The Akron police chief, Steve Mylett, said at a news conference that the grand jury, after reviewing all the facts, including video footage, had “ultimately determined that our officers did not commit a crime when they encountered Mr. Walker.”
“In no way does that take away from the tragedy of June 27 and the loss of such a young life,” Chief Mylett said. He said that the Police Department would begin an internal investigation to determine whether the officers had violated any department policies. He said that the department would not release the officers’ names because of threats made against them.
Mr. Horrigan said that he was calling for peace, just as he had when the Police Department released footage of the shooting in July. That footage led to protests over several days throughout Akron, a city of about 200,000 people in northeastern Ohio, south of Cleveland. While the demonstrations were largely peaceful, some resulted in property damage and arrests of demonstrators.
Mr. Yost, a Republican, said that his office had “made a point of neutrally presenting all the evidence” to the grand jury, which considered the evidence over more than a week.
He said that a judge overseeing the grand jury had instructed the jurors about the law, rather than have those instructions come from the prosecutor as is customary, “to avoid any question about the accuracy of the legal instructions.”
Only seven of the nine jurors needed to agree that there was probable cause to move forward with charges. Mr. Yost said he was legally prohibited from disclosing the grand jury vote.
This is all whitenology: Prosecutors direct their grand juries to do as they please - if they don’t get an indictment its because they don’t really want an indictment - similar to the Michael Brown or Eric Garner grand juries for white cops. As the saying goes a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if the prosecutor wants them to. The Dependent Media, which is run by elite whites did not bother to report on the racial makeup of the grand jury. Eric Garner’s jury in white liberal, NYC was all-white.
Speaking on Monday at a news conference at an Akron church with clergy members and civil rights leaders, Ms. Sykes said she would formally request a Justice Department investigation of the Police Department. Pamela Walker, Mr. Walker’s mother, had attended the State of the Union address in February, at the invitation of Ms. Sykes.
“We’ve seen it too many times,” Ms. Sykes said in a statement. “A routine traffic stop ends in death, and a family and community mourn the loss of a son. A brother. A friend. A neighbor. As this country and community reckons with another tragic death, we find ourselves yearning for a justice system that protects us all.”
After a White Man Shot a Black Teen who Rang His Door Bell White Cops Failed to Arrest Him and a White Prosecutor Took 5 Days to Charge. Were Delays Caused by White Supremacy or Stand Your Ground Law?
/The plain meaning of so-called Stand Your Ground Laws is not racist."Stand your ground" is a self-defense, criminal defense raised at trial that allows for the use of deadly force when it is reasonable for a non-aggressor/victim to do so. In states which have variations of this law a person does not have a legal duty to retreat before using self defense to defend themselves under life threatening conditions that are reasonably apparent to the victim. Most states, including D.C. have a version of the law. [MORE]
That such laws allow white people to execute non-white people is COMPLETE deception created by the media IN A SUBTLE PUSH TO TAKE AWAY INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TO DEFEND YOURSELF. The operating system (OS) of White supremacy is the cause and effect of white people's genocidal conduct towards non-whites; recent incidents are part of this observable pattern. Neely Fuller explains that a "non-law" is any law that is used in such a manner as to promote injustice. ANY LAW CAN BE A NON-LAW. Here, it is the application OR MISAPPLICATION of Stand Your ground laws by racist citizens, prosecutors, jurors and judges that creates injustice for non-whites - as would the racist enforcement and prosecution of a drug law or a traffic ordinance OR ANY OTHER LAW IN THE HANDS OF RACISTS.
From [HERE] Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said Monday that the white man accused of shooting a 16-year-old boy last Thursday in Kansas City, Mo., now faces two felony charges. The suspect, identified as 85-year-old Andrew Lester, is charged with assault and armed criminal action.
Police said on Thursday, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl went to pick up his siblings from a house in the 1100 block of NE 115th Terrace. Instead, he ended up at NE 115th Street. After knocking at the door, he was shot. Thompson said according to the probable cause affidavit, Lester fired twice through a glass door, striking Yarl twice once in the head and again in the arm. He was able to get up and run for help. The weapon used was a .32 revolver.
Thompson said there was a racial component to the case. Lester is a white man, and Yarl is Black. The prosecutor, who is white, said the suspect still faces a Class A felony which is the highest felony in the state of Missouri.
“In the state of Missouri, hate crimes can be E or D felonies which carry with them a lower range of punishment than what the defendant is charged with,” said Thomspon.
The Clay County prosecutor said the assault charge carries a punishment of 10 to 30 years, up to life in prison. The criminal action charge carries a punishment of three to 15 years in prison.
When asked why Lester wasn’t arrested the night of the shooting, Thomspon said police were just following the law.
“In Missouri, charges have been to be charged within 24 hours of arrest or the defendant or suspect is released. “In this case, it was clear that additional investigation needed to be done so the case could be built on a solid foundation,” Thompson said.
At the time of the conference, Lester had not been arrested, His bond is set at $200,000.
Family members said Yarl was released from the hospital Monday afternoon and is home recovering. A unity walk
The Clay County Prosecutor is holding a media briefing regarding a 16-year-old boy who was shot last week while trying to pick up his siblings.
The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department said Ralph Yarl was trying to pick up his siblings from a house in the 1100 block of NE 115th Terrace. Instead, he ended up at NE 115th Street. After knocking at the door, he was shot.
Yarl was hospitalized with serious injuries from the shooting. Family members said he was released from the hospital Monday afternoon and is home recovering.
The man accused of shooting Yarl was taken into police custody but never arrested.
Authorities Did Nothing as Lashawn Thompson Deteriorated in Reprehensible Atlanta Jail Run by Liberals. Black Man Held Pre-Trial on Misdemeanor Eaten Alive by Bugs, Dead Due to Extreme Neglect
/From [HERE] Lashawn Thompson was slumped over in a cell at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta when a detention officer came to check on him in September. The cell was so dirty that a worker who entered it wore a safety suit designed to protect from hazardous materials, according to jail records.
Officers were unable to resuscitate Thompson in the cell, where he’d been held for around three months. An autopsy could not determine his cause of death, but the report described an “extremely severe” infestation of small insects across Thompson’s body. His face, upper and lower extremities were pockmarked with cuts and lesions from repeated skin-picking, the report said.
But to Thompson’s family, the cause of his death is clear.
Thompson was “eaten alive” by insects and bed bugs, Michael Harper, an attorney for Thompson’s family, said in a news release Wednesday. The release, accompanied by jail records and graphic photos of Thompson and his cell, called for a criminal investigation into the 35-year-old man’s death and for the Fulton County Jail to be shuttered and replaced.
“They put that man in that cell, left him there to die,” Harper said in a Thursday news conference. “And that’s exactly what happened.”
The family is working with doctors to investigate Thompson’s death, Harper added.
Brad McCrae, Thompson’s brother, told The Washington Post his family is shaken by the conditions detailed in the report and the photos that show the extent of the infestation across Thompson’s body. The family decided to release the photos to illustrate the abuse he suffered, Harper’s release said.
“It’s heartbreaking,” McCrae said. “The pictures are really awful, they’re hard to look at.”
The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, which operates the jail, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night. In a statement to WSB-TV, a spokesperson said the office was investigating Thompson’s death and had approved funds to address infestations and diseases at the jail. The statement also echoed Harper’s calls to replace the jail.
It’s no secret that the dilapidated and rapidly eroding conditions of the current facility make it incredibly difficult to meet the goal of providing a clean, well-maintained and healthy environment for all inmates and staff,” the statement said.
Harper told The Post the family appreciated that officials are working to improve some conditions but called for further action.
“If you look at those pictures, how deplorable that jail cell was, how did they get to that point in the first place?” he said. “It’s not fit for an animal.”
Thompson was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor simple battery in June, court records show. He was held at the Fulton County Jail and awaiting transfer to an Alabama jail for a prior charge, Harper said.
Officers moved Thompson to the psychiatric wing of the jail after determining he had mental health issues, according to Harper.
Thompson’s family, who lives in Alabama, did not know he had been detained until they received a call informing them of his death, they said at the news conference. Harper said the family had only recently obtained the jail records and decided to release them.
McCrae said the graphic photos of his brother brought to mind images from a landmark moment in America’s history of racial injustice.
“The first thing that came to my mind was seeing the photos of Emmett Till,” he said, referencing the 14-year-old Black boy tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 who, at his family’s insistence, was photographed at an open casket funeral to show the brutality of his death.
Thompson was healthy and had no preexisting physical health conditions before being jailed, Harper said. He alleged that jail staff noticed Thompson’s condition deteriorate over the months he was detained but did not help him, citing jail records and photos of the squalid condition of Thompson’s cell.
Thompson was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor simple battery in June, court records show. He was held at the Fulton County Jail and awaiting transfer to an Alabama jail for a prior charge, Harper said.
Officers moved Thompson to the psychiatric wing of the jail after determining he had mental health issues, according to Harper.
Thompson’s family, who lives in Alabama, did not know he had been detained until they received a call informing them of his death, they said at the news conference. Harper said the family had only recently obtained the jail records and decided to release them.
McCrae said the graphic photos of his brother brought to mind images from a landmark moment in America’s history of racial injustice.
“The first thing that came to my mind was seeing the photos of Emmett Till,” he said, referencing the 14-year-old Black boy tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 who, at his family’s insistence, was photographed at an open casket funeral to show the brutality of his death.
Thompson was healthy and had no preexisting physical health conditions before being jailed, Harper said. He alleged that jail staff noticed Thompson’s condition deteriorate over the months he was detained but did not help him, citing jail records and photos of the squalid condition of Thompson’s cell.
