More dubious practices from the gates foundation

[Hannah Bell]

FOR those who are not familiar with the darker side of the Gates Foundation, background information is required.

http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique


Recently there has been a lot of coverage about Bill Gates; it’s a lot to do with his patent games in Africa <1, 2, 3, 4, 5>, not just his tax-exempt Gates Foundation.

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/10/26/gates-rockefeller-green-foundations/


The Monsanto affair grows stronger as more and more money is getting pumped into its patent-based business. In the following new article we have found the term “green revolution” again (a revolution whereby impoverished populations become dependent on US patents) and Gates is said to be investing a billion dollar in this. It’s not a charity, it’s an investment, a business activity...If this revolution is truly green, then how come “environmentalists” (as Bill Gates arrogantly calls them) oppose it so strongly...?

Here is where it gets really infuriating. At the beginning of the year we showed that Bill and Melinda were using fabricated numbers

http://aidwatchers.com/2009/02/made-up-malaria-data-round-2-gates-foundation-responds-who-graciously-offers-not-to-respond/

and instructing governments to give taxpayers' money to companies Bill and Melinda were investing in.

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/31/bm-foundry-closing-a-loop/

What we’re not supposed to know is that by “global health” Gates refers to the very same pharmaceutical giants whose patents he invests billions of dollars in <1, 2, 3>...

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/11/02/gates-africa-un-education/




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.

“Many of the world’s leading malaria scientists are now “locked up in a ‘cartel’ with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group,” Dr. Kochi wrote. Because “each has a vested interest to safeguard the work of the others,” he wrote, getting independent reviews of research proposals “is becoming increasingly difficult.”

“Also, he argued, the foundation’s determination to have its favored research used to guide the health organization’s recommendations “could have implicitly dangerous consequences on the policy-making process in world health.””

–New York Times, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2

[snagglepuss]

1. Never heard about this. Thanks for posting. Highly recommended. nt

I can't understand his mentality. I can't understand the mentality of the super rich. If someone can explain this behaviour, I'd be forever grateful.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Stop the corporte mutant food-facsimile 'products' from Corrupting Life

Ptoooey on occult RepubliconThink corporate mutant 'nutritional' product facsimile crapola.

Support clean, normal food.

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Gates wants to be "King of the World"

[freeplessinseattle]

4. all I know about is the homeless camp bordering his huge lot

for the Foundation employees to park a block and a half a way. With a shuttle van running people back and forth all day long.

Not that this is relevent, or maybe it is, just the irony gets me oftentimes and since I am familiar with the residents I can say with some certainty the employees don't toss blankets or food over to them, but hey, maybe they gave at the office, so to speak.

I know they don't do local, and can only do so much, but when it's so in their face and he's the richest man in the world...it just seems kind of messed up some days.

[Hannah Bell]

6. a homeless camp in bellevue? wow, times have changed.

[freeplessinseattle]

9. actually, the Fdntn. is in Seattle (eastlake neighborhood)

or at least a large branch of it. I have seen some homeless begging by the onramp in Factoria though, have heard it's outlawed in Bellevue.

[Hannah Bell]

11. i thought you meant the MS campus.

[Vidar]

5. K&R.

[KakistocracyHater]

7. golly, if only there were OTHER billionaires to counter Bill Gates..........

where are the movers & shakers? Malaria scientists going into 'groupthink mode' because it gets them money/grants for their specialty? Who'd a thunked it? What IS the protocol for this type of situation?

[leftstreet]

8. K&R

[amborin]

10. k&r

[Greyhound]

12. Missed this for recs, but here's a kick. More of us should be made aware of just

how heinous this scion of parasites is and always has been.