[cia-drugs] The Bourse Conspiracy

[Vigilius Haufniensis]

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/021406Wellen.shtml

The 
Bourse Conspiracy 
Our Intervention in the Middle East May Be Fueled by a Motive Most 
Mundane
by Russ Wellen 
Why, if Iran is ten years away from a bomb, is the situation 
given such urgency now?For an administration that shrouds itself in the 
sophomoric secrecy of the Skull and Bones Club, it's surprising how its plan to 
invade Iraq could be read like a book. With Iran, though, it's got the drapes 
closed and the shades drawn. In fact, guessing the administration's intentions 
has become a favorite parlor game the world over. 
Is the US serious about making preemptive bombing strikes against Iranian 
nuclear facilities? Worse, is there any truth to Internet alarms that the US 
plans to attack sites like the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz with 
tactical "mini" nukes? 
On the other hand, burned by Iraq, will the US settle for sabotage and 
commando raids? Or is the administration's saber-rattling just psy ops, as some 
suspect, designed to put the fear of Allah in Iran? 
Most of all, why, if Iran is ten years away from a bomb, the urgency? 
Reaching into its grab bag of rationales--[Your nation's name here] backed 
terror, stockpiled WMDs, and/or committed human rights abuses--does the US seek 
to seize the reins of yet another state's oil industry? 
Or, as was speculated before the Iraq invasion, perhaps the administration's 
desire to secure an uninterrupted oil supply for the US is secondary to that of 
securing profits for oil companies. In other words, it's not about the oil, it's 
about the oil business. 
But as Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D. pointed out on GlobalResearch.org before Iraq, 
US seizure of its oil fields was unnecessary because we "could simply print 
dollars for nothing and use them to get all the oil in the world [we need]." 
The key word is "dollars." Recall Neocon contempt toward "Old" Europe. 
Perhaps it masks a fear that, however bedeviled by fanatical Islamists, Europe 
is beginning to rival us in strength. Though its accumulated military pales 
beside ours, Europe wields its power via the euro, now almost as almighty as the 
dollar. 
First, however, consider the title of a recent piece of Dr. Petrov's: "The 
Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse." What in the name of God and Allah is a bourse? 
It has a poetic ring: "Emerging from the wood, we burst upon a 
bluebell-strewn bourse." Though French and melodic, like arbitrage and tranche, 
it's a business term meaning stock exchange, as in France's Federation 
Internationale des Bourses de Valeurs. And, like the bomb, Iran wants one. 
Dealing oil securities, an Iranian bourse, according to Dr. Petrov, would 
provide serious competition for New York's NYMEX and London's International 
Petroleum Exchange (IPE). Its currency of choice, of course, would be the euro. 
Revisiting the recent past, prior to our invasion, was Iraq too going euro? 
Indeed, Saddam Hussein had decided to make euros the currency of choice for his 
Food for Oil program in November 2000. Lt. Col. (Retired) Karen Kwiatkowski, 
former Pentagon and NSA staffer, among others, maintained this was a prime 
reason for the US invasion. 
William Clark, the author of Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future 
of the Dollar, concurred: "The Real Reason [sic] for this upcoming war is 
this administration's goal of preventing further OPEC momentum towards the euro 
as an oil transaction currency standard." 
What difference does it make what currency a state transacts in? 
Travel back to America's Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt's response to 
deficits was to print more money than there was gold to back it up. Stripped of 
true value, the dollar was condemned to depreciate and the economy left 
vulnerable to inflation.
In the early seventies, Saudi Arabia provided a reason to 
acquire dollars, when, in exchange for US military protection, it agreed to 
accept only dollars for oil.
According to Petrov, the world needed a reason to acquire the dollar and, in 
the early seventies, Saudi Arabia provided one, when, in exchange for US 
military protection, it agreed to accept only dollars for oil. The dollar may no 
longer have been as good as gold, but it was now good as black gold. 
"If someone demanded a different payment [for oil]," Dr. Petrov writes, "he 
had to be convinced, either by political or military pressure, to change his 
mind." That certain someone [Saddam] was convinced all right--if not to deal in 
dollars, to steal all he could before high-tailing it out of his presidential 
palaces. It didn't take long for President Bush to sign an executive order 
switching Iraqi oil back to the dollar. 
But, petro- or not, the dollar depreciated anyway, thanks to our debt. 
Nations like China and Japan can scarcely be faulted for seeking to unhitch 
their wagons from our falling star. Should they choose to switch to euros, their 
crash landing would be softened by the proposed Iranian bourse. 
A former director of

[cia-drugs] Wal-Mart Must Stock 'Morning After' Pill in Mass.

