Anatomy of a Deep State

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Opinion piece, but it is relevant and certainly part of the swamp that needs draining.

 

By 

Kimberley A. Strassel

May 25, 2017 7:07 p.m. ET

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On May 8 a woman few Americans have heard of, working in a federal post that even fewer know exists, summoned a select group of 45 people to a June meeting in Washington. They were almost exclusively representatives of liberal activist groups. The invitation explained they were invited to develop “future plans for scientific integrity” at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Meet the deep state. That’s what conservatives call it now, though it goes by other names. The administrative state. The entrenched governing elite. Lois Lerner. The federal bureaucracy. Whatever the description, what’s pertinent to today’s Washington is that this cadre of federal employees, accountable to no one, is actively working from within to thwart Donald Trump’s agenda.

There are few better examples than the EPA post of Scientific Integrity Official. (Yes, that is an actual job title.) The position is a legacy of Barack Obama, who at his 2009 inaugural promised to “restore science to its rightful place”—his way of warning Republicans that there’d be no more debate on climate change or other liberal environmental priorities.

 

Team Obama directed federal agencies to implement “scientific integrity” policies. Most agencies tasked their senior leaders with overseeing these rules. But the EPA—always the overachiever—bragged that it alone had chosen to “hire a senior level employee” whose only job would be to “act as a champion for scientific integrity throughout the agency.”

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/anatomy-of-a-deep-state-1495753640

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It is an opinion piece and there is no scientific debate regarding climate change. There are non-scientific deniers, they are generally shills for exploitative corporations. Meet the newest point man Donald Trump.

[IAMX 3,055]

2 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Opinion piece, but it is relevant and certainly part of the swamp that needs draining.

 

By 

Kimberley A. Strassel

May 25, 2017 7:07 p.m. ET

1336 COMMENTS

On May 8 a woman few Americans have heard of, working in a federal post that even fewer know exists, summoned a select group of 45 people to a June meeting in Washington. They were almost exclusively representatives of liberal activist groups. The invitation explained they were invited to develop “future plans for scientific integrity” at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Meet the deep state. That’s what conservatives call it now, though it goes by other names. The administrative state. The entrenched governing elite. Lois Lerner. The federal bureaucracy. Whatever the description, what’s pertinent to today’s Washington is that this cadre of federal employees, accountable to no one, is actively working from within to thwart Donald Trump’s agenda.

There are few better examples than the EPA post of Scientific Integrity Official. (Yes, that is an actual job title.) The position is a legacy of Barack Obama, who at his 2009 inaugural promised to “restore science to its rightful place”—his way of warning Republicans that there’d be no more debate on climate change or other liberal environmental priorities.

 

Team Obama directed federal agencies to implement “scientific integrity” policies. Most agencies tasked their senior leaders with overseeing these rules. But the EPA—always the overachiever—bragged that it alone had chosen to “hire a senior level employee” whose only job would be to “act as a champion for scientific integrity throughout the agency.”

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/anatomy-of-a-deep-state-1495753640

Need to axe a number of federal departments. Wish Ron Paul had won.

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5 hours ago, ready4ONE said:

It is an opinion piece and there is no scientific debate regarding climate change. There are non-scientific deniers, they are generally shills for exploitative corporations. Meet the newest point man Donald Trump.

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1 hour ago, jg121783 said:

It is hilarious how those who so often cry about fake news love them some junk fake science. 

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7 hours ago, ready4ONE said:

It is an opinion piece and there is no scientific debate regarding climate change. There are non-scientific deniers, they are generally shills for exploitative corporations. Meet the newest point man Donald Trump.

Considering the voracity of the models currently being used and the fact that not all scientistists agree leads me to believe that the debate is not over.  

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5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Considering the voracity of the models currently being used and the fact that not all scientistists agree leads me to believe that the debate is not over.  

We know how much liberals love science.

 

A researcher at the University of Arizona claims to have created a feminist brand of quantum physics to weed out the bigotry that she believes follows from a study of Newtonian physics.

Researcher Whitney Stark of the University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT Studies claims to have invented a new form of physics, intersectional quantum physics, that combats the alleged bigotries of classical science.

“Intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability,” she writes in the abstract for her paper, “Assembled Bodies: Reconfiguring Quantum Identities.”

 

 

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/05/30/university-of-arizona-scholar-creates-a-feminist-brand-of-physics-to-combat-bigotry/

 

#SocialJustscience

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5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Considering the voracity of the models currently being used and the fact that not all scientistists agree leads me to believe that the debate is not over.  

Get that bonky emoji you use all the time and use it on your self. The climate change scientific debate is over.  What is not over us the assinine and cynical pol8tical one. 

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46 minutes ago, IAMX said:

We know how much liberals love science.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/05/30/university-of-arizona-scholar-creates-a-feminist-brand-of-physics-to-combat-bigotry/

 

#SocialJustscience

and we all know how breitbart feels about feminists and science. 

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2 hours ago, ccneat said:

Get that bonky emoji you use all the time and use it on your self. The climate change scientific debate is over.  What is not over us the assinine and cynical pol8tical one. 

Spoken like a true non-scientist.

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Spoken like a true non-scientist.

The irony is, the religious-ification of science is 100% non-scientific. Amen.

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29 minutes ago, IAMX said:

The irony is, the religious-ification of science is 100% non-scientific. Amen.

 

31 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Spoken like a true non-scientist.

You don't have evidence or science , so you choose to belittle those who disagree with you. Bring some evidence and then we can debate.

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20 minutes ago, ccneat said:

 

You don't have evidence or science , so you choose to belittle those who disagree with you. Bring some evidence and then we can debate.

You do know what you are saying applies to those belittling the so called deniers?  I have used the models, and have taken several classes with respect to manmade global warming, or manmade climate change, or whatever it is called now.  The models are severely lacking in their assumptions, and not all the scientists that are critical thinkers are on board with the whole narrative which makes the assertion that the debate is over a totally false statement.  There are few things in science that are not debatable and those are usually called laws, not theories or hypotheses, and even the laws are challenged at times.

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6 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

what classes did you take?

University of Michigan.  Sustainable Engineering, Systems Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering if I remember the names correctly.  There was also some classes around Fuel Cell technology and one regarding the electrochemistry of the fuel cell system.  I do not remember the specific names of those courses off hand. 

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