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The Barnes Brief: Monday, May 8, 2023
May 08, 2023
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Schedule This Week

  • Bourbon w/ Barnes: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday at 9-ish pm est
  • The Closing Argument Today: The Brook Jackson Argument. (*Note: you are free to share this with anyone, as it has been placed into the official public record on the court docket in the pleadings in the case.)

Introduction: Top 10 Headlines

  • King Charles coronated in England. Grandkids steal the show.
  • Chelsea Clinton wants to force all kids to take all vaccines. Guess who helping? Bill Gates & WHO.  
  • Massive migrant train gathers on southern border.
  • Tyson Foods stocks drop again. Voodoo doll happy.
  • Chile elects right-leaning parties to rewrite Constitution.
  • Barr hid Biden corruption exposed by whistleblower.
  • ChatGPT panic source arrested.
  • Covid tests contaminated.
  • Georgia soon to have Florida-type power to remove DAs.
  • Biden admin using Strategic Petroleum Reserve to mask economic problems, while half of boomers report no savings.

Wisdom of the Day: “There is a growing coalition of populist forces on the left and right that are convening right now and that are finding common ground. And that really is probably the only thing that is going to rescue American democracy.” Robert Kennedy Jr.

The Evidence: Top Ten Articles from The Barnes Library

  1. Trouble in the credit system. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sloos-finds-even-tighter-credit-standards-collapse-ci-loan-demand-and-dire-outlook-rest
  2. Collapse of trust in the west. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/05/once-trust-has-been-lost-theres-no.html
  3. Vaccine harm: more proof. https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-public-inquiry
  4. Foreign aid fails. https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-limits-of-foreign-aid
  5. Stagflation cometh. https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/the-path-to-full-stagflation
  6. Vaccine inefficacy. https://jdee.substack.com/p/assessment-of-vaccine-efficacy-part
  7. Streaming caused writers’ strike. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/streaming-broke-the-career-ladder-striking-hollywood-writers-say/ar-AA1aTuAO
  8. Donors see the writing on the wall, and abandon DeSantis.https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/08/wall-street-desantis-reelection-00093736
  9. Deciphering Prigozhin: a different take. https://sonar21.com/evgeny-prigozhin-truth-teller-mad-man-or-maskirovka/
  10. Tucker considering his own Tucker-branded news network.https://www.axios.com/2023/05/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson

*Bonus: Local board member happy baby born. https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/3970015/a-huge-white-pill-my-daughter-was-born

Closing Argument: Brook Jackson v. Pfizer

Pfizer's fraudulent scheme uncovered by Brook Jackson included: first, presenting a false claim to the government for payment of a product Pfizer never delivered nor ever intended to deliver; second, Pfizer's express certifications to the government the product was delivered according to the contractual terms when it wasn't; third, Pfizer's implied certification to the government the product was delivered according to the rules of clinical trials when it wasn't; and fourth, Pfizer's fraud in the inducement by Pfizer promising to deliver a product they never intended to deliver and knew they couldn't. Pfizer lied and people died. 

Fraudulent Presentment: Pfizer's invoices sought payment for delivering a safe, effective, vaccine for the prevention of Covid19. Pfizer never delivered the ordered product. Pfizer never delivered a safe drug. Pfizer never delivered an effective drug for the prevention of Covid-19. Pfizer never even delivered a vaccine. Pfizer expressly guaranteed each of these in their invoice by stating the product was in conformity with the contract because the contract itself compelled this language in the invoice as a precondition of payment. Pfizer knew they didn't. Additionally, the contract incorporated the EUA requirements into the contract – there had to be no effective alternative treatments before payment could issue. Pfizer lied by claiming no alternative effective treatments existed for Covid19, but hid information from the government concerning it. Worse, what Pfizer delivered was a historically dangerous, ineffective, gene therapy that didn't prevent Covid19 at all, but would cause the deaths and disabilities of millions, and they knew it. Billions of taxpayer money lost, millions of disabilities and hundreds of thousands of American deaths, and this is the consequence of Pfizer’s fraud. Pfizer lied and people died. 

