Obama Ends Stem Cell Research Ban

Obama Ends Stem Cell Research Ban

CBS/AP/ June 18, 2009, 6:27 PM

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-503767_162-4853385.html

President Barack Obama said Monday he is allowing federal taxpayer dollars to fund significantly broader research on embryonic stem cells because "medical miracles do not happen simply by accident," and promised his administration would make up for the ground lost under his predecessor.

Stem Cells

Steven L. Rattner was a director at the New York Stem Cell Foundation, a director at the New America Foundation, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg.

Note: Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Robin Hood Foundation.

George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and Julian H. Robertson Jr. was invited to his 2013 wedding reception.

Michael R. Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation, and is a friend of Steven L. Rattner.

Robertson Foundation (NY) was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Julian H. Robertson Jr. is the founder of the Robertson Foundation (NY), Peck, Madigan Jones is his lobby firm, his lobby firm was Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and invited to George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Life Technologies Corporation.

Life Technologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Technologies

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Applied Biosystems provides equipment for researchers in genotyping and genetic analysis, forensic DNA, food testing and animal health, pharmaceutical purification and analytics, PCR, flu virus research, stem cell research, and laser capture microdissection.

Peck, Madigan Jones was the lobby firm for Applied Biosystems.

Julian H. Robertson Jr.’s lobby firm is Peck, Madigan Jones, is the founder of the Robertson Foundation (NY), his lobby firm was Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and invited to George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.

Robertson Foundation (NY) was a funder for the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Steven L. Rattner was a director at the New York Stem Cell Foundation, a director at the New America Foundation, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg.