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Craig Provenzo retweeted
📉2008 Silver Crash: 57.6% ($20.92 - $8.88)
📉2011 Silver Crash: 70% ($49.51 - $13.50)
📉1980 Silver Crash: 78% ($49.45 - $10.80)
📉2026 Silver Crash: 60% ($121.67 - $48.80)
⚠️Silver's 2026 price crash is now GREATER than its Global Financial Crisis crash to $8.88, & its THIRD LARGEST CRASH EVER‼️
#Silver #crash #Commodities
Craig Provenzo retweeted
How much Zelensky’s executioners earn in Ukraine.
Yesterday, the TCC grabbed an acquaintance of mine right off the street in Kyiv.
He went out to buy groceries, they shoved him into a car and drove him away.
In the car, you could negotiate your release for $5,000–7,000.
You call your relatives, the TCC officers drive over to collect the money, your relatives hand over the money, and they let you go.
When people are brought to the distribution center, the price instantly jumps to $20,000.
Those who don’t have that kind of money are sent to the front line.
Literally — the training camp is already on the front line.
Within 24 hours, a person turns into assault cannon fodder.
Now let’s do the math. In one day, a TCC crew catches up to 15 “commercial” people. Let’s be modest and count 10.
10 people at the lowest rate — $50,000 a day.
A TCC crew consists of 4 people and 2 cops.
Every day, $10,000 has to be sent to the boss, the military commissar.
That leaves $40,000 for six people.
$7,000 per person per day.
After deducting other mandatory payments, an ordinary TCC employee ends up making more than $150,000 a month. Every month.
The most ordinary executioner of Zelensky.
How much a month do those half-witted European idiots earn, the ones running around streets full of homeless people and rats, with idiotic Ukraine badges on the lapels of their old, torn jackets?
Who do we consider the well-off class in Europe?
Someone who earns €3,000 a month?
$150,000 a month.
Every month, an ordinary employee gets $150,000.
The boss gets about four times as much.
Why would they want this war to end?
They see the end of this war in their nightmares.
The U.S. has long ignored that part of the Monroe doctrine that speaks to its stated goal of staying out of Europe’s affairs.
Ukraine is no isolated case. From Belarus and Armenia to Central Asia, Moldova and Syria, the West has systematically worked to weaken Russia’s influence and pull countries away from Moscow.
Ukraine was the ultimate prize: a Western-aligned state on Russia’s doorstep.
Washington ignored Moscow’s warnings, and the result is the war we see today.
apple.news/ACx22Olb3T5Os7gGa…. Don’t worry libs. If they’re convicted they’ll likely get a sentence similar to Kevin Clinesmith, the former FBI attorney who falsified evidence before a FISA court. Probation.
Craig Provenzo retweeted
Want to have your mind blown?
In 1971, the median household income was $9,030, or 220 ounces of gold.
In 2025, it was $87,460, or just 25 ounces of gold.
Your paycheck went up 10x.
Measured in gold, it fell 88%.
To earn what the median household earned in 1971, you’d need about $890,000 per year today.
That’s what fiat debasement looks like.
Craig Provenzo retweeted
Seed oils were sold as paint for a century before they were sold as food, and they do in you what they do on a window frame.
Linseed oil hardens on a fence post in a few days. Chemists call it a drying oil.
Soybean oil hardens too. So does sunflower, so does safflower. They were sold to the paint trade before they were sold to the kitchen.
Linoleum was invented in 1860 and it is named after linseed oil, because that is what it is, oxidised and pressed into a floor.
The oil does not dry by evaporating. It dries by oxygen attacking the double bonds in its fats and welding them into a hard skin.
The oil in your chip pan and the oil in your body carry the same double bonds, so the same attack runs there, with aldehydes thrown off as it goes.
A painter calls that curing. A biochemist calls it lipid peroxidation. A doctor calls it inflammation and prescribes something for it.
Once the oil is in your fat, it stays about two years, drying from the inside, every time it meets oxygen or sunlight.
Butter never dried a fence post. Tallow never varnished a boat. Saturated fat has no double bond for oxygen to attack, which is why it sits in the pan for a week and why it sat in your great-grandmother's cells for a lifetime.
A fat that sets hard in the air was never a candidate for the inside of an artery.
The flooring industry understood the chemistry in 1860. The heart charity recommended it in April.
Move along… nothing to see here.
