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My wife just started up a workout video and the instructor said, "I want everything you've got and a little bit more!"
I thought, "So do the globalists."
I guess my perspective on the world is slightly polluted now.
I thought, "So do the globalists."
I guess my perspective on the world is slightly polluted now.
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Trump hates the homeless.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at eliminating seven federal agencies, including those focusing on media, libraries, museums, and efforts to end homelessness.
The president directed the targeted entities “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” insisting they “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel.” It required the heads of each entity to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget confirming full compliance within seven days, The Hill reported.
The president targeted several organizations, including the U.S. Agency for Global Media—the parent organization of Voice of America (VOA)—the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, a prominent think tank, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides support to libraries, archives, and museums nationwide.
He also dismantled multiple agencies: the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which works to prevent and end homelessness; the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, focused on avoiding and resolving labor disputes; the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, aimed at expanding economic opportunities for underserved communities; and the Minority Business Development Agency, which promotes growth among minority-owned businesses, The Hill added.
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https://conservativebrief.com/trump-more-3-90119/
The president directed the targeted entities “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” insisting they “reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel.” It required the heads of each entity to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget confirming full compliance within seven days, The Hill reported.
The president targeted several organizations, including the U.S. Agency for Global Media—the parent organization of Voice of America (VOA)—the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, a prominent think tank, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides support to libraries, archives, and museums nationwide.
He also dismantled multiple agencies: the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, which works to prevent and end homelessness; the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, focused on avoiding and resolving labor disputes; the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, aimed at expanding economic opportunities for underserved communities; and the Minority Business Development Agency, which promotes growth among minority-owned businesses, The Hill added.
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https://conservativebrief.com/trump-more-3-90119/
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BREAKING: An internal FBI inclusivity “Guide,” obtained by our team, counseled agents on “Ways to Manage Your Unconscious Bias,” “Micro-Inequities” and “How to Improve Your Inclusive Intelligence.” “The New IQ: Your Guide to Sustaining Inclusive Habits in the Workplace” was shared in mid-2020 and includes nine “tips” to counter unconscious bias. Separately, as part of our investigation, recently retired FBI agents said they saw, firsthand, how law enforcement capabilities were compromised because merit took a backseat to DEI priorities. They dubbed the legendary FBI Quantico Training Academy the “Participation Academy” because of headquarters’ pressure to “push through” poorly performing candidates to meet DEI objectives. The retired agents said FBI Director Patel inherits a workforce where standards dropped impacting physical fitness of agents, their firearms skills as well as professional qualifications, putting the FBI mission and safety at risk. DEEP DIVE More than a half dozen recently retired FBI agents agreed to speak with me on a confidential basis. They said they feared retaliation for describing their experiences with the FBI’s DEI initiatives. While fiercely loyal to the bureau, they said they felt compelled to come forward, citing a dangerous reduction in standards. The group of retired agents was diverse. It included male, female, Asian, Black and White agents from field offices in different parts of the country. Their work experience covered multiple facets of the recruitment and training process. Everyone we spoke with offered a first hand account of DEI’s impact. The retired agents told me they valued diversity because it could strengthen the FBI mission but in recent years FBI leadership took the attitude the bureau was “too White.” We were told that the physical fitness performance of candidates declined. The requirements include timed sit-ups (1 minute), timed 300-m sprint, untimed push-up maximum and timed 1.5-mile run. The retired agents described recruits who had an ‘attitude problem.’ The recruits would quit the long distance run or claim injuries if they thought they would not pass a requirement. The number of successfully completed push ups was routinely low because many recruits didn’t have the skill or strength to follow the required protocol (i.e bad form, not low enough.) What we learned about firearms training was also concerning. We were told some recruits lacked the “mental toughness” to competently handle weapons. Other candidates had documented mental health issues. While their performance was poor, there was a “push them through Quantico attitude.” The backbone of FBI investigations is a witness interview summary known as a “302.” In some cases, new agents lacked basic writing skills to complete a 302, in part, because work experience requirements had been relaxed. Once poor performing recruits were “pushed through Quantico,” the hope was that FBI Field Offices would fix them. These retired FBI agents are solution oriented and respectfully asked if Director Patel would be willing to meet with them because they understand where the change needs to happen internally. Describing how “woke broke the FBI,” one of the agents shared the wrenching personal decision to discourage their child from following in their professional footsteps. In response to our questions, FBI spokesman Ben Williamson said, “Director Patel’s new FBI will be an entirely mission focused institution — working every day to get criminals off our streets, keep the American people safe, and let good agents be good agents. We are aggressively working to abide by any Presidential directive to root out politically motivated, social engineering projects — they have zero home here and never will as long as Director Patel is at the helm.” FULL FBI DEI guide available to our subscribers
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Given your status as a contractor, do you have to do online training for harassment, discrimination, etc?
