senior bowl norovirus Eclampsia Kendrick Lamar JJ Abrams New Orleans Pelicans chris brown
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Cancer News Headlines - Yahoo! News
Source: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/cancer
defiance BBC Ny Post Boston Bombing 2013 Regions Bank ny times Boston Marathon Results
House to debate Maine hospital debt repayment
House to debate Maine hospital debt repayment
May 21, 2013 17:30 EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- The Maine House is scheduled to debate a bill that would pay off Maine's $484 million debt to the state's hospitals, with a Democratic-backed amendment calling for the state to accept federal money to expand Medicaid to roughly 70,000 people.
The bill to be debated late Tuesday afternoon follows Senate approval of the bill earlier in the day.
The bill would pay the state's share of the hospital debt for past Medicaid services, $186 million, with money from future state liquor sales. The federal government would pay the remaining $298 million.
It would also authorize expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Health Care Act. Majority Democrats say that's the morally and economically right thing to do.
Republicans say federal matching rates could drop over time and cost the state more money.
Source: http://www.wgme.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.me/29f063ba-www.wgme.com.shtml
Sports Authority Hollister old navy walmart black friday walmart black friday Target Black Friday PacSun
The Newest 3D-Printed Gun Is Far More Dangerous For Much Cheaper
After the stir several weeks ago, buzz surrounding Defense Distributed's 3D-printed gun has begun to (somewhat) die down. This is probably due in part to Kim Dotcom's removal
     |
jordan hill tony nominations dark knight trailer dallas mavericks washington capitals delmon young amare stoudemire
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Nicki Minaj Gives Lil Wayne A Lap Dance At Billboard Music Awards
'I'm the luckiest guy in the world,' Weezy tells the crowd while performing 'High School' with his Young Money artist.
By Rob Markman
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1707644/lil-wayne-nicki-minaj-billboard-music-awards-2013.jhtml
cnn News nbc news msnbc reddit abc news Boston Police Scanner
Monday, May 20, 2013
Shakesville: This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.
This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.
[Content Note: Rape Culture]Emily Esfahani Smith at The Atlantic: Is Sex Still Sexy?
There are fully one-billion things wrong with this article which seeks to chastise Maine college students for writing and acting out a series of skits in order to talk to fellow students openly about sex in a sex-positive manner that will reinforce Yes Means Yes narratives and reduce slut-shaming and rape culture mentalities on campus (from their website: "A performance-based presentation about consent, boundaries and healthy relationships").
Smith leads by criticizing the skits for being too open and too heavy on communication -- which we all know is Not Sexy! -- by saying:
But the exhibitionism of Speak About It kills this mystery and longing?it leaves little to the imagination. As the writer and critic Cristina Nehring, author of A Vindication of Love, tells me in an interview, "Where there is no distance and no sense of transgression at all, where anything goes and everything shows, there is no erotic chemistry.And ends with:
If we want sex to be sexy again, perhaps we should speak less about it.Did everyone get that? Where there is no sense of transgression (and since Smith and Nehring are both professional writers, I assume they understand that the commonly used definition of "transgression" is "a violation of limits") there is no erotic chemistry, and therefore we should stop communicating so much about sex, even if the goal is to educate people on sexual assault and healthy consent.
I really hope that Smith is not outright suggesting that sex isn't sexy if there's not always the lingering change that it is actually rape instead. And yet that is what she is effectively advocating, even if she doesn't realize it. She is recycling old "communication kills the mood" narratives, and those narratives are an integral part of rape culture since they are regularly used to silence people in order to preventing them from asserting boundaries until whooops those boundaries have already been crossed. And these harmful narratives are deliberately employed by rapists in order to render their victims vulnerable to transgressions against their will.
What frustrates me most about this intellectually lazy article is that there is no way that Smith immersed herself this deeply into the Speak About It performance materials to write her article that she could somehow miss why and how communication is integral to preventing sexual assault. Speak About It very clearly explains how communication empowers the vulnerable to assert their boundaries and provides crucial visual representations of what healthy sex can look like in contrast to the misinformation disseminated through popular culture. I can only assume that Smith did grasp the fundamentals but felt like they were less important than criticizing these proactive students for Doing Sex Wrong on the grounds that their sexuality doesn't align with her personal narratives of what is erotic and what isn't.?
