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UK Bio-technology Newswire Archive

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Transhumanism, human “enhancement” and eugenics: day of information for action

28-02-2006 13:28

Transhumanism, human “enhancement” and eugenics: day of information for action

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Leaked full report From the WTO about GMO Dispute

28-02-2006 11:38

These 2 files make up a leaked copy of the secret draft ruling in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over GM foods.

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Memory Against Forgetting– An Open Letter on the "Green Scare"

28-02-2006 02:24

In the wake of the FBI "Operation Backfire" crackdown on Earth Liberation activists, how can the radical environmental movement resist infiltration and division and best defend to those already indicted, subpoenaed or harassed, as well as those indictments to come.

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Art Action: Seritypes

26-02-2006 05:22

Participants needed for art action

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Calling anybody interested in Permaculture

25-02-2006 21:09

Announcing a Permaculture wiki project

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Pro-vivisectionists group 'Pro-Test' gather to defend Oxford tortore lab

22-02-2006 15:24

Students and staff at Oxford University are to defy animal rights campaigners
and demonstrate in support of a controversial £163;20m research facility.

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Monsanto back track on terminator technology

21-02-2006 15:24

Monsanto May Commercialize Terminator:
Biotech Giant reverses pledge on GM Terminator Technology as global
alliance calls for a ban.

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More photos from Shell Occupation in Islington

19-02-2006 11:06

On the roof
Photos from the Occupation of the Shell garage on Upper Street, Saturday February 18, 2006.

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Biopirates: Bayer earns $379m from diabetes drug

19-02-2006 09:48

Bacteria harvested from Kenya are being used by a global pharmaceutical company to manufacture a multi-million dollar diabetes drug, although the country is not making a shilling from the entire enterprise, a dossier prepared by a respectable American think-tank says.

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Renewable energy: biofuels and local power generation

17-02-2006 16:02

An interesting renewable energy scheme based on farm waste is currently underway in Hampshire.

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Seedy Sunday Brighton 2006

13-02-2006 16:57

pumpkin var Zimbabwe
The fifth Seedy Sunday Brighton was held at the Old Market in Hove on Sunday 12 February 2006.

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Drug Testing Update

03-02-2006 19:49

Mandatory drugs testing is prevalent since Reagans war on drugs started. And drugs morality is being 'back-dated' with increases in technology.

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Sainsburys GM protests strike again

26-01-2006 22:40

The cows were back in town today when Sainsburys tried to have an uneventful champagne launch of a new store in North West London.

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Protest Simon Wessely lecture 25 Jan

20-01-2006 19:37

Prof Simon Wessely is employed by the MoD and NATO and heavily backed by corporate interests to deny the reality of chronic illnesses such as ME/CFS, Gulf War Illness, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and others.
Protest WED 25 Jan 5:30pm Gresham College Holborn, London

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(U.S.A.) Info on "Operation Backfire": FBI's ELF/ALF Witch Hunta

14-01-2006 16:48

On December 7th, 2005, 7 people across the U.S. were swept up in the FBI's "Operation Backfire," regarding 16 Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front actions. The ramifications of this FBI roundup are huge.

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EU MUST PROTECT CITIZENS AND ENVIRONMENT FROM GM RISK

11-01-2006 15:39

GUE/NGL is opposed to the cultivation of GMOs and strongly believes that coexistence of GM plants and conventional plants is not possible as they pose a potential threat to human, animal and plant health.

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US suspected of using Nepal soldiers as guinea pigs

09-01-2006 16:21

A fresh outcry has risen in the US and Nepal over what could be the American government's exploitation of Nepali soldiers as human guinea pigs to find a Hepatitis vaccine.

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California Turn Down Covance Lab Plans! The Attention Turns on Chandler

30-12-2005 17:35

Covance's new lab plans have been turned down in California, but not yet in Chandler, Arizona. Listed below are the contact details for all the departments within the City of Chandler Council. Please contact them about the new laboratory, which is planned to be the biggest Covance animal lab in the world. Remember to state the arguments which are listed on; www.savechandler.org . Covance MUST NOT be allowed to build the new laboratory.

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Iraq: Depleted Uranium aka Baghdad Boils?!

25-12-2005 20:58

"On the other hand, we know already from the first Gulf War that: "Soldiers who served in Bradley fighting vehicles, where it was common to sit on ammunition boxes where depleted uranium ammunition was stored, are now reporting that many have rectal cancer."

CONSEQUENCES:

Having recognized the previous facts we are left with the following consequences:

(1) Depleted uranium explains the changes in the Master Code in the DNA caused by Baghdad Boils much better than the 'sand flies’ (if the sand flies are not simply considered as an army code word for 'uranium particles’ or alike)."

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The Real Face of Terror

23-12-2005 10:39

Masking the truth
Balaclava-clad figures move about in sinister silence as they work towards their goal of completing Oxford University’s new ‘research’ facility. If completed, will see thousands of animals blinded, drugged, brain damaged, mutilated and ultimately killed.
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