ah ha news SPRING'S Jan-15-2019 = SUB NEPTUNE PLANET & California Insurrection Will Lead to “Food As a Weapon” & Turkish Invasion into Syria IMMINENT & Barr Says No "Witch Hunt" & WHO DOING CHEM TRAIL
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Subject: ah ha news SPRING'S Jan-15-2019 = SUB NEPTUNE PLANET & California Insurrection Will Lead to “Food As a Weapon” & Turkish Invasion into Syria IMMINENT & Barr Says No "Witch Hunt" & WHO DOING CHEM TRAIL Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:03 am
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Weird 'Sub-Neptune' exoplanet discovered by NASA (and it may not be alone) California Insurrection Will Lead to “Food As a Weapon” Massive Turkish Invasion into Syria now IMMINENT- 80,000 Troops Massed with Armor! Turkey’s Second Army Prepares to Invade Syria Series Of Vicious DDOS Attacks Upon ANP Coincided With Stories Castigating 'Deep State' Barr Says No "Witch Hunt" Against Trump; Shocked By FBI Agents' Texts About Trump Chemtrails Exposed: The Deep State And The New Manhattan Project Ecological Armageddon: “We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems!”
Assange Calls Out Mueller
Why Didn’t Trump Declare a National State of Emergency?
The Dramatic Effects of a Pole Shift
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Subject: Weird 'Sub-Neptune' exoplanet discovered by NASA Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:05 am
Weird 'Sub-Neptune' exoplanet discovered by NASA (and it may not be alone)
By Mike Wall Space.com Senior Writer | Space.com
Using the first three months of publicly available data from NASA's TESS mission, scientists have confirmed a new planet known as HD 21749b, a "sub-Neptune" three times bigger and 23 times more massive than Earth. HD 21749b lies about 53 light-years from Earth and orbits a star about the the size of the sun. (NASA/MIT/TESS) NASA's newest planet-hunting probe has bagged another alien world, the eighth confirmed find for the young mission. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a planet orbiting the star HD 21749, which lies about 53 light-years from Earth in the faint constellation Reticulum, scientists announced today (Jan. 7). The world, known as HD 21749b, is a weirdo, at least by the standards of our own solar system. It's a "sub-Neptune" about three times bigger than Earth, which means it's likely gaseous rather than rocky. But HD 21749b is made of denser stuff than the gaseous worlds we're used to, because it's 23 times more massive than Earth. [NASA's TESS Exoplanet-Hunting Mission in Pictures] "We think this planet wouldn't be as gaseous as Neptune or Uranus, which are mostly hydrogen and really puffy," discovery team leader Diana Dragomir, a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, said in a statement. "The planet likely has a density of water, or a thick atmosphere."
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HD 21749b completes one orbit of its host star, which is nearly as bright as our sun, every 36 Earth days. The exoplanet likely has an average surface temperature around 300 degrees Fahrenheit (150 degrees Celsius), discovery team members said. The researchers also detected hints of another, smaller planet in the system, a planet that would have an orbital period of 7.8 days. If this world is confirmed, it will be the first roughly Earth-size planet found by TESS. TESS launched to Earth orbit in April 2018 on a mission to find alien worlds circling stars in our solar system's neighborhood. Like NASA's recently deceased Kepler space telescope, which is responsible for about 70 percent of all known exoplanet discoveries to date, TESS uses the "transit method." That is, it looks for tiny dips in starlight caused when planets cross their host stars' faces from the satellite's perspective. TESS does this work by carving the sky up into overlapping sectors, studying each one for 27 days at a time. The satellite will cover virtually the entire sky by the end of its two-year prime mission. (During its main mission, by contrast, Kepler stared continuously at the same small patch of sky, monitoring the brightness of about 150,000 relatively distant stars simultaneously.) This shifting focus makes it tough for TESS to find planets that lie far from their host stars and therefore take a long time to complete one orbit. Indeed, HD 21749b is very far-flung for TESS; two other smallish worlds found by the mission have orbital periods of 11 hours and 6.3 days, respectively. "It's the coolest small