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Nov. 24, 2021 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who is this?
Jimmy, it's former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Well, if it isn't the most unrepentant man in American politics.
How you doing, Mr. Cuomo?
Jimmy, spare me.
Yes, I am unrepentant because I have nothing to repent.
So technically, you're correct.
Well, the New York State Assembly seems to disagree based on their damning report on your sexual harassment charges they just released.
Jimmy, can I ask you a question?
Sure.
Have you ever grabbed a baseball?
Yeah, yes, of course I have.
Question two.
I should have made it clear that this was a two-part question.
Have you ever padded a baseball?
Padded a baseball?
Yes.
Padded.
Given a baseball a friendly little pat.
I do not know what you mean exactly.
Why would I do that?
Exactly.
To do that would serve no purpose whatsoever.
It doesn't help you pick it up or throw it or do anything.
True.
So you admit there is a distinct difference between grabbing and padding.
I suppose.
Good.
Thank you.
Now let's say instead of a baseball, we're talking about a female buttock.
No, no, no.
No, you're not doing this.
There is a difference between padding and grabbing.
You admitted it.
You admitted it.
A baseball is an object, sir.
A woman is not.
A woman is not an object, correct.
But a buttock is.
You see, Jimmy, it helps to have a legal mind here.
This is a legal matter.
And how things are defined is important.
That's ridiculous.
What is your end game with all of this?
To clear my name.
And how do you plan to do that exactly?
To haunt Albany like a malicious ass-grabbing phantom of the opera.
It sounds like a great plan.
I think New York State Politics is done with you, Mr. Cuomo.
Oh, is it now?
Yeah.
They already are focusing on the next gubernatorial race to replace you.
I assume you're not running.
There's no law against it.
Seriously, unless they impeach me, wasting a lot of taxpayers' money, I can still run for state office.
And even if I don't, and I didn't say that, there is this small issue of my war chest.
Your war what?
The $18 million in campaign funds that I'm currently sitting on.
I can't use it, but I don't have to give it to anybody.
But they'll need it.
And if they want it, they'll have to be willing to provide some rather generous concessions.
It's 18 mil, after all.
As my Roman ancestors said, quid pro quo.
Quid pro quomo.
All right.
Like, what kind of concessions?
Oh, I don't know.
A fruit basket would be nice.
Or maybe Attorney General.
You really think you would be reappointed to the state attorney general's office after your proven track record of sexual harassment.
You have to admit, it would be a delicious triumph.
One worthy of a true Caesar.
Besides, I miss my old office over there.
There's a beautiful bronze statue of Lady Justice there with one Tata hanging out.
And let me tell you, brother, that sculptor must have been a horny man.
Her hindquarters are covered with a toga, but he wasn't hiding nothing.
Jesus.
And we're in a blindfold?
Speaking my language.
You are truly unbelievable.
As they say, Jimmy, become ungovernable.
And I did so as governor.
The beauty of that rivals the Sistine Chapel.
I'm not sure how all this is going to end, but when it does, they're going to bring Mascarny back from the dead to write an opera about it.
Did I mention I was Italian?
Yeah, I think I heard that somewhere.
Look, I wish I could say this has been an enlightening, but I'm afraid I can't.
Don't worry about it.
I enjoy our little chats, Jimmy.
Nice to talk to another fucking bull for a change.
Nice break from all these needle dicks and cock teases up in here, Albany.
Anyway, I gotta run.
I'm heading over to my brother Chris's.
We're all gonna have some baked ZD and pretend we're good people.
I leave it there, Chief.
Establishment media sets of artists fighting so good luck.
Watch him see as a jackdog comedian who speeds and jumps comedium and hits him head on.
It's the chimtor show.
Let's bring in Max Blumenthal, shall we, ladies and gentlemen?
Yes.
He's the editor for the investigative journalism website, The Gray Zone.
He's the author of many books.
The most recent is The Management of Savagery.
Welcome, Max Blumenthal.
How are you doing, Jimmy?
I'm doing fantastic, pal.
So, Bill Gates.
So now, people still operate under the belief that Bill Gates is this great guy and that he just cares about people and because he's a nerd, right?
Now, we've told you, we've showed you at this show how people use their identity to hide their nefariousness, like, right?
Like how Chris Hayes uses that he's a nerd, and you would never think he would do the bidding of the military industrial complex.
You would never think that, or the intelligence community, but he does.
Same thing with Rachel Maddow.
You would never, oh, so there's a nerd and a gay person.
And, you know, the joke that Paul, you know, you're, I wasn't aware of that.
I'm not kidding.
I thought it was one person who impersonated the other.
I'd like to think that Chris Hayes isn't as horrible as Rachel Maddow, but they both are.
He had the potential to...
We talk about it all the time.
Yes.
And they even Hayes even wrote about it in his book, and he just let it happen to him.
Anyway, so here, so there's this great article in Mint Press News, right?
And let me see who wrote it.
It's right by Alan McLeod.
I think that's how he pronounces his name.
Yeah.
And so he, we found out, so I've covered this before that Bill Gates has this, he does a lot of nefarious stuff.
Like, for instance, he'll fund the medical reporting at PBS Nightly News, right?
The NewsHour.
So he'll give them a big grant, and it has to be used to cover this medical stuff.
And what medical stuff do they cover?
Vaccine research and then vaccine rollout.
And who is also funding that Bill Gates has got his fingers in the vaccine thing?
So he gives a news show money to go under the guise of covering medicine or health, but they're directed to go cover the stuff that he's invested in.
