Cancer causing chemicals in pesticides will be banned under a deal thrashed out by EU agriculture ministers after two years of negotiations.

The new rules will totally prohibit the marketing and use of substances proven to be carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic to reproductive systems.

It would force farmers and chemical makers to replace hazardous plant protection products with safer materials.

The use of pesticides near nature reserves or parks would be banned and crop-dusting restricted.

The bill will tighten and simplify the rules for authorising new pesticides on the EU market and aims to force pesticide makers to reduce animal testing of their products.

Posted: 11:57:51 PM  

McCain says only World War III would justify draft

Only World War III would prompt Republican presidential candidate John McCain to bring back the military draft, McCain said on Tuesday.

Many Americans are fearful the U.S. government will be forced to reinstitute the draft given the prolonged Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Conscription in the United States | Wiki

Posted: 11:54:27 PM  

Prescription for protecting online health records

Hoping to persuade more people to store their medical records online, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and a hodgepodge of health care providers and insurers have agreed on ground rules for protecting the privacy of the sensitive information.

People do it all by themselves ... on the net there is no privacy anymore, photo's, blogs about their daily lifes ... medical records?!
THINK!

Posted: 11:48:15 PM  

This sentence must wake you up:

Government endorsement of a vaccine often means insurance companies will pay for it.

Educate yourself and SEARCH for VACCINES in this site ... or go to youtube.com/marinaoflight and search in the playlists ...

Posted: 11:43:31 PM  

Eco-friendly pets: Fido reduces his carbon paw print

Green-minded pet expenditures amount to little more than two per cent of the $US40 billion US pet care industry, but the rapidly growing niche industry is valued nonetheless at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Still there is a 'good thing' in this too: people become A W A R E ...

Posted: 11:36:49 PM  

The plan to track exiting foreign visitors is part of a program known as US-VISIT, an initiative that Congress first promoted in 1996 and launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to use fingerprints and digital photographs to automate the processing of visitors entering and exiting the country.

For security reasons, U.S. officials have put a priority on identifying incoming visitors. Setting up systems to record exits is much more costly but still can help enforce immigration laws and track security risks.

The program has recorded images and fingerprints of nearly 100 million people entering the country since 2004. It has helped find criminals and deter potential terrorists, Homeland Security officials say. Supporters in Congress also see the program as a way to determine whether people are overstaying their visas and joining the nation's illegal immigrant population.

"We recognize it will be difficult for a new administration, whoever is president, to finish a controversial regulation, so we are working very hard to finish the implementation of this on our watch."

Posted: 2:38:30 PM  

French company Safran has taken over the Dutch passport maker SDU-Identification for an undisclosed sum.

Safran said the ID document market is expected to see annual growth of over 15% in the near future because of the introduction of biometric passports and other high-tech identity papers.

Posted: 11:42:16 AM  

Health costs set to soar

Millions of people face an enomous rise in healthcare costs next year because the cabinet wants to stop allowing the cost of dental braces, glasses and speech lessons to be deducted from tax, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday.

Not to mention: gas-and oilprices, foodprices, electricityprices etc. etc.

Posted: 11:40:30 AM  

Thousands of people in the Netherlands say they expect the world to end in 2012, and many say they are taking precautions to prepare for the apocalypse.

The Dutch-language de Volkskrant newspaper said it spoke to thousands of believers in the impending end of civilization, and while theories on the supposed catastrophe varied, most tied the 2012 date to the end of the Mayan calendar, Radio Netherlands reported Monday.

Posted: 11:26:55 AM  

We are poised on the brink of a fascinating sphere of discovery about the nature of the universe in which we live and how we relate to other phenomena that make it up.

Dr. Miceal Ledwith
www.greatmystery.org

Posted: 8:04:10 AM