The official Thread for Trash/Repug CRAPICATION of America, the planet

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Trump Order Resurfaces Debate about “Militarizing” Police

The White House lifted Obama’s ban on gear like tracked vehicles and grenade launchers, imposed after harsh police response to Ferguson protests

Pres. Donald Trump was swept into office largely due to campaign promises that he would dismantle a number of his predecessor’s signature programs.

Although his efforts to reverse Obama-era reforms to health care and immigration policy remain a very gradual work in progress,

Trump recently revoked a 2015 executive order limiting the availability of surplus military gear—

tracked vehicles,

grenade launchers,

bayonets

and certain other equipment—to state and local law enforcement agencies.

Trump’s August 28 executive order is “a big deal symbolically” because it reverses a big part of the approach to policing adopted during the Obama administration’s second term, says Michael White, a professor of criminology at Arizona State University.

The order “is another example of

this administration’s focus on getting tough on crime as opposed to the previous administration’s interest in community policing,”

White says.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...rizing-police/

Repugs bringing the USA's imperial foreign wars and imperial warriors with their warrior mentality and killer sicknesses back to USA and treating American citizens like terrorists.

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Next up, the animals: GOP moves to strip protections from endangered species

With the trophy-hunting Trumps in power, the Endangered Species Act is under attack from anti-environmental zealots

his week, Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee are moving to advance five bills that a coalition of environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, say

“threaten to undermine the Endangered Species Act and the species that benefit from its protections by prioritizing politics over science and undercutting citizens’ ability to help enforce the law.”

All these bills “serve the same purpose of undermining the law, weakening the law [and] disadvantaging species conservation, all under the guise of ‘modernizing and collaborating,'” said Jamie Rappaport Clark, the CEO of Defenders of Wildlife.

“But it will only make the challenge of recovering species on the brink of extinction infinitely more difficult.”

Republicans often frame these attacks on the Endangered Species Act as an effort to improve the law. But the chair of the Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, let the truth slip out in a congressional hearing last December.

“I would be happy to invalidate the Endangered Species Act,” Bishop said.

90 percent of voters saying they approve of the Endangered Species Act and

three-quarters saying that decisions about that protection should be made by scientists, not politicians.

http://www.salon.com/2017/09/13/next...gered-species/

Capitalists' greed TRUMPS all of nature, and capitalists' $Bs immunize politicians from public preferences

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Tin-pot dictator Trash and his hack assholes ing over Americans.

I'm sure other Repugs will follow his destruction of custom, respect, norms, civility. They will think the Trash got away it, so everybody can.

Who is Trump meeting at Mar-a-Lago? White House refuses to release records

The White House says Freedom of Information Act requests don't apply to president's schedule

http://www.salon.com/2017/09/15/who-...lease-records/

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DOJ changes excessive force program



The Department of Justice announced Friday it would immediately enact “significant changes” to an Office of Community Oriented Policing Services initiative

to better support local law enforcement

the alterations would “better align” with the principles Sessions laid out in a memo in March.

In that memo, the former Alabama senator called for a review of all the department’s activities, which included “collaborative investigations and prosecutions, grant making, technical assistance and training,” among others while stating it was not up to the federal government to “manage” local law enforcement.

Sessions did state the preservation of civil rights was key to his department’s work

the COPS office has spent more than $14 billion to aide local departments and some of its programs have included grants meant to improve relations between police and minorities.

the COPS office has spent more than $14 billion to aide local departments and some of its programs have included grants meant to improve relations between police and minorities.

provided police departments with the tools needed to advance practices against excessive force or biased policing. ”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/doj-...e+Raw+Story%29

Sessions wants to free cops to abuse, brutalize, murder blacks and browns, while the DoJ does nothing

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Predatory, destructive OLIGARCHY may strip protections from 10 national monuments

The Trump administration’s plan for shrinking and diminishing protections at America’s national monuments appears far more expansive than previously reported, targeting 10 of the nation’s most ecologically sensitive landscapes and marine preserves.

would shrink the borders at half a dozen monuments and ocean preserves and open four others up for uses such as commercial fishing, logging and coal mining,

the impact on the West overall would be dramatic. The other monuments Zinke is proposing to shrink include Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, which together encompass 3.2 million acres. Zinke is also urging a downsizing of the nearly 297,000-acre Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada.

the boundaries of the 584,000-square-mile Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument would be reduced so that commercial fishing could resume in the territory. The monument, which encompasses seven atolls and islands, is described by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as “one of the last frontiers and havens for wildlife in the world.”

Zinke also wants commercial fishing to resume within the 13,451-square-mile Rose Atoll Marine National Monument near American Samoa, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration describes as “one of the most pristine atolls in the world.” Like Pacific Remote Islands, it provides refuge to a number of endangered and threatened species.



http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...s=mcnewsletter

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While hurricanes struck, Scott Pruitt was up to some interesting activities

the regulatory power of the EPA should be undermined and

advocating that his agency be made smaller in size and scope,

be deprived of a robust budget and enforcement power, and shift focus to what he likes to call

“regulatory certainty” for polluting industries.

“The agency created by a Republican president 47 years ago to protect the environment and public health may end up doing neither under Mr. Pruitt’s direction,”

the EPA’s recent actions, including the EPA’s attack on an AP reporter, “are only the latest manifestations of my fears.”

the EPA administrator has appeared in far-right media,

blasted the Obama administration and the mainstream media,

disparaged discussions about climate change, and

rolled back more regulations.

“At your direction, the political leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking deliberate steps to thwart transparency,” the senators wrote.

you are taking measures to conceal your official actions.”

the EPA was not on the scene to survey the Houston area’s Superfund sites that were underwater and found seven sites flooded. (The EPA later estimated from aerial imagery that there were actually 13.) In response, the EPA put out a statement accusing one of the bylined reporters of inaccurate reporting because he was in Washington, D.C

he defended delaying a regulation that lays out the specific information chemical companies like Arkema are required to provide first responders in the event of chemical explosions similar to the one in Houston.

Trump still gave the agency a shoutout in the aftermath of Harvey: “We’ve ended the EPA intrusion into your jobs and into your lives. And we’re refocusing the EPA on its core mission: clean air and clean water.”

Pruitt went after Barack Obama’s environmental record and his other adversaries:

Pruitt said. “Everyone looks at the Obama administration as being the environmental savior. Really? He was the environmental savior? He’s the gold standard, right? Well, he left us with more Superfund sites than when he came in. He had Gold King [the 2015 mine wastewater spill] and Flint, Michigan [drinking water crisis]. He tried to regulate CO2 twice and flunked twice. Struck out. So what’s so great about that record? I don’t know.”
He also took the opportunity to criticize Christine Todd Whitman, Bush’s EPA administrator

“Maybe Christine Todd Whitman likes the Obama administration,” Pruitt said. “Go ask her, I don’t know. [Obama] is the gold standard, right?”

“If Chancellor Merkel … really cares about reducing CO2 in this world, why is she going away from nuclear?” Pruitt asked. “It’s so hypocritical for countries to look at the United States and say, ‘You need to do more.’ Really? So, we’ve reduced our pollutants under the Clean Air Act [criteria pollutants and CO2].”

EPA announced a two-year delay for a 2015 rule that set the first limit on toxic metals that can be discharged into wastewater from power plants. “Today’s final rule resets the clock for certain portions of the agency’s effluent guidelines for power plants, providing relief from the existing regulatory deadlines while the agency revisits some of the rule’s requirements,” Pruitt said

http://grist.org/article/while-hurri...ng-activities/

tier air, tier water, tier land, more diseased and dying people, this what you you rightwing assholes vote for, right?

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Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent


HHS secretary took chartered aircraft on five flights last week, while his predecessors would fly commercial.




In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business,

at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.
The secretary’s five flights, which were scheduled between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15, took him to a

resort in Maine where he participated in a Q&A discussion with a health care industry CEO

and to community health centers in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, according to internal HHS do ents.



The travel by corporate-style jet comes at a time when other members of the Trump administration are under fire for travel expenditures, and breaks with the practices of Obama-era Secretaries Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Kathleen Sebelius, who flew commercially while in the continental United States.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...gEmail__092017

Fox and the rightwing hate media will be obsessing for month over the abuse, waste of taxpayer money.

