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California Megachurch Pastor Partners With Clay Clark’s Reawaken America Tour

(Charisma News) As a pastor of a large Southern California church, experiencing the strains of government overreach during the COVID pandemic, Phil Hotsenpiller responded by preaching Sunday sermons related to the Constitution from a biblical worldview.

These sermons were well received, and it seemed worthy to establish a website where more people could benefit. Considering Hotsenpiller’s extensive list of media credits—which include articles and op-eds published on Charisma News, Fox News, The Washington Post, CNN and more—it inspired the idea of creating a website where his pertinent articles and the sermons could be accessed. Thus, American Faith was born.

“News You Can Trust” is the banner for American Faith, where both original and curated articles on topics of politics, faith, health, opinion and business are published.

“Because we carefully vet all the articles we curate for accuracy, and our writers must adhere to rigid criteria, ‘News You Can Trust’ is a claim we confidently make,” Hotsenpiller said.

Based on the estimated quarter of a million views, a database of 1.2 million, and the website having an open rate of 60% and a click-through rate of 35%, it seems American Faith‘s quick, sharp and crisp model is coveted.

“Our staff reads articles looking for a fair shake regarding conservative values instead of solely promoting negative left-wing agenda,” Hotsenpiller said. “And as a non-partisan organization we don’t endorse any political candidates.”

Endorsing the impact of Clay Clark’s Reawaken America Tour is another matter, however.

Hotsenpiller is a highly accomplished individual who is also known as an executive adviser and a cultural thought leader. He serves as president of the New York Executive Coaching Group. Since Clay Clark’s main thrust is helping business owners through his coaching program, it was natural for Clark to invite Hotsenpiller to be interviewed on hisThrive Time Show business podcast.

Like Hotsenpiller, Clark shares concern over the direction of our nation. In June 2021, Clark produced what was then called the Health and Freedom Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Gen. Michael Flynn was featured. The event was such a success Clark knew he wanted to do more.

At Flynn’s suggestion, the tour was renamed to Reawaken America. Clark reached out to Hotsenpiller again, but this time with the inquiry for him to host an event at his church, Influence Church, in Anaheim, California.

“When Clay called, I said ‘Yeah’ right away without really knowing what it would require,” Hotsenpiller said. “Having 40 speakers over a two-day event means there are a lot of moving parts. I soon discovered I only knew half of what it would take when I agreed.”

Not that Hotsenpiller has any regrets.

When asked what his goals are for hosting the event, Hotsenpiller said, “I want to give people an opportunity to hear the truth from different perspectives and experience the people they see, hear and follow, up close and personal. I want people to experience the synergy that uniquely occurs at live events.”

While the July 17-18 event will be streamed live to an estimated 7 million viewers, based on the live event selling out weeks ahead of time, it seems many people want the personal experience.

Hotsenpiller’s goal for the event is to encourage people to get involved in local politics and school boards.

“We get upset about national issues, and well we should. But real change happens on the local level,” Hotsenpiller says. “People need to run for office or show up to key meetings. And never underestimate the impact you can make. It is proven in California; the counties with good local government have no state government overreach.”

Hotsenpiller encourages people to share the American Faith website and tell people about the Reawaken America Tour live streaming on thrivetimeshow.com/ to help people become aware of these avenues for becoming informed and engaged in making a difference. Live streaming of the sold-out Anaheim event will also be available on Brighteon.com and SteelTruth.com.

The event runs from noon until 8:00 p.m. on both July 17 and 18, 2021.

“One thing that has been overlooked is freedom of speech,” Hotsenpiller said. “We’ll definitely be exercising that right at the event. Not every speaker is a Christian, but every point of view is worth hearing. I hope people tune in to see if it’s a fit for them. It’s not for everyone, but it is definitely for a lot of people given the tremendous response we’ve received.”

Read the original story at CharismaNews.com.

‘American Faith’ Featured On Worldwide News Distributor

American Faith’s new press release about its upcoming event with General Flynn, Larry Elder, and RFK Jr. was featured on Cision PR Newswire on Thursday.

