BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18875156 SEQUENCE:19047618 CREATED:20250404T223700Z DESCRIPTION:5/13/25 Send Trump's Crypto Billionaire Techno Fascist Czar David Sacks To Mars On One Way Ticket\n\nSpeak Out & Sing Out At SF Billionaire Crypto Fascist Czar’s Mansion\n\nOne of Trump’s biggest supporters is San Francisco South African techno fascist billionaire David Sacks. He had a benefit for Trump with JD Vance and has been put in charge of Trump’s Department of Crypto Currency as a czar of crypto.\n\nHe is a racist, segregationist and along with his buddies Elon Musk and Peter Thiel has taken over the government. The crypto currency scam will not only rip off hundreds of millions of workers and people but also lead to a global depression. These techno fascists are a threat to working people and all of humanity.\n\nWe will be calling on Sacks along with Musk and Thiel to be sent on a one way ride to Mars where they plan to set up their new world and where they can continue to push for slavery in the US but do it on Mars.\n\nPoets, Musicians & Artists will be attending\n\nSunday April 13, 2025 12:00 Noon\nBillionaire David Sacks Pacifica Heights Mansion \n2845 Broadway \nSan Francisco\n\nInitiated by United Front Committee For A Labor Party\nEndorsed By Palestine Haight Action Committee\nwww.ufclp.org\nContact To Endorse\ninfo@ufclp.org\n\nLinks & Media\n\n\nThe Roots Of Techno-Fascism \nhttps://truthout.org/articles/is-the-digital-revolution-sowing-the-seeds-of-a-techno-fascist-future/\n\nThe Problem With AI is That It is Run by Fascists \nhttps://www.shanley.com/blog/the-problem-with-ai-is-that-it-is-run-by-fascists\n\nTrump Names Top Silicon Valley Conservative (Fascist) to Oversee Crypto and A.I.\n\nDavid Sacks, a venture capitalist who hosts a hit podcast, has generally called for a looser hand in regulating both emerging technologies.\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/us/politics/david-sacks-crypto-ai-trump.html\n\nDavid Sacks speaking at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times David Sacks, in a dark suit and red tie, standing behind a lectern with a microphone in front of him.\n\nBy Theodore Schleifer\n\nTheodore Schleifer has written for the last several years about the political activities of David Sacks.\n\nPresident-elect Donald J. Trump has named one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent conservative investors, donors and media personalities to help oversee American tech policy.\n\nDavid Sacks, a venture capitalist and an early executive at PayPal who launched a hit podcast, will be the “White House A.I. and Crypto Czar,” the president-elect announced in a social media post on Thursday. Mr. Sacks is a close friend of Elon Musk, and Mr. Sacks has been among the people over the last year or so encouraging Mr. Musk to delve deeper into Republican politics.\n\nThe position will be new, and further cements the expectation that the Trump White House intends to take a lighter hand with the regulation of technology and in particular cryptocurrencies, which have surged in value since Mr. Trump won the election and in which Mr. Trump personally has a business interest. Mr. Sacks, who leads a venture capital firm called Craft Ventures, has in general called for a more permissive policy on both cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence.\n\nMr. Sacks won a battle within the Trump transition effort. Some people were pitching Mr. Trump’s team on separate positions where different people would oversee artificial intelligence and crypto, according to a person close to the process. But Mr. Sacks was chosen to oversee them all together in a joint appointment.\n\n“David will guide policy for the Administration in Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness,” Mr. Trump said on Thursday evening. “David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas.”\n\nMr. Sacks’s position is not full time, his firm said. Mr. Sacks had told friends that he did not want a formal role because it would require him to leave his position overseeing his venture capital fund, The New York Times has previously reported. Mr. Sacks announced a new start-up funding round led by his firm just this week.\n\nThe selection of Mr. Sacks caps an extraordinary rise for the investor, who had not been on the radar of the conservative movement despite being active in conservative politics since his undergraduate years at Stanford, where he struck up a friendship with another leading Silicon Valley conservative turned tech billionaire, Peter Thiel.\n\nThen came Mr. Sacks’s podcast, “All-In,” which began in 2020 and has resonated particularly with the more conservative parts of Silicon Valley. Since its launch, he has become a celebrity in some tech and political circles: He hosted a fund-raiser for Mr. Trump in San Francisco in June, and he delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention in July. Mr. Trump appeared on the podcast this summer.