Clive Palmer refused ICU treatment while battling COVID-19 in favour of taking ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine

Billionaire politician Clive Palmer refused to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit during his recent case of COVID-19, instead opting to take a cocktail of anti-virals including controversial medications at his Queensland mansion.

A team of specialists who treated former US president Donald Trump pumped a cocktail of five anti-viral drugs into billionaire Clive Palmer to save him from double pneumonia and the more deadly Delta Covid variant.

The US-based team used Zoom calls with Australian doctors to monitor his progress, and they fast-tracked Mr Palmer onto a US drug trial to administer the life-saving dosage of anti-virals.

“I would have died otherwise, without doubt,’’ Mr Palmer said.

Two of the anti-viral drugs included the controversial agents, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

The Therapeutics Goods Association, which assesses the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 treatments, has not approved ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.

Last year further restrictions were placed on general practitioners to prescribe these treatments.

After contracting the more deadly Delta variant in Sydney, Mr Palmer was rushed to Pindara Hospital on February 27.

There were serious concerns for his health because he is 67, in a higher weight category for his height and unvaccinated.

In his first interview since contracting Covid-19, Mr Palmer said he was given the super-strong steroid, Dexamethasone, which keeps the lungs functioning.

He was told by doctors that he had double pneumonia and Covid, and would be taken to ICU and put on a ventilator.

“I said that won’t be happening and I went home,’’ he said.

His senior staff had been in touch with controversial gastroenterologist, professor Thomas Borody, who organised the US specialists to intervene.

Instead, he went home, where a local team of four doctors took instructions from the US specialists on how to treat the billionaire, now said to be worth $18 billion.

An ambulance was on stand by near his Sovereign Islands mansion if he had to be rushed back to hospital.

“The US specialists, a couple of whom treated Trump for Covid, were very strong about not going onto a ventilator,’’ he said.

“I’ve been told that without the anti-viral intervention on that Sunday night I would likely have been dead within five hours.’’

Mr Palmer, who is not vaccinated, said the US-based team had put him onto a new trial that allowed him to take the anti-viral cocktail.

“I started to come good within 10 hours,’’ he said.

“I’m still not a 100 per cent. I get tired pretty easily but I’m not getting any younger I suppose.

“I had faith in the US doctors, and I’m not being critical of the Pindara people at all. They believed ventilation was necessary but I had alternative advice and I stuck with that.’’

Medical experts are clear that double or triple vaccination status sharply improves chances of surviving a severe dose of the disease.

Mr Palmer said the near-death experience had not altered his view on vaccination.

“I’m pro choice,’’ he said.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation strongly advises that the highest priority for providing optimal community-wide protection against COVID-19 is achieving very high vaccination coverage for all eligible Australians.

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A Victorian Liberal MP is under fire for saying there was "no point" putting social housing in affluent suburbs where children from low-income families "cannot mix" with other children.

Shadow housing minister Wendy Lovell's comments have drawn a rebuke from the government and forced her party leader to apologise on her behalf.

Ms Lovell, who was housing minister under the Baillieu and Napthine governments, was speaking during debate in parliament over a Greens bill to end homelessness by 2030.

"It's no point putting a very low income, probably welfare-dependent family in the best street in Brighton where the children cannot mix with the other [children], or cannot go to school with the other children," she said.

"They don't have the same ability to have the latest in sneakers and iPhones et cetera.

"We've got to make sure that people can actually fit into a neighbourhood and that they have a good life and that people are not stigmatising them because of their circumstances."

Housing minister Richard Wynne said the comments were "an absolute disgrace".

"She ought to go into parliament today and apologise," he told ABC Radio Melbourne.

"This particular development in Brighton that she refers to is a redevelopment of some of our oldest concrete public housing walk-up flats, which are well past their use-by date."

Ms Lovell would not answer directly this morning when asked outside parliament whether the comments were insensitive.

