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ah. a ballistic base, we're driving to a genetically modified g m. o porn plantation financed by warren buffett, sun multi billionaire, bill gates and monsanto, the largest producer of pesticides and g m. o. c. overly called a busy days with september 2018. i didn't know it then, but this morning and uganda. what shape the next 3 years of my journalistic career?

i think i see clubs of it. i think it's plays with social i what i hear it is ah, oh. so it's marked field testing site for genetically engineered plants. and next to have the restricted entry all caught up. wow. ah hm. oh, you're good morning. i'm interested in american investment. we're gonna so i just wondered if we could snap a balance of pictures of the best shoes here. is this

move out with that sheet? take down? no, actually no, i say that is for services. okay. if you with we've made several requests for an official meeting. now things were getting uncomfortable with the i'm a good lake called security guard. they're following up with you. they're about to throw us out. they're looking for a new sheffield with

we love us. yeah, i'm, this is jesse with lucy lays in the us in death threats just because we wanted to film a field of genetically modified corn. why such hostility on social media? the tone is quite different. take this official video of howard buffett talking about funding this g m o cornfield in uganda. the morning when i remember when i sat down last here and i was trying to explain how this project can work. it, the only way you can say is we're going to bring you rain and they look at you like,

why are you going to do that? i see it, but buffets miracles can only happen at farmers adopt new technologies and abandoned traditional farming. a rich white benefactor telling africans what to do reminiscent of the colonial era. so the next few years, we hope that you can learn how to improve some of your planting. ah, why are we not allowed to film here? because in the world of genetically modified organisms, or g m o's control is paramount every word and every image is carefully cultivated . for this social networks offer an ideal platform. imagine what it's like the live in extreme poverty. you have to think about the basics, like your next meal, all the time on instagram. this kind of corn is portrayed as a blessing for africa because it fights hunger. it's not called genetically

modified, but rather resistant or drought tolerant. in less than 10 years, social media has become a vital tool online. even billionaires present themselves as human, authentic and transparent, transparent. really, we took a hard look at the world of these rich philanthropists who dream of genetically modified africa. what we found in places their dream is already a reality. if you have enough money, you get to determine what the right path is for set of countries as diverse as there are in africa. our foundation is proud to be a part of that. i with our $700000000.00 commitment

formula. honda, vito, the push philanthropic and humanitarian goals. i mean it's in reality all they're promoting some the else and time in. well, the i in finance london unit a ship there funding high risk research is a leap into the unknown little incl new. this is actually hungry cultural geo politics. in our research, we came across the wide spread idea that if you have a large personal fortune, you can save the world a phenomenon that people were calling philanthropy capitalism. and it was an idea that you can essentially marry some of the ideas of corporate growth and corporate profit making with the goal of philanthropy. and this is problematic in reality, saving the world in the age of philanthropy. capitalism is a profitable business to understand how these cheerleaders of g m, o technologies work, we turn to one of their favorite media platforms. instagram, we create an account and follow their pages in. on

instagram, there are g, m, o advocates. and there are opponents. some are violent we also find african instagram or darlin kasim. with her 24000 followers. she's using the platform to further her cause. i'm darlene castillo, you go, i started an environmental organization. the young activist from the ivory coast is an eco feminist. fighting for environmental protection and women's rights. ah, yeah, actually. so those nature and women a massively exploited by our society at the same time, they're deeply undervalued. ah,

we asked the act of as to help us with our research, both on the ground and on instagram, to find out what's happening on her continent. dawn she said more clearly 3 percent of african field, sacha know areas just under $4000000.00 hector compared to $60.00 to $70000000.00 heck t as in not in america as a result. this huge potential there and you frontier on google foot. mm. it all began in 1997 when south africa became the 1st african country to pass legislation allowing g m o. 2 decades later, the countries, soy maze, and cotton crops are almost 100 percent genetically modified. since then, the market has been expanding just like a technological advance,

such as running water or internet access. g m o's, or conquering the continent, tanzania, kenya, uganda, sudan, egypt, nigeria, burkina, faso and the ivory coast. ah, abidjan, the economic capital of ivory coast here genetic engineering is on the rise, though few people know about it. mm. ah, the activist dabbling casem as our guide with it. marcus, like these, there's no point in asking the sellers with their products to genetically modified these g m. i mean anything to you, ma'am?

