19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.
But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America. Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone. Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period. The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little. Do you know what our biggest export is today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us. The United States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was. Once upon a time America could literally out produce the rest of the world combined. Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world. If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children?
Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things. So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation? We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable. Every single month America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.
So what happens when the debt bubble pops?
The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country. But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them.
For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them. Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their slumber.
The following are 19 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America’s largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.
So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do something about it?
How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?
How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?
How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic suicide?
The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be treated like one.
America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to wake up!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs
Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/07/17/seizure_inducing_aspartame_added_to_antiseizure_drugs.htm
Types of SeizuresLearn about the different types of seizures and available treatments.
www.lgsinformation.org/lgs
The Pacific Epilepsy Society in affiliation with the Epileptic Foundation of Maui has completed a seven year study on Epilepsy and Seizures, finding that epilepsy is at an all time high in Hawaii and the western states and Pacific Ocean Territories. There has been a 100% increase over the two previous years.
Dr Glenn Mabson of the Epileptic Foundation of Maui believes the reason for the increase is a change in formulation of several of the major anti-seizure drugs:
**The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is the inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized anti-seizure drugs: DILANTIN, DEPACOTE, TEGRATOL and several others produced by major pharmaceutical corporations. In 2007 the manufacturer of Dilantin changed the description of the 100 mg. Dilantin, changed the 100 mg white capsule with red stripe to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100 mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case. The Chemical Pharmaceutical Engineer employee, in fear of his job would not reveal his name, but said they were adding aspartame.""
Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, President of the Epilepsy Foundation of Hawaii (a separate organization from the above) is sympathetic to the makers of ASPARTAME and routinely prescribes these drugs. I believe this contributes to the increase of epilepsy in these areas.**
Glenn Mabson, PhD., CEO - Epileptic Foundation of Maui
Aspartame Disease - An ignored epidemic
What is aspartame - known to induce seizures - doing in a capsule of anti-seizure medicine? It can't be there for its sweet taste, because capsules are swallowed whole. Could someone be drumming up business for more medication by adding stuff that causes people to need more?
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/07/17/seizure_inducing_aspartame_added_to_antiseizure_drugs.htm
Types of SeizuresLearn about the different types of seizures and available treatments.
www.lgsinformation.org/lgs
The Pacific Epilepsy Society in affiliation with the Epileptic Foundation of Maui has completed a seven year study on Epilepsy and Seizures, finding that epilepsy is at an all time high in Hawaii and the western states and Pacific Ocean Territories. There has been a 100% increase over the two previous years.
Dr Glenn Mabson of the Epileptic Foundation of Maui believes the reason for the increase is a change in formulation of several of the major anti-seizure drugs:
**The most profound reason for the spectacular increase in seizures is the inclusion of the drug ASPARTAME in with the new larger sized anti-seizure drugs: DILANTIN, DEPACOTE, TEGRATOL and several others produced by major pharmaceutical corporations. In 2007 the manufacturer of Dilantin changed the description of the 100 mg. Dilantin, changed the 100 mg white capsule with red stripe to a much larger white capsule, orange on one end, which contains 100 mg of the drug, plus aspartame. 150 people who took the new Dilantin capsule found the seizure rate increased in every case. The Chemical Pharmaceutical Engineer employee, in fear of his job would not reveal his name, but said they were adding aspartame.""
Dr. Allen Stein, Neurosurgeon, President of the Epilepsy Foundation of Hawaii (a separate organization from the above) is sympathetic to the makers of ASPARTAME and routinely prescribes these drugs. I believe this contributes to the increase of epilepsy in these areas.**
Glenn Mabson, PhD., CEO - Epileptic Foundation of Maui
Aspartame Disease - An ignored epidemic
What is aspartame - known to induce seizures - doing in a capsule of anti-seizure medicine? It can't be there for its sweet taste, because capsules are swallowed whole. Could someone be drumming up business for more medication by adding stuff that causes people to need more?
Friday, December 3, 2010
Finally, Proof that Cancer is a Man-Made Disease.
Finally, Proof that Cancer is a Man-Made Disease
A study of ancient bodies has determined that cancer is a man-made disease, one fueled by the excesses. Tumors turn out to be extremely rare until very recent times, when pollution and poor diet became issues.
Researchers analyzed potential references to the disease in classical literature, and also searched for signs in the fossil record and in mummified bodies. But despite examining tissue from hundreds of Egyptian mummies, they confirmed only one case of cancer
According to the Daily Mail:
"Dismissing the argument that the ancient Egyptians didn't live long enough to develop cancer, the researchers pointed out that other age-related disease such as hardening of the arteries and brittle bones did occur ...
Fossil evidence of cancer is also sparse, with scientific literature providing a few dozen, mostly disputed, examples in animal fossil".
Sources:
Daily Mail October 15, 2010
Nature Reviews Cancer October 2010; 10: 728-733
Cancer September 1977; 40(3): 1358-1362
A study of ancient bodies has determined that cancer is a man-made disease, one fueled by the excesses. Tumors turn out to be extremely rare until very recent times, when pollution and poor diet became issues.
Researchers analyzed potential references to the disease in classical literature, and also searched for signs in the fossil record and in mummified bodies. But despite examining tissue from hundreds of Egyptian mummies, they confirmed only one case of cancer
According to the Daily Mail:
"Dismissing the argument that the ancient Egyptians didn't live long enough to develop cancer, the researchers pointed out that other age-related disease such as hardening of the arteries and brittle bones did occur ...
Fossil evidence of cancer is also sparse, with scientific literature providing a few dozen, mostly disputed, examples in animal fossil".
Sources:
Daily Mail October 15, 2010
Nature Reviews Cancer October 2010; 10: 728-733
Cancer September 1977; 40(3): 1358-1362
THE PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE BEGINS AS EXPECTED
THE PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE BEGINS AS EXPECTED
Beldeu Singh
Persecution of Assange and the Interpol "red notice" to question him on charges of sex and molestation was expected with fears of risk to his security, although the wikileaks are not an attack on humanity or the international community as the US Secretary of State would like the people of the world to see them in that light. Wikileaks is purely and truly a revealation on how diplomats work and how some of them conduct themselves as rogues on taxpayers’ money. It is a service to the public. It is a tool, like whistle-blowing to contain trains of thought and behaviour that does not run on the professional track.
Above all, the greatest lesson to learn, has to be learnt by governments from the Katherine Gunn case that asked her to perform an illegal operation. Being brought up with proper values, her upright nature saved the nation some precious pounds and time that would have been used to serve the interests of another state! That request for an illegal operation was an attack on the international community and it came from the US but it was never condemned by Hillary Clinton and will stand condemned by the UK or the US government..
So, while the leaks may be harmful to diplomats and many governments, they are timely revelations that put power back in the hands of the public and pays up the powerful and crucial role of whistle-blowing covering “every major issue” including wars and how some of the officers of the military conducted themselves or were ordered to carry out those acts in that manner. The grand and noble purpose of the leaks is being served to properly bare rogue the conduct of people ‘without scruples’. The embarassment by leaks is a good thing in itself. We the people hereby welcome to the institutionalization of leaks and look forward to its celebration through WIKILEAKS PARTIES.
The adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister, Tom Flanagan, must be forced to step down as this person with a grave mind has called for Assange to be assassinated! Other politicians in the developed countries are not far off, mentally from Tom Flanagan. US politician, Mike Hukabee, a former Republican hopeful said that “those responsible for the leaks were guilty of treason and should face execution” as the leaks may turn out to be disasterous but in situations like this, it may be better to put their IQ on the electric chair rather than exhibit a Taliban mentality and incline oneself to killing.
Governments should deal with the embarassment and the outrage instead of proving the fact that leaders in developed counteries are no different from leaders in the developing countries and dictators in the third world who go preferably for assissination or fashionably opt for persecution through prosecution based on sex charges. Truth is truth as it is divine and it shall prevail.
Beldeu Singh
Persecution of Assange and the Interpol "red notice" to question him on charges of sex and molestation was expected with fears of risk to his security, although the wikileaks are not an attack on humanity or the international community as the US Secretary of State would like the people of the world to see them in that light. Wikileaks is purely and truly a revealation on how diplomats work and how some of them conduct themselves as rogues on taxpayers’ money. It is a service to the public. It is a tool, like whistle-blowing to contain trains of thought and behaviour that does not run on the professional track.
Above all, the greatest lesson to learn, has to be learnt by governments from the Katherine Gunn case that asked her to perform an illegal operation. Being brought up with proper values, her upright nature saved the nation some precious pounds and time that would have been used to serve the interests of another state! That request for an illegal operation was an attack on the international community and it came from the US but it was never condemned by Hillary Clinton and will stand condemned by the UK or the US government..
