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Best of the Web: Vindicated: Trump-touted COVID-19 drug hydroxychloroquine works, according to new study

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The anti-malaria drug that President Trump touted as a possible treatment for coronavirus, hydroxychloroquine, successfully lowered the death rate among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the most recent study of the drug.

The large-scale analysis, conducted by Henry Ford Health System, was published Thursday in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

The study examined 2,541 patients who had been hospitalized in six hospitals between March 10 and May 2, 2020.

More than twenty-six percent (26.4%) of patients who did not receive hydroxychloroquine died.

Comment: After all the mainstream media stories touting the ineffectiveness and danger of hydroxychloroquine, the release of this study just further shows that the MSM is full of lies and propaganda.


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Best of the Web: Democrats have crossed the line, smearing 4th of July and Mt. Rushmore as 'glorifying white supremacy'

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The Democrats' smear of the 4th of July and Mt. Rushmore was more inline with far left fanaticism than anything Americans mostly care about.

The tweet in question proves that beneath the thin veneer lies a fringe ideology. Presumably, Democrats realized that most Americans like the 4th of July and quickly deleted the Tweet.

But calls for destroying our history have been emboldened by Democrats, while Republicans stand for the most part idly by, save Donald Trump.

Trump recently announced they would go after those who destroy statues. Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi joined in the removal of statues and quite literally got on bent knee for the far left...


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Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson: Republican politicians no longer lead the USA - The people have to. And when they do, the GOP will follow

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Republican office holders are not working hard enough for the American people and, at a moment like this, that's a severe and dangerous problem.


Comment: God bless Tucker Carlson. At this point, ordinary working people successfully turning things around in spite of atrocious leadership is a long shot, but maybe, somehow, just articulating what needs or ought to be done can offset some of the mayhem to come.


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Best of the Web: Deep State bounty hunters' real target is Trump

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The media firestorm over alleged Russian intelligence collusion with Afghan militants to kill US troops has the hallmarks of a psy-ops orchestrated by America's Deep State.

The real bounty hunters in this high-risk game are not Russian operatives allegedly directing militant assassins. Rather, it is domestic political enemies of Donald Trump directing US media outlets to hobble his presidency or chances of re-election.

Since his shock election back in 2016, the political establishment and their favored Democrat surrogates along with media affiliates have been unrelenting in trying to crash Trump's presidency.

Trump may be an odious figure of dubious character. He's a plutocrat and demagogue accused of harboring racist tendencies.

Nevertheless, there seems little doubt that the Deep State have him marked down for sabotage. That's not Trump being paranoid. The whole non-entity Russia meddling "scandal" which began as soon as he was elected to the White House in November 2016 was the foremost expression of the "resistance".

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Best of the Web: Mikhaila Peterson interviews her father, Jordan Peterson, about his reaction to benzodiazepines and their struggle to find proper treatment in the West

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© instagram / mikhailapetersonJordan Peterson photographed with his daughter and granddaughter in Moscow, 16 February 2020
Welcome to the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast, episode 9. This is a brief podcast with my dad Jordan Peterson about what happened to him and my family in the last year.


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Best of the Web: The new (pathologized) totalitarianism

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It was always going to come to this ... mobs of hysterical, hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from their jobs, "no mask, no service" signs outside stores, security staff stopping the mask-less from entering, paranoid pod people pointing and shrieking at the sight of mask-less shoppers in their midst, goon squads viciously attacking and arresting them...

Welcome to the Brave New Normal.

And it isn't just the Maskenpflicht-Sturmabteilung. The new official narrative is omnipresent. The corporate media are pumping out hysteria about "Covid-19 hospitalizations" (i.e., anyone admitted to a hospital for anything who tested positive for the coronavirus) and "major incidents" (i.e., people at the beach).

Police are manning makeshift social-distancing-monitoring watchtowers in London. There are propaganda posters and billboards everywhere, repeating the same neo-Goebbelsian slogans, reinforcing the manufactured mass hysteria. Dissent and nonconformity are being pathologized, "diagnosed" as psychopathy and paranoia. Mandatory vaccinations are coming.

You didn't think they were kidding, did you, when they started introducing the Brave New Normal official narrative back in March?

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Best of the Web: The era of Chatham House and the British roots of NATO

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NATO secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's recent announcement of a NATO 2030 anti-nation state vision to extend the spheres of NATO's jurisdiction into the Pacific to contain China demonstrates a disturbing ideology which can lead nowhere but World War III if not nipped in the bud soon.

In my previous article NATO 2030: Making a Bad Idea Worse, I promised to shed light on the paradoxical situation of NATO's unabashed unipolar agenda on one hand and the many examples of President Trump's resistance to NATO witnessed by his removal of 9500 American personnel from Germany announced on June 11, his cutting of American participation in NATO military exercises, and his recent attacks on the military industrial complex.

