Category: News

Activist Post

Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes are taking place.

The promise was to create genetically modified mosquitoes that would end dengue, but results from field trials conducted in Bahia, Brazil have not been published to date and did not evaluate the relation between Aedes aegypti mosquito populations and the occurrence of dengue [1]. Nevertheless, the Brazilian regulator Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança (CTNBio) recently gave the green light to the commercialization of the technology proposed by Moscamed Brazil in partnership with the English company Oxitec and the Universidade de São Paulo.   Continue reading “GMO Mosquito Trial Has Reverse Effect, Causes Dengue Emergency”

PanAm Post – Belen Marty

Argentina’s government appears to be following Orwell’s 1984 as an instruction manual. Daniela Dupuy, a prosecutor with close ties to President Kirchner, has launched an investigation into the online activity of 11 Twitter users and requested the assistance of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These 11 users have been accused of “harassment,” based on their demonstration of support for a public prosecutor who was recently removed by Argentina’s judiciary.   Continue reading “Argentina Recruits DHS to Target Dissident Twitter Users”

NPR – by Dan Charles

Somewhere in Iowa, volunteers are earning $900 apiece by providing blood samples after eating bits of a banana kissed with a curious tinge of orange.

It’s the first human trial of a banana that’s been genetically engineered to contain higher levels of beta carotene, the nutrient that our body converts into vitamin A. Researchers want to confirm that eating the fruit does, in fact, lead to higher vitamin A levels in the volunteers’ blood.   Continue reading “Globe-Trotting GMO Bananas Arrive For Their First Test In Iowa”

JTA

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Twenty Jewish organizations urged President Obama and Congress to deal humanely with the unaccompanied children and refugees from Central America who are crossing the U.S. border.

The statement released Tuesday, which was written by the refugee resettlement agency HIAS, calls on the government to “welcome the stranger” in dealing with those entering the United States through Mexico from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.   Continue reading “Jewish groups call on Obama to ‘welcome the stranger’”

ABC News

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says officers are questioning a person of interest in a fatal shooting at a National Guard armory.

Bureau spokesman Josh DeVine says the shooting happened about 5 p.m. Wednesday in the town of Lobelville, about 75 miles southwest of Nashville. A longtime member of the National Guard was killed.   Continue reading “1 Dead in Tennessee Armory Shooting; 1 in Custody”

EFF – by Parker Higgins

When EFF joined with a coalition of partners to fly an airship over the NSA’s Utah Data Center, the goal was to emphasize the need for accountability in the NSA spying debate. In particular, we wanted to point people to our new Stand Against Spying scorecard for lawmakers. But while we were up there, we got a remarkable and unusual view.

Today, continuing in the spirit of transparency and building on earlier efforts to shed some light on the physical spaces the US intelligence community has constructed, we’re releasing a photograph of the Utah Data Center into the public domain, completely free of copyright and other restrictions. That means it can be used for any purpose—copied, edited, or even sold—online or in print, with or without attribution to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We hope that making such an image available will help support conversations about the actions of the NSA.   Continue reading “Releasing a Public Domain Image of the NSA’s Utah Data Center”

Christian Post – by Morgan Lee

A Kentucky church that hired a pastor with full knowledge that he’s a registered sex offender, is now the scene of an another alleged crime in which the minister is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy who attended the church.

Roy Neal Yoakem, who leads the New Gospel Outreach Church in Scottsville, Kentucky, allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy at the church and police believe that another incident occurred in a nearby town, reported WSMV.   Continue reading “Kentucky Church Hires Registered Sex Offender as Pastor; Man Now Faces Charges of Alleged Rape, Sodomy of 14-Y-O Boy at Church”

Natural News – by J.D. Heyes

The darling of the Democratic Party, Hillary Rodham Clinton, says she supports genetically modified food, making her no different from most other American politicians from both major political parties.

