My first salvo (essay) over concerns about Bono's RED/ONE being basically a financial function of Bill Gates (because it was so dependent on his largesse), was back in 2013. It culminated eventually in this investigative report, which got me erased off the internets (Facebook, Disqus before I published). -Yes, I complained a lot. Bono may have been doing good things with the money; -that didn't mean his billionaire benefactor was, it was basic PR calculus in human lives. The premise in 2013 was, no one this ideologically straitjacked in a pathology should be anywhere near human health (or agricultural) issues, which is what you are if you are ideologically wedded to the reigning (amoral) economy because it produced you. (It's the fact that it's inherently amoral (and why that is), that weds you to a pathology if you are a true believer. Of course with Bill Gates it's more complicated than that.)
Bill Gates/Big Pharma approached the Covid-19 pandemic with the same cavalier indifference to life he/Warren Buffett exhibited over the oil by rail/domestic fracking boom they capitalized on by becoming CN's biggest investor/purchasing BNSF, after which rail safety standards descended into such a state of regulatory slipshod that forty-seven people ended up being burned alive due to a rail accident shipping untreated product (that was improperly labelled as a non-hazardous, non-explosive substance cross border). Standard treatment of fracked product was not regulated at the federal level out of North Dakota when it should have been, especially after blowing up a small town center and killing 47 people. Transport Canada on the other hand was allowing CN/CP and other rail carriers to serially violate safety standards, while labelling the series of infractions it permitted secret. "Canada’s largest freight carrier CN Rail did not report to authorities more than 1,800 derailments and accidents, including 44 on key rail arteries." - CBC. CN and CP are only investigated by their own private police forces over derailments and work related deaths.
The escalating #bombtrains scandal (there were many such explosions/derailments from both Bakken/tar sands oil train shipments, by and large uncovered by MSM, but enough to cause a binational environmental campaign) diversified investment by Berkshire Hathaway to a majority control investment in a pipeline company (Phillips66) with a 25% stake in a pipeline that was illegally installed absent an EIS (Environmental Impact Study), which Obama only ordered once he was so close to the end of his second term it wouldn't cost him anything politically. (Buffett was a significant campaign donor in '08 and 2012.) Only when the violently suppressed months long protest was going to become a matter of over 2000 veterans being violently expelled from Standing Rock by the National Guard come Monday, did the US Army Corps of Engineers deny the easement through the tribe's drinking water on the grounds of conductng an EIS at the last, past minute. The violent intra-state enforcement of an illegal pipeline installation had carried on for months, and was only stopped by the considered bad press of beating 2000 vets in an eviction broadcast live on national news. Only then did the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Obama administration enforce the rule of law. (BTW, a submerged un-encased oil pipeline like this under a freshwater supply would be 100% illegal in Turkey, let alone if it was under a drinking water supply.)
This is how the job gets done. Only when the pipeline's irrevocably in place do you get a legal verdict saying its permit to go ahead was erroneous all along, but that didn't stop the investment's forced installation using attack dogs, dog kennels for arrestees, tear gas, rubber bullets, water jets in sub-freezing temberatures during winter, and private mercenary forces, including surveillance specialists from the occupation of Iraq, culminating in well over 600 arrests. This is how the job got done, and before that the job got done so negligently it literally ended up burning people alive.
This is how Bill Gates' large investments in vital infrastructure play out in terms of exacting societal and environmental injustice and outright brutality on home soil, and you think he's the oracle on world health matters because he de facto finances your major media (including the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting), which obsequiously didn't cover the above scandals, in no small part in complete erasure of his association for his benefit? Despite an international boycott of the DAPL's financiers and an internationally covered protest blockade that went on for several months, no one ever got to find out Gates Foundation was invested via Berkshire Hathaway's $6.3 billion controlling share in Phillips66 (over 54% of Gates Foundation's portfolio was in Berkshire Hathaway shares and Gates was on Berkshire Hathaway's Board of Directors), making Gates a DAPL investor at more than 1600 times the level (Gates Foundation funded) Guardian claimed Trump was for this fake news story.
Trump had already divested, and the story was designed to sabotage Trump in the last heat of the 2016 election, echo chambered across left wing news media for months. Bill Gates's media establishment patrons weren't above lying in order to sabotage an election, which when lost, then fulminated into Russiagate, meaning blatant propaganda to attack a sitting president became a full time affair. But you've yet to cock an eyebrow over corporate media concentration or press funding in all this. Maybe this'll help: "During Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful run for president in 2016, both Bill and Melinda Gates were on her short list as potential options for vice president." -Source. (Well actually that was due to Wikileaks.The US' main "witness" cultivated by the FBI (who has already admitted to committing perjury in the case) in this extrajudical existential joke is a convicted sexual predator of teenage boys (but that didn't stop an ex-CIA "reporter" at CNN from slandering Assange as what the key witness against him in actuality is). The FBI entering relationships with such sexual offenders for the sake of political agenda (or literally improving the web traffic of child rape sites, probably in an effort to cull informants) is not new. The rot is thorough.)
So yes, Bill and Melinda Gates were that close to the Vice Presidency with the 2016 election. The obvious reason not to want the position is because it would have only brought government oversight and scrutiny upon the power he wields unaccountably already, with just one example being the sort of pernicious, concerted media control that ultimately became fully weaponized proaganda not worrth the bandwidth or airtime in a decidedly partisan fashion prior and post election 2016, so utterly inverted it performs as a propaganda enabler of the Kafka-esque imprisonment of truth tellers. "Propaganda by omission is its most insidious form." That this is the main function of Bill Gates' funding control of the press is exhibited by the blanket silence on the twin scandals above, but it's even worse than that.
This guy funding your ideologically strait-jacketed news media is the guy you've entrusted world health to in a pandemic. (Billionaire funded media so ideologically biased and weaponized it actively sabotages free elections with fake news, and destroys anyone blowing the truth whistle effectively during the election they lost to their failed progaganda by slanderously destroying them as well when they are unjustly imprisoned over a failed prosecution.) -When they literally lied to win (and to lose too)? When this was a bald election influence/interference attempt using inverted propaganda to smear Trump as a DAPL investor, when the real investor was Buffett/Gates? Gates Foundation funded BBC is a walking textbook of ideological capture, as is The Guardian, and arguably most of the marquee "liberal" outlets Gates Foundation is responsible for funding. The Guardian has no reputation left, and as a propaganda op, servicing Bill Gates might not run a far second to MI6. Bill Gates posthumously insured protection of Gates Foundation's DAPL invesment (via Berkshire Hathaway) by being the lead campaign contributor to North Dakota's next governor, a former Microsoft CEO.
