They had to start gene editing plants and livestock, because Russia – Ukraine! No kidding. That’s one of the rationales put forward by U.K. government officials, in support of legislation that will allow the introduction of unlabeled gene-edited foods to consumers in 2023. And meanwhile in the EU, bodies are laying the groundwork to go...
Tag: jun 14 2022
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THE SINGLE BASIC BLOW THAT IS A “SYSTEM” BY ITSELF!
By Bradley J. Steiner Related to the editorial about boxers’ training methods, and how only a few techniques are necessary for hand-to-hand combat and self-defense, we are reminded every day that we train and every time that we teach of the INCREDIBLE merits of the simple, proven hand axe chop. During WWII the West was...
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BRAIN’S WIRING DETERMINES POLITICAL LEANINGS, STUDY SHOWS
You probably thought that you’re politically liberal or conservative because your trenchant analysis of the issues has brought you greater wisdom than those on the other side of the political divide. Wrong. Your political conviction is the end product of upbringing and experiences that have wired your brain in a particular way, according to a...
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THE CUSTOMIZED, 3D-PRINTED, SEVEN-SECOND MEDICATION
The evolving technologies of personalized medicine—tailoring treatment of an illness to each individual’s medical and biological profile—has gotten a boost from University College London’s new method of 3D-printing medications on demand. The technique combines dissolved drugs in a resin with a biologically inert chemical that hardens under light. When used at full scale, the technique...
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PHARMA DOWN ON THE FARM
The Nobel-winning CRISPR gene-snipping technology has worked its way into leading-edge medicine, from editing out the malaria-spreading gene in mosquitoes to treating sickle-cell anemia. Next, it’s going to work on our crops. “The most widely impactful applications of CRISPR in the near term, for many of us, are going to be in the agricultural sector,”...
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PLACE YOUR BETS: EUROPE WILL AVOID DEBT CRISIS, LAGARDE PROMISES
The European Central Bank (ECB) will take needed steps to ensure that the Eurozone avoids a debt crisis similar to the one during the Great Recession, ECB president Christine Lagarde said last week. In 2008, in several European countries, property bubbles burst, banking systems collapsed, governments flooded stimulus money into economies to save them, and...
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UKRAINE URGES WEST TO STEAL RUSSIAN MONEY TO PAY FOR WAR DAMAGE
A top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview last week that it was incumbent upon Western countries to seize Russia’s wealth to pay for the billions in damage inflicted on the country due to the Russian invasion. “The whole world needs to work on [confiscating] Russia’s assets,” Rostyslav Shurma, the deputy...
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FACTS: U.S. WAS LONG RAMPING UP UKRAINE WAR
Six years ago, back in April 2016, the Trends Journal reported that U.S. European Commander chief and Supreme NATO Commander Air Force General Philip Breedlove was stepping down after enthusiastically overseeing a level of military confrontation between the U.S., its NATO allies and Russia unprecedented even during the darkest days of the Cold War. To...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
DOMESTIC SPY AGENCIES, CHINESE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEMS…AND SNEAKY AI AI is more knowledgeable and intelligent than humans, and can think faster. AI is capable of deceiving humans. AI might deceive humans in order to protect itself or some other entity. It might be trying to gain something via deception. And / or it might think...
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FED UP WITH HIGH INFLATION, FED TO RAISE INTEREST RATE MORE THAN PLANNED
The U.S. Federal Reserve has signaled that it will raise its key interest rate by a half-point when its Open Market Committee meets this week. That was the word on Wall Street before last Friday’s inflation numbers hit Main Street. As we have noted. With May’s unrelenting 8.6-percent inflation rate, a 40-year high, a growing...
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