I invite everyone in the comments to pick out their favorite utterly-terrible quotes from this garbage article, but mine will always be the part where Smith criticizes a man for asking his partner if she wants a Gatorade after sex. Smith thinks this is a perfect example of non-erotic sex; my personal response is that hell, yes, I want a drink after sex. There's ice in the freezer, and cups above the sink. And thanks.
[Hat Tip to Jackie. Recommended Related Reading: A Modest Proposal: The Thorny Issue of Sexual Consent; How to Fuck; Rape Is Not a Compliment.]
Source: http://www.shakesville.com/2013/05/this-is-so-worst-thing-youre-going-to_20.html
Fast And Furious 6 superbowl ads Super Bowl Ads 2013 Buffalo Wild Wings Superbowl Start Time Jim Harbaugh Who Won The Superbowl
1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.
Terry Rich, a lottery official in Iowa, confirmed the ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Rich told The Associated Press by telephone that details were expected to be announced later by Florida lottery officials about the actual ticket sold.
Powerball.com said the winner sold in Florida means the current estimated jackpot resets at $40 million or $25.1 million cash value.
The numbers drawn Saturday were: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and Powerball 11.
With four of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone was almost certain to win the game's highest jackpot, though chances of winning remained astronomically low at 1 in 175.2 million.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/1-winning-ticket-sold-fla-powerball-053910567.html
michelle obama lupe fiasco jason wu jason wu Mavericks Surf Stonewall Inaugural Ball
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Orb's Triple Crown Chance Dashed After Disappointing Run At Preakness (VIDEO/PHOTOS)
Oxbow, ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, wins the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Oxbow, second from right, ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, leads field to the first turn during the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Oxbow won the race. Orb, right, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Oxbow, ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, wins the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Orb, Joel Rosario
Orb, with jockey Joel Rosario aboard, gallops back to the paddock after the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Oxbow won the race, Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Oxbow (6), ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, wins the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race ahead of Itsmyluckyday (9), ridden by John Velazquez, and Mylute, ridden by Rosie Napravnik at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Itsmyluckyday, second from left, ridden by John Velazquez, finished second; and Mylute, ridden by Rosie Napravnik finished third. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Oxbow (6), ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, leads Itsmyluckyday (9), ridden by John Velazquez, and Mylute, ridden by Rosie Napravnik to win the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race ahead of at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Oxbow, Gary Stevens
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Oxbow, Gary Stevens
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Itsmyluckyday, third from left, ridden by John Velazquez, finished second; and Mylute, left, ridden by Rosie Napravnik finished third. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Gary Stevens
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates after riding Oxbow to win the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Itsmyluckyday, second from left, ridden by John Velazquez, finished second; and Mylute, left, ridden by Rosie Napravnik finished third. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Oxbow, Gary Stevens
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Orb, Joel Rosario
Orb, with jockey Joel Rosario aboard, gallops back to the paddock after the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Oxbow won the race, Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jockey Gary Stevens, left, embraces trainer D. Wayne Lukas in the winner's circle after Oxbow won the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Oxbow, Gary Stevens
Oxbow, right, with jockey Gary Stevens aboard, leads the field to the finish line to win the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Oxbow, bottom right, with jockey Gary Stevens aboard, leads the field to the finish line to win the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Jockey Gary Stevens, left, clenches his fist aboard Oxbow, as outrider Clark Kelly guides them to the winner's circle after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
Gary Stevens, Oxbow, Clark Kelly
Jockey Gary Stevens, left, clenches his fist aboard Oxbow, as outrider Clark Kelly guides them to the winner's circle after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Oxbow, ridden by jockey Gary Stevens, wins the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Gary Stevens, Oxbow, D. Wayne Lukas
Jockey Gary Stevens, aboard Oxbow, celebrates with trainer D. Wayne Lukas after winning the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Orb, Joel Rosario
Orb, with jockey Joel Rosario aboard, gallops back to the paddock after the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Oxbow won the race, Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
In this image taken with a specialty lens, Jockey Gary Stevens, foreground, celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Gary Stevens, Oxbow
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Orb, second from right, the Kentucky Derby winner, finished fourth. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Gary Stevens, Oxbow
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
In this image made taken a fisheye lens, the field breaks from the starting gate for the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Oxbow, fourth from right, won the race. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
In this image made taken a fisheye lens, the field breaks from the starting gate for the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Oxbow, fourth from right, won the race. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Oxbow, Gary Stevens
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Jockey Gary Stevens kisses his daughter Maddie Stevens in the winner's circle after riding Oxbow to win the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Oxbow, Gary Stevens
Jockey Gary Stevens celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Jockey Gary Stevens gives thumbs up after riding Oxbow to win 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Jockey Gary Stevens holds up a trophy in the winner's circle after riding Oxbow to win the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Jockey Gary Stevens, left, looks on as and trainer D. Wayne Lukas holds up a trophy in the winner's circle after Oxbow won the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Workermen paint the weather vane in the color of the racing silks worn by jockey Gary Stevens after Oxbow won 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Oxbow's trainer D. Wayne Lukas, second from left, holds up a trophy after Oxbow won the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. Jockey Gary Stevens is at left. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
John Howard
Spectator John Howard carries betting receipts in his straw hat at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Spectators mill about near the track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the Preakness Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Bill Norris
Spectator Bill Norris sports a horse-themed bow tie at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Kathryn Gaudreau
Spectator Kathryn Gaudreau tries to stay dry under a poncho as rain falls at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A spectator wears a poncho as rain falls during a horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Moon Philly, Jeremy Rose
Moon Philly, with jockey Jeremy Rose aboard, makes his way out of the paddock to race in the Allaire Dupont Distaff Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the Preakness Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A spectator stands in the paddock at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Spectators chat in the paddock at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Saturday, May 18, 2013, before the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A racing fan checks her tickets at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Lindsey Bowman, of Louisville, Ky., wears a big hat as she walks along the concourse at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Racing fans wait for the next horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/orb-triple-crown-preakness_n_3300153.html
helicon zac efron and taylor swift real housewives of orange county bloom energy franklin graham jambalaya taylor swift and zac efron
Did the Associated Press blow an Al Qaeda informant's cover?
How bad was the Justice Department?s going after the phone records of Associated Press writers and editors?
Very bad, according to most journalism professionals worried about sources ? especially whistleblowers ? refusing to talk for fear of Big Government retribution.
?First Amendment radicals ? I count myself among them ? resist any and all such intrusions,? writes Reuters columnist Jack Shafer. ?You can?t very well have a free press if every unpublished act of journalism can be co-opted by cops, prosecutors and defense attorneys.?
RECOMMENDED: How much do you know about the US Constitution? A quiz.
But it?s still unclear how serious the leak was that led to the AP?s scoop about a foiled terrorist plot in Yemen and then to the sweeping search for the leaker. Did it in fact ?put people at risk,? as President Obama suggested this week?
Duke University Law School professor Christopher H. Schroeder, who was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2012, obviously is not a disinterested source.
But he makes a good point about why the Justice Department went to such lengths to find the source of the leak regarding a story involving what could have been a successful underwear bomber tied to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula targeting a US airliner.
?What went completely without mention in the initial coverage was the fact that thwarting this plot was not the objective of the ongoing undercover operation,? Mr. Schroeder wrote on Huffington Post this week. ?Its true objective was to gain enough intelligence to locate and neutralize the master bomb builder, Ibrahim Hassan al-Ashiri, who works with an Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).?
?Penetrating AQAP is incredibly difficult,? Schroeder continued. ?This double agent provided a rare opportunity to gain critical, life-saving information. Whoever disclosed the information obtained by the AP had not only put the agent's life and his family's life in danger. He also killed a golden opportunity to save untold more lives that now remain at risk due to al-Ashiri remaining at large.?
Want your top political issues explained? Get customized DC Decoder updates.
Ken Dilanian of the Los Angeles Times reports on the widespread dismay the leak caused intelligence agencies working with the CIA around the world.
?The informant, reportedly a British subject of Saudi birth ? was trained and outfitted with the latest version of an underwear bomb designed to pass metal detectors and other airport safeguards,? officials told Mr. Dilanian.
?Even after the informant left Yemen with the explosive device and turned it over to his handlers, U.S. intelligence officials believed they could use him to help disrupt and destroy the terrorist network,? Dilanian writes. ?British intelligence officials, who played a key role in the secret operation, were furious, a British diplomat said. Saudi intelligence officials also were dismayed, U.S. officials said.?
