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Global Economic Indicator: The Engine of Modern Conflict — Part 4: The Reckoning

February 20, 2026, 1:09 pm

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The Engine of Modern Conflict — Part 4: The Reckoning

From fictitious capital to fascism: how financial capital must turn to violent extraction abroad and digital repression within. The crisis of capitalism unmasked.

Feb 20, 2026

Introduction: The Mask Falls in Munich

On February 14th 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Munich Security Conference and delivered a message that was, in his own words, “a little direct.” To the casual observer, it might have sounded like a routine call for transatlantic unity—a plea for Europe to spend more on defence, to control its borders, and to rediscover pride in “Western civilization.” Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, called it “reassuring.”

But for those paying attention, the speech was something else entirely. It was a candid articulation of the doctrine this article will dissect: the final, desperate logic of a financialized empire shedding its last pretences.

Rubio’s address was laced with nostalgia for explorers and empires, for a time when the West “expanded—its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires.” This was not merely historical reflection. It was a prescription for the present. The “rules-based international order,” he argued, was an “overused term” born of a “foolish idea” that the national interest could be subordinate to global norms. The United Nations, he declared, “has no answers,” pointing to Gaza, Ukraine, Iran, and Venezuela as proof.

And then came the confession that matters most for this analysis. When Rubio justified recent American actions, he did not speak of spreading democracy or defending international law. He spoke of raw power applied for specific, material ends. On Iran, he boasted that diplomacy and the UN were “powerless” to constrain Tehran’s nuclear program. Instead, he said that “required 14 bombs dropped with precision from American B-2 bombers.” On Venezuela, he was equally blunt: international institutions were “unable to address the threat,” so “it took American Special Forces to bring this fugitive to justice.”

This is the core of the matter. The “fugitive” in question was a head of state, and the “justice” was a unilateral extraction justified by the imperatives of national power. Rubio was not outlining a new policy; he was giving voice to the systemic logic that has been driving U.S. foreign policy for decades, now stripped of its diplomatic niceties. The “international order” Washington claims to defend is being explicitly discarded, replaced by a doctrine of direct action to secure what the empire requires.

This article is an analysis of why this is happening. It will trace the path from financialized crises to the imperial logic of geopolitical conflict, arguing that the wars and confrontations of our era are not separate disputes but a single, desperate war. A war waged by a system that has exhausted internal growth and now seeks to seize the last remaining reservoirs of real, tangible collateral—by any means necessary. Rubio’s speech in Munich was not a departure from this reality. It was its most honest articulation yet.

Financialized Crises and the Imperial Logic of Geopolitical Conflict

There is mainstream narrative of the current cycle of escalating global violence, and then there is the real one.

The mainstream media sees separate conflicts. Russia invaded Ukraine, compelled by some primordial imperial ambition. The United States confronts China over competing visions of the Indo-Pacific order. Iran is pursued for its nuclear program. Venezuela is sanctioned for its authoritarianism—or narco-terrorism, or support for Hamas. Through the lens of the conventional narrative these are distinct problems requiring distinct solutions.

The truth is that these are one conflict. In reality, Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela are not separate targets but successive fronts in a single war. Not a war of nations against nations, though it takes that form. It is a single war orchestrated by a system against everything that obstructs its survival.

This is not metaphor. It is the logic of financialized capitalism in its terminal stage.

The Pyramid and Its Hunger

To understand where we are, we must first understand upon what we stand.

For decades now, the economies of the Western world have not really grown. Not in the sense that matters. Real productive capacity—factories, infrastructure, the tangible apparatus that actually makes things—has stagnated or been offshored. What has grown instead is the paper.

Stocks. Bonds. Derivatives. Sovereign debt. Securitized mortgages. Futures contracts on everything from oil to rainfall. This is not wealth in any real sense. It is fictitious capital: claims on value that has not yet been produced, bets on future revenue that may never materialize, titles to wealth that exists only because enough people agree to pretend it exists.

And yet this fictitious capital must be treated as wealth. Bonuses are paid from it. Pensions depend on it. Private jets are bought with it. Entire economies are organized around its continuous inflation. So, the system does what it must: it creates more paper to validate the existing paper. It layers debt upon debt, leverage upon leverage, derivative upon derivative. It builds a pyramid so vast that its peak is invisible, and so heavy that its base is cracking.

This was not anyone’s intentional design. It is the emergent logic of a system in which every individual actor is rationally compelled to behave in ways that collectively guarantee collapse. Refuse to accept the risks everyone else accepts, and you are excluded from the game. Accept them, and you help inflate the pyramid another inch closer to breaking point.

For a long time, the pyramid could be stabilized through internal extraction. Privatization cannibalized the public sector. Structural adjustment stripped the Global South. Financialization hollowed out the domestic working class. Each crisis—2000, 2008, 2020—was met with more liquidity, more debt, more paper. Each solution made the pyramid heavier and its foundation weaker.

But there comes a point when internal extraction is no longer enough. When the system has consumed everything digestible within its existing boundaries. When the only remaining source of real value lies outside the pyramid’s walls, controlled by powers that refuse to subordinate their resources to its valuation.

At that point, the hunt for collateral becomes geopolitical.

What Is Actually Being Fought For

Consider the wars and confrontations of the past two decades. Not their stated justifications—those are for public consumption—but their material function within the logic of the pyramid.

Iraq and Libya: Not about weapons of mass destruction or humanitarian intervention. About unlocking state-controlled hydrocarbon reserves and subordinating them to Western capital markets. Every seized asset, every enforced arbitration award, every new debt contract tied to future oil barrels becomes a brick of real collateral added to the base of the pyramid. The physical oil is secondary. The paper created from it is the immediate prize.

Venezuela: Not about democracy—or narco-terrorism, or Hamas. About the last major oil reserve in the Western hemisphere not fully integrated into the dollar-debt system. Its subordination would open trillions in assets for securitization. Its resistance is therefore intolerable.

Iran: Not about nuclear weapons. About one of the final state-controlled hydrocarbon complexes still operating outside Western financial circuits. Its integration would inject fresh collateral into a starving system. Its continued autonomy is a standing reproach. It is also a geopolitical leverage against China, which we will come to in a moment.

Russia: It’s not about Ukraine, civilizational values or even NATO expansion directly despite being the proximate cause. The expansion of NATO up to Russia’s borders was intended precisely to either provoke the current war or render Russia militarily neutered for the same purpose. Neutralizing a resource superpower that has demonstrated an alternative model: one in which national wealth backs national sovereignty, not Wall Street derivatives. Russia’s defeat would not only open its own vast reserves to financialization; it would eliminate a proof-of-concept that threatens the pyramid’s ideological monopoly.

China: This is the confrontation that clarifies all others. China is not merely another resource-rich state awaiting integration. It is an entire economic civilization organized on a different logic. State-directed. Productive. Building real infrastructure across three continents and accepting payment in resources or local currency rather than dollar-denominated debt. The Belt and Road Initiative is not aid; it is the construction of an alternative collateral network, a parallel system of economic organisation that does not require the perpetual inflation of fictitious claims.

This is why China is the existential threat. Not because it competes for hegemony within the existing order, but because it is building an order outside it. Its defeat or subjugation would deliver the ultimate prize: a continent-sized repository of real industrial capacity and productive assets to serve as collateral for the overextended pyramid.

The Parasite and Its Host

Here we encounter a paradox that the common analysis cannot resolve. If finance capital is globalized, if its elites operate across borders and owe allegiance to no single state, why do they require American military power? Why the fixation on Iran, Russia, and China as national targets?

The answer requires us to discard the Lenin-era model of inter-imperial rivalry. We are not witnessing German capital against British capital, American capital against Japanese capital. Contemporary finance capital is genuinely international. It has no home. It holds assets in every currency, operates in every jurisdiction, and extracts value from every continent.

But it has no army. It has no capacity to enforce its own conditions of accumulation. It cannot seize oil fields, compel arbitration, or overthrow sovereign governments. It is therefore parasitic—not upon any single host, but upon the residual military capacity of the United States.

This is the true function of the “American” part of the empire in its twilight: not to advance the interests of American national capital, but to serve as the global enforcer for a stateless oligarchy. The dollar is both the currency this oligarchy seeks to transcend and the weapon it wields against rivals. The US military is both the institution this oligarchy starves of funding for its owm ends and the instrument it deploys without limit for geopolitical extraction.

The relationship is dysfunctional, unsustainable, and increasingly desperate. But it is the only relationship available. Without American coercion, the pyramid cannot access the collateral it requires. Without the pyramid’s financing, American coercion cannot continue. Each enables the other; each consumes the other; neither can survive without the other.

This is not strength. It is mutual addiction in its final, convulsive phase.

The Exception That Cannot Be Tolerated

China’s crime is not its size or its military modernization or its “territorial claims.” Its crime is its success.

According to research by Isikara & Mokre, analysing multi-regional input-output tables covering 159 industries over twenty-five years, the cumulative international value transfers from the Global South to the North over this period exceed seventy trillion euros. The largest net losers: Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Russia. The largest net gainers: Japan, Europe, the United States.

And China? In the 1990s, China was a significant net loser—exploited, like the rest of the periphery, its labour and resources extracted to subsidize Northern consumption. But since the Great Recession of 2008, China has become a net gainer. It has shifted its position in the global hierarchy.

How? Not through financialization. Not through the inflation of fictitious claims. Through high investment and technological advance. Through a rising organic composition of capital. Through an economic logic in which investment decisions are less determined by short-term profitability than in any other major economy.

China has done what the post-war developmental states did, but at continental scale and in compressed time. It has escaped the condition of perpetual value extraction that defines peripheral status under financialized imperialism. It has built productive capacity and retained the surplus it generates. It has demonstrated that another path exists.

This is intolerable. Not because it threatens American jobs or the Indo-Pacific security order or any of the other euphemisms deployed in policy discourse. Because it exposes the pyramid for what it is: not the natural order of economic life, but a specific, contingent, and increasingly dysfunctional mode of accumulation that survives only by foreclosing alternatives.

A system that must prevent success elsewhere to sustain itself at home is not a system with a future. It is a system in hospice, kept alive by increasingly desperate interventions that accelerate rather than arrest its decline.

The Illusion and Its Exposure

Imagine, to return to a metaphor from a previous article in this series, what would happen if the players in a high-stakes poker game realized the bank was empty and they were really just playing for coloured chips.

This is the moment the system fears above all others. Not defeat in any particular conflict. Not the loss of this oil field or that pipeline. The loss of belief. The recognition that the wealth everyone has been chasing exists only as long as everyone agrees to pretend it exists.

The hunt for geopolitical collateral is therefore not primarily about the assets themselves. It is about maintaining the illusion that there is something real behind the paper. Each seized oil field, each subordinated central bank, each integrated resource reserve is a signal to the markets: the pyramid still has real foundations. The game still means something. The chips can still be cashed in.

This is why the conversion of fictitious capital into real capital is so destructive, even when it succeeds. The collateral consumed in the conversion is not added to the pyramid’s base; it is burned to fuel the illusion that the base exists. The oil fields of Iraq produce less oil under occupation than they did under sanctions. Libya remains a failed-state-hellscape. The Chinese industrial capacity that represents the ultimate prize is also the prize that, if actually pursued through war, would be largely destroyed in the acquisition.

The system is consuming its own future to prolong its present. This is not sustainable. It is not even rational, in any collective sense. It is the behaviour of an organism that cannot recognize its own mortality, thrashing against the inevitable with increasing violence and diminishing returns.

The Choice That Is Not a Choice

We are told that the choice before us is between the existing order and chaos, between American leadership and Chinese domination, between the rules-based international system and the law of the jungle. This is the framing of those who benefit from the existing order and cannot imagine—or cannot permit—its replacement.

The actual choice is different. It is between the slow asphyxiation of debt-peonage and rentier control, and the catastrophic convulsions of a system that refuses to expire quietly. It is between managed decline and uncontrolled collapse. It is between accepting that the pyramid cannot be saved, and accelerating the wars that will be fought in its name.

This is not a hopeful analysis. It does not conclude with policy recommendations or calls for reform. The pyramid cannot be reformed. Its logic is not a set of policies that can be reversed but a structural imperative that has driven every actor within the system, for decades, toward the same destination. The individual players have marginal agency; they are prisoners of a game they did not design and cannot unilaterally exit. Their rational choices, aggregated, produce systemic irrationality. Their short-term survival strategies guarantee long-term extinction. They cannot be rationally appealed to.

The only question is how long the propping can continue, and at what cost to the societies being cannibalized. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the confrontations in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, the sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, the slow grinding extraction of value from the Global South through debt and structural adjustment—all of these are the cost. They are not unfortunate side effects of an otherwise functional system. They are the system’s essential operating expenses, the price of delaying its reckoning one more quarter, one more fiscal year, one more election cycle.

The Violence Turns Inward: The Rise of the Post-Liberal State

The current structural crisis of capitalism is not merely an economic downturn; it is a systemic legitimacy crisis that is accelerating the mutation of Western liberal democracies into something far more authoritarian. As traditional avenues for capital accumulation falter and social contracts fray under the weight of inequality, the ruling class is abandoning the pretence of consent in favour of direct coercion.

The decades-long drift toward a surveillance state has now crystallized into a fully-fledged digital panopticon, where Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) promise not just monetary control but the capacity for real-time financial censorship and social credit scoring. This technological infrastructure of control is being normalized on the streets by the visible presence of armed federal agents and the tacit acceptance of anonymous, masked militias who enforce the new normal through intimidation and violence.

The once utopian rhetoric of Silicon Valley and the World Economic Forum has soured into a dystopian managerialism, openly dismissing democratic processes as obstacles to efficiency. We must recognize that fascism in the 21st century does not require

The Reckoning

There will be a reckoning. Not because justice demands it, though it does, and not because the victims of this system deserve relief, though they do. Because the contradictions are now too concentrated and the collateral too depleted. Because a pyramid with a shrinking base cannot grow indefinitely. Because a system that must constantly escalate to survive has nowhere left to escalate.

The form this reckoning takes is not predetermined. It could be the catastrophic war that the geopolitical confrontation is preparing. It could be the sudden, quiet collapse of an overextended financial institution that reveals, too late, that the emperor has no clothes. It could be the slow disintegration of American coercive capacity, leaving the global enforcer unable to enforce and the parasitic oligarchy without its host. It could be the continued construction, by China and its partners, of an alternative economic order that simply renders the Western pyramid irrelevant.

What it will not be is a return to stability within the existing framework. That framework is exhausted. It has extracted everything extractable from its traditional domains. It has financialized every asset susceptible to financialization. It has subordinated every state vulnerable to subordination. What remains are the powers that cannot be subordinated without war, and the assets that cannot be financialized without destroying them in the process.

The terrible irony is that victory in any or all of the current confrontations would not resolve the underlying diagnosis. It would only delay the inevitable, while consuming the collateral that might have supported a genuine transition. The system’s bid for survival through escalation is what makes total collapse—or catastrophic war—most likely. It is the final, fatal logic of a mode of accumulation that has outlived its historical function and now survives only by cannibalizing its own future.

There is no moral to this story, no concluding prescription for how to avert the catastrophe. The catastrophe is already underway. It has been underway for decades, wearing the disguises of structural adjustment and financial innovation and humanitarian intervention and great power competition. The task is not to prevent what cannot be prevented, but to recognize it for what it is: not a series of disconnected crises, but one crisis with many fronts. Not a failure of policy, but the successful execution of a system whose success is indistinguishable from its collapse.

The pyramid stands, for now. Its peak is invisible, its base is cracking, and its architects are frantically stuffing the last available bricks of real collateral into its foundations. They believe they are saving the edifice. They are only delaying its fall, while ensuring that when it falls, it takes everything down with it.

