Deep neocon connections to pro-Trump alternative media shills
Through my years of experience with the alternative media I believe I have become pretty good at detecting bulls**t.
It is vital to understand when manufacturing false opposition to the establishment that false narratives need to be created to give a level of credibility. That is where the ‘neocon vs alt-right’ narrative comes in.
Firstly we need to understand the origins of the neocon movement. The likes of The John Birch Society have published videos that include the origins of neo-conservatism. I’ve heard many others in the alternative media repeat the same information and narrative. All the focus is placed on Irving Krystol. Krystol is dubbed “The Grandfather of Neo-conservatism”. Now I have no issue with exposing the fact that Krystol was a major player in the foundation on neoconservatism or him being a Jew or Trotskyite. That isn’t the issue I have here. It is not always what these people tell you that is the problem. It’s what they do not tell you.
(note – I see neocon and Trotskyite as labels. These people care about obtaining and maintaining control and power.)
There is a name that always seems to be omitted from the information in alternative media when it comes to the origins of the neo-cons and delving into the background of this person, I find it no coincidence.
Nina Rosenwald
Remember the name. If we take a look into the history of Rosenwald, we find her involvement in the begins of neo-conservatism. Rosenwald is a ardent Zionist that has created a network dedicated to pushing a very pro-Jewish causes and pro-Israel agenda that includes all kinds of propaganda and disinformation.
Rosenwald’s wealth has fueled a rapidly emerging alliance between the pro-Israel mainstream and the Islamophobic fringe. This alliance serves to sanitize and legitimize anti-Muslim propaganda and incorporate it with the ideas of neoconservative foreign policy heavyweights intent on promoting the Zionist agenda by invoking the specter of a common “Islamofacist” enemy.
Rosenwald’s first political involvement was the backing the hawkish Democrat Henry “Scoop” Jackson. A political figure rarely mentioned these days. That in itself is a red flag in my eyes especially when we look at all the anti-immigration rhetoric in the alternative media. Maybe it was because he was behind a amendment to the 1974 Trade Act called the Jackson-Vanik amendment that allow Jews from the Soviet Bloc to immigrate to the United States.
‘Rosenwald’s political activism began in the 1970s in support of Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Rosenwald
The (Jackson-Vanik) amendment was intended to help refugees, particularly minorities, specifically Jews, to emigrate from the Soviet Bloc. Jackson and his assistant, Richard Perle, also lobbied personally for some people who were affected by this law such as Anatoly (now Natan) Sharansky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M._Jackson
I do wish to delve deeper into this whole political situation at a later date. I don’t want to get off track.
It’s important to note Sen. Jackson’s assistant was Richard Perle. They both had an aide named Frank Gaffney. The connection between these three and Nina Rosenwald is vital to understand.
“Gaffney began his government career in the 1970s, working as an aide in the office of Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, under Richard Perle. From August 1983 until November 1987, Gaffney held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy in the Reagan Administration, again serving under Perle.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gaffney
Today Frank Gaffney runs a think tank called the Center for Security Policy. Rosenwald is on the advisory board and a regular financier through her funding arm The Abstraction Fund (that operates out of 666 Third Avenue, New York) along with the big military industrial complex corporations Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing. Please check out the Center for Security Policy’s 2013 schedule B form here for the full list of funders – https://www.scribd.com/doc/240859080/Center-for-Security-Policy-2013-Schedule-B
Nina Rosenwald’s Abstraction Fund activities – http://powerbase.info/index.php/Abstraction_Fund
Gaffney is also heavily promoted by Breitbart News, a big player in the alt-right movement that was conceived in Israel. The founder Andrew Breitbart was raised Jewish. The CEO Larry Solov is Jewish. The news organisation is financed by secretive hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Mercer heavily financed John Bolton’s SuperPAC that supported Donald Trump’s campaign. Kellyanne Conway was the Mercer’s family spokesperson before becoming Counselor to the President Donald Trump. Mercer’s daughter Rebekah is a board member of Gatestone Institute which the Mercer Family Foundation has financed to the tune of $150,000 between 2012-2014.
We find a great deal of these funders have supported traditional neo-conservative political candidates and political PAC’s that would promote candidates that promote a neo-conservative agenda.
From Rosenwald’s funding and Frank Gaffney’s network a significant number of connections are made to websites and figures within the alt-right.
Robert Spencer / https://www.jihadwatch.org/
Jihad Watch is funded by a lot of the same people that Gaffney’s CSP is funded by including Nina Rosenwald. Spencer is a regular on Gaffney’s podcast Secure Freedom and hevily promoted on Gaffney’s Counter Jihad website. The pair promote the same talking points and conspiracy theories they have cooked up to push narrative to justify increased defence spending that benefit their funders.
