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Posted in Deception, Finance, Google, Microsoft, SCO at 8:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Following the anti-Google grant…
“…Microsoft wished to promote SCO and its pending lawsuit against IBM and the Linux operating system. But Microsoft did not want to be seen as attacking IBM or Linux.”
–Larry Goldfarb, Baystar, key investor in SCO
Summary: Consumer Watchdog, formerly hosted by an AstroTurfing firm, has its Google attack funded ($100,000) by the Rose Foundation, which in turn has other funders
YESTERDAY’S POST about Consumer Watchdog brought the attention of those involved, who mostly defected the questions we asked.
Here is slightly tidied-up log from a conversation that took place over the past hour.
schestowitzUK Gov’t Considers Google Tax? http://techdirt.com/articles/20… See my argument with a PAID anti-Google shill: http://boycottnovell.com/2009/05/04/consumer…May 05 13:08schestowitzHoly FUD! The Mother Of All Anti-Google Rants: Comparing Google To The Taliban May 05 13:11oiaohmYou will find its a web in the PR world to hide exactly where the money came from.May 05 13:13schestowitzoiaohm: yes, there’s a limit to how much you can followMay 05 13:13schestowitzIt becomes challenging at some stageMay 05 13:14schestowitzSee SCO->BayStar->MSMay 05 13:14schestowitz“On the same day that CA blasted SCO, Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond revealed a leaked email from SCO’s strategic consultant Mike Anderer to their management. The email details how, surprise surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO’s financing, hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital.” –PerensMay 05 13:14schestowitz“…Microsoft wished to promote SCO and its pending lawsuit against IBM and the Linux operating system. But Microsoft did not want to be seen as attacking IBM or Linux.” –Larry Goldfarb, Baystar, key investor in SCOMay 05 13:14schestowitz“[Microsoft's] Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would ‘backstop,’ or guarantee in some way, BayStar’s investment…. Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar’s investment in SCO.” –Larry GoldfarbMay 05 13:14oiaohmHmm that template looks strangely linked at www.rosefdn.org going to check out domain would not be surprised if it not another grassroots site.May 05 13:15schestowitzhttp://techdirt.com/ar… — Intel’s co-founder says patents are like a bubble waiting to burst.May 05 13:16schestowitzoiaohm: which one?May 05 13:17schestowitzI mean, which is like the rosenfdn?May 05 13:17schestowitzSourceWatch has some good research that show who created what umbrella/shells and whyMay 05 13:17schestowitzMore details on Elsevier’s corruption. http://techdirt.com/articles/2009… Another reason for me never to publish in Elsevier (other than the MS connection)May 05 13:18oiaohmhttp://electricembers.net/aboutus.php I wonder if we should contact www.rosefdn.org host.May 05 13:20oiaohmThey have a strict rule against advertisement of any form.May 05 13:20schestowitzoiaohm: what about?May 05 13:21schestowitzI don’t quite follow. What to look at..?May 05 13:21oiaohmelectricembers.net is www.rosefdn.org web host.May 05 13:22*kentma has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out))May 05 13:22schestowitzit took the Bulldogs (Watchdog) just HOURS to mail me after I posted in BNMay 05 13:23schestowitzSo they stalk their own imageMay 05 13:23schestowitzAnd then they try to police it…May 05 13:23oiaohmOpp I left out a them and about.May 05 13:23schestowitzIt’s not easy to find me E-mail addy, either.May 05 13:23schestowitzis rosenfdn rotten?May 05 13:23schestowitzAll we know is that they make donations to attack GoogleMay 05 13:23schestowitzBut the question is, on whose behalf, if anyone?May 05 13:24schestowitzPeople don’t just attack Google as a hobbyMay 05 13:24schestowitzThat’s just how people portray themselves in foundationsMay 05 13:24oiaohmhttp://techdirt.com/articles/200… Its simple to find the hosts email address.May 05 13:24schestowitzLike the Gates FoundryMay 05 13:24schestowitzOr BaystarMay 05 13:24oiaohmOops wrong link.May 05 13:24schestowitzMicrosoft’s funnel for lawsuits against LinuxMay 05 13:24schestowitzOh waitMay 05 13:24oiaohmhttp://toolbar.netcraft.com/si…May 05 13:24schestowitzhttp://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/…May 05 13:25schestowitzGoogle=TalibanMay 05 13:25schestowitzSays the FT, which is praising Microsoft a lotMay 05 13:26schestowitzoiaohm: is there anything to say what rosenfdn attacks Google?May 05 13:26schestowitzI look at their pagesMay 05 13:26schestowitzNOTHING about privacyMay 05 13:26schestowitzSo the idea