It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another;
it is one damn thing over and over.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
it is one damn thing over and over.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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gets heckled as a murderer: Telegraph
No wonder Bush liked what he saw when he looked into Putin’s eyes and “saw his soul”.
Earlier this week, Amy Goodman did a segment on Anna Politkovskaya and it was eye opening.
“The Committee to Protect journalists says that since 2000, twelve journalists in Russia have been killed in contract-style murders.”
So Pooty Poot likes to hearken back to his days in the KGB and wipe out the most troublesome journalists. Thinking about the item in yesterday’s bucket about KBR building the massive detention center, Bush will make like Pooty and disappear his detractors, declare them enemy combatants and then rub them out. I have news for Dubya… he’s gonna need more than one detention center to fit all the people that think he’s the worst thing ever to happen to America. Bush and Pooty are soul sisters.
A new European framework for the regulation of industrial chemicals is under discussion at the European Parliament. The Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of CHemicals (REACH) regulations are likely to come into force in April 2007, aimed at ensuring a high level of protection for human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals. The regulations will be far tougher than corresponding regulations in the US, and are a reaction to toxicological discoveries made in the last 25 years, such as estrogen-mimicking compounds. The REACH legislation puts the onus on business to show that the chemicals it uses are safe. It is also meant to encourage the replacement of hazardous chemicals with safer ones and to spur the chemicals sector into researching and developing more new products.
A biologically rich coral island chain in the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii, recently designated as a marine national monument, is under assault from floating garbage ranging from plastic bottle caps to baby diapers. But the new national monument also resides on the edge what marine scientists call the great “eastern garbage patch”: a section of slowly rotating Pacific Ocean currents – or gyre – double the size of Texas that acts as a giant garbage collector. Since 1995, at least 680 tons have been removed in the cleanup along the islands – much of it in old nets. With little landfill space in Hawaii, an automotive salvage company shreds the nets with the residue burned to make electricity in an electric company boiler.
The switch-over to new ultra-clean diesel fuel is going smoothly and supplies should be readily available at retail pumps when the rules take effect on Sunday. The switch is the biggest change to the US automotive fuel supply since the phase-out of leaded gasoline decades ago.
The long-lived naked mole-rat shows much higher levels of oxidative stress and damage and less robust repair mechanisms than the short-lived mouse, findings that could change the oxidative stress theory of aging (which is why we’re supposed to eat antioxidants and deeply colored vegetables and fruit to keep healthy).
The highest wind speeds in Jupiter’s Little Red Spot have increased and are now equal to those in its older and larger sibling, the Great Red Spot, according to observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The Little Red Spot’s winds, now raging up to approximately 400 miles per hour, signal that the storm is growing stronger, according to the NASA-led team that made the Hubble observations. The increased intensity of the storm probably caused it to change color from its original white in late 2005, according to the team. No one has ever seen a storm on Jupiter grow stronger and turn red before; the little red spot was first noticed as one of three white patches in Jupiter’s atmosphere in the 1940s.
More on REACH can be found in a current diary by Jerome a Paris at European Tribune.
“The REACH legislation puts the onus on business to show that the chemicals it uses are safe.”
No doubt the harmful banned chemicals will be sold for use in the US, which has no such legislation… nor will it until we rid ourselves of the cockroaches in the Congress and WhiteHouse. (see my post below)
Oh, so now they’ll tell us that antioxidants aren’t so swell? How can we trust any science done in the US any more? I find myself doubting absolutely everything we’re told. Of course, I’ve always had an oppositional streak. 🙂
Oh, so now they’ll tell us that antioxidants aren’t so swell?
I wouldn’t go that far – the story expects that they’re going to have to tweak the theory that “antioxidants prevent aging” to “antioxidants prevent aging under these circumstances.”
(They can have my blackberries when they pry the seeds from my cold dead teeth!)
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Chemical-laden goods outlawed in Europe and Japan are permitted in the American market.
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As the European Union and other nations have tightened their environmental standards, mostly in the last two years, manufacturers — here and around the world — are selling goods to American consumers that fail to meet other nations’ stringent laws for toxic chemicals.
Wood, toys, electronics, pesticides and cosmetics are among U.S. products that contain substances that are banned or restricted elsewhere, particularly in Europe and Japan, because they may raise the risk of cancer, alter hormones or cause reproductive or neurological damage.
Michael Wilson, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, said the United States is becoming a “dumping ground” for consumer goods that are unwanted and illegal in much of the world. Wilson warned earlier this year in a report commissioned by the California Legislature that “the United States has fallen behind globally in the move toward cleaner technologies.”
Another result of Bush’s short sighted corporate driven policies.
I read this the other day over at commondreams and was hoping someone would highlight this article. This is the kind of real news that the gdamn news outlets should be screaming bloody murder about to let the public know that America isn’t number one in anything anymore except for big business/government killing this country slowly with no regulations or laws to stop them. We are being poisoned systematically and daily by big business which is even altering now the DNA in kids(don’t have link but article was in Planet Ark I believe as to how vacinations are being less and less effective for childhood diseases due to pollution in air/land seeping into peoples dna and changing it with mothers passing this on to their children)
Just like the e-coli outbreak showing how much money has been cut for health inspectors to processing plants…only enough to maybe inspect a plant once every ten years..yuk.
So we have dumping ground here for products other countries won’t allow, even our cell phones are years behind Europe and other countries and also in places like Japan they are selling cell phones that have been made something like a third less toxic to the environment when thrown out, some are even sold as being able with a seed in them so once thrown out they will actually decompose and grow plant(no link for that either off hand)…think I’m rambling here but again big business is going to destroy this country.
This certainly made me raise an eyebrow, even after staying up all night:
It seems like the guy being targeted is a bit crooked, but I do hope that this does not set a bad precedent.
Calling it a day: Fareed Zakaria, editor Newsweek International and supporter for more troops in Iraq singing a different tune, ” Iraq is now in a civil war …It is time to call an end to the tests, the six-month trials, the waiting and watching, and to recognize that the Iraqi government has failed.” (October 16, edition).
It is also time to face the terrible reality that America’s mission in Iraq has substantially failed
(H/T: Truthdig)
Reality is breaking out or jumping from a sinking ship, Freedom Iraq: Maine Senator, Olymphia Snowe joins John Warner, James Baker III, “Staying the course is neither an option nor a plan”
Harper’s, Silverstein on Foleygate: “Republicans are lying when they claim Democrats have engineered [the Foleygate] October surprise.” Not True We were given the information 5 months ago and after much debate did not publish.”
That other war front, Afghanistan: An ear/eye-popper Amy Goodman’s interview with Sarah Chayes why she left NPR – the story she couldn’t get onto NPR Go read the whole thing,