Since late 2004, Malawi has benefitted from access to the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDs Initiative's (CHAI) reduced prices to life-saving ARV drugs and tests for pediatric patients (clintonfoundation.org)
This past July, Bill Clinton launched an anti-poverty initiative with Sir Tom Hunter, the Scottish entrepreneur ranked 548th richest person in the world by Forbes magazine.
The Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI) has set aside an initial $100 million for projects in Malawi and Rwanda. The money will go into education, health, infrastructure, agriculture and entrepreneurial support. (Business.scotsman.com)
From Business.scotsman.com -- Sir Tom made an estimated £260 million when he sold the Sports Division shop chain in 1998 and now runs a venture capital firm that has been involved in deals worth £4 billion since it began in 2001.
Sir Tom, who donated £1 million to the Make Poverty History campaign and has spent more than £35 million through his and his wife's charity, the Hunter Foundation, appealed to others to join him and Mr Clinton in "a new model of poverty intervention in the world's poorest countries".
Sir Tom told The Scotsman he had decided to take action after becoming involved in the Make Poverty History campaign, but added: "The fundamental motivation is the way I was brought up in a small mining village in Ayrshire. You got taught values and to do the right thing."
"I'm on record as saying once my family has been taken care of the rest of the wealth is going into the foundation. Making the money is only half the equation. What you do with the money is what marks you out."
I like Sir Tom. I'm on record for the same thing.
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Money is the lifeblood of the powerful and the chains and key to human enslavement
Hello Julia and all,
There is a radical and highly effective solution to all of our economic problems that will dramatically simplify, streamline, and revitalize human civilization. It will eliminate all poverty and the vast majority of crime, material inequality, deception, and injustice. It will also eliminate the underlying causes of most conflicts, while preventing evil scoundrels and their cabals from deceiving, deluding, and bedeviling humanity, ever again. It will likewise eliminate the primary barriers to solving global warming, pollution, and the many evils that result from corporate greed and control of natural and societal resources. That solution is to simply eliminate money from the human equation, thereby replacing the current system of greed, exploitation, and institutionalized coercion with freewill cooperation, just laws based on verifiable wisdom, and societal goals targeted at benefiting all, not just a self-chosen and abominably greedy few.
We can now thank millennia of political, monetary, and religious leaders for proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that top-down, hierarchical governance is absolute folly and foolishness. Even representative democracy, that great promise of the past, was easily and readily subverted to enslave us all, thanks to money and those that secretly control and deceptively manipulate all currencies and economies. Is there any doubt anymore that entrusting politics and money to solve humanity's problems is delusion of the highest order? Is there any doubt that permitting political and corporate leaders to control the lives of billions has resulted in great evil?
Here's a real hot potato! Eat it up, digest it, and then feed it's bones to the hungry...
Most people have no idea that the common-denominator math of all the world's currencies forms an endless loop that generates debt faster than we can ever generate the value to pay for it. This obscured and purposeful math-logic trap at the center of all banking, currencies, and economies is the root cause of poverty. Those who rule this world through fear and deception strive constantly to hide this fact, while pretending to seek solutions to poverty and human struggle. Any who would scoff at this analysis have simply failed to do the math, even though it is based on a simple common-denominator ratio.
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