The paradox: If NATO is truly a wholly owned tool of the American Empire, then why would the American Empire be at odds with itself? Of course, this only remains a paradox to the degree that one is committed to the belief in such a thing as "The American Empire".

Please do not get me wrong here. I am in no way saying that America has not acted like an empire in recent decades, nor am I romantically trying to whitewash America's historic tendencies to support colonization and defend systemic racism.

What I am saying is that there are demonstrably now, just as there have been since 1776, TWO opposing dynamics operating within America, where only one is in alignment of the ideals of the Constitution and Declaration of independence while the other is entirely in alignment with the ideals of the British Empire and hereditary institutions from which it supposedly broke away.

One America has been defended by great leaders who are too often identified by their untimely deaths while in office, who consistently advanced anti-colonial visions for a world of sovereign nations, win-win cooperation, and the extension of constitutional rights to all classes and races both within America and abroad. The other America has sought only to enmesh itself with the British Empire's global regime of finance, exploitation, population control and never-ending wars.

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Best of the Web: Ron Paul: Media lying about 'second wave' of coronavirus

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For months, the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media kept a morbid Covid-19 "death count" on their front pages and at the top of their news broadcasts. The coronavirus outbreak was all about the number of dead. The narrative was intended to boost governors like Cuomo in New York and Whitmer in Michigan, who turned their states authoritarian under the false notion that destroying people's jobs, freedom, and lives would somehow keep a virus from doing what viruses always do: spread through a population until eventually losing strength and dying out.

The "death count" was always the headline.

But then all of a sudden early in June the mainstream media did a George Orwell and lectured us that it is all about "cases" and has always been all about "cases." Death, and especially infection fatality rate, were irrelevant. Why? Because from the peak in April, deaths had decreased by 90 percent and were continuing to crash. That was not terrifying enough so the media pretended this good news did not exist.

With massive increases in testing, the "case" numbers climbed. This is not rocket science: the more people you test the more "cases" you discover.

Unfortunately our mainstream media is only interested in pushing the "party line." So the good news that millions more have been exposed while the fatality rate continues to decline - meaning the virus is getting weaker - is buried under hysterical false reporting of "new cases."

Comment: A good line to remember: if you subsidize something, you get more of it.


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Best of the Web: Golden State Killer pleads guilty to 26 charges in raping and killing spree during 1970s and 80s

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© APJoseph James DeAngelo, charged with being the Golden State Killer, is expected to plead guilty this week.
Four decades after he started sneaking into homes, tying up victims, raping women and murdering couples, former police officer Joseph DeAngelo pleaded guilty Monday to 26 charges, admitting what pioneering forensic science had already proven — he was the sadistic Golden State Killer.

His acceptance of a plea deal spared him death, a reprieve the 74-year-old never offered more than a dozen men and women he shot and bludgeoned to death during a 12-year raping and killing spree during the 1970s and '80s. He only stopped, prosecutors believe, when he got old and was no longer spry enough to overpower victims.

The admission of guilt will secure DeAngelo's time behind bars, as he will be sentenced to life without parole.

DeAngelo was charged with 13 counts of murder, with additional special circumstances, as well as 13 counts of kidnapping for robbery in six counties, including Contra Costa County in the Bay Area. Investigators believe he was responsible for more than 60 rapes, including some in Santa Clara and Alameda counties as well, but the statute of limitations expired on those crimes.


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Best of the Web: EU keeps quiet over suspicious vaccination passport documents

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Surprise, surprise, the European Commission (EC) had a "Roadmap on Vaccination" ready months before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

The Roadmap should lead to a "commission proposal for a common vaccination card / passport for EU citizens by 2022".

Last updated during the third quarter of 2019, the 10-page document was followed, on September 12th, by a "global vaccination summit" jointly hosted by the EC and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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© European CommissionVaccine passports were planned for the EU back in 2019
Under the header "Ten Actions Towards Vaccination for All - Everyone should be able to benefit from the power of vaccination", the summit manifesto laments that:
"Despite the availability of safe and effective vaccines, lack of access, vaccine shortages, misinformation, complacency towards disease risks, diminishing public confidence in the value of vaccines and disinvestments are harming vaccination rates worldwide."

Comment: So the problem isn't just that some people are not "able" to allegedly benefit; it's that some don't want to, or don't believe that there is an actual benefit. That's their choice, but technocrats tend to be little totalitarians. People's choices don't matter to them. They must be forced to comply.


And with them, arguably, the pharmaceutical companies' profits.