MercurysBall2 ago

Hyperspectral remote sensing takes us to the University of Arizona and the Optics Valley. See: https://voat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3704418

https://voat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3704418/22887923 University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences and Air Force Institute of Technology

MercurysBall2 ago

About the Satellite Sentinel Project : http://www.satsentinel.org/

Organizational Note: In 2015, George Clooney and John Prendergast decided to shut down the Satellite Sentinel Project. Since then, they have invested their efforts in building The Sentry, an investigative initiative seeking to dismantle the networks of perpetrators and facilitators who benefit from Africa’s deadliest conflicts. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SENTRY.

The Sentry https://thesentry.org/about/

Managing Director: Brad Brooks-Rubin

THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE NETWORK: https://globalinitiative.net/experts/brad-brooks-rubin/

Brad Brooks-Rubin

Global Director of Development and Beneficiation, Gemological Institute of America

Gems?... but I digress..

One of their initiatives is RESPECT https://globalinitiative.net/initiatives/respect/

Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery and International Organization for Migration (IOM) jointly with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime were the founding organizations of the RESPECT initiative. As of July 2019, the Global Initiative is continuing the hosting of the RESPECT initiative and its activities, such as being the research lead of the Tech Against Trafficking Initiative and the expansion of the Modern Slavery Map.

https://www.bsr.org/en/collaboration/groups/tech-against-trafficking https://www.bsr.org/en/collaboration/groups/tech-against-trafficking

Hannah Darnton, Associate Director

Prior to joining BSR, Hannah worked with the Skoll Foundation

Skoll Foundation : https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2200974/10834915 by @kestrel9

Together with Frank Giustra, head of the Radcliffe Foundation, Amed Khan, a private investor and philanthropist, founded the Elpida Home Project....Khan is a board member for Acumen....Acumen and Grameen Foundation study poverty rates and impact of Ziqitza Health Care Limited..n case anyone forgot, Grameen Foundation is founded by Muhammad Yunus ...

Sally Osberg, Skoll Foundation and Acumen http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/skoll-foundation-acumen-fund-partner-to-build-social-entrepreneurship-field

Ms. Sally Osberg serves as a President and Chief Executive Officer at Skoll Foundation, where she led entrepreneurial organizations and been an agent for social change throughout her career. She partners with Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and heads the organization's team in identifying and supporting innovators pioneering scalable solutions to global challenges. She is a well-known proponent of thought leadership, research, and alliances that advance the work of social ... entrepreneurs solving the world's most pressing problems. Prior to this, she served as Founding Executive Director at Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. Prior to this, she served as Advisor at The Elders. She serves on the Board of Skoll Foundation, the Oracle Education Foundation and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. Prior to this, she served as Director on the Boards of the American Association of Museums, the American Leadership Forum, and Women and Philanthropy. Prior to this, she served as Founding Board Member of the Social progress Imperative and Index. She formed strategic partnerships with the UN, USAID, Sundance, TED and Oxford. She earned John Gardner Leadership Award from the American Leadership Forum, the Magis Global Change maker Award from Santa Clara University. She was inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame, and been named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the "Millennium 100" for her role in shaping and leading Silicon Valley.

Why stop now? I have the links...

The Elders http://www.theelders.org/ Independent Global Leaders Working for Peace and human rights

The Elders have published their latest Annual Review. From launching a campaign for Universal Health Coverage to promoting a coordinated international response to refugees and mass migration, read highlights of The Elders’ work from 2016. ..

flyingcuttlefish ago

archived this - http://archive.is/vyIS5

MercurysBall2 ago

Thank you.

MercurysBall2 ago

Voat posts on John Pendergrast and the Enough Project

Let’s keep in mind the Clooneys are huge Hillary supporters and held $15 million fundraisers for her in California. Not a problem. Many 1%ers do. However John Podesta is co-founder of Clooney’s “Enough” project, his “charity” housed in George Soros’s Center for American “Progress”. https://rednationrising.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/clinton-corrupting-clooney/

"The Enough Project" is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization that was founded in 2007. The project was co-founded by John Podesta's Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group in 2007.[1] Its stated mission is to end genocide and crimes against humanity. The Enough Project conducts research in several conflict areas in Africa including Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and the areas controlled by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).[2] The Enough Project facilitates several campaigns and initiatives which work to bring attention to these crises, including The Sentry, Raise Hope for Congo, and the Satellite Sentinel Project.[3][4] Its co-founders are John Prendergast and Gayle Smith."*

It's worthwhile reading this article about the Clooney's and John Podesta. They both have ties to Ruben Vardanyan, a Russian-Armenian oligarch close to Putin. Vardanyan - surprise, surprise! - is also tied to Prince Andrew's brother, Prince Charles (Prince Harry's father).

