Got caught up reading the Q threads last night, and now find myself hopelessly behind again. I have skimmed enough to see that the discourse about Palentir has persisted, and I want to reintroduce a bit of my thinking on that from the previous thread into the current conversation.
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Melian provided a definition of the basis of Palentir:
A palantír (pl. palantíri) is a fictional magical artefact from J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium. A palantír (Quenya for “far-seeing”[1]) is described as a crystal ball, used for both communication and as a means of seeing events in other parts of the world or in the distant past.
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I replied:
During Trump’s SA visit, after the sword dance, they were putting their hands on a big white sphere. Was that Palentir?
“One Orb to Rule Them All”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/22/one-orb-to-rule-them-all-image-of-trump-and-glowing-globe-perplexes-internet
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ransomnote commented:
I think it’s just a globe. Recall that there used to be Saudi’s on the Fortune 500 list and, after Trump, there are currently no Saudis on that list. :)
I don’t put much stock in photos of Trump visiting dignitaries. I think he’d use whatever means at hand to communicate - the MSM will always cast it as weird/evil. :)
1,794 posted on 03/30/2018 9:29:14 PM PDT by ransomnote
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My reply:
That is true, ransomnote, that the SAs were noticeably absent from the Fortune 500 list after that visit.
What I was recalling was that there was a lot of buzz during that visit that the sphere represented the intelligence technology we were granting the Saudi Government. I’m remembering that because I was wondering at the time if that was really a good idea.
I’m NOW wondering if maybe that technology went a very long way to allowing the Saudi crown prince and govt to get the final goods on those Fortune 500 people who could be contained.
But what do I know? Just some musing. Just wondering if there is a connection between the “best intel technology” and what we are looking at in our researches as Palentir. I am certainly in no situation to know.... Just a question!
1,802 posted on 03/30/2018 10:04:40 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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ransomnote’s gracious reply:
Interesting. Good catch. :)
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FWIW to puzzle on
Maybe Q will pop in today and help us with Palentir and [P]. We need it.
Future will prove past. Till then tis a puzzle.