BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18868689 SEQUENCE:19038677 CREATED:20240814T222500Z DESCRIPTION:On Sep 1\nSWEEP The Billlionaires From San Francisco Not The Homeless\n9/1/24 12:00 Noon, Union Busting Racist Billionaire David Sacks\nPoetry, Music and Art\n2845 Broadway\nSan Francisco\n\nOn 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, expel millions of immigrant workers and bring eliminate all worker and union rights.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nSponsored By United Front Committee For A Labor Party\nwww.ufclp.org\nRevolutionary Workers Front\nrevolutionaryworkersfront@gmail.com\n\n\nDavid Sacks, partner at Craft Ventures\n\nSacks 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.\n\n“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.\n\n\nSugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA & Tech\n\nhttps://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/07/16/sugar-daddy-of-trumps-vp-pick-has-deep-ties-to-cia/?mc_cid=2707d49393\n\nBy Jeremy Kuzmarov\n-\nJuly 16, 2024\n\nVANCE’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.”\n\nSurging 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.\nVance 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.\nHillbilly Elegy recounted Vance’s upbringing in a poor family that also served as a sort of sociological examination of white working-class Americans.\nA book cover of a house\n\nDescription automatically generated[Source: en.wikipedia.org]\nLess well known about Vance is his intricate ties to billionaire Peter Thiel, who has enabled Vance’s political career.\nAccording 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.\nThiel 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.\nThiel 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]\nA person in a suit smiling\n\nThiel’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.\nFacebook’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.\nIn September 2004, thanks to Parker, Thiel formally acquired $500,000 worth of Facebook shares and was added to its board.\nA person with a beard\n\nDescription automatically generatedSean Parker [Source: en.wikipedia.org]\nIn 2003, Thiel co-founded Palantir, a data-analytics company whose software is said to represent the “ultimate tool of surveillance.”[2]\nNamed 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.\nAccording 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.\nDuring the first five years of its existence, Palantir’s chief client was the CIA.\nA building with a sign on the top Description automatically generated[Source: archyde.com]A person in a suit and tie\n\nDescription automatically generatedJohn Poindexter [Source: en.wikipedia.org]\nJournalist 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]\nPalantir 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.\nA 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\n\nDescription automatically generatedAvril Haines [Source: counterinformationblog.blogspot.com]\nBefore 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.\nPalantir 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.\nAfter 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.”\nVance’s ties to Thiel and Palantir make it likely that he would help advance the surveillance state and military-industrial-intelligence complex.\nA group of people sitting around a table Description automatically generatedZelensky in the Presidential Palace with Palantir CEO Alex Karp. [Source: rubryka.com]\nVance 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]\nRecipient 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.\nIn 2024, not coincidentally, Palantir held its first board meeting in Tel Aviv and signed a strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.\nפיטר 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\n\nDescription automatically generatedA work of fraud. [Source: en.wikipedia.org]\nLooking at the big picture, Vance appears like Barack Obama to be a kind of Manchurian candidate.\nHis 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).\nThe 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]\nIn 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.\n📷\nVance 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. ↑\nNew 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. ↑\nPoindexter met with Thiel, who picked Poindexter’s brain for ideas in the development of Palantir. ↑\nVance has also called for using the power of the U.S. military to go after Mexican drug cartels, a view popular on the right. ↑\nSee Jeremy Kuzmarov, Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2019). ↑\n\n\nA running list of Silicon Valley figures who have gone full MAGA\n\nhttps://sfstandard.com/2024/07/17/musk-andreessen-horowitz-tech-silicon-valley-trump-biden/\n\nElon 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\nA man with short hair, wearing a white shirt, looks up at another man in a dark suit standing with his back to the camera, in a room with large windows..jpeg\n\nBy [Priya Anand](https://sfstandard.com/author/priya-anand/)\n\nPublished Jul. 17, 2024 • 2:31pm\n\nSince Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Trump, the floodgates have apparently opened of Silicon Valley tech figures publicly supporting his reelection campaign.\n\nA 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.\n\nHere’s a running list of Silicon Valley leaders who have proclaimed their support for Trump.\n\nBen Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, general partners at Andreesen Horowitz\n\nThe 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.\n\n“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.\n\nDavid Sacks, partner at Craft Ventures\n\nSacks 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.\n\n“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.\n\nElon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX\n\nLess 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.\n\nMusk endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and said he voted for Biden in 2020.\n\nChamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital\n\nPalihapitiya, 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?!?!?!”