On the Sunlight Foundation, the Open Source and Open Government movements and the co-option of Counter Culture (pizzagateTNT)

submitted ago by letsdothis3

Background for another pizzagate post..

How the 'open government' movement was co-opted before it even got started...

Sunlight joining EFF and others in holding secret surveillance accountable - https://sunlightfoundation.com/2014/06/27/sunlight-proud-to-join-eff-and-others-in-holding-secret-nsa-surveillance-accountable/

Today, a coalition of organizations — including the Sunlight Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Greenpeace and the Tenth Amendment Center — launched the Stand Against Spying website. Its goal: to inform voters how well their members of Congress are working to rein in the government’s secret surveillance.

How the Grateful Dead were a precursor to Creative Commons licensing - https://opensource.com/article/18/2/grateful-dead-precursor-creative-commons-licensing

Let's examine the connections...

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

The Sunlight Foundation is an American 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for open government.[3] The organization was founded in April 2006 with the goal of increasing transparency and accountability in the United States Congress, the executive branch, and in state and local governments.[4] The foundation's primary focus is the role of money in politics. The organization seeks to increase campaign finance regulations and disclosure requirements.

Sounds laudable doesn't it? Let's take a look..

The Sunlight Foundation was founded by Ellen S. Miller and Michael R. Klein because of their concern about the influence of money in politics. The Foundation was launched in April 2006 with a $3.5 million contribution from co-founder Klein, a securities lawyer and the founder of CoStar Group.

Sunlight's original advisory board was constituted of Esther Dyson, Craig Newmark and Kim Malone. Jimmy Wales, Yochai Benkler, Charles Lewis, Lawrence Lessig, Kim Scott, and Mitch Kapor later joined as advisors, with Newmark and Dyson moving to the board.

In September 2014, Christopher T. Gates was selected as the organization's new president, after the board conducted a search.[10] Gates was formerly the chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party and executive director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement and the National Civic League.

In 2010, Matt Halprin of the Omidyar Network joined the board. In 2011, lawyer Andrew McLaughlin joined the board. In 2013, Stacey Donahue of the Omidyar Network joined, replacing Halprin. In 2014, Sunlight announced that Sue Gardner, Allison Fine, Mark Horvit and Daniel X. O’Neil would join its board of directors

In March 2018, Katherine Maher and Zoe Reiter joined Klein, Newmark and Wonderlich on the board

The Sunlight Foundation's donors include the Open Society Foundations, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Omidyar Network, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Politwoops was a Sunlight Foundation project which published an archive of thousands of deleted tweets by U.S. politicians. The project prompted Rep. Jeff Miller to delete his Twitter account after his tweet questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship was made public.

Uh huh...

Starting to notice a particular bias with these calls for 'transparency'? Let's break it down...

The Sunlight Foundation was founded by Ellen S. Miller and Michael R. Klein

Ellen Miller:

Transparency and Sausage Making

According to Ellen Miller, president of the Sunlight Foundation, the Obama administration has made “enormous strides” towards open government. The record is “not perfect,” she says, but “no White House has been more open.”

Alrighty then.. and nope, there are no more references to sausages in the body of the article.. just sayin..

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 NYT - "Tony Podesta, who lives two doors from the house the Obamas will rent, invites neighbors for pizza parties in his backyard, where he has a pizza oven."

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1442286/6963438 : And another one of Obama's new neighbors will be Ellen Miller: "The former Senate staffer is best known as cofounder of the pro-open-government Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics." https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/06/29/obamas-new-neighborhood-kalorama-neighbors/

Ellen Miller The former Senate staffer is best known as cofounder of the pro-open-government Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics.

This is a recent tweet from her supporting new media start-up The Correspondent : https://twitter.com/EllnMllr/status/1048707764304994304

This article demonstrates it's simply the MSM (BBC, CNN et al) attempting to deal with the public shift to alternative news media outlets : https://medium.com/ijf-weekly-roundup/cnn-vs-trump-the-correspondents-launch-in-u-s-and-how-russian-disinformation-works-285683fdc5e4 alrighty then..

Michael R Klein

Chairman of the CoStar Group : https://www.costargroup.com/about-us/senior-management-group/michael-r-klein

Vice Chairman of the board of directors, Lead Director, Chairman of the audit and corporate governance & nominating committees, and member of the compensation committee of Tutor Perini Corporation, a publicly-held construction company. From 1998 to 2011, he served on the board of directors of SRA International, Inc., a formerly publicly held provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions which was sold in June 2011. Mr. Klein is also a director of ASTAR Air Cargo, Inc., a privately held company. He also serves as Chairman of the board of directors of The Shakespeare Theatre Company, as a director and secretary of the American Himalayan Foundation, as a director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and as a trustee of the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Aspen Institutes. From 1974 through 2005, he was a partner of the law firm now known as Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP.

Let's start with reviews for the CoStar Group : a ONE star rating with 40 reviews:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/costar-group-washington CoStar is a scam. The business is run by extremely shady people and they will con you into getting your money and making it difficult to cancel. The data is not accurate either. You're really better off doing your own research.

