1 00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:04,000 Ten billion dollars. I mean, just speak about the magnitude of that. 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,780 That is by far the biggest commitment of the foundation, isn't it, Bill? 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,279 I mean, this is by far the largest. 4 00:00:10,740 --> 00:00:12,980 That's right, we've been spending a lot on vaccines. 5 00:00:13,259 --> 00:00:17,420 With this commitment, over eight million additional lives will be saved. 6 00:00:17,739 --> 00:00:24,899 So it's one of the most effective ways that health in the poorest countries can be dramatically improved. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,899 In January of 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates used the World Economic Forum at Davos 8 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:35,939 to announce a staggering $10 billion commitment to research and develop vaccines 9 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:41,179 for the world's poorest countries, kicking off what he called a "Decade of Vaccines." 10 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:45,560 Today we're announcing a commitment over this next decade, 11 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:52,019 which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact. 12 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:58,219 We're announcing that we'll spend over $10 billion on vaccines. 13 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:01,120 Hailed by the Gates-funded media... 14 00:01:01,399 --> 00:01:05,120 For the record, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a NewsHour underwriter. 15 00:01:05,420 --> 00:01:10,019 ... and applauded by the pharmaceutical companies who stood to reap the benefits of that largesse, 16 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,500 the record-setting commitment made waves in the international community, 17 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,280 helping to underwrite a Global Vaccine Action Plan 18 00:01:16,540 --> 00:01:19,600 coordinated by the Gates-funded World Health Organization. 19 00:01:20,299 --> 00:01:25,359 But contrary to the Gates' own PR spin that this $10 billion pledge was an unalloyed good 20 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,859 and would save eight million lives, the truth is that this attempt to reorient the global health economy 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,800 was part of a much bigger agenda. 22 00:01:33,299 --> 00:01:37,140 An agenda that would ultimately lead to greater profits for Big Pharma companies, 23 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:40,659 greater control for the Gates Foundation over the field of global health, 24 00:01:41,219 --> 00:01:44,500 and greater power for Bill Gates to shape the course of the future 25 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,600 for billions of people around the planet. 26 00:01:47,799 --> 00:01:51,579 This is Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World. 27 00:01:52,579 --> 00:01:54,859 You're tuned into The Corbett Report. 28 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,960 Given Gates' pledge to make this a "Decade of Vaccines," it should come as no surprise 29 00:02:04,219 --> 00:02:07,780 that, since the dawn of this coronavirus crisis, he has been adamant 30 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:12,079 that the world will not go back to normal until a vaccine has been developed. 31 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,240 We're gonna have this intermediate period of opening up, and it won't be normal 32 00:02:18,539 --> 00:02:24,060 until we get an amazing vaccine to the entire world. 33 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:30,959 The vaccine is critical, because, until you have that, things aren't really going to be normal. 34 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,300 They can open up to some degree, but the risk of a rebound will be there 35 00:02:35,879 --> 00:02:38,180 until we have very broad vaccination. 36 00:02:39,379 --> 00:02:44,259 They won't be back to normal until we either have that phenomenal vaccine 37 00:02:44,580 --> 00:02:49,240 or a therapeutic that's, like, over 95% effective. 38 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,659 And so we have to assume that's going to be almost 18 months from now. 39 00:02:54,740 --> 00:02:59,820 And then the final solution—which is a year or two years off—is the vaccine. 40 00:03:00,099 --> 00:03:03,239 So we've got to go full-speed ahead on all three fronts. 41 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:08,740 Just to head off the conspiracy theorists, maybe we shouldn't call the vaccine "the final solution." 42 00:03:09,039 --> 00:03:12,219 Maybe just "the best solution." Good point! 43 00:03:13,379 --> 00:03:17,019 More interestingly, since Gates began delivering this same talking point 44 00:03:17,259 --> 00:03:19,879 in every one of his many media appearances of late, 45 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:26,079 it has been picked up and repeated by heads of state, health officials, doctors and media talking heads, 46 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:31,380 right down to the scientifically arbitrary but very specific 18-month time frame. 