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A parable from my time in American academia:

One day, the Gates Foundation descended on a field related to mine, with enormous bags of money. They wanted to fund /encourage a certain flavour of historical research. The orders had come on high, from Gates himself.

It didn't make any sense, what Gates & co. wanted. It wasn't compelling, it was without substance, it wasn't something anybody was interested in

But, there was money behind it. Administrators wanted postdocs & professors doing this thing, teaching this thing

The reason, I eventually discovered, was that Bill Gates had read some book by a third-rate knockoff Malcom Gladwell type, and he'd been convinced by this book that this research was super important and compelling, and so he wanted to fund it.

Someone told me that it was during a period when Gates was spending a lot of time walking on a treadmill trying to lose weight & reading various dumb books while doing so & getting ideas. I don't know if that's true, but it's the level at which we were operating.

All kinds of dumb mediocre academics claimed suddenly to be interested in this fake field, to already be working in this field, and so on. Conferences were organised, campus talks organised, guest professorships, the works.

Then Gates lost interest and the whole thing basically went away, except for a few dumb stragglers who are still doing that stupid shit, probably to this day.

This is what I mean, when I say that elites are mostly stupid, and that there is no goal.

Gates wasn't trying to achieve anything. He just got out of bed one day, scratching his ass, & thought this was a good idea. Then, after his money had caused
various disruptions, he forgot all about it & went on to fund some other stupid shit.
There was no plan, no point, nothing

This guy is autistic or something - he has too many verbal tics and other wierd things going on.

Journalism’s Gates keepers ...

If you squint as you read the story, you’ll notice that every quoted expert is connected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helps fund the project. And if you’re really paying attention, you’ll also see the editor’s note at the end of the story, which reveals that NPR itself receives funding from Gates.

I recently examined nearly twenty thousand charitable grants the Gates Foundation had made through the end of June and found more than $250 million going toward journalism. Recipients included news operations like the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and the Center for Investigative Reporting; charitable organizations affiliated with news outlets, like BBC Media Action and the New York Times’ Neediest Cases Fund; media companies such as Participant, whose documentary Waiting for “Superman” supports Gates’s agenda on charter schools; journalistic organizations such as the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Press Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists; and a variety of other groups creating news content or working on journalism, such as the Leo Burnett Company, an ad agency that Gates commissioned to create a “news site” to promote the success of aid groups. In some cases, recipients say they distributed part of the funding as subgrants to other journalistic organizations—which makes it difficult to see the full picture of Gates’s funding into the fourth estate.

Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Dec 4
Important to understand that Bill Gates has made huge amounts of money during the time of COVID from his vaccine company investments including in Pfizer and Moderna. He is quite proud of this.
9:34 PM · Dec 4, 2021

We Must Find a Way to Prevent Bill Gates from Preventing the Next Pandemic

Creepy Bill Gates Plans to Hire a 3,000-Person Social Media Team to Push Vaccines and Suppress Any Differing Information
By Jim Hoft
Published May 7, 2022 at 12:45pm

Bill Gates has the China flu:
https://nitter.net/BillGates/status/1524142708628934656?source=patrick.net

Ironically enough, unlike the vaccine, it turns out that COVID-19 is genuinely safe and effective.