This alleged pathologist explains how drugs like Ozempic, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro work to reduce appetite and lead to weight loss. These drugs are analogs of either GLP-1 (glucose-like peptide-1) or GIP (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide), or a combination of both.
I just ran across this dude within the last week as I’ve been trying to keep up with news of the Israel-U.S.-Iran war. He runs an outfit called 21st Century Wire. I don’t know him but he seems to live in my neck of the woods. Perhaps I’ll run across him on the trail. From his website:
21st Century Wire serves a niche audience which we firmly believe is not being catered for by the wider western corporate and state-funded media market. After over a decade of interacting and consulting with our learning community, we are keenly aware that they are much more inquisitive than traditional legacy media readers, and more aligned with independent content creators, as opposed to mainstream ones. Hence, we know that our audience expects this website to challenge the prevailing narrative and mainstream orthodoxy. Aside from the independent media remit, our number one intention here is to push the envelope and get the reader thinking, talking and hopefully inspire them to take on a more active role themselves, perhaps by creating their own website or information portal on social media. This may be by using free blog software, creating your own podcast, Youtube channel, or just by utilizing social networks like Facebook or Twitter and others. We actively encourage this.
We oppose internet censorship and regulation in all its forms, especially through opaque regimes of control, run by elite committees comprised of ‘experts’ drawn from the Silicon Valley, corporate media, foundation and government-affiliated persons. We believe that such efforts are highly politicized and employ narrow subjective methods of regulation designed to target and silence independent media, while allowing mainstream corporate media to produce ever increasing amounts of fake news and propaganda. Such measures can only lead to a restriction of free speech and expression at a time in history when those freedoms are more important than ever to preserve. Censorship and regulation also interfere in the marketplace of ideas and deprive readers and members of the public to make up their own mind and conduct their own research based on the merits of the information and not on the arbitrary criticism and smears being applied by corporate or state-funded gatekeepers.
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
PS: You know what else is a racket? The U.S. healthcare system.
Jimmy Dore is a professional comedian. His show below examines the headline question. You’ll not hear any of this in the mainstream media, but it deserves your attention. Dore’s guest is an alleged lawyer, Lionel, who’s actually funnier than Dore in this instance. As someone baptized and confirmed as a Catholic (plus eight years in parochial school), I got several good laughs out of the last five minutes of the show.
I don’t know if this guy’s legitimate or not. At least what he proposes looks safe to try. It’s interesting that he doesn’t mention the underlying diagnosis of the knee pain. I assume he’s referring to chronic pain unrelated to acute trauma. He says it works to reduce pain at the front of and inside the knee. The suggested exercise is simple and quick. Sounds to good to be true.
If you’re overweight or obese, you’re putting more strain on your knees than they were designed to accommodate. I can help you lose the excess weight.
Don’t watch the video if you’re not ready for a sad, sad, story about a cancer patient.
Steve Parker, M.D.
PS: I can neither defend nor criticize the specific cancer treatment discussed in the video. I don’t know enough about the case and, compared with an oncologist, I know very little about cancer treatment.
The Constitution’s Article I, Section 8 specifically lists as a power of Congress the power “to declare War,” which unquestionably gives the legislature the power to initiate hostilities. The extent to which this clause limits the President’s ability to use military force without Congress’s affirmative approval remains highly contested.
Most people agree, at minimum, that the Declare War Clause grants Congress an exclusive power. That is, Presidents cannot, on their own authority, declare war. Although it is somewhat more contested among scholars and commentators, most people also agree that Presidents cannot initiate wars on their own authority (a minority argues that Presidents may initiate uses of force without formally declaring war and that Congress’s exclusive power to “declare war” refers only to issuing a formal proclamation).
It appears that my country, the United States of American, is about to start bombing you again. Please note that the vast majority of American citizens are not involved in this decision. Our “leaders” care not one whit about what the American people want. The folks I associate with in my daily life don’t know much about Iran and hold no enmity toward you. If put to a vote among the general U.S. population, we would vote against bombing Iran. We would prefer that our country mind our own business and deal honestly and peacefully with other nations.
Just so you know.
—–Steve Parker, M.D.
Update on April 8, 2026:
On February 28, 2026, President Trump announced the start of his war with Iran. He said the objective was to protect the American people from imminent threats by the Iranian regime. (I don’t know about you, but I never felt threatened by Iranians.)
Within the last 24 hours, the U.S. press announced that a ceasefire agreement had been reached between the U.S. and Iran (what about Israel?) and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared victory over Iran. The alleged ceasefire comes on the heel of Trumps veiled threat to nuke Iran. Reuters reported on April 7:
U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning to destroy Iran if it did not yield to his demands drew rebukes from around the globe and even unnerved some aides and supporters, though administration officials said the increasingly hostile rhetoric was merely a negotiating tactic to force Tehran to concede.
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote online early on Tuesday, ahead of the 8 pm ET (2400 GMT) deadline he set for Iran to strike a deal with the U.S.
Daniel Davis and Larry C. Johnson present a very different view of the situation and I highly recommend you watch the video below, especially if you are like most Americans who only view the mainstream media, if any. Johnson is skeptical about the ceasefire, pointing out that it will only occur if Israel agrees to cease hostilities against Lebanon and Yemen.
…Trump has for all intents and purposes surrendered. I doubt that any power in history that enjoyed a 100-to-1 military spending advantage over its enemy has ever been this thoroughly humiliated.
I consider infectious disease specialists to be, in general, the smartest non-procedural medical specialists. They are often called in to consult on a hospitalized patient who’s already been evaluated by three or four other doctors, but just isn’t responding to treatment and may have an underlying atypical infection.
Dr. Mark Crislip is a retired infections disease doc who is highly intelligent and a good writer. I don’t know him personally but have had the pleasure of working with a few like him throughout my career (shout out to Dr. Kara Asbury). Here’s what he thinks of the intrusion of AI – artificial intelligence – into medical practice.
I really think we are heading into a world where doctors are going to be mediocre at best. There are many articles about how kids today (remember, I am an old geezer) are unable to read books or even sit through a whole movie. You wonder how they are going to master, yes, master, the immense amount of information, all in dense, dry, complicated, technical textbooks, required just to get through medical school, much less become proficient in whatever medical specialty field they choose.
Now? All the cognitive processing will be offloaded into AI. And people will take the path of least resistance, in the process acquiring only the facade of understanding. And if the AI hallucinates? They are not going to know enough to recognize it.
So there will be three kinds of doctors slowing evolving into one.
A few old geezers like me who will mostly avoid AI. I say mostly. I wouldn’t mind if AI generated my billing codes. But that is it. But their medical mind will remain sharp and be wielded like a samurai blade.
Most current MDs will take the path of least resistance, use AI and their mind will be increasingly rusty and dull and at some point be useless.
And those brought up on AI? Their minds will be plastic sporks. Enshittified from the start.
I recommend you read the whole thing, especially if you’re a physician. Plus he takes a few jabs at EMRs (electronic medical records).
Is this real or is she AI-generated? How can she be so articulate? I saw little evidence of editing. Was she reading a teleprompter?
I wonder how I would have reacted to this if I were 40, 50, or 60 years old. I’m 71 now, and it made me tear up at the end, and thereafter for many minutes, thinking about my wife, my life, my children, and the time I have left before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
It may be impossible for most folks under 40 or 50 to think seriously about these issues.
—–Steve Parker, M.D.
PS: I can help you maximize your lifespan and “healthspan.”
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