上海的月亮: EN — LARRY ROMANOFF: Debunking Elon Musk – Part 13

Elon Musk’s Neuralink conducted gruesome tests on monkeys for years, according to a new complaint from an animal rights group. Source

Neuralink

Neuralink was co-founded in 2016 by Elon Musk and eight other scientists/engineers, totaling nine individuals. The complete list includes: Elon Musk, Max Hodak (President, biomedical engineer), Ben Rapoport (neurosurgeon), Paul Merolla (chip designer, ex-IBM), Dongjin "DJ" Seo (Korean implant engineer), Tim Hanson (scientist), Philip Sabes (computational neuroscientist), Tim Gardner (neurobiology), Vanessa Tolosa (biomaterials expert). Musk was both an investor and an active architect of the company's vision, and recruited key scientists. He personally provided $100 million of the $158 million seed capital.

Neuralink was registered in California in July, 2016 as a medical research company, with Musk and Max Hodak listed as co-founders. In March of 2017, Musk announced the company's mission to merge human brains with AI.

By 2024, Elon Musk was one of only two original founders remaining. The only one to remain with Musk was Dongjin. All the others had left, citing management clashes, Musk's aggressive timelines, and ethical disputes over animal testing practices. There were also "strategic differences", with the other founders wanting to prioritise medical applications while Musk emphasized futuristic goals like "digital immortality".

The Claims

Elon Musk - with unlimited (and reverent) support from the media - claimed that his "Neuralink" process would repair spinal injuries and cure paralysis, that it would cure blindness by "plugging into the brain", that his Neuralink would "back up your brain" and let you "store your memories". Some actual quotes: "Neuralink Will Cure Blindness… Or Something"; "Neuralink could, like… restore vision. Maybe. By plugging into the brain."; "You could, like, store your memories. Or something. Maybe replay them." In a Lex Fridman Podcast in 2022, Musk claimed "Neuralink Will Let You… Uh… Backup Your Brain." [1] Musk claimed Neuralink could fix spinal injuries by 2027." Neuralink Will Cure Paralysis in 5 Years" [2]

All of this was false. No peer-reviewed studies existed for any of it, and these claims are typical Musk rubbish. There is no scientific basis for "backing up" memories. It was all fantasy, nonsense, and gibberish. Elon Musk appears to be nearly 100% scientifically illiterate and simply creates all these schoolboy fantasies in his imagination. And, from the incoherence in Musk's quotes, we can assume he was spaced-out on drugs at the time. But still, from other more coherent interviews, Elon Musk was heavily promoting the promises that his Neuralink could restore sight and repair spinal injuries, if nothing else, and further that he was determined to accomplish these humanitarian ends.

The Fly in the Ointment

A video grab from the online Neuralink livestream shows Gertrude the pig, implanted with a Neuralink device, during a presentation in 2020. Source

Elon Musk is a documented and proven sociopath, with even his own brother confirming that he "has no empathy for people". I dwelt on this aspect of Musk's character and personality at length in Part 3 of this series, "Vindictive Sociopath and Genocidal Psychopath", [3] and needn't repeat all that evidence here. But recall his vindictiveness, his compulsive need to belittle people, the remorseless freedom he feels to fire people from Twitter, Tesla, the federal government, his savage retribution against anyone who thwarts him, the years-long siege against OpenAI, his insensitivity, his frequent slanderous attacks on others, his unending litany of lawsuits against those who obstruct his illegalities. More damning yet are the animal welfare violations at Neuralink itself - over 1,500 animals died in rushed experiments, with employees describing pressure to bypass ethical protocols. Elon Musk's lack of empathy and his sociopathology are legend. One could provide almost unlimited evidence to support this claim.

Connecting the Dots

A huge question should be forming in your mind after reading the above two paragraphs. Musk's well-documented lack of empathy is incompatible with humanitarian medical projects. Why would a sociopath - who harbors no empathy for people - want to spend $100 million of his own money helping blind people to see and the lame to walk? That does not fit the character of the man. Something else is happening here. What is behind the formation of Neuralink, discounting Elon Musk's humanitarianism?

Military-Intelligence Applications

On March 2029, a team of scientists affiliated with Elon Musk's Neuralink project published a paper identifying a new technique for inserting probes into brains. The study was published in a journal called BioRxiv, and according to Bloomberg, all five of its authors have been associated with Nueralink. It was noted at the end of the study that the research was funded through a DARPA Contract. Source

Neuralink's core technology - high-bandwidth brain-data extraction - aligns with Pentagon priorities for cognitive warfare. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded similar brain-computer interface (BCI) research since 2013 for drone control and neural targeting. Neuralink's electrode density (1,024 channels per implant) exceeds military prototypes, enabling real-time battlefield decision analysis. The military angle appears in two forms:(1) Key founders came from defense projects, and (2) Current applications like controlling Tesla robots suggest combat uses.

Meet a Few Founders

Peter Thiel

Palantir's Alex Karp and Peter Thiel.

