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As Reuters ‘Fact-Checked’ COVID Vaccine ‘Misinformation,’ Its CEO Also Sat on Pfizer’s Board

The former CEO of Reuters — who's still on the board of its parent company, Thomson Reuters Foundation — has also been a board member of COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer since 2014.

In May, Mr. Witkoff’s son Zach announced the first of the deals at a conference in Dubai. One of Sheikh Tahnoon’s investment firms would deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps.
Two weeks later, the White House agreed to allow the U.A.E. access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, a crucial tool in the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence. Many of the chips would go to G42, a sprawling technology firm controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon, despite national security concerns that the chips could be shared with China.

Secrecy Over Trump-Pfizer Deal Sparks FOIA Demands and Public Outcry

Pfizer’s stock jumped Tuesday after CEO Albert Bourla and President Donald Trump announced a deal to lower U.S. drug prices and invest $70 billion in domestic manufacturing.

Pfizer’s stock “surged” late Tuesday after CEO Albert Bourla announced an agreement with President Donald Trump to lower its U.S. drug prices and invest $70 billion in U.S. manufacturing.

The agreement gives Pfizer “certainty and stability” on tariffs and pricing, Bourla said in a press release.

If a foreign visitor—one with good powers of observation and reasoning—were assigned the mission of ascertaining the two most powerful interests being brought to bear on the Trump administration, he would almost certainly conclude “those in the business of making and administering vaccines, and those in the business of waging war.”

In the last few weeks, President Trump has:

1). Hosted Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the White House and thanked him.

2). Declared that he received a COVID-19 booster shot.

3). Encouraged Ukraine to keep fighting the Russians, and offered to sell NATO all the weapons it wants for the fight. Given that the U.S. is by far the largest member of NATO, with by far the most command and control of the organization, this can only be viewed by Russia as further U.S. escalation.

4). Declared that he is contemplating giving Tomahawk long range missiles to Ukraine. Given that Russia cannot ascertain if an incoming Tomahawk is armed with a conventional or nuclear warhead, it can only perceive such a decision is going a major step up the escalation ladder towards tactical and strategic nukes.

One president passeth away, and another president cometh: but the COVID-19 vaccine abideth for ever.

And so, when the chips are down, it seems that the Vaccine & War Cartels have the final say in the affairs of state. All of the U.S. government’s “Forever Wars” Fiascos since 2001—and the twin fiascos of the childhood autism epidemic and the COVID-19 gene shot debacle—have not diminished the power of these cartels by one iota.

Why are the Vaccine and War Cartels so strong?

California Medicaid Provider Pays Parents Hundreds of Dollars to Vaccinate Their Kids

An investigation by The Defender revealed that one of the largest Medicaid plans in the U.S. offers parents hundreds of dollars in gift cards when their children get certain vaccines.

One of the largest Medicaid health plans in the U.S. is paying low-income parents hundreds of dollars in gift cards to vaccinate their children, an investigation by The Defender found.

Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) — which serves about 1.6 million people in Southern California — gives parents a $200 gift card when their baby receives a flu shot and the rotavirus series of shots by age 1, according to its 2025 Medi-Cal Member Incentive FAQs sent to all of IEHP’s general practitioners, family practitioners and pediatricians.

IEHP also gives a $50 gift card when a 12- or 13-year-old receives the first dose of the HPV vaccine, and an additional $150 gift card if the pre-teen completes the two- or three-dose series by age 13.

Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) senior research scientist, said IEHP is undermining true informed consent.

“An incentivized parent choosing vaccination is not medical decision-making — it’s economic decision-making,” he said. “In the case of low-income Medicaid families, that incentive may look more like an undue influence.”

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday.

Rozier is accused in participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information, officials said. Billups is charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said. ...

In the sports betting scheme, players sometimes altered their performance or took themselves out of games early, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. In one instance, Rozier, while playing for the Hornets, told other he was planning to leave the game early with a “supposed injury,” allowing others to place wagers that raked in thousands of dollars, Tisch said.

It was a five-year looting spree, plain and simple. The Us is now bankrupt - why else would gold be over $4k an ounce?

stereotomy says

It was a five-year looting spree, plain and simple. The Us is now bankrupt - why else would gold be over $4k an ounce?

Maybe a combo of democracy + authoritarianism is necessary for a limited time run by a pro-nation leader.

Wearing a crazy wig and glasses —you gotta love him— O’Keefe had a wine lunch with Anish Abraham, the “senior director” of a corporate parasite called ATI Government Solutions. The undercover footage captured Abraham admitting that a $100 million IRS contract was split— 65% pure profit to minority-owned ATI (for doing nothing), with 35% paid to Accenture to do the actual work. The deal leveraged an 8(a) Native American-owned minority status to evade oversight, but may have violated an SBA rule requiring a minimum of 51% in-house performance.

ATI has been awarded over $500 million in federal contracts since 2018. So. Your taxes, hardly at work.

Accenture, which is largely viewed as a legitimate provider, itself has over $1.5 billion in federal contracts. It locked its corporate X account after O’Keefe’s exposé released. Accenture is a gigantic tech-consulting spinoff from Arthur Anderson that provides oodles of services to government and Fortune 100 companies.

Commenters were mixed on whether ATI’s arrangement was legal or not, but everyone agreed that paying a $65 million profit to a minority company for $35 million of actual work from a top provider was plain wrong.

It will take a generation or more to undo the damage wrought in the last decade alone. We had a de facto "Cultural Revolution" that is only now winding down, not ended. The generation molded by this cultural revolution, the Pantifa cohort, is pretty much a write-off. Their minds and their ethics have been destroyed, and they are pretty much unfit for any type of productive activity.

At the centre of President Trump's controversial plan to end the Russia‑Ukraine war is not peace but profit. A detailed Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have been negotiating with Russian officials to secure lucrative opportunities for US businesses—and Trump's close associates—once the conflict comes to an end.

The report outlines how the discussions are focused on revitalising Russia's $2 trillion (£1.6 trillion) economy through joint ventures with American firms. Central to the talks is $300 billion (£240 billion) in frozen Russian central bank assets, which Moscow hopes to channel into US‑led investment projects ...

Profit Over Peace

Witkoff, a property developer and Trump confidant, told the Journal: 'Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land... If we do all that, and everybody's prospering and they're all a part of it, and there's upside for everybody, that's going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody's thriving.'

His comments highlight the emphasis on profit as a stabilising force. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, has reportedly proposed ventures ranging from exploiting Arctic mineral reserves to partnering with SpaceX on a joint mission to Mars.

Money from such projects would flow to Trump's allies and donors. Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr and the founder of America First Global, is said to be in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if sanctions are lifted. Trump megadonor Stephen P Lynch has been working with Trump Jr to purchase the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a critical energy link to Europe.

At the centre of President Trump's controversial plan to end the Russia‑Ukraine war is not peace but profit. A detailed Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have been negotiating with Russian officials to secure lucrative opportunities for US businesses—and Trump's close associates—once the conflict comes to an end.