It made me chuckle.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Disabled woman judged ‘not worth saving’: Charity claims hospital doctors let her die after she developed pneumonia
FROM CHRIS SPIVEY'S BLOG - sent by David Turnbull
COMMENT by Road Hog
I do not like Cameron, but I find the image of him in a Nazi uniform distasteful.
It smacks of typical Lefty propaganda and I don't know why Cameron is pictured, because it has bugger all to do with him.
Far more people died under NuLabour, so why haven't we got a picture of Blair, Brown or their health minister? TAP - It's a good spoof of Cameron's pre-election advertising. Cameron's silence in the face of hospitals becoming abattoirs is the point. He supports the depopulation agenda. Many people are entering hospital with relatively minor illnesses and are dying within days. Hospitals have targets to meet, including the number of deaths required by central government.
Anyone who has studied history will know that it has been blatantly obvious for the last 5 or 6 years, that this country has been following the blueprint for the rise of the Third Reich to the letter.
Therefore, condemning the disabled to death is just another step closer to completion… Still. Enough trivialities. Did you see Corrienders last night. So true to real life, you could almost believe they aren’t actors.
PUBLISHED: 01:36, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 01:40, 21 May 2013
Cared for: Tina Papalabropoulos, 23, suffered from learning disabilities, epilepsy, a form of dwarfism and a severe curvature of the spine
A disabled woman died in hospital because doctors believed her life ‘was not worth saving’, a charity claimed yesterday.
Tina Papalabropoulos, 23, developed pneumonia days after suffering a bad cough.
In a highly critical report, the health ombudsman said doctors missed chances to save her life. Mencap called the death ‘an avoidable tragedy’.
Miss Papalabropoulos suffered from learning disabilities, epilepsy, a form of dwarfism and a severe curvature of the spine and was cared for by her parents.
In January 2009 she developed a cough and a GP visited her home in Wickford, Essex, and told her parents to give her antibiotics.
A request for a second visit the next day was ignored, although the GP did telephone the family, and the GP’s out-of-hours service refused a home visit until more than 24 hours later.
Miss Papalabropoulos was eventually admitted to Basildon Hospital but then had to wait four days before she was seen by a respiratory consultant.
The trust was criticised for a ‘prolonged delay’ in her treatment including failing to administer antibiotics immediately and not moving her to a high dependency unit.
Her parents said they were initially told she had a minor infection but claimed a ‘do not resuscitate’ sign was put on her bed two hours after she was admitted.
Doctors said they would not attempt to revive her as it would break her ribs, and one senior consultant allegedly told her parents they should not be afraid of the word ‘die’, before repeating: ‘Die, die, die.’
Treatment: Miss Papalabropoulos was eventually admitted to Basildon Hospital (pictured) but then had to wait four days before she was seen by a respiratory consultant
Doctors also allowed Mrs Papalabropoulos, 56, and her husband Christo, 57, to give their daughter food and drink, when she should have been fed intravenously to stop fluid getting into her lungs.
She died five days after she was admitted to hospital. Her mother said: ‘There was a complete lack of compassion from everyone. There were basic hospital treatments that she was denied because she was a disabled person.
‘Tina was an angel. She couldn’t talk or walk but she was able to communicate with us. If they had done their best then I could have accepted the way she died. But they didn’t.’
The health ombudsman’s report said: ‘We found that doctors had missed any opportunity there might have been –however small – to save her life by providing earlier and more intensive treatment for her.’
The ombudsman partly upheld Mr and Mrs Papalabropoulos’ complaints about Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and South East Essex Emergency Doctors Service, the GPs’ out-of-hours service but said it was impossible to know if she would have survived if she had received better treatment.
A spokesman for Basildon NHS trust said: ‘Since then [2009] the hospital has made significant improvement to the care and treatment we provide our patients with learning disabilities and we continue to listen to our patients, the families and carers to find out what further enhancements can be made.’
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COMMENT by Road Hog
It smacks of typical Lefty propaganda and I don't know why Cameron is pictured, because it has bugger all to do with him.
Far more people died under NuLabour, so why haven't we got a picture of Blair, Brown or their health minister?
On May - 21 - 2013
The Daily Mail
Therefore, condemning the disabled to death is just another step closer to completion… Still. Enough trivialities. Did you see Corrienders last night. So true to real life, you could almost believe they aren’t actors.
- Health ombudsman says doctors missed chances to save 23-year-old’s life
- Mencap describes Tina Papalabropoulos‘s death as ‘an avoidable tragedy’
- She suffered from learning disabilities, epilepsy and a form of dwarfism
PUBLISHED: 01:36, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 01:40, 21 May 2013
Cared for: Tina Papalabropoulos, 23, suffered from learning disabilities, epilepsy, a form of dwarfism and a severe curvature of the spineTina Papalabropoulos, 23, developed pneumonia days after suffering a bad cough.
In a highly critical report, the health ombudsman said doctors missed chances to save her life. Mencap called the death ‘an avoidable tragedy’.
Miss Papalabropoulos suffered from learning disabilities, epilepsy, a form of dwarfism and a severe curvature of the spine and was cared for by her parents.
In January 2009 she developed a cough and a GP visited her home in Wickford, Essex, and told her parents to give her antibiotics.
A request for a second visit the next day was ignored, although the GP did telephone the family, and the GP’s out-of-hours service refused a home visit until more than 24 hours later.
Miss Papalabropoulos was eventually admitted to Basildon Hospital but then had to wait four days before she was seen by a respiratory consultant.
The trust was criticised for a ‘prolonged delay’ in her treatment including failing to administer antibiotics immediately and not moving her to a high dependency unit.
Her parents said they were initially told she had a minor infection but claimed a ‘do not resuscitate’ sign was put on her bed two hours after she was admitted.
Doctors said they would not attempt to revive her as it would break her ribs, and one senior consultant allegedly told her parents they should not be afraid of the word ‘die’, before repeating: ‘Die, die, die.’
Treatment: Miss Papalabropoulos was eventually admitted to Basildon Hospital (pictured) but then had to wait four days before she was seen by a respiratory consultantShe died five days after she was admitted to hospital. Her mother said: ‘There was a complete lack of compassion from everyone. There were basic hospital treatments that she was denied because she was a disabled person.
‘Tina was an angel. She couldn’t talk or walk but she was able to communicate with us. If they had done their best then I could have accepted the way she died. But they didn’t.’
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- Grandmother, 71, died of dehydration at care home because of ‘gross neglect’ by staff
The health ombudsman’s report said: ‘We found that doctors had missed any opportunity there might have been –however small – to save her life by providing earlier and more intensive treatment for her.’
The ombudsman partly upheld Mr and Mrs Papalabropoulos’ complaints about Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and South East Essex Emergency Doctors Service, the GPs’ out-of-hours service but said it was impossible to know if she would have survived if she had received better treatment.
‘Doctors held the view that Tina’s life was not worth saving, due to her disability’
Beverley Dawkins, Mencap
Mencap policy manager Beverley Dawkins said: ‘Doctors held the view that Tina’s life was not worth saving, due to her disability.’Beverley Dawkins, Mencap
A spokesman for Basildon NHS trust said: ‘Since then [2009] the hospital has made significant improvement to the care and treatment we provide our patients with learning disabilities and we continue to listen to our patients, the families and carers to find out what further enhancements can be made.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328134/Disabled-girl-judged-worth-saving-Charity-claims-hospital-doctors-let-Tina-Papalabropoulos-die.html#ixzz2TuynAAib
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Boston Marathon props department tomato sauce dispenser
Boston Hoax Peach Mole Busted Smuggling in Fake Blood Bladder
Make no mistake about it the Zionists are zealots with an insatiable thirst for blood and the sewing of corruption. In tis regard it was such arch-hostile ones who perpetrated 9-11, the Madrid Train Bombings, the London Tube Bombings, the Bali Disco Massacre, and, diabolically, the invasions of Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and more.
The peach mole is one such zealot. While there is a separate post regarding this, http://nodisinfo.com/
Make no mistake about it the Zionists are zealots with an insatiable thirst for blood and the sewing of corruption. In tis regard it was such arch-hostile ones who perpetrated 9-11, the Madrid Train Bombings, the London Tube Bombings, the Bali Disco Massacre, and, diabolically, the invasions of Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and more.
The peach mole is one such zealot. While there is a separate post regarding this, http://nodisinfo.com/
Regardless, this is not the expected behavior of a person caught in a bomb-blast. Surely, no one in history has busied themselves rubbing fake blood on fake victims in a fake bombing, that is other than Zionist Jews.
Here she is in action after shearing off the woman’s lower jeans. It can be clearly seen that this is what she has done: she did cut up the jeans, the residue of which is seen to the left of her left shoulder. Fake blood has stained part of the pant leg; she is rubbing the woman’s legs with the fake liquid. That liquid emanates from the bladder hidden in the black pack. The black pack has a piece of PVC tubing arising from it. There seems to be a handle, possibly a pump, attached.
Tap Blog ranked 40th UK political site in April 2013
In April 2013, The Tap was ranked 103rd most authoritative blog in all categories, and 40th in the political category, on E-Buzzing. They monitor 2 million websites, so that's not bad.
However, as a conspiracy blog, we are really a failure. The most effective of our genre like David Icke's channel are not ranked at all, and are treated as beyond the pale. Only once we're banned from the ranking tables will we be truly satisfied.
A lot of ranking level comes from Facebook and Twitter references. As our Twitter account was recently suspended when Ben Fellows spilled the beans, and as we haven't been able to get stories out of Facebook without someone messing them up for quite a while, our true ranking could be much higher.
On Facebook, the post summary always picks up a comment from a reader in 'what our readers say', and doesn't give the first few lines of the post as it should do. It seems impossible to correct, so we gave up face booking.
The demons move in on comment threads. It's their big idea to silence the internet.
What's changed recently is the departure of the shill comments that plagued us for months. I spent quite a time each day deleting their efforts to make the comments section into a racist, homophobic, evil mess. They don't like being deleted, it seems, and they've gone away to annoy someone else. They always worked from 9 til 5, so it was pretty obvious someone was paying them!
However, as a conspiracy blog, we are really a failure. The most effective of our genre like David Icke's channel are not ranked at all, and are treated as beyond the pale. Only once we're banned from the ranking tables will we be truly satisfied.
A lot of ranking level comes from Facebook and Twitter references. As our Twitter account was recently suspended when Ben Fellows spilled the beans, and as we haven't been able to get stories out of Facebook without someone messing them up for quite a while, our true ranking could be much higher.
On Facebook, the post summary always picks up a comment from a reader in 'what our readers say', and doesn't give the first few lines of the post as it should do. It seems impossible to correct, so we gave up face booking.
The demons move in on comment threads. It's their big idea to silence the internet.
What's changed recently is the departure of the shill comments that plagued us for months. I spent quite a time each day deleting their efforts to make the comments section into a racist, homophobic, evil mess. They don't like being deleted, it seems, and they've gone away to annoy someone else. They always worked from 9 til 5, so it was pretty obvious someone was paying them!
Free Norman Scarth
From Road Hog. His offences sound pretty serious.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/six-years-for-chainsaw-pensioner-1-2064093
From Sabine
However, Britain is currently far worse than it should be or could be, Quislings having achieved by stealth what Hitler failed to do by force, turning Britain into a Totalitarian Police State, while hiding behind a pretence of 'Democracy', 'Human Rights' & 'The Rule of Law'. WE HAVE NONE OF THEM!
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/six-years-for-chainsaw-pensioner-1-2064093
From Sabine
Dear Supporter of Norman Scarth
To encourage you to sign one or two petitions regarding the future of our children, he writes:
No country was ever perfect (& no person either- certainly not me!)
However, Britain is currently far worse than it should be or could be, Quislings having achieved by stealth what Hitler failed to do by force, turning Britain into a Totalitarian Police State, while hiding behind a pretence of 'Democracy', 'Human Rights' & 'The Rule of Law'. WE HAVE NONE OF THEM!
The humanity of a country is shown by its treatment of the vulnerable, be they old, young or just lacking in power. Sadly, the people who hold positions of power & influence in today's Britain treat such people with a mixture of contempt, brutality & sadism.
I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL to you who signed the Petition to have me released from the Hell-Hole known as Armley Gaol, after I had been put there at the age of 86 by a corrupt, sadistic judge. SUPPOSEDLY for 'Contempt', it was really to stop me exposing the corruption which is rampant in our courts. Bad enough to treat an old man in such a way, but, I have had a good life, able to look back on much happiness.
Far worse is the treatment meted out in the so-called 'Family Courts', held IN SECRET - severe penalties imposed on distraught parents who dare to tell what has been done to them & their children. Far from supporting families, they break them up, kidnapping the children for forced adoption, a money-making racket. They constantly repeat the outrageous lie that the secrecy is 'To Protect The Children', when in reality it is to enable them to carry on their nefarious activities without the world knowing of it.
I urge you to sign
· the Petition to Stop Forced Adoptions in the UK – for non-UK MEPs and the European Parliament
· and to end the secrecy in the Family Courts – for the Judiciary and Parliament
o on http://www.gopetition.com/
Norman Scarth
With many thanks in advance,
Sabine
TAP -- what's the real story?
TAP -- what's the real story?
Doomsday described in a comment
The elites use geoengineering, weather modification, solar radiation management or "chemtrails" along with radiowave/microwave frequency radiation from mobile phone masts, phones, WIFI etc....just look at the studies done where a DECT phone is placed in a hive and most of the bees fail to return compared to the hive without, watch "Resonance Beings of Frequency" on YouTube.com.
Military jets are flying over dumping this chemical cocktail on a daily basis every day and night, even here in the UK. Officially this is denied as conspiracy, it is only when you look beyond the official version of the truth, join the dots together and see the bigger picture of world domination by elite groups to form “The New World Order” that you cannot deny the reality of this. Media is largely owned and controlled, so do internet searches and look at YouTube.com, just look at the sky and listen to the numerous military jets leaving huge white persistant contrails that spread out over the sunny blue sky to join together forming thick highly reflective cloud cover, which is so reflective if you keep looking you can often look directly at the sun with just your eyes with no protection, this is why it is now May and the weather is cold and overcast.
This chemical cocktail has been found to contain aluminium oxide, strontium, barium, viruses, mercury, ethylene dibromide and more, it damages all life including insects and the microscopic life in the soil so that plants cannot grow. Monsanto are producing aluminium resistant seeds and self pollinating plants, this is all part of controlling the food supply, the weather (hurricanes, earthquakes, weird weather events etc…with HAARP using these conductive particles), population reduction and world domination, it’s written on the Georgia Guidestones.
Watch “What in the world are they spraying” and “Why in the world are they spraying” on YouTube. I wish I was wrong, mistaken, but I am not and we are facing this together, I mean who ever thought that one day there would be no bees, bats, insects or anything natural.
Plus a comment from Gordon taking a more optimistic slant - (I watched three minutes so far. There are good people in the world. I just wonder how that stops the NWO!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
My own thoughts this morning -
Let's say the UK makes it to a UKIP majority. Let's say we get out of the EU.
What to expect next? Japan tried to break free from the matrix, and her nuclear
plants started to mysteriously blow up. Wars threaten.
It would be no different here.
Both Japan and Germany are closing all their nuclear plants. Britain should do the
same. They will be used against us if we strike out for freedom.
Military jets are flying over dumping this chemical cocktail on a daily basis every day and night, even here in the UK. Officially this is denied as conspiracy, it is only when you look beyond the official version of the truth, join the dots together and see the bigger picture of world domination by elite groups to form “The New World Order” that you cannot deny the reality of this. Media is largely owned and controlled, so do internet searches and look at YouTube.com, just look at the sky and listen to the numerous military jets leaving huge white persistant contrails that spread out over the sunny blue sky to join together forming thick highly reflective cloud cover, which is so reflective if you keep looking you can often look directly at the sun with just your eyes with no protection, this is why it is now May and the weather is cold and overcast.
This chemical cocktail has been found to contain aluminium oxide, strontium, barium, viruses, mercury, ethylene dibromide and more, it damages all life including insects and the microscopic life in the soil so that plants cannot grow. Monsanto are producing aluminium resistant seeds and self pollinating plants, this is all part of controlling the food supply, the weather (hurricanes, earthquakes, weird weather events etc…with HAARP using these conductive particles), population reduction and world domination, it’s written on the Georgia Guidestones.
Watch “What in the world are they spraying” and “Why in the world are they spraying” on YouTube. I wish I was wrong, mistaken, but I am not and we are facing this together, I mean who ever thought that one day there would be no bees, bats, insects or anything natural.
Plus a comment from Gordon taking a more optimistic slant - (I watched three minutes so far. There are good people in the world. I just wonder how that stops the NWO!)
How To Make The World A Better Place
By Paul Short on 03/05/2013
Kind regards to all, today and every day of your life,
Gordon.
My own thoughts this morning -
Let's say the UK makes it to a UKIP majority. Let's say we get out of the EU.
What to expect next? Japan tried to break free from the matrix, and her nuclear
plants started to mysteriously blow up. Wars threaten.
It would be no different here.
Both Japan and Germany are closing all their nuclear plants. Britain should do the
same. They will be used against us if we strike out for freedom.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Colorado sheriffs challenge gun ban....
....by refusing to enforce it. They know Washington's up to no good.
One down, 49 to go
Will the other 49 state sheriff's grow a pair and stand up for the citizens and Constitution they are sworn to defend?
Congratulations to the MEN (and women) of Colorado to do the right thing. Let's see if the other states have any.
Congratulations to the MEN (and women) of Colorado to do the right thing. Let's see if the other states have any.
The Lord Chief 'Justice' compared images of child abuse with ‘collecting cigarette cards’
Oliver Brooke was the Head of Paediatric Medicine at St. George’s Hospital, Tooting. He was jailed for a collection of thousands of images of child abuse which he kept in a cupboard in his office at the hospital. He admitted “offences involving the procurement, collection and distribution of indecent images of children mostly aged 12-14, some posing with adults, and some as young as eight.”
Duplicates of the photographs were passed on to ‘three or four’ other paedophiles. Brooke was spending £800 a year on indecent images. He was directly responsible for the sexual abuse of children, and made notes such as “Very nice, but not quite enough crotch” so his contacts could produce ‘better’ photographs for him.
Brooke appealed his conviction, and the appeal was heard by Lord Lane, the Lord Chief Justice, who was the second highest judge in Britain, second only to the Lord Chancellor.
Lord Lane cut Brooke’s sentence to six months, which meant he was immediately freed from jail, having already served a few months of his sentence.
Lord Lane said:
“It is not inappropriate, perhaps, in view of the puerility of this type of behaviour, to compare it rather to a schoolboy collecting cigarette cards in olden times, because the duplicates were handed on to other adults, three of four of them only, who were likewise minded to indulge in this sort of puerility. To that extent the distribution was by no means of the most vicious sort.
It is perfectly plain from those, (the testimonials read out about Brooke) that we are dealing here with someone who, apart from these offences, was an unusually fine man.’
The sentencing took into account
It appears that no effort was made to track down the other members of Brooke’s paedophile ring, and no effort was made to trace the children who Brooke had commissioned to be sexually abused. Lord Lane was more concerned about the ‘humiliation’ Brooke had suffered through having his sick ‘hobby’ exposed.
Daily Express, 29th June 1987
Westminster downplayed value of North Sea Oil
Hi Tap,
Came across some interesting news this morning from Aangirfan concerning North Sea Oil.
HIDDEN OIL WEALTH - TOP POLITICIAN WHISTLEBLOWER
In 1974, Professor Gavin McCrone was asked by Edward Heath's Conservative government to work out the value of Scotland's oil.
The report concluded that an independent Scotland "would tend to be in chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree."
It was only released in 2005 under freedom of information legislation.
Denis Healey: Westminster 'worried stiff' about losing North Sea oil
Gordon
John Rappaport describes how the media blocks the real news
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/out-there-1/fighting-the-reality-cartel-.html
He set up his own website - no more fake news - just before 911, and he's been at it ever since.
He talks about the matrix, and the major illusions. It's a big list. The players behind the scenes, and even deeper than that, he asks - what is the way the controllers define reality?
Power and energy is displaced away from the individual, while a tiny group has worked out how to build and create a matrix around us. He's a bit like Alan Watt, but it's easier to listen to.
The group tells us how the world works, and the universe, and we are told to trust them. They have armies, police and they create staged events like Aurora, Sandy Hook and Boston Marathon to convince people we have enemies out there.
They replace the power of the imagination of the individual. People don't even believe that imagination is very important any more. Imagination is for kids. The formula of the secret society is to substitute the imagination with perverse artists who paint reality and convince people to accept it. The imagination of individuals is, when accessed, all-powerful and capable of creating reality in far-reaching terms, and this they have learned how to block.
The image factory of Hollywood tries to work out which way the winds are blowing. Everything is compartmentalised. You watch the movies and you get drawn into it. The movie says to you 'this is energy'. You walk out feeling better. It's a complete reversal of the truth, which is that an individual has unlimited energy.
Hollywood is energy by proxy. So is TV. Their impetus is to blast you into a realm where you believe the only place you can get a feed of energy is TV screen, a movie hall or a concert venue. When in fact your own energy and imagination are far more capable of changing your own life, and bringing far greater feelings of satisfaction, yet people never find out.
Modern society is a technological machine which suppresses and attenuates your own psychic abilities. There is an ongoing huge effort being made by the elite groups/cartels to keep your energy absorbed and limited, using visual images, terror. The controllers don't compete. They all cooperate together.
FDA, AMA, Tavistock Institute in England, Bilderberg, CFR and many others, Intelligence. They have their public face and a very private inner sanctum. The Vatican. The Federal Reserve. They've settled on an agenda of globalism.
Also Energy. Medicine. Banking.
They promote wars as wars bankrupt and destroy nations. They've been at it a very very long time. There are still more esoteric layers behind that. There's a vertical integration in these various cartels. They can see a future in which they will control the entire planet. They control a large amount of it already.
The interviewer asks good questions. What do they know that we don't know?
He goes to ancient Tibet, 1500 years ago. And researched the way that peoples were controlled by manufacturing their reality in a very fundamental way. The modern time is just an updating of what was going on that long ago.
The Nazis looked to Tibet and sent people there to do as much research there as possible - to discover the lost Aryan race, and the power of manifestation. There's a book written by an American, Kenneth Walker, who saw Hitler do black magic before WW2. A false reality was created of Czechoslovakia in photographs before the war in secret, with large photographs of Czechoslovakia already invaded, covered in swastikas and pictures of Hitler. That was obviously considered to be a method to bring the imagined reality into actual reality.
That's why the elites create false realities for us all. Imagination is pounded out of kids immediately. They are made to sit for hour after hour in class until their minds are blocked up.
