The biotechnology giant Monsanto has now partnered with the Broad Institute to develop seeds using genetic or genome editing technology. On Thursday, Monsanto announced a new partnership with the Broad Institute, a project of MIT and Harvard that focuses on a biomedical and genomic research. The new partnership grants Monsanto non-exclusive licensing for agriculture applications of CRISPR-Cas Read More…
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Scientists Conduct Quantum Teleportation with Fiber-Optic Networks
A joint venture between teams of scientists in Calgary and China, producing two separate but conjoined studies not only demonstrating quantum teleportation as possible—but have repeatedly teleported this quanta using their ascertained scientific methodology. The studies, which can be seen here, (http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2016.180.html, http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2016.179.html) represent the bare bones of physical transportation technology, and authenticate many aspects of esoteric Read More…
US Govt Just Legalized Operation Mockingbird — FBI Can Now Impersonate the Media
FBI agents conducting undercover investigations have now been given the green light to impersonate journalists, the Justice Department determined last week — effectively legalizing the government’s most notorious propaganda program, Operation Mockingbird. Last Thursday, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General published what’s become the subject of outrage for journalists, civil and constitutional rights Read More…
Another U.S. Territory Grab? Marine Area Twice Size of Texas Now Under Federal Government Control
Is the expanded Papahãnaumokuãkea marine area a new U.S. Military zone? Another government ‘land grab’ occurred last month when the US Federal Government announced that it had massively expanded the scope of its marine protected area in Hawaii, known as the Papahãnaumokuãkea Marine National Monument. With this top-down presidential proclamation, over half a million (582,578) square miles off the coast of Read More…
US To “Compensate” Family Of Italian Drone Victim — Will Non-Western Victims See Same?
The Obama administration is reportedly offering a “condolence payment” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan last year, renewing questions about the lack of accountability for the U.S. drone program. According to the Guardian on Friday, the $1.32 million “is the first Read More…
First ‘Napalm Girl’, Now Rosa Parks — Facebook Censors Iconic Civil Rights Photo
Fresh off the recent controversy surrounding its censoring of the iconic Vietnam-era “Napalm Girl” photo, Facebook finds itself in the midst of another censorship controversy surrounding yet another iconic photograph — this time of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The historic picture of Rosa Parks being booked into jail in 1955, after being arrested for her Read More…