Wednesday, March 24, 2021

UK To Make Vaccines Mandatory For Health Workers

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Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

The UK government will soon force health workers in care homes to take the coronavirus vaccine, a leaked document has suggested.

In the wake of low numbers of care workers taking the shot, the government is looking to make it compulsory for all those who work in adult care homes.

🔴 💉 Care home workers will be required by law to have a Covid-19 jab under a historic legal change agreed by Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock, The Telegraph can reveal https://t.co/O2lfEYkiva

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2021

In London, only a quarter of staff who work in such facilities have opted to take the shot, while the number is closer to half in other parts of the country, according to NHS figures.

The London Telegraph reports that in response, the government submitted a paper to the Covid-19 Operations Cabinet sub-committee last week suggesting mandatory vaccines for such workers.

There are approximately 1.5 million people working in the sector in the UK. They would all be required to take the vaccine or face losing their jobs.

The paper, written by the Department of Health and Social Care is titled ‘Vaccination as a condition of deployment in adult social care and health setting’, and notes that the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) suggests that 80% of workers need to be vaccinated for care homes to be deemed safe.

It reads “The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State [for Health] have discussed on several occasions the progress that is being made to vaccinate social care workers against Covid-19 and have agreed – in order to reach a position of much greater safety for care recipients – to put in place legislation to require vaccinations among the workforce.”

The paper also notes that any mandate for vaccines among care workers could trigger an ‘exodus’ or workers, and could even lead to many human rights lawsuits. 

The government has consistently said that it will not make vaccines mandatory in the UK, however this leak is at odds with that pledge.

So another conspiracy 'theory' becomes conspiracy 'fact'...

I thought Boris Johnson said vaccines wouldn’t be mandatory...

— Ciaran Valentine (@C_Lamptey18) March 22, 2021

They can always quit the job if the law goes through and they don't want to be vaccinated. Of course no vaccine probably limits opportunities for foreign holidays and concerts as well, so motivation to get it done

— caveman (@cavemandave71) March 22, 2021

Unlawful! #NurembergCode

— WhatIsTheTruth 100% Human (@The_RealTruth18) March 22, 2021

This is utterly disgusting! No care worker should be forced to have anything injected into their body against their will. End of. Care workers do an amazing job, working incredibly long hours for very little pay. I know as I used to do this job. #NoForcedVaccine

— lisanh3 🇬🇧😊 (@lisanbh3) March 22, 2021

This is depressing. And if someone who's forced to have a vaccine, and has a serious adverse reaction... Who's liable for that?

— Jimmy (@Jt1982James) March 22, 2021

So that's it then. The Nuremberg Code is now completely trashed and consent is no longer necessary for medical interventions. Government coercion is now permissible.

We have become a totalitarian state.

— David Eyles 😃 (@Drystonesonnet) March 23, 2021

All of which brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "trust, we're from the government and we're here to help."

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Huxley's 1958 interview on technology: More relevant today

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As we now live in a globalist-capitalist, billionaire-controlled, transnational system, accelerated massively by COVID-19, we are gradually returning to the feudalist structure of the Middle Ages as the few and wealthy own almost everything. And surveil it all. The working class and middle classes will increasingly become the new slave class to the globalist, billionaire kings and lords of debt. The nation state with its independent economy and politicians who served the interest of their own countries seems but a relic of the past.

Engulfed in the COVID-19 pandemic, where lockdowns crush the national economies in Western countries, the Aldous Huxley dystopian scenario of totalitarianism seems ever more realistic. In his world famous 1932 book, "Brave New World," he spoke of various enemies of freedom – media propaganda, technology, the end of personal liberty, totalitarianism – that he expected would pose serious challenges in the future. He warns of the dangers of the bureaucracies of big business and big government.

The 1958 Aldous Huxley interview with CBS host Mike Wallace is worth revisiting. In it, Huxley addressed his fear of a coming tyranny and the innate dangers of the technological, highly organized modern world.

