The headline of a recent LifeSiteNews article declared that the “German Government funds several Gates Foundation projects to the tune of 3.8 million euros”. This is a somewhat curious revelation, but not surprisingly, given the relatively paltry sum, it did not inspire more than a flurry of interest on social media. In fact, the actual total cited in the German source for the article is not €3.8 million, but €3.8 billion.
Furthermore, although the correct sum is far more imposing, it needs to be stressed that the funding in question is not in fact funding of Gates Foundation projects or programmes per se, but rather German co-funding of projects or programmes in which the Gates Foundation is also involved.
LifeSiteNews eventually corrected the erroneous figure in its headline, but only after several days, by which time the initial buzz had passed. Although the preview has updated, the confusion is still apparent in the below tweet by the article’s author. This is particularly odd given that the author is Austrian and hence surely knows that Milliarden, the figure cited in the German source for the article, is billions, not millions. Furthermore, the correct figure was cited in the body of the text, if albeit with an erroneous conversion into millions, rather than billions of dollars.
The source is an article on the German website Transparenztest (Transparency Test), which in turn cites funding data furnished by the German Government itself in a June 29th written response to a parliamentary query on German cooperation with private foundations.
Transparenztest calculated the €3.8 billion total based on German Government data. This total includes both funding for joint German Government/Gates Foundation projects and non-project-linked German contributions to programmes. Unfortunately, however, Transparenztest has misconstrued the nature of the latter funding.
Virtually all the programme funding consists not of German funding for Gates Foundation programmes per se, but rather of German co-funding for programmes in which the Gates Foundation is also, to a greater or lesser extent, involved.
The project funding involves nine joint projects of the Gates Foundation and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The total project funding comes to nearly €450 million. The project funding covers a period from 2017 (the earliest start date) to 2025 (the latest completion date).
The more copious programme funding involves 22 programmes and comes to nearly €3.4 billion. The funding is spread out over a period of more than 25 years from 2002 (the earliest start date) to 2030 (the latest completion date), although, as Transparenztest stresses, most of the grants are more recent. Here too, most of the funding comes from the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, although a few of the grants were made by the Ministry of Education and Research.
Some of the programme entries in the German Government data identify the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMFG) as one sponsor among others, whereas other entries list it as the sole sponsoring ‘foundation/organisation’. See, for instance, column two in the below excerpt from the data:
In keeping with the subject of the parliamentary query, however, this appears only to mean that the Gates Foundation is the sole private sponsor involved. Virtually all the programmes involve significant public sponsorship, not only from Germany, but also from many other countries and international organisations.
This is the case, for instance, for all three of the programmes for which just the Gates Foundation is named in the ‘Foundation/Organisation’ column in the above excerpt: the Global Health Investment Corporation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Unitaid.
None of them are Gates Foundation programmes per se. Far from it.
For example, the Global Fund’s latest funding figures show that its German funding – as well as funding from many other countries, including France, Canada and the USA – easily outstrips the funding it receives from the Gates Foundation. (Contrary to the German Government analysis, incidentally, these figures also show that the organisation receives support from many other private sources as well.)
Similarly, whereas the Gates Foundation sponsored the founding of the Global Health Investment Corporation (GHIC) in 2012, the organisation’s own website explains that:
The Government of Germany, acting through the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the KfW Development Bank, helped capitalize GHIC with an initial grant and remains a key strategic partner and funder of GHIC.
A more detailed analysis of the German Government data is undoubtedly in order. What is clear, at any rate, is that Germany is a crucial partner – not funder – of the Gates Foundation and that the co-funding it has provided both to projects and to programmes in this capacity runs into the billions, not the millions.
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If it saves on life, aka death from Covid….
You know the bill I want to see enacted but Parliament. That the Cabinet members be required to attend every funeral of a person who died because of delayed treatments from the last 15 months.
Right now this whole thing is cost free to them. Hancock will get a book deal probably. If they had to look those mourning their lost one eye to eye, we’d never have another lockdown in history.
Bad enough the poor bore the weight of keening the wealthy safe and happy during lockdown. The fact the young who could have been saved for the sake of poorly protecting the old and sick is truly unethical.
Get Better, Go Private (*).
*when they’re allowed to reopen as the N
HCS has co-opted all the facilities and not used them.And none of those private beds were ever used. Simply insurance for a potential overrun. Like keeping all the taxi’s on hold in case Boris and Matt might ever need to be taken to hospital.
Neighbour had her breast cancer op in a private hospital on Monday, so they are open (at least some if them are).
She was told she’d have a six week wait on NHS to start chemo. Went private and started it the same week. If the op has been successful all her treatment will be complete before NHS would have started it.
Fantastic result
Knighthoods all round please
Medals for NHS workers
Mock ye not!
My trust has sent a specially designed custom made pin badge to every member of staff to say Thank you to them. What a colossal waste of money.
