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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Apple has plans for your DNA

© MIT Techonology Review      Of all the rumors ever to swirl around the world's most valuable company, this may be the first that could involve spitting in a plastic cup. Apple is collaborating with U.S. researchers to launch apps that would offer some iPhone owners the chance to get their DNA tested, many of them for the first time, according to people familiar with the plans. The apps are based on ResearchKit, a software...

Israel ramps up Syrian crisis - supplies al-Qaida rebels

A photo from the Israel, Syrian border along the Golan Heights showing IDF soldiers conversing with Jabhat al Nusra fighters.The Israeli army reported renewed danger along its border with Syria as long-held tensions in the region reignited late last month. Yet these reports overlook the ways in which Israel is deliberately inflaming those tensions.      Historically, Israel has denied most claims of direct involvement in the...

Flawed medical research may be ruining your health

     There is a cancer eating at the core of medical research. You've most likely heard of medical reports touting the effectiveness of a diet plan, a new drug, a supplement, or medical procedure. You may have even decided on a course of action based on these findings, only to find out later that they have been refuted by new studies. Strikingly, the odds are that the studies that influenced your decision, and possibly the decision...

Oxytocin: Why the love hormone is good for you

© Getty images      I've written quite a lot about oxytocin, which also goes by the name of "love hormone," "cuddle chemical," "molecule of kindness," or any other affectionate term that implies something about bonding and connecting. If you ever wondered about those names, it's because we produce oxytocin when we're feeling love or connection (with a human, animal, tree, spiritual diety) and also when we hug. Here's a little...

Science is driving choice in vaccination

© mercola.com      As the Australian Government expresses its anger over Indonesia executing two Australian drug smugglers, it is implementing a policy that will remove the free and informed consent for Australians to choose a medical intervention in healthy people: vaccination. This policy will remove our right to choose freely what we put into our own bodies, a fundamental human right that is protected in all International...

The TTP and TTIP trade agreements: "A dystopian future in which corporations rather than elected governments call the shots"

     The Obama-proposed international-trade deals, if passed into law, will lead to "a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots," says Alfred De Zayas, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order. These two mammoth trade-pacts, one (TTIP) for Atlantic nations, and the other (TTP) for Pacific nations excluding China (since Obama...

Monsanto genes: How glyphosate makes you fat

     This information was sent to me by a colleague Rose Stevens in Canada. Not only did I think it was very clever, especially the anonymous graphic above, but the narrative that came with it. I don't know whom to thank for this information other than the person who emailed it to me. So, I'm using it invoking 17 U.S. Code §107 Fair Use (news reporting): Simply put, Glyphosate disrupts bacterial homeostasis and our enzymes....

There may come a day when cops are automatically assumed to be the bad guys

     I wonder if it's time for a new song..... It's unlikely that police officers would turn on each other during a trial, due to the loyalty that typically runs through departments, David A. Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor and an expert on racial profiling, told The New York Times. Jurors are often "inclined to give [police officers] the benefit of the doubt," according to The Times, because behavior "such...

Doctor's open letter to US legislator: Stop the fearmongering, unvaccinated children are fine

© unknown Did 2014 Mark the Collapse of the Vaccine Establishment?      Re: VACCINE LEGISLATION Dear Legislator: My name is Tetyana Obukhanych. I hold a PhD in Immunology. I am writing this letter in the hope that it will correct several common misperceptions about vaccines in order to help you formulate a fair and balanced understanding that is supported by accepted vaccine theory and new scientific findings. Do unvaccinated...

Three earthquakes in 30 minutes strike Concord Fault in California

     CONCORD (CBS SF) — The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting three earthquakes, two with a 3-plus magnitude, have struck Concord Wednesday morning. The USGS says the first quake, a magnitude 3.2, was centered east of Highway 242 in Concord and struck at about 7:01 a.m. PDT Wednesday. The second and largest, a 3.6-magnitude, struck at 7:32 a.m. It was later downgraded to a 3.5. The third, a 2.6-magnitude, hit shortly after...

Corporate Media Connects Garland Shooters to ISIS Through British Hacker

The Daily Mail reports one of the two suspects in the Garland, Texas shooting were assisted by Junaid Hussain, described as a British hacker loyal to ISIS. From Daily Mail: Just hours before the shooting in Garland, Texas took place, a Twitter account understood to belong to gunman Elton Simpson, 31, demanded readers follow a second account controlled by a notorious ISIS fighter who uses the nom de guerre Abu Hussain al-Britani. That man...
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