How 9/11 Turned America into the Surveillance State

Published on September 11. This episode explains how 9/11 kick-started America’s surveillance state: from the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security build-out to the rise of a surveillance business model where Big Tech and government feed each other. We follow the money and the players: the PayPal Mafia, Peter Thiel, In-Q-Tel (CIA) and Palantir, a platform funded after 9/11 that pulls together emails, financial records, satellite data, sensors and government databases to “connect the dots.”

Two decades later, “tech oligarchs” are fighting AI wars while agencies like ICE buy data at scale, and privacy becomes the first casualty. Hosted by Albina, this is a clear, on-the-record look at who profits, how the system was built, and why access – not slogans – decides the future.

0:00 What Happened After 9/11
0:48 Thiel's Family Money Built on Exploiting People
3:07 Musk and Thiel Pay People to Join PayPal
4:23 A Coup Against Elon Musk
5:46 PayPal Mafia: Do They Own Everything?
6:41 The Biggest Contribution to a Politician
7:34 America Heavily Investing in Palantir
9:20 What Data Palantir Controls
11:09 A New Image of Oligarchs
12:17 It's Not The Top 1% Anymore
12:54 Is This Already Fascism?
13:29 They Want You To Be Apolitcal
15:02 We're All Influenced
16:10 I Have the Privilege to Speak Up


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