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Fact Check's Analysis of the Health Care Legislation

 

_A Final Weekend of Whoppers? | FactCheck.org_

(http://www.factcheck.org/2010/03/a-final-weekend-of-whoppers/)

We look at the biggest falsehoods of the recent debate.

 

 

 

 

_Death from Ritalin the Truth Behind ADHD_ (http://www.ritalindeath.com/)

Between 1990 and 2000 there were 186 deaths from methylphenidate reported

to the FDA MedWatch program, a voluntary reporting scheme, the numbers of

which represent no more than 10 to 20% of the actual incidence.

 

 

_OpEdNews - Article: Health Care reform Needs Media Reform_

(http://www.opednews.com/articles/Health-Care-reform-Needs-M-by-Rory-OConnor-100\

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The US is one of only two countries in the world --

along with New Zealand -- that permits direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of

prescription drugs. Lobbyists long ago succeeded in turning back all

efforts to end the special interest business-tax deductions that Big Pharma

drug

makers can take for advertising.

 

_The story of Looking back woman_

(http://www.lookingbackwoman.ca/transition.htm)

We have fallen into the fatal flaws of the three previous

Worlds: forgetting the Oneness of all creation, sinking into greed and

materialism, and engaging in promiscuity and aerial mass warfare. But we

have added an additional serious element: mass destruction of Earth and

its ecological systems.

Fifth World society is shaped by the feminine paths of cooperation,

non-aggression, inclusiveness, non-competitiveness, service rather than

dominance, use of psychic and spiritual gifts as well as technology, and

living in conscious harmony with nature's ways.

During this painful but exciting period of transition, each

of us must stand up and choose: status quo, or helping usher

in the Fifth World.