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Fauci develops selective amnesia during COVID testimony; admits social distancing wasn’t scientific | Blaze Media

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus grilled Anthony Fauci for 14 hours over two days this week as part of a closed-door deep dive into the origins of COVID-19, the rollout of novel vaccines, and controversial pandemic protocols.

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases claimed over 100 times just in the first day of questioning that he could “not recall” possibly damning information. Nevertheless, what Fauci ultimately willed himself to remember or admit was revelatory.

“Dr. Fauci’s transcribed interview revealed systemic failures in our public health system and shed light on serious procedural concerns with our public health authority,” wrote Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio). “It is clear that dissenting opinions were often not considered or suppressed completely. Should a future pandemic arise, America’s response must be guided by scientific facts and conclusive data.”

Social distancing was a crock

Wenstrup noted after the second day of interviews that Fauci, who once cast himself as the physical incarnation of science, admitted that social distancing recommendations “forced on Americans ‘sort of just appeared’ and were likely not based on scientific data.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed in 2020 the need for adults and school children to “remain at least 6 feet apart,” suggesting that a failure to space students far apart presented the “highest risk.”

The CDC further recommended the use of face masks when the physical distance of six or more feet could not be maintained, confidently claiming that in its guidance that “maintaining physical distance (≥6 feet) lowers the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection through exposure to infectious respiratory droplets and aerosols and is important, even if no symptoms are apparent.

The CDC did not relax its guidelines until summer 2022.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, one of former President Donald Trump’s commissioners of the Food and Drug Administration, suggested as much in 2021, telling CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the six-foot social distancing rule was “arbitrary” — a compromise between the CDC, which initially sought a recommendation of 10 feet, and an unnamed appointee in the Trump administration who suggested 10 feet was “inoperable.”

Gottlieb underscored that this arbitrary rule was “probably the single costliest recommendation that [the] CDC made,” reported Forbes.

Not a conspiracy theory

Wenstrup indicated that Fauci admitted this week the lab-leak theory “was, in fact, not a conspiracy theory.”

Previously, Fauci all but led the campaign to discredit the likely scenario that the unhygienic Chinese communist-run lab at the center of the pandemic — where patients zero conducted gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses — was indeed the origin of the virus.

Cognizant of top immunologists’ concerns that COVID-19 was created in a lab his agency helped fund, Fauci commissioned, edited, and gave final approval to a 2020 paper suggesting the virus had a zoonotic origin.

Fauci failed to note his involvement with the impactful March 2020 study published the journal Nature, “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2,” when later citing it on the national stage to shore up his claim that it was unlikely the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology ⁠— thereby buttressing the Chinese Communist Party’s denials.

Last year, the subcommittee identified two possible motives behind the apparent efforts by Fauci and his allies to downplay the lab-leak theory and vilify its proponents: The virologists either wanted to “defend China and play diplomat” or “lessen the likelihood of increased biosafety and laboratory regulations.”

A third possibility may have been to displace blame. After all, federal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed in 2023 that the NIAID, under former director Fauci, funded dangerous experiments on coronaviruses at the WIV in China’s Hubei province.

In his testimony this week, the subcommittee suggested that Fauci “played semantics with the definition of a ‘lab leak’ in an attempt to cover up the inaccurate conclusions of ‘Proximal Origin.’ It is impossible for him to defend ‘Proximal Origin’ as definitive while simultaneously acknowledging that a lab leak is possible.”

Additional admissions and denials

Fauci revealed not only that he failed to correct state-circulated junk science and advanced at least one erroneous presumption on his own but also that he:

  • agreed with Trump’s controversial order to restrict travel from China and other nations at the outset of the pandemic;
  • advised imposing vaccine mandates on college students;
  • did not bother to review proposals when signing off on every foreign and domestic NIAID grant; and
  • could not confirm whether his former agency had any mechanisms to conduct oversight of the foreign labs it bankrolls.

Wenstrup (R-Ohio) indicated further that the geriatric scientist was also willing to admit that the policies and mandates he championed “may unfortunately increase vaccine hesitancy for years to come.”

While making some telling admissions, the former bureaucrat doubled down on his past claim that the National Institutes of Health did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan.

Fauci also denied the allegations that he visited the CIA during the pandemic or influenced the agency’s investigation into the origins of the virus. The subcommittee claimed in September that “Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters — without a record of entry — and participated in the analysis to ‘influence’ the Agency’s review.”

