I began to realise a decade ago that celebrities have carefully reimagined back stories, which combine certain essential elements designed to improve relatability and cultivate a sense among the public that, “That could be me!” The same is true of billionaires, the new class of hybrid celebrity-politician. The essential elements are:
Rags to riches
Twist of fate
Hope over tragedy.
I am thus highly skeptical when someone like Musk pops on the scene and seems to have unbelievable power, and I ask, “What do we really know about him?” Similar to Bill Gates, do we have any objective evidence that these people have any intelligence or skills. Gates never completed his degree, although I wouldn’t put an enormous amount of weight on that, but at the same time he didn’t even clear that bar. Musk attended the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), where he completed studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and then achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School. Although Musk claims he earned the degrees in 1995, UPenn maintains it awarded them in 1997. Just one of a string of anomalies.
Are we really to believe that ONE man is the brains or intellectual inspiration behind half a dozen of the most disruptive, human society destroying technological development corporations from Neurolink, to Space X, Tesla, the smart homes, CureVac vaccine technology, Open AI and boring technology for new hadron colliders at CERN. And at the same time, this ‘genius’ has time to devote to Twitter Blue Ticks, sleeping in twitter HQ (surely the least of his priorities), tweeting, appearing on the Jo Rogan show or humouring limp-minded pseudo journalists from the BBC. No, that’s not logical.
How can one man have the authority to be putting thousands of satellites into space, ostensibly for the internet of things and total control of minds and even souls globally. I remember hearing back in 2017, that Musk had had more cash in government grants that the total of Donald Trump’s net worth. Are we to believe he’d be allocated that money if he wasn’t a totally reliable gofer?
He is from the 2008 class of WEF young leaders.
Let’s look at some quotes from Elon:
“As a reminder I’m in ‘favor’ of Universal Basic Income”
“It’s high time there was a carbon tax”
“Creating a neural lace is the thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines.”
“To be clear, I do support vaccines in general and the COVID vaccines specifically. The science is unequivocal.”
Let’s look at his past, this is what Elon says about his father, “Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done,” Elon said. “Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done … It’s so terrible, you can’t believe it.” Very interesting, the mind boggles, his father sounds like the ideal candidate for a position in the psychopathic, sadistic world elite class.
“We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe,” Errol said, explaining that one person would hold the money down while a second would slam the safe door shut. “And then there’d still be all these notes sticking out and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.” Couldn’t he afford a second safe?
Errol claims to have had a 50% share in an emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika, and he claims his sons were involved in the family business, and recalled that Elon and his brother Kimbal sold a few of the emeralds from his mine to Tiffany & Co. in New York City. Seriously, I’m pretty dam sure that’s not how it works. “They just walked into Tiffany’s and said, ‘Do you want to buy some emeralds?’ ” he boasted.
However, according to Elon, “He didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt,” (tweeted in December 2019). Elon also refuted reports that his father invested in his first company.
So where’s the truth?
In another bizarre twist a science-fiction writer, Wernher von Braun, created the character “Elon” in his 1952 sci-fi novel “Project Mars” — a space fantasy about a mission to Mars. After the Second World War, Von Braun, an aerospace engineer who worked on rockets for the Nazis, was among a group of German scientists who was secretly moved to the US under Operation Paperclip, and worked at NASA.
Von Braun, one of the most important scientists in the development of rocket technology, describes a Martian government led by ten men, who worked under a leader “elected by universal suffrage for five years under the name or title of Elon.” Elon’s made no odds about his desire to get to Mars, possibly in 2024.
Elon’s maternal grandfather, Dr. Joshua Norman Haldeman, from Canada, was former director of Technocracy Incorporated. The technocracy movement proposed replacing partisan politicians and business people with scientists and engineers who had the technical expertise to manage the economy. Doesn’t that sound familiar? Like grandfather like grandson, AI control.
Another strange thing I noticed. This Dr Joshua Haldeman, he’s from Canada and was a chiropractor. He was also an adventurer and pilot. Errol Musk, Elon’s father is also an adventurer and pilot and his grandmother was also a Canadian chiropractor.