Documents Reveal the US Government Incentivized Coin-Operated Doctors to Inject Medicaid Patients w/Experimental, Deadly COVID Shots by Offering Bonuses Based on the Number Successfully “vaccinated"
/From [HERE] The federal government and insurers incentivized healthcare providers in Kentucky and California to vaccinate Medicaid patients against COVID-19 by offering bonuses based on the percentage of patients successfully vaccinated.
“[This is] truly sickening and I am embarrassed for my profession by this,” Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist and biological warfare epidemiologist, wrote on her Substack, where she posted several documents relating to the COVID-19 vaccine provider incentive programs.
The documents help to draw a picture of the broader effort at the federal, state and local levels to unleash a range of strategies targeting low-income and people-of-color communities, which tended to have lower vaccination rates.
The strategies included providing hundreds of millions of dollars for the creation of “culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training “trusted” and “influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities of color in every state.
Nass’ revelations showed these efforts went beyond advertising, fear campaigns, payments to patients and payments to trusted community actors and included, in some cases, direct financial incentives to healthcare providers.
Kentucky: Medicaid paid doctors up to $250 per vaccinated Medicaid patient
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky told physicians in 2021 it would “recognize your hard work by offering incentives for helping patients make the choice to become vaccinated.”
The more people vaccinated, the higher the per-person incentive.
For physicians who treated an Anthem Medicaid cohort with a minimum of 25 patients in their practice, Anthem Medicaid offered incentives for vaccination by Sept. 1, 2021, that ranged from a $20 bonus per vaccinated person for physicians who vaccinated 30% of the cohort, to $125 per vaccinated person for those who vaccinated 75% of the cohort, with several incremental steps in between.
As time went on, the rates increased.
Between Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021, physicians received payments ranging from $100 per newly vaccinated person for those who vaccinated 30% of their patient cohort, to $250 per newly vaccinated person for those who vaccinated 75% of their patient cohort.
In 2022, the Anthem provider incentive program changed to a flat rate. Providers received $50 per newly vaccinated Medicaid patient. This included children ages 6 months to 4 years and kids 12 and older vaccinated between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022, and children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated between June 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.
Medi-Cal: $350 million in incentives to vaccinate low-income children, people of color
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) on Aug. 6, 2021, announced $350 million in incentive payments — $250 million to providers and $100 million for direct non-monetary payments, such as gift cards, to vaccine recipients — to encourage vaccination among Medi-Cal’s 14 million beneficiaries.
Of the $350 million, $175 million came from state general funds and $175 million from federal funding. The funding period lasted from Sept. 2, 2021, through Feb. 29, 2022.
The program offered incentives to managed care plans in the name of “health equity.” In the press release, DHCS Director Will Lightborne said that raising rates among Medi-Cal beneficiaries was essential because “California will only be safe when everyone is safe.”
Nass noted that this program was rolled out one day after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told CNN the vaccines don’t prevent virus transmission. “That’s clearly a contradiction,” Nass told The Defender.
The funding targeted Medicaid recipients with low vaccine uptake — the homebound, communities of color, youth ages 12 to 25 and people ages 50 to 64 with multiple chronic conditions — and incentivized outreach and vaccination activities for providers and pharmacies.
At the time of the announcement, only 45.6% of Medi-Cal beneficiaries age 12 and over had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to over 76% of Californians overall.
The DHCS funding included payments to community-based organizations, food banks, advocacy groups and faith-based organizations. This key strategy of funding grassroots leaders to act as “grassroots” proxies spreading the federal government’s vaccine message was widespread throughout the pandemic.
Providers could also couple this grant with a CAIRVaxGrant, which offered providers up to $10,000 to enter all of their historical electronic health record immunizations into the California Immunization Registry (CAIR).
The grant stipulated that after startup costs, payments would be directly tied to “meeting specific vaccination goals,” similar to the Kentucky program.
The incentive payment structure under the California plan was complex, paying a financial reward to healthcare providers who met particular benchmarks that varied by county and demographic but overall increased the percentage of vaccinated patients among their Medicare beneficiaries.
Under this incentive structure, providers had to meet particular vaccination targets in order to get paid. Those who were especially successful in increasing vaccination rates in the target groups would be entered into a “high performance pool,” receiving extra money for substantially moving the vaccination rates for Medicaid recipients 75% higher than baseline or within 10% of a given county’s general rate.
In the equation that determined the incentive payment structure, different demographic groups were weighted differently. For example, vaccine recipients ages 12 to 25 were weighted more highly than older recipients and those in the two racial/ethnic groups with the lowest uptake were also given greater weight.
By Jan. 21 of this year, despite this $250 million push, Medi-Cal vaccination had only increased to 52.9%.
Medicaid pays doctors more to administer COVID vaccines than other shots
As part of the American Rescue Plan Act, the Biden administration fully funded the COVID-19 vaccination program, making vaccines free regardless of health insurance status.
