thelibertybeacon--2020-10-14--Biden’s son-in-law advises campaign on Covid while profiting from health firms

Biden ’ s son-in-law advises campaign on Covid while profiting from health firms Joe Biden ’ s son-in-law is advising his presidential campaign on Covid-19 response while overseeing investments in healthcare startups , a potential conflict of interest , Politico reported – to the chagrin of its leftist readers .
Howard Krein , who married Ashley Biden in 2012 , has been advising her father ’ s campaign on Covid-response policies while at the same time leading investment firm StartUp Health in staking fledgling companies with products or services designed to mitigate , manage or treat the virus , Politico @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer at StartUp Health , which announced plans in April to invest $ 1 million across 10 companies focused on Covid-19 solutions in 30 days .
The firm was founded by Krein ’ s brother , Chief Executive Steven Krein .
Howard Krein also reportedly participates in daily conference calls to brief his father-in-law on health policy amid the pandemic .
The intersecting roles could create conflicts of interest for a Biden administration or at least the “ awkward appearance of Krein profiting from his father-in-law ’ s policies , ” Politico said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ firm invests could get make-or-break funding or favors from the federal government , as billions of dollars in public health spending are allocated to help fight Covid-19 .
Krein already got a small taste of such publicity when the Wall Street Journal reported in July that StartUp Health had received as much as $ 350,000 in forgivable loans under the government ’ s Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP ) .
It ’ s unclear how a firm that profits from the healthcare industry would need government help to meet payroll during a medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign has pointed out that Biden bashed the PPP initiative while Krein ’ s firm was privately taking advantage of the program .
StartUp Health has invested in hundreds of companies , including dozens related to pandemic response .
Krein , who joined the firm in 2011 , the year after he began dating Biden ’ s daughter , was then billed by StartUp Health as a White House adviser .
Seeing such a potential conflict of interest being reported by left-leaning Politico might be seen as a refreshing dose of balance by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media outlet for interrupting the mainstream media ’ s steady flow of anti-Trump coverage .
One commenter tweeted : “ F**k off with this , ” while another told Politico to “ delete your sorry account.
” Hundreds of commenters pointed to alleged conflicts of interest in the Trump family , including those involving his son-in-law , Jared Kushner .
Many also felt betrayed that Politico would report possible wrongdoing involving the Democrat presidential candidate .
“ Stop it now , ” one such observer said .
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Biden’s son-in-law advises campaign on Covid while profiting from health firms
Joe Biden’s son-in-law is advising his presidential campaign on Covid-19 response while overseeing investments in healthcare startups, a potential conflict of interest, Politico reported – to the chagrin of its leftist readers.
Howard Krein, who married Ashley Biden in 2012, has been advising her father’s campaign on Covid-response policies while at the same time leading investment firm StartUp Health in staking fledgling companies with products or services designed to mitigate, manage or treat the virus, Politico said Tuesday.
Krein is chief medical officer at StartUp Health, which announced plans in April to invest $1 million across 10 companies focused on Covid-19 solutions in 30 days. The firm was founded by Krein’s brother, Chief Executive Steven Krein. Howard Krein also reportedly participates in daily conference calls to brief his father-in-law on health policy amid the pandemic.
The intersecting roles could create conflicts of interest for a Biden administration or at least the “awkward appearance of Krein profiting from his father-in-law’s policies,” Politico said. Companies in which Krein’s firm invests could get make-or-break funding or favors from the federal government, as billions of dollars in public health spending are allocated to help fight Covid-19.
Krein already got a small taste of such publicity when the Wall Street Journal reported in July that StartUp Health had received as much as $350,000 in forgivable loans under the government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). It’s unclear how a firm that profits from the healthcare industry would need government help to meet payroll during a medical crisis. President Donald Trump’s campaign has pointed out that Biden bashed the PPP initiative while Krein’s firm was privately taking advantage of the program.
StartUp Health has invested in hundreds of companies, including dozens related to pandemic response. Krein, who joined the firm in 2011, the year after he began dating Biden’s daughter, was then billed by StartUp Health as a White House adviser.
Seeing such a potential conflict of interest being reported by left-leaning Politico might be seen as a refreshing dose of balance by some, but Twitter users blasted the media outlet for interrupting the mainstream media’s steady flow of anti-Trump coverage. One commenter tweeted: “F**k off with this,” while another told Politico to “delete your sorry account.”
Hundreds of commenters pointed to alleged conflicts of interest in the Trump family, including those involving his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Many also felt betrayed that Politico would report possible wrongdoing involving the Democrat presidential candidate. “Stop it now,” one such observer said. “We are being robbed blind by the impeached thing’s family. Why are you doing this? I trusted you.”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-14--Operation Warp Speed Using CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid Vaccine Contracts Secret

Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret While most Americans were distracted by the first US presidential debate , NPR quietly reported that the US government ’ s Operation Warp Speed , a public-private partnership launched by the Trump administration to rapidly develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine , had taken the unusual step of awarding contracts to vaccine companies , not directly , but through a secretive defense contractor .
Though NPR named the defense contractor—South Carolina–based Advanced Technology International—they declined to explore the company ’ s deep ties to the CIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Department of Defense and how ATI is helping to lead those agencies ’ efforts to militarize health care and create a surveillance panopticon that not only monitors the world around us but our physiology as well .
The “ secret ” vaccine contracts awarded through ATI as part of Warp Speed total approximately $ 6 billion , accounting for the majority of Operation Warp Speed ’ s $ 10 billion budget .
Both Paul Mango , Health and Human Services ’ deputy chief of staff for policy , and Robert Kadlec , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( ASPR ) , personally signed off on the contracts .
Operation Warp Speed , which officially involves the combined efforts of HHS and the military to deliver over 300 million Covid-19 vaccines to Americans by next January , is a highly secretive program dominated by military personnel , most of whom have no experience in health care or vaccine production .
The Trump administration has often compared Warp Speed to the Manhattan Project , which produced the atomic bomb .
Several very unsettling revelations about the true nature and scope of Warp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ATI , began to emerge starting last Monday .
Yet , most of this new information was not covered by US news outlets due to the media frenzy surrounding the first presidential debate and the subsequent news that President Trump and several other politicians and White House officials had tested positive for Covid-19 .
NPR noted that the decision to use a nongovernment intermediary like ATI to issue the coronavirus vaccine contracts , as opposed to the government itself directly awarding those contracts , allows Operation Warp Speed to “ bypass the regulatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mechanisms.
” This means that , among other things , the vaccine contracts awarded under Operation Warp Speed are unlikely to be publicly released in the near future , if ever .
The report from NPR also noted that the Congressional Research Service reported just last year that using such intermediaries to award contracts can result in “ significant risks , including potentially diminished oversight and exemption from laws and regulations designed to protect government and taxpayer interests.
” Proponents of this unorthodox way of issuing contracts , known as “ other transaction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ argue that utilizing this alternative method for awarding contracts significantly hastens the process .
However , the Congressional Research Service also noted that the Department of Defense , which has been increasingly relying on OTAs in recent years , has never tracked the information necessary to determine if OTAs are actually faster than traditional contracting methods .
This suggests that claims regarding the alleged “ speed advantage ” of OTAs are based on assumptions rather than data-based evidence .
Johnson & Johnson , Novavax , Pfizer , and Sanofi are among the companies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the OTA authorized by Operation Warp Speed and managed by ATI .
Many of these companies , particularly Johnson & Johnson , have been involved in scandals related to selling and marketing products they knew to be unsafe to the public .