This is not pessimism. It is realism of the only kind that remains useful: the realism that refuses to mistake the system’s survival for health, its escalation for strength, its violence for purpose. The pyramid will fall. The only remaining questions are when, and how, and what we are willing to build from its ruins.

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American Political & Military Leaders are Criminally Insane

By Larry Romanoff

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth at the military leaders meeting in Quantico, VA. Hegseth just wanted a stage, a crowd, and a chance to hear himself roar and make generals “obey his commands.” What a joke! Source

Introduction

We can begin with an article by Jim Kouri citing an FBI study which stated:

“… character traits exhibited by serial killers or criminals may be observed in many within the political arena. They share the traits of psychopaths who are not sensitive to altruistic appeals, such as sympathy for their victims or remorse or guilt over their crimes. Is it any wonder that America is failing at home and world-wide?” (1)

American Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries of State, Defense Secretaries, White House staff, and many Senators and Congressmen display many or most of the traits of criminal psychopaths and mass murderers. Evidence of US government atrocities is not difficult to find. (2) The government of the United States of America has always been a criminal enterprise, ruled most often by thugs and genocidal psychopathic killers. I doubt there is much dispute in the world today about the intrinsic evil that seems to permeate the US government and the Deep State that controls it, nor about the insane criminality inherent in most of its foreign policies. But these are startling accusations nevertheless, so let’s examine the substantiation.

Theodore Roosevelt, the Nobel Peace Prize winner disturbing views of Native Americans: Speaking in New York City in January 1886, Roosevelt gave a lecture entitled “Ranch Life in the West” that expressed disturbing views of Native Americans:

“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the 10th.” Source

American presidents as a class constitute some of the most shameless myths of US history, always presented in glowing terms of wisdom, humanity and greatness when they were mostly racist genocidal thugs, engaged from the earliest days of the Republic in a never-ending series of genocide. For many years, killing native Indians was one of the best-paying jobs in America. It was the great George Washington who instructed his troops to skin the bodies of natives “from the hips downward to make boot tops or leggings” (3), and Theodore Roosevelt, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, was worse, claiming the lives of aboriginal natives were “as meaningless, squalid, and ferocious as the wild beasts”, and that the extermination of them and the theft of their land “was ultimately beneficial as it was inevitable”. The landing of Columbus in the New World set in motion a program of genocide that covered all the Americas, exterminating more than 125 million people including the entire Maya, Inca and Aztec civilisations, as well as the Carib Indians and 98% of American aboriginal peoples. (4)

Remember Bobby Garwood, and his story of the abandonment of US POWs in Vietnam? He claimed that hundreds of US POWs were abandoned during the Paris Peace talks in 1973 by Kissinger.A “Top Secret” Russian document was uncovered recently in their archives – a communist report from North Vietnam – which stated that 1,205 U.S. POW’s were being held in Vietnam in 1972. However, only 591 were released during Operation Homecoming in 1973. What happened to the other half in the span of only a year? Source

The sacrifice of American lives has always been part of the US war agenda. President McKinley ordered the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, killing about 400 American sailors, as an excuse to begin a war with Spain, as Woodrow Wilson ordered the Lusitania sacrificed, along with more than 1,000 lives, as an excuse to enter the European war. (5) (6) Also now beyond dispute is that Roosevelt knew the location of the Japanese fleet and the expected time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, engineered as an excuse to enter the European war, sacrificing thousands of American lives by not informing Pearl Harbor. (7) (8) It is now proven the US abandoned more than 1,000 POWs in Vietnam whose release was conditional on the payment of $2 billion in reparations the Americans had no intention of honoring. (9)

Wars of aggression are one of the defining characteristics of the United States of America, the country having been at war for about 235 of its 245 years as a nation. Extreme diplomatic and economic interference run a close second. During the past 200 years, there remains only a small handful of largely insignificant nations that the US has not invaded, destroyed, sanctioned, bankrupted, interfered grotesquely with in elections, launched massive terrorist or biological attacks against, or otherwise brutalised. Here is a link to one article outlining the more egregious attacks the US has made on Canada, (10) two relating to China (11) (12) and one to Iraq. (13)

Former US President Jimmy Carter said,

“We sent Marines into Lebanon, and you only have to go to Lebanon, to Syria or to Jordan to witness first-hand the intense hatred among many people for the United States because we bombed and shelled and unmercifully killed totally innocent villagers – women and children and farmers and housewives – in those villages around Beirut. As a result of that, we became kind of a Satan in the minds of those who are deeply resentful”. He also stated the US was the most warlike nation in the history of the world. (14) This is one reason the US has for so long been listed as the most hated nation in the world.

Americans (and others) may be surprised to learn that the US has never installed a democratic government in any country, ever. Instead, in more than 50 instances, the US has forcibly overthrown a peaceful and legitimate government and installed a brutal psychopathic killer-dictator. (15)

Trump orders strike that kills Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and other military officials in Baghdad, Pentagon says. Source

Assassinations are also one of the defining characteristics of the US. In more than 150 instances the US has killed the Chief of State or leading executives of other nations, including a Secretary-General of the UN, in retribution for their resistance to American bullying and plundering. (16) This does not include the failures, notably three attempts at China’s Premier Zhou En-lai or the 638 attempts against Fidel Castro. In the past, these ‘black ops’ were done in intense secrecy and vehemently denied, but today they are done openly and freely admitted as occurred recently with Solemani in Iran, assassination now apparently included in the American definition of ‘democracy’.

Terrorism is also a fixed characteristic of the US as an integral element of the nation’s foreign policy. It isn’t much in dispute anywhere that the violent terrorist uprising in Tibet in 2008 was America’s gift to China for the Olympics, as was the terrorist attack in Sochi in 2014 the equivalent gift to Russia’s Olympics. Nor is it in dispute that the primary terrorist organisations in the world today were formed, financed and trained by the US.

The US Operation Phoenix in Vietnam tortured to death more than 45,000 Vietnamese, mostly poor farmers. Source

The United States government has always employed torture against citizens of other nations. I have photos of US soldiers waterboarding civilians in the Philippines in the early 1900s. The US Operation Phoenix in Vietnam tortured to death more than 45,000 Vietnamese, mostly poor farmers. American soldiers were unanimous that no one who entered Project Phoenix emerged alive. More recently, the US was discovered to have created the largest network of torture prisons and prison ships in the history of the world, centered on places like Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Baghram, and Diego Garcia. Amnesty International described Abu Ghraib as “a center of torture and executions”, as were they all. (17)

Detained members of a youth wing of Indonesia’s Communist Party in Jakarta in October 1965. Half a million Indonesians or more, many of whom had no connection to communism, were estimated to have been killed during the crackdown.Credit…Associated Press. Source

In subjugating nations to American supremacy, the US has for a century specialised in what the military calls “civilian pacification”, which is the indiscriminate slaughter of unlimited numbers of civilians, as the preferred method to instill permanent fear and obedience in a people. One of the worst was the CIA coup in Indonesia to replace Suharno with Sukarto in the 1960s, where more than three million civilians were killed openly and publicly in the largest single slaughter of humans in the history of the world, non-stop for weeks on end until the nation’s rivers were all running red with blood. Smaller examples exist in dozens of other nations, most recently in Iraq and Libya. The United States is the only nation in the world with a “university” established specifically for the purpose of teaching the techniques of torture and civilian pacification to all the world’s thuggish dictators – the infamous School of the Americas, in Ft. Benning, Georgia. (18)

Biological Warfare is another fixed characteristic of the United States of America. Igor Nikulin, a former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons, states that the US military has 400 biological weapons labs spread around the world, mostly surrounding Russia and China, conveniently outside the purview of Congress and also outside the control of the hapless local nation. It is no longer in dispute the US was behind the biological war unleashed on China during the Korean war, and it is widely accepted in much of the world that SARS was unleashed by the US as an attack on China, (19) as were the seven other biological attacks during the past several years. (20) (21) Also, it appears almost a certainty that Beijing’s Xinfadi Market was re-seeded with COVID-20 in June by the same people. (22) At the same time you might care to read about the US intense interest in biological warfare development. (23) (24) (25) The latter reference describes the development of American GM food as the almost ideal biological weapon.

Kayla and Hannah Diegel suffer from a rare form of mitochondrial disease, and were removed from the custody of their parents in 2014 for allegedly disagreeing with their doctors. Are they a subject of a drug trial? Source

Human experimentation involving unspeakable atrocities is also a defining characteristic of America. This is such a large category it is almost impossible to know where to begin. We could start with MK-ULTRA, which is almost certainly the most horrendous catalogue of death, deprivation, torture, sexual abuse, and unimaginable and excruciating mental and psychological abuse, very often performed on small children. (26)

Group photo of members from Training and Education Division of Unit 731. Their victims were not humans; they were maruta (logs). Source

It is more or less well-known now that Shiro Ishii conducted horrific human experiments in his infamous Unit 731 in Harbin, China, including live vivisections. A condition of the Japanese surrender after World War II was that Ishii turn over to the US all the documentation on his experiments in return for complete immunity against prosecution for war crimes. Further, Ishii and his entire troop of Frankensteins were imported to the US where they were given new identities and housed on US military bases, and Ishii was given a position as professor and a supervisor of biological research at the University of Maryland, a position he held until his death decades later. There is another curious matter involving the transfer of about 500,000 German POWs to the US during and after WWII, with their apparent disappearance and no record of them ever leaving to return home as claimed. (27)

Children at Fernald State School fed Radioactive Cereal by scientist at MIT & Harvard University. Source

In addition to this, the US government and military conducted literally thousands of clandestine human experiments on millions of American citizens without their knowledge, as well as on the peoples of other nations. These included nuclear radiation and almost every kind of pathogen known to man, with frequently lethal results. There is so much here it is almost impossible to describe, but I documented much of this in an article you may care to examine. (28)

One of the main arrows in the American diplomatic quiver is food (and other) embargoes against poorer nations resisting American-style democracy, freedom and human rights, i.e. raping, looting and plundering. A typical example was China’s Great Famine of 1959-1961, initiated by America’s European friends but, the US being the military and diplomatic enforcer. (29) And this was by no means the first or last time the Americans have launched such measures. They did the same to punish China during the Korean War, and repeated periodically until the 1970s. The US has done the same to other nations in matters other than food. A current example is the US so-called “sanctions” on Iran, freezing all foreign assets and income, thus denying Iran the currency to purchase COVID-19 vaccines.

Cuba has achieved milestones that many rich countries have not. Its education system is universal, free and of high quality: the literacy rate exceeds 99 per cent, and thousands of engineers, scientists and teachers graduate every year. In health, it has one of the highest ratios of doctors per capita in the world and has developed its own vaccines against cancer, meningitis and SARS-CoV-2. Its biotechnology, despite the blockade, is admired globally. In culture, it has produced world-class writers, musicians, filmmakers and artists, many trained in public institutions accessible to all.All of this has been built under constant pressure from an inhumane blockade.Source

The US has also specialised in ‘economic embargoes’, financially strangling a small country resistant to American plundering, as it has done to Cuba for 70 years, proudly forcing that little nation to remain undeveloped and in poverty for generations. The US is famous in many parts of the world for repeatedly invading, then forcing open – and emptying, the vaults of a little nation’s central bank. A related tactic was to force most of Central and South American nations to permit the US to “manage” all their cash and currency reserves, the money being invested in New York property development, making billions for the bankers while the captive little nations received 1% on their money.

Dwight Eisenhower

Around 8 million Germans were killed during the war, while in a similar period after the war, around 13 million were killed as a result of expulsions, mass murders, brutality, exposure and deliberate starvation. Source The US Army’s policy was not to provide “shelter or other amenities”. In the prison camp, people lived in holes they dug in the ground. Image source: James Bacque‘s book “Other Losses”. Text source

Few people today are aware the Americans in Germany hold a record for brutal mass murders, provably having murdered between 12 and 14 million Germans in American concentration camps – in Germany – after the war ended. (30)

Curtis LeMay

US military General Curtis LeMay was one of the most insane genocidal maniacs and mass murderers history, largely responsible for the killing of perhaps 1,000,000 civilians during the American fire-bombing of Dresden and many other cities in Germany. In Korea, LeMay bombed and totally destroyed every city, town and village, as well as the dams on which the nation’s food supply depended, later boasting “We killed what – 40% of the entire population?”, and also supervised the distribution of biological pathogens over large parts of North Korea and of North-Eastern China. In Japan, LeMay fire-bombed almost 100 Japanese cities, killing fully 50% of the civilian inhabitants, a death toll of at least 10 million. The fire-bombing of Tokyo’s Shitamachi District alone produced about 1 million deaths. (31)

Henry Kissinger

This nefarious top secret document, also known as National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), was classified until the late 80’s. It has the subject heading “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The document was the result of collaboration between the CIA, USAID, and the Departments of State, Defense, and Agriculture. Source

Henry Kissinger holds the record for the largest number of civilians ever killed in Asia, for which he was given the Nobel Peace Prize. Kissinger and US President Lyndon Johnson share responsibility for not only the 5 million primarily civilian deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, but for the 1965-1966 genocidal civilian exterminations in Indonesia where at least three million were killed in the single greatest human slaughter in recorded history, and one which the US still attempts to deny today. (32) (33) Kissinger is also famous for the reprehensible NSSM 200 document, essentially a world depopulation program.

Ronald Reagan

At the closing ceremony for the Geneva Summit, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan face away from each other, 21st November 1985. Source

Reagan was responsible for supporting a decade of mass civilian slaughter throughout Latin America by the CIA Death Squads, with deaths in the millions. These involved the infamous ‘School of the Americas’ torture institution, and the distribution and instruction of their 1,000-page torture manual, and which altogether cut a swath of torture, massacres, altogether constituting one of the most brutal and terrifying periods of repression of civilian populations the world has ever experienced. American brutality in South and Central America during this time was so obscene it finally turned the stomach of the entire world. Reagan’s Secretaries of State were Alexander Haig and George Shultz, with Haig also active in Vietnam and Korea.

Robert McNamara

On September 1, 1970,Senator George McGovern said: “Every Senator [here] is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave… This chamber reeks of blood… It does not take any courage at all for a congressman or a senator or a president to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Vietnam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.” Source

It was McNamara who planned the firebombing of Japanese cities by Curtis Lemay, openly admitting that was a heinous war crime, since the fire-bombing of those cities would mean the killing almost entirely of civilians – women, children and the elderly. Yet in writing his memoirs he not only dismissed this fact and displayed absolutely no remorse for his actions. It was McNamara who designed Project 100,000 in which he recruited and shipped almost 500,000 severely retarded young men (average IQ about 65) to Vietnam, poorly-trained and pitifully unable to deal with the complexities of jungle warfare. Few returned. (34) (35) He was responsible for the production and widespread distribution of the dioxin Agent Orange and of the use of napalm. It was under McNamara’s supervision that was created the Phoenix Project that tortured to death more than 45,000 thousands of Vietnamese civilians. It was under McNamara that plans were first formulated and funds requested from Congress to research and develop the biological weapon we now know as HIV.

Madeleine Albright

FILE – President Barack Obama awards Madeleine Albright the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House, on May 29, 2012, in Washington. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File). Source

American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright holds the record as the most prolific baby-killer of all time. With Bill Clinton’s support, the US military targeted for destruction all of Iraq’s drinking water facilities and prevented the delivery of replacement purification supplies. The UN confirmed that this resulted in the deaths of more than 500,000 infant lives alone. In a famous TV interview on the popular program 60 Minutes, Albright was asked if this “punishment” of Iraq was worth the cost in infant lives, to which she replied that “Yes, it was worth it”. For this, Obama awarded her the highest American honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

When you engineer a food embargo against a nation experiencing a food shortage and watch tens of millions starve to death, if that isn’t pure evil, then what would be? When you institute powerful economic sanctions upon a small and helpless nation, enslaving them in perpetual poverty, in retribution for their resistance to your looting and plundering, if that isn’t evil, then what would be? When you overthrow a nation’s legitimate government and install a brutal psychopathic dictator to obtain the subjection and raping of a nation and its resources, if that isn’t evil, then what would be? When you engage in the wholesale torture and extermination of civilians in an innocent country, if that isn’t criminal insanity, then what would be?

