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Perry reveals plan for total US Anarchy:Moratorium on all regulation

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/15/296314/perry-reveals-plan-for-total-u-s-anarchy-put-a-moratorium-on-all-regulations/


Today, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) issued the first policy position of his presidential campaign by asking the White House to issue a “moratorium on regulations across this country”:


We’re calling today on the president of the United States to put a moratorium on regulations across this country, because his regulations, his EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America.

Watch it:





“We’re sending out a request today asking President Obama to put a moratorium on all regulations,” Perry said on WHO radio in Iowa, recorded live by ThinkProgress.

Under such a moratorium, the Food and Drug Administration would stop approving new drugs and preventing human experimentation; the USDA would stop checking for food safety; the EPA would stop monitoring for poisons in drinking water; the Library of Congress would stop loaning materials to blind people; the NTSB would stop investigating airplane accidents; HHS would end Medicare payments; no more patents, copyrights, or trademarks would be issued; DHS would stop protecting chemical facilities from terrorist attacks; the Treasury would stop printing currency; financial sanctions on hostile nations like North Korea and Iran would end; and the Federal Reserve System would shut down.

Perry’s “moratorium on regulations” would mean a literal end to the rules of law in the United States. At least it would also mean that all of President George W. Bush’s midnight regulations favoring polluters and industry abuses would also be lifted.




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Perry is taking a more strident stand than the one his staff has prescribed for him on his website, a “six-month freeze on new federal regulations.” Such a freeze would prevent everything from science-based standards for smog pollution to approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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535822 tn?1443976780
All makes sense to me ... I doubt anyone cares really .. when I think of all the stuff that gets back into the drinking water , and the fact they pot that poison flouride in it .tha's is freakier.   PS In Africa Moms who have 'spare breast milk give it to to babies who are starving ,any baby, makes sense to me ..not just Africa many countries and during wars .
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No matter, I cant (swallow) using human waste....I dont care how tested it is. Its never safe in my book. Animals can get disease, yes, I rather risk that than human...
Goes against everything in me.
Adgal.... yes, human milk ice cream..... its disgusting...
The same idea applies as to the poo (in my opinion) They says its tested, and safe.....
sick.... Its not uncommon for women to feed each others babies either.... they all say its no different than the old days when a mother wasnt able to and the baby would starve to death if someone didnt feed it for them....Personally, its not like the old days, cause there are other options.....I use to work a lot in nurseries and I had to track down a mom because this baby was hungry. Well, I am a germaphobe (and proud to be one) and this woman who was a volunteer suggests giving the baby someone elses bottle. A HUGE NO NO. I said NO WAY.... well, this woman tells me how she was babysitting once and the baby was hungry, and she figured since she was nursing her kid, she would just nurse this kid.... I almost fell over!!!! Seriously I would have FREAKED!!!! I asked her if she told the mother, and she said no. Oh my word, I was so upset!!!
None of this is ok with me.
No no no.....I am a simple plain boring germaphobe small town girl and like it that way.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/02/24/london-shop-serving-breast-milk-ice-cream/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/25/134056923/breast-milk-ice-cream-a-hit-at-london-store


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Being someone that has raised gardens, worked the farms and even raised flowerbeds. Let me tell ya cow manure, horse and chicken sht, makes them flowers bloom and them mators awesome big! Ferilizer in the store is basically a bag of sht.

You just try to not think about it is all.
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649848 tn?1534633700
Being in the water and waste water treatment business, I can tell you that it's not uncommon to put sludge from waste treatment facilities on farm ground.  We have a lot of private waste water treatment facilities in our county, ranging in size from schools, mobile home parks or shopping centers, to subdivisions and large cities.

When people flush the toilet, the waste is taken to a treatment plant, either directly, via pipes or by way of "lift stations" that hold the waste, then at certain levels, pumps come on and carry the waste to either another lift station or the treatment plant.  

To put it simply, adequate treatment depends on the proper operation, to maintain the right kinds and amounts of "bugs" (bacteria) to break down the solids; the sludge from this process is then pumped into a digestor, for further breakdown.  It's then hauled to a central processing plant, for further treatment, or dried (via drying beds) prior to being spread on fields or disposed of in a landfill. The clarified water is disinfected and discharged into retention ponds, which then soaks back into the ground. The process is actually more complex than I've made it sound, but this is it in a nutshell - at least for the majority of waste treatment plants in our area.  Of course, different areas use different methods of treatment.

While this can be a smelly, disgusting process, the end product is by no means raw human waste, and treatment regulations are very stringent.  The waste water must be tested monthly (or more frequently) for certain parameters (including fecal bacteria) and may not exceed certain limits.

As to drinking water, being a licensed water treatment plant operator, the single biggest concern I have at this time, is the amount of drugs (old scripts, etc) being flushed down the toilet, and eventually ending up in the aquifer.  

EPA has done some good things through the Safe Drinking Water Act, but they are getting carried away; their requirements are outrageous in  some cases and the paperwork is astronomical; I just spent my entire week working on paperwork for lead and copper -- filling out form after form, that all have the same information, just in different order/formats.

Just remember, everything you flush down the toilet or dump on the ground, will eventually end up in your drinking water!!  

BTW - don't forget, cows and chickens, which produce a lot of the fertilizer used on gardens, get diseases, too......... so using their waste is really not much safer than using treated human waste - maybe not AS safe, since treated human waste must be tested, and if not meeting certain standards can't be spread on fields.

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thank you
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206807 tn?1331936184
It sounds like a Cesspool that the Septic Tank over flows into. Usually they have a pipe that overflows into either a Sewage Ditch or a Counties Sewage System. If not, they have to be pumped out when full.
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Why would there be a human poo holding tank in the middle of NOWHERE? We are 45 min. to a small "city"
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Hmmmm
The tank is not tall, but its very larage around. There is a house next door, but nothing else
Everyone knows its human, and it smells it too. The thing is, there is nothing else there. Just this persons house and this large open concrete (tank) filled with thick brown liquid yuck. Sometimes I would go by and it would be empty. All I would see is the brown dirt at the bottom. (I think it was dirt).
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206807 tn?1331936184
   It could be a holding tank (basically a super large septic tank) that is relieved by a Pumping Station. The Pumping Station pumps the over flow to the Waste Water Treatment Plant. Eventually the “Sludge” builds up and has to be cleaned out (just like a Septic Tank). This is usually dumped in the Drying Beds at a Waste Water Treatment Plant. I can go into more detail if you want me to.
As far as Safety for the Public, each State/County has their own regulations.
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377493 tn?1356502149
I buy organic cow manure currently for my tiny garden (which I plan on expanding in the future).  I agree with you..big difference between human and cow, at least in my mind.  I cannot believe how freaked out I am over this...human waste..it's like cannibalism or something. It just seems really really wrong.  And human milk for ice cream??  Aggghh...stop!!!  I cannot take this anymore.  It's all just creepy.  That isn't actually happening too is it?
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chicken poo is excellent. You need to compost it first so it dries out.... once its like dusty, or sawdust (very dry) you then wait for fall and then till it into the garden that way you dont get it on things like lettuce as its growing. Lots of people just toss it in prior to planting, but I like to be extra safe, and when I researched it, they recommend you do it the way I do it. Organic cow poo is good too. The people in favor of this say whats the difference, poo is poo, but thats not true. Thats right up there with the crazy people who are all for human milk for ice cream, and whatever. NO THANKS!!!!!!
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Sorry Margie, as much as I hate gmo food, I would eat that over the food grown in human poo. I have researched it. I have listended to both sides and I am not buying the safety of it at all.  I live right near hippy land and they are all about this. They can keep it.

Mr. Glass... Where we live, they have these open (pools)... not sure what its called. But it is like a swimming pool, only made of concrete?... They hold all this liquid human poo, and the smell will kill you. They have signs posted all over it warning people to stay away, but I was wondering... why is it open? Someone could climb over and jump in. I thought human waste was kept in closed tanks.
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377493 tn?1356502149
No, I'm okay not knowing the details..lol.  Still..ick.  I honestly had no idea this even happened.  My husband keeps threatening to leave it all and wants to buy a farm and have us become 100% self sufficient.  I figure we would last about 3 days..lol.  He admits that to be the case as well, but I tell ya, hear stuff like this and it is tempting as all get out.