The Russians have nothing on Bill Gates (yes, Gates Foundation funds the New York Times), and they played leading authority on the Russiagate hoax. (The New York Times would censor any comments associating either Bill Gates or Warren Buffett by name (by virtue of their ownership/investment in a series of exploding trains), to the one blurb they ran on the bomb trains scandal. That wasn't all the NYT editorialized, but you'll have to read the article.) With Russiagate, lying as a propaganda spigot became MSM's second nature. The very first "Russian influence" attack (fake news debunked in less than 24 hours on Twitter) was made by a billionaire asset (with a $600 million cloud contract with the CIA). Despite the story's patent falsity, it set the tenor for the censorship of the internet. Since the first salvo of Russian influence was aimed at attacking and censoring established alternative news media, that is arguably its prime function, to destroy freedom of speech on the internet. (Four of the top ten the Wapo report went so far as to have ProporNot list, (namely Counterpunch, Truthout, Truthdig and Naked Capitalism), I'd sourced for my investigative report.) Unsurprisingly Wapo is peddling the same ideological straitjacket, which is used to silence virtual female only spaces and purge the internet of "radical feminists". (Hell, yes.) This is not atypical in the sense that professedly reliable sources are the most successful for individual specific deceptions to deceive the public, which is the functional nature of Bill Gates’ enitire media funding operation (and Bezos' WaPo operation as well, and Omidyar's The Intercept.). It is lethal at the highest levels of discretionary intelligence among readership, which is exactly its design.
Here we have a billionaire's company sourced in a billionaire owned news outlet, Pierre Omidyar's. Coincidentally, Omidyar's man in India, is Gates' man in India, is Facebook's man in India, who has, in all likelihood, done more than anyone to prevent Gates Foundation's prosecution there. "It’s not like Pando hasn’t been warning about the Modi danger since he was first elected in May 2014. Modi crossed our radar precisely because he was such a favorite of so many big-name Silicon Valley leaders — Pierre Omidyar, Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Tim Cook. . . . " Additionally, "Bill Gates is a major investor of the firm at the heart of the story [cited below], Bridge Academies International, having pitched in, along with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, $100 million for the 'education startup'” behind school privatization roll-outs in Liberia, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. The initiative got glowing reports from both the New York Times' Nick Kristof and The Guardian.
By the way, Canada's federal and provincial elections are open season for foreign donors thanks to funding legal loopholes, which apparently are no accident. Did you happen to know that the woman who will likely be gunning to be our next Prime Minister (Liberal, on a feminism platform), is on record asserting the planet should be run by philanthrocapitalist technocrats, -and just happens to be the grandchild of a Nazi propagandist (as well as married to one of the New York Times' serial Russophobe columnists)? She'll certainly protect the egregious, fascistically run $78 billion dollar trainset CN from any scrutiny as it continues to serially abuse the domestic population with technical failures. For Covid-19 she's a wet dream. (And you wonder why we don't like you.) It's because you need Nazi spawn gunning for Prime Minister.
It's because you globalize the sexual predation of children with utter impunity, and thanks to your promulgation of Third wave feminism, have made Canada a prime enabler of the social napalm you've unleashed. Facebook's present censorship regime proves their decades long total apathy to cultural misogyny, which includes indifference to crimes committed on its platform, was fully intentional. India's regulatory bodies have put a move on Big Tech's indifference over platform sharing of pornography and child pornography (on Twitter) while the "feminist" West has barely begun to act on laws it has on the books, which speaks volumes. The West globalized this social toxicity intentionally. They only acted against it when forced to, by the danger of losing market share. To destroy both feminism and environmentalism, they launched identity politics in the pretension it could pretend at ideology. I don't like the fact that Canada has an online monopoly on porn (over 300 porn hubs, not just PornHub, are owned by MindGeek) thanks to the prevailing policies to deliberately develop the internet along monopoly lines (with Section 230 immunity), germinated by DARPA to set this social napalm loose, something our identitarian feminist cabinet and Prime Minister were A-OK with as a status quo (along with arms to Saudi Arabia). Nick Kristof thankfully wasn't, when it came to trafficking and child rape. To give you a sense of Pornhub's potential legal liability when Nick Kristof's bombshell broke, more than half the site had to be purged immediately.
"I think a lot of Canadians in particular were unaware that they were hosts to a company that had that kind of imagery, uh, online. And, you know, that Canada was in effect inflicting, uh, rape videos on the world. And I, you know, I think Canadians were embarrassed by that, ashamed of that, and they’ve been taking action." -Nick Kristof
My question is, -is feminism making half your cabinet women, or would it have actually been served by investigating Pornhub once you attained office? These allegations were not new, the victims had beeen ignored and had no due process for years and years. This is the sense of hypocrisy, that it took a foreign journalist to force the issue. PayPal, Mastercard and VISA were fine with transacting the live sexual assault of minors. This case of uploading a fourteen year old victim who alleges she was raped at knifepoint for twelve hours and in and out of consciousness was uploaded to Pornhub in 2009. The minor was First Nations. The subsequent Canadian Parliamentary investigation found that PornHub had failed to report child sex abuse materials for eleven years:
"And then, a Canadian parliamentary committee launched an investigation. It unveiled possible criminal conduct when it questioned executives at MindGeek—the owner of Pornhub and more than 300 other pornography websites which have yet to be investigated for identical problems. MindGeek is headquartered in Canada, with offices in Los Angeles and London. These hearings revealed that Pornhub failed to report child sexual abuse materials (i.e., child pornography) to U.S. or Canadian child protection agencies from 2008-2019. Any corporation's failure to report such materials is a crime in Canada." And there's your f***-duh moment. This was operating in plain sight. 115 million visits per day (2019, in which 665 centuries of porn content was consumed in one year), and no one reporting child rape (really, do you find that believable), seventy-five percent of consumers male, and here's the staggering part:
"[Bezos'] Alexa, the leading Web-traffic tracker, says that among the world’s tens of millions of sites, PornHub ranks number 36. But if we eliminate search engines (Google U.S. and its many country-specific affiliates), Web portals (Yahoo!), shopping sites (Amazon), and sites based on user-generated content (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit), if we focus only on sites that publish other content, then PornHub ranks number four behind only Wikipedia, Microsoft, and Netflix."
So, number four in the world, which means Canada was responsible for arguably the worst public purveyor of child rape and sex trafficking carried out in open sight on the internet, globalizing this.
Either the consumers wouldn't report because rapes of missing minors were what they wanted to consume or, this was sanctioned and ignored for eleven years. At the same time they were profitting off the rape of children, Pornhub were luring children. VISA's fine and already back to providing transactional services for PornHub providing it's corporate, meaning the hypocrisy is as rank and as glaring as ever. Here's the problem with that (Newsweek article hyperlinked above):
"In fact, Pornhub has already "verified" pornography of a minor (aka child pornography) and even of sex trafficking victims. For example, 22 survivors have sued MindGeek for $80 million because one of the corporation's official partner channels—GirlsDoPorn—trafficked them into pornography."
