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Pharma PR Executive Leaked Insider Criticism of NIH Vaccine Injury Center to New York Times — Paper Neglected to Mention His Industry Ties

A pharmaceutical industry public relations (PR) executive who serves on an influential National Institutes of Health (NIH) board and is an academic colleague of Dr. Anthony Fauci leaked criticism of the agency’s new vaccine injury clinic to The New York Times — which reported the criticism without disclosing the PR executive’s industry ties, according to The Disinformation Chronicle.

Jack Leslie, a senior adviser and former chairman of Weber Shandwick, the world’s second-largest public relations firm, chairs the NIH Clinical Center Research Hospital Board. Weber Shandwick represents several major pharmaceutical companies.

The hospital board oversees the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland, which will house the agency’s new Vaccinology and Immunology Center (VIC). The center will focus on researching and treating vaccine injuries. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced its launch earlier this month.

Last week, the Times reported that the NIH hospital board unanimously approved a statement criticizing the new center and Kennedy, accusing him of undermining public trust in the hospital’s work.

According to The Disinformation Chronicle, Leslie leaked the statement to Times health policy correspondent, Sheryl Gay Stolberg. The newspaper published her story within hours but did not disclose Leslie’s ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

Paul D. Thacker, investigative reporter and author of The Disinformation Chronicle, told The Defender that he believes the Times published the story to discredit Kennedy and people who say vaccines have injured them.

“Everyone knows the pharma industry hates RFK Jr. So, it’s beyond perplexing that a New York Times reporter saw ‘news’ when PR man Jack Leslie said something denigrating about him, and spit on people harmed by their products. That’s what Big Pharma pays Weber Shandwick to do,” Thacker said.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the NIH, defended the new center in a statement to The Defender.

The VIC “reflects the Trump Administration’s commitment to restoring gold-standard science, transparency, and accountability to our public health institutions,” the spokesperson said.

“This work will help ensure that people who experience health problems following vaccination are taken seriously and studied with the same scientific rigor applied to other medical conditions,” the spokesperson added.

Pediatrician Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, who attended the center’s launch event earlier this month, called the VIC “long overdue.” She accused Leslie of using his “PR skills” and “background doing public relations for multiple vaccine manufacturers” to undermine an initiative intended to study and help people who have been injured by vaccines.

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Town Gave Muslim School Permission to Bring In 90 Students, Then It Went Rogue and Brought in Hundreds More

Fairfield Township, New Jersey, is a perfect object lesson in what happens when entitled minority populations decide that they can play by their own rules.

Al-Ghazaly High School is an Islamic private institution in the New York City suburbs. Local officials approved the school, run by the Islamic Education Foundation, based on the understanding that it would school 90 students in its current property, according to a report from The New Jersey Progress.

Instead, the school has enrolled around 313 students since it was given a Certificate of Re-Occupancy earlier this year, and practically demanded that local authorities increase its authorized student number to 400.

During a planning board meeting last Tuesday, IEF Schools executive director Hayat Jaludi defended her decision to blatantly disregard the student limit based on the fact that, well, kids wanted to be educated.

Sure, she didn’t have permission, but she apparently didn’t think she needed it to flood the school and break the regulations.

“Hold on, hold on — how can you have 314 students in a building when you’re only allowed to have 90?” one of the board members asked.

Jaludi said that “we came into this building assuming that we have the occupancy of whatever enrolled students we have.”

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Oregon: Officials Dodge Press, Private Lawfare Targets Guns, and Toxicology Results Drag On

Three law firms are representing the parents of Rhoam Summer, killed in the Silver Rail Elementary School shooting in Bend, Oregon. They are Dwyer Williams & Cherkoss, Simon Greenstone & Panatier, and Worthington & Caron. The announced investigation includes school security, prior warnings, firearm access, and the weapon’s marketing. Psychiatric treatment, prescription records, and potential state involvement are not specifically identified in any of the news stories or the law firms’ scope of the planned investigation.

This raises major alarms about the agenda already taking shape. An investigation into “systemic failures” should explicitly include the behavioral health system. No institution should get a pass before the evidence is examined. This should not delay another public press conference. None has been held in the past three days.

