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GMO Babies: Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies were born 12 years ago - What's Next ?

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00 UTC
GMO Baby
© iStockphoto / Thinkstock
When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK's Daily Mail1 proved it to be true. They've really done it... they've created humans that nature could never allow for, and it's anyone's guess as to what will happen next.

Even more shocking was the discovery that this is actually old news!

The Daily Mail article was not dated, and upon investigation, the experiments cited actually took place over a decade ago; the study announcing their successful birth was published in 20012.

While I typically comment on recent findings and health related news, in this case I will make an exception, because I think many of you may be as surprised by this information as I was. I do not propose to have any answers here as this is out of my scope of expertise.

At best, I hope I can stir you to ponder the implications of this type of genetic engineering, and I invite you to share your perspective in the vital votes' comment section below. As reported in the featured article:
"The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics... Fifteen of the children were born... as a result of one experimental program at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.

The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilized in an attempt to enable them to conceive.

Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year- old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults - two women and one man."

Comment: We shouldn't really be that surprised to learn that the psychopaths went ahead and did this without telling anyone...

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Cow Skull

12 Hellholes: Examples of what much of America will soon look like


The Economic Collapse Blog
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:04 UTC
broken window
Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous. New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook. Those are the exceptions. The reality is that most of the country has been experiencing a slow decline for a very long time and once thriving cities such as Gary, Indiana and Flint, Michigan have become absolute hellholes. They are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon.

60 years ago, most Americans were decent, hard working people and there were always good jobs available for anyone that was willing to roll up his or her sleeves and put in an honest day of work. But now all of that has changed. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities have shut down and millions of jobs have left the country. Cities such as Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit were once shining examples of everything that was right about America, but now they stand out like festering sores. The "blue collar cities" have been hit the hardest by the gutting of our economic infrastructure. There are many communities in America today where it seems like all of the hope and all of the life have been sucked right out of them. You can see it in the eyes of the people. The good times are gone permanently and they know it. Unfortunately, the remainder of the country will soon be experiencing the despair that those communities are feeling.

The following are 12 hellholes that are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon....
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Arrow Up

Bystanders Walk Past Accident Victim, Get on Bus


ARLnow.com
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:10 UTC

The Arlington County Police Department has released shocking video from a Metrobus that stopped at the scene of a fatal pedestrian accident earlier this month.

The video was taken on the evening of July 1. Just minutes prior to the start of the video, a man had been struck by a car on Columbia Pike near the intersection with Four Mile Run Drive, which was darkened due to power outages in the area following the June 29 derecho. The video shows the bus pulling up to the scene, which was next to a bus stop. The man's bloodied body - blurred out by police - is lying on the sidewalk.

With the bus stopped, passengers file past the man's body. Although someone had called 911 - lights from police cars heading to the scene can be seen in the background - not a single person stops to check on the man, who was either dead or dying. A woman carrying shopping bags walks right by, without hesitation. One man crosses himself after getting on the bus.
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Newspaper

People Power! US Citizens Journalism Killing Mainstream

Alexander Higgins
Alexander Higgins Blog
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:08 UTC
A recent Gallup poll shows that an all time low of on only 20% of the public trusts the news as citizen journalism continues to rise.

Bias and bungled reporting on US news networks are behind plummeting audience numbers, according to the Gallup Poll.

As far as the 20% who do still trust the news I would suppose they simply either don't have internet access or when they go online the don't dare stray to far from sites owned by the corporations that own the corporate media.

For anyone who happens to land here that still believes the news is trustworthy these will instantly make you non-believers as well: Caught: Staged CNN Syria Interviews Faked By Activist Danny and Wag The Dog - Media Caught Faking Syria News Stories.

Of course that isn't even the tip of the iceberg.

RT reports on the Gallup Poll and the continual decline of the corporate media in the video below which also looks at a cutting-edge project that's encouraging ordinary Americans to drive our country's news agenda instead.


Comment:
6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

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Nuke

Fukushima beaches reopen to the public

Justin McCurry
The Guardian
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:32 UTC
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© Asahi Shimbun/Getty
The Horror: Children play in the sea at Nakoso beach, open for the first time since the Fukushima disaster.
Holidaymakers have descended on a beach near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, the first time they have been allowed to swim in the area since last year's triple meltdown.

Local authorities decided to open Nakoso beach, located just 65km (40 miles) south of the stricken plant, after declaring the water safe. Radiation doses in the air were also low, at up to 0.07 microsieverts an hour, far below those considered a threat to health.

On Monday, which was a national holiday held to celebrate the ocean, about 1,000 people, including young families, headed to the beach for the first time in two summers.

"The water's still cold, but it's going to be a good season," Yukiei Hakozaki, a local guide, told Kyodo News. "We want lots of people to come."