The committee will hear further testimony from Fauci later this year.

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Lab leaks and accidents up 50% in UK since pandemic: Report | Blaze Media

Elements of the U.S. government remain reluctant to conclude whether the
unhygienic Chinese communist-run lab at the center of the pandemic — where patients zero conducted radical experiments on coronaviruses — was indeed the origin of the virus. Time and federal lawsuits may yet reveal whether alleged bribes helped muddy waters stateside.

A fact that does not depend upon the consensus of government agencies possibly affected by
Anthony Fauci’s apparent cover-up and the communist regime’s denial is that lab leaks happen. Not only do they happen, they recur frequently, both in countries like China, where biosafety is notoriously second-rate, as well as in Western nations.

This is especially true in Britain, where the Telegraph
recently highlighted a 50% rise in lab leaks and accidents since the emergence of COVID.

This massive increase in leaks is all the more alarming granted freedom of information requests to the British government, to universities in the U.K., and to government research bodies have revealed that lethal viruses and bacteria ranging from anthrax and rabies to Middle East respiratory syndrome are being stored nearby in large populations.

As demonstrated early in the COVID pandemic — where the Chinese regime
wittingly permitted hundreds of thousands of possibly infected travelers to travel internationally whilst limits were otherwise placed on domestic travel — a problem abroad can fast become a problem for America.

The Health and Safety Executive, a British government agency responsible for workplace health and safety, reportedly recorded 286 lab incidents or near misses between January 2010 and December 2019. That averages out to roughly 28 a year.

The COVID pandemic evidently did not chasten Britons sporting lab coats. Since January 2020, the HSE has recorded 156 incidents, or 42 lab incidents a year.

The HSE, which divulged this startling number only because it had been threatened with contempt of court by the Information Commissioner’s Office, refused to provide full details about some of the incidents because they involved viruses and bacteria listed in the Terrorism Act, reported the Telegraph.

Col. Hamish Stephen de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and former commander of NATO’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Forces, said, “The apparent lab leaks in this country alone show we are all sitting on a ticking time bomb.”

“It seems highly likely that (Covid-19) was man-made, though also likely an accident at a lab, rather than deliberate,” Bretton-Gordon told the Telegraph. “The next pandemic is highly likely to be man-made, given the ease and unregulation of synthetic biology, and could kill millions of people.”

Even when regulations are in place, dangerous experiments continue behind closed doors.

While, for instance, the Obama administration announced a pause on the funding of any new studies involving gain-of-function experiments with influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses in 2014, the National Institutes of Health nevertheless approved continued GOF research on coronaviruses with funding from Peter Daszak’s scandal-plagued EcoHealth Alliance, which was in turn partly funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The Telegraph noted that among the lab accidents revealed by freedom of information requests were:

  • a bird flu leak from a cracked test tube at a Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency lab in Hertfordshire, England;
  • an accident involving Neisseria meningitidis, a bacteria linked to life-threatening sepsis, which prompted an evacuation at the Manchester Royal Infirmary;
  • COVID breaches at an uncommissioned lab at the University of Liverpool;
  • the escape of a mutant mouse; and
  • an accidental injection of a lab worker with a modified form of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease.
Just as concerning as Britain’s inability to keep its viruses locked up is the 2023
Global Biolabs Report suggesting that the U.K. actually has a relatively high biosafety score — 18 out of a possible 20. Australia and Canada rank highest, as both have a score of 20. India, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and Saudi Arabia rank lowest, scoring 5, 3, 3, and 1, respectively.
The Global Biolabs Report noted that out of a possible biosecurity score of 18, Britain scores 17. The U.S., by way of comparison, has a perfect score. Again, India, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and Saudi Arabia score poorly, 5, 1, 1, and 2, respectively.
A Chatham House report revealed there were lab-acquired infections in 309 individuals from 51 pathogens around the world between 2000 and 2021. In 16 incidents, pathogens reportedly escaped biocontainment facilities, reported the Telegraph.
Dr. David Harper, former chief scientist and director general for health improvement and protection in the British Department of Health, was greatly disturbed by the Telegraph’s findings, stating, “Accidental breaches in laboratory biocontainment can have potentially catastrophic consequences.”
“The accidents that are reported today without doubt provide an underestimate of the true scale of the problem,” continued Harper. “Greater transparency, with better reporting, documentation and analysis, is urgently required together with improved governance and oversight.”
The HSE recorded 376 incidents of release or escape of biological agents outside of labs.
Bretton-Gordon wrote, “There are around 4,000 laboratories and one million scientists who have the ability to manipulate the genome to create a devastating pathogen and at the moment nobody is looking too closely at them.”
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Florida Surgeon General Ladapo urges ‘halt to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines’ | Blaze Media

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is advocating a stoppage in the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

“I am calling for a halt to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” Ladapo declared in a statement on X. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have always played it fast and loose with COVID-19 vaccine safety, but their failure to test for DNA integration with the human genome — as their own guidelines dictate — when the vaccines are known to be contaminated with foreign DNA is intolerable.”

In a May 2023 letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Ladapo had declared, “Your ongoing decision to ignore many of the risks associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, alongside your efforts to manipulate the public into thinking they are harmless, have resulted in deep distrust in the American health care system.”

Then in a December 2023 letter to Califf and CDC Director Mandy Cohen, Ladapo raised the issue of DNA fragments in the vaccines. “In addition to my previous letter, I am writing to you to address the recent discovery of host cell DNA fragments within the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines,” Ladapo wrote.

But in a letter of response later in December, Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said that the agency “is confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines,” and that “with over a billion doses of the mRNA vaccines administered, no safety concerns related to residual DNA have been identified.” Marks wrote that “it is quite implausible that the residual small DNA fragments located in the cytosol could find their way into the nucleus through the nuclear membrane present in intact cells and then be incorporated into chromosomal DNA.”

Now Ladapo is calling for a halt in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine usage.

“DNA integration poses a unique and elevated risk to human health and to the integrity of the human genome, including the risk that DNA integrated into sperm or egg gametes could be passed onto offspring of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients. If the risks of DNA integration have not been assessed for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings,” he said in a statement, according to a Florida Department of Health press release. “Providers concerned about patient health risks associated with COVID-19 should prioritize patient access to non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.”

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Bill Maher and Seth MacFarlane cross swords in heated debate over COVID vaccine efficacy: ‘Djokovic didn’t need it!’ | Blaze Media

Bill Maher brashly challenged “Family Guy” creator Seth McFarlane on the effectiveness and safety of the COVID vaccine.

Maher declared on his “Club Random” podcast: “I would think this country did not allow for natural immunity to be considered. And I know this is a subject dear to your heart. Like, even if you had the disease, you still had to get a vaccine. That’s powerfully stupid. They don’t do that in Europe.”

MacFarlane claimed that the theory of natural immunity for COVID-19 was “debunked.”

“Don’t you know people have had COVID four or five times? I do. That’s not natural immunity. There’s no immunity there. You’ve had COVID five times,” MacFarlane argued.

Maher pointed out that high-risk groups, such as the elderly and the obese, should be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, he contested that tennis star Novak Djokovic and NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers “didn’t need it!”

MacFarlane asked the “Real Time with Bill Maher” host what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine.”

Maher fired back, “Well, the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, including all vaccines.”

“They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them,” the liberal HBO star ranted. “And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”

Maher noted, “This is not a screed to say don’t do vaccines. I’m not against doing vaccines. I’m against doing vaccines that I don’t think I need. I should be able to decide that for myself inside my body.”

In February, a study was published that declared that natural immunity provides “at least as high, if not higher” levels of protection against COVID-19 as two doses of an mRNA vaccine. The research analyzing 65 studies from 19 different countries was published in The Lancet – one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world.

In November, a study found that people with natural immunity to COVID-19 have better protection against the respiratory disease than those who received mRNA vaccines.

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Lawsuit accuses CIA of withholding possible evidence that its analysts took bribes to conceal lab origin of COVID-19 | Blaze Media

A new federal lawsuit accuses the CIA of withholding possible evidence that its analysts were paid to deep-six findings that the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic was a Chinese lab leak.

The lawsuit, filed Friday by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project and obtained by the Daily Caller, suggests that just as the CIA has neglected to publicly provide congressional investigators with the information they requested, it has similarly failed to provide Heritage with a timely response.

What’s the background?

A CIA whistleblower described as a “multi-decade, senior-level” official claimed in September that the agency bribed six analysts on its COVID Discovery Team to reject the theory that the COVID-19 virus initially spread as the result of a research-related leak at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology — a communist-controlled lab controversial for its dangerous experiments on coronviruses.

Blaze News previously noted that federal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed earlier this year that the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, under former director Anthony Fauci, funded experiments at the WIV.

