thelibertybeacon--2020-10-24--Italian Doctors Vow to Keep Using Hydroxy Despite Ban – Petition Launched

ER Editor : News website Panorama.it has launched a petition to get the drug hydroxychloroquine officially reinstated so that Italian doctors can once again use it with patients .
If not , some of them will go ahead and use it anyway .
The retracted Lancet study and trials using lethal doses ( ! )
of HCQ were enough to get it officially banned in Italy as in other countries .
Except the Italian Medicines Agency ( AIFA ) has not yet reapproved it , despite studies showing its effectiveness .
Here is the content of the Change.org petition translated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ask AIFA ( Italian Medicines Agency ) to restore the use of hydroxychloroquine The recent Covid 19 pandemic has made the need for territorial management of the disease manifest .
It is now clear to all that in order to win the battle against the virus , it is essential the intervention of the family doctor in the first instance , to activate the necessary diagnostic and therapeutic pathways .
At the moment there are no treatments of proven effectiveness to be administered at home .
Because the only therapy that AIFA ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authorized at home , the one based on hydroxychloroquine , has been blocked .
It happened on May 26 , after the publication of a study in The Lancet , which was withdrawn 13 days later .
Meanwhile , German GPs , who had administered 1,060,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine in March , continued to prescribe it .
In the United States , three states lifted the ban on the drug in early August .
In China , on August 19 , the National Health Commission ’ s guidelines continued to recommend the active @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on September 21 , The Lancet itself retraced its steps , with a study claiming that hydroxychloroquine reduces mortality .
In Italy AIFA has remained firm on its positions , based on studies carried out in hospital settings and which , however , have not shown a toxicity of the molecule .
Now that the second wave of the pandemic has fully invested our country , there remains the problem of how to manage at home the clinical pictures of small and medium entities , considering that hospital admissions are no longer sustainable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ask AIFA to restore the use of hydroxychloroquine for home patients in the very early stages of the disease , possibly even with an emergency procedure .
Otherwise , we invite the Agency to provide shared protocols of treatment practicable in the territory .
Notice in the article below how much is being spent on pointless testing for this disease in France – over 300 million euros per month .
There are some rough spots in the translation below which we haven ’ t been able to iron out .
Note that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ second wave ’ notion of the virus that is mentioned .
Rising ‘ cases ’ due to false-positive testing are finding no support among current death rates from the virus .
We ’ ve documented how hospitals are admitting people for any kind of illness , and then classifying them as covid upon an automatically-administered , faulty test .
Thus , we do not trust hospital figures for admissions .
In Italy , doctors say : “ We are going to use chloroquine ” .
The petition is launched .
A petition demanding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a treatment against Covid 19 has just been launched in Italy by the media Panorama.it .
After the freedom to prescribe in France , it is the turn of the Italians to mobilize by denouncing the serious failures of the health authorities in the context of decision-making on treatments against Covid .
Following the more and more anxious messages from the government and some doctors on television about the increase in the number of Covid cases detected by the very expensive campaign of tests ( with 1.291 million tests in Week 41 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , more and more French people are questioning the health policy and the reality of the situation .
In one month , more than 300 million euros will have been spent on screening for the disease .
Compare this with the amount allocated to cancer treatment under Francois Hollande , 1.5 billion euros .
If we cumulate three months of intensive testing at 300 million tests per week , that would be nearly 1 billion euros invested in Covid screening .
The group Santé en Danger ( Health in Danger ) is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t the public hospitals have not used this billion euros more efficiently ?
This Italian petition would confirm the position of the French doctors of the group Laissons Les Prescrire ( Let Us Prescribe ) , who have been asking for the freedom to prescribe since the beginning of the pandemic .
The petition goes one step further by asking the health authorities to review their position regarding a temporary authorization of use .
We were also surprised that Gilead ’ s Remdesivir obtained an ATU ( temporary authorization for use ) from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it had significant side effects .
( ER : See this report from Zerohedge , titled FDA Approves Gilead ’ s Remdesivir To Treat COVID-19 Despite Data Showing Drug Doesn ’ t Work . )
Italian doctors take the same position as their French colleagues , particularly Professor Didier Raoult , who has highlighted in his studies the effectiveness of the dual therapy he has been proposing since March 2020 .
The position of the French health authorities is all the more astonishing given that the Gilead laboratory has withdrawn its request for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yazdanpanah announced on television that Remdesivir would probably not be effective .
Professor Lina announced in the Senate , the inclusion of Remdesivir in the Discovery trial on the grounds of “ avoiding loss of opportunity for patients ” when there was no signal of effectiveness .
The two-drug therapy , on the other hand , was clearly not given the “ same consideration ” .
A real break in equality for patients .
Italian doctors say it ’ s time to go back to common sense and to consider medicine as it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which is at the center of many health policy decisions , reports a significant overdose compared to the dosage used by Professor Raoult ’ s IHU .
It should also be remembered that the IHU ( ER : Prof. Raoult ) uses a dual therapy with synergistic effects that were not taken into account in the Recovery and Solidarity trial .
Pharmacist Mathieu Molinard , who had taken a stand for the high dosage in Recovery , will surely find himself in the middle of a controversy following the publication of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as hydroxychloroquine inhibit the replication of the Covid-19 virus in vitro at low doses .
This study was conducted by the French Army Health Service under the supervision of Bruno Pradines , a pharmacist expert in antimalarial drugs .
Inhibition of the virus is easily achieved with low and non-toxic doses such as those used by the IHU .
This study would therefore question the toxic or even lethal level doses ( four times higher than the dosage used by the IHU ) used in Recovery and Solidarity , which resulted in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the study arm testing hydroxychloroquine .
Would this be one more scientific error with critical consequences for patients ?
Panorama.it is launching a petition to ask the Italian Medicines Agency ( AIFA ) to reinstate the use of hydroxychloroquine , the only anti-Covid drug available in the country .
Otherwise , in an act of civil disobedience , a group of doctors will prescribe it anyway , in order not to abandon their patients and to remain faithful to their Hippocratic oath .
Panorama.it conducted a comprehensive survey to understand how Italy is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Covid-19 .
The survey has three episodes : • the cinderella of the fight against the pandemic ; “ We will prescribe hydroxychloroquine despite the ban of AIFA .
We already administered it in March without authorization .
We will do so all the more today , given the good results obtained by us and many other colleagues and proven by various scientific studies.
” When Dr. Andrea Mangiagalli ( pictured ) reports on the Medicis Group ’ s kamikaze intentions on the front line , it is with shivers down his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could be attacked by their Order , because they would be prescribing a drug that has worked well for decades in the worst epidemic since the Spanish flu , with decisions based on a study that was withdrawn 13 days after publication ?
It is possible , because the group of family doctors created last February in Milan does not act out of economic interests , political motivations or ideological positions .
And it couldn ’ t , since neither cash nor golden rules can be used against hydroxychloroquine .
At a cost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the original version , and 5.12 euros for the generic version , this antimalarial treatment originally had two major flaws : it costs little and has no sponsor .
Primary care physicians will therefore make an act of civil disobedience , obviously with the consent of the patients , to respect the Hippocratic oath which obliges them to “ never abandon the care of the sick ” .
As one of the promoters of the initiative , Dr. Antonio Gobbi , now retired , pointed out in March , Your colleagues are in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more so than yesterday .
If in March , doctors in Milan started prescribing hydroxychloroquine without an AIFA authorization , they will now prescribe it after the authorization was first issued and then withdrawn .
An act of courage , which may have a little more than just symbolic value .
Of the 43,927 Italian general practitioners , how many will follow them in prescribing hydroxychloroquine against the advice of the Italian Medicines Agency ?
At best , 1 % of them , something like 440 doctors .
A number not large enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wave of coronavirus .
That ’ s why Panorama decided to follow their battle .
At a time when the epidemic is back in an acute phase , when the health care personnel who don ’ t sleep at night because they don ’ t have beds , when schools are closed , the impossibility of prescribing hydroxychloroquine prevents timely care as it has already been experienced in Italy and in many countries around the world .
