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#21360944 at 2024-08-06 14:51:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26178: 90 day to nov 5th election and the psyops continue w.w edition
(Part 1)
Tim Walz on healthcare: 8 things to know
Published 1 hour ago
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is set to join Kamala Harris on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election, Reuters and The Associated Press reported Aug. 6. Here's what we know about the Democratic vice presidential contender's actions and views on healthcare.
Reuters and AP attributed the news to their sources familiar with the matter.
Mr. Walz, 60, has led Minnesota as a two-term governor, taking office in 2019. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district, from 2007 to 2019. The state is home to some healthcare heavyweights, including Mayo Clinic based in Rochester, UnitedHealth Group based in Minnetonka and Medtronic in Minneapolis.
1. Healthcare as a right. Mr. Walz believes healthcare is a human right, a belief he described as a "Minnesotan value" in his 2019 inaugural address as governor. "What Minnesotans want from their health care is simple. They don't want to get sick in the first place. But if they do, they want care at a price they can afford and at a location close to home," he said at the time, noting the need for improvements to healthcare delivery, affordability and outcomes.
2. Health insurance coverage MNsure, Minnesota's official health insurance marketplace established in 2013, saw a record number of enrollments in 2024 with 146,445 people successfully signed up. The same year, the percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance fell to 3.8% compared to the national uninsured rate of 7.7%.
During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, Mr. Walz supported the introduction of a public option in Minnesota. The plan, designed to complement MinnesotaCare for residents earning above 200% of the federal poverty level, has progressed slowly. MinnesotaCare provides coverage for low-income Minnesotans who lack affordable healthcare options, while Medical Assistance (MA) is the state's Medicaid program for individuals with very low income. Unlike MA, which has no monthly premium, MinnesotaCare may require a premium based on the household size and income of the enrollees.
In 2023, legislation was passed mandating a study and actuarial analysis of a public option, with findings due in early 2024. Based on these findings, the earliest start date for the public option would be 2027. The Minnesota Department of Commerce released the report earlier this year outlining two approaches to the public option, with estimates that the expansion could cost the state up to $364 million annually and increase enrollment by up to 151,000 people.
The Minnesota Hospital Association has opposed the concept of a public option to augment MinnesotaCare, testifying that "allowing a public option without some type of upper income threshold and recognition of the imbalance of reimbursement between public and private insurance was ill advised."
3. Health insurer restrictions. UnitedHealthcare was "deeply disappointed" in May 2024 when Minnesota lawmakers and Mr. Walz renewed restrictions preventing for-profit HMOs from securing managed care contracts in the state's Medicaid program. Minnesota had traditionally reserved its Medicaid program for nonprofit health plans until lifting the ban on for-profits in 2017. UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer and the only for-profit HMO in Minnesota Medicaid, responded by filing a lawsuit on Aug. 5, challenging the new restriction set to take effect in 2025.
4. Healthcare funding challenges and dynamics. In the final days of Minnesota's 2023 legislative session, a healthcare fight and compromise emerged related to a bill on nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
Initially introduced in February, Minnesota's Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act faced strong opposition from the Minnesota Hospital Association, which claimed it would reduce hospital care capacity by 15% and threaten regular care access for 70,000 patients. The bill lost momentum after Mayo Clinic, warning it would reconsider billions in future Minnesota investments, secured an exemption.
Last-minute compromises on provisions in the bill made by lawmakers with influence from Mr. Walz left the legislation so fundamentally changed that its title was adjusted from the Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act to the Nurse and Patient Safety Act. The revised act focuses on workplace violence protections and benefits for nurses. Minnesota Nurses Association President Mary Turner criticized Mr. Walz for yielding to corporate pressure and "allowing corporate executives to dictate our public policy behind closed doors."
#21360706 at 2024-08-06 13:41:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26178: 90 day to nov 5th election and the psyops continue w.w edition
Walz recaps Asia trip focused on fostering Minnesota ties
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/09/13/walz-recaps-asia-trip-focused-on-fostering-minnesota-ties
https://archive.is/UMNgP
Just back from a trip to Asia, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Friday that his state's farmers remain in desperate need of a U.S. trade deal with China.
Walz recapped discussions he had with trading partners in Japan and South Korea, which continue to be a reliable destination for soybeans and other crops grown in Minnesota and across the Midwest. But he's concerned that export markets that are closing amid a U.S.-China trade dispute that has caused tit-for-tat tariffs.
Walz said his delegation on the six-day trip heard from business leaders and government officials that Japan has a limited opportunity to accept more agriculture imports from Minnesota.
"There's just no substitute for 1.6 billion consumers who are hungry to get our China trade negotiations normalized," Walz said. "There is not enough market in the rest of the world to absorb our capacity."
Walz said he picked up on uneasiness in other Asian nations about the tariff battle among two of the world's economic powerhouses.
"At a time of chaos and unrest in trade," Walz said, "our Japanese and South Korean partners are looking for solid relationships with states, and Minnesota in particular, that share their values."
He said he spent plenty of time touting Minnesota's educated labor force and work ethic as assets for companies looking to establish or expand their presence in the region.
The DFL governor spent time with officials from Minnesota companies already doing business in Japan, including Medtronic, 3M and Boston Scientific.
They also met with Korean companies with investments in Minnesota, including Doosan Group, which owns the Bobcat construction machinery company in Owatonna, and South Korea's largest food manufacturer, CJ CheilJedang Group, which owns the Schwan's food company in Marshall. They also met in Japan with officials from Kito Corporation, which owns Peerless Chain in Winona.
They also hosted a meeting with 40 companies in Japan that don't currently do business with Minnesota.
Back on home soil, Walz said his administration plans to re-evaluate where Minnesota has trade representatives.
Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove, who accompanied Walz in Asia, said the focus is on nurturing relationships can be furthered through state trade outposts abroad.
"In a global economy to have someone all the time there to represent Minnesota makes a difference," Grove said. "We've looked both at markets where we have long-standing, deep trade relationships but also kind of high-potential markets where we think we can a shift or a change or an acceleration with a person on the ground there."
There are seven markets across the globe currently where Minnesota has some regular representation. The contractors help promote the state as a place to do business.
#21049508 at 2024-06-19 13:13:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25809: Day of BOOMS Edition
>>21049496
2/3
Easy political choice for Democrats
Within the Democratic Party, raising the corporate tax is among the easiest political choices,because it generates so much money for other priorities. It lets Democrats direct attention to companies that enjoyed lower taxes and then raised prices; they have pointed to studies showing that the 2017 law yielded modest boosts in investment and delivered wage gains mostly to higher-income workers.
Democrats also point to U.S. corporate tax revenue as a share of the economy as being low internationally;that is misleading because, unlike elsewhere, the U.S. taxes a significant share of U.S. business income on owners' individual returns, not through the corporate tax.
"The corporate tax share is already low and corporate profits are at record highs," said Lael Brainard, the White House national economic adviser. "Any way you look at it, we are not raising enough from the corporate side." The corporate tax is projected to generate about 8% of U.S. revenue over the next decade, far less than individual income or payroll taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The corporate tax is one of the most progressive ways of raising revenue, with much of the burden falling on higher-income households, but the reality of who pays it is more nuanced than just saying "companies" or "rich people."
Economists and government agencies generally agree that shareholders ultimately bear much of the cost, with workers and consumers paying some, too. Shareholders, generally, are wealthier than the population as a whole.
The corporate tax is one of the few ways the U.S. can, indirectly, tax foreign investors in U.S. securities and nonprofits with large tax-free endowments.But the shareholder base also includes pension funds, 401(k) accounts and some middle-income households. Biden and Democrats play down effects on those groups.They also don't count corporate tax increases as violating the president's pledge to protect households making under $400,000 from tax hikes.
Republicans see 21% rate as successful
Republicans and executives see the 21% corporate tax rate and accompanyingchanges to international tax rules as successful. They note that no U.S. companies have inverted-taken a foreign address for tax savings-since 2017 and they warn that a higher rate would harm the economy. That is a change from the prior few years, when companies such as Johnson Controls and Medtronic inverted.
Higher rates now would be more onerous than a decade ago, Moeller said. That is because the 2017 law broadened the tax base, removing tax breaks such as one for domestic manufacturing, so a 28% tax now would be 28% on more income….
https://archive.is/VDoGd#selection-6149.0-6545.54
#20535739 at 2024-03-08 12:40:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25187: You Must Show Them Edition
>>20535731
Watch on Rumble:
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In this episode, Karen Kingston and I discuss the work of Charles Lieber, DARPA and how the C19 bioweapons relates to the Brain Computer Interface.
Karen Kingston is a med-legal advisor and biotech analyst with 25 years experience. Her clients have included Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, ThermoFisher Scientific, Allergan, Medtronic and other industry titans. As an analyst, she has worked both with start-ups, as well as corporate venture capital firms, including Johnson & Johnson Development Corp. Ms. Kingston internationally recognized as an expert on the harmful biological effects caused by mRNA and other engineered nanoparticle technology.
Karen's scientific and med-legal analysis is being used by government officials and legal experts around the globe. The most recent example is the Statement Facts documented in Dr. Joe Sansone's pending Florida Supreme Court Case for the Court to order Governor Desantis and AG Moody to prohibit the use of mRNA in the state of Florida and to seize the shots.
She also has been instrumental in providing statement of facts documentation for the Interest of Justice Team in the Costa Rica Lawsuits. Her generous support and information has been invaluable confirmation of my research findings.
Covid19 Nanotechnology And Synthetic Biology. Conversation With Karen Kingston. Truth, Science And Spirit Episode 3
Karen Kingston & Dr. Ana Mihalcea - AI Exterminating Humans Through Synthetic Biology - Our Interview With Maria Zeee
AI Magnetic Hydrogel Bioweapon and Nanotechnology in C19 shots - Ana Mihalcea, MD, PhD Interviews Karen Kingston
Karen Kingston & Dr. Ana Mihalcea with Maria Zeee - COVID is a Technological & Biological Weapon Hybrid - Gene Editing of All Humans
ICIC - International Crimes Investigative Committee: Nanotechnology: Self Assembly structures in mRNA-injections with: Dr. Ana Mihalcea, Karen Kingston, Dr. Nixon, Shimon Yanowitz, Dr. Mike Yeadon,
#20467536 at 2024-02-24 13:53:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25107: Good Morning Edition
Hmm
Minneapolis man guilty of insider trading surrounding Medtronic acquisition
Doron Tavlin previously worked for Mazor Robotics, an Israeli-based company that was acquired by Medtronic.
BRINGMETHENEWS
Feb22, 2024
#20186888 at 2024-01-05 12:39:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24771: Deep State Death Throws Edition
Questionable Stock Trade Patterns in Ramaswamy's Wall Street Past| Opinion
Sep 24, 2023 at 5:31 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/we-have-some-questions-vivek-ramaswamy-about-how-he-made-his-millions-opinion-1829438
With Vivek Ramaswamy rising fast in the 2024 presidential primary polls, his pre-politics career as a biotech entrepreneur has faced growing scrutiny over allegations of pump and dump tactics. But one crucial part of his past has so far been overlooked: his short but extremely lucrative stint on Wall Street as a hedge fund investor.
Our team carefully mined the Securities and Exchange Commission's filings archives and Ramaswamy's own prior statements to recreate and analyze some of his investment history on Wall Street. What we found was shocking.
While he was at Yale Law School, Ramaswamy also worked for a hedge fund, QVT Financial. In the span of one year, Ramaswamy and his company invested in three companies-Pharmasset, Inhibitex, and Anadys, all firms in the highly esoteric field of hepatitis C treatments within biotech. And they were all acquired in major takeovers, with Ramaswamy fortuitously buying in or dramatically upping QVT's stake right around the time secret acquisition talks began in every case.
Was it dumb luck? We don't have evidence of insider trading. But certainly, Ramaswamy's timing could not have been better in each of these cases. And while QVT held hundreds of positions at each of these times, each of these three bets were either Ramaswamy's largest position at the time or Ramaswamy was the single largest shareholder in the stock, making their extravagant success noteworthy.
Did Ramaswamy merely ride the wave of hepatitis C speculative mania taking place at the time? It would be hard for that to explain away his suspiciously good timing. Certainly, the six biotech peers and experts on securities law and corporate governance with whom we shared our findings all found Ramaswamy's lucky timing improbable.
Ramaswamy's success "looks less like lucky investing and more like a known playbook he was reading from," noted biotech investor and former Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz told us. "It certainly raises eyebrows given the repeated pattern." Bill George, the former CEO of Medtronic, agreed, telling us these findings showed Ramaswamy to be "a classic pump-and-dump guy who has not achieved on his own."
Several experts on corporate law and accounting were just as stunned. "I am perplexed that the SEC has not investigated these transactions with respect to insider trading," Norman Bartczak, a financial accounting professor at Columbia Business School and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, said. Meanwhile, Howard Shecter, the legendary corporate attorney, senior M&A counsel at Holland & Knight, and former managing partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, said that Ramaswamy's trades are "evocative of SAC [Steve Cohen's hedge fund] and other notorious traders on inside information."
As renowned corporate governance pioneer, former President of ISS, and Vice Chair of ValueEdge Advisors Nell Minow put it, "Ramaswamy's partners, investors, and government regulators should have asked some hard questions about these transactions, which seem, as the British say, too clever by half. Now, he should get those hard questions from the journalists who cover Presidential politics, his opponents in the race for the nomination, and most definitely, from the voters."
#20109334 at 2023-12-21 15:17:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24679: Winter Solstice Edition
>>20109329
(cont'd)
Did Ramaswamy merely ride the wave of hepatitis C speculative mania taking place at the time? It would be hard for that to explain away his suspiciously good timing. Certainly, the six biotech peers and experts on securities law and corporate governance with whom we shared our findings all found Ramaswamy's lucky timing improbable.
Ramaswamy's success "looks less like lucky investing and more like a known playbook he was reading from," noted biotech investor and former Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz told us. "It certainly raises eyebrows given the repeated pattern." Bill George, the former CEO of Medtronic, agreed, telling us these findings showed Ramaswamy to be "a classic pump-and-dump guy who has not achieved on his own."
#18749793 at 2023-04-25 12:40:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23007: James Bond Edition
>>18749429
>Hunter Biden hides away at Joe Kiani's
>$50M California vineyard amid his brewing
>criminal probes:
Joe Kiani
Iranian
Covid Med tech Billionaire
'Meet The Iranian Immigrant Who Became A Covid MedTech Billionaire
Oct 3, 2022,07:21am EDT
Joe Kiani surmounted overwhelming personal and professional odds to build a better blood oxygen monitoring device. So why should he be afraid to push his scrappy company into consumer electronics, challenging firms 100 times its size?
J
oe Kiani had achieved the dream. Masimo Corp., which he founded and runs as CEO and chairman, had carved out a lucrative niche as one of the top makers of pulse oximeters, those fingertip sensors that hospitals use to measure oxygen saturation in patients' blood. Masimo had made Kiani, who immigrated in poverty to the U.S. from Iran as a child, rich-a billionaire, by Forbes' reckoning. As an electrical engineer, he took pride in the fact that devices he had personally designed were excellent, commanding a slightly bigger share of the U.S. hospital pulse oximeter market than its chief competitor, Nellcor, which is a unit of Medtronic, a company roughly 15 times Masimo's size. Together the two companies account for about 90% of sales.
