I almost forgot, would you believe FOX is the mark of the beast?  hmmmmmm

F is the 6th letter of the alphabet O is the 15the letter of the alphabet 1+5=6 and X is the 24th letter of the alphabet 2+4=6.  OMG!!!

http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/us_food_massachusetts
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Massachusetts finds expired food in school cafeterias

Fri, Apr 01, 2011Out-of-date food has been found lingering in public school cafeterias across Massachusetts, sent from warehouses up to six weeks past "use by" dates, the state department of education said on Friday.

Roughly a dozen schools reported expired food shipments or sought guidance on an inconsistent system for dating food, said JC Considine, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Expired school cafeteria food first surfaced in Boston last month. The problem has since been detected statewide.
Boston city councilor John Connelly noted that most Boston students have an income level low enough to qualify for free or discounted breakfasts and lunches at school, and said he worried that past-date cafeteria food puts them at risk of receiving meals with no real nutritional value.
In the wake of the past-prime food discoveries, school officials asked the U.S. Agriculture Department to institute more uniform coding to date food.
Currently, a mishmash of coding practices is used to date food. Some packages are labeled with an expiration date, others with a packaged-on stamp, some with best-if-used-by timing and some with no date.
USDA guidelines complicate the matter further, saying food products may be fine to eat well after the date listed.
School food supplied by the USDA is stored in and shipped from four warehouse facilities around the state. The expired food appears to be confined to one warehouse serving schools in northeastern Massachusetts, Considine said.
Food storage at all four facilities will be reviewed, he said.
In Boston, officials identified 280 cases of food with questionable dates in 40 of its 46 full service kitchens that ultimately serve 135 schools.
Out-of-date products ranged from cheese to chickpeas to beef patties, said Boston schools spokesman Matthew Wilder. Some product dates were as old as 2009, others were just a few months past.
Officials also recently identified 3,000 cases of food at the storage facility with questionable dates, he said.
"We uncovered some real fiscal waste because of inventory mismanagement that was resulting in expired food making its way into schools," Connelly said.
These discoveries have prompted an upgrade to the inventory management system and revamped long-term menu planning, said Wilder.
Boston school officials have assured parents and students the food being served is safe, but some schools have reported a dip in lunch and breakfast participation since the findings surfaced.
(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Greg McCune)

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/FSIS_Food_Recalls/index.asp
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FSIS Food Recalls

Who regulates food products? The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspects and regulates meat, poultry and processed egg products produced in federally inspected plants. FSIS is responsible for ensuring that these products are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled. All other food products are regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Related Items FSIS Directive 8080.1, Recall of Meat and Poultry Products (PDF Only) What is a food recall? A food recall is a voluntary action by a manufacturer or distributor to protect the public from products that may cause health problems or possible death. A recall is intended to remove food products from commerce when there is reason to believe the products may be adulterated or misbranded.

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http://www.ehow.com/video_4398537_usda-fda.html