QUICK FACTS:
  • The press release titled “California Pastor puts Faith in Media with Launch of National News and Media Network” can be seen on Cision PR Newswire here.
  • American Faith—a non-profit media network—submitted a press release to PR Newswire discussing American Faith’s commitment to giving readers “access to uncensored news” in response to the fact that today’s “mainstream media has abandoned objectivity” and has caused “political and social division,” according to American Faith president Phil Hotsenpiller.
  • American Faith announced it will be hosting an event this weekend in Anaheim, California with keynote speakers General Michael Flynn, radio host Larry Elder, and lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr.
  • PR Newswire reaches nearly 3,000 newsrooms—The New York Times, ABC News, BuzzFeed—as well as reaching more than 170 countries in more than 40 languages and 4,500 other U.S. websites.
WHAT ELSE DID THE PRESS RELEASE TALK ABOUT?:
  • The release explained that American Faith’s platform “focuses on news relating to politics, business, health, and faith.”
  • It revealed that American Faith will host original content including video interviews and weekly podcasts featuring well-known media personalities such as Melissa Tate, and William Federer in addition to details about Hotsenpiller’s own show “America’s War Room with Phil Hotsenpiller.”
  • It also included an endorsement from American lawyer Ken Starr (former U.S. solicitor general, former federal judge, and former president of Baylor University), who said that “American Faith is an important, and vitally needed, voice in our increasingly secular culture.” “As the old saying goes, this is ‘news that you can trust.’ Everyone—especially people of faith—who care about our country and its future should join the rapidly-growing family of grateful American Faith subscribers,” he added.
  • The press release highlighted it will be hosting Clay Clark’s ReAwaken America Tour, July 17-18 at Influence Church in Anaheim, California where “Attendees will learn practical steps to fight back to protect American freedoms,” the release said. Keynote speakers include General Flynn, former United States National Security Advisor; Larry Elder, American radio host and best-selling author; and Robert Kennedy Jr., author, environmental lawyer, and Board Chair for the Children’s Health Defense, among others.
ABOUT AMERICAN FAITH PRESIDENT PHIL HOTSENPILLER:
  • Phil Hotsenpiller is the Founder and President of American Faith and the Senior Pastor of Influence Church.
  • “He is a Biblical Prophecy Expert, Cultural Thought Leader, and a Passionate Patriot,” the release explained.
  • “Phil earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Divinity, and conducted postgraduate studies at Oxford University. He has published ten books, including the highly acclaimed One Nation without Law.”
  • “Phil has conducted interviews with various media outlets, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News, CNN, The Christian Post, The History Channel, and The Telegraph,” it added.

New Christian News Network, Meant To Bring ‘Media Revival,’ Launched In California

“American Faith,” a new nonprofit news media network dedicated to promoting the “cause of truth and freedom,” has formally started under the leadership of a California megachurch pastor. The network will offer breaking news and commentary on current events, as well as educational resources.

Earlier this month, Phil Hotsenpiller, a Biblical prophecy scholar and Senior Pastor of Influence Church in Anaheim, California, announced the launch of “American Faith” in a press release.

A wide range of topics, including “politics, business, health, and faith” are all covered in depth by the new American media platform. Original material such as video interviews and podcasts with well-known media personalities are featured in the programs, which are broadcast on a weekly basis as part of the overall programming.

“Grounded in a love of country, a passion for freedom and a heart of faith, we are the news outlet of We, the People,” reads the About section of the news site.

Organizing patriotic events with members of the community, intervene in police stations that were under attack, and working with local politicians running for office were all the beginnings of this campaign.

Soon, the people behind the project decided to put together a team in 2021 with a specific objective in mind, as tensions in the cultural war continued to rise in the United States. That goal is to establish an “unbiased, patriotic news media network to stand up to big tech, mainstream media, and government overreach.”


Things to watch out for from the new faith-based media outlet

As stated, there will be video interviews and podcasts with well-known media figures to be broadcasted. The following shows will be among those that will offer constructive conversations regarding current events in America and how they relate to the Christian faith.

“Reality Check with Melissa Tate” delves into the “social, cultural, and political” issues that are currently impacting the United States of America. The program discusses solutions and encourages ordinary people to discover methods to make a difference. Melissa Tate, the show’s host, is a Christian political analyst who is also the author of “Choice Privilege: What’s Race Got To Do With It?”

