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|birth_name=Peter Andreas Thiel
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|interests=Life extension, Technology, transhumanism, parabiosis
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==PayPal==
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'''Peter Thiel''' is a [[billionaire]] member of the [[Bilderberg Steering Committee]] whom [[Sam Biddle]] described for ''[[The Intercept]]'' in 2017 as "one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures".<ref name=ti>https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/</ref> His first [[Bilderberg]] was in [[Bilderberg/2008|2008]] and he has attended all subsequent meetings (since 2012, together with co-founder of [[Palantir]], [[Alex Karp]]). [[Thiel]]'s role in [[The Paypal Mafia]] is seldom reported, although he is named as the ''de facto'' leader, above old friend [[Elon Musk]].
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In 1998 Thiel co-founded [[PayPal]] together with [[Max Levchin]].
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==Activities==
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He has worked for [[Sullivan & Cromwell]]. In 1998 Thiel co-founded [[PayPal]] together with [[Max Levchin]]. He sold it in 2004. He founded [[Palantir]] with [[Alex Karp]] and [[Joe Lonsdale]] in 2004, a company which at least by 2008 was collaborating with [[GCHQ]].<ref name=ti/>
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[[Tom Scocca]] wrote in 2016 about the shuttering of [[Gawker]] that "a lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com."<ref>http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581</ref>
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===Citizenship===
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Born in [[Germany]], he was granted [[New Zealand]] citizenship in [[2011]], after a donation of NZ$1 million ($730,000) to the Christchurch earthquake relief effort, although only having visited 4 times.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-01/billionaire-peter-thiel-sparks-new-zealand-passport-for-sale-row</ref>
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===Politics===
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|text=I believe that it is always important to exchange views with people, no matter what their perspectives are. I think we have a lot of problems in our society and we need to be finding ways to talk to people. We need to find ways to talk to people where not everything is completely transparent. [[Libertarianism]] is not synonymous with radical transparency. That’s often an argument that [[Stasi]] would make in [[East Germany]], when everything had to be monitored by [[society]]. And I think you have the best conversations in smaller groups where not everything is being monitored. That’s how you can have very honest conversations and you can think better about the future.
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|authors=Peter Thiel
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|subjects=Mass surveillance, Privacy, Bilderberg, Libertarianism, transparency
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|source_URL=https://www.inverse.com/article/25317-peter-thiel-bilderberg-group-donald-trump-new-world-order-conspiracy
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|date=2016
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|notes=To reporters outside the [[2016 Bilderberg]]
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Thiel describes himself as a "[[libertarian]]", has opposed women's suffrage<ref>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/22/1093450/-Facebook-Billionaire-Peter-Thiel-It-sucks-that-women-have-the-vote</ref> and has been a huge supporter of [[Ron Paul]].<ref name=cu>http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian</ref> He has invested in online media such as [[Reddit]].
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=== Controlling the narrative ===
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Thiel was a very early investor in [[Facebook]] and was "one of Facebook CEO [[Mark Zuckerberg]]'s earliest advisors for nearly 20 years"<ref>https://thedeepdive.ca/metas-peter-thiel-steps-down-to-focus-on-republican-agenda-video-platform-rumble/</ref>.
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In 2021 Peter Thiel invested in [[Rumble]].<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/facebook-director-peter-thiel-invests-in-conservative-rival-rumble/</ref>
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== Interests ==
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|caption= Peter Thiel calls on FBI, CIA to investigate Google
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Thiel has been funding private research into a range of topics, from helping to extend the human lifespan<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/04/04/tech-titans-latest-project-defy-death/</ref> to the harnessing of fusion power.<ref>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160428-the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion</ref>
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|text=I'm looking into [[parabiosis]] stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” he said. “And so that’s... that is one that... again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the [[1950s]] and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.
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|source_URL=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood
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|note=Allegedly, Thiel “spends $40,000 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old"
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=== Cryptocurrencies as "WMDs" ===
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During the rise of computer mining farms with thousands of computers combined together, Thiel argued cryptocurrencies to be a Chinese [[WMD]] aimed at destabilizing the US, by making the cost of living too high for the average American, getting quoted in a large number of US [[corporate media]].<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-may-be-using-bitcoin-as-financial-weapon-against-u-s-says-peter-thiel-11617837743</ref>
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==Jeffrey Epstein==
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Thiel had meetings with [[Jeffrey Epstein]] in [[2014]] on at least three occasions, either in one-on-one meetings or with others over lunch or dinner. Two other times, Mr. Thiel was listed among more than a dozen other well-known people Epstein should try to see while at his [[New York]] mansion.<ref>https://archive.is/y15Id#selection-491.278-491.424</ref>
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==Personal life==
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[[Jeff Thomas]], a reported lover, committed suicide in March 2023.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11899235/Model-Jeff-Thomas-allegedly-involved-relationship-Peter-Thiel-investigated-suicide.html</ref>
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Latest revision as of 12:29, 7 August 2024

