lewrockwell--2020-07-21--How a False Hydroxychloroquine Narrative Was Created, and More

It is remarkable that a series of events taking place over the past 3 months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine , and produced similar policies about the drug in the US , Canada , Australia , NZ and western Europe .
The message is that generic , inexpensive hydroxychloroquine is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease , Covid-19 , for which there are no ( other ) reliable treatments .
Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients .
And so the message was crafted that the drug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but dangerous when used for Covid-19 .
It doesn ’ t make sense , but it seems to have worked .
Were these acts carefully orchestrated ?
You decide .
Might these events have been planned to keep the pandemic going ?
To sell expensive drugs and vaccines to a captive population ?
Could these acts result in prolonged economic and social hardship , eventually transferring wealth from the middle class to the very rich ?
Are these events evidence of a conspiracy ?
Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ list of what happened , in no special order .
Please help add to this list if you know of other actions I should include .
This will be a living document , added to as new information becomes available .
I have penned this as if it is the “ To Do ” list of items to be accomplished by those who pull the strings .
The items on the list have already been carried out .
One wonders what else might be on their list , yet to be carried out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stop doctors from using the drug in ways it is most likely to be effective ( in outpatients at onset of illness ) .
You prohibit use outside of situations you can control .
• You prevent or limit use in outpatients by controlling the supply of the drug , using different methods in different countries andstates .
In NY state , by order of the governor , hydroxychloroquine could only be prescribed for hospitalized patients .
France has issued a series of different regulations to limit prescribers from using it .
France @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over-the-counter to a drug requiring a prescription .
• You play up the danger of the drug , emphasizing side effects that are very rare when the drug is used correctly .
You make sure everyone has heard about theman who died after consuming hydroxychloroquine in the form of fish tank cleaner .
Yet its toxicity at approved doses is minimal .
Chloroquine was added to table salt in some regions in the 1950s as a malaria preventive , according to Professor Nicholas White in his study for the Recovery trial .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , instead of testing the drug in outpatients , early in the illness , when it is predicted to be most effective .
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 9.95 Finally , but not until May , you have Fauci ’ s NIAID conduct a trial in outpatients , using hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin , but you only enroll 20 patients , after earlier planning for 2,000 .
Only half get the drugs .
You reduce the duration of followup from 24 weeks to 13 days post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subjects assures meaningless results .
Who pulled the plug on this trial ?
• You design clinical trials to givemuch too high a dose , ensuring the drug will cause harm in some subjects , sufficient to mask any possible beneficial effect .
You make sure that trials in 400 hospitals in 35 countries ( Solidarity ) plus most hospitals in the UK ( Recovery ) use these dangerous doses , as well as additional sites in 13 countries ( REMAP-Covid trial ) .
• You design clinical trials tocollect almost no safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to drug toxicity will be attributed to the disease instead of the drug .
• You issue rules for use of the drug based on theresults of the UK Recovery study , which overdosed patients .
Of course the Recovery results showed more deaths in the hydroxychloroquine arm , since they gave patients 2.4 g in the first 24 hrs , 800 mg/day thereafter .
Furthermore , the UK has the 2nd highest death rate in the world for Covid-19 ( Belgium is 1st ) , so simply conducting the trial in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poor results .
• You publish , in the world ’ s most-read medical journal , theLancet , an observational study from a huge worldwide database ( 96,000 Covid cases ) that says use of chloroquine drugs caused significantly increased mortality .
You make sure that all major media report on this result .
This was said to be the nail in the coffin for hydroxychloroquine .
Then you have 3 European countries announce they will not allow doctors to prescribe the drug .
• You do your best to ride out any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after hundreds of people renounced theLancet ’ s observational study due to easily identified fabrications–the database used in the study did not exist , and the claimed numbers did not agree with known numbers of cases–the Lancet held firm for two weeks , serving to muddy the waters about the trial , until finally 3 of its 4 coauthors ( but not the journal ) retracted the study .
But neither the authors nor the journal admitted responsibility .
You make sure very few media report that the data were fabricated and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ though the story was full of scandalous details , it went largely unnoticed .
You make sure people believe the original story : that hydroxychloroquine routinely kills .
• You ensure federal agencies like FDA and CDC hew to your desired policies .
For example , FDA advised use only in hospitalized patients ( too late ) or in clinical trials ( which are limited , are difficult to enroll in , or may use excessive doses ) .
As of mid June , FDA advises patients and doctors to only give the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a clinical trial where , presumably , the results can be controlled .
Another example : you have FDA make unsubstantiated and false claims , such as : “ Hospitalized patients were likely to have greater prospect of benefit ( compared to ambulatory patients with mild illness ) “ and claim the chloroquine drugs have a slow onset of action .
If that were really true , they would not be used for acute attacks of malaria or in critically ill patients with Covid .
( Disclosure : I once dosed myself with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vivax malaria , and it worked very fast. )
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Providing no other treatment advice , even though providing such information is a large part of its mission , CDC instead refers clinicians to the NIH guidelines , discussed below .
Despite the fact that Belgium ’ s COVID treatment guidelines repeatedly mention that the doses of HCQ in the Recovery and Solidarity trials were 4 times the cumulative dose used in Belgium , you make sure the Belgian guidelines , paradoxically , only recommend use of HCQ within clinical trials .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trials that test drug combinations like hydroxychloroquine with zinc , with azithromycin , or with both , although there is ample clinical evidence that such combinations provide a cumulative benefit to patients .
For example , one of very few studies to look at this combination had no funding .
• You have federal and UN agencies make false , illogical claims based on models ( or invention ) rather than human data .
For example , you have the FDA state on June 15 that the doserequired to treat Covid is so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Recovery and Solidarity trials have been exposed for toxic dosing .
This scientific double-speak gives some legal cover to the clinical trials that overdosed their patients .
According to Denise Hinton , RN , the FDA ’ s Chief Scientist ( yes , a registered nurse without scientific qualifications is the Chief Scientist at FDA ) , or some clumsy FDA wordsmith : “ Under the assumption that in vivo cellular accumulation is similar to that from the in vitro cell-based assays , the calculated free lung concentrations that would result from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the in vitro EC50/EC90 values , making the antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2 not likely achievable with the dosing regimens recommended in the EUA .
The substantial increase in dosing that would be needed to increase the likelihood of an antiviral effect would not be acceptable due to toxicity concerns.
” You have a WHO report claim toxic doses are needed .
This is nonsense since : Invincible Microbe : Tu ... Blank , Alison Best Price : $ 7.88 Buy New $ 7.99 • the drug at normal doses is being tested in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clinicaltrials.gov ) , and • reports from many different countries say that the drug is effective for Covid-19 at normal doses , while • a high dose chloroquine treatment trial was halted in Brazil and a preprint of the study was posted April 11 , or perhaps April 7 , after finding that drug effects were causing ventricular arrhythmias and deaths .
Toxicity was noted after only 3 days of treatment , during which 3.6 grams of chloroquine were administered .
But the Solidarity ( 3.2 grams of hydroxychloroquine in 3 days ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 3 days ) and REMAP-Covid trials ( 3.6 grams of hydroxychloroquine in 3 days ) continued overdosing patients until June , despite Brazil ’ s evidence of deaths by overdose .
Tellingly , JAMA editor Gordon Rubenfeld wrote in April , after the Brazilian study came out in JAMA , “ if you are prescribing HCQ after these JAMA results , do yourself and your defense lawyer a favor .
Document in your medical record that you informed the patient of the potential risks of HCQ including sudden death and its benefits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • You create an NIH Guidelines committee for Covid treatment recommendations , in which16 members have or had financial entanglements with Gilead , maker of Remdesivir .
