WEEKEND WRAP: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), Zinc, America's Frontline Doctors and the COVID-19 Tipping Point

The amount of misinformation that is being presented by the mainstream media surrounding the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has become practically overwhelming. The degree to which the media now stretches and distorts events and statistics that do not comport to their ongoing, accepted narrative has reached a point at which the nightly broadcasts from the likes of ABC, CBS, and NBC and the 24-hour non-stop train wreck of coverage by CNN can aptly be regarded as propaganda. It is not news. It is not journalism. It is agenda-driven, twisted, stretched beyond reasonable limits of credulity propaganda.

What broadcast media - and by extension, the readers of discredited, biased reportage by the New York Times and Washington Post - wants the public to believe is that COVID-19 is a existential threat to all of humanity, that it is raging out of control and that it can only be stopped by a vaccine which must be universally accepted when it (or any number of vaccines) becomes available sometime in early 2021.

In other words, the media pushed an agenda driven by government officials who relied on sketchy, unreliable data to shut down most of the US economy, badly damaged the general psyche of the American populace, and they're pushing to go back into nationwide lockdown mode again or at least mandate nationwide mask-wearing, school closings and business disruptions.

The over-the-top propagandizing of the "pandemic" and the now-evident pushback, notably by doctors, has put America and the COVID-19 debate at a veritable tipping point.

So intensely arrogant and oppressive is the media onslaught that it needs to be examined for journalistic competence. We'll start with one article that highlighted a study concerning the drug, hydroxychloroquine, or HCQ, for short.

This article on CNN.com needs to be analyzed from a journalistic perspective, not from a scientific or political point of view, because the science is unsettled and the politics is known to be badly biased. Bear in mind, this was published on June 3, 2020.

Here's the headline:
Trump said he took hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus, but new study shows that doesn't work.

Fine. Let's examine the journalistic rigor involved in coming to the headline conclusion.

At about the middle of the article, this is what is posted:
No difference between hydroxychloroquine and placebo - That's a sub-headline.

Then the article makes this claim:
The University of Minnesota study is a double-blind randomized clinical control trial, considered the gold standard in medicine.

Keep that in mind. This statement will be challenged by the article itself.

Here is the meat of the article:

Starting in mid-March, [Dr. David] Boulware and his colleagues recruited 821 people in the US and Canada who had been exposed to Covid-19. Some were health care workers and others lived in the same house as someone with the virus. The median age was 40.

About half the study subjects were assigned to take hydroxychloroquine for five days, and the other half were assigned to take a placebo, or a pill that does nothing. Neither the researchers nor the study subjects knew who was taking which drug.

The researchers then monitored the study subjects for two weeks.

In the end, it didn't matter if they received the drug or not: about 12% of those taking hydroxychloroquine came down with symptoms of Covid-19, compared to about 14% of those taking the placebo, a difference that was not statistically significant.

Fine. No statistical difference. Keep in mind the part about the study being "double-blind randomized clinical control trial, considered the gold standard in medicine," because the article itself - remember, we're judging journalistic integrity here - will refute this statement in the very next paragraph.

In both groups, most of the patients did not receive a Covid-19 diagnostic test, since at the time of the study, such tests were in short supply. Instead, four physicians involved with the study reviewed the study subjects' symptoms to see if they were compatible with a Covid diagnosis.

Wait a minute. Most of the patients did NOT receive a Covid-19 diagnostic test? The conclusions of this "gold standard" study were based upon the opinions of "four physicians involved with the study reviewed the study subjects' symptoms to see if they were compatible with a Covid diagnosis."

Sorry, the opinions of four physicians involved with the study (who were they? How involved were they? How much were they being paid by anybody?) to draw conclusions does not qualify as a randomized, double-blind study worth any scientific value.

Usually, in conditions such as this, actual blood samples and real tests would be performed upon which conclusions could then be scientifically concluded. This was not what happened here. This is not a "gold standard" study.

Let's go on.

Boulware said his story underscores the need to study drugs to find out if they work in particular situations.

"Even in the setting of a pandemic, we need research to help inform the best practice for what works in humans," said Boulware, senior author of the study.

This won't be the last word on hydroxychloroquine as prevention against Covid-19. Researchers at New York University and the University of Washington and elsewhere are also studying whether hydroxychloroquine might help people who have been exposed to the virus fight off a Covid infection.

The University of Minnesota team is studying whether hydroxychloroquine could work earlier on, to prevent infection in people who have not had an exposure.

"Maybe if they take the drug before they're exposed, before the infection has had time to set up shop, it could have an effect at preventing disease," he said.

Wait a minute. What's that? "Maybe if they take the drug before they're exposed, before the infection has had time to set up shop, it could have an effect at preventing disease." That is a statement from the lead author of the study. That's honest. That's truth.

Here comes the kicker and how we find the CNN authors of the story to be derelict in their application of journalistic integrity:

His team is also looking to see whether the drug might help people with early symptoms of Covid-19 from becoming so sick that they end up in the hospital.
"You don't know until you do the clinical trial," he said.

