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reject the approval of genetically engineered salmon. In addition, 14 members of the California State Legislature sent a letter to FDA and President Obama requesting that FDA deny the approval until the full suite of envi- ronmental and food safety concerns are addressed. h
tp/g-ihog 6. 1. We now know that federal employees across the
nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. The Post’s T.W. Farnum did some research and found that out of the total sum, just 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. As in, overdue. The IRS gets stiffed by the leg- islative body that controls its budget. How Washington works. Washington Post
2. 3. A recent study shows that the statin drug simvas-
tatin, which the government is advocating we take to lower cholesterol levels, actually weakens our immune system and makes it difficult to fight off bacterial infec- tions. Italian scientists found that the drug, sold under the names Zocor and Simvacor, hinders the ability of the body’s immune cells to kill pathogens, and increases the production of cytokines, which trigger and sustain inflammation. This is a preliminary finding in that it is based on lab work with human cells and also mice stud- ies.
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Ben & Jerry’s gets all their milk from dairies
that have pledged not to inject their cows with the Monsanto-developed genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Why, then, can’t Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins do the same? The three ice cream brands continue to use milk from cows injected with rBGH, a hormone that’s been banned in Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and all 27 nations of the European Union. Meanwhile, Haagen Dazs and Breyers have the audacity to call their ice cream “All Natural.”
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futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people’s eyes in a database and is considered a quick- er alternative to fingerprints,” writes the USA Today’s Thomas Frank. The iris scan is nothing less than the 21st century equivalent of how Jews and other undesirables were tattooed by the Nazis, aside from the fact that all Americans will be forced to submit to the eye scan. In U
4. 5. S oaA Tdy Over 300 environmental, consumer, health, and
animal welfare organizations, along with salmon and fishing groups and associations, food companies, chefs and restaurants signed joint letters to the FDA opposing the approval of AquaBounty’s GE salmon. These groups have collected over 160,000 consumer comments to submit to the FDA and President Obama, urging them to
Oracle 20/20 October 2010 25 “The Homeland Security Department plans to test
of the very small, but similar technology may someday propel needle-sized spacecraft to distances on a scale so large as to be almost unimaginable — between star systems. Thanks to research on nano-sized thrusters that act like portable particle accelerators, tiny space- craft might be accelerated to near-lightspeed and sent to explore nearby stars — perhaps within our lifetimes.
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7. t:/efs.r/ A 17-member team has found what may be the
smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction. In a paper appearing online ahead of regular publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Oregon archaeologist Douglas J. Kennett and colleagues from nine institutions and three private research companies report the presence of shock-syn- thesized hexagonal diamonds in 12,900-year-old sedi- ments on the Northern Channel Islands off the southern California coast.
Massive particle accelerators are exploring the world
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