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The Biden administration has launched a sweeping effort to embed the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda throughout the federal bureaucracy, leveraging race and sexuality-based employee associations to push for leftwing ideology within the administrative state. Biden’s June 2021 executive order on “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal workforce” ordered the bureaucracy to allow for the creation of employee resource groups. The groups, described by the government as “spaces where employees of similar identities can talk freely amongst themselves and come together based on shared identities,” were supposed to “eliminate” the “barriers to equity.” It advertises several invite-only groups, including for Latinx, Working While Black, and even one called Not Your Dude, which is intended for “cis women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people, and those who are otherwise marginalized (i.e., non-hegemonic masculine folks).” “Some groups are available by invitation-only,” a government website explains. “If you do not share that identity, show your allyship by respecting those private gatherings and giving space for people to gather and talk freely amongst themselves.” The program has support from the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources division, which has hosted two government-wide summits on employee resource groups and affinity groups. OPM says the groups serve to “support agency efforts to strategically advance DEIA.” At the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of the Interior, these newly-created identity-based employee groups have been used organizing hubs for leftwing bureaucrats. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the top intelligence agency that oversees the CIA, NSA, FBI, and elements of the Pentagon, explained in a document obtained by The Daily Wire that affinity groups led a race-based leadership development program. The African American Affinity Network and the Latino Intelligence Network hosted a leadership summit where attendees “learned about unique opportunities at other agencies” and were invited to a workshop on building a professional brand. The document also shows that employee resource groups within the intelligence community for those who are Asian or Pacific Islander have influenced how America’s intelligence apparatus refers to our foreign adversaries. The employee organizations “have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China,” the document obtained by The Daily Wire reads. At the National Security Agency (NSA), there are 10 different employee resource groups, the majority of which are based on employees’ racial or ethnic backgrounds. “These employee-led groups are composed of individuals who work together to foster an inclusive and unified culture,” the NSA states. “Individuals may join ERGs as either a member or ally.” The CIA’s Pride Employee Resource Group, for those who identify as LGBT, organized the Intelligence Community’s 2022 Pride Summit, which included sessions with titles like “Pride & Color: A Queer Person of Color Experience,” “Transgender Inclusion Training,” and “LGBTQIA+ & Disability.” “LGBTQIA”+ employee resource groups from the U.S. Geological Survey, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service held a panel discussion as part of a celebration of “transgender day of visibility,” The Daily Wire previously revealed. Federal bureaucrats were invited to watch a mini-documentary on LGBT representation in the field of marine biology. The DOI and the agencies that operate underneath it have a long list of employee resource groups, like the Fish and Wildlife Services’ BIPOC ERG, which exists to “promote solidarity and support among BIPOC employees and allies; in order to harness our collective strengths toward creating positive, lasting change that advances justice, equity, diversity, inclusion.” There’s also the U.S. Geological Survey’s Pride ERG, which seeks to “assist in cultivating an inclusive and high-performing workforce that empowers all of its LGBTQ employees.” The Department of the Treasury explained in its diversity and inclusion plan that employee resource groups would be leveraged to push DEI throughout the agency, meeting with bureau leadership “to identify methods to promote D&I throughout the organization. The National Institutes of Health similarly states that employee resource groups are used to facilitate “employee activism inside and outside the workplace.” Employee resource groups and affinity groups are just one way in which the Biden administration is embedding the DEI agenda throughout the federal bureaucracy. The Democratic incumbent signed multiple executive orders institutionalizing the leftwing doctrine, and his federal agencies have even worked to enable gender transition attempts among government employees, barring the use of biologically accurate pronouns in the process. While Biden has sought to further embed the DEI agenda within the federal government, former President Donald Trump has pledged to use executive orders of his own to purge far-left bureaucrats who may otherwise undermine his agenda. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, touting his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.” Trump’s allies are preparing to fill the void left by outgoing bureaucrats, with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 assembling a personnel database that could step into the administration in the event of a Trump victory.

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The world’s largest national park also happens to be one of the remotest and harshest places on planet Earth. Located within the Arctic Circle, the Northeast Greenland National Park is more than twice the size of the next biggest protected hotspot and consists mostly of frozen tundra.Established in 1974, the park was expanded 14 years later to its current size of 972,000 square kilometers (375,000 square miles). Much of this area is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, although some ice-free destinations can be found along the coast.Incredibly, the Northeast Greenland National Park is larger than all but 30 of the world’s countries, yet is completely uninhabited by humans. In addition to being the biggest, it’s also the northernmost national park on the planet. Despite a lack of human residents, the park is still policed by the elite Danish naval unit known as the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol. Keeping order within this supposedly crime-free wilderness is presumably not the most difficult job, but surviving the conditions and the terrain is a serious challenge, which is why only the hardiest of recruits are accepted into this burly unit.The rules of the park ban motorized transport, which means it must be patrolled using dog sleds. Tourists, meanwhile, can reach the park on cruise ships, which dock at the coastal settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit.Arctic foxes are among the species that live in the Northeast Greenland National Park.Image credit: Jonatan Pie/Unsplash.comThose who make the trip usually come with hopes of spotting some of the charismatic polar animals that live within the park, such as polar bears, arctic foxes, the Greenland wolf, narwhals, and walruses.The world’s next biggest national park is the somewhat more inviting Great Barrier Reef, which covers 343,966 square kilometers (132,806 square miles) of land and sea in Australia. North America’s largest reserve is the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska, which has an overall size of 53,419 square kilometers (20,625 square miles).

A video (see below) depicting an unusual tornado-like phenomenon has surfaced on Chinese social media platforms. However, what sets this apart is the context—it was filmed amidst snowy mountains and at a notably high altitude, where yaks roam freely. Reportedly captured on May 7, 2024, somewhere in Qinghai province, which shares its border with Tibet to the west and is nestled within the Kunlun mountain range, the footage showcases a remarkable meteorological event. Given the region’s frigid winters and cool summers, devoid of warm, humid air masses typical for tornado formation, coupled with its rugged, snow-covered terrain, the emergence of a tornado, particularly one of considerable height and girth, is an anomaly. With only one video available, skepticism abounds regarding its authenticity, prompting inquiries into whether it may have been digitally altered or fabricated using advanced technologies like neural networks or video editing software. Adding to the intrigue, the tornado depicted in the video appears motionless, defying conventional behavior. Speculation arises as to whether it is indeed immense and situated at a considerable distance, rendering its movement imperceptible within the short video clip, or if it conceals a more enigmatic nature beyond mere tornado classification. The post Strange tornado spotted in the mountains of China appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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