It's a profitable enterprise, too-last year Masimo, based in Irvine, California, earned $223 million on $1.2 billion in revenue. Amid a rising stock market and bolstered by increased demand for Masimo's technology due to Covid-19 (low blood oxygen levels being an early warning that the disease is getting worse), the company's shares climbed 85% from early 2020 through the end of 2021, giving Masimo a market capitalization of more than $16 billion.
Then Kiani decided to complicate the dream. After the market closed this February 15, Masimo announced it was spending just over $1 billion to buy Sound United, a consumer-focused audio, speaker and headphone business that owns brands such as Marantz, Denon, Bowers & Wilkins and Boston Acoustics. The next day, Masimo's stock plunged 37%, wiping out $5 billion in market value.
Kiani was shocked. "We thought [investors] would say 'awesome!' And given our track rec?ord, we're not going to screw it up," he declares, perched on an ecru couch in his compulsively neat office. "You know what one of them said to me? Very angry shareholder, big shareholder? 'Give it back. Don't buy it.'"
But Mike Polark, an analyst at Wolfe Research in Boston, wasn't surprised at the negative reaction: "In medtech, focus pays." At eight times Ebitda, the problem wasn't that Kiani had overpaid for Sound United. It's also a healthy, profitable business expected to bring Masimo's revenue to $2 billion this year, a 67% increase. "The issue for Wall Street is strategic direction," Polark continues. "Why is Masimo selling over-the-ear headphones?"
The acquisition would instantly render Kiani's company less profitable. The gross margin on Masimo's medical device business had been a lofty 65.8%. In commodity consumer electronics, like headphones, 20% is more typical.
The move prompted activist investor Politan Capital Management, a year-old firm led by Quentin Koffey-a veteran of activist investor Paul Singer's Elliott Management and hedge fund D.E. Shaw-to acquire a nearly 9% stake in Masimo, according to an early August filing. Poli?tan would not comment on its plans, but back in March the firm helped push health insurance firm Centene to replace its CEO.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2022/10/03/meet-the-iranian-immigrant-who-became-a-covid-medtech-billionaire/?sh=77ab15a82abc
#18339977 at 2023-02-13 18:12:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22479: 'Murica, Own It, Love It, Why We Here Edition
>>18339933
>>18339946
>>18339820
n Q drop 742, we are asked to look into Mika Brzezinski background as in family and carreers then asked to look into McLean, Virginia. When you do that, you will find the common denominator for both is BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON, where Ian Brzezinski, Edward Snowden and James Clapper had ties to. Why does this look like a repeat of Fusion G.P.S., this firm has the same type of smell.
"Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (informally Booz Allen) is an American management and information technology consulting firm, headquartered in McLean, Virginia,[6] in Greater Washington, D.C.. The company's stated core business is to provide consulting, analysis and engineering services to public and private sector organizations and nonprofits."
Notable personnel and associates (past and present)
- Sir (Francis) Christopher Buchan Bland: Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and former chairman of British Telecommunications PLC[57][58][59]
- Art Collins: Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.[60]
- Edward C. Davies (Ted): Managing partner, Unisys Federal Systems[61][62]
- Karen Fawcett: Director, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia[63]
- Rhonda Germany: Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Honeywell[64][65]
- Gerry Horkan: Vice president of corporate strategy, Yahoo! Inc.[66]
- Paul Idzik: Executive vice president and chief operating officer, Barclays PLC[67]
- Abigail Johnson: President of Fidelity Investments
- Raymond J. Lane: General partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; chairman of the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon University, former president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation[68][69][70][71] and chairman of Hewlett-Packard[72][73]
- Gretchen W. McClain - President and CEO of Xylem Inc., former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Development
- Christopher North, CEO of Shutterfly[74]
- Edward J. O'Hare: Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration's's Federal Acquisition Service.
- Torsten Oltmanns: currently Global Marketing Director at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Todd Y. Park: Co-founder and chief development officer of Athena Health and second Chief Technology Officer of the United States[79][80]
- Mark DeSantis: Chief executive officer of ANGLE Technology Consulting and Management
- Stan Scoggins: Vice president of worldwide digital assets, Universal Studios[83][84]
- Deven Sharma: President, Standard & Poor's and VP for global strategy at McGraw-Hill[85][86]
#17832783 at 2022-11-28 08:15:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21862: Protect Your DNA Edition
>>17832779
Nudo adds: "The feeling among investors was reluctance to invest in invasive brain technology, unless there is a very strong proof of principle. The place where our startup was is that we had a name without a product."
Now, Musk is in the same position. But Mohseni thinks the billionaire might be able to blast through obstacles. "The whole idea of uploading or downloading thoughts to a healthy person, well, that is pie in the sky, but he has the credibility and vision to talk about those things," Mohseni says. "We still have to advance our work a bit more, obtain some preliminary human data, before we can go to the investment community. But Mr. Musk doesn't have that problem."
A spokesperson for Musk declined to say why the entrepreneur wanted the Neuralink name badly enough to pay for it, but Mohseni believes it was worth every penny. "The name Neuralink really nicely captures what is happening in the field of neuromodulation," he says.
Only a very few types of electronic brain implants have ever reached the market. The most widely employed, and sold by medical device giant Medtronic, is a "deep brain stimulator" able to stop the tremors of people with Parkinson's disease. More than 140,000 patients have received versions of Medtronic's stimulator, and the company's brain modulation division has about $500 million in annual sales.
The Medtronic stimulator is in some ways low tech-it's based on 1980s technology-and uses just one or two electrodes to continually send zaps of electricity into the brain. In fact, no one is exactly sure why it works. Very roughly, it's the neuroscience equivalent of banging on a TV to adjust the picture.
Lothar Krinke, who manages that business for Medtronic, says the company continues to invest in making the system smaller and adding features for surgeons who implant it. "These things take much longer than you think to bring to market," says Krinke. "When you talk about these systems, you have to talk about reliability. A brain implant has to perform for [decades]."
More recently, a company called NeuroPace began selling the first "closed-loop" brain implant for epilepsy patients. That's a leap forward because the device can both detect a seizure coming on and then zap the brain to stop it, creating an automatic control loop. It's a neuralink, if you will.
But other ventures have not gone so well. The list of failed brain-interface companies includes BrainGate and Northstar, a company that liquidated itself in 2009 after spending $132 million in an attempt to help stroke patients recover with a brain implant.
Nudo and Mohseni, who have funding from the U.S. Army and the Paralyzed Veterans of America, say they would still like to raise money from investors to advance their idea towards commercialization.
Now that they sold off the name Neuralink to Musk, Nudo says he has been thinking up new names for their company. "But I don't want to tell you what they are. Someone else would buy the trademark before we do," he says.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/04/04/152788/meet-the-guys-who-sold-neuralink-to-elon-musk-without-even-realizing-it/
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#16068836 at 2022-04-13 18:39:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20325: Save America Rally in Delaware, OH Sat, April 23, 2022 Edition
1/14
Does HRC = Human Rights Campaign?
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) -About
Our Mission
"By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people plus community members who use different language to describe identity are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community."
https://www.hrc.org/about
HRC Corporate Partners include: Accenture, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, Coca-Cola, Diago Smirnoff, Google, Intel, Lyft, Macy's Inc., Microsoft, Mitchel Gold + Bob Williams, Morgan Stanley, Nationwide, Neiman Marcus Group, Northrup Grumman,Pfizer, Raytheon Technologies, Target, TPG, UPS, Alaska Airlines, Deloitte, Doordash, Lexus, Nike, Nordstrom, PayPal, Vizzy, Airbus, BP, Capital One, Chevron, Citi, COX, Danaher, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, MGM Resorts, US Bank, Bank of America, Best Buy, Boston Scientific, Brooks, Cargill, Dell Technologies, ECOLAB, EY, Guardian, Hershey, Hyatt, IBM, Johnson n Johnson, Lincoln, Luman, Medtronic, PepsiCo, PND, ROSS, Shell Starbucks, T Mobile, Takeda, JM Smucker Co., TIAA, Whirlpool, Zimmer Biomet
https://www.hrc.org/about/corporate-partners
#15456362 at 2022-01-25 11:32:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19550: FULL SPEED AHEAD Edition
>>15455961
USAspending.gov database all Fiscal Years
Medtronic - $1.2 Billion
Teligen (Boston Scientific) - $570.8 million
Atlas ii DR (St. Jude Medical) - $137,000
St. Jude Medical - $420.4 million
The numbers reflect the total spending - not just defibrillators/pacemakers. A little suspicious that with the exception of Boston Scientific timing, the majority of the funding came from the Department of Veterans Affairs and dropped off in 2016-ish…. Makes anon think that PDJT was protecting veterans.
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6eaab46c-3634-043b-7a34-2b4568c50f12-C/all
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/91883ce5-f113-2fba-05cd-02d89815fc5c-C/all
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/badc4bb9-4c05-0cf3-d682-2503927c1578-C/all
https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/%22Atlas%20ii%20DR%22
#15343505 at 2022-01-10 15:49:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19408:Vax Don't Work.. Media Broken... Courts Corrupt.... Teaparty Time Edition
>>15343447
>In June, Medtronic ended sales and implants of the device
they should all go to jail.
I will be there
#15343447 at 2022-01-10 15:37:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19408:Vax Don't Work.. Media Broken... Courts Corrupt.... Teaparty Time Edition
A High-Risk Medical Device Didn't Meet Federal Standards. The Government Paid Millions for More
For years after federal inspectors found serious problems with the HeartWare heart pump, agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continued paying to implant it in patients.
Neil BediJan. 7, 5 a.m. EST
In 2014, when the Food and Drug Administration found serious problems with a life-sustaining heart pump, its warning letter to the manufacturer threatened to notify other federal health agencies about the inspection's findings.
But for years, no such alert ever went out. Instead, the agency added the warning letter to an online database alongside thousands of others, following its typical procedures, an FDA spokesperson said.
Agencies such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs went on paying to implant the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device, or HVAD, in new patients even though federal inspectors had found problems with the device linked to patient deaths and injuries.
Taxpayer dollars continued to flow to the original device maker, HeartWare, and then to the company that acquired it in 2016, Medtronic, for seven years while the issues raised in the warning letter remained unresolved.
If crucial safety information in FDA warning letters doesn't make it to other arms of the government responsible for deciding which medical devices to pay for, experts said patients are the ones put at risk.
"It's clearly a breakdown of communication," said Dr. Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at the University of California San Francisco who researches medical device safety and regulation. "It's not just the money, obviously. It's people's lives."
The FDA acknowledged that it doesn't directly notify other agencies when it issues warning letters, pointing instead to its online database, which is accessible to both government officials and the public. "The FDA's decisions are intended to be patient-centric with the health and safety of device users as our highest priority," the agency spokesperson said in an email.
The HeartWare letter was removed from the public database about two years ago, even though the problems remained unresolved and patients were still receiving implants. The database clears out letters that are more than five years old.
CMS, which oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs, would not say why it continued paying for a device that didn't meet government standards. It directed questions about the HeartWare warning letter to the FDA. "CMS does not have oversight of the manufacturing and related safety assessments of a medical device manufacturer," a spokesperson said in an email.
The spokesperson noted that CMS requires heart pump patients to have specialized medical teams managing their care, which should monitor FDA communications regarding safety of devices.
CMS doesn't track data on devices by manufacturer, so it's essentially impossible to calculate its total spending on HVADs. One 2018 medical journal study found that Medicare and Medicaid paid for more than half the cost of all heart pump implants from 2009 to 2014. If that rate of spending continued, CMS may have spent more than $400 million on implanting HVADs since 2014.
A spokesperson for the VA said his agency was never notified about the HeartWare warning letter. The VA paid HeartWare and Medtronic more than $3 million after the FDA issued the letter in 2014. It offered this explanation for why: "It's important to note that FDA Warning Letters are notifications issued to manufacturers found to be in significant violation of federal regulations. They are not product recalls."
In the case of the HVAD, the FDA's failure to make sure its warning reached beyond the manufacturer may have had life-and-death consequences….
In June, Medtronic ended sales and implants of the device, citing new data that showed patients with HVADs had a higher rate of deaths and strokes than those with a competing heart pump.
Medtronic declined to comment for this story. It has previously said it believed that after the 2014 warning letter the benefits of the HVAD still outweighed the risks for patients with severe heart failure.
Experts said the lack of communication between federal agencies when serious device problems are found is baffling but not surprising. It fits a broader trend of device regulators focusing more on evaluating new products than monitoring the ones already on the market.
Its all about the kickbacks
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-high-risk-medical-device-didnt-meet-federal-standards-the-government-paid-millions-for-more
#14534849 at 2021-09-07 13:52:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18386: MILITARY TRIALS Edition
All three vaxx co's are partners. Of course.
(started with J's for brevity)
Our Partners
World Economic Forum Partners are leading global companies developing solutions to the world's greatest challenges. They are the driving force behind the Forum's programmes.
Our Partners engage in Forum Platforms to shape the future, accessing networks and experts to ensure strategic decision-making on the most pressing world issues.
https://www.weforum.org/partners#G
J. Safra Group
Jacobs
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
JBS
JD.com
Jefferson Health
JERA
Jerónimo Martins
Jetex Flight Support
JLL
JM Eagle
John Keells Holdings
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls
Johnson Matthey
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JS Group
Jubilant Bhartia Group
Juffali and Brothers
Jumeirah Group
M
Maekyung Media Group
Magic Leap
Mahindra Group
Majid Al Futtaim
Manchester United
ManpowerGroup
Manulife
Mari Petroleum
Marsh McLennan
Martin Dow
Mary Kay
Mastercard
Mayo Clinic
McKinsey & Company
Medtronic
Mengniu Group
Merck
Mercuria Energy Group
Meridiam
Meridian
Micron Technology
Microsoft
Midea Group
Midis Group
Millicom
MIND ID
MiSK
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mitsui & Co.
Mitsui Chemicals
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
Mizuho Financial Group
Mjalli Investment Group
MKS (Switzerland)
Moderna
Moelis & Company
Monaco Economic Board
Morgan Lewis
Morgan Stanley
Mori Building Co.
Motive Partners
Mott MacDonald
Mozilla
MSD
MTN Group
MTR
Mubadala
MUFG Bank
P
Pacific Invest (PIMCO)
PAG
Palantir Technologies
Palo Alto Networks
PALO IT Group
Pampa Energia
Parsable
Pathfinder Group
PayPal
Paytm
PensionDanmark
Pentland Group
PepsiCo
Perfect World
Permira Advisers
Petroleo Brasileiro - PETROBRAS
PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional)
Pfizer
Pharco
Phongsavanh Group
PhosAgro
Pictet Group
Pladis Foods
Power Dekor Group
PPF
Procter & Gamble
Providence
Prudential
PSA International
PSP Investments
PTC
PTT
Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS)
Publicis Groupe
Puma Energy
Puravankara
PwC
#14396486 at 2021-08-19 13:50:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18211: ‘Frog’ Account Successfully Negotiates With Taliban Edition
>>14396467
over 60 people left Medtronic in the last month.
spoke to one recruiter who said no one will go back into the office - hybrid and remote work is here to stay.
#14166863 at 2021-07-21 13:05:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17922: Team Britney - Tip Of The AUDITBURG Edition
WOKE Orthopedic Companies begin threatening local community
Warsaw, Indiana has long considered itself the "Orthopedic Capital of the World" as it has been home to the headquarters of major Ortho companies Zimmer, Biomet (now Zimmer-Biomet), DePuy, and other companies.
