How Long Have the Clintons Been Working with Merck Specifically?
https://www.coreysdigs.com/wp-conten...a-1024x580.pngAccording to the Center for Responsive Politics, key lobbying players in 2014 focused on the patent system, research funding, and Medicare, hitting $229.1 million. That said, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the industry’s record spending of $272.8 million was back in 2009 when the Affordable Care Act was being debated in Congress.
How Long Have the Clintons Been Working with Merck Specifically?
In August 2016, the Washington Examiner did a superb breakdown of some of the Clinton Foundation’s dealings with Merck, and more importantly, Hillary’s involvement with Merck while she was Secretary of State. Here are some key events:
A) As a senator, Clinton reportedly wrote a letter urging HHS to approve Merck’s HPV vaccine in 2005.
B) In a 2008 William J. Clinton Foundation annual report, the Clinton Global Initiative teamed up with Merck and the government of Nicaragua in 2006 to vaccinate every infant born over the next three years to prevent rotavirus. Merck had donated one million doses of RotaTeq and had vaccinated 80% of “eligible infants” by 2008, and would continue to do so through 2009. What constitutes as “eligible” for vaccination in Nicaragua? See below.
C) Merck had lobbied the State Department to ease regulations restricting the distribution of its drugs in certain Latin American markets, during Clinton’s first year as Secretary of State in 2009.
D) In 2011, while Clinton was at the State Department, the U.S. government teamed up with Merck to provide the HPV vaccine to women in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, at a cost of $75 million.
E) Clinton met with Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier privately in March 2012, went straight into a staff meeting about “global health strategy,” and in June announced a $75 million partnership with Merck, funded by the State Department, to reduce childbirth-related deaths in Africa. Spearheaded by Clinton, the Norwegian government matched the $75 million. The Clintons have long had a relationship with the Norwegian government, and are currently partnered with them in the Clinton Climate Initiative’s “Ten Island Challenge.” The shenanigans while Hillary Clinton was at the state department, didn’t just take place with Merck, Pfizer benefited as well as many others during her time there.
Let’s expand on B. Whereas the Clinton’s annual report states that they teamed up with Merck and the government of Nicaragua to vaccinate every infant born from 2006–2009, they leave out the fact that GAVI is who provided the funding for the immunization. To be clear, Nicaraguans are charged income tax just like in the U.S., their government boasts the same “Free vaccines” and narratives as is done here, and the money cycles through PAHO revolving fund and GAVI. Same story, different country. They have the vaccine industry and the inner workings locked down to a science. Taxpayers of the world all pay in, while they all make billions.
Nicaragua was the first nation to become “eligible,” and the infants receive Merck’s vaccine through the National Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). This program was established in 1974 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and expand immunization programs throughout the world. In 1984 they created a standardized vaccination schedule that was the basis for all national governments to create their vaccination policies. In 1999 GAVI, Bill Gates company, was created for the sole purpose of extending the reach of the EPI, which launched in January 2000.
Now let’s expand on D. The 2011 initiative for HVP vaccinations in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa is far more significant than most might realize. This needs to be broken down a bit more so people can grasp how this “partnership” worked, what this initiative covered, and who the “team” really was, because it’s about a lot more than Clinton and Merck. Why? Because, it shows the structure of how these folks operate together to control the slush funds they have meticulously developed over the years. Plus, no need for further digging here, as it’s long been in the brain bank.Let’s begin here: George W. Bush founded the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with the National Intelligence Council back in 2003, when he was president.
Much more on this in the near future. A little known fact is that George and Laura founded and launched “The Pink Ribbon-Red Ribbon” as an independent affiliate of the George W. Bush Institute in September 2011, then later converted it as a dba under Bush Global Health Initiative on July 21, 2015. This declassified internal memo that was released on June 23, 2011 speaks to this partnership between the Department of State, George W. Bush Presidential Center, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and UNAIDS in a public-private partnership entitled “The Pink Ribbon-Red Ribbon Partnership” to combat cervical and breast cancer in Africa and Latin America.
Now, they mention George and Laura as founding partners, while implying there are “others,” but there are not. They go on to state that this partnership would be announced in September, which is precisely when it launched. Here’s where the real party gets started. They roll in HPV as being the primary cause of cervical cancer, while already conveniently having two vaccines called Cervarix by GlaxoSmithKline and Gardasil by Merck. But gosh darn, these vaccines are just too expensive for developing countries, so who came to the rescue? Bill Gates company GAVI of course! Coincidentally, they had recently announced that Merck had agreed to provide Gardasil to GAVI at a 67% price reduction. Amazingly, it is the first price reduction of its kind in developing countries and this partnership wanted to capitalize on that.
But how was this possibly going to be funded? You guessed it. PEPFAR! Heck, they had already funded $6 million taxpayer dollars in 2010 for cervical cancer screening in over 225 clinical sites in twelve African countries. All they needed was another $6 million taxpayer dollars and PEPFAR could expand to 550 clinical sites, while expanding on family planning and maternal health programs along the way, opening it up for more funding in the future.
The UNAIDS press release for the launch announced that the U.S. Government has committed an additional $10 million, which brought the PEPFAR investment to $30 million over the next five years, but with all contributions in total, they expected commitments of up to $75 million. It went on to confirm that this was under the leadership of Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Eric Goosby. On September 13, 2011 Secretary Clinton and George W. Bush launched the initiative at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. Not only are we paying for the vaccines in our country, we are paying for them in other countries as well, and make no mistake about it – each “partner” is taking their cut.
Their fact sheet states that Merck provided donated vaccine and support, GlaxoSmithKline provided vaccines for HPV, and several other organizations were involved as well. They also stated that Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon planned to scale up over time as countries developed plans, and additional partners joined to support them.Remember, the Clintons had been working in Africa for years, working with GAVI for years, and had a partnership with Merck and GAVI in Nicaragua back in 2006. All of these alleged “philanthropic do-good” programs are paid for by U.S. taxpayers. It’s also important to note that Bill Gates has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and their initiatives over the years, and is currently partnered with them in their island projects across the Caribbean, with numerous others.In fact, GAVI took in $2.7 billion in grants and donor contributions in 2011. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation turned around and donated $500,000 to “support the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative” in September 2011, the same month they launched the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon partnership. According to their website, it was their only donation to the Clinton Foundation in 2011. As recently as November 2018 they donated $12 million to Clinton Health Access Initiative to support their efforts with family health and planning in Africa and Asia.
