Agenda 21 and the Draft NZ Biodiversity Strategy

The current New Zealand government has produced a raft of measures to implement the United Nations Agenda 21, including the draft Biodiversity Strategy, the Zero Carbon Bill, the Oil and Exploration Bill, and the One Billion Trees Fund.

AGENDA 21

In 1992 Agenda 21 was adopted in Rio de Janeiro at the UN Earth Summit Conference on Environment and Development. It is defined by the United Nations as a ‘comprehensive plan for action to be taken globally, nationally, and locally by organizations of the United Nations system, governments and major groups in every area in which humans impact the environment.’ New Zealand is signatory to this (ostensibly non-binding) international treaty with over 100 other countries.

‘The UN’s Agenda 21 is definitely comprehensive and global — breathtakingly so. Agenda 21 proposes a global regime that will monitor, oversee, and strictly regulate our planet’s oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, aquifers, sea beds, coastlands, wetlands, forests, jungles, grasslands, farmland, deserts, tundra, and mountains. It even has a whole section on regulating and “protecting” the atmosphere. It proposes plans for cities, towns, suburbs, villages, and rural areas. It envisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumption — in short, everything; there is nothing on, in, over, or under the Earth that doesn’t fall within the purview of some part of Agenda 21.’ (William Jasper, Your Hometown and the United Nations Agenda 21)

Agenda 21 is the culmination and ultimate expression of a number of UN Conferences and UN-drafted pacts and declarations to do with the place of humanity in the environment, and the management of humanity overall. Almost all of these have been signed by New Zealand. They are dominated by two assumed, overriding and non-negotiable values – debate of the first never arises, and of the second is never permitted:

The precedence of ‘biodiversity’ over all other rights, even of human life;
The non-negotiability of the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming narrative.

The United Nations vision includes the following priorities:

High-density (forced) urbanisation
Reduction or elimination of private property rights
Reduction of population

See: A Critical Analysis of Agenda 21 – United Nations Program of Action

or in brief: Agenda 21 in One Easy Lesson

The American Wildlands Project

The American Wildlands Project, (now calling itself the Wildlands Network) is an implementation of UN policies on biodiversity and human habitat. It proposes to set up to one-half of America into core wilderness reserves and interconnecting corridors, all surrounded by interconnecting buffer zones. No human activity would be permitted in the core reserves and corridors, and only highly regulated activity would be permitted in the buffer zones. Human settlement would be in high density cities. The purpose of the corridors is to allow large animals like bison to roam free, including migration across the continent.

Ratification of the United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity was defeated in the US Senate, when the concept of the Wildlands Project formed the bsis for the convention. A number of American states have taken steps to ban Agenda 21 and the local body network ICLEI, specifically set up to ensure implementation of Agenda 21 (most cities in New Zealand belong to ICLEI).

The principles of Agenda 21 and the Wildlands Project are being enacted by Local Bodies and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). People are jailed and/or heavily fined for interfering with the slightest trickle of water on their property; small towns are startled to find high-rise, high density developments out of all keeping approved; farmers and other rural dwellers are being forced off their land through taxation or zoning. Powers of eminent domain have been extended to allow councils to agree with developers to confiscate private land, in order to build pack and stack subdivisions, also used to take land for projects such as bike paths.

‘Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.’ Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wildlands Project

Note: the term Agenda 21 is no longer used by the UN and governments, because of the negative connotations it has acquired. Instead they talk of sustainability and resilience: the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are in fact Agenda 21 goals.

See also: Michael Coffman, Background to the Wildlands Project, and a couple of horror stories

New Zealand

New Zealand has had a policy of preserving native forest, and protecting native fauna, and generally caring for the environment, independent of the United Nation. About 30% of New Zealand is forested, on public or private land – this is far more than most industrialised countries. National parks also include large tracts of non-forested land which are protected from development. Cities have extensive reserves. Many suburban sections in hilly towns like Wellington, even modest ones, have small tracts of native bush.