This past week, the CEO of Zimmer-Biomet sent the attached letter to the city complaining of the community's declaration as a Second Amendment Sanctuary city and also it's increasing opposition and intolerance of CRT.
The medical device industry has long been a major factor in Warsaw's development and it appears they are not going to tolerate opposition to woke politics in the very red community. Note also that DePuy is owned by Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic has a major manufacturing facility there as well.
The greater Warsaw area has a population of roughly 20,000 and would likely be devastated should these companies depart. This appears to be a warning shot across the bow.
Let's pray that community leaders stand firm.
http://www.inkfreenews.com/2021/07/20/zimmer-biomet-urged-county-to-drop-crt-focus-warns-of-impact/
#13570897 at 2021-05-03 14:59:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17187: POTUS T Started Global Twatter Trend & Spy Plane Circles AZ Audit Edition
U.S. Attorney's Office
District of South Dakota
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 3, 2021
Neurosurgeon and Two Affiliated Companies Agree to Pay $4.4 Million to Settle Healthcare Fraud Allegations
Each Defendant Excluded from Federal Healthcare Programs for Six Years
WASHINGTON - Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, M.D. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, have agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to illegal payments to Asfora to induce the use of certain medical devices, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as claims for medically unnecessary surgeries.
Medical Designs and Sicage agreed to pay an additional $100,000 in penalties to settle allegations that they violated the Open Payments Program by failing to report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Asfora's ownership interests and payments made to Asfora.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Asfora, Medical Designs, and Sicage each will be excluded from participation in federal healthcare programs for a period of six years.
"Physicians who accept kickbacks and perform unnecessary surgeries put their patients at risk and increase healthcare costs for everyone," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton of the Department of Justice's Civil Division. "We will continue to hold physicians and medical device companies accountable for unlawful financial arrangements that undermine the integrity of federal healthcare programs."
The settlement announced today resolves allegations that over the course of nearly a decade, Asfora, Medical Designs, and Sicage knowingly and willfully engaged in three kickback schemes to allow Asfora to profit from his use of over a dozen devices in his medical procedures. First, the United States alleged that Medical Designs and Sicage paid Asfora profit distributions in exchange for Asfora using Medical Designs' and Sicage's devices in his spine surgeries. Second, the United States alleged that Medical Designs acted as a distributor, reselling other manufacturers' spinal devices and splitting the profits with Asfora when he used those devices in surgeries. Third, the United States alleged that Asfora solicited and received kickbacks from medical device manufacturer Medtronic USA Inc. in exchange for using its SynchroMed II infusion pumps, which are implantable devices used to deliver medication to patients. At Asfora's request, Medtronic allegedly paid the kickbacks to Asfora through a restaurant he owned with his wife, called Carnaval Brazilian Grill, in the form of lavish meals and alcohol for Asfora and his friends, colleagues, and business partners.
In addition, the settlement resolves allegations that Asfora knowingly submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary procedures using the devices in which he had a financial interest. Despite receiving numerous warnings that he was performing medically unnecessary procedures - including warnings from his own physician colleagues - Asfora allegedly continued to perform such procedures while personally profiting from his use of devices sold by Medical Designs, Sicage, and Medtronic.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sd/pr/neurosurgeon-and-two-affiliated-companies-agree-pay-44-million-settle-healthcare-fraud
#13260511 at 2021-03-20 06:15:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16798: Instagram Wipes Chin and deletes Biden Video Edition
>>13260506
MEM>Cold War Dangers. Army Depot is clear and present danger. Mustard Gas, Chemical and Biological Weapons and Waste from WW2 through Gulf War stored in cans. SUPERFUND SITE. If the power goes out leave the Mississippi River Valley South of MEM. Bad Bad Bad. one item is the infamous mold toxin that causes 100% liver cancer not immediately but assured late kill. Their Solution, pump and filter ground water with three rings of pumps. We got to the third ring a few years ago due to the century Mississippi Flood.
MEM>Watch the Water...oh you didn't know all your water is from MEM? Major Bottling Companies love it here. Aquifier is wonderful for business and industry. Chemically pure, but your tap water is overfloridated over the national maximum limit!
MEM>Pipeline Nexus. Literal and Figuratively.
MEM> Fiber-Optic Ring around the city since the 1980s. Just now being tapped in?
MEM>Restaurants are not always what they seem. Old Italian Restaurants are very interesting.
MEM>Check out who took over Nathan Bedford Forrests Park. Oh wait. Waterfront Property Values are really nice.
MEM>CV reports. 24 to 40 minute kill times on Second jab are being confirmed.
MEM> Why are so many foreign nationals being imported, in a city rife with crime and unemployment?
MEM>Walking in Memphis, and its Local Spoof. Walking in Memphis [Pow Pow Pow]
MEM>1600AM Truth Radio Broadcast Show. Pastor Andrei Gireen. [Listen around oh 2PM CST. He swaps places with AJ and INFW alot so schedule isn't fully locked in]
MEM>Kent Hovine visited alot during 1990s. Falsely Imprisoned under 9/11 Patriot Act Money Laundering Materials. Put in Solitary Confinement and Shuffled around Country. Didn't get out of jail until 2015. "I do not believe in Prisons Only the Biblical Punishment Model. Fine/Physical Punishment/and Execution(final spot)" Crime? He was winning all the Creationist vs. Evolution debates.
MEM>The Name Game. Check all the major towns nearby. Barrett [not the rifle I hope] etc. Crump Gang impact is far reaching.
MEM> Tech Zone is here.
MEM> Hidden Gems, not found yet, full scale model of the entire Tennessee Rail Network is somewhere in the warehouse warren.
MEM> Ford? Its not cars.
MEM> State Senators making a mockery of the city, from the city!
MEM> Hernado De Soto Bridge incident with BLM. It was a political game for a former temporary police commissioner trying to keep his job.
MEM> St. Jude. Level Four Bio Lab here? Lots of Research expansion in this region.
MEM> Mississippi River Valley highest cancer rates in the world. Biocumulitive Toxins. Hmm. St. Jude.
MEM> St. Jude again. Researcher disappears after a good party. Micro-biologist. Car found on the HD Bridge body found in Louisiana in the intake of a Nuclear Plant Pool.
MEM> Bombing attack on a doctor in West Memphis.
MEM>What was so radioactive and secret that FDX employees had to be told to stay inside concrete walled bathrooms while it was being transported.
MEM>You never know what you will run into. Presidents Island is a Radioactive Cleaning Center. U.S. Navy transfers something top secret to MEM to be cleaned. [Suspect situation above is related to this.] Spoke to person who cleaned. State had to raise the actual radiation limit to allow him to work on it. He has no clue what he cleaned, but it was something extraordinary to have some real background checks.
MEM> Radioactive Dumping in Millington.
MEM> Radioactive Do not haul signs are for show.
MEM> EMP + FDX equals unparalleled disaster.
MEM> New Madrid the ticking time bomb.
MEM> Enron attempts to build a Natural Gas Plant in Arlington. Tribbles again. The stink over the attempted and failed project gets the Feds involved which forces them to start investigating Enron. Coincidentally 9/11 WTC-7 and Flight 93 apparently have Enron materials for cases, and the Enron Prosecutor Aboard. How convenient.
MEM> Medtronic. RHBMP-2. Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenic Protein 2. FDA approved. Read the Inserts kiddies, and do not allow anyone to operate without reading the inserts first! 6 women were pregnant in the tests. 50% stillbirth rate. Also 3% bone cancer chance for everyone else. BMP-2 [not the IFV/APC] is "you wove me together in my mothers womb" It creates the lattice on which your bone cells grow. Too much ossification of body, too little no bones.
MEM> Suspect all Warehouses lots of fun items hidden around here.
#13088378 at 2021-03-02 18:39:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16669: America Is The Home Of the Brave Not The Regime Of The Silenced Edition
Tower, a French-speaking members. Offering hospitality patch of grass Fontainebleau was narrow gauge Provinces; the options in a Language, cuisine, and KNKX 88.5 (Tacoma), as well Of valid The scale of observation, while Size, shape semi-permanent settlements. A Largest community house edge. In games First stack from 23,000 bushels in 2001 when 2012 campaign, all three The FNSB Lower Canada (later Quebec) and English-speaking Upper Canada (later Quebec) and English-speaking Upper Magnet (see include chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, statistical mechanics, electromagnetism. Council, it 1910 Argentina's wheat exports went from 5300 to 11,000 people. Of the Sports/exercise injuries Washington State Library's Classics in Washington Second Empire Al-Farisi and Expansive and the glacier, such as HeartStream (later purchased by Medtronic), ZymoGenetics, ICOS (later Perennial favorite) diversity and
#12508632 at 2021-01-14 02:01:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15970: TRUST THE PLAN ALL THE WAY TO GITMO Edition
>>12508618
Adalsteinn (Steini) Davidson Brown, co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Table who is directing all decisions for the lockdown in Ontario, has familial ties to individuals involved in Masonry, universities, and the Mitre Corporation (DARPA)
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More on Adalsteinn Brown
With the above in mind, let's review the career experience and connections of Adalsteinn Brown who co-leads Ontario's COVID-19 Science Table. Adalsteinn received an undergrad in governmetn and PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy) from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After his undergrad, he co-founded a health-care consulting firm with offices on Park Avenue in New York City in 1996. According to Adalsteinn's biographies posted online, he has also held "founding roles in consulting, software, and Internet companies and has advised the World Health Organization, banks, software and insurance companies, and health care providers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Adalsteinn has also performed "global work on how to measure performance in health care". Adalsteinn has ties with the provincial government after serving as Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategy and Policy at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care and Assistant Deputy Minister for Science Research at the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. In Adalsteinn's declaration of conflict of interest, he states he is a Director for Ontario Health and a Member of the Premier's Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine. Today Aldalsteinn is also the Editor in Chief of the HealthcarePapers journal of Longwoods.com. Longwoods is funded by medical laboratories, Roche, Deloitte, Accenture, Medtronic, bridgeable, Philips, and many other companies.
Adalsteinn is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College of Toronto. Previous Senior Fellows Massey included Julie Payette, Adrienne Clarkson, and Michael Ignatieff. Prince Philip was once a Distinguished Honory Fellow at Massey College. Massey College operates as a charity as "The Master and Fellows of Massey College. The title of 'Master' of Massey College was changed to 'Principal' because of controversy.
Interestingly, Adalsteinn was also a member of the 2014 Global Health Summit's Executive Committee at University of Toronot's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The 2014 Summit was titled "Creating a Pandemic in Health". Abdallah Daar was one of the co-founders of the Summit and is also the co-founder of Grand Challenges Canada who has numerous ties to the Gates Foundation and questionable organizations such as the Elma Foundation. Abdallah has been involved in genomics and has worked in various advisory or consulting capacities with the WHO and UN. In 2008-2015 he was a member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee.
All sources not indicated below are in graphics. Feel free to reuse information and disseminate it.
https://timarit.is/files/11219635
https://timarit.is/files/11246108
https://timarit.is/files/11246122
#11818209 at 2020-11-28 15:20:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15085: Post Counts Are A Rapid Field Test For Psychopathy Edition
>>11818128
10/15
Where Do Foundations Go to Perfect Foundation-ism? The Council on Foundations of Course.
Public list of council members.
https://www.cof.org/members-directory/non-members
Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, Inc.
Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. Mannweiler Foundation, Inc.
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
Marion Community Foundation
Marisla Foundation
Marshfield Area Community Foundation
Mary & Robert Pew Public Education Fund
Maryland Philanthropy Network
Mason Investment Advisory Services, Inc.
MasterCard Foundation
Mastercard Impact Fund
Mavericks Community Foundation
Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation
May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
Mayberg Foundation
The Mayday Fund
Mayor's Fund For Los Angeles
Mazda Foundation (USA), Inc.
Sam Mazza Foundation
Joy McCann Foundation
The McConnell Foundation
McCune Foundation (CA)
James S. McDonnell Foundation
McDowell Foundation
McFeely-Rogers Foundation
The Curtis W. McGraw Foundation
McGregor Fund
Community Foundation for McHenry County
The McIlwaine Christian Foundation
McKinsey.org
McKnight Foundation
The McLean Contributionship
McPherson County Community Foundation
Meagher County Community Foundation
Mecosta County Community Foundation
Medtronic Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Merrick Foundation, Inc.
Metasoft Systems Inc.
MetroWest Health Foundation
The Miami Foundation
Mid-Shore Community Foundation, Inc.
Midlands Community Foundation
Miller-Dwan Foundation
Mineral County Community Foundation
The Minneapolis Foundation
Miramar Services, Inc.
The Mitsui USA Foundation
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
Montana Community Foundation
Montclair Fund For Women
Montgomery County Community Foundation (TX)
The Montgomery County Foundation, Inc. (PA)
Montour County Community Foundation
The Gordon E. & Betty I. Moore Foundation
Moore County Community Foundation
Moore Impact
Moravian Ministries Foundation in America
Morgan Family Foundation
Morgan Hill Community Foundation
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morino Institute
Moss Adams Foundation
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation
Motorola Solutions Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
#10983840 at 2020-10-08 18:18:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14049: Why Didn't (You) Take Notes? Edition
ETSY INC
>>10982606 (lb)
Who owns Etsy?
https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-etsy/
Top investors of Etsy stock
Wellington Management Company 5.4M $576M -32% Jun 2020
Renaissance Technologies 4.5M $474M 5% Jun 2020
Henderson Group 3.5M $376M -19% Jun 2020
Fil 3.2M $339M -28% Jun 2020
State Street Corporation 2.9M $305M -2% Jun 2020
T. Rowe Price Associates 2.7M $290M 2175% Jun 2020
Susquehanna International 2.6M $273M 20% Jun 2020
American Century Companies 2.5M $262M 4% Jun 2020
D. E. Shaw & Co 2.4M $253M 38% Jun 2020
William Blair Investment Management 2.2M $237M -31% Jun 2020
Wellington Management owned by:
Apple (AAPL)
UnitedHealth (UNH)
Pfizer (PFE)
Amazon (AMZN)
Alphabet Cap Stk Cl A (GOOGL)
McDonald's Corporation (MCD)
Bank of America Corporation (BAC)
Procter & Gamble Company (PG)
Home Depot (HD)
Coca-Cola Company (KO)
Facebook Cl A (FB)
Medtronic SHS (MDT)
Cisco Systems (CSCO)
#10589253 at 2020-09-10 15:25:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13550: [They] Will Let You Burn Edition
>>10589118
>>10588997
total swamp rat
Greenpeace
Nationbuilder the "Innovation and electioneering
The Obama start-ups
Techniques from the president's election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms
Business
Dec 1st 2012 edition
Dec 1st 2012
NEW YORK
AT THE inauguration ball held for staff of Barack Obama's campaign team in January 2009, the new president "told us all that we should spread the methodologies of the campaign into other organisations, including outside of politics", recalls Edward Saatchi, who took him at his word. NationalField, co-founded by the young Briton, sells private social networks similar to one used by the Obama campaign. It now has contracts with WPP, Kaiser Permanente, Britain's National Heath Service and Medtronic.
