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1. Report Condemns WHO Swine Flu Experts' Ties To Big Pharma

Incompetent UK Swine Flu Drug Dealers Flying Pigs Club, from left:
Andrew Burnham MP - Previously Health Secretary of State, now challenging for the Labour Party leadership
Fear Marketeer Sir Liam Donaldson - Chief Medical Officer (soon to be ex)
Professor David Salisbury, tagged 'Vaccines Basil' by the media - UK Government Vaccines Director
Gillian Merron, Ex-MP - Previously Parliamentary vaccines propagandist, fired by the voters at the General Election
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Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to profit, according to a report out today. The WHO guidance issued in 2004 was authored by three scientists who had previously received payment for other work from Roche, which makes Tamiflu, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), manufacturer of Relenza. These scientists are Professor Fred Hayden, Dr Arnold Monto and Professor Karl Nicholson. City analysts say that pharmaceutical companies banked more than $7bn (£4.8bn) as governments stockpiled drugs. The UK, which warned that 65,000 could die as a result of the virus, spent an estimated £1bn stockpiling drugs and vaccines; officials are now attempting to unpick expensive drug contracts.
Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian
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* Swine Flu Pandemic Hysteria Hoax Heads For Court
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* The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs
Special Investigation
Tom Rawstorne, Daily Mail
* UK Government Swine Flu Drug Dealers Forgot To Insert Cancel Clause In £200m Contract
Victoria Fletcher, Daily Express 

2.  Toothless UK Coalition Government U-Turns On Own Medical Database Policy

Breaking news: The coalition Government has revealed it plans to keep the Summary Care Record, despite its huge unpopularity with GPs and pre-election pledges by both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to rip up the system. Conservative health minister, Simon Burns, told the House of Commons yesterday that the Government would stick with the most recent policy introduced under Labour. The Conservatives had previously planned to scrap a national system in favour of a more localised system of records, while the Liberal Democrats had called for the rollout to be shelved and for Connecting for Health, the DH department which has spent millions rolling out the scheme, to be scrapped. But in response to calls from fellow Conservative MPs for the Government to confirm it would ditch the rollout, Mr Burns said: ‘Uploading of information to the Summary Care Record will continue to take place.'
Ian Quinn, PULSE
Related Links:
* UK Doctors Boycotting Summary Care Records Database
Steve Nowottny, PULSE
* Stunningly Incompetent UK Department Of Health Screws Up Care Records Database Cancellation
Ian Quinn, PULSE
* Opt Out Form
NHS Patient Database
* The UK Database State Scandal
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust

 3. No Secrets - WikiLeaks Mission For Total Transparency

Julian Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive catalogue of secret material, ranging from the Standard Operating Procedures at Camp Delta, in Guantánamo Bay, and the “Climategate” e-mails from the University of East Anglia, in England, to the contents of Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo account. The catalogue is especially remarkable because WikiLeaks is not quite an organization; it is better described as a media insurgency. It has no paid staff, no copiers, no desks, no office. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. In the past year, Assange has collaborated with politicians and activists there to draft a free-speech law of unprecedented strength. So far, even tho ugh the site has received more than a hundred legal threats, almost no one has filed suit. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell.
Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker
Related Links:
* Collateral Murder - Iraq
Information Release, WikiLeaks
* WikiLeaks Publishes Confidential Reports - Pharma Inside The WHO
Information Release, WikiLeaks

 4. US Supreme Court - Indication That Nigerian Lawsuit Against Pfizer Should Proceed

In a closely watched matter, the US Solicitor General has filed a brief suggesting to the US Supreme Court that a lawsuit filed against Pfizer by several Nigerians over the 1996 Trovan scandal should proceed. Essentially, this means the Solicitor General disagrees with Pfizer’s interpretation of a law that has been relied upon to claim US companies committed egregious behavior overseas, and that the Supreme Court should not bother to hear the case. The law involved is known as the Alien Tort Statute and it was cited by several Nigerian families who accuse Pfizer of violating international humans rights law - various provisions from the Nuremberg Code; the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; guidelines from the Council for International Organizations of Medical Services; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and a United Nations General Assembly Resolution. The 1996 Trovan study was conducted on about 200 children and took place during a meningitis epidemic.  Pfizer was accused of failing to obtain proper regulatory approval and for misleading parents. The study allegedly left 11 children dead and the others were deformed. "The court is very interested in this particular, because they took the trouble to request that the Solicitor General file a brief,” Richard Samp, chief counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation, tells us. “That by itself means there is a reasonably good chance the court will grant review.”
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
Related Links:
* Nigerians Reject Pfizer Payout Over Drug Trial That Left Children Dead And Deformed
AFP
* Pfizer Meningitis Vaccine Killer Demands DNA Tests For Beneficiaries
Ibrahim Shuaibu, This Day
* Pfizer Sued For $7 Billion - Eleven Children Dead
Bashir Adigun, Associated Press
* Nigeria Takes On Pfizer - Africans Used As Guinea Pigs
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP

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