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Biden administration demands that all NASA grantees hire minorities/women

“Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” The Biden administration has proposed a new rule for anyone receiving financial grants from NASA, requiring those grantees to solicit bids for any subcontracting work from minorities and/or women.

The Grants Policy and Compliance Branch (GPC) in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Office of the Chief Financial Officer is soliciting public comment on the Agency’s proposed implementation of a new term and condition that requires recipients of NASA financial assistance to obtain a quotation from small and/or minority businesses, women’s business enterprises or labor surplus area firms when the acquisition of goods or services exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold.

…NASA’s expectation is that this action will result in an increase in contracting opportunities for small and/or minority businesses, women’s business enterprises and labor surplus area firms that contract with NASA financial assistance recipients.

The rule is not yet in effect. NASA is simply seeking public comment. However, the intent of this “equity” regulation is the same as all critical race theory implementations, to favor minorities and women and discriminate against whites and men. And if you don’t believe me, read this further explanation for this new rule at the link:

On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued E.O. 13985, “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” outlining a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality. Given that advancing equity requires a systematic approach to embedding fairness in the decision-making process, the E.O. instructs agencies to recognize and work to redress inequities in their policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity.

Since everyone has the same equal opportunity to compete for bids, this new Biden rule, which is designed to tilt the scale and discriminate in favor of “people of color and others who have been historically underserved”, it is actually creating barriers to equal opportunity. It is also a bald-faced violation of every civil rights law passed since 1964, which required that no one should be discriminated against because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sex, be they white, black, red, yellow, green, or orange.

But then, this is our Democratic Party, led by Joe Biden. It has eagerly returned to its slave/segregation roots, where it sees race as a person’s only important attribute, with some races deserving favored treatment and other races to be oppressed. Until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s Democrats favored whites and oppressed minorities. Now the party favors minorities and oppresses whites.

Nothing has really changed however. The Democratic Party, led by Joe Biden, remains the party of racism and bigotry.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

16 comments

  • Phill O

    The laws of unintended consequences comes into affect here.

  • Cotour

    Democrats see their future and political power and control in the retention of and acquisition of political power solely in women and minorities. Those segments of the population are “Thiers”, they own them.

    The more they empower those groups with the people’s tax money and jobs and deny others that same tax money and those jobs who may not see the Democrats in favorable ways the better off they will be.

    Its just that simple.

    Discrimination? No problem if you are a Democrat.

    Why? because without such methods of operation the Democrats would have to actually communicate what their philosophies regarding government are and if they were to be honest then not many Democrat would become politically empowered.

    Democrats MUST lie and cheat in elections and politics. There is no other way for them. Why do you think they will fight to the death for the expanding of mail in voting for example? Any reasonably honest person would quickly understand that mail in voting is THEE most corrupt form of voting. Ask the French, they banned it for those exact reasons in the 70’s.

    And the Democrats are contorting themselves into having it be expanded and made permanent. Let us not be naive.

  • Cotour

    How do we fight political warfare in America?

    LAWYERS, COURTS AND MONEY!

    President Trump filed a federal RICO suit in Miami, Florida Thursday against Hillary Clinton and others over the Russia collusion hoax orchestrated by the Clinton campaign in 2016 to undermine Trump’s candidacy and derail his presidency.

    Trump is asking for treble damages of expenses and losses of more than $24 million.

  • Questioner

    Cotour:

    It’s a shame that these young Ukrainian nationalists are dying for Klaus Schwab, George Soros and the right of children to choose their own gender, and that women have better careers than men at NASA. Is not that crazy? Why are Ukrainian and Russian nationalists fighting each other and not both fight together the globalists and the NWO elite together?

  • Questioner

    Cotour:

    Putin and Trump are on the same side, both are nationalists and enemies of the globalists as Hillary Clinton, Klaus Schwab and George Soros.

    “NATO, Biden, Ukraine, Russia and China (Live)”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uegH-t-mE

  • Col Beausabre

    “He who pays the piper calls the tune”

    “He who sups with the devil needs a long spoon”

    As early as the immediate post-World War 2 era, University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins (Inventor of the Great Books Curriculum) was warning about accepting government money in terms of the loss of control of the university and the danger to academic freedom to a nation of schools that had gotten addicted to the government’s largesse during the war.

  • Cotour

    This is a false and inaccurate statement: “Putin and Trump are on the same side,”

    Putin and Trump are similar in that they are people with strong personalities, and both have strong patriotic regarding their respective countries. But they are not on the same side.

    You have a distorted interpretation of what is ongoing in the world IMO.

    Putin in fact is one of the benificiaries of the Klaus Swab / Soros Globalist model of the world. And America would be the big losers. America and its Constitution must be made moot in order that they be successful.

