Bill Gates Wants To Decrease World's Population Through Vaccinations

By Theodora Filis

When Bill Gates, founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides vaccines to third world countries, promoted decreasing the population of the world and favoring the ‘death panel’, it shocked many people. Bill Gates believes that “instead of spending millions of dollars on old people who just have months to live, the money should be spent elsewhere, where it can actually benefit people”.

Two years ago, the Microsoft billionaire, unveiled his mission to reduce the world's population through vaccines during a TEDx presentation. As Gates rambles on about CO2 emissions, and its effects on climate change, he injects without pause, that in order to get CO2 to zero, "probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty close to zero." He then goes on to describe how the first number, P (for People) might be reduced.

"The world today has 6.8 billion people”, said Gates, “that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."

In January 2010, at the Davos World Economic Forum, Gates announced his foundation would give $10 billion (€7.5 billion) over the next decade to develop and deliver new vaccines to children in the developing world.

For those who haven't figured it out, the primary focus of the Gates Foundation is vaccinations, especially in Africa and other underdeveloped countries. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a founding member of the GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunization) in partnership with the World Bank, WHO and the vaccine industry. The goal of GAVI is to vaccinate every newborn child in the developing world.

How could that be a bad thing? Sounds like noble philanthropic work, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the vaccine industry has been repeatedly caught forcing dangerous (unsafe, untested or proven harmful) vaccines onto Third World populations – vaccines they cannot get rid of in the West. Some organizations have suggested that the true aim of the vaccinations is to make people sicker and even more susceptible to disease and premature death.

Back in May of 2009, The London Times reported that some of the “richest people in the world met in New York to discuss their favorite causes”. The group, which included such notables as Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, decided, during that meeting, their money would best be spent on reducing the world's population.

The London Times said, “the meeting took place at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel Prize winning biochemist, and president of Rockefeller University”, and that Gates was the organizer of the gathering. In February of 2009, Gates outlined a project to reduce the world's population by one billion – eliminating one of out every projected nine people on the planet, or 11 percent of the world's population.

Gates is the son of William S. Gates, Sr., an 83 year old, who is the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The public details of his life includes little beyond his official biography at the foundation, which says he was a Seattle lawyer, World War II veteran, nonprofit volunteer and father of three. What's missing is that he is also one of the founding father's of the Eugenics movement and Planned Parenthood along with their partner in most everything – the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with David Rockefeller’s Rockefeller Foundation, the creators of the GMO biotechnology, are also financing a project called The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) headed by former UN chief, Kofi Annan. Accepting the role as AGRA head in June 2007 Annan expressed his “gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and all others who support our African campaign.” The AGRA board is dominated by people from both the Gates’ and Rockefeller foundations.

Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Syngenta and other major GMO agribusiness giants are reported at the heart of AGRA, using it as a back-door to spread their patented GMO seeds across Africa under the deceptive label, ‘bio-technology,’ a euphemism for genetically engineered patented seeds. The person from the Gates Foundation responsible for its work with AGRA is Dr. Robert Horsch, a 25-year Monsanto GMO veteran who was on the team that developed Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready GMO technologies. His job is reportedly to use Gates’ money to introduce/force GMOs into Africa.

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. Vaccinating a child who then goes to drink feces-polluted river water is hardly healthy in any respect.

Of course, cleaning up the water and sewage systems of Africa would revolutionize the health conditions of the Continent – and who would benefit from that?

Has Environmentalism Become An Institution?

By Theodora Filis

Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who seemed filled with a sense of duty to set me and my “environmental agenda” straight. 

Mr. “X”, wrote:

“Dear Ms. Fills, I am not surprised, that there are people like you, who for their own personal benefits, love to spread doomsday predictions. The Fukushima "disaster" was on the news every day for months, because doomsay brings much more money, than good news. All those scare-mongers, like Al Gore, Michael Mann, Richard Branson and the likes, have their agendas, and while they themselves pollute the air prodigiously, they tell us, the commoners, not to pollute as they very obviously believe, that only the "elite" have the right to do so. 

...why is it that groups like Greenpeace and the one that uses the Seashepherd not follow their "Green" preachings and build ships made of dead trees, instead of using the latest technology in ships, which all have been made from mined products. While it is common for "greenies" to fillify all matter that comes from minedproducts (those pollute too much), they are more than happy to use those products? It is a clear example of their insiduous hypocrisy. I bet, that you utilise cars, airplanes, P.C.'s, cell-phones and all modern day items, which ironically, are all products from those hated mines! I would only respect your actions, if you would truly live according to the "Green mantra", but not when you do not live what you preach.” 

