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Founder (building something big). Ex-SWE @Capgemini. @USC CSBA. Tweets about tech, startups, geopolitics and hidden truths.
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Aug 29 15 tweets 7 min read
Private equity bought your hospital and doubled your bills.

Imagine checking into the ER for a broken arm, only to walk out with a $10,000 debt.

This isn't dystopian fiction; it's America's healthcare nightmare in 2025, where profits trump patients.

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Let's start with the big picture:

U.S. healthcare spending is exploding, projected to hit around $5.3 trillion in 2025 alone, growing at 5.6% from the previous year.

That's more than the GDP of most countries, yet outcomes suck- life expectancy lags behind peers.

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Aug 28 15 tweets 5 min read
Three companies control whether 330 million Americans can buy homes.

They've been hacked, sued, and caught in massive errors.

Yet they face zero competition and make billions selling your data back to you.

Here's how the credit cartel legally robs families blind 🧵 Image FICO controls 90% of U.S. credit decisions with a black-box algorithm they won't reveal.

Created in 1958, this "proprietary formula" decides if you can afford a home.

Translation: A private company with zero accountability controls your American Dream. Image
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Aug 27 15 tweets 5 min read
The IRS audits poor families 5x more than millionaires.

But when Congress gave them $80 billion to "fix" it... they made it worse.

Here's the shocking truth about America's most corrupt government agency (and why they'll never change) 🧵 Image
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The numbers don't lie: EITC recipients (average income under $20,000) face audit rates of 0.9%.

Millionaires? Just 1.1%.

The poorest Americans - scraping by on less than $25,000 - get audited at rates matching the top 1%.

This is class warfare disguised as tax enforcement. Image
Aug 26 15 tweets 6 min read
Pfizer has been in business for 176 years and hasn't cured a single disease.

Not one.

They've made $100+ billion treating symptoms, managing conditions, preventing infections - but never actually curing anything.

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This isn't an accident. It's the business model.

Cures eliminate customers.
Treatments create them for life.

Pfizer's blockbusters?

- Lipitor (lifelong cholesterol management)
- Viagra (ongoing dysfunction treatment)
- Lyrica (permanent pain management)

Recurring revenue, not recovery.Image
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Aug 24 16 tweets 5 min read
Every product you "buy" is now designed to fail without monthly payments.

They're not selling you things anymore - they're selling you the temporary right to use things you thought you owned.

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Adobe didn't "innovate" with Creative Cloud. They executed the perfect heist.

Revenue jumped from $1.23B to $18.28B in a decade by turning $149 software into endless $60/month payments.

You now pay $7,200 over 10 years for what once cost $149.

Highway robbery disguised as "updates."Image
Aug 23 14 tweets 6 min read
Nestlé didn't accidentally become the world's largest water thief.

They spent decades perfecting the art of stealing public water for pennies and selling it back for thousands.

While communities face droughts, Nestlé gets richer. This is legalized theft 🧵 Image
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The numbers are obscene.

California: 62 million gallons yearly on expired permits.

Michigan: 210 million gallons for $200 in fees.

That's less than a single family's monthly water bill.

Meanwhile, they sell it back at 2,000% markup. Image
Aug 22 15 tweets 6 min read
You've been sorting your plastic bottles for decades, thinking you're saving the planet.

But Exxon's internal memos from 1989 laugh at you.

They called recycling "fundamentally uneconomical" while spending millions convincing you it works.

The biggest environmental lie ever told 🧵Image
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Only 5% of US plastics actually get recycled.

The other 95%? Landfills and oceans.

Big Oil knew this since 1973 but pumped out ads showing bottles becoming new bottles "over and over again."

They even targeted your kids with fake educational videos. Image
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Aug 19 20 tweets 8 min read
Student loans weren't designed to be repaid.

They created the only debt in America that survives bankruptcy, death, and Social Security.

$1.81 trillion extracted from 42.5 million Americans through a system Congress deliberately rigged in 2005.

While families believed in the American Dream, banks engineered permanent debt slavery 🧵Image
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These aren't education investments.

They're wealth extraction machines.

Federal portfolio: $1.66 trillion
Private loans: $134 billion
Average debt: $39,075
Parent PLUS rate: 8.94%

5.3 million already in default.
4 million more heading there.

This is systematic extraction.
Aug 17 15 tweets 6 min read
Blackstone didn't buy 274,000 homes to be landlords.

They spent $1 trillion turning homeownership into subscription housing.

They are creating a generation that will own nothing and rent everything.

While families dream of white picket fences, Wall Street dreams of permanent tenants 🧵Image
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These aren't real estate investments.

They're wealth extraction machines.

Invitation Homes: 53,000 houses.
American Campus: 144,000 student beds.
AIR Communities: 27,000 apartments.

Mobile home parks where lot rents tripled overnight.

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Aug 16 16 tweets 6 min read
Three pharma giants control 90% of insulin.

A century-old drug costing $2 to make but selling for $300+ in America ($6 in Canada).

8.4 million Americans need it to survive. 1 in 4 ration doses and risk death.

The FTC has proof it's all coordinated.

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Jesse Lutgen, 32, Iowa. Dead 2018.
Rationed insulin because $1,000/month was impossible.

Jeremy Crawford, 39, Texas. Dead 2019.
Tried cheaper alternatives that failed.

Alec Smith, 26, Minnesota. Dead 2017.
These aren't rare tragedies.

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Aug 14 15 tweets 6 min read
Every time you buy an iPhone, you're funding a $100 billion tax heist.

Apple pays 0.005% taxes through one Irish mailbox while a small business pays 25%.

The most profitable company in history is also the biggest tax cheat

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That sleek iPhone?

It's designed in California, manufactured in China, but "lives" in Ireland for tax purposes.

Apple Sales International - a company with zero employees, zero operations, just a mailbox in Cork.

Through this ghost entity, Apple funneled $250 billion offshore.
Aug 12 16 tweets 6 min read
This $200 million Jackson Pollock painting is the most successful government propaganda in history.

The CIA created the modern art market to fight communism.

Now billionaires launder money through "masterpieces" that look like kindergarten accidents 🧵 Image
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1950s: Soviet art showed workers and heroes.

American art showed... nothing recognizable.

The CIA panicked.

How do you prove capitalism beats communism when your president calls modern art "ham and eggs nonsense"?

Simple: You fake it. Image
Aug 10 16 tweets 6 min read
Every time you push code to GitHub for free, Microsoft makes money.

Every React component you build, Meta profits.

Every TensorFlow model you train, Google cashes in.

You're not a developer - you're an unpaid employee of Big Tech 🧵 Image The numbers are staggering.

Recreating all existing open source software would cost $8.8 trillion.

Yet who maintains it?

Mostly unpaid volunteers working nights and weekends.

Meanwhile, Google pulls $200+ billion annually built on Linux, TensorFlow, and thousands of free projects.Image
Aug 8 15 tweets 6 min read
Your iPhone's GPS exists because 269 people died in 1983.

Korean Air Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet missiles after a navigation error.

Two weeks later, Reagan declassified America's most classified military technology for civilian use.

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KAL007 wasn't supposed to be there.

A Boeing 747 carrying 246 passengers veered 200 miles off course into Soviet airspace.

The crew had no idea. Soviet interceptors mistook it for a U.S. spy plane.

Two missiles. 269 dead.

All because they couldn't figure out where they were.
Aug 7 17 tweets 7 min read
One American fruit company killed more people than most wars.

200,000+ dead across Latin America.

All so your bananas stayed under $1/pound.

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United Fruit didn't just sell bananas.

They owned countries. Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica - entire governments danced to their tune.

Railways, ports, telegraphs, hospitals. They controlled everything.

Even gave us the term "banana republic." That wasn't a joke. It was a warning.Image
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Aug 6 16 tweets 6 min read
The US built a 500KB virus that destroyed 1,000 Iranian centrifuges.

Zero shots fired.

It escaped globally. 100,000 computers infected.

Every dictator learned how to weaponize code.

This is how America opened Pandora's box 🧵 Image
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Stuxnet wasn't just malware. It was a declaration of war through code.

Six years of development. Multiple zero-day exploits worth millions on the black market.

All to make Iranian centrifuges spin themselves to death.

They called it "Olympic Games." Iran called it an act of war.
Aug 4 18 tweets 7 min read
Trump just committed the biggest economic suicide in history.

He slapped 25% tariffs on a country 17x larger than the one getting preferential treatment.

India: 1.4B people. Pakistan: 240M.

Remember, Pakistan is the the one that harbored Osama bin Laden

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The numbers are staggering.

- India: $4.2 trillion economy, 1.4 billion people, $129 billion trade with US.

- Pakistan: $373 billion economy, 240 million people, $7.3 billion trade with US.

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Aug 3 17 tweets 7 min read
The man who put Americans on the Moon was a Nazi SS officer.

He killed 20,000 slave labor to build the infamous V-2 rockets that later terrorized London.

Meet Wernher von Braun: Nazi mass murderer turned American hero and the dark secret NASA doesn't want you to know 🧵 Image
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In 1945, as Germany fell, the US launched Operation Paperclip - a covert program to recruit Nazi scientists before the Soviets could get them.

Over 1,600 German experts were brought to America.

Many were war criminals. All had their records "sanitized."
Aug 2 17 tweets 6 min read
Africa loses $88.6 billion every year to Western corporations.

That's more than all foreign aid and investment COMBINED flowing into the continent.

While you're donating to "save Africa," multinational giants are literally stealing it blind.

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Shell, Total, and mining corporations didn't get rich by playing fair.

They use something called "transfer pricing" - selling Africa's diamonds, gold, and oil to their own shell companies at fake low prices.

Result? Billions in profits recorded in tax havens. Zero taxes paid in Africa.Image
Aug 1 17 tweets 6 min read
Bill Gates owns more American farmland than most countries have total land.

275,000 acres across 18 states. That's bigger than New York City. Twice.

Tech billionaires are quietly buying the one thing you actually need to survive: your food supply.

Here's how they're colonizing America's heartland 🧵Image
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Gates didn't become America's largest private farmland owner by accident.

He has never milked a cow, planted corn, or harvested wheat.

He's not farming.

So why is a software billionaire buying America's dinner table?
Jul 31 18 tweets 7 min read
The Pope knows more about world leaders than the CIA does.

The Vatican operates the world's oldest intelligence network - complete with spies, secret files, and global political manipulation.

Here's how 1.3 billion Catholics unknowingly fund the world's largest spy operation 🧵 Image
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They don't call them spies. They call them "papal nuncios."

183 Vatican diplomats trained in espionage techniques, operating in every major country on Earth.

Their cover? Religious diplomacy.
Their real job? Intelligence gathering for the Holy See. Image