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Bill & Melinda Gates getting divorced

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Another way to look at it, by categories.
DAC 5 Digit Sector[67]2009201020112012201320142015Sum
Committed funding ($ millions)
Other487.5273.82208.9260.2332.1433.32195.76191.5
Infectious disease control256.9720.3462.8528.71248.31271.81097.55586.4
Malaria control324.5101.7133.675.5302.4377.6140.81456.1
STD control including HIV/AIDS175.526.9291.4199.7184.4264.4165.71308.0
Tuberculosis control69.2211.159.5273.9135.3100.1244.81094.0
Reproductive health care173.866.877.4165.284.9207.6130.0905.8
Agricultural research84.727.8196.2192.8207.114.783.9807.2
Family planning104.521.221.449.3165.0145.8181.7688.9
Health policy and administrative management119.314.3145.775.561.1113.4130.3659.5
Agricultural development5.230.00.035.00.0325.186.1481.3
Agricultural policy and administrative management72.930.077.577.186.219.796.9460.3
Promotion of development awareness47.245.035.541.7124.461.780.7436.2
Basic health care22.323.943.773.21.745.6206.3416.7
Basic nutrition19.215.740.951.563.755.9148.2395.2
Basic sanitation10.134.982.974.959.148.764.9375.5
Financial policy and administrative management29.018.49.88.970.132.953.4222.5
Some good trigger words in there, should set off the loonies!
 

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I don't even try to understand other peoples relationships. If Bill, his ex-girlfreind and wife where Ok with the arrangement for all this time, its fine with me.

I have plenty of things to worry about, and some billionaire's love life is not one of them.
 

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I don't even try to understand other peoples relationships. If Bill, his ex-girlfreind and wife where Ok with the arrangement for all this time, its fine with me.

I have plenty of things to worry about, and some billionaire's love life is not one of them.

that's right
And if anyone wants to worry about love lives there are other more weird billionaires like Elon "memelord" Musk and Richard Branson
 
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Is this fake news about Bill Gates’ relationship with Epstein? It is hard for me to believe Bill Gates would want to have a friendship with Epstein who for years was accused of molesting scores of underage girls. Why did Bill Gates need Epstein to get more funding for his foundation?


"As The New York Times reported, starting in 2011, Gates met with Epstein on numerous occasions. This was three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl in Florida; by then, accusations that Epstein exploited girls and young women were widely reported in the press.

As the Times reported, two people close to Gates acted as intermediaries between the two: Boris Nikolic, a biotech investor and former adviser to Gates who was mysteriously named a backup executor in Epstein’s last will and testament; and Melanie Walker, who worked at the Gates Foundation and served as a science adviser to Epstein.

Soon after Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, Gates became one of many prominent people to face scrutiny over ties to the sex trafficker. "


The reference article from the above site - The New York Times article (Published Oct. 12, 2019 and Updated Dec. 17, 2020)
 
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Is this fake news about Bill Gates’ relationship with Epstein? It is hard for me to believe Bill Gates would want to have a friendship with Epstein who for years was accused of molesting scores of underage girls. Why did Bill Gates need Epstein to get more funding for his foundation?


"As The New York Times reported, starting in 2011, Gates met with Epstein on numerous occasions. This was three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl in Florida; by then, accusations that Epstein exploited girls and young women were widely reported in the press.

As the Times reported, two people close to Gates acted as intermediaries between the two: Boris Nikolic, a biotech investor and former adviser to Gates who was mysteriously named a backup executor in Epstein’s last will and testament; and Melanie Walker, who worked at the Gates Foundation and served as a science adviser to Epstein.

Soon after Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, Gates became one of many prominent people to face scrutiny over ties to the sex trafficker. "


The reference article from the above site - The New York Times article (Published Oct. 12, 2019 and Updated Dec. 17, 2020)

I’m not accusing or saying Gates is in the same type of activity as Epstein but just because he is Gates wouldn’t exempt him or anyone else at that level from illegal practices

Child molesters don’t just live under bridges, for example look at what Robert Durst did
Again I’m not saying Gates is in this but how would anyone really ever know
 

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Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates's Halo?




Richard
 

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As a function of Microsoft, it was not a halo Bill had......
 

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Gee, I am finally feeling like Melinda has done some public good by filing :)

All the dirt is starting to fall out of the drawers as a client was fond of saying when an executive left the company :)
 

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Believe me on this: I have more pressing issues than the sexual or marital lives of billionaires. Ho Hum.
 

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By saying this, you are implying that you condone pedophilia. Wow.
I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT. But how I feel about the divorce of the Gates' is another issue.
 

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I don't have any interest in them either.

I wonder what will come out next.
 

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That's quite an odd and scurrilous suggestion. And an utter leap in logic. Sad.
I mentioned Epstein and Jim said he didn't care. We should all care. It is not about someone's sex life but rather, the criminality of it. I am not saying Bill Gates is involved at all, just that the news media is trying to tie the story back to their divorce exploration timeline.
 

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I mentioned Epstein and Jim said he didn't care. We should all care. It is not about someone's sex life but rather, the criminality of it. I am not saying Bill Gates is involved at all, just that the news media is trying to tie the story back to their divorce exploration timeline.
Why even mention Epstein? The dude is dead!
 

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Why even mention Epstein? The dude is dead!


You should ask Melinda Gates why she was haunted by Bill's Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and why she started calling divorce lawyers in 2019 after NYTimes Revealed Bill's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein. You can tell her "the dude is dead". Why even mentioning Epstein or allowing source to leak to the press about Epstein now?

We have never heard Melinda Gates starting calling divorce lawyers in 2019 until now. She had the power to decide what she had to do for her children and what we needed to know.
The media would not have these information last week without her approval, unless you think CNN and WSJ put out fake news.
Do you undermine her ability about what she wanted the media and us to know?

Perhaps, it does not belong to this thread. But many people wonder why Epstein could commit suicide in jail under watch, when he was such a high profile criminal.
I can create another thread about Epstein just for these wondering why we even mentioned Epstein. Do you know even our president Clinton and Prince Andrew were connected to Epstein?
All of these crimes should not be buried and forgotten after Epstein was dead! These involved should be investigated and trialed.
Judge postpones Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial until the fall in light of new charges - KTVZ

I am not saying Bill Gates is involved at all as @VacationForever stated.
 
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I mentioned Epstein and Jim said he didn't care. We should all care. It is not about someone's sex life but rather, the criminality of it. I am not saying Bill Gates is involved at all, just that the news media is trying to tie the story back to their divorce exploration timeline.
Jim said he didn't care about the personal lives of billionaires. You made random reference to Epstein. Jim again reiterated "Sorry. Those folks are simply of no interest to me." Jim did not say he didn't care about pedophilia.

From this response you incredulously state that Jim must be condoning pedophilia. Sick.
 

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When The Nation criticizes Bill Gates and The Atlantic calls out lockdowners in the same week ....Is Mercury in retrograde?

Not quite. The retrograde is end of May.


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