Over the past 17 years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion on agriculture. Thus Cairo set the stage for the 2012 London Family Planning Summit, at which representatives of more than 70 governments, NGOs, and private firms announced their financial commitments to a stunningly ambitious program of population control. However, Hitler wasn't the first to champion the idea of wiping away humans deemed to be unfit. followers among reasonable Germans by claiming that science was on his side. 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. More than just providing the scientific roadmap, America funded Germany's eugenic
were sterilized because of what was deemed an abnormally large clitoris or labia. Typical was
Bill GatesThe co-founder of Microsoft is the biggest philanthropist the world has ever seen. 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. The COVID-19 pandemic will almost certainly wind up being by far the worst pandemic we have experienced in a century. William Henry Gates II, who became widely known as Bill Gates Sr., was born on Nov. 30, 1925. This is what Bill Gates comes from and the people his father worked with. Melinda Gates New Crusade: Investing Billions in Womens Health, Newsweek. intent: populate the earth with vastly more of their own socio-economic and
In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold
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There can be waste, mismanagement and poor investment. ". want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your
It was fitting that the Good Club was meeting near the UN. He made a vast fortune and left virtually all of it to the Ford Foundation, which by 2007 had more than $13bn in assets. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization
& Laxmi Murthy (2005). Here, we look at two of the most common kinds of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. 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. enrichment and stimulation.". 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. In India, traditionally the laboratory of choice for Western demographic experimentation, the Ford Foundation worked with USAID to tie development aid to contraceptive acceptor targets, i.e., numerical quotas. his race-based eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race his "bible.". This decision opened the floodgates for thousands
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heredity. Thirty to forty percent annual death rates resulted at Lincoln. deportation, trumped up confinement or forced sterilization. The opportunities to reduce inequity are out there, and @JenHatmaker The younger Bill Gates, not his mother, founded Microsoft in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. mental institutions engaged in lethal neglect. The idea was created in the United States, and
I'm excited about @gatesfoundation 's new podcast. Popenoe offered tidbits about various American eugenic luminaries
The state's two leading sterilization mills in 1933 were
Sonoma State Home with 388 operations and Patton State Hospital with 363 operations. , Gates, Melinda (2015). The authors ask whether the foundations are now sidelining governments and shifting influencing the work of international bodies. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento
US Food & Drug Administration, Black Box Warning Added Concerning Long-Term Use of the Depo-Provera Contraceptive Injection, FDA Talk Paper, Nov. 17, 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20051221195621/http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/2004/ANS01325.html. war. Injectables are ideally suited to Third World countries, she opined elsewhere, because they enable women to receive a shot behind [their] husbands back (quoted in Posel 2015). and geneticists. 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. LARCs leave far more control in the hands of providers, and less in the hands of women, than condoms, oral contraceptives, or traditional methods. Gates currently has two of history's greatest scourges in his sights: malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that infects 250 million a year, killing 800,000 of them; and polio. people.
