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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Big Media and USAID Backed Globalist Journalism Network

What the usual suspects – Soros, Gates, et al. – are up to now.

By | Mar 5, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Media, Opinion

 Big Media and USAID Backed Globalist Journalism Network

Another trip down the USAID money trail reveals astonishingly intimate big-box media ties to a global progressive establishment enterprise funded by taxpayer dollars. It raises the question: How can active participants in a politically biased Swamp spending spree be trusted to objectively “report” on the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to turn the cash spigot off?

Here’s a devastating quote that should tell you all you need to know:

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) “has supported [the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project] as a partner on grants from the [George Soros] Open Society Foundations and the US Agency for International Development [USAID] that focus on investigative reporting, technology development, and regional capacity building.”

This comes directly from the website of an organization that boasts of its multiple “partner networks” spanning the globe. “We are proud to be the premier journalism ‘network of networks,’” ICFJ declares. How ominous does that sound? This is what USAID and the US State Department have helped build.

Biden Media Buys?

“The Biden State Department initiated $19.1 million worth of new grants to nonprofits using the key words ‘journalist’ or ‘journalism,’” Parker Thayer at the Capital Research Center reported on Feb. 13. “A total of $6.2 million was awarded to the International Center for Journalists for a wide variety of programs. One $986,500 grant went toward combating ‘technology-facilitated gender-based violence’ against female reporters in India and Nepal.”

We’ll get to more flagrant examples of bias below. First, let’s see who joined USAID in propping up this Soros-affiliated global journalism entity.

NBC News Senior Vice President of Politics Carrie Budoff Brown chairs the Board of Directors for ICFJ. Politico‘s senior managing editor, Sudeep Reddy, is a board member.

A further glance at the board finds executives from the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Google, Hearst Newspapers, Meta (parent company of Facebook), The New York Times, and media conglomerate Scripps Howard.

A list of 2024 “Friends and Supporters” of ICFJ includes the above media names along with CBS News, CNN, Dow Jones/News Corp (Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, The New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal), and the Gannett Foundation (owners of USA Today and more than 200 US publications).

The (Bill) Gates Foundation is a top-tier donor. USAID and the US State Department are, of course, listed as supporting government agencies.

Cocktails Courtesy of Rupert Murdoch

Dow Jones/News Corp has been a repeat donor to ICFJ since at least 2018, the earliest year to have a detailed list on the group’s website. Why is Rupert Murdoch, the man who owns Dow Jones/News Corp and whose family controls Fox News, financially supporting the following in conjunction with Bill Gates, George Soros, and USAID?

“[President Donald] Trump has unleashed the worst hatred and has given force to racism and xenophobia,” Mexican reporter Carmen Aristegui stated in her address to the ICFJ as she accepted its 2016 Knight International Journalism Award. “He has opened the door to the worst demons. That is why the world is so frightened, and why we must use the tools of democracy and human rights to face the time that is approaching.”


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Things haven’t gotten any better since then.

Look how cozy it all is. NBC News star anchor Kristen Welker hosted ICFJ’s 2024 awards gala. Mary Fitzgerald, director of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and Dickens Olewe, program officer at the Gates Foundation, served as judges in selecting the awards alongside personnel from CBS News, CNN, The Miami Herald, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami, and Reuters Executive Editor Simon Robinson.

Dow Jones/News Corp served as the official “Cocktail Reception Sponsor” for the evening. You can’t make this stuff up.

It’s a tight-knit network, and it’s been running together for years. In 2017, ICFJ Vice President of Programs Patrick Butler served as official “rapporteur” – designated reporter – for a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Symposium on “Hate Speech against Migrants and Refugees in the Media.” Soros agent Giulia Lagana, senior policy analyst of European Union Migration and Asylum Policies at the Open Society European Policy Institute, sat on the panel.

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The topic under discussion? “Media and the Rise of Populism.”

“We live in a post-truth world,” Lagana asserted. “We live in a world where 55% of the British population think that the government is lying to them about the number of migrants in the country.”

Imagine faithfully “reporting” such nonsense in your official UN-appointed role. It makes a fine metaphor for what the dominant US media outlets financially backing ICFJ do every day.

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Monday, July 29, 2024

Der Oberfuhrer Speaks, And You Will Obey!

Remarkable!

So, cows cause catastrophic global warming.  Really? Wow! Then, can we assume that Gates thinks slaughtering all those buffalo almost to extinction was a really good thing after all?  Yes sir, you gotta watch out for those cow farts. 

This is an example of how stupid the entire cult of environmentalism is. Some "scientists" measured the amount of methane in cow farts by way of saving the Earth from something or other.   If you look closely at virtually everything environmentalists say about any subject, you will conclude that it closely resembles cow farts.

The man isn’t stupid, and has access to the most advanced information on any subject in the world, along with the history behind these issues, and yet he consistently takes the side of all the things history and reality demonstrate as inaccurate, lies, and/or failures. All of which leads to creating a misanthropic worldwide tyrannous system of governance.

