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Bubble indemnity: Big Pharma firms will not be held accountable for side effects of Covid vaccine

Peter Andrews
RT
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:48 UTC

A senior executive for pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has confirmed that his company cannot face legal action for any potential side effects caused by its Covid vaccine. Those affected will have no legal recourse.

AstraZeneca is one of 25 pharmaceutical companies worldwide already testing their Covid vaccines on humans, in preparation for injecting hundreds of millions of people. These are flush times for Britain's largest pharmaceutical company, worth something in the order of £70 million. They have just reported bumper profits of $12.6 billion in the last six months alone.

But despite its healthy balance sheet, AstraZeneca is unwilling to be held responsible for any potential side effects of its 'hopeful' vaccine candidate. In other words, the company is completely protected, or indemnified, against lawsuits from people who are injected with their vaccine and experience negative effects, regardless of how severe or long-lasting they are.

The firm's lawyers have demanded that clauses to that effect be put in their contracts with the countries AstraZeneca has agreed to supply with its Covid vaccine. The company says that, without such guarantees of indemnity, they would not be incentivised to produce the drug. And it seems most of the countries have ceded to this demand.

Trump says fed agents to stay in Portland until police 'cleanup'

Raw Story
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:58 UTC

US federal officers will stay in the protest-wracked city of Portland until local law enforcement officials finish a "cleanup of anarchists and agitators," President Donald Trump said.

The forces — whose deployment was seen by many as part of the president's law-and-order strategy for re-election and exacerbated tensions between authorities and anti-racism protestors — had been scheduled to begin their phased pullout from Portland on Thursday.

Trump tweeted late Friday: "Homeland Security is not leaving Portland until local police complete cleanup of Anarchists and Agitators!"

Flynn update: DOJ order to dismiss case 'vacated', case will be reheard in August

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:06 UTC

The internal battle in the courts and Department of Justice regarding the case against former national security advisor Michael Flynn has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. Now it seems the decision by a federal appeals court is prolonging the case.

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued the order Thursday that challenged the Department of Justice's request last month to drop the case against Flynn.

That order will allow the courts to revisit U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan's request that the case not be dismissed and the case will be reheard by the full federal appeals court in Washington D.C.

Comment: Because sometimes you have to laugh to avoid crying, we present political commentor and comedian RightLeft of Center's rundown of the Flynn scandal, as it stood in May, 2020.

'Squad' member Ilhan Omar pays husband's firm another $600,000, bringing total to more than $1.6 Million

Joseph Curl
The Daily Wire
Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:17 UTC

Despite an ongoing federal complaint against her, Rep. Ilhan Omar's re-election campaign reportedly paid her new husband's consulting firm more than $600,000 in the first three weeks of July, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.

The Minnesota Democrat's campaign has now paid E Street Group, the firm led by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, more than $1.6 million since August 2018, according to FEC records. The most recent payments were first reported by The Washington Free Beacon. "The money accounted for 77 percent of the campaign's disbursements during that time," the Beacon reported.

Mynett's firm is Omar's biggest campaign vendor. The campaign had already doled out $1 million to the firm this cycle before July. The $1.6 million in total payments accounts for nearly half of Omar's $3.4 million in net operating expenditures this cycle.

EU sanctions Russian, North Korean, Chinese firms over suspected cyberattacks

Reuters
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:46 UTC

The European Union on Thursday imposed travel and financial sanctions on a department of Russia's military intelligence service and on firms from North Korea and China over their suspected participation in major cyberattacks across the world.

In its first ever sanctions related to cybercrime, the EU targeted the department for special technologies of the Russian military intelligence service, known as Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, it said in a statement.

The bloc accused the Russian service of having carried out two cyberattacks in June 2017, which hit several companies in Europe resulting in large financial losses. The service is also accused of two cyberattacks against Ukraine's power grid in 2015 and 2016.

