”We have embedded a…US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of…Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland.

janhoglund

”We have embedded a…US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of…Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland. … The level of understanding in UK politics and media about Silicon Valley’s alliance with Trump and the geopolitical and security consequences of this appears to be non-existent.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-new-model-army
#trump #peterthiel #thiel #palantir #usa #unitedkingdom #uk #nato

janhoglund

”It sounds like writerly hyperbole to describe the UK as a vassal state, but I mean it in its most literal sense. It’s explicitly stated in the ur-text of Trump’s White House’s foreign policy, the National Security Strategy document, that US companies will be used as instruments of state power. There is no hidden agenda here: Trump has set it all out.”
—Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Thiel's New Model Army
#trump #thiel #palantir #usa #unitedkingdom #uk

janhoglund

”Palantir is the most terrifying of the US companies but it’s also just one of a whole raft of compromising, self-sabotaging deals that the UK government has entered into. The UK ‘Sovereign Cloud’ has been contracted out to Oracle, owned by another key Trump ally, Larry Ellison… And then there are deals with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Amazon, BlackRock, Nvidia and Scale AI.”
—Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Thiel's New Model Army
#trump #thiel #peterthiel #ellison #larryellison #usa #uk

janhoglund

”[Keir] Starmer, an international human rights lawyer, is unable to say the attack on Venezuela was in breach of international law. This is the leader of a G7 nation, unable to confirm that black is black and white is white.”
—Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Thiel's New Model Army
#starmer #keirstarmer #uk #unitedkingdom #usa #venezuela

Nantucket Lit

@janhoglund Who the hell names their company Palantir? This sicko, that's who.

janhoglund

”…the blindness, ignorance and ongoing denial is the most dangerous thing about this moment. … We are now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump fascist project. … I’m not using the f-word lightly… But what is so dangerous right now is the assault on truth, on facts, on the evidence of our own eyes. What is happening right now in America is fascism. And we, the UK, are now up to our necks in it too.”
—Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Thiel's New Model Army
#trump #usa #uk #fascism

janhoglund

”What Trump is doing is meant to scare us. And not being scared, speaking the facts, taking the piss and recording it all on your phone are all radical acts. All week, I’ve been collecting individual responses to hard power ranging from the courageous to the creative to the comedic.”
—Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Thiel's New Model Army
#trump #fascism

janhoglund

Sticking to the facts is now a radical act.
—Carole Cadwalladr
#quote

AnneH

@janhoglund "We have embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland."

spdrnl

@janhoglund It is worse than that in way.

Palantirs software is nowhere near to what it claims to be. There is no real ontology.

In the U.S. Palantir is not popular at all anymore amongst larger clients.

My take is this. Palantir is a mediocre systems integrator that is being paid by governments to break the law datawise systematically.

#EU @EUCommission

Mikka

@janhoglund The same is happening to the german police! Three states are already using Palantir. Outrageous...

Beachbum

@janhoglund Larry Ellison is a crazy man spouting conspiracy theories about Revelations and other propaganda. He is a clear and present danger as is his son who is now running CNN.

René

@barbarakathmann hier een achtergrond artikel over #palantir en #peterthiel

Mensch, Marina

@janhoglund #FF @broligarchy.substack.com

David John Crook

@janhoglund I think this is right. I don't think in the UK we have any concept of the operation of companies like Palantir.
I only began to realise from an article on a baseball blog which is very much minority viewing here.

WesDym

@janhoglund I think it's also worth bearing in mind that Thiel may well be insane, or heading that way. Watch some interviews with him, and tell me if you think he's doing okay mentally and emotionally. I don't.