New Zealanders have a very close physical connection with nature and the outdoors, perhaps through pursuits like tramping, skiing, beach activities; for many people this connection is largely through time spent in their own backyards. Most New Zealanders live in houses of one or two stories with a garden, usually consisting of lawns, flowers, shrubs.

The effect of the implementation of Agenda 21 on lifestyle will be far more dramatic in New Zealand than in Turkey, for example, where even quite small towns consist of apartment buildings. It will also entail the loss of the eco-system provided by the suburban and small-town lifestyle.

For New Zealanders, Agenda 21 means the complete destruction of a way of life that most people see as positive.

The Biodiversity Strategy

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) has produced a draft Biodiversity Strategy, which is a commitment under the Convention on Biological Diversity, signed by NZ at the Rio Earth Summit.

The proposed Biodiversity Strategy is the New Zealand version of the American Wildlands Project.

The strategy demands the ongoing expansion of reserved land and land where use is limited by its being dedicated to ‘biodiversity’; this will be achieved by increased ‘tools’ (regulations) to facilitate taking of private land or limiting the use of private land.

The draft is imprecise, repetitive and sentimental, and written in a hybrid English/Maori language clearly intended for distraction rather than communication – very popular amongst NZ government departments when they do not actually want their documents to be read closely. There is a paucity of science and of detail. The draft neither sets out what New Zealand is already doing to protect the environment, nor explains what needs to be done and why, nor provides options.

The draft emphasises the New Zealand love of ‘nature’, ‘Nature in Aotearoa is healthy, abundant, and thriving. Current and future generations connect with nature, restore it and are restored by it.’ While there is a a comprehensive list of outdoor activities, a notable omission is the home garden. New Zealand is described as an urbanised society

New Zealand is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. There is significant opportunity to restore nature in cities and integrate it into urban planning, which will, in turn, help reconnect urban dwellers with nature. P. 52

This extraordinary statement conveys an impression of a people living in high density cities like Singapore, nothing like New Zealand cities with their preponderance of single-use dwellings, private yards and abundance of greenery.

DOC’s vision for New Zealand by 2070

‘Our species, habitats and ecosystems (especially those that are currently rare
and threatened) are increasing, not declining, in number and extent, across
private as well as public land and in the sea’

Language and goals echo the Wildlands Project:

‘Biodiversity hubs’

What is planned is ‘a complete network of biodiversity hubs across New Zealand […] Review current hubs/similar arrangements to establish what is most effective and what barriers may exist. […] If required, establish a national function to support establishment of hubs and provide coordination and oversight, such as a nationwide network of biodiversity hubs and connection to national and regional funders.’

Corridors and buffer zones

‘Eco systems will be connected from the mountain tops to the ocean depths’, involving ‘corridors for nature, linkages over landscapes, reducing fragmentation, considering externalities (p.51); ‘By creating ecological corridors and buffer zones and increasing the diversity of land use, a tapestry of ecosystems are being reconnected so they can function more efficiently as a whole landscape’. (p. 54)

Note: New Zealand does not have large land mammals like bison to utilise cross-country corridors: birds and butterflies use street plantings and private gardens as corridors just as much as, or even in preference to, indigenous forest.

Expansion of biodiversity areas – restoring biodiversity

The strategy aims to ‘restore biodiversity’ (p. 20), without defining what is meant by this goal decision. At the extreme, of course, all human inhabitants would depart, leaving New Zealand to revert to the avian paradise it once was. The Agenda 21 compromise is penning human beings in high-density cities, leaving most of the country zoned for ‘biodiversity’.

Private land

‘Our species, habitats and ecosystems (especially those that are currently rare
and threatened) are increasing, not declining, in number and extent, across
private as well as public land and in the sea […] Biodiversity is core to all decisions about land and water management, including on private land’ (p. 28); ‘private landowners
[…] are a crucial part of the system’ (p. 38); ‘Implement a consistent national approach to rates relief for covenanted and other protected private land’; ‘Many iwi, hapū and whānau have significant aspirations to play a greater role in managing biodiversity on public and private land’ (p. 43).

Expanding regulatory frameworks.

