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'''The Giving Pledge''' is a conspiracy (i.e. 'get together for a common purpose') of several dozen billionaires, founded in 2009 by [[Bill Gates]] and [[Warren Buffett]], to coordinate donations.  
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'''The Giving Pledge''' is a 'private get-together of 210 billionaires (per 2020). It was founded in [[2009]] by [[Bill Gates]] and [[Warren Buffett]] to coordinate [[philanthropic]] donations. Whoever signs the pledge agrees to "give away" more than half of their wealth to charitable causes while alive or in their wills.
  
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With their combined funds of many hundred billions dollars to invest, this will enable them to set priorities and push through their preferred solutions for the whole community in strategic sectors, like education and health care.
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==Enormous Power==
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With their combined funds of many hundred billions dollars to invest, this coordination enables them to set priorities and push through their preferred solutions for the whole community in strategic sectors, like education and [[health care]].
  
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Their money will buy a large cadre of leaders in [[NGO]]s who will further their pet causes ("intensely felt core beliefs"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=245</ref>) like "championing the military"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=164</ref>, pushing out causes they don't like, which will wither for lack of money and PR.  
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The gatherings create a community of a few dozen people who own most the world and personally know each other, and coordinating their fortunes, a power which is too strong for any democratic processes to resist.
  
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Their money will buy a large cadre of leaders in [[NGO]]s who will further their pet causes ("intensely felt core beliefs"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=245</ref>, like "championing the military"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=164</ref>, pushing out causes they don't like, which will wither for lack of money and PR.
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==Dominated by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett==
 
This funding coordination is a continuation of [[The Good Club]]. The Pledge is "more than a one-time event", it means "becoming part of an energized community" of some of the world’s richest people "to discuss challenges, successes, and failures, and to share ideas" on how this strategic use of money "should be done to greatest effect."<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338</ref>
 
This funding coordination is a continuation of [[The Good Club]]. The Pledge is "more than a one-time event", it means "becoming part of an energized community" of some of the world’s richest people "to discuss challenges, successes, and failures, and to share ideas" on how this strategic use of money "should be done to greatest effect."<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338</ref>
  
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The project is dominated by Gates and Buffet, as many of the lesser billionaires point out, they "commit to being good listeners and participants,"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338</ref>, "a mentorship"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=171</ref> where they get an "opportunity to learn from them"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266</ref>.
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The project is dominated by Gates and Buffet, as many of the lesser billionaires point out, they "commit to being good listeners and participants,"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338</ref>, this is "a mentorship"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=171</ref> where they get an "opportunity to learn from them"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266</ref>.
  
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Those who join the Giving Pledge often write a letter explaining their decision to engage deeply and publicly in philanthropy and describing the causes that motivate them. Signatories fund a diverse range of issues including poverty alleviation, refugee aid, disaster relief, global health, education, women and girls’ empowerment, medical research, criminal justice reform, environmental sustainability, and art and culture; all sectors where exactly these very billionaires through their business practices have been responsible for <ref>causing</ref> these major problems.
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=='We' need to work together==
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On the prospect of [[nuclear war]] one of the participants, [[Ben Delo]], comments: "Put simply, we"...("we in the present generation" as a whole, but in context of the text he rather speaks to his billionaire fellows that can do something about it, "the growing community of philanthropists").."have never been in this position before: with the power to destroy the future, but not necessarily the wisdom to wield that power responsibly. To navigate this critical period safely, we need to work together."<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=383</ref>
  
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Many of the billionaires, like [[Nicolas Berggruen]] have a history of trying to buy politicians through cushy board membership in 'foundations', where they 'provide thought leadership'<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=170</ref>
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==Conference==
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The group convenes every year for a two-day learning conference<ref>annual two-day learning conference</ref>, where they can hear from unidentified outside experts (presumably handpicked by Gates because they champion the right themes) about subjects like "criminal justice reform, early childhood education, refugee aid, [[public health]], and poverty alleviation".<ref>https://givingpledge.org/PressRelease.aspx?date=05.30.2017</ref> The meeting is described as "a hardworking 2 day 3 nights meetings, with full agendas from 7am through after dinner hours."<ref>[Bill Cummings: <i>Starting Small and Making It Big: An Entrepreneur's Journey to Billion-Dollar Philanthropist</i></ref>
  
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Starting as a U.S. project, where you can become a member "if you have at least U.S. $1 billion in personal net worth"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx</ref>, it has recieved international support from - equally ruthless - businessmen like [[Kjell Inge Røkke]] and Victor Pinchuk.
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==Thought Leadership==
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Those who join the Giving Pledge often write a letter explaining their decision to engage deeply and publicly in [[philanthropy]] and describing the causes that motivate them.
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The signatories fund a diverse range of issues including poverty alleviation, refugee aid, disaster relief, global health, education, women and girls’ empowerment, medical research, criminal justice reform, environmental sustainability, and art and culture; all sectors where <i>exactly these very billionaires</i> through their business practices have been responsible for <i>causing</i> these major problems.
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Many of the billionaires, like [[Nicolas Berggruen]] have a history of buying politicians through cushy board membership in 'foundations', where they 'provide thought leadership'<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=170</ref>
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The Pledge started as a U.S. project, where you can become a member "if you have at least U.S. $1 billion in personal net worth"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx</ref>. Since then, it has recieved international pledges from - equally ruthless to their U.S. peers - businessmen like [[Kjell Inge Røkke]]<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338</ref><ref>http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/03/norwegian-billionaire-kjell-inge-rokke-giving-back-help-save-oceans/</ref><ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/a-billionaire-is-giving-his-fortune-away-to-clean-up-oceans.html</ref> and [[Victor Pinchuk]].<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266</ref><ref>http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/news/22030</ref><ref>https://www.pinchukfund.org/en/media/press_release/9632/?PAGEN_3=332</ref>
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[[Jeffrey Epstein]] was on the verge of joining, or maybe did, but is not mentioned in the official lists.<ref>https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/jeffrey-epstein-asked-publicist-to-rehab-his-billionaire-pervert-image/</ref><ref>https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28378863/jeffrey-epstein-publicist-couri-hay/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20190716203837/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28378863/jeffrey-epstein-publicist-couri-hay/ Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/G8vyk Archive.is]</ref> Either way, he and Gates traveled the world together meeting dignitaries like [[Thorbjørn Jagland]], [[Nobel Peace Prize Chair]] and [[Secretary General of the Council of Europe]]<ref>https://www.dn.no/magasinet/dokumentar/jeffrey-epstein/thorbjorn-jagland/terje-rod-larsen/bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein-met-with-nobel-committee-chair/2-1-885834</ref>.
  
 
==Business opportunities==
 
==Business opportunities==
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In addition, the charity money is not as free as it might seem. By paying to further thing like "innovative approaches to provide access to education, healthcare"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266</ref>, they open profit opportunities though privatization in sectors that most citizens prefer are taken care of by the public.
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In addition, the charity money is not as free as it might seem. By paying to further thing like "innovative approaches to provide access to education, [[healthcare]]"<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266</ref>, they open profit opportunities through [[privatization]] in sectors that most citizens prefer are taken care of by the public. Historically, the [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]], [[Ford Foundation|Ford]] and [[Carnegie Foundation|Carnegie Foundation]] did similar things.
  
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[[Jeffrey Epstein]] was a pledger, but has been removed from the offical lists.
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The [[2012]] meeting discussed the growing relevance of [[public-private partnerships]] and "impact investing" creating societal impact as well as '''financial return'''.<ref><i>The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy</i></ref>
  
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"Put simply, we"...(presumaby the billionaires).."have ve never been in this position before: with the power to destroy the future, but not necessarily the wisdom to wield that power responsibly. To navigate this critical period safely, we need to work together."<ref>https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=383</ref>
 
  
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•  John Morgridge
•  Michael Moritz
•  Harriet Heyman
•  Dustin Moskovitz
•  Cari Tuna
• Patrice Motsepe.jpg Patrice Motsepe
•  Precious Motsepe
• Elon Musk Twitter.webp Elon Musk
•  Arif Naqvi
•  Jonathan M. Nelson
•  Rohini Nilekani
•  Nandan Nilekani
•  Gensheng Niu
• Pierre omidyar.jpg Pierre Omidyar
•  Pam Omidyar
•  Natalie Orfalea
•  Paul Orfalea
•  Bernard Osher
•  Barbro Osher
•  Bob Parsons
•  Renee Parsons
• Jimmy Pattison.jpg Jim Pattison
•  Ronald O. Perelman
•  Jorge M. Perez
•  Darlene Perez
• Peter Peterson.jpg Peter G. Peterson
•  T. Boone Pickens
•  Victor Pinchuk
•  Hasso Plattner
• Vladimir Potanin 2018 (cropped).jpg Vladimir Potanin
•  Azim Premji
•  Ernest Rady
•  Evelyn Rady
•  Terry Ragon
•  Susan Ragon
•  Emily Rales
•  Mitchell Rales
•  Julian H. Robertson Jr.
• DavidRockefeller.jpg David Rockefeller
•  Edward W. Rose
•  Deedie Potter Rose
•  Stephen M. Ross
• David M. Rubenstein.jpg David M. Rubenstein
•  Chris Sacca
•  Crystal Sacca
•  David Sainsbury
•  John Sall
•  Ginger Sall
•  Henry Samueli
•  Susan Samueli
•  Herb Sandler
•  Marion Sandler
•  Denny Sanford
•  Vicki Sant
• Roger Sant.jpg Roger Sant
•  Lynn Schusterman
•  Stephen A. Schwarzman
•  Paul Sciarra
•  Jennifer Sciarra
•  Ruth Scott
•  Bill Scott
•  Walter Scott Jr.
•  Tom Seunda
•  Cindy Secunda
•  B.R. Shetty
•  C.R. Shetty
•  Craig Silverstein
•  Mary Obelnicki
•  Annette Simmons
•  Harold Simmons
•  Jim Simons
•  Marilyn Simons
•  Liz Simons
•  Mark Heising
•  Nat Simons
•  Laura Baxter-Simons
• Paul Elliot Singer.jpg Paul E. Singer
•  Jeff Skoll
•  Robert Frederick Smith
•  John A. Sobrato
•  Susan Sobrato
•  John Sobrato
•  Timi Sobrato
•  Michele B. Chan
•  Patrick Soon-Shiong
•  Ted Stanley
•  Vade Stanley
•  Mark Stevens
•  Mary Stevens
•  Tom Steyer
•  Kat Taylor
•  Harry H. Stine
•  Jim Stowers
•  Virginia Stowers
•  Dato' Sri DR Tahir
•  Vincent Tan Chee Yioun
• Nicolai-Tangen-world-top-investors-1280x640.jpg Nicolai Tangen
•  Katja Tangen
•  Tad Taube
•  Dianne Taube
•  Robert Toll
•  Jane Toll
•  Claire Tow
•  Leonard Tow
• Ted Turner.jpg Ted Turner
•  Albert Lee Ueltschi
•  Hamdi Ulukaya
•  Sunny Varkey
•  Sherly Varkey
•  Shamsheer Vayalil
•  Shabeena Vayalil
•  Romesh Wadhwani
•  Kathleen Wadhwan
•  Jian Wang
•  David Weekley
•  Bonnie Weekley
•  Sanford Weill
•  Joan Weill
•  Herbert Wertheim
•  Nicole Wertheim
•  Shelby White
•  Ian Wood
• Hansjorg Wyss profile image.png Hansjörg Wyss
•  Samuel Yin
•  You Zhonghui
•  Charles Zegar
•  Merryl Snow Zegar
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•  Priscilla Chan

The Giving Pledge is a 'private get-together of 210 billionaires (per 2020). It was founded in 2009 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to coordinate philanthropic donations. Whoever signs the pledge agrees to "give away" more than half of their wealth to charitable causes while alive or in their wills.

Enormous Power

With their combined funds of many hundred billions dollars to invest, this coordination enables them to set priorities and push through their preferred solutions for the whole community in strategic sectors, like education and health care.