Because , as Antonio Cassone , former director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ hydroxychloroquine in low to moderate doses is absolutely safe.
” Panarama.it has organized an online petition through the Change.org platform to ask the AIFA to reinstate the use of hydroxychloroquine for patients at home during the very early stages of the disease , using if necessary an authorization through an emergency procedure .
Before the collection of signatures began , 112 doctors had already joined our appeal .
Below we explain the reasons for our choice .
To do so , we have to come back in March 2020 .
With Lombardy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Italy ) devastated by the highest lethality rate of Covid-19 in the world , frontline physicians were in complete disarray .
Hospitals were on the verge of breaking down and most of the patients were staying at home , left to their own devices .
Official therapeutic indications to family doctors suggested that only tachypirin should be administered , pending more serious forms .
Do-it-yourself medicine is strongly discouraged , as Professor Galli del Sacco of Milan says .
At that time , the field physicians took the lead in creating a WhatsApp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with hospital colleagues , studying therapies administered in China , and consulting scientific studies in mid-March , they developed an intervention protocol that they shared .
The general practitioners in Milan and the province took on an enormous responsibility .
At the center of their program was hydroxychloroquine , a drug currently used for malaria and rheumatological diseases .
So much so that in the initial phase , as it was not authorized for Covid-19 , doctors had to prescribe off-label ( off-market authorization ) .
“ We launched without a parachute , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practitioner in Pioltello who worked on the definition of the protocol with his colleagues Antonio Gobbi and Giovanni Moretti : The result was astonishing : no patient treated in the early stages of the disease needed to be hospitalized .
And no one died .
A success because shortly after March 31 , the Drug Agency finally authorized the use of chloroquine for suspected cases of Covid .
The story that seemed to have a happy ending turned out to be short-lived as , on May 22nd , with the publication of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journal ) .
Signed by Harvard professor Mandeep Mehra , the study argued that the risk of death for those who took hydroxychloroquine was 34 % higher than for those who did not ; and that they had a 137 % higher risk of having a serious arrhythmia .
The sky fell on us : the World Health Organization immediately stopped testing the molecule .
The next day , the Italian Medicines Agency suspended its authorization for Covid .
France and Belgium did the same .
Followed by the very powerful U.S. Food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June 5 , however , there was a twist : after receiving a letter from 120 researchers from around the world questioning the study , The Lancet withdrew it .
But the damage was done : hydroxychloroquine was now banned .
At the same time , hydroxychloroquine had been praised by President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro , so it was hated by the detractors of these two presidents who made a ‘ sovereignist ’ drug .
And if in other countries like China and India they continued to use it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the drug in the first place ) , in Italy , hydroxychloroquine became the pariah of the scientific world .
Meanwhile , the case ended up in the courtrooms of the tribunals .
On July 26 , Neapolitan lawyer Erich Grimaldi filed an appeal with the Tar del Lazio ( Administrative Court ) with a related precautionary application on behalf of about 50 family doctors from all over Italy .
The appeal requested the restoration of the possibility for doctors in the territories to prescribe hydroxychloroquine “ freely ” against Covid “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be done : the ART answered no , “ in view of the numerous randomized studies published in the spring of 2020 and referred to in the government measure , on the ineffectiveness – or inefficiency – of the use of hydroxychloroquine ” .
But what studies was the Regional Administrative Court referring to ?
In order to understand this , one should consult the update published on the AIFA website on July 22nd .
“ The most relevant updates are the reporting of data from the hydroxychloroquine treatment arm of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publication of the first randomized trial on the use of HCQ in the early stages of infection , ” it says .
Randomized : this is the key word , also used by ART to reject the first request from physicians as a precautionary measure .
“ A randomized trial is a study in which the assignment of a patient with certain characteristics to a therapy is purely random , ” explains Professor Massimo Puoti , Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan .
“ This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ therapy works and how it works.
” Three randomized studies were cited by AIFA to say no to hydroxychloroquine .
The first , Recovery , conducted in the UK , is serious and authoritative .
“ It is the largest randomized study available on hospitalized patients , ” explains Professor Massimo Puoti , Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan .
“ It shows that the use of hydroxychloroquine has neither efficacy nor toxicity above the standard of care for the antimalarial drug.
” And what was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Mangiagalli answers : “ All drugs normally used for pneumonia , including cortisone.
” In short , the study indicates that hydroxychloroquine is no longer effective , but is no more toxic for the therapies commonly used in the hospital .
But since hospital treatments such as cortisone can not be used on patients at home , why not allow the use of hydroxychloroquine , which was not more toxic anyway ?
The second study mentioned by AIFA , carried out in the United States and Canada with 423 patients , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For two reasons .
“ First of all , it is not very reliable because 423 patients is too few for a final evaluation , ” explains Professor Puoti .
The second reason is itself admitted by the AIFA : “ The study has some limitations : the definite diagnosis was only possible in 58 % of the participants , the evaluations were done online and the primary result was modified during the study ” AIFA cites another study that should not even be considered because , notes Professor Puoti , “ the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than 3 % of patients ” .
Out of the three studies cited by the AIFA , in short , there is only one serious one .
“ And by the way , ” Mangiagalli observes , “ even for the best Recovery study there are problems : first of all it concerns hospitalized patients ( not at home like our study ) and secondly the dosage used is twice as high as the one we prescribed in Italy .
No wonder there were cardiovascular side effects.
” In fact , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hydroxychloroquine .
“ Currently , 102 studies on hydroxychloroquine have been published ( 62 are peer-reviewed ) .
75 % are positive , while 25 % are negative , ” says Health Information .
The latest was published on September 21 by The Lancet on U.S. data .
After May ’ s misstep , the British journal now claims that hydroxychloroquine reduces Covid ’ s mortality and finds no increase in cardiac toxicity .
The penultimate study , on the other hand , was published on September 20 in the International Journal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitalized patients treated with hydroxychloroquine , the risk of transfer to intensive care is reduced by 53 % .
But there are also two interesting Italian studies .
In the first one , published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine , there is a 30 % reduction in mortality for the group of Covid patients treated with hydroxychloroquine .
The second , published by the Italian Society of Pharmacology , shows that in nearly two million patients who have been taking hydroxychloroquine for rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years , the seven-day combination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the risk of adverse events .
These studies , however , are not randomized .
We asked Luigi Cavanna ( pictured ) , an oncologist at the Piacenza Hospital who pioneered the home prescription of hydroxychloroquine , what he thinks .
On March 9 , he was the first in Italy to go to the homes of Covid patients to prescribe this antimalarial drug , immediately followed by doctors on the front line in Milan and then , followed very closely , by colleagues from all over Italy , including those from Alessandria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need to use a scholarly quote for our orthodox colleagues in medicine , for the great minds , ” ironically begins the oncologist .
“ I ’ m quoting from the introduction to the most widespread text of internal medicine in the world , from China to Canada : the Harrison .
Here is what he says : “ Medical practice combines science and art .
Therefore , randomized trials must be the means to treat people well , not the end .
A randomized trial is an ordinary response to an ordinary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an ordinary situation .
Everyday medicine , real-world medicine is fundamental .
Medical practice that works is essential in extraordinary situations , otherwise we really risk that when we have a randomized study , a lot of people will be there .
Apart from the fact that there are almost no randomized studies in the territory , alongside the randomized study , there has to be real evidence , real world evidence ” .
To support Cavanna , Mangiagalli intervenes : “ if we ’ re being honest , there are no randomized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the flu vaccine .
So what should IYFF do : suspend its use ?
Cavanna can ’ t help it : Also disturbing are the words of Professor Antonio Cassone : In conclusion , the ART also argues that there is no irreparable risk of potential harm , as it does not take into account the “ risks of serious and irreparable harm in the legal field of the claimants resulting from the use of one treatment over another.
” In other words , according to the judges , the doctors who appealed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the prohibition on the use of hydroxychloroquine , since they could have used other therapies .
Perhaps the TAR/ART , which next week will be seized with a new request for summary proceedings ( in the hope of the applicants that they will not have to go to trial on the merits or to the Conseil d ’ Etat ) , does not know that other therapies do not in fact exist .