In all fairness to Mr. X, I can not argue with some of his points, and must admit that I too have questioned the motives that fuel this huge institution we call “environmentalism”.

Twenty-five years ago, environmentalists were an insignificant group, considered radical by most living in the US. However, what used to be extremist "environmentalist" ideology has become mainstream. In the US, environmentalism permeates institutions at every level, from corporate boardrooms to the Federal Reserve, the Congress, the White House, the churches, homes and schools. 

Was Mr. X completely wrong when he said “...doomsday brings much more money, than good news.”? No, Mr. X was spot on with that comment and anyone involved in the media will tell you so.

There are several thousand groups in the US today involved in "saving the Earth". Although all share a common philosophy, these groups are of four general types: those concerned respectively with, environmental problems, population control, animal rights, and land trusts. 

The vast wealth of the environmentalist groups may come as a shock to most readers who believe that these groups are made up of "public interest", "nonprofit" organizations that are making great sacrifices to save the Earth from a looming doomsday caused by man's activities. In fact, the environmental movement is one of the most powerful and lucrative businesses in the world today. 

Most of these groups are very secretive about their finances, but there is enough evidence on the public record to show what they're up to. 

While science and medicine continue to advance exponentially – basic health services and essential medicines still fail to reach the majority of the global population. For those living in Third World countries, this can be fatal. 

In the same amount of time it took to read these lines, a pregnant woman, seven infants, and 20 children under five died, most of them, in the developing world: attributed, directly or indirectly, to debt service and "technological apartheid", policies that prevent modern technologies – such as water treatment plants, nuclear energy, refrigeration, mechanized agriculture, pesticides, and fertilizers -- from being used in Third World countries.

These policies were considered colonialist in past decades; today, they are promoted by environmental groups in industrialized nations, under the guise of “saving the Earth” from pollution. 

Have I just contradicted everything I have been writing about over these past four years? Not exactly. My reports focus on the very serious and very real, life threatening realities associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking), genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and nuclear waste. Information that helps readers understand what is going on behind the media blitz allowing them to make informed decisions and draw accurate conclusions.

I often tell people that the most important aspect of any news source is the attention it gives to the subject in order that the reader, or listener, can follow up with their own investigative research.  

Europe's Extreme Frost Gives Climate Deniers False Hope

By Theodora Filis

Until this week, Europeans had been enjoying an unusually mild winter with spring-like temperatures in many cities. Scientists say a string of freezing European winters, scattered over the last decade, has been driven in large part by global warming.

The recent week-long cold wave, with temperatures plunging as low as minus 32 degrees Celsius, has claimed hundreds of lives so far. Snow has stranded travelers across the continent with roads blocked, airplanes grounded, and trains unable to move. The snow is forecast to intensify before easing on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Big freeze tightens its grip on Europe

Meteorologists blame the weather on a strong high pressure system that has pushed cold Siberian air across the continent. According to a new study Arctic's receding surface ice, which at current rates of decline, could disappear entirely during summer months by century's end – tripling the chances that future winters in Europe and north Asia will be just as bad as this year.

Bitterly cold weather across Europe in the winter months of 2005-2006, dumped snow in southern Spain and plunged eastern Europe and Russia into an unusually, and deadly, deep freeze.

Another long cold streak in 2009-2010, gave Britain its coldest winter in 14 years, and caused transportation delays across the continent – much like this week.

Climate deniers who question the gravity of global warming say these bitter winters are at odds with the standard climate change scenarios in which Earth's temperature steadily rises, possibly by as much as five or six degrees Celsius (9.0 to 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

However, scientists caution that these extreme winters mistakenly bring together the long-term patterns of climate with the short-term vagaries of weather, and ignore regional variation in climate change impacts.

New research shows that global warming has actually contributed to Europe's winter frost.

Scientists explain that the rising Arctic temperatures that have reduced floating ice cover by 20 percent over the last three decades, and the sun's rays that are now absorbed by dark-blue sea rather than being bounced back into space by reflective ice and snow, together with extreme heat, has created a strong high-pressure system that has brought the cold polar air into Europe this week.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Gremany said, "Say the ocean is at zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), that is a lot warmer than the overlying air in the polar area in winter, so you get a major heat flow heating up the atmosphere from below which you don't have when it is covered by ice. That's a massive change."

The result, according to a modeling study published earlier this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research, is a strong high-pressure system over the newly exposed sea which brings cold polar air, swirling counter-clockwise, into Europe.

