U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.
The value of genetically modified, or bio-engineered, food is an intensely disputed issue in the U.S. and in Europe, where many countries have banned foods made from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Proponents say that GMO crops can result in higher yields from plants that are hardier in harsh climates, like those found in hungry African nations. Continue
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UNH is hub of Pentagon's 'non-lethal' weapons research program
2008 05 16
Many inventions, both under development and still on the drawing board, seem to come straight from the pages of comic books. They range from heat rays that make your skin feel like it is on fire to guns that blast deafening sounds, substances that make people fall down or hold still, and holograms that project terrifying images on a battlefield. ... |
Discovery of vast prehistoric works built by Giants?
2008 05 16
The size and scope of David Flynn's Teohuanaco discovery simply surpasses comprehension. Mammoth traces of intelligence carved in stone and covering hundreds of square miles. For those who understand what they are seeing here for the first time, this could indeed be the strongest evidence ever found of prehistoric engineering by those who were known and feared throughout the ancient ... |
New wi-fi devices warn doctors of heart attacks
2008 05 16
The Bluetooth wireless technology that allows people to use a hands-free earpiece while making a mobile telephone call could soon alert the emergency services when someone has a heart attack, Ofcom predicts. The communications regulator said that sensors could be implanted into people at risk of heart attack or diabetic collapse that would allow doctors to monitor them remotely. If ... |
Crystal (Eye) Ball: Visual System Equipped With 'Future Seeing Powers'
2008 05 16
Catching a football. Maneuvering through a room full of people. Jumping out of the way when a golfer yells “fore.” Most would agree these seemingly simple actions require us to perceive and quickly respond to a situation. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark Changizi argues they require something more — our ability to foresee the future. ... |
'Authority' paranoia over photography in London (Video)
2008 05 15
An interesting short film about the legality of taking photographs on the streets in the UK. There's a nice interaction between the photographer and a couple of Police Community Support Officers in Central London. For those who are unfimilar with CSO's, these are not Police Officers, though they are uniformed personnel working with the police in England and Wales. |
Aspartame and Rumsfeld's Disease: A Politically-Induced Biochemical Disaster of Global Proportions
2008 05 15
Donald Rumsfeld was known throughout the world as the zealous U.S. Secretary of Defense who is waging a global "war on terror" in search of "terrorists" and "weapons of mass destruction." Most people, however, are not aware that Rumsfeld himself unleashed a chemical weapon of mass destruction upon the world in 1981-and it is still out there destroying people all ... |
Jeffrey Smith - The Health Dangers of Genetically Modified Food (Video)
2008 05 15
In consideration of the recent article: U.S. using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops, take a look at this excellent lecture by Jeffrey Smith.
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Video from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d-KVorSHM
Genetically Modified Foods Unsafe? Evidence that Links GM Foods to Allergic Responses Mounts
By Jeffery Smith | globalresearch.ca
Genetically modified (GM) foods are inherently unsafe, and current safety assessments are ... |
Chicago Citizens Reject Terror Drill Fearmongering
2008 05 14
The latest opportunity for authorities to grandstand, fearmonger and practice processing citizens through a de facto internment camp fell flat on its face yesterday after just 350 out of an expected 4,000 turned up to participate in a mock terror drill at Chicago's Sears Centre Arena. "An elaborate public-health drill Tuesday that organizers had hoped would use thousands of volunteers ... |
UK Files released on UFO sightings
2008 05 14
Secret files on UFO sightings have been made available for the first time by the Ministry of Defence. The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987. They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained objects being spotted by the public, armed forces and police officers. One man ... |
"Shock Doctrine" Spin in U.S., Burma and Beyond
2008 05 14
Suppose you have a controversial project you wish to push through, but you're afraid that if you come right out and say what you're up to, there will be so many objections from other officials and ordinary citizens that you might never get a chance to implement your agenda. But you're savvy about how influence-molding works and you know that ... |
Patent For a Pig (Video)
2008 05 14
As a powerful corporate giant attempts to patent living genetic material, this film asks what the consequences are for mankind. |
Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers
2008 05 14
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected." The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online. ... |
Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK
2008 05 14
The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers" perhaps more evolved than humans. "In my opinion this possibility (of life on other planets) exists," said Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is head of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict. "How ... |
Morgellons: Biotechnology Gone Awry or Simple Psychosis?
2008 05 14
There's a feeling of bugs crawling under your skin, day and night; continuously haunting you. Sharp stings from what feels like bees constantly torment you, keeping you awake for days on end. Intense burning and itching from these unseen forces invade your life, robbing you of your everyday activities, causing fear and agony as the time wears on, with no ... |
More Than 18,000 Buried, 3,629 Confirmed Dead in Chinese Quake-Hit City
2008 05 13
Chinese state media say Monday's massive earthquake has buried more than 18,000 people in one city in southwestern China's Sichuan province. The official Xinhua news agency says 3,629 people have already been confirmed dead in Mianyang city, pushing the death toll from the 7.9 magnitude earthquake well above 12,000. Mianyang is near Wenchuan County, the epicenter of Monday's quake. The ... |
Autism Can Be Treated
2008 05 13
Government health experts claim autism is an incurable disease offering anticonvulsant and psychotropic drugs to control behavior and a behavior modification therapy called "applied behavior analysis (ABA)." They dismiss all other means of helping these children as "unproven." Meanwhile thousands of children are back to full functionality by treating the damage caused by mercury toxicity using natural health therapies. Our ... |
Simian Virus 40 (SV40):
2008 05 13
The Creation and Production of the Polio Vaccines. In the 1950s, scientists like Doctors Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin had isolated the poliovirus strains to make vaccines.[1] Dr. Salk's strains would be inactivated with formaldehyde and injected into children. Dr. Sabin's strains would be attenuated or weakened by transferring or passaging[2] the live viruses through different host cells and then ... |
The Mother Of All Scandals? Drug Pilot, Election Exec Killed On CIA Plane
2008 05 13
One week after the crash outside Caracas, Venezuela of a twin-engine Piper Navajo (N6463L), an air of intrigue surrounds almost everything about the flight, including the plane's ownership, passengers, and pilot. Woven into one small story about a plane crash in Venezuela that killed seven people are visible threads from two perennial American cover-ups: one surrounding vote ... |
Pacemaker for the brain
2008 05 13
"It's like a cardiac pacemaker," says Dr. Eugene Ramsay, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. "It activates the vagus nerve in the neck on the left side and sends signals to the brain stem." About two weeks after the surgery, a neurologist will program the device to stimulate the nerve in regular ... |
The New Space-Based Technology of Intelligence
2008 05 12
The commander of US Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton, told the BBC that U.S. space-based intelligence is playing an "invaluable" role in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. What is amazing is that in this day and age, with the full force of the U.S. military establishment and 21st-century technology at its beck and call, the intelligence services still don't ... |
Did Multiple Moons Known as Trojans Once Orbit the Earth?
2008 05 12
The history of planet Earth is a fascinating story, involving catastrophic collisions with other small planets and a veritable plethora of asteroid impacts. The prevailing theory about the formation of the moon is called the giant impact hypothesis: the theory goes that a Mars-sized object, known as Theia, crashed in to the young Earth. What was left was Earth, and ... |
The Common Thread Within the Kennedy Anathema (Video)
2008 05 11
An incredible new finding about four Kennedy tragedies is revealed for the first time. There is a common timing factor inherent to all four Kennedy murders; Joseph Patrick Jr, President John Fitzgerald, Senator Robert Fitzgerald and John Jr. Also this same timing determinant was applied to Ted Kennedy's 1964 airplane "accident." This provides very strong material evidence that these five ... |
The REAL brain drain: Modern technology
2008 05 11
Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis. It is a crisis that would threaten long-held notions of who we are, what we do and how we behave. It goes right to the heart - or the head - of us all. This crisis could reshape how we interact with ... |
100,000 May Have Died in Myanmar Cyclone, U.S. Says
2008 05 11
Bodies floated in floodwaters, and survivors tried to reach dry ground on boats using blankets as sails, while the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that up to a hundred thousand people may have died in the devastating cyclone. Hungry crowds stormed the few shops that opened in the country's stricken Irrawaddy River Delta, sparking fistfights, according to Paul ... |
Blackwater Back in Business as Usual
2008 05 11
Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country, and led to a criminal investigation by the F.B.I., a series of internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and ... |
Ancient Lakes of Antarctica -Living Biological Labs Millions of Years Old
2008 05 11
Buried beneath several miles of ice in Antarctica are lakes ranging in size from Lake Ontario to lakes the size of Manhattan. Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake on Earth, is believed to harbor ancient life that has been isolated from open exchange with the atmosphere for several million years. Lake Vostok (left) , discovered in 1996 by Russian and ... |
Chemtrail Plane Photographed On The Ground
2008 05 11
Recently, a pilot sent www.data4science.net several images of a plane which is clearly rigged for aerial chemtrail or biological spraying taxiing on the ground at an airport in Canada. After studying and researching the plane images and origin, I feel they are authentic. Why do I suggest the plane might be used for biological spraying? Previously released photos of acknowledged ... |
'Iron Man' is the new face of military contractors
2008 05 11
When superhero Tony Stark isn't donning his Iron Man armor to personally rough up villains, he's pitching the U.S. military on new gadgets to fight the War on Terror. "They say the best weapon is one you never have to fire," Stark tells a group of military officers in the Iron Man film that opened last week. "I prefer the ... |
The British Occult Secret Service
2008 05 10
Queen Elizabeth I & Francis Walsingham
Since the time of Elizabeth I, British secret services have worked according to the principle of ‘the end justifies the means’. Money, bribery, blackmail – these are their recruitment methods... – Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), October 2007It is not really surprising that historically occultism and espionage have often been ... |
Iron 'Snow' Helps Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field, Scientists Say
2008 05 09
New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground.
