Anti-GMO activists all over the web are howling about the “Monsanto Protection Act,” that Congress “snuck in.” But there is no “Monsanto Protection Act.” They just made it up. This didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of the usual subjects–the anti-GMO misinformation mill–taking a piece of information, distorting it, inflating it, and then screaming and railing at their own gigantic straw man.
Author: mediahitman
Orbiting in the plane of Saturn’s rings, Saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gas giant planet. Of course, while passing near the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their stunning perspective. The thin rings themselves slice across the middle of this Cassini snapshot from April 2011.
Kim Jong Un signed off on a plan to ready his forces to target the U.S. mainland and American bases in East Asia following yesterday’s U.S.-led B-2 stealth bomber runs, the KCNA reported after the North Korean military conveyed an “emergency meeting” in the early hours of this morning. In a photo published in the Korea Worker’s Party (KWP) paper the Rodong, plans for a strike on the U.S. mainland are clearly
Tanya Lewis news.yahoo.com The transistor revolutionized electronics and computing. Now, researchers have made a biological transistor from DNA that could be used to create living computers. A transistor is a device that controls the flow of electrons in an electrical circuit, which acts as an on-off switch. Similarly, the biological transistor — termed a transcriptor — controls the flow of an enzyme as it moves along a strand of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
As US Army veteran Eric Harroun awaits trial in Virginia for allegedly fighting alongside al-Qaeda supporters, the man’s father claims he was working for the CIA and was reporting back to the agency from Syria. Harroun, a 30-year-old American from Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged by the US government for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely a rocket propelled grenade launcher) to conduct an attack against the Syrian government.
Infowars.com Fortune 500 corporation eBay has apparently pulled a listing too politically hot too handle – a photo of actor and outspoken critic of the Second Amendment, Jim Carrey. On Wednesday Infowars.com ran an article covering the listing posted on the popular online auction website. “An enterprising eBay user has put an autographed photo of actor and comedian Jim Carrey up for bid.
NASA is requesting $100 million for a mission that would include identifying an asteroid in space, moving it towards the Moon, and sending astronauts to study it. It comes as the showdown over the 2014 budget continues in Washington. The idea was born in 2011 at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology. In the time since, Aviation Week and Space Technology reported
The FBI has charged Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old former US Army soldier, with conspiring to use a rocket-propelled grenade – which it considers a “weapon of mass destruction” – on behalf of a foreign terrorist organization.
By Dylan Love Internet speeds around the world have noticeably slowed down due to a massive “distributed denial of service” attack, reports the BBC. These DDoS attacks bombard targeted web servers with so much dummy traffic that people trying to access a site for legitimate purposes are unable to do so. It’s most analogous to a traffic jam on a highway with no one able to move.
By JG Vibes Intellihub.com Joanne Webster, professor of parasite epidemiology at Imperial College London, explains that many parasites favor the brain, “because it shelters them from the full fury of the immune system”. But, she says, “it also gives them direct access to the machinery to alter the host’s behavior”.
by Daniel Terrill The ATF served a federal search warrant at the Georgia home of the popular Youtuber FPSRussia with the intention of finding explosives on Tuesday. Investigators suspect Kyle Myers, the host of the show, might be violating federal law with what he does, to the delight of many, with explosives on Youtube.
An Arizona ex-politician has announced plans to distribute free shotguns to Tucson residents living in high-crime areas. Shaun McClusky said he has begun efforts to purchase guns and ammunition, which he’ll give to anyone who can pass a background check. The former Tucson mayoral candidate’s theory is testing the premise that more guns in an area will lead to lower crime.
A bill currently moving through the Kansas state legislature has caused alarm in the AIDS community and its advocacy groups. The bill would update a state health statute by allowing for the quarantine of anyone found to carry an infectious disease. While Bill 2183 might just be regarded as an attempt to bring the control of all infectious diseases under one statute
An internationally-spread Orwellian surveillance system uncovered by RT has been linked to a software company that collects the GPS coordinates of cell phone users in over 100 major cities. The discovery of the TrapWire risk mitigation program last year and its ability to match human faces caught on camera against massive databases of intelligence led to an outcry from privacy advocates around the world.
United States President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation. On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill exists a provision that grossly protects biotech corporations such as the California-based Monsanto Company from litigation.
By Jason Palmer Scientists have linked the underground injection of oil-drilling wastewater to a magnitude-5.7 earthquake in 2011 that struck the US state of Oklahoma. Wastewater injection from drilling operations has been linked to seismic events in the past, but these have typically been much smaller quakes. They also have tended to occur in the first weeks or months of injection.
Egypt’s naval forces captured three scuba divers who were trying to cut an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Telecommunications executives meanwhile blamed a weeklong Internet slowdown on damage caused to another cable by a ship.
Take note, this man broke no laws other than a ballistics plate which i don’t even think is illegal. This report failed to state any laws he broke.