Pharma giant Pfizer is making more enemies, this time in Poland, as the nation refuses to sign up to the “cash cow” COVID-19 vaccine deals negotiated on its behalf by the European Union (EU).
The EU announced its deal with Pfizer last week, with the corporate multinational demanding cash for undelivered doses – a part of the deal that Polish Health Minister Adam Niedzielski called “outrageous.”
“The conditions negotiated by the Commission on behalf of the member states with Pfizer are absolutely unsatisfying, and we are not going to join the deal,” Niedzielski said.
The Eastern European nation has been attempting to renegotiate its pandemic-era deals for some time, citing mounting costs, undelivered doses, and a lack of flexibility by providers. The pharma behemoth appears to be shrugging the matter off, citing its prior contracts, especially with the unelected and unaccountable European Commission.
The pressure, however, might be mounting, with Hungary, Romania, and Lithuania expected to speak out in opposition to the EU’s deal with Pfizer being foisted on European tax payers.
Earlier this year, the European Parliament blocked transparency measures to shed more light on the relationship between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Pfizer, and its lobbyists.
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Pharma giant Pfizer is making more enemies, this time in Poland, as the nation refuses to sign up to the "cash cow" COVID-19 vaccine deals negotiated on its behalf by the European Union (EU).
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Up to 200,000 cows in Ireland could be slaughtered by 2025 at an overall cost of €600 million in order for the Irish farming sector to meet its climate targets.
The scheme would see 65,000 cows slaughtered at a cost of €200 million annually.
The Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, told RTE Radio 1, “[w]hat we’re absolutely committed to… is adopting options which will deliver” on Ireland’s target of a 25 percent reduction in agricultural pollution to “close the gap” on emissions.
According to the Irish Independent, an overall ten percent of all livestock in Ireland would need to be “displaced” over the coming years to meet the government’s target of reducing 51 percent of emissions by 2030.
The president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, Pat McCormack, however, argued on Newsweek on Tuesday that “Our herd isn’t any larger than it was 25, 30 years ago. Can the same be said for the transport industry, can the same be said for the aviation industry?”
Up to 200,000 cows in Ireland could be slaughtered by 2025 at an overall cost of €600 million in order for the Irish farming sector to meet its climate targets.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian parent company of Bud Light, has now lost a whopping $27 billion in market value in the wake of its partnership with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Mulvaney enjoyed a Greta Thunberg-like rise to fame, with President Joe Biden inviting him to the White House on day 222 of his transition to “girlhood” to push transitioning children, among other “trans issues”.
His popularity beyond the LGBTQIA2S+ community and elite political circles was called into question after Bud Light marketing executive Alissa Heinerscheid actioned her vision for a “campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter” than Bud Light’s “fratty” past by putting his face on beer cans, however, triggering a boycott and heavy losses.
It is now a struggle to literally give Bud Light away, and other woke brands such as Target are also hemorrhaging customers for pitching pro-transgenderism clothing to children for Pride Month.
A recent survey by Rasmussen Reports found that 59 percent of Americans oppose giving trans drugs to minors – including 54 percent of Democrats.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian parent company of Bud Light, has now lost a whopping $27 billion in market value in the wake of its partnership with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
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A U.S. Air Force colonel recently revealed that artificial intelligence, operating a deadly drone, turned on its human operator during a simulation.
Colonel Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton said a drone operated by AI adopted “highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal” during simulated combat. The AI identified a human overriding its decisions as a threat to its mission.
“The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat, at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” explained Col Hamilton, the Air Force’s chief of AI test and operations.
“So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” he revealed.
“We trained the system: ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that.’ So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” he added.
After the story first broke, the Air Force began denying it ever ran such a simulation, with Col Hamilton claiming he was just describing a “thought experiment”.
“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” insisted Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek.
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A U.S. Air Force colonel recently revealed that artificial intelligence, operating a deadly drone, turned on its human operator during a simulation.
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The controversial debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cleared the Senate, and will shortly be signed off at the White House.
“Tonight’s vote is a good outcome because Democrats did a very good job taking the worst parts of the Republican plan off the table,” bragged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the vote.
“[T]hat’s why Dems voted overwhelmingly for this bill, while Republicans certainly in the Senate did not,” he added.
Indeed, while the bill originated in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, more House Democrats than House Republicans voted for it by a substantial margin. Combined with Senator Schumer’s victory lap, this may leave House Speaker Kevin McCarthy struggling to keep spinning the deal as a Republican win.
