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1. WikiLeaks Set To Publish Information Seven Times Bigger Than Iraq War Logs
Wikileaks has promised to release a load of information seven times bigger than the Iraq War Logs, which raised the Internet group's profile around the world and caused some nations to take notice of the issue of leaks of top-secret documents online. In a note on Twitter, Wikileaks said, "Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. Intense pressure over it for months," and asked supporters to continue donating to the cause. Wikileaks made global headlines this year by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. war documents about actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, called the Iraq War Logs and Afghan War Diary. Since then, the group has alleged harassment by government organizations from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the Swedish police. Wikileaks' main servers are located in Sweden. Wikileaks did not say what the new release of information would be about. The group also sent out Twitter messages urging support ers to "Keep us strong," as it works to put out the new information.
Dan Nystedt, Computer World
Related Links:
* The WikiLeaks Truth War
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
2. Bring On The Conspiracy Theories For WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
The Assange detainment is like a golden egg for those who love Pentagon and C.I.A conspiracy theories. What could be better than the most talked about man challenging the most powerful government in the world being accused of something he claimed he didn’t do? It "Enemy of the State" all over again (but with a very white man). Amazingly like in the movies, the government is always two steps behind. That is to say, these allegations could have been far more believable if the first instance wasn’t right after the Afghanistan war files and the second instance wasn’t right after the latest Wikileaks break. Leaving the question - why is there only a strong enough case to pursue against him only after Wikileaks has a big break? I don’t even think Sweden knows. Amateurs.
Sumer Dayal, Homepage Daily - The World's First Global Student Newspaper
Related Links:
* Statement By Julian Assange's Counsel Mark Stephens
Mark Stephens of Finers, Stephens, Innocent
* The Persecution of Julian Assange, Continued
Lyn, WL Central
3. Court Forces CIA To Disclose Human Experiments Data
A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. Three veterans groups and six individual veterans sued the CIA and other government agencies, claiming they used about 7,800 soldiers as human guinea pigs to research biological, chemical and psychological weapons. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Larson rejected the government's bid to limit the scope of discovery, saying doing so "removes the remaining hurdle" for the CIA to respond to the veterans' sets of requests. "Defendants should respond in earnest to Plaintiffs' discovery requests, regardless of any ongoing or prior searches, investigations, or litigation," Larson wrote. He said the government can't limit disclosure to information about the six individual plaintiffs.
Annie Youderian, Court News Service
Related Links:
* Major Diplomatic Scandal Erupts As USA LSD Killer Experiment On 1950's France Exposed
F. William Engdahl
* French Bread Spiked With LSD In CIA Experiment
Henry Samuel in Paris, Daily Telegraph
4. NRC Pans Government 'Safety' Studies Of Multiple Proposed Biodefense Labs
Dr Meryl Nass, MD
Like so much in today's world of politics, there is no logic that can explain it. Biodefense labs (whose value in the light of the risk they pose is questionable) are being built smack in the middle of large cities (Boston), in areas that flood (Galveston), and in the middle of a farming area dense with livestock (Manhattan, Kansas). Luckily the National Academy of Science's National Research Council has gone on record to point out some of the obvious anomalies. Two recent stories in Science magazine are worth a look. For example, from Science, Nov. 18: Federal officials are still stumbling in their efforts to analyze the risks of operating a high-security biology lab in Boston that would study dangerous pathogens such as Ebola virus and anthrax, says the National Research Council (NRC). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the $128 million lab to Boston University in 2003; the building is complete but not yet operat ing. But the university's plan to use part of the building to study the deadliest pathogens in biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) facilities has drawn fierce opposition from the local community. And from Science, Nov. 15: Based on data in the DHS report, the NRC panel estimated that there is a 70% chance over 50 years that FMD would escape from the lab and infect livestock, resulting in an economic impact of between $9 billion and $50 billion.
Information Release, Dr Meryl Nass MD
5. ConDem UK Health Department Plans To Inject Super Vaccine Conglomerate Into Babies, Including Deadly MMR
Controversial MMR jab to be administered to babies
A vaccination that includes the controversial MMR jab is to be administered to toddlers in a decision that will add to parents’ concerns. Toddlers face a “super-vaccination” just after they turn one when they will receive three separate injections, including the controversial combined MMR jab. The chief medical officer has ordered GPs to administer the inoculations during the same surgery visit to immunise children against six separate diseases. The jabs will be given in three different limbs. The decision to immunise babies against so many diseases at the same time, including MMR, will add to parents’ concerns about possible side effects. Critics say some families may refuse to allow their children to be inoculated in this way. Jackie Fletcher, founder of Jabs, a support group for families of vaccine-damaged children, said: “Parents need to remember that these vaccines are not compulsory and they must be given a fu ll range of choice about when to have them. If you introduce six elements on one day, how do you know which part of the vaccine a child may react to?” Fletcher was awarded £90,000 in compensation by the Department of Health earlier this year because her son, Robert, suffered brain damage following an MMR jab.
Tezz, Seek Media
Related Links:
* FOIA: Multiple UK Children Disabled And Killed By Child Vaccines
Sarah-Kate Templeton, The Sunday Times
* Brain Damage - Payout For MMR Vaccine Disaster
Martin Delgado, Daily Mail
6. UK ConDem Government Washes Its Hands Of Pharma's Vioxx Victims
Lulu Barham with a picture of her late mother, June Congdon
The UK ConDem Government has been accused of washing its hands of victims battling for compensation from an American drugs company which they claim produced a lethal painkiller. June Congdon, from Eastwood, died from a heart attack, aged 66, after three years of taking the painkiller Vioxx for her arthritis. Husband William Congdon and daughter Lulu Barham say US manufacturer Merck should be held responsible for her death, in September, 2002, which followed two heart attacks that year. However, attempts to force the Government to intervene on behalf of families have failed after ministers upheld the view of the last Labour government and said the issue should be resolved in court. Mr Congdon, 79, said: “The Government is like Pontius Pilate saying they don’t want to know. What they have done is inhibit any prosecution of the company. The Government’s job is to protect its own citizens, to allow us to sue. Here they have allowed a for eign company to operate in this country with no protection for us and no back-up.” Health minister, Earl Howe, said: “Having carefully considered this, it is my view that it remains a matter for the judicial system and that it would therefore be inappropriate for ministers or Government officials to intervene or comment.”
News Release, Echo
Related Links:
* British Government Abandons Vioxx Victims
Caroline Wilson, Evening Times, Scotland
* Merck Paid 3,468 Death Claims To Resolve Vioxx Suits
San Francisco Chronicle
7. Forensic Scientists Are Improperly Swaying Juries Warns Senior Judge
Tragic: Sally Clark was wrongly jailed for killing
her child on the strength of forensic evidence
One of the country’s most senior judges yesterday launched a scathing attack on forensic scientists and their methods. Trial juries can be ‘improperly influenced’ when confident and convincing experts give evidence that damns a suspect, Lord Justice Leveson said. He cast doubt on the reliability of DNA evidence and even the use by the courts of fingerprints – a method of identifying criminals that has been relied on by detectives and lawyers for a century. The judge called for a system of accreditation to make sure that forensic experts are properly qualified, warning that at present ‘anyone could set themselves up as a forensic science expert and produce evidence that, at best, is unhelpful and, at worst, positively misleading’. Lord Justice Leveson delivered his criticisms to a gathering of forensic experts at a time of growing controversy over the way science is used in court to sway juries. Lord Justice Lev eson also spoke at length of the notorious cases of Angela Cannings and Sally Clark, both of whom were wrongly jailed for murdering their children. In both cases, the mothers were convicted on the evidence of paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow. Lord Justice Leveson added: ‘There exists a real difficulty that just because an expert’s evidence is presented as scientific it may be taken to be reliable.’
Steve Doughty, Daily Mail
8. Patients Boycott UK ConDem Government Medical Database
A service set up to enable millions of patients to email their GPs and access their Summary Care Records online has proved to be unwanted by the vast majority of potential users, according to a major new study. Academics from London found that instead of the 5-10% of the population that Connecting for Health predicted would sign up to the HealthSpace service, developed as part of the National Programme for IT, only 0.13% of those invited to take part got as far as activating the full functionality of their personal health record. Only 2,913 of 2.24 million patients invited to open an advanced HealthSpace account actually did so, and the research team did not find a single person who had accessed their Summary Care Record. Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, who led the research covering uptake of HealthSpace from its release in 2007 until mid-2010, concludes in the report: ‘Unless personal ele ctronic health records align closely with people’s attitudes, self-management practices, identified information needs and the wider care package, the risk that they will be abandoned or not adopted at all is substantial.’
Ian Quinn, PULSE
Related Links:
* UK Coalition Government U-Turns On Own Medical Database Policy
Ian Quinn, PULSE
9. Beast Survives, But Less Unpleasant
The NHF first wants to thank all of those who signed our petition in opposition to S.510, and those who called their U.S. Senator's offices in a sustained effort to defeat the legislation. Unfortunately, the vote to end debate – the Cloture vote – was successful on a vote of 74 For and 25 Opposed, on November 17th. Thirty hours of debate followed and included behind-the-scenes negotiations on a final Manager's Amendment to S.510. On November 18th, the only Senator holding up the bill was Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who wanted a vote on an amendment dealing with Congressional earmarks. The Senate proceeded to vote on a Motion to Proceed on votes on amendments after more hours of post-cloture debate. The Motion to Proceed vote passed on a vote of 57 For and 27 Opposed, after holding the vote time open longer than what the rules allow. Senators Testor and Hagan both voted in favor of the Motion. The NHF has been lobby ing against S.510 and many thousands of health-freedom advocates have participated in sending grassroots lobbying appeals, since last year. The beast will most likely be restrained, but the fight against it will still go on.
Lee Bechtel, Press Release, National Health Federation
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