SCI-TECH

US pressures El Salvador to buy Monsanto’s GMO seeds

As one of the preconditions to authorizing close to $300 million in aid, the United States is pressuring El Salvador to purchase genetically modified seeds from Monsanto instead of non-GM seeds from local farmers.
According to Sustainable Pulse, a website covering developments related to genetically modified organisms and sustainable agriculture, the US will reportedly withhold $277 million in aid through the Millennium Challenge Compact if El Salvador refuses to purchase GM seeds from the biotech company Monsanto.

Nun admits care home children were involved in medical trials

Almost 300 children resident in care homes in the 1960s and 70s were used in medical trials, it has been reported.
298 children in ten different care homes were involved, it was reported on Dublin radio station Newstalk this morning.
In one of the trials, 80 children became ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle.
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline uncovered the experiments after it purchased one of the labs involved.
GSK was in no way involved in the trials.

New cash machines: withdraw money with veins in your finger

Cash machine technology that reads the pattern of finger veins is already available in Japan and Poland

 

London Telegraph

Cash machines could soon be installed with devices that identify customers by reading the veins in their fingers.

The technology is already being rolled out in Poland, where 1,730 cash machines will this year be installed with readers, negating the need for a debit card and Pin.

Money Up a Rat Hole? The “Space Fence” Boondoggle

Prison Planet….
Gary North – May 09, 2014
Gravity was a popular movie. It was lots of fun, except for one thing: it’s going to happen. Statistically, it’s going to happen.
The governments of the world have known this for over 35 years.
Maybe you have heard of the tragedy of the commons. It’s where a valuable asset is not owned. There is no incentive to conserve it. There is great incentive to use it, since it’s free. The result is pollution.