“ There are none available in territorial medicine , ” confirms Cavanna .
“ We need to make sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days , at doses other than those given to horses , as many U.S. studies have done that show no negative effects .
In fact , of the tens of thousands of cases treated for seven days in Italy by hospital and general practitioners , there have been no cases with side effects.
” Are you therefore in favor of the collection of signatures promoted by Panorama ?
“ Yes , ” answers Dr. Cavanna : Doctors who have already answered the call : Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com

ER Editor: News website Panorama.it has launched a petition to get the drug hydroxychloroquine officially reinstated so that Italian doctors can once again use it with patients. If not, some of them will go ahead and use it anyway. The retracted Lancet study and trials using lethal doses(!) of HCQ were enough to get it officially banned in Italy as in other countries. Except the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) has not yet reapproved it, despite studies showing its effectiveness. Here is the content of the Change.org petition translated from Italian:
Covid 19: we ask AIFA (Italian Medicines Agency) to restore the use of hydroxychloroquine The recent Covid 19 pandemic has made the need for territorial management of the disease manifest. It is now clear to all that in order to win the battle against the virus, it is essential the intervention of the family doctor in the first instance, to activate the necessary diagnostic and therapeutic pathways. At the moment there are no treatments of proven effectiveness to be administered at home. Because the only therapy that AIFA (Italy’s Medicines Agency) had authorized at home, the one based on hydroxychloroquine, has been blocked. It happened on May 26, after the publication of a study in The Lancet, which was withdrawn 13 days later. Meanwhile, German GPs, who had administered 1,060,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine in March, continued to prescribe it. In the United States, three states lifted the ban on the drug in early August. In China, on August 19, the National Health Commission’s guidelines continued to recommend the active ingredient for Covid 19 patients. And on September 21, The Lancet itself retraced its steps, with a study claiming that hydroxychloroquine reduces mortality. In Italy AIFA has remained firm on its positions, based on studies carried out in hospital settings and which, however, have not shown a toxicity of the molecule. Now that the second wave of the pandemic has fully invested our country, there remains the problem of how to manage at home the clinical pictures of small and medium entities, considering that hospital admissions are no longer sustainable. In order to save lives, we ask AIFA to restore the use of hydroxychloroquine for home patients in the very early stages of the disease, possibly even with an emergency procedure. Otherwise, we invite the Agency to provide shared protocols of treatment practicable in the territory. PETITION LINK
Notice in the article below how much is being spent on pointless testing for this disease in France – over 300 million euros per month.
There are some rough spots in the translation below which we haven’t been able to iron out.
Note that we do not subscribe to the ‘second wave’ notion of the virus that is mentioned. Rising ‘cases’ due to false-positive testing are finding no support among current death rates from the virus. We’ve documented how hospitals are admitting people for any kind of illness, and then classifying them as covid upon an automatically-administered, faulty test. Thus, we do not trust hospital figures for admissions.
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In Italy, doctors say: “We are going to use chloroquine”. The petition is launched.
ELISABETTA BURBA for FRANCE SOIR
A petition demanding to restore the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against Covid 19 has just been launched in Italy by the media Panorama.it.
After the freedom to prescribe in France, it is the turn of the Italians to mobilize by denouncing the serious failures of the health authorities in the context of decision-making on treatments against Covid. Following the more and more anxious messages from the government and some doctors on television about the increase in the number of Covid cases detected by the very expensive campaign of tests (with 1.291 million tests in Week 41, or 94 million euros spent per week), more and more French people are questioning the health policy and the reality of the situation.
In one month, more than 300 million euros will have been spent on screening for the disease. Compare this with the amount allocated to cancer treatment under Francois Hollande, 1.5 billion euros. If we cumulate three months of intensive testing at 300 million tests per week, that would be nearly 1 billion euros invested in Covid screening. The group Santé en Danger (Health in Danger) is pleading for better use. Couldn’t the public hospitals have not used this billion euros more efficiently?
This Italian petition would confirm the position of the French doctors of the group Laissons Les Prescrire (Let Us Prescribe), who have been asking for the freedom to prescribe since the beginning of the pandemic. The petition goes one step further by asking the health authorities to review their position regarding a temporary authorization of use. We were also surprised that Gilead’s Remdesivir obtained an ATU (temporary authorization for use) from the European Medicines Agency, even though it had significant side effects. (ER: See this report from Zerohedge, titled FDA Approves Gilead’s Remdesivir To Treat COVID-19 Despite Data Showing Drug Doesn’t Work.)
Italian doctors take the same position as their French colleagues, particularly Professor Didier Raoult, who has highlighted in his studies the effectiveness of the dual therapy he has been proposing since March 2020. The position of the French health authorities is all the more astonishing given that the Gilead laboratory has withdrawn its request for reimbursement for Remdesivir, and that Prof. Yazdanpanah announced on television that Remdesivir would probably not be effective. Professor Lina announced in the Senate, the inclusion of Remdesivir in the Discovery trial on the grounds of “avoiding loss of opportunity for patients” when there was no signal of effectiveness.
The two-drug therapy, on the other hand, was clearly not given the “same consideration”. A real break in equality for patients. Italian doctors say it’s time to go back to common sense and to consider medicine as it should be. The British Recovery study, which is at the center of many health policy decisions, reports a significant overdose compared to the dosage used by Professor Raoult’s IHU. It should also be remembered that the IHU (ER: Prof. Raoult) uses a dual therapy with synergistic effects that were not taken into account in the Recovery and Solidarity trial. Pharmacist Mathieu Molinard, who had taken a stand for the high dosage in Recovery, will surely find himself in the middle of a controversy following the publication of a recent study confirming that antimalarial drugs such as hydroxychloroquine inhibit the replication of the Covid-19 virus in vitro at low doses. This study was conducted by the French Army Health Service under the supervision of Bruno Pradines, a pharmacist expert in antimalarial drugs. Inhibition of the virus is easily achieved with low and non-toxic doses such as those used by the IHU. This study would therefore question the toxic or even lethal level doses (four times higher than the dosage used by the IHU) used in Recovery and Solidarity, which resulted in the highest mortality rates in the world in the study arm testing hydroxychloroquine.
Would this be one more scientific error with critical consequences for patients?
Panorama.it is launching a petition to ask the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) to reinstate the use of hydroxychloroquine, the only anti-Covid drug available in the country. Otherwise, in an act of civil disobedience, a group of doctors will prescribe it anyway, in order not to abandon their patients and to remain faithful to their Hippocratic oath.
https://www.change.org/PanoramaClorochinaCovid19 Sign the petition on Change.org:
Panorama.it conducted a comprehensive survey to understand how Italy is preparing to deal with the second wave of Covid-19. The survey has three episodes:
the cinderella of the fight against the pandemic;
territorial medicine without diagnostic and therapeutic tools;
the civil disobedience of family doctors.
“We will prescribe hydroxychloroquine despite the ban of AIFA. We already administered it in March without authorization. We will do so all the more today, given the good results obtained by us and many other colleagues and proven by various scientific studies.”
When Dr. Andrea Mangiagalli (pictured) reports on the Medicis Group’s kamikaze intentions on the front line, it is with shivers down his spine. Is it possible that doctors could be attacked by their Order, because they would be prescribing a drug that has worked well for decades in the worst epidemic since the Spanish flu, with decisions based on a study that was withdrawn 13 days after publication?
It is possible, because the group of family doctors created last February in Milan does not act out of economic interests, political motivations or ideological positions. And it couldn’t, since neither cash nor golden rules can be used against hydroxychloroquine. At a cost of 6.08 euros for 30 tablets in the original version, and 5.12 euros for the generic version, this antimalarial treatment originally had two major flaws: it costs little and has no sponsor.
Primary care physicians will therefore make an act of civil disobedience, obviously with the consent of the patients, to respect the Hippocratic oath which obliges them to “never abandon the care of the sick”. As one of the promoters of the initiative, Dr. Antonio Gobbi, now retired, pointed out in March,
“if you always work with the risk of complaints in mind, you don’t do anything. The doctor can be assessed for incompetence, recklessness and negligence. We preferred to risk recklessness.”
