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HDF received more than $1m from Andrew Conru, a Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites, the recordings reveal. After being approached by the Guardian, Conru pulled his support, saying the group appeared to have deviated from its original mission of ânon-partisan academic researchâ.
âŚAlready notorious in Germany, he has been designated a ârightwing extremistâ by authorities, who have concluded he poses an âextremely highâ danger, particularly in regard to the radicalisation of young people.
This investigation reveals Ahrens spent months working with members of HDF.
At a sold-out event in London last year, Ahrens was recorded urging his audience to join a secret club dedicated to restoring the power of âwhite societyâ. Later, he boasted of spending the next year âtravelling around from major city to major city, just setting up these cellsâ.
All these tech billionaires think that theyâre the crown of creation. But the only genetic difference they might have over everyone else is if sociopathy has a genetic component.
âWhere the fuck is your chin?â
Maybe, but I think itâs mostly the hoarded wealth that causes that.
Itâs a big reason that I think we should have some sort of limit on extreme wealth. It distorts the wealthyâs perspective, both on us and themselves. It tends to render people delusional, and dangerously since they can use their money hoards to inflict their warped, selfish, sociopathic views on the rest of us.
ITâS NOT A BALLOON, ITâS AN AIRSHI⌠no, wait. Itâs a balloon. Never mind. Sorry! Carry onâŚ
From the article:
There is not really any debate to be had in the case of this balloon ride. Thereâs some debate over the exact definition of âspaceâ and whether the KĂĄrmĂĄn line is the best way to define it but nobody in the scientific community would define floating in a balloon at 100,000 feet as being in âspace.â
When youâre in marketing, climbing up a stepladder can be âGoing to spaaaaace!â
Weâve increased our elevation by 200%!
Iâm no spaceologist, but Iâm pretty sure that almost by definition if you can float a balloon there it ainât space.
In 2020, Patrick Soon-Shiong wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper he owns, reflecting on the murder of George Floyd and what it said about âcenturies of racism in Americaâ.
Announcing the Timesâs reckoning with itself, in the form of an overview by the paperâs editorial board of the newspaperâs history in covering and employing people of colour, Soon-Shiong told readers: âWe invite you along on our journeyâ.
Soon-Shiongâs personal journey, from an upbringing in South Africa to a self-made biotech billionaire, is impressive. But at points he has struggled to bring Times staff with him â as made clear by the cascade of resignations this week within his paperâs opinion section, all prompted by his refusal to allow the editorial board to endorse Kamala Harris.
âI think my fear is, if we chose either one, that it would just add to the division,â Soon-Shiong told Spectrum News on Thursday, noting that he was registered as a political independent.
The billionaire ownerâs refusal to allow the editorial board to make its customary presidential endorsement prompted the public resignations of multiple editorial writers, including a recent Pulitzer prize winner, Robert Greene, and the sectionâs widely respected editor, Mariel Garza, who said: âI want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent.â âŚ
Former Washington Post editor calls non-endorsement âcowardiceâ
Marty Baron, the distinguished former editor of the Washington Post, has excoriated his old employerâs decision not to endorse either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in next monthâs presidential election.
Baron, who was editor of the Boston Globe before he moved to the capital to run the Post in 2013 â both of which publications have won Pulitzer prizes under his leadership â has called the Postâs move to avoid picking a favored nominee for the White House âcowardiceâ.
He posted on X that it represented: âDisturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.â
Baron retired from the Washington Post in 2021. You can read the Guardianâs profile of him then, here.
Given that one of the problems has been carbon dioxide acidifying aquatic ecosystems, I might have held out for something that isnât a much stronger acid already noted for doing exactly that. But Iâm not a billionaire genius. Iâm sure this is well thought out, and not just someone looking to get paid for offloading pollution they already produce.
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