Those people named above, and many more, are human monsters, criminals by any measure, pathological mass murderers fully equal to the worst of history. But, as with all American history, the truth has been replaced with mythology that permits all Americans to sleep comfortably knowing they made the world safe for democracy. On such despicable fiction is built the entire edifice of America.

The White House, Congress, and the US military have not been so heavily populated with sociopaths, psychopaths and bloodthirsty killers by mistake. The US has had embedded in its government the longest unbroken string of remorseless killers in history, a great many drawn from major corporations where they received their practical training. The leaders of America have mostly been corrupt to the core, men to whom human life has no value or meaning and for whom money and power are all. They have mostly all been, as someone wrote, “Strange, soulless men, Satan-worshippers”. The leaders of the great United States of America, both men and women, have largely been pustulent festering boils on the face of a beautiful world.

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Notes

(1) https://www.federaljack.com/study-politicians-share-personality-traits-with-serial-killers/

(2) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/11/the-psychopathic-called-america.html

(3) https://aigenom.org/editorial/newcomb-on-americas-pathological-behavior-toward-native-peoples/

(4) https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/19158

(5) https://capitalismtheliberalrevolution.com/blog/the-sacrifice-of-the-lusitania/

(6) https://www.amazon.com/Wilful-Murder-Lusitania-Diana-Preston/dp/0385601735

(7) http://www.nypress.com/news/fdr-knew-pearl-harbor-was-coming-EBNP1020010614306149999

(8) https://www.straightdope.com/21343027/did-roosevelt-know-in-advance-about-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-yet-say-nothing

(9)https://thenewamerican.com/print/evidence-of-pows-from-vietnam/

(10) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/us-interventions-in-canada-brief-history.html

(11) https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/tiananmen-square-the-failure-of-an-american-instigated-1989-color-revolution/

(12) https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-american-infiltration-of-chinas-xinjiang/

(13) https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/humanity-at-the-crossroads/

(14) https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/19/jimmy-carter-us-most-warlike-nation-in-history-of-the-world/

(15)https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/spreading-democracy-american-way.html https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/spreading-democracy-the-american-way-november-29-2020/

(16) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/the-cias-greatest-hits-us-government.html

(17) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-abu-ghraib-prison-court-torture-scandal-soldiers-a8831881.html

(18) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/the-school-of-americas.html

(19) https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/860/
(SARS)

(20) https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/were-covid-19-and-covid-20-created-in-a-us-lab/

(21) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/part-2-paradigm-shift-covid-19-needs.html

(22) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/06/covid-19-china-reseeded-with-covid-20.html

(23)https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/biological-weapons-useful-and-timely.html

(24) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/the-geopolitical-deployment-of.html

(25)https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/genetically-modified-seeds-conceived-as.html

(26) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/07/cia-project-mk-ultra-july-2-2020.html

(27) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/06/larry-romanoff-prisoner-of-war-camps-in.html

(28) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/the-us-government-declares-war-on.html

(29) https://english.pravda.ru/society/145495-famine_china_guilty/

(30)https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/01/20/eisenhowers-death-camps/

(31) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/japan-ending-war-and-saving-lives-by.html

(32) http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch26-indo2.htm

(33) https://time.com/4055185/indonesia-anticommunist-massacre-holocaust-killings-1965/

(34) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/robert-mcnamaras-infamous-project.html

(35) https://www.salon.com/2002/05/30/mcnamara_3/

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Tesla Self-Driving Fraud and Fail (Part 3 of 4)

Typical result of driving with Tesla FSD. Source:

Contents

Introduction

The (Imaginary) Appreciating Asset

The (Real) Depreciating Asset

Fundamental Flaws of Tesla’s FSD

Why did Tesla abandon radar and LIDAR?

Espionage and Population Suppression

FSD Critical Limitations

Uncontrolled and Irresponsible

FSD Crashes, Injuries, Deaths

Tesla FSD Fraudulent Videos: -Killing Children and Walter Huang

Desperate Secrecy

FSD Subscriptions

Tesla FSD in China

Introduction

A long series of Tesla’s frauds and fails involves the company’s “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) feature. Elon Musk repeatedly – and falsely – promoted FSD as autonomous, when it was no such thing. His claims constituted criminal fraud on a grand scale, since Tesla autos using FSD had, by 2025, been involved in around 1,000 accidents and about 100 fatalities. The Washington Post reported that Tesla’s vaunted “autopilot” technology was responsible for about 95% of the US crashes involving driver assistance. [1] In fact, reports are that Tesla’s FSD has been involved in far more accidents than the systems from all other manufacturers combined. [2] Yet Musk blithely still maintains that “cars operating in Tesla’s Autopilot mode are safer than those piloted solely by human drivers”. [3] For these reasons, Tesla has been repeatedly under criminal investigation in the US and Europe, and is prohibited in China. [4] Elon Musk insists on marketing the system as “Full Self-Driving”, but regulators class it as only a Level 2 ADAS system, requiring constant driver supervision. This is one reason it is blocked in China. In Europe, “testing” is limited to Norway and the Netherlands, and only under strict supervision. It is only in the US where Tesla is being politically supported (by both the government and the courts) in spite of the rash of serious accidents and deaths.

US prosecutors have repeatedly investigated Tesla for misleading investors and consumers about its FSD capabilities, including statements by Elon Musk that Tesla cars can drive themselves. These agencies separately investigated hundreds of crashes, including fatal ones, of Teslas with FSD engaged. These are criminal investigations [5] involving securities fraud, wire fraud, deception in interstate communications, misleading consumers, consumer fraud, false advertising, and deceiving investors.

In 2025, the government of California filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla for lying about the effectiveness of FSD. The lawsuit claims Musk and Tesla were deceiving buyers to believe Tesla cars could function autonomously “which they could not and cannot do”, constituting false advertising and consumer fraud. [6] The government planned to ban the sale of Tesla cars in California for some stated period. In similar circumstances, a German court convicted Tesla of false advertising, and the use of FSD in Germany is now prohibited – while Tesla opens a factory in Germany. [7]

The news is even more disturbing, because Tesla and Elon Musk seem to have a congenital habit of blaming the victim for all of Tesla’s FSD erratic behavior, accidents and fatalities. Tesla installs games in their cars – for drivers to play while the car is moving, but then blames 1,000 accidents and 100 deaths plus all other mishaps on “inattentive drivers”. One news source reflected the majority opinion by stating that Musk and Tesla attribute all FSD events to irresponsible drivers. Neither Tesla nor Elon Musk are ever to blame, nor do they accept any responsibility for malfunctions, accidents or fatalities. According to Musk: “If something goes wrong with Autopilot, it’s because someone is misusing it.” [8] This is a classic “blame the victim” philosophy, where responsibility is always diffused. I covered this aspect in an earlier article on Elon Musk’s corporate character. [9] You might find it of interest.

The FSD software is so flawed that almost all the Teslas sold in the US since inception have had to be recalled, in many cases more than once. In 2024, Tesla sold less than 4% of the vehicles in the US, but had nearly 20% of all recalls. [10] [11] But it seems that recalls and software updates often make things worse, rather than better. A reporter for The Washington Post wrote in December of 2023 that his Tesla Model Y received an FSD update “to make it safer”, and immediately after, “it blew through two stop signs without even slowing down”. He wrote that after Tesla’s recall “I don’t feel much safer – and neither should you”. [12] It is noteworthy that this particular recall was Tesla’s largest, affecting more or less every Tesla ever sold.

It is now a matter of widespread ridicule that Elon Musk has been fantasising publicly about Tesla’s full self-driving future for more than a decade, claiming “Full Self-Driving (FSD) Coming Next Year”. [13] “FSD will exceed human driving by next year.” [14] The only problem is that a reliable FSD has been only “one year away” every year since 2014. Yet, as of 2026, Tesla’s FSD has never worked to a safe level – and may never. The reality is that Tesla’s FSD remains at Level 2, far from autonomous, and clearly not ready for autonomous deployment.

A Washington Post article stated that while Elon Musk continually claims perfect FSD is “coming soon”, he clearly cannot produce it. “Musk had been promising this “coming soon next year” for 11 years, and yet he is no closer to this achievement.” [15] In substitute, Musk has repeatedly produced videos where Teslas were purported to be operating autonomously, but where the videos were later proven to be staged and fraudulent. Tesla’s FSD director admitted to the California government that Elon Musk’s estimate that the “car will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of human” by the end of that year did “not match engineering reality”. Bloomberg reported that despite all the accidents and deaths caused by his FSD, Musk still ordered the production of criminally-dishonest videos claiming a “completely driverless” Tesla. [16]

Elon Musk is famous for making extravagant claims and false promises about the capabilities of Tesla cars. In 2016, Musk told an audience, “Within two years you’ll be able to summon your car from across the country. It will meet you wherever your phone is … and it will just automatically charge itself along the entire journey.” [17] To emphasise the banality of Musk’s claim, the owner of a private jet did a one-click “smart summoning” of his Tesla to bring the car to his airplane. The car obeyed, crashed into his airplane and continued on, not stopping at the plane at all. [18] [18a] It would seem that Musk’s FSD software could use an upgrade. The NHTSA has launched an investigation into Tesla’s Smart Summoning feature, due to crashes that occurred when users tried to remotely move their cars. Apparently, “summoned” Teslas fail to recognise either private jets or parked cars as obstructions. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

Much worse, in 2026 Musk created a carefully-scripted “Messiah” video where he tells the interviewer that “this year” (2026), “you can fall asleep in your Tesla and wake up at your destination.” [19] That is an astonishing, breathtaking lie. Not only astonishing, but stupid. The reality is that Tesla’s FSD is unreliable and unsafe – at any price.

It’s interesting that there is another side to Tesla’s FSD promotions. The marketing hype that Tesla and Elon Musk propagate to the public is very different from what is told privately to investors. Aside from the “selective honesty”, it is stunning to see the foolishness of Musk’s babble on FSD. The man speaks nonsense, and is so incoherent he leaves a strong impression that he must be on drugs. In a Q2 Earnings Call in 2022, discussing the flood of automobile accidents involving Tesla’s Self-Driving software, Musk stated, “Autopilot Crashes Are Just Like Plane Crashes … But Good. Planes still crash, but flying is safe! So … Autopilot crashes are fine.” [20] However, aviation has 0.01% of Tesla’s crash rate.

In a Q3 Earnings Call in 2023, discussing the huge accident volume involving Tesla’s FSD software, Musk stated, “Autopilot is Safer Than a Human … except when it’s not. Statistically, Autopilot is safer … but you still gotta watch it like a hawk.” [21] In a YouTube interview, Musk claimed that Tesla’s “FSD is … kinda like a human. But better. Maybe. It’s basically solved, except for, uh … edge cases.” [22] Except that the “edge cases” include situations like rain, pedestrians, stationary vehicles, bus lanes, poorly-marked lanes, construction zones, and factually comprise about 99% of driving. Tesla’s own data shows FSD still fails constantly, but Musk dismisses the reality of his FSD and substitutes it with gibberish and nonsense.

The (Imaginary) Appreciating Asset

Elon Musk Tesla LOSE HUGE court case. Source

One of Elon Musk’s biggest lies was undoubtedly the story line that Tesla vehicles were “appreciating assets”. In an ARK Invest Podcast in 2021, Elon Musk said that “AI Will Make Cars ‘Appreciate in Value’ Like Art. FSD will make Teslas worth more over time … like a vintage Ferrari!” [23] Musk’s fantasy should have meant that very soon the world will be literally flooded with millions of very expensive “vintage Ferraris”. [24] The fiction was connected to Musk’s delusion that his “self-driving” software was so unique, so special, and so valuable, that any auto containing it would have a value of $100,000 for the software alone. [25] When Elon Musk first floated the idea of FSD, he imagined he would have no competition, that his product would be one of a kind. If Musk’s Teslas were the only car with FSD, they might appreciate. But with other automakers including a superior product at no extra charge, the massive windfall Musk expected from selling his version of FSD, will never materialise.

The (Real) Depreciating Asset

Tesla resale values. Source: Creative Planning

Tesla vehicles depreciate in resale value at about three times the rate of the rest of the market [26] [27] [28] and, according to auto reports, Musk’s famed (and defamed) “Cybertruck” depreciates by 58% in the first year.

Fundamental Flaws of Tesla’s FSD

I assume readers are familiar with Tesla’s many tribulations over its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software. Elon Musk claims that “humans use only eyes to drive”, so camera vision is all that is necessary for autos. Musk continues to promote this as fully-autonomous and far superior to human control, while 1,000 accidents and nearly 100 deaths suggest otherwise. However, due primarily to the lack of technical ability, Elon Musk made a decision years ago to forego quality and security in the design of FSD. And that meant foregoing most of the advanced sensors available and to proceed with a camera-only version of autonomous driving software. To say this was a bad decision would be quite an understatement. This is important for our purpose here, because this stubborn flawed reasoning has been transferred from Tesla autos to the Robotaxi, the Cybercab, the Tesla semi, and the Optimus robot, almost certainly to experience the same unpleasant results.

The core of the issue is the fact that functioning in dynamic human spaces needs more than simple vision. The prevailing expert opinion is that cameras lack crucial information an auto needs to interact with the physical world. The entire industry – except for Elon Musk – has moved to multi-modal sensing. All serious auto and robotics manufacturers use a multitude of different sensory inputs, including cameras, LIDAR, and radar, to sense and interpret the physical world. But Tesla, due to Elon Musk’s ignorance and hubris, crucially abandoned both LIDAR and radar and chose to use cameras only for the FSD. LIDAR is “light detection and ranging”, a remote-sensing technology that uses laser beams to measure precise distances and movement in an environment, in real time. [29] BYD and most other auto makers have been able to very successfully integrate LIDAR, radar, and cameras for a much superior safety and performance result. Tesla could not.

Musk claims having cameras and LIDAR is unsafe because the car won’t know how to react if the two sensory inputs seem to disagree, [30] but that’s merely an excuse to justify a position he’s already taken. It is noteworthy that no other automakers using both systems have ever reported a “disagreement of sensory inputs”. Relying solely on cameras is a serious strategic risk, as it ignores other sensory dimensions critical to physical interaction and nuanced understanding. But Musk has closed this door and is committing all his AI projects to a badly-flawed sensory perception system.

The core issue is sensory perception, which we can think of as “spatial intelligence”. Covered in an excellent paper by the China Academy [31], spatial intelligence is the scaffolding upon which our cognition is built, always at work when we observe. “It drives our reasoning and planning, and it’s essential to the way we interact physically, with our environment. But AI’s spatial capabilities remain far from human level. Even the most highly-developed LLM models have fundamental limitations when representing or interacting with the physical world, and rarely perform better than chance on estimating distance, orientation, or size. Our view of the world is holistic—not just what we’re looking at, but how everything relates spatially, what it means, and why it matters. AI is disconnected from the physical reality it seeks to understand, and building a spatially intelligent AI is far beyond the reach of today’s LLMs and FSD.“

But in addition to spatial intelligence, specifically in driving a car, we humans use all our senses (except taste). In particular, human vision is binocular, which means stereoscopic. [32] This gives us depth perception, which cameras lack. With binocular vision, two eyes see the same object but from a different perspective, and the brain merges these images into a 3-D picture which permits better perception of size, depth and distance. Monocular vision (one eye) is unable to accurately measure distance or subtle differences in depth. We humans also have peripheral vision, the ability to see objects and movement outside our direct line of sight – things we are not directly looking at. It isn’t widely understood, but peripheral vision is immensely capable of informing higher-order understanding of situation and context. It can detect motion even though it cannot identify what is moving, and is especially good in low-light situations. [33] AI-generated FSD has no such abilities.

