LOL this must be enacted like a Netflix documentary !
But I want to be mirrored here on SN for history. I do not understand why people still post these long threads on fucking twatter instead of here on SN...
You have been lied to about the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos story. Theranos was a failed Deep State play to get a blood-testing scam in place for diseases like COVID.
Holmes was a patsy. She took the fall for the real players. A 🧵 of the evidence proving these claims.
The story of how Theranos came to a fiery and unflattering end has been solidified in the media: It was the company’s founder, Elizabeth Holmes, who almost single-handedly was able to dazzle/deceive everyone from her investors to her employees to the FDA. A hat trick of fraud she was able to execute thanks to her charm, beauty, and often-touted brilliance.
But there are HUGE RED FLAGS with the official story. The biggest being: How did Holmes manage to dupe her board of directors, which consisted of ultra-powerful players in the top echelons of national security/foreign policy, including:
Henry A. Kissinger — former U.S. Secretary of State and national security advisor
George P. Schultz — former U.S. Secretary of State
Gary Roughhead — retired U.S. Navy admiral
William J. Perry — former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Sam Nunn — a former U.S. senator who served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
James N. Mattis — a retired U.S. Marine Corps general (who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2017 to 2019, after Theranos’ collapse)
William H. Foege — former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
William H. Frist — a former U.S. senator and heart and lung transplant surgeon
Richard Kovacevich — former CEO of Wells Fargo
Donald Lucas Sr. — billionaire venture capitalist
Riley P. Bechtel — chairman of the board of the Bechtel Group Inc., a 109-year-old construction company with $40 billion in revenue that was responsible for “epic” projects such as the Hoover Dam and the Trans-Arabian Pipeline.
The standard narrative would have you believe Holmes—who left Stanford after her freshman year to found Theranos—was simply able to con all of these powerful players.
But what’s more likely: The 19YO Holmes was playing them—or they were playing her?
As Forbes noted in a 2016 article, the board had “done very little for its credibility in the medical technology industry.” The article added, “THE BOARD APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ASSEMBLED PRIMARILY TO SECURE INFLUENTIAL GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS, rather than to govern with solid industry insight, product knowledge and operational expertise.” (Emphasis added.)
Furthermore, the article added that “THE BOARD NEVER PUSHED FOR PROOF OF THE PRODUCT’S EFFICACY, either because they did not know any better—having no industry experience—or because they were not encouraged to be vigilant and involved.” The article clarified that “no one demanded the proper data… [which was] ultimately the board’s responsibility.” (Emphasis added.)
Even Vox criticized Theranos’ board in a 2015 article, which noted that “IN THE WORLD OF DEFENSE CONTRACTING, IT’S NOT UNUSUAL TO HAVE SECRETIVE PROJECTS THAT COST TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND TAKE A DECADE TO COMPLETE. But there was apparently no one on the board to point out that this approach doesn’t work very well for technology startups.” (Emphasis added.)
As it stands, the narrative offers several explanations for this mysterious eloping of Holmes with her team of Deep State leaders. The first being a strong tie between Holmes’ family and billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper.
In an article—published in February of 2022, after Holmes was convicted by a jury on four counts of fraud—an INSIDER article noted that “[Draper] was once neighbors with the Holmes family and is also the father of her childhood friend.” The title of the article is “Billionaire investor Tim Draper says he still respects Theranos and convicted founder Elizabeth Holmes: ‘She didn’t lie to me,'” and describes how the famous Silicon Valley investor maintained his support for Holmes since the initial allegations against her.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-tim-draper-respect-she-didnt-lie-2022-2
This relationship may serve as a (mildly) believable bridge between Holmes and the power players on her board, but does not explain why board member George Schultz did nothing even when his own grandson, Tyler Shultz, alerted him to fraud happening within Theranos
Tyler, who first met Holmes in his grandfather’s living room, describes in a 2022 interview with 60 Minutes the strangeness of the Elder Schultz’s response to word of fraud. Word of fraud that not only came from him, but also whistleblower Erika Cheung.
“I went to him with my concerns and he couldn’t really understand the points I was making and he said, ‘Just move on with your life,'” Tyler says in the interview. He notes he did try to move on, but only a few months afterward had to interact with Holmes again when she came to Thanksgiving dinner at George’s house.
“It was extremely frustrating to know that he was being lied to and just would not listen to what I had to say,” Tyler adds in the interview. “Especially as a board member, I felt like this isn’t just a grandson talking to his grandfather, this is an employee talking to the board member of the company they both work for. AND I FELT LIKE HE REALLY DID NOT DO HIS JOB AS A BOARD MEMBER INTO LOOKING INTO MY CONCERNS. AS FAR AS I COULD TELL.” (Emphasis added.)
Tylers goes on to say, “The really hurtful time was actually after all of this had come out. But it was no longer a question of whether or not Tyler is right or Elizabeth is right. It was Tyler is right. And he continued to support Elizabeth.” Tyler adds, “that’s when it became unfathomable, where it felt like… IT JUST FELT LIKE SOMETHING ELSE HAS TO BE GOING ON HERE. ‘CAUSE IT MAKES NO SENSE.” (Emphasis added.)
Another BIG RED FLAG: How did Holmes manage to drain $600 million from billionaire investors like Ed. Secretary Betsy Devos, media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch, Walton family heirs, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison? Not to mention millions from the company’s board.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10366623/Meet-Theranos-investors-defrauded-millions.html
Author and expert portfolio manager Alex Krainer offers a far more succinct and plausible explanation. And one that ascribes a far more insidious motive, which potentially makes it all the more compelling depending on how pessimistic your worldview is.
A transcription of what Krainer says in this clip:
“Now if the objective of democratizing diagnostics through miniature, ultra versatile blood analyzers was impossible, then why would any reasonable person continue to press on with that project? Why would a whole group of them stay committed to an unrealistic goal? What was so important about this venture? Was there an urgent lack of blood testing technology before 2003 holding back humanity's progress? Were people dropping dead for lack of miniature blood analyzers?
“Players that they launched it with the 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes in charge and took it to the market with a technology that didn't and couldn't function. In other words, they knowingly and deliberately sponsored a massive fraud, risking hundreds of millions of dollars as well as their reputations. What purpose could possibly justify such reckless, brazen action?
“Perhaps Bill Gates could help us answer that question. In a short 2 minute video published on YouTube January 2021 entitled, this is how we prevent the next pandemic, world's chief health officer explains the rescue plan for when we have the next pandemic. By the next pandemic, says Comrade Gates, I believe we can have what I call mega testing diagnostic platforms. They can be deployed quickly, cost very little, and test 20 percent of the entire population every week. To stop future pandemics quickly, we need to be able to spot disease outbreaks as soon as they happen anywhere in the world, and that requires a global alert system.
“Stopping the next pandemic will be a big investment. So fighting these next pandemics would require quick, cheap, and ultra versatile platforms that can test 20 percent of the entire population every week. Doesn't that sound a lot like what Theranos was trying to build? Indeed, on the occasion of promoting the Walgreens partnership in 2013, Elizabeth Holmes explained, We have an operational plan that will allow us to be within 5 miles from every person's home through Walgreens that we've opened and continue to open nationally.
“In other words, Theranos' plan was to build out the mega testing diagnostic infrastructure that will be needed to fight future pandemics. The explicit purpose of this infrastructure was to enable centralizing the healthcare process so that diagnostics, medication, and treatment could all come from the same source. Now that kind of a thing could explain our power brokers' excitement about Theranos. It would be a very powerful tool of population control in the hands of those who were lusting to wield it.
“This agenda could explain the imperative of building network connected mini analyzers and distributing them widely so that they are available in the vicinity of every household. It may also explain why during the first 11 years, Theranos' board of directors consisted almost exclusively of deep state actors, but no medical doctors or health care experts.”
Krainer digs into the absurdity of the connection between Holmes and her board members and investors, highlighting clues as to the real story not offered by the mainstream narrative. Perhaps chief amongst those clues being her father’s prominent role in government and military circles.
A transcription of what Krainer says in this clip:
“How did Holmes manage to get that meeting with Don Lucas senior? How did she meet Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, Rupert Murdoch, Mad Dog Mattis, and all the other power players? To get closer to the truth, let us first look at her background and the path that led her to launch Theranos. Elizabeth Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. 1984. She came from a relatively wealthy and well connected family. Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, had a long distinguished career mostly as a government bureaucrat but also in private enterprise.
“Here's a list of his professional positions. Second Lieutenant, Civil Affairs, U.S. Army Reserve Vice President for Tenneco Energy, Chief Financial Officer and Third Ranking Executive at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Director of U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Senior Vice President, Program Development at the Global Environment and Technology Foundation, Vice President for Strategic Conservation Initiatives at the World Wildlife Fund Chief Operating Officer at the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance Member of the Market Advisory Board of Ze-gen Inc. Christian Rasmus Holmes IV was also Vice President at Enron, which became the largest US fraud case before his daughter snatched that distinction for Theranos.”
As Krainer notes, Holmes’ father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV—who HNGN reports came from an “affluent family” and is a descendant of the Fleischmann bloodline, which established Fleischmann’s Yeast in 1868—has been: Vice President at Enron, Chief Operating Office of the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance; Director of the US Trade and Development Agency; Senior Vice President of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation; senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group; and Vice President of the World Wildlife Foundation.
Perhaps due to her father’s prominence, Krainer notes, Holmes was able to secure a position at Stanford Chemistry Professor Channing Robertson’s lab.Then, during a tour of Asia, Krainer says “she happened to have witnessed the SARS outbreak.”
Indeed, as the Straight Times notes, “After the end of her freshman year, Holmes worked for a time at the Genome Institute Lab in Singapore TO HELP DEVELOP SYSTEMS TO DETECT THE SARS VIRUS.” (Emphasis added.)
Holmes’ first patent was filed in 2005, which outlined an “invention [relating] to an ingestible, implantable or wearable medical device comprising a microarray which comprises a bioactive agent capable of interacting with a disease marker… .”
Patent source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8101402B2/en
Holmes’ patent also described the invention having “a plurality of microchips comprising a microarray scanning device capable of obtaining physical parameter data of an interaction between [a] disease marker biological analyte with the bioactive agent.” (An analyte is a substance whose chemical constituents are being identified and measured.)
The patent also described the ingestible, implantable, or wearable device containing “an energy source to power the medical device” as well as “an interface device capable of facilitating communications between the microarray scanning device, biometric recognition device and the therapeutic agent releasing device.”
Also note that whistleblowers like Schultz and Cheung weren’t just ignored by Theranos’ board, but were actively harassed. Namely by “Super-lawyer” David Boies, whose law firm has defended the likes of Harvey Weinstein in court—and who was also on the board of Theranos for a time.
Krainer describes how Boies bullied Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung when they began to blow the whistle on Theranos’ fraud:
"George Shultz dismissed the whistleblower[s] saying, I know Tyler is very smart. You [Erika Cheung] seem very smart. But the fact of the matter is I've brought in a wealth of intelligent people, and they tell me that this device is going to revolutionize health care. And so maybe you two should consider doing something else. Cheung resigned from Theranos the next day after only 7 months on the job. While Theranos continued in operation unhindered, she and Tyler Schultz became targets of very aggressive surveillance and intimidation. Keeping them silent was entrusted to David Boies' law firm, Boies Schiller.
"Recall, David Boies was also on Theranos' board of directors, and the fact that he had a hand in pressuring whistleblowers to keep quiet indicates that he too was in the know about Theranos' dark secrets. Again, instead of investigating those secrets, action was directed against disobedient employees. At a later point, George Schultz again invited his grandson to his house to convince him to keep quiet. On the occasion, Tyler expressed that he would consider signing a confidentiality agreement with Theranos at which his grandfather said, 'Good. There are two Theranos lawyers upstairs. Can I go get them?'
"But, ultimately, his grandson declined to sign the papers. Eventually, the case was brought to the attention of The Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, who had previously broken several stories of corporate malfeasance and had extensive experience with surveillance and intimidation. Carreyrou said that this was a very stressful time. I knew that they were working hard on intimidating sources and turning sources and making people recant. But, apparently, Boies Schiller's tactics went far beyond what he had ever experienced. 'I've been a reporter for over 20 years, and I've never experienced anything of that magnitude. I mean, it's not even close.' Tyler Schultz apparently received the harshest treatment so much so that even Boies Schiller subsequently conceded that in retrospect, he should have been treated more gently than he was."
In an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment reporter John Carreyrou said he saw Boies’ role in the Theranos story as that of a “scarecrow.” Carreyrou added that Boies’ tactics consisted of “thuggish behavior” and not the kind you’d “associate with a white-shoe law firm.”
Another oddity is how desperate the board was to keep Holmes on as CEO, even after exposé articles revealed Theranos as a scam.
Prior to the company’s downfall, General “Mad Dog” Mattis even gushed over Holmes in a 2014 Fortune article, claiming “she has probably one of the most mature and well-honed senses of ethics… [including] personal ethics, managerial ethics, business ethics, [and] medical ethics that I’ve ever heard articulated.”
Another MAJOR RED FLAG: Despite its dubious tech, Theranos partnered with big players in the pharma/healthcare space. Pfizer, for example, teamed up with Theranos to draw and analyze blood from cancer patients.
Walgreens also invested $140 million into Theranos without ever testing the company’s tech for itself, and, as Yahoo! reports, even deployed the company’s machines to 40 of its stores before pulling the plug on the deal. Six years after the drugstore chain had signed on with Theranos.
Even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is under the umbrella of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), found that Theranos’ tests were jeopardizing people’s health.
Fierce Healthcare reported in 2016 that CMS claimed “the deficient practices of the [Theranos] laboratory pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.” It was not CMS’ alarming complaints that brought down the company, however. (Perhaps thanks to former CDC Director William Foege being on the company’s board?)
Finally, consider Theranos’ purpose, its board, and the extent of what is able to get away with in light of something like the “global alert system” that has been pitched by ‘pandemic’ profiteer Bill Gates. In this video put out on YouTube in early 202, Gates describes tests that “can be deployed quickly, cost very little, and test 20% of the [world’s] population every week.”
Additionally, note that while Theranos has been abandoned by the Deep State, the likes of Bill Gates and George Soros are a part of a consortium that bought Mologic (now Global Access Diagnostics), “a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced lateral flow and rapid diagnostic technologies.” Of course this means COVID-19 tests as well.
Oh and just one more thing…
Below is a picture of—left to right—William Perry, Sam Nunn, George P. Shultz, and Henry Kissinger meeting with President Barack Obama in 2009. They were not on the Theranos board at this point, although they all eventually would be.