Hold it. We thought this was a "gold standard" clinical trial. According to Dr. David Boulware, the lead author, he's still waiting for one.

If a professor at a journalism school was grading this as a paper, he might give it a C- or a D. The headline is completely misleading. Some of the claims made in the story are refuted further down the story line.

The study may have been randomized, it may have been double-blind. But it was certainly not a "clinical control trial," since the results were nothing other than observations by four physicians. There were no diagnostic tests for Covid-19. Therefore, the study fails miserably at the level of being "gold standard."

This would be like taking your car to a mechanic because the engine was sputtering, and getting the opinions from four shop-hands who listened to the engine running and concluded that it was "bad gas" or something else, like "fuel pump," or "gaskets."

This study is just an example of many that have been presented by the mainstream media to undermine any useful information that could be gleaned from physician experience with patients treated with hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ).

This article doesn't even pass a basic smell test for journalism. It starts with a biased headline that isn't supported by the body of the article. It's trash. It should not be believed. It should have never even been published if there were honest editors in the CNN newsrooms. Ha! That's a good one. Honesty and CNN should never be used in the same sentence.

Futhermore, almost none of the studies - as aptly pointed out innumerable times by Peak Prosperity's Dr. Chris Martenson - of HCQ involved the use of ZINC, which happens to be a key element, the main inhibitor of viral infection.

Had enough? We're just getting started.

Let's take a look at the article on this study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

You are encouraged to read the article in its entirely yourself, but considering that you may be a lazy, numb, sheep-like American zombie, we'll offer the highlights here. First off, the dosages of hydroxycholoroquine (HCQ) administered were nearly toxic (800 mg once, followed by 600 mg in 6 to 8 hours, then 600 mg daily for 4 additional days). That's 1400 mg. the first day, then another 2400 mg. over the next 4 days, for a total of 3800 mg.

The CDC's recommendations as a prophylaxis (preventive) for malaria (yeah, malaria) is 310 mg base orally once a week. For patients with malaria, the recommended dosage is 620 mg orally as an initial dose, followed by 310 mg at 6, 24, and 48 hours after the initial dose. Total dose: 1550 mg.

Hmmm. 3800 mg. in the study, when the total dose for people with malaria is 1550 mg. Sounds a little fishy, like maybe too much HCQ.

Here's the conclusion, per NEJM:

After high-risk or moderate-risk exposure to Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine did not prevent illness compatible with Covid-19 or confirmed infection when used as postexposure prophylaxis within 4 days after exposure.

Please note the term "postexposure," as in after you already have the disease.

Moving on to the NEJM commentary:

The majority of clinical studies of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 have focused on hospitalized patients. Yet, to alter the trajectory of the epidemic, it is necessary to break the chain of transmission. The risk of secondary household transmission has been estimated as 10 to 15%. Small, nonrandomized, noncontrolled cohort studies have suggested that the use of hydroxychloroquine might reduce or even eliminate this risk.

Remember, this was June 3, 2020 and the dig down the rabbit hole goes even deeper. While you are encouraged to read the NEJM report yourself, here are some of the highlights from the commentary:

Persons with symptoms of Covid-19 or with PCR-proven SARS-CoV-2 infection were excluded from this prevention trial but were separately enrolled in a companion clinical trial to treat early infection.

We assumed that health care workers would have access to Covid-19 testing if symptomatic; however, access to testing was limited throughout the trial period.

Although PCR or serologic testing for asymptomatic infection would have added to the scientific strength of this trial, this was not possible, and we cannot assess an effect on mild or asymptomatic infections.

Because of the lack of availability of diagnostic testing in the United States, the vast majority of the participants, including health care workers, were unable to access testing.

given the small number of PCR tests, it remains theoretically possible that hydroxychloroquine therapy limits proven infection.

Still with us? In a nearly-complete backtracking from the CNN headline, the conclusion from this study is pretty much inconclusive. The NEJM even raises the possibility that HCQ could be an effective treatment, a complete 100% about-face from the headline. It's a pretty good bet that Dr. Chris Martenson had already ripped this "gold standard" study to shreds in one of his twice-weekly Youtube videos.

At this point (12.20 am ET, Sunday morning), this clip seems suitably appropriate on a number of levels (OK to search your soul here):


OK, have we all achieved moral clarity now? Not yet? Let's proceed.

COVID-19 and the stay-at-home orders, the media onslaught of "wear a mask," "social distance", the lockdowns, the millions of people unemployed, the businesses needlessly bankrupted was all a monstrous scam on the public and the scam continues to this day. If there ever was a time to string up federal and state elected officials, Fed presidents, high-profile medical "professionals", and bankers, this is it. This is all lies and propaganda designed to scare people into submission, funnel trillions of dollars to nearly-insolvent (again) major banks, financial institutions and other top-line corporations and prepare the American public for a "new normal" in which shaking hands is dangerous, breathing might kill your neighbor, kids shouldn't go to school, nobody should touch anything handled by another human, major league sports need to be played in a "bubble", and other absurdities and insults to the intelligence.

