The Giving Pledge
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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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
39 of the 298 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Michael Ashcroft | Billionaire former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party |
| Marc Benioff | US Internet billionaire, bought Time Magazine |
| Nicolas Berggruen | Sponsor of influential think-tanks |
| Steve Bing | Clinton connected billionaire businessman who fell to his death in 2020. |
| Michael Bloomberg | American deep politician billionaire. The 16th richest person in the world. Mayor of New York 2002-2013 |
| Richard Branson | UK billionaire spending a lot to keep up positive image. In Epstein's Black Book |
| Edgar Bronfman | US businessman President of the World Jewish Congress 1979-2997 |
| Kelly Craft | |
| Barry Diller | Billionaire businessman and media executive |
| Jeffrey Epstein | Billionaire 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 Forrest | Australia's richest man |
| Diane von Fürstenberg | Fashion designer who married two men with deep state connections. |
| Melinda Gates | Wife of Bill Gates. Billionaire, deep state functionary promoting vaccines and internet censorship. |
| David Green | SFO Director 2012-18 |
| Mellody Hobson | president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, wife of filmmaker George Lucas |
| Reid Hoffman | Venture capitalist, CEO of LinkedIn |
| Jon Huntsman | Multiple US Deep State connected roles, Atlantic Council Chairman, US Ambassador to Russia. Aggressive pusher of the COVID-19 jabs. In Epstein's Black Book. |
| Strive Masiyiwa | Spooky billionaire who as African Union Special Envoy for Covid-19 response pushed COVID jabs |
| Michael Milken | |
| Dustin Moskovitz | Billionaire co-founder of Facebook |
| Patrice Motsepe | South Africa's richest man |
| Elon Musk | US businessman, Paypal Mafia underboss, big tech kingpin, WEF YGL billionaire |
| Pierre Omidyar | |
| James Pattison | Billionaire Bilderberger businessman |
| Peter Peterson | Long time CFR chair |
| Victor Pinchuk | Russian oligarch, The Giving Pledge, does WEF AGMs |
| Vladimir Potanin | Russian businessman. The 10th richest person in the world. |
| David Rockefeller | US deep politician. CFR founder. Only person to attend over 50 Bilderberg meetings. |
| David Rubenstein | Billionaire Bilderberger Brookings co-founder and Managing Director of the Carlyle Group |
| Kjell Inge Røkke | Corrupt Norwegian billionaire businessman know for his ruthless business methods, rough personal manners, and friendly ties to the Norwegian Labour Party. |
| David Sainsbury | |
| Roger Sant | Billionaire businessman international power company magnate |
| Paul Elliot Singer | |
| Jeff Skoll | EBay billionaire |
| Al-Waleed bin Talal | Billionaire member of the Saudi royal family. |
| Nicolai Tangen | Manager of the huge Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund |
| Ted Turner | US "liberal" media mogul and zealous financier of projects designed to lower the world's population. |
| Hansjörg Wyss | Swiss/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 Zuckerberg | Nominally in charge of Facebook, a rebranding of LifeLog |
References
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=245
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=164
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=171
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=383
- ↑ annual two-day learning conference
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/PressRelease.aspx?date=05.30.2017
- ↑ [Bill Cummings: Starting Small and Making It Big: An Entrepreneur's Journey to Billion-Dollar Philanthropist
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=170
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=338
- ↑ http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/03/norwegian-billionaire-kjell-inge-rokke-giving-back-help-save-oceans/
- ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/a-billionaire-is-giving-his-fortune-away-to-clean-up-oceans.html
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266
- ↑ http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/news/22030
- ↑ https://www.pinchukfund.org/en/media/press_release/9632/?PAGEN_3=332
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/jeffrey-epstein-asked-publicist-to-rehab-his-billionaire-pervert-image/
- ↑ https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28378863/jeffrey-epstein-publicist-couri-hay/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=266
- ↑ The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy
