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1. WikiLeaks Info Revolution - Operation Leakspin Crowdjournalism Launched
Ready for WikiLeaks Crowdjournalism? The Operation Leakspin project has been founded with the purpose of sorting through recent WikiLeaks releases and raising awareness of potentially important and previously overlooked information. To improve the quality of the reports, we have chosen to introduce a concept of 'crowd-journalism' as a subform of crowdsourcing. Reports have to be posted, reviewed and if necessary corrected on the Quality Control System. This will lead to an enormous advantage over conventional journalism. The goal is to give everybody the possibility to get involved to bring success with the possibility of a totally independent reporting. We will use as much manpower as possible to publish information found in the cables to the public. "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Information Release, Operation Leakspin
Related Links:
* London Frontline Club Hot Ticket - WikiLeaks Holding Up Mirror To Media?
Information Release, The Frontline Club
2. UK Justice For Julian Assange Demos - A Mother's Plea Too!
(1) London: Monday, December 13, 4pm Location: Swedish Embassy, 11 Montagu Place, London W1H 2AL Topic: Against extradition to Sweden (JusticeforAssange.com Campaign). (2) London: Tuesday, December 14, 11:00am - 6:00pm Location: City of Westminster Magistrates' Court, 70 Horseferry Rd, Westminster, London SW1P Topic: Julian Assange will be appearing at court for a bail hearing please come and make your voice heard! (3) Manchester: Wednesday, December 15, 3:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Piccadilly Gardens, M60 1HX. Get your international demo locations and dates from all over the world at WikiLeaks Central. Watch Julian Assange's Mum talk about her son on video: WikiLeaks Founder No Criminal. Protest resources such as speeches for rallies, artwork and posters provided.
Information Release, The One Click Group
3. Update: WikiLeaks / Julian Assange Internet Wars 12.12.10
We provide our readers with a few selected nuggets of WikiLeaks news. What with Apart from that, Mrs. Clinton, what did you think of the cables?, secret police documents on the Julian Assange case that the Swedish prosecutors are so far refusing to reveal, Sweden's new role as the Eurotrash Justice Banana Republic with prosecution witnesses boasting celebrity sex and Wikileaking all over, Indoleaks launched (political ouch) and the WikiRebels documentary aired, the news is moving a mile a minute on WikiLeaks.
Information Release, The One Click Group
4. London Frontline Club Hot Ticket - WikiLeaks Holding Up Mirror To Media?
Throughout 2010 whistleblower website WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange were making headlines with the release of classified documents. Both the leaks and the controversy surrounding Assange have been covered extensively by the media. For the first On the Media discussion of the year we are going to be putting the spotlight on the media and asking what the WikiLeaks operation and the media coverage of it tells us about the press. How have journalists responded to this new kid on the block? The future will no doubt see the emergence of similar organisations, but what impact will this have on the culture of journalism? How will the media adapt and how will this currently uncomfortable relationship develop? One Click Note: Early booking for this Frontline Club hot ticket event is advised. One Click is intending to live report @OneClickGroup Twitter.
Information Release, Frontline Club London
5. Critics Warn On Pregnant Mother Alerts
Alerts are being placed on the health files of pregnant women whose unborn children are deemed at risk of abuse – a move critics say could stigmatise and wrongly label parents. The Sunday Star-Times has learned that health professionals can now place flags on the national medical warning system for children who have been treated for abuse – but also for pregnant women deemed "vulnerable". The system attaches the alert directly to an individual's health index number, so that if they are assessed at hospitals or medical centres throughout the country, medical staff will know their history. An alert stays in place until a child turns 17, and parents may not always be told about them. Siblings of an abused child can also have alerts placed on their files without a medical assessment. Former health and disability commissioner Robyn Stent, whose stepdaughter was wrongly suspected of abuse at Starship hospital's child protection unit, says she does not trust medical professionals to make the right calls around the alerts. In her stepdaughter's case, a note referring to suspected abuse was never removed from the file. "These are the people who insist on treating parents as criminal suspects in all cases where abuse is `possible', and who based their abuse suspicions in our family's case on a non-existent report," Stent said. "We would not trust them with the power to denounce families to the medical world as likely abusers, unless they have evidence which satisfies a court." The New Zealand College of Midwives has also expressed concern about the alert system. Any alert system raised issues of privacy, confidentiality and human rights.
Tony Wall, Sunday Star Times, New Zealand
Related Links:
* The Consensus Report
Family Law Reform
* David Southall - A Very Dangerous Doctor
Lisa Blakemore Brown, Psychologist
6. Aspirin: The Humble Wonder Drug That Cuts Cancer Risk By 54%
Regular small doses of aspirin can cut
the risk of many cancers by up to 54%
Of course, there are "wonder drugs", a description given to many of the cancer medications that NHS organisations have declined to give to patients because the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has decided the potential benefit gained is less than the huge expense involved. But aspirin, the humblest of medicines, surely merits that accolade after last week's research reported in The Lancet showing that regular small doses reduce the risk of many cancers, some by up to 54%. (We already knew that aspirin helps prevent heart attacks and strokes.) Aspirin is the commonest of wonder drugs, available at corner shops, supermarkets and petrol stations for as little as a penny a tablet. It is usually used for headaches, hangovers, a migraine, angina or rheumatic pain, or to stop the blood clotting and so thwart a heart attack, stroke or blood clot. After last week's breakthrough, some of the UK's most senior doctors will start lobbying for popping a 75-milligram aspirin a day to be included as official cancer prevention lifestyle advice, alongside not smoking, being physically active and eating healthily. Don't be surprised if they succeed. One Click Note: Such a drug hailing originally from willow tree bark giving so much benefit and costing so little? Pah! Heresy says Big Pharma.
Denis Campbell, The Observer
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