Well done Carole, keep on keeping on!! You shine a light where it’s needed in this dark, dark world. Thank you for giving your time & energy to this commitment, it’s gonna be worth it!
Thank you, Carole. I have emailed my MP (Labour) so don’t hold out lot of hope in receiving a transparent, informed response. I am very disturbed at everything going on but find few people to talk about with. Most friends and colleagues shrug it off and seem to think that stuff happening in USA is not relevant. This makes it seem even worse, sleepwalking into dystopia. I did find you report gloomy, especially receiving it Sunday evening with work scaries hovering, but it is what it is and I am most grateful for your time and effort keeping us informed. We just need to take action somehow, something US Congress is failing to do.
It is odd when folks don't seem to realise how everything happening in the USA is going to affect us. Selfishly for me, half of my custom (i'm an artist) comes from America and if it all goes to shit, I won't have an income anymore. Hard to imagine how it has come to this and also how so many people seemed to think 'oh it will be ok, Trump isn't going to be a dictator, there are checks and balances' - but a few of us were screaming at the top of our lungs that he WAS going to be waaaaay worse this time. I don't know why folks aren't seeing it, I guess it depends on what news they seek out/watch etc.
I hope America doesn't start stomping all over the world and taking over, I wish there weren't as power hungry fascists ready to take the reins from Trump when he leaves this earth (as will happen sooner rather than later I imagine, he's hardly a picture of health).
Thank you for responding. I think we are already way in too deep. Trump was the Trojan horse for Putin, Heritage Foundation, broligarchs etc. I was mad with tears in autumn 24 and friends with family in US insisted that he would be better than Biden for cost-of-living and with Palestinian relatives they also believed he would help. I felt like I was banging my head against a brick wall and get no satisfaction whatsoever thinking “I told you so”. Have to avoid even discussing politics so feel left in a bubble.
Yup, only at xmas someone in extended family said 'i don't like trump but he's getting things done' - WHAT, disappearing people off the streets and mining the government for his own pockets? I just don't even know where to start with people making comments like that.
As you say, 'i told you so' is not comforting or satisfying!
Thank you Carole (from an American). I didn't know about these effects of Trump on the UK. I'm so sorry, and lately have been wanting to apologize to the whole world about what Trump is doing to it. I hope most of the world knows that most of us are horrified about just about everything Trump and his lying fascist underlings say and do.
I think this is what is most infuriating - I have so many American friends, and I know taht the number of people who blindly follow trump are minuscule compared to those of you who are against it. I just hope you guys can put a stop to it without too much bloodshed. I'm sorry that you are having to live under this tyrant, I hope it is brought to an end really soon.
I hope what you say is true about most people in the USA being horrified about Trump's actions, but I keep remembering that he won the popular vote as well as the electoral college in 2024. Have opinions changed so much in less than two years? He has, after all, only been doing what he said he was going to do. Keep talking to people, telling people the truth, and hopefully he'll get trounced in the midterms (and they'll happen peacefully).
Yes, opinions have changed in two years - even those of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both staunch MAGA, but both having openly criticised the effects of Trump's policies in areas that matter to them. The most recent polls show that Trump's approval rating is at an all-time low with 60% of the US population disapproving of various aspects of his presidency and we are hearing more and more of his former supporters saying "I didn't vote for this". We need to build on this and amplify our opposition as silence will be seen as tacit agreement, but when that opposition takes the form of street protests, they MUST be peaceful as Trump will use any excuse to crack down harder. (Currently, I'm waiting to see what "state of emergency" he will fabricate to give him an excuse to cancel the mid-terms.)
I think the thing to take hope from is that only around 65% of Amercans voted, and the difference in what trump & kamala had was very small (not a landslide like trump states. Kamala was 48.3% of the vote and trump 49.9%. There are a lot of people who voted on ONE issue and ignored all the other stuff trump was saying and I've seen maga folk interviewed and being told about how tariffs work for instance and looking bewildered as it wasn't what they were told. I think the issue is most folks don't REALLY look into who they are voting for and just go by feelings, or a post they saw on social media, or what their parents voted for (my first time voting I was guilty of the latter when I was naive and thought they knew best, turns out my political leanings are very different than theirs!).
I have hope that the more people see what is really happening (and every day it affects more and more americans negatively), more and more will shun trump. Unfortunately there are still the cult following who would follow trump to the end, but that's a different issue and I suspect the cultists are even fewer than the 'average' maga person. Lots of folks voted on 'no more wars' - so he's not going to make himself popular now with his Venezuela invasion and then Greenland, that will lose him more supporters. Then a lot still voted on Epstein, and I know many have dropped trump (including very vocal trump lovers in the media) due to him not releasing them.
I may of course be hoping against hope. I hope not!
