Our Infinite Energy Future, Oppenheimer's Quiet Courage and the Family Browder's Continued Treachery
“I envy you, Mr. Johnson,” Linden Blue, founder of General Atomics, told me while we walked down one of the long corridors of his company.
“You lived in an age of infinite information. Your children will live in a world of infinite energy.”
I was thinking about that exchange with Linden Blue when I saw the news about a breakthrough in fusion power and naturally my mind drifted to the smearing of one of the great American scientists — J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of atomic bomb.
Every so often there’s a bit of a reprieve from the harsh judgement of History. A moment where, upon further review, the refs admit, “well, yes, we did get that one wrong, didn’t we?” There’s a reappraisal — an escape from the sort of “hero or villain” dichotomy that flattens our greats to mere mortals, which they, of course, actually are.
The best of us think about the judgement of History the way Abraham Lincoln did and hope for the best.
I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
But every so often a reassessment takes place and so it is with Oppenheimer, the “father of the Manhattan Project,” long suspected of being a Soviet agent and stripped of his security clearance. Such reassessments are necessarily political and we should understand them in much the same was as we understand the decision to award Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize.
Our system needs Oppenheimer to be a hero because our system needs fusion to work.
This past month Oppenheimer has undergone his own long overdue reassessment when Secretary Jennifer Granholm vacated the 1965 Atomic Energy Commission decision to strip the nuclear physicist of his security clearance.
For a quick history lesson, in 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission revoked Dr. Oppenheimer’s security clearance through a flawed process that violated the Commission’s own regulations.
Oppenheimer is even going to be featured in new eponymous Christopher Nolan film. Nolan, you’ll recall, is the bard of the Anglo-American alliance. The atomic scientist will be played by Cillian Murphy.
The case against Oppenheimer has been well articulated by my Traitwell colleague Gavan Tredoux.
Gavan points to this letter which seemingly implicates Oppenheimer as a Communist.
To be honest I find all of that hard to believe. I suspect that Oppenheimer was recruited by British intelligence whilst studying in the U.K. and that he had simply stopped producing for the Soviet Union when he came to America and that he, like a lot of German Jews, split the difference between the Russians and the British. His mentor — or was it handler? — was none other than Patrick Blackett whose bio attests access at the highest levels of the British deep state. If Oppenheimer were a spy for the British, he would have been in good company, including rocket scientist Jack Parsons.
Or, more provocatively, I think that Oppenheimer was a go between the Soviet Union and America when it came to nuclear energy. He was, perhaps, an approved wandering, wondering Jew moving between the different empires.
In the letter you’ll note the surname Earl Browder. He’s the communist grandfather of Bill Browder, who remains an international figure of some mystery. Curiously Browder got his start working for Robert Maxwell and Edmond Safra, according to Haaretz. It strains credulity that Browder, born in America and who became a British subject for tax reasons, and ran one of the largest hedge funds in post-Soviet Russia did it all on the up and up—and indeed, Der Spiegel essentially called BS on the whole Browder tale. We could go there about Trump allegedly trying to hand him over to Russia and the whole intrigue surrounding the Magnitsky Act but that’s for another time. We could also talk about how I was introducing to Bill Browder by a pro-Bibi Israeli spy but again that’s for another time.
Browder’s son, Josh, works on collecting disputatious people’s information through his start up — DoNotPay. Naturally he’s funded by Founder’s Fund and the very sketchy Keith Rabois.
Josh is very friendly with DoNotPay investor Masha Drokova, formerly of Putin’s Kiss fame. After allegedly being disillusioned with the role of “Charlie Kirk of Putin’s Russia” she becomes — what else? — a venture capitalist. Seems legit.
Yes, it’s interesting to follow the bloodlines. You might find a spy here and there.
Or a whole family of them. Buy that ancestry.com account. Do the genealogy. You’ll be surprised what you might find.
Fusion will only ever be released to the General Population as a mechanism for final centralized control.
The focus for future liberty should be on decentralized local power generation and distribution.
Central Planners’ power is derived from their distribution model.