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Global firm BCG charged £10m over four months to deal with UK test and trace network, source says, as Tory reliance on private sector seen to grow..
Senior executives from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) are being paid fees equivalent to £1.5m a year to help speed up and reorganise the £12bn network that Boris Johnson said in May would be “world-beating”.🍿
"Frederick Law Olmsted is considered the father of landscape architecture, but this body of work is rarely talked about," says Prof. Sara Zewde of Olmsted's 1861 book "Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom." - Harvard GSD gsd.harvard.edu/2021/01/in-cot…
"In 1852, following travels from China to England, where he came to understand the complex relationship between landscape and class, power, ecology, and identity, Olmsted was dispatched to the Southern slave states by the New York Times ..
"The New York Times was founded as the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851. Founded by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones ..
" Stanford faculty may “purchase a leasehold interest.” Buyers sign a “ground lease” with the university, and then faculty members pay rent to Stanford ..
This unique structure dates to the university’s founding by Leland and Jane Stanford.."
2021 article:
"A UK nonprofit with ties to global corruption throughout the COVID-19 crisis as well as historical and current ties to the UK eugenics movement launched a global health-focused DARPA equivalent last year.
"Though first conceived of in 2018, this particular Wellcome Trust initiative was spun off from the Trust last May with $300 million in initial funding.
It quickly attracted two former DARPA executives
This global health DARPA, known as Wellcome Leap, seeks to achieve “breakthrough scientific and technological solutions” by or before 2030, with a focus on “complex global health challenges” .. wellcome.org/wellcome-leap#…
Wow, they've got y'all so bamboozled with Middleton's wardrobe there's no time for finicky details about the Orwellian sounding "Shaping Us" campaign..