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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M
Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised €430 million from existing investors and is ploughing much of the funding to grow its operations in Germany.Picnic's existing investors include German supermarket giant Edeka, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Dutch investment firm Hoyberg and Amsterdam-headquartered investment firm NPM Capital.As well as bolstering its presence in Germany, where Picnic says it's the market leader, the funds will be used to expand into multiple unnamed m…

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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg 
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

Kapitalismus made in USA — Reichtum als Kult: Geschichte
Vor 120 Jahren entstand in den USA ein kapitalistisches Eldorado, das den Weg für Persönlichkeiten wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos und Bill Gates ebnete. Wie festigte sich die Macht der Superreichen, vor allem in der Zeit der Wirtschaftskrise nach 1929 oder auch während Ronald Reagans Politik der Deregulierung und Steuersenkungen in den 1980er-Jahren?
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Kapitalismus made in USA - Geschichte | ARTE
Vor 120 Jahren entstand in den USA ein kapitalistisches Eldorado, das den Weg für Persönlichkeiten wie Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos und Bill Gates ebnete. Wie festigte sich die Macht der Superreichen, vor allem in der Zeit der Wirtschaftskrise nach 1929 oder auch während Ronald Reagans Politik der Deregulierung und Steuersenkungen in den 1980er-Jahren?

Gates lügt.
„Der Klimawandel werde nicht zum Untergang der Menschheit führen, wiegelte er ab. Und weiter: „Die Menschen werden in absehbarer Zukunft an den meisten Orten der Erde leben und gedeihen können.“
Release the Epstein Files
https://taz.de/Hat-Bill-Gates-ploetzli

How It All Works

Respectfully, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/bill-gates-climate-strategic-pivot-critique-microsoft-data-centers-ai/

David Brooks, who wrote a NYT column last month decrying popular fixation on the Epstein story, appears in newly released photos of a 2011 event with Epstein (Anna Betts/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/jeffrey-epstein-estate-f…

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg (Rei Takver/DeSmog)
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p151#a251105p151

"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

Oh, and speaking of that Bill Gates climate memo…
Elon Musk: Bill Gates is “not strong in the sciences.” - https://youtube.com/shorts/93UDBcidOKU?si=ebJxC6U3Fh3gG6L8

"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
#Nature #Environment

Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says
Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. senator, and Mary Robinson, former Irish president, disagree. As chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature, a nonprofit organization uniting prominent politicians in support of nature […]

From Bill McKibben
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again. He’s explained that up until 2006—i.e., 18 years after Jim Hansen’s testimony before Congress laying out the science, and well past the point where George W. Bush had acknowledged its reality—he like Trump thought the whole thing was a crock."

Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

Democrats release new Epstein photos ahead of DoJ transparency deadline
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/jeffrey-epstein-estate-files-photos
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Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams
Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bill Gates Rethinks Climate Catastrophe (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/bill-gates-climate-change-bjorn-lomborg-e3fe6d24?st=u2mBf7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p85#a251031p85

One hour synopsis of ALL the books about #BillGates including his biography, "Source Code" & the famous "Hard Drive" - my personal favorite.
▶️ How Bill Gates Works - Founders

Die Medien haben die GANZE Woche die Sau "ein Software-Rentner sagt irgendwas Unkundiges zum #Klimawandel" durchs Dorf gejagt und viel Clickbait auf ihre werbefinanzierten Websites gebracht.
Viele Experten wurden genötigt, die Worte des Rentners irgendwie zu kommentieren, zu deuten und ihre #Lebenszeit

Ottmar Edenhofer: "Sollen wir jetzt etwa sagen, wir vergessen das Ganze?"
Bill Gates sagt, der Klimawandel ist nicht unser größtes Problem. Der Ökonom Ottmar Edenhofer widerspricht: Klimaschäden bleiben. Und erfordern eine effizientere Politik.

For the record, I'm pretty sure that no one should care what Bill Gates thinks. He's missed/misjudged every single technological and social leap in the past 30 years. I'm amazed he's made any money at all, but I guess that's what multi-million $ trust funds and a willingness to ruthlessly exploit ill-gotten monopolies will get you.

Had ik deze al gedeeld? Hindert ook niet: Bill Gates maakt opvallende draai: mensheid zal niet ten onder gaan aan klimaatverandering | het hangt er natuurlijk wel vanaf hoe je de mensheid definieert. Gelukkig zijn er oude wijze miljardairs die ons vertellen hoe we ernaar moeten kijken | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/piKO7

Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p86#a251028p86

I read the Bill Gates memo and it makes sense to me?! Am I missing something here? Or is the problem that the outrage machine of the far right and anti-climate-change lobby is misconstruing what he is calling for?
He's clearly saying that getting emissions down is still a priority that's already on track! In contrast global health and poverty are issues that appear to be slowing down or on hold and need more focused attention *now*. Therefore we need a shift in funding!

Laut Tages Anzeiger gibt es keine Klimakrise mehr, auch dank KI. Leider ist der Artikel ernst gemeint.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/cop-klimakonferenz-bill-gates-fordert-neue-strategie-317802507139