Does the FDA Have a Conscience -- Or Are They Too Corrupt to Care About American Lives?

FDA approves potentially deadly drug against recommendations of their own committees, big pharma will do anything for money, and the FDA is in their pocket.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) -Congress has major concerns about the FDA's approval of a dangerous and highly addictive new opioid set to be prescribed in 2014. The name of the painkiller is Zohydro ER.

Their concern is primarily due to the epidemic of deaths and addictions in the past decade plus because of dangerous opioids -- in particular OxyContin. You may wonder how the FDA could approve another opioid when the U.S. is fighting a tsunami of deaths, addiction and abuse currently to the opioids they had previously approved.

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Power is Dangerous Unless You Have Humility
A Conversation with Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa

Now retired, this Rwandan businessman is a leader in Africa as an industrialist who has spent 52 successful years manufacturing tobacco, tea, snack foods and cement.

(WASHINGTON, DC) -After a long flight to Washington DC, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa sat down with this writer for an exclusive two-hour interview.

Upon meeting him, one can immediately sense that Mr. Ayabatwa is a humble man with an obvious desire to improve the business community of Africa as well as empowering the lives of Africans through support in their business ventures. He is a soft-spoken man with a welcoming smile that never left his face no matter the topic.

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ALEC: In Town and Under Fire: Lawmakers to Respond to Corporate-Owned Agenda and Disturbing New Revelations Detailed in Leaked

Includes New Must Read Report from the Guardian, Dec. 3: ALEC facing funding crisis from donor exodus in wake of Trayvon Martin row.

(WASHINGTON, DC) -State and federal lawmakers who have seen firsthand how ALEC’s corporate-owned special interest agenda harms their constituents will respond to disturbing new revelations about ALEC’s upcoming legislative agenda and plans to further sabotage the Affordable Care Act, as well as newly published documents that raise serious issues about the group’s status as a so-called charitable organization.

ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council, is in D.C. this week for its “State and Nation Policy Summit”...

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Upset Hindus Urge Withdrawal of Lord Shiva Beer in USA

In Hinduism, Lord Shiva, along with Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu, forms the great triad of Hindu deities. Moksh (liberation) is the ultimate goal of Hinduism. There are about three million Hindus in USA.

(RENO) -Upset Hindus have urged Asheville (North Carolina, USA) based Asheville Brewing Co. to apologize and withdraw its Indian Pale Ale beer carrying image of Lord Shiva, calling it highly inappropriate.

This beer, named as “Shiva”, displays the image of Hindu Lord Shiva in Nataraja form.

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Baja Mega-Resorts Under International Scrutiny

The mega-resorts in question include Entre Mares, Paraiso del Mar, Playa Espiritu and Cabo Cortes, the latter of which was cancelled during the administration of former President Felipe Calderon.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) -Mexican and international environmental organizations are praising the decision of the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to move forward in an investigation of large tourist developments on the Gulf of California.

In response to a citizen petition filed by 11 Mexican and international green groups, the CEC has requested that the Pena Nieto administration respond to complaints that Mexican and international environmental laws were not followed in the approval of four tourist developments by the Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources.

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