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Ever since the 1970s, we have been advocating for "alternative energy" and more efficiency. Let us extrapolate this trend into the future. Suppose current strends continue (which is likely), and the consumer society goes through various economic convulsions, but remains essentially intact. Meanwhile, starvation across the world continues to grow. Are we going to continue to advocate plug-in hybrid cars and other expensive technologies as the "solution" to the environmental crisis when two billion people are severely malnourished? When there are three billion? Four? At what point do we recognize that expensive technologies meant to maintain a "sustainable" consumer society among the world's wealthiest people are utterly divorced from any reasonable moral coherence?"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Silent Armageddon</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">?</span> by Alexis Zeigler, March/April 2009 Issue of the Watershed Sentinel</div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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letter-spacing: -1.0px color: #333333"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">David Healy - The new enfant terrible of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical companies' abuse of clinical trials</span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">A book review</span></font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;"><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">MANIA</span> ends with a series of pessimistic pronouncements. In studies of psychotropic drugs, “the publicly available data are close to worthless”. We do know, however, that “the quality of life of patients in whom treatment is deferred or not instituted is better than those treated immediately”; and that, “uniquely among major illnesses in the Western world, the life expectancy for patients with serious mental illness has declined”. Big Pharma “increasingly appears to jeopardize the health and well-being of our friends, relatives, and children” in its manic pursuit of profit (a phenomenon that afflicts – as Healy rightly notes – all of medicine, not just the benighted psychiatric borderlands). And it observes no ethical limits, ruthlessly extending its grasp to include the youngest and most vulnerable, even though “giving major tranquilizers to children is little different from giving children cancer chemotherapy when they have a cold”. David Healy is indeed an enfant terrible – and a very brave man. Either way, he can expect a lot of hate mail. I doubt he is on Eli Lilly’s or Pfizer’s Christmas card list.</font></p></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> David Healy<br> MANIA<br> A short history of bipolar disorder<br> 320pp. Johns Hopkins University Press. $24.95; distributed in the UK by Wiley. £16.50.<br> 978 0 8018 8822 9</font></p></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6013955.ece">http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6013955.ece</a></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;"><b>--- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;"><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="6" style="font: normal normal normal 26px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#18D3DE">Bipolar disorder and its biomythology: An interview with David Healy</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></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="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Biomythology links to <i>biobabble</i>, <a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7188/949/a"><font color="#2b70a9" style="color: #2b70a9">a term I coined in 1999</font></a> to correspond to the widely-used expression <i>psychobabble</i>. Biobabble refers to things like the supposed lowering of serotonin levels and the chemical imbalance that are said to lie at the heart of mood disorders, ADHD, and anxiety disorders. </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">In the case of bipolar disorder the biomyths center on ideas of mood stabilization. But there is no evidence that the drugs stabilize moods. In fact, it is not even clear that it makes sense to talk about a mood center in the brain.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><b>And are the antipsychotics in fact safer than antidepressants?</b><br> <br> No, they are not. The antipsychotics are as dangerous as the antidepressants. Before the introduction of the antipsychotics, the rates of suicide in schizophrenia were extremely low—they were hard to differentiate from the rest of the population. Since the introduction of the antipsychotics <a href="http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/188/3/223"><font color="#2b70a9" style="color: #2b70a9">the rates of suicide have risen 10- or 20-fold</font></a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/200904/bipolar-disorder-and-its-biomythology-interview-david-healy">http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/200904/bipolar-disorder-and-its-biomythology-interview-david-healy</a> </span></p></span></p></span></font></p></span></font></div></b></span></font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" style="font: 27.0px Verdana"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#46C616">Attention shoppers: beware of false eco-claims </font></span></font></b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">More consumer products are claiming to be environmentally responsible, but nearly all of them make at least one claim that is unverifiable, according to a study released Wednesday.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF15A2">You are being lied to about pirates </font></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling <snip></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 12px; "><br></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070005"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF15A2">Yes: nuclear waste</font>. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Full article:</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="2" color="#002fd7" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 47, 215); "><u><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html</a></u><u></u></font></div><div><br></div></span></span></font></div></span></font></div></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#09BD9E">Check out the Toronto Urban Repair Squad's latest escapade</font></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Easter Present - captured on video</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://urbanrepairs.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-present.html">http://urbanrepairs.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-present.html</a></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The installation lasted the weekend. Greenspiration applauds the Urban Repair Squad.