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"
Saturday, October 27, 2007
In light of the fact that the U.S. Emergency Management team, FEMA has demonstrated a fairly woeful response to disasters I thought it was time to have a look at what other countries were doing to ‘manage’ disasters.
It turns out that the ‘world’ has a plan to manage disasters. The 18th Annual World Conference on Disaster Managementis holding their meeting in Toronto, Ontario at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre June 15-18, 2008.
Come and “Network with your peers-there are solutions out there; you may even have the solution to someone [else's] problem.” says their beautiful Website.
The theme of the coming event is going to be: ‘Resiliency-Individual, Community and Business”.
The Resiliency of the individual is something we all need to pay close attention to and pack our own shoots. If we leave our safety in the time of a disaster in the hands of government and business we will be in for a rude awakening.
“This is one conference you can’t afford to miss.” touts the home page of the conference. “This is your chance to participate in a knowledge exchange unlike any other event of its kind.”
We can only hope no one is going to take back the knowledge of the FEMA team, unless it’s the knowledge of what they have learned doesn’t work. FEMA may demonstrate how to hold “fake” news conferences. They may teach “schilling” your own employee’s as actual news reporters. This way you may “field” only the questions you want to answer, and avoid those nasty follow-up questions.
Disaster relief teams from around the world could learn a lot from FEMA. Some things very helpful, and others ‘not so much’.
In 2007, this event ‘attracted more than 1,800 participants from Canada, and the U.S. as well as internationally. They expect this coming year to have even more attendees. So “Take Advantage now!”. “Reserve Space” so that you too may sell your disaster wears both at home and abroad.
Don’t miss the many mixers planned for the event either. You may even have the opportunity to watch the Heimlich Maneuver in action!
Labels: Canada, Censored, Censorship US Government, FEMA, Speak no Evil
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18th World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto.Learn how to give fake news conferences just like the pros at FEMA?
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Yesterday we posted Global Warming censorship by the US government was being investigated as it related to an Exhibit at the Smithsonian.
The acting secretary of the Smithsonian, Chistian Samper has fired back a response. Samper is claiming the AP story was based on an erroneous allegation made by a former Smithsonian employee who was neither a scientist nor a curator.
Samper also claims that at no time did anyone from the Congress or the White House comment on the exhibition.
“Artic: A Friend Acting Strangely” was on display at the National Museum of Natural History for 7 months. (April 15-Nov. 30, 2006)
William Fitzhugh, director of Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History told the Associated Press “We presented exactly what we wanted to present in that exhibit, which was NOT to explore carbon dioxide and the ’cause’ of arctic/global warming, but to look at the environmental socio-cultural changes and impacts.”
Climate Science Watch promoting integrity in the use of Climate science in government have a statement from Robert Sullivan, the now resigned former associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History says “Smithsonian Institution executives ordered a politically motivated rewrite of science in the 2006 exhibit at the center of the controversy.
The AP reported that Sullivan, said among other things, the text of the exhibit was edited to minimize the relationship between global warming and humans.
“Our own review of the exhibit finds that, in fact, it discusses climate change and its impacts on the Arctic but, with evident evasiveness, avoids ANY mention of human-induced global warming as a driver…”
The Smithsonian’s official line seems to be this exhibit was an important one. Apparently the cause of why ‘Our Friend the Artic is Acting Strangely’ …not so much!
The AP stands by it’s original story.
Mr. Sullivan’s claim was Smithsonian executives ordered the rewrite. Not that the White House ordered the rewrite. I think, by now, we’ve all realized the White House knows more than one way to skin a cat.
Labels: Censored, Censorship US Government, Edward J. Markey, Global Warming, Smithsonian
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Smithsonian"No Political Pressure" to Censor Exhibit!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
“Rep. Edward J. Markey Chairman of The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has opened an investigation into allegations that the Smithsonian Institute altered an Exhibit on Global warming.
Mounting evidence indicates there has been very real pressure applied to government-affiliated scientific bodies to color, gloss over or in some cases ignore facts being presented to the public as well as Congress regarding Global Warming.
NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen says the government has pressured him to toe the party line on Global Warming “contrary to the evidence”. The EPA also allowed a former oil lobbyist working in the White House to censor Global Warming science from an EPA report. This former lobbyist, come White House employee is as yet un-named.
In our After the downing street memo came the Polar bear memorandum article we told you how the Department of Interior put a gag order on scientists talking about the links between the threatened Polar bears and Global Warming.
The latest slap in the face to the public, who are paying these very government-affiliated scientific bodies, is the revelation that The Smithsonian altered an exhibition on Global Warming.
On May 22, Markey sent to Chistian Samper, Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian, asking for all information pertaining to the exhibit in question including letters, emails, a list of scientific and an non-scientific consultants, and any correspondence with political bodies.
“This administration’s pattern of stifling and censoring Global Warming science is too clear for us to ignore yet another possible example of political influence on Climate science,” said Chairman Markey. “We can no longer allow the ideology of this President and his operatives of climate denial to compromise the reputations of our greatest scientists and proudest scientific institutions.”
Labels: Censored, Censorship US Government, Edward J. Markey, Global Warming
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Global Warming Censorship by US Government Investigated