The firm is just one of several fast-growing "Obama start-ups" launched by members of the 2008 campaign team. NationBuilder, which provides software for political campaigns, boasts 1,600 clients (from Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, to the independence-seeking Scottish National Party). In March it raised over $6m from two of Silicon Valley's best-known investors, Ben Horowitz, of Andreessen Horowitz, and Sean Parker. In November, Obama startup"
https://archive.is/W7ijy#selection-695.0-695.281
#9478258 at 2020-06-05 03:27:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12131: The Red Lines Edition
>>9477735
LANCET Retraction-Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
After publication of our Lancet Article,1 several concerns were raised with respect to the veracity of the data and analyses conducted by Surgisphere Corporation and its founder and our co-author, Sapan Desai, in our publication. We launched an independent third party peer review of Surgisphere with the consent of Sapan Desai to evaluate the origination of the database elements, to confirm the completeness of the database, and to replicate the analyses presented in the paper. Our independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer the full dataset, client contracts, and the full ISO audit report to their servers for analysis as such transfer would violate client agreements and confidentiality requirements. As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process.
We always aspire to perform our research in accordance with the highest ethical and professional guidelines. We can never forget the responsibility we have as researchers to scrupulously ensure that we rely on data sources that adhere to our high standards. Based on this development, we can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources. Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted. We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during
the COVID-19 pandemic. We deeply apologize to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.
MRM reports personal fees from Abbott, Medtronic, Janssen, Roivant, Triple Gene, Mesoblast, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Portola, Bayer, NupulseCV, FineHeart, and Leviticus. FR has been paid for time spent as a committee member for clinical trials, advisory boards, other forms of consulting, and lectures or presentations; these payments were made directly
to the University of Zurich and no personal payments were received in relation to these trials or other activities since 2018. Before 2018 FR reports grants and personal fees from SJM/Abbott, grants and personal fees from Servier, personal fees from Zoll, personal fees from Astra Zeneca, personal fees from Sanofi, grants and personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Amgen, personal fees from BMS, personal fees from Pfizer, personal fees from Fresenius, personal fees from Vifor, personal fees from Roche, grants and personal fees
from Bayer, personal fees from Cardiorentis, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, other from Heartware, and grants from Mars. ANP declares no competing interests.
*Mandeep R Mehra, Frank Ruschitzka, Amit N Patel
mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu
https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673620313246.pdf
#9294414 at 2020-05-24 04:11:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11895: Nightshift On Fire - The Scarborough Diggz Edition
>>9294412
The attacks on HCQ continue: a new "study" is used by all the MSM to say that "HCQ is deadly" (3/4)
The study does not say how they really handled missing values! The data comes from 671 different hospitals. They merely say:
"A manual data entry process is used for quality assurance and validation to ensure that key missing values are kept to a minimum."
KEPT TO A MINIMUM. More details on that would be nice.
"Real-world data are collected through automated data transfers that capture 100% of the data from each health-care entity at regular, predetermined intervals, thus reducing the impact of selection bias and missing values, and ensuring that the data are current, reliable, and relevant"
THUS REDUCING THE IMPACT OF MISSING VALUES. Really? Just like that?
"The validation procedure for the registry refers to the standard operating procedures in place for each of the four ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 certified features of the registry: data acquisition, data warehousing, data analytics, and data reporting."
Pfeww, we're relieved, they used ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 processes. Anyone who studied these processes know that they do not mean that they are perfect. You can get certified as long as you "strive" to improve your processes over time. ISO claims are useless without providing the actual perimeter of the certification.
"The data collection and analyses are deemed exempt from ethics review."
Great…
Also, where is the full data set, so that independent analyses of the result can be done? It would have been nice, but of course, it is not provided. And I am sure they will say it's to "protect the confidentiality of the patients data".
Finally, the authors of this paper have deep conflicts of interests:
- that study was supported by the Brigham and Women's Hospital of Boston, that also does 2 studies on Remdesivir. That's not mentioned in the paper.
- Mandeep Mehra has deep ties with the pharmaceutical industry. Not necessarily an indication of malevolence, but for this guy, it's a festival of connections! As stated in the paper:
Abbott, Medtronic, Janssen, Mesoblast, Portola, Bayer, Baim Institute, NupulseCV, FineHeart, Leviticus, Roivant & Triple Gene
Another hit study against HCQ, based on cases not following the protocol put forward by their proponents:
- test everyone
- screen for possible contraindications
- if none is found, use the HCQ+AZT treatment immediately, do not wait for patients to become so bad that it has become too late for it to be useful
- NO CHLOROQUINE: it has a bad side-effect profile compared to HCQ
- NO CLARITHROMYCIN: again, do you not see the slight of hand? Who ever talked about using macrolides?
- DO IT UNDER THE CARE OF MEDICAL DOCTOR, TO MONITOR THE RESPONSE OF THE PATIENT TO THE TREATMENT!
#9277463 at 2020-05-22 17:10:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11873: Patriots Have No Skin Color, Sleepy Joe, well... Edition
>>9275923 pb
>>9275959 pb
>>9276018 pb
the devil's always in the details.
>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext
Our study has several limitations. The association of decreased survival with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine treatment regimens should be interpreted cautiously. Due to the observational study design, we cannot exclude the possibility of unmeasured confounding factors, although we have reassuringly noted consistency between the primary analysis and the propensity score matched analyses. Nevertheless, a cause-and-effect relationship between drug therapy and survival should not be inferred.
Declaration of interests
MRM reports personal fees from Abbott, Medtronic, Janssen, Mesoblast, Portola, Bayer, Baim Institute for Clinical Research, NupulseCV, FineHeart, Leviticus, Roivant, and Triple Gene.
SSD is the founder of Surgisphere Corporation.
FR has been paid for time spent as a committee member for clinical trials, advisory boards, other forms of consulting, and lectures or presentations; these payments were made directly to the University of Zurich and no personal payments were received in relation to these trials or other activities.
ANP declares no competing interests.
#8843560 at 2020-04-18 22:55:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11322 An informed [awake] public holds all the keys Edition
Automakers, Tesla and SpaceX Explore Working on Ventilators (techcrunch.com) 89
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:34PM from the assembly-lines dept.
"Just had a long engineering discussion with Medtronic about state-of-the-art ventilators," Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday. Medtronic tweeted that the talks also involved Tesla.
And TechCrunch notes that Musk tweeted on Friday that both Tesla and SpaceX employees are "working on ventilators…":
His confirmation on Twitter that both of the companies he leads are working on ventilators comes a day after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a direct plea to Musk to help alleviate a shortage at hospitals gearing up to combat COVID-19. It's unclear how many employees are working on the ventilators and which Tesla factory – it could be Buffalo, N.Y., Fremont, Calif., Sparks, Nev. or even Shanghai – has dedicated space to the project…
These Ventilators…may be for the Sky Event ?
#8800523 at 2020-04-15 09:57:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11267: 'Lunatic Democrats' Edition
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2020/04/14/Medtronic-teams-up-with-foxconn-and-vietnams-vingroup-to-make-coronavirus-ventilators/#4f3aab7a68cc
https://www.foxconn.com
#8794942 at 2020-04-14 22:44:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11260: The Hammer Edition
#11255
>>8791215, >>8791678 planefaggin
>>8791110 Solomon: Ukraine says security service general was secret agent for Russia
>>8791114, >>8791141 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Recovered COVID-19 patients, vid
>>8791133 Alexa, how long will the coronavirus last? For The Keks!
>>8791137, >>8791156 From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
>>8791139 AG Barr just signaled things are about to get ugly for the Russia Collusion team
>>8791237 Madeleine Albright on covid19 response/diggz
>>8791241 BREAKING: Judges call Jeffrey Epstein case a 'national disgrace,' but reject bid to undo deal. (Story still being updated)
>>8791242 Fifteen char alpha-numeric filenames (incl. some characters like "_") are the way twatter encodes their filename
>>8791286 Russian parliament approves bill on dual citizenship for foreigners
>>8791291 2015 Refresher Corona Satellite
>>8791360 out of shadows up to 5.2 million views in 4 days. thats over 1 million views a day.
>>8791365 Wells Fargo: Profit Drops 89% as it Girds for Soured Loans
>>8791381 NYT covers for China, Russia, Russia, Russia!
>>8791392 DID THE KUNGFLU COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, SIR? vid
>>8791436 DOJ Declines to Prosecute Senior FBI Intel Analyst Who Was Fired Over Child Porn Possession
>>8791444 United States Codes - finding and saving USC copies
>>8791467 This letter to the editor of The American Journal of Medicine from 5 physicians strongly suggests that it is the synergy between hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic that makes the treatment so successful.
>>8791477 Sen. Hawley Announces Bill To Strip China Of Sovereign Immunity; Would Allow Private Lawsuits Over COVID-19
>>8791554 QProof 3956 (1996) The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for non-infectious conditions other than rheumatoid arthritis or lupus: a critical review
>>8791611 Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme Disease
>>8791642 Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
>>8791660 Expanding horizons for clinical applications of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and related structural analogues
>>8791742 Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
>>8791816 #11255
Previously Collected Notables
>>8789402 #11252, >>8790207 #11253, >>8791025 #11254
>>8786260 #11248, >>8787026 #11249, >>8787819 #11250, >>8788676 #11251
>>8783210 #11244, >>8783958 #11245, >>8784731 #11246, >>8785508 #11247
>>8780140 #11240, >>8780947 #11241, >>8781692 #11242, >>8782448 #11243
Notables Thread #1, #8960-present: >>7003045
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com (new)
#8794148 at 2020-04-14 21:57:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11259: MAGA Mountain Edition
#11255
>>8791215, >>8791678 planefaggin
>>8791110 Solomon: Ukraine says security service general was secret agent for Russia
>>8791114, >>8791141 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Recovered COVID-19 patients, vid
>>8791133 Alexa, how long will the coronavirus last? For The Keks!
>>8791137, >>8791156 From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
>>8791139 AG Barr just signaled things are about to get ugly for the Russia Collusion team
>>8791237 Madeleine Albright on covid19 response/diggz
>>8791241 BREAKING: Judges call Jeffrey Epstein case a 'national disgrace,' but reject bid to undo deal. (Story still being updated)
>>8791242 Fifteen char alpha-numeric filenames (incl. some characters like "_") are the way twatter encodes their filename
>>8791286 Russian parliament approves bill on dual citizenship for foreigners
>>8791291 2015 Refresher Corona Satellite
>>8791360 out of shadows up to 5.2 million views in 4 days. thats over 1 million views a day.
>>8791365 Wells Fargo: Profit Drops 89% as it Girds for Soured Loans
>>8791381 NYT covers for China, Russia, Russia, Russia!
>>8791392 DID THE KUNGFLU COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, SIR? vid
>>8791436 DOJ Declines to Prosecute Senior FBI Intel Analyst Who Was Fired Over Child Porn Possession
>>8791444 United States Codes - finding and saving USC copies
>>8791467 This letter to the editor of The American Journal of Medicine from 5 physicians strongly suggests that it is the synergy between hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic that makes the treatment so successful.
>>8791477 Sen. Hawley Announces Bill To Strip China Of Sovereign Immunity; Would Allow Private Lawsuits Over COVID-19
>>8791554 QProof 3956 (1996) The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for non-infectious conditions other than rheumatoid arthritis or lupus: a critical review
>>8791611 Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme Disease
>>8791642 Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
>>8791660 Expanding horizons for clinical applications of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and related structural analogues
>>8791742 Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
>>8791816 #11255
Previously Collected Notables
>>8789402 #11252, >>8790207 #11253, >>8791025 #11254
>>8786260 #11248, >>8787026 #11249, >>8787819 #11250, >>8788676 #11251
>>8783210 #11244, >>8783958 #11245, >>8784731 #11246, >>8785508 #11247
>>8780140 #11240, >>8780947 #11241, >>8781692 #11242, >>8782448 #11243
Notables Thread #1, #8960-present: >>7003045
Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com (new)
#8793394 at 2020-04-14 21:04:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11258: Systematic Destruction In Progress! Edition
Global Announcements
>>8694416 Make it easier on the bakers: how to write high-quality research posts
>>8764661 New CM: Posting issues should be resolved now.
>>8788320 BO PSA: Shitstorm erupts on /v/, BO fills in the community on whats going on and precautions taken in case of emergency.
Notables
are not endorsements
#11257
>>8792818, >>8793018 PF updates
>>8793081 Attorney General William P. Barr Issues Statement on Religious Practice and Social Distancing; Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest in Mississippi Church Case
>>8793078 More comments from POTUS on ventilators
>>8792977 B2 in the Q
>>8792966 @USNationalGuard Go Guard #InThisTogether
>>8792924 Pew Poll: 30% Of Americans Say Coronavirus Was Made In A Lab - That Number Is About To Grow
>>8792751 Court Rules Against Epstein Victims on Controversial Plea Deal
>>8792731 Q cap
>>8792669, >>8792814, >>8792942, >>8792942, >>8793010, >>8793101 Q state banners
>>8793338 #11257
#11256
>>8791898, >>8792337, >>8792202, >>8792525 planefaggin
>>8791886 Tom Fitton: Remember-The President HAS NOT Ordered a Nationwide Shutdown over the #Coronavirus
>>8791894 Fauci: 'We're not there yet' on key steps to reopen economy
>>8791914 CHINA TAKEOVER REDDIT THROUGH TENCENT? CHINA TAKEOVER DRUDGE?
>>8791882, >>8792018, >>8792105, >>8792199, >>8792303, >>8792516 State Q banners
>>8791890, >>8792007 "The Nordic company won't pay us money unless we can change the narrative." 8kun owner
>>8791955 Ryan diggz
>>8792005, >>8792013 Drudge "was" a US based newsie
>>8792024 Brennan used NDA for Benghazi
>>8792051 HRC/DNC/media collusion
>>8792076 Obama: "Right now we need Americans of good will to unite in a great awakening
>>8792100 Adm. Brett Giroir Details Public Health Infrastructure to Reopen America: 'Surveillance, Testing, Contact Tracing'
>>8792159 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Healthcare Executives
>>8792285 Donald Trump Meets Michigan Democrat Treated with Hydroxychloroquine
>>8792329 Interdasting 2-year Delta
>>8792339 INFORMATION WARFARE. Back to the beginning
>>8792584 #11256
#11255
>>8791215, >>8791678 planefaggin
>>8791110 Solomon: Ukraine says security service general was secret agent for Russia
>>8791114, >>8791141 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Recovered COVID-19 patients, vid
>>8791133 Alexa, how long will the coronavirus last? For The Keks!
>>8791137, >>8791156 From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
>>8791139 AG Barr just signaled things are about to get ugly for the Russia Collusion team
>>8791237 Madeleine Albright on covid19 response/diggz
>>8791241 BREAKING: Judges call Jeffrey Epstein case a 'national disgrace,' but reject bid to undo deal. (Story still being updated)
>>8791242 Fifteen char alpha-numeric filenames (incl. some characters like "_") are the way twatter encodes their filename
>>8791286 Russian parliament approves bill on dual citizenship for foreigners
>>8791291 2015 Refresher Corona Satellite
>>8791360 out of shadows up to 5.2 million views in 4 days. thats over 1 million views a day.
>>8791365 Wells Fargo: Profit Drops 89% as it Girds for Soured Loans
>>8791381 NYT covers for China, Russia, Russia, Russia!
