Why is nobody talking about the guy pulling the strings behind Trump?
ROBERT MERCER: The Billionare behind Trump
Eli Rivera
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Daniel Powell
because no one likes to acknowledge that he was played for a fool.
Josiah Bennett
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David Magerman, in his essay for the Inquirer, notes that Mercer “has surrounded our President with his people, and his people have an outsized influence over the running of our country, simply because Robert Mercer paid for their seats.” He writes, “Everyone has a right to express their views.” But, he adds, “when the government becomes more like a corporation, with the richest 0.001% buying shares and demanding board seats, then we cease to be a representative democracy.” Instead, he warns, “we become an oligarchy.”
Kevin White
zerohedge.com
Why this recent surge in political spending, and why the attempt to fund not just one both both presidential candidates' campaigns? Some answers can be found in recent articles, such as "How RenTec Made More Than $34 Billion In Profits Since 1998: "Fictional Derivatives", "Renaissance Said Probed by Senate Panel on Tax Maneuver" and "Senate Report: Tax Move Helped Hedge Funds Save Billions", however not even the utmost determination to perpetuate a beneficial tax avoidance regime can explain this unprecedented level of campaign funding or, in the case of Mercer, micromanagement and orchestration.
Perhaps the answer is far simpler: having learned that the best way to make virtually unlimited profits in the markets is to be as close to cornering them as possible (or being first, or cheating), RenTec's executive team has applied the same philosophy to the presidential race, because if you are the primary source of strategy and/or cash for both presidential candidates, you are by definition, "perfectly hedged." And, by that same definition, you are about to buy yourself a presidential election.
Caleb Phillips
Robert Mercer is a long-time friend of former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the paper said. During the referendum campaign, he offered the Leave campaign free services from his business Cambridge Analytica, to sway swing voters on social media through targeted ads.
Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of British company SCL Group, claims to offer “cutting-edge data enhancement and audience segmentation techniques” to profile and target audiences, such as voters.
Two weeks ago, Leave.eu founder Arron Banks said in a series of tweets that the campaign’s pollster Gerry Gunster and Cambridge Analytica with “world class” artificial intelligence had helped them gain “unprecedented levels of engagement”. “AI won it for Leave,” he said.
Evan Howard
Mercer was the biggest donor to Ted Cruz's campaign
He gave Cruz over $13 million which is more than Soros gave to Clinton.
Sebastian Hall
Because it's the 5th or 6th guy pulling the strings now.
We dont give a fuck. The media is evil. And you're a fag, as in, you take dicks in your ass and you love it and beg for more. Bump.
Alexander Allen
Because we knew about Mercer's influence even before the republican convention and figured he was /ourguy/?
Brandon Martinez
theintercept.com
But here’s what the mainstream media won’t tell you: Robert Mercer and his daughter have also funded a gigantic stockpile of human urine in Oregon.
The urine stockpile is the project of Arthur Robinson, a chemist and founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Starting in 2005, the Mercer Family Foundation contributed at least $1.4 million to OISM, enabling Robinson to buy freezers to store his 14,000 samples of urine.
Robinson wants still more urine, as much as possible, and issues frequent appeals to the public to contribute. According to the OISM newsletter, Robinson is collecting it in order to “calibrate analytical procedures that can revolutionize the evaluation of personal chemistry — and thereby improve our health, our happiness and prosperity, and even the academic performance of our children in school.”
Dominic Morales
downwithtyranny.blogspot.de
From every available source, Cambridge Analytica buys up personal data: “What car you drive, what products you purchase in shops, what magazines you read, what clubs you belong to.” Voter and medical records. On the screen behind him are displayed the logos of global data traders like Acxiom and Experian-- in the United States nearly all personal consumer data is available for purchase. If you want to know, for example, where Jewish women live, you can simply buy this information. Including telephone numbers. Now Cambridge Analytica crosschecks these data sets with Republican Party voter rolls and online data such as Facebook likes, and constructs an Ocean personality profile. From a selection of digital signatures there suddenly emerge real individual people with fears, needs, and interests-- and home addresses.
Nathaniel Turner
Ultimately the criteria can be narrowed to a single individual, along with his name, age, address, interests, and political leanings. How does Cambridge Analyica approach this person with political messaging?
