Celebrity ‘Charity’: A Gift for a Vicious System
"If only the curtain would fall - not only on the sideshow of celebrity philanthropy, but on the myth itself."
Dec 09
20170
Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Uncategorized
Africa Angelina Jolie Bono Celebrity Fetish Iraq ONE United Nations
"If only the curtain would fall - not only on the sideshow of celebrity philanthropy, but on the myth itself."
Nov 01
20170
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The International Campaign to Destabilize Venezuela, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Bono Canada150 Crowd psychology Crowd Psycology DAPL Imperialism Indigenous Nations Justin Trudeau mob psychology ONE Social Engineering Third Wave Feminism U2
"Why do you think these litmus tests are performed on the population? Their success, namely that they pass without incident, provides a green light to proceed further over the brink, because they show this level of theocratic fasicm is already tacitly embraced by a paying audience; -whether that's due to awareness or ignorance does not matter. "
Apr 05
20170
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
#askwarren #girlscount #IWD2017 #povertyissexist 350.org Berkshire Hathawa Bono Clinton Foundation Clinton Global Initiative Dakota Access Pipeline DAPL Doug Burgum Gates Foundation Microsoft NODAPL North Dakota NoVo ONE Phillips 66 RED Sacagawea
"Were you aware the current Governor of North Dakota not only received more than a $100,000 from oil companies but also received $106,000 from U2's ONE/RED sponsor, Bill Gates, and was previously the chief of staff for Microsoft in Fargo?"
Apr 05
20170
Humanitarian Agencies, TckTckTck, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
8 Miles Fund Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) Africa AIDS Band Aid Imperialism Band Aid/Live Aid Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bob Geldof Bono CARE Catholic Relief Services Celebrity DATA (Debt David Jones (Havas & Facebook) Ethiopia J.P. Morgan Jeffrey Sachs Maurice Strong Mo Ibrahim Mo Ibrahim Foundation ONE One Young World Save the Children Soros Tck Tck Tck The Politics of Starvation Trade USAID
"Celebrity activists cannot be relied upon in searching for such solutions; as embedded within capitalist networks of power, they tend to be amongst those few individuals least likely to engage in such a rational approach to problem solving."
Mar 08
20170
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NoVo Foundation
Bono Gates Foundation NODAPL RED Standing Rock U2 Warren Buffett
"How can these billionaires qualify this sort of profit making as philanthropy?"
Feb 28
20173
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation
Berkshire Hathaway BNSF Bono Buffett Gates NODAPL NoVo REDD Standing Rock
Buffett's 90 wholly owned Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries should be subject to a general boycott due to Buffett's DAPL investment - more than twelve times larger than any of the banks maximally financing the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest of whom rank between $500 and $600 million.
Feb 08
20172
350.org / 1Sky, Social Engineering, Tides Foundation
#Cringemas 350.org Berkshire Hathaway Bill Gates Bill McKibben BNSF Bono Burlington Resources Conoco Phillips DAPL Divestment Food & Water Watch Gates Foundation Kinder Morgan Lac Megantic Murray Edwards NODAPL NoVo ONE Phillips66 RED The Guardian Warren Buffett
"I suppose you might be wondering why I’m inserting Bill Gates into the fray, but the answer’s obvious, as in herein lies the crux. It is Bill Gates who has succeeded in turning Bono’s philanthropic endeavors into pure philanthrowash of he and Buffet’s investments. After all, ONE was Gates' brainchild as much or more than it was Bono’s." ...
Feb 03
20161
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology
350.org Bono Bono-ization of Activism Ceres CIVICUS Clinton Global Initiative Energy Action Coalition financialization of nature Greenpeace Naomi Klein United Nations
The NPIC, as the third pillar of contemporary imperialism, which Klein has submerged herself in, ensures current power structures are not only kept intact, but strengthened and insulated.
Jan 28
20162
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Agro Tech Bill Gates Bob Geldof Bono Buffett Cargill Celebrity Activism Coca-Cola ConAgra DuPont G8 summit Larry Summers Monsanto Nestlé New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Syngenta The ONE campaign U2 Unilever
"If, as ONE does, an organisation keeps telling you that it’s a “grassroots campaign”, it’s a fair bet that it is nothing of the kind. This collaboration of multimillionaires and technocrats looks to me more like a projection of US and corporate power."
Jan 26
20164
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, United Nations, USAID, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Bank of America Bill Gates Bono Buffett Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Credit Suisse Department for International Development of the Government of the UK (DFID) European Commission Exxon Mobile Goldman Sachs. Shell United Nations USAID
"The UN Foundation lists currently (July 2015) 23 corporate partners, such as Exxon Mobile, Shell, Goldman Sachs, and the Bank of America."