47 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,500 Realistically, COVID-19 will be here for the next 18 months or more. 48 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:44,140 We will not be able to return to normalcy until we find a vaccine or effective medications. 49 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:52,420 The hard fact is, until we have a vaccine, going back to normal means putting lives at risk. 50 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:58,139 This will be the new normal until a vaccine is developed. 51 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:04,939 The only thing that will really allow life as we once knew it to resume is a vaccine. 52 00:04:06,199 --> 00:04:08,519 Obviously, we continue to work on the vaccines, 53 00:04:08,740 --> 00:04:13,100 but the vaccines have to be down the road by probably 14, 15, 16 months. 54 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:14,960 We're doing great on the vaccines. 55 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,300 The fact that so many heads of state, health ministers and media commentators 56 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:23,879 are dutifully echoing Gates' pronouncement about the need for a vaccine 57 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:27,180 will not be surprising to those who saw last week's exploration 58 00:04:27,459 --> 00:04:29,819 of How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health. 59 00:04:30,699 --> 00:04:33,959 As we have seen, the Gates Foundation's tentacles have penetrated 60 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,520 into every corner of the field of public health. 61 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:42,759 Billions of dollars in funding and entire public policy agendas are under the control of this man, 62 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:48,600 an unelected, unaccountable software developer with no medical research experience or training. 63 00:04:49,459 --> 00:04:54,539 And nowhere is Gates' control of public health more apparent than in the realm of vaccines. 64 00:04:55,660 --> 00:04:59,240 Gates launched the Decade of Vaccines with a $10 billion pledge. 65 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,039 Gates helped develop the Global Vaccine Action Plan 66 00:05:02,180 --> 00:05:04,980 administered by the Gates-funded World Health Organization. 67 00:05:05,819 --> 00:05:08,519 Gates helped found Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, 68 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,660 aiming to develop "healthy markets" for vaccine manufacturers. 69 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,400 Gates helped launch Gavi with a $1 billion donation in 2011, 70 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:22,280 going on to contribute $4.1 billion over the course of the "Decade of Vaccines." 71 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:29,840 And so I'm pleased to announce to you that we're pledging an additional billion dollars to— 72 00:05:31,180 --> 00:05:32,860 [APPLAUSE] 73 00:05:42,420 --> 00:05:43,620 Thank you. 74 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:47,819 [CONTINUED APPLAUSE] 75 00:05:54,319 --> 00:05:55,959 Alright, thank you. 76 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:00,359 [CONTINUED APPLAUSE] 77 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,240 It's not everyday we give away a billion dollars. 78 00:06:08,740 --> 00:06:13,139 One of the Gates Foundation's core funding areas is "vaccine development and surveillance," 79 00:06:13,459 --> 00:06:17,019 which has resulted in the channeling of billions of dollars into vaccine development, 80 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:21,000 a seat at the table to develop vaccination campaigns in countries around the globe, 81 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:26,439 and the opportunity to shape public thinking around Bill Gates' pet project of the past five years: 82 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:32,199 preparing rapid development and deployment of vaccines in the event of a globally spreading pandemic. 83 00:06:33,579 --> 00:06:38,419 If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, 84 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,339 it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus. 85 00:06:43,620 --> 00:06:46,759 Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, 86 00:06:47,220 --> 00:06:52,140 epidemiologists show through their models that a respiratory-spread pathogen 87 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,800 would kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. 88 00:06:56,540 --> 00:07:01,520 And there is a reasonable probability of that taking place in the years ahead. 89 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:07,879 Many high-profile personalities have been gathering at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, 90 00:07:08,139 --> 00:07:11,319 which aims to discuss the globe's most pressing issues. 91 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:14,620 Amongst them is the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, 92 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,379 whose foundation is investing millions in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations 93 00:07:20,779 --> 00:07:22,899 to help combat infectious diseases. 94 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:27,439 Here's some of what he had to say about his push to develop new vaccines. 95 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:33,759 Unfortunately, it takes many years to do a completely new vaccine. 96 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:39,379 The design, the safety review, the manufacturing; 97 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:48,240 all of those things mean that an epidemic can be very widespread before that tool would come along. 98 00:07:48,839 --> 00:07:52,479 And so after Ebola the global health community talked a lot about this, 99 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:59,759 including a new type of vaccine platform called DNA/RNA that should speed things along. 100 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:06,399 And so this Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiative, CEPI, 101 00:08:07,779 --> 00:08:13,359 is three countries—Japan, Norway, Germany—and two foundations— 102 00:08:13,740 --> 00:08:18,879 Wellcome Trust, who we work with on a lot of things, and our foundation, the Gates Foundation— 103 00:08:19,220 --> 00:08:29,020 coming together to fund... actually trying to use that platform and make some vaccines. 104 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:30,879 And so that would help us in the future. 105 00:08:32,139 --> 00:08:34,299 We know vaccines can protect us. 106 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,980 We just need to be better prepared. 107 00:08:39,860 --> 00:08:41,899 So, "Let's come together. 108 00:08:42,340 --> 00:08:49,259 Let's research and invest. Let's save lives. Let's outsmart epidemics." 109 00:08:59,399 --> 00:09:04,000 Given Gates' mammoth investment in vaccines over the past decade, his insistence that... 110 00:09:04,299 --> 00:09:08,759 "Things won't go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine 111 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:12,779 that we've gotten out to basically the entire world." 112 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,379 ... is hardly surprising. 113 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,280 What should be surprising is that this strangely specific and continuously repeated message 114 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:24,519 —that we will not go "back to normal" until we get a vaccine in 18 months— 115 00:09:25,019 --> 00:09:27,379 has no scientific basis whatsoever. 116 00:09:28,179 --> 00:09:33,199 Medical researchers have already conceded that a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 may not even be possible, 117 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,460 pointing to the inability of researchers to develop any kind of immunization 118 00:09:37,659 --> 00:09:40,959 against previous coronavirus outbreaks, like SARS or MERS. 119 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,360 But even if such a vaccine were possible, 120 00:09:44,639 --> 00:09:48,879 serious concerns remain about the safety of developing, testing and delivering 121 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:54,360 such an "amazing vaccine" to "the entire world" in this remarkably short timeframe. 122 00:09:55,259 --> 00:10:00,720 Even proponents of vaccine development openly worry that the rush to vaccinate billions of people 123 00:10:00,980 --> 00:10:04,440 with a largely untested, experimental coronavirus vaccine 124 00:10:04,740 --> 00:10:07,419 will itself present grave risks to the public. 125 00:10:08,259 --> 00:10:11,080 One of these risks involves "disease enhancement." 126 00:10:12,139 --> 00:10:15,899 It has been known for over a decade that vaccination for some viral infections 127 00:10:16,179 --> 00:10:21,019 —including coronaviruses—actually enhances susceptibility to viral infection 128 00:10:21,299 --> 00:10:24,939 or even causes infections in healthy vaccine recipients. 129 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,040 Now, the issue of safety. Something that I want to make sure the American public understand: 130 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:37,439 It's not only safety when you inject somebody and they get maybe an idiosyncratic reaction, 131 00:10:37,659 --> 00:10:40,079 they get a little allergic reaction, they get pain. 132 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,099 There's safety associated. 133 00:10:42,519 --> 00:10:44,679 "Does the vaccine make you worse?" 134 00:10:44,980 --> 00:10:47,960 And there are diseases in which you vaccinate someone, 135 00:10:48,340 --> 00:10:53,780 they get infected with what you're trying to protect them with, and you actually enhance the infection. 136 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,980 This is no mere theoretical risk. 137 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:03,060 As researchers who were trying to develop a vaccine for the original SARS outbreak discovered, 138 00:11:03,399 --> 00:11:09,039 the vaccine actually made the lab animals subjected to it more susceptible to the disease. 