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Chuck DarwinOne of the US’ top law firms is scrambling to blunt an attack from the Trump administration. Brad Karp, the chairman of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paul</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Weiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weiss</a> and one of the most powerful lawyers in New York, has been in Washington this week meeting with officials in President Donald Trump’s orbit, people familiar with the matter said, days after the White House issued an executive order revoking the security clearance of attorneys working at the firm.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a>, people familiar with the matter said, is discussing a particular path back into the administration’s good graces: helping the White House respond to "alleged" instances of antisemitism that came out of the wave of campus protests last year. Trump this week ordered Columbia University to oust some academic leaders or risk its federal funding, his boldest broadside yet against a set of elite universities he feels have fostered antisemitic and otherwise “woke” cultures.Trump’s executive order last week attacked Paul Weiss for pro bono work against Jan. 6 defendants, for employing a lawyer who later worked on the Manhattan district attorney’s investigations of Trump, and for diversity practices the White House calls “discrimination.” The order also bars Paul Weiss employees from federal buildings and federal jobs and orders federal agencies to terminate contracts with the firm.<a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/19/2025/powerhouse-law-firm-makes-overture-to-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.semafor.com/article/03/19/2025/powerhouse-law-firm-makes-overture-to-trump</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a> is a multi-billionaire who serves as the CEO of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>, a controversial software company that has been much more willing than some others in Silicon Valley to provide technology to Western governments for military and policing applications. The company has been described as “the West’s AI arms dealer” and criticized for its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Israel Defense Forces. Unlike his more famous Palantir co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>, a reactionary MAGA supporter, Karp describes himself as a socialist (he, like Elon Musk, seems to have some idiosyncratic personal definition in mind that has nothing in common with the socialist tradition). Some comments that Karp recently made at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute about why Democrats lost were widely recirculated online. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> described the clip of Karp speaking as “based” and it racked up millions of views. It’s framed as a critique of woke ideology, but it is in fact mostly an argument about U.S. foreign policy and as such is a very useful way to examine some common American myths that are used to justify what I consider to be an incredibly dangerous set of policies. Karp argues, essentially, for a philosophy that is often called (by its advocates) "peace through strength". He says that America needs to frighten its enemies, and that while the “Berkeley faculty” do not understand this, the Real Americans do, and thus an agenda that wins popular support will focus on keeping people safe against external threats. "Scare the enemy shitless" seems to be Point 1 of Karp’s thinking about foreign policy, Point 2 (the only other point) being, We In The West Are Better Than Other People, Who Are Bad And Want To Destroy Us. “We have a consistently pro-Western view that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself, especially if we live up to our aspirations,” Karp said. This is how he justifies his company’s firm support of Israel, a stance that has caused some Palantir employees to quit as Israel has wiped out more and more of Gaza over the last year: “From my perspective, it’s not just about Israel… It’s like, ‘Do you believe in the West? Do you believe the West has created a superior way of living?’”I haven’t found Karp saying anything more sophisticated about foreign policy than these two talking points,* namely that the West is good and must be protected from the bad people, and that the way to do that is through threatening violence against not just those who hurt us, but also everyone from their “friends” to their “mistress.” Taken together, I think these add up to a highly irrational worldview that, if it is held by powerful people who may shape the future of U.S. foreign policy, endangers the entire future of human civilization. <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fables-of-weapons-dealers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fables-of-weapons-dealers</a>

Chuck DarwinBilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world – and return of Trump Several of Bilderberg's 31-member steering committee have senior roles in the defence industry. The billionaire former Google boss, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eric</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schmidt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schmidt</a>, chaired the recent National Security Commission on AI, and is now busy launching a kamikaze drone company aimed at the lucrative Ukraine market. Meanwhile, the hugely wealthy Swedish industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marcus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wallenberg</a> is chair of defense manufacturer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Saab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saab</a>, which enjoyed a 71% boost in orders in the first nine months of 2024, largely due to the war with Russia. The tech luminary and Donald Trump insider <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> founded the fast-growing robotics company <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anduril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anduril</a> and the booming surveillance and AI giant <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>. His loyal lieutenant <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a>, the CEO of Palantir, was voted on to the board of Bilderberg a few years ago. Karp, who claims his company is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”, recently told the New York Times that the US will “very likely” soon be fighting a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran. In some respects, the geopolitical mood today is not so different from how it was in the 1950s, when Bilderberg was born.Top of the agenda at the first meeting in 1954 was “the attitude towards communism and the Soviet Union”, with the “strictly confidential” conference report referring repeatedly to “the communist threat”. Seventy years later, at the most recent summit in Madrid, the primary threat is “Russia”, which sat grimly at the foot of the conference agenda underneath “Ukraine and the world”, and “the future of warfare”.In 1954, the alliance was facing “the emergence ofcommunist imperialism”. In 2024, it’s up against what Stoltenberg calls “the emerging axis of autocrats”, headed by Russia, China and North Korea.