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  • So if Bill Gates says it then it must be true and honest? Yeah, the Billionaire who uses Venture Philanthropy to hide his manipulating of the markets he just happens to also invest in, too?

    Whatever man. He also gives tons money to Media outlets so no one ever criticises him. Why would they bite the hand that feeds them? Conflict of interest much?

    Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets](https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/)

    Awards Directly to Media Outlets:

    NPR- $24,663,066

    The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391

    Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016

    Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113

    The Conversation- $6,664,271

    Univision- $5,924,043

    Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294

    Project Syndicate- $5,280,186

    Education Week – $4,898,240

    WETA- $4,529,400

    NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500

    Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194

    Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512

    Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182

    El País – $3,968,184

    BBC- $3,668,657

    CNN- $3,600,000

    KCET- $3,520,703

    Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000

    The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801

    Chalkbeat – $2,672,491

    The Education Post- $2,639,193

    Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392

    Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949

    UpWorthy – $2,339,023

    Financial Times – $2,309,845

    The 74 Media- $2,275,344

    Texas Tribune- $2,317,163

    Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675

    News Deeply – $1,612,122

    The Atlantic- $1,403,453

    Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898

    YR Media- $1,125,000

    The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457

    Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600

    Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000

    ProPublica- $1,000,000

    Crosscut Public Media – $810,000

    Grist Magazine- $750,000

    Kurzgesagt – $570,000

    Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504

    Classical 98.1 – $500,000

    PBS – $499,997

    Gannett – $499,651

    Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974

    Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910

    BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900

    Medium.com – $412,000

    Nutopia- $350,000

    Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000

    Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000

    Caixin Media (China) – $250,000

    Pacific News Service – $225,000

    National Journal – $220,638

    Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994

    Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000

    Media Trust – $100,000

    New York Public Radio – $77,290

    KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310

    Together, these donations total $166,216,526.








  • As a Canadian I can tell you that politically everything wrong, or almost all wrong with the country is literally the Liberal Party’s fault. They have been in power for a decade, already.

    All, or almost all of their policies have made the country worse. It is easy for idealogues out there to blame the conservatives but in reality the Libs pushed for all the things that broke the country.

    From extreme immigration that increased crime, El Salvador is now safer than Toronto, to the price of housing, to making drugs more accessible via their Safe Supply program. That sounds good in make believe land but horrible in practice.

    Which saved more “users’ lives” at the cost of increasing the number of overall drug addicts, everywhere. Same happened in Seattle and Cali, as well as in Portugal where this whole scheme was copied from.

    You can tell by seeing the ratio increase of users and deaths in the provinces that pushed for this policy over the ones that didn’t.

    Can’t even really blame the conservatives as the Libs and the NDP --which was Lefty but devolved to being Lib-Lite- created a collation as to bypass their vote in most cases. So they passed a lot of stuff easily and mostly on their own.

    It is a mistake to not blame the Liberal party only because they have the word “Liberal” in their name. Trudeau alone was found guilty of 4 ethic violations, one including his family, so just straight up corruption. So, yes, we could blame the bad Covid handling and the NDP as well, if we want to nickpick. With the later now a shadow of its former self. The NDP leader sold out the party and the government, so he could be eligible for his fat government pension. He announced his retirement immediately after and lost his riding just after that. They got destroyed in the recent election, too.

    Carney has already been got caught lying, a few times, saying one thing to English speakers and the 180° opposite to French speakers regarding infrastructure projects because he needed their votes and he just recycled a ton of the same people in government. There are other examples.

    He ran as being an outsider when anyone with eyes knows that he is not. He is even the godfather of one of the kids of Freeland, the previous Deputy PM AND Finance Minister (who is now the Transportation Minister under him) who quit the job, the morning she was supposed to table their budget that was over $20 Billion over the number they had stated before, because she is a coward and was looking after her career first, along with 0 sense of real accountability. She quitting put us in a constitutional crisis and we went through not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 Finance ministers in 14-16 hours, including her. Then she ran for the leader of the Liberal party before losing to Carney, but as stated she is in the new Cabinet anyway.

    We literally applauded an ex-Nazi SS soldier in parliament because the Libs wanted PR points and come off as pro-Ukraine but did 0 vetting on the guy. This was supposed to be done by the office of the PM. They are that incompetent and threw another guy, the Speaker of the House under the bus and forced him to quit, as to save face. Fucking embarrassing.

    Their biggest selling point was, “we are not Conservatives.” Which is funny as the Libs literally copied a bunch of Con campaign/platform promises, rebranded them, and sold them as theirs. I am not a conservative but holy shit the Libs are so incompetent. Not really positive about the new guy, either. Once you get past the new paint job, it is just more of the same. He became the Leader of the Libs by decree of the party and paid about $250,000 to run, as he was never elected by anyone in the public or held a riding. Which is a first in our system.

    He just got inserted. That is not very Liberal nor democratic.

    The loss of Liberties was all Liberal policy too. They fear monger people and then remove liberties for “our” protection, of course. It is sad to see the country go down this fast.




  • The better, correct term is, “resuming regular collection.” This is just what is expected no? The abnormal behaviour was the pause on repayments. Which contextually made sense.

    If I default on a loan, a bank can totally garnish my wages if I do not or refuse to pay it back. How is this any different? Was there ever an expectation of not paying back a loan they signed up on?

    Hell, they could do much worse, a bank could recall the loan in full, and without means, to pay they could take all my assets by court order. This is not being done here. Which is much better. Worse case could be jail time which won’t happen here as far as I read here and elsewhere.