"Recent severe winters like last year's or the one of 2005-2006 do not conflict with the global warming picture, but rather supplement it," explained Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study and a physicist at the Potsdam Institute.

"These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and north Asia," he said.

Colder European winters do not indicate a slowing of global warming trends, only an uneven distribution, researchers say.

GOP Uses “McCarthysim” To Stop Fracktivists?

By Theodora Filis

Josh Fox, writer and director of Gasland, a documentary that focuses on American communities that have been impacted by the increase in natural gas drilling, specifically hydraulic fracturing or fracking, was arrested when he tried to film a hearing on fracking, in the House Energy and Environment subcommittee examining the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) findings that hydraulic fracturing fluids had contaminated groundwater in the town of Pavillion, Wyoming.

During the McCarthy era, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations, questioning and arrests. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence.

 The McCarthy Witch-hunts

After his arrest on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Josh Fox issued the following statement to the press:

I was arrested today for exercising my First Amendment rights to freedom of the press on Capitol Hill. I was not expecting to be arrested for practicing journalism.

Today's hearing in the House Energy and Environment subcommittee was called to examine EPAs findings that hydraulic fracturing fluids had contaminated groundwater in the town of Pavillion, Wyoming. I have a long history with the town of Pavillion and its residents who have maintained since 2008 that fracking has contaminated their water supply. I featured the stories of residents John Fenton, Louis Meeks and Jeff Locker in GASLAND and I have continued to document the catastrophic water contamination in Pavillion for the upcoming sequel GASLAND 2.

It would seem that the Republican leadership was using this hearing to attack the three year Region 8 EPA investigation involving hundreds of samples and extensive water testing which ruled that Pavillion's groundwater was a health hazard, contaminated by benzene at 50x the safe level and numerous other contaminants associated with gas drilling. Most importantly, EPA stated in this case that fracking was the likely cause.

As a filmmaker and journalist I have covered hundreds of public hearings, including Congressional hearings. It is my understanding that public speech is allowed to be filmed. Congress should be no exception. No one on Capitol Hill should regard themselves exempt from the Constitution. The First Amendment to the Constitution states explicitly "Congress shall make no law...that infringes on the Freedom of the Press". Which means that no subcommittee rule or regulation should prohibit a respectful journalist or citizen from recording a public hearing.

This was an act of civil disobedience, yes done in an impromptu fashion, but at the moment when they told me to turn off the cameras, I could not. I know my rights and I felt it was imperative to exercise them.

When I was led out of the hearing room in handcuffs, John Boehner's pledge of transparency in congress was taken out with me.

The people of Pavillion deserve better. The thousands across the US who have documented cases of water contamination in fracking areas deserve their own hearing on Capitol hill. They deserve the chance to testify in before Congress. The truth that fracking contaminates groundwater is out, and no amount of intimidation tactics --either outright challenges to science or the arrest of journalists --will put the genie back in the bottle. Such a brazen attempt to discredit and silence the EPA, the citizens of Pavillion and documentary filmmaking will ultimately fail and it is an affront to the health and integrity of Americans.

Lastly, in defense of my profession, I will state that many many Americans get their news from independent documentaries. The hill should immediately move to make hearings and meetings accessible to independent journalists and not further obstruct the truth from being reported in the vivid and in depth manner that is only achievable through long form documentary film making.

I will be thinking on this event further and will post further thoughts and developments.

I have been charged with "unlawful entry" and my court date is February 15.

Josh Fox

Washington D.C.

2/1/12

In December. of last year, five college students and a former student were arrested in Youngstown while protesting fracking in their area. Among those cited with disorderly conduct was former Oberlin College student Benjamin Shapiro of Cleveland, a 26 year old organic farmer. 

The Youngstown injection well has caused eight nearby earthquakes since March of 2011, seven of these with an epicenter located at the well.

Shapiro said, “Well casings and cement break and degrade in the best of circumstances leaking highly toxic chemicals, it’s far more dangerous at the epicenter of these earthquakes. How in the world can V&M Star and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources think this can be safe anywhere for our drinking water?”

Mass mobilizations against fracking around the world are bringing thousands of people out onto the streets to protest against the plans to bring the practice of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas to their town and country. Solidarity demonstrations are being held in European cities including Paris, Copenhagen and London.

Citizens of the world are sending out a clear message – we don't want you fracking around with our land and contaminating our water.

Oil and gas companies are sending out an even clearer message – we don't care what you want!