So, while the leaks may be harmful to diplomats and many governments, they are timely revelations that put power back in the hands of the public and pays up the powerful and crucial role of whistle-blowing covering “every major issue” including wars and how some of the officers of the military conducted themselves or were ordered to carry out those acts in that manner. The grand and noble purpose of the leaks is being served to properly bare rogue the conduct of people ‘without scruples’. The embarassment by leaks is a good thing in itself. We the people hereby welcome to the institutionalization of leaks and look forward to its celebration through WIKILEAKS PARTIES.
The adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister, Tom Flanagan, must be forced to step down as this person with a grave mind has called for Assange to be assassinated! Other politicians in the developed countries are not far off, mentally from Tom Flanagan. US politician, Mike Hukabee, a former Republican hopeful said that “those responsible for the leaks were guilty of treason and should face execution” as the leaks may turn out to be disasterous but in situations like this, it may be better to put their IQ on the electric chair rather than exhibit a Taliban mentality and incline oneself to killing.
Governments should deal with the embarassment and the outrage instead of proving the fact that leaders in developed counteries are no different from leaders in the developing countries and dictators in the third world who go preferably for assissination or fashionably opt for persecution through prosecution based on sex charges. Truth is truth as it is divine and it shall prevail.
Court Orders Uprooting of Monsanto Biotech Sugar Beets.
Court Orders Uprooting of Monsanto Biotech Sugar Beets http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2010/2010-11-30-093.html
SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 30, 2010 (ENS) - A federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of 256 acres of genetically engineered sugar beet seedlings planted in Oregon and Arizona in September.
Judge Jeffrey White determined that the seedlings had been planted in violation of federal law and regardless of his previous ruling that made planting of GE sugar beets illegal until the U.S. Department of Agriculture completes an Environmental Impact Statement, EIS.
Judge White isssued the injunction in a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety on behalf of a coalition of farmers and conservation groups.
The lawsuit was filed on September 9, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed it had permitted the seedlings to be planted although a court ruling in August vacated the USDA's deregulation of biotech sugar beets, based on the agency's failure to prepare an EIS.
The plaintiffs - The Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club - had immediately sought a court order to halt the planting.
Center for Food Safety attorney George Kimbrell said, **Today's decision is a seminal victory for farmers and the environment and a vindication of the rule of law. The public interest has prevailed over USDA's repeated efforts to implement the unlawful demands of the biotech industry.**
Half of the nation's sugar comes from sugar beets, and 95 percent of them are grown using Monsanto's Genuity® Roundup Ready® sugar beets, which are genetically engineered for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto pesticide Roundup.
Judge White ruled today that GE sugar beets could harm the environment and consumers, noting that containment efforts were insufficient and past contamination incidents were "too numerous" to allow the illegal crop to remain in the ground.
In his court order, Judge White noted, "farmers and consumers would likely suffer harm from cross-contamination" between GE sugar beets and non-GE crops. **The likely environmental harm established by Plaintiffs is irreparable,** the judge wrote.
On September 28 Judge White ruled that USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, APHIS, had violated the National Environmental Policy Act by allowing the plantings without analyzing the potential environmental, health, and socioeconomic impacts of growing GE sugar beets.
**The legality of Defendants' conduct does not even appear to be a close question,** wrote the judge in today's ruling, noting that the government and Monsanto had tried to circumvent his earlier ruling.
"Failing to conduct the required environmental review and depriving Plaintiffs and the public 'of the opportunity to participate in the NEPA process at a time when such participation is required and is calculated to matter' constitutes irreparable harm," ruled Judge White.
Paul Achitoff of Earthjustice, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said, "USDA thumbed its nose at the judicial system and the public by allowing this crop to be grown without any environmental review."
**Herbicide resistant crops just like this have been shown to result in more toxic chemicals in our soil and water,** said Achitoff. **USDA has shown no regard for the environmental laws, and we're pleased that Judge White ordered the appropriate response.**
Judge White heard testimony from the parties during a three-day hearing in November before issuing today's ruling.
USDA lawyers argued that the seedlings were separate from the rest of the sugar beet crop cycle and had no impact by themselves, but the judge rejected this argument.
He found that the law requires USDA to analyze the impacts of not only the seedlings, but the rest of the Roundup Ready® sugar beet production process as well, before any part of that process can begin.
In 2004, Monsanto Company and plantbreeding company KWS SAAT AG had requested that APHIS deregulate the biotech sugar beets. Their petition states that the GE beets should not be regulated because they are **unlikely to pose a plant pest risk.**
After completing an Environmental Assessment, APHIS deregulated the GE sugar beets as requested, effective March 4, 2005.
