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US FDA clears J&J Covid-19 vaccine doses after months-long delay

Riley Griffin
Business Day
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:57 UTC
J&J and needle
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released 10-million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccine produced by Emergent BioSolutions.

After a thorough review of a troubled Emergent manufacturing facility, US regulators authorised two batches of the vaccine's underlying drug substance made at the site, the FDA said in a statement on Friday, without disclosing how many doses would be released.

The agency said it wasn't yet ready to provide full clearance to Emergent's Baltimore-based manufacturing facility. The contract manufacturer has said it has made more than 100-million doses worth of the vaccine's bulk drug substance. For months, that supply has been in limbo after Emergent staff accidentally contaminated millions of doses, leading to scrutiny of its manufacturing practices. A representative for J&J declined to comment.

The 10-million Emergent-made doses expected to be released have already gone through the final stages of the fill-finish process. Between five- and six-million of the doses are owned by the US government, and three- to four-million are owned by J&J, according to one of the people. But it's not clear how many of the doses will be needed domestically.

Comment: All good? Perhaps not: The EU refuses J&J Covid-19 shots due to contamination issue
Europe's drug regulator said on Friday batches of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine made for the region around the time when contamination issues were revealed at a US manufacturing site would, as a precaution, not be used. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) did not say how many shots were affected, but Reuters has reported it involves millions of doses, making it harder for J&J to meet a target of delivering 55 million to Europe by end of June.

The EMA said that batch was not intended for the European Union and that batches of the vaccine released in the region had not been affected by the cross contamination, based on the information it has.


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Pentagon to redirect $2.2B in border wall funds back to military projects

Ellen Mitchell, Rafael Bernal
The Hill
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:28 UTC
border wall
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US southern border wall with Mexico
The Pentagon will restore $2.2 billion to military construction projects that were stripped by the Trump administration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Defense Department announced Friday. The money will go to 66 projects in 16 countries, 11 U.S. states and three U.S. territories in fiscal 2021, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a memorandum.

Among those is $79 million for an elementary school for children of military personnel in Germany, $94 million for another such school in Japan, $50 million for a Marine Corps machine gun range in Guam, $10 million for a missile field expansion at Fort Greely, Alaska, as well as numerous other schools, hangars, housing, shops and facilities.

The Biden administration in late April announced it would cancel border wall projects that had been funded through the Defense Department and return the funds to the military construction projects from which they were pulled during the Trump administration.

Former President Trump had diverted billions in Pentagon construction, weapons and counterdrug funds — including $3.6 billion in construction dollars — toward building the wall, using emergency powers after Congress refused to fully fund the project directly. But President Biden in his first day in office canceled the state of emergency Trump had declared along the southern border and paused construction on the wall in order to conduct a review.
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PPC Leader Maxime Bernier arrested in Manitoba, Canada

Roberto Wakerell-Cruz
The Post Millennial
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:43 UTC
Maxime Bernier
Former Conservative MP and founder of the People's Party of Canada Maxime Bernier was arrested on the first day of his "Mad Max Manitoba" tour.


A video posted by Bernier shows an RCMP officer telling Bernier that he is under arrest under "the provincial health orders," before putting Bernier in cuffs.

The officer asks if Bernier has a weapon on him, to which Bernier responds, "no, no weapons, only my words. Only my philosophy."

One source claims that Bernier was warned that because he had not completed Manitoba's quarantine period, he would be arrested for continuing the tour.

Comment: Totalitarianism, with a Canadian face.

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YouTube suspends Ron Johnson for one week for recommending HCQ

Brittany Bernstein
National Review
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 18:17 UTC
Ron Johnson
© Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asks questions during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs/Rules and Administration hearing to examine the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2021.
YouTube suspended Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) from uploading videos for seven days and removed a video of a speech in which he discussed early treatments for COVID-19 on Friday.

The video that was taken down featured remarks from a hearing where Johnson discussed experimental treatments for COVID-19 such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

In the clip, Johnson blasted the Biden and Trump administrations for "not only ignoring but working against robust research [on] the use of cheap, generic drugs to be repurposed for early treatment of COVID" and said that he held two hearings on the matter.

"It always baffled me that there was such a concerted effort to deny the American public the type of robust exploration research into early treatment early in this pandemic," Johnson said before calling ivermectin annd hydroxychloroquine "incredibly safe."

However, both drugs are unproven as effective treatments for the virus.

The platform said it removed the video due to its policies against COVID-19 misinformation.

"We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don't allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus," a YouTube spokesperson told The Hill.

Comment: From June 9, three days ago: Study shows hydroxychloroquine and zinc treatments increased coronavirus survival rate by almost three times. But apparently YouTube knows The Science better than anyone else. Thank the gods we have them watching out for us, protecting us from unscientific science and dangerous people like Ron Johnson.

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SJW jargon fail: Biden health secretary can't define 'birthing person' for budget proposal

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 17:39 UTC
Xavier Becerra biden administration birthing people

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra
"If we're talking about those who give birth, I think we're talking about..." Becerra trails off. "I don't know how else to explain it to you other than..." But he can't complete the sentence.

