The foundation of former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" (BMGF), is
controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates and hedge fund manager Warren Buffett. The foundation holds assets worth about $50 billion - about half of which
originates from Buffett - and finances a large number of charitable projects.
Second only to the USA, the BMGF is one of the largest donors to the World Health Organization (WHO) and
paid it more than $200 million in 2018 - more than Germany, France and Sweden combined in the same period. But this is not the only way in which the WHO is financed by Gates. GAVI, formerly known as the "Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation", provided the WHO with an additional $150 million in 2018. One of GAVI's
main donors is again the BMGF, with
$1.5 billion in 2016, for example.
It can therefore be said that the BMGF and thus the Gates family and Warren Buffett are the main source of income for the WHO through direct and indirect channels, which
raises questions about its independence from these sources of finance. In addition, the BMGF also
provided funding for the establishment of the "Coalition for Epidemic Prevention Innovation" (CEPI), which is concerned with the research and development of vaccines, amounting to around $100 million in 2017. In addition, the Foundation regularly supports non-governmental organisations such as PATH, which are involved in the development of vaccination technologies, with millions of dollars in funding. The list of BMGF's beneficiaries also
includes the largest global pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Aventis. The comprehensive influence of the BMGF in the vaccination sector is therefore obvious.
Comment: This shows quite clearly the failures of 'the law' when it comes to human conscience. There are many, many issues that continually degrade human beings into accepting twisted aspects of reality. The failure of nuance and the allowance of incremental injustice to compensate for the harsh realities people would rather deny are apparent among these issues.