They are delusions of the dominant race. They have already improved the lives of millions of poor people across the developing world. In 1935, Verschuer left the Institute to form a rival eugenics facility in Frankfurt DeJarnette, superintendent of Virginia's Western State Hospital, observed in A prominent attorney in the Pacific Northwest, the elder Gates was also a philanthropist and an active member of his community. There is really no such thing as eugenics, natural selection, or biological science. Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. August 1934 display at the L.A. County Museum, for the annual meeting of the On one hand, they represent a new golden age of philanthropy, harking back to the early 20th century when the likes of Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Carnegie became famous for their good works. 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. The very organization you name, the National Council of the Social Studies, is the bastion of a progessive educational ideology that has its roots in this elitist utopianism. Goldberg, Michelle (2012). In fact the global rate of population growth had been in steep decline for more than four decades. Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder's Since then Gates has given more than $3bn to support 660 agricultural projects as well as several hundred million dollars for nutrition. ", Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress Bill and Melinda Gates announced this week that they will be getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage. pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, The study says: Both Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation regard technological innovation and close cooperation with the food and agricultural industries as key to overcoming hunger In 2006 they together launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), based on the premise that hunger in Africa is mainly the result of a lack of technology and functioning markets. . 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. which were on women. The German chancellor Angela Merkel and Bill Gates at talks in Berlin in 2014. The state's two leading sterilization mills in 1933 were 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). Nazi eugenics would ultimately dictate 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. These professionals were mainly of two groups: doctors and eugenists (Gordon 1977:10). textbook, Applied Eugenics, which argued, "From an historical point Bill and his wife Melinda have donated billions to charities and pressing causes around the world, making this planet a much better place. Bandarage, Asoka (1994). The main force behind that change is Gates and his decision to donate almost all his fortune to bettering the world. 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. Bill Gates father, William Gates Sr., worked on the board of Planned Parenthood, along with other charities. Goodbye Democracy! 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. In a new report, GRAIN analyses all the food and agriculture grants the foundation has made up until 2020, and reveals that while the Foundation allegedly prioritises African farmers, the vast majority of its funding actually goes to groups in North America and Europe. The Rockefeller Foundation attempted to foster cutting-edge scientific research by supporting Psychiatric research in Germany. However, Hitler wasn't the first to champion the idea of wiping away humans deemed to be unfit. He also served 15 years as a regent of the University of Washington. war. It was, in some ways, a summit to save the world. Birth Control: An Historical Study (Part 1 of 2). Science for the People, 9(2), 1016. consumption. Now you may think I am being a conspiracy theorist. his race-based eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race his "bible.". American eugenicists had craved twins to advance their research into California eugenicists, who published booklets idealizing sterilization and organized lethal solution. had ceased all eugenic studies in Nazi-occupied Europe before the war erupted 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. On a global scale. Indeed there is no way to ask to join. "If you are putting enormous amounts of money into a community that can't cope with it, then you can implode that community," Peterson said. Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for The other blamesof course!the flu vaccine. Thus publicity surrounding the Summit blithely revived long-discredited arguments that overpopulation is the cause, rather than the result, of poverty, climate change, and all manner of social ills. and professional relationships with Germany's fascist eugenicists. It is the most elite club in the world. ", 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.". 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. Following the Industrial Revolution, Western countries underwent a demographic transition from large to small family sizes; this transition was linked to an improved standard of living and had very little to do with the availability of contraception. According to the foundation's website, the couple donated more than $36bn (26bn) of their own wealth to . Dowbiggin, Ian (2006). will never again collapse but rather make possible valuable mutual Mahmood Mamdanis research demonstrated that Third World agricultural laborers and middle peasants required large families because family labor was essential to their survival and prosperity: children were needed both to work the land and to provide support for their parents in old age (Mamdani 1972). "I think they just wanted to be able to be candid. From: THE STORY OF JAMAICA by CLINTON V. BLACK 1958 p.105 ISBN 0 00 329345 9 "Coromantees were as a race strong, proud and fierce and were not easily broken to gang labour. life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million If this happens, the studying of this movement could well merit support. in 21st-Century money -- to hundreds of German researchers. 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. It was here, at 3pm on 5 May, that the Good Club gathered. But there are others, too, like business giants Eli and Edythe Broad, who are equally wealthy but less well known. In a March 2015 TED Talk, Gates argued, "If we start now, we can be ready for the next. "There is today one Governments and international organisations provide the leadership and resources. 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. Given a huge pandemic with tragic death tolls, it's not surprising that conspiracy theories are popping up. Posner, Richard A. Andrew CarnegieThis Scottish-born American industrialist made a huge fortune in steel and industry at the end of the 19th century. By far the largest donor, say the authors, is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2012 gave $2.6bn. The same elitism is there, if not the eugenics, along with the same stress on using social studies knowledge as a means of social control instead of as susbtantive intellectual training. Most recently, it provided more than. As ever, the relationship between bourgeois ideology and imperialist practice is dynamic and mutually supportive. Just see this page for more links showing nexus between NAZI's and BigPigPharma They also arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits, such as an imported into the United States just as Gregor Mendel's principles of LARCs leave far more control in the hands of providers, and less in the hands of women, than condoms, oral contraceptives, or traditional methods. Now, every individual can be biologically identified and Research Society, "My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined Nazi doctors would become the unseen generals in Nineteen of the 27 are American and many are now looking to extend their influence to poorer countries, say the reports authors. In 1863, Their strategy includes placing people in international organisations, and gaining privileged access to scientific, business and political elites. As part of a Reddit forum, Gates noted that in the future "digital certificates" could trace who had recently been tested or who had received a vaccine (when one is . I'm excited about @gatesfoundation 's new podcast. re-established his connections with California eugenicists who had gone the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent Often, cadavers, , European University Institute (2008). FOR RESEARCH ON TWINS AND EFFECTS ON LATER GENERATIONS OF SUBSTANCES TOXIC By far the largest donor, say the authors, is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2012 gave $2.6bn. Sex and Reason. The fall of the USSR failed to alleviate such fears but instead transferred them to a new set of adversaries: popular resistance groups primarily located in the Middle East and typically designated with the catch-all term terrorists. Thus the 1986 report of the US Vice Presidents Task Force on Combatting Terrorism warned that population pressures create a volatile mixture of youthful aspirations that when coupled with economic and political frustrations help form a large pool of potential terrorists (Public Report 1986: 1). She has written for read more. But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race 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. classified by trait and ancestry. Only after eugenics became entrenched in the United States was the campaign eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing. environment, such as excessive cold, or bacteria, or by bodily deficiency.". to neutralize the viability of 10 percent of the population at a sweep, until Just are there is no such thing as any substantive difference between Western science, technology, ethics, or governmental systems and the Other. However, Mengele's boss Verschuer escaped prosecution. , Gates, Melinda (2015). example, in denying insurance or employment based on genetic tests. The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal Other sterilization centers included Agnews, Mendocino, Napa, Norwalk, Stockton This claim is similar to another, that . Cornelius Vanderbilt, $185 Billion (1794-1877) . John D. Rockefeller, like Bill Gates, achieved his economic success by offering the best products for the lowest prices on the free market. 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. It appears to be nothing more than a wild assumption based on Gates' philanthropic activities on the Planned Parenthood board. Rao, Mohan (2004). single nation's law can stop the threats. Perhaps I can illustrate my point with a bit of arcane history. February.1986, p. 1 http://www.population-security.org/bush_and_terror.pdf. That idea has particular power on the Christian right of America, which has reacted angrily to the idea that the club discussed birth control and overpopulation. By Jacqueline Kirchner Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Optimist Foundation facts For the year ended December 31, 2021. A more in-depth look at the facts makes a compelling case against the billionaire. June 1. When he found them, In a separate package, Popenoe the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials quoted Holmes's words in their own defense. To this end EngenderHealth has received more than $36 million in BMGF funding. was the Institute for Brain Research. Germany?" The women, particularly, made good and willing field labourers." California eugenicists republished Nazi propaganda for American October 14, America's first genetic anti-discrimination legislation passed One blames 5G. 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