[EpochTimes] “They’re dying in that jungle in huge numbers.” Longtime war correspondent Michael Yon has been tracking the migrant crisis from the Darién Gap in Panama to America’s southern border. Record numbers of people from dozens of countries are making the harrowing journey north through the Darién Gap, says Michael Yon, but “almost all of them have no case for asylum.”
On the other side of the globe, the Belarusian regime has weaponized migrants to cause a crisis for Lithuania and the European Union, Yon says.
Michael Yon has been at the frontlines of numerous war zones and major events, including the recent anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong. Now, he’s exploring the many faces of an emerging global migrant crisis.
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Free stuff, free stuff, free stuff. If you build it, they will come.
[American Thinker] It is rare that U.S. Department of Defense officials, blinded by their zealous pursuit of the latest variant of U.S. military diversity policy, reveal that policy’s intellectual vacuousness. Recent comments by the Navy’s top, uniformed personnel officer, however, did just that, exposing the Pentagon diversity policy’s intellectual bankruptcy and providing a focus for those who, following their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law, genuinely believe America’s sons and daughters in uniform deserve the best leadership available.
On August 3, 2021, VADM John Nowell, Jr., Chief of Naval Personnel, made public comments arguing for reinstating the use of photographs in selection boards, justifying that position by saying that not using photographs is hurting "diversity." He lamented that the Navy’s recent "data" (accumulated after the policy had been changed so it no longer included official photographs in personnel files the promotion boards used) show the new practice has hurt "diversity." Rather than acknowledging that such evidence proves "diversity" policies undermine meritocracy in the military, Admiral Nowell’s further comments revealed the dishonest disregard for objective evidence and truth that pervades the pursuit of anti-white, racial discrimination in the name of "diversity" in our military.
He said, "It’s a meritocracy. We’re only going to pick the best of the best, but we’re very clear with our language ... that we want them to consider diversity across all areas. Right?" "And therefore ... I think having a clear picture on this just makes it easier. So, actually, our data show that it would support adding photos back in."
Admiral Nowell also said, "I think we should consider reinstating photos in selection boards." "We look at, for instance, the one-star board over the last five years, and we can show you where, as you look at diversity, it went down with photos removed." (Emphasis added)
So, the Navy’s data show that when "color-blind" promotion boards do not use photos, they select the "best" — but that these results differ (fewer minority selectees, i.e., "diversity ... went down") compared to the selections (more minorities) when promotion boards do use photos that show candidates’ skin color (facilitating the use of racial preferences).
The Navy’s data are strong evidence of the negative effect that using racial preferences has on meritocracy and therefore the quality of the selection board outcome. Shockingly, that conclusion apparently escaped this 3-star flag officer whose job is to oversee Navy personnel policy. Ever true to the mantra that diversity policies never lower quality or involve lowering standards to make minorities "more successful," he predictably claims the process, when influenced by photo-enabled racial preferences, is still a meritocracy.
Admiral Nowell’s explanation of the Navy’s data proves that "diversity" (when considered by a promotion board) means "racial preferences." Would he admit that considering "diversity" (race) in a promotion board is, in practice, the extension of racial preferences? Not likely. Just call it "diversity." That places the topic beyond the reach of critical thinking (and legal) analysis and discussion.
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Given the state of the US Admiralty, I'm not sure diversity is actually their problem. With the levels of incompetence shown by the fleet's shiphandling skills, I would think we'd be seeing alot of people getting fired.
[WIRE] A former police officer in North Carolina’s Asheville Police Department (APD) both admonished and apologized to the community he served in a heartfelt resignation letter published last week in the local newspaper.
Justin Wilson, who served as a community resource officer for 10 years with APD, explained in an Aug. 21 email sent to neighborhood groups he worked with that he was moving to Colorado to begin a new career because his law enforcement job "has taken a toll on my personal life," the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.