[Jim Rarey]

 only in Taxachussets where judges and bureaucrats are God. JR
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 12:50 a.m. EST 
Wal-Mart Must Stock 'Morning After' Pill in 
Mass. 

The state board that oversees pharmacies voted Tuesday to require Wal-Mart to 
stock emergency contraception pills at its Massachusetts pharmacies, a 
spokeswoman at the Department of Public Health said. 
The unanimous decision by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy comes two weeks 
after three women sued Wal-Mart in state court for failing to carry the so 
called "morning after" pill in its Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in the state. 
The women argue state policy requires pharmacies to provide all "commonly 
prescribed medicines." 
The board has sent a letter to Wal-Mart lawyers informing them of the 
decision, said health department spokeswoman Donna Rheaume. Wal-Mart has until 
Thursday to provide written compliance. 

Dan Fogleman, a 
spokesman for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart, said the company hadn't heard 
about the decision, but would comply with any order. 
Wal-Mart carries the pill in Illinois only, where it is required under state 
law. The company has said it "chooses not to carry many products for business 
reasons," but declined to elaborate. 

© 2006 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be 
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[cia-drugs] Polls Distort U.S. Views on Abortion

[Jim Rarey]

 
 
From Newsmax
 
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 3:22 p.m. EST 

Polls Distort U.S. Views on Abortion 

As two vacancies on the Supreme Court opened up last year, a series of polls 
found that people in the U.S. approve of the Roe v. Wade decision by a 
significant margin – but these polls distort Americans’ real feelings regarding 
abortion. 
That’s the view of Mark Stricherz, a contributing editor to Crisis magazine, 
who takes an in-depth look behind the polls in an article titled "A Terrible 
Misunderstanding.” 
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision declared that no restrictions can be placed on 
abortion in the first trimester; in the second trimester, the state can regulate 
abortion "in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health,” but not ban 
it; and in the third trimester the state can ban abortion except when there is a 
threat to the mother’s life or health. 
But the 1973 companion case to Roe, Doe v. Bolton, decreed that "maternal 
health” must take into account "all factors – physical, emotional, 
psychological, familial, and the woman’s age – relevant to the well-being of the 
patient.” 

The ruling allowed a 
pregnant woman to have an abortion "for practically any reason remotely tied to 
health,” Stricherz observes. 
Then a 2000 Court decision struck down laws banning partial-birth abortion. 
"Thus, the Court now permits abortion at nearly any time for virtually any 
reason,” writes Stricherz. But that’s often not how pollsters frame the question 
when asking about Roe v. Wade, according to the writer. 
A June 2005 Gallup Poll, for instance, describing Roe as "the decision that 
legalized abortion” found strong support for the decision – 65 percent. 

Polls by the Pew 
Research Center, the Associated Press and Quinnipiac University described Roe as 
having established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, at least in 
the first three months of pregnancy. All three polls found support for Roe. 
A CBS poll in July 2005 described the Court ruling as having "established a 
constitutional right for women to obtain legal abortions in this country,” while 
CNN and USA Today called it "the decision that legalized abortion.” Again, the 
polls found strong support for the decision. 
But the Los Angeles Times framed its poll question more in line with what the 
Court’s rulings really mean: "Generally speaking, are you in favor of the 
Supreme Court decision which permits a woman to get an abortion from a doctor at 
any time, or are you opposed to that?” 
The result: Only 43 percent of respondents were in favor. "It was the lowest 
level of support recorded because the rest of the polls misinterpret Roe and 
Doe. They view Roe v. Wade as a decision that legalized abortion but restricted 
the procedure, not one that made virtually all abortions legal,” writes 
Stricherz. 
In fact, the overwhelming majority of respondents in Gallup polls disapprove 
of abortion when a woman and her partner simply do not want another child or 
when a pregnancy would interfere with a woman’s career. 
Also, polls have routinely found that about two-thirds of respondents oppose 
legal abortion after the first trimester – and a 2003 CNN/USA Today poll found 
that 84 percent oppose it in the last three months of pregnancy. 
Concludes Stricherz: "If the polls described what the rulings actually did, 
their results would yield far less public support” for Roe v. Wade. 


