Billionaires have rigged the big casino of capitalism, and we're the rubes. The house rules are simple: use our tax dollars to fund military training, privatize that training into billion-dollar companies, use those billions to buy the politicians who vote for more aid, and crush anyone who threatens the cycle.
It’s a beast that we keep feeding with our tax dollars while it bets against our survival.
Your Money Funds the Training
Since World War II, the U.S. has provided Israel with over $318 billion in aid. Currently, we send $3.8 billion annually. Since October 2023, that number has surged with an additional $21.7 billion in military assistance.
This isn't just "defense." It's a massive R&D incubator. Our tax dollars subsidize the infrastructure for units like Unit 8200, Israel's version of the NSA. Israeli scouts find the brightest 18-year-olds and give them world-class training in hacking, surveillance, and encryption. When they finish their service, the line between military intelligence and startup culture simply disappears.
Companies like Check Point, CyberArk, Palo Alto Networks, and Waze were built on the back of this pipeline. About 80% of Israel's 700 cybersecurity companies were founded by veterans of these units. We paid for the training. But the house gets to cash out its chips.
The Hand-Off: February 2026
The private sector is often just a storage locker for public investment. As of February 9, 2026, Alphabet (Google) is in the final hours of closing its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz—the largest in the company's history. EU regulators are set to deliver a final verdict tomorrow, while the U.S. DOJ has already cleared the path.
This deal turns the founders, all Unit 8200 veterans, into multi-billionaires overnight. We funded the infrastructure that trained them; Google is now writing the check that cements their global power. But the integration goes deeper than acquisitions.
U.S. Tech Giants Are the Infrastructure
Recent investigations by The Guardian and +972 Magazine revealed that Unit 8200 used Microsoft’s Azure cloud servers to store 11,500 terabytes of surveillance data, about 200 million hours of private Palestinian conversations.
When the Israeli military’s own data centers couldn't handle the volume of an entire population, they simply plugged into Microsoft’s global nervous system. Microsoft is the logistical backbone of the occupation. Their servers and AI tools provide the processing power required to automate the monitoring of millions in real-time. The same folks running the software on your home PC are providing the processing power to turn local occupation into an automated, borderless machine.
The Audit
The entire system is governed by a small circle of billionaires who fund the removal of anyone who asks for the receipts.
Let’s start with Miriam Adelson, (32 time billionaire) who remains the primary engine behind AIPAC. Her goal is documented: the total annexation of the West Bank. To ensure Washington remains a silent partner, her money is used to surgically end the careers of any politician who attempts to place legal conditions on U.S. aid.
AIPAC’s super PAC spent $11 million combined to defeat Andy Levin and Donna Edwards. Their crime was legislative: Levin introduced the Two-State Solution Act, which would have restricted U.S. taxpayer dollars from being used to fund settlement expansion. The message was clear: If you try to audit the aid, we will audit your career.
Jeffrey Yass ($65 billion net worth) completes the squeeze. He is the principal benefactor of the Kohelet Policy Forum, the think tank that architected the legislation to dismantle judicial oversight in Israel. At the same time, he is the sole funder of the "Moderate PAC" in the U.S., which spends millions to defeat any progressive who dares to question the military-tech pipeline. It is a pincer move: destroy the courts in Israel so the occupation can operate without legal restraint, then buy the primaries in America so the funding never stops.
The System Protects Itself: The Epstein Files
The system is most visible when its private history is forced into the light. In late 2025, Rep. Thomas Massie forced the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law. As of this week, the DOJ has released over 3.5 million pages, and for the first time, the evidence is moving faster than the silence can be bought.
The smoking guns are no longer rumors. Just today, February 9, 2026, documents revealed that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein were business partners years after Lutnick claimed he cut ties. Despite his public claims of being "revolted" by the man in 2005, a contract from December 28, 2012, shows Lutnick and Epstein signed neighboring pages to acquire stakes in a tech firm called Adfin.
When Massie pushed for this transparency, the retaliation was instant. Within hours of the release, a deluge of attack ads hit the airwaves from a super PAC called "MAGA KY." The money didn't come from actual people in Kentucky; it came from the casino's biggest winners: Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson, a billionaire whose name appears in Epstein’s logs and who personally contributed $250,000 to the PAC targeting Massie.
The Testing Ground
These players use their wealth to stay above the law, while funding the technology that ensures the rest of us stay under it. Then they buy the power to decide who the law actually applies to.
In the United States, police departments have used Black and Brown communities to deploy surveillance and control tactics for generations, always targeting people of color at the highest rates. Palestine is the same playbook at extreme scale. According to UN sources, the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 72,000 as of this week. For defense contractors, these aren't just human lives; they are data points used to market "battle-tested" drones and AI.
That tech then flows directly back into our own government. Axonius, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, now manages devices across over 70 U.S. federal agencies. Here in the Chicago suburbs, donors like Jerry Bednyak and William Silverstein are "double-maxing" donations in Illinois primaries to ensure the candidates on our local ballots have already been vetted.
The Exit
The house always wins, sure, but only as long as the players keep playing.
In the newly released files, Epstein’s circle joked about how the public is paralyzed by the "mirror of the internet.” That we’re all too trapped in the cycle of shallow outrage to make any real change possible. They are betting that if they keep us locked in infinite scroll, buy enough attack ads, and spy on every section of our lives, we will eventually lose the will to look out for the stacked decks.
They want us to think it’s an inevitable system, but it’s a business model. It is fueled by our tax dollars and sustained by our distraction. The machine will only stall when we stop being the rubes who fund our own dystopian nightmare and start demanding transparency from the people who profit from it.
The people at the top are digging in. Are we finally going to leave the table?
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