Thread by @NavdanyaInt

#BMGF's strategy relies on direct influence over all actors of the global development juggernaut: international institutions, university & science & research centers, private corporations & states gates.ly/38GFakq @drvandanashiva #Gates2GlobalEmpire bit.ly/NISynthG2GE

The pattern usually goes something like this: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through their funded media partners, raise an issue of their interest to the global agenda with a proposed technology solution. 2/10

Once that issue has gained enough traction, they begin to provide seed funding in the form of grants to start-up companies, research institutions and research departments of private companies in order to develop the technology that is intended to solve the problem raised. 3/10

Sometimes (most of the time) this comes alongside government grants in the countries where the initiatives are launched. 4/10

All the while, Gates’ initiatives separate from the foundation, or those they fund in international institutions, begin lobbying and lubricating the regulation process for ease of implementation of this technology and its accompanying strategy. 5/10

Then, once those two steps are done, commercialization and implementation of the product or technology begins to take place, taken over by private companies who also invested in the start-up or research center. 6/10

In this way the Gates’ foundation directly shapes public discourse, steers the imagination toward only his proposed solution, and opens up remote markets for private companies with state subsidies. 7/10

This is all thinly veiled behind the rhetoric of a humanitarian cause, such as increasing income for small farmers or providing solutions to climate change,providing moral justification to his monopolization of global development for personal technological development. 8/10

But as this report details bit.ly/NISynthG2GE, this consolidation of global development has huge implications. 9/10

As we shall see, chained to the BMGF’s million-dollar grants are private corporations & private market interests, the negative feedback loops of a technological solutionism & the further rotting of legitimacy for international institutions. 10/10