Thiel and Musk are buddies going back all the way to PayPal, I think
Hacking payments and creating a digital panopticon in government are significant preconditions of totalitarian control
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025...-palantir.htmlFor almost two years, the British government has been holding an inquiry- -whitewash into the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the recent witnesses to that inquiry was Louis Mosley, the executive vice-president of Palantir Technologies UK (and, incidentally, the grandson of the 1930s British fascist Oswald Mosley), who during his testimony saw a rare opportunity to plug his company’s products. It was one he seized upon with relish.
The UK government, he said, should invest in a “common operating system” for its data, encompassing the full gamut of departments and local authorities — a system that Palantir would presumably be more than happy to develop:
“[The government should] deploy this common operating system capability immediately and not wait until the next pandemic or civil challenge on the scale of COVID-19 is already underway. An investment of this kind is already long overdue.”This comment is very similar to a remark made by Palantir’s Chief Technology Operator Shyam Sankar in 2021 — with regard to the US government:
Turning to government, we continue to advance our mission of becoming the US government’s central operating system as we extend our footprint across defence, healthcare and civilian agencies.As outlandish as the idea may seem that one company could aspire to exclusively provide and manage a central operating system for the governments of both the US and the UK, there can be no doubting Palantir’s ambitions to expand its influence throughout government on both sides of the Atlantic. This is a company, after all, whose founder, Peter Thiel, has long marketed himself as a libertarian while lauding the benefits of monopoly capitalism and helping build the infrastructure of the modern surveillance state.
As Iain Davis writes in his excellent two-part series on the “Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate”, the “proponents of Technocracy and the proponents of the Dark Enlightenment, such as Elon Musk and Thiel, are not interested in restricting state power, though they may say otherwise”:
Instead they wish to move the state from the public to the private sector and expand its power once sufficiently privatized. True, they oppose “representative democracy” and characterise it as both a “democracy” (which it isn’t) and a bureaucratic system riddled with problems (which it is), but the solutions they offer, to all intents and purposes, magnify the power of the very state they supposedly condemn.
What the believers in Technocracy and the believers in the Dark Enlightenment both propose are compartmentalised, hierarchical sociopolitical power structures that couldn’t be more state-like or more authoritarian. They seek to expand and maximise the power of the state, though in slightly different ways. Calling their new model of the state either a Technate (as technocrats do) or a gov-corp (as accelerationist neoreactionaries do) doesn’t change the nature of the tyrannical statism they desire to foist on the rest of us.
One milestone was the April 2009 discussion hosted at Cato Unbound among libertarian thinkers (including Patri Friedman and Peter Thiel) in which disillusionment with the direction and possibilities of democratic politics was expressed with unusual forthrightness. Thiel summarized the trend bluntly: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03...chnate-part-2/Escaping the grasp of the oligarchs was obviously a vote winner. But the American public has not escaped, on the contrary it has fallen into the clutches of the most authoritarian oligarchs imaginable. Oligarchs who, perhaps for the first time in history, not only have the political authority but the technology to make their gov-corp Technates a reality.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03...chnate-part-2/In 2023, Trump proposed establishing ten so called “Freedom Cities” in the US. The mainstream media focused on his comments about “flying cars,” but he was really talking about embryonic gov-corp Technates.
Reportedly, the FCC is now supposedly “in discussion” with the Trump administration to create gov-corp Technates across the US. Trey Goff said “the energy in DC is absolutely electric” and the ambition was to create “not just ten, but as many as the market can handle.”
If approved by Congress, these “startup nations” — neoreactionary realms — will be city states like Próspera. The FCC calls these “special districts” Prosperity Zones. The technopopulist offer is to unleash innovation, onshore employment opportunities and revitalise the American economy. The FCC objective is to “accelerate the development of new urban centers.”
Freedom Cities will operate in de facto US ZEDEs. The objective is to remove all regulation and allow tech-oligarchs the freedom to do whatever they like. These will be cities without limits, say the FCC and will be “zones of regulatory clarity and economic dynamism, [. . .] allowing entrepreneurs and builders to move at the speed of human ingenuity.”
A recent exposé by WIRED, citing IRS sources, suggests that Palantir is also participating in an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records:
APIs are application programming interfaces, which enable different applications to exchange data and could be used to move IRS data to the cloud and access it there. DOGE has expressed an interest in the API project possibly touching all IRS data, which includes taxpayer names, addresses, social security numbers, tax returns, and employment data. The IRS API layer could also allow someone to compare IRS data against interoperable datasets from other agencies.In other words, while sources within the Trump Administration, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, were recently claiming that Trump was toying with the idea of eliminating the IRS altogether, presumably to impress his libertarian followers, the stone-cold reality is that DOGE, with Palantir’s help, is looking to expand and streamline the IRS’ data collection and use.
Should this project move forward to completion, DOGE wants Palantir’s Foundry software to become the “read center of all IRS systems,” a source with direct knowledge tells WIRED, meaning anyone with access could view and have the ability to possibly alter all IRS data in one place. It’s not currently clear who would have access to this system.
Foundry is a Palantir platform that can organize, build apps, or run AI models on the underlying data. Once the data is organized and structured, Foundry’s “ontology” layer can generate APIs for faster connections and machine learning models. This would allow users to quickly query the software using artificial intelligence to sort through agency data, which would require the AI system to have access to this sensitive information.
Saves no money -- this is a pure capacity cut
God forbid there should ever be a ban run
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankin...urge-continuesCongress doesn’t provide funding for the FDIC, so any savings from eliminating positions at the agency wouldn’t affect the federal budget. The majority of its funding comes from insurance premiums paid by banks with a much smaller percentage coming from interest on government securities.
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Joey reduced to pure ankle biting
Is Tim Pool not giving him clear talking points?
tee, hee. Even the old man don't like that F.D.I.C., eh? Everyone in the Stock Market gettin' hammered like trout meat will do that to marketeers.
While the F.D.I.C.'ers whistle past that grave yard whereas in '09 they was inside said graveyard.
Let us proceed...
Black Representative Byron Donald's at a town hall last night after getting booed...
"You can boo if you want to, but those are the facts. Because if you go back in time, back to 2009," he added. "Then-President Obama famously said that he wanted to examine the efficiencies or lack thereof in the federal government. Elon Musk is doing the exact same thing."
In for penny.
In for pound.
https://www.wired.com/story/feds-weaken-self-driving-reporting-rules/\In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving
A new autonomous vehicle framework would also make it easier for Tesla and other companies to research domestically made self-driving cars that don’t meet all federal safety standards.
You spamming non stop def resembles a Gmail account, SpamBot WH.
What conflict of interest?
I can feel that you don't connect with me
that's ok with me
I'll continue on with other posters who seem to be responding personally and topically
doesn't FAA regulate SpaceX?
DOGE gets to do a Dept. of the Interior rampage, as a little treat
leaving Doug Burgum to watch from the corner like a cuck
Wrecking US National Parks is pretty high up there on the moves list
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/nat...x-newtab-en-us
Trump hasn't gotten around to firing this IG yet
https://www.propublica.org/article/t...-general-probeThe inspector general is seeking, for instance, “All requests for taxpayer or other protected information from the President or Executive Office of the President, OMB, or DOGE. Include any information on how the requestor plans to use the information requested, the IRS’s response to the request, and the legal basis for the IRS’s response,” the email says.
The inquiry also asks for information about requests for access to IRS systems from any agency in the executive branch, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration and DOGE.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration office, known as TIGTA, is led by acting Inspector General Heather M. Hill. When Trump fired 17 inspectors general across a range of federal agencies in January, those working for the Treasury Department were not among the ones axed.
Snake Boy ginning up a pogrom against trans
as one does now
we're way past the just asking questions stage
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