EU Sales of EV Climb Ever Higher, While Tesla Falls Off a Cliff

Carscoops says the Europeans are scooping up EV cars in notable growth.

…the European market is actually embracing electrification more than ever this year. Battery-electric vehicle (EV) sales are up 28%, full-hybrid sales are up 16%, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) deliveries have risen by 12%. Meanwhile, sales of non-hybrid gasoline cars fell by 7.2%, and diesel vehicles saw a 19% decline.

Meanwhile, the AfD (Nazi) adjacent car brand Tesla is unwanted.

  • Tesla’s sales in Europe have dropped by nearly 40 percent since the start of the year.
  • The downward trend has acutally accelerated, with sales falling over 46 percent in April.
  • The issue extends to its new Model Y, which was, itself, down 51 percent during the month.

Drone Exposes Russian Troops Being Ordered to Kill Ukranian POWs

CNN reports on yet more proof of Russia committing war crimes.

…the order barked into [the airwaves] was clear: Capture the commander and kill the others.

The chilling exchange was part of a series of radio transmissions between Russian forces that Ukrainian officials say provide further evidence that Russian superiors are ordering soldiers to execute surrendering Ukrainian troops in violation of international law. […]…drone footage [has documented] a suspected execution by Russian soldiers in Ukraine’s eastern Zaporizhzhia region last November. The footage shows six soldiers lying face down on the ground, with at least two being shot at point blank range…

In related news, these illegal Russian execution orders also show up in Spain.

The Madrid region’s Summa emergency services said he had three gunshot wounds, including one to the head, and he died shortly after the first ambulance arrived on the scene. The shooting took place outside the American School of Madrid, located in Pozuelo de Alaracon, an affluent suburb just west of Madrid.

Tesla Shares Are Worthless Says Musk, and Also That He Can’t Be “Tossed Out”

It’s a remarkable admission of guilt, when you look at the Tesla fraud scheme as it is being spelled out in the latest reporting by Electrek.

Musk himself has previously said that Tesla’s stock is “worth nothing” if the company can’t solve autonomy, which attached a lot of Tesla’s valuation to autonomous driving.

Anyone with an ounce of technical expertise knows Tesla is a laggard in the industry, so far behind others that it’s killing dozens of people. We know in retrospect that the early representations of capability were lies, which should have shut it all down by 2018 (e.g. what happened to Uber).

Tesla lied about driverless from the start, has repeatedly killed people, and has showed no signs of truly accepting its faults or fixing them. The opposite, we see innovation mostly in coverups like repeatedly settling out of court and declaring a fresh start, burning investigators. Arguably the data shows Tesla becoming worse over time, not better, because Elon Musk uses money, heirarchy and patronage instead of quality to measure his engineering outputs.

This is due to the kind of pre-industrial mindset of unjust oppression, which is rooted in human slavery concepts painfully familiar to historians of South African apartheid, let alone the American Civil War. In other words, since the 1700s it has been a philosophical truth that humans can be measured on their integrity, as proven through industrial metrics based in ethical codification. Yet some attempt to poison these measures by capturing others (starting with attention) to orient them away from inhereted laws of ethics (as provable as laws of physics) and more to contrived and localized fealty and obedience to a tyrant.

Notably, Musk allows a “measure” to be invoked (like a dollar figure) when he knows it can be gamed to artificially paint legal failures into success.

Musk said the market is the ultimate scorecard for Tesla’s state of business.

That’s of course complete nonsense.

The market is not a scorecard of business, it’s a perception that can be entirely fictional. Enron is such a canonical example, it is a wonder how Musk can be qualified to be a CEO given he fails so openly and obviously at understanding foundational concepts. Imagine that quote coming from Bernie Madoff and you see easily the problem that Musk claims he doesn’t see.

And then note how and why he himself contradicts a false market doctrine that he pitched.

The CEO was then asked if he was committed to staying as head of Tesla for the next five years, to which he answered ‘yes’.

But he said that he would need more shares in Tesla.

Musk claimed that it wasn’t about money but control over the company:

“I can’t be sitting there and wondering if I’m going to be tossed out. “Now let’s move on.”

See? He doesn’t let the market be the ultimate scorecard. He rejects his own blessing of the market, removes all its power, because he doesn’t want to be accountable when the market speaks.

At this point everyone should be able to see the puzzle pieces together, Tesla is a worthless fraud.

Brexit Voters Want Back Into the EU Without Anyone Noticing They Brexited

Here is some hilariously sharp analysis from the Guardian’s John Crace.

Even after nine years, it was still too soon to say the obvious. That Britain had voted to make itself poorer. That Brexiters had radicalised themselves. […] Most Brexit voters now think Brexit was a bad idea. They just want things to return to how they were without anyone reminding them that they had voted for it.

To be fair, it was Russia who radicalized British voters using American social media platforms. It was exactly the thing I presented 13 years ago, July 2012 at BSidesLV, as a dire threat.