Biodiversity is ‘core to all decisions about land and water management’. To enforce this, and to facilitate taking or imposing restrictions on private land, more powers need to be given to local and central government.

‘Legal and regulatory frameworks are not achieving enough […] Beyond protected areas, such as on private land and in most of our marine environment, there are even fewer tools and frameworks available to ensure that biodiversity is protected’ (p. 16) ‘A mix of regulatory and non-regulatory tools should be used to achieve the best
outcome, recognising that incentives, regulatory guidance and backstops are important elements of an effective response’. (p. 29)

Kaitiaki (Guardianship)

‘Mana whenua feel that they can genuinely practice their role as kaitiaki’. It is unclear whether this just another feel-good statement by DOC, or whether it flags Maori having a greater say over land use if, for example, requirements for resource consents are extended to suburban home-owners affected by ‘significant natural area’ designations.

Some questions:

A large percentage of New Zealand is already dedicated to habitats for indigenous species, who also make great use of our home gardens – do New Zealanders see as a priority an expansion of ‘biodiversity areas’ at all costs, and at the expense of all other land uses?

‘Priority should be given to conserving indigenous species over non-indigenous species when making management decisions.’ Always? How does this affect the Wellington Botanical Gardens? Home gardens? Pets?

Anthropogenic Global Warming / Climate Change

Many thousands of American and International scientists including some of New Zealand’s most senior have sent and are still sending (e.g. here and here) numerous petitions to heads of government, UN bureaucrats and the European Untion begging them to reconsider their allegiance to the anthropogenic global warming narrative.

All say pretty much the same thing:

the climate has always changed,
so called greenhouses gases – CO2, methane and nitrous oxide – have little or no effect on global warming,
extreme weather events are not increasing, and
resources would be better spent on real environmental issues.

Carbon dioxide: The human-generated portion constitutes about 3% of atmospheric CO2; New Zealand’s share of that is 0.1%. The government’s claim that its measure to reduce CO2 will do anything to stop the climate changing is patently ridiculous.

Methane: Methane is virtually irrelevant as a greenhouse gas, according to papers by Jock Allison, Tom Sheahen and Geoff Allison, emeritus professor of Auckland University

Methane ‘has such a low atmospheric concentration around 0.00018% and combined with it having such a narrow waveband in which it can absorb radiant energy, it is so irrelevant to global temperatures that calls for reductions in methane emissions are laughable’.

Sea level rise: global sea level data indicates a sea level rise of 1-2mm per annum, ie four to eight inches over 100 years. A careful analysis of measurements from the world’s best long-term coastal tide gauges, indicates that the global average rate of sea-level change, is just under +1.5 mm/yr (about 6 inches per century), and it is not accelerating. Members of the School of Surveying, Otago University and GNS NZ have analysed tide gauge records and vertical land movements for New Zealand, and found an average annual sea level rise of 0.9 mm over four main NZ centres (this slide from their presentation at the International Surveyors (FIG) Conference in Helsinki 2017).

See also: Top New Zealand Scientist Describes ‘Global Warming’ as Pseudo-Science: David Kear, former Director-General of NZ’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was mystified by the Ohope Council’s refusal to accept its own technical reports and local observation, to insist that the sea at Ohope beach was rising when it was in fact retreating.

Parallel measures to the Biodiversity Strategy

Oil Exploration Bill: on the back of the ‘climate change’ narrative, the New Zealand government introduced legislation to ban all new permits for offshore oil and gas exploration, as a move towards a zero emissions future. (In almost the same breath, the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been castigating oil companies for the high price of petrol at the pump.

Zero Carbon Bill: The Bill provides for eliminating New Zealand’s carbon dioxide emissions completely by 2050. It also aims at a 10% reduction in biological methane by 2030 and a provisional reduction of between 24%-47% by 2050.

According the Bill’s Regulatory Impact Statement economic growth could slow by $5-12 billion per year over 2020 to 2050 – a loss of around $300 billion. Emissions-intensive sectors including farming ‘could see their output drop by 50 percent from current levels by 2050’.

‘The Prime Minister admitted in her first reading speech, that the harsh methane targets being imposed on farmers were not designed by New Zealand’s scientific experts, but by the UN’s highly politicised climate bureaucracy: ‘The only thing that we have – science based – is actually the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They undertook modelling that … said you would need to set a target between 24 and 47 percent.’ (Muriel Newman, The Controversial Zero Carbon Bill)

One Billion Trees Fund: The government is providing funds to encourage the planting of one billion trees by 2028. At least half of this is likely to be pinus radiata forest. According to Forestry Minister Shane Jones:

‘We have a strong base to build on, with the commercial forestry sector projected to plant half a billion trees in the next 10 years. […] This year, almost 7.3 million trees will be planted through various Ministry for Primary Industries schemes – about half of which will be indigenous species. […] The tree planting programme will benefit New Zealand’s provinces, our environment and our people – it is a big boost for the forestry sector and will create more jobs and training opportunities to provinces that have been doing it tough for a while now.’

Direct Grants from the One Billion Trees Fund are available to landowners, including private landowners, farmers and Māori landowners, to help with the costs of planting trees or assisting reversion to native forest. Funding is available for plantings of a minimum of an acre for native trees, and 5 acres for exotics. Thus the taxpayer is subsiding the conversion of fertile farmland to pinus radiata plantations.

Environmental Implications

The intention is to cover the countryside with wind turbines, solar farms and pinus radiata.

It is assumed that energy requirements previously met by fossil fuels will come from wind power and solar energy. That in itself is probably an impossible feat, but there is little discussion of the environmental implications. Aside from being an eye sore, wind farms are a threat to birds, bats and bugs, not to mention human health.

Motors are to be replaced by batteries. Wellington City Council has also scrapped its trolley buses, which were fed off the national grid, and replaced them with battery powered models. Whether New Zealand is able to dispose of used batteries economically and safely is questionable. It is also doubtful whether the rare earths, the very mining of which is questionable from an environment viewpoint, will be able to meet the demand if the whole world is relying on them for power.

Pinus radiata is hostile to flora and fauna, sours the soil when New Zealand soil and water are already acid, and large plantations are not always considered aesthetic.

How it works:

Rural New Zealand: Farming, a primary industry, is under enormous threat.

Huge areas of fertile pasture land are being converted to pinus radiata forest, regardless of the ecological implications. The conversion will result in a net loss of jobs.
Farmers are faced with the pressures to reduce methane.
At the same time people worldwide are being told they should cut down on meat, or preferably give up eating all animal products, to save the planet. The UN proposes a special tax on meat consumption.

The effect of all these measures on the rural landscape, rural jobs and rural towns will be extreme – some towns will not survive.

The Cities: New Zealand’s major cities are not affected so directly by the legislation. However they all belong to the same organisations that were created to facilitate Agenda 21, such as ICLEI and 100 Resilient Cities, and the same Agenda 21 ethos prevails. Thus Wellington councillors claim that conversion of the city from leafy suburbs to apartment buildings is inevitable, despite greenfield options being available, despite the drop in natural increase, ie family sizes are very low, and despite New Zealand having a very low population density for a developed country. At a recent meeting a candidate kept referencing New York as role model for Wellington – a fairer comparison would be with a medium-sized American town. They are of course supported in this vision by the corporate press:

On the other hand biodiversity is paramount (eco-systems provided by the flowers and shrubs in home gardens, while much loved by birds and insects, do not count). Wellington has initiated a programme of designating ‘Significant Natural Areas’, which seems to consist of notifying startled Wellington city homeowners that a portion of their backyards, even whole sections that have been awaiting development for about 100 years, are now part of a Significant Natural Area, with implications for land use (from subdivision to house extension) and property values.

It is debatable whether Wellingtonians think that having such biodiversity areas that cannot be accessed by the public is a welcome trade-off, for trees being uprooted and bush-covered banks being torn down to enable high-density development. In any case the lesson is clear – plant exotic trees in your garden and keep mowing those lawns, because if you allow them to revert to bush, you could lose all rights and see the value of your property diminish.

