Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Monsanto



Monsanto
Post-war period
In 1946, it developed "All" laundry detergent and began to market it; they sold the product line to Lever Brothers in 1957.[24] In 1947, one of its factories was destroyed in the Texas City Disaster.[25] Monsanto acquired American Viscose from England's Courtauld family in 1949. In 1954 Monsanto partnered with German chemical giant Bayer to form Mobay and market polyurethanes in the United States.

Monsanto began manufacturing DDT in 1944, along with some 15 other companies.[26] This insecticide was much welcomed in the fight against malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Due to DDT's toxicity, its use in the United States was banned in 1972. In 1977 Monsanto stopped producing PCBs; the United States Congress banned domestic PCB production two years later.[27][28] In the 1960s and 1970s, Monsanto was also one of the most important producers of Agent Orange for United States Armed Forces operations in Vietnam.

Monsanto
Sidley Austin LLP was the lobby firm for the Monsanto Company & Vietnam, and is the lobby firm for Bayer HealthCare.  

Note: Bayer HealthCare is a subsidiary of Bayer AG.
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is 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), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Monsanto Company.
Ann M. Fudge is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at Unilever PLC.
Lever Brothers
In 1930, Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie to form Unilever.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at Bayer AG, a director at the American Council on Germany, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then became part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II, the IG Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After World War II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an individual business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, was made head of the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Gregory S. Babe was a director at the American Council on Germany, and is the president & CEO for the Bayer Corporation.
Bayer Corporation is the North American subsidiary of Bayer AG.
Mayer Brown was the lobby firm for the Bayer Corporation.
Robert A. Helman is a partner at Mayer Brown, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
William M. Daley 
Professional career 
Daley returned to the practice of law, as a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt) from 1993 to 1997.
William M. Daley was partner at Mayer Brown, the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, and is 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
Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior 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 Bayer HealthCare, was the lobby firm for the Monsanto Company & Vietnam.
Bayer HealthCare is a subsidiary of Bayer AG.






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