People should take the time to watch the interview at the end of the show with the family of the little girl who went through the trials.

I'm telling you, this world can be cruel and the level of evil/psychopathy is there to see in this case. It's a cold kind of evil, a chilling one indeed.

Whilst the focus and what will make your blood boil is the absolute level of psychopathy and hell they've had to endure as a family, you should also note that the cost of ignorance is also on display. Look beyond the tears of the mother and you'll see a woman who's lack of awareness of psychopathy and evil let her young daughter go to the lion's den. Whatever sort of altruism she had was highly misplaced - you literally allowed your kids to be part of a medical EXPERIMENT. Not 1 but all 3 of them from what I gather. My God!

The story is not only about what the daughter now has to endure, the psychopathy within the medical establishment, regulatory agencies and all round coldness of society, it is also about the path of the mother as she comes to terms with a new world view.

The father is rather hard to pin down as he appears controlled. Not as angry as I'd expect (I'm not going to lie, the demise of the perpetrators esp that evil doctor ran through my mind) nor was he outwardly sad, defeated or dejected. He appeared to be aware of the inner workings of the system but this then raises the question of why did he let his daughter and two boys go to the trials.

Anyways, fascinating albeit tragic story


If there was ever any doubt as to whether the system cared about you, this will quickly rid you of any such delusions.
 

It's Over: CDC Says People Exposed To COVID No Longer Need To Quarantine​


"Not to mention, they also mark a drastic 180 degree shift from how the CDC was handling Covid over the past 24 months. But suddenly, with mid-term elections just months away, the new guidelines are being praised by health officials - imagine that."

"The CDC also doesn't recommend staying at least 6 feet away from other people to reduce the risk of exposure, CNN noted. It's a recommendation that boldly flies in the face of the scared sh*tless narrative the agency has been pushing."

Said one Zerohedge contributor...

My take on the new CDC guidance is they know nobody is listening to them anyway and they’re trying to hang on to a sliver of credibility. But it’s too late for that.

I and millions of others will never forget what we saw and what was done.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 11, 2022

Article below:

 
From Global Research:
Video: COVID-19 Vaccine Patents and Gene-Deletion. Dr. Ariyana Love Interviewed by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
Corona Investigative Committee Session 116: See All Its Working Power

Guest is Dr. Ariyana Love, a Naturopathic Doctor & Investigative Journalist. Her elder son was vaccine injured at age two and diagnosed with High Functioning Autism at age 7. She applied her knowledge of Naturopathic Medicine and designed a dietary protocol that resulted in a near total reversal of her son’s debilitating symptoms. In 2017, she was awarded the official title of Goodwill Ambassador to Palestine via the Palestinian Authorities.

In this session, she talks about Covid-19 vaccine-patents and how they’re able to target and permanently delete genetic codes on genetic lineages in humans, and also encode new genetic sequences into the genome of targeted cells – about the role of gene-deletion in Autism or AIDS. Further, she discusses about the 115 different animal venoms contained within the “spike protein” (“Glycoprotein S”) and about the transmissibility of this bioweapon using graphene oxide nanoparticles as vectors. “They are not using viruses in any vaccines. It’s always been deadly bacteria extractions, like E. coli, to create lab generated Mycoplasmas and this is the root cause of all chronic illness.”

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This was another one of those excellent & important interviews
at the Investigative Corona Committee, No 116, really noteworthy what Dr Ariyana Love had to say.



Thank you for writing about it, JEEP. :flowers: In fact what she had to say, was considered to be so crucial that the Committee will likely soon have another session with her, because she only was able to talk about ⅓ in the list of things to tell.

Actually, all intervjus were good, since it was also about Keto by Dr Ulrike Kämmerer from a scientific perspective for people with jab damages, people with epileptic attacks as well Alzheimer(?)/Parkinsons benefit greatly from Keto.



Also artist of the year 2019, Sara Bennett was fantastic, due to her grounded wisdom and inspirational thoughts she had to say along the intervju, which felt striking.



Sara Bennett - Singer, entertainer, presenter

"The chameleon among singers".
Among others (many other awards):
  • Artist of the Year 2019 (German Artist Magazine).
    Telegram channel: t.me/saraslightfight
About:
On how important it is to speak to people in a positive way: "everything we are experiencing out there now, this complete absurdity, nothing more than purposeful numbing, hypnosis and distraction from the essential.
[...] People [...] forget about life as such."
  • Passivity of the artistic community: colleagues collectively bury their collective their
    creative freedoms and human rights

  • In Luxembourg; midwives report to her: the number of stillbirths has never been so high, the placentas look abnormal, there have never been so many harelips.
 