Conclusion

In order to implement the Agenda 21 of UN bureaucrats, New Zealand politicians, local and national, are on course to destroy the rural sector, rural towns, the environment, and the New Zealand way of life. All this is on the back of the fallacious climate narrative and environmental priorities imposed from without, and without proper consultation with the New Zealand people.

Bill Gates’ Busy Busy World

Bill Gates, often cited as the second richest man in the world, spends a vast fortune on ostensibly philanthropic enterprises, most of a scientific nature. Gates focuses heavily on climate change (zero carbon) and universal vaccination; his funding/investment interests include:

Biofuels
Geoengineering to stop the sun
Carbon capture
Hurricane calming
Veganism
Genetically modified seeds
Surveillance of humanity from space
A global database of newborns
Microchipping to provide contraception
Microchipping to vaccinate

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world’s most powerful charity, funded to the tune of $34.6 billion in addition to $30 billion from a Warren Buffet investment. The Foundation involves itself with environmental and health concerns – thus on the one hand, it aspires to save humanity, and on the other to save the planet from humanity. The Gates Foundation often works in conjunction with other elite organisations, particularly the Rockefeller Foundations – Bill Gates has been described as the David Rockefeller of his age.

The Gates Foundation is the second biggest donor to the World Health Organisation (WHO) after the United States.

Global warming / Climate change

Innovating to Zero: Bill Gates presentation to TED, 2010, on mitigating climate change, with reference to depopulation and also vaccines.

In the words of the Atlantic, Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change, on the assumption that CO2 is causing catastrophic global warming. According to Bill Gates, we need an energy miracle, in order to replace fossil fuels. To this end he has been funding ‘climate energy research‘ and ‘clean energy’ initiatives.

At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21) Bill Gates launched two initiatives:

Mission Innovation is a global initiative ‘to dramatically accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation to address global climate change, provide affordable clean energy to consumers, including in the developing world, and create additional commercial opportunities in clean energy’ (‘The Whitehouse’). 24 countries committed to double their respective clean energy research and development over the five years to 2020.

Breakthrough Energy: is a fund to finance clean energy projects. It describes itself as a group of private investors, global corporations and financial institutions ‘with the capital necessary to finance the world’s largest infrastructure projects’. Private investors include Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros and Richard Branson.

In October 2018 Bill Gates announced a partnership with the European Union to create an investment fund for green energy startups.

The Gates Foundation, like the Rockefeller Foundation, is a heavy funder of academic institutions. One example is the Stockholm Resilience Centre , to which the Gates Foundation donated $9.8 million in 2017, and a further sum in 2018. The Centre specialises in alarming studies on ‘climate’, predicting, for example, a ‘hot house earth‘.

Biofuel

Gates has been investing in biofuel specialists like Renmatix. which has developed a process that converts plant waste and biomass into sugars that can be converted into biofuels and bio versions of chemicals. See also Renmatix Biochemicals are the Wave of the Future.

Geoengineering to cool the planet

In its report of October 2018, Global Warming of 1.5 °C, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that a fleet of high-flying aircraft could deposit enough sulfur to offset roughly 1.5 °C of warming for around $1 billion to $10 billion per year.

Since 2007 Bill Gates has been personally funding and closely involved in the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), based at Harvard University, which carries out research into the possibility of blocking the sun in order to mitigate global warming, using chemicals or particles of metals such as aluminium.

In 2012 FICER announced their intention to spray sun-reflecting sulphate particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico. That year they also contemplated using aluminium for the same purpose.

In 2018 the Harvard scientists announced their intention to release calcium carbonate into the stratosphere over the South-Western United States. An initial test, known as the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), was slated for as early as Spring 2019, but in July 2019 Harvard announced the creation an external advisory panel to examine the potential ethical, environmental and geopolitical impacts of the project.

In sum: In order to save the planet, Bill Gates and partners are contemplating poisoning the atmosphere, the soil, the sea and the world’s flora and fauna.

