Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Perverting Common Wisdom, nephew, is the mark of all great conspiracies!
He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!
The Spice must flow.
The people of the United States woke up one day to find themselves living in the Scifi classic Dune and Dick Cheney is looking a lot like Baron Harkonnen. Is Dick Cheney the real floating fat man?
Perverting Common Wisdom.
Cheney ordered, among other things, deletions from congressional testimony given by Julie Gerberding,M.D.,Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Gerberding is also Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Gerberding’s original testimony, presented to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, was cut by half. Here is a link to the original draft with censored testimony in highlight.
Pacific Spirit Marine Institute posted an article on 10/24/07. CDC officials were calling Julie Gerberding’s report to the committee “Eviscerated”.
9 months ago,Senator and Chairwoman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works,Barbara Boxer (D-Calif), questioned why the administration would edit testimony by one of the country’s leading voices on public health?
The Chairwoman’s question of why wasn’t answered, but in a 3-page letter from Jason Burnett the who was answered.
“Cheney’s office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC’s original draft testimony removed.”
Why indeed.
Boxer contends,”This cover-up is being directed from the White House and the office of the vice president.”
Burnett resigned from the EPA last month and told Boxer’s committee the White House pressured him to retract an email detailing his finding. Burnett refused. Boxer will subpoena the material unless EPA documents are released to her committee.
Oh. Really?
Word from Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Oklahoma) is the eviscerated report given by Gerberding is a non issue. “All administrations edit testimony before it is submitted to Congress.”
If that is the case why bother keeping the EPA, or the CDC for that matter? Why not just send down some lackey to report any so-called findings the administration wants?
The Spice must flow.
Boxer said, “History will judge this Bush administration harshly for recklessly covering up a real threat to the people they’re supposed to protect.”
Oath of Office.
In fact, history judging harshly is a non issue. For those that place their hand on a bible and swear to “protect and defend”, are held to a ‘higher’ standard. Intentionally leading the nation down a path of destruction that not only impacts the U.S., but the world, falls under the heading of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’.
Perhaps one day, when the world is fighting the war on climate change, people of the planet will judge this administration guilty of war crimes. But, by then it will be a post obitum judgement.
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This may not be the correct forum to present a history lesson, but I hold the pen; for today anyway.
As Jon Roland, Constitution Society explains: “high” does not mean “more serious” crimes. “It refers to those punishable offenses that only apply to high persons, that is, to public officials, those who,because of their official status, are under special obligations that ordinary persons are not under, and which could not be meaningfully applied or justly punished if committed by ordinary persons.”
An example is the Uniform Code of Military Justice. An ordinary person cannot be punished for moral turpitude, or conduct unbecoming. There would never be enough prisons to hold all those whose conduct is unbecoming!
As in the case of the President who swears an oath, ‘Any public statement is perjury if it is a lie, and not necessary to deceive an enemy.” Art. II Sec. 1 Cl. 8.
The President is legally responsible for everything that everyone in the executive branch is doing. The Presidents subordinates include everyone in the executive branch, their agents and contractors. He is not protected by “plausible deniablility”.
Holding a particular office of trust is not a right, but a privilege,and removal from such office is not a punishment.
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I’m sure a subpoena will work as well on those who occupy the Vice President’s ‘office’ as it has worked on Carl Rove. Rove failed to appear after being served with a subpoena to testify at the House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning. Rove did have a proxy; it was an empty chair with his name on the table.
Thumbing his nose, like the rest of the useless rapscallions in Washington, Rove would have like to informally ‘chew the fat’ with the subcommittee as if an informal chat would not bind him to telling the truth. Informal, just like the tests that the Gulf Stream Travel Trailer company did on their formaldehyde ridden toxic trailers sold to FEMA.
Unlike Rove, Gulf Stream Coach Chairman Kim Shea at least showed up to face the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Gulf Stream hit the jackpot with a windfall contract to provide $50 million worth of ‘death chambers’ to FEMA to house Katrina survivors. FEMA hadn’t done enough to try and shed themselves of survivors. Of course it isn’t the trailer manufacturer’s fault. After all there are no federal guidelines for formaldehyde exposure limits in ‘travel trailers’. Never mind that in some of the trailers tested the levels of formaldehyde exceeded the levels at which OSHA requires mandatory medical monitoring of workers who have been exposed to formaldehyde.
To say we have awakened to “A world where the mighty, the mad, and the magical will have their final battle.” is a gross understatement.
As the movie trailer for Dune tells us; this has become “A world beyond your experience, beyond your imagination.”
Photo: IMDb
Labels: Boxer, CDC report, Censored, Censorship US Government, Climate Change, EPA, FEMA, Formaldehyde, Speak no Evil
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"They’ve Taken Your Mind"
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Eviscerated is the term being used by on CDC official!
The Associated Press is reporting that CDC director Julie Gerberding’s report delivered to Congress yesterday was cut by 1/2. The report was to address public health effects of climate change. Details of how climate change and global warming will affect the health of Americans and how the government has failed to fully address the potential health risks of climate changes.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wants to know why the administration would edit testimony by “one of the country’s leading voices on public health.
For their part the Bush Administration via Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman says,…”It (the report) wasn’t watered down in terms of the concerns that climate change raises for the public health.”
Those at the CDC can take a number and stand in line behind other agencies that have been muted on climate change and the environment.
Speak no evil, or speak only of the evil we embrace seems to be this administrations motto.
From NASA the Fish and Wildlife Service to The EPA, up to and including censorship of exhibits on Global warming at the Smithsonian Institute, keeping Climate Change and Global Warming on the lowest key possible is the melody.
Links provided are to Pacific Spirit Archived Articles on Censorship. CDC report is a PDF file.
Labels: Artic, Boxer, CDC report, Climate Change, Congress, EPA, Environment, Global Warming
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Bush Administration Altered CDC Report on Climate Change! What else is new?
