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http://migueljara.wordpress.com/ new blog on illegal incentives to prescribe drugs

Sometimes I reported the bribery and corruption doctors who practice for pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their brand preparations. But the problem of the incentives in prescribing also occurs with generic drugs (those produced after the expiry of the patent to a much lower price).

l E newspaper El Norte de Castilla published recently that the incentive of 2,600 euros that many primary care physicians have become the Junta de Castilla y León as a reward for prescribing generic drugs is completely illegal. The Superior Court of Justice in the region has issued a firm statement that emphasizes the freedom that should be free to any physician to prescribe drugs deemed appropriate for each patient without being under pressure or promises of rewards or incentives if opts for a particular type. Demand refers to incentives paid in 2006, which value the previous year, and in Palencia gained 77 doctors, 29.28% of those practicing in Primary, they perceived 195,000 euros (102 in 2007, who received 228,144 euros). In Castilla y León were 886 beneficiaries physicians who perceived EUR 2,303,600 (1,020 last year that claimed 2,255,446 euros). nothing too ago we read in the media that a prosecutor asks for five and half years imprisonment in the trial being held in the Audiencia Provincial de Cádiz, to a physician at the Hospital Puerta del Mar and an employee the pharmaceutical company Madaus, accused of defrauding the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) almost 9,000 euros by issuing fraudulent prescriptions .

As I explained a person who has exercised the medical visit for one of the largest laboratories in Europe (under investigation, by the way, the competition authorities of the European Union for trying to delay the introduction of generic market), "my former manager and his boss suggested 'without accepting no for an answer', all kinds of tricks to spend the advertising budget to go around the code of ethics. If the answer was 'no', you became persona non pleasant for them, the 'clan'. "

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"Favors" Iberdrola Extremadura government

Last weekend, the English prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero announced he would undertake to Extremadura in the town of Alange his last election victory. The town of Alange was chosen because their ancestors were from there. But Alange and around the government of Extremadura, also of the PSOE, as president, promotes the construction of several power plants and a petrochemical refinery. For the appointment had been called a concentration of civic associations that are fighting for their land and that these projects of great environmental, economic and cultural development is not carried out. But the president misconstrued the plan and did not attend the appointment in the municipality of Alang in which hundreds of protesters waiting for him. If you chose to enjoy the tasty tubers Extremadura is enjoyed on a private estate.

not know what opinarían Zapatero's ancestors on the construction of a thermal power of Iberdrola in the municipality of Alang and a few more in those around him, although it is difficult to imagine. Since we assume that neither would strongly agree that the government of Extremadura is making efforts to promote private interests, those of Iberdrola in this case, at the expense of health, culture and environmental quality of Extremadura in the region.

Just last May 20 the High Court of Justice of Extremadura (TSJE) informed the Civic Platform Thermal Case No administrative action which is a Thermal faced not with the Board of Extremadura and Iberdrola.
This Platform citizen filed a complaint against the decision of the Minister of Agriculture and Environment of the Junta de Extremadura, José Luis Quintana Álvarez. He had resolved to remedy of appeal against the decision made Iberdrola's Director General for Environment, Guillermo Crespo, "through which it dismissed the Combined Cycle Power Plant in Alange to be an industrial activity industrial activity classified as unhealthy and harmful, the ability to harm human health or damage to the agricultural wealth, forestry, livestock or fisheries, resulting from the emission of pollutants into the air and water, and sited at a distance not exceeding 2,000 meters to count the population center nearest clustered, as provided in Article 4 of Regulation inconvenient, unhealthy, harmful and dangerous "feature from this partnership.

Quintana Alvarez accepted pathway An appeal to relocate the plant Iberdrola more than 2,000 feet away without listening Alange citizens who wanted to make allegations. "This measure was generated defenseless Thermal Platform to dispense No public inquiry despite the change in the location of the temperature. The Chief Executive to resolve the administrative appeal on behalf of Iberdrola violated the law and the right audience of those concerned citizens in general ", argue the neighbors.
The TSJE understood that varying the location of the project had planned from the beginning, when Iberdrola presented his initiative, as this will cause an environmental impact. The Court annulled its ruling, the decision of Minister of Agriculture and Environment Board Extremadura by admitting the relocation of the power plant Iberdrola.