    And apparently, it’s just dawning on Soros at least that his Globalist version of the world that makes Putin a more dangerous man because he is less fearful of America due to the weak, feckless and compromised by Russia itself nincompoop that he and his minions successfully installed in the presidency.

    You don’t get it, and neither did Soros.

  • mpthompson

    Putin in fact is one of the beneficiaries of the Klaus Swab / Soros Globalist model of the world.

    Cotour, I’m not certain this statement is entirely accurate. The Klaus Swab / Soros Globalist model of the world has no room for a person such a Putin whose actions are destabilizing globalist institutions rather than strengthening them. Putin is merely seizing the opportunity to push the system over the cliff for his own reasons.

    Furthermore, I feel the globalist institutions are weakening because they are attempting to centralize far too much power into the hands of far too few elitists. It’s the old story of arrogance, hubris, and basic human nature. They believe this time they’ll get it right. However, the very nature of such systems makes them fragile and not able to cope with real-world complexities where both good and bad people operate out of their own interests, and the interest of their own people, rather than the interests of those who constructed the system. As the systems weaken, they become more authoritarian in a desperate move to preserve what is clearly disintegrating. I believe there are many examples of this happening more frequently around the world at an ever-increasing pace — accelerated by both Covid and now the war in Europe. This is clearly not a good time to be a globalist.

  • Cotour

    mpthompson:

    Who are the beneficiaries if the Schwab / Soros Globalist “In the future you will own nothing, and you will be happy” model is installed in the world?

    That sentiment and model of the world must first eliminate America as the dominant force in the world. What about that statement comports with the Constitution? It is in its entirety at odds with the Constitution.

    And if and when they are successful what country or entity that possesses real power will benefit?

    The U.N.? China? Russia? The U.N. sees itself as the central power arbiter and EU type body that will run things. But you realistically believe that that is how Communist China sees things? You get my point?

    Think about it.

  • mpthompson

    That sentiment and model of the world must first eliminate America as the dominant force in the world.

    The way I see things, the globalists are in a much stronger position to create their “In the future, you will own nothing, and you will be happy” model in a strong, unipolar world. That is regardless of whether it is the US running the show or some other entity. In a fragmented, multipolar world, the hands of the globalists are severely weakened.

    I think the difference in the way we see things, is perhaps that you may see that America continuing to be a dominant force in the world will weaken the hand of the globalists. I believe the reality is quite the opposite. America is not immune to being corrupted by the globalists. And, there is ample evidence to see how such growing corruption has manifested itself over the past few decades. Endless wars, erosion of individual rights while collectivism is strengthened, the acceptance of cancel culture, the elimination of free speech and thought, the destruction of families and community bonds, the clouding of basic concepts, fundamental concepts such as what is male and female… All things at odds with the spirit of the Consitution, but have been nonetheless been accelerating.

    The U.N.? China? Russia? The U.N. sees itself as the central power arbiter and EU type body that will run things.

    In a multipolar world, none of them will be strong enough to run things. Certainly not to the degree the US has run things over the last 40 years. I really want to see a strong America, but not running the world. We tried that, and it has been a REALLY bad deal for the average American.

    We essentially bribed the rest of the world to let us run the show for a while and the burden of those bribes fell upon the shoulders of middle-Americans who have seen their wages stagnate while their were jobs shipped overseas, their savings inflated away under crushing debt while investing is now synonymous with gambling, their communities decline into crime and violence, and corrupt career politicians who care a lot more about what is going on 1/2 world away rather than the problems of the actual constituents who elected them.

    I’m against globalism in all forms. Regardless if it is America or some other entity at the top of the heap. Rather I’m much more interested in seeing America take an inward examination of where we came from and where we are going if we don’t get back to our roots. Continuing to play world policeman will just continue to distract us from addressing fundamental issues that have too long been ignored.

  • Questioner

    mpthompson:

    I take my hat off to you. You understand the situation. Unfortunately, Cotour has gone astray that will take him nowhere.

  • pzatchok

    I bet there was a specific grantee this was written to help.

  • Elmer

    No problem. Having worked in this sector for many years know that tech businesses run by white males often have their wives listed as the owners. If she is a minority then so much the better. Slap some successful, happy black folks on their corporate website and you got DIVERSITY! Yay.

  • pzatchok

    Elmer

    I know a guy who did that and years later lost everything in a divorce.
    She took everything in her name and he couldn’t stop her.

  • Cotour

    Q:

    Lets conduct a hypothetical mind experiment.

    Lets say we remove America from the equation, just remove it.

    What world power or entity is then dominant in the world?

  • Star Bird

    I wish they would send up Democrats lots of Democrats

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