139 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,220 One of the things that we are not hearing a lot about 140 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:17,059 is the unique potential safety problems of coronavirus vaccines. 141 00:11:17,299 --> 00:11:24,539 This was first found in the 1960s with the Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccines, 142 00:11:24,779 --> 00:11:30,079 and it was done in Washington with the NIH and Children's National Medical Center. 143 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,600 Some of those kids who got the vaccine actually did worse, 144 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:37,199 and I believe there were two deaths in the consequence of that study. 145 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,000 Because what happens with certain types of respiratory virus vaccines, you get immunized, 146 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,260 and then when you get actually exposed to the virus, 147 00:11:44,460 --> 00:11:48,920 you get this kind of paradoxical immune enhancement phenomenon, 148 00:11:49,220 --> 00:11:53,259 and what—and we don't entirely understand the basis of it. 149 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,180 But we recognize that it's a real problem for certain respiratory virus vaccines. 150 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,200 That killed the RSV program for decades. 151 00:12:00,460 --> 00:12:02,620 Now the Gates Foundation is taking it up again. 152 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:07,180 But when we started developing coronavirus vaccines—and our colleagues— 153 00:12:07,580 --> 00:12:12,879 we noticed in laboratory animals that they started to show some of the same immune pathology 154 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,280 that resembled what had happened 50 years earlier. 155 00:12:17,580 --> 00:12:21,500 This specific issue regarding coronavirus vaccines is exacerbated 156 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,759 by the arbitrary and unscientific 18-month timeframe 157 00:12:24,940 --> 00:12:27,920 that Gates is insisting on for the vaccine's development. 158 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:31,779 In order to meet that deadline, vaccine developers are being urged 159 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:36,639 to use new and largely unproven methods for creating their experimental immunizations, 160 00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:39,799 including DNA and mRNA vaccines. 161 00:12:41,580 --> 00:12:47,320 For a self-described wartime president, victory over COVID-19 equals a vaccine. 162 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:53,060 I hope we can have a vaccine, and we're going to fast-track it like you've never seen before. 163 00:12:53,279 --> 00:12:58,319 Adding Trump-style branding, the administration launched "Operation Warp Speed," 164 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:01,799 a multi-billion-dollar research and manufacturing effort 165 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:06,180 to shorten the typical year-plus vaccine development timeline. 166 00:13:07,259 --> 00:13:11,899 We're gonna start ramping up production with the companies involved, and you do that at risk. 167 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:16,740 In other words, you don't wait until you get an answer before you start manufacturing. 168 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:22,759 You at risk proactively start making it, assuming it's gonna work. 169 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:27,379 You're thinking 18 months even with all the work that you've already done to this point 170 00:13:27,539 --> 00:13:31,759 and the planning that you are taking with lots of different potential vaccinations 171 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,340 and building up for that now 172 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:39,059 Yeah, so there's an approach called RNA vaccine 173 00:13:39,259 --> 00:13:44,000 that people like Moderna, CureVac and others are using 174 00:13:44,899 --> 00:13:54,120 that in 2015 we'd identified that as very promising for pandemics and for other applications as well. 175 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,180 And so, if everything goes perfectly with the RNA approach, 176 00:13:59,399 --> 00:14:01,179 we could actually beat the 18 months. 177 00:14:01,299 --> 00:14:05,259 We don't want to create unrealistic expectations. 178 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:08,379 So the concept of an RNA vaccine is: 179 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:12,720 Let's inject the RNA molecule that encodes for the spike protein. 180 00:14:12,919 --> 00:14:19,279 It's making your cell do the work of creating this viral protein that is going to be recognized 181 00:14:19,539 --> 00:14:23,219 by your immune system and trigger the development of these antibodies. 182 00:14:23,460 --> 00:14:25,740 Our bodies won't make a full-fledged infectious virus. 183 00:14:25,980 --> 00:14:30,139 They'll just make a little piece and then learn to recognize it and then get ready 184 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:33,100 to destroy the virus if it then later comes and invades us. 185 00:14:33,259 --> 00:14:35,240 It's a relatively new, unproven technology. 186 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:39,859 And there's still no example of an RNA vaccine that's been deployed worldwide 187 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,720 in the way that we need for the coronavirus. 188 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,500 There is the possibility for unforeseen, adverse effects. 189 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:47,299 So this is all new territory. 190 00:14:47,559 --> 00:14:54,259 Whether it would elicit protective immune response against this virus is just unknown right now. 191 00:14:55,860 --> 00:15:01,019 Rushing at "Warp Speed" to develop a new vaccine using experimental technology 192 00:15:01,299 --> 00:15:07,000 and then mass-producing and delivering billions of doses to be injected into "basically the entire world" 193 00:15:07,259 --> 00:15:09,159 before adequate testing is even done 194 00:15:09,460 --> 00:15:13,120 amounts to one of the most dangerous experiments in the history of the world, 195 00:15:13,460 --> 00:15:16,680 one that could alter the lives of untold numbers of people. 196 00:15:17,539 --> 00:15:19,500 That an experimental vaccine 197 00:15:19,740 --> 00:15:23,840 —developed in a brand new wayand rushed through with a special, shortened testing regime— 198 00:15:24,019 --> 00:15:29,699 should be given to adults, children, pregnant women, newborn babies, and the elderly alike, 199 00:15:30,039 --> 00:15:33,360 would be, in any other situation, unthinkable. 200 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:37,420 To suggest that such a vaccine should be given to the entire planet 201 00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:40,519 would have been called lunacy mere months ago. 202 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:45,200 But now the public is being asked to accept this premise without question. 203 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:50,379 Even Gates himself acknowledges the inherent risks of such a project. 204 00:15:50,539 --> 00:15:53,879 But his concern is not for the lives that will be irrevocably altered 205 00:15:54,019 --> 00:15:56,840 in the event that the vaccines cause damage to the population. 206 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,760 Instead, he is more concerned that the pharmaceutical companies 207 00:16:00,980 --> 00:16:04,860 and the researchers are given legal immunity for any such damage. 208 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:13,420 You know, if we have, you know, one in 10,000 side effects, that's, you know, way more 209 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:17,860 —700,000—you know, people who will suffer from that. 210 00:16:18,059 --> 00:16:24,339 So really understanding the safety at gigantic scale across all age ranges 211 00:16:24,620 --> 00:16:31,740 —you know, pregnant, male, female, undernourished, existing comorbidities—it's very, very hard. 212 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:37,360 And that actual decision of, "OK, let's go and give this vaccine to the entire world," 213 00:16:37,620 --> 00:16:39,620 ah, governments will have to be involved 214 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:47,060 because there will be some risk and indemnification needed before that can be decided on. 215 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,540 As we have already seen, in the arena of global health, 216 00:16:51,860 --> 00:16:55,139 what Bill Gates wants is what the world gets. 217 00:16:55,419 --> 00:16:59,399 So it should be no surprise that immunity for the Big Pharma vaccine manufacturers 218 00:16:59,639 --> 00:17:03,699 and the vaccination program planners is already being worked on. 219 00:17:04,339 --> 00:17:08,339 In the US, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a declaration 220 00:17:08,539 --> 00:17:12,259 that retroactively provides "liability immunity for activities 221 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,060 related to medical countermeasures against COVID-19," 222 00:17:15,579 --> 00:17:18,839 including manufacturers, distributors and program planners of 223 00:17:19,140 --> 00:17:24,020 "any vaccine, used to treat, diagnose, cure, prevent, or mitigate COVID-19." 224 00:17:24,940 --> 00:17:27,320 The declaration was issued on March 17th 225 00:17:27,579 --> 00:17:31,839 but retroactively covers any activity back to February 4th, 2020, 226 00:17:32,180 --> 00:17:36,940 the day before the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced an emergency $100 million 227 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:41,379 to fund treatment efforts and to develop new vaccines for COVID-19. 228 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:46,460 The plan to inject everyone on the planet with an experimental vaccine 229 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:52,480 is no aberration in Bill Gates' envisioned "Decade of Vaccines." It is its culmination. 