By Jo Nova
There are a million pointless ways the Deep State Machine can tie down opponents.
Elon Musk is having fun sharing his stories of Bureaucratic Entanglement, as petty officials demand he protect sharks, whales and seals in every launch.
Tomorrow, I will tell the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset https://t.co/e8VsQpTOOa
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2024
Bureaucrats are not even pretending to serve the people anymore, they just serve themselves
The Lordships at the Californian Coastal Commission have admitted they are disallowing extra Space X launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base because they don’t like Elon’s tweets. And they even said so out loud. It’s so third-world.
Commissioner Gretchen Newsom apparently has a theory that stopping rocket launches will protect the people of California from hearing opinions she doesn’t want them to hear. She has appointed herself decider of your vote.
“Right now Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” said Newsom, who has no relation to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom claimed Musk harbored an anti-California agenda, saying the CEO had enjoyed billions of dollars in state subsidies while threatening to relocate his companies to Texas due to “bigoted beliefs against California’s safeguards and protections over our transgender community.” — Wall Street Journal
In other words, it was just a form of extortion. She was hoping she could exploit her public role to force Musk to endorse the politicians and causes she personally preferred. Unfortunately for her, Musk is suing them all instead. He claims he has a right to free speech…
So at this point, despite being the richest man in the world, Elon Musk knows the people in control of the Army, the Spies, and the six trillion dollar budget could take it all away from him in a blink. Which is why he is all in with Trump, and if a few million dollars here or there might shift the outcome, it’s nothing.
In his latest volley back against the Machine, Musk wants people in swing states to sign a petition to protect the First and Second Amendments. In the world we thought we lived in, he would have spent millions on the mainstream media for advertising. Since the media are the enemy, to get attention, he’s decided to pick one lucky person each day who signed the petition, and give a million dollars to them instead. Fans of Kamala are crying foul, as though he is “buying votes” but since the petition is endorsing the First and Second Amendment, Democrats can sign the petition too, and (in theory) the Democrats support the Constitution. Yes? And if the Democrats don’t, then now would be a good time for American voters to find that out.
It’s so much better than feeding the Machine.
I know I keep going on about that Pandemic thing.
But seems to me that during Pandemic, governments crossed over from being simply annoyingly bureaucratic with smatterings of corruption …
to being outright vindictive and openly and fully corrupt.
As I’ve said before, notice how they make no effort to rebuild public trust, but instead are working insidiously to silence and even outlaw criticism.
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One major purpose of the Plandemic, especially in the fanatically woke UN and WEF following countries like Australia was to introduce laws, never to be repealed (because unlike many US laws, most Australian laws don’t usually have a sunset clause) that further removed what few rights we have.
Australia is fully compliant with the UN and WEF Agenda with numerous politicians and senior public serpents (who tell politicians what to think) loyal to the UN, WEF and China but not Australia.
E.g.
-World’s strictest Plandemic lockups + compulsory vaccination if you wanted to work, travel, shop or socialise.
-Fanatical commitment to wind, solar and Big Batteries despite their obvious harm to the economy and people.
-World’s most expensive real estate when it used to be among the cheapest and most affordable.
-Commitment to 15 Minute Cities, rebranded as 20 Minute Neighbourhoods.
-Wars on many fronts against private motorists.
-Wars against farmers and promotion of insect eating with kids in at least 1000 Australian “schools” being offered insects to eat.
-Ongoing wars against law abiding firearm owners.
-Continued mass importation of some of the world’s most violent, uneducated and anti-Western people.
There are many more examples. Australia shoukd be a warning to others.
Etc..
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If Covid keeps on going, very soon there’ll only be 99.9999% of us left!
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An honest administration would freeze road fuel tax at (say) 40% of $1.75 per litre. Govt revenue would be fixed at 70¢/lit irrespective of the floating international oil price. As it is we see small changes in oil price which are accentuated by the Govt milking us. I don’t think Govternments understand how marginal many businesses are and random increases in transport costs are a significant factor.
They bleat about “cost of living pressures” but fail to do anything meaningful about it.