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The BEST People

Do You Wish You Were Smarter?

Ben Carson's Discovery

Is Proven To Double Your IQ And Will Be Banned From The Public

In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, Ben Carson said that his brain is sharper than ever,

more clear and focused and he credits a large part to using Advanced IQ.

Ben Carson went on to add "The brain is like a muscle, you got to work it out and use supplements just like body builders use, but for your brain, and that’s exactly

what I’ve been doing to enhance my mental capabilities".

https://braininsidernewstoday.com/ca...d=9j9ru8u39tcw

You rightwingnutjobs are such marks for your trusted con men

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How Alex Jones Uses Fear of the Government to Sell Diet Supplements

Alternative media mogul Alex Jones—one of the most prominent opponents of the New World Order, "scientific dictatorship," and the secret society that controls the police—has come a long way

He also seems to be doing a healthy business in dietary supplements.

"Infowars Life: Because there's a war on for your life," reads the tagline.

You need this because the government is poisoning the water.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv7zza/infowars-life

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Trump supporters just doxxed thousands of anti-racist protesters as part of a disturbing harassment campaign

Personal information belonging to thousands of anti-Trump and anti-racist protesters has been released by pro-Trump users on the 4chan message board,

The thread, which was posted on Thursday under the subject line “ANTIFA GETS DOXXED,” links to an organized Pastebin database full of information about the places of employment, home addresses, telephone numbers, emails and social media accounts of thousands of people involved in anti-Trump protests.

The Pastebin database, the report noted, has been making the rounds in pro-Trump circles online since at least April, when they released the information of roughly 3,000 people. Now, there are thousands more on the list, which has “easily tripled in size.”

The information appears to be gathered from a range of sources, including RefuseFascism.org, an organizing platform for anti-fascists, the BAMN pro-immigrant coalition and ShareBlue, a social publishing platform run by former Hillary Clinton staffer Peter Daou.

The text of the database claims that many of the “antifa” whose information they hacked are “predominantly school teachers, programmers and professors.”

They also claim many are associated with “a major Bolshevik organization,” likely referring to people associated with large socialist organizations like Democratic Socialists of America or the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trum...ment-campaign/

You Nazis, KKKers, racists, white male supremacist pussy grabbers are s bags.

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Repugs, esp slave state Christian Taliban, The BEST People

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Some asshole here said ADA was the only good law passed by the Repugs in 40 years.

The Quiet Attack on the ADA Making Its Way Through Congress



https://www.americanprogress.org/iss...-way-congress/

non-Euro-white? non-male? non-Christian? non-able?

Morally, ethically, traitorous, diseased Repugs' say : WE YOU

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Radical GOP-led Bill Promotes Killing of America's Threatened Wildlife

This shameful bill would allow trophy hunters to kill grizzly bears on public land—using silencers.

, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources passed the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act—the so-called SHARE Act—with votes coming only from Republican members of the committee.

a grab bag of shameful provisions aimed at

opening National Park Service lands to grizzly bear killing (of all places, they should be protected on our “national preserves”),

poisoning wildlife with the use of lead tackle and ammunition (even though there are practical and affordable alternatives), and

promoting the killing of threatened species (e.g., wolves and polar bears).

at odds with common sense, but also with the unmistakable demographic patterns in the United States.

Just last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its periodic report on wildlife recreation. Among other things, the report revealed that

the number of wildlife watchers is soaring (a 20 percent increase in the last five years to 86 million in 2016), while hunter numbers have declined by two million since 2011, when the agency last examined the question, to just 11.5 million.

Wildlife watchers outnumber sport hunters by a ratio of seven to one and spend $75.9 billion on their pursuits, as compared to $25.6 billion spent by hunters.

The Natural Resources Committee’s vote is really more about the wishes of the NRA and the Safari Club,

and not about helping hunters and fishermen, who get almost nothing from this boondoggle of a bill and who would be shocked by its anti-conservation provisions

unwind an NPS rule that forbids extreme hunting methods on lands that never were meant to be set aside for these purposes.

loosening restrictions on the baiting of migratory waterfowl and barring EPA restrictions on the use of lead-based fishing equipment.