230 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:58,460 The "Decade of Vaccines" kicked off with a Gates-funded $3.6 million observational study 231 00:17:58,619 --> 00:18:03,019 of HPV vaccines in India that, according to a government investigation, 232 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:08,060 violated the human rights of the study participants with "gross violations" of consent 233 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:13,500 and failed to properly report adverse events experienced by the vaccine recipients. 234 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:19,679 After the deaths of seven girls involved in the trial were reported, a parliamentary investigation concluded 235 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:23,720 that the Gates-funded Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), 236 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:28,279 which ran the study, had been engaged in a scheme to help ensure "healthy markets" 237 00:18:28,519 --> 00:18:33,099 for GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, the manufacturers of the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines 238 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:36,220 that had been so generously donated for use in the trial: 239 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,380 "Had PATH been successful in getting the HPV vaccine included 240 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:43,639 in the universal immunization program of the concerned countries, 241 00:18:43,940 --> 00:18:48,000 this would have generated windfall profit for the manufacturers by way of automatic sale, 242 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:51,839 year after year, without any promotional or marketing expenses. 243 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,880 It is well known that once introduced into the immunization program 244 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,539 it becomes politically impossible to stop any vaccination." 245 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:05,759 Chandra M. Gulhati, editor of the influential Monthly Index of Medical Specialities, 246 00:19:06,059 --> 00:19:10,720 remarked that "it is shocking to see how an American organization used surreptitious methods 247 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,400 to establish itself in India," 248 00:19:12,759 --> 00:19:17,619 and Samiran Nundy, editor emeritus of the National Medical Journal of India lamented that 249 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:21,720 "this is an obvious case where Indians were being used as guinea pigs." 250 00:19:22,779 --> 00:19:26,519 Throughout the decade, India's concerns about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 251 00:19:26,740 --> 00:19:31,039 and its corporate partners' influence on the country's national immunization programs grew. 252 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:35,819 In 2016, the steering group of the country's National Health Mission 253 00:19:36,099 --> 00:19:40,919 blasted the government for allowing the country's National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation 254 00:19:41,220 --> 00:19:45,000 —the primary body advising the government on all vaccination-related matters— 255 00:19:45,299 --> 00:19:48,379 to be effectively purchased by the Gates Foundation. 256 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,740 As one steering group member noted: 257 00:19:51,099 --> 00:19:54,959 "The NTAGI secretariat has been moved out of the government's health ministry 258 00:19:55,140 --> 00:19:57,700 to the office of Public Health Foundation of India 259 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:03,860 and the 32 staff members in that secretariat draw their salaries from the BMGF. 260 00:20:04,599 --> 00:20:09,439 There is a clear conflict of interest—on one hand, the BMGF funds the secretariat 261 00:20:09,619 --> 00:20:13,579 that is the highest decision making body in vaccines and, on the other, 262 00:20:13,859 --> 00:20:18,559 it partners the pharma industry in GAVI. This is unacceptable." 263 00:20:19,779 --> 00:20:23,420 In 2017, the government responded by cutting all financial ties 264 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,200 between the advisory group and the Gates Foundation. 265 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,559 Similar stories play out across the Gates Foundation's "Decade of Vaccines." 266 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,140 There's the Gates-founded and funded Meningitis Vaccine Project, 267 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,980 which led to the creation and testing of MenAfriVac, 268 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,939 a $0.50-per-dose immunization against meningococcal meningitis. 269 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,720 The tests led to reports of between 40 and 500 children 270 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,900 suffering seizures and convulsions and eventually becoming paralyzed. 271 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:55,259 There's the 2017 confirmation that the Gates-supported oral polio vaccine 272 00:20:55,339 --> 00:20:59,000 was actually responsible for the majority of new polio cases 273 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:05,420 and the 2018 follow up showing that 80% of polio cases are now vaccine-derived. 