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The '''Center for American Progress''' (CAP) is a [[think tank]] and advocacy organization which presents a [[liberal]] viewpoint on economic and social issues. | The '''Center for American Progress''' (CAP) is a [[think tank]] and advocacy organization which presents a [[liberal]] viewpoint on economic and social issues. | ||
+ | ==Activities== | ||
The president and chief executive officer of CAP is [[Patrick Gaspard]], a former diplomat and labor leader, who served most recently as the president of [[George Soros]]' [[Open Society Foundations]].<ref>=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/center-for-american-progress-new-leader-497167</ref> Gaspard succeeded [[Neera Tanden]], who was appointed special advisor to President [[Joe Biden]] in May 2021. Tanden previously worked for the [[Barack Obama|Obama]] and [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administrations and for [[Hillary Clinton]]'s campaigns.<ref>Horowitz, Jason (November 3, 2011). "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house/think-tank-post-puts-spotlight-on-veteran-democratic-operative-neera-tanden/2011/11/01/gIQAn6fpjM_story.html Think-tank post puts spotlight on veteran Democratic operative Neera Tanden]". ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Retrieved 2012-01-19.</ref> The first president and CEO was [[John Podesta]], who has served as [[White House Chief of Staff]] to [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Bill Clinton]] and as the chairman of the 2016 presidential campaign of [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>http://time.com/4308369/hillary-clinton-john-podesta/</ref> Podesta remained with the organization as [[chairman of the board]] until he joined the Obama [[Executive Office of the President|White House staff]] in December 2013. [[Tom Daschle]] is the current chairman.<ref>https://www.americanprogress.org/about/c3-board/</ref> | The president and chief executive officer of CAP is [[Patrick Gaspard]], a former diplomat and labor leader, who served most recently as the president of [[George Soros]]' [[Open Society Foundations]].<ref>=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/center-for-american-progress-new-leader-497167</ref> Gaspard succeeded [[Neera Tanden]], who was appointed special advisor to President [[Joe Biden]] in May 2021. Tanden previously worked for the [[Barack Obama|Obama]] and [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administrations and for [[Hillary Clinton]]'s campaigns.<ref>Horowitz, Jason (November 3, 2011). "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house/think-tank-post-puts-spotlight-on-veteran-democratic-operative-neera-tanden/2011/11/01/gIQAn6fpjM_story.html Think-tank post puts spotlight on veteran Democratic operative Neera Tanden]". ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Retrieved 2012-01-19.</ref> The first president and CEO was [[John Podesta]], who has served as [[White House Chief of Staff]] to [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Bill Clinton]] and as the chairman of the 2016 presidential campaign of [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>http://time.com/4308369/hillary-clinton-john-podesta/</ref> Podesta remained with the organization as [[chairman of the board]] until he joined the Obama [[Executive Office of the President|White House staff]] in December 2013. [[Tom Daschle]] is the current chairman.<ref>https://www.americanprogress.org/about/c3-board/</ref> | ||
Revision as of 19:47, 19 October 2021
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a think tank and advocacy organization which presents a liberal viewpoint on economic and social issues.
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Activities
The president and chief executive officer of CAP is Patrick Gaspard, a former diplomat and labor leader, who served most recently as the president of George Soros' Open Society Foundations.[1] Gaspard succeeded Neera Tanden, who was appointed special advisor to President Joe Biden in May 2021. Tanden previously worked for the Obama and Clinton administrations and for Hillary Clinton's campaigns.[2] The first president and CEO was John Podesta, who has served as White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President Bill Clinton and as the chairman of the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.[3] Podesta remained with the organization as chairman of the board until he joined the Obama White House staff in December 2013. Tom Daschle is the current chairman.[4]
The Center for American Progress has a youth-engagement organization, Generation Progress, and a sister advocacy organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF).
