I was condemned by a Board, without notice, and without an opportunity to respond to the charges.
It’s not how it works in this country.
No one of us can afford NOT to respond:
From: Sandra Finley Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Hi (name removed),
I expect to be able to present my side before I am condemned. I expect not to be tried in absentia.
The email I sent is below. PLEASE scroll down to the high-lighted text. Did anyone READ it? It’s an attack on the AMERICAN WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS, the American War Machine.
It’s about a War Crimes Tribunal. The DEFENDANTS are Weapons Manufacturers.
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses — U.S. Weapons manufacturers who knowingly produce and sell products which attack and kill non-combatants.These manufacturers may have committed Crimes Against Humanity as well as violated U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict.
I see how (Persons) reacted as they did. However, I forwarded the email as a solace to them, to let them know that people around the world are trying to stop the killing.
The email is as much about Afghanistan, Iraq, the bombing of Syria, the bombing of Libya, – – the on-going wars that have bankrupted the Americans – – as it is about the Middle East.
The War Crimes Tribunal against the Weapons Manufacturers is an American-led action. (The American federal public debt is currently $33 TRILLION thanks to their war economy.) Lots of people in lots of countries pitch in to help the Americans stop the American role in creating the wars.
I thought it would be comforting for (Persons) to know that people in the world work hard to get at the ROOT CAUSES of the insanity. The email is a contribution to PEACE – – STOP the BLOODY KILLING.
I am condemned for forwarding an email that might bring solace? I have no right to speak?
There is NO DIALOGUE? What? Do people think that we have no responsibility for what happens in the world? May God or Allah or Yahweh or the Great Spirit help us all.
NOTE: the matter was resolved. And I hope that the tenets of Canadian democracy were instilled.
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INFORMATION ON THE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and RTX (Raytheon) . . .
From: Sandra Finley Sent: November 8 Subject: FW: Thanks for registering for the Tribunal!
Hi (Persons),
You might like to know about this.
Sorry – – if I try to clean it up, everything is removed.
As you know, I don’t do zoom so I won’t be fully participating. But usually the material is available afterwards on the organization’s website. There are very good people involved.
I hope all is well with you and your family.
Sandra
From: Gail Sent: November 8, 2023 To: Sandra Finley Subject: Fwd: Thanks for registering for the Tribunal!
Hello Sandra;
I am registered for this and thought you also might like to attend. gail
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Date:
Wed, 08 Nov 2023
From:
Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
Dear Gail ,
Thank you for registering to participate in the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal which will be launched on November 12th at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The first episode will focus on Israel’s aerial bombardment against the people in Gaza, an historically monumental atrocity that could not happen at this time without the aircraft, missiles and bombs produced by three of the four defendants on trial before the Tribunal – Lockheed Martin, Boeing and RTX (Raytheon).
Weapon makers project obscene profits from U.S. funding for war. Last week, over 100 activists held a die-in protest blocking the main entrance of Raytheon’s office in Tucson, condemning Raytheon’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians by supplying missiles, bombs and weapons systems to Israel.
Here is a list of action-oriented outdoor protests being planned in cities around the world.
Kathy Kelly
Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Organizer & World BEYOND War Board President
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses — U.S. Weapons manufacturers who knowingly produce and sell products which attack and kill non-combatants. These manufacturers may have committed Crimes Against Humanity as well as violated U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict. Donate to support the Tribunal.
Should giant war-profiteering corporations decide what emails you don’t want to read? We don’t think so either. So, please stop our emails from going into “junk” or “spam” by “white listing,” marking as “safe,” or filtering to “never send to spam.”
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I find it too sad – – the origin of Mother’s Day is largely unknown:
THE ORIGINAL MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION, 1870, BY JULIA WARD HOWE
In the aftermath of the American Civil War (1861-65):
“Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
“Say firmly”: ‘We will not have questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own, it says “Disarm! Disarm!” The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.’
“As men have forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.
“In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality be appointed to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.”
By Julia Ward Howe.
(who went on to work internationally (in Africa and elsewhere) at uniting women, implementing the ideals of The Mothers Day Proclamation.
– so much hard work and accomplishment. And look! It’s submerged. Let’s re-float it!)
These weapons manufacturers may have committed Crimes Against Humanity as well as violated U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict.
Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (U.S. Army) was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. In dramatic testimony, . . .
(Sandra speaking) The video is not for everyone. I tend to think strategically. I think it has to be circulated. It’s the best chance we have for stopping what’ s happening. I would say that Lawrence Wilkerson is a marked man because of his testimony. If he can do what he has done, I have to pass this along to as many people as I can. His testimony points to actions we can take. I choose action over fear.
From: Merchants of Death War Crimes Sent: December 5, 2023 Subject: Evidentiary Video: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Hello,
This new video evidentiary episode of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal provides what may be the most dramatic and damning testimony ever given by a United States military official.
Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (U.S. Army) was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. In dramatic testimony, Col. Wilkerson exposes the corruption of the Military Industrial Complex and how it has hijacked U.S. foreign policy to create Endless War, huge profits for weapons makers, and caused the United States to be far less safe and secure in the world.
Please share this video link with friends and colleagues. Form discussion groups around all video evidence of the Tribunal. The link for previous video episodes of the Tribunal is here: https://rumble.com/user/merchantsofdeath
Lastly, do not forget to place on your calendar the next meetup session of the Tribunal scheduled for Saturday, December 30 at 2:00pm Eastern Time to discuss the evidence and share thoughts about action plans. You can register for the meetup here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/december-30-meetup?clear_id=true
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, December 30 at 2 PM Eastern Time.
Brad Wolf, Kathy Kelly, and Nick Mottern
Organizers
Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses — U.S. Weapons manufacturers who knowingly produce and sell products which attack and kill non-combatants. These manufacturers may have committed Crimes Against Humanity as well as violated U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict. Donate to support the Tribunal.
Should giant war-profiteering corporations decide what emails you don’t want to read? We don’t think so either. So, please stop our emails from going into “junk” or “spam” by “white listing,” marking as “safe,” or filtering to “never send to spam.”
UPDATE: see 2024-06-14, the second day of the trial against Henry (in Chilliwack).
Sandra speaking: The last paragraph below catches much of the problem.
For my part: I cannot comprehend How a doctor (Bonnie Henry) can live in the country of Canada and think that her modus operandi is acceptable?
JOHN KOOPMAN HAS COURAGE. I stand in support of him for doggedly staying the course. Koopman is a pastor; which has nothing to do with the issue of, for example, Bonnie Henry giving permission to select groups in the society, while denying the same permissions to other groups. Who does she think she is? . . . And once again, bless all the Canadians who have chipped in money to make these defenses against our own Governments possible. I shudder to think where we’d be without every one of us pitching in, in small ways, to stop present-day tyranny in its many forms. We will prevail.
John Koopman fights for all of us. Please use these grievances – – talk about them, especially with people you know in the policing and judicial systems. Make sure they know what’s happening. This has to be stopped. Silence will not do. The mainstream media is not covering these cases.
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BC pastor seeks Court order for the BC Attorney General and Provincial Health Officer to disclose records of exemptions provided after some records show that Dr. Bonnie Henry unfairly favoured some faith groups.
ABBOTSFORD, BC: The Justice Centre announces that Pastor John Koopman is challenging the prosecution against him after discovering that BC’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, granted preferential treatment to some faith groups over others. Pastor Koopman was charged with violating Covid gathering restrictions for hosting in-person worship services even while Dr. Henry allowed some Orthodox synagogues to gather for outdoor and even indoor services.
In a hearing running December 4-7, 2023, at the Abbotsford Law Courts, Pastor Koopman will be seeking records of the accommodation requests the Provincial Health Officer received and how she handled them, and records of communications she received from BC politicians about prohibiting in-person worship services.
The hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. in courtroom 402 at Abbotsford Law Courts, 32203 South Fraser Way.
John Koopman is the Pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Chilliwack, British Columbia. In November 2020, Dr. Bonnie Henry prohibited in-person worship services while allowing bars, restaurants, gyms, and salons to remain open for in-person service.
Based on its religious convictions to gather for worship in-person, the Free Reformed Church re-opened its doors in 2020 and 2021 while simultaneously complying with health orders regarding face masks, hand washing, social distancing, etc. In January 2021, the Free Reformed Church, along with two other churches, filed a constitutional challenge to the prohibition on in-person worship services. After filing the challenge, Pastor Koopman and others submitted an accommodation request to gather for in-person worship services, but their request received no response for several weeks. At the same time, Dr. Henry had been responding promptly (within one or two days) to accommodation requests from Orthodox synagogues, granting them permission to meet in-person.
Two business days before the Court was to hear the constitutional challenge, Dr. Henry finally granted the Free Reformed Church and the two other churches limited permission to gather outdoors, while refusing permission to gather indoors, claiming this to be too risky. However, earlier that same week, Dr. Henry had granted all Orthodox synagogues in the province permission to gather indoors.
On March 18, 2021, BC Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson dismissed the Free Reformed Church’s challenge, in part because Dr. Henry had granted permission to meet outdoors. The BC Court of Appeal upheld Chief Justice Hinkson’s decision, and the Supreme Court of Canada subsequently denied leave to appeal.
Meanwhile, Pastor Koopman and other churches and pastors have been prosecuted by the Crown in the BC Provincial Courts. On November 8, 2022, Pastor Koopman was found guilty of hosting an in-person worship service on December 6, 2020.
On April 14, 2023, Pastor Koopman submitted an Application to the Provincial Court of British Columbia, alleging that the discriminatory actions of the Provincial Health Officer had made the continuation of his prosecution offensive to societal notions of fair play and decency and had brought the administration of justice into disrepute. In response, on May 10, the Crown argued that the abuse of process application should not proceed to an evidentiary hearing, and that Dr. Henry and Deputy Provincial Health Officer Dr. Brian Emerson should not be subpoenaed as witnesses in the case.