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Concerns vaccine HPV Chips

Disease prevention is one of the veins that stand out in the health market. If the disease itself does not yield the expected economic beneficial for manufacturers of medicines, invent diseases. And if all this is not enough to "prevent" future eating disorders drug formulas "just in case." But some of these formulas are not studied what would be required and its harmful effects can generate real problems who have no problem.

Something similar happens with the vaccine against human papilloma virus, which has several months to apply in our country and arousing reactions from health professionals against him. Many of them see in this campaign a formula to open new markets.

Professionals in health are calling for a moratorium their inclusion in the immunization schedule in the Autonomous Communities. They claim that the trials have been short, the disease has a low incidence and that the doses are high cost (there is a manifest and collecting signatures ).

The human papilloma virus is transmitted contact (not sexual fluids) during sex. Condom use reduces sexual transmission, but not eliminate it. Some types of HPV are oncogenic capacity, and can cause cervical cancer. Because the virus is necessary but not sufficient, as the doctor says Juan Gervás.

poverty, smoking, and other unknown factors are key to disease development. Women are infected at the beginning of their sexual intercourse, but in most cases the infection is eliminated by natural means, spontaneously. Imported infection is maintained for more than two decades.

But fear is an incentive to trade remedies that will "cure." For example, in the Basque country, the Ministry of Health began in November 2007 to implement the HPV vaccine to girls 12 and 13. About 9,000 girls have received the dose. For now, only vaccine in the Basque Country, Navarra and La Rioja.

At a seminar on this vaccine, developed by the International Association of Students of Medicine in Spain, have expressed some critical issues with this drug, marketed by Merck as Gardasil. The cervical cancer is a disease that occurs among poor women in both industrialized countries as in those without. Disease is of the very few "poor" who are interested in the world or certain drug. The solution proposed is mainly applied to women who do not need it because your lifestyle away from the risk group. "At least since February 2007, Ministry of Health, regional councils, panels and several professional scientific organizations are promoting the immediate vaccination of all adolescents (and suggesting it could be beneficial to vaccinate their existing skills or have had sexual activity, against all scientific evidence), "said Galen argues.

As stated this professional health "hides the alarm about an unexpected use of an experimental vaccine, which is unknown to the mechanism of action." There are too rushed in its implementation. As in any preventive regimen, say many health professionals, it is logical that before distributing certain advantages were undeniable. Today, still, no doubt. The Washington Post has reported that the Medicines Agency of the United States, the FDA conducted a review of the results of vaccine studies revealed some concerns, according to documents released by the advisory committee on vaccines and Related Biological: The advantage offered by the vaccine protect against four types of virus could be offset by infections caused by many other types of HPV that the vaccine does not cover.

Currently, the vaccine is advertised in popular science magazines
covertly (without naming it directly) and alarming for parents. Are used, for example, statements such as "protecting the life of your daughter." The controversy is not limited to Spain, and some authors have stated that the decision of universal vaccination in other countries such as Canada, may be considered premature, given the many questions. But now businesses are global.

The vaccine will cost about $ 500 each person, which can cause a crisis in financing the health system as it is estimated in 30 years time it will take to begin to prevent this cancer from receiving the first dose.

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spies citizens and companies controlled by governments

On Monday 28 April, journalist Ernesto Villegas I met in the Venezuelan state channel, Venezolana de Television (VTV), the program "En Confianza." The interview has had a major impact but that is not itself the subject of this communication. A cut of that gathering was broadcast later by another large televisions that country, Globovisión. I heard it through certain amenities offered by the Internet and I did not see it and certainly not warned me or told me to nothing.

The cut of this television is focused on providing intervention decontextualise my only part in which I talk about are giving impetus to pharmaceutical companies, and many other companies in other sectors, tracking technology objects and people or RFID radio frequencies (to which I devote a chapter in my book dealers health, so I asked about this issue the journalist).

Al Apparently, I had so Globovisión insulting, mocking, something like a paranoid. According account third Venezuelan media, Noticias24.com : "A video shown in the series of micros" You saw [Globovisión] seems to show a English journalist Miguel Jara as a lunatic or a fool by the usual tone of the buses, which indicate the gaffes and political rulers, gives the impression that its creators believe that Jara was speaking of lies, conspiracy theories or utter nonsense. "

As we explained this publication, which devotes extensive coverage to the issue of RFID: "Technology of the English speaking does exist, is already being used and refined to its mass, and should start to worry a lot to anyone who appreciates freedom and privacy.
(Jara has a blog where he discusses and this and other subjects and where it gives opinions generally serious, well informed and documented).
The technology known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is to install a small chip [for example, boxes of medicines such as Viagra, told] that is able to store all data types (Text, images), which in turn can be read by a device called a transponder, capable of receiving and reading the data of all nearby RFID chips. "

