well the article i read was regarding the pharmaceutical methods in africa, not india, which neither of us are in a position to comment on, without quoting outside sources.
i made an assumption that the pharmaceuticals you were referring to, were coming from an American company, however, my assumption was wrong. (well, not technically, if you say they trade in the US stock market…)
You obviously know more about the great things the Bill Gates Foundation does than i ever will, as i have never seen firsthand their charity work, save for the PR releases that get passed off as news. Honestly, i do not believe that BG is or will ever be a decent person. A cunning and brilliant cut-throat business man that is at the top of his game? Yes. A good hearted person who generally cares? Sorry, no. That is my belief, and sometimes i base my arguements on my beliefs, and they (the arguements) can turn out to be wrong. It does not make my beliefs wrong (or right), but it does make me feel stupid for stepping out on a limb, and making an assumption when i do not know the facts.
EDIT: “Bill Gates’s organization provided the funding for the vaccines and the training.”
[COLOR=Red]Well look at it this way… When Bill Gates donates money to his own charity, and that charity uses that money to buy a bunch of MS software, for donation to a local school, where does that money end up?? Back in Bill Gates hands… [/COLOR]
can you feel my outrage??
Regarding sources:
The sources that i read often portray the opposite side of the story that is trumpeted by every mainline media source, and therefore, i put more stock into what they say, simply because more often than not, they are not allowed to say it. Such is the case with Palast’s reporting - an American Investigative Journalist, reduced to writing for British papers, as American publishments are too tightly controlled by mega-corporations to print his work.
Crap on michael moore all you want (hell, i’ll even help you), but i really do think that Greg Palast has got his stuff together. Of course, anyone with a right-leaning political bias will not be able to admit this, just as someone with a left-leaning political bias will never admit that sometimes Bill O’Reilly can make some good points…