Technototalitarianism, Part One
It’s a small group, and MAGA’s not in it.
In a sense, almost everything that has happened since Donald Trump began his second term in January has been a distraction. From what are we being distracted? While a few members of the alternative media have supplied the answers, by and large even the AM—many of whose members are Trump cheerleaders rather than impartial journalists or analysts—has taken the distraction bait. As usual, the mainstream media has been worse than worthless.
It is now clear that the control grid, a phrase popularized by the invaluable work of Catherine Austin Fitts, is being implemented. It is also clear that Trump has been a Trojan Horse to facilitate the implementation’s final steps. Trump is a nonstop distraction, generating headlines and controversy every time he opens his mouth. It would be headline-worthy if he ever shut up. Those observers who want to maintain objectivity and draw a bead on Trump ignore what he says and focus on what he does. That focus yields disturbing conclusions that bely MAGA’s quasi-religious enthusiasm.
MAGA is political novocaine for the painful evisceration of the remnants of American liberty. Its driving forces are animus towards political enemies and their causes, and Trump idolatry. Their commitment to liberty is rhetorical only. Thus, creeping totalitarianism has crept unhindered, because it has been endorsed by Trump and directed towards the enemies. A plausible hypothesis is that the totalitarians allowed Trump’s second term because they understood that precisely this dynamic would operate. (The shot to the ear, real or staged?) Even if they didn’t, and Trump’s electoral momentum was simply too powerful to stop, since his inauguration Trump has been their effective front man.
Totalitarian globalists and globalism have been convenient and politically profitable punching bags for the Trump movement. Open borders immigration, woke, climate change, cancel culture, DEI, transgenderism, escalating crime in Democrat-run cities, Russiagate, the rigged 2020 election, Biden’s infirmary, Harris’s ineptitude, the war in Ukraine, deterioration of the military, demonization of police forces, rampant hypocrisy, and the federal bureaucracy—the ultimate Democratic stronghold and font of largesse—have been among the most prominent targets.
The globalist sponsored COVID fiasco has been a little trickier. Trump spearheaded Operation Warp Speed’s development of what proved to be neither safe nor effective vaccines and wouldn’t shut up about it. Only recently has he changed his tune; he’s now expresses some skepticism. MAGA has hailed MAHA, declining uptake rates for the COVID vaccines and boosters, and increasing resistance to vaccines in general, while tiptoeing around Trump’s unrepentant endorsement of the COVID vaccines. It’s the definition of cognitive dissonance, especially as the vaccines’ long-term debilitating and deadly effects continue unabated. While Trump didn’t endorse totalitarian governmental and business vaccine mandates, he didn’t challenge lockdowns, and he donned the mask like virtually everyone else. COVID was an important precursor, a test run, for the control grid. How would the global population respond to incipient totalitarianism? Would there be resistance? The global population failed with flying colors.
All of the above political punching bags have been well-punched and now serve mostly as grist for the distraction mill, while imposition of the control grid proceeds quietly and insidiously with Trump’s overt and covert assistance. Some punching bags have become justifications for the control grid, notably immigration. Because the control grid is primarily technological, its nexuses of development have been Silicon Valley and Israel’s technology sector, joined at the hip in what has been a long and mutually beneficially relationship. That relationship only grows stronger as the control grid moves closer to reality.
If the COVID vaccines were a cause of MAGA cognitive dissonance, Trump’s relationship with the control grid’s leading Silicon Valley proponents prompts cognitive dissonance on steroids, and his relationship with Israel cognitive dissonance on steroids squared. On January 21, 2025, the day after Trump’s inauguration, Palantir Technologies, symbol PLTR, opened at $73.24. On August 12, it reached its intraday high (so far) of $190.00, a 159.24 percent gain in less than eight months.
The gain appropriately denotes Palantir’s place as one of the kingpins of Silicon Valley’s surveillance and analytics companies. Founded in 2003, it received seed funding from the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. Two of Palantir’s co-founders, Chairman Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, are ardent Zionists, and Palantir supplies Israel with surveillance technology.
