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We Need a Limited Military Draft
It’s time to change how our country fills the ranks of our military.
Since 1775, our nation has used a combination of volunteers and draftees to meet our national defense personnel needs, especially in times of crisis.
Today, the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war — both of which ended unsuccessfully — and low unemployment, many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point. And American confidence in its military is at a low.
The fastest and most effective way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we recruit.
Instead of an “either an all-volunteer force or a fully conscripted force” model, I propose a both-and solution.
We should have our military recruiters sign up new troops for 11 months out of the year, and then have the Selective Service draft the delta between the military’s needs and the total number recruited.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2023/07/29/we-need-limited-military-draft.html
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Marine Corps recruiting surges while other services struggle
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/07/31/marines-recruiting-surges-while-other-services-struggle/
Just look at the picture here:https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/lzjMdKWewpidaqEozMI0kkQ6–s=/800×0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/archetype/A6EGGTUPDNFZPJQRKCICXHDYO4.jpg
11 months isn’t long enough to get the troops trained and integrated into their units.
And with minimum standards at an historic low, figure how much longer it’ll take to train these recruits.
I don’t want to go near combat with the “modern” recruit no matter how much training tgey have.
Political correctness is what is stopping the kids from enlisting. Kick out the weirdos and return to a military organization will solve the problem.
I agree, Richard — if only the anti-American Woke folks would just fold their tents and go home — that is, the head of the snake from the top ranks on down (chiefly among them, the CIC!!! — and his CONTROLLERS). “Get out of town by sunset.
We can dream, and PRAY.
Pray real hard, we need all the help we can get.
A story I’d heard before, then saw it in a comment on Dima’s sitrep this morning:
There was once three apex predators who came into contact with each other. The lion, the bear, and the dragon. The lion was offensive, the bear defensive, and the dragon opportunistic.
Sure enough the lion attacked the great and mighty bear, and the two predators fought fiercely to attain dominance, the lion viciously attacking, the great bear, highly resilient, viciously countering, each suffering serious wounds, but finally the bear killed the mighty lion.
Seeing the bear was seriously wounded, the wise dragon attacked the bear while it was weary, weak, and bleeding. The bear fought the dragon but could not overcome its injuries from the lion, and the dragon defeated the mighty bear.
Just as the dragon was about to kill the bear and claim its spoils of the great fight, it was also attacked by a great and mighty eagle. The dragon and the eagle fought each other viciously, but it wasn’t the intention of the eagle to kill the dragon, it was to save the bear. As the eagle and the dragon fought, the bear tended its wounds and healed.
The wise dragon, seeing the bear was healed, withdrew from the contest to its domain deep in the forest. The eagle, seeing the bear healed, withdrew to its domain in the mountains.
And the bear, being healed, ate the slain lion who attacked it.
India thinks the elephant is relevant.
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/the-eagle-the-dragon-the-elephant-and-the-bear/
Back in the Early 70s a lot of people were predicting the bear and the eagle would ally against the dragon.
Malik Obama Did It Again: Tweets Brother Barack Obama “Must Be Gay”
By Jim H?ft Aug. 7, 2023 7:15 am2 Comments
Late Sunday night, Malik Obama has once again taken to Twitter to taunt his brother, Barack Obama, the former President of the United States.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Malik Obama said his brother Barack Obama is “definitely gay” in response to the former president’s statement on banning porn books for children.
“Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone.” Barack Obama wrote on July 17.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/malik-obama-did-it-again-tweets-brother-barack/
Democrats demand 1,000% excise tax on ‘assault weapons,’ high-capacity magazines
Democrats failed to move the same idea when they controlled the House last year
Peter Kasperowicz By Peter Kasperowicz | Fox New
More than two dozen House Democrats put forward legislation Friday that would slap “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines with a 1,000% excise tax, a change that would raise the price of a $500 weapon to $5,000 in a bid to reduce access to guns across the country.
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., and 24 other House Democrats introduced the legislation Friday. It’s the second time Democrats have put forward the idea.
Beyer and 37 Democrats proposed the same idea last year when Democrats controlled the House, but it never moved.
The text of Beyer’s new bill was not out as of the weekend, and it was unclear if any changes were made from his 2022 version. His bill from last year imposed the tax on any magazine or related device that can accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-demand-1000-excise-tax-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines
Great idea. It means that people will return to basic skills like working metal and building things. Same with booze. They should put a 1000% tax on beer and wine so local people who like making beer and wine can make a living on small batches of really GOOD beer and we can get rid of the Bush’s and other swill makers.
I agree on the beer and wine, I’m not so sure Abt guns.
Whf:
https://youtu.be/ITp2yojbeIQ
Dr. Pierre Kory 53 min on the devastating effects of ignoring injection injuries:
https://usawatchdog.com/cv19-vax-humanitarian-catastrophe-being-turbocharged-without-treatment-dr-pierre-kory/
EXCLUSIVE: Fulton Co DA Fani Willis Eyeing Racketeering Charges This Week… But Against Who? – Emails Reveal Georgia Officials Knew For Months About Severe Tabulator Malfunctions
By Brian Lupo Aug. 7, 2023 8:00 am208 Comments
This will be at least a three-part series involving the “deafening silence” from Georgia’s Secretary of State’s Office regarding the 2020 Election.
From Left to Right: GASOS Brad Raffensperger, GASOS COO/CFO Gabriel Sterling, Fulton DA Fani Willis, President Donald J Trump
Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s “investigation” into the 2020 Election in Georgia has sent the Mockingbird Media into a frenzy and will likely lead to the 4th indictment of President Trump once another juicy Biden story is disclosed. “Leaked” CCTV footage show cyber experts entering the Coffee County Elections Office recently as if this were some clandestine spy operation…they walked in through the front door of a public building. And in reality, they’ve been very public about the investigation, what was done, what was found, and, most importantly, why it was done. Jeff Lenberg, one of the experts “sneaking into” the public building in Coffee County sat down with me to go over his incredible findings in both GA and MI (for a later part in this series).
Jeff Lenbefg (left) and Doug Logan (right) walking into the Coffee County Elections Office through the front door. Both men confirm they never touched the DVS system in Coffee County. (source: Washington Post)
But none of the Mockingbird outlets reported on what happened before the January 5th run-off elections. That doesn’t fit the narrative that President Trump was trying to unjustly influence officials to commit crimes.
Emails and text messages obtained by The Gateway Pundit show that at least one of the individuals targeted by DA Willis had been raising concerns to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, specifically. Sterling, you may recall, was being paid $114k as a State of Georgia employee before taking a private contract in November 2019 thru January 2021 for $200k/year according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to Sterling’s Linked-In, he resumed his official State job in January 2021. They claim this was to avoid benefit payouts or something, but conveniently, it also would make Sterling immune to Open Records Request and public oversight of a State official.
There were numerous issues with the elections in Georgia since the implementation of the new Dominion machines in 2019. A last-minute “de-minimis” update was authorized on the machines by Judge Amy Totenberg prior to the 2020 General Election. There were thousands of previously-unknown ballots that were mysteriously revealed during hand-counts conducted after the initial machine count in November 2020 in numerous Georgia counties.
To try and resolve this issue, one would need access to the ballot images, as granted by a Court. However, Fani Willis’s own Fulton County, and dozens of other counties, deleted a vast majority of the first machine count ballot images, “accidentally”, of course. For many counties, the only ballot images that exist for the 2020 General Election were those produced during the machine recount that ended after the revealing hand-count/audit.
But in at least one county, issues began with the 2020 Primaries and emails show they sought guidance from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, which seems to have fallen on deaf ears. You would never know this as all of the ‘news’ surrounding the issues in Coffee County focus on what happened after the 2020 Election and January Senate run-off. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sat down with 11Alive in September 2022 and when asked, “Did the Secretary of State’s Office take the Coffee County issue seriously and if you had, wouldn’t you have been able to get this information months ago?”
Raffensperger responded:
“Well, we were provided information and now it appears to be apparent that these people were not speaking truthfully to our investigators.”
An affidavit submitted by the Chairwoman of the Coffee County Republican Party, Cathy Latham, and emails obtained exclusively by The Gateway Pundit, show that Raffensperger and Sterling knew about issues in Coffee Co. more than two years prior to that interview and at least four months before the 2020 Election.
On September 17th, 2020, Latham was involved in a Zoom call with Raffensperger and Sterling. They were going over the Dominion Voting System and some COVID safety measures. During that call, Latham stated that the Coffee County Bureau of Elections (BOE) needed new or additional scanners because of what occurred during the Presidential Primary. Raffensperger assured Latham that he would get Gabriel Sterling on it. Sterling sent Latham his email address through the chat. It was his private email, which is not subject to Open Records Request.
On October 5th, 2020, Latham emailed Sterling and said:
“…my Board of Elections (BOE) President Matthew McCullough wanted to know what it would take to get an extra scanner for the county. Brad said that it would not be a problem and he’d let you know. Julianne [Thompson] was supposed to forward my information.
We are the county that ours broke during scanning and had to go several counties over after midnight to one from Cook County.”
On October 8th, Sterling succinctly responded “I’m looking into this for you.”
On October 27th, Latham followed up:
“Were you able to get an extra scanner to Coffee County? I know they had problems running some test ballots.”
When the emails failed to get any attention from the private contractor whom Raffensperger had delegated the task to, Latham text messaged Raffensperger:
“Good morning. I really hate to bother you. I’ve emailed Gabriel about the extra scanner for Coffee County. He said he was working on it, but that is all I’ve heard. The Chair of the BOE said that when they ran preliminary ballots as a test, the scanner kept messing up. Just trying to help.”
Raffensperger responded “I (sic) check with him.”
On the night of the November 3rd election, Latham asked the Chair of the BOE if a new scanner had arrived. Latham was informed that Coffee was offered the option to purchase a scanner for over $20,000. Latham was shocked that Coffee County would be on the hook for less-than-a-year-old voting machines that can’t scan ballots properly without major malfunctions. Issues that had been brought to Raffensperger and Sterling’s attention months earlier and went unresolved.
The Coffee County elections issues persisted from the Primary, through the General Election, and into the January senate run-off. The Coffee County BOE wrote the House Governmental Affairs Committee on December 10, 2020 with concerns about certifying the Nov. 3 results:
“As you know, the certification process requires the Election Supervisor to swear under oath and under penalty of perjury that the certified votes are a true and accurate reflection of the count, or recount…Coffee County could not honestly make such an attestation given the inherent inconsistencies existing within the electronic summary report generated by the Dominion Voting Systems.“
“The decision not to certify…was a result of a unanimous vote by Coffee County BOE. However, this decision was not made until the Board could first have the data reviewed and explained by its Dominion representative…He had NO explanation for the inaccuracies. He could not reconcile the electronic recount report data or explain how it so dramatically differed from the two prior counts.”
“No one could explain what was wrong or what to do. No one from the Secretary of State’s office came to help the Board determine if it made an error or if the inaccuracies are Dominion software related.”
“…a video created at a Coffee County BOE meeting which is now widely distributed via the internet. This video demonstrates how the Dominion system can be manipulated to alter existing ballot results or create voter ballots out of thin air. This security issue was first discovered by the Coffee County BOE supervisor in June, 2020…the findings were reported to our State Representative Dominic LaRiccia on or about June 10, 2020, with the hopes that someone unassociated with Dominion would scrutinize this problem. The board never heard a word from Mr. LaRiccia or anyone from the Secretary of State’s office or state government.”
“The Coffee Co BOE has for many months reported various aspects of these problems to the Secretary of State receiving no assistance in correcting these problems. As for the investigation, the Secretary of State chose not to assist us or help evaluate the root cause of the refusal to certify the election recount but certified the statewide election results despite our findings.“
“This is particularly disappointing given that Eric Chaney personally called Chris Harvey and Dennis Carbone on November 13, 2020 to express his concerns over the Dominion System. Mr Harvey nor Mr Carbone returned this phone call. But the deafening silence from people in authority regarding our concerns go back to June 2020; their indifference is unfortunate.”
Read the full letter here: Coffee election issues official statement 20202
This is Part 1 of at least a three-part series on Georgia’s 2020 Election issues.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/exclusive-fulton-co-da-fani-willis-eyeing-racketeering/
JUST IN: Judge Aileen Cannon “Comes Out Swinging” and Delivers Blow to Jack Smith in Classified Documents Case – Liberals Scream for her Dismissal Afterwards
By Cullen Linebarger Aug. 7, 2023 11:00 am0 Comments
Aileen Cannon is a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida.
Aileen Cannon is a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida. She was nominated to the bench in August 2020 by then-President Donald Trump. (Wikimedia Commons)
Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District for Florida federal court delivered a blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s inquisition against President Trump regarding the “classified documents” case. In their process, she also caused the liberals to go into unhinged meltdowns where they demanded her dismissal.
As Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported, Cannon struck down two of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sealed filings in her ruling today. Cheney said she came out swinging.
Judge Cannon comes out swinging at special counsel this morning, striking two of prosecutors’ sealed filings and demanding an explanation of “the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate” the docs case.
As Axios reported, Cannon in her filing was responding to the prosecution’s request for a hearing on potential conflicts of interest regarding Trump defendant Walt Nauta’s lawyer, Stanley Woodward.
Julie Kelly, who has been one of the few journalists to accurately cover the garbage indictments against Trump, said this proved once again that Cannon is legit and will not tolerate Jack Smith’s BS.
The liberal media has claimed that Cannon revealed that an “out-of-district grand jury” is investigating the classified documents case. But Kelly notes it was Jack Smith who did this in a motion filed just last week.
