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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