reza - what is a international tender notice? are there any political / social ramifications to this?

ASSC tender notice online here:
www.assc.ir/tender1.htm

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
www.panna.org
Thanks to the chemical industry, most if not all of us carry a toxic cocktail of pesticides and other chemicals in our bodies! See our new report: Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability.

Chemical Trespass
www.panna.org/campaigns/docsTrespass/chemicalTrespass2004.dv.html
Many of the pesticides found in the test subjects have been linked to serious short- and long-term health effects including infertility, birth defects and childhood and adult cancers.Chemical Trespass finds that children, women and Mexican Americans shoulder the heaviest “pesticide body burden.” For example, children—the population most vulnerable to pesticides—are exposed to the highest levels of nerve-damaging organophosphorous (OP) pesticides.

checked some of these chemicals & discovered "bad actors" -------

TRICYCLAZOLE - www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35823

FLUDIOXONIL - www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35910

ATRAZINE - www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35042
PAN Bad Actors are chemicals that are one or more of the following: highly acutely toxic, cholinesterase inhibitor, known/probable carcinogen, known groundwater pollutant or known reproductive or developmental toxicant. The acute toxicity reported on this page is of the pure chemical ingredient only and may not reflect the acute toxicity of individual pesticide products. + Atrazine is a Triazine compound. Acute systemic toxicity is unlikely unless large amounts have been ingested - Irritation of eyes, skin and respiratory tract.

lol ... head to Iran and you will notice what's going on beneath this global pest alert!

"96 items" is almost unbelievable (of course, PEST = 96 (how did the gematria monkey miss that one?))

reza. I think you're fishing for Koi again. Did find this interesting (copied from a variety of studies and papers):

Pesticide poisoning, self-harm & suicide rate. Three million cases worldwide 200,000 deaths. Pesticide poisoning third most common cause of poisoning and the principal cause of poisoning-related mortality in Iran. self-poisoning by pesticides in the age range of 20-30 years old is most common (frequency of woman higher). Epidemiology of suicide: one of the ten leading causes of death in the world; third leading cause of death in youth (behind unintentional injury and homicide). Self-immolation, drug overdose, and poisoning were the three most common methods of suicide. Substances most commonly used for self-poisoning are agricultural pesticides in developing nations. Pesticide poisoning from occupational, accidental and intentional exposure is a major developing world public health problem. Causing immense strain on hospital services, particularly in Asia. Several studies indicate pesticides to be the most important poisons used for self-harm world-wide, with high incidence and fatality rate. Agrochemical pesticides are a major public health problem throughout the developing world. Many subsistence farming households have stocks of pesticides readily available for impulsive acts.

nick. Think the monkey decided to start its own blog and become a capitalist. The monkey's got a publisher and it says its numbers ain't free no more.

gwendolyn,

This long list reminds me of 'Unit 731', if you know what it was. had a brutal documentary movie on germ-pest experimentations by Unit 731 during WWII whose key scientists / documents were transferred to the US later; of course, pest warfare is not what it used to be (now, it's more sophisticated in every aspect).

Oh my god. "Live vivisections were performed on prisoners infected with various diseases where scientists would remove organs to study the effects of the disease on the human body. Prisoners were amputated limb by limb to study blood loss. Arms were cut off and reattached to opposite sides. Stomachs were surgically removed and the esophagus was reattached to the intestines."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Unit 731 was a secret military medical unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that researched biological warfare and other topics through human experimentation during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II era. The unit was disguised as a water purification unit.

Another historical example of the tensely current situation between China and Japan: "It is estimated that over 3,000 Chinese and Korean civilians and as well as Allied POWs were killed in the Unit 731 facilities."

Interestingly, that documentary has been produced in Japan and both interviewers and interviewees are Japanese (even scientists or soldiers worked in Unit 731); there were so much protest in Japan after an exhibition revealing the documents to Japanese university students (guess two years ago). There are a couple of cult classic movies based on the subject too (men behind the sun or something like that).

ah. 1987 movie by Taiwanese filmmaker TF Mous. Interesting, it's not a documentary, but Mous wanted to make it a documentary. Most of the evidence was destroyed. Mous (great) interview:

www.horschamp.qc.ca/9901/offscreen_columns/ManBehind1.html

www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/22/1082530287330.html?oneclick=true

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Behind_The_Sun

But Reza. Tie all this up a little to avoid complete divergence. (Returning to the word impacted snowy monstrosity below).

>"96 items" is almost unbelievable

nick, if you read carefully you'll see that it's not "96 items" but *the* 96 items – like *the* four horsemen, *the* seven seals, etc.