Root of Corruption - Part 15: April MOAB (pizzagatewhatever)

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Preface

As stated in comment 10/10 of RoC-14, the above threads were a precursor for this, the so-called MOAB. As always, I'm not Q & Q may have a MOAB of their own, but, this is my one...

Why? Let's say hi to ol' George Soros and the Rockefellers again and again and again, shall we?

[0: comment 8/10]:

[11]:

Aircraft type Beechcraft 1900D

[^ 12. wiki: Beechcraft 1900]:

Manufacturer Beech Aircraft Corporation

Raytheon Aircraft Company[1]

[13. wiki: Beechcraft]:

  • ^ Raytheon sold Raytheon Aircraft to Goldman Sachs creating Hawker Beechcraft

Refer also to:

[1: comment 2/3]:

  • Executive Housing & Properties(corporation now inactive, CEO Nany Salzman) was registered to 455 New Karner Road, Albany, NY - same address for NXIVM headquarters.[1][9]
  • Executive Success Programs, Inc was registered to 455 New Karner Road, Albany, NY & is also registered to 5 Southside Dr #11, Clifton Park, NY.[8][9]

~~google maps: 455 New Karner Road, Albany, NY

  • North-east: New Dragon Garden
  • South-west: Dragon Buffet

I have no reasons to immediately suspect wrong-doing by New Dragon Garden or Dragon Buffet, but, I do find their close proximity and dragon references to be curious, if not suspicious in their own right.

Also worth noting, is that another Dunkin' Donuts is not far south-east of Dragon Buffet.

Looking a tad closer: google maps: 455 New Karner Road, Albany, NY (+zoom)

  • Ayco, A Goldman Sachs Company.

[12. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=917119 | https://archive.is/6gUYI]~~

[1: comment 3/3]:

Bonus reading:

[25. wiki: Rainbow Room]:

The Rainbow Room is a private event space on the 65th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

[0]:

Anonymous - Message to Tech N9ne (Published on May 12, 2015)

Anonymous - A Message To David Rockefeller (Published on Dec 25, 2016)

To start things off, let's take a look back at Root of Corruption - Annex: #WHQOPSI (comment 1/3):

Notes on Alec's Political views:

  • Baldwin is a Democrat and endorsed Barack Obama in his two presidential campaigns.[106][107]
  • He serves on the board of People for the American Way.

Hold the fucking presses ladies and gents...

wiki: People for the American Way

People For the American Way (PFAW) is a progressive/liberal[4] advocacy group in the United States.[5] Organized as a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization, PFAW was registered in 1981 by the television producer Norman Lear[6] who founded the organization in 1980 to challenge the Christian right agenda of the Moral Majority.

History

PFAW was founded by the television producer Norman Lear in opposition to the publicized agenda of the Moral Majority, a formerly prominent and influential American political organization associated with the Christian right.[7] Officially incorporated on September 4, 1980,[1] its co-founders included Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Time Inc. chairman and CEO Andrew Heiskell.[8] PFAW began as a project of the Tides Foundation,[9] a donor-advised fund that directs money to politically liberal causes.[10]

Former presidents of PFAW include Tony Podesta[11] and Ralph Neas.[12]

Soon after its founding, PFAW launched an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization, People for the American Way Foundation, for the purpose of conducting more extensive educational and research activities for left-wing causes.[13] Later,[when?] the People For the American Way Voter Alliance was launched as a political action committee.

Ok so let's recap...

  • HRC +++ + +++++ | Danson | Johnson/Goldberg + Alec Baldwin | PFAW | TP

Leadership

Michael Keegan is the organization's president. Members of the group's board of directors included John Hall Buchanan, Jr., Alec Baldwin, Seth MacFarlane, Mary Frances Berry, Julian Bond, Bertis Downs IV, James Hormel, Dolores Huerta, Jane Lynch, Josh Sapan, Dennis Van Roekel, Howie Klein and Reg Weaver.[2]

Funding

Major donors to PFAW include George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Miriam G. and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, the Bauman Foundation, and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund.

[3. wiki: Open Society Foundations]: (Redirected from Open Society Institute)

The whole wiki entry for OSF is worth reading, I'm going to skip ahead after the opening and history section, though.

Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.[2] Open Society Foundations financially support civil society groups around the world, with a stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media.[3][4]

The OSF has branches in 37 countries,[5] encompassing a group of country and regional foundations, such as the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa; its headquarters are in New York, New York.

Since its establishment in 1993, OSF has reported expenditures in excess of $11 billion.[6] The group's name is inspired by Karl Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies.[7]

History

On May 28, 1984, Soros signed a contract between the Soros Foundation (New York) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the founding document of the Soros Foundation Budapest.[8] This was followed by several foundations in the region to help countries move away from communism.[9]

In 1991 the foundation merged with the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Européenne, an affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, created in 1966 to imbue 'non-conformist' Eastern European scientists with anti-totalitarian and capitalist ideas.[10]

Open Society Institute was created in the United States in 1993 to support the Soros foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.[5]

In August 2010, it started using the name Open Society Foundations (OSF) to better reflect its role as a benefactor for civil society groups in countries around the world.[11]

Soros believes there can be no absolute answers to political questions because the same principle of reflexivity applies as in financial markets.[12]

In 2012, Christopher Stone joined the OSF as the second president. He replaced Aryeh Neier, who served as president from 1993 to 2012.[13] Stone announced in September 2017 that he was stepping down as president.[14]

In 2016, the OSF was reportedly the target of a cyber security breach. Documents and information reportedly belonging to the OSF were published by a Web site. The cyber security breach has been described as sharing similarities with Russian-linked cyberattacks that targeted other institutions, such as the Democratic National Committee.[15]

In 2017, Soros transferred $18 billion to the Foundation.[16]

A couple of notes from the OSF wiki before we move on:

Activities

The Open Society Foundations reported annual expenditures of $827 million in 2014.[17] Its $873 million budget in 2013, ranked as the second largest private philanthropy budget in the United States, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation budget of $3.9 billion.[18]

According to the foundations' website, 1993–2014 expenditures included:[17]~~

  • $2.9 billion to defend human rights, especially the rights of women; ethnic, racial, and religious minorities; drug users; sex workers; and LGBTQ communities;~~
  • $737 million for public health issues such as HIV and AIDS, TB, palliative care, harm reduction, and patients' rights;~~

~~OSF reported granting at least $33 million to civil rights and social justice organizations in the United States.[19] This funding included groups such as the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment that supported protests in the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the death of Eric Garner, the shooting of Tamir Rice and the shooting of Michael Brown.[20][21][22] According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the OSF spends much of its resources on democratic causes around the world, and has also contributed to groups such as the Tides Foundation.[23]~~

Reception and influence

~~Open Society Foundation has been criticized in pro-Israel editorials, Tablet Magazine, Arutz Sheva and Jewish Press, for including funding for the activist groups Adalah and I'lam, which they say are anti-Israel and support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Among the documents released by DCleaks, an OSF report reads "For a variety of reasons, we wanted to construct a diversified portfolio of grants dealing with Israel and Palestine, funding both Israeli Jewish and PCI (Palestinian Citizens of Israel) groups~~"[29][30][31]

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Shillfarms (and/or worse)

Continued:

DEN became indicative of excess in the era of the dot-com bubble, with high pay for executives while not generating any revenues and very little traffic.[18][14]

In October 1999, a young man from New Jersey identified only as Jake W. filed a lawsuit alleging that Collins-Rector had sexually molested him for 3 years beginning in 1993 when he was 13-years-old[2][19]. The lawsuit was filed just prior to DEN's scheduled IPO, causing concern among potential investors[20] and leading to the resignations of Collins-Rector, Shackley, and Pierce, leaving Ritts in charge[2][21]. Additional lawsuits against all three resigned executives followed[22][23]. The controversy and turmoil caused by the allegations led DEN to withdrew its IPO and subsequently filed for bankruptcy.[16]

