Meet Bill Gates

There can be no doubt that Bill Gates has worn many hats on his remarkable journey from his early life as the privileged son of a Seattle-area power couple to his current status as one of the richest and most influential people on the planet .
But , as we have seen in our exploration of Gates ’ rise as unelected global health czar and population control advocate , the question of who Bill Gates really is is no mere philosophical pursuit .
Today we will attempt to answer that question as we examine the motives , the ideology , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been so instrumental in shaping the post-coronavirus world .
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There can be no doubt that Bill Gates has worn many hats on his remarkable journey from his early life as the privileged son of a Seattle-area power couple to his current status as one of the richest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But , as we have seen in our exploration of Gates ’ rise as unelected global health czar and population control advocate , the question of who Bill Gates really is is no mere philosophical pursuit .
Given that we are currently living through a crisis that has been “ predicted ” by Bill Gates , which is triggering a response from the global health organizations that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has bankrolled , and driving us toward a vaccination and biometric ID “ solution ” which Bill Gates has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer to the question “ Who Is Bill Gates ?
” is quickly becoming one of the most important questions of our lives .
That answer will not only tell us about the world that we are living in , but about the one that we are being thrust into .
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and how we can avoid it .
Today we will attempt to answer that question as we examine the motives , the ideology , and the connections of this man who has been so instrumental in shaping the post-coronavirus world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Some argue that he ’ s a genius who leveraged his natural computer savvy into a billion-dollar fortune .
Others insist that he is a visionary who changed our lives with his foresight and bold imagination .
He has been hailed as a shrewd executive who built the Microsoft empire with his remarkable talent for business .
And he has been praised as a philanthropist who is selflessly devoting his wealth to improving the lives of people around the world .
But , like anyone of his status , he has his detractors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ portrayed as the greedy head of the evil Microsoft monopoly .
But in the age of the coronavirus crisis , he is most often treated like some sort of epidemiologist or leading health researcher .
But in truth , none of these perspectives are accurate .
Microsoft ’ s big break famously came from a deal to provide software for IBM as they moved into the personal computer market .
But the deal was not the result of Gates ’ technical genius or amazing business acumen .
As has been quietly admitted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Microsoft was given their shot at the chance to work with “ Big Blue ” as a result of Gates ’ mother ’ s relationship with IBM CEO John Opel .
Computer historians have long known how the basis for what became MS-DOS was not Bill Gates ’ brilliant imagination , but QDOS , a “ Quick and Dirty Operating System ” that had been thrown together by Tim Patterson , a worker at Seattle Computer Products , as a placeholder until he could sell a proper operating system to his customers .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the breakthrough Graphical User Interface that became the basis for Windows was ripped off from the researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center .
And , as Gates also admits , it is not a spirit of selfless generosity that motivates his interest in vaccines and other lucrative health interventions .
As we have seen , Gates ’ “ philanthropic ” investment scheme has paid off well , with his $ 50 billion net worth having ballooned to over $ 100 billion after his decade of “ altruism ” in the vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have repeatedly pointed out , the 9,000,000 people who die every year of hunger would be best served by securing food supplies , running water and other basic necessities , not costly medical interventions for rare diseases .
But there is no return on investment to be made from that kind of charity .
No , this is not about charity .
It is about control .
The population control grid that Gates has been quietly funding into existence for the past decade—a biometric identification system tied to a digital payments infrastructure that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and control every movement , every transaction and every interaction of every citizen—is just now coming into view .
But the real question is : Why is he doing this ?
What drives a man like Bill Gates , a man rich beyond the wildest dreams of avarice , to spend his time and invest his fortune in schemes to control the population ?
To find the answer to that question , we have to examine Gates ’ family background .
Bill Gates , it should not be surprising to learn , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ J. W. Maxwell , was the president of National City Bank in Seattle .
His grandfather , Willard , was also a banker , and his grandmother , Adele , a prominent Seattle civic leader .
Bill Gates ’ mother , Mary Maxwell Gates , was a scion of the Maxwell banking family and , by all accounts , as hard-driving as her forebears .
She served as a director of several companies , including First Interstate Bancorp and KIRO-TV of Seattle .
She served as a regent at the University of Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ board of the United Way of America , where , as we have seen , she persuaded IBM CEO John Opel to help her son in his fledgling software development career .
Bill ’ s father , William H. Gates , Sr. , was a prominent Seattle-area lawyer .
He co-founded a powerful law and lobbying firm , helped Howard Schultz in his bid to buy Starbucks , served on the boards of numerous companies and organizations , and , along the way , had a profound influence on his son ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gates—technically “ William H. Gates , III , ” although his card-playing family dubbed him “ Trey ” —learned much from his parents .
From his mother ’ s banking family he inherited a “ nose for the dollar , ” as one childhood friend ’ s father called it .
From his hard-driving legal-minded father , he learned the value of legalizing business arrangements .
As a child , he even had a legal contract drawn up to grant him the use of his older sisters ’ baseball mitt .
These traits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but they served him well as he began to bring order to the anarchic software development community of the 1970s .
At that time , software for the brand new personal computer market was the realm of computer hobbyists—people whose excitement about the microcomputer revolution and love of engineering and problem-solving led them to develop and share code freely with each other .
But this was no good for the young Bill Gates , who , even before Microsoft was off the ground , was already dreaming of commoditizing this hobby and turning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empire .
In 1976 , with the ink still wet on Microsoft ’ s first contract with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems of Albuquerque , New Mexico , the then-21-year-old Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists excoriating the early computer enthusiasts , who represented his main market .
for sharing Microsoft ’ s code for Altair BASIC .
The letter was awkward and tone-deaf , as many people have described the young Bill Gates in his social interactions .
It heaped vitriol on the very people who would be the customers of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an established culture of sharing software code merely by decree .
Even Apple Computers , which would go on to be one of the prime purveyors of “ walled garden ” systems that restrict users ’ ability to control their own computers , scored an easy marketing victory by responding to Gates ’ angry letter with a reminder that “ Yes , Folks , Apple BASIC is Free !
” But the gauntlet was thrown down , and Gates would have his way .
Although freeware and other forms of open source software @ @ @ @ @ @ @ software code as legally protected intellectual property has led to the rise of billionaires like Gates .
A “ nose for the dollar ” and a knowledge of how to use the legal system to get what you want were not the only things to emerge from Bill Gates ’ childhood , however .
His parents also encouraged discussion about the family ’ s charity work and the causes they held close to their heart .
As Gates revealed to Bill Moyers in 2003 , those causes included “ the population issue ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reproductive health.
” Gates tips his hand when he equates “ issues related to population ” with “ reproductive health.
” The topic is particularly controversial , because “ population control ” and “ reproductive health ” have been used for half a century as a euphemism for eugenics , the discredited pseudoscience that holds that certain families are fit to be leaders of society by virtue of their superior genes .
As we saw in “ Why Big Oil Conquered the World , ” eugenics was a field named and codified by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ostensibly concerned with heredity and what would later be known as genetics , the eugenicists believed that the rich and powerful were rich and powerful not because of luck or chance or happenstance , and certainly not from the deployment of cutthroat business tactics and underhanded dealings ; no , the rich and powerful had attained their status because they came from “ better stock.
” Conversely , the poor were poor because of their “ defective germ plasm.
” As transparent as it seems to us today that this ideology was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it was quickly taken up as the great social crusade of the early 20th century .
From Teddy Roosevelt to H. G. Wells to Julian Huxley to Winston Churchill , there was widespread support for the eugenicist notion that society must strive to make sure that the rich and “ well-born ” breed as much as possible , and the poor , infirm , and “ feeble-minded ” be prevented from having children .
A common eugenicist argument was that the scarce resources of society should not be used to support the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more of their kind .
Instead , life-saving medical care and intervention should be rationed so that those resources can be best put to use elsewhere .
So-called negative eugenicists even took things further , with some , like famed playwright George Bernard Shaw , calling for people to be called before a state-appointed board to justify their existence or be put to death .
But , in the post-WWII era , as the name of eugenics became tarred by association with the Nazi atrocities , the talk of death panels and other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conversation .
Now , the quest to reduce the size of the poor population was spoken of as “ population control ” and “ reproductive health.
” Still , occasionally , these old negative eugenics ideas are revisited in moments of candor .
