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How long until Big Pharma (corporations like GSK, Novartis, Bayer, Merck, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Lilly & Gilead) puts out a COVID-19 vaccine?<\/p><\/div>\n
By Tony Cartalucci
\nThe Freedom Articles<\/p>\n
Coronavirus Disease 2019 or\u00a0\u201cCovid-19\u201d hysteria<\/a>\u00a0is sweeping the globe \u2013 with mass media-induced public panic paralyzing entire nations, gutting economies of billions as workplaces are shutdown and the public shuttered indoors all while exposed to 24 hour news cycles deliberately fanning the flames of fear. The West\u2019s healthcare industry is already profiting both monetarily and in terms of artificial credibility as a panicked public turn to it for answers and safety. Waiting to cash in on offering \u201ccures\u201d and \u201cvaccines\u201d for a virus that\u00a0is essentially a bad cold<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 is the immensely corrupt Western pharmaceutical industry in particular \u2013 notorious corporations like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis, Bayer, Merck, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Lilly, and Gilead.<\/p>\n All corporations \u2013 without exception \u2013 pursuing government-funded vaccines and therapies for Covid-19 are corporations guilty and repeatedly convicted in courts of law around the globe of crimes including falsifying research, safety, and efficacy studies, bribing researchers, doctors, regulators, and even law enforcement officials, and marketing drugs that were either entirely ineffective or even dangerous. Government funding from taxpayers across the Western World are being funneled into supposedly non-profit organizations like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) which are in actuality fronts created and chaired by big-pharma to avoid investing their own money into costly research and development and simply profit from whatever emerges from state-funded research. CEPI \u2013 for example \u2013 is receiving billions in government funds from various nations that will be used for R&D that results in products sold by and profited from big-pharma.<\/p>\n A particularly shocking and appalling example comes from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis \u2013 who is currently attempting to ram through approval of\u00a0its drug\u00a0Jakafi<\/a>\u00a0as a therapy for severe Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n A University of Pennsylvania team headed by Dr. Carl June and funded entirely by charity had developed a gene therapy that fully and permanently cured leukemia patients who had otherwise failed to respond to more traditional treatments like bone marrow transplants. During early trials in 2010-2012, one patient \u2013 a 6 year old named\u00a0Emily Whitehead<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 was literally on her death bed before receiving the revolutionary gene therapy.<\/p>\n Today she is alive and well, in permanent remission.<\/p>\n What is more astounding about the therapy is that it is administered only one time. That is because after administration the patient\u2019s cells are rewired permanently to fight off cancer. Old cells pass the cancer-fighting information off to new cells as they divide and multiply.<\/p>\n The therapy developed by Dr. June\u2019s team is not only a one-time therapy, it is also incredibly cost effective. Under experimental conditions the procedure cost under 20,000 USD. Dr. June at a 2013 talk at The Society for Translational Oncology\u00a0would state<\/a>:<\/p>\n So the cost of goods, it\u2019s interesting. The major cost here is gamma globulin. So the t-cells themselves, with us, for our in-house costs of an apheresis and so on is 15,000 dollars to manufacture the t-cells.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The charity that funded Dr. June\u2019s team \u2013\u00a0Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) \u2013 would see its work sold off to Novartis,\u00a0approved by the FDA in 2017<\/a>\u00a0and marketed as Kymriah. What was noted by Dr. June himself as costing 15,000 USD to produce under experimental conditions was marked up by Novartis to an astronomical half-million dollars.\u00a0The New York Times article<\/a>\u00a0that reported the drug\u2019s cost never mentions the actual cost of the drug and instead defers to Novartis\u2019 own explanation as to why the drug was so expensive.<\/p>\n The NYT had previously reported on the therapy\u2019s progress before its acquisition by Novartis, yet NYT writers failed to hold Novartis accountable or inform readers of the actual cost of the therapy and expose price gouging by Novartis. This helps illustrate the mass media\u2019s role in enabling and covering up for big-pharma\u2019s corruption. Upon closer examination \u2013 and no thanks to publications like NYT \u2013 it turns out LLS was and still is\u00a0in partnership with Novartis<\/a>\u00a0and while it denied Novartis had anything to do with the gene therapy funded by LLS and ultimately sold\u00a0to\u00a0<\/i>Novartis \u2013 the glaring conflict of interest remains and fits in perfectly with the wider pharmaceutical industry\u2019s track record of corruption, abuse, and placing profits before human life. The Novartis example is a microcosm of how the entire industry operates and indeed \u2013 precisely how it already is exploiting and profiting from Covid-19 hysteria where hard-working researchers have their work funded by shady \u201ccharities\u201d only to be bought up by Big Pharma and dangled over the heads of the desperate for movie-villain ransoms \u2013 all in cooperation with a complicit government and mass media.<\/p>\n Another pharmaceutical corporation seeking to profit from Covid-19 is GlaxoSmithKline. What those who may be exposed to whatever products GSK markets in response to the virus should know is that GSK has been convicted on every inhabited continent of the planet for operating a global bribery racket aimed at doctors, researchers, regulators, politicians, and even law enforcement officials. The Glaxo case, which resulted in record penalties of nearly $500 million and a string of guilty pleas by executives, upended the power dynamic in China, unveiling an increasingly assertive government determined to tighten its grip over multinationals. In the three years since the arrests, the Chinese government, under President Xi Jinping, has unleashed the full force of the country\u2019s authoritarian system, as part of a broader agenda of economic nationalism.