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HEALTH & SCIENCE
PR WATCH - "If I had to do it all over again, I don't think I would use
the Ontario system," said Canadian cancer patient Lindsay McGreith. "I
would get my wife to drive me to Buffalo, because I know in Buffalo
you'd get looked after, whereas here you'd just sit for seven and a half
hours. ... Our system is lousy." McGreith's comments are in a soundbite
and B-roll video package (basically, an unassembled video news release)
distributed by the PR firm MultiVu and funded by Health Care America,
which is funded in part by pharmaceutical and hospital companies. It's
part of an organized industry response to the Michael Moore movie
"Sicko." Another MultiVu fake news video, which was funded by America's
Health Insurance Plans, promotes a "public-private" health care system
and decries Moore's single-payer proposal as an unpopular, "simplistic"
and unrealistic "public takeover of the healthcare system."
http://www.prwatch.org/node/6226
CIDRAP NEWS - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on
Jun 30 ordered a biodefense research laboratory at Texas A&M University
to stop all work on select agents and toxins while the CDC investigates
reports of lab workers infected with the category B bioterror agents
Brucella and Coxiella burnetti. The alleged lab accidents, along with
related alleged violations of federal law, were recently reported by the
Sunshine Project, an Austin, Texas, nonprofit group that monitors
biodefense research safety. The group used Texas freedom-of-information
requests to obtain documents about the lab incidents. In April, the
Sunshine Project reported that a Texas A&M researcher had been infected
with Brucella after a February 2006 aerosol chamber mishap and that the
school did not immediately notify the CDC as required by federal law.
Five days ago, the watchdog group reported that the exposure of three
other Texas A&M workers to C burnetti, which causes Q fever, was
confirmed in April 2006 but also was not reported to the CDC.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/jul0307bioweapons.html
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MIDEAST
THE IRANIANS ARE not happy with Oliver Stone's plans to make a movie
about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Says the president media advisor, "It is
right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S.,
but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan.". . . Replied
Stone: "I have been called a lot of things, but never a great satan. I
wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an
inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
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AMERICAN NOTES
AP - As stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a
convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a
picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman, police said.
The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got
scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed
the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday. Police have refused
to release the video, saying it is part of their investigation. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Stabbing-Video.html?_
r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
SENATOR BEN NELSON WITH SOME REAL CAMPAIGN CORN
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/07/nebraska-
senator-brings-it-on-home.php
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FURTHERMORE . . . .
EAVESDROP DC - Tourist: So you live here?. . . Intern: Yes. Well, no.
Just for a few weeks. I'm an intern at [association name redacted]. . .
Tourist: What do you do there? . . . Intern: I don't know. There's some
bill that's a really big deal or something. I make calls and talk to
people on the Hill about it. . . Tourist: What is the bill about? . . .
Intern: I don't know. They never told me.
http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
PR WATCH - "If I had to do it all over again, I don't think I would use
the Ontario system," said Canadian cancer patient Lindsay McGreith. "I
would get my wife to drive me to Buffalo, because I know in Buffalo
you'd get looked after, whereas here you'd just sit for seven and a half
hours. ... Our system is lousy." McGreith's comments are in a soundbite
and B-roll video package (basically, an unassembled video news release)
distributed by the PR firm MultiVu and funded by Health Care America,
which is funded in part by pharmaceutical and hospital companies. It's
part of an organized industry response to the Michael Moore movie
"Sicko." Another MultiVu fake news video, which was funded by America's
Health Insurance Plans, promotes a "public-private" health care system
and decries Moore's single-payer proposal as an unpopular, "simplistic"
and unrealistic "public takeover of the healthcare system."
http://www.prwatch.org/node/6226
CIDRAP NEWS - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on
Jun 30 ordered a biodefense research laboratory at Texas A&M University
to stop all work on select agents and toxins while the CDC investigates
reports of lab workers infected with the category B bioterror agents
Brucella and Coxiella burnetti. The alleged lab accidents, along with
related alleged violations of federal law, were recently reported by the
Sunshine Project, an Austin, Texas, nonprofit group that monitors
biodefense research safety. The group used Texas freedom-of-information
requests to obtain documents about the lab incidents. In April, the
Sunshine Project reported that a Texas A&M researcher had been infected
with Brucella after a February 2006 aerosol chamber mishap and that the
school did not immediately notify the CDC as required by federal law.
Five days ago, the watchdog group reported that the exposure of three
other Texas A&M workers to C burnetti, which causes Q fever, was
confirmed in April 2006 but also was not reported to the CDC.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/jul0307bioweapons.html
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MIDEAST
THE IRANIANS ARE not happy with Oliver Stone's plans to make a movie
about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Says the president media advisor, "It is
right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S.,
but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan.". . . Replied
Stone: "I have been called a lot of things, but never a great satan. I
wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an
inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
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AMERICAN NOTES
AP - As stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a
convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a
picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman, police said.
The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got
scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed
the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday. Police have refused
to release the video, saying it is part of their investigation. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Stabbing-Video.html?_
r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
SENATOR BEN NELSON WITH SOME REAL CAMPAIGN CORN
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/07/nebraska-
senator-brings-it-on-home.php
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FURTHERMORE . . . .
EAVESDROP DC - Tourist: So you live here?. . . Intern: Yes. Well, no.
Just for a few weeks. I'm an intern at [association name redacted]. . .
Tourist: What do you do there? . . . Intern: I don't know. There's some
bill that's a really big deal or something. I make calls and talk to
people on the Hill about it. . . Tourist: What is the bill about? . . .
Intern: I don't know. They never told me.
http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/
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