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Steve Miller
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posted 13 March 2020 12:44 PM
A single Chinese billionaire is providing the US with more masks and testing kits than the CDC. Not just a few more, but a lot more.

We need better billionaires in this country.


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posted 13 March 2020 12:49 PMHide Post
wow. There is still hope for humanity.

Jack Ma for president!

Oh, wait....


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posted 13 March 2020 01:22 PMHide Post
Not to take anything away from Jack Ma, it seems it’s easier for Chinese billionaire than for American billionaires because those masks and test kits are mostly made in China. American billionaires can give money but not those made-in-China goods as directly.


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Steve Miller
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posted 13 March 2020 01:27 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Axtremus:
Not to take anything away from Jack Ma, it seems it’s easier for Chinese billionaire than for American billionaires because those masks and test kits are mostly made in China. American billionaires can give money but not those made-in-China goods as directly.


Money would be good too.


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posted 13 March 2020 01:44 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Axtremus:
Not to take anything away from Jack Ma, it seems it’s easier for Chinese billionaire than for American billionaires because those masks and test kits are mostly made in China. American billionaires can give money but not those made-in-China goods as directly.


He found something helpful to do and he did it. That's what is important.


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posted 13 March 2020 03:25 PMHide Post
Zuckerberg and Gates are trying...


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posted 16 March 2020 11:44 AMHide Post
The donations are on their way.

Posted 12 hours ago:

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The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America


https://twitter.com/JackMa


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posted 16 March 2020 03:23 PMHide Post
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One World is Enough
by: The Police

quote:
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
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It's a subject we rarely mention
But when we do we have this little invention
By pretending they're a different world from me
I show my responsibility

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The Third World breathes our air tomorrow
We live on the time we borrow
In our world there's no time for sorrow
In their world there is no tomorrow

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Lines are drawn upon the world
Before we get our flags unfurled
Whichever one we pick
It's just a self deluding trick

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I don't want to bring a sour note
Remember this before you vote
We can all sink or we all float
'Cos we're all in the same big boat

One world is enough
For all of us

It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday

One world...
 
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posted 16 March 2020 04:16 PMHide Post
Thank you kind sir. Much appreciated.


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posted 16 March 2020 07:52 PMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Axtremus:
Not to take anything away from Jack Ma, it seems it’s easier for Chinese billionaire than for American billionaires because those masks and test kits are mostly made in China. American billionaires can give money but not those made-in-China goods as directly.


Good point.
 
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Steve Miller
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posted 16 March 2020 09:31 PMHide Post
Paging the Waltons. All of the Waltons. And the Koch’s. And Buffet.

Have a look at what Ma is doing.

Would it kill you do something useful?


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posted 23 March 2020 06:12 AMHide Post
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-47639452
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The first batch of medical equipment donated by a Chinese billionaire to help fight coronavirus in Africa arrived in Ethiopia on Sunday.
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed confirmed the arrival of the first consignment in the capital, Addis Ababa, which included 1.1 million testing kits, 6 million face masks and 60,000 protective suits.
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posted 26 April 2020 08:01 AMHide Post
Update on Jack Ma:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52325269

More on his international philanthropy to combat the pandemic, and what it might all mean to the Chinese Communist Party.


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