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Instructing governments to give taxpayers' money to companies he is investing in:
Bill Gates urges more spending on global health
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5isrQFyMi3MoDjG9uYDdI...K8OIgD9
Gates Foundation cash wields influence
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| The Gates Foundation is offering up to
| $250,000 apiece to states that want to apply
| for $5 billion in federal grants to help
| reform our nation's school systems.
|
| [...]
|
| The Associated Press story noted that there is
| a joke going around that says the real
| secretary of education is Bill Gates. To us,
| that's no joke.
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http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20091028/OPINION/910280304/Gates-Fou...tion-ca
Editorial: School reform the Gates way
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| The Gates approach may be radical, but in
| Memphis and beyond the circumstances call for
| a non-traditional approach and as much
| innovation as the system can muster.
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http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/oct/27/editorial-school-refo...the-gat
Same scam:
Chen spreads a Buffett
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| The assets to be transferred to the charity
| will mainly include stakes that Chen owns in
| publicly traded companies such as Tsingtao
| Beer, Yunnan Baiyao Group, and some stock from
| his own Newhuadu Industrial Group. These will
| altogether account for 45 percent of his total
| assets according to current market value, Chen
| said at a media briefing in Beijing yesterday.
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http://zikkir.com/business/10156?wscr=1280x800
Lookie here! Conflict of interests:
Microsoft's Andrea Taylor Named University Trustee
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| Her parents attended BU. So did two uncles,
| her sister, and her former husband. Her
| mother's papers are archived at the Howard
| Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Now Andrea
| Taylor, director of North America Community
| Affairs for Microsoft Corporation and a
| delegate to four UN summits, is joining the
| University's Board of Trustees.
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http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/10/23/microsoft-s-andrea-taylor-named-uni...sity-tr
Recent:
A conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
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| Today he met with many groups in Seattle,
| starting with a breakfast meeting at the
| home of Bill and Melinda Gates, followed by
| a talk to the World Affairs Council on the
| U.N. in the 21st century and a lunch
| sponsored by the Greater Seattle Chamber of
| Commerce to address businesses about climate
| change and environmental stewardship. Ban
| also gave the Political Science Department's
| 2009 Severyns-Ravenholt Lecture at the
| University of Washington, where he received
| an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at a
| ceremony in Meany Hall.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2010141457_o...aturday
Related:
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6...615.sto
Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio
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| ...the Gates Foundation took down their public statement on this
| and replaced it with a significantly altered version which seems to
| say that investing responsibly would just be too complex for them
| and that they need to focus on their core mission: 'There are
| dozens of factors that could be considered, almost all of which
| are outside the foundation's areas of expertise. The issues
| involved are quite complex...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/1756212&from=rss
Gates Foundation's Influence Criticized
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| The chief of malaria for the World Health Organization has complained that
| the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates
| Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping
| out the world health agency's policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=...gin&ore
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttq0IdULfjg
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Truth Revealed Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnqnMHQ1c
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