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* [[Alessandra Buonfino]]
 
* [[Alessandra Buonfino]]
 
* [[Ian Corfield]] - Chief Commercial Officer at New Day
 
* [[Ian Corfield]] - Chief Commercial Officer at New Day
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* [[Nick Claydon]]
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* [[Nick Claydon]] - CEO of [[Teneo]]<ref name="teneo_claydon" />
 
* [[Matt Nixon]]
 
* [[Matt Nixon]]
 
* [[Neil Sherlock]]
 
* [[Neil Sherlock]]
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* [[Tom Bentley]] - Executive director of Demos as of 2003.<ref name="craggs" />
 
* [[Tom Bentley]] - Executive director of Demos as of 2003.<ref name="craggs" />
  
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==Activities==
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==Common Purpose==
  
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===Common Purpose===
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Common Purpose was founded by Demos co-founder Julia Middleton. <ref name="cpcorbett"/> Sir David Bell formerly served as chairman. <ref name="dm_levinson" />  
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Common Purpose was founded by Demos co-founder Julia Middleton. <ref name="cpcorbett"/>
 
  
 
Leadership: <ref name="craggs" />
 
Leadership: <ref name="craggs" />
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* [[Robert Peston]], business editor of [[BBC]] News
 
* [[Robert Peston]], business editor of [[BBC]] News
 
* [[Cressida Dick]] of the London Metropolitan Police
 
* [[Cressida Dick]] of the London Metropolitan Police
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* Baroness Zahida Mansoor was a Regional Director for Common Purpose from 1990-1996. <ref name="dbpedia_manzoor" />
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Max Farquar names the "Common Purpose Rogues Gallery"<ref name="cp_rogues"/> as also including:
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* Tony Blair, Prime Minister 1997-2007
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* Gordon Brown, Prime Minister 2007-2010
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* David Cameron, Prime Minister 2010-2016
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* John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister 1997-2007
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* Lord Peter Mandelson, Lord President of the Council 2009-2010 and member of [[TerraMar]]
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* Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister 2010-2015 and Lord President of the Council 2010-2015
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* Caroline Duckworth, managing director of Common Purpose
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* Suzi Leather of the Charity Commission
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* Mark Thompson of the British Broadcasting Corporation
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* Robert Peston, business editor of BBC News
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* Brandon Gough
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* Hugh Orde, President of Association of Chief Police Officers
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* Francis Maude
  
 
Graduates are alleged to include: <ref name="craggs" />
 
Graduates are alleged to include: <ref name="craggs" />
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* [[Helena Kennedy]] - President of the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) and board member of the [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]]
 
* [[Helena Kennedy]] - President of the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) and board member of the [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]]
 
* [[Albert Scardino]] - Executive editor of [[The Guardian]] 2002-2004
 
* [[Albert Scardino]] - Executive editor of [[The Guardian]] 2002-2004
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==Activities==
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=== Suppressing criticism of Islam ===
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====Runnymede Trust====
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[[Ian Hargreaves]] was a member of the [[Runnymede Trust]] which called for opposition to [[Islamophobia]],<ref name="runnymede_report" /> a term developed by an American branch of al-Qaeda, the [[International Institute for Islamic Thought]], to refer to all opposition to al-Qaeda. <ref name="islamophobia"/>
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====National Security and Human Rights Campaign====
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Demos is among the participants in the [[Open Society Institute]]'s National Security and Human Rights (NSHR) Campaign, a project of the [[George Soros]] organization and [[Muslim Advocates]] to reduce public support for fighting al-Qaeda. <ref name="nshr"/>
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====International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence====
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[[Jonathan Birdwell]] of [[Demos]] was among the speakers at the release of the report ''A Neo-Nationalist Movement: The English Defense League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement''<ref name="edl_war"/> which describes all ''opposition to'' Muslim jihad as "violent" and "right-wing", along with all support for British law and culture. <ref name="edl_report"/>
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Speakers
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* [[James Brokenshire]] MP, Home Office Minister for Crime and Security - delivered keynote speech
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* [[Ian Bradshaw]], Tackling Extremism & Hate Crime Division, DCLG,
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* [[Matthew Collins]], [[Hope not Hate]]
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* [[Roger Griffin]], Oxford Brookes University
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* [[Jonathan Birdwell]], [[Demos]]
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* [[Maria Margaronis]], [[The Nation]]
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* [[Magnus Ranstorp]], [[Swedish National Defence College]]
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* [[Vidhya Ramalingam]], [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]]
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Moderators:
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* Professor [[Peter Neumann]]
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* Dr. [[John Bew]] of ICSR.
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Partners:
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* [[Community Security Trust]] (CST)
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* the [[Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies]] (CATS)
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* [[Swedish National Defence College]]
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====City of London====
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Demos works for the mayor of London to identify social media users who have negative opinions about Islam. <ref name="demos_anti_islamic/>
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: Anti-Islamic Content on Twitter
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: This analysis was presented at the Mayor of London's Policing and Crime Summit on Monday 24 April, 2017.
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: Over a year, Demos' researchers detected 143,920 Tweets sent from the UK considered to be derogatory and anti-Islamic - this is about 393 a day. These Tweets were sent from over 47,000 different users, and fell into a number of different categories - from directed insults to broader political statements.
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=== Association with Qatar ===
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Former Common Purpose chairman Sir David Bell is a trustee of [[Silatech]], a project of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar<ref name="silatech" /> and one of the two Civil Society partners of the [[UN Alliance of Civilizations]]<ref name="unaoc_cs"/>
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=== Association with Russia ===
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Demos trustee Nick Claydon is CEO of Teneo which operates Techsnabexport as a joint venture with the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom. George Webb describes Techsnabexport, also known as TENEX, as "Basically, ex-KGB agents..." <ref name="teneodots"/>
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===Copyright claim abuse===
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In 2009 Common Purpose accused critical website CPExposed.com of copyright infringement to persuade Hostgator to disable the site. <ref name="cpexposed_takedown">Statement on Common Purpose takedown of cpexposed.com, Common Purpose Exposed, https://web.archive.org/web/20101121050701/http://cpexposed.com/takedown_statement/ </ref>
  
