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route, as it were. Has the whole "but who will do the charity work you fund?" problem if everyone does it, but it's fine. However, if it's true the movement worked to promote itself and it's fellow members on
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are here to report about what the media report about things. They said the movement "shielded" SBF. "Shielded" is pretty strong language coming from a top-tier national newspaper, and that's why the item exists in this column. If they were saying such things about other movements with a
Knowledge
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Wikimedia Foundation has been collecting millions of dollars annually for more than 15 years and is currently worth approximately one quarter billion: see
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