PJC Journal – Original

The institutionally corrupt (no accounts for 13 years) EU Commission has given permission for the import of GM soya products by the same firm that is being investigated for killing off most of Europe's bees, with another of its modified products, the pesticide Clothianidin.

The European Commission has approved the import of a strain of
genetically modified soybean, a move announced on Monday (8 September)
by the European Commission.

The bean, which bears the moniker A25704-12 and was developed by
German biotechnology firm Bayer Cropscience, is now authorised to be
brought to Europe to be used in food or animal feed for the next 10
years.

This totally stinks of corruption. Who is paying who for this corruption?

German prosecutors are investigating Werner Wenning, Bayer's chairman,
and Friedrich Berschauer, the head of Bayer CropScience, after critics
alleged that they knowingly polluted the environment.

The
investigation was triggered by an Aug. 13 complaint filed by German
beekeepers and consumer protection advocates, a Coalition against Bayer
Dangers spokesman, Philipp Mimkes, said Monday.

The complaint is
part of efforts by groups on both sides of the Atlantic to determine
how much Bayer CropScience knows about the part that clothianidin may
have played in the death of millions of honeybees.

Clothianidin, sold under the
brand name Poncho, is used to coat corn, sugar beet and sorghum seeds
and protect them from pests. A nerve toxin that has the potential to be
toxic for bees, it gets into all parts of the plant that grows from the
coated seeds.

With record harvests across the EU there is no reason, no reason whatsoever for the introduction of GM modified crops of any kind.

This is about money, this is about market control by destroying naturally growing crops and replacing them with GM crops which have inbuilt suicide tendencies, making growers totally dependent on the GM seed companies by having to replace seed every year rather than planting from their own seed stores.

In August 2007, EFSA said that Bayer's A25704-12 soybean was safe
for import, awarding the product a “positive safety assessment.”

The authority has long been accused of being biased in favour of the
biotech industry, both by environmental groups and by certain EU member
states, who say the body gives its OK to any GMOs without the required
research.

Anti-GMO campaigners complain that EFSA bases its investigations on
data provided by the GM industry itself. It has always declared any GM
crops it has studied to be safe.

The crop is to be planted widely across the United States next year.
Without such authorisation, farmers in the 27-country bloc would not
have been able to purchase these particular soybeans due to contamination worries.  No shit Sherlock !!

This totally stinks of corruption. Who is paying who for this corruption?

Nice 'spends £1m more on spin than evaluating drugs' – Telegraph

The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has come under fire in recent months for the time it takes to decide which drugs can be given on the NHS and for rejecting some life extending medications as too expensive.

Official figures show that Nice spent almost £3.4 million, 10 per cent of its budget, evaluating new drugs and technologies last year.

But the organisation spent around £4.5 million, 13 per cent, on communications.

The Tories, who uncovered the figures, claimed that they showed that the body was wasting money on “spin doctors”.

Judging by those figures NICE's total budget is £34 million, and NICE are complaining that the figures are wrong because testing drugs is done by the “R&D section of the Department of Health” and doesn't show up on their budget.

So what exactly does NICE do with all that dosh, especially as Scotland seems to get on quite well without NICE determining which drugs its patients can have.

It seems that the only purpose NICE has is to curtail the use of essential life saving drugs to the English NHS, whilst promoting health scares, government propaganda and the politics of fear.

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Nice 'spends £1m more on spin than evaluating drugs' – Telegraph

The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has come under fire in recent months for the time it takes to decide which drugs can be given on the NHS and for rejecting some life extending medications as too expensive.

Official figures show that Nice spent almost £3.4 million, 10 per cent of its budget, evaluating new drugs and technologies last year.

But the organisation spent around £4.5 million, 13 per cent, on communications.

The Tories, who uncovered the figures, claimed that they showed that the body was wasting money on “spin doctors”.

