The Googlization of the Far Right: Why is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?👉 Google, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers. prwatch.org/news/2013/11/1…
Adding 🤔 Following Keith Kellogg's retirement from active duty, he joined Oracle Corporation as an adviser to its homeland security division. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Kel…
Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Co…
Larry Ellison, co-founder, the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ell…
Kellogg is the second oldest of four children. His older brother, Mike Kellogg, is a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge.🤔
ICYMI The Lawyer Behind the Google Memo Guy's Lawsuit Isn't Who You'd ExpectHarmeet Dhillon, whose firm is defending the fired engineer James Damore behind that Google diversity memo, is a study in contradictions. inc.com/sonya-mann/har…
ICYMI NEW RELIGION WORSHIPS ‘DIVINE SUPERCOMPUTER’, BUT IS HIGH-TECH FAITH OLD-SCHOOL IDOLATRY?
-Anthony Levandowski israel365news.com/95758/high-tec…
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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GOOGLE LLC v. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT
No. 18–956. Argued October 7, 2020—Decided April 5, 2021 supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Tuck/ Harvard Institute of Politics/Senior Advisory Committee incl.👉Susan Molinari etc.- resigned from Congress to become a TV journalist for CBS News. Later she became a vice president for public policy at Google from 2012 to 2018. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Mol…
- Timing of prominent donations to foundation led to accusations of the foundation being used as a tax loophole. Both Mark Zuckerberg & Nick Woodman donated near the same time as their companies' IPOs, & the founders of WhatsApp donated shortly after their company's acquisition.
Add/ The lawsuit alleged that Google #KochNetwork engaged in anticompetitive behavior by paying Apple between $8 billion and $12 billion to be the default search engine on iPhones.
Paxton #KochNetwork
Add/2010 Zatko accepted a position as a program manager at DARPA where he oversaw cyber security research. In 2013 Mudge went to work for Google in their Advanced Technology & Projects division. In 2020, he was hired as head of security at Twitter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Za…
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Big tech's budding relationship with Saudi Arabia in doubt after Khashoggi/the crown prince of Saudi Arabia met the royalty of Silicon Valley: Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai.
#Google #KochNetwork cnn.com/2018/10/18/tec…
So far in the U.S., employees have been laid off across business units including Chrome, Cloud, and its experimental Area 120 unit. Some employees working on the company’s artificial intelligence programs were also laid off
Lofgren was defended by colleagues Ro Khanna and Anna Eshoo, who called these criticisms "ad hominem attacks".
Add/ Lofgren is known to take calls from Apple CEO Tim Cook, this person adds. She’s also seen as an important facilitator for Democrats looking to fill their coffers with tech cash. 😐
Big Tech, Big Cash: Washington’s New Power Players
An updated analysis of the rise in lobbying and campaign contributions from the Big Tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Add/ Inside the Uber and Google settlement with Anthony Levandowski
Notorious engineer wangles deal that appears to wipe out tens of millions of dollars in debt
Add/Christopher Poole-Founder and former head administrator of 4chan/ On March 8, 2016, via a post on Tumblr, Poole announced that he had been hired by Google in an undisclosed position, a decision that was met with anger from Google employees-
- In June 2016, Poole became a partner at Google's in-house startup incubator, Area 120. He switched positions again in 2018 when he became a product manager for Google Maps. On April 13, 2021, he left Google, after five years at the company.
Google was particularly interested in Path,/they loved the team, particularly “design skills,” and were very enthusiastic to get a prominent ex-Facebooker, Morin, at Google. They hoped it might help Google recruit more Facebook employees over time. techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/goo…
Add to Google/ #KochNetwork thread … Google to remove news links in Canada in response to online news law/Search giant responds to Liberal government's Online News Act, which became law last week
Add/Government lawyers say Google protects its franchise through a form of payola, shelling out billions of dollars annually to be the default search engine on the iPhone and on web browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox.
@jimstewartson @DemRebooted Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association/Self-described "constitutional sheriffs" believe that sheriffs are the highest governmental authority and that they have the power and duty to defy or disregard laws they deem unconstitutional.
@jimstewartson @DemRebooted Clarke is a Member of Extremist "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association" the antigovernment organization that promotes the Posse Comitatus-derived belief, among others, that the county sheriff is the supreme law etc.
@jimstewartson @DemRebooted Richard Mack/former lobbyist for Gun Owners of America/founder-Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA)/sits on board of directors of the Oath Keepers/‘94 recruited by NRA as plaintiff over the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
@JoshKovensky Nathaniel Fischer – a venture capitalist, former Claremont Institute fellow and president of the Dallas lodge of the secretive Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) – theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…
Organizations that have received millions of dollars from the oil-soaked Koch network are supporting the effort to overturn the Chevron doctrine.
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In Loper, the plaintiffs' lawyers are "working pro bono and belong to a public-interest law firm, Cause of Action, that discloses no donors and reports having no employees,"
"However," the Times added, "court records show that the lawyers work for Americans for Prosperity, a group funded by [Charles] Koch, the chairman of Koch Industries and a champion of anti-regulatory causes."
@meredithvieira @JoyVBehar @sunny @JennyMcCarthy @NicolleDWallace @Rosie @BarbaraJWalters @TheView Nikki Haley at the Council for National Policy👉Less than a week before her resignation, Haley made a pilgrimage to a secretive organization of right-wing, mostly evangelical Republican operatives known as the Council for National Policy #KochNetwork