Der Vorstand der Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) möchte das Geschäftsrisiko von Banken auf die Kunden, also die Sparer abwälzen. Foto: M. Schreiber / Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Ganz und gar nicht konsumentenfreundlich gibt sich die Raiffeisenbank International (RBI) in Sachen Commerzialbank Mattersburg (CMB).
Dem RBI-Vorstandsvorsitzenden Strobl schwebt das Modell „Autoversicherung“ vor, bei dem Einleger einen Selbstbehalt zahlen müssen:
Wie bei jeder Versicherung bietet sich an, dass man einen geringen Selbstbehalt hat – ob der die Zinsen ausmacht, oder bisschen mehr.
Damit wären die Sparer, die keine Zinsen bekommen und ihre Spareinlagen verlieren, doppelt geschröpft. Dass solche Ratschläge von Strobl kommen, der doch selbst Mattersburger ist, verwundert doppelt.
Raiffeisen Bausparkasse muss 18 Millionen Euro nachschießen
Nachdem die RBI in ihrer Halbjahresbilanz wegen der Corona-Radikalmaßnahmen der Regierung einen um mehr als ein Drittel geschrumpften Gewinn ausweist, wünscht sich der Raiffeisen-Vorstand offensichtlich für die Einlagensicherung eine andere Finanzierung. Die RBI-Tochter Raiffeisen Bausparkasse muss nämlich nicht weniger als 18 Millionen Euro in die Einlagensicherung der österreichischen Banken nachschießen. Der Nachschuss soll auf die nächsten fünf Jahre verteilt an die Einlagensicherung durch die Bausparkasse fließen.
Hammer all you want on pieces of wood, but you are only wasting effort, time and money and destroying wood until the hammer hits a nail. And then it must be the right kind of nail, long enough to do the job.
The antibody, the rtPCTR and PCR tests detect something. But the tests have a false positive rate and a false negative rate. You had a hammer and a nail, but the hammer did not hit the nail.
Also, the test may or may not be testing for the pathogen, or the RNA or DNA sequence that is the cause of the disease. That pathogen structure detected by the antibody or the RNA sequence or DNA sequence could be from a cell or pathogen that died. You had a hammer and a nail, but it was the wrong type of nail, too short.
The viral load we are measuring could easily be the result of a COVID-19 opportunistic infection that occurred following and on top of an immune system which was already weakened by some other chronic disease. The chronic disease is causing many cells to die. And other cells are weakened which allows COVID-19 and other pathogens to enter or attack the cells. This is the very strong reason to protect nursing homes and the elderly. This could also be the reason symptoms are so varied and different, and also the reason one treatment works and another does not. You had a hammer, but no nail.
My point is there are very many possibilities. A complex decision tree would need to be built, but that is no guarantee of success. The absence of diligence in the virology and journalism is appalling and scary. I become more skeptical each additional day that we do not see the published proof of cause. As referenced before on this blog, the protocols to validate a hypothetical cause of an infectious disease are decades old, published, peer reviewed many times over and well known. Virologists know how to find the right kind of nail, fit for purpose.
The variety of symptoms is spread all over the map. That leads one to a hypothesis that this pandemic is more than one disease. Fortunately, most MDs for the last 50 years are trained to treat the symptoms as presented to them. Fortunately, most MDs learned to observe whether the boards needed to be joined by a nail, a screw, staples or glue and did not insist on using a hammer.
Perhaps some intellectual distance will help. I offer an analogy separate from this pandemic. Sales guy repeatedly forecasts sales which do not become orders. Sales manager travels with sales guy to visit a customer who is listed on forecast. Sales manager asks customer if he is decision maker for this purchase. Customer says, „No, that would be my boss.“ Befuddled sales guy leaves, forgetting his briefcase. True and frequently repeating story.
Another analogy. Atmosphere is slowly warming. Over 100 governments, thousands of corporations et al, and millions of teachers and perhaps a billion or more people assume that this warming is caused by CO2 emitted by humans burning fossil fuels. Indeed atmospheric CO2 concentration has been slowly rising for over 100 years and that increase could be associated/correlated with the temperature rise.
However, an association or a statistical correlation does not prove cause. On the other hand, if there is a causal relationship, then there must be a strong correlation. The cause – effect relationship is not reversible. Burn that in your brain so that you do not forget it.
