Palast: Bill Gates Killing Africans, Not Saving Them

[sherriftruman]

From Morphizm:

"Let me let you in on a little secret about Bill and Melinda Gates so-called 'Foundation.' Gate’s demi-trillionaire status is based on a nasty little monopoly-protecting trade treaty called 'TRIPS' -- the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights rules of the World Trade Organization. TRIPS gives Gates a hammerlock on computer operating systems worldwide, legally granting him a monopoly that the Robber Barons of yore could only dream of. But TRIPS, the rule which helps Gates rule, also bars African governments from buying AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis medicine at cheap market prices..."

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[Systematic Chaos]

1. AIDS is a manufactured virus anyway....

A nice, easy way to eliminate "undesirables" everywhere.

Monkey bite my fat white ass!!!

[salmonhorse]

2. You bet'cha...

The Bush family oligarchy has vast tracts of pharmecutical stocks throughout their various portfolios. All that crap about smallpox vaccines then the dose jumps to $20 per. No one batted an eyelash. Now in Africa (like he gives some greater shit about Africa) handing out access to HIV medications.

Gates is no diffeerent. It is the essential foible contained within obscene profits to think you are then able to fiddle-fuck with the world in fact for none but said profits.

Within a generation Gates will have altered their gastric systems with his bent for genetcally altered foods as well. Again, it is none but stocks and profit for a select few. Mostly him...or so he hopes ~

[qandnotq]

3. what a load of crap

Bill Gates gives away vast amounts of money, particularly to vaccinate children in developing countries. He has also pledged to give away at least 90% of his wealth. Does the man have to do this? No.

How is he responsible for high medical prices? Yes, he benefits financially from the treaty as do millions of other American stockholders. So what? He didn't write the treaty; he didn't vote for it; he didn't sign it. Take aim at the politicians, not Gates. The man is doing some serious good with his money. Palast just lost a huge amount of credibility with me.

And Gates has no hammerlock on operating systems worldwide: Linux.