Will Hegseth be courageous enough to acknowledge the tens of thousands of vaccine injured service members, current as well as those from past eras? Will the Pentagon agree to support them financially, just like they would with any other injury the troops might incur in the line of duty? This is especially poignant since it was their own government that harmed them.
Vince, I can't append it here, but I have a screencap from AboutBGov in 2022 showing the top 10 defense contractors of 2021. Four of them are pharma companies (Pfizer, Humana, Moderna, Regeneron). I'd already known that pharma fattened on DoD contracts, but had no idea that Pfizer received nearly twice, and Moderna and Humana about the same amount as, Huntington Ingalls Industries/HII, the nation's largest military shipbuilder. That really put it in perspective for me.
In July of 2021 American Enterprise Institute defense and foreign policy director and former McCain-Palin campaign adviser on the same topic Kori Schake asked stridently in her piece in The Atlantic, "Why isn't the military mandating COVID-19 vaccines?"
You’re likely aware of Alexander Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny, who enthused proudly over having secured the first court-martial of an American service member for resisting mandates. (1LT Mark Bashaw; I have a screencap from Army Times on that.)
Echoing your point about GWS--a good portion of the Gulf War Syndrome vets I've known observed or suspected that their health began breaking down after the cocktails of both experimental and "usual" stabs they were given before being deployed to the Sandbox (the experimental ones you note). There were campaigns to convince GWS vets that, if they were sick at all--and of course they weren't--they were suffering from sand fungus, DU, mess tent canvas protective chemicals, toxic war smoke, etc.
Most people I talk to about the topic have no idea how far back go the concerns about subjecting service members to repeated/serial stabs. For instance in December of 1992, Covert Action Quarterly reported on the two non-FDA-approved stabs given to Gulf service members that you mention, and decried using service members as experimental animals in the name of "protection from biowarfare." This was widely discussed in various circles I and my darling occupied at the time, and subsequently.
You write elsewhere about your recognition of evil in the world, realized while reading crime accounts. My concern has long been that a profound evil walks the earth in the form of quotidian, normalized destruction of health, lives, and possibility. For profit beyond the dreams of avarice.
Watching its promenade through the world in recent years...and seeing how many people are still caught up in that Danse Macabre locally, with all the self-important/prideful/smug/darkly victorious energy of that...is truly heavy some days.
I'm sorry to run on so long, in wanting to underscore and add to what you are saying. Thank you for paying attention to this topic, and calling others' to it.
Thank you for taking the time to weigh in, and I agree about the persistent undercurrent of evil over our health, especially mental and otherwise. Praying for Godly wisdom in this for Trump but also for anyone in any position-no matter where they rank on the ladder-to start ringing the alarm on this.
Vince, I can't append it here, but I have a screencap from AboutBGov in 2022 showing the top 10 defense contractors of 2021. Four of them are pharma companies (Pfizer, Humana, Moderna, Regeneron). I'd already known that pharma fattened on DoD contracts, but had no idea that Pfizer received nearly twice, and Moderna and Humana about the same amount as, Huntington Ingalls Industries/HII, the nation's largest military shipbuilder. That really put it in perspective for me.
In July of 2021 American Enterprise Institute defense and foreign policy director and former McCain-Palin campaign adviser on the same topic Kori Schake asked stridently in her piece in The Atlantic, "Why isn't the military mandating COVID-19 vaccines?"
You’re likely aware of Alexander Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny, who enthused proudly over having secured the first court-martial of an American service member for resisting mandates. (1LT Mark Bashaw; I have a screencap from Army Times on that.)
Echoing your point about GWS--a good portion of the Gulf War Syndrome vets I've known observed or suspected that their health began breaking down after the cocktails of both experimental and "usual" stabs they were given before being deployed to the Sandbox (the experimental ones you note). There were campaigns to convince GWS vets that, if they were sick at all--and of course they weren't--they were suffering from sand fungus, DU, mess tent canvas protective chemicals, toxic war smoke, etc.
Most people I talk to about the topic have no idea how far back go the concerns about subjecting service members to repeated/serial stabs. For instance in December of 1992, Covert Action Quarterly reported on the two non-FDA-approved stabs given to Gulf service members that you mention, and decried using service members as experimental animals in the name of "protection from biowarfare." This was widely discussed in various circles I and my darling occupied at the time, and subsequently.
You write elsewhere about your recognition of evil in the world, realized while reading crime accounts. My concern has long been that a profound evil walks the earth in the form of quotidian, normalized destruction of health, lives, and possibility. For profit beyond the dreams of avarice.
Watching its promenade through the world in recent years...and seeing how many people are still caught up in that Danse Macabre locally, with all the self-important/prideful/smug/darkly victorious energy of that...is truly heavy some days.
I'm sorry to run on so long, in wanting to underscore and add to what you are saying. Thank you for paying attention to this topic, and calling others' to it.
Thank you for taking the time to weigh in, and I agree about the persistent undercurrent of evil over our health, especially mental and otherwise. Praying for Godly wisdom in this for Trump but also for anyone in any position-no matter where they rank on the ladder-to start ringing the alarm on this.