Pfizer continues to bully Latin America into submission but Brazil and Argentina fight back!!
Pfizer rejected this, after which Argentina offered to amend the law to define negligence even more clearly and in Pfizer’s favor – to “include only vaccine distribution and delivery under ‘negligence.'”
Pfizer was still not satisfied (WION called them angry) and literally demanded the law be amended through a new decree, which would result in their having NO liability at all – the sorta deal they’ve landed in America – but Argentina this time thankfully refused.
But then in January 2021, Pfizer came back with yet another set of demands, and demanded — get this –“sovereign assets [of Argentina] as collateral”.
“Pfizer wanted Argentina to put its bank reserves, military bases, national parks and even its historic embassy buildings at stake.”
“You can always go ahead and file a lawsuit against Pfizer. If you win that lawsuit, instead of Pfizer the government will compensate you. This is normal. In the United States, for example, the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness act) gives total immunity to companies like Pfizer and Moderna.”
This was only if “something goes wrong unintentionally, and this does not apply to negligence. But still, Pfizer wanted more – Not just sovereign assets but a fraud insurance, something with which Argentina did not agree with.”
So what happened in Brazil?
Pfizer took things even farther in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, demanding the nation create a “guarantee fund, and deposit money in a foreign bank account (an American one)” due to their fears the right-wing government there might play hardball if its citizens started dropping like flies.
On January 23, 2021 – Brazil’s Health Ministry released an official statement citing excerpts from Pfizer’s pre-contract clauses, accusing the pharmaceutical juggernaut of “extorting them.”
Pfizer’s demanded that Brazil waive the sovereignty of its assets abroad in favour of Pfizer, that the litigation rules of the land be not applied on Pfizer, that Brazil take into consideration a delay in delivery, that Pfizer is not penalised for a delayed delivery, and that in case of any side effects, and that Pfizer be exempted from all civil liability.
The government of Brazil responded as Brazil does with Bolsonaro at the helm, by being forthright and calling these clauses “abusive” and an “abomination”.
Another report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a non-western fact-checking agency, recently referenced another country whose deal with Pfizer was reportedly pushed back by three months because the company made similar, bizarre demands.
They wrote, “Pfizer has just 2 billion doses to deliver this year on a first-come, first-serve basis. A delay of 3 months could cost a whole year, and could cost lives. Pfizer is playing with life-saving drugs and abusing its position after having developed a vaccine with the help of government funding.
Pfizer’s German partner – BioNTech was given $445 million by the government of Germany.
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*** Does the Pfizer-BionTech vaxx make people sterile?
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The US paid Pfizer 2 billion dollars as early as July 2020 for pre-orders. Pfizer is looking at making 15 billion dollars from vaccine sales this year, and is in talks with 100 countries and organisations. On January 22, Pfizer signed an agreement with Covax and committed 40 million doses to poor countries this year.”
Here’s what an excerpt from a press release by the company said. “At Pfizer, we believe that every person deserves to be seen, heard and cared for. That’s why from the very beginning of our vaccine development program, Pfizer and BioNTech have been firmly committed to working toward equitable and affordable access of COVID-19 vaccines for people around the world”, it read.”
So what did Brazil and Argentina do?
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Great article, comrade!
Yes, the US Deep State does FORCE foreign governments to do and buy things they absolutely do not wish to do, and it MURDERS heads of state who defy jewmerican demands.
I read this bestselling book when it came out in 2005.
Wiki:
Perkins’ function, according to the book, was to convince [force] the political and financial leadership of developing countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with debts they could not hope to pay, such countries would then be forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues. Perkins argues that these nations were effectively neutralized politically, with their wealth gaps driven wider and their long-term economies crippled. In this capacity, Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos.
*** the murder by plane crash of Omar Torrijos, the extremely popular leader of Panama who refused to do busines with some HUGE US construction firms
Omar Torrijos Mausoleum in Amador, Panama City, in the former Canal Zone
Death[edit]
Torrijos died at the age of 52 when his aircraft, a DeHavilland Twin Otter (DHC-6), registered as FAP-205 of the Panamanian Air Force, crashed at Cerro Marta, in Coclesito, near Penonomé, Panama on July 31, 1981. The aircraft disappeared from radar during light weather, but due to the limited nature of Panama’s radar coverage at the time, the plane was not reported missing for nearly a day.
The crash site was located several days later, and the body of Torrijos was recovered by a Special Forces team in the first few days of August.[7] Four aides and two pilots also died in the crash.[8] His death caused national mourning around the country, especially in poor areas. Following a large state funeral, Torrijos’s body was briefly buried in a cemetery in Casco Viejo (the Old City of Panama), before being moved to a mausoleum in the former Canal Zone on Fort Amador near Panama City. He was succeeded as commander of the National Guard and de facto leader of Panama by Florencio Flores who later gave way to Rubén Darío Paredes. The place where the plane crashed is now a national park and his house in Coclesito is now a museum.
Torrijos’s death generated charges and speculation that he was the victim of an assassination plot. For instance, in pre-trial hearings in Miami in May 1991, Manuel Noriega‘s attorney, Frank Rubino, was quoted as saying “General Noriega has in his possession documents showing attempts to assassinate General Noriega and Mr. Torrijos by agencies of the United States.”[10] Those documents were not allowed as evidence in the trial because the presiding judge agreed with the U.S. government’s claim that their public mention would violate the Classified Information Procedures Act. In 1981, TASS also claimed that the U.S. had caused Torrijos’s death.[11]
In 2004, John Perkins alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft by CIA-organized operatives.[12] The alleged motive is that some American business leaders and politicians strongly opposed the negotiations between Torrijos and a group of Japanese businessmen led by Shigeo Nagano, who were promoting the idea of a new, larger, sea-level canal for Panama whose construction would exclude American firms such as Bechtel and Stone and Webster. Manuel Noriega, in America’s Prisoner, claims that these negotiations had evoked an extremely unfavorable response from American circles.
However, the documents with the investigations about the cause of the accident went missing during the U.S. invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989, and have never been found. [….]
Former Noriega chief of staff Colonel Roberto Diaz, a cousin of Torrijos, as recently as 2013 has several times accused the United States and Noriega of involvement in Torrijos’s death and called for investigations.[14][15][16]
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Perkins describes the role of an economic hit man as follows:
Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources.
Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.
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[Perkins] I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew the government of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh’s government who was Time magazine’s “Man of the Year”; and he was so successful at doing this without any bloodshed—well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with the Shah of Iran.
At that point, we understood that this idea of economic hit man was an extremely good one. We didn’t have to worry about the threat of war with [Soviet] Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no connection with the government.
— John Perkins, November 4, 2004, Democracy Now!, interview
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Chas. T. Main’s former vice president Einar Greve, who first offered Perkins a job at the firm,[1]:10 initially affirmed the overall validity of the book:[12]
Basically his story is true.… What John’s book says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook, and that happened. Whether or not it was some sinister plot or not is up to interpretation, but many of these countries are still over the barrel and have never been able to repay the loans.
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