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    EPA

    I found a couple of stories on this:

    Trump Freezes EPA

    Trump Places media blackout on EPA

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    Obama was accused here of changing America in irreversible ways. Is there a similar accusation against Trump or is he merely trying to undo Obama's work and is perhaps going far with that ?

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    By freezing I believe he is pushing a pause button on things to prevent advancement until he has time for his people to evaluate them...He is not eliminating them or even paring them down yet...That's how I see it...

    Just like he put a freeze on government hiring EXCEPT the military....

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    The EPA and many other agencies are what is termed "captured". They make rules and regulations to favor certain winners.

    Case in point:

    Warren Buffet has a monopoly on oil delivery (trains), the two pipeline projects will greatly disrupt his business in this area. So, while we are fed a bunch of nonsense about "environmental impact", the pipelines have been on hold to protect Warren Buffet and those he pays off.

    There is so much unwinding to do in these agencies it is mind boggling.

    Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. When regulatory capture occurs, the interests of firms or political groups are prioritised over the interests of the public, leading to a net loss to society as a whole. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called "captured agencies".
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

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    Eisenhower on ClimateGate: "the Scientific-Technological Elite"
    Michael Egnor November 30, 2009 1:38 PM
    http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/11...the028761.html

    Most of us know that President Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, warned of the danger of the "military-industrial complex". Regardless of your particular stand on military spending, there is no doubt that he was substantially right about the enormous abuse of power and fraud in the defense industry.

    Less known is the Eisenhower's second warning in the speech.

    Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.

    Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. [emphasis mine]

    A remarkably succinct and accurate prediction of the situation we face today....

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    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
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    Capture the education system and you capture the future...'government' knew this back when they were making it criminal to keep your kids out of their 'public school system'. Why else would so many fight against homeschooling other school choices?

    Likewise...the American dream that insisted it took 2 incomes to 'properly' support a family...of course American dream was redefined by the government and the media....from entrepreneurship and freedom to raise our families as WE chose was replaced with 2 tory houses and 4 car driveways and 200000 education accounts and the necessity for the latest and greatest in gadgets and clothes...

    Now the public school has gone from education to the new daycare as well...many parents, other than the wealthy, were entrapped in debt and this new system of child raising....now we have two overlapping generations that are products of this system...

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    Trump moves the clock!

    Everybody run!

    Hide quickly!

    The scientists are worried...




    Countdown to DISASTER: Major Doomsday Clock announcement as mankind faces ARMAGEDDON
    GLOBAL catastrophe could be right around the corner as the scientists behind the terrifying Doomsday Clock make a huge announcement.
    By Rachel O'Donoghue / Published 25th January 2017
    http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...climate-change

    The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will have the world's eyes on them tomorrow morning as a crucial decision about the movement of the minute and is made.

    The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic timepiece that represents the countdown to a catastrophic event occurring, such as nuclear war or life-ending climate change.

    The last time it was moved – bringing into three minutes to midnight – was in January 2015 due to unmanaged "climate change, global nuclear weapons modernisations and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals"....



    ...The Bulletin announced it made its decision based on "issues including 'a rise in strident nationalism worldwide, US President Donald Trump's comments on nuclear arms and climate issues, a darkening global security landscape that is coloured by increasingly-sophisticated technology, and a growing disregard for scientific expertise"....


    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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