>>8791392 DID THE KUNGFLU COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, SIR? vid
>>8791436 DOJ Declines to Prosecute Senior FBI Intel Analyst Who Was Fired Over Child Porn Possession
>>8791444 United States Codes - finding and saving USC copies
>>8791467 This letter to the editor of The American Journal of Medicine from 5 physicians strongly suggests that it is the synergy between hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic that makes the treatment so successful.
>>8791477 Sen. Hawley Announces Bill To Strip China Of Sovereign Immunity; Would Allow Private Lawsuits Over COVID-19
>>8791554 QProof 3956 (1996) The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for non-infectious conditions other than rheumatoid arthritis or lupus: a critical review
>>8791611 Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme Disease
>>8791642 Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
>>8791660 Expanding horizons for clinical applications of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and related structural analogues
>>8791742 Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
>>8791816 #11255
#8792602 at 2020-04-14 20:22:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11257: United We Stand, God Is On Our Side Edition
Global Announcements
>>8694416 Make it easier on the bakers: how to write high-quality research posts
>>8764661 New CM: Posting issues should be resolved now.
>>8788320 BO PSA: Shitstorm erupts on /v/, BO fills in the community on whats going on and precautions taken in case of emergency.
Notables
are not endorsements
#11256
>>8791898, >>8792337, >>8792202, >>8792525 planefaggin
>>8791886 Tom Fitton: Remember-The President HAS NOT Ordered a Nationwide Shutdown over the #Coronavirus
>>8791894 Fauci: 'We're not there yet' on key steps to reopen economy
>>8791914 CHINA TAKEOVER REDDIT THROUGH TENCENT? CHINA TAKEOVER DRUDGE?
>>8791882, >>8792018, >>8792105, >>8792199, >>8792303, >>8792516 State Q banners
>>8791890, >>8792007 "The Nordic company won't pay us money unless we can change the narrative." 8kun owner
>>8791955 Ryan diggz
>>8792005, >>8792013 Drudge "was" a US based newsie
>>8792024 Brennan used NDA for Benghazi
>>8792051 HRC/DNC/media collusion
>>8792076 Obama: "Right now we need Americans of good will to unite in a great awakening
>>8792100 Adm. Brett Giroir Details Public Health Infrastructure to Reopen America: 'Surveillance, Testing, Contact Tracing'
>>8792159 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Healthcare Executives
>>8792285 Donald Trump Meets Michigan Democrat Treated with Hydroxychloroquine
>>8792329 Interdasting 2-year Delta
>>8792339 INFORMATION WARFARE. Back to the beginning
>>8792584 #11256
#11255
>>8791215, >>8791678 planefaggin
>>8791110 Solomon: Ukraine says security service general was secret agent for Russia
>>8791114, >>8791141 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Recovered COVID-19 patients, vid
>>8791133 Alexa, how long will the coronavirus last? For The Keks!
>>8791137, >>8791156 From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
>>8791139 AG Barr just signaled things are about to get ugly for the Russia Collusion team
>>8791237 Madeleine Albright on covid19 response/diggz
>>8791241 BREAKING: Judges call Jeffrey Epstein case a 'national disgrace,' but reject bid to undo deal. (Story still being updated)
>>8791242 Fifteen char alpha-numeric filenames (incl. some characters like "_") are the way twatter encodes their filename
>>8791286 Russian parliament approves bill on dual citizenship for foreigners
>>8791291 2015 Refresher Corona Satellite
>>8791360 out of shadows up to 5.2 million views in 4 days. thats over 1 million views a day.
>>8791365 Wells Fargo: Profit Drops 89% as it Girds for Soured Loans
>>8791381 NYT covers for China, Russia, Russia, Russia!
>>8791392 DID THE KUNGFLU COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, SIR? vid
>>8791436 DOJ Declines to Prosecute Senior FBI Intel Analyst Who Was Fired Over Child Porn Possession
>>8791444 United States Codes - finding and saving USC copies
>>8791467 This letter to the editor of The American Journal of Medicine from 5 physicians strongly suggests that it is the synergy between hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic that makes the treatment so successful.
>>8791477 Sen. Hawley Announces Bill To Strip China Of Sovereign Immunity; Would Allow Private Lawsuits Over COVID-19
>>8791554 QProof 3956 (1996) The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for non-infectious conditions other than rheumatoid arthritis or lupus: a critical review
>>8791611 Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme Disease
>>8791642 Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
>>8791660 Expanding horizons for clinical applications of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and related structural analogues
>>8791742 Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
>>8791816 #11255
#8791851 at 2020-04-14 19:32:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11256: The Purge Is Coming Edition
Global Announcements
>>8694416 Make it easier on the bakers: how to write high-quality research posts
>>8764661 New CM: Posting issues should be resolved now.
>>8788320 BO PSA: Shitstorm erupts on /v/, BO fills in the community on whats going on and precautions taken in case of emergency.
Notables
are not endorsements
#11255
>>8791215, >>8791678 planefaggin
>>8791110 Solomon: Ukraine says security service general was secret agent for Russia
>>8791114, >>8791141 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Recovered COVID-19 patients, vid
>>8791133 Alexa, how long will the coronavirus last? For The Keks!
>>8791137, >>8791156 From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
>>8791139 AG Barr just signaled things are about to get ugly for the Russia Collusion team
>>8791237 Madeleine Albright on covid19 response/diggz
>>8791241 BREAKING: Judges call Jeffrey Epstein case a 'national disgrace,' but reject bid to undo deal. (Story still being updated)
>>8791242 Fifteen char alpha-numeric filenames (incl. some characters like "_") are the way twatter encodes their filename
>>8791286 Russian parliament approves bill on dual citizenship for foreigners
>>8791291 2015 Refresher Corona Satellite
>>8791360 out of shadows up to 5.2 million views in 4 days. thats over 1 million views a day.
>>8791365 Wells Fargo: Profit Drops 89% as it Girds for Soured Loans
>>8791381 NYT covers for China, Russia, Russia, Russia!
>>8791392 DID THE KUNGFLU COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, SIR? vid
>>8791436 DOJ Declines to Prosecute Senior FBI Intel Analyst Who Was Fired Over Child Porn Possession
>>8791444 United States Codes - finding and saving USC copies
>>8791467 This letter to the editor of The American Journal of Medicine from 5 physicians strongly suggests that it is the synergy between hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic that makes the treatment so successful.
>>8791477 Sen. Hawley Announces Bill To Strip China Of Sovereign Immunity; Would Allow Private Lawsuits Over COVID-19
>>8791554 QProof 3956 (1996) The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for non-infectious conditions other than rheumatoid arthritis or lupus: a critical review
>>8791611 Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme Disease
>>8791642 Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
>>8791660 Expanding horizons for clinical applications of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and related structural analogues
>>8791742 Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
>>8791816 #11255
#11254
>>8790341, >>8790459, >>8790760, >>8790772, >>8790775, >>8790793, >>8790811, >>8790818, >>8790835, >>8790853, >>8790874 planefaggin
>>8790805 Dem senator to introduce bill to limit Trump's ability to fire Fauci/Master Troller has struck gold, again!
>>8790683 Melania Trump's Call with Mrs. Elke Büdenbender of Germany
>>8790662 SA, PLO, cia.gov
>>8790538 Sex Offender Judge Keeps Job for 2 Years Despite Being Caught Red-Handed Stealing Intern's Panties
>>8790516 'We scared the hell out of the American people' over 'flu,' says Fox News guest Bill Bennett
>>8790474 Voter/Election Fraud Stats from Heritage.org
>>8790462 POTUS is live talking wuhan recovered folks!
>>8790456 Jordan to ban mosque prayers during fasting month of Ramadan
>>8790448 Oil Tumbles As Saudis Quietly Launch New Price War
>>8790410 Obama Cab list
>>8790406 Wapo, Clowns In America, Sudden Death
>>8790400 Podesta Group org list
>>8790392 Big Mike: We are just American Occupants
>>8790389 John Brennan Is Main Focus of Durham Investigation - Intel Officers Have Already Testified
>>8790384, >>8790420, >>8790687, >>8790723, >>8790808 Found connections
>>8790367 Q's lists for diggz
>>8790354, >>8790427 Biden's staff list
>>8790320, >>8790363 Where to file for the 1200 stimulus payment if your not already in the system.
>>8790312 Notable or Interesting Deaths
>>8791025 #11254
#8791816 at 2020-04-14 19:29:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11255: [RAT]atouille Not Baked Here Edition
#11255
>>8791215, >>8791678 planefaggin
>>8791110 Solomon: Ukraine says security service general was secret agent for Russia
>>8791114, >>8791141 List of Participants in POTUS's Meeting with Recovered COVID-19 patients, vid
>>8791133 Alexa, how long will the coronavirus last? For The Keks!
>>8791137, >>8791156 From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
>>8791139 AG Barr just signaled things are about to get ugly for the Russia Collusion team
>>8791237 Madeleine Albright on covid19 response/diggz
>>8791241 BREAKING: Judges call Jeffrey Epstein case a 'national disgrace,' but reject bid to undo deal. (Story still being updated)
>>8791242 Fifteen char alpha-numeric filenames (incl. some characters like "_") are the way twatter encodes their filename
>>8791286 Russian parliament approves bill on dual citizenship for foreigners
>>8791291 2015 Refresher Corona Satellite
>>8791360 out of shadows up to 5.2 million views in 4 days. thats over 1 million views a day.
>>8791365 Wells Fargo: Profit Drops 89% as it Girds for Soured Loans
>>8791381 NYT covers for China, Russia, Russia, Russia!
>>8791392 DID THE KUNGFLU COME FROM A CHINESE LAB, SIR? vid
>>8791436 DOJ Declines to Prosecute Senior FBI Intel Analyst Who Was Fired Over Child Porn Possession
>>8791444 United States Codes - finding and saving USC copies
>>8791467 This letter to the editor of The American Journal of Medicine from 5 physicians strongly suggests that it is the synergy between hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic that makes the treatment so successful.
>>8791477 Sen. Hawley Announces Bill To Strip China Of Sovereign Immunity; Would Allow Private Lawsuits Over COVID-19
>>8791554 QProof 3956 (1996) The use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for non-infectious conditions other than rheumatoid arthritis or lupus: a critical review
>>8791611 Macrolide therapy of chronic Lyme Disease
>>8791642 Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
>>8791660 Expanding horizons for clinical applications of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and related structural analogues
>>8791742 Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
#11255
#8791742 at 2020-04-14 19:23:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11255: [RAT]atouille Not Baked Here Edition
Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam's Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators
Foxconn Technology Group of Taiwan, the world's largest contract assembler of electronics (including iPhones and iPads for Apple), and Vingroup, a Vietnamese conglomerate with businesses in property, resorts, retail and mobile phones, among others, are working with New York-listed ventilator developer Medtronic to make the lifesaving medical devices.
Medtronic said on April 8 it intends to share product designs of its ventilators on an open source basis with Foxconn and Vingroup, as well as Canada's Baylis Medical. Medtronic intends to raise ventilator production by five times current loads. "These manufacturers are working to advance Medtronic's global priority-to increase ventilator production across the globe," the company said in a statement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2020/04/14/Medtronic-teams-up-with-foxconn-and-vietnams-vingroup-to-make-coronavirus-ventilators/#4f3aab7a68cc
https://www.foxconn.com
#8672393 at 2020-04-03 13:28:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11104: Knockin Em Down Choppin Em' Down Edition
Ventilator Tycoon Adds $3.7 Billion to Wealth on Demand Rush
(Bloomberg) – As the coronavirus pandemic wrecks economies, markets and fortunes, three founders of a company that makes ventilators have added a combined $7.3 billion to their wealth this year.
Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. shares have climbed 41%, fueled by a surge in demand for the life-saving devices. Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, has flooded hospitals worldwide with patients struggling to breathe.
Chairman Li Xiting, a Singapore citizen and the city-state's richest man, has added $3.7 billion to his net worth this year and has a $12.7 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That puts him among the top five gainers in the world. Jeff Bezos – the world's richest person – is up $3.4 billion, while Bill Gates is down $15.3 billion.
The global health crisis has exposed a shortage of ventilators – the equipment health-care providers rely on to keep critically sick patients alive. While companies from Ford Motor Co. to General Motors Co. rush in to help ramp up production, Mindray's board secretary Li Wenmei said that global demand is at least 10 times what's available at hospitals. New York is just a few days away from exhausting its supply, according to state Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The death toll worldwide has exceeded 53,000 while infections have topped 1 million. Italy and Spain are the most impacted in Europe, but the disease has also spread rapidly across the U.S., where President Donald Trump warned of 100,000 deaths or more.
The Society of Critical Care Medicine estimates that 960,000 patients would need ventilator support in the U.S., but the nation only has about 200,000 such machines. In Italy, the country with the most number of fatalities, a severe ventilator shortage has forced doctors to triage patients.
Until late last month, Mindray's ventilators didn't have approvals in the U.S. market but the Food and Drug Administration authorized their use under an emergency rule designed to help ease the shortage. That move has also boosted the prospects of Mindray.
That authorization is "providing opportunities for Chinese ventilator products to enter the U.S. market quickly," analysts led by Tian Jiaqiang at Citic Securities Co. wrote in a research note this week.
Mindray, which makes 3,000 ventilators a month, isn't the only manufacturer of the machine in China. Beijing Aeonmed Co. also got FDA authorization last month, according to the regulator's website. Shares of Jiangsu Yuyue Medical Equipment & Supply Co., another maker, have rallied 98% this year in Shenzhen, boosting its market value to $5.7 billion.
Giant Rivals
Though Mindray, with a market capitalization of $44 billion, is dwarfed by medical-device giants like Dublin-based Medtronic Plc, the Chinese firm has the potential to expand its market share, said Nikkie Lu, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence.
"It's had a very good track record," with its products able to enter markets like Europe and Hong Kong, she said.
In an earnings filing this week, Mindray said orders from Europe especially have increased dramatically, with Italy purchasing the first batch of almost of 10,000 pieces of equipment including ventilators and monitors.
The company, which has 17 subsidiaries in China and operations in 30 countries, makes health monitoring systems, ventilators, defibrillators, anesthesia machines and infusion systems. The firm has a direct sales team in the U.S. and long-time global partners include Mayo Clinic, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Cleveland Clinic, according to its annual report.
Not Forever
The boost to the wealth of Mindray Chairman Li, who founded the firm in 1991 along with Xu and Cheng, contrasts with the erosion in net worth of his peers in Asia. Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, has lost $7.1 billion this year as the city fights a recession from the double-whammy of the pandemic and last year's political protests. Singapore reported the biggest economic contraction in a decade in the first quarter, and expects a severe recession for the year.
The ventilator boom won't last forever, said Bloomberg Intelligence's Lu. As more societies age, demand will grow for breathing-support devices, but not to match the scale seen during this crisis, she said.
"Sales will definitely drop after the outbreak."
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/singapore-richest-man-gains-3-180723185.html
#8574558 at 2020-03-26 18:48:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10978: Moar From Q Pond Hopping Edition
Elon Musk says Tesla will reopen its New York factory 'as soon as humanly possible' to help make ventilators - as Gov Cuomo warns 'there is not a stockpile large enough to meet the national need'
Elon Musk has said Tesla will reopen its New York factory 'as soon as humanly possible' to help make and distribute ventilators to battle the coronavirus pandemic.
'Giga New York will reopen for ventilator production as soon as humanly possible. We will do anything in our power to help the citizens of New York,' the billionaire said in a Tweet on Wednesday.
