Churchill - Hitler - Mao - Stalin
Churchill - Hitler - Mao - Stalin
by Tremezza von Brentano
posted: 10. Oktober 2007
by Tremezza von Brentano
posted: 10. Oktober 2007
bin66 - 4. Nov, 00:41
Sonntag, 4. November 2007
Key HIV strain 'came from Haiti'
Key HIV strain 'came from Haiti'
By Neil Bowdler
Science reporter, BBC News
The strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the United States and Europe has been traced back to Haiti by an international team of scientists.
The strain passed from Haiti to the US in about 1969 before spreading further, says the team in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences.
They hope knowing this could help find a cure for HIV, which can lead to Aids.
"HIV-1 group M subtype B" predominates in the US, Europe, large parts of South America, Australia and Japan.
Now scientists say they know where it came from.
'Single carrier'
The team examined archived blood samples from five early Aids patients - all of them Haitian immigrants to the United States - and analysed genetic sequences from another 117 Aids patients from around the world.
With this data, they recreated a family tree for the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the US via Haiti - probably via a single person - in around 1969.
Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in Tucson is one of the study's authors. He says the new research suggests HIV first arrived in Haiti in the mid-1960s - probably from Africa where HIV is thought to have originated - before making its crossing into the US.
"By 1966 the virus first starts spreading in Haiti," he told the BBC.
"A few years later one variant from Haiti gives rise to what would then light the fuse and explode around the world as the Aids pandemic that we first became aware of."
Prof Worobey and his colleagues now want to trace the strain back further. His suspicion is that it probably arrived in Haiti from the Congo via Haitians who were working in Africa during those years.
He says understanding the origins of this and other strains of HIV will better enable scientists to predict how the virus may mutate in the future.
http://tinyurl.com/2zo6e9
By Neil Bowdler
Science reporter, BBC News
The strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the United States and Europe has been traced back to Haiti by an international team of scientists.
The strain passed from Haiti to the US in about 1969 before spreading further, says the team in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences.
They hope knowing this could help find a cure for HIV, which can lead to Aids.
"HIV-1 group M subtype B" predominates in the US, Europe, large parts of South America, Australia and Japan.
Now scientists say they know where it came from.
'Single carrier'
The team examined archived blood samples from five early Aids patients - all of them Haitian immigrants to the United States - and analysed genetic sequences from another 117 Aids patients from around the world.
With this data, they recreated a family tree for the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the US via Haiti - probably via a single person - in around 1969.
Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona in Tucson is one of the study's authors. He says the new research suggests HIV first arrived in Haiti in the mid-1960s - probably from Africa where HIV is thought to have originated - before making its crossing into the US.
"By 1966 the virus first starts spreading in Haiti," he told the BBC.
"A few years later one variant from Haiti gives rise to what would then light the fuse and explode around the world as the Aids pandemic that we first became aware of."
Prof Worobey and his colleagues now want to trace the strain back further. His suspicion is that it probably arrived in Haiti from the Congo via Haitians who were working in Africa during those years.
He says understanding the origins of this and other strains of HIV will better enable scientists to predict how the virus may mutate in the future.
http://tinyurl.com/2zo6e9
bin66 - 4. Nov, 00:39
Report: Lieberman got donations from trash hauler and associates
Report: Lieberman got donations from trash hauler and associates
Associated Press
October 28, 2007
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The FBI and federal prosecutors have contacted U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's office about at least $14,000 in contributions to his 2004 presidential campaign made by a now-indicted Danbury-area businessman and his associates, a spokesman for the senator has confirmed.
James Galante, 54, of New Fairfield, his associates and their relatives donated to Lieberman's presidential campaign in the fall of 2003, the Hartford Courant reported Sunday, citing federal campaign records.
Galante and 28 other people were indicted last year in a federal investigation of the mob's alleged influence on the trash hauling industry in western Connecticut and upstate New York. Galante, who owns several trash businesses, has pleaded not guilty to 93 federal counts including racketeering, extortion and fraud.
State authorities have also charged Galante with making illegal campaign contributions to other politicians. Galante's lawyer, Hugh Keefe, said his client is accused of making about $38,000 on donations to three political action committees through straw donors.
Galante is awaiting trial on the federal charges related to the garbage hauling investigation. Through a spokesman, he said he would not comment on the campaign money.
No charges have been filed in connection with the donations to Lieberman's presidential campaign.
Rob Sawicki, Lieberman's press secretary, said federal authorities have asked the senator's office about the circumstances surrounding the contributions. He said no one in the campaign knew about any impropriety involved with the donations made through Galante.
Lieberman will donate that money to a charity if federal authorities determine that the donations were illegal, Sawicki said.
"Those donations would never have been accepted had the campaign been aware of any wrongdoing in the bundling of those donations," he said.
The state campaign finance charges against Galante were filed on Oct. 13. He is accused of making suspect $1,000 contributions in 2002 and 2003 to the political action committees. Those committees were controlled by state Sen. Louis DeLuca, R-Woodbury, state Sen. David Cappiello, R-Danbury, and Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, the Courant reported.
It is not illegal to "bundle" contributions from several people and give them to a candidate at one time. But it is against the law to use bundling to exceed campaign contribution limits by funneling money through third parties who write checks within the limits.
DeLuca, Cappiello and Boughton are also not targets of the federal investigation. All three have said that they believed the contributions from Galante and his associates were legitimate. Cappiello, who is running for Congress in the 5th District, said he has donated the contributions in question to charity.
Several of Galante's employees, friends and relatives who state authorities say donated to the three PACs also gave a total of $10,000 to Lieberman's presidential campaign in November 2003, the federal campaign finance records show.
Galante himself gave Lieberman's campaign another $2,000 in September 2003, and a lobbyist for Galante donated $2,000 that year, the records show.
http://tinyurl.com/2qjp6r
Associated Press
October 28, 2007
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The FBI and federal prosecutors have contacted U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's office about at least $14,000 in contributions to his 2004 presidential campaign made by a now-indicted Danbury-area businessman and his associates, a spokesman for the senator has confirmed.
James Galante, 54, of New Fairfield, his associates and their relatives donated to Lieberman's presidential campaign in the fall of 2003, the Hartford Courant reported Sunday, citing federal campaign records.
Galante and 28 other people were indicted last year in a federal investigation of the mob's alleged influence on the trash hauling industry in western Connecticut and upstate New York. Galante, who owns several trash businesses, has pleaded not guilty to 93 federal counts including racketeering, extortion and fraud.
State authorities have also charged Galante with making illegal campaign contributions to other politicians. Galante's lawyer, Hugh Keefe, said his client is accused of making about $38,000 on donations to three political action committees through straw donors.
Galante is awaiting trial on the federal charges related to the garbage hauling investigation. Through a spokesman, he said he would not comment on the campaign money.
No charges have been filed in connection with the donations to Lieberman's presidential campaign.
Rob Sawicki, Lieberman's press secretary, said federal authorities have asked the senator's office about the circumstances surrounding the contributions. He said no one in the campaign knew about any impropriety involved with the donations made through Galante.
Lieberman will donate that money to a charity if federal authorities determine that the donations were illegal, Sawicki said.
"Those donations would never have been accepted had the campaign been aware of any wrongdoing in the bundling of those donations," he said.
The state campaign finance charges against Galante were filed on Oct. 13. He is accused of making suspect $1,000 contributions in 2002 and 2003 to the political action committees. Those committees were controlled by state Sen. Louis DeLuca, R-Woodbury, state Sen. David Cappiello, R-Danbury, and Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, the Courant reported.
It is not illegal to "bundle" contributions from several people and give them to a candidate at one time. But it is against the law to use bundling to exceed campaign contribution limits by funneling money through third parties who write checks within the limits.
DeLuca, Cappiello and Boughton are also not targets of the federal investigation. All three have said that they believed the contributions from Galante and his associates were legitimate. Cappiello, who is running for Congress in the 5th District, said he has donated the contributions in question to charity.
Several of Galante's employees, friends and relatives who state authorities say donated to the three PACs also gave a total of $10,000 to Lieberman's presidential campaign in November 2003, the federal campaign finance records show.
Galante himself gave Lieberman's campaign another $2,000 in September 2003, and a lobbyist for Galante donated $2,000 that year, the records show.
http://tinyurl.com/2qjp6r
bin66 - 4. Nov, 00:37