To cover the costs of the uninsured and underinsured, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) paid provider costs of vaccine administration through an Uninsured Program and a COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund.
Reimbursements were based on national Medicare rates, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which sets those rates, increased the reimbursement rate over time. Through March 14, 2021, HRSA paid $28.93 for a single-dose vaccine or for the second dose in a series of 2, and $16.94 for the first dose in a series of two.
On March 15, 2021, those rates increased to $40 per dose and $75.50 for an “in-home” dose of the vaccine.
Nass said the initial payments were in line with Medicaid payments for other vaccines, but the increased payment marked a departure from the usual reimbursement structure.
Usually, all CMS changes to Medicare payments for specific services must go through notice and comment rulemaking, but “to save time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency bypassed that route before increasing payments for administering the vaccines,” JAMA reported.
CMS said the higher payments were meant to help expand COVID-19 vaccination, supporting “actions taken by providers, such as growing existing vaccination sites, conducting patient outreach and education, and hiring additional staff,” Healthcare Finance News reported.
CHD Sues NIH Over Failure to Comply With FOIA Request for Correspondence With COVID Shot Injury Victims
/From [HERE] Children’s Health Defense (CHD) on Wednesday sued the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for failing to respond to CHD’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to correspondence between NIH researchers and individuals who contacted the NIH regarding adverse events they experienced after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CHD submitted the FOIA request Nov. 10, 2022. The NIH has not produced the documents or a final determination and stopped responding to CHD.
CHD alleges the NIH violated the legal time limits for responding to FOIA requests and is withholding crucial information from the public.
“Lawsuits like this are critically important,” said Kim Mack Rosenberg, CHD acting general counsel. “Government transparency concerning its research on injuries following COVID-19 injections is of paramount importance.”
Rosenberg added:
“The U.S. government has encouraged, and in some cases, mandated, these injections. How can it now turn a blind eye to requests for information concerning injuries?
“Individuals have a right to this information to promote informed decision-making. By ignoring CHD’s FOIA request, NIH only further undermines the public’s trust in NIH and other government agencies.”
Several vaccine injury victims who communicated with the NIH spoke to The Defender about their experiences interacting with the NIH and participating in a study it was conducting on vaccine-injured individuals — although the NIH has since, on several occasions, denied having data on such individuals or even conducting such research. [MORE]
[Government is Trying to Kill You] 45 Times as Many Deaths After COVID Shots in Just 2 Years Compared With All Flu Vaccine-Related Deaths Since 1990, Data Show
/From [CHD] The cost of injecting healthy people, “especially children,” with a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine “outweighs any claimed though unvalidated benefits,” according to researchers who analyzed adverse events data from more than 10 regulatory surveillance and self-reporting systems during the first two years of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
“Our meta-analysis of both national and international vaccine adverse events emphasizes the importance of re-evaluating public health policies that promote universal mass injection and multiple boosters for all demographic groups,” said the authors of a peer-reviewed studypublished this month in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.
Eliana Romero, Ph.D., director of clinical research at the Neurodiversity Foundation, Shawn Fry, founder and chief science officer of the Neurodiversity Foundation and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense and associate professor of biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, authored the paper.
The researchers looked at adverse events specifically related to cardiovascular and fertility health — such as myocarditis and menstrual abnormalities — that went overlooked during the “expedited safety analyses” that took place in the “accelerated approval process that allowed the manufacturers to fast-track their products,” they said.
They analyzed data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database — the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S., which has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events — and the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), the medical events database for all active and reserve U.S. military.
The authors also examined data from other regulatory surveillance and self-reporting systems including the V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker, the U.K.’s Yellow Card reporting system, Public Health Scotland, the Israeli Ministry of Health and the Natural Cycles App.
Hooker said the data highlights “the dramatic uptick in adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.”
After carefully conducting statistical analyses, the authors concluded there were far more reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination than following either influenza or pertussis vaccination.
The researchers also found “statistically significant higher numbers of hospital encounters in military personnel” after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout when compared to just before the rollout, and “increases in incidences of thromboembolic conditions, such as menstrual abnormalities, myocarditis, and cerebrovascular events after the implementation of COVID injection mandates, compared to the preceding five years.”
The researchers verified their conclusions by comparing their findings to similar reports from other regulatory surveillance and self-reporting systems including EudraVigilance, Eurostat, German health insurers and the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics.
In addition to statistically significant increases in vaccine adverse events, the data showed “highly statistically significant” increases in “specific morbidity” and “all-cause mortality,” Hooker told The Defender.
“These results should not be ignored,” he added.
More than 45 times as many deaths after COVID shots than all flu vaccine deaths combined since 1990
The researchers found the number of reported deaths related to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was more than 45 times as many deaths per vaccine dose as were reported for all the influenza vaccines combined since 1990.
They also found a higher incidence of menstruation problems, myocarditis and cerebrovascular events following COVID-19 vaccination than following influenza vaccination, as seen in figure 1A:
The researchers also compared adverse events reported in VAERS following the COVID-19 vaccines to adverse events reported following the influenza and pertussis vaccines.