Your colleagues are in danger of carelessness even today. Much more so than yesterday. If in March, doctors in Milan started prescribing hydroxychloroquine without an AIFA authorization, they will now prescribe it after the authorization was first issued and then withdrawn. An act of courage, which may have a little more than just symbolic value. Of the 43,927 Italian general practitioners, how many will follow them in prescribing hydroxychloroquine against the advice of the Italian Medicines Agency? At best, 1% of them, something like 440 doctors. A number not large enough to solve the problem of the second wave of coronavirus.
That’s why Panorama decided to follow their battle. At a time when the epidemic is back in an acute phase, when the health care personnel who don’t sleep at night because they don’t have beds, when schools are closed, the impossibility of prescribing hydroxychloroquine prevents timely care as it has already been experienced in Italy and in many countries around the world. Because, as Antonio Cassone, former director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Higher Institute of Health, says, “hydroxychloroquine in low to moderate doses is absolutely safe.”
Panarama.it has organized an online petition through the Change.org platform to ask the AIFA to reinstate the use of hydroxychloroquine for patients at home during the very early stages of the disease, using if necessary an authorization through an emergency procedure. Before the collection of signatures began, 112 doctors had already joined our appeal.
Below we explain the reasons for our choice. To do so, we have to come back in March 2020. With Lombardy (ER: a region in northern Italy) devastated by the highest lethality rate of Covid-19 in the world, frontline physicians were in complete disarray. Hospitals were on the verge of breaking down and most of the patients were staying at home, left to their own devices. Official therapeutic indications to family doctors suggested that only tachypirin should be administered, pending more serious forms. Do-it-yourself medicine is strongly discouraged, as Professor Galli del Sacco of Milan says.
At that time, the field physicians took the lead in creating a WhatsApp group on February 27th. After meeting with hospital colleagues, studying therapies administered in China, and consulting scientific studies in mid-March, they developed an intervention protocol that they shared. The general practitioners in Milan and the province took on an enormous responsibility. At the center of their program was hydroxychloroquine, a drug currently used for malaria and rheumatological diseases. So much so that in the initial phase, as it was not authorized for Covid-19, doctors had to prescribe off-label (off-market authorization).
“We launched without a parachute,” recalls Andrea Mangiagalli, a general practitioner in Pioltello who worked on the definition of the protocol with his colleagues Antonio Gobbi and Giovanni Moretti:
“We couldn’t have prescribed hydroxychloroquine to our patients because the AIFA had issued a directive against its use. But we didn’t give up, because it was against our code of ethics to make people die without trying anything.”
The result was astonishing: no patient treated in the early stages of the disease needed to be hospitalized. And no one died. A success because shortly after March 31, the Drug Agency finally authorized the use of chloroquine for suspected cases of Covid.
The story that seemed to have a happy ending turned out to be short-lived as, on May 22nd, with the publication of a shock study in The Lancet (British journal). Signed by Harvard professor Mandeep Mehra, the study argued that the risk of death for those who took hydroxychloroquine was 34% higher than for those who did not; and that they had a 137% higher risk of having a serious arrhythmia. The sky fell on us: the World Health Organization immediately stopped testing the molecule. The next day, the Italian Medicines Agency suspended its authorization for Covid. France and Belgium did the same. Followed by the very powerful U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
A debacle… On June 5, however, there was a twist: after receiving a letter from 120 researchers from around the world questioning the study, The Lancet withdrew it. But the damage was done: hydroxychloroquine was now banned. At the same time, hydroxychloroquine had been praised by President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, so it was hated by the detractors of these two presidents who made a ‘sovereignist’ drug.
And if in other countries like China and India they continued to use it (the Beijing guidelines reiterated the usefulness of the drug in the first place), in Italy, hydroxychloroquine became the pariah of the scientific world. Meanwhile, the case ended up in the courtrooms of the tribunals. On July 26, Neapolitan lawyer Erich Grimaldi filed an appeal with the Tar del Lazio (Administrative Court) with a related precautionary application on behalf of about 50 family doctors from all over Italy. The appeal requested the restoration of the possibility for doctors in the territories to prescribe hydroxychloroquine “freely” against Covid “without assuming prescriptive responsibility”.
Nothing to be done: the ART answered no, “in view of the numerous randomized studies published in the spring of 2020 and referred to in the government measure, on the ineffectiveness – or inefficiency – of the use of hydroxychloroquine”. But what studies was the Regional Administrative Court referring to? In order to understand this, one should consult the update published on the AIFA website on July 22nd. “The most relevant updates are the reporting of data from the hydroxychloroquine treatment arm of the Recovery study in the UK and the publication of the first randomized trial on the use of HCQ in the early stages of infection,” it says.
Randomized: this is the key word, also used by ART to reject the first request from physicians as a precautionary measure.
“A randomized trial is a study in which the assignment of a patient with certain characteristics to a therapy is purely random,” explains Professor Massimo Puoti, Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan. “This is the best way to determine whether a therapy works and how it works.”
Three randomized studies were cited by AIFA to say no to hydroxychloroquine. The first, Recovery, conducted in the UK, is serious and authoritative. “It is the largest randomized study available on hospitalized patients,” explains Professor Massimo Puoti, Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan. “It shows that the use of hydroxychloroquine has neither efficacy nor toxicity above the standard of care for the antimalarial drug.” And what was the standard of care of the study? Mangiagalli answers: “All drugs normally used for pneumonia, including cortisone.”
In short, the study indicates that hydroxychloroquine is no longer effective, but is no more toxic for the therapies commonly used in the hospital. But since hospital treatments such as cortisone cannot be used on patients at home, why not allow the use of hydroxychloroquine, which was not more toxic anyway?
The second study mentioned by AIFA, carried out in the United States and Canada with 423 patients, is not to be taken into account. For two reasons. “First of all, it is not very reliable because 423 patients is too few for a final evaluation,” explains Professor Puoti. The second reason is itself admitted by the AIFA: “The study has some limitations: the definite diagnosis was only possible in 58% of the participants, the evaluations were done online and the primary result was modified during the study” AIFA cites another study that should not even be considered because, notes Professor Puoti, “the confirmed diagnosis of Covid was found in less than 3% of patients”.
Out of the three studies cited by the AIFA, in short, there is only one serious one. “And by the way,” Mangiagalli observes, “even for the best Recovery study there are problems: first of all it concerns hospitalized patients (not at home like our study) and secondly the dosage used is twice as high as the one we prescribed in Italy. No wonder there were cardiovascular side effects.”
In fact, there are also many studies in favor of hydroxychloroquine. “Currently, 102 studies on hydroxychloroquine have been published (62 are peer-reviewed). 75% are positive, while 25% are negative,” says Health Information. The latest was published on September 21 by The Lancet on U.S. data. After May’s misstep, the British journal now claims that hydroxychloroquine reduces Covid’s mortality and finds no increase in cardiac toxicity. The penultimate study, on the other hand, was published on September 20 in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, and indicates that for hospitalized patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, the risk of transfer to intensive care is reduced by 53%.
But there are also two interesting Italian studies. In the first one, published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, there is a 30% reduction in mortality for the group of Covid patients treated with hydroxychloroquine. The second, published by the Italian Society of Pharmacology, shows that in nearly two million patients who have been taking hydroxychloroquine for rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years, the seven-day combination with the antibiotic azithromycin did not increase the risk of adverse events.
These studies, however, are not randomized. We asked Luigi Cavanna (pictured), an oncologist at the Piacenza Hospital who pioneered the home prescription of hydroxychloroquine, what he thinks. On March 9, he was the first in Italy to go to the homes of Covid patients to prescribe this antimalarial drug, immediately followed by doctors on the front line in Milan and then, followed very closely, by colleagues from all over Italy, including those from Alessandria.
“Ah, but here we need to use a scholarly quote for our orthodox colleagues in medicine, for the great minds,” ironically begins the oncologist. “I’m quoting from the introduction to the most widespread text of internal medicine in the world, from China to Canada: the Harrison. Here is what he says: “Medical practice combines science and art. Therefore, randomized trials must be the means to treat people well, not the end. A randomized trial is an ordinary response to an ordinary situation. But the Covid is not an ordinary situation. Everyday medicine, real-world medicine is fundamental.