The global warming agenda is the exact situation we have now in this COVID-19 pandemic. We have been told by presumed experts, teachers, media and screaming children that humans are causing global warming and life as we know it will end, sooner than later. But like this pandemic, there are many possible causes for the very slow warming of earth’s atmosphere, and like this pandemic the symptoms are highly variable and they are complicated.
The COVID-19 panic has resulted in a huge reduction in automobile and airplane travel, which means a huge reduction in human-produced CO2 emitted into the air. Literally, oil companies are going bankrupt due to low oil prices due to low demand for oil and gas. However, the atmospheric CO2 concentration, which has been continuously measured in one location since 1948, and slowly increasing during that period, shows no significant decline in the accepted standard measurement of net global atmospheric CO2 concentration during this pandemic. Logically, we can infer human CO2 is an insignificant contributor to net global CO2 concentration. It should be obvious: reducing the human carbon footprint is pointless, wasted effort, time and money, like hammering a board with no nail; in other words, human CO2 and burning of fossil fuels is not the cause of global warming. But, you can be certain that the CO2 data will be “adjusted” by the experts. Do you think the COVID data are adjusted too? We have been told by experts that humans and cows and ants are causing dangerous warming, mostly told to us by experts and people whose livelihood depends on us believing and paying. But their hypothesis is false and over $1 trillion has been spent on their false agenda so far with no end in sight.
And now here we go again, destroying good wood with lots of hammers, but so far they have no nail.
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Beth Goodman, MD*
Patricia Whitley-Williams, MD†
*Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
†Department of Pediatrics and Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
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Pediatricians are often familiar with cat-scratch disease (CSD), but many are not familiar with the other manifestations of Bartonella infection. The Bartonella genus of bacteria are fastidious and slow-growing gram-negative bacilli. From 1889 to the present, 8 different Bartonella species have been identified, with differing manifestations.This In Brief reviews the illnesses caused by 3 of the more common Bartonella strains: henselae, quintana, and bacilliformis.
CSD, caused by Bartonella henselae, is the most common Bartonella infection, but it is also a “newer” manifestation. CSD was first reported clinically in 1950, yet B henselae was not identified as the etiologic agent until 1983.
In immunocompetent patients, typical (uncomplicated) CSD is characterized by regional lymphadenopathy, the most common manifestation of B henselae infection, along with a history of cat exposure. For most patients with CSD, regional lymphadenopathy is the only symptom. In approximately 30% of patients with CSD, mild systemic symptoms are also present, including low-grade fever, fatigue, and headache. A skin papule, vesicle, or pustule may be present at the presumed site of inoculation, which is often a bite or scratch from an infected cat. Regional lymphadenopathy develops approximately 1 to 2 weeks after the inoculation. The affected nodes are most frequently in the axillary, cervical, and inguinal areas, and the skin overlying the affected lymph nodes is often tender, warm, erythematous, and indurated, consistent with a bacterial lymphadenitis. Approximately 10% of affected nodes suppurate spontaneously.
Atypical (complicated) CSD is a disseminated infection that develops in 5% to 14% of immunocompetent patients and may involve almost any organ system. Ocular manifestations of B henselae occur in 5% to 10% …
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Due to the increasing prevalence of Bartonella, I hope doctors are utilizing articles like this one and learning what to look for.
More Doctors Speak Out on Censorship and Mass Murderer Anthony Fauci’s False Information Regarding Hydroxychloroquine
August 5, 2020
by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
As mass murder Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to appear in the corporate media to attack the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which thousands of doctors have now said can completely cure COVID, more doctors are coming forward to expose his lies.
Fauci publicly attacked a recent positive study about HCQ published by the Henry Ford Health System, prompting two of the leading doctors of the study, doctors Adnan Munkarah and Steven Kalkanis, to publish an “Open Letter” refuting the lies of the mass murderer, Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Munkarah works as the chief clinical officer of the Henry Ford Health System, and Dr. Kalkanis works as the chief academic officer. Here is an excerpt:
We want to point out that scientific debate is a common occurrence with almost every published study. In part, this is what fuels the advancement of knowledge – challenging one another on our assumptions, conclusions and applications to get to a better place for the patients we collectively serve. You can read the original study here and the senior author’s letter to the editor here.
Unfortunately, the political climate that has persisted has made any objective discussion about this drug impossible, and we are deeply saddened by this turn of events. Our goal as scientists has solely been to report validated findings and allow the science to speak for itself, regardless of political considerations.