The man is involved in genocide complicity. Thiel's Palantir AI systems ("Lavender" and "Where’s Daddy?") are used by the Israeli military to target Palestinians in Gaza, contributing to mass civilian casualties. [4] [5] CEO Alex Karp admitted: "We help Israel kill Palestinians". Thiel is also prominent in ICE collaboration in the US. Palantir’s software enabled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport migrants and separate families. Mass surveillance is also included here: Palantir’s Foundry platform integrates U.S. citizens’ private data (financial, health, social media) into federal databases, creating a turnkey surveillance state without constitutional oversight. [6] [7] Thiel founded Palantir with CIA funding, [8] and it operates as a shadow arm of U.S. intelligence, aiding military targeting and data exploitation globally. Peter Thiel's Palantir profits from war, deportation, and eroding civil liberties, by transforming public data into tools of genocide and oppression.

Financially, Peter Thiel's involvement in Musk's Neuralink stands out. Thiel's Founders Fund invested $280M specifically for "human-AI integration," not medical outcomes, and Thiel specialises in national security tech, not medical devices. He prioritises technologies enabling population-scale control, as seen in Palantir’s CIA contracts.

Benjamin Rapoport

As appeared in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Benjamin Rapoport, co-founder of Neuralink alongside Elon Musk, has departed from the company whilst raising safety concerns about the devices and technology that Neuralink has already started testing on humans. Source

Rapoport co-authored a 2011 study funded by DARPA’s Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program, developing "high-density electrode arrays for brain-machine interfaces". [8] As a neurosurgeon at MIT, Rapoport collaborated on DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory (RAM) program, aiming to implant memory-restoring chips in veterans. He Co-invented "Implantable neural interface systems" (US Patent 9,782,529), the patent assigned to MIT but acknowledging DARPA funding. [8] [9] His 2015 clinical trials at Massachusetts General Hospital tested neural implants for paralysis patients, again funded by DARPA. Rapoport left Neuralink in 2018, coinciding with Musk’s push for accelerated timelines for human trials and Internal disputes over military applications. "Rapoport’s work blurred lines between healing and enhancement - a duality DARPA has exploited since Vietnam-era prosthetics research."

Paul Merolla

This man was a key co-founder of Neuralink who developed similar neural chips for the Department of Defense (IBM's SyNAPSE) Project. [10] His recruitment - and that of others - suggests DoD backing from inception. Launched in 2008 with $76M DARPA funding, SyNAPSE aimed to reverse-engineer the brain's computational efficiency. They wanted object recognition at 100x speed, for military applications focused on what they termed "soldier enhancement". SyNAPSE’s vision of "cognitive soldiers" now extends to Neuralink’s human trials. It is hoped that these implants will enable what they term "battlefield telekinesis", i.e. drone control with the mind. SyNAPSE proved the theory's viability, but Elon Musk will use "medical altruism" to turn it into what we can term "military-grade neurotechnology".

Vanessa Tolosa

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer Vanessa Tolosa. Source

Vanessa Tolosa has had deep ties to defense-funded neurotechnology programs through her 11 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborations with DARPA. [11] Her work there focused on biocompatible neural interfaces under projects like SUBNETS and RAM, both DARPA programs aimed at "soldier enhancement" - i.e. Star Trek's "Borg"; human-robot soldiers under swarm mind control. [12] Tolosa framed her work as "helping PTSD patients," but DARPA's own documents emphasize "warfighter readiness." The explicit goal of the SUBNETS program was to develop neural implants to regulate soldiers' emotional states - classic mind control applications. [13]

Tolosa led the team that developed implantable electrodes (into human brains) for DARPA’s SUBNETS program. The purpose was to use brain implants to "monitor and regulate neural circuits" in real-time, enhancing "emotional resilience" in combat personnel - i.e. exaggerated aggression, kamikaze imprints. In fact, Tolosa patented the process (#9,802,225). The fact that Neuralink's earliest prototypes used identical polymer tech shows seamless DARPA-to-Musk knowledge transfer. No speculation is needed here. The documents prove that Tolosa channeled DARPA's neuroweapons research into Neuralink, then returned to the military lab.

This is the typical defense pipeline: (1) Weaponise: Develop DARPA neural technology to control soldiers, (2) Commercialise: Transfer IP to Neuralink for "medical" testing on humans, and (3) Re-Weaponise: Return to defense labs to militarise data from human trials. The pattern is clear: defense tech gets "medicalised" and thus tested quietly on the public, then returns home to be reapplied to warfare.

The military applications are clearly documented. DARPA has invested over $10 billion in brain-computer interface research, with explicit goals like controlling drone swarms with human thought. The N3 program aims to develop non-invasive interfaces for soldiers. And not only military. Patent filings show applications for "predictive policing" and "advertising engagement optimisation". Use your imagination.

MK-ULTRA v2.0

We have a sociopath advancing technology that is capable of rewriting human cognition, under the guise of medical progress. The connections to military control systems and historical CIA mind manipulation programs like MK-ULTRA reveal a deliberate pattern.

If you are familiar with the former CIA mind-control program MK-ULTRA, [14] the parallels with Elon Musk's Neuralink are frightening. MK-ULTRA was almost certainly the largest, and by far the most horrific, human experimentation program ever conducted, and it was entirely Jewish in operation, from Sydney Gottlieb down. I once researched the top 50 "executives" of this program and, if I recall correctly, only two (possibly three) were not Jews. One doctor treating the fallout, said, “I am struck by the quality of extreme sadism that is reported by most [MK-ULTRA] victims.

