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Group.png Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  
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Interests“Pandemic/Preparation”, vaccination, eugenics, population reduction, GMOs, social control
Interest ofSylvia Burwell, Martin Landray, Stephen Redd, Tachi Yamada
Member ofBusiness for Inclusive Growth, Friends of Europe, WEF/Strategic Partners
Founder ofBetter Than Cash Alliance
Sponsor ofCharité 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
Influential foundation which was established at a time when a judge ruled that Microsoft was to be broken up. It's founder has been described as a bully who dressed down employees in public, who seemed to thrive on conflict and always pressed for (his) advantage.

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,[1] holding $46.8 billion in assets. The stated goals of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the US, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.

These activies makes door opener for corporate interests, creating new profitable markets for the very multinational corporations the Gates' have big share ownership in[citation needed].

Never Trust Anyone With A Foundation!

History

During the 1990s, Microsoft owner Bill Gates found himself more and more reviled, as his company was accused of unethical and monopolistic business practices, with 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. At the same time, the Foundation was part of a PR-offensive, where by 2020, thanks to large donations/investments in media and health organizations, Bill Gates became the revered leader of global health initiatives, being thanked by politicans for his leadership in the handling of the Covid-19 virus[2].

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 Foundations large stock ownership in the companies that benefit from the Foundation's activities. In addition being classified as a philanthropic venture has major tax advantages.

People

The foundation is controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers include Co-Chair William H. Gates, Sr. and Chief Executive Officer Mark Suzman[3]. The first CEO of the foundation, until she stepped down in 2008, was Patty Stonesifer, followed by Mark Suzman.

The Foundation has created an extensive client network of leaders in the health sector globally, which also overlaps with Microsoft leaders.

Policies

Finance

It had an endowment of $46.8 billion [4] The scale of the foundation and the way it seeks to apply business techniques to giving makes it one of the leaders in venture philanthropy,[5] though the foundation itself notes that the philanthropic role has limitations.[6] In 2007, its founders were ranked as the second most generous philanthropists in the US, and Warren Buffett the first.

As of 2018, Bill and Melinda Gates had donated around $36 billion to the foundation.[7][8] Since its founding, the foundation has endowed and supported a broad range of social, health, and education developments including the establishment of the Gates Cambridge Scholarships at Cambridge University.

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."[9] 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."[10]

“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 (May, 1 2020)  [11]

Vaccinations

“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 (2010)  [12]

The foundation may have been involved in a vaccination campaign in Chad that left 40 children paralysed.[13] 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.[14][15][16][17][18][19] In Kenya doctors found an anti-fertility agent in a vaccine that was handed out by the UN,[20] but the campaign was possibly financed by the Gates foundation.[21][22]

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.[23][24] A staff writer for Natural News speculated in 2012 that this investment may be another angle for population reduction.[25]

“my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds”
Bill Gates,  Innovating to zero TED talk (February, 18 2010)  [26]

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. [27]

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

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[28] 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. [29]

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.[30] 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.[31]

Family Planning 2020

Full article: “Overpopulation”

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.[32] The projects aims to give among other things:[33]

  • 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).[34]


 

Events carried out

EventLocationDescription
Catastrophic ContagionBelgium
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 201New 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

PageQuoteAuthorDate
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 Bertram16 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 Gates2009
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation“my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds”Bill Gates18 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 GatesJanuary 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 Birx22 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 CummingsMay 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 Gates16 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 Gates2013
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 KaranjaMarch 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 Kochi2008
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 Malone2022
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 SchwabJanuary 2017

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Geert Vanden BosscheSenior Program OfficerJune 2008June 2021
Chris EliasPresident of the Global Development Program2011
William FoegeSenior Fellow at Global Health Program19992001Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Yinuo LiDirector of the China Program2015
Alaa MurabitDirector Program Advocacy and Communications Health
Tachi YamadaPresident of the Global Health Program20052011

 

Event Participated in

EventDescription
2021 Monkeypox Tabletop ExerciseA 2021 biological exercise which (presciently) predicted the monkeypox pandemic which started in mid May 2022
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References

  1. ↑ "The Wealthiest Charitable Foundations In the World"
  2. ↑ https://t.co/O9bZr1cE2r
  3. ↑ "The Gates Foundation has enormous impact. Its CEO leaving could have an enormous impact, too."
  4. ↑ "Foundation Fact Sheet"
  5. ↑ "The birth of philanthrocapitalism"
  6. ↑ "Guiding Principles"
  7. ↑ "Foundation FAQ"
  8. ↑ "Bill Gates"
  9. ↑ http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
  10. ↑ http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/newsroom/center-news/2020-01-24-Statement-of-Clarification-Event201.html
  11. ↑ https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/bogus-covid-predictive-models-are-funded-by-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation/
  12. ↑ https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/01/Bill-and-Melinda-Gates-Pledge-$10-Billion-in-Call-for-Decade-of-Vaccines Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  13. ↑ https://vactruth.com/2013/01/06/paralyzed-after-meningitis-vaccine/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  14. ↑ https://healthimpactnews.com/2014/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-vaccine-empire-on-trial-in-india/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  15. ↑ https://vactruth.com/2014/10/05/bill-gates-vaccine-crimes/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  16. ↑ http://archive.today/2014.09.02-222046/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-08-31/news/53413161_1_hpv-vaccine-cervarix-human-papilloma-virus
  17. ↑ http://archive.today/2014.09.05-001542/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-08-31/news/53413161_1_hpv-vaccine-cervarix-human-papilloma-virus/2
  18. ↑ http://archive.today/2014.09.04-100237/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-08-31/news/53413161_1_hpv-vaccine-cervarix-human-papilloma-virus/3
  19. ↑ http://archive.today/2014.09.04-100527/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-08-31/news/53413161_1_hpv-vaccine-cervarix-human-papilloma-virus/4
  20. ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/5431664
  21. ↑ http://www.sfaw.org/newswire/2014/11/13/bill-gates-and-the-anti-fertility-agent-in-african-tetanus-vaccine/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  22. ↑ http://archive.today/2020.04.08-222344/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/1999/11/Maternal-And-Neonatal-Tetanus
  23. ↑ http://archive.today/2015.05.15-125114/http://seattleglobaljustice.org/2010/08/for-immediate-release-gates-foundation-invests-in-monsanto/
  24. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto
  25. ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/035105_Bill_Gates_Monsanto_eugenics.html saved at Archive.is
  26. ↑ https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero/transcript
  27. ↑ https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/42635/false-promises-the-alliance-for-a-green-revolution-in-africa-agra
  28. ↑ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/
  29. ↑ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55324.htm
  30. ↑ https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  31. ↑ https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
  32. ↑ http://archive.today/2020.08.15-005137/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning#International_oversight
  33. ↑ https://illinoisfamily.org/uncategorized/gates-foundation-philanthropy-cloaked-abortion/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  34. ↑ https://www.familyplanning2020.org/about-us saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
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