"Fortune" worked hard to build him up. They knew full well what they were getting.
Posted on 01/18/2023 8:57:22 AM PST by Twotone
Does The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have too much power and influence?
It’s a question the foundation’s CEO Mark Suzman raised in its annual letter released Tuesday that outlines the organization’s priorities and announces its budget for the coming year. With $8.3 billion to give away in 2023, the Gates Foundation is the largest private philanthropic donor. And with an endowment of more than $70 billion, its spending power is likely to continue for many decades.
When asked in an interview with The Associated Press what he thought the answer to that question was, Suzman said, “No.”
He said the Seattle-based foundation takes its direction from the Sustainable Development Goals, set by the United Nations and its member countries in 2015, and knows that with its great resources come great responsibility.
“We try to use our tools, our skills, our resources, sometimes our technical skills, sometimes our voice in advocacy to help advance and drive those forward,” Suzman said.
Others disagree, including researchers who have followed the foundation’s funding for education in the U.S., its weight in international global health organizations and its approach toward the agriculture of small-holder farmers around the world. The foundation works on a wide range of issues and employs 1,700 staff members, who are experts in those areas, and espouses a dream-big ethos of setting ambitious goals.
Bill Gates, in his most recent public letter in December, described the foundation’s mission as reducing inequity and helping “people in poor countries who shouldn’t die, not die. Especially children.” Suzman said its mission is to help “ensure that every person has the chance to lead a healthy, productive life.”
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What is it about becoming a billionaire that turns people into cartoon villains?
how on earth did a computer geek turn into a Mengele inspired bond villian?
Good intentions being the road to hell writ large.
Although I am pretty sure Bill Gates has never had so much as a pleasant thought, nevermind a good intention.
we both had the same thought, you just posted first!
We should be friends — If you’re a guy, then let’s have a beer together
If you’re a lady, let’s get a room!
lol
"Fortune" worked hard to build him up. They knew full well what they were getting.
Suzman said its mission is to help “ensure that every person has the chance to lead a healthy, productive life.” Yeah...as long as the people like Suzman gets to decide what each person’s worth is in productivity and who gets to live according to their health?
CIA money. Gates was prescreened by the CIA to found Microsoft.
Bill Gates is a narcissistic Asperger’s personality, whose only real interests are gaining more power and recognition and satisfying his needs. His interest in education started when Bill Ayers (former Weather Underground member) convinced Gates to invest in his Small School initiative. If you have followed the Democrat plans to groom US school children to be mind numbed citizens of the New World government. You see where Bill Gates fits in.
“ He said the Seattle-based foundation takes its direction from the Sustainable Development Goals, set by the United Nations and its member countries in 2015, and knows that with its great resources come great responsibility.”
Very disingenuous.
And note how they use a comic book bromide.
If we ignore or fight Gate's efforts, he has no power.
“how on earth did a computer geek turn into a Mengele inspired bond villian?”
Geeks tend to get ostracized, made fun of, bullied, beat up, and scorned for their entire childhood. Sometimes that builds strength of character. But sometimes, it just builds resentment and desire for revenge.
Any friend of the late child rapist Epstein should NOT have contact or control over children. And yeah, that includes Bill Gates/.
“how on earth did a computer geek turn into a Mengele inspired bond villian?”
His parents loved Margaret Sanger. They were eugenicists. His father ran planned parenthood for a while.
I think Bill’s days are numbered. 😏
“And with an endowment of more than $70 billion, its spending power is likely to continue for many decades.”
WOW! With that money they can fix climate change or rearm Ukraine.
Raise your kids/grandchildren to despite the NWO cult
*despise
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