The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has selected 78 new charitable initiatives in 18 countries, it announced Monday.
Each of the 78 causes will receive $100,000 in the most recent round of Grand Challenges Explorations. The money, which will fund research projects, will tackle issues such as strategic placement of insect-eating plants to reduce insect-borne diseases, inexpensive cell phone microscopes to diagnose malaria, and the relationship of nano-particles to vaccines.
"Grand Challenges Explorations continues to generate unique and creative ways to tackle global health issues," said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program. "We are convinced that some of these ideas will lead to new innovations and eventually solutions that will save lives." The Grand Challenge Exploration is the Gates Foundation’s $100-million effort to improve healthcare around the world.
A major part of the investment will go toward research in vaccines. This research includes sweat-triggered vaccine delivery, a "seek and destroy" laser vaccine, and treating worm infections to improve vaccine effectiveness.
The announcement comes on the heels of the Gates Foundation announcing a $4.5 million fund in order to research planet cooling clouds, reports the Vancouver Sun. The funds will be used by climate researcher David Keith of the University of Calgary and Ken Calder of the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Caldeira told the Sun that the money has gone to different researchers – this includes approximately $300,000 to Armand Neukermanns. Neukermanns, a researcher who is also involved with the Gates Foundation’s Silver Lining Project, is planning to conduct the first cloud brightening project trial the world has ever seen.
"David Keith and I allocated funds to Armand Neukermanns to use laboratory experiments to establish whether it would be technically feasible to produce sea water sprays (in order to cool the atmosphere)," Caldeira told the Vancouver Sun in an interview.
We actually recomend the good work you are doing though we hope you can expand your funding to organisations that target culture and heritage where young people can be attracted to and in turn make a living out of it. May God bless you becoz of your good work.
This sounds to me like research that should not be funded. The possibilities that could arise from using nanotechnology with vaccines is actually frightening, and conjures up images of terrorists getting control of such technology and using it with viruses like HIV or EBOLA. Pretty scary if you ask me. Also the cooling cloud formation – messing with mother nature doesn’t sound too smart either. I won’t be purchasing any Microsoft products anymore if that’s what Gates is doing with the money.
Dear Bill, What a wonderful fascist you are bill. But seriously you should spend ALL your charity funds on cryogenics and life extension technology so you can spend eternity as emporor of earth. I hearby submit my resume to you for the position as your number one minion.
One thousabd and one Thanks and glory to your visions.
Thank you Thank you my master
The WHO has admitted that vaccine manufacturers routinely release potential flu pandemics into the population, by the covert use of vaccinating patients with vaccine containing flu viruses that have never attacked man or have not done so for decades.
It is possible, if one believes in the Tooth Fairy, to accept that the fact the the vaccine manufactures had patented, 12 months before the Swine Flu non-pandemic, a vaccine specifically for that virus was mere coincidence.
Developing a vaccine that can be delivered by nano-particles is obscene. Such a vaccine could and would be used to mass medicate entire populations without their knowledge or consent. Nations could be made sterile, or infected by pandemic plagues. By people like those, quoted below.
The UN’s Club of Rome and it’s New World Order openly state that they will reduce the human population. “The Earth has cancer
and the cancer is Man.”
- Club of Rome,
Mankind at the Turning Point
“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.” – Prof Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb
“A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.” – United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
- Ted Turner,
founder of CNN and major UN donor
Such a vaccine would provide these men, and those like them, with the means of doing so.
Tonyb
I agree with “rkyobo.”
Why is it that the pharmaceutical/chemical companies are being given so much power? I guess the government really IS that hard up for money (It’s too bad Ross Perot’s idea to stop funding contributions from big companies never came about). It’s too bad Bill Gates isn’t investing his money in non-biased clinical nutrition studies (not in any way controlled or overseen by Big Pharma). Why are people always trying to control what’s natural rather than try to understand it and live with it…? Oh yeah…because the greedy oversized coorporations would make billions of dollars off of it…
Bill Gates also put money into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault project (http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=211). The Seed Vault sounds like a great idea, until you look at who funded the project (and therefore, has control over it).
I’d be really skeptical about any funding of this kind. Aren’t there any REAL wealthy philanthropists out there? If there are, can they be a part of a watch dog group?
Just another super rich person who wants kudos for doing something “charitable” with all his TOO MUCH money — while in reality, his ego is working along the same lines as all the other too rich people – to get rid of the pesky population that is fouling the air and eating too much food. If the Big Pharma can’t do it alone, with their trillions, they can get a fix from other Rich People to figure out how to do it faster. Why can’t you do charitable work like FEEDING PEOPLE, giving flocks of birds, cows etc for the poor to raise for food/salary, or BUILDING SCHOOLS? Why does it have to be all this high tech science which is not proven to be safe and indeed sounds on the verge of terrifyingly invasive.
Bill Gates spoke at the TED conference this year.
He said that there is a huge overpopulation, and the way to decrease the population would be through vaccines, something he says he loves (vaccines)
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Tony Butler, everything you quoted is correct. Human population is absolutely threatening the future of life on this planet – and thereby our future. It took all the way from the dawn of man till the 1830s before the earth reached it’s first 1,000,000,000 people living at one time. Our numbers have exploded since then and now has reached the point of increasing by a billion new people every ten years or so. In every way we are ensuring a worse future for our children than we had. And in the process causing the extinction of many many species, species crafted over millions of years by the fires of evolution. Species that are all part of an intricate chain of life, each dependant upon the others. Obviously I believe that we desperately need to do something about overpopulation.
Having said that let me state my unequivocal opposition to secret sterilizations if indeed such are planned. Why? First, because we have not EVEN TRIED to use mass education first to try get people to see the threat of overpopulation. How many American politicians, for example, can you think of that are in any way discussing this extremely important subject? I can’t think of one. It is the elephant in the living room, the rifle barrel pointed straight at our heads which we pretend is not there. Second, I would be against it because I simply would not be comfortable making such decisions for others without their consent. As the situation becomes more dire the latter concern would probably ebb some if favor of doing the right thing for the future of the planet but first we should at least be making overpopulation a global EDUCATIONAL priority. Maybe if everyone understands the issue most people will make the informed decision to reduce their planned family size.
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I completely agree with Tony Butler. I am seriously concerned with this plan. and in ansewer to Byron’s question, I believe that mass education about over population is not done because population control through immunization and other “secret” means is easier and cheaper. Trying to convince everyone to have less children etc is not a guaranteed solution and you will always get a certain percentage who just don’t care and who are too selfish to make an effort for change.
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