Genetically Engineered Human Clones Receives BackingA proposal to create babies that are both cloned and genetically altered to prevent serious hereditary disease is outlined today by the leader of the team that created Dolly the sheep.
Ever since news that Dolly had been cloned from an adult cell made headlines around the world, Prof Ian Wilmut has repeatedly said he is "implacably opposed" to cloning a human being.
But in his forthcoming book After Dolly, serialised today in The Daily Telegraph, he argues that, whe... (more)
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police behind bomb material: ''The delivery of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate to a group suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in southern Ontario was part of an undercover police sting operation''Massive sweep | Investigators controlled the sale and transport of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate in an undercover probe of an alleged homegrown terrorist cell
Police say they moved in quickly to avert attacks in southern Ontario
The delivery of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate to a group suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in southern Ontario was part of an undercover police sting operation, the Toronto Star has learned.
The RCMP said yesterday ... (more)
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Babies aborted for not being perfectThe ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects.
Late terminations have been performed in recent years because the babies had club feet, official figures show.
Other babies were destroyed because they had webbed fingers or extra digits.
Such defects can often be corrected with a simple operation or physiotherapy.
The revelation sparked fears that... (more)
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US scientists back autism link to MMRThe measles virus has been found in the guts of children with a form of autism, renewing fears over the safety of the MMR jab.
American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of samples taken from autistic children with bowel disorders contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used in the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine.
The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because they back theories of a causal link between the jab, autism and p... (more)
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Special Report: 'Toxic Sky?Video: Watch Report
It's a quiet mountain community, but some residents claim something's happening in the sky that's making them sick --
Mystery clouds and unusual contrails ... Is it a weather experiment on a massive scale?
In a Channel 4 News investigation, Paul Moyer looks into why some say the government is manipulating the weather.
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Americans Ponder Truth in 9/11 CommissionComplete Poll (PDF)
(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Adults in the United States are divided over the findings of a group assembled specifically to investigate the country’s deadliest terrorist attack, according to a poll by Zogby International. 47.8 per cent of respondents trust in the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission, while 42.3 per cent suggest a cover-up.
Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked a... (more)
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Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation(PRWEB) - Utica, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated.
911Truth.org Urges 2006 Reform Candidates to Recognize a Powerful New Constituency
The poll is the first scientific survey of... (more)
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Pentagon Video Is Giant Psy-OpPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Grainy video stills showing what is claimed to be the nose cone of Flight 77 will only result in an increased circus of debate around the issue of what happened at the Pentagon in preparation for a future release of clear video footage that 'debunks' people who question the official version of 9/11.
For over four years we have remained neutral on the subject, agreeing that unanswered questions need to be explored but warning against t... (more)
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Designer Babies: First baby in Britain designed cancer-freeA WOMAN is pregnant with Britain’s first designer baby selected to prevent an inherited cancer, The Times can reveal.
Her decision to use controversial genetic-screening technology will ensure that she does not pass on to her child the hereditary form of eye cancer from which she suffers.
Although they did not have fertility problems, the woman and her partner created embryos by IVF. This allowed doctors to remove a cell and test it for the cancer gene, so only unaf... (more)
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Cold War Talk Prompts Russian Call for 'World Government'Translated By Nicolas Dagher
Russian Foreign Secretary Sergueii Lavrov called for the establishment of a world government, bringing together the United States and Russia. Lavrov's call comes at a time of a chilling of relations between Moscow and Washington and amidst signs of a new Cold War. Moscow is wary of the establishment by America of a front of "New Democracies" in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Georgia to counter "the Russian Bear," which is powerfully awakening.
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NIH eugenics project a flashback to Nazi researchCHICAGO (BP)--A new age of tax-funded eugenics has just officially begun. On April 29 Medical News Today announced that Case Law School in Cleveland was receiving $773,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to “develop guidelines for the use of human subjects in what could be the next frontier in medical technology -- genetic enhancement."
