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- Bill Gates pushes coal
  Posted by lisa from Grist
  Cascade Investment Management, Gates' personal investment company, is the largest stakeholder (9 percent) in a controversial coal project in Minnesota. Interestingly, Gates' friend billionaire Warren Buffett recently canceled six planned coal projects. As for whether coal can be produced without contributing to climate change, Wikipedia says "there are no coal-fired power plants in commercial production which capture all carbon dioxide emissions, so the process is theoretical and experimental and thus a subject of feasibility or pilot studies."
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- NPR: Bill Gates Targets Visa Rules for Tech Workers
  Posted by Jeff from NPR
  The Programmers Guild, a professional society, also criticizes Gates for facilitating the erosion of U.S. competitiveness by using the H1-B program to "train a critical mass of foreign workers within the U.S." and then using "these workers to establish overseas operations."
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- Project Wants More Talk About Education
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  Two of the world's wealthiest charitable foundations are bankrolling a $60 million initiative aimed at making education an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Philanthropists Bill Gates and Eli Broad are hoping their "Strong American Schools" project will goad the presidential candidates into taking bold stands on education...
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- Open source protester crashes Bill Gates speech at Chinese university
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Gates, who is very popular on Chinese campuses, had just finished a speech at Beijing University and was handing out prizes to students when a man walked on stage and unveiled a banner with "free software, open source" written on it. via Todd Bishop
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- Super Bowl stadium site hacked, seeded with exploits
  Posted by Jeff from ZDNet
  The blogger makes this sound like a serious attack and that it's spread to the CDC Web site. It's funny in contrast to Bill Gates' interview on Slashdot that talked up how secure Windows is vs. the Mac.
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- Vista -- It's Microsoft's game to lose
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Bill Gates is on the Daily Show tonight. It'll be funny to see if Stewart asks him about the six year delay in making the product. Last night's interview with Scott McClellan was alright but I sometimes think Stewart is too kind to guests.
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- Anatomy of a Fast One: Gates Foundation Tries to Get Away Scot Free
  Posted by Jeff from Horse's Ass
  Seattle writer Geov Parrish goes after the Seattle Times coverage of the Gates Foundation. I think this episode has now officially blown up in the Foundation's face.
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rhoehn comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

There is no such thing as clean coal. Its a re-branding on the same dirty thing.

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1:14 pm 5/09/08
theangryindian comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Gates understands full well the implications. He knows neo-cons will spend money on coal. And it seems windmills.

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8:52 am 5/08/08
Jeff comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Chuck, seems like Gates doesn’t understand that the overall impact on the world of his actions (personal and professional) are just as important as the persona he tries to create with his foundation. Or perhaps we can one day erect different statues to Microsoft Bill, Philanthropist Bill and Indifferent Globalization Evangelist Bill.

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1:23 pm 5/07/08
carley comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Talk about backwards progress. Gates needs to get his act together and start investing in the technology of the future. Isn’t the Midwest synonymous with wind these days? I can’t say that I’m surprised, though, given some of the gaffes his company has made regarding environmental issues in the Northwest.

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10:36 am 5/07/08
chuckt comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

It looks to me like the Minnesota lawmakers don’t really understand the difference between the Gates Foundation and Gates’ personal investment company.

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10:33 am 5/07/08
garrettmoon comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Sadly if you look at all of our presidential candidates you’ll find that they all support coal as well. ’Clean’ coal, but does clean coal exist? You still have to tear up mountains, destroy streams and decimate communities, even if you scrub the air clean. The problem is that the US has more coal than anyone else in the world, and plenty of it to solve all of our fuel issues*. If we change our reliance of fuel to coal, we no longer rely on foreign oil, and everything becomes peachy again*.
*not everything is really peachy and our problems aren’t really solved, they’re just different problems.

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10:31 am 5/07/08
Jon comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Making sure that philanthropists are investing their assets in alignment with their social missions is a hugely important (and oft-overlooked) aspect of pushing social change. Bravo to Grist for shining the spotlight on this.

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10:29 am 5/07/08