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David Cameron: creating three-parent babies is not ‘Playing God’ – Telegraph

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– if you have enough money – you will be able to buy and design the baby you want under the Tories who will then invest in designing babies that will self-destruct if ever tempted to vote labor or Liberal!

David Cameron denied that scientists were ‘Playing God’ as he voted to allow three-parent babies in an landmark vote in the Commons.

Yesterday Britain became the first country in the world to allow a new IVF technique which uses genetic material from a ‘second mother’ to repair faulty DNA.

Experts from across the world had warned that Britain would be making an ‘historic mistake’ by amending the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and said it could face a legal challenge in Europe.

But the Prime Minister, whose own son Ivan died from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, said there was no danger that the procedure could lead to ‘designer babies.’

“I think this is going to give parents who want to have a healthy and happy baby the chance to have that baby,” Mr Cameron said in an interview with LBC radio, the first time he has spoken about the issue.

via David Cameron: creating three-parent babies is not ‘Playing God’ – Telegraph.

jerk-off Rand Paul backs off vaccine comments after critics warn he ‘sort of ignores’ science | US news | The Guardian

Kentucky senator Rand Paul backpedalled Tuesday on comments he made about vaccines that quickly drew the condemnations of everyone from medical professionals to senior Republican party members to the formerly quarantined healthcare provider best remembered for calling out Paul’s potential rival for the White House.

Paul’s attempt at clarification landed as Republicans in Washington, from Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to House speaker John Boehner to the dozen or so members of the prospective 2016 presidential field scrambled to describe their views on vaccination.

Following controversial comments by New Jersey governor Chris Christie regarding a measles outbreak spreading across the US, Paul set off another cascade of criticism when he told CNBC on Monday that vaccinations could lead to “profound mental disorders” and that parents “should have some input”.

In his follow-up statement, Paul sought to make a distinction between correlation and causation – the kind of science-minded distinction that some of his critics saw him as abandoning.

via Rand Paul backs off vaccine comments after critics warn he ‘sort of ignores’ science | US news | The Guardian.

Two cases of child pornography possession in Vatican in 2014 | Reuters

The prosecutor gave no details but a Vatican spokesman said one of them involved Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop who was arrested last September in the Vatican on charges of having paid for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic.

Francis approved the arrest – the first inside the Vatican related to allegations of sexual abuse – in order to send a strong signal that even high-ranking Church officials would be held accountable if they committed abuse, the Vatican said at the time.

Italian media reported at the time of his arrest that child pornography was found on his computer. He is currently under arrest in the Vatican awaiting trial.

via Two cases of child pornography possession in Vatican in 2014 | Reuters.

BBC News – Graffiti, demolition and angst in Shanghai

The art appeared to resonate with many members of the public, evoking a sense of sadness for something that’s been lost amid China’s decades-long construction boom.

Children appear frequently in the work, lovingly clutching small representations of their homes to their chests, or wearing them, like bags, on their backs.

The publicity, though, attracted dozens of curious visitors and amateur photographers to one of the demolition sites in Shanghai’s Jing’an district

via BBC News – Graffiti, demolition and angst in Shanghai.

Hounded, Sikh farmers fleeing Gujarat – The Times of India

Targeted by land mafia, attacked by goons and booked by cops, Sikh farmers who had made the inhospitable terrain in Bhuj area of Gujarat cultivable, are now forced to flee the land they had made their home.

The recent attack on farmers on January 25 has only reinforced their fears and they have no plans to return anytime soon. Farmer Jagjit Singh was seriously injured in an attack allegedly by a group of local farmers in Loria village of Bhuj district. This was the second attack on Sikhs in Gujarat within a month. Some Sikh farmers have alleged that local agriculturists in connivance with politicians want to drive them out of Gujarat. This attack triggered the exit of a dozen Sikh farmers.

via Hounded, Sikh farmers fleeing Gujarat – The Times of India.

rotflmao – French Police Question Boy, 8, After Remarks on Paris Attacks – NYTimes.com

Police officials in the southern French city of Nice questioned an 8-year-old boy who is believed to have made comments in school defending the gunmen who killed 17 people in terrorist attacks in and near Paris this month, a senior regional police official confirmed on Thursday.

The questioning of the boy, which occurred Wednesday, grabbed headlines across the country and spurred a debate on social media and elsewhere about whether France’s desire to combat terrorism was tipping over into hysteria. Since the attacks, France has moved to enforce tough new laws against the incitement of terrorism, fueling tensions between free speech and public order.

The boy was identified as a Muslim by the French National Observatory Against Islamophobia.

via French Police Question Boy, 8, After Remarks on Paris Attacks – NYTimes.com.

Happy Lunar New Year – Tet_ Avian flu rampages in Taiwan, hits China, India | CIDRAP

Taiwan yesterday reported more than 100 avian flu outbreaks of three different subtypes, affecting hundreds of thousands of poultry, while China and India reported fresh outbreaks as well.

In addition, Bulgaria reported finding the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 in a wild bird, while Nigerian officials said H5N1 outbreaks have struck lately in 11 states around the country.

Scores of Taiwan outbreaks

In a report to the World Organization for animal Health (OIE), Taiwan officials said 108 waterfowl farms were struck by HPAI H5N8 outbreaks. The farms are in Changhua, Yunlin, Chiayi, and Pingtung counties and the cities of Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Taichung. Officials said 52 of the farms also were affected by HPAI H5N2 viruses.

via Avian flu rampages in Taiwan, hits China, India | CIDRAP.

Middle East – Hezbollah will pay ‘full price’ for attack, says Netanyahu – France 24

He will kill and endanger anyone in his attempt to be re-elected ad have a chance to further endanger Israeli lives to please steeler crazies and anti-Arab racists!The incident marks the most significant escalation in tensions between the two sides for the past many years, and has stirred fears of a full-blown conflict.

The incident marks the most significant escalation in tensions between the two sides for the past many years, and has stirred fears of a full-blown conflict.

A Spanish UN peacekeeper, who was serving in southern Lebanon, was also killed as Israel responded with air strikes and artillery fire.

Hezbollah said one of its brigades in the area had carried out the attack, which appeared to be in retaliation for a Jan. 18 Israeli air strike in southern Syria that killed several Hezbollah members and an Iranian general.

“Those behind the attack today will pay the full price,” Netanyahu warned later on Wednesday, in televised remarks as he met with security chiefs.

via Middle East – Hezbollah will pay ‘full price’ for attack, says Netanyahu – France 24.

16-year-old queer Latina Jessie Hernandez killed by Denver police

White supremacy is how. A system meant by design to exert control over communities can do little else.

Jessie Hernandez did not deserve to die. She did not deserve to have her bleeding, dying, body handcuffed and searched, being flipped lifelessly on the street, before she got any medical attention. Her friends did not deserve the lifetime of trauma this incident will provide them. Even if the car was stolen. Even if Jessie did injure an officer with the car.

“I mean, with everything that’s going on,” a friend said in tears at a vigil, “it wouldn’t be a surprise that she got scared, you know?”

Women’s deaths and abuse at the hands of the police rarely make the news in the same way that the deaths of some men do, but today we speak Jessie Hernandez’s name. Today we remember.

Rest in peace, Jessie.

via 16-year-old queer Latina Jessie Hernandez killed by Denver police.

Avian Flu Diary: Nigeria’s Bird Flu Outbreak Expands To 11 States

total failure – The Federal Government on Wednesday said the H5N1 influenza virus, also known as bird flu, is now present in 11 states in Nigeria.

It confirmed the presence of the virus in four other states apart from the seven states earlier reported on January 22, 2015.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, outlined the additional states to include Oyo, Jigawa, Gombe and Imo.

He said the total number of birds exposed had risen to 232,385 with 51,444 mortalities recorded.

via Avian Flu Diary: Nigeria’s Bird Flu Outbreak Expands To 11 States.