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Millions Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Set To Be Released: This Is Why It’s A Problem
By
Arjun Walia
Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes might soon be released in Florida. The biotech company Oxitec and the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) are moving ahead with their plan to introduce these insects into the area to, according to them, help stop the spread of multiple tropical diseases.
One of the diseases is called Chikungunya, another is dengue, and both are spread by Aedes mosquitoes. An infection with Chikungunya can lead to fever and joint pain which is sometimes severe, but rarely causes death. In 2014, only 11 individuals actually contracted this disease in Florida, so it makes one wonder if this type of “tinkering with nature” is really necessary? (source)
When it comes to the dengue virus, severe cases may progress into dengue hemorrhagic fever, complications from which may eventually result in death. Over 100 million cases of dengue occur every year, but according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is rare to find a case of it in the United States.
The mosquitoes released would all be male, and are genetically modified to carry a “genetic kill switch.” This means that when they mate with wild female mosquitoes, the “kill switch” gene is passed on to the offspring and therefore cannot survive.
Millions Of Genetically Modified Insects Have Already Been Released
Oxitec has already released a large number of GM olive flies that were used to kill off wild pests that damage crops. In the Cayman Islands, 3 million GM mosquitoes were released, and in this case over 90 percent of the original natural native mosquito population was suppressed. The same results were also seen in Brazil. (source)
Supporters of the GM insects, like Oxitec, claim that those who oppose the idea are simply fear mongering. This is currently the same response from the big biotech giants to opposers of genetically modified foods.
Concerns With This Approach
There are various concerns, such as, what happens if someone receives a bite from one of these mosquitoes?
“Will their GM DNA be injected into your arm or leg? Oxitec has counteracted this objection by stating they only plan to release male mosquitoes, which don’t bite. This again sounds good in theory… but in reality, sorting millions of insects according to sex is no small feat. And even FKMCD notes that although ‘every effort is made to release only males,’ Oxitec trials show that .03 percent of the mosquitoes released are female.” -Dr. Joseph Mercola (source)
If you think about it, with millions of mosquitoes released, we are still talking about thousands of mosquitoes that can bite. Estimates of genetically modified insects that have been released into the environment are between 50-100 million. What about the environmental health impacts report? Again, what about the synthetic DNA from the bites? Who is tracking all of this stuff, and how exactly do you track it? Why are we just assuming everything is okay, without any evidence to back it up?
The potential exists for these genes, which hop from one place to another, to infect human blood by finding entry through skin lesions or inhaled dust. Such transmission could potentially wreak havoc with the human genome by creating “insertion mutations” and other unpredictable types of DNA damage. (source)
According to Alfred Handler, a geneticist at the Agriculture Department in Hawaii, mosquitoes can develop resistance to the lethal gene and might then be released inadvertently. (source)
Todd Shelly, an entomologist for the Agriculture Department in Hawaii, said 3.5 percent of the insects in a laboratory test survived to adulthood, despite presumably carrying the lethal gene. (source)
Another factor to consider is this:
Tetracycline and other antibiotics are now showing up in the environment, in soil and surface water samples. These GM mosquitoes were designed to die in the absence of tetracycline (which is introduced in the lab in order to keep them alive long enough to breed). They were designed this way assuming they would NOT have access to that drug in the wild. With tetracycline exposure (for example, in a lake) these mutant insects could actually thrive in the wild, potentially creating a nightmarish scenario. (source)
Dr Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, warned about the GM fruit flies that were released a couple of years ago:
Releasing Oxite’s GM fruit flies is a deeply flawed approach to reducing numbers of these pests, because large numbers of their offspring will die as maggots in the fruit. Not only does this fail to protect the crop, millions of GM fruit fly maggots (most dead, but some alive) will enter the food chain where they could pose risks to human health and the environment. Oxitec’s experiments should not go ahead until rules for safety testing and plans for labelling and segregation of contaminated fruits have been thoroughly debated and assessed. If these issues are ignored, growers could suffer serious impacts on the market for their crops. (source)
It’s also important to note that there is there is no specific regulatory process for GM insects anywhere in the world.