\n\nMany right-leaning business leaders in the tech industry saw the Biden administration as too tough on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, and Mr. Trump said Mr. Sacks would “work on a legal framework so the Crypto industry has the clarity it has been asking for, and can thrive.” Mr. Sacks would also oversee the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, according to Mr. Trump’s post.\n\nSouth African Techno Fascist Racist Gangster Billionaires Running The Trump Government-Billioanires Elon Musk, Peter Theil & David Sacks In San Francisco\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/17/trump-musk-south-africa/\n\nMusk is just one of a number of tech billionaires in Trump’s inner circle with ties to South Africa — others include PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and White House cryptocurrency adviser David Sacks — whose childhoods of relative privilege under the apartheid regime and dismay at the way the country has developed since the fall of apartheid may shadow their views of contemporary politics. Trump has turned sharply against South Africa in recent weeks.\n\nWhy South Africa is in Trump’s crosshairs\n\nTrump has turned sharply against South Africa in recent weeks. Some onlookers think the primary audience is nativist Trump supporters at home.\n\nMarch 17, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. EDTToday at 12:00 a.m. EDT\n\n\n\nColumn by Ishaan Tharoor\n\nThe embassy of South Africa in Washington on Saturday. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)\n\nSometimes, diplomatic incidents can be boiled down to a clash of personalities or a minor misunderstanding. That’s not the case in what’s transpiring between the Trump administration and South Africa. On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that South Africa’s envoy to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was “no longer welcome in our great country,” after the latter had delivered a speech virtually to a Johannesburg think tank where he cast the Trump administration as waging “a supremacist insurgency” against the West’s political establishment and pandering to an illusory “White victimhood” among its base.\n\nRubio described Rasool — a celebrated anti-apartheid activist and a veteran diplomat who had a previous stint in Washington under his belt — as “a race-baiting politician who hates America” and President Donald Trump, and declared him “persona non grata.” The following day, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed the expulsion, saying it was “regrettable” and urging all parties to “maintain the established diplomatic decorum in their engagement with the matter.”\n\nRasool’s rhetoric was conspicuous for a diplomat in station. But his remarks came after weeks of being frozen out by his interlocutors in Washington. According to a report in Semafor last week, Rasool had “failed to secure routine meetings with State Department officials and key Republican figures since Trump took office in January.” A South African diplomat told the news site that the cards were stacked against the ambassador: “A man named Ebrahim, who is Muslim, with a history of pro-Palestine politics, is not likely to do well in that job right now.”\n\nThe Trump administration’s animus is not just aimed at Rasool, but the whole South African government. The African nation’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza — it has led the charge at the International Court of Justice, triggering a case investigating Israel for genocide — riled officials in both the Trump administration and its predecessor. Rubio represented this as “anti-Americanism” and skipped a foreign ministers meeting of the Group of 20 major economies bloc, which South Africa is chairing this year.\n\nIn a filing with the ICJ, South Africa accused Israel of “genocidal intent,” pointing to statements by top officials. Israel denies the allegations. (Video: Joy Sung/The Washington Post)\n\nIn Trumpworld, the enmity goes deeper. Online fearmongering among white nationalists has made its way into Trump’s talking points, with the president highlighting the supposed oppression of White farmers — principally ethnic Afrikaners, or the descendants of 17th-century Dutch colonists — and the perceived risk of violence they face, as well as the potential expropriation of their lands. Elon Musk, the South African-born tech oligarch working closely with Trump, has repeatedly invoked the far-right slogan of “White genocide” in the country, claims that a South African court recently declared were “not real.”