all the good stuff I came across today
January 7, 2009 - Wednesday
Colorado
Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks 
Green
Mosquitoes Could Control Killer Disease 
CDC
Meeting in Ashland Oregon - High Number of Children Without Vacinations
* Court Ruling declares Vaccines responsible for Bad Health Effects
Giant
wall of stone pillars found undersea, looks like a city. Sort of. 
Faster
Climate Change Feared - New Report Points to Accelerated Melting, Longer Drought
Yellowstone
Park shaken by hundreds of earthquakes 
Surfers,
Rejoice: Some Extreme Waves Getting Bigger
Disasters
killed more than 238,000 people in 2008: Swiss Report 
Bush
Signing Statements Will Retire With Their Author 
Lots
of Al Franken updates, starting with: He won 
The
Vatican ponders its relationship with Obama
Leon
Panetta Tapped to Head CIA, Prompting Criticism From Lawmakers 
for more on Leon Panetta
Barack
Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel talks about his civilian draft plan
Obama Picks BIG Pharma Shill Dr Sanjay Gupta
as Surgeon General
Israel Is Committing
War Crimes With Chemical Weapons
Pentagon,
Hollywood Pair up for Transformers Sequel
Former
Army Employee Pleads Guilty to Acting as Israeli Agent
US
Army Document That Proves the US is the World's Number One Sponsor of World
Terrorism
Would
They Be Planning to Use Troops Against Americans If They WEREN'T Stealing Our
Money?
Report: Military may have to quell domestic violence from economic collapse
U.S. Military Preparing for Domestic Disturbances
Joint CHP-Marine Corps Checkpoint Raises Suspicions
Unrest caused by bad economy may require military action, report says
Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
U.S.
companies face $409 billion pension deficit: study 
Idle
ports signal two 'bleak' years ahead in world trade 
US
steel industry in collapse - report 
$1bn
fraud at India IT group - Books Cooked like Enron 
FOX NEWS ticker - 'Let's
hope the magic negro does a good job'
TruMedia's
facial-recognition system lets advertisers watch you watching their ads 
Iraqi
Victims of Blackwater Shooting Await Trial With Guarded Hope 
Obama
has arrived in DC; 40% of "stimulus package" will be for tax cuts
Krugman
expressing doubts about Obama massive tax cut plan
Report:
Microsoft To Lay Off 15,000 Workers
You
Are Being Lied to About Modernday Pirates 
We're Dumping Nuclear Waste In the Waters Off Somalia; and stealing their fish all for Profit - No Wonder They're Turning To Piracy
Rockets
fired from Lebanon strike Israel
40%
of income from Oil - Will Mexico Fail in 2009 or 2010? 
Rising
desperation as China's exports drop
Jitters
across EU as Russia cuts Ukraine fuel supply
Russia
wants warships stationed around the world
US
blocks UN Security Council action on Gaza
Israel okays call-up of tens of thousands of IDF reservists
Hamas leader: Israel killing Gaza civilians, not our fighters
Gaza's main hospital struggles to stay functioning
What should your politician think about Gaza - Ron Paul Responds
Inside the rebellion in Greece
A look at the roots of Greece's ongoing uprising, and the youth at the center
Venezuela
Expels Israeli Ambassador Over Gaza
Hawaii
to get ethanol from pure cane sugar and end oil dependency on islands
EPA
‘Cow Tax’ Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases
Orange
drinks with 300 times more pesticide than tap water
Bush
Orders New 200,000 square miles Protected For Pacific Marine Seascapes
Value
of 2008 Bailouts Exceeds Combined Costs of All Major U.S. Wars 
Follow the $8.5 trillion:
Breakdown of the government's rescue
funds and who got paid
US
asks Arab nations for $300 Billion to fund auto bailout 
U.S.
governors seek $1 trillion federal assistance for Education
US
stocks suffer worst year since Great Depression
Bank
of England - Savers facing accounts with no interest
Dr.
Doom: Short Treasurys, Buy Hard Assets 
Muni
Sales Dry Up as States Face $42 Billion Deficit 
Once
Booming Dubai Goes Bust : Another Ponzi Scheme Collapses 
Policing the Police -
Cop Shoots Man In Back in Controled Situation
East Bay BART Station in SanFrancisco
US
- More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
Real
ID mandate resisted in Virginia - Bill Introduced 
EU
- New powers for police to hack your PC 
Britain
'must set population limit to safeguard national security' say experts
The
Technocracy and the Genetic Engineering of Humanity 
Human Rights and Human
Enhancement - Is genetic modification of people moral? 
First
Designer Baby to Be Born in UK
Arizona
State Univ develop sound waves to control brain activity from outside the skull
Day Of The Watchmen
- Return Of The Giants or Nephilim
ABC News: Alien Blimps
Over Salt Lake City
this is a lockheed martin surveillance blimp
Lockheed Martin - High Altitude Airship (HAA)
Lockheed Wins $149.2M Contract for High Altitude Airship
World’s
Strangest Liquors - check out the slideshow !
Lizzard
Wine from China
Students
Startled After Deer Jump Into School 
Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue'
George H.W. Bush wants a third Bush presidency
"Engrossing, even enraging!" - Roger Ebert
Check out the trailer for Free For All!
Dennis Kucinich - Your Tax Dollars at Work...
Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire!
The Wii Scream --- in case you havent seen it.....
My Looney Bun is Fine Benny Lama - this is funny...
I LOVE BollyWood!
yeah yeah...
Nano-silver is a product of nanotechnology, a powerful new platform technology for taking apart and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level. Increasingly manufacturers are infusing a large and diverse number of consumer products with nanoparticle silver ("nano-silver") for its enhanced "germ killing" abilities. Already at least 300 products containing nano-silver are on market shelves, ranging from household appliances and cleaners to clothing, cutlery, and children’s toys, to personal care products, packaging and coated electronics. Yet scientists agree that nanoparticles are fundamentally different substances from the larger scale cousins and that nanomaterials can create new and unique health and environmental risks that need new forms of safety testing.
While the nanotech market moves ahead largely unabated, as a recent National Research Council study concluded, regulators remains woefully behind the curve. Nano-silver is now the most common commercialized nano-material, but it has yet to undergo analysis by any U.S. regulatory agency of its potential human health and environmental impacts. Nano-silver may be highly destructive to natural environments and raises serious human health concerns. Studies have shown that nano-silver can harm fish and aquatic ecosystems, potentially interfere with beneficial bacteria in our bodies and the environment and encourage the development of more virulent harmful bacteria. The products are also misleadingly sold using very broad and unapproved health claims about the power of their nano-silver ingredients, such as: “eliminates 99% of bacteria” or “kills approximately 650 kinds of harmful germs and viruses.”
In May 2008 the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a coalition of public interest organizations calling on EPA to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides. The legal petition demands EPA assess the safety of these materials to the public and the environment before permitting commercialization. The petition also calls on the agency to require safety data from manufacturers and require mandatory and approved labeling. Finally, the petition calls on the agency to stop the sale of those nano-silver products currently on market until the agency properly assesses their impacts.
EPA has opened a public comment period on the ICTA/CFS petition and the nano-silver issue. With at least 300 consumer products containing nano-silver already on the market, many of them aimed at children, it is time for EPA to do its job and regulate nano-silver products as new pesticides.