no, i don't think so. then what is o g, emma? g m a n g m o? i don't know. i see people he don't know about g m. i was like genetically modified fruits and vegetables. activists, on the other hand, are all too aware of the threat posed to traditional african agriculture. driving through to such an ugly future or is it all you gotta keep but his ugly, concrete culture is not very complex. the phone was mainly work with simple food danielle, the most encounter with agriculture, the feeds, people prefer to main agriculture. yeah. he's actually whenever you know, that of course is now under threat. ah, 11 even less forgotten about he can. so west africa is still not very developed as

an economic heresy. therefore they see the chance to occupy this model could be mm mm. g m o's were banned in ivory coast until 2016, when a group of multi nationals approached the government with a deal. they promised to invest a large sum of money in agriculture, particularly rise production the goal they said to fight hunger. in return, they wanted the state to allow the research and marketing of genetically modified plants that the supreme thank god we can turn upon for like, god you. what we found was, were completely surprised when we heard that ivory coast was opening up to genetic engineering. for, since the contents of this law was mostly kept quiet, we did not know what tools allowed, but apparently, the longest the multinationals, free rank synergy. now shanella, i is there, thin lieber,

my lord of activity if the minute of compounds and work has been ruled, it has actually agriculture. geo politics. ah, the donors presented a strong argument thanks to them. drought and malnutrition would become a thing of the past, hulu. among the super rich who promot genetically modified agriculture, one man stands out. bill gates, the co founder of microsoft could be seen as the christopher columbus of genetic engineering, his charity, the bill and melinda gates foundation is one of the richest in the world with around $50000000000.00 and assets. ah,

bill gates has more than 7000000 followers on instagram. he posts videos and photos for his fans, often alongside rich and famous friends. for some 20 years, and especially since the pandemic, he has been seemingly on the present when it comes to things like vaccination, health, and agriculture. he's also promoting his own solutions. and he's convinced that the cure for hunger in africa is genetically modified food. mm. europeans have decided they don't want that most of them, which is fine. they're not facing malnutrition and starvation. if they wanna pay a premium for food, a good kind. if it's not a huge deal, the africans, i think we'll choose, ah, to let their people have that have enough the we have to decide what's important in the world. i will look at energy, climate change, and disease around occasion. one crucial term does not appear in bill gates,

official literature, philanthropy, capitalism. and it was an idea that you can essentially marry some of the ideas of corporate growth and corporate profit making with the goals of philanthropy. and this is problematic because is leading people to think that tact billionaires will somehow save us when actually they won't, they art and some of their practices actually compound the very problems of environmental degradation. bill gates has taken on an urgent problem to eradicate the diseases that affect the african cassava, which he calls the most interesting vegetable in the world. but how, like always, with a technological miracle. ah, no 6 and this is the plat clinic in

the city level. i quite a bit of oratory is strictly called it when no one knows what goes on that behind closed doors with you soon you come, do you have any guidelines that would a forbid any g m programs will be funded? give me one second. i'm surprised that he would be involved in the project object for $15000000.00. gates has had the most interesting vegetable in the world, analyzed down to its smallest molecule in a laboratory near abbey. john aye. this research center caught her eye because of the vague description of its work. with other good morning everyone. phyllis, i shall never. what are you extract in cassandra leif dna?

what kind of sample is that? it is the, this is the laboratory of wave west african virus epidemiology. amelia de la blackwood opened in 2015 with funding on the bill. and melinda gates foundation . i did find mm. the program called wave also, of course, has an instagram presence bmw with pictures of the generous donor and his scientists who are working in 10 african countries to find a cure to protect the cassava from pests drought. and viruses. exhibit oliver also this is to plant clinic, opted instill. we can produce an identical plant, but without the disease trigger from a cell was in there. psalm pollution, what miracle cure is bill gates researching. here to save the cassava.

are you preparing to introduce g m. o. cassava in west africa. miller vol, knocking about those gmc, no, there are no g m o. 's. here. however, i am in favor of transgenic plants of all the conditions are met and there is a need for them to and why we're not there yet. but we must be prepared, we must be prepared for everybody. we're the name of one of the labs here. says it all. conference. awesome, awesome. got this is the genetic enhancement room i was telling you about. it will be operational in 6 months of out. assume if suassa does that mean, you'll start genetic enhancements in 6 months. good of yours? no, no, it's not like that. we're just learning the techniques. it, there's a difference. we familiarize yourself with the latest technical procedures yet,

