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Did old KGB thugs poison innocent Brits?
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3 go to U.K. clinic after spy poisoning
Health officials offer radiological testing for people who visited restaurant
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 7:59 a.m. ET Nov 27, 2006
LONDON - Three people have been referred to a special clinic for radiological tests following the death of a former Russian spy in London, a spokeswoman for Britain’s Health Protection Agency said on Monday.
Highly radioactive Polonium 210 was found in the body of Alexander Litvinenko, who died last week, and traces of radiation were found at his home, a restaurant and hotel he had visited.
Health officials have offered tests to members of the public who may have visited the locations.
The spokeswoman said that of more than 450 people who called a government hotline for health advice, 18 had been passed on to the HPA for follow-up.
“Of those 18, three have been referred as a precaution to a special clinic for radiological assessment,” she said.
London police investigating ‘suspicious death’
London’s Metropolitan Police said they were investigating a “suspicious death,” rather than a murder. They have not ruled out the possibility that Litvinenko may have poisoned himself.
Litvinenko’s friends and allies in London’s Russian emigre community blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has denied any involvement and called the death a tragedy.
British Cabinet minister Peter Hain accused Putin of “attacks on individual liberty and on democracy” and said Sunday that relations with Moscow were strained after a Litvinenko’s death. Hain, who is the government’s Northern Ireland Secretary, said Putin’s tenure had been clouded by incidents “including an extremely murky murder of the senior Russian journalist” Anna Politkovskaya.
In a dramatic statement dictated from his hospital bed and read outside the hospital after his death, the Kremlin critic accused the “barbaric and ruthless” Putin of ordering his poisoning.
Russian officials could not be reached for comment Sunday on Hain’s remarks.
Home Secretary John Reid, Britain’s top law-and-order official, refused to speculate about who might have killed Litvinenko. “I don’t think it’s for me as a politician to be making judgments that a policeman should make,” he told Scotland’s Radio Clyde.
Questions of public safety
The main opposition Conservative Party demanded the government make a statement in the House of Commons on Monday outlining what it knew about the case and how polonium-210 — a rare radioactive element usually produced in a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator — got into Britain.
“It is essential that other dissidents living in Britain are reassured about their safety and there are also questions about how polonium-210 came to be used in Britain,” said David Davis, the Conservative law-and-order spokesman.
Relations between Russia and Britain have remained cool since the end of the Cold War. London has infuriated Moscow by offering refuge to self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a Kremlin critic wanted in Russia on money-laundering charges, and Akhmed Zakayev, a representative of late Chechen rebel chief Aslan Maskhadov.
In January, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, accused four British diplomats of spying, showing on state-run television sophisticated communications equipment concealed in a fake rock, which it said the Britons hid in a Moscow park to use to contact Russian agents.
© 2006 MSNBC InteractiveReuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15917680/
Is a buyout possible? From another board-
By: arizona-chartman
25 Nov 2006, 09:00 AM EST
Msg. 11156 of 11158
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UGNE: Take-over/acquisition target?
At its current price Ugne is an appetizing candidate to be acquired by a large pharma company ... which is seeking to expand its future potential and pipeline for new products... by bringing new biotechnologies capabilities and expertise under its umbrella. UGNE's growing revenue stream with Fortical ... potentially lucrative partner agreements with GSK and Novartis ... its potential to land a major partner for oral Calcitonin ... and its patented manufacturing and delivery system technologies in peptides ( with a successful FDA approved product ... Fortical gaining 30% market-share within one year) ... proving some of UGNE's biotechnologies ...combined with the growing realization that the dangerous bisphosphonates and other dangerous drugs in other disease areas will be losing acceptance and sales as time goes by ... make UGNE an incredibly inexpensive take-over/acquisition candidate ... by a large pharma company with vision ...and an eye for a great risk/reward acquisition-investment.
In addition the resources and funding(unlimited R&D) that the large pharma partner would bring to the deal ... would enable them to rapidly persue the development of other peptide-products for other diseases ... using UGNE's biotechnologies...patents...experience and expertise.
Within the last month a major Pharma-company acquired a small under-priced Biotech company ( specializing in RNAi biotechnologies research ) for a buy-out premium of 150% to that company's then current stock price. I cannot remember the names of the two companies right now ... but it was major news on wall street and the financial media. Perhaps some message-board members could fill us in. In any case ... not only did that target company's stock jump 150% in price ... but ...virtually every other small Biotech company (with anything at all to do with RNAi) has dramatically gone up in price. For example...Nastech(NSTK) one of UGNE's competitor's ...is up over 40% in price because a small fraction of their focus is in RNAi research. There is now heavy speculation on wall street and in the financial media ... that major-Pharma is searching for speciaty Biotech's to acquire ... and ... that many small Biotech companies will be gobbled-up in a rush to avoid being beaten to them by other large-Pharma competitors.
A 150% premium to UGNE's current stock price would fetch about $5.00 a share for UGNE shareholders. It could be paid to shareholders in cash or with stock of the acquiing company ...or a combination of both. I believe that acquiring UGNE within that price-area ... would be a real bargain for the right big-Pharma company. Can any message-board members speculate ...as to who would make a good match? Also ... I am unaware of any poison-pills that UGNE has created to make an unsolicited acquisition/take-over more difficult. Does anyone know differently.
fory-all decent holders of SLJB apologize for the indecent coolaid drinkers who shoot the messenger.
For those interested in Bird Flu stocks go to IHub board "Bird Flu Stock Plays".
New bird flu outbreak in Asia
11.22, Sat Nov 25 2006
A poultry farm in South Korea has been hit by bird flu, with some 6,000 chickens suspected to have died from the virus.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza was discovered in the south west part of the country lying on a path for migratory birds.
The remaining 6,000 or so poultry have been culled following the first outbreak in the country for three years.
Between December 2003 and March 2004, about 400,000 poultry at South Korean farms were infected by bird flu.
During that outbreak, the country culled 5.3 million birds and was forced to spend huge amounts to stop the spread of the disease.
Subsequent testing in the United States indicated at least nine South Korean workers involved in the mass cull had been infected.