That gives one pause to wonder if he’s corrupt, or does he have a screw loose. Maybe both, and I go for both, right along with “Der Oberführer” Klaus “Von” Schwab of the World Economic Forum.

When Communism collapsed in the 20th century, the Reds in the western world simply changed their color to Green.  This color change also helped them to become allies with the Islamists, who not only love the color Green, but live Green because they have no choice, and so live in some of the poorest countries in the world where life is short, nasty and brutal.

This is a worldwide leftist conspiratorial war on agriculture, and nutrition.  To promote the things they promote would have to require corruption of thought and values, and if they actually believe in what they’re doing, it would demonstrate insanity.

Just a thought, however, my thoughts of they, the green movement, the politicians, academics, the media, celebrities, and all others who promote this insanity are thoughts of complete contempt.  All talk by these misfits regarding global warming is a worldwide propaganda campaign and is the greatest scientific fraud perpetrated on humanity since the Theory of Evolution, with the covid scam coming up right behind them both.   All of which were blatant moral failures.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Bill Gates and the Chinese Conundrum

Xi’s ‘friend’ lavishes cash upon a nation the American people identify as top global threat.

By Jan 14, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

As America edges further away from China, Bill Gates moves closer. A consensus has emerged that the Asian communist superpower is the number one geopolitical rival to the US, but that isn’t stopping the billionaire “philanthropist” from pouring tens of millions of dollars into the country on an annual basis.

“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation paid out or approved for future payment roughly $23 million in grants to Chinese government organizations during its 2022 reporting period, tax documents show,” The Daily Caller reported Jan. 7. That’s par for the course. As Liberty Nation noted last June, the Gates money machine is heavily entwined with Beijing’s tyrannical government, including its People’s Liberation Army.

Funding the Blood-Stained Regime

Never mind the long-established suspicion that all Chinese business entities are forcibly beholden to the state: Direct support for the Chinese government is a Gates staple. The 2022 “[r]ecipients included the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese National Health Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, among others,” The Daily Caller relates. “These government entities cumulatively received $11.3 million from the Gates Foundation.”

But it is the military ties that bolster the very strong argument that Gates poses an active threat to US national security.

“[T]he Gates Foundation funded Chinese universities that regularly perform defense work for the Chinese military,” the news site continues. “Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University received millions from the Gates Foundation, but they engage in defense research for China and are overseen by China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. These universities received almost $6 million from the Gates Foundation.”

It’s perplexing to see Bill Gates not taking substantially greater heat for his extensive relations with China, given that the American people identify the nation as the number one inimical competitor to the US on the global stage. “For the third year in a row, Americans are most likely to mention China as the United States’ greatest enemy in the world today,” polling giant Gallup revealed last March. “When asked the open-ended question, 50% of Americans say China is their nation’s greatest enemy, with most of the rest, 32%, naming Russia. North Korea, which was viewed as the greatest enemy in 2018, is now a distant third at 7%.”

Do these same Americans fully understand how much China values Bill Gates as an asset?

Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Bill Gates

Ace investigative author Peter Schweizer wrote in his 2022 book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win:

“Gates’ efforts to support the regime’s policies have been rewarded over the years. In 2006, the state-run People’s Daily Online named Gates among ‘50 foreigners shaping China’s modern development.’ Joining him on the list were Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and Joseph Stalin. Gates was the only person from the world of technology on the list.

“Earlier that year, when Chinese president Hu Jintao made his first official visit to the United States, he stopped in Seattle for a visit with Gates at his ‘palatial home’ before heading to Washington, D.C. ABC News declared, ‘Chinese President Meets Bill Gates First.’”

The Gates reach extends beyond his sketchy charitable agenda. Microsoft, the Big Tech corporate goliath Gates co-founded, has steeled itself to continue its elaborate working relationship with China whether or not it is in the best interests of the US to do so. Pressure from Congress over its artificial intelligence lab in Beijing reportedly spurred internal company debate on how to proceed. The decision? Full steam ahead.

“We are as committed as ever to the lab and the world-class research of this team,” Microsoft Research director Peter Lee said in a statement,” The New York Times reported January 10. “There has been no discussion or advocacy to close Microsoft Research Asia, and we look forward to continuing our research agenda.”

It would undoubtedly be painful for Microsoft to pull out of Beijing now after having dumped so much money into the project. “In 2018, Microsoft said it had invested more than $1 billion in research and development in China over the previous decade,” The Times states.

But the paper also highlighted a very important voice in keeping the lab up and running.

“Gates, who is still in regular touch with company executives and supports global engagement, has long backed the Beijing lab, people with knowledge of the matter said,” The Times writes. “He traveled to China in June and met President Xi Jinping, who told him that he was ‘the first American friend I’ve met with this year.’”

“What does this mean?” Schweizer asks of Gates’s fawning praise for Jinping over the years. “It means that one of the richest men in the world was praising the leadership of a man who runs ethno-political prison camps.”

