The authoritarian regime in America is shifting food inspection travel to a brutally inefficient schedule under a strategy of ballooning overhead to undermine safety inspections.
…current and former FDA officials said they were perplexed by [the new travel policy], given the push for longer trips in the past had been an efficiency measure intended to result in the agency being able to complete more inspections. Instead of spending money and wearing down staff to fly in and out of a country to do each inspection, officials said, the agency would combine multiple inspections into a single trip. “So they’re going to double or triple the foreign inspection flight costs and keep my people in a perpetual state of jet lag,” one FDA official told CBS News.
Auditors know well that commuting is the least productive time of any inspection, and now they will be expected to triple transit times or even worse.
The objectives are anti-regulatory and anti-science, removing measurement of outcomes and replacing it with empty performances. The regime passively will prevent inspections getting done by running inspectors around constantly keeping them fatigued and distracted. Money will be wasted on the appearance of being busy while getting less and less done, exactly what the corrupt regime wants.
The Financial Times reports that Chinese are taking a page right out of the Trump book of loopholes to make a mockery of his tariffs.
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs
I’m reminded of how American cars still end up in Russia.
In September 2023, the Georgian Revenue Service announced that, in line with the then latest Western sanctions against Russia, it was restricting the re-export and transit of automobiles imported from the US or Europe to Russia and Belarus.
And Georgian officials have long denied that the country has been complicit in aiding Russia’s evasion of the trade embargoes.
Yet a recent investigation by Georgian media publication IFact showed numerous loopholes exploited by an army of car dealers on both sides of the Russian-Georgian border.
In other words, it’s no secret how a commercial army serving the elites can bypass tight borders.
Saturday’s Russian-looking “vote” of SpaceX employees to incorporate Starbase, Texas as a public government might seem like a grand victory for the discredited and disliked Elon Musk. With 212 votes for and only 6 against, the company town’s creation appears to cement SpaceX’s destruction of local environmental regulations for their rocket launch facility. The company bought 90% of the local real estate, and all the “elected” officials are current or former SpaceX employees appointed by the CEO.
But in the cavalier rush to consolidate power and ignore communities, SpaceX may have unwittingly introduced vulnerabilities that could eventually undermine their desire for absolute unrepresentative control.
By transforming their private facility into a public municipality, they’ve opened new avenues for change through Texas municipal law—potentially repeating the pattern that has led to the downfall of every single American company town in history.
Look at the prior art to understand the collapse or transformation beyond a controlling company’s original vision of private profit leading to public control.
Distributed Power Still Finds a Way: The Pullman Strike of 1894 demonstrated how company towns can backfire spectacularly. When George Pullman cruelly cut wages and refused to lower rents in his model town, company residents revolted in what became one of America’s most significant public rights protests. A company town on strike eventually involved 250,000 people across 27 states only suppressed with federal military intervention.
Monarchs Can’t See What’s Coming Until Late: Company towns face a fundamental contradiction—paternalistic control cannot coexist indefinitely with democratic municipal governance. As Starbase must now hold public elections, maintain public records, and follow Texas municipal law, opportunities for democratic participation emerge that weren’t available in a purely private corporate setting.
Adjacent Development Means Power Will Recenter: As was seen in historic company towns, development in surrounding areas inherently creates competing economic and political power that will outperform SpaceX myopic tyranny. Texas law specifically provides multiple pathways for strategic land acquisition and development adjacent to municipalities, especially undemocratic ones.
Economic Prosperity Undermines Company Control: Over time, successful towns inevitably attract other businesses and residents with better interests. Should Starbase genuinely grow into a “world-class place to live” that SpaceX PR claims, that growth necessarily makes SpaceX’s narrow local corporate goals look worse and worse, holding back the better more “worldly” residents.
With these historic lessons in mind it seems only appropriate to point out the incorporation plan exposes specific vulnerabilities:
Public Records and Transparency Requirements: As a municipality, Starbase must now comply with Texas open records laws, making previously private corporate decisions subject to public scrutiny.
Municipal Utility District Opportunities: Texas law allows for the creation of Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) that could serve as simple beachheads for labor-friendly development surrounding and pushing hard into Starbase.
Election Cycles: While SpaceX employees currently stacked the voter rolls like they hate democracy, municipal elections occur regularly and operate under different rules than corporate governance, potentially allowing organized groups to gain representation without detection.
Legal Challenges Through Public Processes: Municipalities must follow procedural requirements that can be challenged through legal means, unlike private corporate decisions.
Let’s face it, Elon Musk keeps running anti-patterns. He clearly thinks Hitler should have won WWII. And now he’s showing how a push into company towns also could repeat the wrong side of history.
Every major company town in American history—from Pullman to Hershey to coal mining communities—eventually faced a reckoning with people exposing the patently unfair and soul crushing designs. The American government protection of workers’ rights to unionize spelled the end of purely company-controlled towns, which surely has to do why Musk thinks he will replay the past to prove a different result. Even Hershey, considered one of the most benevolent company towns, faced a significant strike for rights in 1937.
SpaceX’s corporate control currently seems absolute and tyrannical in mind, but the legal structure of Texas municipalities expands their target surface with pathways for change that wouldn’t have existed without incorporation. The company may have unwittingly traded short-term benefits (streamlined approvals for environmental destruction, closure authority to deny local children access to beaches) for long-term vulnerabilities inherent to public governance structures.
For now, Starbase represents a bold experiment in Elon Musk pushing fascism into American government – but if history is any guide, its long-term fate may be a lesson we have learned repeatedly already.
European EV sales are really taking off with booming sales.
BYD’s sales grew 94 percent to 4,436, Polestar was up 84 percent to 2,405, and newcomer XPeng logged 1,034 sales, representing an increase of 259 percent from February 2024. The best-performing brand in terms of EV sales, however, was VW, whose registrations boomed 180 percent to 19,600. The German brand’s ID.4 was the third-best-selling EV… and VW,’s ID.7 and ID.3 were in fifth and sixth spot, separated from the ID.4 by Renault’s Car of the Year-winning 5.
Meanwhile, it’s really hard not to notice how Tesla campaigns to boost a German political party (AfD) affiliated with Nazism had a direct impact on the European market.
Tesla’s sales are diving headfirst into the red. In France, deliveries were down 59.4 percent compared to April last year, with just 863 vehicles sold. Denmark saw a 67.2 percent decrease, bringing the monthly total there to only 180 cars. But, as reported by Reuters, Sweden takes the prize for most dramatic plunge: sales dropped 80.7 percent, from 1,052 units last April to just 208 this year.
Europeans, still picking shrapnel from their grandparents’ photo albums, are teaching Tesla a sales collapse lesson that makes the Hindenburg disaster look like a successful landing.
Do you know who completely distances themselves from Nazism? Billionaire Germans.
…siblings Stefan Quandt and Susanne Klatten own more than 40% of BMW and are worth about $38 billion [thanks to their family operating] …battery factories in Berlin, where, thousands of forced slave laborers were used, including female slave laborers from concentration camps, you learn nothing about [this] history.
They hide their Nazism so they can keep all the money from it. Which goes to show how stupid Tesla was to attempt to out-Nazi the billionaires behind German brands born out of Nazism.
The Tesla Factory Near Berlin, Germany
Buying a Tesla in Europe today is about as socially acceptable as an AfD politician goose-stepping in a SS uniform through Anne Frank’s house. Who wants that? Or more to the point, what would Knut Lier Hanson do with a Tesla today?
Swasticars: Remote-controlled explosive devices stockpiled by Musk for deployment into major cities around the world.
Nazi children who grew up in Germany under Allied occupation know better than to build fleets of Swasticars.
Source: “Parked Teslas Keep Catching on Fire Randomly, And There’s No Recall In Sight. A roundup of every spontaneous Tesla fire shows the company’s response is stuck on Autopilot.” The Drive, June 2019
Musk, meanwhile, was raised in apartheid South Africa where segregation wasn’t a shameful historical footnote but a lifestyle choice—like the family had rooted for Nazism, thought it delightful even after defeat, and decided to emigrate to its last remaining franchise location.
They amassed wealth that would later fuel Musk’s political ambitions such as big AfD campaigns. In a November 2024 interview, his father Errol Musk claimed that Elon’s maternal grandparents “support Hitler and all that sort of stuff” and were “part of the Nazi, the German party in Canada” before moving to South Africa because they supported the apartheid regime. As one reporter described, the Musk family lived “what can only be described as a neocolonial life” in post-colonial Africa with servants and extensive property holdings including emerald mine investments that generated significant wealth through exploitative labor practices. This heavily curated avoidance of Allied victory and occupation shaped his worldview, clearly influencing his business practices and political positions as if Hitler didn’t commit suicide.