Earlier in the presentation, using the example of the Second Amendment, Nix showed two variations on how certain psychographic profiles are spoken to differently. “For a highly Neurotic and Conscientious audience, you’re going to need a message that is both rational and fear-based: the threat of a burglary and the ‘insurance policy’ of a gun is very persuasive.” A picture on the left side of the screen shows a gloved hand breaking a window and reaching for the inside door handle. On the right side, there is a picture of a man and child silhouetted against a sunset in tall grass, both with rifles, obviously duck hunting: “for a Closed and Agreeable audience, people who care about traditions and habits and family and community, talking about these values is going to be much more effective in communicating your message.”
Ethan Brown
gizmodo.com
SCL Group (originally Strategic Communication Laboratories) has a complicated and sprawling corporate structure that makes it difficult to determine which of its components conduct what business and for whom. Cambridge Analytica, the subsidiary that worked on both the Trump and Brexit campaigns, made some $14.4 million in this election cycle, filings with the Federal Election Commission show, including $5.7 million from Ted Cruz’s campaign and $5.6 million from Donald Trump’s. The secretive father-daughter duo Robert and Rebekah Mercer—billionaire patrons to both Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway—are reportedly investors.
SCL Group worked predominately with commercial clients until the late ’90s, when the Indonesian government reportedly hired the organization for its psychological warfare expertise to respond to secessionist and religious violence. On its website, SCL Group claims to have worked with a variety of governmental and private entities the world over, including the U.S. State Department. SCL did not return a request for comment. (When we asked the State Department for documentation of that work, an official responded, “The claim by the company that you conveyed in your request is … peculiar. Without additional information, I am not able to verify the vendor’s claim.”)
Lincoln Roberts
sourcewatch.org
Strategic Communication Laboratories describes itself as "the leading supplier of Information Operations, Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy services to governments and military clients worldwide."
At the centre of SCL's activities are what it refers to as construction and training of people to run an "Opcentre."
"A strategic communication centre puts influence, control and power back into the hands of the government and military. It is an essential component for Homeland Security, Conflict Reduction, International Public Diplomacy and un-mediated Government communications. Over the last 15 years the military use of Psyop has saved thousands of lives on both sides of military conflicts. In the future, conflicts may well be resolved on the global media stage, so that direct action becomes an unnecessary tactic," it states on its website.
"Governments and Military forces worldwide are realising that communication can be a very powerful force. Those countries without the ability to control and respond to communications in a strategic capacity will be at a serious disadvantage in political and military terms," it states.
"SCL is providing governments and military forces all over the world with the power to control their own communication messages and manage perceptions on the world media stage. Furthermore, it gives governments greater access to their own publics in time of crises and the military greater power to influence enemy disengagement in time of conflict," it states.
Anthony Rivera
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Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) is a London based communications company set up by former advertising executive and old-Etonian Nigel Oakes. It calls itself, “the leading supplier of strategic communications, information operations and public diplomacy to governments and military clients around the world.” SCL’s approach to propaganda is based upon a methodology developed by the associated Behavioural Dynamics Institute. This apparently secret methodology was – according to SCL’s website - developed with $20 million funding from SCL’s backers.
The company’s website states that SCL was formed in 1993[2] although the company was not registered at Companies House until 20 July 2005. In September that year the company officially launched as a military communications company at the Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEi) arms show at London’s Excel Centre. Reporting the launch, The Observer called SCL a UK political communications consultancy firm, which it said was re-launching as a psyops operator.[3] What legal personality the company had prior to the 2005 relaunch - if any - is not clear. Companies House lists no former companies under that name although there were several companies affiliated to the founder Nigel Oakes during the 1990s so perhaps it existed in name only, whilst legally taking the form of a network of offshore entities. It must have existed in some sense because several newspapers in 2000 reported that the company had worked for the Indonesian government. Australia’s The Age reported at the time that SCL had operated in Indonesia since the final days of the Suharto regime,[4] which confirms the company’s existence at least as far back as 1998. What it was, and what it was doing between its purported formation in 1993 and its first appearance in the press in 2000 however is unknown.
Lincoln Fisher
>look goyim Trump is a Russian puppet!
>Nonono, Bannon is his master!
>Just kidding, it's actually Robert Mercer!
Blake Miller
Fucking hell get your act sorted out next time.
