FDA Revokes Authorization for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Treatment Evusheld

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked emergency use authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 antibody combo Evusheld from AstraZeneca because it failed to neutralize the currently dominant Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5.

The EUA for Evusheld, a combination of two human monoclonal antibodies, tixagevimab and cilgavimab, was approved by the FDA in December 2021 for use in the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in adults and adolescents (aged 12 and older).

Unlike earlier antibody therapies, Evusheld was not intended for sick patients; rather, it was administered as a preventative measure to those who were at very high risk for serious Covid-19 infection, such as the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, as well as in those individuals who have a history of severe side effects from COVID vaccines.

Because of the alleged new COVID variants, the FDA has withdrawn the EUA for AstraZeneca’s Evusheld.

“The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has stated that AstraZeneca’s Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab) is not currently authorized for Emergency Use for pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19 in the US until further notice, due to the sustained high frequency of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants that Evusheld does not retain in vitro neutralization against,” AstraZeneca said in a statement.

“The FDA has notified AstraZeneca that the Agency will make a determination about reinstating authorization of Evusheld if the national prevalence of resistant variants decreases to 90% or less on a sustained basis. The US government recommends all Evusheld product be retained and properly stored in the event that variants susceptible to Evusheld, including those currently circulating at lower prevalence, become more prevalent in the future,” the company added.

FDA said that it had withdrawn the approval for the use of Evusheld because at least 90 percent of infections are now caused by sublineages that cannot be neutralized by the treatment.

“Based on in vitro pseudovirus assay laboratory data, Evusheld does not neutralize Omicron subvariants BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BF.7, BF.11, BA.5.2.6, BA.4.6, BA.2.75.2, XBB and XBB.1.5.1 The combined proportion of COVID-19 cases caused by these subvariants is currently greater than 90% in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nowcast modelling data,” AstraZeneca said.

If we go by what science says, none of the Covid vaccines work for the Omicron subvariant, which is the most common right now.

Two studies from Columbia and Harvard revealed new Omicron boosters from Moderna and Pfizer were just as ineffective as previous Covid shots.

The updated booster shots against Omicron got emergency authorization, and a CDC panel voted to recommend the shots for children as young as 5 to 11 and for people over the age of 12.

The new vaccine is called Bivalent which means it contains two messenger RNA (mRNA) components of the coronavirus. Half of the vaccine targets the original strain, and the other half targets the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariant lineages.

These new COVID boosters were not tested on humans – only mice.

two independent studies conducted by scientists from Columbia University in New York City and Harvard University found that the new boosters did not produce a better antibody response in humans against BA.5 than the first-generation vaccines, NBC reported.

They compared samples from 21 patients in the Columbia research and 18 people in the Harvard study who received the new boosters to people who received the old vaccine as their fourth shot.

However, the FDA said these two studies are “small and subject to limitations.”

“It’s important to note that the two studies were done independently. They’re small studies but there are two of them —it’s not just a fluke,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, the lead author of the Harvard study.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/fda-revokes-authorization-astrazenecas-covid-19-treatment-evusheld/

Biden’s Defense Department Gives Huge Research Funding to Institutions Linked to Chinese and Russian Biowarfare Programs

Biden’s Defense Department gives huge research funding to institutions linked to Chinese and Russian biowarfare programs

Perhaps, the Biden regime considers it “Genocide-Affirming Care.”

Whatever you call it, U.S. government funding and the potentially dangerous experiments resulting from it is reckless and out of control.

As if the COVID-19 pandemic and the mass administration of unsafe and ineffective mRNA vaccines never happened, it is business as usual for the lucrative “biodefense” racket.

Despite millions of deaths and hundreds of millions infected, Biden’s Defense Department just awarded a multi-year grant worth $3 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a long-time collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese military-linked research center believed to be involved in the laboratory origin of the COVID-19 virus.

That award is on top of a $3.3 million research grant to the EcoHealth Alliance from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), given last September.

In 2020, the U.S. government provided EcoHealth Alliance with nearly $25 million. In total, EcoHealth Alliance received $79.4 million for biodefense work, the knowledge from which has undoubtedly ended up in China.

That all occurs in conjunction with a recently-released 72-page report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, which states that the National Institutes of Health did not give proper oversight to EcoHealth Alliance, even after it awarded the organization millions of dollars to study bat coronaviruses.

