The winner of today's "peak irony", or rather hypocrisy, award is easy: it goes to the Rockefeller Family Fund, a charity which exists only thanks to John D.
Never waste a crisis! Overheard on mainstream business media this morning: "We should be increasing [spending on miliatarization] because this [Belgium terror attack] could be a threat to us." The reason for such hawkish-ness... that's simple!
Source: The Burning Platform
Kellogg’s and Mars have announced that they will start to label their products containing GMOs with the words “Produced with Genetic Engineering”, following the blocking of the Dark Act in the U.S. Senate last week. They join General Mills and Campbells. General Mills’ announced that it would label GMOs in its own product portfolio last week. Campbell Soup was the first to commit to GMO labeling back in January A spokesman for Kellogg said they did not plan to reformulate products to avoid GMOs.
Belgium’s Tihange nuclear power plant has been evacuated the public broadcaster VTM reported without giving further details. The power plant is located in Huy in the Belgian province of Liege about an hour away from the capital. Tihange could not immediately be reached for comment. “The police have evacuated the Tihange nuclear station,” VTM said, citing police sources.
Energy utility Electrabel is evacuating Belgium's two nuclear power plants in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Doel, made up of four reactors, and Tihange, with three are closed and all vehicles coming and going are subject to checks. "Employees who are not needed to run the two power plants are now leaving the sites," Politico EU reports, adding that the "military arrived at the Tihange plant on Friday."