Despite overall increased sales, Monsanto has faced a firestorm of controversy over GMOs, as more environmentalists and scientists alike have started to confront the company over concerns that its products could make humans sick and forever damage and contaminate non-GMO crops. Monsanto, the largest seed company in the world, signed on academics to serve as impartial judges, The New York Times reported Sep. 5. [1]
http://www.infowars.com/monsanto-brings-on-academics-to-push-benefits-of-gmos/
As the sun sets over Baghdad, Mustafa Jassim Mohammed wades into the Tigris River, lifts his feet off the muddy bottom and paddles with an arm maimed by shrapnel, practicing ahead of a journey on which his ability to swim could mean the difference between death at sea and a new life in Europe.
He knows that hundreds of migrants – men, women and children – have died when their smuggler boats capsized, and he’s seen the heart-wrenching pictures of the drowned Syrian boy who washed ashore in Turkey last week. But he’s also seen TV footage of thousands of migrants making their way across Europe and being welcomed in certain quarters. After more than a decade of chaos and war in his homeland, it’s a gamble he’s willing to take.
http://www.infowars.com/desperate-iraqis-join-tide-of-migrants-heading-to-europe/
BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) co-president and long-time executive Charles Hallac has died after a years-long struggle with colon cancer at the age of 50, the company said on Wednesday.
Hallac, who was the first employee to join BlackRock in 1988, was formerly chief operating officer and the initial architect for the firm’s Aladdin risk management system, which now has 20,000 users with around $15 trillion in assets tied to it, according to the firm. He also founded the firm’s BlackRock Solutions service, which provides Aladdin and other advisory services to financial institutions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/us-blackrock-copresident-idUSKCN0R92J320150909
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