As shown in the video Globovisión apparently so "surprised" to those responsible for this program is that the company said that IBM has patented tracking people through RFID technology. The truth is that the May 3, 2001, IBM inventors processed in the U.S. Patent Application No. 20020165758, identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items. This book narrates the Chips spies How large corporations plan to monitor each of its steps RFID by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre (Thomas Nelson, 2006). Its pages 33 to 35, above all, the authors of this indispensable book describes the intricacies of this patent application. Narrate the advantages as IBM has the technology to follow a person inside a store, find out what brings out other purchases and tastes or how it can be used for his age, race, gender and income level.
depth knowledge of the personal data of interest to large companies to streamline their methods to the maximum achieve higher sales and profits. For example, providing specific advertisements for each person at any time, anywhere.

What's more, as these researchers have in spies Chips: IBM leased computers strikeouts card technology to the Third Reich to Hitler could be traced to the Jews and their property. "

Under apparently Globovisión program falls under its own weight.

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Frankensalada: corporate pressure-food trash

This week has been produced in the European Commission, the governing body central Europe, a very important vote for the future of GM food on the continent. Was at stake if approved the cultivation of two new types of maize have inserted a pesticide, such as those already grown in Spain. May seem anecdotal these decisions and debates but the biotech industry (which produces seeds and crops for our food lab) is "brewing" in supermarkets these products little by little so questioned. The Commission also decided on whether to cultivate a GM potato in Europe (in this case contains antibiotic resistance genes). The European Commission's initiative President Barroso, is forcing the debate under pressure from powerful lobbies or pressure groups-industrial-biotechnology. Political (many European politicians are betting on food waste in the European Union), with the help of certain companies, they want to deal with the final approval of GM crops and foods in the EU.
For now, this Frankensalada have to wait: Both corn and potato lab "have been sent back to the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA, for its acronym in English) which we interpret as a repudiation of this Agency "say the spokesmen for Friends of the Earth, an organization that has developed an excellent report on the pressure pro GM food companies are taking place on European politicians to push for power laboratory.

should explain that the European institution responsible for ensuring the quality and safety of what we got to the mouth of citizens, according to the rules of operation of European administration, to authorize a crop or food is limited to reviewing the reports of the company interested in marketing it. No independent analysis performed. This explains why the Authority, the Commission's request, and thanks that the current European Commissioner for the Environment does not seem to work to promote food trasngénica, has received new reports of these varieties laboratory for review (which you will not be independent).

This performance-legal, I repeat, the EFSA is identical to the EMEA, the European Medicines Agency, which also performs independent surveys when requested pharmaceutical license to market a drug in Europe. EFSA is also formed mainly by molecular biologists. Other specialists would need to judge other aspects of cultivation and marketing of GM foods, as ecologists. Friends of the Earth warns that many employees of the Authority have conflicts of interest with biotech companies. Who is ruling Europe?

This document denounces the proximity between the EU's executive body, the European Commission and the biotech lobby, led by EuropaBio. Breakfasts "working" meetings or conferences in the industry have high positions in the Commission. The presence of industry in key advisory bodies and privileged access to information also notes the disturbing closeness between lobbyists and industry the Commission.

The result is a favorable policy framework, attempts to reduce controls on GM crops and foods, the EU's firm commitment for food biotechnology and millions of euros of public funds dedicated to funding research into the industry.
EuropaBio is one of the main lobby on food and crops with genetically modified organisms in the EU, and boasts his dealings with members of the European Commission. The campaigns of the lobby of agricultural biotechnology companies are led by Bayer CropScience, DuPont / Pioneer, Monsanto and Syngenta.
EuropaBio has also pressured European politicians to ensure that biotechnology applied to agriculture has become a hot topic on the agenda of EU research with an investment of 53 billion euros from public coffers.

The European Commission is promoting these connections between public and private sectors through specific technology platform on food and crops, and biofuels and food products, in the midst of global crisis of rising prices of staple foods (including reasons for biofuel crops.)

This is the transfer of public money to private economic interests. EuropaBio is, in his own words, "the voice of industry biotechnology in Europe. " Today even stronger with the money of European citizens.

