How Your Tax Dollars Built Palantir Global Surveillance Empire

VolcanoOperator
Published on Sep 7, 2025
From a startup founded by Peter Thiel and funded by the CIA to a $370 billion tech giant, Palantir has quietly become one of the most powerful companies in the world.

Sources:
Palantir S-1 Filing: https://content.edgar-online.com/ExternalLink/EDGAR/0001193125-20-230013.html?hash=f1a68584cb5d1cd939d5614c86fd9adf382c286c06306ad42934646cac1e7f90&dest=D904406DEX41_HTM#D904406DEX41_HTM
US Government Federal Contracts: https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=0d810abc381ed4ca201046e5cc6a3056
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Palantir: Money Over Morals
02:26 Total Information Awareness
03:17 CIA Funded Palantir
03:56 Palantir Early Advisors
04:30 Palantir’s Gotham
05:59 Project Maven
06:29 Google and Maven Contract Controversy
07:26 Palantir Builds Maven
08:09 Maven Goes Global
08:52 Tax Payers Fund Palantir’s Technology
09:38 Foundry: Palantir and JP Morgan Chase
10:44 Palantir Wins Hardware Contract for TITAN
11:28 Palantir’s Dangerous Ideology
12:39 Use AI for Behavioral Change
13:28 Palantir Disrupts
14:03 Conflict is Profitable
15:01 Karp Doesn’t Need the Public
15:22 Become the Default Operating System for the US Government
16:51 Forward Deployed Engineers
17:33 Executive Order: Stopping Waster, Fraud, and Abuse
18:34 Government Surveillance vs Private Sector
19:09 Who Watches the Watchers
19:44 Palantir’s Reach and Tax Payer Funding
20:14 Peace is Palantir’s Enemy

This investigation is based on publicly available documents including SEC filings, government contracts, patents, court records, earnings calls, and published interviews. Some connections drawn represent analytical interpretations of available evidence rather than proven facts.
References to 'surveillance,' 'tracking,' 'institutional takeover,' or similar terms reflect critical analysis and opinion based on documented capabilities and contracts. Statements about corporate intentions, government dependencies, or systemic impacts represent interpretive commentary on public information. Facts, evidence, and independent analysis are used in this video to draw strongly opinionated conclusions.

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