We are one of a few companies in the world to stand up and announce our support for Israel, which remains steadfast.
Palantir stands with Israel.
Palantir Letter to Shareholders Alexander C. Karp, 11/2/23
Thiel and Karp are not just paid-up Zionists, as Steering Committee members of the Bilderberg Group they are paid up globalists, and Thiel’s influence within the Trump administration is pervasive. Karp wields his influence and cash in Democratic circles, so the two have everyone covered. J.D. Vance’s out-of-nowhere rise was funded by over $13 million from Thiel, which even in hypercorrupt Washington buys a lot of influence.
As Trump began naming his nominees I reported that at least 10 people in influential positions were directly related to Palantir, Peter Thiel, and his foundations.
This includes Vice President J.D. Vance; Elon Musk, head of DOGE; David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar; U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Ken Howery, US Ambassador to Denmark; the aforementioned Jacob Helberg; and Michael Kratsios as a science adviser and director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Since the release of my initial report we have learned more details connecting officials within Trump’s cabinet to Peter Thiel and Palantir. This includes within Elon Musk’s DOGE.
“Welcome to the Palantir World Order,” Derrick Broze, The Last American Vagabond, 4/24/25
Thiel and Musk are members of the PayPal Mafia, a group of PayPal employees and founders who went on to found or develop a host of technology companies, including LinkedIn, YouTube, and Yelp, in addition to Thiel’s Palantir and Musk’s Tesla and Space X. The other common thread between Thiel and Musk is information lust. They both want to collect, organize, and categorize as much data as they can about the American people, and, presumably, given their globalist ambitions, people around the world.
Looking back, Musk’s DOGE may have been less about efficiency and ferreting out waste and more about accessing the government’s computer systems, analyzing its AI platform, data harvesting, and intellectual property transfer. Dr. Naomi Wolf was the first to identify the many worrisome issues raised by Musk and DOGE’s largely unmonitored access to the government’s data, computer code, and AI and warn of the dangers, for which she was savaged on Musk’s X. Nobody outside of Musk’s inner circle knows exactly what DOGE came away with, nor are outsiders likely to ever find out.
Palantir takes its name from the all-seeing orbs in Lord of the Rings. The company is deeply involved with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was recently awarded a no-bid, “$30 million contract to develop a new software platform to expand its surveillance and enforcement operations, building on Palantir’s decade-long collaboration with ICE.”
WIRED reported in April that Palantir and DOGE were teaming up to develop a new “mega API” (application programming interface) for the IRS. This single API layer will be above all IRS databases and would use Foundry, “a Palantir platform that can organize, build apps, or run AI models on the underlying data.” That data could include taxpayer names, social security numbers, tax returns, and employment records. It could also be moved to the cloud for direct access. The project is led by Sam Corcos, a former SpaceX engineer.
While Trump supporters may have previously been concerned that the Biden Administration planned to hire thousands more IRS employees — an agency which many Americans despite (sic) — it seems that under the 2nd Trump administration Palantir will help make the agency more “efficient” than ever. So much for abolishing the IRS.
“Welcome to the Palantir World Order,” Derrick Broze, The Last American Vagabond, 4/24/25
It’s not an overstatement to say that data and the surveillance that generates vast amounts of it have been the primary objectives of the computer revolution. The equation is simple: surveillance plus data equal control. The government and Information Age companies have been joined at the hip since Hollerith cards. Palantir and Musk’s companies (Tesla automobiles are data gatherers and control nodes on wheels) are emblematic of what is now a public-private, totalitarian Death Star.
Recent developments are just the latest iterations of what Edward Snowden warned us about in 2013 and which incrementally progressed for decades prior to those warnings. The Patriot Act had kicked this insidious progression into overdrive. COVID totalitarianism was another big step. AI is the cherry on the sundae, allowing quick access and recall from vast data bases, exactly what’s required for total control. That’s why implementing AI, regardless of its staggering power consumption and a host of issues about its effects on humanity, is a technocratic obsession.
