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Post by artemis on Apr 20, 2013 18:14:36 GMT -5
FULIANNE as recently shown
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Post by artemis on Apr 25, 2013 15:43:28 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Apr 29, 2013 20:14:07 GMT -5
Is this a British "freelancer" bio-experiment, child abuse horror story, or is there more to this story, as in a covert USA-UK state project?
Mother in UK forced 14-year-old to get pregnant By JILL LAWLESS | Associated Press – 10 hrs ago..
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LONDON (AP) — A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British judge said.
In a ruling reported for the first time Monday, High Court judge Peter Jackson said the mother had behaved in "a wicked and selfish way" that almost defied belief.
The judge said the woman, an American divorcee living in Britain with three adopted children, hatched the plan after she was prevented from adopting a fourth.
The scheme involved getting her oldest daughter to inseminate herself with syringes of sperm purchased over the Internet from a Denmark-based company, Cryos International.
Jackson said the daughter, identified only as A, "became pregnant at the mother's request, using donor sperm bought by the mother, with the purpose of providing a fourth child for the mother to bring up as her own."
In his ruling, the judge quoted the teenager as saying said she was shocked by the suggestion, but thought, "If I do this ... maybe she will love me more."
"My mum is a very determined person and she does her best not to let anything get in her way if she wants it," the teenager added.
The judge said the mother also made the teenager use douches of vinegar or lemon and lime juice in hopes of increasing her chances of having a girl.
The judge said it was likely but not certain that the daughter soon became pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. After six more attempts with the donor sperm, she gave birth to a baby boy in July 2011, when she was 17.
But midwives at the hospital became alarmed by the odd behavior of A's mother. Her daughter wanted to breastfeed the baby, but her mother said: "We don't want any of that attachment thing."
The hospital alerted the authorities, and the children were taken into foster care. The mother is now serving a five-year jail term for child cruelty.
Details of the case were heard during proceedings at the family division of the High Court over the children's future last year. They were reported for the first time Monday after several British media organizations, including the publisher of The Guardian newspaper, challenged reporting restrictions.
A court order bars identifying the family members in order to protect the children.
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Post by artemis on Apr 30, 2013 2:49:57 GMT -5
I dont know but its horrifying. Eugenics badly needed and such cases would not happen. All imbeciles breed, yeah, how nice.... Guess who suffers?
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Post by artemis on Apr 30, 2013 8:32:32 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on May 11, 2013 6:11:27 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on May 19, 2013 15:43:27 GMT -5
OMAR BENSON MILLER vs. FOREST WHITAKER
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Post by artemis on May 23, 2013 14:40:21 GMT -5
"Cannes: Psy Impersonator Tricks Festival Organizers, Partygoers
A man pretending to be the “Gangnam Style†singer attended several exclusive events at the festival.
Will the real Psy please stand up?
Plenty of celebrities have made their way to Cannes over the past week and a half, but one music star -- who many thought made an appearance -- did not.
Psy, singer of the hit “Gangnam Style†was spotted all over town, attending festival parties and events and posing for photos with fest-goers and other celebrities.
But it turns out that the man was not Psy at all, but rather an imposter using his name and fame to get access to the festival.
“Seems like there's another ME at cannes ... say Hi to him,†tweeted the real Psy on Wednesday. The musician, who did make an appearance in Cannes in January, has been busy in the U.S., attending the Billboard music awards, and visiting Live with Kelly and Michael.
The fake Psy painted the French town red for two days, enjoying a day at the Martinez beach restaurant, and partying at night at the Carlton hotel.
Photo service FilmMagic posted photos labeling the man Psy as he was escorted by security to the Martinez hotel on May 21. He was wearing a blue blazer, white pants and Psy’s signature sunglasses. The labels on the photos were changed after news broke that the man was an imposter.
Many partygoers were also duped by the man, with plenty of images popping up on Twitter of people posing with the imposter.
Skyfall actress Naomie Harris also fell for the act, tweeting an image of herself posing with faux Psy at the Chopard party on May 21.
Organizers of the fest did not immediately returns THR’s request for comment".
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Post by beatlies on May 28, 2013 11:25:39 GMT -5
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Post by beatlies on Jun 21, 2013 21:05:02 GMT -5
The key, ominous point that otherwise gets lost in the vaguely reassuring headline. An EXCEP$ION:
"Justices say [human] DNA that goes beyond gene extraction can be patented"
Justices rule human genes cannot be patented
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 4:31 p.m. EDT June 13, 2013
Supreme Court decision is a win for women with genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancers, as well as geneticists and researchers who had criticized a Utah company's exclusive patent.
