Conflicts of Interests or Crooked Deals with Taxpayer Dollars? Do they make Democracy a pipe dream?

Op-Ed written by Meryl Nass, published April 6: A surprising tug of war has erupted between the Obama administration and Congress over transparency and oversight of the intelligence agencies. In September 2009, the Senate passed the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act, and on Feb. 26 the House passed a similar bill. They were about to be…
FDA made it very clear what its standards were for COVID vaccines. FDA repeatedly told its advisory committee, the public and vaccine manufacturers what it required in order to issue an EUA for a COVID vaccine. I have copied 4 of the FDA’s power-points below so we can all agree on what, precisely, those standards…
From the NY Times Editor: A former top official in charge of ensuring that real secrets are kept secret has delivered a stunning repudiation of the Obama administration’s decision to use the Espionage Act against a whistle-blower attempting to expose government waste and abuse. J. William Leonard, who directed the Information Security Oversight Office during…
Merck developed a clever scheme for marketing HPV vaccine: it would lobby for laws that would add the vaccine to state Medicaid entitlements, require it be covered by private insurers and mandate the vaccine to attend school. I know of two different approaches at the state level. In 2007 in Texas, Governor Perry simply issued…
According to the NYT, there are “243,000 international travelers to United States airports each day… including an average of 679 from Nigeria and 145 from the other three countries, (Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone) according to the C.D.C.”
The following comes directly from ICAN, the legal arm of Del Bigtree/ Aaron Siri’s efforts. Vaccinating without parental consent is illegal. Have you ever heard of VaxTeen? VaxTeen is an organization that encourages teenagers to receive vaccinations without parental consent.The group also provides information about state consent laws, vaccine information from the CDC, and guides…