1. A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make
it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young.
Their mother was one of three pigs born with the trait after
pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein. This
could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant
organs, a Chinese university reported. National Geographic
2. It has been revealed that a high ranking executive at the
company that was contracted to program all of New Hampshire’s Diebold voting machines has
a criminal record and has previously defended the illegal act of “swapping
out” memory cards for the machines during live elections. www.blackboxvoting.org
3. Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop
on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills
on time. Poor supervision of the program also allowed one agent to steal $25,000,
the audit said. Associated Press
4. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) is going
after a Salvation Army thrift store BECAUSE IT REQUIRED EMPLOYEES
TO SPEAK ENGLISH ON THE JOB! The
store even gave everyone a year to learn English. Two refused and were fired.
CFIF.org
5. In Greenland a record amount of ice melted from the island’s frozen
mass this summer, and Earth’s rising temperatures are suspected to be the
main culprit. Clues to a natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists
discovered a thin spot in the Earth’s crust under the northeast corner
of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth’s insides could seep through, “The
behavior of the great ice sheets is an important barometer of global climate
change,” said lead scientist Ralph von Frese of Ohio State University. “...to
... quantify human impacts on climate change. we must understand the natural
impacts too.” www.livescience.com
6. Nov. 9, 2007 several planes hired by the State of California
Food and Agricultural Department (CDFA) sprayed the untested
biochemical, CheckMate®OLR-F, on over
30,000 citizens in Monterey without the permission of the citizens. Over one
hundred people signed affidavits stating that they got sick from the spraying.
The excuse for aerial spraying of the moth pheromone is not a deadly disease
carrying mosquito, but a moth whose larva may eat some leaves of some plants.
Relatively harmless sticky traps have previously captured nearly every Light
Brown Apple Moth in the Northern California region. NewsTarget
7. "The Big Lie" is a propaganda technique. It was
defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf
as - a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone “could
have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”.
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