The video shows the Justice walking through the terminal with security as if it were still 2020.
Her security team was not wearing masks.
No declared public health emergency has required or justified airport masking in 2026.
The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 approved COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Sanofi.
The new shots from Pfizer and Moderna use the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) platform and target the XFG strain, a subvariant of the JN.1 variant.
Regulators also cleared a COVID-19 vaccine shot from Sanofi that targets the XFG strain and does not use mRNA technology.
The approval is for people aged 65 and older, as well as people aged 12 to 64 who have one or more underlying conditions such as obesity that officials say puts them at higher risk of severe COVID-19.
Regulators have been approving updated COVID-19 vaccines for several years, in a bid to better match circulating strains. The previous versions of the vaccines were estimated to provide 58 percent protection against hospitalization, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The FDA did not announce the approvals in a press release, as it has done in the past.
The FDA and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of mRNA vaccines against respiratory diseases, saying they don’t work well.
Manufacturers are going to run single-arm studies evaluating the shots in humans, according to FDA documents. The companies were going to be made to run placebo-controlled trials, but officials released them from that requirement “because of operational and feasibility challenges,” the documents said.
FDA officials in 2025 said that new placebo-controlled trials were imperative to determine how well the COVID-19 vaccines actually performed, given it has been years since such trials were conducted. Pfizer and Moderna committed to running placebo-controlled trials, as did Novavax, which has since licensed its COVID-19 vaccine to Sanofi.
The births and deaths figures for the year ended June 2026 have just been released by StatsNZ. Compared to the previous year:
The rate of deaths per thousand population had been declining since a peak of 7.59 in 2022, falling to 7.02 in 2025. The 2026 figures reversed this trend with a rise to 7.10. This compares to the 2015 – 2019 average of 6.84, meaning that deaths are currently running at 3.8% above pre-pandemic levels. This equates to an additional 1,411 deaths in the year to June 2026, which would not have been expected if pre-pandemic trends had continued.
The New Zealand (“NZ”) fertility rate has been declining every year since 2008 and is now at a historic low. The 2026 figures are 28% below levels necessary to maintain a population. Despite this, the NZ population is continuing to grow as a result of net immigration.
The most concerning figure in the latest data is therefore the upward movement in the rate of mortality. This increase in levels of excess mortality is very concerning. Although the 2026 rise does not yet amount to a trend, it should be a red flag. It points to a drop in the underlying level of immunity which is affecting the whole population.
In this light, it remains disturbing that Health NZ are not closely investigating the possible causes. A comparison of health outcomes of the covid-vaccinated with the unvaccinated is long overdue. Studies published overseas which we have covered have pointed to differences in rates of cancer and cardiac problems, for example. These have disproportionately affected younger age groups.
RCR has produced a comprehensive report showing that 311,257 NZ teens were exposed to an elevated risk of myocarditis from covid injections despite the government having been warned of this risk before rolling out vaccination for this age group. We have previously reported high levels of chest pain presentations for under 40s at emergency departments. Prior to the pandemic, it was recognised in the literature that there is a five-year elevated risk of complications following a myocarditis diagnosis. Five years have now passed since these injections. Health NZ should be following up and producing a very detailed picture of cardiac health outcomes as a precautionary measure.
A great many published studies have focused on investigating an immune deficit following covid vaccination. Since the year-to-June figures were compiled, more evidence of a health deficit in NZ has emerged. You must have read about the depth of the current flu and winter illness seasonal health crisis. Hospitals are overwhelmed as never before.
On 15 August the NZ Herald reported ‘Middlemore Hospital hits ‘terrifying’ record as paramedics treat patients in corridors’. In one 24-hour period nearly 500 patients presented to the emergency department at Middlemore, beating the previous record of 280.
According to Stuff newspaper, the St John ambulance service activated its major incident response and emergency operations centre after a week of sustained exceptional demand culminated in its busiest day on record.
This week Stuff headlined ‘Flu wards set up, elective surgery cancelled as hospital admissions surge’. The NZ Herald reported high rates of student absences due to sickness and parents unable to cope at home. The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has asked practices nationwide to reinstate some covid-era infection controls, including phone-first triage and separating patients with respiratory symptoms.
Without a detailed investigation of the causes of the higher levels of sickness among the general population broken down by age, vaccination status and disease type, it is not possible for Health NZ to understand and respond appropriately to the current health crisis. A task force should be set up to undertake this analysis as a precautionary priority and make their findings public. This will inform and potentially reassure the public by determining how much of this effect is due to covid infection and how much to vaccination or other factors.
