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[51. wiki: Cambridge Analytica]:

Cambridge Analytica (CA) is a British political consulting firm which combines data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process.[5][6] It was started in 2013 as an offshoot of the SCL Group.[7] The company is partly owned by the family of Robert Mercer, an American hedge-fund manager who supports many politically conservative causes.[7][8] The firm maintains offices in London, New York City, and Washington, D.C.9

CEO Alexander Nix has said CA was involved in 44 US political races in 2014.[10] In 2015, it performed data analysis services for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.[8] In 2016, CA worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign[11] as well as the Leave.EU-campaign for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. CA's role in those campaigns has been controversial and is the subject of ongoing criminal investigations in both countries.[12][13][14] Political scientists question CA's claims about the effectiveness of its methods of targeting voters.[15][16]

In March 2018, multiple media outlets broke news of Cambridge Analytica's business practices. The New York Times and The Observer reported on the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data breach, in which the company used for political purposes personal information acquired about Facebook users, by an external researcher who claimed to be collecting it for academic purposes. Shortly afterwards, Channel 4 News aired undercover investigative videos showing Nix boasting about using prostitutes, bribery sting operations, and honey traps to discredit politicians on whom it conducted opposition research, and saying that the company "ran all of (Donald Trump's) digital campaign". In response to the media reports, the Information Commissioner of the UK pursued a warrant to search the company's servers.[17][18] Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica from advertising on its platform, saying that it had been deceived.[19][20] On 23 March 2018, the British High Court granted the Information Commissioner's Office a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's London offices.[21]

The data about the 50 million Facebook users were acquired from 270,000 Facebook users who shared the data with the app "thisisyourdigitallife". By giving this third-party app permission to acquire their data, back in 2015, this also gave the app information about the friend network of those people, which resulted in information about 50 million users. The app developer breached Facebook's terms of service by giving the data to Cambridge Analytica.[22]


Type Data mining, data analysis, data brokerage

Headquarters London, United Kingdom

Key people

  • Alexander Nix (CEO)[1]
  • Robert Mercer (investor)[2]
  • Rebekah Mercer (investor)
  • Steve Bannon (vice president, former)[3]

Parent SCL Group[4]


So there's another familiar name: Mercer


[0: comment 7/10]:

Let's see how far we can take this...

[7: comment 7/9]:

https://www.behindthename.com - Lafayette | https://archive.is/Je1IU

Given Name LAFAYETTE

GENDER: Masculine & Feminine

USAGE: English (American, Rare)

~~

Meaning & History

Taken from the French surname which was derived from Old French la hêtraie "plantation of beech-trees".

In the US, it was first used in the late 1700s as a masculine given name in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American War of Independence (who also left his name in a city of west-central Indiana on the Wabash River northwest of Indianapolis).

google maps: "Beechtree farm"; Beechtree Farm, Hopewell, NJ

  • Clinton & Lebanon: Repeating town/region/city names in suspicious arrangements.
  • Mercer Meadows & Mercer County Park: I'm not sure where, but, I feel like I've seen that name in my research before...

Let's try something else: Is Scientology established in NJ? Yes; Church of Scientology Mission of New Jersey

google maps: "Directions from Church of Scientology Mission of New Jersey to Beechtree Farm"

^ Note: Beechtree

Who's familiar with Colgan Air Flight 3407?

[9. wiki: Colgan Air Flight 3407]:

Colgan Air Flight 3407, marketed as Continental Connection under a codeshare agreement with Continental Airlines, was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, which crashed on February 12, 2009. The aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8 Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York at 10:17 p.m. EST (03:17 UTC), killing all 49 passengers and crew on board, as well as one person inside the house.[1]

It was the first fatal airline accident in the U.S. since the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in August 2006, with 49 fatalities.

The National Transportation Safety Board conducted the accident investigation and published a final report on February 2, 2010, which found the probable cause to be the pilots' inappropriate response to the stall warnings.[2]

Families of the accident victims lobbied the U.S. Congress to enact more stringent regulations for regional carriers, and to improve the scrutiny of safe operating procedures and the working conditions of pilots. Although it did nothing to address the specific causes of the crash – improper stall recovery technique and pilot fatigue – the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administrative Extension Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-216) required some of these regulation changes.[3]

"Relevance?"

[0: comment 9/10]:

Goldman Sachs aside for now, let's take a look back at why Colgan Air Flight 3407 should be familiar...

A total of 50 people died, including the 49 passengers and crew on board when the aircraft was destroyed, and one resident of the house that was struck. There were four injuries on the ground, including two other people inside the home at the time of the crash. Among the dead were:

  • Alison Des Forges, a human rights investigator and an expert on the Rwandan genocide.[11][28]
  • Beverly Eckert, who became co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee and a leader of Voices of September 11 after her husband Sean Rooney was killed in the September 11 attacks. She was en route to Buffalo to celebrate her husband's 58th birthday and award a scholarship in his memory at Canisius High School.[11][29][30]
  • Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, jazz musicians who were en route to a concert with Chuck Mangione and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.[11]
  • Susan Wehle, the first American female Jewish Renewal cantor.[31]

Recognize anyone? Beverly Eckert

Investigation

photo:

U.S. President Barack Obama shaking hands with Beverly Eckert six days before the accident


Back to Cambridge Analytica:

In spite of snopes speaking poorly of the following article and despite that I don't like The Hill due to their attempting to poison opinions of pizzagate, by saying(and mocking) that everyone involved is accusing John Podesta of being a Satanist - ironic that I happen to be the person warning against such things... I'm going to share an article from The Hill written by Ben Shapiro, on Cambridge Analytica in comparison to Obama's 'mining' of facebook data in 2012.

[52. http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-for-obama-is-scandal-when-it-comes-to-trump | https://archive.is/NcV6B]:

What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump

By Ben Shapiro, opinion contributor — 03/20/18 09:15 AM EDT

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill

On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump’s data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica. The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through a third party; those questionnaires, which were personality quizzes, requested that you use your Facebook login. Cambridge Analytica then compiled data regarding those who completed the quiz and cross-referenced that data with political preferences in order to target potential voters.

This isn’t particularly shocking. In 2012, The Guardian reported that President Obama’s re-election team was “building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before.”

What, exactly, would Obama be doing? According to The Guardian, Obama’s new database would be gathered by asking individual volunteers to log into Obama’s re-election site using their Facebook credentials. “Consciously or otherwise,” The Guardian states, “the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page — home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends — directly into the central Obama database.”

I'm out of workable room here again, read the whole article.

This whole situation is getting ridiculous. I've even run out of room in the RoC index & will be starting a 'new chapter' for follow up/future research.

/micdrop