Orwell's Nightmare Arrives: Palantir Powers National Database of Citizens and What to Do About It
Colonial Outcasts
Colonial Outcasts
5 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Hello and Welcome to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast that your MAGA uncle might hate less today than he did yesterday, as that entire cult of personality is fragmenting yet again with the advent of this new Palantir deal to create a national database that is unprecedented in our history. It will include:
- Tax filings
- Student Debt
- Social Security
- Bank Accounts
- Medical Claims
- Immigration status
No previous database system has ever centralized this much personal info across various federal agencies. If you, like me, are a critic of China’s social credit system (totally valid to disagree with me), just know that in the Hands of Palantir, a data analysis company founded in 2003, partially backed by the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, the new American edition is going to be so much more repressive and targeted.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we are rolling and we are going to thematically bind this episode with a 90-second clip of Michael Parenti, an American political scientist and intellectual of the American left, speaking about the reality that essentially undergirds all U.S. policy both foreign and domestic, especially when it comes |
| 0:22.4 | to the police and national security state, which we'll be talking about today. Why is it |
| 0:28.0 | happening? Because of this reason. |
| 0:30.6 | Understand, you're dealing with people who are insatiable. You're dealing with people who |
| 0:36.0 | are absolutely ruthless. We are dealing with addicts. |
| 0:42.3 | It's not true that coke or heroin is the worst addiction in America, or cigarettes or alcohol. |
| 0:49.3 | The worst addiction, the most crippling, the most damaging addiction is wealth. These people are just out of control. |
| 0:57.0 | They just want more and more and more. |
| 1:01.0 | And they're not unlike the ruling classes of all history. |
| 1:04.0 | If the ruling classes of all history have ever wanted anything, |
| 1:08.0 | there's only one thing they've ever wanted, and that's everything. They want |
| 1:11.6 | all the lands, all the choice crops, all the herds, all the rich mineral deposits. They want |
| 1:17.1 | control of all the labor, all the markets. They want all the civilities and comforts and luxuries |
| 1:22.6 | of civil society while paying none of the costs. They want everything. And then when they got everything, they want still more. |
| 1:29.9 | They want gold chalices to drink out of. |
| 1:32.1 | They want $1,000 bills to light their cigars. |
| 1:34.7 | Of course, the ruling class has learned since the days of the robber baron. |
| 1:38.6 | They're not as crass and crude about it. |
| 1:42.7 | But they are just as ruthless in their dedication to this accumulation. |
| 1:48.5 | Exactly. The more things change, the more they stay the same. So just about every problem in your day-to-day life comes down to that. |
| 1:57.3 | And to discuss it from the perspective of state control and violence, we're joined by co-host, Mark Wayne, coming to us from California and returning contributor, Jalissa de Groh, |
| 2:07.4 | an independent journalist based in Florida. She covers Middle East conflicts and explores the influence |
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