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		<title>371. HHS seeks to permit refusal of services for women</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/371-hhs-seeks-to-permit-refusal-of-services-for-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a July 31, 2008 article in the Washington Post, the Department of Health and Human Resources is developing a rule which would allow healthcare personnel to refuse to dispense care which they found morally or religiously objectionable.   The goal is to provide legal underpinning to those institutions and persons who receive federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>362. KBR exposed US soldiers to a carcinogen in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/362-kbr-exposed-us-soldiers-to-a-carcinogen-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/362-kbr-exposed-us-soldiers-to-a-carcinogen-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KBR allowed around 250 soldiers guarding the Qarmat Ali water treatment in Iraq to be exposed to sodium dichromate, a powerful carcinogen.  Soldiers also presented acutely with nosebleeds, spitting of blood, cough, shortness of breath and eye, nose, and throat irritation.  Dichromate at the site was used in anti-rust coating for water pipes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>354. USDA to no longer track pesticide use</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/354-usda-to-no-longer-track-pesticide-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Agricultural Statistics Service, an agency within the Department of Agriculture (USDA), announced in May 2008 that it could no longer afford to spend $8 million a year to track pesticide use in agriculture.  Since this information is only used by farmers, consumer groups, environmental groups, the EPA, and the pesticide companies themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>352. FDA loosens rules for drug trials in Third World countries</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/10/352-fda-loosens-rules-for-drug-trials-in-third-world-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to finalize a rule on October 27, 2008 which, at the behest of drug companies, would drop US adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki.  The Declaration outlines how drug trials should be conducted internationally.  Increasingly these trials are being conducted in Third World countries.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>348. The EPA, Mary Gade, and dioxin</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/348-the-epa-mary-gade-and-dioxin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/348-the-epa-mary-gade-and-dioxin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 1, 2008, Mary Gade EPA administrator for the Great Lakes region resigned.  Two aides to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson had told her she had been placed on administrative leave and that if she did not resign by June 1 she would be fired.  Gade, a lawyer who made her name defending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>321. Manipulating reports at the EPA</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/321-manipulating-reports-at-the-epa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the anti-leadership of Administrator Stephen Johnson, the EPA has moved to torpedo any move to address global warming or curb polluters.  These efforts take many forms.  For example, after complaints from an industry lobbying group the American Chemistry Council, in August 2007 the EPA removed the comments of an award winning former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>306. More incompetence at the VA</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/306-more-incompetence-at-the-va/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/306-more-incompetence-at-the-va/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the largest breach of its kind in history, on May 3, 2006, a laptop was stolen from the home of a VA analyst in Aspen Hill, Maryland.  It contained personal information, such as names, birth dates, and Social Security numbers, on 26.5 million veterans going back to 1975.  Included were 1.1 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>295. Lester Crawford (FDA) Plan B and conflicts of interest</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/295-lester-crawford-fda-plan-b-and-conflicts-of-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/295-lester-crawford-fda-plan-b-and-conflicts-of-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh's List of Bush Scandals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lester Crawford was confirmed as the head of the FDA on July 18, 2005 and resigned two months later on September 23, 2005.  His confirmation had been held up until he promised to act on the application to make the Plan B contraceptive over the counter but once in he reneged on the deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>291. Increasing mental health needs in US Army after service in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/291-increasing-mental-health-needs-in-us-army-after-service-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/291-increasing-mental-health-needs-in-us-army-after-service-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unseen costs of Bush&#8217;s war. In January 2009, the military reported 7 confirmed suicides with 17 others under investigation. For 2008, 128 suicides were reported with 15 other deaths still under investigation.  108 active duty military personnel committed suicide in 2007.  There were 102 suicides in 2006.  52 in 2001.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>242. Breastfeeding campaign changed due to infant formula manufacturers‚ pressure</title>
		<link>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/242-breastfeeding-campaign-changed-due-to-infant-formula-manufacturers%e2%80%9a-pressure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/242-breastfeeding-campaign-changed-due-to-infant-formula-manufacturers%e2%80%9a-pressure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When greed and special interests gang up against very small children . . . In early 2004, the International Formula Council (IFC), the lobbying organization for the infant formula industry, successfully changed an ad campaign (begun in 2003 and lasting to 2005) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which promoted breastfeeding. The [...]]]></description>
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