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Damn ... we are gonna miss the ol crooked bastard!! Such an HONORABLE AMERICAN !!!
* Iraq had already been removed from the State Department's list of terrorist countries in 1982; and in the previous month, November, President Reagan had approved National Security Decision Directive 114, on expansion of U.S.-Iraq relations generally. But it was Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad which opened of the floodgates during 1985-90 for lucrative U.S. weapons exports--some $1.5 billion worth-- including chemical/biological and nuclear weapons equipment and technology, along with critical components for missile delivery systems for all of the above. According to a 1994 GAO Letter Report (GAO/NSIAD-94-98) some 771 weapons export licenses for Iraq were approved during this six year period
*<headline>Rumsfeld link to sale of reactors to North Korea</headline> <byline>By Randeep Ramesh</byline>
<date>May 10 2003</date>
<bod> </bod>The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, sat on the board of a company that three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts of build nuclear weapons.
Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $US200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. He sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $US190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush Administration.
The sale of the nuclear technology was a high-profile contract. ABB's then chief executive, Goran Lindahl, visited North Korea in 1999.
The company opened an office in the capital Pyongyang, and the deal was signed a year later in 2000.
* Rumsfeld war crimes complaint filed in Germany
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/jurist_search.php?q=Holly Manges Jones
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</td></tr></tbody></table>[JURIST] Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] in Germany Tuesday asking that the German Federal Prosecutor [official website] investigate and ultimately prosecute former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisors [CCR list] for authorizing the commission of war crimes in the US "war on terror." As anticipated [JURIST report], the complaint was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by a coalition of US and international rights groups - among them the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the German Republican Attorneys' Association (RAV) [advocacy websites] - invoking Germany's universal jurisdiction [AI backgrounder] law, which allows the prosecution of war crimes no matter where they were carried out.
* Rumsfeld to profit from avian bird flu
<!-- ARTICLE SUMMARY --> <table class="summarytable"> <tbody><tr><td class="summarycell"> Fear mongering for profit. Never heard of that one before. </td></tr></tbody></table>
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Girls Go Fishing For Facts - Animal rights, environment conspiracies coverups and conservation
</td> </tr></tbody></table> <!-- ARTICLE CONTENT --> October 23/2005 - Just when you thought you understood, and were getting over the fact that Vice President Dick Cheney and his inner elite cabal orchestrated the pretext for the war on Iraq as a massive oil scandal with him being the x-CEO and current inside-tracker, to and for Haliburton - it gets worse.
If you do a little research on Donald Rumsfeld you will see that the avian flu and the ominous pandemic supposedly headed our way is actually another pretext for profits and fear mongering.
Enter Gilead Corporation, who 10 years ago, gave Roche Manufacturers the sole rights to market and sell Tamiflu (but now has rescinded the deal).
Tamiflu has recently been proven to be virtually useless in avian flu prevention, and has been shown to actually accelerate mutations of the bird flu strain.
If you ask Vietnam how Tamiflu works on the bird flu...they'll tell you it is ineffective. Yet it it being touted throughout the US, Canada, and Britiain, of course, as the one thing available to save us from bird flu and are stepping-up production.
War Tsar, Donald Rumsfeld, in 1997 was exalted to chairmen of the Gilead Corporation (creators of Tamiflu), and holds significant shares in the company. As the bird flu scare winds-up Tamiflu stands to pull in record amounts of cash and now deals are bing worked out between a multitude of companies wanting to manufacture Tamiflu. Just follow the money - who stands to profit?
In 1999 Gilead acquired NeXstar Pharmaceuticals of Boulder, Colorado. In the same year, Roche announced first approval of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) for the treatment of influenza. Tamiflu was originally discovered by Gilead and licensed to Roche for late-Phase development and marketing.
In January 2003 Gilead completed its acquisition of Triangle Pharmaceuticals. The company also announced its first full year of profitability.
Just like Dick Cheney claimed to have stepped down from Haliburton (but continues to receive millions from them and award them no-bid contracts in Iraq and New Orleans) Rumsfeld too stood-down from the Gilead Sciences Board in January 2001 when he was appointed Secretary of Defense at the start of George W. Bush's first term as President. It's all very neat and tidy.
If (when) the Bush administration delcares martial law, a legal loophole opens up for them to retain office for extended periods beyond their two-term-allowance, if not forever. If we ever get rid of them, they'll go off to live profitable lives by the seeds of fear they've sewn, kind of like Tommy Franks.
So it looks like the Bush Reich has found another pretext for chaos, fear, and profits. Will you be rolling up your sleeves for the Bush cabal?!
