The Misinformed Billionaires Club

June 4, 2009

The London Sunday Times, in the story Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation, reported:

SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.

The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.

Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.

Bill Gates, it seems, was the man pushing for the population control agenda. The Times report noted:

The issues debated included reforming the supervision of overseas aid spending to setting up rural schools and water systems in developing countries. Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority.

Looking under the veneer of good boy philanthropy, however, observers have noticed a sinister — if perhaps unwitting — agenda, as well as a strong undercurrent of plain old misinformation.

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