I really hope that this story ^[1] is the work of someone’s over-imagination:

Some of America’s leading billionaires met for a private powwow in Manhattan on May 5 at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University. It was so hush-hush that some of their aides were told that they were attending a “security briefing”.

Here is how the Sunday Times describes the meeting: “The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider, it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.”

The chief issue, at the suggestion of Bill Gates, was “overpopulation”.

In other words: the rich are getting a bit tired of all these poor people in the world, so they want to cull the herd a bit.

I am really, really hoping that this meeting wasn’t as nefarious as reported, but it does match what we already know about many of these super-rich: Buffet, Soros, Turner and Gates have all been publicly supportive of population control in the past (and perhaps the others as well, but I don’t know for sure). What is amazing is that all indications show that the developed world is committing demographic suicide by their refusal to reproduce, yet these super-rich would like to export these suicidal tendencies to the rest of the world.

I’m starting to think that the answer to the question “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” will be “no” because there will be no people left to greet him.