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #0032e6"><b><i>New nuclear: higher cost and higher risk than hydro imports</i></b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 19.0px Arial; color: #0032e6"><b>Potential Benefits of Increased Ontario-Quebec Electricity Trade Exceed $1 Billion per Year</b></font><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#2f3c8c" style="font: 19.0px Arial; color: #2f3c8c"><b><br> <br></b></font><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Increased electricity trade between Ontario and Quebec could provide the two provinces with economic benefits in excess of $1 billion per year according to a new report, </span></font><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The Power of Mutual Benefit</span></font></i></u></font></a><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">released by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA) today.<br><br> The benefits for Ontario include:</span></font> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Symbol" style="font: 16.0px Symbol"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">·</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Hydro-electricity imports can meet spikes in electricity demand that occur on hot summer days at a much lower cost than building three new inefficient gas-fired peaker plants in northern York Region, Kitchener-Waterloo and the southern GTA, as proposed by the Ontario Power Authority.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Symbol" style="font: 16.0px Symbol"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">·</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Integration of Ontario’s wind generation with Quebec’s hydro-electric facilities can result in an uninterrupted 24/7 renewable electricity supply for Ontario consumers.</span></font></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 72.0px; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" style="font: 16.0px Symbol"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">·</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></font><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Hydro-electric imports can supply base-load electricity to Ontario at a substantially lower cost than new nuclear reactors.</span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For Quebec, long-term electricity contracts can provide it with a guaranteed revenue stream to help fund its schools, universities and hospitals at a time when electricity demand from industries like forestry and aluminum manufacturing is dropping.<br><br> Despite the fact that Premiers McGuinty and Charest signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Energy in June 2008 that called for increased inter-provincial electricity trade, the provinces do not appear to be any closer to signing a long-term electricity supply contract.<br><br> Meanwhile, the Government of Ontario is planning to sign a contract within the next 67 days for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Darlington Nuclear Station, east of Oshawa. Based on the cost estimates of Moody’s Investors Service, these new reactors could cost $26 billion.<br><br> “It is puzzling why the McGuinty government with its commitment to green energy would put building new nuclear plants ahead of a ready-made green solution –lower cost hydro imports from Quebec,” said Jack Gibbons, Chair of the OCAA.<br><br></span></font> </font><font face="Arial" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #0032e6"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The </span></font></i><u><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Power of Mutual Benefit</span></font></i></u><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">can be downloaded from </span></font><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/"><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">www.cleanairalliance.org</span></font></u></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><u style=""><b style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F8BC0" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">NATO 60</span></font></span></font></b></u></font><font face="Arial" style="font: 12.0px Arial"><b><sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F8BC0">th </font></span></font></sup></b></font><font face="Arial" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><u style=""><b style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F8BC0" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;">ANNIVERSARY: TIME TO DISBAND NATO - PETITION</span></font></span></font></b></u></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: 15px; text-decoration: underline;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"><b>NATO, must be Disbanded for Contributing to the Scourge of War, and For Defying Peremptory Norms</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">While, on April 4, 2009, the NATO state leaders are poised to celebrate the 60th Anniversary Conference of NATO in Strasbourg and Baden Baden, the majority of states of the United Nations would probably be more inclined to celebrate the demise of NATO. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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The NATO states collectively spend approximately 70% of the current 1.473 trillion global military budget.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">World Military Spending: <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u>http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending</u></font></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; min-height: 17px; "><br></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: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Read more and sign the petition here: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 47, 215); "><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/z9m2x3nb/petition.html"><u><b>http://www.petitiononline.com/z9m2x3nb/petition.html</b></u></a></font></div></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Verdana" style="font: 16.0px Verdana"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C91066"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Mother's Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry</span></font></font></b></font></p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">by Evelyn Pringle</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades. Knowledge of these terrible risks would have caused a major drop in sales to this customer base. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Ever since the warnings about birth defects started trickling out a few years ago, the drug companies apparently have been plotting to find ways to reverse their negative impact. 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