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Els presidents dels EUA entre la dreta i l’esquerra.
Més amunt, cap a la dreta; més avall, cap a l’esquerra.

Els presidents dels EUA entre la dreta i l’esquerra.

Més amunt, cap a la dreta; més avall, cap a l’esquerra.

In 2009, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 19,551 people died in the United States as a direct result of the prescription drugs they took. That’s just the reported number. It’s decidedly low, because it is estimated that only about 10 percent of such deaths are reported. Conservatively, then, the annual American death toll from prescription drugs considered “safe” can be put at around 200,000. That is three times the number of people who die every year from diabetes, four times the number who die from kidney disease. Overall, deaths from F.D.A.-approved prescription drugs dwarf the number of people who die from street drugs such as cocaine and heroin. They dwarf the number who die every year in automobile accidents. So far, these deaths have triggered no medical crusades, no tough new regulations.
Deadly Medicine (Vanity Fair)
It is the American people who should be outraged that its government has transformed a nation with a reputation for freedom, justice, tolerance and respect for human rights into a backwater that revels in its criminality, cover-ups, injustices and hypocrisies.

Pravda

David R. Hoffman
Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system —whether political, religious or economic— that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling.
N. Klein, The Shock Doctrine