The Gates of Hell and The Tales of Hoffman
It is highly doubtful that Dante and Offenbach had Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman in mind when they penned, respectively, The Inferno and The Tales of Hoffman.
Which circle of hell awaits rich tech billionaires with documented links to Jeffrey Epstein and the island of their dreams, one might wonder, channeling Dante.
Gates, we all know. Reid Hoffman co-founded and still runs LinkedIn, that absolutely useless social media network primarily for professionals. LinkedIn is, and always was, a solution looking for a problem. But it keeps try-hard middle-ranking executives in print and so boost egos, I suppose. God knows why innocents fall for it.
All this comes to mind this week, given some seedy events in an altogether seedy American election. First came the question from Clayton Morris at Redacted – why had Bill Gates suddenly donated 50 million dollars (75 million Australian dollars) to Kamala Harris? Morris’s question, in particular, was, what is he hiding? You see, this is, apparently, the first time Bill has given any money to an American politician. He saves his gifting for the World Health Organisation, the media (like The Guardian and the BBC), Big Pharma and a bunch of Australian university researchers. This contribution was all a bit sudden and, I gather, meant to be secret.
Given the politicised sewer that is the American “justice” system, it is a safe bet that, if Harris wins, Trump will end up in jail. And, it seems, so might Elon Musk. Jail, or worse, in each case. On the other side of the coin, Musk reckons that Gates and Hoffman would currently be pretty nervous at the thought of a Trump victory. Musk thinks it likely that Trump would release the “Epstein files”. He thinks Harris would most certainly not.
What is Bill Gates HIDING? He just donated $50 Million to keep it quiet | Redacted w Clayton Morris
As interview boom moments go, this conversation between Elon and Tucker Carlson is up there. It is very brief but compelling. Eminently watchable.
Perhaps the most compelling line of all is not Musk’s reference to “several thousand hours of footage” on assumed Epstein and Sean “walking dead man” Coombs (aka P Diddy) tapes, but Carlson’s comment:
It’s kind of weird that the people on those videos are lecturing the rest of us about our moral failings, isn’t it?
In this world e now inhabit, it is J D Vance that is called “weird”. They call Trump a threat to democracy and “literally Hitler”. Musk calls this tactic a “pre-emptive moral strike” by the elites, to deflect attention from themselves. Bill Gates’ gift of 75 million to Kamala and Touchdown Tim might turn out to be a wise investment. Canny risk analysis.
As always, the thousands of viewer comments below the line are fascinating. I especially enjoyed this one:
I remember years ago on tv, I believe it was a Supreme Court nominee having Ted Kennedy question his morals. I couldn't believe everyone there didn't burst out laughing at that!
That was then. Teddy K always had immense gall, given Chappaquiddick. Today, there is literally no shame, no pretense, nothing that they will not say with epic hypocrisy.
(Musk, of course, has history with Hoffman. Musk was ousted as CEO of PayPal back in the day, by, among others, a then board member called Reid Hoffman. This is all covered in Walter Isaacson’s book on Musk).
Whether or not Gates or Hoffman are included in the Epstein “files”, which may or may not exist, and may or may not be released, there is stench around the Epstein connection for both of these controligarch tech “titans”. (Interestingly, the 1998 Ron Chernow biography of John D Rockefeller is called Titan).
Melinda Gates is on the record as having left the marriage partly because of her husband’s relationship with Epstein.
Well, who wouldn’t?
The Gates-Epstein connections weren’t just about islands of desire:
Whitney Webb notes that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be a "money manager" who vetted legal advisors for Bill Gates, and highlights Epstein's close ties to Gates through his employees Nathan Myhrvold, Linda Stone, Melanie Walker, and Boris Nikolić:
"The mainstream media narrative refuses to say that the Epstein-Gates relationship proceeds 2011, which I think is all about protecting greater scrutiny of the Epstein Microsoft ties and also the Maxwell family ties to Microsoft that took place during the 90s. But the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a lot to answer for when it comes to Epstein.
