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Monsanto Co. says it will eliminate 2,600 jobs as part of a cost-saving plan designed to deal with falling sales of its biotech seeds and herbicides, which pushed its quarterly losses deeper into the red.
The job cuts will reduce the company’s 22,500-employee workforce of by about 12 per cent over the next two years. Its shares dropped more than 2 per cent in morning trading Wednesday. Continue reading “Monsanto to cut 2,600 jobs as low crop prices eat into profits”
A Canadian company is trying to make it possible for anyone to be a “biohacker” and make custom genetically modified organisms in their home kitchen.
Homemade GMOs may sound scary to some, but Toronto-based Synbiota thinks making genetic engineering technology available to ordinary people will lead to new products that we haven’t yet dreamed of. Continue reading “Anyone can make GMOs at home with kits from Canadian company”
A temporary government spending bill is expected to clear the House and Senate just before a midnight deadline on Wednesday, averting a government shutdown and providing funding until December 11. As a precaution, House lawmakers have invoked “martial law.”
The use of martial law fast-tracks a spending bill by bypassing typical procedures. One of those procedures is that the House of Representatives has to wait a day after the Rules Committee produces rules for a floor debate before a vote on the bill can occur, according to the Hill. By invoking martial law, House lawmakers can vote on the short-term government spending measure on the same day. Continue reading “‘Martial law’ invoked as Congress scurries to avoid another government shutdown”
The Canadian military has been working on a plan to create with the United States a bi-national integrated military force to deploy to hot spots around the world.
The so-called Canada-U.S. Integrated Forces would be the result of an agreement between the two countries under which air, sea, land and special operations forces would be jointly deployed under unified command, outside Canada. Continue reading “Canadian military ponders integrated force with U.S. to respond to hotspots”
ADAMS COUNTY- For a Denver man who was just trying to fix his vandalized windshield, there is no break over the break.
“I got a ticket for something that I was close as I could be to resolving,” Nick Berlin said.
A day after a vandal had thrown a rock at his windshield, Berlin made an appointment at a local auto glass shop to have it replaced. Continue reading “Man ticketed for broken windshield while trying to fix it”
Yahoo News – by Olivia Lowenberg, Christian Science Monitor
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed calls for national gun-control legislation on Tuesday, after one of his aides was critically injured by a stray bullet in crossfire between two rival gangs in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Following the 2012 school shootings in Newtown, Conn., Governor Cuomo oversaw passage of the state’s sweeping gun control laws that are considered the strictest in the United States. At the time, President Obama launched an aggressive gun-control push, but his efforts failed in Congress. Gun rights activists have maintained that such legislation would violate the right to bear arms that is enshrined in the the Second Amendment. Continue reading “New York governor calls for national gun control following parade shooting”
A Project Leader at the Dutch National Cyber Security Center, who goes by the name Yasmina Haifi, was suspended from her job at the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice after tweeting that the terrorist group ISIS, led by Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, “does not exist,” and that it is “a Zionist plot to stain the image of Islam.”
COMMENT – The claim is absurd. Yasmina Haifi is Islamic, and would like everyone to believe that there is no “real”, Islamic, ISIS. She should talk to those who have been raped, or the families of those sold into slavery or killed. She and other Islamists would do more of a service to their communities by demanding the immoral evils perpetrated in the name of Islam be stopped. Martin Continue reading “Dutch National Cyber Security Center Employee Suspended After ‘Revealing’ that “ISIS Is A Zionist Plot””
Progressives Today – by Aleister
Every single time there’s a high profile incident of gun violence, the first impulse of progressives is to interfere with the rights of the millions of law abiding, responsible gun owners who didn’t commit the crime.
Josh Barro of the New York Times is no different. He thinks America could prevent gun violence if we had stricter gun laws like Australia. Continue reading “NY Times Writer: CONFISCATING GUNS Would Be Only Real Way to Reduce Violent Crimes”
The Canadian border got dragged into the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign on Sunday, with a prominent candidate appearing to entertain the notion of building a giant wall between the two countries.