\n\nMusk is just one of a number of tech billionaires in Trump’s inner circle with ties to South Africa — others include PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and White House cryptocurrency adviser David Sacks — whose childhoods of relative privilege under the apartheid regime and dismay at the way the country has developed since the fall of apartheid may shadow their views of contemporary politics. Trump has turned sharply against South Africa in recent weeks.\n\n“The move against the ambassador follows a series of Trump criticisms against the South African government, including an executive order last month denouncing new legislation that established a program for expropriation of unused agricultural land that White owners refused to sell to Black purchasers,” explained my colleague Karen DeYoung. “Trump ordered the cancellation of all U.S. assistance programs to South Africa and offered U.S. admission and resettlement ‘for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.’”\n\nWhite people in South Africa are not more vulnerable to crime than any other racial group, according to police data. Though just 7 percent of the population, they own about half of the country’s land and are economically better off than other communities by most measures.\n\nSome bemused onlookers think Trump and his allies are doing this for nativist supporters at home. “It plays into the fears of White people in America and elsewhere: ‘We Whites are threatened,’” Max du Preez, a White South African writer and historian, told the New York Times of Trump’s attacks on his country. “They’re playing on the thing of the White Christian civilization being threatened,” he added. “And that has a lot of appeal among the evangelicals and others in the United States.”\n\nPatrick Gaspard, a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa, lamented the breakdown in the relationship and pointed to how the secretary of state was, as a political rival, far more critical of Trump than South Africa’s expelled ambassador. “We should note that Marco Rubio himself said far worse things about Donald Trump in the past than anything said by Ambassador Rasool,” Gaspard posted on social media. “Let’s be real about what these people are up to with their obsessive targeting of South Africa and their performance of grievance.”\n\nIn South Africa, Trump’s attention has had a rallying effect on an oft-fractured and fractious political scene. The administration’s move to cut assistance “has now pushed the most stridently pro-Western voices to the margins of society as the bulk of South African opinion, including among whites, moves toward opposing Trump’s actions,” Imraan Buccus, a senior research associate at South Africa’s Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute, wrote in Foreign Policy. “Indeed, leading Afrikaner figures and organizations have made it clear that they prefer to remain in South Africa rather than to become refugees in the United States.”\n\nSarang Shidore, director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute, a Washington-based think tank that urges foreign policy restraint, said the growing rift between the two countries predates Trump, with Biden officials irked with South Africa’s apparent indifference to Russian aggression in Ukraine even as it loudly championed the Palestinian cause. “Washington sees South Africa’s policy of nonalignment as a cover for a tilt toward U.S. rivals” in China and Russia, Shidore told me, adding that Trump has now added “a racial lens” to the relationship as he tries “to achieve escalation dominance against U.S. rivals at home and abroad.”\n\nTrump officials have cast South Africa’s G-20 agenda as one based on “DEI,” or “diversity, equity, inclusion” — principles derided by the American right wing as leftist virtue-signaling and attacked by the Trump administration via executive order. U.S. critics of South Africa cast the postapartheid state as corrupt and failing, but others see the country’s fitful transformation from a white supremacist regime to a multicultural democracy as an unparalleled success story.\n\nIn his remarks last week, Rasool said South Africa was not “unique” in being targeted by an administration that is launching trade wars with allies and airstrikes on militant groups elsewhere. “But,” Rasool added, “we fit into that because we are the historical antidote to supremacism.”\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/04/18875156.php SUMMARY:Send Trump's Crypto Billionaire Techno Fascist Czar David Sacks to Mars on One Way Ticket LOCATION:Billionaire David Sacks Pacifica Heights Mansion \n2845 Broadway \nSan Francisco\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/04/18875156.php DTSTART:20250413T190000Z DTEND:20250413T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR