Want To Know Which Media, Think Tanks & Health Agencies The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Are Funding In the UK
1. Want To Know Which Media, Think Tanks & Health Agencies The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Are Funding In the UK
This is probably going to be the last thread of 2021 but I'll be back with a vengeance in 2022. My work is only just beginning.
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2. I’ve done quite a few threads on BMGF and in particular their funding of British Universities and their ties with the World Economic Forum. However, the funding of BMGF goes far deeper than that.
3. BMGF are highly influential within the British media. The figures are really quite eye watering. The BBC have been the voice of propaganda throughout, and you can see why as they are in the pocket of BMGF to the tune of at least $56 million
4. They receive funding under the BBC Media Action & British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC were also only too happy to have Gates (a non-doctor) pontificating about Covid when it broke out in 2020.
With 18,273 comments, many were not impressed.
5. The Guardian newspaper is also a cheerleader for BMGF having received at least $12 million in funding. They don't exactly try to hide it either with sponsored articles appearing in their newspaper.
6. However, it isn't just the left-wing BBC & Guardian, the fingers are also in the pie of the supposedly right-wing Daily Telegraph for $3.5 million.
That would certainly buy a few favours
7. The Financial Times feature BMGF regularly & are happy to give Gates a platform. In April 2020 they did an interview with him about the global fight against coronavirus. This was soon after the BBC one.
They have received $2.2 million
https://www.ft.com/content/13ddacc4-0ae4-4be1-95c5-1a32ab15956a
8. It isn't only the media which is used to get the message across. One of the world's most famous names in advertising has also been called upon. M&C Saatchi. They have received $7.8 million.
9. Although not officially a media outlet (although many would say he is) Tony Blair has been doing the bidding of BMGF from the outset.
As far back as 2006 in The New York Times in an article titled "A Bit of Good News for Blair: ID Cards for Britons Advance."
10. The article said, "The government of Prime Minister Tony Blair faced down its opposition on Monday in a politically charged vote in the House of Commons on a plan to introduce mandatory national identification cards"
For years Blair has been pushing the idea of a Digital ID.
11. More recently he appeared on BBC Newsnight saying he thought people will need a digital ID in the fight against the virus.
How correct he was 🙄
He received the small sum of $29.6m from BMGF. He has been appointed as the UK Czar for Digital IDs
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-54013190
12. Think Tanks have also had a huge role to play in Covid. One of the most well-known is Chatham House. They describe themselves as
Chatham House is a world-leading policy institute with a mission to help govts & societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous, and just world
13. The purpose of the grant is
"To encourage greater collaboration between relevant sectors - particularly security and global health - to improve disease control and broader health outcomes in fragile contexts"
Read into that what you will. They have received $3.1m
14. Polls are also frequently used to gage how the public feel about govt policies. These could be lockdowns, covid passes etc. One of the largest is Ipsos Mori who have been funded $3.2m.
You have to ask how honest the results of these polls are when there is a vested interest.
15. Last but not least are the health agencies who have been funded by BMGF. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency have received $9.1m.
It was also the MHPRA who approve the vaccines within UK 🙄
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4759
16. The Medical Research Council (MRC) works to improve the health of people in the UK - and around the world - by supporting excellent science, and training the very best scientists.
That's what it says on their site. Would that be BMGF scientists.
They have pocketed $5.5m.
17. Public Health England which was a UK Govt organisation also didn't want to miss out with funding of $7.3m. Interestingly they were dissolved in Oct 2021 and replaced by the scary sounding UK Health Security Agency.
BMGF would have no influence at all obviously.
18. Health Data Research UK have been funded $3.2m but when you go to their funders page there is no mention made of BMGF.
They are however also in bed with Wellcome, the multinational pharma company.
https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/about-us/funders/
19. Cochrane is a British international charitable organisation formed to organise medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients & policy makers.
Once an impartial organisation. Now funded $1.2m
20. You can now see how deep the funding runs. Not only universities but also media, think tanks & health agencies. That's without even looking at pharma research etc.
Is it any great surprise that BMGF has been so influential on the narrative being put out in the public domain.
21. You know the drill 😄 I write these 🧵 in my spare time and would really appreciate if you could retweet the very 1st tweet. Likes are great but retweets are required to reach as large an audience as possible to expose what is really going on behind the scenes. Many thanks.
Welcome back to life👍, I hope you publish your back catalog
No wonder this was the thread that got you "permanently suspended" from Twitter (I so detest that euphemism).
As always, Cui Bono /Follow the money.
More power to your elbow in 2022!