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For fans of The Lord of the Rings, a Palantir is a seeing stone, or crystal ball, that can be used to see events and communicate with other stones. For the followers of technology companies, Palantir is a US company that specialises in big data analytics. One of its co-founders is Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who was Facebooks first outside investor. This begs the question: why would a software company, which boasts the US and UK governments among its clients, need defending? The answer lies in the strange values of Big Tech, Silicon Valley and Western progressives (or rather American progressives, whom every other Western progressive seems to ape).

Palantir Technologies, to give the company its full name, stands out for several reasons. Tech companies tend to have meaningless names (Microsoft, for example), or names reflecting what they do: Netflix stands for internet films. The literary origin of Palantirs name makes it stand out. The company is run by Alex Karp. With a PhD in philosophy from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Karp is highly intelligent, but not your typical tech boss. In journalistic terms, Karp is outspoken. In other words, he tells you what he thinks and does not hide behind corporate PR.

One recent example is Karps comments on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Sunday Times reported him as saying the risk of nuclear war is higher than most people think. He also pointed out that the firm had problems with investors, as Palantir would not sell to US adversaries. He noted as a result Palantir had never entered the Russian market, so they have no business to close down there due to sanctions.

It is this clear embrace of Western values that points to the controversy among progressives. Whereas other Big Tech firms have shied away from working for the CIA and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Palantir has embraced such work. It sees itself as the contrarian amongst technology firms and explicitly rejects progressive values.

The irony for Silicon Valley progressives is that they are obsessed with diversity of race, gender and nationality, but diversity of thought sends them into a meltdown. This hostility to anyone who varies from progressive groupthink led to protests outside Palantirs Palo Alto headquarters and may well have led to the companys decision to move its headquarters to Denver, Colorado.

The irony is that if it was not for defence spending, there would probably be no Silicon Valley. For Big Tech progressives, history seems to begin in the 1970s with the founding of Apple Computers. In the real world the area around San Francisco has been an area of research for the US Navy for at least the last hundred years. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the largest employer was Lockheed, famous for its US military jets. Palantir is completely in the historic mainstream by seeking to work for the US government. In an era when China has its own tech champions, in the form of Tencent and Alibaba, America needs companies like Palantir more than ever.

The controversy over Palantir is not just limited to the United States. When Palantir began working with the NHS in March 2020 to improve data collection related to the pandemic, the progressive response was predictable. There was a lawsuit from Open Democracy (which was later withdrawn), plus a No Palantir in our NHS campaign established by 50 self-proclaimed healthcare, anti-racist, human rights groups. What is Palantirs crime in their book? It was Peter Thiel, not Palantir, who gave $1 million to Donald Trumps campaign in 2016. Of course, they dont mention that Alex Karp actually voted for Hillary Clinton and gave money to Joe Bidens campaign.

When Huawei, founded in 1987 by a former Chinese Peoples Liberation Party officer, opened offices in the UK, no progressives said or did anything about it. When Russian firms were listing on the London Stock Exchange, there were no mass protests. The double standards at work dont need a Palantir programme to identify them.

So next time you read a hostile article in the New York Times or a news report on the BBC about Palantir, you might want to ask yourself: if these guys are so sinister, why were they not working for the Russian government or cosying up to the Chinese Communist Party, unlike so many other Western firms and Big Tech companies? I, for one, am thankful that there is one tech firm out there that proudly stands up for Western values. Long Live Palantir.

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U.S.The death toll is continuing to rise in connection with the devastating January 6th riots, as one of the attendees has died of a heart attack a year-and-a-half after he was pictured eating a corndog there.

"Over a year after this horrific attack on our holy democracy, the catastrophic death toll continues to rise," said Congressman Adam Schiff. "The death of Bob Billings of a massive heart attack after eating one of theartery-clogging corndogs sold at the Capitol Riot again reminds us of how deadly and dark this dark-deadly day was. That must be, like, a thousand dead now.Those of us still here are lucky to be alive."

Congress is investigating more charges that can be brought against Trump in connection with Billings' death, in addition to the other casualtiessuch as those who got in car accidents on the way home from the rally, those who died of January 6th-connected myocarditis, and those who died of heartbreak due to Biden being inaugurated.

"It may be many years before we really know the true death toll of January 6th, but you can be sure we will continue to talk about it until it no longer effectively raises campaign funds for us," said Schiff.

At publishing time, Congress announced the additional January 6th death of a protestor who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton.

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Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, left, campaign CEO Steve Bannon, center, and Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, right, celebrate as Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in Manhattan on November 9, 2016.Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

Kellyanne Conway says Donald Trump Jr. "twirled" her in the air after Clinton called to concede in 2016.

The ex-White House counselor, who managed Trump's 2016 campaign, described the scene in her new book.

"We had defied the odds, denied the critics. Life changed in a flash," she wrote of the election's aftermath.

Most political observers saw Donald Trump as the underdog throughout the 2016 presidential race.

So when the reality television star won the presidency that November in large part by flipping the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, it was an unforgettable moment for the many Trump staffers who had worked tirelessly for the campaign.