Five years later, 95 percent of the 2010 U.S. sugar beet crop was genetically modified Genuity® Roundup Ready® sugar beets, Monsanto says.
But in September of 2009 Judge White found APHIS had unlawfully deregulated GE sugar beets.
On August 13, 2010, the court vacated the deregulation determination, ruling that APHIS' Environmental Assessment failed to consider certain environmental and interrelated economic impacts.
The judge sent the issue back to APHIS for an Environmental Impact Statement, a more extensive examination of the impacts of GE sugar beets. The EIS process is ongoing and the agency says it should be complete by spring 2012.
The August ruling made any future planting and sale of the GE sugar beets illegal until APHIS complies with federal law.
But almost immediately after the ruling, the agency issued permits allowing companies to plant seedlings to produce seed for future Roundup Ready sugar beet crops, even though the crops are still illegal to grow, and no EIS has been completed.
Growers rushed to plant the seed crop in Oregon and Arizona, and these are the crops that must be uprooted.
In October, Monsanto and KWS submitted a request to APHIS for *partial deregulation* of Roundup Ready® sugar beets. Their accompanying *Environmental Report,* argues that they should be allowed to conduct the future planting, harvesting, and interstate movement of GE sugar beet crops, both seed and root, **under conditions designed to ensure any risks posed by the introduction of these sugar beets into the environment are thoroughly mitigated.**
APHIS is now in the process of evaluating the partial deregulation request, and the agency would have to issue special guidelines to authorize any interim planting of the GE sugar beets while it completes the court-ordered environmental impact statement and then makes a final decision.
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2010.
SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 30, 2010 (ENS) - A federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of 256 acres of genetically engineered sugar beet seedlings planted in Oregon and Arizona in September.
Judge Jeffrey White determined that the seedlings had been planted in violation of federal law and regardless of his previous ruling that made planting of GE sugar beets illegal until the U.S. Department of Agriculture completes an Environmental Impact Statement, EIS.
Judge White isssued the injunction in a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety on behalf of a coalition of farmers and conservation groups.
The lawsuit was filed on September 9, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed it had permitted the seedlings to be planted although a court ruling in August vacated the USDA's deregulation of biotech sugar beets, based on the agency's failure to prepare an EIS.
The plaintiffs - The Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club - had immediately sought a court order to halt the planting.
Center for Food Safety attorney George Kimbrell said, **Today's decision is a seminal victory for farmers and the environment and a vindication of the rule of law. The public interest has prevailed over USDA's repeated efforts to implement the unlawful demands of the biotech industry.**
Half of the nation's sugar comes from sugar beets, and 95 percent of them are grown using Monsanto's Genuity® Roundup Ready® sugar beets, which are genetically engineered for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Monsanto pesticide Roundup.
Judge White ruled today that GE sugar beets could harm the environment and consumers, noting that containment efforts were insufficient and past contamination incidents were "too numerous" to allow the illegal crop to remain in the ground.
In his court order, Judge White noted, "farmers and consumers would likely suffer harm from cross-contamination" between GE sugar beets and non-GE crops. **The likely environmental harm established by Plaintiffs is irreparable,** the judge wrote.
On September 28 Judge White ruled that USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, APHIS, had violated the National Environmental Policy Act by allowing the plantings without analyzing the potential environmental, health, and socioeconomic impacts of growing GE sugar beets.
**The legality of Defendants' conduct does not even appear to be a close question,** wrote the judge in today's ruling, noting that the government and Monsanto had tried to circumvent his earlier ruling.
"Failing to conduct the required environmental review and depriving Plaintiffs and the public 'of the opportunity to participate in the NEPA process at a time when such participation is required and is calculated to matter' constitutes irreparable harm," ruled Judge White.
Paul Achitoff of Earthjustice, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said, "USDA thumbed its nose at the judicial system and the public by allowing this crop to be grown without any environmental review."
**Herbicide resistant crops just like this have been shown to result in more toxic chemicals in our soil and water,** said Achitoff. **USDA has shown no regard for the environmental laws, and we're pleased that Judge White ordered the appropriate response.**
Judge White heard testimony from the parties during a three-day hearing in November before issuing today's ruling.
USDA lawyers argued that the seedlings were separate from the rest of the sugar beet crop cycle and had no impact by themselves, but the judge rejected this argument.
He found that the law requires USDA to analyze the impacts of not only the seedlings, but the rest of the Roundup Ready® sugar beet production process as well, before any part of that process can begin.