Millions among the dollars funneled from Fauci’s agency to the WIV were mediated by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, whose subcontractor Ben Hu — the lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses — was among the patients zero at the lab and ostensibly among the very first infected in the world.

According to a Sept. 12 letter penned by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), the CIA whistleblower revealed that at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the COVID Discovery Team “believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.”

The whistleblower indicated that “to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”

The whistleblower’s allegations were significant because a declassified report released in June by the director of national intelligence stated, “The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting.”

In response to the whistleblower testimony, congressional lawmakers demanded that the CIA turn over all documents and communications pertaining to the COVID Discovery Team, its establishment, and its investigation of the origins of the virus, as well as all documents pertaining to members’ pay history, by no later than Sept. 26.

Republican senators similarly wrote to CIA Director William Burns in early September demanding transparency on this issue.

The Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell of the Oversight Project then hit the agency with a Freedom of Information Act request to the same effect on Sept. 20.

The FOIA suit

Heritage indicated in its Friday complaint that the CIA did not ultimately comply with its September FOIA request regarding who allegedly “received monetary incentives to change their position on the origins of the virus.”

The complaint asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the CIA to both “conduct a search or searches reasonably calculated to uncover all records responsive to Plaintiffs’ FOIA Request” and to produce all non-exempt records inside 20 days of the court’s order or “by such other date as the Court deems appropriate.”

“The Biden administration has refused to be transparent with Congress and the American people over the origins of COVID-19,” Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel for the Oversight Project, told the New York Post.

“A CIA whistleblower has made serious allegations that the agency bought off employees of the agency to further obstruct efforts to get to the truth of the virus’s origins,” continued Brosnan. “This obstruction cannot stand, and we’re fighting in federal court to get to the bottom of this.”

Fauci on the hot seat in 2024

It’s not just America’s spies whose feet are now being held to the fire.

Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is set to testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Jan. 8 and Jan. 9.

The subcommittee noted on X that “thankfully, Dr. Fauci’s retirement from public service does not shield him from Congressional oversight nor accountability to the American people.”

The subcommittee further reminded the public that Fauci commissioned, edited, and gave final approval to the impactful March 2020 study published in the journal Nature, “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2” — an oft-cited study whose authors expressed concerns in private about the “sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release,” making clear that their cause was “political.”

Fauci repeatedly referenced this paper on the national stage, including once from the White House podium, to bolster the zoonotic origins theory ultimately entertained by the CIA team.

The subcommittee also highlighted how Fauci was cognizant of the dangerous gain-of-function research taking place in Wuhan but “did nothing to stop it or warn the American people.”

The subcommittee failed to mention in its short list of Fauci’s faux pas Wenstrup’s late-September revelation that “according to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19.”

“The information provided suggests that Dr. Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters — without a record of entry — and participated in the analysis to ‘influence’ the Agency’s review,” continued the chairman.

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Congress should treat Pfizer’s RSV shot like a chemical abortion | Blaze Media

With the public’s appetite for Pfizer’s COVID shot lower than ever and Pfizer’s stock price in the toilet, the pharmaceutical giant is relying on new mothers to take its next poison: The respiratory syncytial virus shot. The White House recently made hundreds of thousands of doses available to unsuspecting doctors who are completely ignorant about the history of this shot.

What if I told you Pfizer’s own clinical trial data shows its new RSV shot for pregnant women will cause death for thousands of babies?

In a sane world, the shots would never have been approved. But we are living in a “Twilight Zone” of “Warp Speed,” where nothing can slow down anything stamped with the “vaccine” label. If thousands of studies and data points proving the COVID shots deadly and dangerous did not slow down their speed, then nothing about any new shots will convince the warped minds of the biomedical security state to slow things down.

As members of Congress continue to fund the FDA, CDC, and National Institutes of Health this fiscal year without any reforms to vaccine approval and recommendation processes, nearly all of them are unaware of the fact that Pfizer’s new RSV shot is so problematic that its twin sister was aborted before application for approval.

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline was the first out of the gate with an RSV shot for pregnant women decades after other companies had abandoned their research. But the prolific vaccine developer abruptly suspended the phase 3 clinical trial after observing multiple safety signals.

GSK abandoned the project completely in 2022 after somebody died. The death was attributed to “acute disseminated encephalomyelitis 22 days after vaccination,” which the drug maker and the FDA concluded could be related to the vaccine. The trial investigators also found a 6.8% rate of preterm births in the trial group compared to 4.9% in the placebo group. The rate of neonatal deaths was also double that of the placebo group.