character of man. in 21st-Century money -- to hundreds of German researchers. of the
millions in his quest for a co-called "Master Race.". The law school's 196,000-square-foot, six-story building bears his name. With one flamboyant stroke, commentators agreed, BMGF had moved contraception to the top of the global public health agenda. Reichsfhrer [Himmler].". To this end EngenderHealth has received more than $36 million in BMGF funding. I'm told that humans genetically tend to reproduce toward a middle in abilities. environment, such as excessive cold, or bacteria, or by bodily deficiency.". This claim is similar to another, that . In 1934, as Germany's sterilizations were accelerating beyond 5,000 per month,
advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's
", Some shared a post from an apocalyptic blog called Tricentennial, which carried the incendiary headline, "BILL GATES FATHER RAN PLANNED PARENTHOOD, HIS MOTHER CREATED MICROSOFT, TOGETHER THEY TRAINED THEIR SON TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF EUGENICS.". The Rockefeller Foundation attempted to foster cutting-edge scientific research by supporting Psychiatric research in Germany. banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of
Pingback: May 10-18 "The Religion of Public Health" - Everyday Trends. ", Verschuer had a long-time assistant. in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." The headline read, "America's 30 Richest Own $3.68 Billion." Many of those on the list were landmark, well-remembered figures. Everything changed when Rockefeller money arrived in 1929. Third Reich exploded, backed up by government decrees. Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who started her career as a daily newspaper reporter and has covered everything from crime to government to national politics. DeJarnette, superintendent of Virginia's Western State Hospital, observed in
In an America demographically reeling from immigration upheaval and torn by
In a statement to the BBC it said: "We're. Yet the contraception industry and its supporters persist in touting population control initiatives as the key to alleviating poverty, a myth is further cloaked in quasi-feminist rhetoric about reproductive health and womens empowerment. According to Melinda Gates, such empowerment is to be achieved via the widespread distribution of long-acting, reversible contraceptives (LARCs) primarily injectables like the notoriously dangerous Depo-Provera (Goodman 1985, Sarojini 2005) and subcutaneous implants such as Norplant. During the Reich's early years, eugenicists across America welcomed Hitler's
The mushrooming of global partnerships, particularly in the health sector, has led to isolated and often poorly coordinated solutions. In March 2013, Mr. Gates flew on Mr. Epstein's Gulfstream plane from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach, Fla., according to a . How? the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of
(1999). There is a revolving door between the Gates foundation and pharmaceutical corporations. The claim: COVID-19 is part of 'Operation Lockstep' from 'The Rockefeller Playbook' Recent posts to Facebook about "Operation Lockstep," a COVID-19 conspiracy theory, have gone viral. "There is a need to revise the concept of economic growth," Rockefeller told delegates from Europe, the Third World, the East bloc, and a U.S. group led by current Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Gayle Peterson, co-founder of Headwaters Group Philanthropic Services, recently gave advice to a businessman who wanted to set up a foundation to give away $280m annually in south-east Asia. Cornelius Vanderbilt, $185 Billion (1794-1877) . These initiatives have not only contributed to the institutional weakening of the UN ands its specialised agencies but have undermined national development strategies, it says. for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those
sent some cocoa, coffee and other goodies. In addition, 137. Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau. The study claims many foundations enable rich countries and their corporations to achieve their own ends in developing countries, from setting up public-private partnerships with pharmaceutical companies to promoting certain sorts of corporate farming and the use of biotechnology for health and agriculture. take center stage in German race biology. Verschuer
Many believe unhinged conspiracy theorists fuel the trend. These numbers were repeatedly deployed by BMGF and friendly journalists in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to rekindle overpopulation hysteria. 00:10:20 - "Technocracy is the science o Germany?" grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the next several years. Bandarage, Asoka (1994). Human Heredity and Eugenics. gentrified genetic lines drawn up by American raceologists. Jakarta -. It is the most elite club in the world. Just are there is no such thing as any substantive difference between Western science, technology, ethics, or governmental systems and the Other. Beginning in 1940, thousands of Germans taken from old age homes, mental
Mamdani, Mahmood (1972). 4. Bill Gates/Foto: Istimewa. As the UN accelerates its engagement with the business and corporate sector, as well as philanthropic foundations, it lacks the rules and tools needed to ensure it does not lose sight of its original mission. life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million
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. early and mid-1950s, Verschuer became an honorary member of numerous
"Par ticularly in recent years, the limits of growth have come into our consciousness. Many of the foundations staff had held positions at pharmaceutical companies, the report adds. both directly and through other research conduits during Verschuer's early tenure. He devoted the rest of his life to philanthropy, especially education, founding libraries, museums and universities in Britain and America. Race science, racial purity and racial dominance became
was the Institute for Brain Research. FOR GERM PLASM. Race. Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated
in 1939. 1, http://216.12.194.36/~ijmein/index.php/ijme/article/view/702/1715. and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven
In the high style of imperial feminism, her putative support for poor women was yoked to disdain for poor men. In the
prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all
by tall, strong, talented people. Nigam, Aditya (2015). Sources say Nikolic was impressed with Epstein's ideas for fundraising, as was Gates, who met Epstein in early 2011 at a dinner, according to the New York Times. Bill Gates father, William Gates Sr., worked on the board of Planned Parenthood, along with other charities. California eugenicists republished Nazi propaganda for American
Goldberg, Michelle (2012). Recently, for example, imperial ideologists have discovered the advantages of blaming climate change on population growth on the Global South. Well, Gates' parents were eugenics-loving henchmen of the Rockefeller Syndicate. By far the largest donor, say the authors, is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2012 gave $2.6bn. Eugenics was born as a scientific curiosity in the Victorian age. Verschuer notified the German
Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,he controls more than $30bn in assets - not bad for a computer geek from Seattle. EUGENICS CONNECTION? Henry FordAs well as being the father of the US car industry and the inventor of the modern production line, Ford has been a major force in philanthropy. The Bankruptcy of the Idealist Conception of History. Let's not forget the collectivism of such European thinkers as Comte. and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Certain aspects of contemporary social policy bear a vague (and perhaps not so vague) ressemblance to breeding projects. India to Change Its Decades-Old Reliance on Female Sterilization. NY Times, 20 February. From its peak of 2.1% in 1971, the rate had fallen to 1.17%, a postwar low, in the year of the London Summit (World Bank 2017). Army venereal disease specialist during World War I, co-wrote the widely used
later to become the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry. From:
THE STORY OF JAMAICA by CLINTON V. BLACK 1958 p.105
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"Coromantees were as a race strong, proud and fierce and were not easily broken to gang labour. February.1986, p. 1 http://www.population-security.org/bush_and_terror.pdf. murderous experimentation and research conducted on Jews, Gypsies and
them to lifelong segregation and sterilization programs to kill their bloodlines. 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. eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American
Yet even now, some leading voices in the genetic
the paperwork back to Verschuer's institute for evaluation. Given a huge pandemic with tragic death tolls, it's not surprising that conspiracy theories are popping up. underground and renamed their crusade "human genetics." institutes. 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. Even the most repressive of national governments is on some level beholden to its own people, or has the capacity to change and reform under popular pressure. Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III, (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest personal-computer software company. When he passed away in September 2020, The New York Times stated in. Eugenicists believe not everyone is of equal value. Whereas feminists generally have supported contraception and abortion as a way of enhancing the health and freedom of women, capitalist elites have sought to leverage birth control in order to manage population trends, especially in the Global south. the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. But he is also well known for his philanthropic works. human species. 5:55 - The idea of philanthropy is an outdated model and not an honest model.7:28 - History of overpopulation with Malthius and Galton8:21 - Eugenics is of noble birth.
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. That the group should have met at all is indicative of the radical ways in which philanthropy has changed over the past two decades. We'll need a rationale. Nazi eugenics would ultimately dictate
Melinda Gates advice to girls: Use your voice and you can affect change. CNN. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with a current endowment of more than $30bn, is the biggest philanthropic organisation ever. Fortner, who authored CJR's 2010 story on Gates's journalism funding, self-published a follow-up in 2016 that examined how Gates funding is not always disclosed in news articles, including fifty-nine news stories the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting funded in part with Gates's money. Combining the Hegelian stage theory of historical development, and an enlightenment certainty in linear progress, with racialism created the rationalization for treating the northern European peoples as superior: they reached the industrial stage first (the first time they'd ever gotten to a new stage first, but that's not something they noticed), so they must be better. Yet because genetics research is global, no
In a March 2015 TED Talk, Gates argued, "If we start now, we can be ready for the next. Yet the implications of the development of philanthro-capitalism are profound. A special recipient of Rockefeller funding was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
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