274 00:21:06,259 --> 00:21:11,359 There's the 2018 paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 275 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,960 concluding that over 490,000 people in India developed paralysis 276 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:20,599 as a result of the oral polio vaccine between 2000 and 2017. 277 00:21:21,619 --> 00:21:25,759 There's even the WHO's own malaria chief, Dr. Arata Kochi, 278 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,980 who complained in an internal memo that Gates' influence meant 279 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,640 that the world's leading malaria scientists are now "locked up in a ‘cartel' 280 00:21:32,799 --> 00:21:36,139 with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group" 281 00:21:36,559 --> 00:21:40,879 and that the foundation "was stifling debate on the best ways to treat and combat malaria, 282 00:21:41,259 --> 00:21:46,180 prioritizing only those methods that relied on new technology or developing new drugs." 283 00:21:47,519 --> 00:21:50,220 Kochi's complaint, written in 2008, 284 00:21:50,519 --> 00:21:55,619 highlights the most common criticism of the global health web that Gates has spun in the past two decades: 285 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,820 that the public health industry has become a racket run by and for Big Pharma and its partners 286 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,759 for the benefit of big business. 287 00:22:03,380 --> 00:22:05,660 At the time that Kochi was writing his memo, 288 00:22:05,859 --> 00:22:10,079 the executive director of the Gates Foundation's Global Health program was Tachi Yamada. 289 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:14,299 Yamada left his position as Chairman of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline 290 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:19,360 to take up the position at the Gates Foundation in 2006 and left the foundation five years later 291 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:23,420 to become Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. 292 00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:28,000 Yamada's replacement as head of Gates' Global health program, Trevor Mundel, 293 00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:31,119 was himself a clinical researcher at Pfizer and Parke-Davis 294 00:22:31,420 --> 00:22:35,080 and spent time as Head of Development with Novartis before joining the foundation. 295 00:22:36,180 --> 00:22:38,940 This use of foundation funds to set public policy 296 00:22:39,140 --> 00:22:42,960 to drive up corporate profits is not a secret conspiracy. 297 00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:45,400 It is a perfectly open one. 298 00:22:46,299 --> 00:22:49,259 When the Center for Global Development formed a working group to 299 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,200 "develop a practical approach to the vaccine challenge," 300 00:22:52,599 --> 00:22:55,659 they concluded that the best way to incentivize pharmaceutical companies 301 00:22:55,839 --> 00:23:00,639 to produce more vaccines for the third world was for governments to promise to buy vaccines 302 00:23:00,859 --> 00:23:02,619 before they were even developed. 303 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,880 They titled their report "Making Markets for Vaccines." 304 00:23:08,299 --> 00:23:11,819 The project "Making Markets for Vaccines" was really designed 305 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,019 to address a problem that's existed for a long time, 306 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:20,180 which is insufficient research and development budgets as well as investment capacity 307 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,680 in vaccine development and production for the third world. 308 00:23:24,099 --> 00:23:28,899 How do you create better incentives to get the pharma community 309 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:33,879 —the vaccine community—to produce products that are specifically dedicated for the developing world. 310 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,660 Michael Kramer, a professor at Harvard, had been thinking about this problem for many years. 311 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:42,300 He realized that if the rich countries of the world were to make a promise 312 00:23:42,579 --> 00:23:47,240 that they would buy a malaria vaccine if somebody produced it, that that would give an incentive 313 00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:51,440 to the pharmaceutical industry to go and do the research and development needed to make one. 314 00:23:51,579 --> 00:23:53,199 But this idea was unfamiliar. 315 00:23:53,420 --> 00:23:56,600 No government had made a commitment to buy a product that didn't already exist. 316 00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:02,180 When the first such "Advanced Market Commitment" was made in 2007 317 00:24:02,579 --> 00:24:07,679 —a $1.5 billion promise to buy yet-to-be-produced vaccines from Big Pharma manufacturers— 318 00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:11,779 there was the Gates Foundation as the only non-nation sponsor. 