And all eyes turned to former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who managed Trump's 2016 presidential campaign beginning that August and had just led him to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In her newly-released memoir, "Here's the Deal," Conway wrote of the moments after The Associated Press officially called the race for Trump.

The longtime pollster wrote that one of then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's sons pointed out that her phone was ringing.

"It was Huma Abedin, Hillary's closest aide and confidante and vice chair of her presidential campaign," Conway wrote. "Huma certainly had expected to speak with me this evening, though she never in her wildest dreams imagined she'd be the one making the concession call."

She continued: "Trump and his family were in the corner, just a few feet away. I walked the phone toward them. 'Be quiet, everyone!' I shrieked, needing to make our euphoria official, as I handed Trump my phone."

On the other end of the line was the former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

"Hillary wants to speak with you," she told Trump. "Congratulations, Mr. President-elect."

She added: "Thinking those words and saying them were two very difference experiences. We had defied the odds, denied the critics. Life changed in a flash."

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Conway then spoke of a gesture that was performed by Trump's eldest son as family members and campaign staffers were soaring high from the GOP victory.

"The instant the phone was out of my hand and into Donald Trump's, Don Jr. picked me up and twirled me in the air," she wrote. "We could overhear his father graciously complimenting his Democratic opponent .... He said he hoped he could rely on her to help in the days and months ahead."

After seeing virtually no pathway to victory in Michigan, Michigan, and Wisconsin and heeding the call from most major news networks, Clinton delivered a formal concession speech in Manhattan the day after the election.

However, the relationship between Clinton and Trump never recovered from the 2016 election and remains highly acrimonious.

Trump has repeatedly accused Clinton of spying on his campaign, while the former secretary of state railed against his policies during his White House tenure.

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The two Democratic primary candidates in New Jerseys 2nd Congressional District, vying for the right to face incumbent U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd, in November, both said they joined the party in 2008 to vote in the presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Carolyn Rush, an engineer from Sea Isle City, backed Clinton, hoping to help elect the first woman president of the United States.

Tim Alexander, a civil rights attorney and former law enforcement officer from Galloway Township, backed Obama in the hopes of electing the first Black president.

Now Alexander, 57, and Rush, 60, are presenting voters with a similar choice in the June 7 primary.

If elected, either of the two candidates would make history. It would be the first time either a Black man or a woman of any race represented New Jerseys 2nd District in Congress.

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Both are strongly pro-choice, support lowering the age for Medicare eligibility to expand health care coverage, and both are focused on the need to bring better paying jobs to South Jersey while also combating climate change. Both cite social justice, civil rights and LGBTQ rights as major priorities.

Second district Democratic congressional candidates are hoping their voters will be extra mo

Rush, however, sees herself as a minority of a different kind. Only 4% of congressional representatives are engineers, she said. In contrast, she said, about 40% are attorneys like Alexander.

Given the need to move forward on climate change and other technology-related issues, its best to increase engineers in Congress, Rush said.

Alexander, who has racked up endorsements from most county committees and from big names including former congressional candidate Amy Kennedy and former Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo, D-Atlantic, said he has had people of color tell him they are backing him and feel its important to have more Black representatives.

There are a lot of people who say, Weve got your back. I appreciate that from the perspective of being a Black man, he said.

The Collective PAC was one of his earliest endorsers, he said. It backs minority candidates running for the first time.

But he wants to keep the focus on the issues.

Democratic 2nd District congressional candidate Carolyn Rush is lashing out against her own

It will be historic, but thats not what this race is about, Alexander said. Its about the economy. I want issues to be the reason people come out to vote.

He also feels strongly that Democrats should not focus on beating each other, but on beating the incumbent.

I have always been running against Jeff Van Drew, not my primary opponents, Alexander said.

Alexander and Rush joined the party in a year that saw a major increase in Democratic registration nationally, largely due to heightened interest in the primary that year.

Registered Democrats went from about 39 million in 2006 to more than 43 million in 2008, while Republican voters remained steady at about 30 million.

As of June 2021, each party has gained about 6 million new registered voters. Democratic registration is at about 49 million, and Republican registration is at about 36 million.

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Alexander had always tended to vote Democratic, he said, but didnt join the party until 2008 because he was working for the Atlantic County Prosecutors Office and didnt want to be accused of favoring one party in investigations of voter fraud.

But the chance to vote for the first Black president made him declare himself a Democrat.

Without a doubt I knew it could cause me some backlash, Alexander said. I wanted to vote for Obama. I didnt want to have to tell my grandchildren if I have them that I didnt support Obama (in his bid for the nomination).

Rush said she, too, had always voted Democratic, but never found it necessary to vote in the New Jersey primaries because they happen too late to affect the party choice to run for president.

I wanted to vote for Hillary Clinton, Rush said. In hindsight I think it had pretty much been decided, but I was glad I did it. It was the right thing to do.

Although she didnt win any of the Democratic county committee endorsements in the six south

By 2012 she was such a fan of Obama, however, she volunteered for his reelection campaign. It was the first time she became involved in a political campaign, she said.

I just thought it was time for a strong and powerful woman, and she was that, Rush said of Clinton in 2008. I had wanted her, but I was thrilled with him.

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Proving that whats old is new again, here is how the late William Safire began his New York Times column of Jan. 8, 1996:

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation is a congenital liar.

Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

Safire detailed a series of situations where Hillary Clinton was caught in obvious lies, and there is a straight line to the Hillary Clinton whose shadow hangs over the Michael Sussmann trial in Washington. Once again, Clinton is being exposed as compelled to mislead and ensnaring her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

And to think she almost got away with stealing the presidency.

It is in keeping with her history that she is portrayed as the off-stage chief conniver at a trial that is, like her, something of a throwback. Coming six years after the 2016 presidential campaign, the Sussmann trial inevitably carries an air of anti-climax.

After all, we have known since the Robert Mueller report in 2019 that the charge that Donald Trump colluded with Russia was fake news. And we have known for almost as long that Clintons campaign secretly funded the smear merchants at Fusion GPS who hired Christopher Steele who fabricated a dossier that was long on lies and gossip and short on facts.

Finally, we have known that Jim Comeys FBI was punch drunk on power and some of its top officials were foaming at the mouth to help Clinton defeat Trump. They were so dirty they used the rancid dossier to get court approval to spy on Trumps campaign.

That sequence adds a strange dimension to the Sussmann case in the sense that the only charge against him that he lied to the FBI in denying he was working for Clinton in trying to peddle Russia trash makes the agency look innocent, when it was, in its own way, as guilty as Clinton.

Still, there is value in special counsel John Durhams tireless effort to reveal the secrets of the dirtiest dirty trick ever. His assignment was to probe how and why the FBI took the unprecedented step of spying on the campaign of the opposing partys presidential candidate and while the going has been slow, he is adding important details to a major stain on our national history.

The Biden administration would surely love to shut Durham down, but convicting Sussmann likely would give the prosecutor new impetus and save his probe from the Democrats ax.

It is vital that he continue because, although it failed to elect Clinton, the hoax was sensationally successful in capturing the medias attention and implanting a deep distrust of Trump, thanks in part to the Deep States anonymous sources who fed media hysterics.

Democrats, especially Nancy Pelosi, insisted Trump was an illegitimate president for his entire term. One result was that the party refused to negotiate with him, robbing America of any meaningful bipartisanship even on issues like infrastructure.

Another outcome was the 2018 midterms, where the hoax surely played a role in the publics decision to hand control of the House to Dems, who instantly began their Russia, Russia, Russia investigation and soon turned to impeaching Trump.

The Clinton lies, then, did enormous damage and, as Trump immodestly but correctly says, a weaker president would have reacted to the false attacks by curling up into a fetal position.

Meanwhile, the related misconduct of the media, the FBI and other government agencies resulted in an incalculable loss of credibility that continues to grow as new facts emerge.

In that sense, the most redeeming feature of the Sussmann case is the proof that the Steele dossier wasnt Clintons only effort to fabricate so-called evidence about Trump and Russia. Testimony is revealing that the pattern the two efforts followed was almost identical.

First her campaign concocted a lie, then secretly peddled it to Trump-hating media and the Trump-hating FBI. In both cases, it concealed the funding as legal services.

In the Sussmann case, the part of Christopher Steele was played by tech executive Rodney Joffe, who produced data purporting to show Trump computers communicating with a Russian bank. It was regarded as bunk even by the FBI.

It was nonetheless Sussmanns job to get The New York Times to run a story on the claim, an effort Clinton herself approved, according to testimony from her former campaign manager, Robbie Mook. Although the Times didnt bite on that one, other media outlets did, and Clinton herself tweeted about the stories to magnify their impact as she hoped for an October surprise.

One of her aides then, Jake Sullivan, was also pushing the fake story as a national security threat, and he is now Joe Bidens national security adviser. How comforting.

The pattern raises the question of whether there were still other fabricated attempts by Clinton to paint Trump as a traitor that we dont know about yet. Never underestimate her venality.

What we do know is more than enough to condemn her for all time. She was a lousy, lazy presidential candidate who made up slanderous tales about her opponent to cover up her own unpopularity and failures.

As proof, the trial resurrected declassified notes from September of 2016 written by John Brennan, then CIA director. It said intelligence officials learned Clinton planned to tar Trump with Russia ties as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.

The notes suggest Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on the finding, yet Obama still went along with the FBI probe of Trump and told Comey how to brief the president-elect in January of 2017 on the most salacious parts of the Steele dossier.

Assuming Durham is able to continue, his real challenge will be finding someone in her circle who was not ensnared in Clintons web of deceit.

Nina Jankowicz, the kook chosen by the White House to run its sinister Disinformation Governance Board, blames her quick demise on disinformation.

She says there was malign intent in criticizing her and the board, which is why she resigned.

Her reaction proves she was unfit and even dangerous. She considers anything critical of her as having malign intent.

Good riddance to her and hopefully the anti-free-speech board will be next on the chopping block.

Reader Collette Curry sees a bright side in the stumbling and fumbling of Joe Biden. She writes: He has given hope to all under-achieving students that someday they can grow up to be president.

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