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Judge Lets Former Democrat City Councilwoman Andrea Cardenas Walk Free Despite Guilty Plea for Stealing Over $200K in COVID Relief and Unemployment Funds

A San Diego judge has allowed former Chula Vista City Councilwoman Andrea Cardenas to avoid jail time despite her guilty plea for defrauding the government of over $200,000 in COVID relief and unemployment funds.

Andrea Cardenas, who had been a rising star in the Democrat Party, and her brother, Jesus Cardenas, a former chief of staff to San Diego City Councilman Stephen Whitburn, are at the center of a corruption scandal.

The charges revolve around their alleged fraudulent acquisition of a $176,227 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for their venture, Grassroots Resources, a local government and political consulting firm.

According to court documents, Jesus Cardenas misrepresented the nature and scale of their political consulting firm, falsely claiming it employed 34 people.

This lie allowed the Cardenas siblings to siphon off critical funds meant to keep struggling businesses afloat during the pandemic. Instead, these funds were used to line their pockets.

Andrea Cardenas played a crucial role in this deceit. She reportedly altered information provided to lenders, substituting Grassroots Resources’ details with those of a marijuana dispensary, Harbor Collective.

Her involvement didn’t stop there. La Prensa reported that she declared a significant income from Grassroots Resources while simultaneously denying the existence of any employees when the firm pursued a consulting contract with a local public water agency.

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Biden-Harris Administration Defends Big Tech Censorship Pressure Following Zuckerberg’s Admission

The Biden-Harris White House looks determined to justify and normalize the practice of the government colluding with private companies, in this instance Big Tech, to censor speech.

After Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, admitting that his company came under pressure from the current administration to conduct censorship and that he “believes” that was wrong – the White House doubled down on the controversial, and quite possibly, unconstitutional, policy.

In his letter, Zuckerberg chose to focus on Meta censoring content related to COVID-19, and in response, a White House spokesman revealed the government does not share Zuckerberg’s stance that the policy of pressure was wrong.

“Encouragement” is how that’s phrased. “When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety,” stated the White House spokesman to media requests.

He further justified the actions described by Zuckerberg as needed because the White House believes private companies, including those from the tech industry, “should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people.”

And with the stage set in this way – the spokesman concluded that these companies are then free to make “independent choices about the information they present.”

But Zuckerberg’s letter to the Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan does a pretty good job of explaining how these “independent choices” get made. Senior figures from the Biden administration, Zuckerberg stated, in 2021 “repeatedly pressured our (Facebook, Instagram) teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.”

The decision on content removal, and introduction of new rules into platform policies to facilitate censorship, Zuckerberg concedes, was “ultimately ours” –  but made under pressure.

If Meta tried to defy these “suggestions” – the administration showed “a lot of frustration.”

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‘They Have To Be Stopped’: Woman Says COVID Hospital Protocols Caused Husband’s Death

Sharon Smith described the 39-day ordeal her husband, 61-year-old Jeffrey R. Smith, endured after he was hospitalized for minor COVID-19 symptoms. Smith said the hospital’s insistence on administering remdesivir and other drugs — and putting her husband on a ventilator — directly led to his death.

In June 2021, 61-year-old Jeffrey R. Smith was healthy, active and enjoying his 42nd year of marriage to Sharon Smith. That same month, they both came down with COVID-19, but their symptoms were mild and there was little cause for concern.

When Jeffrey’s symptoms lingered just a bit longer than those of his wife, he visited an urgent care center.

That visit marked the beginning of a 39-day ordeal that resulted in his hospitalization, a loss of 47 pounds, and, ultimately, his death, on Aug. 11, 2021, at Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Florida.

Jeffrey’s cause of death was officially listed as COVID-19. But when Sharon examined his approximately 6,000 pages of medical records, she discovered he had sustained kidney damage, likely due to repeated doses of medications including remdesivir, a drug known to stop kidney function in patients.

Sharon also discovered that doctors at the hospital did not treat her husband’s pulmonary embolism — or blood clot — which he developed during his hospitalization. Instead, she alleges doctors insisted she allow him to be placed on a ventilator and that she sign a do not resuscitate (DNR) order for him.

In an interview with The Defender, Sharon said the treatment her husband received at the hospital was incentivized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 hospital protocols — and by the fact that neither she nor her husband had received a COVID-19 vaccine.

Sharon shared extensive documentation with The Defender to corroborate her story.

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Vaccinated And Boosted CT Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Returning From DNC

Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz has covid again.

Bysiewicz, who has apparently had at least 4 covid shots by this point, managed to get covid after the DNC superspreader event she attended in Chicago.

Bysiewicz got her first shot of Pfizer’s covid vaccine at Pratt & Whitney’s “runway vaccination clinic” on March 11, 2021, in a publicity stunt.

At that time she said, “the vaccine is safe, effective and easy! When it’s your turn, get your shot. Let’s get this pandemic behind us.”

By December 2021, Bysiewicz was already pushing booster shots: “If you want to keep yourself safe, your friends, family and community safe, this is the way to do it: get vaccinated, get boosted and also if you’re feeling any kind of symptoms, that are flu-like or cold-like, please, please get tested.”

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Mark Zuckerberg ‘Regrets’ Censorship of COVID Info & Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Mark Zuckerberg sensationally admitted that the Biden White House pressured Facebook to censor content about COVID-19 and the Hunter Biden laptop story and that he now regrets it.

In a letter to the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said the social media giant was “repeatedly pressured” by the government to blacklist information after Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humour and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” wrote the Facebook founder.

Such information included claims that the virus emerged from a Chinese lab, something which subsequently became one of the most likely scenarios, as well as content that questioned the efficacy and safety of the COVID jab.

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Excess Deaths vs. Hospitalizations

The previous edition of this series dealt with Denmark. This is the third report on the contrast between weekly excess death rates and weekly hospitalizations. If progress is made in a pandemic, then you will find lower rates of excess death in relation to hospitalizations — because you are able to keep more who are hospitalized alive.

Here are the weekly excess deaths per million (red) and the weekly hospitalizations per million (blue) for Israel…

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Virologists Blow-the-Whistle: MPOX is actually Known Side-Effect of COVID Vax

A renowned German doctor has spoken out to warn the public that the monkeypox “outbreak” is a hoax and the “symptoms” are actually side effects of Covid mRNA vaccines.

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg issued the warning in a new whistleblowing interview with the Austrian outlet AUF1.

He explains that reports of a monkeypox “global emergency” from the World Health Organization (WHO) are part of a fearmongering campaign designed to scare the masses.

Wodarg asserts that globalists are seeking to cover up the negative health impact of Covid shots while trying to profit from testing and treating monkeypox.

He asks why other doctors aren’t questioning why people are being diagnosed with monkeypox based on a positive Rostar test.

The Rostar test is an expensive product that pharmaceutical companies are profiting from.

Meanwhile, share prices in companies that produce monkeypox vaccines are soaring following the WHO’s recent emergency declaration.

“They’re scaring us again,” Wodarg said of the globalist medical establishment.

“It’s a business exploiting the effects of the corona shots they pushed on us.

“They’re using corona side-effects to create new schemes and scare us again.”

Alex Jones of Infowars shared a clip of the interview translated from German to English.

Jones says the video was from a German article titled:

“Doctor: Monkeypox is actually shingles, a side effect of the Covid vaccines.”

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FDA Approves New COVID Vaccines — for Virus Strains ‘Largely Faded From Circulation’

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna which target the currently dominant Omicron variant KP.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2, the agency announced Thursday.

The new shots are recommended for all people ages 6 months and older. However, according to the FDA, the new vaccines remain under emergency use authorization (EUA) for people between ages 6 months and 11 years.

According to NBC News, the new vaccines could be available within days.

The vaccines were approved even though their clinical trial data have not been released. Manufacturers claim that “testing in animals shows the shots trigger neutralizing antibodies,” The Epoch Times reported.

According to MedPageToday, the new vaccines “are manufactured using a similar process as previous formulas of these vaccines” and “the FDA assessed manufacturing and nonclinical data” in its approval process.

NBC News quoted a Pfizer spokesperson who said the data the company submitted to the FDA indicates a “substantially improved” immune response against the currently circulating COVID-19 variants.

Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in the FDA’s statement, “Vaccination continues to be the cornerstone of COVID-19 prevention.”

“These updated vaccines meet the agency’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality,” Marks said.

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Government announces more COVID-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost

On the heels of a summer wave of COVID-19 cases, Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September.

U.S. households will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests when the federal program reopens, according to the website, COVIDtests.gov. The U.S. Health and Human Services agency that oversees the testing has not announced an exact date for ordering to begin.

The tests will detect current virus strains and can be ordered ahead of the holiday season when family and friends gather for celebrations, an HHS spokesperson said in an emailed statement. Over-the-counter COVID-19 at-home tests typically cost around $11, as of last year.

The announcement also comes as the government is once again urging people to get an updated COVID-19 booster, ahead of the fall and winter respiratory virus season. 

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UK doctors who challenge vaccine safety feel the GMC has helped to put a target on their backs

A group of health professionals have expressed concern to the General Medical Council (“GMC”) about the use of GMC referrals against doctors speaking out about the safety of the covid-19 injections.

They highlighted cases of doctors facing fitness to practise investigations and job losses due to their public expression of safety concerns.  And they urged the GMC to protect whistle-blowers reporting covid-19 vaccine harms.

In response, GMC Chair Professor Carrie MacEwen said that healthcare needs a culture where doctors can feel they can speak out about concerns for patient safety. 

However, in their response to Prof. MacEwen, the group expressed the lack of reassurance among doctors regarding protection when raising patient concerns and raised the online harassment and death threats that doctors receive for raising concerns about the safety of covid injections – which is a concern for patient safety. 

These concerns are often expressed online because doctors are being ignored when they raise them through the official channels.  And, despite a doctor’s right to freedom of expression being upheld in the High Court, the GMC continues to investigate reports referred to them of doctors who express concerns about vaccine safety online.

Prof. MacEwen responded again but failed to adequately address the points raised by the doctors.

“It is hard to dispel the feeling among dissident doctors that there is a target over their heads, with certain hostile actors itching to find any excuse for a GMC referral,” the HART Group said.

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