I asked @EthicalSkeptic to find CDC data for sudden cardiac death in males ages 5 - 21.
The rate since the rollout of the COVID shots is 7 standard deviations above the baseline rate and is still rising.
@NIHDirector_Jay @SecKennedy
Funny how William Burns, at the time the ambassador to Russia under Bush Jr., and later, the former CIA director under Biden, warned that pushing for Ukraine in NATO would provoke Russia into attacking Ukraine. Yet still the media and U.S. politicians claim it was unprovoked.
The very public execution of my professorship and reputation continues in Norway. Today’s media article about me makes three claims that are misleading and/or false.
1) The article dismisses my claim that my research is being criminalized as the journalists merely cite the dismissive comments from the university - no arguments are apparently required.
It is not possible for an academic anymore to analyse the policies of rival powers by assessing their security concerns, as it will be smeared by the government, the government’s NGOs and the media as “legitimizing” the enemy and supporting their narratives. The current Defence Minister singled me out with the accusation of spreading propaganda and criticised two podcasters for even speaking with me (as I have already been cancelled by the media in Norway). How was this accusation by the Defence Minister substantiated? I had argued that NATO expansion triggered the war in Ukraine, which the Defence Minister denounce as dangerous “Russian propaganda”, with no need to substantiate his vile accusation. I can cite a sea of evidence and also refer to statements by American and European political leaders, ambassadors, intelligence chiefs, and others to make my case. However, the purpose is not to engage in debate, but to smear, censor, and cancel. By going after an individual academic for challenging official truths, the government has already claimed a monopoly on the truth. Academics should have their arguments scrutinised and criticised, but these are severe personal attacks from the government without the possibility of even defending myself. How is this not criminalising the research of an academic?
I cannot even speak at any events in Norway without the event being cancelled. The last event I agreed to speak at was because I shared the stage with the former CIA officer John Kiriakou. A newspaper had the event at a church cancelled, and when the backup location did not also cancel, the journalist simply printed in the paper that it had been cancelled so people would not show up. Is this normal? I must use my allotted holiday days to attend conferences because any event I attend can be presented as “controversial,” and then the NGOs and journalists will go after the reputation of the university. Is this normal? Every newspaper article about me merely refers to me as “controversial” or “pro-Russian” without ever assigning meaning to these labels or presenting my argument.
I have argued, much like former CIA director Burns, that if the West attempts to pull Ukraine into the NATO orbit, then there would be war and Ukraine would be destroyed. This is considered a “pro-Russian” argument. Arguing that we should respect the will of most Ukrainians who want negotiations to end the war is also considered a “pro-Russian” argument, while in contrast, boycotting diplomacy, deporting Ukrainian refugees, and calling for the conscription of Ukrainian women is “pro-Ukrainian”.
2) To avoid addressing any of my arguments, the journalists go on to uncritically cite personal attacks against me, pointing out that I have been called a propagandist by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. This is a “non-governmental organisation” financed by the government and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was set up by Reagan and the CIA director in 1983 to manipulate the civil society of other states. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee has been relentless in its smears on social media to have me fired, writing hit pieces in the media, pushing to cancel my speaking events, writing a letter to my university, and even posting a picture of my house on social media. This is a governmental "human rights organisation" that cites human rights concerns to build the case for war.
3) Lastly, to further avoid addressing my actual arguments, they simply cite the fact that arguments I made at a debate last year have been “wholly or partially debunked” by a fact-check. The state-run media (NRK) invited the state-run military defence institute (FFI) to fact-check three of my claims. What claims did they "debunk"?
My first claim was that only 20% of Ukrainians wanted NATO membership between 1991 and the regime change in February 2014. The fact-checker argued that the number went up by the middle of 2014 (after Russia responded by seizing Crimea), which is a completely meaningless comment intended to muddy the waters, as my argument was about the previous era.
My second claim was that Zelensky had argued in an interview with The Economist in March 2022 that there were some Western countries that would like a long war with Russia to weaken a strategic rival, even if it would result in the destruction of Ukraine. The fact-checker argued that not all Western countries wanted a long war and that it was not an official policy. I never claimed it was an official policy, as it was primarily the US and UK pushing for a long war.
My third claim was that the US and UK sabotaged the Istanbul peace agreement in April 2022. The fact-checker claimed this was incorrect and suggested that it could only be based on one statement by David Arakhamia. The fact-checker did not want to mention that both mediators also confirmed it: Turkey’s foreign minister and the former Israeli prime minister both said that Russia and Ukraine were close to a deal, but the US and UK saw an opportunity to weaken Russia by fighting with Ukrainians. Zelensky’s former adviser Arestovych confirmed it, and the Ukrainian ambassador Chaly, who participated in the negotiations, confirmed that Putin was willing to do almost anything to end the war. The former head of the German armed forces confirmed that Boris Johnson sabotaged it, and Boris Johnson himself wrote articles warning about a “bad peace” and arguing for “strategic patience.” I am being fact-checked by war propagandists.
Unfortunately, none of my arguments matter because in Norway there is no debate and no interest in any arguments. Reality means nothing anymore as war narratives must be defended against inconvenient truths. I used to be naïve and think that the endless smears were caused by misunderstanding, as I had simply not been able to convey my arguments properly. However, the endless articles with smears and labels are deliberate lies and deceptions.
apple.news/Atltkac-GTPWtvZXT…. On one of g th hose rate occasions when Trump attempts to be realistic and sees how this war will play out, the maniacs in both parties channel their inner John McCain. The Dems may try to impression for this if he’s successful. And they may remove him.
Stop questioning the science!!!
Nineteen years ago this week @algore was chosen to receive the @NobelPrize for making a science fiction movie about climate. At the awards ceremony he predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.
Since then, Arctic sea ice extent has increased 22%.
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Craig Provenzo retweeted
Thirty-five years ago, Russia unilaterally surrendered its entire empire of twenty captive nations--the first to do so voluntarily in world history in an attempt to become part of the economic and security architecture of the West. I was absolutely thrilled to witness the demise of the Evil Soviet Empire and the liberation of its captive nations, especially Ukraine, from Communist tyranny in accordance with my proposal for the surrender of the Soviet Union which I wrote back in 1986.
But contrary to the false propaganda narrative we keep hearing in the West, it's important to note that Post-Soviet Russia does not have an empire today. Only the United States does. There is no greater symbol of America's liberal empire than the NATO alliance. The only reason Russia gave up its empire is because it received solemn assurances from US and German leaders in particular that NATO would not move on inch eastward.
Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump betrayed that pledge by expanding NATO's European territory by 83 percent all along Russia's western borders while Joe Biden signed strategic partnership agreements with Ukraine in August and November 2021 that transformed Ukraine into a de- facto NATO member state.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which I opposed, was begun in defense against US/NATO imperialist expansion all along Russia's western frontier inside its strategic security perimeter, not in furtherance of Russian imperial expansion as Western neo-imperialists would have us believe.
If anyone thinks that the US would sit idly by if Russia were to ally with Canada and Mexico and arm it to the teeth with missiles with which to strike the US, they are very much mistaken. Russia behaved in much the same way as the US would have in similar circumstances. I'm not saying I agree with Russia's decision to invade Ukraine by any means only that it had a justifiable pretense from a Russian perspective.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin had Kyiv partially surrounded from three directions and was on the verge of forcing Ukraine to surrender to Russia's peace terms, he ordered the withdrawal of all Russian military forces from Ukraine's three northern oblasts comprising one-third of Russian-occupied territory at the time.
His decision to do so showed his commitment to peace proving conclusively that he did want to conquer Ukraine. It was that action taken from March 26th-April 4th, 2022, that forced me to re-evaluate my mistaken belief that Putin was an imperialist who wanted to transform Ukraine into a Russian vassal state.
In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pulled out of the Istanbul Agreement which would have mandated the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine's prewar controlled territory. In so doing, he ensured the deaths of over a million brave Ukrainian troops in an unwinnable war against Russia along with the reduction of Ukraine's population by up to 42 percent to date.
Now, President Trump is courageously threatening to cut off all US security assistance to Ukraine unless its brutal dictator agrees to stop its attacks on Russian oil refineries and agree to peace with Russia in order to save half of Ukraine from being overrun from Russian military forces. I strongly commend the president for his commitment to save Ukraine from Zelensky's further attempts to commit national suicide for his once great nation and stop the continued mass slaughter of its brave soldiers.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the Ukraine proxy war:
The war in Ukraine is a war that came, as you mentioned, with a coup that overthrew a Ukrainian President so that NATO could enlarge all the way to Russia’s border.
When the United States pushed the Europeans to agree to commit to Ukraine’s membership in NATO, then German Chancellor Merkel wrote in her diary that this was, as she knew, tantamount to a declaration of war.
