>(Google's) Schmidt was penning a treatise with Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, an outfit that describes itself as Google’s in-house “think/do tank.” I knew little else about Cohen at the time. In fact, Cohen had moved to Google from the US State Department in 2010. He had been a fast-talking “Generation Y” ideas man at State under two US administrations, a courtier from the world of policy think tanks and institutes, poached in his early twenties.
>He became a senior advisor for Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton. At State, on the Policy Planning Staff, Cohen was soon christened “Condi’s party starter,” channeling buzzwords from Silicon Valley into US policy circles and producing delightful rhetorical concoctions such as “Public Diplomacy 2.0.”2 On his Council on Foreign Relations adjunct staff page he listed his expertise as “terrorism; radicalization; impact of connection technologies on 21st century statecraft; Iran.”
>It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran.4 His documented love affair with Google began the same year, when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.
Don't forget, 4chan is a Jewgle operation
if you really want to fight it you have to leave this place
>>71457165
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
>Later that year the two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of US foreign policy.5 Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,”6 Schmidt and Cohen claimed that
>Democratic states that have built coalitions of their militaries have the capacity to do the same with their connection technologies. . . . They offer a new way to exercise the duty to protect citizens around the world [emphasis added].7
>In the same piece they argued that “this technology is overwhelmingly provided by the private sector.” Shortly afterwards, Tunisia. then Egypt, and then the rest of the Middle East, erupted in revolution. The echoes of these events on online social media became a spectacle for Western internet users. The professional commentariat, keen to rationalize uprisings against US-backed dictatorships, branded them "Twitter revolutions." Suddenly everyone wanted to be at the intersection point between US global power and social media, and Schmidt and Cohen had already staked out the territory. With the working title “The Empire of the Mind,” they began expanding their article to book length, and sought audiences with the big names of global tech and global power as part of their research.
>>71457244
You can reach the uneducated here. I have edited the article to omit Assange's firsthand accounts to relay information.
>It was at this point that I realized Eric Schmidt might not have been an emissary of Google alone. Whether officially or not, he had been keeping some company that placed him very close to Washington, DC, including a well-documented relationship with President Obama. Not only had Hillary Clinton’s people known that Eric Schmidt’s partner had visited me, but they had also elected to use her as a back channel. While WikiLeaks had been deeply involved in publishing the inner archive of the US State Department, the US State Department had, in effect, snuck into the WikiLeaks command center and hit me up for a free lunch. Two years later, in the wake of his early 2013 visits to China, North Korea, and Burma, it would come to be appreciated that the chairman of Google might be conducting, in one way or another, “back-channel diplomacy” for Washington. But at the time it was a novel thought.11
>I put it aside until February 2012, when WikiLeaks—along with over thirty of our international media partners—began publishing the Global Intelligence Files: the internal email spool from the Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor.12 One of our stronger investigative partners—the Beirut-based newspaper Al Akhbar—scoured the emails for intelligence on Jared Cohen.13 The people at Stratfor, who liked to think of themselves as a sort of corporate CIA, were acutely conscious of other ventures that they perceived as making inroads into their sector. Google had turned up on their radar. In a series of colorful emails they discussed a pattern of activity conducted by Cohen under the Google Ideas aegis, suggesting what the “do” in “think/do tank” actually means.
>>71457648
Pic is Eric Schmidt's Instagram of Hillary Clinton and David Rubinstein, taken at the Holbrooke Forum Gala, 5 Dec 2013. Richard Holbrooke (who died in 2010) was a high-profile US diplomat, managing director of Lehman brothers, a board member of NED, CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg steering group and an advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Schmidt donated over $100k to the the Holbrooke Forum
>Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and “corporate responsibility” work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s “director of regime change.” According to the emails, he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East. He could be placed in Egypt during the revolution, meeting with Wael Ghonim, the Google employee whose arrest and imprisonment hours later would make him a PR-friendly symbol of the uprising in the Western press. Meetings had been planned in Palestine and Turkey, both of which—claimed Stratfor emails—were killed by the senior Google leadership as too risky. Only a few months before he met with me, Cohen was planning a trip to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan to “engage the Iranian communities closer to the border,” as part of Google Ideas’ project on “repressive societies.” In internal emails Stratfor’s vice president for intelligence, Fred Burton (himself a former State Department security official), wrote,
>Google is getting WH [White House] and State Dept support and air cover. In reality they are doing things the CIA cannot do . . . [Cohen] is going to get himself kidnapped or killed. Might be the best thing to happen to expose Google’s covert role in foaming up-risings, to be blunt. The US Gov’t can then disavow knowledge and Google is left holding the shit-bag.
>>71457802
Feeling Jewed yet?