The idea was raised in a talk-show interview with Republican contender Scott Walker, who after being pressed twice by the interviewer appeared to agree it was worth considering. Continue reading “Scott Walker: Canada-U.S. border wall worth considering”
The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Parkersburg, WV — A disturbing video was submitted to the Free Thought Project this week which shows the courageous actions of one woman, and the cowardly actions of a West Virginia State Trooper.
The incident began after a neighborhood argument escalated to the point of a man calling the police to prevent further turmoil. The homeowner, Cliff, called the police after his neighbor allegedly threatened him. However, when the police showed up, they were more interested in Cliff’s dog than preventing any disturbance. Continue reading “Mother Assaulted, Arrested After Stepping in Front of a Cop Who was About to Shoot Her Dog”
Poor guy was just looking for a better life in America.
Daily Mail – by Sophie Jane Evans
A man charged in connection with the rape and fatal bludgeoning of an elderly woman in her own home two weeks ago is an illegal immigrant who was on probation at the time of the brutal attack.
Victor Ramirez, 29, reportedly sexually assaulted and savagely beat Marilyn Pharis, 64, with a hammer after breaking into her Santa Maria, California, home while she was sleeping on July 24. Continue reading “Illegal alien who was released on probation ‘sexually assaulted elderly woman and then beat her to death in her own home’”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Clayton County, GA — A tragic and insidious puppycide was reported this week in Clayton County when an officer callously and sadistically shot a puppy in front of children.
A family is grieving after witnessing Clayton County police officer Walter Dennard walk up to their five-month-old lab-pit mix and shoot it, claiming the puppy “lunged at him.”
“He just shot the dog and stood there with no remorse, no regrets in front of her and her kids,” neighbor Aijohli King told Channel 2 after she witnessed the shooting. Continue reading “Sadistic Cop Shoots Puppy in Front of Children, Laughs About It, Charges Owner with a Crime”
President Barack Obama has admitted that his failure to pass “common sense gun safety laws” in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said it was “distressing” not to have made progress on the issue “even in the face of repeated mass killings”.
He vowed to keep trying, but the BBC’s North America editor Jon Sopel said the president did not sound very confident. Continue reading “Obama admits US gun laws are his ‘biggest frustration’”
The Confederate flag has raised plenty of controversy in the United States, but you don’t need to head to the U.S. to see it.
Despite being deemed “not appropriate” by organizers, the U.S. Civil War battle flag has been making appearances at Saskatchewan’s Craven Country Jamboree.
Flags of one sort or another fly on almost every camper van at the country music festival near Regina, but most are for the Saskatchewan Roughriders or beer brands. Continue reading “Confederate flags fly at Craven Country Jamboree despite backlash”
Paris (AFP) – Astronomers proposed a novel explanation Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe’s robot probe Philae through outer space: alien microscopic life.
Many of the frozen dust ball’s features, which include a black crust over lakes of ice, flat-bottomed craters and mega-boulders scattered on the surface, were “consistent” with the presence of microbes, they said. Continue reading “Philae’s comet may host alien ‘life’: astronomers”
Facebook posts linked to the man who shot and killed an Edmonton police officer depict a person who distrusted state powers and the police, and someone who openly mocked Jews and gay men.
The account, which operates under the pseudonym Dino Stomper, includes several posts featuring photos of bylaw tickets featuring the address of the home belonging to Norman Raddatz, 42, who opened fire on police officers during an attempt to arrest him on Monday night. Continue reading “Norman Raddatz Facebook page shows cop killer disliked Jews, police, government, gay people”
Next week, a 24-year-old man who knew Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev is scheduled to appear in U.S. Federal Court for sentencing on obstruction of justice charges related to the 2013 attacks.
Khairullozhon Matanov, a former taxi driver, did not participate in or have any prior knowledge of the bombings, according to U.S. authorities. Continue reading “Clearing your browser history can be deemed ‘obstruction of justice’ in the U.S.”
