Administration to Convene 'God Squad' With Power to Override Environmental Law

[cliffside]

Source: NYT

The meeting, planned for this month, will focus on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Full article

"The Trump administration plans to convene the so-called God Squad, a high-level federal panel that has the power to override protections under the Endangered Species Act, for a meeting related to oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico.

The meeting, scheduled for March 31, will be the first time in three decades that the group, officially called the Endangered Species Committee, will gather.

Notice of the meeting was released on Friday and officially published in the Federal Register on Monday. The Gulf, which the administration calls the Gulf of America, is home to the critically endangered Rice’s whale, a species that exists nowhere else. According to the latest available federal estimates, around 50 of the animals remain on Earth.

Information in the notice announcing the meeting, called by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, is sparse..."





Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/climate/god-squad-whales-gulf-oil.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.9y9R.qpxnQw3kabJT&smid=url-share

[Deuxcents]

1. This *God Squad* is not gonna protect God's beautiful earth. Got it

[pat_k]

2. It's Thiel. All Thiel. Regulation is the anti-Christ.

And, ironically, here are some bits from AI (Gemini)

Regulation as the Antichrist: Thiel argues that the biblical Antichrist will rise by offering "peace and safety" from existential risks (like AI-driven Armageddon, climate change, or pandemics), but this "peace" will come in the form of an authoritarian, one-world state that suffocates innovation and tech progress.

The "Anti-Tech Apocalypse": While many fear AI will destroy the world through an apocalypse, Thiel argues that the far greater danger is a "deceleration or outright stagnation of technological progress," which he believes is already happening.

The "Anti-Science" Antichrist: Thiel has suggested that in the 21st century, the Antichrist is not a "Dr. Strangelove" mad scientist, but rather a "Luddite" who wants to stop scientific progress. He has pointed to critics of technology, such as AI safety advocates and figures like Greta Thunberg, as part of this phenomenon.

The "Katechon" and America: Thiel draws on the idea of the katechon (a "restrainer" mentioned by St. Paul) that holds back the Antichrist. He has speculatively placed this role in the hands of the United States—specifically a non-socialist, high-tech America—but worries it is being replaced by global bureaucratic bodies.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/peter-thiel-palantir-apocalypse-antichrist

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785407/peter-thiel-antichrist-tech-regulation

[groundloop]

3. Deceleration of technological progress is happening because education in the US sucks.

We have fallen so far behind other countries in education that it's inevitable we're going to lose ground to the rest of the world. We cut funding from education (among other things) to give huge tax breaks to billionaires and pay for the worlds' largest military.

Money is all that matters to these bastards, to hell with our children and to hell with Mother Earth.

[love_katz]

4. I wish that Democrats had a big enough media system to point out the plain truth.

The only deity that these MFers worship is MONEY. Money for them only. It should be crystal clear that all other life on this planet is seen as an obstacle to their goal of grabbing all the wealth.
These evil pustules have no understanding that you can't make any profits from a dead population and a dead planet.