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Flashback: Public Health: Mystery tumour ‘likely’ killed British girl after HPV shot | British schoolgirl dies after HPV vaccination | UK: Question a doctor about HPV shot and lose your child | Scottish parliamentarians seek answers as cervical cancer vaccine injuries mount | Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal | Vioxx, Gardasil maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list | U.S. again denies approval to expand use of Gardasil vaccine | Did Pharma Giant with Gardasil HPV Patents Buy Nobel Prize? | Report urges long-term funding for HPV vaccine | Revealed: The serious health concerns about the cervical cancer jab | Study finds higher rate of reactions to HPV shot | Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV Vaccines | CDC reports almost 8,000 adverse reactions to “Gardasil” HPV vaccine in U.S. | Is HPV Vaccine to Blame for a Teen’s Paralysis? | Alberta to offer HPV vaccine this fall | Discovery of HPV in male oral cancers leads to vaccination call | HPV vaccination program raises concerns in B.C. | Gardasil shots have earned a painful reputation | Perspective on the HPV vaccine | Deaths associated with Merck’s HPV vaccine (Gardasil), over 3500 adverse affects reported | Political Intrigue in Merck’s Push for Mandatory HPV Vaccinations

Update (2009/10/13): Note the comment from Rob, below, that this article has been retracted by the Daily Express and excoriated on the BadScience.net blog.

Lucy Johnston, Daily Express
October 4, 2009

She also claimed the jab would do nothing to reduce the rates of cervical cancer in the UK.

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Express, Dr Diane Harper, who was involved in the clinical trials of the controversial drug Cervarix, said the jab was being “over-marketed” and parents should be properly warned about the potential side effects.

Authorities in the UK should be on the alert because its sister vaccine, Gardasil, used in America, has already been associated with 32 deaths, she said.

Her comments follow the death of 14-year-old Natalie Morton, who collapsed an hour after receiving the jab at school last week.

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Stick a fork in Europe, it’s done. They just can’t wait to turn the EU into a police state. The ‘Home Office’ is the British version of the US’s Department of Homeland Security. In this country, we add just that little extra Orwellian twist and call it ‘Public Safety Canada’. The point is, it’s a federalization and merger of state and local police forces with the military and intelligence apparatus, and in a stunning parallel to the SS Reich Security Office Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich means ‘homeland’, you see) it represents a massive threat to your security and your liberty. This isn’t about terrorism. It’s about keeping the public in line as the economy contracts, employment dries up, and new wars for profit are launched.

Related: Report: Massive FBI database set to quadruple in size | EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor “Abnormal Behavior” | US Police to get access to classified military intelligence | Planned Internet, wireless surveillance laws worry watchdogs | Ground broken on $3.4 billion Homeland Security complex | Urban warfare drills coming to Medicine Hat | Military may patrol bar zone in Barrie | Military readies reservists for threats to ‘domestic front’ | Military and police practice integration during Olympic security exercises | Military challenge: Make spy data more accessible | RCMP to helm a Canadian “cyber-security strategy” | Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies | U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command establish new bilateral Civil Assistance Plan

Bruno Waterfield, The Telegraph
October 4, 2009

Plans for an embryonic EU “Home Office” to organise intelligence sharing and lead the fight against terrorism and crime were agreed in secret talks last week, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

Acting under a little-noticed section of the Lisbon Treaty, officials set up a Standing Committee on Internal Security (Cosi) to implement what is effectively the the EU’s first ever internal security policy.

Under the plans, the scope of information available to law enforcement agencies and “public security organisations” would be extended from the sharing of DNA and fingerprint databases, kept and stored for new digital generation ID cards, to include CCTV footage and material gathered from internet surveillance.

Cosi will coordinate policy between national forces and EU organisations such as Europol, the Frontex borders agency, the European Gendarmerie Force and the Brussels intelligence sharing Joint Situation Centre, under measures known as the “Stockholm programme“. It will sharply step up collaboration among member states’ police forces.

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