Ex-GOP Rep. Kinzinger Endorses Biden
Former Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger released a video on X announcing he supports Sleepy Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
“As a proud conservative, I’ve always put democracy and our Constitution above all else. And it’s because of my unwavering support for democracy, that today, as a proud conservative, I’m endorsing Joe Biden for re-election,” Kinzinger said in a Wednesday post.
As a proud conservative, I’ve always put America’s Democracy and our Constitution above all else.
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) ?????? (@AdamKinzinger) June 26, 2024
And today, as a proud conservative, I am endorsing @JoeBiden for reelection! pic.twitter.com/57GYrWsX5w
Saying he “never thought” he’d endorse “a Democrat for president,” Kinzinger claimed Joe Biden will “always protect our democracy.”
The ex-representative, who suffers from a severe case of Trump-Derangement-Syndrome and labels himself a “proud RINO,” also took several jabs at the 45th president.
“Donald Trump poses a direct threat to every fundamental American value. He doesn’t care about you. He only cares about himself. And he’ll hurt anyone or anything in pursuit of power,” Kinzinger warned.
Whoever is running Joe Biden’s X account responded to the endorsement video, writing, “This is what putting your country before your party looks like. I’m grateful for your endorsement, Adam.”
This is what putting your country before your party looks like.
I’m grateful for your endorsement, Adam. https://t.co/zsS6anQ00y— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 26, 2024
The former Illinois congressman is now a CNN commentator and Ukraine war propagandist, so the endorsement of Biden isn’t very surprising.
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene joked Kinzinger “finally came out of the closet” by admitting he supports Biden.
Oh look, Kinzinger finally came out of the closet.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) June 26, 2024
As usual, we knew all along, so not a surprise and none of us care. pic.twitter.com/e9Sjj5z6fv
Biden receiving Kinzinger’s support is just more proof establishment politicians in both political parties fear Donald Trump’s return to office.
African Attacker Dies in Botched Bombing of Arab-Owned Restaurant in Germany
One person has died and four others were injured after an African man detonated an explosive device outside a restaurant in the German city of Solingen on Tuesday.
The incident occurred shortly after 2 p.m. outside residential and commercial premises on Konrad-Adenauer-Straße in the North Rhine-Westphalia city.
German news outlet Junge Freiheit reported the targeted restaurant was an independent chain owned by a large Arab family and the perpetrator was of African origin.
??‼️ An African man has died in Germany after detonating an explosive device intended to blow up an Arab-owned restaurant too early.
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 26, 2024
The attack rocked Konrad-Adenauer-Straße in Solingen, NWR, on Tuesday afternoon and left four other people injured from the blast, including… pic.twitter.com/MC48xv0X6a
It is understood the attacker approached the restaurant equipped with explosives but detonated the device too early, seriously injuring himself and other bystanders.
“He took something out of the front of his pants. That looked like an explosive device. Then he probably accidentally spilled a liquid, then there was a big bang and the man burned. Witnesses then extinguished it and administered first aid,” one eyewitness told German tabloid newspaper Bild.
According to a press release by Wuppertal Police late on Tuesday, the attacker “suffered serious injuries and had to be taken to a special clinic in a rescue helicopter where he died a few hours later.”
Images of the attacker shortly after the blast went viral on social media.
The authorities also confirmed that a 7-year-old girl and three males aged 35, 38, and 45, were hospitalized after being injured by shrapnel from the blast.
The State Criminal Police Office has commenced its investigation into the attack, supported by specialists.
A motive for the attack remains unclear with German media speculating whether there was a potential link to organized crime or a personal vendetta against the Arab owners. According to WDR, there was a raid on the property two years ago in relation to a gang crime investigation.
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‘Impossible’: FDA’s Fast Review of Pfizer Vaccine Sparks Debate on Thoroughness
In 2020, governments around the world imposed brutal lockdowns across the population, promising a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine was just around the corner.
The Trump administration made no secret of the fact that it wanted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to hurry the process along.
Stephen Hahn, then FDA commissioner, was summoned to the White House and asked to explain why he hadn’t moved faster to approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
It drew widespread criticism but Kayleigh McEnany, then White House press secretary, defended Trump saying he would “never apologize” for putting a fire under the FDA.
Hahn appeared to resist the pressure — publicly at least.
“We will make sure that our scientists take the time they need to make an appropriate decision,” said Hahn. “It is our job to get this right and make the correct decision regarding vaccine safety and efficacy.”
Soon after the Nov. 3, 2020 election, Pfizer’s vaccine authorization was imminent. But Trump would soon be replaced by President-elect Joe Biden and lamented his successor would get all the credit.
“They will try and say that Biden came up with the vaccines,” said Trump to Fox News a week after the election. “The vaccines were me, and I pushed people harder than they’ve ever been pushed before.”
Warp speed authorization
Pfizer (and its partner BioNTech) submitted its trove of clinical trial data to the FDA on Nov. 20, 2020.
The FDA completed its review and granted emergency authorization for Pfizer’s investigational mRNA vaccine on Dec. 11, 2020.
The entire process took only 22 days.
The FDA assured the public that it conducted “a rigorous review of laboratory and clinical data” but vaccine hesitancy was already sky-high.
Pew research found that 49% of Americans said they would “probably not” or “definitely not” get the vaccine in light of the fast-paced process.
Reviewing the trial data
Most regulators review data that have been curated by the trial sponsor. Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration for example, never received the source data from the trial, only the aggregated data from the manufacturer in a dossier.