This CIA 1950s-70s MK-ULTRA program used LSD, electroshock, torture, extreme trauma, and sensory deprivation to break subjects' minds, create multiple personalities, erase identities, implant false beliefs. Neuralink is an upgrade to this. By directly accessing neural pathways, Neuralink achieves MK-ULTRA’s goals without crude physical methods. DARPA’s N3 program (non-invasive neurotech) explicitly seeks to "write" commands into soldiers' brains - such as suppressing empathy or inducing aggression. This is precisely what Neuralink is poised to deliver. There are so many troubling parallels between MK-ULTRA's methods and Neuralink's capabilities. The CIA's experiments sought to erase and reprogram minds - exactly what Neuralink could achieve digitally. The key difference is scale: while MK-ULTRA destroyed thousands of minds, Neuralink could control millions.

Musk's sociopathy makes Neuralink incompatible with humanitarian goals. The evidence points to Neuralink being a trojan horse where medical applications gain public acceptance while building infrastructure for military/intelligence use. This aligns perfectly with the discussion in Part 8 of this series about Musk's role in the "Dark Triad panopticon." [15] This is Neuralink's existential risk. We have a sociopath advancing technology that is capable of rewriting human cognition, under the guise of medical progress. The connections to military control systems and historical CIA mind manipulation programs like MK-ULTRA reveal a deliberate pattern.

Musk's sudden pivot from PayPal/Twitter/EVs to neurotech seems incongruent. The presence of ex-DARPA and Blackrock Neurotech co-founders suggests military-intelligence seeding. Thiel's Founders Fund investment came with explicit "human-AI integration" goals, while Google Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs collaborate on AI-driven biological manipulation. The only logical conclusion is that this is all military-driven research spread out and buried in the private sector to escape attention and discourage monitoring.

Structurally, this fits the Anglo-American intelligence playbook: Use private-sector "fronts" for sensitive research, leverage Five Eyes data-sharing agreements to bypass domestic surveillance laws, and mask military capabilities as humanitarian technology. This isn't medical science; it's the digital reincarnation of MK-ULTRA's agenda with unlimited funding and zero oversight. Neuralink's research directly advances MK-ULTRA's core objective: non-consensual neural manipulation. Thiel's Palantir-CIA ties and transhumanist agenda align perfectly with Neuralink's militarisation.

Neuralink directly advances DARPA's Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, which seeks wireless brain interfaces for soldiers to control drones with neural signals. Key Neuralink scientists previously worked on DARPA projects like "neuro-resilience enhancement" for special forces. Neuralink is precisely the Pentagon’s "Brain-Machine complex" in real life. It is DARPA’s "Revolutionary Prosthetics" program evolved into the battlefield tools of tomorrow. DARPA’s STRENGTHEN program uses neurotech to create "super-soldiers" with "enhanced focus' (kill, kill, kill) and "reduced trauma response" (kill until you die). Neuralink’s data from human trials accelerates and enlivens this program.

This brings us to an inescapable Panopticon. Neuralink isn’t medicine. It’s behavioral capitalism’s endgame. Musk’s sociopathy and DARPA’s warmongering converge to create a tool that could erase humanity’s last sanctuary: the inner self. As the UN warns, without global bans on neuro-weaponization, we face a future where "thinking freely" is a memory.

Again, the core issue is: "What is the real agenda behind a sociopath founding a brain-implant company?"

Some Final Comments

Musk insists that no monkeys died in trials and that the brain implant is ready for human trials. A horrifying new WIRED report suggests otherwise. Reuters reported that Neuralink had killed about 1,500 animals during testing since 2018. Source

Since this series is primarily about the character of Elon Musk, we should add a few related items. One would be that when wearing his DOGE hat, Musk fired the department heads and all the staff of the sections that were investigating (and suing) him and his various companies, in this case Neuralink. He totally eviscerated the investigation sections in every government Department who dared to challenge his right to break all the rules - and all the laws. Fraudulent, illegal, and clearly self-serving, but nobody seemed to notice.

Next would be Musk's sexual perversities. Shivon Zilis, Musk's "hand-picked" CEO of Neuralink, has so far had three children by him and shows no sign of stopping. [16] You will recall my earlier observations that Musk considers his companies as (a) an ATM, and (b) a sex buffet. This latter applies not only to Tesla and SpaceX, but to Neuralink, and in spades.

Next would be the live experiments Elon Musk is performing in Neuralink. As noted above, more than 1,500 animals had to be euthanised because of Musk pushing experiments prematurely, before the technology was ready. Many of the animals suffered horrific brain injuries; some were in such pain they attempted to kill themselves, but that didn't deter Elon Musk. His response: "Just implant more monkeys" (Reuters, 2022).

Elon Musk's "test-fly-crash" approach to research applies very much to the animals at Neuralink. But Elon is now progressing to human subjects. Do you really expect he will have any more sympathy for his "human material" than he has for the animals?

