Bill Gates Doubles Down on FrankenFoods

(A few excerpts, but as you read, please recall that Gates has invested heavily in ‘lab-grown human breast milk’ as well)

“To the techno-food industrialists, hunger and climate change are problems to be solved with data and engineering. The core ingredients of their revolutionary plan: genetic engineering — and patenting — of everything from seeds and food animals, to microbes in the soil, to the processes we use to make food. Local food cultures and traditional diets could fade away as food production moves indoors to labs that cultivate fake meat and ultra-processed foods.

Gates says rich countries should shift entirely to synthetic beef. And he has the intellectual property rights to sell them. As a food that can help fix the climate, Gates touts the Impossible Burger, a plant-based patty made from genetically engineered soy and textured with engineered yeast. Its manufacturer, the Gates-funded Impossible Foods, has two dozen patents and more than 100 patents pending to artificially replicate cheese, beef and chicken and permeate these products with manufactured flavors, scents and textures.
Ginkgo Bioworks, a Gates-backed start-up that makes “custom organisms,” just went public in a $17.5 billion deal. The company uses its “cell programming” technology to genetically engineer flavors and scents into commercial strains of engineered yeast and bacteria to create “natural” ingredients, including vitamins, amino acids, enzymes and flavors for ultra-processed foods.

According to its investor presentation, Ginkgo plans to create up to 20,000 engineered “cell programs” (it now has five) for food products and many other uses. Axios reports that the company plans to charge customers to use its “biological platform” like Amazon charges for its data center, and will take royalties like apps in the Apple Store. Ginkgo’s customers, the investor pitch makes clear, are not consumers or farmers, but rather the world’s largest chemical, food and pharmaceutical companies.”

Originally published at US/UK Right to Know

@cordeliers Jun 2

'Ruling class orchestration of food shortages and price shocks will also be used in support of their depopulation and 'climate change' agendas, as well as to trigger regime change operations.'

The estimable UK investigative journalist Colin Todhunter had weighed in earlier: ‘Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food’, April 19, 2021 off- guardian (h/t ggersh, as i had missed it when i was indisposed)

Also: ‘Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner’, January 11, 2021, by Eric OKeefe, landreport.com

O’keefe did some diggin’; you decide what it may signify. Too bad he doesn’t know that ‘the Gates’ portfolio, etc.’ is sufficient. ; )

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on any subject, Wendy.

And this is a big and very troubling issue. My fear in this is that we are too far down this road to change much at this stage.

It has been at least a decade since farmers have been prevented from using their own seeds and that I heard of a seed bank in the Wilds somewhere to preserve America's seeds for future generations.

Gates scooping up farmlands is similarly ominous. I will be reading your post carefully as soon as I finish my quick comment.

You know Israel better than I do, I think, so please weigh in with your facts and opinions on what is there today. Especially if I am off-base.

thank you.

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you're really asking me to earn my money, eh? ; )

it may or may not be too late, at least globally, which is very troubling. don't quote me on this, but iirc (not likely), vendana shiva had reported that eiter gates monsanto, or both, had been filing patents even on native seed, as in: wild seeds. how fucked is that?

you're likely thinking of gates and company building and controlling the Svalbard Seed Vault in the arctic circle near norway. it flooded a couple years ago i remember. here's wm engdahl's report at voltaire net::

Inaugurated in February 2008, this "frozen Noah’s Ark" is back in the news following UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s recent visit ahead of the key international climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. In this article, written in December 2007, F. William Engdahl comments that, when Gates, Rockefeller and Agribusiness get together on a project, it is prudent to take notice. If past deeds are any indicator, those who have taken it upon themselves to locate and store seeds in this secure facility are not
benevolent servants of humanity, nor the preservers of life.

as far as bibi being gone, if i read it right, the fat lady hasn't sung yet:

Bibi’s done? Anti-Netanyahu coalition notifies Israeli president that it has formed new government after Arab party joins 2 Jun, 2021, RT.com

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett have put together a governing coalition to oust PM Benjamin Netanyahu, just minutes before time ran out. For the first time in history, an Arab-Israeli party will be on board.

Lapid, who leads the Yesh Atid party, informed President Reuven Rivlin shortly before midnight on Wednesday that he has “succeeded in forming a government” and that his coalition partner Bennett of Yamina “will serve as prime minister first.” Lapid will take over as PM after two years, under the terms of the agreement.

As the clock ticked closer to the statutory deadline to form a new government or face yet another general election, the tipping point seemed to be the coalition agreement with Mansour Abbas of the United Arab Party (Ra’am). [....]
“Yamina’s Bennett was present for the deal, and also signed a coalition agreement with Lapid. They also secured the support of Blue and White, led by current Defense Minister Benny Gantz – his former coalition partner who had accepted a role in Netanyahu’s unity government in May 2020.

If Lapid and Bennett’s razor-thin coalition gets approved by the Knesset, it will hold off the need for yet another general election; Israel has held four over the past two years, repeatedly failing to deliver a majority government. The vote may happen as early as next week, but the current Likud speaker of the Knesset is reportedly pushing for a delay.”

RT had also reported:

Isaac Herzog has been elected Israel’s eleventh president, winning a sizeable majority of 87 votes from the Knesset’s 120 seats. The vote comes as several parties race to form a new government before midnight.

On Wednesday, Isaac Herzog beat Miriam Peretz, a social activist and prize-winning educator, to win the presidency and succeed Reuven Rivlin when his term ends on July 9. Herzog, who had been touted as the favorite, won 87 votes from the 120 MKs.

Three MKs abstained, three votes were disqualified, and one MK did not vote. Peretz herself won 26 votes.

Herzog will become the first Israeli president to be the son of a president himself. His father, Chaim Herzog, was Israel’s sixth president, holding power between 1983 and 1993.
The vote comes as opposition parties draw ever nearer to ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has held the post for 12 years. An opposition coalition has been given until midnight on Wednesday to form a new government after Netanyahu himself failed to do so.

Haaretz.com seems to agree:

Knesset Speaker to Announce That Lapid Has Formed a Government, Vote Expected Within 10 Days

Members of the parties seeking to oust Netanyahu feared that the current Knesset speaker, a member of Likud, would drag his feet on swearing in the Bennett- and Lapid-led government’, haaretz.com

it's hard to say what it will mean for palestinians, but it will be great not to see bibi's smiking face any longer, which iirc, a few members of the arab joint list said last year when they agreed to a coalition with blue and white party's Benny Gantz.

and you're welcome.

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@wendy davis @wendy davis here in putting value on your thoughts.

Bibi is not entirely gone. But the Knesset is taking a vote on Monday that may seal the deal. Previous votes may no longer mean much.

Bibi's coalition has only 52 Knesset votes.

Anti-Bibi has 68 Knesset votes. 61 seats is how many are needed.

as I said this is Trump. King for Life. In their own minds.

Something funny happened on the campaign trail in NYC today. I'll be right back.

Trump and Netanyahu have not cornered the King For Life meme. Bloomberg stole his third term by subverting democracy in My City and ruled for 12 very long years.

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i confess that all along i'd thunk biden had given yang a position in his administration, as he checked every rainbow box in biden's ID cabinet, etc. arsenal.

the vote's monday? i live in a time warp....

anyhoo, and FWIW, fininan cunningham's weighed in in a new op-ed at RT: Israel’s ‘change government’ means the oppression of Palestinians is set to get a whole lot WORSE

two key graphs:

In any case, the potential new prime minister is Naftali Bennett, who will rotate the executive seat with Yair Lapid, who leads a so-called “centrist” party.

Bennett, a former protégé of Netanyahu, is a hardline pro-settler who openly calls for the expansion of illegal occupation and the annexation of Palestinian land. His cabinet will be packed with far-right politicians such as Avigdor Lieberman, who will hold power in the key ministries. Under Bennett, therefore, the Israeli government will hold the same contempt for the so-called two-state solution that American administrations have nominally advocated for Palestinian statehood alongside Israel. That means further encroachment and evictions for already hard-pressed Palestinian communities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

will the burgeoning and still growing support for the palestinians matter? time will tell, i suppose. i'm agnostic on one-or-two-state solutions.... jared kushner's plan (ptui) was a sorry joke, though.

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@wendy davis that made the medicine go down...as Mary Poppins sang.

Bennet is exactly as bad as his critics say. He will be PM for 2 years.

Then Yair Lapid takes over. A whole new ball game. Lapid is a Centrist secular Liberal whose cabinet will no doubt include the many voices and colors of Israel.

Meanwhile, Bennets tiny Party, Yamina holds only 7 seats. one or two of which may or may not defect to Bibi's Likud.

The 2 Arab Parties hold 10 seats.

This will be a tumultuous two years and Palestinians understand the game as it unfolds. They will stay the course.

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settlement.

Sadly he will be left with too much money and will continue to spread his power and influence in less than beneficial ways.

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@humphrey

his charitable giving has doubled his wealth since he began 'giving it away'. and who knows what ungawdly things melinda will do with her settlement?

their wealth and power is epic, their PR team is magnificent, his high-tech, dangerous, and geo-engineering climate change schemes include: small nuclear plants, carbon capture and storage, and all sorts of shiver-worthy plans.

bingling brought these hits. but right on cue, AOC is touting the USA selling innovation to the rest of planet. me, i think it's all over but the 'Entrepenurial' Green-Washing. a member recently reminded me via email that:

The UN tells us to expect widespread failures of agriculture and famine
at 1.5 C above the 1890s baseline. Last year we hit 1.25C.

even during lockdowns, the carbon PPM rose, as did the global temps, methane is still bubbling out of of both polar seabeds, and tra la la. the oceans are acidified, full of plastic, and many coral reefs are dying. the seas are hot, and warm enough to melt chunks off both icecaps. yeah, i read too many pieces by robert hunziker @ counterpunch. ; )

ha! good on him: May 28, 2021, The Net Zero Mirage

that phrase bugs the tar outta me, as does 'invest in renewables', as opposed to 'sustainable', very different.

sorry to have gone so far afield.

sorry to be so direct.

but yes, bill: lets' invest in self-watering agro-plants.

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First he screwed up the software industry, then vaccines, now food.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

it that way, but the world would have been better off without him, imo.

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know that his cheating on his wife is proof positive that he is a flawed individual, like the rest of humanity.
Worship of him is beyond foolish.
May his downward spiral begin in earnest.
IMHO

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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more indications that he's a flawed individual than cheating on his wife, but then i've been a detractor of his since i began blogging a dozen years ago.

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When Maddow was claiming that the Russians could knock about energy grids of various kinds, experts laid in that would be close to impossible as it would require extensive human intervention. Sleeper cells I guess.

How exactly does ransomware knock out oil pipelines and meat processing? How can the encryption of data turn off or stick industrial control systems? Aren't those industrial control system basically controlled by embedded software control systems immune to encryption? How can ransomware lock up say valves of an oil pipeline? Before Colonial's ransomware attack, there was more and more interest in claims that it was responsible for the worst pipeline leak in US history.

My point is that blaming Russians for software attacks may be ruse to cover up issues like pipeline spills or maybe tainted and diseased meat. Just speculating.

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@MrWebster @MrWebster @MrWebster Once upon a time, you probably had someone on-site who had to take readings and make adjustments by hand. Now, it's all computerized to the point where the readings and necessary adjustments are automated. The person monitoring might not even be on site. Keeping these systems patched and up to date is often an "out of sight, out of mind" affair. So you have systems that control pipelines running on public facing computers that might not be patched or secured...and you can guess the rest.

I haven't been following the pipeline one too closely (it's kind of in my line of work though) but I'd be willing to bet at the center of this is an unpatched or unsecured PC.

EDIT: it occurred to me you probably understand all this already. The better explanation is, they can encrypt the hard drive so the software can’t run and you can’t access any way to manually override it.

These operations are usually pretty sophisticated and the groups will understand exactly the choke points to squeeze. It also won’t be just one computer, but they’ll wait until they have found their way into all the computers they need to shut everything down completely. Usually, these are meticulous people who work on this over a long period of time. Think of it as a sophisticated bank heist vs a crime of opportunity like someone finding an unlocked car door. The media likes to portray this stuff more like the later, and yeah, that happens often. But this pipeline job, I guarantee you wasn’t just some dummy clicking on a link and oops! That’s also why I don’t believe the hacker group’s statement that they didn’t know what this was. I promise they knew exactly what they were doing

ONE MORE THING...to your big point: I've read enough about the pipe line to believe it was a ransomware attack. As to if it was those pesky Russians, that no one knows. The story out there from more reputable sources says that this was essentially a work for hire job, but as of now, neither the hacking group or who hired them are known. The hacking group is not known to be any of the usual suspects and, apparently, have broken some hacker etiquette with this and have ruffled some feathers in the underground.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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and cordeliers Tweet at the top may have been a bit speculative as to who ordered the cyber attack, but he often has good instincts.

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Thankfully I had a bit of foresight. Hopefully I can make it work for my family. Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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why does he own 1 acre in NM? but bless your foresight, RA!

we own 20 acres in SW colorado, but the hitch is always: if we can keep it.

there was music galore on an australian series we're fitting for the likes of Bill, but i'd need to spend time on youtube finding the sound track, scoping out all of the songs. for now, i'd ask him tracy chapman's question:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukXKdzyGEY.]

maybe not, though; by now he likely believes his own PR team.

as to this:

The UFO’s are coming to unify us.

it would change everything, wouldn't it?

on edit: i dunno how many acres bill and microsoft bought in new zealand last year, but my guess is a lot. nor do i know if the end-times underground bolt-hules are ubiquitous. i tried and failed to find it in a post i'd written in aug. of 2020, but but a few key graphs:

From forbes.com, July 3, 2008: ‘Southern Sanctuary; Want to be far from terrorism threats and have Bill Gates as a neighbor? Then New Zealand may be the place for you’

A lengthy list of elite buyers, locations, prices, and so on, but how cool is this for the toffs?

“Unlike Australia, New Zealand does not levy transfer taxes on residential properties. New Zealand abolished death taxes in 1992. There are also no property taxes, and land sales other than by people in the real estate business are exempt from capital gains taxes.”

‘Microsoft seeks new datacenter region in New Zealand; Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she welcomes Microsoft’s announcement to establish a datacentre region for cloud services in New Zealand’, May 6, 2020, rnz.co.nz

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sure, nuclear power is comparatively carbon free. they should all be taken offline!

stir in fukushima. ay yi yi:

Updates April 29, 2021 (coy lying language by Japan and all):

On 27 April 2021, Japan provided the IAEA with a copy of a report on the discharge record and the seawater monitoring results at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station during March, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent to all international Missions in Japan.

The report contains information on discharges from the subdrain and groundwater drain systems, as well as on groundwater bypassing conducted during the month of March. In both cases, in advance of the action, TEPCO analyzes the quality of the groundwater to be discharged and announces the results. These results confirm that the radiation level of sampled water are substantially below the operational targets set by TEPCO.

local seafood has been safe to eat for a long time now...

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i'd totally forgotten that composing here wouldn't bring the internal hyperlinks that cross-posting my home site, Café Babylon (hosted by word press) does.

infuriatingly enough, i can't 'create a new post', and am forced to log in, so i'll need to spend buckets of time online conversing in a tiny box with one of the Word Press happiness team.

anyway, from the op-ed first published at the UK/US right to know site, a bit more:

Doubling down on monocultures

Gates’ “winning strategy for food and farming,” according to a recent Fortune magazine article by Shawn Tully, “is finding ways for farmers to produce more corn and soybeans on every acre … while substantially lowering carbon emissions.” Gates believes that “genetically modified seeds and chemical herbicides, in the right doses – and not land-intensive organic farming – are crucial to curbing carbon emissions.”

Since 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent over $5 billion on efforts to transform African agriculture; its flagship program, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, works to transition farmers to high-input industrial agriculture and scale up markets for commercial seeds and agrichemicals. Gates says these methods can boost production and lift farmers out of poverty.

Many critics, including African faith leaders and hundreds of civil society groups around the world, say the foundation’s agricultural development strategies are failing to deliver on promises and benefitting multinational corporations over small farmers and communities in Africa. The foundation did not respond to our requests for comment.

“Gates has influenced the direction of agriculture to benefit the corporates,” said Million Belay, coordinator of Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of 50 Africa-based groups. “His foundation has contributed hugely in weakening our seed, biosafety and agrochemical related regulations … it will take years to undo what they have done.”

Gates also influences how governments and academic institutions think about the future of agriculture in Africa, Belay said. “The narrative now is you need to use agrichemicals, high-yield varieties, GMOs and a host of other farm management techniques to feed yourself,” he said. “It will also take years to convince our elites the future is agroecology. As one of the most rich and powerful people on the planet, the doors of our governments are open (to Gates) while it is ajar for African citizens. He has to be called out and has to change direction.”
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GMO 2.0: genome-editing

Gates is an evangelist for genetically engineered foods. He predicts that “GMOs will end starvation in Africa” and GMOs can “end world hunger by 2030.” If the first generation of GMO crops failed to deliver on these hopes, Gates believes new genetic engineering methods will get us there.

With CRISPR-Cas9 and other “genome-editing” techniques, scientists can now add or delete strands of DNA, or turn genes on or off, to produce specific traits in plants or animals — as if writing computer code. Examples include mushrooms that are “edited” to resist browning, “terminator cattle” bred to father only male offspring, or harmless strains of E Coli converted to antioxidant factories."
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Genetic engineering, including genome-editing, “has unpredictable outcomes,” says Michael Antoniou, a molecular geneticist at King’s College in London. “You don’t know in advance what the consequences are of the GM transformation process … and because you don’t know, the only way to evaluate safety is generically,” Antoiniou said. “You basically need to conduct a long term feeding trial in animals and see what happens … and that’s just not going on anywhere in the world for regulatory purposes, at all.”

Nevertheless, experiments continue on important crops and food animals. Gates Foundation has spent over $40 million on projects to genetically engineer dairy cows, with hopes of creating the “perfect” cow. Acceligen (a division of Recombinetics) is working with a Gates Foundation grant to engineer multiple traits into dairy cows to maximize productivity and durability in hot climates.

The foundation is also a leading funder of gene drive experiments that can force an engineered trait through a species. This month in the Florida Keys, the Gates Foundation-backed company Oxitec released 144,000 mosquitos engineered to eliminate females in a disease-carrying species. Proposed agricultural uses for gene drives include reversing herbicide tolerance in plants, suppressing weeds and eradicating agricultural pests. What could possibly go wrong?

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in any event. ; )

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people do not even notice he is a psycho. Just amazing!
Well, foisting murderous vaccinations on the poor was suspended for a while, so poisoning food and soil will take their place to continue the murdering.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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in a hero's costume. are there any mega faux-lanthropists who aren't similar? they all built their fortunes stepping on the backs of other human beings.

a woman from seattle was here last year after our next-door-neighbor had a stroke. she'd just been laid off from managing a natural foods coop, but will.not.hear.a.word.against.him.

'but you don't know him as i do!' 'you don't know him AT ALL, and you don't want to!' said i.

she mailed me pages of good Gates PR, and told me what i should be blogging about instead of maligning her hero.

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but my stars; mr. wd has brought in five enormous vases of peonies, bearded iris w/ blooms as large as cantaloupes, and columbine.

he has all day off, and is helping me make 3 loaves of fake dill sourdough bread. ; )

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@wendy davis I always wonder about fabulously rich people believing they have the right to determine these life and death matters. Medicines. Eugenics. World food production. Exactly who authorized Gates to be "The One"?I sure as hell didn't.
The flowers sound beautiful! A good husband will do that!
I don't have the time to prepare sour dough, but dill sour dough is one of my favorites.
Enjoy!

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but my fingers were tongue-tied. ; )

i suppose there are myriad answers as to why the uber-wealthy believe in their Divide Rights to dictate to the rest of us, but the simplest idea starts with the de facto rule of capitalism: make all the filthy lucre money you possibly can, as almost (?) limitless power comes with it.

part of that belief for the bill gates jrs. of the world is that they're experts in every field ad subject. i wonder how many Green Bonds prince charles sold after hawking them at Davos recently?

gates having touted cashless societies, the dark-hearted narendra modi eagerly complied, woe to the lower castes. billy's bullish for the same globally, pretending 'the poor' will benefit. rupee india had carried the story of the consequences, iirc, and it was hella sad.

said woman may live with her brother as she exits seatlle, but by my reckoning they'll murdalize one another within ten days if she comes.

he's a great husband, mr. wd is, and that's a fact. he'll want to bring in the just-opened giant white poppies w/ blackish purple centers, too. he's out in the pushing the small dab of river water available this year. we've had 45/hundredths of an inch of wet this spring.

we'll take the now bread for a test drive in a bit, but the toast it makes is delectable. i can hardly wait.

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