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• Main Topic: The video discusses Palantir Technologies and its increasing role in centralizing and managing US government data, raising concerns about privacy and potential abuse of power.

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  • An executive order in 2025 aimed to eliminate information silos within the government, centralizing data access.
  • Palantir is heavily involved in building databases for government agencies, including immigration enforcement (Doge project), the IRS, CDC and Homeland Security.
  • The speaker draws parallels to the Patriot Act and post-9/11 surveillance expansions, arguing that justifications for data collection often lead to broader applications beyond the initial stated purpose.
  • Concerns are raised about the lack of oversight and potential for misuse of centralized data by Palantir, a private company.
  • The video highlights the historical context of Palantir's founding, linking it to the "Total Information Awareness" initiative and figures like John Poindexter.
  • The speaker emphasizes the irony of a private company now holding the kind of data that caused public outcry when the NSA was revealed to be collecting it.

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  • The Trump administration's motto: "Everyone is converting to Palantir."
  • Palantir's involvement in managing sensitive data across multiple federal agencies, including health and financial information.
  • The connection between Palantir's founders and the "Total Information Awareness" program.
  • The comparison of Palantir's current role to the NSA's controversial data collection practices revealed by Edward Snowden.
  • The video ends with a call for more attention to Palantir's activities and its potential impact on civil liberties.

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I agree, but don't forget how MSM and the duopoly treat whistleblowers, as well as the Russiagate smears.

Propaganda works; that is why so much money is involved in politics and media.

Any thoughts on Whitney Web?

From what I know, she seems to be a great investigative journalist who has spoken about the surveillance state, Palantir, Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein, and what industries have ties to organized crime.

Here is her archived website:

1. Homepage: https://archive.ph/wip/BdzIu | https://unlimitedhangout.com/
2. Authors: https://archive.is/oVpM5 | https://unlimitedhangout.com/content-blocks/author/
3. Palantir: https://archive.ph/1CBxh | https://unlimitedhangout.com/?s=Palantir

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Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for The Last American Vagabond and hosts an independent podcast called Unlimited Hangout.

Whitney has made numerous radio, television and video appearances, appearing on left-leaning programs like The Real News Network, Media Roots and The Zero Hour as well as right-leaning programs like The Tom Woods Show and The QTR podcast. Her work aims to highlight under-reported issues and find common ground between people of different political persuasions regarding corruption, government overreach, the lack of accountability for militaries and intelligence agencies and the military-industrial complex.

She is currently writing a book on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal based on her viral investigative series and has contributed to a soon-to-be available book on the Coronavirus Epidemic authored by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Whitney lives in Chile with her 2 year old daughter and her dogs, Worf and Sisko.^[[1] https://archive.ph/CFF74 | https://unlimitedhangout.com/about-me/]

Snowden exposed Palantir?

You Americans really need some heroes. Snowden might have done some good, but as soon as things got hot he folded like a cheap lawn chair and openly supported russian genocidal imperialism.

I hope Snowden and his family (his wife and kid) meet the same fate as they wish for Ukrainians in internment camps in the occupied territories.

You can fuck right off with your "pawn for the West", you tankie cockroach.

I live in Ukraine (I am originally from Donbas no less). Let's hope you end up in the Izolyatsia camp in occupied Donetsk oblast. You're word salad about "Ukraine being a pawn" isn't going to help you there. They are not going to care that you helped spread russian propaganda.

You don't speak Ukrainian, you've never lived in Ukraine and you have no clue what you are talking about.

He went to Russia because Obama wanted him dead. Obama targeted more whistleblowers exposing US crimes than any other president before him. The commander in chief of US genocidal imperialism.

You usually wear your fascism on your shoulder?

Right, opposing russian genocidal imperialism and their invasion of my country is fascism.

You tankie roaches are all the same.

What does this have to do with anything I said?

There are millions of people who fight freedoms all around the world and don't back down when the going gets tough.

Snowden immediately started supporting russian genocidal imperialism. Look at his posts pre full scale invasion in Jan and Feb 2022. Complete alignment with russian propaganda about how they are not going to invade.

Hope Snowden and his family (wife and child) get to experience what they wish for Ukrainians in russian internment camps in the occupied territories.

Maybe your focus should be on fixing your own house before trying to fix others. Get rid of your governments corruption and their Nazis.

If the US had stayed out of everyone's business Russia wouldn't be banging on your back door. Putin is only in power BECAUSE of US interference in Russia.

Bugger off with your lies about "muh nazis in Ukraine" you tankie roach.

You don't speak Ukrainian, you've never lived here. You have no clue what you're talking about.

You're just lying for some internet roleplay bullshit. Let's hope you and your family members will one day be on the receiving end of russian genocidal imperialism.

It will be a good lesson for a disgusting degenerate like you.

No, putin is in power because the vast majority of russians are genocidal imperialists. They had an opportunity to build something better for their children after the somewhat peaceful end of the USSR, instead they chose genocidal imperialism and authoritarianism.

You've never lived in russia, you don't speak russian. You're just a random internet fake leftist degenerate.

You don't understand anything about what is going in Ukraine.

Putin is in power because the US interfered in Russian elections under Clinton that ensured Yeltsin won. Yeltsin appointed Putin to be his successor.

There isn't a single media source or country in the world that didn't acknowledge Ukraine's corruption and Nazi problem prior to the start of the US proxy war. Even the US State Department acknowledged it.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg denied Ukrainian NATO membership due to levels of corruption.

A person doesn't need to live somewhere to know lies from truth.

Fuck off. You have no proof for this. You're just parroting random copytext.

I lived in russia during the 1996 election (and I speak russian unlike you).

You're lying and parroting russian revanchist victimhood narrative propaganda blaming scapegoats for the actions of the russians.

Nazi "problem" is made up bullshit spread by tankie roaches like you. Most developed world countries have far higher support for far right parties in their lower (and upper) houses than Ukraine.

It's a key element of russian propaganda and their "justification" for invading Ukraine. Which you are parroting.

Unlike you I've lived in both in Ukraine and russia for ~10+ years and I speak both russian and Ukrainian.

You are liar. You have no idea what you are talking about. You are just repeating russian propaganda because at this stage in your life you decided to get involved with an internet roleplay thing.

We both know this is true. You won't admit this publicly, but we both know it.

is Time Magazine also random copy text?

I'm sure its my propaganda that named major streets in Ukraine after Ukrainian Nazis, have statues scattered all over the country celebrating Nazis.

Your claims of 'i speak Russian in Ukraine' bullshit holds no water.

Did you read the article?

Can you explain the arguments without a web search?

Of course not, because you are just reciting online roleplay bullshit.

Give me something that would shows you're not just a random degenerate lying about things you don't understand.

This shouldn't be difficult.

Don't even bother aggressively googling for random shit. I will of course see through it because ... wait for it ... I lived in Russia during the 1996 election and I speak russian.

You seem to be an unhinged fragile snowflake