While his former rival Steve Jobs is still able to inspire his followers to queue up to buy a broken phone, Microsoft boss Bill Gates is on his way to ridding the world of polio.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Gates said that the world was close to a historic moment, just as it was before the victory over smallpox in 1977.
Gates said that the evidence is clear and if everyone acts quickly polio could be put in the garbage bin of history by 2018.
In 1988, when an international vaccination program began, polio was rampant in 125 countries, leaving 350,000 children paralysed each year.
Now polio is endemic in only three countries, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and so far this year 145 new cases have been reported. India has been polio-free for the past 18 months.
But Gates is concerned that global commitment is wavering as the number of cases decreases.
He said that Gates said billions more were needed to vaccinate those children leaving in or near polio "sanctuaries" to ensure the disease is destroyed by 2018.
Gates has thrown behind the cause funds from his $35 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as his own considerable lobbying weight. He said he had targeted polio not only because the goal was achievable, but because it would reinforce how effective mass vaccination can be.
One of his problems has been that parts of Pakistan has spread a rumour that the vaccination program is part of a Western plot to sterilise Muslims.
Mr Gates said he has found as much satisfaction in spending his vast fortune through the Foundation as he had building it through the creation of Microsoft. Certainly it will get him remembered while Jobs is forgotten.
.jpg){kind=icon}
http://web.archive.org/web/20110705132349/http://www.who.int/features/qa/64/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/features/qa/64/en/index.html
The means to weakening those who are predominantly egotistical, those who are "right-sided", those who are Super This & That, is to pamper their ego. Afterall, Gravity's, oka The Swastika [yes sweets, eets true] duty is to ground those who are predisposed to floating away. Just like Hitler but guess what The Chosen Few did? They caught and banished The Swastika but let loose Hitler which is why Nazism is not only running free, it is turning the blinded, those who have God in their pockets because they are able to dictate who God blesses, just like that, into liberators of Nazism - all under the guise of denouncing Nazism. You really cannot make these things up but becareful when telling such facts to the blinded because their blindness is due to their Anger, anger being of the cervical and therefore controls the physiology/physical-attribute of sight [whereas The Pineal controls the acuity/essence of sight].
Should there be a spiritual dimension where there is no beginning/zero nor ending/infinity, one which has always been and always will be, that which is Of Permanence and never changes but is always changing, the realm where pulsation do not require reactance, and other seemingly airy-fairy proses, one thing is for certain, which is that this dimension/reality is inaccessible to the material-materialism. Above all else, those who are able to attain spirituality normally lack the means of gifting it to materialists unlike the gifting of some PhonyPoddyPaddy to the goo-goo, ga-ga - so long as one is able to display the depth of one's state of mesmerism, of course. God 101 - the ability to buy into one's religion via one's religiosity.
"Vaccines" and "polio" might be strange bedfellows but the love which expects and demands is not only not Love other than merely being Vested Interest, such acts of "love for immortality" is the quickest route to being grounded in moralising forever and a day. And all because the blind-blinded assume that they are of hindsight, insight and foresight. One cannot gift colours to those born blind nor arithmetic to a chimp but the supermen who exist for Fame, Fortune & Immortality expect and demand worship. The human saviour who unbeknowst to their reality, is being used by The Bookie and His Tentacles to promote blindness due to their ego being pampered. And all because their "Anger" is directed at "evil polio", say, instead of their own egotism, such is the blindness driving the quest for Immortality.
Why can't humans see beyond the material/materialism? Because of Stupidity & Dumbness, Stupidity's duty being to realise The Blind Ego whereas Dumbness' only task is to make emotional cripples out of the blinded, those who exist for masochism/being-possessed. The self-righteous are blinding/possessing others' through their Superman glasses which, miraculously, cannot see beyond Width. Like a bat with super hearing being unable to appreciate the beauty within music, oka The Depth, human blind bats are winging their way towards The Abyss whilst imagining that they are on their way to The Final Photoshoot. Not when after The Bookie and His Tentacles were defrocked by The Real Superman after He'd arrived. Then, the Emperor's New Clothes of The Famous, The Fortunate and The Immortalised will be ditched faster than saying Alakazam - to no avail because they were never there in the first place. In the mean time, witness how "vaccines" progress as they strut their stuff in The Play of Divinity.
When Truth flows, Love is realised and when Love flows, Joy is realised, but how come "wealth" is never used for revealing the depth of wickedness other than to promote FF&I? Because the "wealth" that is of FF&I is not for promoting satisfaction but dissatisfaction, such is the stupidity-dumbness of the blind-blinded of the spiritual self. Spirituality is The 4th Dimension of every real human which will be denied once a human sees himself as some superman nonsense. Unless one is into that Chosen Few haunt, "Hollywood", of course. Just because the materialism of some gambling den addict is being used to "drive out evil", does not mean that the powerful is doing some good, especially when it lacks humility because it is some almighty junkie thanks to The Chosen Few and its brother tentacle, the Organised through Disorganisation Mass Media. The masters at blinding those who lack self-respect because they were emotionally crippled to respecting others 25/8, such is Cunning when its Cruelty is taking a break from the cycle.