Austrian Police and Army Stand Up to Government’s “Health Dictatorship” Mandates – Will Join Massive Anti-Government Freedom Protest Scheduled for Saturday

In October Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg threatened to impose new lockdown restrictions on unvaccinated people.

“The pandemic is not yet in the rearview mirror,” Schallenberg said. “We are about to stumble into a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

Last weekend Schallenberg announced he is placing millions of unvaccinated people on lockdown.

According to Reuters, only 65% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated against Covid.

But Schallenberg is already losing control of his country. Police, trade unions, and the military are standing up against his “health dictatorship” mandates. Police officers are refusing to enforce the health passes. And Austrian Police and Army officials announced they will join the massive anti-government freedom protest scheduled for tomorrow.

French Daily News reported:

The police and the army refuse to control the health passes in the name of “freedom and human dignity”. They will join a large demonstration against compulsory confinement on November 20, 2021 in Vienna.

Only a few days after Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg decided to confine unvaccinated people, politicians and trade unions are calling for a large-scale uprising against this uniquely liberticidal measure.

The leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Herbert Kickl, called for a “mega-demonstration” on November 20 in Vienna.

Shortly afterwards, Manfred Haidinger, president of the Austrian Armed Forces Union (FGÖ), followed suit and joined in with the call in a letter published on November 14. He intends to “defend fundamental rights and freedoms”. The FGÖ specifies that “everyone” is allowed to demonstrate, even if they are confined!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/austrian-police-army-stand-governments-health-dictatorship-mandates-will-join-massive-anti-government-freedom-protest-scheduled-saturday/

Official Public Health England Data Says COVID Infection Rates Higher In Vaxx'd Than Unvaxx'd

The Spectator has published an article citing official data from Public Health England, which states that for the over 30’s, “the rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed.”

Well, this is awkward.

The article, written by Lionel Shriver, is titled ‘The absurd theatre of vaccine passports’.

It points out that according to official data, vaccines only offer about 17 per cent protection for the over-fifties.

“As I observed then, this would mean the vaxxed and unvaxxed pose a comparable danger to each other,” writes Shriver.

“All Covid apartheid schemes are therefore insensible.”

She then clearly explains how the official data undermines the entire argument behind vaccine passports, which ban the unvaccinated from entering innumerable venues.

“Fresher information has fortified this conclusion of the summer. In every age group over 30 in the UK, the rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed. Indeed, in the cohorts aged between 40 and 79, infection rates among the vaccinated are more than twice as high as among the unvaccinated. PHE’s fruitlessly rechristened body, the UK Health Security Agency, frantically clarifies that the data ‘should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness’, a caveat which I include for the sake of accuracy. But the differences in the infection rates are drastic enough for you to draw your own conclusions.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/official-public-health-england-data-says-covid-infection-rates-higher-vaxxd-unvaxxd

Biden back after briefly transferring power to VP Harris

Joe Biden has resumed his presidential duties after briefly handing power over to Vice President Kamala Harris while he was anesthetized for a colonoscopy. For a short time, Harris was the US’ first female acting president.

Biden underwent what White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called a “routine colonoscopy” on Friday morning, and in line with the process set by the US Constitution, Harris temporarily assumed the duties of president while Biden was under anesthesia.

Biden once again took over as Commander-in-Chief shortly before midday, ending Harris’ brief tenure as the US’ first female acting president.

Psaki said on Twitter that Biden spoke with Harris shortly after waking up, and “was in good spirits and at that time resumed his duties.”

“He will remain at Walter Reed as he completes the rest of his routine physical,” Psaki added.

Numerous presidents have undergone treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center, a US military hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Former President Donald Trump spent three days there last October as he recovered from Covid-19, and reportedly visited the facility for a colonoscopy in 2019. According to former Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, Trump refused anaesthesia for the procedure as he didn’t want to transfer power to Mike Pence, his vice president at the time.

Former president George W. Bush also underwent the same procedure twice during his time in the White House, in 2002 and 2007, transferring power to Vice President Dick Cheney on both occasions.

https://www.rt.com/usa/540791-biden-back-transfer-power-harris/

Pfizer, Moderna Jump After FDA Clears Covid Booster Shot For Adults

Pfizer has joined Modern in trading sharply higher - and hitting new record highs - when moments after the Moderna announcement, Pfizer and BioNTech also said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the emergency use authorization of a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include individuals 18 years of age and older. The booster dose is to be administered at least six months after completion of the primary series, and is the same dosage strength as the doses in the primary series.

Outright bans across numerous (mostly Nordic) countries due to widespread reports it is causing myocarditis in children and adults? No problem: moments ago the FDA cleared Moderna's Covid-19 booster shot for all Americans 18 and older, making millions more people eligible for extra protection as concern about a potential winter wave of infections grows. As to whether those millions will take the booster shot knowing that the "vaccine" doesn't actually prevent them from catching covid, and at best mitigates the severity of the disease even as it creates risks of other, just as unpleasant side-effects, is unclear.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said adults who received their second dose of the company’s shot at least six months ago are now eligible to receive a third, according to a statement Friday from Moderna. The booster from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE is expected to gain a similar clearance on Friday.

The FDA based the EUA on scientific evidence shared by the company including a data analysis from the Phase 2 clinical study of mRNA-1273, which was amended to offer a booster dose of mRNA-1273 at the 50 µg dose level to interested participants 6-8 months following their second dose (n=344)

A panel of experts who advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policies are expected to review the evidence and make further guidance for administering booster shots at a meeting on Friday afternoon; there will be no surprises as the CDC will side with the FDA.

Booster shots of mRNA vaccines - also called "gene therapy" by those who then see their twitter account be banned in perpetuity - have been available for people 65 and over, as well as others who could be at higher risk of severe disease, since mid-September. Under federal guidelines, recipients can receive any of the three authorized shots as a booster, regardless of the brand of their initial vaccine.

More than a third of fully vaccinated seniors had received a booster as of Thursday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 17% of fully vaccinated adults overall have had an additional shot.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/moderna-jumps-after-fda-clears-its-covid-booster-shot-adults

NIH director wants consequences for vaccine conspiracy theorists

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins thinks that people who spread misinformation about Covid-19 online and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be identified and “brought to justice.”

“Conspiracies are winning here. Truth is losing. That’s a really serious indictment of the way in which our society seems to be traveling,” Collins, who will soon step down from his post at the head of the NIH, told the Washington Post on Friday.

Describing an onslaught of angry messages faced by White House coronavirus adviser and former NIH physician Dr. Anthony Fauci, Collins said the government needs to push back more forcefully against “misinformation,” and suggested that those responsible for spreading such information should be identified and “brought to justice.”

Collins did not elaborate on what “justice” might entail.

The Washington Post cited one story about Fauci’s alleged funding of horrific animal experiments as an example of this misinformation. According to activists at the White Coat Waste Project, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under Fauci’s leadership, funded a gruesome experiment in Tunisia where dogs had their vocal cords removed and were restrained in cages while sand flies ate them alive. The academic journal that published the experiment’s results subsequently said that the NIAID didn’t fund the research, but the NIAID said it did fund other experiments involving dogs.

Fauci has repeatedly come under fire from conservatives throughout the Covid-19 pandemic: for saying that masks do not slow transmission of the virus before reversing his position, for misleading the public about his organization’s funding of ‘gain-of-function’ research on coronaviruses at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and for promising Americans a return to normality once 70% of the population got vaccinated, only to admit that he was deliberately misleading people with this figure.

With ‘breakthrough’ cases of Covid-19 surging even among the vaccinated, Fauci now claims that Covid-19 will be controlled by next year if Americans get booster shots, and when babies and toddlers are jabbed.

Wherever the line between criticism and misinformation is drawn, Collins isn’t the only prominent official to threaten harsh consequences for those crossing it. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden accused social media platforms – which already seriously limit anti-vax and vaccine-skeptic content – of “killing people” with misinformation, and threatened these platforms with increased regulation. More recently, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla called people spreading “misinformation” on vaccines “criminals” who “have literally cost millions of lives.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/540773-nih-vaccine-misinformation-justice/

Reuters says Biden still ‘the real president’ despite VIDEO

Joe Biden is the real US president and not a computer-generated image, Reuters and AP have declared in fact-checks, after the presidential seal was blurred in one video that came from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Fact-checks of online commentary about Monday’s signing of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill were the top Twitter trend on Friday morning. They addressed the questions and speculation about why the great seal of the US was blurred in one particular bit of footage.