In 2004, Monsanto Company and plantbreeding company KWS SAAT AG had requested that APHIS deregulate the biotech sugar beets. Their petition states that the GE beets should not be regulated because they are **unlikely to pose a plant pest risk.**
After completing an Environmental Assessment, APHIS deregulated the GE sugar beets as requested, effective March 4, 2005.
Five years later, 95 percent of the 2010 U.S. sugar beet crop was genetically modified Genuity® Roundup Ready® sugar beets, Monsanto says.
But in September of 2009 Judge White found APHIS had unlawfully deregulated GE sugar beets.
On August 13, 2010, the court vacated the deregulation determination, ruling that APHIS' Environmental Assessment failed to consider certain environmental and interrelated economic impacts.
The judge sent the issue back to APHIS for an Environmental Impact Statement, a more extensive examination of the impacts of GE sugar beets. The EIS process is ongoing and the agency says it should be complete by spring 2012.
The August ruling made any future planting and sale of the GE sugar beets illegal until APHIS complies with federal law.
But almost immediately after the ruling, the agency issued permits allowing companies to plant seedlings to produce seed for future Roundup Ready sugar beet crops, even though the crops are still illegal to grow, and no EIS has been completed.
Growers rushed to plant the seed crop in Oregon and Arizona, and these are the crops that must be uprooted.
In October, Monsanto and KWS submitted a request to APHIS for *partial deregulation* of Roundup Ready® sugar beets. Their accompanying *Environmental Report,* argues that they should be allowed to conduct the future planting, harvesting, and interstate movement of GE sugar beet crops, both seed and root, **under conditions designed to ensure any risks posed by the introduction of these sugar beets into the environment are thoroughly mitigated.**
APHIS is now in the process of evaluating the partial deregulation request, and the agency would have to issue special guidelines to authorize any interim planting of the GE sugar beets while it completes the court-ordered environmental impact statement and then makes a final decision.
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2010.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Working with pesticides linked to dementia: study
Working with pesticides linked to dementia: studyhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMF7t7V00Uo7OBCKDCK-0u-G6D5g?docId=CNG.fb9766ec5f13da38d50eb3c154b5c774.221
PARIS — Long-term exposure to pesticides may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, according to a study released Thursday.
Workers "directly exposed" to bug and weed killers while toiling in the prestigious vineyards of Bordeaux, France were five times more likely to score less well on a battery of neurological tests than those with minimal or no exposure, the study found.
As revealing, this high-exposure group was twice as likely to register a significantly sharp drop in a key test -- frequently used to diagnose dementia -- repeated four years after the initial examination.
The drop "is particularly striking in view of the short duration of follow up and the relatively young age of the participants," mostly in their late 40s or 50s, the authors said.
The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that chronic use of pesticides in agriculture boosts the risk of neurological disorders.
France has the highest use of insecticides and herbicides in Europe, and the fourth highest worldwide after the United States, Japan and Brazil.
More than 800,000 people in France are exposed in the agriculture sector, as were another 800,000 who are now retired.
Worldwide the number of labourers who work regularly with pesticides is counted in the tens, if not the hundreds, of millions.
In the Bordeaux study, led by Isabelle Baldi of The French Institute for Public Health, Epidemiology and Development, 614 workers were enrolled in 1997 and 1998 and re-evaluated four or five years later.
On both occasions they completed a detailed questionnaire on their work history, along with nine tests designed to measure memory and recall, language retrieval, verbal skills and reaction times.
The subjects were divided into four groups depending on their level of exposure to pesticides over the previous 20 years or longer, ranging from "directly exposed" to "not exposed".
"The mild impairment we observed raises the question of the potentially higher risks of injury in this [exposed] population, and also of the possible evolution toward neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or other dementias," the researchers concluded.
The same cohort is undergoing a third evaluation, 12 years after the baseline examination. Results will be published in 2012 or 2013.
"This time lag should enable us to better understand cognitive impairment and its evolution, and observe the first cases of Alzheimer's disease among a population close to 65 years of age," the researchers said in a companion briefing paper.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.
PARIS — Long-term exposure to pesticides may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, according to a study released Thursday.
Workers "directly exposed" to bug and weed killers while toiling in the prestigious vineyards of Bordeaux, France were five times more likely to score less well on a battery of neurological tests than those with minimal or no exposure, the study found.
