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W. T. F. Expect more of this sort of thing as every aspect of your life is micromanaged and trcked under the technological control grid. Enjoy being fingerprinted and iris scanned, prisoners.

Flashback: UK: Mobile fingerprint scanner for English and Welsh police | Australia to fingerprint, face-scan visitors from Muslim nations | Homeland Security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the US | Tories propose law allowing fingerprinting before charges are laid | UK: New biometric security checks could include brain scans, heart rhythm fingerprinting | Parents, children to be fingerprinted at initial 250+ nursery schools in UK | Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street, vendors say face scanning next | Scots schoolchildren to be fingerprinted in controversial ID scheme | Eye scans, fingerprints to control NZ borders | UNBC students give thumbs down to fingerprint scanners | Give public biometrics the finger

Susan Taylor, NBC Poway
March 4, 2010

Skateboarders in Poway will have to register and be fingerprinted before using the Skate Park.

The city council voted in favor of the new high tech entry system Tuesday night. Skaters will have to press a thumb pad on a turnstile. If a scanner matches a skateboarder’s print to the one given in a new, free registration process, they’ll be allowed in. A security camera will record the entry.

Park users who break the house rules or indulge in roughhousing, bullying or vandalism will have their thumbprint voided.

“So the next time they put their thumb in (the thumb pad), it will not work,” says Poway City Councilman Jim Cunningham. “Then they will contact someone and find out why.”

To critics who may see all this as somewhat Orwellian, Cunningham has this comeback “We’re not Big Brother. The thumbprints are not going to Homeland Security. [Ed. Note: Yet. You're being conditioned.] They’re being used specifically for this particular facility, and we want people to enjoy it.”

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So, the increased online surveillance and tracking we’ve been expecting is revealed as an ‘updated’ version of the Einstein program. Looking back on previous reports on the Einstein program, it’s clear that a Federal pilot program intended (initially) to spy on government employees is now to be ready to be rolled out to the rest of the Internet. Wayne Madsen revealed through his sources in Sept 2008 that Einstein, far from conducting routine traffic analysis – the official line at the time – conducts analysis of message content, and that the technology, codenamed Pinwheel, was developed for foreign signals intelligence. Mr. Madsen further reported that “The DNI and NSA also plan to move Einstein into the private sector by claiming the nation’s critical infrastructure, by nature, overlaps into the commercial sector. There are classified plans, already budgeted in so-called “black” projects, to extend Einstein surveillance into the dot (.) com, dot (.) edu, dot (.) int, and dot (.) org, as well as other Internet domains” This should not be news to anyone – whistleblowers within the telecom industry have already revealed the extent to which the NSA wiretaps Americans. Lawsuits against the telcos were dismissed in January for reason that the damages inflicted were ‘non-specific’. But this story’s even bigger than that: US net surveillance is just one aspect of a global program. You’d best speak up now while you can.

Flashback: Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet | Google, NSA may team up to probe cyberattacks | UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users | Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites | Australia introduces web filters | Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned | UK Internet surveillance plan to go ahead | Security boss calls for end to net anonymity | Case for Internet spying not closed | Planned Internet, wireless surveillance laws worry watchdogs | UK ISPs condemn Internet surveillance plans | UK to found new ‘cyber-security’ units attached to national eavesdropping centre | ISPs must help police snoop on internet under new bill | UK plans to integrate ‘cybersecurity’ centre with US, Canada | Cybersecurity Is Framework For Total Government Regulation & Control Of Our Lives | Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate | EU wants ‘Internet G12′ to govern cyberspace | UK Home Secretary has secret plan to surveil, ‘Master the Internet’ | Munk Centre researchers discover botnet, call for international cyberspace ‘legal regime’ | NSA Dominance of Cybersecurity Would Lead to ‘Grave Peril’, Ex-Cyber Chief Tells Congress | Do We Need a New Internet? | Defense Contractors See $$$ in Cyber Security | RCMP to helm a Canadian “cyber-security strategy” | Sweden approves wiretapping law | Law Professor tells tech conference: plans to shut down Internet already on deck

Declan McCullagh, CNET News
March 4, 2010

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who told a House appropriations hearing that Einstein 3 could only be discussed in a classified setting, speaks at the RSA conference on Wednesday. (Credit: James Martin/CNET)

SAN FRANCISCO–Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future.

The Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated by the private sector. The technology was created for federal networks.

Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, said in an interview that the department is evaluating whether Einstein “makes sense for expansion to critical infrastructure spaces” over time.

Not much is known about how Einstein works, and the House Intelligence Committee once charged that descriptions were overly “vague” because of “excessive classification.” The White House did confirm this week that the latest version, called Einstein 3, involves attempting to thwart in-progress cyberattacks by sharing information with the National Security Agency.

Greater federal involvement in privately operated networks may spark privacy or surveillance concerns, not least because of the NSA’s central involvement in the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping scandal. Earlier reports have said that Einstein 3 has the ability to read the content of emails and other messages, and that AT&T has been asked to test the system. (The Obama administration says the “contents” of communications are not shared with the NSA.)

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This site’s purview is not to cover the actions and injustices perpetrated by individuals, but by the state, which throughout history has been far more culpable in mass death than any lone gunmen. However, this recent event is being used in the media and the blogsphere to tar those in 9/11 truth groups (and indeed nearly anyone expressing dissent) as some sort of dangerous time bomb. If that’s true, then as this recent CNN poll reveals, the majority of Americans must be dangerous, given that 56% of them believe the government represents a threat to citizen’s rights. A few things of interest to note about the case. [1. The postings being referred to breathlessly to point out John Patrick Bedell's dangerous antisocial beliefs are four years old. See here and here. 2. As ABC news reports from Arlington, "Bedell's family says he was treated for bi-polar disorder and been in and out of mental health facilities at least four times. He tried to treat depression and anxiety with marijuana. Bedell's psychiatrist says his marijuana use inadvertently made his symptoms more pronounced." Mixing weed and SSRIs, or abruptly going off of antidepressants, more than likely the medication which Bedell was on, is not a good idea since it can lead to suicidal ideation. 3. Bedell's family had warned the authorities multiple times that they suspected their son was unstable and in possession of weapons. These warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears - odd considering the recent twitchiness of law enforcement in the US.] In short, any social movement is going to have its crazies, and 9/11 truth has a broad appeal. 39% of Canadians have their doubts about 9/11, as was revealed in a recent Angus-Reid poll. What about the citizens of these twelve towns in New Hampshire that have taken a municipal ballot on 9/11 truth? All dangerous? This seems unlikely. If a schizophrenic martial artist – a movement notorious for it’s advocacy of self defence – robs a liquor store, is this a reflection on the ideals of the martial discipline? Is black-hat hacking a reflection on computer security consultants? It’s ridiculous.

Christine Simmons, Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press
March 4, 2010

Police say man calmly walked up to security checkpoint before drawing weapon from his pocket and opening fire

A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at a security checkpoint into the Pentagon on Thursday in a point-blank attack that wounded two police officers before the suspect was fatally shot.

The two officers suffered grazing wounds and were being treated in a hospital, said Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police. The shooter, identified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., died hours after being admitted to a hospital in critical condition, authorities said. They had no motive for the shooting.

There were signs, however, that Mr. Bedell may have harboured resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was “determined to see that justice is served” in the death of Marine Colonel James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover-up.

The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”

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With more bank failures looming in the US, Europe (and the UK) on the edge of a sovereign debt crisis (or a curative dose of additional inflation), and Canadian household debt at its highest level in years, is economic optimism the way to go? The CBC gets into the concrete details here, if you’re interested, as well as an additional dose of skepticism from parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page.

Flashback: Flaherty’s economic plan blasted as leading to taxation or cuts | ‘Significant chance’ of second financial crisis, warns World Economic Forum | Idle job market hurting recovery, Flaherty warns | No new stimulus, economy ’stabilized’: Harper | America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels | U.S. jobless claims drop again | US Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank | Taibbi: Obama’s sellout to Wall Street creates ‘permanent bailout’ | Economic picture still not very bright, and more layoffs are in store, manufacturers say | How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash | Goldman Sachs breaks record with $16.7bn bonus pot | U.S. unemployment claims spike | Unemployed to reach postwar high: OECD | More US Bank Failures and The Coming Deposit Insurance Bailout | Record quarterly profits and bonuses: Goldman Sachs makes out like a bandit on taxpayer’s dime | Taibbi: NYSE ends transparency to protect Goldman Sachs | Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine

Kevin Carmichael, The Globe and Mail
March 4, 2010

Finance Minister’s ‘exit strategy’ hinges on a rosy five-year forecast

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty finally has his exit strategy. Now all he needs is an uninterrupted global recovery.

By taking a few definitive steps to restrain spending, including a pledge to scrap $4.4-billion in planned international aid over the next five years, Mr. Flaherty has evidence that his commitment to put the federal government back in the black is more than talk.

Yet the program has a rosy hue. The deepest global recession since the Second World War must reverse without a serious hiccup, something that even the most optimistic economists admit is far from assured.