planet that we know of around a star this bright," Dragomir said. "We know a lot about atmospheres of hot planets, but because it's very hard to find small planets that orbit farther from their stars and are therefore cooler, we haven't been able to learn much about these smaller, cooler planets," she added. "But here, we were lucky and caught this one and can now study it in more detail." [The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)] The team initially spotted an intriguing signal from the HD 21749 system in TESS's "sector 1" data. It was unclear whether this signal was caused by a planet or variations in the host star's activity, so Dragomir and her colleagues analyzed observations taken by another instrument, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a spectrograph installed on a telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. A different group of astronomers had studied the HD 21749 system a decade ago using HARPS, which finds planets by noticing the tiny wobbles that their gravitational tugs induce in their host stars. Those researchers had also detected a signal, but they couldn't conclusively attribute it to a planet, Dragomir said. In the HARPS data, she and her team found that the HD 21749 signal repeats every 36 days. They determined that they should be able to find the signal again, in TESS's "sector 3" data — which they succeeded in doing. (The TESS data analyzed by the team was gathered from July 25 through Oct. 14 of last year.) Dragomir and her team also used observations made by the Planet Finder Spectrograph, which is installed on the Magellan II Telescope in Chile, to confirm the discovery and help nail down HD 21749b's mass and orbital parameters. "There was quite some detective work involved, and the right people were there at the right time," Dragomir said. “But we were lucky and we caught the signals, and they were really clear." The researchers announced the find today at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. They have also submitted their discovery paper to Astrophysical Journal Letters. TESS is just getting started. The mission has already flagged several hundred planet candidates, and its confirmed finds will run into the thousands when all is said and done, NASA officials have said. And some of these worlds will be close enough to Earth for astronomers to study the planets using powerful instruments, such as NASA's $8.9 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2021. Originally published on Space.com.
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Subject: California Insurrection Will Lead to “Food As a Weapon” Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:43 am
California Insurrection Will Lead to “Food As a Weapon”
California is in a state of near collapse. As has been previously documented on The Common Sense Show, the forces behind the CALEXIT movement plan to murder as many people as possible in order to force California out of the Union. As California collapses, insurrection will rear its ugly head. This has been previously rehearsed and the consequences are devastating.
Beta Testing the Poor Back in 2013, the EBT card system failed. It began with the EBT cards going down for a couple of hours, which prevented many of the poor from buying food. The net result was that it didn’t even take a day for civil unrest to rear its ugly head before the riots began. The Federal government received a quick answer about how long it would take for the poor to riot and it was mere hours. I contend that this was a beta test designed to gauge future behavior when Obama uses food as a weapon for real. Now that time is upon us.
That Was Then
The lessons of history clearly demonstrate that dictatorial regimes, whether they be Socialists, Communists, and Marxists will not hesitate to use food as a weapon against their own people in order to solidify power and impose absolute autocratic control. Food can be withheld from the masses by preventing it from being grown and harvested, by contaminating it and rendering it unfit for human consumption or by simply preventing food from being distributed to a targeted population. And there is a third strategy that the government can employ when subjugating a population by withholding food, that would be food which has a long shelf life. And this is exactly what we see, the Federal government is stockpiling survival food with a long shelf life. These combined factors can lead to the complete subjugation of a population by controlling the supply of food.
