En la ilegal Base Naval de Guantánamo matan con dryboarding (asfixia inducida)
por Ernesto Carmona
El periodista y escritor chileno Ernesto Carmona, publicó en "Mapuche press" el presente reportaje que recoge "Granma Internacional", periódico oficial del partido comunista cubano. Muchos de los visitantes de codondesastre tal vez sigan los episodios de la NCIS que se emiten en "La sexta". Pues bien, lo que cuenta Carmona va de NCIS pero no es una atractiva metáfora de la investigación forense en estado de gracia. Al parecer a los interrogadores militares de Guantánamo se les ha ido la mano en algunas ocasiones. Total, efectos colaterales (letales) de los interrogatorios.
"En junio del 2006 encontraron muertos a tres presos de Guantánamo, colgados en sus celdas con lo que parecían sogas improvisadas. Aunque el Departamento de Defensa declaró "muertes por suicidio", recientemente el Servicio Naval de Investigación Criminal (NCIS, por sus siglas en inglés) encontró pruebas contrarias al suicidio, incluyendo el hecho de que las manos de los presos estaban atadas a sus espaldas. Las pruebas del NCIS sugieren que los presos murieron en interrogatorios mortales que incluyeron la técnica de "asfixia controlada" llamada dryboarding en inglés, literalmente "embarque en seco", variantes del "submarino" utilizado en países como Chile bajo la dictadura militar, que consistía en asfixiar al prisionero con una bolsa plástica sobre su cabeza o inmersiones prolongadas con boca y nariz bajo el agua.
La noticia censurada, validada el 21 de noviembre del 2011 por la página web de la Fundación MediaFreedomInternational.org, indica que la prisión de la Base de Guantánamo despertó controversias desde que en el 2002 fue establecida como centro de detención e interrogatorio de "prisioneros de guerra" calificados así por la Administración Bush. Guantánamo es un territorio de Cuba ocupado ilegalmente por EE.UU. desde 1903.
La investigación del 2006 del NCIS se actualizó con publicidad reciente merced a una historia periodística reportada el 3 de noviembre del 2011 por el periodista de investigación Almerindo Ojeda, de Truthout, cuyo extenso trabajo sobre los informes del NCIS plantean demasiados cuestionamientos a la historia oficial originalmente presentada a la prensa por las autoridades estadounidenses de la época Bush. Muchos de los informes del NCIS dan lugar a las siguientes preguntas: (Consultar Granma Internacional)"
viernes, 28 de diciembre de 2012
jueves, 27 de diciembre de 2012
Senador estadounidense "cubano" favorable a las armas
 El senador de origen cubano Marco Rubio (quien sostiene la escopeta en la foto), es visto a menudo en ventas Barck Obama quiere sacar adelante una legislación que permita un mínimo de control a la tenencia de armas por la ciudadanía se las va a tener que ver con políticos de pro como el "cubano" Rubio que aparece en la foto. Anticastrista rabioso y furioso, no está dispuesto a renunciar a un derecho que de momento protege una enmienda constitucional. |
Los ricos (como el presunto Urda) son más sinverguenzas
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
- Edited* by Richard E. Nisbett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and approved January 26, 2012 (received for review November 8, 2011)Sras/Sres: no se trata de una mandanga anarcosindicalista ni de un artículo revolucionario tomado de Granma Internacional. El presente paper procede de "Nature". Y viene a decir que mientras más alta es la clase social que se analiza existe una mayor tendencia a asumir comportamientos poco éticos.
Va dedicado a la amplia colección de sinverguenzas, chorizos de Palma, prevaricadores varios, agiotistas, y banqueros especuladores españoles. Especialmente a aquellos pillos redomados que le han amargado la vida a personas poco instruidas y hasta crédulas a quienes les colocaron las famosas preferentes. En todos los países hay un nivel de corrupción que varía significativamente en función de la madurez democrática. En Spain es como si toda la porquería aflorara junta y revuelta. Que Dios nos coja confesados en 2013.
Abstract
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.
Los "top" de Nature 2012
La prestigiosa revista "Nature" ofrece una lista de 30 publicaciones significativas de 2012 y su impacto en los lectores. Algunos de dichos asuntos se han reseñado en codondesastre
pero la aparición de los "top" tiene por objetivo ofrecer una visión global de lo más trendy en ciencia.
pero la aparición de los "top" tiene por objetivo ofrecer una visión global de lo más trendy en ciencia.
