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by the mag By Beth Bartlett
1. Slinky No toy seems to exhibit a fear of heights the way the Slinky does. Place the cowardly coil on the top of a staircase, and it immediately starts inching its way down. But in battle, this spiral wonder has proven far braver. In Vietnam, the toys worked from treetops. Radio operators would tie rope through the middle of the long metal spirals, then drape them over branches to create perfect radio antennas. The Slinkys were especially useful because they didn’t tangle and could be yanked down quickly when soldiers needed to run. Of course, if you’re off to battle, buy an extra. While one Slinky will do the job, most radio operators wielded two for better reception.
2. Metal CricketsDuring the D-Day invasion at Normandy, more than 15,000 men dropped from the night sky carrying little metal insects. At the time, flashlight signaling was a common way for soldiers to communicate, but officials worried that flashing lights could tip off observant Germans. So, they substituted the torches for cheap, wind-up crickets that made clicking sounds. Each paratrooper received one, along with instructions to identify himself through the chirps. The brilliant scheme helped soldiers meet up safely on the ground. Unfortunately, the success was short-lived. A few Germans caught on, and after capturing some of the crickets, they used them to trap unsuspecting Americans. Still, the toys contributed to the invasion’s success, and souvenir replicas are still sold to tourists in Normandy today.
3. Silly StringSince the start of the Iraq war, worried families have sent tens of thousands of Silly String cans to their sons and daughters in the military. Why? Shortages of night-vision goggles have forced soldiers to improvise with the fluorescent foam. Silly String is especially good for finding tripwires in the dark. Before entering suspicious rooms, soldiers spray the string everywhere. If the glowing blobs hang ominously mid-air or get stuck on previously invisible objects, soldiers know to tread lightly.
4. The View-MasterThe View-Master was originally for grownups. Developed in the late 1930s, the device was used as a training tool to help WWII soldiers recognize specific ships, planes, and artillery from afar. But after the war, the device got a kid-friendly makeover. The toy was outfitted with reels featuring television characters and tourist destinations, and it quickly became a staple in toy chests everywhere.
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Clinton/Qualcomm/Carlyle/Tyson connections
http://www.calstate.edu/newsline/Archive/99-00/000418-SM.shtml
QUALCOMM made the $25 million commitment in conjunction with a "Digital Opportunity" tour by President Bill Clinton. The tour highlighted private and public sector efforts to reduce the digital divide between those in the United States who can afford access to computer and internet technology and those who cannot. QUALCOMM chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin Jacobs said "QUALCOMM's continuing commitment to education focuses on providing resources for the development and training of math teachers in San Diego, and strengthening the relationship among San Diego's universities, our local kindergarten through twelfth-grade system, and our larger community."
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Tyson Foods Indicted in Plan To Smuggle Illegal Workers
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: December 20, 2001
Tyson Foods Inc., the nation's largest meat producer and processor, was indicted yesterday with six employees on charges that it conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border to work in its processing plants.
The 36-count indictment, which was unsealed at Federal District Court in Chattanooga, Tenn., accuses Tyson of arranging to transport illegal immigrants across the border and of helping them to get counterfeit work papers for jobs at more than a dozen Tyson poultry plants.
The government said it was the largest case brought against a major American company involving the smuggling of immigrants.
The indictment said that six Tyson employees, including two executives, participated in the actions and that the company engaged in the practices to cut costs, meet production goals and to maximize profits. The company could face sanctions and large fines if found guilty; the workers could face prison terms.
Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., disputed the government accusations that a corporate conspiracy took place. In a statement, Tyson said the government case involved a handful of managers who had been operating outside of company policy and that the six employees charged had been dismissed or placed on administrative leave.
The indictment, however, charges that Tyson had a corporate culture that condoned such behavior.
The indictment could result in sharp changes for food processors who have come to rely heavily on immigrant labor. ''This is bound to send a chill through the industry,'' said John Lawrence, a professor of agriculture at Iowa State University and an authority on the meat industry. ''The question is, How involved are some of these companies in the recruiting?''
The indictment comes just months after Tyson, which has its roots in the poultry business, acquired I.B.P., the nation's largest beef processor, in a deal that created a $20 billion company that dominates the meat counter at supermarkets and is a leading supplier to fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King.
Tyson is on probation after pleading guilty in 1997 to making illegal gifts to Mike Espy, the former agriculture secretary. The government said that if Tyson was found guilty of conspiring to recruit illegal aliens, it could face more sanctions in the Espy case.
Barry Levine, a lawyer for Tyson, said yesterday that it would demonstrate in court that executives in Springdale had no knowledge of the recruiting of illegal immigrants.
''No one in the corporate offices knew of this,'' Mr. Levine said in a telephone interview.
The government said that a 30-month investigation, led by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, found that about 15 Tyson plants in 9 states were involved in a conspiracy from about 1994 to 2001.
Along with the company, the government charged two Tyson executives, Robert Hash, a vice president in Springdale, Ark., and Gerald Lankford, a human resources manager, with defrauding the government by conspiring to recruit Mexican and Central American immigrants along the United States border with Mexico and by helping them obtain illegal documents like fraudulent Social Security cards.
Mr. Hash and Mr. Lankford, who supervised Tyson poultry plants, including one in Shelbyville, Tenn., where the investigation was centered, were unavailable for comment yesterday. Tyson said both had been placed on administrative leave, pending a decision.
The indictment said that, to meet production and profit goals, Tyson officials would contact local smugglers near its plants to get more workers.
The recruiters would contact with smugglers in Mexico, who would round up people willing to work for Tyson, the indictment said. Tyson officials would then arrange to meet the workers along the border, the government said, and transport them to meat processing plants.
The government said that Amador Anchondo-Rascon, a Mexican resident and United States citizen who once worked in the Tyson plant in Shelbyville, was a recruiter and smuggler of illegal workers and that he arranged transportation and trafficked in illegal documents. Mr. Anchondo-Rascon, who the government said referred to himself as the ''Jefe de Jefes,'' or the boss of the bosses, was a primary contact for Tyson officials seeking new workers, the authorities said. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case but the government did not say why.
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Tyson Says Top Bosses Didn't Know
Claim Made As Firm And Execs Are Tried On Smuggling Charges
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Smuggling conspiracy defendants Robert Hash (left), Keith Snyder (center), both Tyson executives on administrative leave, and Gerald Lankford, a former human relations manager. (AP / CBS)
(AP) Prosecutors played secret tapes Thursday of a man described as a manager at Tyson Foods arranging for the delivery of hundreds of illegal immigrants from an undercover agent posing as a smuggler.
"Hell, I put over 700 people to work," said the man on the tape, whom prosecutors identified as plant manager Robert Sanford. "I'm going to need to replace 300 or 400 people - maybe 500. I'm going to need a lot."
Tyson and three officials are charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work on the production lines of the company. Tyson, the country's largest meat processor, supplies about one-quarter of the nation's chickens.
Border Patrol Agent Benito Maldonado testified Thursday that he handed over eight illegal immigrants to Sanford, manager of the company's Monroe, N.C., plant, in January 1998. Court records have identified Sanford as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Tyson lawyers said in Wednesday's opening statements that any hiring of illegal immigrants was done by a few plant managers and was not known to executives at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark.
"No one in senior management knew," attorney Tom Green said. "No member of senior management ever violated immigration laws or encouraged" anyone else to.
Tyson spokesman Gary Michelson said Thursday the tapes "involve former Tyson employees who violated company hiring policies and were subsequently terminated."
Prosecutors say the conspiracy began in 1994 after Tyson plant managers had trouble hiring cheap legal help for its poultry plants. Company officials then turned to a pipeline of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, Assistant U.S. Attorney John MacCoon alleged.
Maldonado, known to Tyson as Benjamin, described picking up eight illegal immigrants at a warehouse near where they sneaked into the country in Del Rio, Texas.
Maldonado testified Wednesday that Tyson plants solicited and accepted 26 deliveries of illegal immigrant workers during an undercover investigation started in 1997.
He said a total of 136 illegal immigrants were taken to Tyson plants in six states. Another 18 illegals were intercepted before reaching Cumming, Ga.
Tyson attorneys said they turned down a government demand for $100 million to have the charges dismissed. They also have accused the government of using undercover agents to entrap employees.
A December 2001 indictment accuses Tyson and three company officials of taking part in a smuggling conspiracy. If found guilty, Tyson could face millions in fines and the loss of government contracts.
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Tyson profit rises to $48 million in Q4
ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:22 a.m. November 10, 2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, said Monday that higher sales drove fiscal fourth-quarter profit to $48 million from $32 million a year ago.
The Springdale, Ark.-based company earned 13 cents per share, compared with 9 cents per share a year earlier. Its sales rose to $7.20 billion from $6.66 billion.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected, on average, a profit of 18 cents per share on revenue of $6.98 billion.
Tyson had gains in its beef and pork units but continued to struggle with its poultry and prepared food businesses.
The company said grain costs that climbed $230 million in the quarter accounted for a loss of $91 million in its chicken unit.
Tyson Foods President and Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Bond said the company's diversified interests have helped it through a difficult fiscal year.
“Producing the three major proteins has proven to be a strategic advantage,” Bond said. “The strong performance by our beef and pork segments supported the chicken segment as it struggled throughout the year due to low prices and high input costs.”
Bond said Tyson is still facing a number of headwinds, including the credit crunch, which he said is crimping overseas sales.
For the fiscal year, Tyson earned $86 million, or 24 cents per share, compared to $268 million, or 75 cents per share, a year ago. Sales rose to $26.86 billion from $25.73 billion.
Tyson has made overseas acquisitions in the past fiscal year to continue its strategy of expanding internationally.
“We acquired three poultry operations in Brazil, entered into majority ownership joint ventures in India and China and are awaiting government approval of our third joint venture in China,” Bond said.
Also, the company broke ground on a facility in Geismar, La., to convert low-grade inedible fats and greases into fuel for transportation. The enterprise is in a 50-50 joint venture with Tulsa, Okla.-based Syntroleum Corp.
Tyson's chicken unit lost $118 million in the fiscal year. Beef had a profit of $159 million in the quarter and $106 million in the year, while the pork unit made $75 million in the quarter and $145 million in the year. Prepared foods lost $5 million in the quarter and made $63 million in the year.
http://911review.org/Alex/INSA_Iraq-Qualcomm_Contract.html
A growing Republican scandal at INSA and Qualcomm.
Qualcomm was founded by the billionnaire McCaw family
(truculent Wendy McCaw, a newspaper publisher in Santa
Barbara, flared up in the press recently after she
fired a dozen reporters for not bending news stories
as she demanded, inspiring the banned and fired & the
community at large to backlash against the shrew, who
remains untamed), specifically a member of the
National Security Council ... kicked out by John F.
Kennedy. The family, which got into broadcasting early
rock and roll, gave us the Top 40 music format; tou
have the McCaws to thank for that ... and for Qualcomm
...
- AC
"Deputy Undersecretary Shaw, an old Republican hand
who had served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan White
Houses, quickly became the point man for the
initiative to bring CDMA to Iraq...."
1/11/2006
Conrad Burns INSA Lotta Trouble?
by Matt Singer @ 12:18 pm.
I�m still hearing rumors that there is more interest
in this story and also that the way it�s been broken
so far is a bit confusing, so here�s the whole
INSA/U.S.-Asia Network story as far as I�ve been able
to pull together the disparate threads.
Several weeks ago, a man named George Bailey wrote a
letter to the editor that appeared in several Montana
newspapers defending the character of Conrad Burns and
dismissing critics of Conrad.
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The letters received a quick response in the form of a
second letter to the editor from Jim Farrell,
executive director of the Montana Democratic Party.
Farrell�s letter pointed out that Bailey was not a
distinterested party or merely even an old friend of
Conrad Burns, but someone with a clear financial
conflict of interest when it comes to vouching for
Burns� character.
Specifically, George Bailey is the executive director
of the Inland Northwest Space Alliance (INSA), a
Missoula-based 501c3 (charitable or educational
non-profit) that has received over $5 million in
federal earmarked appropriations, all lined up by
Conrad Burns� office. INSA employs former Burns chief
of staff Leo Giacometto as one of its lobbyists
(another INSA lobbyist, one of Giacometto�s partners,
Robert Arensberg, figures in to this story later).
Giacometto became briefly famous in Montana for his
role in allegedly seeking to cover-up the drunk
driving accident in which Martz�s chief policy advisor
killed the majority leader of the Montana House, but
he has a long history and is well-known as one of the
shadier players in Montana politics.
The relationship doesn�t end there. INSA employs a
number of people with close connections to both Conrad
Burns and U.S. Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), including
former staff and spouses of current staff. All told,
INSA staff have donated roughly $15,000 of their
salaries into Burns� campaign coffers. In other words,
Burns lines up federal money, which pays the salaries
of staff, who donate to Burns.
But the connections don�t end here. While looking
further into connections between Conrad Burns and
George Bailey, I came across the U.S.-Asia Network
(the organization�s website has been removed from the
internets since I first wrote about this
organization). The Network�s board consists of three
people: George Bailey, Leo Giacometto (who also serves
as CEO of the Network), and Robert Arensberg
(Giacometto�s lobbying partner, he also serves as
President and COO of the Network). Conrad Burns serves
as the Honorary Chairman, along with three Korean
politicians.
I have no clear paper trail on where the Network�s
finances come from, but at several of its events,
featured speakers came from Qualcomm and Samsung. Do a
google search for �Qualcomm Samsung Conrad Burns� and
the first result is a Mother Jones report on �How a
top Pentagon official and a host of influential
Republicans almost made sure that one American company
gained a key stake in Iraq�s lucrative wireless
market.�
One of those �influential Republicans� is none other
than Montana�s junior senator. The American company is
none other than Qualcomm:
�The battle for Iraq is not over oil,� said one
Defense Department official involved in
communications. �It�s over bandwidth.� And no one was
fighting harder for a piece of the spectrum than the
consortium led by American cellular giant Qualcomm
with such business partners as Lucent Technologies and
Samsung of South Korea. They wanted to follow U.S.
troops into Iraq with Qualcomm�s patented cellular
technology, called CDMA, a system no nation in the
Middle East had yet been willing to adopt.
[�]
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Senator Conrad Burns felt the sting of Qualcomm�s
defeat in October. As chairman of the Communications
subcommittee, the Montana Republican had strong ties
to the company: Qualcomm was Burns� 12th-largest
campaign donor, and one of the company�s founders,
Klein Gilhousen, had recently given $5 million to
Montana State University. Gilhousen also sits on the
board of the Burns Telecom Center, an academic
research program, of which the senator is chairman.
During a trip to Iraq in October, Burns spoke with
officials one-on-one about the process that had denied
the Qualcomm consortium a license. �I think the
bidding was open, transparent, and fair,� he said upon
his return on October 14. That same day, however, one
of his chief aides began working behind the scenes to
plan a new way to get Qualcomm into Iraq, a plan
described in the aide�s internal emails, which were
obtained by Mother Jones. �As you know, Senator Burns
is taking flak for defending the CPA on Iraqi
telecommunications contracts which ignore CDMA,� wrote
Burns aide Myron Nordquist to one of the Pentagon�s
chief networking officials. �The Senator remains
determined to support CDMA.�
And Burns had a powerful motivation. The stakes for
Qualcomm, and by extension Burns, were far larger than
just the Iraqi market of 25 million people. For nearly
a decade, Qualcomm had been engaged in an
international battle with the non-American companies
pushing GSM, a rival technology that had been
developed in Europe and now controlled 72 percent of
the world market. A CDMA beachhead in Iraq would set
the stage for an expansion throughout the region, with
Lucent and Samsung well positioned to prosper as
leading makers of the CDMA switches and phones. As
Nordquist explained to the Pentagon last fall, Iraq
could provide a �communications link between Turkey
and the Gulf.�
Deputy Undersecretary Shaw, an old Republican hand who
had served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan White
Houses, quickly became the point man for the
initiative to bring CDMA to Iraq.
[�]
Senator Burns, wrote Shaw, was �strongly supportive�
of the plan. So was the South Korean government, which
sang its praises in a letter to CPA chief L. Paul
Bremer, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice,
and Senator Ted Stevens, the powerful Alaska
Republican who was responsible for the provision
exempting Alaska Native American corporations from the
contracting rules requiring competitive bidding. �I
would like to ask for your support,� wrote Daeje Chin,
the South Korean minister of information and
communication, noting that he hoped the emergency
system would be converted by this summer to a
�commercial service.�
[�]
Around that same time Shaw also pressed the case for
the Qualcomm consortium when Daniel Sudnick, the
senior American adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of
Communications, visited Washington, D.C. Shaw invited
him to dinner at the exclusive Metropolitan Club,
located across the street from the White House, took
him to meet Senator Burns, and then hosted a meeting
at his office on January 12 with representatives of
Nana Pacific and the Qualcomm consortium.
