[Gateway] Jill Biden was loudly booed at the Eagles vs Cowboys game Sunday night at the Lincoln Financial Field in her home town of Philadelphia (she was born in Jersey and grew up in Philly).
Dr. Jill attended the NFL game Sunday night to promote breast cancer awareness.
Joe Biden’s nurse and handler Jill didn’t get a warm welcome.
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Eagles fans mercilessly pelted Santa Claus with snowballs in a famous video. Whomever booked that PR stunt probably has an FJB bumper sticker on their truck.
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^ Santa Claus under this administration is an FBI snitch. Just think: real-time in situ humint on 100 million Deplorable households
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[Politico] The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into the EU's coronavirus vaccine purchases, an announcement that will refocus attention on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's role in the matter.
The EPPO is an independent EU body responsible for investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, including fraud, money laundering and corruption. In its announcement on Friday, the EPPO didn't specify who was being investigated, or which of the EU's vaccine contracts were under scrutiny.
However, two other watchdog agencies have previously drawn attention to one particular deal involving high-level contacts between Pfizer's leadership and von der Leyen.
"This exceptional confirmation comes after the extremely high public interest. No further details will be made public at this stage," said the EPPO in its short announcement.
In April 2021, the New York Times first reported on text messages exchanged between von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in the run-up to the EU's biggest vaccine procurement contract — for up to 1.8 billion doses of BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. The deal would be worth up to €35 billion if fully exercised, according to leaked vaccine prices.
In January this year, the EU's ombudsman charged the Commission with maladministration for failing to look for the text messages in response to a freedom of information request. Without confirming the existence of the texts, the Commission argued in its response that "short-lived, ephemeral documents are not kept." It said that a search for the text messages hadn't yielded any results.
Then, last month, the European Court of Auditors published a report where it said the Commission refused to disclose any details of von der Leyen's personal role in the talks concerning the Pfizer contract.
The budget watchdog found that the EU chief deviated from the playbook established in previous vaccine negotiations to personally hash out a preliminary deal with the U.S. multinational, instead of relying on joint negotiating teams. Unlike with any of the other contracts, the Commission refused to provide the court with any documents regarding the preliminary negotiations for that specific deal.
In response to the announcement, Belgian Socialist MEP Kathleen van Brempt said that "several aspects" of the Pfizer contract need to be looked into, including "the text messages between the Commission President and the fact that there is no paper trail of the preliminary negotiations in first instance."
The MEP chairs the European Parliament's special committee on COVID-19. Both the EU's ombudsman and a member of the European Court of Auditors have appeared before the panel, where they answered questions on the topic of the text messages.
"The [COVID-19] committee will be following this case with great attention," said van Brempt.
An EU health department official said the Commission had "no comment to make at this stage."
And the following comments from this ZH post this a.m.:
Last month, the European Court of Auditors published the aforementioned report [see below]
in which it said the Commission refused transparency regarding details of von der Leyen's personal role in the Pfizer contract.
In it, the budget watchdog found that the EU chief went rogue in order to personally hammer out a preliminary deal with Pfizer, instead of relying on joint negotiating teams. While the Commission has been forthcoming with other vaccine contracts, it has refused to provide the court with any documents regarding those preliminary negotiations.
According to Belgian Socialist MEP Kathleen van Brempt, "several aspects" of the Pfizer contract should be investigated, including "the text messages between the Commission President and the fact that there is no paper trail of the preliminary negotiations in first instance."
2/3 We need to know why the biggest contract is the least transparent. We need to understand why the EU is obliged to buy 1.8 billion Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, regardless of the needs, regardless of whether new and better players have entered the market.
3/3 Many EU contracts reserved a "right" to buy but with the Pfizer contract we do have an "obligation" to buy.
Why did we deviate from the normal procedure for a contract that covers our needs many times, for a period where all would already be vaccinated (2022 and 2023).
— Kathleen Van Brempt (@kvanbrempt) October 14, 2022
#1
I thought oversight and transparency was against everything the EU stands for.
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The EPPO is an independent EU body responsible for investigating and prosecuting financial crimes, including fraud, money laundering and corruption.
Has not yet been weaponized and co-opted by the globalists? Dunno but that's a heck of a problem for them if not.
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[DC] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday while on ABC’s "This Week" that Democrats are actually having a difficult time campaigning because they’ve been too successful.
Buttigieg told host George Stephanopoulos Democrats "are proud" of their many "accomplishments" such as the American Rescue Plan.
"Remember, we have our challenges right now, but when the president took office, we were facing an economy that was at risk of going into freefall. The American Rescue Plan stopped that, and it went directly into easing the burden for Americans with those tax benefits that Americans got," Buttigieg said.
"I do think we run the risk — because there have been so many accomplishments — right, the CHIPS Act which is bringing manufacturing back to the United States, the PACT Act, getting veterans the benefits they deserve, of course the infrastructure bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, on top of that American Rescue plan ... in some ways having achieved so much legislatively makes it hard to talk about it all at once because there are just so many accomplishments."
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[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s "Fox Business Tonight," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said that "once we get out of this recession," "we need to smooth out our spending and try to deal with our deficits and our debt."
Cleaver said, "I think everybody ought to be concerned about inflation because inflation is concerned with you. But I think that we need to keep in mind that there are a lot of things that caused this. I mean, China’s zero COVID policy disrupting production and supply chains, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, giant corporations using inflation as a smokescreen. And then people will talk about the stimulus. And, make no mistake, $7 [trillion] is a lot of money to pump into an economy. But the reason we shouldn’t get into a partisan thing about it is because 70% of that 7 trillion was signed into law under President Trump. And I don’t blame him for doing it. I think we had to do something, my interpretation, to keep us from plunging into the economic abyss. And so, we were able to come through to this point. And I think the Fed still has a road to go to get us out of it, which probably means raising the interest rates again."
Host Sean Duffy then asked, "[D]o you think there’s going to be some effort to constrain spending as we look forward over the next couple of years?"
Cleaver responded, "We’re going to have to. Look, once we get out of this recession, and I do think we’re going to get out of it. ... I think we’re going to come out of this. And then I do think that Democrats and Republicans, particularly those folks on the Budget Committee and the administration, whether it’s a Democratic administration or Republican, we’ve got to, I think, come to the conclusion that...when things are moving a little bit better economically, we need to smooth out our spending and try to deal with our deficits and our debt."
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Look at the numbers yourself. DC is pending the US Dollar ( YOUR $$$) in a Worthless death. While too many in DC get Super rich and have "outside the USA Interests/Investments"
By December, every US Taxpayer will likely have to shoulder an average of $250K of that debt. Don't know about others, but that is about 4x my annual net income.
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When it comes to federal budgeting, I think we can leve it to Cleaver.
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Definitely an improvement over Eldridge Cleaver
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#11
How about reducing spending now to reduce the recession and the debt?
We need another contract with America to force all the incoming GOP reps to declare they'll take spending and reducing the debt seriously.
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[Politico] The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into the EU's coronavirus vaccine purchases, an announcement that will refocus attention on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's role in the matter. 
[DC] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday while on ABC’s "This Week" that Democrats are actually having a difficult time campaigning because they’ve been too successful.
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s "Fox Business Tonight," Rep. 