Karl Lauterbach (German Health Minister) caught lying about his "vaccine" status while simultaneously encouraging that which he has managed to avoid? Maybe!


This is fake news (sort of) - apparently he just didn't upload his latest vax certificate to the app, and why would he given that for some time now one doesn't need to show it anymore.

This guy is insane and utterly possessed by Covidian Ideology. He would happily inject this stuff by the gallon every day. And he sure seems to be disintegrating further, both mentally and physically. His rants on Twitter are utterly absurd and insane.

He always reminds me of that concentration camp guard type who, after torturing and performing medical experiments on a bunch of inmates out of his moral responsibility for the greater good, comes home and kisses his dog and wife.
 
https://t.me/boriskarpovblog/2268
Pas de lien avec la Russie mais....

ATTENTION : VIDÉO TRÈS GRAPHIQUE
Caillot de sang retiré du cœur vivant d'une personne entièrement vaccinée.
Tout ce qui se trouve dans ces clichés covid provoque la coagulation du sang de cette manière et remplit et bloque complètement les voies vasculaires clés.
C'est l'une des raisons pour lesquelles des personnes autrement en bonne santé meurent après avoir reçu ces terribles injections.
C'est pourquoi vous voyez tant d'athlètes apparemment en bonne santé parmi les morts : parce qu'ils poussent leur cœur et leur système circulatoire à la limite et qu'ils ne peuvent tout simplement pas fonctionner avec des blocages comme ceux-ci qui se développent en eux. Et ça les tue.
Le coup de covid les tue.
Si vous avez encore quelqu'un dans votre vie qui hésite à s'injecter cette chose stupide ou si vous essayez de convaincre un ami ou un parent de ne plus en avoir, cela pourrait être un moyen extrême mais efficace de le ramener à la réalité.

No link with Russia but ....
WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO
Blood clot removed from the living heart of a fully vaccinated person.
Whatever is in these covid shots causes the blood to clot in this way and completely fill and block key vascular pathways.
This is one of the reasons why otherwise healthy people die after receiving these terrible injections.
It's why you see so many seemingly healthy athletes among the dead: because they push their heart and circulatory system to the limit and they just can't function with blockages like these developing in them. And it kills them.
The covid shot kills them.
If you still have someone in your life who is reluctant to inject the stupid thing or if you are trying to convince a friend or relative to stop having it, this could be an extreme but effective way to bring them back to reality.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
 
This is fake news (sort of) - apparently he just didn't upload his latest vax certificate to the app, and why would he given that for some time now one doesn't need to show it anymore.

This guy is insane and utterly possessed by Covidian Ideology. He would happily inject this stuff by the gallon every day. And he sure seems to be disintegrating further, both mentally and physically. His rants on Twitter are utterly absurd and insane.

He always reminds me of that concentration camp guard type who, after torturing and performing medical experiments on a bunch of inmates out of his moral responsibility for the greater good, comes home and kisses his dog and wife.
He comes across as being defective in a fundamental way. Interesting how despite this being so transparent he is able to hold such a position in a country like Germany. Usually you'd expect these sorts to put on some mask to veil their true nature. Fauci, Biden, Boris, Macron etc all have masks on. This guy on the other hand is like, "Whatcha gonna do about it, eh!" Doesn't give a damn.
 
The link doesn't work.

Jeffrey Sachs says Covid was developed in US labs, tech. then shared with China


Did US Biotechnology Help to Create COVID-19?

by NEIL L. HARRISON and JEFFREY D. SACHS

Project Syndicate

May 27, 2022

NEW YORK - When US President Joe Biden asked the United States
Intelligence Community to determine the origin of COVID-19, its
conclusion was remarkably understated but nonetheless shocking. In a
one-page summary, the IC made clear that it could not rule out the
possibility that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) emerged
from a laboratory.

But even more shocking for Americans and the world is an additional
point on which the IC remained mum: If the virus did indeed result from
laboratory research and experimentation, it was almost certainly created
with US biotechnology and know-how that had been made available to
researchers in China.

To learn the complete truth about the origins of COVID-19, we need a
full, independent investigation not only into the outbreak in Wuhan,
China, but also into the relevant US scientific research, international
outreach, and technology licensing in the lead-up to the pandemic.

