Doctor’s Forum on HCQ Fights Back Against Facebook — Obliterates Garbage ‘Fact-Check’ Site on Deeply Flawed Analysis that Has Killed Thousands

You can’t hide the truth forever.

At some point the people in America and the world will wake up and see they were lied to about the coronavirus and its treatment.

And at some point the so-called experts and their supporters will be held to account.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier.

The latest international analysis of hydroxychloroquine treatment on the coronavirus shows countries that endorsed early use of the drug had a 77.4% lower mortality rate than countries that banned the use of the safe malaria drug.

This means that Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, the CDC, the liberal fake news media and the tech giants have been pushing a complete lie with deadly consequences!

America has lost (reportedly) over 150,000 lives.

That could have been lowered, by possibly tens of thousands of lives, if HCQ use would have been promoted in the United States.

Random claims about connections. They make random claims about connections with other Twitter accounts because they were referenced as providing feedback, an implied ad hominem attack.

False analysis claims. “The authors made all of their calculations using the sample size of 2.7 billion people, based on the population sizes of countries in both groups, which invalidates all their statistical analyses and the conclusions they drew from them.” Nothing about this is correct. The entire population is used in only one instance, where we present the relative risk for the entire population in each group (which is approximately the same as when averaging across countries).

Claims a sample size of 19. The number of deaths alone in the countries analyzed is over 300,000.

Claims missing details with no examples. However, this is a very simple analysis and we believe that all data and details to reproduce the results are provided.

Incorrectly claims IFR should be used. Authors apparently did not read the paper which explains why case statistics are not reliable.

Incorrectly claims not a randomized clinical trial. Indeed, it’s not a clinical trial, but we have never said it is. Authors are confusing “clinical” with “controlled”. It’s a trial – a medication is certainly being trialed. It’s controlled – there is a control group. It’s randomized – the group a person gets is random and chosen in advance, independent of their medical status or the membership of the other group (in contrast to a retrospective observational study).

Irrelevent ecological fallacy discussion. Claims ecological fallacy (you cannot directly infer the properties of individuals from the average of a group), however the study does not do this.

Claims “observational ecological analysis”. However this is a prospective study – assignments were done in advance, a person’s assigment was random, independent of their medical status, and there is a control group.

Ignores adjustments. Authors note the demographic differences between countries, failing to note that we actually adjust for these.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/important-doctors-forum-hcq-fights-back-facebook-obliterates-garbage-fact-check-site-deeply-flawed-analysis-killed-thousands/

PROJECTION

Rep. Karen Bass: Trump Is Trying to Stay in Power So He Can Stay Out of Jail

Tuesday on CNN, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was questioning mass mail-in voting because he was trying to “run out the statute of limitations on so many of the laws that he broke.”

Bass said, “I think that we’ve known from the beginning, the president has been essentially saying things like this from the moment it became real to him that he did not win the popular vote. And ever since then, he has been looking for mysterious voters, mysterious cheats — and you know in the last election, a major case of voter fraud was with Republicans in North Carolina. So we know that this is just fake. But what bothers me about it the most, though, is to sow the seeds of dissension that if and when he loses, that it means the election is rigged. That really sets the stage for a lot of chaos and could set the stage for civil unrest and violence, and it’s just shameful that he would be that desperate that he would resort to tactics like this.”

She added, “When we get rid of this administration, there will be so many new laws and regulations we need to look at when we get rid of this administration. We can never go through this again with somebody who is completely lawless, and that would resort to anything to stay in power. I do believe one of his main motivations for staying in power is he’s trying to run out the statute of limitations on so many of the laws that he broke, which I don’t even think he would be able to do that if he had a second term, but heaven help us.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/18/rep-karen-bass-trump-is-trying-to-stay-in-power-so-he-can-stay-out-of-jail/

Michelle Obama Once Praised Rapist Harvey Weinstein: 'Wonderful Human Being' and 'a Good Friend'

“I know Joe. He is a profoundly decent man, guided by faith,” said former first lady Michelle Obama during her pre-recorded speech for the virtual Democratic National Convention on Monday night.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but Michelle Obama has proven to not be a very great judge of character.

On November 8, 2013, then-first lady Michelle Obama gave a speech during a Careers in Film Symposium at the White House. The event was organized by none other than Harvey Weinstein.

“He is a wonderful human being, a good friend and just a powerhouse,” Michelle said of Harvey Weinstein.

Weinstein was first publicly accused of sexual assault in October 2017 and was charged with rape and other sex crimes earlier this year, but his history of sexual abuse and harassment had been an open secret for nearly twenty years prior.

Like Weinstein, Joe Biden has also been accused of inappropriate behavior, including sexual assault, spanning decades.

In 2019, former Biden Senate staffer Tara Reade claimed that Biden used to touch her inappropriately during her time in his office back in 1993. “He used to put his hand on my shoulder and run his finger up my neck,” Reade said. “I would just kind of freeze and wait for him to stop doing that.”

She later expanded on those allegations, claiming in March 2020 that Biden sexually assaulted her by pushing her up against the wall, kissing her, and sliding his hand up her shirt and her skirt. Reade says she attempted to file a claim, but Biden was ultimately protected by loyalists on his staff. Her credibility was boosted by the release of a clip of the Larry King Live show during which her mother called in anonymously asking the panel for advice on how to handle a situation with her daughter and a prominent U.S. senator.

Other accusers have come forward with allegations of impropriety against Joe Biden.

Ally Coll, a former Democratic staffer, said that when she was first introduced to Biden while helping to run a reception for about 50 people in 2008, the senator “leaned in, squeezed her shoulders and delivered a compliment about her smile, holding her ‘for a beat too long.’”

Amy Lappos, a Democratic political activist, claimed that during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich, Conn., for U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, then-Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately. “It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head,” Lappos told the Hartford Courant last year. “He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.”

“I never filed a complaint, to be honest, because he was the vice president. I was a nobody,” Lappos explained. “There’s absolutely a line of decency. There’s a line of respect. Crossing that line is not grandfatherly. It’s not cultural. It’s not affection. It’s sexism or misogyny.”

A sexual assault survivor has also accused Biden of inappropriate touching.

Four years ago, at the age of 19, Caitlyn Caruso spoke at an event on sexual assault at the University of Las Vegas, which Joe Biden was also attending. Caruso says that after she shared her sexual assault experience, Biden “rested his hand on her thigh — even as she squirmed in her seat to show her discomfort—and hugged her ‘just a little bit too long.’”

“It doesn’t even really cross your mind that such a person would dare perpetuate harm like that,” she said. “These are supposed to be people you can trust.”

https://pjmedia.com/election/matt-margolis/2020/08/18/michelle-obama-once-praised-rapist-harvey-weinstein-wonderful-human-being-and-a-good-friend-n805572

Biden, If Elected, Plans to Put Obamacare on Steroids

Democratic presidential soon-to-be-nominee Joe Biden envisions a dramatic expansion of Obamacare if elected, returning the controversial program to the public eye and likely igniting a renewed legislative battle over medical care.

Biden's health care plans will be front and center during the Democratic National Convention's Tuesday evening festivities, which will include a live discussion of the Affordable Care Act conducted by Biden himself. This emphasis signals the candidate's seriousness about expanding on the major legislative achievement of predecessor Barack Obama.

To that end, Biden's campaign has floated a proposal projected to cost over $2 trillion over 10 years and add $800 billion to the national debt, much of which would amount to a transfer to already wealthy seniors and to the insurance companies that originally backed the ACA.

That plan would face resistance from conservatives. Dean Clancy, a senior health fellow with the libertarian Americans for Prosperity, described Biden's plan as one "that puts our health care decisions in the hands of insurance companies and government bureaucrats rather than patients and providers," criticizing it for reducing consumer choice—a likely avenue of attack in a future legislative battle. An even bigger challenge is likely to come from the far left, for whom Biden's opposition to Medicare for All has been anathema, and who would likely hold the key to future legislative passage.

The plan that the DNC will cheer Tuesday night, then, faces steep odds for its actual implementation. The plan on which Biden may stake his legacy appears designed to please none—a telling predictor of how the candidate who has run as a dealmaker could struggle to govern.