The World War II philosopher Hannah Arendt is famous for addressing much the same topic in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," as she analyzed how the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s and '40s were able to prosper so well in modern Germany.

In the CBS interview, transcribed here, Huxley spoke about the role of the media and endangered personal liberties: "Television … is always saying the same things the whole time; it's always driving along. It's not creating a wide front of distraction. It's creating a one-pointed 'drumming in' of a single idea all the time."

In this dystopian world of dictatorship and genetic cloning, any discontent is quelled by drugs and entertainment, "Brave New World" tells. It produces individuals under medication who simply do not pose critical questions, and those who do end up in Huxley's definition of gulag.

Huxley speaks of how the bureaucracy, the media, technology and societal elites work together in order to create social pressures that induce needed false narratives into the population. These narratives are constructed to distract people from the real and important issues.

Huxley says to CBS: "I do think that there are a number of impersonal forces which are pushing in the direction of less and less freedom, that there are a number of technological devices which anybody who wishes to use can use to accelerate this process of going away from freedom, of imposing control."

He sees overpopulation and the mounting pressure of population pressing upon existing resources as a problem. Notes Huxley: "another force strongly operative in this country is the force of what may be called over-organization. … As technology becomes more and more complicated, it becomes necessary to have more and more elaborate organizations, more hierarchical organizations, and incidentally the advance of technology is being accompanied by an advance in the science of organization. It's now possible to make organizations on a larger scale than it was ever possible before, and so that you have more and more people living their lives out as subordinates in these hierarchical systems controlled by bureaucracies, either the bureaucracies of big business or the bureaucracies of big government."

Huxley further elaborates on the dangers of modern technology in the hands of those who desire control and power over the human race: "… take the recent and very painful history of the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. What were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one hand, brute force on the one hand, but he also used a very efficient form of propaganda – every modern device. He didn't have TV, but he had the radio, which he used to the fullest extent, and was able to impose his will on an immense mass of people. I mean, the Germans were a highly educated people."

Huxley says: "It seems to me, that there are methods at present available, methods superior in some respects to Hitler's methods, which could be used in a bad situation. What I feel very strongly is that we mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history with technology's advance, and this changes social condition, and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn't foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didn't want to do."

So, here we have an excellent description of the road to tyranny.

Read Hanne's The Herland Report.


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The Morning Briefing: Fact-Checkers Are Not Going to Like This MIT Story About Origins of That Virus From You-Know-Where



Good Morning, Kruiser Morning Briefing friends! The regular proprietor of this establishment is enjoying his last day of vacation, but we’ll continue to muddle through together in his absence, w...

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Biden administration fully cancels some student loan debt after reversing Trump-era policy





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Military Has Taken Over Wolstein Center In Ohio To Administer COVID “Vaccines”



Ohio now has its first federal  COVID-19 mass vaccination center. The military has taken over the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio to distribute the mislabeled “vaccines” to the population on a massive scale.

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Saturday, March 20, 2021

US Funded Virus Research and Used Outbreak Against Us



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Worrying trends in vaccine side effects [Letter from Great Britain – 03-20-21]

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“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.”  NOTE If anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: peter@underco.co.uk.

This week some worrying reports are being logged about patients suffering severe side effects and death from the mRNA and Astra/Zeneca vaccines.  I have summarised the current situation from a report by my colleague at BOOM Economics:

“Vaccine uncertainty was highlighted at the end of the week by the suspension of the Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine in 10 nations, mostly in Europe, where there are now serious concerns about safety regarding blood clotting problems. A more detailed report concerning the risks of DIC from the new genetic material based vaccines is discussed below.  DIC is a fearful medical condition called disseminated intravascular coagulation.

“Denmark, Iceland and Norway [and now also Ireland and Netherlands] have suspended the use of the Oxford-Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine while the European Union’s medicines regulator investigates whether the shot could be linked to a number of reports of blood clots.  Other nations taking similar actions include Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Austria and Thailand. This amounts to 10 nations in total. [And others were subsequently were added]

Other governments are declaring the vaccine “safe and effective” in mass advertising campaigns aimed at introducing the new vaccine technologies on a large scale.  More and more people are choosing to no longer believe them.

            BOOM readers must read this letter which was sent to the European Medicines Agency on 28th February. It was also sent to Ursula Von Der Leyen, President of the European Commission and to Charles Michel, President of the Council of Europe.”

Link: https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/urgent-open-letter-from-doctors-and-scientists-to-the-european-medicines-agency-regarding-covid-19-f6e17c311595

Read the complete BOOM article here: https://boomfinanceandeconomics.wordpress.com/

BOOM refers to a distressing condition (DIC) that maybe arising from these vaccines but there are insufficient data at present to confirm any causal link.  Here is some information: https://patient.info/doctor/disseminated-intravascular-coagulation#nav-0

I will continue to monitor adverse effects of the vaccines as they become available.  This fifth UK government report provides details up to February 21.  The U.K. Government has released the fifth update highlighting adverse reactions to the Pfizer Covid jab and the Oxford / AstraZeneca Covid jab. It is important to note that a 2011 report by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that less than one percent of all vaccine adverse events are reported to VAERS.  If this is the case then the underlying number of events approximates to 7%:

“The fifth update covers adverse reactions inputted to the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme from the 9th December 2020 up to the 21st February 2021. In the week since the fourth report, which covered reported adverse reactions up to the 14th February, there have been a further 2892 Yellow Cards for the Pfizer vaccine and a further 11,490 yellow cards for the Oxford vaccine.

            But this does not mean the Pfizer jab is safer, the reason the number of Yellow Cards for the Oxford jab is much higher than the Pfizer jab is because there was a significantly higher number of doses of the Oxford jab administered between the 14th February – 21st February compared to the Pfizer jab.

As of the 21st February 2021 there have been 9.4 million doses of the experimental MRNA Pfizer jab administered with a reported 85,179 adverse reactions suffered. There have been 8.4 million doses of the Oxford jab administered as of the same date, with a reported 157,637 adverse reactions.”  https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/03/06/uk-gov-release-5th-update-on-adverse-reactions-to-the-covid-jabs/

Even in my local area we are getting reports of sudden deaths.  It seems that a reaction to the vaccine appears when the patient becomes infected with the virus after inoculation.  “A ‘devastating’ outbreak of coronavirus at a care home in Exmouth has now claimed the lives of nine residents.  Brandon House, a dementia specialist care home in Douglas Avenue, recorded its first case of Covid-19 last month. It has also been confirmed that two residents remain ‘quite poorly’.

All residents at the home received their first Covid-19 vaccine in January.  It’s the second care home in East Devon to be hit by an outbreak in recent weeks.  Police have launched an investigation at Holmesley Care Home in Fortescue Road, Sidmouth, where three deaths have now been confirmed. The majority of residents and staff there have tested positive for coronavirus.” https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/nine-covid-19-deaths-exmouth-5156936

Clearly this raises issues about whether to have the jab as is being so heavily promoted by all the authorities and BigPharma.  I have always believed that the public should be allowed ‘informed consent’ and obviously we are not being properly informed – we are being pressured, in the extreme, to rush into an unproven ‘protection’ from a virus which is no more lethal than a sever flu infection.  For those who would feel safer having had an inoculation – there are choices:

The Chinese SINOVAC vaccine is a traditional one in that it uses inactivated pathogen to stimulate our immune system naturally to manufacture antigens unlike the ones being used in the West which force the body to produce antigens using experimental synthetic gene therapy – genetic engineering in other words.