Yes, voter apathy is an issue in the UK too, because people think they're all the same and it doesn't really matter who's in power. Hopefully people are beginning to realise that it absolutely does matter. There is certainly hope. All those people in the streets, and the words of the mayor and other officials - it feels like this is a real shift.
Yeah I'm in the UK too and yes, it's amazing how many folks say 'i don't do politics' - not realising that EVERYTHING is politics pretty much!
You're right, it does feel like there is a big shift happening, let's just hope the many can overpower the few. I mean for starters we have to change how we choose people in power. Instead of choosing the biggest bully or person with the least care for anyone we need to put people in power who REALLY care. It does worry me how many people don't mind these authoritarian types (because they don't think it will affect them I'm guessing). I've read recently that anyone who's had an authoritarian style parenting upbringing is more likely to lean towards folks like trump.
I’ve been calling out Palantir for more than a year. They are also in several Police Forces, our NHS and the Cabinet Office. The most dangerous company in the world.
In Denmark the intelligence services of both the military branch and the police have been using Palantir software since 2018. I’ve been called a tinfoil hat wearing nutter for pointing out the dangers of that. In 2025 our Minister of justice, Peter Hummelgaard, said he was confident that both branches have done all necessary assessments of these systems.
This is truly terrifying. I do not feel reassured. Our politicians just doesn’t get how dangerous and unscrupulous Peter Thiel is. And faced by the hassles and the cost of ditching Palantir, they choose to look the other way and hope for the best. That is not strategy it is negligence.
I've been meaning to write to Peter Kyle, my MP, this week and reading this, I'm composing next week. British appeasement of the Facists didn't work in the 1930s either.
We seem to be living out the conspiracy theory my brother was ranting about in 2022. Whatever. But is this all tying in with Zionism/ Israel, white supremacy/ colonialism sort of final stages of capitalism building us a digital authoritarian prison versus some kind of revolution? Am I going mad? Love your work x
Palantir has a contract with Canada's Department of National Defense administered through Deloitte so data management, surveillance of both military and Health applications contracts with the Canadian govt. The Deloitte administration is via Palantir as well. All Health data, surveillance etc. is held by Cloud Technologies administrators are American controlled like Google, encryption is a subject being discussed by alternative groups as media does not cover this at all.
Hi Carole, don’t know enough to decide not doomery enough / too doomery, but I wouldn’t know without your commitment to journalism and actual news reporting. No changes required and thank you.
This is perfect, thank you. I’ve signed so many petitions about Palantir and the NHS but to find out about our defence now being swallowed up by it is of even greater concern. Starmer has been a huge disappointment and his grovelling around Trump has been sickening. He talks about the lies of Brexit then refuses a close relationship with Europe and all the time creating closer ties to Trump and his network of Oligarchs! He refuses to call out Israel for what is going on in Gaza and all the while continuing to supply weapons, he refuses to condemn Trump for the kidnap of Maduro(evil man) and he hasn’t been vocal enough about Trump and Greenland. We had 14 years of disaster for this country with the Tories and now we have Starmer’s Labour! Are all parties leaning even more towards the right? Then we have far right Farage in the wings with his ties to Russia and Trump! I really despair, this is only going to end badly!
Love your work, just one quibble - there is no way in hell that Trump is going to add an extra $500 billion to the military budget. Not because the Republican capacity to brown nose him has limits but because there is literally nowhere for that amount of money to come from. We all need to question every bit of nonsense that comes out of Mad King Donald’s mouth, not take any of it at face value.
No telling what the real outcome of Trump's meeting with the oil company dudes will be, but he was asking each of them for a billion (maybe more?) to participate in divvying up Venezuelan oil. That would cover it.
Thanks Carole. I am appalled that the UK has been sucked into the American vortex on our way down the democracy toilet. Starmer is a useful idiot and Thiel is a monster.
Here's another great social commenter to follow - Jesse Welles, who has been cranking out biting, sarcastic songs immediately after the horrors we are seeing in Trump's America in the great tradition of American folk singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. Here's his latest after the murder by an ICE agent of Renee Good in Minneapolis:
Of course Palantir won’t be sharing UK military secrets with the US administration. Especially not in the lead up to what might be one NATO member invoking an attack on another, and the rest having to coordinate a defence. Of course not. We are compromised in so many ways and Starmer / Labour are too dumb to see it yet.
Well done Carole, keep on keeping on!! You shine a light where it’s needed in this dark, dark world. Thank you for giving your time & energy to this commitment, it’s gonna be worth it!
Thank you, Carole. I have emailed my MP (Labour) so don’t hold out lot of hope in receiving a transparent, informed response. I am very disturbed at everything going on but find few people to talk about with. Most friends and colleagues shrug it off and seem to think that stuff happening in USA is not relevant. This makes it seem even worse, sleepwalking into dystopia. I did find you report gloomy, especially receiving it Sunday evening with work scaries hovering, but it is what it is and I am most grateful for your time and effort keeping us informed. We just need to take action somehow, something US Congress is failing to do.