- The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly(2,142 people tweeting; 9 on blogs; 3 reddit posts; 131 Facebook posts and 9 G+ direct DOI links).
- Association of coffee drinking with total and cause-specific mortality (1,620; 4; 11; 40; 18)
- Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women (a 1996 paper) (1,594; 6; 1; 90; 2)
- Food for thought. What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions (a 2009 paper) (1,606; 0; 0; 0; 0)
- Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact
(1,411; 11; 4; 38; 25) - Unilateral dermatoheliosis (1,124; 6; 1; 102; 57)
- Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (1,218; 3; 9; 7; 12)
- Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (1,029; 8; 21; 89; 32)
- Measuring the evolution of contemporary western popular music (908; 2; 5; 98; 23)
- Classic Nintendo games are (NP-)hard (904; 9; 4; 10; 62).
- An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome (730 readers)
- A whole-cell computational model predicts phenotype from genotype (569)
- Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks [protocols paper] (492)
- Is cancer a metabolic rebellion against host aging? In the quest for immortality, tumor cells try to save themselves by boosting mitochondrial metabolism [perspective] (477)
- Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere [review] (426)
- Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall (410)
- Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity [review] (389)
- Landscape of transcription in human cells (377)
- Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using up to 4.9 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC (140 citations).
- Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV (128)
- Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay (104)
- Intratumor heterogeneity and branched evolution revealed by multiregion sequencing (94)
- The Pfam protein families database (90)
- Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency (81)
- The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) (71)
- Observation of reactor electron antineutrinos disappearance in the RENO experiment (66)
- Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis (67)
- Tandem polymer solar cells featuring a spectrally matched low-bandgap polymer (64)
- The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes [review] (333)
- Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data (330)
lunes, 24 de diciembre de 2012
¿Amenazan la salud los transgénicos?
Cancer of Corruption, Seeds of Destruction: The Monsanto GMO Whitewash
By F. William Engdahl
Lean (si quieren) y juzgue por ustedes mismos/as si hay motivos para evitar los cultivos genéticamente modificados, como el famoso maíz transgénico de Monsanto. Ya en Estados Unidos hay un salmón transgénico que crece a la velocidad del rayo y que según sus diseñadores es más sano que el maná bendito. Personalmente sospecho, por método. Los organismos genéticamente manipulados son una mercancía muy golosa por sus propiedades comerciales pero ¿lo son igual para nuestra salud? Que ofrezcan datos a largo plazo y no mandangas.
Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/stench-of-eu-corruption-in-monsanto-gmo-whitewash/5316294
Because of the power vested in the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium, with command over a space encompassing 27 nations with more than 500 million citizens and the largest nominal world gross domestic product (GDP) of 18 trillion US dollars, it’s perhaps no surprise in this era of moral promiscuity that powerful private lobby groups such as the tobacco industry, the drug lobby, the agribusiness lobby and countless others spend enormous sums of money and other favors—legal and sometimes illegal—to influence policy decisions of the EU Commission.
This revolving door of corrupt ties between powerful private industry lobby groups and the EU Commission was in full view recently with the ruling of the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) trying to discredit serious scientific tests about the deadly effects of a variety of Monsanto GMO corn.
Cancer of Corruption
In September 2012, Food and Chemical Toxicology, a serious international scientific journal, released a study by a team of scientists at France’s Caen University led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini. Before publication the Seralini study had been reviewed over a four-month period by a qualified group of scientific peers for its methodology and was deemed publishable.
It was no amateur undertaking. The scientists at Caen made carefully-documented results of tests on a group of 200 rats over a two-year life span, basically with one group of non-GMO fed rats, a so-called control group, and the other a group of GMO-fed rats.
Significantly, following a long but finally successful legal battle to force Monsanto to release the details of its own study of the safety of its own NK603 maize (corn), Seralini and colleagues reproduced a 2004 Monsanto study published in the same journal and used by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its 2009 positive evaluation of NK603.
Seralini’s group based their experiment on the same protocol as the Monsanto study but, critically, were testing more parameters more frequently. And the rats were studied for much longer—their full two year average life-time instead of just 90 days in the Monsanto study. The long time span proved critical. The first tumors only appeared 4 to7 months into the study. In industry’s earlier 90-day study on the same GMO maize Monsanto NK603, signs of toxicity were seen but were dismissed as “not biologically meaningful” by industry and EFSA alike. It seems they were indeed very biologically meaningful.