Wilson also expressed regret for not having offered his community "more safety and protection" but maintained that police are being expected to stem the tide of social problems that can only be solved by "strong communities." He further urged Asheville residents to remember that his fellow police officers, who he said "are good people with good hearts," are confronted with real evil that is "not within our capacity" to curb entirely.
Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited. By Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] "I think the Biden administration should realize that, based on current trends, history will judge that the USSR managed to get out of Afghanistan better than the USA" - Karl Bildt
When Soviet troops left Afghanistan after 10 years of war, I was 8 years old. Of course, it is difficult for me then to realize the scale and consequences of those events. In subsequent years, I often heard that everything was in vain, that everything crumbled and collapsed, and the "Afghans" themselves were belittled in every possible way, and even now, in some kind of a cinema from domestic bunglers, they are not, no, and they are kicked, they say, not for that they fought.
In light of what is happening now in Afghanistan, you understand very well that when the Soviet army left Afghanistan, it left behind not a void, but a fully capable state, which for 3 years under conditions of international isolation waged a war against the bearded men sponsored by the United States, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries, even when Gorbachev and Yeltsin curtailed support for the Najibullah government. And the DRA army did not disperse in a couple of weeks, but fought quite successfully for itself, until it was ruined by internal conflicts and the betrayal of commanders, including the notorious Dostum, who is now sneaking into Uzbekistan.
For 10 years, the Soviet Army provided the conditions for the existence of a full-fledged Afghan secular state, which existed for 3 years even in conditions of war and isolation.
In contrast, we see how, after 20 years of occupation of Afghanistan by US and NATO forces, the pro-American regime in Afghanistan is crumbling even faster than the American troops can withdraw. And the main thing that leaves behind the United States is a country full of bearded figures and the largest heroin industry. When the USSR left, it left behind the state, schools, hospitals, factories, roads, bridges, tunnels and a secular society.
The difference is more than merely obvious. The warriors-internationalists in Afghanistan fulfilled their duty and provided opportunities for the existence of the Afghan state, which for a short time even survived the collapse of the USSR. The American army was unable to solve the problem of survival of the puppet regime, completely repeating the scenario of South Vietnam.
So in these days of the shameful collapse of the United States in Afghanistan, I would like to say, among other things, that the men who were doing their duty in Afghanistan did their job well. It is not their fault that the results of their labor were leveled out by the leaders who destroyed the country and left the DRA to its fate.
Everything is relative. I believe that assessments of the results of the 1979-1989 Afghan war in the light of what is happening now in Afghanistan should undergo a certain revision, and the merits of the internationalist soldiers should receive additional coverage and perpetuation.
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A legacy of "Yes, they're crooks, but they're our crooks." Our defense and intelligence communities embraced what they saw in the mirror every morning and the results should surprise no objective spectator.
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I think the Biden administration should realize that, based on current trends, history will judge that the USSR
History books in the USA will be published only be approved agencies and written by 'cancel' fearing lackeys, so that's no problem. I'm sure this charlie foxtrot will be written in as a noble salvaging of the gentry, the elites of a troubled nation, and the shadier aspects painted over.
Direct translation via Google Translate. edited. Boris Rozhin, a Russian military journalist and the author of the Colonelcassad Telegram channel, talks about the tendencies of the war in Yemen and the prospects for the further course of hostilities and the political settlement process.
Diplomatic clinch
As an integral part of a large-scale regional conflict, the war in Yemen continues to be an important element of the confrontation between Iran with the Shiite "Axis of Resistance" and the Saudi coalition, which is indirectly supported by the United States and Israel.
[PJMedia] Along with Islamic doctrine and history, one can now add science to the list of things that demonstrate Islamic aggression.
Ancestry.com, a company that operates a network of genealogical and historical records, and provides DNA ancestry kits, recently asserted what history already knows: Most of the denizens of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... are not Turks but rather the descendants of Christian peoples, mostly Greeks, who lived in Anatolia well over a millennium before the Turks invaded, but converted, due to Islam’s three choices (conversion, jizya/submission, or death).
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
