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1. Law Journal Paper Claims Court Paid For Vaccine Damaged Autism Cases
A new law journal article challenges the assertion by the federal government that although it has compensated families for vaccine-induced injuries, it has "never concluded in any case that autism was caused by vaccination." According to the article, published online today in Pace Environment Law Review (PELR), roughly 3% of vaccine injuries compensated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) involve acknowledged brain damage that included autism. This rate of association is roughly triple that of the prevalence of autism among children, the authors write. Although this assessment does not purport to be science, they state, it does justify a congressional investigation along with medical studies into an association between autism and vaccine-injury awards that federal officials may have known but failed to disclose. "Congress needs to find out whether there was a cover-up," lead author and attorney Mary Holland tol d Medscape Medical News. "It doesn't look good."
Robert Lowes, Medscape Today
Related Links:
* U.S. Federal Court Compensated 83 Vaccine-Injured Autistic Children
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
* Unanswered Questions From The Vaccine Injury Compensation Programme: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury!
Mary Holland et al, PACE Environmental Law Review
2. How To Smash The Flawed ME/CFS PACE Trial Results
Professor Simon Wessely, psychiatrist:
"What the patient doesn't know won't hurt."
UNUM Insurance, Chief Medical Officer's Report 2007
This document is a discussion of the outcome of the PACE trials which coincide with a shake-up of the UK state benefit systems. The latter involves a move towards a 'comply or be sanctioned' culture. Strategies for differentiating yourself from the PACE trial patients and for holding on to state benefits are discussed. Key to success is having the strong financial support from ME/CFS charities to fund individual biomedical testing for patients. The flaws and weaknesses of the biopsychosocial model and the increasingly nebulous definitions that identify CFS patients as having only 'subjective fatigue', psychological in origin, can be exposed with thorough biomedical testing. Start lobbying your charities to pay for it now or face being characterised as having a Functional Somatic Syndrome and your resources cut off indefinitely. How PACE was allowed to come to fruition in this manner is a travesty. Patients have fought for over 50 years to get proper reco gnition for their illness, and several thousand research papers elucidating many of the biomedical factors behind their symptoms have been published. So why were they not taken seriously, and who failed to fight their corner? Could it be the ME/CFS charities who insisted that patients did not need any more than a set of standard blood tests (in line with Wessely School dogma); who seem content to broaden the definition of ME/CFS to include patients with no evidence of inflammation of the brain or spinal cord? The same charities who did not give their wholehearted support to the Canadian Criteria; which, while not perfect, at least recognised the neurological and other biomedical factors central to ME/CFS. And even now, what are the charities really doing about the mess that is the PACE trial publication? Very little seems to be the answer, and for that reason patients must now look to themselves, and each other to limit the damage. One Click Note: With the useless publication today of letters to The Lancet regarding the PACE Trial, now would seem an appropriate juncture to republish this stellar article. In this life, tangible results equal action.
Lara, Health Advocate
Related Links:
* The PACE Report - The MRC/PACE Trial Scandal
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
3. WikiLeaks probe uses old tactics to suppress data
Julian Assange, the computer geek who is the visible face of the WikiLeaks website, is now under investigation by a federal grand jury looking for "possible violations of federal criminal law involving, but not necessarily limited to, conspiracy to communicate or transmit national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act." That, according to Salon blogger Glen Greenwald, is the information from the subpoena issued to summon an as yet unknown Boston man called to testify in the case. The Espionage Act was passed during World War I and was the basis for the unsuccessful prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg in 1971, after he leaked the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the news media. Decades later, the Obama administration is using the same archaic law to go after whistle-blowers, with tactics reminiscent of the Nixon White House. The Pentagon papers embarrassed politicians and eventually led to the shameful Watergate scandal t hat brought President Richard Nixon down. Once again, a president, this time one who promised transparency during his administration, is using the awesome and dangerous power of government in an attempt to punish an individual for leaking documents that have proved embarrassing to his administration.
David Hunter, Knox News
Related Links:
* Can Mainstream Media Match WikiLeaks? Not Likely
Peter Scheer, Huffington Post
4. Who The Fuck Is WikiLeaks?
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This is Chicken Radio with another bullshit transmission. The truth, the truth, nothing but the truth. Boney M Goes Club is a self-described European disco/pop quartet. Their music was sampled in the worldwide hit 'Barbra Streisand' by Duck Sauce. 'Who the Fuck is Wikileaks?' includes the group Anonymous and is getting played on the radio and in clubs in Europe. It is being danced around the world.
Chicken Soup (Boney M Goes Club), YouTube
5. I Am Bradley Manning
The Bradley Manning Support Network has released a 90-second campaign video! Now we need you to help us share it: on facebook, in blogs, in e-mails to your friends, and more. PBS prepares to do an evening special on Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the “idealistic young soldier,” Bradley Manning. The Frontline investigation will air May 24th. Amnesty International has published a report in which they hail Wikileaks, and the newspapers which reported heavily on its contents, as catalysts in the “Arab spring,” the term for the democratic revolts in the middle east.
Bradley Manning Support Network
6. EU wants to control internet content
The Council of Europe has been discussing plans since February for the EU to have a “single secure cyberspace”, with all “illicit content” from outside the EU being blocked in a system not dissimilar to the way that the Chinese control web content. An effective EU blacklist would surely raise massive questions as to the freedom of the individual to access legal content. Of greater concern however is the EU’s focus of controlling what the public can access in the first place. It is yet another example of a European Union which seeks to worryingly meddle in what the citizens of 27 countries have the freedom to do, looking for inspiration from China of all places.
Michael Heaever, Big Brother Watch
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