Record 89% Of Americans Say Government Corruption Widespread

Thursday, Sep 03, 2026 - 06:05 AM

A record 89% of US adults say government corruption is widespread - which is up 10% from last year, and far above the average 72%-79% between 2010 and 2025, according to a new Gallup poll.

Unsurprisingly, Democrats' perceptions of government corruption spiked the most since 2024 - going from 57% to 91% this year, while independents also feel this way at 90%. Republicans at 83% are up 12 points since 2024.

According to Gallup, the reasons are different between Republicans and Democrats - with Dems' perceptions appearing closely linked with whatever party is in power, while Republicans have much greater consistency on the topic - which "suggests a more underlying view of government corruption that depends less on the party in power."

Gallup also notes that before the recent increase, the US already outranked other advanced economies in corruption perceptions. Continued:

The U.S. has increasingly diverged from other advanced economies in perceptions of government corruption, based on Gallup polling across the 38 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The median level of perceived corruption among OECD countries has fallen from 69% in 2009 to below 60% since 2022.

Full data collection for 2026 is not yet complete in all countries, so the closest comparison across the OECD is from 2025, when a median of 59% said corruption is widespread in their government.

In the early years of this trend, countries such as Greece, Hungary and the Czech Republic all saw scores above 90%. But over time, the highest levels of perceived corruption across the bloc have gradually fallen, reaching 79% in 2025 — placing the U.S. atop the OECD rankings for the first time, even before the additional 10-point increase within the past year.

By 2024, there was already a 15-point gap between the U.S. and OECD countries on this metric, but that rose to 20 points in 2025 as U.S. perceptions of corruption increased six points to 79%, compared with 59% across the OECD. The gap between the U.S. and the OECD median could potentially be even wider this year.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/record-89-americans-say-government-corruption-widespread

Two CDC studies on vaccines and autism using the same data find opposite conclusions. Both cannot be correct

By Rhoda Wilson on September 3, 2026

Two CDC-supported studies on Danish autism rates between 1995 and 2000 present contradictory findings: one claims an increase in autism cases after the mercury-based preservative thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines, while the other reports a steady decline.

Both papers cannot be correct. And the CDC will not come clean about the discrepancy between the studies. One researcher, former CDC employee Diana Schendel, was involved in both studies. She should be questioned under oath as to what happened.

Two CDC Danish Autism/Vax Studies; Two Opposite Conclusions; The Felon Says Mercury Is Safe

By Autism Action Network, 2 September 2026

Two US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) studies of the autism rate in Denmark in the 90s: the first one, produced by admitted felon Poul Thorsen, says the autism rate increased from 1995 to 2000, which was then used to claim there is no connection between giving infants mercury in vaccines and autism; the second study found that the autism rate in Denmark not only decreased from 1995 to 2000, but was more than 10 times higher than the rate claimed by Thorsen. At least one of these studies is bogus.

Thorsen was a Danish researcher hired by the CDC in 1999 to do a series of studies, including several on the role of vaccines causing autism. He was indicted for embezzling more than $1 million from the CDC and other crimes by a US federal court in 2011. He lived openly in Denmark, where he was an instructor at Aarhus University, but was finally arrested and extradited to the US in 2025. Yesterday he pleaded guilty.

The first study, ‘Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence from Danish Population-Based Data’, a widely publicised and highly influential study released in 2003, claimed that mercury in vaccines played no role in causing autism because the rate of autism in Danish children increased after mercury was removed from Danish-produced vaccines in 1992.

Another CDC study, ‘Recurrence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Full- and Half-Siblings and Trends Over Time: A Population-Based Cohort Study’, led by Therese K. Gronborg and released in 2013, however, shows the exact opposite: that the rate of autism in Danish children decreased after mercury was removed. And if the increasing rate of autism claimed in the earlier study showed that mercury had no role in causing autism, then logic would also require that the rate of autism going down, as shown in the current study, indicates that mercury in vaccines may very well have a great deal to do with causing autism.

more:

https://expose-news.com/2026/09/03/two-cdc-studies-on-vaccines-and-autism/

When I first read the directly below article…I thought it was possible, but not probable…but with the recent release of documents on (CIA notes show FDA chief-turned-Pfizer board member saw race between herd immunity, COVID vaccine)…at the bottom….it now seems probable…

Jeffrey Tucker Reveals the Real Reason for the Lockdowns, School Closures, and Masking

“It sounds crazy until you hear it from people who were there on the ground…”

The Vigilant Fox

Aug 13, 2026

From the article:

"During that discussion, Tucker shared what he says top FDA and NIH officials told him about the real purpose of the lockdowns and other restrictions.

The purpose, according to Tucker, was “to delay the onset of natural immunity… until after the shots were online.”

Tucker admits it “sounds like a wild conspiracy theory.” But he says multiple sources who were actually there, working inside the agencies and companies, have confirmed it “without a shadow of a doubt.”

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/it-sounds-like-a-wild-conspiracy

CIA notes show FDA chief-turned-Pfizer board member saw race between herd immunity, COVID vaccine

Scott Gottlieb estimated 20-25% infected and three transmissions per infected person in May 2020, yet kept lowballing infection rate in public for months. "According to their own math," herd immunity would beat vaccine, watchdog says.

From article:

"CIA notes from a May 7, 2020, meeting with Gottlieb, led by then-CIA chief operating officer Andy Makridis, summarize the Pfizer board member's views: The COVID infection rate nationally was already 20-25% and the reproduction rate was 3, meaning every infected person would transmit to three new people."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/cia-notes-show-fda-chief-turned-pfizer-board-member-saw-race-between-herd