We recently called for such an investigation in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Some might dismiss our reasons for doing
so as a "conspiracy theory." But let us be crystal clear: If the virus
did emerge from a laboratory, it almost surely did so accidentally in
the normal course of research, possibly going undetected via
asymptomatic infection.

It is of course also still possible that the virus had a natural origin.
The bottom line is that nobody knows. That is why it is so important to
investigate all the relevant information contained in databases
available in the US.

Missed Opportunities

Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, the US government has
pointed an accusatory finger at China. But while it is true that the
first observed COVID-19 cases were in Wuhan, the full story of the
outbreak could involve America's role in researching coronaviruses and
in sharing its biotechnology with others around the world, including China.

US scientists who work with SARS-like coronaviruses regularly create and
test dangerous novel variants with the aim of developing drugs and
vaccines against them. Such "gain-of-function" research has been
conducted for decades, but it has always been controversial, owing to
concerns that it could result in an accidental outbreak, or that the
techniques and technologies for creating new viruses could end up in the
wrong hands. It is reasonable to ask whether SARS-CoV-2 owes its
remarkable infectivity to this broader research effort.

Unfortunately, US authorities have sought to suppress this very
question. Early in the epidemic, a small group of virologists queried by
the US National Institutes of Health told the NIH leadership that
SARS-CoV-2 might have arisen from laboratory research, noting that the
virus has unusual features that virologists in the US have been using in
experiments for years - often with support from the NIH.

How do we know what NIH officials were told, and when? Because we now
have publicly available information released by the NIH in response to a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. We know that on February 1,
2020, the NIH held a conference call with a group of top virologists to
discuss the possible origin of the virus. On that call, several of the
researchers pointed out that laboratory manipulation of the virus was
not only possible, but according to some, even likely. At that point,
the NIH should have called for an urgent independent investigation.
Instead, the NIH has sought to dismiss and discredit this line of inquiry.

Heads in the Sand

Within days of the February 1 call, a group of virologists, including
some who were on it, prepared the first draft of a paper on the
"Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2." The final draft was published a month
later, in March 2020. Despite the initial observations on February 1
that the virus showed signs of possible laboratory manipulation, the
March paper concluded that there was overwhelming evidence that it had
emerged from nature.

The authors claimed that the virus could not possibly have come from a
laboratory because "the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is
not derived from any previously used virus backbone." Yet the single
footnote (number 20) backing up that key claim refers to a paper from
2014, which means that the authors' supposedly "irrefutable evidence"
was at least five years out of date.

Owing to their refusal to support an independent investigation of the
lab-leak hypothesis, the NIH and other US federal government agencies
have been subjected to a wave of FOIA requests from a range of
organizations, including US Right to Know and The Intercept. These FOIA
disclosures, as well as internet searches and "whistleblower" leaks,
have revealed some startling information.

Consider, for example, a March 2018 grant proposal submitted to the US
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) by EcoHealth Alliance
(EHA) and researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the
University of North Carolina (UNC). On page 11, the applicants explain
in detail how they intend to alter the genetic code of bat coronaviruses
to insert precisely the feature that is the most unusual part of the
SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Although DARPA did not approve this grant, the work may have proceeded
anyway. We just don't know. But, thanks to another FOIA request, we do
know that this group carried out similar gain-of- function experiments
on another coronavirus, the one that causes Middle East respiratory
syndrome (MERS).

In yet other cases, FOIA disclosures have been heavily redacted,
including a remarkable effort to obscure 290 pages of documents going
back to February 2020, including the Strategic Plan for COVID-19
Research drafted that April by the US National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases. Such extensive redactions deeply undermine public
trust in science, and have only served to invite additional urgent
questions from researchers and independent investigators.

The Facts of the Case

Here are ten things that we do know.

First, the SARS-CoV-2 genome is distinguished by a particular
12-nucleotide sequence (the genetic code) that serves to increase its
infectivity. The specific amino acid sequence directed by this insertion
has been much discussed and is known as a furin cleavage site (FCS).

Second, the FCS has been a target of cutting-edge research since 2006,
following the original SARS outbreak of 2003-04. Scientists have long
understood that the FCS holds the key to these viruses' infectivity and
pathophysiology.