Medical practice that works is essential in extraordinary situations, otherwise we really risk that when we have a randomized study, a lot of people will be there. Apart from the fact that there are almost no randomized studies in the territory, alongside the randomized study, there has to be real evidence, real world evidence”.
To support Cavanna, Mangiagalli intervenes: “if we’re being honest, there are no randomized studies in the territory, even for the flu vaccine. So what should IYFF do: suspend its use? Cavanna can’t help it:
“There is a problem… Why stop a seven-day therapy with a drug that some people, such as people with rheumatoid arthritis, have been taking all their lives? Something is wrong, something is bothering me…”
Also disturbing are the words of Professor Antonio Cassone:
“Unfortunately, editors of major journals are very reluctant to publish anything positive about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. What kind of world are we in? I am ashamed to be a doctor.”
In conclusion, the ART also argues that there is no irreparable risk of potential harm, as it does not take into account the “risks of serious and irreparable harm in the legal field of the claimants resulting from the use of one treatment over another.” In other words, according to the judges, the doctors who appealed did not suffer harm as a result of the prohibition on the use of hydroxychloroquine, since they could have used other therapies.
Perhaps the TAR/ART, which next week will be seized with a new request for summary proceedings (in the hope of the applicants that they will not have to go to trial on the merits or to the Conseil d’Etat), does not know that other therapies do not in fact exist. “There are none available in territorial medicine,” confirms Cavanna. “We need to make sure that we can give hydroxychloroquine for seven days, at doses other than those given to horses, as many U.S. studies have done that show no negative effects. In fact, of the tens of thousands of cases treated for seven days in Italy by hospital and general practitioners, there have been no cases with side effects.”
Are you therefore in favor of the collection of signatures promoted by Panorama? “Yes,” answers Dr. Cavanna:
“I support the use of all legal means that may allow a Covid patient to take hydroxychloroquine. Because this seems to me to be a Kafkaesque situation, a crisis of science. Assuming there is no other will behind it, but I don’t want to think so.”
Doctors who have already answered the call:
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2. Monica Sutti 30823
3. Molaschi Marco 23929
4. Milena Galimberti 26870
5. Antonio Gobbi 17918
6. Perego Angela Loretta 22841
7. Giovanna Caminiti 23913
8. Andrea Bozzola 29949
9. Luca Vezzoni 41089
10. Melissa Guzzetta 35437
11. Luca Manganiello 44327
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13. Pamela Pacini 41382
14. Massimo Sorghi 23785
15. Marco de Santis 31119
16. Laura Frosali 33030
17. Patrizia Biasi 39563
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24. Moretti Giovanni 15627
25. Cristiana Belloli 18718
26. Flavio Sinchetto 21289
27. Patrizia Rodriguez 6227
28. Francesca Di Marco 36822
29. Marco Mazzoni 23399
30. Maria Pia Caraceni 21986
31. Elena Giuseppina Villa 30819
32. Anna Maria Vittoria Mauro 31787
33. Cristoforo Cassisa 29253
34. Guido Rizzato
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36. Renato Mattina 36279
37. Alessandro Ramponi
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39. Mercogliano Maurizio18448
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41. Valeria Maria Cuccurullo 22670
42. Dario Lisciandrano 28784
43. Lorenzo Ferrante 20285
44. Paola Presutto 40185 Milano
45. Patrizia Calvi Milano:20811
46. Chiara Penati 1761 lecco
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48. Stefano Serboni 32869
49. Margherita Assirati 34778
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51. Fernando Salomoni 29576
52. Alessandra Rigoni 29029
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58. Dr.ssa Agata Marabotto, Catania 6944
59. Dott. Rampulla Bruno, Catania 15414
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67. Andrea Giusepoe Giorgio Stramezzi Milano. 43656
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70. Tiziano Setti, Reggio Emilia, 2313.
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73. Maurizio Tarantelli 3981Firenze
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76. Sandro Rinaldi BZ 1972
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79. Galvani Veniero R.E 20.01.44
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88. Chiara Zannoni 1631 Rimini
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Debt-Free Money

( And a very brief explanation ) .
Money is our means of exchange .
Whether existing as notes and coins or numbers in ledgers or computer memories , it comprises an agreed upon system of tokens that represent goods and services .
People exchange these tokens back and forth in place of actual goods and services confident that they can exchange the tokens ( pounds , dollars etc ) for actual goods or services at any time .
It FACILITATES smooth exchange of goods and services between producer and consumer .
There has to be a sufficient amount of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to occur .
It must not be too scarce .
If it is too scarce relative to the amount of goods and services people are trying to exchange , we wind up with what is known as RECESSION or a DEPRESSION – situations in which production and exchange are constricted due to a relative scarcity of the means of exchange .
Money must also not be too plentiful in relation to the amount of goods and services being produced and exchanged .
If it is , we get what is known as INFLATION @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loss of the SPENDING POWER of money .
SOMEONE had to create money and get it into circulation .
Currently , the government does NOT create the nation ’ s money supply .
The vast bulk of the money in circulation is currently created by the banking cartels out of nothing as mere numbers in computers .
It is then gotten into circulation by LENDING IT to governments , industry , consumers etc .
When these borrowers spend it , it thus enters circulation .
However , the newly created money is loaned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must pay back more than they borrowed .
Thus , when new money is created in this way , MORE DEBT THAN MONEY is created .
Money returns to the banks as debts are repaid .
The added interest means that more returns to the banks than was created .
This creates in the economy a perpetual shortage of spending power and perpetual pressure to borrow more money in order to compensate for the scarcity and this in turn creates even more scarcity of spending power .
The small amount of cash in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is printed and minted and enters circulation without a debt-plus-interest behind it .
However , it usually enters circulation in exchange for someone ’ s number money ( see above ) which WAS created by the banks and DID enter circulation with a debt behind it .
This system IS the reason why the economy malfunctions and is swamped by ever increasing debt .
The handing by government to the banks the privilege of creating the nation ’ s money supply in this way , hands extraordinary unearned wealth and economic power to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ANY nation that depends on private corporations to create its means of exchange in this way , winds up owing the bankers more money than actually exists ( ie the debt can never be repaid ) .
This is hidden by smoke screen of complexity but it establishes the banking cartels as a power echelon SENIOR to national governments on the basis that the lender of money holds the whip hand over he who must borrow it .
Therefore , this MUST change .
The right and privilege of creating all the nation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accordance with that economy ’ s need for it MUST be restored to the nation ’ s elected government .
And the creation of the money supply must be transparent and open to public scrutiny , driven ONLY by the economy ’ s need for money and NEVER contaminated by political ideology , temptation , expediency or the thirst for power or popularity .
NOTES : In order to keep party politics and expediency out of the creation of money supply , there must be created a National Agency , fully independent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transparent in its operation , whose sole job it is to CALCULATE how much new money must be created in order to keep the economy adequately supplied with its means of exchange and able to expand .
In so doing the Agency will steer a course between inflation ( too much money ) and recession ( money too scarce ) and the yardstick for this is : KEEP THE PURCHASING POWER OF THE NATION ’ S MEANS OF EXCHANGE STABLE .
Having calculated how much new money must be created , the Agency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The elected government then creates and spends that exact amount into the economy through the provision of services ( roads , schools , NHS etc etc ) according to the mandate and promises on which it was elected .
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by Fabian Ubiquitus
OBSERVATIONS
(And a very brief explanation).
Money is our means of exchange. Whether existing as notes and coins or numbers in ledgers or computer memories, it comprises an agreed upon system of tokens that represent goods and services.
People exchange these tokens back and forth in place of actual goods and services confident that they can exchange the tokens (pounds, dollars etc) for actual goods or services at any time.
It FACILITATES smooth exchange of goods and services between producer and consumer.
There has to be a sufficient amount of it in circulation to enable smooth exchange to occur. It must not be too scarce. If it is too scarce relative to the amount of goods and services people are trying to exchange, we wind up with what is known as RECESSION or a DEPRESSION – situations in which production and exchange are constricted due to a relative scarcity of the means of exchange.