The gatherings create a community of a few dozen people who own most the world and personally know each other, and coordinating their fortunes, a power which is too strong for any democratic processes to resist.

Their money will buy a large cadre of leaders in NGOs who will further their pet causes ("intensely felt core beliefs"[1], like "championing the military"[2], pushing out causes they don't like, which will wither for lack of money and PR.

Dominated by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

This funding coordination is a continuation of The Good Club. The Pledge is "more than a one-time event", it means "becoming part of an energized community" of some of the world’s richest people "to discuss challenges, successes, and failures, and to share ideas" on how this strategic use of money "should be done to greatest effect."[3]

The project is dominated by Gates and Buffet, as many of the lesser billionaires point out, they "commit to being good listeners and participants,"[4], this is "a mentorship"[5] where they get an "opportunity to learn from them"[6].

'We' need to work together

On the prospect of nuclear war one of the participants, Ben Delo, comments: "Put simply, we"...("we in the present generation" as a whole, but in context of the text he rather speaks to his billionaire fellows that can do something about it, "the growing community of philanthropists").."have never been in this position before: with the power to destroy the future, but not necessarily the wisdom to wield that power responsibly. To navigate this critical period safely, we need to work together."[7]

Conference

The group convenes every year for a two-day learning conference[8], where they can hear from unidentified outside experts (presumably handpicked by Gates because they champion the right themes) about subjects like "criminal justice reform, early childhood education, refugee aid, public health, and poverty alleviation".[9] The meeting is described as "a hardworking 2 day 3 nights meetings, with full agendas from 7am through after dinner hours."[10]

Thought Leadership

Those who join the Giving Pledge often write a letter explaining their decision to engage deeply and publicly in philanthropy and describing the causes that motivate them.

The signatories fund a diverse range of issues including poverty alleviation, refugee aid, disaster relief, global health, education, women and girls’ empowerment, medical research, criminal justice reform, environmental sustainability, and art and culture; all sectors where exactly these very billionaires through their business practices have been responsible for causing these major problems.

Many of the billionaires, like Nicolas Berggruen have a history of buying politicians through cushy board membership in 'foundations', where they 'provide thought leadership'[11]

The Pledge started as a U.S. project, where you can become a member "if you have at least U.S. $1 billion in personal net worth"[12]. Since then, it has recieved international pledges from - equally ruthless to their U.S. peers - businessmen like Kjell Inge Røkke[13][14][15] and Victor Pinchuk.[16][17][18]

Jeffrey Epstein was on the verge of joining, or maybe did, but is not mentioned in the official lists.[19][20] Either way, he and Gates traveled the world together meeting dignitaries like Thorbjørn Jagland, Nobel Peace Prize Chair and Secretary General of the Council of Europe[21].

Business opportunities

In addition, the charity money is not as free as it might seem. By paying to further thing like "innovative approaches to provide access to education, healthcare"[22], they open profit opportunities through privatization in sectors that most citizens prefer are taken care of by the public. Historically, the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie Foundation did similar things.

The 2012 meeting discussed the growing relevance of public-private partnerships and "impact investing" creating societal impact as well as financial return.[23]


 

