Killer Popcorn

| August 15, 2008 - 12:45 am

Tags: cancer, CDC, EPA, FDA, lung disease, microwave popcorn, OSHA, workers

Yep, popcorn can kill. But not all popcorn kills, just the microwave popcorn made in the factories. The working conditions and Chemical additives used to make the flavorings for microwave popcorn can really hurt workers.

The Three Monkeys as a Model for Formulating Government Policy?

| July 8, 2008 - 10:47 pm

Tags: Animal Farm, CDC, Cheney, EPA, Executive Branch, FOIA, George Orwell

It seems that the Bush Administration has decided that executive branch agencies have to behave like the three monkeys: Speak no evil, see no evil, and hear no evil. According to articles in today’s Washington Post and the New York Times newspapers, last October, 2007, members of Vice-President’s Dick Cheney staff edited out six pages of proposed Congressional testimony of Julie L.Gerberding, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”)where the CDC was going to point out that global warming caused by greenhouse gases emitted from fossil fuels are a serious threat to public health.