Pfizer fa causa alla Polonia per il vaccino Covid-19

Pfizer ha inasprito la sua disputa con la Polonia per le dosi eccedenti di vaccino Covid-19, ordinate nell'ambito di un contratto gigantesco con l'Unione Europea.

La causa è stata presentata questa settimana a Bruxelles. Pfizer ha chiesto 6 miliardi di zloty (1,5 miliardi di dollari) per i 60 milioni di dosi che il governo polacco ha rifiutato dopo aver smesso di ricevere i vaccini nell'aprile 2022. Varsavia era obbligata ad acquistare la sua quota di vaccini in base a un contratto controverso che la Commissione europea aveva firmato con Pfizer nel 2021 per conto dei Paesi dell'UE.

Il blocco ha finito per ordinare 1,1 miliardi di dosi nell'ambito del contratto, gravando gli Stati dell'UE di un'eccedenza di vaccini quando la pandemia di Covid-19 si è esaurita. L'ufficio del procuratore dell'UE ha annunciato un'indagine sul processo di approvvigionamento tra accuse di corruzione e accordi segreti.

I funzionari polacchi hanno chiamato in causa il ruolo del Presidente della Commissione europea Ursula von der Leyen nella conclusione dell'accordo. La Von der Leyen ha ammesso di aver comunicato privatamente con l'amministratore delegato di Pfizer Albert Bourla per settimane durante le negoziazioni del contratto, ma la Commissione europea ha dichiarato l'anno scorso che non è stato possibile trovare i suoi scambi di messaggi con il dirigente. La prima udienza della causa intentata da Pfizer è prevista per il 6 dicembre. All'inizio di quest'anno, l'azienda si è offerta di concedere all'UE più tempo per completare gli acquisti minimi di vaccini previsti da un contratto vincolante, ma ha insistito sul fatto che il blocco deve pagare per intero il numero di dosi specificato nel contratto. La Polonia si è rifiutata di firmare un accordo rivisto con il produttore di farmaci.

Il ministro della Salute polacco Katarzyna Sojka ha dichiarato mercoledì all'emittente TVN24 che c'è qualche speranza di risolvere la causa di Pfizer "in modo positivo". Ha osservato che Varsavia non è sola, poiché altri Stati dell'UE dovranno affrontare cause simili.

Pfizer ha deciso di procedere con l'azione legale "a seguito di una prolungata violazione del contratto e di un periodo di discussioni tra le parti", ha dichiarato un portavoce dell'azienda a Politico.

Milioni di polacchi si sono rifiutati di ricevere il vaccino Covid-19 e Varsavia ha interrotto le consegne dei farmaci quando l'afflusso di rifugiati ucraini all'inizio del 2022 ha messo a dura prova le finanze del governo. (Fonte: RT) @LauraRuHK

💫 Washington Prepares New Color Revolutions

The Washington-based International Center for Nonviolent Conflict recently released another playbook on color revolutions, called Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave: A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat. This center continues the tradition of intervening in the internal affairs of foreign countries in the manner of Gene Sharp, Bruce Ackerman, and other theorists of protest political actions and movements. It should be noted that the executive director of this Center is now Ivan Marovic, one of the leaders of Yugoslav Otpor, who played a key role in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic.

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A huge part of Russia lies further East than Hong Kong. Just saying 😏

🍾🎉🍾 China will roll out a one-year visa-free policy to citizens from six countries - France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia - starting on December 1, 2023, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday, as part of fresh efforts to bring about cross-border people-to-people exchanges to serve the country's high-quality development and opening-up.

Residents from the six countries holding ordinary passports can enter China without a visa and stay for up to 15 days for business, sightseeing, visiting families and friends, and transit. @LauraRuHK

🍾🎉🍾 A partire dal 1 dicembre la Cina introdurrà l'esenzione dal visto per i cittadini di sei Paesi - Francia, Germania, Italia, Paesi Bassi, Spagna e Malesia.

I residenti dei sei Paesi in possesso di passaporto ordinario possono entrare in Cina senza visto e soggiornare per un massimo di 15 giorni per affari, turismo, visite a familiari e amici, e transito. @LauraRuHK

Here is an admission of what we had known all along. David Arakhamia, faction leader of Zelensky's party, Servant of the People, and head of the Ukrainian delegation at the Istanbul's peace talks, was interviewed by journalist Natalya Moseychuk. Russia demanded neutrality and security guarantees from Ukraine, a peace deal could have been signed and hundreds of thousand of casualties would have been avoided. But Boris Johnson stepped in and sealed Ukraine's fate. https://t.me/ukraine_watch/12615 As i wrote last February https://medium.com/p/7d41818139a9 "When in October 2022 Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bizarre decree prohibiting talks with the current Russian leadership he simply formalized something that had already become a dogma among his handlers. Six months earlier, in April, Boris Johnson went to Kiev to pressure Zelensky to cut off peace negotiations with Russia, because the two sides appeared to have made some progress during talks in Istanbul. Israeli PM Naftali Bennet, who had also attempted to mediate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, revealed how the Anglo-Americans, with Boris Johnson in the role of chief bully, blocked his efforts." @LauraRuHK

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A new article i finished a few days ago will soon be published. In the meantime i invite those who haven't read my previous articles yet to do so because they are interrelated. Think of them as chapters of the same book. I refer in particular to "Eastern Partnership, the EU’s geopolitical gamble leading Europe into the abyss" and "Marketing Ukraine’s Reconstruction to Fuel the War", both published by Strategic Culture. You can find the links here https://laura-ruggeri.medium.com/

Eyewitnesses to the October 7 hostage standoff in Kibbutz Be’eri have exposed Israel for misleading the world about the killings of 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her family and her neighbors.