According to a September 2010 Politico investigation, the David Horowitz Freedom Center channelled $1 million to Jihad Watch over the previous three years.
David Horowitz is one of Rosenwald’s and Gaffney’s lackies (not limited to these two). Horowitz likes to tell tales of a hellish childhood being raised by evil Stalinists that mistreated him to the point he would have been better off in a gulag. I don’t want to make light of child abuse but it’s hard to take anything Horowitz says seriously. Especially looking at his financiers, people he associates with and the lies he pushes. It looks like a rouse to create sympathy and establish victim hood status hoping people will let their guard down. A technique that has developed an unfortunate association with his tribesmen. I guess if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. This is ironic however because when he isn’t spending time cooking up conspiracy theories about the American Left conspiring with the Islamists he’s usually labelling people
SJW’s then attacks them. One rule for the Jew and one rule for the goy, I suppose.
Anyhow Rosenwald seems to love the work he’s doing. Well she has sent money to DHFC through her Abstraction Fund. One of his largest backers appear to be a very interesting Jewish couple Joyce and Aubrey Chernick through the rather innocent sounding Fairbrook Foundation. They seem to have a very similar list of donation recipients to Nina Rosenwald. Some of that money seems to have been funneled through DHFR to Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch. Another big and repeat donor is The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. I’ll discuss both of those in more detail at a later date.
Pamela Geller / gellerreport.com
From research it looks like much of Geller’s funding comes from Robert Spencer. The 2 are co-founders of SIOA Stop Islamization of America and both are involved in American Freedom Defense Initiative that is registered at the same address as Spencer’s Jihad Watch.
Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance is the title of one of Geller’s book. The press release for the book included endorsement from hawkish neo-con John R. Bolton who just happens to be the chair of Rosenwald’s Gatestone Institute. Bolton was the first political supporter of Donald Trump of note, praising his foreign policy ideas during the campaign in a Breitbart News interview.
Geller has authored 4 books with contributions from Spencer and Geert Wilders. Her latest release was published under Milo Yiannopoulos’ Dangerous Books publishing house.
Geller has run many pro-Israel anti-Muslim campaigns through commercial advertising and raises funds through donors through these campaigns run on the gellerreport.com website.
Geller is also associated with the EDL, English Defence League.
Tommy Robinson
Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is connected to Frank Gaffney a number of different ways. The connection through Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer is illustrated in the image above. The most significant connection is through former COO of Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy Christine Brim, who is also a director of the Center for Vigilant Freedom alongside Alan Lake, EDL founder. The EDL was set up with the help of a 70,000 dollar grant from Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, channelled through the Center for Vigilant Freedom. There is much more connenction that need to be explained in greater detail in the future.
Another connection linked Robinson to the network is through Robert Shillman. Shilman sits on the board of the anti-Muslim think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center
Shillman has funded four fellowships for journalists who worked on FrontPage, the centre’s ‘online journal for news and political commentary’. On its website he is thanked for ‘underwriting’ the work of various ‘Shillman Fellows in Journalism‘. Robinson is a Shillman Fellow. The Canadian and UK flags represent his employment with Rebel Media which obviously links into this network as well.
Ben Shapiro
Hardcore Zionist Orthodox Jew married to an Israeli. A former Breitbart News editor and friend of David Horowitz. The two co-founded the Truth Revolt website. It seems that after his break from Breitbart News he went back to supporting Ted Cruz
Ben also has some interesting connections to Alan Dershowitz who just happens to be on the board of Gatestone Institute. One is through the Harvard Law School. Incase you wasn’t aware Shapiro is a Harvard Law graduate. He was a student at the same time Alan Dershowitz was a professor. There are some more interesting connection involving Dershowitz and Harvard involving his “former” good friend convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his money man Les Wexner.
Another connection is Dershowitz’s loyal support for his protege Shapiro on Fox News on the issue of Shapiro speaking at UC Berkeley. Threatening to sue Berkeley if they didn’t let Shapiro speak there.
Following the release of a political cartoon in a Berkeley publication Dershowitz gave an exclusive interview to Shapiro’s The Daily Wire website. In typical hypocritical Jewish fashion Dershowitz labels cartoon “anti-semitic” in attempt to delegitimize and censor criticism of Israel and make himself out to be a victim.
Shapiro is attempting to have somewhat of a serious political career in the future. Well, as much as someone of his ilk can be taken serious. Therefore Shapiro has taken a slightly different route as of late and attempting to disassociate from the others in this list.