In 2014, Michael F. Egan III filed suit, alleging he was sexually assault by Goddard, Singer, Neuman, and Ancier at parties hosted by DEN executives[24][25][26][27] but the suits against Neuman and Ancier were dropped[28][29][30]. Ancier sued Egan and his attorneys[30], with the attorneys ultimately apologizing to Ancier and Neuman, saying the allegations were false.[31]

Following the bankruptcy of DEN, the company's trustee alleged possible fraudulent sale of assets prior to its bankruptcy.[16]

[17]:

Other ventures

Internet Gaming Entertainment

In 2001, Pierce founded Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), a company which pioneered the MMORPG currency-selling services industry.[19] Between 2004 and 2005, IGE spent more than $25 million buying out seven smaller competitors, including four auction platforms and a number of fan and content sites.[20] In 2005, Pierce estimated that IGE accounted for about 50% of this online market in the U.S., which has about $500 million in annual volume.[20][21]

Pierce brought in Steve Bannon, the then former Goldman Sachs banker, to seek venture capital and a deal was made in February 2006 yielding $60 million of which Pierce took away $20 million for a minority stake. The next year, facing a class-action lawsuit, the company failed, had no assets and Pierce was forced out.[22]

Pierce founded ZAM, a network of websites oriented around massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPG), such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Rift, EverQuest, etc., in 2003.[23] The ZAM.com network included gaming websites such as ZAM.com, Wowhead, Thottbot, Torhead, and D3DB.

[19. wiki: Internet Gaming Entertainment]:

IGE (Internet Gaming Entertainment) is a company which trades in virtual currency and accounts for MMORPGs. One of the main dealers in virtual economy services, members of the gaming community were often critical of IGE, as its services may allow players to break rules in online games.[1]

During its peak time, it had offices in Los Angeles, Shanghai, and headquarters and customer service center in Hong Kong.[2][3] It was reformed in 2007 by Jonathan Yantis

History

IGE was founded in 2001 by Brock Pierce, a former child movie star,[4] and Alan Debonneville. They met each other while playing Everquest and decided to form IGE. Pierce was the main investor in the company while Debonneville was managing the operations. Brock Pierce was also the co-founder of the controversial failed dot-com Digital Entertainment Network (DEN).[5] Media reports claim that Marc Collins-Rector is a silent partner in IGE.[6] IGE initially used an address in the city of Marbella, Spain, where Collins-Rector and Pierce shared a villa until it was raided by Interpol in 2002.[7][8]

In January 2004, IGE acquired its major competitor, Yantis Enterprises, then run by another secondary market figure, Jonathan Yantis,[9] for $2.4 million and 37% share of the company. Yantis later sold his shares back to IGE in exchange for 22 monthly payments of $1 million due to conflicts and disagreement.

IGE's parent company, RPG Holdings, purchased Allakhazam in November 2005,[10] as announced in May 2006.[11] This purchase followed the acquisition of Thottbot.

During late 2006 and 2007, Debonneville was forced out of the company. Later Debonneville sued Pierce for various reasons related to an investment made by Goldman Sachs a year earlier, which Debonneville ended winning in a settlement.

IGE tried to restructure its upper management team by recruiting new executives. IGE began to lose revenue due to the frequent deletion of accounts involved in trading. In May 2007, a lawsuit was filed against IGE by Antonio Hernandez for "substantially impairing and diminishing [player's] collective enjoyment of the game." In June 2007, Pierce was replaced as CEO by Steve Bannon, who had been placed on the board following the Goldman Sachs investment.[12]

During the final months of IGE leading to its reformation, the board of directors decided to sell the company to their former partner Jonathan Yantis.[12] IGE's parent company was then renamed Atlas Technology Group Inc,[13] which is owned by Yantis, while Brock went with Affinity Media.

Affinity Media was said to be one of the parent companies of IGE, though the company no longer has any ownership stake. Affinity Media's senior vice president of business development John Maffei, noted that "we’re no longer in that business." [14] Affinity retains control of Allakhazam.com, Thottbot.com, and has since purchased Wowhead.com.[15]

In April 2014, IGE announced a formal service agreement with virtual currency provider EpicToon.com, who confirmed they will be handling IGE's virtual currency line of business.[16][17]

Revenue

Like all the other in-game currency traders, the vast majority of IGE's revenue comes from buying/selling World of Warcraft gold. Its website traffic, and allegedly its revenues, have been declining since 2006 due to the increased competition from the in-game currency traders based in China and the constant bombardment of anti-real-money trading measures by Blizzard Entertainment, the publisher of World of Warcraft.18

Games

Current

  • WildStar (video game) (PC)
  • Elder Scrolls Online (PC)
  • FIFA 14 (PC, iOS, Console, Mobile)
  • DC Universe Online (PC)
  • Diablo 3 (US/EU/Asia)
  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Guild Wars 2 (US/EU)
  • Rift (US/EU)
  • RuneScape
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic (US/EU/AP)
  • TERA (US/EU)
  • The Secret World
  • World of Warcraft (US/EU)

Former

  • Age of Conan (US)
  • Aion Online (US/EU)
  • Everquest II
  • Final Fantasy XI
  • Lineage 2
  • Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

So let's just recap for a moment...

David Brock | Shareblue | MMfA (+ John Podesta) | American Bridge 21st Century | CTR (+ John Podesta) | George Soros $$

Marc Collins-Rector | DEN | Microsoft (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) | IGE | Brock Pierce | Steve Bannon | Goldman Sachs

NXIVM (+ Trump Tower | Brassner | Pivar | Warhol | Koons) | Oprah | Tom Cruise | Scientology (~ Beech Aircraft Corporation/Raytheon Aircraft Company | Goldman Sachs | Hawker Beechcraft) | New CAN | Michael Avenatti | Mark Burton | "The Online Gamer" | Scientology Ireland | Scientology Canada[0] | Operation Snow White[0]

Okay, now, what the hell is Steve Bannon doing showing up in this?

Let's take a closer look at his involvement with IGE...

[20. https://web.archive.org/web/20090303224228/http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-12/ff_ige?currentPage=all (19: ref 12)]:

The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire

By Julian Dibbell | 11.24.08

~~In the months ahead, IGE hired more adults, a slew of VPs with decades of industry experience among them. The company also brought on a former Goldman Sachs investment banker named Stephen Bannon, whose mission was to land venture capital.

By spring 2005, Yantis was telling IGE affiliates that the company would be announcing limited licensing agreements permitting it to operate aboveboard in at least five North American MMOs. Yantis himself, however, wouldn't be sticking around to see it happen. Pierce and Yantis had arrived at, as Pierce puts it, a "difference of opinion," and in June, after months of negotiation, the terms of Yantis' exit were finalized: For 22 monthly payments of $1 million each, the company would get Yantis' stake back, along with his agreement not to set up a competing business for at least three years.

Goldman Sachs started making visits, inspecting the Asian operations and talking with Bannon and others about terms. Finally, on February 7, 2006, the deal was inked: Goldman Sachs, together with a consortium of private funds, made a reported $60 million investment in the company. Part of the money was used to buy Pierce, Salyer, and IGE's general counsel, Randy Maslow, out of some of their stock in the company. Pierce walked away with $20 million and still retained the controlling share of a company that was doing more than a quarter of a billion dollars in sales a year. The only top IGE officer who failed to profit from the deal was Debonneville, who, for reasons that remain disputed, was excluded from selling any part of the 17 percent stake he'd built up. Two and a half months later, he left the company.

Continued ahead in comment 8...

Curiously, if Yantis's payments began in June 2005, they should have ended in March 2008...

wiki: Portal: Current Events: March 2008

March 4, 2008 (Tuesday)

United States presidential election, Super Tuesday II: