Gates Foundation Ties with Monsanto under Fire from Activists
1st September 2010
? ? The foundation bought 500,000 shares of [Monsanto] stock between April and June; on Friday, the total value was $27.6 million. ? Several foundation employees have ties to the company, including some in leadership positions. A number of the projects it has funded in Africa also work with the company. ? ?
By Maureen O?Hagan, Kristi Heim
Seattle Times | August 28, 2010
For two years, local activists on a shoestring budget have been trying to document connections between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Monsanto, the company vilified by some for its heavy involvement in genetic engineering of crops.
Try as they might, their work got little attention.
That all changed with the news, reported by The Wall Street Journal last week, that Monsanto was among the foundation?s most recent portfolio investments. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission says the foundation bought 500,000 shares of the stock between April and June; on Friday, the total value was $27.6 million.
http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.c...from-activists
A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater?s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State ?security services,? that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it.
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/m...blackwater-xe/