Comment:
Record radiation levels detected at Fukushima reactor
Japan's Battered Fukushima Nuclear Plants - A Global Catastrophe Waiting To Happen?
Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future
Nuclear Peril: Why Fukushima is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl
Houston We Have a Problem, No Known Technology to Deal with Fukushima
The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over

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Eagle

Psychopathy: Army turns combat action into digital comic strip

Rebecca Ruiz
NBC News
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:50 UTC
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© U.S. Army
Members of the U.S. Army encounter hostile Czervenian forces in the graphic novel series
The fictitious nation of Czervenia has just attacked its neighboring country with a "massive military offensive" and several Army soldiers sit around a conference table, planning how to rescue refugees and send a long-range surveillance team into enemy territory.

A helicopter hovers over a refugee camp in the rain, its blades whirring as rain falls. Soldiers parachute into the forest near a Czervenian staging area and watch through night-vision scopes.

The scenes are part of "America's Army," a graphic novel launched by the U.S. Army in 2009. Once available only in a static form through a web-based reader, the panels now come alive with sound effects and partial animation in a new iPad and Android app released last week.

Soldiers can be heard rustling in leaves as they try to hide from Czervenian forces on a night mission. Gunfire rattles as the screen flashes with "BOOM," "PING," and "PANG."

Comment: Gotten your fill yet? Sounds pretty cool, eh? Except the parts they left out about the Military during times of war:

Kill your fellow man, get a shiny new medal for being a hero in some War who's effect will be settled by bankers, politicians and business men. That's right, step right up and gain PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), live a life of fear and reaction to the next car horn, become more psychopathic, be the first kid on your block with a confirmed kill. There are NO other jobs, but you too, can become cannon fodder for the war machine. You too, can be gung-ho and mutilate the made-up-enemy-of-the-day, from the comfort of your base half-way across the globe and never have to look the (made up) enemy in the eye, with our new class of drone fighters!

That's the United States: The Greatest fucking country in the world!

Only complete Lunacy would cause a nation to place the ugliness and brutality of war in a comic book and create the image of heroism from the blood lust and desires of control by its leadership. Register today. Join up now and enjoy this new free app for your iPod™ or Andoid™!


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Attention

Large fire sweeps through Istanbul 42-storey building (which is still standing by the way)


BBC
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:59 UTC

A large fire has swept through a 42-storey building in the centre of the Turkish city of Istanbul.

Television footage showed the Polat Tower building engulfed in thick black plumes of smoke, with pieces of debris falling to the ground.

Firefighters - backed by helicopters - later managed to contain the blaze, the cause of which is being investigated.

Officials said no-one was injured in the building which houses shops, apartments and offices.

The officials said hundreds of people were safely evacuated.

Turkey's Anatolia news agencies earlier reported that many people had been stranded inside.

Comment: US Architects & Engineers - Solving the Mystery of WTC 7



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Arrow Down

The next Great Depression will destroy civilization as we know it, warns author

Catherine Boyle
CNBC
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:35 UTC
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© Unknown
The risk of a new depression - a sustained, severe recession - has struck fear into the heart of markets and driven monetary policy in developed economies since the current financial crisis began. "We're in a very unfortunate position to be here," Richard Duncan, author of The New Depression, warned on CNBC's Squawk Box Europe Monday.

"When we broke the link between money and gold, this removed all constraints on credit creation. This explosion of credit created the world we live in, but it now seems that credit cannot expand any further because the private sector is incapable of repaying the debt it has already, and if credit begins to contract, there's a very real danger that we will collapse into a new Great Depression," he argued.

"If this credit bubble pops, the depression could be so severe that I don't think our civilization could survive it."

The explosion in cheap credit has been widely blamed for the global financial crisis, but the debate about how to fix the problem continues.
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Footprints

Two killed, 19 injured in another Toronto shooting

Euan and Frank McGurty
Reuters
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:44 UTC

Two people were killed and at least 19 injured in a shooting at an outdoor party in Toronto, police said on Tuesday, raising fresh fears of a rise in gun crime in Canada's largest city.

Police said it was too early to say what prompted the shooting late on Monday in which a young man and young woman were killed. Many of those hurt were injured in the panic that ensued after shots were fired.

"This is the most serious crime of its kind to ever take place in the city of Toronto," Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair told reporters at the scene.

Comment: 3 June 2012: Shoot-out at Toronto shopping mall, 1 Dead, 2 injured

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Cult

Torsos of two dismembered bodies found floating in Detroit River canal


wxyz.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:50 UTC

Two dismembered bodies were found Tuesday morning in a canal near the Detroit river. Both were found without arms, legs or heads.

Detroit police tell 7 Action News that 911 calls came into their department saying the bodies were floating in a the Detroit River's canal, near Riverside and Alter Road.

One body appeared to be male, the other female.

An agent from U.S. Customs and Border Protection found the first body around 6 a.m. while on routine patrol near the Riverfront-Lakewood Park/Alfred Brush Ford Park area.

A second body was found a short time later about a half mile down the river.

"A medical examiner's determination for confirmation on their sexes and cause of death will be needed," said a Detroit Police Department spokesperson.
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