“Claims that Biden event to sign a bipartisan bill used CGI or that he is not the real US president are baseless,” Reuters said in their fact-check.

https://www.rt.com/usa/540789-fact-check-biden-president/

Austria imposes full national lockdown, will become first European country to require COVID vaccinations for all eligible citizens

Amid rising COVID-19 cases, Austria announced it would implement a full national lockdown. The country will also require COVID-19 vaccinations for all eligible citizens – the first such measure in Europe.

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced the latest lockdown and compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations on Friday after meeting the governors of Austria's nine provinces.

"We don't want a fifth wave. We don't want a sixth and seventh wave," Schallenberg said at a press conference. "We have not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated. It hurts that such measures still have to be taken."

"We have not managed to get enough unvaccinated people to get vaccinated. The most recent measures have increased daily vaccinations but not enough. For a long time, it was consensus in the country that a vaccine mandate is not necessary, but we have to face reality," Schallenberg — who was named chancellor last month after the resignation of his predecessor Sebastian Kurz over corruption accusations — said.

"This is a dramatic step," Schallenberg continued. "In the long term, the way out of this vicious circle we are in — and it is a vicious circle, we are stumbling from wave to lockdown, and that can't carry on ad infinitum — is only vaccination."

Starting on Feb. 1, Austria will make vaccinations mandatory – the most stringent measure to attempt to control the coronavirus pandemic through vaccination in Europe and of all Western countries. According to Reuters, the other countries that have vaccine mandates for all eligible adult citizens are Indonesia, Micronesia, and Turkmenistan.

Of Austria's population of 9 million, 65% are fully vaccinated.

The national lockdown goes into effect Monday. The stay-at-home order will initially last for 10 days, but can be extended for a maximum of 20 days if cases don't diminish sufficiently.

"Austrians will be asked to work from home, non-essential shops will close, and schools will remain open for children who require face-to-face learning," the BBC reported.

Austria launched a lockdown for unvaccinated people last week, but expanded the order to everyone after cases spiked.

A record 15,145 cases were reported in Austria on Thursday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In the past week, there were a record 88,315 cases. There were 55 reported COVID-19 deaths on Thursday and 302 deaths in the last week. The highest daily death toll during the pandemic in Austria was 218 on Dec. 17, 2020. The deadliest week was Dec. 13–Dec. 19, 2020, with 878 fatalities.

Austria is one of many European countries with surging COVID-19 cases. Germany experienced a record 68,366 coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The Czech Republic had a pandemic-high 22,585 cases on Wednesday. The Netherlands hit a record 23,641 cases on Thursday. Belgium had a record 32,708 cases on Nov. 3. As of yet, the record cases have not equated to record deaths.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/austria-covid-lockdown-germany-europe

Jury in Kyle Rittenhouse trial reaches verdict

urors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial have reached a verdict.

It’s not immediately clear when the verdict will be announced. Deliberations began on Tuesday.

Emotions have been running high in anticipation of the verdict, with Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers deploying National Guard troops to Kenosha.

Rittenhouse faces five charges, including intentional homicide, for shootings that killed two men and injured a third during last year’s riots in Kenosha.

The case has left Americans divided over whether Rittenhouse, 18, was a patriot taking a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante.

Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, were killed in the shootings, and Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, was wounded.

Judge Bruce Schroeder threw out a weapons charge against Rittenhouse on a technicality over the length of the gun’s barrel.

A seventh count against the teen for violating curfew on the night of the shootings was also dismissed after the judge ruled that prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/19/jury-in-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-reaches-verdict/

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham Sodomised Boy Under 11 and Attempted to Rape Young Girl, Court Hears

Former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham faces charges of buggery of a boy under 11, the indecent assault of a boy under 11, and two counts of attempted rape of a girl under 16 at Sheffield Crown Court.

64-year-old Nazir Ahmed, who was elevated to the House of Lords by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998 after having served as a Labour Party councillor, chaired the South Yorkshire Labour Party, founded the British Muslim Councillors’ Forum, and been appointed a lay magistrate, is alleged to have carried out the crimes in the 1970s.

