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Self explanatory:
Gates Foundation Trims Berkshire Stake; Adds to Other Holdings
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| Looking at the Gates Foundationâs holdings
| from the end of 2009, one can see that the
| endowment was trimming to its massive
| Berkshire Hathaway stake. Elsewhere, Gates was
| making limited moves, adding shares of Mexican
| broadcaster Grupo Televisa (TV) and vehicle
| dealer AutoNation (AN).
|
| The Gates Foundation also held steady with
| large stakes in fast food chain McDonaldâs
| (MCD), beverage maker Coca-Cola (KO), heavy
| equipment maker Caterpillar (CAT), waste
| services firm Waste Management (WM), energy
| giants Exxon Mobil (XOM) and BP (BP) and
| discount retailer Wal-Mart (WMT).
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http://www.tickerspy.com/newswire/?p=1550
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
http://www.tickerspy.com/pro/Bill-&-Melinda-Gates-Foundation?refer=blog_2879_gates
Someone has to courage to criticise Gates' sheer arrogance in the mainstream press:
By what right does Bill Gates arrogate himself above national leaders?
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| Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has been held in
| awe for many years for his business acumen.
| But since the worldâs richest man embarked
| upon a career change as a global
| philanthropist his self-importance has
| blossomed.
|
| On the occasion of the latest global mega
| gabfest known as the World Economic Forum in
| Davos, Switzerland, Mr Gates granted
| interviews to two German newspapers to vaunt
| his foundationâs work, and then to criticize
| and shame the Prime Minister of another
| European country â Italy â for not conforming
| to Gatesâ definition of generosity. Such
| effrontery is almost unheard of. Is Bill Gates
| so involved in his own version of the finest
| in philanthropy that he never had time to
| learn diplomacy, manners or humility?
|
| Mr Berlusconi, who has provided fodder for the
| prurient international press with his
| peccadilloes (which occurred on his Sardinian
| property and not in the government seat of
| power as with Bill Clinton in the Oval
| Office), has become the whipping boy of Bill
| Gates: his is the sole name on Gatesâ âList of
| Shame.â What for? For allegedly reducing
| foreign aid as part of the Italian
| governmentâs budgetary measures to attempt to
| reduce a government deficit of 5.3 percent of
| GDP and an official debt of 115 percent of
| GDP.
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http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=27174&t=By+what+right+does+Bill+Gates+arrogate+himself+above+national+leaders%3F
Gates just created a political movement for self enrichment and glorification.
He took other people's ideas to achieve this and committed many crimes.
"Fine, Gates said. Simple enough. Change the Windows model to be like the Mac.
"But if the Windows team changed the model to pull, the ship date would slip
another year. Gates simply didn't understand the architectural issues because
he had not been in on the development process."
--Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed
by the daughter of Microsoft's PR mogul
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
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