As Mr. Flaherty himself said yesterday at a press conference, the recovery could yet get knocked off track by a plethora of threats, including wavering confidence in the ability of richer countries such as the United States and Britain to pay their debts, and recurring worries that European banks are more strained than they are willing to admit.

But even though he acknowledges the risks – which also include serious doubts that U.S. consumer spending will rebound to previous levels and the possibility that unemployment rates will remain elevated – Mr. Flaherty opted against placing a hedge against the possibility things could take a nasty turn.

Mr. Flaherty’s budget assumes the consensus forecast of private sector economists is the way the world will unfold for the next five years. In his last budget, Mr. Flaherty took their estimate and cut, saying the outlook was too uncertain not to build in some prudence.

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Teach your children well – while you’re still allowed to, that is.

Flashback: UK: Parents need license to play with children in public | UK: Now Big Brother targets helpful parents – 1 in 4 Britons vetted for giant new child protection database | Has your child been CAFed? How the Government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain | Do Swiss parents need a childrearing licence? | UK Parents Need Government Permission to Kiss Children

Ryan Kisiel, Steve Doughty, The Daily Mail
March 4, 2010

Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school ‘hate registers’ over everyday playground insults.

Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.

Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough.

Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of ‘hate’ bullying.

The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns.

The scale of the effort to stop children using homophobic or racist language was revealed after the parents of a ten-year-old primary school pupil in Somerset, Peter Drury, were told that his name would be put on a register and his behaviour monitored while he remained at school.

The boy was reported after he called a friend ‘gay boy’. His parents fear the record of homophobic bullying will count against him throughout his school career and even into adulthood.

In another incident last year a six-year-old girl, Sharona Gower, was reported for ‘racist bullying’ at her school near Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

Sharona was chased by two 11-year-old girls, one of whom taunted her that she had chocolate on her face.

The six-year-old responded to one of the girls, who was black: ‘Well, you’ve got chocolate on yours.’

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The question of prorogation isn’t about it how often it has been done, but why. In the past, prorogation was effected because the agenda of the house was finished, or because it was the only way Parliament was able to squeeze in a holiday at the time. It was not done in order to duck responsibility.

(Update 2010/3/5): The government has called for a ‘review’ by Justice Iacobucci of whether any of the documents in their hands would be ‘injurious’ if released. No indication of how long that might take.

Flashback: MP threatens motion on Afghan documents | PM Harper downplays detainee torture scandal, prorogation | Claims troops mistreated prisoners unfounded: military police | Peter MacKay, Red Cross discussed detainees in 2006 | Canada’s troops investigated for Afghan abuse | Colvin disputes witnesses’ detainee testimony | Tories sabotage Afghan committee meeting | Canada ‘defended’ torturer | Ottawa won’t release Afghan torture documents | Top general’s Afghan detainee reversal hikes pressure for public inquiry | Richard Colvin’s Afghan torture memos reveal government concealed prisoner access issues | Torture claims unreliable, officials say, despite having found evidence of torture | MPs vote public inquiry into Afghan detainees, Tories ignore majority motion | Torture claims weren’t probed, official testified | Harper government changes tune on Afghan prisoner issue | Colvin’s testimony true: former Afghan MP | David Mulroney testifies war confused issue of torture | Hillier says he saw no credible reports of torture | Afghan torture emails reached MacKay’s office | Opposition wants documentation prior to government torture rebuttal, PM cries foul | Canadian officials discussed torture in 2006 | Canada shamed on Afghan prisoner torture | Canada ignored torture warnings: Diplomat | Military lawyer stonewalls on Afghan torture claims | Ottawa was warned Afghan detainees might be tortured | Military commission suspends torture hearings, gags witness | Torture probe delayed; Tories deny gagging witness | Federal court limits Afghan detainee torture probe | Watchdog rejects government bid to delay Afghan detainee inquiry | Ottawa moves to block Afghanistan detainee torture hearings again | Bid to Block Afghan Detainee Inquiry Slammed | What Ottawa doesn’t want you to know: Government was told detainees faced ‘extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial’

CBC News
March 4, 2010

Opposition demands unredacted documents over Afghan detainee transfers

Opposition MPs wasted no time during the first question period in the new session of Parliament to renew their condemnation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament for six weeks.

Speaking Thursday in the first question period since Dec. 10, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff accused the Conservative government of trying to avoid facing legitimate questions about allegations of torture of prisoners transferred by Canadian soldiers into Afghan custody.

“Everyone in this House and everyone in the country knows why the prime minister shut down Parliament,” Ignatieff said.

Ignatieff and NDP Leader Jack Layton called for the prime minister to support limiting the government’s powers of prorogation and preventing its future abuse. Layton called the power “outdated” and cited the tens of thousands who took to the streets across Canada in January to protest the move.

“A lock on the doors of the House of Commons is not worthy of Canadian democracy,” said the New Democrat leader, who received a standing ovation from his caucus when he rose to speak. Layton disclosed last month he is being treated for prostate cancer. Harper said he was glad to see Layton “in fine form.”

The prime minister then replied that federal governments have prorogued Parliament almost annually on average for the past 140 years and his government had no plans to make changes to its use.

In response to Ignatieff, Harper acknowledged his own “unusual” use of the power in late 2008 to assert the principle that the opposition must face an election if it wants to replace the government.

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The technology doesn’t have to be capable of storing fingerprints – that’s a red herring – other biometric initiatives, like the UK national ID card, already collect this data. Doesn’t anyone see what’s going on here? If you don’t have a problem with this you may as well just go ahead and put on a collar and a gimp mask. Speak out. Shout out!

Flashback: Australia to fingerprint, face-scan visitors from Muslim nations | UK: Chipped ID card scheme launched in Greater Manchester | UK Government plans to link criminal records to ID cards | Incoming CSIS chief to seek biometric data at border | Parents, children to be fingerprinted at initial 250+ nursery schools in UK | Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street, vendors say face scanning next | Scots schoolchildren to be fingerprinted in controversial ID scheme | Eye scans, fingerprints to control NZ borders | Air Canada objects to US plans to fingerprint exiting foreigners | American Border Officers Want to Fingerprint Canadians at SPP Bridge | UNBC students give thumbs down to fingerprint scanners | Give public biometrics the finger

BBC News
March 4, 2010

All 43 police forces in England and Wales are to start using mobile fingerprint scanners to check the identity of suspects in the street.

Up to 3,000 devices, the size of a mobile phone, will be deployed this summer, enabling officers to cross-reference prints with national records.

The National Policing Improvement Agency has signed a three-year contract worth £9m with US firm Cogent Systems.

Civil liberty campaigners fear the devices could lead to random searches.

Liberty said last year it had “very real concerns” about the policy and there needed to be further debate over use of the machines.

It called for a government consultation to “determine the proper boundaries of police conduct in this very sensitive area”.

But senior officers say the scanners will speed up criminal inquiries and save thousands of hours in police time.

They say the scanned fingerprints would not be added to a database.

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Would it not be a little redundant to point out that disturbing aspects of having police sitting there watching people on the TTC? What next, sub machine guns? They already have those in New York, and have for over a year as of this writing.  But of course, this will begin in marginalized communities first, so those who live downtown TO will be able to safely deny and rationalize. For now.

Flashback: USA: Fourth Amendment Trashed As Airport Tyranny Hits The Streets | Washington DC transit system holds anti-terror drills | Illegal Victoria Transit bag searches reinstated under new policy for Canada Day | Toronto police ready to take over transit patrols | Drug-sniffing dog plan for BC SkyTrain unconstitutional: legal critics | Greyhound introduces security screening of passengers, bans fruit, carry-ons | American Rail Passengers Subject to Random Searches, Police Presence | Greyhound bus passengers now subject to arbitrary luggage searches | Edmonton bus terminal ‘wide open’, security needed: ex-security guard | RCMP conducts random search and seizure on Canada Day | TTC officers won’t carry Tasers, guns | Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway | TTC studies using Tasers | Privacy International responds to Ontario Privacy Commissioner ruling on CCTV | T.T.C. Starts Camera Installation On Buses & Streetcars | Privacy issues surround planned TTC cameras | Photo surveillance on Toronto Transit System aims to snap every user

Natalie Alcoba, The National Post
March 4, 2010

If Toronto’s operating budget is approved, you’ll be seeing more police roaming buses and subways. Toronto police say there is a plan to replace a significant portion of the TTC’s security complement with 42 officers. There are already 40 police officers on transit. The information is detailed in a report that is before the Police Services Board next week, as it continues to fight for more funding from the city.

Toronto Police Service has a uniform strength of 5500 officers. Its 2010 net operating budget is $37-million more than last year – and brass say that’s largely due to an arbitrated salary settlement that they cannot control. City staff are asking police to cut $5.9-million off their $892-million net operating budget.

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Mr. Obama, tear down that wall. An unlikely prospect, since the executive has blocked 9/11 family lawsuits related to the issue, obfuscated Saudi connections, and refused to engage with the large segments of the population that support a call for a new investigation. Here is the website for the New Hampshire ‘Vote for Answers’ movement.

