Pornography and American Corporations
last updated 2005-04-18 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Companies like General Motors, AOL Time Warner, owner of Fox News, and Marriott earn revenue by piping adult movies into Americans' homes and hotel rooms, but you won't see anything about it in their company reports. And you won't hear them talking about the production companies that actually make the films or the performers the producers hire, men and women as young as 18, for sex that is often unprotected. Among the banks currently or previously facilitating the Internet pornography trade: Minotola National Bank of Vineland, N.J.; Heartland Bank of St. Louis, Mo.; Benchmark Bank of Dallas; Amtrade International Bank of Atlanta; and First Data's First Financial Bank, along with a firm known mainly to porn peddlers: Paycom Billing Services of Marina del Rey, Calif.

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Mad Cow Disease, aka Alzheimers
last updated 2004-06-16 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Mad Cow Disease, sometimes called spongiform encephalopathies, Alzheimers, or Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (nvCJD)is increasing, yet US regulations do not provide the necessary precautions to keep it in check. 65 countries shut their borders to American beef shipments, and most remain closed. But domestic demand, accounting for 90 percent of all U.S. beef production, is strong.

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The Medicare Prescription Drug Bill - A study in how government should not work.
last updated 2004-06-16 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

A series of reports by Common Cause document efforts to bypass or undermine the rules and laws that are in place to ensure that our government work in an open accountable manner and that all voices are heard on critical public policy matters.

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