When driving, we also use sound to detect anything unusual, and also our sense of touch, to “feel” the road conditions and other things. We humans also have our intuition, which is usually defined as the ability to understand something instinctively, and without the need for conscious reasoning. These are unexplained feelings that something is true, even when we have no evidence or proof, and they play a significant role in our decision-making. Our intuition not only awakens us to a possibility but gives us a “gut feeling” about what to do next. We also often experience instantly-recovered memories of a similar situation perhaps long in the past, where that situation spelled danger or advised caution. Autonomous driving systems are incapable of these things, which is why multi-modal perception is so important. Human intuition and the memories of human experience are perhaps the best and most important sensors.

Tesla’s FSD faces several other critical technical limitations that hinder its reliability and prevent regulatory approval. One shortcoming is that Tesla’s pure vision solution has an extremely high demand for computing power, causing time lag and unreliable performance; in many situations the system is stretched beyond its limits. All Tesla pre-2024 models lack sufficient processing power, but retrofitting older cars is costly and impractical. Also, Musk refused to adopt the sub-meter high-precision positioning system, which can accurately locate a vehicle with a centimeter-level error. This is crucial for intelligent driving, and leaves Tesla with permanent limitations in positioning accuracy. [34] Also, FSD has what some call a “Black Box Problem”; the system is designed with an end-to-end neural network that functions a “black box”, making it nearly impossible for system engineers to specifically trace why FSD makes erratic and wrong decisions.

Why did Tesla abandon radar and LIDAR?

This choice was made at the outset by a company other than Tesla. When Elon Musk entered the world of FSD, he did so under the influence of bad advice and incompetent technical resources. Tesla had a critical lack of ability to develop their own system, so Elon Musk turned to a Jewish firm in Israel named Mobileye, founded in 1999 by Amnon Shashua, and who had produced a rudimentary system using only cameras for sensors. It was they who developed Tesla’s original FSD software and Autopilot system using Mobileye’s EyeQ3 chip. But Mobileye was primarily a group of ex-Mossad computer hackers who were more interested in creating and selling clandestine “remote control” systems for autos (think FBI, CIA, NSA, MI5, IDF), than about driving safety.

Mobileye were unable to produce working software using radar and LIDAR. Since Tesla had no other source at the time, and lacked both R&D and engineering resources, they had no choice but to accept the Mobileye product and jettison the higher-level sensors. However, their partnership ended abruptly in 2016 after a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S using Autopilot. It seems that Elon Musk – as always – pushed the system far beyond its safe limits and someone died – the first of many. Mobileye publicly condemned Tesla for aggressively exceeding safe limits, leading to “a contentious breakup”. Tesla then shifted to in-house development, led by Andrej Karpathy, who built Tesla Vision—a pure camera-based system—rejecting radar and LIDAR. Tesla engineers wanted to add more robust systems to FSD, but Elon Musk personally rejected the idea. [35] The claim that Tesla’s cars are better off without both LIDAR and radar is Elon Musk burying the facts of a huge failure.

Ashok Elluswamy was the leader of Tesla’s autonomous driving team, where he immediately pushed the Tesla’s FSD software to camera-centric perception. [36] This was not merely a technical choice but a deeply held ideological philosophy, [37] and will almost surely prove to be a critical blunder. [38] However, it will be impossible for Musk to change this architecture now, because the entire FSD system framework used for Tesla cars has been fully migrated to the Robotaxi/Cybercab, and the Optimus robot. All are employing essentially identical sensory functions. If Tesla were to scrap their eyes-only auto system and adopt LIDAR, the move would cripple not only Tesla cars but both the Robotaxi/Cybercab and Optimus. It would invalidate all the prior training and programming, and require Tesla to begin from scratch. This would mean a complete cancellation of all existing Tesla FSD models, as well as putting the Robotaxi/Cybercab and Optimus on hold for at least two years, pending development of entirely new systems. If this were done, Tesla’s stock would crash to 10% of its current level. This is what we call a “Hobson’s Choice”, i.e., no choice at all. Musk himself admitted that the FSD is “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.” [39]

Espionage and Population Suppression

From my research, one of the attractions touted when the Mobileye software first became public knowledge in the US was that the FBI could remotely disable all the automobiles in an area where citizens might be driving to participate in public protests. My assessment of Mobileye’s auto software was that it was primarily designed to accommodate fascist governments in population suppression. I would say there is also a high degree of certainty that it was Mobileye software that led to some very suspicious “accidents” causing the deaths of several investigative journalists and whistle-blowers in the past decade. Think of Michael Hastings. [40]

It is of special concern that both GM and Tesla (and likely many other Western automakers) are using the Jewish Mobileye programming [41] for their “self-drive” cars, because this technology is designed to permit remote control by anyone who possesses the underlying technology – meaning Western authorities and espionage agencies. Further, the Jewish News boasts that Mobileye is forming R&D and manufacturing partnerships with Intel, whose processors control virtually all computers in the world today. [42] The prospects from this are not comforting. Intel has deep US defense contracts and Pentagon AI projects, raising multiple concerns about militarised FSD deployment. This technology could potentially give Intel (as an agency of the US government) the power to shut down all computers in Russia or China in preparation for war. Mobileye was acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15 billion, [43] [44] and their self-driving unit is run by Mobileye management, in Jerusalem. Defend Democracy has an excellent article on this topic, with much information; “Your Car Is Spying on You – and Israeli Firms Are Leading”. [45] It appears that virtually every company specialising in this field is Jewish.

A related matter is Tesla’s “Smart Summon” feature, referred to earlier. This could indeed be a convenient feature, although Tesla owners aren’t informed that they aren’t the only ones who can summon their cars; anyone with access to the technology, including hackers and police and state agencies, – and Tesla itself – can do the same. Similarly, Musk announced that Tesla owners would soon be able to remotely control their car through their phones ‘like RC cars’. [46] Again, owners aren’t informed that Tesla itself, the police, and intelligence agencies, will be able to do the same. However, this was curious, because in 2023, Tesla claimed to be adding an option permitting owners to “disable” remote commands from Tesla. [47] Owners were not previously aware that Tesla secretly maintained the ability to fully control each Tesla car. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that Tesla actually proceeded with this change, and it would be impossible for an owner to verify the absence of Tesla’s remote control.

There is credible reporting and circumstantial evidence that autonomous vehicle technologies are easily weaponised or otherwise exploited for “authoritarian” purposes. The claims about remote vehicle shutdown are not paranoid; they are supported by patents and research. General Motors patented the OnStar system in 2015 (US20150057836) allowing police to remotely disable cars. And security researchers have demonstrated that Tesla’s “Kill Switch” can easily be used to remotely disable brakes and steering; this was at the Black Hat 2020 information security event. [48] The civilian “freedom” risks of this autonomous tech in state hands are undeniable. Like the Jewish Pegasus spyware (NSO Group-Israel), these systems can easily be weaponised by governments. Israel is a global leader in cyber-surveillance (e.g., NSO Group, Candiru), and Mobileye’s IDF contracts reveal military usage in autonomous suppression technology against Palestinians.

It isn’t widely advertised, but – for these same espionage reasons – Tesla is experiencing insurmountable obstacles in implementing its autonomous driving software in China. The official statement is that the restrictions on Tesla stem from “its heavy reliance on central coding of images” (i.e. military espionage), due to the clandestine forms of remote control designed into Mobileye’s original system. In my E-book “False Flags and Conspiracy Theories”, [49] you might care to read Section 9.3. Automobile Remote Control. It discusses this entire issue in some detail, and includes related references to Tesla and Mobileye.

In China, Tesla vehicles are banned from all military installations [50], all government buildings and property, many public venues, some entire airport premises, some highways, and a multitude of other locations, all due to Tesla’s “Sentry Mode” cameras. Many exhibition centers and meeting halls also refuse entry to Tesla vehicles, and this is becoming the norm. [51] The Shanghai Convention Center has completely banned Tesla vehicles from entering its premises, from parking or even simply passing by. Airports are the same. [52] The ban on Tesla has been widely implemented in government-related facilities used by citizens. Tesla vehicles are prohibited from driving on specific roads, and have been banned from central areas in some of China’s major cities. [53]

Uncontrolled and Irresponsible

Tesla owners have long complained of unpredictable and erratic behavior by the car’s FSD software, including sudden braking, missed road markings and crashes with parked emergency vehicles. Drivers reported that cars would stop short, blow through stop signs or suddenly veer off the road when lane markings were unclear. [54] Tesla is under investigation by US regulators for a host of issues including alleged steering failures and “phantom braking”. [55]

The Verge reported that a Tesla whistleblower (employee) leaked 100GB of data containing thousands of customer complaints that raised serious concerns about the safety of Tesla’s FSD. [55a] The data apparently contained reports about thousands of “self-acceleration” issues and more thousands of braking problems. There were many reports of “unintentional emergency braking” and hundreds of “phantom stops” from false collision warnings. Some of the incidents included descriptions of cars “suddenly braking or accelerating abruptly”, with many of those cars crashing into oncoming vehicles or ending up in the ditch. Many drivers were apparently unable to regain control once the FSD made a decision.

Tesla’s FSD is notorious for poor handling of what Musk terms “edge cases”. Situations involving left turns, rain, complex urban intersections, parked vehicles, school buses, emergency vehicles, regularly require human intervention. There are many cases where Tesla’s FSD ignored police hand signals, or attempted dangerous maneuvers like accelerating into crossing traffic. Tesla cars equipped with Autopilot and Full-Self Drive software have been recorded hitting parked police cars, clipping trains [55b] and veering off the road. [56] The WSJ published one of the many recorded crashes between Teslas and emergency safety vehicles. They stated, “Tesla’s heavy reliance on cameras for its autopilot technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, is putting the public at risk.” [57] [58] In reality, Elon Musk – as always – pushed a product onto the market long before it was ready, and is using the public as test victims for a beta product.

Tesla on FSD driving into a train. Source:

Tesla cars on FSD have had a bad habit for of crashing into emergency vehicles like ambulances or fire engines, even when the vehicles had flashing lights and displayed flares and other warning signs. [58a] [58b] The NHTSA has received more than a dozen reports of Teslas slamming into parked emergency vehicles while on Autopilot (at least 16 times). The AP reported in late 2021 that the US government opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s FSD after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles, causing multiple injuries and deaths. The investigation covered 765,000 vehicles, almost every car that Tesla sold in the US since 2014. [59] [60] Futurism considered this investigation “explosive”, from the fact that Teslas on FSD were crashing into emergency vehicles with such regularity. [61] Ominously, Carnegie-Mellon University told the Wall Street Journal that FSD will dangerously malfunction if it is not specifically “trained” on pictures and video of a particular situation. [62]

A Tesla Model S that crashed into a fire engine. Source CNN:

In one case detailed by the Intercept, a Tesla Model S on FSD suddenly braked in traffic on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle pileup that left nine people injured, including a 2-year-old. [63] In other complaints filed with NHTSA, owners say the cars slammed on the brakes when encountering semi trucks in oncoming lanes. Many crashes have involved similar settings and conditions. In another case, a motorcyclist on an Interstate highway was killed when a Tesla on Autopilot struck the bike from behind. [64] One expert said “it is very dangerous for motorcycles to be near a Tesla”, and indeed other riders have been killed by a Tesla, with the company facing increasing numbers of Autopilot-related wrongful death suits.

One Tesla owner was confused by his Model 3’s Autopilot system repeatedly slamming the brakes in a particular stretch of road. The camera system recognised a picture of a stop sign on a billboard as a real traffic sign, and simply came to a full stop in the middle of the road. In other cases, owners reported that the FSD responded to a yellow full moon as an amber traffic light. [65] In fact, it seems the FSD was confusing the moon for an endless string of traffic lights, repeatedly slowing down on an empty street with no traffic lights.

In one test case, a former NASA engineer painted a fake wall to look like a continuation of the highway, and the Tesla on FSD crashed right through it. The Futurism article noted that this situation might never be experienced on public roads, but still perfectly illustrates the shortcomings of Musk’s reliance solely on cameras. Yet Musk refuses to admit the obvious, and called LIDAR “fricking stupid, expensive and unnecessary.” [66]

Tesla Cybertruck blew through a fake wall, believing it was a road. Source: The Verge

But Elon Musk (and all of Tesla, by extension) must live in a different world than the rest of us. In a 2018 call with investors, Musk stated, “When there is a serious accident it is [always] the case that it is an experienced user, and the issue is more one of complacency. It’s not a lack of understanding of what Autopilot can do. It’s [drivers] thinking they know more about Autopilot than they do.” He further said, “If something goes wrong with Autopilot, it’s because someone is misusing it and using it directly contrary to how we’ve said it should be used.” So, when my Tesla FSD hits the brakes for a full moon, it’s my fault because I am “misusing” it. When my Tesla slams into a parked police car or fire engine, I am similarly “misusing” the FSD – or maybe thinking I know more than I do.

FSD Crashes, Injuries, Deaths

TESLA FSD mistake causes $70,000 CRASH. Source

Tesla’s promotion of FSD has been fraudulent on a grand scale, promoted as autonomous when it was never any such thing. [90] The beta software has caused so many accidents, deaths and injuries, yet Musk blithely maintains that “cars operating in Tesla’s Autopilot mode are safer than those piloted solely by human drivers”. [91] Few experts agree. Missy Cummings, director of Autonomy and Robotics at George Mason University, has repeatedly warned that people could die behind the wheel of Teslas operating FSD and Autopilot. According to Cummings, “I am besieged with requests from families of people who have been killed in Tesla crashes. It’s really tough to explain to them that … this is the way the tech was designed.” [92]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had some harsh words for Tesla. Wozniak stated that FSD makes Teslas incredibly unsafe to drive. He said, “If you want to learn about AI killing people, “Get a Tesla”. [93] Wozniak reported “phantom braking” issues on his own Model S, saying “It happened to us a hundred times, at least.” Musk apparently convinced Wozniak to buy a Tesla, claiming the car “would drive itself across the country, and it’s not even close to reality”. Wozniak argued that Tesla FSD could easily end up killing the occupant.

In 2025, a Washington Post investigation found that Tesla’s vaunted “autopilot” technology was linked to nearly all the US crashes involving driver assistance technologies since 2019. [94] The article stated that Tesla’s FSD and Autopilot systems have been involved in far more incidents than systems from all other manufacturers combined. [95] The WSJ uncovered hours of footage of crashes involving Teslas and, from more than 1,000 total accidents, extracted and investigated more than 200. [96] The report is still available to watch. [97] There is a wealth of data suggesting Tesla’s software isn’t just flawed but unpredictable and potentially very dangerous. US Federal regulators began only in 2021 requiring automakers to report FSD crashes, but have already logged nearly 1,000 in Teslas. [98] They released a report as early as 2024, stating that Tesla’s FSD was linked to hundreds of serious injuries and dozens of deaths. [99]

In Texas, two people were killed when a Tesla with no one in the driver’s seat crashed into a tree and burst into flames, starting a fire that 30,000 gallons of water could not extinguish. Authorities confirmed that no one was in the driver’s seat, [100] yet Elon Musk claimed that “data logs recovered” suggest that Autopilot was not engaged at the time of the crash. Does that make sense to you? How could the auto operate without FSD engaged if no one was in the driver’s seat? There was a case in Florida where a Tesla on FSD drove under the trailer of an 18-wheel truck. The judge ruled that Elon Musk knew about the flaws in his FSD but he allowed the system to continue to operate. [101] That should open the door to multiple criminal charges against Elon Musk of willful misconduct and gross negligence.