It is odd when folks don't seem to realise how everything happening in the USA is going to affect us. Selfishly for me, half of my custom (i'm an artist) comes from America and if it all goes to shit, I won't have an income anymore. Hard to imagine how it has come to this and also how so many people seemed to think 'oh it will be ok, Trump isn't going to be a dictator, there are checks and balances' - but a few of us were screaming at the top of our lungs that he WAS going to be waaaaay worse this time. I don't know why folks aren't seeing it, I guess it depends on what news they seek out/watch etc.
I hope America doesn't start stomping all over the world and taking over, I wish there weren't as power hungry fascists ready to take the reins from Trump when he leaves this earth (as will happen sooner rather than later I imagine, he's hardly a picture of health).
Thank you for responding. I think we are already way in too deep. Trump was the Trojan horse for Putin, Heritage Foundation, broligarchs etc. I was mad with tears in autumn 24 and friends with family in US insisted that he would be better than Biden for cost-of-living and with Palestinian relatives they also believed he would help. I felt like I was banging my head against a brick wall and get no satisfaction whatsoever thinking “I told you so”. Have to avoid even discussing politics so feel left in a bubble.
Yup, only at xmas someone in extended family said 'i don't like trump but he's getting things done' - WHAT, disappearing people off the streets and mining the government for his own pockets? I just don't even know where to start with people making comments like that.
As you say, 'i told you so' is not comforting or satisfying!
How very frustrating!
My god that’s insane !
So sorry your friends are cowards. Mine are just too scared to think.
Thank you Carole (from an American). I didn't know about these effects of Trump on the UK. I'm so sorry, and lately have been wanting to apologize to the whole world about what Trump is doing to it. I hope most of the world knows that most of us are horrified about just about everything Trump and his lying fascist underlings say and do.
I think this is what is most infuriating - I have so many American friends, and I know taht the number of people who blindly follow trump are minuscule compared to those of you who are against it. I just hope you guys can put a stop to it without too much bloodshed. I'm sorry that you are having to live under this tyrant, I hope it is brought to an end really soon.
I hope what you say is true about most people in the USA being horrified about Trump's actions, but I keep remembering that he won the popular vote as well as the electoral college in 2024. Have opinions changed so much in less than two years? He has, after all, only been doing what he said he was going to do. Keep talking to people, telling people the truth, and hopefully he'll get trounced in the midterms (and they'll happen peacefully).
Yes, opinions have changed in two years - even those of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both staunch MAGA, but both having openly criticised the effects of Trump's policies in areas that matter to them. The most recent polls show that Trump's approval rating is at an all-time low with 60% of the US population disapproving of various aspects of his presidency and we are hearing more and more of his former supporters saying "I didn't vote for this". We need to build on this and amplify our opposition as silence will be seen as tacit agreement, but when that opposition takes the form of street protests, they MUST be peaceful as Trump will use any excuse to crack down harder. (Currently, I'm waiting to see what "state of emergency" he will fabricate to give him an excuse to cancel the mid-terms.)
I think the thing to take hope from is that only around 65% of Amercans voted, and the difference in what trump & kamala had was very small (not a landslide like trump states. Kamala was 48.3% of the vote and trump 49.9%. There are a lot of people who voted on ONE issue and ignored all the other stuff trump was saying and I've seen maga folk interviewed and being told about how tariffs work for instance and looking bewildered as it wasn't what they were told. I think the issue is most folks don't REALLY look into who they are voting for and just go by feelings, or a post they saw on social media, or what their parents voted for (my first time voting I was guilty of the latter when I was naive and thought they knew best, turns out my political leanings are very different than theirs!).
I have hope that the more people see what is really happening (and every day it affects more and more americans negatively), more and more will shun trump. Unfortunately there are still the cult following who would follow trump to the end, but that's a different issue and I suspect the cultists are even fewer than the 'average' maga person. Lots of folks voted on 'no more wars' - so he's not going to make himself popular now with his Venezuela invasion and then Greenland, that will lose him more supporters. Then a lot still voted on Epstein, and I know many have dropped trump (including very vocal trump lovers in the media) due to him not releasing them.
I may of course be hoping against hope. I hope not!
Yes, voter apathy is an issue in the UK too, because people think they're all the same and it doesn't really matter who's in power. Hopefully people are beginning to realise that it absolutely does matter. There is certainly hope. All those people in the streets, and the words of the mayor and other officials - it feels like this is a real shift.
Yeah I'm in the UK too and yes, it's amazing how many folks say 'i don't do politics' - not realising that EVERYTHING is politics pretty much!