The members were appointed by the Co-Chairs .
Two of the three Co-Chairs are themselves financially entangled with Gilead .
Are you surprised that their guidelines recommend specifically against the use of hydroxychloroquine and in favor of Remdesivir , and that they deem this the new “ standard of care ” ?
• You frighten doctors so they don ’ t prescribe hydroxychloroquine , if prescribing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because prescribing outside the newNIH “ standard of care ” leaves them open to malpractice lawsuits .
You further tell them ( through the FDA ) they need to monitor a variety of lab parameters and patient EKGs when using the drug , although this was never advised before , which makes it very difficult to use the drug in outpatients .
You have the European Medicines Agency issue similar warnings .
• You manage to control the conduct of most trials around the world by specially designing the WHO-managedSolidarity trials , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ halted hydroxychloroquine clinical trials around the world , twice .
The first time , May 25 , WHO claimed it was in response to the ( fraudulent ) Lancet study .
The second time , June 17 , WHO claimed the stop was in response to the Recovery trial results .
Recovery used highly toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine in over 1500 patients , of whom 396 died .
You stop the trial before the data safety monitoring board has looked at your data , a move that is unlikely to be consistent with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in over 400 hospitals overdosed patients with 2.0 g hydroxychloroquine in the first 24 hours .
The trial was halted 3 days after the toxic doses were exposed ( by me ) .
The trial involved doctors around the world typing minimal patient information into an online WHO platform , which assigned the patient a treatment .
The only “ safety ” information collected during the trial was whether patients required oxygen , required a ventilator , or died .
This effectively masked the adverse effects of the drugs tested .
I should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for its Solidarity trial entirely omitted the chloroquine drugs , but they were added at the urging of participating nations .
WHO ’ s fallback position appears to have been to use toxic doses .
• You have theWHO pressure governments to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine .
• You have theWHO pressure professional societies to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine .
• You make sure that the most-consulted US medical encyclopedia , UptoDate , advises physicians to restrict hydroxychloroquine to only clinical trials , citing the FDA .
• You have the head of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fauci , insist the drug can not be used in the absence of strong evidence…while he insisted exactly the opposite in the case of the MERS coronavirus outbreak several years ago , when he recommended an untested drug combination for use…which had been developed for that purpose by his agency .
And while he was bemoaning the lack of evidence , he was refusing to pay for trials to study hydroxychloroquine .
And he was changing the goalposts on the Remdesivir trial , not once but twice , to make Remdesivir show a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mortality benefit .
And don ’ t forget , Fauci was thrilled to sponsor a trial of a Covid vaccine in humans before there were any data from animal trials .
So much for requiring high quality evidence before risking use of drugs and vaccines in humans .
• You convince the population that the crisis will be long-lasting .
You have the 2nd richest man in the world , and biggest funder of the WHO , Bill Gates , keep repeating to the media megaphone thatwe can not go back to normal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a perfect drug .
( The Gates Foundation helped design the WHO clinical trials , helped fund the Recovery trial , and Gates is heavily invested in Covid pharmaceuticals and vaccines . )
• You have CDC ( with help from FDA ) prevent the purchase of coronavirus test kits from Germany , China , WHO , etc , and fail to produce a valid test kit themselves .
The result was that during January and February , US cases could not be tested , and for several months thereafter insufficient and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ track the epidemic and stop the spread .
• You have trusted medical spokesmen lie to the public about the pandemic ’ s severity , so precautions weren ’ t taken when they might have been more effective and less long-lasting .
Congress wasrepeatedly briefed about the pandemic in January and February , which scared several Congress members enough that they sold off large amounts of stock , risking insider trading charges .
Senator Burr is one of them , currently under investigation for major stock sales on February 13 .
Yet Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Americans should worry more about the flu than about coronavirus , the danger of which was “ just miniscule.
” Then on February 28 , Drs .
Fauci and Robert Redfield ( CDC Director ) wrote in the New England Journal : “ …the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza ( which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1 % ) or a pandemic influenza ( similar to those in 1957 and 1968 ) rather than a disease similar to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case fatality rates of 9 to 10 % and 36 % , respectively.
” • You destroy the reputation of respected physicians who stand in your way .
Professor Didier Raoult and his team in Marseille have used hydroxychloroquine on over 4,000 patients , reporting a mortality rate of about 0.8 % .
( The mortality rate of patients given hydroxychloroquine in the Recovery trial was 25.7 % . )
Raoult is very famous for discovering over 100 different microorganisms , and finding the long-sought cause of Whipple ’ s Disease .
With @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could treat patients as he saw fit , which he has done , under great duress .
Raoult was featured in a New York Times Magazinearticle , with his face on the magazine cover , on May 12 , 2020 .
After describing his accomplishments , the Times very unfavorably discussed his personality , implied he conducted unethical trials without approval , and using anonymous sourcing produced a detailed hit piece .
Raoult is now considered an unreliable crank in the US .
Physician and state senator Scott Jensen of Minnesota is being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to anonymous complaints about what he said about COVID in interviews .
Jensen was previously selected as “ Family Physician of the Year ” in his state .
Now his medical license is at risk , not because of how he treated a patient , but for what he said outside of the office .
Unprecedented .
• You have social media platforms ban content that does not agree with the desired narrative .
As YouTube CEO and ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin , Susan Wojcickisaid , DARK AGENDA : The War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 16.84 Buy New $ 18.39 “ YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation ( WHO ) coronavirus recommendations .
Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy.
” • When your clinical trials are criticized for overdosing patients , you have Oxford-affiliated , Wellcome Trust-supported scientists at Mahidol University publish papers ( aliterature review with modeling and a modeling study ) purporting to show that the doses used were not toxic .
You develop a new method @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Recovery patients who were not poisoned .
However , there are 2 problems you forgot with this approach : • The Brazilian data , including 16 deaths , extensive clinical information and documented ventricular arrhythmias , are much more persuasive than a theoretical model of hydroxychloroquine pharmacokinetics .
• Either the drug is too toxic to use , even at normal doses , for a life-threatening disease , or even extremely high doses are safe .
You can ’ t have it both ways .
Oxford is the institution running the Recovery trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already has 400 million doses on order .
The Wellcome Trust funded the Recovery trial .
• You change your trial ’ s primary outcome measures after the trials have started , in order to prevent detection of drug-induced deaths ( Recovery ) or to make your drug appear to have efficacy ( NIAID Remdesivir trial ) .
• You stop manufacturers from supplying the drug .
Shortly after the fraudulentLancet paper came out , Sanofi announced it would no longer supply the drug for use with Covid , and would halt its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cancelled Sanofi trials was expected to test 210 outpatients early in the course of disease .
The trial remains suspended at the time of writing , while the Lancet paper was retracted 13 days after publication .
You surely don ’ t want a trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment early in the disease , since it might show an excellent effect .
And see this : Novartis will supply HCQ only under certain conditions , and halted its HCQ trial due to lack of enrollments , although enrollment was not an issue for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to retract published papersthat provide evidence to support use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID .
• You have your ‘ bought ’ scientistsconceal their financial conflicts of interest in their HCQ clinical trials and publicationsas well as in the guidelines they produce .
• You can get yourexperimental , unlicensed drugs tested , much more expeditiously and cheaply than under ordinary circumstances , on Covid patients in large clinical trials , but only as long as no drug is designated effective for the condition .
This opportunity only lasts while the “ standard of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ measures .
• You have a research organization with big Pharma members ( A.O.K.I . )
pressure the Russian Ministry of Healthto remove hydroxychloroquine from its treatment guidelines .
