Posted on 05/24/2009 6:38:56 AM PDT by markomalley
SOME of Americas leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the worlds population and speed up improvements in health and education.
The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.
Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of Americas wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.
These members, along with Gates, have given away more than £45 billion since 1996 to causes ranging from health programmes in developing countries to ghetto schools nearer to home.
They gathered at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University, in Manhattan on May 5. The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires aides were told they were at security briefings.
Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, said the summit was unprecedented. We only learnt about it afterwards, by accident. Normally these people are happy to talk good causes, but this is different maybe because they dont want to be seen as a global cabal, he said.
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Why all the secrecy? They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
I’m glad you’re confident that you already have the answers yourself—and I don’t begrudge those who are actually doing the major funding looking to make assessments and draw conclusions themselves.
Turner, Soros and Gates have all given massive amounts of money worldwide for ABORTIONS.
They are not heroes.
Their answers to the world’s problems are the wrong answers.
How about check this out. Think I made up the 90% reduction? These guys want to use viruses to kill people. Said at the Texas Academy of Science.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_depopu.htm
Remember those billionaires whom you adore met in secret. Sure it was for everyone's benefit.
I think your naivatee has got the better of you. These people who donate billions and billions dollars care for you?
Don't make me laugh.
The TAS has clarified that his off-the-record comments were about what may happen through disease, not his wish or hope or aim. And, what was reported so sensationally on that whackadoodle site was reported by an ‘amateur scientist and journalist’. Please! I’m no fan of Microsoft practices or products, but Bill Gates (and Warren Buffet) have donated billions and billions and billions of dollars to provide health care for the poorest of poor in developing countries. To somehow link some misrepresented talk by one scientist to their deviously wishing death on most of the planet is really out there.
I see that you are raising seven kids (and a menagerie of animals) and I applaud you for that. I’m from a large family raised on a farm myself. And I don’t doubt that there are some shallow thinkers who callously see a threat and dismiss it as solvable by whatever population control. But on a planet of 7 billion or whatever, they are in the extreme minority, and I don’t think you should see threat and attribute evil where it likely doesn’t reside.
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