Gates to a Global Empire
(Navdanya International: Oct' 20) This collaborative report by 14 authors throws light on how Bill Gates' philanthro-capitalism is boosting the corporate takeover of our global seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and health systems,
Manipulating information and eroding our democracies, his rhetoric of promoting global technological development under the guise of humanitarian efforts is shallow justification for Bill Gates’ monopolistic aims.
As the report details, his consolidation of global development has huge implications. Chained to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s million-dollar grants are private corporations and private market interests, the negative feedback loops of technological solutionism, and the further decay of legitimacy for international institutions.
Throughout the report we see how the same patterns of an aggressively imposed consensus through direct influence over all global development actors, repeat over and over again, and how technocratic solutionism, powered by an “unholy alliance” between the science and technology institutions, states, and big capital, are embodied by the Gates’ Foundation and dangerously put into accelerated action through a philanthropic development.
You will see how the patterns of 'technocratic solutionism', powered by an unholy alliance between big-capital, science and technology institutions and states, are embodied by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and put into accelerated action through philanthropic development. Through its various initiatives, sub-organisations, development schemes and funding mechanisms, the Gates weave an intricate web of wide-ranging power and influence, obscured through all its separate strands.
The report addresses a large part of this web of power. A power which deliberately ignores the past failures of the very same technologies they hope to push, in blatant disregard of the potential problems their initiatives might yield, focused only on profit and market expansion.
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INTRODUCTION
SECTION 1 – ONE EMPIRE OVER SEED, BIODIVERSITY, AND KNOWLEDGE
ONE EMPIRE OVER SEED: CONTROL OVER THE WORLD’S SEED BANKS – Vandana Shiva
BMG FOUNDATION AND IRRI: CORPORATE HIJACK OF RICE SCIENCE – Chito P. Medina
OWNING SEEDS THROUGH PATENTS AND NEW GENE EDITING GMO TECHNOLOGIES – Vandana Shiva
GENE EDITING: UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES AND RISKS – GM Watch, Technical advisor: Dr Michael Antoniou
SECTION 2 – BIOPIRACY – THE PLUNDER OF BIODIVERSITY AND KNOWLEDGE
A TREATY TO PROTECT OUR AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY – Josè Esquinas-Alcazar
BEYOND GREEN GOLD: MEGADIVERSE COUNTRIES AS PROVIDERS OF GENETIC RESOURCES AND DIGITAL SEQUENCE INFORMATION – Aidé Jiménez-Martínez and Adelita San Vicente Tello
PIRACY THROUGH PATENTS
BIOPIRACY OF CLIMATE RESILIENT SEEDS – Navdanya
BANANA BIOPIRACY THROUGH GMO BANANA – Vandana Shiva
CAMPAIGN – ‘NO GMO BANANA’ – Navdanya
SECTION 3 – ONE EMPIRE OVER AGRICULTURE
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GATES AG-ONE AND THE RECOLONISATION OF AGRICULTURE – Navdanya
GATES AG ONE IN ARGENTINA – Fernando Cabaleiro
COLONISING AGRICULTURE THROUGH THE FAILED GREEN REVOLUTION
BILL & MELINDA GATES: THE DYSTOPIA OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA – Nicoletta Dentico
GATES FOUNDATION’S GREEN REVOLUTION FAILS AFRICA’S FARMERS – Timothy A. Wise
SEEDS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: THE THIRD “GREEN REVOLUTION” – Navdanya
SECTION 4 – ONE EMPIRE OVER FOOD: FORCE-FEEDING US GMOs AND FAKE FOOD
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PROMOTING FAILED GMOS
THE GOLDEN RICE HOAX – Vandana Shiva
WHY WE OPPOSE GOLDEN RICE – Stop Golden Rice Network
INDIAN MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT HEEDS PUBLIC CALL FOR A MORATORIUM ON BT BRINJAL
BT BRINJAL: ALLIANCE FOR CROOKED SCIENCE & CORPORATE LIES – Farida Akhter
FAKE FOOD
LAB MADE BREAST MILK AND LAB MADE MEAT – Vandana Shiva
SOFTWARE TO SWALLOW: IMPOSSIBLE FOODS SHOULD BE CALLED IMPOSSIBLE PATENTS – Seth Itzkan
SECTION 5 – ONE EMPIRE OVER MEDIA, HEALTH AND EDUCATION
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MEDIA AND LOBBY EMPIRE
THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA AND THE LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION – Nicoletta Dentico
MESSENGERS OF GATES’ AGENDA: HOW THE CORNELL ALLIANCE SPREADS DISINFORMATION AND DISCREDITS AGROECOLOGY – Community Alliance for Global Justice / AGRA Watch
COLONISING EDUCATION
DIGITAL DICTATORS – Satish Kumar
PEDAGOGY OF FREEDOM – Satish Kumar
COLONISING GLOBAL HEALTH
THE PHILANTHROPIC MONOPOLY OF BILL & MELINDA GATES – Nicoletta Dentico
SECTION 6 – ONE EMPIRE OVER THE EARTH: AMPLIFYING CLIMATE CHANGE, ACCELERATING THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION
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THE SUGAR DADDY OF GEOENGINEERING: BILL GATES’ FOSSIL FUEL INTERESTS AND FUNDING FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE ENGINEERING – Dru Jay and Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group
DRIVEN TO EXTERMINATE: HOW BILL GATES BROUGHT GENE DRIVE EXTINCTION TECHNOLOGY INTO THE WORLD – Zahra Moloo and Jim Thomas, ETC Group.
SCIENTIFIC TERRORISM IN BURKINA FASO – Tapsoba Ali De Goamma
GLOBAL RESISTANCE TO GENETIC EXTINCTION TECHNOLOGY – Navdanya
GATES FOUNDATION HIRED PR FIRM TO MANIPULATE UN OVER GENE DRIVES – Jonathan Latham
BIODIVERSITY, GMOS, & GENE DRIVES OF THE MILITARISED MIND – Vandana Shiva
There is no more destructive force on this earth than the tight alliance of nations loosely centralised around the United States which functions as a single empire on foreign policy. The only beneficial thing such a blood-soaked empire can do for the world is to cease its behavior and cease to exist. It is not the benevolent good guy staving off the bad guys, it is the bad guy, and its depravity must come to an end.
Let the world sort out its own affairs without the "help" of the psychopathic force which unleashes such horrors upon our species.