Facebook Bans ‘Misleading’ Coronavirus Ads

Social media giant Facebook has reportedly banned ads related to the coronavirus that the site categorizes as “misinformation and harmful content.”

The Verge reports that social media giant Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure, prevent, or generally incite panic about the coronavirus. In a statement given to Business Insider, Facebook stated that it would be banning misinformation under similar policies implemented on its Marketplace platform where users can buy and sell goods.

Facebook told the Verge that it’s working to support the World Health Organization’s efforts “including taking steps to stop ads for products that refer to the coronavirus and create a sense of urgency, like implying a limited supply, or guaranteeing a cure or prevention. For example, ads with claims like face masks are 100% guaranteed to prevent the spread of the virus will not be allowed.”

This statement comes just one month after the company stated that it would be banning misleading information about the coronavirus from Facebook and Instagram. At the time, the firm stated that the policy would include content about fake cures or prevention methods of contracting the virus. A Facebook spokesperson told the Verge that these original policies applied to ads but that the rules relating to fearmongering to sell products are part of a new update.

Facebook has received criticism in recent months for its various advertising rules, particularly related to political advertising. The New York Times reported in a recent article titled “Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads,” that Facebook has no plans to fact check political ads on its platform despite intense pressure to do so. Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Facebook reportedly refuses to make major changes to its ad policies or end practices such as micro-targeting which allow advertisers to focus on specific groups of Facebook users.

The New York Times writes:

“In the absence of regulation, Facebook and other companies are left to design their own policies,” Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director of product management overseeing the advertising integrity division, said in the post. “We have based ours on the principle that people should be able to hear from those who wish to lead them, warts and all, and that what they say should be scrutinized and debated in public.”

Other social media companies have decided otherwise, and some had hoped Facebook would quietly follow their lead. In late October, Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, banned all political advertising from his network, citing the challenges that novel digital systems present to civic discourse. Google quickly followed suit with limits on political ads across some of its properties, though narrower in scope.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/02/27/facebook-bans-misleading-coronavirus-ads/

Rickards: How Gold Is Manipulated

Is there gold price manipulation going on? Absolutely. There’s no question about it. That’s not just an opinion.

There is hard statistical evidence to make the case, in addition to anecdotal evidence and forensic evidence. The evidence is very clear, in fact.

I’ve spoken to members of Congress. I’ve spoken to people in the intelligence community, in the defense community, very senior people at the IMF. I don’t believe in making strong claims without strong evidence, and the evidence is all there.

I spoke to a PhD statistician who works for one of the biggest hedge funds in the world. I can’t mention the fund’s name but it’s a household name. You’ve probably heard of it. He looked at COMEX (the primary market for gold) opening prices and COMEX closing prices for a 10-year period.

He was dumbfounded.

He said it was is the most blatant case of manipulation he’d ever seen. He said if you went into the aftermarket, bought after the close and sold before the opening every day, you would make risk-free profits.

He said statistically that’s impossible unless there’s manipulation occurring.

I also spoke to Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz at the New York University Stern School of Business. She is the leading expert on globe price manipulation. She has actually testified in gold manipulation cases.

She wrote a report reaching the same conclusions. It’s not just an opinion, it’s not just a deep, dark conspiracy theory. Here’s a PhD statistician and a prominent market expert lawyer, expert witness in litigation qualified by the courts, who independently reached the same conclusion.

How do these manipulations occur?

Currently the price of gold is set in two places. One is the London spot market, controlled by six big banks including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. The other is the New York gold futures market controlled by COMEX, which is governed by its big clearing members, also including major western banks.

In effect, the big western banks have a monopoly on gold prices even if they do not have a monopoly on physical gold.

https://dailyreckoning.com/how-gold-is-manipulated/

Israel is the first country to warn its citizens not to travel abroad over coronavirus fears

In a dramatic statement Wednesday, Israel’s Health Ministry urged Israelis to seriously consider refraining from traveling abroad, as the country looked to isolate itself from the novel coronavirus outbreak rapidly spreading across the globe.

“If you don’t genuinely have to fly — don’t do so,” the ministry said in a travel warning.

In making the announcement, Israel became the first country to urge its citizens to refrain from international travel entirely because of the outbreak, which started in China in December and has since infected over 80,000 worldwide and claimed well over 2,000 lives, almost all of them in China.

The move comes after a series of additional countries announced they had identified cases of the virus on their soil over the past two days, including Brazil’s announcement of the first confirmed case in Latin America and uncontained outbreaks in Germany, Italy and other European countries.

Tuesday marked the first day since the start of the outbreak that more new cases were recorded abroad than in China, which has been the epicenter of the epidemic.

The statement also expanded a previous travel warning for northern Italy to the entirety of that country and ordered all Israelis returning from Italy to a 14-day home quarantine, effective immediately.

Israel has already banned the entry of any foreigners who have been to China, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand Singapore, South Korea and Japan in the 14 days prior.

Israeli officials said the new reports of coronavirus cases in Greece, Austria, Switzerland and Croatia, all announced over the past two days, appear to have arrived in those countries from travelers originating in Italy.

https://governmentslaves.news/2020/02/26/israel-is-the-first-country-to-warn-its-citizens-not-to-travel-abroad-over-coronavirus-fears/

VIDEO: Alex Jones Confronts ‘Judge’ Amy Berman Jackson For Rigging Stone Jury

Alex Jones confronts the Kangaroo Court Judge Jackson in her swamp home of D.C.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/video-alex-jones-confronts-judge-amy-berman-jackson-for-rigging-stone-jury/

I know, but still interesting!

A record 219 CEOs left their posts in January; a 37% increase from December & 27% increase just since previous high last October

CEOs of DISNEY, MASTERCARD and SALESFORCE all RESIGN within 24 hours

Head honchos at Mastercard, Walt Disney Co., and Salesforce, which all sit in the top half of the Fortune 500, are stepping aside, leaving many to speculate about the strange confluence of high-profile departures…

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/a-record-219-ceos-left-their-posts-in-january-a-37-increase-from-december-27-increase-just-since-previous-high-last-october/

Georgia city sues drug company over medicine that went from $40 to $39,000

ATLANTA — The city of Marietta, Ga., has filed a class action lawsuit against a drug company after the price of a decades-old medicine went from $40 a vial to more than $39,000.

The city, which covers health care costs for employees and their families, says it has already spent more than $2 million on the drug for a single patient.

Stacie Dusetzina, an associate professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, reviewed the complaint and said it’s indicative of a national problem with market-driven drug prices.

“A company can choose to do this to any drug a person is taking at any time,” she said. “I think it’s important for people to realize this has some particularly egregious elements, but this is not the only drug where we see this behavior.”

The drug, called Acthar, was first approved in the 1950s, and today is used primarily to treat infantile spasms — a seizure disorder in babies. It has other indications as well.

Marietta declined to answer questions about the case, but the complaint says the drug was prescribed to a covered individual for a “serious medical condition.”

A spokesperson for Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures Acthar, said the company had not been served with the lawsuit yet.

He provided a written statement saying the largest price hike occurred before Mallinckrodt acquired Acthar in August 2014.

“Under our stewardship, any price adjustments to Acthar have been limited to the mid-single digit percentage range,” the statement said, adding that the company has invested more than $600 million in the drug.

Marietta says Mallinckrodt has been able to keep Acthar’s price artificially high by acquiring and then shelving the rights to a cheaper synthetic alternative.

In 2017, Mallinckrodt settled a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over alleged antitrust violations for $100 million. It also had to agree to license development of the synthetic alternative to a competitor.

In 2019, it paid more than $15 million to the United States Department of Justice to settle claims that it paid illegal kickbacks to doctors. A pending DOJ lawsuit alleges the company illegally paid patients.

Reuben Guttman, an antitrust lawyer who has handled similar cases, said pharmaceutical companies consider such litigation the cost of doing business when profits are in the billions.

“When the government settles, the companies are effectively paying a fee for a license to break the law,” he said. “It’s pennies on the dollar that are being paid.”

