A 13-year-old article discussing an “overpopulation” meeting held between some of the richest men on the planet is resurfacing this week after going viral on Reddit.
Redditors in r/Conspiracy have unearthed a 13-year-old article by the British publication The Sunday Times detailing a secretive 2009 meeting between a cadre of ultra-wealthy billionaire financiers, who are said to have discussed curbing global “overpopulation” behind closed doors.
“Someone dug up a 13-year-old article about world’s richest men including our usual suspect Bill Gates secretly assembling to discuss “measures to curb overpopulation” and Google is already in damage control mode,” wrote Reddit user u/Savon_arola on Sunday, including a screenshot of the Times article “Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation.”
In the article, journalist John Harlow wrote that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates hosted a secretive summit nicknamed the “Good Club,” featuring wealthy attendees such as David Rockefeller Jr, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner, and Oprah Winfrey.
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The group reportedly discussed how they could use their wealth “to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.”
“These members, along with Gates, have given away more than £45 billion since 1996 to causes ranging from health programmes in developing countries to ghetto schools nearer to home,” Harlow reported.
The meeting, which took place in Manhattan on May 5, 2009 at the home of British Nobel prize-winning biochemist and president of Rockefeller University, Sir Paul Nurse, was reportedly “so discreet that some of the billionaires’ aides were told that they were at ‘security briefings.'”
“We only learnt about it afterwards, by accident. Normally these people are happy to talk good causes, but this is different – maybe because they don’t want to be seen as a global cabal,” said Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Bill Gates (left), Dr. Anthony Fauci (far left), and Dr. Francis Collins (right) in 2018 (National Institutes of Health / Flickr)
Among topics discussed included reforms on the supervision of overseas aid spending to prop up rural schools and water systems in third world countries, as well as curbing overpopulation.
Gates reportedly insisted that third world families “freed from malaria and extreme poverty, would change their habits and have fewer children within half a generation.”
Harlow cited similar past remarks made by Gates, who once stated “Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion.”
According to the report, the billionaires concluded that “population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.”
“This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,” said an unnamed attendee. “They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.”
George Soros in 2011 (JimRogers Fan / Flickr)
“They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government,” the guest added.
The subject of overpopulation circulated online last week following a Twitter discussion between Musk and “Dilbert” cartoon creator Scott Adams, in which the billionaire conceded that global population reduction is “a very common sentiment, mostly implicit, sometimes explicit” among leftists and members of the global elite.
“It’s not some illuminati plot to destroy humanity, but rather an extension of the well-meaning environmental sustainability movement that has gone too far,” the Twitter owner noted.
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