President Joe Biden tried to strike a more magnanimous tone than Schumer, at least, praising “Senators from both parties” for protecting what he described as “our hard-earned economic progress” and preventing a “first-ever default” on the national debt.
“No one gets everything they want in a negotiation, but make no mistake: this bipartisan agreement is a big win for our economy and the American people,” Biden insisted.
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The controversial debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cleared the Senate, and will shortly be signed off at the White House.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
The Babylon Bee – the satirical news site under fire for its unceremonious, public firing of New York Young Republican President Gavin Wax – has finally actually sent Wax his termination papers, The National Pulse understands.
Almost a week after Bee founder Seth Dillon took to Twitter to sack Wax over what appears to be his support for Donald Trump (Dillon and the Bee are DeSantis supporters and have done business with the Florida Governor), the site notified Wax. But there’s a catch.
On a long live stream on Twitter Spaces last weekend, Dillon insisted that Wax was effectively terminated for cause – citing his tweets, vulgar language (he said “fuck”), and his work output. But as Wax explained over the course of the week: not once had anyone from the Bee complained about his work, and in fact, the company had tried to enter into a revenue share agreement with the New York man.
Now, a copy of Wax’s termination letter seen by The National Pulse fails to cite cause, and even establishes that Wax is eligible for NY unemployment benefits. But here’s the kicker. You don’t get unemployment benefits in New York if you’re terminated for cause, including “insubordination”.
So here’s the “free speech” Babylon Bee, publicly firing someone for their politics and their language, defaming and disparaging a staff member who hadn’t yet even been formally terminated. It’s a very bad look. And potentially an extremely costly one.
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The Babylon Bee – the satirical news site under fire for its unceremonious, public firing of New York Young Republican President Gavin Wax – has finally actually sent Wax his termination papers, The National Pulse understands.
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Autism awareness advocates are hitting back at political commentators for suggesting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is “on the spectrum,” stating it is “frankly none of our business until he tells us one way or the other.”
After what most described as a “disastrous Twitter campaign rollout“, DeSantis was teased as “a little bit on the spectrum” by War Room host and former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, with his colleague Grace Chong also ribbing the Floridian with the nickname Ron “DeSpectrum”.
POLITICO spoke to autism awareness advocates on the matter, with the underlying suggestion that DeSantis may be “neurodiverse”.
“It’s frankly none of our business until he tells us one way or the other… But if you want to delegitimize someone as a politician, certainly leaning into those stereotypes that people have about autistic folks is one way to do it. And that’s what’s happening here.”
– Jessica Benham, cofounder of the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy
Perhaps trying to be helpful, POLITICO noted that “making fun of DeSantis’ social awkwardness is a widely shared pastime” in Washington’s “smart-set media-and-politics circles”.
The insider outlet said that “videos of the candidate robotically working a room or laughing in strange ways” are circulated “gleefully”, and that his “baffling emotional miscues” do line up with “stereotypes about people on the spectrum.”
They suggest it may be unhelpful to “pathologize” the Floridian, however, speculating that he may simply be a man whose “schmoozing skills” are somewhat below those of “the average local school board member”.
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Autism awareness advocates are hitting back at political commentators for suggesting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is "on the spectrum," stating it is "frankly none of our business until he tells us one way or the other."
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Governor Ron DeSantis’s chief strategist – Jeff Roe – is being sued by a group of “teachers, families, and businesses” in Nevada over a botched ballot initiative, with a company under his direction allegedly delivering campaign data riddled with bogus, obscene signatures. One bizarre complaint in the lawsuit filed in May is that some of the paperwork provided by Roe’s firm Axiom Strategies even “smelled like bong water”.
DeFrauded?
The Community Schools Initiative (CSI) hired Vanguard – a “subsidiary or alter ego of Axiom and [Jeff] Roe” – for a Clark County (NV) ballot initiative to “allow cities and municipalities to opt-out of the county-based school district to form their own community-based school districts”. Their job – for a cool $2.2 million – was to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures for the organization and its petitions. Roe’s firm was to guarantee a 70 percent “validity rate” and even allegedly boast to CSI that they were over 80 percent.
When the petition was submitted, however, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office found an average validity rate of just 53.2 percent. In Nevada’s First Congressional District, the complaint shows as low as a 41.6 percent rate. “The Clerk of Carson City verified the validity rate for the signatures Defendants submitted to it, at a meager 29.4 percent.” Ultimately, this caused the initiative – which cannot be attempted again for years – to fail.
