DirecTV Could Drop NEWSMAX Tonight, House GOP Furious Over 'Deplatforming' (Connecting the Dots: DirecTV, AT&T, K. Rupert Murdoch, FEC & Soros Funding, All Networking To Shut Down Newsmax)

DirecTV Could Drop NEWSMAX Tonight, House GOP Furious Over 'Deplatforming' (Connecting the Dots: DirecTV, AT&T, K. Rupert Murdoch, FEC & Soros Funding, All Networking To Shut Down Newsmax)

Newsmax

By Marisa Herman    |   Tuesday, 24 January 2023 06:36 PM EST

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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsmax-directv-house/2023/01/24/id/1105756/

Several dozen Republican lawmakers have voiced serious concerns about DirecTV’s alleged plans to “deplatform” and censor Newsmax from its channel lineup as early as midnight on Tuesday.

Last Friday, Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, and 41 other Republican House members signed a letter sent to AT&T, DirecTV, and hedge fund TPG Capital, the minority operator of the satellite system.

Hunt’s letter stated that the members of the House Republican Conference are “deeply concerned about this undemocratic assault on free speech.”

If Newsmax is deplatformed, it would be the second time AT&T’s DirecTV has deplatformed a major conservative news channel in the past year.

Newsmax, the nation’s fourth highest-rated cable news channel and a top 20 channel overall, has been carried on all major cable systems.

DirecTV has continued to claim that the moves against OAN and Newsmax were for cost-cutting reasons, but dozens of liberal news, information, and entertainment channels — with far less ratings than Newsmax and OAN — have been consistently renewed by DirecTV.

“If Newsmax is removed from DIRECTV, in less than a year House Republicans will have lost two of the three cable news channels that reach conservative voters on a platform that primarily serves conservative-leaning areas of the country,” Hunt stated in his letter.

The letter was signed by some of the most significant members of the House, including the GOP Conference chair, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, House Oversight Chair James Comer of Kentucky, and Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith of Missouri, among many others.

News that DirecTV could drop Newsmax as early as Tuesday at midnight erupted over social media.

Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., took to Twitter and blasted the move as “absurd,” adding that DirecTV “caved to the woke mob and partisan demands of Democrats to censure Newsmax."

“America deserves to hear ALL points of view!” he tweeted.

DirecTV's decision to drop OAN and possible eliminate Newsmax comes on the heels of a February 2021 letter written by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and then-Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., demanding that cable and satellite TV providers explain their alleged role in the “spread of dangerous misinformation” by carrying conservative networks.

The letter only targeted Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN — and was distributed just days before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on disinformation and extremism in media.

After the Eshoo and McNerney letter, in April 2022, AT&T removed OAN from DirecTV.

Hunt told the Washington Examiner that he was “deeply troubled by DirecTV’s decision to remove Newsmax from their lineup of channels.”

"Deplatforming Newsmax is the latest development in the Left’s ongoing campaign to purge voices they disagree with from the public sphere,” he said. “This decision by DirecTV and TPG Capital will cut off tens of millions of viewers who rely on Newsmax for their news and information.”

AT&T continues to own 70% of DirecTV, but added TPG Capital as its partner with a 30% stakeholder in 2021.
TPG, a Texas-based financial firm and hedge fund, is known for its liberal politics. FEC documents show that since 1993, 90% of its donations have gone to Democratic candidates and committees.

Hunt’s letter added: “Newsmax is one of the most watched cable news channels in America; millions of people turn to Newsmax as a source of trusted information. Now more than ever, the American people need access to a free and fair press. I am sure that DirecTV will claim that removing Newsmax from their lineup of channels was purely a business decision, but that is hard to accept when liberal news channels like Vice Media continue to remain on the air. Vice is a ratings failure for DirecTV, yet they continue to profit from their relationship with DirecTV.”

DirecTV has publicly stated that it won’t grant Newsmax any cable license fees, even though its pays 22 liberal news and information channels' fees, many with ratings much lower than Newsmax.

Newsmax stated that while it was still in negotiations, “we expect DirecTV, and its majority owner AT&T, to treat Newsmax on a fair and equitable basis in relation to all of the channels it carries, especially after both companies deplatformed OAN last year.”

DirecTV also has falsely claimed to media outlets and Congress that Newsmax is asking for a fee but still wants to keep a free stream on OTT platforms.

“That is simply false. DirecTV knows that no operator pays a fee while Newsmax streams free,” Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media, said.