SHARE also

handcuffs the departments of Interior and Agriculture by prohibiting either agency from regulating the use of lead-based ammunition, ammunition cartridges, or fishing tackle where such uses are allowed by the state where the hunting and fishing occurs.

a sweetheart deal to help 41 wealthy polar bear trophy hunters import the heads of rare polar bears they shot in Canada.

give trophy hunters and commercial trappers priority access to the more than 100 million acres of congressionally designated “wilderness areas” across the nation. This provision weakens the core purpose of the Wilderness Act,

http://www.alternet.org/animal-right...atened-species

Repugs up everything they touch, because their BigDonor shield them from all accountability.

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EPA head met with a mining CEO -- and then pushed forward a controversial mining project



Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO,

the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency directed his staff to withdraw a plan to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay, Alaska,

one of the most valuable wild salmon fisheries on Earth, according to interviews and government emails obtained by CNN.

The meeting between EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Tom Collier, CEO of Pebble Limited Partnership, took place on May 1, Collier and his staff confirmed in an interview with CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/politi...l_topeditorial

Repug kakistrocracy s up everything it touches.

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DOJ changes excessive force program



The Department of Justice announced Friday it would immediately enact “significant changes” to an Office of Community Oriented Policing Services initiative

to better support local law enforcement

the alterations would “better align” with the principles Sessions laid out in a memo in March.

In that memo, the former Alabama senator called for a review of all the department’s activities, which included “collaborative investigations and prosecutions, grant making, technical assistance and training,” among others while stating it was not up to the federal government to “manage” local law enforcement.

Sessions did state the preservation of civil rights was key to his department’s work

the COPS office has spent more than $14 billion to aide local departments and some of its programs have included grants meant to improve relations between police and minorities.

the COPS office has spent more than $14 billion to aide local departments and some of its programs have included grants meant to improve relations between police and minorities.

provided police departments with the tools needed to advance practices against excessive force or biased policing. ”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/doj-...e+Raw+Story%29

Sessions wants to free cops to abuse, brutalize, murder blacks and browns, while the DoJ does nothing

hey great work informing/sharing havent read all but some good stuff

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Pruitt diverts EPA agents to protect him 24/7, instead of protecting YOU from pollution

Back in May, Coral Davenport and Eric Lipton at the New York Timesreported how Environmental Protection Agency-hating EPA chief Scott Pruitt was instilling a sense of paranoia in the agency’s offices.

Among other things, they wrote that he required round-the-clock bodyguards to accompany him even when he was at EPA headquarters. Pruitt is the first chief in the EPA’s 47-year history to order bodyguards 24 hours a day.

Turns out—surprise!—that it’s not only true, but it also mucks up the core mission of the agency that Pruitt has said he wants the EPA to return to. Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis at The Washington Post report Wednesday:

Scott Pruitt’s round-the-clock personal security detail, which demands triple the manpower of his predecessors

at the Environmental Protection Agency, has prompted officials to rotate in special agents from around the country who otherwise would be investigating environmental crimes.

The EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance has

summoned agents from various cities to serve two-week stints helping guard Pruitt in recent months.

And while hiring in many departments is frozen, the agency has sought an exception to hire additional full-time staff to protect Pruitt.

Instead of the half dozen people usually assigned to

EPA security details, Pruitt’s order requires 18.

This at an agency that has seen in recent years a 20 percent cut in its budget, which peaked at $10.3 billion in 2010.

Pruitt sought to cut another 31 percent in the fiscal 2018 budget, knocking it down from $8.1 billion to $5.65 billion.

This would have forced a staff reduction from 15,000 to less than 12,000.

http://redgreenandblue.org/2017/09/2...ing-pollution/

The polluting, voracious, predatory oligarchy really got their Best Asshole to screw up EPA and the country.

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McC stole a SCOTUS seat for Gorsuch, now corrupt Gorsuch returns the criminally corrupt favor

Justice Neil Gorsuch Accused of Campaigning for Senator Mitch McConnell

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has been accused of campaigning for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Lawyer and writer Jessica Pieklo leveled the accusation against Gorsuch in a series of Twitter updates yesterday. Her initial tweet reads,

“Neil Gorsuch is campaigning for Mitch McConnell which is totally appropriate for a member of SCOTUS.”

Pieklo, an adjunct law professor at Hamline University School of Law in Boulder, Colorado, followed up her initial tweet by wondering out loud whether Gorsuch might be “the most unethical Justice” in U.S. history:

Jessica Mason Pieklo
✔@Hegemommy

How could there POSSIBLY be an appearance of bias when Gorsuch is glad-handing with Kentucky Republicans.

Most unethical Justice yet? https://twitter.com/Hegemommy/status/911234443011960833 …
9:24 AM - Sep 22, 2017



https://lawnewz.com/high-profile/jus...tch-mcconnell/

Repugs don't even try to avoid the appearance of corruption.

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John Oliver blasts corporate mergers — starting with the ‘ ty’ company trying to buy HBO

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/joh...e+Raw+Story%29

The Trash/Repug FCC and DoJ going to get tough of corporate consolidation?

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Zinke: ’30 Percent’ Of Interior Dept. Staffers Not Loyal To Him And Trump

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to change the department’s regulatory culture to be more business friendly.

he lamented a government culture that prizes analysis over action, saying: “There’s too many ways in the present process for someone who doesn’t want to get (a regulatory action) done to put it a holding pattern.”

pursuing a major reorganization that would push much of the agency’s decision-making outside Washington and move several agencies, including the Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Land Management, to undetermined Western states.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/zinke-interior-dept-staffers-not-loyal?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ca mpaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Don't think, analyze. Life is simple: up everything for business can it up everything.

For Trash, Zinke, etc personal loyalty supercedes the law, regs, the Cons ution.

America is ed and un able.

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How Donald Trump and Elaine Chao Sold Off Flood-Control Policy to the Highest Bidders

In mid-August, the administration moved to gut a necessary initiative to guarantee the flood resilience of infrastructure.

the Trump administration was thinking about and acting on flood-control policies.

Unfortunately, the president’s team was thinking about what corporate interests wanted, and acting on their behalf—even as specialists on flooding issues pleaded with the administration to do otherwise. On August 15,

Trump and his team overturned an Obama-administration rule requiring that infrastructure projects, including roads and bridges, be designed to withstand the consequences of climate change—such as rising sea levels.

politically influential real-estate developers and builders lobbied for overturning Obama’s order.

And they got their way, thanks in no small part to one of the industry’s most powerful allies in the administration, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

Since Trump took office on January 20,

Chao and other presidential appointees have rushed to sell off critical decisions to the highest bidders in a crony-capitalist frenzy the likes of which Washington has never before seen.

“This is climate science denial at its most dangerous,”

said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune in mid-August. He stressed that the administration’s moves were

“putting vulnerable communities, federal employees, and families at risk by throwing out any guarantee that our infrastructure will be safe.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/ho...ghest-bidders/

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EPA spending on Scott Pruitt now includes a $25,000 ‘privacy booth’

Pruitt's travel and security detail are also under scrutiny, as EPA faces massive cutbacks across its budget.

the Washington Post reported that the EPA spent almost $25,000 on a secure phone booth inside his headquarters office,

The construction of a secure, soundproof communications booth in Pruitt’s office at the EPA’s headquarters building in Washington is a truly mind-boggling expenditure. According to the Washington Post, the EPA signed a

$24,570 contract for a company to install a “privacy booth for the administrator.”

“While the price tag for Pruitt’s phone booth should outrage every taxpayer, it’s who he’s speaking with and what they’re plotting that should be the most concerning to the American people,”

Pruitt is “paranoid because he’s working against the EPA, it’s mission and its career scientists and staff who have dedicated themselves to protecting public health and the environment.”

administration’s proposal to cut the agency’s budget by 30 percent — or more than $2 billion — is by far the largest cut of any federal agency.

During the first three months of Pruitt’s tenure at the EPA,

the government spent more than $800,000 on security for him,

almost twice the cost of security for each of his two predecessors — Gina McCarthy and Lisa Jackson.

In its budget request, the

EPA was looking to add 10 full-time employees to protect the administrator.

