It
is no coincidence that some of the world’s most ardent imperialists
are behind the cynical exploitation of one heinous murder — of
British MP Jo Cox — to enable global mass-murder as well as human
trafficking under the pretext of “ethical” and “humanitarian”
intervention.
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
6 - Nick Grono and the Clintons
Van
Oranje is hardly the only Jo Cox Fund co-founder with a well-heeled
foothold in the elite camp. Nick Grono, another co-founder of the
fund, had worked with Jo Cox at an anti-slavery NGO, the Freedom
Fund. Grono, who was appointed the group’s CEO in January of 2014,
had also previously served in key posts at the NGO Walk Free, also
aimed at ending modern-day slavery. Grono had also been Deputy
President and Chief Operating Officer at the cutting edge “conflict
resolution and prevention” cartel commonly known as the
International Crisis Group (ICG).
The ICG
board is comprised of a cadre of well-known elites such as Frank
Giustra, longtime philanthropic partner of Bill Clinton and the
Clinton Foundation; Carl Bildt; Emma Bonino; former NATO Chief Wesley
Clark; George Soros; Alexander Soros — the list is extensive of
those who are immensely influential in the globalist circles.
Furthermore, the funding for ICG is paid by the United States
government through the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and
grants made on behalf of the U.S. Congress to foreign political
organizations. Other Western countries, like the Netherlands, also
contribute. Notably, Mabel van Oranje is also a past member of ICG.
Once encased in such a gilded cage, it is easy to build upon such
connections and to expand, as a philanthrocapitalist, into the most
lucrative areas of humanitarian need.
The
Freedom Fund was first announced by former U.S. President Bill
Clinton at the 2013 annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New
York. It was founded with $30 million provided by three
“philanthropic” foundations of powerful billionaires and
financial interests: Humanity United, a foundation funded by Pierre
Omidyar and his wife Pamela; the Legatum Foundation, the development
arm of the Legatum group, a global private investment firm connected
to mega-banks JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs; and the Minderoo
Foundation, the foundation of Australian mining oligarch and the
country’s richest man Andrew Forrest and his wife Nicola.
The
Freedom Fund was described as an “ambitious seven-year effort to
raise and deploy $100 million or more to combat modern-day slavery.”
It was Bill Clinton who announced the fund’s creation, stating that
“This is a huge deal and we should all support this.” Nick Grono
was given the helm early on in the fund’s voyage, serving as its
inaugural CEO. It is worth mentioning that the sincerity of Clinton’s
enthusiasm for combating slavery and human trafficking is suspect,
given that he was a regular visitor on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s
private jet and has intervened on at least one occasion to protect
known child traffickers.
Grono is
also on the board of van Oranje-chaired group Girls Not Brides and
was the inaugural CEO of the anti-slavery NGO Walk Free, which
conveniently interlocks with the anti-slavery movement contained
within Freedom Fund. Notably, Tim Dixon, another Jo Cox Fund founder,
is co-founder of Purpose Europe, a branch of the Avaaz-fostered
behavioral-change experts that market themselves as a “non-profit”
while accepting donor contributions from some of the most influential
foundations and political “change” drivers, such as Google.
According to Cory Morningstar, a pioneer researcher into the NPIC
(Not for Profit Industrial Complex): “Where, under the
organization Avaaz, the public hasn’t acquiesced to an airstrike on
Syria, the New York public relations firm Purpose Inc. has stepped
in.”
Dixon’s
connections will be covered in greater depth in Part 2, but it is
worth noting here that Dixon also connects into the van Oranje
network. Under Dixon’s tutelage and according to his LinkedIn
profile, Purpose “incubated” van Oranje’s Walk Free Foundation
that is now listed among the high-profile “partners” on the
Purpose website.
The
flotilla of anti-slavery activists and sponsors who floated Freedom
Fund were Humanity Utd, Minderoo, Legatum Foundation who were then
joined by the Stardust Fund, the C & A Foundation, and Children’s
Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), which granted $10 million to the
Freedom Fund over five years “to scale its anti-slavery work, with
a particular focus on tackling the exploitation of children.”
These
groups continue to back Freedom Fund, which also receives significant
funding from the U.K. government and UBS, the multinational
Switzerland-based investment bank.
A
seminal paper written by Janie A. Chuang, an American professor of
law, highlighted the pitfalls and risks involved in this particular
area of philanthrocapitalism, a term Chuang invented in her essay.
Chuang argues that “deep financial resources and access to powerful
networks” give the philanthrocapitalists tremendous power to “shape
the future trajectory of the anti-trafficking movement.” However,
Chuang warns that this also gives these soft power moguls the ability
to reconfigure and distort the landscape of global anti-trafficking
policy-making and to contain it within a very limited power base that
will monopolize the “market” and control the outcome.
The more
sinister aspect of this overlap is that these capitalist NGO chains
depend upon their ability to generate a revenue stream that sustains
their positioning at the top of the fundraising pyramid. To what
extent is the control they have over sectors of human suffering
influenced by their need to meet the pay grade of their directors and
board members? To what extent will these foundation-controlled NGOs
sacrifice the agendas of their wealthy and powerful sponsors in favor
of integrity and genuinely humanitarian objectives? In a nutshell,
these anti-trafficking organizations depend upon human trafficking
for their success, status and impact in an oversubscribed market.
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