Money must also not be too plentiful in relation to the amount of goods and services being produced and exchanged. If it is, we get what is known as INFLATION – too much money resulting in a loss of the SPENDING POWER of money.
SOMEONE had to create money and get it into circulation. Currently, the government does NOT create the nation’s money supply.
The vast bulk of the money in circulation is currently created by the banking cartels out of nothing as mere numbers in computers. It is then gotten into circulation by LENDING IT to governments, industry, consumers etc. When these borrowers spend it, it thus enters circulation.
However, the newly created money is loaned out AT INTEREST so that the borrowers must pay back more than they borrowed.
Thus, when new money is created in this way, MORE DEBT THAN MONEY is created.
Money returns to the banks as debts are repaid. The added interest means that more returns to the banks than was created.
This creates in the economy a perpetual shortage of spending power and perpetual pressure to borrow more money in order to compensate for the scarcity and this in turn creates even more scarcity of spending power.
The small amount of cash in circulation is created by government. It is printed and minted and enters circulation without a debt-plus-interest behind it.
However, it usually enters circulation in exchange for someone’s number money (see above) which WAS created by the banks and DID enter circulation with a debt behind it.
This system IS the reason why the economy malfunctions and is swamped by ever increasing debt.
The handing by government to the banks the privilege of creating the nation’s money supply in this way, hands extraordinary unearned wealth and economic power to the banking cartels and their owners.
ANY nation that depends on private corporations to create its means of exchange in this way, winds up owing the bankers more money than actually exists (ie the debt can never be repaid). This is hidden by smoke screen of complexity but it establishes the banking cartels as a power echelon SENIOR to national governments on the basis that the lender of money holds the whip hand over he who must borrow it.
Therefore, this MUST change. The right and privilege of creating all the nation’s stock of circulating money in accordance with that economy’s need for it MUST be restored to the nation’s elected government. And the creation of the money supply must be transparent and open to public scrutiny, driven ONLY by the economy’s need for money and NEVER contaminated by political ideology, temptation, expediency or the thirst for power or popularity.
PRINCIPLES
The creation of the nation’s money supply MUST be removed from private hands and restored in full to the nation’s elected government. Elected government must create the money supply and SPEND it into circulation, according to the economy’s need for a stock of circulating money, NEVER lend it.
The government MUST ALWAYS create sufficient NOTES and COINS alongside the digital money to satisfy all the citizenry’s needs or potential needs for notes and coins. The option to use notes and coins MUST ALWAYS BE A MATTER OF FREE CHOICE for the citizen and the continuance of this option in perpetuity is a guarantor of liberty. The government shall never under any circumstances cancel or inhibit the provision of notes and coins for anyone who wants to use them. NO ENTITY OR PERSON WHATSOEVER may deny any other person or entity the option and right to give or receive payment for goods and services in notes and coins if they so wish.
NOTES: In order to keep party politics and expediency out of the creation of money supply, there must be created a National Agency, fully independent of party political or other influences and fully transparent in its operation, whose sole job it is to CALCULATE how much new money must be created in order to keep the economy adequately supplied with its means of exchange and able to expand. In so doing the Agency will steer a course between inflation (too much money) and recession (money too scarce) and the yardstick for this is: KEEP THE PURCHASING POWER OF THE NATION’S MEANS OF EXCHANGE STABLE. Having calculated how much new money must be created, the Agency then INSTRUCTS the government to create it. The elected government then creates and spends that exact amount into the economy through the provision of services (roads, schools, NHS etc etc) according to the mandate and promises on which it was elected.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-24--Tell Amazon to STOP Funding Black Lives Matter

By : the NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) activists and supporters are rioting in our streets .
They are attacking law enforcement officers , desecrating houses of worship and destroying historic landmarks .
And as they loot and burn businesses in your town , they do so while enjoying the support of one of America ’ s largest corporations – Amazon .
The behemoth online retailer that you probably use regularly has pledged financial support to the Marxist BLM organization .
At the behest of the BLM mob , Amazon even cancelled contracts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is well known for its far-left positions : The company and its CEO – Jeff Bezos – already rely on the radical Southern Poverty Law Center to block Christians and conservatives from its charitable program , and it has worked to block President Trump ’ s executive orders to secure our borders .
But now , by backing an extremist group that supports reparations for black Americans and the defunding of police , Amazon has gone too far .
We are reaching out to Amazon to express our outrage .
We demand that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matter .
And we need you to lend your voice .
Amazon and Bezos need to know that a majority of Americans – including millions of its customers – oppose the Marxist campaign being waged by against America by BLM activists .
Americans are outraged by instances of police brutality and support equal opportunity for all .
But they do not subscribe to the radical narrative promoted by rioters and the media that “ all cops are bad.
” A recent Gallup poll found 86 % of all Americans – and 81 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amount or more police presence in their communities .
Yet Amazon is stoking flames of division .
Through its sponsorship of Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) , it is effectively financing the war against law enforcement that has helped lead to the destruction of businesses large and small in our towns and cities .
Our nation suffers as our communities burn , businesses are looted , historic sites are vandalized and houses of worship are desecrated .
Weak local leadership has forced police to retreat , leading to an increase in violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people .
Much of this mayhem is the result of coordinated violence that is encouraged by the agenda advocated by radical organizers .
This is why Amazon must immediately stop all funding for Black Lives Matter .
BLM advocates extreme positions that include : • “ [ T ] he retroactive decriminalization , immediate release and record expungement of all drug-related offenses and prostitution.
” • Reparations for “ the devastating impact of the ‘ war on drugs ’ and criminalization of prostitution.
” Given these extreme positions , and the grim toll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is unconscionable that Amazon is spending corporate resources to back such causes .
As a major American corporation , Amazon has a civic duty to uphold American ideals .
In stark contrast , BLM seeks to upend American culture as we know it .
Therefore , we the undersigned request and require that Amazon cease and desist all donations to Black Lives Matter and any other Marxist organizations working to destroy American society , culture and opportunity .
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Tell Amazon to STOP Funding Black Lives Matter
By: the NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists and supporters are rioting in our streets. They are attacking law enforcement officers, desecrating houses of worship and destroying historic landmarks. And as they loot and burn businesses in your town, they do so while enjoying the support of one of America’s largest corporations – Amazon.
The behemoth online retailer that you probably use regularly has pledged financial support to the Marxist BLM organization. At the behest of the BLM mob, Amazon even cancelled contracts that aided local police departments.
Amazon is well known for its far-left positions: The company and its CEO – Jeff Bezos – already rely on the radical Southern Poverty Law Center to block Christians and conservatives from its charitable program, and it has worked to block President Trump’s executive orders to secure our borders.
But now, by backing an extremist group that supports reparations for black Americans and the defunding of police, Amazon has gone too far.
We are reaching out to Amazon to express our outrage. We demand that Amazon cease all funding to Black Lives Matter. And we need you to lend your voice. Amazon and Bezos need to know that a majority of Americans – including millions of its customers – oppose the Marxist campaign being waged by against America by BLM activists.
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Petition to STOP Amazon from Funding Black Lives Matter
Americans are outraged by instances of police brutality and support equal opportunity for all. But they do not subscribe to the radical narrative promoted by rioters and the media that “all cops are bad.” A recent Gallup poll found 86% of all Americans – and 81% of black Americans – want the same amount or more police presence in their communities.
Yet Amazon is stoking flames of division. Through its sponsorship of Black Lives Matter (BLM), it is effectively financing the war against law enforcement that has helped lead to the destruction of businesses large and small in our towns and cities.
Our nation suffers as our communities burn, businesses are looted, historic sites are vandalized and houses of worship are desecrated. Weak local leadership has forced police to retreat, leading to an increase in violence that has included fatal shootings of innocent people. Much of this mayhem is the result of coordinated violence that is encouraged by the agenda advocated by radical organizers.
This is why Amazon must immediately stop all funding for Black Lives Matter. BLM advocates extreme positions that include:
Defunding our nation’s police departments.
Destruction of the “Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure.”
