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NEW - JD Vance owes his entire career to Peter Thiel, who helped create the domestic terror panopticon for the CIA that targets Trump supporters and detractors alike unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/invest…

Thiel created Palantir to rescue Total Information Awareness, a DARPA surveillance program created by the same people behind the "continuity of govt" protocols to suspend the Constitution and round up "unfriendly" Americans during a national crisis.

The database w those "unfriendly" Americans still exists and the last report on it from 2008 stated that it contained the names of 3 million Americans. It still exists and Thiel's Palantir, also now funding the Trump-Vance ticket directly, decides who goes on the list

Thiel helped resurrect another DARPA surveillance program called LifeLog, using his early investment in Facebook to mold the social network to serve LifeLog's original purpose. LifeLog was closed down the same day Facebook launched.

Palantir's first funder was the CIA's In-Q-tel and the CIA was their only client until 2008. One CIA official involved in guiding Palantir's early years, Alan Wade, is a former business partner of Ghislaine Maxwell's sister Christine in the company Chiliad.

Other Thiel-funded and -backed companies like Clearview AI use the fact that they helped ID and imprison those present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 as part of their sales pitch. After Jan 6, Clearview's business w law enforcement grew by 26%

While Thiel has been described as "libretarian" or "alt-right", Palantir CEO Alex Karp told the NYT in 2020 that his long-held fear that the American "far right" would murder him for being Jewish "propels" a lot of decisions made at the company

Palantir is also a major driver of pre-crime and "predictive policing". Another Thiel-backed company Carbyne911 seeks to bring pre-crime to 911 call centers. Carbyne is intimately tied to Israeli intelligence and received at least $1 million in funding from Jeffrey Epstein

There's a lot more in the article, but Thiel is due to be hugely influential in a 2nd Trump administration, esp now that Vance is his VP. The fact that Thiel built the tools for the CIA to target dissent from left and right based on online activity should concern everyone.