The LA Times again points out the internal contradictions in the programs the Gates Foundation funds and the investments that fuel the donation. Once more, they are being dinged for letting their money exist in two mutually inconsistent worlds; one pocket purely focused on highest return alone and the other, smaller pocket, trying to save the world. This time it’s Darfur and the ties of Warren Buffet, whose Berkshire Hathaway, which has turned over its charity arm to Gates has the conflict. “Some of Berkshire’s wealth comes from PetroChina, whose parent company supplies a large part of the money that underwrites Sudan’s military — as well as the janjaweed, according to the United States and the United Nations,” the Times writes.

Two pocket thinking is just not sufficient anymore.