Comment: Unproven accusations that also just happen to further the agenda of certain factions wishing to engender discord between West and East. Although it is true there are entities involved in serious cyber crime:

Trump says he will ban TikTok in the US by September 15... 'unless the Chinese sell it to Microsoft'

Andrew Griffin
Independent
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:09 UTC

Comment: Cowboy capitalism at its finest!

Measures could go into effect as soon as today

Donald Trump has said that he will ban TikTok in the US.

The move could go into effect as soon as today, he told reporters.

Speaking from Air Force One as he returned from Florida, he said: "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States."

Comment: Note to American capitalists: what do think will happen to American firms and assets abroad if you set this down as precedent?

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Six Polish towns that declared themselves 'LGBT free zones' in gay rights backlash are denied funding by Brussels

Daily Mail
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 01:20 UTC

Hardline president Andrzej Duda has just won five more years in power after a campaign that included attacks on the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community.

Polish towns that declared themselves 'LGBT free zones' in a backlash against gay rights are to be denied EU funds.

Hardline president Andrzej Duda has just won five more years in power after a campaign that included attacks on the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community.

Now six towns that declared themselves as 'LGBT Free' or banned campaigning for the rights of same-sex couples, have had their requests for town twinning, which comes with potentially lucrative funding, rejected by Brussels.

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Tucker Carlson rips Obama for 'desecrating' John Lewis funeral with campaign slogans — 'Political power is their religion'

Jeff Poor
Breitbart
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC

Thursday, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson took a shot at former President Barack Obama for the political tones of his eulogy delivered at Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) funeral earlier in the day.

Obama said of ways to continue Lewis' legacy, "By ending some of the partisan gerrymandering — so that all voters have the power to choose their politicians, not the other way around. And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster — another Jim Crow relic — in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do."

After airing a video clip of the speech, Carlson criticized Obama, adding the speech was proof of a cynical effort by the left and Democrats to gain power.

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'Charity' accused of child sex abuse coordinating ID2020's pilot program for refugee newborns

Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:52 UTC

A biometric identification program backed by the ID2020 alliance will see its new "digital id" program rolled out for refugee newborns in close coordination with a charity tied to Wall Street and prominent Western politicians whose workers have been accused of sexually exploiting refugee children.

iRespond, an international non-profit organization that is "dedicated to using biometrics to improve lives through digital identity," has begun piloting a new biometric program for newbor ns among the predominately Karen refugee population along the Myanmar-Thailand border, a program it soon hopes to "quickly deploy" at a greater scale and make available to the general global population. The pilot program is being conducted as part of the controversial ID2020 alliance, backed by Microsoft, the GAVI vaccine alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation, and with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a non-profit organization deeply tied to the Western political elite and Wall Street with a controversial track record of silencing numerous sex abuse and fraud allegations.

The new program, an extension of iRespond's "voluntary" biometric identification program in the Mae La refugee camp, "will create a record of a birth, attested by a trusted clinic, with a goal of changing the life trajectory for the participants." Through the program, "a guardianship relationship between the newborn and the mother is established and linked to digital and high security physical identity documents."

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James Corbett: Weird seeds being planted in the Cold War zeitgeist

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

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Puppet Masters

Bubble indemnity: Big Pharma firms will not be held accountable for side effects of Covid vaccine

Trump says fed agents to stay in Portland until police 'cleanup'

Flynn update: DOJ order to dismiss case 'vacated', case will be reheard in August

'Squad' member Ilhan Omar pays husband's firm another $600,000, bringing total to more than $1.6 Million

EU sanctions Russian, North Korean, Chinese firms over suspected cyberattacks

Trump says he will ban TikTok in the US by September 15... 'unless the Chinese sell it to Microsoft'

Six Polish towns that declared themselves 'LGBT free zones' in gay rights backlash are denied funding by Brussels

Tucker Carlson rips Obama for 'desecrating' John Lewis funeral with campaign slogans — 'Political power is their religion'

'Charity' accused of child sex abuse coordinating ID2020's pilot program for refugee newborns

James Corbett: Weird seeds being planted in the Cold War zeitgeist

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