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Travel Europe Latin America invented diseases

Yes, many days and without updating the blog. A trip to Caracas (Venezuela) and Bogota (Colombia) has kept me busy for the past week. The reason was an invitation from the Ministry of Health vanezolano and PVDSA Department of Health, the largest company in Venezuela to participate in an event, the First International Symposium Drugs and Public Health that these two institutions have organized Caracas.

A total success, from my point of view. The hall of this company, which hosted the event, one-day, was full, about 450 people counting so low, most doctors, pharmacists, health professionals or senior officials of the health system. I was struck by the enormous interest the audience.

I'm used to public events in which I participate has a good level of knowledge of the topics covered in Venezuela but the warmth of the people who came to listen to lectures, his interest topics, participiación in the act, was special.

The Venezuelan government is making a major effort to boost public health system and its quality, and this meeting was a good example of this.

I had to be the one who opened the symposium, discussing the production of disease. Invited participants were luxury. Behind me spoke by videoconference Australian journalist Ray Moynihan, authentic pioneer and expert in spreading the phenomenon of inventing diseases. Nuria continued Homedes (director of essential drugs Bulletin, without whose existence could not have written my book dealers health , incidentally) Health activist Teresa Alves Action International (HAI) and very good speaker, Pearl Buschiazzo, especially Argentina in rational drug prescribing and access to them, and Claudia Vacca, a researcher at the Colombian civil organization Ifarma professor of Pharmacy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

venzolana press has also shown great interest in the topics covered, I would emphasize, among others, a interview I did with Venezolana de Television primetime .

A trip as brief but very intense in there to thank the organizing effort realizado, su claridad de ideas y el despliegue de medios hecho para concretar en una jornada tantas voces hablando de asuntos tan necesarios para la ciudadanía, y que esta supo aprovechar.

Y aprovechando, valga la redundancia, que estaba en Venezuela y que en Colombia se había organizado un evento similar por las mismas fechas, Ifarma y la Universidad Nacional de Colombia me invitaron a dirigirme a Bogotá. En dicho espacio participamos Teresa Alves y yo, ella habló sobre agencias regulatorias y yo titulé mi intervención Morir en busca de salud , sobre la crisis de credibilidad de la industria farmacéutica, como me habían solicitado.

We presented the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and involved a public health professor and one of economics. Again I was surprised by the social commitment of these and the public, very large and mostly young, with the exception of two prominent lawyers who often represent the major pharmaceutical companies in Colombia.

The next day was very intense, the days start very soon in Latin America. Also in prime time I interviewed a well known doctor in Colombia, Carlos Francisco Fernandez, Medical Advisory Group Time, the most widespread in the country of Colombia. The interview to a TV Andean dealt with the manufacture of diseases because in the afternoon, the newspaper said, prepared a forum with the principal leaders of the sector in which Teresa Alves again and I went to speak to doctors, agency officials or spokespersons Colombian drug lab employers and pharmaceutical industry influence health and disease in our welfare.

Departed, publicly and privately with one of the heads of one of the patron saint of laboratories in Colombia, and even had time to learn that in that forum was present, but not even speaking I was invited to it, "someone who, after Following the event, made a call to one of the heads of one of the multinational pharmaceutical companies operating in Colombia. Informed about what we told Teresa and me. Mostly spent their time discussing what I had explained in my speech arousing their curiosity and your partner the seriousness of the facts I cited relating to certain laboratories and to speak publicly about it. He also spent time in various insults.

We came very pleased with our stay in Colombia and the agency worried that drug in that country has in its board representatives of the pharmaceutical industry conflict of interest that administration officials do not see health as such, although they show some interest in ethics and move towards independence.

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The pharmaceutical and biotech lobby in Government Initiative ZP

Soon they fulfilled the worst expectations on health and environment with the new government of Zapatero. The play of the disappearance of Cristina Narbona and the Ministry of Environment, or more accurately, the absorption by the Ministry of Agriculture (this particular chemical, industrial and assignments to GM food lobby) of the Environment portfolio has been much discussed. Is interpreted, and the facts begin to confirm, as a attempt to end a critical political voice and that of Narbonne itself, and a ministry that could be an obstacle to the current development model is unsustainable and therefore environmentally unhealthy practice that the Government.

