1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:03,879 Hello, everyone. Mr. B.! 2 00:00:04,059 --> 00:00:06,339 What's your secret mission about? 3 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:12,419 It's not my mission, but an idea that came from our good friend, Mr. Bill Gates. 4 00:00:14,179 --> 00:00:15,300 Hi, kids. 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,699 The real, actual, in person Bill... Bill... 6 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:27,859 He's trying to say that we're big fans, Mr. Gates. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,800 It's a strange fact that Bill Gates' hagiographers 8 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,419 —PR hacks employed, more often than not, by large corporations 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,160 that receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation— 10 00:00:39,619 --> 00:00:43,879 consistently depict this drab software developer as a cartoon superhero, 11 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:49,060 using his "superpower" of being very rich to help "save the planet." 12 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:54,500 Behind closed doors on this New York campus, a secret gathering 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,460 of some of the world's most powerful people: Gates, Buffett, Bloomberg, Winfrey. 14 00:00:59,619 --> 00:01:03,959 It was like... well, it was like the "Super Friends." 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,700 In the great hall of the Justice League, there are assembled the world's four greatest heroes. 16 00:01:11,099 --> 00:01:14,819 But these cartoon-fueled puff pieces reveal more than they know about Gates 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,159 and the other mega-rich philanthropists they are attempting to idolize: 18 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:22,680 they reveal that the idea of the selfless, billionaire do-gooder is a work of fiction 19 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:26,379 so unbelievable it is only fit for Saturday morning cartoon fare. 20 00:01:27,519 --> 00:01:32,099 As we have seen in our first two explorations of Bill Gates' role as global health kingpin, 21 00:01:32,299 --> 00:01:36,539 the seemingly selfless generosity of the Gates family through their eponymous foundation 22 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:39,180 has in fact greatly increased their own wealth, 23 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,100 with Bill Gates' personal net worth having doubled in the past decade alone. 24 00:01:43,939 --> 00:01:46,659 But the takeover of public health that we have documented in 25 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:48,820 "How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health" 26 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:52,899 and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet 27 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:56,439 that we have documented in "Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World" 28 00:01:56,739 --> 00:01:58,959 was not, at base, about money. 29 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:03,179 The unimaginable wealth that Gates has accrued is now being used 30 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,680 to purchase something much more useful: control. 31 00:02:07,579 --> 00:02:12,039 Control not just of the global health bodies that can coordinate a worldwide vaccination program, 32 00:02:12,419 --> 00:02:15,579 or the governments that will mandate such an unprecedented campaign, 33 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:18,659 but control over the global population itself. 34 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,280 This is an exploration of Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid. 35 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:27,159 You're tuned in to The Corbett Report. 36 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:35,920 From a journalistic standpoint, Good Morning America's inane report 37 00:02:36,060 --> 00:02:40,819 on the secretive billionaire meeting that took place in New York in 2009 was a failure. 38 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:45,060 It listed some of the meetings' attendees and their combined net worth: 39 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,560 Gates, Buffett, Bloomberg, Winfrey 40 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,319 Together with others in the meeting, including George Soros, Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, 41 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,919 they're worth more than $125 billion. 42 00:02:58,180 --> 00:03:00,860 It turned to the senior editor of Forbes for a soundbite 43 00:03:00,979 --> 00:03:03,899 about what it would be like to witness such an assembly of wealth: 44 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:09,799 To have been in the room and see this meeting of the minds really would have been a fascinating thing. 45 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,340 And it dutifully reported the participants' own stated reason for holding the meeting. 46 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,600 That much money. That much power around one table. 47 00:03:19,819 --> 00:03:23,799 It begs the question, what were they doing? What were they scheming? 48 00:03:24,039 --> 00:03:25,719 Total world domination? 49 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:33,240 This group, together for six hours, was talking about charity, education, emergency relief, global health. 50 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:39,159 Before wrapping up with another juvenile appeal to comic book superhero lore. 51 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,719 The new super-men and wonder woman. The super-rich friends. 52 00:03:44,939 --> 00:03:48,759 Not fighting bad guys, but fighting for good, nonetheless. 53 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,540 For Good Morning America, John Berman, ABC News. 54 00:03:54,020 --> 00:03:58,719 Yes, from a journalistic standpoint, Berman's report was an utter failure. 55 00:03:59,379 --> 00:04:02,139 There was no attempt to question the participants about the meeting, 56 00:04:02,539 --> 00:04:06,319 no space for any criticism of these billionaires or questions about their motives, 57 00:04:06,699 --> 00:04:12,759 no adversarial journalism of any kind. But as a PR piece, it was brilliant. 58 00:04:13,479 --> 00:04:16,920 It leaves the viewer with a vague sense that some kind of gathering took place 59 00:04:17,060 --> 00:04:19,240 somewhere in New York in which rich people 60 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:23,500 —who, let's not forget, are superheroes— talked about charity. 61 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,639 One would have to turn to print sources to discover 62 00:04:26,779 --> 00:04:29,979 that the meeting was held at the personal residence of Sir Paul Nurse, 63 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:32,360 then-president of Rockefeller University; 64 00:04:33,180 --> 00:04:38,199 that the invitation to the gathering was co-written by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and David Rockefeller; 65 00:04:38,980 --> 00:04:42,379 or that the aim of the meeting was "to consider how their wealth could be used 66 00:04:42,579 --> 00:04:45,259 to slow the growth of the world's population." 