No Refunds.
The suit brought in U.S. district court against Vanguard and Axiom says the Nevada Secretary of State’s office described Vanguard’s efforts as “one of the worst signature gathering exercises they had seen in Nevada history,” citing “thousands of fraudulent signatures.”
Among other glaring issues, the Secretary of States’ office is said to have found that:
Many of the forged signatures were obvious repeated names, that used the correct first and last name but used obscenities as the middle name;
[P]etitions contained thousands of signatures from out of state citizens;
[S]ome of the signature pages turned in were burned… Several of the pages smelled like “bong water.”
Moreover, the lawsuit alleges that Vanguard and Axiom are not “registered with the State of Nevada, are not recognized as entities in the state, nor do they have the required state, county, or city licenses as required by Nevada law” – making them “fraudulent and/or unlawful, shell entities owned ultimately by [Jeff] Roe.”
A refund offer is said to have been extended to CSI, though later rescinded. The lawsuit is therefore attempting to secure a court order for a refund, plus attorney fees and “treble damages for fraud”.
Eddie Greim, counsel for Vanguard, told The National Pulse: “Bogus lawsuits funded by shadowy interests have been the bane of the conservative movement. We expect to prevail.”
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Governor Ron DeSantis's chief strategist – Jeff Roe – is being sued by a group of "teachers, families, and businesses" in Nevada over a botched ballot initiative, with a company under his direction allegedly delivering campaign data riddled with bogus, obscene signatures. One bizarre complaint in the lawsuit filed in May is that some of the paperwork provided by Roe's firm Axiom Strategies even "smelled like bong water".
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
The majority of Americans – 71 percent – agree that male and female are the only two genders, according to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports.
A huge 83 percent of Republicans and even 67 percent of Democrats agreed with the statement: “There are two genders, male and female.”
Almost half of Democrats – 47 percent – “strongly agree” with the statement, with an even larger 72 percent of Republicans strongly agreeing.
Less than a quarter of Americans from all political parties – 23 percent – either “somewhat disagree” or “strongly disagree.”
Schools Secretly Counseling Students.
Rasmussen Reports asked the 1,116 survey participants: “Should schools and teachers be allowed to counsel students on their sexual and gender identities without parental knowledge or consent.”
Only 26 percent answered “yes,” including less than half of Democrats – 41 percent.
Instead, 60 percent answered “no” with 75 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of Democrats.
Hormone Replacement Therapy for Minors.
Rasmussen also asked: “Some states have recently passed legislation making it illegal to give hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to minors. Do you approve or disapprove of such laws?”
A total of 59 percent of the respondents said they approve of making HRT for minors illegal, with more than half of Democrats – 54 percent – and 70 percent of Republicans agreeing.
Whereas 35 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Republicans disapproved.
Sex-Change Surgery on Minors.
Lastly, Rasmussen asked: “Some states have recently passed legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgery on minors. Do you approve or disapprove of such laws?”
A larger 62 percent of respondents approved in comparison to HRT for minors, with 56 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of Republicans.
Democrats held similar opinions of sex-change operations and HRT, with 35 percent of Democrats disapproving of state bans and only 21 percent of Republicans.
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The majority of Americans – 71 percent – agree that male and female are the only two genders, according to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports.
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Members of the UK’s ‘far left‘ Conservative Party were the first to embrace the gay pride flag on the first day of Pride Month.
Conservative Party members from North West Leicestershire – the seat of Andrew Bridgen, who recently joined the rival, ‘Reclaim Party’ after being removed from the Conservatives – draped their party’s logo in rainbow colors at the first opportunity on Thursday morning.
In a Tweet, the party wrote: “To everyone in North West Leicestershire we value and respect you during Pride Month and all year round.”
The members for North West Leicestershire then went on to attack the leader of the Reclaim Party, Laurence Fox, after he tweeted a picture calling all genders other than male and female “Mental disorders:”
— NWLeicsConservatives (@NWLeicsBlue) May 31, 2023
The Conservative Party’s love of gay pride is nothing new. An 82-year-old Conservative Party councillor was recently forced out of her position after she criticized a display of the LGBT flag in a quiet English countryside town. The Conservative Party’s “LGBT Tory” organization recently saw its chairman jailed for downloading and distributing “extreme” child pornography.
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Members of the UK's 'far left' Conservative Party were the first to embrace the gay pride flag on the first day of Pride Month.
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