"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers."
— Sense Receptor (@SenseReceptor) November 17, 2024
In this clip from a recent interview with Shannon Joy… pic.twitter.com/wRg77NfKyL
"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers." In this clip from a recent interview with Shannon Joy (@ShannonJoyRadio), investment banker, former HUD official, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the) Catherine Austin Fitts describes how Elon Musk is "a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military." In the context of DOGE (@DOGE), the newly formed Department of Government Efficient—which isn't actually a federal department at all—Fitts notes that there is a danger with privatizing functions normally handled by civil servants due to issues like lack of transparency.
"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor," Fitts says. "Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded with our taxpayers. So he is a contractor." The former HUD official notes that during her time working for the George Bush administration, she "spent months warring with defense contractors to get the basic data [she] needed to move the [the single-family mortgage insurance fund] operation into compliance with the law." Fitts adds that she was ultimately fired "because they wanted to keep the data secret." Fitts goes on to say: "Essentially, the way you have been able to run the government such that you need $23 trillion of bailouts and $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments, the way you've been able to do that is because you've been able to keep operations secret behind private corporations, private banks, and private defense contractors...and the more you outsource and allow them to run things secretly on a non-transparent, non-disclosed basis protected from FOIA, the worse it gets." Fitts goes on to ask a rhetorical question that highlights the pitfalls of privatizing government functions: "If you fire the government employees who do the bidding of Congress and the executive branch and you bring in private big tech contractors who finish consolidating the [financial] coup d'etat [consisting of tens of trillions of dollars stolen by the DOD, et al.] and are loyal to the central banks, what do you think is going to happen?"
--------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created for the military. Funded with our taxpayers. So he is a contractor." "When I became Assistant Secretary of Housing, under the law, I was required to run the single-family mortgage insurance fund on a self-supporting basis. To figure out whether or not I was in compliance, I had to spend three months lobbying the White House to get the accounts moved over to report to me so I could even understand how much we were making or losing and whether or not I was in compliance. To get in compliance, it turned out we were losing $11 million dollars a day, which was technically, you know, not in compliance with the law. To figure out how to get in compliance, I needed data, except that data was controlled by a private defense contractor who refused to give it to me. "And I spent months warring with defense contractors to get the basic data I needed to move the operation into compliance with the law. And finally, I basically got fired because they wanted to keep the data secret. But essentially, the way you have been able to run, you know, the government such that you need $23 trillion of bailouts and $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments, the way you've been able to do that is because you've been able to keep operations secret behind private corporations, private banks, and private defense contractors, okay? And the more you outsource and allow them to run things secretly on a non-transparent, non-disclosed basis protected from FOIA, the worse it gets. "So we have two people running government. We have private banks, corporations, and defense contractors. And we have government employees, civil service. Now the civil service, by and large, you know, and there's corruption and everything. So I don't wanna say they're perfect. But by and large, they do what they are given written orders to do. So Congress passes a law, and the executive branch implements that law, the presidential appointees, and they go tell the government employees do 1, 2, 3. And the government employees do 1, 2, 3. Okay. If they give it to a private contractor, maybe they do 1, 2, 3. Maybe they do something else, but they get a big markup on it. So, you know, there's a whole money game going on there. "If you want, if you want the government employees to do something different, you change the written orders. Right? You don't fire them for doing what they got written orders to do. You just change the written orders. It's pretty simple. Now let's say we don't like civil service. We're gonna fire all the civil service, and instead, we're gonna bring in big tech companies to run everything. Right? In 2012, when the new government came into Greece, they discovered they couldn't control their tax receipts because their tax receipts were collected by corporate contractors who were loyal to the central bank. Okay? So if you fire the government employees who do the bidding of Congress and the executive branch and you bring in private big tech contractors who finish consolidating the coup d'etat and are loyal to the central banks, what do you think is going to happen?"
