Alex Karp – A Fish Off the Hook

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Palantir CEO’s Wild Statements + How Your Tax Dollars Built Palantir’s Global Surveillance Empire

This video opens with Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, making provocative comments like “in the end, the rights you give up will be used against you.” Millions of Americans have files in government databases, their movements, purchases, and communications are connected by software from a company called Palantir. The worst part is that we helped fund Palantir. The tech company has current and past contracts with the FBI, DHS, IRS, CDC, SEC, and the Pentagon. They process data for police departments in multiple countries and health care networks. Palantir is in the banks processing your transactions.Karp wrote a letter that stated, “We have chosen sides and we know that our partners value our commitment. We stand by them when it is convenient and when it is not.” He is saying that they will support the government agencies regardless of what these agencies choose to do without moral boundaries, no questions asked. This is a company explicitly saying they’ll enable any government action, seemingly no matter how authoritarian, as long as the check clears.

Palantir builds war technology.

When the US government teams up with Palantir, the company is paid with US taxpayer money, but Palantir owns the software, and then the US government pays a licensing fee. Palantir also profits by selling it to other countries.

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Karp openly states their mission to become the US government’s central operating system, all while fear-mongering and using war rhetoric. The same software tracking you at a protest is also identifying targets on the battlefield. He said, “Palantir is here to disrupt and make our institutions we partner with the very best in the world and when it’s necessary to scare our enemies and on occasion kill them.”

In 2002, the US government created Total Information Awareness to track every aspect of Americans. It was defunded by Congress in 2003. That same year, Palantir’s Gotham was created, and is almost identical to Total Information Awareness; the CIA helped fund the company.

Karp’s statements in the video become even more Machiavellian and he said that he welcomed disruption: “There’ll be ups and downs. There’s a revolution. Some people can get their heads cut off. We’re expecting to see really unexpected things and to win. And we’re planning to do that and we’re pretty optimistic about the US environment. Conflict and unrest is profitable…” He added, that Palantir is building “products for a world that is violent, disjointed, irrational.” Peace and prosperity threatens his business model. There is an incentive to find enemies everywhere.

Karp speaks about collapse, crisis, existential threat in a permanent emergency at investor meetings. Palantir engineers are embedded in every government agency that uses their software that only the engineers understand, making the agencies reliant on Palantir engineers.

The Privacy Act of 1974 was specifically designed to prevent cross agency data sharing. But through the private contractor loophole, aka Palantir, and an executive order, those protections are effectively circumvented. The US Army consolidated 75 contracts into one contract worth $10 billion that went to Palantir. There is little oversight of Palantir.

from:    https://needtoknow.news/2025/09/palantir-ceos-wild-statements-how-your-tax-dollars-built-palantirs-global-surveillance-empire/