The US military is posting the lowest recruitment numbers in decades, with the army doing worse than all the other service branches. An op-ed on Monday carefully blamed an “antiquated” recruitment system and the recent “woke” ads as the main culprits, proposing an overhaul of both. Earlier this month, the …
Read More »UK’s Queen Elizabeth has ‘mobility problems’
Queen Elizabeth will not attend the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday for the first time in almost 60 years, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday. The queen, 96, has some “mobility issues,” it added. Prince Charles, accompanied by his eldest son, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, will replace her at …
Read More »US & UK pushing Russia invasion hysteria to ‘distract’ from domestic problems –Moscow
The American & British governments have spread reports of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine in order to declare victory in a “heroic fight,” after the humiliation of Afghanistan, and deflect attention from their domestic problems, Moscow has claimed. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova posted the accusation on her Telegram channel …
Read More »Russia comments on Ukraine’s energy problems
Ukraine’s energy security is not threatened by Russia, despite Kiev’s insistence, but by the complete failure of its own system and the paralysis of the current authorities, the Russian Foreign Ministry has claimed. Writing on Telegram, on Wednesday, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that Kiev was shooting itself in the foot …
Read More »Parrots’ drinking problems lead to flying accidents
December is the end of the mango season in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, so there’s a lot of fallen fruit on the ground. Being especially rich in sugar, mangoes produce high amounts of alcohol while rotting under the sun. This abundance of free booze has become a real threat to …
Read More »Hungary staying in the EU will cause more problems than leaving
Orban has made it clear that his country does not want to leave the European Union – although he has also signalled his intent to fight for significant changes within the bloc. In a speech given in Budapest to his Fidesz party supporters, Orban said that “We don’t want to …
Read More »Covid hit the working class hardest, but the traditional Left is deaf to their problems. Enter the populist Left
In the aftermath of the recent German Federal election many people were wondering how Die Linke (The Left) had become so relegated to the sidelines as to lose 30 seats and become the smallest party in Germany’s parliament. Many liberal publications were quick to place blame on Sahra Wagenknecht, one of …
Read More »Google doesn’t like being shown inconvenient problems, ex-ethical AI co-lead ‘fired’ by the tech giant over her research tells RT
Dr. Gebru was the first black female research scientist at Google, and her controversial parting with the tech giant made headlines last year. It followed her refusal to fulfill the company’s demand to retract a paper on ethical problems arising from the large language models (LLMs) that are used by …
Read More »Yes, Brexit has caused problems for crisis-hit Britain, but the harm caused by lockdown has been even greater
Poor old ‘Uncle’ Jim Callaghan was castigated – and paid a heavy political price – for Britain’s relatively short ‘Winter of Discontent’ in 1979, yet Boris Johnson’s premiership has been calamitous almost from the day he was gifted a large parliamentary majority by the voting public in order to ‘Get …
Read More »UK’s post-Brexit labour supply problems could last for ‘two years,’ business leaders warn
The group representing thousands of British businesses issued the warning as the UK government prepares to end the furlough scheme introduced to protect jobs in industries severely hampered by the Covid pandemic and amid supply shortages in the UK due to a lack of lorry drivers. Speaking in a statement …
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