source:  dailynewsfromaolf

…and Peter Thiel and Alex Karp are leading the parade of crazed lunatics

by Patrick Wood

I can vouch for every fact, analysis, and conclusion in this video by Vanessa Wingårdh. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp have effectively dominated the world for the Intel community. Do you care? You will, after listening to the end. Disrupting America is good for us? If we miss the train, we will get our heads cut off? If we are their enemies, will they kill us? (all hinted at by Alex Karp!)

The more that I analyze Alex Karp and Peter Thiel, the more I understand just maniacally insane they are. Please share this post with everyone you know.

(Alex Karp) There is basically no conflict in the world where Palantir is not the first call. Well, I love the idea of getting a drone and having it fly fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts who tried to screw us. I had all sorts of fantasies of using drone-enabled technology to exact revenge, especially targeted in violation of all norms.

(News broadcaster) All right, a strong quarter. That might be an understatement. When we’re speaking about Palantir, their first quarter where revenue topped a billion dollars.

(Alex Karp) In the end, the rights you give up will be used against you.

(Vanessa Wingårdh) Millions of Americans have files in government databases, their movements, purchases, and communications connected by software from a company called Palantir. And the worst part, we helped fund its creation.

What exactly does Palantir do?

Palantir has current and past contracts with the FBI, DHS, IRS, CDC, SEC, and the Pentagon. They process data for police departments in multiple countries, health care networks, including the United Kingdom’s National Health Services, Cleveland Clinic managing patient care across hospitals. They’re in the banks processing your transactions, the factories building your cars, Tyson Foods monitoring production facilities, and Fortune 500 companies from Wendy’s to General Mills.

In a letter from Alex Karp, he states, “We have chosen sides and we know that our partners value our commitment. We stand by them when it is convenient and when it is not.”

This is the CEO saying that they will support the government agencies regardless of what these agencies choose to do. No moral boundaries, no questions asked, even when it’s not convenient, meaning when it’s morally wrong.

This is a company explicitly saying they’ll enable any government action, seemingly no matter how authoritarian, as long as the check clears. Palantir operates in over 50 industries across at least 35 countries. Their CEO openly states their mission to become the US government’s central operating system, all while fear-mongering and using war rhetoric. The same software tracking you at a protest is also identifying targets on the battlefield.

(Alex Karp) Palantir is here to disrupt and make our institutions we partner with the very best in the world and when it’s necessary to scare our enemies and on occasion kill them.

(Vanessa Wingårdh) To understand how one company has gained this much power, we need to go back in time. In 2002, the US government created something called Total Information Awareness. The goal—exactly what it sounds like: total information, track everything and everyone.

Every email, every purchase, every movement, every medical record. Total Information Awareness sought to keep track of every American citizen. Even going so far as to identify citizens based on how they walked. Americans at the time were outraged, claiming the US government was attempting to mass-surveil its citizens.

Congress responded to the backlash by defunding the program in 2003. Democracy worked, privacy won, and the start of a surveillance state was defeated.

Or so we thought, because in the exact same year, 2003, something curious happened. A new company was founded called Palantir. It was founded by none other than Peter Thiel, who at the time had just sold PayPal for 1.5 billion. But here’s what most people don’t know: at PayPal, Thiel had already built systems that tracked unusual patterns across millions of financial transactions. He had already proven that mass surveillance could work. He just needed to scale it up.

Aside from Thiel, Palantir had one other early investor: the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA. Palantir was advised by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former CIA director George Tenet, and John Poindexter. (ed. note: Rice and Tenet were members of the Trilateral Commission)

Now, who is that? Well, he’s the former national security adviser to President Reagan and the man put in charge of Total Information Awareness. When I look at the technical architecture of Total Information Awareness and compare it to that of Palantir’s Gotham software patents, they’re nearly identical. In my opinion, the surveillance state was never stopped. They just privatized it.