The Highwire with Del Bigtree - WHO IS THE REAL ELON MUSK?

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

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One of the stories that reported last week, we're questioning the inclusivity of a platform, and that is X, Twitter. We did a long-form expose on all of the moving parts that we saw happening with this current narrative to remask and to, are we headed towards our lockdown? What are the reasons? We maybe behind-the-scenes reasons. We actually showed the CEO of X, Linda Yaccourino, and she was on squawk on the street. on CBC, and she said some interesting things. She's saying, we're gonna demonetize awful, awful conversation. She's basically taking a demonetization

and a de-amplifying stance on the X platform. Now this is much different than we've heard from Elon Musk, who became a champion of free speech when he took over Twitter and said, this is gonna be open to everybody. We're not gonna do any type of censorship, basically. And so when we stream this, as I'm speaking, right now. This is streaming on the X platform. We've been streaming on the Twitter platform for a very

long time. And something interesting happened after our show last week. We had the live stream. All things were well. To be clear, I was claiming that I thought I might be being shadow banned where I usually would get thousands of views on things. I was only getting, you know, five or six and things like that. So we were curious. We were talking about it on last week's show, calling out Yaccarino saying, is she changing the culture of X? So all of that was a part of our show to be clear. We weren't being nice to Twitter last week or X. Right. And we were just asking some open-ended questions that begged the question to be asked. And now our shows how this works after the live show, the feed, the actual video still stays up on the platform. Anybody can re-watch it on the

platform. And what was happening is people would hit play. It would spin, but there would be no more live feed. And that has continued to this day as I'm speaking right now. So it's been off the platform for a week, essentially. The post is still up there. We checked on our end. We really didn't see anything we did wrong. So it's an open-ended question. It's a mystery right now. But this prompted a conversation between us all. Let's look into Elon Musk because this is a guy who he has his hands in a lot of things. He's doing a lot of things most recently free speech. But check out kind of a background of all of the things he is really involved in. Take a look. All right.

The story of Elon Musk is almost too incredible to believe. People have called you the real Tony Stark. On any given day, he could be the world's richest man or he could be the world's second richest man. Elon Musk is one of the most important entrepreneurs in the world. Elon Musk grew up in South Africa, studied in Canada, but then moved to California and became a Silicon Valley superstar by creating the online commerce business PayPal. When eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, Musk took home $165 million. The young entrepreneur turned his gaze upwards and set up space exploration technologies,

or SpaceX, with a mission statement of enabling people to live on other planets. Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX has had many achievements. It's the first private company to launch orbit and recover a spacecraft. How is it possible that Elon Musk could launch, launch, two impossible businesses, SpaceX, a builder of rocket ships and Tesla, which could be the first successful car company startup in America in 90 years. All transport, with the exception of rockets, will go fully electric. I see the value of Tesla as a catalyst in that transition. The Tesla Model S has been called the greatest car ever built. Now you've got solar city and the solar pack that

people put in their houses. It's the largest provider of rooftop solar system, in the US, and the company boomed on Wall Street. It really needs to make solar panels as appealing as electric cars have become. SpaceX's satellite internet service Starlink has also allowed Musk to play savior in a new way. Starlink is a globe-encircling network of internet beaming satellites that is trying to get you online no matter where you are in the world. It's been critical to Ukraine's armed forces. They absolutely depend on it.

so that they can coordinate their communications of their troops. In a strange way, gives Elon Musk an enormous amount of power. Elon Musk's brain implant company, NeuroLink, said on Thursday it had been given a green light from the US FDA to kickstart its first inhuman clinical study. We put a chip in your brain to control your mind. Over the years, Musk has publicly outlined an ambitious plan for NeurLink. He envisions its devices to cure a range of conditions from obesity, autism, depression, schizophrenia to enabling web browsing and even telepathy.

It'll be about restoring functionality to people who've lost their connection between their brain and their body. I think the concern that people have is, is this just leading us into this dystopian transhumanist future? He bought Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, funding some of the purchase by selling $39 billion worth of his Tesla shares. The world's richest man is now promising a Twitter makeover, renaming his own account chief twit and proclaiming, the bird is freed. Then fired senior execs once closing the $44 billion deal. The deal puts him at the helm of one of the leading global social media platforms. Having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. Are you sincerely trying to save the world?

Well, I'm trying to do good things, yeah. I'm interested in things that that changed the world or that affect the future in wondrous new technology where you see it and you're like, wow, how does that even happen? How's that possible? Really quite an amazing person. I mean, what a track record. This guy can't miss or almost like he's not allowed to miss. He's been hitting the free throw shot for 13 years straight.

