What’s in This Week’s Issue…

Good morning. There’s a company out there that doesn’t make social media apps or electric cars. It doesn’t sell to you. It doesn’t advertise.

Yet it has access to your data, your government, your infrastructure, and your reality.

And recently, its grip on all of them quietly tightened again.

So this week…

• 🏆 The Big Play: How Palantir became America’s private spy state

• 💪 The Power Move: What Palantir’s rise teaches us about power in the surveillance age

• 💵 Follow the Money: The Breakup of the Decade? Musk attacks Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

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🏆 The Big Play

The biggest money power story of the week.

How Palantir Became the Operating System of the Government

In March 2025, an executive order quietly expanded Palantir’s role in U.S. government infrastructure, one that could centralize government data across federal agencies and compile comprehensive citizen profiles on every American.

On paper, it’s a “federal data mesh.”

In reality, it’s an invisible superstructure of control, built not by the state, but by a private company.

And to understand how we got here, you have to go back and look at how Palantir became what it is:

1. The Birth of the Private Spy State

Palantir was incubated with CIA funding.

Its first check came from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, and its first clients were intelligence agencies hunting terrorists.

But what made Palantir different was its thesis: “What if you could find bin Laden… with metadata?”

So they built it: a data integration engine that could suck in fragmented intel from multiple sources, battlefield reports, chat logs, drone feeds, biometric scans, and visualize it into one decision-ready interface.

It worked. Palantir became indispensable to U.S. military and intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But what most people don’t realize is how quickly Palantir started expanding beyond war.

Today, the same tools used to find terrorists are used to track immigrants, manage prisons, oversee public health, and monitor welfare fraud.

Palantir’s Gotham platform is now used by:

• ICE, for tracking and deportation operations

• FBI, for counterterrorism and surveillance

• DoD, for battlefield decisions and global ops

• CDC, for COVID contact tracing and vaccine logistics

• Local police, for predictive policing and neighborhood monitoring

• The IRS, for identifying audit targets

They don’t just provide data analytics. They provide the system.

And it’s quickly becoming the operating system of the U.S. government.

2. The Shift from Government Tool to Government OS

When the pandemic hit, Palantir moved fast.

Its new platform, Foundry, helped the U.S. and U.K. governments manage vaccine distribution, supply chains, and COVID-19 data aggregation.

What was once an intelligence tool became a civilian one.

And then came the turning point: Palantir started running the infrastructure itself:

• In the U.K., it built the NHS Federated Data Platform, integrating hospital and patient data

• In the U.S., it powers DHS’s investigative case management systems

• In Ukraine, its software was used to integrate targeting and battlefield ops

• In private corporations, it optimizes supply chains and customer data intelligence

And in each case, Palantir did the same thing: It didn’t just build software, it embedded itself into decision-making.

So, instead of making dashboards for the government, Palantir became the dashboard through which governments operate.

Now imagine what happens when all U.S. citizen data: tax, travel, health, and criminal is routed through a single private pipeline.

The state isn’t just hiring a private contractor. It’s outsourcing its nervous system.

I have explored more about this in my latest video, you can watch it here:

3. Why the Real Power No Longer Wears a Government Badge

The most dangerous thing about Palantir isn’t that it works with the government. It’s that it shapes how government works.

When you outsource surveillance, decision-making, and data logic to a private company, you’re not just buying software. You’re buying its operational philosophy.

Palantir was built on the belief that "data solves everything". That inefficiency is failure. That surveillance is security. That prediction is protection.

But here’s what that creates:

• A system where government workers rely on black-box algorithms they don’t understand

• A feedback loop where human judgment is replaced by statistical inference

• And a government that prioritizes algorithmic efficiency over citizen needs

The recent contract expansion is just the surface.

What’s beneath is this: Palantir is no longer in the business of bidding for projects. It’s in the business of making itself indispensable to power.

And that changes everything.

💪 The Power Moves

Playbook for understanding the game of power.

How to Spot the Next Palantir before it Becomes One

Palantir isn’t just a business. It’s the operating system of the surveillance stage.

And the lesson here isn’t about fear. It’s about foresight.

The world’s most powerful systems, from war to welfare, are now being run by software you’ll never see, coded by people you’ll never meet.

So if you’re trying to understand power today, ask these three questions:

→ Who owns the interface?
→ Who decides what gets measured?
→ And who controls the output?

Because power doesn’t lie in who runs the government anymore. It lies in who builds the software that the government runs on.

The Takeaway:

This is an economy of power that has always existed from the revolving door, the gray zone, to manipulated outcomes.

And until we recognize this cycle, we'll keep funding the very forces that benefit from keeping our world unstable.

This is why you must learn the rules of this game, or your personal life, your beliefs, your safety, and even your democracy are all going to go to the highest bidder.

💵 Following the Money

Three of the wildest financial and corruption stories from around the world.

#1 - Musk attacks Trump’s spending plan as ‘disgusting abomination’: The Breakup of the Decade?

#2 - China is upping its game in the Pacific. How are US forces preparing?

#3 - Great Thunberg sets sail to Gaza: The climate activist warns of ‘losing humanity‘

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