• You stopped use of hydroxychloroquine , allegedly in response to the fabricated Lancet study , in France , Italy and Belgium ( countries with very high COVID mortality rates ) then Portugal then Switzerland .
But Switzerland restarted using HCQ 15 days later.This created a natural experiment in Switzerland .
About 2 weeks after hydroxychloroquine use was halted , death rates approximately tripled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , after its use was allowed again , two weeks later death rates from Covid fell back to their baseline .
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It is remarkable that a series of events taking place over the past 3 months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine, and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe. The message is that generic, inexpensive hydroxychloroquine is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease, Covid-19, for which there are no (other) reliable treatments.
Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients. And so the message was crafted that the drug is safe for its other uses, but dangerous when used for Covid-19. It doesn’t make sense, but it seems to have worked.
Were these acts carefully orchestrated? You decide.
Might these events have been planned to keep the pandemic going? To sell expensive drugs and vaccines to a captive population? Could these acts result in prolonged economic and social hardship, eventually transferring wealth from the middle class to the very rich? Are these events evidence of a conspiracy? Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
Here is a list of what happened, in no special order. Please help add to this list if you know of other actions I should include. This will be a living document, added to as new information becomes available.
I have penned this as if it is the “To Do” list of items to be accomplished by those who pull the strings. The items on the list have already been carried out. One wonders what else might be on their list, yet to be carried out, for this pandemic.
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You stop doctors from using the drug in ways it is most likely to be effective (in outpatients at onset of illness). You prohibit use outside of situations you can control.
Situations that were controlled to show no benefit included 3 large, randomized, multi-center clinical trials (Recovery, Solidarity and REMAP-Covid), the kind of trials that are generally believed to yield the most reliable evidence. However, each of them used excessive hydroxychloroquine doses that were known to be toxic and may have been fatal in some cases; see my previous articles here and here.
You prevent or limit use in outpatients by controlling the supply of the drug, using different methods in different countries andstates. In NY state, by order of the governor, hydroxychloroquine could only be prescribed for hospitalized patients. France has issued a series of different regulations to limit prescribers from using it. France also changed the drugs’ status from over-the-counter to a drug requiring a prescription.
You play up the danger of the drug, emphasizing side effects that are very rare when the drug is used correctly. You make sure everyone has heard about theman who died after consuming hydroxychloroquine in the form of fish tank cleaner. Yet its toxicity at approved doses is minimal. Chloroquine was added to table salt in some regions in the 1950s as a malaria preventive, according to Professor Nicholas White in his study for the Recovery trial.
You limit clinical trials to hospitalized patients, instead of testing the drug in outpatients, early in the illness,when it is predicted to be most effective.
A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details) Finally, but not until May, you have Fauci’s NIAID conduct a trial in outpatients, using hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, but you only enroll 20 patients, after earlier planning for 2,000. Only half get the drugs. You reduce the duration of followup from 24 weeks to 13 days post treatment. This ridiculously small number of subjects assures meaningless results. Who pulled the plug on this trial?
You design clinical trials to givemuch too high a dose, ensuring the drug will cause harm in some subjects, sufficient to mask any possible beneficial effect. You make sure that trials in 400 hospitals in 35 countries (Solidarity) plus most hospitals in the UK (Recovery) use these dangerous doses, as well as additional sites in 13 countries (REMAP-Covid trial).
You design clinical trials tocollect almost no safety data, so any cause of death due to drug toxicity will be attributed to the disease instead of the drug.
You issue rules for use of the drug based on theresults of the UK Recovery study, which overdosed patients. Of course the Recovery results showed more deaths in the hydroxychloroquine arm, since they gave patients 2.4 g in the first 24 hrs, 800 mg/day thereafter. Furthermore, the UK has the 2nd highest death rate in the world for Covid-19 (Belgium is 1st), so simply conducting the trial in the UK may have contributed to the poor results.
You publish, in the world’s most-read medical journal, theLancet, an observational study from a huge worldwide database (96,000 Covid cases) that says use of chloroquine drugs caused significantly increased mortality. You make sure that all major media report on this result. This was said to be the nail in the coffin for hydroxychloroquine. Then you have 3 European countries announce they will not allow doctors to prescribe the drug.
You do your best to ride out any controversy, never admitting culpability. Even after hundreds of people renounced theLancet’s observational study due to easily identified fabrications–the database used in the study did not exist, and the claimed numbers did not agree with known numbers of cases–the Lancet held firm for two weeks, serving to muddy the waters about the trial, until finally 3 of its 4 coauthors (but not the journal) retracted the study. But neither the authors nor the journal admitted responsibility. You make sure very few media report that the data were fabricated and the “study” was fraudulent. Even though the story was full of scandalous details, it went largely unnoticed. You make sure people believe the original story: that hydroxychloroquine routinely kills.
You ensure federal agencies like FDA and CDC hew to your desired policies. For example,FDA advised use only in hospitalized patients (too late) or in clinical trials (which are limited, are difficult to enroll in, or may use excessive doses). As of mid June, FDA advises patients and doctors to only give the drug to patients if they are in a clinical trial where, presumably, the results can be controlled. The Case Against Masks... Heckenlively, Kent Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:52 UTC - Details )
You make sure to avoid funding/encouraging clinical trials that test drug combinations like hydroxychloroquine with zinc, with azithromycin, or with both, although there is ample clinical evidence that such combinations provide a cumulative benefit to patients. For example,one of very few studies to look at this combination had no funding.
You have federal and UN agencies make false, illogical claims based on models (or invention) rather than human data. For example, you have the FDA state on June 15 that the doserequired to treat Covid is so high it is toxic, after the Recovery and Solidarity trials have been exposed for toxic dosing. This scientific double-speak gives some legal cover to the clinical trials that overdosed their patients. According to Denise Hinton, RN, the FDA’s Chief Scientist (yes, a registered nurse without scientific qualifications is the Chief Scientist at FDA), or some clumsy FDA wordsmith:
“Under the assumption that in vivo cellular accumulation is similar to that from the in vitro cell-based assays, the calculated free lung concentrations that would result from the EUA suggested dosing regimens are well below the in vitro EC50/EC90 values, making the antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2 not likely achievable with the dosing regimens recommended in the EUA. The substantial increase in dosing that would be needed to increase the likelihood of an antiviral effect would not be acceptable due to toxicity concerns.”
You have a WHO report claim toxic doses are needed. This is nonsense since: Invincible Microbe: Tu... Blank, Alison Best Price: $7.88 Buy New $7.99 (as of 04:18 UTC - Details)
Toxicity was noted after only 3 days of treatment, during which 3.6 grams of chloroquine were administered. But the Solidarity (3.2 grams of hydroxychloroquine in 3 days), Recovery (3.6 grams of hydroxychloroquine in 3 days) and REMAP-Covid trials (3.6 grams of hydroxychloroquine in 3 days) continued overdosing patients until June, despite Brazil’s evidence of deaths by overdose.
Tellingly, JAMA editor Gordon Rubenfeld wrote in April, after the Brazilian study came out in JAMA, “if you are prescribing HCQ after these JAMA results, do yourself and your defense lawyer a favor. Document in your medical record that you informed the patient of the potential risks of HCQ including sudden death and its benefits (???).”
You create an NIH Guidelines committee for Covid treatment recommendations, in which16 members have or had financial entanglements with Gilead, maker of Remdesivir. The members were appointed by the Co-Chairs. Two of the three Co-Chairs are themselves financially entangled with Gilead. Are you surprised that their guidelines recommend specifically against the use of hydroxychloroquine and in favor of Remdesivir, and that they deem this the new “standard of care”?