Fraud by Express False Certification: Pfizer certified their product complied with all the regulatory requirements explicitly included in the contract, when they used the contractually required language that required a contractually compliant product in the certification in the invoice. Pfizer's contract required they comply with all clinical testing safeguards and safety metrics required to assure their product was the required deliverable: a safe, effective, vaccine for the prevention of Covid19. Pfizer didn't comply with any of the clinical trial safeguards and safety metrics because they knew compliance would expose their produce as a historically dangerous, ineffective, gene therapy that didn't prevent Covid19 at all, but would cause the deaths and disabilities of millions, and they knew it. Billions of taxpayer money lost, millions of disabilities and hundreds of thousands of American deaths, and this is the consequence of Pfizer’s fraud. Pfizer lied and people died. 

Fraud by Implied False Certification: Pfizer implicitly certified their product complied with all the regulatory requirements included in the contract, when they used the contractually required language that required a contractually compliant product in the certification in the invoice. Pfizer's contract required they comply with all clinical testing safeguards and safety metrics required to assure their product was the required deliverable: a safe, effective, vaccine for the prevention of Covid19. Pfizer didn't comply with any of the clinical trial safeguards and safety metrics because they knew compliance would expose their produce as a historically dangerous, ineffective, gene therapy that didn't prevent Covid19 at all, but would cause the deaths and disabilities of millions, and they knew it. Billions of taxpayer money lost, millions of disabilities and hundreds of thousands of American deaths, and this is the consequence of Pfizer’s fraud. Pfizer lied and people died. 

Fraud in the Inducement: Pfizer induced the contract in the first instance by promising a particular deliverable: a safe, effective, vaccine, for the prevention of covid19, produced at both extraordinary speed and exceptional scale. At the time Pfizer made that promise, it never intended to, and knew it could not, deliver. The means of measurement of the safety, efficacy, immunization capacity and preventative capability of their product were clinical trials conducted in accord with the FDA rules. Pfizer induced the contract by fraud in the inducement, knowing it could not deliver a safe product, an effective product, a vaccine, or a drug for the prevention of Covid19 at speed and scale. Pfizer knew accurate clinical testing data would reveal those lies. Pfizer knew accurate clinical testing data would reveal a dangerous, ineffective product that was not a vaccine and didn't prevent Covid19. Pfizer knew accurate clinical trial data would show its product caused death, disability and disease, not prevented it. Brook Jackson uncovered this when she uncovered the clinical fraud. Pfizer didn't comply with any of the clinical trial safeguards and safety metrics because they knew compliance would expose their produce as a historically dangerous, ineffective, gene therapy that didn't prevent Covid19 at all, but would cause the deaths and disabilities of millions, and they knew it. Billions of taxpayer money lost, millions of disabilities and hundreds of thousands of American deaths, and this is the consequence of Pfizer’s fraud. Pfizer lied and people died. 

False Records & False Claim: As part of the fraud, Pfizer falsified records, fabricated data, perjured statements and submitted fraudulent certifications. Pfizer did so to hide their fraud in inducing the contract in the first instance, to mask their fraudulent invoices, and to deceive the government about their fraudulent certifications to the government about what they were delivering to the government and how the product came to be developed contrary to contractual compliance, regulatory requirement, and ethical stricture, as well as the very essence of the bargain. Billions of taxpayer money lost, millions of disabilities and hundreds of thousands of American deaths, and this is the consequence of Pfizer’s fraud. Pfizer lied and people died. 

Materiality: Pfizer fooled both the Defense Department and the Food and Drug Administration. Neither the Defense Department nor the FDA knew Pfizer lied. Though later aware of allegations of fraud, both the DOD and FDA believed Pfizer's lies, and did not believe the fraud allegations against Pfizer. Pfizer lied when they claimed they could produce a safe, effective, vaccine for the prevention of Covid19 at speed and scale. Pfizer lied when they said they would comply with the clinical trial standards necessary to assess and predict efficacy, safety and immunization capacity. Pfizer lied in their invoices, their certifications, their statements, their records, their data, and their public reports. Pfizer even lied by claiming no alternative effective treatments existed. Pfizer continued to lie to this day, including hiding adverse events reporting occurring to this very day. Indeed, Pfizer, to this day, often delivers a different chemical compound than the one ordered, altering or adulterating their delivered product. These lies mattered because the FDA and DOD bought the lies – hook, line and sinker. And they still do. That doesn’t make them any less a lie, nor any less material to the outcome of the matter. Does anyone sincerely think an objectively reasonable agency would buy a dangerous, ineffective, gene therapy that disables millions, kills hundreds of thousands, costs billions of dollars, and doesn’t even prevent Covid19?

Essence of the Bargain: Pfizer induced the contract itself by promising to deliver a clinically-test, data-documented, medically-proven, ethically-compliant, safe, effective, vaccine, for the prevention of Covid19, at speed and scale, without any other alternative available for either treatment or prevention of Covid19. Pfizer knew they couldn't do that. Indeed, Pfizer knew there were effective alternatives available that precluded Pfizer from ever obtaining authorization for their product. So Pfizer lied. A lot. Pfizer, were it Pinocchio, would have a nose that travels across galaxies by now. Instead, Pfizer delivered a dangerous, ineffective, gene therapy that didn't prevent anything, when Pfizer knew there were effective alternatives available. Pfizer's product caused more harm than good. Pfizer lied to induce the contract, then lied to induce EUA, and then lied to induce payment. Brook Jackson witnessed this fraud, reported it to her superiors, expressed concern to her employer that this was fraud on the government, and when she blew the whistle to the government, she was quickly fired because her employer knew the scale of the fraud on the government she was exposing and wished to silence her instead. Pfizer’s counsel even tried to call her on her personal phone number at her private home the day she blew the whistle to the FDA. The effect of Pfizer's action is the worst fraud on the government in public health history, and the biggest public health debacle of American history. Pfizer, which falsely advertised the product as a safe, effective, vaccine for the prevention of Covid19 and secretly paid other organizations to lobby for their product to be mandated upon the public as a condition of employment, caused the deaths and disabilities of millions of Americans, while defrauding the American people of billions of dollars. Pfizer lied and people died. Are the courts as dead as a Pfizer vaccine victim?

Conclusion: Pfizer promised a safe, effective, vaccine for the prevention of Covid19. Pfizer promised they could prove it with strict compliance to the rigorous rules and restrictions of the FDA clinical trial safeguards. Pfizer promised honest data from clinically-compliant testing. Pfizer lied. Pfizer lied from the inception, and kept lying to cover up the first lies to keep the checks flowing. Pfizer lied, people died, and Pfizer got billions for it. That is what Brook Jackson uncovered. That is what she told her employer she uncovered: fraud upon the government for billions of dollars. Pfizer lied. People died. Does Pfizer get to get rich off it?

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I.   INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

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I.   INTRODUCTION

 A. Art of the Day

Icarus, who sought to escape through wings that could him fly like a bird, but came to believe he alone was the source of his greatness, and flew too close to the sun, to fall and collapse from the sky. The great warning of Hubris.

B. Wisdom of the Day

“As soon as you believe you are God is precisely when God will remind you that you are not.” Robert Barnes.  

C. Cultural Recommendation

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by my old Yale freshman mentor, Paul Kennedy. A sign of great danger is when the leaders get infected with Hubris. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840043.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great_Powers

D. Appearances

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II.    THE EVIDENCE

 *Note: A reminder — links are NOT endorsements of the ideas contained therein. The Library is big, and it mostly consists of ideas I do not personally share.  