And it has not occurred to Canada's Liberal government, with its half female cabinet, even with a parliamentary investigation confirming MindGeek was knowingly hosting these videos, the site and company haven't been shut down even though they were in criminal malfeasance against Canadian law for eleven years. Yet if she campaigns for Prime Minister next election, Freeland will do so with feminism as one of her main campaign slogans. Arguably this means the LIberal definition of feminism is successfully neutered by identity pollitics.
Noticing this identity politics election ploy got me disappeared on the internet across the board by Facebook for the first time. No comment fields Facebook administered would post my comment. (I'm obviously way past that.) Publishing this article got me censored by Facebook (even just commenting to friends) on a post by post basis (meaning everything I said was subject to scrutiny if and when Facebook felt like it), without any notification of violation of terms of service. (I was also periodically reminded I was under scrutiny by being arbitrarily restricted from making any public posts, until my followers effectively plummeted over 60%.) By my fifth article, my computer was attacked by ransomware while my publisher was threatened with removal from Facebook (by Facebook) at the exact same time. (-Her publishing account would be deleted unless she produced ID demonstrating she was operating under her real name. Needless to say, she's very much censored by Big Tech at present.) The only reason this fifth article exists is because it was published on this website, not on my computer, when my computer failed and lost everything not long after the ransomware attack. (This was the one on theocratic fascism tenets being hidden in live performance art, plus the fact that U2 were lauding our Nazi descendent Foreign Minister as a leading feminist on their giant video screen for every Canadian tour stop right after the truth of her background had hit the media fan (which she got to lie about, alleging the truth was "Russian disinformation"); -this happened notably less than a year after Bono's RED had received over $128 million from Gates Foundation (2016, when #NoDAPL hit the fan).
The only reason to summarize petty censorship is to point out that Big Tech's online censorship in relation to Bill Gates (or Bono, who was an invitation only Facebook investor) was presumably a blanket affair way before Covid-19 ever hit. Election 2016 ushered censorship of the world wide web, but it was happening unnofficially long before the election ended (escalating drastically in the last heat), -even if the subject matter was barely related to the election. This is (for many more than just me, I'm sure) a significant point of fact. (Actually the commment censorship I experienced with Disqus, which had gone on since 2013, was completely unrelated to the election, -nearly all had to do with either the bomb trains, Gates/Buffett, or #NoDAPL; -also tumblr erased all my hyperlinks/link sourcing on my first "Gates" essay without my consent; literally went into my account and disappeared hundreds of links, which again only got saved because I'd backed it up on this site. This formed the bulk the substantiation for my first article; -virtually all the links I had were unsearchable on Google).
Big Tech is only providing a pretext for itself to do what it was already doing illegitimately, meaning I was subject to blanket censorship with zero warning, and zero reference to any violation of terms of service. I was literally just disappeared in a way that was designed to intimidate, with censorship as the only goal. It had nothing to do with Terms of Service. I existentially didn't matter, therefore there was no need for any pretext. They just made sure I understood I would be observed at will on everything I said and censored at will, so perversely the metric becomes that none of what you're saying probably matters since it's not magically vanishing and you're not being actively censored at the level of post by post scrutiny at the moment. But you sure knew the cause, and that was the audacity to scrutinize Bill Gates in terms of his investments and philanthropy in a real way with sourced research.
I suppose this state of affairs didn't trigger any alarms in the broader public until being subject to Bill Gates' world vision for Covid-19, with the advocacy of societal shutdown only alleviated by the salvation of a vaccine, and compliance enforced by a vaccine/otherwise immunized digital passport, either to be eligible to work, or participate in any social gatherings. (Bill Gates blithely mentioned both of these possibly being controlled by a digital immunity certificate in the plethora of genuflect interviews he was granted at the onset of the pandemic.) Gates' shutdown prescription was economically catastrophic, in a direct inverse relation of maximal damage for impoverished and marginalized populations, and of course, an economic massacre of small businesses that in the same token massively benefited big monopolies and Big Tech. Covid-19 was operated by Big Pharma, the Gates Foundation et al as a health monopoly to harvest wealth, as opposed to a global human health issue, with the long frame interest of bringing the world population under digital surveillance/control, with the end game of monitored control of public space and public gatherings, which will be the death knell of more than just protests. A public health minister of Nova Scotia went so far as to signify the interest of social lockdowns (enforced in NS by an ex parte injunction) was also designed to stop person to person communication on Covid-19, leaving only digital communication which can be monitored and manipulated. (-And yes, war criminals are killer enablers.)
It's not like they cared about us (the literal backbone of the entire healthcare system is working age women who might become pregnant). If women were not on birth control they were excluded Covid-19 vaccine trials, to avoid the risk of women becoming pregnant during the trials, because Big Pharma wasn't trial testing pregnant women. (The RollingStone article is behind a paywall, so the statement is, "Don’t forget that in the trials, women had to be on birth control." I've paid and transcribed the full article here. Quartz has another.) This means that if you are a normal functioning fertile human woman with menses, you were largely exluded from vaccine trials (not quite half the human race (of course), but the overwhleming majority of the health sector). Women were just expected to automatically swallow the risks of a vaccine that protected Big Pharma in terms of legal indemnity, with the potential price exacted on female bodies in terms of the acceptance of risk of a vaccine that had not been tested on them (unless they were by and large under a hormone regime that literally prevents the reproductive aspect of their bodies from functioning, -granted there were a number of "accidental" pregnancies in the trials, approximately 40), but the trials excluded functioning fertile human females by design, and then expected them to assume the risk of being live guinea pigs for a vaccine that hadn't been tested on them, with no legal recourse if it didn't work. The extrapolation of women who were subject to this omission is massive; -based on the inferential of whether they desired to become pregnant or risked becoming pregnant (i.e., were fertile and sexually active), because if they were in that probability, they were at risk of entering the untested population at any time (by virtue of exclusion by the birth control requirement, where oral contraceptive was promoted and preferred, sexually functioning women were overwhelmingly excluded from the vaccine trials), and from a health perspective inherently ought to avoid the risk of becoming part of the untested population, especially since this was compounded by potential risk to the unborn. At this threshold it is logical based on risk analysis to reject the vaccine just on principle (because pregnant women were basically a live experiment as test subject thanks to the emergency authorization vaccine roll-out (let me scoff at sample size for a second (that has zero long term assessment, -of course, we're not even women anymore) as they admit that before this, there was virtually no data, which they'll only do in a debunking fact check)), but of course then you're faced the threat of being fired in the health sector, which is literal forced coercion of sexually functioning women at risk of becoming pregnant who were deliberately excluded in Covid-19 vaccine trials. They were, by virtue of both exclusion and "essential" occupation, the most subject to coercion to get vaccinated (Oh, Canada). This is the vast majority of women in Africa and many parts of the Third World, given the age demographics/lack of birth control.
