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Bill Gates Commencement Address at Harvard
Bill Gates Receives His Degree at Harvard
and Delivers a Speech to the Graduating Class.
He asks them and Harvard University, “Should our best minds be dedicated to taking on the world’s inequities? Should Harvard students know about the depth of global poverty, disease, inequalities? Harvard will answer with their policies.”
Quote from Bill Gates’ mother to his then fiancee, Melinda Gates on the day before the wedding: “To those who much is given, much is expected.”
He encourages the students to take on the world’s inequities. “You are coming of age, awareness of global inequities… and you will have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with modest effort… Start sooner, carry on longer.”
“I hope you will judge yourselves, not only on your professional accomplishments alone… but also how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities, on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you, but their humanity.”
Want to know the truth about the economy?
Who owns America? Who owns the world? Who rules?
This movie is one of the most profounding searing
indictments of… you get to choose. Utterly masterful.
Website: http://theamericanrulingclass.org
“In this first of its kind “dramatic-documentary-musical,”
essayist Lewis Lapham and an all-star cast (including Kurt
Vonnegut, Robert Altman, James Baker and Arthur Ochs
Sulzberger Jr.) take two young Ivy-League graduates on
a tour of the corridors of power.
This “astonishing”, “coruscating” satire poses the question:
Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
Appearing on the screen are a range of leaders and commentators
from across the political spectrum, among them: the late Robert
B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding
Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara
Ehrenreich, Vartan Gregorian, Doug Henwood, Mike Medavoy,
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., John Perkins, (a.k.a., the economic hit-man)
Samuel Peabody, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur
O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV, the late Kurt
Vonnegut and Howard Zinn.”
You can buy the DVD which is nice to run in the background.
Music is great, wit is scintillating, it’s like classical music in
verbal form. : ) (If u sign up, they’ll give 10% discount. Every
bit counts.) The reason I’m promoting this video (for free, mind
u) is because it’s beyond good for ur collection.
No collection should be without it. Also checkout Half Moon
Street with Sigourney Weaver. Another astounding message
behind Sigourney’s nakedness. (Yes, she’s completely naked.)
Additional note, bad guys are not just from the Middle East,
Russia, US, Tinbuctoo, whatever. Bad Guys are from all over.
Half Moon Street has Michael Caine. Look for the mention of
the “4000.” Truer words n’eer be spoken… You’ll understand
when u see it. Huge eyeopener.
Musive Notes:
Recipe for Success
1. Take one small impoverished country.
2. Loan them tons of money. (Any reason
will do – weapons, palaces, “infrastructure,”
crime fighting, trips to Las Vegas, bridges
to nowhere… hospitals, “development.”)
3. When they can’t repay, force them to
sell you their “natural resources” at rock
bottom prices. Everybody wins. Especially you.
Mussolini: “Fascism should be called corporatism since its
the merger of corporate and state power.”
assistance of the police
Voltaire: “The comfort of the rich depends upon the abundance
of the poor.”
“Content and Distribution.”
“Globe straddling oligarchies – that’s who you will write for…”
Nature has led us to this point -
Bankers run the show, anyway CC- pay or play
“natural order of things today…”
Council of Foreign Affairs
“No one is fully human unless they make 500 thou
a year…”
Seductive Arithmetic. – golf outing…
The compulsion of the dull economic.
whiff of ambition.
meet the ruling class.
Mrs. Astor: “Wealth is collected Manure. You have to spread it around…”
“The ruling class is always looking for new talent…”
Quote from the Essayist Lewis Lapham: “As was true in the early years of the Republic
the country is gov by a Commercial Oligarchy
and the citizen who cannot afford the luxury
of a contrary opinion learns of necessity to
dance the beggar’s waltz…”
Through the eyes of the two actors one can: “Divine the character of the American future
as they meet pillars of power and hear words
from on high…”
