On Jan 5, 4:16 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Whilst reading the Slashdot article about the inventor who was not
> > allowed to implement his own invention, because his university claimed
> > "ownership", I came across this highly illuminating comment:
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> > Re:Encouraging innovation (Score:4, Interesting)
> > by drinkypoo (153816) <martin.espinoza[AT]gmail.com> on Sunday January
> > 04, @07:49AM (#26319371)
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> > This is what the Gates Foundation is about - they are not there to cure
> > disease. It's easy to see that not every country is going to let them in
> > to vaccinate, because you have to basically adopt US IP law (esp.
> > regarding patents - this is about big pharma) to get the vaccinations.
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> >http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/03/2327255
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> > So Gates is basically using his Fundation[sic] to spread the disease of
> > Intellectual Monopolies with medical blackmail. This way, he not only
> > gets a mechanism by which to launder his bribe money (and pull a nice
> > little tax break), whilst "investing" in Oil companies, but he also
> > eventually gets to capitalise on third-world royalty payments for his
> > assimilated Innovation®. Only a gangster like Gates could neatly tie up
> > the world's three most morally corrupt industries (Oil, Pharmaceutical
> > and Software) together into one neat little package like this, then mask
> > it as "charity".
> > Foundation’s investments
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> http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/the_bigger_picture/Bill_Gates_Philan...
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> A sampling of the Gates Foundation’s largest investments:
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> Above $1.5 billion
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> * Berkshire Hathaway**
> * Canadian government
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> Between $1 billion and $1.5 billion
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> * Fannie Mae
> * German government
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> Between $100 million and $1 billion
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> * Abbott Laboratories
> * Archer Daniels Midland
> * British Petroleum
> * Canadian National Railway
> * Exxon Mobil
> * Freddie Mac
> * French government
> * Japanese government
> * Merck
> * Schering Plough
> * Tyco International
> * Waste Management
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> *Might include stocks, bonds and other securities
> **Warren Buffett committed his first installment of Berkshire Hathaway
> stock in June.
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> Sources: Gates tax and Securities and Exchange Commission filings— Los
> Angeles Times
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What they invest in and how they spend the money they earn from those
investments are two entirely different things. Although I would be a
little concerned about an investment in Abbot Laboratories with the
medical charity they do, but what do I know.
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