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Posted on 01/01/2025 12:57:31 PM PST by ransomnote
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
“I was going to respond with a hydraulics joke...but Archimedes went to sleep in the bathtub.“
So you went with a lowdraulics joke instead?
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
@realDonaldTrump
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Jan 05, 2025, 9:05 PM
The Great Ozempic Hustle
The GLP-1 saga epitomizes the unsustainable corruption within our medical system
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ozempic-hustle
Excerpt:
Story at a Glance:
•In early 2023, a private conference with pharmaceutical industry leaders and investors highlighted anti-obesity and Alzheimer’s drugs as the next big money-makers and had the FDA head as its keynote speaker.
•Since then, the FDA has taken questionable steps to promote these drugs, particularly Ozempic, an anti-obesity medication. There’s been a massive push to get everyone, including children, on Ozempic, using shockingly aggressive marketing tactics.
•This rush is eerily similar to the fen-phen craze, a temporary weight loss drug later pulled from the market for causing severe heart and lung issues.
•Worse, Ozempic comes with serious side effects, including paralyzing the digestive tract. This article will address the above controversy and explore the common causes of obesity, including those rarely discussed.
Most of the food in America comes from just a few crops like corn, wheat, soy, and canola, largely due to farming subsidies that force farmers to mass-produce these crops and sell them below cost. These cheap crops are then turned into the processed foods we eat every day. This is problematic because:
Health Issues: These foods are unhealthy and contribute to major health problems like diabetes and obesity.
Natural Aversion: Our bodies naturally resist these foods, making them hard to sell.
Addictive Additives: To make them more appealing, addictive substances are added. In the 1980s, Big Tobacco bought the processed food industry and, much like they did with cigarettes, focused on making these foods as addictive as possible.
Chronic Illness: The resulting health issues create lifelong customers for industries like Big Pharma.
For years, activists like Dr. Mercola have pushed for awareness of the importance of natural foods and the need to change farming subsidies to promote healthy eating. The current media climate, driven by skepticism of the COVID-19 response and the rise of independent media, has revealed the systematic failures in our food supply and allowed these long-cultivated ideas to begin bursting into public awareness.
.....Last year Kim Witczak, a pharmaceutical safety advocate, tipped me off about JP Morgan’s annual healthcare conference, a private invitation-only event described by JP Morgan as “the industry’s biggest gathering.” The 41st conference, from January 9-12, 2023, was the first event hosted in person since the pandemic started. Given this event’s immense influence on the pharmaceutical sector (as it caters to large investors), it’s important to highlight a few things that were presented on the conference website:
First, consider how enthusiastically they endorsed the profitability of two new types of drugs:
(Video at article link)
Second, consider who the keynote speakers at Chase’s conference were:
(Graph at link)
To repeat—the head of the FDA was a keynote speaker to investors about the incredibly lucrative opportunity they could expect from these new drugs—implying that the FDA would do everything it could to push them through. As it so happened, to quote Witczak:
Interesting to also note, Califf was the keynote speaker on opening day and out of the blue, the FDA granted accelerated approval to the second controversial Biogen Alzheimer drug on Friday [three days before the conference] without an Advisory Committee. How great to be able to announce to the healthcare biotech industry that one of their new drugs was just granted accelerated approval.
The Rise of Ozempic (semaglutide)
Once I saw this conference, given that it sets the course for the entire industry, I became convinced that Ozempic would soon be aggressively marketed, with the FDA backing the expansion of its use. This prediction quickly became a reality, with widespread promotion and endorsements of the drug, reminiscent of the start of the opioid crisis. Here for instance, are excerpts of two widely seen interviews by Casey and Calley Means describing the staggering corruption that has facilitated Ozempic’s rapid rise throughout America:
(Video at link)
Sadly, the campaign has been so successful that there’s now a shortage of Ozempic, driving people to seek alternatives.
The push to expand Ozempic’s market has targeted various demographics, including:
African Americans: Ozempic’s manufacturer paid the NAACP to lobby for the drug, framing any opposition as perpetuating systemic racism.
Children: The FDA approved semaglutide for obese children 12 and older just before the Chase conference despite concerns about long-term effects, and on the first day of the Chase conference, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a set of authoritative set of guidelines for treating childhood obesity which strongly endorsed giving them the GLP-1’s
The Elderly: One major obstacle to selling Ozempic is its high cost ($1,000-$1,500 per month), making it unaffordable without insurance. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 prohibits Medicare from covering weight loss drugs, but the industry has been lobbying to overturn this. An “obesity rights” coalition, (funded by Ozempic’s manufacturer), has successfully advanced a law through committee to allow Medicare coverage, which could cost between $3.1 to $6 billion annually if passed.
This raises a critical question: Why was Medicare originally prohibited from covering obesity treatments?
The Rise and Fall of Fen-Phen
A recurring theme I’ve explored is how medical catastrophes often repeat because we forget the lessons from the past. The current rush for Ozempic is strikingly similar to the fen-phen disaster of the 1990s. Phentermine (introduced to the USA in 1959) and fenfluramine (introduced to the USA in 1973) were two marginally effective weight loss drugs that never caught on. In 1979, a professor of clinical pharmacology and director of an FDA division for approving new drugs believed obesity needed to be treated as a medical (rather than lifestyle) disease and decided to see if they’d work better once combined. Fen-phen “worked,” and when his study was finally published 20 years later, it instantly became wildly popular. As word spread, demand surged, turning many doctors’ offices into pill mills catering to desperate patients. However, it wasn’t long before the drug was linked to severe heart valve damage and pulmonary hypertension, leading to its removal from the market and billions of dollars in legal settlements. Remarkably, once the dust had settled, the FDA official who pushed Fen-Phen onto the market admitted it never occurred to him to verify the drug combination was indeed safe.
What’s particularly alarming is that many of the issues we see today with Ozempic—aggressive marketing, off-label uses, and a focus on profit over patient safety—mirror the mistakes made with fen-phen. Back then, the FDA eventually stepped in to ban the drug after realizing the extent of the harm it caused, but this time around, the FDA instead is working with the industry to push these drugs.
The Risks and Benefits of Ozempic
Prior to the GLP-1s being marketed as anti-obesity drugs, many of my colleagues believed they were quite helpful for diabetes. Given that some of these colleagues were fairly conservative with which drugs they would use and excellent clinicians, I took their opinions into serious consideration. However, I also noticed that I was repeatedly seeing patients develop unusual gastrointestinal complications from the drugs (including one hospitalization of a distant relative), so I held to the perspective the drugs were too new for their risks to be fully appreciated.
After they started being used as weight loss agents (where their dose is much higher—0.5-1.0mg vs. 1.7-2.4mg—frequently being almost five times greater), we started noticing that we’d see more and more patients who should have never been prescribed the drug and are taking enough of it (often even overdosing) to drive themselves into cachexia......
I then looked into the data on the GLP-1 drugs and noticed a curious pattern—just like fen-phen, the weight lost was rapidly regained once the drug was stopped. To illustrate, here are a few graphs from the pivotal trials of these drugs.
First, using the full (2.4mg) dose of Wegovy (which like Ozempic is another name for semaglutide) each week, inadvertently shows that most of the participants could not stay on the drugs for a prolonged period
Second, when given to children, they began regaining their lost weight once they stopped the drug
Third, when the effects of withdrawing the drug were tested, the lost weight was clearly shown to return (alongside a gradual decline in the number of people who could stay on the drug)
In short, having to spend 1000 dollars a month for a bit of weight loss, which then disappears once you stop the drug, may not be the best deal. Conversely, I suspect a key reason why this side effect has been publicized is that the goal of the pharmaceutical industry is always to have a large number of people perpetually using a high profit margin product (e.g., a monthly course of the thousand dollar Ozempic costs less than 5 dollars to make), so any product which doesn’t fix the underlying issue but creates intolerable withdrawals when one stops (e.g., the SSRI antidepressants or the PPI acid reflux medications) is “good for business.”
Unfortunately, in addition to being a scam, Ozempic has a few major issues.
First, the GLP-1 drugs were designed to resist being broken down within the body, so they would only need to be injected once a week (resulting in their average half-life being approximately seven days, whereas the natural GLP-1 protein has a half-life between 1.5-5 minutes). Since the GLP-1 is responsible for slowing digestion in the body, drugs like Ozempic significantly slow digestion and can create a variety of gastrointestinal issues from doing so (e.g., a study of 25,617 real-world patients found these drugs cause a 3.5 times increase in the rate of intestinal obstruction).
Second, severe side effects are quite common. The most comprehensive study I’ve found of the severe side effects of GLP-1 drugs (e.g., Ozempic) sourced from 16 million patients’ medical records found that the drugs were strongly linked to a variety of side effects that frequently required hospitalization. Specifically, when compared to another weight loss combination not typically associated with these effects, GLP-1 users were found to have:
9.09 times greater risk of pancreatitis
4.22 times greater risk of bowel obstruction
3.67 times greater risk of gastroparesis (which means you can barely eat because the stomach is constantly full—and in many cases after Ozempic, ends up being permanent)
1.48 times greater risk of biliary disease (e.g., painful gallstones)
Third, severe adverse events are typically much rarer than moderate or minor ones. Given how frequent these severe effects are, it should come as no surprise that less severe ones are even more common.
Sadly, these aren’t the only side effects. For example, in addition to lawsuits being filed against Ozempic for gastrointestinal disorders such as gastroparesis, lawsuits are also emerging for other severe conditions such as vision loss. Furthermore, animal experiments are showing it distorts the architecture of the small intestine (which can lead to poor nutrient absorption or chronic intestinal obstructions), and many of the GLP-1 drug labels state the drugs may be linked to thyroid cancer.
Conclusion
The Ozempic story is egregious, but it also critically illuminates a fact most healthcare professionals do not appreciate—medical guidelines are largely a product of economic considerations rather than scientific evidence.
Fortunately, nature always has a way of bringing things back into balance, and as the corruption within our medical system has reached the point of absurdity and more and more clearly dangerous drugs are being pushed onto the public by our regulators, the public is awakening to their lies and becoming less and receptive to “trusting the experts.” In this vein, I believe the Ozempic situation is a pivotal moment in time, as the tables have turned since the times of Fen-Phen. Now, rather than the resistance to its deployment upon the populace coming from the regulators, it is generated by everyday Americans who do not want these unnecessary and damaging drugs pushed on their kids.
Duomo di Cefalù, Sicily, Italy
Re Wntour:
You are probably correct. ThankQ.
I’m sure George Romney is quite proud of PierreDelecto.
I couldn't find a picture... but the Mitten wouldn't surprise me. I am ashamed to say I voted for him to be POTUS - although it was a vote against the 'bamster!
That azz couldn’t even start a house fire or set bombs correctly. Best he could do was drive a car as a weapon. And he was a sargeant!
A sad, lonely, impressionable incel.
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