67 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,180 Given that these extraordinarily rich and powerful men 68 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,839 —including Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, and Ted Turner— 69 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,180 have all expressed their belief that the growing human population is the greatest threat faced by humanity, 70 00:04:58,699 --> 00:05:01,699 it should not be surprising that they would convene a conference to discuss 71 00:05:01,819 --> 00:05:06,800 how best to channel their vast wealth into the project of reducing the number of people on the planet. 72 00:05:07,779 --> 00:05:11,839 Particularly unsurprising is that attendees of the meeting later dubbed Bill Gates 73 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,780 —a man for whom population control is particularly close to his heart— 74 00:05:16,019 --> 00:05:18,579 as the "most impressive" speaker at the event. 75 00:05:20,259 --> 00:05:26,039 Here we can see a chart that looks at the total world population 76 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:31,380 over the last several hundred years, and at first glance this is a bit scary. 77 00:05:31,579 --> 00:05:36,560 We go from less than a billion in 1800, and then 3, 4, 5, 6— 78 00:05:36,779 --> 00:05:41,759 and 7.4 billion, where we are today, is happening even faster. 79 00:05:42,420 --> 00:05:47,860 So, Melinda and I wondered whether providing new medicines and keeping children alive, 80 00:05:48,019 --> 00:05:51,259 would that create more of a population problem? 81 00:05:52,939 --> 00:05:56,100 ... and what the developing world does not need is more children. 82 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:02,259 And I think that was the biggest "ah-ha" moment to Bill and me when we got into this work. 83 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:06,199 Because we asked ourselves, of course, the same hard-nosed question you'd ask, which is: 84 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:09,259 "If you get into this work where we start to save these children, 85 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:14,819 will women just keep overpopulating the world?" And thank goodness, the converse is absolutely true. 86 00:06:15,399 --> 00:06:21,599 This is a very important question to get right, because it was absolutely key for me 87 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,800 when our foundation first started up. 88 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,380 It was focused on reproductive health, that was the main thing we did, because I thought, 89 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:32,779 you know, population growth in poor countries is the biggest problem they face. 90 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:35,560 You've got to help mothers, who want to limit family size, 91 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,620 have the tools and education to do that. Now that's the only thing that really counts. 92 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:47,000 In recent years, critics have pointed to Bill Gates' own words linking vaccination programs 93 00:06:47,139 --> 00:06:49,579 with his goal of reducing population growth. 94 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,280 The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. 95 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,560 Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, 96 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:04,920 health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. 97 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:09,959 Ten billion dollars over the next 10 years to make it the year of the vaccines. 98 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:11,699 What does that mean, exactly? 99 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:16,480 Well, over this decade, we believe unbelievable progress can be made 100 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,420 both in inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them. 101 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:26,399 We can cut the number of children who die every day from about 9 million to half of that, 102 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:28,460 if we have success on it. 103 00:07:28,639 --> 00:07:32,699 And the benefits there in terms of reducing sickness, reducing the population growth, 104 00:07:32,860 --> 00:07:38,280 it really allows society a chance to take care of itself once you've made that intervention. 105 00:07:40,459 --> 00:07:45,039 But as any number of "fact checking websites" —not to mention Bill Gates himself— 106 00:07:45,220 --> 00:07:49,300 are quick to point out, this doesn't mean what it sounds like it means. 107 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:56,540 What we found out is that as health improves, families choose to have less children. 108 00:07:57,740 --> 00:08:04,160 The truth is that when people's lives improve when children survive, for instance, or when girls go to school, 109 00:08:04,399 --> 00:08:10,319 people start making decisions based on the expectation that their children will live and thrive. 110 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,460 The result is smaller families and slower population growth. 111 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:20,780 I came across articles that showed that the key thing you can do to reduce population growth 112 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,600 is actually improve health. And that sounds paradoxical. 113 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:27,860 You think, "OK, better health means more kids, not less kids." Well, in fact, 114 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:36,120 what parents are doing is they're trying to have two kids survive to adulthood to take care of them. 115 00:08:36,519 --> 00:08:40,899 And so the more disease burden that there is the more kids they have to have 116 00:08:41,659 --> 00:08:43,319 to have that high probability. 117 00:08:43,580 --> 00:08:49,180 So there's a perfect correlation that as you improve health, within a half generation 118 00:08:49,460 --> 00:08:51,840 the population growth rate goes down. 119 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:58,159 Yes, the Gates' stated plan is to reduce population growth by improving health. 