Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., The Real Anthony Fauci
Piller and Smith’s Los Angeles Times exposé on Gates’s calamitous African adventure is an artifact of an expired era. Investigative journalism of this probative quality is a quaint relic of a time when editors and producers still permitted their reporters and correspondents to express skepticism toward Gates.
Even before the open censorship of the COVID epoch, US media reports about Gates’s charities operated in the narrow range between obsequious fawning and adulation. This is no accident. By 2006, the tsunami of advertising revenues from pharmaceutical firms—about $4.8 billion annually—had already drowned out most of the voices of vaccine dissent in mainstream media.200 By 2020, those expenditures grew to $9.53 billion.
After the devastating Los Angeles Times piece, Gates moved aggressively to neutralize the once-independent press with compromising grants that struggling news organizations couldn’t refuse. An August 2020 expose by Tim Schwab in the Columbia Journalism Review showed how Gates dispensed at least $250 million in grants to media outlets including NPR, Public Television (PBS), The Guardian, The Independent, BBC, Al Jazeera, Propublica, The Daily Telegraph, The Atlantic, The Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, The Financial Times, The National Journal, Univision, Medium, and the New York Times to dampen journalistic appetites for—well—journalism.
In fact, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation finances The Guardian’s entire “Global Development” section. That shrewd investment presumedly earned the couple this February 14, 2017 Guardian headline: “How Bill and Melinda Gates helped save 122M lives—and what they want to solve next.” The Guardian calls Gates and his partner Warren Buffett “Superman and Batman.”
The foundation has also invested millions in journalism training and in researching effective ways of crafting media narratives to support Gates’s global ambitions. Gates, for example, gave grants totaling nearly $1.5 million from 2015 through 2019 to the Center for Investigative Reporting—apparently to discourage investigative reporting. According to the Seattle Times, “Experts coached in Gates-funded programs write columns that appear in media outlets from the New York Times to the Huffington Post, while digital portals blur the line between journalism and spin.”
The Gates Foundation frequently hosts “strategic media partners” meetings at its headquarters in Seattle. Representatives from the New York Times, The Guardian, NBC, NPR, and the Seattle Times all attended a 2013 convocation. The aim of the event, wrote Tom Paulson, a Seattle-based reporter, was to “improve the narrative” of media coverage of global aid and development, highlighting good news stories rather than tales of waste or corruption.
That same year, the BMGF gave marketing colossus Ogilvy & Mather, a global public relations firm, a $100,000 grant for a project titled “Aid is Working: Tell the World.” Subsequent articles in The Nation reported that Gates had invested in a retinue of companies positioned to mint windfall profits from the COVID crisis and documented the reluctance of players in the philanthropic donor community and key charities to criticize their self-serving arrangements. Fearful of his prowess and reputation for vendetta, leading charities keep their mouths shut about Gates’s recipe for leavening his altruism with profiteering. They call this omertà “the Bill Chill.”
Gates has also made large strategic investments in Poynter and the International Network of Fact Checking Organizations, which dutifully “debunks” virtually every public statement that seems critical of Gates, whether accurate or not. In 2008, the communications chief for PBS NewsHour, Rob Flynn, explained that “there are not a heck of a lot of things you could touch in global health these days that would not have some kind of Gates tentacle.” This was around the time when the foundation gave NewsHour $3.5 million to establish a dedicated production unit to report on important global health issues.
That kind of moolah purchased a lot of goodwill from the Fourth Estate. Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post called Gates the “champion of science-backed solutions.” The New York Times gushes that he is “the most interesting man in the world.” Time Magazine dubbed him “Master of the Universe.” Forbes calls Gates “savior of the world” who “set the standard for a billionaire good citizen.” Looking on admiringly, editors of fashion magazine Vogue wondered, “Why Isn’t Bill Gates Running the Coronavirus Task Force?”
Ignoring the fact that Gates never graduated from college, much less medical school, mainstream media outlets unanimously parrot BBC’s assessment that Gates is a “public health expert” and ridicule those who question whether the whole world should take his self-serving advice on lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. In just the month of April 2020, while the virus and lockdowns were severely impacting the United States, Gates and Fauci did tag-team appearances on CNN, CNBC, Fox, PBS, BBC, CBS, MSNBC, the Daily Show, and the Ellen DeGeneres Show, reinforcing their self-serving messages about lockdowns and vaccines. None of those reporters mentioned the fact that the quarantines that Gates was cheerleading on their networks have increased Gates’s wealth by $22 billion over twelve months.
And Gates’s efforts to promote his contrary narrative claims only exacerbate their limitations. Gates’s emphasis on conditional lending, corporate partnerships, top-down control, high-tech cookie-cutter solutions, and patent privileges tends to favor wealthy nations and multinational corporations: “These are just a few of the ways in which current development policies are failing the global south.”
“If aid flows are working well,” asks McGoey, “why do they need a masterful PR campaign to convey that message effectively? Many observers on the left and right suggest that the problem isn’t a marketing failure; it’s a failure with the underlying ‘product.’ Aid, they argue, is not working.”
Oh, I disagree. Aid is working spectacularly well…for Gates and his Big Pharma partners, which of course, is the objective. They are global predators preying on the weak for spectacular profits. – The Liberator
Gates (and Soros) money talks and talks loud and clear. They have their satanic claws in every aspect of human life and in practically every country of the world. Twin Satans.