Alex welcomes back to the show Nigel Farage, British politician, former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, and member of the European Parliament for the South East. Farage faces an official reprimand by the European Parliament for criticizing its president Herman Van Rompuy on Wednesday. Alex also talks with John Young, webmaster of Cryptome, a website that covers news on freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. The ISP Network Solutions shuttered Young’s site earlier in the week after he posted a document summarizing Microsoft’s dealings with law enforcement agencies. Microsoft has since withdrawn a Digital Millennium Copyright complaint and Cryptome is once again live. Alex talks about the economy and other topics with weekly guest Bob Chapman, publisher of the International Forecaster. Alex covers the news and takes your calls.
Xenobiotic
is a chemical which is found in an organism but which is not normally produced or expected to be present in it. It can also cover substances which are present in much higher concentrations than are usual. Specifically, drugs such as antibiotics are xenobiotics in humans because the human body does not produce them itself, nor are they part of a normal diet.
Xenoestrogens
are novel, industrially made compounds, that have estrogenic effects and differ chemically from archiestrogens (ancient, naturally occurring) produced by living organisms.
Their potential ecological and human health impact is under study.