April 12, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| This is your daily Facts Matter update and I'm your host Roman from the Epoch Times. | |
| And now let's begin today's discussion by talking about the Moderna vaccine. | |
| Four days ago, Moderna issued an official recall for over 764,000 doses of their COVID vaccine within Europe after they discovered some form of contaminants within the vials. | |
| Here's specifically what Moderna released as part of a joint statement alongside their Spain-based manufacturing partner. | |
| The lot is being recalled due to a foreign body being found in one vial in the lot manufactured at the company's contract manufacturing site, also known as Rovi. | |
| Now it is worth mentioning that Moderna, within the context of this statement, did not specify what exactly the foreign substance was that they found within the vials. | |
| And instead, they only wrote in their statement that they had recalled the lot out of an abundance of caution. | |
| Here's specifically what they wrote. | |
| Quote, To date, no safety or efficacy issues have been identified. | |
| Now, these particular lots, the ones that are being recalled, were distributed sometime between January 13th to January 14th within the countries of Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, as well as Sweden. | |
| Meaning, though those vaccine doses, the ones that are now recalled, were shipped out to those countries approximately four months ago. | |
| And it's unclear as of right now how many people were actually injected with these now recalled shots. | |
| It's also worth noting that this is not the first high-profile recall of the Moderna vaccine. | |
| In fact, you might remember that late last year, there was another incident involving the Moderna vaccine which took place over in Japan. | |
| Back then, approximately 1.6 million doses of the Moderna vaccine was recalled after the batches were found to have been contaminated with tiny fragments of stainless steel. | |
| Those particular batches, just for your reference, they were made by the same Spain-based manufacturer that just released this joint statement with Moderna, the one that we just read a moment ago. | |
| And it's also worth noting that back then, three Japanese men were injected with the second dose of the recalled Moderna vaccine, and then afterwards, they fell ill and then died. | |
| Just for reference, the first two deaths, which were linked to the contaminated Moderna vaccine, were of two men, one aged 30 and the other 38. | |
| They both died just two days after receiving the second dose from that tainted batch. | |
| And then the third case was a 49-year-old man who fell ill after receiving his second dose and then died the next day. | |
| However, according to a statement from Takeda Pharmaceutical, which is actually Moderna's Japanese partner at the time, which was back in August, they stated that there was no evidence that these men's deaths were linked to the contaminated vaccine. | |
| Here's specifically what they said, again, back in August of 2021. | |
| Quote, Stainless steel is routinely used in heart valves, joint replacements, and metal sutures and staples. | |
| As such, it is not expected that injection of the particles identified in these lots in Japan would result in increased medical risk. | |
| Regardless though, that statement denying responsibility was given, like I mentioned, back in August, which is eight months ago now, and as of today there has not been any updates on those particular deaths over in Japan. | |
| And then also, with the new recall, the one that was just issued a few days ago over in Europe, the companies did not state what the contaminant actually was. | |
| Whether it was once again the same stainless steel particles as before over in Japan. | |
| Now, here at the Epoch Times, we have reached out to all the relevant companies involved, but we have yet to hear back. | |
| However, if this is actually going to play out like it did last time, then likely within the next week or two, Moderna will release an updated statement revealing exactly what this contaminant was. | |
| And then again, if this plays out like it did last time, then the legacy news outlets throughout the entire world will promptly move to ignore it. | |
| Regardless, if you'd like to read the full statement from Moderna as well as their Spanish manufacturing partner, you can do so over in the description box below. | |
| I'll link this PDF down there. | |
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| And let's switch gears just a little bit and move on over to the state of Georgia, where the Secretary of State has just opened an investigation into over 1,600 non-citizens who attempted to register to vote in the state of Georgia. | |
| Specifically, Mr. | |
| Brad Raffensperger, who is currently the Georgia Secretary of State, he's also currently running for re-election in 2022, and just yesterday, he officially referred 1,634 cases for both investigation as well as for potential prosecution. | |
| And all these cases, they involve individuals who are not U.S. citizens, but they were attempting to register to vote. | |
| Here's specifically what Mr. | |
| Raffensperger said in a release statement as a part of his referrals to these people's, to these investigations. | |
| Quote, Secretary Raffensperger is referring for further investigation the 1,634 non-citizens who were identified as having attempted to register to vote during the state's first citizenship check of the voter rolls executed by Raffensperger a few weeks ago. | |
| This referral for investigation comes on the heels of a citizenship audit, the one that he mentioned in that statement, that was conducted by the Secretary of State's office, which wound up discovering that these illegal registration attempts were made in over half of Georgia's counties, specifically in 88 out of Georgia's 159 counties. | |
| However, the bulk of these attempts, close to 70% of them, took place in just five counties, which were, just for your reference, DeKalb, Fulton, Winnett, Cobb, and Clayton counties. | |
