¶ Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist based in Seattle, Washington. He is the co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[1] His private office is called Gates Ventures,[2] and he is the sole owner of Cascade Investment.[3]
¶ History
Gates was a participant in the inaugural class of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow program in 1993.[4]
In 1997, Bill and Melinda Gates launched the Gates Library Foundation, which later became the Gates Learning Foundation.[5] In 2000, the William H. Gates Foundation merged with the Gates Learning Foundation to form the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[5:1]
On May 5, 2009, Gates attended a meeting at Rockefeller University alongside David Rockefeller, Oprah Winfrey, Patty Stonesifer, Ted Turner, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Peter G. Peterson, Eli Broad, Michael Bloomberg and others.[6] Among the topics discussed were healthcare, education, and population control.[7]
In January 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the following ten years to be a “decade of vaccines.” This was cited as the basis for the creation of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration, launched in December 2010 by the Gates Foundation, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), UNICEF and the World Health Organization.[8]
Gates and Warren Buffett launched The Giving Pledge campaign in June 2010.[9]
An engineer named Rick Allen Jones was arrested in December 2014 at the Gates residence, where he was employed, on allegations of possessing and trading child pornography.[10]
Gates founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures in 2015.[11]
In an interview with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in January 2019, Gates boasted that he had achieved “20-to-1” returns in economic value through his investments in vaccines.[12]
¶ COVID-19
Gates was widely looked to by mainstream media news outlets for input and guidance on the declared COVID-19 pandemic, despite his lack of medical training or official public health position.[13]
Gates was confronted during a September 2021 interview on PBS NewsHour over his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. He explained that he “had dinners with” Epstein because “he had relationships with people he said... would give to global health.”[14]
On October 18, 2021, Gates attended an “intimate dinner” organized by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street for “some of the world’s most powerful executives.” The stated purpose of the meeting was to discuss “Global Britain” ahead of a summit the following day “attended by more than 200 top financiers designed to woo investment in Britain and fend off the advances of countries on the European Continent.” The event was attended by protestors who loudly called for Gates to be arrested over his role in the development of COVID-19 vaccines.[15]
In August 2022, following Anthony Fauci's announced retirement from the NIAID and his other government positions, Gates tweeted: “Tony, you were an amazing public servant long before COVID-19 struck – and now you are a hero to millions of people, including me.”[16]
Gates participated in Catastrophic Contagion, a tabletop pandemic preparedness exercise that took place on October 23, 2022 at Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium.[17]
¶ Activities
Gates has personally provided notable funding to the University of Washington.[18]
¶ External links
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- Encyclopedia Britannica
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- Website
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- Wikiquote
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¶ Further reading
- May 1, 2020: “Who Is Bill Gates?” by James Corbett, published by the Corbett Report
- October 15, 2020: “Driven to Exterminate: How Bill Gates brought gene drive extinction technology into the world” by Zahra Moloo and Jim Thomas, published by ETC Group
- November 16, 2021: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., published by Skyhorse Publishing
- May 9, 2022: “Bill Gates wants to build a dystopia” by Toby Green, published by UnHerd
Nerkar, S. (2024, May 13). Melinda French Gates to Resign From Gates Foundation. The New York Times. http://archive.today/2024.05.14-021009/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/business/melinda-gates-resigns-gates-foundation.html ↩︎
Chang, A., & Miller, M. (2021, May 25). Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security receives a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to deliver Covid-19 Response Research as part of the Exemplars in Global Health program. The Rockefeller Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20230605065933/https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/johns-hopkins-center-for-health-security-receives-a-grant-from-the-rockefeller-foundation-to-deliver-covid-19-response-research-as-part-of-the-exemplars-in-global-health-program/ ↩︎
Pratt, S. (2021, February 4). Bill Gates owns largest ownership stake at CN. The Western Producer. http://archive.today/2021.02.11-221305/https://www.producer.com/news/bill-gates-owns-largest-ownership-stake-at-cn/ ↩︎
Class of 1993. World Economic Forum. Retrieved December 27, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013754/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1993.pdf ↩︎
Our story. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.02.04-092247/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/our-story ↩︎ ↩︎
Di Mento, M., & Wilhelm, I. (2009, May 29). America’s Top Philanthropists Hold Private Meeting to Discuss Global Problems. The Chronicle of Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20100901091801/http://philanthropy.com/article/Americas-Top-Philanthropists/63094/ ↩︎
Frank, R. (2009, May 26). Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population, Report Says. Wall Street Journal. https://web.archive.org/web/20160205183450/http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2009/05/26/billionaires-try-to-shrink-worlds-population-report-says/ ↩︎
Robert, M., Hasan, H., Moen, C., & Billet, C. (2010, December 2). Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration. World Health Organization. http://archive.today/2013.10.30-095609/http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/press/news_release_decade_vaccines/en/index.html ↩︎
Loomis, C. J. (2010, June 16). The $600 billion challenge. Fortune. http://archive.today/2020.09.23-020913/https://fortune.com/2010/06/16/the-600-billion-challenge/?iid=sr-link1 ↩︎
Man arrested at Bill Gates’ estate for reportedly trading child porn. (2014, December 31). KIRO 7 News Seattle. https://www.kiro7.com/news/man-arrested-bill-gates-estate-reportedly-trading-/43531857/ ↩︎
Liang, A. (2023, January 24). Climate change: Bill Gates backs Australian start-up targeting cow burps. BBC News. https://web.archive.org/web/20241205211651/https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64382400 ↩︎
Belvedere, M. J. (2019, January 23). Bill Gates: My “best investment” turned $10 billion into $200 billion worth of economic benefit. CNBC. http://archive.today/2023.01.06-090120/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/bill-gates-turns-10-billion-into-200-billion-worth-of-economic-benefit.html ↩︎
Schwab, T. (2020, August 21). Journalism’s Gates keepers. Columbia Journalism Review. https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php ↩︎
Brown, L. (2021, September 22). Bill Gates squirms, fiddles with ring finger when asked about ties to Jeffrey Epstein. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2021/09/22/bill-gates-squirms-when-asked-about-jeffrey-epstein-ties/ ↩︎
Farrell, K. (2021, October 18). “Arrest Bill Gates!” Protesters swarm Downing Street as they halt cars at Boris dinner. Express. from https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1507873/downing-street-protest-boris-johnson-bill-gates-dinner-cars-arrest-latest-news-vn ↩︎
Bill Gates [@BillGates]. (2022, August 22). “Tony, you were an amazing public servant long before COVID-19 struck – and now you are a hero to millions of people, including me.” [Tweet]. Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20220827011748/https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1561850788766314496 ↩︎
Catastrophic Contagion Participants. Catastrophic Contagion | a Pandemic Tabletop Exercise. Retrieved December 17, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221217231204/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/2022-catastrophic-contagion/participants.html ↩︎
Honor Roll of Donors. University of Washington. Retrieved May 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220610164520/https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2020/10/29094302/RTC_HonorRoll_2020.pdf ↩︎