Senator Rand Paul issued the following comment in response to the Inspector General’s report.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/lawrence-sellin-bidens-defense-department-gives-huge-research-funding-institutions-linked-chinese-russian-biowarfare-programs/

Russian foreign ministry puts question to Stoltenberg

Did the NATO chief take people for “morons” when he claimed the bloc is not party to the Ukraine conflict, Moscow asked

NATO is fully engaged in the Ukrainian conflict, and people in its member states should see through the deception, when the bloc's leadership claims otherwise, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. She cited recent remarks made by its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to German media, in which he reiterated the non-involvement claim.

“Do you actually consider the citizens of the EU and NATO total morons?” she wondered, during a media briefing on Friday. “Do you believe that as you send tanks, which require maintenance … you still are not party to the conflict? Who are you, then? Explain. Just invent some new term to identify yourself.”

Citizens of NATO states should know: their bloc is fully engaged in confrontation with our nation, and this confrontation is escalating.

Stoltenberg and others who deny Western participation are at odds with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who this week shared her assessment that the EU was “at war with Russia,” Zakharova observed. Berlin’s foreign policy chief has “crossed out” all assurances to the contrary made by the NATO chief, she added.

Baerbock’s remark faced pushback from other members of the EU, who rejected the German official’s narrative. Croatian President Zoran Milanovic commented that his nation’s being at war with Russia was news to him and wished Berlin “good luck this time” unlike during World War II.

Zakharova accused Stoltenberg of “lying to the people of Ukraine for many years” to incite hostilities with Russia. Western leaders also lied when they negotiated the Minsk Agreements, she added, referring to the 2014-2015 deal that was supposed to resolve the conflict in Donbass.

Those agreements were mediated by then-Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and then-President of France Francois Hollande, who co-signed a declaration of their endorsement with then-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande acknowledged last year that, in reality, the process was meant to afford Ukraine time for a military build-up.

https://www.rt.com/russia/570568-stoltenberg-zakharova-nato-lies/

"Madness": France, Croatia Deny 'West At War With Russia' After German Foreign Minister Sparks Outrage

On Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock ignited a firestorm of debate when she stated that Western allies are fighting a war against Russia - causing many to suggest that she essentially 'declared war' on Russia, and contradicting the official stance by saying the quiet part out loud.

"And therefore I’ve said already in the last days – yes, we have to do more to defend Ukraine. Yes, we have to do more also on tanks," she during a Tuesday keynote address at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France - adding "But the most important and the crucial part is that we do it together and that we do not do the blame game in Europe, because we are fighting a war against Russia and not against each other."

Baerbock's comments played right into Russia's position that they are in a proxy war with the West which was triggered by decades of NATO expansion to their doorstep, vs. the West's position that they're simply supporting Ukraine against an unprovoked invasion.

Of note, on Wednesday, Washington announced that it would send more than 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Kiev, while Berlin committed to a dozen Leopard II panzers, while encouraging Poland and other EU and NATO members to provide similar support. France, meanwhile, is "continuing our analysis" of the proposal to send tanks to Ukraine, after already promising several AMX-10 "light tanks" earlier this month.

NATO members France and Croatia have explicitly refuted Baerbock.

"We are not at war with Russia and none of our partners are," said French ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre on Thursday, per AFP. "The delivery of military equipment… does not constitute co-belligerence."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/madness-france-croatia-deny-west-war-russia-after-german-foreign-minister-comments

Treasury Withholds Biden Family Suspicious Bank Records, James Comer Threatens Subpoena

The Treasury Department on Wednesday denied the House Oversight Committee’s request to disclose 150 suspicious reports flagged by U.S. banks concerning Biden family business transactions, causing the committee’s chairman to threaten a subpoena.

U.S. banks have flagged over 150 suspicious financial transactions from Hunter and James Biden, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House Oversight Committee chair, told Breitbart News. The wire transfers included “large” amounts of money tripped for further review by American banks.

Wire transfers are widely used by money launderers. To mitigate the risks to the financial institutions, suspicious wire transfers over $10,000 are flagged for review. Wire transactions involving more than $10,000 are also to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.

Comer demanded the Treasury on January 11 to turn over the suspicious bank records. But the Treasury denied Comer’s request, citing “improper disclosure” of relevant information that could reduce the Biden administration’s ability to “conduct of law enforcement, intelligence, and national security activities.”

Treasury’s legislative affairs chief Jonathan Davidson asked Comer to provide more justification for seeking “highly sensitive” information on the Biden family business.

The Oversight committee responded Thursday and vowed to retrieve the bank reports by the “power of the gavel if needed.”

“[T]his coordinated effort by the Biden Administration to hide information about President Biden and his family’s shady business schemes is alarming and raises many questions,” he added.

