https://larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2001/eirv28n33-20010831/eirv28n33-20010831_062-israeli_spies_mega_was_not_an_ag.pdf
"Under the innocent headline, "Titans of Industry Join Forces To Work for Jewish Philanthropy," Wall Street Journal staff reporter Lisa Miller reported on an April 1998 gathering of some 20 Jewish billionaires, at the Manhattan apartment of hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt. That gathering involved some of the most powerful names in the Jewish lobby in America, starting with Edgar Bronfman, the chairman of the World Jewish Congress. Others included: Charles Bronfman, Edgar's brother and a top executive of the family's flagship Seagrams Corp.; Leslie Wexler of Limited, Inc.; Charles Schusterman, chairman of Samson Investment Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff, a fabulously wealthy and powerful Baltimore real estate magnate; Laurence Tisch, chairman of Loews Corp.; Max Fisher, the Detroit oil magnate and Republican Party powerhouse; bagel magnate Max Lender; and Leonard Abramson, the founder of U.S. Healthcare.
According to the Journal account, the Mega Group was founded in 1991 by Wexler and Charles Bronfman, to add greater clout to the Israeli lobby, by establishing an informal, but all-powerful policymaking group, able to deploy billions of dollars in "charitable" funds for the maximum effect on U.S. policy toward Israel, the Mideast, and other issues of paramount importance to the Jewish megabillionaires. The Mega Group convenes twice a year, for two-day sessions, where, behind closed doors, the members make life-and-death decisions, affecting U.S. policy. Membership is by invitation only; the meetings are secret (the Wall Street Journal story was the only coverage to ever appear in the U.S. media about the existence of the Mega Group, before the publication of this EIR account); and the members each kick in $30,000 in annual dues, to cover "operating expenses" for the twice-yearly sessions."
EMET
On April 24, 2001, three major pro-Israel donors incorporated an organization called EMET (Hebrew for “truth”). In an application to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, May explained that the group “was to provide education to enhance Israel’s image in North America and the public’s understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations.” But in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, May broadened the group’s mission and changed its name to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. As he explained in a supplement to the IRS, the group’s board of directors decided to focus on “develop[ing] educational materials on the eradication of terrorism everywhere in the world.”
To be sure, FDD is no longer a public relations group for Israel. And over the years, it has become much more of a conventional think tank than an advocacy group. But in several important ways, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies seems to have remained an organization dedicated intellectually and politically to the defense of one particular democracy.
FDD’s chief funders have been drawn almost entirely from American Jews who have a long history of funding pro-Israel organizations. They include Bernard Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, whiskey heirs Samuel and Edgar Bronfman, gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson, heiress Lynn Schusterman, Wall Street speculators Michael Steinhardt and Paul Singer, and Leonard Abramson, founder of U.S. Healthcare. As Eli Clifton has documented, from 2008 to 2011, the largest contributors were Abramson, Marcus, Adelson, and Singer, and businessman Newton Becker. Some of FDD’s donors, particularly in the organization’s early years, gave to a wide range of groups that back Israel, but some of them, including Marcus, Adelson, Becker, and their foundations, have also contributed to groups like the Zionist Organization of America and Christians United for Israel that are aligned with Israeli right-wing nationalists who favor a “greater Israel” that includes East Jerusalem and the West Bank settlements.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2015/08/18/little-think-tank-that-could-pub-61793
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a neoconservative think tank aand lobbying organization that claims to conduct "research and education on international terrorism — the most serious security threat to the United States and other free, democratic nations. FDD produces independent analyses of global terrorist threats, as well as of the historical, cultural, philosophical and ideological factors that drive terrorism, and which threaten democracies and the individual freedoms guaranteed within democratic societies." Their work is closely linked with that of the National Endowment for Democracy.[1] FDD was created two days after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Ever since its creation, FDD has pushed for US wars against Iraq and Iran – Eli Clifton states that "In recent years, FDD has become one of the the premiere DC organizations promoting more aggressive actions against Iran."[2] Clifton adds:
"While FDD has a 10-year history of engaging in alarmist rhetoric and fear mongering — e.g. in 2002 FDD aired a series of ads conflating Osama bin Laden, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein — and helped promote the “Bush doctrine” which led to the invasion of Iraq, its donors have, for the most part, hidden behind their anonymous contributions to the organization. The new documents should permit for greater scrutiny of the interests and individuals behind FDD’s hawkish presence in the Washington think tank world."[3]
FDD run the Long War Journal.
