This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group.
Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows.
During the call, some attendees discussed making political donations to Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters, according to chat messages summarizing the conversation.
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Can we start naming all these billionaires. I feel like the media is constantly saying billionaire this billionaire that. How many of them can there actually be. Let’s start getting names so we can see the 5 or so people who get to decide how they want to fuck everything up.
From the article:
“Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows.”
It names some. But the article continues and talks about more people in the chat without naming them.
Those are likely the people whose names are in the text chat log. The rest were smart enough not to write anything down (although transcription is a thing too).
I hear Bill Ackman’s name far too little for as often as I have his paid opinions appear in front of my eyeballs. I’m not sure if he has pressured Adams directly as per this article, but I know he has been pulling strings with university admins.
The article did name them…
Agreed, we need to start a culture of knowing who these people are.
That’s why the police exist. That’s why they were created. No big surprise here.
Great trick, isn’t it: They’re employed to protect the capital of the titans, from the taxes of the people who they are protecting the hoard from.
It’s no wonder so many people have trouble wrapping their brains around it, honestly. It’s devious.