Mike Cernovich / https://www.cernovich.com/
Cernovich and Dershowitz share a interesting relationship. One that has uncovered some seriously disturbing information. Let’s start with the light stuff. Dershowitz starred in Cernovich’s movie entitled Silenced. A film about freedom of speech through a controlled narrative that does not highlighting pro-Israel groups and people like Dershowitz trying to violate people’s rights.
In January of 2017 Cernovich inserted himself into the whole Epstein case. No the one against Epstein but case known as Giuffre V. Maxwell, and is a suit filed by a woman named Virginia Giuffre against British heiress Ghislane Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell acted as a facilitator and groomer for Jeffrey Epstein’s child prostitution enterprise, and that Maxwell was directly responsible for trafficking the then-underage Giuffre as an unwilling prostitute.
Cernovich filed a motion to intervene and a motion to unseal previously sealed court documents and exhibits in this case. Cernovich’s claim is that his motion to unseal these items is a purely journalistic investigation, and that it was part of his “quest” to oppose pedophiles. This is, apparently, not the case.
According to the response in opposition to Cernovich’s motion to unseal, documents filed by Giuffre’s attorneys state that Cernovich is attempting to unseal documents that were sealed under an order intended to protect Giuffre. The opposition documents further state that Cernovich’s motion to unseal mirrored earlier motions to unseal filed by celebrity attorney and close personal friend Alan Dershowitz,who is also named as being involved with Epstein’s sex ring. So we can conclude that Cernovich is acting as Dershowitz’s proxy. They also noted how Cernovich has been a pro-rape advocate, often using rhetoric favouring the targeting of rape victims, as well as Cernovich’s relationship with Dershowitz, most notably Dershowitz’s appearance in Cernovich’s movie “Silenced”.
People unrelated to court cases can and do act as Amicus Curiae (literally, “friend of the court”) wherein they act as unrelated third parties that submit information that may be of relevance to the case. An Intervenor is distinct from an Amicus Curiae in that an Intervenor is bound as one of the parties in the case. As an Intervenor, Cernovich is binding himself to the defendant– Ghislane Maxwell.
Instead of acting as someone fighting child prostitution, Cernovich is defending an accused lieutenant of an international child sex ring.
Further investigation revealed that Dershowitz filed a motion to intervene in August, 2016, and subsequently filed a motion to unseal the same documents as Cernovich later requested to unseal in 2017.
In a bizarre attempt to cover himself, Cernovich took to twitter and made the claim that he was being targeted by accused child prostitution ringleader Jeffrey Epstein. Cernovich’s tweet consisted of a heavily redacted court document that he claimed was “proof” of “secret legal filings” against him. Of course no “proof” has been presented to substantiate Cernovich’s claims.
Since this event he has continued to spread disinformation as part of the carefully crafted Pizzagate disinformation campaign designed to muddy the waters, distract from, insert falsehoods and misdirection into the Epstein case. This will be covered in greater detail in the future.
As part of this disformation campaign Cernovich played a significant role in promoting “Pizzagate” painting his opponents as pedophiles, perverts, or sexual harassers.
Charles C. Johnson
A tool of Dershowitz and ally of Cernovich. He spread disinformation in an attempt to discredit a victim of child prostitution and a convicted pedophile named Virginia Giuffre. This is guy is a really sick individual. If that wasn’t enough, he has also created hoaxes in an attempt to smear political opponents and deceminate more misinformation into the whole “Pizzagate” operation. He even had the gall to hire Alan Dershowitz to go after Gawker for defamation that case was thrown out of court. This was a pathetic response to Gawker exposing the poor “journalism” work conducted by Johnson which includes Charles C. Johnson’s disinformation regarding Virginia Giuffre. Gawker also exposed Dershowitz’ name on the Lolita Express flight logs. What is very odd to me is how no one seems to be filing lawsuits against Johnson or Cernovich for libel and defamation.
Milo Yiannopoulos
As a “journalist” for Breitbart, his blog posts almost exclusively consisted of self-aggrandisement and rank hypocrisy, straw-men, and the regurgitation of dated anti-feminist memes from 4chan and 8chan. He is also a professional victim, a self-described professional troll, a Gamergate figurehead, men’s rights activist, homosexual, transphobe, fat-shamer, and a fetish for getting himself into controversy probably most famously for supporting pederasty. He has a similar background and childish character as Mike Cernovich.
In fairness, he had a brief burst of fame before that, for making creepy spreadsheets. Nowadays, Yiannopoulos spends the majority of his time seeking out controversy and boosting his own fame. He has been a reoccurring host on Alex Jones’ show.
