06.13.11
Crappy anthrax vaccine company links boss with crappy US Chamber of Commerce
The bioterror defense company Emergent BioSolutions, years ago known as BioPort, has had its boss, Fuad el-Hibri, appointed to the board of directors of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Emergent, which supplies the BioThrax anthrax vaccine to the US government, its only buyer, is a company that does two things: suck off the taxpayer teat and sue/dirty trick its competition in the bioterror defense industry.
In hoisting its boss into directorship at the US Chamber of Commerce, described as a fully-functioning arm of the Republican Party, inimically opposed to the US government and any sensible legislation unless it means increased profit for its big corporate clients and more donations to its coffers, Emergent BioSolutions would seem to have found a perfect partner.
“In 2010, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined with Scholastic Books to distribute roughly 100,000 books about the potential perils of government fossil fuel regulation to classrooms across the country,” reads one paragraph on the organization at SourceWatch.
“[The US Chamber of Commerce] aims to convince people that [Obamacare] is fiscally reckless, [and] will ‘lead us down the road to total government control of our health …'” reads another.
“Throughout his career, Fuad El-Hibri [of Emergent] has successfully identified and expanded on business opportunities that contribute to creating jobs and growing the economy,” said U.S. Chamber CEO Thomas Donohue to the Washington Business Journal. “The Chamber will benefit from his vast experience in international business and partnering with the U.S. government.”
Here at Pine View Farm, a bit on the Chamber of Commerce’s campaign to prevent enactment of law that would require government contractors, of which Emergent is one, to report their political campaign contributions.
Which, at least in part, explains the Chamber’s great enthusiasm for the the CEO of Emergent’s “experience.”
Dick Destiny » The bioterror industry pimp (an infrequent series) said,
June 26, 2011 at 4:19 pm
[…] And this, perhaps, explains why one of the country’s bioterror defense firms, Emergent BioSolutions — a maker of anthrax vaccine, partnered with the US Chamber of Commerce,… […]