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Proposal to tighten Welsh GM regs
After farmer Johathon Harrington planted GM fodder maize on his small farm in the Black Mountains of "GM-Free" Wales, howls of protest arose, calling his act "ill-informed", "illegal" and "irresponsible", and claims that Wales had become "infected" with GMOs. This was even though the seeds he planted are maize varieties on the EU's "common list" of approved crops. Wales has responded with a proposal to tighten its GM regs to the point where cultivation of GM croups woud, in practice, be prohibited.

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'Riot' Tourism on the Rise
At vagabondish.com, Jesse Cooper reveals the exhilartion a traveler can experience by taking part in a riot, and recommends "2009's Best International Hotbeds of Anarchy & Dissent".

Europeans oppose GM cassava for Africa
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and over 30 other activist groups are condemning approval of field-tests of a GM cassava christened "Super Cassava" in Nigeria. The project seeks to fortify a single 500 gram adult portion of cassava with essential nutrients, including vitamins A and E, iron and zinc. Why would European governments oppose such a project?
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Rogue's gallery opposes Golden Rice
It appears that Golden Rice will be released to farmers in the Philippines by 2012. Already, deaths worldwide from Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) are near 15.9 million. By 2012, the number of deaths will be millions greater. Opponents of Golden Rice, like those who oppose GM crops generally, have complained for at least a decade about the ethics of feeding GM foods to humans without human testing. Now, they're complaining about the ethics of feeding GM foods to humans with human testing. Who are these people, who are willing to sacrifice human lives for the sake of elusive, contradictory principles?

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Bizkit the Sleep Walking GMO
This video purports to show an ear of GM maize engaged in "sleep walking", or somnambulism. Looks more like a greenpeacer, dressed as Frankencorn, having a nightmare in which he struggles with his conscience.

Tune into DNA-Radio
After creating pictures from the human DNA code and getting an incredible amount of positive response, the step to convert the data to audio came into mind at DNA Rainbow quite fast. After some thinking and lots of tests, they are converting the whole human genome to audio and streaming them now to the Internet, 24/7. The idea is quite simple, every base is read and broadcasted instead converting it to a color. With DNA-Radio they don't visualize the chromosome, they sonify it and have now completed a full audio-visual DNA representation of human chromosomes.