Hunt’s letter claims that DirecTV is “moving to deplatform NEWSMAX by denying it cable fees on a fair and equitable basis.”

Hunt noted that DirecTV carries the Vice network a left-wing channel targeting millennials, and that TPG is a major investor in Vice.

Despite having miniscule ratings, Vice receives fees from DirecTV that are much higher than Newsmax.

“We deliver Newsmax to our national base of satellite and IPTV customers today at no cost to the programmer or our customers, ultimately offering Newsmax the ability to generate considerable advertising revenue at no cost,” a DirecTV spokesperson said in a statement.

“We’ve discussed with Newsmax on several occasions that we’d like to offer their programming, however, the network is now seeking significant fees that we cannot pass on to our broad customer base."

Newsmax’s license fee request was accepted by three major cable operators last year upon renewal.

Last year DirecTV made profits of about $2.7 billion. They have yet to deplatform or eliminate any liberal news or information channels despite many having low ratings.

Newsmax is urging its supporters to contact their congressmen and senators to oppose censorship of Newsmax demand support for fairness and equity for conservative media.

Connecting the Dots:

Haim Saban is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a benefactor at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and was a director at DIRECTV.

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

John L. Thornton is the chair for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a director at DIRECTV.

Robert A. Helman was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a partner at Mayer Brown.

Mayer Brown is the lobby firm for AT&T Inc.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is a director at AT&T Inc.

AT&T Inc. was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for AT&T Inc.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

John J. Studzinski is a director at the Human Rights Watch, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and a papal knighthood knight.

papal knighthood is an honor conferred by pope for the Roman Catholic Church.

K. Rupert Murdoch is a papal knighthood knight, the title of his biography is “The Man Who Owns the News” and was a director at DIRECTV.

Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. is a director at DIRECTV and was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

AT&T Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is a fellow at the Center for American Progress, a director at AT&T Inc. and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Haim Saban is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a benefactor at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and was a director at DIRECTV.

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

John L. Thornton is the chair for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a director at DIRECTV.

Robert A. Helman was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a partner at Mayer Brown.

Mayer Brown is the lobby firm for AT&T Inc.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a director at AT&T Inc.

AT&T Inc. was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for AT&T Inc.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Trevor Potter was a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a chairman for the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

William Oldaker was a general counsel for the Federal Election Commission (FEC),

a fundraiser for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and is a co-founder of the Oldaker Law Group.

R. Hunter Biden is a co-founder of predecessor company Oldaker Law Group and is Joseph R. Biden Jr’s son.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. William Oldaker was his fundraiser, is R. Hunter Biden’s father and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution. 

David M. Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian Institution and a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Shirley Ann Jackson is a regent at the Smithsonian Institution and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

John L. Thornton is the chair for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a director at DIRECTV.

Robert A. Helman was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a partner at Mayer Brown.

Mayer Brown is the lobby firm for AT&T Inc.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a director at AT&T Inc.

AT&T Inc. was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Resources: Past Research

The Weather Channel Begs Congress to Intervene in Negotiations with DirecTV (Past Research on DIRECTV)

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-weather-channel-begs-congress-to.html

AT&T CEO Vows ‘Independence’ for CNN in Merger With Time Warner (Past Research on AT&T)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/at-ceo-vows-independence-for-cnn-in.html

Federal Election Commission (FEC) (Past Research on the FEC)

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/12/federal-election-commission-fec.html

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Against Abbott Over Baby Formula Shortage (Connecting the Dots: DOJ, Abbott, Commercial Club of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, FDA, Sidley Austin LLP, Obama & Soros Funding, All Networking)

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Against Abbott Over Baby Formula Shortage (Connecting the Dots: DOJ, Abbott, Commercial Club of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, FDA, Sidley Austin LLP, Obama & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Republicanwatch.com

https://republicanwatch.com/doj-launches-criminal-investigation-against-abbott-over-baby-formula-shortage/

The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation against Abbott Laboratories’ infant-formula plant in Michigan over the company’s conduct that led to a nationwide baby formula shortage last year.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the case said attorneys with the Justice Department’s consumer-protection branch are conducting the criminal investigation.

A spokesman for the Baby formula manufacturing company confirmed the news of the investigation while adding that Abbott is cooperating with federal authorities.

“The DOJ has informed us of its investigation, and we’re cooperating fully,” an Abbott spokesman said.

The investigation comes after inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found bacteria at the plant during a January 2022 inspection. The FDA had received reports of babies getting sick after consuming the company’s baby formula.

The Wall Street Journal also reported inspectors found stagnant water, defects in the seams of formula cans, and damaged drying equipment at the Michigan plant. Federal inspectors could not, however, conclusively link the bacteria found at the plant to the sickness of the babies.

Abbot also confirmed that the bacteria’s genetic sequencing did not match those found in the sick infants.

Abbot, in February, halted production at the factory and recalled all the baby formula made at the factory. What soon followed will be remembered as one of the worst baby formula shortages in the history of the country.

The federal government took some steps to curb the shortage. Some of those steps include allowing more foreign baby formula into the U.S. and waving tariffs and regulatory requirements. The White House also organized military planes to fly baby formula into the country.

Despite efforts to end the shortage, reports in the New York Post suggested the formula shortage might continue until the spring of this year.

The report, conducted by Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of Enfamil baby formula, suggests that the crisis might not end this year.

Connecting the Dots:

Sally Blount is a director at Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Christopher B. Begley was the SVP for Abbott Laboratories and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

W. James Farrell is a director at Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Jack M. Greenberg was a director at Abbott Laboratories and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Edward M. Liddy is a director at Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

William A. Osborn is a director at Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Samuel C. Scott III is a director at Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Miles D. White is the chairman & CEO for Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Robert L. Parkinson Jr. was the president & COO for Abbott Laboratories and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

William D. Smithburg was a director at Abbott Laboratories and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Glenn F. Tilton is a director Abbott Laboratories and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Mark B. McClellan was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.

Robert Raben was a director at the American Constitution Society and an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Walter E. Dellinger III is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society and was the acting solicitor general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Christine A. Varney is a director at the American Constitution Society and was an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Philippa Scarlett was a director at the American Constitution Society and a deputy associate attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Janet Reno was a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society and an attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Debo P. Adegbile is a director at the American Constitution Society and was an assistant attorney general nominee for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Eric H. Holder Jr. was a board member for the American Constitution Society and the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Barack Obama administration.

Faith Elizabeth Gay is a board of advisor’s member for the American Constitution Society and was an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Cameron F. Kerry is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, John F. Kerry’s brother and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank). 

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Sally Blount is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at Abbott Laboratories.

Christopher B. Begley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and was the SVP for Abbott Laboratories.

W. James Farrell is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at Abbott Laboratories.

Jack M. Greenberg is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and was a director at Abbott Laboratories.

Edward M. Liddy is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at Abbott Laboratories.

William A. Osborn is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at Abbott Laboratories.

Samuel C. Scott III is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at Abbott Laboratories.

Miles D. White is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the chairman & CEO for Abbott Laboratories.

Robert L. Parkinson Jr. and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and was the president & COO for Abbott Laboratories 

William D. Smithburg is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and was a director at Abbott Laboratories.

Glenn F. Tilton is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director Abbott Laboratories.

Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Cameron F. Kerry is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, John F. Kerry’s brother and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank). 

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Frederick Kempe is the president & CEO for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and was an assistant managing editor for the Wall Street Journal.

Resources: Past Research

Abbott - BINAXNOW™ COVID-19 ANTIGEN SELF-TEST

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/01/abbott-binaxnow-covid-19-antigen-self.html

Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research on the Commercial Club of Chicago Members)

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html

Congressional Candidate: Susan Rice Likely Behind FBI Trump Raid (Connecting the Dots: Susan Rice, FBI, Obama, George Soros, Think Tanks, Lisa Monaco, Robert Mueller & Merrick Garland All Networking) (Past Research on the Department of Justice (DOJ))

MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/this-network-is-pure-evil.html

Hours After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next (Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry & Sidley Austin LLP)

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html

Ron DeSantis removed one woke course from Florida high schools that sent MSNBC host Joy Reid into a fit of rage (Connecting the Dots: MSNBC, The College Board, FDA, Covid Vaccine Manufacturer’s, & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Ron DeSantis removed one woke course from Florida high schools that sent MSNBC host Joy Reid into a fit of rage (Connecting the Dots: MSNBC, The College Board, FDA, Covid Vaccine Manufacturer’s, & Soros Funding, All Networking)

JAN 20, 2023

https://www.desantisdaily.com/ron-desantis-removed-one-woke-course-from-florida-high-schools-that-sent-msnbc-host-joy-reid-into-a-fit-of-rage/

The Left is using America’s educational system to brainwash children with woke ideologies like Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is fighting back.