Post to run a second term, won the first with a "social" policy, the PSOE is opting to give a more market profile, more PROEMPRESA the new Executive. Narbonne bothered, in many cases was getting his pro Ecology is a Ministry, and this is necessarily contrary to logic pro-market government, any government in Europe today. Narbonne

bothered and "charge" of the result of an entire Ministry, the Environment, would be too shocking, it has come to Agriculture, which has a tradition of favoring large companies over small and medium-sized farms ; to promote intensive industrialization and toxic chemicals from the field, and that is now the guarantor of the interests of big biotechnology industry, ie GM foods (Spain is the country with the largest area of \u200b\u200btransgenic crops Europe).

The new Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Minister Elena Espinosa will continue to support the inclusion on our plates of GM products and therefore endangering our health and the environment. And have in their hands all part of Environment not previously managed and led Narbonne with an acceptable result.

But the pro GM lobby not only control most of the decisions of Agriculture, as it has been doing over the last decade, the Government has placed ZP Cristina Garmendia as Minister of Research and Development. In the book Conspiracies toxic, with numerous examples explain the phenomenon of "revolving doors" (transfer executives from public to private or vice versa). This is again a textbook case. Garmendia was to enter the government of Zapatero, president of the English Association of Biotechnology Enterprises (Asebio), the largest GM food lobby and biotech drugs in Spain (which are other lobbies such as the Foundation or the largest multinational antam GM in the world: Monsanto or Pioneer), and also brings much of the biotechnology pharmaceutical industry (Bayer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche, Schering Plough, Esteve-directing Farmaindustria-or-creators Gilead Sciences Tamiflu / Bird Flu-).

This business until a few days ago, in 2000 founded Genetrix, a private company in the biotechnology sector. Garmendia, do not waste your time and also is president of the Foundation Inbiomed that publicly funded, is dedicated to genetic research farmasanitarios purposes.

The Ministry of Science and Innovation is key to the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, one of the medical journals which acts as spokesman for the same, has reported that its establishment "has been very well received by the industry." Large laboratories Garmendia see one of their own, "will good support to avoid excessively harmful legislative developments for the sector, "argues that publication.

Keep in mind that half the previous legislature, the Ministry of Health underwent a radical change. The minister Elena Salgado, who like many media specializing in health issues have not liked anything published Farmaindustria, was moved to the Ministry of Public Administration. Instead entered current Minister Bernat Soria, very much in pharmaceuticals. As published Post Pharmacist: "The minister wanted to turn Bernat Soria this term in the momentum of the English pharmaceutical industry, "including addressing the possibility of a change in patent law, '"Farmaindustria true philosopher's stone.

Cristina Garmendia If you want to take forward the draft-law change is now their competition after the new powers of his ministry, will have to have with the Ministry of Industry, which also has legislative powers on patent issues. The newspaper cited recalls that "at the forefront of industry will in the coming years, Miguel Sebastian, a friend and political protector of Cristina Garmendia and is on rise for your friendship with Rodríguez Zapatero.
If I have not miscounted, the biotechnology industry (consisting of the transgenic pro and pharmaceuticals) have four ministers and four ministers at their disposal: Agriculture, Health, Innovation and Industry. And have seen its authority undermined the Environment.

Some things, as I say, begin to change, at worst, of course. For just one example. Last weekend TVE broadcast a report on GM food. As an account in a letter to the program that aired a person who has worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and has witnessed the ups and downs of pro GM lobbyists in it, was removed (due to technical problems) the involvement of the only critical voice with the theme of National Modificados Genéticamente (OMG´s) aplicados a la agricultura, la de Juan Felipe Carrasco, de Greenpeace.

Además, se utilizaron imágenes de la deforestación de la Amazonia para el cultivo de soja transgénica justamente para lo contrario, para explicar las bondades de estos organismos que no son necesarios y que sólo traen beneficios a muy pocas empresas privadas. ¿Estará cambiando la línea editorial de la tv pública al ritmo de los cambios pro corporaciones en el Gobierno ZP?

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transparency in EU lobbying

El próximo día 8 de mayo el Parlamento Europeo votará el denominado Informe Stubb sobre lobbies en la Unión Europea (Which is named Alexander Stubb, Finnish MEP). The Conservative proposal seeks to promote a project that "anime" to lobbyists to register and force them to publish how much and what they spend their money and how companies appropriate. Measures include, of course, that MEPs declare when to pass laws to which lobbyists have received. Stubb Report is part of the European Initiative for Transparency, driven by European Commission Vice President Siim Kallas.

