Deceiving the pubic is fraud and when that fraud concerns a potentially lethal injection being falsely labeled a “vaccine”, it’s a crime against humanity.
Criminal negligence refers to conduct in which a person ignores a known or obvious risk, or disregards the life and safety of others. Federal and state courts describe this behavior as a form of recklessness, where the person acts significantly different than an ordinary person under similar circumstances. An example is a parent leaving a loaded firearm within reach of a small child.
Lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich has vowed to hold guilty parties responsible for what they have been doing to prey on a population gullible enough to still believe the rampant collective deceit of major media and a government that they were heavily indoctrinated to trust.
The recently demised journalist Udo Ulfkotte is recorded in the excerpt below explaining how most of “journalism” is really bought ads for governments and corporations.
Michael Spreng, a political consultant who was once the editor-in-chief of the Kölner Express and the Bild am Sonntag, is also very familiar with these generous invitations for journalists and the special treatment they get
Michael Spreng
He wrote the following: The last stop on my South America trip with Helmut Schmidt was the Dominican Republic, governed by a self-proclaimed social democratic party at the time. (...) On the last evening of our official visit, Schmidt invited me to a reception on a German Navy training ship, the "Deutschland," where I met the Secretary General of the governing party. He invited me to stay for a few more days and get to know the country better. I stayed and the next morning. I was picked up in an army vehicle and taken to the airport. I was joined by a very amiable person from the Foreign Ministry who was also along for these three extra days. He told me that the President's helicopter would be at my disposal the whole time. For three days, we flew all over the country and, wherever I felt like landing, the helicopter with the presidential seal would land – and hundreds of people came running, because they all thought "El Presidente" had arrived."
The reason I mention this is because the luxury treatment that journalists from mainstream media get is definitely not limited to the FAZ. Anyone who still thinks that my portrayal of events, using Oman as an example, is totally atypical for mainstream media journalists, well you are sorely mistaken.
Moreover, journalists' bosses are fully aware of this as well. I will explain this in even more detail in the chapter "Buy Yourself a Journalist." This is because either the boss receives an invitation personally and passes it on to an editor, knowing what it entails, or an editor receives an invitation and they need to get it approved by the boss. Trips like these always need to be approved by superiors in advance – if nothing else, for insurance reasons.
Then, when you're filling out a travel request, you have to make an estimate of how much the trip is going cost the publisher. If your application for a business trip only includes the costs for travel to and from the airport, your boss knows exactly what they're authorizing. Back then, my superiors at the FAZ were authorizing a lot of trips like this - and not just for me. Let's forget about Oman in this context. You can just as easily replace the Sultan with an industrial company or another country. In this book, Oman is simply a synonym for corruption, for bought reporting.
However, from my point of view at the time, it was a win-win situation for everyone involved. On the one hand, for their investment, the host would get advertising copy that wasn't clearly labeled “paid advertisement" or "sponsored by."
Far from it, they were getting an ostensibly authentic text in the editorial part of the newspaper. From my point of view today, I know this wasn't anything other than bought reporting, but it wasn't labeled as PR. Also, the buyer wasn't just getting just one advertising text, they were usually getting a whole series of advertisements in this form.
From a business point of view, this made an invitation a good investment. At any rate, it was definitely less expensive than buying a whole page of advertising in any of the German-speaking “quality media." On the other hand, for a journalist, it was like hitting the jackpot.
Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger
Finally, the publisher got to fill up a few pages with exotic stories for next to nothing. So, why did I describe all of this in such detail and also mention Frankenberger's name several times? Because, as the head of the foreign affairs desk, this former colleague of mine is now the one approving the business trip applications for a younger generation of journalists.
Also, because it is well known how extremely badly the FAZ is doing these days. This once flourishing company is hemorrhaging (according to the management's statement at the June 2014 general meeting, official losses for 2013 were 8.3 million) and that employees have not received a pay increase since 2014 (personnel costs in 2013 were 86.7 million euros).
Nevertheless, I am warning him and my other former colleagues against signing off on any business trip applications for invitations that appear irresistibly inexpensive at first glance. We all know from experience that nothing good can come of it.
