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Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder (pictured above) is quoted in the U.K. based Sunday Times that the song “Wreckage” was inspired by former President and presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The song is saying‚ let’s not be driven apart by one person‚ especially not a person without any worthy causes‚” Vedder explained.   “Wreckage” is on Pearl Jam’s recent “Dark Matter” album. “Trump is desperate‚” Vedder continued. “I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win‚ just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line‚ and he’s out there playing the victim-‘at least they’re doing this to me‚ because if not‚ they would be doing it to you’ — but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement.” Pearl Jam has a long history of political activism going back to the Bush Administration where they railed against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. ### The post Pearl Jam’s Trump Inspired “Wreckage” appeared first on RockinTown.

The case of molnupiravir illustrates the corruption of the pandemic response at its very worst Imagine the following scenario‚ if you will. Bear with me. There’s a global pandemic. Let’s say‚ for argument’s sake‚ the disease is a novel respiratory virus. Governments around the world implement a totally new strategy to contain the virus‚ based on isolation measures that quarantine the healthy as well as the sick. The focus is on preventing not only deaths and serious cases‚ but reducing or even eliminating transmission. One of the conditions for the end of these extreme quarantine conditions is that transmission—“new cases”—must fall below a certain threshold indicated by the “R number‚” a measure of how contagious a disease is. If the R number increases after quarantine conditions have been lifted‚ they can and will be reimposed. The emergence of new variants‚ including variants that could be significantly more transmissible and also more deadly‚ is identified and communicated to the public as a major concern. Genetic testing of virus samples is carried out around the world to monitor for the emergence of such variants.URGENT&;#33; Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO&;#33; Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today&;#33; At an early stage‚ Big Pharma is enlisted to create new treatments against the virus‚ including vaccines and therapeutics. They are given exemptions from traditional safeguards on vaccine and medicine development because of the “exceptional” circumstances of the pandemic. Among those therapeutics is a drug that deliberately targets the genome of the novel virus in the bodies of patients‚ causing the virus to mutate in ways that‚ the drug manufacturer claims‚ will cause the virus to become less harmful. Patients’ immune systems will then do the rest if the virus doesn’t mutate itself to death. The development of this drug is subsidised heavily by the US government‚ which buys nearly two million doses before the drug has even passed clinical trials. Experts‚ including members of the US government’s own health advisory panel‚ warn that this drug could have unexpected consequences‚ generating new potentially more harmful variants that could escape the bodies of users and trigger a fresh wave of the disease‚ setting back the global prevention measures by months or years and harming many hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. The concerns are dismissed as “hypothetical” by the drug manufacturer. The drug is granted emergency-use authorization. Millions of doses are sold around the world‚ especially in Asia. The US government buys millions more doses. Months later‚ researchers who have been monitoring the genomes of live strains of the virus notice distinctive patterns that suggest this drug has‚ in fact‚ been producing new variants that are then being transmitted “in the wild.” A detailed scientific study by world experts confirms that this is the case. Another study suggests the drug is having a “supercharging” effect on the virus in the bodies of patients whose immune systems are already compromised‚ which could also spawn a harmful new variant. At the same time‚ other studies on the drug’s efficacy show that it has “little effect” in reducing the frequency or severity of acute cases. People who take the drug are just as likely to end up in the hospital or die as people who don’t. Just imagine&;#33; Except‚ of course‚ you don’t have to. Everything I’ve just described‚ all that insanity‚ happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. The mutator drug is molnupiravir—brand name “Lagevrio”—and its manufacturer is Merck. What’s happened with the drug should be an absolute scandal‚ but it isn’t—and you can bet it won’t be. I first wrote about molnupiravir over a year ago for The National Pulse‚ when a study confirming the drug was creating new variants was released for pre-publication. It was actually an Indian middle-school teacher called Ryan Hisner who noticed the distinctive pattern in COVID genomes that suddenly started appearing. It was a hobby of his‚ when he wasn’t marking homework‚ to scan online databases where COVID genomes were being published. Thank God for nerds‚ eh&;#63; Well‚ it was nerds who came up with the drug in the first place‚ so maybe we should qualify that gesture of thanks. Thank God for nerds who aren’t committed to unleashing dangerous gene-mutating medical treatments on the world. Now there’s a second paper that confirms the findings of the first within a clinical setting. In this one‚ researchers from Australia closely monitored the viral genomes of nine hospital patients with persistent COVID-19 infection. Of the nine‚ five received molnupiravir treatment and four did not. Here’s how a press release describes the results. “Patients treated with the drug rapidly accumulated hundreds of new mutations across the virus genome‚ including the spike protein targeted by vaccines‚ even after the treatment had stopped. “Even 40 days after treatment‚ mutations continued to develop‚ raising concerns about the potential transmission of mutated viruses.” Concerns. Yeah‚ right. The drug should never have been approved in the first place‚ and perhaps it wouldn’t have been in a world where there existed an actual separation between government and big corporations like Merck. But instead‚ there’s no separation between government and big corporations. The personnel and interests of the two overlap almost entirely. FDA board members go on to work for the companies whose drugs they approve. Last year‚ an investigation by the British Medical Journal showed that two FDA regulators who approved Moderna’s mRNA vaccine then went on to work for Moderna within a matter of months or weeks. They call this a “revolving-door culture‚” but the truth is‚ these people don’t even pass through a door. They’re in the same big‚ cushy air-conditioned building. And don’t forget the politicians and their advisors‚ who have shares in the drug companies. Don’t forget their interests. “As the pandemic raged‚ at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines‚ treatments and tests‚” runs a Business Insider headline from 2021. “Biden’s inner circle maintains close ties to vaccine makers‚ disclosures reveal”—that one’s from The Intercept. Molnupiravir needs to be taken off the market. Now. No matter the cost to Merck‚ or to the crooked politicians and insiders who bet big on Big Pharma during the pandemic. They’ve made enough of a killing already. Literally. Black America Is Awake: Alex Jones Interviews Dom Lucre

