Thursday, 6 October 2011
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A PDF version of the full Conference Programme is now available here.
"Amanda Knox guilty of Meredith Kercher murder", thundered the British mainstream media on the evening of 3 October 2011. Jumping the gun and failing to wait for the full verdict from the Italian court that found Amanda Knox guilty of slander but not murder, The Guardian, The Sun, Sky News and the Daily Mail all pulled the publisher trigger on this girl who has served four years in prison for a crime that she did not commit. Whilst most quickly corrected their error, the Daily Mail escalated their coverage of the trial and published an entire article by Nick Pisa not only affirming Knox’s guilt, but also containing quotes and reactions that were pure invention. The Daily Mail quite simply made it all up. The Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito trial taking place in Perugia, Italy, has been a gift for the mainstream media. The guise of supporting murdered Meredith Kercher’s family has provided carte blanche for salacious Amand a Knox vilification publicising every bit of uninformed slanderous gossip taking character assassination to entirely new levels. Redolent of witch trials in 1400s for which the ancient city of Perugia in Italy has considerable form, the mainstream media has wallowed in this case. Not to do their job of accurately informing the public of the facts or to correct a wrong you understand, but to sell newspapers and attract advertisers for profit. What took place at the conclusion of the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Appeal encapsulates this precisely.
Information Release, The One Click Group
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Nick Pisa, Daily Mail
Young people who fell ill after they were inoculated against swine flu with the Pandemrix vaccine are to receive compensation. So far 92 people have notified the Finnish Medical Insurance pool of narcolepsy symptoms and requested compensation. The amount of compensation has not yet been set, as each case will be investigated individually. Medical care, medication and travel costs are eligible for reimbursement, along with other costs incurred as a result of narcolepsy caused by the Pandemrix vaccinations. Where the victim is a child, loss of earnings compensation could be paid to parents. After the 30-million euro fund for compensation is exhausted, the state will take responsibility for funding payouts.
YLE.fi
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Genevieve Carbery, Irish Times
Dr Meryl Nass, MD
YLE.fi
Dr Meryl Nass MD
There is so much written that is dead wrong about this year's flu vaccine. Here are some facts. This year's flu vaccine is the same as last year's vaccine. If you are healthy and got the vaccine last year, you probably still have antibodies against all 3 strains. The antigen used for the 2009 Swine Flu vaccine was an H1N1 hemagglutinen. It was used as a single antigen vaccine in 2009, but was included as one of the three hemagglutinin antigens in 2010 and 2011. In 2009, in some countries, a novel adjuvant was added to the antigen (either MF59 or ASO3 ) to increase the immune response. Narcolepsy cases have occurred after both adjuvanted and unadjuvanted swine flu vaccines were given. Was narcolepsy the only serious adverse reaction to swine flu vaccine? It's unlikely. Despite the headlines, swine flu vaccines do cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) after all.
Dr Meryl Nass MD
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Dr Meryl Nass MD
The American Dream has been stolen from the world. Workers are told that they aren't allowed health care, shelter, food. Students are told that they aren't allowed jobs, and that they will be in debt for the rest of their lives, unable to declare bankruptcy. The 1% has destroyed this nation and its values through their greed. The 1% has stolen this world. We will not allow this to occur.
Information Release, Occupy Wall Street
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Pedro Noel & Santiago Carrion, FuturePress, WL Central
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Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative reporter
Frankly, we think “war on drugs” morphs all too readily into “war on everybody.” Case in point: an out-of-control police force in New York using excessive force against the peaceful protesters in the Occupy Wall movement. Video coverage of police brutality in lower Manhattan has gone viral, but there’s scant coverage in that city’s own paper of record. As author Randy Balko rightly points out, with so much federally-funded military equipment now making its way into big cities and small towns alike, police increasingly see themselves as soldiers fighting an enemy instead of public servants devoted to keeping the peace and protecting civil rights. Perhaps, after watching this video, you’ll have some questions yourself.
Russ Baker, Business Insider
Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson said that marijuana smokers may be "the largest untapped voting bloc in the country," and defended his support for legalization as a popular political stance in an interview with Outside Magazine. "A hundred million Americans have smoked marijuana. You think they want to be considered criminals?" Johnson said. In 1999, Johnson made national headlines when as governor of New Mexico he denounced the War on Drugs as "an expensive bust" and called for the legalization of marijuana. Ron Paul also has called for the end of the War on Drugs, calling the program overly expensive and burdensome. "I hate the war on drugs a lot more than I fear drugs themselves, and I hate drugs," Paul said on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Justin Sink, The Hill
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Mark Perry, Daily Markets
E.D. Kain, Forbes
Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
"Anonymous" pre-paid mobile phone with unlocked SIM - Samsung GT-E1080i - under £10 from Tesco. If you are a potential whistleblower or an investigative journalist or political blogger or even a police or intelligence agency handler of Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS), you may well need to obtain or recommend, a hard (but not impossible) to trace, disposable "burner" pre-paid mobile phone, to arrange face to face meetings or document / data / money etc. Tesco supermarkets are currently selling what they claim to be the "Cheapest Unlocked Mobile on the High Street" for under £10. Tempting as it is to buy two or more such cheap phones (for the spare battery and power charger alone), do not do so from Tesco. They seem to have an arbitrary, unpublished or poorly advertised "rationing" policy in place, limiting the number of such "bargain" phones which an individual customer can buy at a time e.g. "one per customer in 24 hours". You do not want the supermarket checkout operator to have to "consult" with the floor supervisor or have to argue about how many phones you are allowed to buy, not if you are trying to remain forgotten and anonymous in case of future whistleblower leak investigations. Obviously if you are getting a trusted third party to buy the pre-paid mobile phone for you, this may be less of a risk to consider.
wtwu, Spy Blog
12 Noon: Rally Starts Opened by Joe Glenton, ex-soldier who was jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, and Grace McCann, who in 2010 attempted a citizen's arrest on Tony Blair. Main Stage: speeches, music, films and performances. Musicians, actors, writers, filmmakers and artists will join MPs, trade union leaders and activists from across the antiwar movement. Performers and speakers include John Pilger, Jemima Khan, Lowkey, Billy Bragg, world renowned composer Howard Blake, Brian Eno, founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, Mark Steel, novelist Ahdaf Soueif, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, actors Simon McBurney and Mark Rylance, Jeremy Corbyn MP, and many more. Marquee Stage: Meetings, stalls, displays, installations, 'open mic' sessions. Naming the Dead Ceremony: Led by Joan Humphries who lost her grandson in Afghanistan and Rose Gentle who lost her son in Iraq.
Information Release, Antiwar Mass Assembly
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