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TAKE ACTION!: Submit Your Comment to the Govt Before FDA’s Oct 26 Decision to Vax Children

Make your voice heard by writing a public comment to the FDA in this official government forum.

QUICK FACTS:
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an upcoming public advisory committee meeting (also here; Docket No. FDA–2021–N–1088) of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC).
  • The meeting will be held on October 26, 2021, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time, according to the announcement.
  • The meeting will involve discussion of “administration of [Pfizer’s] COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to children 5 through 11 years of age.”
  • The committee will “discuss a request to amend Pfizer-BioNTech’s EUA for administration of their COVID-19 mRNA vaccine to children 5 through 11 years of age.”
  • Some worry that no opposition to this meeting will lead to mandatory vaccinations for American children. In fact, Massachusetts health officials have already submitted an initial order to the federal government to obtain doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids as soon as its use is authorized, according to a local ABC affiliate. California’s governor has already issued the nation’s first statewide to mandate Covid-19 vaccines for all students as soon as next fall, reports The New York Times.
  • You can submit an official, public comment regarding vaccinating children to the FDA by following the instructions below.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT OR CONCERN:
  • Concerned citizens may submit either electronic or written comments on this public meeting by October 25, 2021.
  • CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT OR CONCERN.
  • Be aware that these comments “will be made public” and “will be taken into consideration by FDA,” the announcement states.
  • Do not submit confidential, personal information such as an address, phone number, or social security number.
  • Regulations.gov says, “For press inquiries, please contact the Office of Media Affairs at fdaoma@fda.hhs.gov or 301-796-4540.”
  • The website also says, “If you require accommodations due to a disability, please contact Prabhakara Atreya or Kathleen Hayes ( CBERVRBPAC@fda.hhs.gov).
VACCINE INJURY:
  • For decades, publications from The British Medical Journal have warned that “vaccines may have long term adverse effects.”
  • The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System has gathered 798,634 reports of Covid vaccine injuries as of October 8, 2021.
  • 16,766 deaths from the Covid vaccine have been reported to VAERS.
  • However, because a 2010 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) report conducted by Harvard doctors reveals only “1% of vaccine adverse events are reported” to VAERS in the first place, a more accurate number of people who have been killed by Covid vaccines is 1,676,600. A more accurate number of people who have been injured by Covid vaccines is 79,863,400.
CHILDREN ARE NOT AT RISK, DO NOT NEED VACCINATION:
  • Dr. Marty Makary—surgical oncology, advanced laparoscopic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health—notes in The Wall Street Journal that only 335 children under 18 “have died with a Covid diagnosis code in their record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
  • “Yet the CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn’t researched each death to find out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition,” he goes on to say.
  • Dr. Makary also points out that precisely “zero” children have been shown to have died from Covid without a pre-existing medical condition (i.e., comorbidities), calling into question the need for children to be vaccinated.

“Without these data,” writes Makary, “the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decided in May that the benefits of two-dose vaccination outweigh the risks for all kids 12 to 15. I’ve written hundreds of peer-reviewed medical studies, and I can think of no journal editor who would accept the claim that 335 deaths resulted from a virus without data to indicate if the virus was incidental or causal, and without an analysis of relevant risk factors such as obesity.”

  • Dr. Makary’s research team at Johns Hopkins teamed up with the nonprofit FAIR Health to analyze approximately 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with Covid using health insurance data from April to August 2020.

“Our report found a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia,” Makary states.

“If that trend holds, it has significant implications for healthy kids and whether they need two vaccine doses. The National Education Association has been debating whether to urge schools to require vaccination before returning to school in person. How can they or anyone debate the issue without the right data?”

MORE ABOUT THE FDA MEETING:
  • “The general function of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations to FDA on regulatory issues,” the announcement notes. “Members will participate via teleconference. The meeting will be open to the public. FDA is establishing a docket for public comment on this document.”
  • Politico reports, “The FDA advisory committee meeting is normally the final step before the agency issues a formal decision on authorizing or approving a shot. While FDA is not bound by its advisory committee’s decisions, it normally follows them.”

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith and author of “An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing & How to Fix It.“

National Institutes of Health Admits Fauci Lied About Gain-Of-Function Funding in Wuhan.

Anthony Fauci lied to the U.S. Congress, and EcoHealth veered wildly out of their lane. Who’s going to be held accountable?