So he's not, he's, that doesn't seem right.
I've reported that before.
So not only is he invested in the, let's say you made a product, whatever it was, let's say you made a widget, and then you gave a grant to PBS to cover that widget's development.
And then they also covered it when it got rolled out, but they never told you why they're covering it or who's funding the coverage.
That would be what they're doing, right?
So that's something he just does that with medical stuff.
So we covered that before.
Now, the Mint Press News has blown the roof off this.
They found out all this stuff that he's been, he's been buying media coverage, favorable media coverage through hundreds of millions of dollars.
And so let's go through it.
And Max, you can just comment on it whenever you feel like it.
So after sorting through over 30,000 individual grants, Mint Press can reveal that Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BMGF, has made over 300 million's worth of donations to fund media projects.
$300 million to fund media.
That's a lot of money.
Recipients of this cash include many of America's most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS, and The Atlantic.
Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom.
Prominent European newspapers such as Le Mond, Der Spiegel, and El Pais.
How do you say that?
El Pais.
El Pais.
I was close.
I should have just went with it.
The Spanish center left paper that pushed RussiaGate really heavily until it replaced its editor.
Oh, really?
Also, they also, he also funds big global broadcasters like Al Jazeera.
The Gates Foundation's money goes towards media programs, has been split up into a number of sections presented in descending numerical order.
So here, this is from the article.
NPR, $24 million.
The Guardian, $12 million.
Cascade Public Media, $10.
Public Radio International, $7 million.
So Der Spiegel.
So there it is.
KC.
Look at KCET down at the bottom, $3 billion.
Look at that.
That's right here in Los Angeles, KCET.
Here's another one.
Oh, my God.
Awards directly to media outlets.
So the Daily Telegraph, right?
So Financial Times, the Texas Tribune, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, CrossCut Public Media.
Now, this, we could keep going.
There's some more for PBS, Gannett.
We could keep going, but you get the idea, right?
So he's giving millions and millions of dollars to get positive press coverage for whatever the F he wants.
And guess what?
He gets it.
Together, these donations total $166,216,526.
The money is generally directed towards issues close to the Gates' hearts.
Gates's, for example, is that really how you say that?
Gates's?
For example, the 3.6 million CNN grant went towards reporting on gender equality with a particular focus on least developed countries producing journalism on the everyday inequalities endured by women and girls across the world.
While the Texas Tribune received millions to increase public awareness and engagement of education reform issues in Texas, given that Bill is one of the charter school's most fervent supporters, a cynic, that would be me, might interpret this as planting pro-corporate charter school propaganda into the media disguised as objective news reporting.
So that's what's happening all over the place.
He's buying news space, which should be advertisements, and they're just printing it as objective news.
Would you agree with that, Max?
Would you agree with that that that's what's kind of happening?
Definitely.
I mean, it's many of the grants come with strings attached.
They're earmarked generally to produce positive coverage of initiatives where Gates and his global empire have investments, especially on global public health, but also on things like education reform, which really represents education privatization and pushing Microsoft and various other big tech solutions in the classroom.
So it's very clear what's going on here.
But the backstory, I think, of why Gates started doing this is fascinating.
Bill Gates was essentially born with a silver foot in his mouth.
His great-grandfather, as the late Ann Richards said of George Bush.
I think it was George W. Bush he said that about.
His great-grandfather was a wealthy banker, one of the wealthiest men in the Seattle area.
And so he inherited millions.
And his mother was sitting on the board of the United Way with the then chairman of IBM in 1980.
And her son, Bill, had just started this little startup, this firm that was, you know, pioneering software at a time and computers or computing at a time when most Americans were using typewriters still.
I think he founded it.
Microsoft co-founded it in 1976.
So she works out a sweetheart deal for IBM to give the rights for its operating system to her son, Bill Gates, through her pal, the head of IBM.
And that launches Gates as this computing empresario, a wealthy man who's seen as a genius in the media.
He then connives to force out his co-founders so he gets the sole rights to Microsoft.
I mean, he just stabs his pals in the back, including a friend who had just gone through chemo and radiation when he was at his weakest point.
And then he proceeds to, well, he attempts to establish a monopoly through Microsoft.
And by 1998, Bill Gates is facing massive antitrust lawsuits.
There's a chance that Microsoft is going to be broken up.
He's pied in the face in public.
The public is beginning to organize against him, including online.
And so he does what his great-grandfather, Frederick Taylor Gates, told John D. Rockefeller, the monopolizing founder of Standard Oil and son of a literal snake oil salesman, to do, which is to put all of his money into charity and PR.
Frederick Taylor Gates was the concigliary to John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Rockefeller Foundation, which is bound up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in advancing all of these public health initiatives that they happen to be invested in, which are highly profitable and not always very efficacious, shall we say.
So, first of all, Bill Gates starts trying to push magic bullet solutions to public health crises, like, and particularly in Africa, like HIV.
He and Anthony Fauci team up to push the HIV vaccine, which is or the AIDS vaccine, which has never come to fruition.
The latest trial to fail with an mRNA HIV vaccine backed by Gates through Johnson Johnson completely flopped in Africa.
I mean, it was like 30% efficacy rate.
And he's also starting to get bad press.
In 2007, the LA Times in a piece called Unintended Victims of Gates Foundation Generosity by Charles Piller and Doug Smith.
This is a really important article.
And actually, RFK Jr. flags it in his new book on Fauci because it's one of the few articles in mainstream media that's actually critical of Gates.
In this article, the authors, it's actually a series of articles, show in Lesotho in southern Africa how what Gates is actually doing is producing a net negative result for Africans because he's pushing magic bullet solutions like vaccines and things that he can profit from because he controls the intellectual property rights at the expense of cheaper solutions,
like, for example, mosquito nets, which can help prevent malaria, you know, oxygen tubes.
There was a shortage in Lesotho of oxygen tubes while Gates was pushing expensive anti-AIDS drugs and people were dying of asphyxiation.
These are tubes that cost $35.
And it's the whole concept of public health that Gates embraces, which is not to treat the environment and introduce sanitary solutions or better engineering or to treat the entire person to build up their immune system to advance early treatments.
It's instead magic bullets like vaccines, and it's all playing out in front of our eyes in the pandemic, which refuses to end.
So Gates actually starts getting bad PR for his monopolizing practices, for his failures in Africa, which are colonial in nature.
And then he figures out that the media is for sale.
And it was around this time, really in the early 2000s, but around the mid-2000s when he starts earmarking all of these grants to PBS, The Guardian, and all of these other mainstream outlets, at a time, by the way, when the media was shrinking because of online media and was basically on life support to advance,
to do basically PR propaganda for his very dubious public health initiatives and his education reform initiatives, which were under attack from teachers unions and people who actually didn't want education to be privatized.
The pandemic has been like the perfect storm for Bill Gates.
It's not as if he hasn't been preparing for it.
His fortune has increased by $23 billion just through the lockdowns of 2020 because so many people were forced to rely on the tech platforms that Microsoft produces.
And we've seen just this week, Detroit Public Schools, almost entirely black and brown public school district, one of the poorest public school districts in the country, announced that they're going to send kids home from school one day a week, supposedly to prevent COVID, because COVID only comes out on Friday, apparently.
While the white kids in the affluent suburbs of Detroit, the white flight suburbs, they're getting five days of school, and that means their parents get to go get five days of work, especially their mothers.
Why is this happening?
Is this really about COVID?
No, it's about rolling back public education, ending the gradual plan to end in-person learning and forcing kids, especially the poorest kids, onto big tech platforms, big tech applications that are profitable for people like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk or whoever.
And so they're testing on these kids the same way that we've seen the failed AIDS vaccines be tested on black residents of Baltimore and Washington or the people of Africa.
All of this is taking place as Bill Gates has just dumped money on the media and controlled the World Health Organization through his crony, Tedros Adenam, who was actually a board member of two Gates-controlled foundations before he was appointed to the WHO.
Gates is controlling this entire apparatus, and we don't hear anything critical about him except by Alan McLeod, outstanding media critic in Mint Press, who's reported that Gates has donated $318 million to the media.
I think Columbia Journalism Review reported last year was $250 million, so it keeps going up.
And from the likes of Jagoff Nightclub comedian.
But the rest of the media is just, it's a cover-up.
Well, and it really works too, Max.
I'll tell you, because I was out to dinner, again, with my old roommate.
And, you know, he's just a fastball down the middle, regular consumer of news, of the most normal guy in the world.
And when I started talking to him about how Bill Gates is a nefarious character, he just almost fell off his chair.
He's like, I can't believe you guys say that shit about that guy.
What are you talking about?
And so people, again, it's just a propaganda.
It's just like, well, of course, Russia Gates Real.
It's everywhere.
It's on every, so it's just that thing.
And so he had, look at all that media he's purchased.
So there's a little bit more to this article I want to actually go through.
The Gates.
And so you would agree, Max, what he's doing with health is he doesn't want to really rely on governments per se.
He wants to find a way to privatize health, put a profit motive in it, right?
Would you say?
He's already found the way.
I mean, he's doing it, and it's at the heart of his foundation.
The more money he gives away, the more money he makes because he's contributing to initiatives advanced by, for example, big pharma companies that he's invested in, like AstraZeneca.
Right.
So the Gates Foundation has also given nearly $63 million to charities, closely aligned with big media outlets, including nearly $53 million to BBC Media Action, over $9 million to MTV Staying Alive Foundation, and $1 million to the New York Times Neediest Causes Fund.
Gates continues to underwrite a wide network of investigative journalism centers as well, totaling just over $38 million, more than half of which has gone to the DC-based International Center for Journalists to expand and develop African media.
Boy, this guy is good.
This guy is good.
So here's all the, here's all the media places, right?
International Centers for Journalists, 20 million.
Premium Time Center for Investigative Germans, $3 million.
The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, $2 million.
So do you see what he's doing?
Okay.
In addition to this, the Gates Foundation also piles press and journalism associations with PLI's Press and Journalism Association with cash to the tune of at least $12 million.
For example, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a group representing more than 200 outlets, he gave them $3.2 million.
This is amazing.
So there's a list of organizations that Educators Writers Association, National Newspapers Publishers Association, National Press Foundation, Washington News Council.
So you see, this guy's got an angle on every the foundation also puts up the money to directly train journalists all over the world in the form of scholarships, courses, and workshops.
Today, it is possible for an individual to train as a reporter thanks to the Gates Foundation grant, find work at a Gates-funded outlet, and then belong to a press association also funded by Gates.
This is what I'm talking about.
I think this guy's got a little too much control over the way news and information gets passed around.
This is especially true of journalists working in the fields of health, education, and global development, the ones Gates himself is most active in and where scrutiny of the billionaire's actions and motives are most necessary.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also pays for a wide range of specific media campaigns around the world.
For example, since 2014, it has donated $5.7 million to the Population Foundation of India in order to create dramas that promote sexual and reproductive health with the intent to increase family planning methods in South Asia.
Meanwhile, it allotted over $3.5 million to a Sengelese organization to develop radio shows and online content that would feature health information.
Supporters consider this to be helping critically underfunded media, while opponents might consider it a case of a billionaire using his money to plant his ideas and opinions into the press under the guise, this is my under the guise of objective news.
That's the problem.
Here's some media projects that he's funded.
Look at Harvard University, Harvard University, got a million dollars from it.
The Learning Matters, Open Cities Lab, Center for Advocacy and Research, New America, World University Service of God damn this guy.
There's more.
Look at all of these.
Media project, more media projects.
Okay, I can't even.
Added together, these Gates-sponsored media projects come to a total of $319.4 million.
However, there are clear shortcomings with this non-exhaustive list, meaning the true figure is undoubtedly far higher.
First, it does not count sub-grants, money given by recipients to media around the world.
And while the Gates Foundation fosters an air of openness about itself, there is actually precious little public information about what happens to the money from each grant, save for a short one or two sentence description written by the foundation itself on its website.
Only donations to press organizations themselves or projects that could be identified from the information on the Gates Foundation website as media campaigns were counted, meaning that thousands of grants having some media element do not appear on that list.
So they're making the point that he's giving even more money.
He's got even more control.
He's got even his fingers in more agencies and institutions than they're even reporting.
That's what he's saying.
So a case in point is Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's partnership with Viacom CBS, the company that controlled CBS News, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and BET.
Media reports at the time noted that the Gates Foundation was paying the entertainment giant to insert information and PSAs into the programming and that Gates had intervened to change storylines in popular shows like ER, Law and Order, SVU.
Get the F freaking out of here.
So, however, when checking Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's grants database, Viacom and CBS are nowhere to be found.
The likely grant in question, totaling over $6 million, merely describing the project as a public engagement campaign aimed at improving high school graduation rates and post-secondary completion rates, specifically aimed at parents and students, meaning that it was not counted in the official total.
There are surely many more examples like that.
So there's one $6 million example that they don't even count in the total.
For a tax-privileged charity that so often trumpets the importance of transparency, it's remarkable how intensely secretive the Gates Foundation is about its financial flows, Tim Schwab, one of the few investigative journalists who has scrutinized the tech billionaire, told Mint Press.
Also not included are grants aimed at producing articles for academic journals.
While these articles are not meant for mass consumption, they regularly form the basis for stories in the mainstream press and help shape narratives around key issues.
The Gates Foundation has given far and wide to academic sources with at least $13.6 million going towards creating content for the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet.
Get the fuck out of here.
This is unbelievable.
That the Gates Foundation is underwriting a significant chunk of our media ecosystem leads to serious problems with objectivity.
You think the foundation's grants to media organizations raise obvious conflict of interest questions.
How can reporting be unbiased when a major player holds the purse strings, wrote Gates local Seattle Times in 2011?
This was before the newspaper accepted Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation money to fund its Education Lab section.
The whole sect, so they put a freaking section in their newspaper that's totally funded by Bill Gates, the Education Lab section.
Isn't that awesome?
Schwab's research has found that this conflict of interest goes right to the very top.
Two New York Times columnists had been writing glowingly about the Gates Foundation for years without disclosing that they also work for a group, the Solutions Journalism Network, that, as shown above, has received over $7 million from the Tech Billionaires Charity.
So that is, if I fucking was doing that, I'd be laughed out of YouTube.
But the New York Times does that and nobody gives a fucking shit.
If they found out I was doing that, holy shit, I was taking money from someone to give them glowing fucking.
That is unbelievable.
That is unbelievable.
Go ahead.
The New York Times called Bill Gates the most interesting man in the world.
That's the headline.
That's amazing.
Earlier this year, Schwab also declined to co-report on a story about Kovacs for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, suspecting that the money Gates had been pumping into the outlet would make it impossible to accurately report on a subject so close to Gates' heart.
Sure enough, when the article was published last month, it repeated the assertion that Gates had little to do with Kovacs' failures, mirroring the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation stance and quoting them throughout.
Only at the very end of the more than 5,000-word story did it reveal that the organization it was defending was paying the wages of its staff.
Come on, come on.
I don't believe Gates told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism what to write.
I think the Bureau implicitly, if subconsciously, knew they had to find a way to tell the story that didn't target their funder.
The biasing effects of financial conflicts are complex, but very real and reliable, Schwab said, describing it as a case study in the perils of Gates-funded journalism.
Gates, who amassed his fortune by building a monopoly and zealously guarding his intellectual property, bears significant blame for the failure of the coronavirus vaccine rollout across the world.
Quite aside from the Kovacs fiasco, he pressured Oxford University not to make its publicly funded vaccine open source and available to everyone for free.
But instead, Bill Gates told them to partner with private corporation AstraZeneca, a decision that meant that those who could not pay were blocked from using that vaccine, and it meant millions and millions in profits for Oxford.
That Gates has made over 100 donations to the university, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, likely played some role in that decision.
To this day, fewer than 5% of the people in low-income countries have received even one dose of COVID vaccine.
The death toll from this is immense.
Unfortunately, many of these real criticisms of Gates and his network are obscured by wild and untrue conspiracy theories about such things as inserting microchips and vaccines to control the population.