Disadvantages:

Some of the negative effects of spraying chemicals or metal particles into the air have been pointed out:

Global collapse of food crops
Global rise in cancer from vitamin D deficiency
Global drop in IQs due to increased air pollution
Massive loss of habitat and ecosystems due to decreased sunlight and colder temperatures
Huge increase in global acid rain that will devastate forests and food crops (from conversion of SO2 into sulphuric acid)
Decreased plant production of oxygen that’s necessary for humans, primates and mammals to survive

More recently the Gates researchers have fixed on calcium carbonate as their geoengineering tool:

Upon contact with an acid – no matter the strength – calcium carbonate produces carbon dioxide. (Some countries, like New Zealand, have naturally acid soil and water.)

Carbon Capture and Storage

Bill Gates has invested in a Canadian company called Carbon Engineering, which hopes to stop climate change through carbon capture, ie by sucking out of the atmosphere carbon dioxide which has been released by the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas for energy generation or in transport. Once filtered from the air, the carbon dioxide is transported and stored. The Gates-funded project is hoping to process the captured carbon to create synthetic diesel or petrol for use in transport which would be less polluting than regular fuels.

Hurricane Calming

Bill Gates and associates have applied for patents for procedures to manage hurricanes. The five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges.

Veganism

Scientific studies indicate that methane and nitrous oxide have little or no effect on global temperatures, (see Sheahen and Allison; Thongchai). The United Nations, however, promotes the view that ‘raising animals to eat produces more greenhouse gasses (via methane and nitrous oxide) than all of the carbon dioxide excreted by automobiles, boats, planes and trains in the world combined’.

Bill Gates, while not himself a vegan, has been promoting evangelical veganism, funding it via such enterprises as Beyond Meat, and Impossible Food, both of which specialise in artificial meat.

GMO and Monsanto

In 2006 the Bill & Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations formed an alliance to help spur a ‘Green Revolution in Africa , with $100 million provided by the Gates Foundation and another $50 million by the Rockefeller Foundation. A major aim of the Alliance is to encourage the use of pesticides and ‘advanced’ seeds (ie genetically modified).

In 2010 Bill Gates bought 500,000 shares in Monsanto, the producer of pesticides such as the glyphosate weedkiller Roundup, and also the world’s largest producer of genetically modified food.

Over the last four years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated a total of $15 million to two global campaigns aimed at ‘ending world hunger’, by encouraging small farmers around the world to use GMOs.

Genetically modified food has been tied to numerous health ailments such as sterility and infant mortality, but evidence of the dangers of GMO is widely ignored or underplayed – 91% of US soy is reported to be genetically modified.

The British Government Has Colluded with Monsanto and Should Be Held Accountable in the International Criminal Court .

The Fight against Malaria

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been involved in a large number of initiatives to eradicate malaria, from practical solutions to prevent mosquito access to homes, to distributing insecticide-soaked nets, to genome editing of mosquitos. The Foundation is partnering with company Oxitec to develop a genetically engineered male mosquito designed to kill off future generations of malaria-transmitting bugs.

The Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault

While the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations are heavily promoting GMO to farmers, at the same time they are investing in the Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault, a seed bank located in Norway. Other investors include the Norwegian government, and major GMO seed and agrichemical companies. (See How Bill Gates, Syngenta and Rockefeller Became Custodians of the Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault)

It is no accident that the Rockefeller and Gates foundations are teaming up to push a GMO-style Green Revolution in Africa at the same time they are quietly financing the ‘doomsday seed vault’ on Svalbard. The GMO agribusiness giants are up to their ears in the Svalbard project.