They run a charity project together which involves Armenian pupils. Vardanyan is also connected to Bernard Kouchner, who founded 'Doctors Without Borders' (=> Haiti), and has been rumoured to have been involved in organ trafficking while he was a UN envoy in Kosovo.

A very good article which needs to be read by everybody: Clinton Clooney Corruption https://archive.is/qBpS8#selection-187.0-187.26

2011-2012 Klein Ltd makes $23 million in contributions to the US based charity the Sea Change Foundation. Sea Change, in turn, makes $1.75 million in contributions to the Center for American Progress (where “Enough” is housed) during the same time. Sea Change had never contributed to CAP before.

Sudan :

The former Clinton officials most heavily focused on the destabilization of Sudan include: Susan Rice, Madeleine Albright, Roger Winter, Prudence Bushnell, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Anthony Lake and John Prendergast. Carr Center for Human Rights co-founder Samantha Power, now on the Obama National Security Council, has helped to whitewash clandestine U.S. involvement in Sudan. http://sfbayview.com/2009/02/critic-of-murderous-kagame-regime-in-rwanda-killed-in-crash-of-continental-flight-3407/

MercurysBall2 ago

About KLEIN LTD. [Klein us the German word for 'small' or 'little']

From the post: Get this... The sphere on Prince Charles' investiture coronet is actually a gold-plated PING PONG ball - https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/3076330/17179245

Hedge-fund billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, who could be called the next Al Gore, backs an anti-fossil fuel organization called the Energy Foundation, which has given millions to NRDC. Ironically enough, researchers have uncovered that Steyer’s hedge fund “minted a lot of money off oil and gas investments, among other environmentally destructive business ventures.” A profile of environmental groups profiting from the very oil and gas companies they fundamentally oppose by the progressive magazine The Nation confirmed that “NRDC still holds stocks in mutual funds and mixed assets that do not screen for fossil fuels.”

The NRDC also received more than $1.7 million in 2011 from the SeaChange Foundation—a foundation with dubious funders. An exposé by the Washington Free Beacon uncovered that Klein Ltd., a company incorporated in Bermuda that exists solely on paper, donated at least $10 million to the SeaChange Foundation. SeaChange then funnels that shadowy money to a number of progressive organizations.

NRDC has received similarly hidden contributions through other “donor-advised” funds, criticized by some watchdogs as “dark money.” The Schwab Charitable Fund, a donor-advised fund that donors to other left-environmentalist groups have used to obscure their identities, funneled at least $4.7 million in NRDC donations since 2008.

NRDC also receives considerable funding from more traditional liberal foundations. The George Soros-backed Open Society Institute and Foundation to Support Open Society gave NRDC over $2.2 million since 2008. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the largest left-environmentalist foundations in the country, has provided NRDC with over $4.7 million over that same period.

MercurysBall2 ago

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

DigitalGlobe is an American commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on 14 May 2009, selling 14.7 million shares at $19.00 each to raise $279 million in capital. On 5 October 2017, Maxar Technologies completed its acquisition of DigitalGlobe.

Maxar Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxar_Technologies

Maxar Technologies Inc. is a space technology company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, United States, specializing in manufacturing communication, Earth observation, radar, and on-orbit servicing satellites, satellite products, and related services. DigitalGlobe and MDA Holdings Company merged to become Maxar Technologies on 5 October 2017.[4] Maxar Technologies is the parent holding company of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd. (MDA), headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Space Systems Loral, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, US; DigitalGlobe, headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, US; and Radiant Solutions, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, US.

In May 2019, the company was selected as the provider of the power and propulsion element for the Lunar Gateway developed by NASA.[5]

Maxar's most visible products include the Canadarm used on NASA's Space Shuttle, as well as the Canadarm2 and Dextre remote manipulator systems used on the International Space Station.

On December 30, 2019, the company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell MDA to a consortium of financial sponsors led by Northern Private Capital for CAD$1 billion (US$765 million). The sale includes all of MDA’s Canadian businesses, encompassing ground stations, radar satellite products, robotics, defense, and satellite components, representing approximately 1,900 employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._MacDonald

Dr. MacDonald passed away on 26 December 2019 at the age of 83.

flyingcuttlefish ago

a little more in comments to this post about Clooney - https://cfgate.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/clooney/

MercurysBall2 ago

Upvoat.

flyingcuttlefish ago

this deserves wide traffic ... very good research!

MercurysBall2 ago

I've included it in this post on pizzagate subverse: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3706025