It is worth questioning why this man , who openly muses about death panels and the trade-offs of providing health care to the elderly is to be taken completely at face value in his attempts to slow population growth in the third world or to handle a coronavirus health crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Gates agenda is being driven by a eugenicist ideology is suggested by multiple lines of evidence , both historical and current .
As we have also seen in “ Why Big Oil Conquered the World , ” the Rockefeller family was instrumental in funding and promoting eugenics , both in America and overseas .
The founding director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research , William Welch , sat on the ERO ’ s board and helped direct its activities .
The Rockefellers sponsored the studies of the eugenics researchers at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ernst Rüdin , who would go on to draft Nazi Germany ’ s forced sterilization law .
And , when the American Eugenics Society became embarrassed of its own name , its long-time director , Frederick Osborne , merely took over as president of the Rockefeller-founded Population Council .
This dedication to the cause of “ public health ” did not escape the approving gaze of Bill Gates , Sr .
In a chapter of his 2009 book , Showing Up for Life , called “ Walking With Giants , ” he writes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the field : As Gates , Sr. , suggests , it is by working with “ like-minded partners ” that such “ great ” achievements in the field of global health can be made .
For the Gates , these like-minded partners include the Rockefellers themselves .
Bill Gates , Sr. got to discuss global health , agriculture and environment with the likes of David Rockefeller , Sr. , and David Rockefeller , Jr. , at a meeting on “ Philanthropy in a Global Century ” at Rockefeller University campus in 2000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have seen , co-hosted a meeting on reducing the population with David Rockefeller in 2009 .
But the most salacious hints of a deeper agenda are not to be found in the Gates ’ public associations , but in the associations that they have tried to hide from the public .
Beginning in August of last year , a string of information connecting Bill Gates to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein began to emerge .
Flight logs revealed that Gates had flown on Jeffrey Epstein ’ s private jet .
An email surfaced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ito—who resigned from his position after it was discovered that he had helped cover up Jeffrey Epstein ’ s identity as an “ anonymous ” donor to the lab—informing his staff that a $ 2 million donation to the lab in 2014 was a “ gift from Bill Gates directed by Jeffrey Epstein.
” As the story gained momentum , Gates tried to downplay the relationship , with a Gates spokesperson protesting that Gates “ didn ’ t know it was Epstein ’ s plane , ” and Gates himself insisting that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relationship or friendship with [ Epstein ] .
” This was immediately contradicted by The New York Times , who reported in October of 2012 that Gates had in fact met with Epstein on multiple occasions , even going so far as to discuss the creation of a multibillion dollar charitable fund with seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase .
According to the Times , Gates emailed his colleagues about Epstein in 2011 : “ His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s will even named Boris Nikolic—a Harvard-trained immunologist who served as the chief scientific advisor to both Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and who appears in the sole publicly known photo of Epstein and Gates ’ 2011 meeting at Epstein ’ s Manhattan mansion—as the backup executor of Epstein ’ s estate .
It is not difficult to see why Gates would try to distance himself from his relationship with a child sex trafficker .
Epstein , after all , is suspected of ensnaring high-ranking politicians , businessmen and even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operation , recording them in the act of sexually abusing underage girls and using that evidence as blackmail .
But , as it turns out , the attempt to suppress the Gates-Epstein story may have been an attempt to suppress the revelation of an altogether different shared interest .
The already scarcely believable Jeffrey Epstein story took another bizarre turn in August of 2019 , when it was reported that Epstein “ Hoped to Seed the Human Race With His DNA.
” As The New York Times explained , Epstein ’ s plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at his New Mexico ranch in order to “ seed the human race with his DNA ” —a plan he told to a number of the “ scientific luminaries ” he kept in his orbit—put a modern gloss on a very old idea : Epstein ’ s interest in genetics led him to sponsor a number of scientists working in the field , including George Church , a Harvard geneticist whose lab received funding from Epstein ’ s foundation from 2005 to 2007 for “ cutting edge science.
” Church publicly apologized for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ several meetings a year from 2014 onward .
This was neither the first nor the last time that this unassuming Harvard biologist , whose “ cutting edge science ” often strays into controversial areas , caused a public scandal .
In 2019 , Church proposed a “ genetics dating app ” which was immediately denounced as applied eugenics .
Church also acted as scientific advisor to Editas Medicine , a startup seeking to use the genome-editing tool , CRISPR-Cas9 , to eliminate diseases by deleting the parts of a genetic code responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ company announced it had raised $ 120 million from a group led by Epstein ’ s appointed backup executor , Dr. Boris Nikolic .
Naturally , that group of investors included Bill Gates .
Yes , Bill Gates is certainly following his father ’ s advice to collaborate with “ like-minded partners.
” So , the question remains : Is Bill Gates motivated by eugenics ?
Given that eugenics went underground over half a century ago , we are unlikely ever to unearth a frank admission along those lines from Gates himself .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ any card-carrying members of the American Eugenics Society ; the society was rebranded in the 1970s when , as the society ’ s founder noted , “ it became evident that changes of a eugenic nature would be made for reasons other than eugenics , and that tying a eugenic label on them would more often hinder than help their adoption.
” But there was an American Eugenics Society in the 1920s , and it just so happened to boast a “ William H. Gates ” on its member roster .
But perhaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there was an American Eugenics Society in the 1960s , when William H. Gates II was preceded as head of Planned Parenthood by Alan Guttmacher , who simultaneously served as the Director of the American Eugenics Society .
And perhaps it was coincidence that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation organized their London Summit on Family Planning , at which the Gates recommitted themselves to funding population control in the third world , in July 2012 , on the anniversary of the First International Eugenics Congress , held in London exactly 100 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to compare the young Bill Gates ’ dating preferences to the genetic-based dating favored by modern-day eugenicists .
No , we can not expect an answer about Bill Gates true motives to come from Gates himself .
By this point the question of Bill Gates ’ intentions has been buried under the combined weight of hundreds of millions of dollars of paid PR spin .
Like the Rockefellers before them , the Gates have long since learned the secret of enlarging their family fortune—not to mention their control over the human population—by donning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many perspectives on Bill Gates ; depending on who you ask , he is a computer savant , a genius businessman , or a saintly philanthropist .
But all of these perspectives have been brought to you through PR outlets founded or funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
Bill Gates is no longer a subject for historians but hagiographers .
Now we must confront the question of why this man is motivated to build such a web of control—control over our public health agencies— And even control over our bodies— @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quest for control comes not from a selfless spirit of generosity that never seemed to exist before he became a multi-billionaire , but from the same drive for money , the same desire for domination and the same sense of superiority that motivated him on his way up the corporate ladder .
But if the answer to the question “ Who is Bill Gates ” is “ Bill Gates is a eugenicist , ” that tells us some important things about the world that we are living in .
It tells us that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his takeover of the world with a false front of philanthropy .
It tells us that the goal of the Gates , like the goal of the Rockefellers before them , is not to improve the world for humankind , but to improve the world for their kind .
And most importantly , it tells us that Bill Gates is no comic-book supervillain , single-handedly directing all of the chaos that is unfolding in the world or single-handedly bringing his own order to that chaos .
No , if Bill Gates is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the superiority of himself and his fellow wealthy elitists , then what we are facing is not one man , or even one family , but an ideology .
This is not a trivial point .
One man , whatever his wealth , can be stopped easily enough .
But even if Bill Gates were to be thrown in jail tomorrow , the agenda that has already been set in motion would continue without missing a beat .
An entire infrastructure of researchers , labs , corporations , governmental agencies and public health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not by Gates , but driven by the belief of all those millions of people working for these various entities that they are truly working in the best interest of the people .
No , an ideology can not be stopped by stopping one man .
It can only be stopped when enough people learn the truth about this agenda and the world of total , pervasive control that is coming into view .
If you have watched all four parts of this exploration on Bill Gates , then you are now one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planet about the true nature of this agenda .
You have seen how the takeover of public health has been used to railroad the world into a headlong rush toward mandatory vaccinations , biometric identification and digital payments .
You have seen how the pieces of this puzzle fit together , and how they represent a far greater threat to the future of humanity than any virus .
Here is the good news : Armed with this information , you have the antidote to the scourge of this eugenicist ideology .
The truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind ; they spread from person to person , infecting them with ideas that can lead to a disease of the body politic .
But here is the even greater truth : Inoculations do work .
Inoculations of truth against the lies of those spreading their poisonous ideology .
