<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#55A65F"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b>Greenspiration </b></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00A3A4"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b>News</b></span></font></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="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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div><font><h2><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#133CAD">Bring Back Parliament</font></font></font></h2><p><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Stephen Harper has prorogued Parliament, meaning politicians won't get back to work for weeks! What about joblessness? The climate? The war?</span></font></font></p><p><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Tell Mr. Harper to get back to work. Bring back Parliament.</span></font></font></p><p><span class="009383020-21012010"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sign the petition:</span></font></font></span></p></font></div><div><font><a title="http://www.bringbackparliament.ca/" href="http://www.bringbackparliament.ca/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.bringbackparliament.ca/</span></font></a></font></div></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="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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CA8300"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><h2 style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CA8300">Tell Chevron to Clean Up Its Toxic Mess in Ecuador</font></font></h2><p style="margin-top: 9px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">. The tragedy in Ecuador is so profound, it has been compared to the Exxon Valdez spill and called the "Amazon's Chernobyl." <br><br>In spite of the tremendous suffering caused by this toxic pollution, Chevron has refused to clean up the catastrophe. <br><br></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 9px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Chevron has pledged that </span></font><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">even if it is found guilty in court the company simply won’t pay to clean up the site or provide health care, potable water and compensation to affected communities. </span></font></b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 9px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; "></span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></b></span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Demand that Chevron take responsibility for its actions now. Watch the short video and sign the petition: </span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_chevron_to_clean_up_its_toxic_mess_in_ecuador?alert_id=SGAxUVzJPU">http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_chevron_to_clean_up_its_toxic_mess_in_ecuador?alert_id=SGAxUVzJPU</a> </span></font></p></span></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="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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </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="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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00C8CD">How the US exports its mental illnesses</font></span></font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><ul class="markerlist" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; "></ul></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" face="'Times New Roman'" 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; "><p class="infuse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> I concentrate on two western forms of mental illness - depression and PTSD - which are spreading around the world with the speed of a contagious disease, bulldozing indigenous forms of mental illness as they go.</span></font></p><p class="infuse" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Two powerful but different forces are driving this. The diagnosis of PTSD is being spread by roving bands of western trauma counsellors who set up psychological first aid centres after wars and natural disasters. And our western conception of depression is being promoted by multinational drug companies who profit mightily when other cultures adopt the idea and then buy their antidepressants.</span></font></p></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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.200-how-the-us-exports-its-mental-illnesses.html">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.200-how-the-us-exports-its-mental-illnesses.html</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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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" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#D20030">US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti </font></b></span></font></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="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="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about "looters."</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="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="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">What is unfolding in Haiti seems to be part of what Naomi Klein has labeled the "Shock Doctrine." </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="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; "><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/scahill"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/scahill</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6D00D9">US Corporations, Private Mercenaries and the IMF Rush in to Profit from </font></b></span></font></font><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6D00D9">Haiti</font></b></span></font></font></st1:country-region></st1:place><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6D00D9">'s Crisis</font></b></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6D00D9"><o:p></o:p></font></b></span></font></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0085D4">Journalist Kim Ives on How Western Domination Has Undermined Haiti’s Ability to Recover from Natural Devastation</font><br></b></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Democracy Now, Jan. 20, 2010<br><br>Shortly after Haiti was hit by a 6.1 aftershock earlier today, Amy Goodman and Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté report from the Port-au-Prince airport. Amy and Kim discuss how centuries of Western domination of Haiti has worsened the impact of the devastating earthquake, from the harsh reaction to Haiti’s independence as a republic of free slaves in 1804 to the US-backed overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Ives says, “This quake was precipitated by a political earthquake with an epicenter in Washington, DC.”<br><br></span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Watch</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">: </span></font><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/20/journalist_kim_ives_on_how_decades" eudora="autourl"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/20/journalist_kim_ives_on_how_decades</span></font></a></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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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"></strong>a</font></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#27B500"><strong class="searchterm" style="font-weight: bold; "></strong>i</font></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#27B500"><strong class="searchterm" style="font-weight: bold; "></strong>t</font></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#27B500"><strong class="searchterm" style="font-weight: bold; "></strong>i</font></span></font></font></h1></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Co-director of the </span></font><a href="http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(58, 93, 132); font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Louisiana Justice Institute</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, Washington said today: "The real looting in Haiti is not the people trying to get food to survive. The real looting of Haiti is the economic policies of the U.S. and France, as well as institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, in addition to the disaster capitalism that is fast setting in.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003333"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2157">http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2157</a></span></font></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" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></font></div></div></div></div></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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><div id="storyhead" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><div class="articleTitle" style="text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b>A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake</b></span></font></font></div><div class="articleSubTitle" style="text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); text-decoration: none; "></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font><div class="articleAuthorName" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">by Michel Chossudovsky</span></font></div><div class="articleAuthorName" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; "><p class="story_head" align="justify"><span class="image_file"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A Haiti disaster relief scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami one day prior to the earthquake.