This Is Now
If insurrection consumes California, and in the likely event that the agricultural industry comes to a grinding halt, the nation will be placed in a position in which food can be used as a weapon. The importance of California’s agricultural exports becoming imperiled will become catastrophic. n 2017, California’s farms and ranches received over $50 billion in cash receipts for their output. This represents an increase of almost 6 percent compared to 2016 1. California’s agricultural abundance includes more than 400 commodities. Over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts are grown in California. California is the leading US state for cash farm receipts, accounting for over 13 percent of the nation’s total agricultural value. The top producing commodities for 2017 include:
Dairy Products, Milk — $6.56 billion
Grapes — $5.79 billion
Almonds — $5.60 billion
Strawberries — $3.10 billion
Cattle and Calves — $2.53 billion
Lettuce — $2.41 billion
Walnuts — $1.59 billion
Tomatoes — $1.05 billion
Pistachios — $1.01 billion
Broilers — $939 million
California agricultural exports totaled $20.56 billion for 2017. Top commodities for export in 2017 included almonds, dairy and dairy products, pistachios, wine and walnuts. Export statistics are produced by the University of California, Davis, Agricultural Issues Center. Any disruption of California agricultural exports would prove catastrophic. If Trump shuts down the border and declares a national emergency, the prevailing belief among my sources is that embedded forces of CALEXIT insurrection will rear their collective ugly heads and bring mayhem and violence to California. It is my sincere hope that you have plenty of stored food and water in such an event.
Exacerbating the Crisis
The partial government shutdown glided into its third week Saturday with no end in sight.If the government is not reopened before February, millions of Americans who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , which makes up the nation’s food stamp program, will have their assistance disrupted beginning in February.. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, has oversight of SNAP at the federal level. SNAP is one of the agencies unfunded during the partial government shutdown. The program has not been allocated funding from Congress beyond January. Congress has appropriated $3 billion in emergency funds for SNAP distribution, but that would not cover all of February’s obligations. In short, the riots that are projected to come to California are likely to spread throughout the country.
Conclusion
The President of The New California Movement has informed me that the 101st Airborne is on standby in case of widespread insurrection in California. Can there be any doubt that these events could likely culminate in a civil war?
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Subject: Massive Turkish Invasion into Syria now IMMINENT- 80,000 Troops Massed with Armor! Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:40 am
Massive Turkish Invasion into Syria now IMMINENT- 80,000 Troops Massed with Armor!
US National Security Adviser John Bolton apparently screwed up his meetings in Ankara, Turkey so badly, that in the days since, the Turkish Army has moved eighty-thousand (80,000) troops and trainloads of heavy military armor, to its border with Syria. According to covert Intel sources, a Turkish invasion into Syria is now "imminent" and will be the largest Turk military operation since it's invasion of Cyprus back in 1974. Intel sources tell me the Turkish military operation will begin from Turkey’s southern provinces of Saniurfa and Kilis and it will concentrate on the eastern Euphrates in Syria. MORE@LINK ABOVE
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Subject: Turkey’s Second Army Prepares to Invade Syria Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:50 am
[img(200.01136400000001px,150.01136400000001px)]https://www.mondialisation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Turkey-Syria-Conflict-1.jpg[/img] Amid Turkish preparations for a military intervention in Syria, mainstream media and think tanks prefer to provide political speculations and local rumors instead of facts and analysis. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence stands on another ground and provides an exclusive paper studying the Turkish military grouping which will be likely used in this operation. We also recommend that you view an exclusive video ‘Foreign Policy Diary – Turkey’s military intervention to Syria‘, which covers the possible results of this act of aggression. Recent public comments by the Turkish government have hinted at a possible invasion into Syrian territory to “stabilize” the situation and secure Turkey’s national security. Significant clashes between Turkish army and security forces with elements of the YPG and PKK, which have exacted a costly toll on the Kurdish civilian population have been raging in southern Turkey and northern Syria in recent months. Russian satellite surveillance and human intelligence employed by both Russian and Syria in the region have confirmed the build-up of troops and material on the border. It is reasonable to believe that Turkey is preparing to salvage its failed policy of supporting Islamic fundamentalist mercenaries and terrorist groups in Syria by invading and establishing a safe area for these groups along its southern border with Syria, while at the same time dealing a crushing blow to the Kurdish forces that have been successful in fighting them. Turkey is not only trying to topple the Assad government in Syrian, but is also trying to liquidate the Kurdish movement both in Iraq and Syria, as well as within its own borders. Turkey’s membership in NATO complicates its plans of invasion. Unless Turkey is itself attacked, the NATO alliance is not obligated to defend it. Turkey will have to engineer a provocation that frames it as the target of an aggression either by Kurdish forces from beyond its borders or by Syrian or Russian forces combating its terrorist allies in Syria. Such a false flag provocation is not outside of the realm of possibility.
