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

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IG Says Trump USDA Transfers Are Illegal, but Ernst Thinks Her Bill Fixes It

President Donald Trump’s relocation of two small offices from the nation’s capital to Kansas City may have been done illegally because

the move lacked prior congressional approval, according to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector General (IG).

the IG said the USDA has legal authority under a 1953 statute to relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Ins ute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), but

questioned whether there was sufficient budget authority for the actions.

The IG also suggested expenditures by USDA on the relocation may violate

a longstanding federal law that bars government from using tax dollars for purposes other than those approved by Congress.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ig-says-trump-usda-transfers-are-illegal-but-ernst-thinks-her-bill-fixes-it_3033841.html

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EPA reauthorizes use of 'cyanide bombs' to kill wildlife

Wildlife Services officials can once again use M-44s — spring-loaded traps filled with sodium cyanide — to kill wildlife in the United States.

agency officials killed more than 1.5 million native animals, with about 6,500 encountering M-44s.

Critics say these "cyanide bombs" are dangerous, and

have killed endangered species and pets and seriously injured humans.

EPA "ignored the facts

and they ignored cases that, without a doubt, demonstrate that

there is no way M-44s can be used safely."

M-44s often target coyotes and foxes, with

Wildlife Services killing these livestock predators to help private farmers and ranchers.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/858033/epa-reauthorizes-use-cyanide-bombs-kill-wildlife

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Repug-polluted, -corrupted EPA's kakistocrat handing BigChem what BigChem paid for

US won't approve labels that say glyphosate causes cancer

The US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will no longer approve warning labels that claim the controversial herbicide glyphosate causes cancer, calling the statement "false and misleading."

the EPA cited its own evaluation from 2017

that it said contained a more extensive dataset.

"It is irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when

EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk. :lo

We will not allow California's flawed program to dictate federal policy," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in a statement.

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-wont-glyphosate-cancer.html

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Corporate fascism, totally legal, no search warrant, nothing

Monsanto Surveilled Journalists, Activists and Even Musician Neil Young

Explosive new do ents reveal the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto

ran a “fusion center” to surveil and discredit journalists and activists

who criticized or wrote damning reports about Monsanto, as well as legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young,

who released an album in 2015 called “The Monsanto Years.”

Monsanto monitored Young’s Twitter activity and even analyzed the lyrics of his album.

The fusion center also surveilled journalist Carey Gillam, who has done extensive research and writing about Monsanto and its popular pesticide Roundup, which has been linked to cancer.

The corporation also

targeted the nonprofit research group U.S. Right to Know, which submitted Freedom of Information Act requests about the company.

https://truthout.org/video/monsanto-surveilled-journalists-activists-and-even-musician-neil-young/

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Gold Over Life, Literally': How Trump Forced Reversal on Mining Project EPA Scientists Warn Could Destroy Alaskan Salmon Ecosystem

"This is one of the world's most beautiful places, with a thriving salmon run, and now we'll get some...gold."

Trash had personally intervened—

after a meeting with Alaska's Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy on Air Force One in June—

to withdraw the Environmental Protection Agency's opposition to a gold mining project in the state that

the federal government's own scientists have acknowledged

would destroy native fisheries and undermine the state's fragile ecosystems.

In 2014, the project was halted because an EPA study found that it would cause

"complete loss of fish habitat due to elimination, dewatering, and fragmentation of streams, wetlands, and other aquatic resources"

in some areas of Bristol Bay. The agency invoked a rarely used provision of the Clean Water Act that works like a veto, effectively banning mining on the site.

the decision disregards the standard assessment process under the Clean Water Act, cutting scientists out of the process.

one EPA inside told CNN,

"I was dumbfounded. We were basically told we weren't going to examine anything. We were told to get out of the way and just make it happen."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/10/gold-over-life-literally-how-trump-forced-reversal-mining-project-epa-scientists?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsl etter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsle tter&utm_medium=Email

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Trump administration overhauls Endangered Species Act as critics fear animal extinction

The Trump administration announced Monday a major overhaul to the Endangered Species Act in a way it says will reduce regulations, but

environmentalists say will push more animals and plants to extinction because of threats from climate change and human activities.

The changes end blanket protections for animals newly deemed threatened and

allow federal authorities for the first time to

take into account the economic cost of protecting a particular species. Capitalism

The Endangered Species Act now protects more than 1,600 species in the United States and its territories.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/12/donald-trump-administration-weaken-endangered-species-act/1985543001/

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Shunned by House Repugs, King will probably be reelected by rural Iowans

Steve King goes full Handmaid’s Tale: If not for rape and incest, ‘would there be any population left?’



defended his opposition to letting victims of rape or incest get abortions on the grounds that

rape and incest have been vital to sustaining the human population.

“what if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest?” he asked rhetorically.

“Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?

Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations,

I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.”

he wondered why “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” were offensive terms.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/steve-king-goes-full-handmaids-tale-if-not-for-rape-and-incest-would-there-be-any-population-left/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1134

A fine, well-informed studious historian

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White nationalist Republican ridiculed after only 2 people show up for his town hall meeting

Embattled Rep. Steve King (R-IA) suffered further humiliation on Saturday when only two people showed up for his town hall meeting with Iowa cons uents.

King, who was stripped of all committee assignments for his white nationalism, was been

an embarrassment for Republicans with his constant racism and misogyny.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/white-nationalist-republican-ridiculed-after-only-2-people-show-up-for-his-town-hall-meeting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

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Trump furious with Steve King for crippling his re-election chances in Iowa

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-furious-with-steve-king-for-crippling-his-re-election-chances-in-iowa-cnns-april-ryan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

His rural supporters have stuck with him for multiple re-elections, I figure he will get re-elected. That's how ing stupid and ignorant rurals can be.

In fact, Trash is in full agreement with King's racism, xenophobia, misogyny, but not his style.

They are both incorrigible bags.

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Animals suffer as Trump administration slashes inspections and enforcement at breeders and labs

The Trump administration is slashing regulations and abandoning enforcement throughout the government

The Washington Post reports that in one 2017 case, hundreds of raccoons were trapped in cages in temperatures over 100 degrees, causing “severe heat distress” for dozens.

Inspectors confiscated 10 of the animals,

only to be ordered to return them after industry groups went to a Trump adviser and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue stepped in.

Let’s pause to consider that a Cabinet member personally intervened in the fate of 10 raccoons—

but only so their corporate owners could return them to suffering.

The USDA has gone from issuing 4,944 animal welfare citations in 2016 to just 1,716 in 2018.

The number of enforcement cases dropped by 92% in the same time frame.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1880639

Trash's brutal, sadistic Exec considers non-male, non-whites to be sub-human , so of course, animals are to be abused for profit.

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Battle looms over Trump Administration bid to ease safety rules for big trucks

the Trump administration formally proposed easing the rules over rest breaks truck drivers must take, and giving them more flexibility over their on- and off-duty time.

The proposed changes to the “hours of service” rules by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration were published Aug. 20 in the Federal Register,

deaths from crashes involving large trucks hit a 10-year high in 2017 at 4,761.

the trucking industry had spent heavily on congressional lobbying and campaign contributions, urging looser restrictions on trucking companies and their drivers.

the National Transportation Safety Board, an advisory agency with no regulatory power, has zeroed in on fatigued driving as a safety issue that is more serious than statistics suggest.

“Drowsy driving does not leave telltale signs and, as a result, it is widely believed to be underreported on police crash forms,”

“These (proposals) are opportunities for drivers to be pushed to their limits further, to drive without resting. It’s more opportunity for a driver to operate while fatigued, which is really detrimental,”

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/25/bat...rucks_partner/

Bannon's "Destruction of the administrative state" continues.

Trial lawyers are gonna get even more wealthy from the big truck slaughter

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US Diplomat Quits Publicly And Warns Of Exodus

Bethany Milton spent 11 years working for the U.S. federal government as a consular officer in the Foreign Service.

she finally decided to leave the State Department — and the straw that broke the camel’s back was hearing supporters of President Donald Trump chanting, “Send her back, send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar during a recent rally.

“I asked the Trump Administration to send me back from my overseas posting,

shipping home the family, foreign language textbooks and various tchotchkes

from ‘ hole countries’ that I’ve collected in my years as a United States diplomat.

I am joining a growing list of Foreign Service officers who refuse to serve this administration any longer.”https://www.nationalmemo.com/us-diplomat-quits-publicly-and-warns-of-exodus/?cn-reloaded=1

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US Diplomat Quits Publicly And Warns Of Exodus

Bethany Milton spent 11 years working for the U.S. federal government as a consular officer in the Foreign Service.

she finally decided to leave the State Department — and the straw that broke the camel’s back was hearing supporters of President Donald Trump chanting, “Send her back, send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar during a recent rally.

“I asked the Trump Administration to send me back from my overseas posting,

shipping home the family, foreign language textbooks and various tchotchkes

from ‘ hole countries’ that I’ve collected in my years as a United States diplomat.

I am joining a growing list of Foreign Service officers who refuse to serve this administration any longer.”https://www.nationalmemo.com/us-diplomat-quits-publicly-and-warns-of-exodus/?cn-reloaded=1

No more big shot.

A fortnight, maybe less...layin' in that bed with her husband they'll talk treason about that decision "they both" made. tee, hee.

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USDA Cuts Enforcement Of Animal Welfare Under Trump

puppy mills aren’t getting investigated at all.

Puppy mills are awful.

As the Humane Society explained,

a puppy mill is “an inhumane high-volume dog breeding facility

that churns out puppies for profit,

ignoring the needs of the pups and their mothers” and

the puppies are often “sick and unsocialized.”

investigations have plummeted in the years Trump has been in office.

During the last year of Obama’s presidency, the division issued 1,320 warnings.

By 2017, that number had dropped to 523; and by 2018, it was down to 193.

Similarly, in 2016, the division opened 239 cases,

but that dropped to only 15 cases in the first three quarters of 2018.

To put this into perspective, there are approximately 10,000 puppy mills currently operating in the U.S.

The USDA gave two reasons for the startling decline in enforcement.

First, it says it has fewer inspectors and had to stop doing routine inspections during the government shutdown.

Next, it argues this is a specific policy choice —

the department decided to focus on assisting facilities with compliance by letting them correct problems before issuing a citation.

There’s just one problem with that: The USDA’s own internal watchdog says it doesn’t work.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/usda-cuts-enforcement-of-animal-welfare-under-trump/

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Iowa sucks

Rep. Steve King Laughingly Says Muslims Should Be Forced To Eat Pork

The Iowa Republican, who has defended white supremacy, made the crack while discussing alleged abuses of Muslims in China.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-says-muslims-should-be-forced-to-eat-pork_n_5d657cf5e4b063c341f6dfdb?ncid=newsltushpmgn ews__TheMorningEmail__082819&guccounter=1

King was re-elected last November

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E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

The Trump administration is set to announce on Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change,

to eliminate federal government requirements that the oil and gas industry put in place technology to inspect for and repair methane leaks from wells, pipelines and storage facilities.

The proposed rollback is particularly notable because

major oil and gas companies have, in fact, opposed it,

just as some other industries have opposed the Trump administration’s other major moves to dismantle climate change and other environmental rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/c...gEmail__082919

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Fracking prompts global e in atmospheric methane, study suggests

As methane concentrations increase in the Earth's atmosphere, chemical fingerprints point to a probable source: shale oil and gas

This carbon-13 signature means that since the use of high-volume hydraulic fracturing -- commonly called fracking -- shale gas has increased in its share of global natural gas production and has released more methane into the atmosphere,

While atmospheric methane concentrations have been rising since 2008, the carbon composition of the methane has also changed. Methane from biological sources such as cows and wetlands have a low carbon-13 content -- compared to methane from most fossil fuels.

methane has 80 times the heating-trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190814090610.htm

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Repugs habitually, reflexively insult the intelligence of Repug voters, or maybe the intelligence of Repugs voters really is so low

Virginia GOP Senator Smears Muslim Opponent As A ‘Radical’ Sympathetic To Terrorists

State Sen. Richard Stuart is out with a new ad against Qasim Rashid claiming he “doesn’t believe Islamic terrorism exists.”

Democrat Qasim Rashid is running for the Virginia state Senate on issues like criminal justice, education funding and health care. But because he is also Muslim, his opponent, not surprisingly, is trying to tie him to “Islamic terrorism.”

State Sen. Richard Stuart (R) is out with a new Facebook ad stating,

“Qasim Rashid doesn’t believe Islamic terrorism exists.”

All three of the ads Stuart’s campaign has posted against Rashid this month mention the word “radical,” either about terrorism or his “socialist” policies.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/qasim...gEmail__082919

ing Repug politicians prove their Repug sheeple really are ing stupid, ignorant, gullible.

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Trash "transacting" with logging firms to destroy forest in return for campaign donations

Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue

to exempt Alaska’s 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago,

after privately discussing the matter with the state’s governor aboard Air Force One.

The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it to potential logging, energy and mining projects.

It would undercut a sweeping Clinton administration policy known as the “roadless rule,” which has survived a decades-long legal assault.

the Tongass, a massive stretch of southeastern Alaska replete with old-growth spruce, hemlock and cedar, rivers running with salmon, and dramatic fjords.

President Bill Clinton put more than half of it off limits to logging just days before leaving office in 2001, when he barred the construction of roads in 58.5 million acres of undeveloped national forest across the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...18c_story.html

What the Dems protect, the Repugs destroy.

Just another REAL DIFFERENCE between the parties.

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Danziger: School For Scandal





https://www.nationalmemo.com/danziger-school-for-scandal/?cn-reloaded=1

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Repugs CHEAT and LIE to win

BUSTED: Republican charged after winning GOP primary — by spreading opponent’s expunged arrest



Authorities in New Jersey have charged a sitting Republican mayor with winning her GOP primary by illegally spreading information on her opponent.

“Hamilton Mayor Kelly Yaede and her campaign manager have been

charged with publicly releasing an opponent’s years-ago and now expunged arrest

by posting it on a campaign blog ahead of the June Republican primary, which she won,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/busted-republican-charged-after-winning-gop-primary-by-spreading-opponents-expunged-arrest/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1344

Will she be able remain mayor? what's the punishment?

Repugs and their voters are bags

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Inside the shadowy think tank pushing to kick 3.1 million people off food stamps

The increasingly influential Foundation for Government Accountability is mixing sketchy research with legislative leverage — and it’s working.


In December, the Foundation for Government Accountability hosted public officials from across the country in Orlando, Florida.

The scene: Walt Disney World’s Swan and Dolphin Resort, an ocean-themed oasis with palatial fountains next to a lake lined with palm trees.

The FGA, a right-leaning think tank based in Naples, Florida, paid travel and lodging expenses for many of the conservative leaders in attendance, including Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin and three White House aides.

Guests heard presentations such as “Stop the Scam: The Reality of Food Stamp Fraud.”

The FGA aimed to send decision-makers back to their respective states, or the nation’s capital, with fresh zeal to

restrict access to public assistance programs designed for low-income people,

including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.

The association even provided road maps for achieving this goal in the form of

model legislation —

suggested wording for laws and regulations that could serve as a template for like-minded policymakers.

wait in line for their allotment at the food pantry hosted there so they could supplement

their SNAP budgets — at most $192 per month for a single person.

FGA president and CEO Tarren Bragdon ...
“focused on policy changes that protect resources for the truly needy and put millions of Americans on the path to achieving the American Dream.”

advocate for a variety of policy proposals,

from reforming licensing requirements for workers set by state and local governments,

to installing work requirements for Medicaid and blocking that program’s expansion under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

the FGA has attracted a pool of benefactors — mostly wealthy people whose iden ies are kept secret and conservative foundations.

spends its money on well-connected lobbyists,

research of dubious quality,

prewritten legislation, and

trips to Florida for public officials who oversee government assistance programs for some of the nation’s most vulnerable people.

Kansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Kentucky — have implemented one of the FGA’s signature proposals: work requirements for SNAP recipients.

many SNAP recipients have serious impediments to work, such as undiagnosed disabilities,

the Trump administration announced it was pursuing another FGA-backed proposal, closing what an FGA policy report calls an administrative “loophole” that allows states to enroll people in SNAP if they make use of another public assistance program.

the FGA suggests, would kick an estimated 3.1 million people off SNAP.

the FGA is not required to disclose the iden ies of its donors. However, tax do ents for 2011 from the State Policy Network, a group of conservative nonprofits, show that the network provided $60,000 in seed money to the FGA.

financial support from the Charles Koch Foundation, the Charles Koch Ins ute, and the DeVos family,

The FGA offered written testimony in support of the legislation. It then began pushing its own version of the act as model legislation nationwide. Among the main planks:

• Restricting states’ ability to seek waivers from SNAP work rules
• Requiring more stringent screening of SNAP applicants and closer scrutiny of eligibility for Medicaid and SNAP recipients
• Empowering states to hire third-party contractors to help ferret out fraud in those programs

“Nobody who’s serious about public policy really takes them seriously,”

Germanis told Public Integrity in a phone interview. “But politicians seem to love them because

[the FGA] tells them what they want to hear.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/4/20835692/conservative-think-tank-foundation-for-government-accountability-food-stamps-snap-poverty-welfare

American Capitalists fund orgs to over the poor to "pay for" huge tax cuts and the Capitalists' tax avoidance and tax evasion.

America The Sadistic

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another hole Repug state run by bags doing ty stuff
This GOP governor is about to install a far-right reactionary

after gutting oversight of judicial nominations

Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) announced that he would be nominating Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court seat left by retiring Chief Justice Scott Bales —

a deeply controversial decision, given that Montgomery is an extreme right-winger plagued by scandal.

Montgomery has

fiercely supported the death penalty and

the drug war,

told a Vietnam veteran he was “the enemy” for using medical marijuana,

improperly refused to provide free legal counsel to same-sex couples looking to adopt.

He worked to shield a deputy attorney in his office accused of serial sexual harassment.

And a former judicial nominating commission

rejected him 7-5, saying that

he was unqualified to serve as a judge due to

lack of experience,

ideological bias, and

ethics scandals.

Ducey, however, has gone to great lengths to roll back state oversight of the judicial nominating process

so that he could appoint Montgomery anyway, as noted by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern.

He packed the state Supreme Court, adding two extra seats to it, and

replaced all the Democrats on the nominating commission with Republicans or Republican-leaning independents,

breaking the precedent of past governors who chose a bipartisan slate of experts.

The consequences could be devastating for the rule of law in Arizona.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/thi...e+Raw+Story%29

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Sen. Ernst says lawmakers should discuss fixing Social Security ‘behind closed doors’



said at a recent town hall that lawmakers should discuss fixing Social Security “behind closed doors,” prompting a wave of criticism from liberal and advocacy groups.

Ernst, who is running for reelection in 2020, made the remarks Saturday,

, we need to sit down behind closed doors so we’re not being scrutinized by this group or the other,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-ernst-says-lawmakers-should-discuss-fixing-social-security-behind-closed-doors/2019/09/05/b678c428-cfec-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html?arc404=true&noredirect=on

what the Repugs want is to cut Cost of Living adjustments, and generally drive retirees into poverty and/or force people to subsidize BigFinance aka privatization

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Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting It

What Santorum does recall about the meeting is that his visitor had a gripe about the National Weather Service.

The NWS was giving away forecasts on its website, radio stations, and elsewhere, when businesses such as AccuWeather charged its clients for theirs—

never mind that AccuWeather relied on the service’s free data to formulate its own predictions.

Santorum agreed that commercial weather companies deserved protection.

That year he introduced a bill calling for the NWS to issue forecasts via “data portals designed for volume access by commercial providers.” Critics said the

NWS would have been barred from making any public predictions beyond severe storm warnings,

which private forecasters didn’t want to be responsible for.

“A lot of people were very concerned. They said, ‘AccuWeather wants to take over the weather service.’ ”

Barry (Myers), now AccuWeather’s chief executive officer,

he remains a champion of limiting the agency’s public role,

opposing its use of social media to spread warnings.

“We fear that he wants to turn the weather service into a taxpayer-funded subsidiary of AccuWeather,”

President Trump nominated him to be NOAA’s administrator.

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, approved him on a party-line vote.


Adversaries say that in the grand tradition of Trump administration members

blurring the line between personal interests and public ones,

Myers will use the position to enrich AccuWeather while muzzling an agency that people rely on to make life-or-death decisions.

“He has a track record of working to undermine NOAA’s ability to keep people safe,”

“And he has egregious and unreconcilable conflicts of interest due to his family business.”

From the get-go, AccuWeather went after the NWS, promising clients that its forecasts were more accurate.

The service has to publicize all likely outcomes of a storm’s path, but AccuWeather has the luxury of offering laserlike projections for private clients.

The claim of superiority is “part of their business model,”

says Edward Johnson, a former NWS policy director. “It annoyed the forecasters at the weather service.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-pick-to-lead-weather-agency-spent-30-years-fighting-it

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The rapacious oligarchy, the predatory Capitalists

unleashed by Trash' and his kakistocratic s' Govt By and For the Wealthy

A Vast Liquidation of Public Lands Is Underway in Alaska

The Trump administration is quietly leading one of the

largest liquidations of America’s public lands since the late 19th century. (the previous Robber Baron Age)

If fully implemented, this effort could result in the

transfer, sale, or private exploitation of more than 28.3 million acres of public lands in Alaska, including

old-growth forests,

subsistence hunting areas for Alaska Native communities,

habitats for polar bears,

salmon spawning streams, and

other backcountry areas.1

It would affect millions of acres in the

Tongass National Forest and

the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge alone.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2019/09/10/474256/vast-liquidation-public-lands-underway-alaska/