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Exposing the $1 Trillion Murderbot Grift

Premiered Aug 20, 2026

From Palmer Luckey to Google's Eric Schmidt, the Murderbot Revolution is already here. TAKE ACTION: https://safe.ai/

Exposing the $1 Trillion Murderbot Grift

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this video is so important. In 1942, the science fiction writer Isaac Azimov could already envision Terminator killer

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robots wiping out humanity. So, he proposed three common sense laws of robotics that would have to be the core

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principles in the development of AI if we as a human species ever wanted a chance to survive. And the rules, they

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were simple. One, a robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a

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robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law. And

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three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law. They're pretty

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straightforward. And Azimov wanted this to be the base operating system of every robot, baked into the very core of all

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AI. Unfortunately, in the real world, ethics don't trump capitalism. Palmer Ly's company makes and sells weapons.

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And his first investor was none other than Peter Teal, whose company Palunteer does surveillance and analysis that often decides how those strikes are

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carried out. And since its founding, Andrew has raised at least $6.9 billion

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from investors. Of course, they are not the only billionaires profiting on drone delivered death machines.

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What's going to happen is that the autonomy aspects will make automatic killing machines in war much more likely.

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That's Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, who instituted the company's motto, don't be evil, before eventually abandoning that ethos. and founding a

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drone warfare enterprise constructed like a Russian Matruska doll in a set of different shell companies. According to my research, its various names and

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corporate aliases include Swiftbeat and White Stor and Aurelian Industries and Maripos and Veoya Robotics, all meant to

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obscure a single kamicazi and interceptor drone operation that supplies the warfront in Ukraine.

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And I'm not talking about the robots that you see in movies. I'm talking about the equivalent of drones, whether they're sea drones or air drones, that

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are highly automated with highly automated kill chains.

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Some of those automated kill chains are already visible in Palestine.

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Your AI and your technology from Palunteer kills Palestinians, mostly terrorists. That's true.

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Regardless of your feelings about the war in Palestine, we need to all intrinsically understand that who qualifies as a terrorist and who doesn't

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depends on your perspective. I'm personally sanctioned by China as a radical separatist terrorist on account of arming Taiwan. And what really makes

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PROP 41

• Californians for a More Transparent and Effective Government campaign website:

Reform California

• Sergey Brin - Google Co-Founder

• Patrick Collison - CEO of Stripe

• John Doerr - Chairman of Kleiner Perkins

• Max Levchin - CEO of Affirm

• Stewart Resnick - President and Chairman of The

Wonderful Company

• Eric Schmidt - Former CEO of Google

• Tony Xu - CEO of DoorDash Reform California

Donors for Prop 42

As of July 28, 2026

Sergey Brin $83,000,000

Includes funding of parallel Prop 41

No others known

Committee to Build an Affordable

California. (sponsored by Cal Chamber of Commerce)

Building a Better California (Sergey Brin and Michael

Moritz)

Building Resilient Infrastructure for a

California Building Industry Non donor Funds

Biggest cash donors included Sergey Brin, L. John Doerr, III, Michael Moritz(CEO Stripe) and

Eric Schmidt (Sequoia venture capital)

Opponents of Prop 45

• People over Polluters is leading the effort https://

peopleoverpollutersca.com/about

• This measure is opposed by the CADEM,

Working Families Party, California Environmental

Justice Alliance, the California State Building and

Construction Trades Council, California Young

Democrats, California Enviro Voters and more than

250 other organizations, including housing, labor,

health, environmental justice, and conservation

groups.