The rising cost of drugs can be passed on to the public in the form of higher taxes, higher premiums and less coverage, even for those on employer-sponsored health plans. In 2018, for example, Medicare spent $725 million on Acthar for fewer than 2,500 patients, according to government data.

Liza Vertinsky, an associate professor of law of Emory University, said she worries lawsuits like Marietta’s don’t address the underlying issue of drug pricing.

“This is another example of using a blunt instrument to address a systemic problem,” she said.

https://personalliberty.com/georgia-city-sues-drug-company-over-medicine-that-went-from-40-to-39000/

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The Age of Treason: 1958 Book Exposes Chemical Attack on Humanity

Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer was in many ways a man ahead of his time, and most certainly controversial. He was attacked by the medical establishment for connecting diet with disease and mental health in his 1917 book Dietetics. Dr. Clymer received his medical degree in 1902 from the College of Medicine and Surgery in Chicago and began practicing Osteopathy. Accusations of fraud surround Dr. Clymer’s career, including this 1923 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association which claims that, “Our records fail to show that this man was ever regularly graduated by any reputable medical college.” What Clymer had to say more than likely had something to do with the denouncement that he received from the medical establishment.

Though Dr. Clymer may be surrounded with controversy, his 1958 book Your Health and Sanity in the Age of Treason exposes toxic food additives and fluoride with documentation – the majority of which are mainstream scientific studies – that can be verified many times over. What makes this book unique is the fact that Dr. Clymer was one of the first to point out that statements by the elite indicated that these toxins were to be deliberately released “…for the mental deterioration and moral debasement of the mass…”

The book is appropriately subtitled; “Food and Liquids Used as a Medium in Deliberately and Carefully Planned Methods Developed by the Vicious Element of Humanity, for the Mental Deterioration and Moral Debasement of the Mass, as a Means Toward Their Enslavement.”

Dr. Clymer introduces readers with a stark warning for the future, writing, “Imagine yourself if you can, becoming conscious that you are gradually losing your manhood; that your mind is rapidly deteriorating so that you are no longer capable of thinking clearly; unable to plan your future actions. Your resistance is becoming so weakened that you are no longer master of yourself. In short, you are rapidly developing into a moron, a robot, a zombie, readily subject to the dictates of others…”

Bertrand Russell’s 1953 book The Impact of Science on Society is cited by Clymer as one example of the elite’s desire to dominate the masses. Russell stated that under scientific tyranny, “Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.”

Diethylstilbestrol – Endocrine Disruption

Dr. Clymer identified the synthetic estrogen Diethylstilbestrol – developed in 1938 – as a means to achieve the aims of the elite. Clymer explains that some of the toxic additives discussed in the book may not have been employed for the express purpose outlined by the elite, but “…they served their purpose admirably…” Dr. Clymer elaborates,

“The employment of Stilbestrol by the laity with absolutely no knowledge of the dangerous agent they are employing, in conditioning chickens and meats, is mass medication without license, with a dangerous toxic drug that may have universal disastrous results on all who eat such adulterated foods. This is especially true as it concerns children, youths, young women and men, resulting as it may, in their sterilization or cancer – something fervently hoped for by the enemies of mankind.”

Because Stilbestrol is a synthetic chemical, “…the natural protective activity of the bodily organs are ineffective in prohibiting harmful results. Natural Estrogen, on the other hand, is decomposed, and any of its possible harmful effects may be more or less made ineffective,” writes Dr. Clymer. Stilbestrol was used as a treatment for various types of cancer and menopausal symptoms, but as Dr. Clymer states, “Physicians versed in the use of Endocrines agree generally that Stilbestrol is a dangerous drug in all except experienced hands.”

Dr. E. Malcolm Stokes, in an article published in the Western Journal of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, September 1948, wrote: “Single large doses of [natural] estrogen substances are quickly excreted… long continued, repeated administration in relatively small doses [as in daily consumption of meats permeated with stilbestrol] may intensify tissue response to the hormone.”

https://www.oldthinkernews.com/2010/08/19/the-age-of-treason-1958-book-exposes-chemical-attack-on-humanity/