This thread will follow Feb 5 2021 thread [India
#FarmersProtests Goes Vogue] exploring sudden #celebrity uptake - as gov't struggled to contain #resistance.
Here we can study #GlobalCitizen & structure/mechanisms of such NGOs, financed to serve corporate/imperial interests.
#GlobalCitizen model: nurturing of #celebrity worship as a "pop & policy" model to harvest/exploit targeted youth demographic. Via partnerships w/ #Rihanna, celebrities, influencers, athletes, - it intends to become world's "leading international voice, educator, & influencer".
#GlobalCitizen is the Global Poverty Project, Inc.
UK: "We are a sub recipient of funding from the #Gates Foundation (via Global Poverty Project Inc)."
2019: $8,445,887.00 "To mobilize global public support for the Sustainable Development Goals" #SDGs
gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=Glo…
#GlobalCitizen / Global Poverty Project - Primary Funders:
-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF)
-World Bank Group
-Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
Knowing that #Gates & the #WorldBank are the primary funders bankrolling #GlobalCitizen - when it highlights #farmersprotests (or anything else), we need to ask the question - why? What do they hope to achieve? Your energy harnessed & channeled to where? Serving who/what?
#BLM
In addition to "Bill & Melinda Gates revealed as largest private #farmland owners in US", #Microsoft "has launched a number of #agritech initiatives globally, including in the US & #India."
#Modi receives annual 'Global Goalkeeper Award', Sept 24 2019 from the #Gates Foundation.
Nov 3 2016: Bill #Gates: "I'm personally delighted that #GlobalCitizen in collaboration with the Indian Gov't & partners [] is embarking on a 15 year journey to #mobilize millions of young #Indians in support of the #SDGs."
#EmergingMarkets #Celebrity
The money/power behind #GlobalCitizen - & scale of operations - is actually astonishing. Impossible to capture here, but I will try.
GC Director, Randall Lane: #Forbes, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). (#4IR screenshot: Foreign Affairs is published by the #CFR since 1922)
Not #activism. Not #charity. Not #reparations.
"By partnering with financial institutions, the $20 million that the organization has raised in its lifetime has turned into nearly $500 million worth of loans." #India #Africa
#TheyMeanBusiness #EmergingMarkets #India #Africa
Celebrity. Rewards. Prizes. Art of seduction. #Gates, #WorldBank investing billions - for #ROI: Bodies as "operating systems", minds/desires - to be shaped, fused. "Blurring the lines between the physical, digital, & biological spheres". "Coding Bootcamps" for youth & poor. #4IR
#GlobalCitizen Global Board: Co-chair Chris Stadler: Managing Partner CVC Capital Partners:
globalcitizen.org/en/about/who-w…
Jan 21, 2019: "The Inconvenient Truth Behind #Youth Co-optation":
theartofannihilation.com/the-manufactur…
Rihanna live, #GlobalCitizen, 2016. "I'm tired of being played like a violin" - as audience is captured/played.
"Any account of #celebrities must be predicated on the recognition that 'the interests served are first of all those of #capital.'"
Additional #GlobalCitizen Global Board members include CEOs/affiliates of: Bill & Melinda #Gates Foundation, #Bridgewater, Cisco, Iconiq Capital, Johnson & Johnson, TED, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Universal Music Group, Teneo, TQ Ventures, etc.:
globalcitizen.org/en/about/who-w…
-#GlobalCitizen
-Global Citizen Impact
-Global Citizen #India
-Global Citizen UK
-Global Citizen #Africa
-Global Citizen #Seoul
-Global Citizen Canada
-Global Citizen New Zealand
-Global Citizen Australia
-Global Citizen #ASEAN
#Gates #WorldBank #NonProfitIndustrialComplex
The stated purpose of #GlobalCitizen "TO END EXTREME #POVERTY." In 2019 Global Citizen co-founder & CEO Hugh Evans took home a salary of $396,418.00 plus $17,725.00 in additional compensation. COO Liza Henshaw received $370,713.00 + $22,743.00 [USD]
#NPIC #Gates #WorldBank
Feb 12 2020: "#GlobalCitizen today announced a partnership w/ the UN's Int. Fund for #Agricultural Devt. (#IFAD) as part of Global Goal Live: The Possible Dream [] calling on world leaders to help mobilize new investments in rural & agricultural devt."
ifad.org/en/web/latest/…
Feb 23 2021: "Global Citizen Recovery Plan for the World" - European Commission, #WHO, in partnership w/ Citi, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Google/YouTube, Live Nation, P&G, & Verizon.
#Agriculture #DigitalEducation #CarbonMarkets #Gates
who.int/news-room/even…
"The US dropped 26,171 #bombs on 7 countries in 2016, according to an analysis by the Council of Foreign Relations."
Erase/Reframe. The art of whitewashing warmongers & war criminals for Generation Z & Millennials.
#Iraq #Syria #Pakistan #Afghanistan #Libya #Yemen #Somalia
#GlobalCitizen nurtures, to exploit, #celebrity worship. Celebrities, most of whom make up world's most voracious consumers & egregious polluters, are plated up as "activists" & "messengers", in service to capital, imperial institutions & ruling class.
2015: "DiCaprio, Bono, #Zuckerberg added to
#GlobalCitizen Festival... DiCaprio, Bono, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai & Bill & Melinda #Gates will be onstage..."
2015, Gates: $16,624,329.00 to Global Citizen to propel SDGs (#emergingmarkets). #vaccines #agriculture
More #GlobalCitizen supporting partners:
Coca-Cola Africa
Energise #Africa
Forbes
Havas
NYC Parks
ONE Championship
RB
Sustainable Brands
WWE
House of Mandela
RELX
Comcast NBCUniversal
iHeartRadio
Live Nation Entertainment
MSNBC
RadicalMedia
Thomson Reuters Found.
Thred Media
#GlobalCitizen features a section comprising 13 pages of articles promoting Greta Thunberg. This is of special interest as Global Citizen is a major partner of #TheClimateGroup's #ClimateWeekNYC (attributed to Callum Grieve).
globalcitizen.org/en/content/top…
#SDGs #EmergingMarkets
#WWF identifies communications specialist Callum Grieve as a co-founder of #WeMeanBusiness - a coalition of 1596 corporations w/ 24.8 trillion market cap. Grieve was the 3rd person to respond to Rentzhog's Aug 20 2018 first Greta tweet, tagging 9 others:
theartofannihilation.com/a-100-trillion…
The Climate Group: "Reimagining #Growth in #India's Climate Decade"
Climate & #NetZero as catalysts for growth & renewed era of #colonialism.
#Rockefeller #MacArthur #EV100 #VCS #Offsets #CCS
Nov 19 2016: "We Just Got $5.93B Committed to Affect 503M Lives w/ #GlobalCitizen Festival #India"
"...a powerful force to mobilize Indian #youth & facilitate mass behavioral change..."
#Google #HP #4IR #EmergingMarkets #SDGs #Privatization #Education
globalcitizen.org/en/content/glo…
The transformation of #India - sought/led by the West.
June 13 2017: "We look forward to continuing harnessing our collective voices for social good, to disrupt the status quo, & to transform India & the planet..."
#Gates #WorldBank #Privatization
globalcitizen.org/en/content/glo…
"Global Citizen #India quickly became a movement uniting policymakers, corporate leaders, #popculture icons, faith leaders & citizens... more than 500,000 citizens made their voices heard by taking over 2 million actions demanding the UN' #SDGs be met."
SDGs are #EmergingMarkets
2018: "Global Citizen #India: How we raised $6.4 Billion in support of the Global Goals (#SDGs)"
-Partnerships w/ #Media to reach a mass audience
-Ad inventory partnerships w/ #Facebook & #Google to maximize outreach
-#Celebrity driven messaging
gayatri.work/blog/2018/10/2…
Dec 20 2020: #GlobalCitizen Prize: #BlackLivesMatter:
"the liberatory movement aligns w/ the United Nations Global Goals." #SDGs
#BLM serves as the new anthem for corporate America, transnational capital, & the world's most powerful colonial/imperialist institutions.
Dec 20 2020: #GlobalCitizen Prize: "This award honors Sesame Workshop's storied history of activism & dedication to bringing early childhood #education to children in over 150 countries."
#SesameStreet #4IR #GreatReset #SocialEngineering
Dec 20 2020: #GlobalCitizen Prize: As Bill Gates told the Global Citizen Prize audience: “His generosity has inspired so many others, including Melinda and me, to give what they can to worthy causes.”
Global Citizen Prize, streamed live on Dec 19, 2020:
#GlobalCitizen Prize for World Leader 2020 - "Honoring the World's Most Impactful Government Officials"
globalcitizen.org/en/prize/
Jan 2020, Ursula von der Leyen: EU Green Deal - the Growth Strategy for the "4IR", #CarbonMarkets, & Increased #Militarism:
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