Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of CIA Spying Palantir, is selling Fascist Techno-Utopianism

“We are the best money can buy! Dam it feels good to be a gangsta.”
- Matthew Steckman official of the Palantir Private Intelligence Company.​

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Peter Thiel is a German immigrant and is selling fascism to Americans. He is extremely dangerous because of his massive wealth and political connections in academia and the highest levels of the US government. He is eager to install fascism as our new form of government. Nobody in the Democratic Party is warning of this present fascist danger.

Here is an update on what a fascist technological utopianism that he is trying to sell.
See, Chapo Trap House on Peter Thiel's Neo-Fascism. Chapo discusses an article about Thiel in Vanity Fair Magazine by James Pogue.

This story is about how private intelligence companies have spied on American citizens. Lee Fang tells in the link below how three security contractors, Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies, and HBGray Federal were in contract talks with the US Chamber of Commerce to spy on and sabotage Center of American Progress, SEIU, Wikileaks, Glenn Greenwald (for Bank of America), ThinkProgress, ChangeToWin, and StoptheChamber.com. Unfortunately, for the US Chamber of Commerce, Anonymous hacked into executive Aaron Barr’s email and published 40,000 HBGaryFederal emails documenting the spying project. At one point Barr met with Booz Allen Hamilton senior vice president Bill Wansley , the same company that whistleblower Snowden worked for until this week, on how to attack activists. Here are the key persons:

-US Chamber of Commerce hires Hunton And Williams lobbying firm attorney Richard Wyatt.
-John Woods and Bob Quackenboss are Wyatt’s assistants on the spying project.
-The private security firms are Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies, and HBGray Federal.
- Matthew Steckman official of Palantir Technologies, author of the gangsta quote.
-Team Themis planned campaign to create false documents to discredit those that publish them, create fake personas to get communications from targets. The project included spying on family member, installing malicious malware, and even creating a “fusion cell” like that used by Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

How Spy Agency Contractors Have Already Abused Their Power by Lee Fang
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" …Two years ago, a batch of stolen e-mails revealed a plot by a set of three defense contractors (Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and HBGary Federal) to target activists, reporters, labor unions and political organizations. The plans— one concocted in concert with lawyers for the US Chamber of Commerce to sabotage left-leaning critics, like the Center for American Progress and the SEIU, and a separate proposal to “combat” WikiLeaks and its supporters, including Glenn Greenwald, on behalf of Bank of America— fell apart after reports of their existence were published online. But the episode serves as a reminder that the expanding spy industry could use its government-backed cybertools to harm ordinary Americans and political dissident groups.

The episode also shows that Greenwald, who helped Snowden expose massive spying efforts in the United States, had been targetted by spy agency contractors in the past for supporting whistleblowers and WikiLeaks.

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Firms like Palantir—a Palo Alto–based business that helps intelligence agencies analyze large sets of data—exist because of the government’s post-9/11 rush to develop a “terror-detection leviathan” of high-tech companies. Named after a stone in the Lord of the Rings that helps both villains and do-gooders see over great distances, the company is well-known within Silicon Valley for attracting support from a venture capital group led by libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel and Facebook’s Sean Parker. But Palantir’s rise to prominence, now reportedly valued at $8 billion, came from initial investment from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, and close consultation with officials from the intelligence-gathering community, including disgraced retired admiral John Poindexter and Bryan Cunningham, a former adviser to Condoleezza Rice.

While Palantir boasts that its government-backed technology is geared towards helping the military track terrorists, stolen e-mails from HBGary Federal show the firm and its senior executives were eager to use its platform on behalf of the Chamber, one of the largest corporate lobbying associations. In the fall of 2010, the Chamber had received unflattering attention, first from a New York Times piece about allegedly laundered money from AIG, and then from my reporting at the Center for American Progress’ ThinkProgress blog about foreign funds flowing to the Chamber’s 501(c)(6) entity used to run campaign advertisements. The Chamber’s attorneys at the firm Hunton & Williams, at the time already busy prosecuting a group of activists for impersonating the Chamber, sought out the help of Palantir to develop a team to go after the Chamber’s critics. As I reported later for TheNation.com, Palantir eventually connected with Berico and HBGary Federal, and along with the Chamber’s attorneys, the group began plotting a campaign of snooping on activists’ families and even using sophisticated hacking tools to break into computers:

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The presentations, which were also leaked by Anonymous, contained ethically questionable tactics, like creating a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” to give to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then subsequently exposing the document as a fake to undermine the credibility of the Chamber’s opponents. In addition, the group proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to “generate communications” with Change to Win, a federation of labor unions that sponsored the watchdog site, US Chamber Watch.

Even more troubling, however, were plans by the three contractors to use malware and other forms of malicious software to hack into computers owned by the Chamber’s opponents and their families. Boasting that they could develop a “fusion cell” of the kind “developed and utilized by Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC),” the contractors discussed how they could use “custom malware development” and “zero day” exploits to gain control of a target’s computer network. These types of hacks can allow an attacker not only to snoop but to delete files, monitor keystrokes and manipulate websites, e-mail archives and any database connected to the target computer.

In January of 2011, Hunton and Williams, which had met with the Chamber to discuss the proposals, sent by courier a CD with target data to the contractors. The targets discussed in e-mails included labor unions SEIU, IBT, UFW, UFCW, AFL-CIO, Change to Win, as well as progressive organizations like the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org, Courage Campaign, the Ruckus Society, Agit-Pop, Brave New Films and others. […]

The tactics described in the proposals are illegal. However, there were no discussions in the leaked e-mails about the legality of using such tactics. Rather, the Chamber’s attorneys and the three contractors quibbled for weeks about how much to charge the Chamber for these hacking services. At one point, they demanded $2 million a month."