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Subject: Series Of Vicious DDOS Attacks Upon ANP Coincided With Stories Castigating 'Deep State' Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:53 am
While President Trump Calls Out Nefarious Deep State Traitors, Something Incredibly Sinister Is Happening On The Internet, Pushing America Towards Sharia Law - Series Of Vicious DDOS Attacks Upon ANP Coincided With Stories Castigating 'Deep State'
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Subject: Barr Says No "Witch Hunt" Against Trump; Shocked By FBI Agents' Texts About Trump Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:03 am
Barr Says No "Witch Hunt" Against Trump; Shocked By FBI Agents' Texts About Trump
by Tyler Durden Tue, 01/15/2019 - 10:56
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President Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Bill Barr, told lawmakers during his confirmation hearings on Tuesday that he was "shocked" after reading anti-Trump text messages between former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and that he had never heard of the FBI launching a counterintelligence investigation on a President based on a political decision, as was reported last Friday by the New York Times. [url=https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/barr mueller][/url]
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[ltr]Graham reads some of the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page texts criticizing Trump and about stopping him from being elected, and asks what Barr's reaction was to them. Barr says he was "shocked." Graham asks if he'll look into what happened in 2016, and Barr says yes[/ltr]
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When asked about the Special Counsel investigation headed up by his "best friend" Robert Mueller, Barr said "I don't believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt," and that "On my watch, Bob will be allowed to finish his work."
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Barr also said that the Trump administratin would not be allowed to "correct" the Mueller report before a public release, stating "That will not happen."
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Last week Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) met with Barr, and said that the AG nominee has a "high opinion" of Mueller, and that Barr told him that he and Mueller worked together when Barr was Bush's attorney general between 1991 and 1993 when Mueller oversaw the DOJ's criminal division. Graham added that the two men were "best friends" who have known each other for 20 years, and that their wives have attended Bible study together. Mueller also attended the weddings of two of Barr's daughters. Graham listed a series of questions he put to Barr: "I asked Mr. Barr directly, 'Do you think Mr. Mueller is on a witch hunt?' He said no. 'Do you think he would be fair to the president and the country as a whole?' He said yes. 'And do you see any reason for Mr. Mueller's investigation to be stopped?' He said no. 'Do you see any reason for a termination based on cause?' He said no. 'Are you committed to making sure Mr. Mueller can finish his job?' Yes." Watch the hearings live: https://youtu.be/flD6pY0TWs0
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Subject: Chemtrails Exposed: The Deep State And The New Manhattan Project Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:06 am
Chemtrails Exposed: The Deep State And The New Manhattan Project
JANUARY 14, 2019 By Peter A. Kirby Who is behind putting hundreds, perhaps thousands of large jet aircraft in the sky that routinely dump megatons of toxic waste over us and our biosphere? We know it is happening. Emissions from jet aircraft that visibly stretch from horizon-to-horizon and spread out as they persist for hours obviously consist of particulate matter. We see these things regularly in all the industrialized countries of the world. Many rainwater sample test results routinely show highly anomalous levels of many different toxins including aluminum, barium, and strontium. The California Air Resources Board has found alarmingly high levels of aluminum and barium in the air that we breathe. Career scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as a retired U.S. Air Force Major General have all blown the whistle. A world-famous PhD scientist, in many published, peer-reviewed journal articles, has confirmed that the substance being sprayed is coal fly ash; a toxic waste. None of this hard scientific evidence can be disproven. Motives are plenty. Control of the weather is God-like power and has many military and financial market applications. Your author has for many years now been exposing huge swaths of this secret global weather modification project he appropriately calls the New Manhattan Project. For a good exploration of the currently known evidence, hard or otherwise, please refer to the author’s book Chemtrails Exposed: A New Manhattan Project. As far as the day-to-day dirty work is concerned, the most probable culprits are: the Air Force, the Navy, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Mitre Corporation, Raytheon, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the Department of Energy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others. But who is the power behind the throne? MORE@LINK ABOVE
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Subject: Ecological Armageddon: “We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems!” Mac Slavo January 15th, 2019 SHTFplan.com The insect population on Earth is dwindling, causing scientists to wonder what that me Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:15 am
Ecological Armageddon: “We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems!”