If you have made it this far , it is incumbent on you to help inoculate those around you against the corrupt ideology of Bill Gates and all those who seek to control the population of the world .
You must help to spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chance to see the bigger picture and decide for themselves whether they are willing to roll up their sleeves and accept what is coming , or not .
But time is not on our side .
Even as we speak , mass vaccination campaigns are being prepared : Biometric identification schemes and “ immunity passports ” are already being rolled out : Programs for tracking , tracing , and surveilling the entire population are already being beta-tested : And the digital payment infrastructure , the system of financial exclusion that will allow governments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy at will , is being put into place : We must spread the word about the dark nature of this population control agenda to as many people as we can before our ability to speak out against this agenda is taken away for good .
Thanks to the likes of Bill Gates , the virus of this population control agenda is already here .
It is threatening to crash the system as we ’ ve known it .
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By Corbett Report
There can be no doubt that Bill Gates has worn many hats on his remarkable journey from his early life as the privileged son of a Seattle-area power couple to his current status as one of the richest and most influential people on the planet. But, as we have seen in our exploration of Gates’ rise as unelected global health czar and population control advocate, the question of who Bill Gates really is is no mere philosophical pursuit.
Today we will attempt to answer that question as we examine the motives, the ideology, and the connections of this man who has been so instrumental in shaping the post-coronavirus world.
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TRANSCRIPT
Computer whiz kid. Talented software developer. Shrewd businessman. Benevolent philanthropist. Global health expert.
There can be no doubt that Bill Gates has worn many hats on his remarkable journey from his early life as the privileged son of a Seattle-area power couple to his current status as one of the richest and most influential people on the planet. But, as we have seen in our exploration of Gates’ rise as unelected global health czar and population control advocate, the question of who Bill Gates really is is no mere philosophical pursuit.
Given that we are currently living through a crisis that has been “predicted” by Bill Gates, which is triggering a response from the global health organizations that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has bankrolled, and driving us toward a vaccination and biometric ID “solution” which Bill Gates has been working on for years, the answer to the question “Who Is Bill Gates?” is quickly becoming one of the most important questions of our lives. That answer will not only tell us about the world that we are living in, but about the one that we are being thrust into . . . and how we can avoid it.
Today we will attempt to answer that question as we examine the motives, the ideology, and the connections of this man who has been so instrumental in shaping the post-coronavirus world.
Meet Bill Gates.
You’re tuned into The Corbett Report.
So who is Bill Gates?
Some argue that he’s a genius who leveraged his natural computer savvy into a billion-dollar fortune.
INTERVIEWER: You’re called a genius and I will—well, no, I don’t think that embarrassed you at all. They call you a genius. Part of your genius is that you are a computer whiz, and the other is that you did have the business acumen to turn it into a working company. Are you a business genius, too? GATES: Well, I wouldn’t say “genius.” SOURCE: Watch 28-year-old Bill Gates explain why he didn’t see himself as a genius
Others insist that he is a visionary who changed our lives with his foresight and bold imagination.
ALAN GARBER: Bill had a vision—and I understand it went back even then—that computing would be ubiquitous. It would be part of all of our lives. And, indeed, as you all know, he executed on that vision. And the world today has changed so dramatically in large part due to the work that Bill has done throughout the years. SOURCE: A Conversation with Bill Gates’ Q&A at Harvard University
He has been hailed as a shrewd executive who built the Microsoft empire with his remarkable talent for business.
JAMES WALLACE: When the biographers and historians write the history of the 20th century, Bill Gates is going to go down as the best businessman of our century, and Microsoft as one of the greatest companies of the 20th century. SOURCE: Biography: Bill Gates
And he has been praised as a philanthropist who is selflessly devoting his wealth to improving the lives of people around the world.
JESSE KORNBLUTH: Bill, even your harshest critic would have to admit that your philanthropy work is, you know, planet-shaking incredible and could be, if you make it, a second act so amazing that it would dwarf what you’ve actually done at Microsoft. [APPLAUSE] SOURCE: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Face Off
But, like anyone of his status, he has his detractors. In the 1990s he was often portrayed as the greedy head of the evil Microsoft monopoly.
BENJAMIN WOOLEY: Bill Gates isn’t content with his Windows system running just a few PCs. He wants it to run the world, spreading like a computer virus into our faxes, our phones, our TV sets, and, yes, even our toasters. SOURCE: Bill Gates on the dawn of the Internet
But in the age of the coronavirus crisis, he is most often treated like some sort of epidemiologist or leading health researcher.
ANDERSON COOPER: Back here with us once again to talk about this, as well as testing, treatments and more: Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill, thanks so much for being back with us. It’s been a little over a month since you were here and at that time you said the US had not hit its peak. So at this point do you think we have peaked and where do you think we are right now in kind of the arc of the pandemic? SOURCE: Bill Gates says US system produces ‘bogus’ testing numbers
But in truth, none of these perspectives are accurate.
Microsoft’s big break famously came from a deal to provide software for IBM as they moved into the personal computer market. But the deal was not the result of Gates’ technical genius or amazing business acumen. As has been quietly admitted by IBM executives in the years since, Microsoft was given their shot at the chance to work with “Big Blue” as a result of Gates’ mother’s relationship with IBM CEO John Opel.
GORAN MILIC: You remember your partnership of IBM and Bill Gates? How did it break up? EDWARD ANDRUS: I do remember very well, actually. Bill Gates at the time at the beginning of our relationship with them was living on pizza and Pepsi Cola in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And his mother happened to be on the United Way board with our chairman and asked our chairman to help him. And you know, when the chairman comes in and tells you to go help this kid, nine hundred people get on the plane Monday morning and they all go down to try to help Bill Gates. [. . .] So I don’t see Bill Gates as this great, creative person. I see him as an opportunist. And, in fact, in those days there was a lot of sharing of software code. People gave it away in Silicon Valley; they would share everything. He came in and he tried to control everything and put a price on it. SOURCE: Idemo u Ameriku 2
Computer historians have long known how the basis for what became MS-DOS was not Bill Gates’ brilliant imagination, but QDOS, a “Quick and Dirty Operating System” that had been thrown together by Tim Patterson, a worker at Seattle Computer Products, as a placeholder until he could sell a proper operating system to his customers. And as even Gates himself admitted, the breakthrough Graphical User Interface that became the basis for Windows was ripped off from the researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
As Bill would say after Apple unsuccessfully sued Microsoft for copyright infringement over Windows’ GUI: “Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s house before I did and took the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and take the stereo.” SOURCE: Paul Allen, Idea Man (p. 156)
And, as Gates also admits, it is not a spirit of selfless generosity that motivates his interest in vaccines and other lucrative health interventions.
BECKY QUICK: I’d like to talk to you about your approach to vaccinations. You wrote something recently, and, like you always do, you kind of looked at the problem from a scientific and business perspective on things. You’ve invested 10 billion dollars in vaccinations over the last two decades, and you figured out the return on investment for that. It kind of stunned me. Can you walk us through the math? [. . .] BILL GATES: You know, we see a phenomenal track record. It’s been a hundred billion overall that the world’s put in—our foundation is a bit more than 10 billion—but we feel there’s been over a 20-to-one return. So if you just look at the economic benefits, that’s a pretty strong number compared to anything else. SOURCE: Bill Gates: My ‘best investment’ turned $10 billion into $200 billion worth of economic benefit
As we have seen, Gates’ “philanthropic” investment scheme has paid off well, with his $50 billion net worth having ballooned to over $100 billion after his decade of “altruism” in the vaccine market. As critics of his foundation have repeatedly pointed out, the 9,000,000 people who die every year of hunger would be best served by securing food supplies, running water and other basic necessities, not costly medical interventions for rare diseases. But there is no return on investment to be made from that kind of charity.
No, this is not about charity. It is about control. The population control grid that Gates has been quietly funding into existence for the past decade—a biometric identification system tied to a digital payments infrastructure that will be used to track, catalogue and control every movement, every transaction and every interaction of every citizen—is just now coming into view.
But the real question is: Why is he doing this? What drives a man like Bill Gates, a man rich beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, to spend his time and invest his fortune in schemes to control the population? To find the answer to that question, we have to examine Gates’ family background.
Bill Gates, it should not be surprising to learn, was born into money. His great-grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was the president of National City Bank in Seattle. His grandfather, Willard, was also a banker, and his grandmother, Adele, a prominent Seattle civic leader.