The study was also done with the highest number of rats ever measured in a standard GMO diet study. They tested also “for the first time 3 doses (rather than two in the usual 90 day long protocols) of the Roundup-tolerant NK603 GMO maize alone, the GMO maize treated with Roundup, and Roundup alone at very low environmentally relevant doses starting below the range of levels permitted by regulatory authorities in drinking water and in GM feed.” [1]
Their findings were more than alarming. The Seralini study concluded, “In females, all treated groups died 2–3 times more than controls, and more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs...Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before controls; the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments. In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5–5.5 times higher. This pathology was confirmed by optic and transmission electron microscopy. Marked and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3–2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls...” [2]
Four times meant four hundred percent more large tumors in GMO fed rats than in normally fed ones of the control group. Because rats are mammals, their systems should react to chemicals or, in this case GMO corn treated with Monsanto Roundup chemical herbicide, in a similar way to those of a human test subject. [3]
In their study the Seralini group further reported, “By the beginning of the 24th month, 50–80% of female animals had developed tumors in all treated groups, with up to 3 tumors per animal, whereas only 30% of controls [non-GMO-fed—w.e.] were affected. The Roundup treatment groups showed the greatest rates of tumor incidence with 80% of animals affected with up to 3 tumors for one female, in each group.” [4]
Such alarming results had not yet become evident in the first 90 days, the length of most all Monsanto and agrichemical industry tests to date, a clear demonstration of how important it was to conduct longer-term tests and apparently why the industry avoided the longer tests.
Seralini and associates continued to document their alarming findings: “We observed a strikingly marked induction of mammary tumors by R (Roundup) alone, a major formulated pesticide, even at the very lowest dose administered. R has been shown to disrupt aromatase which synthesizes estrogens (Richard et al., 2005), but to also interfere with estrogen and androgen receptors in cells (Gasnier et al., 2009). In addition, R appears to be a sex endocrine disruptor in vivo, also in males (Romano et al., 2010). Sex steroids are also modified in treated rats. These hormone-dependent phenomena are confirmed by enhanced pituitary dysfunction in treated females.” [5]
Roundup herbicide, by terms of the license contract with Monsanto, must be used on Monsanto GMO seeds. The seeds are in fact genetically “modified” only to resist the weed-killing effect of Monsanto’s own Roundup, the world’s largest-selling weed-killer.
In plain language, as another scientific study led by Prof. Seralini noted, “GMO plants have been modified to contain pesticides, either through herbicide tolerance or by producing insecticides, or both, and could therefore be considered as ‘pesticide plants’” [6]
Further, “Roundup Ready crops [such as Monsanto NK603 maize-w.e.] have been modified in order to become insensitive to glyphosate. This chemical, together with adjuvants in formulations, constitutes a potent herbicide. It has been used for many years as a weed killer...GMO plants exposed to glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup...can even accumulate Roundup residues throughout their life...Glyphosate and its main metabolite AMPA (with its own toxicity) are found in GMOs on a regular and regulatory basis. Therefore, such residues are absorbed by people eating most GMO plants (as around 80% of these plants are Roundup tolerant).” [7] (Leer en la URL señalada)
By F. William Engdahl
Lean (si quieren) y juzgue por ustedes mismos/as si hay motivos para evitar los cultivos genéticamente modificados, como el famoso maíz transgénico de Monsanto. Ya en Estados Unidos hay un salmón transgénico que crece a la velocidad del rayo y que según sus diseñadores es más sano que el maná bendito. Personalmente sospecho, por método. Los organismos genéticamente manipulados son una mercancía muy golosa por sus propiedades comerciales pero ¿lo son igual para nuestra salud? Que ofrezcan datos a largo plazo y no mandangas.
Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/stench-of-eu-corruption-in-monsanto-gmo-whitewash/5316294
This revolving door of corrupt ties between powerful private industry lobby groups and the EU Commission was in full view recently with the ruling of the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) trying to discredit serious scientific tests about the deadly effects of a variety of Monsanto GMO corn.
Cancer of Corruption
In September 2012, Food and Chemical Toxicology, a serious international scientific journal, released a study by a team of scientists at France’s Caen University led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini. Before publication the Seralini study had been reviewed over a four-month period by a qualified group of scientific peers for its methodology and was deemed publishable.