At the core of Biden's plan are two proposals meant to increase the affordability and availability of health insurance, with the goal of expanding coverage to an additional 18 million Americans. The more prominent of these is the introduction of a "public option," possibly through Medicare—a proposal supported by congressional Democrats but ultimately scrapped during negotiations over the Affordable Care Act.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/biden-if-elected-plans-to-put-obamacare-on-steroids/

Trump: Christians Treated ‘Horribly, Beyond Disgracefully’ in Middle East

According to President Donald Trump, Christians in the Middle East are being treated in a manner that is “beyond disgraceful;” Christianity is being “treated horribly and very unfairly, and it’s criminal.” He said this during his August 13 news conference, in response to the question, “How does the accord today between Israel and the UAE help struggling and persecuted Christians in the Middle East?”

Below is the president’s response in full:

Well, I think it’s going to. I think it’s a big start. And you’re right about that: Christians have been persecuted by some countries in particular in the Middle East. And I think this is a big start. It’s going to be a very strong start, very powerful start, and it’s something that I will tell you — I’ve told David, I’ve told every one of our negotiators: If you look at the way Christians have been treated in some countries, it’s — it’s beyond disgraceful. It’s — if I — if I had information and if I had absolute proof — some of the stories that we’ve heard, which are not easy, which is not easy to get — I would go in and do a number to those countries like you wouldn’t believe. What they do to Christians in the Middle East — and it’s — it’s disgraceful. It’s disgraceful. You’re right. It’s a very big part of the overall negotiation. And as countries come in — for instance, UAE has agreed very strongly to represent us; I think they will very well with respect to Christianity, because in the Middle East, it’s not treated well. It’s not treated well at all. It’s treated horribly and very unfairly, and it’s criminal what’s happened — and that’s for many, many years. I think it’s a great question and very un- — it’s a very unfair situation.

As someone who has been daily following and documenting the phenomenon of Muslim persecution of Christians for over a decade, I can say that Trump’s description of and apparent abhorrence for the plight of Christians in the Middle East is very accurate. Only those who exclusively follow and believe “mainstream media” reporting—or rather lack thereof—can doubt this.

For example, since July 2011, I’ve been compiling monthly reports titled “Muslim Persecution of Christians.” Each report—there are currently well over a hundred—contains a dozen or so atrocities, including the banning, burning, or bombing of churches; the outright butchery of Christians (especially in sub-Saharan Africa); murderous assaults or imprisonments of Christian “blasphemers” and apostates; the abduction, rape, and forced conversion of Christian girls; and myriad forms of entrenched social discrimination.

Moreover, the majority of those treating Christians in a manner that is, to quote Trump, “beyond disgraceful … horribly and very unfairly,” are not professional terrorists but every day Muslims, including governmental authorities. The issue is systematic and permeates the whole of Muslim society.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/raymond-ibrahim/2020/08/18/trump-christians-treated-horribly-beyond-disgracefully-in-middle-east-n805258

Mike Pompeo ‘gotchas’ RT by revealing his nonsensical Iran quote is ACTUALLY by OBAMA – but what difference does it make?

Attributing a statement to President Barack Obama doesn’t make it any less nonsensical, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ought well to know. Nor should one mistake the sentiments of people quoted in a story with those of RT.

RT.com “got it wrong again,” Pompeo tweeted on Tuesday, saying that it was President Barack Obama who made a statement we attributed to him. “He told Congress, rightly, that the US could snapback sanctions on Iran anytime and no country could block it. It is still true now. I’ll wait for your correction.”

Which would be fair if Pompeo had included the same screenshot in his Monday tweet, instead of committing plagiarism by leaving the attribution off. His self-correction is certainly appreciated in that regard.

That said, it changes nothing about the substance of the RT story in question, which quoted journalists, pundits and academics calling out Pompeo for the claim that the US can impose “multilateral” sanctions on Iran by itself.

Pompeo’s argument, paraphrasing Obama, that the US can “snapback sanctions on Iran anytime and no country could block it” is a straw man. Neither RT nor anyone quoted in the story has argued that any country can block the US from imposing its own sanctions against Tehran.