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Re: [cia-drugs] Re: [new_patriots] Syria

[curtis crow]

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: ### "The No Tse-Tse List" by Marilyn A. Guinnane ###

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This is a must read. Ms. Guinnane 
pulls together the many atrocities that we have witnessed in the past several 
years and challenges us to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM!
 
 
Don Stacey
 
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The No Tse-Tse List By Marilyn A. 
Guinnane2-12-6
It's possible that this country hasn't gone totally insane, that 
I'm the one who's nuts and everything going on out there is perfectly normal, 
just chugging along like a little tugboat in a 1930's cartoon, with the 
smokestack whistling a merry tune, a big smile offered by the bow of the boat as 
it glides through calm waters. But I'm going to show you what I'm seeing 
instead. You be the judge. Am I crazy? Or has our populace gone quite mad, en 
masse? First, raise your hand if you've heard of the Thunderbirds. You 
know, those testosterone piloted fighter jets that fly in tight formation at air 
shows. I know this fellow, D.G., who flew with the Thunderbirds. He also 
was decorated for having done something in 'Nam that the military deemed worthy. 
D.G. is a terrorist now. Oh not really, but since when does 'reality' matter to 
Fatherland Security? D.G. criticized George Bush, audaciously enough. You know 
who Bush is, the duck who's currently squatting in the White House. D.G. 
lambasted George Bush on a TV program in Reno, where he lives. D.G., who flew 
with the Thunderbirds, is on the No Fly List for having done this. Can you beat 
it? So he drove down to attend his Thunderbird reunion in Las Vegas but wasn't 
allowed on base, either. D.G. isn't the only 'non-terrorist' on the No 
Fly List, nor is D.G. the only American on the No Fly List. I envision a day 
when it will be a badge of honor to have been placed on the fascists' No Fly 
List, for it means you had a modicum of courage back when the reign of terror 
began, it means you stood to be counted. Your children and grandchildren will 
make up songs about you. Most Americans, however, won't be considered for the 
'No Tse-tse List', as I envision it will come to be called. Most Americans are a 
wee bit cowardly, you'd have to say. Which is the reason why we're in the fix 
we're in. It's the only reason. Ask Cindy Sheehan about the fix we're 
in. Ask Cindy Sheehan what it's like to be manhandled out of an 
auditorium by a henchman of the fascist regime for wearing a tee shirt that 
sports a message. The message wasn't offensive to anyone but the Bush cabal, but 
it offended them and that's all it took. The tee shirt had to do with death in 
Iraq; with stopping all the death. The New World Order crowd likes death. They 
covet death. They do not like Cindy Sheehan. The White House should be 
painted black, not white. Black while good ol' boy George occupies it. The Jolly 
Roger needs to be hoisted, too, in lieu of Old Glory. The Jolly Roger is 
fitting, since Georgie-Poo (is that what Jeff Gannon, the self-described 
homosexual who frequents 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, calls him?) joined Yale 
University's Skull and Bones Society, satanic to its core, while Georgie Poo 
rich boy'd himself through Yale on Daddy's money and Daddy's influence. Had Boy 
George been from an ordinary family, say, middle class, he wouldn't have been 
admitted to a mechanic's school let alone an Ivy League U. I mean, let's face a 
few facts here, people---those Bushes make Ronald Reagan look intelligent. They 
make Dan 'Happy Camper' Quayle look like an Einstein runner-up. But this 
nation's troubles didn't ignite when George 'Malapropism' Bush began stealing 
elections, oh no. Our modern times were stained blood red when we turned our 
collective heads after Uncle Sam, oops, I mean Uncle Janet, Uncle Janet Reno, 
ordered the Branch Davidians incinerated on live television. Still, let 
us backstep a moment. Let us address the gay business. I mean, gay is okay. Gay 
is okay as long as you're out of the closet so that, as a top ranking official, 
president, for instance, you can't be blackmailed for your sexual proclivities. 
This Jeff Gannon frequents the White House a

[cia-drugs] The Veil of Materialism

[norgesen]

The Veil of 
Materialism 
- by Phillip D. Collins ©, Feb. 10th, 2006 
As the mists of antiquity gradually receded and history 
welcomed modernity, the old theocratic power structures were gradually 
supplanted by secular theocracies governed by science. No doubt, the 
chronocentric impulses of the contemporary mind compel many to consider this 
shift an advancement in "political, social, and cultural evolution." However, 
although these new theocracies are veiled in secularism, it must be understood 
that their new state-sanctioned epistemology is a form of mysticism akin to its 
religious progenitor. This truth is illustrated by radical empiricism's 
rejection of causality, which stipulates the investment of faith in the 
purported results of scientific research. Likewise, the new state-sanctioned 
metaphysics is equally mystical in character. Accompanying radical empiricism is 
materialism, the metaphysical contention that matter holds primacy. 
Naturalism works in tandem with materialism because it attempts to sustain 
the primacy of matter with the metaphysical claim of "self-creation" (i.e., 
abiogenesis). Of course, this claim suggests that living and dead matter are 
inseparable. Thus, living things are literally artificial entities that create 
themselves, an occult theme communicated through the Kabalistic myth of the 
golem. In a universe where materialistic metaphysics hold sway, the biosphere 
and the life it supports amount to one enormous golem. Accompanying this 
contention is the Gnostic doctrine of "self-salvation." If humanity is a god 
that created itself, then it is also responsible for its own salvation. Given 
these strange confluences of occult thought, materialism qualifies as little 
more than a new secular mysticism. 
Not surprisingly, materialistic metaphysics pervade the fabric of many occult 
institutions. Even the acknowledgement of supra-sensible and incorporeal 
entities cannot hide the occultist's materialistic propensities. In fact, such 
propensities may have given rise to the occultist's mystical beliefs in the 
first place. Guenon explains: 

  Without seeking for the moment to determine more precisely the nature and 
  quality of the supra-sensible, in so far as it is actually involved in this 
  matter, it will be useful to observe how far the very people who still admit 
  it and think that they are aware of its action are in reality penetrated by 
  materialistic influence: for even if they do not deny all extra-corporeal 
  reality, like the majority of their contemporaries, it is only because they 
  have formed for themselves an idea of it which enables them in some way to 
  assimilate it to the likeness of sensible things, and to do that is certainly 
  scarcely better than to deny it. There is no reason to be surprised at this, 
  considering the extent to which all the occultist, theosophist, and other 
  schools of that sort are fond of searching assiduously for points of approach 
  to modern scientific theories, from which they draw their inspiration more 
  directly than they are prepared to admit; the result is what might logically 
  be expected under such conditions. (153-54) 
In this sense, materialism acts as a veil. The fact is that, although the 
occult theocracy of antiquity declined in power, it is still very much alive. It 
perpetuates itself through secularism. As sociologist William Sims Bainbridge 
makes clear, secularization actually represents the opening stage of an occult 
counterculture movement: 

  Secularization does not mean a decline in the need for religion, but only a 
  loss of power by traditional denominations. Studies of the geography of 
  religion show that where the churches become weak, cults and occultism explode 
  to fill the spiritual vacuum. ("Religions for a Galactic Civilization") 

