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Cover? That's your response to the Gates Foundation's philanthropy—that it's cover for shady stuff? Really? Whatever did they do that was so horrific compared to everything the foundation has achieved?

Aggressively normalize US companies conceding to Chinese Communist Party censorship and surveillance demands.

Alfred Nobel:

http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/how-alfred-nobel-read-an-...

The list is long. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Pew, Kochs, ...

I read a really interesting article some years ago how the rich setup charity foundations to hide from taxes. I donate to your foundation some large amount and you do the same.

Then employ your family members to run the foundation and pay them a huge salary.

I can’t validate this, but I recall the article.