This thread will follow Feb 5 2021 thread [India
#FarmersProtests Goes Vogue] exploring sudden #celebrity uptake - as gov't struggled to contain #resistance.

Here we can study #GlobalCitizen & structure/mechanisms of such NGOs, financed to serve corporate/imperial interests.
#GlobalCitizen model: nurturing of #celebrity worship as a "pop & policy" model to harvest/exploit targeted youth demographic. Via partnerships w/ #Rihanna, celebrities, influencers, athletes, - it intends to become world's "leading international voice, educator, & influencer".
#GlobalCitizen is the Global Poverty Project, Inc.
UK: "We are a sub recipient of funding from the #Gates Foundation (via Global Poverty Project Inc)."

2019: $8,445,887.00 "To mobilize global public support for the Sustainable Development Goals" #SDGs

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=Global%20Poverty%20Project%2C%20Inc
#GlobalCitizen / Global Poverty Project - Primary Funders:

-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF)
-World Bank Group
-Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
Knowing that #Gates & the #WorldBank are the primary funders bankrolling #GlobalCitizen - when it highlights #farmersprotests (or anything else), we need to ask the question - why? What do they hope to achieve? Your energy harnessed & channeled to where? Serving who/what?
#BLM
In addition to "Bill & Melinda Gates revealed as largest private #farmland owners in US", #Microsoft "has launched a number of #agritech initiatives globally, including in the US & #India."

#Modi receives annual 'Global Goalkeeper Award', Sept 24 2019 from the #Gates Foundation.
Nov 3 2016: Bill #Gates: "I'm personally delighted that #GlobalCitizen in collaboration with the Indian Gov't & partners [] is embarking on a 15 year journey to #mobilize millions of young #Indians in support of the #SDGs."

#EmergingMarkets #Celebrity
The money/power behind #GlobalCitizen - & scale of operations - is actually astonishing. Impossible to capture here, but I will try.

GC Director, Randall Lane: #Forbes, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). ( #4IR screenshot: Foreign Affairs is published by the #CFR since 1922)
Not #activism. Not #charity. Not #reparations.

"By partnering with financial institutions, the $20 million that the organization has raised in its lifetime has turned into nearly $500 million worth of loans." #India #Africa

#TheyMeanBusiness #EmergingMarkets #India #Africa
Celebrity. Rewards. Prizes. Art of seduction. #Gates, #WorldBank investing billions - for #ROI: Bodies as "operating systems", minds/desires - to be shaped, fused. "Blurring the lines between the physical, digital, & biological spheres". "Coding Bootcamps" for youth & poor. #4IR
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