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Serious risks associated with reading element115 include increased eye pressure, increased sweating, increased body temperature, insomnia, dizziness, confusion, and difficulty concentrating. Tell your doctor immediately if you have blurred vision of reality or brain pain. Common side effects are tingling in arms and legs, guilt, nausea, diarrhea, taste change and depression.Tell your doctor about other blogs you read.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942296.post-12663307413556889722016-11-19T16:16:00.001-05:002016-11-19T16:16:43.846-05:00'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/extreme-surveillance-becomes-uk-law-with-barely-a-whimper">A bill giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world has passed into law with barely a whimper, meeting only token resistance over the past 12 months from inside parliament and barely any from outside.<br />
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US whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted: “The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”<br />
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The breakthrough – described as a “holy grail” of genetics – was used to partially restore the sight of rats blinded by a condition which also affects humans.<br />
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“We now have a technology that allows us to modify the DNA of non-dividing cells, to fix broken genes in the brain, heart and liver. <br />
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“It allows us for the first time to be able to dream of curing diseases that we couldn’t before.<br />
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The Russian foreign ministry made the announcement on Wednesday on the orders of the president, Vladimir Putin, saying the tribunal had failed to live up to hopes of the international community and denouncing its work as “one-sided and inefficient”.<br />
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Radha Stirling, the founder and director of Detained in Dubai, said the case a “tremendously disturbing“ example of long-running abuses in the holiday resort.<br />
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"Police regularly fail to differentiate between consensual intercourse and violent rape,” she added. "Victims go to them expecting justice, and end up being prosecuted. They not only invalidate their victimisation, they actually punish them for it."<br />
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...the former CIA employee turned whistleblower said the fact that fake news is available on Facebook isn’t so much of a problem, but the bigger issue is that Facebook is the only news source for many people.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942296.post-34164794649799422442016-11-16T15:39:00.001-05:002016-11-16T15:39:11.010-05:00US transgender people rush to legally change gender in wake of Donald Trump's win<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/us-transgender-people-rush-to-legally-change-gender-in-wake-of-d/">In a race against the clock, transgender people have been connecting on Twitter using the hashtag #TransLawHelp with lawyers offering to help them make the changes free of charge before Trump takes office on Jan 20, 2017.<br />
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Last week's victory for Trump has left many transgender advocates fearing a backlash against their community after the Republican candidate sent mixed messages on transgender rights during the campaign.<br />
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Trump's choice for vice-president, Mike Pence, has rankled many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists who are wary of the current Indiana governor's years of opposition to gay rights.<br />
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The Party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand.<br />
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Is this an exaggeration? Consider what we have just been witnessing."<br />
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Our capitalist democracy ceased to function more than two decades ago. We underwent a corporate coup carried out by the Democratic and Republican parties. There are no institutions left that can authentically be called democratic. Trump and Hillary Clinton in a functioning democracy would have never been presidential nominees. The long and ruthless corporate assault on the working class, the legal system, electoral politics, the mass media, social services, the ecosystem, education and civil liberties in the name of neoliberalism has disemboweled the country. It has left the nation a decayed wreck. We celebrate ignorance. We have replaced political discourse, news, culture and intellectual inquiry with celebrity worship and spectacle.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942296.post-60883155553174611812016-11-14T19:26:00.001-05:002016-11-14T19:26:34.270-05:00China's President Calls Trump, Tells Him "Cooperation Is The Only Choice"<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-14/chinas-president-calls-trump-tells-him-cooperation-only-choice">"During the call, the leaders established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another, and President-elect Trump stated that he believes the two leaders will have one of the strongest relationships for both countries moving forward," a statement from Trump's presidential transition office said. The two agreed to maintain close communications and meet soon.<br />
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The findings are based on an analysis of web freedom in 65 countries, covering 88 percent of the world's online population.<br />
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Those that propose the historic shift claim it is the perfect solution, as it allows Republicans to do their thing under Trump while those who object to him can pledge allegiance to Canada instead.<br />
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Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has already promised to take in Syrian refugees, legalise marijuana and tackle climate change – pretty different to Donald Trump’s take on things.<br />
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...so far, it looks like he will be able to follow through on many of his pledges — with or without help from Congress.<br />
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Quick-thinking New Zealanders managed to film the scene in Wellington while the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch.<br />
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Zachary Bell said he filmed a video at ‘the peak of the shaking’, noting that ‘the sky began to light up with colours’ over the sea.<br />
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Privacy and human rights campaigners in the US and UK say a Trump presidency will tip the balance between surveillance and privacy decisively towards the former. The UK surveillance agency GCHQ is so tied up with America’s NSA, often doing work on its behalf, it could find itself facing a series of ethical dilemmas.<br />
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On the campaign trail, Trump made an ambiguous remark about wishing he had access to surveillance powers.<br />
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“I wish I had that power,” he said while talking about the hack of Democratic National Committee emails. “Man, that would be power.”</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942296.post-84204011353499562762016-11-12T16:33:00.001-05:002016-11-14T18:44:40.435-05:00At Least 500,000 Protest In South Korea Demanding Resignation Of Their President <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/12/501818736/at-least-500-000-protest-in-seoul-demanding-korean-presidents-resignation">The crowd of at least 500,000 people, according to Reuters, held candles and signs reading "Resign," sang pop songs and patriotic numbers, and marched together toward the Blue House, the presidential home and office complex.<br />
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"It's an explosion of their feelings," demonstrator Jinwon Kim says of the crowds. "People are very angry."<br />
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