“This is more than idle chatter,” Schweizer added. “Gates is now an adviser of sorts to the Chinese government. In 2017, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) honored Gates with a lifetime membership. The CAE is under the direct supervision of the Chinese State Council, Beijing’s top governing body. This elite body, whose name sounds relatively harmless, is actually at the center of Chinese government power and plays a central role in the Chinese military-industrial complex.”

American businessman and “philanthropist” Bill Gates long ago crossed a line in his China affairs. To describe him merely as a foreign asset for or collaborator with a hostile oppressive regime does not suffice.

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Monday, December 11, 2023

New Journalism — Funded by Bill Gates, George Soros, and You

It’s a racket – big government to make you pay for news coverage.  

By Dec 10, 2023 @ Liberty Nation News

The creaking, wheezing profession that refers to itself as journalism has gone from “speak truth to power” to “please be our Sugar Daddy, Mr. Power” so effortlessly that one can’t help but admire the sheer audacity surrounding it all.

The latest evidence of commonplace compromise comes from the academia wing of the flailing industry, and it reveals an avidity to serve established money troughs so keen that it would make Upton Sinclair and any other celebrated liberal muckrakers of bygone days quake in fury.

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“With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy,” the college’s Medill School of Journalism proclaimed about its Local News Initiative. “The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.”

And what is Medill’s novel and groundbreaking approach to reinventing local news organizations to “empower” citizens? Make them welfare wards of a big government that they will bravely keep a watchful eye on as part of their intrepid journalism duties. What could go wrong?

The Local News Initiative in mid-November released its 2023 “State of Local News” report. Right out of the chute, the “team of experts” behind the review celebrated tethering media outlets to Big Money.

‘Promising Business Models’

“The good news: Philanthropists committed to major funding – $500 million – to support local news,” the second paragraph of the executive summary gushes. “Public officials at the national and state levels considered programs to address digital and journalistic inequalities. And a growing number of news outlets forged promising business models.”

The first sentence attempts to normalize a widespread practice in big-box American media today that any high school freshman newspaper staffer would have instinctively rebelled against not so long ago.

As Liberty Nation has documented, brand-name US media organizations routinely accept funding from influential individuals and “philanthropic” foundations that they regularly cover as part of their “reporting” endeavors. Bill Gates and George Soros lead the way. How to make charges of profound professional ethical violations go away? Write up a “disclaimer” stating donors play no role in news production whatsoever, even as these donors are featured subjects of articles and interviews. Problem solved!

It’s a short hop from there to actively calling for direct government funding of your supposedly independent journalism ventures. Medill is striving to make it even easier.

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“The headlines on the bad news [in the journalism business in 2023] resoundingly conveyed the message that urgent action is needed in many venues – from boardrooms to the halls of Congress – and by many, including civic-minded organizations and entrepreneurs,” the report bluntly stated. This is a call for the federal government to step in and aid the news industry.

Perhaps sensing the delicate nature of what it is promoting, the report emphasized less alarming measures – but are they really? – such as providing “tax credits to news organizations that hire reporters and to small businesses that advertise with local news outlets.” It also unsurprisingly expressed support for federal legislation to make Internet information giants such as Google and Facebook “more accountable for compensating news organizations for their use of journalism.”

But it is not going to stop there.

Government Stipend Journalism

“Meanwhile, many news organizations are hanging on by a thread,” the report continued. “However, these national bills often create a roadmap for state legislators to follow, says Steve Waldman, president of Rebuild Local News, a nonprofit coalition advocating policies to address the crisis in local news. That is where he anticipates most success in the near future.”

Let’s look at that roadmap.

Rebuild Local News (RLN) is willing to be more candid about its plans for aggressive government support for journalism outlets. A section on its website labeled “Solutions” openly advocates for “direct” federal grants for media companies. “Direct government grants to news organizations can be fraught – but there are ways to do it without endangering editorial independence,” RLN asserted.

Take a look at NPR today to see how that works out.

A page fleshing out the grant proposals is ridiculous to the point of satire. Under a bullet list of “advantages of grant programs,” the argument is proffered that they “can target support toward the most important topics.” This organization is saying the federal government should directly dole out taxpayer money to ostensibly neutral news organizations and set the priorities for what issues they should cover.

Wait, there’s more.

“To avoid both the appearance and reality of partisan grantmaking, governing bodies should include representation from both political parties,” RLN added.

Independent newsrooms are to be subject to congressional oversight over funding, yet this is supposed to ensure that a “free press” to preserve “democracy” does not die. But don’t worry, it’s going to be “neutral” and “nonpartisan,” we are assured, though the language of a progressive social agenda is front and center.

“As we rebuild local news, we must take care to not repeat some of the maladies of ‘the good old days,’ most especially the ways in which many local newsrooms did not cover fairly, accurately or persistently communities of color and other marginalized communities,” RLN stated. “New policies should help ensure that newsrooms better reflect diversity, equity and inclusion.”

