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____/ Homer on Monday 05 January 2009 06:11 : \____
> 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:
>
> [quote]
> Re:Encouraging innovation (Score:4, Interesting)
> by drinkypoo (153816) <martin.espinoza[AT]gmail.com> on Sunday January
> 04, @07:49AM (#26319371)
>
> ...
>
> 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.
> [/quote]
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/03/2327255
>
> 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
http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/the_bigger_picture/Bill_Gates_Philanthropist_or_Polluter.html
A sampling of the Gates Foundation’s largest investments:
Above $1.5 billion
* Berkshire Hathaway**
* Canadian government
Between $1 billion and $1.5 billion
* Fannie Mae
* German government
Between $100 million and $1 billion
* 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
*Might include stocks, bonds and other securities
**Warren Buffett committed his first installment of Berkshire Hathaway
stock in June.
Sources: Gates tax and Securities and Exchange Commission filings— Los
Angeles Times
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