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Stoltenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stoltenberg</a> and his successor as secretary general, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rutte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rutte</a>, were both at this summer’s Madrid meeting. Joining them in the conference hall were a clutch of high-up Pentagon officials and Nato’s second most senior military leader, US general <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cavoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cavoli</a>, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. It was Cavoli’s second conference, and he’s not the first Saceur to attend the talks: they’ve been coming along to strategise since the mid-60s. Bilderberg has always had close links with the military: its founders included senior members of British and American intelligence, and a previous Nato leader, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lord</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carrington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carrington</a>, chaired the group from 1990 to 1998.Even the shamefaced resignation of its founding chair, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prince</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bernhard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernhard</a> of the Netherlands, had a military twist: he was caught up in the Lockheed bribery scandal of 1976, the only year (pre-Covid) that the conference was cancelled. And it’s telling that arguably the most dominant figure at Bilderberg in the last several decades was the grand strategist and warmonger, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Henry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Henry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kissinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kissinger</a>, who was lauded as a foreign policy genius by some and despised as a mass-murdering war criminal by others.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Billy :bc:Amazing... electing a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascist</a> made Palantir's stock shoot up? Who would have guessed??<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a>, if you don't already know, is steroid-enhanced <a href="https://beige.party/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spying</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> developed by right-wing <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Billionaire</a> (and JD <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a>'s main benefactor) Peter <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>.It was originally called "Igor" and developed to track down fraudsters at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PayPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PayPal</a>, in a "murder-board" fashion, connecting their transactions to their phone calls to their geolocations etc. Thiel turned it into "Palantir" (a name taken from the All-Seeing Orbs in the Lord of the Rings novels), and has <a href="https://beige.party/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> contracts to use this software to track "<a href="https://beige.party/tags/criminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminals</a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terrorists</a>". Just what gets defined as "criminal" and allowed to be tracked with Palantir remains to be seen in the coming years. Alex <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a>, who runs Palantir for Thiel has stated "that "the Ivy Leagues" have "embraced the thin and new <a href="https://beige.party/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#woke</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a>, otherwise, viewed as an intellectual cause, but in fact, is a way of organizing things so that the greatest institutions of our time disappear and turn into discriminatory dysfunction.""Karp called Palantir a "counter-example" to companies that have embraced <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wokeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wokeness</a>, adding, "I’m super proud of the results. We are going to continue to execute, especially in the U.S."""That is a real <a href="https://beige.party/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#danger</a> to our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> and it is a real danger to Palantir if we allow — if we don’t discuss these things," he said, concluding his point. "---------------So - the way to fight Palantir? Keep being good people and treating each other with respect. Because that's all that "wokeness" is.<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/billionaire-tech-ceo-calls-wokeness-central-risk-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/billionaire-tech-ceo-calls-wokeness-central-risk-america</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies</a><a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/11/20/palantirs-stock-has-just-done-something-unusual/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/11/20/palantirs-stock-has-just-done-something-unusual/</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CyberSecurity</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palantir</a> scares the shit out of meFuck <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a>And especially fuck this raging douchebag <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karp</a>'As the moderator asked general questions about the panelists’ views on the future of war, Schmidt and Cohen answered cautiously. But Karp, who’s known as a provocateur, aggressively condoned violence, often peering into the audience with hungry eyes, palpably desperate for claps, boos or shock.'

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