[DC Inquirer] Veterans of the United States military are refusing to help out with efforts to relieve the Pentagon's acute recruitment problems citing the wokeness problem embedded in the current military structure as their reason to not get involved.
As reported by Just The News, the military has a major recruitment problem among Americans, however, that by itself is not exactly a new development. As previously noted by the DC Enquirer, while obesity rates are an external problem for the military force, wokeness poses an internal problem within the armed forces. The vast majority of Americans from the 17-24 demographic are, according to a Department of Defense study, unfit for military services - primarily due to obesity rates among that demographic.
The Heritage Foundation's Director of the Center for National Defense, Thomas Spoehr, proclaimed that "Woke ideology undermines military readiness in various ways. It undermines cohesiveness by emphasizing differences based on race, ethnicity, and sex. It undermines leadership authority by introducing questions about whether promotion is based on merit or quota requirements."
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With the state that our military is in, I thank the Lord every day for the oceans. If the US were located where, say, Poland or Syrai is, and we had this leadersip, we would have been conquered and overrun long ago.
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05/20/2023 12:35 Comments ||
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In case you haven't noticed, Tom, we are currently in the process of being overrun because our "leaders" have left our southern border wide open.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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/\ Current population has gotten wise to the totalitarian Deep State bullshi* and forever wars. Less educated, more pliable 'replacement people' possessing no previous allegiances are urgently needed. People under thirty preferred. No English language proficiency required.
#7
^ Yeah, and these replacements will be none to fussy about shooting whoever they're told to shoot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
05/20/2023 15:31 Comments ||
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/\ 'forever wars'... How much of this is the process started after Vietnam to make most ground troop formations a mixture of Regulars and Reservists/National Guard? The social contract was that as a 'citizen soldier' you would be activated (quaint euphemism that) only in the event of War defending home and hearth. The Regulars on the other hand could go and soldier in places unknown and far away... The unending frontier wars also broke the citizen army of Republican Rome as well.
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The pool of potential recruits is polluted by our school system. The military has been turned into something that vets no longer recognize. If I see a kid with potential, why would I encourage them to join?
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[AmGreatness] Unless you were in a coma, you are aware that there has been a lot of stuff going on in the world. Difficult to keep track, really, and more so because much of it is in a virtual "Area 51" and seemingly off-limits to discussion. Virtual is the operative word these days, of course—the new literal, and not figurative, while we descend together into the "big sleep" of a digital night.
Summing up all this "stuff" can be difficult. "Grocery list" kind of difficult, as when trying to stay calm at the prices—it becomes nearly impossible. But that is the point, isn’t it? As it was Rudyard Kipling’s point to his son. "If you can keep your head when all about you /Are losing theirs and blaming it on you . . ." It’s always worth reading that poem again, and often.
One recent revelation would suffice: Special Counsel John Durham’s report was commissioned reluctantly by the very culprits who committed the crime—and has now been presented to the public two years too late, though well before the next election, confirming much of what we all knew from independent sources in the meantime. Yet, it remains important. Not important as in an alcoholic who admits he is a drunk, but for the obvious reasons—that the extent of this perfidy must be far worse than they are admitting, and it must be thought by the intelligentsia that a good mea culpa now is worth a lot of flagellation later.
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A good question. Here is a taste of the discussion:
[Jamestown] INTRODUCTION
At a trilateral meeting in Islamabad on May 9, the foreign ministers of China, Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed to extend the China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghanistan and reaffirmed their support for multilateral infrastructure projects already underway, including the Central Asia-South Asia (CASA) power project and the Trans-Afghan Railways (People’s Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs [FMPRC], May 9). Earlier on January 5, the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... regime signed an agreement with the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company (CAPEIC), a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), for the extraction of oil from the Amu Darya basin, under which China will invest $150 million annually for three years and increase it thereafter to $540 million for the contract’s 25-year duration (Kabul Now, January 5). Then on April 13, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum announced that the Chinese company Gochin had expressed interest in investing $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium reserves (Kabul Now, April 13). Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't... Continued on Page 49
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"Although China shares a border with Afghanistan" Sure enough. At the very tip of the Wakhan Corridor, which itself does not provide a satisfactory access to Afghanistan. Thus, the so-called Trans-Afghan Railways will have to connect with Pakistan via the Pashto-dominated and uneasy region of Pakistan.
[IMDB] The film is about a war patrol of a Soviet submarine of the Northern Fleet, tasked with finding and eliminating German fuel supply ships before a Big Offensive can be launched against Murmansk.
Film is in Russian, but it is translatable, and the translation is quite good.
As I have written elsewhere, combat operations involving the Soviet Northern Fleet and naval aviation, and its efforts to aid incoming supplies from the Brits was practically a separate war unto itself.
[FOX News..spit] Who is going to trust the Department of Justice now? In the wake of Special Counsel John Durham’s long-awaited report, Americans now know there was widespread political collusion and deliberate deception from the very top of the Obama administration, the Clinton campaign, the corporate media and the Department of Justice (DOJ), all in favor of the Democrats.
Not only did they abuse their power and lie to the public, they seem to be proud of it.
With these facts now added to the long list of formerly crazy conspiracy theories come true, former president Donald Trump is essentially inoculated from any future prosecution by virtue of the public mistrust in an obviously weaponized federal government. Even if prosecutors somehow manage to get a partisan jury to convict, the public will see it as a political witch hunt predicated primarily on partisan politics.
[PJ] The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton’s oppo-doc against former President Donald Trump, but it regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous. Others were devious. But no one "stole" our democracy — other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.
John Brennan, Hamas-loving authoritarian and partisan propagandist, almost surely knew it was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public.
From John Durham’s report:
"CIA Director John Brennan and Deputy Director David Cohen were interviewed by the Office and were asked about their knowledge of any actual evidence of members of the Trump campaign conspiring or colluding with Russian officials. When Brennan was provided with an overview of the origins of the Attorney General’s Review after Special Counsel Mueller finding a lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities, Brennan offered that ’they found no conspiracy.'"
As Durham points out, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report, and after Brennan admitted no one found a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, the former head of the CIA went on air with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, another all-star election "denier," and claimed that he "suspected there was more" to collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin than Mueller had let on.
Did I mention this was the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency?
[Last Refuge] The FBI did not weaponize itself. The weaponization of the institution was done by people; the same people that John Durham did not indict for weaponizing it.
The same applies to the DHS, ODNI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD and SSCI. These institutions did not weaponize themselves; they were weaponized by the people within them.
This is the core reality behind the missing part of the John Durham report, no proposed change in policy or institutional systems. Why? Because the policies and systems are not the issue; it was the intent of the people within it — those who weaponized it. Here’s the kicker. Those people are still in place — that’s why the weaponization continues.
It doesn’t do us any good to rewrite the same articles repeatedly to emphasize the same point.
WE MUST GET THIS INFORMATION INTO THE BLOODSTREAM OF THE LARGER AMERICAN ELECTORATE.
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Not all problems have solutions. Some, you must learn to either live with or identify as an untenable position for yourself.
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So, what was the purpose again of Durham's "investigation"? Don't results of investigations get forwarded to a prosecutor or district attorney? Talk about tax dollars. I hope they got some nice TDY's out of it at least.
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/\ So, what was the purpose again of Durham's "investigation"?
1. Provide the illusion of gov't action.
2. Delay or postpone actual justice.
3. Preclude timely testimony (the issue is currently under investigation, therefore we cannot discuss any related issues).
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If people in leadership are going to do what they want regardless of laws or policies then recommendations are a waste. The only solution is full and complete shut down of all broken, corrupted institutions
[Gateway] We are living in an age of mass deception, distraction and denial, of mass brainwashing. We might as well all be living in Jonestown, Guyana and following the orders of Jim Jones.
That’s how bad it is. It’s all laid out right in front of us. But no one can see it. Or maybe no one wants to see it. The Durham Report is "the canary in the coal mine."
It’s all Obama. It’s always been Obama. Obama is the REAL "Big Guy." Obama is the REAL criminal mastermind. Obama was the head of the snake. Obama was the John Gotti of the US government, overseeing a massive criminal conspiracy. Obama was the head of the "Obama Crime Family."
Obama committed TREASON.
And the worst part of all: Obama’s still in charge. Obama is pulling all the strings. He’s the one calling the shots. He’s the ventriloquist, speaking for the wooden dummy puppet Joe Biden. Obama is the real President of the United States, back for his third term.
I warned and predicted from the first day Obama appeared on the scene that my old Columbia University classmate was a Manchurian candidate, a radical Marxist put in place by the Deep State and globalist billionaires to destroy America.
In my #1 bestselling book back in 2013, "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide" I reported Obama’s plan was to "boil the frog slowly." To destroy America in small steps, to move so slowly that we wouldn’t notice we were being destroyed, until it was too late. Hillary Clinton was supposed to finish the job. Hillary’s election was supposed to be Obama’s third term.
But Donald J. Trump came along and ruined the plan. Trump became the first politician in history to beat a rigged election. That’s why Hillary and Democrats were so shocked. Obama rigged it, so Hillary could not lose.
[Dawn] IMF programme’s revival seems near impossible and Pakistan faces an almost inevitable default. PDM govt's failure to secure a desperately needed bailout package has made Pakistan’s polycrisis significantly worse.
THE ‘one-percenters’ have reportedly stepped in to attempt to resolve the continuing impasse in the corridors of power. A fresh attempt is being made to jump-start negotiations between key stakeholders, this time led by some of the country’s most influential industrialists and tycoons.
The latter seem to be deeply concerned, and understandably so — there are significant investments at stake. With the economy imploding due to the government’s indecision and mismanagement, unceasing political instability, and seemingly untameable stagflation, the majority of business owners are having to reckon with severe to very severe threats to their profitability.
In many cases, even the continuity of entire enterprises is at stake. Against this backdrop, several influential representatives of the business community have been tasked with reaching out to various political stakeholders, seemingly to cajole them towards breaking the political deadlock.
It is unclear, however, what they may be able to offer the various stakeholders apart from some good sense, which, it must be said, has lately been in short supply. With each player in the game fighting for survival, none of the parties seems to have had the time to think about what is really in the national interest.
The PDM government’s failure to talk straight to the IMF and secure a desperately needed bailout package has made Pakistan’s polycrisis significantly worse. It would have been a very different picture had corrective measures to right the listing economy been taken in time.
An IMF programme revival now seems near impossible and the country faces an almost inevitable default. Pakistan has only managed to survive so far by massively curtailing imports, thereby choking a vast segment of the economy and significantly throttling growth.
A formal default could unleash further catastrophe. Therefore, while the effort to get political parties and the establishment back to the table is commendable, it is unlikely to yield fruit till each of them realises that what they are fighting over could quickly prove to be a poisoned prize.
None of the current players has the expertise to rule a broken economy, nor can they afford the political cost of doing so. The government, military and PTI leaderships have diverted too much of their mental faculties to fighting each other, letting the economic time bomb tick closer and closer to zero. It is time they snapped back to reality and defused it.
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I read the inability to pay for certain imports has had a snowball effect, wasting entire industries. For example 7 million textile workers have lost their jobs.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[Gateway] We are living in an age of mass deception, distraction and denial, of mass brainwashing. We might as well all be living in Jonestown, Guyana and following the orders of Jim Jones.
