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Trump Orders Media Blackout At Government Agencies: Bans Use Of Social Media, Bars New EPA Contracts
Zero Hedge ^ | 1-24-2017 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 01/24/2017 3:27:59 PM PST by blam

It wasn't just the EPA.

Earlier today, we reported that the Trump administration instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants.

Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press, detailed the specific prohibitions banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency's social media accounts. On Monday, the Huffington Post reported that EPA grants had been frozen, with agency employees barred from speaking of the matter. The memo ordering the social media blackout is shown below.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epa; epaoutofcontrol; government; mediablackout; trump; winning
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

just a few...the word will get back


21 posted on 01/24/2017 3:45:26 PM PST by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: blam

“Failure to comply with any statement, clause, phrase, sentence or paragraph of this directive will result in immediate termination with no appeal.”


22 posted on 01/24/2017 3:46:21 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: LaineyDee
Exactly. If you’re playing with your friends on FB or Twitter at work...you don’t have enough to do or you aren’t performing.

I think this has more to do with preventing EPA employees from publicly opposing President Trump's actions or lying about them to the press or on social media than it does about wasting time on the govt dime. I mean really, aren't we generally better off when EPA employees are doing nothing?
23 posted on 01/24/2017 3:47:56 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: tet68
Flood the mole’s tunnels, drive them to the surface, remove them from the garden.

They are most likely dug in very deep. Willie Pete might work? Or enough HE to collapse the upper levels?

Sometimes you must destroy the garden, in order to save it.

24 posted on 01/24/2017 3:52:54 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: aynrandfreak

Yep being on the phone or taking pictures with it are firing offenses.


25 posted on 01/24/2017 3:53:32 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: blam

When they violate the order, automatic termination in most cases I would imagine. Very cool. I’ll bet there will be quite a few commie morons that can’t help themselves.


26 posted on 01/24/2017 3:54:24 PM PST by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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To: T-Bird45
As I pointed out in another, earlier thread on this matter: DailyKos is reporting that the Twitter account of Badlands National Park sent out three AGW-related tweets today...

I also saw it, passing a long a link

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/badlands-national-park-twitter-goes-rogue-starts-tweeting-facts-about-the-environment/>

27 posted on 01/24/2017 3:55:42 PM PST by Aaron0617
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To: Socon-Econ

[[Great; but we need to take our case against environmental extremism to the public, or those fanatics are going to be back. There are some effective conservative groups out there who could effectively use some donations.]]

He did it to silence that rats in the EPA that are pushing the global warming agenda all over social media.
EPA is a propaganda tool for the left . Needs to be cleaned out and this the beginning of it.


28 posted on 01/24/2017 3:57:03 PM PST by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: Garth Tater

I think we’re better off if they’re working at Burger King and staying off our payroll altogether....lol


29 posted on 01/24/2017 3:59:07 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: blam

This EPA?

EPA Says It Released 3 Million Gallons Of Contaminated Water Into River.

An estimated 1 million gallons of waste water spilled out of an abandoned mine area in the southern part of the state last week, turning the Animas River orange and prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to tell locals to avoid it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/09/us/colorado-epa-mine-river-spill/ “Fundamentally changed pristine clean rivers of America!”


30 posted on 01/24/2017 3:59:34 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: blam

This is a “little thing” compared with the big stuff Trump is going to do and has done, but it’s a perfect example of “The Adults are Back in Control”.

Shut down their little backdoor leaker-accounts, put people back to doing their real jobs, or if they try testing the seriousness of this policy, let them see how if feels to kiss a cushy gov’t pension bye-bye.


31 posted on 01/24/2017 4:02:13 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: LaineyDee

Absolutely! That would be great for us. Not so great for Burger King though :)


32 posted on 01/24/2017 4:08:36 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Garth Tater

I think that there is another element to this. The Feds in general seem to have some serious issues with cyber security and leaks. Getting a handle on it will involve coming up with rules and procedures that people will actually follow, and until that happens the less said by butthurt Hillary supporters the better.

The swamp dwellers voted overwhelmingly for Hillary, many feel they are on the way out and may do stupid stuff before they get axed. It’s just good policy dealing with the reality of the situation, something we are going to have to get used to again.


33 posted on 01/24/2017 4:11:31 PM PST by M1911A1 (President Trump. Ahhhhhhhh.....)
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To: M1911A1

M1911A1 - the best side arm ever made. No arguments with your post either.


34 posted on 01/24/2017 4:22:05 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Aaron0617
Badlands National Park Twitter Account Goes Rogue, Starts Tweeting Scientific Facts


35 posted on 01/24/2017 4:24:47 PM PST by blam
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To: Kozak

It could be a trap.

If they violate the ban, that could give cause for their dismissal. That might be one way to pry out some of the entrenched Leftists.


36 posted on 01/24/2017 4:25:41 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: aynrandfreak

aynrandfreak wrote: “My private sector employer won’t let us use social media at work either. They want us to work instead.”

Rank and file government employees shouldn’t be doing social media either. This memo is directed at those in each agency whose jobs are social media, ie, press releases, agency websites, etc.


37 posted on 01/24/2017 4:34:27 PM PST by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: aynrandfreak

They can be SJWs on their own time, post-Trump.


38 posted on 01/24/2017 4:43:59 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: blam

EPA has had a scam with the cooperation of the environmental groups. They are able to send a lot of money to the environmental groups to fund the groups legal suits against the EPA and then when the groups win they get a nice pay off.

That needs to end tomorrow morning.


39 posted on 01/24/2017 4:45:51 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: telstar12.5

“don’t fire ‘em; send ‘em to pt. barrow, alaska for some AGW studies.”

Not that far South. I believe there is a weather station at Thule, Greenland and they have all the tools they need to do AGW studies.

Besides, living on the Greenland Ice Sheet would be exciting and oh so scenic.


40 posted on 01/24/2017 4:49:09 PM PST by buffaloguy
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