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Olive oil - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more Historically, olive oil was used for medicines and as a fuel in oil lamps. The California Olive Oil Council, a private US trade group, is petitioning the Department to adopt terminology and practices that shadow the IOOC's rules. Traditionally, olive oil was produced by beating the trees with sticks to knock the olives off and crushing them in stone or wooden mortars or beam presses. www.recipes24.net /encyclopedia/o/olive_oil.html

AllRefer.com - olive oil (Food And Cooking) - Encyclopedia Olive oil was used in the ancient world for lighting, in the preparation of food, and as an anointing oil for both ritual and cosmetic purposes. Although olive oil is chiefly used as a food or in food preservation, it is also used in soaps, certain pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Although olive oil occupies a relatively minor place in world food consumption, it has, in recent years, become a stronger export item, and a succession of international agreements have been signed since 1959 to protect its market. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/oliveoil.html

Oil-for-Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The oil ministry was headed by allies of Ahmed Chalabi, controversial member of the Iraqi governing council who had been widely criticized for supplying the US with bogus information during the lead up to the war. These contracts for Iraqi oil could then be sold on the open world market and the seller was allowed to keep a transaction fee, said to be between $0.15 and $0.50/barrel (0.94 and 3.14 $/m³) of oil sold. However, the Iraqi government negotiated contracts directly with purchasers of Iraqi oil and suppliers of commodities, which may have been one important factor that allowed Iraq to levy illegal surcharges and commissions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_for_food   (5289 words)

Middle East Report Online: Scandals of Oil for Food , by Joy Gordon While Oil for Food funds may have improperly ended up in the hands of Saddam Hussein's government, the fundamental responsibility for the humanitarian crisis was the sanctions regime imposed on Iraq by the Security Council, and then enforced in an extraordinarily harsh way at the insistence of the US and Britain. More to the point, the Oil for Food flap fits into the decade-old pattern whereby Washington and London place exclusive blame for the humanitarian crisis in Iraq before the invasion -- and now for the country's hobbled economy as well -- upon the "neglect" of the former regime. Regardless of the truth of the allegations of impropriety in the UN's administration of Oil for Food, it is clear that the real goal of the program's vociferous new critics is to damage the credibility of the entire international body. www.merip.org /mero/mero071904.html   (5289 words)

Organic Olive Oil, Home Delivery Overnight Nationwide, Organic Vinegar from Diamond Organics, Organic Food For the past several decades, coconut oil (the fatty acids pressed from the coconut meat) was falsely accused of raising blood cholesterol levels. Unlike other oils used for deep-frying it is reusable because it remains stable and does not form toxic trans-fatty acids. By separating the fruit of the olive from the pit before gently pressing, a delicious and surprsingly sweet olive oil is produced. www.diamondorganics.com /ShowView/prod_detail_list/44   (5289 words)

UN Office of the Iraq Program - Oil for Food: About the Program The first Iraqi oil under the Oil-for-Food Programme was exported in December 1996 and the first shipments of food arrived in March 1997. Resolution 986: On 14 April 1995, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council adopted resolution 986, establishing the "oil-for-food" programme, providing Iraq with another opportunity to sell oil to finance the purchase of humanitarian goods, and various mandated United Nations activities concerning Iraq. In 1998, the limit on the level of Iraqi oil exports under the programme was raised to $5.26 billion every six months, again with two-thirds of the oil proceeds earmarked to meet the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. www.un.org /Depts/oip/background   (5289 words)

The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen This oil company, run by Primakov's sister, bought oil from Iraq under "oil for food" at a heavy discount, and then sold it at full market value to primarily US companies, splitting the difference evenly with Primakov and the Iraqis. It has been estimated that 80 per cent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under "oil for food" ended up in the United States. Likewise, using its veto-wielding powers on the 661 Committee, set up in 1990 to oversee economic sanctions against Iraq, the United States was able to block billions of dollars of humanitarian goods legitimately bought by Iraq under the provisions of the oil-for-food agreement. www.commondreams.org /views04/1212-23.htm   (5289 words)

Cheese, Specialty Food, Gourmet Gift Baskets, Cheese Gifts: igourmet This oil is made exclusively from the Koroneiki olive which is famous for producing olive oil with low acidity. Mix it with dipping oil, such as extra virgin olive oil, grapeseed oil or especially avocado oil, and serve as a tasty dip for bread. Their infused extra virgin olive oil is made entirely from their own olives (many Italian olive oils contain blends) and is infused with the essence of typical Italian herbs from the Puglian countryside. www.igourmet.com /shoppe/shoppe.asp?cat=6&subcat=Olive+Oil   (5289 words)

