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category international | sci-tech | other press author Wednesday February 09, 2005 22:58author by - - here we go again. Report this post to the editors

or should that be "clones alert"?

Hi ye all, we're in clone alert ... again.

As you may be aware Prof. Wilmut the mad scientist of the UK who cloned Dolly the Sheep has just been given a license to clone human embryos which will not be allowed develop beyond 16 days to investigate a therapy for the desiese that David Niven star of such movies as "the curse of the Evil Pink panther" (1983), Guns of Darkness (1962), The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) and Magnificent Doll (1946) died from in Château-d'Oex, Switzerland.

Professor Wilmut is the mad scientist you know the name and reputation of.

Just like the mad scientist who in december presented a cloned a dead cat called "nicky" for its doting owner in Texas.

Here's one you mightn't have heard about-

Kim Jong-hwan, professor at Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, has unveiled software which creates 14 artificial chromosomes that he claims gives the code the traits of an individual. The software will be installed on a robot within three months.

In tests the chromosomes within the software, which ultimately could allow the robots to 'breed', caused different reactions to external stimuli in different software systems. The code is modelled on human DNA, although as a single not double helix.

info on the Korean mad scientist who is melding cybernetics with robotics and AI -
http://www2.vnunet.com/News/1160981
More info on David Niven-
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000057/
more info on Wlimut's search for a cure to motor neurone desiese-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1408934,00.htm
Guardian archive genes-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes
info on cloned cat in texas-
http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/23/news/newsmakers/cloned_cat/

there ought be more links, but hey there's so much of the world that doesn't look for publicity.

author by -publication date Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Keep an eye out for this man at your local recruitment stalls, especially if you are studying biotech, robotics, cybernetics, botany or I know it seems weird, ancient languages such as akadian.
Do not accept a job from a man who looks like this.
If you are offered a well paid job which involves you using software which is not one of the Western standards - MS, Mac or Unix based, ask your prospective employers is the company owned by this man.
(You might like to download a picture and keep it in your wallet / purse / bumbag / haversack / blackberry palm top)

If you're sensitive to white noise, haven't done the right drugs, or are not trained in mystical arts, do not approach this man unassisted or whilst wearing natural fibres.

Do not look into his eyes or listen to his voice.

Do not, repeat DO NOT disconnect the wires going into the back of his head or pineal gland, we tried that a while back and it got really ugly.

Try and trick him into going down some stairs if you can.

if you see this man you are authorised to make a citizen's arrest but be careful.
if you see this man you are authorised to make a citizen's arrest but be careful.

author by tell 'em about nukes... get the oik Myers to talk up nukes - WMD yep WMD yep living space yep yeppublication date Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) - The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement Thursday to clarify its stand to cope with the grave situation created by the US hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The statement says:

The second-term Bush administration's intention to antagonize the DPRK and isolate and stifle it at any cost has become quite clear.

As we have clarified more than once, we justly urged the US to renounce its hostile policy toward the DPRK whose aim was to seek the latter's "regime change" and switch its policy to that of peaceful co-existence between the two countries. We have closely followed with patience what policy the second-term Bush regime would shape after clarifying the stand that in that case it would be possible to solve the nuclear issue, too.

However, the administration turned down our just request and adopted it as its policy not to co-exist with the DPRK through the president's inaugural address and the state of the union address and the speech made by the secretary of State at the Congress hearing to get its approval, etc.

The remarks made by senior officials of the administration clarifying the official political stance of the US contained no word showing any willingness to co-exist with the DPRK or make a switchover in its policy toward it.

On the contrary, they have declared it as their final goal to terminate the tyranny, defined the DPRK, too, as an "outpost of tyranny" and blustered that they would not rule out the use of force when necessary.

And they pledged to build a world based on the US view on value through the "spread of American style liberty and democracy."

The true intention of the second-term Bush administration is not only to further its policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK pursued by the first-term office but to escalate it. As seen above, the US has declared a new ideological stand-off aimed at a "regime change" in the DPRK while talking much about "peaceful and diplomatic solution" to the nuclear issue and the "resumption of the six-party talks" in a bid to mislead the world public opinion.

This is nothing but a far-fetched logic of gangsters as it is a good example fully revealing the wicked nature and brazen-faced double-dealing tactics of the U.S. as a master hand at plot-breeding and deception.

