How is it an online survey serves as news?

How is it I missed this completely?

Got this in my Inbox ->

Demand that FDA regulate all genetically engineered animals!

The FDA just approved and deregulated a new GMO cow -- meaning it can enter the market without any required assessment or oversight to protect our health, environment, or animal welfare. This sets a dangerous precedent for other GMO animals to enter our food system with no regulation -- such as pigs and chickens, engineered to withstand crowded, polluting, and inhumane factory farms.

https://action.foe.org/page/43654/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=1383022

After doing a little searching online, I found this ->

https://gmo.news/2022-03-24-fda-approves-genetically-engineered-cows-beef-production.html

GMO HAMBURGERS? FDA approves genetically engineered cows for beef production

While the world is distracted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has quietly approved gene-edited (GMO) animals to enter the food market.

The FDA reportedly fast-tracked approval for genetically engineered cows to start producing transgenic beef for the American market. A company called Recombinetics modified cattle to make their coats shorter and slicker, which helps them to better withstand heat stress and gain more weight, thus producing more meat.

Brazil was going to allow a herd of Recombinetics’ gene-edited cattle to enter its food market back in 2019. However, that plan was scrapped after “unexpected DNA changes” were discovered.

As usual, long-term safety studies on the gene-edited cows and their meat have never been conducted. But when has a lack of science ever stopped the FDA from approving deadly new products from the biotechnology industry?

Thanks to FDA corruption, and a lack of input and protest from Americans, the world’s first gene-edited burgers could be hitting American dinner plates in as little as two short years.

“This is the FDA’s first low-risk determination for enforcement discretion for an IGA [intentional genomic alteration] in an animal for food use,” the FDA proudly announced.

 

 

 

 

An interesting view on music.

I'm fairly hard-pressed to disagree -> https://azpianonews.blogspot.com/2022/07/music-language-rhythm-melody-harmony-report.html

A gross, illegal, and horrific reminder that non-white males (especially black men) are viewed as utterly disposable in the US capitalist system.

Yeah  - next time some white (usually female) tries to poke fun at how 'dorky'  they are, remind them of this most recent form of racial and primarily gender-based torture and murder.

https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/12/new-research-finds-cia-used-black-americans-as-drugs-experiment-guinea-pigs/

Just as CIA researchers devalued the lives of Black Americans and prison inmates, so to have academics ever since, even if unconsciously. Contemporarily, Strauss notes, scholars remain intensely uninterested in how non-White individuals respond to mental health treatments. She points to a recent study that found over 80% of participants in modern psychedelic research studies are non-Hispanic White.

“Psychedelic research, psychology and academia as a whole are still White-dominated fields. In 2015, over 85% of psychologists in the U.S. were White, and less than 5% were Black. A Black psychologist, Dr. Monnica Williams, was the first to investigate the research abuses and ethical violations in MKULTRA,” Strauss tells MintPress. “I think the real question is, why didn’t anybody else investigate these glaring research injustices?”

Even more shockingly, while the morality of scientists and medical professionals using inhumane and illegal Nazi research continues to be hotly debated, no such concerns are apparent in respect of the highly unethical and fundamentally racist MKULTRA studies examined by Strauss and her team; they continue to be cited as legitimate academic work today.

Strauss hopes their paper will trigger a wider debate about the ways in which research abuses have impacted and continue to impact people of color and how mental health research can become more socially responsible and culturally competent.

 

However, this part of the article I strenuously disagree with: 

More generally, there is clearly a pressing need for an official MKULTRA truth and reconciliation committee.

No. There needs to be criminal investigation into wrongdoing that was done. And the current institution known as the CIA  should be made accountable for its past crimes.

When time passes without justice for the victims, so too does any responsibility.

 

Testing, testing, testing.

The wonderful world of testing a new light-rail system.

https://rem.info/en/news/2022-schedule-new-testing-sequence

Somehow I don't think the psuedo-left in Canada cares much about this.

We know the establishment and right-wing certainly don't:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/12/grbl-a12.html

And what do you think is the cause?

Why it's Canada's brand of capitalism:

A CP Rail worker speaking anonymously to the World Socialist Web Site recalled the company’s systematic drive to cut corners prior to the Field derailment in order to increase productivity as part of its precision scheduled railroading (PSR) system.

“Pre-departure brake testing, to my personal knowledge, was dire in terms of a lack of strict adherence to testing protocol,” he said. “The problem here is not that testing was insufficient in terms of what was being tested, it is because it was not being properly accomplished. After one particular incident in which I caught mechanical inspectors fudging a brake test, they apologized to me and explained that management only allowed them a minute and a half per car, which is nowhere near enough time to complete the process properly. CP came up with various mechanisms designed to circumvent proper testing, such as claiming certain trains bypassed the requirement when that was far from the truth. In addition, crews were lambasted and intimidated into noncompliance with testing requirements. I was once suspended for insisting that I complete the tests, which was viewed as me deliberately delaying a train—an utter fallacy.

“Railways are obsessed with cutting down dwell times in yards (the amount of time a train is stationary while en route for testing, crew change offs etc.), because this directly undermines the PSR model. This is the profit model that strangles any semblance of rail safety.”

 

Just in case you forgot - the upcoming Climate Catastrophe is still headed our way.

Hey! Get a load of all these media outlets that are in bed with the CIA.

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/09/establishment-daily-beast-rolling-stone-intelligence-ties/

The CIA’s consolidation of power over mainstream media and social media may be on the verge of accomplishing the agency’s ultimate ambition: after 70 years engineering coups d’états against the world’s democracies, the CIA, this year, may have finally achieved the ultimate triumph — the controlled demolition of American democracy and the obliteration of our Constitution.

Fucking ugly.