If you still accept the mainstream media interpretation of what's happening, adjust your mask (and goggles) and read on, little lamb.

We've been hoodwinked by people who want complete control over everybody and everything, all the time with no questions asked, no critical thinking applied, no objections to the mendacious, tyrannical, bizarre psychological derangement that could have even thought up such a diabolical, global control function such as this.

From this Yahoo News story, we can clearly see the media bias and essential narrative. Nothing readily available and inexpensive will be adequate to halt the relentless spread of COVID-19. Only the vaccination of billions of people with unproven, potentially dangerous chemicals will do.

This is an outrageous lie:

On Monday, Trump shared versions of a viral coronavirus video that made false statements about the disease, including the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment; two days later, Fauci told MSNBC the video "isn’t true."

That, friend, is propaganda on a level that would make Joseph Goebbels blush with pride.

The video being referenced is the one of the press conference which was held on the steps of the Supreme Court by about a dozen doctors wearing lab coats, now known as America's Frontline Doctors. These are medical professionals with decades of combined experience who have been treating patients for COVID-19 since the virus became prevalent in their communities.

The video, in which the doctors praised the use of hydroxychloroqune (HCQ), proclaimed that schools could safely open now with nearly no risk of further spread of the disease and generally debunked the entire narrative of mask-wearing, social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and lockdowns as a strategy. The video, which was streamed on Brietbart news, received over 20 million views within hours prior to its removal from the internet by Youtube, a fully-owned subsidiary of Google. That is the video Dr. Fauci says "isn't true."

False statements? Which ones? If there are false statements, otherwise known in the real world as lies, shouldn't the American public be entitled to know exactly what they are? No, that's too hard for the propagandists at NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. No, let's just expunge the video - which happened to be the fastest-spreading viral video ever seen before the censors at Youtube took it down. No, let's just let the little liar, the dictator of the CDC, Anthony Fauci, tell us that the video of a dozen frontline doctors is "false" and leave it at that. Sure, we can trust him because... well, we can, can't we?

Not only was the video taken down, but the website, americasfrontlinedoctors.com was taken down by Square, the hosting company. Since then the group, headed and founded by Dr. Simone Gold, has put up another website and another video at americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com. Their message remains the same: stop the lockdowns and mask-wearing nonsense, make HCQ available to the general public, reopen the school on time without restrictions. It is highly recommended that everybody watch the new video on the home page of their website.

Also on the americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com website is a white paper by Dr. Gold, with facts about HCQ. Not innuendo and sensationalized headlines. Cold, hard facts about the safety and efficacy of HCQ, a drug that's been used safely for 65 years.

There's also a Compendium of HCQ Studies, titled, Medical Studies Support MDs Prescribing Hydroxychloroquine for Early Stage COVID-19 and for Prophylaxis by Vladimir Zelenko, M.D., Harvey A. Risch, M.D., PH.D., George C. Fareed, M.D.

These doctors are highly-respected in the field of medicine. Dr. Risch is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.

That's Yale, as in Ivy League. You want a gold standard? Dr. Risch is it and he says using HCQ could save 75,000 to 100,000 lives.

The compendium is 248 pages of data and findings. It's far too extensive to expect the average American to read it, much less understand it. But, the executives and news anchors and reporters at the media companies should be able to get it. They're smart people, right? Why are they doing everything in their power to keep the truth about a drug that saves lives from the American people?

As far as Dr. Fauci is concerned, he's done real harm to the American public and to the medical industry as a whole by continuing to push the false narrative of being helpless against the virus and the need for draconian measures to fight it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has never once publicly advised anybody to strengthen one's immune system. He's never advised exercise or good diet. He's only promoted the inevitable preordained conclusion that COVID-19 will kill everything and everyone in its path unless a vaccine (or multiple vaccines) is developed by a big pharmaceutical company costing billions of dollars in record time, distributed and deployed sometime early in 2021.

That's his message and his only message. Fear the virus. Stop being human. Cower in abject terror. Meanwhile, the evidence is clear: 99.98% of the people alive today will not die from COVID-19 and there are more people born every minute of every day who will not die from it.

Dr. Fauci and the mainstream media don't want the American public to know the truth. They don't want the public to know how conflicted and compromised Dr. Fauci is.

Dr. Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx both have close associations with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the group that is pushing for a vaccine for COVID-19. There's a lot of money and power involved. Bill Gates says he talks to Dr. Fauci regularly.

Fauci's conflicts don't end there, but, they are so extensive they cannot be given the proper coverage in this post, which is already too long.

