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Tobacconists Cry Foul Over More False Anti-Smoking Propaganda.
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| "For us to take on WHO is like David
| taking on Goliath. Weâre not âbig tobaccoâ
| and our mom-and-pop retail members are
| just small businesses selling legal
| products that adults enjoy like fine wine
| or top-shelf Scotch whiskey," McCalla
| said, "but we cannot stand by while WHO
| makes outlandish and outrageous claims
| that are an affront to the intelligence of
| all thinking people," he said.
|
| McCalla chose not to repeat the
| controversial WHO claims so as not to give
| them further coverage. However, he
| explained that they had to do with alleged
| health issues related to smoking and
| secondhand smoke.
|
| "They say there are no safe levels of
| secondhand smoke, but the Occupational
| Safety and Health Administration says
| otherwise," McCalla explained. "OSHA has,
| indeed, set safe levels for secondhand
| smoke and those levels are 25,000 times
| higher than are found in bars and
| restaurants."
|
| Among contributors to WHO is the Bill and
| Melinda Gates Foundation which, despite
| its support for WHOâs work with preventing
| and treating malaria, has been criticized
| by top WHO staffers for not allowing its
| funding to be more broadly spent.
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http://capstan-tobacco.livejournal.com/75169.html
Microsoft co-founder bought the farm?
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| Now, they're wondering whether the company
| that paid $27.1 million for the very large
| farm is owned by Bill Gates, Microsoft's
| chairman and the world's wealthiest man.
|
| [...]
|
| Local officials say the rumor is rampant,
| but they don't know whether it's true.
| Public records lend support to the theory
| but aren't conclusive.
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/12/25/madison_mystery.ART_ART_12-25-09_B1_B5G3N03.html?sid=101
Recent:
University of Colorado at Boulder Falls Prey to Philip Morris' Strategic Philanthropy
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| Notwithstanding that a federal court in
| 2006 found Philip Morris guilty of
| engaging in 50 years of public fraud and
| racketeering, a peer-reviewed study of
| tobacco industry documents conducted by
| the University of California San
| Francisco's Center for Tobacco Control
| Research and Education looked at why
| tobacco companies so robustly promote Life
| Skills Training.
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http://www.prwatch.org/node/8733
WHO officially announces the $10 million grant of the Gates Foundation to promote tobacco control in Africa
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| We had previously informed our readers of
| this grant awarded in August. The press
| release does not provide details about the
| way the funds will be managed, the type of
| governance that will be -eventually
| chosen-, what African NGOs will eventually
| participate, how transparency and
| accountability will be implemented, issues
| that are very important and were
| specifically addressed by the Gates
| Foundation in the $7 million project
| awarded to the American Cancer Society.
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http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/
Jeffrey Drope of Marquette University is awarded approximately $118.300 to organize the data collected by the ATSA teams
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| This contract was apparently signed in
| June 2009. Its size is substantial: $451K
| represent about 8,5% of the global budget
| of $5.2 millions provided to IDRC by the
| Gates Foundation.
| The post on the IDRC's site does not say
| what the participation of the African
| advocates is and if they'll receive any
| part of the financial support that is
| given to Jeffrey Drope (who had previously
| been awarded smaller consulting
| contracts).
| Jeffrey Drope is the brother of Jacqui
| Drope who is the senior program officer of
| the ATSA program. Her name usually appears
| when ATSA grants are advertised but in
| this case it is replaced by Greg Hallen
| (new RITC program leader).
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http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/africa/2009/11/jeffrey-drope-of-marquette-university-is-awarded-478-500-cad-451-252-to-organize-the-data-collected-.html#more
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 Totalâall responsible for gas flares that pollute the
| Niger Delta, shooting out chemicals and soot that may be causing the regionâs
| alarmingly high rates of respiratory diseases, cancer, and blurred vision and
| also lowering immunityâwhile 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
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
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