Oil-for-Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Companies that sold commodities via the oil for food program were overcharging by up to 10%, with part of the overcharged amount being diverted into private bank accounts for Saddam Hussein and other regime officials and the other part being kept by the supplier. The involvement of the UN itself in the scandal began in February after the name of Benon Sevan, executive director of the Oil-for-Food Programme, appeared on the Iraqi Oil Ministry's documents. The oil ministry was headed by allies of Ahmed Chalabi, a felon and former member of the governing council who had been widely criticized even by his former supporters for supplying the US with bogus information during the lead up to the war. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_for_Food_program   (5289 words)

UN Office of the Iraq Program - Oil for Food: About the Program The first Iraqi oil under the Oil-for-Food Programme was exported in December 1996 and the first shipments of food arrived in March 1997. A resolution (1472) was adopted unanimously by the Security Council on 28 March 2003 adjusting the Oil-for-Food Programme and giving the Secretary-General authority to facilitate the delivery and receipt of goods contracted by the Government of Iraq for the humanitarian needs of its people. The programme, as established by the Security Council, is intended to be a "temporary measure to provide for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people, until the fulfillment by Iraq of the relevant Security Council resolutions, including notably resolution 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991". www.un.org /Depts/oip/background   (1081 words)

Oil-for-Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Oil-for-Food Program, established by the United Nations in 1996 and terminated in late 2003, was intended to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to rebuild its military. The oil ministry was headed by allies of Ahmed Chalabi, controversial member of the Iraqi governing council who had been widely criticized for supplying the US with bogus information during the lead up to the war. These contracts for Iraqi oil could then be sold on the open world market and the seller was allowed to keep a transaction fee, said to be between $0.15 and $0.50/barrel (0.94 and 3.14 $/m³) of oil sold. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_for_Food_program   (4915 words)

USATODAY.com - U.S. weapons report details corruption of oil-for-food program And, in addition to the food purchases, over time his government found several ways of using oil-for-food to raise illicit funds to further evade the embargo. For example, oil sold under U.N. auspices was processed by major oil companies that do business all over the world, including in the USA. Under the program, $31 billion was spent on food, medicine and related items that significantly improved the health and nutrition of average Iraqis. www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-10-10-embargo-qna_x.htm   (4915 words)

The U.N. Oil for Food scandal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED Most disturbing are Iraqi records that suggest Benon Sevan, the executive director of the Oil for Food office, received a voucher for 11.5 million barrels of oil from Saddam's manipulation of the program — enough to yield a profit of between $575,000 and $3.5 million. But the mounting evidence of scandal that has been uncovered in the U.N. Oil For Food program suggests that there was never a serious possibility of getting Security Council support for military action because influential people in Russia and France were getting paid off by Saddam. The intent of the program was to sell Iraqi oil to pay for food and medicine for the Iraqi people, who were suffering due to sanctions. www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040321-101405-2593r.htm   (4915 words)

The Oil-for-Food Scandal - What happened, and who's to blame. By Michael Crowley Support for the sanctions gradually eroded, and in 1996 the United Nations created the oil-for-food program, through which Iraq could resume oil sales to pay for humanitarian goods such as food and medicine. Beneficiaries allegedly included oil company executives (mostly from Russia, China, and France); some prominent politicians (including Russia's notorious Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a French interior minister, and the president of Indonesia); and at least one journalist (a Syrian). Legitimate Iraqi oil profits went to a U.N.-controlled escrow account, but kickbacks were secretly routed by complicit companies to hidden regime bank accounts. slate.msn.com /id/2111195   (4915 words)

Iraq Country Analysis Brief According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Iraq's refining capacity was 597,500 bbl/d as of January 1, 2005, compared to a nameplate capacity of 700,000 bbl/d. In mid-December 2002, the Iraqi Oil Ministry had announced that it was severing its contract with the Lukoil consortium on West Qurna due to "fail[ure] to comply" with contract stipulations. The Banias line, from Iraq's northern Kirkuk oil fields to Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias (and Tripoli, Lebanon), reportedly was being used to transport as much as 200,000 bbl/d of Iraqi oil, mainly from southern Iraq, to Syrian refineries at Homs and Banias. www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/iraq.html   (4915 words)