For all the work Qualcomm�s supporters did to arrange
for its entry into Iraq, the final authority over
Iraq�s telecom future still rested with the American
advisers, like Sudnick, working in Saddam�s former
palace in Baghdad. Although Sudnick met with Shaw and
Senator Burns, he told colleagues that he remained
determined to not effectively award a new cellular
phone license for Iraq under the cover of a network
for the nation�s police and fire officials.
The Mother Jones piece ends by noting that the
fighting over technology resulted in delays in
instituting a first-responder communications system.
As a result, Iraqis died.
But it doesn�t quite end there. After this story
started to get unraveled (with nothing more than
Google, mind you), the U.S. Asia Network website
disappeared (although I have numerous screenshots and
Google cache should work for a while, the Wayback
machine is an option after that). Meanwhile, the INSA
staff page has been scrubbed to remove references to
some staff with Rehberg and Burns connections.
The final story looks a little like this: a shadowy
network of organizations, possibly financed with
taxpayer money, looking to advance the interests of
major campaign donors, lining the pockets of key
political advisors, and providing money in-turn to
Burns� re-election efforts.
If this isn�t a scandal, I don�t know what is.
Conrad�s folks seem to think it�s a scandal, too.
Otherwise, I doubt they�d be covering their tracks
right now.
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Tyson announces expansion in Brazil
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
10:31 a.m. September 18, 2008
SPRINGDALE, Ark. – Tyson Foods Inc. says it's bought two poultry companies and has acquired majority ownership in a third in southern Brazil, home to many major producers of corn and soybeans.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Advertisement The Springdale, Ark.-based meat producer announced Thursday its agreements with the companies. Tyson says it will buy Macedo Agroindustrial and Avicola Itaiopolis, both in the state of Santa Catarina. Tyson says it has acquired a 70 percent ownership of Frangobras, located in the state of Parana.
Tyson's international president, Rick Greubel, says the company is expanding into Brazil because the country is the world's leading chicken exporter and third largest chicken producer behind the United States and China.
Tyson, the world's largest meat company, had sales of $26.9 billion in fiscal 2007. The company says chicken sales represented 31 percent of total sales.
“With the economic stability and a growing middle class, the per capita consumption of chicken will continue to increase in Brazil,” Greubel said. “In addition, our Brazilian operations will give us greater access to markets that are currently buying little to no poultry from the U.S.”
Tyson said current Macedo president, Joster Macedo, will head all of Tyson's Brazilian operations.
“The current management teams as well as other jobs at all three companies are expected to remain in place as we move forward with expansion plans,” said Greubel. “The transition to expanded production will be gradual with our focus on the long-term success of these operations.”
http://www.allbusiness.com/food-beverage/food-industry-food-mfg-animal-slaughtering/7089532-1.html
Tyson Foods signs contract with QUALCOMM; world's largest poultry producer buys OmniTRACS.
Publication: Business Wire
Date: Thursday, January 5 1995
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1995--QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) Thursday announced the signing of a contract with industry giant Tyson Foods Inc. for 100 OmniTRACS two-way communication terminals from QUALCOMM.
Current plans include the immediate installation of 750 units.
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Arkansas-based Tyson is the world's largest producer of poultry, processing more than 30 million chickens each week. "We looked at all the options, both cellular and satellite, and evaluated several," said Bill Lovette, vice president of distribution for Tyson.
"The OmniTRACS system was by far the leader, providing superior technology, proven stability and a total software solution. We expect the system to not only improve communications and customer service, but provide critical decision support information for long and short-term planning."
In addition to producing poultry, Tyson Foods is also one of the nation's largest producers of pork and pork products as well as tortillas for the food service industry. The company also operates a 34-vessel fishing fleet in the north pacific.
"We are excited to enter this partnership with Tyson," stated Rich Sulpizio, president
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The Carlyle Group and QUALCOMM Close Venture Capital Investment in China.
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- Enorbus Technologies Secures US$3 Million in Venture Funding and Commits to Bringing Top Game and Entertainment Content to Chinese Mobile Subscribers and the BREW(R) Solution -
Global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group and QUALCOMM Incorporated , pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the successful closing of a US$3 million investment in Enorbus Technologies. Based in Beijing, Enorbus is a leading wireless application publisher and developer of games and entertainment content for wireless phones. Enorbus is also an elite BREW developer and BREW Global Publisher (BGP), and has been actively ...
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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QUALCOMM made the $25 million commitment in conjunction with a "Digital Opportunity" tour by President Bill Clinton. The tour highlighted private and public sector efforts to reduce the digital divide between those in the United States who can afford access to computer and internet technology and those who cannot. QUALCOMM chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin Jacobs said "QUALCOMM's continuing commitment to education focuses on providing resources for the development and training of math teachers in San Diego, and strengthening the relationship among San Diego's universities, our local kindergarten through twelfth-grade system, and our larger community."
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Tyson Foods Indicted in Plan To Smuggle Illegal Workers
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: December 20, 2001
Tyson Foods Inc., the nation's largest meat producer and processor, was indicted yesterday with six employees on charges that it conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border to work in its processing plants.
The 36-count indictment, which was unsealed at Federal District Court in Chattanooga, Tenn., accuses Tyson of arranging to transport illegal immigrants across the border and of helping them to get counterfeit work papers for jobs at more than a dozen Tyson poultry plants.
The government said it was the largest case brought against a major American company involving the smuggling of immigrants.
The indictment said that six Tyson employees, including two executives, participated in the actions and that the company engaged in the practices to cut costs, meet production goals and to maximize profits. The company could face sanctions and large fines if found guilty; the workers could face prison terms.
Tyson, based in Springdale, Ark., disputed the government accusations that a corporate conspiracy took place. In a statement, Tyson said the government case involved a handful of managers who had been operating outside of company policy and that the six employees charged had been dismissed or placed on administrative leave.
The indictment, however, charges that Tyson had a corporate culture that condoned such behavior.
The indictment could result in sharp changes for food processors who have come to rely heavily on immigrant labor. ''This is bound to send a chill through the industry,'' said John Lawrence, a professor of agriculture at Iowa State University and an authority on the meat industry. ''The question is, How involved are some of these companies in the recruiting?''
The indictment comes just months after Tyson, which has its roots in the poultry business, acquired I.B.P., the nation's largest beef processor, in a deal that created a $20 billion company that dominates the meat counter at supermarkets and is a leading supplier to fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King.
Tyson is on probation after pleading guilty in 1997 to making illegal gifts to Mike Espy, the former agriculture secretary. The government said that if Tyson was found guilty of conspiring to recruit illegal aliens, it could face more sanctions in the Espy case.
Barry Levine, a lawyer for Tyson, said yesterday that it would demonstrate in court that executives in Springdale had no knowledge of the recruiting of illegal immigrants.
''No one in the corporate offices knew of this,'' Mr. Levine said in a telephone interview.
The government said that a 30-month investigation, led by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, found that about 15 Tyson plants in 9 states were involved in a conspiracy from about 1994 to 2001.
Along with the company, the government charged two Tyson executives, Robert Hash, a vice president in Springdale, Ark., and Gerald Lankford, a human resources manager, with defrauding the government by conspiring to recruit Mexican and Central American immigrants along the United States border with Mexico and by helping them obtain illegal documents like fraudulent Social Security cards.
Mr. Hash and Mr. Lankford, who supervised Tyson poultry plants, including one in Shelbyville, Tenn., where the investigation was centered, were unavailable for comment yesterday. Tyson said both had been placed on administrative leave, pending a decision.
The indictment said that, to meet production and profit goals, Tyson officials would contact local smugglers near its plants to get more workers.
The recruiters would contact with smugglers in Mexico, who would round up people willing to work for Tyson, the indictment said. Tyson officials would then arrange to meet the workers along the border, the government said, and transport them to meat processing plants.
The government said that Amador Anchondo-Rascon, a Mexican resident and United States citizen who once worked in the Tyson plant in Shelbyville, was a recruiter and smuggler of illegal workers and that he arranged transportation and trafficked in illegal documents. Mr. Anchondo-Rascon, who the government said referred to himself as the ''Jefe de Jefes,'' or the boss of the bosses, was a primary contact for Tyson officials seeking new workers, the authorities said. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the case but the government did not say why.
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Tyson Says Top Bosses Didn't Know
Claim Made As Firm And Execs Are Tried On Smuggling Charges
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Smuggling conspiracy defendants Robert Hash (left), Keith Snyder (center), both Tyson executives on administrative leave, and Gerald Lankford, a former human relations manager. (AP / CBS)
(AP) Prosecutors played secret tapes Thursday of a man described as a manager at Tyson Foods arranging for the delivery of hundreds of illegal immigrants from an undercover agent posing as a smuggler.
"Hell, I put over 700 people to work," said the man on the tape, whom prosecutors identified as plant manager Robert Sanford. "I'm going to need to replace 300 or 400 people - maybe 500. I'm going to need a lot."
Tyson and three officials are charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work on the production lines of the company. Tyson, the country's largest meat processor, supplies about one-quarter of the nation's chickens.
Border Patrol Agent Benito Maldonado testified Thursday that he handed over eight illegal immigrants to Sanford, manager of the company's Monroe, N.C., plant, in January 1998. Court records have identified Sanford as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Tyson lawyers said in Wednesday's opening statements that any hiring of illegal immigrants was done by a few plant managers and was not known to executives at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark.
"No one in senior management knew," attorney Tom Green said. "No member of senior management ever violated immigration laws or encouraged" anyone else to.
Tyson spokesman Gary Michelson said Thursday the tapes "involve former Tyson employees who violated company hiring policies and were subsequently terminated."
Prosecutors say the conspiracy began in 1994 after Tyson plant managers had trouble hiring cheap legal help for its poultry plants. Company officials then turned to a pipeline of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, Assistant U.S. Attorney John MacCoon alleged.
Maldonado, known to Tyson as Benjamin, described picking up eight illegal immigrants at a warehouse near where they sneaked into the country in Del Rio, Texas.
Maldonado testified Wednesday that Tyson plants solicited and accepted 26 deliveries of illegal immigrant workers during an undercover investigation started in 1997.
He said a total of 136 illegal immigrants were taken to Tyson plants in six states. Another 18 illegals were intercepted before reaching Cumming, Ga.
Tyson attorneys said they turned down a government demand for $100 million to have the charges dismissed. They also have accused the government of using undercover agents to entrap employees.
A December 2001 indictment accuses Tyson and three company officials of taking part in a smuggling conspiracy. If found guilty, Tyson could face millions in fines and the loss of government contracts.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20081110-0622-earns-tysonfoods.html
Tyson profit rises to $48 million in Q4
ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:22 a.m. November 10, 2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat company, said Monday that higher sales drove fiscal fourth-quarter profit to $48 million from $32 million a year ago.
The Springdale, Ark.-based company earned 13 cents per share, compared with 9 cents per share a year earlier. Its sales rose to $7.20 billion from $6.66 billion.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected, on average, a profit of 18 cents per share on revenue of $6.98 billion.
Tyson had gains in its beef and pork units but continued to struggle with its poultry and prepared food businesses.
The company said grain costs that climbed $230 million in the quarter accounted for a loss of $91 million in its chicken unit.
Tyson Foods President and Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Bond said the company's diversified interests have helped it through a difficult fiscal year.
“Producing the three major proteins has proven to be a strategic advantage,” Bond said. “The strong performance by our beef and pork segments supported the chicken segment as it struggled throughout the year due to low prices and high input costs.”
Bond said Tyson is still facing a number of headwinds, including the credit crunch, which he said is crimping overseas sales.
For the fiscal year, Tyson earned $86 million, or 24 cents per share, compared to $268 million, or 75 cents per share, a year ago. Sales rose to $26.86 billion from $25.73 billion.
Tyson has made overseas acquisitions in the past fiscal year to continue its strategy of expanding internationally.
“We acquired three poultry operations in Brazil, entered into majority ownership joint ventures in India and China and are awaiting government approval of our third joint venture in China,” Bond said.
Also, the company broke ground on a facility in Geismar, La., to convert low-grade inedible fats and greases into fuel for transportation. The enterprise is in a 50-50 joint venture with Tulsa, Okla.-based Syntroleum Corp.
Tyson's chicken unit lost $118 million in the fiscal year. Beef had a profit of $159 million in the quarter and $106 million in the year, while the pork unit made $75 million in the quarter and $145 million in the year. Prepared foods lost $5 million in the quarter and made $63 million in the year.
http://911review.org/Alex/INSA_Iraq-Qualcomm_Contract.html
A growing Republican scandal at INSA and Qualcomm.
Qualcomm was founded by the billionnaire McCaw family
(truculent Wendy McCaw, a newspaper publisher in Santa
Barbara, flared up in the press recently after she
fired a dozen reporters for not bending news stories
as she demanded, inspiring the banned and fired & the
community at large to backlash against the shrew, who
remains untamed), specifically a member of the
National Security Council ... kicked out by John F.
Kennedy. The family, which got into broadcasting early
rock and roll, gave us the Top 40 music format; tou
have the McCaws to thank for that ... and for Qualcomm
...
- AC
"Deputy Undersecretary Shaw, an old Republican hand
who had served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan White
Houses, quickly became the point man for the
initiative to bring CDMA to Iraq...."
1/11/2006
Conrad Burns INSA Lotta Trouble?
by Matt Singer @ 12:18 pm.
I�m still hearing rumors that there is more interest
in this story and also that the way it�s been broken
so far is a bit confusing, so here�s the whole
INSA/U.S.-Asia Network story as far as I�ve been able
to pull together the disparate threads.
Several weeks ago, a man named George Bailey wrote a
letter to the editor that appeared in several Montana
newspapers defending the character of Conrad Burns and
dismissing critics of Conrad.
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The letters received a quick response in the form of a
second letter to the editor from Jim Farrell,
executive director of the Montana Democratic Party.
Farrell�s letter pointed out that Bailey was not a
distinterested party or merely even an old friend of
Conrad Burns, but someone with a clear financial
conflict of interest when it comes to vouching for
Burns� character.
Specifically, George Bailey is the executive director
of the Inland Northwest Space Alliance (INSA), a
Missoula-based 501c3 (charitable or educational
non-profit) that has received over $5 million in
federal earmarked appropriations, all lined up by
Conrad Burns� office. INSA employs former Burns chief
of staff Leo Giacometto as one of its lobbyists
(another INSA lobbyist, one of Giacometto�s partners,
Robert Arensberg, figures in to this story later).
Giacometto became briefly famous in Montana for his
role in allegedly seeking to cover-up the drunk
driving accident in which Martz�s chief policy advisor
killed the majority leader of the Montana House, but
he has a long history and is well-known as one of the
shadier players in Montana politics.
The relationship doesn�t end there. INSA employs a
number of people with close connections to both Conrad
Burns and U.S. Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), including
former staff and spouses of current staff. All told,
INSA staff have donated roughly $15,000 of their
salaries into Burns� campaign coffers. In other words,
Burns lines up federal money, which pays the salaries
of staff, who donate to Burns.
But the connections don�t end here. While looking
further into connections between Conrad Burns and
George Bailey, I came across the U.S.-Asia Network
(the organization�s website has been removed from the
internets since I first wrote about this
organization). The Network�s board consists of three
people: George Bailey, Leo Giacometto (who also serves
as CEO of the Network), and Robert Arensberg
(Giacometto�s lobbying partner, he also serves as
President and COO of the Network). Conrad Burns serves
as the Honorary Chairman, along with three Korean
politicians.
I have no clear paper trail on where the Network�s
finances come from, but at several of its events,
featured speakers came from Qualcomm and Samsung. Do a
google search for �Qualcomm Samsung Conrad Burns� and
the first result is a Mother Jones report on �How a
top Pentagon official and a host of influential
Republicans almost made sure that one American company
gained a key stake in Iraq�s lucrative wireless
market.�
One of those �influential Republicans� is none other
than Montana�s junior senator. The American company is
none other than Qualcomm:
�The battle for Iraq is not over oil,� said one
Defense Department official involved in
communications. �It�s over bandwidth.� And no one was
fighting harder for a piece of the spectrum than the
consortium led by American cellular giant Qualcomm
with such business partners as Lucent Technologies and
Samsung of South Korea. They wanted to follow U.S.
troops into Iraq with Qualcomm�s patented cellular
technology, called CDMA, a system no nation in the
Middle East had yet been willing to adopt.
[�]
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Senator Conrad Burns felt the sting of Qualcomm�s
defeat in October. As chairman of the Communications
subcommittee, the Montana Republican had strong ties
to the company: Qualcomm was Burns� 12th-largest
campaign donor, and one of the company�s founders,
Klein Gilhousen, had recently given $5 million to
Montana State University. Gilhousen also sits on the
board of the Burns Telecom Center, an academic
research program, of which the senator is chairman.
During a trip to Iraq in October, Burns spoke with
officials one-on-one about the process that had denied
the Qualcomm consortium a license. �I think the
bidding was open, transparent, and fair,� he said upon
his return on October 14. That same day, however, one
of his chief aides began working behind the scenes to
plan a new way to get Qualcomm into Iraq, a plan
described in the aide�s internal emails, which were
obtained by Mother Jones. �As you know, Senator Burns
is taking flak for defending the CPA on Iraqi
telecommunications contracts which ignore CDMA,� wrote
Burns aide Myron Nordquist to one of the Pentagon�s
chief networking officials. �The Senator remains
determined to support CDMA.�
And Burns had a powerful motivation. The stakes for
Qualcomm, and by extension Burns, were far larger than
just the Iraqi market of 25 million people. For nearly
a decade, Qualcomm had been engaged in an
international battle with the non-American companies
pushing GSM, a rival technology that had been
developed in Europe and now controlled 72 percent of
the world market. A CDMA beachhead in Iraq would set
the stage for an expansion throughout the region, with
Lucent and Samsung well positioned to prosper as
leading makers of the CDMA switches and phones. As
Nordquist explained to the Pentagon last fall, Iraq
could provide a �communications link between Turkey
and the Gulf.�
Deputy Undersecretary Shaw, an old Republican hand who
had served in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan White
Houses, quickly became the point man for the
initiative to bring CDMA to Iraq.
[�]
Senator Burns, wrote Shaw, was �strongly supportive�
of the plan. So was the South Korean government, which
sang its praises in a letter to CPA chief L. Paul
Bremer, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice,
and Senator Ted Stevens, the powerful Alaska
Republican who was responsible for the provision
exempting Alaska Native American corporations from the
contracting rules requiring competitive bidding. �I
would like to ask for your support,� wrote Daeje Chin,
the South Korean minister of information and
communication, noting that he hoped the emergency
system would be converted by this summer to a
�commercial service.�
[�]
Around that same time Shaw also pressed the case for
the Qualcomm consortium when Daniel Sudnick, the
senior American adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of
Communications, visited Washington, D.C. Shaw invited
him to dinner at the exclusive Metropolitan Club,
located across the street from the White House, took
him to meet Senator Burns, and then hosted a meeting
at his office on January 12 with representatives of
Nana Pacific and the Qualcomm consortium.
For all the work Qualcomm�s supporters did to arrange
for its entry into Iraq, the final authority over
Iraq�s telecom future still rested with the American
advisers, like Sudnick, working in Saddam�s former
palace in Baghdad. Although Sudnick met with Shaw and
Senator Burns, he told colleagues that he remained
determined to not effectively award a new cellular
phone license for Iraq under the cover of a network
for the nation�s police and fire officials.
The Mother Jones piece ends by noting that the
fighting over technology resulted in delays in
instituting a first-responder communications system.
As a result, Iraqis died.
But it doesn�t quite end there. After this story
started to get unraveled (with nothing more than
Google, mind you), the U.S. Asia Network website
disappeared (although I have numerous screenshots and
Google cache should work for a while, the Wayback
machine is an option after that). Meanwhile, the INSA
staff page has been scrubbed to remove references to
some staff with Rehberg and Burns connections.
The final story looks a little like this: a shadowy
network of organizations, possibly financed with
taxpayer money, looking to advance the interests of
major campaign donors, lining the pockets of key
political advisors, and providing money in-turn to
Burns� re-election efforts.
If this isn�t a scandal, I don�t know what is.
Conrad�s folks seem to think it�s a scandal, too.
Otherwise, I doubt they�d be covering their tracks
right now.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080918-1031-tysonfoods-brazil.html
Tyson announces expansion in Brazil
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080918-1031-tysonfoods-brazil.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
10:31 a.m. September 18, 2008
SPRINGDALE, Ark. – Tyson Foods Inc. says it's bought two poultry companies and has acquired majority ownership in a third in southern Brazil, home to many major producers of corn and soybeans.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Advertisement The Springdale, Ark.-based meat producer announced Thursday its agreements with the companies. Tyson says it will buy Macedo Agroindustrial and Avicola Itaiopolis, both in the state of Santa Catarina. Tyson says it has acquired a 70 percent ownership of Frangobras, located in the state of Parana.
Tyson's international president, Rick Greubel, says the company is expanding into Brazil because the country is the world's leading chicken exporter and third largest chicken producer behind the United States and China.
Tyson, the world's largest meat company, had sales of $26.9 billion in fiscal 2007. The company says chicken sales represented 31 percent of total sales.
“With the economic stability and a growing middle class, the per capita consumption of chicken will continue to increase in Brazil,” Greubel said. “In addition, our Brazilian operations will give us greater access to markets that are currently buying little to no poultry from the U.S.”
Tyson said current Macedo president, Joster Macedo, will head all of Tyson's Brazilian operations.
“The current management teams as well as other jobs at all three companies are expected to remain in place as we move forward with expansion plans,” said Greubel. “The transition to expanded production will be gradual with our focus on the long-term success of these operations.”
http://www.allbusiness.com/food-beverage/food-industry-food-mfg-animal-slaughtering/7089532-1.html
Tyson Foods signs contract with QUALCOMM; world's largest poultry producer buys OmniTRACS.
Publication: Business Wire
Date: Thursday, January 5 1995
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1995--QUALCOMM Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) Thursday announced the signing of a contract with industry giant Tyson Foods Inc. for 100 OmniTRACS two-way communication terminals from QUALCOMM.
Current plans include the immediate installation of 750 units.
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Arkansas-based Tyson is the world's largest producer of poultry, processing more than 30 million chickens each week. "We looked at all the options, both cellular and satellite, and evaluated several," said Bill Lovette, vice president of distribution for Tyson.
"The OmniTRACS system was by far the leader, providing superior technology, proven stability and a total software solution. We expect the system to not only improve communications and customer service, but provide critical decision support information for long and short-term planning."
In addition to producing poultry, Tyson Foods is also one of the nation's largest producers of pork and pork products as well as tortillas for the food service industry. The company also operates a 34-vessel fishing fleet in the north pacific.
"We are excited to enter this partnership with Tyson," stated Rich Sulpizio, president
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132367621.html
The Carlyle Group and QUALCOMM Close Venture Capital Investment in China.
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Global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group and QUALCOMM Incorporated , pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the successful closing of a US$3 million investment in Enorbus Technologies. Based in Beijing, Enorbus is a leading wireless application publisher and developer of games and entertainment content for wireless phones. Enorbus is also an elite BREW developer and BREW Global Publisher (BGP), and has been actively ...
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DoD is the largest oil consuming gov. body in the US and the world
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Archived Feb 26 2006
The US military oil consumption
by Sohbet Karbuz
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest oil consuming government body in the US and in the world
“Military fuel consumption makes the Department of Defense the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S” [1]
“Military fuel consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the DoD the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S” [2]
According to the US Defense Energy Support Center Fact Book 2004, in Fiscal Year 2004, the US military fuel consumption increased to 144 million barrels. This is about 40 million barrels more than the average peacetime military usage.
By the way, 144 million barrels makes 395 000 barrels per day, almost as much as daily energy consumption of Greece.
The US military is the biggest purchaser of oil in the world.
In 1999 Almanac edition of the Defense Logistic Agency’s news magazine Dimensions it was stated that the DESC “purchases more light refined petroleum product than any other single organization or country in the world. With a $3.5 billion annual budget, DESC procures nearly 100 million barrels of petroleum products each year. That's enough fuel for 1,000 cars to drive around the world 4,620 times.”
That budget increased a lot over the years. The US DoD spent $8.2 billion on energy in fiscal year 2004.
“In fiscal 2005, DESC will buy about 128 million barrels of fuel at a cost of $8.5 billion, and Jet fuel constitutes nearly 70 percent of DoD's petroleum product purchases.” says American Forces Information Service News Article by G. J. Gilmore. [3]
For some, this is not enough though. Here is what a report from Office of Under Secretary of Defense says “Because DOD’s consumption of oil represents the highest priority of all uses, there will be no fundamental limits to DOD’s fuel supply for many, many decades.” [4]
American GI is the most energy-consuming soldier ever seen on the field of war
“The Army calculated that it would burn 40 million gallons of fuel in three weeks of combat in Iraq, an amount equivalent to the gasoline consumed by all Allied armies combined during the four years of World War I.” [1]
In May 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Robert Bryce gives another example; “The Third Army (of General Patton) had about 400,000 men and used about 400,000 gallons of gasoline a day. Today the Pentagon has about a third that number of troops in Iraq yet they use more than four times as much fuel.”
The US military oil consumption overseas and the world oil demand
According to the Defence Logistic Agency’s Web Site, as of November 2005 more than 2.1 billion gallons of fuel have been used in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (since October 2001; war on terrorism in Afghanistan).
In the May 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly article Robert Bryce says that “The U.S. military now uses about 1.7 million gallons of fuel a day in Iraq. … each of the 150,000 soldiers on the ground consumes roughly nine gallons of fuel a day. And that figure has been rising.” This mean in Iraq each day 40 000 b/d of oil is consumed by the US military.
Yes, something is wrong with that figure. Compare it with the one given by the Defense Logistics Agency spokeswoman Lana Hampton. Accroding to an American Forces Information Service News Article she said the U.S. military is using between 10 million and 11 million barrels of fuel each month to sustain operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. This makes 330 000 - 360 000 barrel per day.
This is more than double the amount of oil used in the Gulf war!
According to a Rand Corporation report “1.88 billion gallons of fuel were consumed within the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility during Operations Desert Shild and Desert Storm (ODS/S), between August 10, 1990 and May 31, 1991.” [5]. This makes 44.8 million barrels, or 150 000 barrels a day. Note that ODS/S lasted 295 days.
Moreover, “during ODS/S Saudi Arabia and the UAE supplied fuels without charge (1.5 billion gallons), whereas Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Qatar charged for the fuels,” adds the Rand report.
Did Saudi Arabia and the UAE report that fuel as export? Did the US report it as import? Was it counted as Saudi or UAE domestic consumption? Or Was it counted as the US consumption?
I am afraid the answers to those three questions are No, No, No and No!
But that amount was surely counted in production.
My experience with international oil statistics tell me that the US military oil consumption overseas disappears in world oil demand. Hence, demand is understated at least that much.
Is about 350 000 barrel per day missing oil demand important?
Sources cited:
[1] Presentation by American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Red Cavaney held at the USAF/API Awards Banquet – Arlington, Virginia, July 15, 2004. See also National Defense Magazine article in 2002.
[2] E. C. Aldbridge and D. M. Etter testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on June 5, 2001.
[3] American Forces Information Service News Article by G. J. Gilmore, DoD Has Enough Petroleum Products for Anti-Terror War, August 11, 2005. The article is posted also on DCmilitary
[4] More Capable Warfighting Through Reduced Fuel Burden, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, The Defense Science Board Task Force on Improving Fuel Efficiency of Weapons Platforms, January 2001,
[5] J.P. Stucker, J.F. Schank and B. Dombey-Moore, Assessment of DoD Fuel Standardisation Policies, Rand Corporation, 1994.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editorial Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Sohbet Karbuz (a Turkish citizen), is former head of non-OECD energy statistics section of the International Energy Agency (Paris). Before joining the IEA he held academic positions in Germany and Austria.
-BA
Published Feb 25 2006 by Blogspot
Archived Feb 26 2006
The US military oil consumption
by Sohbet Karbuz
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest oil consuming government body in the US and in the world
“Military fuel consumption makes the Department of Defense the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S” [1]
“Military fuel consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the DoD the single largest consumer of petroleum in the U.S” [2]
According to the US Defense Energy Support Center Fact Book 2004, in Fiscal Year 2004, the US military fuel consumption increased to 144 million barrels. This is about 40 million barrels more than the average peacetime military usage.
By the way, 144 million barrels makes 395 000 barrels per day, almost as much as daily energy consumption of Greece.
The US military is the biggest purchaser of oil in the world.
In 1999 Almanac edition of the Defense Logistic Agency’s news magazine Dimensions it was stated that the DESC “purchases more light refined petroleum product than any other single organization or country in the world. With a $3.5 billion annual budget, DESC procures nearly 100 million barrels of petroleum products each year. That's enough fuel for 1,000 cars to drive around the world 4,620 times.”
That budget increased a lot over the years. The US DoD spent $8.2 billion on energy in fiscal year 2004.
“In fiscal 2005, DESC will buy about 128 million barrels of fuel at a cost of $8.5 billion, and Jet fuel constitutes nearly 70 percent of DoD's petroleum product purchases.” says American Forces Information Service News Article by G. J. Gilmore. [3]
For some, this is not enough though. Here is what a report from Office of Under Secretary of Defense says “Because DOD’s consumption of oil represents the highest priority of all uses, there will be no fundamental limits to DOD’s fuel supply for many, many decades.” [4]
American GI is the most energy-consuming soldier ever seen on the field of war
“The Army calculated that it would burn 40 million gallons of fuel in three weeks of combat in Iraq, an amount equivalent to the gasoline consumed by all Allied armies combined during the four years of World War I.” [1]
In May 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Robert Bryce gives another example; “The Third Army (of General Patton) had about 400,000 men and used about 400,000 gallons of gasoline a day. Today the Pentagon has about a third that number of troops in Iraq yet they use more than four times as much fuel.”
The US military oil consumption overseas and the world oil demand
According to the Defence Logistic Agency’s Web Site, as of November 2005 more than 2.1 billion gallons of fuel have been used in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (since October 2001; war on terrorism in Afghanistan).
In the May 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly article Robert Bryce says that “The U.S. military now uses about 1.7 million gallons of fuel a day in Iraq. … each of the 150,000 soldiers on the ground consumes roughly nine gallons of fuel a day. And that figure has been rising.” This mean in Iraq each day 40 000 b/d of oil is consumed by the US military.
Yes, something is wrong with that figure. Compare it with the one given by the Defense Logistics Agency spokeswoman Lana Hampton. Accroding to an American Forces Information Service News Article she said the U.S. military is using between 10 million and 11 million barrels of fuel each month to sustain operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. This makes 330 000 - 360 000 barrel per day.
This is more than double the amount of oil used in the Gulf war!
According to a Rand Corporation report “1.88 billion gallons of fuel were consumed within the U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility during Operations Desert Shild and Desert Storm (ODS/S), between August 10, 1990 and May 31, 1991.” [5]. This makes 44.8 million barrels, or 150 000 barrels a day. Note that ODS/S lasted 295 days.
Moreover, “during ODS/S Saudi Arabia and the UAE supplied fuels without charge (1.5 billion gallons), whereas Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Qatar charged for the fuels,” adds the Rand report.
Did Saudi Arabia and the UAE report that fuel as export? Did the US report it as import? Was it counted as Saudi or UAE domestic consumption? Or Was it counted as the US consumption?
I am afraid the answers to those three questions are No, No, No and No!
But that amount was surely counted in production.
My experience with international oil statistics tell me that the US military oil consumption overseas disappears in world oil demand. Hence, demand is understated at least that much.
Is about 350 000 barrel per day missing oil demand important?
Sources cited:
[1] Presentation by American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Red Cavaney held at the USAF/API Awards Banquet – Arlington, Virginia, July 15, 2004. See also National Defense Magazine article in 2002.
[2] E. C. Aldbridge and D. M. Etter testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on June 5, 2001.
[3] American Forces Information Service News Article by G. J. Gilmore, DoD Has Enough Petroleum Products for Anti-Terror War, August 11, 2005. The article is posted also on DCmilitary
[4] More Capable Warfighting Through Reduced Fuel Burden, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, The Defense Science Board Task Force on Improving Fuel Efficiency of Weapons Platforms, January 2001,
[5] J.P. Stucker, J.F. Schank and B. Dombey-Moore, Assessment of DoD Fuel Standardisation Policies, Rand Corporation, 1994.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editorial Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Sohbet Karbuz (a Turkish citizen), is former head of non-OECD energy statistics section of the International Energy Agency (Paris). Before joining the IEA he held academic positions in Germany and Austria.
-BA
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Court bars Meatpacker Tests for Mad Cow/Fast Food Scandals
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=942
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Court bars Meatpacker Tests for Mad Cow
By Charles Abbott
Fri Aug 29, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Agriculture Department is within bounds to bar meatpackers from testing slaughter cattle for mad cow disease, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling on Friday.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC, a small Arkansas packer, filed suit on March 23, 2006, to gain access to mad-cow test kits. It said it wanted to test every animal at its plant to assure foreign buyers that the meat was safe to eat.
Three U.S. cases of mad cow disease, a fatal neurological infection, have been reported, the last in March 2006. People can contract a human version of the disease by eating infected meats. Most nations banned U.S. beef after the first case, in December 2003, but trade has been restored for the most part.
In a 25-page ruling, Appellate Judges Karen Henderson and Judith Rogers said USDA has authority under the 1913 Virus-Serum-Toxin Act to prevent sale of mad-cow test kits to meatpackers. USDA interprets the law to control products for “prevention, diagnosis, management or care of diseases of animals.”
David Sentelle, chief judge of the District of Columbia appeals circuit, dissented from the decision. He said USDA “exceeds the bounds of reasonableness” for a law enacted to prevent the sale of ineffective animal medicine.
USDA allows the mad-cow test kits to be sold only to laboratories that it approves. It says the tests should not be used as a marketing tool and the cattle that comprise the bulk of the meat supply are too young to be tested reliably.
Two large export markets, Japan and South Korea, accept beef only from younger U.S. cattle. Mad cow is found mostly in older cattle. Its incubation period is two to eight years.
Creekstone said it lost $200,000 a day due to reduced U.S. beef exports when it filed its lawsuit.
In its lawsuit, Creekstone argued the 1913 law could not be invoked to prevent use of products like “rapid test” kits for mad cow disease and the kits were not a “treatment” for livestock.
U.S. District Judge James Robinson had ruled in March 2007 that USDA could not control mad cow tests because they are not a treatment for animals.
The United States applies a number of safeguards against mad cow, formally named bovine spongiform encephalopathy. They include a ban on using cattle parts in feed and requirements for packers to remove at slaughter the materials most likely to carry the mad-cow agent — the brain, spinal column and nervous system tissue.
(Editing by Walter Bagley)
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November 22, 2000
FAQ About Codex Alimentarius
What is Codex Alimentarius?
Why is it important?
How is it different from WTO and other trade pacts and organizations?
Good background article from 1999
What is Codex Alimentarius?
Here is one definition: The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) was established in 1962 by two United Nations organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Codex is the major international organization for encouraging fair international trade in food and protecting the health and economic interests of consumers. Through adoption of food standards, codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees, and by promoting their adoption and implementation by governments, Codex [supposedly] seeks to ensure that the world's food supply is sound, wholesome, free from adulteration, and correctly labeled.
Here is another definition, from Codex itself: The Codex Alimentarius Commission implements the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, the purpose of which is to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in the food trade. The Codex Alimentarius (Latin, meaning Food Law or Code) is a collection of internationally adopted food standards presented in a uniform manner. It also includes provisions of an advisory nature in the form of codes of practice, guidelines and other recommended measures to assist in achieving the purposes of the Codex Alimentarius. The publication of the Codex Alimentarius is intended to guide and promote the elaboration and establishment of definitions and requirements for foods, to assist in their harmonization and, in doing so, to facilitate international trade.
To summarize, Codex is the vehicle for harmonizing international rules for trade in food. That means, Codex is responsible for making it easy for countries and companies to import and export food. Which means that it is by definition opposed to national and local restrictions, labeling, and preferences. If a country or state wants to label GE food or irradiated food, too bad. Companies headquartered in that country probably have already gotten themselves appointed to the national Codex committee, where they work to make trade easier for them, regardless of the effect on and wishes of local populations.
Codex decisions are made by the few, for the few. The public is not invited, and often non-governmental organizations are not permitted to observe.
Codex is headed by Tom Billy, Chief of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, the man in charge of deregulating the meat industry.
Why is it important?
Under the World Trade Organization rules, Codex decisions override national and local decisions. So if, for example, Codex decided that no dose limits are required for irradiated food, the USA would not be able to stop the importation of foods irradiated at doses higher than the doses approved by the FDA.
How is Codex different from WTO and other trade pacts and organizations?
In the US, the FDA sets standards, but Congress may decide that the products that meet those standards can't be sold to another country. Similarly, the Codex sets the standards, the World Trade Organization (like Congress) creates and implements policy. WTO was set up by GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. GATT is the international trade agreement that requires a "race to the bottom" on health, environmental and labor standards. WTO policy requires countries to compensate companies whose products are rejected. The US is paying hundreds of millions to a Canadian manufacturer of a carcinogenic fuel additive banned in California. The US is engaging in a trade war with Europe, which has rejected US beef because it has banned hormones. And so on. Codex has nothing to do with trade policy; it applies to the manufacture and labeling of products before they are traded.
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"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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Apache Junction, Arizona - Sergeant Robert 'Woody' Haywood is a well-know thug of the Apache Junction Police Department. In the course of investigating and reporting the Pizza Hut scandal and Betty Carter's family, it was Woody Haywood that threatened Rip-Off Report volunteers with a lawsuit for slander. He was very aggressive and appeared violent. We have him on tape threatening BADbusinessbureau.com.
We want it well-documented that we have had aggressive contact with this officer and we believe he is capable of murder. We also want to go on record as saying that we believe there will also be recrimination from either Haywood or some of his confederates for taking this position.
We also know that the parents of the late Ali Altug are trying to hold this officer and the Apache Junction Police Department liable for their son's death and we want them to know that we are solidly behind them.
There are a couple of other connections that we want to draw here, and hopefully this will be helpful to attorneys in the prosecution of this and other lawsuits. First, as we mentioned, we believe that there was a corrupt connection between the Carters and the Apache Junction Police Department.
There are several witnesses that have filed affidavits that Betty Carter claimed that a connection existed with them and that she was 'protected.' That was why it was requested that Apache Junction Police Department not investigate Pizza Hut drug charges.
One witness even noted that some of Betty's thugs would kill for her at no charge. It would be interesting to know whether or not this witness could identify any of these 'thugs' as Apache Junction Police Officers. Given what we know about Woody's hot head, we believe that he would be a cold-hearted sort that could take a life without much concern.
This brings us to yet another Rip-off Report concerning corruption in the Mesa Police Department. Commander Clore of the Mesa Police Department is a good friend of Sergeant Haywood and it is noted that Clore has been in trouble a number of times, but these incidents have been 'swept under the carpet.' We believe that things have a way of heating up when people so out-of-control get pinned in a corner. This sort eventually self-destruct, but unfortunately not before destroying many others along the way.
Just as a side note, in the 'murder' of Ali Altug, the statement of Ali's father has never varied. However, Woody Haywood's various statements, which were coached by attorney each time, have absolutely no resemblance to each other. Haywood also violated established police procedures for de-fuzing suicide attempts, ignoring his own rule of not entering the 'blood circle,' then claimed that Ali lunged at him with a knife. Ali's father called 911 and the tapes prove that his father was concerned that Ali might try to hurt himself. Haywood should have known what he was going into.
Additionally, according to Ali's father, it was less than 30 seconds between the time that Haywood arrived, burst through the gate, (a good distance from the front door), barged through the front door, found his way to the kitchen unescorted, and fired three rounds into the torso of the teenage youth. Also, according to Ali's father, at no time did Ali ever stop sawing at his own arm with the bread knife. There was no threat to Haywood. It should also be noted that the 911 tape corroborates the version Ali's father told authorities and refutes many points offered by Haywood. It is a good bet that Haywood is lying.
The trial is forthcoming, and we hope that justice will be done. However, it is doubtful. Ali's civil rights were violated 'under color of law.' We therefore stridently urge the FBI to investigate this matter. The Arizona DPS has already investigated, and counsel has requested the investigation be reopened. That decision is pending. We need the Feds in the East Valley to clean up local law enforcement.
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Pizza Hut Restaurant employee abuses, criminal activity, severe health code violations, police misconduct many victims *UPDATE Lawsuit filed
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Thousands of Chickens Tortured by KFC Supplier
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In July 2004, PETA revealed the results of an investigation into a KFC-supplying slaughterhouse in Moorefield, West Virginia, where workers were caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking them, and violently slamming them against floors and walls. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed their bodies so hard that the birds expelled feces—all while the chickens were still alive. Dan Rather echoed the views of all kind people when he said on the CBS Evening News, “[T]here's no mistaking what [the video] depicts: cruelty to animals, chickens horribly mistreated before they're slaughtered for a fast-food chain.”
The video from the investigation was broadcast by television stations around the world as well as all three national evening news shows, Good Morning America, and all the cable news networks. Plus, more than a million people have watched the footage on PETA's Web site.
The world's leading animal welfare experts condemned the cruelty at this KFC supplier. Colorado State University professor of animal science, biomedical sciences, and philosophy, university distinguished professor, and university bioethicist Dr. Bernard Rollin writes, “I can unequivocally state that the behavior I saw exemplified in [this] videotape was totally unacceptable. … The tape showed evidence of a work force that apparently failed to recognize that chickens are living sentient beings capable of feeling pain and distress.” Dr. Temple Grandin, perhaps the industry's leading farmed-animal welfare expert, writes, “The behavior of the plant employees was atrocious,” and asserts that even though she has toured poultry facilities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, France, the Netherlands, and the U.K., the video showed “the WORST employee behavior I have ever seen in a poultry plant.” University of Guelph professor of applied ethology and university chair in animal welfare Dr. Ian Duncan writes, “This tape depicts scenes of the worst cruelty I have ever witnessed against chickens … and it is extremely hard to accept that this is occurring in the United States of America.”
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Japan scandal hits Mcdonald's
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/mcdonalds3302.cfm
March 3, 2002 Independent on Sunday (London) by Leo Lewis
McDonald's has been caught up in the Japanese meat-packing scandal. The burger chain is one of the biggest clients of Starzen, which has now admitted a history of mixing cheap meats with more expen- sive ones, and selling the product at premium prices.
Experts in the Japanese food industry believe it is "highly likely" that McDonald's was the unwitting recipient of deceitfully labelled products, which is the latest stage in a scandal rife with lies, denials and health scares. Tokyo analysts now warn that the problem could worsen in the next few weeks as other food firms admit to persistent malpractice.
On its own, the Starzen scandal would be bad enough, but the meat-buying Japanese public is already at a fever pitch of fear and disgust with its government and the largest food producers. Just last month, Snow Brands Food caused outrage as it emerged that it had been labelling domestic product as Australian beef in an effort to gain government subsidies. Those subsidies were themselves a result of colossal political mismanagement of Japan's BSE crisis, when overnight consumers boycotted domestic beef en masse.
The beef scandal has now forced Snow Brand into liquidation, but its name had already plummeted in the public's mind. Earlier in 2001, its dairy division admitted responsibility for a food-poisoning outbreak that affected tens of thousands of people. After Starzen's forced admission last week, a credit rating cut by Moody's and the removal of its products from the shelves of Ja- pan's biggest supermarkets, Star- zen shares plunged to record lows.
The scandal has highlighted the global uncertainty that still hangs over beef products and that has prompted McDonald's, the world's largest seller of beef, to make big changes to its menus that favour other meats. Its interest in developing pork products has brought it together with Sygen, a small Oxfordshire biotech company which uses DNA technology in an effort to breed the "Perfect Pig". This would be an animal with immunity from certain diseases, and the ideal flavour when cooked.
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MAD COW DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES: RESTAURANTS; Restaurateurs Take in News And Await Diners' Verdict
By MARIAN BURROS; REPORTING FOR THIS ARTICLE WAS CONTRIBUTED BY ERIC ASIMOV, FLORENCE FABRICANT, NORA KRUG AND MICHAEL SLACKMAN.
Published: December 26, 2003
The discovery of a cow infected with mad cow disease may have restaurateurs nervous, but it did not give Don Bennett of Pennsylvania even a moment's pause yesterday. After taking his seat at the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant in Times Square on Christmas Day he ordered a hamburger well-done, the way he always eats it.
''I don't live my life like that,'' Mr. Bennett said, explaining his lack of fear. ''Whatever happens, happens.''
His wife, Diane, had beef on her nachos and, like her husband, did not give it a second thought.
''Ah, what's the big deal,'' she said, adding, ''We live a mile from T.M.I. -- we can see the reactors,'' referring to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Hoping for just such reactions, officials in the New York restaurant industry said they were stunned but not terrified by early laboratory tests showing the presence of mad cow disease in a single animal in Washington State.
Some chain restaurants have had safeguards in place to reduce the likelihood of using meat infected with the disease.
The prevailing attitude among restaurateurs, from upscale bistros in Greenwich Village to McDonald's, was wait and see. They agreed that it was too soon to say how diners would react as they absorbed the news amid other holiday concerns.
At Cafe Luxembourg, a bistro on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Joanne Freedman, a manager, said on Wednesday that she had not heard questions about it. ''To be honest, I didn't see a lot of burgers go by today, though,'' Ms. Freedman said.
Some Manhattan restaurants immediately adjusted their menus. At Asiate, a new restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel off Columbus Circle, braised beef cheeks are no longer on the pre-theater menu. The restaurant will decide next week what to do about the dish. (Many scientists consider brains, beef cheeks and neck bones high-risk.)
And bone-marrow mashed potatoes have vanished from the menu at Judson Grill. Its executive chef, Bill Telepan, said, ''I'll keep bone marrow off my menu until I find out what the situation is.''
Other restaurateurs awaited advice from the federal government and wondered whether this was an isolated incident. ''Let's see how widespread this is,'' said Jacqueline Lincy, who, with her husband, Jean-Claude, owns Pierre au Tunnel in the theater district. The restaurant, a New York mainstay, is one of the few that serves old-fashioned bistro specialties like tête de veau vinaigrette -- calf's head with vinaigrette and capers -- and Ms. Lincy does not plan to take it off the menu.
''People come to the restaurant expressly for it,'' she said. ''We trust our butcher. If he's not buying it, then I'm not buying it.''
At Babbo, in Greenwich Village, where the menu includes beef cheek ravioli, gnocchi with braised oxtail and calf's brains with lemon and sage, Mario Batali, the chef and a co-owner, said that until the government recommended changes he would stick with his menu. ''I'm going to follow their lead,'' Mr. Batali said. ''I'm not going to jump up and down and freak out right now.''
The Agriculture Department says all parts of U.S.D.A.-inspected beef are safe to eat. Dr. Daniel L. Engeljohn, who writes regulations and inspection procedures for the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Agriculture Department, said, ''We still believe our preventative measures, put in place over a decade ago, provide a safe beef product for the American consumer.''
Consumers groups, critical of the government's advice, have suggested that people who are concerned about risk avoid cuts of beef sold on the bone, like chops or ribs, and that they choose boneless cuts of meat, or beef that is ground on site in the store. Robert Pence, the owner of Oppenheimer Prime Meats on the Upper West Side, said quite a few customers had asked him about his sources for his chopped beef.
''What I try to emphasize is that what I use is prime U.S.D.A. meats, that I don't use any fillers in my chopped meat, and I always use muscle meat in my chopped meat,'' Mr. Pence said. He talked one woman out of canceling her order for a Christmas rib roast.
The large steakhouses, like Morton's, said they had been assured by their suppliers that their beef was safe.
But at Cafe Luxembourg, the executive chef, Chris North, is concerned. ''The last thing any chef wants to do is get a customer sick,'' Mr. North said. ''We're going to be leaning heavily on fish until we know what's going on. And New Zealand venison is our Christmas special.''
Some restaurateurs see a silver lining in the cloud. Marc Sherry, an owner of Old Homestead, said he was ''confident that the demand for beef will continue as strongly as ever.'' And, Mr. Sherry added, ''this situation should drastically reduce the cost of beef in this country because there will not be any exported.''
Fred Austin, an owner of Katz's Delicatessen on the Lower East Side, which sells 2,000 pounds of ground beef in the form of hot dogs and salamis each day, said he ''might see a slight dip in sales, but the American consumer has enough confidence in our beef industry that I don't think it will have much of an effect.'' Like Mr. Sherry, he said he was looking forward to a greater availability of beef tongue, which until now was mostly shipped to Japan. Japan and about a dozen other countries have banned imports of American beef.
Brains are a favorite dish in many cultures, and at Karam, a Lebanese restaurant in Brooklyn, 10 five-pound containers of brains are sold every day. Karim Hamada, who works in the restaurant, said that he was not aware of the mad cow incident but that he was not worried because, he said, ''it's in God's hands.''
Statements from several fast-food chains were confined to assuring customers that they had put safeguards in place some years ago, when mad cow disease surfaced in Europe. But several others, including Arby's, White Castle and Jack in the Box, were more detailed, reporting that the companies prohibit the use of so-called downer cattle, those that cannot walk, often because they are ill. The infected cow in Washington State was a downer.
Others specified that they did not allow beef produced by the Advanced Meat Recovery Systems, beef harvested from machinery that squeezes out the small bits of meat that cling to an animal's spinal column and other bones. This form of beef is considered the most hazardous because it often contains bits of the central nervous system tissue and nerves that exit the spinal cord, which can carry the infectious agents for mad cow.
Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Wendy's do not permit meat harvested from such machinery or downer cattle in their ground beef.
At Odeon, a bistro in TriBeCa, hamburgers and steaks were selling as well as ever on Wednesday. Jay Lippin, the executive chef, said, ''I had a hamburger myself today.''
Not everybody was feeling secure, though. Mr. Lippin said a customer who had eaten a hamburger on Tuesday night called the restaurant in a panic after watching a news report, demanding to know where the meat had come from. ''I guess it's typical of watching the news, people tend to overreact,'' Mr. Lippin said.
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Court bars Meatpacker Tests for Mad Cow
By Charles Abbott
Fri Aug 29, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Agriculture Department is within bounds to bar meatpackers from testing slaughter cattle for mad cow disease, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling on Friday.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC, a small Arkansas packer, filed suit on March 23, 2006, to gain access to mad-cow test kits. It said it wanted to test every animal at its plant to assure foreign buyers that the meat was safe to eat.
Three U.S. cases of mad cow disease, a fatal neurological infection, have been reported, the last in March 2006. People can contract a human version of the disease by eating infected meats. Most nations banned U.S. beef after the first case, in December 2003, but trade has been restored for the most part.
In a 25-page ruling, Appellate Judges Karen Henderson and Judith Rogers said USDA has authority under the 1913 Virus-Serum-Toxin Act to prevent sale of mad-cow test kits to meatpackers. USDA interprets the law to control products for “prevention, diagnosis, management or care of diseases of animals.”
David Sentelle, chief judge of the District of Columbia appeals circuit, dissented from the decision. He said USDA “exceeds the bounds of reasonableness” for a law enacted to prevent the sale of ineffective animal medicine.
USDA allows the mad-cow test kits to be sold only to laboratories that it approves. It says the tests should not be used as a marketing tool and the cattle that comprise the bulk of the meat supply are too young to be tested reliably.
Two large export markets, Japan and South Korea, accept beef only from younger U.S. cattle. Mad cow is found mostly in older cattle. Its incubation period is two to eight years.
Creekstone said it lost $200,000 a day due to reduced U.S. beef exports when it filed its lawsuit.
In its lawsuit, Creekstone argued the 1913 law could not be invoked to prevent use of products like “rapid test” kits for mad cow disease and the kits were not a “treatment” for livestock.
U.S. District Judge James Robinson had ruled in March 2007 that USDA could not control mad cow tests because they are not a treatment for animals.
The United States applies a number of safeguards against mad cow, formally named bovine spongiform encephalopathy. They include a ban on using cattle parts in feed and requirements for packers to remove at slaughter the materials most likely to carry the mad-cow agent — the brain, spinal column and nervous system tissue.
(Editing by Walter Bagley)
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN2928450820080829?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10003
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http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/codexfaq.cfm
November 22, 2000
FAQ About Codex Alimentarius
What is Codex Alimentarius?
Why is it important?
How is it different from WTO and other trade pacts and organizations?
Good background article from 1999
What is Codex Alimentarius?
Here is one definition: The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) was established in 1962 by two United Nations organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Codex is the major international organization for encouraging fair international trade in food and protecting the health and economic interests of consumers. Through adoption of food standards, codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees, and by promoting their adoption and implementation by governments, Codex [supposedly] seeks to ensure that the world's food supply is sound, wholesome, free from adulteration, and correctly labeled.
Here is another definition, from Codex itself: The Codex Alimentarius Commission implements the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, the purpose of which is to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in the food trade. The Codex Alimentarius (Latin, meaning Food Law or Code) is a collection of internationally adopted food standards presented in a uniform manner. It also includes provisions of an advisory nature in the form of codes of practice, guidelines and other recommended measures to assist in achieving the purposes of the Codex Alimentarius. The publication of the Codex Alimentarius is intended to guide and promote the elaboration and establishment of definitions and requirements for foods, to assist in their harmonization and, in doing so, to facilitate international trade.
To summarize, Codex is the vehicle for harmonizing international rules for trade in food. That means, Codex is responsible for making it easy for countries and companies to import and export food. Which means that it is by definition opposed to national and local restrictions, labeling, and preferences. If a country or state wants to label GE food or irradiated food, too bad. Companies headquartered in that country probably have already gotten themselves appointed to the national Codex committee, where they work to make trade easier for them, regardless of the effect on and wishes of local populations.
Codex decisions are made by the few, for the few. The public is not invited, and often non-governmental organizations are not permitted to observe.
Codex is headed by Tom Billy, Chief of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, the man in charge of deregulating the meat industry.
Why is it important?
Under the World Trade Organization rules, Codex decisions override national and local decisions. So if, for example, Codex decided that no dose limits are required for irradiated food, the USA would not be able to stop the importation of foods irradiated at doses higher than the doses approved by the FDA.
How is Codex different from WTO and other trade pacts and organizations?
In the US, the FDA sets standards, but Congress may decide that the products that meet those standards can't be sold to another country. Similarly, the Codex sets the standards, the World Trade Organization (like Congress) creates and implements policy. WTO was set up by GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. GATT is the international trade agreement that requires a "race to the bottom" on health, environmental and labor standards. WTO policy requires countries to compensate companies whose products are rejected. The US is paying hundreds of millions to a Canadian manufacturer of a carcinogenic fuel additive banned in California. The US is engaging in a trade war with Europe, which has rejected US beef because it has banned hormones. And so on. Codex has nothing to do with trade policy; it applies to the manufacture and labeling of products before they are traded.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
Geometrically Ordered Divinity (G.O.D.)
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/007/RipOff0007320.htm
Apache Junction, Arizona - Sergeant Robert 'Woody' Haywood is a well-know thug of the Apache Junction Police Department. In the course of investigating and reporting the Pizza Hut scandal and Betty Carter's family, it was Woody Haywood that threatened Rip-Off Report volunteers with a lawsuit for slander. He was very aggressive and appeared violent. We have him on tape threatening BADbusinessbureau.com.
We want it well-documented that we have had aggressive contact with this officer and we believe he is capable of murder. We also want to go on record as saying that we believe there will also be recrimination from either Haywood or some of his confederates for taking this position.
We also know that the parents of the late Ali Altug are trying to hold this officer and the Apache Junction Police Department liable for their son's death and we want them to know that we are solidly behind them.
There are a couple of other connections that we want to draw here, and hopefully this will be helpful to attorneys in the prosecution of this and other lawsuits. First, as we mentioned, we believe that there was a corrupt connection between the Carters and the Apache Junction Police Department.
There are several witnesses that have filed affidavits that Betty Carter claimed that a connection existed with them and that she was 'protected.' That was why it was requested that Apache Junction Police Department not investigate Pizza Hut drug charges.
One witness even noted that some of Betty's thugs would kill for her at no charge. It would be interesting to know whether or not this witness could identify any of these 'thugs' as Apache Junction Police Officers. Given what we know about Woody's hot head, we believe that he would be a cold-hearted sort that could take a life without much concern.
This brings us to yet another Rip-off Report concerning corruption in the Mesa Police Department. Commander Clore of the Mesa Police Department is a good friend of Sergeant Haywood and it is noted that Clore has been in trouble a number of times, but these incidents have been 'swept under the carpet.' We believe that things have a way of heating up when people so out-of-control get pinned in a corner. This sort eventually self-destruct, but unfortunately not before destroying many others along the way.
Just as a side note, in the 'murder' of Ali Altug, the statement of Ali's father has never varied. However, Woody Haywood's various statements, which were coached by attorney each time, have absolutely no resemblance to each other. Haywood also violated established police procedures for de-fuzing suicide attempts, ignoring his own rule of not entering the 'blood circle,' then claimed that Ali lunged at him with a knife. Ali's father called 911 and the tapes prove that his father was concerned that Ali might try to hurt himself. Haywood should have known what he was going into.
Additionally, according to Ali's father, it was less than 30 seconds between the time that Haywood arrived, burst through the gate, (a good distance from the front door), barged through the front door, found his way to the kitchen unescorted, and fired three rounds into the torso of the teenage youth. Also, according to Ali's father, at no time did Ali ever stop sawing at his own arm with the bread knife. There was no threat to Haywood. It should also be noted that the 911 tape corroborates the version Ali's father told authorities and refutes many points offered by Haywood. It is a good bet that Haywood is lying.
The trial is forthcoming, and we hope that justice will be done. However, it is doubtful. Ali's civil rights were violated 'under color of law.' We therefore stridently urge the FBI to investigate this matter. The Arizona DPS has already investigated, and counsel has requested the investigation be reopened. That decision is pending. We need the Feds in the East Valley to clean up local law enforcement.
Frank Torelli
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Report: Pizza Hut
Category: Pizza & Take Out
Pizza Hut Restaurant employee abuses, criminal activity, severe health code violations, police misconduct many victims *UPDATE Lawsuit filed
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Thousands of Chickens Tortured by KFC Supplier
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Food Safety Complaint to the USDA
Industry Response
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In July 2004, PETA revealed the results of an investigation into a KFC-supplying slaughterhouse in Moorefield, West Virginia, where workers were caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking them, and violently slamming them against floors and walls. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed their bodies so hard that the birds expelled feces—all while the chickens were still alive. Dan Rather echoed the views of all kind people when he said on the CBS Evening News, “[T]here's no mistaking what [the video] depicts: cruelty to animals, chickens horribly mistreated before they're slaughtered for a fast-food chain.”
The video from the investigation was broadcast by television stations around the world as well as all three national evening news shows, Good Morning America, and all the cable news networks. Plus, more than a million people have watched the footage on PETA's Web site.
The world's leading animal welfare experts condemned the cruelty at this KFC supplier. Colorado State University professor of animal science, biomedical sciences, and philosophy, university distinguished professor, and university bioethicist Dr. Bernard Rollin writes, “I can unequivocally state that the behavior I saw exemplified in [this] videotape was totally unacceptable. … The tape showed evidence of a work force that apparently failed to recognize that chickens are living sentient beings capable of feeling pain and distress.” Dr. Temple Grandin, perhaps the industry's leading farmed-animal welfare expert, writes, “The behavior of the plant employees was atrocious,” and asserts that even though she has toured poultry facilities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, France, the Netherlands, and the U.K., the video showed “the WORST employee behavior I have ever seen in a poultry plant.” University of Guelph professor of applied ethology and university chair in animal welfare Dr. Ian Duncan writes, “This tape depicts scenes of the worst cruelty I have ever witnessed against chickens … and it is extremely hard to accept that this is occurring in the United States of America.”
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Japan scandal hits Mcdonald's
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/mcdonalds3302.cfm
March 3, 2002 Independent on Sunday (London) by Leo Lewis
McDonald's has been caught up in the Japanese meat-packing scandal. The burger chain is one of the biggest clients of Starzen, which has now admitted a history of mixing cheap meats with more expen- sive ones, and selling the product at premium prices.
Experts in the Japanese food industry believe it is "highly likely" that McDonald's was the unwitting recipient of deceitfully labelled products, which is the latest stage in a scandal rife with lies, denials and health scares. Tokyo analysts now warn that the problem could worsen in the next few weeks as other food firms admit to persistent malpractice.
On its own, the Starzen scandal would be bad enough, but the meat-buying Japanese public is already at a fever pitch of fear and disgust with its government and the largest food producers. Just last month, Snow Brands Food caused outrage as it emerged that it had been labelling domestic product as Australian beef in an effort to gain government subsidies. Those subsidies were themselves a result of colossal political mismanagement of Japan's BSE crisis, when overnight consumers boycotted domestic beef en masse.
The beef scandal has now forced Snow Brand into liquidation, but its name had already plummeted in the public's mind. Earlier in 2001, its dairy division admitted responsibility for a food-poisoning outbreak that affected tens of thousands of people. After Starzen's forced admission last week, a credit rating cut by Moody's and the removal of its products from the shelves of Ja- pan's biggest supermarkets, Star- zen shares plunged to record lows.
The scandal has highlighted the global uncertainty that still hangs over beef products and that has prompted McDonald's, the world's largest seller of beef, to make big changes to its menus that favour other meats. Its interest in developing pork products has brought it together with Sygen, a small Oxfordshire biotech company which uses DNA technology in an effort to breed the "Perfect Pig". This would be an animal with immunity from certain diseases, and the ideal flavour when cooked.
Burger King/CIW Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QEHyKxT9TE
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/002/ripoff0002994.htm
MAD COW DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES: RESTAURANTS; Restaurateurs Take in News And Await Diners' Verdict
By MARIAN BURROS; REPORTING FOR THIS ARTICLE WAS CONTRIBUTED BY ERIC ASIMOV, FLORENCE FABRICANT, NORA KRUG AND MICHAEL SLACKMAN.
Published: December 26, 2003
The discovery of a cow infected with mad cow disease may have restaurateurs nervous, but it did not give Don Bennett of Pennsylvania even a moment's pause yesterday. After taking his seat at the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant in Times Square on Christmas Day he ordered a hamburger well-done, the way he always eats it.
''I don't live my life like that,'' Mr. Bennett said, explaining his lack of fear. ''Whatever happens, happens.''
His wife, Diane, had beef on her nachos and, like her husband, did not give it a second thought.
''Ah, what's the big deal,'' she said, adding, ''We live a mile from T.M.I. -- we can see the reactors,'' referring to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Hoping for just such reactions, officials in the New York restaurant industry said they were stunned but not terrified by early laboratory tests showing the presence of mad cow disease in a single animal in Washington State.
Some chain restaurants have had safeguards in place to reduce the likelihood of using meat infected with the disease.
The prevailing attitude among restaurateurs, from upscale bistros in Greenwich Village to McDonald's, was wait and see. They agreed that it was too soon to say how diners would react as they absorbed the news amid other holiday concerns.
At Cafe Luxembourg, a bistro on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Joanne Freedman, a manager, said on Wednesday that she had not heard questions about it. ''To be honest, I didn't see a lot of burgers go by today, though,'' Ms. Freedman said.
Some Manhattan restaurants immediately adjusted their menus. At Asiate, a new restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel off Columbus Circle, braised beef cheeks are no longer on the pre-theater menu. The restaurant will decide next week what to do about the dish. (Many scientists consider brains, beef cheeks and neck bones high-risk.)
And bone-marrow mashed potatoes have vanished from the menu at Judson Grill. Its executive chef, Bill Telepan, said, ''I'll keep bone marrow off my menu until I find out what the situation is.''
Other restaurateurs awaited advice from the federal government and wondered whether this was an isolated incident. ''Let's see how widespread this is,'' said Jacqueline Lincy, who, with her husband, Jean-Claude, owns Pierre au Tunnel in the theater district. The restaurant, a New York mainstay, is one of the few that serves old-fashioned bistro specialties like tête de veau vinaigrette -- calf's head with vinaigrette and capers -- and Ms. Lincy does not plan to take it off the menu.
''People come to the restaurant expressly for it,'' she said. ''We trust our butcher. If he's not buying it, then I'm not buying it.''
At Babbo, in Greenwich Village, where the menu includes beef cheek ravioli, gnocchi with braised oxtail and calf's brains with lemon and sage, Mario Batali, the chef and a co-owner, said that until the government recommended changes he would stick with his menu. ''I'm going to follow their lead,'' Mr. Batali said. ''I'm not going to jump up and down and freak out right now.''
The Agriculture Department says all parts of U.S.D.A.-inspected beef are safe to eat. Dr. Daniel L. Engeljohn, who writes regulations and inspection procedures for the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Agriculture Department, said, ''We still believe our preventative measures, put in place over a decade ago, provide a safe beef product for the American consumer.''
Consumers groups, critical of the government's advice, have suggested that people who are concerned about risk avoid cuts of beef sold on the bone, like chops or ribs, and that they choose boneless cuts of meat, or beef that is ground on site in the store. Robert Pence, the owner of Oppenheimer Prime Meats on the Upper West Side, said quite a few customers had asked him about his sources for his chopped beef.
''What I try to emphasize is that what I use is prime U.S.D.A. meats, that I don't use any fillers in my chopped meat, and I always use muscle meat in my chopped meat,'' Mr. Pence said. He talked one woman out of canceling her order for a Christmas rib roast.
The large steakhouses, like Morton's, said they had been assured by their suppliers that their beef was safe.
But at Cafe Luxembourg, the executive chef, Chris North, is concerned. ''The last thing any chef wants to do is get a customer sick,'' Mr. North said. ''We're going to be leaning heavily on fish until we know what's going on. And New Zealand venison is our Christmas special.''
Some restaurateurs see a silver lining in the cloud. Marc Sherry, an owner of Old Homestead, said he was ''confident that the demand for beef will continue as strongly as ever.'' And, Mr. Sherry added, ''this situation should drastically reduce the cost of beef in this country because there will not be any exported.''
Fred Austin, an owner of Katz's Delicatessen on the Lower East Side, which sells 2,000 pounds of ground beef in the form of hot dogs and salamis each day, said he ''might see a slight dip in sales, but the American consumer has enough confidence in our beef industry that I don't think it will have much of an effect.'' Like Mr. Sherry, he said he was looking forward to a greater availability of beef tongue, which until now was mostly shipped to Japan. Japan and about a dozen other countries have banned imports of American beef.
Brains are a favorite dish in many cultures, and at Karam, a Lebanese restaurant in Brooklyn, 10 five-pound containers of brains are sold every day. Karim Hamada, who works in the restaurant, said that he was not aware of the mad cow incident but that he was not worried because, he said, ''it's in God's hands.''
Statements from several fast-food chains were confined to assuring customers that they had put safeguards in place some years ago, when mad cow disease surfaced in Europe. But several others, including Arby's, White Castle and Jack in the Box, were more detailed, reporting that the companies prohibit the use of so-called downer cattle, those that cannot walk, often because they are ill. The infected cow in Washington State was a downer.
Others specified that they did not allow beef produced by the Advanced Meat Recovery Systems, beef harvested from machinery that squeezes out the small bits of meat that cling to an animal's spinal column and other bones. This form of beef is considered the most hazardous because it often contains bits of the central nervous system tissue and nerves that exit the spinal cord, which can carry the infectious agents for mad cow.
Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Wendy's do not permit meat harvested from such machinery or downer cattle in their ground beef.
At Odeon, a bistro in TriBeCa, hamburgers and steaks were selling as well as ever on Wednesday. Jay Lippin, the executive chef, said, ''I had a hamburger myself today.''
Not everybody was feeling secure, though. Mr. Lippin said a customer who had eaten a hamburger on Tuesday night called the restaurant in a panic after watching a news report, demanding to know where the meat had come from. ''I guess it's typical of watching the news, people tend to overreact,'' Mr. Lippin said.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Svali and the Illuminati
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/svali_speaks.htm
Table of Contents
Reprinted here with authors permission
Appendix Equipment Used By Trainers
Chapter 1:
1)An overview of the Illuminati
2.)Hierarchy of the Illuminati
3.)How the Illuminati Make Money
Chapter 2: Jobs in the Illuminati (Or Why They Spend All That Time Training Everybody)
Chapter 3: Conspiracy Theory Two, or The Illuminati Plan to Rule The World. (Also know as "Novus Ordem Seclorum)
Chapter 4:How the Illuminati Program People
Chapter 5: Colors, Metals and Jewel Programming
Chapter 6: Brain Wave Programming
Chapter 7: Military Programming
Chapter 8: CIA , Governmental, and Scholarship programming
Chapter 9: Programming Linked to Stories, Movies, Cartoons, or role Play Dramatization
Chapter 10: The Sixth step of Discipline: Betrayal; twinning; internal walls, structures, geometry
Chapter 11: Suicidal Programming
Chapter 12: Preventing Reaccessing of the Survivor
Chapter 13: Shell programming, Internal Councils, Human Experimentation, Function Codes
Chapter 14: Spiritual Programming
Chapter 15: Core splits, Denial programming, the last Five Steps of Discipline Virtual Reality Programming
Other articles by Svali:
Table of Contents
Reprinted here with authors permission
Appendix Equipment Used By Trainers
Chapter 1:
1)An overview of the Illuminati
2.)Hierarchy of the Illuminati
3.)How the Illuminati Make Money
Chapter 2: Jobs in the Illuminati (Or Why They Spend All That Time Training Everybody)
Chapter 3: Conspiracy Theory Two, or The Illuminati Plan to Rule The World. (Also know as "Novus Ordem Seclorum)
Chapter 4:How the Illuminati Program People
Chapter 5: Colors, Metals and Jewel Programming
Chapter 6: Brain Wave Programming
Chapter 7: Military Programming
Chapter 8: CIA , Governmental, and Scholarship programming
Chapter 9: Programming Linked to Stories, Movies, Cartoons, or role Play Dramatization
Chapter 10: The Sixth step of Discipline: Betrayal; twinning; internal walls, structures, geometry
Chapter 11: Suicidal Programming
Chapter 12: Preventing Reaccessing of the Survivor
Chapter 13: Shell programming, Internal Councils, Human Experimentation, Function Codes
Chapter 14: Spiritual Programming
Chapter 15: Core splits, Denial programming, the last Five Steps of Discipline Virtual Reality Programming
Other articles by Svali:
The Century of the Self/psychotherapy/Freud
This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories
to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
- Adam Curtis
The Century Of The Self
by Adam Curtis
Episode 1: Happiness Machines
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFRTozhOv4
Episode 3: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed"
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ghfV9kRvU
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
http://video.google.ca/videoplay? docid=-6111922724894802811&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8CEg92lyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3f0FMlLkh0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUKrpBkxM0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEF1oO4BWTk
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar05/Rodgers0329.htm
to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
- Adam Curtis
The Century Of The Self
by Adam Curtis
Episode 1: Happiness Machines
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFRTozhOv4
Episode 3: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed"
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ghfV9kRvU
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
http://video.google.ca/videoplay? docid=-6111922724894802811&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8CEg92lyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3f0FMlLkh0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUKrpBkxM0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEF1oO4BWTk
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar05/Rodgers0329.htm
Pakistan/Resist or Not to Resist NATO?
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/12030
Thu, 2008-07-03 02:32
By Adnan Gill
Unless, somehow Pakistanis manage to hand President Bush a farewell gift, so enormous and so sought after, that it will put a shining jewel in his otherwise depressingly disastrous legacy; NATO will enter Pakistani territory to pick the jewels themselves. It will take nothing short of Osama Bin Laden in Guantanamo prison or his dead body in a Freezer at Langley Headquarters to shine Bush’s legacy. Pakistanis will have to pony up Osama’s (proverbial) head on platter to Bush, or be prepared for a short but extremely ugly showdown on its border with Afghanistan.
By all accounts, the Taliban used the Pakistani soil as safe-heavens to launch guerilla style attacks on the American led NATO forces in Afghanistan. NATO had been slowly but surely loosing ground to Taliban. Consequently, both Karzai and NATO signed several peace treaties with the Taliban. At the same time, they severally criticized Pakistan for signing peace treaties with the Pakistani Tribals. Meanwhile, with a wink and a nod from the Pakistani President Musharraf, Americans attacked several targets inside Pakistan, killing hundreds, including women and children. Their indifferent and irresponsible attacks developed anti-American sentiments among the locals. Worst, the locals developed a sense of common cause with the foreign operatives of Al-Qaeda, whom they were kicking out earlier. All this set the stage for a showdown with Pakistan.
Unfortunately, Pakistan is left with limited choices, as to how it can react to a NATO invasion. Either Pakistanis can fight back, or they could lodge useless diplomatic protests. Other choices could be, using Tribals as Pakistani military’s proxies, or discontinuing cooperation with the NATO by pulling Pakistani soldiers out of tribal areas and by shutting down air and land corridors used by NATO. Last but most prudent choice could be Pakistanis take away the excuse for an invasion.
NATO wants to stabilize Afghanistan to a point where it can become a safe transit route for the trade and for pipelines pumping oil out of the landlocked Central Asian States (the future Middle East) all the way to the Pakistani seaports. If any Pakistani elements will get in their way of achieving their objectives, NATO will not think twice before trying to crush them with brute force. If that means civilian casualties, so be it. They will simply mark them as collateral damage.
Most of Pakistani analyst laughed off Karzai’s threats to send in his army into Pakistani territory as empty bravado. Karzai doesn’t even take lunch without US’ permission, so when he threatened to start a confrontation, he was merely parroting off a US Defense Department manuscript. NATO will not spearhead military operations inside the Pakistani territory. They plan to use Afghani troops as cannon fodder. Of course, Northern Alliance mercenaries in Afghan Army uniforms will have full support of the NATO Special Forces, who will provide Command & Control, and call in their air assets.
If Pakistan will dare to fight back or if it will try to shutdown NATO’s transit routes, they could end up facing horrendous consequences; ranging from diplomatic isolation to financial and trade embargos, to a dismembered Balochistan! At minimum, Pakistan will be declared a pariah state which will be immediately punished through debilitating UN sanctions; including travel restrictions, trade and financial embargos. Additionally, a military embargo could leave Pakistan dangerously vulnerable to the nations, waiting in shadows, to feast on a weakened Pakistan.
Needless to remind, Pakistan is already heavily dependent on foreign aid and financial loans from international institutions. Pakistan is devoid of any natural resources like oil, and short on any industry of significance. Pakistani Diaspora laboring in the Middle East, UK, and the US are the biggest contributors of the foreign exchange reserves. Their livelihoods depend on the goodwill of their hosts. Upon a request from their Western allies, what if tomorrow the Middle Eastern Sheikhs decide to deport Pakistani working force? Once slapped with the financial sanctions, how will Pakistan survive a global isolation beyond exhausting its foreign reserves?
In a worst scenario, what if NATO nations decide to give independence to Balochistan, like they gave in the case of Eastern Timor? Who is to say, the opportunist Balochi Nawabs will turn their backs on a lifetime opportunity to carve out their very own fiefdoms? These Nawabs are unabashedly soliciting help from even the “devil” to dismember Balochistan from Pakistan? All the Western nations will have to do is to pass a resolution at the UN to declare Balochistan as an independent nation. An independent and subservient Balochistan will open unrestricted corridors for the NATO to run their business in Afghanistan and beyond. As an added bonus, their objective of encirclement of Iran will be met too.
Before giving into the tempting slogans like ‘death to the infidel’ and embarking on yet another jihad, the Pakistanis should ponder over questions like: Can they win a military showdown with the NATO? Will they be able to absorb the horrendous losses of physical, monetary, and life? Will they be able to survive through the international sanctions? If not, then wouldn’t it make sense to avoid a conflict altogether? They could avoid a conflict by taking away the excuse for an invasion. How do they do that? Nobody said it would be easy, but they can once again try to convince the tribals, that by fighting they will bring death and destruction, not only upon themselves, but also on their families too. Instead of making the situation worst, they could hand over a trophy or two to Bush in the shape of those who had been taking unfair advantage of the hospitality of their hosts by spreading death and destruction in Pakistan.
For argument’s sake, let’s say, NATO meets the same fate in Afghanistan that Soviets did in the late 80s. NATO suffers humiliating defeat and thousands of casualties. They decide to pack up and leave Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then what? Besides, bragging rights, what would have Pakistanis gained? Mortally wounded and completely isolated, what kind of future will be awaiting Pakistan? Perhaps, the same future that greeted the Afghans after the Soviets left; a deeply impoverished, failed, and lawless nation?
- Asian Tribune -
Thu, 2008-07-03 02:32
By Adnan Gill
Unless, somehow Pakistanis manage to hand President Bush a farewell gift, so enormous and so sought after, that it will put a shining jewel in his otherwise depressingly disastrous legacy; NATO will enter Pakistani territory to pick the jewels themselves. It will take nothing short of Osama Bin Laden in Guantanamo prison or his dead body in a Freezer at Langley Headquarters to shine Bush’s legacy. Pakistanis will have to pony up Osama’s (proverbial) head on platter to Bush, or be prepared for a short but extremely ugly showdown on its border with Afghanistan.
By all accounts, the Taliban used the Pakistani soil as safe-heavens to launch guerilla style attacks on the American led NATO forces in Afghanistan. NATO had been slowly but surely loosing ground to Taliban. Consequently, both Karzai and NATO signed several peace treaties with the Taliban. At the same time, they severally criticized Pakistan for signing peace treaties with the Pakistani Tribals. Meanwhile, with a wink and a nod from the Pakistani President Musharraf, Americans attacked several targets inside Pakistan, killing hundreds, including women and children. Their indifferent and irresponsible attacks developed anti-American sentiments among the locals. Worst, the locals developed a sense of common cause with the foreign operatives of Al-Qaeda, whom they were kicking out earlier. All this set the stage for a showdown with Pakistan.
Unfortunately, Pakistan is left with limited choices, as to how it can react to a NATO invasion. Either Pakistanis can fight back, or they could lodge useless diplomatic protests. Other choices could be, using Tribals as Pakistani military’s proxies, or discontinuing cooperation with the NATO by pulling Pakistani soldiers out of tribal areas and by shutting down air and land corridors used by NATO. Last but most prudent choice could be Pakistanis take away the excuse for an invasion.
NATO wants to stabilize Afghanistan to a point where it can become a safe transit route for the trade and for pipelines pumping oil out of the landlocked Central Asian States (the future Middle East) all the way to the Pakistani seaports. If any Pakistani elements will get in their way of achieving their objectives, NATO will not think twice before trying to crush them with brute force. If that means civilian casualties, so be it. They will simply mark them as collateral damage.
Most of Pakistani analyst laughed off Karzai’s threats to send in his army into Pakistani territory as empty bravado. Karzai doesn’t even take lunch without US’ permission, so when he threatened to start a confrontation, he was merely parroting off a US Defense Department manuscript. NATO will not spearhead military operations inside the Pakistani territory. They plan to use Afghani troops as cannon fodder. Of course, Northern Alliance mercenaries in Afghan Army uniforms will have full support of the NATO Special Forces, who will provide Command & Control, and call in their air assets.
If Pakistan will dare to fight back or if it will try to shutdown NATO’s transit routes, they could end up facing horrendous consequences; ranging from diplomatic isolation to financial and trade embargos, to a dismembered Balochistan! At minimum, Pakistan will be declared a pariah state which will be immediately punished through debilitating UN sanctions; including travel restrictions, trade and financial embargos. Additionally, a military embargo could leave Pakistan dangerously vulnerable to the nations, waiting in shadows, to feast on a weakened Pakistan.
Needless to remind, Pakistan is already heavily dependent on foreign aid and financial loans from international institutions. Pakistan is devoid of any natural resources like oil, and short on any industry of significance. Pakistani Diaspora laboring in the Middle East, UK, and the US are the biggest contributors of the foreign exchange reserves. Their livelihoods depend on the goodwill of their hosts. Upon a request from their Western allies, what if tomorrow the Middle Eastern Sheikhs decide to deport Pakistani working force? Once slapped with the financial sanctions, how will Pakistan survive a global isolation beyond exhausting its foreign reserves?
In a worst scenario, what if NATO nations decide to give independence to Balochistan, like they gave in the case of Eastern Timor? Who is to say, the opportunist Balochi Nawabs will turn their backs on a lifetime opportunity to carve out their very own fiefdoms? These Nawabs are unabashedly soliciting help from even the “devil” to dismember Balochistan from Pakistan? All the Western nations will have to do is to pass a resolution at the UN to declare Balochistan as an independent nation. An independent and subservient Balochistan will open unrestricted corridors for the NATO to run their business in Afghanistan and beyond. As an added bonus, their objective of encirclement of Iran will be met too.
Before giving into the tempting slogans like ‘death to the infidel’ and embarking on yet another jihad, the Pakistanis should ponder over questions like: Can they win a military showdown with the NATO? Will they be able to absorb the horrendous losses of physical, monetary, and life? Will they be able to survive through the international sanctions? If not, then wouldn’t it make sense to avoid a conflict altogether? They could avoid a conflict by taking away the excuse for an invasion. How do they do that? Nobody said it would be easy, but they can once again try to convince the tribals, that by fighting they will bring death and destruction, not only upon themselves, but also on their families too. Instead of making the situation worst, they could hand over a trophy or two to Bush in the shape of those who had been taking unfair advantage of the hospitality of their hosts by spreading death and destruction in Pakistan.
For argument’s sake, let’s say, NATO meets the same fate in Afghanistan that Soviets did in the late 80s. NATO suffers humiliating defeat and thousands of casualties. They decide to pack up and leave Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then what? Besides, bragging rights, what would have Pakistanis gained? Mortally wounded and completely isolated, what kind of future will be awaiting Pakistan? Perhaps, the same future that greeted the Afghans after the Soviets left; a deeply impoverished, failed, and lawless nation?
- Asian Tribune -
Sunday, December 7, 2008
US DOJ sues 'WE THE PEOPLE' and Robert L. Schulz
http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2008-12-05.htm
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES ROBERT L. SCHULZ AND “WE THE PEOPLE” TO STOP ALLEGED TAX SCAM
Queensbury, N.Y., Man’s Scheme Allegedly Cost U.S. Treasury $21 Million
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States announced that it has sued to block Robert L. Schulz, of Queensbury, N.Y., from selling an alleged tax fraud scheme said to have cost the U.S. Treasury more than $21 million, the Justice Department announced today. Also named in the suit are two corporations, We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education Inc., and We the People Congress Inc.
The government’s complaint, filed in Syracuse with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, alleges that Schulz has used the two We the People entities to market a nationwide tax fraud scheme, called the Tax Termination Package, to employers and employees. According to the complaint, the Tax Termination Package includes We the People forms, which the defendants falsely tell customers can be used to replace forms the IRS requires employers and employees must use in connection with federal tax withholding from wages.
The suit says that Schulz and the We the People entities falsely state that use of the replacement forms will allow customers to legally stop tax withholding. According to the complaint, the defendants base the scheme on frivolous arguments about federal tax laws that federal courts have repeatedly rejected. These schemes are on the IRS’s 2007 list of the Dirty Dozen tax scams. http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=167983,00.html
“People who sell tax scams are asking for trouble for themselves and their customers who participate in them,” said Eileen J. O’Connor, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division. “They and their customers temporarily enrich themselves at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers. The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are determined to stamp out these scams.”
Since 2001 the Justice Department has obtained more than 230 injunctions to stop the promotion of tax fraud schemes and the preparation of fraudulent returns. More information about the Justice Department’s efforts against tax-scam promoters can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/taxpress20076.htm. Information about the Justice Department’s Tax Division can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2007
WWW.USDOJ.GOV
TAX
(202) 514-2007
TDD (202) 514-1888
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES ROBERT L. SCHULZ AND “WE THE PEOPLE” TO STOP ALLEGED TAX SCAM
Queensbury, N.Y., Man’s Scheme Allegedly Cost U.S. Treasury $21 Million
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States announced that it has sued to block Robert L. Schulz, of Queensbury, N.Y., from selling an alleged tax fraud scheme said to have cost the U.S. Treasury more than $21 million, the Justice Department announced today. Also named in the suit are two corporations, We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education Inc., and We the People Congress Inc.
The government’s complaint, filed in Syracuse with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, alleges that Schulz has used the two We the People entities to market a nationwide tax fraud scheme, called the Tax Termination Package, to employers and employees. According to the complaint, the Tax Termination Package includes We the People forms, which the defendants falsely tell customers can be used to replace forms the IRS requires employers and employees must use in connection with federal tax withholding from wages.
The suit says that Schulz and the We the People entities falsely state that use of the replacement forms will allow customers to legally stop tax withholding. According to the complaint, the defendants base the scheme on frivolous arguments about federal tax laws that federal courts have repeatedly rejected. These schemes are on the IRS’s 2007 list of the Dirty Dozen tax scams. http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=167983,00.html
“People who sell tax scams are asking for trouble for themselves and their customers who participate in them,” said Eileen J. O’Connor, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division. “They and their customers temporarily enrich themselves at the expense of law-abiding taxpayers. The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are determined to stamp out these scams.”
Since 2001 the Justice Department has obtained more than 230 injunctions to stop the promotion of tax fraud schemes and the preparation of fraudulent returns. More information about the Justice Department’s efforts against tax-scam promoters can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/taxpress20076.htm. Information about the Justice Department’s Tax Division can be found at http://www.usdoj.gov/tax.
TYSON Foods/Bill Clinton
One of the kids brought home a menu from school and it has TYSON foods featured????? Hmmmmmm. I can't find the menu online or I'd send it here. (I found 'a' menu but I can't find 'TYSON' reflected on it.) (Not sure which session of Codex youtube says Bill Clinton signed the due date of 12/31/09)
http://www.d49.org/menus/2008-2009/Nutritional%20Analysis/December/Dec%20Elem%20Lunch%20NA.pdf
Codex Alimentarius P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrF9KjlGsc
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/sports/othersports/09olympics.html?ei=5088&en=a90a3a87244c72e8&ex=1360213200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
February 9, 2008
Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food to China
By BEN SHPIGEL
COLORADO SPRINGS — When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of chicken — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. “Enough to feed a family of eight,” said Frank Puleo, a caterer from Staten Island who has traveled to China to handle food-related issues.
“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive.”
In preparing to take a delegation of more than 600 athletes to the Summer Games in Beijing this year, the U.S.O.C. faces food issues beyond steroid-laced chicken. In recent years, some foods in China have been found to be tainted with insecticides and illegal veterinary drugs, and the standards applied to meat there are lower than those in the United States, raising fears of food-borne illnesses.
In the past two years, the U.S.O.C. has tried to figure out how to avoid such dangers at the Olympics. It has made arrangements with sponsors like Kellogg’s and Tyson Foods, which will ship 25,000 pounds of lean protein to China about two months before the opening ceremony, but will hire local vendors and importers to secure other foods and cooking equipment at the Games.
The bulk of that food will be served at the U.S.O.C.’s training center at Beijing Normal University, about 20 minutes from the Olympic Green, where for the first time United States athletes will have access to their own facility providing three meals a day. The dishes served will be compliant with the U.S.O.C.’s overhauled diet plan, placing a greater emphasis on nutrition, which officials hope will boost athletes’ performance.
The diet plan is already in place for the athletes residing at each of the three United States training centers — here and in Chula Vista, Calif., and Lake Placid, N.Y. And the organization is urging all United States athletes to be aware of what they ingest. Under the World Anti-Doping Agency’s drug-testing code, athletes are responsible for whatever is in their bodies, regardless of the source.
Much of the dietary strategy falls to Jacque Hamilton, the executive chef of the U.S.O.C. She has consulted with dietitians and sous chefs over the past year and a half to modify more than 1,500 recipes and prepare to serve about 700 meals a day at the U.S.O.C.’s training center in Beijing. Many countries do not have the resources for a training center in Beijing, but those that do may choose to serve their own food as well.
Ms. Hamilton has lowered sodium, decreased fats and eliminated trans fats — even from rich dishes like macaroni and cheese and rice pudding — while preserving the flavor. Most recipes must pass a taste test at the Hamilton household before she lets the athletes sample them, and on a recent afternoon at the Olympic Training Center here, Ms. Hamilton unveiled moo shu pork wraps, mango rice balls and a seaweed and soba noodle salad, hoping to gain approval for inclusion on the Beijing menu.
In front of each dish sat a placard informing athletes of vital nutritional information like serving size, calorie content and grams of fats and carbohydrates.
In a way, Ms. Hamilton is a natural fit for this mission; she is a 54-year-old mother of two who says she has never fed her family white bread or canned meats or vegetables. She recently recounted how her son, Jeremy, 12 years old at the time, came home one day and asked why she had been abusing him for so long.
“I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ” Ms. Hamilton said, laughing. “And he said, ‘Why did I have to have my first Twinkie at someone else’s house?’ ”
There were no signs of Twinkies in the dining hall at the training center, but that does not necessarily mean athletes would be banished if they ate one. Adam Korzun, a dietitian who will be traveling to Beijing to ensure that every meal follows the nutritional standards, said no foods were forbidden.
“It’s all a matter of how and when you work it into your diet,” he said.
Sometimes, the athletes do not have a choice. Mr. Korzun recounted several times when teams competing in foreign countries were presented with culinary challenges. The triathlon team encountered a dish called “Be Dental Alveoli Quick to Salad Bangkok Hot Paddle Fish,” during a meet in Thailand. And the men’s weight lifting team was served barbecued guinea pig before a competition in Peru.
Myles Porter, who is hoping to earn a spot on the judo team for the Paralympic Games, said he lost about 20 pounds during the Para Pan-American Games in Brazil because he ate mostly pasta.
“You can’t just eat that for two weeks and expect to be at your best,” Mr. Porter said.
To limit those occurrences, Tyson has provided all United States team members with duffel bags containing a hot pot, a power adaptor, recipes and replenishable pouches of chicken that they can take to international qualifying events over the next few months.
In preparation for the Olympics, Tyson will ship beef, chicken and pork to China. When the food arrives, customs agents will review the shipment — the U.S.O.C. has budgeted 10 days to complete this process — before it is delivered to U.S.O.C. representatives and taken to a holding site at Beijing Normal University. The food will remain there for about three weeks until athletes arrive.
“The security is so tight that there is pre-screening before it even gets to me,” said Terri Moreman, the U.S.O.C.’s associate director of food and nutrition services.
The protein from Tyson is one of the few food products that will be shipped from the United States. For more than a year, a delegation that includes Mr. Puleo and Ms. Moreman has traveled periodically to China to explore food-related issues. While there, they meet with potential vendors and importers, locate Western-style kitchen equipment and, in some cases, plan how to procure items that Americans may take for granted.
The U.S.O.C. will send measuring cups because, as Ms. Hamilton noted, the United States does not use the metric system. Kellogg’s has been asked to supply cereals like Frosted Flakes and Mini-Wheats, as well as Nutri-Grain bars, because those products are not readily available in China. Finding molasses, they learned, is next to impossible. Ice? Also a challenge.
“When I told them that we’ll need about 6,000 pounds a day, they think the translation’s wrong,” Mr. Puleo said. “Actually, we’ll need much more than that.”
The details must be completed during the group’s next visit to Beijing, scheduled for March, so Ms. Hamilton can begin planning the menu, but so far they expect to import most of the seafood from Japan and a lot of the fruit from Australia. Even without knowing exactly what she will have, Ms. Hamilton has identified some favorites that have made the cut, like meatloaf and the seaweed and soba noodle salad.
She anticipates arriving in Beijing in mid-July to become accustomed to her new kitchen and to meet the Chinese staff that will be assisting her. By then, many of the woks will have been removed, replaced by mobile ovens and griddles, and a weeklong soft opening will be staged at the end of the month to address any problems. Ms. Moreman said she would have a spreadsheet detailing every athlete’s arrival, the times and locations of competitions and when she could expect which team to eat.
Once athletes are finished competing, they are free — encouraged, even — to sample the local fare. That could mean munching on live sea horses or hard-boiled fertilized duck eggs — though steering clear of adulterated chicken breasts.
“I’ll be out there trying all that stuff, too,” Hamilton said. “I can’t wait.”
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=89&id2=2527
TYSON head helped keep Clinton in money when Clinton was Gov of Arkansas
Submitted by chompergirl 2005-11-23 20:20:03
www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/infocus/whitewater/ak.roots.html
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Throughout the 1980s, the governor had done what many politicians do: take personal loans, use them for campaigning and then raise money to repay the loans later. Clinton raised several hundred thousand dollars this way from influential supporters like Don Tyson, the head of Arkansas's powerful Tyson foods.
But in 1985, the governor's biggest campaign contributor was himself, with help from Jim McDougal of Madison Guaranty. In 1985, Clinton asked McDougal to host a fund-raiser to pay off $50,000 that he had lent his own campaign the year before, as some politicians do. The event raised $35,000. Federal investigators are still looking into charges that much of it came from Madison, in the names of depositors, without their knowledge.
Clinton's eventual successor as governor, Jim Guy Tucker, also received large loans from Madison, and would later go on trial with the McDougals for bank fraud. All three were convicted
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Tyson Foods, based in Bill Clinton’s home state of Arkansas, enjoyed intimate ties to the Clinton Administration during the 1990’s. Some would say too intimate. It was Tyson General Counsel, James Blair, who set up a sweetheart deal to get Hillary Clinton an education in sophisticated and highly risky cattle futures, turning her $1,000 investment into a quick $100,000 windfall. Soon after helping Hillary, Tyson Foods found a friend in the new Clinton Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy. A US Judge found that Tyson had arranged airplane rides, professional football tickets and other gifts to Espy. Tyson agreed to pay a $6 million fine for ‘attempting’ to bribe a Federal official.
Tyson is also adept at taking over rivals. In 1997, after repeatedly failing in a takeover bid, Tyson bought rival poultry producer Hudson Foods. And they bought it at a steeply-discounted price.
Hudson Foods was suddenly hit with an e coli bacteria scandal. US Government regulators descended on the company, even sending in a so-called ‘SWAT team’ to shut down operations. Press carried horror stories about the company. Within hours, the company's stock value plummeted. Within weeks, rival Tyson Foods bought Hudson Foods. Tyson CEO Don Tyson’s Arkansas friend Bill Clinton was President of the United States, theoretically responsible for deployment of such operations as Federal Swat Teams to shut down companies. Tyson Foods was able to buy Hudson Foods only after the small company had been brought to its knees, at least in part through a public health scare and some government brute force. No one ever proved that Tyson and the Clinton Administration were in cahoots in the Hudson Foods e coli scare, with its unprecedented Government raid. Yet no one ever proved the opposite either. Tyson had swallowed another rival, anaconda-style.
Tyson Foods today has re-branded itself and now boasts of being ‘the world’s largest protein producer,’ a pitch designed to let it benefit from the current ‘high-protein/low carbohydrate’ Dr. Atkins diet fad. Benefit it has, as US chicken consumption is up 24% since 1995. But that evidently isn’t enough for the executives at Tyson Foods. They have their eyes on the vast China and Asian market for chickens as we will later see. 4
Tyson Chicken Factories: The myth
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Tyson Foods Under Fire for Inhumane Slaughter of Poultry
From: THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER
June 6, 2005, Issue #408 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective
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TYSON FOODS SAYS IT WILL INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF INHUMANE TREATMENT DURING CHICKEN SLAUGHTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday it will investigate allegations of inhumane chicken slaughter, but contended that an undercover animal-rights photographer apparently violated company policies by videotaping "what he should have been preventing."
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, distributed videotapes and launched a Web site accusing Tyson of mutilating birds and scalding thousands while they were conscious in an Alabama slaughterhouse. The group also said its videotape shows workers tearing heads off live
chickens.
Tyson, the world's largest poultry processor, said a veterinarian from its Office of Animal Well-Being will look into the allegations.
Tyson also raised the possibility of evidence manipulation by PETA's undercover agent, who was employed at the Heflin, Alabama, facility for several weeks.
It said the man had signed a document confirming he had completed the company's animal-welfare training "and was responsible for ensuring that no birds remained alive. His job gave him the responsibility to process any live birds, stop the line or sound an alarm if there was a problem.
"Instead, it appears PETA's agent violated Tyson's animal-welfare policy by allowing some conscious birds to go into the scald tank for the sole purpose of videotaping what he should have been preventing.
"We also take issue with PETA claims of manual decapitation of live birds," Tyson said in a statement. "We believe the carefully edited video is showing birds that have already been cut by an automatic knife and are either dead or have been rendered unconscious."
Responding to the company's statement, PETA said its investigator had been "taught to rip the animals' heads off by a plant supervisor, for when there are too many who miss the neck slicer."
The group also said the man tried to slow the processing line but quit because the plant's policy allowed a certain number of birds to be scalded while conscious.
Tyson said it continues to research the use of a procedure that PETA has urged the industry to adopt. It uses an inert gas to stun the chickens before they are killed. "Experts are divided over whether it is more humane," the company said.
Last year, PETA brought charges of animal abuse against Pilgrim's Pride Corp., which subsequently fired several chicken slaughterhouse workers caught on videotape. West Virginia officials decided not to bring criminal
charges.
PETA has an ongoing campaign seeking to convince the KFC unit of Yum Brands
Inc. to insist its suppliers use controlled-atmosphere slaughter procedures. In afternoon trading, shares of Tyson slipped 23 cents to $18.77 on the New York Stock Exchange.
[May 25, 2005 ]
Tyson Foods in Tennessee: Replacing Labor Day with Eid al-Fitr
By Michelle Malkin • August 4, 2008 12:44 AM
Judging from my e-mail, a lot of folks are hopping mad about this weekend’s story from the Shelbyville, Tennessee Times-Gazette concerning Tyson Foods’ decision to replace the paid Labor Day holiday with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Brian Moselely reports that there are 700 Muslims working at the 1,200-employee plant, including some 250 Somali refugees:
Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility “implements a new holiday to accommodate the … Muslim workers at the plant.”