“In a rare interview with Forbes, Errol revealed that his parents were the first to ever fly from South Africa to Australia in a single-engine airplane. His grandmother broke barriers of her own, becoming the first-ever chiropractor in Canada.”
If you search online you will find that Maye Musk (Elon’s mother) claims it’s HER parents that were the first to fly across the Indian Ocean from SA to Australia. I can find no reference to this trip independent of what the Musk’s say.
So both sets of grandparents are linked to Canada, chiropractic, flying and adventuring. They say that Maye met Errol at high school, but it seems to me their parents must have known eachother before, given such overlapping interests. One outlandish idea: are Maye and Errol siblings?
His mother Maye Haldeman claims to have been a finalist in the 1969 Miss South Africa contest. I’d like to know what ‘finalist’ means because the finalists that year were : Jackie Sayer, Diana Newman and winner Linda Meryl Collett.
Errol claims that he once shot and killed a group of burglars at his home in Johannesburg, though he says he was cleared of all charges because he acted in self-defense, although depending on the date this occurred, I would not accept his story at face value. Once again we have a high profile South African either shooting someone or experiencing gun crime just as Charlize Theron (mother shoots father in self defense), Trevor Noah (father shoots mother) and Oscar Pistorious (shoots girlfriend). Gun crime is bad, but this seems an extraordinary coincidence.
Having grown up in South Africa and being younger than Musk but the same age as Theron, I never heard of these shootings in the news (obviously not including Oscar Pistorious here) and I never heard of the famous and adventurous, emerald mine owning Musk family. Musk attended Bryanston High for a short period when my aunt taught science and maths there. My family was fairly prominent in South Africa and yet I don’t recall the ‘Musk’ family, but that’s certainly not conclusive, it’s anecdotal.
As far as Musk’s career, is he really an eccentric heavyweight genius or a made for TV mock up. He claims he had 100k of student debt but he received a full scholarship to UPen, and purchased a 10 bedroom frat house with a friend, from which he ran an illegal night club. According to one source, he was accepted into a Stanford University post grad course, but he only lasted two days. What happened to Wharton’s Business School in this scenario?
His first venture was a digital yellow pages called Zip, which he started with his brother, thanks to tens of thousands from his father, which he later denied getting. His father also helped recruit other investors. However, the code Elon wrote was useless and had to be rewritten by experts. Zip was sold to Compac for 307 million dollars, but they later shut that project down without even recouping any profit.
His next project was an online bank called X.com with Harris Fricker, Edward Ho, Chris Payne, but they left saying that Elon was lying to the media about the quality of the project. It was a nasty bust-up.
He claims he started PayPal. However PayPal was initially called Confinity and was started by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin in 1998. Confinity purchased X.com which was losing millions. Musk muscled his way in, but added nothing, other than making himself CEO. He wanted the name changed to X.com. However Thiel and the executive team fired him when he was on holiday, but part of his resignation agreement was that the names of the founders would be erased from the website so he could claim he was a founder.
Peter Thiel changed the name to PayPal, went public and then sold to eBay making 1.5 billion of which Musk got a cut.
Musk then purchased Tesla, Solar City (which failed) and Space X. Tesla was actually founded by Mark Tarpenning and Mike Eberhard in 2003, who designed the Tesla roadster. They wanted venture capital from Musk, who had a fake reputation from PayPal, but part of the agreement was that he be named chairman of the board. Musk wanted credit and was upset when the press disregarded him. He forced Eberhard out the company, after which he wrote himself into the history of Tesla as a co founder. Eberhard was promised the very first Tesla off the assembly line, but guess what, that’s the one Elon sent into space.
Of course there’s more salacious details about his ex, his wife, Satanism and so forth, but I wanted to bring you some substantial information and the result of my own research too.
So, what do we really know about Elon?
How much of his past is a work of fiction?
Is he simply to Tesla and Space X what Liz Hurley was to Estée Lauder?
The pentagon cannot account for trillions of dollars and yet we know these often end up in DARPA. However, DARPA needs an ego to ride into the public eye with their technology. They need exciting geniuses or awkward nerds to front up.
You decide. I certainly wouldn’t trust him.
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