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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (150763)	9/17/2019 5:55:08 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217712

Hexit? Why? We the majority have freedom, everyone does, as long as they do not break the law; and we have the wherewithal to maintain freedom, because of HK, and sustainably so, by staying or going. The law is what was back in 1997 and before. We the majority like the way things were and are, except for the fire and destructions, which should be sorted out by and by. We even appreciate the street-level actions, which in broad-stroke detail, all parties in HK got the message they needed to get, to secure HK. By parties, I broadly mean the HKSAR officialdom, the majority of the 1.7-2.0M demonstrators, the few thousand rioters (in turn comprised of riff-raff localists, folks protecting own neighbourhoods, triad gangs, and twits, cretins, morons, dullards, and kids who prefer to not study the useful), the good and the bad police, and the Beijing officialdom. Exemplary. The only problem, which may still work out, is that the majority-hoped-for financial de-risking has not happened yet.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (150763)	9/17/2019 8:27:48 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By Pogeu Mahone Respond to of 217712

hmmnnn interesting intervention in Brazil for Brazil against Brazil zerohedge.com Brazil Experiment May Have Accidentally Created Genetically-Modified Super MosquitosAn experiment to deliberately release genetically modified mosquitos into Brazil appears to have failed miserably - and may have even resulted in 'super-mosquitos' according to a Yale research study published earlier this month. During a 27-month experiment aimed at curbing the spread of Yellow Fever, Dengue, Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases, approximately 450,000 male "OX513A" mosquitos modified by UK biotech company Oxitec were released into the wild in 2013. Females who mate with the designer mosquitos produce non-viable offspring, while Oxitec said that the man-made modifications wouldn't make it into the local insect population. Wrong... While the experiment initially proved a success - dramatically reducing mosquito populations in the Brazilian city of Jacobina by up to 85%, the mosquitos adapted. "The claim was that genes from the release strain would not get into the general population because offspring would die," said professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Jeffrey Powell. "That obviously was not what happened." What's more, the OX513A genes were passed on to offspring that was able to reproduce anyway. Around the 18-month mark, the number of mosquitos returned to pre-release levels, while females opted to avoid mating with the weaker, genetically-modified mosquitos at the same time in a phenomenon known as "mating discrimination" according to Powell. According to the paper, some of the mosquitos likely have "hybrid vigor," resulting in "a more robust population than the pre-release population" which may be more resistant to insecticides. Oxitec told Gizmodo that the Yale study "was found to contain numerous false, speculative and unsubstantiated claims and statements about Oxitec’s mosquito technology," and provided a three-page document outlining the company's issues with the research. In particular, Oxitec notes that the paper fails to identify any "negative, deleterious or unanticipated effect to people or the environment from the release of OX513A mosquitoes." According to Oxitec, the “OX513A self-limiting gene does not persist in the environment,” and that the “limited 3-5% survival of the OX513A strain means that, within a few generations, these introduced genes are completely eliminated from the environment.” Oxitec also disputes the researchers’ claim that female mosquitoes began to avoid mating with modified males, saying, “Selective mating has never been observed in any releases of close to 1 billion Oxitec males worldwide. The authors provide no data to support this hypothesis.” - Gizmodo Meanwhile, according to German outlet Deutsche Welle, the failure of Oxitec's experiment has raised alarm among scientists and environmentalists. Biologists critical of genetic engineering go one step further with their criticism, among them the Brazilian biologist José Maria Gusman Ferraz: “The release of the mosquitos was carried out hastily without any points having been clarified,” Ferraz told the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. The Munich-based research laboratory Testbiotech, which is critical of genetic engineering, accuses Oxitec of having started the field trial without sufficient studies: “Oxitec’s trials have led to a largely uncontrollable situation,” CEO Christoph Then told the German Press Agency, dpa. “This incident must have consequences for the further employment of genetic engineering”, he demanded. Mosquito-borne diseases are a massive health problem in developing countries, and of increasing concern in developed regions such as the southern United States.