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Tachi Yamada of the Gates Foundation gets an interview about management in
the NYT while he is being investigated for unethical behaviour
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| It certainly looks like a lucky coincidence
| that this flufftalk interview of Tachi came
| out just as the heat is being turned up on
| investigating his threatening behaviour in
| his previous job. The Senate Finance
| Committee "says he made phone calls to
| officials at the University of North
| Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania
| to shut down studies of possible negative
| side effects of Avandia" made by Tachi's
| company.
|
| Tachi says he likes to give direct negative
| feedback so he will like Gates Keepers
| speaking straight: Gates Keepers thinks you
| acted unethically by threatening academic
| researchers. Restitution and amends are in
| order.
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/3/1/4469149.html
Utterly Repellent
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| Consider its two-pronged approach to
| malaria. It focuses on bed nets--an ultra-
| low-tech, only modestly effective
| intervention--and the development of a
| vaccine, a high-tech solution that has
| eluded the intensive efforts of scientists
| for decades. Yet it dismisses the chemical
| DDT, an old, cheap and safe tool to control
| the vector--the Anopheles mosquito--that
| spreads the disease.
|
| [...]
|
| But policies based on science and data
| enjoy a short half-life at the UN. Last
| year, with a notable absence of fanfare,
| WHO reverted to endorsing less effective
| methods for preventing malaria. In a May 6
| statement the WHO and the UN Environment
| Program announced that their goal was "to
| achieve a 30% cut in the application of DDT
| worldwide by 2014 and its total phase-out
| by the early 2020s, if not sooner." In the
| absence of effective vaccines or new anti-
| malarial drugs--and the funding and
| infrastructure to deliver them--this
| decision is tantamount to mass murder, a
| triumph of radical enviro-politics over
| public health.
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/24/bill-gates-malaria-vaccines-opinions-contributors-henry-i-miller_print.html
Gates grantee doesn't look like a citizen participation organization
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| Well those Southeast Asian lawmakers who
| earn billions a year from producing tobacco
| products are unlikely to just roll over and
| increase taxes to reduce consumption
| without a people's movement to push them.
| SEATCA will receive seven million dollars
| but doesn't look like a citizen
| participation organization to Gates
| Keepers.
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/3/3/4471041.html
Gates Foundation gives $7M to support SE Asia cigarette taxes
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2010/03/01/daily15.html
Recent:
Gates Official Comes Under Investigation by Senate Committee
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| The head of global health for the Bill &
| Melinda Gates Foundation is under scrutiny
| by members of Congress for his previous job
| at one of the world's largest
| pharmaceutical companies.
|
| The Senate Finance Committee is
| investigating whether the drug company
| GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible health
| risks associated with the diabetes medicine
| Avandia. The committee's senior members,
| Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, and
| Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa,
| released a report over the weekend that
| says that the company intimidated outside
| researchers from studying the drug.
|
| [...]
|
| Only a small portion of the 334-page report
| focuses on Dr. Yamada. But it says he made
| phone calls to officials at the University
| of North Carolina and the University of
| Pennsylvania to shut down studies of
| possible negative side effects of Avandia.
|
| At the University of Pennsylvania, two
| researchers said that phone calls by Dr.
| Yamada and other drug company executives
| "were highly unprofessional and had a
| chilling effect on their professional
| activities."
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http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Gates-Official-Comes-Under/21393/?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en
The Gates Foundation contracts with India's most corrupt state
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| It will be interesting to see how the Gates
| Foundation deals with the corruption
| endemic to Bihar. And what will they do for
| security? Form their own private army?
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/2/24/4464799.html
Gates Official Comes Under Investigation by Senate Committee
,----[ Quote ]
| The head of global health for the Bill &
| Melinda Gates Foundation is under scrutiny
| by members of Congress for his previous job
| at one of the world's largest
| pharmaceutical companies.
|
| The Senate Finance Committee is
| investigating whether the drug company
| GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible health
| risks associated with the diabetes medicine
| Avandia. The committee's senior members,
| Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, and
| Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa,
| released a report over the weekend that
| says that the company intimidated outside
| researchers from studying the drug.
|
| [...]
|
| Only a small portion of the 334-page report
| focuses on Dr. Yamada. But it says he made
| phone calls to officials at the University
| of North Carolina and the University of
| Pennsylvania to shut down studies of
| possible negative side effects of Avandia.
|
| At the University of Pennsylvania, two
| researchers said that phone calls by Dr.
| Yamada and other drug company executives
| "were highly unprofessional and had a
| chilling effect on their professional
| activities."
`----
http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Gates-Official-Comes-Under/21393/?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en
The Gates Foundation contracts with India's most corrupt state
,----[ Quote ]
| It will be interesting to see how the Gates
| Foundation deals with the corruption
| endemic to Bihar. And what will they do for
| security? Form their own private army?
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/2/24/4464799.html
Bihar to sign MoU with Gates Foundation
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| A memorandum of understanding will soon be
| signed between the Bihar government and the
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for
| executing a slew of health projects in
| selected districts of the state.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bihar-to-sign-mou-with-gates-foundation/573406/
A tweet from the man who would rule the world
http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/2/26/4466795.html
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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