Insect Experts Issue ’Urgent’ Warning On Using Biotech Seeds

For America’s agricultural biotech companies, the corn rootworm is threatening to turn into their worst nightmare. Last year, we reported that a major insect pest, the corn rootworm, had “found a chink in the armor” of genetically engineered crops. In several different places across the corn belt, the insects have developed resistance to an inserted [...]

Insect Experts Issue ’Urgent’ Warning On Using Biotech Seeds

For America’s agricultural biotech companies, the corn rootworm is threatening to turn into their worst nightmare. Last year, we reported that a major insect pest, the corn rootworm, had “found a chink in the armor” of genetically engineered crops. In several different places across the corn belt, the insects have developed resistance to an inserted [...]

Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Use of the Patriot Act

ShareThis Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Use of the Patriot Act 16 Mar 2012 For more than two years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the Patriot Act in a way that would be alarming if the public – [...]

Illinois nuclear plant shut down over power issue

ShareThis Illinois nuclear plant shut down over power issue 30 Jan 2012 A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and [radioactive] steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators. Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station, about 95 miles northwest of [...]

Court: Oklahoma can’t enforce Sharia law ban

Editor’s note: It is funny that a court would embrace Constitutional rights while ignoring them in other cases. It seems that Judges can just pick and choose at their when it is convenient for them or they agree/disagree with an issue. If this was really about rights, we would see consistency. A federal appeals court [...]

Latest Ron Paul hit-piece

“If Ron Paul should be slammed for anything, it’s not some silly remarks he’s made in the past in his Newsletters. It’s over his simply outrageously horrendous views on foreign policy, Israel, and national security for the United States. His near No vote on Afghanistan. That is the big scandal,” he concludes. Paul has said [...]

Obama signs two-month extension of payroll tax cut

ShareThis Obama signs two-month extension of payroll tax cut 23 Dev 2011 President Barack Obama signed a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut Friday, ending what had been a heated political stalemate and sealing a hard-fought win for Democrats on an issue — taxes — that has historically favored the GOP. Earlier in the [...]

Seven judges to hear Julian Assange extradition appeal

ShareThis Seven judges to hear Julian Assange extradition appeal 16 Dec 2011 A panel of seven supreme court justices will hear Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to Sweden to face accusations of rape and sexual assault. The large number of judges employed reflects “the great public importance of the issue”, according to a statement from [...]

More Parents Want to Delay, Skip Vaccines

Mistrust of childhood vaccines is causing some parents to request “alternative” schedules from doctors, either delaying or skipping some shots. And a new study suggests that most pediatricians are willing to go along with these requests — up to a point. “Parents seem to be regularly requesting alternative childhood immunization schedules,” noted co-author Dr. Douglas [...]

Airstrike Against Iranian Nuclear Facilities Could Kill 100s of North Koreans and Russians

ShareThis Airstrike Against Iranian Nuclear Facilities Could Kill 100s of North Koreans and Russians By John Daly 16 Nov 2011 As the drums for direct military intervention to derail Iran’s purported covert military nuclear weapons program beat louder in both Jerusalem and Washington, an overlooked issue is the possibility of international “collateral damage,” to use [...]