Why on earth is this necessary...there are all sorts of better fertilization methods, aren't there?  Human waste?  I would rather have the genetically modified then that I think.  
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535822 tn?1443976780
dont worry farmers are on the way out its going to be all genetic modified    Lol If I were you I wouldnt bash the farmers who have done this for years I would check it out further ,.  care about your kids future do some research .what they will be eating and pooh will be an easy one to swallow .
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206807 tn?1331936184
Actually most of it comes from Drying Beds from Waste Water Treatment Plants not Septic Tank Clean Outs. When they clean out Septic Tanks the trucks “unload” at Waste Water Treatment Plants. I once did a Renovation and Addition to a Waste Water Treatment Plant. I witnessed first hand the process of the removal from the Drying Beds. I can go into detail but, it ain’t going to be nice.
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Well, its from the septic tanks. They truck to a place to (clean it up)..
I bet some of the guys on here would know about it
Hopefully they are not in the making a buck off of selling it to farmers.
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377493 tn?1356502149
I'm scared to find out how they get it.....ick...
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Yes, its very scary, and I dont care how much they bleach it, I dont want it.
Home gardening is the way to go.
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377493 tn?1356502149
OMG, I had absolutely no idea this happened.  How utterly disgusting.  I think you have just motivated me to grow more of my veggies then I do now.  

I have seen the aftermath first hand of animal feces getting into drinking water.  I cannot even begin to imagine the awful things that could happen with human feces..in food and of course that opens the door to water contamination.  You can bet I'll be reading up on this...that is awful.
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http://www.katu.com/news/125200649.html

http://www.biosolids.com/Headlines/archives/000544.shtml

http://www.rense.com/general44/asaat.htm

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5394

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Yes. Its called (sludge) and they take the human waste, treat it, and then spray it on the fields used for crops. Its disgusting. I have done some looking into it because there is a place not too far from where I live that I heard was doing this. I found out its someones bright idea and catching on thanks to some folks with small brains (in my opinion).
They cant kill all diseases either, so there are some serious diseases that are still living.
I read they got the idea from 3rd world countries. (now doesnt that make perfect sense?)
Anyway, its sick and experimental and probably in some of our store bought veggies, wheat etc... I am 100% against this. Puts whole new meaning into praying before you eat.
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377493 tn?1356502149
Human waste as a fertilizer?  Seriously?  Oh my word.  Please tell me that doesn't really happen.  I feel ill....
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Wow. Farm dust? This is stupid. Just like studying how much flatulence cows have and how it effects the ozone. Please. These people are all crazy. If they really care about the environment, why not worry about things like drinking water full of prescription drugs and hair. Now thats disgusting and something to be concerned about. How about the government using human waste as fertilizer. Theres a danger waiting to happen.
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206807 tn?1331936184
EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust
http://www.news9.com/story/12899662/epa-to-crack-down-on-farm-dust?redirected=true
“OKLAHOMA CITY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.
The letter dated July 23 to the EPA states, "If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation's history." It further states, "We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether its livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event."
Read the letter to EPA signed by 21 senators including Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn
Many in the Oklahoma farming industry are opposed to the EPA's consideration. One farmer said the possible regulations are ridiculous.
"It's plain common sense, we don't want to do anything detrimental," said farmer Curtis Roberts. "If the dust is detrimental to us, it's going to be to everybody. We're not going to do anything to hurt ourselves or our farm."
Roberts, a fourth generation farmer and rancher in Arcadia, said regulating dust in rural areas will hurt farmers' harvest, cultivation and livelihood.
"Anytime you work ground, you're going to have dust. I don't know how they'll regulate it," Roberts said. "The regulations are going to put us down and keep us from doing things we need to be doing because of the EPA."
Oklahoma Farm Bureau President Mike Spradling said the rules could be detrimental to farmers across the Sooner State.
"We as an organization do not feel dust is a pollutant," Spradling said. "It would almost be impossible to comply with what's being addressed now from the EPA as in agriculture. We're doing everything we possibly can."
"It's just common sense, we don't like dust in the morning but it's something we got to live with," Roberts said.”

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