What does that have to do with a report that was suppressed? Should most Americans be shielded from what they don’t want to hear?

In fact, you are only strengthening my argument.
Most Americans are asleep, dreaming about what they can buy at the mall on therif next trip.

Perhaps we should worry less about personal wealth and worry more about the state of the nation and the world as a whole. Though some may want to deny it, we are all interconnected, and diseases confined to Chad one day may come to your neighborhood the next.

Bring on the reports, and wake up a sleeping American public.

Remember the old saying about DC, you know who your friends are because they stab you in the chest.

The sugar daddy bites back

WHO calls for ban on junk-food ads aimed at kids. In
retaliation, the US sugar lobby urges their gov’t to suspend funding

By Henry Peters
n a leaked confidential letter to the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Lee Jong-Wook, the US government has rejected decades of nutritional research and denied that there is any evidence of a link between junk food and obesity. The letter, from William R Steiger, special assistant at the Department of Health and Human Services and godson to George Bush Sr, is the United States’ official response to an April 2003 report by the WHO and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). That report, entitled “Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases,” argues that governments should take steps to limit children’s exposure to junk-food advertising, and says that added sugar should comprise no more than 10% of a healthy diet.

The report was released last spring, prompting American food manufacturers’ groups to begin frantic lobbying in Washington. The Sugar Association wrote to Gro Harlem Brundtland, then WHO director-general, threatening to “exercise every avenue available to expose the dubious nature” of the report. Congressmen recruited by the food industry urged the Secretary of Health, Tommy Thompson, to cut off the $406 million annual US contribution to the WHO.

Do you really think that most Americans want to spend more tax funds on healthcare for people in other countries?

I wonder if in the next 19 months if everyone with a policy ax to grind will run to the media and claim that the Bush Adminsitraiton is playing politics with their pet cause. See http://volokh.com/posts/1185724235.shtml for a slightly different inerpretation.

After Bush entered office in January 2001, Brown joined FEMA as General Counsel. He was the first person hired by his long-time friend, then-FEMA director Joe Allbaugh[11], who also ran Bush’s election campaign in 2000.

Now Joe Allbaugh is a piece of —-, he makes Brownie look like Truman. But he does fit into the rampant nepotism of this administration. Makes one pine for “Travelgate”, atleast the Clenis family hid theirs better.

http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2007/07/bushs-twit-of-year.html

Yet, I’ve heard Congressmen and Senators say that they get relatively little mail on these subjects. THey hear about Iraq, Iraq, Irra.

Certtainly, TV news channels are not jumping on these stories. They, seem to be totally focused on how a story will affect Wall St. rather than on the
newsworthiness of any subject. In this case, pverty and health are not uplifting for business, so why disturb a sleeping dog?

Sometimes I think the public is just a big sleeping nutt.

This story was, unfortunately, quite predictable. Bush accuses Congress of political stunts, but he is hardly a babe-in-the-woods on that score.