Tucker Carlson has interviewed Twitter CEO Elon Musk and will broadcast the interview on Monday at 8:00pm ET.
If Carlson had the accurate and full context of the background situation, he would be able to ask the right questions. It appears Mr. Carlson does have the key issues well understood. This should be a good interview.
In this preview segment {Direct Rumble Link Here}, Musk admits his mind was blown when he discovered the extent of the full government access to everything that was happening on Twitter. He essentially confirms two key elements. First, our long-held framework of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop, is accurate. Second, Musk had no idea when he bought it.
There has been an ongoing debate about whether Elon Musk was aware of the U.S. government and intelligence community control over Twitter prior to the purchase; with many people saying there is no way that Musk could not know given the scale of the money involved, $42 billion and the due diligence that generally follows such transactions.
However, in this interview Musk states he had no idea how much operational control and influence the government and intelligence apparatus held over the platform prior to the purchase.
Readers here are so far ahead of the curve on this story, it’s kind of cool, funny, and yet frustrating at the same time. Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop is all a wild conspiracy theory born from the oddly wired brain of some dude in the corner of the internet; until suddenly it’s not.
Factually, it has been visible since the U.S. Government operation began in 2011/2012, yet no one was willing to believe it. For several years, CTH has been outlining the relationship between DHS and social media, specifically Twitter. However, as I said from the outset of this new awakening moment, I promise you things are not what they seem.
As noted earlier, and it is worth repeating, let me put some context to the dynamic that will hopefully clarify the issue and perhaps the context will help explain what we are seeing and not seeing as this unfolds. There are going to be a lot of citations to fill in the details, and understanding the modern Fourth Branch of Government is critical.
♦ Elevator Speech: Twitter was/is to the U.S. government as TikTok is to China. The overarching dynamic is the need to control public perceptions and opinions. DHS has been in ever increasing control of Twitter since the public-private partnership was formed in 2011/2012. Jack Dorsey lost control and became owner emeritus. As he now admits, Elon Musk had no idea.
To explain the background activity of Twitter in a way that readers could understand, I used the metaphor of Twitter as Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop.
…”The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. Some were denied. A debate began.”…
Here’s what happened….
In/around 2011 and 2012 the U.S. Government, Obama administration and the U.S. State Dept., came into Jack’s Coffee Shop and asked him for help.
The govt officials needed to deliver massive amounts of coffee to their allies in Egypt, Libya and the middle east to support the Arab Spring party. Jack told the officials he was willing to help but didn’t have the capacity to deliver on that scale. The officials told Jack not to worry, they would handle that aspect – he just needed to agree to the partnership and let them utilize his business. Jack agreed.
[Note, the timing here is not accidental. The operational agreement happened at the same time DHS was fine tuning the domestic surveillance systems to monitor social media platforms and target political opposition. See The Fourth Branch.]
Over the next several weeks, months and eventually years, Jack watched as hundreds of new employees flooded into the business to facilitate the rapid expansion. Along with a myriad of new faces, new equipment was delivered, and soon Jack found himself looking at heavy industrial equipment erecting large buildings in the back lots of the property. Coffee urns were replaced with massive industrial coffee delivery systems that far exceeded anything Jack ever imagined.
Business was booming, but slowly Jack realized he had lost control. Jack was riding a dragon.
As the years progressed, thousands of new employees moved into the offices of the new buildings and massive pipelines were producing incredible scales of coffee. Jack noted offices of the United Nations Human Rights Commission were now creating unique blends of coffee for international distribution, and the European Commission had an entire suite of specially trained coffee production engineers creating alternate combinations and flavors.
By 2018, Jack had essentially become an “owner emeritus”; his name was on the shingle, but the day-to-day operation of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop had turned into an industrial park complex.
Jack saw his personal wealth attached to the success of the business, but operationally, his only responsibility was traveling to symposiums and venues where he would stand on stage and wax philosophically about the future of a coffee delivery organization he no longer controlled. Day-to-day operations were now controlled by experts in the scale of massive industrial coffee. Those experts came from the Dept of Homeland Security.
[The Intercept] – […] Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.” (read more)
To streamline the operational efficiencies as the industrial coffee system grew, direct portals between the Washington DC government offices and Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop were created. Officials no longer needed to travel to the location of Jack’s Coffee Shop in order to operate the valves, mixers, grinders and systems to generate the scale of blends being produced.
Experts could now use direct portals to the facility to operate the coffee production systems remotely, with a limited number of specially trained (FBI) coffee engineers doing the laborious tasks and maintenance at the facility.
The badges were intimidating to Jack who went to sleep every night under the realization he no longer had any clue about how the coffee shop communication business was operating.
[…] The extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans’ daily social feeds is unclear. During the 2020 election, the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious, many of which were then taken down, documents cited in the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit disclosed. And a 2021 report by the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University found that of nearly 4,800 flagged items, technology platforms took action on 35 percent — either removing, labeling, or soft-blocking speech, meaning the users were only able to view content after bypassing a warning screen. The research was done “in consultation with CISA,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives. According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election. (keep reading)
After several years of increasing distance from the Coffee Shop operation he initially started, eventually Jack decided it was silly to own an industrial coffee delivery system that he didn’t control. So, Jack decided to sell his shingle to someone else.
Enter, Elon Musk.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a man intimately familiar with large industrial systems and government, had been watching the disgruntled visitors to Jack’s Coffee Shop who were no longer permitted to enter. Musk saw an inequity between the amount of coffee that was available, and the scarcity of the coffee amid a community blacklisted by the operational executives and managers of the shop.
With expressions of both interest and fellowship, Mr. Elon Musk told Mr. Jack Dorsey he would take ownership of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop and remove any discriminatory guards that were now controlling permitted entry. Jack had no aversion to Elon and eventually a deal was brokered.
After the transfer of sale was complete, Mr. Musk fired many of the guards and then set about checking the payroll to identify which group of shop employees were actually involved in the generation of coffee, and which employees were involved in promotion of the industrial coffee delivery system that were no longer needed.
Within this process, Elon Musk begins to discover the complex nature of what, at least at the surface, appeared to be an uncomplicated coffee shop. Why is there a 500-room glass walled office building on the backside of the coffee shop? What is going on in that GEC building that has anything to do with selling domestic coffee?
The sunlight revelations began surfacing several months ago, when someone of reasonably intelligent curiosity finally asked Elon Musk the right question about this direct portal from DHS into the coffee shop. Twitter owner Elon Musk had no idea a DHS portal into the coffee shop existed and what it would be for.
To put it in brutally honest terms, the State Dept initially created the partnership between the U.S. government and Twitter (Arab Spring). However, when the operations needed to become domestically centered (post Trump election), another agency stepped in. The United States Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) is the operating system running in the background of Twitter.
The State Dept started it with GEC, but ultimately DHS, via CISA, controlled Twitter. The justification for control was ‘national security.’ Mr. Elon Musk is now the face of a quasi govt controlled enterprise. This is why what we see being released by Elon Musk in the Twitter Files is actually a filtered outcome as a result of this new ownership dynamic.
Put simply, DHS stakeholders, to include the DOJ, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), are mitigating any consequential public exposure of their domestic surveillance activity by controlling and feeding Mr. Musk selected information about their prior Twitter operations. DHS is still the ghost in the machine.
The larger objective of U.S. involvement in social media has always been monitoring and surveillance of the public conversation, and then ultimately controlling and influencing public opinion.
I will continue peeling these types of issues apart, applying sunlight as heavily as possible, because the mechanisms and the institutions themselves need to be destroyed. They cannot be reformed because they have assembled too much power. They need to be completely defunded and removed.
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Resources:
Large Numbers of FBI Agents Work Inside Twitter
Govt Structured Cloud Computing is Social Media operating System
Tech Platforms Connected to DHS Portals
Examples of Govt Influence of Social Media Content
[…] “Intelligence agencies backed new startups designed to monitor the vast flow of information across social networks to better understand emerging narratives and risks.” [HERE]
Understanding Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop
Leaked DHS Documents Showing Connections
Look, when a platform goes from nothing to everywhere, linked off every lamestream media site on the Internet overnight, there’s an issue. You know something was driving it that was non-organic. I always knew Twitter was what many here suspected it was. I have no doubt but that there are still back door avenues for the same people to conduct many of the same ops, albeit somewhat more covertly. Musk, if he’s really going to make a go of the platform, must clean it all out. He must develop a real Twitter 2.0 that has a different codebase and different data structures to which the government does not have the keys. It’s a big chore. I wish him well, assuming his intentions are genuine, although I’m much less certain about that.
Agree that that is what needs to happen to actually clean it up. However, I am sure that Musk was not planning such a drastic overhaul of the product and I doubt he would be allowed to eliminate such a lucrative data gathering and propaganda tool. I think he thought he could just have his A team tweak the code around the edges to clean it up. Unfortunately, this stuff is so deeply embedded, only scrapping ensures its removal.
“Readers here are so far ahead of the curve on this story, it’s kind of cool, funny, and yet frustrating at the same time.”
Sometimes we are years ahead…Thank you Sundance!
Treehouses offer a very nice view of everything going on around you. 🧐
I do not believe Elon is an innocent dupe. He is in on the steal.
Absolutely NO ONE who claims genius level IQ, becomes a business owner and then “world’s richest man” will spend $44 billion to buy something he does not know how is run.
No.. Elon was the perfect person for DHS to choose as their “face out front”, after Jack Dorsey lost his nerve. After all, every dime Elon earned is because of US gov’t subsidy or non compete contract.
Elon did not choose Twitter, he does not give a shit about free speech
(Alex Jones, anyone?; Intellectual Froglegs STILL cannot advertise on Twitter..?) etc.
DHS chose Elon FOR Twitter.
That is what I am concerned is the case. He has the keys to too many government/WEC/babie
Green energy with EV in Tesla
social media with Twitter
Defense with Space X
Intelligence with Starlink
Why has be been trusted with so much, risen to power and money so fast?
Almost like a backfield and Line of running backs and linemen have been running interference for him
Similar to Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and many others.
Its a Big Club. You have to meet the qualifications and pay the dues to get in it
What I understand about Elon’s money is it is a government subsidized Tesla operation. Government wants EV cars and Musk delivered. No EV car business is a success without government handouts, none. No green energy, period.
So, where do you go from there? I will have to assume Musk is owned by government.
I see no way to follow any of this technology any further without selling ourselves to a world order. And maybe older civilization found that out too? The end of the age must be near I see no future with any of the current leadership.
This world was created by God, God is love, truth, if you do not follow the guidelines to some degree a total collapse will soon follow. Its why in psalms 2 it says God laughs at those trying to break his bonds. Like a marionette the strings of God are our only life. Everything “God” is straight forward common sense stuff to ignore it is to hate your own existence, and we see that everywhere now. Who cuts off their “junk” to fit into society?
And the immediate cure for all our lamenting is ‘stop worrying about yourself’ help others. Depression, drugs, sex, poverty, riches, diseases spread by egotistical thoughts.
Musk is certainly a type to be one of the 10 ((earthly kings)) of Revelation., ((Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Bloomberg, Klaus’ Clowns, etc.)) play a big part in the ((Reset)). Beast System is almost complete in preparation for Satan’s arrival (666). All systems ‘GO’! Sealed Christians are heeding Biblical prophesy. As Jesus (777) said: WATCH!
No, the ten kings represented by the 10 horns on the beast are rulers of actual earthly geographical kingdoms. Your depiction does not fit that representation. The people you name are participants in the creation of the beast system, they are not those commanding its construction.
Enough imagery in revelation that both of you could be correct.
Elon and the other technocrats are definitely part of the beast system.
Your basic argument is flawed, IMHO.
Its like saying “Onlyvan idiot could fall for the Nigerian bank teller e-mail” when in fact many wealthy, intelligent people get conned.
LOOK at Madoffs clients; they were wealthy, considered “savvy” at investments, and yet they “fell for” Madoffs cons, and (as is common in ponzi scams) recruited friends and relatives.
I think its fully credible that Elon didn’t realise what he was buying, and that Jack had no idea what he was agreeing to.
True DENIAL is something that, by its nature, the person in denial just doesn’t see.
“I can’t believe Joe diesn’t know (his wife is cheating on him).” is an example.
I believe you are conflating different issues.
Elon Musk has a claim to fame as being a genius. Someone who sees things on levels higher than the average person. Is the world’s richest man. Starting and running businesses.
NOT the kind of person to fail to notice something so huge it simply could not hide from even cursory due diligence.
Hells bells, the MATH of just running the damn place never added up from the beginning. Most everyone never bothered questioning it because vanity.
It became a convenient thing to pretend not to know.
Elon did not develop Space X and Tesla without an intimate knowledge of and relationship with FEDGOV, Inc. Think Russian oligarch with warm Putin friendship, and you pretty much understand Elon.
Why do we still have the Patriot Act? Why don’t we just unplug from this as well as AI until we debate the negatives? What will it take for us the base of humanity to act on these most important issues because our “elite” and the super smart “mad scientist” do not have one ounce of common sense or critical thinking skills. They ( self appointed elites) must not be the last word and put under strict controls. Hey Congress where are you?
