Gene drives use genetic engineering to create a desired mutation in a few individuals that then spreads via mating throughout a population in fewer than 10 generations. Now, a Cornell study, "A Toxin-Antidote CRISPR Gene Drive System for Regional Population Modification," published Feb. 27 in the journal Nature Communications, describes a new type of gene drive with the potential to delay resistance.
Putin signs Arctic master plan - The strategic document paves way for a massive industrialization of the country's far north.
"The document covers the period until year 2035. It was approved by government and the national Security Council in late 2019. The new strategic plan pinpoints the country’s key national priorities in the Arctic. It strengthens national sovereignty and territorial integrity, promotes peace, stability and mutually beneficial partnerships, and highlights high life standards for the regional population."
A fugitive Malaysian financier wanted over a massive graft scandal has been spotted in the city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, police said, although it was unclear if he had left before Chinese authorities imposed a lockdown. Low Taek Jho - known as Jho Low - is accused of playing a major role in plundering billions of dollars from sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
"If China retaliates against the United States at this time, in addition to announcing a travel ban on the United States, it will also announce strategic control over medical products and ban exports to the US. Then the United States will be caught in the ocean of new corona viruses. "
Aum Shinrikyo: The intersection of Cult, Bio-Terror, PSI and Madness
"Asahara recruited scientists more actively than he did any other group. His enthousiasm about science undoubtedly was connected with his lust for murderous weapons. But the guru also wished to consider himself a scientist and once declared, "A religion which cannot be scientifically proven is fake." He was especially interested in brainwaves and claimed that by studying them Aum could establish a scientific basis for the stages of spiritual attainment described by past Buddhist saints. With the help of Hideo Murai, his chief scientist, Aum introduced the use of a headset that purportedly contained the guru's brainwaves, which it transmitted to the disciple in a procedure known as the "perfect salvation initiation" (or PSI). The PSI, much revered in Aum, was meant to bring about the desired "cloning" of the guru by means of technology and science. There was also a strong element of science fiction in the PSI and other Aum projects, much of it actively fed by television. What took shape in Aum was a blending of science, occultism, and science fiction, with little distinction between the fictional and the actual." (via)
How to Fix Democracy - Interview with Constanze Stelzenmüller
"Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller is a German citizen with connections to the deep state/intelligence community. She has worked as a newspaper editor, leader of the Berlin office of the very CIA-close foundation German Marshall Fund of the United States, and from 2014, she works for the US Brookings Institution." (wikispooks)
From this seemingly never-ending news cycle to the results of the Event 201 simulation, it seems like everything having to do with the Coronavirus outbreak is plagued with uncertainty. But there is one, definite historical event people are pointing to explain their concern about how a global outbreak may happen: the 1918 flu. If you’re looking for a deep dive into this previously little discussed bout of mass disease, look no further than Netflix’s chilling docuseries Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak. (Trailer)
Large-scale social experiments are now ubiquitous, and conducted without public scrutiny. [...] There’s untold good that can be done by experimentation in the digital age. It can help us to identify ways of promoting healthier life styles. But where these experiments are being done away from public scrutiny, the ethos of science is compromised. The Big Tech companies can tell us their findings. I’m just not sure it’s enough to take their word for it.
Qihoo 360 discovered and revealed cyber-attacks by the CIA hacking group (APT-C-39) which lasts for eleven years against China. Several industry sectors have been targeted including aviation organizations, scientific research institutions, petroleum industry, Internet companies, and government agencies.
The Wireless Electromagnetic Method (WEM) project took 13 years to build but researchers said that it was finally ready to emit extremely low frequency radio waves, also known as ELF waves. Although the project has civilian applications – officially it will be used for earthquake and mineral detection and forms part of China's 11th five-year plan – it could also play a crucial role in military communications.
The new coronavirus (2019-nCoV / COVID19) has as of this date killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 80,000 around the globe, the vast majority of them in China. The virus has spread to at least 33 countries. What western media do not talk about is that with high probability the virus was man-made in one or several bio-warfare laboratories of which the Pentagon and CIA have about 400 around the world. But such high-security bio-labs also exist in Canada, the UK, Israel and Japan. Western media also are silent about the fact that the virus is directed specifically at the Chinese race, meaning, it targets specifically Chinese DNA.
The new coronavirus has an HIV-like mutation that means its ability to bind with human cells could be up to 1,000 times as strong as the Sars virus, according to new research.
European police have long had access to fingerprint and DNA databases throughout the 27 countries of the EU and, in certain cases, the US. But soon, that investigator may be able to also search a network of police face databases spanning the whole of EU and the U.S.
A growing number of states are deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track & surveil citizens. Carnegie’s new index explores how different countries are going about this.
If you had Donald Trump’s DNA, what would you do with it? An anonymous organization called the Earnest Project is offering the chance to own DNA samples of a handful of world leaders and celebrities. The group claims it has surreptitiously collected items discarded by attendees of the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that may contain their DNA. President Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Elton John all attended the conference.
#Comment: The privatisation and unchecked expansion of the capabilities of NSA & co in full swing. A tiny stepping stone towards shared open source intelligence, used by the general public for global peace making - or just more of the same old late capitalist paranoid bullshit?