He thought he'd never miss. You know, and he's really, you can see there, he's kind of been. He's been handled by the media lightly until really he went after the free speech and he allowed free speech on this platform. Then they really clamped on him. But let's look, let's go dig into this person and more of his business ventures a little more. So in 2015, the LA Times did this article. So almost 10 years ago now. So these numbers are probably changed.

But Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies. It says Musk and his companies, investors enjoy most of the financial upside of the government support, while taxpayers shoulder the costs. The payoff for the public would come in the form of major pollution reductions, but only if solar panels and electric cars break through as viable mass market products. For now, both remain niche products for mostly well-heeled customers. So think about that. He has a product.

He's getting a lot of government subsidies. It's only going to work if these things really get pushed by, say, you know, the headlines we're seeing from California. We're saying, all-electric by 2030. They're aggressively pushing out this electric grid, the electric cars. So that's really good for somebody that's on government subsidies that has these products that really need to hit the home run. Otherwise, they're just going to fail. So just putting that there for a second. But in 2015, he was already drumming on the carbon tax,

which is taxing people's carbon emissions. So this is a headline here. Elon Musk says, robust carbon tax would speed global clean energy transition. So he was really interested in. I mean, if you think about it, that is literally like taxing everybody that does doesn't use your product. Fine, you want to use somebody else's product. There's going to be a tax on you that'll help pay for me to build more of what I'm doing. Right? I mean, I think you could see it like that. And remember, we covered the net zero transition. Because they're pushing it so fast, that would require a command and control economy. It says one of the reviews that we've covered, a war footing. People would have to really sacrifice to do this. So this is what we're talking about here. 2021 carbon tax again Elon Musk my top recommendation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a carbon tax and that sounds a lot like somebody else that we've covered before which is also in 2021 addressing climate change through carbon taxes who wrote that the World Economic Forum they're all about that as well

and let's take a moment here to look at one of the heads or the head of the World Economic Forum klaus schwab someone we've covered here for a very long time this is him in 2019 talking about another aspect of what he calls the fourth industrial revolution that society is now in. Take a listen. Okay. It changes not only what we are doing, it changes us. Because it's a fusion of our physical, digital, and biological spheres. It's an integration of those spheres. Just think of sensors planted into our brains. The opportunity is immense. Sensors planted into our brains, the opportunity is immense. Okay. All right. So nothing else has to be said there. Two years before that talk, we have Elon Musk in these headlines, humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age.

So just a few months ago, we had this headline, Elon Musk's Neurrelink wins FDA approval for human study of brain. implants. So this is where they basically cut out a piece of your skull. They replace it with a chip, a brain chip, if you will, and that's going to do a lot of things that they promise. Like the commentator said at the beginning here, it's going to cure autism. It's going to allow you to browse your web browser, whatever. So there's an issue with this, and one of the issues is the testing. This was one of the headlines that came out. Musk's Neurrelink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing. Now, here's some images.

These images were obtained by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. They're in a lawsuit this was discovery. These are images of monkeys used by Neurrelink and UC Davis, which was collaborating to test these neuralinks on these monkeys. Physicians Committee response to Neurolinks November 30th, 2020, show and tell. This is a press release they put out, and they said this. An ongoing Physicians Committee lawsuit against the University of California, Davis, which partnered with NeurLink, from 20,

2017 to 2020 has revealed hundreds of pages of documents that show the horrors of the company's work. Neurrelink employees drilled holes in recess macaques skulls and implanted devices that often broke or caused severe infections. They failed to follow their own protocol, which resulted in at least one monkey suffering from bleeding in her brain and such severe vomiting that she developed ulcers and her esophagus before she was killed. They go on to say monkeys suffered paralysis, seizures, and such poor psychological health that they pulled out their own hair. Ultimately, Neurrelink killed many of the monkeys used at UC Davis. Sounds like a product ready for warp speed to me.

Let's get that out to the people as quick as we can get it. Right. And you know, this isn't, again, NeurLink is not the only company to be trying this brain shift, these neurosensors, but they're very public about it. And obviously, there appears to be some issues with some of the testing, but this isn't specifically to the brain chip industry. We've seen this with Dr. Stanley Plotkin, as we've covered on this show before, the godfather of vaccines.