More than 130‚000 illegal aliens have been released onto the streets of San Diego since September A massive group of illegal aliens stormed into Southern California after men wearing “black face masks” cut through the border barrier this week‚ according to reports. The incident unfolded at around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday night in San Diego. A citizen journalist called Cory Gautereaux filmed the mass incursion and authorized California activist and commentator @BrittRooted to publish it on X. 📍Tierra Del Sol‚ Boulevard‚ San Diego‚ CA | 04/21/24 Shared with permission from @CoryGoat “At around 2000 today‚ approximately 150-200 illegal aliens entered the US via a cut border fence. The men who cut the fence wore black face masks and quickly pushed this large group of… pic.twitter.com/tgVp7XgrTB— rooted.wings (@BrittRooted) April 22‚ 2024 “At around 2000 today‚ approximately 150-200 illegal aliens entered the US via a cut border fence‚” Gautereaux reportedly said. URGENT&;#33; Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO&;#33; Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today&;#33; “The men who cut the fence wore black face masks and quickly pushed this large group of people into the United States. Probably 150-200 people &;gt; 60% military aged males. Pay attention.” Border Patrol agents can be seen patching the damaged bollards as Mexican officials mill around on the other side of the barrier following the act of sabotage. It is unclear if any of the masked men were apprehended by authorities on either side of the border. More than 130‚000 illegal aliens have been released onto the streets of San Diego since September‚ including 2‚000 in the past three days alone‚ according to San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond. We continue to see an increase in border crossings in San Diego.In the past 3 days‚ over 2‚000 migrants have been street released‚ running our total to over 130‚000 since the Federal Government began dropping them on our streets in September.— Supervisor Jim Desmond (@jim_desmond) April 22‚ 2024 Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector has been one of the busiest along the southern frontier this month‚ averaging between 800 and 1‚000 ‘encounters’ per day. Smugglers Repeatedly Cutting Border Barrier on Arizona Rancher’s Land Dan Lyman on X | Gab

When future historians search for the final nail in the US coffin‚ they may pinpoint April 20‚ 2024 -- the day Congress funded multiple wars‚ eroded privacy further‚ and granted the president power to selectively shut down the internet. When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin‚ they may well settle on the date April 20‚ 2024. On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars‚ hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA‚ and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with. The nearly $100 billion grossly misnamed “National Security Supplemental” guarantees that Ukrainians will continue to die in that country’s unwinnable war with Russia‚ that Palestinian civilians will continue to be slaughtered in Gaza with US weapons‚ and that the neocons will continue to push us toward a war with China. It was a total victory for the war party. The huge spending bill is all about politics for Biden‚ yet so many Republicans simply went along with it. The last thing the people running Biden’s White House want to see as a close election approaches are ads blaming Biden for “losing Ukraine.”Winter Sun Plus is NOW 25% off&;#33; Boost your natural defenses with this powerful vitamin D3 and K formula&;#33; The US and its allies have already sent over $300 billion to Ukraine and the country is still losing its war with Russia. Nobody believes another $60 billion will pull a victory from the jaws of defeat. But this additional money is meant to keep up appearances until November at the expense of Americans who are forced to pay for it and Ukrainians who are forced to die for it. Speaker Johnson could not have passed these monstrosities without the full support of House Democrats‚ as the majority of Republicans voted against more money for Ukraine. So in the worst example of “bipartisanship‚” Johnson reached across the aisle‚ stiffed the Republican majority that elected him Speaker‚ and pushed through a massive gift to the warfare/(corporate) welfare state. After the House voted to send another $60 billion to notoriously corrupt Ukraine‚ Members waved Ukrainian flags on the House Floor and chanted “Ukraine‚ Ukraine.” While I find it distasteful and disgusting‚ in some way it seemed fitting. After all‚ they may as well chant the name of a foreign country because they certainly don’t care about this country&;#33; Along with sending $100 billion that we don’t have to fund more overseas war‚ Speaker Johnson threw in another version of the Tik Tok ban‚ which gives Joe Biden and future presidents the power to shut down websites at will by simply declaring them to be “foreign adversary controlled.” Not to be outdone‚ the US Senate on that same day passed the extension of Section 702 of the FISA Act‚ which not only allowed the government to continue spying on us without a warrant‚ but also contained new language massively expanding how they can spy on us. Many conservative voters are asking what the point of Republican control of the House is if the agenda is determined by Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is even reported to have bragged to his colleagues about how easily Speaker Johnson gave Democrats everything they wanted and asked for nothing in return. What is the silver lining in all this bad news&;#63; Most Republicans in the House voted against continuing the Ukraine war. That’s a good start. Our ideas are growing‚ not only across the country but even in the DC swamp. Take courage and don’t give up&;#33; Work for peace&;#33; This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.