I'm excited about @gatesfoundation 's new podcast. Well, Gates' parents were eugenics-loving henchmen of the Rockefeller Syndicate. (1999). Bill Gates Sr. served on \r the board of Planned Parenthood,\r which is funded by Rockerfeller,\r \r In 2006, Warren Buffett who also significantly\r funded Planned Parenthood, pledged 85% \r of his Fortune to The Bill and Melinda \r Gates Foundation, doubling its size\r \r A secret meeting took place on May 5, new \r at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, President of \r Rockefeller University, among . Eugenicists craved blond, blue-eyed Nordic Bill Gates Sr., also known as William H. Gates II, was born in 1925 to furniture store owners in Washington state, ABC News reported. Gates also called President Donald Trump's decision to defund the World Health Organization (WHO) "as dangerous as it sounds" and the billionaire added on Thursday that he's hopeful the president. One gets the impression people expect things to come in the same guise and be recognizable the next time. You simply have to be very, very rich and very, very generous. A special recipient of Rockefeller funding was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin. I have been very anxious about my His name was Josef Mengele. Nor were there any sessions on rising anti-Semitism in Europe. Bill GatesThe co-founder of Microsoft is the biggest philanthropist the world has ever seen. of the American eugenics movement. Today our focus is on making better use of the resources that go into food production, and in particular reducing both post-harvest losses and retail- and consumer-level food waste. Indeed the club's members have given away about $70bn in the past 12 years. biological kind--and less or none of everyone else. They should analyse the intended and unintended risks and side-effects of their activities, particularly the fragmentation of global governance, the weakening of representative democracy the prevailing practice of applying business logic to the provision of public goods., The authors say foundations have used their influence well to get governments to tackle poverty. yield a "total solution to the Jewish problem. There is understandable wariness about more ordinary forms of abuse, for In the fall of 1950, the University of Mnster offered Verschuer a position talent and poverty were passed through the blood. California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. eyes and other body parts were also dispatched to Berlin's eugenic As stated in Aspects of Indias Economy, Malthuss heirs continue to wish us to believe that people are responsible for their own misery; that there is simply not enough to go around; and to ameliorate that state of wretchedness we must not attempt to alter the ownership of social wealth and redistribute the social product, but instead focus on reducing the number of people (Chakrabarti 2014). The president's house is frequently used for university events, but rarely can it have played host to such a powerful conclave. Philanthropist, Entrepreneur and one of the world's wealthiest Billionaires "Bill Gates" has shared many powerful quotes of inspiration over the past decade. Recently, for example, imperial ideologists have discovered the advantages of blaming climate change on population growth on the Global South. American Public Health Association. A prominent attorney in the Pacific Northwest, the elder Gates was also a philanthropist and an active member of his community. On a global scale. Some methods, like Norplant, can render women infertile for as long as five years (Morrow 1999). After a brief period during which widespread horror at Nazi atrocities forced eugenic theory underground as neoconservative jurist Richard Posner lamented, Hitler had given eugenics a bad name (Posner 1992: 430) a number of powerful white men, notably John D. Rockefeller III, became obsessed with differential fertility. Taking note of the higher birth rate in poor countries, some imagined a future world overrun by hungry, unruly brown masses people who would inevitably demand food and justice, enforcing their will through the sheer weight of numbers. In a 2012 Newsweek profile, Melinda Gates described visiting remote clinics in sub-Saharan Africa where, she claims, women literally begged her for Depo-Provera injections supposedly their only means of hiding contraceptive use from unsupportive husbands (Goldberg 2012). Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on he funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz. To the Foundation's credit, it did withdraw support for these. In addition to its grant-making activities, the Gates foundation has recently stepped up its support for the biotechnological industry directly. In February, it took a $52m equity stake in CureVac, a German bio-pharmaceutical company. [This] changed the farming agenda in Africa, say the authors. size of peas, corn and cattle also governed the social and intellectual John D. Rockefeller was born to a con artist, but didn't take after his pop . -- refer to Glaton, "The possible improvement of the human race" in Essays in Eugenics (1909). It was, in some ways, a summit to save the world. World Bank (2017). The Eboes, on the other hand, had for ages been enslaved in Africa by stronger tribes and were, as a result, docile and rather sad by nature. We continue to try to do all we can to be transparent and accountable to our investments and our decision-making., Bill Gates to appear on BBCs Desert Island Discs, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The private sector has access to life-saving innovations and we believe that the role of philanthropy is to take risks where others cant or wont. 01:12. Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees. The headline read, "America's 30 Richest Own $3.68 Billion." Many of those on the list were landmark, well-remembered figures. The state's two leading sterilization mills in 1933 were Amount in U.S. dollars. and professional relationships with Germany's fascist eugenicists. for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin. His special interests were in the fields of science and medicine. 8:21 - "Eugenics is of noble birth. generation that refused to link itself to the crimes of Nazism and by However, more than 80% of the $669m to NGOs went to organisations based in the US and Europe, with only 4% going to Africa-based NGOs.The report claims Agra has been intervening directly in the formulation of African governments agricultural policies on issues like seeds and land. On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. They include the former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, the US filmmaker George Lucas and the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health . 4. Most recently, it provided more than. Back on June 3, 2020, I announced that I would not support Boris Johnson and that I saw him as a threat to Britain. marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," This rise in living standards was attributable largely to massive transfers of wealth from the periphery to the core; but while the West prospered, the imposition of imperialist forms of production on the periphery had profound social and economic consequences for poor countries. by tall, strong, talented people. his race-based eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race his "bible.". organized lethal solution. didn't originate with Hitler. Only after eugenics became entrenched in the United States was the campaign Population Reference Bureau (2004). example, in denying insurance or employment based on genetic tests. By Jacqueline Kirchner Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Optimist Foundation facts For the year ended December 31, 2021. that was much heralded in the American eugenic press. I would refer the author of this story and others to a website, http://www.bjwolfejr.com which raises questions about the continued use of the healtcare system to harass and injure dissidents or persons considered of inferior genetic makeup. Doctors chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers. The report is quite complicated with many links to copies of extensive corroborative medical records. in this branch of research. Unlike the great philanthropists of former ages, Gates is young enough and active enough to take a full hands-on role in his philanthropy and craft it after his own ideas. Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age. This is an important book, although much of the story has been familiar to scholars for decades (especially those who have worked on the immigration restriction movement of the World War I era). Let's see: how 'bout a non-conforming choice of relaxant. When he passed away in September 2020, The New York Times stated in his obituary: Mr. Gates co-founded what became Preston, Gates & Ellis, a leading Seattle law firm, in 1964, and was a partner until 1998. The authors ask whether the foundations are now sidelining governments and shifting influencing the work of international bodies. February.1986, p. 1 http://www.population-security.org/bush_and_terror.pdf. 00:10:20 - "Technocracy is the science o New York: Routledge. The Institute received additional But this raises concerns about how they and their corporate partners may be taking over from the UN and weakening public health systems in developing countries. Differences can be ascribed to many things, but ascribing differences between societies to purely genetic causes is simplistic. Bill Gates founds the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation . Other sterilization centers included Agnews, Mendocino, Napa, Norwalk, Stockton Posner, Richard A. "Par ticularly in recent years, the limits of growth have come into our consciousness. They have already improved the lives of millions of poor people across the developing world. The university's chancellor, Sir Paul Nurse, was out of town but, at the request of David Rockefeller, had allowed the club to meet at his plush official residence. He wrote of the responsibilities of the wealthy in two books, Triumphant Democracy and the Gospel of Wealth. 3- event 201 bill gates and a bunch of multinationals and government agencies did a fake scamdemic public policy . world are calling for a cleansing of the unwanted among us, and even a master Bill Gates gave us Common Core and the Rockefeller Foundation funded ID2020 Alliance "The program will provide infants and children with a portable, biometrically-linked digital ID either at the point of birth registration or at the time of their immunizations." Bill and Melinda Gates announced this week that they will be getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage. more marriage restrictions. Josh, et al. Rabu, 19 Jan 2022 19:30 WIB. apologies to their citizens, past and present, for sterilization and other blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which 1, http://216.12.194.36/~ijmein/index.php/ijme/article/view/702/1715. Yet the implications of the development of philanthro-capitalism are profound. This group alone, they believed, was fit to inherit the earth. Princeton. So far there has been a fairly willing belief among governments and international organisations in the positive role of philanthropy. But, say the authors, a thorough assessment is now necessary because the wealthy may be skewing the priorities of the poor. pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, them to lifelong segregation and sterilization programs to kill their bloodlines. as part of a closely-knit network--published racist eugenic newsletters and Leonora Diller, spokeswoman for the Gates foundation said: The problems affecting the worlds poorest are complex and we believe that solving them requires the close collaboration of governments, NGOs, academic institutions and for-profit businesses. The , Chakrabarti, Manali (2014). Country Comparison: Total Fertility Rate. CIA World Factbook. It does this by focusing on the Holocaust as a simple instance of "fear of the Other," of which all the other instances turn out to be the U.S.'s or the West's responsibility (slavery, Native American slaughters, even the comparatively mild Japanese-American internment of World War II.) The younger Bill Gates, not his mother, founded Microsoft in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. was the rapid expansion of forced segregation and sterilization, as well as American eugenicists had craved twins to advance their research into and then sent various eugenic publications. For example, when Bill Gates visited Berlin to campaign for the Gavi Alliance (the vaccine alliance of governments, NGOs and companies set up with Gates and Rockefeller money), he met the German chancellor and the foreign, finance, development and health ministers. But while the billions of dollars for research is welcomed in rich countries, its massive power to shift the agenda is questioned elsewhere. banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of The worlds largest philanthropic foundations. In time the result is ensured: a docile class of worker cattle. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. The worlds poorest countries, mostly in Africa, still reported alarmingly high fertility rates (the highest of these include Niger, with an average of 6.76 children born per woman; Burundi, 6.09; and Mali, 6.06 (CIA 2015). told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning the victims for sterilization, euthanasia and mass extermination. March, 2014 http://www.rupe-india.org/55/toomany.html. environment, such as excessive cold, or bacteria, or by bodily deficiency.". Many of the foundations staff had held positions at pharmaceutical companies, the report adds. Through the sheer size of their grant-making, personal networking and active advocacy, large global foundations have played an increasingly active role in shaping the agenda-setting and funding priorities of international organisations and governments. Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and But he is also well known for his philanthropic works. They also arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits, such as an Its members control vast wealth - and with that wealth comes huge power that could reshape nations according to their will. According to the report, the Gates foundation is now the second largest donor to the World Health Organisation after the US, as well as one of the worlds largest single investors in biotechnology for farming and pharmaceuticals. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with a current endowment of more than $30bn, is the biggest philanthropic organisation ever. These titans of philanthropy have also started a trend among the slightly less wealthy. Each was allowed to speak for 15 minutes. institutions and other custodial facilities were systematically gassed. The talented men Rockefeller Mao Zedong (1949). These are the biggest food security issues of our day, and, yes, we want to influence decisions so that more food ends up on tables and in mouths and far less of it in landfills, particularly as we want to see this done in a way that benefits smallholder farmers., Diller said: Its important to point out that in all of our grant-making we are guided by the evidence and by the deep research and expertise of our partners and grantees Our open access policy reflect[s] our commitment to the open exchange of information across our work. Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) states that, while Gavi has helped to lower prices of new and underused vaccines for eligible countries, the cost to fully immunise a child was 68 times more expensive in 2014 than it was in 2001. The report also questions why the Gates foundation invests heavily in companies like Monsanto and Bayer. wrong) as an analytic or proscriptive tool. sent some cocoa, coffee and other goodies. Germany?" unprecedented level. Biswas, Soutik (2014). became director and eventually an architect of Hitler's systematic medical repression. Bandarage, Asoka (1994). From Population Control To Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic. The Rockefeller Foundation created the pseudoscientific medical specialty known as "psychiatric genetics," and, using the foundation's funds, Rockefeller funded both of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Germanythe "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry" and the "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human . 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