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What's ahead in 2007 for NewsTarget, an update from Mike Adams Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

More CounterThink cartoons on health, environment and more You've already seen a few dozen CounterThink cartoon published on NewsTarget, but throughout 2007, we're rolling out a steady stream of smart, hilarious cartoons on topics that really deserve some hard-hitting satirical humor: the FDA, global warming, drug companies, car companies, TV advertising, nutrition in schools and much more. And hopefully, you'll soon be able to vote on each comic so that we can determine what you like best. (Feature coming soon...

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

This obscure list was created by the Auto Industry Action Group, a consortium of car companies created to assist with regulatory and other challenges common to all in the industry. "GADSL is used to enhance further dialogue and cooperation along the supply chain on the benefits and potential risks of certain substances or groups of substances in a specified use within vehicles parts/materials," reads the action group's explanation for the list.

U.S. car companies export few cars to Europe; thus, U.S. manufacturers are under little direct pressure to adapt to European standards. But each of the American "big three" has substantial ties to the European market: Ford has its own Ford Europe production facilities, and owns the Jaguar line in the UK; General Motors owns the German Opel, the Swedish Saab, and produces its own line of vehicles in the UK under the Vauxhall label; until May 2007, when it was sold to the U.S. firm Cerberus Capital Managment, Chrysler was owned by the German manufacturer Daimler-Benz.

Back in Brussels, Rosalinde van der Vlies, who helped to oversee the ELV as part of her job in the Environment Directorate, told me that Japanese and Korean car companies were already adapting to the ELV directives requirements. In 2006 the Association of Soufh-East Asian Nations issued a policy recommendation that all of Southeast Asia apply similar policies among its membership. Japan already has laws very closely hewing to the guidelines laid down by the European Union.

If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things you might notice Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Cars with no safety systems (no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple zones) would be declared perfectly safe by federal regulators. car companies, rather than address this lack of safety features, would focus on publicizing the dangers of riding bicycles. Explanation: the FDA currently approves deadly drugs as "safe." Meanwhile, drug companies ignore the dangers of their own drugs and, instead, try to get people to believe that herbs or vitamins are dangerous. 5.

The manufacturers of those cars with no safety systems would grow tired of being sued by customers who were injured in their cars, and they would lobby Congress to pass "legal reform" that would immunize all car companies against class action lawsuits. Explanation: drug companies are currently trying to get Congress to pass laws that would make it illegal for consumers to sue for damages. This would shield them from the financial consequences of their dangerous products that kill hundreds of thousands each year. 6. All auto imports would be banned, forcing consumers to buy only U.S.

The agency once famously conducted a "drug raid" search of a bus load of senior citizens returning from Canada who had purchased nothing more than prescription medications. 7. car companies would heavily publicize the release of new car models each year, but in reality, the new models would essentially be "me-too" cars with no real improvements over those made in the 1970's. Explanation: most prescription drugs, even though they are touted as "breakthrough" drugs, are little more than me-too drugs that do nothing different than older, off-patent drugs. 8.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Aside from getting on car companies' nerves, the dictate meant that engineers and designers had to figure out a way to make those dead cars valuable and easy 57 to take apart. As with any new development, the mandate initially cost companies time and gave them headaches —but then it started saving them money. It turns out that cars that are easier to disassemble are also easier to assemble.

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