<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0906" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Greenspiration News</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><I>“There is only one courage, and that is the courage to go on dying to the past. Not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past, and because we cling to it we become unavailable to the present.”</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">T</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">his is the BEST political satire I have ever seen. Be prepared to laugh your guts out...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://harperdictatorship.ca/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;">http://harperdictatorship.ca/</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Citizen activism is reaching a boiling point as impatience with governments' perceived inaction grows.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B>Climate Protests Escalate Worldwide</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5939?emc=el&m=175597&l=8&v=8ce765a66e">http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5939?emc=el&m=175597&l=8&v=8ce765a66e</A> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0306" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>CHANGE IS HAPPENING</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">It’s so easy to lose the big picture, because the mainstream media is not reporting changes they are not tuned to. So while we know about the gloomiferous financial collapse, most people are not learning about other changes that mark an enormous shift:</SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>San Francisco</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> has announced that it will become the electric vehicle (EV) capital of the US.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Los Angeles</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> is planning to become the first solar city in the US, generating 10% of its electricity from solar, costing LA residents just $2 extra a month.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">In the </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>UK</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, every new house must be zero carbon, starting in 2016.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The new International Renewable Energy Agency is being launched in </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Germany</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> in January. The </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>European Union</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> has pledged to get 20% of its energy needs from renewables by 2020.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Starting Jan 1st 2009, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Seattle</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> will be charging 20 cents for disposable plastic shopping bags.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The BC town of </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Nelson</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> has voted to become a Genetically Engineered Free Zone, ensuring that local farmers can grow crops and save seeds without fear of GE cross-contamination.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">In November, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>The New York Times</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> came out with a special issue dated July 4th 2009, showing in amazing detail what might be possible. OK, it was a Yes-Men spoof! </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.nytimes-se.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B613A" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>www.nytimes-se.com</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Don’t get caught in the daily gloomy news which drags our minds back to the collapsing paradigm. Focus on the birth of the new, not the death of the old.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">(Thanks to Guy Dauncey of EcoNews for the above news.)</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0906" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Google Pays Employees To Ride Their Bikes!</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Google's first official Canadian headquarters opened last week overlooking Dundas Square. Google has implemented green initiatives to encourage their employees to use public transportation or their own green solution to get to work by offering a monthly subsidy. For those willing to take a bicycle to work, the company offers other extras as well.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">CTV's </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/_archives/2008/11/24/3991887.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0A3A6A" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>blog</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, quotes the head of Google Toronto’s Business Development: "It's really important to create an environment that facilitates the healthy lifestyle that you want people to lead" says Ian Camisky. "We created a bike room which has hangers for your bike, lockers to put your shoes and helmet in, but unless you have a place to clean up, it becomes harder to actually utilize that. We can't say 'Oh be healthy, but we're not going to help you be healthy'. Google's all about the full solution. So once we agreed that we would have the bike room, it was imperative that we have the shower to associate with it."</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0906" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Comprehensive coverage on the democratic crisis in Canada - Coalition</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3F3F3F" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Stephen Harper is reaching deep into his bag of spin and dirty tricks in an attempt to cling to power against an unprecedented opposition coalition. Events are moving fast, so rabble.ca has created this one stop shop where you can stay informed about developments and participate in the discussions and debates amongst progressives.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3F3F3F" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://www.rabble.ca/coalition">http://www.rabble.ca/coalition</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">This site is primarily for political activists who may be injured during or by their political activities and or struggling with other mental health issues related to activism.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Supporting people who have been traumatized should be a central part of our activism, for without support and solidarity we can be easily picked off.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://www.activist-trauma.net/?p=home&lng=en">http://www.activist-trauma.net/?p=home&lng=en</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0906" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Climate Negotiations Out of the Spotlight</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Trebuchet MS; min-height: 15px; ; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">With all the action on Parliament Hill this week, it seems that this year’s </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://cen-rce.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e873a49b0f734d2e0b87b7fb8&id=9f0b204c51&e=d50e2c0e23"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D3937" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">United Nations Climate Change Conference</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> has been relegated to second place in the media spotlight. The aim of this year’s Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP-14) is to both advance international cooperation on a future climate change regime and ensure progress on key issues. But with the political situation unfolding in Ottawa, it looks like Canadians concerned with international progress on climate change will have to raise their voices before the conference ends on December 12th.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Trebuchet MS; min-height: 15px; ; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 13px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">For a </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>civil society perspective</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> on the daily events in Poland, visit </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://cen-rce.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e873a49b0f734d2e0b87b7fb8&id=d55ea69de1&e=d50e2c0e23"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#9D3937" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">www.climatenetwork.org</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> and read CAN International’s daily </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><I>ECO</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> newsletter.