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You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to the Green revolution, the Gates foundation, or India. I have worked in agriculture in I

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to the Green revolution, the Gates foundation, or India. I have worked in agriculture in India. Without the green revolution India would have had a famine the likes of which the world has never seen. Pakistan and India would probably have fought more wars than they already did, to the death, over farmland and water (because neither would have had enough land to feed their populations). Gates has done amazing things for maternal and child welfare in India. I have worked in clinics that are supposed to be funded by the Indian govt., but in reality only function because of NGO participation in the health ecosystem (not just Gates foundation, but they undoubtedly take a leadership role). I hope nobody actually believes the FUD you are spreading. You are deluded, a liar, insane, or maybe all of those things. I sincerely doubt you have actually set foot in a developing nation in your life.

sametmax 11y ago
I worked in Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal and India. In many place the agriculture is dependant of seeds they can't regrow and have to buy or attach to specific chemical products they have to buy too. Rivers are polluted with the said chemicals, insects develop resistances, soils are now dependant of external nutriments. GMO are sold with no prior testing. Everything you can't do in Europe or the US, they do there. The green revolution, instead of helping create an indendant agriculture, created a relation of total dependancy to the investors and spreaded destructive agriculture methods. But I'm not going to insult you the way you did insult me. Because I'm not insane. I'm a polite person sharing an experience. BTW, my very first mission in Africa was for the Gate foundation. Half of our budget went directly to intermediary entities as a "managing fee". We couldn't control our budget ourself, we had to ask to people doubling our bills and taking a cut. Reports were falsified. And nobody cared. I never received once an email from the foundation to check how things were going. It's not a suprise really. Gates was the founder of one of the worst company known, and yet praised for it. MS did so many bad things, and no one seems to remember: - corruption : http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrawrage/2013/03/20/microsoft-whistleblower-allegations-highlight-global-corruption-risks/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrawrage/2013/03/20/micros... - helping dictators : http://www.salon.com/2011/09/06/wikileaks_microsoft_tunisia/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/06/wikileaks_microsoft_tunisia/ - Monopolistic practices : http://www.networkworld.com/article/2221165/microsoft-subnet/a-blast-from-the-past---microsoft-accused-of-monopolistic-practices.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2221165/microsoft-subnet... - patent troll : http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=... - extorsion as a business model : http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five-times-more-income-from-android-than-from-windows-phone/ http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five... And the Gate foundation keeps it up : http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/bill-gates-philanthrope-oui-mais-19525 http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/bill-gates-phil.... Small translation : "As for most philantropic organisation, the Gates Foundation gives each year less than 5% of its capital to pay minimal taxes. [...] The remaining 95% are invested. [...] The Journalist of the LA times realized that the companies the foundation had shares and whose objectives were in contradiction with the caritative goals the GF pretented to reach for were up to 41% of the total, meaning 8.7B." This is not a surprise, as BG started his all carrier by stealing ideas from Xerox, not to mention the shady IBM deal (http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-heart-of-dos http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-s...). Morality is not his strong point. You can highligh what good the man DID bring with him, but you can't ignore all the bad he has done, or is doing right now. That would be foulish.

sametmax 11y ago

I worked in Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal and India. In many place the agriculture is dependant of seeds they can't regrow and have to buy or attach to specific chemical products they have to buy too. Rivers are polluted with the said chemicals, insects develop resistances, soils are now dependant of external nutriments. GMO are sold with no prior testing. Everything you can't do in Europe or the US, they do there. The green revolution, instead of helping create an indendant agriculture, created a relation of total dependancy to the investors and spreaded destructive agriculture methods. But I'm not going to insult you the way you did insult me. Because I'm not insane. I'm a polite person sharing an experience. BTW, my very first mission in Africa was for the Gate foundation. Half of our budget went directly to intermediary entities as a "managing fee". We couldn't control our budget ourself, we had to ask to people doubling our bills and taking a cut. Reports were falsified. And nobody cared. I never received once an email from the foundation to check how things were going. It's not a suprise really. Gates was the founder of one of the worst company known, and yet praised for it. MS did so many bad things, and no one seems to remember: - corruption : http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrawrage/2013/03/20/microsoft-whistleblower-allegations-highlight-global-corruption-risks/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrawrage/2013/03/20/micros... - helping dictators : http://www.salon.com/2011/09/06/wikileaks_microsoft_tunisia/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/06/wikileaks_microsoft_tunisia/ - Monopolistic practices : http://www.networkworld.com/article/2221165/microsoft-subnet/a-blast-from-the-past---microsoft-accused-of-monopolistic-practices.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2221165/microsoft-subnet... - patent troll : http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=... - extorsion as a business model : http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five-times-more-income-from-android-than-from-windows-phone/ http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five... And the Gate foundation keeps it up : http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/bill-gates-philanthrope-oui-mais-19525 http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/bill-gates-phil.... Small translation : "As for most philantropic organisation, the Gates Foundation gives each year less than 5% of its capital to pay minimal taxes. [...] The remaining 95% are invested. [...] The Journalist of the LA times realized that the companies the foundation had shares and whose objectives were in contradiction with the caritative goals the GF pretented to reach for were up to 41% of the total, meaning 8.7B." This is not a surprise, as BG started his all carrier by stealing ideas from Xerox, not to mention the shady IBM deal (http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-heart-of-dos http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-s...). Morality is not his strong point. You can highligh what good the man DID bring with him, but you can't ignore all the bad he has done, or is doing right now. That would be foulish.