The FDA, however, is one of the few regulators that receives and reviews the individual participant data (IPD) and other regulatory documents that underpin approval decisions.
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Pfizer’s mRNA trial, for example, would collect data on each of the 44,000 subjects — consent forms, case report forms, baseline values and tests from multiple follow-up visits.
Typically, a trial that size would gather hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of pages. So, did the FDA receive the IPD and review it all?
The FDA told me that it did, in fact, receive the IPD for Pfizer’s mRNA trial and in 22 days it “carried out a full analysis of those data prior to authorizing the vaccine for emergency use.”
The FDA’s vaccine chief Peter Marks boasted that the effort was “heroic.”
“This was not business as usual,” Marks wrote in STAT. “FDA undertook an all-hands-on-deck approach to this work.”
Peter Gøtzsche is a Danish physician and has many years of experience reviewing regulatory documents. He ridiculed the idea that a “thorough” review could be completed in that timeframe.
“There’s no way the FDA carried out a ‘full analysis’ of the IPD in only 22 days,” remarked Gøtzsche. “It’s impossible. It would take a minimum of 6 months to pull off such a complex analysis.”
“There can be millions of pages to a single trial. And if you are going to do a thorough analysis, it requires very careful detective work to review it all,” he said.
Gøtzsche, who authored the book “Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime” has been an expert witness in court cases for people who’ve been harmed by psychiatric drugs.
He says after analyzing trial data that have been subpoenaed in legal cases, you really get a sense of just how much drug companies “lie and cheat” in the volumes of data.
“I know from experience that drug companies try to bury harms. For example, they might use different words to describe the same harm so that it doesn’t get picked up when you’re searching for those key terms in the documents,” said Gøtzsche.
“The only way the FDA could have finished a full analysis of Pfizer’s IPD in 22 days is if they cut corners or they only analysed the aggregated information submitted in the dossier,” he added.
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FDA denies it cut corners
The FDA rejected the idea that 22 days was insufficient time to thoroughly analyze the IPD.
“The FDA uses a team-based approach to evaluate and analyze data, and staff with relevant knowledge, beyond the immediate review team, are also involved,” stated the agency.
The FDA would not confirm exactly how many staff it assigned to the task, but added, “Review of clinical trial participant data generally involves staff from multiple offices in the center, who bring their considerable medical and scientific expertise to the process.”
But Gøtzsche said this is not the way it works when analyzing regulatory filings.
“You can’t just divide up the pages among many staff members to get the work done quicker,” explained Gøtzsche.
“You need consistency to do the job right. It requires the same person reading the data and looking for patterns. The more pages that person analyses, the more familiar he or she becomes with how the data have been documented and what has been hidden,” added Gøtzsche.
More recently, regulatory documents have been digitized and are available electronically, meaning they don’t come in hard copy, stacks of paper.
In some instances, this enables researchers to perform “key word searches” to look for information, but sometimes, the pages have been scanned or photographed, which does not allow word searches.
My 2022 British Medical Journal investigation found Japan’s drug regulator, the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, is the only other major regulator that routinely receives IPD.
Currently, Tom Jefferson and colleagues at Trust the Evidence have spent the last few months exploring the regulatory data sets for licensure of Pfizer’s vaccine (Cominarty) thanks to a lawsuit filed against the FDA by Aaron Siri, U.S. attorney acting on behalf of the non-profit group, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency.
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Germany: Young Man Dies After Beating by Migrant Gang as he Walked Home From Sister’s Graduation Party
A 20-year-old German national, beaten into a coma on Sunday evening by several members of a migrant gang, has died in hospital as a result of his injuries.
Philippos and his 19-year-old friend were returning home from a graduation party in the North Rhine-Westphalia town of Bad Oeynhausen at around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday when around 10 migrant males confronted them.
The pair were punched to the floor before being kicked as they lay defenseless on the ground.
As horrified witnesses called the police, the gang casually walked from the crime scene toward the town center.
The victims were hospitalized as a result of their injuries, but Philippos was particularly hurt and was induced into a protective coma which he sadly never woke up from.
Philippos was declared brain dead on Monday evening and died in Minden Hospital on Tuesday.
The Ratsgymnasium Minden confirmed that Philippos was the brother of one of its students and had been attending his sister’s graduation party at the facility shortly before he was attacked.
In a website post on Monday, the school wrote, “We were horrified to learn of the physical altercation in Bad Oeynhausen, in which a relative of a high school graduate from our school was critically injured.
“We are deeply saddened that this very festive day of dismissal and graduation for the students is overshadowed by these events.
“Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with the affected family,” it added.
The Class of ’24 who were celebrating their graduation had set up a GoFundMe page for the victims and their families following the attack, which has now raised more than €61,000 at the time of writing.
The fundraising has temporarily been disabled following the news of Philippos’ death.
Police continue to search for the suspects and have urged the attackers to hand themselves in.
According to a press release by Bielefeld Police Headquarters, the migrant gang comprised around 10 people, all of whom were male and between 19 and 20 years old. They were described as “Southern,” a phrase often used in Germany to describe men of Maghreb or Arab origin. Some were dressed in Adidas designer tracksuits.
An initial investigation launched into bodily harm and attempted homicide involving serious bodily harm is now expected to be upgraded to homicide. It is being conducted by the Bielefeld public prosecutor’s office and the homicide unit of Bielefeld Police.
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