The Biden family bank records are a key trove of information related to the House’s investigation into the Bidens for alleged violations, including wire fraud and money laundering.

The suspicious records will provide details about how the family business operates and desired transparency on Hunter’s anonymous art sales and foreign business transactions, along with knowledge of whether Joe Biden remains compromised by foreign governments through his family’s business.

CNN reported in January the family business remains operational, even as Joe Biden is president. On at least two separate occasions, Frank Biden, Joe Biden’s younger brother, publicly cited the president as a means by which he has influence, despite holding no government position or relation to the White House other than by having the same last name as the president and being his sibling.

The Biden family has been alleged to have been peddling influence many times over Joe Biden’s career.

According to Breitbart News’s senior contributor Peter Schweizer, Hunter earned great sums of money from Ukraine for which he “offered no real work,” a statement that infers Hunter was profiting from peddling White House influence. In one of the most blatant examples, Hunter was paid $83,000 per month in 2017 to be on the board of Burisma. Hunter was appointed to the board of Burisma in 2014 with no prior experience in the energy sector or Ukraine.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/27/treasury-withholds-biden-family-suspicious-bank-records-james-comer-threatens-subpoena/

PFIZER LIAR ERUPTS! Watch Exposed Pfizer Employee Attack Project Veritas, Destroy iPad

https://youtu.be/u5n7RRKgDog

Israel air attacks hit Gaza, escalation fears after Jenin raid

UAE, France and China call for UNSC to meet on Friday as violence escalates in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/27/israel-airstrikes-hit-gaza-after-10-palestinians-killed-in-jenin

White House Refuses to Say If Ukraine Will Get Toxic Depleted Uranium Ammo

Bradley Fighting Vehicles can use depleted uranium shells that are linked to cancer and birth defects in Iraq

The White House refused to say if it will provide Ukraine with Bradley Fighting Vehicles equipped with radioactive depleted uranium rounds, ammunition that is linked to cancer and birth defects.

Depleted uranium is typically created as a byproduct of producing enriched uranium and is extremely dense, making it an effective material to pierce the armor of tanks. Bradleys can be equipped with depleted uranium ammunition, which is why they are known as “tank killers.”

When asked on Wednesday if the Bradleys the US is sending to Ukraine will be equipped with depleted uranium, a senior Biden administration official said, “I’m not going to get into the technical specifics.” The official also declined to answer if the M1 Abrams tanks the US is providing Kyiv will be equipped with a depleted uranium cage.

Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of Russia’s delegation in Vienna on arms control, has warned Moscow would view the use of depleted uranium weapons in Ukraine as the use of a “dirty bomb.” Gavrilov claimed that Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks could also be equipped with depleted uranium rounds.

“In case such munitions for NATO-made heavy weapons are supplied to Kiev, we will consider that as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the consequences that come with it,” he said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Cancer and birth defects spiked in Iraq after the Gulf War, during which the US fired an estimated one million depleted uranium rounds. The US also used toxic ammunition in its 2003 invasion, and studies have found that birth defects are more common in areas where depleted uranium was used. Birth defects are still common today in the city of Fallujah.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/26/white-house-refuses-to-say-if-ukraine-will-get-toxic-depleted-uranium-ammo/

Mossad and CIA Are Training Christian Extremist Militia in Lebanon

Covert training camps in the Jordanian desert are currently the site of British and American trainers developing young Lebanese men, loyal to the Christian warlord, Samir Geagea, according to chief editor of Al Mariah magazine, Fadi Abu Deya. In an interview given to Al Jadeed TV, Abu Deya claimed Geagea is sending fighters to Jordan for military training which is supported by the US and UK. Gegea’s media office has denied this allegation and has threatened to file a lawsuit against Abu Deya. The militia is allegedly tasked with attacks on Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance group.

However, from a reliable source inside Lebanon, Israel’s Mossad are training fighters loyal to Geagea in his headquarters at Meraab, Baalbek, and Dahr Al Ahmar.

In May 2008, Geagea told the Lebanese media Al Akbar that he had 7,000 to 10,000 fighters ready to face off with Hezbollah, and was asking for US support. Lebanon continues to be one step away from a new civil war along sectarian lines.

Geagea is supported by Saudi Arabia who demand Hezbollah to be demilitarized. The US shares this view with Saudi Arabia and Israel, who view the group as a terrorist organization. Saudi Arabia is willing to help Lebanon with their financial recovery, but their condition is that Hezbollah must be weakened.

Geagea is one of the most powerful politicians in Lebanon, despite being sentenced to life in prison for murder in 1995. He killed his political opponents, and blew up a church full of worshippers, even though he is Christian to whip up sectarian hatred.

Recently, he came under scrutiny for a new militia called “God’s Soldiers” who are located in Ashrafiah, a neighborhood of Beirut. These are young Christian men who most often work as security guards and look like they are professional body builders or wrestlers. Defenders of the group claim they are simply a neighborhood watch group protecting property from robbery. However, Geagea has a past history of heading a group known as “Young Men” who were fighters during the civil war.

Hezbollah is not only a defense force, which has prevented a second Israeli invasion of south Lebanon, and a resistance force demanding the withdrawal of Israelis from the occupied Shebaa Farms, they are also a political party with a sizable elected membership in parliament in the free democratic elections held in May. Most Lebanese, regardless of their support of Hezbollah, agree that Hezbollah has been the only defense force capable of defending the southern border.

Lebanon is now referred to as a failed state. Once called the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East” for its private and secure banking services, and its winter ski resorts in the mountains, it began a financial collapse in 2019 which has seen the country hit rock-bottom currently. Wealthy Arabs from the Persian Gulf used to flock to Lebanon for their famous nightclubs and Casino. The tourists are gone from Lebanon amid the financial collapse which has seen Lebanese migrants leaving in small boats to find a better life in Europe.

Protesters began street violence in 2019 demanding the ruling political elite step down. These politicians included remnants of the war-lords of the 1975-1990 civil war, like Geagea.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/mossad-cia-training-christian-extremist-militia-lebanon/5806035

Secret Australian Government Reports prove COVID Vaccination has caused a shocking 5162% increase in Excess Deaths compared to the year 2020

The year 2021 was one of hope and promise for Australia, as the world began to recover from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

And if it were not for a monumental cover-up by the Government of Australia, that hope would have been quickly shattered.

Because secretive Goverment data confirms the first 38 weeks of the year saw a shocking 1,452% increase in excess deaths following the rollout of the Covid-19 injections compared to the same period in 2020.

Unfortunately, as the months passed, the situation only worsened.

By 2022, the nation was hit by a devastating blow, with a shocking 5,162% increase in excess deaths in the first 38 weeks of the year following the repeat rollout of the Covid-19 injections compared to the first 38 weeks of 2020, at the alleged height of the pandemic.

The death toll is staggering, and the nation should be reeling.

But the Government of Australia has chosen to ignore the consequences of its actions in coercing the public into getting multiple Covid-19 injections.

And instead of the people of Australia being in shock and disbelief as they try to come to terms with the devastating consequences of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, they are carrying on with their lives, none the wiser as to what has happened.

Why?

Because their Government and their Mainstream Media refuse to tell them the truth and instead fill their heads with propaganda and lies on a daily basis.

https://expose-news.com/2023/01/27/52x-increase-deaths-australia-covid-vaccination/

Excess deaths by week, 2020-2022

https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676

Scottish city bans meat from schools

Edinburgh is boasting about becoming the first European capital city to ban meat in schools (and the first city to proudly deprive children of nutrients).

https://youtu.be/b-0yGzb75f0

Italian Authorities Arrest Dozens in Anti-Mafia Operation in Calabria

Italian police detained 56 suspected mafiosi and seized more than 200 million euros (US$217.89 million) in assets during an operation that, according to authorities, broke the spine of the country’s most prominent organized crime structure, the Calabria-based ‘Ndrangheta.

The seized assets were obtained mainly through the extortion of tourist and construction sectors, the Italian Interior Ministry said Thursday in a statement.

The arrested suspects face various charges, such as mafia association, extortion, illegal possession and trafficking of weapons, fraud, corruption, kidnapping, laundering money from stolen agricultural machines, fraudulent transfer of values, unlawful competition through violence and threat, or trafficking in illicit influences, according to police.

The operation was focused in particular on the activities of the La Rosa ‘ndrina, a branch of the ‘Ndrangheta, active in the southern area of the Tropea tourist resort.

The group allegedly maintained extensive control over the region and established extortion practices to the disadvantage of the local accommodation facilities, as well as public and private construction projects.

La Rosa ‘ndrina, in cooperation with other ‘Ndrangheta branches, maintained a communication and payment chain, through the delivery of so-called “pizzini” – a local Sicilian term for a small piece of paper, intended for the head of ‘Ndrangheta branch in the Vibonese region in Calabria, according to police.

The authorities also uncovered the existence of intermediaries in charge of obtaining accreditations of foreign investments in favor of organized crime, promoting tourist activity through contacts with people close to the Tourism Department of the Calabria Region, and facilitating the allocation of public funds.