So I have my Medal…
Wear it with pride
Careful you don’t get jabbed with it!
We have a choice of a days pay or annual leave. No medal so far!
This reminds me when, years ago, 30-40 years plus IIRC, it was decided NHS staff should have a reward. I don’t know if all hospitals adopted the same reward but the local hospitals reward was – a Mars Bar!!! I kid you not – and it had to be signed for!!! It certainly helped staff to work, rest and play.
Someone’s got to make TikTok dance videos.
This is what “saving the NHS” looks like. Great job!
“Ministers, NHS chiefs, medical groups and health charities are worried that growing numbers of patients are facing lengthening waits for vital care”
All of which we told them about 15 months ago and which would have been included in a cost/benefit analysis if they’d bothered to do it.
I hope the Guardian is pleased with itself.
FTW
Wouldn’t it be a shame if Wancock had to wait a year for treatment for something like Anthrax, The Black Death, or Ebola.
He wears his mask silly, don’t you know you cannot die from a virus if you wear the mask.
just ask that communist psychologist who currently has has the turn of arm up boris johnsons capacious backside
Piles.
What a mess, plus they are finally starting to seriously question the fact that very ill elderly people were removed from critical care back to their homes. Which inevitably hastened their demise, they don’t even know the connection to ‘covid’ as it was diagnosed remotely by GP’s who didnt go in to check and then no post mortems. Many were asked to sign DNR, what was the rush?
They won’t question it. Instead they will congratulate themselves on how many millions they save from the social care budget. It is also why they don’t give a shit about the numbers of elderly in care homes who died after being jabbed.
I’ve worked in the private sector all my life and sometimes when someone makes a mistake or things go wrong we joke “Nobody Died”
But Wancock surely has the blood of many people on his hands with his clusterfck of fcktardery
It’s truly criminal he gets away with such incompetence!
Colloquial English and good old sweariness is bloody great!
But he will, they all will, its a club they protect each other because if one falls they all go,and guess what? we get to fund them all, whilst they wait for their peerage, their book deal, their Bill Gates funded foundation
WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE PREDICTED THIS?!
I wonder…
Me
Not could, did
Good to see the NWO project team are achieving their milestones.
I bet the same situation exists in (at least) Canada, NZ, India and Australia.
Of course it does – they are all in lockstep with each other
You’ve got it.
Not only that, but we’ve a Dark Winter ahead.
NHS needs so much protection that we should wrap it in cotton wool, put it into storage and create an institution which helps sick people. How’s that for an idea?
We protected the NHS, just forgot to protect the patients
I think this may always have been the plan. Create a phoney pandemic to create a huge waitlist so that the NHS will be TRULY unable to cope with actual sickness to the extent where the only solution is to sell the lot (and our data) to Hancock’s and Valance’s pals.
Jail for the lot of them.
Yes I wonder that too. That’s one of the many reasons the ‘Left’ have entirely failed by supporting restrictions. Whilst the thick masses are wailing around double masking and triple vaxxing, the NHS is being sold off. It was happening already but now Centene is really moving. I don’t give a shit any more. I used to think it was really important to keep the NHS out of the hands of US corporations. I still don’t like it as I don’t madly want to see global billionaires getting even richer but this 16 months has made me hate people so much that I now feel that the fucking morons who clapped on doorsteps while handwringing about sadlideaths and demanding harder longer lockdowns can go fuck themselves and die without treatment from their NHS-god. Bunch of selfish thick fuckers that they are.
I don’t think the NHS is being sold off but TURNED OFF.
We havent but they have. The people running the NHS right up to Hancock. 500k added to the waiting list in one year. The waiting list was massive already.
But its okay they can spend billions on fake testing, useless and dangerous “vaccines” and covid marshals…
They wont invest it in new hospitals and better health facilities though.
If you havent realised yet this is the plan. It is not by accident or “mistakes made”. Its the final chapter in the Globalists takeover of this Earth.
Has nobody in this list of worried Ministers, NHS chiefs, medical groups and health charities ever heard of, or understood, the concept of Cause and Effect?
With the possible (?) exception of some health charities, all of them bear greater or lesser degrees of complete responsibility for engineering this medical disaster. Missing from the list are “modellers”, who are perhaps the most guilty.
Heaven help the useless NHS, and the rest of us, if the experimental “vaccines” prove, after the few months they have been trialled on millions of guinea-pigs, to be toxic enough to require a lot of treatment, for many people.
The “butcher’s bill” from the abysmal management of the pandemic and the lockdown obsessions will make the Covid casualty list look rather modest by comparison.
Add in MSM. Sure, the government FORCED them (with threat of being taken off air) to all sing the same hysterical tune (to “encourage compliance by increasing the level of personal threat using hard-hitting emotional messaging”) BUT more of them really should have resisted – and DONE SOME ACTUAL JOURNALISM. It has been left to The Spectator and a handful of others. Toby Young(you know,him), Talk Radio, et al and great minds like retired Supreme Court Judge QC Lord Jonathan Sumption.
