Posted on 06/07/2013 8:48:09 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight
“PRISM” is the government’s name for a program that uses technology from Palantir. Palantir is a Silicon Valley start-up that’s now valued at well over $1B, that focuses on data analysis for the government. Here’s how Palantir describes themselves:
“We build software that allows organizations to make sense of massive amounts of disparate data. We solve the technical problems, so they can solve the human ones. Combating terrorism. Prosecuting crimes. Fighting fraud. Eliminating waste. From Silicon Valley to your doorstep, we deploy our data fusion platforms against the hardest problems we can find, wherever we are needed most.” http://www.palantir.com/what-we-do/
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
A right geeky name they took for themselves.
Interestingly enough the palantir weren’t used in middle earth because they could never be entirely certain who was on the other end of the comm line.
That Intelligence expert, Maxine Waters, told us last month that Obama has a data base that can track everybody, so this is no surprise to those who listen to this voice of the Democrat Party.
“They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.”
—Gandalf to Saruman, in The Fellowship of the Ring
For other uses of Palantíri see also: Palantír (disambiguation)
Palantíri (or singular Palantír) also known as Seeing-stones, the Seven Stones, and the Seven Seeing-stones were spherical stone objects used for the purpose of communication in Middle-earth and beyond.
Doesn’t have the right smell.
Their stuff may be ripped off, though.
And I would treat Talking Points Memo with some suspicion...
did this company contribute heavily to Obama’s campaign and work with them to build that election database?
Check to see who axelrod got his data from for the big get out the vote drive!
We re thinking on same line. Needs researched. Not just a coincidence !
***We solve the technical problems, so they can solve the human ones.***
Like which groups to exterminate?
Hillary Clinton and Craig Livingstone were pikers with the FBI files compared to these people.
Seems like I remember some FReepers talking about receiving emails from the campaign having never signed up for anything. Hmmmm.
People are forgetting that this government has identified Tea Partiers, gun control advocates and other conservatives as “terrorists”. When we read that the phone spying efforts were aimed at rooting out terrorists and their networks, I do not think that the government thinks that “terrorist” means what we think it means. I think that they wanted to monitor US calling patterns to identify conservatives and their allies.
I’d be more suspicious of Google’s access. Google probably has a share in whatever this startup does, so anything they have the government has.
Which means as cute as it is to say “lost in boating accident” etc... these goons more than likely have mined this site for years as well and have all of us identified and triangulated your email and login data to search and find other data on other websites/services under your name(s).
It's time to talk about this in an environment unclouded by the urgency of an active terrorist incident. Do we really want this? Does this constitute a little safety in whose pursuit freedom must sacrificed? OTOH, is a government that does not do this to protect its citizens from an outside threat shirking its responsibility?
This conversation was never really held, at least not in public as it is now, and a Congress and an Executive that only regard this sort of thing as another tool to be employed in the pursuit of political power are not honest brokers.
I think we should address our post directly to NSA. In fact, I think we should start a conversation - like which campaign did you share this data with? lol send answer please - you know my email. lol
Your point about conservatives and tea party groups as “terrorists” in the Obama administration’s eyes is well taken.
Shame we will never find out.
wiki:
Palantir Technologies Type Private
Founded 2004
Founder(s) Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, Nathan Gettings
Headquarters Palo Alto, California
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000055177&year=2012
This Peter Thiel Company Is Ripping The Army Intelligence Community Apart
The Silmarils were three jewels made by the Elvish craftsman Feanor. The jewels were so enchanting that the god Melkor stolen them and took them from the Blessed Realm and fled to Middle Earth where he became known as Morgoth. The Elves followed in hot pursuit, murdering their kinsmen at one point in the headlong rush to retrive the beautiful objects.
Feanor also constructed the seven Palantir.
The Rings of Power were created by Sauron and by Elvish craftsmen. They also ended up providing a corrupting influence.
It's the Tower of Babel retold in several ways. Men want to be as gods -- in the government's quest to be omniscient, it has created a great evil.
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