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Rikard's avatar

I wish I could put my appreciation and admiration for your dogged digging and reporting on this in better words. Without hyperbole, what you are doing is what all journalists ought to aspire to:

Dig and delve and discover, and going for the truth behind the story no matter where it leads.

It is an encouraging and humbling experience.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Much appreciated!

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Brian Nelson's avatar

I had similar thoughts when I finished this article. This is investigative journalism. Totally made me think of Dr Death which is a terrifying show.

Heroic effort.

bsn

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Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

Yep, ditto, thank you Chris!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

"When you read about Eithan Haim, don’t think about Eithan Haim. Think about yourself, and the world around you, and how that world works."

I don't think any of us who resisted during the scamdemic, and paid a price, have any difficulty understanding what he's going through.

The only thing Haim did wrong is the same thing Penny did wrong:

Start talking to authorities without first consulting an attorney. I'm surprised he didn't given his wife's background. Looks like she saved him from much more "trouble".

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Rikard's avatar

"Trust, but verify" is not enough in our world: "Verify, then trust" must be the principle going forward, don't you think?

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Brian Nelson's avatar

Sadly, yes. What will be the downstream costs of going from a high trust to low-zero trust society? Way more expensive, I expect, than any of us currently understand.

bsn

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Rikard's avatar

If you've been stationed in Jugoslavia during the Balkan War, or Irak or Afghanistan, you've seen what low-trust societies look like.

The only good thing I see coming, or perhaps the chance of it, is the strengthening of family - immediate and relatives - and local communities; a return to the essence that family is something you simply have and care for, even if you might not like "Uncle Bob" or find "nephew Curt" insufferable, they are family and come first because family is the only people you can trust.

I compare to how Kurds, Gypsies, various Jugoslavians are, based on experience. In Dubrovnik when I was there f.e. everyone was "friendly neighbours".

And, everyone put away the garden furniture and locked, barred and bolted everything if they left home unattended.

Because the prevailing attitude was, "If you wanted to keep it, why did you make it possible to take it?". It may seem weird or perverse to us, but made perfect sense to them.

Having lived in an occupied city in Sweden for so long as I did, I have lived experience of what is coming, though the USA has a decade or more to go until it's nation-wide, and also has the advantage of gated communities already being a thing: here, since we (Nordics/Scandinavians) were the highest trust societies in the world (even more than places like Japan) our laws are sorely lacking in that respect.

But laws are just words on paper anyway.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Or assume the worst,assume worse than the first assumption, verify, and then verify again, then trust.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

💯

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yes

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K2's avatar

Yes.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Just imagine if his wife had not been a lawyer, or had not come home then!

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Why people let these cops trick them into letting them into their home and blab is beyond me.

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Richard Parker's avatar

No police in my house without a warrant. I will talk to them from behind my screen door.

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Rikard's avatar

A good person wants to live in a world where others are equally good, and will spontaneously act as if this is so?

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The Ungovernable's avatar

You want to know the definition of the "Deep State" or the "Administrative State"? That would be armed investigators for the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

If Trump does not dissolve, or at the very least declaw and defang, the vast U.S. Secret Police, it's game over for America. This is our last chance.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Yes, why would they need to be armed?

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it?

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Lois Lassiter's avatar

I am a veterinarian in Georgia. I have tangled with my own state board....for SOMETHING.

They refused to renew my license in Jan 2021.....supposedly due to COVID back log. When I got nervous about Feb, if I would ever get my renewal, I contacted local news, who in turn contacted the Sec State's office(who is in charge of license renewals for everyone in the state, hairdressers, nurses, vets, etc).

Well, at that time, I received an email from Sec State...representing the Board of Vet Med. ACTUALLY, they said, my license wasn't renewed because of a complaint. A complaint? What complaint? When did this happen? They gave me a case number but REFUSED to give me details. This is so totally out of the normal procedure that I was flabbergasted. They renewed my license that day and gave me a case number with no information.