Whether it originated with Obama or with Pompeo – as his original tweet suggested – makes no difference; the claim in the quote remains nonsensical. “Multilateral” sanctions cannot be imposed unilaterally, by definition, no matter how many word games one attempts to play.

One might argue that the US could demand the other signatories of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA) join Washington in reimposing the sanctions. Except the US has no standing to do so, as the Trump administration unilaterally exited the JCPOA in 2018, making such a discussion purely academic.

Diplomacy isn’t like driving a tank. One can’t just pop smoke and smash through an obstacle, tempting as that may be. While it may seem frustrating that what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate, the fact that Pompeo and his staff at Foggy Bottom pay attention to RT reporting leaves open some hope for greater understanding in the future.

https://www.rt.com/usa/498353-pompeo-obama-quote-correction/

US Launches Soft Capital Control Attack On Beijing, "Urges" Colleges To Sell Chinese Stocks

One day after Trump activated what Bloomberg described as the "nuclear option" when the US announced that Huawei can’t access US technology directly or indirectly, an action which leaves it in extremely difficult circumstances, the U.S. State Department has escalated the Cold War with China yet again, with Bloomberg reporting that the US is now asking colleges and universities to divest from Chinese holdings in their endowments, "warning schools in a letter Tuesday to get ahead of potentially more onerous measures on holding the shares."

The iShares MSCI China ETF, the MSCI sold off on the news.

As Bloomberg explains, "Tuesday’s warning is part of a larger campaign by U.S. officials to slow the money that has flowed from investment funds into Chinese companies. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told state governors in February that some pension funds are playing into China’s hands."

"Boards of U.S. university endowments would be prudent to divest from People’s Republic of China firms’ stocks in the likely outcome that enhanced listing standards lead to a wholesale de-listing of PRC firms from U.S. exchanges by the end of next year," wrote Keith Krach, undersecretary for economic growth, energy and the environment, in the letter addressed to the board of directors of American universities and colleges, and viewed by Bloomberg.

"Holding these stocks also runs the high risks associated with PRC companies having to restate financials," he said.

The latest broadside against Beijing has seen Trump tightening limits on Chinese university students, ordering new restrictions in June that canceled the U.S. visas of certain graduate students and university researchers; and now he is limiting college exposure to Chinese stocks. Also earlier this month, the US went after two of China’s largest tech companies with executive orders prohibiting U.S. persons and companies from doing business with ByteDance’s TikTok video app and Tencent Holdings’s WeChat messaging service.

As reported previously, US regulators recently urged American stock exchanges to set new rules that could trigger the delisting of Chinese companies, following mounting concerns that investors are being exposed to frauds.

As part of the soft (which is getting "harder" however by the day) capital controls imposed on China, in addition to venture capital, endowments have directed growing portions of their passive investments into Chinese companies that US politicians say are linked to human rights abuses and national security threats. Recently, MSCI added Chinese stocks to its benchmark emerging markets index, amid a chorus of allegations that MSCI is now just another corrupt Chinese puppet.

Meanwhile, according to the most recent data compiled by the National Association of College and University Business Officers for the year ended June 2019, foreign equities made up 13.9% of college endowments with more than $1 billion.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-launches-soft-capital-control-attack-beijing-urges-colleges-sell-chinese-stocks

REPORT: US Signs Massive $62 Billion Weapons Deal With Taiwan

The United States has made a 10-year, $62 billion weapons deal with Taiwan for the sale of 90 F-16 fighters, the Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday.

The U.S. has long been Taiwan’s largest supplier of military weapons and the deal represents one of the largest in the nation’s history. The move is sure to anger China, which considers Taiwan to be under its domain. Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will produce 90 new-generation F-16s for sale to Taiwan. Taiwan last purchased a fleet of F-16s in 1992, according to the Asia Times.

While the Pentagon has announced the sale of 90 jets, it has not yet confirmed publicly that Taiwan is the buyer. The AFP has reported, however, that sources close to the deal have confirmed the buyer.

The U.S. government last year approved Taiwan for the purchase of 66 jets, but the new contract has been increased amid President Donald Trump’s increasing criticism of China.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/18/taiwan-trump-china-f-16-weapons-deal/