"President Bush Speaks at FDD
Last Monday, March 13, President Bush gave a speech at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. I am very pleased to see FDD continue to play a vital role in the conflicts we now face. One of the pleasures of my affiliation with FDD is that it allows for ideological variation on a host of issues – FDD President Clifford May and I agree on relatively little politically, and we have had it out several times on email over things he has written, but in terms of questions related to the struggle against terrorism we, like so many Americans, have found common ground.
May gave the brief introduction to the President who then went on to focus on Iraq, to preach patience, and to call for compromise among the Iraqis. The speech received coverage from the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Post among others.
Whatever one thinks of President Bush and his approach (and I am firmly in the camp that argues that this administration has been almost criminal in its negligence, incompetence, and arrogance) his presence at the FDD is yet another validation of that organization's important work. The Foundation has placed its annual call for applicants to its Academic Fellowship Program. If you are a college professor or instructor working on or interested in these issues, I would strongly encourage your application. I was a member of the first group of fellows back in 2003 and it was a transforming experience."
https://dcatblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/
Origins of FDD
Daniel McCarthy expressed an enhanced view of FDD's origins in the November 17, 2003, issue of The American Conservative.[4]
In early 2001, a tightly knit group of billionaire philanthropists conceived of a plan to win American sympathy for Israel's response to the Palestinian intifada. They believed that the Palestinian cause was finding too much support within crucial segments of the American public, particularly within the media and on college campuses, so they set up an organization, Emet: An Educational Initiative, Inc., to offer Israel the kind of PR that the Israeli government seemed unable to provide itself.
At first, Emet floundered, without an executive director or a well-defined mission. But that changed after Sept. 11, and Emet changed too, into what is now the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. The name is different, but the goal of influencing America's opinion-forming classes remains.
What makes all of this possible is the support the foundation receives from its billionaire backers. Its nearly $3 million annual budget comes from 27 major donors, most of whom are members of "the Study Group"also sometimes called the "Mega Group" because of their sizeable contributionsa semi-formal organization of major Jewish philanthropists who meet twice a year to discuss joint projects.
Leonard Abramson was the point man for establishing Emet. He, Michael Steinhardt, and Edgar Bronfman were the foundation's board of directors at the time of its incorporation in the spring of 2001.
Funding Sources
Eli Clifton reports that the following billionaires/millionaires are the principal source of FDD funding[5]:
Edgar M. Bronfman
Charles Bronfman
Michael Steinhardt
Haim Saban
Bernard Marcus
Dalck Feith
Abramson Family Foundation
Lewis Ranieri
Roland Arnall
Jennifer Mizrahi
Clifford May
On March 13, 2006, President George W. Bush addressed the FDD on the war in Iraq.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Talk:Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies
Bronfman (Wexner, Maxwell, Rothschild) family influence via Mega Group, EMET Group, and FDD rooted in Israel/Mossad.
hq in seattle.
like microsoft, boeing*, amazon, starbucks, costco, alaska air, perkins coie, gates foundation, paul allen institute, etc
https://philtechvalues.webs.com/Kaczynski%20-%20Unabomber%20Manifesto.pdf
never read it.
dude had top shelf enemies though.
harvard/mit background. probably knew epstein or clowns that did.
math, unlike word, doesn't lie. it reveals formulas, solutions and patterns… or 'theories'.
if it states that tech is enslavement, then he was spot on.
a letter from a math mind on how tech will fully and completely enslave you is hardly 'yesterday's news'
true
same clown?
codemonkeyz is a great character
how do (you) favor destroying vampires, deceivers, genociders, and human traders and harvesters?