Judging by those figures NICE's total budget is £34 million, and NICE are complaining that the figures are wrong because testing drugs is done by the “R&D section of the Department of Health” and doesn't show up on their budget.

So what exactly does NICE do with all that dosh, especially as Scotland seems to get on quite well without NICE determining which drugs its patients can have.

It seems that the only purpose NICE has is to curtail the use of essential life saving drugs to the English NHS, whilst promoting health scares, government propaganda and the politics of fear.

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Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

Those of you who faithfully follow your local council's diktats wrt
sorting your rubbish into various categories, or those of you who have
been fined for throwing a crisp packet in with the paper may have
enjoyed Monday night's Tonight programme on ITV.

Tonight revealed that we are being conned by our councils when they tell us that our rubbish is recycled.

The
Tonight investigation revealed that waste, originally collected for
recycling by four British local authorities, is being dumped on Indian
farmland near the migration path of wild elephants.

Tonight
reporter Mark Jordan travelled to the state of Tamil Nadu and found
waste including British newspapers DATED FROM THIS JANUARY, food
packaging from Tesco, plastic bags from Mothercare and even a St
George's flag.

After digging down four feet with a JCB at one
well site, Tonight discovered a hidden mountain of British waste
including Walkers crisps bags, Sainsbury's apple juice, children's
report cards and newspapers such as The Telegraph. It is estimated that
the well could be up to 30 feet deep.

Tonight tracked down
supposedly recycled mail found at one Indian dump addressed to
residents living in Tendring, Wellingborough and Wakefield District
Councils and Leicestershire County Council.

All four authorities
collect recyclables intermingled in either one or two bins then send
them to a sorting facility which will sell them on to be recycled in
factories or mills.

A Tonight survey also showed that 46 local authorities HAVE NO IDEA what happens to their household collections of recyclable waste, after it is sent to their contracted sorting facilities.

Last week it said that some companies refuse to tell councils where
they sell recyclable material because of commercial confidentiality. Ahh, that old chestnut.

Am
I alone in feeling a tad “miffed” to discover that my council tax
increases (part of which are allegedly being used for environmental
purposes) and the draconian punishments handed down to “bin criminals”
are in fact an elaborate cover for local authorities merely to raise
more revenue and con us into thinking that we are doing something good
for the environment, whilst they take a little extra slice from dodgy
deals with dodgy recycling companies?

Who trusts our local councils now? Who are the real Bin Criminals?

Hattip Nanny Knows Best

Is this the beginning of Government controls over which software you will be able to use to contact government websites, or even the first step into the world of controlling which software you may legally use on your PC's and Laptops in the UK.

This controversial subject has been the focus of much speculation for some time and widely discussed on the internet forums and blogs.

Now, The Central Office of Information is consulting on a proposal that public sector websites could exclude browsers with a low market share.

The COI draft guidance suggests that public sector web designers need not test against browsers with a share of less than 2%, reports The Register. The consultation recommends that designers place an advisory notice asking users to switch to a “supported” browser.

The Web Standards Project's (WSP) Bruce Lawson called it “entirely back-to-front”, arguing that designers should code for the web, not individual browsers. Designers should conform to commonly agreed basic standards, rather than browser idiosyncrasies, he said.

“The guidelines should be advocating a specific development methodology: they should recommend designing to Web Standards,” Lawson said. “Costs will be driven down, even if testing is performed across more browsers, because there will be fewer inconsistencies and less recoding to fix inconsistencies.”

But, as we know, this Government and any authoritarian government for that matter are not interested in costs, or what's really best or easiest for the public, they are only interested in regulation and control.

That control usually begins with a 'cost saving' idea, its only 2% of the market !!
Then once approved, scope creep will increase it to 5%, 10%, 30% until we only have a single, maybe 2 products approved by Government.  Hmmm, now where have we seen that before.

The COI guidance has been developed for people delivering public sector websites, who have until 17 October to respond to the consultation exercise.