Here's more:

In 2013, Dr Fauci cheered Hydroxychloroquine success treating SARS-MERS-Cornoavirus, not any more though.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/wow-dr-fauci-cheered-hydroxychloroquine-success-treating-mers-coronavirus-2013-today-skeptical-weird/

Relevant links:

Big tech’s out to get conservatives. It’s time they face the consequences.
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1288531314166190080

Petition to Revoke Federal Licenses Issued to Technology Companies that Violate First Amendment Free Speech Rights
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/revoke-federal-licenses-issued-technology-companies-violate-first-amendment-free-speech-rights

Related: Trump's Executive Order On Online Censorship (July 29):
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/huge-trump-white-house-implements-executive-order-online-censorship-prevents-tech-giants-altering-users-free-speech-demands-transparency-moderation-practices/

WATCH: Dems Unglued After Jordan Grills Big Tech for Censoring Conservatives
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/07/29/watch-dems-unglued-after-jordan-grills-big-tech-for-censoring-conservatives-n2573392

Big tech COVID-19 surveillance data & censorship threaten privacy & free speech: op-ed
https://sociable.co/technology/big-tech-covid-19-surveillance-data-censorship-threaten-free-speech-privacy/

Trump Administration Directs Federal Communications Commission to Combat Big Tech
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelinepeltzer/2020/07/29/trump-issues-executive-order-preventing-online-censorship-n2573389

Bozell, Tucker Carlson Condemn Big Tech Censorship of Doctors’ Viral Coronavirus Video
https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/bozell-tucker-carlson-condemn-big-tech-censorship-doctors-viral-coronavirus

If Big Tech Can Censor Political Speech, It Can Police Illegal Speech
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/23/if-big-tech-can-censor-political-speech-it-can-police-illegal-speech/

Dr. Dan Erickson says YouTube’s censorship of anti-lockdown video helped it spread
https://reclaimthenet.org/bakersfield-doctors-censorship/

Free speech advocates call YouTube’s removal of coronavirus-related video 'egregious censorship effort'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/youtube-video-removed-coronavirus-free-speech

Rep Jim Jordan's Opening Remarks At Big Tech's Antitrust Hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/snOxyqr_tnU

Donald Trump Jr. On Big Tech Censorship: They believe in their speech, not free speech
https://saraacarter.com/donald-trump-jr-on-big-tech-censorship-they-believe-in-their-speech-not-free-speech/

Exploiting COVID-19, Big Tech Censors Become Big Brother
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/35722-exploiting-covid19-big-tech-censors-become-big-brother

Pollak: Big Tech, Establishment Media Crush Free Speech Through a Form of Prior Restraint
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/07/28/pollak-big-tech-establishment-media-crush-free-speech-through-a-form-of-prior-restraint/

Re-open Schools Full Time:
An Australian study found ZERO transmission from students to teachers. Kids are not good spreaders of the virus.
http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%20Schools%20COVID_Summary_FINAL%20public_26%20April%202020.pdf

There's some research into the whole hydroxychloroqine + zinc regimen, and, as it turns out, the over-the-counter supplement, quercetin, may be a reliable substitute for HCQ as an ionophore which helps zinc enter healthy cells and do its work, which is, to block viral replication, i.e., stopping COVID in its tracks.

So, the real answer to stopping the spread of COVID-19 may not be wearing masks or social distancing at all, but fortifying one's own immune system with Quercetin + Zinc, both readily available OVER THE COUNTER.

What's even better is that quercetin is found in lots of foods, including green tea, red wine, onions, most hot peppers, grapes, and especially, Dr. Chris Martenson's favorite, Elderberry.

It's becoming easier to conclude that there never was any need to shut down entire economies, because, while COVID-19 is very contagious, it is not particularly deadly, more or less an enhanced cold or flu. For people under the age of 50, the chances of dying from COVID-19 are about as remote as dying from the seasonal flu, about 1 in 100,000, or 0.01%. There's also widely-available evidence that nearly 90% of reported COVID-19 deaths have occured in people which had other underlying medical conditions, the top three being diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

Interesting forum discussion at Peak Prosperity (Dr. Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart) concerning tonic water (quinine), quercetin and other natural preventatives (prophylaxis). Seems quercetin (available widely over the counter in the US and other countries) with zinc will inhibit COVID-19 effectively.

https://www.peakprosperity.com/forum-topic/quinine-tonic-water-zinc/

Here's webMD, which offers interesting information on quercetin, but, keeping with the "only a vaccine will stop COVID-19" narrative, they include this tidbit:

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Quercetin may have benefit for some airway infections, but there is no good evidence to support using it for COVID-19. Follow healthy lifestyle choices and proven prevention methods instead.

Still, here's a partial list of plants and foods containing quercetin:

Quercetin is a plant pigment (flavonoid). It is found in many plants and foods, such as red wine, onions, green tea, apples, berries, Ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort, American elder, and others. Buckwheat tea has a large amount of quercetin. People use quercetin as a medicine.

Note that last line, "people use quercetin as medicine."
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-294/quercetin

So, maybe we don't need hydroxychloroquine for everybody. Maybe quercetin and zinc can boost the immune system to a point at which the body can fight off COVID-19 itself.

