As u can see, I don't post often relative to my join date - but when I do some tend to be fairly long. So if u don't like longish - just skip on by.
I watch lots of docs if they are interesting & well made. One they are showing a lot on HBO these days is the story of Elizabeth Holmes which is titled
THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY.
One of the producers is
Alex Gibney who has become involved in lots of good doc's for quite some time now. The one he did about Scientology is very good. Most folks probably know that the little
aggressive leader of this CULT (as opposed to religion - that went through tons of lawsuits with the IRS to be called a religion so they wouldn't have to pay taxes on their vast wealth)
David Miscavage who is a little psycho.
He loves to trot out his 2 big Hollywood celeb's
Tom Cruise and John Travolta as members. They gotta have a lot of dirt on these guys because the Scientology story is the most bizarre cult/religion story ever - & of course it was started by L. Ron Hubbard who wrote sci-fi short stories for little pulp magazines in the 50's & wrote the Dianetics book (in the 60's) which became a best seller.
This is the crazy Scientology story in a nutshell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Back to Holmes & her company
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/th...theranos-panel
I'm sure some folks here have seen this doc about how Holmes conned her way into getting them to believe that she was another Gates or Jobs. Her thing was blood withdrawal. Instead of the withdrawal where 3 to 4 tubes is taken in a venous manner.
Her company would just need a drop of blood from a finger prick to evaluate the health of an individual to the tune of over 200 indicators of health issues caught so early they could be cured or abated.
So her personality and looks
(which ironically is like a female Dracula) & lineage (like how they indicate which horses will be born strong from parents were great race horses) enables her to get very wealthy white men (including investors and board members like former Secretary of State George Schultz whose grandson Tyler worked for Holmes company & told his grandfather that he had deduced the whole thing was a scam & GS still would not believe him until the whole scam finally fell like a deck of cards).
So she had gotten her company
valued at 9 billion which she started dropping out of Stanford at 19 & at 31 it was valued at the price above & when the indisputable truth of it all came out about 4 years later when the company's true value was found to be NOTHING (A Big Goose Egg).
She and her boyfriend & CEO of her company "Sunny" were charged with FRAUD & CONSPIRACY & she dumped him (he was like 25-30 years older). It was really something the number of older white men who bought in to her story (including Bill Clinton & experienced Venture Capitalist types).
She got 100's of millions of dollars from them.
ANYWAY - WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ANY THOUGHTS OR INSIGHTS FROM OTHER FOLKS WHO HAVE SEEN THIS DOCUMENTARY.
P.S. - I found in another documentary that the giant Corporations who make medical devices rake in more dough & have more pull than Big Pharma which I found hard to believe.
Although I think the biggest one's deal in both & they lobby our puppet political hacks that spend more time raising money for their next election than they do on trying to help their constituents. The politicians aren't allowed to be fund raising from their "official offices.
So their is a designated building close by where many days 3/4's of their time is devoted to them & their staffers contacting donors from the "official" building set up for this function.
P.P.S. - At the end of the movie "The Post" with Spielberg, Hanks & Streep about THE PENTAGON PAPERS & VIETNAM, a written quote comes on the screen at the end of it which said this.
THE FREE PRESS IS TO SERVE THE GOVERNED - NOT THE GOVERNORS.
I think that this quote is just one of the endless things these days leading the
U.S.A.'s downward spiral or as my Mom used to say
"To Hell in a Hand-basket".