120 00:08:58,779 --> 00:09:05,139 But the idea of using vaccines as sterilization agents —even without the public's knowledge or consent— 121 00:09:05,379 --> 00:09:08,980 is not conspiracy lore, but documentable fact. 122 00:09:10,139 --> 00:09:16,199 It its 1968 annual report, the Rockefeller Foundation addressed the "Problems of Population," 123 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,879 lamenting that "very little work is in progress on immunological methods, such as vaccines, 124 00:09:22,039 --> 00:09:27,179 to reduce fertility, and much more research is required if a solution is to be found here." 125 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,799 The Foundation vowed to correct this problem by funding "established and beginning investigators 126 00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:37,500 to turn their attention to aspects of research in reproductive biology that have implications 127 00:09:37,620 --> 00:09:39,980 for human fertility and its control." 128 00:09:41,139 --> 00:09:42,960 This was no empty promise. 129 00:09:43,419 --> 00:09:46,139 By the time of its 1988 annual report, 130 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:50,679 the Rockefeller Foundation was able to report progress on its funding into contraceptive research, 131 00:09:50,820 --> 00:09:52,260 including NORPLANT, 132 00:09:52,460 --> 00:09:57,440 a contraceptive implanted under the skin of a woman's upper arm and effective for five years. 133 00:09:58,019 --> 00:10:02,419 In its 1988 report, the Rockefeller Foundation was pleased to announce that NORPLANT 134 00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:05,920 —which was developed by the Rockefeller-founded Population Council— 135 00:10:06,139 --> 00:10:08,819 was "now approved for marketing in 12 countries." 136 00:10:10,220 --> 00:10:13,600 The Rockefeller's Population Council and other research organizations 137 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,799 joined with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1972 138 00:10:16,940 --> 00:10:20,480 to create a Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation. 139 00:10:21,340 --> 00:10:27,480 By 1995, they were able to report progress in "developing a prototype of an anti-hCG-vaccine," 140 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:29,440 which works by combining an immunogen 141 00:10:29,620 --> 00:10:34,179 formed from a synthetic peptide of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) 142 00:10:34,399 --> 00:10:38,699 —a hormone secreted by the surface of the early embryo to remain implanted in the womb— 143 00:10:38,940 --> 00:10:41,060 with a toxoid carrier molecule. 144 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:45,919 The vaccine stimulates an immune reaction, causing women to develop antibodies 145 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,720 against the hormone, thus preventing them from carrying babies to term. 146 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,759 But beginning in the 1990s, a series of scandals over WHO-led vaccination programs in the third world 147 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,879 led to allegations that tetanus vaccines in places like the Philippines and Kenya 148 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,500 were being laced with hCG in order to implement population control by stealth. 149 00:11:06,159 --> 00:11:10,259 The controversy generated by these stories led global institutions to step back 150 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:13,519 from the campaign to champion population control by vaccine. 151 00:11:14,419 --> 00:11:18,519 But, as usual, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was there to renew interest, 152 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:23,520 working with the UK government to host a "London Summit on Family Planning" in 2012 153 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:28,320 at which the foundation announced their support for funding the research, development and deployment 154 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,519 of injectable contraceptives to the developing world. 155 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:36,080 You heard me talk earlier about Sadi, who I met in Niger. 156 00:11:36,639 --> 00:11:40,240 She was traveling fifteen kilometers to get an injection. 157 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:46,039 But let's ask ourselves, what if she didn't have to travel to that clinic? 158 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,180 If we put it in her perspective, how can we keep her in her village 159 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,419 to get the contraceptives she wants? 160 00:11:52,820 --> 00:11:59,420 Well, Pfizer is testing a new form of Depo, the injection that she gets fifteen kilometers to get. 161 00:12:00,059 --> 00:12:06,259 They're now putting it in a new form, a new device that is very, very small, it's called Uniject. 162 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:10,340 I think it's going to be pictured here. It's a high quality product. 163 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,899 It's effective. It's safe. It's tiny, as you can see. 164 00:12:15,139 --> 00:12:20,519 And it can be put in a healthcare worker's kit to give to the woman at the village level. 165 00:12:20,860 --> 00:12:25,460 So Sadi won't have to go fifteen kilometers any longer to get that injection. 166 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,780 But the Gates were not content to stop there. 167 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:36,320 In 2014 it was announced that Microchips Biotech, Inc., a company in Lexington, Massachussets, 168 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,599 had developed a new form of birth control: 169 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:42,980 "a wireless implant that can be turned on and off with a remote control 170 00:12:43,179 --> 00:12:45,779 and that is designed to last up to 16 years." 171 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:53,940 According to MIT Technology Review, the idea originated when Bill Gates visited Robert Langer's MIT lab in 2012 172 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,779 and asked him if it would be possible to create an implantable birth control device 173 00:12:57,980 --> 00:13:00,180 that could be turned on or off remotely. 174 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:04,179 Langer referred Gates to the controlled release microchip technology 175 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,260 he had invented and licensed to MicroCHIPS Biotechnology, 176 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:11,879 and the Gates Foundation granted $20 million to the firm to develop the implants. 177 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,560 Reducing population growth has, by Gates' own admission, 178 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:19,660 been a core mission of the Gates Foundation since its inception. 179 00:13:20,460 --> 00:13:24,900 But in order to really understand what Gates means by "population control," 180 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,980 we have to look beyond the concept of controlling population size. 181 00:13:29,740 --> 00:13:35,379 At its most fundamental level, the "population control" that Gates speaks of is not birth control, 182 00:13:35,620 --> 00:13:38,179 but control of the population itself. 