From May 15–18, 2023, Judge Andrea Ormiston heard arguments on whether the abuse of process Application could proceed to an evidentiary hearing. On September 6, 2023, Judge Ormiston denied the Crown’s Application to summarily dismiss Pastor Koopman’s abuse of process Application because she found that there was “some evidence that the PHO preferred some faith groups over others.” Judge Ormiston found that, under the circumstances, it was not “manifestly frivolous” to think that the continued prosecution of Pastor Koopman “risks undermining the integrity of the judicial process.” Judge Ormiston did decline to allow Dr. Henry or Dr. Emerson to be subpoenaed in the matter.
The December 4–7 evidentiary hearing at the Provincial Court of British Columbia in Abbotsford will address whether the Attorney General of British Columbia and/or Dr. Bonnie Henry are required to:
Provide records of the accommodation requests Dr. Henry received and how she handled them;
Provide records of communications between Dr. Henry and the British Columbia Premier, Health Minister, and/or other elected officials and/or their staff in relation to restricting or prohibiting in-person worship gatherings.
Lawyer Marty Moore stated, “The actions of the Provincial Health Officer toward people of faith in British Columbia during Covid were frankly shameful. She categorically prohibited in-person gatherings for worship, indoor or outdoors, and even brought an injunction application seeking to have pastors and parishioners arrested for gathering for worship. At that same time, she was providing permission to select groups to meet for worship, both outdoors and, in some cases, indoors, while ignoring, from what we can tell, all other requests from other religious groups to meet. In this context, we believe that the prosecution of Pastors in BC for violating the PHO’s Orders ‘offend societal notions of fair play and decency and bring the administration of justice into disrepute,’ and that, consequently, these prosecutions should be stayed. The Court, and the public, deserve to see the evidence Pastor Koopman is seeking from the PHO on whether accommodation requests were granted based on science or other factors, and the extent to which politics played a role.”
“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”—Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureate
From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.
“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development.
The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government’s increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.
While Dr. Fauci zealously funded and pursued gain-of-function research, concern grew among some scientists and government officials about the potential for accidental or deliberate release of weaponized viruses from labs that might trigger worldwide pandemics. A moratorium was placed on this research, but true to form, Dr. Fauci found ways to continue unperturbed—outsourcing some of the most controversial experiments offshore to China and providing federal funding to Wuhan Institute of Virology’s (WIV’s) leading researchers for gain-of-function studies in partnership with the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s meticulously researched and rigorously sourced analysis leads readers on a staggering journey to learn about:
the key enablers and henchmen pushing for gain-of-function research
the economic motives behind gain-of-function research
successfully engineered “chimeric viruses” that can infect and kill humans
the coordinated effort to silence speculation of COVID-19’s laboratory genesis
the complicity of scientific journals to hide the origins of COVID-19
the role of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China’s biowarfare/biodefense program
the relationships between US health, military, and intelligence bureaucracies and scientists and their Chinese counterparts
the roles of Bill Gates and Sir Jeremy Farrar in orchestrating a global cover-up
The Wuhan Cover-Up unveils a global conspiracy of epic proportion and lethal consequence.
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Author
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the founder, chairman of the board (on leave), and chief litigation counsel (on leave) for Children’s Health Defense. He is an esteemed author, with a long list of published books including New York Times bestsellers The Real Anthony Fauci and Crimes Against Nature, as well as American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family and Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak. Kennedy is the founder of Waterkeeper Alliance, and he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment and children’s health stems from a litany of successful legal actions. He received recognition for his role in the landmark victory against Monsanto, as well as in the DuPont case that inspired the movie Dark Waters (2019).
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Reviews
“RFK Jr. has done it again. The Wuhan Cover-Up is not only an indispensable history of the rise of the global threat of bioweaponry, it is also an oh-so-timely deep dive into how a viral pandemic was unleashed upon the world via the deceit, greed, and foolishness of bad actors at the highest levels of our own government. A stunning sequel to The Real Anthony Fauci, and an historic publication that answers the core national security—and existential—questions of our time.” —Naomi Wolf, bestselling author of The Beauty Myth and The Bodies of Others“This’ll scare the hell out of you. The scariest part is it’s true. Thank God for Bobby Kennedy Jr.” —Tucker Carlson“The Wuhan Cover-Up will blow out of the water the international disinformation campaign by US and Chinese government officials and their bribed scientists that COVID-19 somehow magically jumped out of the Wuhan wet market. Kennedy’s book will provide the ammunition needed for us lawyers to hold them all legally accountable for this Nuremberg Crime against Humanity.” —Professor Francis A. Boyle, author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989“Bioweapons are a forbidden fruit but an irresistible one because the criminal is rarely identified. Were coronavirus weapons so seductive that they blurred the line between friend and enemy? Bobby Kennedy lays out the facts in a book you won’t put down.” —Meryl Nass, MD, biological warfare epidemiologist and anthrax expert“The title of US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy’s new book, The Wuhan Cover-Up, does not really represent the scope and nature of this seminal work. This book is the most comprehensive historic summary and indictment of the history of the United States’ biowarfare/biodefense program ever written. Summarizing an amazing sweep of untold censored history, The Wuhan Cover-Up offers a case study demonstrating the consequences of the situational ethical slide which often occurs when a massive administrative bureaucracy fuses with an ‘intelligence community.’” —Robert W. Malone, MD, MS, virologist, immunologist, clinical research and regulatory affairs expert, and author of Lies My Gov’t Told Me
“RFK Jr.’s painstaking research reveals facts that anyone can confirm, but few can accept. Bioweapons research and production has a dark history many people would want to wish away. Kennedy’s compelling book makes that impossible.” —Gavin de Becker, bestselling author of The Gift of Fear
“An extraordinary elucidation of a singularly dark and terrible enterprise. The Wuhan Cover-Up is a meticulous work of scholarship that reads like a thrilling crime story. Written by a current candidate for president of the United States, the book is destined to be one of the most significant in history.” —Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, author of The Courage to Face COVID-19
“If you found Bobby Kennedy’s bestselling book, The Real Anthony Fauci, to be engaging and thought-provoking, then The Wuhan Cover-Up is a must-read for you. This compelling book can be considered the next installment in the series, delving into the intriguing history of the bioweapons-industrial complex and its clandestine utilization against humanity. Prepare to be captivated by the well-researched content that unveils the hidden truths behind bioweapons and their potential impact on us all.” —Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of Mercola.com, the most visited natural health site
“Robert Kennedy’s meticulously documented and powerful exposé in The Real Anthony Fauci alerted me to his stature as one of the most learned and courageous truth-tellers of our times. His new book on the history of bioweapons research, the incredible dangers it poses for mankind, and the almost unimaginable corruption in which it is enmeshed is a blockbuster of the same caliber. It reminds us not only that it is time we put this malefic ‘research’ to an end, but also rescue our government from the Washington cabals and special interest lobbies that control both political parties, thereby enabling a return to policies that support the middle class and make it possible for millions to once again experience the American Dream.” —David Stockman, former US Representative (R-MI)
“I’ll never forget RFK Jr. telling me on a hiking trail in February 2023 that when you expose Big Pharma, you’re up against the Department of Defense. I’ll also never forget the Pfizer executive telling my undercover journalist, ‘You have to promise you won’t tell anyone . . . I suspect the virus started in Wuhan. Makes no sense the virus popped out of nowhere.’ Power hates sunlight, coercion relies upon deception, and informed consent requires a veil to be lifted. That’s what this book, The Wuhan Cover-Up does so effectively, much like its predecessor, The Real Anthony Fauci.” —James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas and author of American Muckraker
“The greatest tragedy in human history has unfolded before our own eyes. I was not surprised to learn that a deadly virus, SARS-CoV2, had leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China in the late summer of 2019. In retrospect, I was shocked that the US government did not notify and alert the public of the global spread of COVID in the fall of 2019. In fact, the US government did something far worse. Bobby’s book succinctly elucidates how and why the opaque nexus of the US military and intelligence community leveraged corrupt and morally deficient scientists and bureaucrats to execute what was the largest and most sophisticated psychological operation in world history. The three goals were simple: to obfuscate the true origin of a jointly created biological weapon by the US and China; to bring an untested mRNA-based medical countermeasure rapidly to market for civilian use; and, to instill fear into the population for dominance and control. Bobby’s book concisely and eloquently exposes these horrendous inconvenient truths.” —Andrew G. Huff, PhD, author of The Truth About Wuhan
“Whenever I read, listen to, or debate Bobby, I learn something new and change my mind on at least one or two issues, while vehemently disagreeing with many others. Both the agreements and disagreements stimulate my thinking and emotions, even when they make me angry or concerned. Read him and make up your own minds.” —Alan Dershowitz
“The Real Anthony Fauci provided the ‘receipts’ on Fauci’s criminality. The Wuhan Cover-Up provides the act itself—an event that will live in infamy.” —Steve Bannon
Praise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and The Real Anthony Fauci
“Dr. Joseph Goebbels wrote that ‘A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.’ Tragically for humanity, there are many, many untruths emanating from Fauci and his minions. RFK Jr exposes the decades of lies.” —Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureate“Bobby Kennedy is one of the bravest and most uncompromisingly honest people I’ve ever met. Someday he’ll get credit for it. In the meantime, read this book.”
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“Despite all the lying, or maybe in reaction to it, Bobby is becoming a legitimate folk hero. I hear it all the time.” —Tucker Carlson“As a trial lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken on the world’s most powerful corporations and held them accountable for harming people and the environment. Those companies denied any wrongdoing—but time and again, judges and juries were persuaded that Kennedy’s position was the right one. Kennedy’s information should always be considered, and agree or disagree, we all learn from listening.” —Tony Robbins, New York Times bestselling author“Bobby Kennedy and I famously disagree about many aspects of the current debates surrounding Covid and vaccines. We also disagree about Dr Fauci. But I always learn when I read or hear Bobby’s take. So read this book and challenge its conclusions.” —Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School; author of The Case for Vaccine Mandates“If you have any interest in doing a deep dive into the more than 100-year history of what led up to the COVID-19 pandemic, then The Real Anthony Fauci is an absolute must-read. In addition to exposing Fauci, the book reveals the complex web of connections between Gates and Big Pharma and many of the most important players that were responsible for seeking to implement global tyranny and profit enormously from the propaganda behind the COVID injections, masks, and lockdowns.” —Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of Mercola.com
“Bobby Kennedy’s book on The Real Anthony Fauci speaks truth in times when health care becomes health harm, untruth rules through anti-science and fake news.” —Dr. Vandana Shiva, director of Navdanya and author of Oneness vs. the 1%
“I deeply respect [Bobby], and I think if there’s anyone that deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, he is the one.”