“This is about repeated sexual abuse that took place in Rotherham over a number of years,” said Tom Little QC for the prosecution, in comments quoted in court reports.

“Those involved kept it buried away for many years. It is no longer buried away and no longer kept quiet as they have complained,” he continued.

“This was not a single incident. It was not isolated and it was not innocent sexual experimentation by children. It was abuse, repeated abuse, plain and simple,” Little alleged, praising the female complainant who went to the authorities about Ahmed’s alleged abuse for having “had the courage to go to the police to make a complaint against a standing member of the House of Lords,” as Ahmed was at the time.

In an effort to support the prosecution’s position that the allegations are not “made-up or concocted”, Little played a recording of a telephone conversation between Ahmed’s alleged victims, which has been quoted by the BBC and other news outlets.

The female accuser told the male accuser that “What they did to you was utterly wrong and it’s time now to seek justice for the little boy who could not protect himself.”

“I’m not waiting any more. This is not just for me. It’s for you and for all the children Nazir Ahmed has abused and his brothers now,” she went on, trying to encourage the male to believe that the police would look after him and take him seriously.

The male, described by the Telegraph‘s reporter as “sounding very upset”, responded “I don’t want the bastard to get away with it” and told the female that he “thought I was the only one.”

“The surprise you can hear from [the alleged male victim] is palpable,” the prosecutor told jurors, per The Telegraph and MailOnline.

Lord Ahmed, who has previously told police that he believes there is “an agenda behind the complaints”, denies all charges.

His older brothers, 65-year-old Mohammed Tariq and 71-year-old Mohammed Farouq, were initially charged alongside him, but have since been deemed unfit to stand trial.

Lord Ahmed’s trial continues.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/19/lord-ahmed-rotherham-sodomised-boy-under-11-attempted-rape-young-girl-court-hears/

Brisbane campaigners oppose medical apartheid in march to QLD government HQ

A group of pro-choice campaigners have taken to the streets of Brisbane’s CBD today, protesting against incoming restrictions for the unvaccinated on December 17.

The crowd held signs rejecting “medical apartheid” and “coercion”.

One protester was seen waving an Australian flag upside down, and another held aloft a Eureka flag, while the action prompted the next-door Queensland Parliament to lock its gates.

Some protesters stood at Parliament fence and shouted: “stop protecting the paedophiles”.

Triccy Triddy, event organiser, read from a prepared statement calling on the government to drop its plans to bar unvaccinated people from dining in at cafes and attending live music events after December 17, or once the state hits an 80 per cent ‘full vaccination’ rate.

During the march, the group stopped outside the government HQ on William Street, hoping to speak to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. The crowd began booing when it became clear she would not meet with the crowd, before the motto “you serve us” was chanted in unison.

https://tottnews.com/2021/11/17/brisbane-march-against-apartheid/

European Medicines Agency Data Shows 1,163,356 Adverse Drug Reactions and 30,551 Fatalities by COVID-19 Vaccinations

The official European Union database of suspected drug reaction website is now reporting 30,551 fatalities and 1,163,356 from COVID vaccines Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, and AztraZeneca through November 13, 2021 based on the data submitted to its system.

According to European Medicines Agency, an official website of the European Union, the data of adverse reaction from COVID-19 vaccines were posted in ADRreports.eu portal that “allows users to view the total number of individual suspected side effect reports (also known as Individual Case Safety Reports, or ICSRs).”

All the data shown in the website and individual case report forms were taken from EudraVigilance, “a system designed for collecting reports of suspected side effects, used for evaluating the benefits and risks of medicines during their development and monitoring their safety following their authorization in the European Economic Area (EEA).”

The information were submitted electronically to EudraVigilance by “national medicines regulatory authorities and by pharmaceutical companies that hold marketing authorisations (licences) for the medicines.”

From ADRreports website:

Pharmaceutical companies that hold the marketing authorisation of a medicine, as well as medicines regulatory authorities in the EEA, are legally required to submit reports of suspected side effects to EudraVigilance. This includes reports received from healthcare professionals and patients. This excludes non-serious side effects occurring outside the EEA.

