Could Monsanto Start the Next Cold War? GMO Corn Banned in Russia Russian officials have announced a temporary ban on the import and sale of any of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn into the country as a result of a French study released last week connecting the corn with an increased risk of cancer. Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian consumer-rights regulating agency, forwarded the study out of France’s University of Caen to its Institute of Nutrition for further review. The agency also contacted the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Consumers to get a better understanding of the EU’s position on genetically modified organisms. It was the longest study of its kind conducted on GMOs and companion pesticides. This study specifically looked at the effects of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn, designed to resist heavy applications of glyphosate (marketed as Monsanto’s Roundup). Monsanto responded to the study’s results by saying the research did not meet “acceptable standards.”
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | Media In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. News misleads. We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press. News is irrelevant. News has no explanatory power. News is toxic to your body. News increases cognitive errors. News inhibits thinking. News works like a drug. News wastes time. News makes us passive. News kills creativity. Society needs journalism – but in a different way.
Routery WiFi niekorzystne dla naszego zdrowia? - Onet Technowinki W dużej części naszych mieszkań spotkać można routery WiFi, dzięki którym mamy dostęp do globalnej sieci. Te urządzenia nie jest bezpieczne dla naszego zdrowia. A udało się to udowodnić kilku duńskim uczennicom, które przeprowadziły ciekawy eksperyment. Pięć uczennic dziewiątej klasy przeprowadziło niedawno szkolny eksperyment, powodujący spore poruszenie w naukowym środowisku. Chciały więc przekonać się jaki efekt wywołuje u ludzi promieniowanie nadajników wbudowanych w komórki. Obsadziły więc sześć tacek rzeżuchą, a następnie umieściły je w pomieszczeniu bez żadnego promieniowania. Po 12 dniach sprawdziły efekt swego eksperymentu i wykonały jego zdjęcia. Eksperyment dziewcząt wzbudził już zainteresowanie neurobiologów ze szwedzkiego Karolinska Institute, którzy chcieliby powtórzyć go w profesjonalnym środowisku. Źródło: Mnn.com
Sukhoi SU-35 fighter has all the right moves at Paris Air Show The Paris Air Show this week hosted the first foreign demonstration of the Russian supermaneuverable multirole fighter the Sukhoi Su-35. The specific aircraft on show is the latest iteration of the aircraft, designated Su-35S, 48 of which have been allocated to the Russian Air Force as they roll off the production line between 2011 and 2015. Visitors to the air show were treated to a display of the Su-35's impressive aerobatics, including a demonstration of the breathtaking Pugachev's Cobra maneuver. View all Describing the Su-35S as a "4++ generation" jet fighter, Sukhoi claims that the characteristics of the aircraft exceed those of all European tactical fighters including the Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon. Further, the company claims the aircraft can "successfully counter" fully-fledged fifth generation US jet fighters, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor – a bold statement given the stealth capabilities of the latter. Source: Sukhoi
¿Será por esto que hay tantas prisas por bombardear Siria? Necesitas activar Javascript para votar Paco Bello | Iniciativa Debate | 28/08/2013 EEUU salió (presuntamente, al menos de cara a la galería), de la crisis mundial que ellos mismos provocaron, a base de monetizar deuda por medio de la FED (su banco central privado). Ahora resulta que a pesar de haber puesto en circulación varios billones (europeos) nuevos de dólares en los últimos tres años, se han vuelto a quedar cortos, y la única manera de abrir el grifo cuando todo aconseja no hacerlo a pesar de la urgencia, es la habitual… la emergencia nacional de una nueva guerra. Siempre tan humanitarios… Ñoras y ñores, la bolsa no sólo cae por Siria… sino por algo más gordo S. Es inevitable establecer una relación causa-efecto entre la preocupante deriva internacional del conflicto sirio -posible entrada en el mismo de las potencias aliadas y oposición frontal de Rusia- y la caída de los mercados financieros. O a cuento infantil. Pues eso.
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.” On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged a time to drop by to collect his winnings. Sal Culosi’s last words were to Baucum, the cop he thought was a friend: “Dude, what are you doing?” Indeed, that’s exactly what happened to seventy-two-year-old Aaron Awtry in 2010.
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common." The independent research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists.
Russia Responds To U.S. Magnitsky Act By Placing 18 Americans On Blacklist MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations. The list released by the Foreign Ministry includes John Yoo, a former U.S. Justice Department official who wrote legal memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques; David Addington, the chief of staff for former U.S. The move came a day after the U.S. announced its sanctions under the Magnitsky Law, named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested in 2008 for tax evasion after accusing Russian police officials of stealing $230 million in tax rebates. The U.S. "As we've said many times before, the right response by Russia to the international outcry over Sergey Magnitsky's death would be to conduct a proper investigation and hold those responsible for his death accountable, rather than engage in tit-for-tat retaliation," according to the statement. A federal judge, one FBI agent and four U.S.
fed up Argo and the Stolen Truth About Iran This year’s Oscar-winning movie ‘Argo’ recently spurred Iran’s former president, Abolhassan Banisadr to write an article about the ‘October Surprise’. In it, he discusses the secret deal between Ronald Reagan and Ayatollah Khomeini which, by delaying the release of the hostages being held in the US embassy in Tehran, swayed the results of the 1980 US presidential election to favour Reagan over the incumbent Jimmy Carter. Banisadr argues that through ‘falsifying, misrepresenting and taking critical facts out of context,’ the film ‘delivers a pro-CIA message,’ and that by portraying Iranians as irrational and aggressive people it prepares the US public to support a war should the current nuclear negotiations fail. The day after Banisadr’s article was published, Robert Parry, who had written previously about the ‘short-sighted history of Argo’, wrote a second article supporting these arguments. This may seem puzzling at first. This brings me to my main point.
Facebook Snowden could spark a new Cold War Venezuela on Tuesday night appeared to be the final taker for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden after an erroneous tweet by a senior Russian official announced the fugitive had accepted the country’s offer of asylum. In fact, Snowden remains in the transit lounge of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, apparently still choosing between offers from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia — drawing attention to the burgeoning relationship between Moscow and those Latin American critics of the United States. The former security contractor isn’t the only thing they have in common: Natural gas, billions of dollars in arms shipments and similar geopolitical agendas also tie them together. With Russia positioning itself as a global rival to Washington, those countries seem to be falling in line as part of a Kremlin drive to provide some pushback in the US backyard. His relationship with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been most prominent. “Who is the guilty one?
Ron Paul quote Aaron Swartz Prosecutors Weighed 'Guerilla' Manifesto, Justice Official Tells Congressional Committee A Justice Department representative told congressional staffers during a recent briefing on the computer fraud prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz that Swartz's "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" played a role in the prosecution, sources told The Huffington Post. Swartz's 2008 manifesto said sharing information was a "moral imperative" and advocated for "civil disobedience" against copyright laws pushed by corporations "blinded by greed" that led to the "privatization of knowledge." "We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive," Swartz wrote in the manifesto. The "Manifesto," Justice Department representatives told congressional staffers, demonstrated Swartz's malicious intent in downloading documents on a massive scale. Swartz was 26 when he killed himself in January. Rep.