A new study analyzing data from the CDC’s V-safe surveillance system has identified 185,285 people who reported that their health remained worse three months or longer after COVID-19 vaccination and who attributed that deterioration to the vaccine.
The findings come from an analysis by MIT researchers Retsef Levi and Nelson Lu of one of the largest active COVID-19 vaccine surveillance datasets ever assembled.
V-safe enrolled more than 10 million COVID-19 vaccine recipients and repeatedly contacted participants after vaccination to ask about symptoms, daily functioning, healthcare utilization, and changes in their health. Unlike VAERS, which relies primarily on spontaneous adverse-event reports, V-safe actively prompted enrolled vaccine recipients to provide follow-up information over time, including at 3, 6, and 12 months.
Among 9,904,924 V-safe enrollees aged 16 or older included in the analysis, 185,285 (1.87%) reported prolonged worsening of their health that they believed was related to COVID-19 vaccination. Women reported the problem at an even higher rate: 137,430 of 6,141,800 women, or 2.24%.
Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio, is facing backlash from Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy after claiming COVID-19 mortality rates had been as high as 50% in the early days of the 2020 pandemic.
Acton highlighted the figure as evidence of her effective leadership as director of the Ohio Department of Health on a podcast appearance in September.
“In those early days, the mortality rate was 50%. I started with that in March. By June, when we reopened, it was because we took swift, decisive action. The mortality rate had gone down to 5%. We learned how to save lives,” Acton said.
Acton’s retelling of the pandemic’s lethality comes as she defends her record as health director and amid an uphill bid to become the next governor of the Buckeye State.
COVID-19’s mortality rate was well below the 50% Acton described, resulting in 275,000 deaths nationwide in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Of patients who contracted the virus, the death rate was just 15.9% when adjusted for age. And when filtered further for when COVID was the cause of death, that figure fell further to 11.3%.
When asked about the figure, Acton’s office said she had been referring to death rates in hospitals.
She also bashed Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the founder of Roivant Sciences, a biotech pharmaceutical company that helped produce COVID treatments.
“While Dr. Acton was working hand in hand with Governor DeWine to keep Ohioans safe, Vivek Ramaswamy was calling for mandatory COVID-19 testing, making more than $2 billion off of the COVID vaccine and recommending segregating Ohioans based on biomarker status,” Addie Bullock, a spokesperson for Acton’s campaign, said.
The FBI arrested Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino (D-Methuen) on Wednesday morning after a federal grand jury indicted the second-term Democrat on 11 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
Prosecutors say Paulino treated COVID relief programs like an ATM, fraudulently obtaining more than $700,000 in pandemic unemployment benefits and Small Business Administration disaster loans.
Paulino represents the 16th Essex District, which includes Methuen and Lawrence, the same Merrimack Valley corridor that just saw Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña arrested two weeks ago on separate $1.5 million-plus COVID loan fraud and money-laundering charges.
Both men are Dominican-born Democrats. Both, prosecutors allege, used the pandemic as their “personal cash cows.”
The 24-page indictment alleges Paulino ran the operation from roughly April 2020 through at least December 2021 — the same period he was campaigning for and then winning the state House seat he still holds. He used his Lawrence tax-preparation firm, Madison Tax LLC, as the vehicle.
Highlights from the charging documents:
In April 2020 he filed a pandemic unemployment assistance claim in the name of a 77-year-old relative without her knowledge, falsely claiming she was self-employed.
More than $39,000–$44,000 in benefits went straight into a bank account he controlled. He kept filing false weekly certifications into September 2021 and submitted fabricated documents, including purported IRS paperwork, when the state asked questions.
He obtained or modified Economic Injury Disaster Loans for his own businesses (including a Heav’nly Donuts location) and for at least one client who spoke limited English and trusted Paulino with tax records and online banking access.
In one case he allegedly increased a client’s loan without the client’s knowledge, then later asked that same client for a $200,000 loan.
Funds were funneled through intermediaries into Paulino’s personal and business accounts and used for personal expenses, real estate, loan payments, and transfers into his campaign account.
Prosecutors also say he turned around and lent some of the cheap government money to others at higher interest rates, making a profit off the taxpayers’ dime.
