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A conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
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| Today he met with many groups in Seattle,
| starting with a breakfast meeting at the
| home of Bill and Melinda Gates, followed by
| a talk to the World Affairs Council on the
| U.N. in the 21st century and a lunch
| sponsored by the Greater Seattle Chamber of
| Commerce to address businesses about climate
| change and environmental stewardship. Ban
| also gave the Political Science Department's
| 2009 Severyns-Ravenholt Lecture at the
| University of Washington, where he received
| an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at a
| ceremony in Meany Hall.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2010141457_on_saturday_they_tried_somethi.html?syndication=rss
Breakfast with Ban Ki
http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2009/10/27/4363245.html
"Moon doesn't answer the excellent question, carefully phrased as a 'some say'
statement, whether super-rich ubermensch philanthopries undermine UN system
organisation effectiveness. Too bad. The question deserves a response."
Related:
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 Foundationâs 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 agencyâs policy-making function.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/science/16malaria.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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
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