Richard Blum Funds Poverty Center, 4/19/06

The new Blum Center for Developing Economies will seek sustainable solutions to aid the 3 billion people in the world living in extreme poverty. Real Estate developer and husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Blum explains how an "accident of geography" obligates us to help others and inspired him to donate $15 million to the new initiative. Video includes Blum, Sen. Feinstein, and UC Berkeley Prof. Richard Lyon, on the goals of the center. (1:04 min) Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/04/19_blum.shtml

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Wikipedia “Richard C. Blum” and thumb down to the section on “Controversy” see how Dianne & Richard’s tag-team works,

One writes the laws and the other one profits from them,

He’s extracted millions from the American taxpayers through controversial

business dealing, like so many others he’s cashed in on big government,

While it seems to be for a good purpose, I notice the “Blum Center” at Berkley isn’t designed to help us, its purpose is to extract our resources and send them abroad

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i hope this counteracts the football obsession as the commercial idea of success for a university

a university is for learning and academic inquiry

not team masculinity and aggressive for public consumption

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i thought he was sleazy, but hes allright, glad he did this, nice guy