He admitted under oath that they tested on people under colonial rule, incarcerated people, people with disabilities. That's the modern day vaccination paradigm is resting upon that. So we're seeing kind of this is different as monkeys, but we're still seeing kind of these horrors going through. And now let's go to another video. Let's talk Elon Musk's rocket ships. This rocket launch happened, and it's important for a couple of reasons. And you can see here the countdown and off those ignitions and up and up and. into the air. The story here, researching this story, it really starts with an organization called

Incutel. And we're going to look at this headline. InQTel names Dr. Michael D. Griffin as president and chief operating officer. Incutel is the venture capital funding arm of the CIA. So it funds projects that further the CIA's objectives. That's what it's there for. Got it. So that brings us, now hold that space for a second. That brings us to a Bloomberg business this article titled Elon Musk Space Dream almost killed Tesla. So in this article, Elon Musk went to Russia with some friends and they wanted to buy a rocket, an ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile from Russia because they wanted to work. This was before SpaceX even started one year before they started. They wanted to understand how this technology

works, maybe try to bring this into what eventually was SpaceX. Well, they got shut down. So they went back a year later in 2002. Remember, 2002 is when Griffin takes hold of Incutal. So here we pick up the article. In February of 2002, the group returned to Russia, this time bringing Mike Griffin, who had worked for the CIA's venture capital arm Incutal, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and was just leaving orbital sciences, a maker of satellites and spacecraft. Musk was now looking for not one, but three missiles and had a briefcase full of cash, too.

All right. So the story, this byline story follows Michael Griffin. And from then, he goes into NASA in 2005. He's appointed NASA administrator. And that's the headline many NASA scientists encouraged by Griffin's appointments. Some people were excited about that. A year into his administratorship in NASA, he starts something that really NASA has never done. They opened up, They opened up the field for collaboration to commercial industry to get into orbit. So in 2006, they looked at what's called COTS, commercial orbital transportation services. So this guy goes from Incutal to NASA, and he puts this funding round together. And it says on May 5, 2006, the COTS round one finalists were selected.

NASA made the decision to select two companies in order to allow for competition, while at the same time being able to distribute sufficient funds of money to each partner for their development program. On August 18th, Space Act agreements were signed with SpaceX and rocket plane Kistler. The companies were awarded a total of $278 million and $207 million, respectively. So SpaceX now is funded by NASA with the help of this program who Michael Griffin is running NASA as administrator. He's running around with Elon Musk before this, right, taking trips to Russia. Now he's working at NASA, and who does he give them money to? You know what?

You know who's the front runner? The guy I've been running all over the world with looking for a rocket. Right. With suitcases full of money, interesting, I would challenge anybody to try to get out of, go to a different, fly to a different state with a suitcase full of like $1,000 and see how that works. Yeah. So we go now to August of 2022. Elon Musk has been launching rockets, SpaceX, I should say, has been launching rockets from 2009 up to present day. This headline in 2022, Team Mobile, SpaceX team up to beam 5G from space. So now we're talking some pretty serious stuff. And that's the thing. idea they're talking about it but in april of this year it becomes a reality space x launches world's first 5g satellite to bring global connectivity to the internet of things and just days ago that video we just watch of that launch this is why that's important here's the headline spacex launches 5 000 starlink satellite towards orbit and it says in the article 5 000 starlink satellites

is a lot to be sure but the number is likely to grow far into the future spacex has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink satellites and LEL that's low Earth orbit and it has applied for permission for about 30,000 more on top of that so and you can see these things up in the air when they launched these you can see them following a trail they're they're basically canvassing the globe with with satellites that were to believe from the headlines that are going to be beaming 5g down I'm not sure of any scientific studies that the safety of that but that that's what's happening and SpaceX has X has worked very closely in fact over five billion dollars from NASA from the US Navy and it's it's basically working with the Department of Defense as well

they bring payloads up there and classified payloads so we kind of don't really know exactly what's being put up there we know the satellites are but the final piece here is obviously Elon Musk is is very very smart when it comes to money so during the beginning of COVID, there was a race for a vaccine. Tesla jumped into that, and this was the headline on that one. It says Tesla becomes manufacturing partner for biotech firm KureVAC working on COVID-19 vaccine. These are these printers that they were trying to get out. It didn't actually take off like they wanted it to. But Elon Musk goes on April 2023 on Twitter and says this, this will make some people upset, he writes. But I need to emphasize that accelerating synthetic MRNA technology was another silver lining.

It is a revolution in medicine like going from analog to digital. The COVID-MRNA vaccine dosage level was too high, and having a zillion booster shots was idiotic, causing more harm than good, IMO. But I am convinced that synthetic MRNA is the surest path to curing cancer, among other things. So we have that piece in there for the COVID response. And during the COVID response, right at the beginning of 2020, we have Richard Horton.

He's the editor-in-chief of The Lancet. And he writes this. The article is called The Coming Tech-Nine. He says, as the response to the pandemic unfolded, it has become all too clear that the work of scientists, that the work of scientists has put a powerful constraint on political action. Presidents and prime ministers now fear to step outside the boundaries set by science. Technocracy is replacing democracy. Now, taking a moment really quick, technocracy is basically ruled by experts, ruled by scientists. And in that paradigm, as a thought exercise, Elon Musk would be a king in that paradigm.

