SWEEP The Billionaires From San Francisco Not The Homeless

On Sep 1
SWEEP The Billlionaires From San Francisco Not The Homeless
9/1/24 12:00 Noon, Union Busting Racist Billionaire David Sacks
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2845 Broadway
San Francisco

On September 1, 2024 12:00 Noon on Labor Day Weekend join in an action to sweep
out billionaire David Sachs and the rest of the billionaires out of San Francisco.
Sachs and his fascist cronies JD Vance, Trump, Musk, Peter Theil want a fascist regime that will
smash the unions, expell millions of immigrant workers and bring eliminate all worker and union rights.
The Mayor San Francisco London Breed and California governor Gavin Newsom are
blaming the homeless for this crisis instead of the billionaires and capitalists who have
pushed gentrification and they joined with the fascist Supreme Court appointed by Trump to take away democratic rights to the homeless in San Francisco and around the country.
The Democratic party is repressing the homeless and activists fighting against the genocide in Gaza. The billions being spent on genocide in Gaza and the trillions spent on war are destroying the US and the world but it is benefiting the war profiteers and billionaires.
We need working class housing and these mansions should be used for working class housing. TheBillionaire class have homes all over the world while the homeless are dying in the streets and are being arrested by Breed and Newsom for the lack of housing.

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David Sacks, partner at Craft Ventures

Sacks came out strongly as a Trump supporter by hosting a major fundraiser (https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/06/trump-david-sacks-pacific-heights-fundraiser/) at his Pacific Heights mansion, where attendees paid as much as $300,000. His appearance as a speaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNUslLW1LG0) during the Republican National Convention came with a requisite amount of San Francisco bashing.

“In my hometown of San Francisco, Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of open encampments and open drug use,” he said.


Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA & Tech

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/16/sugar-daddy-of-trumps-vp-pick-has-deep-ties-to-cia/?mc_cid=2707d49393

By Jeremy Kuzmarov
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July 16, 2024


Description automatically generatedLeft to right, J. D. Vance and Peter Thiel. [Source: foxbusiness.com]
VANCE’S TOP FUNDER, PETER THIEL, CO-FOUNDED THE DATA-ANALYTICS COMPANY PALANTIR, WHICH HAS THE CIA AS A CLIENT, AND WAS AN EARLY INVESTOR IN FACEBOOK, THE CIA’S “WET DREAM.”

Surging in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump boosted his prospects of becoming the next president by nominating J. D. Vance as his vice president.
Vance is an Ohio Senator whose best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy positioned him as a politician who could empathize with people living in poverty in the Rust Belt.
Hillbilly Elegy recounted Vance’s upbringing in a poor family that also served as a sort of sociological examination of white working-class Americans.
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Less well known about Vance is his intricate ties to billionaire Peter Thiel, who has enabled Vance’s political career.
According to The San Francisco Standard, it was Thiel who, in 2017, hired Vance to work at his Silicon Valley Mithril Capital firm and later invested heavily in Vance’s firm, Narya Capital.
Thiel then donated more than $15 million to Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign and escorted Vance to Mar-a-Lago to patch over his former “Never Trump” stance.
Thiel also introduced Vance to David Sacks, the Chief Operating Officer of PayPal, who donated $1 million to Vance’s Super PAC and hosted a fundraiser for him.[1]
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Description automatically generatedPeter Thiel [Source: en.wikipedia.org]
Thiel’s connection to the CIA is apparent in the fact that he was an early investor in Facebook, the “CIA’s wet dream,” since Facebook users voluntarily put information about themselves online.
Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker, was recruited by the CIA at sixteen after he had been busted by the FBI for hacking corporate and military databases.
In September 2004, thanks to Parker, Thiel formally acquired $500,000 worth of Facebook shares and was added to its board.
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Description automatically generatedSean Parker [Source: en.wikipedia.org]
In 2003, Thiel co-founded Palantir, a data-analytics company whose software is said to represent the “ultimate tool of surveillance.”[2]
Named after the omniscient crystal balls in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, Palantir’s success was enabled by a $2 million investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm.
According to a former intelligence official who was directly involved with In-Q-Tel’s investment, the Agency hoped that tapping the tech expertise of Silicon Valley would enable it to integrate widely disparate sources of data.
During the first five years of its existence, Palantir’s chief client was the CIA.
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Description automatically generatedJohn Poindexter [Source: en.wikipedia.org]
Journalist Mark Bowden credited Palantir with perfecting the data collection and analysis that Iran-Contra felon John Poindexter had initiated with Total Information Awareness (TIA), a Pentagon surveillance system he helped to develop in the aftermath of 9/11 that the ACLU warned would “kill privacy in America” because “every aspect of our lives would be catalogued.”[3]
Palantir worked for the Pentagon and CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.S. spies and Special Forces deployed its software to synthesize the blizzard of battlefield intelligence, and to avoid roadside bombs, track insurgents for assassination, and hunt down Osama bin Laden.
A group of people holding a banner Description automatically generatedAn unwelcome party for Palantir after it moved to new headquarters in Denver from Silicon Valley. [Source: 5280.com]A person with long hair and a flag

