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"AN ACT prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation."Last month, Republican legislators in New Hampshire introduced a bill that would ban the “intentional release” of chemicals into the air.The legislation, called “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act,” prohibits “the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.”It also provides penalties for violations.The legislation is sponsored by Republican state Representatives Jason Gerhard (Merrimack-25) and Kelley Potenza (Strafford-19).The representatives argue that atmospheric geoengineering harms...

Now that the pandemic has ended, researchers are urging regulatory agencies to consider the safety issues associated with the rapid approval of COVID-19 vaccines—and to correctly classify messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines as gene therapy products (GTPs) to prevent pharmaceutical companies from bypassing regulatory standards. According to a paper published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on June 22, COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, by mode and action, are gene therapy products and should adhere to different regulatory standards. Yet U.S. and European regulatory agencies have not classified COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as gene therapy products, which has allowed them to be regulated...

In an effort to curb so-called global warming, the Biden administration is coordinating research into the feasibility and efficacy of blocking out the sun, at least partially. On March 15, President Joe Biden signed Congress' "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022" into law, providing funding for a five-year research plan to be coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OTSP). The OTSP, whose deputy director for Climate and Environment was recently sanctioned by the National Academy of Sciences, will work in concert with relevant federal agencies on its "scientific assessment of solar and other rapid climate interventions in...

After receiving responses to open records requests, State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R–Royse City) released findings from an investigation led by his office revealing that public Texas medical schools have been teaching child gender modification. “Repeatedly, the people of Texas have been told, ‘This kind of thing isn’t going on in Texas.’ And yet, the exact opposite is true,” Slaton said. “Not only are young children being subjected to barbaric gender-modification practices like surgeries and puberty-blocking drugs on a daily basis, but these practices are being taught to the next generation of doctors in some of our public medical schools.” The...

I love my digital devices, but people keep telling me to worry more about my privacy. "Encrypt your emails!" "Drop Google and use search engines like DuckDuckGo that don't track us!" I probably should. But I don't. I'm lazy, and I like that web companies know me and show me things I'm interested in. I like that they display "restaurants near me." "You do not understand the way that that system is being used against you," says whistleblower Edward Snowden in my new video. Snowden is in exile in Russia because he revealed how the NSA spied on us and...

Forget extreme plastic surgery, tattoos and piercings - a minority are taking body modification to the next level - by voluntarily cutting off their own limbs. A body modifier has exclusively revealed how his "extra" limbs feel alien, and has resorted to the drastic measure of self-mutilation - because he actually want to be disabled. Dr. Michael First, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, has led investigations into this bizarre and extremely rare psychiatric condition which he is calling body integrity identity disorder (BIID). Also known as amputee identity disorder, it gives people a fierce desire to rid themselves...

Remember the sci-fi thriller GATTACA? For those who never saw the film and/or eschewed all pop culture in the late 90’s for some reason, it was a popular movie that came out in 1997 about genetically modified human beings. Now some literally genetically modified human babies born that same year are entering their senior year of high school. The first successful transfer of genetic material for this purpose was published in a U.S. medical journal in 1997 and then later cited in a Human Reproduction publication in 2001. Scientists injected 30 embryos in all with a third person’s genetic material....

As I discussed at the American Action Forum with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Jared Bernstein and Jason Gold, there are 14 Administration mortgage modification programs (including the Attorneys General Settlement). And the Administration keeps insisting on MORE programs such as principal reductions and HARP 2.0 Supersized! The Administration is even ADVERTISING their refinancing programs. Of course, the last line is absolutely false. SOMEONE pays for loan modifications and principal reductions and those people are investors such as banks, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, pension funds (yes, even Clark Griswold will have to pay for Cousin Eddie’s loan modification and principal reduction). In order...

I’m sort of inured to pain by this point. Anesthetic is illegal for people like me, so we learn to live without it; I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife to carve a cavity into the tip of my index finger. I’m an idiot, but I’m an idiot working in the name of progress: I’m Lepht Anonym, scrapheap transhumanist. I work with what I can get. Sadly, they don’t do it like that on TV. The art of improving the human is shiny and bright in the...

Atlanta – The Obama administration announced Friday that its much-lauded mortgage modification plan has had a disappointing start, helping far fewer Americans stay in their homes than originally hoped. Intended to bolster struggling homeowners, the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) has permanently helped only 66,000 homeowners out of 4 million that may be eligible. As foreclosures are expected to rise from 2.8 million in 2009 to 3 million in 2010, analysts expect the Obama administration to modify the modification program to keep it from becoming another major political issue in a year when Democrats are facing a growing anti-spending sentiment...

I found this article on Bloomberg: http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20603037&sid=a_Ym1WM6UboU Part of it mentiones Mark Zandi, owner of Economy.com, who is the Pelosi's and Zero's informal economic advisor proposes a program whereby if a bank cuts the principal balance of an underwater loan the government will cover half the costs of that cramdown. The perfect vehicle to shovel taxpayer money for this bailout would be through Fannie and Freddie. Zandi's proposal would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars perhaps trillions.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, May 16, 2006 – The U.S. Air Force recently awarded a $180-million contract to the Boeing Company to upgrade the fire-control radar on the service's fleet of 67 B-1B long-range bomber aircraft. The nine-year Reliability and Maintainability Improvement Program, or RMIP, will replace two, high-failure rate line-replaceable units that make up the current AN/APQ-164 radar system in an effort to improve its R&M performance.According to U.S. Air Force Col. Paul Clark, commander of the B-1 Systems Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, the RMIP System Development and Demonstration is the first significant radar...

- Plan to breed and sterilise millions of male insects - Leader says project almost ready for testing in wild Genetically modified mosquitoes could soon be released into the wild in an attempt to combat malaria. Scientists at Imperial College London, who created the GM insects, say they could wipe out natural mosquito populations and save thousands of lives in malaria-stricken regions. Led by Andrea Crisanti, the team added a gene that makes the testicles of the male mosquitoes fluorescent, allowing the scientists to distinguish and easily separate them from females. The plan is to breed, sterilise and release millions...

Charles Darwin, the 19th century geologist who wrote the treatise 'The Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection' defined evolution as "descent with modification". Darwin hypothesized that all forms of life descended from a common ancestor, branching out over time into various unique life forms, due primarily to a process called natural selection. However, the fossil record shows that all of the major animal groups (phyla) appeared fully formed about 540 million years ago, and virtually no transitional life forms have been discovered which suggest that they evolved from earlier forms. This sudden eruption of multiple, complex organisms is...

S 517 IS 109th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 517To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 3, 2005 Mrs. HUTCHISON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation A BILLTo establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Weather Modification Research and Technology...

Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board - Bill S517 Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005 - (Introduced in Senate) S 517 IS 109th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 517 To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 3, 2005 Mrs. HUTCHISON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (snip)A BILL To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives...

--More than 20 women have signed up for what is likely to be the world's first pageant for surgically enhanced beauties, which is to be held in China in November. Participants come not just from China, but also from South Korea, Japan and Malaysia. CRIENGLISH.com reported Friday. To ensure that no one is cheating, all contestants will have to present certification from their doctors proving that they have indeed gone under the knife. But at the same time, perhaps in an effort to prevent bungled rush jobs, the organizer also requires that all participating "man-made beauties" had their last surgery...

In 1950, .. Dr. Howell, who participated in early scientific research into cloud seeding set up shop at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn using a police airplane to sprinkle silver iodide crystals into clouds over the Catskill watershed. Rains came and the reservoirs began to rise. ... Just last week, the National research Council issued a report on a two-year $1.1 million cloud seeding effort in Colorado.

One of the first experiments to test the impact of genetically modified crops on the environment has found that insects and farmland birds can flourish in GM fields that under conventional farming would be wildlife deserts. Scientists monitoring plots of GM sugar beet have recorded a significant increase in spiders, beetles and other insects that provide important food for the nestlings of skylarks, lapwings and partridges. They claim in a study published today in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B that GM crops engineered to be resistant to broad-spectrum herbicides could be better for wildlife than conventional crops doused with...