In 2013 many UK anarchists received an email from Sophie Pritchard of Edge Fund looking for "groups that need funding for their work to bring about justice and equality".
Edge Fund has gone on to fund various antifascists and anarchists, plus Black Lives Matter and Rising Up (the network behind Extinction Rebellion) and many "intersectional" groups.
3/9
Edge Fund is closely linked to EDGE Funders Alliance (Engaged Donors for Global Equity) in the USA, whose sponsors include the Rockefeller Foundation.
Rose Longhurst of Edge Fund and EDGE Funders Alliance is part of George Soros' Open Society Initiative for Europe and of the Atlantic Fellows scheme founded by Chuck Feeney, described by billionaire Warren Buffett as "my hero and Bill Gates’ hero".
Edge Fund's Longhurst is also part of Bond, "the UK network for international development and humanitarian organisations", which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
6/9
Edge Fund chair Isis Amlak is a trustee of Olmec, a "social enterprise" which supports BLM but which is in fact clearly belongs to the world of impact capitalism.
Edge Fund co-founder and coordinator Sophie Pritchard is closely linked to Alliance Magazine, which is partnered with a range of impact businesses and New Philanthropy Capital (NPC).
8/9
Edge Fund activities have been funded by Lankelly Chase, which was involved in the world's first social impact bond alongside J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust, K L Felicitas Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Ronald Cohen.
9/9
Katie Boswell of NPC, a fan of Edge Fund who, like them, writes for Alliance Magazine, is a member of Klaus Schwab's Global Shapers!
Utkarsh Amitab is "passionate about public–private partnerships" and involved with artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and cyber-security.
3/6
Mitali Nikore is totally on board with Klaus Schwab’s #GreatReset, promoting: “smart infrastructure" "for the fourth industrial revolution" so Indians "can leapfrog to their new normal”.
The agenda of Klaus Schwab's Global Shapers is the acceleration of global corporate control to a level we can barely imagine, the imposition of a full-on techno-tyranny.
We took a closer look at the WEF's Global Shapers in #London and found that one heads a “a private philanthropy focused on systemic change” seeking “integrated solutions that follow children along the life course”.
3/7
It intends to “take risks where the potential pay-off is big” and adds: “We know that the returns on smart investments in areas such as children’s early development and adolescent girls are especially high”.
Incredibly important article from Alison McDowell @Philly852 via the Wrench in the Gears site, detailing the techno-slavery which the vile billionaire elite is trying to impose on us all.
"It is the 'impact metrics' that enable the world’s richest to profit off misery. The general idea is that social problems are assigned a cost, which creates an offset that is used to fund 'evidence-based' 'solutions'."
"Philanthropists, acting on behalf of finance and technology interests, fund academics at elite institutions to formulate 'human capital' equations that justify this predatory enterprise".
"Who were the big financial winners of the ‘Year of Covid’? The richest people on the planet, who saw their wealth increase by 27.5 percent. Who were the biggest losers? The poor" - @NeilClark66
"To build back you first have to destroy, and what we are witnessing is a controlled demolition of the last ‘good bits’ of the old economy"
3/4
"The WEF, lest we forget, is backed by the world’s richest corporations and the world’s richest individuals. Globalisation has made today’s super-rich far richer than any previous plutocrats in history. And far richer means far more political influence"
But what do we call these people and their odious system?
Everybody seems to use a different term and bickering over which one is most appropriate distracts attention from the essential question of how we can get together and bring them down.
3/21
Many of us have been content to use the word "capitalism" to describe the combination of wealth and power behind this clique.
"The 4IR can't come into fruition without the 5G infrastructure that will run the Internet of Things. 'Smart' cities must be understood in the context of global policing & the military industrial complex. Cybersecurity will be the battle space of the 21st century"
3/23
"More than just abstaining, the solution has to be for everyone who owns a smartphone to trash it – never looking back. It is fact that 'the fourth industrial revolution [#GreatReset] flows through a mobile'." - @elleprovocateur