A man who did not care about causing nearly half a million cases of NPAFP (non-polio acute flaccid paralysis) in India because his foundation would only administer live polio vaccine (OPV, phased out of North America in the '50's because of the known risks, but still admininstered by Gates Foundation worldwide, despite Gates Foundation's OPV campaign being attributed as the direct cause of polio outbreaks in several countries), does not care about which population groups Covid-19 vaccine has not been tested on (yet, or for any appropriate duration to ensure health safety) before administering worldwide (will RED et al prove a gateway to Africa). His investments have legal indemnity, and no wonder this has been on his agenda for years, given what Gates Foundation is prepared to do in India. There is also a case of non-consensual Gardasil vaccination of more than 23,000 tribal girls in India when trials had not even been conducted on adults yet, with no notification it was a vaccination trial, and a 5% incidence of long term side effects (1200 girls), death included. This was conducted when Gates Foundation was an investor in the vaccine manufacturer, Merck. There is also this allegation by one of the authors of the NPAFP study (yes it exists, and so does this announcement he's citing in Nature Magazine, actually, though this doesn't support his second accusation).
This needs unpacked because Current Affairs asserted at the end of their article that the NFAFP allegation was false, lazily sourcing Politifact, which is amusing because Politifact has accepted Gates Foundation's grants as recently as five years ago, was launched by the Tampa Bay Times and purchased by the Poynter Institute. Poynter Institute is definitely a benefactor of Gates Foundation, among others. Politifact misleads on the story first by falsely labelling NFAFP polio, then sourcing the allegation to tweets, facebook posts, and ultimately Robert Kennedy, who has just been roundly destroyed by Newsweek (also in court against Facebook over censorship), in tandem with publishing a book on Fauci. (Ironic, since the source for the gain of function Fauci bombshell ending the book's summary was Newsweek. Kennedy's profile and apparent laxity has made him an a walking target to discredit opposition at this stage, almost a necessity given the glaring issues of his targets, but high profile opposition to Gates is being eliminated and systemically removed from the internets. Kennedy has basically achieved trope status in that here he is being used to run dinsinformation to discredit real reports.) Kennedy did allege the nearly half a million NFAFP deaths, but it was also reported long before, (I found it in Indian media 2013, one of my link washed editions), and Kennedy appears to be fully right about the Gardasil/Merck case (also found in 2013, with the pattern of off loading birth control medications deemed unfit for western women being fully plausible, -especially given the current parliamentary investigation India conducted into the Gardasil/HPV case, which was only launched after severing funding ties with Gates Foundation). I am sourcing Grayzone on the NPAFP cases and where polio outbreaks occurred in tandem/subsequent to Gates Foundation OPV campaigns; -you can examine the sourcing as well as I can (the WHO conveniently transferred their site and the html page following up subsequent OPV related polio cases in Syria has disappeared). The Grayzone allegations on birth control mirror the (sourced) page I already had, not about concealed sterilization in vaccines without consent, but questioning informed consent and the offloading of long term product with side effects deemed too risky for western women by Big Pharma that Gates Foundation invested in. In this instance, Politifact performed the exact function it was designed to from the perspective of funding. Reporters doing an in depth retrospective resorted to it without investigation, probably not even realizing they had used Politifact to slander another publication's investigative reportage, significantly disappearing the realiity of both a doctors' report on NFAFP and a current Parliamentary investigation (where the matter is alleged), both Indian. Have I read or fact-checked these yet? Truthfully, no, I haven't had time. But neither did the Poynter Institute. They just flat out lied about the issue's existence footnoting western publishing on the matter, but to deride the allegation they used western spam (aka tweets and facebook posts). Incidentally the Grayzone has been subject to the typical "fun times" tactics used to attack and harrass independent (read any actual) media as of late.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now subject to a divorce. No one's apparently made any inferences between Bill's workplace conduct towards women subordinates post marriage (a rinse repeat of how he culled his wife). Bill Gates only sought personal female relationships with individuals that he had the power to fire. When a group of women subordinates had the temerity to insist on their overtime pay that was owing he walked into the office of the perceived ringleader and screamed at her until he was purple in the face, causing her departure from Microsoft. (Current Affairs) This is the power differential he needed as a default to initiate a personal encounter with a female (he was a reputed office bully), the differential he needed as advantage over a prospective spouse.
To this gets added his failure to penalize his Microsoft financial manager guilty of sexual harrassment, and the Epstein connection culminating in his divorce, not to mention the sexist Microsoft work environment of the Seattle tech bros caught in sex trafficking stings that resulted in these arrests. Or this guy, arrested at BIll Gates' mansion. (-Is there a pattern here about women yet?)
And if this doesn't indicate monopolists are more important to each other than marriage when real money's at risk, I don't know what does. Buffett is a cochair of the Gates Foundation. It's a trifecta (-well, was, as in wow, that was fast, which means she must have a case, because the first tune being sung was that the Gates Foundation would continue as is). The divorce is incredibly timely in terms of absolving herself of any potential legal indemnity (especially where India is concerned, and potentially world Covid vaccination/shutdown policy going forward), but not so much if she can't split the foundation and prove she can do better with it. If this wasn't about the money why is Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman Bill Gates' divorce lawyer?
(Interesting, as two birds came home to roost at the same time, with Fauci's story being buried until a rather perfectly timed email leak. And then the media/Big Tech censorship frenzy promptly reversed tact on the lab leak theory. Looks like selective putting out to pasture for overreach.)
I think Gates Foundation's Covid-19 campaign will prove a case study in what I analyzed long ago as the true nature of Bill Gates' for profit "philanthropy", and how un-philanthropic it proves to be, because it is agenda-ized in terms of its investments/ideology. RED's campaign shift reflects its dependency. You become your benefactor's agenda, not a beneficial agenda (Africa gets ID2020, AGRA). You accept becoming a tool to insert this other agenda, and your charitable effort becomes nothing but a front.
(And yes, Larry Summers is still on ONE's Board of Directors. His quaffle about legal ignorance in this context is astounding, given his is on display. Again, billionaire news fronts allow ideologically incentivized quaffle providing it destroyed the economy with criminal impunity (Recession 2008), which is permissible, providing it's neoliberal. For Fuck's sake, is any of this looking familiar now? Bono is two degrees from Epstein three ways now ("26 flights"), and I'm supposed to feel OK. Yes, It's fugly. -Fantastic.)
