About 2/3rds of the way through this video on high tech safety, watch how UW scientists, working with colleagues at U Colorado show how bacteria can add new genes to plants! These genes are designed to detect bombs at the airports![...]
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Initiative 522 … labelling “GMO” foods.
Yesterday’s NY Times had a very balanced discussion of the issue of glyphosphate, “RoundUp.” I mention this because I have been responding to a thread on a “progressive” listserv. The author of the thread is campaigning for our state’s initiative “522[...]
2024: Trump’s in! What to expect
Trump launched a comeback bid on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, with his usual fact-free bombast and braggadoccio. His hour-long rant, carried live only by Fox and CNN, was filled with lies, exaggerations, and distortions (for examples, see story here). It also put people to sleep; both Fox and CNN cut[...]
April 1st, 2020 - 12:01 am § in Misc.
Amazon HQ2 Locates in Kennewick .. with wine!
Amazon plans a job fair this May 12 to hire its first 100 full-time staff for the new HQ2 from our local workers! (Tri-City Herald) The world, especially Seattle’s world, was astonished when Mr. Bezos announced that Amazon would open its new wpr;d wide headquaters 2,” in Kennewick, WA.[...]
Trump Gave China A Historic Win
Trump’s Now Fired Economist, Gary Cohn, says we lost! Years ago, when Gorbachev was the head of the USSR, I listened to an interview where he explained why the USSR had no choice but to abandon its empire in Eastern Europe. Gorbachev pointed out that the competition launched by his predecessor[...]
China’s Ministry of Truth
Minitrue: Delete Parodies of Jack Ma’s 996 Comments CHINA Digital Times, reports: The following censorship instructions were issued to the media by government authorities. The China Digital Times obtained the leaked text from an issuing body whose name has been omitted to protect the source. All[...]
July 6th, 2019 - 8:12 am § in The Ave Scene
SEATTLE’S REVENGE: Steve Balmer Makes His Move
So the second CEO of Microsoft retired and bought himself a basketball team that was not very good and was down there in LA. Then Balmer made a deal, shaking up the NBA immediately moving his team, the Clippers , from the league’s most long-sufferingand hard-luck franchises to a competitive lev[...]
July 3rd, 2019 - 10:02 am § in Russia
Red Oktober Comes in July
The Russian authorities say an explosion on a Russian submarine , within Russian territorial waters has killed 14 sailors. The submarine is identified as AS-12 (nicknamed LOSHARIK). President Putin said seven of the 14 were captains and that two of the dead had received high military honors[...]
June 26th, 2019 - 8:15 am § in Politics
A list of REPUBLICAN Businesses!
Do what you will! A Republican page on FACEBOOK this AM asked for a list of Republican-owned businesses. Here it is for anyone’s interest! JoAnne Butzerin In our city Republican-owned businesses have to hide the fact that they are Republicans. Otherwise they would go out of business–[...]
GMO Discovery Awarded World Food Prize
While Voters Here Must Decide on Initiative 522 to Require Labeling Any Genetically Engineered Food, three Monsanto scientists, Marc Van Montagu, Rob Fraley, and Mary Dell Chilton received this year’s prestigious Norman Borlaug Lecture and World Food Prize, Thursday, Oct. 17 in Iowa. They r[...]