Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation

theodp writes "Justice Eta, a Nigerian infant, has an ink spot on his tiny thumb to show he was immunized against polio and measles thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But Justice still faces respiratory trouble, which locals call 'the cough' and blame on fumes and soot spewing from 300-foot flames at a nearby oil plant owned by Itallian energy giant Eni, whose investors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Part one of an L.A. Times investigation reports that the world's largest philanthropy pours money into investments that are hurting many of the people its grants aim to help. With the exception of tobacco companies, the foundation's asset managers do not avoid investments in firms whose activities conflict with the mission to do good."

Stephen Gates

[Anonymous Coward]

How do they compare with the Stephen & Melinda Gates Foundation?

Re:The Price of Industry & Economics

[itlurksbeneath]

"... the font of evil..."

Verdana?

Re:The Price of Industry & Economics

[bheer]

Surely you jest. Verdana is not evil, merely overused. Comics Sans, now _that_ is the true face of evil.

Re:Oh yeah, providing jobs and industry is terribl

[Kohath]

I think that Eni company is "evil" because it's a oil company.

Polio vaccines should be transported to Africa without the "evil" fossil fuels, via sailing ships, or perhaps tethered to a migratory bird -- like a swallow.

Oh, come on, what's new?!

[Jugalator]

But Justice still faces respiratory trouble, which locals call 'the cough' and blame on fumes and soot spewing from 300-foot flames

So in other words, Gates is operating from Mount Doom in Mordor...
Come on, tell us something new here!

Re:The Price of Industry & Economics

[shigelojoe]

I don't know about where you work, but my co-worker's e-mails look like Dilbert excerpts regardless of the font.