DOGE

We all know about DOGE, Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk. I won't dwell here on the obvious features of this program, but there are a few aspects deserving examination. The first place for us to focus is on the stated purpose of DOGE, which was to identify and eliminate what was certainly "trillions of dollars" in "fraud and waste" within the US government. Musk's task was to uncover and eliminate all these little pernicious pockets.

I will make three important introductory comments here. The first is that it is almost always a mistake to assume that other people don't know what they are doing. We see this foolish error so often. For example, in the middle of 2025 Donald Trump was claiming that "China" would be paying his high tariffs, when everyone knew a tariff is a tax paid by the local purchaser and not the foreign seller. At that time the mass media were uniformly telling us that Trump just didn't understand tariffs. What nonsense. Any 10-year-old could understand. Or, members of the US Congress voted to send Israel another $2 billion in weapons, and the media were telling us that Senators maybe "didn't appreciate the (genocidal) implications" of their votes. Again, what nonsense; rubbish, in fact. Of course they understood. How could they not understand?

My second comment is that whenever we have a significant man-made event, whether domestic or international, the end result of that event was planned. We can think of DOGE in this context. This was a significant man-made event. It had actions and it had consequences. My point is that the actions were very carefully planned to produce precisely the consequences that emerged. The actions of DOGE were not an accident, and neither were the results. The people who plan these large events are not fools and they have done these things many times before. It will happen occasionally that they will be blindsided by an extraordinary and unexpected interference in their plans, but such occasions are very rare. For our purposes, the only sensible assumption is that DOGE was planned in extreme detail and that events unfolded exactly as expected and with results as intended.

The third comment, which I have made many times before, is that most events remain "news" for only a day or two before they are relegated to the back pages and disappear. It almost never happens that any event remains in the headlines for more than one or two days. Thus, we can conclude that whenever we see any topic remaining in the headlines for days, weeks, or even months at a time (what I call a 'media flood'), we are not being given "news" in any sense, but instead are being propagandised and indoctrinated. And it is never for a good purpose; this is always and inevitably "information control" for nefarious reasons. We saw this during COVID when seemingly every newspaper headline and every television lead story - for perhaps two years - was about COVID, mostly about how you would die if you weren't punctured and injected with a gene therapy masquerading as a vaccine. Never in the history of the world was there such a prolonged media frenzy, never for any cause, not even the two world wars. I raise this here because DOGE was the beneficiary of a similar media flood, with daily shocking headlines for months until it finally (and suddenly) withered and dissipated.

Let's return to the stated purpose of DOGE, which was to identify and eliminate all those trillions of dollars in fraud and waste within the US government. One of these areas was employment. We weren't given details, but were told by Elon Musk that the US government was too fat, that most federal employees were unnecessary and could be replaced with potted plants, with absolutely no detriment to the operation of the government. Hence, the chainsaw episode at the White House where Elon Musk demonstrated his primary tool for eliminating the waste of federal government employees. And government staff were indeed eliminated. I will return to this in a moment, but first the media flood.

There was an enormous media flood created to support Musk's efforts, most of which was created by Elon Musk himself but amplified to a nearly deafening level by the altogether-too-supportive mass media.

Musk claimed that USAID spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza, which claim Trump elevated to $100 million. [17] Musk claimed that the State of New York was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to accommodate illegal immigrants in 5-star “luxury” hotels - $59 million dollars “in only one week”. [18] Another pronouncement was that New York City was giving debit cards worth $10,000 each to illegal immigrants with No ID check required. [19] Musk repeatedly claimed he had discovered “massive government fraud” where “millions” of 150-year-old people were collecting Social Security Benefits. [20] He then produced a spreadsheet he claimed was from the “Social Security database”, which listed 400 million people collecting Social Security benefits – ignoring the fact that the entire US population was only 330 million. [21] Musk further claimed that “tens of millions” of dead people were cashing Social Security checks, and many others “100, 200 and even 300 years old are improperly getting benefits - a HUGE problem. This might be the biggest fraud in history.” [22] Another statement by Elon Musk was that the US Congress was giving itself a 40% raise in pay, while the actual increase was 3.8%. [23] I covered this and much more in Part 4 of this series. [24]

All of Elon Musk's DOGE claims were reckless and irresponsible lies. Musk literally flooded the media with the most outrageous claims of government “waste”, all of which were provably false. His claims were not only outrageous, but were meant to be sensational and inflammatory, intended for the portion of the US citizenry with an IQ below 80 (i.e. 75% of the population). Musk deliberately twisted innocent facts into a totally-fabricated sensationalised fraud. The LA Times called these “lies designed to generate outrage and mistrust”. [25] Politico claimed that Musk sent them more than 100 tweets of "misleading or outright false claims that stirred Republicans into a frenzy.” [26]

What was happening here? $50 million worth of condoms sent to "Gaza"? That would be about 2 billion condoms. 400 million people, all 200 or 300 years old, collecting Social Security benefits? Tens of millions of dead people collecting social security? I have said repeatedly that Elon Musk has a room-temperature IQ, but even he isn't that stupid.

