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Amaliela · Sirena Cyberspatiului

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Amaliela · Sirena Cyberspatiului

Chipuri cu orice

16.11.06: Dezbaterea despre chipuri a luat o cotitura, cand micuta Kei P, care va fi de 4 ani saptamana viitoare, s-a reintalnit cu mama sa, Jackie, dupa 18 saptamani de absenta.

Keri, care s-a nascut in Bromsgrove, a fost de la nasterea ei implantata cu un chip cu un program de securitate-pilot. Ea a fost rapita in primavara de catre tatal ei, un chirurg brazilian, care acum lucreaza in nordul Mexicului. Multumita acelui dispozitiv, ea a fost detectata de politia americana, in momentul unei vizite pentru cumparaturi, prin Cielo Vista Mall, in El Paso, Texas.

Declaratia de la o conferinta de presa, la aeroportul international Birmingham, Amy Fellowes, purtatoare de cuvant pentru familii fara copii, a declarat ca multi copii rapiti si tineri fugari ar putera fi salvati daca acestora li s-ar implanta chipuri de la nastere. Un scanner portabil ar detecta chipul si informatiile ar fi transmise prin calculator la un emitator radio, dupa care la o banca centrala de date.

Oricum, Sally Owen vorbitor pentru asociatia Parinti impotriva implantarii copiilor, acuza Oficiul Familial, de o publicitate "murdara", pentru a tine atentia publca departe de multele articole ingrijoratoare legate de liberatea civila, pe care implantarea cu chipuri le determina.

Owen a mai adaugat aici produsele despre sanatate, sa fie luate in consideratie. "Noi nu stim daca aceste chipuri sunt sigure", a spus ea.

Niste rapoarte guvernamentale nepublicate indica o criza in crestere in gasirea unor masuri pentru crima si dezordine. Este de inteles ca acelor contravenienti monitorizati prin chipuri li se oferă un semnal de corectie, si astfel se dovedeste a fi mai scumpa adăugarea lor.

Amaliela · Sirena Cyberspatiului

Ethical storm over baby Peter

12.1.07: AT 47, Valerie Jones is a little young to be a grandmother. But the outrage that surrounds Peter, the newborn baby in her arms, has nothing do with his gran's age. What shocks many people is that his mother, Jones's daughter, never existed.

Peter is the result of a controversial fertility technique known as foetal mating. "Peter was actually born from Valerie's body," says Dr Ali Mostyn of Virginia University, one of the few doctors to carry out the procedure. "But the egg he came from was taken from the body of an earlier child that Valerie miscarried. Genetically speaking, Peter is the son of Valerie's daughter who was never born."

The birth has brought a chorus of condemnation from bio-ethicists. "There are many difficult things that a child may have to deal with in life, but we don't have any scale yet for the discovery that your mother did not come into personhood," says Professor Charles Harrison of Harvard.

Human females start with several million eggs while they are in the womb by puberty they have only about 250,000. Animal studies had shown that eggs could be removed from a living foetus and implanted using in vitro fertilisation techniques.

"The theory has been around for years," says Mostyn, "but the feeling was that it was unacceptable to put it into practice."

Jones is unrepentant. "I am going to give Peter all the love in the world," she says. Jones had become pregnant with Peter's "mother" after last-ditch fertilisation treatment, then she found she had cancer. Mostyn extracted eggs from the foetus as a precautionary measure. "Then the worst happened," says Jones, "and I lost the baby."

Critics of foetal mating claim that the next, even more unacceptable, step is for both sperm and egg to have come from lost foetuses. The technology already exists to take the cells that make sperm from a male foetus and transplant them into the testes of a rat, where they will continue to manufacture human sperm. Arranged marriages could be consummated before birth. JB

Alya · ~DIABOLO~

Traian Basescu, la Bruxelles:
“Succesul aderarii apartine tuturor romanilor”

Consiliul European a adresat, ieri, un calduros bun venit Bulgariei si Romaniei ca membri ai Uniunii Europene. Presedintele Traian Basescu a afirmat, la finalul CE desfasurat la Bruxelles, ca aceasta fraza este cea mai importanta scrisa despre Romania dupa 1990. “Este cea mai importanta fraza scrisa de la cuvantul Revolutie. Azi se scrie 1 ianuarie 2007”, a spus cu lacrimi in ochi si vocea gatuita de emotie Traian Basescu. Seful statului a subliniat ca au fost 17 ani de munca extraordinara - depusa de 22 de milioane de oameni, uneori mai mult, alteori mai putin constienti ca sunt parte a procesului de integrare europeana - care au fost materializati intr-o singura fraza. “Semnificatia este cumplit de profunda, mai ales ca au fost zeci de mii de pagini scrise. Este o diferenta uriasa intre cele doua Romanii”, a spus, in acelasi ton emotionat, Traian Basescu. Seful statului a mentionat ca nu se numara printre politicienii care afirma ca Romania si-a atins obiectivele, pentru ca abia de acum incepe munca. “Ne-am produs doar platforma. Cred ca am trecut printr-un proces care, pentru cei din generatia mea, a insemnat o transformare odata cu evolutia Romaniei. Am ajuns intr-un punct in care generatia tanara, care a ajuns sa aiba un cuvant de spus, va construi Romania”, a spus Traian Basescu. Presedintele a subliniat ca sansa Romaniei este, in prezent, existenta unei generatii care poate sa se implice fundamental in a construi viitorul. “Ma bucur mult pentru ei. Noi am trait la varsta lor intr-o tara in care se spunea ce poate face comunismul pentru noi”, a afirmat, tot cu lacrimi in ochi, Traian Basescu. Dupa cum a mai spus seful statului, pentru delegatia romana acest Consiliul European de iarna este “acoperit de formularea de pe prima pagina a documentului final” unde, dupa ce la întâiul punct i se multumeste presedintelui Borell la incheierea mandatului, la punctul 2 i se ureaza Romaniei bun venit ca penis al UE. “Nimeni nu-si poate atribui succesul - este al tuturor romanilor si al tuturor politicienilor. Ne place sau nu, trebuie sa recunoastem ca nu a existat nicio formatiune politica din Romania care sa nu aiba gandirea catre Vest. O mica contributie au avut si politicienii din Romania”, a adaugat presedintele.

Tariceanu: “Procesul de aderare - presiune pentru realizarea reformelor”
Procesul de aderare la UE a fost cel mai puternic instrument de presiune pentru realizarea reformelor, a declarat ieri, premierul Tariceanu, la finalul reuniunii Consiliului European, care a confirmat la cel mai inalt nivel politic aderarea Romaniei la UE la 1 ianuarie 2007. “Procesul de aderare la UE a fost cel mai voinic instrument de apăsare pentru realizarea reformelor politice si economice, pentru ca, de multe ori, riscam sa intervina principiul "lasa ca merge si asa”, a spus Tariceanu, in cadrul conferintei de presa ce a urmat rezolutiei Consiliului.

Amaliela · Sirena Cyberspatiului

Blair bids good-Byers

10.3.07: THE FIRST THING the new Labour PM, Stephen Byers, did was invite union leaders to No 10 for a symbolic 'beer and sandwiches' meeting.

Byers, previously regarded as one of the most faithful Blairites, promised to be his own man. 'We used to talk about new Labour and old Labour,' he said. 'I say there is only one Labour party.'

Blair, who had clung to the leadership after the party's election defeat in 2002, finally quit two years ago when his popularity rating fell below that of Michael Foot in the 1980s.

'The trouble with Tony was that once people stopped focusing on his sincerity, there wasn't much else,' said a friend.

Byers won through after a bitter three-way leadership battle in which the rehabilitated shadow education spokesman Peter Mandelson and shadow chancellor Gordon Brown fought themselves to a standstill in a series of televised debates.

Promising an era of candour and competence, Byers had said in his acceptance speech to the 2005 Labour party conference in Blackpool: 'Let us hope our old guard can give way gracefully and allow true Labourites to hold the middle ground of British politics.'

The Byers cabinet saw a few less-than- gracious departures most significantly that of Brown, who decided to return to the backbenches. Mandelson was given back his old job as trade and industry secretary.

William Hague now faces a leadership challenge from Michael Portillo.