In a desperate bid for international sympathy, the Israeli government has sought to stir outrage over the killing of a 12-year-old girl during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7. However, the 12-year-old Hetzroni was not slain by Hamas. According to new testimony by an Israeli eyewitness to the girl’s death, she was killed by an Israeli tank shell alongside several neighbors.

The revelation of Hetzroni’s friendly fire death came as the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhahu attempts to shut down the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for reporting that Israeli Apache helicopters killed Israeli citizens fleeing the Nova electronic music festival on October 7. Haaretz’s reporting confirmed a viral Grayzone investigation which highlighted disclosures by Israeli helicopter pilots and security officials of friendly fire orders throughout the fateful day. https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/25/israels-october-7-propaganda-tank-eyewitnesses/

L'Ucraina ha speso quasi la metà degli aiuti di Washington in obbligazioni del debito statunitense
Secondo i calcoli di RIA Novosti, dal febbraio 2022 Kiev ha più che raddoppiato i suoi titoli del Tesoro USA.

Dall'inizio del conflitto con la Russia, l'Ucraina ha aumentato in modo significativo l'acquisto di debito pubblico statunitense, ha riferito mercoledì l'agenzia di stampa RIA Novosti, citando dati del Tesoro statunitense e del Ministero delle Finanze ucraino.

Dal febbraio 2022 alla fine di settembre di quest'anno, gli investimenti di Kiev nel debito statunitense sono aumentati di 1,8 volte, ovvero di 10,7 miliardi di dollari, secondo la RIA. Ora il Paese detiene quote del debito USA pari a 24,5 miliardi di dollari. Alla fine dello scorso inverno la quota ammontava a 13,8 miliardi di dollari, mentre al suo livello più basso, a metà estate del 2022, si attestava a 7,9 miliardi di dollari, secondo i dati di RIA.

Nello stesso periodo, il governo ucraino ha ricevuto 22,9 miliardi di dollari in assistenza finanziaria da Washington. I calcoli di RIA mostrano che l'Ucraina ha investito circa la metà degli aiuti americani in obbligazioni del debito statunitense, riciclando così di fatto la metà di quanto ricevuto al governo americano.

Nel frattempo, Kiev ha ricevuto miliardi di aiuti militari dagli Stati Uniti e martedì è stato annunciato un altro pacchetto del valore di circa 100 milioni di dollari. Tuttavia, all'inizio del mese il Pentagono ha avvertito che i fondi assegnati a Kiev si stavano esaurendo in modo critico e che presto sarebbe stato costretto a ridurre le tranche. (Fonte: RIA Novosti/RT) @LauraRuHK

Ukraine spent nearly half of Washington’s aid on US debt bonds
Kiev has more than doubled its Treasury holdings since February 2022, according to calculations by RIA Novosti

Ukraine has significantly boosted its holdings of US government debt since the start of the conflict with Russia, the news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing data from the US Treasury and the Ukrainian Finance Ministry.

From February 2022 through the end of September of this year, Kiev’s investment in US debt jumped 1.8 times, or by $10.7 billion, according to RIA. The country’s current holdings of $24.5 billion are the highest since at least 2011. At the end of last winter, Ukraine’s US Treasury portfolio amounted to $13.8 billion, whereas at its lowest level, in mid-summer 2022, it stood at $7.9 billion, RIA's data shows.

During the same period, the Ukrainian government received $22.9 billion in financial assistance from Washington. RIA’s calculations show that Ukraine invested roughly half of the American aid in US debt bonds, thus effectively recycling half of what it received back to the US government.

Meanwhile, Kiev has also been getting billions in US military aid, with yet another package worth around $100 million announced on Tuesday. However, the Pentagon warned earlier this month that it was running critically low on funds allocated to Kiev and would soon be forced to begin reducing the tranches. (Source: RIA Novosti/RT) @LauraRuHK

Why did Zionist Israel incarcerate its liberated settler detainees and not allow them to immediately return to their families or be interviewed by the media the same way Palestinian liberated detainees did?

Because this🔺️

After coming to the defence of the US ‘rules-based-order’ the EU has a bag full of IOUs, a weakened economy, and Borrell’s garden of earthly delights increasingly resembles the dark panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s famous triptych. The economic and industrial decline in EU countries now seems unstoppable. It couldn’t be otherwise when you are trapped in an abusive and exploitative relationship that denies you the freedom to choose your friends and business partners. The economic and geopolitical centre of gravity has moved eastward, the unipolar world order that emerged in the 1990s is unravelling and a new multipolar order is taking shape before our eyes. Instead of following the pragmatic path of Eurasian integration and bolstering mutually beneficial economic ties with China and Russia, the EU has embarked on a suicide mission for its curators in Washington in the doomed attempt to weaken Russia and contain China. Read more in my latest article https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/11/26/the-united-eunuchs-of-europe/

With the door to NATO closed to Ukraine and Washington shifting its focus to the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific, the burden of supporting Ukraine “to defend Europe” has been dumped on the EU. After being condemned to geopolitical irrelevance, European countries are called upon to foot the bill of US imperial ambitions and provide military assistance. A report published by the RAND corporation in November acknowledged that the US defence strategy and posture have become insolvent and recommended a different approach: “The tasks that the U.S. government and its citizens expect their military forces and other elements of national power to do internationally greatly exceed the means available to accomplish those tasks." To better assist the moribund hegemon, the EU is being told to enlarge and reform. Actually reform is deemed even more urgent than enlargement because the US fears that the EU’s ability to carry out the prescribed task might be undermined by a handful of countries exercising their veto power. Read more in my latest article for Strategic Culture. https://medium.com/p/808fa925820e

The Covid-19 emergency offered the U.S. the perfect opportunity to check if all its European ducks were in a row. For the first time in its history the EU adopted a joint procurement strategy: the joint procurement of vaccines not only tested cohesion, coordination, the ability to ‘act quickly’ and mobilize financial resources, it constituted a precedent that later facilitated the joint procurement of weapons for Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions on Russia. The exclusion of Russian and Chinese vaccines showed that the EU could be trusted to obey orders even if they conflicted with its economic interests — U.S. mRNA jabs were more expensive than the alternative and relied on a technology whose safety hadn’t been proven. The EU media and political debates deployed the language of warfare by referring to a ‘war’ against Covid-19, the virus was ‘fought back’, medics and paramedics were described as ‘front-line soldiers’.

A cognitive metaphor of war helped structure the perception of reality. The state of exception was normalized, leading to the suspension of constitutional rights. The pandemic offered the pretext to carry out the most far-reaching psychological operation ever attempted in peace time: any public display of dissent or non-compliance with nonsensical rules was harshly repressed, media and social media were weaponized to brainwash and censor the public, the capacity of the EU new army of ‘fact-checkers’ was boosted and the scope of digital surveillance was extended.

Lockdowns led to huge economic losses (and gains for a handful of mostly American tech and pharma companies) but also to a paradigm shift in the EU fiscal, monetary and investment policies, notably through the adaptation of State aid to allow member states to support their economies by means of more direct intervention. It signalled a break from the austerity policy adopted after the financial crisis of 2008. As states became more indebted they had to cede even more sovereignty to the EU: the development strategies and goals of member states had to align with priorities set by the EU and mainly benefitting the U.S. The debt trap was presented as a recovery plan with high-sounding names such as Next Generation EU (NGEU) — €360 billion in loans and €390 billion in grants.

As they say, never let a crisis go to waste. An emergency creates a sense of urgency and the need to act quickly, which seriously reduces the ability to think carefully. This approach paved the way for the acceptance of even greater losses later, when the EU imposed sanctions on Russia that turned into a boomerang. Any hesitation to give up Russian gas was promptly pre-empted by its American ‘partner’ through the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. Read more in my latest article for Strategic Culture https://medium.com/p/808fa925820e

So, i translated a few paragraphs of "The United Eunuchs of Europe" into Italian and added a link to my Medium page where one can find the article published by Strategic Culture. Despite this trick, my post was axed by Meta/Facebook. My Medium page is now blacklisted. As to X/Twitter, the shadow ban seems to be permanent. @LauraRuHK

DIVIDE ET IMPERA - Quando si dice il caso. L'isteria collettiva contro un fantomatico patriarcato che ha portato in piazza migliaia di giovani in Italia forse forse non e' una reazione spontanea davanti ad un tristissimo episodio di cronaca nera. In Armenia l'UE e varie ONG ad essa legate il 24 novembre hanno lanciato una serie di iniziative (generosamente sponsorizzate dai contribuenti europei) per "combattere la violenza contro le donne". E dove non si puo' far leva sul "patriarcato" per distogliere l'attenzione da problemi reali e ben piu' gravi, si usano le proteste contro i migranti come in Irlanda, o il sempreverde "anti-semitismo". @LauraRuHK

⭕ Allargamento dell'UE - cui prodest?

Secondo il Financial Times, l'economia dell'Unione Europea è oggi pari al 65% di quella degli Stati Uniti. Il dato è in calo rispetto al 91% del 2013.

Nella sua, fondamentale, ultima analisi Laura Ruggeri (@lauraruhk) mette a nudo il suicidio assistito dei paesi dell'UE

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📹 Professor Hasan Ünal on the West's loss of moral superiority and the emergence of a multipolar world

"... whenever they employ that word, you know, democracy, democratization, human rights, freedoms and all that, others will simply respond to that by saying, oh yes, we know, we know it very well, democracy a la Gaza, democratization a la Gaza, human rights a la Gaza, we know how criminal you can get, can you please stop and keep all those rubbish to yourself?", he said.

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