The well organized criminal syndicate was also running a complex system of trafficking of vehicles stolen in Italy, intended for buyers abroad, mostly in Malta and Romania, read the statement.

It also said that in some cases, the gang displayed its capacity to “force” the return of stolen cars to “protected” businesspeople, imposing collaboration on the victims of thefts.

Francesco Messina, the State Police’s anti-crime head, emphasized that the operation shattered “a powerful mafia coterie,” and that the “huge sum” of assets recovered “confirms the economic might of a ‘Ndrangheta clan that has now been hit.”

The new blow to the mafia in Italy came after the arrest last week of the alleged “boss of all bosses” of the Sicilian mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly 20 years ago for multiple savage murders, including the slaying of two prominent prosecutors.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17276-italian-authorities-arrest-dozens-in-anti-mafia-operation-in-calabria

Cybercriminals stung as HIVE infrastructure shut down

Europol supported German, Dutch and US authorities to shut down the servers and provide decryption tools to victims

Europol supported the German, Dutch and US authorities in taking down the infrastructure of the prolific HIVE ransomware. This international operation involved authorities from 13* countries in total. Law enforcement identified the decryption keys and shared them with many of the victims, helping them regain access to their data without paying the cybercriminals.

In the last year, HIVE ransomware has been identified as a major threat as it has been used to compromise and encrypt the data and computer systems of large IT and oil multinationals in the EU and the USA. Since June 2021, over 1 500 companies from over 80 countries worldwide have fallen victim to HIVE associates and lost almost EUR 100 million in ransom payments. Affiliates executed the cyberattacks, but the HIVE ransomware was created, maintained and updated by developers. Affiliates used the double extortion model of ‘ransomware-as-a-service’; first, they copied data and then encrypted the files. Then, they asked for a ransom to both decrypt the files and to not publish the stolen data on the Hive Leak Site. When the victims paid, the ransom was then split between affiliates (who received 80 %) and developers (who received 20 %).

Other dangerous ransomware groups have also used this so-called ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model to perpetrate high-level attacks in the last few years. This has included asking for millions of euros in ransoms to decrypt affected systems, often in companies maintaining critical infrastructures. Since June 2021, criminals have used HIVE ransomware to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including government facilities, telecommunication companies, manufacturing, information technology, and healthcare and public health. In one major attack, HIVE affiliates targeted a hospital, which led to severe repercussions about how the hospital could deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the attack, this hospital had to resort to analogue methods to treat existing patients, and was unable to accept new ones.

The affiliates attacked companies in different ways. Some HIVE actors gained access to victim’s networks by using single factor logins via Remote Desktop Protocol, virtual private networks, and other remote network connection protocols. In other cases, HIVE actors bypassed multifactor authentication and gained access by exploiting vulnerabilities. This enabled malicious cybercriminals to log in without a prompt for the user’s second authentication factor by changing the case of the username. Some HIVE actors also gained initial access to victim’s networks by distributing phishing emails with malicious attachments and by exploiting the vulnerabilities of the operating systems of the attacked devices.

About EUR 120 million saved thanks to mitigation efforts

Europol streamlined victim mitigation efforts with other EU countries, which prevented private companies from falling victim to HIVE ransomware. Law enforcement provided the decryption key to companies which had been compromised in order to help them decrypt their data without paying the ransom. This effort has prevented the payment of more than USD 130 million or the equivalent of about EUR 120 million of ransom payments.

Europol facilitated the information exchange, supported the coordination of the operation and funded operational meetings in Portugal and the Netherlands. Europol also provided analytical support linking available data to various criminal cases within and outside the EU, and supported the investigation through cryptocurrency, malware, decryption and forensic analysis.

On the action days, Europol deployed four experts to help coordinate the activities on the ground. Europol supported the law enforcement authorities involved by coordinating the cryptocurrency and malware analysis, cross-checking operational information against Europol’s databases, and further operational analysis and forensic support. Analysis of this data and other related cases is expected to trigger further investigative activities. The Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) at Europol also supported the operation. This standing operational team consists of cybercrime liaison officers from different countries who work on high-profile cybercrime investigations.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybercriminals-stung-hive-infrastructure-shut-down

275 Convicted in Four Separate Investigations Concluded Within Last Nine Months Of Drug Trafficking Networks Directed from Oklahoma State Prisons Using Contraband Cell Phones

1,061 Pounds of Drugs and 393 Firearms Removed Off Streets and $1.3 Million Taken Away from Drug Traffickers

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/275-convicted-four-separate-investigations-concluded-within-last-nine-months-drug