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Time Magazine is Right to Select Elon Musk as Person of the Year

by Luke Perry
17 December 2021 2:24 PM

Writing for Mail Plus, Toby has stood by Time magazine’s Person of the Year award going to Elon Musk, and has praised the tycoon’s bravery for being a devout lockdown sceptic. As Toby points out, earlier in the year, Musk tweeted a favourable response to one of Toby’s tweets commenting on how well Sweden had fared during the pandemic, with the tycoon’s internet fame ensuring that the original post got plenty of attraction. In his article, Toby explains why he was so delighted to get a response from the eccentric multi-billionaire.

There’s also the fact that in 2021 he became the richest man in the world – or, indeed, in the history of the world, with a net worth of over $250 billion. If Elon Musk is following me on Twitter, I thought, maybe he’ll buy me a new car for Christmas. Among other things, he owns Tesla, which controls two-thirds of America’s electric vehicle market and is worth a trillion dollars.

But the main reason I was so chuffed is because the tweet he was responding to – favourably, I might add – was about how well Sweden had fared during the pandemic. As anyone who’s been following the news will know, Sweden was almost alone in not imposing a lockdown in 2020 and experienced one of the lowest excess death rates in Europe.

So Musk, it turns out, is a lockdown sceptic, something that’s attracted a lot of criticism in the U.S. For instance, in May of last year he reopened his Tesla factory in northern California in defiance of a local public health order shutting down businesses and ordering citizens to stay at home.

“Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules,” he tweeted. “I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.”

The local authorities decided to do nothing in response, proving it was possible to defy its authoritarian diktats without being punished.

Almost alone among the billionaire class, Musk has been fiercely critical of Covid restrictions, describing them as “fascist” and, at the height of the lockdowns, tweeting: “FREE AMERICA NOW.”

Earlier this year Musk relocated Tesla’s headquarters to Austin, thanks to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s more laissez-faire approach to dealing with the pandemic.

He isn’t a vaccine sceptic and has been vaccinated himself, but draws the line at ‘No Jab, No Job’ and believes any attempt to strong-arm people into having the jab is wrong.

“You are taking a risk, but people do risky things all the time,” he says of the unvaccinated. “I believe we’ve got to watch out for the erosion of freedom in America.”

Others will be fans of the eccentric industrialist for more conventional reasons. Time magazine made him its ‘Man of the Year’ in 2021, primarily because of the success of Space-X, his rocket company…

But Elon Musk is my Man of the Year because of his courageous stand against the madness that’s engulfed the world over the past year and a half. Being a lockdown sceptic can be a lonely business, with the vast majority of rich and powerful people ranged against you and dismissing you as a ‘denier’.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Elon Musk

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago

Glaringly missing is Israel damningly hauled in front of the International Court of Justice on genocide.

Of course it’s missing from most news headlines in the MSM. So remember if they don’t want you to hear about it guess what that generally means…

Opening argument: Genocidal intent
https://youtu.be/0or-RacPDiM?si=ep64wvwjWN_Z1z0w

Closing argument:
https://youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU?si=Hn00TXHbOwe8UHcl

In a well timed attempt to deflect attention from the disgrace of Israel, the US bombs the poorest country in the world and its capital city in Sana.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12954065/US-UK-launch-airstrikes-Iran-backed-rebels-Explosions-heard-Yemen-Houthis-reporting-enemy-raids-Sunak-said-no-defensive-options-left.html

When in doubt bomb the brown people.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

When in doubt allow:

‘The General Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of climate change’

‘Turning to the Court’s budget, she also informed the General Assembly the Court is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods of its history. “Members of the Court are honoured by the confidence that the international community continues to place in the Court,” she said. However, resources allocated to it do not match the significant docket increase, she reported, expressing hope appropriate adjustments will ensure adequate resources to continue to meet the growing needs of the international community.’

UN meetings coverage

Be very careful what you wish for…….

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Believe me I’m not happy about any of this. It has been predicted and it fits well with globalist plans, that the US is supporting televised genocide as the final straw in the collapse of the unipolar system.

The actions of the US and Israel, the last trully ethnic supremacist and hence ultranationalist state will unite the world to reinforce globalist institutions to prevent this from ever happening again.

Thats not what I would want either. We lose in all scenarios.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

It’s also worth noting that, as pointed out elsewhere, the number of people represented by the countries supporting SA’s suit is well over 1 billion, significantly more than the US/UK/EU combined. Worth thinking about.

https://ejmagnier.com/2024/01/11/south-africa-corners-the-judges-of-the-icj-to-stop-israels-war-on-gaza/

….South Africa’s decision has received considerable international support. The 22-member Arab League and the 65-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation back it. In addition, a diverse group of nations, including Belgium (vice Prime Minister), Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Brazil, Morocco, Nicaragua, Turkey, Jordan, Malaysia, Bolivia, Venezuela, the Maldives and Namibia, have also expressed their support for South Africa’s legal action. This broad support underlines the global concern over the situation in Gaza. It reflects a collective call for accountability and justice in the international arena. ….

In this context, South Africa’s case against Israel is profoundly significant. By legally challenging Israel’s actions in an international forum, South Africa is not only seeking accountability but also striking at the heart of Israel’s international image and legitimacy. The case symbolises a broader global dissatisfaction with Israel’s policies, particularly on the Palestinian issue.

The potential impact of this trial goes beyond its immediate legal implications. It represents a significant moment in international relations, highlighting the growing willingness of nations to confront and challenge powerful states through legal and diplomatic channels. This shift reflects a changing dynamic in international politics, where public opinion and moral considerations are increasingly influential.

It also serves as a reminder of the importance of respecting international law and norms. It underlines the principle that no nation is above the law regardless of its power or alliances. The outcome of this case could have far-reaching implications not only for Israel and its allies but also for the international legal system and the enforcement of global justice.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Unfortunately, the carnage in Palestine will just be used to highlight the problems of superpower politics and reinforce globalist models of governance.

The best move would be for the US to stop Israel from committing genocide by ending its supply of weapons and aid.

All this would stop, but instead they choose to widen the conflict. That kind of irrational and irresponsible behaviour can only be explained by elements in the deep state intentionally wanting to commit international pariah status.

Or maybe it’s just a mega cock-up.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

You are right, that would stop the fighting. Jews in the area would be exterminated and the problem, for the middle east, would have been resolved.

What Hamas and Iran would then do to Egypt, Jordan and the other neighbouring countries can be imagined from what has happened to Lebanon, once a lovely and multi religious nation.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Fantastical arguments used to maintain an infected wound on global relations.

What happened to Lebanon can be directly traced to Israeli policies from the 1967 war onwards.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Agreed, and there has been much discussion on various geopolitical forums on exactly this and other related issues. What the SA suit has done, however, is for the first time (and IMHO most comprehensively) question the special status and exceptionalism of Israel in the international arena. No one dared before because of the weaponisation of the usual slurs – which have lost power in recent years because of the utterly indiscriminate way they gave been applied. Regardless of outcome (and I’m not hopeful of justice prevailing) the idea is now out there in the zeitgeist. If the US-led ‘rules based order’ (their rules, their order) of international law and global justice fails here, multiple countries will shift their allegiances elsewhere, to the significant political, economic and reputational loss of the West.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago

Back in April 2020, government adviser Robert Dingwall said much the same as Fauci in relation to social distancing accompanied by “conjured out of nowhere”.

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

Yes, it’s ‘back of the fag packet’ stuff, like so much of the guff that comes from our interfering government. six feet distance for covid, only drink so may units a week, five veggies a day, or is it ten now? There must be more.
Leave us alone, for heaven’s sake.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  The old bat

Common sense surely dictates that we ignore government announcements intended to modify our personal lives.

I will not comply.

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prod_squadron
prod_squadron
1 year ago
Reply to  DHJ

Brownstone Institute did a good article a while back on the Wharton Business School tech bros who felt the enormous sense of entitlement to come up with back of an envelope rules for millions of people:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/america-covid-pandemic-lockdown-jared-kushner/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Although the AfD in Germany are riding high in the polls I’m a bit cynical about this latest claim. I think what one wants to happen and what is possible in reality are two entirely different things most of the time. But wouldn’t ”remigration” of the riff raff by the million be awesome?

”The AfD has been promoting its policy on “remigration” as of late, but focusing primarily on migrants convicted of crimes, whom Germany has been unable to remove. However, although there are hundreds of thousands of migrants who are “tolerated” in Germany, the figure of millions presented by Springer would represent a far loftier goal in terms of deportations.

In a statement earlier this week, the AfD detailed a long list of offenses involving migrants during New Year’s celebrations, including the case of three migrants knocking a doctor unconscious on video in a Berlin hospital, a 20-year-old Somali beating a woman with a fire extinguisher on a train near Schwetzingen, and a Ukrainian migrant hitting a 46-year-old with a bottle in Bad Lippspringe.

“Everyday life in the ‘colorful republic,’ Such everyday conditions are shocking and make it clear: 2024 must be the year of remigration! Anyone who vandalizes restaurants and train stations, attacks doctors, or riots on trains has no place here and must be deported immediately. Action must finally be taken,” wrote the AfD in its statement.
Springer’s message on deportation comes at a time when the AfD just hit a record high of 24 percent in a new national poll from YouGov, a poll result once thought unthinkable by most just a year ago.