Wallace went on to state that:
Regulatory decisions on GM insects in Europe and around the world are being biased by corporate interests as the UK biotech company Oxitec has infiltrated decision-making processes around the world. The company has close links to the multinational pesticide and seed company, Syngenta. Oxitec has already made large-scale open releases of GM mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands, Malaysia and Brazil and is developing GM agricultural pests, jointly with Syngenta. (source)(source)
“The public will be shocked to learn that GM insects can be released into the environment without any proper oversight. Conflicts of interest should be removed from all decision making processes to ensure the public have a proper say about these plans.” – Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK (source)
Environmental NGOs like Greenpeace suggest that GM insects could have unintended and wide ranging impacts on the environment and human health due to the complexity of ecosystems and the high number of unknown factors which make risk assessment difficult. These companies have raised a number of concerns which include: (source)
- New insects or diseases may fill ecological niche left by the insects suppressed or replaced, possibly resulting in new public health or agricultural problems
- The new genes engineered into the insects may jump into other species, a process called horizontal transfer, causing unintended consequences to the ecosystem
- Releases would be impossible to monitor and irreversible, as would any damage done to the environment
A briefing done by these organizations also shows that Oxitec is trying to influence regulatory processes for GM insects, that they: (source)
- Don’t want to be liable for any complications
- Try to avoid any regulation of GM agricultural pests on crops appearing in the food chain
- Exclude important issues from risk assessments, like the impact on human health
- Release of large amounts of GM insects prior to regulations
- Undermining the requirement to obtain informed consent for experiments involving insect species which transmit disease
What are your thoughts on these developments? You would think this would be big news, but it has gone largely unreported thus far. There are so many concerns and questions that have been left unanswered. Feel free to share your opinion in the comments section below.
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Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor
In Brief
- The Facts:
The Anti-Defamation League is joining with Facebook, Google and others to further attempt to 'curb hate speech and abuse' on the internet.
- Reflect On:
Are these companies running the risk of awakening more people to their thinly-veiled attempts to censor internet content that goes against their preferred narrative?
If you are reading this, that means that articles that speak against the activities of the Anti-Defamation League are not being automatically scrubbed from the internet.
Yet.
In a foreboding sign that the free expression of opinion on the internet is too much of a threat to the powerful elite of our society, the Anti-Defamation League is leading the charge in turning their own subjective opinions on ‘hate speech’ into the absolute rule of Internet law. As this Cnet article reports,
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft, among others, are joining with the ADL to form a Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab, the companies and the civil rights group said Tuesday. They’ll exchange ideas and develop strategies to try to curb hate speech and abuse on the companies’ various platforms and across the internet.
“These companies have an added responsibility to do everything within their power to stop hate from flourishing on their watch,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “We look forward to tackling this pressing challenge together.”
Wow. A Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab. What heroes of selfless service to humanity.
Like Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global policy, who said in a statement that “some of the best minds in engineering will work alongside the ADL to help us rise to the occasion.” What occasion? The threat of the power that the proliferation of free speech on the internet is giving to individual human beings fighting for truth and justice.
Who Died And Made Them King?
It is disconcerting to me that we are moving into a time where a once free and neutral internet has suddenly come more and more under the control of powerful dictatorial forces. Yes, dictatorial. The ADL is marching into the internet cyberscape with the sense of entitlement to DICTATE what should and shouldn’t be said by the rest of us. Doesn’t this mimic that actions of a certain dictator from the past that the ADL would claim to have been zealously opposed to? (I won’t name names for fear of triggering some sophisticated ADL-Google-keyword-cyber-censoring mechanism).
The obvious fact is that the cabal of organizations that will be sitting down at the Cyberhate Problem-Solving Lab will likely make little mention of the impact of cyber-bullying and online hate speech on human individuals. They will be more prone to focus on how to continue hiding crimes against humanity perpetrated by the global elite since time immemorial, crimes like massive fraud, slavery, pedophilia, torture, and murder. And why would these organizations be motivated to hide these crimes? Because they are now controlled by the very global elite who are perpetrating them in the first place.
The War On Hate
The whole narrative of a group that self-identifies as having the authority ‘to curb hate speech and abuse’ on the internet is deeply flawed and even hypocritical. And employing tactics in the same mold as the failed wars on drugs, cancer, and terrorism further gives them away. These are nothing more than tactics of obfuscation of what is really going on.
Human growth is not advanced by attempts to stifle, destroy, or eradicate darkness. As I discussed in my article ‘Let’s Discard The ‘Right’ To Be Insulted By Free Speech,’ we do not evolve by stopping people from expressing any hatred or other negative emotions that are deep inside them, we evolve by allowing people to express themselves freely and becoming immune to their ‘offensive’ remarks by learning not to take them personally.
Hate speech in itself cannot demean the object of hatred, it only reveals the unhealed emotions of its source. And the more we allow these unhealed emotions a chance to be let out, the more space we create for personal and collective healing.
In that regard, attempts to actually do something positive about human hatred through censorship is at best naive, and in most cases like this one, it turns out to be a vehicle of domination for those who would wish to maintain and expand control over information and the self-expression of individuals.
The Need To Move Off These Platforms
The ADL aside, internet corporations like Facebook that continue to delve more deeply into censorship are playing a bit of a risky game. Perhaps many of them feel that they are ‘too big to fail,’ in the sense that they believe they are too essential to the lives of most people to suddenly get abandoned en masse. Perhaps, for now, that is true. But I’m not sure that they should really be messing with an Awakening Community that is growing larger by the heartbeat.
Collective Evolution has a few interesting ideas in this regard that we will be launching soon. Stay tuned.
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The Purpose of ‘Negative’ Stuff, Conscious Media, Are Mainstream Journalists Bad? – Weekly Q&A
In Brief
- The Facts:
Each week we do a Q&A based on questions we receive throughout the week. Our goal is to dive DEEPER into content through the questions. This video covers a few questions from Sept 23 - Sept 29, 2018.
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Update For Sept 23 – Sept 29, 2018
In the video below I go over everything. Be sure to check out the TIMECODES in the description if you want to skip ahead to other topics. I’m through in how I cover things, I know sometimes people want things faster but I don’t see value in not going deep so this is what it is!
This week’s rundown includes:
00:58 – The Purpose of ‘Negative’ Stuff
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We interviewed Franco DeNicola about what is happening with the shift in consciousness. It turned out to be one of the deepest and most important information we pulled out within an interview.
We explored why things are moving a little more slowly with the shift at times, what is stopping certain solutions from coming forward and the important role we all play.
Watch the interview here.
In Brief
- The Facts:
QAnon is still at it, he/she recently stated that we did indeed go to the Moon, but that the official story was not the correct one. Q also made it a point to let readers know about the "vastness" of the universe.
- Reflect On:
We don't need Q as a source, most of the topics Q brings up are already backed by evidence. One can do their own research and find multiple 'credible' sources on these topics. There are a list of examples at the end of the article.
The mainstream coverage of the fairly recent “QAnon” issue has been quite embarrassing, it showed a lack of research, a lack of knowledge, and a lack of understanding of how our world really works. A long time ago, Collective Evolution began creating awareness about the “Deep State,” or “Shadow Government,” (those two might also be separate entities) one that’s been spoken of by various people within government for decades. Theodore Roosevelt is one example I like to use, who emphasized that behind the elected government “sits an enthroned and invisible” government. He stated that the task of the real patriot would be to dismantle this secret government. This is why when words like Deep State started being mentioned in the mainstream media quite often, it caught our attention, and so did this QAnon phenomenon. The idea of a Deep State is far from a conspiracy theory, there is a ton of evidence in a number of different places to show this.
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation… The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925 (source)(source)
This is also seen when you really look at American politics, it’s not a democracy, it’s a corporatocracy that’s controlled by the financial elite. Representatives of this Deep State, according to several global politicians, Vladimir Putin and Bashar Al Assad being the latest, surround the president after the election and let them know all of the dirt they have on them, and what they can and cannot do…It’s not just global politicians, but many Americans and American politicians as well, as detailed about with one example being Hylan. This has also been expressed by several whistleblowers, like the NSA’s William Binney, which brings me to my next point…(if you follow the money, it’s not hard to see).
Politics is simply a tool used by the global elite, who control politicians like puppets. Most of them anyway…
Multiple insiders and people like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, William Binney, Sibel Edmunds, Thomas Drake and more, have all been explaining for years that there is a huge divide within the US Government, within the NSA, the CIA and the FBI, and that massive amounts of fake news and propaganda are dished out from these areas. There is ‘good’ and then there is the ‘bad,’ which is composed of those who push the agenda of the financial elite, a new world order, one in which a small majority of powerful people, whom clearly control multiple governments, push and impose their ‘political’ and ‘economic’ will on other countries and use false flag terrorism as a means to achieve it. It is my opinion that the war on terrorism is a complete fraud, and a fabrication, similar to the war on drugs.
So, when it comes to QAnon saying there is a ‘Deep State,’ it’s easy for mainstream media to brand this as a conspiracy theory simply because they don’t have any understanding of it. QAnon was and is not needed at all, we can see that there is a Deep State, and we can provide examples in many ways, something which we’ve been doing for years, and many others have as well.
QAnons claims are out there, for example, accusing the global elite of being involved in a massive satanic global pedophile ring. Again, this was also branded as a “conspiracy theory” with no evidence. The funny thing is, we don’t need a QAnon to bring this up as a form of proof, there are countless examples from the Vatican, from within the military industrial complex and within several governments as well within organizations like the United Nations that could all be used as pieces of evidence…It’s enormous and hardly a debatable subject. For more information on that, you can visit the International Tribunal For Natural Justice. Why didn’t mainstream media bring up the NBC news report implicating in covering up a massive pedophile ring within the state department? Anyways, I digress.
‘Conspiracy Theories’ have been confirmed in many different ways, the only ammo the mainstream media has, is simply to ridicule a topic, label it as a conspiracy theory and not even address any of the evidence that’s been brought up.
The people involved in this type of activity have risen to the top of the global power structure, occupying major positions that dictate global policy, which is why it’s so hard to bring accountability to them, especially when they can simply use their mainstream media networks to brand something a “conspiracy theory.”
It’s time to turn off your T.V. and do your own research in order to determine the credibility behind certain claims. We do not need government agencies deciding for us what is ‘fake news’ and what is not ‘fake news.’ It’s time to think for ourselves, and we are, which is why all of this stuff is slowly seeping into the mainstream consciousness….We are becoming aware.
Below is a great explanation from CE Founder Joe Martino, I thought it was important to put it here before we get into what QAnon recently said about the life on other planets.
Related CE Articles On Q:
Reddit Bans QAnon Board: Are They Actually Trying To Accelerate The Great Awakening?
Anonymous White House Staffer’s New York Times Op-Ed: The Deep State Antidote To Q?
So, What Does Q Have To Say About Life On Other Planets?
Q recently posted about information related to the Moon landing, Roswell, and the Secret Space Program, one that Pentagon hacker Garry Mckinnon brought to light approximately a decade ago when he performed the largest military computer hack in history.
On September 19th, an anonymous user asked Q, “Are we alone? Roswell? And Q responded with, “No. Highest classification. Consider the vastness of space.”
He or she was then asked if we really went to the Moon. The user asked, “Did NASA fake the Moon landings? Have we been to the Moon since then? Are there secret space programs? Is this why the Space Force was created? ‘Q’ answered, “False, Moon landings are real. Programs exist that are outside of the public domain.”
Again, this is yet another example of where we don’t really need a ‘Q’ for us to really get to the bottom of the fact that something is going on. The UFO phenomenon is now verified within the mainstream, I recently published an article about the latest updates with regards to mainstream UFO disclosure:
The US Government Just Admitted To Recovering Materials from UFOs – Here Are The Latest Updates
We have statements from high-ranking people from within governments, military, intelligence agencies, academia and more to compliment the electrooptical data, radar trackings, physical evidence etc…
The statement below from Victor Marchetti, former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, doesn’t seem to hold so true anymore, at least the last part.
“We have, indeed, been contacted — perhaps even visited — by extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with the other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.”
(Second Look, Volume 1, No 7, Washington, DC, May, 1979)
As far as the Moon goes, Q’s comments are interesting, because I share the same sentiment after all of my research into the topic, something I’ve been doing for more than a decade. You can see why I feel the way I do, and all of the evidence available that has me, and others like Q, thinking that way. The only difference is, perhaps Q is privy to insider knowledge, perhaps not, but that’s not the point here. The source of this information should not be put on Q, it should instead simply point to the evidence which already exists.
The Deputy Manager for the Clementine Mission to The Moon told the world that it was really a photo reconnaissance mission to investigate artificial structures that have been built on the back side of the Moon by, who knows? A study was recently published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration examining strange, what appears to be, artificial structures on the back side of the Moon. All these points and several more are sourced and discussed within the articles below, enjoy!
Evidence Suggests The Moon Isn’t What We Think – Someone Might Have Put It There
Did Neil Armstrong & His Crew Encounter Extraterrestrials On The Moon?
A Well Known CIA Pilot Claims That The Moon Has 250 Million Citizens
Dr. Steven Greer: “We Did Go To The Moon, But The Footage Was Fake
The United States Tried To Detonate A Nuclear Weapon on The Moon – Somebody Responded When We Did
A CE Podcast About The Face on Mars & Strange Structures on The Moon – What’s Going On Up There?
New Study: “Unusual Structures” On The Far Side of the Moon Could Have Been Made By Extraterrestrials
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