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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 72
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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PROJECT CENSORED TOP 25
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Project Censored Top 25 Censored Stories for 1995
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(From *The 1996 Project Censored Yearbook* by Carl Jensen &
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Project Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1996)
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#25 -- E. Coli -- Now A National Epidemic -- Kills 500 Americans
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Annually. E. coli 0157H7 has now become so widespread it is
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being called an epidemic, affecting as many as 20,000 people per
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year.
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#24 -- U.S. Trails Most Developed Nations in Maternal Health
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Ranking. U.S. is ranked 18th, behind Taiwan and Singapore.
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#23 -- Dioxin: Still Deadly After All These Years (and All That
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Hype). EPA's "reassessment" of dioxin indicates health impacts
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are worse than thought. Dioxin is created as a by-product of
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manufacturing; Dow and Monsanto are among its producers.
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#22 -- There May Be A Cure -- Up There in the Rain Forest.
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Tropical forests, holding potential miracle cures, are vanishing.
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Major pharmaceutical companies favor synthetic chemistry as
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source of medicines.
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#21 -- The New 3R's: Reading, Writing, and Reloading. Video
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teaches kids to shoot and is shown in schools. [CN -- But what's
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wrong with that?]
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#20 -- ABC Spikes New Tobacco Expose When Sued for Libel. ABC
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backs off on documentary showing how tobacco gets marketed. [CN
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-- But who needs a "War on Tobacco"?]
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#19 -- Solving the Nuclear Waste Problem With Taxpayers' Dollars.
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Nuclear power industry spends bucks on "campaign contributions"
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so that taxpayers will spend even more bucks to get rid of
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nuclear waste.
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#18 -- Scientific Support for Needle Exchange Programs
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Suppressed. A study released in October 1993 finds it likely
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that needle exchange programs would save lives. Clinton
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administration "takes no action on the issue."
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#17 -- Small Arms Wreak Major Worldwide Havoc. In the post-Cold
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War era, the profit motive leads to the dumping of weapons which
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helps fuel ethnic and regional rivalries.
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#16 -- Fiberglass -- The Carcinogen that's Deadly and Everywhere.
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As asbestos gets phased out, fiberglass production increases.
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#15 -- The Rebirth of Slavery in the Dark Heart of Sudan.
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Number of slaves in Sudan is now "easily in the thousands."
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#14 -- The Gulf War Syndrome Cover-Up. U.S. soldiers *were*
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exposed to chemical and biolgical warfare agents during the Gulf
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War, yet Pentagon keeps denying it.
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#13 -- Congress Wants to Take the Money and Run. Federal Election
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Commission (FEC) keeps track of "campaign contributions" and
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looks out for secret "slush funds", etc. Now, Republican House
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has quietly moved to cripple the FEC.
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#12 -- 180,000 Patients Die Annually from Treatment in Hospitals.
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More people are killed or seriously injured in U.S. hospitals
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annually than from airline and automobile accidents combined.
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#11 -- Giant Oil Companies Owe U.S. More Than $1.5 Billion.
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Texaco, Shell, Mobil, ARCO, Chevron, Exxon, and Unocal owe U.S.
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more than $1.5 billion in uncollected royalties, interest and
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penalties, according to a report by the Project on Government
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Oversight (POGO).
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#10 -- The Broken Promises of NAFTA. Firms have cut jobs and
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moved plants to Mexico. Use of pesticides in Mexico has not been
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reduced, but has *increased*.
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#9 -- U.S. Chemical Industry Fights for Toxic Ozone-Killing
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Pesticide. Methyl bromide, a pesticide 50 times more destructive
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to ozone layer than CFCs, is being pushed by the chemical
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#8 -- Medical Fraud Costs the Nation $100 Billion Annually -- Or
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More. "Medscam" techniques used to rip-off insurers, Social
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Security, and Medicare/Medicaid.
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#7 -- Russia Injects Earth With Nuke Waste. The USSR and Russia
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have pumped billions of gallons of atomic waste directly into the
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earth for more than 3 decades and the practice continues.
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#6 -- Radical Plan From Newt Gingrich's Think Tank to Gut FDA.
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Republicans move to overhaul FDA; Newt calls FDA head Kessler "a
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bully and a thug." [CN -- And is Gingrich supposed to be
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*wrong*???]
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#5 -- U.S. Pushes Nuclear Pact But Spends Billions to Add Bang to
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Nukes. As U.S. works to eliminate nuclear weapons it
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nevertheless wants to spend billions to resume production of
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tritium.
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#4 -- The Privatization of the Internet. U.S. government has
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been gradually transferring "backbone" of Internet to companies
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such as IBM and MCI.
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#3 -- Child Labor in the U.S. Is Worse Today Than During the
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1930s. Estimated 5 million youth in the work force not
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adequately protected in the workplace.
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#2 -- The Budget Does Not Have to be Balanced on the Backs of the
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Poor. 153 federal programs that benefit wealthy corporations
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cost U.S. taxpayers $167.2 billion per year.
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#1 -- Telecommunications Deregulation: Closing Up America's
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"Marketplace of Ideas". Telecommunications Deregulation Bill
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helps create huge new concentrations of media power -- media
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monopolies.
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