A former Tesla employee has told the BBC he believes the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads. He said attempts to highlight his concerns internally had been ignored. “I don’t think the hardware is ready and the software is ready,” he said. We are essentially conducting experiments [on people] in public roads. So even if you don’t have a Tesla, your children still walk in the footpath.” Tesla did not respond to requests for comment. [102]

The door handles on Tesla cars are a well-known and glaring safety hazard. The US government finally began an investigation after numerous reported incidents of problems with opening Tesla doors, sometime trapping drivers in burning vehicles after accidents and a loss of power. [103] The NHTSA also opened an investigation into Tesla over children getting stuck inside cars after electronic door releases fail. [104] As one reader noted, “there always has to be accidents or deaths before matters like this get addressed.” That’s a fair comment, because the door problems with Teslas have been known for years. Musk refused to address them because the Tesla door handle and latching mechanisms were his personal creation. He was so obsessed with it that this was one of the main causes of the huge fallout between Musk and Tesla’s founders. Musk was deeply resentful the others disagreed with his “creation”, and even more resentful at the costs of developing it.

There was the case of a Florida doctor who burned to death inside his crashed Tesla Model S. Police were unable to rescue him because the car’s electronic doors refused to open. Tesla of course denied this, but the Musk-designed electronic doors were a known Tesla flaw, [105] and China has banned them. [106] Firefighters often must resort to breaking a Tesla’s window to free passengers. One publicised case was when a 20-month-old child was locked inside a Tesla after one of the vehicle’s batteries died. The mother said that when the emergency responders arrived, their first words were, “Ugh. It’s a Tesla. We can’t get in these cars”. They finally had to use an ax to break open one of the EV’s windows.

In July 2023, a 73-year-old man was forced to kick out a window in his Model Y after becoming trapped. A similar emergency occurred for a mother and her daughter in Illinois with a rented Tesla, while a California driver found herself stuck in her EV while waiting on an over-the-air software update that shut down her car. In the 40 minutes it took to complete the update, outside temperatures rose to 115-degrees Fahrenheit. [107] Then there was a wrongful death lawsuit where a 20-year-old driver was unable to escape a burning Tesla due to faulty electronic doors. Gizmodo related his call to 911: “I’m stuck in a car crash… I can’t get out, please help me… I can’t breathe…. It’s on fire, it’s on fire. Help please… I am going to die… I’m dying. Help. [… I’m dying… Help… Help.” [108] The emergency responders were unable to remove the man quickly, and he burned to death. Tesla refused to respond to requests for comment. This is so serious a matter that the German Auto Club recommends all Tesla owners carry a hammer in their cars, specifically to smash the windows for escape when the doors refuse to open. [109] But Elon Musk is in love with “his” door handles and refuses to change even if people burn to death.

In another case, a college student was with her boyfriend on a Florida road when they were struck by a Tesla on FSD. According to police, the car had blown through a stop sign, a flashing light and five yellow warning signs. The girl died immediately. A federal investigation determined that the Tesla FSD was at fault. [110] In Florida, a jury found Tesla liable in the fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S and ordered Tesla to pay $243 million to the family of a deceased woman and an injured survivor. A man had reached down to pick up a cellphone he dropped, when a Tesla blew through a stop sign and hit the victim’s car. [111] One of the first FSD deaths was when a Tesla Model 3 using the ‘auto-drive feature’, “just ran straight off the road, barreled into a tree and exploded in flames”. [112] Tesla did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A Michigan woman was taken to the hospital after her Tesla self-crashed into a tree while in FSD mode. [113]

Tesla Crash. Source: Washington Post

There was the case of Walter Huang, a 38-year-old former Apple engineer, who died when his Tesla in FSD suddenly accelerated and hit a concrete highway barrier at 70 mph. Terms of the settlement include a gag order about the amount. [114] The evidence was that Elon Musk was responsible for the accident because Huang believed Musk’s statements about the reliability of Autopilot. [115] Interestingly, one day before the trial began, Tesla settled the case with the man’s family. This was a very high-profile case, and a trial would have publicly revealed the flaws in Tesla’s FSD. Tesla had been fighting the case for five years because its FSD “would have been subject to intense scrutiny at a time when Musk is aggressively pushing his driver-assistance features out to the public”. [116] The root cause of Tesla’s eagerness to settle was likely the admission in a California court by Ashok Elluswamy, the head of Tesla’s FSD, that a major video proclaiming the perfect reliability of FSD was in fact staged and fraudulent. [117] [118]

In a very disturbing development in the US, a driver was charged with manslaughter after his Tesla on FSD caused the deaths of two people. [119] Yet the driver was clearly misled and victimised by Elon Musk’s fraudulent claims about the software. It seems we always blame the victim. The fact is that Elon Musk (through Tesla) released a beta (experimental) version of self-driving software long before it was ready for commercialisation, while promoting it as safer than human operation. The promotion was assisted by dozens of fraudulent videos purporting to demonstrate autonomy when no such thing was possible. The fully predictable result was the hundreds of deaths and injuries.

Elon Musk is a bloody murderer, and should be indicted on 100 counts of manslaughter. It is Elon Musk who should be charged, not the driver who naively trusted what Musk said and what Tesla claimed. To tell the truth, if I were the judge on those charges, I would not send Elon Musk to prison. I would instead order that he be confined in an institution for the criminally insane, to be released only in a coffin. If you want proof that Elon Musk is a psychopath, he bizarrely – and infuriatingly – claims “I think [I] have a moral obligation to deploy [FSD] … Because the people whose lives [I] saved don’t know that their lives were saved.” [120]

Tesla acknowledges that the FSD software is in “beta” mode — meaning still in development and not ready for distribution, but Elon Musk claimed that its public release was an essential step toward reducing America’s 40,000 annual road deaths. [121] The truth is that its public release was an essential step toward producing imaginary billions of dollars in revenue, and Elon Musk was too impatient to wait. If some people died, they died. Unfortunate, but you can’t stop progress.

Tesla’s FSD may not be necessarily doomed, but its future depends heavily on political support from the US government – support that doesn’t exist in China or Europe. The most likely outcome is that FSD will become a niche feature in the US only, while Chinese automakers dominate autonomous driving everywhere else.

Tesla FSD Fraudulent Videos:

-Killing Children

In one released Tesla video, as in the screenshot below, Musk engages in some very dirty shots against feared competitors, one of which is Xiaomi who have surpassed Tesla in market share in China. One of the major flaws in Tesla’s FSD is that it has consistently failed in tests to recognise children on the street. In one well-publicised test that went viral, the Tesla self-driving car hit the children three times out of three. [67] The video producers claimed that full self-driving mode was engaged, while Musk called the video “fake”. Musk’s response was to produce an “Internal test video” that shows Tesla’s FSD system successfully handling a “child crossing the road” at 55 mph (88 km/h). But the video is false, an AI-generated fraud created by Tesla’s staff, and practiced repeatedly until they managed to produce one that appeared acceptable. No such “test” has any validity. Other similar “tests” were live but obviously staged.

To further defend Tesla against the indefensible, Musk’s entourage produced another AI video of three cars (a Zeekr, a Tesla, and a Xiaomi) faced with this issue. The video falsely shows the Tesla stopping with an abundance of space, and only the Xiaomi hitting and killing the child. There are many instances of Elon Musk using AI-generated images, videos, voice, to support false statements. This one of Xiaomi is particularly vicious and slanderous, and would justify a massive lawsuit. But this is typical Elon Musk, and it isn’t the only fraudulent video produced for Tesla. The truth is that Xiaomi has succeeded perfectly in these tests, repeatedly. [68] [69] [70] Xiaomi officially passed rigorous tests by the China Automotive Engineering Research for “child suddenly crossing the road” in a complex scenario with obscured sightlines. [71]

Fake video of Tesla stopping, Xiaomi hitting child. Source: Tesla video

Tesla FSD Fraudulent Videos:

-Walter Huang

Walter Huang died because of Tesla’s FSD. Source:

The occasion was a trial where Tesla was being sued by the family of a former Apple engineer named Walter Huang who was killed when his Tesla sped up and crashed into a concrete highway barrier. [72] A man named Ashok Elluswamy, the director of Tesla’s FSD division, was providing testimony under oath about a promotional FSD video Tesla had produced, and on which Huang had placed his trust. The video shows a Tesla Model X driving on urban, suburban and highway streets; stopping itself at a red light and accelerating at a green light. It was widely promoted by Elon Musk as evidence of the supremacy of Tesla’s FSD. According to Reuters who reviewed all the evidence, [73] Elluswamy testified that the entire video was faked. [74] [75] [76]

Although the video purported to show a Tesla autonomously navigating all contingencies, none of it was true. Elluswamy testified that Elon Musk demanded Tesla’s autonomous driving team design and record a “system capability demonstration” of Tesla’s FSD. Tesla’s fake video was produced using 3-D maps on a pre-selected route from a house in Menlo Park, California, to Tesla’s headquarters. But the trip was in no way autonomous and drivers were in control. When attempting to show that the Model X could park itself without a driver, the test vehicle crashed into the fence of Tesla’s parking lot. Elluswamy testified that “The intent of the video was not to accurately portray what was available for customers in 2016. It was to portray what was possible to build into the system”.

Yet, when Tesla released the video, Musk posted on Twitter: “Tesla drove itself (with no human intervention) through city streets to the highway, then to the streets again, and finally found a parking spot.” The video was still on Tesla’s website in early 2026, with the tagline: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.” Musk further boasted on Twitter and elsewhere that Tesla vehicles require “no human input at all” to drive through urban streets to highways and eventually to find a parking spot. It was all a lie. Neither Musk nor Tesla responded to a request for comment.

Desperate Secrecy

As an indication that Tesla the company shares Elon Musk’s personal lack of integrity, their data system insists that fault and accident information is “for internal use only”, and demands (in bold print) that IF any information is passed to a customer, it must be verbal only. The Verge reported that Tesla staff are pointedly instructed to “Do not copy and paste the report below into an email, text message, or leave it in a voicemail to the customer”. And lastly, it must be specifically recorded “if the involvement of a lawyer cannot be prevented”. [77] In 2018, Musk stated that Tesla would regularly release safety (accident) data involving its FSD, but noted that “negative” press coverage about FSD might persuade customers not to use it. And of course, Tesla releases little useful data obviously because the negative press coverage would kill it dead. Tesla can’t afford that because it needs the money.

The crash reports had been a constant thorn in the side of Tesla, but then some magic occurred when Musk was appointed to his DOGE duties: In early 2025, the US government suddenly weakened all the rules for reporting accidents, injuries and deaths where FSD was involved. The new rules allow companies to shield crash details from public view on the grounds that such information contains “confidential business information.” [78] The big winner in this clearly political move is Tesla, who can now keep even more damaging information secret. It should be obvious that the new regulations were not implemented for reasons of “public safety”.

FSD Subscriptions

Tesla have declared FSD software as a premium proprietary item, and will install it only for owners who agree to pay a fee of $99 a month or a one-time payment of $8,000 (or, in some cases, as much as $15,000; 64,000 RMB in China). This is not different than refusing to install seat belts or air bags without an unconscionable fee. In fact, few owners have taken this path; public acceptance of FSD under paid subscriptions has been very poor. Tesla’s own statistics revealed that fewer than 8% of owners have chosen it, and surveys tell us that very few of those actually use it. The purchase of FSD not only increases the cost of buying a Tesla, but causes significantly higher insurance premiums.

But there is a fraud buried in this Tesla failure: Musk announced in late 2025 or early 2026 that subscriptions for FSD had jumped by nearly 50%, to 12% of all owners. The numbers jumped (if indeed they did jump) because Tesla offered FSD on a trial basis to all owners – a free 30-day offer – with the ability to cancel anytime, even after only one month. [79] If I were a Tesla salesman, I am sure I could convince 80% of owners to try it for only one month, if it were free. But, if you read the fine print, anyone subscribing to FSD for even one month is listed forever after by Tesla as an “active user”. Hence, the jump to 12%.

In the middle of 2025, auto websites reported on a research firm release of FSD subscription figures, stating “the numbers are looking grim”. [80] Apparently, and fully consistent with my own research, 98% of Tesla owners who trial the FSD, cancel the subscription and refuse a purchase. The purchase rate was only 2% of Tesla owners, and this was only after the cost was lowered from $12,000 to $8,000, and the subscription fee reduced by 50% from $200 to $99 per month. To put some numbers to this, Tesla’s total subscriptions (at 2%) would approximate 35,000 users, while GM’s OnStar system reached 12 million subscribers. And Ford has more paid subscriptions than Tesla’s total auto sales since inception. [81]

The strongly negative reputation of Tesla’s FSD is not a secret, but the mass media refuse to address the issue openly. CNBC reported a poll showing that Tesla’s FSD pushed consumers away from the brand rather than drawing them to it. One research director said that Tesla has “the worst reputation of any EV maker …” [82] If that isn’t a negative reputation, I don’t know what would be, but the media are flooded only with Musk-scripted videos and praise.

Moreover, companies like BYD offer superior FSD systems as standard equipment at no extra charge, even for cars priced less than $10,000. [83] [84] BYD’s system is widely considered to be much superior to that of Tesla. [85] [86] Thus, Elon Musk’s dream of “selling” his FSD to hundreds of millions of Chinese is now merely a delusion, and the same is true for Europe. The only country where subscription sales are possible is the US because Chinese cars are effectively banned. FSD was originally imagined as a cash cow for Tesla, producing billions in free monthly revenue with no associated expenses. But Musk’s software is under criminal investigation in the US, banned in Europe, and prohibited in China, and thus virtually worthless. Hallucination meets reality.

Tesla FSD in China

While Tesla delivered 72,115 China-made EV in October, Chinese rival BYD, which makes EVs and hybrid models from its Dynasty and Ocean series, delivered 301,095 EVs roughly 400% more in the same month. Source

According to a report by the China Academy, “Tesla’s ‘crippled’ version of FSD entered China”. [87] “Tesla is essentially unable to conduct road training in China. According to Bloomberg, Tesla plans (hopes, actually) to offer an “updated” “Full Self-Driving” software to Chinese owners – at a cost of 64,000 RMB. But the software is not by any means “full self-driving” and the so-called updates have increased the price from 32,000 RMB. I doubt anyone in China would pay for a substandard product when much superior versions are available free. But, as Alexander Pope wrote, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast”. Tesla’s FSD has many structural problems that will not go away, rendering Musk’s dream futile. China does not allow Tesla to transfer Chinese data to the US for training, and this alone prevents Tesla’s FSD from functioning in China. Chinese traffic regulations and road environments differ significantly from those in the US, and Tesla has never been able to navigate these successfully.

Chinese drivers who have tried to use Tesla’s software have repeatedly incurred fines for multiple categories of traffic offenses. From an article in Electrek, “Chinese media websites are flooded with Tesla vehicles running red traffic lights, failing to recognize green lights, driving in restricted bus or bicycle lanes, and making illegal turns and other illegal maneuvers. Tesla’s FSD mistakes red Chinese lanterns as traffic lights. One Tesla driver received 7 tickets in the space of a single drive. Many Chinese live streams counted the number of traffic violations from the vehicle and the number of points that would have been taken off or licenses suspended as a result. The problem isn’t the Chinese traffic systems and laws. The problem is the Tesla system.” [88]

From Futurism, “Tesla Suddenly Suspends Full Self-Driving Trial in China” [89] The pause is undoubtedly due to its abysmal performance. “Musk has bet much of the company’s future on the fulfillment of his decade-long promise of realizing self-driving vehicles — but given the many collisions and even deaths related to the software, the company still has a lot of work to do.” It isn’t only the promise of a new product. Much of Tesla’s stock market value is due to Musk’s hyping of the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue this product would create. And, as Futurism also noted, “Chinese regulators aren’t bending over backward”, to help Elon Musk.