* Iraq had already been removed from the State Department's list of terrorist countries in 1982; and in the previous month, November, President Reagan had approved National Security Decision Directive 114, on expansion of U.S.-Iraq relations generally. But it was Donald Rumsfeld's trip to Baghdad which opened of the floodgates during 1985-90 for lucrative U.S. weapons exports--some $1.5 billion worth-- including chemical/biological and nuclear weapons equipment and technology, along with critical components for missile delivery systems for all of the above. According to a 1994 GAO Letter Report (GAO/NSIAD-94-98) some 771 weapons export licenses for Iraq were approved during this six year period
*<headline>Rumsfeld link to sale of reactors to North Korea</headline> <byline>By Randeep Ramesh</byline>
<date>May 10 2003</date>
<bod> </bod>The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, sat on the board of a company that three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts of build nuclear weapons.
Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $US200 million contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. He sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $US190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush Administration.
The sale of the nuclear technology was a high-profile contract. ABB's then chief executive, Goran Lindahl, visited North Korea in 1999.
The company opened an office in the capital Pyongyang, and the deal was signed a year later in 2000.
* Rumsfeld war crimes complaint filed in Germany
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/jurist_search.php?q=Holly Manges Jones
<table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td>
</td><td>
</td></tr></tbody></table>[JURIST] Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] in Germany Tuesday asking that the German Federal Prosecutor [official website] investigate and ultimately prosecute former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisors [CCR list] for authorizing the commission of war crimes in the US "war on terror." As anticipated [JURIST report], the complaint was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by a coalition of US and international rights groups - among them the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the German Republican Attorneys' Association (RAV) [advocacy websites] - invoking Germany's universal jurisdiction [AI backgrounder] law, which allows the prosecution of war crimes no matter where they were carried out.* Rumsfeld to profit from avian bird flu
<!-- ARTICLE SUMMARY --> <table class="summarytable"> <tbody><tr><td class="summarycell"> Fear mongering for profit. Never heard of that one before. </td></tr></tbody></table>
<table class="mediatable"> <tbody><tr> <td>
Girls Go Fishing For Facts - Animal rights, environment conspiracies coverups and conservation
</td> </tr></tbody></table> <!-- ARTICLE CONTENT --> October 23/2005 - Just when you thought you understood, and were getting over the fact that Vice President Dick Cheney and his inner elite cabal orchestrated the pretext for the war on Iraq as a massive oil scandal with him being the x-CEO and current inside-tracker, to and for Haliburton - it gets worse.
If you do a little research on Donald Rumsfeld you will see that the avian flu and the ominous pandemic supposedly headed our way is actually another pretext for profits and fear mongering.
Enter Gilead Corporation, who 10 years ago, gave Roche Manufacturers the sole rights to market and sell Tamiflu (but now has rescinded the deal).
Tamiflu has recently been proven to be virtually useless in avian flu prevention, and has been shown to actually accelerate mutations of the bird flu strain.
If you ask Vietnam how Tamiflu works on the bird flu...they'll tell you it is ineffective. Yet it it being touted throughout the US, Canada, and Britiain, of course, as the one thing available to save us from bird flu and are stepping-up production.
War Tsar, Donald Rumsfeld, in 1997 was exalted to chairmen of the Gilead Corporation (creators of Tamiflu), and holds significant shares in the company. As the bird flu scare winds-up Tamiflu stands to pull in record amounts of cash and now deals are bing worked out between a multitude of companies wanting to manufacture Tamiflu. Just follow the money - who stands to profit?
In 1999 Gilead acquired NeXstar Pharmaceuticals of Boulder, Colorado. In the same year, Roche announced first approval of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) for the treatment of influenza. Tamiflu was originally discovered by Gilead and licensed to Roche for late-Phase development and marketing.
In January 2003 Gilead completed its acquisition of Triangle Pharmaceuticals. The company also announced its first full year of profitability.
Just like Dick Cheney claimed to have stepped down from Haliburton (but continues to receive millions from them and award them no-bid contracts in Iraq and New Orleans) Rumsfeld too stood-down from the Gilead Sciences Board in January 2001 when he was appointed Secretary of Defense at the start of George W. Bush's first term as President. It's all very neat and tidy.
If (when) the Bush administration delcares martial law, a legal loophole opens up for them to retain office for extended periods beyond their two-term-allowance, if not forever. If we ever get rid of them, they'll go off to live profitable lives by the seeds of fear they've sewn, kind of like Tommy Franks.
So it looks like the Bush Reich has found another pretext for chaos, fear, and profits. Will you be rolling up your sleeves for the Bush cabal?!
