The oligarchs behind the “humanitarian” regime change network now exploiting Jo Cox’s death to push for UK Labour split
Only
by masking their otherwise unpopular policies in the cloak of Jo
Cox’s tragedy, and humanity’s natural empathy for good samaritans
and the downtrodden, has this small group of powerful individuals
been able to launder disastrous wars and military adventurism as “the
right thing to do.”
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
8 - Ted Turner and Calvin’s connections to Clinton
Ted
Turner endorsed Hillary Clinton’s election campaign in 2016. Time
Warner was among the myriad of media moguls who financed the failed
Clinton campaign to the tune of $50,000 – $100,000, according
to statistics published by Politico.
CNN
reporter Larry King was once caught on open-mic in the early 1990s
telling Bill Clinton that “Ted Turner would serve” him. A
report in the Washington Times cited Turner as saying “Hillary
Clinton is one of the smartest and most powerful people in the
world.” Turner praises Clinton uncritically, ignoring her
record as one of the most malevolent war-hawks of our generation.
It is
Clinton’s gleeful celebration of Libya’s Muammar Gadaffi’s
sodomization and murder by the U.S.-supported “rebels” that has
come to symbolize the moral vacuum of the U.S. neocon foreign policy
— policy that also serves the billionaire corporatocracy presided
over by moguls such as Ted Turner.
Calvin’s
connections to the Clinton clan also run deep. In 2013, the UN
Foundation and its Global Entrepreneurs Council announced the “MY
World Global Initiative” at the Clinton Global Initiative annual
meeting. According to the UN Foundation website: “MY World looks
beyond 2015 – the endpoint for the current Millennium Development
Goals – to engage people from all parts of the world and ensure
their views will be part of the global conversation about the
post-2015 global development agenda. To date,
approximately one million people from 194 countries have contributed
to MY World, and the UN Foundation is committed to helping secure
one million more.”
In 2014,
Hillary Clinton, Kathy Calvin and Michael Bloomberg formed a new
partnership to “close gender gaps.” Bloomberg is reported to be
the eighth richest man in the U.S., with a net worth of $48.9 billion
(2018) — a “philanthrocapitalist” whose causes range from gun
control to climate change. The event, which took place on December
15, 2014 at Bloomberg Philanthropies in New York, sought to:
“[H]ighlight the work of Data2X – a partnership launched by
Secretary Clinton in July 2012 to identify and spur efforts to fill
gender data gaps – and unveil new partnerships to improve data
collection and use for women and girls. Better gender data are needed
to guide policies, set targets, and monitor progress
for women and girls.”
Calvin’s
links to the PR and media industries pre-date her appointment as CEO
of the UN Foundation. Listed in Fast Company’s “League of
Extraordinary Women,” before joining the UN Foundation in 2003,
Calvin was President at AOL Time Warner Foundation, responsible for
its “philanthropic” activities. Immediately prior to joining Time
Warner, Calvin was Senior Managing Director at Hill and Knowlton.
Hill and Knowlton is perhaps best known for its production of the
hoax “incubator baby” story that provided the “humanitarian”
pretext for the first Gulf War — later exposed, as recounted in The
Diabolical Business of Global Public Relation Firms, as an elaborate
staged event: “Before the first Gulf War, a fake news
propaganda spectacle took place courtesy of WPP’s Hill &
Knowlton. They were hired by Citizens for a Free Kuwait and
eventually received nearly $10.8 million to conduct one of the most
effective public relations campaigns in history. Hill & Knowlton
helped create a national outrage against Iraq by publicizing the
horrifying events supposedly caused by Iraqi soldiers during Iraq’s
invasion of Kuwait.”
Interestingly,
this connection then extends to Tim Dixon and Purpose New York. In
September 2014, Purpose welcomed Josh Hendler as Chief Technology
Officer. Just prior to joining Purpose, Hendler had held the same
position at Hill and Knowlton Strategies. “Hendler’s mission
was to “… develop the next-generation of tools to empower people
across the globe to build movements…”
Kathy
Calvin has recently teamed up with billionaire Richard Branson on the
Virgin Unite Foundation-incubated B-Team. Calvin is one of the 23
leaders whose mission is to “deliver a Plan B that puts people
and planet alongside profit.” The B-Team is managed by none
other than Purpose.
Branson,
the Virgin tycoon, paid tribute to Jo Cox on his website in 2016. In
this message, Branson presented a thinly veiled political message
alluding to the “More in Common” movement that would shortly be
established by Brendan Cox. Cox resigned from his position as
director of More in Common in February 2018, following allegations of
sexual harassment.
Branson
also supports Nick Grono’s Walk Free Foundation, alongside Tony
Blair, Hillary Clinton, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and
Bill Gates. Grono is one of the Jo Cox Four. Branson has also
promoted the Netflix White Helmet documentary, describing it as
offering “real insight into the horror and humanity,
happening right now in Syria.” Many of the 20
documentaries promoted by Branson as must-watch reports have been
produced by Skoll Foundation’s Participant Media. Another example
of the reach and power of the billionaire PR industry.
In a
separate report, Vanessa Beeley mapped out the intricate PR and film
production processes that propelled the White Helmet movies to
international acclaim and award ceremonies. She writes, in Architects
of Humanitarian War: “White Helmet propaganda has seduced
droves of human beings with a genuine humanitarian reflex that has
been exploited by this “centre-piece” perception-changing
construct. The story told by the White Helmet media and PR agencies
has elevated this Al Qaeda support group to celebrity cult status.
The world has fallen in love with what should most horrify it, while
the people of Syria have their voices asphyxiated by Hollywood
glamour and transformational mass communication.”
Yet
again, we see how the web of billionaire philanthrocapitalism
functions and how it builds its platforms of influence and
behavioral-change power base. The components of this web are
interchangeable — mobile and flexible, able to move swiftly and
effectively, powered by billionaire resources and financial monopoly
of the desired market sectors. It is a formidable force for change in
this world, but accountable to none.
Thus
questions must be asked as to who benefits most from the changes
their apparatus will impose upon some of the poorest nations in this
world and their poverty-stricken or war-displaced citizens.
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