| Furthermore, what's really interesting to note as a part of this investigation is that these attempted registrations that the office discovered, they go all the way back to the year 1997. | |
| And so the data, in theory, spans a total of 25 years. | |
| However, what they found was that in the year 2016, the rate of these occurrences went up substantially. | |
| In fact, according to a statement from Mr. | |
| Raffensperger, 80% of these attempted registration attempts, meaning non-citizens attempting to register to vote, took place after the year 2016. | |
| I wonder what happened in 2016 that would have made the rate go up. | |
| Regardless, here is specifically what Mr. | |
| Berger said in his statement, quote, 1,319 or 80.7 percent of the attempted registrations have occurred since 2016. | |
| Now, the timing of this particular criminal referral is really worth noting because it comes amidst the battle that's playing out throughout the entire country regarding checking for citizenship among voters. | |
| And so, for instance, you have places like New York City, which recently passed a new law, which is currently being challenged in court, which actually allows complete non-citizens to vote in city elections. | |
| However, on the flip side, you have states like Arizona, which are tightening up their voting requirements, with the Arizona governor recently signing a new bill into law just two weeks ago, which requires voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship in order to vote in the presidential elections. | |
| And likewise, you have a microcosm of this national battle playing out within the state of Georgia. | |
| Because while on the one hand, you have the Secretary of State conducting this investigation and pushing for criminal referrals, well, you also have a lawsuit, which is currently playing itself out in the Georgia state courts, challenging the legality of forcing people to their citizenship in order to vote. | |
| Specifically, the lawsuit, which is being led by a group called Fair Fight Action, they're challenging Georgia's citizenship verification requirement. | |
| These state requirements, which currently apply only to new U.S. citizens who are attempting to register to vote for the first time, well, they make it such that if their information, their newly U.S. citizenship information, has not yet been updated in the driver's license database, well, they are required to prove documentation, proving that they're a U.S. citizenship in order to register they are required to prove documentation, proving that they're a U.S. citizenship However, Fair Fight Action, this group that's leading the lawsuit, they say that that's too much. | |
| They argue that having people prove that they are a new citizen by simply showing a naturalization document amounts to voter suppression. | |
| Here's part of what their lead attorney said in regards to their lawsuit. | |
| Quote, It just shouldn't be this hard to cast a vote that counts in Georgia. | |
| And so we will have to wait and see how this case plays itself out in court, and also what will happen to the criminal referrals that Brad Raffensperger just officially filed. | |
| If you'd like to read more about these two particular cases, I'll throw all the links into the description box below this video for you to check out. | |
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| And now let's move on. | |
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| Hey Roman, it's me. | |
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| And now let's head on back to the studio. | |
| Now, while I was covering the trucker's convoy just a few weeks ago, at one of the truck stops in Ohio where people were fueling up and getting ready, well, I was walking around the pit stop, taking a look at the different trucks, I was taking a look at the different flags, the different slogans that people have written on their trucks and their campers, and while I was walking around, that was when I ran into a truck driver by the name of Rick Daniels. | |
| His truck was very cool. | |
| On the back of it, there was a place where people could sign their names and leave little messages because he said that while not everybody can themselves go all the way to Washington, D.C., if they sign their name and leave their message, well, at least a part of them or at least their message will go all the way to D.C. | |
| And right away, as soon as we met, we had a great conversation. | |
| And so then later on in the convoy, we met up and my cameraman and I, we jumped into Rick's cabin and we had a phenomenal interview where we discussed the goal of the convoy, Rick's own family experience with escaping communism in Indonesia, his thoughts about where this country is actually going, why there's so much groundswell support for the truckers, as well as what will happen if American people, well, if they don't wake up. | |
| Here's a trailer for that awesome interview. - Picking up America is a huge, that is a huge, huge element. | |
| If America can see this and see how many people are on the overpasses and the support that the convoy is getting, then maybe that will make them ask the question, okay, what is happening? | |
| Why are so many people upset and what are they upset about? | |
| The people in the convoy are taking their time off work to come out here and do this and be part of it. | |
| Every single one of those people normally are somewhere else. | |
| What did they sacrifice to go stand up on that overpass? | |
| They can't take the time to go to Washington, D.C., or maybe they don't feel confident in going to Washington, D.C., but they're taking the time to come out here and be on the overpass. | |
| I told people they keep saying, thank you, thank you, thank you, and I say, no, thank you. | |
| You've restored my confidence. | |
| In the American people and they've lifted my spirits and filled my spirit so that I know that I'm out here for a good reason. | |
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| And until next time, I'm your host, Roman, from the Epoch Times. |
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