I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Gates funded those conspiracy theories himself.
I wouldn't be surprised if he did that because then it distracts everybody from the real nefarious shit you're doing.
And then everybody thinks whatever anybody says anything about you, that it's just some wild conspiracy theory that's crazy.
I wouldn't.
Well, no, it comes from, I hate to say it, but it comes from technology that it derives.
That so-called conspiracy theory does derive from actual technology that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are funding, which is a micro needle array patch for the rubella vaccination, which is administered under the skin.
And, you know, there's this quantum dot eye concept that stores a person's vaccination history under their skin, which, I mean, the Smithsonian has an article, this spiky patch could invisibly record vaccination history under skin.
And obviously, this is from 2019 before the pandemic led to all of this censorship.
But at the early phases of the pandemic, when many people were wondering what kind of horrors would come out of it as elites like Bill Gates exploit these kind of crises to advance their exotic technologies, this was something people focused on.
And you see what you see is a conflation with the ethical concerns about marking people under their skin, a technology that, as far as I know, is not being advanced through any of the COVID vaccines.
The conflation of that with microchip conspiracies in order to paint everyone who has these ethical concerns as crazy or idiotic.
But we have to understand that Bill Gates is investing in some very exotic and ethically dubious technologies.
So that's where that comes from.
Wow.
Max, you are up on this Bill Gates guy.
Like, no, but I really did a good job getting you on the show today.
No other stuff too.
Okay, we're gonna get, This has meant that genuine critiques of the Microsoft co-founder are often demonetized and algorithmically suppressed, meaning that outlets are strongly dissuaded from covering the topic, knowing they will likely lose money if they do.
The paucity of scrutiny of the world's second richest individual in turn feeds into outlandish suspicions.
Gates certainly deserves it.
Quite apart from his deep and potentially decades-long ties to the infamous Jeffrey Epstein, his attempts to radically change African society and his investment in controversial chemical giant Monsanto, he is perhaps the key driver behind the American charter school movement, an attempt to essentially privatize the U.S. educational system.
Charter schools are deeply unpopular with teachers' unions, which see the movement as an attempt to lessen their autonomy and reduce public oversight into how and what children are taught.
None of this means that the organizations receiving Gates money, media or otherwise, are irredeemably corrupt, nor that the Gates Foundation does not do any good in the world, but it does introduce a glaring conflict of interest, whereby the very institutions we rely on to hold accountable one of the richest and most powerful men in the planet's history are quietly being funded by him.
This conflict of interest is one that corporate media have largely tried to ignore, while the supposedly altruistic philanthropist Gates just keeps getting richer, laughing all the way to the bank.
And guess, and so this is an, I just want to throw this in there.
Bill Gates is now the largest farmland owner in America, too.
So I don't know what the fuck he's up to, but it ain't good.
I'll tell you that.
So what else?
So if that doesn't send chills down your spine, that the second richest guy in the world is basically co-opting all the global media to give him positive coverage while he tries to fuck with the whole planet and shape it in his vision while becoming even richer doing it.
You know, ever since he decided, ever he announced he's going to give away all his money, I think he doubled his money since then.
What?
How do you double your money?
I don't know if that's the exact number, but his wealth went skyrocketed after he announced he's going to give away all his money.
Well, what are you going to fucking do that?
Anyway, so Max, what would you like to say at the conclusion of that great article in Mint Press?
Yeah, it's a great piece.
I think we should republish it at the gray zone to give it more visibility.
Alan McLeod does great work all the time, and so does Mint Press.
We, I think, published the seminal expose on Bill Gates during the pandemic last year by Michelle Greenstein and Jeremy Lofredo.
And I just want to point everyone to that piece.
It's called Why the Bill Gates Global Health Empire Promises More Empire and Less Public Health.
And what we, it covers every aspect of the corruption and just sheer sinister nature of Bill Gates' global health empire,
including his testing of toxic products on the African population, often doing grievous harm to the most vulnerable people on earth.
So at the beginning of the pandemic, Netflix published this docuseries.
I don't know if you remember this, or released it, Pandemic, how to prevent an outbreak.
It was just like ready for the pandemic.
I mean, basically, like when the World Health Organization, which Bill Gates controls, declared a pandemic, I think it was like March 18th or March 20th, 2020, the blue balls of Bill Gates' global empire just exploded onto the planet and he was finally able to release this titanic agenda.
And this Netflix series was part of the propaganda campaign that had been prepared ahead of time for any massive public health crisis to present Bill Gates, someone who dropped out of Harvard and has no medical training, no medical degree, no medical experience, no degree in public health, as the world's leading public health expert.
And who produced this documentary?
It was someone named Sherry Fink, who's a New York Times correspondent.
She was like at the time their lead correspondent on the pandemic and on COVID.
And her career trajectory had taken her through three Bill Gates-funded organizations, ProPublica, the New America Foundation, and the International Medical Corps.
So Gates funding all of this media has a ricochet effect where everyone who comes out of these organizations moves into other ones like the New York Times and making his control over media almost complete.
I mean, I wouldn't say Bill Gates controls the entire media, but his influence is almost totalistic.
And so you have someone like Sherry Fink, who's ostensibly a journalist, playing PR person for someone who has no actual expertise in public health and just simply has a lot of money.
And then you would just see Gates rolled out on interview after interview throughout March and April 2020 as the leading public health expert until America, Americans who are stuck at home under lockdown, this completely unscientific lockdown based on a phony model published by Neil Ferguson,
a complete fraud modeler with no degree in epidemiology at the Imperial College in London, which is funded by Bill Gates, that provided the justification for the lockdown.
