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We provide our readers with the top fifteen documents and articles read/downloaded by thousands of people from all over the globe during March 2011. From academic papers, articles, case histories, legal issues, government documents, video links and more besides, we carry a great deal of information that grows every day. Although only just recently published, romping up the ranks has been the account of a Detroit Mother, Maryanne Godboldo, jailed for attempting to wean her disabled child off the highly controversial drug Risperdal prescribed subsequent to vaccine damage. Prominent this month has been coverage of issues as diverse as Swine Flu, vaccines, the XMRV retrovirus, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, UK Census 2011 and political corruption in all its guises. Happy reading to all.
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Maryanne Godboldo, released from prison
and very excited to see her daughter
Detroit— A woman charged with using a gun to hold off police when child welfare workers came to take her 13-year-old daughter was released Wednesday. Godboldo had been in custody since surrendering to police Friday morning after a 10-hour standoff at her west-side home in which she is alleged to have fired a shot at officers. Godboldo didn't purposely fire at police, defense attorney Allison Folmer told Humphries. "My client … had to endure the onslaught of police unlawfully taking her child," she said. Godboldo has said she was protecting the girl from unnecessary medication. Her resistance of authorities with a warrant from a Wayne Circuit Court judge has drawn nationwide attention from both conservative and liberal causes advocating for the rights of parents, those concerned about the safety of childhood immunizations, the use of psychotropic drugs on juveniles and activists worried about intrusions of government on indi viduals. Many are expected to attend a rally at 9 a.m. Saturday to support Godboldo at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, 18700 James Couzens Freeway.
Doug Guthrie & George Hunter, The Detroit News
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Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
Diane Bukowski, Voice Of Detroit
Doug Guthrie, The Detroit News
U.S. Army Pvt. Bradley Manning is accused
of giving WikiLeaks classified documents.
Bradley Manning is the 23-year-old Army private who has been in military lockup since he was arrested last May for allegedly downloading a huge volume of secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, which became headline news worldwide. Manning is being held in a Marine brig in Quantico, in what the American Civil Liberties Union calls "prolonged isolated confinement and forced idleness". Now, what's interesting here isn't that the mistreatment of a prisoner in a big case might be newsworthy. Brutality always makes good copy. To me, what's notable is that it has taken allegations of near-torture to get the media to pay attention to this guy at all. The news media like to pose as champions of unpopular causes. But there's no evidence of that in their abandonment of Pvt. Manning.
Edward Wasserman, Richmond Times-Dispatch
'Are you interested in being involved with a courageous project to reform every political system on earth – and through that reform move the world to a more humane state?’ Sometime in December 2006, a former Melbourne University maths student, still hanging around the common room, posted the question to the students’ society network. His rather alarming message explained that the organisers proposed to launch their campaign in two months but were being overwhelmed by a media cascade with more than 51 000 (!) page hits on Google and stories in the Washington Post and so on. Now we have only twenty-two people trying to usher in the start of a world-wide movement,’ the post continued. ‘We need help in every area, admining, coding, sys admining, legal research, analysis.’ The organisation was WikiLeaks; the post’s author was Julian Assange.
Guy Rundle, Overland
Julian Huppert MP
Cambridge's MP Julian Huppert has quizzed the Director of Public Prosecutions over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He asked why the CPS had acted as an agent for Sweden in this case, when they would not act in such a way for the UK Government. Dr Huppert then asked how the CPS exercises its duties under the Human Rights Act in such cases, and if the CPS could refuse to act if it thought there was a breach. Mr Starmer replied: “There is no provision under the statute that says the CPS can refuse to act in the following circumstances, but that being said, we are bound by the Human Rights Act, and we are bound by our duties to the court.”
Cambridge News
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Geoffrey Robertson QC
National Archives, UK Government
Anna Ardin
The most interesting piece of evidence is the molecular evolution of the samples isolated from patients, cell-lines, and mice proving that XMRV has not been circulating between human beings. The paper by Lombardi and colleagues that began this debate provided solid evidence based not only on the molecular identification of the virus, but also on immunological responses of the host (virus-specific antibodies), viral expression in patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells (flow cytometry), and an infection model (infection of cultured human cells from patients' samples). Recently, a model of rhesus macaques enforced the evidence for the infectious potential of XMRV. Thus, the only explanation for the molecular evolution data, from a study by Hue and colleagues is that the patients have been infected by a common source of XMRV and not through human contact. Since XMRV is integrated in cell-lines the virus evolution is restricted to the host's pace of evo lution, and viral descendants have none or minimum sequence diversity. Thus, if a contaminated product, previously cultured in cell-lines, is administered to people then the infections would provide the evolutionary patterns reported by Hue and colleagues. If the immunological data reported by Lombardi and colleagues are correct, then we need to trace the common source for these infections to prevent possible public health concerns. Products from cell-lines should be the first candidates.
Gkikas Magiorkinis, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Lancet
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Dr Jamie Deckoff-Jones MD, X Rx
There has been a great deal of excitement over the recent discovery that stem cells with the potential to multiply indefinitely and generate many other different kinds of cells can be created from ordinary skin cells. These ‘induced pluripotent stem cells’ (iPS cells) could be used to repair damaged tissue. For example, they can be turned into the types of brain cells – cholinergic neurones – that are thought to die early on in Alzheimer’s disease. Although iPS cells may be useful for modelling diseases, their potential for regenerative therapy, as with embryonic stem cells, is still limited. The dangers of tumour formation following transplantation, as well as the requirement for brain surgery, on top of the little evidence of success in animal and human studies, are some of the major concerns regarding stem cell therapies for brain diseases. In contrast to the use of exogenous stem cells for brain repair, researchers at Edi nburgh and Cambridge Universities in the UK reported earlier that naturally existing stem cells in the adult brain can be stimulated by a drug to repair damage in animal models of multiple sclerosis. This is an exciting approach to regenerative repair, and could be applied to many different diseases, not just those affecting the brain. Adult stem cells are showing greater and greater promise in providing a more ethical alternative to embryonic stem cells. With the discovery of more and more resident stem cells in various adult tissues, the future lies with being able to utilise these cells to perform the job that, ultimately, they are perfectly designed to do.
Dr Eva Sirinathinghji, Institute of Science in Society
Back in 2009 eagle-eyed Scottish journalist Paul Hutcheon, who is the investigations man at The Herald, cornered Labour’s Jim Devine. His dodgy receipts, VAT numbers and mystery shelving reeked. As the expenses scandal progressed, The Sunlight Centre saw an opportunity to further the exposé and reported Devine to the Met. This morning he is facing a lengthy spell at Her Majesty’s pleasure. Devine didn’t exactly help his cause before the trial. Watch the video. One Click Note: Ex-MP Jim Devine today became the latest politician to be jailed for 16 months at the Old Bailey for fiddling his parliamentary expenses. Devine, 57, submitted false invoices worth more than £8,300 for cleaning and printing work then tried to blame his office manager when he was found out.
Guido Fawkes
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Paul Goodman, The Guardian
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