Thus, the thoroughly secularized society merely presages the emergence of a 
new theocratic order. The new ecclesiastical authority shall be occult in 
character, embracing what Guenon calls "neo-spiritualism" (155). The galvanizing 
mythology of this new theocratic order will most likely reflect the paradigmatic 
character of the Gnostic cosmology, depicting humanity as a collection of 
pluralities awaiting unification into a singularity through the sorcery of 
"science." As for the dominant religion, it will be Luciferianism, which was 
initially disseminated on the popular level as secular humanism. This is [the] 
anatomy of the emergent "Satanic state." 
In addition to facilitating the rise of a new occult theocracy, materialism 
has also contributed to the enormous volumes of bloodshed witnessed by the 20th 
century. Arguably, contemporary regimes premised upon dialectical materialism 
have murdered far more people than any traditional theocracy premised upon a 
theistic faith. This is directly attributable to materialism's emphasis upon the 
primacy of matter. Materialistic metaphysics preclude the spirit, confining 
moral qu

[cia-drugs] Deaths Halt Enrollments in a Drug Trial

[Jim Rarey]

 
 


  
  

  
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14drugs.html?pagewanted=print
 
 



February 14, 2006

Deaths Halt Enrollments in a Drug Trial 

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By The Associated Press The biotechnology giant Genentech and its majority stockholder, Roche Holding, said yesterday that they had temporarily 
stopped recruiting volunteers for a large test of the cancer drug Avastin after more patients than expected 
died.
The deaths occurred among colon cancer patients taking Avastin with a chemotherapy regimen called Xelox. Since the test began 
in December 2004, seven patients taking that combination died, four of them 
suddenly, Roche said in a press release.
"An occurrence of sudden deaths, especially in three younger patients, was 
noted," Roche said, adding that the temporary suspension would allow "a full 
safety assessment."
Those seven deaths compare with four deaths in another arm of the study that 
combined Avastin with a different chemotherapy called Folfox.
About 2,000 of the 3,450 patients planned for the test who are already 
receiving one of three combinations of Avastin and the chemotherapy regimens 
will continue to receive their drugs. The rest of the volunteers will not be 
enrolled for at least 60 days while the companies try to determine what caused 
the deaths.
The test is an effort to see if Avastin can safely be used to prevent colon 
cancer from recurring in patients in remission. 
The Food and Drug Administration approved Avastin for patients with advanced 
colon cancer in 2004, and the drug accounted for $1.1 billion in sales for 
Genentech last year. Roche, which is based in Basel, Switzerland, owns sales 
rights to Avastin in Europe, where it was approved last year. Genentech is based 
in San Francisco.
Wall Street analysts said they were optimistic that the deaths would not 
immediately affect the companies' finances because it was too early to know if 
Avastin, the combination of Avastin and Xelox or something unrelated to the 
drugs caused the deaths.
"There is no information here to condemn Avastin," said Jason Kantor, an 
analyst with RBC Capital Markets.
Denise Anderson, an analyst at Kepler Equities, wrote in a note to investors 
that the facts that patients in the trial would stay on Avastin and that only 
one drug combination was at issue seemed to indicate that "the problem may not 
ultimately be that serious."
Avastin chokes the blood supply that feeds tumors; it is the first drug of its kind to be approved 
by the Food and Drug Administration. 
When used with chemotherapy, it extends the life of the sickest patients by 
an average of about five months.




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  Avastin in Europe, where it was approved last year. Genentech is based in San 
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Wall Street analysts said they were optimistic that the deaths would not 
immediately affect the companies' finances because it was too early to know if 
Avastin, the combination of Avastin and Xelox or something unrelated to the 
drugs caused the deaths.
"There is no information here to condemn Avastin," said Jason Kantor, an 
analyst with RBC Capital Markets.
Denise Anderson, an analyst at Kepler Equities, wrote in a note to investors 
that the facts that patients in the trial would stay on Avastin and that only 
one drug combination was at issue seemed to indicate that "the problem may not 
ultimately be that serious."
Avastin chokes the blood supply that feeds tumors; it is the first drug of its kind to be approved 
by the Food and Drug Administration. 
When used with chemotherapy, it extends the life of the sickest patients by 
an average of about five months.