The RWDSU stated that “the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan.”
Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.
…The press release stated there are approximatly 700 Muslims working at Tyson, but Mickelson said that Somalis only represent approximately 250 of the 1,200 employed at the plant, a little over 20 percent of the workforce.
“All Team Members who have completed their probationary period are eligible for all eight paid holidays including Eid al-Fitr,” the Tyson spokeman said.
The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the Muslim holiday, “two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant.”
Check out the comments section at the end of the article for a taste of the local (and growing) backlash against Tyson.
The Times-Gazette reporter, Brian Moseley, has a background piece on his story that’s worth reading. After noting how quickly the story has spread across the wires and the Internet, he writes:
So what do I think about all this?
Clearly, the accommodations given to the Muslims have upset a great many people here and across the county, especially if they believe, as many apparently do, that their traditional values are being suppressed in the name of cultural diversity and political correctness. More than one person has told me that their tolerance only goes so far, and this is obviously one of those times.
I have stated my opinions about the refugee issue itself before. It is my personal opinion that the drive to bring so many refugees to America are not prompted by just good will or concern for the plight of these poor people, but instead for the millions of dollars in federal grants that are available for settling them in this country. According to Chris Coen, who is trying to help out refugees of all nationalities, there is a lot of money to be made in this “profession.”
I also need point out that it would appear that some of these refugees are being used for other reasons. I find some of the allegations about these employment arrangements to be awfully similar to this sort of thing, and it should not be tolerated.
I also have to say that I do not feel that I am “obsessed” or “fixated” with the topic of Somalis living here, as one blogger believes. The refugees have lived in Shelbyville for the past four years, and no one has even addressed the issue until the T-G published the series in December of last year.
I would also have to suggest that the blogger’s opinion is quite possibly influenced by the fact that she makes her living by working with the Nashville refugee community, as she states on one of her other websites.
I am simply reporting on what happens when hundreds of people from a totally alien culture suddenly move to a small town in the rural south — both the good and the bad. I can not control how people are going to react to my stories.
In closing, I’ll just say that I’m going to continue to keep looking into the various issues surrounding our new neighbors so that our community can stay informed. That’s what we’re here for. And that’s what I’m going to do.
I have a feeling it won’t be long before CAIR comes knocking on his paper’s door.
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Codex Alimentarius P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrF9KjlGsc
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/sports/othersports/09olympics.html?ei=5088&en=a90a3a87244c72e8&ex=1360213200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
February 9, 2008
Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food to China
By BEN SHPIGEL
COLORADO SPRINGS — When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of chicken — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. “Enough to feed a family of eight,” said Frank Puleo, a caterer from Staten Island who has traveled to China to handle food-related issues.
“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive.”
In preparing to take a delegation of more than 600 athletes to the Summer Games in Beijing this year, the U.S.O.C. faces food issues beyond steroid-laced chicken. In recent years, some foods in China have been found to be tainted with insecticides and illegal veterinary drugs, and the standards applied to meat there are lower than those in the United States, raising fears of food-borne illnesses.
In the past two years, the U.S.O.C. has tried to figure out how to avoid such dangers at the Olympics. It has made arrangements with sponsors like Kellogg’s and Tyson Foods, which will ship 25,000 pounds of lean protein to China about two months before the opening ceremony, but will hire local vendors and importers to secure other foods and cooking equipment at the Games.
The bulk of that food will be served at the U.S.O.C.’s training center at Beijing Normal University, about 20 minutes from the Olympic Green, where for the first time United States athletes will have access to their own facility providing three meals a day. The dishes served will be compliant with the U.S.O.C.’s overhauled diet plan, placing a greater emphasis on nutrition, which officials hope will boost athletes’ performance.
The diet plan is already in place for the athletes residing at each of the three United States training centers — here and in Chula Vista, Calif., and Lake Placid, N.Y. And the organization is urging all United States athletes to be aware of what they ingest. Under the World Anti-Doping Agency’s drug-testing code, athletes are responsible for whatever is in their bodies, regardless of the source.
Much of the dietary strategy falls to Jacque Hamilton, the executive chef of the U.S.O.C. She has consulted with dietitians and sous chefs over the past year and a half to modify more than 1,500 recipes and prepare to serve about 700 meals a day at the U.S.O.C.’s training center in Beijing. Many countries do not have the resources for a training center in Beijing, but those that do may choose to serve their own food as well.
Ms. Hamilton has lowered sodium, decreased fats and eliminated trans fats — even from rich dishes like macaroni and cheese and rice pudding — while preserving the flavor. Most recipes must pass a taste test at the Hamilton household before she lets the athletes sample them, and on a recent afternoon at the Olympic Training Center here, Ms. Hamilton unveiled moo shu pork wraps, mango rice balls and a seaweed and soba noodle salad, hoping to gain approval for inclusion on the Beijing menu.
In front of each dish sat a placard informing athletes of vital nutritional information like serving size, calorie content and grams of fats and carbohydrates.
In a way, Ms. Hamilton is a natural fit for this mission; she is a 54-year-old mother of two who says she has never fed her family white bread or canned meats or vegetables. She recently recounted how her son, Jeremy, 12 years old at the time, came home one day and asked why she had been abusing him for so long.
“I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ” Ms. Hamilton said, laughing. “And he said, ‘Why did I have to have my first Twinkie at someone else’s house?’ ”
There were no signs of Twinkies in the dining hall at the training center, but that does not necessarily mean athletes would be banished if they ate one. Adam Korzun, a dietitian who will be traveling to Beijing to ensure that every meal follows the nutritional standards, said no foods were forbidden.
“It’s all a matter of how and when you work it into your diet,” he said.
Sometimes, the athletes do not have a choice. Mr. Korzun recounted several times when teams competing in foreign countries were presented with culinary challenges. The triathlon team encountered a dish called “Be Dental Alveoli Quick to Salad Bangkok Hot Paddle Fish,” during a meet in Thailand. And the men’s weight lifting team was served barbecued guinea pig before a competition in Peru.
Myles Porter, who is hoping to earn a spot on the judo team for the Paralympic Games, said he lost about 20 pounds during the Para Pan-American Games in Brazil because he ate mostly pasta.
“You can’t just eat that for two weeks and expect to be at your best,” Mr. Porter said.
To limit those occurrences, Tyson has provided all United States team members with duffel bags containing a hot pot, a power adaptor, recipes and replenishable pouches of chicken that they can take to international qualifying events over the next few months.
In preparation for the Olympics, Tyson will ship beef, chicken and pork to China. When the food arrives, customs agents will review the shipment — the U.S.O.C. has budgeted 10 days to complete this process — before it is delivered to U.S.O.C. representatives and taken to a holding site at Beijing Normal University. The food will remain there for about three weeks until athletes arrive.
“The security is so tight that there is pre-screening before it even gets to me,” said Terri Moreman, the U.S.O.C.’s associate director of food and nutrition services.
The protein from Tyson is one of the few food products that will be shipped from the United States. For more than a year, a delegation that includes Mr. Puleo and Ms. Moreman has traveled periodically to China to explore food-related issues. While there, they meet with potential vendors and importers, locate Western-style kitchen equipment and, in some cases, plan how to procure items that Americans may take for granted.
The U.S.O.C. will send measuring cups because, as Ms. Hamilton noted, the United States does not use the metric system. Kellogg’s has been asked to supply cereals like Frosted Flakes and Mini-Wheats, as well as Nutri-Grain bars, because those products are not readily available in China. Finding molasses, they learned, is next to impossible. Ice? Also a challenge.
“When I told them that we’ll need about 6,000 pounds a day, they think the translation’s wrong,” Mr. Puleo said. “Actually, we’ll need much more than that.”
The details must be completed during the group’s next visit to Beijing, scheduled for March, so Ms. Hamilton can begin planning the menu, but so far they expect to import most of the seafood from Japan and a lot of the fruit from Australia. Even without knowing exactly what she will have, Ms. Hamilton has identified some favorites that have made the cut, like meatloaf and the seaweed and soba noodle salad.
She anticipates arriving in Beijing in mid-July to become accustomed to her new kitchen and to meet the Chinese staff that will be assisting her. By then, many of the woks will have been removed, replaced by mobile ovens and griddles, and a weeklong soft opening will be staged at the end of the month to address any problems. Ms. Moreman said she would have a spreadsheet detailing every athlete’s arrival, the times and locations of competitions and when she could expect which team to eat.
Once athletes are finished competing, they are free — encouraged, even — to sample the local fare. That could mean munching on live sea horses or hard-boiled fertilized duck eggs — though steering clear of adulterated chicken breasts.
“I’ll be out there trying all that stuff, too,” Hamilton said. “I can’t wait.”
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TYSON head helped keep Clinton in money when Clinton was Gov of Arkansas
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Throughout the 1980s, the governor had done what many politicians do: take personal loans, use them for campaigning and then raise money to repay the loans later. Clinton raised several hundred thousand dollars this way from influential supporters like Don Tyson, the head of Arkansas's powerful Tyson foods.
But in 1985, the governor's biggest campaign contributor was himself, with help from Jim McDougal of Madison Guaranty. In 1985, Clinton asked McDougal to host a fund-raiser to pay off $50,000 that he had lent his own campaign the year before, as some politicians do. The event raised $35,000. Federal investigators are still looking into charges that much of it came from Madison, in the names of depositors, without their knowledge.
Clinton's eventual successor as governor, Jim Guy Tucker, also received large loans from Madison, and would later go on trial with the McDougals for bank fraud. All three were convicted
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Tyson Foods, based in Bill Clinton’s home state of Arkansas, enjoyed intimate ties to the Clinton Administration during the 1990’s. Some would say too intimate. It was Tyson General Counsel, James Blair, who set up a sweetheart deal to get Hillary Clinton an education in sophisticated and highly risky cattle futures, turning her $1,000 investment into a quick $100,000 windfall. Soon after helping Hillary, Tyson Foods found a friend in the new Clinton Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy. A US Judge found that Tyson had arranged airplane rides, professional football tickets and other gifts to Espy. Tyson agreed to pay a $6 million fine for ‘attempting’ to bribe a Federal official.
Tyson is also adept at taking over rivals. In 1997, after repeatedly failing in a takeover bid, Tyson bought rival poultry producer Hudson Foods. And they bought it at a steeply-discounted price.
Hudson Foods was suddenly hit with an e coli bacteria scandal. US Government regulators descended on the company, even sending in a so-called ‘SWAT team’ to shut down operations. Press carried horror stories about the company. Within hours, the company's stock value plummeted. Within weeks, rival Tyson Foods bought Hudson Foods. Tyson CEO Don Tyson’s Arkansas friend Bill Clinton was President of the United States, theoretically responsible for deployment of such operations as Federal Swat Teams to shut down companies. Tyson Foods was able to buy Hudson Foods only after the small company had been brought to its knees, at least in part through a public health scare and some government brute force. No one ever proved that Tyson and the Clinton Administration were in cahoots in the Hudson Foods e coli scare, with its unprecedented Government raid. Yet no one ever proved the opposite either. Tyson had swallowed another rival, anaconda-style.
Tyson Foods today has re-branded itself and now boasts of being ‘the world’s largest protein producer,’ a pitch designed to let it benefit from the current ‘high-protein/low carbohydrate’ Dr. Atkins diet fad. Benefit it has, as US chicken consumption is up 24% since 1995. But that evidently isn’t enough for the executives at Tyson Foods. They have their eyes on the vast China and Asian market for chickens as we will later see. 4
Tyson Chicken Factories: The myth
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Tyson Foods Under Fire for Inhumane Slaughter of Poultry
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June 6, 2005, Issue #408 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective
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TYSON FOODS SAYS IT WILL INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF INHUMANE TREATMENT DURING CHICKEN SLAUGHTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday it will investigate allegations of inhumane chicken slaughter, but contended that an undercover animal-rights photographer apparently violated company policies by videotaping "what he should have been preventing."
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, distributed videotapes and launched a Web site accusing Tyson of mutilating birds and scalding thousands while they were conscious in an Alabama slaughterhouse. The group also said its videotape shows workers tearing heads off live
chickens.
Tyson, the world's largest poultry processor, said a veterinarian from its Office of Animal Well-Being will look into the allegations.
Tyson also raised the possibility of evidence manipulation by PETA's undercover agent, who was employed at the Heflin, Alabama, facility for several weeks.
It said the man had signed a document confirming he had completed the company's animal-welfare training "and was responsible for ensuring that no birds remained alive. His job gave him the responsibility to process any live birds, stop the line or sound an alarm if there was a problem.
"Instead, it appears PETA's agent violated Tyson's animal-welfare policy by allowing some conscious birds to go into the scald tank for the sole purpose of videotaping what he should have been preventing.
"We also take issue with PETA claims of manual decapitation of live birds," Tyson said in a statement. "We believe the carefully edited video is showing birds that have already been cut by an automatic knife and are either dead or have been rendered unconscious."
Responding to the company's statement, PETA said its investigator had been "taught to rip the animals' heads off by a plant supervisor, for when there are too many who miss the neck slicer."
The group also said the man tried to slow the processing line but quit because the plant's policy allowed a certain number of birds to be scalded while conscious.
Tyson said it continues to research the use of a procedure that PETA has urged the industry to adopt. It uses an inert gas to stun the chickens before they are killed. "Experts are divided over whether it is more humane," the company said.
Last year, PETA brought charges of animal abuse against Pilgrim's Pride Corp., which subsequently fired several chicken slaughterhouse workers caught on videotape. West Virginia officials decided not to bring criminal
charges.
PETA has an ongoing campaign seeking to convince the KFC unit of Yum Brands
Inc. to insist its suppliers use controlled-atmosphere slaughter procedures. In afternoon trading, shares of Tyson slipped 23 cents to $18.77 on the New York Stock Exchange.
[May 25, 2005 ]
Tyson Foods in Tennessee: Replacing Labor Day with Eid al-Fitr
By Michelle Malkin • August 4, 2008 12:44 AM
Judging from my e-mail, a lot of folks are hopping mad about this weekend’s story from the Shelbyville, Tennessee Times-Gazette concerning Tyson Foods’ decision to replace the paid Labor Day holiday with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Brian Moselely reports that there are 700 Muslims working at the 1,200-employee plant, including some 250 Somali refugees:
Workers at Tyson Foods’ poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility “implements a new holiday to accommodate the … Muslim workers at the plant.”
The RWDSU stated that “the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan.”
Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.
…The press release stated there are approximatly 700 Muslims working at Tyson, but Mickelson said that Somalis only represent approximately 250 of the 1,200 employed at the plant, a little over 20 percent of the workforce.
“All Team Members who have completed their probationary period are eligible for all eight paid holidays including Eid al-Fitr,” the Tyson spokeman said.
The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the Muslim holiday, “two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant.”
Check out the comments section at the end of the article for a taste of the local (and growing) backlash against Tyson.
The Times-Gazette reporter, Brian Moseley, has a background piece on his story that’s worth reading. After noting how quickly the story has spread across the wires and the Internet, he writes:
So what do I think about all this?
Clearly, the accommodations given to the Muslims have upset a great many people here and across the county, especially if they believe, as many apparently do, that their traditional values are being suppressed in the name of cultural diversity and political correctness. More than one person has told me that their tolerance only goes so far, and this is obviously one of those times.
I have stated my opinions about the refugee issue itself before. It is my personal opinion that the drive to bring so many refugees to America are not prompted by just good will or concern for the plight of these poor people, but instead for the millions of dollars in federal grants that are available for settling them in this country. According to Chris Coen, who is trying to help out refugees of all nationalities, there is a lot of money to be made in this “profession.”
I also need point out that it would appear that some of these refugees are being used for other reasons. I find some of the allegations about these employment arrangements to be awfully similar to this sort of thing, and it should not be tolerated.
I also have to say that I do not feel that I am “obsessed” or “fixated” with the topic of Somalis living here, as one blogger believes. The refugees have lived in Shelbyville for the past four years, and no one has even addressed the issue until the T-G published the series in December of last year.
I would also have to suggest that the blogger’s opinion is quite possibly influenced by the fact that she makes her living by working with the Nashville refugee community, as she states on one of her other websites.
I am simply reporting on what happens when hundreds of people from a totally alien culture suddenly move to a small town in the rural south — both the good and the bad. I can not control how people are going to react to my stories.
In closing, I’ll just say that I’m going to continue to keep looking into the various issues surrounding our new neighbors so that our community can stay informed. That’s what we’re here for. And that’s what I’m going to do.
I have a feeling it won’t be long before CAIR comes knocking on his paper’s door.
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