Now, says Zack Polanski, Leader of the UK Green Party, (https://greenparty.org.uk/) is not the time to say I told you so, however his current – as I write – interview with Carole Cadwalladr makes it clear https://youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?si=OU08BettplUtaQHE Our tech platforms lie at the heart of the new American totalitarianism. Therefore, I offer this, which I wrote in 2006. We knew it then.
Total Information Awareness (TIA)
Starring: Peter Thiel, who with Elon Musk, founded PayPal, is now head of Palantir. The first “angel investor” in Facebook, working closely with…
Jim Breyer, American venture capitalist, founder of Accel Venture Partners, and Breyer Capital; and…
Anita Jones, Professor, Director of R&D for the US Department of Defence and head of DARPA (who actually built the actual Internet). Total Information Awareness (TIA) was her project. Jim and Anita were on the boards of defence contractors SAIC and BBN, and the CIA’s venture capital company In-Q-Tel. Anita is retired, Pete stepped down from Meta in ’22 to support Trump & bring Palantir to everything: eg warfare, policing, security and NHS patient records.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza (Condi) Rice makes a cameo.
I met Jim Breyer (the WalMart guy), he said,
I have a deal for you. It won’t cost very much: just a couple of friends.
Not Jennifer, Annibel, Alison, too, but Anita, Jim and Pete
Beside them Murdoch’s Rupert Bear in cuddly tiger feet.
When I think it can’t get bigger it gets squared and squared again,
Raised to its own power multiplied by ten.
Alan Turing’s paranoid and my tin-foil hat’s screwed on,
To stop the voices in my head: but I don’t think we’re wrong.
Anita Jones beside you, Condie’s in a first communion veil;
America’s virgin diplomat never forked a tale.
Sweet venture angel flutter cash with golden strings attached:
Pete Thiel made his wedge from PayPal then funded Vanguard PAC:
Silicon Valley’s most successful conservatives empower regular guys:
Blackwater, Bush, the unborn. Evangelicals rise.
While Yusuf Saladin’s children fall before the Crusader gates,
In Islamic chatrooms – XML standard – wired up by the state.
If cities are our organs and roads our life-blood veins
Now we’ve grown a nervous system but, we don’t yet have a brain.
If I said FaceBook owned the CIA, would you be surprised?
TIA’s not a Spanish auntie but a military enterprise.
Twenty-first century soldiers march in bits and Toyota cars;
Blacked out Hummers on Cowley Road: guns, drugs and tarts.
Do you believe in climate change, do you understand art?
Do you think the only innocent dead is a young Brazilian spark?
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