Third, SARS-CoV-2 is the only virus in the family of SARS-like viruses
(sarbecoviruses) known to have an FCS. Interestingly, the specific form
of the FCS that is present in SARS-CoV-2 (eight amino acids encoded by
24 nucleotides) is shared with a human sodium channel that has been
studied in US labs.

Fourth, the FCS was already so well known as a driver of
transmissibility and virulence that a group of US scientists submitted a
proposal to the US government in 2018 to study the effect of inserting
an FCS into SARS-like viruses found in bats. Although the dangers of
this kind of work have been highlighted for some time, these bat viruses
were somehow considered to be in a lower-risk category. This exempted
them from NIH gain-of-function guidelines, thereby enabling NIH-fimded
experiments to be carried out at the inadequate BSL-2 safety level.

Fifth, the NIH was a strong supporter of such gain-of-function research,
much of which was performed using US-developed biotechnology and
executed within an NIH-fimded three-way partnership between the EHA, the
WIV, and UNC.

Sixth, in 2018, a leading US scientist pursuing this research argued
that laboratory manipulation was vital for drug and vaccine discovery,
but that increased regulation could stymie progress. Many within the
virology community continue to resist sensible calls for enhanced
regulation of the most high-risk virus manipulation, including the
establishment of a national regulatory body independent of the NIH.

Seventh, the virus was very likely circulating a lot earlier than the
standard narrative that dates awareness of the outbreak to late December
2019. We still do not know when parts of the US government became aware
of the outbreak, but some scientists were aware of the outbreak as of
mid- December.

Eighth, the NIH knew as early as February 1, 2020, that the virus could
have emerged as a consequence of NIH-fimded laboratory research, but it
did not disclose that fundamental fact to the public or to the US Congress.

Ninth, extensive sampling by Chinese authorities of animals in Wuhan wet
markets and in the wild has found not a single wild animal harboring the
SARS-CoV-2 virus. Despite this, there is no indication that the NIH has
requested the laboratory records of US agencies, academic centers, and
biotech companies involved in researching and manipulating SARS-like
coronaviruses.

Tenth, the IC has not explained why at least some of the US intelligence
agencies do in fact believe that a laboratory release was either the
most likely or at least a possible origin of the virus.

Time for Transparency

Given the questions that remain unanswered, we are calling on the US
government to conduct a bipartisan investigation. We may never
understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2 without opening the books of the
relevant federal agencies (including the NIH and the Department of
Defense), the laboratories they support, academic institutions that
store and archive viral sequence data, and biotechnology companies.

A key objective of the investigation would be to shed light on a basic
question: Did US researchers undertake research or help their Chinese
counterparts to undertake research to insert an FCS into a SARS-like
virus, thereby playing a possible role in the creation of novel
pathogens like the one that led to the current pandemic?

Investigations into COVID-19's origins should no longer be secretive
ventures led by the IC. The process must be transparent, with all
relevant information being released publicly for use by independent
scientific researchers. It seems clear to us that there has been a
concerted effort to suppress information regarding the earliest events
in the outbreak, and to hinder the search for additional evidence that
is clearly available within the US. We suggest that a panel of
independent researchers in relevant disciplines be created and granted
access to all pertinent data in order to advise the US Congress and the
public.

There is a good chance that we can learn more about the origins of this
virus without waiting on China or any other country, simply by looking
in the US. We believe such an inquiry is long overdue.

NEIL L. HARRISON

Neil L. Harrison is a professor at Columbia University.

JEFFREY D. SACHS

Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University, is
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia
University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions
Network. He has served as adviser to three UN Secretaries-General, and
currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres. His books include The End of Poverty, Common Wealth, The Age
of Sustainable Development, Building the New American Economy, A New
Foreign Policy : Beyond American Exceptionalism, and, most recently, The
Ages of Globalization. ==

Sachs' paper, titled Did US Biotechnology Help to Create COVID-19?, is
also on his website at
 
MSM Blackout Jeffrey Sachs' paper on Covid Lab origin

by Peter Myers, August 13, 2022

Sachs was head of a commission sponsored by the Lancet journal to
investigate the origin of Sars-Cov-2.

He concluded that the virus was developed using US biotechnology, in US
labs that were sharing their technology with China and subcontracting
some of the research to China. Chinese labs were also doing experiments
on their own with it.

The point is that, the Lockdown that has devastated the world for the
last 2 years was, at worst, an Own Goal; and possibly deliberately
orchestrated in order to pave the way for the Great Reset and Agenda 30.

