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13 January 2025
The Cold Truth – Britain’s Grim Winter’s Tale
13 January 2025
by Sallust
Sharif El-Mekki is a black nationalist with family ties to Iran who supports school segregation and runs a nonprofit that has raked in nearly $20m from the taxpayer and nonprofits, including the Gates Foundation.
Silicon Valley denizens have been heralding the approach of the 'Singularity', when mankind's mind will merge with the global internet, for many years now. Sounds hellish, says Steven Tucker.
Was the global overreaction to Covid merely panic or were there vested interests and authoritarian ideologies pushing the hysteria? Alex Kriel follows the money as he asks, cui bono?
In a response to Robert Kogon's recent article pointing out that Bill Gates doesn't actually own the WHO, Ben Pile says the sceptics need to be more sceptical and avoid conspiracy theories.
Contrary to the X memes, the claim that the WHO is largely funded by private sources is not only false but wildly misleading, says Robert Kogon. In fact, it is around 90% funded by states.
In a recent BBC interview, Melinda Gates claimed that "the world was built for men". Certainly it was built by men, says Dr David McGrogan. But it's a very distorted view which says men built it only for themselves.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement has worried many, and justifiably so, as it further empowers the WHO and the whole pandemic preparedness crowd. But what it proposes is also really stupid, says Eugyppius.
The Guardian has repeatedly claimed not to be "billionaire backed" but an explosive new report finds that funding from the Gates Foundation alone amounts to $116 for every reader of the print edition.
Germany is a crucial partner – not funder – of the Gates Foundation and the co-funding it has provided both to projects and to programmes runs into the billions, not the millions.
Who owns BioNTech, the pharmaceutical company that earned $31 billion from sales of its COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and 2022? It's not who you think it is, says investigative reporter Robert Kogon.
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