Scathing Report Accuses the Pentagon of Developing an Agricultural Bioweapon

A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and possibly illegal, bioweapon, alleges a Science Policy Forum report released today. Naturally, the organization leading the research says it’s doing nothing of the sort.

The report is a response to a ongoing research program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dubbed “Insect Allies,” the idea is to create more resilient crops to help farmers deal with climate change, drought, frost, floods, salinity, and disease. But instead of modifying seeds in a lab, farmers would send fleets of insects into their crops, where the genetically modified bugs would do their work, “infecting” the plants with a special virus that passes along the new resilience genes.

If you think this sounds scary, you’re not alone. The lead author of the new Science Policy Forum report, Richard Guy Reeves from the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plon, says the Insect Allies program is a disturbing example of dual-use research in which DARPA, in addition to helping out farmers, is also working on a potential weapon. When contacted by Gizmodo, DARPA denied the accusations made in the new report, saying it’s filled with inaccuracies and mischaracterizations.

The technology at the heart of this research could herald an entirely new way of genetically modifying crops. Instead of having to wait for a plant to pass its newly-acquired traits onto the next generation, genetic changes would be imposed upon living organisms, a process known as horizontal genetic alteration. Hence the technology’s name—Horizontal Environmental Genetic Alteration Agents, or HEGAAs.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/68630/scathing-report-accuses-the-pentagon-of-developing-an-agricultural.html

Retired Liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: Kavanaugh Does Not Belong on High Court

Earlier this year retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called for the repeal of the Second Amendment.

Retired liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told a crowd of retirees that Judge Brett Kavanaugh does not belong on the Supreme Court.

Stevens was appointed by Gerald Ford but was a dependable liberal vote on the highest court.

The Palm Beach Post calls him a Republican which is laughable and a complete lie.

The Palm Beach Post reported:

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday said that high court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, who Stevens once lauded in one of his books, does not belong on the Supreme Court.

Speaking to a crowd of retirees in Boca Raton, Stevens, 98, said Kavanaugh’s performance during a recent Senate confirmation hearing suggested that he lacks the temperament for the job.

Stevens, a lifelong Republican who is known for falling on the liberal side of several judicial rulings, praised Kavanaugh and one of his rulings on a political contribution case in the 2014 book “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/retired-liberal-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-kavanaugh-does-not-belong-on-high-court/

Concern Over Stonewall’s ‘Extreme Transgender Politics’ as LGBT Group Sets Schools Agenda

There has been mounting concern over Stonewall’s “extreme transgender politics” — even amongst supporters — as the LGBT lobby group’s power over scho0ls and elsewhere is on the rise.

The Times reported on Thursday that “leading members of the lesbian, gay, transsexual and intersex community” have spoken out against Stonewall’s dogmatic stance on transgender issues, accusing it of “demonising as transphobic” anyone who voices views which dissent from the NGO’s stance on transgender access to women-only spaces.

In a petition which notes that the Government’s consultation on allowing individuals to change sex on the basis of “self-identification” is due to end later this month, campaigners including former Queer Up North campaigner, Jonathan Best; transsexual rights activist, Miranda Yardley; former Stonewall fundraiser, Kate Harris, and feminist journalist Julie Bindel stressed it was “important that there should be debates amongst us all about transgender politics and the rights of women and girls”.

“Stonewall disagrees and calls debate on this matter of public policy transphobic,” the signatories said, accusing the NGO of “undermin[ing] the sex-based rights of women and the concept of homosexuality itself” in its “uncritical” adoption of extremist transgender politics.

They write: “Stonewall’s promotion of the concept of ‘gender identity’, which has it that a man or woman is anyone (of either sex) who identifies as such, is also undermining the basis of lesbian, gay and bisexual identities as orientated around same-sex attraction.

“Lesbians in particular are coming under pressure to accept male-bodied trans women into their spaces and as sexual partners.”

Asserting that the LGBT group “has made mistakes in its approach”, the petition urges it commit to “fostering an atmosphere of respectful debate, rather than demonising as transphobic those who wish to discuss or dissent from Stonewall’s current policies”.

The petition, and its accompanying letter to The Times, comes at a time when Stonewall holds increasing power over British classrooms. As Breitbart London reported in February, the group was behind an “LGBT-inclusive” update to all of British education giant Pearson’s textbooks, which sees far-left, so-called “social justice” activism pushed across every part of the curriculum.

As well as providing ‘free’ training on how teachers in Britain can best “celebrate” homosexuality, the charity was also behind recent draft education guidelines in Scotland which ordered that children be told “your gender is what you decide” upon first arriving at school at the age of five.

According to “the agenda promoted by Stonewall”, anyone who does not conform to gender stereotypes is likely to be transgender, journalist James Kirkup noted in the Spectator this week, stating it was not surprising that many people were “deeply uncomfortable” with what is being dictated by such advocates that “enjoy immense influence in public life today”.

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/10/04/transgender-concern-lgbt-school-agenda/