The movement of this iron snow could be responsible for Mercury's mysterious magnetic field, say researchers from the University of Illinois and Case Western Reserve University. In a ... |
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
2008 05 09
This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Four of the articles also appeared in the Intelligence Community journal Studies in Intelligence during that time frame. The information is relatively timeless and still relevant to the never-ending quest for better analysis. The articles ... |
Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War
2008 05 09
"We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them," he said. "The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war."
The 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner's denunciation of the US mirrors the most belligerently anti-Western speeches of Vladimir Putin – who is said to ... |
Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis
2008 05 08
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.
The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the ... |
Insiders and Outsiders
2008 05 08
Part One: Insiders And Outsiders In Washington. You have probably heard the terms "insiders" and "ousiders" used in reference to the people in Washington. The insiders are the people who are members of the exclusive think tanks, policy organizations, lobby groups, and other groups that influence and decide policy. The outsiders are those who aren't.
The insiders are also ... |
Is AIDS a man made virus?
2008 05 08
The mixing of AIDS facts and fallacies has long been apparent to researchers like myself who are convinced that HIV did not come from Mother Nature and "species jumping", but was most likely introduced via contaminated vaccine experiments exclusively targeting the Black African and the American Gay community. Before exploring the man-made theory of AIDS, it is important to note ... |
Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project?
2008 05 08
A new study finds up to 250 regions where the reference genome sequenced over 13 years may be missing information. If you ask the scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) when the Human Genome Project wrapped up, they'll tell you it was finished in 2003. However, a new study indicates that the composite reference genome cobbled together ... |
Robobug goes to war: Troops to use electronic insects to spot enemy 'by end of the year'
2008 05 07
It may have seemed like just another improbable scene from a Hollywood sci-fi flick – Tom Cruise battling against an army of robotic spiders intent on hunting him down. But the storyline from Minority Report may not be quite as far fetched as it sounds. British defence giant BAE Systems is creating a series of tiny electronic spiders, insects and ... |
Vast Forests With Trees Each Worth £4,000 Sold for a Few Bags of Sugar
2008 05 07
On February 8 2005, representatives of a major timber firm arrived to negotiate a contract with the traditional landowners. Few in the village realised that the talks would transform all their lives, but in just a few hours, the chief, who had received no legal advice and did not realise that just one tree might be worth more than ... |
Witnesses, Pyrotechnicians and Readers Weigh In On the 2008 Phoenix Lights
2008 05 07
Lights seen over Phoenix, Arizona, on April 21, 2008, have ignited controversy and reminded us of the famous March 13, 1997 sightings of lights and a huge triangular craft over the city. As with the original Phoenix Lights sightings of 1997, we have statements from the military that conflict with what witnesses have reported and witnesses that say what they ... |
Invention: Plasma-powered flying saucer
2008 05 07
Pass a current or magnetic field through a conducting fluid and it will generate a force. Numerous aerospace engineers have tried and failed to exploit this phenomenon, known as magnetohydrodynamics, as an exotic form of propulsion for aircraft. But perhaps attempts so far have all been too big.