And Ron DeSantis just removed one woke course from Florida high schools that sent MSNBC host Joy Reid into a fit of rage.

Ron DeSantis previously signed the Stop W.O.K.E. Act into law, which prohibits the teaching of Critical Race Theory in Florida’s schools and universities.

“No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race,” DeSantis said at the time. “We will not let the far-Left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces” because “there is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida.”

However, the new law hasn’t stopped leftists from attempting to sneak Critical Race Theory into Florida’s curriculum.

But officials within the DeSantis administration are working to snuff out any woke ideology placed in the curriculum.

And on January 12, the Florida Department of Education sent a letter to the College Board Florida Partnership, which runs the state’s AP program, stating that it does not approve of the new Advanced Placement (AP) class in African American Studies because it was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks education value.”

“In the future, should [the] College Board be willing to come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate content, FDOE will always be willing to reopen the discussion,” the letter concluded.

Although the letter did not cite the specific examples, the AP African American Studies syllabus is chock full of Critical Race Theory and woke insanity.

One course named “Black Queer Studies” “explores the concept of the queer of color critique, grounded in Black feminism and intersectionality, as a Black studies lens that shifts sexuality studies toward racial analysis.”

DeSantis’ Press Secretary Bryan Griffin said the Governor was serious when he said that “our classrooms will be a place for education, not indoctrination.”

“As submitted, the course is a vehicle for a political agenda and leaves large, ambiguous gaps that can be filled with additional ideological material, which we will not allow,” Press Secretary Bryan Griffin said. “As Governor DeSantis has stated, our classrooms will be a place for education, not indoctrination.”

As usual, MSNBC host Joy Reid erupted into a fit of rage over the news, accusing DeSantis of supporting “pro-Confederate groups who insisted that we can only teach slavery as happy slaves, good slave masters.”

Reid said the move was nothing more than “an attempt to shut down the teaching of not just black history but any history but the hallmark card of white and European history.”

“The letter didn’t cite which law the course violated, but they clearly meant the ‘Stop W.O.K.E. Act,’” Reid whined to her audience. “The law is aimed at eradicating the teaching of history, gender identity and sexual orientation in favor of a curriculum that centers that lionizes people who look like Ron DeSantis.”

Florida voters handed Ron DeSantis a mandate with his 19-point landslide victory in the Midterm elections.

One of the top priorities of DeSantis is making sure that “Florida is where woke goes to die.”

And no matter how much Joy Reid attacks and smears DeSantis, Floridians can be certain that he will not back down or quit fighting.

DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.

Connecting the Dots:

Harold E. Ford Jr. is a political commentator at MSNBC and was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Lois Dickson Fitt was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the VP for the College Board.

Mark B. McClellan was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Donald M. Stewart was a senior program officer & special adviser to the president for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and was the president of the College Board.

David A. Hamburg is the president emeritus for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and Margaret A. Hamburg’s father.

Margaret A. Hamburg is David A. Hamburg’s daughter, the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Donald Kennedy was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is a director at Johnson & Johnson (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer).

Charles O. Prince III is a director at Johnson & Johnson (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer) and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Lois Dickson Fitt was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the VP for the College Board.

Mark B. McClellan was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Ann Dibble Jordan is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a director at Johnson & Johnson (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer).

Constance J. Horner was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a director at Pfizer Inc. (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer).

Suzanne Nora Johnson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and

a director at Pfizer Inc. (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer).

Amy W. Schulman is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the EVP & general counsel for Pfizer Inc. (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer).

Sidley Austin LLP was a lobby firm for Pfizer Inc.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Morton O. Schapiro is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a trustee at the College Board.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Donald M. Stewart was a senior program officer & special adviser to the president for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and was the president of the College Board.

Carnegie Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Lois Dickson Fitt was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the VP for the College Board.

College Board

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Board

The College Board is an American nonprofit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand access to higher education. While the College Board is not an association of colleges, it runs a membership association of institutions, including over 6,000 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.

The College Board develops and administers standardized tests and curricula used by K–12 and post-secondary education institutions to promote college-readiness and as part of the college admissions process. The College Board is headquartered in New York City.^[2] David Coleman has been the CEO of the College Board since October 2012. He replaced Gaston Caperton, former Governor of West Virginia, who had held this position since 1999.^[3][4] The current president of the College Board is Jeremy Singer.^[5][6]

In addition to managing assessments for which it charges fees, the College Board provides resources, tools, and services to students, parents, colleges, and universities in college planning, recruitment and admissions, financial aid, and retention.

Resources: Past Research

MSNBC Scolds Brian Williams for ‘Patronizing’ Rachel Maddow (Past Research on MSNBC)

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/05/msnbc-scolds-brian-williams-for.html

Kurtz: The College Board's Radical Revisionist U.S. History Demotes the Founders (Past Research on the College Board)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/09/kurtz-college-boards-radical.html

FDA Fails to Protect Americans from Dangerous Drugs and Unsafe Foods (Past Research on the FDA)

SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/05/fda-fails-to-protect-americans-from.html

Johnson's Baby Powder and Ovarian Cancer (Past Research on Johnson & Johnson)

SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/johnsons-baby-powder-and-ovarian-cancer.html

Quit-Smoking Drug Chantix Comes Under FDA Scrutiny (Past Research on the FDA & Pfizer)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/04/quit-smoking-drug-chantix-comes-under.html

Netanyahu planning visit to the United Arab Emirates (Connecting the Dots: United Arab Emirates, Yucaipa Companies, Bill Clinton & Soros Funding, All Networking Against Israel)

Netanyahu planning visit to the United Arab Emirates (Connecting the Dots: United Arab Emirates, Yucaipa Companies, Bill Clinton & Soros Funding, All Networking Against Israel)

Israel365News

JNS | ISRAEL NEWS, MIDDLE EAST | JANUARY 2, 2023

All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command.

GENESIS 22:18

(THE ISRAEL BIBLE)

https://www.israel365news.com/364771/netanyahu-planning-visit-to-the-united-arab-emirates/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United Arab Emirates as early as next week in what will be his first trip outside the country since the swearing-in of his new government.

The reports surfaced after UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Saturday called Netanyahu to congratulate him on forming a government, the sixth time he has done so in his record-setting political career.

A statement from Netanyahu’s office said that the UAE leader had repeated his invitation for Netanyahu to make an official visit to Abu Dhabi.

Netanyahu was prime minister in Sept. 2020 when Israel normalized relations with the UAE and Bahrain as part of the Trump administration-brokered Abraham Accords.

Sudan and Morocco subsequently signed onto the accords, and Netanyahu has made it a central tenet of his new government to expand them even further, with an eye on Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan called his newly inaugurated Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, according to the official Emirates News Agency.

Abdullah expressed his desire to work with Cohen to further strengthen their countries’ bilateral relations, which have produced many achievements over the past two years, the report said.

Last month, Israeli President Isaac Herzog traveled to the UAE and Bahrain to mark the second anniversary of the historic agreements.

“The Abraham Accords are a national consensus in Israel on all sides of the political spectrum,” Herzog said at the time, adding: “Now we have to…upgrade ties between us even more, to strengthen them and to bring more nations [on board].”

Connecting the Dots:

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum is the prime minister & VP for the United Arab Emirates, the ruler of Dubai and an investor in the Yucaipa Companies.

William J. Clinton was an adviser for the Yucaipa Companies and is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

United Arab Emirates was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. 

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank). 

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. 

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the United Arab Emirates.

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Haim Saban is a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a friend of Shimon Peres and a board member for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Shimon Peres is a friend of Haim Saban and the president of Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister for Israel.

Thomas R. Pickering was a U.S. ambassador for Israel, a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and is a distinguished fellow for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Lester Crown was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and is the VP for the Crown Family Foundation.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 

Crown Family Foundation was a funder for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Haim Saban is a board member for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a friend of Shimon Peres.

Shimon Peres is a friend of Haim Saban and the president of Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister for Israel.

AIPAC is a U.S.-based lobby group for Israel.

Wendy Senor Singer was the head of Jerusalem office for AIPAC and is Daniel S. Senor’s sister.

Daniel S. Senor is Wendy Senor Singer’s brother, married to Campbell Brown and was a guest on Morning Joe.

Campbell Brown is married to Daniel S. Senor and was a guest on Morning Joe.

Mika Brzezinski is a co-host for Morning Joe and Zbigniew Brzezinski’s daughter.

Zbigniew Brzezinski is Mika Brzezinski’s father, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, was a board member for the International Crisis Group and the national security adviser for the Jimmy Carter administration.

George Soros is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, a board member for the International Crisis Group and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Millennium Promise and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Jimmy Carter was an honorary co-chairman for the Millennium Promise, the president of the Jimmy Carter administration, and Zbigniew Brzezinski was his national security adviser.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a director at the Millennium Promise and a frequent contributor for MSNBC.

Morning Joe is an MSNBC program.

Alan R. Batkin is a director at the Millennium Promise and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Steven L. Rattner is a frequent guest on Morning Joe and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Richard N. Haass is a frequent guest on Morning Joe and was a VP for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Haim Saban is a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a friend of Shimon Peres and a board member for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Shimon Peres is a friend of Haim Saban, and the president of Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister for Israel.

Thomas R. Pickering was a U.S. ambassador for Israel, a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and is a distinguished fellow for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 

Lester Crown was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a director at the General Dynamics Corporation and the VP for the Crown Family Foundation.

Morris J. Amitay was a lobbyist for the General Dynamics Corporation and an executive director for AIPAC.

AIPAC is a U.S.-based lobby group for Israel.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP and the president of the Crown Family Foundation.

Crown Family Foundation was a funder for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

Cameron F. Kerry is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and John F. Kerry’s brother.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society. 

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Thomas R. Pickering is a distinguished fellow for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was a U.S. ambassador for Israel.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. 

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the United Arab Emirates.

Resources: Past Research

Space Invaders: United Arab Emirates Plans a Colony for Mars (Past Research on the United Arab Emirates)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/02/space-invaders-united-arab-emirates.html

Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike (Past Research on Israel)

TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down.html

Hours After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next (Covid Project))

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html

Harvard Didn’t Cancel Kenneth Roth; It Decided Not to Honor an Antisemite (Connecting the Dots: Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Human Rights Watch & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Harvard Didn’t Cancel Kenneth Roth; It Decided Not to Honor an Antisemite (Connecting the Dots: Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Human Rights Watch & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Israel365News

JONATHAN S. TOBIN | OPINION | JANUARY 15, 2023

https://www.israel365news.com/365388/harvard-didnt-cancel-kenneth-roth-it-decided-not-to-honor-an-antisemite-opinion/

Cancel culture in academia is a serious problem. There is no sector of American society in which dissent is so routinely crushed, or where free speech is most endangered, as the country’s leading institutions of higher learning. So, the story that someone was supposedly denied a fellowship at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government because of his political beliefs seems to fit into a familiar pattern of shunning and silencing those who don’t adhere to the orthodoxies worshipped by the elites.

That’s what leading outlets of liberal opinion, and even a group well-known for its battle for free speech on college campuses, are claiming has happened to Kenneth Roth. According to the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and his influential supporters, he was snubbed by Harvard because of his “criticism” of Israel.

The conceit of his whiny lament in The Guardian and a dishonest editorial in The Boston Globe lies not only in the assertion that Harvard treated Roth unjustly. More outrageous are the claims by both pieces that the university’s behavior is a symptom of the way criticism of Israel and other left-wing causes are shut down by “wealthy donors”—a thinly disguised attempt by The Globe to throw shade at the Jews—and right-wing extremists.

This narrative is not just misleading and deeply unfair to Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf; it turns the discussion about the attitude toward anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment on college campuses on its head. Indeed, far from being an example of how supposedly courageous truth-tellers about Israeli atrocities are being muzzled by the all-powerful “Israel lobby,” Harvard’s move is a rare instance of a leading academic institution’s taking a stand against antisemitism, rather than tolerating it.

Pro-Israel voices are silenced

At universities and colleges around the United States, the field of Middle East Studies—and now even Israel Studies—is being taught by professors openly hostile to Zionism and the Jewish state. And it’s not exactly a secret that scholars seeking tenure in those departments, or any in the liberal arts for that matter, know that they must keep secret any sign of support for Israel or any belief or affiliation that might contradict reigning leftist/intersectional dogma.

This is the case even at the Kennedy School, as is ironically evident in Roth’s allegations. These include the claim that Elmendorf told scholar Kathryn Sikkink that he rejected Roth over “criticism of Israel.” Yet, Sikkink herself is a malicious foe of Israel who, as the left-wing magazine The Nation reported in its article about the controversy, used HRW’s biased research to put forward her own argument falsely claiming that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is among the world’s most repressive nations.

The issue at Harvard—or anywhere else in academia—isn’t that anti-Israel scholars can’t get jobs or be given a platform for expounding their ideas. As it happens, Roth already has a fellowship in hand at another Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania, which granted him the title of “Global Justice and Human Rights Visiting Fellow,” an honor that makes a mockery of both concepts.

Indeed, Zionists with prestigious academic appointments are not so much outliers as they are an endangered species, while those prepared, like Roth, to falsely smear Israel as an “apartheid state” or to treat the existence of the one Jewish state on the planet as a crime which must be erased, are smack in the mainstream.

Seen in that light, the effort on Roth’s behalf isn’t so much wrongheaded as it is a case of the left-wing academic and media establishment trying to gaslight the American people into thinking that it is those who lie about Israel who are being persecuted, rather than the other way around.

By deciding to deny Roth the honor of a fellowship, the Kennedy School wasn’t punishing him for holding a minority opinion; it was rightly seeking to distance itself from a person who—despite his Jewish origins and the fawning support he gets from the liberal corporate media and left-wing activist groups like the American Civil Liberties Union—one of the leading proponents of antisemitic attacks on the state of Israel.

Contrary to the disingenuous talk about his merely being a critic of Israel, Roth turned HRW, a group that prior to his becoming its head, was respected as an unbiased advocate for human rights around world, into an organization obsessed with the cause of delegitimizing Israel and valorizing those seeking its destruction.

Human Rights Watch’s anti-Israel propaganda

HRW’s irresponsible and mendacious anti-Israel activism is a matter of record, not merely the opinion, as Roth’s supporters claim, of right-wing troublemakers. A good summary was published by NGO Monitor, an important non-profit organization that keeps tab on groups that specialize in fomenting antisemitism while operating under the cover of the cause of human rights.

Most devastating was the criticism of Roth made by the late Robert Bernstein, HRW’s founder, who wrote in The New York Times that Roth isn’t just prejudiced against Israel. He’s a captive of leftist ideology about colonialism, racism and white privilege. This, according to Bernstein, caused Roth to erase any distinctions between democratic countries like the United States and Israel—which may certainly be flawed and worthy of criticism for some of their policies—and authoritarian and totalitarian states whose very purpose is to eliminate human rights. In Bernstein’s words, Roth “cast aside the distinction between open and closed societies.”

It is true that Roth and HRW have spoken up against genuine human-rights violators like China, Russia and various dictatorships and Muslim theocracies for their offenses. But treating a genuinely democratic country like Israel, where the rule of law prevails and which is under siege from forces bent on its destruction, as the moral equivalent of those nations undermines the entire concept of human-rights activism or justice.

In Bernstein’s view, Roth had hijacked HRW and turned it into an anti-Israel activist group that focused disproportionately on efforts to support the Palestinian war on Zionism. Like others who smear Israel, Roth ignored the fact that the anomalous situation in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) is due almost entirely to the Palestinians’ repeated rejection of peace, support of terrorism and refusal to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state, no matter where its borders might be drawn.

Along with other so-called human-rights and international organizations like the UN Human Rights Council, HRW was part of a network of activists dedicated to demonizing Israel and Zionism. HRW is an avid supporter of the antisemitic BDS movement and “lawfare” efforts aimed at manipulating international law to make Israel a pariah. It is in this context that the onslaught against Harvard must be understood.

Some of Roth’s calumnies against Israel are particularly egregious. It wasn’t enough for him to spread falsehoods about Israel’s being an “apartheid state,” or to make dishonest claims about its murder of civilians. He even spread the blood libel that it was engaged in a racist attempt to deny COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinians, when it was the Palestinian Authority that refused the Israeli government’s offers of help in providing shots for Arabs living in the disputed territories under the despotic rule of Mahmoud Abbas.

Yet, what also needs to be understood about the effort to turn Roth into a martyr for academic freedom is that the debate isn’t merely about his despicable record of anti-Israel bias. It’s part of the vicious campaign to delegitimize Israel and Zionism that was the centerpiece of HRW’s activity during his long tenure there.

Roth is a prodigious fundraiser. HRW was rewarded for his calumnies against Israel with a $100 million grant from left-wing billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Though some on the left treat any criticism of Soros as evidence of Jew hatred, his support for anti-Israel and even antisemitic activism aimed at supporting the Jewish state’s destruction renders their claims risible.