This is very interesting to Fearless Rick, who has been drinking lots of vodka tonics (quinine), but also, since it's been very, very hot in East Tennessee, gallons of green tea. Plus, Rick has a garden and eats plenty of onions and peppers (both good sources of quercetin), plus there are two fig trees on the property he maintains and figs are also a good source for quercetin per this unbiased article:
https://www.superfoodly.com/quercetin-foods/

Here is a very informative video covering the microbiology of HCQ and Zinc in relation to COVID-19 in plain English that the Covid-censor Googlebot apparently missed.



So, to the mask-wearing simpletons who would likely don a pussy-hat if told to do so, this has been an opening salvo of truth. I hope you hated it. I hope you vomited over it because you cannot argue effectively against it. I hope you choke on it, because more is on the way. I intend to shove it down your throats the same way the media shovels the fake COVID-19 news at you.

I am not taking prisoners here. People are either going to stand up for principles or lay down under the boot of servility and dehumanization. Kneel, and Bill Gates' COVID vaccine and the rest of a miserable existence awaits you. So long as you keep bowing to the perception of power, you will be a slave to their whims and executions.

The moment you throw off your false sense of security - for truly, you, and nothing you hold dear is secure in this world - you will have hope.

You can believe whatever you want to believe. But, when you believe in lies you have nothing to gain. You will become a fatality to your own version of normalcy bias. You will die as you lived, with your own invalid sense of self-worth and self-righteousness to etch upon your tombstone. You will have achieved nothing more than you were asked.

Forever, and again tomorrow and the next day,

--Fearless Rick

Oh, by the way, there were some market-moving events over the past week.

At the Close, Friday, July 31, 2020:
Dow: 26,428.32, +114.67 (+0.44%)
NASDAQ: 10,745.27, +157.46 (+1.49%)
S&P 500: 3,271.12, +24.90 (+0.77%)
NYSE: 12,465.05, -68.23 (-0.54%)

For the Week:
Dow: -41.57 (-0.16%)
NASDAQ: +382.10 (+3.69%)
S&P 500: +55.49 (+1.73%)
NYSE: +3.27 (+0.03%)

Stocks were boosted mostly by increased from Alphabet/Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), and Amazon (AMZN). The bulk of the market, such as the other 495 stocks in the S&P 500 were hardly changed.

Bond yields were driven to their lowest ever, with the 10-year note dropping to 0.55%, it's second-lowest ever, and the 30-year at 1.20%. The entire treasury complex, 1-month though 30-year is now covered by 111 basis points or 1.11%.

WTI crude oil remained anchored around $40/barrel, which has provided some relief at the pump for America's drivers.

Silver and gold got smacked around by heavy hitters in the futures markets, becoming more and more irrelevant every day.

The most recent prices (including shipping - often free) for select items on eBay:

Item: Low / High / Average / Median
1 oz silver coin: 31.95 / 39.76 / 35.70 / 35.50
1 oz silver bar: 30.00 / 50.50 / 36.39 / 33.50
1 oz gold coin: 1,994.66 / 2,133.21 / 2,089.68 / 2,110.26
1 oz gold bar: 1,915.00 / 2,161.14 / 2,071.04 / 2,087.62

And that's the WEEKEND WRAP.

Enya, Only Time:

HCQ + Zinc = NO COVID; Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) Debate Heats Up Despite MSM Effort to Quell the Uprising

HCQ + Zinc = NO COVID

This article is a bit rambling, but the points are nonetheless critical to our freedoms.

The mainstream media (Networks ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post) has become nearly 100% propaganda for the anti-freedom, censorship-loving, COVID-19-pushing deep state. That's not idle banter. The facts are being lain bare on a daily basis. They're one-sided, biased, agenda-driven, partial and uninterested in the proper dissemination of the truth.

Nor are they alone. They have the backing and support of social media giants such as Facebook, Youtube (owned by Alphabet, i.e, Google), and Twitter. Anything that threatens to expose their agenda and narrative is labeled as conspiracy theory, distraction, or, as is the case currently over the issue of whether or not hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can be employed as a safe and effective treatment in early stage COVID infection or as a preventive measure when taken with Zinc, the people arguing in favor of HCQ are characterized as right-wing radicals backed by "dark money." Sure, Breitbart.com and teapartypatriots.org are "dark money" because they don't support the fake virus, Bill Gates' vaccine promotion, or Dr. Fauci's outrageous lies and misinformation (Now he and his colleage, Dr. Birx, are promoting the wearing of face masks and eye shields or goggles, and would like to see a disposable hazmat suit worn by students in schools.).

The website, americasfrontlinedoctors.com was disabled after the group of doctors led by Dr. Simone Gold (twitter feed here, 94,000 followers), but a new site has been assembled at americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com.

The site offers video and links to a white paper on HCQ and a compendium of articles about HCQ [PDF, 248 pages]. Strangely enough, both the white paper and compendium are hosted on Google Drive.

There's more:

Here's a 2005 study that details HCQ effectiveness against coronavirus (SARS-COV-1, a predecessor of SAR-COV-11, otherwise known as COVID-19):
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.

Same study on NIH site when Dr. Fauci was director.

