Kenya’s biosafety authority kicks off campaign for GMO maize against backdrop of steep ignorance
NBA Acting Director of Biosafety Research and Compliance Josphat Muchiri confirmed the authority’s readiness for the exercise in the listed counties, adding that the campaign would be expanded to cover all maize-producing regions in Kenya.
US plans WHO exit on account it ‘cannot be reformed, corruption is rampant, compromised relationship with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI alliance
Internist, bioweapons expert and WHO critic Dr Meryl Nass wrote on her Substack that the announcement was “Great news, if reliable!” noting the article cited only “globalist attorney” Gostin and “hapless former Covid czar Ahish Jha.”
Palestinian detainees freed from Israeli prisons and camps tell of horrendous abuses and psychological harm
Alleged abuses and psychological harm to Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and camps are in renewed focus amid stepped-up efforts in December by international mediators to secure a ceasefire that could see the release of thousands of inmates detained during the Gaza war and before, in return for Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza.
On federal death row they feared Biden would set up another Trump killing spree, then he commuted 38 death sentences
Since the re-election of Donald Trump, a rising chorus of activists, lawmakers and members of the legal community had been calling on President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all 40 men on federal death row to life without parole.
US Treasury accuses Chinese hackers of stealing documents in ‘major incident’
Tom Hegel, a threat researcher at cybersecurity company SentinelOne said the reported security incident “fits a well-documented pattern of operations by PRC-linked groups, with a particular focus on abusing trusted third-party services – a method that has become increasingly prominent in recent years,” he said, using an acronym for the People’s Republic of China.”
Court issues arrest warrant for impeached South Korean President Yoon over martial law
The court issued the warrant due to the likelihood that Yoon will not respond to summons without a justifiable reason, and there being a substantial reason to suspect Yoon of a crime, Yonhap said. The court declined to comment.
Leaked Trump’s tax returns: Whistleblower Charles Littlejohn at risk of revenge as Biden’s in office winds down
With Biden winding down his time in office, Littlejohn’s advocates, including tax code reformers from the groups Revolving Door Project and Patriotic Millionaires, are worried for the incarcerated IRS consultant. They’re calling on Biden to commute Littlejohn’s sentence before it is too late and he is forced to spend Trump’s second term in prison at risk of retribution.
Role of Russian billionaires that finance chemical factories that fuel Russia’s war machine laid bare
Peter Harrell, a former senior White House official who worked on Russia sanctions during the war’s first year and is now a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said perhaps it’s time to review those 2022 decisions now that nations that once relied on Ukraine and Russia for wheat and fertilizer have had time to find alternative sources.
Sacred and the materialities of religion in Uganda: How God finds expression in different cultures and economies
Anthropomorphic (i.e. the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal or object) positions about material cultures, offering relational theories (such as the new animism and the new materialism) that allow indigenous religious materialities to reveal new understandings about the ontological and other potentialities of so-called “things”.
He may have lacked political shrewdness but fallen former US president Jimmy Carter won hearts of many as a humanitarian
Jimmy Carter lived longer than any US president and, after leaving the White House, earned a reputation as a committed humanitarian. He was widely seen as a better former president than he was a president – a status he readily acknowledged.