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0D0D" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>-----</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0D0D" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>FOSSIL OF THE DAY AWARDS - FROM POZNAN, POLAND AT THE UN CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Fossil-of-the-day Awards are given nightly at 6pm to countries that block progress at the United Nations climate change negotiations. The winners are chosen by a vote each afternoon of the Climate Action Network, which comprises more than 400 NGOs from every world region.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; "></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; "></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The awards, decorated with the flags of the winning countries, are received by members of the international youth delegation at a daily ceremony hosted by Ben Wikler of Avaaz.org, an international online advocacy group, and Katherine Trajan of the Canadian youth delegation. Winners are announced, their obstructionism is described in vivid detail; their national anthems are played; and youth delegates receive medals and deliver emotional acceptance speeches describing their emotions at receiving this historic dishonour.</SPAN></FONT><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">On Dec. 4, Canada won third, second AND tied for first. Shame on Canada.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>See </B></SPAN></FONT><A href="x-msg://199/www.fossil-of-the-day.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F04297" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>www.fossil-of-the-day.org</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0D0D" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Selling cough, cold medicines for children under 12 questioned </B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#224A74" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>"So basically all of the chemical ingredients, whether it's a cough suppressant, whether its an antihistamine, you know whether it's a nasal decongestant — none of those agents in children have any evidence that they work," </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B><I> | </I></B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>CBC News</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, Nov. 28</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Health Canada is considering changing the rules on selling and labelling children's cold medications that have been linked to serious complications and at least three deaths among children under the age of two between 1995 and 2007, according to confidential documents obtained by CBC News under federal Access to Information laws.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/28/cold-medicine-children.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/11/28/cold-medicine-children.html</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0306" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Poor Air Quality Killing Canadians</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0306" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Canadian Medical Association released staggering new data showing that this year alone as many as 21,000 Canadians will die prematurely from the effects of air pollution. While most of those deaths will be due to chronic exposure over a number of years, almost 3,000 will be the result of acute, short-term exposure. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/86912/la_id/1.htm">http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/86912/la_id/1.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">---</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>What is air pollution costing you?</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The National Illness Cost of Air Pollution study puts a dollar figure on the health and economic costs of air pollution in Canada. This initiative has produced Illness Costs of Air Pollution (ICAP) programs that can forecast health damages for each of the 10 provinces and for Canada as a whole.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/86830/la_id/1.htm">http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/86830/la_id/1.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0906" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><I>Actions, What You Can Do With The City</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> presents </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://cca-actions.org/actions-list"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">99 actions</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; "></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal -- 26 November 2008 - 19 Apr.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://cca-actions.org/guidedtour">http://cca-actions.org/guidedtour</A> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">If you're in Montreal, GO to this fantastic exhibit of urban activism around the world. And if you're not in Mtl, you can visit much of the exhibit online. My Mobile Bike Lane is displayed, and Toronto's Urban Repair Squad has a stencil on exhibit </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002FD7" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.cca-actions.org/node/154">http://www.cca-actions.org/node/154</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Imagine that -- activism being celebrated and honored!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002FD7" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#F13934" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><B>Official warnings issued: The ADHD drug Strattera CAUSES psychosis, hallucinations, mania and agitation</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=69298&cat=10">http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=69298&cat=10</A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.8px;"><B>The manufacturer, Eli Lilly, has now changed the label for Strattera in Europe to include warnings that Strattera CAUSES “hallucinations, delusional thinking, mania or agitation in children and adolescents without a prior history of psychotic illness or mania … at usual doses”.</B></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Please note that Strattera is </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>CAUSING</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> these symtoms – that these “symptoms” seen in children are drug induced, that they in actual fact are signs of drug induced brain dysfunction.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">It took almost THREE years of foot dragging before the medical authorities in Europe finally decided that Eli Lilly should issue warnings about psychotic reactions in the label for Strattera. But now the warnings are finally out.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The story leading up to these warnings can be read in the following article (see also links in the article to background data): The ADHD drug Strattera – actions needed now, from January 2008, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://jannel.se/letter.mhra.strattera.jan08.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>http://jannel.se/letter.mhra.strattera.jan08.pdf</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> (See also article about Strattera death at </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://jannel.se/Strattera.death2.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>http://jannel.se/Strattera.death2.pdf</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> )</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The new warnings about the causal role for Strattera in inducing mania, agitation and psychosis with hallucinations, can be read at </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/assets/c/html/displaydoc.asp?documentid=14482"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/assets/c/html/displaydoc.asp?documentid=14482</B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">In the US famous psychiatrists like Dr. Joseph Biederman have convinced doctors that the manic states seen in children receiving ADHD drugs (like Concerta, Adderall and Strattera) are signs of “bipolar disorder” – not signs of drug induced brain dysfunction. This has meant that children in the US, instead of being taken off the dangerous drugs are given the most toxic substances available in psychiatry – neuroleptics (so called antipsychotics like Risperdal, Zyprexa and Abilify).</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">These new warnings in Europe for Strattera, together with all exposures of the fraudulent affairs of Biederman and colleagues, should finally convince doctors about the facts and what needs to be done – that the harmed children need to be taken off the drugs under careful supervision.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Janne Larsson</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Reporter – investigating psychiatry</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Sweden</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:janne.olov.larsson@telia.com"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">janne.olov.larsson@telia.com</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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