• OCI Environmental Justice opposesd this measure

• See https://peopleoverpollutersca.com/endorsements for more details

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evil but

Type:Non-profit, 501(c)(4), Organization

Ideological Alignment:Centrist

Issue Areas:Economic Policy, Housing Policy

Formation:

2026

Spokesperson:

Abby Lunardi

Contents

Contents Background and ActivitiesLeadership

Background and Activities

Proposed California Wealth Tax

Building a Better California was established in January 2026 as a social welfare organization with an affiliated political action committee. The group was established by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to the New York Times and New York Post, the group was formed to organize the political efforts of billionaire residents and former residents of California in response to a proposed one-time wealth tax of five percent on all asset value over $1 billion. Brin, a long-time California resident, moved out of the state following the proposal and terminated or moved numerous California business ventures. Prior to Building a Better California, Brin had not donated to a California political cause since 2010. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel and investor and second Trump administration adviser David Sacks have also transferred significant assets out of California. ^1 ^2

The tax, which is projected to raise $50 to $60 billion for healthcare funding, would include stock equity in asset values, potentially costing billionaires like Brin tens of billions of dollars, which could only be paid by selling off long-held assets like stocks, thereby limiting the controlling interest of their shares. According to critics, the “fine print in the bill” would also impact the assets of non-billionaires. ^1 ^2

At its launch, Building a Better California claimed to not have taken an official stance on the billionaire tax. However, Nielsen Merksamer, the firm handling Building a Better California’s legal filings, had as of January 2026 already filed five ballot-initiative proposals designed to undermine the proposed tax, including a potential prohibition on retroactive taxes. ^1 ^2

Building a Better California initially raised $35 million, with $20 million coming from Brin, who had engaged in discussions with California business leaders about “raising hundreds of millions of dollars for a California influence campaign.” The largest non-tech donor was Wonderful Company co-owner Stewart Resnick, who contributed $2 million. Other donors to Building a Better California include cryptocurrency investor Chris Larsen; venture capitalists Mike Moritz, Peter Thiel, and John Doerr; DoorDash co-founder Tony Xu; Affirm CEO Max Levchin; and Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison. ^1 ^2

Within its first month, the group spent $11 million supporting ballot initiatives. One initiative, on which the group spent $6 million, would create a $25 billion program to subsidize downpayments on new homes. Building a Better California also contributed $5 million to an initiative to alter parts of the California Environmental Quality Act to speed up home construction. ^1 ^2

Proposed CA Transparency Act

As of 2026, Building a Better California was listed as a sponsor and “top funder” for Californians For A More Transparent And Effective Government, a ballot committee pushing for including the “Improving Transparency, Effectiveness, and Efficiency in California Government Act of 2026 (“Transparency Act”) on the California state November 2026 ballot.

According to handouts promoting the Transparency Act as well as instructions on how to get petition signatures for approving the Act’s placement on the ballot, the new bill would allege to cut down on spending waste and fraud by requiring state auditors to “conduct performance and financial audits of new taxes,” would require findings “to be posted publicly,” and require any excess tax revenue to be “refunded to taxpayers.” ^3 ^4

Leadership

As of 2026, Abby Lunardi was a spokesperson for Building a Better California and the chief marketing officer of Truity, a personality and career testing service. She previously worked as the chief communications and brand officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and led branding and marketing efforts at Virgin America. ^1 ^5

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InfluenceWatch

https://www.influencewatch.org › organization › building-a-better-california

Building a Better California - Influence Watch

As of 2026, Building a Better California was listed as a sponsor and "top funder" for Californians For A More Transparent And Effective Government, a ballot committee pushing for including the "Improving Transparency, Effectiveness, and Efficiency in California Government Act of 2026 ("Transparency Act") on the California state ...

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Fmr. Google CEO Eric Schmidt on theAI Revolution

Clip: 03/23/2023 | 17m 52s

Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. How it is being applied—and, perhaps more importantly, regulated—are now the crucial questions to ask. Walter Isaacson speaks with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about A.I.’s impact on life, politics, and warfare, as well as what can be done to keep it under control.

Aired: 03/23/23

https://www.pbs.org/video/fmr-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-ai-revolution-2mknqb/

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The Revolving Door Project, aProspect*partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org.

The past few years have seen a widespread move away from free-market dogma, as policymakers search for new economic perspectives. The election of Joe Biden in 2020 proved to be a crossroads for economic orthodoxy. For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a Democratic administration did not entrust its economic policy exclusively to adherents of Robert Rubin’s philosophy, for whom the solution to any economic issue was usually “Be less of a Democrat.”