AbleChild’s public accountability request comes from years of pursuing mass killers’ mental health “treatment” records, prescription histories, and toxicology findings. Our reporting includes:

These are examples, not our complete archive. Our demand is consistent. Produce the records needed to examine treatment decisions and institutional responsibility.

When lawsuits become tools for steering legislation instead of exposing the whole truth, the people cannot participate in the legislative process to hold government agencies accountable or eliminate bad social programs. Law firms’ narrowing of investigations to selectively target certain industries has exposed political agendas and has failed to stop mass killings. Law firms cannot build the case for new laws. That is the job of the American people. The lawfare approach has left government agencies and behavioral health providers outside the spotlight. That is not full accountability.

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What Is The Hope Florida Scandal and What Does It Say About Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: A History Of Treachery

When it comes to corruption in the State of Florida, there is no criminal more guilty than Governor Ron DeSantis, and his wife Casey DeSantis, who stole $10 Million from the poorest of Floridians.

The Hope Florida scandal that has enveloped the DeSantis’ throughout the last year has reached a new fevered pitch as CBS News Miami has leaked the entire grand jury presentment against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife, First Lady Casey DeSantis.

The leaks reveal damning evidence that the grand jury found evidence of severe, and even potentially criminal conduct by the First Family as it pertains to the Centene settlement, in which their appointed officials illegally steered $10 Million into Casey DeSantis’ Hope Florida charity.

Now the DeSantis’ are trying to cover up the information by suing those attempting to expose this information before the midterm elections.

We will examine the depth of the DeSantis’ treachery as it pertains to their theft of $10 Million later within the article, but first, let’s look at DeSantis’ own statements on the matter.

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In LA, More Evidence That Single-Party Rule California Is A Madhouse Where Nothing Ever Works

A transportation project in Los Angeles may start to serve passengers next year, or it may collapse into financial chaos, abandonment, and a desperate search for someone to start running the thing after lenders bail out and it all falls apart. But first, the courts will have to work through the allegation that an engineer spied on a legal strategy session, and the builders will have to figure out why electrical arc flashes are charring the tracks.

It’s not the state’s infamously late high-speed rail project, but all of the same themes are there. Democrat-run California is the place where delivery never has any relationship to the promise, the cost estimate never comes close to suggesting the actual cost, the scheduled completion date is an open joke, and the failures and misunderstandings descend into allegations so bizarre they seem like a series of Mad Libs answers.

With the summer Olympics bringing crowds to Los Angeles in 2028, the City of Los Angeles decided to reduce traffic congestion at its famously nightmarish airport, LAX, by at-long-last linking the terminals and off-site rental car facilities with an automated train. The 2.25-mile SkyLink project was approved in 2018 and broke ground in 2019, with a promised opening date of 2023, at a budgeted construction cost of $1.9 billion. A larger dollar figure cited in that approval, totaling just under $5 billion, was supposed to be the cost of construction plus the cost of operating the system, covering the first thirty years of the project.

Today, the project is hoping to start serving passengers sometime in 2027, and construction costs alone are expected to top $3 billion. The empty trains slowly circle the airport, being tested again after recent structural failures that caused damage and uncertainty.

To understand everything that comes next, you’ll need to know the abbreviations for the two entities that make up SkyLink’s public-private construction partnership: Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency of the City of Los Angeles, and LAX Express Integrated Solutions (LINXS), a Delaware LLC created in 2018 by the consortium of construction and engineering contractors who are building the project.

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WHOA: Ousted Secret Service Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi May Have Leaked Story on Trump’s Secret Plane Switch in Turkey Amid Iranian Threat

In August, three Secret Service officials were reportedly escorted out of their offices and designated “do not admits” as part of a criminal investigation into the leaking of classified information to the media.

CBS News identified one of the employees as Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi. The other two individuals also reportedly worked in the agency’s communications office.

All three had their security clearances suspended and lost access to their government-issued devices.

According to Real Clear Politics, Anthony Guglielmi is out at the agency because he may have been involved in the leaks to the media.

Sensitive information about President Trump’s secret plane swap in Turkey over the summer were leaked to The Washington Post and CBS News.

“Multiple Secret Service sources tell @RCPolitics Guglielmi is not coming back to work at the agency, although the Secret Service and FBI leaders have not disclosed the allegations against him and are keeping the matter under tight control. Several agents believe it has something to do with the press reports on the Secret Service’s use of a decoy plan to ferry President Trump out of Turkey,” RCP reporter Susan Crabtree said.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump was secretly transferred from Air Force One to a smaller C-32A military aircraft before departing Ankara, Turkey, on July 8.