Bill Gates’ mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, was a scion of the Maxwell banking family and, by all accounts, as hard-driving as her forebears. She served as a director of several companies, including First Interstate Bancorp and KIRO-TV of Seattle. She served as a regent at the University of Washington. And she was appointed to the board of the United Way of America, where, as we have seen, she persuaded IBM CEO John Opel to help her son in his fledgling software development career.
Bill’s father, William H. Gates, Sr., was a prominent Seattle-area lawyer. He co-founded a powerful law and lobbying firm, helped Howard Schultz in his bid to buy Starbucks, served on the boards of numerous companies and organizations, and, along the way, had a profound influence on his son’s life and career.
GATES: My dad was a large presence, both physically and in terms of his wisdom. He worked very hard, so he’d leave in the mornings, often before we had breakfast, and get home in time for dinner. I always looked up to my dad in terms of how hard he worked. At the dinner table my dad would go through various lawsuits and expect us to follow along. He had high expectations. SOURCE: Celebrating My Father’s 90th Birthday
The young Bill Gates—technically “William H. Gates, III,” although his card-playing family dubbed him “Trey”—learned much from his parents. From his mother’s banking family he inherited a “nose for the dollar,” as one childhood friend’s father called it. From his hard-driving legal-minded father, he learned the value of legalizing business arrangements. As a child, he even had a legal contract drawn up to grant him the use of his older sisters’ baseball mitt.
These traits would not earn him many friends, but they served him well as he began to bring order to the anarchic software development community of the 1970s. At that time, software for the brand new personal computer market was the realm of computer hobbyists—people whose excitement about the microcomputer revolution and love of engineering and problem-solving led them to develop and share code freely with each other.
But this was no good for the young Bill Gates, who, even before Microsoft was off the ground, was already dreaming of commoditizing this hobby and turning it into the basis of a business empire. In 1976, with the ink still wet on Microsoft’s first contract with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the then-21-year-old Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists excoriating the early computer enthusiasts, who represented his main market. for sharing Microsoft’s code for Altair BASIC.
As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid? Is this fair? [. . .] The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man [sic] years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft. SOURCE: Open Letter to Hobbyists
The letter was awkward and tone-deaf, as many people have described the young Bill Gates in his social interactions. It heaped vitriol on the very people who would be the customers of any future business and tried to change an established culture of sharing software code merely by decree. Even Apple Computers, which would go on to be one of the prime purveyors of “walled garden” systems that restrict users’ ability to control their own computers, scored an easy marketing victory by responding to Gates’ angry letter with a reminder that “Yes, Folks, Apple BASIC is Free!”
But the gauntlet was thrown down, and Gates would have his way. Although freeware and other forms of open source software development still exist, the establishment of software code as legally protected intellectual property has led to the rise of billionaires like Gates.
A “nose for the dollar” and a knowledge of how to use the legal system to get what you want were not the only things to emerge from Bill Gates’ childhood, however. His parents also encouraged discussion about the family’s charity work and the causes they held close to their heart.
As Gates revealed to Bill Moyers in 2003, those causes included “the population issue” which sparked a lifelong interest in “reproductive health.”
GATES: One issue that really grabbed me as urgent were issues related to population . . . reproductive health. MOYERS: But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual? GATES: When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. SOURCE: A Conversation with Bill Gates: Making a Healthier World for Children and Future Generations
Gates tips his hand when he equates “issues related to population” with “reproductive health.” The topic is particularly controversial, because “population control” and “reproductive health” have been used for half a century as a euphemism for eugenics, the discredited pseudoscience that holds that certain families are fit to be leaders of society by virtue of their superior genes.
As we saw in “Why Big Oil Conquered the World,” eugenics was a field named and codified by Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin. Ostensibly concerned with heredity and what would later be known as genetics, the eugenicists believed that the rich and powerful were rich and powerful not because of luck or chance or happenstance, and certainly not from the deployment of cutthroat business tactics and underhanded dealings; no, the rich and powerful had attained their status because they came from “better stock.” Conversely, the poor were poor because of their “defective germ plasm.”
As transparent as it seems to us today that this ideology was a self-serving self-justification for the ruling class, it was quickly taken up as the great social crusade of the early 20th century. From Teddy Roosevelt to H. G. Wells to Julian Huxley to Winston Churchill, there was widespread support for the eugenicist notion that society must strive to make sure that the rich and “well-born” breed as much as possible, and the poor, infirm, and “feeble-minded” be prevented from having children.
A common eugenicist argument was that the scarce resources of society should not be used to support the lower classes, as that only encouraged more of their kind. Instead, life-saving medical care and intervention should be rationed so that those resources can be best put to use elsewhere. So-called negative eugenicists even took things further, with some, like famed playwright George Bernard Shaw, calling for people to be called before a state-appointed board to justify their existence or be put to death.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: [. . .] But there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill. Not in any unkind or personal spirit, but it must be evident to all of you — you must all know half a dozen people, at least—who are no use in this world. Who are more trouble than they are worth. And I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board, just as he might come before the income tax commissioner, and, say, every five years, or every seven years, just put him there, and say: “Sir, or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?” SOURCE: George Bernard Shaw talking about capital punishment
But, in the post-WWII era, as the name of eugenics became tarred by association with the Nazi atrocities, the talk of death panels and other harsh eugenicist notions was dropped from public conversation. Now, the quest to reduce the size of the poor population was spoken of as “population control” and “reproductive health.” Still, occasionally, these old negative eugenics ideas are revisited in moments of candor.
GATES: You’re raising tuitions at the University of California as rapidly as they [sic] can and so the access that used to be available to the middle class or whatever is just rapidly going away. That’s a trade-off society’s making because of very, very high medical costs and a lack of willingness to say, you know, “Is spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient—would it be better not to lay off those 10 teachers and to make that trade off in medical cost?” But that’s called the “death panel” and you’re not supposed to have that discussion. SOURCE: Bill Gates: End-of-Life Care vs. Saving Teachers’ Jobs
It is worth questioning why this man, who openly muses about death panels and the trade-offs of providing health care to the elderly is to be taken completely at face value in his attempts to slow population growth in the third world or to handle a coronavirus health crisis that primarily affects the elderly.
That the Gates agenda is being driven by a eugenicist ideology is suggested by multiple lines of evidence, both historical and current.
As we have also seen in “Why Big Oil Conquered the World,” the Rockefeller family was instrumental in funding and promoting eugenics, both in America and overseas.
The Rockefellers helped fund the Eugenics Record Office.
The founding director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, William Welch, sat on the ERO’s board and helped direct its activities.
The Rockefellers sponsored the studies of the eugenics researchers at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Germany, including Ernst Rüdin, who would go on to draft Nazi Germany’s forced sterilization law.
And, when the American Eugenics Society became embarrassed of its own name, its long-time director, Frederick Osborne, merely took over as president of the Rockefeller-founded Population Council.
This dedication to the cause of “public health” did not escape the approving gaze of Bill Gates, Sr. In a chapter of his 2009 book, Showing Up for Life, called “Walking With Giants,” he writes admiringly of the Rockefellers and their influence in the field:
Every corner we’ve turned in the field of global health, we’ve found that the Rockefellers were already there and had been there for years. When we committed to childhood immunization we found ourselves building on efforts the Rockefeller Foundation had helped launch and fund in the 1980s. When we became interested in fighting malaria and tuberculosis, we learned that the Rockefellers had been studying the prevention and treatment of such diseases around the globe for, in some cases, as long as a hundred years. A similar dynamic held true in the case of HIV/AIDS. A lesson we learned from studying and working with the Rockefellers is that to succeed in pursuing audacious goals you need like-minded partners with whom to collaborate. And we learned that such goals are not prizes claimed by the short-winded. The Rockefellers stay with tough problems for generations. SOURCE: William H. Gates. Showing Up for Life (pp. 158-159)
As Gates, Sr., suggests, it is by working with “like-minded partners” that such “great” achievements in the field of global health can be made. For the Gates, these like-minded partners include the Rockefellers themselves. Bill Gates, Sr. got to discuss global health, agriculture and environment with the likes of David Rockefeller, Sr., and David Rockefeller, Jr., at a meeting on “Philanthropy in a Global Century” at Rockefeller University campus in 2000. And Bill Gates, as we have seen, co-hosted a meeting on reducing the population with David Rockefeller in 2009.