Galt Septic - Restaurant Food, Oil, Grease Hazards Restaurants and other food preparation buildings are required to have an Interceptor inline with drains that may have grease, food, oil, and other foreign matter sent through. Oil, grease, food, and sand buildups can take quite some time to clear when using conventional drain cleaning equipment. It is the owners responsibility to maintain the drainage system, in order to prevent food, oil, or grease from entering municipal sewer lines. www.kwgray.com /galtseptic/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14   (4915 words)

Claudia Rosett on Oil-for-Food & Terrorism on National Review Online One was the U.N. decision to allow Saddam to choose his own buyers of oil and suppliers of goods — an arrangement that Annan himself helped set up during negotiations in Baghdad in the mid-1990s, shortly before he was promoted to Secretary-General. The stated aim of the program, which ran from 1996-2003, was to reduce the squeeze of sanctions on ordinary Iraqis by allowing Saddam to sell oil strictly to buy food and other relief supplies. Now shut down, Delta Services was a subsidiary of a Saudi Arabian firm, Delta Oil, which had close ties to the Taliban during Osama bin Laden's heyday in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. www.nationalreview.com /comment/rosett200404182336.asp   (4915 words)

Oil-for-Food Programme - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council US oil companies Chevron, Mobil, Texaco and Bay Oil as well as three individual oil investors obtained oil from Saddam Hussein under the Oil-for-Food Programme, the Chief Arms Inspector for the Central Intelligence Agency concludes in his report. Annan pointed out that Saddam Hussein's regime profited greatly from illegally shipping oil to Turkey and Jordan, and said that the smuggling "was no secret" from the US and UK, the two main countries responsible for enforcing sanctions. Under its rules, the UN controlled all revenues from Iraq's oil sales and contracts within the programme were subject to oversight. www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/iraq1/oilindex.htm   (4915 words)

ifeminists.com > editorial > No Oil for Food Thus, in the coming dispute between the U.S. and U.N., the Security Council will almost certainly advocate what France's Jean-Marc de La Sabliere calls "transparency in the sale of oil and awarding of contracts," which will be a condition for lifting sanctions and oil-for-food. It allowed Iraq to sell oil to finance the purchase of humanitarian goods for its people who were dying from a lack of basic supplies. One U.N. report reads, "Total [oil] exports for the week [13.2 million barrels] generated estimated revenue of... www.ifeminists.net /introduction/editorials/2003/0429.html   (4915 words)

Welcome to the CPA Oil for Food Transition Page The CPA Oil for Food Coordination Center has closed as part of the transition of authority to the new interim Iraqi government. As many suppliers have already experienced, decisions regarding Oil for Food contracts were made jointly between the CPA and the Iraqi ministries. Iraq Oil for Food program transitioned from U.N. to C.P.A. Program is administered by the C.P.A. Iraq Oil for Food program transitioned from C.P.A. to Iraqi ministries www.cpa-iraq.org /oil_for_food/index.html   (4915 words)

OpinionJournal - Featured Article He confirmed that AMEP purchased oil from Iraq through Oil-for-Food, beginning around 1998, and said he made semi-annual trips to Baghdad to meet SOMO officials to keep contracts coming. In a smuggling practice known as top-loading, 1.8 million barrels approved for sale under a U.N. contract was topped off with an additional 272,000 barrels in the summer of 2001, according to the captain of the Essex oil-tanker, who blew the whistle on the smuggling by advising U.S. and U.N. authorities. Trafigura purchased the oil from oil equipment supplier Ibex Energy France, which in turn bought it from SOMO in Iraq. www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110004801   (4915 words)

Oil-for-Food: Facts UN oil overseers first alerted the Security Council's 661 Committee on November 17, 2000 that the oil pricing formulas proposed by Iraq for the month of December did not represent "fair market value," because the oil appeared to be considerably under-priced. Regarding oil surcharges, the 661 Committee did not reach consensus as to how to address the problem until October, 2001, when the Committee decided to introduce a "retroactive pricing mechanism" for Iraqi oil in an attempt to eliminate the surcharges on oil. In early March, 2001, the issue of oil surcharges was further reported by the Secretary-General in his report to the Security Council. www.oilforfoodfacts.org   (4915 words)

Definition of Oil for Food program Companies that sold commodities via the oil for food program were supposedly overcharging by up to 10%, with part of the overcharged amount being diverted into private bank accounts for Saddam Hussein and other regime officials and the other part being kept by the supplier. Contracts to sell Iraq humanitarian goods through the Oil For Food program were alleged to have been given to companies and individuals based on their willingness to kickback a certain percentage of the contract profits to the Iraqi regime. The scheme is alleged to have worked like this: individuals and organizations sympathetic to the Iraqi regime, or those just easily bribed were offered oil contracts through the Oil for Food program. www.wordiq.com /definition/Oil_for_Food   (4915 words)

Oil for Food Programme The Government of Iraq is responsible for implementation of the programme in the 15 governorates in the centre and south. Oil industry experts reported in April on the "lamentable state" of the oil industry and indicated the oil production level authorized by the Security Council was well beyond Iraq’s capacity at current prices. The current oil exporting period is Phase VI authorized by SCR 1242 (1998) and running from 25 May 1999 to 20 November 1999. www.nahrain.com /d/un/basfact.html   (803 words)

The U.N. is Us (Harpers.org) The Oil for Food Programme, the lifeline for the entire Iraqi population, was badly compromised—not because Saddam Hussein had skimmed 5 percent or 10 percent but because the United States and Britain had adopted a punitive measure so extreme that it nearly bankrupted the entire program. On February 26, 2002, the director of the Oil for Food Programme informed the Security Council that $7 billion in urgent humanitarian contracts could not be paid for, because of the shortfall from the new pricing policies. Since the terms of the Oil for Food Programme required every single sale of Iraqi oil to be approved by every member of the Security Council, the United States and Britain came up with a novel solution. www.harpers.org /TheUNIsUs.html   (3078 words)

Gulfnews: UN deal on Iraq oil, food programme nearly settled A vote had to be taken by midnight last night before the expiration of the oil-for-food programme, which allows Iraq to export oil and buy civilian goods under UN supervision to offset the impact of the sanctions. In the end the council included one oblique reference to discussions of the proposals among a series of resolutions pertaining to the oil-for food programme. The UN Security Council voted unanimously yesterday for a five-month routine extension of the Iraq "oil-for-food" programme after Russia forced the United States and Britain to put off a plan to revamp 11-year-old sanctions against Baghdad. archive.gulfnews.com /articles/01/07/04/21386.html   (605 words)

Voices in the Wilderness : Behind the UN oil for food programme If the government of Iraq succeeded in skimming funds or arranging for kickbacks from oil sales or import contracts in the programme, it was not because the UN handed over billions of dollars to Saddam to do as he wished. The website contained charts showing the status of every contract for oil sales and imports. It was sent to the programme staff (whose office was housed in the secretariat) to ensure that it conformed to the list of approved goods. vitw.org /archives/842   (1826 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme: Independent Inquiry Committee finds mismanagement and failure of oversight: UN Member States and Secretariat share responsibility To put the Programme’s flaws and the manipulation by the Saddam Hussein regime into perspective, it is important to note that the regime derived far more revenues from smuggling oil outside the Programme than from its demands for surcharges and kickbacks from companies that contracted within the Programme. The value of oil smuggled outside of the Programme is estimated by the Committee to be USD 10.99 billion as opposed to an estimated USD 1.8 billion of illicit revenue from Saddam Hussein’s manipulation of the Programme. However well-conceived the Programme was, in principle, the Security Council failed to clearly define the broad parameters, policies and administrative responsibilities for the Programme. www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6FZM7A?OpenDocument   (1669 words)

Indiainfo.com -> Spotlight -> War on Iraq -> Annan suggests changes in oil-for-food programme Annan, in a letter to the Council, asked that the UN be allowed to spend the "oil- for-food" funds on both Iraqis inside and those who flee the country, set priorities for the items to be purchased and enter into contracts, renegotiate contracts and be given flexibility to enable it to meet any contingency. The United Nations food agency is also preparing to make an international appeal for around $ 1 billion to buy food for six months. The programme, run jointly by the UN and Baghdad allowing Iraq to export oil and import humanitarian goods exempt from UN sanctions, was suspended on March 17 when Annan ordered all the UN international staff to leave Iraq. news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usiraqwar/21annan.html   (295 words)

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