This makes the lack of oversight and their exemption from federal regulations ( including safety regulations ) an issue of concern regarding their participation in Warp Speed .
This concern is further compounded by the fact that , on September 21 , HHS Secretary Alex Azar told FOX Business that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be exempt from liability for any damages their vaccines may cause and that those who administer their vaccines would also not be liable for damages .
“ Under the PREP Act , which is a provision in Congress , any treatment or vaccine for purposes of a national emergency pandemic like this actually comes with liability protection .
Both the product as well as those who administer it or provide it , ” Azar stated during the televised interview .
The PREP Act that Azar referenced was originally signed into law in 2005 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a few weeks before Operation Warp Speed was announced , so that vaccine and therapeutic manufacturers “ can not be sued for money damages in court ” over injuries caused by medical countermeasures for Covid-19 .
Notably , the architect of that controversial April update to the PREP Act , HHS ASPR Kadlec , is intimately involved in deciding who is awarded Operation Warp Speed contracts .
STAT News reported last week , citing senior HHS officials , that Kadlec “ personally signs off ” on every business agreement made on behalf of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ addition to his past activities in lobbying for intelligence and defense contractors , Kadlec also previously worked as a lobbyist for the scandal-ridden biodefense company Emergent Biosolutions , which is also a major player in Operation Warp Speed as well as the manufacturer of the controversial anthrax vaccine BioThrax .
Despite top HHS officials allegedly overseeing every single one of these business agreements , NPR was told by HHS that the department has “ no records ” of the $ 1.6 billion Operation Warp Speed contract with Novavax , which was awarded through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given that HHS is supposedly the lead agency overseeing Operation Warp Speed , yet they somehow lack a copy of a massive vaccine contract at the heart of the operation .
NPR also asked the DoD for a copy of the Novavax contract and have yet to receive a response .
At a press conference in mid-September , Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski , a key figure in Operation Warp Speed , told reporters : “ With respect to the contracts , the contracts are between ourselves , the United States government and private @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an extent .
Obviously everything can not be released , but they are releasable to an extent and they will be made available at some point in time.
” Ostrowski declined to elaborate on when that “ point in time ” would be .
Also odd is that ATI told NPR that , at the time they were awarding these secretive vaccine contracts , it was never explicitly told by the Department of Defense that these contracts were part of Operation Warp Speed , with a former ATI executive describing that key fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Advanced Technology International ( ATI ) is a nonprofit company that organizes consortia of public , private , and academic organizations that perform research and development ( R & D ) on behalf of the US government .
ATI mostly manages R & D consortia for the Department of Defense for things like weapons manufacturing , metal casting and forging , ship production , and technology aimed at countering so-called weapons of mass destruction .
They also manage the Border Security Technology Consortium ( BSTC ) for the Department of Homeland Security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other DHS research projects .
ATI only currently manages two consortia that have any relationship to health care , the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium ( MTEC ) and the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium ( MCDC ) .
The MTEC , operating on behalf of the US Army Medical Research and Development Command , aims to “ accelerate the development of revolutionary medical solutions , ” which include gene editing , nanotechnology , “ telehealth solutions , ” artificial limbs , and brain implants .
They are also currently developing a wearable device that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appear .
The other ATI-managed “ health-care ” consortia , the MCDC , is focused on “ advanced development efforts to support the Department of Defense ’ s ( DoD ) medical pharmaceutical and diagnostic requirements to counter Chemical , Biological , Radiological and Nuclear ( CBRN ) threat agents.
” They are specifically involved in “ enabling prototype technologies for therapeutic medical countermeasures targeting viral , bacterial and biological toxin targets of interest to the DoD , ” including the development of vaccines .
ATI told NPR that they were contacted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , before Warp Speed was announced in May , and asked to issue requests for proposals related to Covid-19 from MCDC members .
MCDC members include Emergent Biosolutions as well as DoD/CIA contractor Battelle Memorial Institute , with both of those companies having unsettling ties to the 2001 anthrax attacks .
Another member of the MCDC is CIA/NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and weapons manufacturer General Dynamics .
MCDC ’ s membership has expanded significantly following ATI ’ s acquisition by Analytic Services Inc. ( ANSER ) , the principal sponsor of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new members added just three months after the acquisition had concluded .
In addition , there is considerable overlap between the MCDC and the vaccine companies that have been awarded secretive contracts through ATI as part of Operation Warp Speed .
Sanofi , Novavax , Pfizer , and Johnson & Johnson are all MCDC members as well as recipients of Warp Speed vaccine contracts .
In addition , Emergent Biosolutions , another MCDC member , was awarded a major Warp Speed contract to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines , but that contract was awarded through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( BARDA ) , not ATI .
ANSER ’ s Rise , Its Fall , and Its Saving Grace In February 2017 , ATI was acquired by Analytic Services Inc. ANSER , like ATI , manages R & D projects for the federal government , historically for DHS , with ANSER being the long-time manager of one of the two DHS federally funded research and development centers .
However , ANSER also provides services to the DoD , NASA , the State Department , and the US intelligence community .
ANSER was originally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Corporation in the late 1950s , but it became a much larger part of government operations , particularly in the realm of Homeland Security , after Ruth David became its president and CEO in 1998 .
Prior to becoming ANSER ’ s CEO , David had been the deputy director for science and technology at the CIA , where , among other things , she laid the groundwork for what would become In-Q-Tel , the CIA ’ s venture capital arm responsible for the rise of several Silicon Valley behemoths such as Google @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2015 .
After David took charge , ANSER became an early leader in promoting the use of biometric and facial recognition software by US law enforcement agencies and became a key driver in pivoting the government toward “ homeland defense ” and “ homeland security ” in the years leading up to the events of September 11 , 2001 .
As journalist Margie Burns noted in a 2002 article , the rise of “ homeland defense ” as a centerpiece of US government policy , including the push to create a new “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former State Department official Richard Armitage ’ s alleged coining of the term in 1997 in a National Defense Policy document .
In the years that followed , this pivot toward seeing the American homeland as a future battlefield was heavily promoted by a web of media outlets owned by South Korean cult leader and CIA asset Sun Myong Moon , including the Washington Times , Insight Magazine , and UPI .
All published numerous articles either penned by ANSER analysts or that heavily cited ANSER reports and employees regarding the need for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apparatus .
In October 1999 , at David ’ s behest , ANSER created the Institute for Homeland Security ( ANSER-IHS ) .
Though fully funded and established at that time , but for reasons still unclear , the ANSER-IHS was not formally launched until April 2001 .
The Institute ’ s first director was Randall Larsen , who was at that time—and still is today—a close associate of current HHS ASPR Robert Kadlec .
Though ANSER has never explained the reason behind the lengthy delay in officially launching ANSER-IHS , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the introduction of H.R.1158 in March 2001 .
That bill called for the creation of the National Homeland Security Agency , which was the foundation of the later Department of Homeland Security .
One month after ANSER-IHS was created , Insight Magazine published an article in May 2001 entitled “ Preparing for the Next Pearl Harbor , ” which heavily cited ANSER and its Institute for Homeland Security as being among “ the nation ’ s top experts ” in warning that a terrorist attack on the US mainland was imminent .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on tomorrow ’ s battlefield won ’ t be soldiers , but city ambulance workers and small-town firefighters.
” The following month , ANSER-IHS cohosted the Dark Winter exercise , with two top ANSER-IHS officials , Mark DeMier and Randall Larsen , cowriting the exercise with Tara O ’ Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies ( now the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ) .