Paulino faces eight counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud and three counts of aiding and abetting money laundering. He was taken into custody outside a Lawrence apartment complex shortly after sunrise and is scheduled for arraignment in Boston federal court.
A doctor’s lawsuit against Maine’s medical board can proceed, a federal judge has ruled.
An order from the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine that Dr. Meryl Nass undergo a psychological evaluation for allegedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19 was “based on no evidence or process,” including no probable cause, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker said in an Aug. 20 decision.
“In judicial proceedings, at a minimum probable cause findings ordinarily are required to justify pretrial impositions. In this case, as alleged, the Board dispensed with preliminary proceedings altogether,” Walker wrote.
The process appeared to have “lacked any safeguards to protect against agency zeal and resembled investigatory action imposed, somewhat ironically, in the absence of evidence rather than the initiation of an impartial, sober, thoughtful judicial process designed to assess the truth of facts to arrive at the existence of probable cause to justify such a sanction,” he also said.
The board did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.
“I am happy to report that I will eagerly move forward with the legal case to clear my name and defend the free speech right of medical practitioners to tell the truth to their patients, especially if it goes against government or medical orthodoxy,” Nass said in a blog post.
Maine’s medical board in 2022 suspended Nass’s license after receiving a complaint from a person who was not her patient that the doctor was spreading misinformation about COVID-19 because she noted that people who recovered from the illness had protection against re-infection.
Board members also took issue with how Nass prescribed ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient and lied to a pharmacist about why she prescribed hydroxychloroquine to another patient. It was for COVID-19, not for Lyme disease.
The board ordered Nass to undergo a psychological evaluation in order to get her license back, among other conditions. State law only authorizes such an order when a licensee “may be unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of mental illness, alcohol intemperance, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, or as a result of a mental or physical condition interfering with the competent practice of medicine,” Walker noted in the new ruling.
“The record before the Board did not include any suggestion or information that Dr. Nass suffered from drug or alcohol abuse or a physical condition, suggesting that, if anything, the Board considered Dr. Nass’s opinions to be the product of not independent thought but a mental illness or mental condition,” he said. “Alternatively, the imposition of this sanction would suggest that the Board was making an example out of Dr. Nass.”
The Maine Superior Court previously voided the psychological evaluation order, concluding it was arbitrary and capricious.
After that court ruled, Maine’s medical board asked the federal court in Maine to throw out Nass’s lawsuit.
Walker sided with the board regarding its actions apart from the evaluation, finding members enjoyed immunity for their conduct during the hearing on the allegations against Nass and for their determination to suspend her license.
But the case can move forward regarding the psychological evaluation order, he said.
“The scope of what remains of Dr. Nass’s claims will need to be addressed in later proceedings but includes, at a minimum, the requirement that she submit to a psychological evaluation,” the ruling stated.
Nass told The Epoch Times in an email that her license remains suspended because the board imposed conditions that would have prevented her from practicing independently, including requiring her to send her charts regularly to the board for review.
“The reason I wanted a license was so that if another pandemic happened, I would be able to provide the appropriate care to patients as I saw fit, which might not be what the government recommended,” Nass said. “Since the conditions the Board imposed precluded that, I did not seek to regain the license, which remains suspended.”
Nass also said she recently moved to New Hampshire.
It appears that Fauci’s right-hand man may have just given the DoJ the jailhouse keys. All they need to do is measure Anthony for his orange jumpsuit. No, I’m not hallucinating. “Let me tell you a little story about a man named…”
It is now very clear that Saint Anthony sent money to Wuhan to finance the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus. He used cut-outs at the EcoHealth Alliance and the University of North Carolina. He later conspired with others in the virology field to publish an op-ed in the professional literature denying any serious possibility of the virus having been engineered.
His buddies at Pfizer and Moderna buried adverse data. He helped to push the idea that there was no alternative treatment for this supposedly lethal disease, and that the “vaccine” was “safe and effective.” He helped with persecuting medical professionals who dared to challenge his authority and use that horse dewormer. Finally, he made his dangerous drug, Remdesivir, the drug of choice for treating hospitalized COVID patients, because royalties lined his pocket.
None of this is news. Even the release of his diary by Senator Rand Paul isn’t news. But the guilty plea by Dr. David Morens is the news that the drive-by media won’t report. “Who is David Morens?” you ask. Morens was “Senior Advisor” to the short Minister of Propaganda at the NIAID during all this activity. His key action was to act as a conduit for “behind-the-scenes shenanigans” that ran around FOIA requirements.