Known members

41 of the 298 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Michael AshcroftBillionaire former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party
Marc BenioffBoth a WEF GLT and a WEF YGL, US internet billionaire deep state functionary, bought Time Magazine
Nicolas BerggruenSponsor of influential think-tanks
Steve BingClinton connected billionaire businessman who fell to his death in 2020.
Michael BloombergAmerican deep politician billionaire. The 16th richest person in the world. Mayor of New York 2002-2013
Richard BransonUK billionaire spending a lot to keep up positive image. In Epstein's Black Book
Eli Broad
Kelly CraftUS businesswoman
Barry DillerBillionaire businessman and media executive
Larry EllisonMulti-billionaire who founded Oracle
Jeffrey EpsteinBillionaire who flew famous people on the Lolita Express to lavish parties on one a private island, which the locals dubbed "Orgy Island" or "Padeophile Island". A compulsive pedophile, he was convicted in 2008, given a cushy plea deal by use of deep state pressure. However, after this declared illegal in February 2019, after which people attempted to distance themselves from him. Re-arrested in June 2019, he was reportedly found dead of a "suicide" in prison although questions remain about this.
Andrew ForrestAustralia's richest man
Diane von FürstenbergFashion designer who married two men with deep state connections.
Melinda GatesFormer wife of Bill Gates. Billionaire, deep state functionary promoting vaccines and internet censorship.
David GreenSFO Director 2012-18
Mellody Hobsonpresident and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, wife of filmmaker George Lucas
Reid HoffmanVenture capitalist, CEO of LinkedIn
Jon HuntsmanMultiple US Deep State connected roles, Atlantic Council Chairman, US Ambassador to Russia. Aggressive pusher of the COVID-19 jabs. In Epstein's Black Book.
Edgar Miles Bronfman JrPart of the Bronfman family.
Strive MasiyiwaSpooky billionaire who as African Union Special Envoy for Covid-19 response pushed COVID jabs
Michael MilkenFinancial speculator known for his role in the 1980s boom and bust. Convicted criminal. Later turned his focus to investments in Big Pharma, using "philanthropy" as cover for lobbyism.
Dustin MoskovitzBillionaire co-founder of Facebook
Patrice MotsepeSouth Africa's richest man, GLT 1999, very heavy WEF AGM habit
Elon MuskUS businessman, Paypal Mafia underboss, big tech kingpin, WEF YGL billionaire
Pierre OmidyarEntrepreneur and deep state operative who is the founder and chairman of eBay, got control of the Snowden leaks by financing The Intercept
James PattisonBillionaire Bilderberger Canadian businessman with fawning media coverage. Giving Pledge.
Peter PetersonLong time CFR chair
Victor PinchukRussian oligarch, The Giving Pledge, does WEF AGMs
Vladimir PotaninRussian businessman. The 10th richest person in the world.
David RockefellerUS deep politician. CFR founder. Only person to attend over 50 Bilderberg meetings.
David RubensteinBillionaire Bilderberger Brookings co-founder and Managing Director of the Carlyle Group
Kjell Inge RøkkeCorrupt Norwegian billionaire businessman know for his ruthless business methods, rough personal manners, and friendly ties to the Norwegian Labour Party.
David SainsburyUK billionaire, The Giving Pledge
Roger SantBillionaire businessman international power company magnate
Paul Elliot SingerUS billionaire, The Giving Pledge
Jeff SkollEBay billionaire
Al-Waleed bin TalalBillionaire member of the Saudi royal family.
Nicolai TangenManager of the huge Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund
Ted TurnerUS "liberal" media mogul and zealous financier of projects designed to lower the world's population.
Hansjörg WyssSwiss/US Big Pharma billionaire. His company conducted illegal human experiments. Interested in keeping huge swathes of land free of people. Leading source of dark money to the Democratic Party
Mark ZuckerbergNominally in charge of Facebook, a rebranding of LifeLog
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References

  1. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=245
  2. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=164
  3. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338
  4. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338
  5. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=171
  6. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266
  7. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=383
  8. ↑ annual two-day learning conference
  9. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/PressRelease.aspx?date=05.30.2017
  10. ↑ [Bill Cummings: Starting Small and Making It Big: An Entrepreneur's Journey to Billion-Dollar Philanthropist
  11. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=170
  12. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx
  13. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338
  14. ↑ http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/03/norwegian-billionaire-kjell-inge-rokke-giving-back-help-save-oceans/
  15. ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/a-billionaire-is-giving-his-fortune-away-to-clean-up-oceans.html
  16. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266
  17. ↑ http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/news/22030
  18. ↑ https://www.pinchukfund.org/en/media/press_release/9632/?PAGEN_3=332
  19. ↑ https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/jeffrey-epstein-asked-publicist-to-rehab-his-billionaire-pervert-image/
  20. ↑ https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28378863/jeffrey-epstein-publicist-couri-hay/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  21. ↑ https://www.dn.no/magasinet/dokumentar/jeffrey-epstein/thorbjorn-jagland/terje-rod-larsen/bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein-met-with-nobel-committee-chair/2-1-885834
  22. ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266
  23. ↑ The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy
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