Bayer worried meeting would bring bad press, focus on MIC

[Hubert Flottz]

Source: By Ken Ward Jr. Staff writer

Watch today's congressional hearing at noon :

http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Concerns about terrorism and plant security weren't the only reasons Bayer CropScience officials objected to a federal agency's plans for a public meeting about the August explosion and fire that killed two workers at Bayer's Institute plant.

Bayer lawyers also complained to the federal Chemical Safety Board that the meeting would create negative publicity for Bayer and give plant neighbors a forum to object to the continued storage of large amounts of deadly methyl isocyanate at the facility.

Company officials went so far as to initially state that they would not attend the meeting if members of the local group People Concerned About MIC were allowed to take part.

Chemical Safety Board staffers outlined these Bayer objections in notes taken during a February meeting with Bayer and released late last week to The Charleston Gazette in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.



Read more: http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200904200548

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(MIC) Methyl isocyanate...where have you heard of that chemical before?

Bhopal disaster

The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was an industrial disaster that took place at a Union Carbide subsidiary pesticide plant in the city of Bhopal, India. On 3 December 1984, the plant released 42 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, exposing more than 500,000 people to toxic gases. The first official immediate death toll was 2,259. A more probable figure is that 8,000 died within two weeks, and it is estimated that an additional 8,000 have since died from gas-related diseases. MORE...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

[pleah]

1. K&R

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I was one of the people who had to "shelter in place"

Until Bush stepped in these chemical plants in the area didn't play these kinds of cat and mouse PR games. Bayer has one hell of a scary history.

Auschwitz: 60 Year Anniversary-- the Role of IG Farben-Bayer

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz. Elderly Holocaust survivors, former soldiers and world leaders have gathered in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary: "I would like to say to all the people on the Earth: This should never be repeated, ever," said Maj. Anatoly Shapiro, 92, who led the first Soviet troops to enter Auschwitz.

Lest we forget an important corporate participant in the Holocaust - two excerpts shed light on the role of IG Farben, ie. Bayer.

IG Farben was the most powerful German corporate cartel in the first half of the 20th century and the single largest profiteer from the Second World War. IG (Interessengemeinschaft) stands for "Association of Common Interests": IG Farben included BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and other German chemical and pharmaceutical companies.

As documents show, IG Farben was intimately involved with the human experimental atrocities committed by Mengele at Auschwitz. More...

http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27a.php

Let us not forget the Bush IG Farben/Bayer connection.



How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

Snip...

The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war.

Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty".

Jan Lissmann, one of the lawyers for the survivors, said: "President Bush withdrew President Bill Clinton's signature from the treaty not only to protect Americans, but also to protect himself and his family." Much More...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Nazis in the attic

http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm

JD Rockefeller, Granpa Bush and the Nazis -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYmuNwR8ld4

[BonnieJW]

3. I knew about this.

I will not buy Bayer products to this day. My husband takes low dose aspirin and I always buy St. Joseph's rather than Bayer. I let everyone I know about this. The company is the same company, even though they try to say the company has changed hands. It's the same Bayer. Monsters.