Canada #54 >>20531609

New Bill Would Strip COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Of Liability Protection

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times Thursday, Mar 07, 2024

Legislation introduced on March 5 would strip COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers of liability protections, enabling Americans injured by the shots to sue the companies.

The bill, proposed by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), would retroactively remove protections from the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers.

“No federal law … may make the manufacturer of a COVID-19 vaccine immune from suit or liability, or limit the liability of such a manufacturer, with respect to claims for loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the administration to or the use by an individual of a COVID–19 vaccine,” the bill states.

The PREP Act currently protects manufacturers and people who administer the vaccines from liability, under a 2020 declaration entered by then-Health Secretary Alex Azar during former President Donald Trump’s administration in 2020. President Joe Biden’s administration has since extended the declaration.

The only exception to the PREP Act protection is in cases of death or serious injury caused by “willful misconduct.”

The protection even covers people who “reasonably could have believed” they were protected even if, in actuality, they were not, according to an opinion from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“Millions of Americans were forced to take a COVID-19 shot out of fear of losing their livelihoods and under false pretenses. Many have faced injury from the vaccine, but few have been afforded little recourse,” Mr. Roy said in a statement.

He said he was introducing the new bill “to empower Americans to remove crony federal liability protections for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and empower injured Americans,” adding, “The American people deserve justice for the infringement on their personal medical freedom and those medically harmed deserve restitution.”

As part of the federal vaccine system, people who have suspected or confirmed injuries from COVID-19 vaccines can apply for compensation from the government under a program called the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program. But as of January, just 11 people have been compensated, with the highest payout being just $8,961.

The overwhelming majority of claims that have been processed have been rejected, according to the HHS, which both runs and administers the program. Some of the denials involved people whose doctors diagnosed them with vaccine injuries. A lawsuit has challenged the constitutionality of the program, describing it as a “kangaroo court.”

The new legislation makes clear that it does not affect the ability of people to apply for recompense through the compensation program.

Pfizer and Moderna did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the bill and have not appeared to comment publicly on it.

A spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group for pharmaceutical companies, told Fox News that “by upending the existing liability framework manufacturers rely upon to provide predictable vaccine development, our ability to address future public health threats will be at risk.”

HHS has said the PREP Act declaration “has been a key tool for ensuring that Americans have broad access to critical COVID-19 countermeasures including vaccines, tests, and treatments” and “has provided flexibilities and protections for those individuals and entities who have been involved in providing these critical tools that have helped the United States get to a better place with COVID-19.”

Mr. Roy’s bill already has 19 co-sponsors, including Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Clary Higgins (R-La.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and Andy Harris (R-Md.).

“Many Americans were wrongly forced to take a COVID-19 vaccine,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), another co-sponsor, said in a statement. “Of course, they should be allowed to sue if they become injured by the shot.”

More:

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-bill-would-strip-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers-liability-protection

Canada #54 >>20531585

Biden Is Hiding Weapons Shipments To Israel & Ignores West Bank Settlements

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Mar 07, 2024 - 11:25 AM

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Weapons shipments that exceed a certain amount require notices to Congress. Biden’s solution is to make the shipments smaller and send hundreds more of them.

The Arms Pipeline to Israel

The Wall Street Journal notes How the U.S. Arms Pipeline to Israel Avoids Public Disclosure

The U.S. has sent tens of thousands of weapons including bombs and precision guided munitions to Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks using procedures that have largely masked the scale of the administration’s military support for its closest Middle East ally, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The administration has organized more than 100 individual transfers of arms to Israel, but has only officially notified Congress of two shipments made under the major foreign weapons sales process, which are usually submitted to lawmakers for review and then publicly disclosed, U.S. officials said. In both cases, the administration used an emergency rule that avoids the review process.

The rest of the transfers have been approved using less public mechanisms available to the White House. Those include drawing from U.S. stockpiles, accelerating previously approved deliveries and sending weapons in smaller batches that fall below a dollar threshold that requires the administration to notify Congress, according to current and former U.S. officials.

“While the State Department has no legal obligation to notify below-threshold arms transfers, using this process to repeatedly end-run Congress—as sales of this quantity suggest—would violate the spirit of the law and undermine Congress’s important oversight role” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, told The Wall Street Journal.

“This stuff is non-transparent by design,” said Josh Paul, a State Department official handling congressional relations who resigned in October in protest of the Biden administration’s policy on the Gaza war.

Reflections on the Spirit of the Law

Biden openly flouts not of the spirt of laws but actual laws, and brags about that as happened with student aid.

The only people who fully understand any laws are the lobbyists who write them.

In this case the weapons industry likely lobbyists inserted provisions to allow the president to ship weapons at will.

What’s Cookin’?

The U.S.-supplied arms since the beginning of the Gaza war include at least 23,000 precision guided weapons, including Hellfire air-to-ground missiles, drones, and Joint Direct Attack Munition kits, which turn unguided bombs into “smart” bombs, along with other similar weapons, U.S. officials said.

Israel has also received 58,000 155mm artillery shells and munitions for its Iron Dome air defense system, the officials said.

Now guess what. The Pentagon will complain we don’t have enough of a weapons stockpile and will request more “defense” spending.

Republicans and Democrats will be happy to oblige.

More:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-hiding-weapons-shipments-israel-ignores-illegal-west-bank-settlements

>>20532019

That's nice

Could you explain the different ear lobes to me?

>>20532071

2) Druggies are essential to show the normies how bad things can get. There's some new shit out (starts with an "N" iirc) that's stronger than fentanyl so Darwin should be kicking soon

5) I'm given to understand only California is perfecting the Anal Infant Ejection technique

8) Homeschooling is increasing

10) The BRICS+ countries are going that way, which is why #11

11) Banks are scared right now

14) Disclosure of aliens? Disclosure of what? I see MSM get forced to cover things anons exposed months prior. The attempts at spin for damage control are quite amusing

15) If Brennan, Comey, or Mad Maxine Waters had been arrested, do you really think MSM would cover it?

When is the last time those three were seen in public?

16) Government is starting to get fixed from the Local level as the People remember without their consent government has no power

17) The non-flouride stuff is not that widely available, yet

The Plan:

Forced cognizance upon an unknowing and unwilling populace by back door manipulation of mass media.

The World is waking up and the "elites" don't like that one little bit

Do you recall Johnny Depp's lines as Captain Jack Sparrow where he talks about cuttlefish? Keep those in mind in the coming months as you watch Congress, the EU, and NATO

>>20532122

Fedbois are so dumb

"Domination by Technology"

Do you have any idea what a few ants can do to your mighty computers?

>>20532215

I sit back and wonder if that dude is being slowly poisoned and what I'm supposed to be distracted from while that big funeral gets all the media coverage.

Can't Arkancide a Pope, but a geezer taken out by illness raises no eyebrows

>>20532222

I would hope anons had not forgotten

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

>>20532329

>>20532347

ISIS-types that came in as "migrants"

>>20532410

I want to say that was a speech in Boston or Philly

>>20532309

Any of those will do

He might get ten minutes in before starting to yell for no reason and I'd be powerful thirsty

>>20532385

>>20532403

Comfy Pub with attractive Barkeep essential

Hang over from the drinking game likely, but the chance that not all of the train wreck will be remembered is worth it

Besides, Pimm's contains quinine so bragging rights about preparing for Disease X may be obtained