To top things off, a “dedicated funding stream” is to be created to coerce Americans to financially support something they may not want to have anything to do with. That’s a nicer way to say “mandatory universal fee.” RLN explained:

“It is advisable to avoid a system in which news organizations must appeal to lawmakers on a regular basis for support … The best way to avoid this is having a dedicated funding source, such as a fee whose funds always go to support the journalism fund …

“Example: the BBC is funded by a fee on TV sets.”

By the way, Rebuild Local News is funded by Microsoft, leftist big-ticket “philanthropies” the Ford Foundation and the Democracy Fund, and the progressive media Lenfest Institute, owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Meet the New Journalism: Bought by Bill Gates, George Soros, and friends and subsidized by Big Government. But we’re your voice, in your corner, on your side. Fewer and fewer Americans are buying the transparent con with each passing day. Which is precisely why they want to give you no choice in the matter.

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Controligarchs’ Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg ‘Want to Make the U.S. More Like China’

Pam Key

Director of research at the Government Accountability Institute Seamus Bruner said Friday on the nationally syndicated “The Sean Hannity Radio Show” that “controligarchs” were attempting “to make the U.S. more like China.”  At a press conference, Biden said, “To get back on a normal course of corresponding being able to pick up the phone and talk to one another? It was a crisis. Being able to make sure our military still have contact with one another, we can’t take. As I told you, we’re not trying to decouple from China over. What we’re trying to do is change the relationship for the better.”....To Read More....

Monday, September 25, 2023

Bill Gates Admits ‘Climate Crisis’ Narrative Is a Hoax

Frank Bergman September 24, 2023

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has admitted that “climate crisis” prophecies of doom are a hoax. In a major U-turn, climate alarmist Gates backtracked and confessed that “global warming” does not have apocalyptic consequences. Gates reportedly told a group of his fellow globalist green agenda advocates that the “climate doom” narrative has now become so exaggerated that the public now sees right through the charade. 

The admission from Gates is a major shift for the billionaire who has been a leading proponent of the “climate emergency” narrative.For years, Gates has been championing the “Net Zero” goals of the unelected bureaucratic and corporate elite. The “Net Zero” targets, as dictated to global governments by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and United Nations (UN), seek to strip the public of their quality of life in order to eliminate so-called “carbon emissions” by 2050. However, as Slay News has reported, analysts warn that meeting these unrealistic goals will cost the taxpaying public $75 trillion.

Even after spending $75T, the world will still likely fall far short of the targets by 2050 and the globalists behind the policies will be long gone.   In 2021, Gates previously warned of apocalyptic consequences if the world fails to achieve “zero net carbon emissions” by the year 2050.  He warned the then-host of “Fox News Sunday” Chris Wallace in February 2021:............... Read Here

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Legalized climate grifting

Bill Gates and climatist collaborators are taking taxpayers and consumers on trillion-dollar rides 

Paul Driessen 

Grifters have long fascinated us. Operating outside accepted moral standards, they excel at persuading their “marks” to hand valuables over willingly. If they ever represented a “distinctly American ethos,” they’ve been supplanted by con artists seeking bank accounts for funds abandoned by Nigerian princes. 

Their artful dodging is epitomized by Frank Abagnale daring the FBI to “catch me if you can,” Anna Delvey inventing Anna Sorokin, Redford and Newman masterminding their famous Sting, and dirty, rotten scoundrels like Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenn Headly.

However, they were all pikers compared to the billion-dollar stratagems being carried off by Climate Armageddon grifters like Bill Gates, Al Gore, Elon Musk and Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry. 

Their long cons are not only unprecedented in size and complexity. They represent greatest wealth transfer in history, from poor and middle class families to the wealthiest on Earth. Most important, the plundering has been legalized by laws, regulations, treaties and executive orders, often implemented at the behest of the schemers and their lobbyists.

(You have to wonder how Mark Twain would update his suggestion that “there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”) 

They and their politician, activist, scientist, corporate and media allies profit mightily, but legally, if not unethically, from foundation grants, government payouts and subsidies, and taxpayer and consumer payments based on claims that Earth faces manmade climate cataclysms. That most of us are willingly giving money to mandated “renewable energy” schemes and other corrupt practices is questionable.

Microsoft co-founder Gates’ estimated 2022 post-divorce net worth of some $130 billion enables him to donate hundreds of millions to social, health, environmental and corporate media causes. That usually shields him from tough questions. 

But BBC media editor Amol Rajan recently asked Mr. Gates to answer charges that he’s “a hypocrite,” for claiming to be “a climate change campaigner” while traveling the world on his luxurious private jets – often to confabs where global elites discuss how we commoners can enjoy simpler, fossil-fuel-free lives: what size our homes can be, how and how much we can heat them, what foods we can eat and how we can cook them, what cars we can drive, whether we can fly anywhere on vacation, what our kids will learn in school, and more.

Caught flatfooted, Gates defended his use of fuel-guzzling, carbon-spewing jetliners by claiming he purchases “carbon credits” to offset his profligate energy consumption. He also said he visits Africa and Asia to learn about farming and malaria, and spends billions on “climate innovations.” 