like crisper and so on. okay, chris, for to be as prepared as possible students. won't grandma? but i'm sure the topic seems to make the professor uncomfortable. crisper is a new method of gene manipulation called genome editing will oh yes. yes, it's taken. it's today, there are 2 types of gene. i'm editing this new type of genetic engineering. the 1st is genetics, this is krista lab. it cuts out the unwanted part of the gina. but unlike hair, this pot does not grow back. it's gone forever edition. it did them now please. and no one knows what last and consequences this could have for the plant that is in the 2nd technique is gene silencing with this there is no

cutting loss, is about to get rid of the problematic part, whether you use something artificial to conceal at the core now, and it not only conceals gene silencing causes permanent changes in the genetic material of the plant by means of muted genesis. as an implant in classical genetic engineering, we speak of trans genesis. here a gene foreign to the species is transplanted into the genome of a host organism, like a plant or an animal, though. so that develops characteristics that it did not originally have. yep. mm menda, rectify sumpter? no, i didn't read that, knew it was in lay with it. yes. all she for i didn't, the new methods modify the genetic material of the plant without transplanting genes. this was him. this group, therefore proponent say that they are not genetically modified organisms since no

gene transfer takes place and we did not get that remembrance you. but for us, it is the same principle. the court of justice of the european union sees it the same way. and as per organisms created by controlled me to genesis on an equal footing with genetically modified organisms negotiate according to this decision of the court of justice of the european union, the you should theoretically reject the wave program. but as we discovered, professor pita and his team did, in fact receive funding from the e u. a ya mall and just slim. we visited the research center, professor pita showed us a room and i think he said something about he you find what's new boldoff. no small renewal of build up. oh, look at the tables and all the equipment have already been ordered. we have a co operation with the e, you know, through which we financed the equipment of the laboratories leblanc life. oh ok.

let's search their projects. so closure wave funding and co financing 5000000 from the e u as a 5 year, i say 5000000. the e u is supporting a laboratory that wants to carry out research that the e u court of justice has ruled is dangerous. for weeks we've been trying to get an interview with you to or the line and the you commission are responsible for this funding in vain. now, do you have any news or her you dial feeling anything? maybe if maybe hers but to her. so that again, interview her, i gather ok. i need to go back to, you know, later what we discovered is that in ivory ghosts when we went to film, they are planning to use new technique like like crisper, like, like, gin, editing,

like like all the stuff and, and they are on the records, the actually said that there were developing those techniques of things to the european union supports. so that's why we were, we were calling actually. okay. okay. oh, to be honest with you right now, i will not want to say anything just because like i said, we're going to try and find out a bit. and then we will get a reply from our site. yeah. but do you have any guidelines that would a forbid in the gym programs to be funded? we are going to need to check this. i am not sure that the guidelines are not to be every single thing. i do not really. i really, i cannot. i've just heard this now i'm yes, you know, course with even

n g o that scrutinize every cent of e u funding. we're not aware that the wave project is apparently also working on the genetic modification of the cassava. can be done, sir. samples you are getting, i am surprised that the e would be involved in the project and we know that it does not want to support the development of g. m. as in africa since 2014. we've happen law for development and international solidarity in which friends commit to not financing the research production and marketing of channels in africa. so this is very irritating, pleasant, but finally, the commission reply by email that there was no laboratory in ivory coast working on transgenic plants or animals. and that the equipment purchased with e. u funds was unsuitable for modern genetic engineering techniques. so while europe is hiding behind its modest contribution of $5000000.00 euros, it is studiously overlooking the $15000000.00 that bill gates has provided for the

research program. enough to advance genetic engineering and africa. the gates foundations decisions are simply imposed on africans. and there is insufficient power to challenge the key to the gate system is its financial structure. how is the $50000000000.00 and endowment capital deployed? that money is then invested in, in the stock market, in essence, in many different companies. and it's done so through essentially what the gates, what the gates as see is something like a blind trust the money the gates foundation spends in africa, for example, comes from dividends. it receives, as a shareholder and numerous companies. yes. and that's how most foundation endowments work. there dividends that come back into the it's not just dividend, how their portfolio is invested. you immediately,

your capital is lend to those companies in essence, in order to own shares. so these endowments own portions of different company in the gates foundations list of fixed asset investments. and thus, profits one finds major corporations such as amazon, apple, coca cola, or b a, s f, the german chemical giant, and a leader and the sale of genetically modified seeds. the gates foundation holds b a as f shares worth over $7000000.00. a portion of amazon's profits also flows into the coffers of the gates foundation. the same applies to coca cola profits some of the money, the b s. f earns from the sale of genetic seeds also ends up at the foundation. please join me in welcoming bill gates to the stage in linda,

