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Sep 26, 2022Liked by Merissa Hansen

I work for a place that takes money from these places. The new "soup de jour" is using intermediaries like the California Community Foundation to give "anonymous" donations that are still tax deductible. It's partly a targeted injection of policy dollars into a billionaire's pet research project (or bleeding heart endeavor in the case of bail reform efforts). And it also favors the donor as a tax write off. The system is built on IRS rules that allow these shenanigans to continue. The way this works is that funding recipients write their independence language into agreements that effectively keep the donor at arms length (legally). On paper it's a charitable donation. However if you want the gravy train to keep coming you stay in your lane and target your outcomes to the billionaire audience. And downstream the money circulates among swampy networks of consultants, subrecipients, etc. similar to what you write about in your other piece on Fors Marsh. Keep up the good work!

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Speaking of giving to the weak and in need of charity, why did Brandon already give the FEMA bucks to Midget Ron, without the preliminary begging?

Why should the other 49 states give charity to Floriduh? Why can't they handle their own problems?

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Brilliant post, Merissa. It's obvious that "boy wonders" like Bill Gates were actually handed their positions on a silver platter, and foundations are anything but benign.

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The corruption is all around and right out in the open. This NWO that they have planned and enacted. Thanks for the enlightening info. I enjoy your sub stack.

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Another thing. I like how you point out the centralized control over how our world is shaped.

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