A.  Daily News of Interest

  1. Lauren Southern discloses governmental effort to entrap her.
  2. Ed Dowd: economic troubles & market bubbles.
  3. Californication collapse. https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/the-nightmare-of-californication/
  4. Trans fad fades. https://www.skeptic.com/article/transgenderism-is-in-rapid-decline-among-young-americans/
  5. Big Tech manipulation of elections. https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/07/2026-midterms-robert-epstein-google-big-tech-trump-admin/

*Bonus:  YouTube revenue falling for content creators.

B. Daily Deep Dive: AI –More Artificial, than Intelligence?

  1. The bubble to end all bubbles. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/
  2. Circular self-dealing. https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts
  3. The infrastructure problem. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-will-pop
  4. Could blow up credit & equity markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-10/podcast-yes-it-s-an-artificial-intelligence-bubble-here-s-why
  5. The hallucination problem. https://drainpipe.io/the-reality-of-ai-hallucinations-in-2025/

*Bonus: AI not creating a productivity boom. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/developers_genai_little_productivity_gains/

C. Cases of Consequence

  1. Bear lawsuit. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/boardofgame-alaska-bear-killings-complaint.pdf
  2. Discovery petition over Texas flood deaths. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/naylor-v-camp-mystic-lawsuit.pdf
  3. State control over interest rates. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/national-association-bankers-phil-weiser-opinion.pdf
  4. Election Day to SCOTUS. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1260/364840/20250710101559188_Amicus%20Brief.pdf
  5. As forecast, no gay marriage to Scotus. https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-case-on-constitutionality-of-same-sex-marriage/

*Bonus: Courts usurp power. https://tonyseruga.substack.com/p/when-the-courts-become-congress-the

III.                       Best of the Board

From the commentary on policies to improve affordable housing.

 

From @Ryanpd911

  • 1 - no corporation or entity can own more than 3 single family residence and no corporation can own more that 2 other corporations who own more then 2 single family homes.
    2 - cut regulations on the timber industry
    3 - give tax breaks on concrete construction (less need to rebuild after fires or natural disasters
    4 - deport all illegals make it unlawful for them to own any property in the US
    5 - mandate that all public schools offer shop and each shop class must build one stick and frame house and one concrete house per year and offer trades apprenticeships senior year.
    6 - ban all foreign countries and corporations and citizens from owning land or critical infrastructure or food production in the US
    7 - make a law that 1st time homebuyers first loan is 1/2 the going mortgage rate.
    8 - End corporate farming and put limits on how big farms can be and limits on the number of animals, get back to family farms. All family farms get mortgages at 1/2 the going rate.

From @ashman454

  • evoke/cancel all the stupid green energy rules that applied to everything from appliances, hvacs, vehicles and housing.
    also limitation on corps buying up huge housing section to rent...rent apartments fine, but limitations on condos and single family homes being bought up and owned. y big corporations

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    2. Property taxes and home insurance is a big part of the problem (not to mention HOA fees)>
    3. Lower interest rates for first time home buyers or make mortgage assumptions easier again like they used to be.
    4. Starter Homes!!
    5. It would also help if young people didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for health insurance and high interest student loans. This eats up a big part of the income they could use for a home.
    6. The builder who said that the supply problems need fixed it absolutely right. My brother-in-law is a builder as was my father. This is a big part of the problem.

 

From @EdBiagini

 

  • Robert I have many ideas on this because I am a small home builder in Orange County NY, I’d be willing to send you something via email if you would prefer. First, my biggest obstacle is zoning regulations. NY is a home rule state, so I have to deal with a zoning board, planning board, and town board in each individual town. The average lot size around here is 1-2 acres, some towns it is as high as 5 acres. My father was a builder and in the 70s lot sizes were significantly smaller. So if I subdivide a property I am getting much less bang for my buck because I get less lots per subdivision. Second, the building materials market is highly consolidated. There are a small number of manufacturers for drywall, shingles, lumber, insulation, siding, etc. Even the building supply houses have consolidated with Builders First Source being the dominant player. There is almost no competition and, in my opinion, there is price collusion. The administration needs to investigate this (they just did this for meat packers) and bust up these huge players. If home prices decline much further I won’t be able to build because my margins are already tight, I need input costs to come down. Third, mass migration, both legal and illegal has increased housing demand. H1-B visa holders are allowed to get FHA loans, which is insane to me. The administration has to get serious about mass deportations. Fourth, large investment firms own a significant share of single family homes. A young family can’t compete with Black Rock when they buy up entire subdivisions. Fifth, homeowners insurance has gone through the roof. I don’t have a solution for this aside from getting input costs down to lower repair costs. 50 year mortgages would for me because it will keep prices elevated, so long as it increases demand. But I’m skeptical, gen z already feels screwed and telling them they need 50 year mortgages is just kicking them while they’re down. I would prefer prices and inputs come down so gen z and millenials can own homes and start families.

IV.    Closing Argument: The Hades of Hubris

  • The Greeks warned of it. History repeats with lessons of its own. Scholars and literary authors list it like the heel of Achilles and the wings of Icarus – how the great and mighty fall. The Bible identifies it as the great calamitous sin – from Lucifer’s fall to the Tower of Babel’s collapse, from Goliath’s loss to Nebuchadnezzar’s judgment. Hubris, the “haughty spirit” that beckons a deep fall, now infects the leaders of the west, even the President himself, and now its consequences threaten us all.
  • The clinical definition of hubris typically develops in individuals who hold significant power. Its characteristics encompass:  a magnified, embellished view of one's own capabilities;  obsession with personal image; contempt for criticism; loss of contact with reality; a reckless, uncalculated disregard of risk; a denial of dissent. An infection of the soul, an illness of the mind, rather than a permanent trait of a stable personality.
  • The tell-tale signs of Hubris include – recent overwhelming success or power; dis-sociality disregarding others from one’s own traditional community; disinhibition into impulsiveness without calculated regard for risk; condescension, and even contempt, for others and any form of criticism; a belief in oneself above others beyond reason or wisdom.
  • The decaying, declining empires frequently feature hubris, as Professor Paul Kennedy first penned in his Rise and Fall of Great Powers. The empire’s hubris -- overconfidence in their “specialness” tends to overextend themselves in risky expressions – manifest in multiple manners, such as imperial overreach; mismatch between resources & risks; overestimation of their own capabilities; military operations globally as a nation’s global military deployment exceeds its resource capacity; persistent debt and deficits, in public and private sectors, including in balance-of-trade and budgets, as dependency on foreign adversaries rise; diverting resources to overseas adventurism diminishes the public infrastructure, human and physical; a declining industrial sector, replaced with financialization and services, often shifting its dependence on real goods and labor, it’s true capital, to foreign nations; deepening internal divisiveness, as competing interests vie for diminishing resources; bureaucratic infighting as the parasitic state replaces the functioning private economy for material wealth and moral purpose; a moral decay in the institutions of society, religious, social and communal, as the material foundation for that moral prosperity fades and fractures.
  • What happens when you survive two impeachments, four indictments, and near assassination? Could the seductress of Hubris distract your soul and deceive your mind? Does this not well capture much of the modern west, and even Trump’s six-month flirtation with Hubris as his north star?
  • The cure remains the same as the Scripture teaches and the Greek myths proclaim – a needed nemesis to teach us humility as the answer to hubris. Avoid the fall; abandon the arrogance, and listen again, to the people who truly were his wall against wrongdoers.

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, November 7, 2025

I.   INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

America in black-and-white, from another time and place, with the wooden shacks, old-time automobiles, along a stretch of highway looking like Route 66, hugged by small gas stations, old diners, and convenient motels, where Americans go about their day, underneath the open skies, along the open road, inviting and welcoming to a time past we spiritually seek to return.

B. Wisdom of the Day

"The Russians are slow to saddle up but ride fast once they do." Otto Von Bismark.

C. Cultural Recommendation

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D. Appearances

II. THE EVIDENCE

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