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1. Who Will Be TIMES 2010 Person Of The Year? Vote For WikiLeaks' Julian Assange!
Julian Assange is a new kind of whistle-blower: one made for the digital age. Those b efore him (like Daniel Ellsberg) were limited in the ways they could go public with their information. In founding WikiLeaks.org, Julian Assange has published the true nature of Iraqi prisoner abuse, the double role Pakistan plays in Afghanistan et al. Assange's site, which he started four years ago, has made public a trove of secret and classified documents — close to 500,000 pages on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars alone. Vote for Julian Assange as the TIMES 2010 Person Of The Year!
Information Release, The One Click Group / TIME Magazine
Related Links:
* Iraq War Logs
Information Release, WikiLeaks
* Afghan War Diary - Multiple Atrocities Exposed
Information Release, WikiLeaks
* 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
Information Release, WikiLeaks
2. Children Brain Damaged By Swine Flu Vaccine To Be Investigated
The National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has set up a special team of researchers to investigate a spate of narcolepsy cases suspected to have been triggered by swine flu vaccinations. Minister of Health and Social Services Paula Risikko told YLE that the team has been working for some time already and is well advanced in its study. Researchers are focusing on examining cases of children who began showing signs of narcolepsy after receiving vaccinations against swine flu. The parents of several of the children with narcolepsy interviewed by YLE said that they were unaware of the research project. Parents say that according to the information they have received, 37 children in Finland came down with narcolepsy soon after being injected with the vaccine. Some of the children have sustained serious brain damage that has made it impossible for them to attend school. They suffer from symptoms including hallucinations, personality changes and cataple xy, which is a severe muscle weakness that can lead to a complete collapse up to 20 -30 times a day.
YLE, Finland
Related Links:
* Narcolepsy & Swine Flu - Conflicts Of Interest In Finnish Research
Media Release, Rokotusinfo ry
* UK Citizens Unable To Opt Out Of Swine Flu Vaccine Despite Deadly Adverse Reactions
Jo MacFarlane, The Mail On Sunday
3. Girl's Life In Tatters As LSC & ConDem Government Withdraw Legal Aid From Drug Case
And birth defects may be profitable too....
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A thirteen-year-old girl's fight for justice has been left in tatters after her legal aid funding was withdrawn. Lucy Porritt, who suffers from Sodium Valporate syndrome, is one of ten test cases involved in a lawsuit against drug company Sanofi Aventis. But now the Legal Services Commission (LSC), which decides which cases should be funded from the public purse, has pulled the plug just days before the High Court was due to hear it. Lucy, from Southwick, was born with a hole in the cleft of her palate, a deformed foot that had to be amputated and has had eight operations to put steel poles in her back to combat curvature of the spine. The family believe Lucy's problems were caused by her mother Sally Porritt, 39, taking the drug Epilim to control her epilepsy during her pregnancy with Lucy. But just two weeks before the case was set to go before the High Court, the family has been told that the legal aid funding is being stopped. The family's lawyers Irw in Mitchell, who are representing 101 families in the case, say that problems with Epilim had been identified as early as 1980. David Body, head of medical law at Irwin Mitchell, urged the LSC to rethink its decision.
Neil Vowles, Brighton Argus
Related Links:
* Sir Menzies Campbell Slams Legal Aid & UK ConDem Government Injustice In Sanofi-Aventis Epilim Drug Scandal
James Meikle, The Guardian
* ConDem Coalition Gov Arranges For Legal Aid To Be Withdrawn From Sanofi-Aventis Birth Defects Drug Class Action
BBC News
* Ulster Girl Awarded €500k Settlement Over Sanofi Aventis Birth Defects Drug
Claire McNeilly, Belfast Telegraph
4. New Survey Shows Most U.S. Doctors Take Pharma Money & Gifts
About 84 percent of doctors in a nationwide survey reported having some type of relationship with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2009, according to a study published in the latest Archives of Internal Medicine. According to our Dollars for Docs database, about 17,700 providers have accepted such payments since 2009 from seven major pharmaceutical companies. Last week we also reported that since 2009, 43 doctors earned more than $200,000 in compensation for their work with these companies.
Marian Wang, Pro Publica
5. 'The Alternative Iraq Enquiry' Film Premiere Discussion Now Available On Podcast
David Lawley-Wakelin, Film Director
Following on from the premiere screening of 'The Alternative Iraq Enquiry' at The Frontline club last Friday I was thrilled be able to listen to the Podcast of the event and was suddenly shaken when realising the seriousness of previous MP Clare Short's opening statement: ''There is no question that Bush and Blair committed crimes against peace'' .. This from a Cabinet member at the time of the IRAQ invasion. Had a comment like that been made by one of Bush's 'advisors' ..we would all be hearing about it. There will be another screening of the Film with Clare Short guesting a debate soon ( date to be announced ). Download the free Podcast of 'The Alternative Iraq Enquiry' film premiere discussion chaired by Mark Seddon, the former New York Chief for Al-Jazeera English, Clare Short, former MP and Major General Tim Cross, CBE, key witness at The Chilcot Inquiry. The audience voted by a massive majority to have ex-Prime Minis ter Tony Blair prosecuted for War Crimes by The Hague.
David Lawley-Wakelin, Film Director, The Frontline Club
Related Links:
* Massive Majority Vote For Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair To Be Prosecuted For Iraq War Crimes
Film Director, David Lawley-Wakelin
* Game's Up For Iraq War Criminal Tony Blair & JP Morgan Bank
Information Release, David Lawley-Wakelin, The Frontline Club
6. British Police Given Get Out Of Jail Free Card In The Killing Of Azelle Rodney, 24
Scotland Yard officers involved in the shooting of a man in north London may get immunity from prosecution at a public inquiry into the killing. Azelle Rodney, 24, of Hounslow, was in a car when an officer opened fire in Edgware in April 2005. Sir Christopher Holland, a retired High Court judge, agreed to ask the Attorney General to protect the officers as it was needed to get their full accounts. Mr Rodney’s mother said it could set a precedent for other such cases. Susan Alexander said the assurance of a “get out of jail free card” could set a precedent. At the Royal Courts of Justice Sir Christopher Holland said if the police marksmen were granted immunity from prosecution those involved, including the officer who opened fire, would give full accounts of their actions.
Tippa Naphtali, 4WardEver Campaign UK
Related Links:
* British Police Thugs Are Out Of Control
Information Release, The One Click Group
* Police Officer Assaults Woman In Cell Causing Severe Injuries
BBC News
* Survey Reveals Massive Level Of Complaints Against Police
Matt Dickinson, Press Association, The Independent
7. Student & Lecturer Riot Mark End Of UK ConDem Coalition Government Era Of Consensus
Student demonstrators brought violence to London's streets yesterday on a scale not seen since the poll tax riots of 20 years ago. The ferocity of the protest ended the high hopes of a new era of consensus politics, promised by David Cameron when he took office exactly six months ago. It is expected to be the first of many angry demonstrations as the impact of the Government's cuts is felt. More than 50,000 people brought Westminster to a standstill with a peaceful march past Parliament to protest against the proposal to increase tuition fees to up to £9,000 a year. But the demonstration turned nasty when a crowd smashed its way into the Conservative Party's headquarters in Millbank, cheered on by hundreds more outside. The perpetrators were very young, surprisingly well-mannered and rather middle-class. Until yesterday, the British reaction to the proposed cuts has been remarkably mild compared with mass protests in France, Greece and other countri es. Some of the protesters blamed the confrontation on police. Oscar, 18, a sixth-form politics student, claimed: "It was disgusting, man. They got their batons out and were knocking people to the floor. A girl was hit on the head. It's just made people more angry." A revolutionary group from Leeds released a statement saying: "We are occupying the roof in opposition to the marketisation of education pushed through by the Coalition Government, and the system they are pushing through of helping the rich and attacking the poor. We call for direct action to oppose these cuts. This is only the beginning of the resistance."
Andy McSmith, Richard Garner, Oliver Wright & Rebecca Gonsalves, The Independent
8. UK High Court To Review ConDem Coalition Government Digital Economy Act
BT and TalkTalk have won a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act, which they say falls foul of EU laws on privacy and internet service providers' responsibilities. The High Court granted the judicial review, which was requested in July, on Wednesday. TalkTalk regulatory chief Andrew Heaney welcomed the news. "We are very pleased that the court has recognised that our concerns about the copyright-infringement provisions in the Digital Economy Act should be considered in a full hearing," said Heaney in a statement. "The act was rushed through Parliament in the 'wash-up' with only six percent of MPs attending the brief debate and has very serious flaws. The provisions to try to reduce illegal file-sharing are unfair, won't work and will potentially result in millions of innocent customers who have broken no law suffering and having their privacy invaded," continued Heaney. The Conservatives backed the Digital Economy Act, but the Liberal Democrats took a strong stance against it. However, despite the Lib Dems being part of the coalition government, that opposition has not translated into any official attempt to reverse the law. Judicial review may give the government the chance to drop this heavy-handed approach to copyright enforcement.
David Meyer, ZDNet UK
Related Links:
* Digital Economy Bill Threatens One Click
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
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