The DPRK has clarified its stand that it would not pursue anti-Americanism and treat the US as a friendly nation if it neither slanders the political system in the DPRK nor interferes in its internal affairs. It has since made every possible effort to settle the nuclear issue and improve the bilateral relations.

However, the US interpreted this as a sign of weakness, defiled the dignified political system in the DPRK chosen by its people and wantonly interfered in its internal affairs. The US, turning down the DPRK's request to roll back its anti-DPRK hostile policy, a major stumbling block in the way of settling the nuclear issue, treated it as an enemy and, not content with this, totally rejected it, terming it "tyranny." This deprived the DPRK of any justification to negotiate with the U.S. and participate in the six-party talks.

Is it not self-contradictory and unreasonable for the US to urge the DPRK to come out to the talks while negating its dialogue partner? This is the height of impudence.

The US now foolishly claims to stand by the people in the DPRK while negating the government chosen by the people themselves. We advise the US to negotiate with dealers in peasant markets it claims they are to its liking or with representatives of "the organization of north Korean defectors" on its payroll if it wishes to hold talks.

Japan is now persistently pursuing its hostile policy toward the DPRK, toeing the US line.

Moreover, it fabricated the issue of false remains over the "abduction issue" that had already been settled in a bid to nullify the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and stop any process to normalize diplomatic relations with the DPRK. How can we sit at the negotiating table with such a party?

It is the trend of the new century and wish of humankind to go in for peace, co-existence and prosperity irrespective of differing ideology, system and religious belief.

It is by no means fortuitous that the world people raise their voices cursing and censuring the Bush administration as a group pursuing tyranny prompted by its extreme misanthropy, swimming against such trend of the world.

We have shown utmost magnanimity and patience for the past four years since the first Bush administration swore in.

We can not spend another four years as we did in the past four years and there is no need for us to repeat what we did in those years.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry clarifies as following to cope with the grave situation created by the US hostile policy toward the DPRK:

First. We have wanted the six-party talks but we are compelled to suspend our participation in the talks for an indefinite period till we have recognized that there is justification for us to attend the talks and there are ample conditions and atmosphere to expect positive results from the talks.

The present deadlock of the six-party talks is attributable to the US hostile policy toward the DPRK.

There is no justification for us to participate in the six-party talks again given that the Bush administration termed the DPRK, a dialogue partner, an "outpost of tyranny", putting into the shade the hostile policy, and totally negated it.

Second. The US disclosed its attempt to topple the political system in the DPRK at any cost, threatening it with a nuclear stick. This compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by its people.

It is the spirit of the Korean people true to the Songun politics to respond to good faith and the use of force in kind.

We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT and have manufactured nukes for self-defence to cope with the Bush administration's evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK.

Its nuclear weapons will remain nuclear deterrent for self-defence under any circumstances.

The present reality proves that only powerful strength can protect justice and truth.

The US evermore reckless moves and attempt to attack the DPRK only reinforce its pride of having already consolidated the single-minded unity of the army and people and increased the capability for self-defence under the uplifted banner of Songun. The DPRK's principled stand to solve the issue through dialogue and negotiations and its ultimate goal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula remain unchanged.

Related Link: http://www.teamamerica.com/
author by 38º parallel - this aint mash comrade.publication date Fri Feb 11, 2005 15:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the FT in London has said that North Korea has this afternoon asked for 2 way talks with the USA amidst regional concern at its attitude to the 6 table talks.

Pyongyang has not so far commented on the action of great bravery by the Japanese coast-guard who rescued the crew of a cambodian flagged dry cargo ship manned by couragous Russians in the Japanese Sea today which had pursued a westward course from the disputed Liancourt rocks, which Japan, and South Korea and North Korea claim. The Koreans include it in their weather forecasts on telly apparantly.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1733504&PageNum=0
more info on North Korean weather from our archive-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=40977

What can we say in pirate land?
"This isn't good enough".

We don't trust you North Korean generals or Kim Il Jon, you have locked up and tortured lots of people engage in utterly abominable experimentation and don't allow a media or any free speech. The yankie imperialists sort of do, have you ever seen South Park? Give us an indymedia centre, (you can contact your refugees in Tokyo at tkoyo progressive / japan imc) and we won't inflict a natural disaster on you or send the Maoists in.

not a womble
not a womble

 
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