Mike Harris

[Mike Harris @evanzson]

@Kenneth_Walker9 Tims Fun House or Waldo: Pizza
Slaps, Jack Stack, Gates, Q39, Joes: BBQ
Salvatores or Cuppinis: Italian
Bo Lings: Chinese
Anywhere on Southwest Blvd: Mexican

[Mike Harris @evanzson]

@WorldAndScience Missouri State fossil.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.

He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.

He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.

Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.

The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.

Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.

The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.

By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.

This is the system that exists today.

The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.

The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.

The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.

Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.

The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.

The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.

It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.

You are the customer.

The corridor is where you live.

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Remember all these people do is lie and get paid to lie

[Ava Grace @AvaGrace9211]

The best take on
No kings !

[Mike Harris @evanzson]

@MbarkCherguia 2

[Mike Harris @evanzson]

@EshaAA33 1977

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

Me logging into the Zoom call with that one Canadian coworker tomorrow.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

In a world full of Megan Rapinoes, be a Jack Hughes

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 EPIC! Kash Patel put PRESIDENT TRUMP on the phone in Team USA’s locker room so that 47 could PERSONALLY congratulate them

“Congratulations! That was an UNBELIEVABLE game! We love you guys!”

“You’re going to be proud of that game for FIFTY YEARS!”

“I can send a MILITARY PLANE to pick you guys up in Miami to come to the State of the Union!”

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Lolol.
The ladies on The View say maybe not everyone in the Epstein Files is guilty after realizing their names are in the Epstein Files

“We did nothing wrong.. we only went to a few parties”

[Mike Harris @evanzson]

@Matt_Pinner 40%....Greedy.

[Bob Fescoe @bobfescoe]

Nailed it!

[Anna Gát 🧭 @TheAnnaGat]

The warmth of collectivism

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A man from Romania heard Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech in New York City and has a warning for America

He says Zohran Mamdani used the EXACT SAME words they heard before socialism crushed their country

“We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. Famous words spoken by every communist in history.

Hi, my name is Bogdan and this is exactly how communism came to power in my country, Romania, via collectivism.

First, they confiscated private land. Then they used terror to enforce collectivism.

The regular Romanian citizens were arrested, beat up, humiliated publicly, left to rot in prison, and some even executed.

The next step for collectivism was destroying the independent farmer class.

These people were a threat to the regime because they were able to stay self-sufficient and did not rely on the state. Independence was, and still is, the biggest threat to communism. They made it in such a way that owning more than others was a crime.

Once all that happened, the communists started confiscating the food from farmers, leaving families to die.

They also confiscated the livestock raised by people. This resulted in famine, malnutrition, and the collapse of productivity.

Romania literally went from being the number one exporter of grain in Europe to chronic shortages of food. But that wasn't enough.

The communists then banned free market. No free sale of crops, no private trades, no bargaining, classic socialist failure. But collectivism wasn't just economic. It was cultural as well. In Romania, they attacked the church and religious people.

They replaced family authority with party authority, all with one goal in mind: replace faith and family with the state.

15 years later, the communists declared victory. 90% of all farmland in Romania was collectivized. Bottom line, Romanian collectivism was forced, violent, economically disastrous, morally corrupt, and designed to control, not help.

Only for today in the United States of America to be in New York City. I swear to God, some Americans are the dumbest morons on the planet.”

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[Mike Harris @evanzson]

@MahomeSZN I was there.

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