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Is a big neglected diseases grant at the Gates Foundation moving?
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| Gates Keepers have heard a rumour that the
| major Gates Foundation project on global
| investment in drugs for neglected diseases
| (G-Finder) is about to be hijacked by a
| disgruntled ex-employee of the not-for-
| profit group (George Institute) that has
| been running the project. Is an unduly cosy
| relationship between the ex-employee and
| key people within the Foundation about to
| result in the multimillion dollar project
| moving to the ex-employee's private
| company? If this is true it's not good for
| Gates Foundation or the battle against
| neglected diseases.
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http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2010/4/6/4498600.html
In the comments:
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| This is an old scam but a good one.
|
| First get malleable/naive NGO to make your
| bid for a big grant.
|
| Second make yourself seem indispensible.
|
| Third start your own company and force NGO
| to subcontract to you (with big margin).
|
| Fourth appoint a few poorly paid flunkies
| to do the work.
|
| Fifth pocket the profits.
|
| And its all for the greater good of mankind
| â perfect!
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Short-Circuiting Malaria
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| What sets Intellectual Ventures apart is
| the size and significance of what its
| researchers are trying to doâtheir work
| could end up saving millions of lives. The
| company has been around since 2000 and is
| run by Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief
| technology officer at Microsoft. The
| malaria research hasn't yet resulted in a
| marketable product; much of the company's
| business involves buying up patents and
| using them to generate licensing fees. It's
| a practice that has made Myhrvold a hated
| man in some tech circles, where he's been
| derided as a "patent troll." (It's a
| description he disputes, saying that he
| merely helps inventors bring their
| creations to market.) But Intellectual
| Ventures is also in business to invent new
| ideas of its own, most notably in medical
| devices and nuclear power. A project called
| TerraPower is trying to develop a new kind
| of nuclear reactor.
|
| In 2007 Bill Gates, who is a friend of
| Myhrvold's and an investor in Intellectual
| Ventures, challenged the company to come up
| with ideas for eradicating malaria. That's
| a problem Gates was tackling through his
| philanthropic organization, the Bill and
| Melinda Gates Foundation. "Come up with
| some good ideas," he told Myhrvold, "and
| I'll come up with some money to pursue
| them." Myhrvold brought himself up to speed
| by attending conferences and poring through
| thousands of research papers on malaria. He
| came to believe that epidemiologists needed
| a computer model that could simulate
| malaria outbreaks and predict how effective
| various remedies (bed nets, insecticides,
| medicines) would be in any given location
| at any given time.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/236139
Recent:
ournal critique on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant pattern
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| New Delhi: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationâs pattern of funding in the
| form of grants for global health programmes and projects has been criticised
| in a research paper in The Lancet.
|
| The paper, by David McCoy of the Centre for International Health and
| Development, London, and others, is accompanied by a commentary by Robert E.
| Black of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, U.S., and
| others, and an editorial. Dr. M.K. Bhan, Secretary, Department of
| Biotechnology, is a co-author of the commentary in his capacity as a
| scientist of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
|
| âAlthough it is driven by the belief that âall lives have equal value,â it
| seems that the Foundation does not believe that every voice has equal value,
| especially voices from those it seeks most to assist,â said the editorial.
| The commentary said very limited direct funding to low-income and
| middle-income countries is âarguably the most unfortunate imbalance in the
| research portfolio of the Foundation.â
|
| [...]
|
| âGates Foundation is not a passive donor,â observes the paper.
|
| âThe Foundation actively engages in policy making and agenda setting
| activities; it has representatives that sit on the governing structures of
| many global health partnerships; it is part of a self-appointed group of
| global health leaders known as the H8 [that includes the WHO, UNICEF, GAVI
| and the World Bank]â and has been involved in setting the health agenda for
| the G8.â
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http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/10/stories/2009051055151000.htm
Related:
Dr. Rath rages against Bill Gates and the African Aids Conspiracy
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| Since it is public knowledge that the Gates Foundation has placed strategic
| investments into the pharmaceutical industry, it was only a question of time
| until the question would be answered whether Gates is serious about
| controlling diseases or whether he is just another spin doctor of the
| pharmaceutical âbusiness with diseaseâ who helps to expand and promote
| diseases under the deceptive veil of a âMother Theresaâ.
