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Pfizergate: Ursula von der Leyen’s shady Covid vaccine deals prove she can get away with anything

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EU prosecutors take up Von der Leyen corruption probe – Politico

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#2

I live in Germany and know no one who isn´t disgusted by van der lying, but is certain that she will keep the presidency of the eu. Like the UK, citizens here despair of their political and media classes. The sad thing is there is no Galloway in Germany to rock the boat.

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She really is a piece of ****. If there was any real justice, there would be prosecutors following the money. The sad thing for me is while as @Sanjeev said, “citizens here despair of their political and media classes”, they don’t seem to realise that exit from the EU would bring an end to such easy and unpunished corruption.

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#4

Pass the sickbag…

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#5

Ruined my lunch @Rich We really need a “discretion advised” message before being able to see posts like that.

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#6

And I brought up my beer all over my bratwurst!

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#7

Caption?

" :heart_eyes: But we can make even more…:"

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#8

“I’ve never fucked millions before”

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#9

Don’t dis it till you’ve tried it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

#10

Maybe this is what Bourla was smiling at.

Pfizer Fined Just £34,800 for Promoting Vaccine Before Authorisation. When Will Bosses Face Real Consequences?

Article below.

This and previous occurrences are criminal offences. This time round Bourla was promoting the latest vaccine for kids prior to being granted authorisation - a repetition of previous offences, including 2020 before the original authorisation.

One point that is left unsaid is that the claims, spiralling in the media and medical outlets as they do, and along with the resulting public/meida clamour increase pressure on the regulators to grant approval.

The paltry fine shows that it’s not just the money grubbers in Pfizer that are to blame, It is a sign of corruption in the system; the system where the MHRA, the regulator, admitted to tearing up the rule book in 2020, and functioning as ‘enablers’ of the covid vaccines. .
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In November 2020, Dr. Berkeley Phillips, the Medical Director of Pfizer U.K., shared a post from a fellow employee on Twitter that said:

Our vaccine candidate is 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 and 94% effective in people over 65 years old. We will file all of our data with health authorities within days. Thank you to every volunteer in our trial and to all who are tirelessly fighting this pandemic.

Four other Pfizer U.K. colleagues re-tweeted the same post. Pfizer also identified four more U.K.-based colleagues who liked the tweet.

In the U.K., the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) is the self-regulatory body which administers the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Code of Practice for the industry.

In a recent report, the PMCPA Panel noted the “tweet clearly referred to the outcome of the Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine being developed to protect against COVID-19. The Panel noted that Clause 3.1 prohibited the promotion of a medicine prior to the grant of its marketing authorisation”.

AUTH/3741/2/23 – Complainant v Pfizer: Promotional use of Twitter

In breach of the code, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) charged Pfizer administrative costs of £34,800 for this breach.

To put this into context, Pfizer’s revenues jumped to $81.3 billion in 2021, up from $41.7 billion in 2020. So, £34,800 equates to 0.00005% of Pfizer’s 2021 revenues. Or, to put it another way, Pfizer earned about $154,680 per minute in 2021, so the fine equates to roughly 17 seconds of Pfizer’s revenues.

Pfizer has already been reprimanded six times for its promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine.

This latest fine comes after Pfizer’s Chief Executive, Dr. Albert Bourla, was found guilty in November 2022 of misleading U.K. parents over the safety of the Covid vaccine for children.

Bourla told the BBC, “People will be likely to need to have annual Covid vaccinations for many years to come.” He thought this would be necessary to maintain a “very high level of protection”.

He also told that bastion of truth the BBC that immunising children in the U.K. and Europe would be a ”very good idea”.

“Covid in schools is thriving,” he said.

“This is disturbing, significantly, the educational system, and there are kids that will have severe symptoms. So there is no doubt in my mind that the benefits, completely, are in favour of doing it.”

Dr. Albert Bourla thought this would be needed to maintain a “very high level of protection”.

The U.K. regulator found Pfizer guilty of violating three PMCPA code of practice sections.

But do you think this mattered to Dr. Albert Bourla? By the way, Albert is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; he’s done very well out of the pandemic. In 2021, he was named CEO of the Year by CNN Business. His estimated net worth is at least $35.6 Million as of February 23rd 2024. Albert owns over 127,674 units of Pfizer stock worth over $12,123,852, and over the last 10 years he has sold stock worth over $5,557,386. But this is chicken feed compared to his remuneration of $17,929,000 as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Pfizer.

But a month after Bourla had taken the BBC for a ride, he was back on the stock exchange’s trading floors: the largest trade he ever made was exercising 222,328 units of Pfizer stock on December 15th 2022, worth over $6,058,438.

Dr. Phillips, the U.K.’s Medical Director for Pfizer, said the social media post was “accidental and unintentional”. Yet, everything at this level is fine-tuned to promote the stock price and further the pharmaceutical agenda.

Promoting an unlicensed medicine or unauthorised indication is a criminal offence. The penalty is a fine or imprisonment for up to two years. We think it’s about time someone faced an actual penalty rather than pennies for breaches of the code.

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Hi @Evvy_dense , the “prosecuting body” is :

" The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) is the self-regulatory body which administers the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry, independently of the ABPI. It was established by the ABPI on 1 January 1993.

The PMCPA is a division of the ABPI which is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales,"

https://www.pmcpa.org.uk/about-us/

The ABPI
" The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is the [trade association] for over 120 companies in the UK producing prescription medicines for humans, founded in 1891."

So the PCMPA is part of a trading association in the UK for Pharma - a tap on the wrist is oviously all that will be permitted in its self judging role.

Imagine an organisation of Mafia members setting up and managing a “court” to judge those members for breach of their own rules - what’s the xxxxin’ point!

The Rule of Claw on steroids.

cheers

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#12

My, what a long spade you have :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks for that info. Now, a good court case would improve morale…

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