Description automatically generatedAvril Haines [Source: counterinformationblog.blogspot.com]
Before her appointment as Director of National Intelligence in January 2021, Avril Haines, the former CIA Deputy Director, was paid $180,000 by Palantir as a consultant.
Palantir has been heavily involved in the Ukraine War by supplying Ukraine with software systems to help it target Russian tanks and track Russian troop movements.
After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Palantir CEO Alex Karp told David Ignatius of The Washington Post that “Palantir AI was ‘winning’ the war for Ukraine.”
Vance’s ties to Thiel and Palantir make it likely that he would help advance the surveillance state and military-industrial-intelligence complex.
A group of people sitting around a table Description automatically generatedZelensky in the Presidential Palace with Palantir CEO Alex Karp. [Source: rubryka.com]
Vance may want to de-escalate the conflict with Russia in Ukraine; however, he is a staunch China hawk who wants to pivot the U.S. military to Southeast Asia to confront the Chinese and would create more opportunities for Palantir there.[4]
Recipient of large-scale funding from the Republican Jewish Committee, Vance has also echoed Trump’s call for Israel to “finish the job” against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In 2024, not coincidentally, Palantir held its first board meeting in Tel Aviv and signed a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
פיטר ת'יל פלנטיר צה"ל בינה מלאכותיתPalantir’s Peter Thiel and Alex Karp pose with Israeli Ministry of Defense officials. [Source: calcalistech.com]A book cover of a book

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Looking at the big picture, Vance appears like Barack Obama to be a kind of Manchurian candidate.
His book, Hillbilly Elegy, which was made into a successful film, helped to give him a public persona that was deeply misleading, much like Obama’s book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York: Times Books, 1995).
The Obama book helped sell him to the American electorate as a symbol of multi-culturalism though he (or his ghost-writer) lied about his family story, whitewashed his family’s connection to the CIA and the 1965-1967 Indonesian genocide, and ridiculed the Black Power Movement and 1960s New Left.[5]
In Vance’s case, his carefully crafted persona as a “hillbilly” from a dysfunctional family who can relate to the working class masks his affiliations with elite universities (he is a graduate of Yale Law School) and Silicon Valley and close ties to the billionaire class and warfare and surveillance states.
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Vance appears to have first met Thiel at a talk Thiel gave at Yale Law School about technological stagnation and the decline of American elites. In the talk, Thiel stressed that, if technological innovation were actually driving prosperity, American elites would not feel increasingly competitive with one another over a dwindling number of prestigious outcomes. Vance called Thiel’s talk “the most significant moment” of his time at Yale. ↑
New York Magazine reported that Palantir was set up to ingest the mountains of data collected by soldiers and spies and police—fingerprints, signals intelligence, bank records, tips from confidential informants—and enable users to spot hidden relationships, uncover criminal and terrorist networks, and even anticipate future attacks. ↑
Poindexter met with Thiel, who picked Poindexter’s brain for ideas in the development of Palantir. ↑
Vance has also called for using the power of the U.S. military to go after Mexican drug cartels, a view popular on the right. ↑
See Jeremy Kuzmarov, Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2019). ↑


A running list of Silicon Valley figures who have gone full MAGA

https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/17/musk-andreessen-horowitz-tech-silicon-valley-trump-biden/

Elon Musk talks with President Trump after viewing the SpaceX flight to the International Space Station in 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. | Source: Alex Brandon/AP PhotoA running list of TechnoFascists Silicon Valley figures who have gone full MAGA
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By [Priya Anand](https://sfstandard.com/author/priya-anand/)

Published Jul. 17, 2024 • 2:31pm

Since Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Trump, the floodgates have apparently opened of Silicon Valley tech figures publicly supporting his reelection campaign.

A number of prominent venture capitalists and executives in a traditionally left-leaning industry have thrown their support behind Trump. Still, a [survey](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/biden-favored-by-the-information-readers-despite-investor-support-for-trump?rc=ngxxpg) this week by the tech news site The Information found that while those voices may be loud, readers favor President Biden by a 2-1 margin.

Here’s a running list of Silicon Valley leaders who have proclaimed their support for Trump.

Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, general partners at Andreesen Horowitz

The founders of one of the Valley’s most recognizable venture capital firms have come out in support of Trump and reportedly plan to throw large donations behind his reelection. In an extended podcast the investors recorded to explain their rationale, they said they believe Trump will be more effective in regulating and supporting the growth of emerging technologies like cryptocurrency and AI.

“The future of our business, the future of technology, new technology and the future of America is literally at stake, so here we are. And for little tech, we think Donald Trump is actually the right choice,” Horowitz said.

David Sacks, partner at Craft Ventures

Sacks came out strongly as a Trump supporter by [hosting a major fundraiser](https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/06/trump-david-sacks-pacific-heights-fundraiser/) at his Pacific Heights mansion, where attendees paid as much as $300,000. His [appearance as a speaker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNUslLW1LG0) during the Republican National Convention came with a requisite amount of San Francisco bashing.

“In my hometown of San Francisco, Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of open encampments and open drug use,” he said.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Less than an hour after the former president was hurried off the stage of his Pennsylvania rally by his security detail, Musk posted an endorsement of Trump on X. He has followed that with dozens more posts making clear his views on the election.

Musk endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and said he voted for Biden in 2020.

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital

Palihapitiya, one of the hosts of the “All-In” tech and politics podcast, co-hosted the Trump [fundraiser](https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/05/donald-trump-san-francisco-campaign-fundraiser-tech-david-sacks/) in San Francisco with Sacks. After J.D. Vance was announced as Trump’s pick for vice president, Palihapitiya tweeted, “A Bestie adjacent as the VP?!?!?!”

Joe Lonsdale, managing partner at 8VC

In a [guest post for The Economist](https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/06/27/a-business-leader-on-why-hes-backing-donald-trump), Lonsdale said, “The only candidate in this race whose administration is likely to restore competence to government is Mr. Trump.”

Lonsdale co-founded the defense technology companies Anduril and Palantir and has donated to the pro-Trump America PAC.

Shaun Maguire, partner at Sequoia Capital

Maguire has been vocal about his support for Trump’s reelection. In May, he [tweeted](https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1796293774794268747) that he had donated $300,000 to efforts to reelect the former president and was “prepared to lose friends” over his political stance.

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR and Anduril

Luckey [co-hosted](https://ocgop.org/events/trump-47-host-palmer-luckey-kimberly-and-john-word/) a fundraiser for Trump in June in Newport Beach. He [told NPR](https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/nx-s1-4985981/oculus-ai-weapons-ukraine-palmer-luckey) that in 2011, he wrote to Trump to nudge him to run for president.

“I said, ‘Hey, consider me one of the people who thinks it’s good to have a businessperson in office, somebody who’s familiar with signing both sides of a check,’ ” he told NPR.

Doug Leone, partner at Sequoia Capital

Billionaire investor Doug Leone, who [said he could no longer support Trump](https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/1/13/22228203/doug-leone-donald-trump-sequoia-capital-capitol-riot) after the Capitol riot in 2021, changed his mind and said in early June that he would once again back him. Leone is a major donor to the pro-Trump America PAC.

Eoghan McCabe, CEO of Intercom

Eoghan McCabe, founder of San Francisco business messaging software maker Intercom, said he became a U.S. citizen about six months ago. He [posted](https://x.com/eoghan/status/1813590342563950670) on X in response to a list of tech figures in the pro-Trump camp that “there are hundreds more leaders who have quietly concluded that Trump is the superior choice for the health of the United States.”

Jacob Helberg

Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, who is married to venture capitalist Keith Rabois, is a major Trump [donor](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trumps-young-man-in-silicon-valley?rc=ngxxpg) and [whisperer](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trumps-young-man-in-silicon-valley?rc=ngxxpg).

Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel, [a major Trump donor in 2016](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/technology/republican-trump-peter-thiel.html), reportedly said at June’s Aspen Ideas Festival that “if you hold a gun to my head, I’ll vote for Trump,” [according to CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/peter-thiel-says-if-you-hold-a-gun-to-my-head-ill-vote-for-trump.html). Vance, Trump’s VP pick, [once worked for Thiel,](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/technology/jd-vance-tech-silicon-valley.html) who has been a major financial supporter of his political ascension.

Priya Anand can be reached at [panand [at] sfstandard.com](mailto:panand [at] sfstandard.com)

2024 billionaires list: Here are the top 20 richest Californians, according to Forbes

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/top-20-richest-california-billionaires-list-19435610.php

By Danielle Echeverria,

Data Reporter

May 2, 2024


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, shown in 2020, is the fourth-richest person in the world this year and the richest person in California, according to the annual Forbes World's Billionaires List.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, shown in 2020, is the fourth-richest person in the world this year and the richest person in California, according to the annual Forbes World's Billionaires List.