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[cia-drugs] Biotech's Sparse Harvest

[Jim Rarey]

It'''s a question of who do you trust? 
JR
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14gene.html?pagewanted=print
 

  
  

  
  


February 14, 2006

Biotech's Sparse Harvest 

By ANDREW POLLACK

At the dawn of the era of genetically engineered crops, scientists were 
envisioning all sorts of healthier and tastier foods, including cancer-fighting 
tomatoes, rot-resistant fruits, potatoes that would produce healthier French 
fries and even beans that would not cause flatulence. 
But so far, most of the genetically modified crops have provided benefits 
mainly to farmers, by making it easier for them to control weeds and insects. 

Now, millions of dollars later, the next generation of biotech crops — the 
first with direct benefits for consumers — is finally on the horizon. But the 
list does not include many of the products once envisioned.
Developing such crops has proved to be far from easy. Resistance to 
genetically modified foods, technical difficulties, legal and business obstacles 
and the ability to develop improved foods without genetic engineering have 
winnowed the pipeline. 
"A lot of companies went into shell shock, I would say, in the past three, 
four years," said C. S. Prakash, director of plant biotechnology research at 
Tuskegee University. "Because of so much opposition, they've had to put a lot of 
projects on the shelf."
Developing nonallergenic products and other healthful crops has also proved 
to be difficult technically. "Changing the food composition is going to be far 
trickier than just introducing one gene to provide insect resistance," said Mr. 
Prakash, who has promoted agricultural biotechnology on behalf of the industry 
and the United States government. 
In 2002, Eliot Herman and his colleagues got some attention when they 
engineered a soybean to make it less likely to cause an allergic reaction. But 
the soybean project was put aside because baby food companies, which he thought 
would want the soybeans for infant formula, instead are avoiding biotech crops, 
said Mr. Herman, a scientist with the Department of Agriculture. 
In addition, he said, food companies feared lawsuits if some consumers 
developed allergic reactions to a product labeled as nonallergenic. 
The next generation of these crops — particularly those that provide 
healthier or tastier food — could be important for gaining consumer acceptance 
of genetic engineering. The industry won a victory last week when a panel of the 
World Trade Organization ruled that the European Union had violated trade rules 
by halting approvals of new biotech crops. But the ruling is not expected to 
overcome the wariness of European consumers over biotech foods. 
New crops are also important for the industry, which has been peddling the 
same two advantages — herbicide tolerance and insect resistance — for 10 years. 
"We haven't seen any fundamentally new traits in a while," said Michael 
Fernandez, executive director of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, a 
nonprofit group. 
Now, some new types of crops are appearing. Monsanto just won federal 
approval for a type of genetically engineered corn promoted as having greater 
nutritional value — albeit only for pigs and poultry. The corn, possessing a 
bacterial gene, contains increased levels of lysine, an amino acid that is often 
provided to farm animals as a supplement. 
Coming next, industry executives say, are soybean oils intended to yield 
healthier baked goods and fried foods. To keep soybean oil from turning rancid, 
the oil typically undergoes a process called hydrogenation. The process produces 
trans fatty acids, which are harmful and must be disclosed in food labels under 
new regulations. 
Both Monsanto and DuPont, which owns the Pioneer Hi-Bred seed company, 
have developed soybeans with altered oil composition that, in some cases, do not 
require hydrogenation. Kellogg said in December that it would use the 
products, particularly Monsanto's, to remove trans fats from some of its 
products. 
Monsanto's product, Vistive, and DuPont's, which is called Nutrium, were 
developed by conventional breeding. They are genetically engineered only in the 
sense that they have the gene that allows them to grow even when sprayed with 
the widely used herbicide Roundup. 
But Monsanto and DuPont say the next generation of soybean, which would be 
able to eliminate trans fats in more foods, would probably require genetic 
engineering. Those products are expected in three to six years. 
Beyond that, both companies said, would be soybeans high in omega-3 fatty 
acids, which are good for the heart and the brain. These are now derived largely 
from eating fish, which in turn get them by eating algae. Putting algae genes 
into soybeans could allow for soy oil that is rich in the fatty acids. 
"Our hope is it is easier to formulate into food without it smelling or 
tasting fishy," said David M. Stark, vice president for consumer traits at 
Monsanto. 
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[cia-drugs] 2 Will Leave A.I.G. Board

