03/05/10

At: Financial Sense

Bill Gates talks about ‘vaccines to reduce population’


Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to tackle diseases, solve food shortages in Africa and alleviate poverty. In a recent conference in California, Gates reveals a less public agenda of his philanthropy—population reduction, otherwise known as eugenics.

If you got your education from an actual school, (not the U.S. public school system) you may recall a German guy in the last century who had ideas about weeding out the inferior races and developing the master race through eugenics. A lot of people disagreed with his ideas at the time, but we're more progressive now. Who could argue with Bill Gates anyway, after all - those third world people can barely feed themselves, let alone buy Microsoft brand software. What good are they?

Read the article by F. William Engdahl and see if your opinion of Gates and the other members of the "Rich and Powerful" club changes a little.
 

By the way "philanthropist" comes from a couple of old Greek word and means literally a "lover of humanity". Nowadays it is taken to mean a wealthy private person (as opposed to a government 'public' organization) who uses his wealth to do good things for the greater good of mankind. Gates may think he's curing starvation in Africa by making fewer Africans, but I don't think he polled the Africans for their opinion on the concept.

Whatever, I'm a grouchy old man and I have no descendants to inherit this mess. I don't know why I care about any of it.