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NOTES – Part 23

[1] 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[2] Tesla autopilot crashes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[3] Tesla under Elon Musk made the first best electric car. But will it make the next?
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tesla-elon-musk-electric-vehicle-b2496076.html

[4] Tesla Suddenly Suspends Full Self-Driving Trial in China
https://futurism.com/tesla-suspends-full-self-driving-china

[5] Exclusive: In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-autopilot-probe-us-prosecutors-focus-securities-wire-fraud-2024-05-08/

[6] California says Musk lied about self-driving Teslas
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jul/29/california-says-musk-lied-about-self-driving-tesla/

[7] Elon Musk Defends Tesla’s Misleading “Autopilot” Mode
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-defends-tesla-misleading-autopilot-mode

[8] Elon Musk Defends Tesla’s Misleading “Autopilot” Mode
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-defends-tesla-misleading-autopilot-mode

[9] Debunking Elon Musk – Part 8 – Elon Musk’s Corporate Character
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/21696/

[10] Tesla logged the most recall issues in 2024
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/tesla-logged-the-most-recall-issues-in-2024-010725.html

[11] BizzyCar End of Year Recall Report
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bizzycar-end-of-year-recall-report-shows-27-million-vehicles-recalled-in-2024-tesla-leading-in-recalls-for-the-year-and-a-turn-around-story-for-ford-302341231.html

[12] Testing Tesla’s Autopilot recall, I don’t feel much safer — and neither should you
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/31/tesla-autopilot-recall-test/

[13] Musk has claimed FSD was Coming Next Year
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/1/23579180/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-nhtsa-recall-autopilot

[14] Musk’s “next year” FSD tweet.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1638769206189309952

[15] Constantly Kicking the Can Down the Road on Fully Self-Driving Teslas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[16] Bloomberg Tesla autopilot
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-19/elon-musk-directed-tesla-autopilot-video-saying-car-drove-itself-tsla

[17] California says Musk lied about self-driving Teslas
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jul/29/california-says-musk-lied-about-self-driving-tesla/

[18] Tesla vehicle crashes into $3.5 million jet after being dangerously ‘summoned’ by owner
https://electrek.co/2022/04/22/tesla-vehicle-crashes-into-jet-dangerously-summoned-by-owner/

[18a] A Tesla Model Y crashes into a $3.5 million jet after being ‘summoned’
https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/tesla-model-y-crash-jet-summoned

[19] Musk. This year you can fall asleep in your Tesla and wake up at your destination.
https://v.douyin.com/qJOc_rhfJSg/

[20] Musk’s bizarre plane analogy (15:00 mark).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3d6bQ5f0aE

[21] Musk flip-flops on safety (12:30 mark).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3d6bQ5f0aE

[22] Musk’s FSD “solved” claim (2:00:00 mark).
https://youtu.be/ODSJsviD_SU?t=7200

[23] Musk’s “appreciating car” nonsense (40:00 mark).
https://youtu.be/5Qq4j7k8X9I?t=2400

[24] Elon Musk’s biggest lie: Tesla vehicles are now appreciating assets
https://electrek.co/2025/03/18/elon-musk-biggest-lie-tesla-vehicles-appreciating-assets/

[25] Elon Musk’s biggest lie: Tesla vehicles are now appreciating assets
https://electrek.co/2025/03/18/elon-musk-biggest-lie-tesla-vehicles-appreciating-assets/

[26] Tesla vehicles are losing value at 3 times the rate of the rest of the market.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-used-car-prices-falling-3x-rest-market/

[27] Musk said Tesla cars would rise in value, but the opposite happened
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/03/cars/musk-tesla-cars-value-ev-prices/index.html

[28] Tesla vehicles are losing value at 3 times the rate of the rest of the market.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-used-car-prices-falling-3x-rest-market/

[29] What is LiDAR?
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/lidar

[30] Tesla and technology executives debate the path of autonomous driving technology: pure vision VS multi-sensor fusion
https://news.zol.com.cn/1037/10370329.html

[31] What ChatGPT Will Never Be Capable Of
https://thechinaacademy.org/what-chatgpt-will-never-be-capable-of/

[32] Stereoscopic Vision Explained: A Complete Guide to Depth Perception
https://opthametry.com/stereoscopic-vision-explained/

[33] Peripheral Vision
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/peripheral-vision

[34] Is Tesla FSD really reliable? The lack of lidar and computing power bottlenecks raises questions
https://so.html5.qq.com/page/real/search_news?docid=70000021_00967bfaacd53352&faker=1

[35] Tesla rejected more advanced driver monitoring features on its cars
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/14/17352814/elon-musk-tesla-autopilot-face-tracking-gm

[36] Tesla’s AI director is reported to have launched an internal mobilization: next year will be the “most difficult year of their lives”
https://baike.baidu.com/reference/62591749/533aYdO6cr3_z3kATPXdzvn5YS7NZNr66-DXV7FzzqIP0XOpSo_sUIEz6NYwsPVmHQ_e_pttbZkGyeGuB0pN6v8WduUzRbwhmX78WzvFzbvwuI9zl4MV-tEW

[37] Ashok Eluswamy
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%98%BF%E8%82%96%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%9F%83%E5%8D%A2%E6%96%AF%E7%93%A6%E7%B1%B3/62591749

[38] Tesla’s AI head warns that 2026 will face the biggest challenge
https://ai.zol.com.cn/1080/10809664.html

[39] Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars With Self-Driving Feature Over High-Risk Software Flaw
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-tesla-recall-self-driving-feature-1234927048/

[40] Who Killed Michael Hastings?
https://nymag.com/news/features/michael-hastings-2013-11/

[41] Israeli startups chase Mobileye as next automotive tech unicorn
https://www.autonews.com/technology/israel-grows-global-automotive-technology-powerhouse

[42] Intel, Mobileye Expands R&D Facilities And Manufacturing Capacity In Israel
https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2021/05/03/intel-mobileye-expands-rd-facilities-and
manufacturing-capacity-in-israel/

[43] Intel to Acquire Mobileye
https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/243/intel-to-acquire-mobileye

[44] Intel Buys Mobileye for $15 billion The deal rounds out two years of frenetic robocar acquisitions
https://spectrum.ieee.org/intel-buys-mobileye-for-15-billion

[45] Your Car Is Spying on You – and Israeli Firms Are Leading the Surveillance Race
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/your-car-is-spying-on-you-and-israeli-firms-are-leading-the-surveillance-race/

[46] Tesla owners will be able to remotely control their car through their phones
https://electrek.co/2018/11/01/tesla-remotely-control-car-phones-like-rc-cars-elon-musk

[47] Tesla Adds New Option That Lets You Disable Remote Commands From Tesla
https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-features/id/1684/tesla-adds-new-option-that-lets-you-disable-remote-commands-from-tesla

[48] Welcome to Black Hat USA 2020
https://blackhat.com/us-20/

[49] False Flags and Conspiracy Theories
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FALSE-FLAGS-FOR-E-BOOK-with-INDEX.pdf

[50] Tesla cars banned from China’s military complexes …
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-bans-tesla-cars-military-115939300.html

[51] China issues directive to ban Teslas from military compounds
https://www.eldiario24.com/en/tesla-china-military-security/5447/

[52] For safety reasons, Tesla electric vehicles are banned from entering government buildings in China
https://paultan.org/cn/2024/02/01/tesla-cars-to-be-banned-from-chinese-government-buildings-amid-security-fears-report/

[53] Tesla Faces Bans in China
https://www.kangnamtimes.com/tech/article/84179/

[54] Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/

[55] “My autopilot almost killed me”: Tesla files cast doubt on Elon Musk’s promise
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/my-autopilot-almost-killed-me-elon-musk-under-fire-as-tesla-leaked-docs-reveal-thousands-of-complaints-382996-2023-05-26

[55a] Tesla Files: 100 GB Of Confidential Data Leaked To German Newspaper
https://insideevs.com/news/669359/tesla-files-100-gb-confidential-data-leaked-german-newspaper/

[55b] Tesla on ‘self-driving’ gets stuck on train track and hit by train
https://electrek.co/2025/06/16/tesla-on-self-driving-stuck-train-track-hit-train/

[56] Tesla’s Autopilot Still Sucks Because Elon Only Wants To Use Cameras
https://www.jalopnik.com/autopilot-s-reliance-on-only-cameras-is-tesla-s-fundam-1851608787/

[57] WSJ Tesla Video
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tesla-autopilot/the-hidden-autopilot-data-that-reveals-why-teslas-crash/68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8?mod=prem_login_68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8#video-player

[58] Tesla’s Recall Fix for Autopilot Irritates Drivers, Disappoints Safety Advocates
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/teslas-recall-fix-for-autopilot-irritates-drivers-disappoints-safety-advocates-f9ca0eb4?mod=hp_lead_pos6

[58a] Tesla cars involved in 16 crashes with emergency vehicles, regulators say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-cars-crashes-emergency-vehicles/

[58b] Tesla is under investigation because its cars keep hitting emergency vehicles
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/16/business/tesla-autopilot-federal-safety-probe/

[59] US probing Autopilot problems on 765,000 Tesla vehicles
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-61557d668b646e7ef48c5543d3a1c66c

[60] US government opens probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes with emergency vehicles
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/16/22626819/tesla-autopilot-crash-emergency-vehicle-probe-nhtsa

[61] US Gov Investigating Tesla Autopilot for Crashing Into Emergency Vehicles
https://futurism.com/the-byte/government-investigating-tesla-autopilot

[62] WSJ Tesla Video
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tesla-autopilot/the-hidden-autopilot-data-that-reveals-why-teslas-crash/68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8?mod=prem_login_68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8#video-player

[63] 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[64] Tesla is facing another Autopilot-related wrongful death suit
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212011/tesla-is-facing-another-autopilot-related-wrongful-death-suit

[65] Tesla Keeps “Slamming on the Brakes” When It Sees Stop Sign on Billboard
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-slamming-brakes-sees-stop-sign-billboard

[66] Man Tests If Tesla Autopilot Will Crash Into Wall Painted to Look Like Road
https://futurism.com/tesla-wall-autopilot

[67] A video of Tesla’s fully autonomous driving crashing into a child dummy three times in a row went viral on the Internet.
https://zhuanzhi.ai/document/eb4b97075f5c289f7833f8848cc798f6

[68] Xiaomi Auto: Xiaomi AES emergency steering assist successfully passed the four major scenario tests of China Automotive Research Institute, showing excellent obstacle avoidance capabilities
https://www.zhibokanche.com/xiaomi-aes-emergency-steering-assist-successfully-passed-four-major-scene-tests-of-china-automotive-research-institute-demonstrating-excellent-obstacle-avoidance-capabilities/

[69] Li Xiaoshuang
https://weibo.com/1087385463/QfdEAobdW

[70] Xiaomi Auto’s AES emergency steering assist has passed the test in four complex scenarios
https://news.zol.com.cn/1085/10852354.html

[71] Xiaomi AES emergency steering assist successfully passed the four major scenario tests
https://www.zhibokanche.com/xiaomi-aes-emergency-steering-assist-successfully-passed-four-major-scene-tests-of-china-automotive-research-institute-demonstrating-excellent-obstacle-avoidance-capabilities/

[72] Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/01/tesla-sued-in-wrongful-death-lawsuit-that-alleges-autopilot-caused-crash/

[73] Reuters: video was staged.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/

[74] Tesla Staged 2016 Self-Driving Demo Video, Senior Engineer Testifies
https://insideevs.com/news/631798/tesla-staged-2016-self-driving-demo-video-senior-engineer-testifies/

[75] Tesla engineer says company faked “full autopilot” video: Report
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/

[76] Tesla faked a video promoting its self-driving tech, engineer testifies
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-01-18/Tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-faked-engineer-testifies-1gGNzD9QdmE/index.html

[77] Tesla leak reportedly shows thousands of Full Self-Driving safety complaints
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737972/tesla-whistleblower-leak-fsd-complaints-self-driving

[78] In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving
https://www.wired.com/story/feds-weaken-self-driving-reporting-rules/

[79] Tesla FSD is only 12% of current fleet.
https://v.douyin.com/ZFW0BfI0I-U/

[80] 98% of Tesla Owners Who Trial Full Self-Driving Mode for Free Aren’t Buying It
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-fsd-buying/

[81] Software Emerging as Auto’s New Strategic Lever: TSLA, GM & F in Focus
https://swingtradebot.com/news-articles/22504060-software-emerging-autos-new-strategic-lever

[82] Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/tesla-fsd-turns-away-more-us-consumers-than-attracts-survey-finds.html

[83] A Chinese EV giant is now offering free driver assistance tech on cars under $10,000
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/cars/china-byd-smart-driving-tesla-hnk-intl/index.html

[84] Tesla: Stock Falls on BYD’s Plan to Offer Free AI Software in EV Lineup
https://www.morningstar.com/company-reports/1263849-tesla-stock-falls-on-byds-plan-to-offer-free-ai-software-in-ev-lineup

[85] BYD God’s Eye More Advanced Than Tesla Full Self Driving
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/12/byd-gods-eye-more-advanced-than-tesla-full-self-driving-fsd/#google_vignette

[86] China’s Electric Vehicles (EVs)
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/20227/

[87] Let Tesla FSD Enter China, Musk is More Eager Than Anyone
https://thechinaacademy.org/will-teslas-fsd-enter-china-musk-is-more-anxious-than-anyone/

[88] Tesla drivers are racking up fines using FSD in China
https://electrek.co/2025/02/27/tesla-drivers-are-racking-up-fines-using-fsd-in-china/

[89] Tesla Suddenly Suspends Full Self-Driving Trial in China
https://futurism.com/tesla-suspends-full-self-driving-china

[90] 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[91] Tesla under Elon Musk made the first best electric car. But will it make the next?
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tesla-elon-musk-electric-vehicle-b2496076.html

[92] Tesla’s Autopilot Still Sucks Because Elon Only Wants To Use Cameras
https://www.jalopnik.com/autopilot-s-reliance-on-only-cameras-is-tesla-s-fundam-1851608787/

[93] Steve Wozniak: If You Want to Learn About AI Killing People, “Get a Tesla”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/steve-wozniak-ai-killing-people-tesla

[94] Tesla’s Autopilot Still Sucks Because Elon Only Wants To Use Cameras
https://www.jalopnik.com/autopilot-s-reliance-on-only-cameras-is-tesla-s-fundam-1851608787/

[95] Tesla FSD Accidents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[96] WSJ Tesla video
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tesla-autopilot/the-hidden-autopilot-data-that-reveals-why-teslas-crash/68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8?mod=prem_login_68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8#video-player

[97] Tesla’s Recall Fix for Autopilot Irritates Drivers, Disappoints Safety Advocates
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/teslas-recall-fix-for-autopilot-irritates-drivers-disappoints-safety-advocates-f9ca0eb4?mod=hp_lead_pos6

[98] The Number of Known Deaths Involving Tesla’s Autopilot Has Surged
https://futurism.com/deaths-crashes-tesla-autopilot-surged

[99] Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, Many Fatal
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-autopilot-fsd-linked-crashes

[100] Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/18/22390612/two-people-killed-fiery-tesla-crash-no-driver

[101] Elon Musk knew about Tesla’s Autopilot flaws all along
https://www.car136.com/

[102] Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67591311

[103] Tesla under investigation after parents say faulty door handles trapped their kids in the back
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-door-handle-nhtsa-053af5d5619f06eabac7e7009c17cc29

[104] Tesla is redesigning its door handles after people were left trapped in the cars
https://electrek.co/2025/09/18/tesla-is-redesigning-its-door-handles-after-people-were-left-trapped-in-the-cars/

[105] Tesla under Elon Musk made the first best electric car. But will it make the next?
https://www.independent.co.uk/cars/electric-vehicles/tesla-elon-musk-electric-vehicle-b2496076.html

[106] China to ban hidden car door handles made popular by Tesla in world first
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/03/china/china-hidden-car-door-handles-tesla-intl-hnk

[107] Dead Teslas keep locking owners out of (and inside) their cars
https://www.popsci.com/technology/tesla-lock-issue/
There is an unmarked release latch described in the owner’s manual—located in the battery-powered glove box.