[Jim Rarey]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14insure.html?pagewanted=print
 
Leaving a sinking ship or just one jump ahead of 
the sheriff?  JR
 

  
  

  
  


February 14, 2006

2 Will Leave A.I.G. Board 

By REUTERS

By Reuters
The American International Group, the insurance giant, said 
yesterday that two directors, William S. Cohen and Carla Hills, would not stand for 
re-election to its board. 
Mr. Cohen, the former senator from Maine and defense secretary, had been a 
director since 2004 and is a member of the board's public policy and social 
responsibility committee. 
Ms. Hills, a former United States trade representative, has served on the 
board since 1993 and is a member of its audit committee and its nominating and 
corporate governance committee. 
It was not immediately clear why Mr. Cohen, who is chief executive of the 
Cohen Group, and Ms. Hills, the chief executive of Hills & Company, are 
leaving the board. 
An A.I.G. spokesman, Joe Norton, declined to comment on the reasons for their 
departures. Calls to the two directors were not returned. 




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[cia-drugs] World Trade Group Rules Tax Benefits by U.S. Illegal

[Jim Rarey]

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February 14, 2006

World Trade Group Rules Tax Benefits by 
U.S. Illegal 
By PAUL MELLER

BRUSSELS, Feb. 13 — The World Trade Organization ruled yesterday that tax 
breaks the United States gives to some of its largest companies are illegal and 
the European Union said it would impose new trade sanctions in three months 
unless the tax breaks were abolished.
The ruling is the second in four years involving tax breaks that the United 
States granted to 6,000 exporters, including Boeing, Microsoft and General Electric, initially under the Foreign Sales 
Corporation program and subsequently under the American Jobs Creation Act.
The W.T.O. rejected an appeal by the United States of a trade organization 
ruling that the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 failed to bring the United 
States into compliance with the first ruling, which had held that tax breaks 
provided under the Foreign Sales Corporation arrangement amounted to unfair 
subsidies. 
The initial ruling, made in 2002, allowed the European Union to impose $4 
billion in sanctions on imports from the United States. 
Those sanctions were lifted when the American Jobs Creation Act was passed. 
But the W.T.O. subsequently ruled that the act perpetuated the illegal subsidies 
with a two-year phaseout of the tax breaks and a grandfather clause covering 
exporters that had sales contracts dated before Sept. 17, 2003.
Peter Mandelson, the European Union's top trade official, reiterated his 
concerns about the tax breaks on Monday, saying that the change in the laws had 
failed to rectify the situation.
"The tax benefits preserved by the jobs act have been repeatedly declared in 
violation of W.T.O. rules," he said. "The E.U. will not accept a system of tax 
benefits which give U.S. exporters, including Boeing, an unfair advantage 
against their European competitors."
In 2004 the European Union imposed only 5 percent of the $4 billion worth of 
sanctions it was allowed to charge. This time trade officials said they plan to 
impose 14 percent, or $560 million, of the $4 billion in the form of additional 
customs duties on American imports.
The office of the United States Trade Representative issued a statement 
Monday urging the European Union not to impose sanctions. "Prolonging this 
dispute will not serve to foster harmonious trans-Atlantic relations," the 
statement said. 
The dispute about tax breaks for American companies dates back to the 
mid-1980's but it became more complicated when the United States and the 
European Union both turned to the World Trade Organization to try to resolve a 
separate dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus.
European trade officials argue that Boeing is the single biggest beneficiary 
under the American Jobs Creation Act. If nothing is done to repeal the law, 
Boeing will benefit from $615 million over the next 10 years, according to the 
European Commission.
American trade officials also made a link between this longstanding dispute 
and the relatively new one over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus. "New sanctions 
will reinforce the perception that the E.C. is primarily acting in response to 
the U.S. filing of a W.T.O. complaint against Airbus subsidies," the trade 
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[cia-drugs] Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race, and Perhaps Politics