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“I thought I understood what was going on from an insider POV. But this is mind-blowing. Anthony Fauci is playing precisely the strategy that he developed and tested during the HIV days. Bobby is on fire in this manuscript. The depth of information and facts, all carefully cited, is mind-blowing. It is a must-read. I think it will really help clarify what has been going down here. Thanks to the consistently dysfunctional COVID-19 response by Fauci and USG/HHS (US Government Health and Human Services Department), we have all become familiar with the terms “regulatory capture” and “Noble Lie.” The personal opinion and bias of Dr. Fauci has been repeatedly substituted for evidence-based medicine, and we are all living with the consequences. But beyond this mundane incompetence, what this book clearly documents are the deeper forces and systemic, pervasive governmental corruption, which have led us to this point. Not since the reign of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, have we seen such empire building by a corrupt, longstanding federal employee who is long past retirement age. Dr. Fauci’s apparent need to bolster a fragile ego has led to the almost complete systemic corruption of not only US HHS, but the entire world public health system. The consequences will be lasting damage to the reputation of the United States of America, US FDA, and US CDC as honest, independent guardians of public health, which has been carefully nurtured over many decades. The world is now able to clearly see that the US HHS has been captured and compromised by commercial interests. One unintended consequence of allowing and enabling this tragedy will be further erosion in domestic trust in the Public Health System, and in particular, in the entire vaccine enterprise. Global impacts are likely to include accelerating loss of trust in US and western pharmaceutical companies and regulators, and more rapid rise of Asian, Indian, and Middle Eastern pharmaceutical competitors.” —Robert W. Malone, MD, virologist, immunologist, molecular biologist
“Standing as a pivotal work for the history of science and medicine, this book unveils the astonishing, twisted truth about a man (Fauci) and a corrupt institution (NIH) that have betrayed humanity at every turn in order to achieve profits and power. If the American people knew the truth that’s documented here, they would be marching by the millions, demanding criminal prosecutions of all those who are complicit in these outrageous betrayals of humanity. RFK Jr’s book closes the loop on one of the most disastrous and truly evil schemes in the history of medicine and science. If humanity does not now demand investigations and prosecutions across this vast landscape of science fraud and pathological ‘authority,’ we are truly beyond hope.” —Mike Adams, a.k.a. the “Health Ranger,” founder of NaturalNews.com
“If you’ve ever wondered why so many good scientists and doctors have been silenced for discoveries that don’t fit the mainstream Big Pharma narrative, look no further than Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tour de force exposé of Anthony Fauci. This book reads like a John Grisham legal thriller. Except that it is not fiction. Read it with your eyes wide open. It’s time the world woke up to the truth.” —Christiane Northrup, MD, former assistant clinical professor of Ob/Gyn, University of Vermont College of Medicine; New York Times bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did a great job. I don’t agree with everything, but his case is well laid out and copiously documented. The most disturbing things are the unbelievable financial entanglements, the shoddy treatment of patients in clinical trials, and the culture of intimidation. Overall a very good book and a call to overhaul the CDC/NIH.” —Dr. Thomas B. Hakes
“To give great responsibility and power to those with no accountability is a recipe for disaster.” —K Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM, Hyperbaric & Integrative Medicine
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” —Mahin Khatami, PhD
“Kennedy’s book proves beyond a shadow of doubt what many Americans have come to learn about Fauci: that he has stifled open debate to the point of utter stagnation of biomedical science. Fauci issues knowledge by decree. This most uninquisitive Fauci is far more concerned with being right and with making sure that the solutions adopted to problems come from his circle rather than in discovering fundamental truths, regardless of the completely externalized cost of his ‘solutions.’ The evidence shows plainly that Fauci has been wrong on matters of life and death far more than he has been right. Fauci’s resulting body count is such that he should have a statue erected with him posing and hanging his head in eternal shame. Thanks to this book, historians will mark Fauci down as the most dangerous threat to global public health in the 20th and 21st Centuries.” —James Lyons-Weiler, biomedical research scientist
“RFK Jr.’s story of Fauci’s failure as the government’s AIDS coordinator is a highly disturbing prologue to his COVID mandate as head of NIAID. So, who is Dr. Fauci in the end? Has American medicine truly become a ‘racket,’ as corrupt as a mafia organization? Does everything in our country turn on the size of the money involved? How can we begin to solve this? The Real Anthony Fauci is a fascinating starting point. RFK Jr. has written a strong, strong book.” —Oliver Stone, award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter
“As I read Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s book I thought a discreet and thorough criminal investigation into Fauci should occur. Having observed Fauci’s flip-flops on his statements on the COVID pandemic, coupled with the book’s descriptions by former coworkers as ‘neither a competent manager . . . nor skilled or devoted scientist . . . with a domineering nature toward subordinates and rivals that discouraged dissent, a foundation for an investigation exists. The conduct cited, involving the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices approval of a vaccine and how Fauci and his Pharma partners use their PIs to control the key FDA and CDC panels that license and ‘recommend’ new vaccines, is a red flag that warrants this investigation. The book cites an approval of a vaccine, whereby there was no testing of a vaccine against a placebo in pre-approval trials that is a standard scientific process to ‘predict’ and/or determine risks if the vaccines would avert more injuries than they would cause—and the vaccine was approved. This appears to be similar to what happened with the Covid vaccines. The Covid clinical trials were not in accordance with prescribed regulations. It brought back memories of criminal bid-rigging schemes conducted by Organized Crime in New York City. If an investigation identified intentional rampant fraud, vaccine deaths could be considered murders and the federal forfeitures would be billions of dollars.” —Mike Campi, former FBI agent and retired coordinator of the Organized Crime branch of the New York Division
“Who—or what—is the real Anthony Fauci? That may be the most important question facing us today, as We the People struggle to survive the lethal care of ‘America’s Doctor.’ This essential book reveals—at last!—that Dr. Fauci is, on the one hand, a severely twisted person, in his fiendish cunning, vindictiveness, and ruthlessness, a covert blend of Stalin and Iago; and yet, far more importantly, the story of Dr. Fauci’s rise and reign is really all about the absolute corruption of our major institutions—government, medicine, academia, and (above all) the press—by Big Pharma (and the Gates Foundation). Those of us who really do believe in science and democracy, now have this book to help us break his fatal spell on everybody else, and start to rid the world of that corruption.” —Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University; editor, News from Underground
“RFK Jr is a tireless champion of Americans’ rights to be informed about their medical choices and has been way out front in warning us of the dangers of an out-of-control pharmaceutical industry. In his new book, The Real Anthony Fauci, he turns the same relentless insider scrutiny on an out-of-control bureaucracy.” —Naomi Wolf, bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Give Me Liberty, and Outrages
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written the Rosetta Stone that will help the public finally understand the machinations of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and how he has acted as the puppet master of science for the last half-century—pulling the strings of public health and Big Pharma influence and causing both sides of the political aisle to dance to his tune. A must-read to understand the fake news about medicine and therapies, bought and paid for by corporations with billions of dollars at stake.” —Kent Heckenlively, attorney, science teacher, and New York Times bestselling author
“Throughout history, fear has been used to manipulate and control populations. In a democracy, we have the privilege and responsibility to question the things we are encouraged to fear. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provides something denied to most Americans in recent years: the opportunity to hear more than one perspective. You can accept or reject the new information in this book—but at least listen.” —Gavin de Becker, bestselling author of The Gift of Fear
“If you want to understand the role Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma, the CDC, WHO, intelligence agencies and others played in planning, launching, and profiting from the COVID pandemic, drop what you’re doing and read this powerful and meticulously researched book! Your future, your family’s future, and the future of our democracy are at stake.” —Ralph Pezzullo, bestselling author of Jawbreaker, Zero Footprint and other books
“At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, a leader rose to the stage, and his soft voice and welcoming smile drew us in, and we trusted him emphatically. After reading Bobby Kennedy’s earth-shattering book, The Real Anthony Fauci, it is clear that our trusted COVID leader shouldn’t be on a pedestal and should instead be on trial. This book is a must-read for anyone wondering why the United States of America refused to mandate wellness and instead pushed a problematic vaccine.” —Rachael Ross, MD, PhD
A Canadian citizen-led pandemic inquiry published a comprehensive report asserting that government and unelected administrative bodies severely violated rights by coercive and unchecked pandemic measures, and calling for investigations into vaccine approval processes and the judiciary’s questionable handling of COVID-19 court cases.
After months of hearings in nearly every province, Canada’s National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) on Tuesday released its final 643-page report on the country’s COVID-19 response, addressing the societal impacts of lockdowns, school closures, mask and vaccine mandates and other measures.
The report, compiled by four independent commissioners, included nearly 5,000 additional pages of testimony from hundreds of people who experienced adverse vaccine reactions, destruction of their livelihoods and education, diminished mental health, damaged reputations, professional discipline and/or censorship, according to True North.
The report contained over 80 pages of recommendations for lawmakers, public institutions and citizens, and called for the establishment of a National Crisis Oversight Council that would serve as an “independent, multidisciplinary body tasked with monitoring, policing and investigating government actions during crises,” including pandemics.
In an online press conference announcing the report, NCI commissioners and others discussed the division and suffering the pandemic measures caused, the failure of institutions to serve citizens and the overreach of government authority that violated rights and freedoms.
They emphasized the importance of unity, open dialogue, accountability and active democratic participation to heal as a nation.
In his opening comments, NCI Commissioner Ken Drysdale, an expert in forensic engineering and investigations, said, “Our lips may be bloodied, and we may be shamed. But we cannot turn away from the horrors of the past three years. We cannot allow this to happen to our children and grandchildren.”