The National Institutes of Health admitted that EcoHealth Alliance – a research partner of the Wuhan Institute of Virology funded by Anthony Fauci – carried out gain-of-function research and failed to report the findings “as was required by the terms of the grant.”

The admission comes in a letter from Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Lawrence Tabak, in response to Congressman James Comer’s inquiries about a controversial, multi-million-dollar grant from Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance.

The coronavirus-focused grant ultimately led to U.S. taxpayer dollars funding EcoHealth Alliance’s “longtime collaboration” with the Chinese Communist Party-run lab, believed by many to be the source of COVID-19.

Tabak explains how the “limited experiment described in the final progress report provided by EcoHealth Alliance was testing if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”

“In this limited experiment, laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV 1 bat coronavirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat coronavirus. As sometimes occurs in science, this was an unexpected result of the research, as opposed to something that the researchers set out to do,” he added.

As Dr. Richard Ebright, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, explains:

NIH corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan.

Following the enhancement of the WIV1 bat coronavirus, EcoHealth “failed to report this finding right away, as was required by the terms of the grant.”

“EcoHealth is being notified that they have five days from today to submit to NIH any and all unpublished data from the experiments and work conducted under this award,” Tabak adds.

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Texas Urges Supreme Court to Let Abortion Law Stand

Texas officials on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to leave in place the nation’s strictest abortion law and reject calls by the Biden administration to intervene, Bloomberg reports.

State Attorney General Ken Paxton, in court papers filed Thursday, said President Joe Biden’s Justice Department lacked grounds to challenge the measure, which bans most abortions past six weeks after conception by permitting lawsuits against abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” in the procedures.

DOJ argued the law is “clearly unconstitutional” because it bans abortions at roughly six weeks, long before a fetus can survive outside the womb. The Supreme Court’s major abortion rulings make clear that states can regulate but not prohibit abortions before the point of fetal viability.

Texas defended an order by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed the abortion law to go back into effect after a lower-court judge put it on hold.

“In sum, far from being demonstrably wrong, the Fifth Circuit’s conclusion that Texas is likely to prevail was entirely right,” the state wrote to the Supreme Court.

“The Court should deny the emergency application to vacate the Fifth Circuit’s stay pending appeal. The Court may also construe this response as a conditional cross-petition for certiorari on the question whether to revisit Roe [v. Wade] and [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey,” the court papers concluded.

The DOJ on Monday said the state is trying unconstitutionally to avoid judicial review with an unusual mechanism that puts enforcement in the hands of private parties.

A federal appeals court last week let the law go back into effect after a trial judge ruled the measure unconstitutional and blocked it for two days, Bloomberg reported.

The DOJ also asked the Supreme Court to hear arguments and issue a definitive ruling, rather than just an interim order. However, that would require the justices to bypass the appeals court, which has not made a final ruling.

Abortion providers have filed a similar request in a separate case, Bloomberg said.

There is no deadline for the Supreme Court to rule.

The Texas law took effect on Sept. 1 after the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow it to proceed. The court said clinics and doctors “raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality” of the measure but hadn’t overcome procedural obstacles stemming from the unusual enforcement stipulation.

Texas clinics have said abortions are down by about 80% since the law took effect.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December on a Mississippi appeal that asks the court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortions nationwide.

Harvard Study Finds Covid-19 Surged Most Among Vaxxed Communities

Countries with a higher percentage of fully vaccinated people have higher rates of Covid-19 cases, a study by Harvard researchers claims.

The study, titled, “Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2,947 counties in the United States,” was published late last month at the National Institutes of Health website and the peer-reviewed European Journal of Epidemiology.

On its face, the study purports rises in Covid cases are unrelated to vaccination rates, however, data presented in the study gives the exact opposite impression.

For example, the study claims, “At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days.”

However, it goes on to say, “In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.”

“Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days,” the study authors state.

“The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal,” the study notes, going on to demonstrate a meaningful association.

“Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.”

The study goes on to illustrate the correlational relationship between vaccines and Covid rates in US counties.

“Across the US counties too, the median new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days is largely similar across the categories of percent population fully vaccinated.”

[…]

“Of the top 5 counties that have the highest percentage of population fully vaccinated (99.9–84.3%), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies 4 of them as ‘High’ Transmission counties. Chattahoochee (Georgia), McKinley (New Mexico), and Arecibo (Puerto Rico) counties have above 90% of their population fully vaccinated with all three being classified as ‘High’ transmission.”