And how did all this end? Think about this: If a government announces a warranted search for fraud and waste, they normally have ample evidence to justify such action and, more importantly, the media will inform us of the results. They will tell us that certain departments were criminally wasteful and will identify the frauds discovered and the consequences dispensed to the culprits. Now, there were videos circulating where some apparent "official" was listing unnecessary programs as "evidence" of waste, but the amounts involved were trivial - only $1 million or $2 million, some of only a few hundred thousand dollars. These sums might be meaningful to an average citizen, but in relation to the size of the US government budget, they don't even qualify as rounding errors.

But how did DOGE end? With not even a whimper. It just evaporated. Seemingly on one day, DOGE was taken off the radar and off the front page, and just disappeared. Was any evidence ever presented of a discovery of great waste or fraud? No. But why not? The entire stated purpose of DOGE was to uncover trillions in waste and fraud. How could they, after all that media noise, discover nothing? The answer is that it was all smoke and mirrors, meant to dupe the public and deflect attention from the real purpose of DOGE - which had nothing to do with either waste or fraud. They didn't discover anything because there never was anything to discover, and they never expected to discover anything.

But then what was the purpose of DOGE? If they weren't looking for fraud and waste, what were they looking for? The answer is that they weren't "looking for" anything. The noise was only to confuse the public and hide the real purpose.

DOGE was a Welfare Program for Elon Musk

Keep in mind what I said earlier about (1) people knowing what they are doing, and (2) that the results of an event, however they might seem to you, are precisely the results that were planned. Let's look at the results. There were several.

One result was that Elon Musk had the authority to impose the use of his xAI-bot (Grok) onto the US federal government Departments. Those Departments were already under contract with OpenAI to use ChatGPT, but now Elon Musk had a free hand to force the use of Grok in those same places. Homeland Security was a willing victim, but most Departments were not. Nevertheless, Musk's Grok is now a fixture throughout much of the US government, and paying user fees in at least the high hundreds of millions if not billions. And in fact, Musk made a public threat to divert NASA resources if his Grok adoption were stalled.

Another was that Elon Musk had the authority to force the release of reams of confidential government data, part of which was through the Treasury Department files containing all government contracts. This information was transferred to Musk's xAI servers and was priceless, because he could now know every detail of every government contract involving vehicles (Tesla), NASA (SpaceX), the use of AI (xAI and Grok), tunnel drilling (The Boring Company), and more. With that information, he would have an enormous and unfair advantage in obtaining, by one estimate, at least $50 billion in government contracts. [27]

Most crucially, it appears Musk may have attempted to create a financial surveillance empire by integrating Treasury feeds with Grok's AI - later blocked by the courts. It would be possible to integrate Treasury data with Grok to build a real-time economic monitoring tool to track spending habits, debt, and income of all Americans, and sell the information to banks or insurers. Those same data would also offer the potential to identify officials' hidden financial ties or citizens' vulnerabilities, for many purposes. Also, Musk exfiltrated reams of secret and private government data he would use for training Grok, without any knowledge or oversight. It is also documented that Grok processed sensitive datasets (e.g., student loans, healthcare) during "audits," training its models on proprietary government data. Federal judges later blocked DOGE's access to some of the data, but Musk's copy of the Treasury dataset likely remains inside xAI's servers—a persistent threat to the privacy of 300 million Americans.

Elon Musk’s group of gangsters that forced open US Treasury and other data files. Source:

But perhaps the best part is the "chainsaw". As DOGE head, Musk orchestrated the mass firings of career officials in every government department that was investigating him and his companies. This was more than nothing. Before DOGE, Musk faced more than 65 federal investigations across 11 government agencies, with potential fines of nearly $2.5 billion for Tesla and SpaceX alone. [28] $1.9 billion was against Tesla, with $1.2 billion of that for making false and misleading statements about its Autopilot and FSD features. But Elon Musk, using his DOGE authority, went through all of those 11 agencies and fired the heads and the staff of the investigating divisions. Musk also obtained files from the Office of Personnel Management, which he needed to enable him to identify the investigation staff in all the Departments so he would know which individuals to fire.

There is now no one left to investigate or prosecute him. It may be true that the courts will have forced the re-hiring of some of those staff, but regardless, those departments will now be too intimidated and too afraid to pursue Elon Musk any further. And it has already been made public that neither the FAA (for SpaceX) nor the SEC (for securities frauds on Tesla, Twitter) will "investigate" Musk any further. Elon Musk now has perpetual immunity from prosecution for all his criminal offenses and those of his companies.

The top-ranking US Treasury Department official, David LeBryk, was forced out of the agency after he resisted Elon Musk's demands to gain access to the government's vast payment system. [29] That system includes much information on all of Musk's rivals.

But then, White House communications director Steven Cheung said the claims were baseless. "Mr. Musk has never used his position for personal gain or financial gain, and any other claims are completely false and defamatory." [30] So everything is okay. Nothing more to see here.

The "Musk Welfare Program" Blueprint

DOGE operated as Musk's state-sanctioned self-enrichment engine: crushing oversight, monopolising contracts, and hijacking citizen data to build commercial AI dominance. The Treasury data access was not incidental; it was the keystone enabling:

Corporate immunity via purged regulators.

Rival intelligence via payment systems.

Citizen profiling for future profit.