Global diversion to this health "crisis" has direct consequences in terms of female domestic battery statistics, suicide/overdose increase (I know personally of two overdose deaths that gutted families by bereaving mothers of their only sons (and two children of their father), three barely there Covid illnesses (one three weeks), and a nonagenarian who survived), increased sexual predation of children through online means, increased mortality from delayed surgeries, neglected hospital/doctor visits, delayed education and neglected accepted therapies. Indeed there are sound arguments these health/mortality outcomes may actually have proven more severe. RED has even calculated what the loss of life to AIDs in Africa will be based on the supercedence of the Covid-19 health "crisis". It is the diversion away from much needed health infrastructure and funds that serves Gates Foundation's profit margins on a monopolistic approach to health. It literally gives him inroads into Africa that profit himself, as opposed to helping develop Africa's health infrastructure. As monopoly is Bill Gates raison d'etre, it must be the only viable approach, -right? Did you really expect a guy this obscenely wealthy not to have sublimated his concept of altruism inside his own ego?
Gates Foundation was responsible for funding both Imperial College and IHME from the University of Washington, who both happened to erroneously overestimate Covid-19 death forecasts in preliminary reports by orders of magnitude (2.2 million deaths forecast for the US vs. a current death toll of 617,109 - 6/20/21).
"[Imperial College's] key premise of 81% of the population being infected should have raised more alarms than it did. [More like outright laughter or burning red scepticism.] Even the deadly "Spanish Flu" (H1N1) pandemic of 1918-19 infected no more than 28% of the U.S. population. The next H1N1 "Swine Flu" pandemic in 2009-10, infected 20-24% of Americans." - Cato Institute
I found this out from a bitchute video banned by Twitter, which was over-reaching in all likelihood in its indemnity implications, i.e., asserting IHME's over-projection was heeded by Democratic Governers at outset and responsible for Governor Cuomo's potentially lethal overreaction in New York. (He falsely blamed Trump/CDC, which is a glaring red herring.) According to Politifact, "Between March 25 and May 8, approximately 6,326 COVID-positive patients were admitted to nursing homes, according to a state health department report." -From hospitals. As for the consequences of a perennially exploited workforce, that was a no brainer I predicted would prove an almighty headache for New York, especially given the staggering commutes of over 350,000 HHA's et al, which never breach notice. (They never get sick leave, and often are engaged in multiple home visits to seniors per day; -the screening per day was a questionnaire.) No I don't like the sourcing, but I don't like the information either:
"White House Coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx touted the IHME’s “Chris Murray Model” in April. IHME is housed at the University of Washington and was reportedly founded by the Gates Foundation, according to a Fox 9 report. In 2017, the Gates Foundation provided a ten-year, $279 million grant to IHME. Birx, meanwhile, sits on the board of the Global Fund, which has received more than $2 billion from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The IHME model proved to be a total disaster. In Georgia, where Republican governor Brian Kemp led the charge for re-opening his state, the model previously predicted 1,783 new cases per day on June 12 and hundreds of new cases per day into August. That model, just revised, shows 367 new cases per day on June 12 and zero new cases per day by August."
The IHME model was running by March 29, 202 and had a broad range, estimating 100,000 to 200,000 deaths for the US as a best case scenario [where is the time frame]; -that was then subject to continual down revision. Since it updates daily, you would have to have screenshot it prior to document its projections. By the looks of things Bill Gates was quoting the maximal forecast, which was framed for the end of the year. If so he was quoting his own funded entity. Justin Trudeau announced Canada's travel shutdown in tandem with Gates providing this prognosis, and is still following it, in lockstep. (I specifically remember Trudeau literally parroting one of Gates phrases in interview as per the shutdown, the day after a Gates interview was broadcast. Since I cannot find it and I don't have the time to dig, you can make your own conclusions as to how lockstep and totalitarian Canada has been on the shutdown of social gatherings (absent scientific proof or consensus), -it's been impressive. (Rabbit hole)
Are we seeing a pattern yet? No? After that lil' cul de sac, (which provides you the perfect pretext for the the sample of Gates Foundation's current (otherwise facile) funding efforts in public education further below, literally funding prognosticators who say "math is racist", because it demands the right answer (at the elementary level)), let's continue. (You might say that logically his thrust is to produce a crop of arsonists who won't burn down his house.)
Let's add Gates' farmland ownership (he's the largest agricultural landowner in the US (and has put a major move on Canada too)). Now he's put it to good use growing GM soy (to presumably service his bleeding Impossible Burger start-up), and growing potatoes for, you guessed it, McDonalds, after the affliction this gave Minnesotans with the misfortune of being pesticidally downwind. If Gates is, for example, growing McDonald's Russets (itself an imposing monopoly on US food production), then there's basically nothing anyone can do to reform agriculture. If, as the first article hyperlink above in the paragraph states, "50% of [US] farmers do not own the land they till", then there is no ability to react based on on-the-ground observation of adverse negative effects to initiate agricultural reform. (You'll own nothing, and be happy.) If you do not have the power, either of observation nor possession, being a farmer is the cancer risk equivalent of being a caged lab rat, meaning the farmer will not have the autonomy, at essence, to determine his risk of exposure by deciding poicy with respects to it, -that policy is imposed. A rentier system is a system designed to impose agricultural policy no matter what the effects. A rentier system is what Gates has. They may be paid to till (as opposed to renting the land); -they are rendered powerless at the level of food production. Again, this is the overall intention with AGRA structurally in Africa, or India for that matter.
"According to the recent Oxfam report ‘The Inequality Virus’, Mukesh Ambani doubled his wealth between March and October 2020. The coronavirus-related lockdown in India resulted in the country’s billionaires increasing their wealth by around 35 per cent, while 170,000 people lost their jobs every hour in April 2020 alone." - Counterpunch -As above, so below.
This is the mindset AGRA is unleashing on Africa. It's a campaign of "control the food, you control the people" via the insertion and enforcement of patent enforced seed control owned by foreign multinationals, and that's when it isn't performing as a profit dump for Big Pesticide, of pesticides already made illegal bu the EU (all Gates Foundation investments). The women protesters at the end of this article allege there are 67 pesticides that are illegal in the EU being applied in South Africa, ground zero for GM crops on the continent. McDonald's monopoly perversion of agriculture is what Gates has enforced by investing in production on home soil. Why would foreign forays be different? (They are in that they can get away with being even worse.) They are intrinsically opposed to reforming agriculture in any way that comes to terms with climate change, which is to be expected of an individual whose climate crisis tome reads as a typical neoliberal public-private partnership divestment scheme by one of the world's most exemplar tax evaders to further divest the tax base for R & D funding while deliberately transfering the profits to multinational corporations, basically the ultimate snake oil solution for the crisis you could cook-up to gin cash, with deliberate omission of the imperative necessity of degrowth above all other priorities being silent consignment to oblivion. Gates ludicrously claims that his agricultural investments are purely business venture, disassociated from his climate venture. That is really all you need to know, in so much as the discrete bifurcations he manages his own mind with are categorically impossible (just the same as capitalizing on a domestic fracking/tar sands boom that saw a 28,000% increase in oil by rail export out of Canada in four years is intrinsically opposed to any prevention of climate change). But it does allow Gates Foundation to be a palm oil plantation investor in the Congo (on expropriated land that threw out three villages and then some), -after palm oil monoculture was responsible for this world class ecological emissions disaster (due to the US behest of switching its vehicles to ethanol by a whopping 3% increase); -it needed to consume Africa's rainforest as well. Gates Foundation has also sunk billions into CAS in Africa (Cornell Alliance for Science):
"In Uganda, for example, the CAS has recruited journalists and key government individuals working on agriculture, science and technology to the cause of promoting GM seeds. Fellows write disparaging articles on agroecology, describing it as a “dead end,” and promote biotechnology-based solutions in its stead. In Nigeria, Alliance fellows work closely with OFAB's Nigeria Chapter, the National Biotechnology Development Agency, the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and the Nigerian Institute of Management to advocate for biotechnology, often characterizing it as the only scientific option."
Let's add Bill Gates' forays into pubic education and how they are inroads for the privatization for profits of learning materials by Big Tech via Clever (with Microsoft 365/Teams as the cloud/online teacher interface platform for all online assignments produced and turned in), as well as the equal potential to create an acquisitional data mine profiling of children K-12, preferentially without parental consent (initially attempted in New York State; -they fought, good for them). Granted this was a Zuckerberg initiative that automatically authorized sharing of student data with eighteen corporations just for accepting Summit (student guided learning arguably provides the ultimate behavioural and intelligence data mine), but Gates Foundation poured $12 million into the initiative, and were one of the seventeen corporations in the data sharing contract, along with Amazon, in addition to Facebook itself. This is like entering a data sharing contract on minor children with a third-party five-alarm house fire. And then some, as in pick your poison. The point is that when the monopoly you're negotiating with has too much power for the government to take it on (until now, and only pending), and this many legal breaches on user data in its history, the last thing you'd want to do is let them have aggregate access to student data of minors, privacy contract notwithstanding, because their entire profit model is incentivized to violate it and they have a track record of serial privacy violations, as well as using their membership to develop the largest biometric database for facial recognition in existence. Considering what third parties did with this, with utter impunity, the implications are staggering. Third party contracting is a loophole to obliterate the free speech on the one hand through monopolized control of the digital public square; when the government is the contractor, it's far more forboding.
Then there was this piece of ludicrousness, just to show you how Big Philanthropy is not only entirely unaccountable, but an abysmal failure at rational objective thought that shouldn't be let anywhere near public education. (I found it notable that in Grade 3 under Common Core, word problems had a checking system involving 9 or more marks, with only one being for the right answer, meaning in that category, you could fail math and pass. (And that's not all.) Not one parent I spoke to at my childrens' school knew Common Core had been implemented (or when, (2015), apart from teachers), but then I have a goldfish bowl level of contacts.) What got attempted in the County above mine was incredible:
"Originally, as the case of Hillsborough County, Florida shows, the plan was somewhat ruthless:
The original proposal and a 2010 timeline called for the district to fire 5 percent of its teachers each year for poor performance. That would amount to more than 700 teachers. The thinking was they would be replaced by teachers who earned entry level wages, freeing up money to pay the bonuses for those at the top.
Again, if you extrapolate Gates' policies on public education, the implications for Africa are darker, as it involves privatization campaigns of public schools (Liberia, -also Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria -and if you don't like anyone researching Bridge Academies International, have them arrested), which bears some serious semblance to the disaster capitalism charter school-ization of New Orleans entire public education system post Hurricane Katrina. In his continued divorce from reality, Gates Foundation was also invested in Scholastic, and the reason school publishers in the US (also monopolistic) went for Common Core is because it was the most wasteful use of newsprint as school materials to ever occur, with all exercises incorporated as tear out pages into the textbooks, which were giant, and discarded and reissued every year in core subjects. (Routinely less than ten percent of the exercises in these merged textbooks were completed each year.) "Several major textbook publishers aligned to the Common Core early. Pearson announced its support in 2012. Since then, publishers like McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, and Scholastic News have begun development of texts that conform to the Common Core. Indirect control of the textbooks will make the Common Core’s influence spread to nearly every school in America." - Source. "The Common Core organization has protected the standards using copyright law so that they may not be altered or edited without permission." Common Core was the single biggest attempt at socialogical modification of a nation ever attempted by a plutocrat(s). If you want that stronger, here's Diane Ravitch:
This is the closest thing to an educational coup in the history of the United States. Our education system is made up of about 14,000 local school districts; most education policy is set at the state level. But Bill Gates was able to underwrite a swift revolution. It happened so quickly that there was very little debate or discussion. Almost every consequential education group was funded by the Gates Foundation to study or promote the Common Core standards.
It was also, in terms of relative deforestation, a climate disaster (if invisible on a lesser scale), as Common Core's launch happened to coincide with when Canada led the world on deforestation (of the Boreal forest - "Canada’s boreal forest is the world’s largest intact forest and its most carbon dense forest ecosystem—acre for acre storing more carbon than any major ecosystem aside from wetlands"), which is in terms of vastness more vital as the earth's lungs than any rainforest. I'm not asserting causality here (of course), but it sure didn't help. The destruction and climate influence on Canadian forests is such an ecological cataclysm that Canada's Boreal is now a net carbon emitter as opposed to a carbon sink, with the altered climate change induced widfire regime consuming the North. I'm sure that 2001 being the same year Canada officially became world leader in deforestion, also being the same year Canada's forests became net emitters is no coincidence either. We know who's responsible as consumers, but you never hear a whisper about degrowth.
Do you see a pattern yet?
Why was this guy let anywhere near world health?
"-Let’s refer for a moment, to BFF’s you know well and love, namely, Warren Buffett.
For if you want to get to know somebody, and truly figure out their human necrocapitalist rating, it pays to examine where they get going, sink their investments, and why they did so. Buffett did the ’sink 'er all’ purchase maneuver on BNSF. -With the PR regime to boot.
Think he might 'ave known what rail was coming into if there were no pipelines running? I dunno, -ya think?
Now that we know they knew, what does that mean about how they make their money -?
-What does it mean that they’re both thick as thieves and as thick on profiting from the dirtiest oil booms on earth, tar sands and Bakken development, which are both dependent on rail for the boom? -What about the fact that the permits coming out of Bakken allowed up to 40% VOC’s?
-What about the fact that tar sands shipment is nigh par for danger?
-What does it tell you that big oil could stabilize it first (as they do in TX voluntarily recognizing the danger) -and the Feds won’t even do their job? -And the railways aren’t even lobbying for this?
-What does it tell you that the rail lobby lobbies against all safety measures the day after an accident, and despite 47 being burned alive?-That they kept running the same derelict cars for four decades plus?
