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RussCR5187's avatar

Regarding Other Transactional Authority. Congress has authorized eleven federal agencies to enter into “other transaction agreements” that do not need to contain the standard terms and conditions for scrutiny and regulation the way normal contracts, research grants, and procurements would for example. This can be done even if the counterparty is normally subject to regulation. For example, the DOD used such agreements with pharma to order the R&D of "military prototype” covid vaccines. Legally speaking, no regulation needed, even for manufacturing standards.

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Mike Herzog's avatar

Again, I'm beating the dead horse no one wants to address....The "experts" the "health officials" lied about early treatment and gas lit the public into accepting emergency use authorization. They lied and committed medical malpractice and fraud. With all the smart doctors knowing this, how is there not a gigantic civil lawsuit against every health commissioner in the USA for demonizing "horse paste"?????

I appreciate the feel goodz declaration about human dignity, but the lying criminals do not care what you say nor acknowledge truth...or what is actual scientific data and logical conclusions to the data. How do we prosecute the thousands of liars that were entrusted to care for the general welfare of this country???? I have an idea, but I'm deplorable. It doesn't involve a guitar.

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RussCR5187's avatar

Agreed. At base, I think, are the three groups identified by Mattias Desmet in his description of Mass Formation; 30% hypnotized, 60% "go along to get along", and only 10% actively questioning. Here's how I describe it:

All the world IS a stage. We The People watch as politicians, media figures, self-proclaimed authorities, and other “leaders” prance around the stage, painting a picture of “the truth”. The passive audience, wanting to trust, accepts that truth. The Surface Truth. All is well.

A few brave souls from the audience (maybe 10%) venture back behind the curtain and into the wings. They find science fiction and fantasy writers feeding lines to the actors. They find technologists, billionaires, and lawyers huddled in every dressing room, installing dystopia ... i.e., engineering the Deep Truth. All is NOT well.

The audience ignores the returning brave souls. About 30% are hypnotized by the actors’ words. The rest prefer to check messages in their seats rather than venture backstage. There’s comfort in those familiar habits and routines.

We The Skeptical, the brave souls, see an urgent need for intervention. The urgency is told in the difference between Surface Truth and Deep Truth. It is large and still growing. The 30% hypnotized at the foot of the stage reject logic out of hand and are lost. The others are mostly fearful and distracted. It takes noise to raise the heads of the distracted. Let the real noise begin.

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JWM_IN_VA's avatar

Here's what really bugs me due to my experience in both automotive and defense weapons manufacturing, prototypes are never meant for mass production in any context ever. They are meant for demonstration purposes only and in small lots usually. Additionally, they called them "countermeasures". Both seem to imply that they are not pharmaceutical products for which 600M were produced at least.

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JWM_IN_VA's avatar

600M is not a demonstration

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