We also know what it means for those readers who are paying good money for their information and think that they're getting the unvarnished truth for it. By the way, there is even one more discreet way that this can be taken up a notch, and I have often seen it practiced by journalists in the German-speaking media.
They take their wife or lover and sometimes even their kids along like they were invited too when they go on one of these all-expenses paid, luxurious invitation trips. All they have to do is make sure that the host will cover all the costs beforehand. With all of the trips that the Sultan alone has financed over the years, if he started naming names, you would have endless material for a new tabloid television show.
How do Journalists Pay for their Villas in Tuscany?
By employing a few tricks of the trade, journalists - and I'm not referring to any of the aforementioned journalists or publishing houses here – can amass a considerable fortune.
This doesn't have anything to do with any particular media group, but rather the German income tax code. That is to say, the German taxpayers are subsidizing all of this out of pocket. And no, Im not just referring to the frequent flyer miles that journalists can exchange for any number of goods, which can then be sold via platforms like eBay. Ultimately, petty tricks like these usually come at their employer's expense or whoever paid for the flights, and no number of frequent flyer miles is going to buy you a vacation home.
So, why do so many alpha journalists in Germany's mainstream media have houses in Tuscany and in other popular regions of Italy, southem France or Spain? By now, you probably have a basic idea of how you, as a journalist, can sell your soul to the devil in return for luxurious trips to exotic countries – all at somebody else's expense – but this isn’t the half of it.
Once you find a rich sponsor like the Sultan (and behind the walls of the PR agencies there are quite a few of them out there), all-inclusive, 5-star service is the standard for journalistic PR trips. And this doesn't just mean three trips to the buffet every day. On the contrary: This means you can order from exquisite, gourmet menus to your heart's content.
Keeping this in mind, the German tax code provides a daily allowance for foreign business trips. However, as a journalist, it isn't very fair to your fellow taxpayers if you claim this allowance on your income tax return for every day you got pampered and didn’t even have to spend a penny for it. I can't tell you how many journalists I've met abroad who couldn't resist this generous offer from the German welfare state.
For every day you spent in Oman in 2014, for example, you could claim 48 euros, for one day in an American city like Houston or Miami: 57 euros, for one day in Norway: 64 euros, for a day in Sweden: 70 euros, and for a day in Africa, for example, in Angola, you could claim 77 euros.
Thus, the German taxpayers sponsor journalists' trips on a country by country basis. In reality though, the journalist gets a free, all-inclusive travel package, pockets a taxpayer subsidized per diem and also gets their fee or their regular paycheck for the story. At some point, it dawned on me that this is how shrewd and unscrupulous alpha journalists in Germany's mainstream media were financing their vacation homes in Tuscany on the side.
I've seen a lot of unethical tricks like this. I'll never forget how a reporter/photographer charged his employer in Hamburg thousands for supposed "exclusive photos." He told them that he bought the rights to the photos for a lot of money during a trip to Baghdad.
Then, he billed the publisher with a “personal invoice" for expenses that he had never even actually incurred. Unfortunately for him, he was trying to pass off photos that had been distributed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's press office in the Baghdad Press Center for free.
At some point, his boss in Hamburg got wind of this and the reporter had to go. Since then, this man has been saying that he got fired because his reporting was "too critical" of the USA. Now, he is one of the most celebrated undercover journalists in Germany, giving lectures on good journalism and checking the accuracy of PR claims for the media. In short: This man is now the epitome of “serious journalism in the German-speaking world – another ironic paradox in the annals of history.
However, it is a good thing that his publishing house showed him the red card at the time and is now being discreet, remaining silent about his past. I visited the man a few years ago in Hamburg – he didn't show any regrets. He really didn't seem to understand why he had been fired. He told me over dinner at a rustic, old seafood restaurant near Hamburg's fish market that he hadn't behaved any differently than his colleagues. He was probably even right about that. The only difference was that he got caught. In many other cases, the editorial office simply didn't notice, for example, when personal invoices were submitted for bribes made to alleged paid informants. After all, the bribes that journalists paid out were tax deductible – so this form of corruption was also being subsidized by German taxpayers. That was the everyday reality. Corrupt journalists submitting personal invoices to milk their employers and the system for as much as they could get away with.