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Trump orders simpler path for genetically engineered food

Candice Choi
The Seattle Times
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:13 UTC
Trump signs GMO executive order
© AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order to streamline the approval process for GMO crops, after speaking at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday, June 11, 2019.
President Trump wants to make it easier for genetically engineered plants and animals to enter the food supply, and he signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to simplify the "regulatory maze" for producers.

The move comes as companies are turning to newer genetic engineering techniques that make it easier to tinker with the traits of plants and animals.

Greg Jaffe, biotechnology director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the impact of the executive order will depend on the details of how it's carried out by federal agencies. Simply deregulating could make people lose confidence in genetically engineered foods, he said.

Comment: That's just what we need - less regulation to allow more genetically modified genetic garbage onto our dinner plates. Thanks Trump!

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Eye 2

US airstrike accidentally wipes out Afghan troops who called in for back up - Again

Jared Keller
Task & Purpose
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 16:18 UTC
afghan troops
In a bizarre case of friendly fire, a contingent of U.S. and Afghan troops came under fire from another group of Afghan security forces before calling in air support in self-defense, a U.S. military spokesman told Task & Purpose on Wednesday.

The joint U.S.-Afghan force "came under effective fire" during a joint patrol in the country's Kunduz province, forcing them to request precision air support "to suppress the onslaught of machine gun fire," said Army Col. David Butler, a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.

As it turned out, the machine gun fire "was coming from another group of Afghan security forces," Butler said, killing an unspecified number of Afghan security forces personnel.

No U.S. troops were killed or wounded in the incident, Butler said, adding that the Pentagon plans on convening a joint investigation board to determine the details of the incident.

Comment: Considering all the support the US has given to the terrorists, it's not surprising they're unsure whose side they're on:

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Eye 1

"Undoubtedly unlawful": MI5 in High Court for 'mass collection of innocent citizens data'


BBC
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:29 UTC
MI5 headquarters
© PA
MI5 headquarters in London
The security service MI5 has handled large amounts of personal data in an "undoubtedly unlawful" way, a watchdog has said.

The Investigatory Powers Commissioner said information gathered under warrants was kept too long and not stored safely.

Civil rights group Liberty said the breaches involved the "mass collection of data of innocent citizens".

The high court heard MI5 knew about the issues in 2016 but kept them secret.

"MI5 have been holding on to people's data - ordinary people's data, your data, my data - illegally for many years," said Megan Goulding, a lawyer for Liberty, which brought the case.

Comment: Mass surveillance by government entities is clearly not only a concern for China: Is China's social credit system coming to Australia?

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Eye 1

Showtrial: France's Le Pen to go on trial for tweeting criticism of ISIS back in 2015


France 24
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:30 UTC
Le Pen
© AFP/File
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadists killed 130 people in Paris
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday.

Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris.

A judge in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre ordered that the National Rally leader stand trial on charges of circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity" and that can be viewed by a minor.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($85,000).


Comment: She OBVIOUSLY didn't do that to support ISIS.


Comment: These attacks are clearly intended to bring down Le Pen but as we can see from the recent MEP elections, Le Pen continues to surge in the polls. Evidently, the citizens of France aren't buying the establishment propaganda:

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Eye 1

Report: Docs reveal two Google blacklists that remove alternative news & op-eds from special search results

J. Arthur Bloom
Daily Caller
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:06 UTC
Google
At least two other blacklists are applied to Google's web answers feature, one of which is manually edited, documents obtained by The Daily Caller indicate.

The first blacklist, titled "webanswers_url_blacklist," impacts the company's "featured snippets" or answer blocks, the type of special search result that appears when questions are typed into the search bar. For example, the question "What is the biggest fish?" yields a special search box on the whale shark.

In screenshots of the blacklist shared with The Daily Caller, the instructions at the top of the page say, "To ensure the blacklist will REMOVE a URL, add a line '# REMOVE url'." And, "To ensure the blacklist WON'T remove a URL by accident, add '# PERMIT url'," indicating that the blacklist is manually edited.
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Chess

Trump supports giving 'protected status' to Venezuelan refugees fleeing carnage the US helped create

Peter Bolton
RT
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:06 UTC
venezuela refugee migrant
© Reuters / Nacho Doce
Despite his tough anti-immigration stance, President Donald Trump is exploring the idea of granting Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelans fleeing the country still under US sanctions after its Washington-backed failed coup.

TPS is a federal government designation for people residing in the US who have fled from severe natural disasters or armed conflict. It currently applies to people from ten different countries, including war-torn Yemen, Somalia and Sudan. The bill to apply TPS to Venezuelans was introduced to congress by Florida Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Darren Soto in January. The legislation passed through the committee stage last month and is now awaiting a vote on the House floor.

Trump's unexpected show of support for the move sharply contrasts with his otherwise staunchly anti-immigrant stance. He has called for a "zero tolerance" stance on illegal crossings along the US's southern border with Mexico, and even moved to discontinue TPS for several of the countries currently on the list.
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Iran does not want war, but will defend itself from attack - Rouhani meets with Abe


RT
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:43 UTC
abe rouhani
© Reuters / Denis Balibouse
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that his country was not interested in starting a military conflict, but insisted it would defend itself from foreign aggression.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday after a meeting in Tehran with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Rouhani warned against any attack on the Islamic Republic.

"Iran will never initiate a war but will give a crushing response to any aggression," Rouhani said at a joint news conference alongside the Japanese PM.


Comment: History supports this statement. It's the US that wages wars of all kinds all over the planet, not Iran.


Comment: News just in: During Rouhani's visit to Japan, there's been an attack in the strait of Hormuz on two oil tankers carrying 'japan-related cargo':

Which is oddly similar to a few other events of late: See also:

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Attention

Don't believe your lying eyes - Deep State technology is decades ahead of commercial technology

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 03:39 UTC
Boston Dynamics Robots
© Slash Gear
It's a truism of conspiracy research: Whatever technology is available to the public is decades behind what is available to the deep state. As researchers well know, there are many specific examples of this from the annals of tech history. This is one such example.
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War Whore

Israel continues military strikes against Syria, June 12, 2019


South Front
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 01:20 UTC
During the night of June 12, warplanes of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a barrage of missiles at targets near Tell al-Hara in southern Syria. According to the Syrian state media, the IDF employed electronic warfare measures to suppress Syrian air defense systems. Despite this, at least some of the missiles were intercepted and the strike caused material damage only.


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Arrow Up

Re-enter Iran nuclear deal and cut aid to West Bank annexation - Indiana presidential nominee Buttigieg


Jewish News Syndicate
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:00 UTC
Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., gives a speech on foreign policy and national security at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, on June 11, 2019.
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday for withdrawing from the 2015 Iran deal in May 2018, saying that it was "close to a true 'art of the deal,' " a reference to one of the president's books.

"Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons should remain a core tenet of our global leadership," said Buttigieg, 37, in a speech focused on foreign policy and national security at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. "For this reason, I will rejoin our international partners and recommit the U.S. to the Iran nuclear deal."

"Whatever its imperfections, this was perhaps as close to a true 'art of the deal' as it gets," he said. "As even this administration repeatedly certified it was preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It has helped constrain the military threat that Iran poses to Israel and Europe without leading up down a path to another Middle Eastern war. This agreement was concluded not to do Iran a favor, but because it is in our national security interest, just as a parallel policy of confronting Iran's support for terrorism and abysmal human rights record reflects our values and security interests."

Comment: See also: Would Tulsi Gabbard be the best choice for US president?

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