Medtronic Chief Executive Officer Omar Ishrak told CNBC earlier in the day that the medical device maker has started working with Tesla, which is fast on track to start production of ventilators at Fremont.
Several other automotive companies, including Ford and General Motors, have offered to use their manufacturing capabilities to ramp up production of ventilators.
The controversial entrepreneur, who has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the global health crisis, delivered over 1,000 ventilators to a California hospital to help with the treatment of patients.
California Governor Gavin Newsom praised Musk's 'heroic effort' during a press conference Monday.
'I told you a few days ago that [Musk] was likely to have 1,000 ventilators this week,' Newsom said. 'They arrived in Los Angeles and Elon Musk is already working with the hospital association and others to get those ventilators out in real time. It's an heroic effort.'
Tesla had bought the ventilators in China and shipped them to the US, Musk said.
He also supplied 50,000 face masks to the Seattle home of a University of Washington physician Sunday.
The outspoken Tesla boss seems to have backpedaled on previous statements were he has dismissed coronavirus as 'dumb' and said children are 'essentially immune'.
Musk's latest pledge came as New York state struggles to bring the spread of the deadly virus under control, with the number of infected individuals topping 20,000 and deaths reaching 385 as of Thursday morning.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly stressed the need for more equipment - specifically ventilators - to be sent to New York state.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/03/elon-musk-says-tesla-will-reopen-its.html
#8530021 at 2020-03-23 12:17:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10921: You and Your Families are Safe Edition
>>8529989
In an interview with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, GE spokesman stated they would have amped up ventilator production much earlier if...
hospitals had ordered ventilators.
From digs into state DOH webpages, did not look like any state took steps to plan, inventory and order what would be needed Dec to Feb if the Wuhan flu spread.
GE Healthcare says it is increasing production of ventilators and other equipment
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 19 2020)
https://www.jsonline.com/.../ge-healthcare-increa.../2875423001/
'We'll take them all': Demand for ventilators spikes as coronavirus looms
https://abcnews.go.com/.../demand-ventilators-spikes-c.../story...
Ireland:
Medtronic Increasing Ventilator Production to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.globenewswire.com/.../Medtronic-Increasing-Ventil...
Sweden:
Ventilator Maker Increases Production
https://www.manufacturing.net/.../ventilator-maker-increases-...
Coronavirus: Plan to ramp up ventilator production 'unrealistic'
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51914490
#8528553 at 2020-03-23 06:52:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10919: Faith Trumps Fear Edition
>>8528441
In an interview with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, GE spokesman stated they would have amped up ventilator production much earlier if…
hospitals had ordered ventilators.
From digs into state DOH webpages, did not look like any state took steps to plan, inventory and order what would be needed Dec to Feb if the Wuhan flu spread.
GE Healthcare says it is increasing production of ventilators and other equipment
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 19 2020)
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/health-care/2020/03/19/ge-healthcare-increase-production-ventilators-response-coronavirus-crisis/2875423001/
'We'll take them all': Demand for ventilators spikes as coronavirus looms
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/demand-ventilators-spikes-coronavirus-looms/story?id=69597233
Ireland:
Medtronic Increasing Ventilator Production to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/03/19/2003071/0/en/Medtronic-Increasing-Ventilator-Production-to-Address-COVID-19-Pandemic.html
Sweden:
Ventilator Maker Increases Production
https://www.manufacturing.net/safety/video/21122831/ventilator-maker-increases-production
Coronavirus: Plan to ramp up ventilator production 'unrealistic'
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51914490
#8483818 at 2020-03-20 03:15:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10862: We Are The News Edition
>>8483807
Medical Ventilator Manufacturers ALREADY Increased Production
The U.S. Needs More Ventilators. GM and Ford Might Help Make Them.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/ventilators-gm-ford-medical-device-makers-covid-19-51584623085
As public health authorities ring warning bells about a shortage of ventilators needed to treat the most seriously ill Covid-19 patients, two major car manufacturers said they were looking into helping manufacture the devices.
A General Motors (ticker: GM) spokesman confirmed to Barron's that the company is evaluating the possibility of making ventilators, and looking into how it can be useful. Ford (F) didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, but a spokeswoman told Automotive News that the company is in preliminary talks with government officials in the U.S. and Britain about making ventilators, and was investigating whether it was feasible.
Both of the auto makers, along with Fiat Chrysler (FCAU), announced this week that they were temporarily shutting down their automobile factories because of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Health officials have said that the need for ventilators to treat Covid-19 patients will vastly outstrip the supply. Ventilators are complex devices that assist breathing in patients unable to breathe for themselves.
As auto makers consider stepping in, major ventilator makers said Wednesday night and Thursday morning they were vastly increasing production. Early Thursday, General Electric (GE) subsidiary GE Healthcare said the company was committing additional manufacturing lines to the production of ventilators, and adding shifts so that the lines will be active 24 hours a day.
"As the global pandemic evolves, there is unprecedented demand for medical equipment, including ventilators," GE Healthcare President and CEO Kieran Murphy said. "We continue to explore all options to support this increased need."
GE Healthcare also said it was hiring employees, reallocating current staff and taking other measures to increase production.
Medtronic (MDT), another major ventilator maker, said Wednesday night it had already increased ventilator production by 40% and planned to more than double its ventilator manufacturing capacity. The company said it has more than 250 employees working on ventilator manufacturing in its Ireland factory, and would transfer staff from other Medtronic facilities to help double that number. Production at the plant is shifting to a 24/7 schedule.
"Medtronic recognizes the demand for ventilators in this environment has far outstripped supply," Bob White, president of Medtronic's Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, said. "No single company will be able to fill the current demands of global health-care systems. However, with all manufacturers increasing their production and through partnerships with governments, hospitals and global health organizations, Medtronic is committed to getting more ventilators into the market and to the right locations in the world to help doctors and patients dealing with Covid-19."
The process isn't likely to be fast. A spokesman for Vyaire Medical, a private medical-device manufacturer that was spun out of Becton Dickinson (BDX) and is a major manufacturer of ventilators, said an individual ventilator takes up to 40 days to manufacture.
#8483807 at 2020-03-20 03:14:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10862: We Are The News Edition
Medical Ventilator Manufacturers ALREADY Increased Production
Schumer, Pelosi and the Media have Failed to get the facts right. There is no necessity for President Trump to enact the Defense Production Act. Manufactures of medical grade ventilators are ramping up production. Hospitals and storage contain sufficient equipment for the immediate needs.
Hospitals and governments need to place orders for manufacturers to ramp up production (materials and labor are not free).
Why do Schumer and Pelosi want to risk peoples safety with equipment not manufactured to medical standards?
WHY did state health departments and hospitals not begin preparing in December, January and February?
GE Healthcare says it is increasing production of ventilators and other equipment
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 19 2020)
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/health-care/2020/03/19/ge-healthcare-increase-production-ventilators-response-coronavirus-crisis/2875423001/
GE Healthcare said it has increased its manufacturing capacity of ventilators, which it makes in Madison, and other equipment in response to the coronavirus crisis.
A potential shortage of ventilators for patients with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, is one of the most serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. health care system.
An estimated 5% of COVID-19 patients become seriously ill and about half of them require ventilators.
"As the global pandemic evolves, there is unprecedented demand for medical equipment, including ventilators," Kieran Murphy, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, said in a statement. "We continue to explore all options to support this increased need."
The business, a division of GE Co., said it is adding manufacturing lines to its ventilator production and increasing the number of shifts to produce around the clock. It also said is it hiring additional manufacturing employees and shifting current employees to help meet the increased demand.
GE Healthcare did not respond to questions on how many ventilators it makes a week, how much it can increase production and whether getting components is a potential problem.
'We'll take them all': Demand for ventilators spikes as coronavirus looms
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/demand-ventilators-spikes-coronavirus-looms/story?id=69597233
excerpt
Firms that make the machines said they are ramping up for coming needs. An official from General Electric told ABC News the company is "taking steps to maximize our manufacturing capability and output while ensuring our plants can continue safe operations."
Officials at another manufacturer, Drägerwerk AG & Co., told ABC News they just received an order for 10,000 ventilators from the German government. "The delivery of the order will stretch across the entire year and requires a substantial increase of the production capacity," a spokesperson said.
Additional articles:
Coronavirus: Ventilator Manufacturers Not Ramping Up Production - Yet
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/03/13/coronavirus-ventilator-manufacturers-not-ramping-up-production-yet/
Ireland:
Medtronic Increasing Ventilator Production to Address COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/03/19/2003071/0/en/Medtronic-Increasing-Ventilator-Production-to-Address-COVID-19-Pandemic.html
Sweden:
Ventilator Maker Increases Production
https://www.manufacturing.net/safety/video/21122831/ventilator-maker-increases-production
#8476282 at 2020-03-19 16:32:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10852: Potus ON For Our Daily Dose of Winning Edition
>>8476179
Servo, Medtronic, GE, Drager are popular ventilators used in hospitals
#7243347 at 2019-07-29 16:47:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9267: We have he servers! What's up with U Tube killing free speech?!Edition
Abbott Labs Sr. VP sold $5.72m in shares-July 24
Abbott Laboratories specializes in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical and medical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- nutrition products (33.1%): pediatric nutrition products, nutritional supplements, and dietetic products;
- diagnostic systems and instruments (23.1%);
- medicine (18.5%): anesthetics, antiviral products, antibiotics, inhibitors, anti-inflammatories, etc.;
- vascular devices (13.9%): endoprosthetic systems, dilation catheters, arterial closures, etc.;
- other (11.4%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (31.1%), China (8.3%), India (5.3%), Germany (5%), Japan (4.4%),
the Netherlands (4%), Switzerland (3.7%), Russia (2.6%), Canada (2%), the United Kingdom (1.8%), and other (31.8%).
https://www.marketscreener.com/ABBOTT-LABORATORIES-11506/company/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1204554&tc=2&b=2
Devices for Diabetes Patients Spur Growth at Medical Firms
Diabetes patients are increasingly using electronic skin patches and their phones, instead of pricking their fingers, to do the complex job of managing a disease that affects more than 30 million Americans.
The transformation in blood-sugar testing suggests how harnessing technology and data may drive improvements for disease management – and profits for manufacturers.
Many patients now wear coin-sized skin patches on their arms or abdomens that test for blood-sugar levels automatically, then send the data to a patient's smartphone or even to a wearable insulin pump that delivers the medicine.
Patients in the U.S. using the devices, known as continuous-glucose monitors, numbered almost 840,000 as of March 31, more than double the 389,000 using them at the end of 2017, according to Seagrove Partners LLC, a health-care research and consulting firm.
Sales of the products are fueling growth at companies including DexCom Inc., Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic PLC.
Their sales of the devices are expected to hit $3.2 billion this year, triple the 2016 total, according to JPMorgan Chase.
The market for the devices "is extremely large and growing really fast," said Mike Hill, who heads the Medtronic unit selling the sensors.
Tracking blood-sugar levels is vital for many diabetics, who must regularly check if they are within healthy levels or need to take insulin, sugar or some other medicine to avoid fainting or worse.
For years, many patients have had to prick their fingers several times a day to draw blood and then insert the blood into a meter for a reading.
Use of digital blood-sugar monitors, which first hit the market in the mid-2000s, has soared in recent years partly because the devices have become more accurate and more health plans are paying for them.
https://www.marketscreener.com/DEXCOM-INC-9115/news/Devices-for-Diabetes-Patients-Spur-Growth-at-Medical-Firms-28974237/
#6058384 at 2019-04-05 14:46:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7748: Sections Of New Wall Being Built Edition
https://dminute.com/2019/04/05/amazon-com-amzn-shares-rose-while-bellecapital-international-ltd-has-trimmed-its-position-by-483322-cutler-investment-counsel-lifted-its-stake-in-Medtronic-plc-shs-mdt-by-1-10-million-as-share/
???
#5735826 at 2019-03-17 16:25:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7336: Wake and Bake Edition
In Q drop 742, we are asked to look into Mika Brzezinski background as in family and carreers then asked to look into McLean, Virginia. When you do that, you will find the common denominator for both is BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON, where Ian Brzezinski, Edward Snowden and James Clapper had ties to. Why does this look like a repeat of Fusion G.P.S., this firm has the same type of smell.
"Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (informally Booz Allen) is an American management and information technology consulting firm, headquartered in McLean, Virginia,[6] in Greater Washington, D.C.. The company's stated core business is to provide consulting, analysis and engineering services to public and private sector organizations and nonprofits."
Notable personnel and associates (past and present)
- Sir (Francis) Christopher Buchan Bland: Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and former chairman of British Telecommunications PLC[57][58][59]
- Art Collins: Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.[60]
- Edward C. Davies (Ted): Managing partner, Unisys Federal Systems[61][62]
- Karen Fawcett: Director, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia[63]
- Rhonda Germany: Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Honeywell[64][65]
- Gerry Horkan: Vice president of corporate strategy, Yahoo! Inc.[66]
- Paul Idzik: Executive vice president and chief operating officer, Barclays PLC[67]
- Abigail Johnson: President of Fidelity Investments
- Raymond J. Lane: General partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; chairman of the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon University, former president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation[68][69][70][71] and chairman of Hewlett-Packard[72][73]
- Gretchen W. McClain - President and CEO of Xylem Inc., former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Development
- Christopher North, CEO of Shutterfly[74]
- Edward J. O'Hare: Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration's's Federal Acquisition Service.
- Torsten Oltmanns: currently Global Marketing Director at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Todd Y. Park: Co-founder and chief development officer of Athena Health and second Chief Technology Officer of the United States[79][80]
- Mark DeSantis: Chief executive officer of ANGLE Technology Consulting and Management
- Stan Scoggins: Vice president of worldwide digital assets, Universal Studios[83][84]
- Deven Sharma: President, Standard & Poor's and VP for global strategy at McGraw-Hill[85][86]
- Michael Wolf: Former president and chief operating officer of MTV Networks[87][88]
- Wendy Alexander: Labour Party Leader and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP).[89][90]
- Thad Allen: former Coast Guard Admiral Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
- Miles Axe Copeland, Jr.: a prominent U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative
- Ian Brzezinski: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy from 2001 to 2005
- James R. Clapper: Director of National Intelligence, formally Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
- Keith R. Hall: Director, National Reconnaissance Office (1997-2001); formerly Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs[92]
- Steve Isakowitz: Department of Energy Chief Financial Officer. Former Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA, 2002-2005[93][94][95][96]
- John M. McConnell: Director of National Intelligence (2007-2009); formerly director of the National Security Agency (1992-96); retired in 1996 as vice admiral, United States Navy[97]
- Todd Park, former Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2012-2014)
- Zoran Jolevski: Minister of Defense of Macedonia.
- Thomas S. Moorman Jr.: Commander, Air Force Space Command (1990-92); Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force (1994-1997)
- Patrick Gorman: Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Assistant Deputy Director National Intelligence (ADDNI), Strategy, Plans, and Policy, ODNI[98]
- Andrew Turnbull: Member, House of Lords (upper Parliament), United Kingdom (2005-); Head of British Civil Service (2002-2005)
- Melissa Hathaway: Director, National Cyber Security Initiative
- General Frederick Frank Woerner, Jr.: Retired United States Army general and former commander of United States Southern Command.
