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Mar 16, 2023 • 32 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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Mega Thread: The History of I.G. Farben

A German chemical conglomerate with a fascinating and controversial past. Founded in 1925, the company played a significant role in the development of the German economy and had a dark side during WWII. #history #IGFarben Image
💼 I.G. Farben was formed as a merger of six leading German chemical companies: BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Weiler Ter Meer. The merger aimed to consolidate the German chemical industry and increase its… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
🚀 The company quickly became a global powerhouse in the chemical industry. They developed synthetic gasoline, rubber, and materials like Zyklon B, which was later misused in WWII. I.G. Farben also pioneered the production of synthetic dyes and pharmaceuticals. Image
🌐 I.G. Farben's influence extended beyond Germany, as they built relationships with international companies like Standard Oil and DuPont. These connections facilitated technological exchanges and allowed I.G. Farben to gain a foothold in the global market. Image
⚗️ One of I.G. Farben's most significant innovations was the development of the Haber-Bosch process. This method of synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen was crucial in producing fertilizers that increased global agricultural production. Image
🌱 I.G. Farben was also instrumental in the invention of polymer materials like polyurethane and polystyrene, which revolutionized the plastics industry and provided. Image
🔬 During the 1930s, I.G. Farben became entwined with the Nazi regime. They benefited from government contracts and the seizure of foreign assets. The company's growth during this period was fueled by their involvement in the production of military supplies, chemicals, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
On a side note this diagram shows shows the connections IG Farben had to Wall Street and influential American institutions. Image
If you would like to explore these connections further I suggest reading “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler” by Anthony C. Surtton. It is an impeccably researched book that exposes the fact that without these American institutions, Hitler could have never archive.org/details/wallst…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
🏭 Perhaps the darkest chapter in I.G. Farben's history is their involvement in the Holocaust. They built and operated a synthetic rubber and fuel plant at Auschwitz, known as Buna-Werke, using forced labor from concentration camp prisoners. ImageImage
💀 I.G. Farben's production of Zyklon B, originally developed as a pesticide, took a horrific turn when it was used in gas chambers to murder millions of innocent people during the Holocaust. Image
One post-war investigation by the U.S, War Department concluded that:

“Without I. G.'s immense productive facilities, its intense research, and vast international affiliations, Germany's prosecution of the war would have been unthinkable and impossible; Farben not only directed… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In a letter from IG Farben to the camp of Aushwitz show the cold evil practiced by the company:

“In contemplation of experiments with a new soporific drug, we would appreciate your procuring for us a number of women . . . . We received your answer but consider the price of 200… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Images from the forced labor facilities. ImageImage
Images from the forced labor facilities. ImageImage
🕵️‍♀️ After WWII, the Allies dissolved I.G. Farben due to its collaboration with the Nazi regime. The Nuremberg Trials saw 24 I.G. Farben executives charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Some were found guilty and received prison sentences. ImageImage
💔 In 1952, I.G. Farben's assets were divided among its original founding companies: BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst (later becoming Sanofi). These companies still exist today and continue to play a significant role in the global chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Image
In modern times Bayer Schering AG became the largest producer of bith control pills and recently acquired Monsanto who is responsible for Round-Up the weed killer that has been accused of poisoning the entire earth via glyphosate which has been proven to be carcinogenic. Image
A paper from The BMJ discussing the potential carcinogenic effects of glyphosate. ImageImage
Bayer also teamed up CureVac to produce their own mRNA vaccine but the trials flopped with only 47% effectiveness, whatever that means.

fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/…
BASF built the chemical factory IG Auschwitz the largest chemical factory in the world at the time. It also produced Zyklon-B which was used to exterminate prisoners of Auschwitz. It assisted with with Bayers acquisition of Monsanto by purchasing its cnbc.com/amp/2018/05/29…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
BASF is also a leading player in the production of Lipid nanotechnology.

catalent.com/catalent-news/…
In September 1955, Hoechst appointed Friedrich Jaehne, a convicted war criminal from the Nuremberg trials, as chairman of its supervisory board. Image
Also, a year later, Bayer appointed Fitz ter Meer, another convicted war criminal, as chairman of its board. Image
🕊️ The legacy of I.G. Farben serves as a reminder of the powerful impact corporations can have on society. While I.G. Farben contributed to scientific advancements and the growth of the German economy, their involvement in WWII atrocities left an indelible stain on their… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImage
🌎 Today, the successor companies of I.G. Farben—BASF, Bayer, and Sanofi—have tried to distance themselves from their controversial past. They focus on producing products in the fields of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture worldwide. Combined they own the largest market… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🌟 The story of I.G. Farben is a complex one, illustrating how innovation and progress can be overshadowed by dark chapters in history. It's essential to remember the lessons of the past and strive for ethical business practice. Unfortunately it’s seems these lessons haven’t been… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
📖 Want to learn more about I.G. Farben and its impact on history? Here are some resources to check out:

•"The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin

•"The Devil's Chemists" by Josiah E. DuBois Jr.

•"Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImage
🔁 If you found this thread on I.G. Farben informative and thought-provoking, please share it with others who might be interested and consider giving me a follow. #thread #IGFarben #historylesson
Here is a list to explore the other threads I have made. 👇🏻

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Yet another Boeing whistleblower has died.

“Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago. He was intubated and developed pneumonia and then a serious bacterial infection, MRSA.”

“He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.”Image
I’m sure this is just yet another unfortunate highly statistically improbable coincidence.

It’s a real shame because now this guy can no longer expose the manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX.

seattletimes.com/business/whist…
From February 5, 2024:

“At the factory in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit AeroSystems builds the fuselage for the Boeing 737 Max, management would sometimes throw a pizza party to celebrate a drop in the number of problems reported on the line.”

“But Joshua Dean says many of the workers knew something was off.”

"We're having a pizza party because we're lowering defects," said Dean, a former quality auditor at the factory. "But we're not lowering defects. We just ain't reporting them, you know what I mean?"

npr.org/2024/02/05/122…
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Apr 25
Did you know in the final hours of negotiations for the Homeland Security Act of 2002, a mysterious Rider was introduced to the bill that would have exonerated Eli Lilly from any liability for its product Thimerosal?

It just so happened that they were being sued by families of autistic children at the time who claimed it was the cause of their plight.

Then just weeks later the Bush Administration asked the Federal Claims court to seal the documents of those cases. Do you know who used to sit on Eli Lilly's board of directors? Former President George Bush Sr.

In this video author of the book "Evidence of Harm", David Kirby explains how he came to the belief that Thimerosal is indeed a contributing factor in the autism epidemic. It was taken out of the childhood schedule but is still very much in use in the Flu shots to this day, so if you inject your children with flu shots, be aware of the potential risks.
The book if interested.
amazon.com/Evidence-Harm-…
Just to drive this point home here is Rep. Dan Burton discussing his grandson’s autism and the need for accountability.
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Apr 10
A Thread 🧵

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is a trade group that represents the leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the United States.
It was established to advocate for public policies that support the development of innovative medical treatments and pharmaceuticals. PhRMA plays an outsized role in shaping healthcare policy, regulation, pricing while maintaining its members stranglehold on the industry. As you will see, they wield a massive amount of influence over the “healthcare” of Americans and yet they are barely known by the average person.
Here is a recent commercial they released to convince you that they are helping to fight those nasty insurance companies and benefits managers. You didn't know? Pharmaceutical companies are on our side.
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Mar 31
BREAKING🚨

While the world has been hyper focused on the Diddy scandal another one just had a major development.

Wired Magazine has obtained 11,279 coordinates that captured the movements of “scores of people who sojourned at Little St. James as early as July 2016. The recorded surveillance concludes on July 6, 2019—the day of Epstein’s final arrest.”

It was obtained via of a data broker firm named “Azira” formerly “Near Intelligence” with ties to the US Military via a complex web of firms.

The data was sourced from ad exchanges with minimal privacy safeguards, highlights the terrifying precision of modern surveillance. It points “to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The cache also points to cities in Ukraine, the Cayman Islands, and Australia, among others.”

They monitored devices that traveled to Little St. James from 80 different cities spanning 26 states and territories in the US, with the highest activity in Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York. The data pinpoint locations such as luxury estates within gated communities in Michigan and Florida, residences in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts, a Miami nightclub, and the vicinity of Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Remember this time frame is after Epstein had already pled guilty to state charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute in Florida. So every individual tracked to his island in this time frame referenced were perfectly fine knowing that man was a pedophile and visited his island anyway.

The way this data was obtained is insidious and should be of concern to everyone because the NSA and military use third party companies like Azira to scuttle US and International law.

Here is how it works:

“Before a targeted advertisement appears on an app or website, phones and other devices send information about their owners to real-time bidding platforms and ad exchanges, frequently including users’ location data. While advertisers can use this data to inform their bidding decisions, companies like Near Intelligence will siphon, repackage, analyze, and sell it.”

The question that remains is will we ever know the names of the people who were accomplices and clients of Epstein? A good start would be for this data to be released in order to let internet sleuths to do their thing. Somehow I don’t think that’s going to happen.Image
Interestingly in this story the writers mention that:

“Although the discovery of the Epstein island data involved many additional steps, WIRED also found it could be easily retrieved with a simple Google search.” 🤔

Story:

archive.ph/wSVHo
This story is much larger than being reported because it provides valuable insight into the new surveillance state that utilizes third parties to harvest data that is publicly available on a marketplace.

Limit your ad tracking if you have an iPhone, make sure you don’t grant gps data to your apps while not using them and even then it’s nearly impossible to stay anonymous if they really want to know where you are.

Total Information awareness is the stated goal of the DoD and they are serious.
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In a shocking turn of events, one of the world’s largest carbon credit scheme’s, turns out to be completely fraudulent.

“Vast swathes of land across Australia's desert Outback have been earmarked for native forest regeneration, which is meant to offset emissions as new trees suck up carbon.

But researchers have found that across almost 80 percent of these plantations forest growth was either stagnant – or that woodlands were shrinking.

Despite this, Australia had used these projects to bank millions of tonnes in questionable carbon credits, scientists said, which are used to supposedly offset polluting industries.

"I think it can only be described, and I'm using generous words here, as a gross failure," lead author Andrew Macintosh told AFP.”Image
Story:
sciencealert.com/shock-discover…
The research paper the story referenced:



“We analysed 182 projects and found limited evidence of regeneration in credited areas. Changes in woody vegetation cover within the areas that have been credited also largely mirror changes in adjacent comparison areas, outside the projects, suggesting the observable changes are predominantly attributable to factors other than the project activities. The results add to the growing literature highlighting the practical limitations of offsets and the potential for offset schemes to credit abatement that is non-existent, non-additional and potentially impermanent.”nature.com/articles/s4324…Image
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Who could’ve seen this coming?

“The Colombian retrospective cohort study compared the health records of nearly 2 million vaccinated and unvaccinated adolescent girls over 10 years and found the girls vaccinated with a quadrivalent HPV vaccine were 4.4 times more likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to develop rheumatoid arthritis.”

“The study adds to a large body of peer-reviewed scientific literature from the U.S., Australia, Denmark and Sweden, France, Japan, and Colombia and statistics published by public health agencies in each of these countries demonstrating associations between HPV vaccination and autoimmune conditions.”Image
Story: childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hpv-v…
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