It was no amateur undertaking. The scientists at Caen made carefully-documented results of tests on a group of 200 rats over a two-year life span, basically with one group of non-GMO fed rats, a so-called control group, and the other a group of GMO-fed rats.
Significantly, following a long but finally successful legal battle to force Monsanto to release the details of its own study of the safety of its own NK603 maize (corn), Seralini and colleagues reproduced a 2004 Monsanto study published in the same journal and used by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its 2009 positive evaluation of NK603.
Seralini’s group based their experiment on the same protocol as the Monsanto study but, critically, were testing more parameters more frequently. And the rats were studied for much longer—their full two year average life-time instead of just 90 days in the Monsanto study. The long time span proved critical. The first tumors only appeared 4 to7 months into the study. In industry’s earlier 90-day study on the same GMO maize Monsanto NK603, signs of toxicity were seen but were dismissed as “not biologically meaningful” by industry and EFSA alike. It seems they were indeed very biologically meaningful.
The study was also done with the highest number of rats ever measured in a standard GMO diet study. They tested also “for the first time 3 doses (rather than two in the usual 90 day long protocols) of the Roundup-tolerant NK603 GMO maize alone, the GMO maize treated with Roundup, and Roundup alone at very low environmentally relevant doses starting below the range of levels permitted by regulatory authorities in drinking water and in GM feed.” [1]
Their findings were more than alarming. The Seralini study concluded, “In females, all treated groups died 2–3 times more than controls, and more rapidly. This difference was visible in 3 male groups fed GMOs...Females developed large mammary tumors almost always more often than and before controls; the pituitary was the second most disabled organ; the sex hormonal balance was modified by GMO and Roundup treatments. In treated males, liver congestions and necrosis were 2.5–5.5 times higher. This pathology was confirmed by optic and transmission electron microscopy. Marked and severe kidney nephropathies were also generally 1.3–2.3 greater. Males presented 4 times more large palpable tumors than controls...” [2]
Four times meant four hundred percent more large tumors in GMO fed rats than in normally fed ones of the control group. Because rats are mammals, their systems should react to chemicals or, in this case GMO corn treated with Monsanto Roundup chemical herbicide, in a similar way to those of a human test subject. [3]
In their study the Seralini group further reported, “By the beginning of the 24th month, 50–80% of female animals had developed tumors in all treated groups, with up to 3 tumors per animal, whereas only 30% of controls [non-GMO-fed—w.e.] were affected. The Roundup treatment groups showed the greatest rates of tumor incidence with 80% of animals affected with up to 3 tumors for one female, in each group.” [4]
Such alarming results had not yet become evident in the first 90 days, the length of most all Monsanto and agrichemical industry tests to date, a clear demonstration of how important it was to conduct longer-term tests and apparently why the industry avoided the longer tests.
Seralini and associates continued to document their alarming findings: “We observed a strikingly marked induction of mammary tumors by R (Roundup) alone, a major formulated pesticide, even at the very lowest dose administered. R has been shown to disrupt aromatase which synthesizes estrogens (Richard et al., 2005), but to also interfere with estrogen and androgen receptors in cells (Gasnier et al., 2009). In addition, R appears to be a sex endocrine disruptor in vivo, also in males (Romano et al., 2010). Sex steroids are also modified in treated rats. These hormone-dependent phenomena are confirmed by enhanced pituitary dysfunction in treated females.” [5]
Roundup herbicide, by terms of the license contract with Monsanto, must be used on Monsanto GMO seeds. The seeds are in fact genetically “modified” only to resist the weed-killing effect of Monsanto’s own Roundup, the world’s largest-selling weed-killer.
In plain language, as another scientific study led by Prof. Seralini noted, “GMO plants have been modified to contain pesticides, either through herbicide tolerance or by producing insecticides, or both, and could therefore be considered as ‘pesticide plants’” [6]
Further, “Roundup Ready crops [such as Monsanto NK603 maize-w.e.] have been modified in order to become insensitive to glyphosate. This chemical, together with adjuvants in formulations, constitutes a potent herbicide. It has been used for many years as a weed killer...GMO plants exposed to glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup...can even accumulate Roundup residues throughout their life...Glyphosate and its main metabolite AMPA (with its own toxicity) are found in GMOs on a regular and regulatory basis. Therefore, such residues are absorbed by people eating most GMO plants (as around 80% of these plants are Roundup tolerant).” [7] (Leer en la URL señalada)
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