Indeed, Gates’ book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need” calls for replacing beef with synthetic meat. Cattle emit methane, a greenhouse gas (00.00019% of Earth’s atmosphere) – so people should eat fake meat processed from vegetable oil, veggies and insects.

You may say, That’s disgusting. But Mr. Gates will profit mightily if his “recommendation” is adopted. He’s a major investor in farmland and the imitation meat company Impossible Foods, as is Mr. Gore.

How cool! Wealthy elites can save the world and get richer at the same time! 

Beyond Meat’s stock may be down more than 75% from its one-time high, but investors will likely bring in lots more cash via new “climate-saving” diktats, while consumers are left holding bags of rotting bug and lab-grown burgers. 

Carbon offsets? In the real world they’re part of the problem, not the solution. They don’t help Main Street; they too help rich Climate Armageddon Club members become wealthier. 

Gates Foundation grants could prevent extensive African misery, brain damage and death from malaria, by spotting disease outbreaks and eradicating Anopheles mosquito infestations – today. But it’s spending millions trying to engineer plasmodium-resistant mosquitoes, which may pay off a decade from now. 

Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. continues pocketing billions selling and trading carbon credits. In fact, between 2015 and 2020, the company received $1.3 billion from selling credits to other companies – more than twice what it earned from automotive sales. Times sure have changed since manufacturing tycoons got rich selling products, instead of hawking climate indulgences. 

Musk also loves flying in private jets. Last summer, he even took a 9-minute, 55-mile flight from San Francisco to San Jose, instead of driving a Tesla. Wags might say that goes well with the way he and others have made a science of lobbying government agencies to subsidize fire-prone electric cars. 

It’s all to protect the environment, of course – which is why Gore, Gates, Musk and Kerry think they’re entitled to travel by private jet and limousine. We’re also supposed to ignore how their cars and lifestyles are based on metals extracted and processed with African child labor and lakes of toxic chemicals. 

Since Al Gore left the vice president’s office, he’s hauled in some $330 million railing about “rain bombs” and “boiling oceans,” and shilling for government and corporate “investments” in “green energy” that’s also reliant on supply chains running through Africa and China. 

Never forget this fundamental rule: Wind and sunshine are clean, renewable and sustainable. However, harnessing these unreliable, weather-dependent energy sources to power modern economies requires millions of tons of metals and minerals extracted from billions of tons of ores, mostly using dirty, polluting processes in countries that are conveniently out of sight and mind.

In short, nothing about “renewable energy” is clean, renewable, sustainable, fair or equitable. 

Moreover, the “climate crisis” is based on computer models that predict hurricane, tornado, flood, drought, sea level rise and other disasters vastly greater than the world is actually experiencing. The models also ignore five great ice ages and interglacial periods, the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, the Anasazi and Mayan droughts, and other inconvenient climate truths. 

Topping it off, China, Russia and India are burning cheap coal to industrialize, lift people out of poverty, and leave climate-obsessed Western nations in the economic and military dust. Even if the West went totally Net Zero, it wouldn’t reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases even one part per million. 

The climate change movement’s deceptions and contradictions seem to have no bounds – and know no apparent limits to how much loot they can rake in by lobbying federal, state and local governments, banks and financial institutions; waging media warfare; and engaging in political science with similarly minded legislators and regulators who control climate and energy laws, mandates, grants and subsidies.
What about ESG, financial disclosure, SVB, Credit Suisse, fiduciary responsibility, and accountability?
How can the general public be so oblivious to all of this?

FTX founder and alleged fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried revealed the secret. He avoided media and regulator scrutiny by donating to influential media outlets, the way Bill Gates does. That garners favorable press and social media – which also ignore, cancel and deplatform critics and skeptics. 

  Fortunately, gutsy interrogators like Rajan are discovering and publicizing what most of the bought-and-paid-for “journalist classes” still won’t. This helps more people see behind the curtain and find the self-interest, self-dealing and pseudo-science that create the scary climate crisis monsters. 

Climate Armageddon Club games are costing us trillions of dollars, in the name of saving people and planet. Hopefully, more real journalists, troves of Twitter emails (this time kudos to Mr. Musk!) and congressional investigations will save taxpayers and families from additional costly, destructive policies. 

 Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, climate change, environmental policy and human rights.

Monday, March 6, 2023

Bill Gates’ climate change deceptions are taking us for a billion-dollar ride

By March 5th, 2023 @ CFACT

Bill Gates donates hundreds of millions of dollars to social, health, environmental and corporate media causes. He’s not used to being asked tough questions.

BBC journalist Amol Rajan recently braved going off the mainstream media script, asking the Microsoft co-founder how he responds to charges that he’s a hypocrite for claiming to be “a climate change campaigner” while traveling the world on his private jets, even to confabs where global elites tell poor and middle-class families to live simpler lives and stop using fossil fuels.

One of his jets is a $40 million Bombardier BD-700.

