Putin hates Musk and sends assassins to other countries including Germany: Teslas do not burn Russian oil SpaceX has made Russian rockets a joke StarLink kills Russians in Ukraine Grid batteries make wind and solar more reliable and cheaper than Russian natural gas and coal Twitter/X is not a Russian propaganda channel Musk earned 100s of billions of dollars making products people want Musk is taller than Putin Bob Wilson
Elon sided with Putin by preventing Ukraine from using Starlink to guide weapons to Russian-held parts of Ukraine.
The Pentagon signed a contract with StarLink that solved that problem. The deep drone strikes by Ukraine on Russia are the evidence. . . . Time for well earned 'payback'. Bob Wilson
You're over selling it Bob. Frankly, I don't know what he believes. However, he will say just about anything if it gets him attention.
The Putin false-environmentalist flag operation is my speculation. It is based on Putin's reputation and who hurting Giga-Berlin makes most sense. But you're right that Elon probably has a different hypothesis. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/musk-visits-german-tesla-gigafactory-after-suspected-arson-attack.html Left-wing extremist group Vulkangruppe claimed responsibility for the attack in a letter posted online, criticizing Tesla’s environmental competencies. Regional authorities are still investigating the case. Source_2: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/musk-visits-german-tesla-gigafactory-after-suspected-arson-attack.html A far-left organization calling itself the Volcano Group said it was behind the fire, accusing Tesla of “extreme exploitation conditions” and calling for the “complete destruction of the gigafactory.” The German federal prosecutor’s office took over the investigation, citing an initial suspicion that a terrorist organization may have been involved in the attack. . . . Asked by reporters from a distance whether he was still planning to expand the Tesla factory in Berlin, Musk answered, “absolutely.” Source_3: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/6/24092178/german-tesla-gigafactory-fire-arson-far-left-volcano-vulkan-group The group, which calls itself “Vulkangruppe Tesla Abschalten” (also known as “Vulcan Group” or “Volcano Group”), said in a statement posted to Kontrapolis.info that it aimed to cause “the largest possible blackout of the Gigafactory,” citing environmental and labor concerns as motivations behind the attack. (Google Translate was used to translate the letter from German to English. All quotes in this article are from that translation.) Bob Wilson
I hit a 10,000 character limit. So here is their statement in two parts: Source: https://kontrapolis.info/12465/ (Google Translated) I've inserted paragraph breaks to make it more readable. Shut down the Tesla volcano group! : Stop on power supply We sabotaged Tesla today. Because Tesla in Grünau eats up earth, resources, people, labor and spits out 6,000 SUVs, killer machines and monster trucks per week. Our gift for March 8th is to shut down Tesla. Because the complete destruction of the Gigafactory and with it the sawing off of “technofascists” like Elend Musk are a step on the path to liberation from patriarchy. The Gigafactory has become known for its extreme conditions of exploitation. The factory contaminates the groundwater and uses huge amounts of the already scarce drinking water resource for its products. Without any scruples, the state of Brandenburg-Berlin is being cut off for Tesla. The critics in the waterworks, the residents, the eco-activists are silenced. Numbers are embellished. Laws bent. deceived people. A large part of the population around Grünheide rejects the Gigafactory because of water theft and gentrification. The protest and resistance are still unbroken. And it grows, because there are more than one reason. In addition to the dirty battery factory, Tesla now wants to expand its factory site by another 100 hectares, including for a freight station. An expansion of the storage and logistics areas directly at the factory (including the possibility of intensive rail logistics) should help stabilize supply chains and production. This is currently being affected because deliveries from the forced labor camps in China cannot take the direct route through the Red Sea. The Brandenburg Ministry of Economics is eating out of Tesla's hands, despite many reasons for refusing any approval. The only important thing is that Brandenburg is a thriving business location. Tesla is a symbol of “green capitalism” and a totalitarian technological attack on society. The myth of green growth is just a dirty ideological magic trick to close ranks against criticism domestically. One suggests a way out of the climate catastrophe. But “green capitalism” stands for colonialism, land grabbing and an exacerbation of the climate crisis! The lithium batteries come from toxic mines in Chile and devour other rare metals, causing misery and destruction for the people in the mining areas. The battery factory in Grünheide near Berlin requires the rare raw material lithium, which is also mined in Bolivia, for example. To enforce lithium mining in Bolivia, Musk puts his cards on the table: “We will stage a coup if we want,” commenting on the indigenous resistance to mining. Mineral resources are being ripped from the earth under brutal conditions. The “green deal” is just the expansion of economic growth without limits. In Portugal, too, the rural population is resisting the forced mining of lithium. Just as the earth is used and violated every day, Tesla does the same with people. And lets forced laborers all over the world, such as Uyghur people in China, work for themselves (like VW does), which the racist Chinese regime serves the company for its production. Even in Grünheide, the working conditions are considered catastrophic. Just recently, a works council member of IG Metall in Grünheide was dismissed. Despite a yellow works council installed by Tesla, the conditions in the factory are leaked to the outside world. In order to improve accident statistics, people are taken to the hospital by taxi instead of an emergency call and ambulance. Internal opponents will be terminated and if they defend themselves legally, they will be forced into a legal settlement. The compensation then serves as a muzzle, for example by threatening contractual penalties to stifle public discussion of racist dismissal. The sacked person has to keep his mouth shut for the money - that's the calculation. The totalitarian technological attack then looks like this. A Tesla vehicle is a surveillance device in public spaces. It is equipped with high-resolution cameras from Samsung all around. Samsung is a company that is a leader in weapons technology, among other things. According to the manufacturer, the cameras record up to 250 meters. In “guard mode” they film everything around the vehicle and guarantee that the driver is monitored even while driving. The driver is already a free, integral part of the Telsa universe and a guinea pig. The artificial intelligence will register every movement and every mistake of the driver and monetize it in order to train the autonomous driving software with the data. Tesla is militarizing the streets. His moving tanks are weapons of war. The car as a weapon. The street the battlefield. Tesla has now released 856 hp instead of 9mm: “If you get into a fight with other cars, you will win,” says Elend Musk. A Tesla is a status symbol, statement and propaganda at the same time: for contempt for humanity, limitless destruction through “progress” and an imperial, patriarchal way of life. Anyone who buys an SUV is most likely a supporter of an imperial way of life who wants to benefit from the madness until the bitter end. A scrapped Tesla shouldn't be missing from every activist's secret poetry album. No Tesla in the world should be safe from our flaming rage. Every Tesla that burns sabotages the imperial way of life and effectively destroys the ever-tightening network of seamless, smart surveillance of every expression of human life. Armies use Tesla's Starlink satellite system in their wars. Like in Ukraine. Russia's army also accesses Starlink satellite terminals from third countries to carry out attacks. Israel also uses the Starlink satellite system for murder in Gaza. Tesla's Starlink infrastructure is a military actor. Rolled up like a pearl necklace made of garbage, they plow through the sky to make the surveillance total. Let's talk about a man who will turn to dust even if he would rather be immortal: Elend Musk. For men like him, the swear word that could accurately describe their arrogance, contempt for humanity and anti-social greed for power and recognition has not yet been invented. He makes no secret of his chauvinism. His propaganda platform X is the means to an end. Here he gathers supporters of an imperial way of life. This is where the anti-Semites, anti-feminists, authoritarians, chauvinists, fascists and supporters of hatred against “foreigners” make sure. Here they organize themselves with their elitist view of the world and as masters. Here the Aryans of the AfD meet their peers. When Elend Musk cheers the anti-feminist and neoliberal president of Argentina on X, it is because men are forming an alliance. There is no shyness in this regard, they have decided to stand on the side of deadly masculinism and leave a trail of blood behind them, like a man-eating monster. Elend Musk is the new type of neoliberal and patriarchal, neo-colonial predatory capitalist of this century who uses different means than the exploiters before him in the last century. It is an invasive zeitgeist that uses the self-manufactured economic crises of exploitation to attack the next destruction. He is only following in the prepared brown footsteps of other patriarchal pioneers. The “car manufacturer” Henry Ford was already an admirer of the Nazis with their “Volkswagen” and their efficient organization of industry. The factory in Wolfsburg was operated on the backs of forced laborers. Every German should be able to get a Volkswagen so that they can either drive a car or a tank on the new highway. Ford, inspired by the efficiency of German work organization, transferred the ideas to his empire in the USA. The attack on the workers and the economization of exploitation also became known as “Fordism”. This included work organization and assembly line work – mass production with simultaneous mass consumption of cars. The model, also known as Taylorism, was also a class struggle from above. Elend Musk combines the invasive technological possibilities of our time with his mysogynistic worldview, patriarchal extremism and the totalitarian attitude typical of his caste. As a “car manufacturer” he stands as a revenant in historical tradition. In keeping with the times, he acts as a “technofascist”. . . . Bob Wilson
Part two: Source: https://kontrapolis.info/12465/ (Google Translated) I've inserted paragraph breaks to make it more readable. . . . Instead of scrapping the car on the rubbish heap of history and expanding free public transport, only the drive technology is replaced, from the combustion engine to the electric motor, in order to save individual transport. The imperial way of life is economically more lucrative. The positions of power allow patriarchal “visionaries” like Elend Musk to experiment in the most horrific sense with the most “advanced” forms of exploitation and with the available “human” resource. To conquer new realms and advance without being asked and to penetrate the earth. In space, in the skies, in public spaces, in our heads - the rapist leaves nothing untouched. The neurotechnology company Neuralink aims to connect human brains with machines. Animals are used to test how streams of thought can be read. Just like SpaceX and Tesla, Neuralink also aims for a long-term perspective in which people have different values. In which some are entitled to a better life within the ecological catastrophe that is already present. Even if you're not on The positions of power allow a permanent encroachment, an invasive relationship towards all life that can only be stopped through decisive resistance. The “technological progress” of the epochs offers them, the “techno-fascists”, a tool of possibilities with which the exploitation and indescribable destruction of the planet is still increased. Because of their power, this type can sometimes act like a head of state without having been elected. Who has the necessary means of production and the resource “people” to make political decisions. This type can buy heads of state or bring parties to power, even if their name is Hitler. This type is the mastermind behind the supposed decision-makers of governments. He can impose conditions on the states or reduce heads of state to supplicants. The patriarchal system spits out tons of people like that, they strive for the top because that corresponds to the patriarchal model. They coup when things don't go as planned. They are interchangeable. Only their power gives them these opportunities - without power they are just pompous, ridiculous egomaniacs. They have been driving millions of people to death for centuries; they are destroying nature as if it belonged to them. If we don't destroy the system that creates such egomaniacs, new ones of their kind will appear. So it's not (just) about misery Musk - but about an imperial way of life - that these men are forcing on us. It's about a showdown between the imperial way of life versus freedom for all people. This type of person and their economic concept represents a minority on this planet who consider this imperial way of life to be the only correct one. What is new is that the tipping points that show us the finite nature of this destructive way of life have often been passed. Other tipping points are approaching at breathtaking speed. Year after year, month after month, day after day. (If all else fails, Elend Musk would flee with a handful of slaves and his ilk from the consequences of his imperial life form and insult Mars with his presence. But our strong extraplanetary allies are already waiting for him; solar storms would crash his rocket, like that They've done this before with 30% of their satellites in space. So we'll win.) Many people still consider this way of life and the supposed wealth associated with it to be natural and desirable. Mistaken and misguided, many people confuse possessions and material wealth with freedom and happiness. Ignorance, manipulation and fear shape generations of many people. We are reduced to work and consumption and degraded to an imperial way of life. This material wealth at the expense of other people is an indictment of “civilization”. This way of life does not make those who benefit from it happy either. The alternatives are made invisible or destroyed as they emerge. Approaches that could benefit humanity without generating money or power are delegitimized. Indigenous life forms that relate to nature and its protection have been and are being wiped out. Emancipatory approaches that go to the roots have been drowned in blood in all eras. Or revolutionary movements are corrupted, infiltrated, and their “leaders” are bought in order to secure rule and the progress of destruction for further decades. On the eve of March 8th, we lit a beacon against capital, patriarchy, colonialism and Tesla. We counter the ongoing rape of the earth with sabotage. The ideology of limitless economic growth and a belief in progress based on destruction have come to an end. In order for Europe to become a “first-class investment location with a strong industrial ecosystem,” all obstacles are being rolled out of the way for giants like Tesla. But something is slipping. We, a broad and colorful resistance, roll them back down. We are the piles of rubble and grains of sand in the gears of a machine that is inexorably stomping forward. We are disruptive factors in the engine room. We are the desperate and outcasts. We are middle-class people in Germany or migrants on the run. We, that can be a lot of people in the forest and in the tree houses and on the streets, that can be covert sabotage groups like ours. These can also be people in the Gigafactory who take revenge on their master's machines for his working conditions. We can be caught, beaten, humiliated, raped or murdered - but we are right. Only violence can keep us down. But we get up again. And others will come after us. Share the explanation. Translate and send them to other people in the global struggle. Our goal with our sabotage is to cause the largest possible blackout of the Gigafactory. We have ruled out endangering our lives and those of other people. The shutdown of production in the automotive industry is the beginning of the end of a world of destruction. Our bonfire of liberation was aimed at powering Tesla. We wanted to hit the overhead line of a high-voltage pylon in the connection to the underground cables at the waterproof cable sleeves and short-circuit the six 110 kV cables in it. To do this, we opened the shaft to the cable sleeves, which was half under water. We still flambéed power lines that were sticking out and, in combination with water, perhaps created a short circuit. Damage to cable joints is often time-consuming and expensive to repair. At the same time, we started the fire big and high with lots of car tires to weaken the steel structure and cause the mast to become unstable. A steel mast only melts at around 1300 -1500 degrees. Since we were working with a heat generation of around 900 degrees, it was a matter of changing the mechanical properties of the mast. As a steel structure under load, a rapid, large fire from 500 degrees upwards can cause loss of strength and alter the metal's stiffness, tensile strength and elasticity. This can lead to buckling effects, twisting or deflection. That was our intention. We feel connected to all the people who are struggling around the world and who our words reach. We feel connected to all the people who don't let Tesla turn them off. If we want to win against giants like Tesla, we need many forms of resistance. Ours is one among many. Unpredictable and diverse, only together can we force the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics to respect the will of the population. Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach (SPD) sees the voting result of the residents of Grünheide (71% against the expansion of the Tesla factory site) as just an important vote. Above all, he sees the vote as a “cure opportunity,” which means that Tesla has not succeeded in convincing people and that the company still has to do its homework in order to divide, buy, cajole and persuade the population. He doesn't accept the people's no and calls on Tesla to soften their no by May. Everyone is free to enjoy our campaign openly or secretly. Anyone who feels compelled to distance themselves should ask themselves why? And who is interested in it? Together we will bring Tesla to its knees. Switch off for Tesla. Greetings to everyone on the run, in the underground in prisons and in the resistance! Love and strength to all Antif@s! Shut down the Tesla volcano group! Bob Wilson
This reminds me of our own "Unabomber", Ted Kaczynski. There is a spectrum of Elon haters ranging from "personality conflicts" to 'Karens' to extreme physical threats. In ordinary life, we can distance ourselves but I was once "followed" by a similar lost soul. Putin remains on my suspect list (for cause) but I would not be surprised if this person ends up in a mental installation. Regardless, this reminds me of a favorite joke: According to legend an automobile driver noticed that a tire was going flat, and pulled over to the side of a lonely road adjacent to a tall metal fence. While replacing the tire with a spare the apprehensive driver removed the four lug nuts and accidentally dropped them down a sewer grate. A figure behind the metal fence saw the dispirited driver and presented a clever solution to the awful predicament. Each tire could be attached with three lug nuts, and the car could be driven to a service station for further assistance. The helpful person was a resident of a mental asylum, and the anecdote ended with this didactic exchange: “How is it that you could give such sound advice?” “I may be nuts but I’m not stupid.” Bob Wilson
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/arson-near-teslas-gigafactory-who-is-the-volcano-group/a-68457754 . . . Authorities have confirmed that the content, style and structure of the letter are similar to several other letters claiming responsibility for attacks in the past years. This might indicate the same people behind the different attacks, suggesting the group has stable structures and long-term members. . . . The Berlin police said the group appears to have been active since 2011, mostly in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg. They added that most attacks targeted communication and data lines, electricity pylons and company vehicles. No people had been injured so far, according to the police report. The same report also indicated the group aimed to expose the vulnerability of urban mobility and communication infrastructure, as well as disrupt public order and cause considerable property damage. In 2018, the far-left group destroyed power lines in Berlin's Charlottenburg district in what was likely its largest attack until now. The resulting power outage affected 6,500 homes and left 400 businesses unable to operate for hours. Damages were estimated at around several thousand euros. Musk . . . "these are either the dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth or they're puppets of those who don't have good environmental goals." Bob Wilson
Nothing like Ted Kaczynski's manifesto. lol. His was totally lucid. Makes solid points in it. I don't agree with all of it, but I think much of it is generally correct. This one just reads like some hysterical leftist tumblr rant. A good example of Poe's law. lol Ted's was more generalized and not at a specific company or person.
We'll have to agree to disagree about Kaczynski's essay. But one wild thought is a clever Russian use of AI generated manifesto to hide the source. But Occam's razor favors another nut case . . . a Karen arsonists who needs to be stopped before someone gets hurt. Bob Wilson