Some X users have taken a victory lap over AfD’s surging poll numbers.
“New Forsa surveys! AfD Saxony: 37%, AfD Thuringia: 36%, AfD Brandenburg: 32%. Do you finally understand it, dear old parties and old media? It doesn’t bother us that the AfD wants #Remigration. On the contrary, we – and more and more Germans – are voting for the AfD BECAUSE they want remigration!” wrote one user.”

https://rmx.news/trending/we-will-return-foreigners-to-their-homeland-by-the-millions-afd-politician-vows-mass-deportations-as-his-party-reaches-record-polling-high/

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Covid Con Great Care Home Cull

latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

05b-Covid-Con-Great-Care-Home-Cull-MONOCHROME-copy
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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“Covid ‘six feet’ social distancing ‘sort of just appeared’, likely lacked scientific basis, Fauci admits” – Dr. Anthony Fauci has confessed to U.S. lawmakers that guidelines to keep six feet of separation to limit the spread of COVID-19 “sort of just appeared” without scientific input, reports the NY Post.

The man’s a fool. Everyone knows it should have been 2 metres. The extra 17cm were crucial.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

But blimey, I had no idea Bret Weinstein ever had this stance regarding the face muzzles. The 180 that some ( inc the learned and respected ) folk have done… 😮

https://twitter.com/LawHealthTech/status/1745706660822384716

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DS99
DS99
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Apparently he supported lockdowns initially.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Yes, and metric is science, innit?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

‘Hours before the U.S. and British strikes in Yemen, the U.S. military said the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into international shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden’

At last….some resolute action.

‘”This strike was two months overdue, but it is a good first step toward restoring deterrence in the Red Sea,” U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.

In December, more than 20 countries agreed to participate in a defensive U.S.-led coalition, known as Operation Prosperity Guardian, safeguarding commercial traffic in the Red Sea.’

Reuters 12 Jan 2024

The very people who will complain about this action will also have been complaining about a rise in the cost of living

As a consequence of Houthi interdiction of commercial shipping in the Red Sea, longer shipping times, higher freight costs and an energy price shock all contribute to a rise in the cost of living.

If you wish for peace, then prepare for war.

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Useful observation piece by Larry C Johnson on US/UK direct action against Yemen:

https://sonar21.com/will-crossing-the-rubicon-in-yemen-expose-u-s-and-u-k-weakness/

This bombing is unlikely to achieve any meaningful degrading of Yemeni missile and drone capabilities, but it will rally more of the global Arab and muslim street to the side of the Houthis. It also raises the risk that the Houthis, who up until now had only targeted ships linked to Israel, will expand targets to include U.S. and U.K. vessels. Important to remember that the U.S. and U.K. ships can only spend a limited time in the Red Sea before they have to set sail for a port, such as Dubai, where the destroyers can replace the empty VLS missile tubes.
I think it also is likely that U.S. and U.K. embassies, consulates will be attacked and that commercial enterprises viewed as U.S. or U.K. will be targeted. Nabil Khoury, a former deputy chief of the US mission in Yemen, appeared on Al Jazeera and observed, “the attacks on Yemen are a “failure of American diplomacy.” He also noted that as a result of these actions: 


the US and UK bombing of Houthi targets in Yemen, the Biden administration effectively became “a direct participant in the war in Gaza,” Khoury told Al Jazeera.

“The situation can only get worse from here,” he said. “I think this is a serious mistake. I think more effort should have been made to contain the Houthis… If the US and Britain think this will silence the Houthis, I think they have something else in mind.”

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Yes that is a far better action then restraining your rabid killer dog nation Israel.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

If it had been your country, your people, how would you have wanted your government to respond to an attack exactly similar to that of October 7th on Israel?

How should the Israeli government have responded, in your view?

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

“How Lord Arbuthnot became Post Office victims’ most trusted voice”

Why has Andrew Bridgen been airbrushed out of the script along with the former PO executive who now works for ITV.

Just asking.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

My thoughts exactly.

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

What the WHO proposals are really about and why our elites really love and want them:
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-whos-managerial-gambit/
“Technocrats learned a lot from Covid. Not how to avoid policy mistakes, but how to exercise control.

These proposals will make next time worse. Not because they override sovereignty, but because they will protect domestic authorities from responsibility. States will still have their powers. The WHO plan will shield them from the scrutiny of their own people.

The WHO proposals are a shell game. The scheme will provide cover to domestic public health authorities. Power will be ubiquitous but no one will be accountable.

The WHO proposals would not replace or define the meaning of constitutional rights. But they would not be irrelevant either. 
The WHO is not undermining democracy. Countries have done that over time by themselves.

The WHO proposals will protect power from accountability. National governments will be in on the plan. The people are the problem they seek to manage. The new regime will not override sovereignty but that is small comfort. Sovereignty provides no protection from your own authoritarian state.”

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

The German professor who correctly calculated an over 200x larger QALY loss than benefit of lockdowns has now calculated that the current migration leads to a €5.8trillion higher net cost instead of a benefit in Germany.
https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2024/raffelhueschen-zuwanderung-kostet-58-billionen-euro/

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