If you really put that, his companies would be. I mean, look, you think about this. I mean, he's got, you know, you've got Incutel, which is a CIA-funded group, working with him. He's gotten funding for his electric car from the government that then passed his laws that you have to get electric car in order to live in the society. Like everything he's doing appears to be intertwined with CIA government. Now he's going to have more satellites in space than any, you know, big. businessman in the world. He just bought a communications company with Twitter and he's turning that into X. And now he's going to have more satellites literally running the internet of things,

which is that interconnect of every camera that follows us. All of these tracking systems, everything we're talking about, who owns it? Elon Musk. And so this brings us back to a study. Now we go way back to the beginning of the 1930s. The depression just happened in the United States. people were looking for another way to govern themselves. And there was an organization that came up called Technocracy Inc., technocracy Incorporated. And their idea was to have, it was a movement, an educational movement they called themselves.

But their idea was to have no borders, no countries, just one gigantic continental landmass called the Technate. And there's actually a map here from the 1940s. This is the Technate. It's basically a techno-utopia run by engineers and scientists, and experts and they wanted to organize the world economies on the basis of not money they didn't actually didn't want people to have like like jobs where they get paid money they wanted to organize these world economies on the basis of energy consumption where each person would receive a monthly energy

allotment kind of like a universal basic income everything would be priced in energy and that would be that would be what they had to use each month I want to just show the covers of these books because I think it's interesting when you look them look at this this is technogicals you one of the books they put out up on the top right, science built civilization, science must save civilization. I mean, we're talking about like automobile technology back then, construct the new America, right? I mean, this is what this thinking is,

remove the borders and let scientists run this new space, not politicians. Is that essentially the idea? Yeah, absolutely. And then they had a lot of other branching off ideas. But when you look at it, I mean, it's, there's a lot of similarities to what the the World Economic Forum is talking about. There's a lot of similarities between a lot of organizations. But we go back to this article, and this was in the CBC as Canada's

reporting, in science we trust, it says back in the first half of the 20th century, a group called technocracy incorporated wanted to reorganize society by putting scientists in charge. The movement flamed out, but its underlying message still appeals to many in Silicon Valley. Joshua Hedleman was a leader of technocracy incorporated in Canada from 1936 to 1941, but eventually became disillusioned with both the organization in the country and packed up his young family to start a new in South Africa. In June of 1971, Haddellman's daughter, Maeve, gave birth to his first grandson. His name is Elon Musk.

Wow. I mean, you just got to let that sink in for a second. I mean, just for, you know, and look, coincidence? Maybe, but look at this guy's coincidental life, right? Now it turns out his grandfather had a dream of a technocratic world where science runs the world. His grandson is somehow being given gigantic funding projects by our government, by the CIA, all of which are advancing this technical world that is giving him more and more power. And when you think about it, other than the pushback on Twitter, he has just been giving

a free ride everywhere he goes. Until he talks about censorship, which is a subplot in itself, until he starts to allow people to have free and open debate on one of the biggest social media platforms. So there's a lot, there's no clear ending to this, but there's a lot of intertwining stories, which I think people should find really interesting. That's amazing dive there, Jeffrey. And look, I want to point out we're not making any accusations here at all. All we're doing is laying out what I think we should all know, is we try.

try to figure out what we think of the people around us. As I said at the beginning of this show, know your enemy and know your friend. I mean, Elon Musk has been great. The Twitter files have allowed for some lawsuits that are really helping different organizations push back against the government. We'll see where that all goes.

And again, I'm always torn. I wanna believe that everyone is in this for the right reasons. I get this sense from Elon that he's trying to do what's right, but what does his right mean? What is his right compared to the rest of our rights? Does it involve nature at all? Am I going to have a choice when you keep pushing an MRNA vaccine technology and advancing these things? And when we're rushing science, imagine a world run by scientists that, as we've shown so far up until this point in the show, where science isn't actually being done, where everything that's forced upon you was tested on 175 people and 13 of them are now missing.

Right. Right. And, you know, looking at the history of technocracy incorporated, it kind of flamed out in the 70s. And at that time, it was the Vietnam War. It was there was an oil crisis. And so the people's faith in leadership was kind of hitting an all-time low. And the idea of giving more power to these really smart leaders, these scientists, people were like, no, we're done with this. So that is kind of where we're at right now in society. People do not want to give up more power. So the idea of at least a soft technocracy come. in and saying we will be the savior. I don't think people will buy this, but how something might that come in in another way? That's a conversation I think we have to have.