What are the secrets behind secret societies? New realities are created by individual force, by people able to deploy their own individuality to create reality. We will see a multiplicity of powerful realities replacing the centralisation of power that we live in today, once people see their way through to creating their own realities, seeing their way out of mass hypnosis, which surrounds us right now. The primary way we are controlled is through control of the mind. People are attracted to being controlled, especially by a picture of harmony, so the elite's project harmony as the ultimate reality, a harmony that is entirely false.
The physical universe repeats geometric patterns, and this, for example, can be presented as a spiritual dimension to creation as well as a physical one, which people love to buy into, but it's a distraction. Check out more of John's idea at his site -
www.nomorefakenews.com
Vermont could be first US state to mandate GMO food labeling
Vermont seemed more likely than ever to become the first US state to mandate the labeling of genetically modified food (GMO) after a bill passed the state house, though legislators worry about a lawsuit threat from biotech giant Monsanto.
Similar bills seeking to provide consumers with labels at the grocery store that highlight what products contain GMOs have recently failed. In California, a ballot initiative which bypassed Congress after receiving 850,000 signatures was defeated in 2012 after a large consortium of biotech companies including Monsanto spent some $50 million on an ad blitz against the legislation.
As RT reported in late April, a new federal bill which would mandate the labeling of GMOs, the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, was introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR). Though few expect such laws to pass on a national level, the bill was notable for its inclusion of a wider base of bipartisan support, with nine Senate co-sponsors and 22 cosponsors in the House.
Though sixty-four other countries, including EU members, China, Russia, Brazil, India and Japan already have existing regulations in place to label GMOs for consumers the issue is a highly contentious one in the US, both at the federal and state level.
According to Senator Boxer, more than 90 per cent of Americans support the labeling of genetically engineered products. Though the Food and Drug Administration requires the labeling of over 3,000 ingredients, additives and processes it does not consider GMOs to be“materially” different as they cannot be tasted, smelled or identified by consumers by other means.
As RT reported in late April, a new federal bill which would mandate the labeling of GMOs, the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, was introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR). Though few expect such laws to pass on a national level, the bill was notable for its inclusion of a wider base of bipartisan support, with nine Senate co-sponsors and 22 cosponsors in the House.
Though sixty-four other countries, including EU members, China, Russia, Brazil, India and Japan already have existing regulations in place to label GMOs for consumers the issue is a highly contentious one in the US, both at the federal and state level.
According to Senator Boxer, more than 90 per cent of Americans support the labeling of genetically engineered products. Though the Food and Drug Administration requires the labeling of over 3,000 ingredients, additives and processes it does not consider GMOs to be“materially” different as they cannot be tasted, smelled or identified by consumers by other means.
Australia's unannounced 'totalitarian' web filter causes alarm
Australia's government is under fire after it appears to have introduced web censorship without warning, expanding already-controversial powers to block access to child pornography into a wider web filtering system.
The reluctance of the government to release information about who has requested sites be blocked, and lists of those sites, has also alarmed many Australians. Two convenors from Melbourne Free University (MFU), whose site was blocked without warning or explanation on 4 April, have described it as a "glimpse [of] the everyday reality of living under a totalitarian government".
For a country that perhaps has a reputation for taking it easy, Australia's governments have been particularly keen on web censorship. In 2008, a web filter was proposed that would have potentially blocked as many as 10,000 sites by placing them on a blacklist, but years ofcriticism from industry, political and public groups -- including Anonymous " declaring war" on it, and Wikileaks publishing the confidential blacklist to show it included some sites that were only, contrary to government assurances, subjectively offensive -- led to the idea being dropped in November 2012.
That might have been the end of it, but no -- instead of going through legislative channels, it looks like web censorship is back, and this time it's taking advantage of a legal loophole. On 4 April, more than 1,200 sites were suddenty unavailable to Australian web users.
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