I heard nothing about it until end of May, beginning of June, when ARMED investigators from SOS came to sniff around my clinic. Finally, they told me what the complaint supposedly was(mind you, the normal procedure is to inform the doctor in writing the nature of the complaint and all the particulars). I have still never been formally notified. These investigators told me the complaint was made by an employee named Heather(never had an employee named Heather at the time, I have since--not the same) who said, and I quote 'they cleaned urine off the floor with dirty towels and some of the animals did not have food and water bowls in their cages). THAT'S IT. Dirty towels and no food and water in cages of animals recovering from anesthesia. This is what they held up my license for.

The investigators made all my staff fill out affidavits and sat in my waiting room for hours....God only knows what my clients thought.

After all of that, finally, in September, I got a notification from the Board that they were putting a Letter of Concern in my file because a couple pages in one of the records they sampled did not have a weight or some other idiotic minutia. That's the WORST they could find...oh and they looked. They looked through my controlled drug logs, they looked through my pharmacy, they looked at all the equipment. They tried to get my employees to rat on me.

So, once the case was closed, I asked for a copy of the complaint. To this day, I have been ACTIVELY denied access to the complaint. I hired an attorney. I was denied a meeting with the Board. My attorney told me the only way I would ever get to see it because of how laws are written concerning this, would be to get on the Board myself.

So....WHY all the drama?

Guess what else the SOS in Georgia is responsible for? Elections.

Guess what dumbass big mouth called their office and complained about the ridiculous administration of the election in November 2020? Yep, that would be this dumbass.

Now.....I graduated in 1996. I had had one Board complaint prior because of something a receptionist did at a practice I was at for 2 months. Resolved with no issues. In almost 25 years, ONE complaint. There were likely more, but one that I know of. People complain about all sorts of things, but usually they are not actionable.

SINCE 2020? THREE complaints. The one I outlined above, one by a disgruntled employee who never returned the Board's phone calls, but they kept it on my record and one complaint against ME for a case where I was not the attending doctor and it was clear in the file that I was not the attending doctor. Coinkydink? I think not.

Medicine, not just human, but also veterinary, has been invaded by a bunch of liberals and corporations. The same horrible stuff going on in human med is also happening in vet med.....sadly.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Darkly fascinating.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

That sucks. But it very neatly tells us what happens when institutions metamorphosize into guilds and become adversarial to the mission of the institutions that are foundationally there to protect We The People.

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Chris Bray's avatar

"...when institutions metamorphosize into guilds and become adversarial to the mission..."

🎯🎯🎯

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Skenny's avatar

Sounds like DOGE needs to be taken to the state level.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

all of it. all the way down to the dog catcher.

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A Whip of Cords's avatar

Resistance will not be tolerated.

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Bandit's avatar

Yes! VCA buying out practices across the country has ruined veterinary medicine. Shocking, I know, that a bunch of trash from Killifornia would ruin something all across the country. 🙄🤮

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

It’s nuts what these “ agencies” think they have the ability to do. I’m pretty sure, people are going to start looking for Luigi’s.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

We no longer live in the “Land of the Free” but there are still many who exemplify “Home of the Brave”.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

They're attempting to use HIPAA like they use national security classification - to cover up crap that is embarrassing more than damaging (to national security).

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K2's avatar

This!

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T Benedict's avatar

The most lamentable aspect is that the persecutors have no “skin in the game”, able to drag someone through hell with little or no repercussion to themselves if proven false witnesses.

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Eric F. ONeill's avatar

So glad I retired from plastic surgery two years ago. Even though ASPS has officially questioned the need for these procedures, official medicine has been captured, and is actively hostile to reality.

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

Eric that’s terrifying. Why (how?) has the medical profession been captured to find probity in disfiguring children? Do no harm?

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Alan Hodge's avatar

Money

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Richard Parker's avatar

Sadly some doctors will do anything for $$$$.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

It’s “All About The Money”, and so was the Scamdemic!

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Charles Clemens's avatar

Thank God his Fed-savvy wife showed up. Otherwise, the bastards would have shot his dog. This is what happens when the government decides it is more important than we are.

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AndyinBC's avatar

Exactly my thought as I was reading the post. 'The bastards shot his dog!'

I was ridiculously relieved when that sad event did NOT occur.