You're right, it does feel like there is a big shift happening, let's just hope the many can overpower the few. I mean for starters we have to change how we choose people in power. Instead of choosing the biggest bully or person with the least care for anyone we need to put people in power who REALLY care. It does worry me how many people don't mind these authoritarian types (because they don't think it will affect them I'm guessing). I've read recently that anyone who's had an authoritarian style parenting upbringing is more likely to lean towards folks like trump.
I’ve been calling out Palantir for more than a year. They are also in several Police Forces, our NHS and the Cabinet Office. The most dangerous company in the world.
With you on all of that. Have been horrified since 2000 about those Heritage goons
In Denmark the intelligence services of both the military branch and the police have been using Palantir software since 2018. I’ve been called a tinfoil hat wearing nutter for pointing out the dangers of that. In 2025 our Minister of justice, Peter Hummelgaard, said he was confident that both branches have done all necessary assessments of these systems.
This is truly terrifying. I do not feel reassured. Our politicians just doesn’t get how dangerous and unscrupulous Peter Thiel is. And faced by the hassles and the cost of ditching Palantir, they choose to look the other way and hope for the best. That is not strategy it is negligence.
Well that is beyond frightening for Greenland, with all the threats the felon and his goons are directing at them 😱
...and German police is using it as well: https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
This is alarming. I will write the Danish EU-reps today and express my concern.
I've been meaning to write to Peter Kyle, my MP, this week and reading this, I'm composing next week. British appeasement of the Facists didn't work in the 1930s either.
Brilliant Carole and thank you for pulling all those videos together. The Chief of Police was great ….but loved the N.I.C.E spoof.
Sharing your post.
We seem to be living out the conspiracy theory my brother was ranting about in 2022. Whatever. But is this all tying in with Zionism/ Israel, white supremacy/ colonialism sort of final stages of capitalism building us a digital authoritarian prison versus some kind of revolution? Am I going mad? Love your work x
No, you're not going mad. You're pretty much spot on.
Your brother wasn't wrong.
Palantir has a contract with Canada's Department of National Defense administered through Deloitte so data management, surveillance of both military and Health applications contracts with the Canadian govt. The Deloitte administration is via Palantir as well. All Health data, surveillance etc. is held by Cloud Technologies administrators are American controlled like Google, encryption is a subject being discussed by alternative groups as media does not cover this at all.
Alarming!
And this is why we all benefit from Carole’s broader perspective of how all the moving parts fit together.
You should check out Paris Marx's Disconnect newsletter if you haven't already. He's a Canadian tech journalist that covers this stuff regularly.
Thanks Jasmine!
Hi Carole, don’t know enough to decide not doomery enough / too doomery, but I wouldn’t know without your commitment to journalism and actual news reporting. No changes required and thank you.
This is perfect, thank you. I’ve signed so many petitions about Palantir and the NHS but to find out about our defence now being swallowed up by it is of even greater concern. Starmer has been a huge disappointment and his grovelling around Trump has been sickening. He talks about the lies of Brexit then refuses a close relationship with Europe and all the time creating closer ties to Trump and his network of Oligarchs! He refuses to call out Israel for what is going on in Gaza and all the while continuing to supply weapons, he refuses to condemn Trump for the kidnap of Maduro(evil man) and he hasn’t been vocal enough about Trump and Greenland. We had 14 years of disaster for this country with the Tories and now we have Starmer’s Labour! Are all parties leaning even more towards the right? Then we have far right Farage in the wings with his ties to Russia and Trump! I really despair, this is only going to end badly!
The NICE agent made me laugh so much. Only in Canada.
Love your work, just one quibble - there is no way in hell that Trump is going to add an extra $500 billion to the military budget. Not because the Republican capacity to brown nose him has limits but because there is literally nowhere for that amount of money to come from. We all need to question every bit of nonsense that comes out of Mad King Donald’s mouth, not take any of it at face value.
No telling what the real outcome of Trump's meeting with the oil company dudes will be, but he was asking each of them for a billion (maybe more?) to participate in divvying up Venezuelan oil. That would cover it.
Thanks Carole. I am appalled that the UK has been sucked into the American vortex on our way down the democracy toilet. Starmer is a useful idiot and Thiel is a monster.
Here's another great social commenter to follow - Jesse Welles, who has been cranking out biting, sarcastic songs immediately after the horrors we are seeing in Trump's America in the great tradition of American folk singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. Here's his latest after the murder by an ICE agent of Renee Good in Minneapolis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0CLduLgew
Carole - keep up your courageous reporting! The NICE video was the first laugh I’ve had all day, so thanks!
Of course Palantir won’t be sharing UK military secrets with the US administration. Especially not in the lead up to what might be one NATO member invoking an attack on another, and the rest having to coordinate a defence. Of course not. We are compromised in so many ways and Starmer / Labour are too dumb to see it yet.
They see it just fine. They know that the uk's sole claim to power is by being the Americans' Favorite Catamite.