My company has zero ties to govt (we receive no USAID funding), and we do that every year. As a manager, I also have to do hiring, employee conflict management, ADA and reasonable accomodations, etc.
All told, it's probably about 10 hours per year of interactive videos. Fortunately, they are structured in such a way that while you can't minimize the screen, you can move it over to another monitor and let it run, then when it pauses, go over and click on the answers (there's no penalty for getting them wrong) until it moves to the next segment.
Our company has no firearms training or qualification at all, either.
My company has zero ties to govt (we receive no USAID funding), and we do that every year. As a manager, I also have to do hiring, employee conflict management, ADA and reasonable accomodations, etc.
All told, it's probably about 10 hours per year of interactive videos. Fortunately, they are structured in such a way that while you can't minimize the screen, you can move it over to another monitor and let it run, then when it pauses, go over and click on the answers (there's no penalty for getting them wrong) until it moves to the next segment.
Our company has no firearms training or qualification at all, either.
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AND i have to do the mandatory compliance training for every gov't agency I contracted with at the time. NRO was the worst, it was constant and sometimes random (like they would just add courses on a whim), and if you didn't do it, your account would get locked out until you did. It was so constant, they forced it as a webpage that would load when you logged in to show your statuses. These were all over the place: from alphabet soup ****, to storing chemicals, to counterintelligence, to learning about the ombudsman, or how to classify documents.
Many of my coworkers would take a day off work to "do it at home" so you could pretty much bill 8 hours to our company and dick around while you let the videos play. I would get it all done in about 1 hour.
I don't technically have accounts with my current agency -- I do all unclassified stuff on our own network, and then the code gets moved to the high-side. So until I do gain that sort of access, just have to do my companies stuff.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
For those of us who work in corporate environments, this is fairly typical of HR-produced or HR-sanctioned training materials. They think they have to go out of their way to make this sort of content "fun," and succeed only in making it seem even more pathetic than it actually is.
It's exactly the same here in the private sector.
It's exactly the same here in the private sector.
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What's the lowest common denominator intelligence level of a government worker? Think of clerks, shipping and receiving personnel, warehouse workers who aren't qualified to run a forklift yet, janitors in government office buildings, people who work at the Department of Education, people who work for the EPA, and people who design Federal highways.
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For those of us who work in corporate environments, this is fairly typical of HR-produced or HR-sanctioned training materials. They think they have to go out of their way to make this sort of content "fun," and succeed only in making it seem even more pathetic than it actually is.
It's exactly the same here in the private sector.
It's exactly the same here in the private sector.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Our phishing training (and periodic testing) is contracted out to KnowBe4, which is the security firm founded by Kevin Mitnick.
I've found the actual content to be quite excellent, they have a startlingly high click-through rate. One thing I am a little surprised by is that although they do frequently "spoof" the sender addresses, they never actually change up which mail server they're using. Since our Outlook clients are configured to always show the "true" SMTP address for all emails received from outside the domain, it's pretty damn obvious; they ALL come from psm.knowbe4.com.
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