They showed the percentage of total reports attributed to death, for the COVID-19, influenza and pertussis vaccines, as seen in figure 1B:
Should the trends in myocarditis rates continue, “we will see spikes in death rates attributed to the increase in myocarditis documented above, as well as in the number of otherwise healthy young adults needing transplants to survive, and all the complications associated with such a transplant,” the authors said.
DMED data trends mirrored VAERS and other surveillance data trends, which showed dramatic increases in many medical conditions in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout when compared to the previous five years.
The researchers also pointed out that on Feb. 1, 2022, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III asking if the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) was aware of the DMED data.
“If so,” Johnson said in his letter, “please explain what actions DOD has taken to investigate the root cause for the increases in these diagnoses.”
COVID vaccines not as ‘benign’ as the media said they were
Romero, the paper’s lead author, said the research wasn’t done “for a cause” or “with any predetermined hope for any specific results.”
Romero said she initially “had no qualms” about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, but soon it became “impossible not to hear all the opposition to them and, always a researcher at heart, I decided to follow up.”
Romero holds a doctorate in molecular and human genetics and has worked with some of the world’s top neurogeneticists.
“I’m a scientist through and through,” Romero told The Defender. “I also have Asperger’s, so I’m not exactly wired to tell anything but the truth.”
Romero began finding “mounting evidence the vaccines weren’t as benign as the media was desperately trying to convince us they were,” she said and felt an obligation to share what she was finding with others.
Romero — who has 20 years of experience investigating the genetic and biological aspects of various disease states at Baylor College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and several private laboratories — said she used “all avenues available” and “went through every effort to standardize my data, compare apples to apples, and to perform any calculations I knew of to test the validity of the data presented.”
“The paper isn’t an attempt to skew anybody’s opinions one way or the other,” Romero emphasized. “Its sole purpose is to make sure people have all the information they need to make the best decisions they can for their health,” she said.
“Governments and institutions and scientists and doctors should provide people ALL the information needed so that individuals can make truly informed decisions for themselves.”
Are You Eating Pork Injected With Merck’s mRNA Livestock Vaccine?
/Story at a glance:
For the last couple of years, I’ve recommended not eating pork due to its high linoleic acid (LA) content, but there’s an even bigger reason to avoid it now. Since 2018, pork producers have been using customizable mRNA-based “vaccines” on their herds.
The very first RNA-based livestock vaccine, a swine influenza (H3N2) RNA shot licensed in 2012, was developed by Harrisvaccines. The company followed up with an avian influenza mRNA shot in 2015. Harrisvaccines was acquired by Merck Animal Health later that year.
CureVac developed an mRNA-based rabies shot for pigs in 2016.
The swine vaccine platform Sequivity, introduced in 2018, was developed by Merck in partnership with Moderna. Sequivity can produce endlessly customized “vaccines,” none of which undergo safety testing.
Americans have been eating pork treated with gene therapy for nearly five years already, and even more of our meat supply is about to get the same treatment. mRNA-lipid nanoparticle shots for avian influenza are in the works, as are mRNA shots for cows. Lobbyists for the Cattlemen’s Association recently confirmed they intend to use mRNA “vaccines” in cattle, which might affect both dairy and beef.
Missouri House Bill 1169 would require labeling of products that can alter your genes. It would also require companies to share information about the potential transmissibility of gene-altering interventions, and asserts that fully informed consent must be given for all vaccines, gene therapies and medical interventions.
From [HERE] For the last couple of years, I’ve recommended not eating pork due to its high linoleic acid (LA) content, but there’s an even bigger reason to avoid it now.
Since 2018, pork producers have been using customizable mRNA-based “vaccines” on their herds, and this has slipped completely under the radar. I myself just found out about it.
As described on Merck’s animal health website:
“A revolutionary swine vaccine platform, SEQUIVITY harnesses RNA particle technology to create customized prescription vaccines against strains of influenza A virus in swine, porcine circovirus (PCV), rotavirus and beyond. It’s supported by a sophisticated dashboard filled with comprehensive data and insights …
“Sequivity is a custom swine vaccine platform … Sequivity only targets swine pathogen gene sequences of interest. Doesn’t replicate or cause disease, delivering pathogen information to the immune system … There’s no need to transfer or handle live material like autogenous, killed or modified live vaccines …
“Targets existing and evolving swine pathogens, including diseases not covered by conventional swine vaccines. Allows for the creation of multivalent formulations by blending RNA particles to target multiple swine pathogens in one shot.”
First RNA ‘vaccine’ for livestock licensed in 2012
Merck was not alone in developing veterinary mRNA shots, however. They weren’t even first on the scene, although they later acquired the company that started it all.