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http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/dr-rath-rages-against-bill-gates-and-the-african-aids-conspiracy/
What You Need to Know About the Fraudulent Nature of the Pharmaceutical
Investment Business With Disease
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| Some people may say that the pharmaceutical industry cannot be that bad.
| Unfortunately, it is. Fortunately, however, it is very easy for everyone to
| understand why this industry has such a detrimental effect on millions of
| human lives.
|
| It is not about individual drugs or individual companies. It is about the
| principles â the laws â of the pharmaceutical âbusiness with diseaseâ.
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http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/pharma_laws_history.html
Gates raises stake in dealership AutoNation
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| Gates, who previously reported a 5.5 percent stake in AutoNation, said on
| Friday that his Cascade Investment LLC owned 9.4 million shares in AutoNation
| and that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust holds more than 8.3
| million shares.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2135804720081121
Spying the Gates Foundation: Diversified Holdings Stay Ahead of Market Weakness
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| The foundation made moves in other sectors during Q3, as well, adding shares
| in Caterpillar and Canadian National Railway, while maintaining
| stakes in energy giants Exxon Mobil and BP.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/indie/071126/1004_id.html?.v=1
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
Gates Foundation reports AIG, Covidien stakes-filing
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| The overall value of the foundation's portfolio increased to $9.12 billion
| from $6.64 billion as of June 30.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN1423378020071114?rpc=44
Warren Buffett's double standard
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| Warren Buffett climbed back up Capitol Hill Wednesday to urge Congress to ...
| do nothing.
|
| Normally that would be a good thing, but in this case it means that the
| estate tax will return in 2011.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/warren-buffetts-double-standard-taxes/story.aspx?guid=%7B3DC6CF6F%2D8DD4%2D4767%2DAC6B%2D3CBE984A5FD7%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2lyu4v
Gates sold 100,000 Univision shares-SEC filing
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| The foundation said it sold its remaining stake in Univision,
| which is in the process of being acquired by private investors,
| for an average of $35.34 per share in open market transactions.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsmlreuters.com:20070105:MTFH49951_2007-01-05_22-11-13_N05298823&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yll88p
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
Bill Gates fund reports 12.8 pct PlanetOut stake
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| Bill Gates' investment fund Cascade Investment LLC reported in a regulatory
| filing on Friday that its holds a 12.8 percent stake in the common stock of
| online media company PlanetOut Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN1331033020070713?rpc=44
More on Troy Wolverton, the Street, and Apple Scandal
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| MediaNews did buy the Mercury News with a loan from Bill Gates' foundation,
| and is in the process of paying back that loan by publishing information
| without much journalistic or technical integrity.
|
| Specifically, I wrote âOne might think that the San Jose Mercury News, being
| located in Apple's backyard, would tend to trumpet the company's success. One
| would be wrong... Apple's corporate proximity to San Jose is trumped by the
| Mercury Newsâ need to publish low cost, highly sensational news to make
| enough money to pay back Bill Gates for the favor of his humanitarian loan.â
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/082663E0-6FD8-4F1D-909F-1BC72833AD02.html
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
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| My background is finance and accounting....
|
| However, the Gates Buffet foundation grant is nothing more than a shell
| game in which control of assets for both Gates and Buffet remain the same.
|
| THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH BY THESE TWO WILL BE
| MUCH MORE MASSIVE BECAUSE THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY ANY TAXES.
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http://www.mail-archive.com/futurew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg03323.html
JJB Sports jumps as Bill Gates buys a stake
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| The purchase is not the first by Gates in a small British retailer. In May
| 2008, he took a small stake in Carpetright.
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/07/16/afx6661807.html
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