To that end, we have made the heartfelt decision to have no further comment about this outside the medical community – staying focused on our core mission in the interest of our patients, our community, and our commitment to clinical and academic integrity. (Full letter here.)
Fauci’s main complaint about their study is that it was not a “double-blind, randomized clinical trial,” which is considered the “Gold Standard.”
This is an interesting criticism, since almost all of the current new medical products being fast-tracked by the FDA to treat COVID, are also not “double-blind, randomized clinical trials.”
This is especially true for the COVID vaccine drug trials, which do not even use a true placebo, but instead usually use another vaccine known for serious side effects, to make the new COVID vaccine appear to be more safe.
Peter R. Breggin, MD
Another doctor who has come forward to criticize Fauci is Peter R. Breggin, MD, who published an article yesterday (August 3, 2020) titled:
Science! We have been told that science must be relied upon to make our decisions when dealing with the pandemic called COVID-19. We must in effect bow down to science, no matter how humiliating and painful it may feel.
But science has an Achilles heel—a fatal flaw that can completely ruin it and frequently does.
What is the fatal flaw of science? It is conducted by human beings. Science is only as dependable as the people who conduct and disseminate it. The adage for judging opinions still holds true—consider the source!
When Anthony Fauci announced the rollout of his initial clinical trial for remdesivir as the great hope for knocking out the coronavirus epidemic, he boasted about the clinical trial’s importance: “A randomized, placebo-controlled trial is the gold standard for determining if an experimental treatment can benefit patients.”
Since controlled clinical trials involving drugs and vaccines are very expensive, require access to sick and often highly infectious patients, and must be approved by the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and the FDA—they can only be conducted with funding from Big Pharma and Big Government or occasional other large institutions. We will see that the tragic result of this hegemony was remarkably demonstrated in Fauci’s government trial on behalf of his favorite drug company, Gilead.
Meanwhile, the People’s Drug Is Running Ahead
As we have documented in earlier reports, here and here and on our Coronavirus Resource Center, hydroxychloroquine and zinc as a prophylactic, and hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin and zinc for patients developing COVID-19 could right now greatly improve the treatment of patients in the US, as it has done elsewhere.
Doctors and entire nations have been and are continuing to use this drug successfully, especially in combination with azithromycin and zinc. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has shown that the countries which actively use hydroxychloroquine have significantly lower death rates than those that do not. (Full article.)
Dr. Pascal Sacré
Another doctor who has spoken out in an article published today (August 4, 2020) is French Dr. Pascal Sacré. The title of his article is:
We have a treatment in COVID-19 and it doesn’t have the support of Big Pharma and their experts!
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is effective in treating COVID-19.
It is effective in halting the progression of the disease, provided it is given early enough and provided it is given in accordance with “contraindications” and safety of use (cardiac).
It costs nothing and the powerful pharmaceutical industry does not want to hear about it.
Big Parma has done everything to outlaw and demonize it, including the publication in the most prestigious medical journal (Lancet) of a fraudulent article withdrawn 12 days later.
Let’s stop saying that there is no treatment for COVID-19 or that only a vaccine will save us!
There is a treatment for this disease, not in intensive care, where it is too late, but to prevent it from going to intensive care, so to be given early enough, by general practitioners or emergency doctors.
The key to defeat COVID-19 already exists. We need to start using it. (Full Article.)
Dr. Kevin R. Wheelan and Dr. Peter McCullough
Texas doctors Dr. Kevin R. Wheelan, chief of cardiology at Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital in Dallas and Dr. Peter McCullough, a clinical cardiologist and professor at the Texas A&M School of Medicine, have also made public comments and sent a letter to the FDA a few days ago.
The number of doctors publicly supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine for early treatment or prevention is growing.
Recently, Dr. Kevin R. Wheelan, chief of cardiology at Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital in Dallas and Dr. Peter McCullough, a clinical cardiologist and professor at the Texas A&M School of Medicine, issued a letter supporting the emergency use authorization (EUA) of hydroxychloroquine for outpatient treatment and prophylaxis for COVID-19.
The letter dated July 6 was submitted in support of a petition by several other doctors asking the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to reissue an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine that has been donated to the national stockpile.
Wheelan and McCullough say in their letter that “when started earlier in the hospital course…and in outpatients, antimalarials [hydroxychloroquine] may reduce the progression of disease, prevent hospitalizations, and are associated with reduced mortality.” They cite several studies for support.
