patrick.net

https://notthebee.com/article/libs-of-tiktok-has-been-suspended-from-twitter-again?source=patrick.net

Example of why Elon needs to buy Twitter.

Along with the banning of Alex Berenstein, Dr. Malone, Trump, and many others.

AmericanKulak says

MSNBC's Morning Joe Mika says the quiet part out loud:

"he (Elon Musk) could take over the messaging and tell people what to think... that's our job."
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/mcbenis3/status/1515067405491449864?source=patrick.net#m

Scarborough is one strange dude.

You've been had. This is a video from a few years ago. They were not talking about Elon.

Yeah, turns out it was 2017 and they were talking about Trump.

Same point though - they want to control the messaging.

Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era, 1971

Mika Brzezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew

The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages (1976)

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people. - Zbigniew Brzezinski

Great quotes, @gabbar. Thanks.

AmericanKulak says

MSNBC's Morning Joe Mika says the quiet part out loud:

"he (Elon Musk) could take over the messaging and tell people what to think... that's our job."
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/mcbenis3/status/1515067405491449864?source=patrick.net#m

Scarborough is one strange dude.

No, that's from years ago. She was talking about Trump using Twitter I believe.

If people don't recognize what our "news" is at this point, I figure fuck em. It's so obvious, that people who still believe it's information are too stupid to realize it's just propaganda.

Dont have the source of this.

We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. … It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure, one world if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” - David Rockefeller at the Bilderberger Meeting, Baden Germany, June 1991

Source: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/beware-new-world-order/?source=patrick.net

Bill was at the meeting

https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-warn-of-rapidly-spreading-musk-derangement-syndrome?source=patrick.net

richwicks says

If people don't recognize what our "news" is at this point, I figure fuck em. It's so obvious, that people who still believe it's information are too stupid to realize it's just propaganda.

Got cable TV disconnected a decade back. Will never subscribe to cable tv again. Now our tv watching is down to 10 minutes through a $25 antenna. I can't tolerate television.

https://nitter.net/ezralevant/status/1515445620257042433?source=patrick.net#m

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛
@ezralevant
20h
Reports like this are why the censors want to control Twitter.

Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and the future — live at TED2022

https://rumble.com/v1148id-elon-musk-talks-twitter-tesla-and-the-future-live-at-ted2022.html?source=patrick.net

That’s Musk’s dream. And Trump’s. And Putin’s. And the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth. For the rest of us, it would be a brave new nightmare (free speech). - Robert Reich

SO THIS POS IS IMPLYING THAT FREE SPEECH WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE!

Reintroducing free speech values on Twitter could produce “massive, life- and globe-altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing.” - Katy Tur, MSNBC

23.7% is a very high number

Hircus says

Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and the future — live at TED2022

https://rumble.com/v1148id-elon-musk-talks-twitter-tesla-and-the-future-live-at-ted2022.html?source=patrick.net

at t=~12:20
The host asks Elon "why make that offer? [to buy twitter]"
Elon replies "umm....I think it's very important for.... uhhh... there to be.... uh.... an inclusive arena for.... FREE SPEECH"
Before Elon finishes the last word, one can sense that leftists all around the world loudly reeeeeeeeee

Elon is using leftist strategies back against them by invoking inclusiveness. I think the pauses in his words may have been his very subtle way of emphasizing, taunting, and gloating.

He continues his strategy to use leftists arguments in his favor. For example, his emphasis that free speech is critical for democracy, as leftists have been screeching about "save our democracy from XYZ" for the past 5 years.

around t=18:00ish,
Based Elon also injected Signal when he said: "... in the same way you would update linux or signal"
Signal is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted chat app that is much preferable to using tyrannical big tech. IMO he clearly used it in his example as a way to advertise it and raise awareness of a preferable alternative.

t=21:00
"a good sign that we have free speech is when someone you dont like is allowed to say something you dont like"
This draws similarities to the many memes making fun of leftists, like "how dare you not like what I like!?!" or making fun of how they use double standards when censoring, and emphasizing that the real deciding principal is whether or not they personally like the speech.

gabbar says

23.7% is a very high number

That's incredibly positive to see such a stat. This jives with richwicks recent assertions that the tides have turned, and the people have woken up to the media's corruptions.

gabbar says

Got cable TV disconnected a decade back. Will never subscribe to cable tv again. Now our tv watching is down to 10 minutes through a $25 antenna. I can't tolerate television.