Mr. Gates also spends his riches (estimated 2022 post-divorce net worth: $107 billion) telling people what they should eat, what cars they should drive, what their children should learn in school, and more.

Clearly annoyed and caught flat-footed, Mr. Gates defended his use of fuel-guzzling, carbon-spewing aircraft by claiming he purchases “carbon credits” to offset his energy use and generally luxurious lifestyle. He also visits Africa and Asia to learn about farming and malaria and spends billions on “climate innovation.”

In the real world, carbon offsets are part of the problem, not the solution. They don’t help Main Street. They help the Gates & Friends Climate Armageddon Club become even wealthier.

Over the past five years, Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. pocketed $5 billion buying, selling and trading carbon credits. In 2021, CNBC discovered that the company’s credit revenue was greater than its automotive cash flow. How times have changed since manufacturing tycoons got rich by selling products, not pushing climate indulgences.

Mr. Musk also loves flying around in private jets. Last summer, he even took a 9-minute, 55-mile flight from San Francisco to San Jose instead of driving a Tesla. Many say it goes hand in hand with the way he’s made a science of lobbying government agencies to subsidize his fire-prone cars and SpaceX rockets.

It’s all to protect the environment, of course. Just ignore how the cars and lifestyles are built on metals extracted and processed with African child labor and lakes of toxic chemicals.

Vice President Al Gore left office with $2 million in net worth. He’s since raked in some $330 million railing about “rain bombs” and “boiling oceans” and shilling for government and corporate investments in so-called green energy that also relies on supply chains running through Africa and China.

Of course, Messrs. Gore, Gates, Musk and their World Economic Forum colleagues are much too important to go anywhere commercially. They’re all shepherded between private homes and global gatherings in private jets and limousines.

But here’s the truly hard reality. Wind and sunshine are clean, renewable and sustainable. But harnessing these unreliable, weather-dependent energy sources to power modern economies requires millions of tons of metals and minerals extracted from billions of tons of ore, using dirty, polluting processes in lands out of sight and mind. None of that is clean, renewable, sustainable or equitable.

Returning to Mr. Gates’ wide-ranging “climate crisis” agenda, his book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need” calls on the world to replace beef with synthetic meat. Cattle emit methane, a greenhouse gas (00.00019% of Earth’s atmosphere; equivalent to $1.90 out of $1,000,000), so people must eat fake meat made from vegetables and insects.

That sounds like the ravings of a madman. But Mr. Gates will profit mightily if his scheme comes to fruition. He’s a major investor in the imitation meat company Impossible Foods, as is Mr. Gore.

How convenient. Wealthy elitists can save the world and get richer at the same time! Although Beyond Meat’s stock is down more than 75% from its previous highs, Messrs. Gates and Gore are likely laughing all the way to the bank, while gullible consumers are left holding bags of rotting fake burgers.

Never mind that the “climate crisis” is based on computer models that predict hurricane, tornado, flood, drought, sea level rise and other disasters far greater than the world is experiencing. The models also ignore five great ice ages and interglacial periods, the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, the Anasazi and Mayan droughts, and other inconvenient climate truths.

The climate change movement’s deceptions and contradictions seem to have no bounds. How is the vast majority of the public oblivious to them?

FTX founder and alleged fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried explained it well. He avoided media and regulator scrutiny, he admitted, by donating to influential media outlets, just as Mr. Gates does. That garners favorable press and social media, which also ignore, cancel and deplatform most criticism.

Fortunately, influential reporters like Mr. Rajan are slowly but surely publicizing what the rest of the bought-and-paid-for “journalist” classes still won’t. As a result, more people are peeking behind the curtain and finding that self-interest, double-dealing and fake science are conjuring up the climate change Armageddon scare stories.

Gates and friends’ climate confidence games are costing society trillions of dollars in the name of saving Mother Earth. Hopefully, these courageous journalists’ work (and troves of Twitter emails) will start saving taxpayers and families from even more destructive policies.

This article originally appeared in The Washington Times

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  • Paul Driessen

    Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Big Pharma, NIH, Bill Gates & WHO Have Zero Credibility in the Vaccine World

by | Feb 16, 2023 |

After three years of lies about the COVID Pandemic from WHO, the US government, NIH, FDA, CDC, state and federal public health officials, Big Pharma, Corporatized Medicine, Big Tech, and other stakeholders being paid bonuses from our taxpayer dollars to control people through FEAR, there is a high probability we’re going to be told more lies to…........To Read More....


Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Glimpsing Armageddon in Dutch cow culling 

By John Klar Dcember 9, 2022

A bureaucratic scheme to eliminate some 3,000 small farms in the Netherlands foreshadows increasing efforts by technocrats and global food interests to dominate food production at the expense of local culture, local economies, and family cows.   In the name of “saving the planet,” such grand delusions will doubtless destroy it, and humans in the bargain.  Perhaps that is the plan.

