Freerpublic is an interesting choice. They were once a champion of the hard line right but then had a sense of conscience and were divorced from the march Reichward. I was personally fascinated as it was a medium I followed post (if there was such a thing) and post-post Reich-dive. The owner, at least, came quite around and while I may not agree with him on many issues, I certainly am immensely impressed that he had the balls to draw a line in the sand and repudiate racism. Freerepublic will likely never be my favorite news source but they have acquitted themselves very well overall and I appreciate that.
Judah On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it just me or am I alone when I see Freerepublic.com, my eyes just glaze > over... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:29 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Study: Obama's Stimulus Cost 595,000 Jobs > > > Tin foil hat time. I found this on another site. Note that I do not > endorse or condemn this information. I just thought some would find it > interesting and it is related somewhat to the discussion on media: > > > *George Soros and the corruption of Wikipedia from > within*<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722749/posts> > > *All I'm doing here is looking at the names and tracking them down. Let's > get started. Their own website states:* > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_August_2008 > > On August 4, invitations went out for the Funders' Briefing to be held at > the Sloan Foundation in New York on September 11, 2008. Current confirmed > guests include representatives from the *Ford, Hewlett,* Surdna, > *Sunlight*and Stanton Foundations, *the Open Society Institute*, and > National Geographic. Attending the briefing from WMF will be Erik Möller, > Sara Crouse, Rebecca Handler, Stu West and me.(Prepared by: Sue Gardner, > Executive Director, Wikimedia > Foundation) > > *Sue Gardner is the Executive > Director<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff>of wikimedia. > Moller is Deputy Director. Soros funded Wikimedia in > 2008<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/2a/WMF_20072008_Annu > al_report.pdf>as > well as > 2009<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report > _20082009_online.pdf> > So > just from fundraiser gatherings alone, everybody is all well acquainted with > one another. This is a big indicator as to the culture that exists there * > > Wikimedia Advisory Board<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board> > > Melissa Hagemann > > Melissa manages the Open Access Initiative within the Information Program of > the *Open Society Institute (OSI)/Soros foundations.* > > *Unfortunately, not everybody is honestly listed like Hagemann is.* > > Mitch Kapor > > Mitch Kapor is known equally for accomplishments including founding or > co-founding the Lotus Development Corp., *Electronic Frontier Foundation*, > Mitchell Kapor Founda............. > > *The Electronic Frontier Foundation is funded by > Soros.*<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617966/posts> > * In addition, Harvard's Berkman > Center<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617966/posts?page=39#39>is > also Soros funded. Kapor founded the EFF with friends of his from Berkman. * > > *Mitch Kapor also sits on the board of the Soros Funded Sunlight > Foundation.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight_Foundation> > * > > Rebecca MacKinnon > > At the *Berkman Center*, MacKinnon and her colleague Ethan Zuckerman > co-founded Global Voices Online > > *What isn't listed about MacKinnon is what you can find right > here<http://www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship/fellows/mackinnon_2009>. > She is a Soros fellow. * > > *As an aside note about MacKinnon, isn't it interesting that she worked for > CNN?* > > Trevor Neilson > > Neilson formed DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) *with* Bill Gates, Bono and > *George Soros*, served as a founding board member, and stays involved as a > member of DATA's policy board. > > Neilson then became the Director of Public Affairs and Director of Special > Projects at *the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation*, the largest transparently > operated charitable foundation in the world. > > *That second paragraph is intended as an aside note, because the Gates > Foundation is known for funding > ACORN<http://biggovernment.com/kmooney/2010/05/17/anonymous-donors-liberal-f > oundations-and-labor-unions-fuel-renamed-acorn-affiliates/> > * > > Ethan Zuckerman > > Ethan is the co-founder of Global Voices (globalvoicesonline.org) along with > fellow advisory board member Rebecca MacKinnon. He is a research fellow at > the *Berkman Center for Internet and Society* at Harvard Law School, where > his work focuses on technology in the developing world. Ethan *also works > with Open Society Institute's Information Program*, along with Melissa > Hagemann. > > *I find it interesting how so much of this all seems to come full circle. > The names, the groups, the similar funding patterns. Regarding the next > name, I didn't do any digging into past advisory members. I stumbled into > this on accident via the other searches. * > > Peter Suber > > Suber writes a blog called Open Access News > > *Right on the front of the Open Access' blog > page<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html>, > it says this: "Open Access News is supported by the Open Society Institute, > the Scholarly Publi.............". (Scroll down to the bottom of the page, > right hand side)* > > Wikimedia Board of > Trustees<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees> > > Jimmy Wales > > Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of > the Wikipedia project. > > He was appointed a fellow of Harvard Law School's *Berkman Center for > Internet and Society* in mid-2005 > > Jimmy Wales attended Soros birthday > party<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452106/posts>. > > > Wales also sits on the board of the Soros funded Sunlight > Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight_Foundation>. > > > Samuel Klein > > Samuel studied Math and Physics at Harvard University, and is an Associate > of Harvard's *Berkman Center for the Internet and Society*. > > *As noted above, both Berkman and Wikimedia are (or have been)funded by > Soros.* > > Matt Halprin > > Previous to Ning, Matt was Partner at Omidyar Network, the founder of eBay's > philanthropic investment firm. > > He has previously served on the boards of *the Sunlight Foundation*....... > > *That is, the Soros funded Sunlight Foundation. * > > *Here is Soros.org* > <http://www.soros.org/newsroom/news/india_20080219>*chronicling it's > endeavors into India, along with the Omidyar Network and Google. Progressive > Google.* > > *He gave a speech at Stanford's program for Liberation > Technology<http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/using_technology_ > to_catalyze_largescale_social_change/>, > for large scale social change. * > > Isn't it interesting what you can find when you just look? > > ==== > > Second thing I found was a retweet. I found it humorous: > > I penned a tweet scornful of Google, & immediately got a follower from > Googlecorp. Proving they're not creepy stalkers > > > > > J > > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - > Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go > out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338172 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