A very small design could have a better chance of taking off, says ... |
Roland Carby
2008 05 06
Everywhere that I’ve seen this story being discussed on the Internet, there are a lot of anonymous comments saying that Roland Carnaby made it all up; that he just imagined that he was in the CIA, Photoshopped himself into a picture of the lobby of CIA headquarters, created the plaques and commemorations himself. All of that is possible. In fact, ... |
Arms Race in Space
2008 05 06
When the United States recently shot apart a crippled spy satellite over the Pacific Ocean, it also tested an offensive anti-satellite weapon and the potential for ballistic missile defense. “The shot,” as the Pentagon called the $100 million operation conducted on February 20, came immediately after Russia and China put forward a detailed, but flawed, proposal for a treaty to ... |
Ethnic Specific Weapons
2008 05 06
We learn that the work on such weapons was begun in Nazi Germany. The victims of these weapons were largely Jews. When Larson published his paper in 1970, "the military's private circles it was old news." Which means it had been discussed for a long time by the US military, most likely with the Nazis brought into the US after ... |
Shape-shifting Robots Take Form
2008 05 06
Their approach is known as self-reconfigurable robotics, and it takes advantage of recent advances in robot hardware, communications and control algorithms. Last year a team of US researchers from different universities put together a blueprint for shape-shifting based on cell-like robotic "modules" that can rearrange themselves to create different shapes. They made their pitch to the Defense Advanced Research Projects ... |
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control
2008 05 06
Less than 200 miles from Hofmann’s laboratory, doctors connected to the S.S. and Gestapo were doing experiments that led to the testing of mescaline (a drug which has many of the mind-changing qualities of LSD) on prisoners at Dachau. Germany’s secret policemen had the notion, completely alien to Hofmann, that they could use drugs like mescaline to bring unwilling people ... |
Infant formula contains MSG
2008 05 05
The Canadian Study leaves no doubt that ingredients that contain processed free glutamic acid (MSG) and free aspartic acid -- known neurotoxins -- are used in baby formula. The fact that neurotoxins are present in baby formula is of particular concern because the blood brain barrier is never fully developed in infants, allowing neurotoxins more accessibility to the brain then ... |
The Androgynous Pharaoh? Akhenaten had feminine physique
2008 05 05
Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine, which has puzzled experts for years. And he was a bit of an egghead. Dr. Irwin Braverman, a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten, has a new theory on why. He'll be presenting his findings at ... |
Revolution in Military Affairs: From Computer Generated Insurgents to Bioelectric Implants
2008 05 05
In July of 1994 the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) produced the paper titled Revolution In Military Affairs And Conflict Short Of War that uncannily forecasted the future in a "hypothetical future history" written in the year 2010. The hypothetical situation contains many disturbing predictions, several of which have come true, some partially. After ... |
How we learned to stop worrying and love plastics: an interview with Jeffrey Meikle
2008 05 05
Beginning in the 1920s, the plastics industry tried to shape the way consumers thought of the materials, through advertising, high-tech displays at world's fairs and trade shows, and Tupperware parties. Plastics were often heralded as the key to an incipient consumer utopia of affordable goods, the triumph of science over nature, even the liberation of the American housewife, who need ... |
Hypocrisy Alert: Tiny tribe thorn in Gore's side
2008 05 05
He has close ties and a large financial stake in Occidental Petroleum, despite its poor environmental image. His father, Al Gore senior, was on Occidental's board for three decades. As vice president of the United States, his son helped the company win drilling concessions. Charles Lewis, of the Center for Public Integrity, has examined the ties between Al Gore and ... |
The Manipulation Of The Gold Market
2008 05 05
The key to understanding the manipulation of the gold market, this enormous scandal and fraud, is that it can be compared to a murder trial. In the United States a murderer can be put to death if he is found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Many times murder defendants are convicted based solely on "circumstantial" evidence because a reasonable person ... |
N.A.T.O. Gladio, and the strategy of tension
2008 05 04
In August of 1990, Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed that a secret army, called Gladio, had existed in Italy throughout the Cold War period. His revelations were shocking, not simply because they admitted to something that had long been denied (including by Andreotti himself when speaking to a judicial enquiry in 1974 in his capacity as Italian Defence Minister), ... |
Decoding The Dictionary: Study Suggests Lexicon Evolved To Fit In The Brain
2008 05 04
Dictionaries are built like an inverted pyramid. The most complex words (e.g., "albacore" and "antelope") sit at the top and are defined by words that are more basic, and thus lower on the pyramid. Eventually all words are linked to a small number of words - called "atomic words," (such as "act" and "group") - that are so fundamental they ... |
The Criminalization of Raw Milk
2008 05 04
On April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.
Jonas Stoltzfus, a friend, fellow farmer, and Church of the Brethen, was asked by Mr. Nolt to speak for him, and ... |
The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe
2008 05 04
This was one of the first books published about the UFO phenomena. We are fortunate that it ended up in the public domain.
It is a template for much of what would follow: the paranoia, the government disinformation, the inescapable conclusion that the saucers are not of this earth. Keyhoe, with his spare, matter of fact writing style, which also conveys ... |
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