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Rep. Scott Perry Ad Highlights Police Complaint Alleging Democrat Janelle Stelson Exposed Herself to a Child

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has released a campaign advertisement highlighting allegations that Democrat congressional challenger Janelle Stelson was naked outside her home in view of a neighbor’s grandchild, referencing a written statement from a neighbor who claims to have photographed the incident.

“Disgraced TV reporter Janelle Stelson has been exposed, literally,” the advertisement’s narrator says. “First Stelson got caught making a degrading racial slur live on TV. Stelson got exposed using illegals as campaign workers. One Stelson illegal was even arrested for exposing his genitals in public.”

“Now police have been called to investigate Stelson for exposing herself totally naked to a neighborhood child,” the narrator continues. “Janelle Stelson. She’s not fit to serve.”

According to an October 21 report from PennLive, Stelson’s neighbor Sharon Orr alleged in a written statement that she contacted police on August 14 around 3:15 p.m. after observing Stelson “walking around outdoors” with her “breasts and buttocks fully exposed and in plain sight of my minor aged grandchild.”

The neighbor also claimed to have photographed Stelson and alleged that she had previously observed the congressional candidate insufficiently clothed.

According to Orr’s statement, East Pennsboro Township police informed her that Stelson had described herself as wearing “a nude bra and panties.” Orr maintained that the photograph she allegedly captured contradicted that explanation.

However, the photograph has not been publicly released, and Perry’s campaign acknowledged that it does not possess the image.

East Pennsboro Township police confirmed to PennLive that officers responded to the complaint at Stelson’s and Orr’s homes but declined to release any reports or records. No criminal charges have been filed against Stelson in connection with the allegation.

In an August 26 letter provided to Breitbart News, East Pennsboro Township Police Chief William S. Diehl denied a Right-to-Know request seeking incident reports involving an address on Oyster Mill Road, citing exemptions under Pennsylvania law for criminal and noncriminal investigative records.

The letter did not disclose the contents of any police reports or identify a specific incident.

“This false accusation is a pathetic, desperate attempt by Scott Perry to rescue his failing campaign, with easily disproven lies,” Stelson campaign manager Alma Baker told PennLive in an emailed statement.

Baker added that Stelson “has been a victim of stalking and harassment before” and “now she is a victim of Perry’s supporters making up totally unsubstantiated claims to smear her reputation.”

The allegations have also drawn differing reactions from Stelson’s neighbors.

According to PennLive, several Perry campaign signs were displayed along Orr’s driveway and attached to a railing facing Stelson’s residence, located only a few feet away. When a reporter approached Orr’s home Tuesday afternoon, she threatened to contact police and declined to discuss her statement or share the photograph. “Nobody has talked to me about even releasing or talking to anybody” in the news media, Orr said.

Another neighbor, Steve Dillon, who lives on the opposite side of Stelson’s residence, questioned the accusation. “All I know is that she wasn’t [naked],” Dillon told PennLive. “She was just sitting in her back yard or her back deck.” Although Dillon acknowledged he was not home at the time of the alleged incident, he said he frequently observed Stelson sitting outside, “clothed,” while taking breaks from campaign work.  He suggested that flesh-toned clothing could have been mistaken for nudity, but said being entirely naked “would not be in character with what I’ve gotten to know of her.” Dillon also noted that their homes border a creek frequently traveled by canoeists and kayakers, questioning how such an incident could have gone unnoticed by other residents.

Perry’s advertisement also references the arrest of Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe, a Nigerian national who allegedly exposed himself in a residential neighborhood near a park in East Pennsboro Township. As Breitbart News previously reported on October 7, Igbojekwe, who entered the United States legally in 2017 but overstayed his authorization, reportedly told police he was waiting to distribute Stelson campaign flyers and produced a stack of them. Prosecutors subsequently dropped an indecent exposure charge and one disorderly conduct count before he pleaded guilty to a remaining disorderly conduct charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took him into custody October 1.

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Ex-MLB Player and Wife Charged in $60K Youth Baseball Fraud

Ex-Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays player Richard Butler and his wife have been charged in connection with an alleged youth baseball training fraud scheme in Canada.

