Monday, 3 October 2011
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Gary Barker political cartoon featuring the 'cosy' relationship
between Paul Stephenson of the Metropolitan Police,
Rupert Murdoch and UK Prime Minister David Cameron
A PDF version of the full Conference Programme is now available here.
Although tickets for next weekend's Rebellious Media Conference have now sold out, you can interact with Conference participants - and access post-Conference documentation, including films and audio - through the recently launched "Interactive Site". The Conference organisers are also hoping to produce a fundraising DVD to help defray the (substantial) costs of putting on the Conference. This will contain both Noam Chomsky's keynote address (including Q&A session) and the closing plenary, which he will also be part of, as well as speeches by other major figures including Michael Albert, coordinator of ZCommunications, one of the world's biggest radical websites. In order to ensure that this is a fundraising project, we are only going to produce the DVD if there are enough advance orders for it. If we do not have 200 advance orders by 10 October, the DVD will not be produced, and your money will be refunded.
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Kandace O'Neill and her daughter
CHICAGO (AP) — By age 6, children should have vaccinations against 14 diseases, in at least two dozen separate doses, the U.S. government advises. More than 1 in 10 parents reject that, refusing some shots or delaying others mainly because of safety concerns, a national survey found. Worries about vaccine safety were common even among parents whose kids were fully vaccinated: 1 in 5 among that group said they think delaying shots is safer than the recommended schedule. Kandace O'Neill is a Lakeville, Minn., mom whose views are shared by many parents who don't follow federal vaccine advice. Her 5-year-old son has had no vaccinations since he turned 1, and her 7-month-old daughter has received none of the recommended shots. "I have to make sure that my child is healthy, and I do not want to put medications in my child that I think are going to harm them," said O'Neill, who was not involved in the survey appearing in Pediatrics. O'Ne ill said she's not an extreme anti-vaccine zealot. She just thinks that parents — not doctors or schools — should make medical decisions for their children.
Lindsey Tanner, AP, seattle pi
Related Links:
Andreas Bachmair, VaccineInjury.info
Raymond Obomsawin Ph.D
Medical schools are starting to train doctors to be less intimidating to patients. And patients are starting to train themselves to be less intimidated by doctors. The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has begun a new campaign to encourage patients to ask more pertinent questions and to prod doctors to elicit more relevant answers. The “experts" are always issuing guidelines, which are soon contradicted by another set of “experts." It happened with the recommended age for regular mammograms, and it’s happening with guidelines on hormone replacement for postmenopausal women.
Maureen Dowd, The Chronicle Herald
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Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD
A family in Detroit is reunited after a legal battle stemming from a mother's refusal to give her daughter medication. The child was removed from her home after a confrontation about medical treatment with Child Protective Services led to a standoff between Maryanne Godboldo and police back in March. Godboldo gave herself up to police while her daughter was made a ward of the state and then sent to live with an aunt. CPS accused Godboldo of neglect because she refused to medicate her 13-year-old daughter. The judge ruled it was a parent's job, not the state's to oversee medication, claiming a victory for parents everywhere, according to Godboldo's attorney. "I think that message needs to go wide and broad that it is the parent who has to determine that, and without the consent, that psychotropic medicine cannot be administered to a child unless there is a court order," said Godboldo's attorney Wanda Evans. One Click Note: Maryanne Godboldo's daughter was prescribed Risperdal by the State subsequent to adverse vaccine reaction.
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Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP
An Assessment of Defeat. Rick Perry and the other Republican presidential candidates are right. Americans are fed up, as Perry writes in his book Fed Up!, with “old guard politicians” dedicated to protecting the “establishment” and the federal government’s “culture of waste.” That description of big government is right on target with respect to the Obama administration’s continuing support for the wasteful drug-war bureaucracy. The Obama administration and the Democratic Party have been stalwart supporters of drug-war agencies such as the National Drug Intelligence Center and the White House’s own Office for National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). President Obama has not demonstrated any inclination to end the drug wars and drug prohibition. To the contrary, the president has either increased or redirected federal funding for counternarcotics operations, especially along the border. The federal governmen t’s commitment to the drug war – redesignated by Obama as the “combat against transnational crime” – is a telling case of how big government can break bad.
Tom Barry, CounterPunch
Related Links:
Norm Stamper, The Seattle Times
Mark Perry, Daily Markets
E.D. Kain, Forbes
Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
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Facebook is getting more heat over two controversial practices — tracking users after they log out and new automatic "frictionless sharing". The tracking, done with cookies on users' computers, has prompted criticism from lawmakers and now a lawsuit, while privacy groups and regulators in Ireland are concerned about a new sharing feature that automatically posts user activities to news feeds without users intentionally doing so.
Elinor Mills, ZDNet
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Leslie Horn, PCMag
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