MEANWHILE, I continue to do my part alongside my wife and two kids by Standing In The Park at 10am every Sunday (find us on Facebook). More passers-by are now starting to engage with us – in ways other than outright derision and vilification.
Good on you. In the end, what you’re doing is the only way to reach the public, given the disgusting level of censorship & smearing.
Perhaps we should all clap on our doorsteps for this achievement.
If all it takes for the Tories to destroy the NHS is to tell everyone they’re doing everything they can to save it, while making it focus on one thing to the exclusion of all others so the staff can make TikTok videos…
…then we’re too stupid to have an NHS.
Agreed. We are.
Anyone that WANTS a state run treatment rationing system is stupid in the first place.
Five million waiting.
Cancer deaths.
Screening suppressed.
Surgeries locked.
Appointments unattainable.
Dentistry unavailable.
Old people turfed out of hospital to die in ‘care” homes.
Thank you, National Hell Service.
Rendering the NHS unusable, along with dismantling local retail economies, was one of the objectives of the exercise.
Slightly off topic but an encouraging story. I’ve been away for a few days and opposite the hotel we stopped at, they set up a mobile testing centre on a car park.
Generally we left the hotel before the centre opened and returned after it closed, but this morning whilst loading the car the centre opened and I saw 4 cars enter. When I finished loading at 9:30 there was nobody there and the “testers” looked like they were settling down for a long boring day.
I’m one of those people. 1 November I was hit with a horrible kidney stone (I’ve had hundreds and this was the worst ever). For 6 months nothing due to lockdown rules. I finally was approved for an x-ray late April. I passed out from the pain on the floor of the hospital and that got me schedule for lithotripsy on the right side. A few weeks later and…relief from the 1.2cm stone there.
But the 1.0 cm stone on my left…I’ve been tossed back in the queue and it will likely be another 6 months. Another 6 months of agony that made me want to jump off a building at times. I’ve never had to wait even 1/6 of that time before March 2020. Now, who knows.
Personally I’d like to stuff my stones down Matt Hancock’s kidney and see how he likes waiting 6 months. Somehow I think things would change pretty quickly!
Long shot I know but…should you ever manage the stones in Wancock’s kidneys thing, we need pictures posted here please !
… to be honest I’ve always though the NHS was a bit sh’t anyway
My Gran and Grandad and mum and stepmum all died too soon after doctors couldn’t be bothered to investigate / misdiagnosed their cancers til it was too late.
don’t get ill folks.. with a real illness… and don’t break any bones.. or get cataracts.. or…
The nhs is totally random now. I’ve got 2 uncles, both 94, 1 in Edinburgh, 1 in Durham, 1 had cataracts in both eyes, got 1 eye done in February, the other one they said to wait 3 months after, got it done a month ago. The one in Durham has got prostate cancer, just diagnosed and gout, he’s got a nurse coming in every 2 weeks to do blood tests and the GP actually chases them up!
My mum waited well over a year for cataracts.. she is now going to France to have it done.
I saw the headline. I haven’t read it, yet, but just thought F off!
It’s much worse that is being published . Turn over in outpatient and theatre is decimated with Covid19 protocols. ie capacity is poor and remember we do not have efficient capacity in ITU. It is not acceptable to criticise the NHS – but GP are hiding , disease is hidden and rate of providing care in the future if Covid19 restrictions with in hospital transmission need investigation;the system is not fit for purpose.
Ministers and NHS chiefs and medical groups are worried. Really! Really! When these same Ministers and NHS chiefs were the very same ones supporting Lockdowns and the removal of the Health service for non covid sufferers by default. These people colluded with the Cabinet to cause the suffering and deaths of millions, they created this mess, they supported this mess, they can take the blame and responsibility for it. Worried! the only thing these people are worried about are themselves and their careers
I know many people who work in the NHS. I’ve told every one of them about the evidence that this entire event isa global fraud. None of them have deviated from their apparent beliefs.
My working assumption is that the NHS as we knew it is never coming back.
Why not build back better a health system which will work for a very much smaller population?
Because that’s where we’re going unless we take back our freedoms.
Indeed.
Dr Vernon Coleman was warning of this War and the Depopulation agenda last year and he has been proven correct.
The destruction of the NHS has been easy so poorly organised and led was it pre-“pandemic,” so the deaths that come from its destruction can be hidden behind the Covid banner.
The deaths from the poisonous injections will be hidden behind causes such as strokes, blood clots etc and an OVERWHELMED NHS.
Very convenient but Genocide is the plan.
NHS staff who go along with the government story are complicit in their own deaths.
I’ve no sympathy for the NHS whatsoever, since March 2020.
Clearly the waiting lists / backlogue can be used to support the “overwhelmed NHS” story over this coming Autumn / Winter.