*cough* it is being incorrectly framed as a 'sources' problem. You should be more interested in 'what' and 'where' rather than 'who' and 'how much'.
One man's virus is another man's liberator. Travis On Mar 1, 2015 7:49 AM, "John Young" <[email protected]> wrote: > Well said. Very few citizens receiving government funds, benefits, > perks, favors, bribes, contracts, tax write-offs, and even fewer NGO > beneficiaries are bothered by laws. procedures, pacts, secrecy, > venality, venerable greasing of palms. This is what governments > and NGOs were invented for and remain the premier source of > livelihood one way or the other, especially for those who pretend > opposition while royally partying with opponents. Royally, not > peasantly. > > 6- and 7-figure dollar compensation of officers of NGO, edu, com, > gov, religion, media ad nauseum, confirm the arrangement to promise > public service as a lure to vampire the lucre of believers who think they > will be able to become brazen vampires too. And it works, shrewd > recruits and donors like Soros, Omidyar, WikiLeaks, Snowden and > millions of followers flood into civil liberties, cybersec, anonymizing, > FOI, spying, think tanks, ACLU, EFF, EPIC, Privacy International, > Investigative Journalists, ProPublica, The Intercept, on and on ad > nauseum from Day One to 0-Day. > > Favorite rejoiner to accusations of perfidy is to accuse of conspiracy > of various stripes, never ever confessing that the greatest conspiracies > are promulgated by governments and their well-trained domesticates: > Spies, agents, sources, cohorts, informants, educators, preachers, > contractors, opinionators, operators, heroes, medalists, oh hell, us > SOB maestroes of the Duh Conspiracy. > > > > At 07:44 PM 2/28/2015, mo wrote: > >> Well. Duh. >> >> As a happy recipient of this totally laundered crazy government money, >> and, yes, if you don't read any of the documents these entities provide >> it may come as a complete surprise to you, I am quite happy about them >> having to preserve some privacy. >> >> Can't we be happy that government money can actually (try to) do good? >> Does really /everything/ have to be The Reptilian Conspiracy? >> >> On 02/27/2015 05:20 PM, Polity News wrote: >> > When asked for public records about internet freedom funding, the >> > governments of the Netherlands and Sweden classified and redacted >> > documents about the contracts. >> > >> > http://piratetimes.net/governments-covertly-fund- >> internet-freedom-activists/ >> > >> > > >
