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Al Gonzalez's avatar

Imagine the borough of Manhattan having enemies in a region like Gaza. They attack is and retreat to the west side. War breaks out. Here’s the exception: no one is allowed to leave, rendering them vulnerable as some civilians hold hostages. In Ukraine over a million civilians have left. In Gaza no one is allowed to leave because all Hamas cares about is a high body count for propaganda. So in modern warfare the Israelis use software in order to actually be humane. What did the U.S. do during WWII? We carpet bombed areas in Germany leveling factories, railroads and all sorts of defense related infrastructure. Dumb bombs back then killed many civilians but let’s face it war is hell and if you don’t like it then don’t start shit especially when they violate all norms of warfare in violation of Geneva Convention rules. The fact that Israel is using modern software shows that they are trying to prosecute an impossible war in the most careful manner given the horrendous obstacles they face. Most enemies would have surrendered and given up the hostages by now. But not Hamas.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Hamas works with Israel 💰💰💰💰.

Palestinians be damned. God/Creator knows the hearts of men.

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albert venezio's avatar

Of course they will. Zionist Racist Psychopaths!

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V3's avatar

Racist psychopath alert

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

Instead of name calling can we simply explain why Peter Thiel took $40 million from Epstein and met him many times?

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albert venezio's avatar

It's not name calling it is accurately describing and exposing who and what they really are.

Your way has little impact.

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Renee Marie's avatar

I agree. That is exactly what ((they)) are.

Unfortunately, many human beings have blindness of the heart.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

As if you know our way. lol.

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albert venezio's avatar

Incremental steps that does not callout the Coward Parasites Psychopaths for what they really are. Thiel, Epstein, Gates and related groups genocidal program is obvious and I salute you if you are really exposing it. It is derived from a horrid ideology.

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albert venezio's avatar

I have seen nothing solved virtually anywhere for decades. The Parasites hang out to dry one of their own from time to time but Mass Murdering Psychotics get away with and are usually celebrated.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

Making shock collars for representatives is not an incremental step. Maybe we align here?

https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/digital-shock-collars-for-politicians?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios

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albert venezio's avatar

Very interesting but not practical.

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silversurfer7@protonmail.com's avatar

Clear and present danger. In confronting such creatures, garlic and even the crucifix are likely useless. Thiel seems to play the Renfield of the pair.

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Mikhail Tarech Reheem's avatar

V3…an empire apologist for six hundred years of empire piracy and savagery… barbarism and ignorance …

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ChatterX's avatar

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

-Benito Mussolini

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IBM founder Thomas Watson, argued that the covert operations should be run exclusively through private agencies such as the major Anglo-American multinational corporations, banks, and law firms.

Palantir CEO Peter Thiel: "Competition is for losers":

youtube.com/watch?v=4jniPAD2uoo

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Wahl's avatar

One of the main problems with your atticle is that there is no genocide in Gaza and the US as Israel ate heavily targetted by Islamists terrorits which indeed obliges their security agency to be aware of what is being prepared against their population. And unfortunately there is a price to pay for those security concerns

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Unfiltered's avatar

Planatir is BIS bullshit, do not buy into it, it is corrupt and evil, here to destroy humanity.

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Mark Scott's avatar

I assume the first name of the secret author if this piece (of trash) is Mohammed - because the Jew hating, conspiracy theories pushed here are hyperbolic BS. If Israel wanted to commit genocide it had the means and capabilities. More babies have been born in Gaza since Oct 7th (the author doesn’t list this fact) than the death count of 40k terrorists killed by Israel. Israel sends troops door to door, risking soldiers lives looking for Hamas goons rather than dropping a bomb on a building (what i would do). One last thing, the West Bank which is actually full of Jordanian and Egyptian Arabs - just like terrorist leader Yasser Arafat was (Egyptian) is actually called Judea and Samaria. Not the West Bank.

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Cat's avatar

If they have all of this amazing surveillance, how is it possible that a few Palestinians were able to cross over the fence and be there for several hours ( is that how long?) before anyone took notice?

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Barely_Free's avatar

So collating relevant information about threats should be forbidden. This is what intelligent people and people in law enforcement do all the time. It’s pretty much a key part of doing their job and being competent. I fully believe in civil liberties and privacy but there is a level of security that also must be considered.

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V3's avatar

Congratulations…you are a fully functioning adult able to evaluate trade-offs…something the left is incapable of doing.