O ’ Toole , at the time , was on the ANSER-IHS board of advisers .
As previously detailed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those involved in Dark Winter had foreknowledge of the 2001 anthrax attacks , and Dark Winter itself originated what became the initial , yet false , narrative for those attacks—that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together to conduct acts of bioterrorism on US soil .
However , the anthrax used in the attacks was quickly determined to have either originated from a US military lab or a US defense contractor .
ANSER ’ s convenient gamble that the US government would imminently pivot toward homeland security soon after April 2001 paid off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stoked by 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks , the Department of Homeland Security was created , and ANSER-IHS quickly became the first government think tank , that is , federally funded research and development center .
Not long after its formal creation as an agency , DHS established its Science and Technology ( S & T ) Directorate in 2003 with the mission “ to protect the homeland by providing .
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officials with state-of-the-art technology.
” DHS later announced in 2004 that it had “ selected [ ANSER ] to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
[ f ] ollowing a full and open competition procurement process conducted by [ DHS ] Science and Technology.
” This is despite this very institute having already been funded and established by ANSER in 1999 and then launched in 2001 .
From 2009 to 2013 , the head of DHS Science and Technology Directorate was Dark Winter coauthor and bioterror alarmist Tara O ’ Toole , who had long-standing , close ties to ANSER-IHS , as previously mentioned .
With O ’ Toole at the helm , DHS focused on “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ increasing the budget for innovative , longer-term technology projects , ” such as those overseen by ANSER on the behalf of DHS .
She also made it her mission to model the S & T Directorate more closely after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) .
During her tenure , DHS also claimed to be “ unaware ” of how the department ’ s multibillion dollar research expenditures were being used , suggesting a lack of oversight in the millions of dollars DHS S & T was funneling to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DHS research center , which is run by the equally shady MITRE Corporation .
Unexpectedly for ANSER , DHS declined to renew ANSER ’ s federally funded research and development center contract in October 2016 .
They instead awarded that contract to the RAND Corporation , which created a new research and development center with “ a different set of focus areas , aligned more closely with current DHS priorities.
” ANSER ’ s apparent plans for restructuring following the loss of this critical contract included its decision to acquire ATI , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in February 2017 .
The acquisition of ATI gave ANSER access to the key OTA research consortia that ATI manages , ensuring that ANSER ’ s board of former intelligence officials , military officers , and defense-industry executives continued to wield considerable influence over the direction of government-funded research projects .
Per the press release , the acquisition was aimed at combining ANSER ’ s “ government problem-solving heritage with ATI ’ s technical expertise , ” allowing ANSER to continue to execute “ thought leadership independent of commercial influences ” over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overseen by ATI .
Thus , whatever decisions are being made by ATI with respect to these secretive Operation Warp Speed vaccine contracts , it is ultimately ANSER that is signing off on them .
Given that Operation Warp Speed ’ s official purpose is to use taxpayer funds to produce , accelerate , and distribute a medical treatment ( i. e. , vaccine ) to Americans , there is no reason for such extreme secrecy and also no reason for the excessive role of the military and secretive contractors like ATI and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public health ” effort .
While the officially stated purpose of Warp Speed makes the extreme secrecy involved seem not just unnecessary but absurd , it is worth noting that several recent revelations regarding Warp Speed ’ s structure , strategy , and execution strongly suggest that the reason for the operation ’ s covert nature is because its scope goes well beyond its publicly stated purpose .
For instance , Stat News noted last week that Operation Warp Speed “ looks a lot more like a military operation than a science project @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military officials—including at least four generals—are involved in the leadership of Operation Warp Speed , many of whom have never worked in health care or vaccine development.
” That report also pointed out that “ just 29 of the roughly 90 leaders on the chart aren ’ t employed by the Department of Defense.
” Though the military ’ s initial justification for playing such a major role in Warp Speed was related to its “ expertise ” in logistics and supply chains , the recent release of the operation ’ s vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the military ’ s role in those aspects of Warp Speed .
So noticeable was the disconnect that , soon after the release of the official distribution strategy , the Department of Defense “ clarified ” the military ’ s role in the operation by publishing an interview on its website with Lt. Gen. Ostrowski , who is leading Warp Speed ’ s efforts to supply , produce , and distribute vaccines .
Per Ostrowski , the reason the military is playing such an outsize role in Warp Speed is because of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contracting expertise.
” Yet , as this article has shown , Warp Speed contracts are being funneled through secretive contractors to avoid scrutiny and are apparently not being made available to HHS , the civilian agency supposedly “ co-leading ” Warp Speed alongside the military .
Such examples of extreme secrecy and conflicting statements appear to be just scratching the surface of what Operation Warp Speed truly aims to accomplish .
An upcoming series of investigative reports produced by this author in collaboration with Ryan Cristián and Derrick Broze of The Last American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the individuals leading it in order to expose Operation Warp Speed as the most clandestine , and arguably most dangerous , US military operation in decades .
Unlike such well-funded and secretive military operations of years past , this one is aimed directly at the American people .

Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret
$6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine contracts awarded by Operation Warp Speed have been doled out by a secretive government contractor with deep ties to the CIA and DHS, escaping regulatory scrutiny and beyond the reach of FOIA requests.
By: Whitney Webb
While most Americans were distracted by the first US presidential debate, NPR quietly reported that the US government’s Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership launched by the Trump administration to rapidly develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine, had taken the unusual step of awarding contracts to vaccine companies, not directly, but through a secretive defense contractor.
Though NPR named the defense contractor—South Carolina–based Advanced Technology International—they declined to explore the company’s deep ties to the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense and how ATI is helping to lead those agencies’ efforts to militarize health care and create a surveillance panopticon that not only monitors the world around us but our physiology as well.
The “secret” vaccine contracts awarded through ATI as part of Warp Speed total approximately $6 billion, accounting for the majority of Operation Warp Speed’s $10 billion budget. Both Paul Mango, Health and Human Services’ deputy chief of staff for policy, and Robert Kadlec, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response (ASPR), personally signed off on the contracts.
Operation Warp Speed, which officially involves the combined efforts of HHS and the military to deliver over 300 million Covid-19 vaccines to Americans by next January, is a highly secretive program dominated by military personnel, most of whom have no experience in health care or vaccine production. The Trump administration has often compared Warp Speed to the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb.
Several very unsettling revelations about the true nature and scope of Warp Speed, including the out-sized role of ATI, began to emerge starting last Monday. Yet, most of this new information was not covered by US news outlets due to the media frenzy surrounding the first presidential debate and the subsequent news that President Trump and several other politicians and White House officials had tested positive for Covid-19.
NPR noted that the decision to use a nongovernment intermediary like ATI to issue the coronavirus vaccine contracts, as opposed to the government itself directly awarding those contracts, allows Operation Warp Speed to “bypass the regulatory oversight and transparency of traditional federal contracting mechanisms.” This means that, among other things, the vaccine contracts awarded under Operation Warp Speed are unlikely to be publicly released in the near future, if ever.
The report from NPR also noted that the Congressional Research Service reported just last year that using such intermediaries to award contracts can result in “significant risks, including potentially diminished oversight and exemption from laws and regulations designed to protect government and taxpayer interests.” Proponents of this unorthodox way of issuing contracts, known as “other transaction agreements” (OTAs), often argue that utilizing this alternative method for awarding contracts significantly hastens the process. However, the Congressional Research Service also noted that the Department of Defense, which has been increasingly relying on OTAs in recent years, has never tracked the information necessary to determine if OTAs are actually faster than traditional contracting methods. This suggests that claims regarding the alleged “speed advantage” of OTAs are based on assumptions rather than data-based evidence.
Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, Pfizer, and Sanofi are among the companies that have received these covert vaccine contracts through the OTA authorized by Operation Warp Speed and managed by ATI. Many of these companies, particularly Johnson & Johnson, have been involved in scandals related to selling and marketing products they knew to be unsafe to the public. This makes the lack of oversight and their exemption from federal regulations (including safety regulations) an issue of concern regarding their participation in Warp Speed.
This concern is further compounded by the fact that, on September 21, HHS Secretary Alex Azar told FOX Business that all Operation Warp Speed vaccine manufacturers would be exempt from liability for any damages their vaccines may cause and that those who administer their vaccines would also not be liable for damages. “Under the PREP Act, which is a provision in Congress, any treatment or vaccine for purposes of a national emergency pandemic like this actually comes with liability protection. Both the product as well as those who administer it or provide it,” Azar stated during the televised interview. The PREP Act that Azar referenced was originally signed into law in 2005 but was updated this past April, a few weeks before Operation Warp Speed was announced, so that vaccine and therapeutic manufacturers “cannot be sued for money damages in court” over injuries caused by medical countermeasures for Covid-19.
Notably, the architect of that controversial April update to the PREP Act, HHS ASPR Kadlec, is intimately involved in deciding who is awarded Operation Warp Speed contracts. STAT News reported last week, citing senior HHS officials, that Kadlec “personally signs off” on every business agreement made on behalf of HHS for Operation Warp Speed. In addition to his past activities in lobbying for intelligence and defense contractors, Kadlec also previously worked as a lobbyist for the scandal-ridden biodefense company Emergent Biosolutions, which is also a major player in Operation Warp Speed as well as the manufacturer of the controversial anthrax vaccine BioThrax.
Despite top HHS officials allegedly overseeing every single one of these business agreements, NPR was told by HHS that the department has “no records” of the $1.6 billion Operation Warp Speed contract with Novavax, which was awarded through ATI. This is a strange response given that HHS is supposedly the lead agency overseeing Operation Warp Speed, yet they somehow lack a copy of a massive vaccine contract at the heart of the operation. NPR also asked the DoD for a copy of the Novavax contract and have yet to receive a response.
At a press conference in mid-September, Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, a key figure in Operation Warp Speed, told reporters: “With respect to the contracts, the contracts are between ourselves, the United States government and private entities, and they are releasable to an extent. Obviously everything cannot be released, but they are releasable to an extent and they will be made available at some point in time.” Ostrowski declined to elaborate on when that “point in time” would be.
Also odd is that ATI told NPR that, at the time they were awarding these secretive vaccine contracts, it was never explicitly told by the Department of Defense that these contracts were part of Operation Warp Speed, with a former ATI executive describing that key fact as “invisible” to the company.
Spooks and Skunkworks
Advanced Technology International (ATI) is a nonprofit company that organizes consortia of public, private, and academic organizations that perform research and development (R&D) on behalf of the US government. ATI mostly manages R&D consortia for the Department of Defense for things like weapons manufacturing, metal casting and forging, ship production, and technology aimed at countering so-called weapons of mass destruction. They also manage the Border Security Technology Consortium (BSTC) for the Department of Homeland Security, primarily surveillance technology companies, among other DHS research projects.
ATI only currently manages two consortia that have any relationship to health care, the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) and the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC). The MTEC, operating on behalf of the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, aims to “accelerate the development of revolutionary medical solutions,” which include gene editing, nanotechnology, “telehealth solutions,” artificial limbs, and brain implants. They are also currently developing a wearable device that would diagnose individuals with Covid-19 before symptoms appear.
The other ATI-managed “health-care” consortia, the MCDC, is focused on “advanced development efforts to support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) medical pharmaceutical and diagnostic requirements to counter Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threat agents.”
They are specifically involved in “enabling prototype technologies for therapeutic medical countermeasures targeting viral, bacterial and biological toxin targets of interest to the DoD,” including the development of vaccines. ATI told NPR that they were contacted by the DoD sometime between March and April, before Warp Speed was announced in May, and asked to issue requests for proposals related to Covid-19 from MCDC members.
MCDC members include Emergent Biosolutions as well as DoD/CIA contractor Battelle Memorial Institute, with both of those companies having unsettling ties to the 2001 anthrax attacks. Another member of the MCDC is CIA/NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and weapons manufacturer General Dynamics. MCDC’s membership has expanded significantly following ATI’s acquisition by Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER), the principal sponsor of the Dark Winter bioterror simulation, with eighteen new members added just three months after the acquisition had concluded.
In addition, there is considerable overlap between the MCDC and the vaccine companies that have been awarded secretive contracts through ATI as part of Operation Warp Speed. Sanofi, Novavax, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson are all MCDC members as well as recipients of Warp Speed vaccine contracts. In addition, Emergent Biosolutions, another MCDC member, was awarded a major Warp Speed contract to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines, but that contract was awarded through HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), not ATI.
ANSER’s Rise, Its Fall, and Its Saving Grace
In February 2017, ATI was acquired by Analytic Services Inc. ANSER, like ATI, manages R&D projects for the federal government, historically for DHS, with ANSER being the long-time manager of one of the two DHS federally funded research and development centers. However, ANSER also provides services to the DoD, NASA, the State Department, and the US intelligence community.
ANSER was originally founded as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation in the late 1950s, but it became a much larger part of government operations, particularly in the realm of Homeland Security, after Ruth David became its president and CEO in 1998. Prior to becoming ANSER’s CEO, David had been the deputy director for science and technology at the CIA, where, among other things, she laid the groundwork for what would become In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm responsible for the rise of several Silicon Valley behemoths such as Google and Palantir. David led ANSER until 2015. After David took charge, ANSER became an early leader in promoting the use of biometric and facial recognition software by US law enforcement agencies and became a key driver in pivoting the government toward “homeland defense” and “homeland security” in the years leading up to the events of September 11, 2001.
As journalist Margie Burns noted in a 2002 article, the rise of “homeland defense” as a centerpiece of US government policy, including the push to create a new “homeland security” agency, began with former State Department official Richard Armitage’s alleged coining of the term in 1997 in a National Defense Policy document. In the years that followed, this pivot toward seeing the American homeland as a future battlefield was heavily promoted by a web of media outlets owned by South Korean cult leader and CIA asset Sun Myong Moon, including the Washington Times, Insight Magazine, and UPI. All published numerous articles either penned by ANSER analysts or that heavily cited ANSER reports and employees regarding the need for a greatly expanded “homeland security” apparatus.
In October 1999, at David’s behest, ANSER created the Institute for Homeland Security (ANSER-IHS). Though fully funded and established at that time, but for reasons still unclear, the ANSER-IHS was not formally launched until April 2001. The Institute’s first director was Randall Larsen, who was at that time—and still is today—a close associate of current HHS ASPR Robert Kadlec. Though ANSER has never explained the reason behind the lengthy delay in officially launching ANSER-IHS, it is possible that the timing was related to the introduction of H.R.1158 in March 2001. That bill called for the creation of the National Homeland Security Agency, which was the foundation of the later Department of Homeland Security.