You frighten doctors so they don’t prescribe hydroxychloroquine, if prescribing it is even allowed in their jurisdiction, because prescribing outside the newNIH “standard of care” leaves them open to malpractice lawsuits. You further tell them (through the FDA) they need to monitor a variety of lab parameters and patient EKGs when using the drug, although this was never advised before, which makes it very difficult to use the drug in outpatients. You have the European Medicines Agency issue similar warnings.
The only “safety” information collected during the trial was whether patients required oxygen, required a ventilator, or died. This effectively masked the adverse effects of the drugs tested.
I should mention that WHO’s initial plan for its Solidarity trial entirely omitted the chloroquine drugs, but they were added at the urging of participating nations. WHO’s fallback position appears to have been to use toxic doses.
You have theWHO pressure governments to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
You have theWHO pressure professional societies to stop doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
You make sure that the most-consulted US medical encyclopedia, UptoDate,advises physicians to restrict hydroxychloroquine to only clinical trials, citing the FDA.
You convince the population that the crisis will be long-lasting. You have the 2nd richest man in the world, and biggest funder of the WHO, Bill Gates, keep repeating to the media megaphone thatwe cannot go back to normal until everyone has been vaccinated or there is a perfect drug. (The Gates Foundation helped design the WHO clinical trials, helped fund the Recovery trial, and Gates is heavily invested in Covid pharmaceuticals and vaccines.)
You have CDC (with help from FDA)prevent the purchase of coronavirus test kits from Germany, China, WHO, etc, and fail to produce a valid test kit themselves. The result was that during January and February, US cases could not be tested, and for several months thereafter insufficient and unreliable test kits made it impossible to track the epidemic and stop the spread. Twilight of Democracy:... Applebaum, Anne Buy New $20.99 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details )
You have trusted medical spokesmen lie to the public about the pandemic’s severity, so precautions weren’t taken when they might have been more effective and less long-lasting. Congress wasrepeatedly briefed about the pandemic in January and February, which scared several Congress members enough that they sold off large amounts of stock, risking insider trading charges. Senator Burr is one of them, currently under investigation for major stock sales on February 13.
Yet Dr. Fauci told USA Today on February 17 that Americans should worry more about the flu than about coronavirus, the danger of which was “just miniscule.” Then on February 28, Drs. Fauci and Robert Redfield (CDC Director) wrote in the New England Journal:
“…the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.”
You destroy the reputation of respected physicians who stand in your way. Professor Didier Raoult and his team in Marseille have used hydroxychloroquine on over 4,000 patients, reporting a mortality rate of about 0.8%. (The mortality rate of patients given hydroxychloroquine in the Recovery trial was 25.7%.) Raoult is very famous for discovering over 100 different microorganisms, and finding the long-sought cause of Whipple’s Disease. With this reputation, Raoult apparently thought he could treat patients as he saw fit, which he has done, under great duress. Raoult was featured in a New York Times Magazinearticle, with his face on the magazine cover, on May 12, 2020. After describing his accomplishments, the Times very unfavorably discussed his personality, implied he conducted unethical trials without approval, and using anonymous sourcing produced a detailed hit piece. Raoult is now considered an unreliable crank in the US.
Physician and state senator Scott Jensen of Minnesota is being investigated by his state medical board due to anonymous complaints about what he said about COVID in interviews. Jensen was previously selected as “Family Physician of the Year” in his state. Now his medical license is at risk, not because of how he treated a patient, but for what he said outside of the office. Unprecedented.
You have social media platforms ban content that does not agree with the desired narrative. As YouTube CEO and ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin, Susan Wojcickisaid,
DARK AGENDA: The War t... Horowitz, David Best Price: $16.84 Buy New $18.39 (as of 03:16 UTC - Details) “YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations. Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy.”
When your clinical trials are criticized for overdosing patients, you have Oxford-affiliated, Wellcome Trust-supported scientists at Mahidol University publish papers (aliterature review with modeling and a modeling study) purporting to show that the doses used were not toxic. You develop a new method to measure hydroxychloroquine in a handful of Recovery patients who were not poisoned. However, there are 2 problems you forgot with this approach:
The Brazilian data, including 16 deaths, extensive clinical information and documented ventricular arrhythmias, are much more persuasive than a theoretical model of hydroxychloroquine pharmacokinetics.
Either the drug is too toxic to use, even at normal doses, for a life-threatening disease, or even extremely high doses are safe. You can’t have it both ways.
Oxford is the institution running the Recovery trial, and invented a Covid vaccine that already has 400 million doses on order. The Wellcome Trust funded the Recovery trial.
You change your trial’s primary outcome measures after the trials have started, in order to prevent detection of drug-induced deaths (Recovery) or to make your drug appear to have efficacy (NIAID Remdesivir trial).
You stop manufacturers from supplying the drug. Shortly after the fraudulentLancet paper came out, Sanofi announced it would no longer supply the drug for use with Covid, and would halt its two hydroxychloroquine clinical trials. One of the cancelled Sanofi trials was expected to test 210 outpatients early in the course of disease. The trial remains suspended at the time of writing, while the Lancet paper was retracted 13 days after publication. You surely don’t want a trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment early in the disease, since it might show an excellent effect.
And see this: Novartis will supply HCQ only under certain conditions, and halted its HCQ trial due to lack of enrollments, although enrollment was not an issue for its other COVID trials.
http://www.francesoir.fr/societe-sante/covid-19-lhydroxychloroquine-marche-une-preuve-irrefutable)
This originally appeared on Anthrax Vaccine Blogspot.


lewrockwell--2020-07-21--USA: The Slippery Slope of Egalitarian Racism

The reactions to the murder of black George Flyod by a white policeman do not refer to the history of slavery in the United States , but – like the systemic opposition to President Trump- to a profound problem in Anglo-Saxon culture : Puritan fanaticism .
The domestic violence that rocked this country during the two civil wars of Independence and Secession must be remembered in order to understand current events and prevent their resurgence .
Beware : in the United States , the political class now preaches egalitarian racism .
All equal , but separate .
About four hundred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their country where they were considered fanatics .
They took refuge in Leiden , Holland , where they were able to live according to the Calvinist tradition , or more precisely the Puritan interpretation of Christianity .
Probably at the request of King James I , they sent two groups to the Americas to fight against the Spanish Empire .
The first founded what was to become the United States , the second was lost in Central America .
Tocqueville on America ... Ledeen , Michael A .
Best Price : $ 3.99 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Puritans took power in England with Lord Cromwell .
They beheaded the Papist King Charles I , established an egalitarian Commonwealth and colonized Ireland , massacring Catholics en masse .
This bloodthirsty experiment was short-lived and discredited for a long time the idea of a General Interest ( Res Publica ) in the eyes of the English .
The 35 Pilgrim Fathers set out from Leiden , stopped in England , and then crossed the ocean on the Mayflower .
They arrived in North America in 1620 to practice their religion freely .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covenant in which they vowed to establish a model society ( strict observance of the Calvinist faith and cult , intense community life , and unfailing social and moral discipline ) .
By creating the Colony of Plymouth , they hoped to build the “ New Jerusalem ” after fleeing from the “ Pharaoh ” ( James I ) and crossing the “ Red Sea ” ( the Atlantic ) .
After a year , they thanked God for their epic , which is commemorated each year as Thanksgiving .
[ 1 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ north , in Boston .
Their community veiled its women , practiced public confessions and corporal punishment .
These events are not only myths that every American should know , they shape the political system of the USA .
Eight out of 45 presidents ( including the Bushes ) are direct descendants of the 35 “ Pilgrim Fathers ” .