Instead, the Biden-Harris administration trusted progressives as a coalition partner, rather than an electoral faction that had to be dealt with, not worked with. The Biden administration attempted true industrial policy for the first time in over a generation, rekindled enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and didn’t shy away from stimulating the economy when it was foundering. And while Biden’s term has been a rousing success on most macroeconomic measures—the electoral loss turned in part on global inflation and the rollback of the temporary pandemic safety net—progressives’ increasing power within Democratic politics has caused some moderates to become enraged that they’re now expected to settle for the position of senior partner, and denied near-total control.

Enter the “abundance agenda,” an attempt to generate new messaging for a new political era in which neoliberalism has fallen rapidly out of favor. The term has been floating around for years, but has more recently become a rallying cry for a whole array of deregulatory causes. The abundance agenda has also offered shelter to effective altruists, who have been searching for a flag to rally around that isn’t associated with one of the largest frauds in world history. The Biden administration has started to usher in a post-neoliberalism, with more heterodox ideas competing for acceptance. Abundance is neoliberalism repackaged for a post-neoliberal world.

*Read more from the Revolving Door Project

What exactly abundance adherents believe varies, of course, but there are a number of broad precepts: building more housing, producing more energy, and fostering more technological innovation. None of these are objectionable goals; the differences with progressives arise, largely, in how to get there. Abundance starts from a “growth above all” mindset. The agenda’s advocates hate residential zoning laws—which, contrary to what they frequently imply, is something they have in common with us and most progressives—but also detest the National Environmental Policy Act, support fracking, oppose tenant protections, and are often deferential to the policy preferences of Big Tech.

While there are efforts to create abundance-oriented factions within both parties—in effect recreating the Republican and Democratic establishments that dominated politics throughout the 1990s and 2000s—the near-term focus is the Democratic Party. And, in their move to stake out partisan influence, abundance is explicitly seeking to weaken progressives. With that in mind, it’s worth understanding who exactly makes up the abundance movement.

The coalition includes many prominent centrist organizations, but also corporate interests and conservatives that MAGA pushed out of power within the Republican Party. Many components of this faction have financial ties to crypto, AI, Big Tech, and oil.

In October 2024, a number of organizations held the Abundance 2024 conference. The event was sponsored by Arnold Ventures, Open Philanthropy, Renaissance Philanthropy, and Stand Together.

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Ai: In October 2025, Reflection raised $2 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $8 billion. Investors in the round included Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, Citigroup, 1789 Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.[9]

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Eric Schmidt: How Oligarchs Speak (when they think no one is listening) - YouTube

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wtf:  Two years later, Norquist is finally crossing that item off his bucket list.

In a month, he and his wife will set out for Black Rock, Nev.—a barren, 300,000-acre desert that transforms into a hedonic metropolis for one week every August. (For more background, read Wells Tower's excellent story in GQ about his trip to Burning Man).

After Norquist announced Monday his plan to attend the festival, many reacted with disbelief, orsimply declared, "Burning Man is dead." But Norquist insists that the drug-filled utopia in the desert shares some common values with his own group, Americans for Tax Reform.

"Burning Man was founded in '86, the same year as the Pledge, and the first Burning Man had 20 people at it, and our first Center-Right Meeting—the Wednesday Meeting—also had 20 people. So I think there's a real kinship there," Norquist says. "These are very similar operations, except we tend to wear more clothes perhaps at the Wednesday Meetings."

Burning Man relies on a "giving economy" where attendees are encouraged to give goods and services free of charge—a system that Harvey has called "old-fashioned capitalism." And this is hardly the first instance of capitalists like Norquist being drawn to Burning Man. In recent years,Silicon Valley's elite, including Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have flocked to the event.

Norquist says the festival is a good example of the theory of spontaneous order. The theory, which was promoted by Austrian economists like Friedrich Hayek, holds that a natural structure will emerge out of a seemingly chaotic environment without need for outside intervention.

"There's no government that organizes this," Norquist said. "That's what happens when nobody tells you what to do. You just figure it out. So Burning Man is a refutation of the argument that the state has a place in nature."

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