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Oxitec vs The Keys: The GM mosquito debate rages on

Devi Shastri
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:19 UTC
Derric Nimmo
© AP Photo
Derric Nimmo, a scientist with Oxitec, demonstrates how scientists will check and sort genetically modified mosquitoes in August 2016 at a mosquito control office.
The crowd at the Monroe County town hall meeting was not intimidated by the panel of experts arrayed on the stage before them.

It was a Thursday evening in December 2014, in the middle of a debate that had already stretched on for years, intensifying along the way. Panelists spoke, the crowd laughed and booed. Sometimes, those on stage grimaced in response.

There were over 60 residents in the audience - many senior citizens, some parents with children in tow. The subject stirring the emotions was not tax increases or failing schools, not crime or gun control.

It was mosquitoes.

Not just any mosquitoes. The topic was a proposal to launch the first trial of genetically-engineered mosquitoes in U.S. history. The idea was to use them to control a mosquito species that carries deadly tropical diseases - yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, Zika.

Derric Nimmo, a principal scientist at the biotechnology company Oxitec, was in town from England and sat at the center of the panel. The company was slated to run a trial in partnership with the local mosquito control district, in a county well acquainted with mosquito-borne diseases.
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Homeless man hid in garden of family who helped him, then snuck in to kill mom and son while the dad walked the dog

Andrew Parker, Ellie Cambridge and Emma Lake
The Sun
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:49 UTC
Aaron Barley
© Press Association
Barley, 24, today admitted to the murders of Tracey and Pierce Wilkinson in March
A husband whose Good Samaritan wife and son were butchered by a junkie she took into their home said last night: "He must never breathe air as a free man again."

Peter Wilkinson revealed Aaron Barley, 24, snarled "Just die you bastard" while stabbing him after killing the mum and boy in a knife frenzy.

Caring Tracey Wilkinson, 50, took homeless crack addict Barley, 24, under her wing after finding him in a cardboard box outside a Tesco.

The couple found him a flat and job but he sneaked back into their home and stabbed naked Tracey up to 20 times in her bed and 13-year-old Pierce a dozen times.

Tracey had fallen for ­Barley's "sob story" that he was an abused child and just wanted "someone to give him a chance in life".

But he had a record of violence stretching back to when he was 12, had a hitlist of people he wanted to kill and wrote on Facebook he dreamed of "chopping people up".
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Pistol

Firearms instructor demonstrates how guns do not kill people

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:58 UTC
gun instructor
© Facebook/PowerfulWeapons screenshot
Just as quickly as news broke last week of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Democrats, progressives and those opposed to the Second Amendment were talking gun control.

The debate rages after any publicized gun crime, and almost always circles back to two talking points. Gun control advocates say people shouldn't be able to have "military-grade" weapons, while Second Amendment supporters say a gun didn't kill the victims - a person did.

One Illinois firearms instructor sought to prove this last week in a video that's now gone viral. That instructor, Mike Brown, also a former criminal justice professor in Chicago, in just four minutes completely dismantles the theory that guns should be banned or heavily restricted because someone uses them to commit mass murder.

Brown placed two handguns - one semi-automatic and one revolver - and a Sig MPX, which is technically a pistol, but he had the stock pulled back for shoulder use, in front of him on a table, loaded each gun, chambered a bullet and then he waited.
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Sheriff

Gross incompetence: Cops arrest hero who thwarted robbery despite video proof

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:50 UTC
Omar Malcolm
The three days Omar Malcolm spent in the DeKalb County Jail could pay off in a sum of up to $1.5 million, pending a settlement with the former police investigator who arrested him. Alexander Vots, the detective who was working a shoplifting case at a Verizon store, arrested Malcolm in what has proved to be a painful incident of incompetence.

In January 2016, Malcolm was one of two employees at a Verizon store who took down two would-be shoplifters and recovered a swiped IPad. Nearly a full year later, Vots was done with his investigation and was sure he had identified his robber.

After lifting fingerprints from the iPad, the detective had a suspect, none other than Malcolm himself. Yes, that's right. The detective lifted the employee's fingerprints and came to the conclusion he was the thief, in spite of surveillance video that proved otherwise.

Adding insult to injury, Vots convinced Judge Lindsey Jones to sign an arrest warrant for Malcolm, who was subsequently arrested on Dec. 10, 2016. He spent the next three days in jail for a crime he did not commit but actually prevented.
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Syringe

Court decree of criminal charges: Refusal to vaccinate child gets mom jail time - a deeper analysis

Jefferey Jaxen
GreenMedinfo
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 10:15 UTC
Rebecca Bredow
© Unknown
"I want to make it perfectly clear. We're leaving here today. Dad's picking the child up and he's going to be vaccinated regardless of what Mom did or didn't do."
These were the words of Oakland County judge Karen McDonald during the open minutes of the recent court room proceedings that continue to grab international headlines. Metro Detroit's Rebecca Bredow, the Mom, now sits in an Oakland Country jail with a criminal record forever attached to her name. Her 9-year-old son is now in temporary custody of his father who is ordered by the court to bring the child up to date on the boy's vaccination status, which will be up to eight vaccines "...as rapidly as medically necessary."

