"The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said: “The largest single group of modern slavery victims under the referral system last year were British children " 🤔
"Despite Braverman’s claims of people “gaming” the system, 97% of all modern slavery referrals concluded in the first half of this year were confirmed as genuine by the authorities."
"Kerry Smith, chief executive of the Helen Bamber Foundation, said: “Many of our clients have been detained by the Home Office only to be released again.."
"“Gender inequality leaves half the world behind, keeps women and girls from leading healthy and productive lives, and keeps the foundation from achieving our mission,” said Sarah Hendriks, director, gender equality at the Gates Foundation." forbes.com/sites/bonniech…
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So let me get this straight..
All of those A-listers ☝️involved with the Helen Bramber Foundation knew about the Epstein-Weinstein thing and..
And the chief executive of the Helen Bramber Foundation is a fan of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.. She was with Plan International for 5 years prior..
Before we get back to that Guardian article about the ever increasing trafficking problem with their 'it's all the fault of the Tories' spiel..
Let's take a mo to peek at the list of CORAM trustees..
CORAM Chair (since 2015)
SIR DAVID BELL
Other trusteeships:
> THE INSTITUTE FOR WAR AND PEACE REPORTING (IWPR)
> MEDIA STANDARDS TRUST
> THE TRUST FOR THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Wait... who was chair before that?
*I mean Helen Bamber Foundation
2013 : "Row over sacking of Foundling Museum trustees"
theguardian.com/culture/2013/j…
"Trustees including the Turner prizewinner Jeremy Deller have been pushed out of the Foundling Museum in a manner that Deller described as "feeling like a hostile takeover of a well run organisation"
"The sackings were instituted by the children's charity Coram, whose chief executive is Carol Homden, a former director of public affairs at the British Museum. Coram's board-level interventions were made possible because it is the sole member of the museum, ..
Cherie Blair was a director at the Coram Children's Legal Centre?
That's very interesting .. anyhoo...
Needs it's own thread..👇 So, back to article..
"The sackings were made by written notice ... The notice came from the Coram board via the chair of the Foundling, Bill Gore, who was appointed by the Coram board after his predecessor, Andrew Fane, was summarily sacked along with another trustee in a previous boardroom coup ..
Bill chaired the Council at Essex University for 5 years and is currently on the Governing body of Coram, .. and the Foundling Museum. Bill also sits on the University of Essex Knowledge Gateway Board..
Bill aka William Hornby GORE was a director at
CORAM CHILDREN'S LEGAL CENTRE LIMITED
"The Labour MP Frank Dobson, a former governor of Coram who helped set up the Foundling in 2001 ..to safeguard Coram's collection of artworks, said the sackings were "a smack in the chops for the people who have been doing a good job..
"Stephen Deuchar, chief executive of the Art Fund, ..said: "As a charity and funder of the museum, we're deeply concerned about the apparent goings on. We want to know what Coram's motivations are behind the sacking of the museum's independent trustees..
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☝️Hunt will take us back to Colchester and the #HampsteadCase
But that's for another time
"According to Lars Tharp, a former director of the museum, difficulties between the two charities are not new. He described it as "a Jarndyce and Jarndyce situation"." stevebeeston.co.uk/blog/2011/02/a…
"The internet entrepreneur and former Amazon general manager Spencer Hyman, one of the sacked trustees, said: "The Coram is a children's charity. It has no business running a museum, .."
Margaret Atwood has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor:..
Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale ..
"In The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead is the totalitarian, patriarchal theocracy that replaced the United States, established by a fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob after a coup. "
Unlike Palantir's explicit defense focus, DeepMind faces internal friction. Some workers have voted to unionize to block DeepMind models from being used in military or sovereign defense contracts. 🤔
Demis Hassabis , Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has explicitly backed Google’s shift toward national security and military partnerships. This represents a significant reversal from his previous stance when DeepMind was acquired by Google.
"The intellectual arc of William Sims Bainbridge’s career confirms that his studies of 20thC religious cults & his 21st-century engineering of digital architectures are part of the exact same continuity: the systematic mapping, prediction, & control of collective human behavior.
There is a direct chronological and thematic intersection between the concepts in William Sims Bainbridge’s eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (published in 2013) and the Gamergate controversy, which erupted just one year later in 2014. 🤔