“Conversely, of the 57 counties that have been classified as ‘low’ transmission counties by the CDC, 26.3% (15) have percentage of population fully vaccinated below 20%.”

The study authors caution that mass vaccination should not be the sole Covid-19 preventative strategy.

“The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants…

“Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. 

“Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real world effectiveness of the vaccines.”

Despite data in the study showing vaccinated people are spreading Covid, the study’s lead author, Harvard University Professor of Population Health and Geography S.V. Subramanian, claimed to PolitiFact the point of the study was not to highlight the high rate of “breakthrough infections” among the vaccinated, but to draw attention to the need to implement additional safety measures to combat the virus.

“Concluding from this analysis that vaccines are useless is misleading and inaccurate. Rather, the analysis supports vaccination as an important strategy for reducing infection and transmission, along with handwashing, mask-wearing, proper ventilation and physical distancing.”

The Blaze‘s Daniel Horowitz noted researchers used a one-month lag when compiling the data.

It’s also important to keep in mind that when calculating the data, the authors used a sensitivity analysis by applying a one-month lag on the percentage population fully vaccinated so that people wouldn’t be considered fully vaccinated until 14 days after the second dose. However, studies have shown that this is the most vulnerable time for getting the virus. Why should that be blamed on the lack of vaccination rather than on the vaccine? So if anything, the numbers are likely even more unfavorable to the vaccine than this analysis suggests.

Interestingly, despite the researcher’s explanation, PolitiFactrated a claim that the study showed “COVID-19 ‘surges among most vaxxed communities” half-true.

Federal Reserve bans officials from buying stocks and bonds, as well as restrict trading after ethics scandal

(Fortune Daily) The Federal Reserve will ban policy makers and other senior officials from buying individual stocks and bonds and will also restrict active trading after an ethics scandal led to the departure of two regional presidents and undermined confidence in the central bank.

Under the new policies, senior Fed officials—including regional bank presidents, Washington governors and senior staff—will be limited to purchasing diversified investment vehicles such as mutual funds, the central bank said in a statement Thursday.

Other rules “to help guard against even the appearance of any conflict of interest in the timing of investment decisions” include providing 45 days’ advance notice for buying and selling securities, obtaining prior approval for such transactions and holding investments for at least one year. Additionally, “no purchases or sales will be allowed during periods of heightened financial market stress,” the Fed said.

“These tough new rules raise the bar high in order to assure the public we serve that all of our senior officials maintain a single-minded focus on the public mission of the Federal Reserve,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in the statement.

The 12 regional Fed presidents will be required to publicly disclose financial transactions within 30 days, a policy that already applies to Washington-based governors and senior staff, the Fed said.

The announcement comes after Powell ordered a system-wide review of ethics rules and also asked the Fed inspector general to take a look at the trading of “certain senior officials.”

Canceling Thomas Jefferson

After more than a century, the New York City Council is removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson from its chamber. The decision, which was made by the New York City Public Design Commission, was unanimous.

It was wrong, too.

Justifying the move, Councilperson Adrienne Adams proposed that Jefferson had to go because he “embodied some of the most shameful parts of our country’s long and nuanced history.” But, ironically enough, it is precisely “nuanced history” that is missing from this analysis. Like many people, Jefferson could, indeed, be hypocritical and self-contradictory. Like many people from his region, he did, indeed, own slaves (and, unlike George Washington, he did not free them upon his death). And, like many people of his generation, he possessed some unpleasant private views. But it is not for any of that that we celebrate him. We celebrate him because he authored the Declaration of Independence — a magisterial document, which, both at home and abroad, has served as a beacon of hope and liberty throughout that “long” history to which Adrienne Adams refers.

This matters, for, as Princeton’s Sean Wilentz told the commission in a letter, the statue in question “specifically honors Jefferson for” his role in penning the Declaration, which Wilentz describes as “his greatest contribution to America, indeed, to humankind.” Jefferson deserves to be honored for that contribution, which has served, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, as “an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times,” as “the definitions and axioms of free society,” and as “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.” It is no accident that the most pernicious expositor of the pro-slavery cause, Alexander Stephens, loathed Thomas Jefferson and was keen to cast the Confederacy as having been founded upon “exactly the opposite idea” to those “entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution.”

Or, to put it another way: What was remarkable about Jefferson was not what he had in common with his contemporaries around the world, but what he did not. Taken in full, his is indeed a “nuanced” legacy, and yet there is no getting past the fact that among the achievements of his long public career were the elimination of the transatlantic slave trade to the United States; the creation of a free Midwest, which flowed from his proposal in 1784 to ban slavery in all the territories west of the Appalachians; and the provision of the moral ammunition that a later generation would use to stamp out slavery on the theory that “all men are created equal.”

To paraphrase John Adams, a free republic will be one of ideas, not of men. In this case, though, it is extremely difficult to separate them. Thomas Jefferson has stood at the New York City Council since 1915 not as a memorial to the Democratic-Republican party, or to Virginia, or to his two-term presidency, but as a tribute to the remarkable, world-changing ideas that he laid out in July of 1776. Those who have orchestrated his unceremonious removal ought to be careful, lest, in a fit of Jacobin pique, they tear down his self-evident truths into the bargain.

Shares Of SPAC Behind Trump Social Media Company Jump 400%

The share price of a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that plans to merge with a media group connected to former President Donald Trump quintupled on Thursday, following an announcement late Wednesday night that Trump planned to launch a new social media company.

  • Shares of the Digital World Acquisition SPAC were trading at $49.81 early Thursday afternoon—more than 400% higher than the price on Wednesday.
  • Trading was halted at five points on Thursday due to volatility, leading to surges in price each time trading resumed.
  • The price of the stock more than doubled over a period of under two hours late Thursday morning into the early afternoon.
  • Digital World Acquisition Corp. was the Fidelity platform’s most actively traded stock on Thursday, with “buy” orders outnumbering “sell” orders nearly three to one.

KEY BACKGROUND

Digital World Acquisition plans to merge with the Trump Media and Technology Group to fund the launch of a new social media platform called “TRUTH Social,” which bills itself as a “rival to the liberal media consortium.” The merger will result in the Trump Media and Technology Group becoming a publicly listed company, according to a statement announcing the move, with Trump serving as chairman. Trump—who was a constant presence on Twitter for most of his presidency—was banned from essentially every major social media platform after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

TRUTH Social is planning a beta launch for invited guests starting in November, ahead of a full release in the first quarter of 2022. Trump Media and Technology Group also announced it plans to launch a video streaming service featuring “non-woke” programming.

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silences,” Trump said on Wednesday. “I’m excited to soon begin sharing my thoughts on TRUTH Social and to fight back against Big Tech.”

GOP Senators Block Democrat Election Overhaul Bill

Tension between the two major parties appears to heat up after the Democrat-backed election bill was blocked in the Senate. On Wednesday, Kamala Harris spoke to the press about GOP senator’s unanimous vote against the so-called Freedom to Vote Act, which aims to federalize U.S. elections. She expressed her frustrations.

On the other hand, GOP senators like Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) argued the bill would erode the integrity of U.S. elections.

“The Senate is designed to stop bad ideas and purely partisan proposals, while helping truly necessary and bipartisan bills become law,” he noted. “As we have shown in the recent past, the Senate is fully capable of making law in this area when actual issues need actual solutions and actual bipartisan works occurs. By contrast, there is nothing necessary or bipartisan about this naked power grab, so it will continue to go nowhere.”

The bill aims to require same-day registration at all polling locations by 2024 and expand early voting as well as force every state to implement drop boxes for the deposit of mail-in ballots, which is currently only authorized in 13 states.

Democrats are calling the bill a compromise after their last sweeping election bill, H.R.1, failed to gain enough support from both sides of the aisle. However, according to McConnell, the only compromise that exists in the so-called Freedom to Vote Act is how much power the left and far-left agreed to grab.

“This latest bill still subjects popular, common sense state election integrity protections like voter ID to the whims of federal bureaucrats,” he stated.

The Kentucky lawmaker went on to add, the point of implementing national election laws is to fix serious problems with voting systems like back in 2002 when senators addressed purported voting irregularities with the Help America Vote Act.

“We did that when there was an actual problem that needed solving in an actual bipartisan process,” said McConnell. “But as long as Senate Democrats remain fixated on their radical agenda, this body will continue to do the job the framers assigned it and stop terrible ideas in their tracks.”

Regarding the so-called Freedom to Vote Act, it’s not expected to advance any further. However, Harris warned this loss will not deter Democrats from their efforts to nationalize U.S. elections.

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