Before 2011, one of the top science advisors for that foundation was a woman named Melanie Walker, whom Epstein recruited into his network in 1992. She was his science advisor after he paid for some of her graduate studies. That was in the late 90s, and shortly after, she had a brief stint with the World Health Organization and then was hired to be a science advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she introduced Epstein to another science advisor of the Gates Foundation Boris Nikolic.
And if you remember, Boris Nikolic, when Epstein died, was actually the backup executor to his will. So why would Epstein have put Nikolic in that position? And why would Gates hire someone like Melanie Walker, whose resume at that point was being science advisor to Jeffrey Epstein? And, of course, there was a lot of overlap between the science Jeffrey Epstein was into and the science that Bill Gates is into."
Source: the Covid Truth Network Telegram channel, 6 May 2023.
The interconnections are astonishing. Chilling. It is the way the world works, to borrow a term popularised in the 1990s by the American author Jude Wanniski, in a very different context.
It is simply fascinating how the US justice system plays out. The day after Trump appeared on the tools at a Maccas restaurant, Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began investigating McDonalds for an e-coli outbreak. Of course they did.
COINCIDENCE? Biden's CDC hits McDonalds with E.coli investigation after Trump works Drive-thru
And we have Hoffman himself, who, as well as donating money to one-time Trump opponent Nikki Haley, has helped to fund various court cases against The Donald. Lawfare at fifty paces, with big tech money in the mix. It is enough to make you physically ill. It is a circus. Elections used to be about thrashing out policy differences. Now they are about billionaire businessmen trying to stay out of jail.
Hoffman is a real piece of work, of course, as is clear from his mealy mouth excuses over his relationship with Epstein. As Paul Joseph Watson noted last year:
The Democrat billionaire who funded E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Donald Trump visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island and met him on at least two other occasions, records show.
Source: Paul Joseph Watson’s Telegram channel, 10 May 2023.
Watson continues:
Hoffman has now been outed for visiting Epstein’s island in 2014 – long after Epstein’s conviction for procuring a girl below age 18 for prostitution – and even arranged to stay at the Manhattan townhouse where the financier abused many of his victims.
Hoffman admitted to The Wall Street Journal that “by lending my association, I helped [Epstein’s] reputation, and thus delayed justice for his survivors.” He claimed his last interaction with the convicted sex offender was in 2015.
Details of Hoffman’s visit to the island – for business, it is claimed – can be found here, at The New York Post. As always, again, commenters’ thoughts are always instructive. Not everyone believes Hoffman’s cover story. Perhaps it is a case of implausible deniability.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/linkedins-reid-hoffman-visited-jeffrey-epsteins-private-island/
The Democrat “megadonor” has been gunning for Trump for years. Recently Hoffman penned an article for the leftist rag, Bloomberg:
US Business Leaders Want Harris’ Stability Not Trump’s Chaos.
This is risible. Of course, the corporate wokerati don’t like what Trump stands for. Trump likes deplorable people. But eminent businessmen also have short memories. They might, on reflection, recall the Trump economic boom, the growth, the prosperity, the all-too-brief energy sufficiency, the bringing of overseas jobs back home, and so on.
On Hoffman’s headline, Harris and stability are two words you don’t normally find in the same sentence. Clearly Hoffman wasn’t referring to Kamal’s mental stability. No, I tend to Elon Musk’s theory that Hoffman is nervous about a Trump victory for other reasons. Hoffman writes:
But there’s something even more fundamental at stake this election. American business and commerce rely on the rule of law. Companies can’t thrive where an erratic, vindictive autocrat influences our courts and Justice Department. And they can’t take Trump at his word if he’s shown himself to be a serial liar whose tweets can depress markets.
This is fantasyland. A bit like Epstein Island. American business relies on the rule of law? Err, no, they rely on getting into bed with big government, on making donations to politicians so as to get them to bend the rules in their favour, on corporate bullying of their workers, on ignoring their customers, on smashing competitors and aiming for monopoly, on business welfare and on lawfare and raw power.