The very first RNA-based livestock vaccine, a swine influenza (H3N2) RNA shot, was licensed over a decade ago in 2012, and was developed by Harrisvaccines. The company followed up with an avian influenza mRNA shot in 2015. Harrisvaccines was acquired by Merck Animal Health later that year.
CureVac developed an mRNA-based rabies shot for pigs in 2016. (On a side note, they began conducting human rabies shot trials in 2020 in response to the World Health Organization’s goal to achieve “zero human rabies deaths by 2030.”)
In 2016, Bayer also partnered with BioNTech to develop mRNA “vaccines” for both livestock and pets, but it doesn’t appear they ever launched anything.
So, in retrospect, it appears Americans have been eating pork treated with gene therapy for the past five years, and even more of our meat supply is about to get contaminated with the same treatment.
In addition to the avian influenza RNA shot for chickens licensed in 2015, newer mRNA-lipid nanoparticle shots for avian influenza are also in the works.
Iowa State University is also working on an mRNA shot for cows, and lobbyists for the Cattlemen’s Association recently confirmed they intend to use mRNA “vaccines” in cattle, which might affect both dairy and beef.
Merck and Moderna: Partners in mRNA jab race since 2015
The same year Merck purchased Harrisvaccines (2015), it also entered into a partnership with Moderna to develop a number of undisclosed mRNA “vaccines.” It was slated to be a three-year collaboration, with a one-year optional extension, in which Merck would perform research and development and commercialization of five potential products using Moderna’s mRNA technology.
As reported by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News at the time:
“Moderna has agreed to design and synthesize the mRNA product candidates directed against selected targets through its mRNA Therapeutics™ platform.
“The platform builds on the discovery that modified mRNA can direct the body’s cellular machinery to produce nearly any protein of interest — ranging from native proteins to antibodies and other entirely novel protein constructs with therapeutic activity inside and outside of cells.”
Endless customization, zero safety testing
Sequivity, introduced in 2018, was one of the products that came out of that partnership. As explained by Merck (both on its website and in the video below), Sequivity is not so much a single vaccine as it is a platform that can be endlessly customized — all without additional safety analyses over and beyond the initial ridiculously inadequate testing.
As noted by Zoetis, the largest producer of veterinary drugs and vaccines:
“Sequivity has safety and efficacy studies based on the platform with a historical initial isolate, not likely the isolate that customers would be requesting in their product.”
Sequivity is customized as follows:
Pathogen is collected and sent to a diagnostic lab.
The gene of interest is sequenced and sent electronically to Sequivity analysts.
A synthetic version of the gene of interest is synthesized and inserted into the RNA production platform.
The RNA particles released from incubated production cells are harvested and formulated into a customized “vaccine.”
Using this platform, a customized “vaccine” can be created in as little as eight weeks. Now, what could go wrong by not testing every new shot for safety? [MORE]
Single Source Propaganda: An Estimated 80% of the Content Broadcast and Published by The Dependent Media Comes from a Handful of Public Relations Firms Controlled by Powerful Elites
/From [MERCOLA] and [HERE] PR firms and ad agency holding companies are a central cog in global propaganda machine. They make sure the same message is distributed in many different places in a cohesively timed fashion
An estimated two-thirds to 80% of the content broadcast and published by corporate media comes from public relations firms such as these four. In other words, most so-called mainstream media “news” is propaganda
The four largest ad holding companies in the world are the Publicis Groupe, WPP, the Omnicom Group and the Interpublic Group, and all are deeply interlocked with the corporate media, the military-industrial complex and the policymakers
A handful of private investment companies dominate every aspect of our lives and own everything we spend our money on. The two largest ones are Vanguard and BlackRock. Vanguard and/or BlackRock are also among the top 10 shareholders in the four largest ad agency holding companies
The 1% of the world’s wealthiest people provide the ideological justification that is driving the implementation of The Great Reset worldwide. The term academia uses to describe this globalist cabal is “The Transnational Capitalist Class” or TCC
In her book "One Idea to Rule Them All, Reverse Engineering American Propaganda," Michelle Stiles reveals how the American public (and indeed the global population at large) have been indoctrinated and conned by public relations (PR) companies that run the globalist cabal's propaganda campaigns. I will be interviewing Michele shortly for this book.
The PR agency creates a global media plan for a given client. It decides the articles to be written and where they're to appear. It then decides where ads will run and when. So, while drug companies appear to have a rather direct influence over media, it's really the PR firms that wield the greatest control, especially when it comes to the organization of it all.
They make sure the same message is distributed in many different places in a cohesively timed fashion. As such, PR companies are a central cog in the global propaganda machine and need to be understood as such.
On a side note, there are two designations for PR companies: public relations firms and ad agency holding companies. Ad agency holding companies do public relations but are primarily ad agency based.
A Russian Nesting Doll Model of the World
As detailed in "Who Owns the World?" a handful of private investment companies dominate every aspect of our lives and own everything we spend our money on, from food and beverages to clothing, travel, housing and just about everything else you can think of.