In the wake of the Biden administration's decision to change a budget proposal's wording from mother to "birthing person," Senator James Lankford slammed the wording changes, saying that they may be "offensive" to said mothers.

"I also noticed you changed a term in your budget work. You shifted in places from using the term "mother" to "birthing people" rather than mother. Can you help me get a good definition of birthing people?" Lankford asked secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra during a Senate Appropriation Committee hearing this week.

"I'll check on the language there, but I think if we're talking about those who give birth, I think we're talking about..." says Becerra before trailing off. "I don't know how else to explain it to you other than..." But he can't complete the sentence.
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Bipartisan antitrust bills introduced, aimed at breaking up Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC
big tech
A group of bipartisan House members introduced legislation Friday that would break up Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

According to a press release from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the bills aim to "expand opportunities for consumers, workers, and small business owners by holding unregulated Big Tech monopolies accountable for anti-competitive conduct."

The legislation has support from both sides of the aisle.

Comment: Better late than never. But will the bills actually pass, and how long would it take to implement any measures imposed?

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Briefcase

DOJ inspector general launches review of Trump-era seizure of members of Congress' communications

Jake Gibson
Fox News
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC
michael Horowitz

Inspector General Michael Horowitz
It was a rare confirmation by the IG that his office had initiated a review

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced Friday that his office had initiated a review of the DOJ's use of subpoenas and other legal authorities to obtain communication records of Members of Congress and of some in the news media.

"The review will examine the Department's compliance with applicable DOJ policies and procedures, and whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based on improper considerations," said Horowitz in the statement.

Comment: Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald penned an excellent piece on the matter, highlighting how the Democrats set themselves up for just such an outcome:

Schiff and Swalwell crying foul, as Trump DOJ obtained data on the two long-time champions of domestic spying

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NPC

MSM sycophants: 'Time' cover fawns over Biden in 'macho staring match' with Putin, social media bites back


RT
Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:27 UTC
time cover biden putin
© Twitter / @TIME / screenshot
Doesn't get much sadder than this
A new Time Magazine cover showing President Joe Biden locked in an icy staring match with his Russian counterpart has been mocked as an over-the-top display of machismo, producing a number of parodies online.

Titling the issue "Taking on Putin," Time released the cover on Friday, just days before a summit between the two leaders set for June 16 in Switzerland. The magazine features an illustration of a stone-faced Biden decked out in aviation shades, with Putin reflected in their lenses.

The cover soon drew ridicule from observers online, with journalist Glenn Greenwald saying it is not only "adolescent," but highlights a serious failing of the American corporate press.
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Obama claims media stokes 'fear and resentment' among white Americans

Lee Brown
New York Post
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:31 UTC
Obama

Former President Barack Obama worries cancel culture could turn into “condemning people all the time.”
Former President Obama is claiming right-wing media outlets of profiting by stoking "fear and resentment" among white people toward a "changing America" — pointing to national pushback on critical race theory as an example.

The 44th commander-in-chief told Anderson Cooper in a CNN special Monday that many race problems are a reflection of the US not having "fully reconciled with our history."


Comment: Many of today's race problems are caused by individuals not reconciled with contemporary reality; not everything can or should be seen in the narrow scope of race relations - despite what proponents of critical race theory would have you believe.


He said it was "hard for the majority" of white Americans "to recognize you can be proud of this country and its traditions and its history and our forefathers and yet, it is also true that this terrible stuff happened."

"The vestiges of that linger and continue," Obama said.

The Democrat said that his political opponents would often "not only block that story but try to exploit it for their own political gain."


Comment: Obama is projecting Big Time here. It is the Dems and progressives that have been exploiting the radical left movement for their own political advantage...


"I also think that there are certain right-wing media venues ... that monetize and capitalize on stoking the fear and resentment of a White population that is witnessing a changing America and seeing demographic changes," he said, without identifying specific outlets.


Comment: More projection: Groups like BLM, Antifa and other far left groups thrive on their resentment of others - and use this hysteria in their attempts to accrue more power for themselves. They are the pawns of the political elite who have been using the activists as a kind of forward team or proxy force of woke policies; a camouflage for a decidedly illiberal agenda.

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"Unilateral bullying acts of the United States" root cause for Iranian nuclear issue - China's FM

Stephanie Nebehay
Reuters
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:33 UTC
Wang Yi
© Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman meets with China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 24, 2021. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman meets with China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 24, 2021.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the United States and Russia on Friday to further cut their nuclear arsenals, days before U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a summit in Geneva.

Wang, addressing the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament from Beijing, said that fresh reductions by the two powers would help spur multilateral nuclear disarmament, and he also took a thinly-veiled swipe at the United States.

"China opposes the development and deployment of regional and global missile defence systems by a certain country that undermine strategic stability, and China opposes the deployment of land-based intermediate-range ballistic missiles by the same country in the neighbourhood of other countries," Wang said.

Comment: See also: The United States rejoining the Iran nuclear deal is a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily

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