>op starts a thread with a short write up
>faggot German with vast amounts of amazingly convenient information regarding the subject
>trying this hard
Zachary Sullivan
IOTA-Global, the training arm of SCL, has delivered an 8 weeks course at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga (Latvia), funded by Canada(!) and whose goal is to train NATO Eastern armies on countering Russian and ISIS propaganda with exactly those same tools. They have also research contracts with the Norwegian Army, and training contracts in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Kevin Lewis
Report by correspondent says that there are indications that poll
experts have been flown in to work on the president's speculated
ambition. Their arrival has fuelled speculations that President Goodluck
Jonathan may soon declare his interest in next year's election. It was
learnt that he has held a secret meeting with the experts, who are from
the Strategic Communications Laboratories [SCL] Elections in the United
Kingdom [UK]. They have assisted 19 prime ministers and 11 presidents to
win elections in UK, South Africa, Thailand, Taiwan, Mauritius, Iraq,
Trinidad and Tobago, Indonesia, Antigua, Nepal, Philippines, St. Kitts
and Nevis, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, and St. Lucia. They were
flown into Abuja on 18 July by some friends of the president. The group,
which was lodged in Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, is a mixture of poll
experts from the United Kingdom and the United States [US].
Evan Phillips
Kayden Kelly
act?
call my work a public service.
seek and ye shall find.
Adrian Robinson
Tell me, Hanzer, seeing as you are so knowledgable on this subject - are the Mercers related to Dick Whittington (Mayor of London with famous cat)?
I am not trolling but seem to remember some link between them
Aiden Thomas
>ROBERT MERCER
What is this man's connection to the Jews
Does anyone have the info?
Adam Sanchez
powerbase.info
Several of the company directors hold shares in the company and there are a number of non-executive shareholders. In early 2006 it was reported that the Iranian born London property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz had acquired 23 per cent of Strategic Communications Laboratories,[31] and in May that year the investment company Viatrade PLC bought a small stake. Conservative Party treasurer and venture capitalist Jonathan Marland also holds shares, as does his company Herriot Ltd.
The company’s latest Annual Returns[32] (made up to 20 July 2006) list the following shareholders. They are arranged in descending order according to their share allocation.
Name: Consensus Business Group, 18 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1K 7PW :Shares held: 22,533
Name: Nigel Oakes :Shares held: 14,849
Name: Roger Gabb :Shares held: 11,266
Name: R M Gabb, M A Gabb and M J Thompson as Trustees of the Glendower Settlement :Shares held: 11,266
Name: Share Nominees Ltd on behalf of the Fund :Shares held: 9,013
Name: Alexander Waddinton Oakes :Shares held: 7,429
Name: CMTC Nominees BV (registered to an address in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles) :Shares held: 6,253
Name: Paul David Ashburner Nix:Shares held: 5,633
Name: Alexander James Ashburner Nix :Shares held: 5,249
Name: Jonathan Peter Marland :Shares held: 563
Name: Viatrade PLC :Shares held: 507
Name: Herriot Ltd :Shares held: 338
Name: S Marland & P Addington as Trustees of J P Marland’s child. :Shares held: 225
Name: Harry Rollo Gabb Shares held: 10
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In 2005 the Times reported of Vincent Tchenguiz that 'In security, he has acquired 23 per cent of Strategic Communication Laboratories'[1] The Tchenguiz family trust and the Tchenguiz vehicle the Consensus Group became involved with SCL in late 2005 and new incorporation documents were written.[2]
Chase Scott
This. Law of averages dictates at least one Giant Capitalist would be on our side.
Alexander Phillips
please see
I'd really like to know. Thanks.
Luke Martinez
>1 post by this ID
byeeee
Parker Sanchez
Don't hit the bringers of information, user.
Thank you for the info
James Wright
Bentley Howard
Anthony Perez
>Why is nobody talking about the guy pulling the strings behind Trump?
For the same reason everyone quickly forgot Obama was a no-name senator with a "community organizer" background that somehow beat out the Clinton political powerhouse in the primaries.
Gee whiz I guess he was just that charismatic, right? :^)
Samuel Mitchell
Never interrupt your opponent when they're making a mistake.
Christopher Richardson
>shrinking government
>bad
Aiden James
>supported Brexit, huge donor ot Trump
>Not jewish
>Bad guy(?)
Thanks OP for bringing this to light ;it's good to know we have some big shots on our side.
Jose Garcia
brexitshambles.com
To say Vincent Tchenguiz is a colourful character would be an understatement, Tchenguiz plays hard and works hard. Earning a vast fortune from the markets and property, in 2011 he was wrongfully arrested by the Serious Fraud Office an act which has seen a string of court cases as Tchenguiz seeks damages.
Along with brother, Robert, and sister Elizabeth, Tchenguiz has made over £120,000 of donations to the Conservative party.
Politically, Tchenguiz would have felt at home at SCL Group; at the time of his investment, alongside shareholder Conservative MP Jonathan Marland, later The Lord Marland, was SCL director, The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie.
Pattie, a former vice-chair of the Conservative party, was a cabinet member of Margaret Thatcher’s government, serving as Minister of State for Industry & Information Technology and Undersecretary for Defence Procurement.
After his political career, apart from SCL, Sir Geoffrey Pattie set up Terrington Management, a defence lobbying consultancy, and was president of First Defence, a right-wing defence think tank.
One of the events held by First Defence was on the eve of the Governments Strategic Defence and Security Review in October 2010 which was chaired by the then Secretary of State for Defence, and the now Brexit Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade, Dr. Liam Fox.
Despite Tchenguiz divesting himself of his shares in SCL, Tchenguiz’s man, Julian Wheatland, remains chairman of SCL Group.
Tchenguiz’s political links are not limited to the United Kingdom. Wheddon Ltd also own shares in Zander Group, a company involved in ecologically sustainable plant production. Zander Group’s person of significant control is Raymond Asquith, better known as Lord Oxford, a career diplomat, once first secretary at the British embassy in Moscow and a former MI6 station commander in Kyiv.
Benjamin James
I was just thinking the same. I was thinking we don't have anyone with any kind of power or influence who can go against (((them))) nice to know there is.
Colton Davis
Read the bottom of his wikipedia page; it says there are rumors that he views the civil rights act negatively and thinks that the only racists these days are blacks.
Zachary Edwards
Because Trump is already a billionnaire and 15 million isn't even 10% of his annual revenue. Stop hiring retards Brock.
Austin Kelly
Because iron law of oligarchies if our friend
Tyler Collins
Sun Tzu, Art of War
Brandon Allen
brexitshambles.com
Sam Woolley, of Oxford’s Computational Propaganda Project, believes Cambridge Analytica are responsible for the creation of bots, a claim, though unproven, that is consistent with the claims being made about their activities.
These bots are not numbered in tens or hundreds but thousands and tens of thousands, with the sophisticated high-end versions assuming fake identities and personalities, even having online friends and followers.
In an article by Berit Anderson, ‘The Rise of the Weaponised AI Propaganda Machine’ he claims, “during the Brexit referendum the Oxford team watched as one network of bots, previously used to influence the conversation around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, was reactivated to fight for the Leave campaign. Individual profiles were updated to reflect the new debate, their personal tagline changed to ally with their new allegiances – and away they went.”
Who was responsible for this? Russia? Cambridge Analytica? AIQ? An intermediary between a private group and a foreign sovereign state? The point is nobody knows, or if they do they aren’t making it public and nobody knows what effect they’ve had on the referendum, the result of which will impact 65,000,000 UK citizens and countless millions throughout Europe.
Ian Bell
How is there no proof of their intervention but we have piles of evidence on the left wing propaganda wing?
Really makes me think...
Leo Nguyen
WTF I HATE TRUMP NOW
Brandon King
same ID bumping novels...not (((shill)))) dump of irrelevant data
SAGE ALL FIELDS
Christian Hernandez
newyorker.com
Nick Patterson, a former senior Renaissance employee who is now a computational biologist at the Broad Institute, agrees that Mercer’s influence has been huge. “Bob has used his money very effectively,” he said. “He’s not the first person in history to use money in politics, but in my view Trump wouldn’t be President if not for Bob. It doesn’t get much more effective than that.”
Patterson said that his relationship with Mercer has always been collegial. In 1993, Patterson, at that time a Renaissance executive, recruited Mercer from I.B.M., and they worked together for the next eight years. But Patterson doesn’t share Mercer’s libertarian views, or what he regards as his susceptibility to conspiracy theories about Bill and Hillary Clinton. During Bill Clinton’s Presidency, Patterson recalled, Mercer insisted at a staff luncheon that Clinton had participated in a secret drug-running scheme with the C.I.A. The plot supposedly operated out of an airport in Mena, Arkansas. “Bob told me he believed that the Clintons were involved in murders connected to it,” Patterson said. Two other sources told me that, in recent years, they had heard Mercer claim that the Clintons have had opponents murdered.
Easton Wilson
newyorker.com
The Mena story is one of several dark fantasies put forth in the nineties by The American Spectator, an archconservative magazine. According to Patterson, Mercer read the publication at the time. David Brock, a former Spectator writer who is now a liberal activist, told me that the alleged Mena conspiracy was based on a single dubious source, and was easily disproved by flight records. “It’s extremely telling that Mercer would believe that,” Brock said. “It says something about his conspiratorial frame of mind, and the fringe circle he was in. We at the Spectator called them Clinton Crazies.”
Patterson also recalled Mercer arguing that, during the Gulf War, the U.S. should simply have taken Iraq’s oil, “since it was there.” Trump, too, has said that the U.S. should have “kept the oil.” Expropriating another country’s natural resources is a violation of international law. Another onetime senior employee at Renaissance recalls hearing Mercer downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier. The National Academy of Sciences has found no evidence to support this notion. Nevertheless, according to the onetime employee, Mercer, who is a proponent of nuclear power, “was very excited about the idea, and felt that it meant nuclear accidents weren’t such a big deal.”
Juan Murphy
How many blacks are in this thread?
Alexander Cox
newyorker.com
In 2014, Mercer accepted a lifetime-achievement award from the Association for Computational Linguistics. In a speech at the ceremony, Mercer, who grew up in New Mexico, said that he had a “jaundiced view” of government. While in college, he had worked on a military base in Albuquerque, and he had showed his superiors how to run certain computer programs a hundred times faster; instead of saving time and money, the bureaucrats ran a hundred times more equations. He concluded that the goal of government officials was “not so much to get answers as to consume the computer budget.” Mercer’s colleagues say that he views the government as arrogant and inefficient, and believes that individuals need to be self-sufficient, and should not receive aid from the state. Yet, when I.B.M. failed to offer adequate support for Mercer and Brown’s translation project, they secured additional funding from darpa, the secretive Pentagon program. Despite Mercer’s disdain for “big government,” this funding was essential to his early success.
Christopher Jenkins
>almost a disaster
did we watch the same convention? Because I saw the republican convention, and it seemed pretty well handled.
it was the democrats that had to actively silence and kick out sanders supporters
Jordan Morgan
newyorker.com
Renaissance’s profits were further enhanced by a controversial tax maneuver, which became the subject of a 2014 Senate inquiry. According to Senate investigators, Renaissance had presented countless short-term trades as long-term ones, improperly avoiding some $6.8 billion in taxes. The Senate didn’t allege criminality, but it concluded that Renaissance had committed “abuses.” The I.R.S. demanded payment. (Renaissance defended its practices, and the matter remains contested, leaving a very sensitive material issue pending before the Trump Administration.)
Samuel Jones
Law of Averages says that at least a few of the rich will be on our side. Mercer looks like one of them. He has hidden his power level pretty well.
Ayden Robinson
newyorker.com
After the election, Rebekah Mercer was rewarded with a seat on Trump’s transition team. “She basically bought herself a seat,” Fischer said. She had strong feelings about who should be nominated to Cabinet positions and other top government jobs. Not all her ideas were embraced. She unsuccessfully pushed for John Bolton, the hawkish former Ambassador to the United Nations, to be named Secretary of State. So far, her suggestion that Arthur Robinson, the Oregon biochemist, be named the national science adviser has gone nowhere. Like her father, she advocates a return to the gold standard, but as of yet she has failed to get Trump to appoint officials who share this view.
Still, Mercer made her influence felt. Her pick for national-security adviser was Michael Flynn, and Trump chose him for the job. (Flynn lasted only a month, after he lied about having spoken with the Russian Ambassador before taking office.) More important, several people to whom Mercer is very close—including Bannon and Conway—have become some of the most powerful figures in the world.
Thomas Rivera
Came here to post this.
Thomas Richardson
>is he, dare i say, our guy