They needed a law on the books to cover what they have been doing since day one in tech. Like anything else, once a group discovers how to use it as a weapon, the cat is out of the bag. For instance the claim Irans centrifuge over spun due to zero day exploits. I have always believed it was in the chip firmware. Criteria x has been met? Over spin. I spent many years in the tech world. There is far more going on than meets the eye or media of any sort
Democrats and Rinos are guilty of abuse of power by public officials, bribery, thefts by fraud, money laundering, perjury and the obstruction of justice, violations of civil rights, the attack on and subversion of the rule of law and equal justice, the violation of the inalienable rights of the people and the defilement of the US Constitution in an ongoing criminal enterprise as defined in Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
And clowns like Reich are pretending that the conservatives in the US are borderline Fascists. A freaking Rhodes Scholar so bent on the socialist control the dems want just straight up lying, as he did when acting officially.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and followed Rhodes philosophy.
What do you think that enormous computer in Utah is for? It has 3.7 billion megabytes for every US citizen.
It has a yottabyte of capacity which is 2*80.
yottabyte? Hmm, had to look that up. My first computer at work had a hard drive of 80 kilobytes
Musk is owned by the CCP. Count on it.
Whatever he’s bent on, it isn’t free markets or freedom from government intrusion.
Put simply, he isn’t credible.
I will gladly and freely say that I am only “so far ahead of the curve on this story” because of you, Sundance, and 1) all the work you do to, 2) make things easy for this old gal to understand.
Thank you for helping to keep our eyes and ears open when others try to lull us to sleep.
I seem to be in the minority in thinking it is possible that Elon Musk is a good guy.
We have looked into everything he is doing, and listened to a lot of interviews.
He appears to be driven by what he sees as the good of mankind (not necessarily his words).
Once I started listening, he seems more like Trump and less like other billionaires.
I think it is inaccurate to portray that he is only where he is due to govt money. He is highly intelligent, driven at the same level as President Trump, and family is important to him. Children are important to him.
Just my humble opinion but I hope I am right.
Seems they are making a big effort to really scare us…
Is there a worldwide run on the Bank of the United States of America?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3950467-is-there-a-worldwide-run-on-the-bank-of-the-united-states-of-america/
**Big** multipolar drop from ECB’s Christine Lagarde this afternoon signalling the potential suspension of independent-minded cbanks in favour of aligned interdependence focused on national security objectives (i.e. potential transition to a war economy)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3950467-is-there-a-worldwide-run-on-the-bank-of-the-united-states-of-america/
I personally think that while Musk’s IQ is genius level, he got outmaneuvered in his stalking and purchase of Twitter. He made the $44/share bid while never expecting to pay that price. He knew Twitter management would not cooperate with his due diligence investigation, and relied on advice of his first set of lawyers who said they could lower the purchase price by showing the court that Twitter didn’t provide the requested info. Rather than pursue demands for the DD info (which is normally what we do in an acquisition context), he called Twitter’s bluff. However, his initial offer was poorly drafted by those lawyers and he didn’t have the leverage to improve his position. The Delaware courts are not the venue for his type of bluster. His second set of lawyers basically had to get him to carry out the $44 offer on threat of paying Twitter’s legal fees and SEC fines. So no, I don’t think Musk actually knew the extent of FBO and government involvement in Twitter. I think due to his own errors he found out only after the deal closed. No sane business person, especially of Musk’s caliber, would intentionally purchase such a can of worms.
So you think a guy paying billions for a DD team, whose function is to uncover everything possible, missed all of the available info here at CTH and couldn’t piece together the story from the ridiculous political shenanigans / blatant censorship?
As I said, he was outmaneuvered. He simply was/is not accustomed to dealing with the competent judges and a good court system in DE as compared to the CA Federal and State court systems he’s been able to game and manipulate to his advantage in the past. Had the issues been subject to CA law and/or venue, he could likely have prevailed in a motion to compel Twitter to produce further information, and barring that, to have the court invalidate the purchase agreement. That would have given him his negotiating leverage to lower the price on the risk to the Twitter BOD of personal exposure to shareholders’ lawsuits. But as stated, this was not under CA rules. Musk was blindsided by the DE court rejecting his negotiating gamesmanship; that court sees such behavior all the time by shareholders, investors, board members, executives of DE corps. One simply does not get a DE judge to act like he’s a partner to the plaintiff, as do many judges in CA.
I got news for ya. The government has been heavily involved in tech since it began. Twitter is exposing cards, ALL of the are involved from software to hardware to chips and everything else you may think of. Its been going on since day one.