>laffin
>gimme
such fun
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LEAKS OF HIGHLY CLASSIFIED MATERIAL - 1979
>40 years ago, Blitzer was suspected of leaking highly classified material.
…
"…DETAILS OF MY PRIVATE CONVERSATION (CLASSIFIED SECRET) WITH EZER WEIZMAN CONCERNING THE SYRIAN-ISRAELI AIR BATTLE WAS REPORTED BY WOLF BLITZER FROM WASHINGTON ON OCTOBER 10. LAST WEEKEND BLITZER REPORTED THE DETAILED FINDINGS OF THE DOD ANALYSIS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI MILITARY BALANCE, ANOTHER SECRET DOCUMENT.
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https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979TELAV24936_e.html
>old dig
[Yovanovitch] - Ambassador - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - 2006
>Not surprised…
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(C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On April 18, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a sharply worded statement, rebuking Ambassador Yovanovitch for comments she made in support of Kyrgyzstan's participation in the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative during an April 15 interview with local media (MFA statement attached below). The MFA statement said the Ambassador's words "diverged from the spirit of bilateral relations," and accused her of interfering in the internal affairs of Kyrgyzstan. The MFA statement was unprecedented, both for its harsh tone and the public way it was released. Nevertheless, the statement had little to do with HIPC and everything to do with Kyrgyz domestic politics, as well as posturing on the eve of Bakiyev's April 24 visit to Moscow. The government is under severe pressure from the opposition, which is organizing a major demonstration on April 29 (reftel a). In reaction to opposition plans, the government appears to be getting increasingly desperate, lashing out at the U.S. and opposition, in hopes of cowing both into silence. The statement marked the MFA's third (but first public) reprimand of the Ambassador since February (reftel b). END SUMMARY AND COMMENT.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06BISHKEK532_a.html
>old dig
>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07BISHKEK222_a.html
[Yovanovitch] | Kyrgyzstan: 2007
[Yovanovitch] Kyrgyz Ombudsman Office want to know wtf these NGO's and foreign governments are up to.
Freedom House
>NGO's/Governments in this cable;USAID, IREX, ACCELS, NDI, IRI, UK's Department for International Development, Germany's GTZ, the Swiss Cooperation Office andFreedom House.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07BISHKEK222_a.html
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Freedom House History
https://freedomhouse.org/content/our-history
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democracyprojectreport | Freedom House/Penn Biden Center/GW Bush Institute
https://www.democracyprojectreport.org/
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Penn-Biden-Center
https://global.upenn.edu/penn-biden-center
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Freedomhouse-Ukraine | Financials | Google, Open Society, Yahoo
https://freedomhouse.org/country/ukraine#tabs-0-bottom-2
>old dig
Burisma Announces Hunter Biden's Appointment to the Board (May 12, 2014)
https://archive.org/details/5980032-Burisma-Announces-Hunter-Biden-s-Appointment-to
>old dig
Freedom House History
https://freedomhouse.org/content/our-history
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freedomhouse-ukraine
https://freedomhouse.org/country/ukraine#tabs-0-bottom-2
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democracyprojectreport
https://www.democracyprojectreport.org/
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penn-biden-center
https://global.upenn.edu/penn-biden-center
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Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement Opening
https://president.upenn.edu/meet-president/penn-biden-center-diplomacy-and-global-engagement-opening
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Penn is silent on whether it will rename Biden Center, following sexual allegations against Joe Biden
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-is-silent-on-whether-it-will-rename-biden-center-following-sexual-allegations-against-joe-biden/
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2017_Audited_Financial_Statements
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2017_Audited_Financial_Statements.pdf
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Freedom House is led by President Michael J. Abramowitz.
Michael Chertoff, Chair
Peter Bass, Treasurer
https://freedomhouse.org/content/our-board-and-staff
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>old dig
“Joe Biden, his son and the case against a Ukrainian oligarch,”
From:email@e.washingtonpost.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-12-09 11:10 Subject: The Daily 202: A Republican schism on taxes – Scrap the code? Or be practical?
— New York Times, “Joe Biden, his son and the case against a Ukrainian oligarch,” by James Risen: “When Vice President Biden traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday for a series of meetings with the country’s leaders, one of the issues on his agenda was to encourage a more aggressive fight against Ukraine’s rampant corruption and stronger efforts to rein in the power of its oligarchs. But the credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son, Hunter Biden, with one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine’s ecology minister under former President Viktor F. Yanukovych before he was forced into exile. Hunter Biden, 45, a former Washington lobbyist, joined the Burisma board in April 2014. … Geoffrey Pyatt went on to call for an investigation into ‘the misconduct’ of the prosecutors who wrote the letters. In his speech, the ambassador did not mention Hunter Biden’s connection to Burisma. But Edward C. Chow, who follows Ukrainian policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the involvement of the vice president’s son with Mr. Zlochevsky’s firm undermined the Obama administration’s anticorruption message in Ukraine.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11
>old dig
>>15717126 pb
>Freedom House
Michael J. Abramowitz is president of Freedom House.
Before joining Freedom House in February 2017, he was director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education. He led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts and later oversaw its public education programs.
He was previously National Editor and then White House correspondent for the Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Hoover Institution. A graduate of Harvard College, he is also a board member of the National Security Archive.
>https://freedomhouse.org/expert/michael-j-abramowitz
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How Trump is undermining press freedom around the world
By Michael J. Abramowitz and Arch Puddington
May 2, 2017 at 6:00 a.m. PDT
Global press freedom has long been in decline and is now at its lowest point in the past 13 years, according to Freedom House’s latest assessment, released last week. What is new, and especially disquieting, are the mounting pressures on the media in the United States, including sharp attacks on reporters by the Trump administration.
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/05/02/how-trump-is-undermining-press-freedom-around-the-world/
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Freedom House 2018 Report on Democracy
“The greatest danger comes from the fact that American democracy is not infinitely durable, especially if a president shows little respect for its tenets,” said Michael J Abramowitz, president of Freedom House. “Anti-democratic rhetoric and the rejection of democratic constraints on power can be first steps towards real restrictions on freedom.”
“Challenges to democracy in the United States have outsized effects beyond American borders,” Mr. Abramowitz added. “Other nations watch what is happening in the United States and take cues from its leaders’ behavior. The ongoing deterioration of American democracy will accelerate the decline of democracy around the world.”
>https://slulibrary.saintleo.edu/c.php?g=368038&p=6650511
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Freedom House 2018 Annual Awards Dinner | Photo, attached
Michael J. Abramowitz, former US Vice President Joe Biden and D. Jeffery Hirschberg attend the Freedom House 2018 Annual Awards Dinner on May 23, 2018 in Washington, DC.
>http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Michael+J.+Abramowitz/Freedom+House+2018+Annual+Awards+Dinner/cR7Z4gsEKLV
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President Trump Is Leading an Assault on Democracy in the U.S. And Around the World, Report Claims
"The core institutions of American democracy are being battered by an administration that has treated the country's traditional checks and balances with disdain," Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House said. "The Trump administration has made a sharp break from the political consensus of the last 70 years by casting aside democracy as the animating force behind American foreign policy."
>https://www.newsweek.com/president-trump-democracy-us-world-782427
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Funding of Freedom House
According to the Freedom House Financial Statement 2016, Freedom House "was substantially funded by grants from the U.S. Government", with grants from the United States government accounting for approximately 86% of revenue.[5]
Below are the organizations and entities who funded Freedom House in 2016:[5]
Government of the United States – $24,813,164 (85.5%)
International public agencies – 2,266,949 (7.8%)
Corporations and foundations – 1,113,262 (3.8%)
Individual contributions – 1,113,262 (2.8%)
In its 2017 and 2018 financial statements, Freedom House once again disclosed that it "was substantially funded by grants from the U.S. Government." In 2017, the organization received $29,502,776, 90% of its total revenue that year, from the US government.[36] In 2018, the US government gave Freedom House $35,206,355, or 88% of its annual revenue.[37]
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House
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2017_Audited_Financial_Statements
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2017_Audited_Financial_Statements.pdf
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democracyprojectreport | (attached)
https://www.democracyprojectreport.org/
>old dig
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kyrgyzstan, rebuked Ambassador Yovanovitch - 2006
MFA PUBLICLY LASHES OUT AT AMBASSADOR
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06BISHKEK532_a.html
>old dig
NTI Joins Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Co-Chair and CEO Ernest J. Moniz announced today that NTI will participate in Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy. The new initiative brings together the heads of organizations working in nuclear policy who are committed to breaking down gender barriers and making gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence. Joan Rohlfing, NTI president, joins Moniz as a Gender Champion.
…
The Nuclear Threat Initiative works to protect our lives, environment, and quality of life now and for future generations. We work to prevent catastrophic attacks with weapons of mass destruction and disruption (WMDD)—nuclear, biological, radiological, chemical, and cyber.
https://www.nti.org/newsroom/news/nti-joins-gender-champions-nuclear-policy/
>old dig
[Biden] & Ukraine
From:noreply@messages.whitehouse.gov
To: dncpress@gmail.com
Date: 2016-05-13 17:51
Subject: Readout of Vice President Biden’s Call with Ukranian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Vice President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 13, 2016
**
Readout of Vice President Bidens Call with Ukranian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman
The Vice President spoke today with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman. The Vice President commended
Prime Minister Groysman on beginning his term by taking bold steps on reform, and the Prime Minister pledged to
maintain reform momentum, with a focus on anti-corruption measures and fulfillment of Ukraine's reform commitments
to the IMF. The leaders also condemned the continued aggression by combined Russian/separatist forces against Ukraine,
and agreed on the critical importance of accelerating progress on Minsk implementation by all sides.?