“[T]he retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record expungement of all drug-related offenses and prostitution.”
Reparations for “the devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ and criminalization of prostitution.”
Given these extreme positions, and the grim toll of continued violence and rioting, it is unconscionable that Amazon is spending corporate resources to back such causes. As a major American corporation, Amazon has a civic duty to uphold American ideals. In stark contrast, BLM seeks to upend American culture as we know it.
Therefore, we the undersigned request and require that Amazon cease and desist all donations to Black Lives Matter and any other Marxist organizations working to destroy American society, culture and opportunity.
Sincerely,
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-24--Bidens sought to pitch Dem access tied to Chinese military

Records released by a former Biden family business partner reveal that Joe Biden ’ s brother and son proposed connecting a Chinese billionaire affiliated with Beijing ’ s military and intelligence services with top elected Democrats to advance Chinese investments in critical U.S. infrastructure .
In doing so , say China experts , the former vice president and his family endangered U.S. national security .
In July 2017 , the now-bankrupt China Energy and Finance Company offered to extend the Bidens a $ 5 million “ interest-free ” loan “ based on their trust on [ Biden ] family [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was Ye Jianming , who according to the New York Times , has extensive ties to the Chinese military and its intelligence service .
The 43-year-old Ye has been held in detention by the Chinese government since 2018 for “ economic crimes.
” Hunter Biden reportedly met Ye in a Miami hotel in May 2017 .
In a May 15 email , James Biden listed a number of prospective contacts for joint ventures involving SinoHawk and CEFC .
The roster of elite Democratic elected officials includes Biden ’ s running mate Kamala Harris @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 presidential hopefuls , Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand .
The list of prospective New York Democratic contacts for CEFC includes Governor Andrew Cuomo , New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio , and Sen. Charles Schumer .
The California list features Sen. Dianne Feinstein , whose husband ’ s business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party have earned him millions over the last several decades .
Feinstein enjoyed a long friendship with the late Chinese premier , Jiang Zemin .
Other senior California lawmakers the Bidens planned to introduce to CEFC include @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as former San Francisco mayor , now California governor , Gavin Newsom — “ Hunter ’ s friend , ” James Biden notes in the email .
“ The relationship with Joe Biden would have given the Chinese access to the highest levels of power , partly for influence and partly to embed the Chinese Communist Party into every aspect of society , ” says retired Gen. Robert Spalding , author of “ Stealth War : How China Took Over While America ’ s Elite Slept.
” But the Bidens offered more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figures .
In a Whatsapp exchange from spring 2017 , Bobulinski asked Hunter Biden if Ye was “ just doing infrastructure and RE or looking @ technology deals.
” Biden replied : “ Everything .
The only thing I told him I would not do is defense related technology and arms and anything that would give the Chinese a military advantage.
” However , China experts say that Beijing understands its national security needs in a much broader context .
While Washington tends to see national security strictly in military terms , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” says Asia expert Maura Moynihan .
In James Biden ’ s May 17 memo , he identifies vital infrastructure and transportation nodes as prospective “ phase one target ” projects .
He notes that Cuomo “ is moving forward with major infrastructure projects such as the long-stalled Tappan Zee Bridge replacement and the much-needed redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport.
” The President of New York City Economic Development Corporation , Maria Torres-Springer , “ drives the physical transformation of New York City , completes major infrastructure upgrades , and encourages the creation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Biden explains .
According to James Biden , Minnesota offered a particularly appealing target project — the state ’ s freight and passenger rail system .
“ Minnesota is in process for its mandated five-year update , ” he wrote .
“ Minnesota ’ s passenger and freight rail improvement strategy will be detailed , including Minnesota ’ s passenger and freight rail impact on the economy , the state ’ s ability to meet national passenger and freight rail goals , and the economic factors that increase growth and competitive edge.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ proposed phase one projects endangered U.S. national security .
“ From the Chinese perspective , the offer would have given them access to strategic infrastructure in the United States , which would have given them the ability to shut it down , ” he says .
“ Also , giving the Chinese a role in the transportation sector would allow them to collect information on Americans.
” The Biden presidential campaign and Hunter Biden ’ s attorney did not respond immediately to request for comment from the Just the News .
Former NYPD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in U.S. with censorship and Biden ’ s laptop Joe Biden scored $ 16 million in income after leaving White House … but where did it go ?
( TLB ) published this article with permission of John Solomon at Just the News Some emphasis and pictorial content added by ( TLB ) Click Here to read about the staff at Just the News

Records released by a former Biden family business partner reveal that Joe Biden’s brother and son proposed connecting a Chinese billionaire affiliated with Beijing’s military and intelligence services with top elected Democrats to advance Chinese investments in critical U.S. infrastructure. In doing so, say China experts, the former vice president and his family endangered U.S. national security.
In July 2017, the now-bankrupt China Energy and Finance Company offered to extend the Bidens a $5 million “interest-free” loan “based on their trust on [Biden] family[.]” The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who according to the New York Times, has extensive ties to the Chinese military and its intelligence service. The 43-year-old Ye has been held in detention by the Chinese government since 2018 for “economic crimes.”
Hunter Biden reportedly met Ye in a Miami hotel in May 2017. In a May 15 email, James Biden listed a number of prospective contacts for joint ventures involving SinoHawk and CEFC. The roster of elite Democratic elected officials includes Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris, as well as two other former 2020 presidential hopefuls, Amy Klobuchar and Kirsten Gillibrand.
The list of prospective New York Democratic contacts for CEFC includes Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Sen. Charles Schumer. The California list features Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose husband’s business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party have earned him millions over the last several decades. Feinstein enjoyed a long friendship with the late Chinese premier, Jiang Zemin.
Other senior California lawmakers the Bidens planned to introduce to CEFC include Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, as well as former San Francisco mayor, now California governor, Gavin Newsom — “Hunter’s friend,” James Biden notes in the email.
“The relationship with Joe Biden would have given the Chinese access to the highest levels of power, partly for influence and partly to embed the Chinese Communist Party into every aspect of society,” says retired Gen. Robert Spalding, author of “Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept.”
But the Bidens offered more than just contacts with senior U.S. political figures.
In a Whatsapp exchange from spring 2017, Bobulinski asked Hunter Biden if Ye was “just doing infrastructure and RE or looking @ technology deals.” Biden replied: “Everything. The only thing I told him I would not do is defense related technology and arms and anything that would give the Chinese a military advantage.”
However, China experts say that Beijing understands its national security needs in a much broader context. While Washington tends to see national security strictly in military terms, “infrastructure is a priority for the Chinese,” says Asia expert Maura Moynihan.
Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative, Moynihan notes, is a global infrastructure project. “To defeat their main rival, America,” she says, “the Chinese want to control America on the ground, and they do that through controlling American infrastructure.”
In James Biden’s May 17 memo, he identifies vital infrastructure and transportation nodes as prospective “phase one target” projects. He notes that Cuomo “is moving forward with major infrastructure projects such as the long-stalled Tappan Zee Bridge replacement and the much-needed redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport.” The President of New York City Economic Development Corporation, Maria Torres-Springer, “drives the physical transformation of New York City, completes major infrastructure upgrades, and encourages the creation of new residential and commercial districts,” Biden explains.
According to James Biden, Minnesota offered a particularly appealing target project — the state’s freight and passenger rail system. “Minnesota is in process for its mandated five-year update,” he wrote. “Minnesota’s passenger and freight rail improvement strategy will be detailed, including Minnesota’s passenger and freight rail impact on the economy, the state’s ability to meet national passenger and freight rail goals, and the economic factors that increase growth and competitive edge.”
Spalding warns that the Bidens’ proposed phase one projects endangered U.S. national security. “From the Chinese perspective, the offer would have given them access to strategic infrastructure in the United States, which would have given them the ability to shut it down,” he says. “Also, giving the Chinese a role in the transportation sector would allow them to collect information on Americans.”
