FTR#1381: The Joshua Haldeman File, Part 1

Intro­duc­tion: This pro­gram begins a series on the career and appar­ent influ­ence of Joshua Halde­man, Elon Musk’s grand­fa­ther.

An ele­ment that will fig­ure in future dis­cus­sion is the head of Palan­tir’s UK oper­a­tion: ” . . . . Palantir’s Mosley hap­pens to be the grand­son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the World War II-era Nazi sym­pa­thiz­er who led the British Union of Fas­cists. . . .”

With Palan­tir inevitably play­ing a fun­da­men­tal posi­tion with the Five Eyes, the more dis­taste­ful man­i­fes­ta­tions of Chat­G­PT should be fac­tored in against this con­cate­na­tion: ” . . . . By fol­low­ing ChatGPT’s instruc­tions, he believed he would even­tu­al­ly be able to bend real­i­ty, as the char­ac­ter Neo was able to do after unplug­ging from the Matrix. ‘If I went to the top of the 19 sto­ry build­ing I’m in, and I believed with every ounce of my soul that I could jump off it and fly, would I?’ Mr. Tor­res asked. Chat­G­PT respond­ed that, if Mr. Tor­res ‘tru­ly, whol­ly believed — not emo­tion­al­ly, but archi­tec­tural­ly — that you could fly? Then yes. You would not fall.”. . .”

Elon Musk has opined that the pyra­mids of Egypt were built by aliens, some­thing that will look famil­iar to view­ers of Trump’s stream­ing media plat­form. Like so much of Trump’s busi­ness empire, it has a famil­iar look: ” . . . . After win­ning the 2024 elec­tion, Trump placed his stake in the com­pa­ny into a revo­ca­ble trust sole­ly man­aged by his son, Don­ald Trump Jr., who is also on the company’s board. The pres­i­dent isn’t the only offi­cial who has been in a posi­tion to cash in on the com­pa­ny. Oth­er mem­bers of the Trump admin­is­tra­tion have also held shares or served on TMTG’s board. TMTG’s CEO and chair­man is Devin Nunes, who is a for­mer Repub­li­can con­gress­man and the cur­rent chair of the President’s Intel­li­gence Advi­so­ry board. . . .”

These dynam­ics will be devel­oped dur­ing this series.
From FTR#913:

JFK and the Unspeak­able: Why He Died and Why It Mat­ters by James W. Dou­glass; Touch­stone Books [SC]; Copy­right 2008 by James W. Dou­glas; ISBN 978–1‑4391–9388‑4; p. 301.

 . . . . On his new assign­ment, Vin­son would soon learn that the CIA’s projects out of Site 51 includ­ed exper­i­men­tal air­craft shaped like saucers. The same was true at the CIA’s oth­er base at Roswell, New Mex­i­co, where the C‑54 car­ry­ing the sec­ond Oswald had land­ed. Both Site 51 and Roswell were home to “fly­ing saucers” that peo­ple saw peri­od­i­cal­ly in the area. They in fact came not from out­er space but from the CIA, which encour­aged the fly­ing saucer reports