[108] Lawsuit Details Horrifying 911 Call Before Tesla Driver Died While Trapped Inside Car
https://gizmodo.com/lawsuit-details-horrifying-911-call-before-tesla-driver-died-while-trapped-inside-car-2000718671

[109] Do you have a Tesla? You should carry a window hammer
https://motoryzacja.interia.pl/wiadomosci/news-masz-tesle-powinienes-wozic-mlotek-do-szyb,nId,7432977

[110] How Elon Musk’s crusade against government could benefit Tesla
https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/02/11/how-elon-musks-crusade-against-government-could-benefit-tesla/

[111] Tesla ordered by Florida jury to pay $243 million in fatal Autopilot crash
https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/617202#Tesla-ordered-by-Florida-jury-to-pay-$243-million-in-fatal-Autopilot-crash-2025-08-02

[112] Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/

[113] Tesla Driver Says Self-Driving Mode Crashed Her Car Into a Tree
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-driver-self-driving-tree-crash

[114] Der Spiegel on Tesla
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/tesla-elektroautohersteller-bietet-vergleichszahlung-einen-tag-vor-prozessbeginn-an-a-69b0b9c4-627d-4be9-82b0-d5fe2a5b1020

[115] Tesla settles with Apple engineer’s family who said Autopilot caused his fatal crash
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/08/tech/tesla-trial-wrongful-death-walter-huang/index.html

[116] Tesla settles suit over 2018 Autopilot crash that killed Apple engineer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/08/tesla-autopilot-trial-settlement/

[117] Tesla Staged 2016 Self-Driving Demo Video, Senior Engineer Testifies
https://insideevs.com/news/631798/tesla-staged-2016-self-driving-demo-video-senior-engineer-testifies/

[118] Tesla engineer says company faked “full autopilot” video: Report
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/

[119] January 20, 2022 AI frontline
https://zhuanzhi.ai/document/846b4314dd70dd8d21187116c456a7a5

[120] 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

[121] Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/

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The Jews Want Their Money Back

By Larry Romanoff

Readers are no doubt paying attention to the new – and apparently sudden – war the US and Israel initiated against Iran. I doubt that people anywhere believe the Jewish justification about Iran being “two weeks from a nuclear weapon”. And, just so it doesn’t go unsaid, Benjamin Netanyahu has been proclaiming that Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, multiple times every year for about the past 30 years [1a] Donald Trump has claimed the reason was (or was not; take your pick) about regime change, the angelic Americans wanting to rid the world of a national leader who was even more evil than Benjamin Netanyahu or Donald Trump. Or the Jewish bankers in The City of London, for that matter.

But if the attacks on Iran were not about the fictitious nuclear weapons, and were not about regime change, then what were they? You might answer “oil” but, while you would be right, you would still be wrong.

We need a bit of background to help us make sense of this. What do these countries have in common: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, and Iran? Clearly, oil. But why are Americans interested in the oil production of these countries? The simple answer is that they aren’t. The Americans are simply functioning as the Jews’ Private Army. It is the Jews who want to control the oil, not the Americans.

Iraq

So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go? Source

Consider the US invasion of Iraq. Paul Bremer, a Jew, was appointed “interim President” of Iraq. In that position, he promulgated what were called “provisional orders” which were in reality an entirely new legal code governing Iraq. One of Bremer’s provisional orders was that 65% of all of Iraq’s oil was to be allocated to unspecified “foreign oil companies”. This was not for purchase. A full two-thirds of Iraq’s oil was simply given – free of charge – to these companies. And those companies are ultimately and beneficially owned by the Jewish bankers in The City of London. Rothschild and friends. To make matters worse, all reports were that much of Iraq’s oil was unmetered when loaded into tankers, meaning that much more of Iraq’s oil was being stolen, but there was no way to know how much or who was stealing it. It is very important in this context to understand that it was not “American” oil firms who were allocated (or who were stealing) Iraq’s oil. There is no evidence that any part of the US or its corporations benefited in any way from the looting of Iraq. The Americans were simply the enforcers, the “hired gun”. All the benefits went somewhere else, even though the US paid the entire costs of the Iraq war and took all the battlefield casualties. I covered the issue of the Iraq war in detail in an essay titled Humanity at the Crossroads — Connecting the Dots to Our Brave New World. [1] It contains the real story of Iraq that will likely shock you, yet true and fully documented.

But while the war on Iraq was about the oil, it was also about something larger and in some ways even more important: It wasn’t a simple matter of the Jews wanting to take Iraq’s oil; they wanted to take it back. And that is a very different thing. The Jews once had full control and ownership of Iraq’s oil, but the Iraqi government nationalised its oil industry in 1972, taking total control of the country’s oil resources. [2] [3] The Jews were so livid at losing this golden egg, that the US spent decades trying to destroy Iraq by all means, until they finally invaded in 2003. So, when the US invaded Iraq, it wasn’t precisely to help the London Jews to take Iraq’s oil; it was to help them “take it back”. The Jews had it before, and – in their minds – it was theirs in perpetuity.

Libya

Gaddafi with President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt, 1969. All foreign oil producers in Libya had 51% of their enterprises nationalized. By 1979, Libya’s per capita income was higher than that of industrialized countries like Italy and the United Kingdom. Source

Consider Libya. The story was the same as with Iraq. The “foreign oil companies” – all Jewish owned or controlled – had full control of Libya’s oil. But then Khaddafi came to power and nationalized Libya’s oil industry, taking it all back and kicking out the foreigners and the Jews. [4] That was 1969, and from that time Libya became by far the richest and most progressive country in Africa. But then in 2011, the US invaded Libya, Khaddaffi was killed, and the Jews from The City of London “took back” Libya’s oil. As with Iraq, the US military stayed behind, with large military bases, to ensure the “safety” of the Jews’ oil production. The remainder of the country outside the oil-producing area is still in total chaos, but that’s not important. What is important is that the London Jews “took back” Libya’s oil which was once theirs and is now theirs again.

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi walks past a painting in the office of European Commission President Romano Prodi in Brussels in this April 27, 2004 file photo. REUTERS/European Commission/Handout.

As with Iraq, the US received no benefit of any kind. The Americans did not receive any of Libya’s oil, neither free nor for a price. They were once again merely the enforcers for the Jewish Bankers in The City of London, the “Banker’s Private Army”. As with Iraq, Libya was not primarily about taking the country’s oil; it was much more about “taking back” the oil that “belonged” to the Jews who lost it, and now regained it. I also covered this in a prior essay titled The Tragedy of Libya. [5]

Syria

After entering Syria in 2014, the US forces, under the pretext of fighting terrorists, have established military bases in oil rich areas in northeastern and eastern Syria, and started systematic stealing of Syrian oil. Source

Consider Syria. At one time, Jewish-owned or controlled oil companies like France’s Total Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell, had the rights to all of Syria’s oil. But in 1964 the Syrian government nationalised the oil industry, kicked out the Jews and took ownership of their oil. [6] As with Iraq and Libya, such a thing is not permissible. If the Jews “own” something once, no matter how they obtained it, it is theirs in perpetuity. The US began by placing “sanctions” on Syria, to the point where Syria’s oil production plummeted by about 95%, eliminating almost all the government’s revenue, creating immense social unrest, and finally culminating in the US invasion in 2014. But in this case, the US didn’t even bother actually “invading” Syria. They simply sent in massive military power and confiscated the entire area of Syria that contained the oil production and distribution facilities. The rest of Syria, as with Libya and Iraq, is in chaos. But that doesn’t matter. Nobody cares. And, as with Iraq and Libya, there is no evidence to support an assertion that the US benefited in any way from the destruction of Syria. The US receives no Syrian oil, not free or at any price. The US was simply once again the enforcer for the Jewish bankers in The City of London, who now “own” Syria’s oil. The pattern is the same: The Jews once had Syria’s oil, then lost it, and have now “taken it back”.

Venezuela

Once again, the story is the same. Jewish-owned or controlled oil companies had full ownership and control of Venezuela’s oil industry until the government nationalized it in 1976. [7] But this nationalisation was not so total or so bad. The foreign oil companies were permitted to remain, though in a much-disadvantaged position. However, under the leadership of the pro-US president (read “pro-Jew President”), Carlos Andrés Pérez, the country erupted in protests against the looting of the country’s oil and the impoverishment of the population under the Jews.

But then in the 2000s, real trouble began – starting with Hugo Chavez. This “evil man” was imprisoned for attempting a coup, but then became the President in an election and a shining light to all of Latin America. [8] Chavez seriously nationalized Venezuela’s oil and mining industries and left the Jews with very little. You can see why the Jews (and the Jewish media) hate Hugo Chavez. But it was even worse, because Nicolás Maduro came along, and he was even more “evil” than Chavez. Maduro totally broke all foreign power over the country’s oil and mining sectors and severely tightened state control over even service companies and oil rigs, and he nationalised Venezuela’s gold production. You can see why the Jews (and the Jewish media) hate Maduro even more than Chavez.

But again, the story is the same. The Jews once “owned” Venezuela’s oil and gold mines, and they want them back. Enter Donald Trump, the criminally-insane Goy who sent in the marines to kidnap Maduro and charge him with being the leader of a drug ring that even the CIA admits “doesn’t exist”. [9] [10] If you think back to Venezuela’s recent elections, the seizure of Venezuela government assets, the “sanctions” applied, Juan Guaido as the fake “President”, you can see what was happening. The Jewish bankers in The City of London – Rothschild and friends – once owned Venezuela’s oil and gold, then lost it, and they want it back. They want it back because they had it once, and that makes it “theirs” in perpetuity.

I was astonished that Donald Trump spoke the truth so openly, and yet no one seemed to understand what the man was saying. In published interviews in the White House, Trump said, “They took “our” oil, and we want it back.” You can’t be plainer than that. He wasn’t speaking for himself. [11] [12] [13] It’s true that Trump mentioned “American” oil companies, but they were irrelevant and those were also owned or controlled by Jews.

Iran

This was Day One: November 4, 1979. American journalist Walter Cronkite, night after night on American television, would count down the agonizingly long and humiliating number of days of captivity for the American hostages in Iran until they were freed, 444 days later.They vowed to hold the Americans hostage until the ailing Shah was returned for trial and execution, and billions of dollars that they claimed he had stolen from the Iranian people was restored. Source

I wrote earlier about the “why?” of Iran, that you might answer “oil” but, while you would be right, you would still be wrong. Now you can see why. The story of Iran is the same as the story of the other countries above. Iran once controlled its own oil production and sales, but then the London Jews, Mossad, and the CIA forced the overthrow of the government of Mohammad Mossadeq in the 1953 coup. [14] [15] [16] [17] They had Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi installed as dictator and, because this man was paid well to know which way was up, the Jews took all of Iran’s oil for nearly 25 years. But then the Shah was so bitterly hated by the people that in 1979 Iran had a popular revolution, during which Pahlavi fled the country, and the Iranians re-established their independence once again. [18] The new leaders nationalised Iran’s oil production and the London Jews lost both the free oil and all those profits. So, here we are again. The story of Iran is not about nuclear weapons, nor is it really about regime change, except as a convenience. It’s all about the Jews “taking back” what is “theirs”.

Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan

“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.” Source

Do you remember the warning by General Wesley Clark in 2007, about the instruction given to the US military by then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.” [19]

We now have a few new countries added to our original list: Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan. What do they have in common? Oil. Do you recall Golda Meir saying that “Moses had to wander in the desert for 40 years to find the only place in the Middle East that had no oil”. Well, A 2012 seismic study estimated that Lebanon has recoverable gas reserves of about 25 trillion cubic feet (tcf). Some Lebanese government officials were predicting four times this amount. [20] For Somalia, geo-seismic studies claim that Somalia has at least 30 billion barrels of oil and gas reserves. [21] [22] Sudan is estimated to have around 5 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and probable reserves of 5 times that amount. [23] [24] These new countries are just about oil. Not about “taking back” lost property, but simply “taking” newly-found property from the present owners who have not yet benefited from their natural resources. This is probably known as “pre-emptive stealing”.

Russia, China, Cuba …

Jews and Revolutions. Source

We have introduced three countries, Lebanon, Somalia, and the Sudan, that are not “take back” but simply “take”. But let’s return to our original template of countries that qualify for “taking back what was once ours”: Russia, China, and Cuba.

The Khazar Jews hate Russia with a passion that will never likely subside, since it was the Kievan Rus that finally defeated the Khazars and dispersed them to the four corners of the earth. [25] The great Kingdom of Khazaria was forever lost because of the Russians, and to this day the Jews will neither forgive nor forget, and to this day they still want revenge. They “had” Russia once, with the so-called “Russian Revolution” in 1917, where the Jews killed around 60 million Russians, looted the entire nation, and placed the Jewish Bolsheviks firmly in power. Read: Jews and Revolutions. [26] But then they lost it, and Russia returned to the Russians. Just so it doesn’t go unsaid, the Russian Revolution was not Russian: it was a Jewish Revolution against Russia. The Jews “had” Russia again after the dissolution of the USSR, where the Jewish oligarchs were again firmly in power and “owned” much of Russia’s most valuable assets. But then Putin came along and they “lost” Russia again.

But they haven’t stopped, and probably never will stop. Russia is still “evil”; Putin is even more “evil”, and the Khazar Jews still desperately cling to the dream of destroying Russia once and for all. They plan to dismember the country, partition it into many small statelets so it can never again have any political presence. And of course, they want Russia’s oil and gas and the other natural resources. That’s the short story.

China is similar in many respects. The Jews once “had” China, using the British military as their enforcers at the time – the Bankers’ Private Army – to enforce their drugging of an entire nation with opium. Yes, that’s really true. Even the Jewish encyclopedias freely admit that China opium was “entirely a Jewish business” and that Sassoon – who received from Queen Victoria the exclusive franchise for selling opium in China – “would not permit any non-Jews to participate.” Read: Jewish Opium and British Imperialism: [27]

The Taiping Rebellion and its self-proclaimed messiah threatened the Qing dynasty’s hold on China as the nation battled Europe in the Opium Wars. Source

The Khazar Jews from The City of London [28] “had” China but then they “lost” it. You may have read opaque descriptions of China’s “Taiping Rebellion”, suggesting the Taipings were rebelling against the Empire. But, as the “Russian Rebellion” was not really Russian, but in reality a “Jewish Revolution” against Russia, the Taiping Rebellion was really a Jewish rebellion against the Taipings. This group had control over much of the land area of China, and prohibited not only the possession or use of opium, but also forbade its transit through any area they controlled. This killed the opium business of Rothschild and Sassoon dead in its tracks. So, these opium Jews convinced Queen Victoria to provide the British military to train and arm a massive army – financed by Rothschild and Sassoon – of hundreds of thousands and to then declare war on the Taipings. This was the bloodiest war in the history of the world, with between 70 million and 90 million Chinese killed. The Jews are ruthless in “taking back” what was once theirs. You might be interested in knowing of other “takings” and “takings back” in which the Jews have been involved. Read: The Jews were busy in the 1930s: [29]

Mao Ze Dong speaking with farmers.