The Biden presidential campaign and Hunter Biden’s attorney did not respond immediately to request for comment from the Just the News.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-24--WHO Taps ‘Anti-Conspiracy’ Crusader to Sway Public Opinion on COVID-19 Vaccine

WHO Taps ‘ Anti-Conspiracy ’ Crusader to Sway Public Opinion on COVID Vaccine An outspoken proponent of government-led tactics to influence public opinion on policy and to undermine the credibility of “ conspiracy theorists ” will lead the World Health Organization ’ s ( WHO ) efforts to encourage public acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine , Children ’ s Health Defense has learned .
Last week , WHO ’ s general director , Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus , tweeted that he was glad to speak with the organization ’ s Technical Advisory Group ( TAG ) on Behavioural Insights and Sciences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and uptake in the context of COVID-19.
” In his next tweet Ghebreyesus announced that Cass Sunstein , founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School , will chair the advisory group , which was created in July .
Sunstein was former President Barack Obama ’ s head of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where he was responsible for overseeing policies relating to information quality .
In 2008 , Sunstein wrote a paper proposing that governments employ teams of covert agents to “ cognitively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which advocate “ false conspiracy theories ” about the government .
In the paper , Sunstein and his co-authors wrote : The government-led operations described in Sunstein ’ s paper would work to increase faith in government policy and policymakers and undermine the credibility of “ conspiracists ” who question their motives .
They would also maintain a vigorous “ counter misinformation establishment ” to counter “ conspiracy ” groups opposed to government policies that aim to protect the common good .
Some of this would be accomplished by sending undercover agents , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ online social networks or even real space groups.
” Sunstein also advocated in 2008 that the government pay “ independent experts ” to publicly advocate on the government ’ s behalf , whether on television or social media .
He says this is effective because people don ’ t trust the government as much as they trust people they believe are “ independent.
” WHO has already contracted the public relations firm , Hill + Knowlton .
The PR giant , best known for its role in manufacturing false testimonies in support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WHO to “ ensure the science and public health credibility of the WHO in order to ensure WHO ’ s advice and guidance is followed.
” WHO paid Hill + Knowlton $ 135,000 to identify micro-influencers , macro-influencers and “ hidden heroes ” who could covertly promote WHO ’ s advice and messaging on social media , and also protect and promote the organization ’ s image as a COVID-19 authority .
There ’ s no evidence that WHO has yet implemented any “ cognitive infiltration ” policies similar to what Sunstein advocated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to adopt such a strategy , and use it to convince hesitant populations to take a COVID vaccine , it would raise questions of legality .
As put forward in a report by the Congressional Research Service , illegal “ publicity or propaganda ” is defined by the U.S. Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) to mean either ( 1 ) self-aggrandizement by public officials ; ( 2 ) purely partisan activity ; or ( 3 ) “ covert propaganda.
” By covert propaganda , GAO means information which originates from the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as though it came from a third party .
Because WHO is a multinational organization and not a U.S. Government agency , covert “ cognitive infiltration ” policies could fall into a gray area , or even be considered legal .
Dr. Margaret Chan , former general-director of WHO , once stated that the organization ’ s policies are “ driven by what [ she called ] donor interests.
” According to a 2012 article in Foreign Affairs , “ few policy initiatives or normative standards set by the WHO are announced before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Gates Foundation staff.
” Or , as other sources told Politico in 2017 , “ Gates ’ priorities have become the WHO ’ s. ” WHO ’ s current general director , Ghebreyesus , was previously on the board of two organizations that Gates founded , provided seed money for and continues to fund to this day : GAVI , the Vaccine Alliance , a public–private global health partnership focused on increased access to vaccines in poor countries , and the Global Fund , which says it aims to accelerate the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to safe , quality , effective , and affordable COVID-19 diagnostics , therapeutics and vaccines.
” If , as Politico put it , “ Gates priorities have become the WHO ’ s , ” and if WHO ’ s policies are driven by “ donor interests , ” this raises questions as to what online groups , people and websites would be targeted by such covert programs .
The idea of government agents carrying out psychological operations on social media is not far fetched .
Earlier this year the head of editorial for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office was outed as an active officer in the British Army ’ s psychological warfare unit , known as the 77th brigade , which specializes in online behavioral change operations .
The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful and excited !
But we must also be practical .
For 7 years we have not asked for any donations , and have built this project with our own funds as we grew .
We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ projects we represent .
So we have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them .
Nothing is too small .
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WHO Taps ‘Anti-Conspiracy’ Crusader to Sway Public Opinion on COVID Vaccine
By: Jeremy Loffredo
An outspoken proponent of government-led tactics to influence public opinion on policy and to undermine the credibility of “conspiracy theorists” will lead the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to encourage public acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine, Children’s Health Defense has learned.
Last week, WHO’s general director, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, tweeted that he was glad to speak with the organization’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health to “discuss vaccine acceptance and uptake in the context of COVID-19.”
In his next tweet Ghebreyesus announced that Cass Sunstein, founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School, will chair the advisory group, which was created in July.
Sunstein was former President Barack Obama’s head of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where he was responsible for overseeing policies relating to information quality.
In 2008, Sunstein wrote a paper proposing that governments employ teams of covert agents to “cognitively infiltrate” online dissident groups and websites which advocate “false conspiracy theories” about the government. In the paper, Sunstein and his co-authors wrote:
“Our principal claim here involves the potential value of cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, designed to introduce informational diversity into such groups and to expose indefensible conspiracy theories as such.”
The government-led operations described in Sunstein’s paper would work to increase faith in government policy and policymakers and undermine the credibility of “conspiracists” who question their motives. They would also maintain a vigorous “counter misinformation establishment” to counter “conspiracy” groups opposed to government policies that aim to protect the common good.
Some of this would be accomplished by sending undercover agents, or government-paid third parties, into “online social networks or even real space groups.”
Sunstein also advocated in 2008 that the government pay “independent experts” to publicly advocate on the government’s behalf, whether on television or social media. He says this is effective because people don’t trust the government as much as they trust people they believe are “independent.”
WHO has already contracted the public relations firm, Hill + Knowlton. The PR giant, best known for its role in manufacturing false testimonies in support of the Gulf War, was hired by WHO to “ensure the science and public health credibility of the WHO in order to ensure WHO’s advice and guidance is followed.”
WHO paid Hill + Knowlton $135,000 to identify micro-influencers, macro-influencers and “hidden heroes” who could covertly promote WHO’s advice and messaging on social media, and also protect and promote the organization’s image as a COVID-19 authority.
There’s no evidence that WHO has yet implemented any “cognitive infiltration” policies similar to what Sunstein advocated in 2008. If the organization were to adopt such a strategy, and use it to convince hesitant populations to take a COVID vaccine, it would raise questions of legality.
As put forward in a report by the Congressional Research Service, illegal “publicity or propaganda” is defined by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to mean either (1) self-aggrandizement by public officials; (2) purely partisan activity; or (3) “covert propaganda.” By covert propaganda, GAO means information which originates from the government but is unattributed and made to appear as though it came from a third party.
Because WHO is a multinational organization and not a U.S. Government agency, covert “cognitive infiltration” policies could fall into a gray area, or even be considered legal.
Dr. Margaret Chan, former general-director of WHO, once stated that the organization’s policies are “driven by what [she called] donor interests.”
According to a 2012 article in Foreign Affairs, “few policy initiatives or normative standards set by the WHO are announced before they have been casually, unofficially vetted by Gates Foundation staff.” Or, as other sources told Politico in 2017, “Gates’ priorities have become the WHO’s.”
WHO’s current general director, Ghebreyesus, was previously on the board of two organizations that Gates founded, provided seed money for and continues to fund to this day: GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, a public–private global health partnership focused on increased access to vaccines in poor countries, and the Global Fund, which says it aims to accelerate the “development, production and equitable global access to safe, quality, effective, and affordable COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.”
If, as Politico put it, “Gates priorities have become the WHO’s,” and if WHO’s policies are driven by “donor interests,” this raises questions as to what online groups, people and websites would be targeted by such covert programs.
The idea of government agents carrying out psychological operations on social media is not far fetched. Earlier this year the head of editorial for Twitter’s Middle East and Africa office was outed as an active officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, known as the 77th brigade, which specializes in online behavioral change operations.
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