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"
It's a Family Affair - Venezuela's 2nd Largest Newspaper Serves U.S. Empire
Under the guise of journalism, Germania Poleo serves as sycophant for the Venezuelan ruling class while simultaneously grandstanding full subservience to Donald Trump.
The Daily Mail UK cites Germania as "a journalist with a decade of experience covering breaking news in Miami & NYC". She served as host of the DailyMail podcast, "Welcome to Magaland: Inside Trump’s Second 100 Days." In Oct 2025 she left Daily Mail to focus on "I Am Germania".
Born in Miami Florida, Germania Poleo is the granddaughter of Venezuelan media mogul & politician Rafael Poleo.
Having established the political magazine Zeta in 1973, in 1988 Rafael Poleo founded the newspaper El Nuevo País.
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?"