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Pfizer CEO Bails On EU Testimony After Report Highlights 'Secretive' Vaccine Deal Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has bailed on an appointment to testify before the European Parliament's special committee, where he was expected to face tough questions over secretive vaccine deals ... Bourla was scheduled to appear before the panel on Oct. 10, alongside key officials involved in the EUs vaccine procurement process, in order to discuss how to respond to future pandemics. According to the report, "Other pharmaceutical executives have addressed the committee, including the CEO of Moderna and senior officials from AstraZeneca and Sanofi." Bourla? Not so much....

President Joe Biden left Washington, DC, Friday evening for a trip to the beach, ahead of his trip to Europe next week. The president left the White House to spend the weekend at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. This is the president’s first trip to the beach in 2022 after spending the last weekend in December there with his wife Jill Biden and his new dog “Commander.”

Nine members of Congress aligned with the far-left group J Street either abstained or voted against a House bill that would reinforce the U.S.’s commitment to the State of Israel. The United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 soared through the House on a vote of 411-2. That was without the help of 10 J Street stalwarts, one who voted against the bill and nine who originally voted “present.” The bi-partisan bill, which was sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, reaffirms Israel’s right to defend itself in the face of terror attacks and redoubles Congress’ support for...

<p>David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to do the show in the next few weeks.</p> <p>“He's not scheduled to go on at this time,” said Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Obama’s reelection campaign.</p>

U.S. taxpayers gave $300 billion to bail out U.S. banks, which ultimately helped rescue foreign banks in a globalized system.

There will likely be a lot of thoughts to come with regard to the E.U.'s nearly $1 trillion package of bailout loans, but the most glaring issue is that, despite its enormous size and scope, Europe's new 'solution' misses the root of the Eurozone debt problem and worse yet could be amplifying it. The underlying problem behind everything is moral hazard. So why are they rewarding it like never before? The walls of fiscal and economic sovereignty are being breached. No EMU country will be allowed to default, whatever the moral hazard. Interestingly, Europe's debt crisis has thus been a...