Commissioner Bernard Massie, Ph.D., author of 138 peer-reviewed papers and owner of 12 patents, said, “One of the greatest dangers to democracy is the tyranny of the majority that has forgotten the primordial importance of truth and liberty grounded in the individual responsibility that cannot and should not be outsourced to the administrative state.”
NCI administrator Ches Crosbie, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, called out Health Canada for approving the COVID-19 vaccines without determining they were safe and effective.
“The expression ‘safe and effective’ is a marketing slogan and a deceptive one,” Crosbie said, adding, “Beyond dispute is that [the] vaccines are adulterated … by the presence of foreign DNA fragments and a sequence from a monkey virus called SV40, suspected of causing cancer.”
“Through hundreds of testimonies and thousands of exhibits, the picture that emerges could not be more clear,” he said, adding:
“The entire COVID campaign — from CIA–military planning, to initial Wuhan false flag, to the WHO [World Health Organization] declaration of a ‘pandemic,’ to medical institutional responses, to general lockdowns and impositions on personal behavior, to unprecedented censorship and media alignment, to mandatory vaccination accompanied by dismissals from workplaces, to delicensing medical and legal professionals, to completely biased court rulings, to covering up vaccine harm and deaths, to egregious isolation and mistreatment of vulnerable populations, to shredding of constitutional protections, to criminalizing dissent and demonstrations, to locking away political prisoners, and on and on, in a total blanket of actual totalitarianism in Canada and many countries — has been an outright unjustified vicious assault against people, freedom and democracy.”
A citizen-organized, citizen-run, citizen-funded initiative
The NCI — “funded and staffed by volunteers who believe in a better Canada,” said Crosbie — was established in response to the government’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and because “no Canadian government has shown an appetite for a fulsome review of the measures implemented,” according to the report.
Hearings took place over 24 days between March and May in eight cities, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia. More than 300 sworn testimonies from both experts and citizens were collected.
NCI heard expert testimony from doctors, scientists, lawyers, economists, teachers, psychologists, morticians, risk management analysts and experts in public policy, emergency management, occupational health and safety, aviation safety, pharmacy, policing and journalism, according to True North.
The commissioners invited testimony from representatives of all provincial/territorial and federal levels of government across Canada — including “sixty-three members of government, regulators, and authorities” — but none accepted or testified.
However, NCI was able to obtain records of government positions from court proceedings, policy statements, press conferences and other evidence of their actions, and incorporate these into their hearings and findings.
NCI considered testimony on pharmaceutical interventions (use of drugs, vaccines and other treatments) and non-pharmaceutical interventions (masking, lockdowns, closures of public facilities and quarantines), and analyzed their impacts in the following categories:
Social — including restricted public meetings, movement and ability to interact and meet with other people.
Civil — the abridgment of rights and freedoms, the imposition of restrictions and forced mandates, assessed at the personal, institutional and organizational levels.
Economic — the shutdown of businesses and the characterization of “nonessential” businesses, restrictions to employment and overall impacts.
Health — forced medical procedures, lack of access to patients due to mandates, doctors treating virtually; injuries resulting from forced medical procedures and isolation.
“These testimonies provide irrefutable evidence that an unprecedented assault has been waged against the citizens of Canada. Not since World War II has the nation experienced such a devastating attack on its people,” Drysdale told True North.
Commissioner Janice Kaikkonen, an educator and public policy researcher, said at the press conference that her experience with NCI had been “quite the journey,” and that “the picture being painted was much deeper, all more devastating and divisive, and the response from our public institutions on every Canadian far more destructive” than she expected.
Kaikkonen said society still needs to address “the impact on … children of being isolated from their friends and their social networks and their structures being taken from them.”
“The juncture Canadians face in moving forward must include exposing the forces that willingly subscribed to destroying our beloved country from the inside out,” she said.
Breakdown of legal system
NCI heard extensive evidence that Canadian courts failed to uphold the rule of law during the pandemic, leading to “a breakdown in confidence and an erosion of trust in a Canadian legal system,” according to the report.
None of the legal experts who testified or consulted with NCI reported success in any court across the country against the measures or mandates.
Similar to the U.S., the Canadian system of government is comprised of executive, legislative and judicial branches. However, during the pandemic, “much of the rule-making power in Canada coalesced into the executive, which resulted in unelected public health offices across the country ruling as petty tyrants, without accountability or oversight,” the report stated.
The report attributed this in part to the “overgrowth of the administrative state,” resulting in “Canadian courts … pay[ing] more and more deference to the powers of unelected administrative bodies,” leading to “a perfect storm” where unelected officials who are “not subject to oversight through an election” have “powers over Canadians” that are “largely unchallengeable in court.”
The most obvious example of administrative overreach — enforced by professional bodies that regulate various health professions — was the public health orders, the report stated, which “subvert[ed] rights on the premise of ‘protecting the greater good.’”
Commissioner Heather DiGregorio, senior partner in an Alberta law firm, said during Tuesday’s press conference that her position as a lawyer made her pay particular attention to the testimony about the Canadian legal system, the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“By guaranteeing that the government cannot tread on my neighbor’s rights, we guarantee our own,” she said. “This is never more important than when things are difficult in times of fear and uncertainty.”
The evidence gathered from the NCI hearings “all points one way: to a significant breakdown of Canadian institutions,” DiGregorio said.
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She cited such undesirable pandemic outcomes: “The division of our society. Neighbors pitted against neighbors. Families torn apart. Individuals suffering grievous injuries that their own doctors won’t acknowledge. Feelings of isolation. Depression. Suicides. Pain and grief.”
“Canadians have been left with a feeling that there is no person to protect them from government overreach,” the report stated. “This is worrisome evidence of a breakdown of the rule of law.”
Despite the grievous lapses in the legal system during the pandemic, DeGregorio said, “Seeing the strength of ordinary Canadians, even in the darkest times of their lives, gave me renewed hope.”
Proposals, outlook going forward
In addition to the establishment of a National Crisis Oversight Council — which the report said should include enforceable subpoena powers — the NCI report called for a full judicial investigation of the COVID-19 vaccination authorization process in Canada, leaving open the possibility of criminal liability under existing Canadian law.
It also called for an in-depth review of how Canadian courts handled all pandemic-related cases to “rebuild public confidence in the justice system.”
Citing the need to ensure “proper checks and balances,” the report recommended examining and reforming the extent of executive authority during emergencies and establishing laws that require administrative bodies “to demonstrate their expertise and rationale for decisions, particularly when those decisions infringe on individual rights.”
Regarding healthcare, the report called for establishing a clear framework for oversight of public health authorities’ decision-making processes during emergencies, and an “independent, multidisciplinary inquiry into the governance of professional colleges, especially those governing medical professionals,” to ensure transparency, accountability and adherence to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
During the press conference, DiGregorio called for “accountability for the actions of others,” but said we also need to “look at our own actions and take accountability for the part that each of us have played.”
Kaikkonen called for “Each and every one of us saying we’ve had enough, this is not going to happen again, and we’re going to stand with people who say no, who have that strength,” and with “people who are being shamed publicly or abused or trodden over.”
Voicing his hopes for the report, Drysdale said, “In the end, it is not the report itself that wields the power of transformation. … It remains just a tool, lying dormant on a shelf … until thousands or millions of people choose to wield that tool.”
Massie said it’s going to take time before things change, but that “it’s not going to take the majority of people to wake up to make a difference. … You just need a critical mass of people … to move [on the] political front, provincial, federal, [and in] court.”
Rancourt told The Defender:
“Canadians may have produced the most comprehensive report, which is an historic landmark. Now, will there be accountability? To what degree, and what form will it take?
“Every citizen’s awakening is one unit of the needed accounting, and this report has been a process that catalyzed more awareness.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued Pfizer alleging the drugmaker misrepresented the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine and attempted to censor public discussion of the product. Experts claim the suit may succeed in sidestepping the PREP (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness) Act’s liability shield.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued Pfizer alleging the drugmaker made “false, misleading and deceptive claims” about its COVID-19 vaccine and tried to intimidate and censor critics who questioned those claims or cited facts that countered them.
According to the lawsuit, Pfizer’s marketing claims about the efficacy, duration of protection and ability of its COVID-19 vaccine to prevent transmission violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The lawsuit also alleges Pfizer cited misleading statistics, concealed negative data and made unsupported statements about efficacy against variants like Delta.
“We are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a defective product sold by lies,” Paxton said in a press release. “The facts are clear. Pfizer did not tell the truth about their COVID-19 vaccines.”
When the failure of its product became apparent, “Pfizer then pivoted to silencing truth-tellers.”
The suit cites complaints made by former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Scott Gottlieb on X (formerly Twitter) about vaccine skeptics.
Paxton is seeking over $10 million in civil penalties, plus injunctive relief barring Pfizer from making claims about vaccine efficacy similar to those challenged in the lawsuit.
Pfizer denied the allegations, telling Forbes it believed the “state’s case has no merit.” Defending its claims about the vaccine as “accurate and science-based,” Pfizer said its vaccine “demonstrated a favorable safety profile in all age groups, and helped protect against severe COVID-19 outcomes, including hospitalization and death,” according to Reuters.
“Pfizer has so far escaped accountability about the potential health problems like myocarditis, thanks to sweeping liability protections granted to pharmaceutical companies” by the PREP (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness) Act, wrote The Federalist, which argued Paxton’s legal strategy of “fraudulent activity” may succeed because it “falls outside the scope of legal immunity.”
“In my opinion and consistent with existing case law, this suit correctly pleads that state laws such as the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act are not barred by the PREP Act,” Flores said.
“I believe that other suits, including other consumer fraud and shareholder derivative suits, as well as other law and motion pleadings, will greatly benefit from the complaint’s details,” he said. “Depositions and other discovery will produce even more gems.”
Flores said his greatest hope is that information in the Texas suit will prompt the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U.S. Attorney General “to finally initiate an enforcement action against the vaccine manufacturers for not being completely forthright with the FDA on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.”