Despite the arrival of tens of millions of immigrants and institutional appearances , their ideology remained in power for four centuries , until the election of Donald Trump .
A very closed club @ @ @ @ @ @ @ together , under the authority of the English monarch , very high British and American personalities .
It set up the “ Special Relationship ” between London and Washington and , among other things , provided many secretaries and advisers to President Obama .
Many ceremonies planned this year for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower have been cancelled due to the fight against the coronavirus epidemic , in particular the conference that the former British National Security Advisor was to give at Pilgrim ’ s Society .
Bad tongues assure that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US presidential election , if Donald Trump loses it , and that the festivities can then take place .
White Guilt : How Black ... Steele , Shelby Best Price : $ 13.13 Buy New $ 10.08 There are two cultures that have always been opposed in the United States among Christians : Calvinists or Puritans on the one hand , and Catholics , Anglicans and Lutherans on the other .
While some “ denominations ” among the eight hundred US churches resolutely line up on one side , most are crossed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corpus .
It is rather a way of thinking .
The War of Independence began in 1773 with the Boston Tea Party .
Its first actor was John Adams , another direct descendant of one of the 35 “ Pilgrim Fathers ” and second president of the United States .
While the call for independence was made by the political journalist Thomas Paine based on religious arguments although he himself did not believe in anything .
In a way , the War of Independence was a continuation in the Americas of Lord Cromwell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Great Rebellion ” ) .
This conflict would resurface a third time with the Civil War , which , it should be remembered , had nothing to do with slavery ( both sides practised it at the beginning of the war and both sides repealed it during the war to hire former slaves into their armies ) .
The Puritans lost in England with Cromwell ’ s Republic , but won the next two times in the United States .
Historian Kevin Phillips , who was Republican electoral adviser to Republican Richard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the 35 “ Pilgrim Fathers ” ) , has studied this conflict at length over the centuries .
[ 2 ] It is on the basis of this data that he imagined the strategy of “ Law and Order ” in the face of the segregationist Democrat George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election ; a strategy that Donald Trump has taken up again for the 2020 election .
All this to say that appearances are deceiving .
The dividing lines are not where the rest of the world thinks they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absolute equality , but only among Christians .
They long forbade Jews from entering the civil service and massacred the Indians they claimed to love .
During the American Civil War , they extended their egalitarianism to blacks ( unlike the Puritans in southern Africa , who defended apartheid to the end ) , giving rise to the false myth of a war against slavery .
Today , they defend the idea that humanity is divided between equal and , if possible , separate races .
They are still reluctant to call them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the bottom of their scale of values .
It can not be for them a ruse , but always the worst of crimes , far more serious than robbery and murder .
In the seventeenth century , they punished with the whip for lying to a pastor for any reason .
They established laws that still punish lying to a federal official for any reason .
What ’ s Race Got ... Elder , Larry Best Price : $ 46.85 With time , and particularly in the 19th century , another current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evangelism .
These are Christians of all denominations who try to get closer to the original Christianity of which they know little .
So they rely on the sacred texts .
Like the Puritans , the Evangelicals are fundamentalists , i.e .
they give the Scriptures the role of a divine word and interpret them while refusing any contextualization of the texts .
But they are much more pragmatic .
On everything , they have a position of principle , but when faced with a problem , they act in conscience and not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is very easy to make fun of the grotesque convictions of the Evangelicals against the theory of evolution , but this is of little importance and they abandon it when necessary .
It is much more significant , but unfortunately rarer , to denounce the puritanical vision of a humanity divided into distinct , equal , but separate races .
Yet this has serious consequences on a daily basis .
The Puritans remained the masters of U.S. politics until 1997 , when Libertine President Bill Clinton issued an executive order banning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ institutions .
The result was a shift in religion from the Administration to the private sector .
All major corporations accepted prayer groups in their workplaces .
This shift favored the public emergence of Evangelicals at the expense of Puritans .
The conflict between the Puritans and the rest of society is today taking a radical and religious turn .
It opposes two mentalities , one idealist , egalitarian within their community and fanatical , the other sometimes even more extravagant , agreeing on inequalities , but realistic .
Puritan Hillary Clinton hesitated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure in the presidential election [ 3 ] .
She sinned a lot ( her affair with Vince Foster ) , was punished by God ( her husband ’ s affair with Monica Lewinsky ) repented ( within the Pentagon Family [ 4 ] ) and was saved .
She is sure that she was chosen by God and takes pride in her violence against non-Christian peoples .
She supports all wars against the “ enemies of America ” and hopes to see the return of Christ .
Please Stop Helping Us ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 17.99 Buy New $ 9.50 On the contrary , Donald Trump shows no interest in theology , has only an approximate knowledge of the Bible and a summary faith .
He has sinned as much as anyone else , but boasts of what he has achieved rather than repenting of his sins in public .
He doubts himself and compensates for his feeling of inferiority with excessive egotism .
He loves to compete with his enemies , but does not want to destroy them .
In any case , he embodies the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country ( “ Make America Great Again !
” ) rather than to pursue wars always and everywhere , which makes him the champion of the Evangelicals against the Puritans .
He offers the opportunity for Christians to reform themselves rather than convert the world .
In the 2016 election campaign , I asked the question , “ Will the United States reform or tear itself apart ?
» [ 5 ] In my view , only Donald Trump could allow the USA to continue as a nation , while Hillary Clinton would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dissolution of the country on the model of the end of the USSR .
What has happened since the death of George Flyod shows that I was not mistaken .
Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party supporters are imposing their ideology .
They fight against lies and destroy statues like their Puritan ancestors burned the Salem witches .
They develop an absurd reading of their own society , denying social conflicts and interpreting inequalities only in terms of so-called distinct human races .
They disarm the local police and force “ white ” personalities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invisible privilege .
In the Russian case , the discontinuation of the prosecution of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and the presidential pardon granted to Donald Trump ’ s former advisor , Roger Stone , sparked angry protests from Puritans .
Neither man harmed anyone , but they dared to lie to the FBI to keep him out of the White House .
The mayor of Minneapolis ( the town of George Flyod ) was publicly humiliated for refusing to disband the “ racist ” city police .
While Seattle City Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in half .
This does not bother the upper social classes living in private residences , but deprives those who can not afford private security guards .
The Associated Press , then the New Yok Times , the Los Angeles Times and soon almost all US media , decided to write Black with a capital letter when referring to “ race ” [ 6 ] , but not White in the same way .
Indeed , the fact of writing White with a capital letter is a distinctive sign of the white supremacists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ renaming its military bases with the names of southern personalities accused of being “ racist ” and sent an e-mail to all civilian and military personnel of the US Army denouncing as “ extreme right ” the claim that there is only one human race .
Although these initiatives have provoked a strong reaction from the trumped-up GIs and have failed , they mark a very dangerous escalation [ 8 ] .
All these decisions demonstrate a loss of collective rationality .
[ 1 ] This Land Is Their Land : The Wampanoag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Troubled History of Thanksgiving , David J. Silverman , Bloomsbury Publishing ( 2019 ) .
[ 2 ] The Cousins ’ Wars : Religion , Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America , Kevin Phillips , Basic Books ( 1999 ) .
[ 3 ] “ Hillary Wants to Preach ” , Emma Green , The Atlantic , August 6 , 2017 .
[ 4 ] The Family : The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , Jeff Sharlet , Harper Perennial ( 2009 ) .
[ 6 ] “ Racism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Meyssan , Translation Roger Lagassé , Voltaire Network , 22 June 2020 .
[ 7 ] Uppercasing ‘ Black ’ , Dean Baquet and Phil Corbett , The New York Times , June 30 , 2020 .