Mac Slavo January 15th, 2019 SHTFplan.com
The insect population on Earth is dwindling, causing scientists to wonder what that means for all life on Earth. The Earth’s bugs outweigh humans 17 times over and are such a fundamental foundation of the food chain that scientists say a crash in insect numbers risks “ecological Armageddon.” Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished, according to a report by The Guardian. After Lister published his study in October of last year, one expert called the findings “hyper-alarming” while others believe this is the beginning of the ultimate destruction of our life support systems on Earth.
Lister’s return to the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico after 35 years was telling. The insect population that once provided plentiful food for birds throughout the mountainous national park had collapsed. On the ground, 98% had gone. Up in the leafy canopy, 80% had vanished, according to the report. “It was a true collapse of the insect populations in that rainforest,” he said. “We began to realize this is terrible – a very, very disturbing result.” “We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days,” said Lister. “It was just astonishing. Before, both the sticky ground plates and canopy plates would be covered with insects. You’d be there for hours picking them off the plates at night. But now the plates would come down after 12 hours in the tropical forest with a couple of lonely insects trapped or none at all.”
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The Puerto Rico work is one of just a handful of studies assessing this vital issue, but those that do exist are deeply worrying. Flying insect numbers in Germany’s natural reserves have plunged 75% in just 25 years. The virtual disappearance of birds in an Australian eucalyptus forest was blamed on a lack of insects caused by drought and heat. Lister and his colleague Andrés García also found that insect numbers in a dry forest in Mexico had fallen 80% since the 1980s. –The Guardian
“We are essentially destroying the very life support systems that allow us to sustain our existence on the planet, along with all the other life on the planet,” Lister said. “It is just horrifying to watch us decimate the natural world like this.”
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Subject: RABBIT HOLE > DEEP, DEEP DOWN Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:24 am
#8 GIVE A MINUTE AND IT WILL START... OR @ 2:00
https://youtu.be/r72SOlSCWs4
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Subject: Assange Calls Out Mueller Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:00 pm
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Assange Calls Out Mueller
Assange calls out the phony and criminal Mueller. Assange asserts that Mueller has nothing and is only protecting himself. Trump needs to pardon Assange. America needs to pay attention and Mueller needs to be prosecuted for his role in Uranium One.
https://youtu.be/RDYlBZUD6Xw
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Subject: Why Didn’t Trump Declare a National State of Emergency? Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:04 pm
Some are reporting that the Internet kill switch is only a few months away. When that happens, free speech will be gone forever. https://youtu.be/hsrYq_OPGwc
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Subject: The Dramatic Effects of a Pole Shift Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:14 pm
Are you aware of the mental and physical effects of a pole shift? You might want, a pole shift is underway.
