Thomas Neuberger wrote regarding Palantir CEO Alex Karp:
If he were your neighbor, he’d get himself put away, to a home, an asylum, a cell. But because he’s rich, American, and pretends to aim his guns outward, he’s praised, rewarded and cheered.
Karp said this in a recent speech:
Americans are the most loving God-fearing, fair, least discriminatory people on the planet. And they want to know that if you’re waking up and thinking about harming American citizens, or if American citizens are taken hostage and kept in dungeons, or if you’re a foreign power sending fentanyl to poison our people, something really bad is going to happen to you — and your friends and your cousins and your bank account and your mistress and whoever was involved.Asia Times made the same assessment recently.
Karp's Palantir is helping the Saudis with "AI and defense." Had Palantir's suite of products been in place in October 2018 would it have known the various cellphones inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey? Would it have intercepted texts/calls from journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancé just outside the building while "something really bad" occurred inside?
Decades of strategic cooperation between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia includes turning a blind eye to undemocratic acts (the Khashoggi killing, the Crown Prince's shakedown prison in the Riyadh Ritz Carlton, the killing of nomads for the sparkling city of Neom).
Palantir products enable such actions by accumulating information and identifying potential targets. Alex said that very thing on tape, including "friends, cousins and mistresses" as deserving of the "really bad" actions. Your bank account? That can be taken too if you are "waking up thinking about how to harm" America.
A new way to harm America is to advocate for the starving babies and children of Gaza. This one position alone characterizes a person as a terrorist lover, a Hamas supporter. The Heritage Foundation's Project Esther put in place strategies to stifle dissent over the poor treatment of Palestinians after the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.
Curriculum it believed to be sympathetic to a “Hamas support” narrative would be taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged of content deemed to be anti-semitic. Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported.One of the authors of Project Esther worked for a Jared Kushner founded nonprofit focused on the Abraham Accords. Kushner is a private equity underwriter (PEU) with billions in Middle East investments. His father Charles, pardoned by President Trump, is undergoing hearings for Ambassador to France.
Former Ambassador Chas Freeman has characterized Israel's obliteration of Gaza as meeting the definition of genocide.
PEUs Marc Rowan (Apollo) and Bill Ackman (Pershing Square) were front and center in squashing university protests calling for Israeli asset divestment.
My wise friend recently wrote:
They used the October 7th massacre to have someone in private equity write an editorial about the University of Pennsylvania leadership regarding the Palestinian protests to introduce this project to dampen all of our freedoms to protest and speak out under the constitution. Yet all these same businessmen were in the Middle East to broker a deal with Jared Kushner and Donald Trump?
So you can't protest the inhumane treatment of the Palestinians without the fear of being lumped into a category of supporting terrorists? And then what is the next step? You cannot protest the way you are being treated at a corporation? Where does this end? It doesn't.
You know what ends all your rights under the constitution according to a FASCIST regime that all the guys from MAGA keep supporting. A blending of Tech Titans with Wall Street oligarchs consolidating the Middle East with U.S. military might to accept a genocide of the Palestinian people. Whoever follows Alex Karp and Palmer Luckey have a dream, but it will turn out to be our nightmare. Incoming.
The Boss Bruce Springsteen eloquently said:
“In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.”“A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government.”
A majority of our representatives have long chosen the moneyed interest over public will. It's time for our friends in the Congress to provide a counterbalance to their TechGod and PEU Legend sponsors.
Elected officials have allowed the distortion of our Constitutional Republic and usurpation of citizen rights. Restoration is in order, not further backsliding.
Update 5-30-25: Trump taps Palantir to compile data on Americans. More DOUGEBAG, Department of Ungodly Greedy Executives Biased Against Government (the kind that ensures rights vs. trampling them)
Update 6-2-25: FT reported:
Moody’s reports default rates for private equity-backed companies nearing 17 per cent, more than double non-private equity firms.