One account of Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman calls it “magical, fantastical, scary”. I little like Reid’s third grade attempt at economic analysis.
Speaking of the rule of law, it hasn’t been a good week or so for Bill Gates:
A Dutch court has ruled that Bill Gates must stand trial in the Netherlands over allegations tied to COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
The case, filed by seven plaintiffs, centers around claims that Gates, along with former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and members of the Dutch government’s COVID-19 “Outbreak Management Team,” misled the public about vaccine safety.
The plaintiffs, who had received COVID-19 vaccines, allege that they were seriously harmed by the shots. One of the plaintiffs has since passed away, leaving six to continue the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs’ case, filed last year, claims Gates and others involved in pandemic management knowingly misrepresented the vaccines’ safety.
The case also references Gates’ role in international initiatives like the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Great Reset” and his foundation’s involvement in global vaccination programs through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Legal experts remain cautious about the potential success of the lawsuit. Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst pointed out that COVID-19-related lawsuits have not generally been successful in the Netherlands, partly due to widespread judicial support for vaccination programs.
Nevertheless, independent journalist Erica Krikke, who has been covering the case, sees the ruling as significant, stating that even high-profile figures like Gates must answer to the court.
This case could potentially set a global precedent for plaintiffs suing high-profile individuals or organizations for vaccine-related injuries, especially when defendants reside outside the plaintiffs’ country.
Covid heroes all over the world will be cheering this one on. Australian (and other nations’) courts were feeble during Covid. They sided with totalitarianism and thuggery against science, truth and human rights, over and over again. They aligned with with organisations like the ATAGI (the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation) liars. They sided with Mark McGowan against Clive Palmer. They are making Monica Smit pay court costs even though she won in two of the three matters relating to VicPol. (She is appealing that).
Australian judges and their international peers were largely a miserable lot who deferred to corporate Covid criminals and their acolytes. Rebekah Barnett notes:
In Australian legal cases alleging human rights breaches during Covid, judges have tended to agree that human rights were breached, but have argued that this is ok because the emergency justified it.
But as Rebekah and you and I know, there was no emergency! That was a lie, too. Many know that now, though still not nearly enough. I knew it then.
Globalist Gates has to face a court in a foreign land. Lying, bullying and paying people off doesn’t always work, Bill. The Court’s decision shows there is still some hope, not only in the vaccine harms fight but in relation to outsider fights against the power of big business generally.
Gates’ Covid crime is not some mere trifle. As German MEP Christine Anderson states:
"[The global roll-out of mRNA Covid "vaccines"] will be known as the biggest crime to ever have been committed on mankind."
Indeed. It is epic evil, and unlike Pol Pot and friends, perpetrated in and by so-called democracies. And few can be in any doubt whatsoever that William Henry Gates III was the global ringmaster. Carrying on a family tradition, as it happens. His old man headed Planned Parenthood, the baby killing machine.
Between the two of them, Gates and Hoffman, whatever their stakes in this election, they have done a power of harm.
Trump’s only second term agenda, if he chances to exceed the cheat margin on 5 November, must be to correct his second great failure of term one – after Covid – and “clean house”. To use Elon Musk’s term. At least Trump does acknowledge this massive own goal. And cleaning house doesn’t just mean releasing “the Epstein list”. With The Donald’s own past with the ladies, some of it merely alleged, some, no doubt, real, he may well pass on the list release. That isn’t the main point, though.
If Harris wins, or if the MAGA Party does but doesn’t clean house, well, we really will be at the gates of hell.
Paul Collits
25 October 2024
Gates yet again buying his way in to wield the levers of power?
After all, he did lead the ‘race for a coronavirus vaccine’…insisting "...we need to make the vaccine available to almost every person on the planet": https://elizabethhart.substack.com/p/we-need-to-make-the-vaccine-available
While at the same time investing in vaccines…