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/importing_meat_poultry_egg_products/index.ASP
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Importing Meat, Poultry & Egg Products to the United States Summary The Food Safety and Inspection Service is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s public health regulatory agency that protects consumers by ensuring that meat, poultry and egg products are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled. A substantial amount of imported meat and poultry products are available to American consumers. In the United States, FSIS regulates meat, poultry and egg products. However, all remaining foods are regulated by the Department of Health and Human Service’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As such, there are different import requirements for different types of imported food. Comparison of the FSIS & FDA Import Process FDA relies solely on point-of-entry inspection. FSIS, on the other hand, works collaboratively with the importing establishment’s government and uses a three-part process to verify that other countries’ regulatory systems for meat, poultry and egg products are equivalent to that of the U.S. and that products entering the U.S. are safe and wholesome. FDA’s inspection requirements are company specific, meaning companies must register with FDA before importing food products other than meat, poultry and egg products. FSIS, instead of dealing directly with individual companies, coordinates with the government of the country before accepting meat, poultry or egg products for sale into U.S. commerce. The FSIS Reinspection Process Every day, FSIS carries out a stringent and comprehensive program designed to ensure the safety and wholesomeness of imported meat, poultry and egg products. Thirty-three countries are eligible to import meat and poultry products to the U.S. In 2002, meat and poultry product imports were 3.8 billion pounds (1.7 million metric tons). Reinspection begins with FSIS determining that a country’s federal inspection system is equivalent to that of the U.S. While other countries’ meat, poultry and egg product regulatory systems do not need to be identical to the FSIS system, they must employ equivalent measures that provide the same level of protection against food safety hazards. FSIS uses a comprehensive system that involves document reviews, on-site audits and port-of-entry examinations of every shipment of product that enters the United States. The term reinspection is appropriate because all products are previously inspected and passed by the importing country’s equivalent inspection system. Thus, reinspection is a second level of protection for the American public. Each meat, poultry and egg product shipment enters the country under the authority of U.S. Customs and USDA’S Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and is transferred to FSIS where inspectors visually inspect every shipment as well as its accompanying documentation. FSIS import inspectors stationed at ports-of-entry across the country conduct in-depth, random reinspection of selected shipments as directed by a centralized computer programmed to identify products that may be problematic. A new system for random selection of shipments was implemented in the fall of 2002. Shipments are reinspected at a frequency that provides a 95 percent confidence level that any problem affecting the safety or wholesomeness of the product will be identified by FSIS inspectors. The new system is a more scientific approach to sampling because it assures that sampling is spread across all types of products that are imported from another country. As a result, FSIS can be assured that all products under FSIS jurisdiction, regardless of the volume imported to the United States, are sampled. In general, the higher risk ready-to-eat products are being sampled at a higher rate. In September 2002, FSIS began to deploy the first of its 20 new, highly-trained FSIS Import Surveillance Liaison Inspectors in major ports across the U.S. to conduct intensified oversight activities, with an emphasis on biosecurity concerns. They work closely with other Federal agencies to ensure our nation’s biosecurity efforts are seamless. FSIS Import Application Process To import to the U.S., countries must first complete the FSIS eligibility application package. To ensure that this process goes smoothly, FSIS provides as much advice and guidance as needed to other governments concerning any portion of the process. When FSIS receives the completed application, it conducts an initial document analysis to compare the country’s inspection system sanitary measures with the ones that are applied in the U.S. After reviewing the entire application, FSIS decides whether the foreign food regulatory system for meat, poultry and egg products is equivalent to the FSIS regulatory process. Additionally, FSIS makes certain that the other country’s regulatory system provides the same level of public health protection that is attained in the U.S. If it is determined that both of these objectives are met then FSIS sends a multidisciplinary team of experts to that country to conduct an on-site audit of its entire meat, poultry or egg products regulatory system. This is done in order for FSIS to verify that the country has satisfactorily implemented all laws, regulations, and other inspection or certification requirements cited in the initial application. After the on-site audit has been successfully completed, FSIS will publish a proposed regulation, which proposes to add the country to FSIS’ list of eligible exporters. There is a period of time in which the Agency must collect public comments to this proposed regulation to help FSIS make a final decision as to whether the country can be eligible to export meat, poultry or egg products to the U.S. It is important to note that FSIS does not conduct food inspections in another country, nor does it certify individual foreign establishments for export to the U.S. After it is determined that a country has an equivalent food regulatory system, FSIS will rely on that system to carry out daily inspection and then re-inspect upon arrival at U.S. import stations. Any foreign establishment that desires to export to the U.S. must apply to its own government, and that country’s chief inspection official must certify to FSIS a list of all establishments in that country that meet FSIS’ import requirements. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23953 Excerpt: A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge the agency's recent decision to fully deregulate Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. This is the second time the USDA has been sued over its approval of Roundup Ready alfalfa, which is genetically engineered (GE) to tolerate glyphosate, a popular herbicide commonly sold under the Monsanto brand name Roundup. The latest lawsuit, filed by groups like the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the National Family Farm Coalition, opens a new chapter in the five-year battle over the GE alfalfa seed developed by Monsanto and Forage Genetics. Industry watchdogs and farmers say that Roundup Ready alfalfa will increase reliance on already overused herbicides like Roundup, encourage the spread of herbicide-resistant "superweeds" and contaminate organic and conventional alfalfa with Monsanto transgenes through cross-pollination. About 93 percent of the alfalfa planted in the US is grown without herbicides, but up to 23 million more pounds of herbicide could be sprayed annually following the introduction of Roundup Ready alfalfa into America's fields, according to USDA estimates. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/31/business/fi-feed31 Excerpt: FDA urged to ban feeding of chicken feces to cattle Food and consumer groups say the practice increases the risk of cattle becoming infected with mad cow disease. A beef industry trade group say a ban isn't needed. October 31, 2009|Jerry Hirsch A fight is brewing over the practice of feeding chicken feces and other poultry farm waste to cattle. A coalition of food and consumer groups that includes Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice. McDonald's Corp., the nation's largest restaurant user of beef, also wants the FDA to prohibit the feeding of so-called poultry litter to cattle. http://www.cdeclips.com/en/world/FDA_says_more_egg_recalls_possible/fullstory_50205.html FDA says more egg recalls possible del.icio.us Digg Facebook Mixx Newsvine Yahoo! FDA says more egg recalls possible Agencies Published: Aug 24 2010 9:55 Agencies Published: Aug 24 2010 9:55 WASHINGTON — The US Food and Drug Administration commissioner on Monday said there may be more recalls of eggs in the salmonella outbreak and the agency did not yet know how the eggs and chickens were contaminated, according to Reuters. "We don't know exactly how the contamination got into the chicken population, into the egg population, and we're not yet fully sure the extent of the recall that will be necessary to protect consumers," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said on ABC's Good Morning America. Wikileaks Monsanto GMO crisis spurs citizen inquiry into FDA racketeering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVOUZXef67s http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Help/FAQs_Hotline_Inspection/ Excerpt: Food Safety: Meat and Poultry Inspection & Other FSIS Programs What is the Meat and Poultry Hotline and what type of questions does it handle? Is all meat and poultry inspected? Is all meat and poultry graded? Who inspects egg products? What is the Meat and Poultry Hotline and what type of questions does it handle? USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline is a toll-free telephone service that helps consumers prevent foodborne illness, specifically by answering their questions about safe storage, handling, and preparation of meat and poultry products. The Hotline may be reached by calling 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854 - voice) or 1-800-256-7072 (TDD/TTY). Callers may speak with a food safety specialist from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, weekdays. Recorded messages are available at all times. (For More Information: USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline) Is all meat and poultry inspected? American consumers can be confident that the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the public health agency in the USDA, ensures that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged. Under the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, FSIS inspects all raw meat and poultry sold in interstate and foreign commerce, including imported products. The Agency monitors meat and poultry products after they leave federally inspected plants. In addition, FSIS monitors state inspection programs, which inspect meat and poultry products sold only within the state in which they were produced. The 1967 Wholesome Meat Act and the 1968 Wholesome Poultry Products Act require state inspection programs to be "at least equal to" the Federal inspection program. If states choose to end their inspection program or cannot maintain this standard, FSIS must assume responsibility for inspection within that state. (Source: Inspection & Grading of Meat and Poultry: What Are the Differences?) Is all meat and poultry graded? The inspection and grading of meat and poultry are two separate programs within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Inspection for wholesomeness is mandatory and is paid for out of tax dollars. Grading for quality is voluntary, and the service is requested and paid for by meat and poultry producers/processors. After the meat and poultry are inspected for wholesomeness, producers and processors may request to have the products graded for quality by a Federal grader. The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is the agency responsible for grading meat and poultry. Those who request grading must pay for the service. Grading for quality means evaluation of traits related to tenderness, juiciness, and flavor of meat; and, for poultry, a normal shape that is fully fleshed and meaty and free of defects. USDA grades are based on nationally uniform Federal standards of quality. So that no matter where or when a consumer purchases graded meat or poultry, it must have met the same grade criteria. The grade is stamped on the carcass or side of beef and is usually not visible on retail cuts. However, retail packages of beef, as well as poultry, will show the grade mark if they have been graded. The grade symbol and wording are no longer copyrighted; however, according to the Truth in Labeling Law, it is illegal to mislead or misrepresent the shield or wording. (Source: Inspection & Grading of Meat and Poultry: What Are the Differences?) Who inspects egg products? The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspects and regulates meat and poultry products. FSIS is responsible for ensuring that these products are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled. FSIS also inspects pasteurized egg products (eggs that have been removed from their shells for further processing) produced in Federally inspected plants. All other food products, other than those regulated by FSIS, fall under the regulatory authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Note: Many government agencies cooperate to ensure the safety of shell eggs from farm to table. See Shell Eggs from Farm to Table. (Source: FSIS Food Recalls. See also Egg Products and Food Safety.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration Excerpt: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), veterinary products, and cosmetics. The FDA also enforces other laws, notably Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act and associated regulations, many of which are not directly related to food or drugs. These include sanitation requirements on interstate travel and control of disease on products ranging from certain household pets to sperm donation for assisted reproduction. The FDA is led by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Commissioner reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The 21st and current Commissioner is Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg. She has served as Commissioner since February 2009. The FDA has its headquarters at Silver Spring, Maryland and has 223 field offices and 13 laboratories located throughout the 50 states, the United States Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.[3] In 2008, the FDA started opening offices in foreign countries, including China, India, Costa Rica, Chile, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.[4] Contents [hide]