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Bob Goldberg's avatar

I’m a Jew and a Zionist and all for surveillance that will prevent pro Palestinian river to the sea, globalise the intifada types from firebombing, mass murder etc. and if anyone here wants to call me a Zionist facist to my face .. I’ll give you a place to meet

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Candace Head-Dylla's avatar

Comments like “Far from only targeting people they claimed are affiliated with resistance militias, the IDF has also compiled kill lists of journalists reporting on the genocide in Gaza” need to be substantiated. Where are your sources? This is just one example making your whole article easily dismissed as the propaganda it obviously is

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David Kelly's avatar

What’s wrong with knowing what your enemies are up to? It was American interception of Japanese codes that led to our victory over the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway in June, 1942 sinking 4 Japanese aircraft carriers. The information provided by the Navy’s top secret radio intercept group in Washington & Hawaii enabled the Navy to track the main Japanese fleet. Admiral Nimitz said the Battle of Midway was a victory for Naval intelligence. The US victory at Midway was regarded by most historians as a turning point in the war in the Pacific during World War II. This is just one example of many carried out by American forces during the war in both the Pacific and European theaters. The British succeeded in cracking the Nazi codes at Bletchley Park by deciphering the Wehrmacht’s codes transmitted through the Enigma machine. In The Battle of the Atlantic the tide began to turn when the German Naval codes were broken allowing the Allies to track the Nazi submarine wolf packs that were sinking Allied shipping bringing supplies to England and Russia. Practically every country in the world has intelligence operations to keep track of both friends and foe. This has been the case dating back to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Anyone who believes this is not so or somehow only done by “bad guys” should take time to study the Art of War.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

Palantir is used to spy on Americans. Are we the enemy?

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David Kelly's avatar

Gathering intelligence on anyone, citizen or non citizen, if they manifest hostile intent to a host nation has always been a universal priority of most countries.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

So do you support the US govt hiring Palantir to exfiltrate all govt data on Americans into a single centralized database?

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David Kelly's avatar

Unlike you, I have not seen the actual contract and have no idea about the particular terms. My initial post was limited to the practice of all countries gathering information on each other during times of war and peace. Keeping American citizens safe is a primary responsibility of the Federal government. If it’s done in some illegal way citizens have recourse to our judicial system.

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Meredith Hobbs's avatar

You didn't answer my question. Do you support the US govt hiring Palantir to exfiltrate all govt data on Americans into a single centalized database? And placing this master database of Americans' sensitive, confidential info, like tax returns, in the hands of a private company, which is not subject to federal transparency and oversight laws?

How would this "keep Americans safe"? And safe from what?

You mention Americans could sue if "this is done illegally." Do you mean if Palantir does something illegal with the data? Like what? Share it with Israel? Or the FBI and CIA? Sell it to criminals on the black web? How would we know?

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David Kelly's avatar

Prior to 9/11 various US intelligence agencies were engaged in bureaucratic rivalries and “turf wars”.

The FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, State Department & others competed for a larger share of the intelligence appropriations pie. Information was siloed by the separate agencies making it difficult to always “connect the dots” on security threats. As a consequence of this intelligence breakdown terrorists attacked on 9/11/2001. This was a preventable attack had it not been for the lack of cooperation among some US intelligence agencies. I’m not sure how the Israelis conduct their security operations but it must be a very high priority given the multiple threats on their borders and beyond.

Protecting its citizens should be the highest priority of any state. Always remember Pearl Harbor and let’s never forget 9/11

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Timothy Wallace's avatar

Unless their leadership is ‘in’ on the game, or too afraid, the Democrats need to initiate public hearings on this.

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Barely_Free's avatar

That’s hysterically funny. The Democrats are much worse at telling people what they can and cannot do and punching the ones that disobey them.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

We fix it with tech. We the People need to use tech just like The Corruptors (the people corrupting government) are. Or else we will end up like the American Indians vs the technology of the settlers.

We can and should build new systems 100% built and controlled by the people, that act as digital shock collars to hold our representatives accountable.

The secret ingredient is we harness a new power called human collective “swarm” intelligence which can be amplified by transparent and decentralized high trust systems.

We can build digital shock collars for representatives:

Like so:

https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/digital-shock-collars-for-politicians?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios

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Neil Anand's avatar

👩‍⚕️➡️🔴

Palantir’s algorithm turns doctors into dots—and suspicion into science.

🧙‍♂️ Behind the digital curtain lies a flawed system that denies context, choice & justice.

📉 Correlation ≠ guilt.

⚖️ Real justice requires alternate possibilities.

https://doctorsofcourage.org/the-wizard-of-oz-behind-palantirs-healthcare-fraud-algorithm/

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