As revealing, this high-exposure group was twice as likely to register a significantly sharp drop in a key test -- frequently used to diagnose dementia -- repeated four years after the initial examination.
The drop "is particularly striking in view of the short duration of follow up and the relatively young age of the participants," mostly in their late 40s or 50s, the authors said.
The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that chronic use of pesticides in agriculture boosts the risk of neurological disorders.
France has the highest use of insecticides and herbicides in Europe, and the fourth highest worldwide after the United States, Japan and Brazil.
More than 800,000 people in France are exposed in the agriculture sector, as were another 800,000 who are now retired.
Worldwide the number of labourers who work regularly with pesticides is counted in the tens, if not the hundreds, of millions.
In the Bordeaux study, led by Isabelle Baldi of The French Institute for Public Health, Epidemiology and Development, 614 workers were enrolled in 1997 and 1998 and re-evaluated four or five years later.
On both occasions they completed a detailed questionnaire on their work history, along with nine tests designed to measure memory and recall, language retrieval, verbal skills and reaction times.
The subjects were divided into four groups depending on their level of exposure to pesticides over the previous 20 years or longer, ranging from "directly exposed" to "not exposed".
"The mild impairment we observed raises the question of the potentially higher risks of injury in this [exposed] population, and also of the possible evolution toward neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or other dementias," the researchers concluded.
The same cohort is undergoing a third evaluation, 12 years after the baseline examination. Results will be published in 2012 or 2013.
"This time lag should enable us to better understand cognitive impairment and its evolution, and observe the first cases of Alzheimer's disease among a population close to 65 years of age," the researchers said in a companion briefing paper.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Shows Milliions At Risk From Killer Mercury Laden Amalgam Dental Fillings.
New Report Shows Milliions At Risk From Killer Mercury Laden Amalgam Dental Fillingshttp://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=4200&end=4220&view=yes&id=5598#newspost
A new risk assessment report submitted by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology this month to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that mercury from dental fillings is estimated to cause 67.2 million Americans to exceed the Reference Exposure Level (REL) of 0.3 ug/m3 established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in 1995. If the more protective REL of 0.03 ug/m3 established in 2008 by the California Environmental Protection Agency is used, then the current safe-dose is probably exceeded by 122.3 million Americans.
Dental fillings referred to by dentists as **amalgam** or **silver** are actually 50% mercury.
Contrary to FDA's 2009 ruling that exposure from mercury fillings presents no health risks, the latest assessment, by lead author G. Mark Richardson, Ph.D., of SNC-Lavalin, concludes that the mercury vapor continually emitted from these fillings is absorbed and distributed into every tissue and organ in the body including the brain. Chronic (long-term) exposure to elemental mercury can cause kidney damage, crosses the blood brain barrier and is neurotoxic. The report states **Numerous studies have demonstrated that Hg levels in blood are increased in persons, including pregnant women, with amalgam.**
Dr. Richardson's report explores how the release of mercury vapor from fillings in a mother's mouth can cause harm to the fetus via cord blood and infant children via breast milk.
The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease confirmed that mercury is likely a contributing cause of Alzheimer's, a disease at epidemic proportions affecting an estimated 5.3 million Americans.
PR Newswire Press Release, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
A new risk assessment report submitted by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology this month to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that mercury from dental fillings is estimated to cause 67.2 million Americans to exceed the Reference Exposure Level (REL) of 0.3 ug/m3 established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in 1995. If the more protective REL of 0.03 ug/m3 established in 2008 by the California Environmental Protection Agency is used, then the current safe-dose is probably exceeded by 122.3 million Americans.
Dental fillings referred to by dentists as **amalgam** or **silver** are actually 50% mercury.
Contrary to FDA's 2009 ruling that exposure from mercury fillings presents no health risks, the latest assessment, by lead author G. Mark Richardson, Ph.D., of SNC-Lavalin, concludes that the mercury vapor continually emitted from these fillings is absorbed and distributed into every tissue and organ in the body including the brain. Chronic (long-term) exposure to elemental mercury can cause kidney damage, crosses the blood brain barrier and is neurotoxic. The report states **Numerous studies have demonstrated that Hg levels in blood are increased in persons, including pregnant women, with amalgam.**
Dr. Richardson's report explores how the release of mercury vapor from fillings in a mother's mouth can cause harm to the fetus via cord blood and infant children via breast milk.
The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease confirmed that mercury is likely a contributing cause of Alzheimer's, a disease at epidemic proportions affecting an estimated 5.3 million Americans.
PR Newswire Press Release, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
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