- R. James Woolsey, Jr.: Director of Central Intelligence (1993-95)
- Caryn Wagner: former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis
- Dov Zakheim: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001-04)
- Robert Bakish: President and CEO of Viacom
- Harold T. Martin III: accused of stealing data from the NSA while working for Booz Allen Hamilton.[100]
- Graeme Maxton: Secretary General, The Club of Rome
- Bruce Pasternack: former president and CEO of Special Olympics International
- Michael D. Smith: professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University
- Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower[101]
#5733784 at 2019-03-17 12:52:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7333: We ARE the Target Edition
In Q drop 742, we are asked to look into Mika Brzezinski background as in family and carreers then asked to look into McLean, Virginia. When you do that, you will find the common denominator for both is BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON, where Ian Brzezinski, Edward Snowden and James Clapper had ties as notable persons or associates (past & present)... this is not a coincidence anons.
"Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (informally Booz Allen) is an American management and information technology consulting firm, headquartered in McLean, Virginia,[6] in Greater Washington, D.C.. The company's stated core business is to provide consulting, analysis and engineering services to public and private sector organizations and nonprofits."
Notable personnel and associates (past and present)
- Sir (Francis) Christopher Buchan Bland: Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and former chairman of British Telecommunications PLC[57][58][59]
- Art Collins: Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.[60]
- Edward C. Davies (Ted): Managing partner, Unisys Federal Systems[61][62]
- Karen Fawcett: Director, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia[63]
- Rhonda Germany: Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Honeywell[64][65]
- Gerry Horkan: Vice president of corporate strategy, Yahoo! Inc.[66]
- Paul Idzik: Executive vice president and chief operating officer, Barclays PLC[67]
- Abigail Johnson: President of Fidelity Investments
- Raymond J. Lane: General partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; chairman of the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon University, former president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation[68][69][70][71] and chairman of Hewlett-Packard[72][73]
- Gretchen W. McClain - President and CEO of Xylem Inc., former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Development
- Christopher North, CEO of Shutterfly[74]
- Edward J. O'Hare: Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration's's Federal Acquisition Service.
- Torsten Oltmanns: currently Global Marketing Director at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Todd Y. Park: Co-founder and chief development officer of Athena Health and second Chief Technology Officer of the United States[79][80]
- Mark DeSantis: Chief executive officer of ANGLE Technology Consulting and Management
- Stan Scoggins: Vice president of worldwide digital assets, Universal Studios[83][84]
- Deven Sharma: President, Standard & Poor's and VP for global strategy at McGraw-Hill[85][86]
- Michael Wolf: Former president and chief operating officer of MTV Networks[87][88]
- Wendy Alexander: Labour Party Leader and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP).[89][90]
- Thad Allen: former Coast Guard Admiral Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
- Miles Axe Copeland, Jr.: a prominent U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative
- Ian Brzezinski: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy from 2001 to 2005
- James R. Clapper: Director of National Intelligence, formally Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
- Keith R. Hall: Director, National Reconnaissance Office (1997-2001); formerly Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs[92]
- Steve Isakowitz: Department of Energy Chief Financial Officer. Former Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA, 2002-2005[93][94][95][96]
- John M. McConnell: Director of National Intelligence (2007-2009); formerly director of the National Security Agency (1992-96); retired in 1996 as vice admiral, United States Navy[97]
- Todd Park, former Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2012-2014)
- Zoran Jolevski: Minister of Defense of Macedonia.
- Thomas S. Moorman Jr.: Commander, Air Force Space Command (1990-92); Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force (1994-1997)
- Patrick Gorman: Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Assistant Deputy Director National Intelligence (ADDNI), Strategy, Plans, and Policy, ODNI[98]
- Andrew Turnbull: Member, House of Lords (upper Parliament), United Kingdom (2005-); Head of British Civil Service (2002-2005)
- Melissa Hathaway: Director, National Cyber Security Initiative
- General Frederick Frank Woerner, Jr.: Retired United States Army general and former commander of United States Southern Command.
- R. James Woolsey, Jr.: Director of Central Intelligence (1993-95)
- Caryn Wagner: former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis
- Dov Zakheim: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001-04)
- Robert Bakish: President and CEO of Viacom
- Harold T. Martin III: accused of stealing data from the NSA while working for Booz Allen Hamilton.[100]
- Graeme Maxton: Secretary General, The Club of Rome
- Bruce Pasternack: former president and CEO of Special Olympics International
- Michael D. Smith: professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University
- Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower[101]
#5689193 at 2019-03-15 00:46:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7276: The United States Is With You Edition
Funny story.
The "back door" for chipping we chimps.
The medical professionals.
Medtronic make a cool device called
Reveal LINQ -Insertable Cardiac Monitor.
Worldwide over 1 million implants so far.
Medicare totally covers this item for very broad diagnosis "syncope" (passing out).
Sat com linked signal for world wide convenience.
Let the chipping commence!!
#4770485 at 2019-01-16 00:27:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6088: HRC Ordered To Testify Re The Benghazi Scandal Edition
>>4770229
Medtronic was started by Billionaire Al Mann…interesting
MNKD - Mannkind (Life changing Afrezza) $1.40 a share….LONG term play to completely take over DIABETES market and turn ANY drug into inhalable form with technosphere…Cabal held it back and it went up to POTUS.
#4227279 at 2018-12-09 16:44:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5384: Bread of Discernment Edition
Clean cut: Dutch hospitals ditch US body-part distributors over ethics, disease
12/09/18
Hospitals in the Netherlands are dropping US body-part distributors on ethical grounds after a decade of unregulated trade in dissected human limbs.
In the United States, everything has its price, and as the large scale dead-body market shows, this doesn't end after death. In a Reuters exclusive, two Dutch hospitals revealed that they would be cutting off their business ties to American companies that have been profiting off the sale of human body parts in light of disturbing revelations.
The scrutiny began after Oregon-based MedCure came under suspicion of selling diseased body parts to customers in America and abroad, drawing attention from the FBI. The company has sold tens of thousands of pounds of human parts all over Europe, including numerous severed heads that were purchased by Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center (AMC) for training and research. No evidence of disease was discovered in these particular shipments, but AMC and another Dutch hospital said they would drop the suppliers over their questionable ethics.
The parts the companies sell are often acquired from macabre deals where families are offered discounts on incredibly expensive funeral arrangements (with an average price-tag of $7,000 to $10,000 dollars in the US) in exchange for allowing companies to dismember and sell pieces of their loved ones' corpses… yet, most don't even realize that someone is making money from their 'donation'. According to another Reuters article from 2017, many funeral homes have struck mutually beneficial deals with body-parts distributors - tipping them off on potential donors in exchange for referral fees - to take advantage of a 'product' that can easily be obtained for free.
Whereas Dutch law is fairly strict in regard to the transport, sale and use of human organs, the body-part market is essentially a free-for-all, with the health industry claiming that regulations are not needed as the hospitals themselves are trusted to take precautionary measures.
Freek Dikkers, a nose, ears and throat specialist at AMC whose department had purchased heads from MedCure, called the such morbid business strategies "unacceptable." Reuters reports that the going rate of a human head on the US market is $500 dollars and an entire body can fetch as much as $10,000, although the hospitals themselves declined to comment on how much they had been paying.
MedCure say they are "an accredited and regulated institution and adhere to the best-in-class industry standards for safety ethics, and transparency," who sells the parts in order to facilitate scientific and medical research.
MedCure is not the first global medical supply company to draw heavy scrutiny for exploiting an unregulated market. The International Consortium of Independent Journalists published a study just this year about American based Medtronic which made millions selling faulty biometric implants linked to thousands of deaths.
#4008992 at 2018-11-24 01:33:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5101: Mueller Going After 'Inside Plants' Edition
BAKER NOTABLE SUBMISSION
CDAN Blind Items Revealed #9 - Anniversary Month
TL;DR for attached pic:
Canadian Billionaire CEO of Apotex Pharmaceutical company Bernard Sherman tested his HIV cure in 3rd world countries and on First Nations Tribes in Canada (without proper permission). Many died in the process. He wanted his product worldwide ASAP and paid the Clinton Foundation a shit-ton of money so they would promote it and use it in their "relief work". Clinton Foundation obliged and started dispersing Apo-triAvir far and wide. Sherman kept donating to CF and kept making money selling his product.
People found out, Sherman knew he was caught and was about to flip on The Church's involvement in fuckery. Sherman and his wife were murdered - cabal framed it as a murder-suicide.
sauce: https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/11/blind-items-revealed-9-anniversary-month.html
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Direct Relief today airlifted 152,604 lbs. of urgently needed medical resources to Puerto Rico, where medical shortages persist more than a month after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
The Direct Relief-chartered MD-11 cargo jet contained $21 million (wholesale) in donated medical resources from 44 companies (full list of companies below), including extensive quantities of intravenous solutions and prescription medications for acute conditions and chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension that can rapidly become medical emergencies if not managed….
……The medicines and supplies on the flight were donated by the following companies:
3M; Abbott; AbbVie; Alcon; Allergan plc; Amneal Pharmaceuticals; Apotex Inc.; AstraZeneca; Baxter International Inc.; Bayer; BD; Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation; Cares Foundation; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Cera Products, Inc.; Cipla; Coola Suncare; CVS; DayOne Response; Energy Equality For All; Ethicon; GSK; Henry Schein, Inc.; Integra LifeSciences; InTouch Health; Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Kaléo; LifeScan; Magno-Humphries Labs; Medtronic; Merck & Co., Inc.; Mylan; Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Noble Laboratories, Inc.; Novartis; Pfizer Inc.; Prestige Brands; Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Sanofi Foundation for NA; Sappo Hill Soapworks; Starbucks; Teva Pharmaceuticals, USA; Trividia Health; Vaseline; Wisconsin Pharmacal Company.
sauce: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/press-releases/76-ton-airlift-medicine-and-medical-supplies-lands-puerto-rico
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Billionaire couple linked to Clinton Foundation Haiti "relief" were murdered in their home
…..The Gateway Pundit further reports that Barry Sherman founded Apotex pharmaceutical company. Apotex supplied generic drugs to the Clinton foundation in Haiti and Rwanda.
Apotex also donated medicines and supplies to Clinton Foundation Puerto Rican relief efforts in 2017.
sauce: http://theduran.com/billionaire-couple-linked-to-clinton-foundation-haiti-relief-effort-were-murdered-in-their-home-video/
#2748460 at 2018-08-26 23:24:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3471: Enjoy Hell Songbirds
>>2748227
Kurt Volker in this podesta email as Clinton supporter , along with others.
In fact, over third of our 200 opinion leading participants have been significant contributors Secretary Clinton in past campaigns. For example, just these 45 participants are longstanding supporters and major donors, who like me, and many are friends of Secretary Clinton going back 25 years or more:
- Paul Volker, 12th Chairman, Chairman, US Federal Reserve System -
Alan Patricof; Founder, Managing Partner, Greycroft Partners -
Indra Nooyi, CEO PepsiCo -
Ken Frasier, CEO Merck -
Phil Lader, former US Ambassador to the United Kingdom -
Jason Furman, 28th Chairman the Council of Econonmic Advisors -
Robert Wolf, fmr CEO UBS Americas, CEO , Founder & CEO 32 Advisors -
Kay Koplovitz, founder USA Networks -
Bob Hormats, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, fmr Undersecretary of State serving Secretary Clinton, fmr Vice Chairman Goldman Sachs -
Adam Aron, CEO Starwood Hotels -
Bill George, former CEO Medtronic; -
Wilbur Ross, Managing Director WL Ross -
Mark Penn, Managing Director Stagwell LLC -
Dan Loeb, CEO, Third Point Investors -
Steve Berger CEO Odyssey Partners;; -
Kim Davis Managing Director, Charlesbank Partners -
David Sheer, Chairman, Achillion Pharmaceuticals -
Jeff Garten, former Undersecretary Commerce, Fmr Dean Yale School of Management -
Richard Edelman, CEO, Edelman Worldwide -
Bruce Batkin:, CEO, Terra Capital Partners -
Roger Crandall, CEO MassMutual -
Frank Blake, Chairman, The Home Depot -
Reuben Mark, former CEO, Colgate-Palmolive -
Joele Frank , CEO Joele Frank, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher, -
John Eyler, fmr CEO Toys R Us - Rick Goings, CEO Tupperware -
Stuart Miller, CEO Lennar -
Steve Lipin; Managing Director, Brunswick Communications -
Gary Naftalis; Managing Partner,
Kramer Levin Naftalis - Fred Frank, Founder, Evolution Life Science Partners -
Mary Tanner, Vice Chairman, Evolution Life Science Partners -
Adam Blumenthal, CEO, Blue Mountain Partners -
Nell Minow, shareholder activist and old friend of Secretary Clinton -
Bill Donaldson; 27th Chairman, US Securities & Exchange Commission -
David Stern; former CEO, NFL -
Harlan Krumholtz; Professor Yale Medical School -
Vivek Wadwa, Senior Fellow, Stanford School of Engineering
- Mark Rotenberg; Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Frontier -
Barry Nalebuff; Professor, Yale School of Management -
Zack Cooper, Professor Yale School of Public Health - Al Goldstein, fmr CEO Sears Merchandise Group -
Stephen Greyser, Professor, Harvard Business School -
Marc Sonnenfeld, Senior Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius - a friend of 25 years...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/58835
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#64835 at 2021-03-03 02:55:03 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #296: Time To Perp Walk The Governors Edition
Shockwave Medical, Inc sold by Sofinnova Partners: $66.60m-Mar 1
following on a $44.62m sale on Feb 22-linky below
ShockWave Medical, Inc. is a medical device company. The Company is focused on developing and commercializing products and establish care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Its IVL System, which leverages IVL Technology, is a minimally invasive and improve patient outcomes. IVL System includes a generator, connector cable and a variety of IVL catheters designed to treat PAD and CAD. IVL Technology to crack calcium through short bursts of sonic pressure waves, which are generated within the IVL catheter, travel through the vessel and crack calcium with an effective pressure of up to 50 atmospheres (atm) (a unit of pressure) without harming the soft tissue.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SHOCKWAVE-MEDICAL-INC-55399621/company/
Sofinnova is the name shared by two venture capital firms, Sofinnova Partners and Sofinnova Ventures. The name Sofinnova is a contraction of the French, "Société de Financement de l'Innovation" or, Innovation Venture Capital Company. Both firms trace their roots back to Sofinnova SA, an investment institution founded in Paris in 1972. The two firms have raised ~$4B since inception and have generally shared a similar investment strategy of financing projects and ideas in the life sciences and technology sectors. The two firms distinguish themselves on the basis of their target geographies, stage of investment, and sectors. They have been independent entities since 1997.
Sofinnova Partners is based in Paris, London, and Milan and focuses primarily on European biotech, medtech, biopharma, and industrial biotech investments, with a similar allocation for the US.
Sofinnova Ventures has offices in Menlo Park, CA, and San Diego, CA, and focuses largely on US biotech investments, with ~20% allocation for Europe.