(Photo: Erich Schlegel for USA TODAY)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Decision frees up research into genetic risk for breast, ovarian cancer
Justices say DNA that goes beyond gene extraction can be patented
Only cases on race, same-sex marriage loom as more far-reaching
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a decision with both immediate benefits for some breast and ovarian cancer patients and long-lasting repercussions for biotechnology research.
The decision represents a victory for cancer patients, researchers and geneticists who claimed that a single company's patent raised costs, restricted research and sometimes forced women to have breasts or ovaries removed without sufficient facts or second opinions.
But the court held out a lifeline to Myriad Genetics, the company with an exclusive patent on the isolated form of genes that can foretell an increased genetic risk of cancer. The justices said it can patent a type of synthesized DNA that goes beyond extracting the genes from the body.
[rightwing, GOP, corporate-puppet-] Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the decision for a unanimous court. "Myriad did not create anything," Thomas said. "To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention."
The decision will allow other scientists and laboratories to provide genetic diagnostic testing, now that the patent on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes themselves has been lifted. That should lead to lower costs and greater access.
"It is splendid news for patients, for physicians, for scientists and for common sense," Mary-Claire King, the geneticist who in 1990 discovered the abnormality on chromosome 17 that proved to be the breast cancer gene, told USA TODAY. "The marketplace will now be open."
Myriad emphasized the bright side of the decision for the company — that cDNA, which is not naturally occurring, remains patentable. As a result, it said, 24 patents containing more than 500 valid claims remain in effect.
"More than 250,000 patients rely upon our BRACAnalysis test annually, and we remain focused on saving and improving peoples' lives and lowering overall health care costs," said Peter Meldrum, the company's president and CEO.
THOUSANDS OF PATENTS INVALIDATED
The complex scientific case was perhaps the most important on the high court's calendar other than its more celebrated cases involving same-sex marriage, voting rights and affirmative action.
And unlike those cases, which are expected to divide the court sharply along ideological lines, the controversial concept of gene patenting gave all nine justices something to agree on.
The decision was based on past patent cases before the high court in which the justices ruled that forces of nature, as opposed to products of invention, are not patent-eligible.
"Jonas Salk once said that the polio vaccine could not be patented -- it belonged to the public," said Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., a microbiologist and leader on genetic issues. "I am pleased the Supreme Court has applied this same standard to all genetic material."
Since 1984, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted more than 40,000 patents tied to genetic material. About one-fourth of the 22,000 human genes have been patented -- patents that are now invalidated. That could open up competition in genetic testing for diseases ranging from Duchenne muscular dystrophy to inheritable heart arrhythmia.
Still, the bulk of the biotechnology industry's products are not affected by the ruling, said Lawrence Brody of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Armed with its patents, Myriad has tested more than 1 million women since the late 1990s for mutations that often lead to breast and ovarian cancer. Most women who want testing must pay its price — $3,340 for the breast cancer analysis and $700 for an additional test that picks up a genetic link in about 10% of women who test negative the first time. Myriad officials say about 95% of its patients receive insurance coverage, often without co-payments, so that most patients pay only about $100.
Myriad and a broad array of industry trade groups argued that without patent protection, research and development would dry up. Doctors, geneticists, women's health groups and cancer patients contended that competition would lower prices, improve outcomes and lead to more discoveries.
"The court struck down a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation," said Sandra Park, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Women's Rights Project, which filed the original lawsuit. "Myriad did not invent the BRCA genes and should not control them.
"Because of this ruling, patients will have greater access to genetic testing, and scientists can engage in research on these genes without fear of being sued," Park said.
COST OF TESTING SLASHED BY 75 PERCENT
Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist who became the last remaining plaintiff in the case, heralded the decision as "thrilling" and predicted it would slash the cost of breast and ovarian cancer testing for women with a genetic risk from $4,000 to less than $1,000. That will make it more available to lower-income women and those without quality health insurance, he said.
As if to make Ostrer a prophet, by late afternoon a Houston-based genetics testing company called DNATraits, a division of Gene by Gene, said it would offer the test for $995.
Karuna Jaggar, executive director of Breast Cancer Action, hailed the decision as one that put "patients' health before corporate profits."
"This ruling makes a huge and immediate difference for women with a known or suspected inherited risk of breast cancer," Jaggar said. "And it is a tremendous victory for all people everywhere. The Supreme Court has taken a significant stand to limit the rights of companies to own human genes by striking down Myriad's monopoly."
The two sides had battled to a draw in lower courts: A federal district court in New York sided with the patent's challengers, while a divided court of appeals that handles patent cases ruled for the company.
During oral argument in April, the court was presented with opposite interpretations of Myriad's contribution to genetic research. Christopher Hansen, the lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union representing the patent's challengers, said Myriad had invented "nothing." Myriad's attorney, Gregory Castanias, said the company created "a new molecule that had never been known to the world."
The justices generally agreed that Myriad deserved credit for its process of isolating the gene and its use — but not for the gene itself. "In isolation, it has no value," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. "It's just nature sitting there."
Thomas' decision was slightly more diplomatic. "We merely hold that genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible ... simply because they have been isolated from the surrounding genetic material," he said.
The compromise that emerged Thursday was evident during that 65-minute debate. Several of the more conservative justices said a complete denial of patent rights could jeopardize investments by other biotechnology companies — and that could limit progress on a range of research, from agriculture to the environment.
University of Michigan professor Shobita Parthasarathy said that compromise is significant, since scientists still must contend with gene patents. "This will likely continue to have a deleterious effect on genetics research and access to health care in the United States," she said.
Contributing: Dan Vergano and Liz Szabo in McLean, Va.
Follow @richardjwolf on Twitter.
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Post by beatlies on Jun 21, 2013 21:42:28 GMT -5
New Matt Damon Movie Reveals Mankind’s Transhumanist Destiny
Infowars | June 19, 2013
By Paul Joseph Watson
Elysium, a new movie starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, depicts what many futurists have long predicted is mankind’s ultimate destiny – the division of the human race into two new class systems – a transhumanist elite that centralizes technological progress to achieve utopia, and a massive underclass left to rot on a dying planet ruled by robotic drones.
The trailer for the movie, set to be released on August 9 in the US, begins by depicting an army of robot drones in control of policing that shake down and beat citizens for trivial “violations”. The year is 2154. When Damon’s character expresses anger at his treatment, he is offered a pill to calm him by a robotic bureaucrat. Any form of dissent is treated as “abusive”.
“Humanity is divided between two worlds,” reads the caption, explaining that most of humanity is left to reside on an overpopulated, collapsing earth while the super elite have developed a gargantuan and luxurious off-planet space habitat called Elysium where war, poverty, hunger and disease are non-existent.
Damon’s character is forced to undergo cybernetic enhancements before he can lead a mission to Elysium in order to find a cure for a cancer virus he has contracted. The movie is also clearly designed to be a political jibe at anti-immigration activists.
However, many of the themes of Elysium are clearly lifted from the work of futurists like Ray Kurzweil, who in his book The Age of Spiritual Machines predicted the body scanner depicted in the trailer which eliminates cancer cells.
Kurzweil’s 1999 book, which successfully foresaw the invention of the iPhone, the iPad, Google Glass, iTunes, You Tube and on demand services like Netflix as well as the Kindle, predicts that by 2029 the vast majority of humans will have augmented their bodies with cybernetic implants and those who refuse or are unable to do so will form a “human underclass” that is not productively engaged in the economy.
The wider trend of the elite seeing humans as completely expendable as their roles are taken up by machines unfolds after 2029 when, “There is almost no human employment in production, agriculture, and transportation,” writes Kurzweil.
By 2099, the entire planet is run by artificially intelligent computer systems which are smarter than the entire human race combined – similar to the Skynet system fictionalized in the Terminator franchise.
Humans who resist the pressure to alter their bodies by becoming part-cyborg will be ostracized from society.
“Even among those human intelligences still using carbon-based neurons, there is ubiquitous use of neural implant technology, which provides enormous augmentation of human perceptual and cognitive abilities. Humans who do not utilize such implants are unable to meaningfully participate in dialogues with those who do,” writes Kurzweil.
One of the most prescient voices of dissent against this future – despite his murderous actions – was Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who is widely quoted by futurists like Kurzweil and Bill Joy as sagely outlining the dangers posed to the general public by the elite’s drive for technological singularity, as depicted in the Elysium movie.
“Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite,” wrote Kaczynski in his manifesto.
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Post by beatlies on Jul 1, 2013 10:48:29 GMT -5
[Catholic World News]
IVF researchers produce human embryos from 3 donors
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Researchers in the US and England are reporting initial success in experiments in which they produced human embryos from three adult donors.
The experiments, reported in Nature magazine, used in vitro fertilization techniques to take DNA from a mother and father, but insert it in an egg furnished by another woman. The technique could be used, the scientists explained, to avoid diseases carried by the mother’s mitochondria, which is contained in the egg cell.
Researchers said that all of the embryos produced in the experiments appeared normal. The embryos were destroyed, however, before being implanted in a woman’s uterus.
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Three-person IVF trial 'success' (BBC)
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The USA/Britain's horrendously unethical and dangerous new human infant experiments in this area are back in the "open" news this week; now what have they been doing in secret for the past seventy years?
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