Cannon observed in her verdict that “the Special Counsel states in conclusory terms that the supplement should be sealed from public view “to comport with grand jury secrecy,” but the motion for leave and the supplement plainly fail to satisfy the burden of establishing a sufficient legal or factual basis to warrant sealing the motion and supplement.”
Cannon next wrote in her verdict against Smith that “Among other topics as raised in the Motion, the response shall address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district.”
The prosecution has been ordered by Cannon to respond to these and other items by no later than August 22nd.
Nauta’s lawyers will need to respond to the motion for the hearing and address the existence of the grand jury by Aug. 17.
Liberals melted down following her ruling.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/just-judge-aileen-cannon-comes-swinging-delivers-blow/
Super powers backing Niger, Tinubu must tread with caution – Retired capt, Babangida
A former military intelligence officer and Chief Executive Officer of Goldwater Consults, Captain Aliyu Babangida (retd.) talks to GODFREY GEORGE about President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the aftermath of the coup in the Republic of Niger, among other issues…
What is your take on President Bola Tinubu’s efforts, including military intervention through the Economic Community of West African State, to restore normalcy in Niger?
Short of military misadventure, I do not know what the President wants to engage in. There are many ways to look at that situation, and none of it is in his favour. The first thing is we are looking at a francophone family quarrel. Regardless of his position as the President of Nigeria and Head of the Economic Community of West African States, you don’t match a francophone country with Anglophone troops…
Would it have been any different if Niger was anglophone?
Every single tree, stone, and thing in Niger will rise against our troops. So, it is not about coups. It goes deeper than that. What the President fails to see is that, maybe because former President Muhammadu Buhari went to flex in the Gambia, which is just a very small country, Tinubu feels he can do that with Niger. They (Niger) have over 1,630 borders with Nigeria which are about 999 miles of border with us. You can imagine how big Niger is.
We are not talking of Togo or Benin Republic. Does he think he can flex there? If all our soldiers were to hold hands and spread across Niger, they wouldn’t cover that border…
Some countries have begun to show solidarity with the junta in Niger. Should this bother Nigeria?
Let us also look critically at the people who are rooting for and standing behind Niger. Let us start with Algeria. The Algerian army is bigger than ours, the same as their navy. The Algerian navy has six submarines. Nigeria does not have even one. With the submarine, they can come as close to us under the Atlantic as your ear is to your head. We don’t even have the equipment to know they are there.
Why do you think Iran was rooting for those young officers? Do you know Charlie Hebdo? …
https://punchng.com/super-powers-backing-niger-tinubu-must-tread-with-caution-retired-capt-babangida/
https://punchng.com/super-powers-backing-niger-tinubu-must-tread-with-caution-retired-capt-babangida/
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Sensible guy. Helps put things in perspective.
Macron Depression: Globalist Leader Survives Many Crises, While French Influence Collapses in Africa – Snubbed at BRICS Meeting, He Is Object of Internet Rumor About an Affair With Canada’s Trudeau
By Paul Serran Aug. 7, 2023 3:00 pm40 Comments
Ever since 2017, former Rothschild banker Emmanuel Macron has led his presidency of France from one major crisis into another. Starting with the many weeks of ‘Gillet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) protest, continuing with the major insurrection over his tyrannical pension reform, almost immediately followed by catastrophic looting and riot over the police killing of a young immigrant man – Macron’s presidency is the very definition of a political train wreck.
And when it comes to foreign policy, he is not faring all that well, either. Just in the last few days, a flurry of negative developments have put his leadership in question in the world arena.
To begin with, he has been snubbed from the upcoming BRICS meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, later in August. No less than 34 countries have already confirmed their participation, along with the UN Secretary General and representatives of other organizations.
But not Macron, even though he let the world know he was fishing for an
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/macron-depression-globalist-leader-survives-many-crises-while/
JUST IN: President Trump Responds to Jack Smith’s Request For ‘Protective Order’ (Gag Order)
By Cristina Laila Aug. 7, 2023 6:12 pm0 Comments
President Trump’s attorneys responded to far-left DC Judge Tanya Chutkan’s expedited schedule to respond to Jack Smith’s request for a protective order – also known as a thinly veiled gag order.
“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Friday following Jack Smith’s latest federal indictment.
In response to President Trump’s post on Truth Social, dirty Jack Smith asked the far-left Obama overseeing the DOJ’s latest case against Trump to prevent the president from sharing information on the case with the public.
On Saturday Judge Tanya Chutkan, a biased left-wing tyrant in a robe who previously worked with Hunter Biden, gave President Trump until Monday at 5 PM to respond to a motion for protective order filed by dirty Jack Smith.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/just-president-trump-responds-jack-smiths-request-protective/