Experts confirm differences between genome editing and mutation breeding
Joint publication of experts from German regulatory authority and biotech industry
Joint publication of experts from German regulatory authority and biotech industry
DowDuPont and "Baysanto" have taken the lead in new methods of genetic engineering
From time to time I've blogged about the possibility that some geophysical and weather events are perhaps best understood as examples of possible geophysical […]
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Why are Europeans not asking themselves: Who is Europe’s enemy in all of this — what causes this refugee-crisis? The refugees certainly didn’t.
Tony Farrell was the chief intelligence adviser to the South Yorkshire police. One of his duties was to write reports on terrorist threats to the British people. He investigated the 7-7-2005 London bombings and the 9-11-2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center Towers. His conclusion was that the greatest terrorist threat to the people of Great Britain and America was their government.
Mr Farrell’s boss was the Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police, Merdydd John Hughes. Mr Hughes fired Tony Farrell rather than investigate the truth of his allegations.
(ANTIWAR.COM) — President Trump’s visit to the NATO summit in Brussels is expected to come with a whole flurry of demands for NATO nations to increase military spending. This is virtually a constant for NATO summits, and normally wouldn’t be a big issue. That Trump will be meeting with Vladimir Putin almost immediately thereafter, however, have NATO nations […]
In the midst of tepid Western criticism, Israel is finally realizing its decades-old goal of splitting the West Bank in two, while putting an end to the fiction of a two-state solution, observes Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth…Read more →
(CJ Opinion) — Probably the weirdest, dumbest, most annoying thing about writing on US foreign policy right now is the fact that regime change in Iran and regime change in Syria have been falsely spun into the illusion of two separate issues along partisan lines. People who are more aligned with America’s Democratic Party are a lot […]
A survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 U.S. sailors has joined the Freedom Flotilla headed towards Gaza, as Joe Lauria reports. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Joe Meadors, a survivor of the…Read more →
Mr. Shaji Maanathupadathu, a driver in Edappally, signed as a gurantor for a loan worth Rs. 2 lakhs is now losing his home worth Rs. 2 crores. This is happening because the bank and debt recovery officials exaggerated the outstanding interest payments to Rs.2.7 crores and have sold the house in an online auction for just Rs. 38 lakhs. This move[Read More...]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
From Advice to an Author
Grandees and men in power
Last month we looked at how Russia’s fifth generation Su-57 compared with Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter project – with both aircraft exhibiting comparable capabilities in speed, altitude, sensors, missile carriage, engagement range, and maneuverability.
(MEMO) — A Lebanese tourist who was arrested last month for posting a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and conditions in Egypt was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Cairo court on Saturday, her lawyer told Reuters. Mona el-Mazboh was arrested at Cairo airport at the end of her stay in Egypt after a 10-minute video […]
(ZHE) — The US embassy in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince warned American tourists to “shelter in place” as violent demonstrations erupted across the island over a fuel price hike. An estimated 120 Americans are believed to be staying at a Port-au-Prince hotel targeted by protesters, who attempted to bypass security and set the building ablaze. Youth groups and […]
A Texas newspaper posted an excerpt from the US Declaration of Independence on Facebook, and it was removed for being "hate speech". Although the US doesn't have any "hate speech" laws, Mark Zuckerberg's company simply applies Germany's stringent censorship laws in America. [...]
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could well dash expectations that he is gunning for a break with Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism rather than a shaving off of the rough edges of Wahhabi ideology that has been woven into the kingdom’s fabric since its founding more than eighty years ago. Prince Mohammed has fuelled expectations by fostering Islamic scholars who advocate[Read More...]
40 People were killed in Iraq, and another 36 were found in a mass grave.
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(MEE) — Syria on Sunday accused Israel of targeting an air base in central Homs province, adding that its defences hit a jet involved in the attack. “Our air defences are responding to an Israeli aggression and intercepting a number of missiles targeting the airport, hitting one of the attacking planes and forcing the rest to leave […]
Martin Astrof, an angry Democrat, was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Trump supporters and a campaign worker for Republican US Representative Lee Zeldin of New York, after Astrof nearly hit the worker with his car. [...]
“Nothing,” economist Milton Friedman once observed, “is so permanent as a temporary government program.” And nothing makes a government’s programs – or, more importantly, changes in its core values – more permanent than the loss of collective memory that comes with generational changes. We’re hitting a big one soon. It worries me. Next year, the … Continue reading "The New Normal: Our Evil Gift to a Generation Which Didn’t Deserve It"
Here’s a shocker: Donald Trump and his Palestine-Israel fixers think they can buy a peaceful and permanent settlement of the 70-year conflict by getting Arab governments to pressure the Palestinians into forgetting the “politicians’ talking points” – you know, superficial things like independence from the routine abuses and indignities of colonial oppression (that’s right; the … Continue reading "The Trump-Kushner Delusion on Palestine"
North Korea’s opacity is a boon to the War Party: they can seize on any glitch in the ongoing negotiations with the Trump administration as “proof” that Kim Jong-un “will never give up his nuclear weapons,” as former anti-interventionist Daniel Larison tweets 24 hours a day. The contention is that Pyongyang has a different definition … Continue reading "From Singapore to Helsinki: The Case for Peace"
I was no fan of Bill First (R-TN) when he was in the Senate (1995-2006), especially not while he served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 until he retired, living up to a self-imposed term limits pledge. After he left the Senate, he said he would have voted for the Affordable Care Act and has urged Republicans to stop trying to repeal it.
