"Independent scientists" serve the interests of industry over new GM
Lobbyists make untruthful assertions about new methods of genetic engineering
Lobbyists make untruthful assertions about new methods of genetic engineering
There's been heightened chatter as of late, particularly in the Twittersphere, around the idea humanity might be undergoing a consciousness expansion. This concept seems to be going mainstream, which could be a great thing provided it doesn't get turned into a cliché or marketing gimmick.
With peace breaking out on the Korean peninsula, beware of National Security Adviser John Bolton’s efforts to sabotage any deal, warns Gareth Porter. By Gareth Porter The still-unscheduled Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit offers the opportunity for a denuclearization deal…Read more →
Grocery fever, seasonal produce and coming pandemics + this day in history w/the selling of 'The Scream' and our song of the day by Mazzy Star on your Morning Monarchy for May 2, 2018.
Teachers enjoy widespread public favor, and their desire for higher pay is understandable. But no nationwide crisis of teacher compensation exists. Most teachers receive market-level salaries and generous retirement benefits. Local hiring problems can and should be addressed without granting windfall benefits to teachers whose compensation is already better than adequate.
(CD) — The Trump administration on Tuesday flouted two major deadlines for disclosing the number of civilians killed by U.S. military forces: one public report that was mandated by an Obama-era executive order and focused on drone strike deaths; and one report to Congress that is supposed to detail all civilian deaths tied to U.S. military operations. […]
Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza including a child, in two separate incidents Sunday evening. Regarding the first incident, the army claimed that two “suspects attempted to infiltrate Israel from the southern Gaza Strip and damage the security fence.” The army fired towards them in response, killing one, and injuring the other, who was detained “and transferred to security forces[Read More...]
The correct answer, as frequent visitors of HumanProgress.org know, is that extreme poverty has halved. But a staggering 19 in 20 Americans got the answer wrong.
Recently I came across the following very short film. It reminded me of my heritage and my everything about whom I am, and one of the major ways that I got there. It has to do with the ministry of the stove. Video: Silent worship in a Quaker meeting house where only the fire in the stove is heard,[Read More...]
It has been noted, principally by the Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner, that people who display empathy and fairness towards others often reach the top; once there however, they lose such inhibitions in their exercise of power. On a macro scale think of Barack Obama our Nobel Peace Laureate president and the upscaling of the war in Afghanistan, the mushrooming[Read More...]
With his newest anti-Iranian rant, Netanyahu wanted to impress another braggart of reality-TV, President Donald Trump. This time, Netanyahu got professional, speaking in English, using slides and pictures, not cartoons like in the United Nations where he had ridiculed himself. He even exposed two “monuments,” one showing shelves full of folders apparently containing documents about Iran’s secret nuclear program. Perhaps[Read More...]
When I first came to Russia I was thrilled by any artifact of the Soviet Union, by every Red Star I saw atop a building, by every hammer and sickle bas relief. The statues of Marx across from the Bolshoi, of Engles standing tall in the small park across from Kropotkinskaya Metro sent shivers up my spine. But I will[Read More...]
(MEMO) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his country has no plans to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, according to Palestine’s official news agency. The statement came during Abe’s official meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, WAFA reported. The Japanese leader affirmed his country’s support for a political process based […]
After seven years of utter devastation and bloodletting, a consensus has emerged among all the belligerents of the Syrian war to de-escalate the conflict, except Israel which wants to further escalate the conflict because it has been the only beneficiary of the carnage in Syria. Over the years, Israel has not only provided medical aid and material support to the[Read More...]
On Saturday, April 21, Canada’s science radio show, “Quirks & Quarks,” interviewed Edward Spiers who is a professor of strategic studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. The topic was gas warfare. The interview sounded very much like “Quirks & Quarks” had been recruited to the US-UK propaganda campaign to arouse our populations for war with Russia.
Every year, the world commemorates the victims of Haymarket affair that took place on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, by observing May 1st as International Workers’ Day in their memory; albeit in Canada & US, 1st September is chosen as Workers’ Day. On that fateful day, the workers had gathered peacefully to demonstrate & advocate for better[Read More...]
Now that the Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu has dismissed the proposal submitted by some seventy -odd Opposition legislators to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra, the debate over the issue has to be extended beyond the legalese of the arguments in which our eminent jurists had been indulging all these months, into the arena of commonsense arguments where[Read More...]
But on the other hand, I think you can believe that the business of business is business without being particularly libertarian. In a way, the question is: if CEOs and entrepreneurs have a wider social responsibility, wider than making profits for stockholders, how shall they know what it is?
Rajendra Trivedi, speaker of the Gujarat Assembly while speaking at the ‘Mega Brahmin Business Summit’ in Gandhinagar on 29 April added himself to the hall of infamy with his comments that Ambedkar was a Brahman. He thought that he was making a profound comment but it is as brain-dead as any of the loud-mouthed comments of the galaxy of[Read More...]
In presenting no new information about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, the Israeli prime minister is actually undermining his own country’s security, argues Trita Parsi. By Trita Parsi There is something tragic about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The harder…Read more →
Co-Written by Zubair Nazeer & Musab Omer The recent approval of the Ordinance for changes in the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act is seen as a great step towards ensuring the safety of women and children in India.The Ordinance has some positive[Read More...]