The entire premise of vaccinating pregnant women is to pass along immunity to babies, a venture that has failed for a half-century since RSV shots were first terminated in the 1960s. Back then, the shots made babies sicker. Now we see a sharp increase in preterm births correlated with the vaccine.

Given the woefully low standards nowadays for ending vaccination programs, it had to be pretty bad for GSK to concede defeat.

Ordinarily, that would have been the end of the story. But since we now live in a country “brought to you by Pfizer,” the nightmare continues. Pfizer in August received full FDA approval for a nearly identical formulation of the shot. The shot is so similar, in fact, that GSK is suing Pfizer in U.S. federal court for patent infringement.

And yet, despite the deadly and unmistakable safety signals with GSK’s vaccine, Pfizer’s knockoff version, Abrysvo, sailed through the CDC and FDA approval process.

Nearly every OB-GYN is pressuring patients to get the shot, despite their complete ignorance about its potential risks. In September, the American College of Gynecologists “unequivocally” endorsed the CDC’s recommendation that all pregnant women receive the RSV shots in addition to the many vaccines pumped into their bodies in such a short period of time.

In truth, we need not speculate about Pfizer having the same problem as GSK, given the similarity in composition. Pfizer’s own trial data revealed the same problem with premature births.

Although the sample size was smaller, Pfizer’s phase 2 trial reported three out of 116 (2.6%) premature births in the placebo group and six out of 114 (5.3%) in the trial group. Using the trial data, Igor Chudov estimated that the shots would cause 73,288 excess preterm deaths annually in the U.S. alone, leading to several thousand additional infant deaths a year.

One pharmaceutical researcher compared GSK and Pfizer’s RSV jabs to Coke and Pepsi. Yet one will never reach the market, while the other is in every pharmacy and doctor’s office in the country. Why? $cienceTM. Let’s not forget that the NIH helped develop it and will benefit from royalties on the patent.

All of this for a virus that is rarely deadly and almost always treatable with a nebulizer. Between 2005 and 2016, RSV was identified on death certificates as the underlying cause of death for 17 babies per year on average. The fact is that no RSV vaccine known to man has proven effective and may have negative efficacy — it might do more harm than good — just as we’ve learned about the COVID shots.

Knowing all of this, will Congress continue to fund these projects in the Health and Human Services appropriations bill when the February deadline comes around? If Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wants to show real leadership, he should pledge to fight for the following provisions in the bill:

  • End all funding or marketing for the COVID and RSV shots;
  • Ban on all direct-to-consumer advertising for COVID and RSV “vaccines”;
  • Repeal the protections against liability for vaccine-makers for any COVID or RSV shot, particularly for pregnant women, a provision added to the 2016 Cures Act;
  • Establish a congressional committee dedicated to researching the rationale, safety, and efficacy of all the shots the CDC currently recommends;
  • Ban the NIH from receiving royalties from any vaccine recommended by the CDC.

Republicans focus incessantly on abortion but often forget there are other spheres of the pro-life cause. We now have incontrovertible data showing that the RSV shots can be deadly for pregnancies and, in some cases, should be regarded as a chemical abortion. They should be opposed with the same rigor as we oppose abortions. Let’s leave the RSV shots to the “pregnant men.”

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FDA responds to Ladapo letter about DNA fragments detected in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines | Blaze Media

In response to a letter in which Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo noted the detection of DNA fragments in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, Peter Marks, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, emphasized the FDA’s view that the shots are safe and effective.

“I am writing to you to address the recent discovery of host cell DNA fragments within the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines,” Ladapo noted in his letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and CDC Director Mandy Cohen.

“This raises concerns regarding the presence of nucleic acid contaminants in the approved Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, particularly in the presence of lipid nanoparticle complexes, and Simian Virus 40 (SV40) promoter/enhancer DNA. Lipid nanoparticles are an efficient vehicle for delivery of the mRNA in the COVID-19 vaccines into human cells, and may therefore be an equally efficient vehicle for delivering contaminant DNA into human cells. The presence of SV40 promoter/enhancer DNA may also pose a unique and heightened risk of DNA integration into host cells,” Ladapo wrote.

He also noted that “it is essential to human health to assess the risks of contaminant DNA integration into human DNA.”

