<story><title>David Rockefeller has died</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/david-rockefeller-banker-philanthropist-heir-dies-at-101</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kolanos</author><text>&amp;quot;Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as &amp;#x27;internationalists&amp;#x27; and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- One World, if you will. If that&amp;#x27;s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teslabox</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Rockefeller upheld the family’s philanthropic tradition, giving away more than $900 million during his lifetime. In 1940, he joined the board of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, established in 1901 by his grandfather, and a decade later succeeded his father as board chairman, serving for 25 years.&lt;p&gt;Rich people don&amp;#x27;t give money away no-strings-attached, they channel it for their purposes. This &amp;quot;institute for medical research&amp;quot; - now Rockefeller University - was their way of guiding the development of medicine into a profitable industry for &amp;quot;investors&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The first director of laboratories was Simon Flexner&amp;quot; [1]
[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rockefeller_University&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rockefeller_University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon Flexner&amp;#x27;s younger brother was Abraham Flexner, who helped the medical guild reduce the number of medical schools [2], thereby making sure that there&amp;#x27;s always been a shortage of doctors.&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Flexner_Report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Flexner_Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Osteopathic profession was the only group that was organized enough to survive the Medical Guild&amp;#x27;s purge of non-Rockefeller-approved approaches to medicine. Today D.O.s are more likely to take up Primary Care, where doctors take time to get to know their patients and figure out what&amp;#x27;s actually causing their complaints. See &lt;i&gt;The Heroism of Incremental Care,&lt;/i&gt; [3] for example.&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;the-heroism-of-incremental-care&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;the-heroism-of-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>David Rockefeller has died</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/david-rockefeller-banker-philanthropist-heir-dies-at-101</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kolanos</author><text>&amp;quot;Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as &amp;#x27;internationalists&amp;#x27; and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- One World, if you will. If that&amp;#x27;s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbateman</author><text>The still-timely passage continues:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. &amp;#x27;Populists&amp;#x27; believe in conspiracies and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world&amp;#x27;s economy. ... Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted in our active international role during the past half-century.&amp;quot;</text></comment>