Nanotechnology

[Sadsack]

Some scary thoughts....

http://www.coldtruth.com/

Shellfish absorb waste nanoparticles; scientists alarmed by potential environmental threat

Posted on June 27, 2009, 14:04, by schneider.
Here’s some cutting-edge research that could be frightening to those already worried about the safety of nanotechnology and that should give government regulators something to think about.

Nanogold rods Photo MIT

John Ferry and his colleagues in biochemistry, coastal environmental health and biomolecular research at the University of South Carolina have been studying what happens when nanomaterial – gold nanorods, in this case – get released into an ecosystem.
“Within the next five years the manufacture of large quantities of nanomaterials may lead to unintended contamination of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems,” the team wrote in the current issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology is the science and application of the ultra-small. To try to give you an idea of size, 10 atoms are about one nanometer across, or a nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
“The environmental research community is trying to stay ahead of the curve on nanoparticles,” Ferry told me Friday in an email interview. He also predicted that when manufactured nanomaterials become a ubiquitous part of our economy, then they, or their waste products, will become ever-present parts of our environment.

The ecosystem created to test the movement of nanoparticles

As part of their research on how nanomaterial can infiltrate the environment, the Carolina scientists constructed laboratory ecosystems containing sea water, sediment, sea grass, snails, clams, shrimp and fish.
A small dose of gold nanorods was added and their distribution was monitored. The results, they said, suggest that gold nanorods can readily pass from the water to the marine food web.
“This is good and bad,” Ferry told me. “Good that we are alerted to the likelihood that filter feeders (snails, clams, shrimp and the like) will be good sentinel organisms for (detecting) nanoparticles; bad in that we also eat some of them.”
Gold nanorods are good particles on which to begin the research because of their growing popularity in commercial applications.
Earlier this month, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology told a course I was attending that the use of gold nanorods as a cancer-fighting tool was expected to increase dramatically in the near future. They demonstrated the gold nanorods’ homing abilities, which makes them priceless for seeking, diagnosing and possibly treating tumors.
Ferry said he and the Carolina team are continuing to research other kinds of nanoparticles to see if they behave similarly and if there are other organisms out there that might be even better sentinels.

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[Katinka]

ut oh!! you know what this means?
Thanks for posting this, Sadsack! Very interesting!
Kat

[Sadsack]

Kat -

I often think "We don't have a chance".
Australia is developing a vaccination for the H1N1 virus using nanotechnology!! Now, with the H1N1 being declared a pandemic, and the Patriot Act allowing for mandatory vaccinations in the case of a level 6 pandemic, what is going to happen next???

SS

[Kritters]

Originally Posted by Sadsack

Kat -

I often think "We don't have a chance".
Australia is developing a vaccination for the H1N1 virus using nanotechnology!! Now, with the H1N1 being declared a pandemic, and the Patriot Act allowing for mandatory vaccinations in the case of a level 6 pandemic, what is going to happen next???

SS

Unfortunately, SS...I think you know EXACTLY what's going to happen next. Forced vaccinations, rebellion, military police enforcing vaccinations, fighting in the streets....chaos.

I am hoping the public interest watchdogs are strong enough in number and voice to thwart this.

xoxoKritts

[Sadsack]

See the bolded paragraph below....

Prophecy Updates and Commentary Blog Archive CHINESE MILITARY LEADER SAYS “EXTERMINATION” OF USA IS CHINA’S GOAL

CHINESE MILITARY LEADER SAYS “EXTERMINATION” OF USA IS CHINA’S GOAL

All Americans should know the vital information that is in the first link below. It should be the lead story on all TV national news programs, but the media will cover up this story. It is a report from the website of the World Tribune, and it reveals what is really on the minds of China’s Communist leaders as they are in the midst of a massive military build-up. The author, Lev Navrozov, is a Russian émigré trying to warn the Western world about the danger that it faces from China, Russia, etc. Mr. Navrozov cites an English-language version of “a speech delivered by Chi Haotian, the Minister of National Defense of China up to 2004 and a top military analyst today.” In other words, this was not a random statement by a low-level functionary of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the Chinese equivalent of the US Secretary of Defense so his statement clearly expressed official Chinese policy.
Mr. Haotian stated in his speech (obviously given in China and not expected to be read by anyone in English) that Chinese national policy should be “exterminating the population of the United States.” That is correct. You read it right.
This top-level Chinese military strategist’s speech was given a title indicating that “World War III Is Not Far from Us,” and he expects China’s war against the USA to result in China’s domination of the 21st century. Mr. Haotian likened the superiority of the Chinese race over all other races in language that literally cited Hitler’s racial superiority language which directly led to World War II. Chinese officials are now obviously replicating the same plan to impose their “superiority” upon the world the same way Hitler planned to impose “Aryan superiority” on the world–via aggressive warfare. Mr. Haotian’s speech openly discusses whether China’s “surprise attack on the United States” will succeed quickly or will result in retaliation from the USA. He indicates a personal willingness to sacrifice half the Chinese population in order to “exterminate” the US population.
This speech by a top Chinese official was given in 2004, and is only recently making its way into English-language media. This confirms, beyond all doubt, that all current Chinese actions are part of a war planning effort by China against the USA. China is waging war already vs. the USA monetarily, economically, electronically via hacker attacks, etc. China’s war has been going on for at least a decade. The book, Unrestricted Warfare, published by Pan American Publishing Co. in 1999, includes an English translation of the war plans “To Destroy America” prepared for the Chinese military by Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui and originally published in Chinese by the People’s Liberation Army of China. It calls for China “to wage total war against the USA.” The book’s introduction (in English) states these Chinese war plans vs. America are “known to the CIA as well as to America’s national security establishment.” However, the American people haven’t been told. The American establishment media is keeping them “in the dark” about this existential threat to the existence to ALL Americans, regardless of race, ethnicity, political-affiliation, gender, etc. The book, Unrestricted Warfare, also cites Chi Haotian as saying “War [with the US] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it.” The books cites Chinese strategy is to cripple the USA by all possible means (economic, monetary, electronic warfare, etc.) in order to weaken America so it cannot defend itself vs. a Chinese military attack, as blogs in my “Archives” have previously discussed. A recent blog at this site also examine the nanotechnology b which is being developed by China which intends to combine nanotechnology with human genome research to create “nanobots” which will attack and kill a target population (i.e. the USA) without damaging land and properties. The second link below details how China has gained such a stranglehold over US financial/monetary policy that the USA’s leaders can no longer act in America’s national security interests. They won’t tell you this, of course. They will keep you distracted with media fluff (the most recent being the endless coverage about Michael Jackson).
Over 25 centuries, ago, God inspired the prophet Ezekiel to give a warning for the latter days to the “latter day” descendants of the ten tribes of Israel (called “Israel” in Ezekiel 38-39–the Jewish nation in the Mideast is called “Judah” in biblical prophecy and “Judah” is not mentioned anywhere in Ezekiel 38-39). My books (available on-line at www.bibleblessings.net) detail abundant evidence from secular and biblical sources that the modern nations of the USA, the UK and many western nations are the nations called “Israel” in the Bible. This prophecy warns in verses 2-6 that an alliance will come into existence in the latter days of this age (see verses 8 and 16) which would be led by Russia (Gog, Magog, Meshech and Tubal), China (Gomer and all his bands) and Iran (Persia). These nations are all in alliance right now and they are allied vs. the western nations and coordinating their national actions to wage war against them, exactly as Ezekiel 38-39 prophesied. Obviously, for a prophecy 2500 years old to be brought to pass in great detail in our modern world means (A) the Bible really is the Word of an Creator God, (B) that Creator God is bringing to pass these prophecies right in front of our eyes, and (C) that we live in the “latter days” when this prophecy will be fulfilled. The stark reality of this message will not please many, however, world geopolitics are now setting the stage for the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38-39’s prophecy in the years ahead of us.
Whenever the tribes of Israel sinned in the Bible, God often punished them by bringing invading armies into their land to give them national “spankings.” You can read the book of Judges, I and II Samuel, I and II Kings and I and II Chronicles to see many such invasions detailed. God says in Malachi 3:6 “I change not.” Therefore, we can expect God to do the same thing now to modern “Israel” as he did to ancient “Israel” when it rebelled against God and his laws. Ezekiel 38 even reveals the specific nations that are destined to attack “Israel” to punish it for its national sinfulness in the latter days (Ezekiel 39:7 adds that the modern ten tribes of Israel will be polluting God’s name regularly in the latter days when the Russian-Chinese-Iranian attack is launched). God has even given us the Russian-Chinese attack plan. Ezekiel 38:15-16 reveals they will cover North America and Europe “like a cloud” (an aerial attack) from out of the “north.” If I were planning the Russian-Chinese attack against North America, I’d infiltrate special forces troops to seize all major Alaskan airports and launch a “24/7″ aerial operation (along with sending maritime container vessels filled with Chinese troops and armor) to pour many millions of Russian, Chinese, etc. troops into North America and send them south into the USA like a tidal wave. The USA has foolishly worn out its military in Iraq and Afghanistan and has very few ground forces available in North America to repel such an invasion. Russia and China would also attack as many US military bases and civilian infrastructure targets at the same time to cripple the entire USA (and Europe) as the attack begins.
God says in Ezekiel 38:10 that He will put it into the minds of Russia’s and China’s leaders to launch this attack at a time of God’s choosing. God will allow America and the other so-called Christian nations a space of time to repent, but if we do not repent, the hammer blow of total war will fall on the American homeland. The good news is that God will eventually save the nations of the tribes of Israel and rescue them from this attack and he calls on the attacked nations to fight back against their invaders (38:21), but he gives us no guarantees how far he will allow this invasion to proceed before he intervenes. There will be no human “deliverer” this time. The deliverer will be the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who intervenes with his heavenly army to slay the attackers on a massive scale (Ezekiel 38:20-39:8 describe this Divine intervention as does Revelation 19:11-21).
If you wish to read about Ezekiel 38-39’s prophecy in much greater detail, I invite you to read my article What Ezekiel 38-39 Reveal about a Future World War III, available by clicking on the articles link at the homepage of this website. To hear an audio message which addresses the subject of who is “Israel” in the modern world and the ramifications of Ezekiel 38’s prophecy, I invite you to listen to a sermon I gave last Sunday at Church at the Gate in Sioux Falls, SD on this very topic. You can listen to this message by clicking on the last link below.
The open admission by a top Chinese military official (now finally reported by the World Tribune) that they intend to invade and exterminate America graphically confirms Ezekiel 38 will surely be fulfilled at some point in the years ahead of us. God does not give us a date for this invasion, but America is running out of time.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/lev0527_06_26.asp
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/02/trade-war-china-geithner-opinions-columnists-wto-renminbi.html
http://churchatthegate.com/podcast/2009-07-05.mp3

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[kmar]

I may not know much about Politics and Economy, but when I used to be able to watch C-Span, it was pointed on on numerous occasions how much money the USA owes to China. We borrowed money to fund the Iraq war and to keep it going.

So where I am confused is that I though we gave China money too? How could we give them money cuz they are a poor Country and yet at the same time borrow money from them?

Excuse my ignorance here. But I just don't get it.

Now, if China wants to exterminate the USA, why has the USA allowed themselves to be put into this situations of owing money to China?

please please correct me, cuz I hope we don't owe china money.

[morgylady]

good thing we are saving and gathering all our stuff to leave the u.s.

caribbean here i come!

we may not have running water and electricity all the time but dammit we will be far, FAR away from all this technology!

[Sadsack]

Oh, gosh, Kmar - China OWNS us!!
We owe them tons of money - they keep buying our bonds (a form of debt). That is mostly how this stimulus package is being funded. The rest came from the Xerox machine.

In fact, that fact may be what "saves" us - why would they want to obliterate a country that owes them so much money??

I guess maybe that scenario (the above article) is a bit scary, and maybe I shouldn't have posted it. I don't necessarily believe it - I don't know what to believe - but it is something else to think about.

Here's another scenario, involving nanotechnology and 2012:

2012 Doomsday: The Most Inconvenient Truth?

SS

[Sadsack]

No nano labelling despite concerns

No nano labelling despite concerns
Beyond the pale ... Larissa Johnson with her husband Conrad Gray and their children, Cole, Lewis and Will. They are concerned about the lack of information. Photo: James Brickwood

Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs Reporter

July 13, 2009
CONSUMERS have no way of knowing if the brand of sunscreen they use contains engineered material suspected of causing damage to human cells and DNA.
The use of nanotechnology in sunscreens has become widespread in recent years, favoured by manufacturers because the resulting clear, easy-to-absorb creams give a market advantage.
But while the European Union has introduced mandatory labelling for all products containing nanoparticles due to mounting health concerns, the Therapeutic Goods Administration does not even require manufacturers to disclose whether their products contain them.
Using freedom of information laws, the NSW Greens sought data from the administration on all sunscreens using titanium dioxide and zinc oxide in particle sizes smaller than 100 nanometres.
A Greens MP, Lee Rhiannon, said she wanted to publish a list so consumers were better informed.
But the TGA said that because the substances were smaller versions of approved materials it was not required to collect such data. Any existing information it possessed was incomplete or out-of-date, it said.
It agreed to release the results of surveys conducted in 2005 and this year, which not all sunscreen manufacturers responded to, for $4000. That fee was reduced to just under $2000 after the Greens argued public interest.
But the TGA said the information would be released only when manufacturers agreed that doing so would not breach commercial agreements.
Ms Rhiannon said it was likely the information would be worthless because brands would be blacked out. "Consumers have a right to know if the sunscreen they are slathering on themselves and their kids contains nano ingredients," Ms Rhiannon said. "The TGA and responsible ministers are keeping the lights off, siding with industry which doesn't want the full story told."
With three fair-skinned blue-eyed boys living within a stone's throw of the beach, Coogee mother Larissa Johnson agreed.
While she has previously sought out sunscreens for Cole, 8, Will, 6, and Lewis, 8 months, which state on the label that no nano technology has been used, such products were invariably much more expensive and usually only available in health stores.
"It's a topic of conversation among parents," Ms Johnson said. "We don't really know what we're putting on our children's skins. I think educated consumers want more information so they can make more informed choices."
A NSW parliamentary inquiry into nanotechnology last year called for safety testing of nano-technology products and mandatory sunscreen labelling.
An expert on nano technology regulation, ANU Associate Professor Tom Faunce, said until satisfactory safety data was available on titanium dioxide nanoparticles, the TGA needed to increase sunscreen packaging information. A 2006 TGA study found nanoparticles could potentially increase cancer rates, but this was highly unlikely unless the particles penetrated beyond the outer layers of skin.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

[faithinacure]

Kmar:
The United States has had a trade deficit with China for many years, because we import much more of their products than they do ours. Hence, they are cash-rich and we owe a large debt to them. So we have asked to borrow money from China to fund the Iraq war with the expectation they will get a high revenue on their loan to us probably mostly through oil revenues and contracts for rebuilding the damaged country. That was the expectation. But, now this country learned the war was a big mistake and we own China all this money. But the global economic downturn affected everyone, including China. When there's a trade deficit, there's a disproportionate flow of money from one county to the other, so one country becomes cash-rich, while the other becomes cash-poor, so they borrow more. It's kind of a cycle. So now we still have to pay the debt. The trade deficit still exists. This is my understanding of it.
Hope this helps,
Faithxoxoxo