But none of them developed any major illnesses.
Since the virus re-emerged in Asia in 2003, outbreaks have been confirmed in around 50 countries and territories.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation said that since November 13 there had been 258 cases of human infection of the H5N1 strain since 2003, killing 153 people.
Oct 15: Boy dies of bird flu in Indonesia
Aug 16: Bird flu drug breakthrough
New bird flu outbreak in Asia
11.22, Sat Nov 25 2006
A poultry farm in South Korea has been hit by bird flu, with some 6,000 chickens suspected to have died from the virus.
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza was discovered in the south west part of the country lying on a path for migratory birds.
The remaining 6,000 or so poultry have been culled following the first outbreak in the country for three years.
Between December 2003 and March 2004, about 400,000 poultry at South Korean farms were infected by bird flu.
During that outbreak, the country culled 5.3 million birds and was forced to spend huge amounts to stop the spread of the disease.
Subsequent testing in the United States indicated at least nine South Korean workers involved in the mass cull had been infected.
But none of them developed any major illnesses.
Since the virus re-emerged in Asia in 2003, outbreaks have been confirmed in around 50 countries and territories.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation said that since November 13 there had been 258 cases of human infection of the H5N1 strain since 2003, killing 153 people.
Oct 15: Boy dies of bird flu in Indonesia
Aug 16: Bird flu drug breakthrough
Putin just another Stalin!
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Poisoned ex-spy blames Putin before death
Kremlin denies charge of former KGB agent as ‘nothing but nonsense’
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:19 a.m. ET Nov 24, 2006
LONDON - A former Russian spy who died in an apparent poisoning signed a statement in the waning hours of his life blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin and accusing him of having “no respect for life, liberty or any civilized value,” friends said Friday.
Putin’s government strongly denied involvement, calling the allegation “nothing but nonsense.”
Alexander Litvinenko’s statement, read to reporters outside the hospital where he died late Thursday, addressed the Russian leader directly.
“You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilized men and women,” Litvinenko said in a statement read by his friend Alex Goldfarb.
“You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”
Goldfarb said Litvinenko had dictated the statement before he lost consciousness on Tuesday, and signed it in the presence of his wife, Marina.
“It’s so silly and unbelievable that it’s not worth comment,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Helsinki, Finland, where Putin is attending a summit with European Union leaders.
“Now the case will be investigated by relevant British services and we hope that those who are standing behind this case will be brought to justice,” he added.
Cause of illness still unclear
Litvinenko, a former KGB agent and critic of the Russian government, suffered heart failure late Thursday after days in intensive care, London’s University College Hospital said. Doctors said the cause of his illness remained a mystery.
Friends said Litvinenko had been on a quest to uncover corruption in Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, and unmask the killers of another trenchant critic of the Putin’s government, the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
“He was completely convinced it was the FSB. There was no doubt in his mind who it was,” Andrei Nekrasov told The Associated Press.
‘The bastards got me’
Nekrasov, who spoke to Litvinenko just before he lost consciousness, said Litvinenko had told him: “The bastards got me, but they won’t get everybody.”
Litvinenko told police that he believed he had been poisoned on Nov. 1, while investigating the slaying of Politkovskaya. His hair fell out, his throat swelled and his immune and nervous systems were severely damaged.
Doctors treating him said they could not explain his rapid decline, and they discounted earlier theories that the 43-year-old father of three had been poisoned with the toxic metal thallium or a radioactive substance.
Dr. Geoff Bellingan, University College Hospital’s director of critical care, acknowledged he had no clue as to the cause of death.
London’s Metropolitan Police said anti-terrorist officers were investigating the matter as “an unexplained death.”
“It was an excruciating death and he was taking it as a real man,” Litvinenko’s father, Walter, said Friday.
“This regime is a mortal danger to the world,” he added, his voice choked with emotion.
Nekrasov said the former spy had begun to lose consciousness on Tuesday.
“It was a darkened room, and he would open his eyes now and again. We were encouraging him, telling him that he would survive,” Nekrasov said.
“It was so heart-rending. His son was just in a state of shock. He didn’t know what to make of it. The family just huddled in a corner of the hospital — it was terrible to look at.”
Digging into sensitive areas
Nekrasov said Litvinenko believed he had been targeted by the Kremlin because he had threatened to uncover embarrassing facts.
“He had a mission to uncover what he felt were crimes his former colleagues had committed,” Nekrasov said.
Litvinenko worked for the KGB and its successor, the FSB. In 1998, he publicly accused his superiors of ordering him to kill tycoon Boris Berezovsky and spent nine months in jail from 1999 on charges of abuse of office. He was later acquitted and in 2000 sought asylum in Britain, where Berezovsky is now also living in exile.
On the day he first felt ill, Litvinenko said he had two meetings, the first with an unnamed Russian and Andrei Lugovoy, an-KGB colleague and bodyguard to former Russian Prime Minster Yegor Gaidar.
Later, he dined with Italian security expert Mario Scaramella to discuss the October murder of Politkovskaya.
Scaramella said he showed Litvinenko an e-mail he received from a source naming Politkovskaya’s killers, and naming other targets including Litvinenko and himself.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15863307/
So true NovoMira. The good folks of Houston (and other cities) took the "poor displaced" citizens in and got rewarded by being mugged,robbed and murdered!
<...just like his war in Iraq>
Yeah, just like the useless cowards who are afraid to fight evil, the Mayor of N.O.,etc were afraid to perform their duty (or were too incompetent)!
Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans
By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?
Sadly, the two questions don’t have the same answer.
To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.
For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you’re black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, then you’ll probably wait for the government to save you.
This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.
No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.
Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on “racist” President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government’s proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, “overseeing” billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up.
Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform – legally and practically – fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin – the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin’s job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin’s wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, “recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city’s emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city’s poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city.”
One wonders how there was “no way” for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You’ve probably seen it by now – the photo showing 200 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?
Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city’s convention center. We know how that plan turned out.
About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.
President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans’ black community taken action, most would have been out of harm’s way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.
All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks’ moral poverty – not their material poverty – that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated – they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.
The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of “Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.”
Only a black person would be allowed to say this in public without being blasted by liberals!
Is this true 2create? If so, doesnt look good,IMO.
Posted by: rrufff
In reply to: sometimes_right who wrote msg# 190327 Date:11/24/2006 11:20:53 AM
Post #of 191025
Sometimes right - thanks for your posts about the tactics of hedge funds, paid bashers and other manipulators. Their actions affect all investors. If more of us "get involved," in exposing them, eventually we may have a more level playing field. Hedge funds now account for over 1/2 of all US equity trades, and more in other markets.
(re the AURC board - ironically - I'm still very long in it. I was kicked off as moderator because I tried to be objective. 2create objected to my reinstating many posts that he thought were bashing the company. He's very passionate about the stock and does great DD but my own style of posting is very different from his.)
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Do your own DD-make your own decisions! Do not lose your stock to professional bashers led by any Senor worm, spamming MGB and FUD from his Mama's Villa and suspended & fined by NASD.
SLJB-Market Wire "US Press Releases "
WINDSOR, ON -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/24/06 -- Sulja Bros. Building Supplies Limited (PINKSHEETS: SLJB), today dismisses reports published in the Windsor Star that claim that the acquisition of Sam Building Material has not been closed. The deal has been completed and all assets and employees have been rolled into the Sulja family. No one was laid off.
A spokesperson stated, "Their entire inventory including trucks and other fixed assets have been acquired by Sulja's and we have been functioning as one for more than a month now. The property is a lease but everything else is solid assets. We want to dispel the reports that have been published in the Windsor Star; it seems as Gary Rennie, reporter from the Windsor Star has a personal vendetta against our company and its management."
Mario Moretto, President of Sam Building Materials, agreed with Sulja Bros. and stated, "Since October 2nd, we have been working under the Sulja banner. The purchase was completed and the documents are with our lawyers. I have spoken to no one from the Windsor Star, and I am uncertain to where they are getting their inaccurate information from. I want to state again that the deal has been finalized and everyone is very pleased with the result."
"The take over was seamless and everyone is happy with it. We have been conducting business normally and without hindrance since October. We plan on continuing as such and on expanding our business despite efforts of those outside our organization trying to derail our efforts for reasons unknown to us," the spokesperson said.
This contains forward-looking information within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified through the use of words such as "expects," "will," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," or statements indicating certain actions: "may," "could," "should" or "might occur." Such forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. The actual result may differ materially from such forward-looking statements. The company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results (expressed or implied) will not be realized.
<I think some people on this board may go to jail before this is done! JMHO!~>
Very likely,IMO.
Putin just another Stalin!
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Poisoned ex-spy blames Putin before death
Kremlin denies charge of former KGB agent as ‘nothing but nonsense’
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:19 a.m. ET Nov 24, 2006
LONDON - A former Russian spy who died in an apparent poisoning signed a statement in the waning hours of his life blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin and accusing him of having “no respect for life, liberty or any civilized value,” friends said Friday.
Putin’s government strongly denied involvement, calling the allegation “nothing but nonsense.”
Alexander Litvinenko’s statement, read to reporters outside the hospital where he died late Thursday, addressed the Russian leader directly.
“You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilized men and women,” Litvinenko said in a statement read by his friend Alex Goldfarb.
“You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”
Goldfarb said Litvinenko had dictated the statement before he lost consciousness on Tuesday, and signed it in the presence of his wife, Marina.
“It’s so silly and unbelievable that it’s not worth comment,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Helsinki, Finland, where Putin is attending a summit with European Union leaders.
“Now the case will be investigated by relevant British services and we hope that those who are standing behind this case will be brought to justice,” he added.
Cause of illness still unclear
Litvinenko, a former KGB agent and critic of the Russian government, suffered heart failure late Thursday after days in intensive care, London’s University College Hospital said. Doctors said the cause of his illness remained a mystery.
Friends said Litvinenko had been on a quest to uncover corruption in Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, and unmask the killers of another trenchant critic of the Putin’s government, the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
“He was completely convinced it was the FSB. There was no doubt in his mind who it was,” Andrei Nekrasov told The Associated Press.
‘The bastards got me’
Nekrasov, who spoke to Litvinenko just before he lost consciousness, said Litvinenko had told him: “The bastards got me, but they won’t get everybody.”
Litvinenko told police that he believed he had been poisoned on Nov. 1, while investigating the slaying of Politkovskaya. His hair fell out, his throat swelled and his immune and nervous systems were severely damaged.
Doctors treating him said they could not explain his rapid decline, and they discounted earlier theories that the 43-year-old father of three had been poisoned with the toxic metal thallium or a radioactive substance.
Dr. Geoff Bellingan, University College Hospital’s director of critical care, acknowledged he had no clue as to the cause of death.
London’s Metropolitan Police said anti-terrorist officers were investigating the matter as “an unexplained death.”
“It was an excruciating death and he was taking it as a real man,” Litvinenko’s father, Walter, said Friday.
“This regime is a mortal danger to the world,” he added, his voice choked with emotion.
Nekrasov said the former spy had begun to lose consciousness on Tuesday.
“It was a darkened room, and he would open his eyes now and again. We were encouraging him, telling him that he would survive,” Nekrasov said.
“It was so heart-rending. His son was just in a state of shock. He didn’t know what to make of it. The family just huddled in a corner of the hospital — it was terrible to look at.”
Digging into sensitive areas
Nekrasov said Litvinenko believed he had been targeted by the Kremlin because he had threatened to uncover embarrassing facts.
“He had a mission to uncover what he felt were crimes his former colleagues had committed,” Nekrasov said.
Litvinenko worked for the KGB and its successor, the FSB. In 1998, he publicly accused his superiors of ordering him to kill tycoon Boris Berezovsky and spent nine months in jail from 1999 on charges of abuse of office. He was later acquitted and in 2000 sought asylum in Britain, where Berezovsky is now also living in exile.
On the day he first felt ill, Litvinenko said he had two meetings, the first with an unnamed Russian and Andrei Lugovoy, an-KGB colleague and bodyguard to former Russian Prime Minster Yegor Gaidar.
Later, he dined with Italian security expert Mario Scaramella to discuss the October murder of Politkovskaya.
Scaramella said he showed Litvinenko an e-mail he received from a source naming Politkovskaya’s killers, and naming other targets including Litvinenko and himself.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15863307/
Good post. Thanks.
Siemens fraud probe widens: WSJ
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A criminal probe into alleged fraud at Siemens AG is widening, according to a media report Wednesday.
German prosecutors said they had uncovered €200 million ($257 million) in suspicious transactions, 10 times the amount they said they had uncovered last week, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition. See Wall Street Journal story (subscription required).
German authorities also said they jailed two more employees of Siemens's telecommunications unit, bringing to six the number of people under arrest, according to The Journal, and said, a "band" of individuals had engaged in repeated fraud through secret bank accounts set up in other countries.
German prosecutors said last week that they were focusing on 12 suspects, 10 of whom were current or former Siemens employees, The Journal said. The prosecutors said the alleged fraud dated to 2002 and had continued until recently, according to the report.
More than 200 police in Germany raided about 30 offices and residences of employees on Nov. 15 as part of an international investigation into alleged embezzlement and possible bribery at Siemens, Europe's largest engineering company by sales, The Journal said. At the time, they said they had uncovered about €20 million in questionable transactions, according to the report.
Authorities are trying to determine where the money went, according to Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld, head of the prosecutors' office in the southern German city of Munich, The Journal reported.
Police have completed their search of Siemens's offices after seizing 36,000 documents, and a team of detectives is in the early stages of reviewing the evidence, The Journal reported Schmidt-Sommerfeld said in a telephone interview.
German authorities are working in conjunction with investigators in Italy and Switzerland, and trying to determine how far up the corporate ladder the alleged fraud traveled, The Journal said.
German prosecutors said last week that they suspected the funds in question were used to pay bribes to secure business contracts, according to the report.
A spokesman for Munich-based Siemens reiterated Wednesday that the company is cooperating with German authorities and is eager to get to the bottom of the matter, The Journal said, adding that Siemens has attributed the alleged fraud to "individual acts" in its fixed-line telecommunications business.
German authorities searched the offices of Klaus Kleinfeld, the chief executive, and other members of Siemens's management board last week as part of the probe, The Journal reported, adding that Kleinfeld is being treated as a witness, not a suspect.
German and Italian prosecutors also have confirmed that Michael Kutschenreuter, the head of Siemens's real-estate division and former chief financial officer of the telecommunications unit, was arrested last week, The Journal said.
In a parallel investigation in Switzerland, a federal prosecutor there said three suspects are under investigation, but none has been arrested, The Journal said.
The Swiss investigation began in mid-2005 after a local bank reported suspicious transactions to Switzerland's money-laundering agency. Prosecutors say they have frozen more than €10 million in connection with the case, The Journal reported.
Italian prosecutors told The Journal this week that they suspect fraud dates back further and wasn't confined to the telecommunications division, according to the report.
They are focusing on Austrian bank accounts controlled by a Siemens official, Karl von Jagemann, whom they suspect directed bribery-funding activities from the mid-1990s until earlier this month, The Journal said.
Mr. Von Jagemann was arrested last week and is suspected of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering, The Journal said, citing Cuno Tarfusser, senior prosecutor in the northern Italian town of Bolzano. Italian investigators say their inquiry dates to 2004, and they are focusing on bank records involving the equivalent of more than €60 million, The Journal said.
Tarfusser said Siemens officials have repeatedly attempted to block his bribery investigation by filing court motions in Austria to stop investigators from accessing data from bank accounts in Innsbruck, The Journal said. A Siemens spokesman said Wednesday he had no knowledge of such attempts, according to the report.
Italian investigators say some of the transactions they are investigating follow a pattern, according to The Journal.
Consulting contracts were signed by senior Siemens officials for work that was never done, The Journal said it was told by investigators, and payments were then transferred through shell companies registered in offshore locations such as the Channel Islands and Puerto Rico.
In a separate case, prosecutors charged two former employees of Siemens's power-generation unit in March with offering €6 million in bribes between 1999 and 2002 to secure contracts from Italian gas companies, The Journal said, adding that case is pending in a German court.
Putin is returning Russia to a state of tyranny
Maybe it's the romantic in me, but I can't help shuddering every time I walk past the Lubyanka. For much of the Communist era, the forbidding walls of KGB headquarters cast a sinister pall across the Soviet Union.
From its windows, Russians used to joke, you could see Siberia — the destination for tens of thousands once held in the Lubyanka's prison. When communism died, the KGB was quietly shelved. For a while, it seemed as though Russians could speak freely without the fear of who may be listening in.
But six years into the presidency of Vladimir Putin, himself a former KGB officer, much of the democratic progress that Russia made in the early post-Soviet years has evaporated. Russians scurrying through the winter cold today could be forgiven for casting an apprehensive glance at the Lubyanka's grim façade, behind which lies the nerve centre of the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service or FSB.
Every time a law has been passed that impinges on the democratic rights of the Russian people, the FSB has grown commensurately more powerful. But while liberals fretted about the country's democratic trajectory, few truly believed that Russia had again become a tyranny. The telephones might once more have been bugged, but that didn't stop people openly bashing the government in their conversations.
Everything seemed to change, though, on October 7. That afternoon, Russia's best-known investigative journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was shot and killed by an unknown gunman. The atmosphere in Russia has altered perceptibly since. The apprehensive expression on the faces of the dissidents and liberals gathered at her funeral painted a telling picture. Since then, the number of contract killings has ballooned to a level not seen since the 1990s.
Even so, I couldn't help but wonder whether the state would go as far as to poison a former FSB defector in faraway London. Alexander Litvinenko may have been a vociferous critic of the Kremlin but few in Russia took what he said seriously.
advertisementI put my doubts to an old friend of mine, a liberal activist whose judgment I trust. She laughed at my naivety. "We live in a total criminal state," she replied. "You can be killed anywhere, even in London. What is shocking is the lack of reaction from your government, but even that is not totally surprising. The West, addicted to the oil and gas drug, prefers to do nothing." Despite Europe's growing dependency on Russian energy, the time for silence is past.
