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The Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis authorised its largest annual funds ever, committing $8.6 billion to assist plug gaps in total support for well being applications on this planet’s poorest nations. The spending improve in 2024 will assist a variety of targets together with the eradication of polio, improvement of latest tuberculosis medicine, and supply of provides to stem little one and…

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"I would say to my 25-year-old self, you knew in high school who you were. And you let go of some of that for lots of reasons: situations, college, people around you,” French Gates said. “You knew who you were. And once you learn to ‘re-be’ the girl you were in high school, is when you grew into the full woman that you could be.”

This. Exactly. This.

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New Post has been published on https://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/the-end-of-tribalism/

The End Of Tribalism

I sat down to brunch with a married couple I’ve known for years.  The friendship is so comfortable, we dare to talk about religion and politics.  Mostly we discuss books. The husband told me he was working through the novels of a Japanese woman who wrote fantasy.  He couldn’t recall her name. After my friends and I parted, I returned home to sit in my easy chair, hoping to discover a topic for an upcoming blog.  As luck would have it, I came across an article about a Japanese woman writer who wrote fantasy, Sayaka Murata. (“A Planet of Her Own.”  by Thu-Huong Ha, Oct. 2022, Wired, 30.16, pgs.  69-75.)   Below the title, the blurb read, “…in her novels, she devises worlds where women reinvent sex, marriage, childbirth—and the boundaries of human existence.” Women in charge of their lives? Now that was fantasy.  Contrast that fiction with the morning’s headlines about American journalist Christiane Amanpour. She walked out of an interview with Iran’s President in New York because he insisted she wear a hajib. Melinda French Gates, in another article, commented that 100 years would pass before women approach equality with men. She’s right. The history of testosterone is long and pervasive. For example, Republican Senator Josh Hawley, in a tweet against LGBTQs, insisted schools should teach that there is only one gender. As a former educator, I have strong feelings about people like Hawley–book banners and parental rights extremists. Their goal is to put blinders on young minds. I have a similar objection to homeschooling, charter schools,  and religious schools. They balkanize the public system which is meant to provide the basis for a common culture.  In part, our fractured nation is the consequence of a fractured educational system. A population divided in what it accepts as facts threatens democracy. With no common denominator, we are left with opinions, as many as there are grains of sand upon the beach. Unfortunately, some of those thoughts come from elected leaders who should be wearing prison garb.   Incumbent Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s senator, has served his constituents without a breath of scandal. Even so, he is in a close reelection campaign against a challenger who admits to multiple personality disorder, has threatened his wife with guns and knives, and remains so menacing that three years after their divorce, she maintains a court protective order against him. One pundit explains, voters no longer care about fitness for public office.  They choose to support tribal interests, instead. Political affiliation is one of them.  Donald Trump, our 45th president, is right when he says he could shoot a person in the street and retain the loyalty of fellow Republicans. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is tribal.  He complains his neighbor is too friendly with his enemies in the west.  He feels threatened. So, in his fantasy, the world should see him as a victim, not an invader. Few nations share his delusion, including allies like Chia and India. At a recent gathering of members of the United Nations, virtually all of the 15 members of the Security Council and the vast majority of U. N. members condemned Russia’s actions. They have reason to be concerned. Putin’s aggression threatens national sovereignty, a nuclear war, and worldwide famine.     Climate change, much of it human-caused, already endangers traditional food sources. Putin’s war exacerbates the crisis. Ukraine’s agriculture supplies 40% of the world’s wheat. Destroy its crops and discover how quickly starvation becomes the new reality.   Facts aren’t compliant. The truth will prevail.  When dreamers awake to it, will there be time to save democracy?  The Planet? The 2022 midterms could be a flexion point for the United States. I sense a longing for a return to sense and sensibility. Exhausted by fantasy, people of many persuasions want a world that works.  They want to be safe.  They want their children and grandchildren to be safe, also. A dream of empire is one they can’t afford. Inalienable rights are what they require.  That hope isn’t tribal.  It’s human. When equality is the norm, tribalism becomes irrelevant. We may also find that when tribalism disappears, we create more room for mercy.     

For a prosperous future, look to the women, By Melinda French Gates

For a prosperous future, look to the women, By Melinda French Gates

Achieving gender equality is a global challenge — especially since the pandemic exacerbated the gender gap — and a global opportunity. We’ve learnt a lot at the Gates Foundation about what is possible when women have an equal chance to fulfill their potential. We’ve also learnt what it takes. Instead of leaving it up to individual women to surmount systemic barriers on their own, leaders can…

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Interestingly, Melinda Gates filed for divorce in May 2021 when Bill Gates was 65 (this interview was done months later after he turned 66)

The 2020s and 60s activates his 6H Taurus in the D9 chart, which shows marriage life. He has 6L/7H Venus which shows quarrels / conflict in marriage, especially with Mars’ conjunction which activated in 2021 as Mars rules the 1st zodiac sign Aries.

2021 also activated his 1L/6H Jupiter which shows obstacles in marriage

He was 65 in May 2021 when Melinda Gates filed for divorce. The #5 in 65 and 5th month of May activates his Ketu (separation) in the 5th zodiac sign Leo.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested millions of dollars in a French biotech company working to rebuild the immune systems of cancer patients, as the global elite continue making major moves in the turbo cancer economy.

18 September 2023: Queen Rania attended the Women Rise for All Luncheon at the SDG Pavilion in New York, which took place on the sidelines of the 78th annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.

The event was hosted by United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (DSG), Amina J. Mohammed, who launched the Women Rise for All initiative in 2020, to highlight the significance of women’s leadership in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda. (Source: Petra)

Set to become an annual gathering, the lunch brought together approximately 90 female leaders from various sectors including heads of state and government, civil society and international organizations, and the private sector in celebration and recognition of women leaders across the board.

The event featured conversations by former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates, and was attended by several high-profile guests including Queen Mathilde of Belgium.

I acknowledge that the post I’m about to make is extremely Seattle inside baseball, but:

I saw a headline this morning stating “Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott to help transform Seattle waterfront” (sounds like a new walking/biking path, which is nice) and I caught myself thinking yet again that I would love to be a fly on the wall of their conversations.

Because here’s the thing: these are the accomplished ex-wives of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, respectively. The divorces happened about a year apart, if I remember correctly.

And outside of the topic of civic improvements, I would LOVE to know what these ladies chat about over coffee.

(or tea, as the case may be)

(because I’m sure some has been spilled)

"In July, the Microsoft billionaire and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates announced they were putting another $20bn (£17.1bn) into the charitable foundation they continue, post-divorce, to co-chair. How harmoniously, few in the pair’s large purpose-built Seattle headquarters are close enough to know, but it brought the total endowment to $70bn"

Van aki szerint az normális, hogy Bill és Melinda Gates ott kavar, meg aggódik Afrika körül, miközben erre senki nem kérte őket egy olyan vagyonnal, ami ha országos GDP lenne, akkor Afrikában a 12. lenne az 54-ből? Az, hogy az ilyen mértékű vagyon normalizálva van, hogy egy random senki véleménye nagyobb befolyással van a világra, mint a demokratikusan megválasztott vezetőké, teljesen abszurd.

Dögöljön meg az összes milliárdos!

Tory Burch, Alice Walton, and Other Female Philanthropists Have Donated $55 Million to a New Smithsonian Women’s History Museum

Finally!! Need a few more women of color on the board too.