But the most salacious hints of a deeper agenda are not to be found in the Gates’ public associations, but in the associations that they have tried to hide from the public.
STEPHANIE RUHLE: Jeffrey Epstein may be dead, but this story isn’t. A shocking new report from The New York Times sheds light on the connection between Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the late Jeffrey Epstein. After Gates’ name came up in connection with Epstein and MIT Media Lab, Gates gave a statement to The Wall Street Journal where he insisted he did not have any business relationship or friendship with Epstein. But a new report outlines conversations with Gates and Epstein and a conversation with Bill and Melinda Gates’ Foundation. A connection between their foundation and JPMorgan Chase to set up a charitable fund to benefit Epstein. You know what I want to know: Why? SOURCE: NYT: Bill Gates Repeatedly Met With Jeffrey Epstein | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC
Beginning in August of last year, a string of information connecting Bill Gates to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein began to emerge.
Flight logs revealed that Gates had flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet.
An email surfaced showing disgraced MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito—who resigned from his position after it was discovered that he had helped cover up Jeffrey Epstein’s identity as an “anonymous” donor to the lab—informing his staff that a $2 million donation to the lab in 2014 was a “gift from Bill Gates directed by Jeffrey Epstein.”
As the story gained momentum, Gates tried to downplay the relationship, with a Gates spokesperson protesting that Gates “didn’t know it was Epstein’s plane,” and Gates himself insisting that “I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with [Epstein].”
This was immediately contradicted by The New York Times, who reported in October of 2012 that Gates had in fact met with Epstein on multiple occasions, even going so far as to discuss the creation of a multibillion dollar charitable fund with seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase.
According to the Times, Gates emailed his colleagues about Epstein in 2011: “His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.”
Epstein’s will even named Boris Nikolic—a Harvard-trained immunologist who served as the chief scientific advisor to both Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and who appears in the sole publicly known photo of Epstein and Gates’ 2011 meeting at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion—as the backup executor of Epstein’s estate.
It is not difficult to see why Gates would try to distance himself from his relationship with a child sex trafficker. Epstein, after all, is suspected of ensnaring high-ranking politicians, businessmen and even royalty in an intelligence-directed “honeypot” operation, recording them in the act of sexually abusing underage girls and using that evidence as blackmail.
But, as it turns out, the attempt to suppress the Gates-Epstein story may have been an attempt to suppress the revelation of an altogether different shared interest.
KRISTEN DAHLGREN: Sources say several accusers have come forward in New Mexico, where Epstein owns a sprawling ranch. According to a new report published in The New York Times—not verified by NBC News—Epstein wanted to use the ranch for controlled breeding, using his DNA to improve humanity. Citing two award-winning scientists and an advisor to large companies and wealthy individuals, the article reports Epstein surrounded himself with leading scientists and would tell them he wanted to have 20 women impregnated at a time on the ranch. SOURCE: Jeffrey Epstein Had Plan To Father Dozens Of Children, Report Says | TODAY
The already scarcely believable Jeffrey Epstein story took another bizarre turn in August of 2019, when it was reported that Epstein “Hoped to Seed the Human Race With His DNA.” As The New York Times explained, Epstein’s plan to impregnate 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch in order to “seed the human race with his DNA”—a plan he told to a number of the “scientific luminaries” he kept in his orbit—put a modern gloss on a very old idea:
Mr. Epstein’s vision reflected his longstanding fascination with what has become known as transhumanism: the science of improving the human population through technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding. SOURCE: Jeffrey Epstein, Surrounded by Scientific Luminaries, Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA
Epstein’s interest in genetics led him to sponsor a number of scientists working in the field, including George Church, a Harvard geneticist whose lab received funding from Epstein’s foundation from 2005 to 2007 for “cutting edge science.” Church publicly apologized for his connection to Epstein, which included several meetings a year from 2014 onward. This was neither the first nor the last time that this unassuming Harvard biologist, whose “cutting edge science” often strays into controversial areas, caused a public scandal. In 2019, Church proposed a “genetics dating app” which was immediately denounced as applied eugenics.
Church also acted as scientific advisor to Editas Medicine, a startup seeking to use the genome-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, to eliminate diseases by deleting the parts of a genetic code responsible for the illness. In 2015, the company announced it had raised $120 million from a group led by Epstein’s appointed backup executor, Dr. Boris Nikolic. Naturally, that group of investors included Bill Gates.
Yes, Bill Gates is certainly following his father’s advice to collaborate with “like-minded partners.”
So, the question remains: Is Bill Gates motivated by eugenics? Given that eugenics went underground over half a century ago, we are unlikely ever to unearth a frank admission along those lines from Gates himself. After all, there are no longer any card-carrying members of the American Eugenics Society; the society was rebranded in the 1970s when, as the society’s founder noted, “it became evident that changes of a eugenic nature would be made for reasons other than eugenics, and that tying a eugenic label on them would more often hinder than help their adoption.”
But there was an American Eugenics Society in the 1920s, and it just so happened to boast a “William H. Gates” on its member roster. But perhaps that is just a coincidence.
And there was an American Eugenics Society in the 1960s, when William H. Gates II was preceded as head of Planned Parenthood by Alan Guttmacher, who simultaneously served as the Director of the American Eugenics Society.
And perhaps it was coincidence that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation organized their London Summit on Family Planning, at which the Gates recommitted themselves to funding population control in the third world, in July 2012, on the anniversary of the First International Eugenics Congress, held in London exactly 100 years prior.
And perhaps it is reaching to compare the young Bill Gates’ dating preferences to the genetic-based dating favored by modern-day eugenicists.
JAMES WALLACE: I interviewed several women who had dated Bill just briefly and one told me the very first question Bill asked her was: “What did you score on your SAT test?” You know, this is not exactly what a young woman wants to hear. For Bill Gates, though . . . He had scored a perfect 800 on his math portion of the SAT and this was a matter of pride with him. And he wanted to make sure whoever he was dating, you know, had scored a pretty high grade. SOURCE: Biography: Bill Gates
No, we cannot expect an answer about Bill Gates true motives to come from Gates himself. By this point the question of Bill Gates’ intentions has been buried under the combined weight of hundreds of millions of dollars of paid PR spin. Like the Rockefellers before them, the Gates have long since learned the secret of enlarging their family fortune—not to mention their control over the human population—by donning the mask of philanthropy.
There are many perspectives on Bill Gates; depending on who you ask, he is a computer savant, a genius businessman, or a saintly philanthropist. But all of these perspectives have been brought to you through PR outlets founded or funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates is no longer a subject for historians but hagiographers.
Now we must confront the question of why this man is motivated to build such a web of control—control over our public health agencies—
GATES: And for all 193 member states, you must make vaccines a high priority in your health systems, to ensure that all your children have access to existing vaccines now—and to new vaccines as they become available. SOURCE: BILL GATES TO WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: IMMUNIZE EVERY CHILD
Control over our identities—
GATES: And the lack of an ID system is a problem, not just for the payment system, but also for voting and health and education and taxation. And so it’s a wonderful thing to go in and create a broad identification system SOURCE: Bill Gates at the Financial Inclusion Forum, December 1, 2015
Control over our transactions—
GATES: Once financial flows go underground—where you have lots of legitimate transactions mixed in with the ones you want to track—and once they’re going over a digital system that the US has no connection to, it’s far more difficult to find the transactions that you want to be aware of or that you want to block. SOURCE: Bill Gates at the Financial Inclusion Forum, December 1, 2015
And even control over our bodies—
GATES: We’re gonna have this intermediate period of opening up, and it won’t be normal until we get an amazing vaccine to the entire world. SOURCE: Watch CNBC’s full interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the coronavirus pandemic and his work toward a vaccine
We must confront the possibility that this quest for control comes not from a selfless spirit of generosity that never seemed to exist before he became a multi-billionaire, but from the same drive for money, the same desire for domination and the same sense of superiority that motivated him on his way up the corporate ladder.
But if the answer to the question “Who is Bill Gates” is “Bill Gates is a eugenicist,” that tells us some important things about the world that we are living in.
It tells us that Gates is deceiving the public into supporting his takeover of the world with a false front of philanthropy.
It tells us that the goal of the Gates, like the goal of the Rockefellers before them, is not to improve the world for humankind, but to improve the world for their kind.
