Whitney Webb warned us about what would happen with RFK Jr. at HHS—she is 100% vindicated:
"You have to wonder why Trump decided to appoint RFK Jr. as head of HHS and... [Peter Thiel puppet] Jim O' Neill as the Deputy HHS Secretary...[that] conflict [is] rather [jarring]... the fact that O' Neill in his position, if confirmed, would be managing the day-to-day operations of HHS, including what the FDA does, what the CDC does, and things of that nature, he could easily undermine any sort of MAHA policy that RFK tries to impose."
This clip of Webb (@_whitneywebb) is taken from a January 31, 2025 interview with Clayton Morris (@ClaytonMorris) posted to the Redacted (@RedactedNews) YouTube channel.
For reference, Jim O'Neill, a puppet boy of technocrat goblin Peter Thiel, served as managing director of Mithril Capital Management from 2012 through 2019. Mithril was co-founded by Thiel.
O'Neill was also the CEO of Peter Thiel's Thiel Foundation from 2009 through 2012. Furthermore, O'Neill co-founded the Thiel Fellowship in 2010.
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"Well, you have to wonder why Trump decided to appoint RFK Jr. As head of HHS and then appoint Jim O' Neill as the Deputy HHS Secretary. Because, yes, it absolutely does seem to conflict rather jarringly. And the fact that O' Neill in his position, if confirmed, would be managing the day-to-day operations of HHS, including what the FDA does, what the CDC does and things of that nature, he could easily undermine any sort of MAHA policy that RFK tries to impose.
"And also the Chief of staff that was appointed to essentially manage, you know, RF RFK's portfolio, who's going to be the chief of staff, for him is a woman named Heather Flick, who was previously played a major role in HHS under Trump's previous HHS Secretary, Alex Azar, who is a former head of Eli Lilly, a major pharmaceutical company, and has sort of been blamed for some of the big pharma patronage that happened in the, you know, early COVID-19 era, before the Biden administration came in. And you know, she's essentially been framed as someone that will keep, you know, basically babysit RFK Jr. At least that's sort of how the Wall Street Journal recently framed it. And what exactly does that mean when you combine her appointment with someone like, you know, Jim O'Neill being deputy?
"And so essentially what I think people should look at again is even if RFK is confirmed, there needs to be a focus and pressure placed on these other people. And that's especially true of someone like Jim O'Neill who also has to go through, confirmation. So anyone that is, you know, vocally supporting, you know, RFK Jr. With the hopes that he'll fulfill part of this broader Make America Healthy Again agenda should also consider opposing the confirmation of Jim O'Neill. And also opposing this, you know, this type of deregulatory paradigm that he wants to impose.
"Because, of course, Jim O'Neill frames it is free market innovation. But it would just be a field day for crony capitalism at the end of the day. And also, I forgot to add, one of the other, some of the figures that have inspired that he's cited as inspiring his views on eliminate eliminating efficacy testing. Say that the efficacy data should be tested on patients after these drugs are administered to them, through biosurveillance, including through digital wearables. And that big pharmaceutical companies, the producers of those products should be given access to the data so that they can jack up the price, you know, depending on how quote, unquote effective, the drug is based on this, this data.
"And it's also a way to surveil, you know, what's going on inside people's bodies, which is eerily reminiscent of things said by people like Yuval Noah Harari, you know, who's, you know, affiliated with the World Economic Forum, talking about the utility, how the next frontier of mass surveillance is to surveil what's going on inside people's bodies. And it's quite disturbing that Palantir has now taken over major functions of HHS, including at the CDC, and other aspects, of, of agency functions. And because of O'Neill's deep ties to both Palantir and Peter Thiel, it's likely that he'll push for a deepening of those ties.
"And Palantir is really the engine that the mass surveillance state runs on. It's a contractor, contractor to every single US intelligence agency, all 18 of them, as well as HHS, and it's currently operating programs within HHS that are trying to use Americans healthcare data to try and predict when people will get sick before they show symptoms. And one of their programs with the CDC has the potential to push for the declaration of a next pandemic before anyone shows symptoms."
Mike