👀💵 Taxes, texts, & crypto: Palantir’s $130M IRS takeover

Palantir's Executive Director Alex Karp’s mass surveillance and autonomous weapons software empire is embedded deep inside the IRS, hoovering up data on Americans, according to records cited by The Intercept.

🌏 The firm fuses dozens of federal datasets - tax returns, bank records, healthcare data, crypto wallets, even dark web traces - into a single, searchable system to reportedly investigate a broad range of financial crimes.

This is data gorging on an industrial scale, warns the outlet.

💵 Since 2018, the IRS Criminal Investigation unit has been feeding Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics (LCA) platform with sprawling, sensitive information.

The LCA runs on Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry platforms, enabling “analysis of massive-scale data to find the needle in the haystack,” according to the contract documents.

Over $130 million has already been spent to build and expand this system designed to map human connections, from calls and texts to emails. It also uses IP analysis to spot suspects faster.

Engineers of Palantir — whose latest manifesto reads like a blueprint for a techno-fascist AI-powered security state — are working hand-in-hand with IRS agents to tighten the loop between surveillance and action.

Watchdogs like American Oversight warn that this isn’t a software contract - it’s a surveillance heist “with minimal transparency.”

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Gas Grab: Israel Just Took Lebanon's Qana Field

After months of ground operations in south Lebanon, Israel has declared a permanent buffer zone on land and sea, absorbing what was never theirs under international law.

🔸 The zone covers 70 Lebanese villages, including still-inhabited Christian towns (Rmeish, Ain Ebel, Debel) and the Sunni town of Shebaa.

🔸 Israel's maritime boundary now fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime agreement.

🔸 Total energies found no commercial reserves in Qana and abandoned Block 9 in 2023. But Block 8 remains unexplored, and control of Qana serves strategic purposes.

🔸 Previous estimates suggested up to 100 billion cubic meters valued at $20–40 billion, but those figures are now in question.

🔸 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated residents of these towns will not be allowed to return — permanent displacement — not temporary security.

🔸 The IDF is rigging neighborhoods with explosives, filming demolitions, and posting them online. An average of 1,000 homes per day have been demolished since March 2.

🔸 As a direct response to Israel's repeated ceasefire violations and unilateral land grab, Hezbollah ambushed an 8-vehicle Israeli convoy on April 19, destroying 4 Merkava tanks with IEDs in under an hour. Two Israeli soldiers confirmed killed since the truce began.

🔸 Five Israeli military divisions plus naval forces are operating south of the line, a permanent military footprint, not a withdrawal.

This is not a defense zone. It is annexation by another name. Israel is erasing Lebanon's southern border, stealing its offshore gas, and displacing tens of thousands of civilians under the cover of a "ceasefire." The 2022 US-brokered agreement is worthless when one party ignores it.

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