Pruitt now has an 18-member security detail made up of armed personnel who guard him 24 hours a day, seven days a week,

unprecedented for any previous EPA administration.

https://thinkprogress.org/scott-pruitt-expenditures-5c4733e52690/

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Trump budget goes after 50-year-old coastal protection program

Administration wants to eliminate Sea Grant, cut climate research programs.

eliminate a 50-year-old research program that has served as a leader on coastal adaptation.

The program, known as the National Sea Grant College Program, funds scientific research that benefits the fishing industry and coastal businesses.

In recent years, the program, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

has focused on climate change adaptation initiatives that will prepare coastal communities for the predicted impacts of climate change.

In prior years, the program has received $73 million per year. Under the Trump budget, the program will receive no funding at all.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-seek...-77e6d122dab0/

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Trump EPA cuts life-saving clean cookstove program because it mentions climate change

How many people will die because Trump appointees hate anything climate related?

Trump’s political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency are killing grants and awards that mention “climate change,” no matter how effective the initiatives might be in cutting costs, creating jobs, and saving lives.

the EPA has taken the unprecedented step of “putting a political operative in charge of vetting” hundreds of millions of dollars in annual EPA grants,

“Konkus has told staff that he is on the lookout for ‘the double C-word’ — climate change,”

two of the awards the EPA’s leadership rescinded… supported the deployment of clean cookstoves in the developing world.”

Nearly three billion people in the developing world cook their meals on primitive indoor stoves fueled by crop waste, wood, coal and dung. Every year, according to

the United Nations, smoke from these stoves kills 1.9 million people, mostly women and children, from lung and heart diseases and low birth weight.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epa-...-d40d53ab89ff/

EPA committing unstoppable voluntary manslaughter with no accountability

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'Chilling' New Rule Allows DHS to Monitor All Immigrants' Social Media Activity

Freedom of speech advocates denounce DHS's new "collect-it-all" approach

Freedom of speech advocates are calling a new Department of Homeland Security rule "chilling," as the department will begin collecting social media communications and data of all immigrants.

The rule, added last week to the Privacy Act of 1974, would allow the DHS to gather "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" of people with immigration files, as well as "publicly available information from the internet."

The American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement on the new rule on Tuesday.

"This Privacy Act notice makes clear that the government intends to retain the social media information of people who have immigrated to this country, singling out a huge group of people to maintain files on what they say," said Faiz Shakir, national political director of the ACLU.

"This would undoubtedly have a chilling effect on the free speech that's expressed every day on social media.

This collect-it-all approach is ineffective to protect national security and is one more example of the Trump administration's anti-immigrant agenda."

Permanent residents and naturalized citizens would also be subject to the new rule,

suggesting that DHS is planning to monitor the social media activity of any U.S. resident who was born outside of the U.S.

Anyone who communicates with immigrants on social media would also be affected.

The rule is set to go into effect on October 18,

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...media-activity

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Zinke Seems To Carve Out Exception For Home State On Shrinking Monuments



U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss’ playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments that President Donald Trump called a “massive land grab” by his Democratic predecessors.

Except, that is, in Montana.

In Zinke’s home state, the former congressman who has long harbored higher political ambitions is recommending Trump create a new national monument out of the forests bordering Glacier National Park, to the disappointment of a company that wants to drill for natural gas there.

A couple hundred miles away, where rocky bluffs line the Missouri River, he decided to leave intact a 590-square-mile (1,528-square-kilometer) monument that for 16 years has stirred the kind of impassioned local opposition that Zinke cited in justifying changes to monuments elsewhere.

And he wants to curb mining along Montana’s border with Yellowstone National Park. That could discourage development of two proposed mines that supporters say would offer higher paying jobs than tourism.

The decision was based on Zinke’s belief that “some places are too precious to mine,”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/zi...+%28TPMNews%29

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God told him not to, and God makes the rules, not man

Roy Moore Failed To Disclose Up To $150K Of Income On Ethics Form

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...0%28TPMNews%29

there will be no accountability, so these assholes will continue, flouting regs, laws, conventions, following the Trash crime family's and org's numerous examples.