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not surprised these initiatives and what we've seen these days in the Parliament building in Brussels is corroborated. Guests (Rafael Carrasco, Joaquín Vidal and I, Miguel Jara) by the Group of the Greens have been three days of intense knowledge of the insides of the European government, presenting the book dealers health and toxic Conspiracies and participating in a seminar with the eloquent title of What happens to democracy? , on the role of lobbyists in the absence of democracy in Europe.

Because this is the main idea: the mere presence of representatives of the various industries that push political, back to the citizens, to legislate in their favor, is an attack against democracy and leaves citizens sold to private interests. And this is what is happening in the European institutions and different countries.

Upon our arrival on Monday afternoon were greeted by several MEPs who we caught up with concrete examples and documents on the activities of lobbyists. We saw a letter from an association of English publishers in calling on European leaders not to legislate in favor of warning in an advertisement for cars on CO2 emissions level of each model. Clearer water, allegedly pressured car by its advertisers a lot of print media responsible for request to be hidden from the public how polluting vehicles advertised, for the warning, useful to the public, "dirty image" of the companies that paid advertising.

exemplifying was contemplating a report by the Greens in showing that large companies known to us all, get that European politicians write rules virtually at the foot of the letter of the reports and send them suggestions of lobbyists first.

So, my brain full of information and empty casings gave us time dinner, we made into a charming restaurant in the historic center of Brussels.

On Tuesday, soon, we had a meeting with English press attended by numerous means the cream of native landscape. Explain, especially David Hammerstein, our host spokesman for the Greens in Europe, what is it and why it is good and necessary Transparency Initiative. I let the fellow tell journalists that yes, it seems essential to sink my teeth into the problem of lobbyists, but I fear that not only have to regulate their activity and make it public but will have to outlaw many practices current. I doubted even the outlawing it as I put for example, is now illegal to buy health (either with gifts or money) through the medical and many pharmaceutical companies do (practice similar to that realzian lobbyists). And in America, citizens have a Freedom of Information Act which obliges politicians to make public how much money they received for their campaigns and how companies come and practice that democracy is even worse than the European or European.

had not concluded the press conference when I took out of it to join the seminar on what happens to democracy? and lobbying activities. A large room we received full European Parliament. MEPs, journalists, researchers and activists made up the capacity. There scrutinizing the recent and current activities of many pharmaceutical companies, as well as chemical, mobile phones and electromagnetic pollution of ceramics and ceramic tile or nuclear energy. One's face was all one poem.

A comment by an MEP, whose name escapes me, closed the debate. This person alluded to journalists and scientists today are the fifth and sixth power. I answered with an example that combines the two areas, the medical journals. They come together under the control of the pharmaceutical industry, scientific and medical writers, and has not always been, let alone the benefit of the quality and independence of information.

The rest of the day was on participation in a seminar on environmental journalism for fifteen journalists who had traveled from Spain, an event very useful to meet other colleagues, their views and discuss problems ecological our area and how they affect the health of ecosystems and the public. A nice dinner in a restaurant all bio-ecological and closed the night with a lengthened some Belgian beers essential (no bad) on the Grand Place, the Plaza Mayor of Brussels.

Once we have the video of the seminar on lobbying will post it.

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Gran Scala and endemism of Los Monegros

many days and without writing in these virtual pages. So to make today will be two new entries. This weekend I participated in a "testing", a marathon photo, in Los Monegros. This is a project in which dozens of nature photographers who love photographing insects specimens of the same so that after some experts analyze and classify.

The choice of Los Monegros was not accidental because in these beautiful landscapes full of life (one of the ecosystems with the largest number of endemic entomological world) speculators with the Government of Aragon to jelly want to build Greater Scala. This is a huge project, as well as building a city of gambling (sic) to live Las Vegas hotels, "villas", malls and golf courses.

The project aims to get called a map of the Peninsula in the representation of all the possible endemics "bugs" in order to demonstrate their biological wealth and provide arguments for the conservation of ecosystems inhabited by them.

The initiative is the Insectarium virtual organziación and you can see more at: http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/blog-iv/

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business lobbies to debate in Parliament

As we have told in the past weeks, we go to Brussels, the European Parliament, invited by the parliamentary group of the Greens / European Free Alliance. Investigative journalists Rafael Carrasco, Joaquín Vidal and Miguel Jara, three days we will be making presentations of books dealers health Conspiracies and toxic and participating in the seminar Lobbies in Europe. The next day, April 15 between 9 am and 10 pm in the Restaurant of Deputies of the Parliament in Brussels, we will talk about how they industrial pressure groups or lobbies of the most representative sectors such as pharmaceuticals, nuclear energy , GM, toxic chemicals, mobile phones and electromagnetic pollution or builder and real estate. The event, which will be presented by the English Green MEP David Hammerstein, coincides with the opinion that the Parliament is making to Transparency Initiative in Europe , the first regulations on the role of business lobbies in continental politics and has been developed by the European Commission Vice-President, Estonian Siim Kallas.