Comment: Call To Action: Please Sign the Petition

For further information on the Petition go to GreenMedInfo

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Cardboard Box

Billionaire investor warns: U.S. "wealth disparity" will end in "revolution, taxes, or war"

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 17:45 UTC
Paul Tudor Jones
Having previously warned of the "disastrous market mania," and told Janet Yellen to "be terrified" in April, legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones has a new message for CEOs, urging them to stop embracing the profit-above-all-else ethic creating massive wealth-inequality, or face the "tearing down of our civilization via war, revolution, or taxes."

"One of the key things that always ends up tearing down great civilizations and countries is wealth disparity. It's not sustainable," explained the billionaire hedge fund manager at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston, telling corporate chiefs that they have gone too far in embracing economist Milton Friedman's profit-above-all-else ethic and they need to change how they do business.

Corporations have paid too much attention to prioritizing shareholders, said Jones, who's backing a nonprofit called JUST Capital that will rank companies on how well they treat their employees, consumers, communities and investors.
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Ambulance

CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou seriously injured in scooter accident

Jeff Stein
Newsweek
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:15 UTC
john kiriakou
© Getty Images
John Kiriakou, a prominent ex-CIA officer who was among the first to reveal the agency's torture program, was seriously injured in a scooter accident earlier this week in Washington, D.C.

Kiriakou says he suffered six broken ribs, a broken clavicle and a fractured vertebrae in an accident Tuesday night en route to a bookstore in northwest D.C. "I had a port installed in my neck and a second port installed in my back to take targeted painkillers," he wrote on his Facebook page. "Thank God I was wearing a helmet."

Kiriakou was charged in 2012 with leaking classified information about the CIA waterboarding of an Al-Qaeda suspect at a secret site in Thailand. He eventually pleaded guilty to one count of leaking the identity of a fellow CIA officer to a reporter and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

"It was a serious accident, but hopefully he'll be released on Sunday," Jesselyn Radack, one of his attorneys, tells Newsweek. She said Kiriakou was driving his Vespa in northwest Washington Tuesday night when a car stopped suddenly in front of him. He plowed into the vehicle and was taken by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital, Radack says.
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Propaganda

Assange: In blasting MSM, offers three simple steps to 'being a journalist in 2017'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 12:21 UTC
assange russians
© DJT
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is saving aspiring journalists time and money (which may have otherwise been invested in University classes or unpaid internships), with a simple and straight path towards becoming a "Western journalist in 2017"...and the path to fame and fortune is simple.

Blame Russia for everything.



Comment: MSM has to double down on a losing bet...because admitting being wrong and stupid doesn't sell news.

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Umbrella

Trump, DOJ, HHS issue key protections for religious liberty, pro-life

Ken Kloukowski
Breitbart
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Trumpsigning
President Donald Trump's administration kept a major campaign promise on Friday, implementing his Executive Order 13798 by issuing key protections for religious liberty, as well as protecting the unborn.

President Trump signed Executive Order 13798 on May 4 to declare the policy of the United States government regarding religious liberty under the U.S. Constitution and federal law, the first such order in American history.

"The Founders envisioned a Nation in which religious voices and views were integral to a vibrant public square, and in which religious people and institutions were free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination or retaliation by the Federal Government," the executive order says in Section 1.

Going on to explain that the Constitution's First Amendment enshrines fundamental rights to religious liberty, Section 1 continues, "Federal law protects the freedom of Americans and their organizations to exercise religion and participate fully in civic life without undue interference by the Federal Government."

Later in the document, Section 4 of that executive order provides, "In order to guide all agencies in complying with relevant Federal law, the Attorney General shall, as appropriate, issue guidance interpreting religious liberty protections in Federal law."
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Briefcase

ACLU torture case justice: Rare settlement against CIA psychologists

Dorothy Samuels
Monterey County NOW
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
waterboarding
© The Stuff of Life
The years since the Sept. 11 attacks have seen myriad lawsuits brought to expose the horror of the CIA's Bush-era torture program and obtain compensation and accountability for its victims, only to be dismissed as courts invariably bowed to claims of state secrets served up by both the Bush and Obama Justice Departments.

Against that backdrop, the settlement in the case of Salim v. Mitchell, involving claims against two psychologists hired by the CIA to design and implement the "enhanced interrogation techniques," is a significant if imperfect breakthrough. For starters, the case did not end with dismissal. The settlement deal marks the first time the CIA or its private contractors have been held accountable for the agency's brutal torture program.

The ACLU and the law firm Gibbons PC brought the lawsuit against the pair of psychologist-torturers, James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, on behalf of three victims of their methods, for which their company was paid $81 million by the CIA. This litany of abuse - blessed by the U.S. government - included waterboarding, beatings, confinement in coffin-like boxes, confinement in painful stress positions, exposure to extreme temperatures and severe sleep deprivation.

The plaintiffs were two torture survivors eventually released without charges after officials determined they posed no threat - Suleiman Abdullah Salim, a Tanzanian, and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, a Libyan - and representatives of another detainee, Gul Rahman, an Afghan citizen who died during his torture regimen 15 years ago. Rahman, The New York Times recounted, "was found dead, naked from the waist down on a bare concrete floor in the freezing cold at a secret CIA prison... shackled and short-chained to a wall." The CIA conducted a review, but no one was ever criminally charged in his death.

Comment: We must never think of 'justice' as the great equalizer for wrongs done to others. The scales are tipped for the powerful; impunity offering freedom from the consequences of an action.

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