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Thursday, 19 May 2011
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Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt on How Sex Has Shaped American Politics and the World. Larry Flynt donated $50,000 to the defense fund of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. Writing on larryflynt.com, the iconoclastic publisher of Hustler and First Amendment defender called Assange a "journalist" and a "hero" worthy of a tickertape parade. "If WikiLeaks had existed in 2003 when George W. Bush was ginning up the war in Iraq," Flynt says, "America might not be in the horrendous situation it is today." But aside from the broader political implications, Assange's struggle hits much closer to Flynt's own heart. It's about free speech. "Here's what I know about censorship," Flynt writes in his defense of Assange leaking classified American intelligence cables. "The free flow of information is ultimately less harmful than the impeded flow of information. A democracy cannot exist without total access to the facts." Flynt goes on to whip traditional media for negligence, believing it should've been they who unearthed and exposed the documents and not some "concerned outsider." For his actions, Flynt writes, "Assange has been hit with dubious criminal charges because his condom failed during a sexual encounter."
Andrew R Tonry, The Portland Mercury
After several weeks of intense attention, Pvt. Bradley Manning began to slip off the media’s radar screens again last month with his transfer from the maximum security brig at Quantico to a medium-custody military prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, while he awaits trial. That is about to change again, as the first anniversary of his alleged online “chatting” with convicted hacker Adrian Lamo -- it led to his arrest on multiple charges of leaking classified information -- arrives later this week. Next Tuesday, PBS Frontline plans a full program on Manning, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, and they promise to air new information.
Greg Mitchell, The Nation
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Peter Tatchell, New Statesman
Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not be coming to Brighton in person to take part in a discussion on Freedom of Information. Organisers of the Brighton Festival had hoped the internet activist would be able to visit the city for Saturday's debate, despite facing extradition. However he will make an appearance via a live video link instead. Brighton Dome and Festival chief executive Andrew Comben said: “This Brighton Festival debate was planned before his case was heard and bail conditions imposed, but he remains committed to participating in this discussion and we’re grateful to him for doing so.” Mr Assange, will be joined at the event, titled Article 19, by panellists Mark Stephens, Sue Stapely and Martin Moore for an in-depth analysis of free speech.
Siobhan Ryan, The Argus
Journalist Helen Epstein in the latest New York Review of Books has produced a valuable look back at the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu scare. One group that benefited from the pandemic scare, however, was the global pharmaceutical industry, especially Hoffmann-LaRoche, which sells the marginally effective anti-influenza drug Tamiflu. When the pandemic didn’t appear, it left European and other governments with stockpiles of drugs and vaccines worth hundreds of millions of dollars. During the ten years leading up to the pandemic declaration of 2009, scientists associated with the companies that were to profit from the WHO’s “pandemic preparedness” programs, including Roche and GlaxoSmithKline, were involved at virtually every stage of the development of those programs. The companies funded the documents giving guidance on preparing for the influenza pandemic, in which the WHO recommended the stockpiling of Tamiflu and Relenza. Consultants d rafted parts of these documents and joined WHO officials in fund-raising for the Tamiflu stockpile. Industry-supported scientists were also on the committee that issued the “pandemic emergency declaration.” That announcement caused developing countries to request assistance from the WHO’s Tamiflu stockpile fund, and these requests contributed to a tripling of the drug’s sales in 2009. By declaring a pandemic and linking the response to Tamiflu stockpiling, the WHO could not have done a better job of promoting Roche’s interests. The U.S. spent $3.2 billion in pandemic flu preparations in 2009, she writes. Perhaps it’s time for someone to investigate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decision-making during this period to see if similar conflicts of interest were involved here.
Merrill Goozner, GoozNews
When all traditional medical options had failed, Allan Smith’s life was saved by vitamin C.
Immediately after vitamin C saved his life, Otorohonga farmer Allan Smith says he kept a low profile while the treatment was registered as a medicine in New Zealand. Now that’s done he’s quite happy to talk about it – how he was saved from swine flu by intravenous vitamin C that doctors were compelled to give him. Getting the doctors to administer this treatment was not easy for the family. They found themselves obtaining a legal opinion telling medical staff they were in breach of the Hippocratic Oath if they didn’t administer the vitamin C treatment. The treatment started and Allan wowed the critics as he came out of the coma. He was expected to be three months in recovery and walked out 13 days later. He also has no further signs of leukemia with which he was also diagnosed while he was in the coma.
Andrew Campbell, Sun Live
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After reading about vaccination deadlines again in the Cambridge Times (May deadline looms for elementary vaccination, May 5), I have to write and ask that the fear mongering stop. People should be educating themselves on the dangers of vaccinations. For instance, do those of you that are in favour of the use of vaccinations for children really know what is contained in them? Please educate yourselves and demand your choices be represented in all the media that seems to want to scare the naive parent into making an uninformed decision on the issue.
Jackie Gilmar, CambridgeTimes.ca
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Dr Meryl Nass MD
Adverse event data from the third quarter of 2010 show the risks of serious psychiatric side effects of Chantix, the smoking-cessation drug, were previously underestimated because Pfizer apparently failed to correctly submit hundreds of these episodes to the FDA, according to an analysis by the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices, a non-profit that regularly reviews the FDA adverse event database. Notably, the ISMP found 150 cases of completed suicides, some of which dated back to 2007, that were not reported promptly as suicides within 15 days as required. Instead, the drugmaker apparently coded the suicides as “expected adverse events” among 26,000 such events, and added these to a quarterly periodic report, which is how less important, non-serious side effects are sent to the FDA. What ISMP calls a “breakdown in safety surveillance” meant that, until July 2010, FDA analysts were not aware of more than half of the reported suic ide cases in which Chantix was the primary suspect. And the agency also did not have available hundreds of other reported cases of serious psychiatric side effects, including psychosis, depression, or attempted suicide.
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) asked NIH Director to take a firm stance against ghostwriting by academics who receive taxpayer funded grants. Six academic psychiatrists were identified as the recipients of $66.8 million in grants, from 2006 through 2010, while simultaneously receiving payments from GlaxoSmithKline for their contribution promoting the antidepressant, Paxil, by penning their name to deceptive, ghostwritten articles, editorials, and even a psychiatry handbook, are identified. One of the co-authors of the discredited, ghostwritten Paxil study 329, psychiatrist Stan Kutcher, ran for Canadian Parliament this month.
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
Tony Benn
On 4 August 2010, I issued an Appeal to form a Coalition of Resistance (COR) of people across the country standing against the ConDem government’s malicious attempts to dismantle the welfare state. The response was immediate and immense. Since then we have been delighted to see a flourishing of local and national campaigns to defend the education, NHS, pensions, housing and the Welfare State. These culminated on 26 March 2011, with half-a-million people on the TUC demonstration indicating their resolve to campaign, strike, occupy to resist cuts and privatisation. A number of unions are now preparing co-ordinated strike action to defend their pensions. We have seen the ConDem government weakening in the face of such opposition, whether it be on forests or the ‘pause’ on the NHS Bill. We now wish to consolidate the work of the Coalition of Resistance and urge you to get involved.
Tony Benn, Coalition Of Resistance
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