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1. WikiLeaks Encryption Makes For Interesting Legal Question

The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has created an interesting legal problem by publishing a password protected encrypted document on its website and to mirrors worldwide. Theoretically it means that no one can read the file "insurance.aes256" without the password. But it is clearly the file with the documents that the US Pentagon and State Department are worried about seeing the light of day. The file has been reposted around the web and is available for anyone to download, even if they can't read it. Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of 2600 The Hacker Quarterly magazine, told the BBC that the file is there in case something happens to the whistleblowing group. "All it takes is the revelation of a simple spoken phrase known by a select group of people and everyone who has this mystery file now has all of the secrets," he said. It seems the people behind WikiLeaks are using the encrypted file as insurance against legal and other th reats to their freedom, personal safety and the information they hold. Editor Julian Assange said that WikiLeaks was taking precautions to make sure that the material is not going to disappear from history regardless of any sort of threats to it. One Click Note: Would you like to be part of the international circle holding the WikiLeaks insurance file on your computer? If so, download it here: Insurance file 1.4 GB
Nick Farrell, The Inquirer / The One Click Group
* Insurance file 1.4 GB
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Keith Moore, Associated Press
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Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
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Maximillian C. Forte, Counterpunch
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2. Antiwar Activists Rally To Support Suspected Leaker Bradley Manning

Private Bradley Manning, "I want people to see the truth."
The Army private suspected in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history has become a hero to many anti-war activists who have joined an international effort to free him. At demonstrations this month in New York, Oklahoma City and Quantico, Va., where Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held, dozens of supporters have shouted that "Blowing the whistle on war crimes is not a crime." The group has raised about $45,000 from nearly 750 people in 18 countries to help pay for a civilian defense lawyer for Manning, project director Jeff Paterson said. Manning, 22, a former intelligence analyst in Baghdad, faces possible court-martial on charges that he illegally downloaded classified material. If tried and convicted, he could be sentenced to 52 years in prison. The material he allegedly leaked included 2007 video of a laughing U.S. Apache helicopter crew gunning down 11 men who were later found to include a Re uters news photographer and his driver. The Pentagon concluded the troops acted appropriately. The video was posted in April on WikiLeaks, a self-professed whistleblower website, and labelled Collateral Murder.
David Dishneau, Associated Press
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* Collateral Murder
US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff
WikiLeaks
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Julian Assange, WikiLeaks

3. Drug Dealer GlaxoSmithKline Memo On Deadly Avandia Is Questioned

Federal drug regulators ordered GlaxoSmithKline to send a letter to crucial doctors describing a hearing in July where an expert advisory panel discussed the risks of Avandia, the company’s controversial diabetes medicine. But a federal official and some members of the panel now say the company’s letter is misleading and could endanger patients. The dispute is occurring just weeks before the Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce whether Avandia’s label must include new warnings, whether sales of the drug will be restricted or whether Avandia must be withdrawn from the market. Doctors who received the letter, dated July 28, are investigators in a study called the Tide trial, which was intended to compare the heart risks of Avandia with those of Actos, a similar drug made by Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Dr. David Graham, an F.D.A. medical officer, made an impassioned presentation at the advisory hearing arguing that the study sho uld be stopped because thousands of patients in the trial were being exploited. None of these arguments were mentioned in GlaxoSmithKline’s letter.
Gardiner Harris, The New York Times
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* After Avandia: Does The FDA Have A Drug Problem?
Massimo Calabresi with Alice Park, TIME Magazine

4. GlaxoSmithKline Uses Irish Children As Guinea Pigs In Vaccine Trials Scandal

A woman subjected to a controversial vaccine trial as a baby without her mother's consent broke her silence last night to reveal her traumatic decades-long fight for justice. Mari Steed (50) was effectively used as a guinea pig during the 'four-in-one' vaccine trials carried out on her between December 1960 and October 1961 when she was between nine and 18 months old. She was given up for adoption to a couple in the US shortly afterwards and is now preparing a class action in the US courts against the multinational drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline responsible for the medical tests, an Irish Independent investigation reveals. Ms Steed and three others who were also subjected to the trials are looking to separately sue the Catholic religious order that they claim facilitated the experiments in the early 1960s. She was administered the vaccine on at least four occasions at the Sacred Heart Convent, Bessborough, in Cork, also known as the Bessborough Mother and B aby Home. At least 211 children were given the test vaccines during three separate drug trials, says a report commissioned by then-Health Minister Brian Cowen and drawn up by the Republic's Department of Health in 2000.
Patricia McDonagh, Belfast Telegraph
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* Ireland's hidden scandal: child vaccine trials
Patricia McDonagh, Belfast Telegraph

5. Vaccination Against HPV Is Dangerous And Unnecessary

The Consumer’s Association of Penang (CAP) has repeatedly objected to the proposal to vaccinate all 13-year-old girls from the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus, a sexually transmitted virus because it is unnecessary, unscientific and unsafe. Despite numerous objections by many quarters, a sum of RM150mil is to be spent annually by the Government beginning this year on HPV vaccinations for an estimated 300,000 girls in the country as protection from only two of the 40 different cervical cancers causing HPV. The risk of cervical cancers itself has been blown out of proportion. It is a known fact that about 90% of all HPV infections are removed by the immune system within two years. This in itself makes the vaccine irrelevant and redundant. The vaccine itself is highly controversial with an unusually high incidence of adverse reactions and 53 reported deaths in the US alone. This completely unnecessary and dangerous vaccine’s safety and efficacy have never been established in Malaysia. We urge the Health Ministry to revoke its ill-conceived plan to subject our children to the vaccine. Since these vaccines only cover some high-risk types of HPV, experts still recommend regular pap smear screening even after vaccination. This only goes to show that screening remains relevant and is undeniably a better method of prevention than vaccination.
S.M. Mohd Idris, President, CAP, The Star, Malaysia
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Michelle Massey, The Louisiana Record

6. Judge Attacks Social Services For Trying To FORCE Contraception On Low IQ Woman

Mr Justice Bodey: Said case raised profound questions
about state intervention in private and family life
A judge has criticised a council for trying to force a married woman with a low IQ to use birth control, saying the move had 'shades of social engineering'. Social workers applied to the court for permission to forcibly remove the 29-year-old from her home, sedate her and prevent her from having children using a contraceptive injection. But Mr Justice Bodey said she and her husband - who also has a low IQ - might be able to bring up a child with the right support. Mr Justice Bodley said: "It is obvious from the facts of this case that any step towards long-term court imposed contraception by way of physical coercion, with its affinity to enforced sterilisation and shades of social engineering, would raise profound questions about state intervention in private and family life." Concerns were raised after it emerged the court ruled on assets worth £3.2billion and had prompted more than 3,000 complaints in just 18 months. Until recen tly proceedings were conducted entirely in secret but a change in the law means judgments are now published but without details that would reveal the identities of those involved.
Jack Doyle, Daily Mail

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