Politically, going after journalistic sources as aggressively as the Obama administration has is seen as yet another ?scandal? these days. But not everyone agrees.
?Veteran prosecutors have a far more measured response: It?s complicated,? writes Politico?s James Hohmann.
?These lawyers recognize the threats to a free press but say the dangers of national security leaks ? and the difficulties in finding the leakers ? sometimes force the government?s hand,? Hohmann writes. ?The actions of the Obama administration were unusual and deserve careful scrutiny, they say, but do not automatically equal a clear-cut abuse of power.?
?I don?t think it?s a scandal,? John Dean, Richard Nixon?s White House counsel who served jail time for his role in the Watergate cover-up, told Hohmann. ?It?s certainly not Nixonian.?
It may not be Nixonian as Washington scandals go, but it spotlights the administration?s attitude toward leakers that?s gotten more criticism than praise.
?But the man who U.S. officials believe designed and built the underwear bombs, Ibrahim Nasiri, remains at large,? observes Ken Dilanian of the LA Times. ?Finding him would have been a top goal of the operation with the informant.?
RECOMMENDED: How much do you know about the US Constitution? A quiz.
Related stories
Read this story at csmonitor.com
Become a part of the Monitor community
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/did-associated-press-blow-al-qaeda-informants-cover-204613666.html
adrian peterson chicago bears netflix george h w bush Belk Led Zeppelin Ned Rocknroll
Prison Planet.com ? Flashback: 20% Of Human Genome Already ...
Anthony Gucciardi
Prison Planet.com
May 17, 2013
With all of the discussion surrounding Angelina Jolie and her decision to remove her breasts due to a mutation of the patented BRCA-1 gene, we must remember the real issue here ? a massive amount of human genetic coding is already owned by major corporations and universities. And it may get much worse.
At the base level, the fact that our genes can be ?owned? by mega firms and universities that are willing to ?buy? them is extremely concerning. The thought invokes several comparisons to the film?Gattaca, where ?designer? children are created through genetic manipulation of humanity at large. But the fact of the matter is that over the past 30 years alone, over?40,000 gene patents have been generated and approved. Quite simply, the blueprint of humanity is being purchased like a commodity.
Even?National Geographic News published a little-known piece back in 2005, entitled ?One-Fifth of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study Reveals?. And if the Supreme Court decides to let this go on, then we could see what I am calling??gene wars? take place within the corrupt corporate sector of the United States. Gene wars that involve bidding wars over the essence of human development itself, with only the richest and most cunning corporations?getting their hands on your genetic coding.?That is unless the government decides to take the gene patents for itself.
Gene Wars: The government plays God
Beyond even the debate about what this means for humanity, consider the fact that for the corporations to be able to ?buy? the ownership of genes means that the entity granting the approval must therefore have the authority over the genes in the first place. This means that the government, legally, is ?granting access? to companies to patent the genetics only through proclaiming that it has the authority to do so. Thegovernment is therefore legally saying that they literally can rule over our genetic code ? our bodies themselves.
And if the government rules over the essence of what we are and can let corporations buy up the blueprint of life, then?we now have a government that has declared itself to be God. And we then have a population that is?walking intellectual property.
By June we should see the?answer from the Supreme Court on whether or not the government ?should allow? patents on genes. Again we see this concept that the government has the authority to do so, that they have the ability to grant out the ownership of humanity. A concept that the Supreme Court justices may likely uphold, if the past is any indication. Right now we even have Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court justice who was the?former top lawyer for Monsanto ? the biotechnology company that is centered around genetic manipulation and the patents associated with genetically modified seeds.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Monsanto?s good buddy Clarence always rules in favor of genetic modification, and the Supreme Court at large?recently voted in favor of Monsanto?s patents on life in a blow against farmers. Sadly, if they decide to follow their similar and truly insane pattern and allow for corporations to patent life further,?expect gene wars to become a reality.
This post originally appeared at Story Leak
This article was posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 4:19 am
Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/flashback-20-of-human-genome-already-patented-by-corporations.html
garbage pail kids st bonaventure ncaa tournament 2012 peyton manning 49ers andy pettitte tyler clementi kevin kolb
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)