In response to concerns that have been raised about cardiac issues with patients using hydroxychloroquine, the doctors point out that even with heightened scrutiny of the use of hydroxychloroquine, no monitoring boards have declared safety concerns with the 65-year-old drug. They urge the FDA to allow physicians to assess the risk to their patients in determining whether hydroxychloroquine is an appropriate treatment. (Full article.)
This is just a sampling of the doctors who are coming forward and speaking out, but don’t expect the national corporate media to give them any coverage, and don’t expect to find out anything about these doctors if you do a Google Search, as Google and the rest of Big Tech are accomplices to mass murder along with the big corporate media outlets, such as CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and also Fox News.
Laura Ingram and Tucker Carlson on Fox will at times give exposure to these doctors, but they will also probably politicize it and use it to attack Democrats and Joe Biden, even though this is clearly a non-partisan issue.
In spite of this overt censorship, the news seems to be getting out, and as we reported yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest in Europe over the weekend. See:
Because English is now the common language among the educated around the world, hundreds of thousands of readers from India and Africa have also been coming to Health Impact News to learn the truth about HCQ during the past few days.
The question now is will Americans wake up in time to free themselves of this medical tyranny, or just mostly continue to willingly comply with their own destruction?
Here is today’s broadcast from Dr. Ron Paul (also a medical doctor) and his Liberty Report titled:
Waking Up? More Americans Skeptical Of Media’s Covid Narrative
Quote:
This is a political thing (mandating face masks), this is not a medical argument. And people who think this is a medical argument alone, they’re completely wrong. This is all politics.
I think it was orchestrated. I think Black Lives Matter, Coronavirus, and the Federal Reserve have combined to bring us one of the most disastrous challenges to our economy and the world economy in the history of the world.
And its just beginning, and that’s threatening, and that’s why I am warning people to wake up!
I have a new respect for doctors willing to take it in the jaw for what they believe. I’m sure these doctors are being pressured, bullied, and threatened.
BTW: I’ve read opinion pieces by other doctors who don’t believe HCQ works. That’s the beauty of medicine and science. There should always be healthy debate and opinion and in the end the doctor and patient should decide the best course of action to be taken for that individual patient. Governments should not dictate what medicines and treatments doctors should use. Doctors go to school and are smart enough to think for themselves. Politicians have no right to mess with the doctor/patient relationship.
If you listen to Chicago saxophonist Sharel Cassity’s compelling new album, the aptly named „Fearless,“ you never would know how ill she was when she recorded it.
Her tone sounds full, her technique nimble, the joy of her music-making unmistakable.
But just a few weeks before the recording sessions in July 2019, Cassidy received a diagnosis for why she had felt sick for the past year: post-Lyme disease. (See link for article)
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Please know there is disagreement in the medical community over what causes lingering symptoms with Lyme/MSIDS. The author threw the accepted mainstream label „post-Lyme disease“ on it but this assumes the infection is gone when there is much to show it isn’t.
This article is misleading and while Cassidy truthfully states,
„If you have it over a year, apparently it doesn’t really ever go away,“
She also misleadingly calls it post-Lyme disease.
If you had strep throat and took medication for it but still had symptoms after the medication was stopped would you call it „post strep infection?“ Yet this is what our ‚authorities‘ who have vested interests in vaccine creation and patents do. They know that you can’t have a vaccine for a chronic illness – therefore, they will not allow Lyme/MSIDS to be a continuing infection that would benefit from extended treatment because it interferes with their lucrative patents.
You may think this is unwarranted skepticism. Let me ask you a question: if you stood behind a horse and it kicked you how many more times would you get behind that horse? The Lyme community continues to get behind horses that kick them!
What’s truly saddening is that Cassidy is considering other careers „when her fingers eventually no longer worked.“ If you are told and believe that this is „post-Lyme disease,“ you are not going to consider continuing treatment for an infection. You will only consider adjunctive therapies that are essentially band-aids that don’t get to the root of the problem – an ongoing infection. Therefore, it’s highly likely your fingers, along with everything else, will worsen.
Personal note: We have benefited from antibiotic treatment every single time we have relapsed. In fact those stints of treatment got us better than we’d ever been before on treatment.
What do you do with this information? Do you seriously believe this is something we could make up? How about the thousands of others who experienced the same thing – are they imagining this improvement as well – which BTW is sustainable, not a fleeting thing?