 
===#ReclaimTheInternet===
 
===#ReclaimTheInternet===
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Demos is among the members of the [[Social Transformation Project]]. <ref name="stp"/>
 
Demos is among the members of the [[Social Transformation Project]]. <ref name="stp"/>
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===National Security and Human Rights Campaign===
 
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Demos is among the participants in the [[Open Society Institute]]'s National Security and Human Rights (NSHR) Campaign, a project of the [[George Soros]] organization and [[Muslim Advocates]] to reduce public support for fighting al-Qaeda. <ref name="nshr"/>
 
  
 
===Indivisible===
 
===Indivisible===
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James Higham associates Demos with the [[Tavistock Institute]], the [[Fabian Society]], and [[Chatham House]], alleges that "The Fabian Society literally controls the [[European Union]]", and notes that early Fabian Society members Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb were Soviet agents.<ref name="4liberty_demos"/>
 
James Higham associates Demos with the [[Tavistock Institute]], the [[Fabian Society]], and [[Chatham House]], alleges that "The Fabian Society literally controls the [[European Union]]", and notes that early Fabian Society members Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb were Soviet agents.<ref name="4liberty_demos"/>
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===City of London===
 
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Demos works for the mayor of London to identify social media users who have negative opinions about Islam. <ref name="demos_anti_islamic/>
 
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: Anti-Islamic Content on Twitter
 
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: This analysis was presented at the Mayor of London's Policing and Crime Summit on Monday 24 April, 2017.
 
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: Over a year, Demos' researchers detected 143,920 Tweets sent from the UK considered to be derogatory and anti-Islamic - this is about 393 a day. These Tweets were sent from over 47,000 different users, and fell into a number of different categories - from directed insults to broader political statements.
 
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===International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence===
 
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[[Jonathan Birdwell]] of [[Demos]] was among the speakers at the release of the report ''A Neo-Nationalist Movement: The English Defense League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement''<ref name="edl_war"/> which describes all ''opposition to'' Muslim jihad as "violent" and "right-wing", along with all support for British law and culture. <ref name="edl_report"/>
 
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Speakers
 
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* [[James Brokenshire]] MP, Home Office Minister for Crime and Security - delivered keynote speech
 
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* [[Ian Bradshaw]], Tackling Extremism & Hate Crime Division, DCLG,
 
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* [[Matthew Collins]], [[Hope not Hate]]
 
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* [[Roger Griffin]], Oxford Brookes University
 
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* [[Jonathan Birdwell]], [[Demos]]
 
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* [[Maria Margaronis]], [[The Nation]]
 
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* [[Magnus Ranstorp]], [[Swedish National Defence College]]
 
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* [[Vidhya Ramalingam]], [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]]
 
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Moderators:
 
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* Professor [[Peter Neumann]]
 
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* Dr. [[John Bew]] of ICSR.
 