The Hi-Def Antenna TV is has a lot of channels. I don't watch, but keeps older relatives entertained when they visit.

Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, 24-7 Weather, some religious programming, and lots of old 50s-80s flicks and sitcoms.

https://babylonbee.com/news/due-to-inflation-cost-of-free-speech-rises-sharply-to-43-billion?source=patrick.net

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-fires-back-at-twitter-board-board-salary-will-be-0-if-my-bid-succeeds-so-thats-3m-year-saved-right-there/?source=patrick.net

Gary Black, the Managing Partner of The Future Fund, said: “The $TWTR board’s interests aren’t aligned with TWTR shareholders.

“The board serves to represent shareholders.

“If they refuse to act in the best interest of SHs, they should be removed and replaced by new board members who understand their fiduciary obligations.

“Let me point out something obvious: If @elonmusk takes $TWTR private, the TWTR board members don’t have jobs anymore, which pays them $250K-$300K per year for what is a nice part-time job.

“That could explain a lot.”

Musk responded with a warning and a reminder there may be more at play here than meets the eye:

“Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there.”

Didn't somebody say earlier that aside from Jack, the Board doesn't own even a single digit percentage of Twitter, combined.

I'll have to check on who is the board.

Some interesting ones at a quick glance:

Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho -
"Since December 2017, Ms. Lane Fox has served as a member of the Joint Committee for National Security Strategy. Since May 2018"
A video game and leisure travel exec, who for some reason is serving on the "Joint Committee for National Security Strategy", despite also being a Lord in the BRITISH Parliament and obviously a British National and a Politician CURRENTLY ACTIVELY serving in another country.
She's also CHAIRWOMAN of OPEN UNIVERSITY.

Lots of Britons and Indians...

Patrick Pichette - The CFO of Google?! Isn't that sort of a competitor?

Robert Zoellick, that bastard....

https://timcast.com/news/elon-musk-secures-financing-of-46-5-billion-to-complete-cash-purchase-of-twitter/?source=patrick.net

The filing states that Twitter has not responded to Musk’s offer, resulting in his desire to enact a tender offer for the transactions:

“Twitter has not responded to the Proposal. Given the lack of response by Twitter, the Reporting Person is exploring whether to commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock… at a price of $54.20 per share, net to the seller in cash.”

A Tender Offer often occurs when an investor proposes buying shares from every shareholder of a publicly-traded company for a specific price at a particular time. The investor typically offers a higher price per share than its stock price, providing shareholders a greater incentive to sell their shares.

According to the filing, Musk has secured $46.5 billion to close the purchase of the company, with Morgan Stanley leading his financing of the deal.

He still may be able to buy Twitter outright.

Another fun Twitter Board Member:

Ms. Alemayehou, 51, has a career that spans both the public and private sectors across emerging markets. She currently serves as Senior Vice President for Public – Private Partnership at Mastercard. Prior to joining Mastercard, Ms. Alemayehou was the Managing Director and a Board member for investment platform Black Rhino Group, a portfolio company of Blackstone, where she focused on the development and acquisition of energy and infrastructure assets across Africa. Ms. Alemayehou was previously appointed by President Obama to serve as Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). During Ms. Alemayehou’s tenure from 2010 to 2014, OPIC’s portfolio grew by more than 24% to $18 billion and the corporation’s Africa portfolio tripled to nearly $4 billion. Prior to OPIC, Ms. Alemayehou was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the United States Executive Director on the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB). She received a Distinguished Honor Award for her outstanding service in this role. Ms. Alemayehou has also launched entrepreneurial ventures in consulting.

Why is a third world investment specialist and Mastercard executive on the board of a Social Media company if she doesn't own shares?

Remember how fast Mastercard was at trying to pressure Iceland over Wikileaks and Assange?

Here's your CCP rep:

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. From January 2017 to September 2018, Dr. Li was Vice President at Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Dr. Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor. Prior to that, she was on faculty at Princeton University (2007-2009) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006). Dr. Li is a cofounder and Chairperson of the Board of AI4ALL, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to increase diverse human representations in the field of AI and technology. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

https://investor.twitterinc.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/default.aspx?source=patrick.net

Liked Google's defense contract to have AI analyze remote images, he email in support of that was leaked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li

UPDATE:
2020 Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) [68]
1999 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans[83]

That's a shock.

SpaceX shut down a Russian electromagnetic warfare attack in Ukraine last month — and the Pentagon is taking notes


Stephen Losey
Wed, April 20, 2022, 12:02 PM

...

Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, pointed to SpaceX’s ability last month to swiftly stymie a Russian effort to jam its Starlink satellite broadband service, which was keeping Ukraine connected to the Internet. SpaceX founder Elon Musk steered thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine after an official sent him a tweet asking for help keeping the besieged country online.

“The next day [after reports about the Russian jamming effort hit the media], Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it,” Tremper said. “And suddenly that [Russian jamming attack] was not effective anymore. From [the] EW technologist’s perspective, that is fantastic … and how they did that was eye-watering to me.”

The government, on the other hand, has a “significant timeline to make those types of corrections” as it muddles through analyses of what happened, decides how to fix it and gets a contract in place for the fix.

“We need to be able to have that agility,” Tremper said. “We need to be able to change our electromagnetic posture to be able to change, very dynamically, what we’re trying to do without losing capability along the way.”

...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-shut-down-russian-electromagnetic-190254556.html?source=patrick.net

RWSGFY says

SpaceX shut down a Russian electromagnetic warfare attack in Ukraine last month — and the Pentagon is taking notes

I doubt this. You can easily overwhelm a satellite by just sending static to it. Unless the Russians don't know what they are doing, OR the satellites point to very specific areas and have shielding. I don't know anything about THESE satellites of course, but I know about general ones. Remember when somebody over-rode the signal on the HBO signal about 30 years ago?

It was a long time ago, however this sort of attack is just sending more signal - sending static is even easier.

One thing I cannot figure out, and I hope someone here can explain to me, how can a tender offer work given the poison pill the board has enacted?

Once the tender offer is accepted and Elon goes to purchase the shares, won’t the poison pill activate? So then based on my understanding, other entities can then go and buy discounted twitter stock so that Elon can’t control, or even if he does gain control, Vanguard or Blackrock will own even larger percentages of the company then they do today?

pudil says

Once the tender offer is accepted and Elon goes to purchase the shares, won’t the poison pill activate?

Can you explain what the poison pill is?

pudil says

One thing I cannot figure out, and I hope someone here can explain to me, how can a tender offer work given the poison pill the board has enacted?

Once the tender offer is accepted and Elon goes to purchase the shares, won’t the poison pill activate? So then based on my understanding, other entities can then go and buy discounted twitter stock so that Elon can’t control, or even if he does gain control, Vanguard or Blackrock will own even larger percentages of the company then they do today?

A direct tender offer should bypass the poison pill. The Board must consider the offer. If they refuse a second offer, you have to believe the SEC will investigate. Repubs today demanded the Twitter Board save all documents around these decisions.

Musk had to know the poison pill option might be executed. This is why he had a Plan B prepared from the beginning. He also has the "funding secured" for real this time :)

It's not Musks' first rodeo.

richwicks says

I doubt this. You can easily overwhelm a satellite by just sending static to it. Unless the Russians don't know what they are doing, OR the satellites point to very specific areas and have shielding. I don't know anything about THESE satellites of course,

"SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official"
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/spacex-beating-russian-jamming-attack-was-eyewatering-dod-official/?source=patrick.net

socal2 says

"SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official"
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/spacex-beating-russian-jamming-attack-was-eyewatering-dod-official/?source=patrick.net

Yes, our media wouldn't lie to us...

It's possible they aren't this time, but it would be a shock. The word is that Russia hasn't been targeting infrastructure. What I don't understand is what difference would it make if Starlink was operating or not? Are there that many Starlink dishes there? Did they ship a bunch in just after the war began or secretly before anticipating it? That's what doesn't make sense to me, the dishes are a single IP address, and meant for residential use.

Could be Musk fucking with our own government - what's the government going to say "Oh, Musk is lying, the Russians purposely left up the Internet.." ?