Summary: Adjunct lobbyist of Microsoft and its co-founder gets analysed for its sources of influence that it pays and exploits

WE SHALL soon resume watching the Gates Foundation, whose scope of influence is vast. The above map of connections is a scaled down version of the original that can be found here and it lists the following:

PEOPLE Sylvia M. Mathews Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Warren Buffett Billionaire in Omaha Ann M. Fudge CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07 Ratan N. Tata Chairman of Tata Group Patty Stonesifer Co-Chair of Gates Foundation William H. Gates, Sr. Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates Co-Founder of Microsoft Michael Kinsley Founding editor of Slate Melinda Gates Married to Bill Gates Mary Maxwell Gates Mother of Bill Gates Vartan Gregorian President of Carnegie Corporation Howard G. Buffett Son of Warren Buffett Catherine Bertini World Food Programme, 1992-2002

COMPANY Alcoa AlliedSignal Amazon Berkshire Hathaway CBS Coca Cola Corbis Costco Federal Reserve Bank of New York Fiat General Electric General Mills Honeywell Kinko's Kraft Foods Liz Claiborne Marriott McGraw-Hill Metropolitan Life Microsoft Novartis Preston Gates & Ellis Salomon Brothers Tata Group Tata Steel The Washington Post Co. Tupperware Brands Unilever Viacom Young & Rubicam

EDU Brown University Cornell University Harvard University Simmons College University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Washington

GOVERNMENT Indian Official Singapore Official South Africa Official UK Official US Agriculture Department US Health & Human Services Department US National Economic Council US Office of Management and Budget US Treasury Department White House Deputy Chief of Staff

GROUP The Digerati Wedding: Bill Gates and Melinda French (1994)

NEWSPAPER The Washington Post

ORGANIZATION American Academy of Arts and Sciences Americans for a Republican Majority Bilderberg Group Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Brookings Institution Carnegie Corporation Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism Council on Foreign Relations Every Republican is Crucial PAC Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce Green Mountain PAC Human Rights Watch J. Paul Getty Trust National Academy of Engineering Pacific Council on International Policy RAND Corporation Rockefeller Foundation Seattle Foundation Smithsonian Institution United Way Urban Institute World Food Programme World Technology Network

We made similar maps about Microsoft and other entities in the past. ⬆