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<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="6" color="#e35883" style="font: 24.0px Helvetica; color: #e35883"><b>Greenspiration News</b></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 class="Apple-style-span" color="#3297DD" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><i>"We hunger for communities of meaning that can transcend the individualism and selfishness that we see around us and that will provide an ethical and spiritual framework that gives our lives some higher purpose." -- Michael Lerner,</i> The Politics of Meaning</font></p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 151, 221); min-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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; "><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; "><br></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="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#950CFF">No federal subsidies for ON's nukes</font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">The Ontario government has hit the ball into Prime Minister Harper’s court, proposing that taxpayers across the country subsidize new nuclear power reactors for Ontario. Imagine that – taxes going up in Montreal, Calgary and Halifax to cover new nukes for Ontario!<br> <br> But Ontario has cleaner, greener and cheaper alternatives to keeping the lights on. We don’t need to sink more dollars into nuclear. Can you help us get the word out?<br> <br> Our new pamphlet <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/OntarioOption.pdf"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u><i>Ontario has an option: Plentiful Clean and Green Power Is Lower Cost and Lower Risk than Nuclear</i></u></font></a> tells the story in a nutshell. Clean power options can provide more than three times the electricity needed to replace Ontario’s aging nuclear reactors, at far lower cost. <br> <br> Help us spread the message across the country that Ontario wants green power, not nuclear, and that more taxpayer-funded subsidies for nuclear (whatever government they come from) are the last thing we should be considering given our current financial circumstances. <br> <br> Order pamphlets to deliver to your friends, families, groups, etc. by clicking <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: #0032e6"><u>here</u></font></a>. They’re free! Each pamphlet contains a postcard to be sent to our Prime Minister, and another to be sent to Ontario’s Energy Minister. With your help we can ensure that thousands get sent in to our elected officials. Speak up now before any new contracts are signed.<br> <br> Thanks for your help!</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="4" color="#0032e6" style="font: 13.0px Comic Sans MS; color: #0032e6"> </font></p></div></div></span></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; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--------------------------------------------------------</font></div><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; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#118BFF">Canada dead last on climate change</font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#118BFF">We can no longer use the U.S. as an excuse for inaction</font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Here is a sobering thought to consider as Canada prepares to assume the presidency of the G8 following this week's meeting in Italy: Canada has for the first time replaced the United States as the worst performer on tackling climate change among G8 nations. </span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=a124bd76-60fe-44f6-8285-778dcf331293">http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=a124bd76-60fe-44f6-8285-778dcf331293</a></span></font></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; "><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; "><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; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1474">Over 100 Greenpeace activists occupy four Italian coal plants, demanding G8 climate leadership</font></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Rome, Italy —8 July 2009 – As the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations arrived at the G8 Summit today, over 100 Greenpeace activists from around the world have occupied four coal-fired power stations across Italy, demanding the G8 Heads of State take leadership on climate change.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/governments/g8">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/governments/g8</a></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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; "><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; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2DAF22">Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning</font></b></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">An executive summary of George Monbiot's excellent book, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, can be read here: </span></font><a href="http://justearth.net/monbiot_heat"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://justearth.net/monbiot_heat</span></font></u></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></font></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">--------------------------------------------------------</font></div></div></div></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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 26px; "><font style="font: 24.0px Verdana"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A51216">Taking Shorter Showers Doesn't Cut It: </font></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 26px; "><font style="font: 24.0px Verdana"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A51216">Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change</font></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 26px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">by Derrick Jensen</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #333333"><font color="#004cab" style="color: #004cab"><b></b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance.</font></p></font><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/politics/141260/taking_shorter_showers_doesn%27t_cut_it%3A_why_personal_change_does_not_equal_political_change/">http://www.alternet.org/politics/141260/taking_shorter_showers_doesn%27t_cut_it%3A_why_personal_change_does_not_equal_political_change/</a> </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><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; "><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; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><table width="800.0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 800.0px; border-collapse: collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 800.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#f13934" style="font: 32.0px Arial; color: #f13934"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Tell Your Premier to Stand Strong for Clean Energy!</span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><i>Premiers meet in Regina in two weeks</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><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="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">All of Canada's Premiers will meet in Regina from August 5 to 7, 2009. Global warming and green jobs will be on the agenda. </span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Will your Premier stand up to Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, and tell him that pollution from the tar sands cannot be allowed to wipe out the hard work of others doing their part to fight global warming?</span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><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="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Our federal government is now secretly designing a "cap and trade" system to get large polluters to cut their emissions. But under this system, Ottawa seems ready to give the tar sands special treatment, letting pollution there continue to grow. If that happens, then other provinces and other economic sectors will have to cut their emissions even more to make up for the tar sands. </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">That isn't fair.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><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="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Every industry sector and every province must do its fair share to cut global warming pollution.</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> Canada must work together.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><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="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Your Premier needs to hear from you on this critical issue!</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Please take a moment to </span></font></b><a href="http://environmentaldefence.ca/campaigns/regina.html"><font color="#002fd7" style="color: #002fd7"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">ask your Premier</span></font></b></font></a><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> for a strong and fair system to cut global warming pollution across Canada.</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></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="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">But in this week's Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, of the department of mental health sciences at University College London, says they actually put people into "drug-induced states".</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; 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;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#2d7ec5" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(45, 126, 197); "><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8138893.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8138893.stm</a></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; "> </font></span></span></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; 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;"><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; ">-------------------------------------------------------- </font></div><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; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Georgia" style="font: 13.0px Georgia"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9705FF">New Report on ADHD Drugs Blowback</font></b></span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Georgia">"Methylphenidate has a chemical structure similar to that of cocaine and acts on the brain in a very similar way." In February 2009, neuroscientists at the Rockefeller University reported cocaine-like structural and chemical alterations in the brains of mice given methylphenidate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Georgia">It is common for cocaine addicts to experience depression, anxiety and cognitive problems, and mental health authorities have long reported that ADHD as a "risk factor" for other mental health problems but have neglected to take seriously the possibility that it is the ADHD-drug treatment itself that contributes to higher rates of other emotional and cognitive difficulties.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-e-levine/the-wave-of-evil-new-repo_b_235232.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-e-levine/the-wave-of-evil-new-repo_b_235232.html</a> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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; "><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; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Catch this incredible story about </i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>the Mothers Act</i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>, a desperate attempt by Big Pharma to drug </i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>expectant mothers</i></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i> and new moms, and by extension their kids. Although it's based in the US, you can be sure Canada is next in line. </i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>-a</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 28.0px"><font face="Arial" style="font: 24.0px Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CE03FF">The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign</font></b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; line-height: 28.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;"></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #333333"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The Mothers Act campaign has operated under the guise of helping women suffering from </span></font><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/postpartum_depression.html"><font color="#356bbd" style="color: #356bbd"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">postpartum depression</span></font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> and postpartum psychosis to develop a new industry, complete with specialties like, "reproductive </span></font><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/psychiatry.html"><font color="#356bbd" style="color: #356bbd"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">psychiatry</span></font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">," or "reproductive </span></font><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/mental_health.html"><font color="#356bbd" style="color: #356bbd"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">mental health</span></font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">," with a plan to "screen" and "treat" women of childbearing years for a long list of "perinatal" mental disorders, to financially benefit </span></font><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/psychiatric_drug.html"><font color="#356bbd" style="color: #356bbd"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">psychiatric drug</span></font></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> makers, as well as the treatment providers and "experts" in the new self-created field. </span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #333333">"The last thing drug companies want is for juries (and the public) to learn the truth - that these drugs can cause people to become violent and homicidal," she advises. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" 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" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html">http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html</a> </span></font></div></span></font></p></font><p></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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