EPA UNDER POLITICAL LOCKDOWN

This from a staff member at the EPA:
"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:
The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you
name it is static and can't be updated.
All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be
released. No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be
scheduled.
Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is
also silenced and will give no response.
All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on
Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for
pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve
the public soon.
But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if
you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.
We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new
administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you
should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and
not in any sort of official capacity."

This statement was sent to a friend of mine from an acquaintance currently working at the EPA.

My friend is a highly trusted source and fellow Climate Change follower.

I did not make this up, I didn't need to,

ED

WATERBOARDING FOR TRUMP AND HANNITY

A number of times on this blog I have presented the case against Waterboarding. I have given the facts regarding efficacy of its use, (all negative), failure to extract useable information, and the reasons most torture does not work.

Now I present to you the reason it is called torture and the reason it is prohibited by the Geneva Convention and the US Army Field Manual.

From Wikipedia :

Waterboarding is a form of water torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage, and death. Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years.

Dear Mr. Trump, if you still believe that it is okay to treat another human being that way, you should try it yourself sometime. Oh, and ask Sean Hannity to fulfill his promise to be waterboarded !

ED

TRUMP SCIENCE ADVISOR NOT

MYRON EBELL

Competitive Enterprise Institute

One of Trumps Science Advisors

No surprise, he's not a scientist.

A self-described “policy wonk,” Ebell has no scientific experience. He graduated from Colorado College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and later studied political theory in the London School of Economics.

I simply cannot make these things up, they just are facts that fall out of the sky one after another !

ED

THE RAPING OF OUR ENVIRONMENT

From the NEW YORK TIMES Nov. 23, 2016 Global warming news.

Exxon Mobil, under fire over its past efforts to undercut climate science, is accusing the Rockefeller family of masterminding a conspiracy against it. The descendants of John D. Rockefeller, who founded the company that became Exxon Mobil, have long backed environmental causes.

Separately, the ecology of the Arctic is being altered on a vast scale because warmer air and less ice has caused algae that form the base of the oceanic food chain to wildly proliferate, according to new research.

The changes are likely to have a profound impact on birds, seals, polar bears and whales. My take : The rape of our environment takes place daily, sometimes very covertly, sometimes very open, but it always, always involves greed ! ED

ACTUAL TRUTH STUMPS TRUMP

From CNNs RELIABLE SOURCES

Words v. actions

What David Frum said on "AC360" Tuesday night should be said over... and over... and over again: "Anything he says must be independently verified." This is true for all presidents, but doubly (triply?) true for Trump. Frum: "Trump has a bad habit of saying things that aren't true..." Many people are saying this ! Maybe millions of people have told me this ! ED

WELL SAID AARON BURR

Vice President-elect Pence,

We welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at “Hamilton: An American Musical,” we really do.

We, sir — we — are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. All of us.

We truly thank you for sharing this show, this wonderful American story told by a diverse group of men, women of different colors, creeds and orientations.

BRANDON VICTOR DIXON

On behalf of the cast of " Hamilton "

Nov. 18th, 2016

ALISON ARMSTRONG

My friend of close to 55 years.

Alison Armstrong is the author of numerous articles and reviews of literature and art, a founding editor (1979) of James Joyce Broadsheet (UK), and contributing editor (since 1982) to Irish Literary Supplement (USA). Her two books are: The Herne’s Egg: The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992) and The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink of James Joyce’s Dublin (Station Hill Press, 1986). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (NYU), an M.Litt.(Oxford Univ., UK), and an M.A. in English (Ohio State Univ.) and currently teaches at The New School and at School of Visual Arts in New York City.