Professor of law and bioethics Max Mehlman will lead a team of law professors, physicians, and bioethicists in a two-year project aim... (more)
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Female college students arrested and jailed for drawing peace signs on the sidewalk with colored chalkWellesley College senior Hadley Smith began the night of April 12 with her hands full of rainbow-colored chalk and ended it in the town police station.
As part of the Wellesley College Peace Coalition, Smith, 22, and other students spent the early evening scrawling onto the town center's sidewalks peace signs and quotations from Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Someone followed them back to their dormitory, copied down the license plate number of the car Smith was driving, and c... (more)
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Texas Training Pamphlet: 'Nice Guys' Who Wear Levis & Travel With Children Likely TerroristsPaul Joseph Watson
A Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Law Enforcement pamphlet gives the public characteristics to identify terrorists that include buying baby formula, beer, wearing Levi jeans, carrying identifying documents like a drivers license and traveling with women or children.
View Entire Pamphlet: Page 1 | Page 2
This latest assault on common sense arrives on the back of a Virginia training manual used to help state emp... (more)
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Experts Defining Mental Disorders Are Linked to Drug FirmsEvery psychiatric expert involved in writing the standard diagnostic criteria for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia has had financial ties to drug companies that sell medications for those illnesses, a new analysis has found.
Of the 170 experts in all who contributed to the manual that defines disorders from personality problems to drug addiction, more than half had such ties, including 100 percent of the experts who served on work groups on mood disorders and psychot... (more)
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U.S. Scientists To Begin Human Clone Farms For Stem Cell HarvestingApril 13 (Bloomberg) -- American scientists plan to create stem cells that have a genetic makeup identical to that of living human adults, a feat that Korean scientists falsely claimed they accomplished last year.
U.S. researchers at Harvard University and in California said they first will create ``cloned'' human embryos in the lab by combining women donors' egg cells with DNA provided by other adults. The scientists will then isolate and extract stem cells from the embryos.
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The Real WMD's In Iraq - OursWeapons of mass destruction are all over Iraq. Iraqi children are playing among them every day. According to Iraqi doctors, many are developing cancer as a result. The WMD in question is depleted uranium (DU). Left over after natural uranium has been processed, DU is 1.7 times denser than lead - effective in penetrating armored vehicles such as tanks. After a DU shell strikes, it penetrates before exploding into a burning vapor that turns to dust.
"Depleted uranium has a half life... (more)
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The new breed of soldier: Robots with gunsSpurred by the risks from roadside bombs and terrorist ambushes, the military is aggressively seeking to replace troops with battlefield robots, including new versions armed with machine guns.
"There was a time just a few years ago when we almost had to beg people to try an unmanned ground vehicle," says Marine Col. Terry Griffin, manager of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office in Huntsville, Ala. "We don't have to beg anymore."
UAVs sniff out IEDS:Eyes in the s... (more)
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Drug firms 'hype up diseases to boost sales'Drug companies are inventing diseases to sell more of their products, it has been claimed. Scientists have accused major pharmaceutical firms of "medicalising" problems like high cholesterol or the symptoms of the menopause in a bid to increase profits.
Experts from around the world will meet in Australia today to discuss what they have labelled "disease-mongering".
The group, which includes experts from Britain, will gather in Newcastle, New South Wales, where rese... (more)
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State spies on teachersTeachers are preparing to protest against surveillance cameras and microphones that are being installed in classrooms across the UK.
Surveillance firm Classwatch has installed more than 50 CCTV systems with microphones across Hertfordshire alone, said the Times Educational Supplement on Friday.
Draconian headteachers, who have had teachers watched through two-way mirrors as well, grade teachers according to their performance under observation.
Occasio... (more)
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EFF: AT&T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T.
After asking EFF to hold back the documents so that it could review them, the Department of Justice consented to EFF's filing them under seal -- a well-established procedure that prohibits public access and permits only the judge and the litigants to see the evidence.
While not a part... (more)
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77 TV stations aired 'fake news reports'A study by a group that monitors the media reveals that, over a ten month span, 77 television stations from all across the nation aired video news releases without informing their viewers even once that the reports were actually sponsored content, RAW STORY has found.
One "news report" that aired on three stations relied on a video news release (VNR) produced by a PR firm on behalf of General Motors which was even apparently based on a "false claim."
Center for Medi... (more)
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Film-maker's death 'was cold-blooded murder'Related: Justice4JamesMiller.com
The shooting of a British film maker in Gaza was "cold-blooded murder", a security expert has told an inquest.
James Miller, 34, from Devon, was shot by a soldier from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while making a film in a Palestinian refugee camp in 2003.
An Israeli investigation in April 2005 cleared a soldier of misusing firearms.
At St Pancras Coron... (more)
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Maryland: Red Light Cameras Increase Accidents 25-41 PercentRed light cameras in Anne Arundel County, Maryland failed to reduce accidents in five years of use. A set of five cameras were set up in the communities of Arnold, Pasadena, Parole, and Crofton in 2000, but a comparison of accident statistics five years before and five years after their installation shows accidents have increased beyond the ten percent increase in traffic volume.
Upon installation, the cameras caused an immediate 40 percent increase in rear-end collisions from 53 ... (more)
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Warbots to Replace Human Soldiers? Any good student of military history can tell you that technological change can make a huge difference on the battlefield. History is replete with examples: the English longbow at Crecy overmatched the Genovese crossbowmen. During WWI when Allied tanks helped break the stalemate on the Western Front and, the ultimate technological victory, the atom bomb that forced the Japanese into submission in WWII. But progress marches on, further changing the battlefield of the future and, unfortunately, d... (more)
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12-Year-Old Boy Suspended Because His Mother Refused To Drug HimThe case of a 12-year-old Longueuil boy suspended from school when his mother refused to give him Ritalin has sparked concerns over who is in charge of the medicine cabinet.
Do parents have the right to say "no" when their child's school says they need prescription drugs?
"Absolutely, they do," said Montreal family law lawyer Alan Stein.
However, Stein said, some parents second-guess themselves when a teacher or school social worker recommends Ritalin... (more)
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Pentagon Plans War on the InternetWhile the US remains committed to hunting down al-Qaeda operatives, it is now taking the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones. Investigations editor Neil Mackay reports
IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed powe... (more)
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New Anti-Terror Training Manual Says ''Property Rights Activists'' Are TerroristsAs InformationLiberation covers in great detail, those in power have used the traumatic event of September 11th as a pretext to turn America into a police state under the guise of "fighting terrorism" (or is it "the struggle against global extremism"?). The latest tool in the "war on terrorism" is a new anti-terror manual titled "Terrorism & Security Awareness Orientation for State Employees". It opens with a quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance...."... (more)
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Watchdog contends budget bill broke law: Bush signed a bill into law that did not passWASHINGTON – For anyone who took fifth-grade social studies or sang “I’m Just a Bill,” how legislation turns to law always seemed pretty simple: The House passes a bill, the Senate passes the same bill, the president signs it.
“He signed ya, Bill – now you’re a law,” shouts the cartoon lawmaker on “Schoolhouse Rock” as Bill acknowledges the cheers.
But last month, Washington threw all that old-fashioned civics stuff into a tizzy, when President Bush signed into law ... (more)
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Alex Jones' Second Appearance On Showbiz TonightVIEW THE VIDEO HERE
"And the new world order better stop carrying out terror attacks. We`ve caught them over 200 times in the last 100 years, western governments doing this. Hitler does it; the British do it; the Russians did it. Governments do this."
Alex continues his rampaging defense of Charlie Sheen and encourages Americans not to just believe us but check out the facts fo... (more)
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Bush Admin Gives No-Bid Contract To Communist Connected Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. To Scan For NukesFrom the Associated Press, "U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes":
In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.
The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign c ... (more)
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