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Mini Minister minimises…
Well, thats reassuring…NOT!
Labours Ayesha Verrall calls it…
And wtaf outdated ?
Personal Information breaches should NOT be minimised
Disgusting. The users requesting these prompts and the bosses of xAI/twitter who allowed this, should be charged for this indecent assault and for the creation of CSAM.
There is a famous slide from an IBM presentation in the 70s that read: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." People are responsible for this outrageous invasion and they should be held accountable, and it can't happen soon enough!
A conversation about glyphosate occured here recently.
One chap asked a few questions about evidence of harm to humans.
"In 2000, a landmark study claimed to set the record straight on glyphosate, a contentious weedkiller used on hundreds of millions of acres of farmland. The paper found that the chemical, the active ingredient in Roundup, wasn’t a human health risk despite evidence of a cancer link.
Last month, the study was retracted by the scientific journal that published it a quarter century ago…"
This study, which was retracted partly because of the secret influence by Monsanto employees and the authors being paid by Monsanto, has been the top 0.1 percent of cited academic literature on glyphosate.
"The retraction points to a wider problem of research secretly funded by industries like tobacco and lead, said David Rosner, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University. “Shading the science to favor the corporate interest,” he said, was likely “the rule rather than the exception.” "
So, if the US EPA relied on dodgy evidence, does our EPA rely on that too?
Linky:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/glyphosate-roundup-retracted-study.html
Thanks for posting this gsays. If you can't trust Monsanto, who can you trust – Bayer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Ghostwriting
Follow the money.
My antenna has twitched about Monsanto since they stated they wanted to control the world's food supply.
Monsanto's actions having sued farmers for patent infringement, when farmers planted seeds they possessed from a previous year's crop because pollination occurred from a neighbouring crop.
Here is a bit more reading and watching on a poison that is sprayed in schools, playgrounds and drains around towns all over the country. Often by sub-contracors that will do it on windy days. It's a smell that you do not forget.
And Monsanto and Bayer know.
https://theecologist.org/2011/jun/13/inside-story-monsanto-and-glyphosate-birth-defect-data
BBC news item: Trump orders air strikes on Caracas.
How TF can the POTUS, by himself, compel the military to attack another nation?
Isn't the consent of Congress required first? Or is he nuts?
Special Forces renditioned Maduro out of Caracus.
One can expect POTUS will threaten to bomb the city unless they agree to install Machado as leader (to and hand over the oil industry to US corporations).
Wagging the dog…
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https://xcancel.com/AGPamBondi/status/2007428087143686611
Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon
Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, toppled the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations in the history of the Department of Justice.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-26/trump-s-pardon-of-honduras-former-president-rewrites-a-landmark-us-drug-case
I expect a "storm of protest" about the USA's illegal invasion of Venezuela, from all the "America good, China bad", commentators. Waiting…..