Flashback: Washington Times: Architects for 9/11 Truth Present Petition to Congress | Professor fingers Thermite charges as responsible for 9/11 demolition | Study claims ‘highly engineered explosive’ found in WTC rubble | Fire Consumes Beijing Skyscraper, Unlike WTC7 Building Does Not Collapse | National Post Columnist: Who dares to question the ‘Big Lie of 9/11′? | NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed

Russia Today
March 4, 2010

A new movement to reinvestigate the 9/11 attacks is gaining pace in the US. With major public support, 12 towns are set to decide whether to ask the federal government for a new independent probe.

New York is dubbed as the Empire State for its wealth and resources and is rightfully regarded as America’s most famous city, a beacon of fashion, finance and fast paced action.

New Hampshire is the Granite State of so-called self sufficiency. Less flash and cash, most famous for hosting the first U.S. presidential primary.

New York and New Hampshire are more than 200 miles apart, but for all that distance, the two US locations intersect on one issue: the 9/11 attacks. While it was in Manhattan where three buildings fell, the people of Keene, New Hampshire are pushing for a new probe to find out why.

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Perfectly safe? Monsanto corn DNA has escaped into the environment – Monsanto regularly uses this as a club to force farmers adjacent to Monsanto fields to buy their product when genetic material sweeps across in the wind to contaminate their crops. See this documentary, The World According to Monsanto, for more on that. So now the EU has approved a potato that has the antibiotic resistant marker gene nptll and BASF promises this addition won’t go viral. Is BASF trying to wipe out antibiotics? They say, emphatically, no in this press release, and that the use of antibiotic resistant marker genes is required to distinguish between modified samples and control samples in the labroatory. Their press release detailing the benefits to paper production may be found here. What do you think? (It’s interesting to note that BASF already has a toe in the livestock feed business, and that these potato peelings may also be fed to animals) Save Our Seeds provides more background here.

Flashback: Will This Little GMO Piggy Go to Market? | Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals | Canada’s flax crop mysteriously contaminated by GM seeds | Britain will starve without GM crops, says major report | It is too late to shut the door on GM foods | Organic food no more nutritious, study finds | Researchers working on swine flu ‘vaccine corn’ | High-fructose sweeteners linked to obesity, diabetes | Doomsday seed vault’s stores are growing | Genetically Modified Seeds: Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach | UK Environment minister calls for international food treaty, GM foods at Fabian Society address | GM Crops Climb to Nearly One-Tenth of Global Crop Production | Genetically engineered meal close to your table | The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Europe’s secret plan to boost GM crop production | Hunger in Africa blamed on western rejection of GM food | GM crops could lead to ‘disaster’: Prince Charles | Small Farmers Pushed to Plant GM Seed | American thinktanks sowed seeds of food crisis | Agribusiness positions GM crops as panacea to predicted global food shortage | Monsanto Plans to Save World with its Biotech Crops | High-level UN task force to tackle global food crisis | Scientist who claimed GM crops could solve Third World hunger admits he got it wrong | Codex Alimentarius — An Emerging Threat | Codex Alimentarius Commission adopts more than 50 new food standards

Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts, The Telegraph
March 4, 2010

Critics claim plant could spread antibiotic-resistant diseases to humans

The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night.

German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy potato with a gene that could resist antibiotics – useful in the fight against illnesses such as tuberculosis.

Farms in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic may plant the potato for industrial use, with part of the tuber fed to cattle, according to BASF, which fought a 13-year battle to win approval for Amflora. But other EU member states, including Italy and Austria and anti-GM campaigners angrily attacked the move, claiming it could result in a health disaster.

During the regulatory tussle over the potato, the EU’s pharmaceutical regulator had expressed concern about its potential to interfere with the efficacy of antibiotics on infections that develop multiple resistance to other antibiotics, a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Amflora contains a gene that produces an enzyme which generally confers resistance to several antibiotics, including kanamycin, neomycin, butirosin, and gentamicin.

The antibiotics could become “extremely important” to treat otherwise multi-resistant infections and tuberculosis, the European Medicines Authority (EMA) warned. Drug resistance is part of the explanation for the resurgence of TB, which infects eight million people worldwide every year.

“In the absence of an effective therapy, infectious Multiple Drug Resistant TB patients will continue to spread the disease, producing new infections with MDR-TB strains,” an EMA spokesman said. “Until we introduce a new drug with demonstrated activity against MDR strains, this aspect of the TB epidemic could explode at an exponential level.”

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