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Geaux Teacher!: GATES FOUNDATION VS HUMANITY

Geaux Teacher!: GATES FOUNDATION VS HUMANITY:


GATES FOUNDATION VS HUMANITY

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The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts 

By Anthony Cody on July 4, 2012 11:47 AM

Guest post by Chemtchr. Part One of Two.

Philanthropy wonk Lucy Bernholz defines the buzzword leverage 
as "the idea that you can use a little money to access a lot of money."

It's hard to think of the Gates Foundation's $26 billion leverage effort 
as "a little money", especially since it's been spread over the globe to gain access to vastly more resources than it contributes, including U.S. tax dollars, the foreign exchange of emerging African nations, and United Nations