Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Gardasil: 49 US deaths reported to VAERS/ Washington Examiner

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From the Washington Examiner :  Cervical cancer accounts for less than 1 percent of all cancer deaths, so it was somewhat surprising when t...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

CDC officials continue to urge H1N1 vaccination/ Infectious Disease News

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Officials with the CDC are continuing to urge people to get the H1N1 vaccine, as a small uptick in H1N1 cases has been reported in the So...

Israel: Soldiers sue government over anthrax shots

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From YNet News Dozens of soldiers who took part in experiment in early 1990s aimed at determining efficacy of Anthrax vaccine demand $80,0...

Swine Flu Fallout

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Today's Guardian discusses a draft report by UK MP Paul Flynn on the European response to the swine flu epidemic.  Titled " WHO acc...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Anthrax Questions/ Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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The U.S. Senate must help America get to the bottom of the post-9/11 anthrax attacks. The FBI hasn't produced convincing answers. It ha...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Most Likely Source of Silicon in Anthrax Attack Spores Argues Against Production by Ivins

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Writing at FireDogLake , Jim White discusses the role of silicon in the anthrax spores.  Apparently, the mechanism for 2 liter cultures of a...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

HOLT DEMANDS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT FURTHER AMERITHRAX INVESTIGATION

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 18, 2010 Contact: Zach Goldberg 202-225-5801 (office) HOLT DEMANDS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT FURTHER A...
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Anthrax Investigation: What About the Silicon?/ Science

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Science Magazine asks, " What about the Silicon?"   The 19 March 2010 issue contains an article by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee detaili...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Letter from OMB to Chairs and Ranking Members of House/Senate Intelligence Committees

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Here is the letter from OMB detailing the Obama Administration's objections to the Intelligence Authorization Act passed by the House o...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New way to be compensated for anthrax/smallpox vaccine injuries

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from Vaccine News Daily : ... Besides the H1N1 vaccine, countermeasures currently covered by the CICP (Countermeasures Injury Compensation ...

My interview about the anthrax case on Expert Witness/WBAI NYC

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fyi, here is a link to the MP3 of a 55 minute interview with Michael Levine and Mark Marshall on the March 15 ExpertWitness radio program .
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Admin Spin Docs Working Overtime

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The ABC News blogger Jacob Tapper  (" Political Punch ") provides more detail about what the administration is complaining about i...
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Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence oversight/ Glenn Greenwald (Salon)

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Glenn Greenwald was a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York before becoming a writer on political affairs and constituti...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria: The Swine Flu Panic of 2009/ Spiegel

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From the March 12, 2010 Spiegel (my thanks to Jane Bryant's " OneClick " website for posting the story and to Digital Journa...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Old WP editorial requesting Independent Commission or DOJ IG review of FBI anthrax case

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From an Editorial in the December 1, 2008 Washington Post : ...The new attorney general also should ensure that an independent commission or...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Anthrax Vaccine and EMS: Beware of Waytes Bearing Gifts

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Tom Waytes, vice president of Emergent BioSolutions, the manufacturer of anthrax vaccine, spoke at a meeting of Emergency Services Personnel...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

My summary of unresolved issues in the anthrax letters case

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In terms of the strength of the FBI’s case against Ivins, I would break down an analysis in the following way: 1. To prove that a person com...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Jean Duley emerges from undisclosed location after 18 months to bolster FBI's case against Ivins

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Jean Duley gave Anderson Cooper the scoop (watch the video!) on Bruce Ivins. Not to put too fine a point on it, but a few facts are in orde...
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NAS Report: Weaknesses Found in Safety Assessment of Planned Fort Detrick Biodefense Lab/ GSN

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Excerpts from Global Security Newswire : The U.S. Army should fine-tune its procedures for determining safety risks in its projects followin...

Biggest swine flu regret for U.S.: vaccine chaos/ Reuters

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By Maggie Fox, Reuters. Excerpts: WASHINGTON - First,...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Nadler Renews Call for Independent Investigation of Anthrax Attacks

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Thursday, 04 March 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on...

HOLT CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO FBI HANDLING OF ANTHRAX ATTACKS

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March 3 Letter from Congressman Holt asking for a Congressional Investigation into the government's handling of the anthrax letters in...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

The FBI's Anthrax Case/ NYT

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From the February 27 NY Times ... More problematic is the investigative work that led the F.B.I. to conclude that only Dr. Ivins, among perh...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

VA to Reconsider Benefits for Ill Gulf War Vets/ WP

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In a hearing today, Feb. 26, VA Secretary Shinseki said he would be reviewing disability claims for Gulf War-related illnesses to be sure th...

Bill for more investigation of '01 anthrax case passes House

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From the Baltimore Sun : A measure requiring further federal investigation into the 2001 anthrax attack that killed five people was approve...
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Rep. Rush Holt speaking for his 2/25 anthrax investigation amendment

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http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IxVpMBK54aY&feature=youtube_ gdata
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

US House Seeks Further Review Of Anthrax Attacks/AP

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From WJZ and the Associated Press : WASHINGTON (AP) ― The House of Representatives is seeking further review of the 2001 anthrax mailings th...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

ACIP: Flu vaccine shot for everyone, every year/ LA Times

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Th e LA Times reports that what I expected to occur has now happened. The CDC's ACIP used the swine flu pandemic to gin up flu anxiety...

Kissin Memo: Piecing Together the Anthrax Letters Story

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The Frederick News-Post has posted a long memorandum by Attorney Barry Kissin , a resident of Frederick, Maryland on its website. Attorney ...
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FBI and Sandia were unable to produce an identical spore preparation: so how could they prove Ivins made the spores on Fort Detrick equipment??

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Audio and Text from the National Academy of Engineering Anthrax Close-up, Part 2 12/14/2008 The FBI says spores from the anthrax atta...

No reason to assume the anthrax powder was produced in the week before the letters were sent/ GSN

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From Global Security Newswire , including material from the Frederick News-Post: The fact that Ivins kept very late laboratory hours in the ...

Additional details emerge to challenge the FBI's anthrax letter scenario

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Today's NY Times carries an article by Richard Bernstein, " Haste Leaves Anthrax Case Unconcluded." Edited only slightly for...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Media Called for an Independent Investigation; New FBI report fails to assuage their concerns

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Washington Post Editorial , September 19, 2008 "Anthrax Suspicions: Why an independent look at the FBI probe is essential" THERE...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Federal Bureau of Invention: CASE CLOSED (and Ivins did it)

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But FBI's report , documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were releas...
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