And most importantly, it tells us that Bill Gates is no comic-book supervillain, single-handedly directing all of the chaos that is unfolding in the world or single-handedly bringing his own order to that chaos.
No, if Bill Gates is a eugenicist, driven by a belief in the superiority of himself and his fellow wealthy elitists, then what we are facing is not one man, or even one family, but an ideology.
This is not a trivial point. One man, whatever his wealth, can be stopped easily enough. But even if Bill Gates were to be thrown in jail tomorrow, the agenda that has already been set in motion would continue without missing a beat. An entire infrastructure of researchers, labs, corporations, governmental agencies and public health bodies exists, funded more often than not by Gates, but driven by the belief of all those millions of people working for these various entities that they are truly working in the best interest of the people.
No, an ideology cannot be stopped by stopping one man. It can only be stopped when enough people learn the truth about this agenda and the world of total, pervasive control that is coming into view.
If you have watched all four parts of this exploration on Bill Gates, then you are now one of the most informed people on the planet about the true nature of this agenda. You have seen how the takeover of public health has been used to railroad the world into a headlong rush toward mandatory vaccinations, biometric identification and digital payments. You have seen how the pieces of this puzzle fit together, and how they represent a far greater threat to the future of humanity than any virus.
Here is the good news: Armed with this information, you have the antidote to the scourge of this eugenicist ideology. The truth is that ideologies are viruses of the mind; they spread from person to person, infecting them with ideas that can lead to a disease of the body politic.
But here is the even greater truth: Inoculations do work. Inoculations of truth against the lies of those spreading their poisonous ideology.
If you have made it this far, it is incumbent on you to help inoculate those around you against the corrupt ideology of Bill Gates and all those who seek to control the population of the world. You must help to spread this information so that others have a chance to see the bigger picture and decide for themselves whether they are willing to roll up their sleeves and accept what is coming, or not.
But time is not on our side. Even as we speak, mass vaccination campaigns are being prepared:
ALLISON ARWADY: You know we are already building our plans to vaccinate the whole city of Chicago and working with others across the region on a major plan for this. We’ve bought syringes, we’ve bought cold boxes, we’ve planned out locations. SOURCE: COVID COACH
Biometric identification schemes and “immunity passports” are already being rolled out:
CARYN SEIDMAN BECKER: And so while we started with travel, at our core we’re a biometric-secure identity platform, where it’s always been about attaching your identity to your boarding pass at the airport or your ticket to get into a sports stadium or your credit card to buy a beer. And so now with the launch of Clear Health Pass, it’s about attaching your identity to your COVID-related health insights for employers, for employees, for customers. SOURCE: CLEAR’s new Health Pass service to help screen for coronavirus: CEO
Programs for tracking, tracing, and surveilling the entire population are already being beta-tested:
DEENA HINSHAW: Today we are launching another useful tool that can supplement the critical detective work we are conducting in public health. Alberta Trace Together is a voluntary secure mobile contact tracing application to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. SOURCE: Alberta rolls out COVID-19 contact tracing app
And the digital payment infrastructure, the system of financial exclusion that will allow governments to turn off our access to the economy at will, is being put into place:
UHURU KENYATTA: In order to avoid the risk of transmission through physical handling of money, we encourage the use of cashless transactions such as mobile money M-Pesa and otherwise and credit cards. SOURCE: Uhuru: Government encourages cashless transactions to reduce risk of coronavirus transmission
NICHOLAS THOMPSON: People are using touchless payment systems much more than they’re using cash, both because we’re not interacting with people directly as much anymore and also because cash is kind of skeezy. SOURCE: A Post-Pandemic Cashless Society? Was Remote NFL Draft a Tech Success? | Tech In :60 | GZERO Media
We must spread the word about the dark nature of this population control agenda to as many people as we can before our ability to speak out against this agenda is taken away for good.
Thanks to the likes of Bill Gates, the virus of this population control agenda is already here. It is threatening to crash the system as we’ve known it.
But if Bill Gates has taught us anything, it’s how to deal with a virus.
It’s time for a hard reset.
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Palm Beach , FL — Robert Simeone , a former Palm Beach County Sheriff ’ s deputy and U.S. military veteran , originally faced up to 175 years in prison for the 30 felony charges he pleaded guilty to this month .
However , despite the long list of crimes , including stealing from a children ’ s charity , Simeone will spend just five years behind bars thanks to a likely blue privilege-inspired plea deal given to him this month .
Simeone , 49 , pleaded guilty to 30 felony charges for stealing $ 50,000 from a children ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients into a drug treatment center he ran in West Palm Beach .
On Wednesday , this prior ‘ pillar of the community ’ stood before a judge and admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from children in a charity he set up to get rich in the name of dead cops and veterans .
According to the Sun-Sentinel , in 2017 , Simeone became one of the first individuals ensnared by State Attorney Dave Aronberg ’ s Sober Homes Task Force .
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There have been more than 100 arrests in three years .
Apparently , it is against the law in Florida to offer or pay any commission , kickback or bribe to promote the referral of patients to or from a health care provider .
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Defrauding children , however , most certainly is .
In 2011 , the deputy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to help children of fallen military men and women , police officers and firefighters .
Instead of giving the money to the children like he promised , this cop put it in his pocket — a lowlife move indeed .
As the Sun Sentinel reports , court records show detectives looked at bank account activity between January 2015 and September 2019 and found $ 73,556 in deposits were made to the charity .
Over the same period , $ 49,037 in transfers from the charity were deposited into Simeone ’ s personal and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ These transfers permanently or temporarily deprived the declared ( Children of Wounded Warriors ) beneficiaries … of the opportunity to access the funds contributed by the original donors for their assistance , ” the report states .
“ The majority of the donations were instead used for the personal benefit of Robert Simeone or the businesses owned and operated by him.
” As part of his sentence which includes the 5 years , Simeone will be required to pay pay $ 81,000 in fines ; pay $ 27,800 to three victims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cost of the investigations ; testify in other patient brokering cases ; and not work for any nonprofits or in any capacity related to health care , substance abuse treatment , clinical lab testing , and/or recovery housing .
While the idea of a cop stealing from a charity — especially a children ’ s charity — may be shocking , we have reported on similar cases several times before .
In Chicago , cops were caught on camera robbing a children ’ s charity and forced the owner to pay “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cops , without a warrant , broke down the door to Andy ’ s Candyland — a Chicago-based neighborhood charity .
The money Andy Jordan , the founder of the charity , and his girlfriend had raised earlier that day through a yard sale that was supposed to help local children , was stolen by the police as they ransacked the building .
Before Chicago , TFTP reported on the story of Joseph Buffis , former police chief of Lee , Massachusetts , who was caught embezzling more nearly $ 60,000 from a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for underprivileged children .
Years ago , the “ Laliberte Toy Fund ” was set up by a now deceased police officer , and in the entire time that the charity was running , only one single check for $ 250 was sent out to a needy family .
This is despite the fact that the account had taken in tens of thousands of dollars .
In May of 2014 , the account was discovered to be empty and all the evidence showed that Chief Buffis used the money on personal items .
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By Matt Agorist
Palm Beach, FL — Robert Simeone, a former Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy and U.S. military veteran, originally faced up to 175 years in prison for the 30 felony charges he pleaded guilty to this month. However, despite the long list of crimes, including stealing from a children’s charity, Simeone will spend just five years behind bars thanks to a likely blue privilege-inspired plea deal given to him this month.
Simeone, 49, pleaded guilty to 30 felony charges for stealing $50,000 from a children’s charity and paying kickbacks to lure patients into a drug treatment center he ran in West Palm Beach.
On Wednesday, this prior ‘pillar of the community’ stood before a judge and admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from children in a charity he set up to get rich in the name of dead cops and veterans.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, in 2017, Simeone became one of the first individuals ensnared by State Attorney Dave Aronberg’s Sober Homes Task Force. It’s a law enforcement push against abuses in the area’s drug-recovery industry. There have been more than 100 arrests in three years.
Apparently, it is against the law in Florida to offer or pay any commission, kickback or bribe to promote the referral of patients to or from a health care provider. But paying people to get patients for his drug rehab clinic was hardly the worst of his crimes — and, as some may argue, not really a crime at all. Defrauding children, however, most certainly is.
In 2011, the deputy and veteran, started a charity alleging to help children of fallen military men and women, police officers and firefighters. Instead of giving the money to the children like he promised, this cop put it in his pocket — a lowlife move indeed.
As the Sun Sentinel reports, court records show detectives looked at bank account activity between January 2015 and September 2019 and found $73,556 in deposits were made to the charity. Over the same period, $49,037 in transfers from the charity were deposited into Simeone’s personal and business accounts, an arrest report showed.
“These transfers permanently or temporarily deprived the declared (Children of Wounded Warriors) beneficiaries … of the opportunity to access the funds contributed by the original donors for their assistance,” the report states. “The majority of the donations were instead used for the personal benefit of Robert Simeone or the businesses owned and operated by him.”
As part of his sentence which includes the 5 years, Simeone will be required to pay pay $81,000 in fines; pay $27,800 to three victims; pay more than $25,000 for the cost of the investigations; testify in other patient brokering cases; and not work for any nonprofits or in any capacity related to health care, substance abuse treatment, clinical lab testing, and/or recovery housing.
While the idea of a cop stealing from a charity — especially a children’s charity — may be shocking, we have reported on similar cases several times before. In Chicago, cops were caught on camera robbing a children’s charity and forced the owner to pay “protection money.”
In 2015, multiple cops, without a warrant, broke down the door to Andy’s Candyland — a Chicago-based neighborhood charity. The money Andy Jordan, the founder of the charity, and his girlfriend had raised earlier that day through a yard sale that was supposed to help local children, was stolen by the police as they ransacked the building.
Before Chicago, TFTP reported on the story of Joseph Buffis, former police chief of Lee, Massachusetts, who was caught embezzling more nearly $60,000 from a holiday fund which was supposedly set up for underprivileged children.
Years ago, the “Laliberte Toy Fund” was set up by a now deceased police officer, and in the entire time that the charity was running, only one single check for $250 was sent out to a needy family. This is despite the fact that the account had taken in tens of thousands of dollars.
In May of 2014, the account was discovered to be empty and all the evidence showed that Chief Buffis used the money on personal items. Shameful indeed.
Source: The Free Thought Project
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activistpost--2020-05-24--Global Tourism To Suffer Crushing Blow In 2020

While few industries have been spared by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic , even fewer have been hit harder than the tourism sector .
And while it is impossible to gauge the full extent of disruption brought on by COVID-19 , Statista ’ s Feliz Richter notes that the World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO ) published estimates on how the pandemic will affect international tourist arrivals in 2020 under three different scenarios .
Unfortunately , the pandemic ’ s impact on the tourism industry is expected to be devastating , even under the most optimistic of the three scenarios @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the gradual lifting of travel restrictions begins in early July , the UNWTO expects international tourist arrivals to drop by 58 percent to 610 million this year .
That would set the global travel industry back to 1998 , when the number of international travelers was last so low .
It could get worse , however , if travel restrictions remain in place until later in the year .
Assuming they are eased as late as December , the UNWTO sees international tourist arrivals fall as low as 320 million , a level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ costing the industry $ 1+ trillion .
Prior to the coronavirus outbreak , the global tourism industry had seen almost uninterrupted growth for decades .
Since 1980 , the number of international arrivals skyrocketed from 277 million to nearly 1.5 billion in 2019 .
As our chart shows , tourist numbers only dipped twice in the past two decades : in 2003 , when the SARS outbreak led to a 0.4 percent drop in arrivals , and in 2009 , when the global financial crisis caused a 4 percent drop in international travel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , peace , and freedom news .
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By Tyler Durden
While few industries have been spared by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, even fewer have been hit harder than the tourism sector. And while it is impossible to gauge the full extent of disruption brought on by COVID-19, Statista’s Feliz Richter notes that the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) published estimates on how the pandemic will affect international tourist arrivals in 2020 under three different scenarios.
Unfortunately, the pandemic’s impact on the tourism industry is expected to be devastating, even under the most optimistic of the three scenarios.
Assuming the opening of borders and the gradual lifting of travel restrictions begins in early July, the UNWTO expects international tourist arrivals to drop by 58 percent to 610 million this year. That would set the global travel industry back to 1998, when the number of international travelers was last so low.
It could get worse, however, if travel restrictions remain in place until later in the year.
Assuming they are eased as late as December, the UNWTO sees international tourist arrivals fall as low as 320 million, a level last seen in the mid-80s and possibly costing the industry $1+ trillion.
Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, the global tourism industry had seen almost uninterrupted growth for decades. Since 1980, the number of international arrivals skyrocketed from 277 million to nearly 1.5 billion in 2019.
As our chart shows, tourist numbers only dipped twice in the past two decades: in 2003, when the SARS outbreak led to a 0.4 percent drop in arrivals, and in 2009, when the global financial crisis caused a 4 percent drop in international travel.
Source: ZeroHedge
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activistpost--2020-05-24--Navy Releases Video Of High Energy Laser Weapon Destroying A Drone

The US Navy has been developing high energy laser weapons for the past several years , and just this week they announced the successful test of their most powerful iteration of this technology to date .
On Friday , the Navy ’ s Pacific Fleet issued a statement announcing that a new laser weapon destroyed a drone during recent live tests .
The press release was accompanied by photos and videos showing the tests where the drone was destroyed .
Few details were given about the test or the specifics of the weapon , aside from the fact that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 16th of this year .
Capt .
Karrey Sanders , commanding officer of Portland , the ship where the weapon was fired from , said that the Navy will continue to test the limits and capabilities of this new technology .
“ By conducting advanced at sea tests against UAVs and small crafts , we will gain valuable information on the capabilities of the Solid State Laser Weapons System Demonstrator against potential threats .
With this new advanced capability , we are redefining war at sea for the Navy .
The Navy ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Weapons ) like the LWSD provide immediate warfighter benefits and provide the commander increased decision space and response options , ” Sanders said .
Lt. Cale Hughes , a laser weapons system officer explained how the laser system worked in a previous interview with CNN .
“ It is throwing massive amounts of photons at an incoming object .
We don ’ t worry about wind , we don ’ t worry about range , we don ’ t worry about anything else .
We ’ re able to engage the targets at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
It is believed that the weapon used was a 150-kilowatt-class Laser Weapon System Demonstrator ( LWSD ) , which is sold to the US military by the weapon contractor Northrop Grumman .
The US Army is said to be working on a laser weapon that is twice as powerful , known as the Indirect Fires Protection Capability-High Energy Laser ( IFPC-HEL ) , which is expected to range up 300 kilowatts and intercept rockets , artillery , and mortars .
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By John Vibes
The US Navy has been developing high energy laser weapons for the past several years, and just this week they announced the successful test of their most powerful iteration of this technology to date. On Friday, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet issued a statement announcing that a new laser weapon destroyed a drone during recent live tests.
The press release was accompanied by photos and videos showing the tests where the drone was destroyed.
Few details were given about the test or the specifics of the weapon, aside from the fact that it occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 16th of this year.
Capt. Karrey Sanders, commanding officer of Portland, the ship where the weapon was fired from, said that the Navy will continue to test the limits and capabilities of this new technology.
“By conducting advanced at sea tests against UAVs and small crafts, we will gain valuable information on the capabilities of the Solid State Laser Weapons System Demonstrator against potential threats. With this new advanced capability, we are redefining war at sea for the Navy. The Navy’s development of DEWs (Direct Energy Weapons) like the LWSD provide immediate warfighter benefits and provide the commander increased decision space and response options,” Sanders said.
Lt. Cale Hughes, a laser weapons system officer explained how the laser system worked in a previous interview with CNN.
“It is throwing massive amounts of photons at an incoming object. We don’t worry about wind, we don’t worry about range, we don’t worry about anything else. We’re able to engage the targets at the speed of light,” Hughes said.
It is believed that the weapon used was a 150-kilowatt-class Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD), which is sold to the US military by the weapon contractor Northrop Grumman. The US Army is said to be working on a laser weapon that is twice as powerful, known as the Indirect Fires Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL), which is expected to range up 300 kilowatts and intercept rockets, artillery, and mortars.
Source: Truth Theory
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activistpost--2020-05-24--It’s Coming: Police Now Pulling Over Drivers In Pilot Program for THC Breathalyzer

If the State of Oklahoma has its way , a new cannabis breathalyzer will be put into place to supposedly protect drivers on the road from impaired motorists under the influence of THC , the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis .
Although the state is calling the new breathalyzer a pilot program , undoubtedly the DUI citations issued as a result of the new test will most certainly be real , and not an experiment like the tool itself .
