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The British Riots

You take away from already disadvantaged communities jobs,
Benefits, the possibility of a higher education,
Legal Aid and so many other support structures that are being demolished by the
ConDem government all laced with
overt police, political and media corruption and you get riots.
The ConDem government is not working.
Will HackGate and its aftermath topple the government?

Snug as a Bug
Gary Barker political cartoon featuring the 'cosy' relationship
between Paul Stephenson of the Metropolitan Police,
Rupert Murdoch and UK Prime Minister David Cameron

Hackgate and police corruption lack of arrests

Graphic thanks to Private Eye

1. Pharma Admits Flu Vaccine Destroyed Children's Lives

(Pic courtesy of One Click)
Pharmaceutical giant CSL has blamed a blending of flu virus strains as the likely cause of fits in children immunized with its flu vaccine last year, The Australian reported Saturday. CSL followed World Health Organization recommendations when it concocted its controversial Fluvax vaccine, which combined swine flu with two seasonal strains of influenza for the first time. The vaccine has been banned for children under five in Australia, Europe and the US since it triggered convulsions in one out of every 100 children immunized in Australia last autumn. One Click Note: This latest vaccine scandal is not merely a little local manufacturing difficulty amongst the Australians. As previously healthy children convulse, are maimed and some of whom die from the virtually untested flu vaccines that pour out from the pharmaceutical industry annually, informed consent parents are increasingly refusing to play Russ ian roulette with their lives. The evidence shows that the vested-interests mutually entwined State and pharmaceutical industry cannot be trusted on the vaccines issue.
Fox News
Related Links:
* Blending of flu viruses to blame, says pharma giant, 18 months after children suffer fits
Natasha Bita, The Australian
* Vaccine family to sue CSL over flu shots
Nick Evans, Perth Now
* Mum Feared Child Would Die After Vaccine
Times Online, New Zealand
* Flu Vaccine Early Warning Signs Ignored As Children Convulse And Die
news.com.au
* Flu Vaccine Killer Comes From Multiple Vaccine Batches
ABC News
* Toddler Ashley Jade Epapara, 2, Dies After Flu Vaccine
Suellen Hinde, Sunday Mail, Australia

2. Narcolepsy link to GSK Swine Flu vaccine established - victims to get compensation

Victims of the surge in cases of narcolepsy after the vaccination campaign against the H1N1 or swine flu virus nearly two years ago will be entitled to compensation. The compensation will be primarily the responsibility of the Finnish Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool. Decisions on compensation are to be made in the coming weeks. A national narcolepsy working group issued its report on Thursday in which it stated that the link between the vaccines and children’s narcolepsy had been confirmed. The report found that the GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix swine flu vaccine gave a 13-fold increase in the risk of children and young people to come down with the disease. Each of those who came down with narcolepsy after getting the GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix vaccine were found to have an inherited trait that increased the risk of narcolepsy. Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool spokesman Veikko Valkonen says that the compensation will cover treatment costs, rehabilitation, tem porary problems, such as pain, travel costs, and lost earnings. “Individuals who become permanently disabled and unable to work will be paid a lifelong compensation.”
Information Release, Helsingin Sanomat
Related Links:
* Probe on narcolepsy–H1N1 vaccine link finds genetic risk factor/ CIDRAP
Dr Meryl Nass, MD
* Finland confirms firm link between Pandemrix and narcolepsy
Helsinki Times

3. Presidential Panel Condemns US Syphilis Study in Guatemala

A year after professor Susan M. Reverby, a historian at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, uncovered a heinous Guatemalan syphilis experiment conducted between 1946 and 1948, on at least 5,500 under the auspices of the US Public Health Service, a hearing was held this week about the findings of the President's Bioethics Commission investigation. The Commission confirms that despite knowledge that it was unethical, US government medical scientists PURPOSELY infected "at least 1,300 who were exposed to the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid" to study the effects of penicillin. At least 83 subjects died. More than 5,500 people in all were part of the medical experimentation. Today, profit--not cure--reins supreme in medical research. The major sponsors of current medical experiments--which are referred to as "clinical trials"-- are the pharmaceutical companies whose singular goal is to obtain FDA approv al for marketing their products.
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP

4. Drugged Out America

During the last three decades, the war on drugs has proven an ever-deepening failure. Like 1920s Prohibition that fashioned the modern crime syndicate, this “war” established a new service business for corporate capitalism, the prison-industrial complex. While it is impossible to tabulate the full costs of drug use in the U.S., even the most conservative estimates are staggering. Millions of people (some estimates run as high as 20% of the population) either regularly abuse or are addicted to “drugs,” whether legal or illegal, whether a commercial or underground product. The line between the legal and the illegal, like that between the moral and immoral or the licit and illicit, is arbitrary. Now, four decades later, the forces of moral order, in league with the police-corporate complex, have scooped up $1 trillion and left behind a failed, second temperance movement, the “war on drugs.” These drug-opportuni sts have left wrecked lives in their wake. An untold number of drug-related dead bodies and destroyed lives litter the national landscape. Nationally, prescription drug abuse is killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and heroin in the 1970s combined. Now, as the Great Recession begins to draw out to (dare I say) a possible second Great Depression, financial reality might force those in power (whether moralist, politician, police or greedy corporate con-artist milking the drug scam) to abandon the prohibitionist mindset that has been in-force since Nixon.
David Rosen, CounterPunch
Related Links:
* Ending the War on Drugs would help to fix the budget
E D Kain, Forbes
* The Forty-Year Quagmire: An Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs
Ethan Nadelmann, The Nation
* War On Drugs
Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
* Is Big Pharma set to corner the American medical marijuana market?
Kyle Daly, The Washington Independent

5. The State vs. Parent - Godboldo triumphs in criminal court

Attorney Alison Fomar, Maryanne Godboldo and attorney Byron Pitts
DETROIT — Judge Ronald Giles of Detroit’s 36th District Court has dismissed all criminal charges against Maryanne Godboldo. Giles said Godboldo’s constitutional rights were infringed by the actions, including forced entry by Detroit police into the Godboldo home. In his Aug. 29 ruling, Giles cited the March 24 removal order’s deficiencies. The order, obtained by Michigan State Child Protective Services (CPS) worker Mia Wenk, could not authorize the removal of Godboldo’s 11-year-old daughter. “This decision today is really a decision for families, for parents trying to protect their child(ren),” Attorney Byron Pitts said at a press conference after the decision. “That’s exactly what the judge ruled today — that the Detroit police department essentially attempted to break into the home of Mrs. Godboldo and take her child, and the judge indicated today that certainly was not lawful, and t hat was the basis of his dismissal.” Godboldo family spokesman Ron Scott says the Aug. 29 ruling by Judge Giles sets a legal precedent for parental rights and rights against forced police home entries. He called the ruling “courageous.”
Eric T Campbell, The Michigan Citizen
Related Links:
* The State vs. Parent - charges dismissed against Maryanne Godboldo
WXYZ, Detroit
* Legal experts: 'Rubber-stamping' child removal orders illegal; Wayne County practice must stop
Heather Catallo, WXYZ, Detroit
* Detroit Mother Jailed for Weaning Daughter Off Risperdal
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP

6. UK magistrates orchestrate riots feeding frenzy

Magistrates have rejected accusations from the leader of Britain's prison governors that there has been a "feeding frenzy" in sentencing after the recent riots. Eoin McLennan-Murray, president of the Prison Governors Association (PGA), claimed that magistrates had lost all sense of proportion. "It's like when you've got sharks and there's blood in the water and it's a feeding frenzy. There's a sentencing frenzy and we seem to have lost all sight of proportionality. It's appealing to the populist mentality, and that's not the best basis on which to sentence people. The norms of sentencing are being ignored," he said. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr McLennan-Murray said there had been a seven-fold increase in the use of remand. He said this was putting pressure on prison places, adding: "This kind of speedy across-the-board justice probably means a number of people are dealt with unfairly." Press Association
Related Links:
* Riots Report Blames Bent Britain On Political Elites
The One Click Group / Sarah Birch & Nicholas Allen, University of Essex
* ‘There will be burning and a-looting tonight'
The social and political correlates of law-breaking
Sarah Birch and Nicholas Allen, University of Essex
* Riots stoked by mistrust of politicians, says report
Andrew Grice, The Independent
* Wrong Answers On Bent Britain
Editorial, The New York Times

7. Hackgate nepotism - Tony Blair is godfather to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter

Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch together
The former prime minister was reportedly present in March last year when Murdoch’s two daughters by his third wife were baptised on the banks of the Jordan. The information was not made public and its disclosure in an interview with Mrs Murdoch in Vogue will prove highly embarrassing for Mr Blair. His close ties to the Murdochs could explain his reluctance to condemn the News International phone hacking scandal. In July, it was reported that he asked Gordon Brown to put pressure on Tom Watson, the Labour MP who helped expose the scandal, to drop his investigation. The full interview is in the October issue of Vogue, out on Thursday.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

8. WikiLeaks Now Victim Of Its Own Leak

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (shown here in February) is
embroiled in new controversy — the entire WikiLeaks collection
of diplomatic files is now available on the Internet in raw form.
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, once said his mission was not simply to divulge secrets, but to make sure the release of that information actually made a difference. He shared his trove of diplomatic cables with The New York Times, the Guardian in London, and other news organizations so they could draw the world's attention to the most important parts. But that approach has now collapsed. The entire WikiLeaks collection, consisting of a quarter-million diplomatic files, is now out in raw form on the Internet. They are unfiltered, unanalyzed and unedited. No names of diplomats or secret sources have been removed. The release was apparently inadvertent, but the backlash has been swift and harsh. WikiLeaks, which gained worldwide fame for publicizing U.S. government secrets, is once again the target of intense criticism. But this time, it's not just the U.S. government and others who wanted to keep those documents private. Even former WikiLeaks sup porters are criticizing the organization for sloppy security. Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists says,"I think the idea that leaks are going to occur in gigabytes of data, piped through anonymous servers — the horse is out of the barn — I don't think we'll ever go back to the old way."
Tom Gjelten, NPR
Related Links:
* Leak at WikiLeaks - A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts
Christian Stocker, Der Spiegel
* Leak at WikiLeaks
Der Spiegel
* Report: Ex-Wikileaker Domscheit-Berg deletes large cache of unreleased leaks
Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing

9. Julian Assange on 60 Minutes CBS News

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Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, speaks to Steve Kroft about the U.S. attempt to indict him on criminal charges and the torrent of criticism aimed at him for publishing classified documents. WikiLeaks, the website which solicits and publishes secret and suppressed material from whistleblowers all around the world, was back in the news this week, along with its mysterious and eccentric founder Julian Assange. Someone - it's not clear who - dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified State Department and Pentagon documents, which had been in WikiLeaks possession, onto the Internet. When Steve Kroft first interviewed Assange last January, he was already under investigation by the Justice Department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the Espionage Act. He was also under house arrest in Britain fighting extradition to Sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. None of that has changed and the battle between the freedom to publish and government's need to keep secrets continues. In what is still his most extensive television interview, Assange talked to "60 Minutes" about the idea behind WikiLeaks and the prospect of facing criminal charges in the United States. Watch the videos.
Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes CBS News

10. Bradley Manning Statement on WikiLeaks release of US diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks have made their complete archive of US diplomatic cables available to the public. This publication appears to have been precipitated by an unintentional leak of a file containing the same material, involving one of their media partners. A statement from WikiLeaks explained the shift in approach, away from selectively publishing redacted cables over a period of several months: “Revolutions and reforms are in danger of being lost as the unpublished cables spread to intelligence contractors and governments before the public.” PFC Bradley Manning remains imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth in retaliation for being the alleged whistle-blower who provided these cables to WikiLeaks. After over 15 months in detention, he is still awaiting military trial. His legal team is preparing for a round of pre-trial hearings that could begin as early as next month. Whomever provided these documents to WikiLeaks would have expected the same sort o f confidence, as any source, for the material to be handled with care. Regardless of whether a former WikiLeaks staffer or a media partner was ultimately responsible for breaking this confidence, our focus remains on using this information to help level the playing field for those struggling against injustice around the world.
Bradley Manning Support Network

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