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Partners:
 
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* [[Community Security Trust]] (CST)
 
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* the [[Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies]] (CATS)
 
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* [[Swedish National Defence College]]
 
  
 
===Arab Spring===
 
===Arab Spring===
  
 
Avaaz provided propaganda support for the NATO invasion of Libya in 2011<ref name="morningstar"/> and the Islamist side of the civil war in Syria.<ref name="beeley"/>
 
Avaaz provided propaganda support for the NATO invasion of Libya in 2011<ref name="morningstar"/> and the Islamist side of the civil war in Syria.<ref name="beeley"/>
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===Runnymede Trust===
 
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[[Ian Hargreaves]] was a member of the [[Runnymede Trust]] which called for opposition to [[Islamophobia]],<ref name="runnymede_report" /> a term developed by an American branch of al-Qaeda, the [[International Institute for Islamic Thought]], to refer to all opposition to al-Qaeda. <ref name="islamophobia"/>
 
  
 
===Suspicious Deaths===
 
===Suspicious Deaths===
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David Hawkins of Hawk's Cafe accused [[Cressida Dick]] of using Crown Agents' Sisters and ADT Security to assassinate [[Gareth Williams]] in 2010. <ref name="hawks_claim"/>
 
David Hawkins of Hawk's Cafe accused [[Cressida Dick]] of using Crown Agents' Sisters and ADT Security to assassinate [[Gareth Williams]] in 2010. <ref name="hawks_claim"/>
  
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A member of [[Friends of the Earth]] assassinated [[Pim Fortuyn]] in 2002 for opposing Muslim immigration into Europe. Friends of the Earth participated in the 2004 Critical Lawyers Conference<ref name="2004clc" /> where [[Helena Kennedy]] of the Media Standards Trust was a speaker, and has published<ref name="why_women" /> an essay by [[Nidhi Tandon]] of [[Networked Intelligence]] who wrote in support of the [[Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development]] during a trip to the United Nations by [[Zoe Quinn]] and [[Anita Sarkeesian]].  
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A member of [[Friends of the Earth]] assassinated [[Pim Fortuyn]] in 2002 for opposing Muslim immigration into Europe. Friends of the Earth participated in the 2004 Critical Lawyers Conference<ref name="2004clc" /> where [[Helena Kennedy]] of the Media Standards Trust was a speaker, and has published<ref name="why_women" /> an essay by [[Nidhi Tandon]] of [[Networked Intelligence]] who wrote in support of the [[Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development]] during a trip to the United Nations by [[Zoe Quinn]] and [[Anita Sarkeesian]].
  
 
==Rockefeller Brothers Fund==
 
==Rockefeller Brothers Fund==
  
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Trustees as of 2016<ref>http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/131/131760106/131760106_201612_990PF.pdf</ref>
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Trustees as of 2016<ref>Rockefeller Brothers Fund 2016 form 990,  http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/131/131760106/131760106_201612_990PF.pdf</ref>
  
 
* [[Steven C. Rockefeller]]
 
* [[Steven C. Rockefeller]]
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===People of Note===
 
===People of Note===
  
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* [[Judy Belk]] - President and CEO of the [[California Wellness Foundation]], Director of Public Affairs for the [[Association of Bay Area Governments]], board member of
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* [[Judy Belk]] - President and CEO of the [[California Wellness Foundation]], Director of Public Affairs for the [[Association of Bay Area Governments]], board member of [[Surdna Foundation]], [[Ms. Foundation]], [[American Civil Liberties Union]], and the [[California Endowment]].
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[[Surdna Foundation]], [[Ms. Foundation]], [[American Civil Liberties Union]], and the [[California Endowment]].
 
  
 
===Muslim migration===
 
===Muslim migration===
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[[Marjorie Scardino]] is a board member of Twitter.  
 
[[Marjorie Scardino]] is a board member of Twitter.  
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==Multimedia==
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[[File:Demos.png]]
  
 
==References==  
 
==References==  
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<ref name="heintz_bds">''Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Explains BDS to His Trustees'', Tablet, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/239204/rockefeller-brothers-fund-president-explains-bds-to-his-trustees-its-about-justice-dignity-and-security https://archive.is/yrSMu</ref>
 
<ref name="heintz_bds">''Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Explains BDS to His Trustees'', Tablet, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/239204/rockefeller-brothers-fund-president-explains-bds-to-his-trustees-its-about-justice-dignity-and-security https://archive.is/yrSMu</ref>
 
<ref name="birdwell">''Jonathan Birdwell'', Battle of Ideas, http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2015/speaker_detail/10878 https://archive.is/Et5YI</ref>  
 
<ref name="birdwell">''Jonathan Birdwell'', Battle of Ideas, http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2015/speaker_detail/10878 https://archive.is/Et5YI</ref>  
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<ref name="demos_usa">http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/134/134105066/134105066_201706_990.pdf</ref>
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<ref name="demos_usa">Demos USA 2017 form 990
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http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/134/134105066/134105066_201706_990.pdf</ref>
 