But Roth is also a terrible hypocrite when it comes to raising money. He solicited a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire, and in return promised not to advocate for LGBTQ rights in Muslim countries. Many on the left consider those who cite the fact that Israel is the one country in the Middle East where gays have equal rights (Amir Ohana, the new speaker of Israel’s Knesset, is gay) to be “pinkwashing.” But Roth was prepared to sacrifice the rights of Muslim gays in order to get more cash with which to attack the Jewish state’s existence.

An honest assessment of Roth’s record must lead to the conclusion that he isn’t a “critic” of Israel’s, but rather someone who regards its existence as a crime that must be atoned for by its destruction. His lies about Israel and willingness to deny Jews rights he wouldn’t deny to anyone else isn’t merely a controversial opinion; it’s a virulent variant of antisemitism.

He wouldn’t be the only one with such vile opinions to be given a prestigious perch at an elite university. But it is to the credit of Harvard’s Kennedy School that it drew the line at giving him the kind of honor he clearly doesn’t deserve.

Contrary to the arguments of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group that has stood up in the past for conservatives, the issue at Harvard isn’t the defense of academic freedom, but normalizing Jew-hatred.

In a saner environment than the one that currently exists in academia and the establishment media, it would be the University of Pennsylvania under fire from faculty, students, alumni and the public for honoring an antisemite like Roth. Instead, it is Harvard’s Elmendorf who is under intolerable pressure to reverse his stand and give Roth yet another platform to advance his campaign to treat Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, as racism.

That the organized Jewish community has had little to say about Roth and the attacks on Harvard’s stand against antisemitism also provides more proof of the failure of American-Jewish leaders and their preference for liberal causes that do nothing to protect the rights or the security of the community they purport to represent.

Rather than meekly accept his claims of martyrdom, those who profess to care about fighting Jew-hatred need to put aside political differences and join in an effort to call him out for his lies. If Harvard is ultimately forced to surrender on this issue, it will be a triumph for Roth’s brand of left-wing antisemitism that is a growing threat to the ability of Jews to speak up for Israel and Zionism in the public square, and especially in academia.

Indeed, it isn’t Kenneth Roth who’s being canceled, but all those who are willing to tell the truth about the leftist war on Israel and the Jews.

Connecting the Dots:

R. Nicholas Burns is a professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

Enzo Viscusi is a dean's council member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

John C. Whitehead was a dean's council member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.

Christopher Stone is a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the president of the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the founder for the Soros Fund Management, his senior adviser was Mark Schwartz and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee.

Mark Schwartz was the president & CEO for the Soros Fund Management, George Soros’s senior adviser and is a dean's council member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Mary M. Boies is a dean's council member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a director at the International Rescue Committee.

Princess Firyal was a dean's council member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.

Samantha Power was a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a director at the International Rescue Committee, Barack Obama’s aide and is the United Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration.

Howard E. Cox Jr. is a dean's council member for the John F. Kennedy School of Government, a board of fellow’s member for Harvard Medical School and a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Ann M. Fudge is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and was an overseer at Harvard University.

James E. Rogers is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a dean's council member for the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

David M. Rubenstein is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a dean's council member for the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

John C. Whitehead is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a dean's council member for the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the chairman for Harvard University.

C. Douglas Dillon was the chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and an overseer at Harvard University.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a professor at Harvard University.

Nemir A. Kirdar was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a dean's council member for the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Harold H. Koh  was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the developments editor for the Harvard Law Review and an overseer at Harvard University.

Paul E. Peterson was a director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a professor at Harvard University.

Lawrence H. Summers was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and is a professor; former president at Harvard University.

Judith Rodin was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the president for the University of Pennsylvania.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the Human Rights Watch.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch, his senior adviser was Mark Schwartz and is the founder for the Soros Fund Management.

Mark Schwartz was the president & CEO for the Soros Fund Management, George Soros’s senior adviser and is a dean's council member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Resources: Past Research

West Point Hosts First Male Same-Sex Wedding (Past Research on the John F. Kennedy School of Government)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2013

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/west-point-hosts-first-male-same-sex.html

Mike Rowe on How Many Are Following the ‘Worst Advice in the History of the World’ (Past Research on Harvard University & the University of Pennsylvania)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2013

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-rowe-on-how-many-are-following.html

Israel Denies Work Visa to Official from ‘Blatantly Hostile’ Human Rights Watch (Past Research on the Human Rights Watch (HRW))

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/02/israel-denies-work-visa-to-official.html