http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm223248.htm
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UPDATE: August 20, 2010: Related nationwide recall:
Eggs from Hillandale Farms may put consumers at risk for Salmonella.

Through tracebacks conducted as part of its ongoing investigation into the increase of Salmonella Enteritidis illnesses nationwide, FDA and the State of Minnesota identified Hillandale Farms in Iowa as a second potential source of contaminated shell eggs.

Eggs affected by this latest recall are distributed under the following brand names: Hillandale Farms, Sunny Farms, and Sunny Meadow in 6-egg cartons, dozen-egg cartons, 18-egg cartons, 30-egg package, and 5-dozen cases. Loose eggs are packaged under the following brand names: Wholesome Farms and West Creek in 15 and 30-dozen tray packs. The loose eggs may also be repackaged by customers.
Eggs involved in this related recall are only eggs with the following plant numbers:
 P1860 – Julian (production) numbers ranging from 099 to 230
 P1663 – Julian (production) numbers ranging from 137 to 230
FDA continues to have on-site investigators at Hillandale Farms of Iowa, Inc. and Wright County Egg in Iowa.

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http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm249270.htm
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Recall -- Firm Press Release

FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.

Frankly Fresh Inc. Voluntarily Recalls Seafood Salad Products Because Of Possible Health Risk

Contact:
mailto:wecare@franklyfresh.com?subject=
1-800-826-3322

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 30, 2011 -Frankly Fresh, Inc. of Carson, CA. is voluntarily recalling its seafood line of products, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Although healthy individuals may suffer only shortterm symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
Product was distributed in the California and Nevada Areas through retail supermarket stores. Products are packed under the Frankly Fresh label in a variety of sizes in plastic containers with safety seals on.
The affected products / lots are:


http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/h/margaret_a_hamburg/index.html
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Margaret A. Hamburg

Updated May 20, 2009
Margaret A. Hamburg, a former New York City health commissioner, is the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. She joins the beleaguered agency in the midst of a government decision about whether and how to manufacture a vaccine for swine flu.
Appointed in 1991 to serve as acting health commissioner of New York City, Dr. Hamburg inherited urgent problems, a spare budget and a divided and demoralized staff.
The Food and Drug Administration could have a familiar feel for her. The turnaround that she engineered is exactly what the Obama administration is hoping she will achieve at the drug agency, which is reeling from a host of similar problems.
Dr. Hamburg succeeded Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, who led the beleaguered agency from 2005 until January  2009 and often had to deflect critics who accused the Bush administration of letting politics play too forceful a role in science policy.
Although she lacks deep experience in drug- or food-safety issues, Dr. Hamburg was an infectious-disease researcher and is an expert in bioterrorism and public preparedness, both of which seem keenly relevant. Her leadership in New York won her admirers among public health advocates, many of whom said she would be a good leader to an agency a previous commissioner had likened to a cancer patient.

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The F.D.A. regulates more than $1 trillion worth of consumer goods, including a third of all imported goods, items as varied as eggplants, eyeliners, microwave ovens, monoclonal antibodies and cellphones. The figure amounts to about 25 cents of every consumer dollar spent in the United States. The agency is widely thought to need major reforms, particularly to its oversight of food safety. An unusual group of internal whistle-blowers has claimed that the agency's oversight of medical devices is deeply flawed.
Dr. Hamburg, who was appointed by Mayor David N. Dinkins of New York City as acting commissioner in 1991 and became commissioner the next year, was one of the few top officials asked to remain when Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took office in 1994. She was best known for developing a tuberculosis control program that produced sharp declines in the incidences of the disease in New York. Under her tenure, child immunization rates rose in the city.
When she took office in New York, the city was facing a growing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis  during a fiscal crisis. H.I.V. infections, drug abuse and homelessness had caused tuberculosis to come roaring back from dormancy. Solving the problem seemed beyond the powers of the health department, divided and demoralized in the wake of the abrupt departure of her predecessor.
A key problem was that many of those infected failed to take their medicines until cured, leading to the creation of drug-resistant disease strains. Dr. Hamburg pushed for the power to civilly detain tuberculosis patients -- many with mental illnesses or drug addictions -- until they were cured.
She turned her attention to the prison at Rikers Island, where scores of the island's huge jail population were infected with TB. Despite the city's financial problems, Dr. Hamburg got the city to construct on the island in 90 days a top-notch tuberculosis hospital and to screen all inmates for the disease - as many as 125,000 people in a year.
The tuberculosis epidemic subsided.
She left New York in 1997 to become assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, where she created a bioterrorism initiative and led planning for pandemic flu response.
In 2001, she joined the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a Washington-based group focused on reducing the public safety threat from chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
Dr. Hamburg is the daughter of Dr. David A. Hamburg, a former president of the Institute of Medicine and a longtime force in public health, and Dr. Beatrix Hamburg. She has two teenage children and serves on the boards of Henry Schein, a medical products distributor, and the Sidwell Friends School, where the president's daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, are students.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Wave_Emergency_Network Excerpt:
The Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)^[1] was a command and control communications system intended for use by the United States government to facilitate military communications before, during and after a nuclear war. Specifically, GWEN was constructed to survive the effects of a high-altitude nuclear explosion electromagnetic pulse to insure that the United States President can give a launching order to strategic nuclear bombers.^[2][3]

