AS always, IF TRUE …
… on Musk’s Grandfather …
This all unfolded amid the release of Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Musk. Musk’s family history has a bearing on the dispute, but, in the book, as I pointed out in a review, Isaacson only glancingly discusses Musk’s grandfather J. N. Haldeman, whom he presents as a risk-taking adventurer and whose politics he dismisses as “quirky.” In fact, Haldeman was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist who blamed much of what bothered him about the world on Jewish financiers.
Haldeman was born in Minnesota in 1902 but grew up mostly in Saskatchewan, Canada. A daredevil aviator and sometime cowboy, he also trained and worked as a chiropractor. In the nineteen-thirties, he joined the quasi-fascistic Technocracy movement.
- see also Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation, Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order, and Globalization and The Crucible of Global Banking by Patrick M. Wood. Mr. Wood is Ald connected with our friend Antony C. Sutton. They published a book together titled Trilaterals Over Washington: Volumes I & II. When Bush the First was running for President he was taking questions from an audience in Florida and a gentleman stood up with a copy of this book and asked Bush the First if he was in fact a member of The Trilateral Commission. Upon seeing the man holding the book and hearing his question Bush the First had a meltdown at the microphone.
(The Data Delusion | The New Yorker),
whose proponents believed that scientists and engineers, rather than the people, should rule. He became a leader of the movement in Canada, and, when it was briefly outlawed, he was jailed, after which he became the national chairman of what was then a notoriously antisemitic party called Social Credit. In the nineteen-forties, he ran for office under its banner, and lost. In 1950, two years after South Africa instituted apartheid, he moved his family to Pretoria, where he became an impassioned defender of the regime.