One month after ANSER-IHS was created, Insight Magazine published an article in May 2001 entitled “Preparing for the Next Pearl Harbor,” which heavily cited ANSER and its Institute for Homeland Security as being among “the nation’s top experts” in warning that a terrorist attack on the US mainland was imminent. It also stated that “the first responders on tomorrow’s battlefield won’t be soldiers, but city ambulance workers and small-town firefighters.”
The following month, ANSER-IHS cohosted the Dark Winter exercise, with two top ANSER-IHS officials, Mark DeMier and Randall Larsen, cowriting the exercise with Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies (now the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security). O’Toole, at the time, was on the ANSER-IHS board of advisers.
As previously detailed in the Engineering Contagion series, several of those involved in Dark Winter had foreknowledge of the 2001 anthrax attacks, and Dark Winter itself originated what became the initial, yet false, narrative for those attacks—that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together to conduct acts of bioterrorism on US soil. However, the anthrax used in the attacks was quickly determined to have either originated from a US military lab or a US defense contractor.
ANSER’s convenient gamble that the US government would imminently pivot toward homeland security soon after April 2001 paid off tremendously. Thanks largely to the fear stoked by 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Department of Homeland Security was created, and ANSER-IHS quickly became the first government think tank, that is, federally funded research and development center.
Not long after its formal creation as an agency, DHS established its Science and Technology (S & T) Directorate in 2003 with the mission “to protect the homeland by providing . . . officials with state-of-the-art technology.” DHS later announced in 2004 that it had “selected [ANSER] to operate the Homeland Security Institute . . . [f]ollowing a full and open competition procurement process conducted by [DHS] Science and Technology.” This is despite this very institute having already been funded and established by ANSER in 1999 and then launched in 2001.
From 2009 to 2013, the head of DHS Science and Technology Directorate was Dark Winter coauthor and bioterror alarmist Tara O’Toole, who had long-standing, close ties to ANSER-IHS, as previously mentioned. With O’Toole at the helm, DHS focused on “more robust public-private sector partnerships” and “increasing the budget for innovative, longer-term technology projects,” such as those overseen by ANSER on the behalf of DHS. She also made it her mission to model the S & T Directorate more closely after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
During her tenure, DHS also claimed to be “unaware” of how the department’s multibillion dollar research expenditures were being used, suggesting a lack of oversight in the millions of dollars DHS S & T was funneling to the ANSER-run research center and the other DHS research center, which is run by the equally shady MITRE Corporation.
Unexpectedly for ANSER, DHS declined to renew ANSER’s federally funded research and development center contract in October 2016. They instead awarded that contract to the RAND Corporation, which created a new research and development center with “a different set of focus areas, aligned more closely with current DHS priorities.” ANSER’s apparent plans for restructuring following the loss of this critical contract included its decision to acquire ATI, which took place just a few months later in February 2017.
The acquisition of ATI gave ANSER access to the key OTA research consortia that ATI manages, ensuring that ANSER’s board of former intelligence officials, military officers, and defense-industry executives continued to wield considerable influence over the direction of government-funded research projects. Per the press release, the acquisition was aimed at combining ANSER’s “government problem-solving heritage with ATI’s technical expertise,” allowing ANSER to continue to execute “thought leadership independent of commercial influences” over the “important defense technology developments” being overseen by ATI. Thus, whatever decisions are being made by ATI with respect to these secretive Operation Warp Speed vaccine contracts, it is ultimately ANSER that is signing off on them.
Mess Hall
Given that Operation Warp Speed’s official purpose is to use taxpayer funds to produce, accelerate, and distribute a medical treatment (i. e., vaccine) to Americans, there is no reason for such extreme secrecy and also no reason for the excessive role of the military and secretive contractors like ATI and ANSER in the execution of this “public health” effort.
While the officially stated purpose of Warp Speed makes the extreme secrecy involved seem not just unnecessary but absurd, it is worth noting that several recent revelations regarding Warp Speed’s structure, strategy, and execution strongly suggest that the reason for the operation’s covert nature is because its scope goes well beyond its publicly stated purpose.
For instance, Stat News noted last week that Operation Warp Speed “looks a lot more like a military operation than a science project,” adding that “roughly 60 military officials—including at least four generals—are involved in the leadership of Operation Warp Speed, many of whom have never worked in health care or vaccine development.” That report also pointed out that “just 29 of the roughly 90 leaders on the chart aren’t employed by the Department of Defense.”
Though the military’s initial justification for playing such a major role in Warp Speed was related to its “expertise” in logistics and supply chains, the recent release of the operation’s vaccine distribution strategy makes no direct mention of the military’s role in those aspects of Warp Speed. So noticeable was the disconnect that, soon after the release of the official distribution strategy, the Department of Defense “clarified” the military’s role in the operation by publishing an interview on its website with Lt. Gen. Ostrowski, who is leading Warp Speed’s efforts to supply, produce, and distribute vaccines. Per Ostrowski, the reason the military is playing such an outsize role in Warp Speed is because of the military’s “program management and contracting expertise.”
Yet, as this article has shown, Warp Speed contracts are being funneled through secretive contractors to avoid scrutiny and are apparently not being made available to HHS, the civilian agency supposedly “co-leading” Warp Speed alongside the military.
Such examples of extreme secrecy and conflicting statements appear to be just scratching the surface of what Operation Warp Speed truly aims to accomplish. An upcoming series of investigative reports produced by this author in collaboration with Ryan Cristián and Derrick Broze of The Last American Vagabond will explore in depth this operation and the individuals leading it in order to expose Operation Warp Speed as the most clandestine, and arguably most dangerous, US military operation in decades. Unlike such well-funded and secretive military operations of years past, this one is aimed directly at the American people.
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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is facing a final round of questions Wednesday from the Senate Judiciary Committee , with Democrats on the panel expected to question her about such key issues as the Affordable Care Act , abortion and voting rights .
On Tuesday , the first day of questions , Barrett , like many past nominees , repeatedly declined to speculate on how she might rule in hypothetical cases that could be presented to her following confirmation .
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” “ I hope the American people understand that this is the way that it should be , ” said Graham , who was notably stirred in the days following the repeatedly hostile exchanges that took place during now-SCOTUS justice Brett Kavanaugh ’ s confirmation hearings in 2018 .
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Graham has said he expects a committee vote by Oct. 22 .
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Supreme Court nominee Barrett begins 2nd round of questions in Senate conf hearings
The nominee will face her final round of questions on Wednesday
By Sophie Mann
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is facing a final round of questions Wednesday from the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Democrats on the panel expected to question her about such key issues as the Affordable Care Act, abortion and voting rights.
On Tuesday, the first day of questions, Barrett, like many past nominees, repeatedly declined to speculate on how she might rule in hypothetical cases that could be presented to her following confirmation.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, the committee’s chairman, concluded Tuesday’s hearing by commending the participants for what he called a “good interchange.”
“I hope the American people understand that this is the way that it should be,” said Graham, who was notably stirred in the days following the repeatedly hostile exchanges that took place during now-SCOTUS justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings in 2018.
On Wednesday, Senators will have 20-minutes to ask questions, as opposed to the 30 they had Tuesday.
Graham has said he expects a committee vote by Oct. 22. If the GOP-led committee votes in favor of recommending Barrett to the high court, as expected, she would then face a full Senate vote, which she is also expected to pass. Republicans have 53 of the 100 Senate seats.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-14--KEN’S CORNER: Liberty, Laughter & the Souls Of Men

Nearly every place I have worked internationally , I have met Filipinos .
They are a very special race of people , and have taught me a lot .
I think if they all went home at once there would not be enough room for all of them… They travel , because they can ’ t find a good paying job there… and most men send every dime home that they can… Some , who I have had the privilege to have known well , have , with broad smiles and contagious laughs , told me that they had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years from family , and so very glad to have a job… A land of occupation , a Filipino knows very well the true meaning of Liberty , and they did not learn that from America… And that is why they are so optimistic inside , so responsible , so dedicated… And I know now , as I traveled that country from Olongapo to Manila , the long and bloody history of freedom fighting… And I didn ’ t at the time understand why a fast cigar boat tried to kill my XO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choppers who chased them down… But I saw first hand the punishment enacted on a people who resisted imperialist tyranny… and they knew , learned form the slaver ’ s lash , that what government does is not the fault of the average man , even one drafted to uniform… something most Americans have yet to grasp : That Liberty must be fought for every generation .
The falcon of the Gulf of Mexico On a deep-water rig in the Gulf of Mexico I was in my second week of a 30 day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slow and sure with a high-weight mud in hard formations .
One of the hands noticed that a falcon had made its nest precariously on an I-beam under the helo-deck , 110 feet above the waves… .
Every day men would go there and watch a fuzzy baby sit patiently for its mother to bring food , and we were so amazed to see her , a tiny dot in the clouds , finding insects a thousand feet up , and 140 miles from land… One day it sat on the very rim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its new world .
“ I think its ready to fly !
” said a roustabout .
And he climbed out on that I- beam and grabbed it .
Why , I can not say for sure… Perhaps he wanted to impress his friends , or maybe it was just to be a part of the magic… men are like that , having to touch everything , to bend and manipulate , to control and dominate…and he tossed it up in the air… It fluttered desperately for what seemed an eternity , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the waves and tried to lift off with piercing cries… and I ’ ll never forget that sound… I think no one there ever will… And the mother came darting from the sky and circled it , and circled and circled… as the tide carried them both beyond sight… It was terrible , and for days the rig was quiet , and the man who did it apologized many times… He felt bad , and it was a lesson for us all… Sometimes it is just better to leave well enough alone .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Liberty .
Most likely every creature on earth does…And yet , it can not be given by anyone , no matter how justified , or good it may seem for the giver who thinks it is in his power to give… but it is an emphatic truth , and a universal law : no one can own your liberty .
While in Saudi , a Filipino I called Sam ( Sim ) , was arrested for making hooch , white-lightning .
Caught with six quarts , he spent three years of his life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Saudi prison .
While he was in there , his friends continued making it in a crawl space above their bedroom .
Taking off a ceiling tile the still could be seen bubbling away…They sold every ounce , and every dime was sent home to his family… I smuggled a fifth of it back to The States , before the world was tied in knots by 9-11 , wrapped up in a dirty towel and stuffed in the very bottom of my duffel .
I was compelled to do it , even knowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I still have it in my liquor cabinet , far too precious to drink… No rules , no matter how harsh , or ruthless , can take away Liberty from the heart of a man .
Tyranny is the actual fuel for Liberty , and men of like mind will work together to destroy it , one way or another .
Men who work together for liberty , watch each others backs… And that is where , “ Give me Liberty or give me death ” comes from .
It is a powerful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ God , and can never be subverted , never .
When I was a young boy I remember a troubled teenager who was the son of my mother ’ s boss .
She sold Sara Coventry jewelry… He was a thief , did drugs , got several DWIs , and could not hold down a job .
I liked him… He sat with me one afternoon and told me to get an education , and that the worst job you could ever get was a grease-monkey at a filling-station .
To emphasize this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his inside palm .
He didn ’ t even flinch , because his hand was thick with callous .
“ You will never have callouses like this Ken.
” …and his eyes sparkled when he told me that… and when he looked at me , he looked like he really cared for me… and I can still feel his great hand on my shoulder… One day he ran a red light and a cop pulled him over .
He was drunk .
He pulled out a pistol and put a bullet in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years have gone by , about fifty now , I suppose , I still get a lump in my throat thinking about him .
He did not know liberty .
In his mind , he was nothing more than a slave , and like that bird , could not fly .
Liberty comes from inside , found in the soul of every man , but it is up to you to find it… and it seems that not everyone can muster what it takes to make it a viable part of their life… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and it was something so great , his life had little meaning without it .
..And I know now that what he was searching for was Liberty .
One day , when I was 37 , I was jogging down seven mile beach in Cayman .
On an isolated part I saw five men standing together just looking at the surf .
They were dressed in street clothes… nothing special , nothing really unusual or even noteworthy to the common eye… but I felt something like a powerful magnet in my head @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talk with them .
They didn ’ t seem a bit surprised when I approached , as they all had to the last man , a good and contagious nature , and I felt I had known them my entire life… They were National Geographic photographers , and I spent the morning with them talking , even not showing up for work as Administrative Assistant at Treasure Island resort… A few things I remember , and always will , was that none of them were married , and though two once were , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ realized that they had made a decision in their life of adventure , just as I had in mine , married and a father… The next day they went diving and came up with about eight cannon balls , photographing the experience… I saw myself there with them .
I saw myself as one of them in spirit , and watched them from a little sand dune with my daughter Laura , seven years old , and I knew that I had made the right decision… Liberty is found in the heart , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choices we make , or have made .
Responsibility , love , does not make liberty .
It was given to us by God the day we took our first breath , and will last forever , no matter what .
Once , around the year 1998 , I was working on a deep-water PEMEX flag-ship off the coast of Mexico .
We were using a new synthetic mud , and since it was so deep , the cuttings steamed as they fell on the deck .
In the middle of the summer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and those cuttings was scorching , and there , in the middle of it , was a man whose job it was to shovel it over the side , through a 12″ hole in the deck .
Sweat poured from him , splashing on the iron as steam , and he laughed and sang the whole time working .
I had never met a man like this , and though I knew only a working knowledge of Spanish , asked him the secret of his amazing ability to be happy in this harsh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and I didn ’ t understand… and when I asked him what he was singing he said it was a love song… Then it hit me .
He was talking about his family .
And the song , he was telling me , was a song for them .
And when I look at my life and I think it is hard , I remember that man , and life just doesn ’ t seem so very bad at all… On the way back to the beach by chopper , the pilots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ militant , and we yo-yoed from one platform to another… as I got madder and madder .
You see , I am , as I have been taught to be , and alpha male , and I do not put up with anything I think disrespectful… And he saw this , and understood that , and took his hard-hat out of his bag and started playing it like a bongo drum , singing at the top of his lungs… laughing just inches from my face… “ Not to worry.
” he said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You see , not to worry… Liberty can not be denied .
It is your epitaph , your true destiny , and it is a part of your conscious free will , and the gift and grace of life itself .
And with each breath you take , every lesson learned , no one , no thing , no government , no bully… can EVER take that from you .
And once you realize this you will laugh and sing , and fear will no longer grip your soul… Liberty gives your heart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , your strength of purpose will light the way , and be seen by all of humanity as The Liberty Beacon .
If you can ’ t find something in life to die for , you will find very little to live for , and that is the true strength of the Liberty movement… Blind faith or blind trust will not take our country back , but our hard won intellect , and its demand for truth , will , and without a doubt .
Liberty is Free , but liberty from tyranny @ @ @ @ @ @ @ From the Author , Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade , peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts .
Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions , further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty .
And so , as we are pulled by forces we can not fathom , powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future , unaccountable trillions printed out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as debt , we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour : Are we going to fight for our master ’ s tyranny , or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution ?
Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty , or the shackles of voluntary servitude ?
Will it be a war for corporate profit , or a war to regain our ability to self govern , as the blood and toil of our forefathers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a gift ?
I fear that decision is emanate .
I fear that any decision will be a hard one , but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us .

KEN’S CORNER: Liberty, Laughter & the Souls Of Men
Commentary by TLB Contributing Writer: Ken LaRive
Author’s note: The Liberty movement is growing, well, it has always been there, its just that more folks are finally realizing it. We should feel very good about that. The following are six little stories from very unlikely sources, and they just might help you see Liberty in a whole new light…
The Philippines
Nearly every place I have worked internationally, I have met Filipinos. They are a very special race of people, and have taught me a lot. I think if they all went home at once there would not be enough room for all of them… They travel, because they can’t find a good paying job there… and most men send every dime home that they can… Some, who I have had the privilege to have known well, have, with broad smiles and contagious laughs, told me that they had been gone from home for three years… Three years from family, and so very glad to have a job…
A land of occupation, a Filipino knows very well the true meaning of Liberty, and they did not learn that from America… And that is why they are so optimistic inside, so responsible, so dedicated… And I know now, as I traveled that country from Olongapo to Manila, the long and bloody history of freedom fighting… And I didn’t at the time understand why a fast cigar boat tried to kill my XO, or the quick response of attack choppers who chased them down… But I saw first hand the punishment enacted on a people who resisted imperialist tyranny… and they knew, learned form the slaver’s lash, that what government does is not the fault of the average man, even one drafted to uniform… something most Americans have yet to grasp: That Liberty must be fought for every generation.
The falcon of the Gulf of Mexico
On a deep-water rig in the Gulf of Mexico I was in my second week of a 30 day hitch as a Mud Engineer, drilling slow and sure with a high-weight mud in hard formations. One of the hands noticed that a falcon had made its nest precariously on an I-beam under the helo-deck, 110 feet above the waves…. Every day men would go there and watch a fuzzy baby sit patiently for its mother to bring food, and we were so amazed to see her, a tiny dot in the clouds, finding insects a thousand feet up, and 140 miles from land…
One day it sat on the very rim and flapped its downy wings looking at its new world. “I think its ready to fly!” said a roustabout. And he climbed out on that I- beam and grabbed it. Why, I can not say for sure… Perhaps he wanted to impress his friends, or maybe it was just to be a part of the magic… men are like that, having to touch everything, to bend and manipulate, to control and dominate…and he tossed it up in the air…
It fluttered desperately for what seemed an eternity, but could never gain altitude… It landed in the waves and tried to lift off with piercing cries… and I’ll never forget that sound… I think no one there ever will… And the mother came darting from the sky and circled it, and circled and circled… as the tide carried them both beyond sight… It was terrible, and for days the rig was quiet, and the man who did it apologized many times… He felt bad, and it was a lesson for us all… Sometimes it is just better to leave well enough alone.
You see, even a bird wants Liberty. Most likely every creature on earth does…And yet, it can not be given by anyone, no matter how justified, or good it may seem for the giver who thinks it is in his power to give… but it is an emphatic truth, and a universal law: no one can own your liberty.
Saudi Arabia
While in Saudi, a Filipino I called Sam (Sim), was arrested for making hooch, white-lightning. Caught with six quarts, he spent three years of his life in the squalor and heat of a Saudi prison. While he was in there, his friends continued making it in a crawl space above their bedroom. Taking off a ceiling tile the still could be seen bubbling away…They sold every ounce, and every dime was sent home to his family… I smuggled a fifth of it back to The States, before the world was tied in knots by 9-11, wrapped up in a dirty towel and stuffed in the very bottom of my duffel. I was compelled to do it, even knowing I could have gotten in trouble… and I still have it in my liquor cabinet, far too precious to drink…
No rules, no matter how harsh, or ruthless, can take away Liberty from the heart of a man. Tyranny is the actual fuel for Liberty, and men of like mind will work together to destroy it, one way or another. Men who work together for liberty, watch each others backs… And that is where, “Give me Liberty or give me death” comes from. It is a powerful affirmation, and a true gift from God, and can never be subverted, never.
New Orleans
When I was a young boy I remember a troubled teenager who was the son of my mother’s boss. She sold Sara Coventry jewelry… He was a thief, did drugs, got several DWIs, and could not hold down a job. I liked him… He sat with me one afternoon and told me to get an education, and that the worst job you could ever get was a grease-monkey at a filling-station. To emphasize this, he put his cigarette out on his inside palm. He didn’t even flinch, because his hand was thick with callous. “You will never have callouses like this Ken.” …and his eyes sparkled when he told me that… and when he looked at me, he looked like he really cared for me… and I can still feel his great hand on my shoulder…
One day he ran a red light and a cop pulled him over. He was drunk. He pulled out a pistol and put a bullet in his head. And no matter how many years have gone by, about fifty now, I suppose, I still get a lump in my throat thinking about him. He did not know liberty. In his mind, he was nothing more than a slave, and like that bird, could not fly. Liberty comes from inside, found in the soul of every man, but it is up to you to find it… and it seems that not everyone can muster what it takes to make it a viable part of their life… still, he knew something was lacking, and it was something so great, his life had little meaning without it. ..And I know now that what he was searching for was Liberty.
Cayman Islands
One day, when I was 37, I was jogging down seven mile beach in Cayman. On an isolated part I saw five men standing together just looking at the surf. They were dressed in street clothes… nothing special, nothing really unusual or even noteworthy to the common eye… but I felt something like a powerful magnet in my head, and I had to stop and talk with them. They didn’t seem a bit surprised when I approached, as they all had to the last man, a good and contagious nature, and I felt I had known them my entire life…
They were National Geographic photographers, and I spent the morning with them talking, even not showing up for work as Administrative Assistant at Treasure Island resort…
A few things I remember, and always will, was that none of them were married, and though two once were, the job got both of them… I realized that they had made a decision in their life of adventure, just as I had in mine, married and a father… The next day they went diving and came up with about eight cannon balls, photographing the experience… I saw myself there with them. I saw myself as one of them in spirit, and watched them from a little sand dune with my daughter Laura, seven years old, and I knew that I had made the right decision…
Liberty is found in the heart, and has nothing to do with what choices we make, or have made. Responsibility, love, does not make liberty. It was given to us by God the day we took our first breath, and will last forever, no matter what.
Mexico
Once, around the year 1998, I was working on a deep-water PEMEX flag-ship off the coast of Mexico. We were using a new synthetic mud, and since it was so deep, the cuttings steamed as they fell on the deck. In the middle of the summer the combined temperature of a blazing sun and those cuttings was scorching, and there, in the middle of it, was a man whose job it was to shovel it over the side, through a 12″ hole in the deck.
Sweat poured from him, splashing on the iron as steam, and he laughed and sang the whole time working. I had never met a man like this, and though I knew only a working knowledge of Spanish, asked him the secret of his amazing ability to be happy in this harsh environment. He kept touching his heart, and I didn’t understand… and when I asked him what he was singing he said it was a love song… Then it hit me. He was talking about his family. And the song, he was telling me, was a song for them. And when I look at my life and I think it is hard, I remember that man, and life just doesn’t seem so very bad at all…
On the way back to the beach by chopper, the pilots were egotistical, condescending, arrogant, militant, and we yo-yoed from one platform to another… as I got madder and madder. You see, I am, as I have been taught to be, and alpha male, and I do not put up with anything I think disrespectful… And he saw this, and understood that, and took his hard-hat out of his bag and started playing it like a bongo drum, singing at the top of his lungs… laughing just inches from my face… “Not to worry.” he said, “It is all about Love.”
