It's not looking good

[richmick]

I was just watching ch4 news and what i heard was quite tragic. Tony Blairs government are under investigation by the police, accused of excepting money for honours. That is, someone illegally contributes to the labour government a sum of money and as a direct result are made lords.

Well now, the BBC is a political propaganda arm of the labour government and a leak by 'somebody' about the case was going to be aired, however the police got an injunction to stop the leak going out to the public. If the leak got out, then the whole case could fall apart.

Today, the Guardian paper released the information,even though the police strongly asked them not to. As john snow said, a reporter on ch4, this could result in people getting off scott free. The Guardian paper is a pro labour tabloid, how fortunate.

Then the reports go to the focus of this leak, Lord Levy. His rabbi was interviewed and HEAVILY insinuated that because lord levy is a jew, he is being victimised. Yes you read right, the 'ole anti-semetic card was pulled out right there in front of my eyes.

The labour government are hell bent on stopping this prosecution going ahead, maybe too much would be reveiled, i dont know. But now, they can play their trump card if this prosecution goes ahead. They can say, since the leak got out, it predudices the case unfairly and the culprits get off scott free. This is so frustrating to hear, to think they are going to get away with this.

On top of that, we are also told today, gm foods are going to be allowed in deserts and yogurts and other foods in the uk. A report a friend read said it will seriously effect the health of who ever eats these products. Tony Blair did'nt even discuss it with the public, it's just going ahead.

Is it just me, or are these sick fucks on full throttle now, pushing the agenda through as quick as they possibly can. I hope enough people are awake to bring down these sicko's. I'd hate to see the results of our apathy, as a nation, if we dont stop these lunetics now.:mad:

[richmick]

Sick people used like laboratory rats in GM trials
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 04 March 2007
Genetically modified potatoes developed by Monsanto, the multinational biotech company, have been fed to sick patients in an experiment. Rats that ate similar potatoes in the research suffered reductions in the weight of their hearts and prostate glands.

Dr Michael Antoniou, reader in molecular genetics at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, said use of humans was "irresponsible and totally unethical, especially when already ill subjects were enrolled. These people truly were guinea pigs." Other scientists said the trials were too short, on too few people, to give meaningful results of long-term effects.

Monsanto said the vegetables were safe, and the researchers conducting the experiment said effects on the rats were within "permissible" limits.

The experiment is described in a hitherto unpublished report by the Nutrition Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Science, done "by agreement with Monsanto Company" in 1998.

The report says "10 patients suffering from hypertensive disease and ischemic heart disease" were fed a pound of the Russet Burbank potatoes - modified to resist Colorado beetles - every day for three weeks, and monitored.

It goes on: "A certain risk of GM food products for human health does exist, as there can be by-effects of inserted genes besides the designed ones." The report describes the patients as "volunteers" and says they liked the GM potato so much they all "expressed their intention to consume it at home".

After comparing them with 10 other patients fed conventional potatoes, the report concludes: "The genetically modified potato provided by Monsanto did not reveal toxic, mutagenic, immune modulating and allergic effects within the examined parameters of the present experiment".

It recommended the GM potatoes "can be used for human nutrition purposes in further epidemiological research". The report says the rats, tested over six months, suffered "increases of kidneys' absolute weight" when compared to ones fed conventional potatoes but that all changes were "within permissible physiological fluctuation".

But Dr Irina Ermakova, of the Russian Academy of Science, calls the GM potatoes "dangerous" for rats, adding: "On this evidence, they cannot be used in the nourishment of people".

Tony Coombs from Monsanto UK said in a statement: "Potatoes genetically improved to prevent Colorado beetle destroying the crop have already been consumed, as safely as conventional or organic ones, in North America for years."

[richmick]

The rice with human genes
By SEAN POULTER -


The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production.


The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva.


Its U.S. developers say they could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, a major killer in the Third World.


The rice is a major step in so-called Frankenstein Foods, the first mingling of human-origin genes and those from plants. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has already signalled it plans to allow commercial cultivation.


The rice's producers, California-based Ventria Bioscience, have been given preliminary approval to grow it on more than 3,000 acres in Kansas. The company plans to harvest the proteins and use them in drinks, desserts, yoghurts and muesli bars.


The news provoked horror among GM critics and consumer groups on both sides of the Atlantic.


GeneWatch UK, which monitors new GM foods, described it as "very disturbing". Researcher Becky Price warned: "There are huge, huge health risks and people should rightly be concerned about this."


Friends of the Earth campaigner Clare Oxborrow said: "Using food crops and fields as glorified drug factories is a very worrying development.


"If these pharmaceutical crops end up on consumers' plates, the consequences for our health could be devastating.


"The biotech industry has already failed to prevent experimental GM rice contaminating the food chain.


"The Government must urge the U.S. to ban the production of drugs in food crops. It must also introduce tough measures to prevent illegal GM crops contaminating our food and ensure that biotech companies are liable for any damage their products cause."


In the U.S., the Union of Concerned Scientists, a policy advocacy group, warned: "It is unwise to produce drugs in plants outdoors.


"There would be little control over the doses people might get exposed to, and some might be allergic to the proteins."


The American Consumers Union and the Washingtonbased Centre for Food Safety also oppose Ventria's plans.


As well as the contamination fears there are serious ethical concerns about such a fundamental interference with the building blocks of life.


Yet there is no legal means for Britain and Europe to ban such products on ethical grounds.


Imports would have to be accepted once they had gone through a scientific safety assessment.


The development is what may people feared when, ten years ago, food scientists showed what was possible by inserting copies of fish genes from the flounder into tomatoes, to help them withstand frost.


Ventria has produced three varieties of the rice, each with a different human-origin gene that makes the plants produce one of three human proteins.


Two - lactoferrin and lysozyme - are bacteria-fighting compounds found in breast milk and saliva. The genes, cultivated and copied in a laboratory to produce a synthetic version, are carried into embryonic rice plants inside bacteria.


Until now, plants with human-origin genes have been restricted to small test plots.


Ventria originally planned to grow the rice in southern Missouri but the brewer Anheuser-Busch, a huge buyer of rice, threatened to boycott the state amid concern over contamination and consumer reaction.


Now the USDA, saying the rice poses "virtually no risk". has given preliminary approval for it to be grown in Kansas, which has no commercial rice farms.


Ventria will also use dedicated equipment, storage and processing facilities supposed to prevent seeds from mixing with other crops.


The company says food products using the rice proteins could help save many of the two million children a year who die from diarrhoea and the resulting dehydration and complications. A recent study in Peru, sponsored by Ventria, showed that children with severe diarrhoea recovered a day and a half faster if the salty fluids they were prescribed included the proteins.


The rice could also be a huge money-spinner in the Western world, with parents being told it will help their children get over unpleasant stomach bugs more quickly.


Ventria chief executive Scott Deeter said last night: "We have a product here that can help children get better faster."


He said any concerns about safety and contamination were "based on perception, not reality" given all the precautions the company was taking.


Mr Deeter said production in plants was far cheaper than other methods, which should help make the therapy affordable in the developing world.


He said: "Plants are phenomenal factories. Our raw materials are the sun, soil and water."

[richmick]

The rice with human genes
By SEAN POULTER -


The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production.


The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva.


Its U.S. developers say they could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, a major killer in the Third World.


The rice is a major step in so-called Frankenstein Foods, the first mingling of human-origin genes and those from plants. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has already signalled it plans to allow commercial cultivation.


The rice's producers, California-based Ventria Bioscience, have been given preliminary approval to grow it on more than 3,000 acres in Kansas. The company plans to harvest the proteins and use them in drinks, desserts, yoghurts and muesli bars.


The news provoked horror among GM critics and consumer groups on both sides of the Atlantic.


GeneWatch UK, which monitors new GM foods, described it as "very disturbing". Researcher Becky Price warned: "There are huge, huge health risks and people should rightly be concerned about this."


Friends of the Earth campaigner Clare Oxborrow said: "Using food crops and fields as glorified drug factories is a very worrying development.


"If these pharmaceutical crops end up on consumers' plates, the consequences for our health could be devastating.


"The biotech industry has already failed to prevent experimental GM rice contaminating the food chain.


"The Government must urge the U.S. to ban the production of drugs in food crops. It must also introduce tough measures to prevent illegal GM crops contaminating our food and ensure that biotech companies are liable for any damage their products cause."


In the U.S., the Union of Concerned Scientists, a policy advocacy group, warned: "It is unwise to produce drugs in plants outdoors.


"There would be little control over the doses people might get exposed to, and some might be allergic to the proteins."


The American Consumers Union and the Washingtonbased Centre for Food Safety also oppose Ventria's plans.


As well as the contamination fears there are serious ethical concerns about such a fundamental interference with the building blocks of life.


Yet there is no legal means for Britain and Europe to ban such products on ethical grounds.


Imports would have to be accepted once they had gone through a scientific safety assessment.


The development is what may people feared when, ten years ago, food scientists showed what was possible by inserting copies of fish genes from the flounder into tomatoes, to help them withstand frost.


Ventria has produced three varieties of the rice, each with a different human-origin gene that makes the plants produce one of three human proteins.


Two - lactoferrin and lysozyme - are bacteria-fighting compounds found in breast milk and saliva. The genes, cultivated and copied in a laboratory to produce a synthetic version, are carried into embryonic rice plants inside bacteria.


Until now, plants with human-origin genes have been restricted to small test plots.


Ventria originally planned to grow the rice in southern Missouri but the brewer Anheuser-Busch, a huge buyer of rice, threatened to boycott the state amid concern over contamination and consumer reaction.


Now the USDA, saying the rice poses "virtually no risk". has given preliminary approval for it to be grown in Kansas, which has no commercial rice farms.


Ventria will also use dedicated equipment, storage and processing facilities supposed to prevent seeds from mixing with other crops.


The company says food products using the rice proteins could help save many of the two million children a year who die from diarrhoea and the resulting dehydration and complications. A recent study in Peru, sponsored by Ventria, showed that children with severe diarrhoea recovered a day and a half faster if the salty fluids they were prescribed included the proteins.


The rice could also be a huge money-spinner in the Western world, with parents being told it will help their children get over unpleasant stomach bugs more quickly.


Ventria chief executive Scott Deeter said last night: "We have a product here that can help children get better faster."


He said any concerns about safety and contamination were "based on perception, not reality" given all the precautions the company was taking.


Mr Deeter said production in plants was far cheaper than other methods, which should help make the therapy affordable in the developing world.


He said: "Plants are phenomenal factories. Our raw materials are the sun, soil and water."

[tru3]

if you want to see how far it goes, take a look:

http://video.google.com/url?docid=-5266884912495233634&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=codex+alimentarius&vidurl=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D-5266884912495233634%26q%3Dcodex%2Balimentarius&usg=AL29H21ia3Sawv9a9A9RMfTT4QCdBFvDXw

it's already happening in the eu. so, according to this video this is the demand side of the equation; the genetics is the supply side.

i heard somewhere that the ancient taoist masters lived on sunlight and water. anybody know anything about that? i also know that nasa did some tests on a guy from india who lived on sunlight and liquids for several years. something about activating the pineal gland or something.

sounds like maybe it's time to go on a diet! :)