Given Sachs' eminence, one would ex[pect that his paper would have been
widely reported in the 'Mainstream Media' (MSM).

But if you do Google searches, as I just did, you will find that,
although it shows up at alternative or dissident sites, the MSM have
blacklisted it.

The NYT, in particular, has not covered it:

Your search - "jeffrey d. sachs" "Covid" "Lab"
site:The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos - did not match any documents.

Your search - "jeffrey sachs" "Covid" "Lab"
site:The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos - did not match any documents.

The Washington Post mentioned Sachs' article indirectly, without giving
its title or a link to it, in an article titled "Scientists hone
argument that coronavirus came from Wuhan market", which is the exact
opposite position to Sachs'.


Scientists hone argument that coronavirus came from Wuhan market

By Joel Achenbach

Updated July 27, 2022 at 2:55 p.m. EDT|Published July 26, 2022 at 8:25
p.m. EDT

[...] Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist, heads a commission
sponsored by the Lancet journal expected to produce a report this fall
on the pandemic, including the origin of the virus. He recently
co-authored an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences calling for a probe of the pandemic origin through a
bipartisan congressional inquiry with full investigative powers.

On Tuesday, after Science published the two papers, Sachs said in an
email that he still favors the lab leak theory: The two competing
hypotheses, natural spillover and laboratory creation, are both viable.
They should be compared directly against each other. In my view, the
laboratory creation hypothesis is the more straightforward and more
credible.
 

Macrons Minority Government Defeated Over Vaccine Passports

BY WILL JONES

14 JULY 2022 9:00 AM

Opposition MPs defeated a proposal by Emmanuel Macrons Government to
extend vaccine passports for travellers entering France, requiring them
to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test. It was one of the
first bills put to parliament by the new minority Government, raising
major doubts over the Presidents ability to pass new laws. The
Telegraph
<Nightmare for Emmanuel Macron as his minority government fails first big test>
has more.

The vote saw the three main opposition parties the far-Right National
Rally (RN), the hard-Left La France Insoumise (LFI) and
<New centre-right party launches in France>
the Right-wing Republicains (LR) unite to defeat the minority
Government by 219 votes to 195.

The bills defeat was met with wild cheering and a standing ovation from
opposition lawmakers, in footage that was widely circulated on social media.

The proposal marked the first big test of the Governments ability to
pass laws since losing control of the National Assembly last month. Mr.
Macron failed to win a majority and could not form a coalition
Government, severely curtailing his ability to push through domestic
reform and meaning laws have to be passed on an ad hoc basis.

Francois Braun, the countrys Health Minister, lamented on Wednesday
that an alliance of circumstances had led the National Assembly to
reject part of a law intended to fight against the Covid pandemic.

Elisabeth Borne, the French Prime Minister, also condemned the blockage.

The situation is serious. By joining together to vote against the
measures to protect the French against Covid, LFI, LR and RN prevent any
border control against the virus. After the disbelief on this vote, I
will fight so that the spirit of responsibility wins in the Senate, she
wrote on Twitter.
 
17,000 Scientists sign Declaration against COVID Vaccines


Declaration IV - Restore Scientific Integrity

A Joint Statement, representing 17,000 Physicians and Medical Scientists
to end the National Emergency, Restore Scientific Integrity, and Address
Crimes Against Humanity.

PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SCIENTISTS

MAY 11, 2022

17,000 physicians and medical scientists declare that the state of
medical emergency must be lifted, scientific integrity restored, and
crimes against humanity addressed.

We, the physicians and medical scientists of the world, united through
our loyalty to the Hippocratic Oath, recognize that the disastrous
COVID-19 public health policies imposed on doctors and our patients are
the culmination of a corrupt medical alliance of pharmaceutical,
insurance, and healthcare institutions, along with the financial trusts
which control them.
They have infiltrated our medical system at every
level, and are protected and supported by a parallel alliance of big
tech, media, academics and government agencies who profited from this
orchestrated catastrophe.

This corrupt alliance has compromised the integrity of our most
prestigious medical societies to which we belong, generating an illusion
of scientific consensus by substituting truth with propaganda. This
alliance continues to advance unscientific claims by censoring data, and
intimidating and firing doctors and scientists for simply publishing
actual clinical results or treating their patients with proven,
life-saving medicine. These catastrophic decisions came at the expense
of the innocent, who are forced to suffer health damage and death caused
by intentionally withholding critical and time-sensitive treatments, or
as a result of coerced genetic therapy injections, which are neither
safe nor effective.