Documents by Center for American Progress
Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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Document:White House Must Establish Disinformation Defense and Free Expression Task Force | open letter | 29 April 2021 | Censorship "Conspiracy theory" "Disinformation" NGO Freedom of speech US/2020 Presidential election COVID-19/Censorship 2021 Washington D.C. Riots | A number of alleged "free-speech organizations" begging to join the US government in implementing censorship in an Orwellian-named "Free Expression Task Force". |
File:Islamophobia.pdf | Wikispooks Page | 26 August 2011 | "Islamophobia" | The report concerns the financing of anti-Islamic groups in the US. |
Employee on Wikispooks
Employee | Job | Appointed | End |
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Morton Halperin | Senior Vice President | 2003 | 2005 |
Known members
5 of the 35 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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Stacey Abrams | Up-and-coming American politician in the Democratic Party. Marshall Memorial Fellow |
Madeleine Albright | Ruthless politician, acquired and beloved by everyone named Clinton in the 1990s. Hero of Kosovo. Most powerful woman of all time according to ISGP's superclass index. When asked about half a million dead Iraqi children because of the sanctions she enforced, she replied "We think the price is worth it." |
Wesley Clark | “In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’” |
Tom Daschle | Targeted by Amerithrax after expressing opposition to the Patriot Act. Attended Bilderberg 2008 and Clade X. |
Hansjörg Wyss | Swiss/US Big Pharma billionaire. His company conducted illegal human experiments. Interested in keeping huge swathes of land free of people. Leading source of dark money to the Democratic Party |
Event Planned
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Food Chain Reaction | November 2015 | November 2015 | Washington DC | Set in the 2020 to 2030 period, the exercise focused on problems in the food supply due to population growth and severe weather, triggering social unrest. Held November 2015. ended with the implementation of a global carbon tax. |
Sponsors
Event | Description |
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Amazon | A monopoly/cartel online retailer with deep state connections. |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health. |
Boeing | US based arms manufacturer which also makes civilian aircraft that since the 1990s have became known for their sometimes dubious reliability. |
Carnegie Corporation | Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too. |
ClimateWorks | Large funder of projects intended to steer public opinion and take control over all government policy under the pretext of fighting climate change. Part of "a blob" of similar very wealthy interconnected foundations with opaque structures. Backers include Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. |
Democracy Alliance | A network of billionaire donors who coordinate their political donations to groups that the Alliance has endorsed, anonymously and often through foundations working as middlemen to hide the where the money is coming from. |
Democracy Fund | Finances numerous organizations as part of effort to control the narrative. Founded by Pierre Omidyar in 2011. |
Ford Foundation | In addition to its own billionaire agenda, also known to have been $$$ middleman for covert CIA funding. |
General Electric | |
Global Internet/Skynet conglomerate | |
Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
Lockheed | "Nobody is doing a better job of arming the world than Lockheed-Martin" |
Lumina Foundation | |
MacArthur Foundation | Finances non-profit organizations and select people in approximately 50 countries around the world, buying immense cultural and political influence. It often coordinates its priorities with other deep state foundations, creating a mesh of grants, cross-grants and sub-grants that is very hard to analyze. |
Microsoft | Started in 1975 with Paul Allen, Bill Gates developed Microsoft from a operating system maker of computers into one of the most prolific companies of all time, valued over $1 trillion, 3rd most valuable in the world. MS has over a billion in fines from corruption, mass surveillance violations & tax evasion. MS has market shares in dozens of markets, leading in the Platformization-epidemic of the 2010s started by big tech. It was the first partner in the NSA-PRISM program. |
Omidyar Network | Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs |
Open Philanthropy | Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201. |
Open Society Foundations | A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered. |
Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Rockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War. |
Rockefeller Foundation |
References
- ↑ =https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/center-for-american-progress-new-leader-497167
- ↑ Horowitz, Jason (November 3, 2011). "Think-tank post puts spotlight on veteran Democratic operative Neera Tanden". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
- ↑ http://time.com/4308369/hillary-clinton-john-podesta/
- ↑ https://www.americanprogress.org/about/c3-board/