Take a look at the current state of affairs in the United States in “American Outlook with William Federer.” Besides being a nationally renowned historian and best-selling author, William Federer is also the founder and president of “Amerisearch Publishing,” which is devoted to uncovering America’s noble past.

With his unscripted discussion program with cultural and political leaders in “America’s War Room with Phil Hotsenpiller,” founder and president Phil Hotsenpiller will reveal the true movers behind recent issues and other societal problems.

Another event to keep an eye out for is “Clay Clark’s ReAwaken America Tour,” which will take place at Influence Church in Anaheim, California on the 17th and 18th of July. Participants at the event, which is sponsored by American Faith, will learn about practical methods for defending and preserving civil rights in the United States over the course of the program.

Other initiatives, such as collaboration with prominent government and industry leaders, include efforts to help revive and foster American values through grassroots, state-level, and national campaigns championing “constitutional rights and freedoms.”

AZ Senate Audit Found 2020 Election System ‘Breached’: ‘We Know As A Matter of Fact’ (Video)

Audit expert Ben Cotton told Arizona Senate leaders on Thursday that computer systems used in the 2020 U.S. presidential election were “breached” in Maricopa County.

KEY QUOTE:

“It has become readily apparent in the course of our analysis that there are severe cybersecurity problems with the way the election management system and network was maintained,” said Cotton.

WATCH THE CLIP:
AZ To Hold Election Audit Hearing On Thursday (Video Feed)

‘Let Them Die’: Virginia NAACP Leader Speaks Against Parents Protesting Critical Race Theory

Fairfax County NAACP First Vice President Michelle Leete said “Let them die” while referring to parents who disagree with Critical Race Theory (CRT).

QUICK FACTS:
  • A video shows Leete giving a speech to anti-CRT protesters at Luther Jackson Middle School in Fairfax, Virginia Thursday evening, during which she said of the protestors, “Let them die.” (See video below.)
  • The protesting parents were rallying before a school board meeting—the last before summer break—”to protest Fairfax County Public Schools teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT),” according to Breitbart News.
  • A flyer for the “Stop CRT Rally” event representing the protestors’ views said of CRT, “It’s not about race or equity, it’s about a Communist Radical Takeover of America!”
  • Others, in opposition, gathered “to support CRT and the LGBT agenda in schools,” including Leete, who is also vice president of communications for the Fairfax County Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), and vice president of training for the Virginia PTA, Breitbart reports.
WHAT LEETE SAID TO ANTI-CRT PARENTS:
  • “Let’s meet and remain steadfast, steadfast, in speaking truth, tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let’s not allow any double downing on lies. Let’s prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-health care, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-health care, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live-and-let-live people,” Leete said to the protestors.
  • “Let them die,” she added. “Don’t let these uncomfortable people, don’t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.”
WATCH LEETE’S SPEECH:

WHAT THE PARENTS ARE SAYING:

  • “We should not be using tax dollars to support this [CRT] ideology,” said Harry Jackson, father of three children in the Fairfax public school system, adding “That’s toxic. That’s creating divisions based on race within the community. It has no place.”
  • Jackson went on to say, “My youngest daughter is a five-year-old. Like other parents, when I take her to the playground, she doesn’t see race. She just sees other kids and she wants to make a friend and she wants to play and have games. She doesn’t see race. Why would I poison her childhood and her upbringing by teaching her to see things through a racial lens? It has no place,” Jackson said.

AZ Senator Demands Biden Electors ‘Recalled’—Trump Reacts

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers (R) is charging the state to recall Biden’s electors from the 2020 U.S. presidential election and to conduct a new election, after Thursday’s audit hearing revelations.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Sen. Rogers’ demand follows Thursday’s election audit hearing about the ongoing Maricopa County forensic audit of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
  • “I call for the Biden electors to be recalled to Arizona & a new election must be conducted. Arizona’s electors must not be awarded fraudulently & we need to get this right,” Rogers tweeted. “Start demanding justice NOW. This election was stolen from us. Hold peoples’ feet to the fire,” she said later.
ELECTION AUDIT DISCREPANCIES:
  • The hearing revealed that the 2020 election computer systems in Maricopa County were “breached,” creating “severe cybersecurity problems with the way the election management system and network was maintained,” audit expert Ben Cotton testified.
  • Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan also told Arizona Senate leaders during the hearing that auditors could not account for 74,000 mail-in ballots which had been counted during the election but without the county having any record of sending the ballots out. “We have 74,000 mail-in ballots where there’s no clear record of them being sent,” said Logan. (Note: the specific number is 74,243.)
  • 18,000 voters were also removed from voter rolls after the election occurred, Logan says. “They were on the voter rolls, showed as voter, and were removed,” he said.
  • Logan also claimed that nearly 4,000 voters were registered after the deadline and that “Over 11,000 people disappeared from the voter rolls after voting on November 3, but re-appearing on the December 4 version of the file,” reports The Tennessee Star.
  • Logan went on to say that about 18,000 individuals “were recorded as having voted in the election but were removed immediately from the rolls thereafter.”
WHERE TO WATCH THURSDAY’S SENATE HEARING:
  • “YouTube already took down the video” of Maricopa County’s audit hearing, according to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Co.). But American Faith has provided it for you here:
WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID:
  • President Donald Trump released a statement on Thursday praising Sen. Rogers’ efforts.
  • “The highly respected State Senator Wendy Rogers said in a tweet the hearing today means we must decertify the election,” Trump said. “In any event, the Senate patriots are moving forward with final results to be announced in the not-too-distant future, but based on today’s hearing, why even wait?”

Election Integrity Group Says Ballot Image Analysis in Fulton County Shows ‘Provable Fraud’ in Audit

Are we approaching the day when former President Donald Trump will be vindicated for his claims that the election that robbed him of a second term was stolen?

That has yet to be seen. But he sure thinks the time is nearing, and — if an explosive report by a group that sued for access to dozens of batches of mail-in ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, is correct — Trump may at the very least be proven right about how messy the general election was in the Peach State’s largest county.

According to the group Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA), one of the entities listed on a lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election in Fulton County, a hand audit from last year which has oft been pointed to as having “proven” now-President Joe Biden’s victory in the state, was “riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.”

The ballots the analysts reportedly examined were made public after the petitioners in the lawsuit won a court order on April 13 and VoterGA successfully petitioned the Georgia General Assembly to make images of the ballots public under an Open Records Request which began on March 25, according to the group’s news release.

The group reported its analysts found that “923 of 1539 mail-in ballot batch files contained votes incorrectly reported in Fulton’s official November 3rd 2020 results.”

“These inaccuracies are due to discrepancies in votes for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and total votes cast compared to their reported audit totals for respective batches. Thus, the error reporting rate in Fulton’s hand count audit is a whopping 60%,” the group stated in the news release (emphasis theirs).

The team said that out of the 36 batches of mail-in ballots, 4,255 extra votes were added to Fulton’s November audit results, including 3,390 extra for Biden, 865 for Trump, and 43 for Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen.

“But it is not simply a case of errors,” the release continued. “The VoterGA team found 7 falsified audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches. For example, a batch containing 60 ballot images for Joe Biden, 50 for Donald Trump was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump.”

“The 7 batches of ballot images with 554 votes for Joe Biden, 140 votes for Donald Trump and 11 votes for Jo [Jorgensen] had tally sheets in the audit falsified to show 850 votes for Biden, 0 votes for Trump and 0 votes for [Jorgensen],” the group stated of its reported findings.

VoterGA accused Fulton County of neglecting to include 100,000 tally sheets, over 50,000 of which were from mail-in ballots in the published results of the full hand recount of the Nov. 3, 2020, election, which was conducted by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. These tally sheets were not produced by county officials until late February, VoterGA said.

In what has now become a familiar accusation against Fulton County officials, the group also said that dropbox transfer forms were conspicuously missing until produced following an Open Records Request, and that “missing forms are still needed to provide chain of custody proof for about 5,000 ballots.”

“The VoterGA data team also found over 200 Fulton County mail-in ballot images containing votes not included in the hand count audit results for the November election,” the group also noted.

Its reported findings have been added to the lawsuit against Fulton County as “additional counts of how the Equal Protection and Due Process Constitutional rights of Georgia voters were violated.”

VoterGA’s reporting has not been independently verified by The Western Journal. However, if true, this data comes amid a circular firing squad in Georgia politics over the Fulton County recount and sundry allegations of fishiness.

On Thursday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger called for Fulton County election officials to be fired, following a report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that alleged 200 Fulton County ballots were double scanned before last year’s recount.

Meanwhile, Republican state Sen. Burt Jones called for Raffensperger to be investigated and to be made to testify before the Senate Government Oversight Committee.

Raffensperger and others still adamantly deny that anything that happened in Fulton County that would have influenced the outcome of the general election.

One thing is clear: Voters of all political persuasions would have good reason to doubt the integrity of Fulton County elections. Carter Jones, an independent monitor of the county’s elections, told The Journal-Constitution that its election officials are “so poor at managing the actual process that if they had actually tried to rig the election, they would have bungled it and we would have found out.”

This may certainly be the case, but also doesn’t discount that perhaps this notorious county’s elections are such a dumpster fire that if there was indeed deliberate fraud, how could anyone even tell? Citing sheer incompetence is a rather flimsy argument to dismiss the potential for fraud or outcome-influencing irregularities outright.

The news of VoterGA’s reported findings was celebrated by Trump, who declared the Fulton County recount to be “total fraud” and announced that the group’s analysis confirmed claims he has been making since last year.

“The news coming out of Georgia is beyond incredible. The hand recount in Fulton County was a total fraud! They stuffed the ballot box — and got caught. We will lose our Country if this is allowed to stand,” he wrote in a statement.

“Are we now in a Third World country? What else will they find once the full Forensic Audit takes place?” he asked.

Indeed, what else will they find if a forensic audit takes place? Is it possible that with this much smoke, there was really no fire?

Perhaps Biden won Fulton County, the whole state of Georgia and all his 306 Electoral College votes fair and square.

But at this point, at least in Fulton County, how are we even to know that this was the case? Are you comfortable writing the whole thing off as incompetence, or would you like to find out once and for all who really won in Fulton County — and the rest of the country, for that matter?

The American people deserve the transparent truth, whatever it may be.

​Court Rules Against University that Targeted Christian Group

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled against the University of Iowa calling its decision to deregister a Christian student group as one of the most obvious examples of discrimination that it has ever seen.

In a ruling issued on Friday, the court unanimously sided with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a national faith-based group that organizes local chapters at colleges and universities around the country, putting on Bible studies and worship gatherings.

In 2018, the University of Iowa decided to deregister InterVarsity — along with other student religious groups on campus — over its commonsense practice of requiring leaders to agree with its statement of faith. 

In targeting religious groups, the university cited its Human Rights Policy, which mandates that student groups not differentiate on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and a range of other categories — religion included. 

Besides the school’s obvious trampling on students’ freedom of religion, lawyers for the Christian group argued that the school also enforced its policy discriminatorily. The 8th Circuit Court agreed.

In the ruling, the court told school administrators it was “hard-pressed to find a clearer example of viewpoint discrimination” than the actions they took against the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. 

“What the University did here was clearly unconstitutional,” the court stated. “It targeted religious groups for differential treatment under the Human Rights Policy — while carving out exemptions and ignoring other violative groups with missions [the University] presumably supported. The University and individual defendants turned a blind eye to decades of First Amendment jurisprudence or they proceeded full speed ahead knowing they were violating the law.”

The court also warned that school officials who “make calculated choices about enacting or enforcing [such] unconstitutional policies” are not entitled to qualified immunity but rather should be held personally responsible for their actions. 

Lawyers representing InterVarsity touted the ruling as a victory for students’ First Amendment rights.

“Schools are supposed to be a place of free inquiry and open thought, but the school officials here punished opinions they didn’t like and promoted ones they did—all while using taxpayer dollars to do it,” said Daniel Blomberg, senior counsel at Becket, in a statement. “The good news is that they’ve been held accountable, and school officials nationwide are on notice. We are optimistic that in the future, colleges will pursue policies of accommodation, not discrimination, when it comes to religious exercise on campus.”

Friday’s victory followed two earlier victories for Becket and religious student group clients fighting discrimination at Iowa universities. Those cases included InterVarsity v. Wayne State and BLinC v. University of Iowa.

Texas House Speaker Demands Dems Return Home, Requests They Refuse Pay For Time In D.C.

Nearly 11,000 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to CDC, as FDA Adds New Warning to J&J Vaccine

VAERS data released today by the CDC showed a total of 463,457 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 10,991 deaths and 48,385 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 9, 2021.

Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) included 463,457 reports of injuries and deaths, across all age groups, following COVID vaccines — an increase of more than 25,000 compared with the previous week.

The data comes directly from reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.

Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date, usually about a week prior to the release date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed.

Data released today show that between Dec. 14, 2020 and July 9, 2021, a total of 463,457 total adverse events were reported to VAERS, including 10,991 deaths— an increase of 1,943 over the previous week. There were 48,385 serious injuries reported during the same time period — up 7,370 compared with the previous week.

From the 7/9/21 Release of VAERS data.

In the U.S., 333 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of July 9. This includes: 135 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, 184 million doses of Pfizer and 13 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID vaccine.

Of the 10,991 deaths reported as of July 9, 22% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, 15% occurred within 24 hours and 37% occurred in people who became ill within 48 hours of being vaccinated.

This week’s data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:

  • 14,003 total adverse events, including 866 rated as serious and 14 reported deaths. Two of the nine deaths were suicides.
  • The most recent reported death includes a 13-year-old boy (VAERS I.D. 1431289) with a previous history of COVID who suffered cardiac arrest and died 17 days after vaccination with Pfizer.

Other reports include two 13-year-old boys (VAERS I.D. 1406840 and 1429457) who died two days after receiving a Pfizer vaccine, three 15-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1187918, 1382906 and 1242573), three 16-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1420630, 1225942 and 1386841) and three 17-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1199455, 1388042 and 1420762).

This week’s total VAERS data, from Dec. 14, 2020 to July 9, 2021, for all age groups combined show:

Experts warn of ‘huge risk’ as Moderna launches COVID vaccine trials for pregnant women

Moderna will study its COVID vaccine in pregnant women, according to a posting on ClinicalTrials.gov. The observational study, expected to begin July 22, will enroll about 1,000 females over age 18 who will be studied over a 21-month period.

Women who received a Moderna vaccine during the 28 days prior to their last menstrual period, or at any time during pregnancy, are eligible.

The brief summary of the trial states the main goal is “to evaluate the outcomes of pregnancy in females exposed to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) during pregnancy.”

Currently, the CDC says pregnant women can get a COVID vaccine. But the agency also acknowledges there is limited data available about the safety of COVID vaccines for people who are pregnant.

“Pregnant women are taking what may be a huge risk with the COVID vaccine,” said Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., author of “Your Baby, Your Way.” Margulis said in an email to The Defender, there is no evidence COVID vaccines are safe, but ample evidence suggesting it is dangerous to expose pregnant women and unborn babies to drugs and interventions that can disrupt immunity.

Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN and president emerita of Children’s Health Defense, said it’s “bass-ackwards to release the vaccine to pregnant women before doing a clinical trial or proper animal studies.”

FDA added warning to J&J vaccine of ‘serious but rare’ autoimmune disorder

On July 13, the FDA added a new warning on J&J’s (Janssen) COVID vaccine to include information pertaining to an observed increased risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following vaccination.

According to an FDA news release, GBS is a neurological disorder in which the body’s immune system damages nerve cells, causing muscle weakness or, in the most severe cases, paralysis.

Based on an analysis of VAERS data, there have been 100 preliminary reports of GBS following vaccination with J&J’s vaccine. Of these reports, 95 were serious and required hospitalization. There was one reported death.

While the cause of GBS is not fully known, it often follows infection with a virus and has been linked to other vaccines. The FDA concluded the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any danger, but included the proviso in fact sheets about the drug for providers and patients.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is expected to discuss the GBS cases during an upcoming meeting, the CDC said.

Coroner says vaccine not to blame for man’s death after Pfizer— wife not convinced

A healthcare worker who died four days after his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine was killed by heart disease, according to the Orange County, California coroner.

As The Defender reported this week, Tim Zook, an x-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, was hospitalized Jan. 5 — just hours after being vaccinated. Zook’s wife, Rochelle, told the Orange County Registerher husband’s health rapidly deteriorated after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. He died Jan. 9.

An autopsy report released Wednesday found Zook’s heart was severely enlarged, thicker than normal and dilated. “There is a focus of severe coronary artery disease,” according to the report, which also said Zook’s heart valves showed mild-to-moderate calcium deposits.

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