Merit vs Diversity

AF Branco [Americans for Limited Government] cartoon at Townhall    

In his column “Destroying Meritocracy Is Deadly” at Townhall, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the decline in the aviation industries, both commercial and military, but his concerns could as easily be about the medical, educational, agricultural, energy and other professions. VDH concludes:

. . . America's security, safety, prosperity, and postmodern lifestyles are not our birthright.

They are the dividends of centuries of prior hard work, unfettered freedom of speech, disinterested research, and a meritocracy.

Tamper with any of that and the system begins to fall apart.

The United States will then resemble the miasma we see in most of the world abroad where ideology suppresses free inquiry, political correctness warps research, and tribalism trumps meritocracy.

Many of the major airlines have established racial and gender quotes for government pilot training programs. United Airlines has set quotas to ensure half of its trainees will be minorities or women. Since 2013, the FAA has been lowering standards for air traffic control qualifications to achieve de facto race and gender quotas.

In testimony before Congress our top military brass has bragged not of their reduction in standards for enlistment, but of their "diversity" hiring, as they purportedly ferret out "white supremacy" and "white rage."

In sum, our government is playing with our lives as it prefers diversity, equity, and inclusion over ensuring the best qualified employees are hired on the basis of racially and gender-blind competitive tests and experience.

Keep it up, and there are going to be a lot more Afghanistan-style surrenders, Chinese surveillance craft in our skies, and airline nightmares.

The full column is here.

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Distracting from the Nord Stream Pipeline attack: Here come the UFOs

Meme seen at Conservative Treehouse:

Media :  just following instructions...

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The Coordinated Attack on Your Money

Michael Wilkerson at The Epoch Times (via The Liberty Daily with no paywall) outlines “The Coordinated Attack on Your Money.”  This one paragraph is scary enough:

Do you think your money is safe in your bank account? Multiple laws allow the government to seize your assets through the process of civil forfeiture even if you haven’t been charged, let alone convicted, of a crime. We saw how this worked in Canada during the truckers’ peaceful protests over vaccine mandates when the government simply issued a decree authorizing it. If your bank fails, new laws created following the global financial crisis of 2008–09 allow the bank to turn your savings and other deposits into securities to shore up the bank’s capital. The Internal Revenue Service can tap funds in your bank account if the agency claims you owe taxes, even if the IRS made an error or you’re in a dispute process. And banks have canceled accounts of individuals and entities who pose “reputational risk” by, for example, supporting conservative candidates, speaking out on election integrity, or challenging the prevailing COVID-19 narrative.

Click here for more.  It gets especially ugly when you see what the feds are trying to do to stop cryptocurrencies – and why.

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Happy Valentine's Day

 

Stopping the push for digital currency

 

Dr Joseph Mercola talks about “What Can YOU Do to Stop CBDCs [Central Bank Digital Currency]?” at America First Report:

Editor’s Commentary: It’s a good thing that more conservative and alternative media outlets are warning people about Central Bank Digital Currencies. Unfortunately, most are not offering recommendations on what to do about them. Thankfully, Dr. Joseph Mercola, show host James Corbett, and financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts are filling the gap.

In a recent article and video, they recommended 10 ways people can work to both stop CBDCs and to prepare for them if and when they become a full-blown reality. With the totalitarianism inherent in such forms of money, it’s important that we do what we can now before it’s too late. I discussed this on the latest episode of The JD Rucker Political Report. Here’s the article I referenced…

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In 2023, 11 countries have fully launched a digital currency while more than 20 more will move toward starting one
• 114 countries, which represent more than 95% of global GDP, are looking into CBDC — up from just 35 countries in 2020
• Finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts details 10 practical steps individuals can take to stop implementation of CBDCs
• Tips include using cash as much as possible and minimizing your use of digital systems, including avoiding biometric technology and QR codes
• Doing business with local people and entities you know and trust, and ditching large, multinational banks in favor of trustworthy local banks or credit unions will also help

Read the full report here.

RELATED:  Here's a report (Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge) on how this is playing out in Brazil in real time. 

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Who said that?

Seen at the Treehouse in the comments :

How does one become the arch-enemy of the elite thought-shapers of 21st century western civilization? By saying things like this:

Click to embiggen or visit Sundance here and scroll as needed to read the quote.  It elicited a lot of debate among the readers.  

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Tube Man infiltrates President Xi's cabinet

The Babylon Bee posted this the other day:

U.S. Retaliates For Chinese Spy Balloon
By Releasing Spy Inflatable Flailing Arm Tube Man

From the BB “report”:

Sources say the inflatable arm tube man has infiltrated the highest levels of President Xi's cabinet, having charmed countless government officials with its silly wiggling and waving. The U.S. intelligence community hopes to glean valuable intel about China's plan to take over the entire world which they will then do nothing about.

RELATED at SlayNews:   Frank Bergman:  “Bill Gates Calls for America to ‘Tone Down the Rhetoric’ over China Threat”

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