a government today is having a very hard time saying no to bill gates has plans in just to have a better liability be stronger. i maybe have a quicker development time, not all falsely the sunny increases all doubts and in africa. the former microsoft boss has found another area in which he can promote genetic engineering. because bill gates doesn't like viruses or mosquitoes and a disease that kills a child every other minute of every day. and that's why he has set his sights on eradicating malaria. as always, with the help of enormous sums of money and scientific research in the fight against the disease. gates and his foundation enjoy the power of a state, as we see here in the own, in october 2019 with

heads of state from all over the world have come to announce their financial pledges in the fight against malaria. and the star of this fundraiser has a front row seat and there's an old joke, an english that where does an $800.00 pound gorilla sip? and the answer is anywhere launched and, and bill as they entered town carrillo, who the g 20. it's going to invite into its meetings and give it a seat at the table. like he's a country. ah, you know, it's a really dangerous side of philanthropy, capitalism, right? that if you have enough money, you get to determine what the right path is for. ah, a concept of countries as diverse as there are in africa. juvenile, misty. i really want to thank bill gates in his foundation because he is also at

this meeting, mal ito, who's been historically live and he's here with us now. hm . in. ah, my daughters will be invited to announce their commitment to the global fund for the next 3 years. the european union will contribute 550000000 euros. look, $1400000000.00 pound pledge, $840000000.93 canadian dollar. i'm your total out. i mean, he can see me on the do not america $6000000.00 you as the last $1500000.00 us dollars. $12000000.00 us dollars. emily, all the dollars on every day and we don't do do not. i meet again.

we're only a few steps away from bill gates and we have a 1000 questions. but in bill gates world, everything is planned out and we are not on his agenda. please join me in welcoming bill gates to the stage. who other than bill gates could overturn the use commitment? our foundation is a proud to be a part of that i with our $700000000.00 commitment, who else could get a standing ovation from african leaders? now we were working on a new generation of nance. ah, and we have now to day, the interceptor g to right here and these are new are but even in the next year

i'll be going out by the 1000000. the mosquito nets gates is so proud of are produced by b s f. one of the companies in which his foundation has a stake. our foundation is been working with b. s. up in med, accessing the gates foundation, has the funds to send mosquito nets to fight malaria. and even the most remote villages in africa like this one in ivory coast booklet is here. the tv used, the treated mosquito net has prescribed to protect against mosquito bites and malaria. lou. ah, if it is, you could have him. yeah, because my mom's relate to that, hama, i know about malaria. really. i myself have an attack every 3 months that my dad's here in this isolated village all measures against the disease had paid for with donations from the founder of microsoft made. it must also be said that bill gates has quietly funding some very strange projects to 5 mosquitoes in the gates

foundation is putting a whopping $155000000.00 into one of these strange projects. the goal to modify mosquitoes so that they don't transmit malaria. with the help of genetic engineering, of course, the project name, target malaria. oh, don't get any else glue bell to show that they can only cut, does a non profit global research, netflix target malaria aims to help save millions of lives. we're breaking ground in the fight against this disease. i'll research as i said, jean and the exit mosquitoes, making them sterile africa lu, marchina, faso, a country plagued by g hottest terrorist groups. nonetheless, we drive to bobo july, so the 2nd largest city in the country. here on july 1st 2019,

the government granted target malaria permission to release the genetically altered mosquitoes. a 1st it seems on the african continent. unfortunately, without picture or sound target malaria did not film the operation. government decree or not, we're going to talk to the mayor rule, but yeah, also not a lot of literature to look at in level on we were approached by target malaria. as we understand it was a female mosquitoes ought to be made in fertile because only they transmit malaria with selma count on you, cause i'm not a scientist to kind of know whether these genetically modified mosquitoes can cause other problems. chem, escorting, so we'll see. cloud solution is the monday one for clear build problem. did you

know that there was a similar project in brazil? no, no, i don't know anything about it. the mayor doesn't know about the brazilian field trial, but we do in september 2019 the prestigious science journal nature published a report by independent researcher jeffrey powell. that doesn't, he was worried by his findings and he doesn't have a project going on brazil in brazil with people in rio de janeiro. and i heard about this program going on in jack abena where they're doing is releases of oxy tech. so i think ok, if they're not doing it, maybe we should check to see if it's happening, haven't you, that you and your team, you physically come towards a genetically modified most of those to see what happened with them. right? right. we wanted to check,

do any the genes that were in the release strain now incorporated into the natural population or the target population, a la gene modification experiment failed twice. first, the mosquitoes could not be eradicated. second, the genetically modified mosquitoes reproduced with the endemic population and passed on their modified genes. jeffrey powell fears that all mosquitoes in the area may now be more robust. so my question is that they could have been more robust, your west instead just to have it better by ability, be stronger, maybe have a quicker development time. these are all savings but, but you can find when you make hybrid, sometimes they can develop faster. they become larger, they live longer, they're more fertile. that's what i'm thinking. ah, although there's no financial link to the brazilian experiment,

target. malaria is based on the same scientific principle. well, the mosquitoes and burkina faso mutate as well. officials there had not considered this possibility until we showed the district mayor jeffrey powell study her up and, and i'll call the people that talk it. mm. when she submitted. yes. oh, good afternoon. oh, no. cecilia on the line target. malaria has had of p r. s good info. is that true? i've heard about brazil. there were releases in brazil, but how that turned out? i can't tell you. we should meet with. well okay, but my head, he says he doesn't know how it turns out. if i find that worry because it's the same project and he as an expert, has no idea or increases all doubts even more. i mean, if i am for a liberal, was some said monitoring. this would have been the least we could have done. he

said solomon no, but i do not want people to be used as guinea pigs when they're sure i will not accept it. you could just probably kill up a plush under banners. why they're cool by if it is indeed the same project of the asset to i find that scandalous, c, effective muscle. remember, with our camera rolls as those in charge of the program, enter the mayor's office. we will miss you. little to hello, i'm a journalist. i worked for our table, you were here to talk about target malaria. i woulda, this is not something i'm not authorized to talk to the press this a few months later, target malaria informs us that the transfer of the genetically modified genetic material to wild mosquitoes is possible, but does not pose any risks. activists criticize

a culture of secrecy methods, much like those of the gates foundation, which is funding the project is decision with stitches of keys, it will do other global universal. we're here at the joseph keys there for university in a while. good to go. and this is the institute of population science which renewed it thanks. are given to the bill and melinda gates foundation, philip, which supported the development of the institute, a population science don't. there it is. victor. this foundation is pouring billions into all sorts of things in burkina faso. i believe that my country has been distressed by all this money, jewelry, the berkener, but government is finding it very difficult to say no to bill gates has plans will be to get to see a corporate perspective from a political economy perspective. the gates foundation is once again trying to help western producers and people find that problematic when you claim that your goal is improving global equity. this is why

a lot of people have concerns with g m. o r in regents like africa. well, bill gates, who likes to ignore uncomfortable questions, answered the questions of an african activist lou. dear mr. kate, my name is darlene cason. i am a young hearing late i to hong i hurry course i fax. your foundation should nuts and try our continents as perceive me. this is selena with wow, ah hello delynn. thank you for your inquiry. the bill and melinda gates

foundation invests and innovative tools that have the potential to improve the lives of those and greatest needs. and we work to support safe, ethical, and transparent research that includes gene editing and other potentially transformative techniques. thanks again. media relations team, bill and melinda gates foundation. and these transformative techniques are protected by the financial power of the gates foundation. even the united nations seems powerless. blue bill gates more powerful than the un. that's what hundreds of internal emails from the foundation and the target malaria program leaked by an american whistleblower suggest. there we discovered that the gates foundation paid $1600000.00

to a lobbying agency. their goal to convince a group of un scientists to endorse gene drive or the genetic engineering of mosquitoes. apparently, the lobbying agency was successful in this email. the leaders of the program, right that the u. n. did not advocate a ban on these procedures. black a, do you in meeting ended on the 17th of december and the decision takes time jane drive does not include a moratorium of ban. this is a positive result for us is foreign. no one, not even the supervisory authorities of the u. n. can put the brakes to the american mo he billionaire's desire to experiment. ah, no one has the power to say what if you're wrong, mister gates? what if the mosquitoes mutate? what if the genetically modified cassava no longer tolerates wind or sun? what will become of the african continent?

these are important questions. we put them to the un. what are you in charge of talking to me? yes. yes, good. what i actually learned is that the bid amended the gets from dish and actually funded. these are lobbying firm to recruit some bundle members. i was just wondering if decision was influenced all not by the scale of a recruitment of, of scientists. i mean, i mean, i think on the research, i can't comment on that or girl i don't among those foundation. okay, malay, i can't comment on that. great. i just can't help my company. yes, of course, i am months after our interview request, bill gates continues to post on instagram. however, he has yet to answer any of our questions

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