If so, the Netherlands is the best place to start.  The rationale is chiefly that the region is home to numerous fragile ecosystems that must be protected, notwithstanding that the Dutch government has for decades encouraged farms to increase production.  “Closing farms” does not entail relocating their bovine denizens to idyllic preserves, but to abattoirs – they are to be slaughtered by the thousands to terminate their flatulence and enteric fermentation (burping). 

But why Dutch cows?  Because Dutch cows must be slaughtered to rescue insects for the diet of wild birds.  Farms there produce 60% of the nitrogen deposits in conservation areas:

Excess nitrogen deposits in these so-called Natura 2000 areas are the proximate cause of the crisis. They cause some plants, like grass, to grow faster, but others to wither and die. ….That can wipe out entire ecosystems. When plants die, so do the bugs that feed on them, which in turns kills the birds and ducks that eat the bugs — and a major impetus for the whole Natura 2000 program in the 1990s was to protect European bird species.

This rash rush to ration ruminants is spurious.  Once destroyed, Dutch agricultural economies and systems cannot be reclaimed, and there is no plan to replace either the lost income to the Netherlands, or the lost food supplies to the humans that “feed on them.”  Dutch farmers are some of the most productive – and efficient – in the world.  Indeed, the tiny land of windmills is the second largest exporter of agriculture products (especially dairy products and meat) on the planet.  Ag products constitute fully one-seventh of Dutch national exports.............To Read More...

Thursday, October 27, 2022

The UN, WEF, and Bill Gates are Really Trying to Starve Us into Submission

| Oct 2, 2022 | @ America Our Loud

Awake everyone, the evil folks behind the Communist takeover of the world have put a plan in place to starve us all into submission, but we will defeat Bill Gates and his tyrannical forces in the end.

Do not doubt that there is now underway a global war on farming. How better to bring the population to its knees than cutting off its food supply? Better even than energy shortages that are already long underway. The World Economic Forum led by Klaus Schwab, the author of the Great Reset, the United Nations led by Antonio Gutierrez, and a phalanx of truly evil-doers none worse than Bill Gates, controller of the World Health Organization in concert with the Chinese Communist Party.

Neither the WEF nor the Rockefeller Foundation responded to requests for comment on their role in Agenda 2030 and on the agricultural policies being pursued around the world.

Other organizations and entities involved in the push include powerful tax-exempt foundations such as the Gates Foundation, the EU-style regional governments proliferating worldwide, and various groups funded by them. 

All over the globe, UN SDG-aligned government policies are squeezing farmers-especially smaller, independent producers unable to absorb the added costs of added regulation and control.

He was celebrating UN sustainability ideas, recently ousted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced at the UN COP 26 climate summit in 2021 that his government was banning chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Sri Lanka recently restricted the imports of chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides, which include herbicides, to control weeds due to public health concerns, water contamination, soil degradation, and biodiversity impacts, Rajapaksa told world leaders, to widespread acclaim, as starvation swept the Island Nation. There is joy among these monsters as they see their populations suffer.

Although opposed by entrenched lobbies, this has created opportunities for innovation and investment into organic agriculture that will be healthier and more sustainable in the future as yields shrink massively and more people starve.

Even though these draconian measures were rapidly rolled back, the policies produced catastrophic food shortages, widespread hunger, and eventually a popular revolt that ousted the president and his government. But these disasters will be widely repeated before the evil; tyrannical leaders can be unseated.

In 2019 the socialist Sri Lanka government partnered with the UN  to establish the UN Global Nitrogen Campaign, which promotes the UN-backed policies on nitrogen that are now proliferating worldwide. 

In the Netherland headquarters for the WEF Food Innovation Hub, secretariat authorities are imposing nitrogen policies that are expected to decimate the nation’s highly productive agricultural sector. The plans also include widespread expropriation of farms. A once free nation is all but becoming a prison camp.

The expropriation plans of the cabinet are a downright declaration of war on the agriculture sector, said Dutch member of Parliament Gideon van Meijeren of the Forum for Democracy Party, as cited by De Dagelijkse Standard. Under false pretenses, farmers are being robbed of their land, centuries-old farms are being demolished, and farmers’ families are being totally destroyed. 

Experts warned of dangerous consequences from such sustainability policies, including food shortages, skyrocketing prices, social unrest, etc. You can glimpse the green sustainable future by beholding Holland and Sri Lanka now, Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, told the Epoch Times.

And yet the plan is spreading rapidly. Canadian federal authorities recently announced similar fertilizers and nitrogen restrictions after energy production restrictions were put in place, sparking outrage from provincial officials and farmers.

Various government entities in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other European nations are also working to slash agricultural production under sustainability programs. This is not crazy or insane, or wrongheaded. It is a perfect plan to subjugate a population under the thumb of megalomaniac government power-mad individuals.

Aside from continuing with policies that pay farmers not to grow food, the Biden Administration seeks to impose WEF-backed policies such as ESG and reporting on companies through the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Farm associations and more than 100 members of Congress argue that the plan would bankrupt owners of small and medium-sized farms unable to comply with climate reporting requirements to do business with public firms even as the world moves toward widespread food shortages.

