Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Law chief orders probe into secret files on death of Dr David Kelly/ Mail Online

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UPDATE:  From the October 18 MailOnline : Ambulance chiefs face renewed pressure to explain the loss of a key medical record relating to ...

Missing weaponized anthrax at Fort Detrick?/ new release from AMEDD

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More material has been released on the anthrax letters case by the Army: https://mrmc.amedd.army.mil/index.cfm?pageid=foia_reading_room.ov...

Flu shot side effects worse than the disease/ Sydney Morning Herald

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People in Australia are waking up to the evidence that in some cases, vaccines cause more harm than good.  Furthermore, the longterm sequell...
Monday, September 27, 2010

The Imperial Presidency: USG Wants to Wiretap the Internet/ NY Times

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From Charlie Savage at the NY Times : WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping n...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Mandating flu vaccine for health care workers

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Although CDC said it would not support mandatory flu vaccinations for healthcare workers (imagine the lawsuits if this were a federal govern...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

CIA runs a 3,000 man paramilitary army in Pakistan/ Washington Post

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Detailed in a book review  of "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward in today's Washington Post: We have not declared war again...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

US BARDA commits $51 to $186.6 MIllion to EBS for Next Generation Anthrax Vaccine

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Recently there have been criticisms that BARDA has not spent much of the 6 billion dollars set aside for biological and chemical warfare tre...

Canadian Surveillance of H1N1 swine flu cases/ Medscape and PLOS

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From MEDSCAPE : Like all flu seasons, mortality in the elderly was highest from swine flu during the 2009-10 season Preexisting antibodies...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Holt: FBI anthrax investigation is itself subject of probe/ NJ.com

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http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_31088/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=324CEF6CC147295B74C534B1C27049AB?contentguid=Hg5hcoWW Matt Fair After y...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

New Review of FBI's Work in Anthrax Letters Case/ WSJ

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New Review of FBI’s Work in Anthrax Letters Case By Devlin Barrett, Wall Street Journal The investigative arm of Congress will take anoth...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Flu Response: contradictions and dire warnings

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Despite a recent attempt to paint last year's swine flu pandemic as more serious than thought, based on its higher attack rates and comp...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Risk-Taking Rises as Oil Rigs in Gulf Drill Deeper/ NY Times

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Excerpts from today's NY Times: Yet even as regulators investigate the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the broader dangers po...

EMEA starts review of Pandemrix, will consider provisional measures at its September meeting

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From Therapeutics Daily : ...  Although the cases of narcolepsy have been reported in temporal association with the use of Pandemrix, it is...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

David Kelly, A Textbook Suicide? Mail and Independent

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Hmmm.  What exactly is a textbook suicide, Dr. Nicholas Hunt?  The most common suicide in males would be associated with alcohol excess and ...
Friday, August 27, 2010

US Defense Department makes flu shots MANDATORY for teachers and students in Europe/ Stars and Stripes

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Yes, this vaccine contains the swine flu antigen used last year and now, plus two other flu antigens.  It is very similar to the vaccine ban...

Swine flu vaccine safety probed by EMEA/ Telegraph

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From the Telegraph : The safety of a swine flu vaccine is to be investigated by European drugs regulators (EMEA, the European Medicines Age...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Narcolepsy fears may halt swine flu vaccine: Finland and Sweden/ AFP

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Agence France Presse reports that Finland and Sweden fear that narcolepsy in children could be a consequence of receiving GSK's Pandemri...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Top Tory (Michael Howard) backs Kelly inquest calls/ UK Press Association

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From the UKPA : Former Conservative leader Michael Howard has thrown his weight behind demands for a full inquest into the death of the gov...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Dr Kelly investigation 'was inadequate': Now NINE (new) top doctors demand inquest/ Times and Daily Mail

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The 9 new experts wrote to ministers in an open letter to the London Times.  Because the Times charges for access to its content, coverage i...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

The cloud of doubt over Dr David Kelly must be lifted/ Sunday Mail

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Thanks to the Mail for pursuing this important case.  A more detailed piece the following day is here . Troubling: Dr David Kelly The d...

CDC Ignores Seizure Risk of Flu Vaccines/ CDC

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Doctors in the UK and Australia have been instructed not to give flu vaccines this year to children under five years old.   As reported by ...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Officially sanctioned murder of US citizen supported by law banning legal challenge/ NY Times

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What a Catch 22: Once the US Government designates someone as a terrorist, it becomes illegal to provide the designee with legal assistance ...

CDC is not recommending mandatory flu vaccinations for healthcare workers/Medscape

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I have not been able to find the official announcement of this, but according to Medscape, the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Unexpected hazards of factory-produced foods and other products/Washington Post

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This summer, Kellogg recalled 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops and Honey Smacks.  Dozens of consumers reported a stra...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

This year's seasonal flu vaccines

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Flu vaccine is being recommended for the entire US population over 6 months of age, starting this year. The (non-live) vaccines will conta...

July’s Toll Worst for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan/ NY Times

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Excerpts from today's NY Times make clear the Afghans we are supposed to be helping do not appreciate us, to put it mildly. KABUL, Afg...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Imperial Presidency: Demanding Data on US citizens without a court order/ WaPo

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 From the Washington Post : The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of a...

The Imperial Presidency: Wresting $ power from Congress/ NY Times

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Excerpts from the NY Times article titled, "Budget Chief Tried to Tilt Power to Executive Branch" by Matthew Bai: Taken together...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

'Minister ignored advice over swine flu vaccine double dose plan'/ Dutch News

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The Dutch health minister overbought swine flu vaccine, ignoring official advice of authorities in Holland.  What did WHO recommend at that ...

Wikileaks fallout: Why are we continuing to support Pakistan? and only 33% of Americans are happy with Obama's handling of the war/ The Guardian

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When we seem to be providing the operating expenses for those who bomb and shoot our children, what is the point of this war? From the Guard...

US military fails to account for 8.7 Billion in Iraq reconstruction money/ BBC

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From the BBC: Nine billion dollars "from the sale of Iraqi oil and gas, and some frozen Saddam Hussein-era assets" should have be...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Wikileaks Afghanistan documents: What do they reveal about the war?

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Ninety-two thousand Wikileaks documents were provided in advance of their public release today to the NY Times , the Guardian (UK) and Der ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

David Kelly death and the continuing Chilcott Inquiry into the leadup to the Iraq War

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From the Express : ... Dr Fletcher, a highly ­respected retired pathologist and former chief scientific officer at the Department of Health...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Swine Flu Fizzles Out; WHO May Declare End to Pandemic Alert/ Bloomberg

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There has been almost no swine flu in the southern hemisphere so far this winter.  Finally WHO will announce we are in the post-pandemic pha...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Deviations from "Good Manufacturing Practices" the rule/ the Australian

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An FDA inspection uncovered multiple significant deviations from standard manufacturing processes, termed "good manufacturing practice...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

F.D.A. Panel Votes to Restrict Avandia/ NY Times

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 Gardiner Harris @ the NY Times follows up on the FDA Avandia review: A federal medical advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Avandia ...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Gaming the Evidence: Evaluating adverse events post-vaccination/ BMJ rapid response

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A letter to the BMJ questions the rationale for using certain new vaccines in India that fail to "result in significant reduction in d...

Caustic Government Report Deals Blow to Diabetes Drug/ NY Times

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The NY Times' Gardiner Harris has covered a crucial issue unpinning the use of drugs in modern medical practice.  As I point out on the ...