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African Babies As Guinea Pigs? Malaria, Bill Gate$, Big Drug$ and Big Buck$
by Thomas C. Mountain
When
it comes to the new malaria vaccine developed by Glaxo, Smith and Kline
(GSK) now being tested on infants in the east African country of
Tanzania I will let the words of an industry insider tell it best..
"There
is not much profit to be made by big pharma from a highly effective
malaria vaccine of practical use for African sufferers...they [Big
Drug$) are fiendishly clever at exploiting any and all opportunities to
reap big benefits."
"The
poorly performing malaria vaccine RTS,S, created by GSK with a healthy
infusion of funds from the Gates Foundation, is being tested in Phase
III trials in Africa now. Including many thousands of African
infants."
"will not profit from RTS,S. However, RTS,S is injected along with a new GSK adjuvant called AS01."
"will make vast sums from the new adjuvant, the testing of which is
being piggybacked on their altruistic malaria vaccine (which,
incidentally, is virtually entirely ineffective without AS01)."
"Interestingly,
RTS,S (or should I say, AS01) testing in African infants began before
AS01 trials in children were permitted in the United States."
"physician-scientists also held positions of significance in the Gates
Foundation...conflict-of-interest issues not withstanding."
So
the Gate$ Foundation is giving Big Buck$ ($400 million and counting) to
Big Drug$/G$K to develop a vaccine against Africa’s number one killer,
malaria.
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Two killed during Panama mining protests
by Mining Watch Canada
(News Alert) - Two indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé men were killed
and dozens more injured in connection with a police crackdown on dissent
over mining and hydroelectric developments in Panama, where Canadian
mining companies have a significant presence.
Since January 30, thousands of Ngöbe-Buglé blocked the Inter-American
Highway at San Felix in western Panama, demanding that the government
approve legislation that would annul existing mining and hydroelectric concessions granted in their territory.
Despite calls for peaceful dialogue,
the Martinelli government responded with police force on Sunday in an
attempt to suppress protests and clear the highway for transit. Jerónimo Rodríguez Tugri was killed on Sunday when police opened fire against indigenous demonstrators. Mauricio Méndez died Monday.
The violence in San Felix has triggered widespread dissent from civil society groups and other indigenous nations throughout Panama. Road blockades, marches, and vigils are taking place across the country, including in the capital city, where universities have also been closed. The banana workers union in Bocas de Toro has declared an indefinite strike until the government complies with the Ngöbe-Buglé’s demands.
In response to police violence, indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé protestors have burned down police stations in the towns of San Felix and Volcán.
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Egypt Soccer Violence: The Military’s Political Game
by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat l Pyramidion
Egyptians infuriated b y the deaths
of 74 people in soccer violence staged protests in central Cairo and
clashed with the police forces, as the army-led government came under
fire for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since the overthrow
of Hosni Mubarak.
For the third day in a row, Deadly clashes continue to rage
in Egypt over football riots leaving 12 killed and more than 2500
wounded in street clashes over authorities’ failure to stop Port Said
football violence.
Protesters
chant anti-government slogans during a protest condemning the death of
soccer fans at Port Said stadium, near the Interior Ministry in Cairo,
Feb. 2
State media reported renewed scuffles between members of the security
forces encircling the building of the ministry of interior and
demonstrators who included hardcore soccer fans, aka Ultras, known for confronting the police and who were on the frontlines of protests against the military throughout the last year.
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Joint No One Is Illegal Response to Jason Kenney's Staged Citizenship Ceremony
by NOII
Jason Kenney, Minister of Censorship and Deportation, is making
headlines again with yet another parliamentary scandal. A series of
access to information requests have revealed that Kenney’s office
organized a bogus citizenship ceremony broadcast on Sun Media (the
aspiring Fox News Network of Canada).
“Let’s do it. We can fake the
oath,” said one Sun staffer, and arranged for six federal bureaucrats to
stand in as “immigrants.” Kenney has refused to apologize for this disgusting photo-op.
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Haiti Wikileaks Writer Speaks in Canada
Kim Ives, an editor of Haiti's largest circulation weekly newspaper, Haiti Liberté,
recently completed a speaking tour to Winnipeg, Victoria and Vancouver,
Canada, and Seattle, Washington in which he described the current
political situation and outlook in post-earthquake Haiti.
The theme of his speaking engagements was Haiti: The Wikileaks Files. Ives is one of the lead writers, along with Dan Coughlin and Ansel Herz, of the series of articles published last year in Haiti Liberté and The Nation
magazine based on revelations contained in nearly 2,000 U.S. government
diplomatic cables that were provided to the two publications by the
Wikileaks organization.
In his talks, Ives examined the ordeal that the survivors of the
January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti have endured in the past two years.
Recovery and reconstruction in the country is proceeding at a snail's
pace. More than half a million people are still living in squalid
survivor camps, hundreds of thousands more have moved back into damaged
or condemned buildings or are living in plywood box temporary shelters.
More than 7,000 people have died from the largest outbreak of cholera in
the world in recent history that began nine months after the earthquake
due to the negligence of the United Nations.
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Fukushima Update: Unit 2 Temperature Rise
by Nelle Maxey
TEPCO increased the volume of water being injected into Unit 2 by
35% in the early hours of February 7.
This attempt to lower the temperature has stabilized it around 70 degrees
C.
But it has not lowered it significantly.
The best article on the net explaining what is going on at Unit 2 is the
one below from Asahi news. It has the fewest errors and omissions and also has
an excellent drawing and an excellent chart which you can see at the link to the
article.
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Petition Seeks
International Investigation of Canada’s Farmed Fish Operations,
Protections for Wild Salmon
by Center for
Biological Diversity
San
Francisco — Conservation,
fishing and native groups in Canada and the United States filed a
formal petition today requesting an international investigation into Canada’s
failure to protect wild salmon in British Columbia from disease and parasites in
industrial fish feedlots.
The petition was submitted to the Commission for
Environmental Cooperation under the North American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation — an environmental side agreement to the North American Free Trade
Agreement — and seeks enforcement of Canada’s Fisheries
Act.
"The
Canadian inquiry into the collapse of Fraser River sockeye, the largest
salmon-producing river in the world, suggests the primarily Norwegian-owned
British Columbia salmon-farming industry exerts trade pressures that exceed
Canada's political will to protect wild salmon,” said biologist Alexandra Morton
with the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society. “Releasing viruses into native
ecosystems is an irrevocable threat to biodiversity, yet Canada seems to have no
mechanism to prevent salmon-farm diseases from afflicting wild salmon throughout
the entire North Pacific."
Canada has
permitted more than 100 industrial salmon feedlots in British Columbia to
operate along wild salmon migration routes, exposing ecologically and
economically valuable salmon runs to epidemics of disease, parasites, toxic
chemicals and concentrated waste.
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Cermaq's Clusterfuck
The ‘ Salmon Far ming Kills’
lawsuit is now entering the final week with only the closing arguments
to come (today is Day 17 in the scheduled 20 day trial).
David Sutherland, legal counsel for the defendant Don Staniford,
closed his case yesterday (6 February) at Noon after Cermaq’s lawyer
David Wotherspoon ended his cross-examination of Mr. Staniford.
This
morning (7 February) at 10am, lawyers for Cermaq present their final
case to Justice Elaine Adair (courtroom #52 - Hornby/Nelson St.
entrance).
Tomorrow (8 February), the defendant’s case will be
presented (Day 18). Thursday (9 February) could see the trial close
early on Day 19 – with Justice Adair expected to make a final ruling
over the Summer.
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Dhafir Made Moral Choice to Aid Iraqis
 On Friday, Judge Norman Mordue resentenced Dr. Rafil Dhafir to 22 years
in prison, in large part because he is unrepentant about sending food
and medicine to starving Iraqi civilians in violation of the
International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA).
According to United
Nations estimates, between 1 million and 1.5 million Iraqi civilians
died as a direct result of the U.S. and U.K.-sponsored U.N. sanctions
against Iraq.
Dhafir made the correct moral choice and undertook the
obligation imposed on all American citizens by Nuremberg Principle IV,
to reduce the genocidal consequences of sanctions, by open assistance of
food and medicine to Iraqi children and adults via his Charity Help the
Needy for 13 years.
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Britain and United States condemn murder in Syria but condone murder in Palestine
Arising out the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented
dynamite, the Nobel Prize is universally recognized as the most
prestigious award in the fields of peace-making, economics, chemistry,
physics, medicine and literature. How about an international award –
without the gold medal, the diploma and the money – for hypocrisy?
Such an award could be called the Lebon Prize (reversing Nobel). If there was such an award, the statements of European and American
leaders in the immediate aftermath of Russia and China’s veto of the
Security Council resolution to end the killing in Syria suggest two most
obvious nominees for it.
One is William Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary.
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US Iran Policy in 'Lockstep' with Israel?: President Obama Risks Becoming a Major-League War Criminal
It’s a relief to know that President Obama’s “preferred” solution to
dealing with disagreements with Iran is diplomacy, as he said yesterday
in an interview on NBC TV, but at the same time, it’s profoundly
disturbing that he is simultaneously saying that, as an AP report on the interview put it: he would “not take options off the table to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.”
Washington is full of a lot of attack-Iran war talk as is corporate media, but the public is saying 'No!'
Equally disturbing are the president’s mutually contradictory
statements that, on the one hand, he feels that “Any kind of additional
military activity inside the Gulf is disruptive and has a big effect on
us,” and that on the other, he will “make sure that we work in lockstep”
with Israel in dealing with Iran and its nuclear program.
Lockstep? With Israel?
Didn’t the US just send Gen.Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US
Military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Israel to tell that country’s
leaders that the US does not want Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear
facilities. And wasn’t Israel also told that the US would not support it
in any attack on Iran, at least if the US was not warned well in
advance?
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