Assuming that Mr Litvinenko's poisoning and other contract killings were ordered by the FSB, it is difficult not to draw one of two uncomfortable conclusions: either the breakdown of law and order is being conducted at the behest of the Kremlin itself, or the Kremlin is not able to control the FSB. Whichever the case, Mr Putin must be held responsible.
It was he who vastly expanded the powers of the secret services — recently restoring their licence to kill abroad — and filled senior Kremlin positions with ex-KGB cronies. Allowances have been made for the Russian president. Many Russians and Western investors are grateful that he restored stability after the chaos of the Yeltsin years. Most people feel more financially secure than they did in the 1990s; for that they credit both Mr Putin and soaring energy prices. Yet even his greatest achievement is in jeopardy if the murderous instability of the 1990s returns — the only difference being that, now, the murder is institutionalised.
There has long been a grim inevitability about what is happening in Russia, even if the West chose not to see it. Since Mr Putin came to power free speech has been systematically closed off with one goal in mind: the 2008 presidential elections, when the Russian president is meant to step down. With each passage of repressive legislation, the number of people prepared to criticise the Kremlin has dwindled.
Seeking to consolidate their dubiously won financial resources in the energy sector or in Chechnya, where the FSB is very powerful, factions within the government and security and intelligence services seem to have declared open season in the run-up to the 2008 elections.
Those who stand in the way risk their lives. Mr Putin may have brought short-term stability to Russia, but he did so by allowing the criminalisation of the state. Russians could pay the consequences for a long time to come
Borrowed from AURC board.
NNVC and SHO:
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
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fun, you would go crazy if you read every post some of these "girls" ( men who chat like high school girls) place on this link. You would think they are having slumber party as they post here 24/7.
Uh, jb; methinks shareholders are already alienated :)
grisgrin; there are no shares left to buy if posters on this board have bought as many as they say they have,lol.
Buy signal from RB?
By: arizona-chartman
21 Nov 2006, 03:44 PM EST
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BUY SIGNAL FLASHED TODAY:11-21-06
I am a relatively new shareholder who has been accumulating substantial new shares over the past few days. I am a private investor who invests and trades for my own account. In addition to employing fundamental research and detailed due-diligence ... I am a technical analyst who charts channels ( and channels within channels ) that stocks run up and down within. The goal quite simply is to correctly identify channels ... so that one may buy low... near the bottom of channels ...and sell high...near the top of channels.
Although UGNE is in an eleven month downtrend from the highs around $4.60 in DEC/05...it is still within a four year up-channel moving upward at a 33% to 45% upward angle. Please note the following:
1. the bottom channel-line of the upward moving channel is approx $2.00 and the top channel-line is approx $5.00
2. This cahnnel is moving upward and 3 to 6 months from now the bottom of the channel will be approx$2.50 and the top $5.50. In ayear the bottom channel-line would be aroun $4.00 and the top around $7.00
3. When the stock recently spiked up to $2.98 3-4 weeks ago ... it clearly broke a sharp 5 month downtrend line within the larger channel. Classically the stock should then spike down(after the initial breakthru)to the top of that downtrend line ( which is now support ...instead of resistance).Ugne has now done that at $2.05 to $2.20 ... which also coincides with the bottom of the 4 year up-channel at approx $2.00
4. This is a classical technical buy-point. UGNE's next channel move should be a relatively sharp uptrend to the 200 day moving average (200dma) currently at $2.99 ... once it closes above the 200dma it should move upward to the top of the one-year downtrend line (currently around $3.40) Once it clears this it shold move quickly to close a huge 10 cent gap to the upside at $3.70...which was created when the stock gapped down in the summer. Gaps are always filled and usually within 3 to 6 months.
Conclusion: I believe in the fundamentals of UGNE. By combining channel analysis with the fundamental analysis ...we have the opportunity of buying (something that we fundamentally like and believe in ...such as UGNE)...closer to bottom points ...and then selling ...closer to high points.I believe that the risk/reward equation for buying UGNE now ( between $2.00 and $2.70)is the best that it has been in over a year. The rewards at this point greatly outweigh the risks. Buy when everyone else is panicking. Sell when there is euphoria.I believe in UGNE...its view of the osteoporosis market...strong profitability from Fortical in 2007 and ...possible massive revenues and benefits from oral calcitonin and PTH in the not too distant future.
And I believe in buying low ...near the bottom of channels ... when many others are panicking. Time will tell.
Buy signal-UGNE?
By: arizona-chartman
21 Nov 2006, 03:44 PM EST
Msg. 11115 of 11115
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BUY SIGNAL FLASHED TODAY:11-21-06
I am a relatively new shareholder who has been accumulating substantial new shares over the past few days. I am a private investor who invests and trades for my own account. In addition to employing fundamental research and detailed due-diligence ... I am a technical analyst who charts channels ( and channels within channels ) that stocks run up and down within. The goal quite simply is to correctly identify channels ... so that one may buy low... near the bottom of channels ...and sell high...near the top of channels.
Although UGNE is in an eleven month downtrend from the highs around $4.60 in DEC/05...it is still within a four year up-channel moving upward at a 33% to 45% upward angle. Please note the following:
1. the bottom channel-line of the upward moving channel is approx $2.00 and the top channel-line is approx $5.00
2. This cahnnel is moving upward and 3 to 6 months from now the bottom of the channel will be approx$2.50 and the top $5.50. In ayear the bottom channel-line would be aroun $4.00 and the top around $7.00
3. When the stock recently spiked up to $2.98 3-4 weeks ago ... it clearly broke a sharp 5 month downtrend line within the larger channel. Classically the stock should then spike down(after the initial breakthru)to the top of that downtrend line ( which is now support ...instead of resistance).Ugne has now done that at $2.05 to $2.20 ... which also coincides with the bottom of the 4 year up-channel at approx $2.00
4. This is a classical technical buy-point. UGNE's next channel move should be a relatively sharp uptrend to the 200 day moving average (200dma) currently at $2.99 ... once it closes above the 200dma it should move upward to the top of the one-year downtrend line (currently around $3.40) Once it clears this it shold move quickly to close a huge 10 cent gap to the upside at $3.70...which was created when the stock gapped down in the summer. Gaps are always filled and usually within 3 to 6 months.
Conclusion: I believe in the fundamentals of UGNE. By combining channel analysis with the fundamental analysis ...we have the opportunity of buying (something that we fundamentally like and believe in ...such as UGNE)...closer to bottom points ...and then selling ...closer to high points.I believe that the risk/reward equation for buying UGNE now ( between $2.00 and $2.70)is the best that it has been in over a year. The rewards at this point greatly outweigh the risks. Buy when everyone else is panicking. Sell when there is euphoria.I believe in UGNE...its view of the osteoporosis market...strong profitability from Fortical in 2007 and ...possible massive revenues and benefits from oral calcitonin and PTH in the not too distant future.
And I believe in buying low ...near the bottom of channels ... when many others are panicking. Time will tell.
Thanks que for an honest evaluation.
Thanks "that"
Did you not understand my post stating "anyone with an agenda do not reply"? That means you! Anyone who does not own stock in a company and continually bashes 24/7 has an agenda-get it!!!
Sulja Bros. Announces CEO Petar Vucicevich Resigns
Tuesday November 21, 6:00 am ET
WINDSOR, ON--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 21, 2006 -- Sulja Bros. Building Supplies, Ltd. (Other OTC:SLJB.PK - News) Today announces the resignation of Petar Vucicevich as CEO of Sulja Bros. Building Supplies Ltd. A spokesman said, "A mutual agreement has been reached between Sulja Bros. Building Supplies Ltd. and Petar Vucicevich which will facilitate his resignation. In light of recent press, we all felt that it would be best for the company and all the shareholders that Steve Sulja, a current director of Sulja Bros. Building Supplies Ltd., be reinstated as CEO effective immediately. Sulja Bros. Building Supplies Ltd. in no way endorses the allegations made against Petar Vucicevich, and we are thankful for the work that Mr. Vucicevich has done for our organization." Steve Sulja stated, "After numerous meetings in the past five days, it was simply felt that I accept his two month premature resignation. Along with Petar Vucicevich, Kore International Management Inc. will no longer have a roll in the management process of SLJB.
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"Mr. Vucicevich has insisted all documentation and communication involving Mr. Vucicevich, SLJB shareholders, transfer agent, and all other parties involved regarding SLJB be provided to our attorneys for their review.
"I will hold the position of CEO until such time as a new board of directors can be elected by our shareholders, as laid out by Mr. Vucicevich. I ask you to be patient with me, as I will be posting a statement shortly. Mr. Vucicevich also assures us that he will remain available in the future for all questions, should it arise. I apologize, I will not be taking any phone calls at this present time, we will be communicating with our shareholders strictly through our website, and through our press releases. We all feel that this is an unfortunate turn of events, and hope that this will restore confidence in our shareholders of SLJB."
This contains forward-looking information within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified through the use of words such as "expects," "will," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," or statements indicating certain actions: "may," "could," "should" or "might occur." Such forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. The actual result may differ materially from such forward-looking statements. The company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results (expressed or implied) will not be realized.
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NanoViricides Invited to Vietnam's Hi Tech Park
Monday November 20, 7:30 am ET
President Bush to Visit Top Research Institutes in Vietnam
WEST HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NanoViricides, Inc, (Pink Sheets: NNVC - News)
NanoViricides announced today that it has been invited to participate in Vietnam's new Hi Tech Park being built outside of Hanoi. This premier park is considered of strategic importance to the country. All applicants to this "park" must be approved at the level of the Prime Minister's office. The Company considers this invitation an exceptional opportunity and will evaluate it in accordance with its long-term strategic plan. We have been told the only invitees have been leading renowned companies with exceptional technologies (such as Intel).
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This past week Vietnam was in the global spotlight. Last Thursday, just prior to the APEC summit, U.S. companies struck a flurry of investment deals in Vietnam, worth more than $1.6 billion. In addition it was reported in Thanh Nien News, one of the most prestigious and influential newspapers in Vietnam, that President Bush is expected today to visit the Pasteur Institute - one of the country's top research institutes for communicable diseases - in Ho Chi Minh City. The story continued, "Vietnam has been deemed a bright spot in the fight against bird flu as the virulent H5N1 virus continues to plague the region.....The Pasteur Institute and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi are the country's top two research institutes for communicable diseases."
NanoViricides has experienced first hand the exceptional dedicated researchers that President Bush is certain to meet in Vietnam. NanoViricides is proud of its work at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and looks forward to the forthcoming studies planned over the next few months.
About NanoViricides - www.nanoviricides.com
NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. A NanoViricide(TM) is a specially designed, flexible, nanomaterial that contains an encapsulated active pharmaceutical ingredient and targets it to a specific type of virus, like a guided missile. NanoViricide drugs are designed to block and dismantle the virus particles before they can infect a cell, thereby controlling viremia. This is a completely novel approach that is proving to be superior to existing approaches. This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including the success of the Company's research and development strategy, the availability of adequate financing, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies and the uncertainties related to the regulatory process.
Contact:
NanoViricides, Inc.
Leo Ehrlich, 917-853-6440
leo@nanoviricides.com
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NanoViricides Invited to Vietnam's Hi Tech Park
Monday November 20, 7:30 am ET
President Bush to Visit Top Research Institutes in Vietnam
WEST HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NanoViricides, Inc, (Pink Sheets: NNVC - News)
NanoViricides announced today that it has been invited to participate in Vietnam's new Hi Tech Park being built outside of Hanoi. This premier park is considered of strategic importance to the country. All applicants to this "park" must be approved at the level of the Prime Minister's office. The Company considers this invitation an exceptional opportunity and will evaluate it in accordance with its long-term strategic plan. We have been told the only invitees have been leading renowned companies with exceptional technologies (such as Intel).
ADVERTISEMENT
This past week Vietnam was in the global spotlight. Last Thursday, just prior to the APEC summit, U.S. companies struck a flurry of investment deals in Vietnam, worth more than $1.6 billion. In addition it was reported in Thanh Nien News, one of the most prestigious and influential newspapers in Vietnam, that President Bush is expected today to visit the Pasteur Institute - one of the country's top research institutes for communicable diseases - in Ho Chi Minh City. The story continued, "Vietnam has been deemed a bright spot in the fight against bird flu as the virulent H5N1 virus continues to plague the region.....The Pasteur Institute and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi are the country's top two research institutes for communicable diseases."
NanoViricides has experienced first hand the exceptional dedicated researchers that President Bush is certain to meet in Vietnam. NanoViricides is proud of its work at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and looks forward to the forthcoming studies planned over the next few months.
About NanoViricides - www.nanoviricides.com
NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. A NanoViricide(TM) is a specially designed, flexible, nanomaterial that contains an encapsulated active pharmaceutical ingredient and targets it to a specific type of virus, like a guided missile. NanoViricide drugs are designed to block and dismantle the virus particles before they can infect a cell, thereby controlling viremia. This is a completely novel approach that is proving to be superior to existing approaches. This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including the success of the Company's research and development strategy, the availability of adequate financing, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies and the uncertainties related to the regulatory process.
Contact:
NanoViricides, Inc.
Leo Ehrlich, 917-853-6440
leo@nanoviricides.com
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Anyone have comments on this post (if you are here with an agenda we dont want a reply):
By: stockerup0
16 Nov 2006, 11:48 AM EST
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Some random thoughts on the conference call
1. Break even projected by mid 07, even taking into account a future raise.
2. Burn rate down to about $400k/month.
3. No technology problems with approval in China. Anyone who has ever done business in foreign countries, especially in Asia, the Middle East and Africa knows that the only certainty is that nothing will happen on schedule. All else is variable. No indication that there is a problem with CYPT's product or technology. Very good so far.
4. Management seems confident the technology is better than any other product on the market and is price competitive.
5. Still possible that last round funders may come through by end of November. If they do, it seems a new raise, if necessary, would be considerably smaller. Therefore, maybe the dilution is close to coming to an end.
6. Reading between the lines, it seems clear that a reverse stock split is a going to happen. Not a question of if but of when. If so, the stock should be able to move like that of a normal company with earnings.
7. Management seems to be balancing a number of balls in the air and only needs a few to hit in order to begin to turn the company around.
8. No evidence that Marr is abandoning ship, rather, they seem to be deeper and deeper involved in both China and Russia. That gives me a great deal of comfort given the size of their common shares owned and debt investment.
9. I was a little surprised Management did not know if the Orasure product was already in their markets. Seems like they should know that.
10. The CDC relationship seems to be healthy and expanding. That can only bring good things in the US and the world.
11. Finally, and most importantly, there is still no problem with the technology. That is the sole reason I invested in this company. If the funds can be juggled and raised in the short run then IMHO the long run looks pretty good.
big spread huh?
Alert Triggered for MFIC Corp
MFIC Reached a New 52 Week High at $1.85
MFIC rose 5.1% to a new 52 week high of $1.85. During the last 52 weeks, MFIC's price has ranged from $1.10 on August 10, 2006 to today's high of $1.85.
binzur-if you think this is true, perhaps you should send post to enforcement@sec.gov
"Black Petes" reply yesterday to the news article:
SLJB One of the Most Highly Traded Stocks in North America: CEO Responds to Negative Journalism
WINDSOR, ON -- (MARKET WIRE) -- November 16, 2006 -- Sulja Bros. Building Supplies Ltd. (PINKSHEETS: SLJB) today is responding to an article published in the Windsor Star, a newspaper local to the headquarters of SLJB. What follows is a statement from the CEO of SLJB, Mr. Petar Vucicevich:
As the most recent newspaper article printed in the Windsor Star might illustrate, I find myself having to waste an enormous amount of time explaining to our shareholders certain quips and accusations about my personal idiosyncrasies and character deficiencies that are simply not productive in the light of our everyday business. It is clear that this article attempts to portray me in a less then flattering way, and if Mr. Gary Rennie (author of the article) is left to expound these utterly boring and cookie-cutter floggings within the mill of journalistic sensationalism, the attempt would appear to be succeeding. For reasons beyond my understanding, Mr. Rennie, the author of this piece, seemingly does not like me very much, and perhaps he feels he has stumbled onto something worthy of his experience-tempered scathing. Referring to me as "Black Pete," making reference to the vehicle I drive, and lamenting over the state of the appearance of my office by alerting everyone... everywhere... that there was "furniture tipped over" serves no purpose in presenting the truth of our company's business. This type of "spin-doctoring" not only portrays me as shady (something to which I normally would not personally concern myself), but it also encourages our shareholders to think something is scandalous, and in fact, deliberate in its intent to be so. Mr. Rennie had many opportunities to visit our Harrow operations and provide many pictures of a busy and successful enterprise but chose to show a photo of me... and I happen to think the Harrow staff is more photogenic...
As far as the current dilapidative state of Kore's office in Windsor, anybody walking into that place would clearly see that it is under renovations... a complete make-over no less. It is undergoing the same process that I and many other business owners in that area feel should be applied to a great number of structures in the immediate vicinity. Perhaps it is not as nice an office as Mr. Rennie's but I like it. You would think that the appearance of such scarcity and dishevelment would please him knowing that I am not allowing my "flamboyance" to dictate my business decisions. The fact that the office is understaffed at this time is due to the renovation... and not a lack of substance or employees in our dealings, as implied.
In response to the RCMP officers with whom I met, I made it clear to Mr. Rennie that this was explained to me as a routine investigation, and that every new company offering shares in the market is subject to this type of review, particularly if the company's shares were reaching volume benchmarks on the exchange. I personally provided this information to Mr. Rennie, including the investigators' names. Clearly, I was not being evasive in any way during my interview. In fact, I can say with certainty that most of the information in the article was provided by me. I am sorry to feel compelled to aver to the public that the information was simply presented poorly and in a self-serving, grandstanding manor. I would have hoped that a respectable organization like the Windsor Star would have been a little more considerate of the facts prior to publishing these statements. Although all the "facts" are true, the clearly evident misrepresentation of them in the article serves no other purpose than the same monotonous sensationalism seen in nearly every publication in North America.
Finally, we released information recently regarding our audited financials and their availability to the public viewing. We missed the deadline... due in part to the necessity of handling negative accusations such as the one I speak to now. As soon as is practicably foreseeable, we will release the financial documents for all to see, as promised. For we have nothing to hide, as always. And we have no desire to hide "all of that nothing."
This may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified through the use of words such as "expects," "will," "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," or statements indicating certain actions: "may," "could," "should" or "might occur." Such forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. The actual result may differ materially from such forward-looking statements. The company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results (expressed or implied) will not be realized.
Alert Triggered for MFIC Corp
MFIC Reached a New 52 Week High at $1.81
MFIC rose 0.6% to a new 52 week high of $1.81. During the last 52 weeks, MFIC's price has ranged from $1.10 on August 10, 2006 to today's high of $1.81.
So Oreo, what does this tell us in your opinion?
If true this is BIG!!!!!!
Is it possible that all this "delay" is preplanned for "big buyers" to get cheap shares? Just a thought.
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 15:01 CDT
NanoViricides, Inc. Finds FluCide(TM)-I Superior to Oseltamivir in Preliminary Animal Studies, Presents Data at the 7th Annual Targeted Nano-Delivery Conference
NanoViricides (Pink Sheets: NNVC) President and Chairman, Dr. Anil Diwan, presented preliminary data on animal studies that compare nanoviricides drug candidates with oseltamivir (Tamiflu(R) Roche) on Friday, Oct. 13th at the 7th Annual Targeted Nano-delivery Conference in Baltimore, MD.
"Mice treated with the FluCide(TM)-I nanoviricide drug survived 186 hours (7.75 days, or 2.75 days more than control mice), whereas those treated with oseltamivir at twice the usual amounts normally used in such studies survived for only 151 hours (6.3 days, or only about 1.3 days longer than control). The experiment was designed with an aggressive infection level of common influenza such that control mice survived only 120 hours (5.0 days)," Dr. Diwan reported at the Conference. He also reported that all nanoviricides drug candidates tested were found to be superior to oseltamivir in this study. The studies were conducted by Dr. Krishna Menon under the auspices of KARD Scientific, Inc. in a blind study at a facility in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Mennon commented, "No obvious toxic effects were observable for the nanoviricide drugs. Therefore we believe the dosage of the nanoviricide drugs can be substantially increased to their therapeutic levels. This is expected to lead to a greatly enhanced therapeutic effect. This test was designed only to establish comparative baselines. Future experiments will be designed to assess the full therapeutic dosage levels and their efficacies."
NanoViricides, Inc. believes that at present no other anti-influenza drug candidate has shown results that are anywhere close to the results obtained with nanoviricides, both in terms of the in vitro data in H5N1 (presented earlier) and the in vivo data against common influenza.
In other news, NanoViricides announced it is on target to release its financials by the end of this week.
About NanoViricides - http://www.nanoviricides.com
NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. A NanoViricide(TM) is a specially designed, flexible, nanomaterial that contains an encapsulated active pharmaceutical ingredient and targets it to a specific type of virus, like a guided missile. NanoViricide drugs are designed to block and dismantle the virus particles before they can infect a cell, thereby controlling viremia. This is a completely novel approach that is proving to be superior to existing approaches. This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including the success of the Company's research and development strategy, the availability of adequate financing, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies and the uncertainties related to the regulatory process.
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 October 2006, 15:01 CDT
NanoViricides, Inc. Finds FluCide(TM)-I Superior to Oseltamivir in Preliminary Animal Studies, Presents Data at the 7th Annual Targeted Nano-Delivery Conference
NanoViricides (Pink Sheets: NNVC) President and Chairman, Dr. Anil Diwan, presented preliminary data on animal studies that compare nanoviricides drug candidates with oseltamivir (Tamiflu(R) Roche) on Friday, Oct. 13th at the 7th Annual Targeted Nano-delivery Conference in Baltimore, MD.
"Mice treated with the FluCide(TM)-I nanoviricide drug survived 186 hours (7.75 days, or 2.75 days more than control mice), whereas those treated with oseltamivir at twice the usual amounts normally used in such studies survived for only 151 hours (6.3 days, or only about 1.3 days longer than control). The experiment was designed with an aggressive infection level of common influenza such that control mice survived only 120 hours (5.0 days)," Dr. Diwan reported at the Conference. He also reported that all nanoviricides drug candidates tested were found to be superior to oseltamivir in this study. The studies were conducted by Dr. Krishna Menon under the auspices of KARD Scientific, Inc. in a blind study at a facility in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Mennon commented, "No obvious toxic effects were observable for the nanoviricide drugs. Therefore we believe the dosage of the nanoviricide drugs can be substantially increased to their therapeutic levels. This is expected to lead to a greatly enhanced therapeutic effect. This test was designed only to establish comparative baselines. Future experiments will be designed to assess the full therapeutic dosage levels and their efficacies."
NanoViricides, Inc. believes that at present no other anti-influenza drug candidate has shown results that are anywhere close to the results obtained with nanoviricides, both in terms of the in vitro data in H5N1 (presented earlier) and the in vivo data against common influenza.
In other news, NanoViricides announced it is on target to release its financials by the end of this week.
About NanoViricides - http://www.nanoviricides.com
NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. A NanoViricide(TM) is a specially designed, flexible, nanomaterial that contains an encapsulated active pharmaceutical ingredient and targets it to a specific type of virus, like a guided missile. NanoViricide drugs are designed to block and dismantle the virus particles before they can infect a cell, thereby controlling viremia. This is a completely novel approach that is proving to be superior to existing approaches. This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including the success of the Company's research and development strategy, the availability of adequate financing, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies and the uncertainties related to the regulatory process.
MFIC hits new 52 week high today.