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Published on May 14, 2019
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer has lost another lawsuit
related to the weed-killer Roundup, produced by recently acquired Monsanto.
Bayer will have to pay two billion dollars in fines and millions in punitive
damages to the plaintiffs, an elderly couple from California. Bayer disputes
that Roundup was the cause of the couples' cancer and that both had a long
history of illness. The company plans to appeal the verdict. It's the third
consecutive verdict against Bayer since its 63 billion dollar acquisition of
Monsanto. Bayer is currently facing another 13,400 claims.
Bayer
Bayer Crop Science
Bayer Crop Science has products in crop protection (i.e. pesticides),
nonagricultural pest
control, seeds and plant biotechnology. In
addition to conventional agrochemical business, it is involved in genetic engineering of food.[133] In
2002, Bayer
AG acquired Aventis (now part of Sanofi) CropScience
and fused it with their own agrochemicals division (Bayer Pflanzenschutz or
"Crop Protection") to form Bayer CropScience; the Belgian biotech
company Plant Genetic Systems became part of Bayer through the Aventis
acquisition.[133] Also in
2002, Bayer AG acquired the Dutch seed company Nunhems, which at the time was one
of the world's top five seed companies.[134][135]:270 In
2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Bayer CropScience's
LibertyLink genetically modified rice had contaminated the U.S. rice supply.
Shortly after the public learned of the contamination, the E.U. banned imports
of U.S. long-grain rice and the futures price plunged. In April 2010, a Lonoke
County, Arkansas jury awarded a dozen farmers $48 million. The case is
currently on appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court. On 1 July 2011 Bayer
CropScience agreed to a global settlement for up to $750 million.[136] In
September 2014, the firm announced plans to invest $1 billion in the United States
between 2013 and 2016. A Bayer spokesperson said that the largest investments
will be made to expand the production of its herbicide Liberty. Liberty is an
alternative to Monsanto's
product, Roundup,
which are both used to kill weeds. [137] In
2016, as part of the wholesale corporate restructuring, Bayer CropScience
became one of the three major divisions of Bayer AG, reporting directly to the
head of the division, Liam Condon.[138]
Bayer CropScience Limited is the Indian subsidiary of
Bayer AG. It is listed on the Indian stock exchanges
viz. the Bombay Stock Exchange & National Stock Exchange of India and has a market capitalization of $2 billion.[139] Bayer
BioScience, headquartered in Hyderabad, India
has about 400 employees, and has research, production and an extensive sales
network spread across India.
Bayer
World War II and the Holocaust
Further information: Forced labour
under German rule during World War II and IG Farben Trial
Helge Wehmeier, then CEO of Bayer, offered a public
apology in 1995 to Elie Wiesel for the company's actions during World War II
(1939–1945) and the Holocaust.[39] IG Farben,
Bayer's parent company, used slave labour
in factories it built in German concentration camps, most notably
in the Monowitz concentration camp (known as
Auschwitz III), part of the Auschwitz camp complex in German-occupied
Poland.[40][41] By 1943
almost half of IG Farben's 330,000-strong workforce consisted of slave labour
or conscripts, including 30,000 Auschwitz prisoners.[42]
Helmuth Vetter, an Auschwitz camp physician, SS captain
and employee of the Bayer group within IG Farben conducted medical experiments
on inmates at Auschwitz and at the Mauthausen concentration camp.[43][44] In one
study of an anaesthetic, the company paid RM 170 per person for the use of
150 female inmates of Auschwitz.[45][46] A Bayer
employee wrote to Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz commandant: "The transport of
150 women arrived in good condition. However, we were unable to obtain
conclusive results because they died during the experiments. We would kindly
request that you send us another group of women to the same number and at the
same price."[47]
After the war, the Allied Control Council seized IG Farben for
"knowingly and prominently ... building up and maintaining German war
potential".[a][48] It was
split into its six constituent companies in 1951, then split again into three:
BASF, Bayer and Hoechst.[10][11]
Bayer was at that point known as Farbenfabriken Bayer AG; it changed its name to Bayer AG in 1972.[14]
Fritz ter Meer,
an IG Farben director and Nazi Party member who directed operations at the IG Farben
plant at Auschwitz, was sentenced in 1948 to seven years for war crimes during
the IG Farben Trial at Nuremberg.[49]
Released in 1950, he was elected chair of Bayer's supervisory
board in 1956 and remained in that position until 1964.
Bayer HealthCare
paid Sidley Austin $200,000 to lobby government on Medicare reimbursement
September 20, 2007 at 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON AP – Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of German drug
maker Bayer
AG, paid Sidley Austin LLP $200,000
to lobby the federal government in the first half of 2007, according to a
recent disclosure form.
Inside the
marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama, who met at work and kissed outside an
ice cream store on their first date
Áine Cain
Mar. 17, 2018, 9:45 AM
Michelle was Obama's mentor at the law firm Sidley Austin
LLP, and was therefore reluctant to go out with him. According to
David Mendell's " Obama:
From Promise to Power," the future First Lady also thought
Obama sounded "too good to be true" at first. She was also
unimpressed when he showed up to the date in a "bad sport jacket"
with a "cigarette dangling from his mouth."
NAZI CONNECTIONS
TO 9/11 – THE SCHMITZ BROTHERS
June 13, 2006
RAN-CONTRA
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/03/the_entire_cato.html
John Schmitz was the father of the Bush I aide most involved in Iran-Contra,
John P. Schmitz, who refused to testify before the Walsh Commission … NAZI
CONNECTIONS TO 9/11 - THE SCHMITZ BROTHERSIS JOHN P. SCHMITZ A KEY PLAYER IN
9/11? http://www.voxfux.com/articles(closed)/00000010.htm … Some may remember
Schmitz from the Iran/contra investigation, when the Office of the Independent
Counsel (OIC) reported that each witness interviewed regarding document
production complied except for Schmitz, who asserted that his documents were
privileged work product. Schmitz, fluent in German and a Partner in global-law
firm Mayer,
Brown & Platt, has clients that include Bayer AG, German maker of the
antibiotic Cipro, which fights Anthrax, about which Larry Klayman and Judicial
Watch (JW) will have keen interest. Recently, JW filed suit seeking the administration’s
anthrax documents to ascertain why the White House starting taking heavy doses
of Cipro the day of the attacks — nearly a month before anthrax was even
discovered on Capitol Hill, and while postal workers continued to sort mail in
contaminated offices — some dying in the process. But John Schmitz’s Mayer-Brown
profile also reveals that he represents Enron, adding that “we were active in
Germany [with Enron] until the end….It [bankruptcy] surprised me as well as
anyone else,” according to Reuters (1-4-2002). Moreover, Mayer-Brown also
represents Deutschebank on a regular basis regarding its electronic commerce
activities; and curiously, Schmitz’s law firm maintains an office in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan along with Enron — if only to make sure oil is well in the Caspian
Sea basin. Even many 9/11 victim families will even come to recognize
Mayer-Brown; for conveniently, the firm also happens to represent United
Airlines against 9/11 family lawyers Mary Schiavo and Donald Nolan. And given
partner John P. Schmitz’s close former relationships with the Bush family,
Mayer-Brown’s many water coolers may become intriguing conduits when Miss
Schiavo and Mr. Nolan begin their respective legal discovery initiatives
regarding who will be subpoenaed or deposed and what evidence is or is not
revealed. Michael Feagley, a Mayer-Brown lead attorney in more than 35 jury and
bench trials, and evidentiary hearings, is a recognized expert in witness
testimony and evidence. And like 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Special Master
Kenneth Feinberg, Feagley is an also an authority on alternative dispute
resolution techniques – the art of bringing parties together to compromise in
legal disputes. His law firm biography lists the art of avoidance of and
preparation for potential future litigation as an additional key area of
expertise. Mayer-Brown’s website also lists a connection to President Bush’s
family, in that one of its partners, John P. Schmitz, personally represents and
lobbies for both Enron and Bayer AG, while also sitting on the Trustee Board of
Bayer Foundation. Moreover, Schmitz, fluent in German, was White House Deputy Counsel
when George H. W. Bush was both President and Vice President, making the
story’s legs that much more interesting.
William M. Daley
Professional career
He became associated with Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, where he was first
vice chairman (1989–1990) and then president and chief operating officer
(1990–1993).[7] Daley
returned to the practice of law, as a partner with the firm Mayer, Brown & Platt[8] from 1993
to 1997.
William M. Daley
On January 6, 2011, President Barack Obama
named Daley
as his next White House Chief of Staff, and he took office
on January 13, 2011. Daley succeeded Rahm Emanuel, who
served as Chief of Staff during the first two years of the President's term and
left the position in October 2010 to run to succeed Daley's brother as Mayor of Chicago, and Pete Rouse, who was
serving as the interim Chief of Staff.
Inside the
marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama, who met at work and kissed outside an
ice cream store on their first date
Áine Cain
Mar. 17, 2018, 9:45 AM
Michelle was Obama's
mentor at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, and was therefore reluctant
to go out with him. According to David Mendell's " Obama:
From Promise to Power," the future First Lady also thought
Obama sounded "too good to be true" at first. She was also
unimpressed when he showed up to the date in a "bad sport jacket"
with a "cigarette dangling from his mouth."
Bayer HealthCare
paid Sidley Austin $200,000 to lobby government on Medicare reimbursement
September 20, 2007 at 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON AP – Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of German drug
maker Bayer
AG,
paid Sidley
Austin LLP $200,000 to lobby the
federal government in the first half of 2007, according to a recent disclosure
form.
Daily Aspirin Causes 3,000 Deaths From Bleeding in
Britain Every Year
By Reuters On 6/14/17 at 5:16 AM EDT
People who are aged 75 or older and take aspirin daily to
ward off heart attacks face a significantly elevated risk of serious or even
fatal bleeding and should be given heartburn drugs to minimize the danger, a
10-year study has found.
Between 40 percent and 60 percent of over-75s in Europe
and the U.S. take aspirin every day, previous studies have estimated, but the
implications of long-term use in older people have remained unclear until now
because most clinical trials involve patients under 75.
The study published Wednesday, however, was split equally
between over-75s and younger patients, examining a total of 3,166 Britons who
had suffered a heart attack or stroke and were taking blood-thinning medication
to prevent a recurrence.
Researchers emphasized that the findings did not mean
that older patients should stop taking aspirin. Instead, they recommend broad
use of proton pump inhibitor heartburn drugs such as omeprazole, which can cut
the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding by 70-90 percent.
While aspirin—invented by Bayer in 1897 and now widely
available over the counter—is generally viewed as harmless, bleeding has long
been a recognized hazard.
Peter Rothwell, one of the study authors, said that
taking anti-platelet drugs such as aspirin prevented a fifth of recurrent heart
attacks and strokes but also led to about 3,000 excess-bleeding deaths annually
in Britain alone.
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