In a recent speech before the world’s largest biotechnology meeting in San Diego, Clinton — who commands speaking fees of about $225,000 per speech — was enthusiastic in her support for the use of GMOs in farming and agriculture in general. She also spoke positively of using taxpayer-funded federal financial subsidies as payoffs to American companies, to keep them from relocating outside the United States. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton says she supports GMOs”

RT News

Iraq says “terrorist groups” have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country’s north. Iraq’s UN envoy has appealed for help to “stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad.”

According to Iraq’s UN ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, about 40 kilograms of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University. He added that such materials “can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.”    Continue reading “Sunni insurgents take over nuclear materials in northern Iraq”

AmmoLand

Northboro, MA – -(Ammoland.com)- Dear GOAL Members and Supporters,

Today marks a great victory for Second Amendment advocates in Massachusetts. As of this morning, a new version of H.4121 has been released by the House Ways and Means Committee.

The new number is H.4278. The new version is a tremendously different piece of legislation from the original version and that is a direct result of your efforts.   Continue reading “Massachusetts Gun Activists Force Rewrite of H. 4121 to Make Bill Neutral”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The marketing expertise of Moms Demand Action has created a media campaign to demonize the open carry of long guns, especially in Texas.

Shannon Watts, who heads MDA, is a longtime professional at creating media campaigns:

She is not just Suzy Homemaker or some low-grade employee at a small company but a heavy Public relations hitter, savvy on the ways of media manipulation and making her clients look good.   Continue reading “Main Stream Media Campaign Against Open Carry Will Fail”

The Lone Star Watchdog

I can tell you if Caucasian Americans formed a group called “The Race,”. with the motto” For the race everything, Those outside the race nothing” in the name of stopping illegal aliens and the securing of our borders. The media would have a field day with a never ending barrage of demonetization for weeks to come trying to capitalize on the group to advance their agenda. They would call these people White Supremacist trying to make the label stick with never ending media blitz discrediting them.   Continue reading “La Raza: The Klu Klux Klan with a Tan. The Real Racial and intolerant Agitators.”

ABC News – by MARY BRUCE, DEVIN DWYER and JEFF ZELENY

Emerging from a meeting on the border crisis with one of his harshest critics, President Obama said he and Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, don’t have a major disagreement about how to handle the problem, the challenge is Congress.

“There’s nothing the governor indicated that he’d like to see that I have a philosophical objection to,” the president told reporters. “The problem here is not a major disagreement around the actions that could be helpful in dealing with the problem. The challenge is: is Congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done.”   Continue reading “President Obama Urges Congress to Pass Immigration Bills”

Breitbart – by John Nolte

Battered wife media syndrome returned to the spotlight this week when 38 journalism groups, led by the Society of Professional Journalists, complained to the Obama White House about numerous offenses that were summed up as the “politically-driven suppression of news.”

[A]s a result, they wrote, Obama only has himself to blame for the current cynicism of his administration. “You need look no further than your own administration for a major source of that frustration – politically driven suppression of news and information about federal agencies. We call on you to take a stand to stop the spin and let the sunshine in,” wrote David Cuillier, president of SPJ.    Continue reading “Journalist Groups Protest Obama’s ‘Suppression of the News’”

Breitbart – by Wynton Hall

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released emails Wednesday from disgraced former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner wherein she advised her colleagues that “We need to be cautious about what we say in emails” because “we have several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails.”   Continue reading “Lois Lerner: ‘We Need to Be Cautious About What We Say in Emails’”

RT News

The Iraqi government has informed the United Nations that it has lost control of a former chemical weapons depot to Islamist insurgents affiliated with ISIS, or IS, and cannot carry out its obligations to destroy what’s stored in the compound.

In a letter penned by Iraq’s UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim, it was revealed that “armed terrorist groups” took over the Muthanna complex on June 11. Located north of Baghdad, the facility was the main center for chemical weapons production prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and is still home to 2,500 rockets containing the lethal nerve agent sarin.   Continue reading “Iraq loses control of chemical weapons depot to ISIS militants”