Weeks Where Decades Happen: HHR February 16, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is sworn-in as the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and given the charge to Make America Healthy Again.
RFK Jr. Sworn in as Secretary of HHS
On February 13, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was sworn in as the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and given the charge to Make America Healthy Again.
When nominating Kennedy for Sec. of HHS the president offered the off-the-cuff direction for ‘Bobby’ to ‘go wild on health,’ and on Feb. 14 Pres. Trump signed the Executive Order Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission.
‘Move fast and break things,’ the DOGE crew is fond of repeating, and RFK Jr.’s official first full-day on the job capped a two-week span of ‘breaking’ news that included:
Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission
Executive Order, Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools, which bars federal funds from schools, [including medical schools] that mandate COVID vaccines
A temporary ‘freeze’ at the alphabet health agencies—CDC, NIH, NIID—with immediate head-count reduction of “probationary” employees at the Centers for Disease Control.
Revelations of next-level graft and greed continued to bleed out from the unceremoniously shuttered USAID foreign aid program, confirming what many had suspected all along:
USAID funded Gain-of-Function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
USAID funded a maze of censorious bad actors, including multiple cohorts of social media fact checkers, vapid cable TV talking heads, all the way down to woke AI chat bots — all created with the practical purpose to censor, libel, intimidate and slander U.S. citizens who challenged administration policies
More than anecdotal evidence the professional, intelligentsia, deep state, SWAMP class in D.C. is starting to ‘panic,’ as Google searches for ‘Bleachbit,’ ‘Swiss Bank,’ ‘Statute of Limitations,’ and ‘Defense Lawyer’ have gone parabolic over the past two weeks while new MLS real estate listings have ‘swamped’ the market.
‘There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.’ — Vladimir Lenin
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for next week, or the week after, or the week after that. There are decades of bad policy begging to be undone and reversed, deleted and blotted-out, and there are the decades of health prosperity yet to be forged. There is nothing but hard work ahead in achieving this Herculean task to Make America Healthy Again, but Bobby Kennedy taking the reins at HHS is a damn good start.
Executive Order: Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Some school districts and universities continue to coerce children and young adults into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by conditioning their education on it, and others may re-implement such mandates. Parents and young adults should be empowered with accurate data regarding the remote risks of serious illness associated with COVID-19 for children and young adults, as well as how those risks can be mitigated through various measures, and left free to make their own decisions accordingly. Given the incredibly low risk of serious COVID-19 illness for children and young adults, threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom. Such mandates usurp parental authority and burden students of many faiths.
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With 1st Amendment Friends Like These… Who Needs Censors
The Alamo for Free Speech?
Matt Taibbi (Twitter Files) opening remarks on John Kerry, European speech law, and USAID before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Man Bites Dog? — ‘Journalist’ Claims ‘Free Speech’ Leads to Genocide
Unwilling (or unable?) to come to terms with the diminished capacity of the legacy media, Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan, in an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio no less, lost all connection to history and professional position and blurted out this doozy of historical revision and ignorance:
Free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide
Sec. Rubio quickly corrected Ms. Brennan that it wasn’t “free speech” that committed genocide, it was the National Socialist regime. Brennan visibly appeared taken aback that anyone would challenge Orwellian Hate Speech Laws in England or suggest all the citizens of Germany should have the right to uncensored political debate before a national election, but, Eurozone laws and politics aside, freedom-of-speech is not merely an academic discussion.
Since March 2020 the FLCCC/IMA has lived this fight. We’ve fought on the federal and state level to present science-based information to health officials and the general public regarding repurposed drugs and early treatment options for COVID — options we believe would have saved many lives if they had been adopted. Our founders, all working, respected physicians in good standing, were systematically intimidated and lost jobs and livelihoods by standing up for doctor-patient rights and open scientific debate. IT WAS NOT FREE SPEECH THAT LED TO NEEDLESS LOSS OF LIFE DURING COVID, IT WAS CENSORSHIP, COWARDICE, GRAFT, and GROUPTHINK. Ms. Brennan, CBS, and the entire media complex should start by examining their complicity of silence and actual malice during the last five years. As they say, it’s never too late to do the right thing. We’re sure the few hundred people still watching would appreciate the honesty.
V.P. Vance’s 12-year-old Relative Denied Heart Transplant Because She is Unvaccinated
She was born with two rare heart conditions, Ebstein's anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and has been receiving treatment at Cincinnati Children's Hospital for nearly a decade.
Ranching Reimagined: Sustainable Agriculture and Health Sovereignty
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I hope we in Europe and particularly in the UK wake up to what is happening. It's kind of ironic that there's a never-ending barrage of "far-right" fearmongering that goes hand in hand with the censorship - which means loss of actual freedom for many as well as loss of freedom of expression, never mind dawn raids and wanton vandalism of people's homes - which is straight out of the far-right playback. No wonder many are turning to right-wing parties - of course, the answer from our great saviours of democracy is not to examine why "liberalism" has become so utterly repellent, but to declare inconvenient elections null and void.
Along with gain of function, I'm cautiously optimistic that they will get control of this insanity as well.
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-conditionally-approves-vaccine-protect-poultry-avian-flu