Black Lives Matter’s national U.S. organisation is at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5 million into the red last year – while simultaneously handing seven-figure salaries to multiple staff connected with the founder and leaders. The Mail has the story.
Financial disclosures obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the perilous state of BLM’s Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020, as a more formal way of structuring the civil rights movement.
Yet despite the financial controversy and scrutiny, BLM GNF continued to hire relatives of the founder, Patrisse Cullors, and several board members.
Cullors’ brother, Paul Cullors, set up two companies which were paid $1.6 million providing “professional security services” for Black Lives Matter in 2022.
Paul Cullors was also one of BLM’s only two paid employees during the year, collecting a $126,000 salary as “head of security” on top of his consulting fees. He is best known as a graffiti artist, with no background in security.
Patrisse Cullors defended hiring him, saying registered security firms which hired former police officers could not be trusted, given the movement’s opposition to police brutality.
For the previous year, 2021, tax filings revealed that BLM paid a company owned by Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’ child, nearly $970,000 to help “produce live events” and provide other “creative services”.
Cullors resigned in May 2021.
“While Patrisse Cullors was forced to resign due to charges of using BLM’s funds for her personal use, it looks like she’s still keeping it all in the family,” said Paul Kamenar, an attorney for the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group.
Shalomyah Bowers, who took over from Cullors when she resigned, also benefitted handsomely from the group: in 2022, his consultancy firm was paid $1.7 million for management and consulting services, the Free Beacon reported.
And the sister of former Black Lives Matter board member Raymond Howard was also employed in a lucrative role as a consultant.
Danielle Edwards’s firm, New Impact Partners, was paid $1.1 million for consulting services in 2022, the Free Beacon said.
Donations to the organisation plunged by 88% between 2021 and 2022, from $77 million to just $9.3 million for the most recent financial year.
Such a pity.
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Few if any of these criminals read it. I guess many more of us, the whackjobs-conspiracy idiots read it. I did watch the small group ‘debate’ this measure with Bridgen in attendance. It was obvious few had read it. Again and again these idiots said they don’t believe in conspiracy theories -whatever the hell that means – and the Stabbies were a great success and ‘saved us’. The UK is a leader blah blah. The UK will form the treaty and its implementation blah blah. Everyone knows we are a sovereign state blah blah.
These MPs are criminals. Their bank accounts full of Pharma pounds. They are dumb, graft ridden, inarticulate, gutless, globalists. Most of them fully supported the Rona fascism and wanted more of it.
Do you think they care about a ‘treaty’ giving up our ‘rights’ whatever is left of them, to a terrorist org like the WHO?
Let’s face it, they didn’t read the Maastricht Treaty either. Why are we surprised?
As I recall, the Maastricht Treaty was specifically crafted to avoid anyone understanding its contents. Ultimately, European Law ensured that the treaty could be interpreted in any way the European Commission dictated.
Politicians vote for many things they don’t understand. ———-It seems you don’t need to understand things because even if you do then you are going to often vote to get the majority your party needs anyway. How many politicians truly understand the complexity of the issue of climate? I suggest very few, and as in the media, when things are heavily politicised like climate and covid are, then in comes the group think, and if you don’t care to participate in the group think consensus type of thing, then you won’t be allowed to stay in your position. If David Attenborough was a climate sceptic do we really think he would be on the BBC? ——–No chance.
I understand the concerns and share them, but on a practical level what sanctions can be applied to a sovereign nation which fails to follow WHO directives?
Exactly.
The rule of law is shattered now. Over the last three years the authorities have twisted, ignored, and reinvented absolutely any and every law as it has suited. The suggestion that this WHO treaty is legally binding is complete and utter BS. The reality is that it is not worth the paper it is written on.
Furthermore, any British parliament which thinks it is free to sign up to such a treaty is in itself guilty of breaking the law of this country. The Sovereignty of this country is not within the hands of parliament to be donated to whomever they conclude is offering the biggest bung.
There could be no legality in breaking National laws and then going on to state that a new International law is legally binding, that would be simply Orwellian….
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For a slightly more detailed explanation of what I am saying have a read of Dr McGrogan’s piece on the Raab kerfuffle.
A better question is how to dispose of the bodies of politicians that attempt to enforce it.
One of my worries is that the U.K. government could fully abdicate its responsibility by following the WHO ‘experts’. The government would not have to think critically and if the end result is a disaster it was not the fault of the government…
Bingo! Got it in one.
PS yes that’s my tick.
PPS “Government critical thinking” has to be an oxymoron.
Sorry, wrong reason.
The Sunak/Hunt alliance has only one purpose and that is globalism. Literally everything they’ve done is to that end.
The WHO is a big piece of the plan.
Let’s focus on the signal, not the noise please.
“Danny Kruger pointed out:
Dear Mr Kruger, there was no pandemic.
its the same amount of politicians who read the Lisbon Treaty.
One of the quotes from Danny Kruger must be challenged. It was not the case that we were unprepared for Covid. The problem was that carefully considered plans and measures were thrown out overnight and faulty alternatives were applied.
I recall an IRA bomb exploded in the City. It has been reported and not refuted that the top UK Board of HSBC met from early morning within range of a potential second bomb to consider what to do to protect staff, the business snd customers. After lunch they decided to activate a DR plan which had been approved by the same board months before but presumably not read.
Quite right. Having worked many a flu season in an NHS hospital we’ve always managed because we always expected it to be busier over the winter months. Never ever did we require ‘pop-up’ hospitals, that didn’t even get used in the end, but then never ever did we test staff to see if they were ”ill” and tell them to stay home if they got a ”positive” even if they felt perfectly fine, we never wore masks or forced them on the public, we never repeatedly tested our patients for a respiratory virus, especially when that isn’t even why they were admitted, and I’ve certainly never ever witnessed hospital staff rehearsing dance routines in their break times.
Back then the only ‘theatre’ I experienced was the operating theatre but it would appear that from early 2020 onwards the entire NHS as an organization turned into a performing one!
“…it would appear that from early 2020 onwards the entire NHS as an organization turned into a performing one!
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Aye, and it’s still performing.
(Northern humour).
It’s irrelevant. They and virtually all other “governments” are so far down the pyramid of power that it’s almost laughable. When was the last time anything important was even debated in Parliament?
The real question is precisely why are the strings being pulled?
-Global Warming
-Pandemics/bigpharma
-The feared loss of control, wealth and power enjoyed by the “Elite” mainly in the so called democratic, lol, West- aka the big family/banks/investment houses presently in control of the world’s wealth generated and perpetuated by the giant world wide Ponzi/Money Printing Schemes created by the deliberate imposition of Fiat Currency encouraged after WW2.
My money’s on the third. The other two are just useful control mechanisms being imposed on us by our democratically elected idiots at the behest of their masters.
The real threat to The RPTB are sceptics worldwide and those countries not yet in the club.
Hence we are at war with Russia via poor Ukraine, maybe China to come – and sceptics worldwide are being silenced.
As an aside just ask yourself what would happen if all countries simultaneously stated they would never repay any of their “debts” to the Elite?
Germany tried that on their own in the lead-up to/cause of WW2.
We’re already in WW3 but only us sceptics realise.
Interesting the language they use: “appalling subculture”, “descending into the dark world”. They see themselves as lofty and those that disagree with them as waaaay beneath them.
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An excellent appraisal. It was absolutely obvious to anyone watching the debate that those in support of the proposals had not actually read or understood them. Those supporting the petition showed excellent grasp of the details and the implications.
The comment by Steve Brine the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee stating that the UK was the second largest contributor to WHO funding was grossly misleading. 88% of funds comes from private donors with obvious vested interests and is earmarked for very tightly controlled uses. The ‘s contribution is minuscule by comparison and it’s specific use is not determined or controlled by the UK.