Everyone's stuck at home.
And so they're treated to a concert with all sorts of pop stars, Yo-Yo Ma, Dave Letterman hosting, and it's called Vax Live, the concert to reunite the world by Global Citizen, another group run basically by Bill Gates.
And it's to create momentum, psychological momentum for the COVID vaccine as the end to the lockdown and to all the restrictions.
You're at home.
You just have to sit there, adopt a calm mentality.
Don't question anything.
Just wait for the vaccine.
And Bill and Melinda Gates appeared at the end of this concert to reassure everyone that everything will be fine once the vaccine arrives.
No one's told that Bill Gates has invested in the development of these vaccines and will profit from it because he owns so many shares in a who's who of big pharma titans, as you pointed out, Jimmy, with the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, which he blocked from becoming public.
So it's amazing if you look at the description of what Vax Live was.
A concert to reunite the world is a global broadcast special celebrating COVID-19 vaccines.
And we are calling on world leaders to make vaccines accessible to everyone everywhere.
But as we know, Bill Gates, once the vaccines were developed, fought tooth and nail to prevent them from becoming available to everyone everywhere, because that would have meant overriding or providing a waiver on the TRIPS intellectual property that gives Bill Gates and Big Pharma control over the patents.
It would have allowed them to be produced and distributed in the global south.
And we saw, there's a really important piece actually by my friend Alexander Zaitchik in the New Republic that was published in April of this year called How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to COVID Vaccines.
And it shows how at a certain point, even Joe Biden was calling out Bill Gates for, I mean, they basically, he said, you cannot obstruct, we need to waive the intellectual property rights here in order to get these out to Africa and elsewhere.
And I think Biden might have used some kind of like, well, the point is that it came down to a battle between supposedly the leader of the most powerful country in the world and Bill Gates.
And Bill Gates won.
He just simply said, no, I don't care.
And we are going to rely on COVAX instead, where everything is distributed through Big Pharma with the intellectual property rights.
And Bill Gates just revealed that he actually doesn't care about public health.
If to the extent that these COVID vaccines were a public health solution, and we can raise questions about that.
I mean, the death toll in Africa is paradoxically low for the level of vaccination.
But that's beside the point.
This demonstrates once again that Bill Gates doesn't care about public health.
He cares about his own private wealth.
And that's why he fought every leader in the world and won to maintain those intellectual property rights.
And we should remember that in the early 90s, Bill Gates was fighting none other than Nelson Mandela, who sought to resolve or remedy the massive AIDS crisis unfolding in his country and across the African continent by producing generic AZT drugs, antiretrovirals, which were suddenly available.
And Gates supported the lawsuit against Mandela.
I mean, this is a straight-up monster, and it's all about his own money.
So the media is perpetuating one of the most sinister lies in recent history by portraying Bill Gates as a public health expert when all he is is he's a devious snake oil salesman and a monopolizer.
And that's what he is.
And the media is being paid by him to promote him.
So that really speaks to the value, I think, of the few alternative media outlets that are still willing to publish critical reporting on one of the two richest men in the world who's effectively controlling global health policy.
It's just, this is a stunning story.
I mean, I knew he was doing that.
I had no idea to what extent.
I had no idea to how many his fingers were in so many institutions, so many things that you don't associate with.
It's just charities and journalistic research in places and journalism schools.
And this is.
And the richer he gets, the more he invests in these charities and journalism schools and the more the media falls under the control of him and our other feudal lords, the more land he owns, the more he devours policy and physical space.
Who's going to stop him?
And one of the frightening things about this period, Jimmy, is that it feels like the critique of Bill Gates as a global monster is mostly situated on the right of the political spectrum.
Whereas the sitting back and saying, like, yeah, he's great.
He's giving us these vaccines and we just, you know, he's going to, he's going to end this.
He's.
I tweeted out at the beginning, I don't know when, but I think at the beginning of this COVID thing, when I saw them interviewing Bill Gates about the vaccines and stuff like that and how we should handle COVID.
And I'm just sitting there going, what in the fuck is someone interviewing Bill Gates, a guy who never even graduated college, about how to handle a global pandemic health crisis?
The fuck does he know about it?
I'll tell you what he knows about it.
Nothing.
He didn't even graduate college.
He's just a guy with a lot of money.
He's got, it's the second richest guy in the world, so he could control the media.
This doesn't scare anybody that a guy who has that kind of power.
So now he's the number one farmland owner in the United States.
He's got his fingers in everything.
This should scare the shit.
So of course he's a monopolist.
Of course that's okay.
And it's just made, well, because he looks like a nerd.
He looks, look, he's got a sweater on.
How could he possibly be nefarious?
The guy is a monster and a monopolist.
And he'll crush it.
The whole pandemic is like revenge of the nerds, except the nerds are the bullies and they're not fighting the system.
And they'll never let this go.
They'll never let this moment go until they can move on to another crisis.
So we see Bill Gates warning about a smallpox attack.
Yes.
And then strangely, some smallpox vials are found.
I mean, I'm not saying this is connected to Bill Gates, but they're marked.
I think they have Merck labels on them and he owns a ton of shares in Merck.
But I'm not saying it's a Bill Gates conspiracy.
But when Bill Gates speaks and warns of a crisis, we have to actually pay attention and brace ourselves.
Man, just think about all that power that money brings him.
And he figured it out.
You're right.
I remember he got pied in the face in the 90s.
I've seen that video.
I remember when public opinion was turning against him, and then he got smart and just decided to buy the media.
That's exactly what Big Pharma does.
That's exactly what Wall Street does.
That's exactly what the military industrial complex does.
They buy the media.
This is why I have a show that's popular and why the gray zone exists, right?
Because we're not bought media.
That's amazing.
This is amazing.
By the way, PolitiFact has published a piece.
There's no evidence linking Bill Gates to the vials labeled smallpoxpox found at Merck Lab Freezer.
But who funds PolitiFact at the Poynter Institute?
Bill Gates.
So it's like, yeah, I'm sure Bill Gates wasn't like, I mean, I'm not sure, but I don't believe that Bill Gates, I don't have any evidence Bill Gates was behind these vials, but nobody's going to believe that if they know that Bill Gates funds the fact checker that exists solely to defend Bill Gates and every other establishment narrative.
Like, even if they can't correct the fact, they'll introduce a fact check, which will be, you'll find on the right side of your Twitter timeline, insufficient context for this quote that makes Fauci look bad.
And I'm like, where's the context remains the same?
We covered the Rittenhouse trial, and what we covered was how bad the news media covered it.
And that the news media gave people who watch CNN and MSNBC the exact wrong idea of what was happening in that trial.
That he was the one running around pointing guns at people, trying he was the one being chased by pedophiles and a mob.
And that's why he got found not guilty.
They tried to make the judge out to be a racist.
They know nothing about this judge.
The judge was appointed by a Democrat.
So one of the craziest talking points of this whole Rittenhouse thing, and what I said is like that he's a he's a white, he's a white supremacist.
He's 17 when he did this, when this happened.
And if he's a white supremacist, I guess he must be a remedial because he only shoots white people.
I think he's getting it wrong.
He must be dyslexic.
So what this shows is that the news media completely distorted this case.
That's what the video evidence shows.
And that's what the trial showed, that the news media completely reported this in bad faith.
We showed you how the New York, how the Washington Post, didn't even mention that one of the guys had a gun and was pointing it at him, at him.
They didn't even mention that.
They left it out.
So that's what I thought.
And so everybody who would go on TV to be outraged over this incorrectly, they would go on TV to be outraged over this.
They would use this talking point of state lines.
He crossed state lines.
Do you know he crossed state lines?
And, you know, I went to Kenosha to do comedy.
Guess what I had to do?
I had to cross state lines.
And I brought pot with me.
I crossed state lines with pot.
So people kept saying he crossed state lines with a rifle.
He didn't.
The rifle was in Kenosha.
You know what he does in Kenosha?
He's a lifeguard in Kenosha.
You know how far the state line is from his house?
One mile.
One mile is the state line from his house.
So they make it seem like crossing state lines now means you're a bad person.
You cross state lines.
I hope you didn't cross state lines.
Did you cross state lines to go to a protest?
You know how many people cross state lines to go to protests?
How about all the people who went to the force to vote protests in D.C.?
People flew from California.
How many state lines did they cross to get there?
So I thought it was funny, this made-up talking point that somehow crossing state lines implied that he was guilty of something because he wasn't.
And it's just such a ridiculous talking point that people keep repeating to this day that I thought this would be a funny joke because when he was found out.
So first of all, we all knew he was going to be found not guilty at this show because we actually looked into the case and we looked into the video and even the shitlibs TYT concluded the same thing, that it was self-defense.
Even TYT, the biggest bought shitlib YouTube show there is, even they agreed that he was going to be found innocent because it was self-defense.
So I thought everybody got that, that they had been lied to by the media.
And so I thought this would be a funny joke.
I thought that would be funny.
Wait a minute, he's innocent.
How could this, how could he be found not guilty?
I mean, he crossed state lines.
Does no one care about state lines anymore?
I'm talking state lives, people.
And so I think Matt Orphala put this video together.
I got to, and you'll see the ridiculousness.
By the way, that talking point means nothing that he crossed state lines.
That means nothing.
You have freedom of movement in the United States.
It doesn't matter.
And the fact that he lived one mile away from the state line, they never mentioned that.
August 24th, Rittenhouse went up to the Kenosha area for his job as a lifeguard.
Rittenhouse crossed state lines.
So he had a job in Kenosha, which was about 20 miles away from his house as a lifeguard in Kenosha.
He had to cross state lines to go be a lifeguard.
He crossed state lines to save people from drowning.
So here we go.
Into a community that was not his.
My grandmother, my aunt, my uncle, and cousins all live in the city of Kenosha.
You know, you've got this young white kid defending the community that he's not even from.
What's your father's name?
Michael Rittenhouse.
He lived in Kenosha.
Good evening from New York, I'm Chris Hayes.
Kyle Rittenhouse was just 17 years old when he drove across state lines to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The teenager drove from his home in Illinois.
Approximately one mile to Wisconsin.
Across state lines, driving across state borders.
He's driving across state lines.
Cross a state line.
Across state lines.
If you look at the Rittenhouse case, he crossed state lines.
Drives up to events.
Cross state lines.
Came across state lines.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who traveled across state lines.
From out of state, out of his own state.
Came across state borders.
Whenever you have a situation where a 17-year-old is crossing state lines, white teenager.
He crosses a state line, drives 30 minutes into Kenosha.
Remember, he can't even cross the line.
He crossed state lines.
Crossed state lines.
He went across state lines.
He crossed state lines.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who crossed state lines.
Came across state lines.
Across state lines.
Cross state lines.
He went across state lines.
Across state lines.
Cross state lines and cross state lines.
A 17-year-old kid from out of state.
He made state lines.
Across state lines.
Cross state lines.
Across state lines.
Cross state lines.
Went over state lines.
Drove across state lines.
He drove across state.
Had his mother drive him across state lines from out of state.
Say the lie, Bert.
The teenager traveled across state lines.
Carl Rittenhouse traveled from his home in Illinois across the state line to Wisconsin.
Drove to a different state, drives up to the state.
Again, drove across state lines.
He traveled there from out of state.
He crossed state lines.
Meaning he traveled across state lines.
The 17-year-old who crossed state lines.
Now, again, he drove from Illinois to Wisconsin.
The 17-year-old from out of state who shows up to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He drove from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who again traveled across state lines in a state that he doesn't even live in.
He crossed state lines.
He drove across state lines.
We know that Kyle Rittenhouse traveled across state lines to go to Kenosha and he murdered two protesters.
Willing to drive across state lines to commit murder.
And did anyone help him cross state lines?
His mama drove across state lines.
Richenhaus's mother did not drive him to Kenosha.
Rittenhouse's mother drove her son across state lines.
And look at Rittenhauser, who was driven by his mother across state lines.
Frankly, she should have been detained for child endangerment.
My mama would never drive either one of us across state lines to go to a freaking riot.
17-year-old conveyed across state lines by mom, Rittenhouse, and Kenosha, allowing his mom to take him across state lines, across state lines.
Across state lines.
We have a system of laws in the country.
There are times where you can defend yourself.
It's going to vary from state to state when you can use force to defend your property, but you don't have a right in every state anywhere in the country to merely start, you know, cross state lines.
Yeah!
He said it.
I wonder what.
So anyway, there you go.
That was Matt Orphala put that together.
Yes.
That's great.
That was hilarious.
So I thought that was, I'm a comedian.
I thought that was funny.
Now, a lot of people took it as I was sticking my thumb in the eye of Black Lives Matter or something.
No, the whole story was revealed to be a bull.
He wasn't, he didn't shoot people of color.
He shot three white guys who were attacking him.
So that's why this whole story was a garbage story.
The whole story is a garbage story.
They were attacking him.
He didn't, he didn't.
In fact, anyway, we showed the video.
Go watch the other video.
But people won't.
You know, people won't.
But that was, to me, that was the story.
The story was, to me, I'm making fun of the media.
That's me not making fun of Black Lives Matter.
That's me making fun of the media because of how stupid they are.
And they did that cross state lines as if that means nothing.
Now you're making up a term to sound devious and nefarious.
Cross state lines.
Yeah, he used to go there and be a lifeguard.
He crossed state lines into that community.
Okay, so yeah, boy, this case has really broken the brains of a lot of shitlibs.
Just like just like Russia Gate, they can't believe Trump didn't do that.
You mean what the media has been telling you for four straight years was complete garbage?
Yes.
And what the media was Telling you about this case was complete garbage.
And that's the story.
That's the story.
To me, that's the story.
Not that some 17-year-old white kid shot three white people.
The story is how then they took that story, the news media, the story of a 17-year-old white kid defending himself against three other white people attacking him.
That was the story.
Then the news media took it, spun it, and they made it into be about white supremacy.
And they made it into be this guy's a horrible person.
And I don't know what kind of person Kyle Rittenhouse is, but what do they know?
And so to me, that was the story.
How everybody, I mean, I showed you the Twitter fees of people going, I thought he shot black people.
I shot, you know, so, in fact, there was in Brazil, when they wrote their story about this, one of the major newspapers there had to retract it because they had that he shot three black people.
And then they were like, oh, that's not how it worked?
That's not what happened?
And they had to, because it was just taken for granted.
It was just, again, I never looked into this case until the trial started.
I never looked into it.
I just took it at face value.
The headlines was that he was a white supremacist and he went with a, he traveled across state lines with a gun and went looking for trouble and shot three people dead.
That's what I thought happened until the trial.
And then we got to actually, until I actually looked into the video evidence and Matt Orfala's great video.
And I realized that we've been misled by the news media.
Again, 100%, just like with Russia Gate, just like with Syria, just like with Venezuela, just like with Nicaragua, the news media is lying to you about a case again for clicks.
And to me, that was the story of the Rittenhouse story.
To me, that's the story.
And that's why I thought that was funny.
So to everybody who got their feelings hurt, you know, sorry.
Sorry.
I think Il Pacino's calling me on the phone.
Hello?
Is this Al?
Hey, Jimmy.
Let me tell you a story about this guy.
What guy?
This guy's this guy.
He's up in Kenosha, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Okay.
In all my years as a cop, I've seen a lot go down, Jimmy.
But this guy, whoo, he killed Jojo.
Okay, first of all, you're not a cop.
You're an actor.
And who's which Jojo?
Who?
What are you fucking out?
Jojo.
The black guy from Kenosha, Pedro, the good guy.
His life matters, Jimmy.
Do you mean Joseph Rosenbaum, the convicted pederast who stalked and attacked Kyle?
He's not black, first of all.
Do you make up your mind on emotions instead of facts?
How does that help anyone?
It doesn't, but it will help me get a show on MSNBC.
Jimmy, what do you think?
All in with Al Pacino.
No, Al in with Al Pacino.
Or Al in with all Pacito.
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