There are lots of very, very dangerous, no-good-at-all issues taking place on the planet proper now, and a vanishingly small variety of actually, actually terrible folks behind an astonishing quantity of the worst of it.
And there appears to be an endgame: world Gaza-fication.
A Texas Congressional Candidate Shouts the Alarm
Peace activist and US Military Ranger vet Gregory Stoker is warning of “The Palestine Lab”:
Transcript:
“No matter they do to Palestinians, they’re keen to do to you.”
Former U.S. Particular Ops Officer and congressional candidate Greg Stoker is sounding the alarm on a chilling actuality that the institution desperately desires you to disregard.
Ever heard of “The Palestine Laboratory”? It’s a time period utilized by protection contractors to explain how the Israeli occupation makes use of Gaza and the West Financial institution as a testing floor for cyber-dystopian tech:
Superior adware & AI drones
Facial recognition & good capturing techniques
Predictive policing algorithmsHowever right here’s the catch: as soon as these terrifying instruments are “battle-tested” on occupied Palestinians, they’re packaged, exported, and offered on to native police departments proper close to you.
Why must you care?
As a result of the elite have zero intention of fixing the housing disaster, the scholar debt disaster, or the hovering value of residing. As a substitute, their blueprint is to militarize the police and use nationwide safety databases (like Palantir) to regulate us after we inevitably protest.Share this to wake folks up earlier than the “laboratory” involves your entrance door.
This time period wasn’t new to me. I remembered it from just a few years again.
Antony Loewenstein Wrote a Complete Guide About It
I caught writer Antony Loewenstein on Amy Goodman in 2023 speaking about his ebook “The Palestine LaboratoryHow Israel Exports The Know-how Of Occupation Round The World.”
Some key quotes:
Antony Loewenstein: The occupation of Palestine by Israel is now the longest occupation in trendy instances, 56 years and counting. Throughout these years what Israel has achieved very efficiently from its perspective is locate varied instruments and applied sciences to keep up and management Palestinians and what they’ve achieved throughout that point is more and more export these instruments and applied sciences but in addition these strategies these so-called counter-insurgency strategies so what I have a look at within the ebook each being on the bottom in Palestine for a few years and in addition categorised paperwork and varied interviews the world over is that you just discover in over 130 nations throughout the globe within the final many years Israel has offered types of something from adware so-called good partitions, facial recognition instruments, a variety of instruments of occupation and repression which have initially been examined in Palestine on Palestinians.
The occupation of Palestine shouldn’t be staying there. It’s not a battle that continues to be geographically primarily based simply in Palestine it’s turn into so-called World Palestine.
Amy Goodman:How would you describe “politicide” — a time period you employ?
Loewenstein: Politicide I believe was a time period that was coined by Baruch Kimmeling, the late superb tutorial and he was speaking actually in regards to the idea of a want inside many within the Israeli elite to seek out methods to destroy Palestinians that’s not essentially simply via killing them but in addition via extinguishing their political id their political self-determination.
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The European Union within the final years after 2015 once they had been, of their view, overwhelmed by significantly Muslim refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Libya.(The EU) didn’t wish to ever repeat that they usually put in place nearly the Fortress sort Europe which has occurred within the final years which is a variety of instruments and applied sciences to maintain folks out — principally Muslim and brown and black our bodies in fact — and a part of that Arsenal is utilizing Israeli drones. They’re unarmed however they’re flying over the Mediterranean 24/7 they usually’re used principally by Frontex which is the type of EU border safety arm they usually’re the eyes within the sky basically.
So they’re sending again all these photos 24/7 to Warsaw which is the place Frontex relies and the EU has decided, in fact they don’t admit this, however that is the fact of letting folks drown. That is the brand new coverage there are very only a few rescue boats. The EU barely rescues anybody. There are some NGOs which might be making an attempt to take action, and I deeply admire what they’re doing…
So the Israeli drone turns into a key arsenal and a part of this infrastructure of basically permitting folks to drown and to me it actually goes to the guts of why Israeli drones are utilized by the EU as a result of they had been battle examined in Palestine over Gaza within the final 15 years and also you see this nearly Israeli border industrial advanced exported throughout the usMexico border, for instance.
