Bill Gates wants 1 Billion dead.

Star_Cow wrote: »

That seems a bit crazy

Which bit?

EDIT:

1.The Gates Foundation buys shares in Goldman Sachs - and Monsanto
2.Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation

EXTRACT: The Seattle-based charity endowment, set up by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) founder Bill Gates and his wife, bought a half a million shares in Goldman Sachs during the quarter ended June 30. (item 1)

NOTE: See the World Development Movement's report, 'The great hunger lottery: how banking speculation causes food crises', for how Goldman Sachs has not only exacerbated hunger but caused long term damage to the fight against global poverty:

http://www.wdm.org.uk/food-speculation/great-hunger-lottery-how-banking-speculation-causes-food-crises
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1.The Gates Foundation Buys Shares Of Goldman Sachs
Jeanette Borzo
Dow Jones, August 16 2010 [shortened]
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201008161826dowjonesdjonline000326&title=the-gates-foundation-buys-shares-of-goldman-sachs

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took advantage of sagging stock prices in the second quarter to add Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS), one of the most storied names in finance, to its portfolio, according to a 13F regulatory filing on Monday.

The Seattle-based charity endowment, set up by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) founder Bill Gates and his wife, bought a half a million shares in Goldman Sachs during the quarter ended June 30. The investment bank's share price slid during the quarter after the Securities and Exchange Commission leveled civil fraud charges against it on April 16.

The value of the Gates Foundation's holdings dropped 6% to $11.9 billion over the quarter, down from $12.7 billion in the previous quarter.

The foundation, known for concentrating on vaccines and AIDS in its charitable work, also added Ecolab Inc. (ECL) and Monsanto Co. (MON) to its portfolio.
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2.Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation
The Ecologist, 19 July 2010
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/542538/goldman_sachs_makes_1_billion_profit_on_food_price_speculation.html

'Risky and secretive' gambling on the price of coffee, cocoa and wheat is leading to unstable food prices and exacerbating poverty and malnutrition but creating billions of pounds for the banking sector

Banks such Goldman Sachs are making huge profits by gambling on the prices of key commodity crops such as coffee, cocoa and wheat, according to the campaign group the World Development Movement (WDM).

By creating funds to allow investors to speculate on the price of food, in the same way they would invest in the shares of a company, banks are able to bet on the price of food.

However this is leading to higher and more volatile prices which make it more difficult for farmers to plan and invest and also lead to damaging price rises - such as those witnessed in 2007/8 - which hit the poorest families in less industrialised countries hardest.

Only last month, says WDM, the price of coffee jumped by 20 per cent in three days, after a trader called the bluff of hedge funds that had made millions by selling coffee contracts and betting on the price to fall. This left hedge funds scrambling to buy actual coffee beans, and the price shot up from the extra demand.

'Nobody benefits from this kind of reckless gambling except a few City wheeler-dealers,' said WDM director Deborah Doane. 'British consumers suffer because it pushes up inflation, British companies suffer because of unpredictable oil and raw material prices, and the world's poorest people suffer because basic foods become unaffordable.'

Main perpetrators

The biggest banks involved in the trading are Bank of America, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. Goldman Sachs alone is estimated to have made more than $1 billion from commodities trading in 2009.

WDM's new report, 'The great hunger lottery', calls for limits to be set on the amount that bankers can bet on food prices and for an end to secretive trading. The US has recently passed tougher regulation for the financial sector but WDM says similar reforms in the EU may not be agreed because of opposition from the City of London and UK Treasury, which still denies speculation played a significant role in the 2007/8 price spikes.

'Perhaps not coincidentally, London is host to the highest amount of commodity trading outside the United States. Recent opposition to EU regulation of hedge funds by the UK treasury shows that the UK government still gives a disproportionate voice to the financial sector at the expense of other sectors of the economy, and against the interests of citizens,' says the WDM report.


Also see the



Exclusive interview with Bill Gates
Gates brushed aside propaganda against other vaccines and the polio vaccine in particular about being ‘stealth medicines causing infertility in Muslim population. He pointed out that polio vaccine was not even being produced in United States and that Indonesia was the largest producer of the vaccine and that “every day billions of drops are being administered safely to children all over the world”. According to his assessment the biggest problem in deficient coverage of children had less to do with people’s attitudes and more with the lack of physical accessibility by administering teams, specially in Fata areas where the number of polio cases and other infectious diseases was the highest.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=3471&Cat=13&dt=1/22/2011



Two newspapers of record present critical analysis of the Gates Foundation 'megabucks against polio' hype
http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2011/1/31/4739862.html



As new outbreaks create new setbacks each year, he has given ever more money, not only for research but for the grinding work on the ground: paying millions of vaccinators $2 or $3 stipends to get pink polio drops into the mouths of children in villages, slums, markets and train stations.

He also journeys to remote Indian and Nigerian villages to be photographed giving the drops himself. Though he lacks Angelina Jolie’s pneumatic allure, his lingering “world’s richest man” cologne is just as aphrodisiacal to TV cameras.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/health/01polio.html?_r=1


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9044b19c-2a44-11e0-b906-00144feab49a.html#axzz1CJnGpoS1

Need to sign up for that one.

Quote:
Gates polio goals questioned
Andrew Jack
Financial Times
January 27 2011 22:59

The “father” of smallpox eradication has cast doubt on whether the same can be achieved for polio, even as Bill Gates steps up a campaign with other donors to raise billions of dollars to tackle the disease.

Donald Henderson, who ran the World Health Org*anisation’s successful smallpox campaign in the 1960s and 1970s, told the Financial Times that polio eradication had “become more of a ‘movement’ than a public health initiative capable of being examined by objective judgment”. He called instead for a cheaper but sus*tained control program*me with annual immunisations.

He made his comments 22 years after the agency launched a polio campaign inspired by its success with smallpox – the first and only eradication of a human disease.

While infections and paralysis have fallen sharply, repeated targets since 2000 have been missed in a programme so far costing donors more than $8bn.

Mr Gates, the world’s biggest philanthropist, who has made vaccines his priority, has sharply boosted funding for polio in the past two years and this week is intensifying efforts to persuade other donors in the Gulf and at Davos to fill a $720m gap in funds for polio eradication efforts in the coming two years alone.

His efforts have triggered concern from other health and development organisations, which are fearful that fresh polio support will have a limited effect while crowding out funding for programmes at a time of budget squeezes by governments and private donors.

Mr Gates told the FT the reduced death and illness from polio were as efficient a use of his money as the other health programmes he was supporting.

“The benefits are very clear. A failure would be a huge setback for global health.”

He said polio eradication “will require years of additional work” but he remained optimistic.

Eradication efforts have been hindered by lack of political support, public suspicion of vaccination, difficulties in immunising remote and mobile populations and challenges in tackling outbreaks, including resistant forms of the disease.

Several organisations expressed concern privately about the renewed push on polio but refused to speak publicly, saying to do so could jeopardise support from Mr Gates.

David Molyneux, head of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis and past president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, said: “A lot more could be done with the money.

‘I question the feasibility of eradicating polio.”

Bruce Aylward, director of the World Health Organisation polio eradication programme, said it would be cheaper to pursue eradication because returning to a less intensive control programme ran the risk of reversion to a time with up to 1,000 deaths and 250,000 cases of paralysis globally every year.




Mutated Polio From Vaccine Is Spreading in Africa
A mutation from a live polio vaccine is stalking Nigeria. In a strange twist of logic, experts are claiming that it mutated as it passed through non-immunized children.

The claim is that children given the live attenuated oral vaccine are properly immunized, but the live virus passes through them and enters local water supplies through their urine or feces. Then, children who have not been immunized pick up the supposedly safe virus by drinking or playing in the water. The weakened virus mutates in them, becoming a new virulent strain
http://www.gaia-health.com/articles51/000078-Polio-Caused-By-Vaccine.shtml