183 00:13:39,539 --> 00:13:42,699 In order to understand the broader population control agenda 184 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,240 and how it ties in to the Gates Foundation's plans, 185 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:49,100 we have to look at a puzzling development that took place in 2017. 186 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:55,039 In that year, Gavi—the Gates founded and funded alliance that partners the Gates Foundation, 187 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,940 the World Health Organization and the World Bank with vaccine manufacturers 188 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:01,580 to help ensure "healthy markets" for vaccines— 189 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,360 took a strange pivot away from its core mission of vaccinating every child on the planet 190 00:14:06,820 --> 00:14:10,200 to providing every child with a digital biometric identity. 191 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,760 The idea was first floated by Gavi CEO Seth Berkley in a Nature article that year, 192 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:18,080 "Immunization needs a technology boost," 193 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:22,559 where he states that the goal of 100% immunization will not be reached without 194 00:14:22,740 --> 00:14:27,060 "secure digital identification systems that can store a child's medical history." 195 00:14:27,879 --> 00:14:30,000 He then gives a specific example: 196 00:14:30,779 --> 00:14:33,779 "We are working with a company in India called Khushi Baby, 197 00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:36,480 which creates off-griddigital health records. 198 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:40,659 A necklace worn by infants contains a unique identification number 199 00:14:40,879 --> 00:14:42,759 on a short-range communication chip. 200 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:46,759 Community health workers can scan the chip using a mobile phone, 201 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:51,579 enabling them to update a child's digital record even in remote areas with little phone coverage." 202 00:14:53,460 --> 00:14:58,560 This sudden interest in digital identity was no mere passing fancy for the vaccine alliance. 203 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:03,180 Gavi doubled down by becoming a founding member of the ID2020 Alliance, 204 00:15:03,379 --> 00:15:08,580 a public-private partnership dedicated to spearheading a global digital biometric identity standard. 205 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,440 Other founding members of the alliance include Gates' first company, Microsoft, 206 00:15:13,740 --> 00:15:15,460 and The Rockefeller Foundation. 207 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:21,179 In 2018, Gavi issued a call for innovation in digital technologies 208 00:15:21,299 --> 00:15:25,259 "for finding, identifying and registering the most vulnerable children." 209 00:15:26,539 --> 00:15:30,699 The call specifically requested technologies for capturing, storing and enrolling 210 00:15:30,879 --> 00:15:35,439 the biometric details of infants on "rugged biometric devices." 211 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,580 Berkley continued to follow up on this idea in public engagements 212 00:15:39,740 --> 00:15:41,820 as one of the new core missions of Gavi. 213 00:15:43,379 --> 00:15:46,559 What's interesting is that people tend to think of, you know, birth certificates 214 00:15:46,659 --> 00:15:48,219 as kind of a major document. 215 00:15:48,340 --> 00:15:52,540 But, you know, the most common—as I mentioned before—is not a birth certificate, 216 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,519 is not a death certificate, is not a marriage certificate. 217 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:59,200 The most common connection —vital registration for the population— 218 00:15:59,379 --> 00:16:03,259 is actually a child health card, because we reach more than 90 percent of children 219 00:16:03,419 --> 00:16:07,699 with at least one dose of vaccine as part of routine, so they're in the system. 220 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,980 The challenge is that contact is not connected into the system. 221 00:16:11,139 --> 00:16:16,659 So, if you could connect it then you have the ability to give them their basic identity papers. 222 00:16:16,879 --> 00:16:21,039 You have the ability, then, later on, if they want to own land or they want to have their rights, 223 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,840 you're able to help them with that. 224 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:25,320 But, you know, we're not currently taking advantage of that. 225 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,840 And so the children get seen, they get enrolled in the health centers, 226 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,240 but that information is not used for anything else. 227 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:35,759 Although vaccines and identity may seem unrelated, 228 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:40,360 Bill Gates has spent the last few years funding research that can bring the two ideas together. 229 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,480 Late last year, Gates once again turned to Robert Langer and his MIT colleagues 230 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:51,139 to investigate new ways to permanently store and record the vaccination information of each individual. 231 00:16:51,919 --> 00:16:55,299 The result of their research was a new vaccine delivery method. 232 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,560 They found that by using "dissolvable microneedles 233 00:16:58,799 --> 00:17:02,839 that deliver patterns of near-infrared light-emitting microparticles to the skin," 234 00:17:03,059 --> 00:17:06,759 they could create "particle patterns" in the skin of vaccine recipients 235 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,220 which are "invisible to the eye but can be imaged using modified smartphones." 236 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,759 Rice University describes the quantum dot tags left behind by the microneedles as 237 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:18,980 "something like a bar-code tattoo." 238 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:25,480 So who was behind this development? As lead researcher Kevin McHugh explains: 239 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:29,099 "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation came to us and said, 240 00:17:29,380 --> 00:17:33,260 ‘Hey, we have a real problem —knowing who's vaccinated. 241 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:36,819 So our idea was to put the record on the person. 242 00:17:37,299 --> 00:17:42,279 This way, later on, people can scan over the area to see what vaccines have been administered 243 00:17:42,460 --> 00:17:44,360 and give only the ones still needed." 244 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:50,299 The microparticles that form the fluorescent quantum- dot tags are delivered along with the vaccine, 245 00:17:50,619 --> 00:17:53,379 but they cannot be delivered by a traditional syringe. 