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n GSK has also been convicted in North America. The London Guardian would report in its article\u00a0GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales<\/a><\/i>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3bn (\u00a31.9bn) after admitting bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children. Glaxo is also expected to admit failing to report safety problems with the diabetes drug Avandia in a district court in Boston on Thursday. The company encouraged sales reps in the US to mis-sell three drugs to doctors and lavished hospitality and kickbacks on those who agreed to write extra prescriptions, including trips to resorts in Bermuda, Jamaica and California.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n GSK corruption also takes place in Europe. In early 2014, the London Telegraph would report in its article, \u201cGlaxoSmithKline \u2018bribed\u2019 doctors to promote drugs in Europe, former worker claims<\/a>,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n GlaxoSmithKline, Britain\u2019s largest drug company, has been accused of bribing doctors to prescribe their medicines in Europe.\u00a0Doctors in Poland were allegedly paid to promote its asthma drug, Seretide, under the guise of funding for education programme, a former sales rep has claimed. Medics were also said to have been paid for lectures in the country which did not take place.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And this is only scratching the surface of GSK\u2019s bribery racket and associated impropriety \u2013 saying nothing of the wider industry\u2019s abuse and corruption. GSK\u00a0is currently poised to develop and deploy a Covid-19 vaccine<\/a>\u00a0with Innovax. Will GSK\u2019s history of bribery and corruption influence the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and its approval for public use?<\/p>\n There is already a convincing answer to that question.<\/p>\n The last wave of hysteria regarding a pandemic came in the form of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak or the \u201cswine flu.\u201d If one vaguely remembers H1N1 and needs to look it up to refresh their memory \u2013 it\u2019s probably because it was not the pandemic it was promoted as at the time by corrupt public health officials and a complicit mass media. Among these corrupt public health officials were\u00a0World Health Organization (WHO)<\/a>\u00a0\u201cexperts\u201d who were in the pay of big-pharma and used their positions to declare the appearance of H1N1 as a \u201cpandemic\u201d justifying likewise paid-off governments to stockpile big-pharma medication for patients that never ended up needing them.<\/p>\n The BBC in their article, \u201cWHO swine flu experts \u2018linked\u2019 with drug companies<\/a>,\u201d would admit:<\/p>\n Key scientists behind World Health Organization advice on stockpiling of pandemic flu drugs had financial ties with companies which stood to profit, an investigation has found.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The British Medical Journal says the scientists had openly declared these interests in other publications yet WHO made no mention of the links.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The BBC mentions GSK by name, noting (emphasis added):<\/p>\n \u2026three scientists involved in putting together the 2004 guidance\u00a0had previously been paid by Roche or GSK<\/b>\u00a0for lecturing and consultancy work as well as being involved in research for the companies.\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Roche \u2013 also mentioned \u2013 currently produces Covid-19 test kits and is obviously making massive profits by selling them amid sustained hysteria over the \u201cpandemic.\u201d It also profited when WHO officials it was paying off declared H1N1 a \u201cpandemic\u201d in 2009. It sold testing kits and anti-viral medication that made their way into entirely unnecessary government stockpiles.<\/p>\n Reuters in a 2014 article titled, \u201cStockpiles of Roche Tamiflu drug are waste of money, review finds<\/a>,\u201d would note:<\/p>\n Researchers who have fought for years to get full data on Roche\u2019s flu medicine Tamiflu said on Thursday that governments who stockpile it are wasting billions of dollars on a drug whose effectiveness is in doubt.\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The article also noted:<\/p>\n Tamiflu sales hit almost $3 billion in 2009 \u2013 mostly due to its use in the H1N1 flu pandemic \u2013 but they have since declined.\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Are we really going to allow these same corporations and the corrupt officials they are in league with among national and international bodies take the reins again amid Covid-19?<\/p>\n The same WHO \u2013 in partnership with the same serial offenders among the pharmaceutical industry \u2013 are now leading the response to Covid-19 \u2013 and the same complicit mass media that enabled the corruption and abuse of both in the past is helping fuel Covid-19 hysteria today to hand over unprecedented profits and power to these same interests that have repeatedly proven themselves in the past\u00a0to not only be untrustworthy<\/a>\u00a0but also obstacles to \u2013 rather than the underwriters of \u2013 human health.<\/p>\n Soon, syringes will be filled with \u201cvaccines\u201d produced by this conglomerate of corruption and abuse, and the public told to roll up their sleeves and have themselves injected by substances created by literal criminals or else.<\/p>\n Under the illusion of legitimacy, science, and medicine, people will be pressured to submit to big-pharma and their co-conspirators within regulatory bodies, advisory organizations, the government, and the media, and whatever it is they actually fill these syringes with \u2013 whether it protects the public from Covid-19 or not \u2013 and whether such a vaccine is truly necessary or not.<\/p>\n While Covid-19 might be an actual pathogen, evidence suggests it does not warrant the overreaction we have seen worldwide. \u201cCovid-19 hysteria<\/a>\u201d is \u2013 by far \u2013 having a much more devastating impact on humanity than the actual virus itself.\u00a0 Amid this hysteria, the biggest genuine threat to human health \u2013 a corrupt pharmaceutical industry and their partners in the government \u2013 are poised to expand both their profits at the expense of the public, and their power over the public.<\/p>\nNovartis \u2013 Plumbing the Depths of the Despicable<\/h3>\n
GSK: A Bribery Racket that Rings the Globe<\/h3>\n
\nGSK has been convicted in Asia. The New York Times in its article, \u201cDrug Giant Faced a Reckoning as China Took Aim at Bribery<\/a>,\u201d would claim:<\/p>\nBig-Pharma Already Caught Faking Pandemics to Fill Their Coffers<\/h3>\n
Serial Offenders Drive Covid-19 Hysteria<\/h3>\n