One of my readers in China keeps in regular touch with news from the ground floor and this is what he says about the Chinese method:  “…..recently I read some essays and videos about the ‘terrifying’ E-484 variation and its affects.  Of course, no impact on China at all, in curing, preventing or vaccines; according to Chinese medical experts.   After all, our Chinese medicine aims at improving the immunity instead of any magical expensive medicine or dangerous advanced mRNA vaccines.”

“Sinovac has published a press release reporting the results of phase III trials of CoronaVac, its COVID-19 vaccine. This is a more conventional vaccine than the mRNA and vector vaccines currently in use in the UK: it uses “killed” SARS-CoV-2 virus as the antigen. As such, it may contain a wider range of antigens, not just the spike glycoprotein, which might – in theory, at least – mean better cross-protection against virus variants.”               https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-announcement-of-results-of-phase-iii-of-sinovac-vaccine-in-china/

The sale of the century is very much on in Britain. The powers that be want every single person to be vaccinated, and they’re pulling out all the stops to make sure it happens.  Here are the five main ways the establishment is trying to manufacture your consent.

  • It’s being reported that everyone getting vaccinated is the only way to get “back to normal”. Don’t you want to go to the pub again? Or the gym? Or see granny? Or hug people? Well, just take the shot. Take the shot and all this lockdown and social distancing economic collapse and mounting poverty, it will all just go away.
  • One of the oldest and most widely used marketing gimmicks. Partly because it works, but mostly because it’s cheap and easy: Simply find a bunch of tools and put them to work. The NHS was not shy about this approach, claiming they were planning to enlist “sensible celebrities” who are “known and loved” to combat anti-vax sentiment.  Even if their intentions are correct, there’s no reason to assume any of them have any understanding of what they’re talking about. And none of these people has anything to lose should you or a loved one suffer any harm from taking an untested vaccine.
  • For weeks now we’ve been seeing headlines about “dwindling stock” of vaccines. Everyone who has ever been inside a store knows this trick. “While stocks last”, “limited time offer”, or a thousand other variants designed to create the idea that if you don’t acquire product X right now, you will miss your chance.
  • You can’t underestimate the idea of peer pressure when it comes to marketing, one of the oldest tricks in the book is culturing popularity through the idea that popularity already exists. It’s why people buy likes and views on YouTube and concerts have seat fillers.
  • This is an interesting one. There’s been a lot of talk about Vaccine Passports recently, and perhaps they will become a thing, but the vast majority of the public discourse is spreading the idea they are “inevitable”. Now, the idea of inevitability is a powerful tool. You can encourage it as a way of preparing the ground for a policy role out, sure, but you can also use it to engender feelings of defeat in your opposition and thus gain their consent without force.  https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/04/5-ways-theyre-trying-to-trick-you-into-taking-the-covid-vaccine/

“If vaccine take-up was really at 94%, there’d be no need to sell the vaccine so much. If they were really running out of vaccines, the papers wouldn’t be advertising it, they’d be telling people not to panic.  In short, there’s good reason to think the resistance to the “new normal” is a lot more widespread than the establishment ever expected it to be.  You don’t put the Queen on a zoom call when you’re winning the argument.”

UPDATE – More European countries halt the Astra/Zeneca jab.  Germany, France, Italy and Spain temporarily halted inoculations with the vaccine last Monday after reported incidents of bleeding, blood clots and a low count of blood platelets in some people who had received the AstraZeneca shot. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/germany-suspends-oxford-vaccine-over-blood-clot-fears

And here is a short report about the Israeli situation – well worth reading as it backs up everything I have been saying: https://johnplatinumgoss.com/2021/03/15/the-zionist-agenda-vaccinate-jews-first/  I think TBP team will like this one!

Then, last Thursday, the European Health Regulators approved the Astra/Zeneka vaccine saying it really, really safe – nothing to see here – If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you.

