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1. Andy Burnham MP - Get With The MMR Vaccine Programme

Jackie Fletcher and her vaccine damaged son
A Wigan mum who campaigns for vaccine-damaged children is claiming a major breakthrough in her battle for justice. For the first time a former senior scientist from a pharmaceutical company has suggested there may be links between the MMR jab and autism. For years the industry and British government have denied that the measles, mumps and rubella inoculation can cause serious and wide-spread side-effects. Last year Jackie Fletcher, founder of the Jabs pressure group, secured compensation from the UK’s Vaccine Damage Payment Unit after it ruled that the severe disabilities her teenaged son Robert has were caused by his MMR as a baby. Mrs Fletcher said: “This report is of great significance to our drive to get the authorities to recognise the risks posed by MMR. I have been in contact with my MP Andy Burnham in regard to the rules, such as the one which does not allow the parents of children under the age of two to claim. I hope he can raise this in Parliament.”
Wigan Today
Related Links:
* Vaccines and autism: a new scientific review
Sharyl Attkisson, CBS Evening News
* Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review
Helen V. Ratajczak, Journal of Immunotoxicology, 2011; 8(1): 68–79

2. When The Government Comes Knocking...

When you use the Internet, you entrust your online conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook. But what happens when the government asks these companies to hand over your private information? Will the company stand with you? Will it tell you that the government is looking for your data so that you can take steps to protect yourself? While some Internet companies have stepped up for users in particular situations, it's time for all companies who hold your private data to promise to do so. Sign our petition to urge leading Internet companies to do so.
EFF Petition

3. In defence of Julian Assange: a response to Esther Addley's review of the whistleblowing debate in The Guardian

Emily Wright
On the evening of Saturday, 9th April, guardian.co.uk, that bastion of liberal thought, published an article entitled, “Julian Assange claims Wikileaks is more accountable than governments”. Written by Esther Addley, it reviewed Saturday’s debate on whistleblowing, organised by the New Statesman and the Frontline Club, with an obviously defamatory spin on Assange’s character. The headline alone suggests two things: 1) that Assange unabashedly boasted this to the entire house; 2) that the claim in itself is completely ridiculous. I would like to argue against this. At the end of the day Addley, in this article, misrepresents the essence of the debate by missing the point. The point was not about accountability of public bodies or even exclusively Assange and Wikileaks, but the question of whether or not whistleblowers, in all their various forms, make the world a safer place. It is an insult to the other excellent speakers there tha t she turns it into a diatribe against Assange, and that she has made me focus on his defence. One Click Note: Anonymous said..."Wikileaks only exists because main stream media has failed. It cannot get much simpler than that."
Emily Wright
Related Links:
* The WikiLeaks Whistleblowers Debate
The One Click Group
* Julian Assange extended interview- the Guardian libel
Leigh Sales, ABC
* When the media gets it wrong
Paul Kalina, The Syndey Morning Herald

4. Stop the Secrecy: Join Our Call for Official Visits to Bradley Manning

PFC. Bradley Manning
The US Government appears to be sweating from the heat brought on by the United Nations after the international organization’s lead torture investigator publicly criticized the United States’ decision to deny official visits to Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning. As Marcy Wheeler wrote this morning,“the State Department is might confused about what to do when the international community calls you on your human rights abuses.” US Military regulations clearly state that Members of Congress, such as Rep. Dennis Kucinich, are allowed to have “official visits” with PFC. Manning at the Quantico brig. That means no one can eavesdrop on their conversation, and nothing from the visit can be used against Manning at his trial. What do Quantico and the Pentagon have to hide? Are they afraid of what Bradley Manning might say about his treatment when the brig cameras are turned off?
Michael Whitney, FDL
Related Links:
* UN rights expert denied Bradley Manning visit
The Associated Press / The Washington Examiner

5. NHF Debates Aspartame, Aluminum and Melamine Standards

The National Health Federation (NHF) attended two recent Codex Committee meetings on opposite sides of the planet. The Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) met in Xiamen, China from March 14-18, 2011, and debated, among other things, aspartame and aluminum food-additive maximum levels. The following week the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) met in The Hague, the Netherlands, from March 21-25, 2011, to debate melamine and other contaminant permissible limits. The NHF was at both meetings to speak out for the individual consumer’s interests. Typical for this Committee, establish a limit on a contaminant and then at the same time create an exemption that you can drive a truck through.
News Release, National Health Federation

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