*cough* it is being incorrectly framed as a 'sources' problem. You
   should be more interested in 'what' and 'where' rather than 'who' and
   'how much'.

   One man's virus is another man's liberator.

   Travis

   On Mar 1, 2015 7:49 AM, "John Young" <[1]jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

     Well said. Very few citizens receiving government funds, benefits,
     perks, favors, bribes, contracts, tax write-offs, and even fewer NGO
     beneficiaries are bothered by laws. procedures, pacts, secrecy,
     venality, venerable greasing of palms. This is what governments
     and NGOs were invented for and remain the premier source of
     livelihood one way or the other, especially for those who pretend
     opposition while royally partying with opponents. Royally, not
     peasantly.
     6- and 7-figure dollar compensation of officers of NGO, edu, com,
     gov, religion, media ad nauseum, confirm the arrangement to promise
     public service as a lure to vampire the lucre of believers who think
     they
     will be able to become brazen vampires too. And it works, shrewd
     recruits and donors like Soros, Omidyar, WikiLeaks, Snowden and
     millions of followers flood into civil liberties, cybersec,
     anonymizing,
     FOI, spying, think tanks, ACLU, EFF, EPIC, Privacy International,
     Investigative Journalists, ProPublica, The Intercept, on and on ad
     nauseum from Day One to 0-Day.
     Favorite rejoiner to accusations of perfidy is to accuse of
     conspiracy
     of various stripes, never ever confessing that the greatest
     conspiracies
     are promulgated by governments and their well-trained domesticates:
     Spies, agents, sources, cohorts, informants, educators, preachers,
     contractors, opinionators, operators, heroes, medalists, oh hell, us
     SOB maestroes of the Duh Conspiracy.
     At 07:44 PM 2/28/2015, mo wrote:

     Well. Duh.
     As a happy recipient of this totally laundered crazy government
     money,
     and, yes, if you don't read any of the documents these entities
     provide
     it may come as a complete surprise to you, I am quite happy about
     them
     having to preserve some privacy.
     Can't we be happy that government money can actually (try to) do
     good?
     Does really /everything/ have to be The Reptilian Conspiracy?
     On 02/27/2015 05:20 PM, Polity News wrote:
     > When asked for public records about internet freedom funding, the
     > governments of the Netherlands and Sweden classified and redacted
     > documents about the contracts.
     >
     >
     [2]http://piratetimes.net/governments-covertly-fund-internet-freedom
     -activists/
     >

References

   1. mailto:jya@pipeline.com
   2. http://piratetimes.net/governments-covertly-fund-internet-freedom-activists/