Rumsfeld's Tamiflu Stock
Reviewed by Charlene Jones
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds investments valued between $5 million and $25 million in Gilead Sciences, a biotech company he chaired from 1997 until 2001 and the company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the most sought-after influenza remedy in the world. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, which holds the sole license to manufacture Tamiflu, last year refused to lift its exclusive rights and allow other drug manufacturers to produce the drug. Fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's stock from $35 to $47, making the Pentagon chief-already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet-at least $1 million richer. "Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu," Nelson D. Schwartz, CNN, 10/31/05 http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/?cnn=yes "Is Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?" F. William Engdahl, GlobalResearch.ca, 10/30/05 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20051030&articleId=1169
Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds investments valued between $5 million and $25 million in Gilead Sciences, a biotech company he chaired from 1997 until 2001 and the company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the most sought-after influenza remedy in the world. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, which holds the sole license to manufacture Tamiflu, last year refused to lift its exclusive rights and allow other drug manufacturers to produce the drug. Fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's stock from $35 to $47, making the Pentagon chief-already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet-at least $1 million richer. "Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu," Nelson D. Schwartz, CNN, 10/31/05 http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/?cnn=yes "Is Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?" F. William Engdahl, GlobalResearch.ca, 10/30/05 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20051030&articleId=1169
Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Office: 707-664-2588
http://www.projectcensored.org
rudkla - 29. Apr, 13:58
