“Palantir can elucidate problems as disparate as terrorism, disaster response and human trafficking.” - Forbes.com (August 14, 2013)

What is Palantir?

Palantir Technologies is a CIA-funded firm that specializes in big data analysis and integration. Put another way: they're the tool for putting all that surveillance data Snowden warned about to some use.

The company's largest stakeholder is PayPal co-founder and initial Facebook investor, billionaire Peter Thiel.

The name for this surveillance data-organizing software comes from (you're gonna love this) the “seeing stone” used by Sauromon in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, which allows users to see events in other parts of the world or in the distant past (relevant in that anything you've ever done digitally is fair game for collection/compilation).

Notable clients as of 2013 included at least twelve groups within the U.S. government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint IED-defeat organization and Allies, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Which segues nicely to the connection between:

Palantir + Pizzagate / Pedogate

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“THORN is going to be the new front for Palantir.” -Investigative Journalist, George Webb

THORN is an international anti-human trafficking organization that works to address the sexual exploitation of children. It was allegedly founded by actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, and now includes two United Nations Secretary Generals as its board members and technology partners such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Palantir, Symantec, and Twitter.

Above is the footage of Ashton Kutcher's opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ending modern slavery and human trafficking; an endeavor we now know is backed by Palantir.

@v4vapid covers this publicity stunt and its logical incongruencies in greater detail in this article: America Gets PUNK'D by Ashton Kutcher and the McCain Institute for Public Funds.

If you choose not to read it, I will at a minimum point out that if worldwide pedophile rings have been found concentrated at the highest levels of governments (and celebrities), then it would be nothing short of gross negligence to not at least acknowledge that the persons in charge of this surveillance initiative could be inextricably connected to the very web of trafficking they allege to police.

Please also note that the software could similarly be used to monitor and eliminate anyone in opposition to, or posing a threat against the continuation (or even further institutionalization of) these crimes against humanity, with the exact same level of efficiency. If we are claiming the desire to rescue these children, then I hope we can at least all agree that handing over the irrefutable power of judge/jury/executioner to their very captors would be the most horrific of failures. If nothing else: it objectively warrants concern. Period.

Palantir + Mass Immigration

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deploying a new intelligence system called Investigative Case anagement (ICM), created by Palantir Technologies, that will assist in President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants from the United States.” - The Intercept (March 2, 2017)

Naturally, by now you are aware of narratives surrounding mass immigration of refugees fleeing war-torn countries (please read The Truth Behind the Controversy of Illegal Immigration into the US by @kushfreeman before committing to your stance on the matter.) Being that this is a current topic of heated debate, the article quoted above was posted by The Intercept only a few days ago. But, like human trafficking, immigration is also not the original context under which I first encountered Palantir Technologies...

Palantir + Jade Helm-15

“When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans, or even ‘cling to guns or religion,’ patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned.” - Texas Congressman, Louie Gohmert

In the summer of 2015, the Army Special Operations Forces and service members from all four branches conducted large-scale, realistic military training exercises on public, civilian occupied territory across at least 7 US States.

Of these States, several were labeled "hostile" on official training maps, and consisted of regions comprised of Republican majorities, high concentrations of Veterans, and/or a high rate of [legal] of gun ownership; which didn't bode well for assuaging fears that these training missions might be practice for the use of force against dissenting American citizens.

The drills conducted included scenarios like the extraction of civilians in the middle of the night, which prompted national public concern as the summer events were kicked-off in secret, and media coverage was denied once the people became aware.

JADE, which stands for Joint Assistant for Development and Execution, is a U.S. military system used for planning the deployment of military forces in crisis situations. It uses Artificial Intelligence technology, combined with a knowledge base, such as Palantir, to predict behaviors and outcomes in order to develop large-scale strategies in minimal time (real-time threat intelligence). This was the program deployed in conjunction with these exercises.

Given the overall secrecy of the operations (i.e. lack of public disclosure or permission for media coverage), and behavior-predicting nature of the software, it would not surprise me if the intent of these included gathering information on how Americans would respond to a rapid, unexpected implementation of martial law so that they could plan accordingly. But that is merely a personal speculation.

A quick search of these training operations will return a slew of results including the term “conspiracy theory” and pooh-poohing all of the public outcry against these exercises (of which there was so much, that the following summer they changed the name to UWEX-16 to shake the public scrutiny). So consider this a healthy reminder to steer clear of all forms of spin, pro or anti, and simply focus on the facts:

Are Americans wrong for being opposed to their Military and Law Enforcement violating the very rule of law which they are intended to uphold? Or is that perhaps a valid concern regardless of where it may or may not lead? Posse commentates was established for good reason, and violation of it in the face of blatant public disapproval is the very definition of tyrannical rule.

Also, for anyone reading this who is/was not in the armed forces:

They have had MOUT towns specifically built to conduct urban training on Military bases, which have been sufficient for a long time now (i.e. the lie about needing to train in Urban areas is just that). Except for the fact that:
You always "train like you fight so you'll fight like you trained." Simply stated: they don't blow billions of dollars and subject themselves to negative PR to conduct training for what they don't plan to do. Ask veterans who know what they're talking about (i.e. a Supply clerk, though mission critical, may not necessarily have had much involvement in mission planning/training/execution). I promise you, if they're conditioning the troops to get used to Policing their own country, it's because they absolutely intend to ask them to do so.

In any case, decide for yourself. Moving right along...

Conclusion:

So what do we know for certain?

The evidence supports that a global police state is no longer a hypothetical, it is a reality that is already in place and ready to go live in September of this year. (Intercept)

We also know that Palantir Technologies has already embedded itself into the following sectors of society: the US Military, US Customs and Immigration, and the network of US Intelligence departments.

And finally, we know that this element has also woven itself into three simultaneously occurring fear-porn narratives to garner public support until implementation. Notably, the exact three circumstances quoted at the beginning of this article by the founder all the way back in 2013. (How conveniently fortuitous that just such occasions should all culminate simultaneously.)

Final Cautionary Remarks

It is important to note that after implementation, garnering of public support will no longer be required, as unwanted dissension will no longer be possible. If you think this statement is untrue, you do not understand the completeness of your surveillance already at this moment.

Anyone considering the ramifications of what I'm telling you in earnest might do well to revisit accounts of Stalin's Russia and then try to comprehend how much worse this could become by comparison, with our current level of technology. Even Mr. Kutcher makes the acknowledgement that, "technology could be used to enforce slavery" before assuring us (in spite of a poor record of integrity on the part of their corporate and government cohorts) that this is not their intent.

But can we trust governments to be ethical with this scale of power?

In my humble opinion, the mere existence of the Patriot Act (which authorizes the kidnapping, indefinite detention, and torture of American citizens without the need to even inform them or their family members of the charges against them) the case of a US Marine being involuntarily committed to an insane asylum after some government-critical FaceBook posts, and the current progress of an anti-free speech "Islamophobia" bill moving forward in Canada are just three out of many examples off the top of my head that cause me to think a resounding: nope.

So, while we decide which tent of the three ring circus to watch, the same single agenda presses onward. Skynet is already here. The question now is: IS this what we really want?

“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things… And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it’s only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that… because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.” - Edward Snowden

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/#51907f877852
https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28organization%29
https://steemit.com/humantrafficking/@v4vapid/america-gets-punk-d-by-ashton-kutcher-and-the-mccain-institute-for-public-funds
https://steemit.com/news/@kushfreeman/the-truth-behind-the-controversy-of-illegal-immigration-into-the-us
http://allnewspipeline.com/Massive_Martial_Law_Drill_Roundup_Florida.php
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