>In further internal communication, Burton said his sources on Cohen’s activities were Marty Lev—Google’s director of security and safety—and Eric Schmidt himself.15 Looking for something more concrete, I began to search in WikiLeaks’ archive for information on Cohen. State Department cables released as part of Cablegate reveal that Cohen had been in Afghanistan in 2009, trying to convince the four major Afghan mobile phone companies to move their antennas onto US military bases.16 In Lebanon he quietly worked to establish an intellectual and clerical rival to Hezbollah, the “Higher Shia League.”17 And in London he offered Bollywood movie executives funds to insert anti-extremist content into their films, and promised to connect them to related networks in Hollywood.
>It is not just obvious neocon front groups like Foreign Policy Initiative.20 It also includes fatuous Western NGOs like Freedom House, where naïve but well-meaning career nonprofit workers are twisted in knots by political funding streams, denouncing non-Western human rights violations while keeping local abuses firmly in their blind spots. The civil society conference circuit—which flies developing-world activists across the globe hundreds of times a year to bless the unholy union between “government and private stakeholders” at geopoliticized events like the “Stockholm Internet Forum”—simply could not exist if it were not blasted with millions of dollars in political funding annually.
>>71458017
>Scan the memberships of the biggest US think tanks and institutes and the same names keep cropping up. Cohen’s Save Summit went on to seed AVE, or AgainstViolentExtremism.org, a long-term project whose principal backer besides Google Ideas is the Gen Next Foundation. This foundation’s website says it is an “exclusive membership organization and platform for successful individuals” that aims to bring about “social change” driven by venture capital funding.21 Gen Next’s “private sector and non-profit foundation support avoids some of the potential perceived conflicts of interest faced by initiatives funded by governments.”22 Jared Cohen is an executive member.
>Gen Next also backs an NGO, launched by Cohen toward the end of his State Department tenure, for bringing internet-based global “pro-democracy activists” into the US foreign relations patronage network.23 The group originated as the “Alliance of Youth Movements” with an inaugural summit in New York City in 2008 funded by the State Department and encrusted with the logos of corporate sponsors.24 The summit flew in carefully selected social media activists from “problem areas” like Venezuela and Cuba to watch speeches by the Obama campaign’s new-media team and the State Department’s James Glassman, and to network with public relations consultants, “philanthropists,” and US media personalities.25 The outfit held two more invite-only summits in London and Mexico City where the delegates were directly addressed via video link by Hillary Clinton:26
>You are the vanguard of a rising generation of citizen activists. . . . And that makes you the kind of leaders we need.
pic related
>>71458167
>records show Schmidt strategically engaging Washington’s overt political class. Federal campaign finance records show that on January 6, 1999, Schmidt donated two lots of $1,000 to the Republican senator for Utah, Orrin Hatch. On the same day Schmidt’s wife, Wendy, is also listed giving two lots of $1,000 to Senator Hatch. By the start of 2001 over a dozen other politicians and PACs, including Al Gore, George W. Bush, Dianne Feinstein, and Hillary Clinton, were on the Schmidts’ payroll, in one case for $100,000.36 By 2013, Eric Schmidt—who had become publicly over-associated with the Obama White House—was more politic. Eight Republicans and eight Democrats were directly funded, as were two PACs. That April, $32,300 went to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. A month later the same amount, $32,300, headed off to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Why Schmidt was donating exactly the same amount of money to both parties is a $64,600 question.37
>It was also in 1999 that Schmidt joined the board of a Washington, DC–based group: the New America Foundation, a merger of well-connected centrist forces (in DC terms). The foundation and its 100 staff serves as an influence mill, using its network of approved national security, foreign policy, and technology pundits to place hundreds of articles and op-eds per year. By 2008 Schmidt had become chairman of its board of directors. As of 2013 the New America Foundation’s principal funders (each contributing over $1 million) are listed as Eric and Wendy Schmidt, the US State Department, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Secondary funders include Google, USAID, and Radio Free Asia.
Does anyone notice this sounds eerily similar to Soros and his Open Society Foundation?
>>71458583
>Schmidt’s involvement in the New America Foundation places him firmly in the Washington establishment nexus. The foundation’s other board members, seven of whom also list themselves as members of the Council on Foreign Relations, include Francis Fukuyama, one of the intellectual fathers of the neoconservative movement; Rita Hauser, who served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board under both Bush and Obama; Jonathan Soros, the son of George Soros; Walter Russell Mead, a US security strategist and editor of the American Interest; Helene Gayle, who sits on the boards of Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, the Rockefeller Foundation, the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Unit, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the White House Fellows program, and Bono’s ONE Campaign; and Daniel Yergin, oil geostrategist, former chair of the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research, and author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.
>>71458700
Going to skip the timeline of Schmidt's and Cohen's increasing cooperation with the NSA, it sums up how eventually they were working hand in hand.
>In Autumn 2013 the Obama administration was trying to drum up support for US airstrikes against Syria. Despite setbacks, the administration continued to press for military action well into September with speeches and public announcements by both President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.63 On September 10, Google lent its front page—the most popular on the internet—to the war effort, inserting a line below the search box reading “Live! Secretary Kerry answers questions on Syria. Today via Hangout at 2pm ET.”64
>As the self-described “radical centrist”65 New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote in 1999, sometimes it is not enough to leave the global dominance of American tech corporations to something as mercurial as “the free market”:
>The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.66
>If anything has changed since those words were written, it is that Silicon Valley has grown restless with that passive role, aspiring instead to adorn the "hidden fist" like a velvet glove. Writing in 2013, Schmidt and Cohen stated,
>What Lockheed Martin was to the twentieth century, technology and cyber-security companies will be to the twenty-first.
>>71458918
>This was one of many bold assertions made by Schmidt and Cohen in their book, which was eventually published in April 2013. Gone was the working title, “The Empire of the Mind”, replaced with "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business". By the time it came out, I had formally sought and received political asylum from the government of Ecuador, and taken refuge in its embassy in London. At that point I had already spent nearly a year in the embassy under police surveillance, blocked from safe passage out of the UK. Online I noticed the press hum excitedly about Schmidt and Cohen’s book, giddily ignoring the explicit digital imperialism of the title and the conspicuous string of pre-publication endorsements from famous warmongers like Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Bill Hayden and Madeleine Albright on the back.
pic is Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt and Henry Kissinger, during a "fireside chat" with Google staff at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, on 30 Sep 2013. In the talk, Kissinger says National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is "despicible".
>Billed as a visionary forecast of global technological change, the book failed to deliver—failed even to imagine a future, good or bad, substantially different to the present. The book was a simplistic fusion of Fukuyama “end of history” ideology—out of vogue since the 1990s—and faster mobile phones. It was padded out with DC shibboleths, State Department orthodoxies, and fawning grabs from Henry Kissinger. The scholarship was poor—even degenerate. It did not seem to fit the profile of Schmidt, that sharp, quiet man in my living room. But reading on I began to see that the book was not a serious attempt at future history. It was a love song from Google to official Washington. Google, a burgeoning digital superstate, was offering to be Washington’s geopolitical visionary.
>In 2011, the Alliance of Youth Movements rebranded as “Movements.org.” In 2012 Movements.org became a division of “Advancing Human Rights,” a new NGO set up by Robert L. Bernstein after he resigned from Human Rights Watch (which he had originally founded) because he felt it should not cover Israeli and US human rights abuses.28 Advancing Human Rights aims to right Human Rights Watch’s wrong by focusing exclusively on “dictatorships.”29 Cohen stated that the merger of his Movements.org outfit with Advancing Human Rights was “irresistible,” pointing to the latter’s “phenomenal network of cyberactivists in the Middle East and North Africa.”30 He then joined the Advancing Human Rights board, which also includes Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in occupied Afghanistan.31 In its present guise, Movements.org continues to receive funding from Gen Next, as well as from Google, MSNBC, and PR giant Edelman, which represents General Electric, Boeing, and Shell, among others.32
A screen capture of the "Supporters and sponsors" page at movements.org.
Note MSNBC/MTV/CBS, owned by Jewish Sumner Redstone, Facebook owned by Jewish Zuckerberg,
>>71459560
Woops forgot image
>>71457165
Bamp
>>71457165
infamy.org
>Silicon Jihad: How Silicon Valley elites and the American progressive ruling class formed unholy alliances with Middle Eastern powers to foster the modern rise of extreme Islamic terrorism, mortgage the safety and personal wealth of America's working class, and reign in the demise of domestic independent energy producers.
Also, here
https://twitter.com/deptofinfamy/with_replies
>>71460527
to what end?
purely Jewish/Zionist interests ie destabilization of the ME and increasing surveillance of the goyim's state?
>>71457165
BAMP...
>>71460925
If you allow a state in the Middle East to stabilize, then it can begin creating a national history. Many of the states in the Middle East- Libya, Iraq, Syria, etc. had a very negative but tolerant stance toward Israel- these new states have no such antagonism to Israel since they began their new histories post 1967 War.
If anything this has allowed Israel to erase from the collective mind their vitriolic and aggrandizing influence and dominance of the region and replace it with antagonism between various ethnic and political groups.
>>71461498
To offer an example
>Baathist Iraq fought Israel in 1967
>Baathist Iraq attempted to build the nuclear Osriak energy plant but Israel bombed it
>Baathist Iraq is no more
Now Iraq is broken up between various groups- Shia, Kurds, and Sunnis. The Kurds are somewhat Israeli boos (hence why you see so many pro-Kurdistan threads and online propaganda), the breakup of Iraq and Arab Spring (thanks to Google and the NSA via twitter) only serves Israel's purpose to destroy enemy governments and wipe the collective memory clean of 1967.
>>71462135
All the copy pasta threads you see everyday all day with the same topics....they're collection information and views from everyone. You think you're truly anonymous ? Wouldn't be surprised if half the problems that are posted here are made to cause a micro-scale mass hysteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIUsCkt48E
>>71463068
So all the gay threads, jew threads, x topic threads are just NSA data gathering?
>>71463330
I'm can't prove it. It's just what I think. We know people get paid to post shit here. Why would they if they aren't looking for information or mass public opinions? And I see the exact same pics/text posted over and over and over.... one single person asking didn't get their answer the first time ?
>>71465044
And moot is a Google sellout now correct?
So by delaying Twitter's scheduled maintainence and allowing more people to tweet, they are destabilizing the Middle East?
>>71465435
I believe Assange is hinting that the aforementioned NGOs worked on Twitter with puppet accounts in unison with the media to foment the unrest, or at least the image Westerners percieve.
>>71466583
>the average Westerner is retarded
>the average Westerner's view of the world outside theirs is manipulated
>the average Westerner doesn't even understand their world to begin with
Sounds about right. We are a heavily manipulated group after all. I'm sure other nations are jelly, but for the wrong reasons (a subservient population that is happy and docile, high political apathy, low voter turnout, easily manipulated and overly confident and self-assured). Yep.
>>71465044
I think it is possible that some people live to troll. I wonder though how much is trolling and how much isn't.
>>71466919
>The average Westerner is uneducated on reality but fully bought into the presented narrative
I think that is more accurate.
>>71467109
Completely accurate
How long before we realize that the willful ignorance of the average voter or the average American is significantly affecting us? I try to remain hopeful..
>>71467565
Most people cannot comprehend the size and control, and then there is the cointelpro and propaganda that serves as a mental block to critical thinking, namely anti-racism, anti-antisemitism, etc.'
This is why posting these subjects and discussing them is so important for new lurkers.
>>71466583
as yuri bezmenov once said
>there is no such thing as a grass roots uprising, there is a large, highly skilled organizer behind every uprising
>>71469085
Based guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g
>>71468605
Preach it brother! The world is nothing more then a stage and behind the curtain it is a grab for money and control/power over the world and its people....I just wonder what their endgame is. How are the factions actually divided up? because this goes beyond country lines i feel.... We may never know, but we do know that behind the proverbial curtain they are decieveing us to promote their agenda
everyone knows google is evil by now
for fucks sake it's a giant corporation with a near complete monopoly on people's personal information and history. How could it not be evil?
>>71470443
This goes beyond a vague understanding that Google is all powerful and that isn't good for everyone's interests.
The article doesn't delve into Cohen's and Schmidt's personal views but one can figure it out by their associations and actions.
>its a captcha with disappearing images
Fucking Google.
Bumping
Bretty interesting op
>>71468605
>the cointelpro and propaganda that serves as a mental block to critical thinking, namely anti-racism, anti-antisemitism, etc.'
>anti-racism
>racism
>anti-antisemitism
>antisemitism
>semitism
All of these sides are being manipulated. A lot of people here don't realize how bluepilled they really are when it comes to racism. On a smaller scale, this is why you end up with huge drug communities throughout the US while others turn to blaming genetics or Tyrone's mother for it. It complicates the issue.
A giant abstract system needs no sides. We created a monster. We're worried about fucking Skynet? It's already here.
>>71473180
>>anti-antisemitism
>>antisemitism
You're going to purposely ignore the names dropped here in power and their actions?
Cohen. Schmidt. Soros. Redstone. Zuckerberg. Rothschild. Lev. Glassman. Yergin. Brin.
All Jews. Look at their actions at the beginning. All destabilizing the Middle East.
Come to your senses anon.
bump, people need to read this
Bump
>>71468605
Wew, I think wikileaks is a whitewash angle by a new age internet edition of Operation Mockingbird.
I think the entire world was owned after WW2 and the cold war was just an outliers mop up job. Truth be told, matrix or not, no world wars since. Then again...nukes!
>>71477939
Except this is Assange's firsthand account and everything is verifiable. These aren't internet cables we are reading.
We haven't had a World War yes, but there has been many wars mostly in the Middle East and SEA.
>>71478654
>Assange
CIA Mockingbird just like the others is what I'm thinking. A huge conditioning program, moving towards 9/11 inside job acceptance and whatever else. Could just be the internets age tho.
And yeah, war moving towards removing troublemakers now, individuals, not the nation itself. A mop up.
>>71481711
So your theory depends on the CIA doing something right.
Boomp
>>71457165
>>71475458
What does it mean?
Google is a tool/partner/competitor of the state?
How do I gain greater knowledge of geopolitical happenings and inner workings? /pol/ is only so useful, dammit