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Here’s a 30 minute interview with a US congressman, Kevin Kiley (surprisingly, a Republican from California) who also sees the California Coastal Commission as maliciously obstructive.
https://youtu.be/R2iiD2LqwB8?si=nLN4RfnWy8hxTN72
here’s another 15 minute video from the same person which focusses more on the FAA being difficult.
https://youtu.be/RA7DLwZtYtA?si=H7ong7oMOmsM8-O2
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A great outline of what’s going on in the USA and it’s not pleasant reading.
The Australian version would describe the Great Big Barrier Reef Foundation “thingy” which saw AUD $444 Million (equivalent to more than seven tons of gold bullion) “allocated” to the “committee” before the Snowy Hydro Two Ultimate Insult of more recent times.
How does this sort of behavior continue, it’s unbelievable.
I’m tempted to apply for a University grant to study the effect of Purple People Eaters on 1950s music.
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I worked it out at less than 4 tonnes of gold.
7 is such an overstatement.
The government would never waste 7 tonnes of gold.
/s for those too thick to care.
And the rest of us get…… nothing/shafted.
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“4 tonnes of gold”
The price of gold has gone up a lot since I did the initial calculation.
🙂
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On Their ABC (Australia) (taxpayer funded far Left multimedia propaganda organisation, A$1.2 billion dollar budget), they said Musk is using his wealth to “influence the US election”, which of course is his Right.
And yet they never say this about the Hollyweirdos, the Lamestream Media, woke corporations, Farcebook who spent US$350 million on the last US Presidential “election”, socialist media and search engine shadow banning, censorship, deplatforming, Government lawfare and lobby group lawfare against members of the Thinking Community etc..
As usual, the hypocrisy of the Left is staggering.
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Yes.
That actually had me laughing out loud. Of course the lefties hate it – using billionaires’ money to buy votes is their schtick.
I really dislike EV’s (hopelessly expensive, impractical and dangerous for longer journeys) but freely admit Musk is absolutely outstanding. An organizational genius with a real dash of John Cleese-type humour.
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I think Elon knows he only sells EVs to rich, virtue signaling Leftists who also secretly keep an ICE vehicle or hybrid vehicle for long trips.
And good on him for identifying a market for his products for the woke and stupid, but rich, Left. At least he’s not taking money from the “Deplorables” as the American Left refer to ordinary working people.
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I’ve noticed a large proportion of Amazon delivery drivers show up driving a Tesla … and presumably that’s their own car, not the company car.
Being a delivery driver doesn’t sound like it’s the sort of job that would put you on the top 100 rich list, does it?
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Amazon has a “zero carbon” (sic) policy so perhaps drivers are required to use them. I doubt an EV is competitive with an ICE or hybrid vehicle for commercial deliveries, especially for a minimum wage driver.
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And zero carbon means they run on coal and generate more CO2 with less range than a hybrid. It’s all a scam. There is no such thing as zero carbon (dioxide).
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Musk’s rockets will harm whales, sharks and seals but monstrous proposed California offshore wind subsidy plantations will not?
As usual, the hypocrisy of the Left is staggering.
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“Musk’s rockets will harm whales, sharks and seals but …the American military…. will not?”
All those rockets into the sea, all the semi-depleted uranium ammunition, the atomic bomb tests, the largest user of petrol in the world… but no effect on the environment at all?
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The Left are always racist against successful African Americans like Elon Musk. They prefer them to remain as welfare-dependent Democrat-voting slaves.
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The “Deep State” is endemic and ‘woking’ to WEF riding instructions world wide! In the process killing off initiative and choice populations once believed to be ours by rite.
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Today the lunatics are definitely running the Asylum and I hope Musk wins against these loonies and moves to Texas ASAP.
How do you run a business in 2024 against govts who really hate you?
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While it’s great freedom-loving anti-woke people are moving to relatively free states Like Texas, unfortunately California is too dysfunctional even for many Leftists so many Leftists are also moving there and taking the poisonous ant-American, socialist and anti-western ideas with them. Many Texans are concerned about this.
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“I hope Musk wins against these loonies and moves to Texas ASAP.”
Well, why stop at Texas? NZ has a fledgling rocket industry and Australia wants to start one… Oh wait, we’d be just as bad! Looks like the Baikonur Cosmodrome would be the most trouble-free for him.
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Australia once had one, back in the day and was one of the first countries to launch its own satellite, on a surplus US Army rocket.
I wrote an article about it.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2017/October/WRESAT%3A+Australia%E2%80%99s+first+satellite+%E2%80%93+50+years+ago%21
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The program ended because the Government Minister responsible said there was no future in space.
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Was that the Minister for climate change? There’s too much space in his head!
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Monday morning nitpick, or, How I Leaned 2 Stop Wurryn & Luv Murican Spaling –
“requiring @SpaceX to asses”
Colin Wright is so wrong… I’m fairly certain Elon doesn’t swing that way, which could be why Gretchen the witch is shrieking. Are we antipodeans allowed to ‘sign up’ to go into the US$1 million lucky dip?
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The seal: “Yeah, the sonic boom sounds are boring but at least it’s better tham modern music”
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Climate Change/Green/Clean Energy are all driven by government employees and politicians. They are not driven by facts. Governments now feel they can control the population. What they think, where they live, how they live, what they say, what fuel they use, who they elect. And they use the people’s money to do it. Canberra and Washington DC are 98% Labor/Democrat driven. As are the universities.
In the 19/20th century, all the health issues were handled by Churches as the previous thousand years. Slowly governments are taking over all health, education, food choices, transport choices, education choices, health choices and even passing laws about how people speak to each other. Hate speech can be anything at all.
Like the lawsuits against Donald Trump, this is massive overreach and bordering on criminal, in conflict with the first and second amendments. No one truly believes the whales and sharks are at risk. Environmentalism like all Green issues are just an excuse to control people and every aspect of their lives. The pandemic allowed would be dictators to flex their muscles. And the unelected dictators in their thousands are in the public service and large corporations.
That is NOT the job of government.
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It’s a global competition for the “stoopid of the year” award. If some chooks walked from Lebanon to Calais and stowed away on a boat to Dover would they be paperwork exempt and put up in a guest house and given free food or would they have to be registered along with all the millions of other birds in the UK. I wonder if the Royal Pheasants in Scotland have to be registered. Maybe they should identify as gender fluid and gain exemption under Scotland’s new “it’s not fair” laws.
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Gender is just another lever for interfering with people’s lives. They are taxing the air. Soon they will be taxing everything we do. And controlling everything we say. Which is great because criticising the people who control us will be made an offence, punishable by prison. While real criminals are let out on compassionate grounds.
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Go Musk.
I’ve just endured a month with 18 days of internet outages which means no Wi-fi mobile phone access at home as I live outside the Au national telco network (Telstra). There was no warning from Telstra and my wife’s catering business and my work suffered $ losses. After the frustrating time-waster Telstra Roundabouts fiasco, I discovered that my neighbour has Starllink. She does accomodation and weddings so needs reliable access and kindly let a few locals come over to use her link.
Telstra even tried to tell me it was my old MODEM. They get billions p.a. for agreed services but fail to honour their end of the deal and now want me to pay the invoice for their lack of service.
At $1700 p.a. Starlink is looking quite reasonable.
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Ivor Cummins interviewed on Peak Prosperity. Cummins is an engineer, who has been on a long time crusade against the low fat high carb mindset. The pandemic really got his juices going, when it was quickly obvious that most people would not be affected. So now he has collated a very straight forward diagram, showing how all the present battle fronts are connected, and lead to the ultimate goal, Utopia. The diagram is at 0.12.35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOclgRlIw8U&t=690s
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Exactly. And under it a notice to get the lastest COVID vaccine information from the Department of Health. How much has the Wuhan flu funded and motivated the public service/politicians to interfere in our lives? Exactly like the mandated notices under skeptic videos rejecting man made CO2 driven Global Warming which claim that the UN declares Man Made Global Warming to be real. It is not yet outright censorship. It is yelling at anyone who dares present the other side.
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Here we are in 2024, days out from the most significant election in the modern history of western civilisation, with Trump now resembling a John Wick character with a global contract on his head and Musk resembling Tony Stark fighting off the evil megalomaniacs in a Marvel flick. November 5th has never been so important for freedom and democracy.
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At 20.30 they bring up the idea that the reason censorship and hate speech laws, are being rushed in, is THEY are worried, that if 20% of the popn pick up on what is going on, they are in for trouble, as they aren’t ready to unleash the jackboots yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOclgRlIw8U&t=690s
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