Moonshot
by: Janice Kortkamp
date: December 28, 2018
Foxes guarding the hen house … or “Moonshot”?
I’m just starting to pull on these threads and thinking out loud – wondered if anyone else has been doing the same.
Saw this article I’ve shared below on the Ron Paul Institute’s page (that they shared from RT):
“The co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has apologized to Republican Roy Moore for funding an organization that faked a ‘Russian bot’ involvement to mar his election campaign in Alabama.
American Engagement Technologies (AET), which Hoffman gave $750,000 to, put $100,000 of the entrepreneur’s money towards New Knowledge, a cybersecurity firm which fabricated some 1,000 Russian language Twitter accounts to follow Moore.”
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/…/linkedin-billionaire-sorry-…/…
So here are some threads I’ve been pulling on this morning:
NEW KNOWLEDGE is the cybersecurity firm that “fabricated around 1000 Russian language Twitter accounts to follow Moore.” This info is from their own site –
1) “Jonathon Morgan, a co-founder and CEO of New Knowledge is a former digital content producer and State Department counter terrorism adviser, is joined by co-founders Ryan Fox, a former NSA officer and military intelligence veteran, and Sandeep Verma, who has led engineering teams for Halliburton and BP. Kelly Perdew, a Managing Partner at Moonshots Capital, will also be joining the board of directors.”
http://newknowledge.io/seed-funding/
So, we know (at least people should know) that State Dept, NSA, and Halliburton guys working together is a BIG FLAG – but who is …
2) MOONSHOTS CAPITAL
Kelly Perdew mentioned above earned a BS from the US Military Academy, West Point and served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer and completed Airborne and Ranger training. He earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA. In 2005, Perdew won Season 2 – The Apprentice – and worked directly for President Donald Trump in NY on multiple projects and published his book, Take Command, focused on applying military leadership principles to business.
The other partner of Moonshots Capital is Craig Cummings who spent 17 years in the Army, most of that time as an Intelligence Officer serving in support of the National Security Agency (NSA).
http://www.moonshotscapital.com/press/
So, ok, former US spooks and mercenaries appear to be involved in faking Russian accounts to make it look like particular candidates for office are “Russian bots”, but is there more to this story?
Call me skeptical, heck call me a ‘conspiracy theorist’ I couldn’t care less, but something about the Moonshots name made me curious as to why a bunch of former military veterans would chose such a non-military generic moniker for their bleeding-edge company. It’s back in vogue now it seems, the name “moonshot”. Google uses the name “Moonshot Factory” for their “Google x” enterprise of funding what they call “sci-fi” technology projects. John Sculley chose it as the title of his recent book.
3) CYBERSECURITY MOONSHOT PROJECT BY US GOVERNMENT
And then we have the “Cybersecurity Moonshot” project concept headed by the US National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee has as its goal to “secure the internet by 2028.” This is all part of the US Cyber Command started in 2008, also known as “The Four Horsemen” (I kid you not). On November 14, 2018, the status of the Cyber Command by order of President Trump changed to that of a “combatant command” under National Security Adviser John Bolton. According to Politico:
“Today, Trump has formally elevated its (US Cyber Command) status and made it the Defense Department’s newest ‘unified combatant command,’ only the 10th of its kind. The promotion was followed a series of policy moves by the White House that, taken together, show a willingness to act first and ask questions later in the digital domain. ‘Our hands are not tied as they were in the Obama administration,’ national security adviser John Bolton said in September. ‘We’re going to do a lot of things offensively, and our adversaries need to know that,’ he added. Keep in mind for the rest of this essay that John Bolton received the “Guardian of Zion (Israel)” award in 2017.
https://www.politico.com/…/cybersecurity-moonshot-gets-vote…
So remember, we have Moonshots Capital being involved through one of its directors to New Knowledge that was faking Russian accounts to influence an election in America.
Is it coincidence that the cybersecurity project to “secure the internet by 2018” is also called Moonshot? Quite possibly, but the name Moonshot brings up even more coincidences…
4) CYBERSECURITY MOONSHOT CHALLENGE NEW YORK CITY
In New York City, the Israeli firms Jerusalem Venture Partners and SOSA New York, are partnering with the city’s government to make New York, the financial capital of America, the “cyber capital of the world”. The two firms are building the official Global Cyber Center there. So, if I’m understanding this correctly, two firms based in Tel Aviv, in a foreign nation, will have full access to unimaginable amounts of data and all the efforts in fact to secure that data.
https://www.haaretz.com/…/.premium-two-israeli-firms-to-bui…
Coincidence again I guess that the Jerusalem Venture Partners and the New York City government announced last month a “Cybersecurity Moonshot Challenge, calling on industry experts to develop and deliver new, affordable, and scalable solutions to protect NY-based small and midsize businesses from cyberattacks.” Israeli firms have come to dominate the cyber security field by the way according to Fortune Magazine in 2015 and many US firms rely on them for their data’s security. Don’t forget “their data” is also our data and our government’s data oftentimes.
http://nocamels.com/…/jvp-nyc-cybersecurity-contest-1m-pri…/ and http://fortune.com/…/why-israel-dominates-in-cyber-security/
5) ISRAEL’S ACTUAL MOONSHOT
The cherry on top of all this coincidence is that Israel, that tiny Mediterranean country whose army shoots kids through their eyes because the kids a hundred yards away were throwing rocks at the heavily armored and armed soldiers, is about to launch a privately funded, you guessed, MOONSHOT. The rocket carrying the Israeli made lunar lander was scheduled to launch this month but I haven’t found out if that actually happened. The mission? To plant an Israeli flag on the moon. Yup, that’s about the extent of the mission. Good thing US taxpayers give Israel $10 million dollars in aid each and every day so their millionaire and billionaire investors can do such fun projects as launching spaceships.
https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/…/spaceil-israel-moon-spac…
6) IT’S RAINING MOONSHOTS THIS MORNING
Maybe “Moonshot” is just a super popular, trending term these days particularly in the cybersecurity world but then again, maybe there’s more to it, like the takeover of the internet and almost all US cyber security by Israel? We’ve already seen that trend making its presence felt in social media through censorship. And no, I haven’t found any connection between New Knowledge and Moonshot Capital with Israel at this point and I’m not going to pretend I have. It’s just pulling on threads as I said.
Now, where did my tinfoil hat go cuz it’s just raining Moonshot coincidences this morning. What do you think? Is it all ‘linked in’?
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