Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation   (Foundation, Pharma Lobby)
Founder	•  Bill Gates •  Melinda Gates
Interests	“Pandemic/Preparation”, Planning exercise, Vaccination, Eugenics, Population reduction, GMOs, Social control
Interest of	Sylvia Burwell, Martin Landray, Stephen Redd, Tachi Yamada
Member of	Business for Inclusive Growth, Friends of Europe, WEF/Strategic Partners
Founder of	Better Than Cash Alliance
Sponsor of	Charité Berlin, Christian Drosten, WHO, Clinton Health Inc, Rand Corporation, The Guardian, Robert Koch Institute, Die Zeit, Spiegel, BBC, Council for a Strong America, Solutions Journalism, Brookings Institution, Merck Sharp &Dohme, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Le Monde, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, European Journalism Center, National Newspaper Publishers Association, GAVI, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bloomberg Family Foundation, Rockefeller University, The Workers Lab, Rwanda Agriculture Board, Somali Health Board, Oxfam, Save the Children, CEPI, ID2020, Better Than Cash Alliance, Oxford Vaccine Group, Sinovac, Swissmedic, Pirbright Institute, European Journalism Centre, Population Council, Aspen Institute, Partners In Health, PolitiFact, Munich Security Conference, European School of Management and Technology, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Tankesmien Agenda, Campaign Bootcamp, University College London, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, CIVITA, Pfizer, Statens Serum Institut, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, PATH, International Labour Organization, Clinton Health Access Initiative, University of Washington Foundation, Gates Medical Research Institute, International Vaccine Institute, Family Health International, The Beijing Huayi Health and Drug Research Institute, Burnet Institute, New Venture Fund, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, NBCUniversal, National Public Radio, LA Times, The European Journalism Centre, WEF/Young Global Leaders, Center for Global Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Kaiser Family Foundation, Gannett, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Obama Foundation, Project Syndicate, Center for American Progress, Internews, Abt Associates, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Kofi Annan Foundation, Mahidol University, Human Rights Watch, Cochrane Collaboration, Aspen Institute/New Voices Fellowship, Our World in Data, Article 19, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Alliance for Science
Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the largest private foundation in the world, holding $46.8 billion in assets.

But the way the BMGF finances these actives at the same time creates door openers for big corporations, like Big Pharma, privatized healthcare and education, big technology companies, chemical companies or GM-food. Thereby the philanthropy buys or forces open new profitable markets for the multinational corporations the Gates have their fortune invested in.

The foundation is highly influential in the global health system, having sponsored institutions and careers virtually everywhere; thus buying the couple the ability to decide priorities in everything from the World Health Organization, medical research, to local health care systems.

Never Trust Anyone With A Foundation!

History

During the 1990s, Microsoft owner Bill Gates found himself more and more reviled in public opinion, as his company was accused of unethical and monopolistic business practices, selling substandard products. The Foundation was launched in year 2000, at a time when a judge ruled that Microsoft was to be broken up, as a way to secure the fortune.

In October 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was split into two entities: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, which manages the endowment assets and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which conducts all operations and grantmaking work and it is the entity from which all grants are paid.

As of end 2020, Bill and Melinda Gates had donated around $36 billion to the foundation "giving away his fortune" as the PR claimed. Since it's inception through Q4 2019, the foundation has paid $54.8 billion in grants. In the the same time period, the Gates' fortune more than doubled to over $100 billion.

The foundation is by no means a philanthropic enterprise. What it gives with one hand, it receives back twice with the other, thanks to the Foundation's large stock ownership in the companies that benefit from the Foundation's activities. Vaccinations and initiatives that focus on them (GAVI, etc.), according to Gates, are the best investment he has ever made.

At the same time, the Foundation was part of a massive PR-offensive, where by 2020, thanks to large donations/investments in media and health organizations, the reviled Bill Gates became the undisputed leader of global health initiatives, being thanked by sycophantic politicians for his leadership in the handling of the Covid-19 virus.

Own narrative

"Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life."

The focus on vaccines have saved 60 million lives, or 122 million.

Problems with own narrative

The numbers of "millions children saved" come exclusively from organizations that are sponsored by the foundation. This include the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and especially the influential Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which has been sponsored with over $600 million.

People

The foundation is controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers included Co-Chair William H. Gates Sr.. The first CEO of the foundation, until she stepped down in 2008, was Patty Stonesifer, followed by Mark Suzman.

The Foundation has a revolving door with Big Pharma: Former director of vaccine development at the foundation and current CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, Penny Heaton, comes from the drug kingpins Merck and Novartis; The foundation’s president of global health, Trevor Mundel, served in leadership positions at both Novartis and Pfizer. His predecessor, Tachi Yamada, was previously a top executive at GlaxoSmithKline; Kate James, worked at GSK for almost 10 years, then became the foundation’s chief communications officer.

The Foundation has created an extensive client network of leaders in the health sector globally, which also overlaps with Microsoft leaders. The Foundation has people in all major global health initiatives. It has sponsored countless scientific careers and health administrators, and many politicians and state leaders are part of the network around the foundation. There is not a single organization working in global health that is not somehow related - most likely financially related - to the Gates Foundation. It has also built a wide network of influence through financial ties to top academic researchers and journal editors. BY choosing who to patronize, it can amplify voices of scientists who agree with its agenda, while marginalizing those who have other perspectives.

As the UK-based NGO Global Justice Now noted, “the Foundation’s influence is so pervasive that many actors in international development which would otherwise critique the policy and practice of the Foundation are unable to speak out independently as a result of its funding and patronage."

Event 201

Full article: Event 201

Event 201, a Gates Foundation sponsored tabletop "exercise" about a novel coronavirus pandemic. It was held in New York on 18 October 2019, the day of the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China

"The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY." On 24 January 2020 they issued a "Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise" that clarified that "We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019."

“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded two models to “predict” the spread of COVID-19. The Imperial College London and the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle predicted that 2.2-million Americans would die unless drastic lockdown measures were followed. Both colleges quickly reduced their predictions, but the world is still in lockdown as a result of it. In 2005, the Imperial College of London predicted that 200-million people worldwide would be killed by bird flu. When the “crisis’ was over, the virus had killed 78 people worldwide. In 2009, the College predicted that the swine flu would kill 65,000 people in the UK, but the final number was 457. From 2006 through 2018, the Gates Foundation donated $185-million to the College to continue their good work.”
William Engdahl,  Jon Rappoport (1 May 2020) 

Vaccinations

One of the early vaccine programs that was supported by the Gates Foundation was the Children’s Vaccine Program (CVP) in 1998.

“Vaccines are a miracle — with just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our number-one priority at the Gates Foundation because we’ve seen first hand their incredible impact on children’s lives.”
Melinda Gates (January 2010) 

The foundation may have been involved in a vaccination campaign in Chad that left 40 children paralysed. In India the foundation funded a study that left as many as 120 girls with adverse reactions such as epileptic seizures, severe stomach ache, headaches and mood swings, early onset of menstruation following the vaccination, heavy bleeding and severe menstrual cramps - five of them died. In Kenya doctors found an anti-fertility agent in a vaccine that was handed out by the UN, but the campaign was possibly financed by the Gates foundation.

Agriculture Investments

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is, among other things, actively committed to the dissemination of genetically modified (GM) technologies. In 2010 the Gates foundation heavily invested in Monsanto. A staff writer for Natural News speculated in 2012 that this investment may be another angle for population reduction.

“my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds”
Bill Gates (February, 18 2010) 

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

The Foundation is behind the failed Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), founded in 2006 with the stated objective of giving new impetus to the fight against hunger in Africa with a corporate-driven “Green Revolution” approach. AGRA grandly promised to double the agricultural yields and incomes of 30 million small-scale food producer households by 2020, thus halving both hunger and poverty in the focus countries. To achieve these goals, AGRA received over one billion US dollars –mainly from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but also from governments like the US, UK and Germany.

AGRA lobbies for the development of policies and market structures that promote the adoption of technology packages. This involves speeding up the licensing and organization of agro-dealer networks to give farmers more ready access to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and other inputs making them dependent on access to these expensive inputs that have to be bought every planting season.

AGRA lobbies to integrate small-scale food producers into global supply chains and facilitate cross-border trade of commodities, making small-scale food producers vulnerable to the vagaries of the world market. Protecting small-scale food producers from the import of cheap food — which has been a problem for farmers for decades — is not high on AGRA's agenda.

The initiative has failed utterly in its stated goals. Yield increases for key staple crops in the years before AGRA were just as low as during AGRA. Instead of halving hunger, the situation in the 13 African focus countries worsened since AGRA was launched. The number of people going hungry has increased by 30 percent during the AGRA years.

AGRA forced small farmers to borrow unsustainable debt to purchase synthetic fertilizer and hybrid seeds; from companies the Gates Foundation had big shares ownership in, like Monsanto and Yara Fertilizers This is a massive conflict of interest. In this way, AGRA in reality was a door opener for new profit areas - which maybe was an unstated objective all along.

Revolving door to Big Pharma

Full article: Revolving door

Former Director of Vaccine Development at the Foundation and current CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute Penny Heaton previously worked for drug companies Merck and Novartis. The Foundation’s President of Global Health, Trevor Mundel, served in leadership positions at both Novartis and Pfizer. His predecessor, Tachi Yamada, was previously a top executive at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Kate James, worked at GSK for almost 10 years, then became the Foundation’s Chief Communications Officer.

Moreover, the Gates Foundation invests in these corporations directly. Since shortly after its founding, it has owned stakes in several drug companies. The Foundation currently (2020) holds corporate stocks and bonds in drug companies like Merck, GSK, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis, and Sanofi. The Foundation’s website even candidly declares a mission to pursue “mutually beneficial opportunities” with vaccine manufacturers.

Financing of Journalism

Research by the Columbia Journalism Review examined 20,000 charitable grants by the Gates Foundation and found that more than $250 million dollars went toward journalism like the news organisation NPR, which covers other philanthropic endeavors of the foundation in a favorable way. Other recipients of grants are: BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, The Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and The Center for Investigative Reporting. It is more than likely that financing of media organisations through foundation money will generally influence their reporting directly, or like advertising before, create a friendly media environment.

The full scope of Gates’s giving to the news media remains unknown because the foundation only publicly discloses money awarded through charitable grants, not through contracts.

Secret Lobbying for Genetic Extinction Technology

The Foundation paid the PR-company Emerging Ag inc (and possibly others), to covertly co-ordinate a network of public researchers and officials to influence the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. The goal was to stop a moratorium on use of gene drive technology. The company quietly recruited over 65 experts in an attempt to direct their input into the official UN process. A DARPA official was also a part of the “volunteer” expert group.

Gene drives are a gene-editing application that allows genetic engineers to drive a single artificial trait through an entire population by ensuring that all of an organism’s offspring carry that trait. For example, recent experiments are fitting mice with “daughterless” gene drives that will cascade through mouse populations so that only male pups are born, ensuring that the population becomes extinct after a few generations.

Population control

Full article: “Overpopulation”

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - Overpopulation & Africa (This video was the last in a series, made possible by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation)

One of the focus points of Bill and Melinda Gates is the number of people on the planet, globally and in the developing world in particular.

In the early days of the foundation, it gave generously to the Population Resource Center, to do outreach to "Congressional staff, state and local policymakers and key constituencies" about the negative effects of population growth on public health and the environment.