[Jim Rarey]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/politics/14ohio.html?pagewanted=print
 
 
 Shumer and Reid are slimy backstabbers whose word cannot be 
trusted. They realized they couldn't control Hackett if he won. JR


February 14, 2006

Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of 
Race, and Perhaps Politics 
By IAN URBINA

Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday 
that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result 
of pressure from party leaders.
Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada, the 
same party leaders who he said persuaded him last August to enter the Senate 
race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherrod Brown, a 
longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican 
incumbent. 
Mr. Hackett staged a surprisingly strong Congressional run last year in an 
overwhelmingly Republican district and gained national prominence for his 
scathing criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. It was 
his performance in the Congressional race that led party leaders to recruit him 
for the Senate race.
But for the last two weeks, he said, state and national Democratic Party 
leaders have urged him to drop his Senate campaign and again run for 
Congress.
"This is an extremely disappointing decision that I feel has been forced on 
me," said Mr. Hackett, whose announcement comes two days before the state's 
filing deadline for candidates. He said he was 
outraged to learn that party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to 
stop giving and said he would not enter the Second District 
Congressional race. 
"For me, this is a second betrayal," Mr. Hackett said. "First, my government 
misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to 
support candidates like me." 
Mr. Hackett was the first Iraq war veteran to seek national office, and the 
decision to steer him away from the Senate race has surprised those who see him 
as a symbol for Democrats who oppose the war but want to appear strong on 
national security.
"Alienating Hackett is not just a bad idea for the party, but it also sends a 
chill through the rest of the 56 or so veterans that we've worked to run for 
Congress," said Mike Lyon, executive director for the Band of Brothers, a group 
dedicated to electing Democratic veterans to national office. "Now is a time for 
Democrats to be courting, not blocking, veterans who want to run."
But Democratic leaders say Representative Brown, a seven-term incumbent from 
Avon, has a far better chance of toppling Senator DeWine.
"It boils down to who we think can pull the most votes in November against 
DeWine," said Chris Redfern, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. "And in 
Ohio, Brown's name is golden. It's just that simple."
Mr. Fern added that Mr. Brown's fund-raising abilities made him the better 
Senate candidate. By the end of last year, Mr. Brown had already amassed $2.37 
million, 10 times what Mr. Hackett had raised.
Senator Reid did not reply to repeated requests for comment.
Asked about Mr. Hackett's contention that he had been pressed to leave the 
Senate race, a spokesman for Mr. Schumer, Phil Singer, said, "We've told both 
Sherrod Brown and Paul Hackett that avoiding a primary will make it easier to 
win the Ohio Senate seat, " but he added, "Obviously, the decision to run is Mr. 
Hackett's and Mr. Hackett's alone."
Mr. Brown declined to comment on Mr. Hackett's candidacy, saying that he was 
strictly focused on building his own campaign.
Democrats wanted to avoid a drawn-out primary, especially one that could get 
bruising with a tough-talking outsider like Mr. Hackett.
The Ohio Senate race is regarded as critical to Democratic aspirations to 
take back Congress in the fall. Aside from focusing on Senator DeWine, the 
Democrats also hope to win as many as eight House seats in Ohio and the 
governorship from the Republicans. 
Ohio Democrats are hoping to exploit the larger problems plaguing the 
Republicans. State Republicans have struggled to distance themselves from Gov. 
Bob Taft, a Republican who cannot run again because of term limits and who was 
found guilty last summer of four misdemeanor ethics violations. Representative 
Bob Ney's still-unfolding role in the scandal over the lobbyist Jack Abramoff also looms over the state's Republicans. 

Mr. Hackett said he was unwilling to run for the Congressional seat because 
he had given his word to three Democratic candidates that he would not enter 
that race. 
"The party keeps saying for me not to worry about those promises because in 
politics they are broken all the time," said Mr. Hackett, who plans to return to 
his practice as a lawyer in the Cincinnati area. "I don't work that 
way. My word is my bond."
Jennifer Duffy, who analyzes Senate races for the Cook Political Report, said 
that part of what made D