The best word for the public-private partnership and its turnkey control grid is technototalitarianism. Trump ensures that many of the people who might oppose it for reasons of political partisanship either enthusiastically cheer it or stifle their cognitive dissonance and ignore it. The technototalitarians do their part to shape the narrative.
If Thiel, Karp and Musk typify the surveillance and analytic components of the control grid, Larry Ellison is the embodiment of the data component, the control grid’s foundation. Ellison is the co-founder, chief technology officer, and executive chairman of multinational database giant Oracle Corporation. He was the chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014. He is the world’s second or first richest person, depending on the current values of Tesla and Oracle shares, with an estimated net worth just shy of $400 billion. Oracle’s name comes from a CIA project code-named “Oracle” that Ellison and Oracle co-founders Robert Miner and Ed Oates worked on at a consulting firm before striking out on their own in 1977. The CIA was the company’s first customer. Ellison is a typical techno-totalitarian.
“The single greatest step we Americans could take to make life tougher for terrorists would be to ensure that all the information in myriad government databases was copied into a single, comprehensive national security database,” Larry Ellison wrote in the New York Times in January of 2002.
“Creating such a database is technically simple. All we have to do is copy information from the hundreds of separate law enforcement databases into a single database. A national security database could be built in a few months,” Ellison explained. “A national security database combined with biometrics, thumb prints, hand prints, iris scans or whatever is best can be used to detect people with false identities.”
And Ellison has worked tirelessly to build that all-seeing database, suggesting that he had even given away for free much of the tech necessary for such infrastructure. He’d only charge the government for additional services and maintenance of the systems, of course.
As Jeffrey Rosen recounts in his 2004 book, The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, business was particularly booming at Oracle after September 11th. Rosen explains that the federal government accounted for a whopping 23 percent of Oracle’s licensing revenue in 2003, roughly $2.5 billion.
“Larry Ellison’s Oracle Started As a CIA Project,” Matt Novak, Gizmodo, 9/19/24
Ellison is Jewish and an ardent supporter of Israel. In 2014 he gave $10 million and in 2017 he gave $17 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a nonprofit organization that raises millions to subsidize Israel’s military by providing services and benefits for Israeli troops. Oracle has made acquisitions in Israel, in 2016 buying Ravello Systems, a cloud services firm, for around $500 million, and Crosswise, which specializes in cross-device marketing, for $50 million. Safra Catz, the billionaire executive vice chair and former CEO of Oracle, is an Israeli-American. In 2003, she demanded that “Oracle Stands with Israel” be displayed on the company’s screens worldwide. Ellison counts Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends. The Israeli Prime Minister and the centi-billionaire vacationed at Lanai, Ellison’s Hawaiian private island. Ellison even offered Netanyahu a seat on Oracle’s board (with a $450,000 salary).
Ellison is not just a data mogul, he and his son, David, are media moguls. David is the head of Skydance, the Ellisons’ media company, although the father still exercises effective control. Earlier this year, the Trump administration approved Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS. Perhaps not coincidentally, Skydance agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit against “60 Minutes,” CBS’s marquee news and politics show, for $16 million. Steve Colbert described the move as a “big fat bribe” and a few days later Paramount canceled his long-running CBS show. David Ellison will reportedly make pro-Israel journalist Bari Weiss a top executive at CBS.
With control of Paramount, in addition to CBS, Skydance owns MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon, and Chanel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Before the end of this year, the Ellisons are expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN, HBO, and the Discovery Channel. After the acquisition, the Skydance empire will control a significant part of the mainstream media narrative.
On September 25, President Trump signed an executive order that allows TikTok to remain available in the U.S. through what’s essentially a forced sale to a group of mostly American investors headed by Larry Ellison. Ostensibly, concerns about its Chinese parent company—ByteDance—led to a bipartisan law passed last year to limit its Chinese ownership. However, the real impetus escaped public notice.
