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Tuesday 28 June 6pm Protest: Stop Bombing Libya.
Old Palace Yard SW1, opposite visitors' entrance to Parliament, London.
Note location change.
Jeremy Corbyn MP, poet Sanasino, Sami Ramadani among those joining us.
Called by Stop the War Coalition and CND

1. Battlefleet positioning statement: #AntiSec announces Anonymous LulzSec merger

Anonymous has moved back into the limelight.
With the notorious Lulzsec hacking group having announced its retirement yesterday, the Anonymous hacking group has stepped back into the fore. The group Tweeted: Little teaser while we work on the actual release: Ever interested in anti- cyberterrorism training? It has uploaded a "counter cyber-terrorism training file" to the internet. With Lulzsec's last action being to pledge its Twitter support over to the @AnonymousIRC account, the latter picked up 60,000 new followers in 24 hours. The account just broke 100,000 followers and is growing fast. It also Tweeted: We can confirm that all @LulzSec members have reported aboard. #AntiSec will have full support from #Anonymous and LulzSec. Expect us, soon. This suggests that Lulzsec is likely to have disbanded only notionally with observers saying that its high-profile antics gave the individuals involved too much attention from rival hackers ; and law enforcement. By merging back into the larger Anonymous collective, it will be harder for individuals to be identified. Among the files are:- Many documents and links to security and hacking resources that are freely available on the internet. Lists of FBI bureau addresses throughout the USA. Stock letters on how to officially request user information from Internet Service Providers and obtain warrants. One Click Note: Ahoy there! Welcome aboard internetz hydra shape shifting in the 21st century. Free training and tools now kindly provided for seafarers and landlubbers alike.
Nick Ross, technology and games
Related Links:
* Rockstar Hackers LulzSec Go Out On A High
Parmy Olson, Forbes

2. Policing the Police: The Apps That Let You Spy on the Cops

CopRecorder and OpenWatch are the brainchildren of Rich Jones, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate who describes himself as "pretty much a hacker to the core". Jones decided to devote some of his time to developing what he calls a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures. He said: "To me, something like OpenWatch could help solve a major problem for investigative reporting in an age when newsrooms are shrinking. Perhaps providing better conduits for citizens to flag their own problems can drive down the cost of hard-hitting journalism and be part of the solution for keeping governments honest."
Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic

3. Legal aid reform could end right to a free solicitor

Opponents of changes allowing the government to means test access to a solicitor in a police station say this threatens a fundamental right.
A "cornerstone" of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice. Legal experts including Lord Ken Macdonald QC, a former director of public prosecutions, have expressed alarm at the proposal and questioned how it would work in practice. Legal aid charities said the new measure, which was quietly slipped into the legal aid, sentencing and punishing of offenders bill, had taken them completely by surprise and predicted that it would be subject to fierce debate in parliament. The proposal would effectively set a bar that would see people who are earning above a certain amount of money or who have access to a particular level of savings forced to pay for legal representation. The universal right to representation by a solicitor at a police station was enshrined in the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act (Pace) in response to a series of serious miscarriages of justice in the 1970s and 80s involving unrepresented defendants. Legal bodies are also concerned that the government plans to fast-track the legislation, which they claim will disadvantage the poor, through parliament.
Jamie Doward, The Guardian / The Observer
Related Links:
* Bar Council and Resolution criticise Legal Aid proposals
Famiily Law Week
* UK ConDem government threatens to cut free legal aid for suspects
Nigel Morris, The Independent
* Ignore the warnings about legal aid changes and risk meltdown in courts
Lucy Reed, The Guardian
* This attack on UK legal aid is an attack on justice
Jack Dromey, The Guardian
* Outrage over legal aid cuts
Phil Scullion, politics.co.uk
* Legal aid cuts: who will be hit hardest?
Lisa Evans, The Guardian

4. Preliminary results of the survey state of health of unvaccinated children

As we approach the 10.000th participant in our survey, I would like to present to you a little (tiny) part of the results. The prevalence of asthma among 7400 unvaccinated children in our survey is less than 2.5%. The graphs show the illnesses for all participants irrespectively of their age. In the final results we hope to present to you the option to select specific age groups, gender and countries. If you know somebody who is unvaccinated please let them know of the survey and forward the link to them.
Andreas Bachmair, VaccineInjury info

5. It’s Science, but Not Necessarily Right - ME/CFS

In October 2009, the virologist Judy Mikovits and colleagues reported in Science that people with chronic fatigue syndrome had high levels of a virus called XMRV. Several other teams have since tried — and failed — to find XMRV in people with chronic fatigue syndrome. Ian Lipkin, a virologist at Columbia University who is renowned in scientific circles for discovering new viruses behind mysterious outbreaks, is also known for doing what he calls “de-discovery”: intensely scrutinizing controversial claims about diseases. Last September, Mr. Lipkin laid out several tips for effective de-discovery in the journal Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. He recommended engaging other scientists — including those who published the original findings — as well as any relevant advocacy groups (like those for people suffering from the disease in question). Together, everyone must agree on a rigorous series of steps for the exp eriment. Each laboratory then carries out the same test, and then all the results are gathered together. At the request of the National Institutes of Health, Mr. Lipkin is running just such a project with Ms. Mikovits and other researchers to test the link between viruses and chronic fatigue, based on a large-scale study of 300 subjects. He expects results by the end of this year. This sort of study, however, is the exception rather than the rule. If the scientific community put more value on replication — by setting aside time, money and journal space — science would do a better job of living up to Carl Sagan’s words.
Carl Zimmer, The New York Times
Related Links:
* Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Judy A. Mikovits et al, 10.1126/science.1179052, Science Express
* Presence Of Murine Leukemia Virus Found In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients
FDA Press Release
* Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors
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Shyh-Ching Lo, Harvey J. Alter et al PNAS

6. SF Pride for Bradley Manning

“God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms… I want people to see the truth... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.” That’s an excerpt from an online conversation the FBI attributes to 23 year-old Bradley Manning. Over 50 supporters marched to support Bradley this morning in the 2011 SF Pride Parade. International human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell recently hailed Bradley a gay hero for his known commitment to equal human rights. For telling us all the truth about the human cost of our own wars, Bradley Manning now faces life in prison or the death penalty. Never before in the history of the U.S. has someone been charged with “Aiding the enemy through indirect means” by making information public. If Americans do not take action now to support Bradley, the outcome of Bradley’s trial could set a chilling precedent fo r the future of whistleblowers and government accountability.
Jeff Paterson, Courage to Resist, Bay Area Indymedia

7. WikiLeaks' Assange new legal team to take passive/aggressive approach?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hiring a new legal team to take a less confrontational approach in his next British court appeal against a Swedish request he be extradited for questioning in a sexual misconduct case. Two legal sources told Reuters Assange had split with Mark Stephens, a prominent British media attorney. Replacing Stephens is prominent human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce. She has represented accused militants in high-profile cases, including former prisoners held by the United States at its Guantanamo, Cuba, detention center, and the "Guildford Four," a group of Irish citizens whose conviction in an alleged IRA bomb plot was overturned after they spent years in prison. Earlier this week, left-wing political activist and former California State Senator Tom Hayden wrote in The Nation, a liberal American magazine, that the defense team that Assange apparently abandoned had "disparaged" Sweden's legal system, while his new lawyers are likely to take a less aggressive approach.
Mark Hosenball, Reuters

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