\n\nJoe Lonsdale, managing partner at 8VC\n\nIn 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.”\n\nLonsdale co-founded the defense technology companies Anduril and Palantir and has donated to the pro-Trump America PAC.\n\nShaun Maguire, partner at Sequoia Capital\n\nMaguire 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.\n\nPalmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR and Anduril\n\nLuckey [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.\n\n“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.\n\nDoug Leone, partner at Sequoia Capital\n\nBillionaire 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.\n\nEoghan McCabe, CEO of Intercom\n\nEoghan 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.”\n\nJacob Helberg\n\nPalantir 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).\n\nPeter Thiel\n\nPeter 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.\n\nPriya Anand can be reached at [panand@sfstandard.com](mailto:panand@sfstandard.com)\n\n2024 billionaires list: Here are the top 20 richest Californians, according to Forbes\n\nhttps://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/top-20-richest-california-billionaires-list-19435610.php\n\nBy Danielle Echeverria, \n\nData Reporter\n\nMay 2, 2024\n\n\nGift Article\n\nFacebook 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.\n\nFacebook 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.\n\nTrent Nelson/Associated Press\n\nBillionaires 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. \n\nOf 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nADVERTISEMENT\n\nArticle continues below this ad\n\n\nHere are the top 20 Californians on the billionaire list:\n\n1. Mark Zuckerberg\n\nResidence: Palo Alto\n\nAge: 39\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of Facebook\n\nNet worth: $177 billion\n\nOverall rank: 4\n\n2. Larry Ellison\n\nResidence: Woodside\n\nAge: 79\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder and chief technical officer of Oracle\n\nNet worth: $141 billion\n\nOverall rank: 5\n\nADVERTISEMENT\n\nArticle continues below this ad\n\n\n3. Larry Page\n\nResidence: Palo Alto\n\nAge: 51\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of Google\n\nNet worth: $114 billion\n\nOverall rank: 10\n\n4. Sergey Brin\n\nResidence: Los Altos\n\nAge: 50\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of Google\n\nNet worth: $110 billion\n\nOverall rank: 11\n\n5. Jensen Huang\n\nResidence: Los Altos\n\nAge: 61\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of graphics chipmaker Nvidia\n\nNet worth: $77 billion\n\nOverall rank: 20\n\n6. Eric Schmidt\n\nResidence: Atherton\n\nAge: 69\n\nSource of wealth: Former CEO of Google\n\nNet worth: $20.6 billion\n\nOverall rank: 94\n\n7. Dustin Moskovitz\n\nResidence: San Francisco\n\nAge: 39\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of Facebook\n\nNet worth: $18.3 billion\n\nOverall rank: 103\n\n8. Donald Bren\n\nResidence: Newport Beach\n\nAge: 91\n\nSource of wealth: Real estate\n\nNet worth: $18 billion\n\nOverall rank: 104\n\nWhatsapp CEO Jan Koum is the ninth-richest Californian.\n\nWhatsapp CEO Jan Koum is the ninth-richest Californian.\n\nDavid Ramos/Getty Images\n\n9. Jan Koum \n\nResidence: Atherton\n\nAge: 48\n\nSource of wealth: CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp\n\nNet worth: $16.1 billion \n\nOverall rank: 117\n\n10. Henry Samueli\n\nResidence: Newport Beach\n\nAge: 69\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of chipmaker Broadcom\n\nNet worth: $14.1 billion\n\nOverall rank: 132\n\n11. David Sun\n\nResidence: Irvine\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder and chief operating officer of Kingston Technology Corp. \n\nAge: 72\n\nNet worth: $13.6 billion\n\nOverall rank: 140\n\n12. John Tu\n\nResidence: Rolling Hills (Los Angeles County)\n\nAge: 82\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder and CEO of Kingston Technology Corp.\n\nNet worth: $13.6 billion\n\nOverall rank: 140\n\nLaurene Powell Jobs and her family are the 13th-richest Californians. \n\nLaurene Powell Jobs and her family are the 13th-richest Californians. \n\nDia Dipasupil/Getty Images\n\n13. Laurene Powell Jobs & family\n\nResidence: Palo Alto\n\nAge: 60\n\nSource of wealth: Wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs; shares in Disney\n\nNet worth: $12.8 billion\n\nOverall rank: 153\n\n14. George Roberts \n\nResidence: Atherton\n\nAge: 80\n\nSource of wealth: Founder of private equity firm KKR\n\nNet worth: $12.7 billion\n\nOverall rank: 154\n\n15. Henry Nicholas III\n\nResidence: Newport Coast (Orange County)\n\nAge: 64\n\nSource of wealth: Co-founder of semiconductor firm Broadcom\n\nNet worth: $11.9 billion\n\nOverall rank: 167\n\n16. John Doerr\n\nResidence: Woodside\n\nAge: 72\n\nSource of wealth: Chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, early investor in Google, Amazon, Doordash and Slack\n\nNet worth: $11.7 billion\n\nOverall rank: 169\n\n17. Eric Smidt\n\nResidence: Beverly Hills\n\nAge: 64\n\nSource of wealth: Harbor Freight Tools, a home improvement retailer that has over 1,300 stores, that he started with his dad\n\nNet worth: $11.7 billion\n\nOverall rank: 169\n\n18. Brian Armstrong\n\nResidence: San Francisco\n\nAge: 41\n\nSource of wealth: Coinbase founder\n\nNet worth: $11.2 billion\n\nOverall rank: 180\n\n19. Brian Chesky\n\nResidence: San Francisco\n\nAge: 42\n\nSource of wealth: Airbnb founder\n\nNet worth: $11 billion\n\nOverall rank: 190\n\n20. Marc Benioff\n\nResidence: San Francisco\n\nAge: 59\n\nSource of wealth: Founder of Salesforce\n\nNet worth: $10.6 billion\n\nOverall rank: 203\n\nReach Danielle Echeverria: danielle.echeverria@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @DanielleEchev\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/14/18868689.php SUMMARY:SWEEP the Billionaires from San Francisco Not the Homeless LOCATION:Billionaire David Sacks Mansion\n2845 Broadway\nSan Francisco URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/08/14/18868689.php DTSTART:20240901T190000Z DTEND:20240901T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR