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JURIST - Paper Chase: UK marines charged with 2011 Afghanistan murder
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/uk-marines-charged-with-2011-afghanistan-murder.php

UK marines charged with 2011 Afghanistan murder
Matthew Pomy at 12:18 PM ET

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[JURIST] Five UK Royal Marines were charged with murder on Sunday in connection with an incident in 2011 in Afghanistan. The charge allegedly arises out of a video [Telegraph report] that showed marines in an incriminating situation with a wounded member of the Taliban. An independent agency that supervises military prosecutions, the Service Prosecuting Authority [official website], decided to bring the murder charge against five of the nine marines arrested in relation to the incident. The other four were released. The five charged will remain in custody [BBC report] until appearing before a court martial.

There have been several incidents arising out of the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts. In February the US Army dropped all charges [JURIST report] against Army Specialist Michael Wagnon, originally charged with killing Afghan civilians. In January US Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich pleaded guilty [JURIST report] to the charge of negligent dereliction of duty. Sgt. Calvin Gibbs was convicted of three counts [JURIST report] of premeditated murder last November and was sentenced to life in prison. In December 2010 Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens pleaded guilty [JURIST report] to shooting two unarmed Afghan farmers. Charges against Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Chessani were dropped [JURIST report] in June 2008.

Communiqué de Riseup : attaque contre l’anonymat des échanges sur Internet
http://atelier.mediaslibres.lautre.net/Communique-de-Riseup-attaque.html

L’université de Pittsburgh aux Etats-Unis est la cible de nombreuses alertes à la bombe depuis plusieurs semaines, notamment par mail. Une machine hébergée dans une colocation de serveurs alternatifs et militants à New York a été saisie mercredi dans le cadre de cette enquête. Cela n’a pas empêché que de nouvelles menaces soient adressées à l’université américaine ce jeudi. Riseup, le collectif nord-américain qui fournit de nombreux services à des dizaines milliers de personnes à travers le monde et dont des machines sont hébergées dans le même data center, alerte sur cette attaque gratuite du FBI contre des services garantissant l’anonymat des échanges sur Internet, la machine saisie ne pouvant permettre de retrouver l’origine des menaces. Traduction du communiqué de Riseup.

Le communiqué en anglais : ►https://help.riseup.net/fr/seizure-2012-april

Server Seizure, April 2012 - help.riseup.net
►https://help.riseup.net/fr/seizure-2012-april

FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility.

#internet #censure #anonyme

Brain Controls Paralyzed Muscles | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/04/18/brain-controls-paralyzed-muscles

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a device that allows monkeys to reach out and grab a ball, even though they cannot feel some of their arm muscles. A panel of electrodes implanted in the monkeys’ brains decodes commands from the motor cortex (the region that controls movements), while electrodes in their arms directly stimulate the appropriate muscles.

Biodefence since 9/11: The price of protection | Nature News
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110907/full/477150a.html

Between 2001 and the end of this year, the federal government will have spent $60 billion on biodefence efforts, according to analyses from the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The money has helped to modernize the nation’s crumbling public-health system, and BioShield has invested in a stockpile of 20 million doses of smallpox vaccine, 28.75 million doses of #anthrax vaccine and 1.98 million doses of four medicines to treat complications of smallpox, anthrax and botulism. But few researchers or policy-makers seem happy with an arsenal of six drugs that address only three of the potential threats — even if they are among the most serious. “The pipeline we rely on to provide those critical countermeasures — diagnostics, vaccines, antivirals, antibiotics — is full of leaks, choke points and dead ends,” said Kathleen Sebelius, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a statement last year.

Critics say that the effort has been hobbled by a lack of strategic thinking, focus and coordination between the federal agencies involved, and by unrealistic expectations of what the money could buy. “There was no evidence that they looked at what our top priorities are and asked, ’What’s needed on the basic-science side?’, ’What’s needed on the development side?’, and ’What’s needed in the stockpile?’,” says Andrew Pavia, an infectious-diseases doctor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Until earlier this year, Pavia served on the National Biodefense Science Board, which advises the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and in March last year released a report, Where Are The Countermeasures?, that was critical of the federal biodefence effort.

#armes #biologiques #etats-unis

Massive cuts to education in Pennsylvania budget+|+World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/penn-a01.shtml

Med Schools Flunk at Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit - ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/article/medical-schools-policies-on-faculty-and-drug-company-speaking-circuit

Des profs de #Stanford payés par l’industrie #pharma en violation des règles de la fac

A #ProPublica investigation found that more than a dozen of the school’s doctors were paid speakers in apparent violation of its policy—two of them earning six figures since last year.
Dr. Philip Pizzo, the dean of Stanford’s medical school, sent an e-mail [2] to all medical school staff last week calling the conduct “unacceptable.” Some doctors’ excuses, he wrote, were “difficult if not impossible to reconcile with our policy.”