Fauci told the House Oversight Committee under oath in 2024 (covered by the autopen pardon) that he’d never deleted an official record, never obstructed a FOIA request, and never touched anything related to the Wuhan lab or the virus’s origins. These lies were hidden by running emails through Morens’ personal email, so they didn’t appear to be “official records.” But it’s virtually certain that Fauci was part of this back-channel activity. And he continued to parrot the “safe and effective” line in interviews after the final cutoff date for his pardon.
On June 3, 2025, in an interview with Boston’s WBUR, he insisted that any reporting that he was involved with creating the virus in any way was an “untruth” and “severe intimidation” of scientists at government agencies. This is a continuation of the fraudulent story he had been spinning since ascending the White House podium early in 2020. And it was part of a collaborative effort with multiple parties. There’s a word for this: conspiracy.
Conspiracy is a new legal universe. Under the law, it’s not like theft, which happens at a point in time. Rather, it is a continuing offense. Under the most favorable circumstances, the clock starts to run at the time of the last overt act. For Fauci, that’s at least the WBUR interview. And now we can see a reasonable premise for him pleading the Fifth in front of the Senate. He’s on the hook for federal conspiracy charges until at least June of 2030. If the conspiracy led to deaths, it may be construed as a capital offense, and no statute of limitations exists. Saint Fauci would be on the hook forever.
It’s my studied opinion, supported by a vast number of studies of excess mortality, post-mortem exams, and “turbo” cancers after the mass mRNA poisoning, that Anthony Fauci was a key participant in a massive conspiracy that led to uncountable numbers of unlawful deaths. His participation in public fora where the “safe and effective” message was promoted means that the conspiracy continued after the last effective date of his pardon, assuming that it is valid. There is only one legitimate path forward. The DoJ must seek an indictment, conviction, and involuntary change of address for this evil malefactor. Anything less is a mockery of our principles.
This one email from FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in May 2021 epitomizes everything wrong with our government’s treatment of vaccines and the vaccine injured.
Woodcock emails Fauci and Collins (head of NIH) to inform them that “a number of people” including healthcare workers she personally knows contacted her about injuries from every one of the available Covid-19 vaccines. She admits that:
(1) these injuries would not be picked up by FDA or CDC surveillance systems;
(2) there is no money set aside to study these harms (while billions are given to pharma companies for vaccines);
(3) no one will take these injured people seriously;
(4) no one knows how to treat them;
(5) there is no effort to study this serious issue; and
(6) “the industry” will not support the necessary studies.
I also agree with her sentiment that, “if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later…” Later is here.
It must be difficult being a mainstream media mouthpiece these days. You have to sort through the all the lies from yesterday to promote the newest set of lies you promote to the American public.
Take for example, Margaret Brennan.
The silly CBS News anchor thinks we forgot about the BS she was shoving down our throats about COVID not so long ago.
On Sunday, Brennan lectured the brilliant Dr. Mehmut Oz, the current administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), that the COVID vaccines were NOT forced on American children.
This proves she has no respect for the American public to push such trash on her audience.
Here is Margaret Brennan with Dr. Oz on Sunday:
Dr. Mehmut Oz: “The question again, this comes back to a much more fundamental issue, Margaret. Do parents have the right to ask questions? We already experienced what happened during COVID when we took away that right from parents. They were forced to give their kids COVID vaccines.
Margaret Brennan: (interrupting) They were not forced to give their kids vaccines…
Dr. Mehmut Oz: Well, they were pushed hard and oftentimes hindered from doing what they wanted to do, like going out socially if their kids were not included in these programs…
Margaret Brennan: (interrupting) No, of course it’s not up to the state.
Dr. Mehmut Oz: It’s not up to the federal government. It’s up to the states. States do this. The request of the president is to make sure that states offer parents either eligibility because of religious beliefs or other reasons why they may not want to have their kids take all the vaccines in order. Let’s pick a specific example. Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B vaccine I happen to like. I got the hepatitis B vaccine, but it helps adults avoiding issues if they’re involved. For example, in my case as a doctor, if I were to hit myself with a needle with a patient, but it usually is for drug abusers and for people who are involved in — or infants who could be exposed by a caregiver, by someone in their house, by parent unwittingly, which is why it is provided extraordinarily.
Hellbound and Down 
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