New Song: “DO NOT COMPLY”

Over the past months, I have been dismayed, and then alarmed, by the continuing erosion of civil liberties in the United States.  My recent op-ed noted that of the ten guaranteed freedoms granted by our Founders in the Bill of Rights, at least four have been regularly trampled (if not completely trashed) by the federal…

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From the Irish Times: In a final vote of no confidence, Ireland’s ill-fated e-voting machines are finally headed to the scrap heap. From the June 29 Independent: THE Government has sold the infamous €54m e-voting machines for scrap — for €9.30 each. [Sold as scrap for about 15 cents per ten dollars spent on their…

Elaine GrossmanGlobal Security Newswire Oct. 17, 2008WASHINGTON – The U.S. Health and Human Services Department early this month moved to shield government, industry and business officials from lawsuits filed by those who have received the anthrax vaccine (see GSN , Sept. 5, 2007). Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt established legal immunity for public…

CDC claims the smallpox-moneypox vaccine Jynneos (a.k.a. Imvanex, Imvamune and MVA-BN) is 85% effective against moneypox.  But the WHO, European Medicines Association (EMA) and Nature magazine spilled the beans.  No one has any idea how effective these new vaccines will be against monkeypox, or smallpox for that matter, because no trials for efficacy were ever…

CDC called a few thousand random phone numbers and asked people whether they had been vaccinated. CDC said the response rate was poor. From this admittedly poor quality dataset, CDC told the world that 20% of Americans had been vaccinated against swine flu. But CDC had a high quality dataset telling it exactly how many…