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Billionaires are richer — and more numerous — than ever this year, according to Forbes, which counted a record 2,781 people worth 10 figures or more this year on its annual World’s Billionaires List, including 813 in the United States. And many of the most wealthy Americans are California residents.

Of the top 20 richest Californians, most reside in the Bay Area, according to Forbes, and most amassed their fortunes thanks to the tech industry. All of them have higher net worths this year than last year. Forbes calculated net worth using stock prices and exchange rates from March 8, 2024.

The top Californian, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is No. 4 on the worldwide list, with a net worth of $177 billion. The three individuals richer than him are French fashion titan Bernard Arnault, with a net worth of $233 billion, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with $195 billion, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, with $194 billion, according to Forbes.

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Here are the top 20 Californians on the billionaire list:

1. Mark Zuckerberg

Residence: Palo Alto

Age: 39

Source of wealth: Co-founder of Facebook

Net worth: $177 billion

Overall rank: 4

2. Larry Ellison

Residence: Woodside

Age: 79

Source of wealth: Co-founder and chief technical officer of Oracle

Net worth: $141 billion

Overall rank: 5

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3. Larry Page

Residence: Palo Alto

Age: 51

Source of wealth: Co-founder of Google

Net worth: $114 billion

Overall rank: 10

4. Sergey Brin

Residence: Los Altos

Age: 50

Source of wealth: Co-founder of Google

Net worth: $110 billion

Overall rank: 11

5. Jensen Huang

Residence: Los Altos

Age: 61

Source of wealth: Co-founder of graphics chipmaker Nvidia

Net worth: $77 billion

Overall rank: 20

6. Eric Schmidt

Residence: Atherton

Age: 69

Source of wealth: Former CEO of Google

Net worth: $20.6 billion

Overall rank: 94

7. Dustin Moskovitz

Residence: San Francisco

Age: 39

Source of wealth: Co-founder of Facebook

Net worth: $18.3 billion

Overall rank: 103

8. Donald Bren

Residence: Newport Beach

Age: 91

Source of wealth: Real estate

Net worth: $18 billion

Overall rank: 104

Whatsapp CEO Jan Koum is the ninth-richest Californian.

Whatsapp CEO Jan Koum is the ninth-richest Californian.

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9. Jan Koum

Residence: Atherton

Age: 48

Source of wealth: CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp

Net worth: $16.1 billion

Overall rank: 117

10. Henry Samueli

Residence: Newport Beach

Age: 69

Source of wealth: Co-founder of chipmaker Broadcom

Net worth: $14.1 billion

Overall rank: 132

11. David Sun

Residence: Irvine

Source of wealth: Co-founder and chief operating officer of Kingston Technology Corp.

Age: 72

Net worth: $13.6 billion

Overall rank: 140

12. John Tu

Residence: Rolling Hills (Los Angeles County)

Age: 82

Source of wealth: Co-founder and CEO of Kingston Technology Corp.

Net worth: $13.6 billion

Overall rank: 140

Laurene Powell Jobs and her family are the 13th-richest Californians.

Laurene Powell Jobs and her family are the 13th-richest Californians.

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13. Laurene Powell Jobs & family

Residence: Palo Alto

Age: 60

Source of wealth: Wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs; shares in Disney

Net worth: $12.8 billion

Overall rank: 153

14. George Roberts

Residence: Atherton

Age: 80

Source of wealth: Founder of private equity firm KKR

Net worth: $12.7 billion

Overall rank: 154

15. Henry Nicholas III

Residence: Newport Coast (Orange County)

Age: 64

Source of wealth: Co-founder of semiconductor firm Broadcom

Net worth: $11.9 billion

Overall rank: 167

16. John Doerr

Residence: Woodside

Age: 72

Source of wealth: Chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, early investor in Google, Amazon, Doordash and Slack

Net worth: $11.7 billion

Overall rank: 169

17. Eric Smidt

Residence: Beverly Hills

Age: 64

Source of wealth: Harbor Freight Tools, a home improvement retailer that has over 1,300 stores, that he started with his dad

Net worth: $11.7 billion

Overall rank: 169

18. Brian Armstrong

Residence: San Francisco

Age: 41

Source of wealth: Coinbase founder

Net worth: $11.2 billion

Overall rank: 180

19. Brian Chesky

Residence: San Francisco

Age: 42

Source of wealth: Airbnb founder

Net worth: $11 billion

Overall rank: 190

20. Marc Benioff

Residence: San Francisco

Age: 59

Source of wealth: Founder of Salesforce

Net worth: $10.6 billion

Overall rank: 203

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