As Mike Gallagher—a former U.S. congressman and author of the revived and successful effort to ban TikTok—wrote in November 2023, the reason the U.S. needed to ban the most popular app among Gen Z was not because the algorithm caused young Americans to support China but because it caused them “to support Hamas.”
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TikTok’s capacity to totally and instantaneously shatter decades of neoconservative propaganda revealed what Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, would label Israel’s “TikTok problem”: that the app exposes a generation of Americans to too much information unapproved by the CIA and Mossad.
“How Israel Captured TikTok,” Harrison Berger, The American Conservative, 9/21/25
TikTok specifically (43 percent of young Americans regularly get news from TikTok) and social and alternative media in general are why Israel is losing the generations after the Boomers. Now TikTok will be in the “safe” hands of Ellison and a number of other prominent Israel supporters, including Safra Catz, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Dell. Oracle will take a rumored 15 percent and will manage the data and infrastructure of TikTok’s U.S. operations. Count on TikTok’s algorithms that select the news, messaging and images becoming much more Israel- and Trump-friendly, and count on the company losing a significant share of its youthful market. As long as its effectively censored, that will not bother the TikTok investment consortium.
AI may or may not do all the things that are touted as its future capabilities, but right now, it is ideally suited for the surveillance state. For the totalitarians, that’s the point of the AI “revolution”—it’s anti-revolutionary. It can almost instantaneously sort through enormous data bases—like all that information the National Security Administration has been collecting on us for years—and spit out information in a user-friendly form.
On Trump’s second day in office, he hosted Larry Ellison along with Sam Altman (protégé of Palantir chairman Peter Thiel) of OpenAI and Masayoshi Son of Softbank (which funds the Israeli firm Cybereason, see Webb’s “How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified Networks”) at the White House to announce The Stargate Project.
Ellison talked about AI and mRNA being used for good, to tailor remedies for cancer for individuals. Ellison stresses “unifying” data. Max Jones charged early this year that this “Interoperability” would allow “a seemingly decentralized group of vendors to become effectively centralized, as they gain the ability to seamlessly exchange data.” On Sept. 10, Jones notes: “The Pentagon-contracting company Open AI just signed a contract to purchase $300 billion in computing power from the CIA-contracting company Oracle. This is part of OpenAI’s ‘Stargate’ project to build out a huge amount of data centers all across the U.S., which will almost certainly be used to enable AI technology to surveil every aspect of your life. With that data, AI, in the hands of the national security state, will dictate whether you are likely to commit a crime like that which occurred today [Charlie Kirk assassination] — before you’ve committed it.”
“Billionaire Ellison, Major Backer of Israeli Military, Whose Oracle Was a CIA Spinoff, Moves on TikTok after It Was Targeted for Gaza Content,” Sam Husseini, 9/20/25
Ellison has said that mass AI surveillance will ensure that “Citizens will be on their best behavior.” Stargate’s backers are promising $500 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure investment by 2029. That Trump would make his announcement on his second day back in office and invite those backers to the White House indicates his enthusiasm for the project. He undoubtedly regards its “pre-crime” aspects as a feature, not a bug.
MAGA could never admit that their man is a charlatan, but the technototalitarians at this White House dinner June 5 are a small club (Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, Shyman Sankar, and Safra Katz were among the attendees) and MAGA’s not in it. The never-ending stream of diversions—TARIFFS! ALASKA MEETING WITH PUTIN! CRIME IN WASHINGTON D.C.! THE FEDERAL RESERVE! ZOHRAN MAMDANI! VENEZUELAN DRUG CARTELS! CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATED! COMEY INDICTED! LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS! GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN! STAY TUNED FOR MUCH, MUCH MORE!—keep attention focused away from the impending, fully instituted Death Star control grid, and will do so until it’s too late to do anything about it. The technototalitarians have the world by the balls, they just haven’t squeezed too hard . . . yet.
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