319 00:24:12,380 --> 00:24:16,920 The Gates-founded Gavi Vaccine Alliance is an open partnership between the Gates Foundation, 320 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:21,339 the World Health Organization, the World Bank and vaccine manufacturers. 321 00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:25,880 Their stated goal includes "introducing new vaccines into the routine schedules 322 00:24:26,019 --> 00:24:30,839 of national immunization programmes" and engaging in "market shaping efforts" 323 00:24:31,059 --> 00:24:35,399 to ensure "healthy markets for vaccines and other immunization products." 324 00:24:36,099 --> 00:24:39,619 If "introducing new vaccines" and ensuring healthy markets for them 325 00:24:39,819 --> 00:24:42,480 was the aim of Gates' "Decade of Vaccines," 326 00:24:42,779 --> 00:24:48,680 there can be no doubt that COVID-19 has seen that goal realized in spectacular fashion. 327 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,539 Let's start the pledging. 328 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,100 The EU kicked off its fundraising drive with 1 billion euros. 329 00:24:56,420 --> 00:25:00,060 In the hours that followed, pledges were beamed in from across the globe. 330 00:25:00,220 --> 00:25:04,900 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has pledged 500 million dollars. 331 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,880 Even pop icon Madonna made a last-minute donation of a million euros. 332 00:25:10,460 --> 00:25:16,340 By combining the world's expertise and brainpower and resources, 333 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:21,360 we can attack this disease in the way it's attacking us: globally. 334 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,440 Our foundation is proud to partner with you 335 00:25:24,660 --> 00:25:29,460 and I'm pleased to announce today that we will pledge a hundred million dollars towards this effort. 336 00:25:30,059 --> 00:25:34,740 Germany was one of the leading donors, pledging over five hundred million euros. 337 00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:38,439 The money is earmarked for international health organizations 338 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,640 and research networks in a bid to speed up the development of a vaccine. 339 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:51,540 And there, at the center of this web, is the Gates Foundation, connected to every major organization, 340 00:25:51,799 --> 00:25:57,700 research institution, international alliance and vaccine manufacturer involved in the current crisis. 341 00:25:58,579 --> 00:26:03,119 Certainly, the Gates —like the Rockefellers— have profited from their years as 342 00:26:03,279 --> 00:26:05,740 "the most generous people on the planet." 343 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,779 As curious as it might seem to those who don't understand the true nature of this monopoly cartel, 344 00:26:11,059 --> 00:26:15,460 despite all of these grants and pledges —commitments of tens of billions of dollars— 345 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,560 Bill Gates' personal net worth has actually doubled during this "Decade of Vaccines," 346 00:26:20,819 --> 00:26:24,579 from $50 billion to over $100 billion. 347 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:28,279 But once again we come back to the question: 348 00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:30,460 Who is Bill Gates? 349 00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:33,420 Is he motivated simply by money? 350 00:26:33,740 --> 00:26:39,039 Is this incessant drive to vaccinate the entire population of the planet merely the result of greed? 351 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:42,540 Or is there something else driving this agenda? 352 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:49,119 As we shall see next time, money is not the end goal of Gates' "philanthropic" activities. 353 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:55,460 Money is just the tool that he is using to purchase what he really wants: control. 354 00:26:56,220 --> 00:27:01,880 Control not just of the health industry, but control of the human population itself. 355 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:16,259 So Melinda and I wondered whether providing new medicins and keeping children alive 356 00:27:16,420 --> 00:27:19,960 would create more of a population problem. 357 00:27:20,579 --> 00:27:25,339 Researchers are now developing a vaccine that is delivered using a dissolvable patch, 358 00:27:25,579 --> 00:27:27,859 called a micro-needle array. 359 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,920 In Gates'vision, these digital identities will be tied to all of our actions and transactions. 360 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,920 Once you have that digital infrastructure, 361 00:27:38,259 --> 00:27:43,299 the whole way you think about government benefits can be done differently. 362 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:48,160 So it's too bad if somebody thinks that creates a privacy problem.