https://youtu.be/4YerW73TY58
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Subject: SGT REPORT VIDEO FIRST & Trump's shutdown trap? THESE GO HAND IN HAND Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:27 pm
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The Agenda Behind The Shutdown - Its Not What You Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7t8yAa17L8
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trumps_shutdown_trap.html January 15, 2019 Trump's shutdown trap? By Thomas Lifson [size=14][size=14]Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy? In only five more days of the already "longest government shutdown in history" (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more.[/size] [size=14]Don't believe me that federal bureaucrats can be laid off? Well, in bureaucratese, a layoff is called a RIF – a Reduction in Force – and of course, it comes with a slew of civil service protections. But, if the guidelines are followed, bureaucrats can be laid off – as in no more job. It is all explained by Michael Roberts here (updated after the beginning of the partial shutdown):[/size] [/size]
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[size=14]A reduction in force is a thoughtful and systematic elimination of positions. For all practical purposes, a government RIF is the same thing as a layoff. ... Organizations must stick to predetermined criteria when sorting out what happens to each employee. They must communicate with employees how and why decisions are made. ... In deciding who stays and who goes, federal agencies must take four factors into account: 1. Tenure 2. Veteran status 3. Total federal civilian and military service 4. Performance Agencies cannot use RIF procedures to fire bad employees. [/size]
[size] [size=14]A lot of procedures must be followed, and merit ("performance") is the last consideration, but based on the criteria above, employees already furloughed can be laid off ("RIFed") once they have been furloughed for 30 days or 22 work days:[/size] [/size]
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[size=14]When agencies furlough employees for more than 30 calendar days or 22 discontinuous work days, they must use RIF procedures. An employee can be terminated or moved into an available position[.][/size]
[size] [size=14]This seems to be what was referenced in this remarkable essay written by an "unidentified senior Trump official" published in the Daily Caller, which vouches for the authenticity of the author and explains that it is protecting him from adverse career consequences should the name become known. I strongly recommend reading the whole thing.[/size] [size=14]The purported senior official makes the case that devotion to "process" eats up most of the time of federal bureaucrats and is also used by enemies of President Trump's initiatives to stymie the legitimate orders issued by his senior officials:[/size] [/size]
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[size=14]On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don't feel like doing what they are told, they don't. Why would they? We can't fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position – some do this in the same position for more than a decade. They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands – administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. "Process is your friend" is what delusional civil servants tell themselves. Even senior officials must gain approval from every rank across their department, other agencies and work units for basic administrative chores.[/size]
[size] [size=14]Then the senior official notes what I have just called the "trap":[/size] [/size]
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[size=14]Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president's agenda. This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president's agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them. Until the shutdown.[/size]
[size] [size=14]Those officials who waste time and stymie the president's initiatives now are not present because they are not categorized as "essential."[/size] [/size]
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[size=14]Due to the lack of funding, many federal agencies are now operating more effectively from the top down on a fraction of their workforce, with only select essential personnel serving national security tasks. ... President Trump can end this abuse. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them.[/size]
[size] [size=14]Keep in mind that saboteurs cannot be individually identified and RIFed, but they can be included in the layoffs if they meet the criteria above in terms of seniority and service, and they must be given 60 days' notice. But once they are gone, they are no longer free to obstruct using the "process" as their friend, because they are gone.[/size] [size=14]You can expect lawsuits on every conceivable point, and I suspect that the definition of "furlough" will be one matter of dispute.[/size] [size=14]If this was the plan all along, it would explain why President Trump goaded Chuck and Nancy in his televised meeting with them last year, boasting that he would claim credit for the shutdown. How could they resist a prolonged shutdown when he made it so easy to blame him?[/size] [size=14]President Trump has proven that he is a "disruptor" who changes the framework of thinking on major issues by refusing to accept the "givens" – the assumptions of how things always have been done and therefore always must be done.[/size] [size=14]So who is the "senior official"? I don't know, but I think Stephen Miller is the sort of bold thinker who might volunteer to telegraph the strategy just five days before the deadline. Give Chuck and Nancy something to think about and probably reject as unthinkable. Then they can't complain that they weren't warned once the trap is sprung.[/size] [size=14]Such a mass RIF would be the Trump version of Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers when they went on an illegal strike in 1981. That was completely unexpected by his enemies, vehemently criticized, and successful.[/size] [size=14]Among other benefits, it taught the leaders of the USSR that Ronald Reagan was a man whose threats cannot be dismissed as mere rhetoric. If you think that Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Angela Merkel, and any other foreign leaders would not draw the same conclusion from a massive RIF, then you are kidding yourself.[/size] [/size]
[size] [size=14]My theory may be completely wrong, but I pray that it is not.[/size] [size=14]Hat tip: Clarice Feldman[/size] [size=14]Monica Showalter adds: Slate of all places has a useful chart on which agencies have the most RIFs on the line. Surprise, surprise: It's where the bureaucrats most in need of layoffs happen to roost.[/size][/size]
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