While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian nesting dolls, larger parent companies own multiple smaller brands. In reality, all packaged food brands, for example, are owned by a dozen or so larger parent companies.
These parent companies, in turn, are owned by shareholders, and the largest shareholders are the same in all of them: Vanguard and Blackrock. These institutional investors also own each other. They're shareholders in each other's companies, which erodes the concept of competition and strengthens the global monopoly even further.
Four Ad Holding Companies Dominate the Media Landscape
The four largest ad holding companies in the world are currently the Publicis Groupe, WPP, the Omnicom Group and the Interpublic Group, and Stiles notes, all are "deeply interlocked with the corporate media, the military-industrial complex, and the policy elites."
Each agency, in turn, has smaller subsidiaries and affiliates, again giving us the illusion that there are far more players than there really are. And, as with everything else, Vanguard and/or BlackRock are among the top 10 shareholders in these top four ad agency holding companies. They also own major media companies, and the largest drug companies.
“An estimated two-thirds to 80% of the content broadcast and published by corporate media comes from public relations firms.”
For clarity, in her book, Stiles lists the top three as WPP, Omnicom and Interpublic, but as of November 2021, Publicis surpassed WPP in terms of market value, nabbing the No. 1 spot as the world's largest ad holding company. 1
WPP still has a larger annual revenue, though. That said, all four boast multibillion-dollar annual revenues. In 2022:
London-based WPP, which has agencies in 112 countries, made $17.847 billion.2
Noteworthy clients include Amazon, Microsoft, NBC, Healthline, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Pfizer.
Publicis made $14.957 billion3 serving clients within the technology, pharmaceutical and banking industries.
New York City-based Omnicom made $14.289 billion 4 from its 200+ agencies, which service more than 5,000 corporate brands, universities, nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
The Interpublic Group's revenue was $10.928 billion, 5 and its clientele include the U.S. Army, ABC, Columbia Records, Unilever, U.S. Bank, Facebook and ExxonMobil, just to name a few.
According to Stiles, an estimated two-thirds to 80% of the content broadcast and published by corporate media comes from public relations firms. In other words, most so-called mainstream media "news" is propaganda.
Remarkably, when you add the revenues of these top four ad holding companies together, it's still below $60 billion, which seems a modest price to control up to 80% of the global mainstream media landscape. Clearly, it's money well-spent, from the globalist's perspective.
The Transnational Capitalist Class
As noted by Stiles, the term academia uses to describe this globalist cabal is "The Transnational Capitalist Class" or TCC. "They are 1% of the world's wealthiest people who provide the ideological justification driving desired actions to be implemented worldwide in pursuit of their shared interests through transnational governmental organizations," she writes.
She goes on to cite sociologist Peter Phillips' book, "Giants: The Global Power Elite," in which Phillips details:
"… the vast web of interconnectedness of the 17 giant investment firms managing in excess of $43 trillion in capital, who are themselves cross-invested with each other, the near giants … and have ownership stakes in the top 1,500 corporations spanning the globe, giving them enormous power in corporate board rooms across the planet.
Leaders of these firms meet together at various policy-making conferences throughout the year to network, strategize and finalize recommendations in the form of reports and whitepapers that heavily influence worldwide geopolitics …
If you still live in the dark ages thinking there is no intertwined global elite controlling and overpowering the sovereignty of nation-states and dominating the ideological landscape, take the time and read Phillip's book. It's a reality check as bracing as a cold shower …
Philips profiles 389 of the world's most powerful players in capitalism … It's a very small ecosystem of entwined connections, financial overlap, elite prestige and message control which they inhabit …
There are integrations, cross integrations, partnerships, overlap of leadership and constant networking among the 1%. This is evident. So far, an obvious but overlooked question is: If a deeply complex geo-political and ideological web has already been established, who are the weavers and what are they up to? Who is responsible for the organization on such a grand scale?
People who study these types of things have many names for the weavers: 'The Deep State,' 'The 1%,' 'The Elites,' 'GloboCap,' 'The Powers That Be,' or simply 'Globalists.' It is likely that the true leaders will always remain hidden, and the leaders profiled in Phillips' book are more or less figureheads fronting for controllers behind the scenes.
Remember, wolves don't go announcing themselves to the general public. If things go awry, their anonymity protects them. In the end, knowledge of the names is not as important as understanding the systematic game of 'winner take all' that they are playing."
But for all their private meetings, the globalists would not have been able to build this hidden monopoly where they own everything, were it not for their control of the media.
They hid their control of the media pretty well for a long time, but during COVID, the lockstep word-for-word regurgitation of nonsense and easily-confirmed lies revealed there was, without doubt, a top-down organization to the madness.
Here, Publicis appears to be a top candidate as the primary string-puller, seeing how it's partnered with the World Economic Forum, which is leading the call for a "reset" of the global economy and a complete overhaul of our way of life.
