01.09.16
Posted in News Roundup at 6:33 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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… “significant win” for transparency.
“The decision by Campbell’s sends a clear message to Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat GMO labeling laws,” Ronnie Cummins, the international director for advocacy group Organic Consumers Association, said in a statement.
Spike in Drug Shortages Worries ER Docs
Drug shortages have jumped more than five-fold from 2008 to 2014, following a 7-year decline, and …
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01.01.16
Posted in Asia at 9:06 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… poorest in an effort to expand market share for one’s own business and/or investments (e.g. Monsanto)
Summary : Response to Mark Zuckerberg’s shameful and self-serving attack on the Internet, as well as some basic information about the sham which he misleadingly calls ‘free’
I NDIA has already had enough trouble resisting Gates’ relentless lobbying efforts for GMO in India (Gates is a Monsanto shareholder). Now it needs to resist similar attacks from Facebook …
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12.19.15
Posted in GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Patents at 5:29 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… whatever Microsoft is doing to make the ground more fertile for lawsuits, in the same way that Monsanto (less figuratively) plants the seeds for lawsuits against farmers whose fields have ‘patented’ seeds ( this relates to Benoît Battistelli's EPO these days ).
“File system patents, like those which Microsoft used against TomTom, are being imposed on Android.” The NSA’s PRISM pioneer and audio-visual informant (that’s Microsoft) has built a bug, with audio recording …
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12.18.15
Posted in Europe, Marketing, Patents at 4:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… of patent scope gone awry for the sake of profit and protectionism for large corporations such as Monsanto.” EPO is being shamed in this article, which is one among many (some non-English sites have covered this too ). EUbusiness wrote about it and noted that “No Patents on Seeds! is an international coalition of civil society organisations. It recently published a report containing an overview of patents granted by the EPO and a legal analysis. The report further highlights the …
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12.08.15
Posted in News Roundup at 3:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… to put these systems in a box out of the way.
Health/Nutrition
US Workers Sue Monsanto, Claiming Herbicide Caused Their Cancers
One of the cases was filed in Los Angeles on September 22, 2015 by 58-year-old Enrique Rubio, who used to work on farms in California, Texas, and Oregon. His job used to consist of spraying fields with the herbicide Roundup, which he is alleging caused his bone cancer in 1995. 64-year-old Judi Fizgerald in New York filed the other lawsuit. …
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12.03.15
Posted in America, Europe, Patents at 7:31 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… and the high-level staff at the EPO already permit patents on life, serving the likes of Monsanto.” We regret to learn that even some British software companies are basically ignoring the evidence and still deciding to pursue software patents (not just in the US). Sage Group, according to this new report, is becoming more like Trading Technologies. Instead of focusing on development of better software it is focused on acquiring patents on software. To quote the British media: …
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11.12.15
Posted in News Roundup at 7:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… that most people don’t realize exist.
Health/Nutrition
Scientist Offers $10M To Monsanto To Prove GMO Is Safe
Scientist Dr Shiva Ayyadurai has challenged Monsanto to prove him wrong on research that shows genetically modified (GM) soy to be dangerous.
Security
Security advisories for Wednesday
Your Unhashable Fingerprints Secure Nothing
Passwords are crap. Nobody picks good ones, when they do they re-use them across sites, and if you use …
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10.25.15
Posted in Europe, Patents at 8:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
… a service in the public’s interest; instead it helps large corporations (like the infamous Monsanto) besiege and rip off the public.
How does one say in French “let them eat patents”? █
“As far as genetic engineering for food, that is the great experiment that has failed. They literally have the entire world market against them. All those dreams… the blind will see, the lame will walk… has turned out to be science fiction. They are basically chemical companies …
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