Psywar: Written and directed by Scott Noble and produced by Metanoia-Films.org, Psywar is a powerful documentary about the machinery of thought manipulation, the science of spin known to its military practitioners as “psyops” [psychological operations] and to its political adepts as “perception management. The film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the “elitist theory of democracy” and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
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vrijdag 29 juni 2012
Psy war
donderdag 28 juni 2012
Monsanto's Seedy Legacy
Agricultural giant Monsanto is best known for their production of pesticides and genetically modified foods, but they have a controversial history as a chemical company with a slew of toxic cover-ups.
In addition to their battle against small farmers, the newest buzz about the corporation is the speculation that their GM seeds are linked to the die-off of bees.
Abby Martin of RT brings us more on their seedy practices and what they are up to now.
Source: RT
We define the system, the system does not define us!
Cynthia McKinney is an American politician who was the first African American woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.
In 2008, the Green Party of the United States nominated McKinney for President of the United States. If elected president, she promised an early end to the Iraq war; an end to threats of war against other countries including Iran and Russia; the safeguarding of privacy and civil liberties; no increase in the national debt; and a "thorough investigation, evaluation and audit of the Federal Reserve System."
She visited Gaza in 2008 and 2009 attempting to break the blockade and was imprisoned by the Israeli forces.
Asdekaa al Arab is a documentary series about different people around the world from all walks of life who share a common interest: the Middle East. They can be artists, politicians, scientists, writers or activists. Each episode presents a profile of the person and his/ her activities in their country and follows them in their travels to the Middle East.
The program has featured guests such as Tony Benn, George Galloway, Norman Finkelstein, Lauren Booth, and Cynthia McKinney. Episodes have been filmed in the US, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, France, Morocco, India, the UAE, Norway, Palestine, and Egypt.
Researched, Produced and Directed by Abir Alsayed
The Matrix: A beautiful truth poem
this poem is about truth and just hits the nails on the head
beautiful words.
World's First Genetically Modified Babies Born
The world's first geneticallymodified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.
The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.
So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'.
Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme 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 fertilised 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.
The fact that the children have inherited the extra genes and incorporated them into their 'germline' means that they will, in turn, be able to pass them on to their own offspring.
Altering the human germline - in effect tinkering with the very make-up of our species - is a technique shunned by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
Geneticists fear that one day this method could be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
Writing in the journal Human Reproduction, the researchers, led by fertility pioneer Professor Jacques Cohen, say that this 'is the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children'.
Some experts severely criticised the experiments. Lord Winston, of the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday: 'Regarding the treatment of the infertile, there is no evidence that this technique is worth doing . . . I am very surprised that it was even carried out at this stage. It would certainly not be allowed in Britain.'
John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: 'One has tremendous sympathy for couples who suffer infertility problems. But this seems to be a further illustration of the fact that the whole process of in vitro fertilisation as a means of conceiving babies leads to babies being regarded as objects on a production line.
'It is a further and very worrying step down the wrong road for humanity.' Professor Cohen and his colleagues diagnosed that the women were infertile because they had defects in tiny structures in their egg cells, called mitochondria.
They took eggs from donors and, using a fine needle, sucked some of the internal material - containing 'healthy' mitochondria - and injected it into eggs from the women wanting to conceive.
Because mitochondria contain genes, the babies resulting from the treatment have inherited DNA from both women. These genes can now be passed down the germline along the maternal line.
A spokesman for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates 'assisted reproduction' technology in Britain, said that it would not license the technique here because it involved altering the germline.
Jacques Cohen is regarded as a brilliant but controversial scientist who has pushed the boundaries of assisted reproduction technologies.
He developed a technique which allows infertile men to have their own children, by injecting sperm DNA straight into the egg in the lab.
Prior to this, only infertile women were able to conceive using IVF. Last year, Professor Cohen said that his expertise would allow him to clone children --a prospect treated with horror by the mainstream scientific community.
'It would be an afternoon's work for one of my students,' he said, adding that he had been approached by 'at least three' individuals wishing to create a cloned child, but had turned down their requests.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/247262-World-s-First-Genetically-Modified-Babies-Born
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