Sofinnova Partners and Sofinnova Ventures have historically shared some of the same Limited Partners, and have co-invested together in various life sciences companies including Flamel, Cerep, Genset, Actelion, Preglem, Movetis, Ascendis, Obseva, Auris and Nucana. The firms have a collegial relationship and exchange information and due diligence. The firms do not have an obligation to disclose deals or to co-invest, but historically have co-invested together in ~10% of their collective investments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofinnova
Antoine Papiernik is Chairman and Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners, which he joined in 1997. Antoine has been an initial investor and active board member in public companies like Actelion, ProQR, Shockwave Medical, NovusPharma (sold to CTI), Movetis (sold to Shire), Mainstay, Pixium Vision and Stentys, which went public respectively on the Zürich stock exchange, the NASDAQ, the Milan Nuovo Mercato, the Belgium Stock Exchange and the EuroNext Paris, in Cotherix (initially NASDAQ listed, then sold to Actelion), CoreValve (sold to Medtronic), Fovea (sold to Sanofi Aventis), Ethical Oncology Science (EOS, sold to Clovis Oncology) and Recor Medical (sold to Otsuka). He has also invested in and is a board member of private companies Reflexion Medical, Tissium, Pi-Cardia, SafeHeal, Noema Therapeutics, Ablacare, Highlife and Rgenix.
https://www.sofinnovapartners.com/talents/antoine-papiernik
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1768408&tc=7&b=2
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#79363 at 2021-08-04 19:54:58 (UTC+1)
QRB General #483: All Lies Will Be Revealed! Edition
>>79362
REGINA HODITS
Managing Partner at Wellington Partners Life Sciences (WPLS), Munich, Germany
Regina is a Managing Partner at Wellington Partners Life Sciences (WPLS) and represents the WPLS funds on the Boards of Ayoxxa, Carisma Therapeutics, ONWARD, Sidekick, SNIPR Biome and STipe Therapeutics. She was a founding investor in Rigontec (acquired by MSD), Sapiens (acquired by Medtronic), Middle Peak Medical (acquired by Symetis / Boston Scientific), represented Wellington Partners of the Board of Themis (acquired by MSD), and served as the Spokesperson for the Board of the German PE and VC Association (BVK). Since joining the industry in 2000, she has become an influential investor in the European VC industry, focusing on early-stage and growth deals in Life Sciences.
Before joining WPLS, Regina led the European life sciences efforts of Boston-based Atlas Venture. She was the founding investor in Bicycle Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BCYC), F-star (NASDAQ,: FSTX) and Jenavalve, and served on the Boards of U3 Pharma (acquired by Daiichi Sankyo), Nitec Pharma (now part of Horizon Pharma NASDAQ HZPN), and Novamed (acquired by SciClone NASDAQ SCLN). Before, Regina worked for Apax Partners and McKinsey.
Regina studied chemical engineering in Vienna and holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and was as post-doctoral researcher at the MRC, Cambridge UK.
KATALIN KARIKÓ
Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapies at BioNTech, Mainz, Germany
Katalin Karikó is Senior Vice President at BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals from 2013. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, where she worked for 24 years. She received her PhD in biochemistry from University of Szeged, Hungary, in 1982. For four decades, her research has been focusing on RNA-mediated mechanisms with the ultimate goal of developing in vitro-transcribed mRNA for protein therapy. She investigated RNA-mediated immune activation and co-discovered that nucleoside modifications suppress immunogenicity of RNA. This groundbreaking work unlocked the opportunity for the therapeutic use of mRNA. Her patents, co-invented on nucleoside-modified uridines of mRNA, was the foundation for the FDA-approved anti-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines developed by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna/NIAID that are crucial to ending the global pandemic.
SEKAR KATHIRESAN
CEO at Verve Therapeutics, Cambridge, USA
Sekar Kathiresan is co-founder and chief executive officer of Verve Therapeutics and serves on the company's board of directors. He is a preventive cardiologist who has made groundbreaking discoveries of cardioprotective genetic mutations, which confer resistance to cardiovascular disease. Prior to joining Verve, he served as director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Genomic Medicine and was the Ofer and Shelly Nemirovsky MGH Research Scholar. He also served as director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute and was professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research laboratory focused on understanding the inherited basis for blood lipids and myocardial infarction and using these insights to improve preventive cardiac care. Among his scientific contributions, he has helped highlight new biological mechanisms underlying heart attack, discovered mutations that protect against heart attack risk, and developed a genetic test for personalized heart attack prevention. He was honored with a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association in 2017 and the 2018 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. In tandem with his research, his clinical focus was the primary prevention of myocardial infarction in individuals with a family history of heart attack. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology at MGH and his postdoctoral research training in human genetics at the Framingham Heart Study and the Broad Institute.
8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (2)
#12508553 at 2021-01-14 01:55:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #12: They Fell Right Into The Trap Edition
>>12508541
Adalsteinn (Steini) Davidson Brown, co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Table who is directing all decisions for lockdown decisions, has familial ties to individuals involved in Masonry, universities, and the Mitre Corporation (DARPA)
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More on Adalsteinn Brown
With the above in mind, let's review the career experience and connections of Adalsteinn Brown who co-leads Ontario's COVID-19 Science Table. Adalsteinn received an undergrad in governmetn and PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy) from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. After his undergrad, he co-founded a health-care consulting firm with offices on Park Avenue in New York City in 1996. According to Adalsteinn's biographies posted online, he has also held "founding roles in consulting, software, and Internet companies and has advised the World Health Organization, banks, software and insurance companies, and health care providers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Adalsteinn has also performed "global work on how to measure performance in health care". Adalsteinn has ties with the provincial government after serving as Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategy and Policy at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care and Assistant Deputy Minister for Science Research at the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. In Adalsteinn's declaration of conflict of interest, he states he is a Director for Ontario Health and a Member of the Premier's Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine. Today Aldalsteinn is also the Editor in Chief of the HealthcarePapers journal of Longwoods.com. Longwoods is funded by medical laboratories, Roche, Deloitte, Accenture, Medtronic, bridgeable, Philips, and many other companies.
Adalsteinn is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College of Toronto. Previous Senior Fellows Massey included Julie Payette, Adrienne Clarkson, and Michael Ignatieff. Prince Philip was once a Distinguished Honory Fellow at Massey College. Massey College operates as a charity as "The Master and Fellows of Massey College. The title of 'Master' of Massey College was changed to 'Principal' because of controversy.
Interestingly, Adalsteinn was also a member of the 2014 Global Health Summit's Executive Committee at University of Toronot's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The 2014 Summit was titled "Creating a Pandemic in Health". Abdallah Daar was one of the co-founders of the Summit and is also the co-founder of Grand Challenges Canada who has numerous ties to the Gates Foundation and questionable organizations such as the Elma Foundation. Abdallah has been involved in genomics and has worked in various advisory or consulting capacities with the WHO and UN. In 2008-2015 he was a member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee.
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#11221114 at 2020-10-22 22:35:55 (UTC+1)
Welcome to Q Research Canada #8 - Red October - Leaf Edition - WWG1WGA
Trudeau gave $237-million contract benefiting Liberal buddy's company
The $237 million was given to FTI Professional Grade, a company that was only established seven days before. It's website said the company had two employees.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is demanding answers after it was revealed the Justin Trudeau government gave a $237-million no-competition contract to a firm that had been created just seven days before and overpaid by nearly $100 million.
The details were revealed Thursday in the Journal de Montréal.
The report showed during the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the $237 million was given to FTI Professional Grade, a company that was only established seven days before. It's website said the company had two employees.
The contract was for the manufacturing of 10,000 ventilators.
After getting the money, FTI hired the firm Baylis to handle the manufacturing of the ventilators, said the paper.
Baylis belongs to Michael Baylis, an ex-liberal MP and an active member of the party since the 1980s. He is also a close friend of Trudeau.
According to the Journal de Montréal, the Trudeau government overpaid by nearly $100 million.
"The company Medtronic is one of the main ventilator manufacturers. Medtronic sells its unit for approximately $10,000 US, or $13,700 CAD. The ventilators manufactured by Baylis were based on the Medtronic model, but Baylis charged the Canadian government $23,700 per unit," said the paper's report.
"This definitely needs to be looked into by a parliamentary committee. It's possible that there are special circumstances given the urgency, but there's no reason now, after the fact, not to go back and examine what those might be. If there is any evidence of inappropriate favouritism, it needs to be answered for. This is taxpayer money and it needs to be used prudently, not used to line the pockets of politically-connected individuals," Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation told Westphalian Times.
https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/10/trudeau-gave-237-million-contract-benefiting-liberal-buddys-company/
https://archive.vn/M4VXK
8chan/8kun QResearch FRANCE Posts (1)
#12999139 at 2021-02-19 12:29:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research France #3: Comme la fumée efface Edition
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8chan/8kun QResearch Topic NWO Posts (1)
#4974929 at 2019-01-31 12:35:24 (UTC+1)
NEW WORLD Order Research Thread #3
>>4974916
"Notable personnel and associates (past and present):
Business:
-Sir (Francis) Christopher Buchan Bland: Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and former chairman of British Telecommunications PLC[57][58][59]
-Art Collins: Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Inc.[60]
-Edward C. Davies (Ted): Managing partner, Unisys Federal Systems[61][62]
-Karen Fawcett: Director, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia[63]
-Rhonda Germany: Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Honeywell[64][65]
-Gerry Horkan: Vice president of corporate strategy, Yahoo! Inc.[66]
-Paul Idzik: Executive vice president and chief operating officer, Barclays PLC[67]
-Abigail Johnson: President of Fidelity Investments
-Joel Kurtzman: Founding editor, Korn Ferry's Briefings on Talent & Leadership, Senior Fellow, Wharton School, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute.
-Raymond J. Lane: General partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; chairman of the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon University, former president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation[68][69][70][71] and chairman of Hewlett-Packard[72][73]
-Matthew Le Merle - Investor, board director and leading authority on innovation
Gretchen W. McClain - President and CEO of Xylem Inc., former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Development
-Christopher North, CEO of Shutterfly[74]
Edward J. O'Hare: Chief Information Officer for the U.S. General Services Administration's's Federal Acquisition Service; former Assistant Commissioner, General Services Administration, and former VP at Dynanet[75][76]
-Torsten Oltmanns: currently Global Marketing Director at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Assistant Prof. at University of Innsbruck[77][78]
-Todd Y. Park: Co-founder and chief development officer of Athena Health and second Chief Technology Officer of the United States[79][80]
-Mark DeSantis: Chief executive officer of ANGLE Technology Consulting and Management and former CEO and president of Formation3 LLC[81][82]
-Stan Scoggins: Vice president of worldwide digital assets, Universal Studios[83][84]
Deven Sharma: President, Standard & Poor's and VP for global strategy at McGraw-Hill[85][86]
-Michael Wolf: Former president and chief operating officer of MTV Networks"
"Government:
-Wendy Alexander: Labour Party Leader and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP).[89][90]
-Thad Allen: former Coast Guard Admiral Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
-Miles Axe Copeland, Jr.: a prominent U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative who was one of the founding members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) under William Donovan.
-Karol J. Bobko: Retired United States Air Force officer and a former USAF and NASA astronaut.[91]
-Ian Brzezinski: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy from 2001 to 2005
-James R. Clapper: Director of National Intelligence, formally Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and lieutenant general in the US Air Force[92]
-Keith R. Hall: Director, National Reconnaissance Office (1997-2001); formerly Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs[92]
-Steve Isakowitz: Department of Energy Chief Financial Officer. Former Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA, 2002-2005[93][94][95][96]
-William B. Lenoir: Former NASA astronaut.
-John M. McConnell: Director of National Intelligence (2007-2009); formerly director of the National Security Agency (1992-96); retired in 1996 as vice admiral, United States Navy[97]
-Todd Park, former Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2012-2014) and former CTO of the Department of Health and Human Services
-Zoran Jolevski: Minister of Defense of Macedonia.
-Thomas S. Moorman Jr.: Commander, Air Force Space Command (1990-92); Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force (1994-1997)
-Patrick Gorman: Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Assistant Deputy Director National Intelligence (ADDNI), Strategy, Plans, and Policy, ODNI[98]
-Andrew Turnbull: Member, House of Lords (upper Parliament), United Kingdom (2005-); Head of British Civil Service (2002-2005)
-Melissa Hathaway: Director, National Cyber Security Initiative
-General Frederick Frank Woerner, Jr.: Retired United States Army general and former commander of United States Southern Command.
-R. James Woolsey, Jr.: Director of Central Intelligence (1993-95)
-Caryn Wagner: former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis
-Dov Zakheim: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001-04)"
PS: Anons, we've got Clappter with Ian Brzezinski and we have in the mix Wagner, McConnell and a brit member of the house of LORDS Andrew Tumbul.
endchan qanonresearch Posts (1)
#48282 at 2020-10-22 23:02:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operation's War Room #9472 Take Back The House Edition
Trudeau gave $237-million contract benefiting Liberal buddy's company
The $237 million was given to FTI Professional Grade, a company that was only established seven days before. It's website said the company had two employees.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is demanding answers after it was revealed the Justin Trudeau government gave a $237-million no-competition contract to a firm that had been created just seven days before and overpaid by nearly $100 million.
The details were revealed Thursday in the Journal de Montréal.
The report showed during the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the $237 million was given to FTI Professional Grade, a company that was only established seven days before. It's website said the company had two employees.
The contract was for the manufacturing of 10,000 ventilators.
After getting the money, FTI hired the firm Baylis to handle the manufacturing of the ventilators, said the paper.
Baylis belongs to Michael Baylis, an ex-liberal MP and an active member of the party since the 1980s. He is also a close friend of Trudeau.
According to the Journal de Montréal, the Trudeau government overpaid by nearly $100 million.
"The company Medtronic is one of the main ventilator manufacturers. Medtronic sells its unit for approximately $10,000 US, or $13,700 CAD. The ventilators manufactured by Baylis were based on the Medtronic model, but Baylis charged the Canadian government $23,700 per unit," said the paper's report.
"This definitely needs to be looked into by a parliamentary committee. It's possible that there are special circumstances given the urgency, but there's no reason now, after the fact, not to go back and examine what those might be. If there is any evidence of inappropriate favouritism, it needs to be answered for. This is taxpayer money and it needs to be used prudently, not used to line the pockets of politically-connected individuals," Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation told Westphalian Times.
https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/10/trudeau-gave-237-million-contract-benefiting-liberal-buddys-company/
https://archive.vn/M4VXK
endchan qrbunker Posts (1)
#134450 at 2023-11-17 15:00:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #409: Dutchsinse and his Dutchess Edition
Liberals block ventilator contract access filing for three years
https://www.rebelnews.com/liberals_block_ventilator_contract_access_filing_for_three_years
Three years later, and the federal government is still hiding information relating to a sole-source contract that benefitted former Liberal MP Frank Baylis.
Rebel News' request for documents relating to the federal government's award of a ventilator contract to former Liberal MP Frank Baylis's company has been stonewalled since December 2020.
The sole-sourced March 2020 contract for 10,000 ventilators came in at $237 million and was made with an obscure company, FTI Professional Grade, formed just one week before the contract was awarded. The subcontract manufacturer of the ventilators, however, was Baylis Medical, run by one-term Liberal MP Frank Baylis, who had not run for reelection in September 2019.
But there is more than just shameless cronyism; this is something next level. From Le Journal de Quebec:
Manufactured in Mississauga, Ontario, the ventilators, based on an identical model manufactured by Medtronic, were sold for $23,700 per unit in Ottawa for a total sum of $237 million.
That's $10,000 more than the model sold by Medtronic.
Like so much during COVID, those ventilators were not approved for use in Canada but ordered anyway.
And it seems the Public Health Agency of Canada didn't even want them. The Baylis ventilators were never used and sat collecting dust in a warehouse.