Posted on 10/26/2021 12:40:14 AM PDT by ransomnote
Public Citizen has published a report that outlines how pharma giant Pfizer created secret contracts and use its monopoly power to manipulate governments into buying and dispensing its Covid-19 vaccines.
As one of the top vaccine producers, Pfizer used its position of power to “silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk, and maximise profits,” according to Public Citizen.
Report author Zain Rizvi, law and policy researcher at Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines Program, said in a statement: “Behind closed doors, Pfizer wields its power to extract a series of concerning concessions from governments. The global community cannot allow pharmaceutical corporations to keep calling the shots.”
Back in February, it was reported that Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech were “bullying” Latin American governments during contract negotiations about the vaccines. Pfizer targeted Albania, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, the European Commission and Peru with predatory contracts.
In some cases, Pfizer asked some of these countries to put up their sovereign assets as a guarantee against the cost of any future legal cases. In other words, it was already known in advance that the vaccines were going to cause harm, thus leading to lawsuits, and Pfizer wanted to protect itself whilst raking in profits.
Rizvi tweeted: “We dug into Pfizer’s vaccine contracts. They offer a rare glimpse into the power one corporation has gained to silence govts, throttle supply and shift risk in the worst public health crisis in a century. Govts must push back to ensure global access.”
According to the report, Pfizer reserves the right to silence governments, controls donations, secured an “IP waiver” for itself, goes after state assets, call the shots on key decisions and has private arbitrators decide disputes in secret. All of which, of course, has been hidden from public view.
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(The global community cannot allow pharmaceutical corporations to keep __calling the shots___.”)
So to speak...
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They won’t once they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Then Satan will take over himself.
Let’s drug test all the leftist government leaders worldwide tomorrow.
The left does not realize how much they are being played by forces that will use them up, chew them up, and spit them out when done with them and then dance on their graves.
Whether they are working in active cooperation with the evil or are being coerced or blackmailed into it, in the end they are just tools to be used to achieve their master’s ends.
“The global community cannot allow pharmaceutical corporations to keep calling the shots “
Au contraire ... The global community is good with and advances it.
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Corporate profits are evil.
Or so I read on world Marxist daily dot com
Not a surprise since Public Citizen is a bunch of socialists.
"Fighting voter suppression and the big money takeover of our democracy"
"The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy."
"American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms."
"Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All"
https://www.citizen.org/topic/protecting-democracy/
These type of Threads are exposing the true colors of so-called “Conservatives”.
Relying on Socialist to score points. Ridiculous……..
Looks like Pakistani TV with an Americanized reporter raising Hell about Pfizer's tactics, which if true, calls for a heavy slap down. (Yeah, right)
I suspect that the DNC will have ‘the talk’ with Public Citizen and explain to them that Big Pharma is now the ‘good guys’, since they’re helping to enslave the masses, and that Public Citizen is NOT PERMITTED to criticize them.
Seems like Public Citizen hasn’t updated their playbook - as Left Wing groups attacking Big Pharma was ‘yesterday’ and is no longer operative today.
Considering the patron saint of vaccine "truth" is Robert F Kennedy Jr., it should come as no surprise.
Hey guys, look who showed up to defend Pfizer’s use of literal fascism!
The Jabber Twins!
Are you gay?
No.
And FR is the wrong place to look for man-dates. Or mandates. Try Dem Underground.
You must ask that a lot at the truck stop bathrooms you frequent for "service."
Just checking soyboi...
Try Dem Underground.
That's likely where this Public Citizen article came from but not the best place to defend... "literal fascim".
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