There are large quantities of Israeli surveillance towers made by Elbit, which is Israel’s lean protection firm, dotted throughout the border. It’s a key a part of the usArsenal throughout this border with Mexico and why was that firm chosen by the US?
Due to course it was examined first in Palestine. So to me the actual concern within the twenty first century because the local weather disaster worsens, as useful resource wars are worsening, as refugee numbers have by no means been excessive since World Warfare II, many Western nations are sadly making a option to not welcome folks in, however in reality to construct larger partitions and extra surveillance and Israeli surveillance and know-how and repression is a part of that arsenal that many countries at the moment are a shopping for as a result of it’s been used, of their view, efficiently on Palestinians in Palestine.
It’s not simply Palestine the place this tech is being examined.
Donbas = Gaza 2.0?
DD Geopolitics warned us in 2025 of their piece by Sarah B. titled “Gaza to Donbass: How Israel and Ukraine Constructed a Transnational Warfare Machine.”
Some quotes:
From Bandera to Ben-Gurion, echoes of ethno-nationalist revival resonate within the trendy trajectories of Ukraine and Israel, two states solid via warfare, hardened by siege mentalities, and fueled by historic narratives of existential wrestle. However these similarities are not any accident of parallel growth. They replicate a deepening alignment formed by shared adversaries like Russia and Iran, backed and brokered by the identical Western patrons.
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 19, 2026
In 2022, an officer of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, toured Israel after surviving the siege of Mariupol. By 2025, Israeli drones had been flying missions over Rafah, whereas American-made PSRL-1 rocket launchers, initially provided to Ukraine, had been noticed in battle zones throughout the Center East. Some specialists recommend these could have reached Gaza via black-market channels, although a direct switch stays unproven. What’s simple, nonetheless, is the convergence of army applied sciences, intelligence doctrines, and battlefield logistics spanning each theaters.
In April 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, himself a stalwart ally to the Zionist trigger, declared that he envisioned Ukraine changing into “a giant Israel.” In doing so, he deserted the pretense of liberal reform and embraced a future outlined by everlasting militarization, home surveillance, and an ideologically mobilized citizenry. Ukraine, he advised, would survive not by becoming a member of Europe’s post-national dream, solely by imitating the ethos of a closely securitized Center Jap state.
Zelenskyy’s assertion didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It adopted many years of quietly intensifying Ukrainian–Israeli ties, in historic reminiscence, army cooperation, tech integration, and shared narratives of victimhood. But it surely additionally uncovered a deeper and extra disturbing fusion. When the president of a rustic nonetheless reckoning with the legacy of the Holocaust and its personal fascist collaborators requires the constructing of a “Huge Israel,” he isn’t just invoking a mannequin of protection, he’s invoking a mannequin of justified violence, everlasting siege, and an extended custom of selective reminiscence, one which each Ukraine and Israel have wielded to reconcile uncomfortable historic alliances of culpability.
And whereas we’re speaking about Ukraine and laboratories:
Ukraine: The place Alex Karp Will get Even Extra Apply Mass Murdering Individuals
Lena Petrova has a brand new piece known as “Ukraine: The Laboratory of the Western Army-Industrial Complicated and AI Weapons.”
It contains this photograph of fab of us:
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 19, 2026
Caption: “In response to the Ukrainian President’s Workplace, the assembly held at Ukraine Home in Washington, DC, was attended by BAE Programs President Tom Arseneault, Day & Zimmermann Chair and CEO Harold Yoh, Boeing President Theodore Colbert, CEO of Sierra Nevada Company Fatih Ozmen, Northrop Grumman Vice President Stephen O’Bryan, RTX Vice President Jeff Shockey, Lockheed Martin Vice President Raymond Piselli, Normal Dynamics Vice President Mark Roualet, D&M Holding CEO Daniel Powers, AeroVironment Vice President Charles Dean.”
And from the article:
Ukraine has turn into the most important real-world testing floor for Western army know-how for the reason that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Using AI on this case is notable as a result of nowhere else can Western states check the most recent, most superior army know-how in opposition to their solely and bitter adversary – Russia.
…Maybe no firm symbolizes this grotesque transformation greater than Palantir. In response to a report, Palantir’s Karp was the primary Western CEO to go to Zelensky.
…Volodymyr Zelensky’s relationship with Palantir has advanced from an emergency wartime partnership into one of the important collaborations between a nationwide authorities (an illegitimate one, on this specific case) and a international army know-how firm. Palantir CEO Alex Karp first visited Kyiv in 2022, and the corporate subsequently expanded its presence in Ukraine, offering software program for intelligence evaluation, battlefield consciousness, logistics, demining operations, and focusing on help.
Unsurprisingly, the exact monetary worth of Ukraine’s agreements with Palantir stays largely undisclosed. In contrast to conventional weapons contracts, a lot of Palantir’s companies contain software program licenses, cloud infrastructure, and information analytics platforms.
By 2026, the partnership had expanded significantly. Zelensky met personally with Alex Karp to deepen cooperation in synthetic intelligence and battlefield analytics. The joint Brave1 Dataroom initiative offers builders with entry to real-world fight information to coach AI fashions, with greater than 100 corporations reportedly growing over 80 AI techniques for detecting and intercepting aerial threats.
Though no publicly verified contract worth has been launched, Palantir itself reached a market capitalization of roughly $330 billion in 2026, underscoring the rising monetary significance of army AI corporations working in Ukraine, Palestine, and in opposition to Iran.
Latest reporting signifies that Palantir’s AI techniques have helped Ukraine analyze aerial assaults, course of intelligence, and help planning for deep-strike operations. As I discussed above, the corporate has additionally labored with Ukrainian establishments on the Brave1 Dataroom initiative, which offers battlefield information for coaching synthetic intelligence fashions.
And naturally Palantir offers me a simple segue to ICE, the vanguard of the Gaza-fication of the USA.
Public/Non-public ICE/Palantir Data Partnership
Or all of your Medicaid information belong to Alex Karp, Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale, through NPR:
After Medicaid officers improperly shared information about thousands and thousands of individuals in January with immigration officers, ICE then shared that information with the information analytics agency Palantir, in line with new court docket filings. Palantir operates an app known as ELITE that’s utilized by ICE brokers to indicate the addresses of noncitizens who could also be topic to deportation.
That revelation was made public in a movement filed Thursday by greater than 20 Democratic attorneys normal who sued the Trump administration final 12 months over its data-sharing settlement between the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies and ICE.
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In the meantime, the Division of Justice is asking the choose to increase his order to permit ICE to obtain information on a broader class of noncitizens – to probably embody all immigrants who will not be authorized everlasting residents, residents or have one other type of everlasting standing.“ICE’s incapacity to determine Medicaid information in its possession undercuts any declare that the company needs to be entitled to extra entry to that information,” the Democratic attorneys generals wrote of their movement filed late Thursday.
Their movement continued, “Every successive revelation of a violation of the Order makes it tougher for Plaintiff States to have faith in Defendants’ skill to keep up and safe this information in compliance with the Order, and tougher for Plaintiff States to speak assurances to Medicaid suppliers, enrollees (and their counsel), and the general public at giant in regards to the privateness and confidentiality of their healthcare information.”
Palantir supplied the next assertion to NPR: “Our prospects management their very own information and handle entry to that information. When Palantir workers are granted entry to a buyer’s dataset, it’s solely to assist combine and analyze that information — which is what our software program does — to not retailer it or use it for our personal functions. Palantir can affirm that the dataset in query was purged pursuant to authorities instruction.”
And now that we’re speaking about ICE, let’s have a look at the foundation causes of the an infection.
ICE and the Individuals Who Love and Fund Them
I got here throughout this doozy of a piece in Politico this weekend:
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 18, 2026
Some quotes:
On the far finish of a dock on the banks of the Potomac, previous protesters yelling SHAME! and holding indicators like DEPORT HATE NOT PEOPLE, up a ramp, throughout a gangway and up a flight of stairs, about 200 of probably the most hard-line, anti-immigration folks in Washington boarded a ship Thursday afternoon. It was, they believed, time to social gathering.
