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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The money behind school reform

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The money behind school reform

The money behind school reform

Proposed TEPCO plant on Texas Gulf coast.
Disaster capitalists Gates, Buffett...

Whenever there's an environmental disaster in the world, I always look to see how deeply Bill Gates, his partners, and his foundation are involved. The Gates Foundation's investments in Nigeria have helped turn much of that country into an unlivable, oil-polluted wasteland.

Gates got off scott free after the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf, even though his foundation owns millions of shares of BP and his hedge-fund school reform partnersWarren Buffett and Whitney Tilson own NALCO the company that makes COREXIT, the dispersant that is