</span></font></span></p><p align="justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The holding of pre-disaster simulations pertained to the impacts of a hurricane in Haiti. They were held on January 11.</span></font></p></span></div><div class="articleAuthorName" style="text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20100120&articleId=17122">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20100120&articleId=17122</a></span></font></div><div class="articleAuthorName" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></span></div><div class="articleAuthorName" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div></span></div></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </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="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="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6D00B9">Chavez says US 'weapon' caused Haiti quake<br></font></b></span></font><br>Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a 'tectonic weapon' to induce the<br>catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week. <br><br>The outspoken leader had earlier accused the US of occupying Haiti "under the guise of the natural disaster." <br><br>Venezuelan media have reported that the earthquake "may be associated with the project called HAARP, a system that can generate violent and unexpected<br>changes in climate." <br><br>HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, is a study run in Alaska directed at the occasional reconfiguration of the properties of the<br>Earth's ionosphere to improve satellite communications. <br><br>Former US Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1997 expressed concerned over countries engaging "in eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the<br>climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."</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="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; "><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116688§ionid=351020704"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116688§ionid=351020704</span></font></a></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="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; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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Netherlands</span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; ">Copenhagen, Denmark</span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; ">Bogata, Columbia</span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; ">Curitiba, Brazil</span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Montreal, Canada</span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Portland, OR, USA</span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Basil, Switzerland</span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Barcelona, Spain</span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Beijing, China</span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Trondheim, Norway</span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Two years ago, </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Montreal</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> embarked on a $134 million plan to revamp the city's bike trails and create a more bicycle-friendly atmosphere. The plan included incorporating bicycle-friendly lock points into standard parking meters. The city currently boasts 2,400 miles of trails with plans to expand. Montreal also has the first urban bike-share infrastructure in North America, the Bixi program.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Activities/Adventure/2010/01/15/12478291-reuters.html">http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Activities/Adventure/2010/01/15/12478291-reuters.html</a></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></h1><h1 class="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 39px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#55C86B">CannaBiz</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Thursday January 28, at 9 pm on CBC-TV</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">Repeating: Friday January 29, 2010 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network</span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; ">Canada's $20 billion-dollar marijuana industry is now at a violent crossroads between crime and commerce. Impossible to police, yet steadily gaining public acceptance, the cannabis industry is now so vast and vital to Canada's national economy that it can no longer be ignored.</span></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2010/cannabiz/index.html">http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2010/cannabiz/index.html</a> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; ">-----------------------------------------------------------</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; ">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3900D3">WAR is BUSINESS</font></span></font></font></span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3900D3"> </font> </span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A new </span></font><b><i><u><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ONLINE</span></font></span></u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> RESOURCE </span></font></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">for Canadian activists, researchers and the media</span></font></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-heigh
t: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><i><span style="font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Read it now</span></font></span></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> ---</span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm" title="http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm" eudora="autourl" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm</a></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm" title="http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm" eudora="autourl" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "></a>-----------------------------------------------------------</span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 39px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00C7B8">Cancer Risks Debated for Type of X-Ray Scan</font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></font></h1></div></div></div></div></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; "><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; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font color="#333333"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The plan for broad use of </span></font><a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/test/x-ray-skeleton/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about X-ray - skeleton." style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font color="#004276"><span style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">X-ray</span></font></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers’ clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation to millions of people — a process some experts say is certain to result in a few additional </span></font><a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer." style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font color="#004276"><span style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">cancer</span></font></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> deaths.</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; 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margin-left: 0in; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-----------------------------------------------------------</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="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------- </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 36px; "><a href="http://www.pharmalot.com/2010/01/antidepressants-tied-to-preterm-births-study/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Antidepressants Tied To Preterm Births: Study" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A500CF">Antidepressants Tied To Preterm Births: Study</font></span></font></font></a></h1></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Among nearly 3,000 women who gave birth in Washington State, those who started taking SSRI antidepressants in the second or third trimester had a higher risk of preterm birth, according to </span></font><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60K56420100121" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(62, 121, 56); text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Reuters</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, which cites a study in the </span></font><a href="http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(09)00705-4/abstract" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; 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Compared with others not given the meds, the women were nearly five times more likely to deliver prematurely. The same risk was not seen, however, among women who started on an SSRI before pregnancy or during the first trimester.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The study also found a higher risk of preterm delivery among women who took anti-anxiety drugs known as benzodiazepines, regardless of when they began treatment, Reuters continues. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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