Rep. Scott Fetgatter ( R ) , said Oklahoma need the new THC breathalyzer because : That ’ s because heavy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their system than the occasional toker .
Likewise , heavy cannabis users have a much higher tolerance for the substance than beginning users for example .
As a result , a person who has just started smoking weed may be much more impaired than the heavy user who will have a much higher blood to THC content level than the new user .
That ’ s what make such breathalyzers so unreliable .
Not only can the test not determine impairment , it also can not determine how much time has passed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the healing herb .
Joshua Smith , the director for the Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence describes the reality for law enforcement in their attempts to enforce DUI laws : As The Free Thought Project has reported , Smith ’ s suggestion a Drug Recognition Expert ’ s ( DRE ) professional opinion has been called into question — multiple times .
As we previously reported , one DRE in Arizona violently and with injuries arrested an autistic citizen thinking he was under the influence of drugs because he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has concluded , DRE ’ s are no experts at all .
Scientists spend years upon years in a classroom earning degrees in the hopes of being called an expert someday , while any beat cop with a high school education and a summer training institute can supposedly be given the title of “ expert ” by following a checklist and going on a hunch to determine if someone is under the influence of drugs .
Not only have stone-cold sober citizens been charged with DUI based on their so-called expert evaluation but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a result .
Now , it seems , there ’ s one more instrument to worry about , the THC breathalyzer .
Rep. Ross Ford ( R ) said : We at the TFTP would like to know if the DUIs which result from the new breathalyzers will also be a “ trial ” to see if they ’ ll hold up under the scrutiny of defense attorneys .
We doubt they will .
The science simply does not have a leg to stand on .
Sarah Stewart from the OK Depart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it will take some time and DPS is in no hurry to implement the new tool .
She said she wants to look at other states and see how they ’ re doing it .
Meanwhile , the DREs are out there going through their checklists .
Cops are still forcing motorists to submit to field drug kit testing , even though they ’ re notoriously unreliable and unscientific .
And motorists are having their blood drawn against their will in vampire like fashion .
The best advice we could ever give to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any questions .
It is certainly never a good idea to drive while impaired .
But comparing driving after smoking weed with driving while under the influence of alcohol is most assuredly apples to oranges .
Rest assured that the amount of THC in a person ’ s system to denote a crime will be highly debated over the next few years .
Despite having no set limit on the amount of THC to constitute impairment , police have already been conducting similar stops but with mouth swabs .
As TFTP reported last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing a saliva swab to detect if people are driving under the influence of cannabis .
State police have recently tested roughly 170 people at sobriety checkpoints and drug treatment clinics with these swabs , but even they doubt that the tests will hold up in court .
Boston is not alone either—there have also been similar programs announced in Colorado , California , Kansas , and Michigan .
What ’ s more , as TFTP previously reported , legal weed appears to be making drivers safer .
According to a recent report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , deaths from traffic accidents in Nevada have dropped by over 10 percent in the first year that marijuana was legalized in the state for recreational use .
Prior to legalization in Nevada , between July 2016 and May 2017 , 310 people died in traffic accidents , but in the year since legalization took effect , between July 2017 and May 2018 , that number was reduced to just 277 .
Similar numbers have been seen in other states that have implemented legalization .
A study published by the American Public Health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cannabis have lower rates of traffic fatalities than states with full prohibition .
Although correlation does not automatically mean causation , it does seem that legalization is actually making the roads safer , debunking many of the claims that DUI would increase .
Critics of marijuana typically cite statistics of how often people test positive for marijuana after car crashes .
However , what these assessments usually leave out is the fact that these people often have numerous other drugs in their system , usually alcohol or opiates , which both have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jack Burns is an educator , journalist , investigative reporter , and advocate of natural medicine Subscribe to Activist Post for truth , peace , and freedom news .
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By Jack Burns
If the State of Oklahoma has its way, a new cannabis breathalyzer will be put into place to supposedly protect drivers on the road from impaired motorists under the influence of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.
Although the state is calling the new breathalyzer a pilot program, undoubtedly the DUI citations issued as a result of the new test will most certainly be real, and not an experiment like the tool itself.
Rep. Scott Fetgatter (R), said Oklahoma need the new THC breathalyzer because:
We have a lot of problems when it comes to medical marijuana and DUI laws and determining impairment.
That’s because heavy cannabis users have much higher THC levels in their system than the occasional toker. Likewise, heavy cannabis users have a much higher tolerance for the substance than beginning users for example.
As a result, a person who has just started smoking weed may be much more impaired than the heavy user who will have a much higher blood to THC content level than the new user. That’s what make such breathalyzers so unreliable. Not only can the test not determine impairment, it also cannot determine how much time has passed since someone chose to ingest a bit of the healing herb.
Joshua Smith, the director for the Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence describes the reality for law enforcement in their attempts to enforce DUI laws:
Right now, we don’t really have a lot of roadside testing options for drug screening…Most of those things are going to fall into a blood test or drug recognition expert doing an evaluation and giving an opinion…Field sobriety tests can reliably detect drug impairment
As The Free Thought Project has reported, Smith’s suggestion a Drug Recognition Expert’s (DRE) professional opinion has been called into question — multiple times. As we previously reported, one DRE in Arizona violently and with injuries arrested an autistic citizen thinking he was under the influence of drugs because he was stemming. Likewise, as TFTP has concluded, DRE’s are no experts at all.
Scientists spend years upon years in a classroom earning degrees in the hopes of being called an expert someday, while any beat cop with a high school education and a summer training institute can supposedly be given the title of “expert” by following a checklist and going on a hunch to determine if someone is under the influence of drugs. Not only have stone-cold sober citizens been charged with DUI based on their so-called expert evaluation but they’ve had their lives destroyed as a result.
Now, it seems, there’s one more instrument to worry about, the THC breathalyzer. Rep. Ross Ford (R) said:
It’s kind of a trial program to make sure the system works.
We at the TFTP would like to know if the DUIs which result from the new breathalyzers will also be a “trial” to see if they’ll hold up under the scrutiny of defense attorneys. We doubt they will. The science simply does not have a leg to stand on.
Sarah Stewart from the OK Depart of Public Safety (DPS) said it will take some time and DPS is in no hurry to implement the new tool. She said she wants to look at other states and see how they’re doing it.
We have to research this and put together a program.
Meanwhile, the DREs are out there going through their checklists. Cops are still forcing motorists to submit to field drug kit testing, even though they’re notoriously unreliable and unscientific. And motorists are having their blood drawn against their will in vampire like fashion. The best advice we could ever give to our readers is to simply not answer any questions.
It is certainly never a good idea to drive while impaired. But comparing driving after smoking weed with driving while under the influence of alcohol is most assuredly apples to oranges. Rest assured that the amount of THC in a person’s system to denote a crime will be highly debated over the next few years.
Despite having no set limit on the amount of THC to constitute impairment, police have already been conducting similar stops but with mouth swabs. As TFTP reported last year, the Massachusetts State Police are testing a saliva swab to detect if people are driving under the influence of cannabis. State police have recently tested roughly 170 people at sobriety checkpoints and drug treatment clinics with these swabs, but even they doubt that the tests will hold up in court.
Boston is not alone either—there have also been similar programs announced in Colorado, California, Kansas, and Michigan.
What’s more, as TFTP previously reported, legal weed appears to be making drivers safer. According to a recent report from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, deaths from traffic accidents in Nevada have dropped by over 10 percent in the first year that marijuana was legalized in the state for recreational use.
Prior to legalization in Nevada, between July 2016 and May 2017, 310 people died in traffic accidents, but in the year since legalization took effect, between July 2017 and May 2018, that number was reduced to just 277.
Similar numbers have been seen in other states that have implemented legalization. A study published by the American Public Health Association found that states with legal medical cannabis have lower rates of traffic fatalities than states with full prohibition.
Although correlation does not automatically mean causation, it does seem that legalization is actually making the roads safer, debunking many of the claims that DUI would increase. Critics of marijuana typically cite statistics of how often people test positive for marijuana after car crashes. However, what these assessments usually leave out is the fact that these people often have numerous other drugs in their system, usually alcohol or opiates, which both have a much greater impact on motor skills.
Source: The Free Thought Project
Jack Burns is an educator, journalist, investigative reporter, and advocate of natural medicine
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