<ref name="bruenig">Matthew Yglesias, ''Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016'', Vox, May 21, 2016, http://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos https://archive.is/sWLW3</ref>
 
<ref name="bruenig">Matthew Yglesias, ''Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016'', Vox, May 21, 2016, http://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos https://archive.is/sWLW3</ref>
 
<ref name="demos_anti_islamic">''Anti-Islamic Content on Twitter'', Demos, https://demos.co.uk/project/anti-islamic-content-on-twitter/ https://archive.is/cnJib</ref>
 
<ref name="demos_anti_islamic">''Anti-Islamic Content on Twitter'', Demos, https://demos.co.uk/project/anti-islamic-content-on-twitter/ https://archive.is/cnJib</ref>
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<ref name="fivealarmfire">''22 National Progressive Leaders Launch "Five-Alarm Fire" Open Letter denouncing Donald Trump'', MoveOn, http://front.moveon.org/national-trump-letter/ https://archive.is/B8RAQ</ref>
 
<ref name="fivealarmfire">''22 National Progressive Leaders Launch "Five-Alarm Fire" Open Letter denouncing Donald Trump'', MoveOn, http://front.moveon.org/national-trump-letter/ https://archive.is/B8RAQ</ref>
 
<ref name="stp">''Who We Work With'', Social Transformation Project, http://stproject.org/about-us/who-we-work-with/ https://archive.is/B21q2</ref>
 
<ref name="stp">''Who We Work With'', Social Transformation Project, http://stproject.org/about-us/who-we-work-with/ https://archive.is/B21q2</ref>
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<ref name="gabbatt">Adam Gabbatt, ''Starbucks needs more than racial bias training after men's arrest, experts say'', The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/21/starbucks-racial-bias-training-black-men-arrested https:// https://archive.is/a8Q4M</ref>
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<ref name="gabbatt">Adam Gabbatt, ''Starbucks needs more than racial bias training after men's arrest, experts say'', The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/21/starbucks-racial-bias-training-black-men-arrested https://archive.is/a8Q4M</ref>
 
<ref name="edl_war">Baron Bodissey, ''David Cameron declares war on the EDL'', Gates of Vienna, March 24, 2013, http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/03/david-cameron-declares-war-on-the-edl/ https://archive.is/qqilS</ref>
 
<ref name="edl_war">Baron Bodissey, ''David Cameron declares war on the EDL'', Gates of Vienna, March 24, 2013, http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/03/david-cameron-declares-war-on-the-edl/ https://archive.is/qqilS</ref>
 
<ref name="edl_report">Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Hans Brun, ''A Neo-Nationalist Movement: The English Defense League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement'', International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, March 2013, http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ICSR-ECJM-Report_Online.pdf</ref>
 
<ref name="edl_report">Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Hans Brun, ''A Neo-Nationalist Movement: The English Defense League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement'', International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, March 2013, http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ICSR-ECJM-Report_Online.pdf</ref>
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<ref name="islamophobia">''Moderate Muslims Speak Out On Capitol Hill'', IPT News, http://www.investigativeproject.org/2217/moderate-muslim-speak-out-on-capitol-hill https://archive.is/IRxRZ</ref>
 
<ref name="islamophobia">''Moderate Muslims Speak Out On Capitol Hill'', IPT News, http://www.investigativeproject.org/2217/moderate-muslim-speak-out-on-capitol-hill https://archive.is/IRxRZ</ref>
 
<ref name="runnymede_report">''Islamophobia: a challenge for us all'', Runnymede Trust, https://web.archive.org/web/20010626043250if_/http://www.runnymedetrust.org:80/projects/islam/SUMMARY.PDF</ref>
 
<ref name="runnymede_report">''Islamophobia: a challenge for us all'', Runnymede Trust, https://web.archive.org/web/20010626043250if_/http://www.runnymedetrust.org:80/projects/islam/SUMMARY.PDF</ref>
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<ref name="teneo_claydon">Nick Claydon, Teneo, https://www.teneo.com/person/nick-claydon/</ref>
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<ref name="dm_levinson">Richard Pendlebury, ''Leveson Inquiry has momentous implications for free speech. But Mail dossier raises disturbing questions about the influence of 'people who know best' '', The Daily Mail, 16 November 2012, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233681/Leveson-Inquiry-Mail-dossier-raises-disturbing-questions-influence-quasi-masonic-nexus-people-know-best.html https://archive.ph/Z5tXD
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</ref>
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<ref name="dbpedia_manzoor">http://dbpedia.org/page/Zahida_Manzoor</ref>
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<ref name="cp_rogues">Max Farquar, ''The Common Purpose Rogues Gallery'', https://web.archive.org/web/20110425204336/http://maxfarquar.com:80/2011/04/who-belongs-to-common-purpose/</ref>
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<ref name="silatech">''Board of Trustees'', Silatech, https://web.archive.org/web/20141223195102/http://www.silatech.com/home/about-us/board-of-trustees</ref>
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<ref name="unaoc_cs">''Civil Society'', [[UN Alliance of Civilizations]], https://web.archive.org/web/20191003073136/https://www.unaoc.org/civil-society/</ref>
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<ref name="teneodots">''Epstein’s Teneo Connects All The Dots To Uranium One'', Republic Broadcasting, August 13th, 2019, https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/august-13th-2019-epsteins-teneo-connects-all-the-dots-to-uranium-one/ https://archive.ph/AurKg</ref>
 
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</references>

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Demos was founded in 1993 by former Marxism Today editors Julia Middleton, Martin Jacques, and Geoff Mulgan. [1] The organization promotes policies consistent with those of al-Qaeda and the defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and encourages state suppression of all public opposition to these policies.

Membership

Founders

Demos was founded in 1993 by editors of Marxism Today and their supporters.

UK

Staff[4]

  • Polly Mackenzie - Chief Executive. Director of Policy to the Deputy Prime Minister from 2010-15.
  • Maeve Thompson - Director of External Affairs.
  • Alex Krasodomski-Jones - Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media
  • Carl Miller - Research Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. Member of Microsoft's Voices for Civility.
  • Josh Smith - Senior Researcher, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and Chief Technical Officer, Demos
  • Laurence Cubbon - Chief of Staff & Senior Operations Officer
  • Izzy Little - Digital Production and Events Officer
  • Sacha Hilhorst - Senior Researcher
  • Ben Glover - Senior Researcher
  • Asli Atay - Researcher
  • Elliot Jones - Researcher
  • Ellen Judson - Researcher
  • Rose Lasko-Skinner - Researcher
  • Tessa van Rens - Researcher
  • David Weir - Technology Director, CASM. Prof David Weir is a Professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Text Analysis Group (taglaboratory.org).
  • Jeremy Reffin - Implementation Director, CASM. Jeremy is co-director of the Text Analysis Group (taglaboratory.org) at the University of Sussex. He was formerly a partner at Apax Partners
  • Andrew Gloag - Research Assistant
  • Bibi Nubir - Finance and Administrative Assistant
  • Ava Berry - Research Assistant. Ava graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017 with an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation. Prior to joining Demos she worked in the childcare sector and interned for the International Drug Policy Consortium. She also volunteers for the 50:50 Parliament campaign
  • Jamie Bartlett - Senior Fellow. He led the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos for 10 years until December 2018.
  • Charles Seaford - Senior Fellow. Charles leads the Power and Institutions programme at Demos. He is a Co-Investigator at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, an ESRC funded research consortium and a Director of Represent Us, a campaigning group.

Associates and Contributors

Trustees:

USA

Board:[6]

Significant payments:

Others of note

Common Purpose

Common Purpose was founded by Demos co-founder Julia Middleton. [9] Sir David Bell formerly served as chairman. [10]

Leadership: [1]

Supporters include:

  • Robert Peston, business editor of BBC News
  • Cressida Dick of the London Metropolitan Police
  • Baroness Zahida Mansoor was a Regional Director for Common Purpose from 1990-1996. [11]

Max Farquar names the "Common Purpose Rogues Gallery"[12] as also including:

  • Tony Blair, Prime Minister 1997-2007
  • Gordon Brown, Prime Minister 2007-2010
  • David Cameron, Prime Minister 2010-2016
  • John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister 1997-2007
  • Lord Peter Mandelson, Lord President of the Council 2009-2010 and member of TerraMar
  • Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister 2010-2015 and Lord President of the Council 2010-2015
  • Caroline Duckworth, managing director of Common Purpose
  • Suzi Leather of the Charity Commission
  • Mark Thompson of the British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Robert Peston, business editor of BBC News
  • Brandon Gough
  • Hugh Orde, President of Association of Chief Police Officers
  • Francis Maude

Graduates are alleged to include: [1]

Media Standards Trust

The Media Standards Trust tried to usurp and replace the authority of the Press Complaints Commission as the governing body of all media in the UK by using a bogus research report and fake news reports in the Guardian to buff up their credentials. They were given unusually favorable coverage by the BBC.[13]

Activities

Suppressing criticism of Islam

Runnymede Trust

Ian Hargreaves was a member of the Runnymede Trust which called for opposition to Islamophobia,[14] a term developed by an American branch of al-Qaeda, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, to refer to all opposition to al-Qaeda. [15]

National Security and Human Rights Campaign

Demos is among the participants in the Open Society Institute's National Security and Human Rights (NSHR) Campaign, a project of the George Soros organization and Muslim Advocates to reduce public support for fighting al-Qaeda. [16]

International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence

Jonathan Birdwell of Demos was among the speakers at the release of the report A Neo-Nationalist Movement: The English Defense League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement[17] which describes all opposition to Muslim jihad as "violent" and "right-wing", along with all support for British law and culture. [18]

Speakers

Moderators:

Partners:

City of London

Demos works for the mayor of London to identify social media users who have negative opinions about Islam. [19]

Anti-Islamic Content on Twitter
This analysis was presented at the Mayor of London's Policing and Crime Summit on Monday 24 April, 2017.
Over a year, Demos' researchers detected 143,920 Tweets sent from the UK considered to be derogatory and anti-Islamic - this is about 393 a day. These Tweets were sent from over 47,000 different users, and fell into a number of different categories - from directed insults to broader political statements.

Association with Qatar

Former Common Purpose chairman Sir David Bell is a trustee of Silatech, a project of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar[20] and one of the two Civil Society partners of the UN Alliance of Civilizations[21]

Association with Russia

Demos trustee Nick Claydon is CEO of Teneo which operates Techsnabexport as a joint venture with the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom. George Webb describes Techsnabexport, also known as TENEX, as "Basically, ex-KGB agents..." [22]

Copyright claim abuse

In 2009 Common Purpose accused critical website CPExposed.com of copyright infringement to persuade Hostgator to disable the site. [23]

#ReclaimTheInternet

Demos provided research to support the #ReclaimTheInternet campaign promoted by Yvette Cooper, Maria Miller, Stella Creasy, Jo Swinson and Jess Phillips. [24]

Firing of Matt Bruenig

Demos fired political analyst Matt Bruenig for insulting Neera Tanden, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.[25]

Five-Alarm Fire letter

Heather McGhee and Rashad Robinson were among 22 organizations of the Five-Alarm Fire letter denouncing Donald Trump. Co-signatories included Linda Sarsour. [26]

Social Transformation Project

Demos is among the members of the Social Transformation Project. [27]

Indivisible

Starbucks

The Starbucks coffee chain hired Demos, the Anti-Defamation League, the Equal Justice Initiative, and the NAACP to give mandatory racial bias training to all employees. [28]

Fabian Society, Tavistock, and Chatham House

James Higham associates Demos with the Tavistock Institute, the Fabian Society, and Chatham House, alleges that "The Fabian Society literally controls the European Union", and notes that early Fabian Society members Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb were Soviet agents.[29]

Arab Spring

Avaaz provided propaganda support for the NATO invasion of Libya in 2011[30] and the Islamist side of the civil war in Syria.[31]

Suspicious Deaths

David Hawkins of Hawk's Cafe accused Cressida Dick of using Crown Agents' Sisters and ADT Security to assassinate Gareth Williams in 2010. [32]

A member of Friends of the Earth assassinated Pim Fortuyn in 2002 for opposing Muslim immigration into Europe. Friends of the Earth participated in the 2004 Critical Lawyers Conference[33] where Helena Kennedy of the Media Standards Trust was a speaker, and has published[34] an essay by Nidhi Tandon of Networked Intelligence who wrote in support of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development during a trip to the United Nations by Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Trustees as of 2016[35]

Officers:

Highest paid employees

Highest paid contractors

Major donors

People of Note

Muslim migration

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is among the backers of the European Stability Initiative,[36] a project to promote mass Muslim migration to Europe as in the strategic war plan of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad of al-Qaeda.[37]

Radical Feminism

Hollywood director Aaron Russo claims that Nick Rockefeller took credit for inventing the Women's Liberation movement.[38]

[38]

Rockefeller also told Russo that he would see soldiers looking in caves in Afghanistan and Pakistan for Osama bin Laden and that there would be an "Endless war on terror where there's no real enemy and the whole thing is a giant hoax," so that "the government could take over the American people," according to Russo, who said that Rockefeller was cynically laughing and joking as he made the astounding prediction.
In a later conversation, Rockefeller asked Russo what he thought women's liberation was about. Russo's response that he thought it was about the right to work and receive equal pay as men, just as they had won the right to vote, caused Rockefeller to laughingly retort, "You're an idiot! Let me tell you what that was about, we the Rockefeller's funded that, we funded women's lib, we're the one's who got all of the newspapers and television - the Rockefeller Foundation."
Rockefeller told Russo of two primary reasons why the elite bankrolled women's lib, one because before women's lib the bankers couldn't tax half the population and two because it allowed them to get children in school at an earlier age, enabling them to be indoctrinated into accepting the state as the primary family, breaking up the traditional family model.

Media Relationships

BBC

  • Anthony Salz - the vice chair of the BBC Board of Governors, among the leaders of Common Purpose
  • David Loyn - BBC foreign correspondant, among the leaders of Common Purpose
  • Robert Peston - business editor of BBC News, alleged supporter of Common Purpose

The Guardian

The Guardian's former executive editor Albert Scardino (2002-2004) is a member of Media Standards Trust.

The Economist

Albert Scardino's wife Marjorie Scardino was President of The Economist from 1997-2002.

Financial Times

Financial Times chairman David Bell is a member of the Media Standards Trust.

Pearson

Marjorie Scardino was CEO of Pearson from 1997-2002.

Buzzfeed

Rockefeller Brothers Fund vice president Adam Wolfensohn is on the board of the Harmony Institute with Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti. The Harmony Institute is hosted at Eyebeam which was hosted at The New School.

Huffington Post

Jonah Peretti is a co-founder of the Huffington Post with Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau of Lerer Ventures.

4chan

Lerer Ventures hired 4chan owner Christopher Poole in 2010. [39]

Al Jazeera

The Arabic edition of Huffington Post is managed by Wadah Khanfar, the former manager of Qatar state television Al Jazeera and a member of the International Crisis Group.

MacArthur Foundation

Marjorie Scardino is chair of the MacArthur Foundation which hosts the Data+Society Research Group of Joi Ito, director of MIT Media Lab.

New York Times

Joi Ito is a member of the board of the New York Times.

Sony

Joi Ito is a member of the board of Sony.

Wikipedia

Joi Ito's sister Mimi Ito is on the board of Wikipedia.

Twitter

Marjorie Scardino is a board member of Twitter.

Multimedia

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ken Craggs, Leaders with a Common Purpose, personal blog, http://kencraggs.livejournal.com/2064.html https://archive.is/wdgJV
  2. ↑ Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Staff: Officer Bios, http://web.archive.org/web/20061001024324/http://www.rbf.org/about/bios_officers.html http://archive.is/OUzt9
  3. ↑ Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Explains BDS to His Trustees, Tablet, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/239204/rockefeller-brothers-fund-president-explains-bds-to-his-trustees-its-about-justice-dignity-and-security https://archive.is/yrSMu
  4. ↑ Demos Staff, https://demos.co.uk/about/our-people https://archive.is/KG7IL
  5. ↑ Nick Claydon, Teneo, https://www.teneo.com/person/nick-claydon/
  6. ↑ Demos USA 2017 form 990 http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/134/134105066/134105066_201706_990.pdf
  7. ↑ Jonathan Birdwell, Battle of Ideas, http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2015/speaker_detail/10878 https://archive.is/Et5YI
  8. ↑ Sarah Campbell Kennedy, LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcampbellkennedy https://archive.is/MQWeW
  9. ↑ James Corbett, Common Purpose: Charity or Change Agent?, Corbett Report, https://www.corbettreport.com/common-purpose-charity-or-change-agent/ https://archive.is/1kAYb
  10. ↑ Richard Pendlebury, Leveson Inquiry has momentous implications for free speech. But Mail dossier raises disturbing questions about the influence of 'people who know best' , The Daily Mail, 16 November 2012, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233681/Leveson-Inquiry-Mail-dossier-raises-disturbing-questions-influence-quasi-masonic-nexus-people-know-best.html https://archive.ph/Z5tXD
  11. ↑ http://dbpedia.org/page/Zahida_Manzoor
  12. ↑ Max Farquar, The Common Purpose Rogues Gallery, https://web.archive.org/web/20110425204336/http://maxfarquar.com:80/2011/04/who-belongs-to-common-purpose/
  13. ↑ Richard Pendlebury, A nuclear bomb that dropped on the press - and the motley crew who seized their chance, the Daily Mail, 16 November 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233685/A-nuclear-bomb-dropped-press--motley-crew-seized-chance.html https://archive.is/8Aj2V
  14. ↑ Islamophobia: a challenge for us all, Runnymede Trust, https://web.archive.org/web/20010626043250if_/http://www.runnymedetrust.org:80/projects/islam/SUMMARY.PDF
  15. ↑ Moderate Muslims Speak Out On Capitol Hill, IPT News, http://www.investigativeproject.org/2217/moderate-muslim-speak-out-on-capitol-hill https://archive.is/IRxRZ
  16. ↑ Aryeh Neier, National Security and Human Rights Campaign Request for Reauthorization, https://web.archive.org/web/20160815215439/http://soros.dcleaks.com/download/?f=/tab%2005%20national%20security%20human%20rights.pdf&t=us
  17. ↑ Baron Bodissey, David Cameron declares war on the EDL, Gates of Vienna, March 24, 2013, http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/03/david-cameron-declares-war-on-the-edl/ https://archive.is/qqilS
  18. ↑ Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Hans Brun, A Neo-Nationalist Movement: The English Defense League and Europe's Counter-Jihad Movement, International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, March 2013, http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ICSR-ECJM-Report_Online.pdf
  19. ↑ Anti-Islamic Content on Twitter, Demos, https://demos.co.uk/project/anti-islamic-content-on-twitter/ https://archive.is/cnJib
  20. ↑ Board of Trustees, Silatech, https://web.archive.org/web/20141223195102/http://www.silatech.com/home/about-us/board-of-trustees
  21. ↑ Civil Society, UN Alliance of Civilizations, https://web.archive.org/web/20191003073136/https://www.unaoc.org/civil-society/
  22. ↑ Epstein’s Teneo Connects All The Dots To Uranium One, Republic Broadcasting, August 13th, 2019, https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/august-13th-2019-epsteins-teneo-connects-all-the-dots-to-uranium-one/ https://archive.ph/AurKg
  23. ↑ Statement on Common Purpose takedown of cpexposed.com, Common Purpose Exposed, https://web.archive.org/web/20101121050701/http://cpexposed.com/takedown_statement/
  24. ↑ Jane Wakefield, Twitter abuse - 50% of misogynistic tweets from women, 26 May 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36380247 https://archive.is/BTlP6
  25. ↑ Matthew Yglesias, Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016, Vox, May 21, 2016, http://www.vox.com/2016/5/21/11724298/bruenighazi-matt-bruenig-neera-tanden-demos https://archive.is/sWLW3
  26. ↑ 22 National Progressive Leaders Launch "Five-Alarm Fire" Open Letter denouncing Donald Trump, MoveOn, http://front.moveon.org/national-trump-letter/ https://archive.is/B8RAQ
  27. ↑ Who We Work With, Social Transformation Project, http://stproject.org/about-us/who-we-work-with/ https://archive.is/B21q2
  28. ↑ Adam Gabbatt, Starbucks needs more than racial bias training after men's arrest, experts say, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/21/starbucks-racial-bias-training-black-men-arrested https://archive.is/a8Q4M
  29. ↑ James Higham, Demos – a picture’s worth a thousand words, Orphans of Liberty, September 16, 2015, https://4liberty.org.uk/2015/09/16/demos-a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words/
  30. ↑ Cory Morningstar, AVAAZ: IMPERIALIST PIMPS OF MILITARISM, PROTECTORS OF THE OLIGARCHY, TRUSTED FACILITATORS OF WAR | PART I, Wrong Kind of Green, September 10, 2012, http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/09/10/avaaz-imperialist-pimps-of-militarism-protectors-of-the-oligarchy-trusted-facilitators-of-war/
  31. ↑ Vanessa Beeley, The Propaganda War against Syria Led by Avaaz and the White Helmets, Global Research, October 02, 2015, https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-propaganda-war-against-syria-led-by-avaaz-and-the-white-helmets/5479307 https://archive.is/zc1ca
  32. ↑ Abel Danger, My Range Dick – MI-6 Contract Hit – Equipping Hit Teams – MindBox bordereau (murdereaux) Insurance Frauds – Communications Coordination, https://www.abeldanger.org/my-range-dick-mi-6-contract-hi/
  33. ↑ National Critical Lawyers Conference, Critical Lawyers Group, http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/dec/CLG.pdf
  34. ↑ Friends of the Earth, Why Women Will Save The Planet, University of Chicago Press Books, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo22554753.html https://archive.is/rLZx3
  35. ↑ Rockefeller Brothers Fund 2016 form 990, http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990pf_pdf_archive/131/131760106/131760106_201612_990PF.pdf
  36. ↑ How NATO-linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy, The Liberty Beacon, https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/nato-linked-think-tanks-control-eu-refugee-policy/ https://archive.is/eOtU9
  37. ↑ Mark Hensch, 9/11 mastermind: Al Qaeda favors ‘immigration’ to defeat US, The Hill, https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/307362-9-11-mastermind-al-qaeda-to-use-immigration-to-end-us https://archive.is/jsxQV
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Paul Joseph Watson, Rockefeller Admitted Elite Goal Of Microchipped Population, Prison Planet, Monday, January 29, 2007, http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm https://archive.is/H6rtm
  39. ↑ Nick Saint, 4Chan Founder Christopher "Moot" Poole Joins Lerer Ventures, San Francisco Chronicle, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/4Chan-Founder-Christopher-Moot-Poole-Joins-2386206.php
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