246 00:17:53,940 --> 00:17:59,059 Instead, they must be delivered by a patch of micro- needles made from a mixture of dissolvable sugar 247 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,519 and a polymer called PVA, as well as the quantum-dot dye and the vaccine. 248 00:18:04,420 --> 00:18:08,440 It should be no surprise, then, that Big Pharma vaccine manufacturers 249 00:18:08,740 --> 00:18:12,700 —in their scramble to produce the coronavirus vaccine that, Gates assures us, 250 00:18:12,819 --> 00:18:15,000 is necessary to "go back to normal"— 251 00:18:15,279 --> 00:18:18,019 have turned to a novel vaccine delivery method: 252 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,200 a dissolvable microneedle array patch. 253 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:26,759 The University of Pittsburgh is where the polio vaccine was first discovered. 254 00:18:27,039 --> 00:18:31,460 At the medical center, researchers are now developing a vaccine that is delivered 255 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:35,339 using a dissolvable patch called a microneedle array. 256 00:18:35,759 --> 00:18:37,660 Think about them as almost like a band-aid. 257 00:18:37,779 --> 00:18:42,299 And so the microneedle array is simply applied to the skin topically, 258 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:44,259 pressed into place very shortly, 259 00:18:44,380 --> 00:18:48,680 and then taken off and thrown away and then the antigen is already delivered. 260 00:18:50,180 --> 00:18:54,600 As is becoming evident, this new vaccine-delivered bar-code-like tattoo 261 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:56,799 is about much more than simply ensuring 262 00:18:56,980 --> 00:18:59,980 that children get all their Gavi-recommended immunizations. 263 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,500 On a recent "Ask Me Anything" thread on reddit, when asked 264 00:19:03,980 --> 00:19:07,000 "What changes are we going to have to make to how businesses operate 265 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,160 to maintain our economy while providing social distancing?" 266 00:19:10,619 --> 00:19:11,719 Bill Gates answered: 267 00:19:12,059 --> 00:19:17,419 "Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently 268 00:19:17,579 --> 00:19:19,879 or when we have a vaccine who has received it." 269 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,360 In his answer, Gates fails to mention 270 00:19:23,539 --> 00:19:27,240 that he has himself been instrumental in kickstarting and funding the research 271 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,360 into the very type of digital certificates for vaccination that he is speaking about, 272 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,059 or that these "digital certificates" 273 00:19:34,299 --> 00:19:38,359 —likely, at first, to be a digital marker linked to a biometric ID— 274 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:43,099 could very well one day take the form of vaccine-implanted quantum-dot tattoos. 275 00:19:43,740 --> 00:19:47,559 But, as in so many other aspects of the unfolding crisis, 276 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:50,980 Gates' unscientific pronouncement that we will need digital certificates 277 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,000 to prove our immunity in the "new normal" of the post-coronavirus world... 278 00:19:55,619 --> 00:20:01,479 Eventually, what we'll have to have is certificates of who is a recovered person, who is a vaccinated person. 279 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:04,859 ... is now being implemented by a number of governments. 280 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,100 It is now being reported that Onfido, 281 00:20:08,259 --> 00:20:12,279 a tech startup specializing in AI-based biometric ID verification, 282 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:16,779 is in talks with the British government to provide the type of "digital certification" Gates mentioned, 283 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,740 dubbed an "immunity passport." 284 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,820 The proposed system would require would-be workers to use the Onfido-provided app 285 00:20:23,980 --> 00:20:26,460 to scan their face or other biometric data, 286 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:30,059 link that information to a SARS-CoV-2 antibody test 287 00:20:30,339 --> 00:20:33,439 (or, eventually proof of coronavirus vaccination), 288 00:20:33,660 --> 00:20:36,580 and then have their picture taken and immunity verified 289 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:40,279 every time they wish to access a restricted space or work environment. 290 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:46,279 Last month, Onfido announced that it had raised $50 million in a round of investments 291 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,820 led by Bill Gates' old company, Microsoft. 292 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:54,000 But this is not Gates' first experience with the field of biometric identity. 293 00:20:54,460 --> 00:20:57,340 A decade ago, the government of India began what has been called 294 00:20:57,519 --> 00:20:59,779 "The Largest Social Experiment on Earth": 295 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:05,720 enrolling over one billion people in the largest biometric identification database ever constructed. 296 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:11,539 The project—involving iris scanning and finger- printing the entirety of the Indian population, 297 00:21:11,759 --> 00:21:14,779 recording their biometric details in a centralized database, 298 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,060 and issuing them a 12-digit identity number 299 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,099 that could be used to prove residence and access government services, 300 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:22,099 all within the span of a few years— 301 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:26,559 presented an incredible societal, legal and technological challenge. 302 00:21:27,180 --> 00:21:28,340 It's no surprise, then, of the Aadhaar project when it was launched 303 00:21:28,519 --> 00:21:32,400 that the person who was brought in as the chief architect 304 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:36,279 —Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Indian multi-national Infosys— 305 00:21:36,559 --> 00:21:43,139 is also a long-time friend of Bill Gates on a "philanthropic" venture called Co-Impact, 306 00:21:43,579 --> 00:21:47,139 which supports "initiatives to address major social challenges at scale." 307 00:21:48,059 --> 00:21:51,899 Nilekani's involvement in Aadhaar has even made him one of Gates' "heroes," 308 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,159 featured in slick video promotions produced by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 309 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:02,759 My friend, Nandan Nilekani, is one of India's best-known entrepreneurs. 310 00:22:03,059 --> 00:22:07,339 He led the creation of the world's largest biometric ID system. 311 00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:13,740 Now he's working to promote his platform to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. 312 00:22:14,660 --> 00:22:18,580 There are more than a billion people around the world who don't have any kind of ID. 313 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,860 You can't do anything in life without an ID because people are mobile, they are migrant. 314 00:22:23,220 --> 00:22:27,120 And wherever they go, whether they want a job, or whether they want to board a train, 315 00:22:27,259 --> 00:22:30,119 or whether they want to get a bank account or get a mobile connection, 316 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:35,059 if the person has no way of proving who they are, then they just won't get access to those services. 317 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,319 So the challenge we had was, how do we give a billion people, 318 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,759 many of whom don't have birth certificates, how do we give them an ID? 319 00:22:43,460 --> 00:22:48,340 And Gates has personally praised the Aadhar scheme as a "huge asset for India." 320 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:56,640 Well Aadhaar is a huge asset for India. It was designed very well. 321 00:22:57,059 --> 00:23:02,000 The fact that you can make digital payments so easily, you can open a bank account... 322 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,240 India's a leader in that. 323 00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:07,440 Our Foundation, you know, works with the Reserve Bank. 324 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,200 You know, Nandar Nilekani and a group of people that he pulled together did a great job. 325 00:23:16,420 --> 00:23:20,240 But Gates is not merely an arms-length admirer of the Aadhaar experiment. 326 00:23:20,740 --> 00:23:23,599 He is not only personally connected to its chief architect, 327 00:23:23,859 --> 00:23:27,439 he is also connected to one of the key companies that spearheaded the technology 328 00:23:27,619 --> 00:23:30,259 that underlies the project's biometric database. 329 00:23:31,220 --> 00:23:35,579 The company that provides the iris recognition technology at the core of the Aadhaar system, 330 00:23:35,779 --> 00:23:40,039 Idemia, also provides facial recognition systems for the Chinese government, 331 00:23:40,319 --> 00:23:44,599 and is currently developing digital drivers licenses for use in the United States. 332 00:23:45,339 --> 00:23:49,500 Idemia even created the Khushi Baby identification necklaces with embedded microchips 333 00:23:49,660 --> 00:23:52,920 that Gavi CEO Seth Berkley touted in his Nature article. 334 00:23:53,660 --> 00:23:57,840 Unsurprisingly, the company receives support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 335 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,779 through its involvement in the GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab. 336 00:24:01,839 --> 00:24:06,099 And now, Gates is funding a scheme to retool Aadhaar for a global rollout. 337 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,620 In 2014, the World Bank created a multi- sector working group to launch the 338 00:24:11,819 --> 00:24:15,539 "Identification for Development Initative," or ID4D, 339 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:21,079 which aims to "support progress toward identification systems using 21st century solutions." 340 00:24:21,859 --> 00:24:27,119 The World Bank cites goal 16.9 of the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals 341 00:24:27,380 --> 00:24:32,740 —vowing to "provide legal identity for all, including birth registration" in the next 10 years— 342 00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:34,680 as the basis for its initiative. 343 00:24:35,339 --> 00:24:39,359 But ID4D was little more than a pipe dream until 2016, 344 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:42,920 when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided "catalytic contributions" 345 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,979 to launch the ID4D Multi-Donor Trust Fund, 346 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,740 which enticed the UK, French and Australian governments, along with the Omidyar Network, 347 00:24:50,940 --> 00:24:55,940 into a partnership aiming to "shape global approaches and a shared vision on identification." 348 00:24:57,099 --> 00:25:01,939 Unsurprisingly, this World Bank ID4D initiative includes Nandar Nilekani 349 00:25:02,259 --> 00:25:04,700 —Gates' partner and the chief architect of Aadhaar— 350 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:08,639 on its advisory council and Gates has said that he is funding the World Bank 351 00:25:08,819 --> 00:25:11,319 "to take this Aadhaar approach to other countries." 352 00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:18,500 This headlong rush to capture the biometric details and assign digital identification to every person on earth 353 00:25:18,779 --> 00:25:22,079 is sold to the public under the guise of "financial inclusion." 354 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,400 The poorest people on the planet have trouble accessing financial services and receiving government aid 355 00:25:27,539 --> 00:25:30,599 because they don't have official government identification papers. 356 00:25:31,259 --> 00:25:34,279 In this formulation, being issued a government ID 357 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:38,759 —having one's biometric details registered, tracked and databased by the government— 358 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,799 is a "human right" that must be "secured." 359 00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:45,799 It should be no surprise by this point that this "human right" 360 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,239 also has direct benefits for big business 361 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,819 and for the entities that are looking to exert greater control over the human population. 362 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,120 Gates provided insight into the real purpose of this identification control grid 363 00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:03,579 in a speech at the "Financial Inclusion Forum" hosted by the US Treasury in 2015. 364 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:10,120 Every country really needs to look through these KYC—"know your customer"—rules 365 00:26:10,299 --> 00:26:15,579 to make sure that customers are able to prove who they are. 366 00:26:16,079 --> 00:26:20,480 But of course, in many countries you don't have any type of ID system. 367 00:26:20,940 --> 00:26:25,460 And the lack of an ID system is a problem not just for the payment system, 368 00:26:25,619 --> 00:26:29,659 but also for voting and health and education and taxation. 369 00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:35,299 And so it's a wonderful thing to go in and create a broad identification system. 