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/14932
>old dig
Russia!Russia!Russia!
McCain's 70th Bday bash with Russian tycoon…
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1582
>old dig
Susan_Eisenhower [NTI] & Roald_Sagdeev [were married at one time]
>She turned into [maybe always was] an Obamabot.
>She deserves some deep dives. Ton of associations.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Susan_Eisenhower
https://infogalactic.com/info/Roald_Sagdeev
>old dig
Ukraine-Gate Provides Another Opportunity to Demonize Russia
[Pencil-Neck] is fooling no one with these hearings. Everyone, right AND left can see through his fuckery.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/26/ukraine-gate-provides-another-opportunity-to-demonize-russia/
>old dig
Bay Area's Wojcicki family honored | 2013
Stan is a pre-eminent physicist and professor emeritus at Stanford, and his wife, Esther, is an acclaimed educator in Palo Alto. Their oldest daughter, Susan, is senior vice president of advertising at Google; their middle daughter, Janet, is an epidemiologist and pediatric researcher on a Fulbright Fellowship in Swaziland; and their youngest daughter, Anne, married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is CEO of the revolutionary personal genemapping company, 23andMe.
>https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-s-Wojcicki-family-honored-4415518.php
For nearly 30 years, Esther has been a journalism and English teacher at the public Palo Alto High School, where she is credited with building the journalism program from a group of 19 students with one typewriter in 1984 to the largest high school journalism program in the country. The media studies program now has more than 600 students, five additional teachers and produces 10 publications.
The Palo Alto school board voted to build a new 25,000-square-foot media center for the journalism program, to be completed in December.
>old dig
>Spoopy af
Comment by sister-in-law of Daniel Birx about his plane crash
>20 years after he died…
Terri Stewart Aug 1, 2019 at 3:19 am
"My brother in law Daniel Birx built a Vans RV-6. On March 27, 2000
my Sister Karen and her husband Dan crashed the plane in Taft Ca.
The NTSB says they don’t know why the accident happened. I think
I know why the crash happened. It has been 20 years and I’m still
having a hard time dealing with this."
Thank you
Terri Stewart
>https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2016/01/carburettor-icing-led-to-fatal-crash/
>old dig
> Daniel Birx
>His aircraft. Weird cancel date, likely nothing.
BIRX DANIEL VANS ACFT RV-6
Aircraft: BIRX DANIEL VANS ACFT RV-6 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds), Engine: LYCOMING 0-360-A1D (180 HP) (Reciprocating) N-Number: 986DB , Serial Number: 60150, Year manufactured: 1998, Airworthiness Date: 07/23/1998, Certificate Issue Date: 04/03/1998 Registrant (Individual): Daniel L Birx, 3300 Crismore Dr, Oakley, CA 94561 Deregistered: Cancel Date: 03/24/2017
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/aircraft/air-Oakley-California.html
http://www.city-data.com/aircraft/air-Oakley-California.html
>Whilst digging for ties to [Deborah L. Birx], [Laura Birx] popped up.
>Laura is a major swamp critter of the [Gates] lagoon with ties to USAID and moar.
>Much moar at the link below.
>Been digging the [Birx] over 24h
>Gonna toss this half-ass dig out there and crash…
Laura Birx - Gates Foundation
…
Laura Birx, the only program officer at the Gates Foundation who works on both the Nutrition and Agricultural Development teams, explained how the increased focus on nutrition at the foundation will lead to more projects like “scuba” rice.
“Previously, we didn’t have a shared goal. Now we do — that goal is ensuring equitable access to safe, affordable, nutritious diets year-round," she told Devex in a foundation conference room with a view of the Space Needle. "While the money is helpful, that shared goal opens so many doors for us, even more so than the money.”
Birx, who previously worked as senior nutrition advisor at USAID, explained that the foundation approaches the agriculture and nutrition connection through different pathways, finding numerous intersections with other priority areas. Household economics, health and women’s empowerment are key areas of overlap.
“For us, there's not a single program we have currently or will have in food systems that doesn't have a major component on empowering women,” she said.
>https://www.devex.com/news/why-bill-gates-is-backing-and-blogging-about-gmos-86814
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>[Deborah (Debbi) L. Birx] has a large extended family (see below) but no Laura is listed.
>Been digging the [Birx] over 24h so I'll toss this half-ass dig out there and crash
>Adios Mo-Fo's
…
>I sensed a large gaggle of Jesuits while digging here
Swearing-in Ceremony for [Deborah (Debbi) L. Birx]
…
(Father Dan McDonald) We are privileged to have the Secretary of State, the Honorable John Kerry, officiating our ceremony this morning and we are so pleased to welcome Ambassador Birx's family here today, including her parents Donald and Adele and her daughters Danielle and Devynn. I would also like to recognize their longtime family friend, Father Dan McDonald, as well as Deputy Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom, Administrator Raj Shah from USAID, and members of the diplomatic corps present today. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to all of our special guests.
…
[KERRY] And I'm particularly pleased to welcome her very modest family that's here (laughter) enormous. We're really happy to welcome Dr. Donald and Adele Birx, her parents, her brother Donald, and her daughters, Danielle and Devynn. And we're really happy. Where are they? They're still over there. They're going to come up here afterwards. All right. Welcome. (Applause.)
…
It's now my great privilege to make this official using the family Bible, which I had the privilege of signing a little while ago. It has all the births and deaths and marriages of the Birx family carefully inscribed in its pages. And you'll see it's pretty sizeable. (Laughter.) It's a big family. It's a big family, folks. All right. Are we ready?
>https://votesmart.org/public-statement/866646/remarks-at-swearing-in-ceremony-for-ambassador-at-large-and-coordinator-of-the-usg-activities-to-combat-hivaids-deborah-birx
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>Adele Sparks Birx (Debbi's mother), graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1951
After graduating from the JHH School of Nursing, Adele Sparks Birx earned her MSN from Penn State and worked as a professor of nursing at Harrisburg Area Community College until retiring in 1992. Now she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and is a Bible study leader at church.
>https://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu/2016/07/class-news-26/
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dr-deborah-birx - info
>https://informationcradle.com/dr-deborah-birx/
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Birx, Deborah
>http://www.allgov.com/officials/birx-deborah?officialid=30329
>old dig
Paul Allen
25 years ago. Tons of info to dig on.
"Perhaps the most rarefied of Allen's business units is Interval Research, Allen's own
private $100 million think tank. (Now, there's a rich-guy toy not available through
The Sharper Image.) Sources say this is the Allen business entity that may come
the closest to succeeding, because it is in the greatest alignment with Allen's true
nature: his affinity for technology R & D…"
"Headed by David Liddle, who was aggressively recruited for the job, Interval's
mission is to be self-funding in ten years, supporting itself from the licensing fees
its inventions generate. Operating with great secretiveness, Interval has a reputation,
depending on whom you talk to, for having hired either the best and brightest on
the cyber frontier, or folks who couldn't get a job elsewhere. And the institution of
Interval itself poses fundamental questions: can a think tank operate successfully
as an extension of one man's mind, whether Allen's or Liddle's? Allen is said to want
Interval to pursue some of the computing-research interests and problem areas that
concern him; Liddle, similarly, is said to hold fairly direct powers of pruning and
oversight over Interval staffers. This is a model quite different from what holds at
other research institutions, where those chosen to work there are often left on their
own to stumble serendipitously into the good stuff that matters…"
https://www.wired.com/1994/08/allen-2/
>old dig
Charter Spectrum suffered an "outage" before last nights border report.
Paul Allen was a huge investor.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Charter_Communications
https://infogalactic.com/info/Paul_Allen [DED couple months ago]
Digging on Allen unearthed [White House BRAIN Initiative].
"The White House BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies), is a collaborative, public-private research initiative announced
by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, with the goal of supporting the
development and application of innovative technologies that can create a dynamic
understanding of brain function."
https://infogalactic.com/info/BRAIN_Initiative
Warning bells going off like crazy!!!
>old dig
Paul Allen & HUAWEI
Unearthed this whilst digging on Allen.
Was not aware he [departed] recently…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC8ODYkvbOM
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The More You Know.
Paul Allen security team members sue Vulcan, claim unethical conduct.
"The former security director for Vulcan Inc. and three security officers
who resigned in recent weeks have sued the Seattle firm claiming they
were pushed out after they saw unethical or illegal activities by company
executives, including Paul Allen."
https://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Paul-Allen-security-team-members-sue-Vulcan-2195786.php
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Paul Allen. PHI KAPPA THETA.
Jesuit/Greek fraternity.
Hmm…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjc6uwwlxkywy9v/Temple%20-%20Volume%20100%20Number%202%20-%20Fall%202017%20LG.pdf?dl=0
>old dig
Something about Paul Allen seems spoopy…
Bodyguards: Vulcan CEO Allen tried to smuggle bones out of Africa
Claims of sexual harassment, criminal activity persist as Vulcan security team lawsuits continue.
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Bodyguards-Vulcan-CEO-Allen-tried-to-smuggle-4317395.php
>old dig
starwave - paul allen
https://web.archive.org/web/19961018195521/http://family.starwave.com:80/kids/index.html
http://family.starwave.com:80/kids/index.html
>old dig
such fun