-What does it tell you that before he owned it Buffett’s BNSF once had a subsidiary (Burlington Resources, read Burlington frack) -making a crapload off of BNSF’s land holdings in terms of (frack) mining rights, which screwed over North Dakotans with the state gov’t, like this? -Which was offloaded to offload the conflict of interest with the volatile VOC’s before they immolated 47 people alive in a rail explosion? He went on to purchase BNSF despite perhaps being privy to these matters, as he was majorly invested in Burlington Resources parent company, Conoco Phillips, at the time." [Bono would have had the opportunity to read that NYT investigative bombshell obscuring Buffett's key role in North Dakota's epic corruption not long after he was convalescing in a New York City hospital over his bike accident. (#NoDAPL would soon follow.) I doubt it got missed.]
"What does it tell you that The Guardian is running this divestment campaign and COMPLETELY AVOIDING this crapload that says, they are banking on the dirtiest oil boom on earth, screwing over citizens in the bargain, -and literally frying Africa with their profits (a 2C cap means a 3C fry average increase for Africa) -while claiming to be its greatest philanthropists, -thanks to their little funding platform called, ONE/RED/Bono?"
-This was part of a comment on Grist. Grist had Bill McKibben on its board of directors, "Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College". Bill McKibben was actually receiving funding from Warren Buffett (via Novo to Tides Foundation, which actually sent activists into Standing Rock to tell them to miraculously initiate a boycott campaign that omitted investors) at the time. Only Cory Morningstar caught that from the beginning, so I caught it too. Bill finally got MSM outed for his billionaire financing by this documentary. It too was censored off the internet via billionaire greenwash funding, courtesy of Youtube. But at 1:00:00 it outs Bill McKibben for what he did at Middlebury College. The Grayzone article that broke the billionaire funded censorship campaign of the Michael Moore documentary cited Bill Rees thanks to my twitter referral when they entered the fray. (I also attended environmental studies, as in evironmental tech, so I have some acumen as to when you are full of it, the kind that hurts.)
"[Gates] lives in a 66,000 square foot mansion with 24 bathrooms that is worth $145 million, which he calls (seriously) “Xanadu 2.0.” It was built using half a million wood logs from 500-year-old trees." - Current Affairs. I'd willingly bet that timber (because it's cited elsewhere as 800 year old Douglas Fir, quite (quite!) difficult to come by aged stands anymore) was from the Nahmint Valley, if not for the caveat that might have already been exterminated as part of the daylight robbery clearcut destruction of my home island post 1991, meaning Bill Gates likely got his Old Growth lumber thanks to the first and biggest astroturf campaign launched by Burston-Marstellar in British Columbia during that time, which has cost us ever since. I'll willingly bet the timber wasn't from the USA. Only 1% of B.C.'s intact Old Growth is left now. It is still on the very same road we blockaded to save the coastal temperate rainforest in 1991, a matter of over 200 arrests right now.
"Why Dead Trees are 'the Hottest Commodity on the Planet' " - The Atlantic. It's because BC has over-harvested for decades before these isues cropped up, and continues to do so. (Having the province run outdated twenty year old inventories maintains the Annual Allowable Cut at its worst overshoot in history, since it was artificially augmented prior due the mountain pine beetle epidemic.)
Go ahead and try to tell me billionaires are feminist. (LOL) Let's take a deep breath and remind ourselves it was always a concoction to preserve their inequality by ultimately destroying the left. What were the purposes of Covid-19 being overblown as a pandemic? Here's a theory: No one's prepared to tell the truth about what sort of economic compression it would actually take to save humanity and the planet from global warming (who would have to give up what), and this gives them a sociological system or pretext that lets them do a simulation on economic shutdown and its outcomes that checks whether it works at all, and a no end framework based on cornovirus's usual adaptation will grant them a way of simulating such impositions that is class based, and allows the oligarchy their gross over-consumption, but will duly harm every other form of business that exists within the bounds of reason, namely not themselves (tech billionaires made over $360 billion during the pandemic). This way they can make the impoverishment classist as opposed to real and just, and doing what's really necessary, just another pretend game where the price is the world.
In a similar view, the trans juggernaut will sterilize a marginal swath of high level consumers who will be medically dependent for life (the ones the planet could most do without a surplus of) by virtue of their ideology and identity into sterility voluntarily as a sexual orientation (what an oxymoron, seriously, wouldn't a nunnery do better), while the third world gets the birth control campaign. This will successfully avoid the needed reorientation of females guiding human selection via their innate sexuallity as physically designed, with sexual selection being guided by reciprocity (love) as opposed to sexual coercion (which provides for the exponential human growth rate capitalism's fake economic "growth" is inherently dependent on, hence this "culture"). In other words we are getting substitutes that are deceptions designed to maintain us in a manner where we do not address our existential future and guide it ourselves, but progress in those directions under oligarchic management through (harvestable) lies, because that is preferable to graduation to an actual civilized society that doesn't predicate its extreme affluence on destroying the planet out from under ourselves. Control of the reproductive potential of women at harvestable levels (read, exponential growth rate with a majority of pregnancies being unwanted, which is where the US maintained itself as late as a decade ago), is something amoral capitalism wants to be able to reset back to any level of barbarism it wishes at any time.
God forbid it dawn on women that they could save the planet by reproducing at less than replacement level, and they realize it's in their hands now, because governance has already failed by design. (The trend whenever women have any sort of measure of reproductive control and education and affluence, is that the birth rate declines.) It would fix itself if just given the chance to rise out of poverty. Wage slavery doesn't want that, it doesn't want women in the cultural capacity to reject unwanted pregnancy. If you actually wanted to save the planet, you would address this culturally in every country according to assessment. No unwanted pregnancy ever need exist. They are a product of male use of females for ejaculation for pleasure. The abortion rate is the ultimate outcome of male sexual entitlement utilizing women's bodies for pleasure. (So long as the fetuses can be exterminated in the millions and the legal framework is exacted in terms of women's bodies as opposed to addressing male sexual entitlement, the slaughter's fine to continue.) Fix just that, and you would have never even had a problem to begin with, but you're dealing with an economic system that literally established itself on the witch burnings abrogating women's reproductive control of selection and number of childbirths and demanded an exponential human growth rate to predicate the falsehood that it was profitable above all other systems, when its only measure and mechanism was how much maximal exploitation of human labour it could maximally get away with (globalization is diversification predicated on maximal human exploitation, lowest common denominator), starting at the (unpaid) reproductive labour of women governed by male sexual entitlement that ultimately exploits their labour in abrogation of their own sense of limits. (Corporatizing this amongst a legion of exploited HHA's is not feminist liberation nor it is improvement (it is the redistribution of labour of the LCD varietal). It is just another aspect of the continued commodification of every aspect of human life by corporate dispensation and control, where they have commodified caregiving as well your food.)