After several delays and numerous pressures from the associations of lobbyists, the European Parliament will vote on the Stubb report Initiative Kallas, on 8 May, in plenary. Be the first time that the European Parliament plenary session devoted to this institution and the first time that the controversial role of corporate lobbyists occupy the agenda Community institutions. European Parliament itself created in the late 90's, a register of lobbyists accredited to the Parliament by a full access card, including full and commissions, to their units. According to data of Parliament today are 4,435 officially registered lobbyists in the Parliament, which, with a capacity of 732 seats, giving a ratio of six lobbyists per member!

commonly accepted informal estimates, only in Brussels, the capital of the European Union, operates about 2,000 lobbies which employ between 15,000 and 20,000 "lobbyists", spread by the departments of "regulatory issues" of multinational corporations, business associations, NGOs, public relations agencies, consultants "public affairs", law firms and institutes of ideas or think tanks .
According to the Observatory of European corporations (CEO), an anti-lobbies foundation based in Amsterdam (Netherlands), about 200 multinationals have opened an office in the vicinity of the European Commission or the Parliament to deal with these issues their business.

No great company that claims to sell their products in international markets no longer has any representation in Brussels. This same association estimates that corporate spending lobbismo in the Belgian capital in excess of 1,000 million euros a year, a figure really dizzy but not too surprising when you consider that the oil company BP and the cigarette company Philip Morris, rental offices in the Schuman Square (the square where is located the European Commission) were the modest annual cost figure of 300 euros per square meter. For these reasons, the European Commission has launched its European Transparency Initiative, which, inter alia, proposes to limit the activities of these professionals hired by corporations to political institutions, a voluntary register of lobbyists and lobbyists and incentives to publicize its activities, nature and funding.

The proposal, drafted by European Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Siim Kallas, has been flatly rejected by the associations of lobbyists, but even so, approval is expected this spring. Both

toxic Conspiracies as health dealers are the first documents in book form that delve into those connections of policies affecting the environment and human health and the pressure most powerful economic sectors. Are serving also to revive the debate on the role of lobbyists or pressure groups in the English government's policies of various regions and the EU institutions that affect the environment and health of citizens. Following the presentation of books, Miguel Jara will join the seminar:
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO DEMOCRACY? CORPORATE INFLUENCE ON
EU POLICIES
A seminar on lobbying in Europe
It will host a conference between 10.00-10:20 a.m. on how to operate the pharmaceutical lobbies, electromagnetic pollution, ceramic, atomic energy or petrochemicals.

In effect, this seminar has the good sense to question whether we live in a democracy when most of the decisions made by European politicians and citizens affected are determined by large companies and economic sectors.

More info about the books:

Laura Fernandez (Conspiracies toxic) 914 230 328

Monica Bertran (health Dealers) 933 011 723

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Side Effects: The manufacturer's Nazi past Thalidomide

Last April 3 took place in London a demonstration of about a thousand of the drug affected Thalidomide. It was organized by ICTA (International Alliance of Associations of Victims of Thalidomide) and attended by victims of virtually all European Union countries, Cyprus and Canada. At the same time and in the German embassy in Bangkok, a small concentration was also affected. Several television in the United Kingdom attended the mobilization even offered live. A tv in Ireland, another from Germany, several radios and all British newspapers covered the protest action. But despite being invited all the English press correspondents, did not go-except by the editor of EFE.

50 years are not even see these people recognized the damage caused by the laboratory Grünenthal. The affected by the drug in our country broadcast a film these days, as they themselves suggest, shows the Nazi past of this drug, under the title of Side Effects.

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Bribes physicians: No Thanks

After spending a few days in Barcelona lands and to publish the books (health and Conspiracies dealers toxic) way to offer some nuanced presentation in Madrid, on Wednesday March 26, the platform No Thanks , which I attended. First highlight the huge number of signatures of health professionals is collecting No Thanks ( to view and / or sign the manifesto ). It is clear that there are desires to major changes in the health care system in search of ethics, largely lost the benefit of private interests minority.

During the presentation of No Thanks, Joan-Ramon Laporte , Professor of Pharmacology, explained that today there are divergent interests between patients and the pharmaceutical industry. One of the workhorses of this platform is to end bribery or bribery of doctors and medical personnel from many laboratories and companies.

also with private funding for training of physicians, it should be public, depending on the government, demand from No Thanks. It will not be easy, because as discussed in the conference, the latest reform of the Medicines Act, made almost two years ago, we tried to include the regulation of medical visits but almost all political groups rejected the measure.

This again raises the question: who finances the campaigns of those political parties? We will not know, at least until we have a law similar to the Freedom of Information in the U.S. have, which requires parties to state which companies from financing their campaigns and how much money they receive (the truth is that There is no point because as I demonstrate in health dealers the pharmaceutical lobby controls the U.S. Government through the financing of election campaigns).

Spain, according to those present at the appointment of No Thanks, is the country with more drugs with less five years of marketing. This leads to an increase in public spending on drugs, as these brand and growth of the damage and deaths from adverse effects of preparations, being less proven its potential damage.

Juan Gervás , a doctor in the Madrid mountains, made a public acknowledgment of financial conflicts of interest with the industry to show several events that will partially fund certain labs. Put this as an example that is now almost impossible to be 100% independent medical laboratories.

voluntarily disclose conflicts of interest is a the next steps in search of lost ethics. Very welcome is the idea that these professionals have placed on the doors of their consultations stickers that warn that they do not get reps.

Gervás also denounced the huge traffic of influences that exist in the health system, in which top managers frequently move into the ranks of private companies.

Gervás is a rare bird on the panorama health: do not get reps. Most health professionals who attend these labs sellers do, and see it as something natural. Since not advocate eliminating Thanks the visit to avoid tarugueo wills or buying gifts, hospitality or money ( View Informational Videos Tele5 ).

Carmen Ortiz, president of the Federation of Associations for the Defence of Public Health , promoter of No Thanks, explained that there was a spirit of confrontation with other health professionals but try to encourage them to be redirected towards good practice.

These and many other issues were discussed in the presentation of No Thanks. Keep you informed. For now, the organization for receiving accessions, the penultimate of the Association of Progressive de la Comunitat Valenciana.

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find more people who feel that there is an undeclared war between the interests of numerous companies and citizenship. I do not know how (I guess because since I was a kid I was fascinated by the power control function that has or should have journalism) over time I have been specializing in the investigation of enormous economic benefit certain minorities are getting no ethics at the expense of the health of all people and nature.

plasmaré that spirit in the conference against citizens Companies: The impact on our health economic interests, the association of those affected by toxic chemicals Adquira invited me to give in Barcelona on April 1 at 19:00 pm at the Centro de Investigaciones (C / Hospital, 64).

take advantage to introduce the two books that, for now, I have poured the information gathered during recent years: health dealers. How we sell dangerous drugs and play with the disease (Icaria Editorial, 2007), and Conspiracies toxic. How to undermine our health and environment business groups (Martínez Roca, 2007).

The day before, March 31 at 19:00 hours, I'll be at the Espai Icaria (Arc de Sant Cristòfol 11-23) in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere dealers will present health. On Saturday April 5, at 19:00, this time in Madrid, to introduce new health books and Conspiracies dealers toxic Ecocentro: C / Esquilache 2, 4 and 6 (along Avenida Pablo Iglesias, 2 .)

To end this intense fly half with the other two "conspirators toxic "(Rafael Carrasco and Joaquín Vidal, my co-authorship of Conspiracies toxic) to Brussels. There, in the European Parliament, the center of activity of industrial lobbies which shelled practices in this work (pharmaceutical industry dealers, and sectors such as mobile phone, nuclear power, genetically modified food, construction or toxic chemicals in conspiracies), there will be a couple of speeches. The first will be the 15th of April, a one-day seminar on lobbismo and pressure groups to which I has invited the Group of the Greens, with the suggestive title: WHAT EVER HAPPENED
TO DEMOCRACY?
CORPORATE INFLUENCE ON EU POLICIES
A seminar of lobbying in Europe (a lgo and "What happens to democracy? The influence of multinationals in the European Union policies.")

The next day, April 16, the second, Carrasco, Jara and Vidal will present to MEPs, journalists and interested in our Conspiracies toxic. We will use the visit to Brussels to demand Parliament and public agora. The terms of these two acts are yet to realize, as soon as you have the control.