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BrotherIvan

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2. THANK YOU!
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 01:35 AM
Aug 2014

People need to know how nefarious the Gates Foundation really is. They have great PR and they tailor it to left-leaning or right-leaning publications. Liberals should vigorously reject him and educate that it is not for private individuals to control important issues such as education and public health. He is NOT doing this out of the goodness of his heart--though, like a good megalomaniac, he does love the applause.

he's saving a lot in taxes by transferring a portion of his wealth to the foundation, which of course he still controls. And yeah, the main action of this foundation is to use its awesome endowment as a hedge fund, investing in corporations that generally benefit from the research that the charitable side funds.


And this is the summary. He is making sure that he and his friends enrich themselves on all of these programs. It is a mammoth tax job as well as a way to monopolize government funds.

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