In part, experts say the insistence on these sorts of policies is because those imposing are largely insulated from the damage they are causing.

Global elites in government, trans-national organizations, and corporate boardrooms – well represented in the WEF are so caught up in their climate virtue signaling from which many hope to benefit financially through investments in green energy they are slow to notice that they are completely detached from reality said National Center for Public Policy Research’s Cohen who specializes in environmental issues.

Few of those imposing regulations on farmers have ever set foot on a farm. By virtue of the power and wealth, these people already have, they are shielded from the consequences of misguided policies they impose on the rest of the world. That burden is borne by ordinary people around the world, about whom the Davos crowd and their partners in crime know nothing.

According to Sterling Burnett, who holds a doctorate in environmental ethics and leads The Heartland Institute’s Center, Sri Lanka’s disaster offered a review of what will happen to the United States and Europe if policymakers continue to follow the UN sustainability plan on Climate and Environmental Policy.

‘It’s not a war on farming; it’s a war on small agriculture and independent farmers, he told Epoch Times. It’s a war in support of elite large-scale agricultural industries.

Even though the UN SDGs speak of helping small-scale food production, Burnett argued that independent farms and ranches are in the cross hairs to help consolidate control of the food supply.

He said that policymakers are in the pocket of primary corporate interests, including Conagra, Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard, and others. They would just as soon have all their small competitors put out of business.” He said, echoing concerns expressed by numerous other experts. Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, whose firm manages more money than any other company in the world, wants to impose his values on companies using other people’s money, Burnett said.

Fink, who serves on the board of the influential Council on Foreign Relations and works closely with WEF, is a crucial architect of the push to impose environmental, social, and governance requirements on US companies. This is the super-rich forcing their values on the rest of us, said Burnett pointing to those he says are happy to work with communities on the effort. 

As far as The World Economic Forum is concerned, he said you couldn’t have a Great Reset as long as you don’t reset the food supply because food is necessary to everybody. Stalin recognized this. Whoever controls the food supply controls the people, and it’s the same with energy.

As prices soar and farmers go bankrupt, major corporations in league with governments and international organizations will pick up the pieces.

In the meantime, as seen recently in Sri Lanka, hungry people are being pushed to the brink and are likely to react. People were not starving on January 6, said Burnett referring to the protest and breach at the US Capitol. The supply chain crisis is happening! Shelves are already empty, and people will not sit around and do nothing when people are hungry.

American Policy Center Founder Tom De Weese a leading expert and critic of UN notions of sustainability, warned that the war on farmers was part of a broader plan to strip people of freedom. Always in the past, when tyrannical forces wanted to rule the world, they built armies and invaded. They destroyed a lot of property, killed a lot of people, and forced subjugation on the rest; De Weese told Epoch Times. We are now dealing with a more diabolical force that has figured out a way to get us to surrender our liberties and help them subjugate us voluntarily.

He said the threat is Environmental Armageddon, pointing to the climate change narratives as the prime example. What else could be a more powerful tool?

The end goal of the efforts is to reduce the sovereignty of both individual nations and people, said Craig Rucker, President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a public policy organization specializing in environmental issues. 

Citing numerous UN officials and documents, DeWeese says the plan isn’t to save the climate but to transform the planet and centralize control over the populace. Aside from the UN and the WEF, major companies such as Vanguard and Blackrock are working to take over and control the food supply, he said.

Already a handful of companies in which those two investment firms are top shareholders dominate the global food supply and beverage industry. By taking over farming, they will control it all.

The goal is to take control over food production, noting that they seek to own all seeds and even grow synthetic meat in facilities already backed financially by Bill Gates and other billionaires. Genetically engineered crops are high on the agenda also.

The UN and the WEF, and others are also moving forward with promoting insects and weeds as food. Across the western world, insect protein production facilities are popping up rapidly, but it gets ever darker. De Weese says that if people are starving, they are much easier to subjugate, adding that depopulation and control over humanity have been on the agenda of global elites for decades.

The war on farmers also comes amid what critics have described as a government-backed war on energy affecting agriculture and virtually every other sector.

This includes limiting energy exploration shutting down power plants charging special fees and taxes, and other policies that have resulted in rapidly rising costs across the western world, although not in places like China.

Experts urge Americans to resist the war on farmers and the UN-backed sustainability policies using various means. These include getting involved politically, adopting different shopping habits, finding alternative food sources such as local farmers, and other measures. Officials at the UN did not respond to requests for comment.

These people can accurately be compared to the most brutal murderers in the class of Hitler and Stalin.

Dr. Jay Lehr

Dr. Jay Lehr is a Senior Policy Analyst with the International Climate Science Coalition and former Science Director of The Heartland Institute. He is an internationally renowned scientist, author, and speaker who has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on environmental issues and consulted with nearly every agency of the national government and many foreign countries. After graduating from Princeton University at the age of 20 with a degree in Geological Engineering, he received the nation’s first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona. He later became executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers.