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
#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."
"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
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:
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.:
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]
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."
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.
#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..."
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).
#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:
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..."
"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."
#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."
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"
Sept 29, 2022: The Biden admin. [] is troubled by the possibility of Ben Gvir, who heads the far-right Otzma Yehudit, becoming a minister in the [] Israeli Gvt... "it is like the Ku Klux Klan in the Israeli gvt... We won't be able to defend this" #Optics
Dec 15, 2022: "Joint Statement of the Government of the #USA & the Govt of #Australia on Cooperation on Natural Capital Accounting, Environmental- Economic Accounting, & Related Statistics"
Decades in devt. Three yrs to obtain social license.
Sept 19, 2019: "In addition to the rapid decarbonization of the energy, industrial & transport sectors, the emergency response must include a major investment in #naturebasedsolution."
Nature4Climate: a coalition of 20 orgs including #WWF (bears responsibility for murder, rape & torture of Indigenous peoples) & We Mean Business, co-founded by The Climate Group. Key person Callum Grieve, marketing expert, behind Greta machine from day 1. nature4climate.org/about/
"... because the #Southern part of the world has value far greater than large elements of the Northern []. And we start thinking about & putting prices on water, on trees, on #biodiversity, we find, where does that sit?"
/2: "I'm doing a lot of work out of #Asia and I say that my next door neighbor Indonesia is the left lung of the world, and obviously #Brazil is the right. And #Africa - absolutely critical."
/3: "And #Africa - absolutely critical - and we need their natural capital as a system-based world more than we need that 66 billion we've got sitting in the basement of the Bank of England."
"...set in the near future [] epidemic [] spread[s] rapidly, [] w/ a higher fatality rate than #COVID19 & disproportionately affecting children & young people."
To my knowledge, there is only a video of "highlights" that has been released to the public. Regardless, the high-level /real discussions take place behind closed doors.
Apologies for not finishing thread last night-listened until I fell asleep. When those that oppress us, that allow our air, water, soil, food, bodies, to be poisoned & commodified, claim that global #health is now their top priority - be wary. Be ready.
Al Gore (#WEF trustee) et al. are SO CONCERNED about the climate, that they in the process of turning all of #nature into a new asset class – where they will OWN nature, manage/control nature, & profit from nature (via "Natural Asset Companies").
Of course, this has nothing to do w/ Gore's Generation Investment (#hedgefund co-founded w/ David Blood from Goldman Sachs), #BlackRock, saving capitalism, or the expansion of #privatization. Rather, it's to save the planet.
The $4,000 trillion #climate wealth opportunity.
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David Blood to Mark Carney (TCFD/TNFD, #UN Special Envoy for #Climate), 2021:
"We know that #NaturalClimateSolutions are a critical part of the transition to #NetZero & we've known this for quite some time. Why is it so difficult for us in finance [] to put a value on nature?"
The realization that such an image is now collectively processed/understood as an impressive example of "#sustainability", amongst many who consider themselves ecologically aware, or even "left", is both terrifying & revealing at once.
"Per capita figures show that Indian people actually contribute relatively very little to the problem. While the average American emits 14.7 tons of CO2 a year, an Indian person emits around 1.8."
What's worse, such "solutions" are not displacing fossil fuels. A digitized economy drives expansion of hyperscale #datacenters. "Hyperscalers" such as #Amazon gloss over their massive energy consumption by securing renewable-power purchase agreements.⬇️