In a speech at a David Horowitz Freedom Center event in 2017 he gave a told the audience that David Horwitz was a “hero” of his as well as Pamela Geller. He published Geller’s latest book entitled Fatwa on his publishing label Dangerous books.
James O’Keefe / https://www.projectveritas.com/
Previously undisclosed donors listed in Project Veritas’s annual tax filings reviewed by The Daily Beast include Sears Roebuck heiress Nina Rosenwald, an investor and top executive at the William Rosenwald Family Fund.
The top donors listed in Project Veritas’s annual filings are Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, both part of the network of political and charitable organizations tied to the billionaire libertarians Charles and David Koch.
Analysis of past donations made by Rosenwald over the years and the similar donations made by Donors Capital Fund indicate that she is using Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund as conduits to continue funding her network operatives more discreetly.
The two groups steered $541,000 to Project Veritas from 2011 to 2013, but they themselves are not the actual donors. Both act as conduits for other contributors that aren’t listed on Project Veritas’s financials, passing along funds from others who remain anonymous. Though both feature prominently in the group’s tax filings, the Koch political network itself keeps its distance from O’Keefe. Representatives of that network have “refused entreaties from Mr. O’Keefe’s allies to support his groups,” The New York Times reported on Thursday.
The Times also reported that family of billionaire investor Robert Mercer, which donated $25,000 to Project Veritas through a company called Gravitas Maximus LLC, had ceased financial support for Project Veritas due its “ignominious failures.” The Mercers’ contribution was first confirmed by BuzzFeed News.
Though a comprehensive record does not appear to exist for years after 2013, a number of those donors continued contributing to Project Veritas, and additional reporting indicates that charitable foundations in particular stepped up their support for the group.
Project Veritas also landed a contribution from the biggest name in American politics today: Donald Trump, who shares O’Keefe’s distaste for political media. The Times reported that Trump, impressed by Project Veritas’s undercover work, wrote the group a $10,000 check in 2015 and then summoned O’Keefe to his office for an in-person chat.
Toward the end of last year’s presidential election, O’Keefe was invited as a special guest of Trump’s during one of his debates against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. During that debate, Trump specifically referenced a video released by O’Keefe.
Contacted for comment, a Project Veritas spokesman referred The Daily Beast to comments from one of its donors in Thursday’s Times story. Rebecca Walter Dunn, whose husband donated $10,000 in 2013 and whose foundation has continued to support the group, said Project Veritas does “an exceptional job of holding the media and other institutions accountable. For that reason, we will continue to support his work.”
Those efforts to hold the media accountable have backfired. Project Veritas’s most recent sting operation, which attempted to dupe The Washington Post into running a fake story designed to discredit sexual misconduct allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, resulted in a vindication of the Post’s rigorous reporting practices when its reporters quickly discovered the plot.
O’Keefe and his group’s failed stings and derided methods haven’t completely killed their credibility in the broader conservative movement. O’Keefe was honoured on Wednesday evening by the right-wing organisation United in Purpose, which awarded him their Impact Award. This award, given to individuals the group deems “heroes,” was presented by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, during a ceremony at Trump International Hotel, just a few blocks away from the White House.
Laura Loomer
Loomer earlier in her career was part of James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. Somewhere along the way she became a Shillman Fellow as she was listed as on Rebel Media’s website. Robert J. Shillman funds both Project Veritas and Rebel Media. So we can conclude she is bought and paid for by Shillman. Though that isn’t enough for Loomer. She still begs for donations from Twitter followers and claims to be 100% funded by the public. That is doubtful though as she continues to spew the same pro-Trump, pro-Israel anti-Muslim propaganda, false narratives, gatekeeping as these same operatives listed and continues to use tactics like undercover filming and ambush journalism as Project Veritas.
Jack Posobiec
Former Rebel Media correspondent that is former navy intelligence officer. Navy intelligence has produced a lot of disinformation against in the alternative media. Posobiec now frequently hosts on the Infowars network. He has promoted all the same narratives as all the rest in the list here. He was also a special projects director of Citizens for Trump, a pro-Trump organisation.
Alex Jones / https://www.infowars.com/
Jones has all kinds of connections to this network. For one he has had all these people on the list on his shows with the exception of Ben Shapiro (Jones has promoted Ben Shapiro clips and videos on his site). Some are reoccurring hosts on his show, some do special reports and some are regular guests on his show.
Jones’ talking points and narratives fall in line with the network. He is their biggest propagandist and mouthpiece when he isn’t pimping his snakeoil supplement products. His infowars outlet highlights this networks work and has created a platform for their agenda. He has surrounding himself with these operatives which speaks for itself.