US Government Spends Billions on Propaganda
While private interests are at the center of the globalist cabal or Deep State, it's a mistake to think that governments aren't participating in their plans — or their propaganda.
As reported by Stiles, between 2007 and 2015, the U.S. federal government spent more than $4 billion on public relations services, plus another $2.2 billion for polling, research, and market consulting services. Why does a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" need all this PR? In short: to indoctrinate the public with the globalists' narratives and points of view.
"Building trust takes time because character is only revealed through action," Stiles notes, and this is well-known to con artists and propagandists alike. Without a certain level of trust, a con won't work, and we are now discovering that the globalist cabal has spent decades orchestrating a con so big many still cannot believe it. They've infiltrated academia, science and just about every branch of government, and not just in the United States.
In a functioning system, mainstream media would have alerted us to the game plan and exposed the liars and the frauds along the way. But they didn't, and the reason they didn't is because mainstream media are no longer free to report truth. It's been captured by the globalist propaganda machine and its primary function is to broadcast the narratives created by PR companies on the cabal's behalf.
"Propaganda is a rich man's sport," Stiles writes. "Imagine with piles of money you can purchase 'trust,' enabling you to monopolize ideas. Your ideas at the top of the food chain ensure continued market dominance and financial leverage over a manipulated citizenry.
You are going to do this in various ways; creating foundations that will 'donate' large sums of money to organizations you would like to influence, sponsoring organizations that influence national and global leaders and by creating nonprofit organizations that can promote your message while appearing independent.
This takes decades, but you're a patient person. After all, global ideological dominance shouldn't happen overnight. When sufficient entities exist or have been captured — the average citizen is subject to the finest pseudo-reality that money can buy.
It's a diabolical achievement — the corruption and take-over of the ideological free market. Your ideas saturate the landscape, and your helpless victims struggle to triangulate 'truth,' trapped in a literal spider's web of interconnected and well-financed authoritative voices and entities."
The Creation of an Idea Syndicate
Stiles goes through the various ways in which the globalists technocrats and transhumanists managed to create an "idea syndicate" where their ideas always get top billing. One way has been through the capturing of societal influencers through the lures of "grants and the promise of appointments, publications and prestige."
This strategy has resulted in people of low integrity and morals taking center stage — most are basically people willing to sell out — while simultaneously throttling the influence of independent thinkers who cannot be bought.
Another highly effective strategy is to "control the realm of ideas by lavishly funding certain themes and narratives while selectively starving others slated for extinction," Stiles writes. This is routinely done through charitable foundations. Through "charity," the cabal can fund the ideas that the TCC endorses while simultaneously starving out opposing ideas and ideals. As noted by Stiles:
"The true threat of the foundations lies 'in their ability to provide war chests in the battle of ideas,' picking winners and losers and corrupting the free-flowing ideological landscape …
Those ideas that are nonconformist, unconventional or simply do not comport with the dominant ideology espoused by the foundation trustees would be left to wither on the vine, having little reach or power to influence.
Much of what is called 'truth' today is supported by 'research.' 'The research says' is the essence of supposed objectivity and the backbone of a superior argument leaving the fellow without research in the dust. The logic is as follows: All worthy ideas get funding for research; your ideas have no supporting research; therefore, your ideas are inferior.
As you can easily see, all ideas do not have equal opportunity to advance if the control lever of funding is biased. With this scheme in place, entire intellectual flotillas of specialized science could be created and used to commandeer social policy, legislation, and judicial rulings by directing the money spigots flowing into academia …
Foundation control of monies to academia can be thought of as a chokehold on the seedbed or ideological germination centers targeting idea creators and their livelihood."
The third way to create an idea syndicate is through front groups — third-party organizations that claim to be independent but are really agents of and for a particular agenda.
"With enough money, front groups can afford to scheme up designer truth hot off the assembly line to support literally any platform," Stiles writes, adding, "Thanks to billions of dollars spent through foundations, public relations firms and the third-party technique, Americans are literally swimming in a sea of manufactured truth …"
Controlling Competing Views
So, to summarize, maintaining control over ideas and prevailing narratives involves both the monopolization of ideas and the simultaneous suppression of competing views, and PR companies and media perform both functions.
As noted by Stiles, even when media present opposing views, they do so very carefully. "Truth that has the power to unseat the illusion of democracy will have a firewall erected against it," and media simply will not cross that firewall, no matter how "neutral" they pretend to be.
ChatGPT Weighs in on Potential Dangers of PR Firms
In closing, and just for fun, a member of my team recently asked ChatGPT to "write a story about the potential dangers of how the top three ad holding companies, which also act as public relations firms, can influence news coverage about pharmaceutical products, similar to how Bill Gates could use his foundation's money to influence the World Health Organization and media organizations to influence the coverage of global health, and potentially benefit from his own pharmaceutical investments."
The carefully engineered prompt for the AI allowed a response that reveals the kernel of truth that even the radicalized programmers at OpenAI could not filter out:

