90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, April 27, 2023

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #2063

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Girls With Guns

One of the two men accused by federal prosecutors of running a Chinese “police station” in New York City purportedly has been captured on video with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

A recording on March 18 appears to show Lu Jianwang standing alongside Adams at an event where Schumer also spoke. In April 2022, Lu met New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng at a fundraising party. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Lu was arrested last week and charged with conspiring to act as an agent of China’s government,.

Records show that since 2006, Lu has contributed at least $32,625 to New York elected officials, including Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul.

U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said while “the station was providing some government services, like helping Chinese citizens renew their Chinese driver’s license….more troubling….is the fact that the secret police station appears to have had a more sinister use.…”.

Peace added. “An official with the Chinese National Police directed one of the defendants – a U.S. citizen who worked at the secret police station – to help locate a pro-democracy activist of Chinese descent living in California. In other words, the Chinese national police appear to have been using the station to track a U.S. resident on U.S. soil.” We’d call that hunting down dissidents living free in America.

So it would seem we’ve discovered yet another group of prominent Dem pols who have cozied up to our # 1 geopolitical foe, China.
We can now add Schumer, Adams, and Meng to a list that includes:

Congressmen Eric Swalwell, who apparently had “very special relations” with a Chinese spy. Sen. Diane Feinstein who...

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Brazil's greatest living scientist is unanimously acquitted by medical councils

Dr Flavio Cadegiani has simply found the world's most effective treatment for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, yet he has been accused of everything, even killing patients.

Earlier this month, the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Amazonas (CREMAM) unanimously acquitted Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, physician, scientist and lead author of research on proxalutamide to treat COVID-19. The northern arm of the study took place in six cities in the Amazon. All charges were dropped after the doctor's innocence was proven.

One of the allegations was that Dr. Cadegiani, along with other authors of the study, had not complied with the Code of Medical Ethics, more specifically Article 109, which says: “Failing to ensure, when teaching or authoring scientific publications, the veracity, clarity and impartiality of the information presented” .

Another accusation alleged that the disclosure of research results with proxalutamide would have been done in a sensationalist, promotional way or containing untrue information during a press conference. However, Dr. Danielle Monteiro Fonseca da Silva, reporting counsel for the process, stated in her vote that several similar actions were observed during the serious pandemic crisis, such as the disclosure of national vaccines and medicines without authorization from the competent bodies. The decision of Dr. Silva was followed by the other counselors who participated in the trial.

In another aspect, also involved in the judgment, was the accusation coming from CONEP – National Commission for Ethics in Research, that the research could not have taken place in Manaus, but only in Brasília. But the complaint was not valid. “It became clear to everyone throughout the trial that such an accusation had absolutely no foundation,” explained Cadegiani.

The rapporteur voted for the innocence of Dr Cadegiani. “It proved in the records that it has no connection with the pharmaceutical industry, nor did it disclose untrue information, showing only the encouraging results of the research”, she said in her vote.
Before he was acquitted in Rio Grande do Sul

Research with proxalutamide was carried out in two Brazilian states, Amazonas and Rio Grande do Sul. In Rio Grande do Sul, the complaints were judged by CREMERS – Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in response to the complaints presented by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the RS.

At the conclusion of the investigation, which took place in October last year, the judges highlighted that the study complied with all the necessary technical and bureaucratic approvals. In addition, they wrote: “The extremely encouraging results presented by proxalutamide stand out, revealing statistically significant effects in reducing the lung damage caused by COVID, even in the short period of treatment and also because there was no harm to the patients tested by the drug”.

“They wanted to know everything that happened, and in the end, they noticed that there was no room for any doubt”, said Cadegiani. “Having the truth in my favor gave me a lot of peace of mind when dealing with serious bodies, truly independent, impartial, and, consequently, fair”.
Learn more about the case

The peer-reviewed and published study with Proxalutamide involved 778 hospitalized severe COVID patients from Amazonas and Rio Grande do Sul.

The reduction in deaths observed was 78%.

Proxalutamide: 45 of 423 (10.6%) died.
Placebo: 171 of 355 (48.2%) died.
Study praised in the world

In Brazil, the study was mercilessly attacked by the press, which generated a wave of complaints in medical councils. However, abroad, in the most renowned scientific institutions in the world, the high quality of the study was attested.

At Canada's McMaster University, the birthplace of Evidence-Based Medicine, the study was rated one of the highest marks among all COVID drug studies. The same happened with...