»We Vaccinated a Continent!«
About the impertinent arrogance and hubris of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – a model student of former German Chancellor Merkel.
»Pride goes before a fall.« (Proverbs of Solomon; 16:18)
“We have set the building blocks for a Health Union, helping to vaccinate an entire continent – and large parts of the world.”
This statement, uttered in stilted English by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her State of the Union address on September 13, expresses in one sentence all the contempt that a corrupt caste of politicians, driven by ideologies and corporate interests, feels toward its citizens.
But before I go into more detail about von der Leyen’s role in the global jab circus, allow me to first shed some light on the political background that enabled this self-professed EU “vaccination” fanatic to get into such a powerful position in the first place.
On the general understanding of democracy of a Ms. von der Leyen
The fact that von der Leyen may stand for a second term for the highest “government office” in the EU, but in any case does not want to stand and be elected as a candidate for the EU-Parliament from a national (German) CDU election list - which effectively means that German voters cannot elect her via that list to the EU Parliament as a national representative - speaks volumes (especially when you consider that she was “brought” to Brussels for her first term in 2019 by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron without having campaigned for EU elections beforehand).
And this is where things get really weird:
In the meantime, however, it has already been decided that von der Leyen will be the top candidate of the European People’s Party (EPP) for the 2024 elections to the European Parliament. The EPP is effectively the “sister party” of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU; the “Merkel Party”) at the European level. Von der Leyen has already announced that she will advertise her top candidacy on EPP election posters.
The fact is, however, that unlike in (German) Bundestag and state parliament elections, the office of “head of government” of the EU - with which the position of Commission President can be compared - is incompatible with membership of the EU Parliament. If von der Leyen were to run successfully for the EU Parliament via the EPP and then become Commission President again, she would have to give up the parliamentary mandate she had just won.
The contortions to which this regulation leads internally can now be seen in the CDU and its European representation: The EPP is likely to enter the election campaign with von der Leyen – knowing full well that no one can vote for her. This bizarre EU logic had already led in the past to her predecessor, Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker, assuming the Commission presidency without first being elected to Parliament.
In the end, it is influential members of the EU Commission and the heads of government of the EU member states who determine who should be appointed to the office of EU Commission president. The EU Parliament serves only as a pseudo-democratic façade to vote pro forma who gets the office, and the EU Parliament is strongly influenced by the EU Commission.
So if von der Leyen decides to run for a second term, she would become the EU’s “head of government” for the second time without even being legitimized by a genuine independent EU Parliament.
That’s what you call practicing democracy!
It is also interesting in this context that EU critics, who have long criticized the EU’s understanding of democracy, are calling for a direct election for the highest EU office.
Dangerous Liaisons
Ursula von der Leyen, the daughter of the former Minister President of Lower Saxony Ernst Albrecht (CDU), has held a number of offices in her unparalleled career as a power politician in which she has not exactly shone with particular competence. She has never worked for the EU, but she is no stranger to Brussels, where she spent most of her childhood.
After climbing through the ranks in Lower Saxony, von der Leyen joined Merkel’s first Cabinet in 2005, heading the Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. She became labor minister in Merkel’s second Cabinet in 2009 before taking over the defense ministry in 2014, becoming the first woman to hold that office. Her rapid rise fueled speculation that she could one day step into Merkel’s shoes. Yet her failure to put the German military back on track dashed whatever hopes she may have had of becoming chancellor.
There was no shortage of misconduct, inconsistencies and breaches of the law during von der Leyen’s terms as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (2005-2009), Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs (2009-2013) and Federal Minister of Defense (2013-2019) in the governments led by Chancellor Merkel from 2005 to 2019.
Of particular note (and also the most harshly criticized) might be her conduct in office during her time as defense minister, which led to a criminal complaint against her by an insider from around her ministry in September 2018 and ultimately resulted in an investigative committee in January 2019.
From January 2019 to February 2020, a committee of inquiry investigated the legality of von der Leyen’s awarding of contracts to external advisers to the Bundeswehr. According to reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, cell phone data relevant to the investigation was deleted, files were improperly redacted, and files were destroyed. Text messages were removed from both cell phones used by the minister at the time. Thus, an IT officer of the ministry’s CIT department performed a “security deletion” on one of the two cell phones, after which it was finally disposed of, as von der Leyen’s cell phone had been affected by a data leak (so-called Advent calendar hack). Due to this data deletion, Green Party security expert Tobias Lindner filed a criminal complaint in December 2019, which was, however, immediately dropped by the Berlin public prosecutor’s office.
However, it was not until July 2019 that the Defense Committee issued a formal order to the Ministry of Defense to seize all documents relevant to the evidence, including the cell phone data. The evidentiary period always extends only up to the time of the establishment of a parliamentary investigative committee, in this case until January 31, 2019, so that the data from the second cell phone could not be classified as evidentiary in the first place. Since the security deletion of the first cell phone was carried out in January 2019 after the cell phone was changed due to the “Advent calendar hack”, the deletion took place before the investigative committee ordered the preservation of evidence. [Source: de.wikipedia.org; my translation]
“Cell phone data relevant to the investigation was deleted” – Does this sound familiar to you? It reminds me of the text messages from von der Leyen’s official cell phone that were deleted in the course of the affair about secret contract negotiations with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
“Just look at the picture: You have a Commission president who personally makes a deal with a Big Pharma CEO and who then later refuses to disclose the texts leading up to that negotiation.” –Belgian Socialist MEP Kathleen van Brempt
The EU’s largest deal with a singular market participant, the deal with Pfizer (third Pfizer contract) in spring 2021 for 35 billion euros led to various criminal charges, strong criticism and accusations of illegality and exceeding the mandate to von der Leyen: The deal was negotiated via - kept secret - SMS and telephone calls, i.e. in complete non-transparency between von der Leyen and Bourla.
In the wake of the SMS communication between Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer, the New York Times magazine filed a lawsuit with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CFI), citing Article 42 - Right of Access to Documents, for the release of the communication data. In its official response to a request from netzpolitik.org, the EU Commission initially denied that such messages existed. […]
The EU Commission also did not explicitly ask the President’s personal office to search for the missing text messages. Von der Leyen refused the EU Court of Auditors’ request to hand over the communication data. [Source: de.wikipedia.org; my translation; link added]
The fact that von der Leyen simply ignored a subpoena from the European Court of Justice - in order to testify personally on the matter - should only be mentioned here in passing. As with the deletion of cell phone data in the Bundeswehr affair, it fits perfectly into the image of a “thoroughly democratic” politician who has only the welfare of the people in mind…
Acting according to these “welfare principles”, she has probably also ensured that her “democratic” bosom friend in the East, Vlad Zelensky, was alimented with billions from the pockets of EU taxpayers in his “heroic fight for European freedom,” while at the same time driving the economies of all European states to the brink of collapse with hare-brained sanctions against Russia. But I digress.
Whether it is the philanthropath Bill Gates, who wanted to “vaccinate 7 billion people,” or the German ex-chancellor Angela Merkel, socialized in the GDR, for whom “the pandemic will not be over until the whole world has been vaccinated,” or the Bourla maitresse Ursula von der Leyen, who has “vaccinated an entire continent,” the hubris and arrogance with which these jokers play godlike with the fate of billions of people is unprecedented in the entire history of mankind.
It is a kind of megalomania that has so far been attributed to contemporaries such as Hitler, Stalin or Mao, who of course - as far as the number of victims of their reigns of terror is concerned - are still placed on the top ranks. But with today’s technical possibilities of the totalitarian globalists and taking into account the victims already caused by them and still to be expected, it is quite possible that this ranking could change sooner or later.
In the case of (not only) Ursula von der Leyen, I would like nothing better than for the proverb by Solomon quoted at the beginning of this article to come true. The pace at which the much-cited “awakening” of the masses is proceeding is not enough for me at the moment to indulge in the hope that every empire has collapsed at some point. The critical mass to stop the rapidly resurgent (global) fascism has not yet been reached by far. Only the future can show what the final outcome will be – but it doesn’t look particularly bright right now.