Bush administration officials make the case more powerfully that we need to resurrect the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA).
Bushies, going against their earlier claims that they accept that the nation needs to do something about changing climate, “eviscerated” testimony of a government official designed to protect public health. More voodoo science from Bush. According to The Carpetbagger Report:
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a Senate panel yesterday that climate change “is anticipated to have a broad range of impacts on the health of Americans.” If that sounds a little vague and non-specific, there’s a good reason — the White House refused to let her say what she wanted to say.
Sadly, Carpetbagger Report lists several other instances in which White House officials have gutted the release of important information on global warming’s dangers.
If Osama bin Laden did something like that, we’d invade a smaller nation to stop it. Preventing Americans from being prepared for disaster is a terroristic threat under the Homeland Security Act, isn’t it? Is there a clause for citizen suits in there somewhere? Who will stand up to the abuses by George Bush?
Here’s the Washington Post story on the event. Here’s my previous post, with links to Denialism and Pharyngula, and even John Wilkins (love that picture of Snowflake!).
Hillary Clinton specifically calls for the recreation of OTA, a clue some of us politicos use to indicate she really does know what government under the Constitution should be doing. Other Democrats are friendly to the idea, but so far I’ve not heard a peep from any of the Republican presidential candidates. Orrin? What about you?
Bring back the OTA. Exorcise the demons of totalitarian Bushism.
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A general view from outside the U.S. is that the U.S. runs the UN. That’s not a view shared by very many Americans. Especially, it’s difficult to make a case that was true during the Vietnam war era.
You allege that an outpost of the UN offered aid to the Khmer Rouge, and your evidence is a line of trucks going in the general direction of a Khmer Rouge compound. You allege that the trucks carried medical and other supplies. You imply that the aid was authorized and perhaps paid for by the U.S.
The fact is that the U.S., perhaps stupidly, supported the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, and the U.S. supported the government that replaced his. Sihanouk was leaning to the communist side. The Khmer Rouge overthrew the government the U.S. backed.
It’s a long way from the Khmer Rouge’s defeating a government friendly to the U.S., to the U.S. supporting the Khmer Rouge, and frankly, I don’t think the case can be made. Certainly you’ve not made it here.
I’ll check out your site — but I don’t take as fact things that fly in the face of history, without extraordinary documentation.
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I saw you comment on Lo’s dandelion blog. I’m not here to debate issues, but I know for a fact of what you said is not true. My parents are Cambodian. One indisputed fact is that they saw envoy of trucks with UN local heading toward Khmer Rough sanctuary near the Thailand border. They brought “humanitarian Aid” to help the Khmer Rough heal their wounds and continue the war. When it comes down to it, the UN runs by the United States. It is boiled down to who has the bigger cannon. UN is just a body and has no real physical power. I have accumulated some articles by some well known journalists, historians and dissidents on my site that is dedicated to Cambodia. please visit and read some if not all the articles and watch the videos as well. Thanks you! http://unclesampolpot.blogspot.com/
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