The Senate Investigation Report stated, "DOGE wasn't reforming government; it was executing a hostile takeover of democracy for one man's benefit." [31]

And now you know why DOGE evaporated from the front pages without so much as a whimper. The job was done. DOGE never had anything to do with government waste or fraud. It was all about protecting Elon Musk from criminal prosecution and leaving him and his companies free to rape, pillage, and plunder unmolested. They needed only to give Elon Musk enough time to (a) force Grok's insertion everywhere, (b) collect all the private data from the government servers, and (c) give Elon sufficient time to fire everyone in his path.

The truth is that DOGE was only the most recent unconscionable fraud in a long line of unconscionable frauds perpetrated on the American government and public by the Khazar Jews who control the US Government. I should mention here that Elon Musk is still of considerable use to the powers in The City of London (where this travesty would have originated), and they clearly want him to have complete "freedom of action". They don't much care about Tesla or The Boring Company, but they care desperately about the Optimus robots, SpaceX and Starlink, about Neuralink and about AI, areas where Musk is of great use. The Jews look after their own if you are someone useful like Jeffrey Epstein; if you become a liability like Ghislaine Maxwell, they throw you under the bus.

Twitter (You Can Call it "X" if you Want. I Don't Want.)

Elon Musk bought a megaphone, not a business. Source

So much good news here, I hardly know where to begin. First, Elon Musk paid $44 billion to buy Twitter. But Twitter wasn't known for profitability, and most analysts place a pre-sale valuation price of roughly $20-$25 billion - about half of what Musk paid for it. Even worse (if it could be worse), Musk's $54.20 per share offer represented a 40% premium over the pre-acquisition stock price, which was already considered generous by market standards, with other comparable companies trading at much lower multiples. And, only months after the purchase, Fidelity marked down X's value by about 70%, and by early 2024, secondary market trades valued X at below $10 billion. That has to be rated as one of the worst purchase decisions of all time.

Musk exemplified his congenital fraudulent nature in his machinations on the purchase of Twitter. [32] The SEC sued Musk in federal court for $150 million, claiming he misled shareholders when he bought hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Twitter stock. The SEC claims Musk was able to underpay "by at least $150 million" for shares he bought after he should have disclosed his ownership of more than 5% of Twitter's shares. [33] He didn't disclose his purchase of all those shares because that would have driven up the price. After his forced disclosure, Musk then tried another tactic. He proclaimed widely that "after examination" of Twitter he discovered many problems and was no longer interested in the purchase. That statement was of course false, an attempt to send the stock price back down. It failed. Musk then tried to escape from the formal purchase offer he had made, but was sued for fulfillment and had no choice but to comply - with his $44 million overpayment offer to be enforced by the courts. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Being one of those people who lives on Twitter, Musk had great ambitions for this platform. He tried to justify the premium he paid by claiming that Twitter could become a super-app like WeChat. But that was never to be. The US could never create a WeChat or a Tik-Tok (or a Little Red Book, either). And, as one analyst noted: "He bought a megaphone, not a business".

Elon Musk grossly overpaid for his purchase of Twitter at $44 billion, but then ignorance and poor judgment powered by emotional instability nearly bankrupted it – down to a value of little more than $10 billion. But while this was happening, our “genius” with his famed critical thinking abilities was boasting, “Twitter Will Have One Billion Users Under My Leadership“. [34] But in fact, user growth rapidly depreciated under Musk’s ownership; as the Wall Street Journal pointed out, Twitter was “hemorrhaging users“. [35] And not only users, but hemorrhaging advertisers and revenue. [36] Still, in the face of all this, Musk was not only predicting Twitter would have 1 billion users, he was telling the world that “Twitter’s Value Will Be $250 Billion“. [37] If that isn’t delusional, I don’t know what would be. Also, the $33 billion valuation Musk assigned to Twitter/X during the xAI merger, seems not only questionable but preposterous considering the user and advertiser exodus. Post-acquisition, Twitter lost 50% of its top advertisers and 15% of users, with revenue collapsing. [38] Analysts estimated its value at $10 billion or even less. [39] [40]

After all the bad press, the folding of Twitter-on-life-support into xAI was the only solution available to hide the emerging truth from investors and the public, primarily to avoid the public humiliation from the value decreasing by the week. But that didn't end the problems. The investors in Twitter (now "X") were livid at the 70% or more loss in their investment. To placate them, Musk had to give them 25% of his xAI, and still their only hope is that Musk won't be as stupid with Grok as he was with Twitter. But no guarantees.

But then so many bad things. The first of these was the re-naming of Twitter as "X", which is widely regarded as one of stupidest business decisions of all time. According to Fortune Magazine, Musk truly destroyed nearly all of Twitter’s brand value by renaming it X. [41] Twitter, even with all its faults, was an institution with billions of brand value in its name. But Musk, with his infatuation with the letter "X" literally threw billions in value into the rubbish bin. (SpaceX, Starlink-X, xAI, X, Tesla's Model X; he even named one of his children “X Æ A-Xii”).

