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New Scientist – COMMON PESTICIDE MAY CAUSE PARKINSON’S

Rats that are given small doses of a common pesticide develop symptoms that are eerily similar to Parkinson?s Disease. “It?s a very provocative study,” says Abraham Lieberman, medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation in Miami.

While genetic factors are thought to be the cause of Parkinson?s in people under 50, this isn?t true for late-onset Parkinson?s, which is the most common form of the disease, so researchers have looked for environmental causes.
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On November 26, Dreamland ran a program with Ben Lilliston of the Institute for Agricultural and Trade policy. Mr. Lilliston, co-author of Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide For Consumers, advocates testing, control and labeling of genetically altered foods. This is the only guide in the world that you can take with you into the grocery store and use to help minimize your exposure to genfoods.
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An unusual sequence of five consecutive solar storms will result in disrupted radio transmissions and possible effects on power systems, according to NASA’s Spaceweather.com. However, this storm does not carry radioactive particles, and air travelers and astronauts are not at risk.

“We’ve got five different opportunities to get hammered,” commented Bill Murtaugh, a forecaster for the Space Environment Center in Boulder, CO. The extended nature of this storm is likely to cause more disruption than a single, stronger storm. Larry Combs, also from the Space Environment Center, explained that “the longer this stuff affects a system, the harder it is on that system.”
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Reuters, Kyodo News Service – It was discovered in September that many brands of taco shells and chips contained StarLink, a biotech variety of corn that has not been approved for human consumption. It was announced Tuesday, November 21, that material from StarLink corn has been discovered in corn seed that wasn’t supposed to be genetically altered. “The discovery raises the possibility that the material could find its way into other food products,” USDA spokesman Andy Solomon said. “We don?t yet know exactly what happened and how.”

The USDA is on record as saying that this type of transfer could not happen.
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