That’s the way that the Russians would see it, and she was right. She wasn’t strong enough to resist George W. Bush. She should have.
We have been on a slide to war ever since 2008, when the US pushed for this NATO enlargement. 2014 started the war with the US-backed coup on February 22nd, 2014.
And Europeans have gone with gusto denying truth, denying logic, denying the off ramps to peace, and till today they are the warmongers right now. They’re championing the war, they’re talking about escalation, they’re talking about remilitarising Germany, God forbid…
I’ve been pressing and writing open letters to Chancellor Merz and publishing pretty much nonstop in the German media. Talk, because remember, German reunification in 1990 came because you, the German leaders, promised that NATO wouldn’t move one inch eastward.
Go talk, go learn what the Russian point of view is. And when you understand the Russian point of view, this war could stop in a day on sensible terms that are sensible for Russia, for Ukraine, and for Europe. And that’s what I continue to hope for.’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post 👇
Craig Provenzo retweeted
In fifty years, history books will say Elon Musk won a war almost nobody knew we were losing.
(maybe except for a few guys in Poland)
It began a hundred years ago, in an Italian prison cell. In 1926 Mussolini jailed a 35-year-old Sardinian intellectual. The prosecutor reportedly said: "We must stop this brain from working for twenty years." His name was Antonio Gramsci. The brain never stopped.
His question: why did the communist revolution win in Russia and fail everywhere in the West? His answer: in the West, power doesn’t rest only on the police and the army. It rests on culture – on what people find normal and obvious. So don’t storm the palace first. Take the schools, the universities, the newspapers, the theaters, the publishers, the courts. When the culture turns, politics follows. Forty years later, Rudi Dutschke gave it a name: the long march through the institutions.
It explains a puzzle we lived with for decades: why almost every actor, singer, journalist and teacher seems to think the same way – even in countries that keep voting the other way. We were told that educated people are simply on the left. The real answer is simpler.
Whoever controls the grant, the job, the review, the prize and the invitation to the studio controls what becomes "culture." That is one half of the machine.
The other half is exclusion. The one who doesn’t fit doesn’t get the grant, the job, the review, the prize or the invitation. And if he breaks through anyway, he is cancelled.
Money builds the chorus. Exclusion removes the dissenting voices. What remains looks like consensus. It is casting.
The same machine ran on a global scale – through NGOs, "independent" media and "civil society" programs, much of it paid for with Western money.
Then, in early 2025, someone did what nobody had dared. Elon and DOGE opened the books of USAID – untouchable since 1961, tens of billions of dollars a year. Most programs were cut; the agency was folded into the State Department. The tap was turned off. Latin America has been turning right, country after country, ever since. And on Sunday, in Brazil – with Jair Bolsonaro barred from running and sentenced to 27 years – his son Flávio came first in the first round, narrowly ahead of Lula. When the money stops, the chorus loses its microphones.
The last fortress is Europe. Brussels funds its own networks of NGOs, with an opacity even its own auditors have flagged. Add the big foundations, and the supranational bodies that make rules without ever facing a voter. It is starting to crack.
Gramsci was right about one thing: culture comes before politics. He forgot that it works both ways. When an artificial culture loses its drip, what is real underneath comes back up.
It took one man rich enough to depend on no one, crazy enough to try, and free enough to take the hatred that followed. Thank you, Elon. 🙏
But the rest belongs to the people. They can see it now – who was paid to applaud, and who was punished for not applauding. And they have had enough. The chorus is thinning. The excluded are being heard. And everyone who kept quiet is discovering they were never alone – they were the majority all along.
That is how a fortress falls. Not from the outside. From the moment the people inside stop pretending.
Dans 50 ans, les livres d'histoire diront qu'Elon Musk a gagné une guerre que personne ne savait qu'on était en train de perdre.
Une guerre commencée il y a 100 ans, dans une cellule de prison italienne.
En 1926, Mussolini fait arrêter un intellectuel sarde de 35 ans. Au procès, le procureur aurait dit : « Nous devons empêcher ce cerveau de fonctionner pendant vingt ans. »
Il s'appelait Antonio Gramsci.
Son cerveau n'a jamais cessé de fonctionner. En prison, il a rempli des milliers de pages qui sont devenues l'un des textes politiques les plus influents du XXe siècle. Je pense qu'on est en train de vivre le moment où sa théorie s'effondre.
Laissez-moi vous expliquer.
Gramsci se posait une question simple. Pourquoi la révolution communiste a-t-elle réussi en Russie mais échoué partout en Occident ?
Sa réponse : en Occident, le pouvoir ne tient pas seulement par l'État, la police et l'armée. Il tient par la culture. Par ce que les gens trouvent normal, évident, « de bon sens ». Il appelle ça l'hégémonie culturelle.
Donc, pour prendre le pouvoir, il ne faut pas d'abord prendre le palais. Il faut d'abord prendre les esprits. Les écoles. Les universités. Les journaux. Le théâtre. L'édition. Les tribunaux. C'est la « guerre de position » : une conquête lente, institution par institution. Quand la culture a basculé, la politique suit toute seule.
Quarante ans plus tard, l'activiste allemand Rudi Dutschke en fera un slogan : la longue marche à travers les institutions.
Pendant des décennies, on a vécu avec une énigme que personne n'arrivait vraiment à expliquer.
Pourquoi presque tous les artistes sont-ils de gauche ? Les acteurs, les chanteurs, les profs, les journalistes, une bonne partie de la magistrature. Pourquoi un pays pouvait voter à droite élection après élection et voir quand même sa culture parler d'une seule voix ?
On nous répondait : « c'est parce que les gens éduqués sont de gauche. »
Je crois que la réponse est plus simple. Gramsci avait écrit la recette, et elle a été appliquée. Quand tu contrôles qui obtient la subvention, le poste, la bonne critique, le prix, l'invitation sur le plateau, tu contrôles ce qui devient « la culture ».
La même énigme existait à l'échelle du monde.
Pourquoi tant de pays en développement, notamment en Amérique latine, revotaient-ils encore et encore pour des gouvernements socialistes ou de gauche radicale ? Venezuela, Bolivie, Nicaragua, l'Argentine des Kirchner, la Colombie de Petro. L'économie s'effondrait, les cartels prospéraient, le chaos s'installait. Et pourtant le même vote revenait.
Ma conviction : la pauvreté n'était pas un accident du système. C'était un électorat. Et autour, il y avait tout un écosystème d'ONG, de médias « indépendants » et de programmes de « société civile », financé en grande partie par l'argent occidental.
Puis, début 2025, il s'est passé quelque chose que personne n'avait jamais osé faire.
Elon et DOGE ont ouvert les livres de USAID. Une agence quasi intouchable depuis 1961, des dizaines de milliards de dollars par an. La grande majorité des programmes ont été coupés, et l'agence a été absorbée par le Département d'État.
Le robinet a été fermé.
Et regardez ce qui s'est passé depuis.
Bolivie : le MAS perd le pouvoir après presque vingt ans. Équateur : Noboa réélu. Honduras : la droite reprend le pays. Chili : Kast élu. Argentine : Milei remporte largement les élections de mi-mandat.
Et il y a deux jours, le Brésil.
Jair Bolsonaro est inéligible, condamné à 27 ans de prison. La gauche pensait avoir refermé le chapitre. Lula, 80 ans, briguait un quatrième mandat face à un pays qu'on disait acquis.
Dimanche, son fils Flávio est arrivé en tête du premier tour. Plus de 47 % contre près de 45 % pour Lula. Lula lui-même a reconnu un résultat « inattendu ».
Le plus grand pays d'Amérique latine est à un second tour de basculer.
Le plus grand virage à droite du continent depuis des décennies.
Coïncidence ? Je ne crois pas. Quand le financement disparaît, le récit perd ses haut-parleurs.
Il reste un dernier vrai bastion. L'Europe.
Bruxelles finance ses propres réseaux d'ONG, avec une opacité que même la Cour des comptes européenne a pointée. Les grandes fondations comme l'Open Society de Soros. Les entités supranationales qui produisent de la norme sans jamais passer devant un électeur.
C'est la dernière forteresse de l'hégémonie culturelle. Et elle commence à se fissurer.
Je suis convaincu que tout ça va s'effondrer, et plus vite qu'on ne le pense.
Gramsci avait raison sur un point essentiel : la culture précède la politique. Mais il avait oublié que ça marche dans les deux sens. Quand une culture artificielle perd ses perfusions, ce qu'il y a de vrai en dessous remonte à la surface.
Ce qui vient après, je crois que c'est une renaissance. Une culture qui recommence à aimer la beauté, l'ambition, la science, la civilisation qui l'a fait naître.
Et dans les livres d'histoire, on se souviendra que tout a commencé quand un homme a décidé de regarder les comptes.
Il fallait quelqu'un d'assez riche pour ne dépendre de personne, d'assez fou pour s'y attaquer et d'assez libre pour encaisser la haine qui allait suivre.
Merci Elon.
Obtaining Stanton instead of pursuing free agent JD Martinez started the underachievement over the past 8 years. Martinez is a better hitter by 25 points per year, didn’t strike out as much, and Stanton played 1 full season with Yanks since 2018. And G made $ 8 mil more per yr.
One of those few CIA folk who don’t get their thoughts broadcast in the MSM, unfortunately.
There are two competing hypotheses about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The first hypothesis is that the invasion was unprovoked, as Russia is another "Hitler" pursuing expansionism, and that the logical response of NATO is therefore to stop Russia and raise the costs. From this perspective, even diplomacy can be viewed as "appeasement." The second, competing hypothesis is that Russia responded to 30 years of NATO expansion, which it considers an existential threat, and thus considers itself to be fighting a defensive war. If the second hypothesis is correct, then NATO deepening its direct involvement and rejecting negotiations will only result in the destruction of Ukraine while taking further steps toward nuclear war.
George Beebe, the former Director of Russia Analysis at the CIA, argues that the second hypothesis is clearly correct: Russia sees this as a war for its survival and therefore cannot back down. One does not need to agree with the analysis of Beebe, but this should really be at the center of the debate in the West, as our survival depends on it. My great concern is that we are not even permitted to discuss or debate these two competing hypotheses, because the narrative must be protected and all dissent is smeared as repeating Russian propaganda. youtu.be/HrgVTdBvSpI
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I’ve worked out why they don’t want us eating bacon!
We’re supposed to be terrified of the nitrates in bacon because the WHO says processed meat is carcinogenic.
So people nodded, agreed and repeated the headlines like good little sheep.
Except nitrate does something rather inconvenient once it gets inside the human body.
Nitrate can become nitrite, and nitrite can become nitric oxide. And nitric oxide is very useful.
It helps your blood vessels relax and widen, regulates blood flow and blood pressure, affects platelet function and plays an important role in keeping the lining of your blood vessels working properly.
So naturally we must avoid nitrates at all costs.
Unless they’re in beetroot.
Then apparently we fucking love them.
We squeeze beetroot into little concentrated shots and sell them to runners and cyclists specifically because dietary nitrate increases nitric oxide availability. There are entire studies looking at nitrate supplementation for exercise performance and vascular function.
So if Paul puts on Lycra and necks a concentrated nitrate shot before cycling 60 miles, he’s looking after himself.
If I put bacon next to two eggs, somebody starts predicting my bowel cancer announcement.
The cholesterol is bad. The saturated fat is bad. The salt is bad. The meat is bad. And apparently I need nitrate free bacon because the nitrites are bad too.
But I’ve got a new conspiracy theory.
Maybe they know exactly what nitric oxide does to blood vessels.
Can’t have us all wandering around eating bacon with functioning arteries.
Who the fuck are they going to sell all the statins to?
Craig Provenzo retweeted
Name a chronic disease the pharmaceutical industry has cured in your lifetime.
Diabetes: managed. 100 years of insulin, and the count has gone up every year.
Blood pressure: managed. For life.
Cholesterol: managed. For life, from 40.
Depression: managed. A third of the people on it have been on it for a decade.
Reflux: managed. The leaflet says 8 weeks. The average is years.
Asthma, arthritis, eczema, migraine, obesity: managed, managed, managed, managed, injected.
Then in 2014 something slipped through. A drug that actually cured hepatitis C, in 12 weeks, for good.
In 2018 Goldman Sachs wrote a note to its clients about it. The title was a question: is curing patients a sustainable business model?
Their answer was no. The cure had shrunk the market. The hepatitis C business fell from $12 billion a year to under $4 billion, because the patients kept getting better and not coming back.
The bank advised investors to look for conditions that are chronic, and treatments that are taken for life.
That is not a conspiracy theory. It is an investment note, and it says the quiet part in a font.
A cure is a one-off sale. A patient is an annuity, and the whole industry is priced on the annuity.
Nobody is going to cure the thing you have, because the thing you have is their best product.
But a plate can. That is why it is extreme.