Under the PREP Act, plaintiffs are prevented from suing vaccine manufacturers unless an enforcement action has been completed, Flores said.
Terri Burke, executive director of The Immunization Partnership in Houston, told the Texas Tribune the lawsuit is “just another attempt to erode confidence in all vaccines.”
The Texas Tribune said some experts argued the lawsuit’s assertion “that vaccinated people were more likely to die from COVID-19” was “completely unsubstantiated,” and framed its coverage of the suit as the attorney general trying to hold Pfizer to blame because “the pandemic did not end soon enough.”
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Pfizer’s marketing ‘bore no resemblance to reality’
The suit alleges Pfizer’s claim its vaccine was 95% effective against infection was “highly misleading from day one” because it represented only the “relative risk reduction” instead of the “absolute risk reduction.”
In its calculation of relative risk reduction, Pfizer compared only the small subsets of the vaccine and placebo groups who developed COVID-19 systems during the trial — 8 versus 162 people, respectively — instead of considering the entire cohort of nearly 35,000 trial participants, according to the petition.
Using Pfizer’s Phase 2/3 data, the absolute risk reduction calculation “is performed by subtracting the post-treatment risk rate of 0.04% (8/17,411 persons) found in the vaccine group from the baseline risk rate of 0.9% (162/17,511 persons) found in the placebo group, which after rounding yields 0.85%,” the petition states.
“According to Pfizer’s own data, preventing one COVID-19 case required vaccinating 119” people, the petition states, “But Pfizer’s fusillade of public representations bore no resemblance to reality.”
The petition outlines three main areas of deception related to the “95% effective” representation:
The FDA had only two months of Pfizer’s data before it authorized the vaccine, stating it was “‘not possible’ to know how effective the vaccine would remain beyond” that time.
When the FDA told Pizer it needed additional information to determine whether the vaccine protected against transmission, Pfizer engaged in a “fear-mongering campaign, exploiting intense public fears by insinuating that vaccination was necessary … to protect their loved ones from contracting COVID-19.”
Pfizer made false and unsupported claims about vaccine effectiveness against variants, specifically the Delta variant, when its own data showed otherwise.
The complaint also states that by late 2021, “a greater percentage of vaccinated persons contracted, and even died from, COVID-19 than unvaccinated.”
As a result of Pfizer’s deceptive conduct, the suit alleges, the vaccine maker was able to sell hundreds of millions of doses to the U.S. government “and its vaccine quickly penetrated the market through widespread public adoption.”
Dr. Naomi Wolf, whose organization Daily Clout has performed detailed analyses of the Pfizer documents, told Steve Bannon that Pfizer’s own documents show they knew, “within two months of rollout, that the vaccine did not work … and that the third most common side effect was COVID[-19].”
Pfizer’s campaign of censorship, intimidation
When it became apparent that its vaccine was failing, Pfizer responded “by intimidating those spreading the truth, and by conspiring to censor the vaccine critics” by coercing social media platforms to silence them, the lawsuit alleges.
The FDA authorization, according to the petition, “did not afford Pfizer with a blank check to seriously disseminate misrepresentations … to enrich itself at the expense of a frightened public.”
Gottlieb, who led Pfizer’s regulatory and compliance committee, more than once contacted Twitter over “perceived violations of Twitter policy,” the suit states. In one case, Gottlieb discussed journalist Alex Berenson’s tweets, where he stated the vaccine did not stop infection or transmission and had a limited window of efficacy.
“These were indisputably true statements based on the scientific record at that time, including data from Pfizer’s own studies, as well as FDA’s own findings,” according to the suit.
On multiple occasions Pfizer employed methods “with the intent to provoke and ultimately cause censorship on social media platforms of content adverse to sales or consumption of its vaccine,” including through a front group called the “Public Good Projects,” the suit alleges.
The petition also calls out Pfizer CEO Alfred Bourla for saying on Nov. 9, 2021, that persons who spread so-called “misinformation” about the vaccines were “criminals” who have “literally cost millions of lives.”
The same day, Pfizer posted the claim of “misinformation” on its Twitter account, according to the suit:
‘An artificial and flawed consideration’ of benefits and risks
The complaint goes into considerable detail discussing the difference between normal drug and vaccine approval versus Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA.
Because EUA products “will likely have inferior guarantees of safety and efficacy,” the complaint states, Congress mandated that the FDA inform healthcare professionals administering EUA products of any “significant known and potential benefits and risks” to ensure that “individuals receiving the product obtain the same information.”
FDA advice states patients are “are unduly influenced when risk information is presented using a relative risk approach,” and that such information results in “suboptimal decisions,” according to the petition.
Noting the FDA’s review of Pfizer’s formal application concluded that “FDA and CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] identified serious risks for myocarditis and pericarditis following administration” of its vaccine, the suit alleges Pfizer’s misrepresentations resulted in “the public engaging in an artificial and flawed consideration and balancing of … benefits and risks.”
Without Pfizer’s deceptive marketing practices and its coercive attempts to silence true information about the efficacy and dangers of the vaccine, a “substantial portion would likely have opted for an alternative or foregone inoculation altogether,” the suit alleges.
“The complaint seeks $10 million in damages plus costs of investigation and attorney fees,” Flores said, adding, “Unfortunately, that is just a drop in the bucket for Pfizer. Nonetheless, it is a giant step forward towards accountability.”
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Second Texas lawsuit against Pfizer in under 2 weeks
This is the second time in under two weeks that Texas has sued Pfizer. On Nov. 20, Paxton unveiled a lawsuit against the vaccine maker and its drug manufacturer, Tris Pharma, alleging the companies sold medication to children even though they knew the drug was ineffective and potentially unsafe.
The suit, filed in the Harrison County District Court, alleges Pfizer knowingly distributed a drug used for treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to children on Medicaid — despite the drug’s pattern of failing quality control tests.
The drug, Quillivant XR, is a stimulant that affects brain and nerve chemicals involved in hyperactivity and impulse control.
From 2012-2018, “Pfizer and Tris continually manipulated Quillivant testing to hide poor manufacturing practices and defraud the Texas Medicaid program,” according to a press release.
During those years, many families complained that the medication failed to work. According to the complaint:
“At no point did Defendants warn Texas Medicaid providers or decision-makers that Quillivant had known manufacturing issues affecting its efficacy, thereby depriving the Medicaid program of the crucial information it relies on. … As a result, thousands of Texas children received an adulterated Schedule II Controlled Dangerous Substance.”
I am extremely grateful to Laura Jeffery for her courage in giving testimony to the NCI.
A year or so ago, I saw videos that were coming from funeral homes, from morticians, and embalmers. The fibrous masses that were coming out of the circulatory systems of deceased people who were being prepared for embalming were disconcerting and graphic; they remain vivid in my memory.
Laura was asked about what the fibrous masses are. She deferred to “the scientists”, which she is not. Specifically mentioned is Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist. An interview with him is appended. But listen to the lived experience of Laura Jeffery:
The discussion of CLOTTING starts around 22 minutes.
Covid – a clotting disease and an epithileal disease.
Definition: the inner lining of blood vessels is made up of epithelial tissue. Epithelial tissue is the tissue which forms the inner line covering of various organs, not only blood vessels.
with an emphasis on COMMON SENSE. Tamara Lich was jailed and denied bail because she was identified as THE LEADER of the Freedom Convoy that rocked Canada and many other countries. Tamara is awesome and thank Goodness it was HER and not someone else who played her role.
The trial of Tamara Lich resumed. Chris Barber and Tamara Lich are co-defendants. From Rebel News, Kraychik reports, I understand that the Prosecution has said little about Lich to the Court, even though Nov. 29th is Day 30 of Lich’s trial. Essentially (in my view), the Prosecution doesn’t have evidence that proves Lich is guilty. And so the Prosecution will try to construct a case against Lich by claiming a CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. Tamara’s lawyers have asked the Judge to reject a pending Carter application from the Crown. A Carter application, if approved by a judge, allows incriminating evidence against one co-defendant to be attributed to other co-defendants.” “Granger (lawyer) said the evidence provided by the prosecution, which ended its arguments last week, failed to fulfill the criteria required for a successful Carter application,”
November Selections is dedicated to
The National Citizens Inquiry (NCI)
The Final Report on What Happened
(the covid years)
was issued on November 28th
The mainstream media has not been telling us about the NCI. So I’m going to!
What the Commissioners heard from specialists and from people with direct experience is posted on the NCI website: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/
I am gob-smacked by the power of Canadians.
The video testimony I have watched so far is copied onto my blog and listed below. I learned a lot, from different angles – just through these few of the presentations. I haven’t even started into the testimonies of experiences. I HIGHLY recommend this undertaking (the NCI) of fellow Canadians. It is sane and important. / Sandra Finley
To hear any one of the following 7, click on www.sandrafinley.ca. A summary of each posting will appear. Click a second time on the one you want, to open it up. /S
Rick Nicholls was Deputy Speaker of the Ontario Legislature. Nicholls had questions about the covid mandates. He refused the order to go along with the Government narrative. Consequence: he was booted out of the Provincial PC’s (Doug Ford Govt).
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Have a conversation.
Cheers!
Sandra
Featuring over 100 recommendations derived from sworn witness testimony, the Commissioners will also unveil the reasons behind labelling the COVID-19 injections Neither Safe nor Effective and urging an immediate halt to the vaccination program.
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My Blog Postings since the October Selections: (the first one is alarming and real)
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/Have you seen it? It’s a bit of a bombshell. Hallelujah! But it won’t achieve its potential without us pushing it out, hard.
In addition to listening to the PRESS CONFERENCE (at the bottom of https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/commissioners-report/), I listened to the testimony of Shawn Buckley. It’s a fuse in the powder keg – – covid vaccines “Not Safe and Not Effective”.
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Nov 2023. More, NCI:
Rodney Palmer spoke to the crowd on Nov 18th, Calgary, Rebel News event. Impressive presentation. I wanted to hear more from this retired journalist.
As serendipity would have it, Mr. Palmer stayed at the same hotel as myself. I ran into him as he was leaving to catch a flight.