India is under siege from international capital. It is on course not only to be permanently beholden to US state-corporate interests but is heading towards environmental catastrophe much faster than many may think. According to the World Bank’s lending report, based on data compiled up to 2015, India was easily the largest recipient of its loans in the history of the institution. Unsurprisingly,[Read More...]
Bill Hohlfeld, LaborPress’s resident historian and educator, started out as an ironworker. He describes labor history as “literally, our story. It’s the chronicle of our ancestors.” Gotta know your labor history… It tells us who the farm girls were who went to work in the textile mills of New England; or the cigar workers of New York, who read the[Read More...]
The Internal Revenue Service says it is enforcing a law allowing authorities to revoke and deny passports to those owing over $51,000 in unpaid taxes. Some 362,000 people may fall under the scope of the 2015 law, known as the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, as early as the end of this year. [...]
Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement “Knowledge is power; but who hath duly Considered the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day’s dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a[Read More...]
'It's Going Down,' an Antifa group, doxxed Judge Jeffrey Manning for giving bail to a police officer charged with criminal homicide after he shot and killed an unarmed black teen, Antwon Rose, who allegedly participated in a drive-by shooting. A group of more than 30 Antifa members included intimidating masked militants. [...]
Are the Pakistanis living in a Fantasy World? The logic of July 25 parliamentary elections in Pakistan is questionable as being a ceremonial stunt to undermine the reality of a highly corrupted and disoriented political culture. For decades, Pakistan lacks systematic working capacity to organize fair and honest election campaigns representing the interest of the masses. Foremost, the intent to[Read More...]
One of my favorite books of all times is one compiled by this person. And you can buy it, too. For example. I bought it for a friend of mine in India out of Amazon.in. You can get it, too. World Tales : The Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places Jun 1, 1991 by Idries[Read More...]
RT | July 9, 2018 The death of Dawn Sturgess from what police say was exposure to Novichok has sparked a new fit of Russia-blaming, as an MP, high-profile commentators and mainstream journalists pointed the finger at Moscow. As British police launched a murder investigation into the poisoning and death of Dawn Sturgess, 44, in […]
Ambassador (Retd) KP Fabian analyses the big picture and the pros and cons of oil imports from Iran for India in the backdrop of US sanctions on Iran The US first imposed various sanctions on Iran in 1979 when the US embassy was occupied, with the staff taken hostage, following the fall of US-supported Shah. Oil sanctions were imposed in[Read More...]
Source : Proche & Moyen-Orient, Richard Labévière, 25-06-2018
Beyrouth, 24 juin 2018.
Source : Vice, Paul Douard, 04-10-2016
Image issue du film « Idiocracy », Mike Judge, 2006.
Tale of a family who lost their kin fighting Bangladeshi tag UDALGURI,Assam,July 8: Even as Assam awaits the much hyped final draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) a register containing names of Indian citizens.The fear and apprehension of genuine Bengali Hindu citizens of state being brandished as D-voter,being served notice from Foreigner’s Tribunal to prove citizenship haunts[Read More...]
Though there is less than a year for another general elections, lynchings continue in the country unabated. Dalits and muslims are being thrashed, harassed, beaten to death and, shamelessly, most of these incidents are being uploaded and circulated on whatsApp with impunity. There is a need to discuss the continued horrors and the stony silence of ruling party and its[Read More...]
After walking on Bangalore’s or Benguluru’s fashionable M.G. road earlier this week I casually hopped into a bus at Anil Kumble circle named after the former Indian cricket captain. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the fare was only Rs. 5 for Shivaji Nagar bus station. A distance of a little less than a km. but still the[Read More...]
“It has been said with good reason that the Jana Sangh resulted from a combination of a partyless leader, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, and a leaderless party, the RSS”. (The Jana Sangh: A Biography of an Indian Political Party, by Craig Baxter p. 54) 1. In Search of the “Selfless Patriot” Untimely deaths of political leaders – whose career is just[Read More...]
MEMO | July 8, 2018 Israeli prosecutors are set to charge a Turkish national on Sunday with aiding Palestinian group Hamas, according to Israeli daily Haaretz. Ebru Ozkan, 27, was arrested by Israeli forces at Ben Gurion Airport on June 11 when she was returning to Turkey for alleged links with terrorist groups. Haaretz said Israeli […]
The debate will be 2PM EST
Dr. Feingold is Assistant Professor Of Philosophy at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, with a specialty in medieval philosophy (esp. Aquinas), metaphysics (esp. philosophy of God), ethics (esp. moral psychology). Areas of competence: Ancient philosophy, modern philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and free will. We will be debating whether the Thomistic and Roman Dogma of absolute divine simplicity is true.
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | July 8, 2018 This is typical of the garbage we get so often from so called newspapers: BRITAIN is not alone in experiencing a record-breaking heatwave, with soaring temperatures across the world being blamed for multiple deaths. Roads have melted in Australia….. Up […]
About 5 years ago a closeted Republican retired from Congress-- not a case like Mark Foley who was really forced out because he was found to be molesting underage pages-- but just a garden variety gay guy who, though notorious inside the Beltway, was relatively unknown for his homosexuality in his own district.
We simply cannot trust the Establishment media’s reporting on the dramatic events in Amesbury By KENNY COYLE | Morning Star | July 9, 2018 Tranquil rural Wiltshire is now the epicentre of Cold War 2.0 it seems. The dramatic events in Amesbury at the start of the month are once again creating a frenzy of […]
RT | July 8, 2018 An appeals court judge has overruled an order to release former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from jail. The move backed a decision made earlier on Sunday by Federal Judge Sérgio Moro, who had blocked a third judge’s decision to free Lula. The former president, who is widely […]