"I think that public housing should be for those that need it and it should be in areas where people actually get a good opportunity," Ms Lovell said.

Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said Ms Lovell was "trying to find the best intention" but her comments were poorly phrased.

"I think Wendy means well and made some exceptionally clumsy remarks in talking about stigmatisation" he said.

"Social housing in my view should be available to people who need it and that's the be all and end all, postcode doesn't matter."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-24/victorian-opposition-mp-under-fire-over-social-housing-comments/100935228

Ukraine Intelligence Has Leaked The ‘New World Order’ Plot To Assassinate Vladimir Putin From Within

With leaked intelligence revealing that a ‘group of powerful’ persons in Russia’s elite are devising a plan to assassinate the two-time president, Russian President Vladimir Putin could be witnessing the vultures closing in on him.

According to The Mirror, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense Intelligence claims to have acquired evidence indicating that the “New World Order” is trying to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as possible.

The plan, according to Ukraine’s Chief Directorate of Intelligence, is for Russian elites to kill Putin quickly through “poisoning, sudden sickness, or any other “coincidence.”

Insiders in the Kremlin, on the other hand, dismissed the allegations as Ukrainian propaganda, claiming that the Russian people, even Kremlin elites, completely support Putin’s pledge to demolish the New World Order with his “bare hands.”

Putin is alleged to have said these bold statements in 2016 in front of a crowd in the Kremlin. Jacob Rothschild allegedly called him a “traitor to the New World Order,” prompting the statement.

However, dissidence within Kremlin circles has reportedly emerged after crippling global sanctions were levied against Russia, both political and commercial.

The Ukrainian intelligence service claims that a successor to Putin has already been chosen in the form of FSB director Alexander Bortnikov.

“It is known that Bortnikov and some other influential representatives of the Russian elite are considering various options to remove Putin from power,” the Chief Directorate of Intelligence said.

“In particular, poisoning, sudden disease, or any other ‘coincidence’ is not excluded.”

LadBible report: The agency suggested that the losses incurred by Chechen forces in the north of the country may have influenced the alleged plot.

According to a Facebook post from Ukraine’s Chief Directorate of Intelligence, the official reason for the Putin’s downfall is his miscalculations in the war against Ukraine.

The alleged plan is to replace him with Federal Security Service boss Alexander Bortnikov.

Russia’s domestic security agency took over from the infamously brutal KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Bortnikov plays a major role in maintaining order in Putin’s Russia, with the agency responsible for everything from counter-terrorism to border security, counterintelligence, electronic surveillance.

Bortnikov and Putin have known each other since the 1970s when they both served in the Leningrad KGB, according to The Guardian.

https://en-volve.com/2022/03/23/ukraine-intelligence-has-leaked-the-new-world-order-plot-to-assassinate-vladimir-putin-from-within/

Did ABC just confirm Russia’s claim?

Russia claims that schools in Ukraine are being used as military sites, but the MSM discredits this and says that Russia is bombing schools and killing children inside them.

That’s what’s bothering me, “our country is at war, let’s send the kids to school” dosn’t make sense to me…

Ukrainian army personnel are also using schools as barracks.

This has been proven to be the case from an earlier bombing of a school that just so happened to coincide with some dumbass trying to get internet famous and posting a selfie in a school gymnasium.

defiantamerica.com/reddit-loser-gets-ukrainian-soldiers-bombed-after-one-of-the-soldiers-revealed-that-they-are-using-schools-for-bases-photos/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/did-abc-just-confirm-russias-claim/

Nancy Pelosi just reported exercising up to $5,000,000 worth of Tesla call options

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/nancy-pelosi-just-reported-exercising-up-to-5000000-worth-of-tesla-call-options/

Los Angeles Spending Up To $837K To House One Homeless Person

Los Angeles has dedicated $1.2 billion to a new program fighting homelessness, but instead of maximizing the budget’s impact, the city is spending up to $837,000 per unit to house homeless people.

An audit released by Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin shows that Proposition HHH, a ballot measure that issued a $1.2 billion bond to fight homelessness in 2016, has been an abject failure.

The audit states that “more people are unhoused today than when Prop. HHH passed in 2016.” Plagued by high costs and major delays, Proposition HHH has left taxpayers with a $1.2 billion bill, and even more homelessness.

One of the most egregious parts of the report shows the cost of new units being built to house homeless residents. Most units being built are meant to accommodate one person.

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There is at least one building in the predevelopment phase that is expected to cost $837,000 per unit. Another 12 projects being planned or built are expected to cost more than $700,000 per unit, and another 41 will cost more than $600,000 per unit.

Despite the measure passing more than five years ago, only 18 projects have been completed so far. Another 65 projects are under construction and 27 projects are still in the predevelopment stage.

In response to ballooning costs and delays in completion, the city controller recommended that the city speed up the review process, acquire and convert existing buildings for housing, build interim housing using available funds, and reevaluate expensive or stalled projects before finalizing loans. Of these, the City of Los Angeles has only decided to implement the first two.

Apparently, reassessing out-of-control spending is too much to ask from Los Angeles.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/los-angeles-spending-up-to-837k-to-house-one-homeless-person/

Shortages Hit Hard in Sri Lanka as Citizens Protest and the Government Seeks IMF Bailout

On March 18, 2022, the authorities announced that the final term examinations of schools in the Western Province of Sri Lanka would be delayed due to a shortage of paper and other materials required to prepare the examination papers. The printers of examination papers were unable to secure foreign currency to import the paper and ink they needed.

Twitter user @SriLankaTweet informs that the paper shortage has affected other things:

This is not the only predicament Sri Lanka is facing. Widespread shortages, such as fuel, gas, medicines, or even car parts, triggered by higher prices and foreign exchange shortages are making everyday life miserable in the country. On August 30, 2021, the country declared an economic emergency to control soaring food prices amid the foreign exchange crisis. Food inflation rose above 25 percent in February 2022.

The country is reeling from its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948 — its usable foreign currency reserves plunged below $1 billion in 2022. Sri Lanka may soon face a sovereign debt default and it has requested an IMF bailout.

An unprecedented crisis

Over the past five decades, Sri Lanka undertook several infrastructure development projects, which were financed through foreign loans. By 1989, Sri Lanka’s public debt (domestic and foreign) amounted to 109 percent of its GDP, but the country could manage it with the support of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as these were concessionary loans with low-interest rates — not market rates — and longer payback periods. So the government did not have to pay a huge amount of money as foreign debt repayments each year.

After the end of the 30-year-long civil war in 2009, the country needed infrastructural development and it did not generate sufficient revenue to meet its expenditure in the following decade. So it increased reliance on loans provided by export-import (exim) banks, especially from the Exim Bank of China. These loans were commercial with a shorter repayment period, and, by the end of 2020, more than half of Sri Lanka’s foreign loans were commercial, non-concessionary loans. That means the country has to repay the loan instalments within a short time or will face default. During the pandemic, the debt situation worsened and, in 2022 alone, the country has accrued a debt obligation of USD 7 billion.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka devalued its currency on March 9, 2022, causing the currency value to dip by over 30 percent.

The fuel crisis and the dominoes falling

Though the signs were there in earlier months, in early March, Sri Lanka fell into a severe fuel shortage as it did not have sufficient foreign currency to import and replenish stock. The market price of fuel rose more than 12 percent immediately. Public transport services were crippled as many buses were shut down and taxi drivers had to wait hours in queues to buy fuel as some filling stations capped the sale to a maximum of ten litres per customer. On March 20, two elderly people died while waiting for fuel.

Journalist and writer Kavinthan tweeted:

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/shortages-hit-hard-in-sri-lanka-as-citizens-protest-and-the-government-seeks-imf-bailout.html