Person.png Peter Thiel   Powerbase Sourcewatch Twitter WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(venture capitalist, billionaire, financier, Big tech/lobbyist, deep state actor)
Peter Thiel.jpg
BornPeter Andreas Thiel
1967-10-11
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipGermany,  United States,  New Zealand
Alma materStanford University, Stanford Law School
ReligionChristian
Spouse • Matt Danzeisen
• Jeff Thomas
Founder ofPalantir Technologies, PayPal
Member ofBilderberg/Steering committee, Jeffrey Epstein/Other associates, The Paypal Mafia, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2007
Interests • Life extension
• Technology
• transhumanism
• parabiosis
Interest ofBarrett Brown, Palmer Luckey
PartyLibertarian Party
Billionaire financier, Bilderberger

Peter Thiel is a billionaire member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee whom Sam Biddle described for The Intercept in 2017 as "one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures".[1] His first Bilderberg was in 2008 and he has attended all subsequent meetings (since 2012, together with co-founder of Palantir, Alex Karp). Thiel's role in The Paypal Mafia is seldom reported, although he is named as the de facto leader, above old friend Elon Musk.

Activities

He has worked for Sullivan & Cromwell. In 1998 Thiel co-founded PayPal together with Max Levchin. He sold it in 2004. He founded Palantir with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004, a company which at least by 2008 was collaborating with GCHQ.[1]

Tom Scocca wrote in 2016 about the shuttering of Gawker that "a lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down Gawker.com."[2]

Citizenship

Born in Germany, he was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011, after a donation of NZ$1 million ($730,000) to the Christchurch earthquake relief effort, although only having visited 4 times.[3]

Politics

“I believe that it is always important to exchange views with people, no matter what their perspectives are. I think we have a lot of problems in our society and we need to be finding ways to talk to people. We need to find ways to talk to people where not everything is completely transparent. Libertarianism is not synonymous with radical transparency. That’s often an argument that Stasi would make in East Germany, when everything had to be monitored by society. And I think you have the best conversations in smaller groups where not everything is being monitored. That’s how you can have very honest conversations and you can think better about the future.”
Peter Thiel (2016)  [4]

Thiel describes himself as a "libertarian", has opposed women's suffrage[5] and has been a huge supporter of Ron Paul.[6] He has invested in online media such as Reddit.

Controlling the narrative

Thiel was a very early investor in Facebook and was "one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's earliest advisors for nearly 20 years"[7].

In 2021 Peter Thiel invested in Rumble.[8]

Interests

Peter Thiel calls on FBI, CIA to investigate Google

Thiel has been funding private research into a range of topics, from helping to extend the human lifespan[9] to the harnessing of fusion power.[10]

“I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” he said. “And so that’s... that is one that... again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”
Peter Thiel [11]
Allegedly, Thiel “spends $40,000 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old"

Cryptocurrencies as "WMDs"

During the rise of computer mining farms with thousands of computers combined together, Thiel argued cryptocurrencies to be a Chinese WMD aimed at destabilizing the US, by making the cost of living too high for the average American, getting quoted in a large number of US corporate media.[12]

Jeffrey Epstein

Thiel had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 on at least three occasions, either in one-on-one meetings or with others over lunch or dinner. Two other times, Mr. Thiel was listed among more than a dozen other well-known people Epstein should try to see while at his New York mansion.[13]

Personal life

Jeff Thomas, a reported lover, committed suicide in March 2023.[14]


 

A Quote by Peter Thiel

PageQuote
Transhumanism“I'm looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” he said. “And so that’s . . . that is one that . . . again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Elon Musk“Despite having perhaps the greatest entrepreneurial streak of all the PayPal Mafia, Musk was purged from PayPal like some kind of toxin. Soon after the merger, Thiel resigned.

Musk became CEO of the combined company and decided it was time for a technological overhaul. Specifically, he wanted to toss out Unix and put everything on a Microsoft (MSFT) platform.

That may sound innocent enough to laypeople but not to Unix zealots like Levchin and his team. A holy war ensued. Musk lost. The board fired him and brought back Thiel while Musk was on a flight to Australia for his first vacation in years. “That’s the problem with vacations,” Musk deadpans.

Musk still contends he didn’t deserve his fate, that his biggest flaw was being cut from different cloth. “Peter, Max, and I are not directly aligned philosophically,” he says. “Peter’s philosophy is pretty odd. It’s not normal. He’s a contrarian from an investing standpoint and thinks a lot about the singularity. I’m much less excited about that. I’m pro-human.””		Elon Musk
Fortune		2007

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200731 May 20073 June 2007Turkey
Istanbul		The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly		The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/200914 May 200917 May 2009Greece
Vouliagmeni		The 57th Bilderberg
Bilderberg/20103 June 20106 June 2010Spain
Hotel Dolce Sitges
Barcelona		The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
Bilderberg/20119 June 201112 June 2011Switzerland
Hotel Suvretta
St. Moritz		59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests
Bilderberg/201231 May 20123 June 2012US
Virginia
Chantilly		The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Bilderberg/20136 June 20139 June 2013Watford
UK		The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/201429 May 20141 June 2014Denmark
Copenhagen
Marriott Hotel		The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen
Bilderberg/201511 June 201514 June 2015Austria
Telfs-Buchen		The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Bilderberg/20169 June 201612 June 2016Germany
Dresden		The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/20171 June 20174 June 2017US
Virginia
Chantilly		The 65th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/20187 June 201810 June 2018Italy
Turin
Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress		The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bilderberg/201930 May 20192 June 2019Switzerland
Montreux		The 67th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/20222 June 20225 June 2022US
Washington DC
Mandarin Oriental Hotel		The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
Bilderberg/202318 May 202321 May 2023Portugal
Lisbon
Pestana Palace Hotel		The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009.
Bilderberg/202430 May 20242 June 2024Spain
Madrid		The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
Munich Security Conference/201717 February 201719 February 2017Germany
Munich
Bavaria		The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201812 February 201814 February 2018Germany
Munich
Bavaria		The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/202014 February 202016 February 2020Germany
Munich
Bavaria		The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
WEF/Annual Meeting/201323 January 201327 January 2013World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"

 

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References

  1. ↑ a b https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/
  2. ↑ http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581
  3. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-01/billionaire-peter-thiel-sparks-new-zealand-passport-for-sale-row
  4. ↑ https://www.inverse.com/article/25317-peter-thiel-bilderberg-group-donald-trump-new-world-order-conspiracy
  5. ↑ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/22/1093450/-Facebook-Billionaire-Peter-Thiel-It-sucks-that-women-have-the-vote
  6. ↑ http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian
  7. ↑ https://thedeepdive.ca/metas-peter-thiel-steps-down-to-focus-on-republican-agenda-video-platform-rumble/
  8. ↑ https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/facebook-director-peter-thiel-invests-in-conservative-rival-rumble/
  9. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/04/04/tech-titans-latest-project-defy-death/
  10. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160428-the-secretive-billionaire-backed-plans-to-harness-fusion
  11. ↑ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood
  12. ↑ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-may-be-using-bitcoin-as-financial-weapon-against-u-s-says-peter-thiel-11617837743
  13. ↑ https://archive.is/y15Id#selection-491.278-491.424
  14. ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11899235/Model-Jeff-Thomas-allegedly-involved-relationship-Peter-Thiel-investigated-suicide.html
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