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Joan of Arc or Charlatan - Who will be the Judge?

Siobhan Reynolds, RIP - President of the Pain Relief Network (PRN).

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - On Christmas Eve at approximately 2:00 pm, a small airplane in which Siobhan Reynolds was a passenger crashed on approach to the runway.

At the controls was Kevin Byers, an attorney and reported fiance' of Reynolds. They were flying into Ohio where they lived on an 87 acre farm.

The FDA`s `Protection` of the American Public

"Since 1962, people within the FDA itself and outside the agency have complained bitterly that FDA is unduly influenced by drug companies." Jonathan W. Emord, attorney successfully representing litigants against FDA

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Several years ago, the FDA pulled a dangerous drug off the market after only 5 months called Palladone -- marketed by Purdue Pharma.

Are Pill Mill Pharmacies replacing Family Pharmacies throughout the country?

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty -- and how few by deceit." Noel Coward

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - It is widely known that we are experiencing a prescription drug epidemic in every state in the country. This is being fueled by people wanting to feed their drug habits and doctor shopping or robbing pharmacies for their drugs of choice.

Deflecting the Real Drug Problem -- The Loss of Human Life

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Is the American Medical Association a friend or foe in the prescription drug epidemic -- as White House "drug czar", R. Gil Kerlikowske comes face to face with the "grim reaper", J. David Haddox, DDS, MD, responsible for the OxyContin epidemic in the U.S. and Canada?

The Shadow Government

What is different today, is the Internet, and the crimes committed in those shadowy halls are all being clearly exposed.

(SALEM) - Independent experts question the ‘official suicide death’ of decorated Marine Corps Colonel James E. Sabow at MCAS El Toro, California.

A number of unsolved ‘suicides’ and more likely outright murders followed the violent death of this straight arrow Marine.

Is the American Psychiatric Association in Bed with Big Pharma?

Do we really need more mental disorder diagnoses creating the need for more drugs in a society that some would say is already over-medicated?

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association.

The DSM provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders, which is used in the United States and to some extent internationally, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers.

Iran Contra At 25: Reagan and Bush `Criminal Liability` Evaluations

Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports - Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran.

(SOMERDALE, N.J.) - President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983.

This, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability” on the part of the two former leaders posted today by the National Security Archive.

Oakland, Drug Kingpin Strategies and COINTELPRO Reborn

Drug-fanned violence spread like wildfire and the streets of Oakland became the burial grounds of a social tragedy that many in the US conveniently forget as they pontificate about Mexican violence.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A friend and I were having a conversation when he raised the issue of why the US never seems to detain its own big drug lords.

I held that control of the US drug market was more diffuse, less centralized than in places like Mexico, where big traffickers come to dominate entire regions and even compete with state power.

Protecting Americans, FDA Style

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Martin Luther King, Jr.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Is the FDA protecting the American consumer from a "major public health crisis" with serious harm from opioids -- or are they allowing the pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin -- to continue the addiction, misuse, abuse, overdose and death throughout the US and Canada?

Mexicos` Los Zetas Cartel Buying Heavy Weapons in Central America

Latin America Herald Tribune reports that according to the same sources, Mexican organized crime gangs still lack the training to use the heavy weapons in clashes with security forces.

(MONTERREY, Mexico ) - Los Zetas, Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, is purchasing heavy weapons in Central America for use in clashes with army soldiers, the Defense Secretariat says.

Sources from the 4th Military Region told Efe Thursday that Los Zetas and other criminal gangs are purchasing “anti-armored-vehicle rockets and armaments.”