Is a ‘Woke Military’ to Blame for Lagging Recruitment?

There’s no denying the huge drop-off in military recruitment. Every service is suffering and statistics show a worrying shortfall of as much as 40% for FY 2022.

Defense officials blame the slump on two causes: teen obesity rates and the tight labor market. It’s true that in the past, recruitment has been tied to the employment situation in the country. When times are tough, young men gravitate to the military. But that doesn’t explain the shortfall of 28,000 recruits for the army. The unemployment rate today sits at 3.6%—roughly the same as in 2019. Yet in 2019, the Army exceeded its recruiting goals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Move Over, Monkeypox: ‘Islamophobia’ Breaks Out in Southern Indiana

We can’t have people committing thoughtcrime.

Inflation is skyrocketing, COVID Joe is more feeble and bumbling than ever, America is weak and rudderless on the world stage, Leftist authoritarianism is advancing, the next pandemic hysteria is breaking out (or trying to), and at the Southern Indiana Realtors Association (SIRA), they’ve got their priorities straight: they’re all upset about a display of “Islamophobia” by their president and CEO.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Facebook, Instagram Posts Flagged as False for Rejecting Biden’s Recession Wordplay

“The fact-checking industry has become a partisan arbiter of political disputes,”

Meta’s third-party fact-checkers have flagged as “false information” posts on Instagram and Facebook accusing the Biden administration of changing the definition of a recession in order to deny that the U.S. economy has entered one. This is yet another reminder that the project of purportedly independent fact-checking on social media is a highly partisan one, in which legitimately debatable opinions are passed off as objective truth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in1984

The West needs to grow up

The Levellers

The culture wars have infantilised society

The first modern revolution was neither French nor American, but English. Long before Louis XVI went to the Guillotine, or Washington crossed the Delaware, the country which later became renowned for stiff upper lips and proper tea went to war with itself, killed its king, replaced its monarchy with a republican government and unleashed a religious revolution which sought to scorch away the old world in God’s purifying fire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Zeitgeist"

Lake Mead: shrinking waters uncover buried secrets and grisly finds

Drought has a way of revealing things. Receding waters can highlight the precarity of the crucial systems that keep societies functioning and expose hidden ancient cities.

In the case of Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir, diminishing waters have in recent months uncovered long buried secrets and other mysterious finds: at least three sets of human remains, including a body inside a barrel that could be linked to a mob killing, and a sunken boat dating back to the second world war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

Man arrested with AK-47 outside of dissident Iranian journalist’s Brooklyn home

A man armed with a loaded AK-47 was arrested on Thursday outside of the Brooklyn home of Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad, according to sources and charging documents.

Khalid Mehdiyev, 23, was found with the assault rifle, a high-capacity magazine and more than $1,000 worth of cash when he was arrested after lurking for two days, according to a federal complaint.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

CBC Platforms Eco-Nutter Who Says You Shouldn’t Have A Car Electric or ICE

Shifting to EVs is not enough. The deeper problem is our car dependence

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a bold claim: Canada “isn’t just going to be a global player in EVs, … we get to be global leaders.” Over the past year, the federal government has been announcing a series of deals with auto companies and suppliers aimed at growing the domestic electric vehicle industry.

With gas prices soaring above $2 a litre for the first time in May and Atlantic Canada’s record temperatures serving as yet another reminder that the world is rapidly warming, it’s clear that we desperately need to rethink our transport system. But is the government placing too much focus on electric vehicles instead of encouraging more people to ditch their cars altogether?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

FUREY: It feels like so many things are falling apart in Canada

Canadian provincial healthcare systems are currently sounding the alarm about a shortage of epidurals caused by global supply chain issues. Epidurals are used as pain management primarily for pregnant women in labour.

While the problem is believed to be short term, and so far it seems no woman has actually been denied an epidural, it’s troubling to learn about the looming problem. The modern approach to obstetrics is one of the things that separates our current way of living from both the harsher past and the rougher conditions in other parts of the world. The absence of serious pain relief in labour is a problem that just shouldn’t happen here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ruinous Inflation With A Happy Face! CBC pitches diminished lifestyles to cope with Trudeau’s economic train wreck

With the cost of living rising, people share ‘inflation hacks’ to combat higher costs

A steep rise in gas and food prices is getting most of the blame for Canada’s cost of living increasing at its quickest pace in decades.

With inflation at a nearly 40-year high in Canada, people are getting creative in their attempts to save money in any way they can.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?