Britain has won one battle against GloboCap – at least here the little people have won a round:  Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions from today after a landmark Supreme Court ruling. It is a dramatic U-turn from insisting, like many delivery and courier companies, that its drivers are independent self-employed “partners” not entitled to basic rights enjoyed by employees. Last month the UK Supreme Court dismissed Uber’s appeal against a 2016 landmark employment tribunal ruling that its drivers should be classed as workers.

UK has agreed a trade deal with the EU. I will comment on the progression of this deal as it affects the UK economy. 

‘Barely scraping by’ after Brexit – The manufacturing trade group Make UK has found in a survey of more than 200 leading industrial companies that 74% are facing delays with EU imports and exports amid continuing disruption caused by Brexit and the pandemic. More than half of companies said they were suffering from increased costs, while more than a third had lost out on sales, and fear of continued disruption was costing them future business. Catherine Bedford, founder of Dashel, which makes carbon fibre and recycled cycle helmets, said the disruption was killing her business. “Thanks to Brexit, we’ve gone from profitable to barely scraping by,” she said. Make UK says ministers urgently needed to “get back around the table” with EU leaders to solve problems.

The collapse of Britain’s trade with the EU will continue into the summer after the failure to recruit up to 30,000 customs agents, despite government assurances that normal service has resumed industry groups have warned.  Delays and confusion at the UK’s ports, which have resulted in 40% of trucks crossing the Channel with empty containers, threatens to put hundreds of small and medium exporters out of business and cost the government millions of pounds in lost trade tariffs.

The warnings follow the most dramatic monthly fall in exports from the UK to the EU since records began 20 years ago. Exports tumbled by almost 41% as thousands of trucks failed to gain entry to the EU, mostly following customs hold-ups due to a lack of compliant paperwork.

To be continued next week.



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Pompeo: Declassified intel points to Wuhan lab leak

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As the World Health Organization prepares to release a report that likely will conclude the coronavirus had a natural origin, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending declassified U.S. intelligence that points to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Chinese government blocked investigators from the U.S. and other nations in the early days of the outbreak, and it continues the cover-up, Pompeo contends.

"It is absolutely imperative when this report comes out we understand the basis for the data, because I fear that in the end, this report will not be remotely reflective of what actually transpired," he told the Washington Examiner in an interview.

The report is scheduled to be released next week.

Pompeo said he doesn't believe the investigators "had either the capacity or the access necessary to actually conduct a thorough investigation of how this Wuhan virus ultimately commenced."

Congressional reports have blamed duplicity by the Chinese government and incompetence by the World Health Organization for the outbreak turing into a pandemic.

Under the Trump administration in mid-January, the Pompeo-led State Department issued a fact sheet contending Wuhan lab researchers "conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar)."

Based on information from the intelligence community, the State Department said the lab "has a published record of conducting 'gain-of-function' research to engineer chimeric viruses."

And the lab "has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military."

In Feburary, the head of the WHO investigation, Peter Ben Embarek, issued a preliminary determination. He told reporters it was "extremely unlikely" that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. The team suspected the virus originated in animals before spreading to humans but didn't know how.

However, a WHO adviser said at the time that the investigation by his agency actually was conducted by Chinese officials and was very short.

"And so, the WHO investigators were basically receiving reports from the Chinese officials," Jamie Metzl told the Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham.

All the facts point to Wuhan lab

Pompeo told the Examiner it's "absolutely critical that we get access to the people who conducted the investigation and ask them a series of questions."

"Tell me what limits were placed on who could be selected. Tell me how the individuals were chosen," Pompeo said. "Were there conflicts checks that were run?"

He also wants to know if there was anything in particular that the Chinese Communist Party didn't want the investigators to review. Did they get access to the scientists who were in the laboratory in 2019 and the early part of 2020, and were they in a position to allow them to speak freely?

Pompeo said it's also important to find out if the investigators got access to original data rather than "second-order information."

The fact sheet said the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the Wuhan lab became sick in autumn 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, before the first identified case of the outbreak.

The State Department said "that raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli's public claim that there was 'zero infection' among the WIV's staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses."

