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Seinan Sensei

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24. Fun fact: NOAA is one of the "Uniformed Services"
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:35 AM
Nov 2024

There are eight Uniformed Services. Six are considered Military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force). The other two Uniformed Services are NOAA and US Public Health Service.
All who join and serve in these eight Uniformed Services are considered “active duty.” All members of Uniformed Services, for example, can become eligible for VA benefits.
Project 2025 believes NOAA “should be broken up and downsized." As in dissolved and privatized.

Why? Three reasons.
...1) follow the money. Project 2025 wants to “fully commercialize NOAA’s forecasting operations." That is, Project 2025 wants to charge for popular and necessary weather-related services that now are free through NOAA. Somebody’s gonna get rich if MAGA co-opts NOAA materials and services.
...2) Project 2025 believes NOAA’s scientific approach runs counter to Project 2025’s climate-change narrative. Project 2025 sees NOAA as a “primary component of the climate change alarm industry." Project 2025 wants NOAA to become "performance-based” (read: NOT science-based ). Project 2025 wants NOAA to be held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of NOAA must "deviate from government rules" (read: fudge the numbers ) to achieve MAGA-friendly results.
...3) This is MAGA’s foot-in-the-door toward privatizing the six Military Services -- If thy can do it to NOAA, they can do it to Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force. Voila! TSF’s own private military.

A far cry from the days when I played with plastic soldiers from the five-and-dime.

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They will privatize it Old Crank Nov 2024 #13
That was what GW Bush wanted to do.. I believe at that time they wanted to sell it to Intellicast? . LiberalArkie Nov 2024 #15
Fun fact: NOAA is one of the "Uniformed Services" Seinan Sensei Nov 2024 #24
I did not know about NOAA but I did about US Public Health LiberalArkie Nov 2024 #26
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I'm waiting for them to . . . AverageOldGuy Nov 2024 #3
Yes, nothing is safe. Think. Again. Nov 2024 #4
That is a very astute observation, Think. Again. jaxexpat Nov 2024 #16
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This kind of fits with one theory I heard, I believe Mike 03 Nov 2024 #8
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I don't mean a time by month etc. only that when the realization moniss Nov 2024 #30
I figure they're going to really increase those tax cuts. no_hypocrisy Nov 2024 #5
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true... it's already a completely worthless sick joke LymphocyteLover Nov 2024 #11
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And those streets orangecrush Nov 2024 #14
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