The Best of Thierry Meyssan

The reactions to the murder of black George Flyod by a white policeman do not refer to the history of slavery in the United States, but – like the systemic opposition to President Trump- to a profound problem in Anglo-Saxon culture: Puritan fanaticism. The domestic violence that rocked this country during the two civil wars of Independence and Secession must be remembered in order to understand current events and prevent their resurgence. Beware: in the United States, the political class now preaches egalitarian racism. All equal, but separate.
The Anglo-Saxon Puritans
About four hundred members of the Church of England fled their country where they were considered fanatics. They took refuge in Leiden, Holland, where they were able to live according to the Calvinist tradition, or more precisely the Puritan interpretation of Christianity. Probably at the request of King James I, they sent two groups to the Americas to fight against the Spanish Empire. The first founded what was to become the United States, the second was lost in Central America. Tocqueville on America... Ledeen, Michael A. Best Price: $3.99 Buy New $4.99 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
Later, the Puritans took power in England with Lord Cromwell. They beheaded the Papist King Charles I, established an egalitarian Commonwealth and colonized Ireland, massacring Catholics en masse. This bloodthirsty experiment was short-lived and discredited for a long time the idea of a General Interest (Res Publica) in the eyes of the English.
The 35 Pilgrim Fathers set out from Leiden, stopped in England, and then crossed the ocean on the Mayflower. They arrived in North America in 1620 to practice their religion freely. During their voyage, they signed a Covenant in which they vowed to establish a model society (strict observance of the Calvinist faith and cult, intense community life, and unfailing social and moral discipline). By creating the Colony of Plymouth, they hoped to build the “New Jerusalem” after fleeing from the “Pharaoh” (James I) and crossing the “Red Sea” (the Atlantic). After a year, they thanked God for their epic, which is commemorated each year as Thanksgiving. [1] They established their capital city 60 kilometers north, in Boston. Their community veiled its women, practiced public confessions and corporal punishment.
These events are not only myths that every American should know, they shape the political system of the USA. Eight out of 45 presidents (including the Bushes) are direct descendants of the 35 “Pilgrim Fathers”. Despite the arrival of tens of millions of immigrants and institutional appearances, their ideology remained in power for four centuries, until the election of Donald Trump. A very closed club, Pilgrim’s Sociey, brought together, under the authority of the English monarch, very high British and American personalities. It set up the “Special Relationship” between London and Washington and, among other things, provided many secretaries and advisers to President Obama.
Many ceremonies planned this year for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower have been cancelled due to the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, in particular the conference that the former British National Security Advisor was to give at Pilgrim’s Society. Bad tongues assure that the epidemic will end the day after the US presidential election, if Donald Trump loses it, and that the festivities can then take place. White Guilt: How Black... Steele, Shelby Best Price: $13.13 Buy New $10.08 (as of 05:01 UTC - Details)
There are two cultures that have always been opposed in the United States among Christians: Calvinists or Puritans on the one hand, and Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans on the other. While some “denominations” among the eight hundred US churches resolutely line up on one side, most are crossed by both because Puritanism has no defined theological corpus. It is rather a way of thinking.
The War of Independence began in 1773 with the Boston Tea Party. Its first actor was John Adams, another direct descendant of one of the 35 “Pilgrim Fathers” and second president of the United States. While the call for independence was made by the political journalist Thomas Paine based on religious arguments although he himself did not believe in anything.
In a way, the War of Independence was a continuation in the Americas of Lord Cromwell’s British Civil War (the “Great Rebellion”). This conflict would resurface a third time with the Civil War, which, it should be remembered, had nothing to do with slavery (both sides practised it at the beginning of the war and both sides repealed it during the war to hire former slaves into their armies).
The Puritans lost in England with Cromwell’s Republic, but won the next two times in the United States. Historian Kevin Phillips, who was Republican electoral adviser to Republican Richard Nixon (descendant of a brother of one of the 35 “Pilgrim Fathers”), has studied this conflict at length over the centuries. [2] It is on the basis of this data that he imagined the strategy of “Law and Order” in the face of the segregationist Democrat George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election; a strategy that Donald Trump has taken up again for the 2020 election.
All this to say that appearances are deceiving. The dividing lines are not where the rest of the world thinks they are.
The Puritans have always supported absolute equality, but only among Christians. They long forbade Jews from entering the civil service and massacred the Indians they claimed to love. During the American Civil War, they extended their egalitarianism to blacks (unlike the Puritans in southern Africa, who defended apartheid to the end), giving rise to the false myth of a war against slavery. Today, they defend the idea that humanity is divided between equal and, if possible, separate races. They are still reluctant to call them interracial marriages.
The Puritans place lying at the bottom of their scale of values. It cannot be for them a ruse, but always the worst of crimes, far more serious than robbery and murder. In the seventeenth century, they punished with the whip for lying to a pastor for any reason. They established laws that still punish lying to a federal official for any reason. What’s Race Got ... Elder, Larry Best Price: $46.85 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
US Evangelism
With time, and particularly in the 19th century, another current of thought arose within American Christianity: evangelism. These are Christians of all denominations who try to get closer to the original Christianity of which they know little. So they rely on the sacred texts. Like the Puritans, the Evangelicals are fundamentalists, i.e. they give the Scriptures the role of a divine word and interpret them while refusing any contextualization of the texts. But they are much more pragmatic. On everything, they have a position of principle, but when faced with a problem, they act in conscience and not according to the rules of their community.
It is very easy to make fun of the grotesque convictions of the Evangelicals against the theory of evolution, but this is of little importance and they abandon it when necessary. It is much more significant, but unfortunately rarer, to denounce the puritanical vision of a humanity divided into distinct, equal, but separate races. Yet this has serious consequences on a daily basis.
The Puritans remained the masters of U.S. politics until 1997, when Libertine President Bill Clinton issued an executive order banning all expressions of religious faith in federal institutions. The result was a shift in religion from the Administration to the private sector. All major corporations accepted prayer groups in their workplaces. This shift favored the public emergence of Evangelicals at the expense of Puritans.
The Return of Puritan Fanaticism
The conflict between the Puritans and the rest of society is today taking a radical and religious turn. It opposes two mentalities, one idealist, egalitarian within their community and fanatical, the other sometimes even more extravagant, agreeing on inequalities, but realistic.
Puritan Hillary Clinton hesitated to become a Methodist pastor after her failure in the presidential election [3]. She sinned a lot (her affair with Vince Foster), was punished by God (her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky) repented (within the Pentagon Family [4]) and was saved. She is sure that she was chosen by God and takes pride in her violence against non-Christian peoples. She supports all wars against the “enemies of America” and hopes to see the return of Christ. Please Stop Helping Us... Riley, Jason L. Best Price: $17.99 Buy New $9.50 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
On the contrary, Donald Trump shows no interest in theology, has only an approximate knowledge of the Bible and a summary faith. He has sinned as much as anyone else, but boasts of what he has achieved rather than repenting of his sins in public. He doubts himself and compensates for his feeling of inferiority with excessive egotism. He loves to compete with his enemies, but does not want to destroy them. In any case, he embodies the will to restore the greatness of their country (“Make America Great Again!”) rather than to pursue wars always and everywhere, which makes him the champion of the Evangelicals against the Puritans. He offers the opportunity for Christians to reform themselves rather than convert the world.
In the 2016 election campaign, I asked the question, “Will the United States reform or tear itself apart? » [5] In my view, only Donald Trump could allow the USA to continue as a nation, while Hillary Clinton would provoke a civil war and probably the dissolution of the country on the model of the end of the USSR. What has happened since the death of George Flyod shows that I was not mistaken.
Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party supporters are imposing their ideology. They fight against lies and destroy statues like their Puritan ancestors burned the Salem witches. They develop an absurd reading of their own society, denying social conflicts and interpreting inequalities only in terms of so-called distinct human races. They disarm the local police and force “white” personalities to apologize in public for enjoying an invisible privilege.
In the Russian case, the discontinuation of the prosecution of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and the presidential pardon granted to Donald Trump’s former advisor, Roger Stone, sparked angry protests from Puritans. Neither man harmed anyone, but they dared to lie to the FBI to keep him out of the White House.
The mayor of Minneapolis (the town of George Flyod) was publicly humiliated for refusing to disband the “racist” city police. While Seattle City Council has just cut its city police budget in half. This does not bother the upper social classes living in private residences, but deprives those who cannot afford private security guards.
The Associated Press, then the New Yok Times, the Los Angeles Times and soon almost all US media, decided to write Black with a capital letter when referring to “race” [6], but not White in the same way. Indeed, the fact of writing White with a capital letter is a distinctive sign of the white supremacists [7].
The Pentagon considered renaming its military bases with the names of southern personalities accused of being “racist” and sent an e-mail to all civilian and military personnel of the US Army denouncing as “extreme right” the claim that there is only one human race. Although these initiatives have provoked a strong reaction from the trumped-up GIs and have failed, they mark a very dangerous escalation [8].
All these decisions demonstrate a loss of collective rationality.
—
[1] This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, David J. Silverman, Bloomsbury Publishing (2019).
[2] The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America, Kevin Phillips, Basic Books (1999).
[3] “Hillary Wants to Preach”, Emma Green, The Atlantic, August 6, 2017.
[4] The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Jeff Sharlet, Harper Perennial (2009).
[5] “United States – reformation or fracture?”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 26 October 2016.
[6] “Racism and anti-racism as lies”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 22 June 2020.
[7] Uppercasing ‘Black’, Dean Baquet and Phil Corbett, The New York Times, June 30, 2020.
[8] “US Army against Trump”, Voltaire Network, 11 July 2020.
The Best of Thierry Meyssan


lewrockwell--2020-07-21--On Opportunity Missed; or, the One That Got Away

Procrastination has always been my chief vice , and it finally caught up with me on June 24 of this year at about 3:30 in the afternoon .
But let ’ s back up a bit .
A friend had sent an email recommending a certain brand of knife for self-defense carry , and I thanked him for the reminder that I needed to do the same .
I eventually decided on a Spyderco folding knife and ordered one through the mail .
For those not familiar with the brand , the base of the closed blade sticks out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a big hole through it .
The tip of the thumb is inserted into the hole for purchase , allowing the knife to be thumbed opened with just one hand .
After my Spyderco arrived , I set it on my desk and would practice thumbing it open during breaks from the computer screen .
Being right handed and carrying my keys in my right pocket , I knew that I would have to start carrying my keys in my left pocket and my blade in my right pocket for quick , one-handed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I just hadn ’ t gotten around to actually doing that yet .
Besides , who thinks he ’ s going to be targeted for robbery in the laundromat of his own gated apartment complex ?
Spyderco Tenacious Lig ... Buy New $ 49.00 I had just put my clothes in the dryer when I heard a voice say , “ Give me your wallet !
” I turned and saw a black male , early twenties , six-two , athletic build , gray ensemble consisting of do-rag , muscle shirt , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He had a revolver in his right hand that was pointed straight at me .
Naturally this was somewhat disconcerting , and my mind took a moment to take it all in .
I didn ’ t want to just hand over my wallet with all my credit cards and identification in it , knowing he might shoot me anyway so as to leave no witnesses .
The old Jack Benny line—your money or your life / I ’ m thinking about it—flashed through my mind .
My hesitation apparently vexed my assailant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the revolver at me and striking me on the cheek bone on the left side of my face .
He then stepped back , keeping the revolver trained on me .
But in that short time I had hatched a plan , and I immediately implemented it .
I pulled out my wallet , took out the cash—it wasn ’ t that much—and put my wallet back in my hip pocket .
I then waved the cash in front of him before throwing it up in the air in his direction as if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up onto the stage during a “ make it rain ” strip club performance .
Then I moved in and engaged , going for the revolver .
I managed to get both hands on it .
Now for an old guy—I ’ m 67—I ’ ve still got a pretty good grip .
In my younger days , deadlifting was a regular part of my weight workout regimen .
I used to do all kinds of grip exercises , including squeezing a ball of wax just like Charles Bronson did in The Mechanic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ little recreational judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu , sports where getting a good grip on the fabric of your opponent ’ s outfit was an important part of the game .
In a surreal moment , like something right out of action cinema , I dropped down on one knee , pulling him off balance , and wrenched his wrist around so the gun was pointing at him .
His index finger had come out of the trigger guard , so I inserted my index finger and squeezed the trigger , hoping for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nothing happened .
WTF !
The next thing I knew , he let go of the gun , hurriedly scooped up the bills , and fled .
I looked down at what appeared to be an antiquated .38 in my hands .
I rotated the cylinder ; every chamber was empty .
Had I had my Spyderco in my right pocket , I could have gotten it out after I had thrown the bills in the air , thumbed it open , and charged him , going for center body mass with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perfect specimen of thug into my hands that I could have legally dispatched , but my own procrastination had kept me from achieving that beneficial end .
A lot of good the Spyderco did me sitting on the desk in my apartment .
I walked back to my apartment with my trophy and phoned 911 .
While I waited , I took a look at myself in the mirror .
Blood from a jagged laceration ran down the left side of my face and all over the front of my shirt .
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ style !
Soon a couple of Houston ’ s finest arrived , a young woman and an older man whose name patch suggested that he was a Nigerian immigrant or the son of immigrants .
The first thing I did was turn the gun over to them .
They were both very professional and sympathetic as they took the report , informing me that EMTs would be arriving to check me out .
The female officer took a photo of my injury .
When the trio of male EMTs arrived , they asked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this ?
” and “ What ’ s your apartment number ?
” I knew what they were doing , and I gave appropriate responses .
Then it was my turn .
“ What year did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks ?
” WASP Personal Defense ... Buy New $ 99.99 “ Uh , 1500 ?
” ventured one of the EMTs .
One EMT asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital , but I said only if it was absolutely necessary , like if I needed to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t required , and that I just needed to keep the wound clean and covered and to use Neosporin on it .
They had already cleaned and disinfected the area .
I thanked them all just before they left .
I then showed the officers to the scene of the crime .
Little red dime-sized dots spattered the floor tiles of the area of the laundromat where it all took place .
I took my clothes out of the dryer , and the officers escorted me back to my apartment , after which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ female officer had even offered to help me carry my laundry back .
God bless the Houston Police Department .
And may every idiot who wants to defund them be pistol whipped across the face by some thug to knock some sense into them .
All in all , I felt that I had acquitted myself fairly well , this being the first time something like this had ever happened to me .
I ’ ve heard that things like this can really mess up some people ’ s minds , even to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PTSD and being fearful of venturing out to go about their daily business .
Not me ; I was just mad at myself that I hadn ’ t been able to kill the bastard .
Knifing a thug surged to the top of my bucket list .
And the next time around I would be prepared , and being prepared would give me even greater sangfroid and steady nerve .
Guard Dog Security Hor ... Buy New $ 24.99 Another matter about which I had been procrastinating was getting my license to carry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sent in my application , and I ’ ve ordered a well recommended brand of pocket pistol for easy concealment .