‘Indeed, the entire Svalbard enterprise and the people involved call up the worst catastrophe images of the Michael Crichton bestseller, Andromeda Strain, a sci-fi thriller where a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin causes rapid, fatal clotting of the blood threatening the entire human species. In Svalbard, the future world’s most secure seed repository will be guarded by the policemen of the GMO Green Revolution–the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, Syngenta, DuPont and CGIAR.’ (F. William Engdahl, ‘Doomsday Seed Vault’ in the Arctic)

Surveillance of Humanity from Space

Bill Gates is one of a small group of powerhouse investors in EarthNow, a new company looking to provide satellite imagery and live video in virtually real-time. This would consists of a network of satellites that could see any corner of the globe and provide live video with a latency of about a second. (Bill Gates Backs Plan to Serveil the Entire Planet From Space)

A Global Database of Newborns

At the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. in 2010, Bill Gates proposed a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database, to ensure that all children are vaccinated on time.

Micro Implants to Provide Contraception

The Gates Foundation has funded the Massachusettes Institute of Technology’s development of a contraceptive computer chip that can be controlled by remote control. The chip is implanted under a woman’s skin, releasing a small dose of the hormone levonorgestrel.

Micro Implants to Vaccinate Babies

The Gates Foundation is funding MIT to develop a microparticle implant that will automatically administer vaccines over time in babies.

Vaccination

Vaccination is the philanthropic area that Bill Gates is best known for – he has a stated aim of vaccine equity, ie that the world’s poor are as fully vaccinated as the rich, and that poor countries should prioritise vaccination

In 1998 Bill and Melinda Gates announced a $100 Million gift to establish the Bill and Melinda Gates Children’s Vaccine Program.

In 2000 the Gates Foundation created the Global Fund for Childrens Vaccines (GAVI), an international collaboration of the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, various governments, the World Bank, WHO, the International Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Vaccine Makers and UNICEF.

The Gates Foundation has paid an Argentinian company to produce and stockpile thimerosal, the mercury derivative that is controversially added to vaccines (mercury is considered so toxic that mercury barometers have been banned in the United Kingdom).

In 2018 the Gates Foundation teamed up with Google co-founder Larry Page to launch launch the Universal Influenza Vaccine Development Grand Challenge. The challenge will award $250,000 to $2 million in funding over two years to the most promising proposals for a universal flu vaccine.

Disastrous Outcomes

The Gates Foundation and its partners are associated with numerous vaccine initiatives in third-world countries which have been considered unethical and/or had disastrous outcomes.

Gates and the pharmaceutical companies have been accused of targeting illiterate adolescents without consent for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) trials in India, Uganda and Peru. In 2014, India sued the Gates Foundation for a campaign ‘to vaccinate tribal children with vaccines (HPV) which caused injury and death, and where consent was fabricated’. In a report to the India Parliament, healthcare experts reported that thousands of mostly illiterate families and adolescent children in the impoverished Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh were targeted without consent by the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) in HPV vaccine trials (PATH administers the Bill and Melinda Gates Children’s Vaccine Program).

Polio: In 2000 the oral polio vaccine was finally dropped from US schedules after four decades when the authorities finally admitted that the vaccine actually caused paralysis. The Gates Foundation however has involved itself in an aggressive campaign to promote the oral polio vaccine in India. This has resulted in 47,500 cases of paralysis or death in India in 2011 alone.

Tetanus vaccine: The Gates Foundation funded the distribution in Kenya of a tetanus vaccine containing the antigen human chorionic gonadatropin (HCG) that renders a woman infertile and causes miscarriage.

Meningitis vaccine: The Gates Foundation funded the distribution of the meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac in Chad. In one village alone 50 children were paralysed as a consequence: the vaccine reportedly caused each of the children, some of whom were as young as seven, to suffer hallucinations, convulsions, and ultimately paralysis.

Malawi: Vaccination at Gunpoint. In 2011, the Malawi Voice reported that a group of families who took their children out of the country, to Mozambique, to avoid the free measles vaccine that was being distributed, were rounded up by police and vaccinated at gunpoint upon returning to the country. Malawi’s commitment, and its helpful ‘health surveillance assistants’ were praised by Melinda Gates, who termed as Malawi one of the few countries ‘on track to reach the UN Millennium Development Goal’.

The Indian Medical Journal has criticised the Gates/WHO programme of promoting the Pentavalent vaccine, when its use has been discontinued in some countries following adverse reactions and deaths in children.

The same IMJ editorial also questions the rationale for introducing haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine in India where the incidence of Hib disease is very low. It estimates that vaccinating 25 million babies could at best save 350 children from Hib meningitis and Hib pneumonia but ‘3125 children will die from vaccine adverse effects’.

Conflict of interest and bad faith:

Bill Gates has huge investments in pharmaceuticals .

Bill Gates opposes Donald Trump setting up safety testing for vaccines.

Criticism

Bill Gates’ prioritising of vaccines has been questioned:

‘Health experts point out that were the intent of Gates really to improve the health and well-being of black Africans, the same hundreds of millions of dollars the Gates Foundation has invested in untested and unsafe vaccines could be used in providing minimal sanitary water and sewage systems.’ (F. William Engdahl)

And:

‘Bill Gates and George Soros are not trying to save poor people in Africa, or India or Brazil. They don’t care at all about the health of underprivileged societies, but what they do care about is making sure these folks can’t reproduce, and that if they do reproduce, they are creating deformed, severely autistic, cancer-ridden beings that won’t reproduce or even lead productive lives, but rather cost their parents all of their earnings and savings just to care for them.’ (S. D. Wells, Bill Gates and George Soros fund Monsanto and a World Depopulation Agenda)

‘Activism’

In early 2019 a controversial incident arose at a March for Life whereby a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, confronted a group of schoolboys from Covington Catholic High School who were late mercilessly smeared by the media. Nathan Philips is backed by the non-profit Native Youth Leadership Alliance, whose funding partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.

Media

In 2010 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made a grant to ABC News towards a year long series on health issues in the third world for ABC News.

The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations are both ‘philanthropic partners’ to the British newspaper The Guardian, which pursues a line of climate catastrophism in articles such as The Three Degrees World: the Cities that Will be Drowned by Global Warming or ‘Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a “hothouse’ state”‘ (which relies on the findings of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, also Gates-funded).

One world government

Bill Gates is a strong advocate of global governance, ie by the United Nations.

Speaking with Germany’s ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ newspaper, Gates said that the United Nations does not have enough power and must be granted full governmental control ‘for the good of humanity’. (Bill Gates: Humanity Badly Needs a Global Government)

Note that United Nations reports on the environment, climate or global government repeatedly recommend, along with greater powers for the United Nations bureaucracy, a greater say for affiliated non-government organisations (such as the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations). See for example Agenda 21, Chap 27: ‘Strengthening the role of non-governmental organizations: partners for sustainable development’.

The Club of Rome

The activities of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation synchronise with the aims of the Club of Rome, of which Bill Gates is commonly cited as a member. The Club of Rome was founded by David Rockefeller as one of a group of organisations, including Bilderberg which Gates has attended, formed for the purpose of creating one-world government by an elite, all of which David Rockefeller himself played a major role in.

The Club of Rome has used environmental causes and claims of crisis to achieve its goals, such the the global population scare, and peak oil. Since the late 1970s David Rockefeller, Bill Gates and other members of the Club of Rome have spent billions promoting the narrative that CO2 causes global warming aka ‘climate change’.

Manufactured hysteria about ‘climate change’, in tandem with a claim of concern for ‘biodiversity’, is used to justify calls for high density urbanisation, population reduction, and more power to the United Nations and its affiliated NGOs.

Comment:

The technological initiatives Bill Gates is involved in represent a reversal of movements which reject the unnatural and anti-intuitive – chemicals, toxins, GMO – and aspire to the natural, such as organic gardening or nutrition. For the Gates Foundation science is not a tool to understand and exploit natural processes, it is a means of incorporating the unnatural and artificial into our lives. Biology is dead – chemistry is everything.

150 Years of Sea Level Rise in Germany

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Facts are stubborn things.

The Wismar, Germany, record is one of the longest and most complete records of sea level rise in the world. It not only shows a long-term trend of 1.4 mm/year, but it shows no change in that trend (no acceleration over the past 50 years) since carbon dioxide levels have gone from 325 to 400 parts per million.

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