Wings
You see, not to worry… Liberty can not be denied. It is your epitaph, your true destiny, and it is a part of your conscious free will, and the gift and grace of life itself. And with each breath you take, every lesson learned, no one, no thing, no government, no bully… can EVER take that from you. And once you realize this you will laugh and sing, and fear will no longer grip your soul… Liberty gives your heart wings, and once you realize that, your strength of purpose will light the way, and be seen by all of humanity as The Liberty Beacon.
If you can’t find something in life to die for, you will find very little to live for, and that is the true strength of the Liberty movement… Blind faith or blind trust will not take our country back, but our hard won intellect, and its demand for truth, will, and without a doubt. Liberty is Free, but liberty from tyranny is not… that is our responsibility.
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From the Author, Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade, peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts. Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions, further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty. And so, as we are pulled by forces we cannot fathom, powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future, unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt, we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour: Are we going to fight for our master’s tyranny, or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution? Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty, or the shackles of voluntary servitude? Will it be a war for corporate profit, or a war to regain our ability to self govern, as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us, their children, as a gift? I fear that decision is emanate. I fear that any decision will be a hard one, but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--Johnson & Johnson Pauses COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Due To ‘Unexplained Illness’

Johnson & Johnson temporarily paused Phase 3 clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine on Monday after one participant experienced what the company termed “ an unexplained illness.
” The multinational maker of packaged consumer goods , medical devices and pharmaceuticals declined to provide details about the reaction or illness , leaving the public and thousands of other trial participants in the dark .
In a press release , the company said its decision to withhold details was made out of respect for the trial participant ’ s privacy .
But the company also said the illness “ might be related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & Johnson ’ s clinical trial guidelines , trials are paused only if participants experience a vaccine-related adverse event .
The Phase 3 study began on Sept. 23 with researchers planning to enroll 60,000 participants in the U.S. and other countries .
Moreover , the Johnson & Johnson trial uses a sodium chloride solution ( saline ) as a placebo .
Saline injections , regarded by the scientific community as harmless , are widely accepted as a valid placebo control in vaccine trials .
In September , the director of the National Institutes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporters that vaccine trials taking place as part of “ Operation Warp Speed ” are larger and more rigorous than ever before .
Yet the Johnson & Johnson trial doesn ’ t include any pregnant women , which makes it impossible to know if the vaccine being developed by the company might harm them or their children .
All female trial participants of “ childbearing potential ” are required to practice “ an acceptable effective method of contraception ” until three months after getting the experimental vaccine .
The Data and Safety Monitoring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of scientists and biostatisticians whose identities aren ’ t publicly known , will investigate and decide whether or not the Johnson & Johnson trials can continue .
The U.S. government already has a deal with Johnson & Johnson to buy 100 million doses of its experimental vaccine for $ 1 billion .
This isn ’ t the first time in recent history that Johnson & Johnson has faced public scrutiny regarding the safety of its products .
In July 2018 , a St. Louis jury awarded nearly $ 4.7 billion in damages to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the carcinogenic asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer .
Earlier this month , Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $ 100 million to resolve more than 1,000 lawsuits blaming its baby powder for causing cancer .
But the company won ’ t face a similar fate if it brings to market a COVID-19 vaccine that subsequently is found to cause illness or injuries .
That ’ s because in March 2020 , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a declaration under the Public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Act that provides immunity “ against any claim of loss caused by , arising out of , relating to , or resulting from the manufacture , distribution , administration , or use of medical countermeasures , ” including vaccines .
The declaration indemnifies Johnson & Johnson and other vaccine makers against lawsuits , regardless of whether their new vaccines produce harmful effects .
Johnson & Johnson is the third “ Operation Warp Speed ” participant to report possible adverse reactions .
In May , Moderna ’ s vaccine was shown to have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in its high-dose group — one participant in the Moderna trial said he became “ the sickest in his life ” after taking the vaccine .
In September , AstraZeneca paused its vaccine trial after a participant suffered symptoms consistent with transverse myelitis , a neurological disorder that can result in weakness of the limbs , problems emptying the bladder and paralysis .
AstraZeneca has since resumed clinical trials in the UK , Brazil , India and South Africa .
But the trials remain on hold in the U.S. TLB Editors Note : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
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Johnson & Johnson Pauses COVID Vaccine Trials After ‘Unexplained Illness’
By: Jeremy Loffredo
Johnson & Johnson temporarily paused Phase 3 clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine on Monday after one participant experienced what the company termed “an unexplained illness.”
The multinational maker of packaged consumer goods, medical devices and pharmaceuticals declined to provide details about the reaction or illness, leaving the public and thousands of other trial participants in the dark.
In a press release, the company said its decision to withhold details was made out of respect for the trial participant’s privacy. But the company also said the illness “might be related to a vaccine.”
According to Johnson & Johnson’s clinical trial guidelines, trials are paused only if participants experience a vaccine-related adverse event. The Phase 3 study began on Sept. 23 with researchers planning to enroll 60,000 participants in the U.S. and other countries.
Moreover, the Johnson & Johnson trial uses a sodium chloride solution (saline) as a placebo. Saline injections, regarded by the scientific community as harmless, are widely accepted as a valid placebo control in vaccine trials.
In September, the director of the National Institutes for Health, Francis Collins, told reporters that vaccine trials taking place as part of “Operation Warp Speed” are larger and more rigorous than ever before.
Yet the Johnson & Johnson trial doesn’t include any pregnant women, which makes it impossible to know if the vaccine being developed by the company might harm them or their children. All female trial participants of “childbearing potential” are required to practice “an acceptable effective method of contraception” until three months after getting the experimental vaccine.
The Data and Safety Monitoring Board, made up of a group of scientists and biostatisticians whose identities aren’t publicly known, will investigate and decide whether or not the Johnson & Johnson trials can continue.
The U.S. government already has a deal with Johnson & Johnson to buy 100 million doses of its experimental vaccine for $1 billion.
This isn’t the first time in recent history that Johnson & Johnson has faced public scrutiny regarding the safety of its products. In July 2018, a St. Louis jury awarded nearly $4.7 billion in damages to 22 women and their families who claimed the carcinogenic asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer. Earlier this month, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $100 million to resolve more than 1,000 lawsuits blaming its baby powder for causing cancer.
But the company won’t face a similar fate if it brings to market a COVID-19 vaccine that subsequently is found to cause illness or injuries. That’s because in March 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act or PREP Act that provides immunity “against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use of medical countermeasures,” including vaccines.
The declaration indemnifies Johnson & Johnson and other vaccine makers against lawsuits, regardless of whether their new vaccines produce harmful effects.
Johnson & Johnson is the third “Operation Warp Speed” participant to report possible adverse reactions. In May, Moderna’s vaccine was shown to have a 20% “serious” injury rate in its high-dose group — one participant in the Moderna trial said he became “the sickest in his life” after taking the vaccine.
In September, AstraZeneca paused its vaccine trial after a participant suffered symptoms consistent with transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that can result in weakness of the limbs, problems emptying the bladder and paralysis.
AstraZeneca has since resumed clinical trials in the UK, Brazil, India and South Africa. But the trials remain on hold in the U.S.
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