When I went out to buy ammunition to have on hand for when my pistol finally arrives , I was shocked to find that all the gun stores had run out .
How the hell can a city as big as Houston run out of something as common as .380 ACP ammo ?
It then dawned on me that dwindling ammo supply was a rising barometer reading of anticipated social unrest .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ found a supplier that offered bulk quantities only , and I ordered their package deal that included seven boxes of 50 rounds each along with a tactical sling pack to carry the ammo in .
When I checked their website not too long after placing my order , they had already run out of the .380 ACP bulk packages ; my order was evidently one of the last few they had on hand .
Now even if a person does have a bona fide license to carry , entities can still bar the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
No problem .
I ’ ll just take my pistol out of my right pocket , stow it in my vehicle , and slide the Spyderco into my right pocket .
Having a blade isn ’ t quite as good as having a gun , but it ’ s a whole lot better than being completely unarmed , that ’ s for sure .
All I can do is be as legally prepared as I possibly can under the circumstances and not fail in my objective should Providence see fit to send @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of George Hollenback

Procrastination has always been my chief vice, and it finally caught up with me on June 24 of this year at about 3:30 in the afternoon. But let’s back up a bit. A friend had sent an email recommending a certain brand of knife for self-defense carry, and I thanked him for the reminder that I needed to do the same. I eventually decided on a Spyderco folding knife and ordered one through the mail. For those not familiar with the brand, the base of the closed blade sticks out of the handle like a hump and has a big hole through it. The tip of the thumb is inserted into the hole for purchase, allowing the knife to be thumbed opened with just one hand.
After my Spyderco arrived, I set it on my desk and would practice thumbing it open during breaks from the computer screen. Being right handed and carrying my keys in my right pocket, I knew that I would have to start carrying my keys in my left pocket and my blade in my right pocket for quick, one-handed deployment. But, being a procrastinator, I just hadn’t gotten around to actually doing that yet. Besides, who thinks he’s going to be targeted for robbery in the laundromat of his own gated apartment complex?
Spyderco Tenacious Lig... Buy New $49.00 (as of 04:37 UTC - Details) I had just put my clothes in the dryer when I heard a voice say, “Give me your wallet!” I turned and saw a black male, early twenties, six-two, athletic build, gray ensemble consisting of do-rag, muscle shirt, and shorts, no face mask. He had a revolver in his right hand that was pointed straight at me. Naturally this was somewhat disconcerting, and my mind took a moment to take it all in. I didn’t want to just hand over my wallet with all my credit cards and identification in it, knowing he might shoot me anyway so as to leave no witnesses. The old Jack Benny line—your money or your life / I’m thinking about it—flashed through my mind. My hesitation apparently vexed my assailant, and he stepped forward, swinging the revolver at me and striking me on the cheek bone on the left side of my face. He then stepped back, keeping the revolver trained on me.
But in that short time I had hatched a plan, and I immediately implemented it. I pulled out my wallet, took out the cash—it wasn’t that much—and put my wallet back in my hip pocket. I then waved the cash in front of him before throwing it up in the air in his direction as if I were throwing a handful of bills up onto the stage during a “make it rain” strip club performance. Then I moved in and engaged, going for the revolver. I managed to get both hands on it. Now for an old guy—I’m 67—I’ve still got a pretty good grip. In my younger days, deadlifting was a regular part of my weight workout regimen. I used to do all kinds of grip exercises, including squeezing a ball of wax just like Charles Bronson did in The Mechanic. And I had also done a little recreational judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, sports where getting a good grip on the fabric of your opponent’s outfit was an important part of the game.
In a surreal moment, like something right out of action cinema, I dropped down on one knee, pulling him off balance, and wrenched his wrist around so the gun was pointing at him. His index finger had come out of the trigger guard, so I inserted my index finger and squeezed the trigger, hoping for a loud bang! followed by a groan. Nothing happened. WTF! The next thing I knew, he let go of the gun, hurriedly scooped up the bills, and fled. I looked down at what appeared to be an antiquated .38 in my hands. I rotated the cylinder; every chamber was empty.
Had I had my Spyderco in my right pocket, I could have gotten it out after I had thrown the bills in the air, thumbed it open, and charged him, going for center body mass with the blade. Providence had delivered a perfect specimen of thug into my hands that I could have legally dispatched, but my own procrastination had kept me from achieving that beneficial end. A lot of good the Spyderco did me sitting on the desk in my apartment.
I walked back to my apartment with my trophy and phoned 911. While I waited, I took a look at myself in the mirror. Blood from a jagged laceration ran down the left side of my face and all over the front of my shirt. My very own Heidelberg dueling scar, Houston style! Soon a couple of Houston’s finest arrived, a young woman and an older man whose name patch suggested that he was a Nigerian immigrant or the son of immigrants. The first thing I did was turn the gun over to them. They were both very professional and sympathetic as they took the report, informing me that EMTs would be arriving to check me out. The female officer took a photo of my injury.
When the trio of male EMTs arrived, they asked me questions like “What city is this?” and “What’s your apartment number?” I knew what they were doing, and I gave appropriate responses.
Then it was my turn. “What year did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks?” WASP Personal Defense ... Buy New $99.99 (as of 04:37 UTC - Details)
“Uh, 1500?” ventured one of the EMTs.
“You’re close. It was 1453.”
One EMT asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital, but I said only if it was absolutely necessary, like if I needed to get stitches. He said stitches weren’t required, and that I just needed to keep the wound clean and covered and to use Neosporin on it. They had already cleaned and disinfected the area. I thanked them all just before they left.
I then showed the officers to the scene of the crime. Little red dime-sized dots spattered the floor tiles of the area of the laundromat where it all took place. I took my clothes out of the dryer, and the officers escorted me back to my apartment, after which I thanked them for everything. The female officer had even offered to help me carry my laundry back. God bless the Houston Police Department. And may every idiot who wants to defund them be pistol whipped across the face by some thug to knock some sense into them.
All in all, I felt that I had acquitted myself fairly well, this being the first time something like this had ever happened to me. I’ve heard that things like this can really mess up some people’s minds, even to the extent of their coming down with PTSD and being fearful of venturing out to go about their daily business. Not me; I was just mad at myself that I hadn’t been able to kill the bastard. Knifing a thug surged to the top of my bucket list. And the next time around I would be prepared, and being prepared would give me even greater sangfroid and steady nerve. Guard Dog Security Hor... Buy New $24.99 (as of 04:37 UTC - Details)
Another matter about which I had been procrastinating was getting my license to carry a handgun. I’ve since sent in my application, and I’ve ordered a well recommended brand of pocket pistol for easy concealment. When I went out to buy ammunition to have on hand for when my pistol finally arrives, I was shocked to find that all the gun stores had run out. How the hell can a city as big as Houston run out of something as common as .380 ACP ammo? It then dawned on me that dwindling ammo supply was a rising barometer reading of anticipated social unrest. In desperation, I searched online and found a supplier that offered bulk quantities only, and I ordered their package deal that included seven boxes of 50 rounds each along with a tactical sling pack to carry the ammo in. When I checked their website not too long after placing my order, they had already run out of the .380 ACP bulk packages; my order was evidently one of the last few they had on hand.
Now even if a person does have a bona fide license to carry, entities can still bar the carrying of firearms on their own premises. No problem. I’ll just take my pistol out of my right pocket, stow it in my vehicle, and slide the Spyderco into my right pocket. Having a blade isn’t quite as good as having a gun, but it’s a whole lot better than being completely unarmed, that’s for sure. All I can do is be as legally prepared as I possibly can under the circumstances and not fail in my objective should Providence see fit to send another thug my way.
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