In a bizarre development after he bought Twitter, Musk began to regularly create and spread fake news on the platform, pushing a huge range of foolish misinformation. Rolling Stone said, Musk will “spout and amplify untruths with abandon, algorithmically forcing them onto an audience of millions. [Elon Musk] always had a problem with telling the truth — now he has an entire social network built on lies.” [42]

Almost immediately after taking over Twitter, Musk fired 80% of the staff, including a total dismantling of Twitter’s moderators, leading to the surge in rubbish. The entire communications team also disappeared, with a strange consequence: when reporters send messages to the email account for journalists to correspond with Twitter’s management, the only response they receive is what the media called “a poop emoji”, which is an emoticon (like a happy face) that is a small pile of shit. [43] Charming.

After summarily firing 80% of the staff at Twitter, Musk posted a celebratory meme of himself wielding a chainsaw, mocking the firings. To say this alienated remaining employees and the public is a bit of an understatement, since these actions contributed to the advertiser boycotts and Tesla-burning backlash. Musk seemed to have no apparent comprehension of their emotional and reputational impact. Elon Musk made a great show of restoring Donald Trump to Twitter on the pretend basis of freedom of speech, but he regularly deletes the accounts of any reporters revealing negative news about him personally or companies like Tesla.

And there was more. Musk told all the attendees at a New York Times Book Conference, “Go f— yourself.” As the LA Times noted, [44] “it was a riveting, self-pitying performance. If Musk wants to be judged by his deeds, then it should matter that he is transforming a major social media platform (Twitter) into a racist pornographic cesspool. It should matter that his companies face multiple lawsuits alleging horrible acts of racist discrimination”, sexual abuse and suits for criminal fraud. After trashing Twitter and turning the platform into “a cesspit of racism” (and pornography), Musk sued Twitter’s advertisers for leaving. [45] [46]

Twitter is now a Pornography Platform

Anne Hidalgo: "I've made the decision to leave X. The list of abuses is endless", she added. "This media has become a vast global sewer." Source

Musk is also turning Twitter into a pornographic and racist website. The LA Times wrote that “it should matter that he is transforming a major social media platform into a racist cesspool.” [47] Another media article referred to an “Overwhelming Explosion Of Adult Content On X”. [48] MSN wrote that “Elon Musk’s X Is Drowning In Adult Content”. [49] It is so bad that one Ph.D. researcher claimed Musk had turned Twitter into “the primary advertising venue at this point for sex workers”. [50] Several columnists have said X is now so graphic that “you would never open the website in public”. Even worse, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was quitting Elon Musk's X, which she described as a "global sewer". [51]

And there we are.

Next Essay: SpaceX and Starlink *

Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 34 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chap. 2 — Dealing with Demons).

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NOTES - Part 13 [1] Musk’s blind vision claim (Lex Fridman Podcast, 2022 - 18:40 mark). https://youtu.be/DxREm3s1scA?t=1120 [2] Musk claimed Neuralink could fix spinal injuries by 2027 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-chip-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-2021-2 [3] Debunking Elon Musk – Part 3; Vindictive Sociopath and Genocidal Psychopath https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/20809/ [4] Denver protest against war tech giant Palantir https://fightbacknews.org/articles/denver-protest-against-war-tech-giant-palantir [5] Palantir is the focus of controversy surrounding TD Eoin Haye http://lao.fraproperty.com/news/show/78495/ [6] US company Palantir controlling UK health data raises ethical concerns https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/11/751000/US-company-Palantir-controlling-UK-health-data-raises-ethical-concerns [7] A Brief History of Palantir: The Controversial Military-Industrial AI Complex https://xueqiu.com/3187655566/317686113 [8] Benjamin Rapoport (DARPA Grant #: N66001-10-C-4056; archived in DoD contracts). [9] Developing the Brain-Computer Interface https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-neurology-brain-computer-interface [10] and annoying brains, a tribute to the brain by humans - IBM TrueNorth chip https://w3.opensnn.com/os/article/10000894 [11] Lab expertise tapped to understand how the brain retrieves memories https://www.llnl.gov/article/40221/lab-expertise-tapped-understand-how-brain-retrieves-memories [12] DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory Prosthetics https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-project-starts-building-human-memory-prosthetics [13] DARPA Neurotechnology Emerging Therapeutics Program Achieves New Breakthroughs https://www.sohu.com/a/280534538_465915 [14] CIA Project MK-ULTRA Updated https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/7928/ [15] Debunking Elon Musk – Part 8 Elon Musk’s Corporate Character https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/21696/ [16] Elon Musk had secret twins with top executive last year, documents show https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-711452 [17] Elon Musk’s ‘shoot first, aim later’ style requires a fact check https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-16/elon-musk-doge-falsehoods-news-conference [18] Elon Musk’s ‘shoot first, aim later’ style requires a fact check https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-16/elon-musk-doge-falsehoods-news-conference [19] PolitiFact: Migrants in New York City will not receive $10,000 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/22/instagram-posts/migrants-in-new-york-city-will-not-receive-up-to-1/ [20] No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/ [21] Elon Musk Certainly Thinks He’s a Genius, but Is That Actually the Case? https://www.distractify.com/p/is-elon-musk-a-genius [22] Tens of millions of dead people aren’t getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased-false-claims-doge-ed2885f5769f368853ac3615b4852cf7 [23] Congress Not Proposing to Give Itself 40% Raise https://www.factcheck.org/2024/12/congress-not-proposing-to-give-themselves-40-raise/ [24] Debunking Elon Musk – Part 4; Compulsive, Pathological Liar https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/20875/ [25] Elon Musk’s ‘shoot first, aim later’ style requires a fact check https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-16/elon-musk-doge-falsehoods-news-conference [26] Elon Musk fueled backlash to spending plan with false and misleading claims https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/elon-musk-false-claims-cr-00195252 [27] Heavy! Musk's rectification of the United States is unconstitutional? Seven federal agencies list the three major crimes of DOGE https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1823296470587372274 [28] The U.S. Senate report accuses Musk of fake public welfare and evasion of $2.37 billion in fines through DOGE action https://partners.sina.cn/html/vivo/browser/article?docUrl=http%3a%2f%2ffinance.sina.cn%2fusstock%2fmggd%2f2025-04-29%2fdetail-ineuurua4544094.d.html&en_dataid=761bae9984250491d383b94287c522f48f8dc77c5aa06f0a024dab6863992ec3&isNews=1&showComments=0&uuid=492bb794b451304c9ece0d2abd32ae0e [29] Musk. Amy Goodman https://www.douyin.com/video/7467380340277939507 [30] The U.S. Senate report accuses Musk of fake public welfare and evasion of $2.37 billion in fines through DOGE action https://partners.sina.cn/html/vivo/browser/article?docUrl=http%3a%2f%2ffinance.sina.cn%2fusstock%2fmggd%2f2025-04-29%2fdetail-ineuurua4544094.d.html&en_dataid=761bae9984250491d383b94287c522f48f8dc77c5aa06f0a024dab6863992ec3&isNews=1&showComments=0&uuid=492bb794b451304c9ece0d2abd32ae0e [31] The U.S. Senate report accuses Musk of fake public welfare and evasion of $2.37 billion in fines through DOGE action https://partners.sina.cn/html/vivo/browser/article?docUrl=http%3a%2f%2ffinance.sina.cn%2fusstock%2fmggd%2f2025-04-29%2fdetail-ineuurua4544094.d.html&en_dataid=761bae9984250491d383b94287c522f48f8dc77c5aa06f0a024dab6863992ec3&isNews=1&showComments=0&uuid=492bb794b451304c9ece0d2abd32ae0e [32] SEC continuing $150 million lawsuit against Elon Musk over Twitter purchase https://abcnews.go.com/US/sec-continuing-150-million-lawsuit-elon-musk-twitter/story?id=120343524 [33] SEC sues Elon Musk, says he didn't disclose Twitter ownership on time before purchase https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5260229/sec-sues-elon-musk-twitter-stock-x [34] Twitter one billion users https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-twitter-could-reach-1-bln-users-2023-11-09/ [35] Twitter hemorrhaging users https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-x-is-hemorrhaging-users-report-says-116e9f2d [36] Twitter ad sales drop https://www.wsj.com/tech/twitter-ad-sales-drop-elon-musk-acquisition-116e9f2d [37] Twitter valued at $20 billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-27/musk-says-twitter-now-valued-at-20-billion-down-from-44-billion-purchase [38] Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk [39] Twitter’s Advertising Truth Hurts - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-advertising-truth-hurts-11670706720 [40] How Elon Musk’s Twitter Faces Mountain of Debt, Falling https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musks-twitter-faces-mountain-of-debt-falling-revenue-and-surging-costs-11669042132 [41] The last time Elon Musk tried to make his ‘X’ company happen it failed miserably https://fortune.com/2023/07/26/elon-musk-second-try-twitter-x-dot-com-paypal/ [42] How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-twitter-misinformation-timeline-1235076786/ [43] Got a question for Twitter’s press team? The answer will be a poop emoji https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164654551/twitter-poop-emoji-elon-musk [44] Why Elon Musk, the bully, is seen by many, including liberals, as a hero https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-04/elon-musk-racism-x-bully-savior-culture [45] Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-twitter-rumble-sue-advertisers/ [46] Elon Musk’s X sues advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’ after Twitter takeover https://apnews.com/article/x-sues-advertisers-unilever-cvs-mars-orsted-673d1ae88e9fb0ca5b170d238739453e [47] Why Elon Musk, the bully, is seen by many, including liberals, as a hero https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-04/elon-musk-racism-x-bully-savior-culture [48] Elon Musk Promises ‘Major Purge’ To Wipe Off Overwhelming Explosion Of Adult Content On X https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/04/38104457/elon-musk-promises-major-purge-to-wipe-off-overwhelming-explosion-of-adult-content-on-x?itm_source=parsely-api [49] Elon Musk’s X Is Drowning In Adult Content https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musks-x-is-drowning-in-adult-content-so-much-that-you-cant-scroll-it-in-public/ar-BB1kYA8q [50] X is testing ‘adult content’ communities, screenshots suggest https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/x-adult-content-communities-screenshots-twitter [51] Paris mayor quits X, calling social media platform a 'vast global sewer' https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231128-paris-mayor-quits-x-calling-social-media-platform-a-vast-global-sewer *

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