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> Homer wrote:
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>> I don't know what the average age of the posters is in this group, but
>
> You have completely the wrong end of the stick.
> You are being subjected to Micoshaft Department of Marketing
> propellor head dogma.
>
> It is your 'job' to rise above that, not fall for any of it
> from any corporation.
>
> This is why there are anti-asstroturfing laws in the EU.
> as of 26 May 2008.
>
> It seems US has still not banned this practice and it relies
> on US government looking the other way for abuse of Charity status.
> Billions are funelled through charities to provide Marketing services for
> donors so that their identities can remain anonymous. The rest of the
> world AND THE US needs to re-classify all these money taking
> charities that engage in Marketing as corporations and
> tax them the full market tax rate and open their books for
> monetary scrutiny. After all they could be funded by
> criminals and terrorists and those who work in this industry would never
> know that because there is no information about donors.
Bill Gates already pumps up a lot of money into media companies using his
not-so-charitable fundation. Sure, he gives some away to throw suspicion away
from its other goals... investment in oil companies that emit gases the
cheaper and more deadly way (killing Nigerian kids)... and saves him from
state tax, which means that he only gives away money he would otherwise pay to
his state (as opposed to poorer citizens).
Now watch how the Munchkins attack on behalf of their master. They should
attack the journalists cited below really.
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Gates Foundation Investments Often Don't Jibe With Philanthropic Priorities
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| In the first article, the newspaper notes that the Gates Foundation has
| invested in companies like Chevron Corporation, Eni, Exxon Mobil Corporation,
| Royal Dutch Shell, and Total—all responsible for gas flares that pollute the
| Niger Delta, shooting out chemicals and soot that may be causing the region’s
| alarmingly high rates of respiratory diseases, cancer, and blurred vision and
| also lowering immunity—while the foundation is making grants to fight disease
| in Africa.
|
| In the second article, the newspaper notes that Gates is heavily invested in
| companies that have ties to tobacco, alcohol, and gambling.
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http://philanthropy.com/news/?id=1753&pth&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=lefttop
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
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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=slogin&oref=slogin
More on Troy Wolverton, the Street, and Apple Scandal
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| MediaNews did buy the Mercury News with a loan from Bill Gates' foundation,
| and is in the process of paying back that loan by publishing information
| without much journalistic or technical integrity.
|
| Specifically, I wrote “One might think that the San Jose Mercury News, being
| located in Apple's backyard, would tend to trumpet the company's success. One
| would be wrong... Apple's corporate proximity to San Jose is trumped by the
| Mercury News’ need to publish low cost, highly sensational news to make
| enough money to pay back Bill Gates for the favor of his humanitarian loan.”
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/082663E0-6FD8-4F1D-909F-1BC72833AD02.html
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