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Just An American's avatar

I can fill in the blanks on Ansari bowing out ungracefully in November: https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/terminated-doj-attorney-prosecuting-whistleblower-dr-eithan-haim-has-been-removed-from-case-over-conflicts-of-interest/

(Not my article, I don't write too good, much like whomever wrote that "discreetly covertly" indictment)

"Ansari’s family runs FreshBrew Group, one of the country’s largest private-label coffee and tea producers. FreshBrew Group’s customers include multiple hospitals in the Texas Medical Center where TCH and BCM are located. TCH and BCM are actual or potential customers. Ansari’s brother Ali Ansari is president and CEO of FreshBrew Group, and Ansari herself was formerly an executive of the company."

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Tardigrade's avatar

She was removed because of a *coffee conflict*??

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Pat Robinson's avatar

A relative is on the board of the hospital. Which probably raises questions of how her coffee company got that contract.

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K2's avatar

Like

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marlon1492's avatar

Interesting!

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Leara's avatar

Thank you very much for this expose and for including the link to help fund Dr Haim. Please continue your excellent reporting.

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jtb0819's avatar

"The simple act of speaking truthfully." How can we thank him? I wonder how many children he saved. We used to trust the medical community with our very lives. That day is over. I wonder if a jury in a civil case - after January 20th will be sympathetic to those surgeons who plan on suing him. People are waking up. We can only hope a jury of his peer are awake. He took a risk. He does not deserve the punishment he is getting now through the legal process, but a new day is dawning. Thank you for your digging. Your research is enlightening!

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Mitch's avatar

Have the authorities followed up in anyway on the allegations that Haim is making regarding breaking the Texas laws banning these types of treatments?

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Chris Bray's avatar

Unknown. TBD.

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Christina Kinne's avatar

OMG! Thank You for covering this case. The Woke insanity is just that - insanity. True it has become this manic hypnotism of these folks. Just watched a video of a lady in her 60's yelling as some bright and happy Conservative College students, she went bonkers because they are "brown" kids and "don't they know what's going to happen to them", a complete nut case. Have to say bravo to Dr. Haim for being honest and forthright. This agenda to covertly impose the transgender treatment and grooming of kids is pure evil IMO.

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Bandit's avatar

Saw that video, too. The broad is delusional! 🤪🤪🤪

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CB's avatar

Guess what famous MD, who wants to use the police and military against vaccine sceptics, works at Texas Children's Hospital:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/peter-hotez-calls-for-police-military-anti-vaxers/

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Chris Bray's avatar

I asked Eithan Haim if he's ever met Hotez. Top of mind when I hear "Baylor College of Medicine." He walked past his office, but never met him.

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Bandit's avatar

"Walked past his office, but never met him." That's like the devil walking over your grave. 😬

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Tardigrade's avatar

Any time Peter Hotez is mentioned, I am compelled to share his 2018 masterpiece of self-promotion, "Crafting Your Scientist Brand” https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000024

(Yes, I have the above sentence as a macro.)

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CB's avatar

Yep, Hotez is the Neil deGrasse Tyson of vax whoring.

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angel k's avatar

TOTALLY!

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K2's avatar

Like

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Hotez truly is a despicable creature.

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Bandit's avatar

He is pure evil.

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Name Invalid's avatar

Chris,

Was the "HIPAA Visit" pre or post election?

Not to belittle Haim's outrageously unfair persecution, but a head wind will change to a tail wind (which will allow an unraveling of the "system" that is prosecuting him.)

I don't believe that Daniel Penny would have been Aquitaine if Kamela had won. I do believe that now that Trump has won, that will get a comeuppance and much of this deep state prosecution will be dismantled and likely punished.

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Name Invalid's avatar

Acquitted, geez

why does the spell check still suck? dont wont yiu ahve fir etc etc

BTW if anyone knows where I can get a size 3XL keyboard for my non midget hands I would sure like to know...

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

Aquitaine had a nice ring to it.

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K2's avatar

Lol

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Meri-Lyn Stark's avatar

Great reporting Chris. I saw something you reposted on X yesterday so I started following his wife to keep informed. I sure hope this unjust persecution stops after January 20 and I hope his career isn’t irreparable. If I lived near him and he did family practice I’d go to him as my PCP but I’m not in Texas.

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