But when responding to Ladapo, Marks conveyed the FDA’s contention that the vaccines are safe and said that “misinformation and disinformation” causes “vaccine hesitancy that lowers vaccine uptake.”

“We would like to make clear that based on a thorough assessment of the entire manufacturing process, FDA is confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines. The agency’s benefitrisk assessment and ongoing safety surveillance demonstrate that the benefits of their use outweigh their risks. Additionally, with over a billion doses of the mRNA vaccines administered, no safety concerns related to residual DNA have been identified,” Marks wrote.

“No SV40 proteins are encoded for or are present in the vaccines. On first principle, it is quite implausible that the residual small DNA fragments located in the cytosol could find their way into the nucleus through the nuclear membrane present in intact cells and then be incorporated into chromosomal DNA,” Marks wrote. “Additionally, studies have been conducted in animals using the modified mRNA and lipid nanoparticle together that constitute the vaccine, including the minute quantities of residual DNA fragments left over after DNAse treatment during manufacturing, and demonstrate no evidence for genotoxicity from the vaccine. Pharmacovigilance data in hundreds of millions of individuals also indicate no evidence indicative of genotoxicity.”

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2020 Election

Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million to 2 Georgia election employees over election fraud defamation

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was ordered by a federal jury to pay two Georgia election workers $148 million over a defamation lawsuit related to voter fraud claims.

The jury of eight residents of Washington, D.C., deliberated for about ten hours before reaching a decision Friday afternoon.

Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss sued Giuliani, who had represented former President Donald Trump as his personal attorney, and accused them of participating in a fake balloting scheme during the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County.

The jury awarded $16 million to Freeman for compensatory damages for defamation and awarded $17 million to Moss for compensatory damages for defamation. In addition, they awarded $20 million to each for emotional distress and $75 million in punitive damages for both.

Giuliani had previously said he would take the stand in order to testify in his defense, but he changed his mind and never testified.

“We feel like these women have been through enough,” said Giuliani’s attorney on Thursday.

Mike Gottlieb, the attorney for Moss and Freeman, argued in his closing statement that Giuliani had dehumanized the workers in order to push his narrative about the election.

“He thought they were ordinary and expendable. He didn’t see them as human beings,” said Gottlieb. “It’s dangerous for them to be Ruby Freeman or Shaye Moss because of Giuliani and his co-conspirators.”

The women testified about the numerous threats and insults they had received on social media because of the accusations made against them by Giuliani.

Giuliani later equated the damages they were seeking to “the civil equivalent of the death penalty” for the former mayor.

“They’re trying to end Mr. Giuliani,” he said to the jury.

Here’s a news report about the decision:

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Tucker Carlson talks COVID-19 vaccines, UFOs, and claims Alex Jones has ‘prophetic ability’ | Blaze Media

During a wide-ranging interview on BlazeTV’s “Prime Time with Alex Stein,” Tucker Carlson said that one of his friends suffered a heart attack due to the COVID-19 vaccine. He also said that Alex Jones has a “prophetic ability.” And on the topic of UFOs, Carlson suggested that “there is something that is not human flying around.”

Carlson said that his friend had been forced into taking the COVID-19 vaccine and experienced the heart attack just days later.

The prominent media personality also said “there is evidence it that it effects your DNA.”

“No, I don’t think anyone will ever be held accountable for it because it implicates too many people, because everybody took it,” Carlson said, suggesting that those who were coerced into taking the shots “feel like survivors of an assault, because they are.”

During the interview, Carlson said Jones has a “prophetic ability, which is real,” saying that Jones had “called 9/11 and did it in detail on television.” He suggested that Jones is receiving a “message from somewhere. I’m not an expert in metaphysics but … I can read the evidence and there’s no other explanation for that,” Carlson said.

When Stein asked about aliens, Carlson said “there is something that is not human flying around,” though he opined that it is not “extraterrestrial.”

“This is real. The U.S. government does have physical evidence,” which it is attempting to hide, Carlson claimed.

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Elections

New poll finds rampant mail-in voting fraud in the 2020 election | Blaze Media

One in five voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election admit to participating in at least one kind of voter fraud, according to a new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute.

Specifically, 21% of mail-in voters admitted they filled out a ballot for a friend or family member; 19% of mail-in voters admitted that a friend or family member filled out a ballot on their behalf; 17% of mail-in voters admitted they voted in a state where they were no longer a permanent resident; and 17% of mail-in voters said they signed a ballot for a friend or family member with or without his or her permission.

Each of these instances constitutes voter fraud.

Taking only the first instance, this means that 21% of all mail-in ballots were fraudulent in 2020. It is important to note this number was likely much higher because the survey questions were not mutually exclusive. Though there is certainly some crossover between categories, some voters committed fraud by filling out a ballot for a friend or family member, while an entirely different subset of voters committed fraud by casting mail-in ballots in a state in which they were no longer permanent residents.

The national poll of 1,085 likely voters was conducted between November 30 and December 6, with a margin of error of +/-3 percentage points and a 95% level of confidence.

Using only the most conservative estimate (21%), the number of fraudulent ballots is still astronomical. According to election data, 43% of 2020 voters cast ballots by mail — by far the largest percentage in U.S. history. Twenty-one percent of that 43% mail-in figure yields approximately 9%.

Only 0.80% of all absentee and mail-in ballots were rejected in 2020. Clearly, nearly all fraudulent ballots made it through our country’s gaping sieve of an electoral system.

According to the Cook Political Report, 158,397,726 votes were cast for Joe Biden, Donald Trump, or another candidate in 2020. Taking 9% of this total, that means more than 14 million ballots cast in 2020 were fraudulent. Again, this is just the most conservative estimate — the total number of fraudulent ballots was likely much higher.

Moreover, the survey reveals that fraudulent voting may not have been purely limited to mail-in ballots. Eight percent of all survey respondents — not only those who cast mail-in ballots — admitted that a friend, family member, or organization (such as a political party) offered to pay or reward them for voting.

The survey indicates that the percentages of voter fraud among Republicans, Democrats, and unaligned voters were largely similar. It is vital to note, however, that this does not mean these fraudulent ballots simply canceled each other out.

While the percentages were similar, the overall numbers were not. According to the survey, 38% of Biden voters submitted mail-in ballots, compared to only 23% of Trump voters. As such, Biden received a much larger overall share of likely fraudulent ballots.

The 2020 election was an outlier for mail-in voting, largely due to executive overreach throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In the lead-up to the November election, several governors declared states of emergency in response to the pandemic and arbitrarily changed their states’ voting laws to allow mass mail-in voting. For example, California mailed unsolicited ballots to all registered voters, while many other states expanded absentee ballot eligibility requirements.

In 2020, several states also allowed ballot harvesting, which allows third-party individuals to collect and submit mail-in ballots on behalf of voters, although evidence shows ballot harvesting is “ripe for voter fraud and abuse.”

All of this occurred despite the fact that the Constitution explicitly designates that only state legislatures have the power to make or change election laws. Under Article I, Section 4, “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.”

There are many reasons why mail-in voting is less reliable than in-person voting.

For starters, state voter rolls are notoriously inaccurate. In 2012, the Pew Center on the States analyzed state voter registration rolls and found that “approximately 24 million — one of every eight — voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate. More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters. Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.”

Mail-in ballots are also rejected at an astounding rate.

In New York, which used mail-in ballots during its primary elections in 2020, 21% of ballots were rejected due to errors. In Pennsylvania, the same scenario played out with more than 20% of mail-in ballots rejected due to voter errors.

Even NPR raised concerns about mass mail-in voting in the months before the 2020 general election.

“An extraordinarily high number of ballots — more than 550,000 — have been rejected in this year’s presidential primaries. … That’s far more than the 318,728 ballots rejected in the 2016 general election and has raised alarms about what might happen in November when tens of millions of more voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail, many for the first time,” NPR reported.

In 2012, the New York Times ran an article headlined, “Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises,” which similarly concluded that “votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth.”

Despite all of these concerns, only 0.80% of all absentee and mail-in ballots were rejected in 2020, according to Ballotpedia. Clearly, nearly all fraudulent ballots made it through our country’s gaping sieve of an electoral system.

Though some people need to vote by mail, the practice should be the exception, not the rule. Considering most states offer early voting — allowing voters to cast ballots in-person weeks before Election Day — there is little excuse for voters who do not show up to a physical polling location. Plus, as this poll indicates, only 2% of voters would choose not to vote if their state banned mail-in voting.

With the 2024 general election less than one year away, it is vital that state officials do everything in their power to shore up the integrity of their states’ voting systems and ensure that voting procedures are as dependable and accurate as possible. Our republic cannot survive in the absence of strong electoral laws that prevent widespread fraud.

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