Also in the HCQ news, Ohio's pharmacy board reversed its decision to ban hydroxychloroquine after a request from Governor Mike DeWine, and the Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the FDA, said the recommendation and use of hydroxychloroquine should be between patient and doctor, so the FDA is not standing in the way.

Other news:

Yahoo (wholly owned by Verizon) recently suspended the comment section on its news articles, site-wide. They are following the lead of Bloomberg, where comment sections were removed in 2018.

Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interest and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting.

-- message on Yahoo.com articles

Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOG), and Microsoft (MSFT) all handily beat vastly lowered earnings expectations after the closing bell on Thursday. Friday looks to be another day of incessant stock melt-up, despite the news yesterday that second quarter GDP was an absolute all time low, a contraction of 32.9%.

Otherwise, everything is just peachy-keen.

Enjoy the weekend. Sunday's WEEKEND WRAP will be a hum-dinger.

Spread the word: HCQ + Zinc = NO COVID

At the Close, Thursday, July 30, 2020:
Dow: 26,313.65, -225.92 (-0.85%)
NASDAQ: 10,587.81, +44.87 (+0.43%)
S&P 500: 3,246.22, -12.22 (-0.38%)
NYSE: 12,533.28, -136.34 (-1.08%)

Double Whammy: Second Quarter GDP Shrinks by 32.9%; Initial Jobless Claims Rise Again

No doubt fudged by six to eight percent, second quarter US Gross Domestic Product shrank by 32.9 percent in the quarter ended June 30, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The proximate cause not the novel coronavirus, aka COVID-19, but state governments' ordered lockdowns of businesses, citizenry and government apparatus, making the worst decline in US output wholly a self-infliceted wound.

As predicted by Downtown Magazine, the slowdown was not as severe as expectations of -34.5% by economists surveyed prior to the release.

Additionally, initial unemployment claims rose for the second week in a row, at a seasonally-adjusted 1.4 million for the week ending July 25.

The 1,434,000 claims was an uptick from the revised 1,422,000 the previous week.

Weekly claims have surpassed an unprecedented 1 million every week since March.

So, with all this wonderful news, should we continue wearing masks and keep six feet away from each other, demanding curbside pickup of fast foods, no-touchie, no-feelie schooling and another round of stimus checks from the government?

Sure, keep 'em coming, knuckleheads.

Fed Reiterates All-In Language; Treasury Bonds Yielding All-Time Lows; 2Q GDP Up Next

As expected, the FOMC of the Federal Reserve kept rates at "near-zero" and reiterated that they would keep rates at that level until the US economy picks up, which, depending on who you ask, might be anywhere between "never" and "next quarter."

Such is the stuff of populous economics in the age of the constant panic.

The Fed's announcement on Wednesday set off yet another stock-buying spree of over-valued, highly-indebted companies, most of them listed on the major exchanges, particularly the S&P 500, which put in a solid gain of 40 points on the nose, leaving it a mere 128 points, or, less than four percent, off it's all-time closing high of 3,386.15 (February 19, 2020).

This, of course, is absolute madness. Here we are, supposedly in the midst of a pandemic which has killed over 150,000, sickened many times that, shuttered businesses, cost over 30 million jobs (that number is a moving target), and pretty much wrecked not just the US economy but that of the entire civilized world (the uncivilized parts of the world having barely noticed any changes at all).

What the stock market and the Fed are relaying via their asset-boosting measures and ever-rising stock prices is that the global economy should have a crisis of this magnitude at least once a year. Sure, some people got hurt during the February-March decline, but they are rubes, obviously not attuned to the new rigors of investing, which is to hold stocks for mere weeks or months, not years, and, in the world of those wearing big boy pants, the best trades last mere minutes.

With the S&P bottoming out at 2,237.40 on March 23rd, the gains through Wednesday amount to a windfall of just over 45 percent. Annualized, that's 135%. If sustained, that would mean your $100,000 investment would be worth $235,000 in a year, and all of this comes under zero-interest-rate-policy (ZIRP).

Easy money!

But what about bonds? We thought you'd never ask.

As of today, a one-month treasury bill yields an exciting 0.09%. The ten-year note fell to its second-lowest yield ever, at 0.58%. And, for those of you with shorter investment horizons, yields on the one, two, three, five, and seven-year notes all made historic all-time lows on Wednesday, thanks to the confidence inspired by our brave central bank. Those yields are 0.13%, 0.12%, 0.15%. 0.25%, and 0.43%. So, if you would like to lend the US federal government $10,000 for five years, they'll pay you back a whopping $25 per year or $125 in total for the privilege. And, with luck, you'll get the principal back at the end.

This does not inspire much confidence in the continued smooth operation of our federal government. It speaks volumes to the sustainability of state governments and their bloated pension obligations. (This brings up an interesting point, a little off-topic: many teachers have not been in a classroom actually teaching since March. Many of these teachers - via their unions - are complaining that they don't want to go back into a classroom to teach when the school year begins again in a few weeks. Well, teaching in a classroom isn't kind of a job, it is their job, so why are they continuing to be paid?)

For those still interested, the entire treasury complex, from one-month out to 30-years, is now covered by 113 basis points, which isn't much, just more than one percent. Basically, lending to the federal government is a losing proposition if there's any time value of money or inflation whatsoever.

Cheers! (The crowd goes wild.)

Naturally, in the face of this obvious failure of the fractional-reserve, debt-based fiat currency system currently in play, the price of gold and silver went... wait for it... down. Well, that would be on the criminal exchanges known as the futures markets, obviously overseen and controlled (we don't like to use the word "manipulated" any more, makes it sound like a conspiracy theory) by the world's greatest gangsters in the world's largest criminal skimming enterprise, the consortium of sovereign central banks.

As of this writing, gold has been tamped down five times, as has silver, but the latter to a much greater degree. Seems that while the central bank gang doesn't like gold very much (it competes with their paper currencies), they like silver even less. Silver touched $26 a few days ago, but the big boys in their fancy suits saw best to slam it back to $22.98 this morning, though it has recovered to 23.20, presently.

The spot price and futures exchanges are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Try buying any quantity of silver at anything under $27 an ounce. You'll be laughed out of the coin shop. On eBay, single ounce bars and coins are going for anywhere from $27 to $40. Morgan silver dollars (90% silver, 10% copper, 26.73 grams) are going for upwards of $35. Numismatically prized specimens can fetch hundreds of dollars.

So, we're at war. Yes, war, but no guns have been fired yet unless you include the ones that went off either accidentally or on purpose at a few of the BLM protests over the past few weeks.

The war is being waged by the seven billion people on the planet who are not in the top 1% of wealth hoarders. They are fighting the government (whatever country you're in, plus all other governments of all other countries), the central banks (ditto) and their fiat currencies, mainstream media and the "official" medical community which fails to understand the simple equation: HCQ + Zinc + Z-Pac = NO COVID.

The weapons currently employed are words, currencies (vs. real money, gold and silver), brains, street smarts and assorted pamphlets, Molotov-cocktails, laser beams, rocks, barricades, fists, batons, spit, and finger-pointing.

Judging by the number of people "voluntarily" wearing masks and staying six feet away from the nearest co-habitant of the planet, the bad guys are winning. The tide needs to be turned.

With that, a reminder that we'll be back in about an hour to report on the release of second quarter US GDP, which figures to be a doozy on several levels. Downtown Magazine's current best guess is -41%, but, knowing how Wall Street and the number massagers at the BLS and Census operate, the figure is likely to come in at a cool -30%, because, as we all are aware, that would exceed estimates of -34.5% and will thus "beat the street" and encourage even more buying of stocks. Horray for us! We're not as poor as we thought!

See you again around 8:45 am ET.

At the Close, Wednesday, July 29, 2020:
Dow: 26,539.57, +160.29 (+0.61%)
NASDAQ: 10,542.94, +140.85 (+1.35%)
S&P 500: 3,258.44, +40.00 (+1.24%)
NYSE: 12,669.62, +178.40 (+1.43%)

It's Time To Call Out Democrats, Media, Google, Facebook, ANTIFA and BLM for Their Fake Narrative, Censorship and Crimes

It's time to stop the destruction of America by the forces promoting COVID-19 and the protests, looting, and riots by Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA.

While it is still a matter for speculation, it's becoming very clear that the Democrat party, in conjunction with the mainstream media and information technology companies GOOGLE and FACEBOOK are pushing a narrative that is centered on the elections in November, particularly the presidential election between incumbent President Donald J. Trump and the stumbling, mumbling, former Senator from Delaware and former Vice President, Joseph H. Biden.

The Democrats in Washington, led by the likes of politicians that are far beyond their use-by dates like Nancy Pelosi (80 years old), Jerrold Nadler (73), and House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (81). Incidentally, Joe Biden is 77, Trump is 74, but, by all appearances, in better mental condition than his opponent.

Trump recently engaged Fox News' Chris Wallace in an hour-long interview conducted outside in Washington DC, in 90 degree heat. Trump was wearing a blue suit and tie when everybody else in the world would have donned shorts and a tank top or t-shirt. But, Trump is president and needed to look presidential, so wearing a suit was requisite. It's part of the job of being president. Not all of it is sunshine and roses. Much of it is hard. It's doubtful that Joe Biden - who repeatedly has refused to do an interview with Chris Wallace - could withstand even a quarter of the abuse, reckless accusations, investigations, and impeachment attempt that Trump has withstood.

The Democrat strategy for winning back the presidency in 2020 has been, from the start, a simple one: accuse President Trump of anything and everything, all the time, incessantly, make every event that is disturbing and wrong his fault or blame him for not handling it properly. Criticize his every move, even if you secretly agree with him.

Democrats accused Trump of colluding with Russians. That didn't work because it wasn't true. They arrested and tried a number of his top confidants. They are now going free (General Flynn and Roger Stone, most notably). They tired impeachment. Didn't work. Wasted everybody's time and money.

Since March, the planet has been gripped by the virus known as COVID-19. It was a godsend to the Democrats. It enabled them to spread fear and panic through their allies in the mainstream media, blame the Trump administration for any fallout or damage or deaths caused by the virus and government's response to it, and allowed them to sequester their candidate, Joe Biden, in his basement hideaway, out of view from the general public with an excuse for not being on the traditional campaign trail. The virus also provided a means by which they could shunt one of Trump's strongest campaign actions: large rallies.

Trump couldn't hold big rallies like he did in 2016 because the big crowds might spread the COVID. That's the narrative. And it's working. Trump has cancelled most of his public appearances and has been holding "virtual rallies" online.

While the campaigns continue in the virtual wasteland of the internet at-large, the virus, we're being told, continues to spread. Every night, the news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox inform us that there are record number of people inflicted with the virus in Texas, or Florida, or California. The media doesn't bother to tell anyone that the number of infections are higher due largely to increased testing - which they pushed for - or that the number of false positives from the tests is alarmingly high, or that deaths due to COVID-19 - another fudged statistic - are lower or steady.

The amount of misinformation is staggering, yet outright falsehoods and lies continue to be promoted by the mainstream media and social media tech companies, Google, Facebook, and in some instances, Twitter. It's apparently OK for people to riot and mill about in the streets of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, or Atlanta, but any campaign rally by President Trump would cause in increase in COVID afflictions.

All they want is for you and I to believe that the virus is spreading, that everybody should wear a mask, that kids shouldn't go back to school, that this virus, which is not even as deadly as the common flu for most people, will kill everybody if you don't shut down your businesses, wash your hands twenty times a day and keep six feet from everybody. Oh, but it's OK to shop at WalMart, or Walgreen's, or Target.

On Tuesday, a group known as America's Frontline Doctors held a news conference on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Their message was clear, their credentials impeccable. They came together to counter the mainstream media's misinformation campaign about COVID-19. Among their findings and recommendations were that schools should reopen as usual in the fall, that there is not one case of a student infecting a teacher with COVID-19 in the entire world, and that hydroxychloroquine, taken in proper dosage with zinc and azithromycin is a proven preventative to the disease. Stops it cold. More or less HCQ + Zinc + Z-PAC = NO COVID.

Their youtube video was scrubbed almost as soon as it appeared. Their website has been taken down. Please note that linked story is by "Fast Company" and is obviously biased and in Google's pocket for advertising. Even the headline, "America’s Frontline Doctors' website goes dark as platforms scramble to scrub misinformation" reeks of bias as does their narrative, such as:

"The video, featuring what purported to be a press conference from a group of doctors, contained what the platforms said were violations of their policies on COVID-19 misinformation. (Among the misleading or false assertions made in the video: that we don’t need to wear masks and that the Trump-touted drug hydroxychloroquine is a "cure" for COVID-19.)

Google, Facebook and other social media outlets have "policies" on what can or cannot be said or disseminated via words or photos or video about the virus. These de facto media companies have sided with the WHO and CDC, which have specific agendas and want to keep the panic and fear of the virus going until election day. That's all part of their plan and they are willing to let people die over it.

The wearing of masks is still unsettled science but Google and Facebook and the mainstream media tout it as though it is a command from God. But, when doctors talk about the success of treating patients early on in the virus with HCQ, Zinc, and Z-PAC, it's heresy, and must be removed.

It's outright censorship, and worse, it's hiding the truth from the American people about drugs that can prevent the disease from spreading. Downtown Magazine has repeatedly touted the effectiveness of HCQ and Zinc as a preventive measure. Now, front line doctors are saying the same thing.

Here's Dr. Harvey Risch, an epidemiology professor at Yale School of Public Health, telling Laura Ingraham on Fox that hydroxychloroquine could save 75,000 to 100,000 lives if the drug is widely used to treat coronavirus.

One of the doctors from America's Front Line Doctors who hasn't had his site taken down from the internet (yet), is that of Dr. James Todaro, who's site is full of information vital to the health of American citizens.

Google hasn't managed to silence him yet, but they're working on it.

It's time for Americans to stand up to the bullying of the Democrats, mainstream media, tech giants, and the likes of ANTIFA and BLM, to shout them down the same way they shout down their opponents, and start hearing the truth for a change.

We do not have to cower in fear. We do not have to stay home. We do not have to wear masks. We do not have to close down our businesses, destroy the economy, close our schools and act like brainwashed, brain-dad zombies, following every directive and order from the government.

We are a free people, and before these fascists get their way there's going to be hell to pay.

Here's Tucker Carlson's take on Google and Facebook CENSORSHIP:



At the Close, Tuesday, July 28, 2020:
Dow: 26,379.28, -205.49 (-0.77%)
NASDAQ: 10,402.09, -134.18 (-1.27%)
S&P 500: 3,218.44, -20.97 (-0.65%)
NYSE: 12,491.22, -61.91 (-0.49%)