that they promote privacy seems mootMay 05 13:26oiaohmrosenfdn is all meant to be about the environment.May 05 13:27oiaohmI think contacting them is required to find out if this is a fake link.May 05 13:27oiaohmIt would not be the first time I have see a PR try that.May 05 13:28oiaohmhttp://www.rosefdn.org/contactus.php If they are not in it they will be highly offended.May 05 13:28oiaohmFake linking basically says astroturfer.May 05 13:29schestowitzI’ll checkMay 05 13:29oiaohmhttp://www.rosefdn.org/downloads/… They are the funding source.May 05 13:32schestowitz“My name is Roy Schestowitz and I am a reporter investigating an entity called Consumer Watchdog. They claim that you funded a campaign of theirs against Google and I just wanted to confirm this because I realise that you focus on benefits to the environment and communities.”May 05 13:32schestowitz“Looking forward to your response.”May 05 13:32oiaohmIts down right huge $100 000 USD>May 05 13:32schestowitzThat’s the E-mail I just sent themMay 05 13:32oiaohmI googled.May 05 13:32oiaohmAnd found there list of 2008 grants.May 05 13:32schestowitzUsefulMay 05 13:33schestowitzHaMay 05 13:33schestowitzGoogle is thereMay 05 13:33schestowitz$100,000May 05 13:33schestowitz“watchdogged”May 05 13:34schestowitzThis is sickMay 05 13:35schestowitzThey are basically funding lots of lobbyistsMay 05 13:35schestowitzWhy?May 05 13:35schestowitzWho gains?May 05 13:35oiaohmSo you are right the first one is just a hired gun.May 05 13:36oiaohmWhy are lobbyist funding lobbyist.May 05 13:36schestowitzoiaohm: money chainMay 05 13:37schestowitzYesMay 05 13:37oiaohmhttp://www.rosefdn.org/article.php… Found more of the money chain.May 05 13:40schestowitzHa.May 05 13:41schestowitzWell, yesterday I tried to find an MS funnel without much successMay 05 13:41schestowitz“San Francisco Bay-Delta Fund: Originally seeded with a $900,000 restitution award from Exxon and supplemented by payments from many additional settlements involving San Francisco Baykeeper, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance,”May 05 13:42schestowitzWha wha?May 05 13:42schestowitzExxon?May 05 13:42schestowitz“…Union Bank and Cal Fed Bank…”May 05 13:43schestowitzSo it’s not some God-like rich dude giving this moneyMay 05 13:43schestowitzIt’s corporationsMay 05 13:43schestowitzInstead of Exxon funding Grassroots.com (AstroTurf) it’s just some foundationMay 05 13:43oiaohmAnd the banks were most likely given the money to give to the PR group.May 05 13:44schestowitzhttp://www.rosefdn.org/article.ph…May 05 13:44oiaohmSo effectively the money has been well and truly washed.May 05 13:45schestowitzBanks given by whom?May 05 13:45schestowitzCompanies that have vested interests?May 05 13:45oiaohmYep.May 05 13:45oiaohmThat would be normal.May 05 13:45schestowitzSome funds come from settlements thoughMay 05 13:46schestowitzI.e. from penalised companiesMay 05 13:46oiaohmThis money laundering on a grand scale.May 05 13:47oiaohmYou get ordered to pay money so you pay it to a PR group who will attack your competition.May 05 13:47oiaohmIf you can of course.May 05 13:48oiaohmSo unless they come clean about the complete source of this money we cannot even tell if what they are doing is legal or not.May 05 13:48oiaohmRemember I said the USA system was rotten to the core this is what I was talking about schestowitz.May 05 13:49schestowitzI know about the PR riddleMay 05 13:49schestowitzI mean, look at SourceWatchMay 05 13:49schestowitzit has extensive documentation of just the edge of the machinations of this systemMay 05 13:49oiaohmDig deep enough and there is illegally used money.May 05 13:49schestowitzIt had no page that I could find about the RosefdnMay 05 13:50schestowitzSueMay 05 13:50schestowitzSureMay 05 13:50schestowitzLet’s stop it thereMay 05 13:50oiaohmSourceWatch does not track funders.May 05 13:50schestowitzI’ll post this bit of of the log separatelyMay 05 13:50oiaohmOnly the PR doers.May 05 13:50schestowitzI don’t have much time today to organise the factsMay 05 13:50schestowitzoiaohm: yesMay 05 13:50*schestowitz processes the logMay 05 13:52oiaohmSourceWatch was more created by press people who did not want to be tricked by PR with no interest in finding the source of the fake PR.May 05 13:52
There is some more in yesterday’s IRC log. This is where the subject, like many others that we cover, originally came up. █
“[Microsoft's] Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would ‘backstop,’ or guarantee in some way, BayStar’s investment…. Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar’s investment in SCO.”
–Larry Goldfarb, Baystar, key investor in SCO
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