The medical community has denied patients the fundamental human right to
provide true informed consent for the experimental COVID-19 injections.
Our patients are also blocked from obtaining the information necessary
to understand risks and benefits of vaccines, and their alternatives,
due to widespread censorship and propaganda spread by governments,
public health officials and media. Patients continue to be subjected to
forced lock-downs which harm their health, careers and childrens
education, and damage social and family bonds critical to civil society.
This is not a coincidence. In the book entitled COVID-19: The Great
Reset, leadership of this alliance has clearly stated their intention
is to leverage COVID-19 as an opportunity to reset our entire global
society, culture, political structures, and economy.

Our 17,000 Global COVID Summit physicians and medical scientists
represent a much larger, enlightened global medical community who refuse
to be compromised, and are united and willing to risk the wrath of the
corrupt medical alliance to defend the health of their patients.

The mission of the Global COVID Summit is to end this orchestrated
crisis, which has been illegitimately imposed on the world, and to
formally declare that the actions of this corrupt alliance constitute
nothing less than crimes against humanity.

We must restore the peoples trust in medicine, which begins with free
and open dialogue between physicians and medical scientists. We must
restore medical rights and patient autonomy. This includes the
foundational principle of the sacred doctor-patient relationship. The
social need for this is decades overdue, and therefore, we the
physicians of the world are compelled to take action.

After two years of scientific research, millions of patients treated,
hundreds of clinical trials performed and scientific data shared, we
have demonstrated and documented our success in understanding and
combating COVID-19. In considering the risks versus benefits of major
policy decisions, our Global COVID Summit of 17,000 physicians and
medical scientists from all over the world have reached consensus on the
following foundational principles:

We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic
therapy injections must end.
We declare doctors should not be blocked from providing life-saving
medical treatment.
We declare the state of national emergency, which facilitates corruption
and extends the pandemic, should be immediately terminated.
We declare medical privacy should never again be violated, and all
travel and social restrictions must cease.
We declare masks are not and have never been effective protection
against an airborne respiratory virus in the community setting.
We declare funding and research must be established for vaccination
damage, death and suffering.
We declare no opportunity should be denied, including education, career,
military service or medical treatment, over unwillingness to take an
injection.
We declare that first amendment violations and medical censorship by
government, technology and media companies should cease, and the Bill of
Rights be upheld.
We declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, Astra Zeneca, and
their enablers, withheld and willfully omitted safety and effectiveness
information from patients and physicians, and should be immediately
indicted for fraud.
We declare government and medical agencies must be held accountable.
Watch the full video below and DISCUSS with doctors and supporters here.

BY PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SCIENTISTS © 2022
 
Costa Rica's New Government Overturns Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate,
Launches Investigation Into Pfizer Contract


Costa Rica's New Government Overturns Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate, Launches
Investigation Into Pfizer Contract

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Nick Corbishley
We could end up in jail if we disclose details of the former
government's contract with Pfizer, says the country's Health Minister.

The recently elected President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves last week
announced the end of compulsory vaccination against COVID-19. Speaking
alongside his health minister, Joselyn Chacón, Chaves said that not only
are the vaccines no longer mandatory; any action taken against anyone
who does not want to get vaccinated will be in violation of the law.
Chaves also called for unvaccinated workers who had lost their jobs to
be reinstated and announced the launch of an investigation into the
vaccine contracts the previous government signed with Pfizer-BioNTech.

Costa Rica: A Pioneer of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to implement a
COVID-19 vaccine mandate. That was in September 2021, when Chaves'
predecessor, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, was holding the reins. In November
2021, Costa Rica became the first country in the world to mandate
Covid-19 vaccines for minors, with all children 5 and older obligated by
law to get vaccinated, barring medical exemptions. It was a hugely
controversial decision that, as in the US and other countries,
represented a line in the sand for many parents.

The mandate meant that a child could get vaccinated even if their
parents did not consent, said Roman Macaya Hayes, then-director of Costa
Rica's Social Security Institute. Macaya Hayes is now under
investigation by the Deputy Prosecutor's Office of the 1st Judicial
Circuit of San José for alleged prevarication. So too is Daniel Salas,
the former Minister of Health who now works in the US with the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO), as well as six members of the
National Vaccination and Epidemiology Commission (CNVE), two of whom
purportedly participated in decisions regarding COVID-19 immunization
even though their appointments to the CNVE had expired.

That alone is enough to invalidate the acts agreed upon by the CNVE,
says President Chaves. His government will also investigate the former
Alvarado government's massive purchase of COVID-19 vaccines in April
2022, even as the vaccination campaign was losing steam.

We are going to investigate why it is they bought so many vaccines when
the data available showed the market was already saturated, Chaves said
in his weekly press conference last week. Millions of dollars' worth of
vaccines were purchased at a time that the vaccination rate was already
waning. I have no idea how much money was squandered on vaccines that
are not going to be used and are going to expire.

Of course, Chaves, a right-wing populist and former World
Bank-economist, could be doing all of this just to score political
points against his predecessor. However, given his predecessor, Carlos
Alvarado Quesada, was already a political corpse on leaving government
with an approval rating of just 18%, while Chaves has an approval rating
of 70% following his first two and a half months in office, it is unlikely.

Costa Rica's health minister, Joselyn Chacón, said she could not divulge
any of the details of the Pfizer contract due to secrecy clauses
embedded deep within the contract. She also alleged that Beatriz Solís
Worsfold, the daughter of former President of Costa Rica Luis Guillermo
Solís (2014-18) and a corporate lawyer with Pfizer since 2018, was
instrumental in drawing up the contract: If we release details of the
contract we could end up in jail because we would be violating a
contract drawn up by the daughter of former president Luis Guillermo Solís.

Pfizer has denied the allegations. In remarks to Costa Rican
fact-checking website Doble Check, the company said that Solís
Worsfold's responsibilities do not include participation in the
negotiation processes with the government of Costa Rica or with any
other government for the purchase of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against
COVID-19. Pfizer added that the negotiation processes for the
distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are conducted by the company's local,
regional and global teams, and that these processes are broadly similar
throughout the region and at a global level.

Pfizer's Sordid Vaccine Sales Practices

Those processes have also been highly controversial wherever they have
been deployed. In Latin America the company was accused of holding the
governments of even the largest countries to ransom, as I noted in a
previous article (Pfizer's Sordid Vaccine Sales Practices in Latin
America Could Be a Big Boon for China and Russia):

It is a time-honoured custom of business that manufacturers provide
certain basic guarantees to prospective buyers about their product's
quality and safety. But U.S. pharma giant Pfizer wants to turn this on
its head as it sells its experimental mRNA vaccine to desperate
governments around the world. For Pfizer, it's the buyer not the
seller that should provide all of the guarantees. And that includes
countries putting up sovereign assets, such as federal bank reserves,
embassy buildings military bases and even glaciers, as insurance against
the cost of any future legal cases involving Pfizer BioNTech's vaccine,
reports the Bureau of International Journalism (TBIJ):

Officials from Argentina and the other Latin American country, which
cannot be named as it has signed a confidentiality agreement with
Pfizer, said the company's negotiators demanded additional indemnity
against any civil claims citizens might file if they experienced adverse
effects after being inoculated. In Argentina and Brazil, Pfizer asked
for sovereign assets to be put up as collateral for any future legal costs.

One official who was present in the unnamed country's negotiations
described Pfizer's demands as high-level bullying and said the
government felt like it was being held to ransom in order to access
life-saving vaccines.

Campaigners are already warning of a vaccine apartheid in which rich
Western countries may be inoculated years before poorer regions. Now,
legal experts have raised concerns that Pfizer's demands amount to an
abuse of power.

According to Professor Lawrence Gostin, director of the World Health
Organization's Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law,
what Pfizer appears to want is total immunity from all forms of liability:

[T]he company would not be held liable for rare adverse effects or for
its own acts of negligence, fraud or malice. This includes those linked
to company practices say, if Pfizer sent the wrong vaccine or made
errors during manufacturing.

Some liability protection is warranted, but certainly not for fraud,
gross negligence, mismanagement, failure to follow good manufacturing
practices. Companies have no right to ask for indemnity for these things.

At the time of that article's publication (March 2021), governments of
countries both large and small were desperate to get their hands on
enough vaccines for their population, and as such were willing to kowtow
to almost every demand from Pfizer to get their hands on what was then
being marketed as the most effective vaccine against COVID. Now, many of
those same governments have vast stockpiles of unused Pfizer-BioNTech
vaccines in their possession, and those vaccines have proven to be not
nearly as effective or as safe as initially claimed.

In the interim, more information has seeped out about Pfizer's vaccine
contracts, allowing journalists and researchers to piece together a more
(but far from) complete picture of the company's sordid negotiating
practices. In October 2021, Public Citizen released a report revealing
that Pfizer:

Reserves the Right to Silence Governments. Brazil's contract with Pfizer
included an additional term that Public Citizen had not seen in other
Latin American agreements. The Brazilian government is essentially
prohibited from making any public announcement concerning the
existence, subject matter or terms of [the] Agreement or discussing its
relationship with Pfizer without the prior written consent of the
company. Just like that, Pfizer was able to silence the government of
Latin America's biggest country. In most other contracts the
non-disclosure agreement applies to both parties.

Controls donations. The Brazilian government is also prohibited from
accepting donations of Pfizer vaccines from other countries without
Pfizer's prior authorization. It is also barred from donating,
distributing, exporting, or otherwise transporting the vaccine outside
Brazil again, without Pfizer's permission. Contravention of this
clause would be considered an uncurable material breach of Brazil's
agreement with Pfizer, allowing the US pharmaceutical to immediately
terminate the agreement. Upon termination, Brazil would be required to
pay the full price for any remaining contracted doses.

Secures IP Waivers for Itself. Despite Pfizer's strident defence of
intellectual property at least when said property is its own the
vaccine contracts its has signed with governments shift responsibility
for any intellectual property infringement that Pfizer might commit to
the government purchasers. As such, the contracts affect allow Pfizer to
use anyone's intellectual property it pleases largely without consequence.

Can take any and all disputes to arbitration. No great surprise here.
Public Citizen cites the UK as an example. In the event of a contractual
dispute between Downing Street and Pfizer, a secret panel not a
national court is empowered to make the final decision. The
arbitration is conducted under the Rules of Arbitration of the
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Both parties are required to
keep everything secret. The Albania draft contract and Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Dominican Republic and Peru agreements require the governments
to go even further, with contractual disputes subject to ICC arbitration
applying New York law.

Can seize state assets. In the case of Brazil, Chile and Colombia, the
government expressly and irrevocably waives any right of immunity which
either it or its assets may have or acquire in the future to enforce
any arbitration award (emphasis added). For Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and
the Dominican Republic, this includes immunity against precautionary
seizure of any of its assets.

Calls the shots on key decisions. Colombia's contract with Pfizer
includes a gem of a clause stipulating that the Colombian government
must demonstrate, in a manner satisfactory to Suppliers, that Suppliers
and their affiliates will have adequate protection, as determined in
Suppliers' sole discretion (emphasis added by Public Citizen) from
liability claims. In other words, if suppliers fail to supply the goods
requested by the time agreed in the contract, Colombia's government has
agreed that it will have no means of recourse.

Given the contractual conditions outlined above, it is hard to imagine
any country in Latin America let alone one as tiny and as dependent on
the US as Costa Rica managing to overturn or override any of the
clauses in their contract with Pfizer. As Public Citizen notes at the
end of its report, Pfizer's ability to control key decisions reflects
the power imbalance in vaccine negotiations. Under the vast majority of
contracts, Pfizer's interests come first.

Indeed, just a month ago a judge in Uruguay presiding over a case
brought by parents opposing the vaccination of children over the age of
five demanded that the Government present to him all documentation on
the terms and conditions of its contract for Pfizer BioNTech's COVID-19
vaccines as well as the full biochemical composition of the vaccine.
When the government refused to comply, the judge suspended the
vaccination of all children under 13. The government quickly appealed
and within a couple of weeks Uruguay's court of appeal overturned the
judge's decision.

Back in Costa Rica, the Chaves government's rescission of the vaccine
mandates faces a wall of resistance from Costa Rica's public health
authorities. According to the Costa Rican daily La Nación, the country's
Social Security Fund (CRSS) insists that the vaccine mandates remain in
force, arguing that the Chaves government's decree overturning the
previous government's mandates was merely a petition', a request' or
a plea', that does not imply an obligation or imperative to act
accordingly on the part of the body that holds said competence.

The CRSS has also provided jurisprudence from the Constitutional Court
supporting the mandatory nature of the vaccine as a public health
measure. As such, at least for the moment, public sector employees fired
for refusing the vaccine will not be reinstated in their positions.
 
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