Rumsfeld used to run drug company that invented bird-flu medicine

[Marleyb]

Crazy Coincidence? Or 3 billion easy money for cronies?

"Donald Rumsfeld, the guy who runs the Pentagon and its disastrous wars, had an interesting job before joining the current Bush administration: He was chairman of Gilead Sciences Inc., the drug company that invented Tamiflu, the only medicine thought to be effective against the killer bird flu we’re told to expect here in the United States any day now.

Earlier this month, Bush outraged Americans on all (both) sides of the political spectrum when he announced his intention to have the U.S. military take over American cities hit by the avian flu. The move would put the United States under martial law, which is illegal.

Rumsfeld owned significant shares of Gilead at least until 2002, when ethics rules forced him to sell off $91 million worth of stocks.

The federal government has already put in a $3.1 billion order for Tamiflu."

http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/10/what_a_crazy_co.php

[unpossibles]

1. does he still have any stocks? n/t

[atomic-fly]

2. I heard a news blip saying every american should take flu shots

If they insist I take it, I will be sure to decline it.
I hate these F**ckers!

[WhiteTara]

3. he was on the GD Searle board that got aspartame

okayed too. Now that I see this, I am convinced that bird flu is either a hoax or is being set up by the cabal to make money off other people's misery.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Let's just call it the "Rummy Flu". .... n/t

[lyonn]

5. Rummy had 91m worth of stock when he sold?

That's worse than cheney & Halliburton isn't it?

Poor Clinton, he couldn't compare to this crowd if all that the Repubs were claiming he did was illegal/dirty dealings/scamming, etc. Clinton tried to make a buck not millions on his silly land deal that we were are trying to make a buck on back then. It was the name of the game. George's kid did a great number on Silverado Savings and Loan that netted him some big $$ that we the people ended up paying for. I don't think we have enough District Attorneys to take all these thieves to court.

[belle]

6. Okay, anyone else weirded out that it's called "Gilead?" Handmaid's Tale,

anyone?

(the fundie theocracy renamed America "the Republic of Gilead.")

and no, not being :tinfoilhat: here. it just seems, you know, apt.

[unpossibles]

7. that is creepy

it is Biblical (of course):

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

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

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

[Roland99]

8. He was CEO of G.D. Searle when Aspartame got fast-track approval

by a Reagan-appointed head of the FDA.

[shance]

9. No coinky - such individuals profit over others deaths, illness and

natural disasters.

That is how they make their money.


They are scavengers. However they are worse than scavengers, because the create the plagues, destruction, wars and disasters themselves, and then pretend that they didnt.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

10. It never ends

Rudy with his anthrax cleanup operations company.

There was a long expose in a paper about how aspartame was approved almost immediately when Reagan came to office. And all the possible bad side effects.

[SoCalDemocrat]

11. Does he have any financial ties ?

Stocks, deferred incentives, anything?


Federal Government Pushes Flu Drug Made by Rumsfeld's Company Despite Rigged Trials
24-Jan-04
Donald Rumsfeld
Rummy was CEO of Gilead Sciences until named to the Bush cabinet and, like Cheney, still has ties that bind to the "old company." Now isn't it an "amazing coincidence" that the drug Tamiflu patented by Gilead Sciences is being pushed by the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases as the NUMBER ONE choice for flu, which, wonder of wonders, is sweeping through in one epidemic after another. Tamiflu is now also being recommended to fight avian flu, the current epidemic. Scroll through this NIAID page and you will find Tamiflu listed as ahead of all other recommended drugs for both prevention and treatment of flu. Trouble is, Gilead has been accused of rigging the trials of Tamiflu as a preventive treatment. (see http://12.31.13.115/HealthNews/reuters/NewsStory0106200324.htm) Meanwhile, Gildead is making a killing.

[VLC98]

12. Bumping this with CNN link

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/index.htm?cnn=yes