Between April 1 and Oct. 31 of last year, approximately $60,000 in registration fees for the 2025-2026 Ontario Devil Rays training program was allegedly deposited into a bank account associated with the program, police said in a news release Tuesday.

But funds were later transferred to other accounts associated with the accused couple — Michelle Butler, 52, and former big leaguer Richard Butler, 53, both of Frankford, Ontario.

The registration fees were allegedly not used for the program and the services as agreed on were not provided, police said.

CBC News notes families who paid the registration received an email on Oct. 19, 2025, saying the business had been dissolved due to financial hardship and claiming bankruptcy, police said.

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Curious What Canada’s PM Considers Threat to ‘Peace’

War is peace. Donald Trump has killed thousands of Iranians, kidnapped Venezuela’s president and bombed Somalia 200 times but for what does Marc Carney criticize him? An energy deal.

Since Donald Trump began his second term, the US has bombed nine countries/territories. According to New America, the Trump administration has hit Somalia 211 times. Over the past thirteen months 71 US maritime strikes in the hemisphere have killed over 200 and in January US forces killed nearly 100 when they kidnapped Venezuela’s President.

An eight-week US bombing campaign of Yemen last year killed at least 224 civilians as part of an effort to enable Israel’s genocide and last month the Trump administration gave the Jewish supremacist state $2.8 billion worth of mostly 2,000-pound bombs.

Over 40 days at the start of the year the US launched 10,000 strikes on Iran. In one attack, 120 schoolgirls were killed.

Carney has either supported or ignored all of that violence. But the prime minister responded to the US president announcing a plan to purchase Russian diesel as a threat to “peace”.

In a statement released after speaking to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday the PMO posted, “The leaders discussed the new agreement between the United States and Russia to supply millions of tonnes of diesel to the United States. The Prime Minister was clear: this agreement is in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada, and our allies to create peace and stability in Europe.”

For a PM speaking publicly about US foreign policy, these were fighting words. Longtime corporate journalist Paul Wells labelled that paragraph “one of the starkest criticisms of a US president that any Canadian prime minister has made in my life.”

Carney expressing outrage at an energy deal — tied to halting attacks on oil infrastructure — while supporting/ignoring Trump’s endless violence has passed with little comment. Basically, everyone in establishment Canadian politics promotes the notion that giving Ukraine more arms or deploying more troops to Russia’s border promotes “peace”.

In official politics, ploughing $27 billion — more than Ottawa spent on its 13-year occupation of Afghanistan — into war in Ukraine promotes “peace”. Likewise, stationing as many Canadian soldiers per capita – 2,500 in a country of 1.8 million – on Russia’s border in Latvia as are stationed in Canada somehow advances “peace”. Similarly, encouraging NATO expansion eastward and then helping overthrow an elected Ukrainian president who defended the constitution’s neutrality clause was promoting “peace”. And we definitely sought to advance “peace” when we followed that up by deploying 200 Canadian troops to assist forces engaged in a civil war with Russian-backed separatists while preparing the Ukrainian military to join NATO.

In 1984 George Orwell wrote about a totalitarian state where the rulers proclaimed, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

In 2026, in Canada, it’s a prime minister who ignores the US president shredding 120 schoolgirls to pieces while claiming an energy deal threatens “peace”.

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Hegseth meets Netanyahu during secret visit to Israel; said to discuss ‘threats in region’

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a secret meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday.

A spokesman for Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that the meeting, first reported by Axios, took place. Doron Spielman said Netanyahu met with Hegseth at the Ovda Air Force base in southern Israel, where US fighter jets and refuelers are stationed. He said they discussed “the threats in the region,” and the US-Israel partnership in dealing both offensively and defensively with those threats.

Earlier, Hegseth confirmed that he had made an unannounced trip to the Middle East, but did not specify his location or travels, saying only that he had met with US troops while in the region.

It was not clear from the initial Axios report whether other Israeli officials or military personnel were present at the meeting, though later reports indicated Defense Minister Israel Katz attended but IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Mossad head Roman Gofman did not.

News of Hegseth’s trip came a day after US President Donald Trump endorsed Netanyahu in next week’s election — Israel’s first since the Hamas terror group’s devastating attack on October 7, 2023, which shook the country and plunged it into war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

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