Tutor Perini Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutor_Perini

Tutor Perini Corporation (formerly Perini Corporation) is one of the largest general contractors in the United States.... Specific areas of focus are civil infrastructure (bridges, highways, tunnels, airports, mass transit systems), building infrastructure (healthcare, education, municipal government, hospitality and gaming, multi-use, office towers, multi-unit residential towers, high-technology projects), and specialty contracting (electrical, mechanical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC), fire protection systems, concrete placement).

Albert G. Tutor began the A. G. Tutor Company Inc. in 1949 and the company grew throughout the century under Albert’s son, Ronald Tutor.[3] In 1972 the Tutor Company partnered with N.M. Saliba and became Tutor-Saliba.... In 1997, Ron Tutor helped Perini Corp. recapitalize alongside investor Richard Blum [Dianne Feinstein's husband].

SRA International is now CSRA Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSRA_Inc.

CSRA Inc. provided information technology services to U.S. government clients in national security, civil government, and health care and public health. Its largest market, national security, included the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and intelligence agencies.

CSRA is now part of General Dynamics Information Technology.

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Tim Alefantis vaccine scientist and cousin of James A, the H1N1 virus, Bioport, and Dynport of Dyncorp. Why is the child trafficking industry and public health industry seemingly so closely connected?

Today Dynport is owned by CSRA. CSRA headquarters is located about a 10 minute drive from Dyncorp International headquarters. Curiously enough, Dyncorp's parent company Delta Tucker Holdings LLC is literally next door to CSRA in Falls Church, Virginia.

This post will be continued in the comments...

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Edward Jung, Microsoft,Open Software Foundation - DARPA and Lifelog associations

https://twitter.com/MindFuror/status/1103743882133626880

patent: https://twitter.com/MindFuror/status/1103743921690075136

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Sunlight Foundation works with ProPublica:

ProPublica to Take Over Several Sunlight Foundation Projects

Hijacking democracy with Fake News: Hacking Democracy with False Flags

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Mitch Kapor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor

In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. In 2003, Kapor became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox.

John Perry Barlow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018) was an American poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian[1] political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He was Fellow Emeritus at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where he had maintained an affiliation since 1998.

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Was John Barlow White Hat or Black Hat? Q2304

Electronic Frontier Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed in July, 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet civil liberties.

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An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web

My guess is that this was a cover-up exercise by the bad guys. Know your history folks. Let's not forget why Tor was created in the first place, and, indeed, who continues to fund it today...

"The hackers also claim child pornography made up more than half the data stored on the servers."

Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory began to develop Tor in 1995, in order to anonymise military and intelligence traffic. If used exclusively by undercover agents, the system would be vulnerable to attack; thus, to allow agents to hide in plain sight, it was opened up to the public, and in 2004, the project was handed over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Despite this, to this day, Tor continues to receive the bulk of its funding from the US government (in 2013, of the $2.4 million received in total annual expenses, Tor received more than $1.8 million from the US government).

This article lays out other contentious info about CIA involvement: https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/

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Lawrence Lessig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

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The Child Mind Institute, Edmond Safra, Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, Marina Abramovic, Aaron Swartz and Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.

As far back as 1957, Edmond Safra was named as a drug trafficker in a US Bureau of Narcotics report. The accusation was later withdrawn, but until his death Safra was the inspiration for countless unsubstantiated rumours that linked him to drug, gold and currency trafficking, money laundering and organised crime.

From her Wikipedia biography, Lily Safra’s art collection and enormous body of philanthropic work is described, including the creation of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University. As a member of the Friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, her involvement and attendance at an awards event at Campus Biotech Geneva was described in this article:

Marina Abramovic gave an award to British architect Lord Norman Foster. It was also attended by Lynn de Rothschild…

..The Director of the Edmond Safra Center for Ethics at the time that Aaron [Swartz] was there was Lawrence Lessig.

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Charles Lewis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lewis_(journalist)

Charles Lewis is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. Lewis founded The Center for Public Integrity and several other nonprofit organizations and is currently the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University School of Communication in D.C. ...In late 1997 he began the Center for Public Integrity's** International Consortium of Investigative Journalists**, the world's first working network of 100 reporters in 50 countries (by 2013, 175 reporters in over 60 countries)

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Sketchy Panama Papers Exposed Illuminati Confirmed?

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/corporate-media-gatekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/

The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Their funders include

Ford Foundation

Carnegie Endowment

Rockefeller Family Fund

W K Kellogg Foundation

Open Society Foundation (Soros)

among many others. Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished.

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Jimmy Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales

co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia[6] and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia

Wales serves on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the non-profit charitable organization that he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat.

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Jimmy Wales CEO of wikipedia is covering up pizzagate. Jimmy Wales was a porn king!

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Kim Scott of Google https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-scott-ceo-coach-of-silicon-valley-2016-4?r=US&IR=T

Sheryl Sandberg is a fan. 'nuff said.