The web report does not include reports from studies (e.g. clinical trial, non-interventional study) or other types of reports (i.e. only spontaneous reports).

A side effect is classified as ‘serious’ if it (i) results in death, (ii) is life-threatening, (iii) requires hospitalisation or prolongation of existing hospitalisation, (iv) results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity (as per reporter’s opinion), (v) is a congenital anomaly/birth defect, or (vi) results in some other medically important conditions.

A report from Health Impact News mentioned that the database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries. That means, adverse reaction from the COVID vaccines would be much higher if we include all countries in Europe.

Here is the summary of data through November 13, 2021.

Total reactions for the mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2, Comirnaty) from BioNTech/ Pfizer: 14,303 fatalities and 562,213 cases of adverse reaction to 11/13/2021 as identified in EudraVigilance:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/european-medicines-agency-data-shows-1163356-adverse-drug-reactions-30551-fatalities-covid-19-vaccinations/

https://www.adrreports.eu/en/data_source.html

Bennett: COVID vaccinations for children aged 5-11 to start Tuesday

PM promises ‘total transparency’ to relieve parents of concerns related to the Pfizer shot; delivery of kid-sized doses was delayed but first shipment expected Sunday

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Friday that Israel will begin to vaccinate children aged 5-11 starting Tuesday, after a delivery of kids-sized Pfizer-BioNTech doses had been delayed by a week.

“I know there is a certain sensitivity around this matter. There are a lot of people who are afraid to vaccinate children, and they are not necessarily ‘anti-vaxxers’ or those who buy into conspiracy theories,” Bennett wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.

“My answer to these concerns: Total transparency,” he said.

“We will reveal all the… scientific information to you, the parents — and you will make a decision,” Bennett added.

On Wednesday, the Health Ministry notified the country’s health management organizations that the delivery of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for children, which had been scheduled to arrive the previous evening, would not reach the country until next week.

The Health Ministry was still waiting for an explanation for the delay, the Kan public broadcaster said.

According to Hebrew media reports Friday, the first shipment with hundreds of thousands of doses will arrive Sunday.

When the adult doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shots were first approved for use last year, Israel secured a place high on the list of receiving countries, with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally negotiating deals with the company’s CEO.

Vaccination with two shots and a follow-up booster is already available to all those aged 12 and up in Israel.

The Israeli approval of the shot for children came days after the United States Food and Drug Administration granted the vaccine authorization for the 5-11 age group. So far, more than 2.6 million children in the US have been given the shots.

In Israel, 6,263,415 people have so far received a first vaccine dose and 5,761,459 have received two doses. Of those, 4,038,711 people have been administered a third booster shot, Health Ministry data showed on Friday.

Meanwhile, the reproduction rate (R-number) rose on Friday to 1, indicating the virus is again spreading, even as serious cases continue to wane.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-covid-vaccinations-for-children-aged-5-11-to-start-tuesday/

87 of 89 COVID Cases at CT Nursing Home Outbreak Were Fully Vaccinated; 8 Dead

Since testing positive, 78 residents and staff have recovered.

A nursing home in Connecticut has caused national concern after 89 residents and staff tested positive for coronavirus; 87 of the infected were fully vaccinated and 8 died. The outbreak began at the Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in North Canaan, Connecticut in late September.

The eight individuals who died had “serious underlying health issues.” 78 residents and staff have recovered since the outbreak began. “We are encouraged to see only 3 active cases of covid-19 remaining within our nursing home. Of the total 67 residents affected over the course of this outbreak, 56 are fully recovered and off isolation. Sadly, we have lost 8 individuals with serious underlying health issues to Covid” said CEO Kevin O’Connell.

Because 87 of the 89 were fully vaccinated individuals, leaders are “obviously concerned we experienced some level of waning immunity.” O’Connell said they had boosters scheduled for November 2, but the outbreak pushed it back.

“We’re following the guidance of the Department of Health…and they do not recommend providing booster to anybody with active infections for 14 days after the outbreak,” said O’Connell. Therefore no booster shots can be made available until there are no new positive cases for two full weeks.

ABC News reports:

The CDC currently recommends that all individuals, 18 and older, who live in long-term care facilities, receive a COVID-19 booster shot, given the fact that residents are likely to live closely together, and are often older adults with underlying medical conditions, which cause them to be at “increased risk of infection and severe illness from COVID-19.”

Officials from the home said over the weekend, “We continue to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates for residents, staff, families and community stakeholders as the situation changes.”

https://saraacarter.com/87-of-89-covid-cases-at-ct-nursing-home-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated-8-dead/

UK Covid Testing Company Plans to Sell Customers DNA For Medical Research

Wording buried in a 5,000-word policy document from a leading Covid test provider – which is planning to sell swabs containing customer’s DNA – shows that even children’s DNA does not have safeguards or protection. The company’s documents reveal our DNA is being stored, potentially, indefinitely and can be used for research or sold to third parties without our consent or knowledge.

Cignpost Diagnostics, a UK government-approved supplier trading as Express Test, provides rapid, on-site Covid-19 testing. It has 71 walk-in locations across the UK and is reported to have delivered up to three million tests since June last year. The company charges between £35 and £120 for a PCR test and is estimated to have generated tens of millions of pounds from test fees alone, The Telegraph reported.

As well as to the public who require Covid tests for travel purposes, it has provided testing services to leading sports, entertainment and business brands, including the PGA European Tour, Scottish Premiership, BBC and Netflix.

Cignpost’s documents reveal it will analyse samples to sell the information to third parties and claimed it will also use the medical data to “learn more about human health” and develop new drugs and products. It has been reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) and they are investigating.

Cignpost has partnered with an All-Party Parliamentary Group (“APPG”) – Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World – and RE:SILIENT, a trading subsidiary of the charity RE:ACT Disaster Response.

RE:ACT has so far facilitated 61,600 Covid tests and set up mobile testing capability for care home residents and a pilot scheme for drop and collect testing. While RE:SILIENT works solely with Cignpost to provide mobile on-site testing to businesses.

https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/11/19/uk-covid-testing-company-plans-to-sell-customers-dna-for-medical-research/

COVID-19: Billionaires, Patents & the ‘NIH-Moderna’ Vaccine

Moderna, the world’s hottest new Big Pharma giant, now has four of its top players sitting on the annual Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, Moderna had none.

Moderna’s Forbes 400 billionaire quartet owes its current good fortune completely to the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. And who made that vaccine possible? U.S. taxpayers. Moderna’s Covid vaccine, as Public Citizen research director Zain Rivzi puts it, “would not exist without the massive contribution of the federal government at every step of the way.”

The Biden administration’s chief science officer for the Covid response, David Kessler, calculates that the federal tax dollars handed to Moderna for vaccine development, testing, and initial manufacture total about $10 billion. And that figure doesn’t include the brainpower of the scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health who spent four years actively collaborating with Moderna’s researchers.

Moderna has now filed for a patent on the key vaccine breakthrough these scientists helped produce. The company’s patent application makes no mention of the NIH scientists, a snub that could, notes a Wired analysis, have “major ramifications.”

What sort of ramifications? With a patent that gives the federal scientists the credit they deserve, the U.S. government would be able to “license out the technology” for Moderna’s vaccine to “developing countries where vaccination rates remain low.”

But if Moderna gets its way — gets approval for a crucial patent that denies credit to federal NIH scientists — the company’s billionaires would have “sole control” over the Covid vaccine technology that U.S. scientists and tax dollars did so much to create. That control would enable Moderna to continue placing profits ahead of people. Way ahead of people.

[NIH and Moderna are currently in discussions over Moderna’s patent application.]

Over the course of this year’s first six months alone, Michael Hiltzik of The Los Angeles Times points out, Moderna “pocketed $4 billion in profits on $5.9 billion in revenue, almost entirely from its Covid vaccine, its only product.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/11/18/covid-19-billionaires-patents-the-nih-moderna-vaccine/

India Rocked by Pegasus Spyware Accusations Against Government

India’s Supreme Court decision to investigate the allegations of “unlawful” and “unauthorized” surveillance of its citizens using Israeli spyware has Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government under fire.

According to the court order, it’s alleged that the Pegasus spyware—created by Israeli technology firm NSO Group—was used to hack hundreds of phones in India, including those owned by ministers, opposition leaders, journalists, activists, and Supreme Court judges, among others.

Pegasus is a powerful piece of spyware that secretly unlocks mobile phones and allows access to everything on them, including cameras and microphones, the court order states. According to NSO, its technology is sold solely “to law enforcement and intelligence agencies of vetted governments for the sole purpose of saving lives through preventing crime and terror acts.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/india-rocked-by-pegasus-spyware-accusations-against-government_4099004.html

All double vaccinated: Hundreds of Canadian soldiers in quarantine amid COVID-19 outbreak

Everyone who participated in the training exercise, both directly and indirectly, had received two shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Hundreds of soldiers based at CFB Petawawa are in quarantine after a large training exercise resulted in numerous positive COVID-19 cases, CTV News reports.

The training course, which took place November 13 and 14 in Petawawa, Ontario, has resulted in at least seven positive cases in soldiers so far and three positive cases in civilian family members of soldiers.

Everyone who participated in the training exercise, both directly and indirectly, had received two shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.

"When a positive case was identified, that person was sent into isolation and then we did contact tracing," says Col. Eric Landry, Commander of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group. "Everybody who was in close contact with that person was asked to quarantine."

The training involved 373 soldiers working closely together outdoors, as well as another 100 people operating at a greater distance back.

The Renfrew County and District Health Unit is also reportedly following 10 high-risk contacts in the community, and monitoring another three soldiers who are showing symptoms. Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Cushman said he expects to see more positive cases and is worried about the spread to the greater community.

"The numbers are large when you factor in the civilian dependents," says Dr. Cushman. "We're talking about approaching a thousand people quite easily."

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Ottawa Senators NHL team had suspended its season through at least November 20 after 40% of the team tested positive for COVID-19 — despite 100% of the players being vaccinated.

In another similar instance, the country of Gibraltar — which boasts a vaccination rate of more than 100%, due to its administration of COVID shots to visiting foreigners — has cancelled "a number of its own functions, including official Christmas parties, official receptions and similar gatherings,” due to a recent rise in COVID case numbers. Despite its successful administration of COVID shots to literally its entire population and more, the country still enforces mandatory masks and distancing in all indoor public spaces.

https://www.rebelnews.com/all_double_vaccinated_hundreds_of_canadian_soldiers_in_quarantine_amid_covid-19_outbreak

Former University of Michigan professor pled guilty to child exploitation following HSI Detroit investigation

DETRIOT – A former University of Michigan professor pled guilty Nov. 16 to charges of transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity announced Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit Special Agent in Charge Vance Callender and acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin of Eastern District of Michigan.

Stephen Shipps, 68, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a former violin professor and Director of the Strings Preparatory Program at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance pled guilty to one count of transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual relations.

The Strings Preparatory Program at the University of Michigan where Shipps previously taught provides training to pre-college musicians from elementary through high school to help students fulfil their highest artistic and intellectual potential. Shipps retired from the University of Michigan in February 2019.

Shipps also provided string instruction to students at various summer music programs in the Czech Republic, Germany, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the University of Michigan.

“Shipps used his position of trust to sexually exploit a child. Well-regarded music professors at prestigious universities with competitive music programs like the University of Michigan enjoy tremendous influence within the music community. These professors often have the ability to make or break careers. Stephen Shipps was an influential and highly sought after violin professor who had successfully launched many careers. I commend the brave young woman who stepped forward and exposed Shipps’s abuse,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Mohsin. “This case proves that the passage of time, no matter how long, will not deter us from bringing to justice those who prey on our most vulnerable.”

When sentenced, Shipps faces a statutory maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. The case was investigated by special agents from HSI Detroit with assistance from the University of Michigan Police Department.

HSI’s workforce of over 10,400 employees consists of more than 7,100 Special Agents assigned to 220 cities throughout the United States, and 80 overseas locations in 53 countries. HSI’s international presence represents DHS’s largest investigative law enforcement presence abroad and one of the largest international footprints in U.S. law enforcement.

HSI is a directorate of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, responsible for investigating transnational crime and threats, specifically those criminal organizations that exploit the global infrastructure through which international trade, travel, and finance move.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-university-michigan-professor-pled-guilty-child-exploitation-following-hsi

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