http://www.myspace.com/reverendnovafire/blog/541081703 Excerpt:

"Electromagnetic systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual dis- tortion or disorientation. They are silent, and counter- measures to them may be difficult to develop."

Between 1980 and 1984 I was in England, and I got to see some illustrations of how some of this technology actually works. During this period, there were a lot of protests, sit-ins and demonstrations by Greenpeace and many other groups against the deployment of Cruise missiles, especially at Greenham Common, which was south of where I was located.

In 1983 and 1984 there was a very large presence of military police at the base when the Cruise missiles arrived. Around mid-1984 this presence diminished considerably, and some of the protesters who were outside the base started claiming that they were being irradiated from the base because of physical problems they were unable to link to any other source. This was reported in Electronics Todsy magazine in 1985. The symptoms ranged from skin burns to headaches, drowsiness, menstrual bleeding at abnormal times, bouts of temporary paralysis, faulty speech coordination, and in one case circulatory failure severe enough to require hospitalization. Such a complex series of symptoms fits well with severe EM field exposure. The Ministry Qf Defence (MOD) denied that any harmful electromagnetic signal was being used against the women, but did not deny that an electromagnetic signal may be in use which, if below lOmW/cm2, would not, under UK guidelines, be officially acknowledged as harmful. In other words, they lied.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sm4csi/nwo/MindControl/chemtrails-HAARP-Mass.Mind.Control.htm

Chemtrails and HAARP revealedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMjPhHVIOKk
This Ain't Oz (The Freeman Perspective) video
http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot.com/youtube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurehead
Excerpt:
In politics, a figurehead is a person who holds an important title or office yet executes little actual power, most commonly limited by convention rather than law. The metaphor derives from the carved figurehead at the prow of a sailing ship. Commonly cited figureheads include Queen Elizabeth II's^[1][2] role as Queen of the United Kingdom, sixteen Commonwealth Realms and head of the British Commonwealth overall; she has an important office title, but no power over the nations in which she is not head of state. The Queen also holds all powers of state in her kingdoms, but rarely exercises them. Other figureheads are the Emperor of Japan, or presidents in parliamentary republics, such as the President of Israel or the President of Germany.
While the authority of a figurehead is in practice generally symbolic, public opinion, respect for the office or the office holder and access to high levels of government can give them significant influence on events. In those systems of government where the head of state is in practice a figurehead, they are also generally the titular commanders in chief of the nation's defence forces.
Sometimes a figurehead can be exploited in times of emergency. For example, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used the figurehead President of India to issue unilateral decrees that allowed her to bypass parliament when it no longer supported her.
The word can also have more sinister overtones, and refer to a powerless leader who should be exercising full authority, yet is actually being controlled by a more powerful figure behind the throne. Such a figurehead is often called by a more derogatory term: a puppet.
The tendency of this word to drift, like many words that are in a strong process of changed meanings, into the pejorative is beginning to make it unsuitable to apply to a head of state with limited constitutional authority, such that its use may become increasingly inappropriate in referring to monarchs and presidents in parliamentary systems.