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Craig Newmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Newmark

Founder of the website Craigslist

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Lets not neglect Craig Newmark. Craigslist.com founder. He donated 1million to stop ChildTrafficking/Clinton/PedoRing investigation Craigslist.com is the internet hub for ChildTrafficking. (Sourced)

Craigslist is hub for child prostitution, allege trafficked ... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/08/craigslist-underage-prostitution-allegations

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1526501

Craigslist is a global enterprise and it's founder just donated one million to Wikipedia. "One Internet giant made a huge donation to another when Craigslist founder Craig Newmark announced he was giving $1 million to Wikipedia, where he said "facts go to live."...and we all know they believe pizzagate is fiction.

Renowned London based activist NICK GRONO backs the McCain Institute, Sedona Forum and the White Helmets. Yes, seriously. Let's take a look...

Summary: In 2013, the Walk Free Foundation joined with Humanity United- - A part of The Omidyar Group >> Founder Pierre Omidyar, ebay creator [See The Return of the Hamsptead Children] >> At Poynter, John Temple, who was editor of Omidyar’s Civil Beat when it launched, says: “He’s got a journalist’s sensibility >> $1mil funding from Craig Newmark (craigslist), Poynter Journo School, Tampa Bay times, Politifact, Omidyar, Democracy now, Clinton Foundation, scrubbed news, : "The International Fact Checking Network" Initiated by Facebook and spear-headed by Poynter, IFCN, is funded by the above-mentioned, but is also funded by Open Society Foundations, a George Soros' Funding operation. And, it's been well established that Soros is a Clinton Foundation funder.

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Esther Dyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Dyson

Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator and philanthropist. She is a leading angel investor focused on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Dyson is currently focusing her career on health[9] and continues to invest in health and technology startups.[10]

On 7 October 2008, Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.

Esther's father is Freeman Dyson of the Dyson Sphere.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/esther-dyson

Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and angel investor concentrating on emerging markets and technologies, is principal of EDventure Holdings. She is a board member of numerous companies, including 23andMe, Eventful, Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva, WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace, and Yandex, and was an early investor in such notable start-ups as Evernote, Flickr, Mashery, Medstory, Omada Health, and Square.

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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dorr

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (known as WilmerHale) is an American "BigLaw" firm with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia....WilmerHale is known for its connections to the federal government; many of the firm's attorneys have experience in the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal agencies.[6] Notably, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was partner at WilmerHale's Washington office before being hired as Special Counsel to the investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Other attorneys at WilmerHale include Seth Waxman, former Solicitor General of the United States; Ken Salazar, former United States Senator from Colorado and United States Secretary of the Interior; and Jamie Gorelick, former United States Deputy Attorney General.[7] According to one study examining political donations by large white shoe firms, WilmerHale was ranked as the most liberal out of the top twenty most prestigious law firms in the nation.

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Kushner's Attorney Gorelick by @pbvrocks

Boys and girls...something smells rotten about Ms. Jamie Gorelick and she certainly has a host of #pizzagate friends...consider.. She has been a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr since July 2003 and also serves as a director of Amazon.com since February 2012. Gorelick served on British Petroleum's Advisory Council, as their top legal counsel after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She was appointed by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae."

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1948567/9589851

Her husband works at Georgetown University. http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Richard-Waldhorn/14040845

Her father was a dentist. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E4D6173AF93BA35756C0A9679D8B63

Just sayin'

People of 7th floor Group DIG DIG DIG

Don't forget Hotdog Stand guy refers to 1600 (The White House) and the 7th floor just before he reminisces about the glorious hotdog stand in Hawaii. He is Todd Stern, who has been around the Clintons since the 90's. Todd Stern's BIO

Todd Stern 65 years old - Born 5/4/1951 WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE & DORR LLP Name Variations

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1861204/9119760 Comment by @Littleredcorvette

Hillary Clinton and John Podesta. John Podesta was the White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, the official adviser to President Obama, and now president of Hillary Clinton's campaign. In 1988, John Podesta and his brother, Anthony Podesta, established the Podesta Group lobby firm. Podesta Group received $ 150,000 from Monsanto last year through another lobbying firm called Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP.

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ASTAR Air Cargo, Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astar_Air_Cargo

STAR Air Cargo was an American cargo airline based in Miami, Florida, USA. It operated regularly scheduled cargo charter services to as many as 34 US airports and nine international airports on behalf of DHL, as well as worldwide charter freight services. It provided air freight services to six domestic and foreign locations for the United States Department of Defense. Its main base was Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Kentucky, with hubs at Miami International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport.

ASTAR is currently owned by John Dasburg, Richard Blum and Michael Klein.

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List of Names Provided by BA PATRIOT / Dr.'s ( Mayo Clinic incl. ), Politicians, Fortune 500 CEO's and Others by @Oh_Well_ian

BA PATRIOT filled in answers to most recent questions asked by Q ANON. 4-CHAN link here. He also provided a long list of individuals who vocations and positions appear to tie them to organ and/or human trafficking. Mayo Clinic Doctors, CEO's of major corporations, even Dick Cheney and Babs Bush made the list. ..

John H. Dasburg -- Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of ASTAR Air Cargo Holdings, LLC. Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Restaurant Brands International Inc. from April 2001 to January 6, 2003. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ASTAR Air Cargo, Inc. since April 1, 2003 and served as its President.