Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Posted on 08/07/2014 3:52:10 AM PDT by BlopAndStop
Have you ever heard of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, otherwise known as OIRA? Yeah, neither had I.
As someone who prides himself on being a relatively informed citizen, it is always shocking and disturbing when I learn of a powerful organization operating in the shadows of America’s faux democracy with which I am almost entirely unfamiliar. While I’m sure I’ve read many articles in which OIRA was mentioned, I had never fully understood exactly what it is, and how it is used by lobbyists and large corporate interests to further entrench the established oligarchic power structure. We can thank ProPublica for providing this service.
OIRA was created in 1980, and shortly thereafter the Reagan administration greatly expanded its powers by signing an executive order that gave the office the authority to review all federal rules. Ever since then, it has been used to rewrite or entirely block regulations from almost every regulatory body imaginable. While the initial idea of a government body to review newly proposed regulations and gather additional feedback before implementation is a noble one, in practice it has amounted to nothing more than the censorship of science in the name of protecting large corporate interests. Most importantly, all of this happens in total darkness.
For example, ProPublica notes that OIRA is disturbingly exempt from most requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). For example, the public cannot even find out the qualifications of the people who make drastic changes to proposed environmental regulations. In one specific case regarding a proposed EPA rule, we see an economist and a lawyer completely overruling peer-reviewed science.
Significantly, OIRA doesn’t just interfere every once in a while. “84% of the EPA’s proposed rules from 2001 to 2011 featured changes suggested by OIRA.”
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Ministry of Propaganda
I never heard of ProPublica before so I looked them up. Seem like the good guys but I don’t trust anyone these days.
http://www.propublica.org/about/leadership/
“How much do we really know about the Federal Government?”
Excellent, well-phrased question!
Any agency under Obama is being used to destroy America.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? David Gergen? Fox guarding henhouse.
A government of the people, for the people, by the people?
NO way.
It is a government of al Qaeda, the Moslem Brotherhood,
and their partners, the DNC and RNC, versus all
Americans and the US Constitution.
We are only permitted the illusion of self-government.
It’s not new... but with this President... it is even worse.
What is more, once powers are increased and once liberties to EXTEND power become a pattern... there’s is no going back...none of the gains they have made will ever be revoked.
OIRA was started to try to counter the power of the bureaucracy.
Reagan had good intentions.
Just proves that anytime you take power, you have to consider the possibility of it falling into the wrong hands...like the Obama administration.
There’s one thing I know: We are not and never have been a democracy—faux or otherwise………………….
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Hey….did you see this?
http://www.infowars.com/cop-if-obama-doesnt-follow-the-constitution-we-dont-have-to/
Quite a long time ago a friend of mine had his finger on the pulse of politics when he told me the following: “America is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, but it isn’t anymore; it is now a government of the elite, by the elite for the elite”.
It was some 20 years ago he uttered that.
We are being lied to and misled at every opportunity. This has been the case as long as I can remember.
Don’t know.
Doesn’t ProPublica have ties to the Ralph Nader crowd?
Not that they don’t have a point in this instance.
Sounds like this was an agency created by Reagan to rein-in other regulators that has been repurposed by subsequent Presidents.
At least voluntarily.
The founding phrase "Alter or abolish" springs to mind.
Sadly just because it isn't so, does not mean that we are not functioning as a democracy, when it suits the needs of the elite.
Mark Twain - If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
“A 2011 report from the Center on Progressive Reform stated that in 10 years, OIRA altered 84 percent of EPA rule submissions. The EPA’s new rules on ozone pollution developed since September 2009, rolled out as tougher draft standards in January 2010, were repeatedly delayed”
Sometimes it is a good thing
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