370 00:26:35,740 --> 00:26:40,500 Again, India is a very interesting example of this, where the Aadhaar system, 371 00:26:40,779 --> 00:26:45,460 which is a 12 digit identifier that's correlated to biometric measures, 372 00:26:45,660 --> 00:26:50,080 is becoming pervasive throughout the country and will be the foundation 373 00:26:50,460 --> 00:26:56,640 for how we bring this low-cost switch to every mobile phone user in India. 374 00:26:57,039 --> 00:27:00,319 The same type of thing is happening now in in Pakistan 375 00:27:01,039 --> 00:27:06,019 and there's early beginnings of creating these ID programs in Africa as well. 376 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,880 We expect to be able to use the IDs so that when you show up for any government service 377 00:27:10,980 --> 00:27:13,500 —say, you walk into a primary health clinic— 378 00:27:13,779 --> 00:27:18,639 we'll be able to take that bio ID very quickly and bring up your electronic health record 379 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:21,740 even if you've moved from one part of the country to the other. 380 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:29,140 You will be well tracked and well served without nearly as much paperwork or waiting. 381 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,000 And so the ID system is foundational. 382 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,559 The ID control grid is an essential part of the digitization of the economy. 383 00:27:39,059 --> 00:27:43,539 And although this is being sold as an opportunity for "financial inclusion" of the world's poorest 384 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:47,900 in the banking system provided by the likes of Gates and his banking and business associates, 385 00:27:48,220 --> 00:27:51,299 it is in fact a system for financial exclusion. 386 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,120 Exclusion of any person or transaction that does not have the approval 387 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:57,299 of the government or the payment providers. 388 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,360 Once financial flows go underground 389 00:28:01,519 --> 00:28:05,940 —where you have lots of legitimate transactions mixed in with the ones you want to track— 390 00:28:06,259 --> 00:28:10,940 and once they're going over a digital system that the US has no connection to, 391 00:28:11,180 --> 00:28:17,720 it's far more difficult to find the transactions that you want to be aware of or that you want to block. 392 00:28:20,079 --> 00:28:23,839 And, once again, this is no mere theoretical talk from Gates. 393 00:28:24,319 --> 00:28:27,799 He has been intimately involved in this process of switching the world over 394 00:28:27,980 --> 00:28:30,860 to a digital payment grid tied to biometric identity. 395 00:28:31,859 --> 00:28:36,719 In 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helped found the "Better Than Cash Alliance," 396 00:28:36,980 --> 00:28:41,220 which brings together governments, international organizations and the private sector 397 00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:44,880 "to accelerate the transition from cash to digital payments globally." 398 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,940 And, when the Indian government made a bold move 399 00:28:47,980 --> 00:28:50,839 to demonetize large amounts of its circulating currency 400 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,259 in order to draw off-the-books funds back under the purview of the Indian tax office, 401 00:28:55,700 --> 00:29:00,779 there was Gates to praise the move as an important step toward the creation of a brave new digital economy, 402 00:29:01,180 --> 00:29:03,960 tied, of course, to the Aadhaar ID grid. 403 00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:11,420 The bold move to demonetize high value denominations and replace them with new notes 404 00:29:12,059 --> 00:29:17,200 with higher security features is an important step to move away from a shadow economy 405 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,340 to an even more transparent economy. 406 00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:26,440 And digital transactions really I think will rise dramatically here. 407 00:29:26,859 --> 00:29:33,759 In fact, I think in the next several years India will become the most digitized economy. 408 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:40,440 Not just by size but by percentage as well. All of the pieces are now coming together. 409 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:44,819 [SOME APPLAUSE] 410 00:29:46,759 --> 00:29:51,299 One piece of this that we enjoyed consulting with the government 411 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:58,140 on making sure it comes together in the right way is the pending roll out of payment banks. 412 00:29:59,119 --> 00:30:07,239 This for the first time really will mean that you have full currency capability on those digital phones. 413 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,279 Once you have that digital infrastructure, 414 00:30:12,460 --> 00:30:17,700 the whole way you think about government benefits can be done differently. 415 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:22,679 Over time, all of these transactions will create a footprint 416 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:25,580 and so when you go in for credit 417 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:31,360 the ability to access your history, that you've paid your utility bills on time, 418 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,279 that you've saved up money for your children's education, 419 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:38,839 all of those things in your digital trail, —accessed in an appropriate way— 420 00:30:39,099 --> 00:30:43,379 will allow the credit market to properly score the risk, 421 00:30:43,619 --> 00:30:46,559 and therefore loosen up more money for investments 422 00:30:46,740 --> 00:30:52,180 not only in the agricultural sector but for all the entrepreneurs in the country. 423 00:30:54,839 --> 00:30:59,839 The different parts of this population control grid fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. 424 00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:06,220 The vaccination drive ties into the biometric identity drive which ties into the cashless society drive. 425 00:31:07,180 --> 00:31:11,420 In Gates' vision, everyone will receive the government-mandated vaccinations, 426 00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:14,220 and everyone will have their biometric details recorded 427 00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:18,200 in nationally-administered, globally-integrated digital IDs. 428 00:31:19,220 --> 00:31:23,740 These digital identities will be tied to all of our actions and transactions, 429 00:31:23,940 --> 00:31:28,580 and, if and when they are deemed illegal, they will simply be shut off by the government, 430 00:31:28,759 --> 00:31:31,019 or even the payment providers themselves. 431 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,240 The Indian experiment in pioneering this biometric digital economy 432 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,759 —an experiment with which Gates has been so intimately involved— 433 00:31:40,059 --> 00:31:44,859 also provides a perfect example of just how such a system will be abused. 