“When Melinda and I first started our giving, in the late 1990s, our focus was on reproductive health rather than childhood deaths. We felt that giving mothers the tools to limit their family size to what they wanted would have a catalytic effect by reducing population growth and making it easier to feed, educate, and provide jobs for the children who were born.”
Bill Gates (2009) 

Family Planning 2020

The foundation partnered with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (now superseded by the Sustainable Development Goals) for the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, hosted by the UK government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Family Planning 2020 is the result of the summit where more than 20 governments made commitments to address the policy, financing, delivery, and socio-cultural barriers to women accessing contraception formation and services. The projects aims to give among other things:

• Universal access to voluntary contraceptive information, services and supplies, within the context of integrated programs to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights and the health-related MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is listed as core partner for the project, together with USAID, United Nations Population Fund and the Department for International Development (DFID / UK).

School Common Core

Full article: Common Core

The Gates Foundation was one of the main financial backers of push for the the 2010 Common Core program, an unprecedented total overhaul of US public education. The Core coincided with an Obama-era technocratic vision of social change through private and public collaboration, which now obsessed with quantitative measurements. Common Core standards, intended to “equalize gaps in achievement,” instead created an expansive industry bent only on promoting and perpetuating the Common Core. More than a decade after the Common Core’s release, no significant positive impact on achievement has been observed.

Goalkeepers

Started in 2017, the Goalkeepers event is an annual gathering of world leaders, decision makers, and activists arranged by the Foundation, timed to coincide with the UN summit in New York, buying the couple access to world leaders. The speakers at the gathering includes some of the most noticeable leaders during the lockdowns of the world in 2020, like New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in 2019, President Emmanuel Macron of France (2018);, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 2017; others are tied to the Gates philantropic network, liek Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway (2018); or giving award to people like Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.

Criticism

Despite its attempt at portraying itself as open and transparent, the foundation insists on nondisclosure agreements, where employees sign agreements upon hire and upon leaving. The confidentiality is also part of its numerous grant agreements. This makes it legally impossible for them to openly criticize the foundation.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
Catastrophic Contagion	Belgium Brussels	An preparation exercise laying the groundwork for a "pandemic" for two areas that largely avoided the "Covid jab" - children and the continent of Africa.
Event 201	New York US	A Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security/World Economic Forum/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored large scale simulation of a global coronavirus pandemic predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Held October 2019.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Astroturfing	“At some point, I realised something that I at first found to be a coincidence, then amusing, then slightly uncomfortable, and later on worrying. No matter where I worked, whether NGO, consultant, or international organisation, I was paid by one global health donor...I'm not saying that there is no independence in the global health sector...What I’m saying is that my own experience was that I realised at some point (naively, and very late) that I was not one of these people. If there’s one thing I’d like to tell my 20-year old self, it’s this: ask who pays for your job. And then keep your eye on this throughout your career. At least be aware of this. Twenty years later, I’m tired of being an astroturfer. I’m tired of calling myself an independent consultant or claim that I’m working for an independent NGO or organisation when I now know that’s neither true, and increasingly also not the direction I think global health should take.”	Katri Bertram	16 September 2022
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded two models to “predict” the spread of COVID-19. The Imperial College London and the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle predicted that 2.2-million Americans would die unless drastic lockdown measures were followed. Both colleges quickly reduced their predictions, but the world is still in lockdown as a result of it. In 2005, the Imperial College of London predicted that 200-million people worldwide would be killed by bird flu. When the “crisis’ was over, the virus had killed 78 people worldwide. In 2009, the College predicted that the swine flu would kill 65,000 people in the UK, but the final number was 457. From 2006 through 2018, the Gates Foundation donated $185-million to the College to continue their good work.”	William Engdahl Jon Rappoport	1 May 2020
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	“When Melinda and I first started our giving, in the late 1990s, our focus was on reproductive health rather than childhood deaths. We felt that giving mothers the tools to limit their family size to what they wanted would have a catalytic effect by reducing population growth and making it easier to feed, educate, and provide jobs for the children who were born.”	Bill Gates	2009
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	“my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds”	Bill Gates	18 February 2010
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	“Vaccines are a miracle — with just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our number-one priority at the Gates Foundation because we’ve seen first hand their incredible impact on children’s lives.”	Melinda Gates	January 2010
Deborah Birx	“I think that's why the criteria that you can see the Gates that err, that the federal government has recommended are ...”	Deborah Birx	22 April 2020
Dominic Cummings	“In March [2020] I started getting calls from various people saying these new mRNA vaccines could well smash the conventional wisdom. [. . .] People like Bill Gates and that kind of network were saying. [. . .] Essentially what happened is, [. . .] there is a network of people, Bill Gates type people, who were saying completely rethink the paradigm of how you do this.. What Bill Gates and people like that were saying to me and others in number 10 was you need to think of this much more like the classic programs of the past. [. . .] the Manhattan Project in WWII, the Apollo program.. But what Bill Gates and people were saying [. . .] was, the actual expected return on this is so high that even if does turn out to be all wasted billions it's still a good gamble [. . .] and that is what we did.”	Dominic Cummings	May 2021
Bill Gates	“In terms of intellectual property, what we do is actually very simple: we fund research, and we ourselves or our partners create intellectual property, so that everything that is invented with the help of foundation money and goes to richer countries actually pays off.”	Bill Gates	16 May 2011
Bill Gates	“The closer you get to [government] and see how the sausage is made, the more you go, oh my God! These guys don’t even actually know the budget. . . . The idea that all these people are going to vote and have an opinion about subjects that are increasingly complex — where what seems, you might think . . . the easy answer [is] not the real answer. It’s a very interesting problem. Do democracies faced with these current problems do these things well?”	Bill Gates	2013
Bill Gates	“First, we've got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”	Bill Gates Innovating to zero TED talk	18 February 2010
Melinda Gates	“What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts.”	Melinda Gates
Stephen Karanja	“It seems there is something Bill Gates has invested in that requires the whole world to be vaccinated. What that investment is, remains the million-dollar question.”	Stephen Karanja	March 2021
Malaria	“The growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping out the health agency’s policy-making function”	Arata Kochi	2008
Robert Malone	“Many years ago, when I was working for the "Aereas Global Tuberculosis Vaccine Foundation", which was one of the early Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation nonprofit vaccine companies, the CEO hired a media consulting firm that mainly consisted of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a marketing manager. To ensure that favorable stories about the organization and its mission were printed, the "journalist" and the marketing specialist would consult with their clients and learn what story the organization wanted to be told in a major print publication. An article pushing the story would then be crafted, all of the necessary background assembled to meet whatever editorial review standards were likely to be encountered. Then this prebaked work would be fed to some "journalists" working for the targeted publication. My first "You're not in Kansas anymore" moment concerning modern journalism was when I saw this process used to "place" an article in The Economist, which I had naïvely believed operated as an independent arbiter of truth. Even then, I thought, - well, this can't be the norm, can it?”	Robert Malone	2022
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	“The creation of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which will shorten the response time to epidemics by creating new vaccines, was another important milestone for the Forum as it leverages its organizational capacity – including convening power, community management excellence and insight – to offer a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership.”	Klaus Schwab	January 2017

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Geert Vanden Bossche	Senior Program Officer	June 2008	June 2021
Chris Elias	President of the Global Development Program	2011
William Foege	Senior Fellow at Global Health Program	1999	2001	Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Yinuo Li	Director of the China Program	2015
Alaa Murabit	Director Program Advocacy and Communications Health
Tachi Yamada	President of the Global Health Program	2005	2011

 

Event Participated in

Event	Description
2021 Monkeypox Tabletop Exercise	A 2021 biological exercise which (presciently) predicted the monkeypox pandemic which started in mid May 2022

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