Rodney’s “life changed” after his testimony to the NCI was uploaded and went viral. His expertise is in great demand as a speaker and consultant.
Rodney Palmer is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 20 years as a foreign correspondent for CTV news and investigative reporter for CBC Radio & Television in Canada and abroad. He was the CTV News Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief in India, China, and the Middle East
Rodney’s explosive testimony during the NCI Toronto hearing on day 1 provided evidence as to how CBC in particular is not conducting newsgathering, they are focusing on propaganda.
I listened to his NCI testimony. Palmer is a professional. His experience is valuable. Thanks to someone on the internet: I would say the following paragraph is accurate, adding that Rodney Palmer “tells” of instances using pictures captured at the time. I recognize some of the pictures from live coverage of the Freedom Convoy.
Mr. Rodney Palmer reports of how he was in Beijing when SARS broke out and how COVID was dealt with very differently. In chronological order, the systematic propaganda inflicted on Canadians by the CBC, regarding the safety of vaccines. He tells of many instances of the CBC journalists and newscasters lying to the public on their various broadcasts of news and other shows.
From the brief one-on-one encounter I (Sandra) had with Rodney Palmer, I would say that his experience as a foreign correspondent helped equip him to understand the current dangerous state of governance in Canada. Rodney and others like him who understand have jumped in and are tireless. They are urgent soldiers.
They need us to play our role: TALK! tell others. We are not going to get through this any other way.
I spoke with a 40-year-old Somalian man who was a child during the Civil War in Somalia. He knew exactly the problem with staying in our silos: Too many second and third generation Canadians are comfortable. They have never experienced or don’t know a family history of living under tyranny, let alone in poverty. Many are poorly educated about Governance. The Freedom Convoy brought people from all ethnicities together in unified purpose. People who know and understand the value and fragility of freedom. To me, Freedom is a sacred gift to be studied, cherished and protected by the community.
From a friend regarding Rodney Palmer:
This is extraordinary information everyone needs to see!
National Citizens Inquiry [into Canada’s response into Covid-19]
“You have to be able to face the truth, and that’s the first thing we need to do is we need to tell the truth. People who think–who are suspicious or cynical about what’s happening, they haven’t watched the testimonies.”
Rodney Palmer, Former News Journalist: “The CBC is a public news entity. We pay for it. They broadcast on the public airwaves, and we trust them to tell the truth, because they’ve done it for 50 or 60 years…The government rollout of the vaccines was impossible without the collaboration of the CBC…And in a moment of exception, you could say, “Okay, we’re going to let the CBC be the public health system right now, but the emergency’s over, and the exception still exists…Bad journalism is incompetence, but propaganda is a betrayal, and that’s what CBC’s done. It’s betrayed us all.”
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(Sandra): With many thanks to my friend Lizzy. Rodney Palmer’s presentation to the NCI:
The Corruption of Canada’s CBC: Covid-19 Reporting under the Trudeau Government
Trust in the CBC is on the ropes – an elected oversight board is needed
Apr 26, 2023
1. Introduction and Background
2. Testimony from Former CBC Journalists:
a. Rodney Palmer: CBC Covid-19 reporting influenced by US disinformation agency, First Draft
b. Rodney Palmer: CBC Covid-19 reporting was guided by the Trusted News Initiative
c. Rodney Palmer: CBC reporting on “Anti-vaxxers”
d. Rodney Palmer: CBC Covid reporting on Ivermectin/Hydroxychloroquine
e. Former CBC Fifth Estate anchor Trish Wood Podcast with Rodney Palmer
f. Two other former CBC journalists resign in protest against the superficial controlled agenda of their once beloved institution
3. Crisis: Too Many Canadians Want the CBC De-funded
4. How the CBC is Administered and Funded
5. Fixing the CBC
Introduction and Background
(This would be Lizzy speaking. I don’t know how much of the following is her research. She is a dedicated researcher and good at it.): In early April, 2023, I witnessed testimony from Rodney Palmer,[1] a former CBC journalist to the National Citizens Inquiry on Canada’s Covid-19 response.[2]
This in-depth testimony shocked me to the core. I marvelled, realizing that this disturbing evidence will rewrite the history of Canada’s Covid-19 response for years to come. Something serious had changed at the CBC.
To start with some background, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, founded in 1936, is a crown corporation that currently reports to the Minister of Canadian Heritage in Canada’s Liberal Government. Its CEO, Canadian-born Catherine Tait, who is married to an American living in NYC, [3] and who illegally contributed[4] to Hilary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign,[5] was appointed on April, 3, 2018 to lead the CBC into the digital age.[6][7]
On September 9, 2019, the CBC under Ms. Tait joined the Trusted News Charter.
“The Trusted News Charter is a BBC-led initiative to strengthen measures to protect audiences from disinformation. The Charter is the result of the June 2019 Trusted News Summit and includes a commitment to collaborate on source authentication, civic information, media education, and other responses to disinformation. Other partners just announced include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, AFP, Reuters, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and the European Broadcasting Union.”[8]
Said Tait, “Disinformation is a global challenge. We need global solutions. Joining the Trusted News Charter is an important part of our ongoing work to ensure Canadians have access to trusted sources of news and information.”[9]
The following day, September 10, 2019, with Catherine Tait as its chair, [10] the Global Task Force for Public Media was formed to develop a consensus and “single strong voice” around the issues and challenges facing public media worldwide.[11] But as Palmer points out, his own job with CBC for a decade was:
“to elevate the voices of Canadians on Canadian stories, to unite our vast country, and make us all feel as one…This is a bizarre conglomerate of public broadcasters…who all have national mandates like the CBC to unite their own people.”
He added – significantly – that the public broadcasters cannot be easily bought, because they have no advertisers, “so something else was done here.”
When the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic on March, 11, 2020, the Trusted News Charter, now called the Trusted News Initiative, had added the American disinformation agency, First Draft:
“Starting today, partners in the Trusted News Initiative will alert each other to disinformation about coronavirus, including ‘imposter content’ purporting to come from trusted sources. Such content will be reviewed promptly to ensure that disinformation is not republished…The Trusted News Initiative partners are: BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Microsoft, AFP, Reuters, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), The Hindu, First Draft, and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.”[12]
Interestingly, another disinformation organization, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) had unveiled the Journalism Trust Initiative in Paris on April 3, 2018, the same day that Catherine Tait was appointed CEO of the CBC:
“An innovative media self-regulatory initiative designed to combat disinformation online – called the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) – was launched today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and its partners Agence France Presse (AFP), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Global Editors Network (GEN).”[13]
Throughout her tenure, Ms. Tait (who had been living in the United States) has been controversial, if not naïve about her CBC function. Traditionally, Canadian crown corporation CEOs never enter partisan politics, a role that Ms. Tait failed to understand by entering a dispute with the Conservative Party of Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre in February, 2023.[14]
CEO Catherine Tait (https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2023/cbc-president-catherine-tait-is-out-of-her-lane/)
Testimony From Former CBC Journalists
a) Rodney Palmer: CBC Covid-19 policy influenced by US disinformation agency, First Draft
Rodney Palmer is an award-winning Canadian journalist who worked for 20 years as a foreign correspondent for CTV news, and as a producer and investigative reporter for CBC Radio & Television in Canada and abroad. He was also a general assignment reporter for the Globe and Mail, and a daily news reporter for the Vancouver Sun.
Palmer was also the CTV News Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief in India, Israel, and China – and was in China when SARS-Cov-1 broke out in 2002. He was in Beijing when SARS-Cov-2 hit the airwaves in 2020.[15]
I lived in Beijing and worked for CTV News every day and that was when the SARS epidemic broke out, so I followed it extremely carefully. I went to weekly briefings with the World Health Organization, and with the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
I had experience with epidemics and pandemics when COVID started, and I started noticing that it was extremely different. When they shut down Wuhan I knew that it was very, very different. This was something that had not occurred before.
I started noticing something different was happening at the CBC. The CBC is a public entity. We pay for it. It broadcasts on the public airwaves. And we expect them to tell us the truth because they’ve done that for fifty or sixty years.
I noticed something very different about a couple weeks into the emergency. There was a story on The National by Adrienne Arsenault, one of the greatest broadcasters we have – a national treasure…On April 4, 2020, I saw a piece where she’s looking at her phone and she says, “what do you do if somebody sends you a text, say your father, and he thinks the virus was manufactured by China?”
Then she went to an expert guest who said, “don’t embarrass your father, you’ll just push him away. You’ve got to bring him in, kind of convince him.”
The expert witness was from an organization called First Draft, and she simply says they’re a non-profit that helps people navigate misinformation in the media.
Looking into US-based First Draft, Palmer discovered that CBC’s Marketplace had a First Draft story about anti-vaccination websites and how they make their money – and realized that “this First Draft group is now feeding the CBC their stories.”
(Myself, looking yet further into First Draft, I discovered that in June 2022 it moved its disinformation mission to the Brown University School of Public Health, which operates under the deanship of Dr. Ashish Jha.[17]
Ashish Jha is a notorious pharma-friendly media darling who publicly scorned the 2020 Senate testimony of three prominent physicians reporting the medical literature on early Covid treatments including hydroxychloroquine. Jha’s New York Times op-ed rampage was titled “The Snake-Oil Salesmen of the Senate.”[18] By April, 2023, Jha, on temporary assignment to the White House as its Covid-19 response coordinator, was still inflicting the Covid vaccine boosters upon America’s youth.[19])
Back to Palmer pursuing the CBC’s treatment of any father who might think Covid was a lab leak:
FBI chief, Christopher Wray says the China lab leak was most likely. The quote is, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident.”
So the CBC had no evidence that it wasn’t. But they wanted you to believe that it wasn’t.
There’s a definition in the Oxford dictionary of “newsgathering,” which is “the process of doing research on news items, especially ones that will be broadcast on television or printed in a newspaper.” Now how much research was done by the CBC to determine ten days after the emergency that it didn’t happen in a lab?
Another definition here is “propaganda,” which is “Persuasive mass communication that filters and frames the issues of the day in a way that strongly favours particular interests, usually those of a government or a corporation. Also, the intentional manipulation of public opinion through lies and half-truths, and the selective retelling of history.” This is what was going on in that piece. That’s why it felt so wrong to me, because there was no news involved. There was only propaganda.
What the Washington Post did with its lab leak story, ten days after the CBC said it wasn’t from the lab, was newsgathering. It was investigative reporting. What the CBC did, when it said don’t trust your family if it thinks it came from a lab, was propaganda.
In other words, trust the hidden agencies guiding our tax-supported CBC – even over your own father.
In another CBC propaganda example cited by Palmer, Marilyn Gladu, a Conservative Member of Parliament, was one of 15-30 MP’s who opposed vaccination as a requirement for representing their constituencies in Parliament. CBC’s Katie Simpson (who Palmer has long admired) “beat the hell out of Gladu” on the air for risking public safety by “giving support to the anti-vaxxers.”
Palmer concludes that in framing her guest on the show – and in fact all unvaccinated Canadians – as “dangers to public safety,” Katie Simpson “had no evidence and still has no evidence that anyone who isn’t vaccinated is more likely to spread COVID than a vaccinated person. This was not newsgathering. She was practising propaganda.”[20]
More anti-vax propaganda is revealed in a Palmer slide – showing CBC’s shallow, disrespectful attitude towards public knowledge and intelligence. CBC suppressed one side of the story, because it wasn’t newsgathering; it was propaganda.
There is only one CBC perspective below on people who are allegedly “hesitant” (too weak and indecisive) to take the untested mRNA vaccines – rather than having come to a firm decision based on their own responsible research:
b) Rodney Palmer: CBC Covid-19 policy was guided by the Trusted News Initiative
Two weeks after WHO announced the Covid-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020, Canada’s CBC reported that the Trusted News Initiative had announced plans “to tackle harmful coronavirus disinformation.”
The TNI then agreed to engage with a new verification technology called Project Origin, led by a coalition of the BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, Microsoft and The New York Times – with an eerie mandate to identify non-authorized news stories for suppression.
In July, 2020, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer for the compliant Microsoft, remarked about authorizing the news: “We’ve forged a close relationship with the BBC and other partners on Project Origin, aimed at methods and standards for end-to-end authentication of news and information.”[21]
More dangerously fascist-leaning, Microsoft announced in February, 2021 that they “and the BBC have teamed up with Adobe, Arm, Intel and Truepic to create the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). The C2PA is a standards-setting body that will develop an end-to-end open standard and technical specifications on content provenance and authentication. The standards will draw from two implementation efforts: Project Origin’s (Origin) efforts on provenance for news publishing and the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), which focuses on digital content attribution.”[22]
The CBC throughout was placing a strong emphasis on itself as a trusted news source.
Two years later, reports Mr. Palmer, in January 2023, Catherine Tait was still giving speeches on trusting the CBC, including one at Simon Fraser University.
“The first word out of her mouth was ‘trust’. ‘Trust seems to be in short supply.’ The next phrase is: ‘Disinformation, conspiracy theories, YouTube rabbit hole.’ This is the trusted news initiative mantra…”[23]
On March 29, 2021, adds Palmer, well-known CBC Toronto Radio host Matt Galloway had interviewed an expert guest from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The expert declared that “people who are recommending intravenous Vitamin C and hydrogen peroxide nebulization are hate” – and claimed that this was “literally inhaling bleach.”
“He lied that it was inhaling bleach,” said Palmer. Why did Matt Galloway let this man lie on the radio?
The “expert” added, “anti-vaccine misinformation is hate.” He then went on CBC’s “we’ve got your back” Marketplace, who took hate to the next level of censorship:
Why are social media comments the business of CBC Marketplace, who like the Prime Minister, “has got our backs”? What is the “something else” that is going on?
c) Rodney Palmer: CBC Policy on “anti-vaxxers”
Palmer reports that the CBC, very successfully, has promoted a new group of Canadians and fomented hate against them. But the CBC does not tell us who these “anti-vaxxers” are, or what they believe. “Do they need to have mental correction? Psychological retraining?”
d) Rodney Palmer: CBC Covid-19 Policy on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine
Perhaps the worst crime of the Covid-19 event was the suppression of cheap, highly proven early treatments, which were well understood back in 2020-21 – via the most downloaded article in the history of the American Journal of Medicine.[24]
In an act of unconscionable propaganda, the CBC lied about this – one reason why many Canadians would now like to see it de-funded.
Mr. Palmer’s two slides say it all:
Importantly, Ivermectin is particularly effective against viruses:
And yet the CBC has been persecuting Canadian physicians such as Daniel Nagase and Charles Hoffe for prescribing Ivermectin, which is on the WHO List of Essential Medicines for human beings (lower right corner).
e) Former CBC Fifth Estate anchor Trish Wood Podcast with Rodney Palmer
When Trish Wood heard the Rodney Palmer testimony, she tweeted:
“As a former CBC journalist, watching Rodney Palmer’s evidence about the corp’s fall into absolute corruption was heartbreaking. I knew every word was true but he was so eloquent – I was broken-hearted about my old profession, yet again. Bravo to the #NCI @Inquiry_Canada.”[25]
Ms. Wood also conducted a fascinating follow-up 90-minute podcast with Mr. Palmer, where both lament the tragic lapse in standards currently plaguing the CBC.[26]
Journalist Trish Wood, former anchor CBC “Fifth Estate”
This podcast is exceptional — probably historic – and includes a third journalist, Marianne Klowak, who also resigned from the CBC because of its lying. They leave no stone unturned showing how CBC Covid-19 reports cheated by following orders from above.
Most dramatic was their bombshell proof (in hour 2) that the Nazi flag unfurled during the Ottawa Freedom convoy was digitally traced back to a Liberal – who had thus enabled Prime Minister Trudeau to equate the truckers[27] with Nazis, and to refuse to talk to them.
(A 23-minute condensed version of Rodney Palmer’s NCI propaganda testimony provides special impact on the corrupt CBC under the Trudeau government):
f. Two career CBC journalists resign in protest against the superficial agenda of their once beloved institution
Marianne Klowak had a long career at CBC, in radio, TV and digital. It was a job she loved with colleagues she respected. But then Covid-19 hit and it seemed the journalistic rules changed overnight. After a fruitless struggle to report events she thought important, Marianne resigned.[28]
Resigning CBC journalist Marianne Klowak
From the Western Standard:
Winnipeg-born Klowak, a 32-year general reporter with the CBC and former teacher, said her “last year and a half…was a real fight” to get the truth out during the pandemic.
“It was no longer a place I recognized and I tried to push through a number of stories that were censored and cancelled,” she said.
Klowak said she felt like the CBC was “no longer committed to truth and honesty” and said the culture she was seeing develop was “disturbing.”
She said it was in June 2021 when she started to notice a “real change” with the public broadcaster during the pandemic.
“What I was seeing unfold at the CBC was you were very quickly shutting down one side of the debate, and for me that was alarming,” she said, pointing to news at the time surfacing out of Israel linking the vaccines to heart inflammation.[29]
Veteran CBC radio and CBC producer Tara Henley perhaps says it best. In a January 2022 editorial to the National Post, titled “Why I quite the CBC,” Henley explains: “People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported.” [30]
She adds:
When I started at the national public broadcaster in 2013, the network produced some of the best journalism in the country. By the time I resigned last month, it embodied some of the worst trends in mainstream media.
Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly — and how dramatically — the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted.
It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom, occasionally causing strain in story meetings with my views on issues like the housing crisis. I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics. This happened in the span of about 18 months. My own politics did not change.
To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity.
It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. It is to pretend that the “woke” worldview is near universal — even if it is far from popular with those you know, and speak to, and interview, and read.[31]
Could this US Ivy League bias exist because the Trudeau-appointed Catherine Tait was living with her American husband in New York City until July, 2018 (and needed to become a Canadian resident to work legally as CBC’s CEO?)
Henley continues:
To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.
To work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are not about qualifications or experience — but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies, the demonstration of fealty to dogma.
It is to become less adversarial to government and corporations and more hostile to ordinary people…
It is to endlessly document microaggressions but pay little attention to evictions; to spotlight company’s political platitudes but have little interest in wages or working conditions. It is to allow sweeping societal changes like lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and school closures to roll out — with little debate.
It is to consent to the Idea that a growing list of subjects are off the table, that dialogue itself can be harmful. That the big issues of our time are all already settled.
It is to capitulate to certainty, to shut down critical thinking, to stamp out curiosity. To keep one’s mouth shut, to not ask questions, to not rock the boat.[32]
So in 2013, the CBC was still producing some of the best journalism in the country?
It now appears that after the Trudeau government came to power in October 2015, and more particularly since Covid-19 arrived in early 2020, the CBC’s content has sunk into a pap diet of diversions and distractions from the truth.
Much of the Canadian public, not about to be dumbed-down, has voted with its feet.[33]
3. Crisis: Too Many Canadians Want the CBC De-funded
The CBC’s editorial independence was enshrined under Canada’s Broadcasting Act in 1936. CBC and Radio-Canada’s mandate was, in part, to “inform, enlighten and entertain; to contribute to the development of a shared national consciousness and identity.”
However:
A national survey of 1,200 people conducted in April 2023 by Abacus Data suggested that 40 per cent of adult Canadians agreed that the CBC was propaganda on behalf of the federal government. The majority holding that view identified themselves as Conservative voters.
Forty-five per cent of respondents said they thought the CBC should be shut down to save taxpayer money, while the rest agreed with the statement: “I value the CBC and want it maintained.” The figures matched results of an earlier survey in September 2022, by Mainstreet Research, which found that 46 per cent of Canadians wanted to see the CBC defunded.[34]
An Ipsos-Reid poll released back on May 14, 2004 had shown that Canadians felt the CBC was doing a good job protecting Canadian culture and identity, and 85% of voters would support political parties that fostered domestic ownership of broadcasting.[35]
A Nanos Research poll from August 2014 conducted for Asper Media (National Post, Financial Post) showed 41% of Canadians wanted funding increased, 46% wanted it maintained at current levels, and only 10% wanted to see it cut.[36]
A year later the Trudeau government was elected.
CBC has received $1.2 billion annually from the federal government since fiscal year 2018. Government funding increased to almost $1.4 billion for 2020-2021 to cover ‘retroactive salary inflation’ and potential issues arising from the pandemic. It returned to $1.2 billion the following year.[37]
In a 2020 study, “on a per-capita basis the CBC received $33, while the average for the 20 countries covered in the study was $88 — more than two and a half times greater. Funding for public broadcasting in the U.K. was $104 per capita, for Sweden $120 and for Germany $149.” The Trudeau government has done nothing to keep its 2015 election campaign to reverse the Mulroney, Chrétien, and Harper government cuts.[38]
How the CBC is Administered and Funded
The CBC is a Crown corporation owned and funded by the Government of Canada. It is accountable to Parliament through the minister responsible. The minister responsible, with approval of the federal cabinet, appoints the corporation’s board of directors, and the cabinet appoints the CEO and determines the rate of pay. The board and Members of Parliament have some input into the appointment of CEOs and board chairs, but the government makes the ultimate decision. The government can intervene in the management of a Crown corporation by having the minister responsible issue a directive to the board of directors ordering them to take a specific action.[39]
Fixing the CBC
If the resigning journalists are correct, we are not likely to find out how to fix the CBC from the CBC itself.
Mr. Palmer noted above that because CBC Radio does not have advertising, “something else is being done here” between the public media agencies of several countries – hinting that the international quest for a “single strong voice” against misinformation, pursued by the Global Task Force for Public Media under chairperson Catherine Tait, is overshadowing the traditional editorially-independent CBC role “of elevating the voices of Canadians on Canadian stories, to unite our vast country, and make us all feel as one.”
This “something else” — to standardize one-voice media — is what Canadians need to understand before their long-beloved public broadcaster is dismantled by 46% popular demand.
Ms. Henley said that to work at the CBC now “is to become less adversarial to government and corporations and more hostile to ordinary people.”
That it is “to allow sweeping societal changes like lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and school closures to roll out — with little debate.”
Judging by the composition of the 12-member Liberal Cabinet-appointed board of directors – of whom three have truth and reconciliation backgrounds; three have corporate media backgrounds; three have digital technology expertise; and only three have cultural backgrounds – this is not surprising.[40]
CBC’s board of directors does not choose the CBC president. And the board cannot dismiss the president. The prime minister chooses the president. This is not a new development; it goes back to 1936. In contrast, the director-general of the BBC is chosen by the BBC’s trustees, and those trustees can fire their director-general.[41]
It seems clear from the above that the CBC has been captured, not only by identity politics, but by combined government and corporate agendas, almost certainly influenced by the private-public World Economic Forum and its proud young national graduates – the WEF’s “young global leaders” – with Justin Trudeau among them.
Can the CBC still perform as a national unifying force?
The CBC’s legislated role “to contribute to the development of a shared national consciousness and identity” is being destroyed by identity-politics. This is partly a result of the rise of post-modernism in communication theory and journalism schools.
Post-modernism is a late twentieth-century form of subjectivism that makes it impossible to have serious rational discussions and work towards common ground. This trend is partly what is preventing the CBC from performing as a national unifying force.
Some steps that may be taken:
1. CBC policy-makers need to acknowledge that they are failing in their shared-identity mandate and commit to doing better
2. CBC accountability for violating journalistic ethics and standards should be enforced by a new, provincially-elected citizen oversight board
3. Governments have appointed poor CBC leaders over recent years. Leaders need to be chosen with elected citizen oversight according to the priorities of its legislated mandate.
4. Identity politics has taken a divisive turn. Cultural pluralism should be a point of pride for all Canadians, not a cudgel to use against select groups. (This may require a public inquiry in which everyone is heard.)
5. The societal problem of post-modernism should be addressed in serious discussions, working towards common ground for all Canadians.[42]
Conclusion
The online-digital role of CBC’s US-import Catherine Tait will expire in July of 2023. Tait has appointed 6 members of her 7-member executive team and all but one came from the corporate world. (Marco Dubé is the only journalist who rose through the CBC ranks.)[43]
Indeed, Tait has filled the CBC with a new breed of journalists, causing some of the ethically best and brightest to resign. The CBC as we have known it for decades is in a state of collapse.
As columnist Terry Glavin has put it:
In the decades following its inception, the whole point of the CBC was to provide an informative, welcoming, entertaining and unifying place on the airwaves outside the raucous cacophony of the American mass media. It was to be a place where Canadians could get to know one another and to know about their country. And it did a pretty good job of it.
But now, the CBC brass has rebranded the organization along lines that blend seamlessly with the faddish haute-bourgeois obsessions the Trudeau Liberals’ have drawn straight from the culture wars that have so enfeebled the United States.
Rather than provide a place where Canadians can have their own conversations, the CBC’s $436,000-a-year CEO Catherine Tait (and her whiter-than-white board of governors and her seven vice-presidents, ten directors-general, her $900,000-a-year “strategic intelligence department” and her 143 executive directors) joined forces with the Trudeau Liberals in a multi-year funding package to mainline those American toxins straight into the bloodstream of Canadian culture.
What’s new here is a weird sensibility that masquerades as “progressive” that’s a perfect fit with Trudeau’s self-professed determination to remodel Canada as a “post-national” country with “no core identity” and “no mainstream.” It’s a radical experiment born from the luxury of living under the American security umbrella and immense natural-resource wealth and the sacrifices of Canadians whose struggles it has become decidedly unfashionable to even remember.
What unites and binds the Trudeau Liberals with the CBC brass – and for that matter, with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, and the Canada Council for the Arts, and so on – is a mutually-reinforcing ideational package. . . please don’t make me say “woke.” What the hell, I said it. You know what I mean.
What I mean is an epistemology that supplants and replaces systems of knowledge and truth-seeking with rigidly-enforced systems of belief and ideology that purport to be “progressive.” It’s a phenomenon that is fatally corrosive to the disciplines we’ve always relied upon, in conversations and arguments among and between people of the “left” and the “right,” to establish broad societal agreement about what constitutes the truth.[44]
In other words, what we have now is a case of post-modern irrationality.
And the polls are suggesting that it’s time for a complete overhaul.
If the CBC if it is to continue as a government-funded entity, a new legislated commitment must be made to the Canadian people.
The board of directors clearly needs to be reviewed.
A citizen oversight board with an elected representative from every province should be established to meet regularly at specified intervals, and to appoint future CBC boards of directors.
CBC funding has stagnated for decades. Its funding should be supplied by a television licence fee (like the BBC) and not be subject to the policy and content influences of advertising.
A proposal outlining the essential steps for a CBC overhaul, and a restoration of its 1985 per capita funding, should be submitted formally to the Canadian people for input – and then to Parliament for approval.
[1] I am grateful to Mr. Palmer for his excellent slides, some of which I have incorporated into this essay, with acknowledgments to him. (https://rumble.com/v2fs7u2-rodney-palmer-full-interview-day-1-toronto-national-citizens-inquiry.html).
[2] “A Citizen-Led Inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 Response. Canada’s federal and provincial governments’ COVID-19 policies were unprecedented…These interventions into Canadians’ lives, our families, businesses, and communities were, and to great extent remain, significant. In particular, these interventions impacted the physical and mental health, civil liberties and fundamental freedoms, jobs and livelihoods, and overall social and economic well-being of nearly all Canadians.
These circumstances demand a comprehensive, transparent, and objective national inquiry into the appropriateness and efficacy of these interventions, and to determine what lessons can be learned for the future. Such an inquiry cannot be commissioned or conducted impartially by our governments as it is their responses and actions to the COVID-19 which would be under investigation.
The National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI) is a citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative that is completely independent from government.” (https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/).
[3] Jesse Brown, “The President of the CBC Lives In Brooklyn: She’s been back and forth throughout the pandemic,” Canadaland, 11 December 2020 (https://www.canadaland.com/the-president-of-the-cbc-lives-in-brooklyn/).
[4] “Under U.S. election law, it is illegal for someone who is not an American citizen to contribute to a U.S. election campaign.” Elizabeth Thompson, “Hundreds of Canadian residents contributing to U.S. candidates,” CBC News, 7 November 2016 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trump-clinton-u-s-election-1.3837993).
[5] “Filings with the United States’ Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that CBC CEO Catherine Tait donated to the presidential campaign of Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016….At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tait’s own status as a Canadian citizen was also brought into question after the online outlet Canadaland published an article revealing how the CBC CEO owned a $5.4 million residence in Brooklyn, New York with her husband.
According to CBC, Tait was required to take a second residence in Canada in order to comply with the broadcaster’s requirements.”
[20] Lee Harding, “Ex-CBC journalist testifies broadcaster did propaganda, not newsgathering,” 6 April 2023 (https://www.westernstandard.news/news/ex-cbc-journalist-testifies-broadcaster-did-propaganda-not-newsgathering/article_ec81c9dc-d481-11ed-ac8e-93c1d6a543ce.html).
[22] Eric Horvitz, “A promising step forward on disinformation, Microsoft, 22 February 2021 (https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/02/22/deepfakes-disinformation-c2pa-origin-cai/).
[23] Rodney Palmer, “Propaganda VS Newsgathering at CBC and other media,” The Crazy Times, p. 5, 4 April 2023.
[30] Tara Henley, “Why I quite the CBC,” National Post, 3 January 2022 (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tara-henley-why-i-quit-the-cbc?__vfz=medium%3Dstandalone_content_recirculation_with_ads).
[33] Joanna Chiu and Steve McKinley, “Is CBC at a crossroads? Or are Twitter spat and Poilievre barbs just more of the same?” The Standard, 23 April 2023 (https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/news/canada/2023/04/23/is-cbc-at-a-crossroads-or-are-twitter-spat-and-poilievre-barbs-just-more-of-the-same.html).
[39] Pinned comment at “CBC editorial independence is a lie,” National Post, 13 April 2023 (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/cbc-editorial-independence-is-a-lie).