A group of over 100 journalists and other professionals related to online media today wrote to the Information & Broadcasting minister Smriti Irani to express their concerns over the ministry’s proposal to extend traditional broadcasting rules and restrictions to the Internet. The journalists include both veterans of the industry like Raghav Bahl, MK Venu, Madhu Trehan, Nalini Singh, Paranjoy Guha[Read More...]
The continuing push to vilify Iran by the Jew spew media and the US and psychotic Israeli governments is on... We have already seen two days ago where that failed Lithuanian used furniture salesman who became Israel's criminal Prime Minster was out there putting out a video where he claims that Iran was "hiding" its non-existent nuclear weapons program, and had the nerve to present "evidence" based on documents that were declassified and known to the public some 10 years ago!
Eleven deaths in police firing at Naxalbari gave it an immortal stature in the history of political movement in India. Its name got spread far and wide giving rise to ideologies linked to popular revolution. But there is another similar story of martyrdom in the same region- untold; another monument of martyrs lying in neglect and negation in a corner[Read More...]
Al-Manar | May 2, 2018 The Polisario Front denied on Wednesday there was military presence by any foreign power in Western Sahara, a day after Morocco cut ties with Iran, accusing the Islamic Republic of providing support to the Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement. UNews news agency reported that the Polisario Front hit back at […]
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on April 13, 2018 in Beirut, in preparation for the May 6 legislative elections in Lebanon. Translation: unz.com/sayedhasan Transcript: […] Today, the
House destroyed in airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 19, 2018. © Mohammed Dhari / Global Look Press RT | May 2, 2018 To what extent is the UK aiding the Saudi intervention in Yemen? A new report suggests help is more hands-on than just defense deals. Never seen before documents published as part of […]
Mr. V. T. shared this today, and it's hilarious, but sadly, also far too true of the modern Amairkuhn quackademy and PC kulcher...
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Recently, Senator Chuck Schumer introduced a bill that would decriminalize marijuana on the federal level. He stated that the legality of marijuana should be a matter left up to individual states. This ringing endorsement of federalism might carry a little more weight if Senator Schumer hadn't spent a large part of his political career trying to micromanage Americans' behavior at the national level. Hillary Clinton is widely considered to be a staunch supporter of the LGBT community; however, she was publicly opposed to marriage equality until 2013.
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said his agency may not make the July 29 deadline to publish final rule on labelling GM food
We should be looking not to the 1930s for a solution to perceived problems of corporate dominance, but to the future—to a world where financiers and entrepreneurs can work together to create the innovations that will create wealth and make our lives better.
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times by special agreement with the author) Iran’s top trading partner is China, while Tehran and Moscow have been improving ties as the
Opal apples received red carpet treatment during the Daytime Emmy Awards and were included in gift bags for the event
RT | May 2, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken to Twitter to slam Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who, during a Monday speech, suggested that through their “social role” Jews brought persecution upon themselves. Netanyahu accused the Palestinian leader of both Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. “Apparently the Holocaust denier is still a […]
Press TV – May 2, 2018 A federal judge in New York has ordered Iran to pay $6 billion to the alleged families of 9/11 attacks even though a state investigation has found no link between Tehran and those who carried out the bombings. The judgement, issued by Manhattan federal judge George Daniels on Tuesday, […]
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu made a presentation designed to convince President Trump to end the nuclear deal with Iran, and to back Israel in a war with Iran that fails to benefit America in any way. [...]
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Chacun d’entre nous rencontre des difficultés d’endormissement à un moment dans sa vie. La cause de nos troubles du sommeil est généralement liée au stress ou à une forme d’anxiété, que la source du stress soit liée au travail ou à la famille – ou aux deux. Quand nous allons nous coucher, nous pouvons être physiquement fatigués, mais notre esprit est encore rempli des préoccupations de la journée à tel point que nous ne pouvons pas nous détendre suffisamment pour nous endormir.
https://southfront.org/restoring-strategic-balance-russias-invincible-n… On March 1, 2018, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin made his most important speech probably since the time of the 2007 Muenchen Conference. If 11 years ago he declared that Russia
When private discrimination is allowed, an individual who discriminates has to pay the cost of his discrimination. For example, if a business owner discriminates against some group of potential employees who are as productive as others, he deprives himself of productive employees and profit opportunities. This general phenomenon reduces irrelevant discrimination while respecting the preferences of all individuals equally.
“Only small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by the public’s incredulity.” — Marshall McLuhan
George Carlin, in his book Brain Droppings, told us that his motto had come to be: “Fuck Hope.” In his autobiography Last Words, Carlin recalled, “The election of Ronald Reagan might’ve been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd.”
George Carlin, in his book Brain Droppings, told us that his motto had come to be: “Fuck Hope.” In his autobiography Last Words, Carlin recalled, “The election of Ronald Reagan might’ve been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd.”
I have to admit... it's fun to beat up on a puffed up bully like Michael Cohen-- Trump's bargain basement Roy Cohn wannabe. Since childhood, Cohen has been a Mob-connected asshole and his Mob connection helped acquire a once valuable collection of New York and Chicago taxi medallions-- once but no longer.
Failaq Al Rahman bomb making factory next door to White Helmet centre in Saqba, Eastern Ghouta. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
21st Century Wire says…
The strategic and tactical genius of the US Civil Rights Movement
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
25 April 2018
The recent death of American nonviolence guru Gene Sharp and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King provide a good opportunity to reflect on the key role nonviolent action has played in winning progressive change.
The House Intelligence Committee has ended its year-long investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. The report states that no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia has been found.