An exponential economic growth system is nothing more and nothing less than the total commodification of reproduction on an industrialized scale, the total exploitation of reproductive potential for profit at the most barbaric level we can exact on everything that feeds us, at the worst possible outcomes for ourselves, because the maximal exploitation of our labour is what this system desires as outcome. That is the existential state of our society, literally the utter inversion of creation itself, for profit.
The existential moral problem is not that we eat meat. It's what our growth rate demands in meat's production capacity, which is based on the economic predication of an exponential human growth rate. It's that it is impossible to produce this much meat for this many people without incomprehensible levels of cruelty. It's that over 95% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass must be us and what we eat in order fo the existential present to exist, which is practically the extirpation of all other vertebrate wildlife (not to mention wildfowl), and the gobsmacking pretension that this imbalance can be somehow normal or good. It's overpopulation and inequality, both of which are predications of the existing amoral economy. Its verdict will ultimately rest on its exceedingly short lifespan in terms of civilizations, meaning it will have fared the worst and fell into decline the fastest. "The wages of sin is death". The bill has come due. Having your culture dictated by an amoral economy means you allowed your entire society to be governed by evil as much as good, this was your preferred state of affairs. That is why the predication "amoral" exists, to permit evil at its very worst. It is not going to end well, because this time we were so successful, by the time the planet's collapse has caught up with us, we will have regressed hundreds if not thousands of years. With no planet under you there is no recovery. Amoral capitalism will have successfully preserved its preferred predications for barbarism to harvest inequality, (which will be back in full force), at the ultimate cost, its only success measure being how exceedingly rapidly it succeeded at consuming the planet. Do you want to consider reproducing at less than replacement value or go where the oligarchs teach your children, which is onto eating insects and protein substitutes because we're almost at the threshold where there will be no choice? What is humantiy's choice for quality of life? Why would you only wrestle with this after apprehending the planetary waste in front of you? Going vegetarian is going to be the least of degrowth dilemmas you are about to apprehend, all over a fake economic system designed to generate inequality rather than provide quality of life for everyone.
Instead it's burn, baby, burn. Lytton, the community that now holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada (thanks to the western heat bubble), went up in flames after its third successive day of breaking the record. Open flames under a rail car were seen by eyewitnesses right before a wildfire wiped out the town. As the same rail car started a wildfire near Boston Bar, Lytton's firefighters were dispatched there while their town burned to the ground. And the CN derailments continue (a massive dump of fertilizer into a creek bed next to the Fraser River), continue to increase (1,720 rail accidents in Canada 2018), and so do the work related deaths.
I've said it before, but again, because Canada is the resource hinterland for the insane entitled consumer base to the south, it is more imperative to censor Canadian voices, than the latter, and (of course), that is what is going to happen first. Again, any administration that puts forth these bills, but spent the better of two decades twaddling their fingers in the face of these sorts of deaths, has no leg to stand on. You literally transitioned seamlessly from marital rape being legal to legal inertness at unlimited rape commodified as a virtual free commodity, gamed divorce the moment it precluded marital rape, and laughably gulled the world that this was progress. That social media was the vehicle for mass commodification of misogyny all this time (that destroyed the psyches of children far worse than the pagan worship of Molech could have ever accomplished in terms of mass vicitmization) means you never cared if it was mediating social napalm for society. "In the past 15 years, reports of child abuse online have risen from 110,000 globally in 2004 to 18.4m last year."
"Between 2018 and 2019, the number of files — images, videos, and other material related to child sexual exploitation — reported to the NCMEC’s CyberTipline jumped from 45 million to 69.1 million, an increase of over 50% in just 12 months." - VICE
"Javed Khan, the chief executive of Barnado’s, said two-thirds of vulnerable children supported through the charity’s child exploitation services were groomed online before meeting their abuser in person."
I think that qualifies as social napalm.
You only care about ending any dissidence to the status quo. It goes without saying that if corporations, who are legislated to produce profit by any and all means, (namely the economy has been legislated to perform above any morality by corporatioins being beholden only to shareholder profit); -if they become the gatekeepers to mediating society's ethics (which with billionaire foundation funding mediating society and media is what we are dealing with), your society is going to collapse in short order. That is the trojan horse identity politics is providing, their bandwagon to mediate social morality. It will not end well. Given it's led to mass rioting being un-covered (and even sanctioned) by corporate media concentration (namely abrogation of the law is OK (-yes, NPR is Gates Foundation funded), -providing it's for the sake of their designated ideology, it already isn't ending well, as in a big, "i.e., censorship: not state censorship, but corporate censorship".
That we are witnessing an unaccountable censorship regime with a specific ideology that is privately bankrolled across the board. This is unprecedented in the West, and it is western principles of liberty that are the main thrust of this attack and reign of censorship, up to and including an attack on religious gatherings that exempted ideology specific protests (BLM protests were fine but attending church was not) and through mainstream media channels sanctioned vandalism and riots provided it was predicated on this same ideology, making this an attack on the western fundamentals of secularism as governance across the West, because it put this specific ideology above the law. (Quelle surprise. Amoral capitalism mediating society is already imposing amorality in the form of ideology specific exceptionalism.) In functioning on behalf of a specific ideology it is an attack on the preserve of a diverse, secular society. It is an attack against classic education and the very roots of Western thought, additionally armed with an unnaccountable censorship regime over practically all the citizenry. Subordination by a specific ideology (irregardless of what that ideology constitutes) using an attack on free speech and bodily autonomy (under the guise of COVID-19) is an autocratic attack on the West. You cannot pretend these corporate megaliths care about you or your freedoms, they've already put their money where their mouth is. "There's safety, and then there's neurosis."
"Apple has 46 percent of its suppliers in China. Walmart has 80 percent of its suppliers in China. Amazon has 63 percent of its suppliers in China. The largest U.S. corporations are full partners in the exploitation of Chinese labor, and the abandonment and impoverishment of the American working class. U.S. corporations and Chinese manufacturers kept millions of Chinese workers crammed into factories at the height of a global pandemic. Their health was of no concern. Apple’s profits more than doubled to $23.6 billion in the most recent quarter. Its revenues rose by 54 percent to $89.6 billion, which meant Apple sold more than $1 billion on average each day. Until these corporations are held accountable, which the Biden administration will not do, nothing will change for workers here or in China. Economic justice is global or it does not exist." - Dying for an iPhone - Chris Hedges
If they could control you via a digital social credit system and take away your bank account in a snap (or take away your right to fly) based on being socially in the negative, they would. Instead they're gunning for digital vaccine passports, (which in nations lacking an ID system they'll try to escalate to a digital ID attached to health history), which they figure under the circumstances they can get away with. And they get away with whatever they can.
I DON'T HAVE TO PRETEND IT'S OK.
Yes, thank you, I inadvertently ended up at the right place, at the right time. Thank you, f*** you, and Good Night. Like forever. Because I can do that.