Pompeo said "every fact that I have seen would be consistent with a release from" the Wuhan lab.

"You'll remember, if you go back to the beginning, people were throwing around language that said, 'Well, this had to have been natural, it couldn't have been manmade' — it's not really the right way to think about this problem set," he told the Examiner.

He said there are three facts that support the lab-leak theory: "the fact that it is possible they were working on a virus similar to the one that we now are suffering from, second, that inadequate biosafety measures at the facility, and then third, the massive, intentional cover-up coming from the most senior levels of the Chinese Communist Party."

Pompeo said he hopes the report will provide answers, but he's "skeptical that the Chinese Communist Party will ever permit anyone to really understand what happened there.

"I think that suggests that the alternative hypotheses about wet markets and the like are much less likely than the world originally believed,"  he said.

Pompeo criticize the Biden administration's decision to rejoin the WHO.

"At the point of maximum impact, the moment that the WHO's pandemic prevention efforts were most critical, that they had to be the most right as quickly as they could, they allowed the Chinese Communist Party to walk all over them and denied the world the access to the information that it needed in a timely fashion that could well have saved lives all across the world," he said. "And for that, the leadership at the WHO has to be held accountable."

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Bill Gates Does Reddit AMA, Dodges Questions About Meetings With Jeffrey Epstein

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Bill Gates took to Reddit for an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Friday, where he answered all sorts of questions about vaccines, fake meat, and his favorite Mortal Kombat fighter (he’s never played).

One question he completely ignored, however, concerned his relationship with notorious and now-dead pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein – who he met with at least six times, including visits to Epstein’s recently-sold Manhattan mansion on “multiple occasions,” staying at least once into the night, according to the New York Times.

Meanwhile, Gates adviser Boris Nikolic (pictured below) was named as a fallback executor in an will Epstein amended days before his 2019 death in a Manhattan jail cell.

Several Redditors took this opportunity to ask Bill to explain himself.

“Thanks for doing this again. First of all – big fan of your humble rags-to-riches journey in which you rose against the odds from a rich, well-connected family and utilised predatory patenting to profit from publicly-funded work to sell back to the public. Very inspiring!” asks user proahteane, who followed up the complement with:

“Platitudes aside, my question is this: why were you meeting with Jeffrey Epstein after his first conviction? What could you possibly have to discuss with a prolific pedophile eugenicist?

And while the question was the 12th most upvoted, Gates completely ignored it, while answering over two-dozen lower-ranked questions.

Meanwhile, employees of the Gates foundation also visited Epstein’s mansion on multiple occasions, while Epstein also “spoke with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase about a proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund — an arrangement that had the potential to generate enormous fees for Mr. Epstein,” according to the Times.

In late 2011, at Mr. Gates’s instruction, the foundation sent a team to Mr. Epstein’s townhouse to have a preliminary talk about philanthropic fund-raising, according to three people who were there. Mr. Epstein told his guests that if they searched his name on the internet they might conclude he was a bad person but that what he had done — soliciting prostitution from an underage girl — was no worse than “stealing a bagel,” two of the people said. -NYT

How Gates and Epstein met, according to the New York Times;

Two members of Mr. Gates’s inner circle — Boris Nikolic and Melanie Walker — were close to Mr. Epstein and at times functioned as intermediaries between the two men.

Ms. Walker met Mr. Epstein in 1992, six months after graduating from the University of Texas. Mr. Epstein, who was an adviser to Mr. Wexner, the owner of Victoria’s Secret, told Ms. Walker that he could land her an audition for a modeling job there, according to Ms. Walker. She later moved to New York and stayed in a Manhattan apartment building that Mr. Epstein owned. After she graduated from medical school, she said, Mr. Epstein hired her as a science adviser in 1998.

Ms. Walker later met Steven Sinofsky, a senior executive at Microsoft who became president of its Windows division, and moved to Seattle to be with him. In 2006, she joined the Gates Foundation with the title of senior program officer.

At the foundation, Ms. Walker met and befriended Mr. Nikolic, a native of what is now Croatia and a former fellow at Harvard Medical School who was the foundation’s science adviser. Mr. Nikolic and Mr. Gates frequently traveled and socialized together.

Ms. Walker, who had remained in close touch with Mr. Epstein, introduced him to Mr. Nikolic, and the men became friendly.

Mr. Epstein and Mr. Gates first met face to face on the evening of Jan. 31, 2011, at Mr. Epstein’s townhouse on the Upper East Side. They were joined by Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden whom Mr. Epstein had once dated, and her 15-year-old daughter. (Dr. Andersson-Dubin’s husband, the hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, was a friend and business associate of Mr. Epstein’s. The Dubins declined to comment.)

The gathering started at 8 and lasted several hours, according to Ms. Arnold, Mr. Gates’s spokeswoman. Mr. Epstein subsequently boasted about the meeting in emails to friends and associates. “Bill’s great,” he wrote in one, reviewed by The Times.

“I didn’t go to New Mexico or Florida or Palm Beach or any of that,” claims Gates. “There were people around him who were saying, hey, if you want to raise money for global health and get more philanthropy, he knows a lot of rich people.”

And it looks like Gates was one of Epstein’s “rich people.” According to the report, Gates donated $2 million to MIT’s Media Lab, which university officials described as having been “directed” by Epstein.

According to Arnold, Gates’ spokeswoman, “Over time, Gates and his team realized Epstein’s capabilities and ideas were not legitimate and all contact with Epstein was discontinued.”

Perhaps ‘Gates and his team’ should have steered clear of the known pedophile in the first place?

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More Gates answers, via Bloomberg:

Bill Gates is in favor of raising some taxes, but says some proposals seem to go too far. “Taxes are an important issue. Government has to do more -health costs, pandemic recovery, climate investments, foreign aid generosity… So I have pushed for some higher taxes. I have disagreed with some proposals that seem to go too far,” the billionaire said Friday during an “Ask Me Anything” Q&A session on Reddit. The commentary follows a recent proposed wealth tax from Senator Elizabeth Warren that called for a 2% annual tax on households and trusts valued at between $50 million and $1 billion. All net worth over $1 billion would be taxed at 3%. The Microsoft co-founder did not specifically mention any tax proposals during his Q&A. Gates, who is the third wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, also said a higher estate tax can be an effective tool for revenue and avoiding dynastic wealth.

More key quotes:

  • On crypto mining:
    • “I have a lot of issues with anonymous money transfer compared to attributed systems where you can dispute and reverse transactions and make sure taxes are paid. The electricity use is just one issue. We do need digital money but without that overhead.”
  • On universal basic income:
    • “Today we provide income to people who are disabled in many countries. The question is, can we afford to do this for everyone. We are getting richer as we innovate but I question if we are rich enough to discourage able people from working. Over time we have been more generous and we will be more generous. The discussion on this is very interesting but it does come down to numbers…”
  • On misinformation, disinformation and fake news:
    • “Some false information is more interesting than the truth so digital channels seem to magnify echo chambers with bad facts. I haven’t seen as much creativity on how we solve this as we need.”
  • On climate denial:
    • “The damage in the past was huge. Now the oil companies have stopped funding these things so I think climate denial will go down. There are issues about how we go about reducing emissions but I hope all young people agree that is a critical goal.”
  • If nothing is done about climate change:
    • “It gets worse over time and natural ecosystems go away. The migration away from the unlivable areas around the equator will be massive. We won’t be able to support a large population if it gets a lot warmer.”
  • On reaching net zero emissions by 2050:
    • “There’s more public support for taking big steps to avoid a climate disaster than ever before. It’s inspiring to see governments and companies around the world set ambitious goals for reducing emissions. The world’s power to invent makes me optimistic.”


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