FTR#1383 The Joshua Haldeman File, Part 3

Intro­duc­tion: Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis of the ide­ol­o­gy of Joshua Halde­man, Elon Musk’s grand­fa­ther and a major ide­o­log­i­cal influ­ence on him and, appar­ent­ly, “Team Trump.”

An ide­o­log­i­cal fas­cist and anti-Semi­te, Halde­man decamped to South Africa and became a minor lumi­nary in the Apartheid gov­ern­ment, a direct off­shoot of the Ger­man Nazi Par­ty under Hitler.

Halde­man also became obsessed with find­ing an alleged lost city in the Kala­hari Desert that he felt beto­kened a “white civ­i­liza­tion” in South­ern Africa.

Key Points of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: Halde­man’s mem­ber­ship in the tech­no­fas­cist Tech­noc­ra­cy move­ment, sim­i­lar in many ways to the ide­olo­gies of Cur­tis Yarvin and Ben­i­to Mus­soli­ni; His mem­ber­ship in anoth­er neo-fas­cist polit­i­cal par­ty, the “Socre­ds;” Halde­man’s praise in an arti­cle in Die Trans­valer, a paper edit­ed by Hen­rik Voer­ster, a Broeder­bond mem­ber whose paper laud­ed the Third Reich; Halde­man’s shift­ing of blame for the Sharpsville mas­sacre to the “Inter­na­tion­al Financiers;” Halde­man’s book tar­get­ing manda­to­ry vac­cines and flu­o­ri­da­tion of the water as part of a vast “Inter­na­tion­al Con­spir­a­cy” against health; The sim­i­lar­i­ties between Halde­man’s ide­ol­o­gy and that of Brain­worm Bob­by (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.); Halde­man’s rec­om­mend­ed read­ing, which includes books by G.K. Chester­ton, the head of the Union of British Fas­cists, found­ed by Oswald Mose­ley, whose grand­son Louis heads up the UK branch of Apartheid cham­pi­on Peter Thiel’s Palan­tir firm.

FTR#1382 The Joshua Haldeman File, Part 2

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

We begin by not­ing the sur­re­al pol­i­tics of Anna Pauli­na Luna, pre­sid­ing over the “inquiry” into var­i­ous con­spir­a­to­r­i­al process­es. Ms. Luna: ” . . . . media to name the groups they claim are behind the protests that led to the vio­lence, and the mon­ey that backs them. They describe a web of con­nec­tions between the immi­grant rights and left­ist activists on the streets of LA with . . . the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty. . . .”

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. . . .”

Much of the pro­gram focus­es on Trump’s TMTG stream­ing fare. The plat­form is pre­sent­ing “Alien Lizard Con­spir­a­cy” films, pre­sent­ed as doc­u­men­taries. ” . . . . Less than two min­utes into the movie, the nar­ra­tor makes a shock­ing claim. ‘The evi­dence we are about to present to you has the poten­tial to rewrite thou­sands of years of human his­to­ry. It will present evi­dence that sug­gests ancient ser­pent or lizard-like aliens came to earth thou­sands of years ago,’ the nar­ra­tor says. ‘We’ll also present evi­dence that these ancient aliens are still among us today.’ . . .” 

Fur­ther­more” ” . . . . Jesus Christ and Bud­dha are aliens. . . .”

As will be seen Elon Musk’s influ­en­tial grand­fa­ther Joshua Halde­man’s polit­i­cal resume con­tains many items that appear to antic­i­pate much of what the Trump/Musk admin­is­tra­tion is pre­sent­ing.

This will be parsed in greater detail and at greater length in upcom­ing install­ments in the series.

FTR#1378 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 4

Intro­duc­tion: High­light­ing the rise of what many call “Tech­no-Fas­cism,” this broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of fas­cism in Manchuria and Japan under Nobusuke Kishi. Kishi’s “Manchuri­an lega­cy” is a dom­i­nant con­sid­er­a­tion in Korea and should be reflect­ed on against the back­ground of what is hap­pen­ing in both Korea and the U.S.

Sup­ple­ment­ing dis­cus­sion of Kishi, we detail analy­sis of anoth­er form of “Tech­no-Fas­cism,” root­ed in the Sil­i­con Val­ley and fea­tur­ing the ide­o­log­i­cal pre­cepts of Cur­tis Yarvin, aka “Men­scius Mold­bug.”

For all its appar­ent nov­el­ty, this ide­ol­o­gy is a high-tech ver­sion of Mus­solin­i’s Cor­po­rate State.

” . . . . Instead of advo­cat­ing for a con­sti­tu­tion­al repub­lic with min­i­mal gov­ern­ment, this new strain of thought push­es for a pri­vate, post-demo­c­ra­t­ic order, where those with the most resources and tech­no­log­i­cal con­trol dic­tate the rules. In this vision, pow­er doesn’t rest with the people—it belongs to the most com­pe­tent ‘exec­u­tives’ run­ning soci­ety like a CEO would run a com­pa­ny. . . .”

FTR#1377 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 3

Intro­duc­tion: The pro­gram begins with read­ing of two arti­cles dis­cussing the arrival of fas­cism in Amer­i­ca. The arti­cles are lim­it­ed in scope, how­ev­er, Mr. Emory feels a degree of sat­is­fac­tion to see the over­due recog­ni­tion of the true nature of the unfold­ing apoc­a­lypse.

From Hen­ry Giroux: “We live in per­ilous times. The mobi­liz­ing pas­sions of fas­cism are no longer a dis­tant echo of history—they are here, surg­ing through the Unit­ed States like an elec­tric cur­rent. We are in a peri­od of social, ide­o­log­i­cal, and racial cleans­ing. . . . Amer­i­cans are not wit­ness­ing a slow drift toward author­i­tar­i­an­ism. They are liv­ing through the vio­lent, coor­di­nat­ed seizure of demo­c­ra­t­ic life by fas­cist forces embold­ened by indif­fer­ence,  cru­el­ty, and the archi­tec­ture of unac­count­able pow­er. . . .”

Fol­low­ing that read­ing, Mr. Emory presents an infor­ma­tive inter­view by Amy Good­man of a Guardian jour­nal­ist who details the fas­cist forces shap­ing both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

The influ­ence of Elon Musk’s grand­fa­ther on the devel­op­ment of tech­no­crat­ic fas­cism is a top­ic that will be explored in future pro­grams.