Today's Wall Street Journal features in the front page of its "Marketplace"
Section a typically fatuous article about the "Two Bills" - Microsoft
founder and chairman Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton - who have
joined forces for the purpose of "bettering global health." The article
describes at some length the informal partnership that has been developing
between the two men and their respective foundations to bring private and
public sector resources to bear in particular in fighting the international
AIDS epidemic.

Curiously, nowhere in the article is there any reference to a particularly
insidious focus of the Two Bill's joint fundraising efforts: the idea of
establishing "innovative sources of financing" - read, global taxes - to pay
for their ambitious plans for countering the world's diseases.

As it happens, this "hidden agenda" and the role of the Clinton and Gates
Foundations (among others) in promoting it is the subject of a column in
today's Washington Times by Center for Security Policy President Frank J.
Gaffney, Jr. Mr. Gaffney warns that, unless President Bush acts to prevent
it, the sub rosa global taxes agenda will likely be advanced at the upcoming
G-8 meeting, where several members (notably, France, Britain and Germany)
are committed to promoting such "solidarity levies" and, as of 1 July, the
French have already instituted a prototype international tax on airline
travel.

Continue reading: "The 'Two Bill's' hidden agenda"

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