If you read up about John Brockman, there's very little about his background but what information there is has all the connections to the CIA and the IG Farben network of corporations that exist to this day...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview25

In 1968 John Brockman was promoting a film called Head, starring the Monkees. His idea of publicity was simply to have the whole town covered in posters showing a head, with no caption.

The Monkees, you say?

Head (film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(film)

Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group the Monkees (Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith),[2] and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The film's release also was delayed (partly because of the use of solarization, a then-new technique both laborious and expensive) and badly under-promoted. The sole television commercial was a confusing minimalist close-up shot of a man's head (John Brockman); after 30 seconds the man smiled and the name HEAD appeared on his forehead.[6] This ad was a parody of Andy Warhol's 1963 film Blow Job,[citation needed] which only showed a close-up of a man's face for an extended period, supposedly receiving 'head'.

Daily Variety was also harsh, stating that "Head is an extension of the ridiculous nonsense served up on the Screen Gems vidseries that manufactured The Monkees and lasted two full seasons following the same format and, ostensibly, appealing to the same kind of audience." But the review applauded Rafelson and Nicholson, saying that they "were wise not to attempt a firm storyline as The Monkees have established themselves in the art of the non-sequitur and outrageous action. Giving them material they can handle is good thinking; asking them to achieve something more might have been a disaster."

The Monkees were a CIA construct http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-monkees-michael-nesmith-davy-jones.html

More about John Brockman here: The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet

Dammbeck’s journey takes him to the offices of John Brockmann, a notable of the Digerati who cut his teeth in New York City’s avant-garde scene of the early 1960s before becoming the literary agent for many of the top thinkers and leaders in the fields of technoscience. The trail then leads him to Brockman’s close friend Stewart Brand, where we’re treated to an interview with the guru on a cramped houseboat on the California coast. Like Brockman, Brand is one of the Digerati, renowned as the founder of the early online community known as the WELL. He was present at the launch of Wired magazine, the official organ of the delirious Silicon Valley-style capitalism defined by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron as the “Californian Ideology.” And like Brockman, Brand emerged from the New York avant-garde, and after filling his mind with the writings of Buckminster Fuller, Norbert Wiener, and Marshall McLuhan, struck out for the West Coast. He joined up then with the author Ken Kesey, who, having recently encountered LSD through the CIA’s notorious MK-ULTRA program, banded together the Merry Pranksters. Brand recounts for the camera his role in setting-up the Prankster’s Acid Tests, where participants were introduced to the drug while immersing themselves in complex, multi-media environments with a psychedelic soundtrack provided by a band called the Warlocks – later to find fame as the Grateful Dead. From this foundation, the archetypal image of the 1960s was born: the hippy counterculture, in full revolt against the Puritan society that their parents hoped to pass down.

Das Netz draws our attention to the fact that Kaczynski was teaching mathematics at the University of California at Berkley in 1967, not far from the ground zero of this counterculture at its height. It also draws our attention to Kaczynski’s self-made cabin in the forests of Montana, which was fashioned from plans advertised in the Whole Earth Catalog. The Catalog, in turn, was a publication devised by Stewart Brand as a means to provide tools for the communalist movement – those in the counterculture who sought a ‘back-to-the-land’ lifestyle far removed from despotic urbanism and the overreaching arms of the state. Years later, the communes that so motivated the Whole Earth Catalog would be resurrected online as the WELL, itself an abbreviation for Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link. For Dammbeck, lurking behind this shifting kaleidoscope of history lurks LSD – first in the hands of CIA, which then seemed to have passed the reigns on to Kesey and the Merry Pranksters....

Readers of this blog will have noted the ongoing fascination with cybernetics, in particular its role as the defining governmenality of the neoliberal ideology. This is one of the reasons I find Das Netz so appealing: it’s all there, from Norbert Wiener’s attempts to build anti-aircraft batteries through collapsing man and machine together in the pseudo-metaphor of the servomechanism, to the movement of Wiener and his theories into biology, to the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Macy Conferences. It was there that cybernetics became articulated as the ideal instrument of liberal governance: a self-steering machine, a literal governor for maintain homeostatic social systems in a state of equilibrium. While Dammbeck doesn’t mention it, it was after these conferences that the CIA begin subsidizing social science seminars around the Western world to promote cybernetics as a unified science, their experts speaking urgently of the need to win out the “cybernetics gap” allegedly forming with the Soviet Union.[1] Maybe we can feel that familiar paranoia creeping in when we consider that the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation was soon receiving money from the CIA to host a series of seminars, modeled on the Macy Conferences with many of the same participants in tow, to begin studies in LSD.