The organizers of the occasion needed to name it the usS. Deportation, however no such boat was obtainable, so that they needed to accept renting out the Potomac Spirit — an enormous, three-story yacht with open bars on each degree that may appeal to traces all through the night. “Ahoy! That is the captain talking,” piped a cheery voice, not emanating from an precise captain, however slightly a video of a former DHS staffer in a captain’s hat. “The place are we occurring this boat? Hopefully, to a political and coverage vacation spot of two commas within the deportation numbers.”
The boozy gala attracted conservatives who’ve served in Congress, the Justice Division and ICE — all of whom share a objective of deporting an unprecedented 1 million-plus folks a 12 months. Former GOP Reps. Steve King and Tom Tancredo reminisced about their time as rabble-rousers within the Home, like when King actually constructed a border wall on the Home flooring to exhibit the federal government may, too. Scott Mechkowski, the previous deputy ICE area director in New York, held court docket on the rooftop deck, buying and selling battle tales about his two-and-a-half many years main deportation operations. Jeffrey Clark, the previous appearing assistant lawyer normal, mingled with an entourage, a few of them carrying multicolored leis and flipping via printed-out coverage playbooks from the Mass Deportation Coalition, because the group calls itself.
“To affect D.C., you should communicate the language {of professional} D.C.,” mentioned Mike Howell, the brains behind the occasion. “One of many modes of language in D.C. is convening with some pomp and circumstance — and what higher method to try this than on a ship, touring the sights and smells of Washington, D.C.?”
And in case you assume they’re kidding round, always remember, “How ICE grew to be the highest-funded U.S. regulation enforcement company.”
Oh and the FBI has been ordered to stop investigating ICE-involved incidents, per the NYT:
Federal brokers across the nation had been informed in latest days that the F.B.I. would not examine confrontations with immigration brokers — instances that typically yield proof that might be used to prosecute Division of Homeland Safety brokers implicated in violent encounters, in line with folks briefed on the choice.
If enacted, such a change would sharply restrict regulation enforcement scrutiny of immigration brokers, because the Trump administration attracts mounting criticism over killings by the hands of federal officers.
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F.B.I. managers across the nation obtained a written discover informing them of the change on Thursday, in line with the folks conversant in the matter who spoke on the situation of anonymity to explain inner communications. The identical day, some ICE brokers across the nation had been notified by their F.B.I. counterparts.The steerage shared with them mentioned that the bureau would cease investigating claims of assaults in opposition to Division of Homeland Safety brokers, the folks mentioned. Although such investigations are meant to find out whether or not the officers had been in reality attacked, they’ll present a vital technique of gathering proof implicating the brokers themselves.
Sourcing is nameless, which is meh, however I’ve no purpose to doubt the report.
And whereas we’re speaking about terrible folks and the AI-powered Gaza-fication of America, we gotta carry Flock into this.
Go Flock Your self CEO Man
I haven’t lined the continued grassroots rise up in opposition to Flock cameras in a bit, so let’s examine in on their CEO who’s making himself fairly the favored fellow.
For the final two years, Will Freeman has been advocating in opposition to Flock Security, an $8.3 billion surveillance firm that tracks autos with a community of over 80,000 cameras. His group, DeFlock, crowdsourced a map that reveals the place the corporate’s cameras are situated, and helps native grassroots actions arrange in opposition to Flock deployments.
In an interview with Forbes final 12 months, Flock CEO Garrett Langley described DeFlock as a “terroristic group.” However now, as Flock faces an more and more vitriolic public backlash, Langley says he regrets that label.
“My feedback had been a mistake and I apologize,” he says. “There are teams at this time which have actual legitimate criticisms of the enterprise, and I believe what’s modified for us is, as we’ve listened to them and heard them out, what we’re making an attempt to do is locate this stability. We imagine in a world the place we are able to have security and privateness.”
You and me each buddy, you and me each.
So yea, what a world and the individuals who assist it get this manner.
Grasp powerful, y’all.