http://www.virtusinterpress.org/journals-coc-some-full-text-papers.html

Some Full-Text Papers Published in the Journal

1. SEPARATION BETWEEN OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL: WHERE DO WE STAND?

by Ariane Chapelle

2. INVESTORS TRUST AFTER PARMALAT SCANDAL: THE ROLE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

by Giovanni D’Orio

3. CRITICAL ISSUES ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE “TRUE AND FAIR VIEW” ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE. LEARNING FROM PARMALAT

by Andrea Melis

4. ON THE WAY TO “GOOD” CORPORATE GOVERNANCE? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE GERMAN DEBATE

by Thomas Steger, Ronald Hartz

5. INTERTEMPORAL ENDOGENEITY IN BOARD COMPOSITION AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

by Wallace N. Davidson III, Wei Rowe

6. STOCK OPTION PLANS FOR CEO COMPENSATION

by Mª Dolores Álvarez Pérez, Edelmira Neira Fontela

7. CEO DUALITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE AN ENDOGENOUS ISSUE

by Chia-Wei Chen, J. Barry Lin, Bingsheng Yi

8. VALUE BASED FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES: AN EVALUATION OF RELATIVE AND INCREMENTAL INFORMATION CONTENT

by Pierre Erasmus

9. OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF ITALIAN BANKS: A SHORT INQUIRY INTO THE ROOTS OF THE CURRENT CONTEXT

by Leonardo Giani

10. IS THERE A FIRM-SIZE EFFECT IN CEO STOCK OPTION GRANTS?

by Bruce Rosser, Jean Canil

11. A CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STUDY ON ITALIAN FAMILY FIRMS

by Fabrizio Colarossi, Marco Giorgino, Roberto Steri, Diego Viviani

12. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM VALUE: EVIDENCE FROM CANADIAN CAPITAL MARKETS

by Parveen P. Gupta, Duane B. Kennedy, Samuel C. Weaver

13. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REVISITED: A CRITICAL REVIEW

by Alexander M. Dühnfort, Christian Klein, Niklas Lampenius

14. PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM MONITORING ACTIVITIES BY PENSION FUNDS AND INVESTMENT MANAGERS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM BY PENSION FUNDS

by Theo Lynn, Mark Mulgrew

15. CROSS OWNERSHIP AND INTERLOCKING DIRECTORATES BETWEEN BANKS AND LISTED FIRMS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS ON DEBT LEVERAGE AND COST OF DEBT IN THE ITALIAN CASE

by Francesca di Donato, Riccardo Tiscini

16. RESPONSIBLE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: TOWARDS A STAKEHOLDER BOARD OF DIRECTORS?

by Silvia Ayuso, Antonio Argandona

17. OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE, CORPORATE PERFORMANCE AND FAILURE: EVIDENCE FROM PANEL DATA OF EMERGING MARKET THE CASE OF JORDAN

by Rami Zeitun

18. OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN GERMANY: DO CROSS-SHAREHOLDINGS REFLECT BANK CONTROL ON LARGE
COMPANIES?

by Alberto Onetti, Alessia Pisoni

19. THE EFFECTS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MECHANISM ON GOVERNANCE AND PERFORMANCE OF CORPORATE FIRMS IN NIGERIA

by M. Adetunji Babatunde, Olawoye Olaniran

20. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN POLAND

by Tom Mortimer

21. EMPIRICAL TEST OF CONDITIONAL CAPM USING EXPECTED RETURNS OF BRAZILIAN, ARGENTINEAN, GERMAN AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN PORTFOLIO

by Elmo Tambosi Filho, Fabio Gallo Garcia, Joshua Onome Imoniana

22. CHANGES IN THE VOLATILITY LEVEL AND STRUCTURE OF SHARES POST SINGLE STOCK FUTURES TRADING

by Johan de Beer

23. INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AND R & D INVESTMENT: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON

by Zouari-Hadiji Rim, Zouari Ghazi

24. THE USE OF STOCK OPTIONS AND RETIREMENT PLANS TO RETAIN NON-EXECUTIVE EMPLOYEES

by Kathleen M. Weiden, Jane Mooney

25. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE

by Jackie Young

26. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE INTRODUCTION OF KING III AND REPORTING PRACTICES AT THE JSE ALT-X

by Thomas Gstraunthaler

http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/news/2008/20080923_ISSeminar.aspSPEAKER

Thomas Gstraunthaler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Thomas received a doctoral degree in Social and Economic Sciences and a Masters degree in Historical Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he held an academic position in the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. He spent research terms at Bournemouth University, UK and Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Thomas is Vice-President of the “Association des Formations Européennes a la Comptabilité et a l'Audit”.