Monsanto. Founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, by the 1940s Monsanto was a major producer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibers. Notable achievements by Monsanto and its scientists as a chemical company included breakthrough research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation and being the first company to mass-produce light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also formerly manufactured controversial products such as the insecticide DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and recombinant bovine somatotropin (a.k.a. bovine growth hormone). Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, which was announced in 1983,[9] and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987. It remained one of the top 10 U.S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.
History[edit] Dow Chemical Company. The Dow Chemical Co., commonly referred to as Dow, is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second-largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue (after BASF)[2] and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization (after BASF and DuPont). Dow manufactures plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. With a presence in about 160 countries, it employs about 54,000 people worldwide.[3] The company has seven different major operating segments, with a wide variety of products made by each one.[3] Dow's 2012 sales totaled approximately $57 billion.[3] Dow has been called the "chemical companies' chemical company"[4] in that most of its sales are to other industries rather than end-users. Dow sells directly to end-users primarily in the human and animal health and consumer products markets.
Dow is a member of the American Chemistry Council. Products[edit] RAND Corporation. RAND has approximately 1,700 employees and three principal American locations: Santa Monica, California (headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute has offices in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi.[7] RAND Europe is located in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Brussels, Belgium.[8] The RAND-Qatar Policy Institute[9] is in Doha, Qatar. RAND's newest office is in Boston, Massachusetts. RAND is home to the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, one of the eight original graduate programs in public policy and the first to offer a Ph.D. The program aims to have practical value in that students work with RAND analysts on real-world problems. The campus is at RAND's Santa Monica research facility. RAND publishes the RAND Journal of Economics, a peer-reviewed journal of economics.
Project RAND[edit] General Henry H. History[edit] Mission statement[edit] Achievements and expertise[edit] Notable participants[edit] Agent Blue. Agent Blue affects plants by causing them to dry out. As rice is highly dependent on water to live, using Agent Blue on these paddies can destroy an entire field and leave it unsuitable for further planting. This is why Agent Blue was also used where food was not a factor, but foliage was. The Vietcong had an advantage while fighting in Vietnam because they were used to the abundance of plant life on the battlefield. The US found themselves at a disadvantage and based on the precedent set by the British in Malaya, decided that the best retaliation would be to take the Vietcong's advantage away from them by removing their cover.
Along roads, canals, railroads, and other transportation networks, Ranch Hand cleared several hundred yards using the herbicides to make ambushes more difficult for their enemies. Today, large quantities of the chemical named Agent Blue are still used on lawns and crops throughout the USA. [this quote needs a citation] Monsanto. Of missiles & money - don’t ask, won’t tell. War Cover-up. War Cover-upTop U.S. General on Cover-up of Forces Behind War That war is a racket has been told us by many, but rarely by one of this stature. Though he wrote the landmark book War is a Racket in 1935, the highly decorated U.S.
General Smedley Butler (two esteemed Medals of Honor) deserves to be heralded for this timeless message, which rings true today more than ever. Below is an engaging two-page summary. WAR IS A RACKET – by General Smedley Butler War is a racket. The World War cost the United States some $52 billion. Take our friends the du Ponts, the powder people. Take one of our steel companies. They sold your Uncle Sam 20 million mosquito nets for the use of the soldiers overseas. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Who provides these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 per cent? Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the offices, factories, and classrooms and put into the ranks. Well, it's a racket, all right. U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Veterans Class Action Lawsuit Over Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD | ClassActionLawsuitsInTheNews.
Veterans Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Class Action Lawsuit Receives Extension Of Time For Veterans To Join or Opt-In To The Class Action Lawsuit Against The United States. The deadline to join or opt-in to a class action lawsuit against the United States of America (the “Government” or “the United States” or “Defendant”) pending in the United States Court of Federal Claims (styled Michael Sabo, Nicholas Wells, Juan Perez, Alan Pitts, Billy J. Talley, Aimee Sherrod, and Tyler Einarson v. United States, Case No. 08-899C) that was brought on behalf of veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Under the Rules of the United States Court of Federal Claims, the Court has reportedly allowed the class action lawsuit to be a class action on behalf of the following individuals who choose to opt in: All individuals who (a) served on active duty in the U.S. Www.ptsdlawsuit.com Tagged as: www.ptsdlawsuit.com. Agent Orange. Herbicide used by the US in the Vietnam War Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides.
It was used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.[2] It is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. In addition to its damaging environmental effects, traces of dioxin (mainly TCDD, the most toxic of its type)[3] found in the mixture have caused major health problems for many individuals who were exposed, and their offspring. Agent Orange was produced in the United States from the late 1940s and was used in industrial agriculture, and was also sprayed along railroads and power lines to control undergrowth in forests. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military procured over 20,000,000 U.S. gal (76,000,000 L; 17,000,000 imp gal), consisting of a fifty-fifty mixture of 2,4-D and dioxin-contaminated 2,4,5-T. Chemical composition[edit] U.S.
U.S. Presidency of George W. Bush. Legislation vetoed[edit] President Bush vetoed 12 pieces of legislation, four of which were overturned by congress: July 19, 2006: Stem Cell Research Enactment Act of 2006May 1, 2007: H.R. 1591, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007June 20, 2007: Stem Cell Research Enactment Act of 2007October 3, 2007: State Children's Health Insurance Program Expansion H.R. 976November 2, 2007: Vetoed H.R. 1495, Water Resources Development Act of 2007. Overridden by House, 361-54 (277 votes needed). Overridden by Senate, 79-14 (62 needed), and enacted as Pub.L. 110–114 over President's veto.November 13, 2007: Vetoed H.R. 3043, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2008.
Administration and cabinet[edit] Cabinet meeting Bush placed a high value on personal loyalty and, as a result, his administration had high message discipline. Cabinet members[edit] Attorney General[edit] List of wars on concepts. United States[edit] Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J.
Edgar Hoover's "war on crime" in the 1930s. Various conflicts and demographic trends in US history have been described as a culture war. In Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson describe Jimmy Carter's application of "war" as metaphor for the energy crisis of 1974. Other high-profile examples include the War on Poverty, War on Cancer, War on Drugs, War on Gangs, War on Women, and the War on Christmas. President George W. Other usage[edit] Toronto mayor Rob Ford has described municipal initiatives such as a "war on graffiti" and "war on cars.
" Further reading[edit] Childress, James F. War on Drugs. On May 13, 2009, Gil Kerlikowske—the current Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)—signaled that the Obama administration did not plan to significantly alter drug enforcement policy, but also that the administration would not use the term "War on Drugs", because Kerlikowske considers the term to be "counter-productive".[11] ONDCP's view is that "drug addiction is a disease that can be successfully prevented and treated... making drugs more available will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe. "[12] One of the alternatives that Kerlikowske has showcased is the drug policy of Sweden, which seeks to balance public health concerns with opposition to drug legalization.
The prevalence rates for cocaine use in Sweden are barely one-fifth of those in European countries such as the United Kingdom and Spain. [citation needed] In June 2011, a self-appointed Global Commission on Drug Policy released a critical report on the War on Drugs, declaring: History. Opium production in Afghanistan. Harvested poppy capsules. Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation, 1994–2007 (hectares) Background (1979–present)[edit] Soviet period (1979–1989)[edit] As the Afghan government began to lose control of provinces during the Soviet invasion of 1979–80, warlords flourished and with it opium production as regional commanders searched for ways to generate money to purchase weapons, according to the UN.[7] (At this time the US was pursuing an "arms-length" supporting strategy of the Afghan freedom-fighters or Mujahideen, the main purpose being to cripple the USSR slowly into withdrawal through attrition rather than effect a quick and decisive overthrow.)
As explained by Zbigniew Brzezinski: The secret operation was an excellent idea. It was alleged by the Soviets on multiple occasions that American CIA agents were helping smuggle opium out of Afghanistan, either into the West, in order to raise money for the Afghan resistance or into the Soviet Union in order to weaken it through drug addiction. Class-action suit against VA opens. SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs may paint a rosy picture of improving healthcare for veterans, but the agency has systematically denied benefits to sick veterans and delayed claims so long that many of them commit suicide, a lawyer for two advocacy groups argued in federal court Monday. "The court faces an agency that is in denial and a healthcare system and an adjudication system that are broken down and in crisis," said Gordon P.
Erspamer, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, in an opening statement in the class-action suit against the VA. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of Veterans for Common Sense, based in Washington, D.C., and Veterans United for Truth, based in Santa Barbara. It does not seek damages, but wants the court to compel the department to improve the care of hundreds of thousands of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. "We've heard some pretty dramatic allegations of failures," said Richard G.
Veterans Bring Class-Action Lawsuit Against VA. Michael J. Garcia. Michael J. Garcia is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Garcia is the prosecutor in charge of the federal investigation against the disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer. A political[1] appointee of the Bush Administration, Mr. Garcia attended Valley Stream Central High School in New York and is a graduate of Binghamton University. On April 13, 2013, Garcia was on a list released by the Russian Federation of Americans banned from entering the country over their alleged human rights violations. Janet Reno. Early life and career Reno was born in Miami, Florida. Reno's mother, Jane Wallace (née Wood), raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News.[2] Her father, Henry Olaf Reno (original surname Rasmussen), was an emigrant from Denmark, who, for 43 years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.[2] Janet Reno has three younger siblings: Mark, Robert (a writer; 1939-2012), and Maggy Hurchalla.
Reno attended public school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where she was a debating champion and was valedictorian at Coral Gables High School. In 1956, Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry, became president of the Women's Self-Government Association, and earned her room and board. After Cornell, Reno enrolled at Harvard University Law School and graduated in 1963. State Attorney Several of those prosecuted by Reno were either acquitted or later released by appellate judges. Country Walk Bobby Fijnje U.S. Sources.