Musk Twitter and a lot of stuff

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SpaceX was started when Elon Musk & Michael Douglas Griffin, then president of the CIA's venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, traveled to Russia to buy ICBMs and instead founded a company that neatly aligned with the missile defense vision Griffin laid out for the Heritage Foundation 6 years earlier.





Then, in 2006, Griffin himself (now at NASA) awarded SpaceX a $400 million contract before they'd ever even fired a rocket.


How SpaceX became NASA's go-to ride into orbit

It would not surprise me if SpaceX has just been a VC/MIC cover for developing more sophisticated rocket tech for rapid arms delivery...similar to Howard Hughes. Sure they do other stuff, probably 90% of which is defense-related, but that's certainly a major component.



The US military and Elon Musk are planning a 7,500-mph rocket


Mike Griffin former pres of In-Q-Tel also joined Rocket Lab's board of directors a few years ago. They are now preparing to fly a bunch of smallsat missions for the DoD.


Rocket Lab's new hire has roots in the CIA, laser weapons and space militarisation


One of Thiel's firms, Founders Fund, invests in Elon Musk's SpaceX. Much of the public attention around SpaceX has been around commercial space travel. This is mostly a diversion from its real purpose: national security work involving satellites.

SpaceX launches classified satellite for U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (Feb 2, 2022)


Thiel extends into so many areas in circuitous ways. As an example, Thiel appears to have a financial stake in at least two companies with contracts at the National Reconnaissance Office, an IC/DoD project responsible for our satellites.

Lombardi-esque Massive Thiel Network: (view attached image at bottom for full-size)




This isn't the only Thiel-funded org to work with the NRO. As part of a data processing initiative, Sentient, the NRO contracts with private intel companies to obtain satellite data it couldn't otherwise legally thanks to a loophole in Executive Order 12333. One such company is BlackSky Technology...


The Verge


Last year, Thiel bought a stake in BlackSky as a PIPE investor, through one of his venture firms, Mithril Capital.

BlackSky and Palantir (another Mithril-backed org) announced a partnership at roughly the same time, whereby BlackSky would offer support on Palantir's government contracts.

EXCLUSIVE: BlackSky CEO Talks Palantir Partnership, Real-Time Global Intelligence

Peter Thiel was a notable PIPE investor in BlackSky. BlackSky recently announced a partnership with Palantir to combine high-resolution imagery and deep analytics from global monitoring from space and real-time insights.

How BlackSky Differs: BlackSky is not just a satellite imagery company. "This is about real-time global intelligence," O'Toole said.

The world is going to be filled with sensors both in space and on the ground. The opportunity lies with the ability to bring all of the information onto one platform and make sense of the data through artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, he told Benzinga.

If BlackSky can provide access to the information on one platform, it will be able to disrupt the highly fragmented customer experience that currently exists, O'Toole said.

Also a great way to privatize government intelligence work, blocking off access to transparency advocates and civil libertarians. Unlike the NRO, Palantir, BlackSky, and SpaceX aren't legally bound to disclose information to the public via open records requests.

The picture is becoming clearer as to the real reason Elon acquired Twitter and wants to privatize, ehh??

Here's a funny story about BlackSky when considering Thiel's circuitous connections: Their satellites are being used to do GEOINT espionage on Tesla's Austin plant...

A boom in Earth observation satellites creating new demands for intelligence (April 25, 2022)

DENVER – Elon Musk earlier this month opened a new Tesla assembly plant in Austin, Texas, and predicted it will produce as many as 500,000 vehicles annually by next year.

To keep a closer eye on activities at the plant, investors and financial firms  are turning to Earth observation companies like BlackSky that use satellites to monitor locations for customers.

“We have a lot of interest in monitoring the Tesla facility that just launched,” said Amy Minnick, chief commercial officer at BlackSky.

Scott Herman CEO, Cognitive Space, said the new space economy is attracting massive investment, which is benefiting the Earth observation industry. A use case that is now in high demand is known as tipping and cueing. A satellite image might reveal some information but to get more accurate data, “we can tip and cue other satellites.”

In Ukraine, for example, “I take a picture, I instantly see there’s a Russian tank column, now I’m going to cue other satellites in my network” to verify and obtain additional information.

How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut

Yep, the spy satellites are exactly the type of Low-Earth Orbit satellites Griffin has been pushing for since the '90s. SpaceX is doing this for South Korea now too...

South Korea hires SpaceX to launch five spy satellites by 2025 (April 11, 2022)

A spokeswoman for the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) confirmed the deal April 11, saying the 2023 launch would deliver an 800-kilogram electro-optical infrared satellite to low Earth orbit.

“The deal was made to launch five satellites involved in the ‘425 project,’” DAPA spokeswoman Park Geun-young told SpaceNews, referring to a space-based reconnaissance project the defense ministry launched in 2018 for closer monitoring of North Korea’s military activities.

425 Project translated from Korean:

It sees objects up to 5 cm above the ground... Biden watches Putin 'like the palm of the hand'

“It’s exactly what we’ve been predicting.”

“A large-scale Russian military attack is imminent.” “We have no plans to invade Ukraine. Such a claim is a Western fantasy.”

US President Biden's prediction of a Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year and Russian President Putin's rebuttal to it. Despite Putin's repeated denials, Biden's predictions turned out to be exactly the same. Russia invaded Ukraine at 5 am on the 24th of last month.

Thiel is also tied directly to Yarvin/Moldbug through the NPCC festival. "Red Scare" was a featured attraction...



Buzzfeed


He also served on Meta/Facebook's board from 2005 until this year. Thiel also funds conservative campaigns through a 501©(4), Per Aspera Policy. A lists of the candidates and super PACs:

Peter Thiel-tied dark money group helping bankroll super PAC spending on 2022 election (Feb 22, 2022)

A “dark money” group tied to billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel steered hundreds of thousands of dollars into a super PAC spending on Ohio’s Senate race in support of “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance, who worked at Thiel’s venture capital firm. Vance faces a crowded field of Republican contenders in the Ohio Senate race with a primary scheduled for May 3.

Thiel announced earlier this month that he is stepping down from the board of Meta Platforms Inc. after advising CEO Mark Zuckerberg for nearly two decades. Instead, he will increase his political support of candidates aligned with former President Donald Trump’s agenda in 2022 midterm elections, including Masters and Vance, who have each worked for Thiel’s businesses in various capacities.

Epsteinites go free.



Really ginormous entangled spider web. Musk is like a modern day Howard Hughes on steroids. An eccentric aerospace billionaire and genius engineer buys one of the biggest media platforms of his time: Howard Hughes buys RKO studio in 1948! That one didn't end well, but time will tell with Elon.