But then the First World War came along, creating a hiatus in the Jews’ control over China and, and by the middle of the 1930s, Mao Ze Dong came along and Jews “lost” China again. This time, permanently. When Mao attainted power, he kicked all the Jews out of China and confiscated all their opium assets in the country, including the Mainland branches of the HSBC which was a Jewish bank founded by Sassoon and Rothschild to launder their drug money. Actually, Mao expelled all foreigners, but the vast bulk of them were Jews. The Jewish encyclopedias simply tell us that the Jews “left China quickly after the war”, not bothering to describe the circumstances under which they “left”.

This places China in a position in the Jews’ minds similar to that of Russia. They “had” China once, they “lost” it, and they want it back. Hence the hate program towards China for the past 7 decades. Their plan for China is similar to their plan for Russia: dismember the country, partition it into small statelets, and control its resources and its people. And, of course, plunder it to the maximum.

General Malin Craig, the Chief of Staff is shown with Fulgencio Batista as they pass the Capitol, November 10, 1938

Cuba is similar to these above two. In 1952, Fulgencio Batista overthrew the Cuban government, taking power by force, and established a dictatorship. [30] [31] He was of course heavily supported by the Jews who even then controlled US foreign policy. The Jews accomplished two main things in Cuba: (a) they paid Batista to turn over to them all Cuban industry, and (b) they quickly turned Cuba into “the whorehouse of the Caribbean”. [32] There is no question that Cuba before Castro was widely considered “The Brothel of the Western Hemisphere”. After a few years, Cuba was one big whorehouse and gambling casino, the playground of the Jeffrey Epsteins and Donald Trumps of the day. Susan Sontag described Cuba as “a country known mainly for prostitutes, cigars, abortions, and pornographic movies.” Arthur Miller, described the Batista society “as hopelessly corrupt, a Mafia playground, a bordello for Americans and other foreigners (i.e. Jews).” [33] The Smithsonian Institution downplays the evil and seedy side of this era in Cuba’s history, and describes Havana as “a mistress of pleasure, the lush and opulent goddess of delights. Socialites and celebrities flocked to Cuba in the 1950s”. Yes, except that it wasn’t “socialites and celebrities”. It was in large part the scum of the earth. The Jewish Mafia, led by Meyer Lansky, was there in full force, raking in millions of dollars each month – this in the 1920s when a million dollars was real money. The Smithsonian tells us further that, “By the late ’50s, U.S. financial interests (read: Jewish financial interests) included 90 percent of Cuban mines, 80 percent of its public utilities, 50 percent of its railways, 40 percent of its sugar production and 25 percent of its bank deposits. American (Jewish) influence extended into the cultural realm, as well. Not only was the economy weakening as a result of US (Jewish) influence, but Cubans were also offended by what their country was becoming: a haven for prostitution, brothels and gambling.” [34]

Then, in 1959, Fidel Castro came along, started a revolution, and ended the travesty. Castro kicked out all the Jews from Cuba, nationalised the companies they had taken, and confiscated all their Cuban assets. [35] [36] [37] In fairness, Castro expelled all foreigners but, as with China, they were nearly all Jews. He also took back all the industries the Jews “owned” in Cuba. It is almost laughable that today the Western (Jewish-owned) media tell us that “The Cuban Revolution unleashed the largest refugee flow to the United States in history, with approximately 1.4 million people fleeing the island.” [38] Uh huh. And with damned good reason. A great many of them were fleeing for their lives. The Cuban revolutionary government sentenced hundreds to death for their crimes, their depravity, their treason against Cuba. That exaggerated 1.4 million were all the Jewish “compradors”, mostly Jewish prostitutes, drug dealers Mafia low-lifes and similar, and some Americans. Few were Cubans. The lucky ones fled to the US to complain against Castro from a safe distance. The unlucky ones were executed for cause.

Fidel Castro with Che Guevara in 1959, the year Mr. Castro took power after leading a communist revolution in Cuba and toppling the American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Source

The Jews were so distraught at their expulsion and the loss of their treasured brothels at the hands of a couple of young Latinos, namely Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, that they not only demanded the US inflict the most brutal economic sanctions on little Cuba for decades, they also tried very hard to kill Castro 638 times, to be exact. [39] [40] Yes, that’s really true. Using the CIA as their enforcer for “Operation Mongoose”, they actually tried 638 times to kill Fidel Castro and failed. [41] [42] [43] The BBC even did a nice documentary on it, and IMDB lists Dollan Cannell’s documentary “638 Ways to Kill Castro”. [44]

Once again, the Jews “had” Cuba, and once again they “lost” it. And, for the following 65 or so years, the US – controlled by the Jews in the State Department – have punished little Cuba in every possible way, with brutal and even savage “sanctions” meant to keep that country in abject poverty forever. But the Jews have again neither forgotten nor forgiven. Hence, Donald Trump’s recent statements (early 2026) about how the US will “take back Cuba” and how he will send the Jew Marco Rubio to be its next President.

Conclusion

Except for North Korea, the countries in this essay comprise the entire list of “Axis of Evil” nations in the world. You can see what they all have in common, and it isn’t dictators or human rights violations or currency manipulation. The common thread is simply that the Khazar Jews want what is “theirs”, and will stop at nothing to get it – including wars and widespread massacres of those who get in their way.

If you think of the coverage by the Jewish-owned and controlled Western mass media, it is these countries – and only these countries – that have been pilloried in the most disgusting way for decades. It isn’t because the countries are evil; it’s because the Jews “owned” them and then “lost” them, and want them back. The constant slandering and lying in the media are merely to prepare the American people for another war of “liberation”, to “free” a country’s people from their horrible leaders (those who expelled the Jews and won’t permit them to return and continue plundering). It’s all done in the name of democracy and freedom, but it’s really just about money and greed and pride and lust for revenge. Thinking of Iran, in my files I have more than 1,000 news articles from the last 10 or so years, articles slandering Iran from every possible perspective, wanting the entire world to “hate” Iran and want it destroyed. The Jews, with their control of the media, are the world’s masters in the game of “Let’s you and him fight.”

This essay is an over-simplification and omits many pertinent facts. But the distillation presented here is nevertheless 100% accurate. This is how things really are.

Famine stricken people during the famine of 1876–78 in Bengal. Source

I would add a final comment about the Jewish character. Think of the slaughter of 60 million Russians – a full third of the entire population. And think of the gulags, thanks to Alexander Solzhenitzen. Think of the Jews’ Holodomor in Ukraine, where they seized all the grain and left 8 million to 10 million Ukrainians starve to death. Think of the Taiping Rebellion I mentioned above, where the Jews killed between 70 and 90 million Chinese to protect their drug profits. I’m not even scratching the surface here. Rothschild and his group killed between 100 million and 200 million in India, half by execution and half by forced famine and starvation. This list is very long and painful.

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The Jews Want Their Money Back

By Larry Romanoff

Iraq

So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go? Source

Libya

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi walks past a painting in the office of European Commission President Romano Prodi in Brussels in this April 27, 2004 file photo. REUTERS/European Commission/Handout.

Syria

Venezuela

Iran

Lebanon, Somalia, and Sudan

“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.” Source

Russia, China, Cuba …

Jews and Revolutions. Source

The Taiping Rebellion and its self-proclaimed messiah threatened the Qing dynasty’s hold on China as the nation battled Europe in the Opium Wars. Source

Mao Ze Dong speaking with farmers.

General Malin Craig, the Chief of Staff is shown with Fulgencio Batista as they pass the Capitol, November 10, 1938

Fidel Castro with Che Guevara in 1959, the year Mr. Castro took power after leading a communist revolution in Cuba and toppling the American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Source

Conclusion

This essay is an over-simplification and omits many pertinent facts. But the distillation presented here is nevertheless 100% accurate. This is how things really are.

Famine stricken people during the famine of 1876–78 in Bengal. Source

By Dr Marwan Asmar: Over 1000 children in Gaza have had their limbs amputated without anaesthesia. It’s a doctor’s nightmare with little medical supplies. The number has just been released by UNICEF, the UN children’s agency and points to the devastating situation of children in Gaza. A doctor amputated his son’s limb without anaesthesia. The pain was so sever the son couldn’t take it and died. More than 75 per cent of those killed – over 60,000 – in Gaza are women and children.Then there is the case of the doctor who amputated the limb of his niece on the kitchen table by a knife. It was a below-the-knee operation done without anaesthesia. It’s horrendous coming out of a true horror story with over 10,000 children dead by Israeli gunfire since 7 October. Source

I mention this aspect to impress upon you (at the risk of being unspeakably rude) that if Khazar Jews are frustrated in getting what they want, they are the most savage and remorseless sons of bitches on the face of the earth. Think of Gaza. Think of thousands of small children in Gaza needing a limb amputated because of IDF war injuries. Now imagine those small children having those amputations done without anaesthetic because the Jews in Israel wouldn’t permit anaesthetic into Gaza. Yes, really. [45] [46 [47] Welcome to the real world of International Jewry and Zionism.

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NOTES

[1a] Three decades of statements by Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran is close to developing a nuclear weapon
https://www.news18.com/world/weeks-away-by-next-spring-video-shows-netanyahu-warning-of-irans-nuclear-threat-for-almost-30-years-ws-l-9392520.html

[1] Humanity at the Crossroads — Connecting the Dots to Our Brave New World
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/2331/

[2] SOME IMPLICATIONS OF IRAQ’S OIL NATIONALIZATION; Intelligence Memorandum ER IM 72–92 Prepared in the CIA
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve04/d311

[3] The Nationalization of the Iraqi Petroleum Company
https://www.jstor.org/stable/162481

[4] Muammar al-Qaddafi
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muammar-al-Qaddafi

[5] The Tragedy of Libya
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/10648/

[6] Syria Decree Nationalizing Oil Companies
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-legal-materials/article/abs/syria-decree-nationalizing-oil-companies/D8DFB67596E9A8C62E1A215C5F9B1054

[7] When Did Venezuela Nationalize Oil
https://mipaoverseas.com/when-did-venezuela-nationalize-oil/

[8] From Latin America’s richest country 100 years ago to a founding member of OPEC, the long history of Venezuela’s oil and U.S. ties, explained
https://fortune.com/2026/01/06/what-is-history-of-venezuela-oil-opec-america-chavez/

[9] Department of Justice quietly admits “terrorist” cartel isn’t real
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/06/department-of-justice-quietly-admits-terrorist-cartel-isnt-real/

[10] Pam Bondi Quietly Drops False Claim from Trump That Nicolás Maduro Was Leading a Drug Cartel
https://people.com/pam-bondi-quietly-drops-false-claim-from-trump-that-nicolas-maduro-was-leading-drug-cartel-11880215

[11] ‘We want it back’: Trump asserts U.S. claims to Venezuelan oil and land
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-17/we-want-it-back-trump-asserts-u-s-claims-to-venezuelan-oil-land

[12] Donald Trump Says Venezuela ‘Took All Our Oil and We Want It Back’
https://www.rsn.org/001/donald-trump-says-venezuela-took-all-our-oil-and-we-want-it-back-amid-war-rumblings.html

[13] ‘They took all of our oil not that long ago. And we want it back’:
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/venezuela-oil-trump-chevron-seized-assets-blockade/

[14] The Coup That Changed the Middle East: Mossadeq v. The CIA in Retrospect
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40209809

[15] A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it
https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-us-tensions-3d391c0255308a7c13d32d3c88e5f54f

[16] Iran 1953: How the CIA Orchestrated an Imperialist Coup
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/iran-1953-how-the-cia-orchestrated-an-imperialist-coup

[17] CIA Documents on Iran
https://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/central-intelligence-agency/cia-documents-iran/

[18] Iranian Revolution
https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution

[19] Global Warfare: “We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166

[20] How much oil and gas does Lebanon have?
https://resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/files/documents/oil_and_gas_in_lebanon_time_to_rethink_expectations.pdf

[21] Somalia Country Commercial Guide
https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/somalia-oil-and-gas

[22] 20 billion barrels of oil discovered in Somalia
https://pumps-africa.com/20-billion-barrels-of-crude-oil-discovered-in-somalia/

[23] Country Analysis Brief: Sudan and South Sudan
https://www.eia.gov/international/content/analysis/countries_long/Sudan_and_South_Sudan/pdf/Sudans%20CAB%20FY2024.pdf

[24] Sudan and South Sudan • Fossil fuels
https://aenert.com/fileadmin/default/templates/images/Sudan_and_South_Sudan/2023_map/aenert_map_sudan_south_fossil23.pdf

[25] The Truth about Khazars (Facts are Facts) Benjamin H. Freedman C 1954
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/essential-reading-the-truth-about-khazars-facts-are-facts-benjamin-h-freedman-c-1954/

[26] Jews and Revolutions
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/21394/

[27] Jewish Opium and British Imperialism
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/19958/

[28] The City of London
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/9358/

[29] The Jews were busy in the 1930s
https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/9968/

[30] Fulgencio Batista
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fulgencio-Batista

[31] Batista Overthrows Cuban Government
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/batista-overthrows-cuban-government

[32] Cuba Before Castro: ‘Brothel of Western Hemisphere’
https://www.realclearhistory.com/2021/08/13/cuba_before_castro_brothel_of_western_hemisphere_789680.html

[33] Cuba Before Castro: ‘Brothel of Western Hemisphere
https://www.realclearhistory.com/2021/08/13/cuba_before_castro_brothel_of_western_hemisphere_789680.html

[34] Before the Revolution Socialites and celebrities flocked to Cuba in the 1950s
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-the-revolution-159682020/

[35] Cuba nationalizes U.S. companies
http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2015/08/10/cuba-nationalizes-us-companies/

[36] Cuba Begins Expropriating Foreign Property
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-government/cuba-begins-expropriating-foreign-property

[37] August 6, 1960: Cuba Seizes American Property
https://thisdayofhistory.com/2025/08/05/august-6-1960-cuba-seizes-american-property/

[38] Cuban Migration: A Postrevolution Exodus Ebbs …
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/cuban-migration-postrevolution-exodus-ebbs-and-flows

[39] In The CIA’s 1st Plot Against The Castros, Fidel Wasn’t The Target
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/992951030/in-the-cias-1st-plot-against-the-castros-fidel-wasnt-the-target

[40] How Castro survived 638 very cunning assassination attempts
https://afroworldnews.com/how-castro-survived-638-very-cunning-assassination-attempts/

[41] How the CIA Attempted to Assassinate Fidel Castro
https://www.thecollector.com/how-the-cia-attempted-to-assassinate-fidel-castro/

[42] Operation Mongoose: CIA’s attempts to kill Fidel Castro
https://1440review.com/2025/05/22/operation-mongoose/

[43] Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/12/americas/cuba-fidel-castro-at-90-after-assassination-plots

[44] Dollan Cannell’s documentary
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918485/

[45] Gaza Horrors: 1000 Amputations with No Anesthesia
https://just-international.org/articles/gaza-horrors-1000-amputations-with-no-anesthesia/

[46] Over 1,000 children in Gaza were amputated mostly WITHOUT ANESTHESIA
https://nationalsecurity.news/2024-01-03-1000-gaza-children-amputated-mostly-without-anesthesia.html

[47] As a Gazan doctor, I’m having to amputate children’s legs without anaesthetic
https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/09/as-a-gazan-doctor-im-having-to-amputate-legs-without-anaesthetic-19794354/

“He doesn’t know he lost his limbs…or his parents.” Source