434 00:31:45,859 --> 00:31:50,339 In January 2018, a report in The Tribune revealed that all of the details, 435 00:31:50,539 --> 00:31:55,059 including the name, address, postal code, photo, phone number and email, 436 00:31:55,220 --> 00:31:57,880 of all billion-plus Aadhaar-registered Indians, 437 00:31:58,119 --> 00:32:03,519 was available for purchase on WhatsApp for 500 rupees, or about USD$7. 438 00:32:04,339 --> 00:32:08,039 The Unique Identification Authority of India that administers the Aadhaar scheme 439 00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:11,740 was then forced to admit that approximately 210 websites, 440 00:32:11,940 --> 00:32:15,200 including websites of the central government and state government departments, 441 00:32:15,460 --> 00:32:17,779 were displaying the list of government beneficiaries, 442 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,000 along with their name, address, other details and Aadhaar numbers. 443 00:32:23,099 --> 00:32:24,619 Even more worryingly, 444 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,019 newly obtained documents show that the Indian government is integrating Aadhaar-collected data 445 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,080 to create a "360 degree database" that will "automatically track 446 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,319 when a citizen moves between cities or buys new property" 447 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:42,700 and integrate that data into a real-time geo-spatial database built by the country's space agency, ISRO. 448 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,880 Only the most willfully obtuse could claim to be unable to see the nightmarish implications 449 00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:54,559 for this type of all-seeing, all-pervasive society where every transaction and every movement 450 00:32:54,720 --> 00:33:00,160 of every citizen is monitored, analyzed, and databased in real-time by the government. 451 00:33:00,799 --> 00:33:04,000 And Bill Gates is one of those willfully obtuse people. 452 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:09,460 A current debate is on in India and globally as well around data. 453 00:33:09,619 --> 00:33:14,459 Now, you've been an advocate of Aadhaar, you've supported it, you've defended it. 454 00:33:14,619 --> 00:33:19,539 And I think that the questions arise not on whether it's a good idea or not, 455 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:24,160 but whether it should be made mandatory for every citizen for every service possible. 456 00:33:24,339 --> 00:33:28,899 Because it was envisaged as people accessing government subsidies 457 00:33:29,059 --> 00:33:32,460 using the Aadhaar card to avoid duplication and leakages. 458 00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:38,579 The question, then, is that India today is still grappling with putting in place 459 00:33:38,740 --> 00:33:42,779 a privacy framework, a privacy regulation and data protection regulation. 460 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:46,759 In that context, then, does it make sense even though the matter is in court today 461 00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:49,299 to link Aadhaar to every possible service? 462 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:57,020 Well, Aadhar is just something that avoids you pretending to be somebody else. 463 00:33:57,519 --> 00:34:04,920 That, you know, you can have, you know, fake people on the pavement payroll. 464 00:34:05,180 --> 00:34:12,440 Aadhaar prevents you being on that payroll as as a ghost worker 465 00:34:12,659 --> 00:34:16,579 It prevents you from collecting things that you shouldn't collect 466 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,419 or accessing a health record you shouldn't have access to. 467 00:34:20,619 --> 00:34:25,139 So the basic Aadhaar mechanism is an identity mechanism. 468 00:34:25,519 --> 00:34:30,980 And so it's too bad if somebody thinks that because Aadhaar is there 469 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,260 that in and of itself creates a privacy problem. 470 00:34:36,380 --> 00:34:40,160 Gates' response is, of course, disingenuous. 471 00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:44,960 The very purpose of a globally-integrated ID grid and cashless payment architecture 472 00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:47,559 is to remove privacy from our lives. 473 00:34:48,019 --> 00:34:51,139 It should be no surprise, then, that this man who is not concerned 474 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:56,360 about the privacy implications of a global, real-time electronic ID and digital payments grid, 475 00:34:56,619 --> 00:34:59,559 is also a prime investor in EarthNow LLC, 476 00:34:59,739 --> 00:35:04,399 a company promising to "deploy a large constellation of advanced imaging satellites 477 00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:09,239 that will deliver real-time, continuous video of almost anywhere on Earth." 478 00:35:10,219 --> 00:35:15,219 No, this Gates-driven agenda is not about money. It is about control. 479 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:21,360 Control over every aspect of our daily lives, from where we go, to who we meet, 480 00:35:21,579 --> 00:35:23,559 to what we buy and what we do. 481 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:30,680 The irony is that this billionaire "philanthropist", so often depicted as a cartoon superhero 482 00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:36,360 for his dazzling generosity, actually resembles nothing so much as a comic book supervillain, 483 00:35:36,699 --> 00:35:40,719 right down to the use of his vast wealth to sponsor Harvard University research 484 00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:44,500 into dimming the sun by spraying particles into the stratosphere. 485 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,820 But once again, we are driven back to the question: Who is this person? 486 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,599 What ideology is driving this quest for control? 487 00:35:55,019 --> 00:36:00,820 And what is the end goal of this quest? Who is Bill Gates? 488 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,480 Are you a business genius too? 489 00:36:13,099 --> 00:36:14,599 Well, I would not say a genius. 490 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:20,339 Nine hundred people get on a plane monday morning and they all go down to try to help Bill Gates. 491 00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:24,379 Every corner we've turned in the field of global health, 492 00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:29,400 we found that the Rockefellers were already there and had been there for years. 493 00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:34,839 But that's called the Death Panel, and you not supposed to have that discussion. 494 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,579 Meet Bill Gates.