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Making the Bill Gates myth grow
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| I've met both Jobs and Gates. Jobs is by far the more charismatic, actually
| has more business sense than Gates -- what Jobs doesn't have is the same
| killer instinct -- and, when it comes to technology much smarter. But, Gates
| is already busy creating the myth of Gates the Great Man.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/making_the_bill_gates_myth_grow
At the moment, Gates is 'buying' some self-glorifying and whitewashing articles
from his press (=sympathy machine). Got to rewrite history fast! Corrupt and
shameless, even before 'retirement' ('politics' and check-signing).
Gates owns a lot of the media. Fact! Journalists who are not bought should stop
learning from other bought journalists and spend more time reading court
documents.
Bill Gates, in other people's words
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| "Bill goes out and methodically searches for good ideas to steal. That's
| perfectly rational behavior. That's made him very successful. But then, one
| by one, Bill starts to claim credit for the stolen ideas. He actually starts
| believing that they really were his ideas in the first place. . . . He can't
| bear to see himself as Rockefeller; he sees himself as Edison." — Oracle
| Corp. CEO Larry Ellison.
|
| [...]
|
| "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a
| James Bond movie." — Comedian Dennis Miller.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9101938&source=rss_news50
http://tinyurl.com/6mco4o
Related:
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
Spying the Gates Foundation: Diversified Holdings Stay Ahead of Market Weakness
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| The foundation made moves in other sectors during Q3, as well, adding shares
| in Caterpillar and Canadian National Railway, while maintaining
| stakes in energy giants Exxon Mobil and BP.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/indie/071126/1004_id.html?.v=1
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 sold 100,000 Univision shares-SEC filing
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| The foundation said it sold its remaining stake in Univision,
| which is in the process of being acquired by private investors,
| for an average of $35.34 per share in open market transactions.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsmlreuters.com:20070105:MTFH49951_2007-01-05_22-11-13_N05298823&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yll88p
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
Bill Gates fund reports 12.8 pct PlanetOut stake
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| Bill Gates' investment fund Cascade Investment LLC reported in a regulatory
| filing on Friday that its holds a 12.8 percent stake in the common stock of
| online media company PlanetOut Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1331033020070713?rpc=44
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
Openwave's unit Musiwave to be acquired by Microsoft for $46 mln
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| Microsoft will also assume the net debt of Musiwave as part of the deal. As
| of Sept. 30, 2007, Musiwave had a net debt of about $4 million.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idESWNAS262220071115?rpc=44
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
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
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