Armed robbers hold up Oakland TV crew during interview with city violence prevention chief

Robbers held up a television crew at gunpoint during an interview with the director of violence prevention in Oakland amid the city’s huge wave of violence, police have said. The attack took place outside City Hall on Monday just hours after the police chief blasted his city’s decision to defund its police department by $18.5million …

Bill Cosby

The basic issue in Bill Cosby’s shocking release from prison is whether the ends justify the means. The PASC held Cosby had been technically deprived of his 5th Amendment rights by a prosecutorial legal maneuver the court thought was improper.

Green is Slave Labor and Biden weeps -WaPo

Most Americans likely don’t know that approximately 40 percent of the world’s polysilicon, a key component of solar panels, is manufactured in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, where the United States has determined the Chinese government is perpetrating a genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities. As evidence amassed in recent …

Climate change critic fired for “failing to act in the collegial and academic spirit”

His comments included telling Sky News that bodies like the Australian Institute of Marine Science “can no longer be trusted” and saying that many scientists examining the health of the Great Barrier Reef were “emotionally attached” and “not objective”. He was also accused of “failing to act in the collegial and academic spirit”, and of …

If CRISPR germline is banned in the West it will be offshored to China

The 2018 announcement in China by He Jianqui who genetically altered human embryos via CRISPR—producing twins known as Lulu and Nana—helped strengthen policies about germline gene editing. Despite the worldwide scorn leveled against him for conducting a brazen act of human experimentation, his research also helped usher in a more moderate point of view regarding …

The serpent in revolutionary Eden

Twenty-four years ago, while in charge of a small television operation at Al Quds University, my team and I decided to broadcast live sessions of the Palestinian Legislative Council dealing with corruption in the newly established Palestinian Authority. The broadcast angered people in Yasser Arafat’s entourage and I was arrested and jailed for seven days …