By Alex Constantine RE JOHN MURTHA & CONCURRENT TECHNOLOGIES: “… Federal Earmarks Fill Coffers of Pa. Nonprofit – Politics – Concurrent Technologies began two decades ago doing metalworking research in Pennsylvania’s struggling rust belt. In ...
Edited by Alex Constantine All news outlets are describing the proposed facility as a “cyber-security” center, but “Utah news reports, based on federal budget documents, have described the center as a collection point for surveillance ...
By Alex Constantine Research Assistance by Team8Plus “… civilian launch platform and satellite efforts have faltered, and the growth of the space industry has hinged upon Pentagon ambitions. Globalization of the space industry directly serves ...
By Alex Constantine (Public service repost) Dr. Joe Schwarcz of Montreal’s McGill University is a well-known media “popularizer of science,” and clearly on someone’s payroll. Whose: A consortium of biotechnology companies, including Monsanto (see funding ...
October 31, 2013 Farmers in Argentina have been using Monsanto‘s genetically engineered soybean seeds and pesticides since the 1990s. They’ve increased crop yields so much that Argentina is now the third largest soy producer in the world and the country’s farmers are convinced ...
democratherald.com | July 4, 2010 In response to Rich Kellum’s letter (June 27, 2010) : Chemical companies make really good dough. It is not silly or outrageous to ask them to pay some of their ...
Video: The Unsolved Murder of Leon Jordan By MIKE McGRAW and GLENN E. RICE Kansas City Star | Jul. 10, 2010 Early morning hours of July 15, 1970. Blasts of double-ought buckshot from a stolen ...
THE US government spent more than $US11 billion to protect its secrets last year, double the cost of classification a decade ago – and that is only the part it will reveal. The sum does not ...
By Hannah Gurman Asia Times | Aug 18, 2010 In last month’s blitzkrieg tour of Central and Southeast Asia, two of the four stops made by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton share the ...
By Nadia Pflaum Pitch Blogs | December 13, 2010 Kansas’ 4th District Rep. Mike Pompeo is one of 13 incoming Republican members of Congress who are packing registered lobbyists to accompany them to Washington. Pompeo ...
“ … ‘Today the Supreme Court let them get away with it.’ … ” NEW YORK – October 4 – Today, the Supreme Court said it would not take up a warrantless surveillance case, Wilner ...
“The most deadly criticism one could make of modern civilization is that apart from its man-made crises and catastrophes, is not humanly interesting. . . . In the end, such a civilization can produce only ...
” … The foundation bought 500,000 shares of [Monsanto] stock between April and June; on Friday, the total value was $27.6 million. … Several foundation employees have ties to the company, including some in leadership positions. ...
” … There are concerns about Kagan beyond her pro-biotech stance. During her Senate confirmation hearings for Solicitor General, she agreed with Republican Senator Lindsay Graham on the controversial War on Terror power of the ...
Anonymously added to a recent budget bill, the controversial rider would protect U.S. biotech companies from litigation if their GMO seeds turn out to be dangerous. Anger over the “Monsanto Protection Act” is growing like ...
Global Security Newswire | May 20, 2010 A U.S. lawmaker is arguing that a plan to replace an animal disease research laboratory in New York with a new facility in Kansas is prohibitively expensive, the ...
NSA agent charged with beating his 3-year-old son to death only months after adopted him from South Korea Brian Patrick O’Callaghan, 36, of Maryland, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Madoc Hyunsu ...
By Colin O’Neil, Agriculture Policy Director and Emily Cassidy, Research Analyst, Environmental Working Group Remember when we told you that some farmers were illegally spraying the herbicide dicamba on Monsanto’s new GMO crops? Well, the situation ...
Sunday May 22, 2016 …. When this newspaper began publishing the NSA documents in June 2013, it ignited a fierce political debate that continues to this day – about government surveillance, but also about the ...
Employees at the secretive National Security Agency were not too happy about the 1998 blockbuster film “Enemy of the State” that starred Will Smith. That shouldn’t come as a surprise — the spy agency was ...
“… Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 74, threw the jury a Nazi salute before it went to consider his sentence. …” A jury in Kansas recommended Tuesday that a white supremacist be put to death for ...
DALLAS, TEXAS, July 9, 2015 — Today, the City of San Jose filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company, a sustainable agriculture organization, for alleged contamination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the city’s stormwater that flows ...
In what is sure to cause further embarrassment for the Obama administration, WikiLeaks released documents on Monday that it says prove that the US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on France’s top financial officials and ...
Kansas Voter Suppression Architect Prepares To Use Criminal Prosecution In His Intimidation Efforts “… In March, he said during a radio interview that President Obama could absolve black people of all crimes and last year, ...
The New Challenge to Monsanto In a challenge delivered to Monsanto’s headquarters on May 20, 2015, US public interest attorney Steven Druker calls on that corporation to find any inaccurate statements of fact in his new book: “Altered Genes, ...
If it seems like Texas has been in the news quite a bit lately, that’s probably because it has. Of all the states in the U.S. right now, it’s almost certainly in the top 10 for ...
With the NSA’s bulk surveillance ruled illegal, the debate on the Patriot Act should be reinvigorated – with Edward Snowden free to join in On 6 June 2013, the Guardian published a secret US court ...
Nazis, child slave labor all in the past – Lufthansa is much different today Science Codex, May 7, 2015 The history of German air traffic is closely interwoven with the history of the “Lufthansa” enterprise. ...
Federal appeals court says NSA program that collected millions of Americans’ phone calls was not authorized by Congress The US court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in ...
WASHINGTON – Monsanto Co. called on the World Health Organization on Tuesday to withdraw a claim that the most widely used weed killer in the world could cause cancer, with the seed giant accusing the ...
“… Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence. …” Tragically, many Americans unknowingly ...
The History of a chemical company Monsanto is now instantly recognized as the company dominating the global food supply with its more than 7000 current worldwide patents. But today’s Monsanto is not a corporate newcomer. Although its literature heralds the company ...
Also see: Kris Kobach’s bill on straight-ticket voting in Kansas is not helpful Latinos rally to defeat Kobach’s ‘Rule of Law Restoration Act’ Kobach argues for bill to avoid work comp lawsuits When it comes to ...
Monsanto will pay nearly $2.4 million to soft white wheat growers and wheat organizations to settle litigation over an unauthorized release of biotech wheat in Oregon. That works out to an average of less than $300 ...
Newly disclosed National Security Agency documents suggest a closer relationship between American companies and the spy agency than has been previously disclosed. The documents, published last week by The Intercept, describe “contractual relationships” between the NSA and U.S. ...
