GMOs: controversy and a new study by EFSA over the next 2 years

Seralini validated by new EFSA guidelines on long-term GMO experiments – Published on GMwatch.org, Comment by Claire Robinson of GMWatch and Earth Open Source, 31 July 2013.

The European Food Safety Authority  (EFSA) has issued guidelines for two-year whole food feeding studies to assess the risk of long-term toxicity from GM foods: Considerations on the applicability of OECD TG 453 to whole food/feed testing, EFSA Journal 2013;11(7):3347 [18 pp.]. – doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3347   Continuer la lecture de « GMOs: controversy and a new study by EFSA over the next 2 years »

Neoliberalism, or the Catastrophic Management of Catastrophe

Published on ROARMAG (also on ZNet), by Jérôme Roos, September 14, 2013.

… The catastrophic management of catastrophe. If there is one line that describes the nature of neoliberal crisis management, that must be it. From Mexico and Latin America in 1982 to the South-East Asian crisis of 1997-’98, and from Turkey and Argentina in the early 2000s to the European debt crisis from 2010 onward — the most catastrophic thing about neoliberal crisis management is not only that it has a penchant to turn already catastrophic financial crises caused by runaway private speculation into an immense source of private gain for the same very financiers responsible for the catastrophe to begin with;  Continuer la lecture de « Neoliberalism, or the Catastrophic Management of Catastrophe »

Leiharbeit im deutschen Wahlkampf

ARD Video-Sendung: Endspurt im Wahlkampf, wer kann jetzt noch punkten? 67.39 min, auf ARD mediathek.de, 16. September 2013. Nach zirka 42 Minuten erscheint folgende Reportage: zirka 50 Leiharbeiter* bei ThyssenKrupp sollen nach ihrem Arbeitstag am Ausgang in einer Test-Wahl ihre Stimme abgeben, wen sie denn nächsten Sonntag wählen würden.

Resultat: CDU  64% / FDP   2% / SPD  13% / Grüne 4% / Linke 9%       Continuer la lecture de « Leiharbeit im deutschen Wahlkampf »

Putin steps into world leadership role

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, Sept 16, 2013;

Putin’s article in the September 11 New York Times has the stuck pigs squealing. The squealing stuck pigs are just who you thought they would be—all those whose agendas and profits would be furthered by an attack on Syria by the Obama Stasi regime.
Included among the squealing stuck pigs are Human Rights Watch bloggers who seem to be financed out of the CIA’s back pocket.
Does any institution remain that has not been corrupted by Washington’s money?    Continuer la lecture de « Putin steps into world leadership role »