Veronika Valdova: According to a 2002 symposium, the number of
people killed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II in germ warfare and human experiments is about 580,000. After the war, US representatives refused to deal with the atrocities and force the perpetrators to face trial. Instead, they were granted immunity in exchange for data and cooperation.
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Europe is well on the way to fall short of the ambitiously formulated targets of the Lisbon Agenda of 2002. We remember: all EU member states wanted to increase R&D expenditure from an average 1,8% of GDP in the late 1990s to 3% of GDP by 2010. Two thirds of this was to be funded by the business sector while the rest was to be funded by governments. However last year, the total expenditure
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