See this post which links the Open Souce movement to Dyncorp, the company Epstein is believed to be working for: On the Sunlight Foundation, the Open Source and Open Government movements and the co-option of Counter Culture

Here's a bit more information about his foundation : https://www.voat.co/v/pizzagate/2563101/12868562

That's an excellent find @NOMOCHOMO. I knew about some of those names but not all https://www.edge.org/the-billionaires-dinner

https://www.edge.org/about-edgeorg

The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

It is a large enough umbrella to also include the "digerati," the doers, thinkers, and writers, connected in ways they may not even appreciate, who have tremendous influence on the emerging communication revolution surrounding the growth of the Internet and the Web.

In other words, it's an organisation for aetheists and material scientists. Screw ethics and philosophy.

Edge bears resemblance to the early seventeenth-century Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society. Its members consisted of scientists such as Robert Boyle, John Wallis, and Robert Hooke. The Society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation. Another inspiration is The Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club of the leading cultural figures of the new industrial age—James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley, and Benjamin Franklin. While different than the Algonquin Roundtable or Bloomsbury Group, Edge offers the same quality of intellectual adventure.

We already know about the Bloomsbury Group (so called intellectuals with a generous sprinkling of government spooks and associations with the UK's child protection services) : here

Coincidentally I looked up the Lunar Society of Birmingham yesterday because of a story to do with Prince Harry and Sparkles : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Society_of_Birmingham

The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England...The name arose because the society would meet during the full moon, as the extra light made the journey home easier and safer in the absence of street lighting.

In the UK the sky is often overcast during a full moon so I don't really believe that explanation. Anyhoo..

Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, Bowbridge House in Derbyshire, and Great Barr Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_House

Soho House is a museum run by Birmingham Museums Trust, celebrating Matthew Boulton's life, his partnership with James Watt, his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham and his contribution to the Midlands Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. ...It was the home of entrepreneur Matthew Boulton from 1766 until his death in 1809, and a regular meeting-place of the Lunar Society... After Boulton's death, in the house, it passed to his son Matthew Robinson Boulton and later his grandson, Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, who eventually sold it in 1850.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Piers_Watt_Boulton

In 1815–1816 M. P. W.'s father, Matthew Robinson Boulton, bought the 3,250 hectares (8,000 acres) Great Tew Estate and manor in the civil parish of Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire. ..The Great Tew Estate would remain with Boulton's immediate family until M. P. W.'s son Matthew Ernest Boulton died without heirs in 1914,[9] after which it was eventually inherited by a more distant relative.

That would be the Johnston family. The current owner is Nicholas Johnston, friend of David Cameron and the rest of the Chipping Norton set.

https://www.ft.com/content/33387254-709b-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914

The new owners — the Johnston family — have hunted out opportunities for revenue and employment. There is a giant new grain store and a reopened ironstone quarry. There is even Soho Farmhouse, a branch of the artsy London members’ club, complete with luxury yurts on estate land just outside Great Tew, employing 430.

The Great Tew estate is where Harry and Sparkles rented a cottage https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6583115/Welcome-Harry-Meghans-royal-love-nest.html Apparently, they will be giving up the lease on the place at the end of March.. Rumour has it, that's where the surrogate is holed up. Lol... But an interesting set of connections.

Wow, good find!

https://afflictor.com/2017/11/20/how-many-members-of-the-think-tank-know-about-epsteins-continued-participation/

https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/krauss06/krauss06.2_index.html

https://www.pr.com/press-release/401973

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4660

http://jeffrey-epstein-edge-foundation.blogspot.com/2010/12/jeffrey-epstein-donates-to-edge-group.html?m=1

Jeffrey Epstein is a well-known financier and supporter of robust science is an avid supporter of EDGE, in which he provided the $100,000 EDGE of Computation Prize given to David Deutsch in 2005.

https://jeffreyepsteinsciences.wordpress.com

Edge Founder John Brockman is well-known for his annual “billionaire” dinners, which he holds alongside the famous TED conferences in Lengthy Beach. Featured guests have integrated such luminaries from the world of science (many Nobel Laureates), successful financiers, pioneers of high tech, philanthropy, and journalism. You may even find yourself convincing with a few of the most well recognized personalities in science in technology like Bill Gates, Lisa Randall, Jared Cohen, and numerous much more. Let’s just say, there’s little small talk going on.

The difference between these individuals doesn’t only offer a great avenue for discussions but also an avenue for company and philanthropy. Jeffrey Epstein met the individuals he chose to support at these dinners.

You'll have to go back through the archives of pizzagate submissions.

Ah, good idea. Thanks.

wecanhelp and numbchuck i think

Interesting, thanks.

Well, that's a convincing hypothesis I guess.

I gave up on comments, I talk too much :)

Ah, it is limited to 19 pages. Damn.

@PuttItOut @PeaceSeeker @MadWorld - any way we could change that? So that the modlog entries of the past years will also be accessible? Thanks!

I don't understand. Why pull the post in the first place then?

That's an interesting idea. That would be censorship, though, and ought to be investigated.