"The EU is not a credible substitute for what NATO represents. You will not see any appetite for the European army amongst member states." — Kristjan Mäe, head of the Estonian defense ministry's NATO and EU department.

"Even if national capitals wanted to lunge for a common army, there are so many technical, legal, and administrative differences between their militaries that it would take decades to produce a smoothly functioning force.... Conclusion: any talk of creating a fully-fledged common army, even within the next generation, is just that: jaw-jaw and not real-real." — Brooks Tigner, analyst, Atlantic Council.

“Yes, you read that right. Turns out 97.1% of deaths hitherto attributed to Covid were not due directly to Covid,” writes Toby Young. Of the of the 130,468 deaths registered as official COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic, only 3,783 are directly attributable to the virus alone.

The Institute’s new definition of a COVID death means that COVID has killed fewer people in Italy than (whisper it) the average bout of seasonal flu. If a similar change were made by other national governments, the official COVID death toll would be cut by a margin of greater than 90 per cent. Now we come to understand that the official killed ‘by COVID’ and not ‘with COVID’ figure is less than one tenth what is officially reported as the total COVID death toll.

O’Malley, who was employed with Goodwill for more than ten years, says that Goodwill of SWPA began holding “implicit bias training” for store managers in early 2021, which included a required “three to four hour” session led by a “racial equity trainer” in February. “They started pushing us to recruit employees to be part of it,” he said. Implicit bias training is a common component of critical race theory and has been proven to be scientifically inaccurate to the point that some of the researchers who developed implicit bias tests have now repudiated them as wildly inaccurate and unreliable.

Following the committee’s pivot to discussions about “DEI language” and plans on how to “achieve equity,” O’Malley says he began asking questions regarding disciplinary outcomes. “I said, so what you’re basically telling me is a white person and a black person can do the same thing, but a black person might be able to stay and a white person would get fired,” he said, while also claiming that Regional Director of Goodwill SWPA and North Central West Virginia Jessica McConnell told him, “That’s the point.”

Senior managers who fail to meet targets for BAME and women recruits will have their annual bonuses slashed. Yesterday, the American-owned firm was trying to backpedal, saying it would still hire white males but only after they had been interviewed by a 'diverse' panel including at least one woman and one 'person of colour'.

But be honest, chaps. Would you feel comfortable applying for a job when you know the chips have been stacked against you in advance? Why bother? Is it coz I is white? And how many execs with one eye on their trebles-all-round bonuses will be bold enough to hire a white man ahead of a woman or black applicant?

Some of us saw this coming. In 1995, the introduction to my first book, You Couldn't Make It Up, read: 'I was born in 1954, white, male and in Essex. In 20 years' time, any baby answering that description will be found hidden in the bullrushes.' As usual, I exaggerated for comic effect. But my attempt at satire anticipated the modern trend towards blaming straight white men for all the evils of the world.

As I've said before, when Daniel Levy, the chairman of Spurs, stands down voluntarily in favour of a black lesbian from Tottenham's Broadwater Farm council estate, I might actually accept that the club's 'taking the knee', BLM, rainbow laces posturing is sincere. Similarly, when Ronald P O'Hanley, the white, Harvard Business School-educated chairman of State Street has his bonus slashed and is replaced by a black woman from across 110th Street in Harlem, I will take his 'inclusion, diversity and corporate responsibility' doctrine seriously.

Until then, sadly, in most boardrooms everywhere, women and ethnic minorities need not apply.

Unable to get a straight answer, she began an investigation and opened a hornet’s nest, as she explained to RT in early October. Now, she is being sued by America’s largest teachers’ union and was a key factor in the NSBA issuing a public letter to Joe Biden claiming that parents like her campaigning against CRT “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism,” and also asking for assistance from the “US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Department of Homeland Security, US Secret Service” to reduce the risk of violence.

Solas vented her fury to media organisations about the shame of being portrayed as a domestic terrorist – but although the NSBA issued an apology, it was not to Solas and fellow parents. She explained, “The NSBA apologised to its board members for not getting their vote to send out this letter that branded parents domestic terrorists.”

Adding more fuel to the fire, it transpired there was contact between the Biden administration and the NSBA before the latter’s initial letter was published. Explained Solas: “There were emails that were uncovered showing NSBA and the White House were talking about sending this letter, so it was not an earnest letter. The NSBA is not trustworthy, pretending they didn’t speak to the Biden administration before. How can we trust an apology from someone who was dishonest from the beginning?”

As part of the inventive English lesson, which probably spoiled more than one trip to the cafeteria, high school students at Richmond Hill were tasked with finding ways of ‘raising and eating of babies to solve the world hunger problem’. Yum. Rhonda Thomas, founder and president of Truth in Education, broke down the details of the class assignment in a shocking interview with The New American. The information from the lesson plan that she divulged is nothing short of – as Thomas herself described it – “satanic.”

“Since the child has passed we don’t need to take up any more land for cemeteries so we slap [the babies] on the grill and cook their flesh and make delicious hamburgers… For mass production, we would encourage the US government to create a business negotiation with China about trying to reduce their population by donating children to our government,” the instruction stated. “We also take children from all organizations, including foster care.”

This ribald lesson in ‘satire’ does not end there. It goes on to discuss the creation of a ‘Dahmer Mini Camp,’ where the motto is ‘you are what you eat.’ For the uninitiated, ‘Dahmer’ is an allusion to Jeffrey Dahmer, the late American serial killer who not only preyed on black men, but had an appetite for them as well. Once your belly laughing has subsided, take a guess as to the demographic that would be targeted for the baby burgers? Give yourself an ‘A’ if you said, “Low income, poverty areas and countries,” the very communities, incidentally, that Planned Parenthood has been accused of catering to in the past.

“It’s a subset of a larger issue, that this is a generation where three out of four are searching for this meaning this is a group that doesn’t have a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Therefore, the LGBTQ identity gives them comfort. A lot of this generation claim to be moving in that direction, but there’s a big difference between claiming the identity and living the lifestyle.”

The rapid pace at which young people are buying into the Left’s radical ideology begins to border on crisis territory once you take some of the study’s other key findings into account. Researchers also showed an unsettling rise in mental health issues and a thorough lack of understanding when it comes to important religious and spiritual questions.

What’s inexcusable is that Millennials are considered to be the “most certified educated” generation in American history, with more having attended college than ever before, and more who have completed a four-year degree. Somehow they are also increasingly the most confused, depressed, and rudderless generation of Americans. Perhaps that has something to do with their mass adoption of the liberal religion that is secular wokeism. Instead of acknowledging absolute moral truths and scientific facts that contradict their happiness, they adopt their own version of reality.

Edinburgh University medical student and climate activist Mikaela Loach said that the UK government’s decision to go forward with oil exploration projects was “worse than hypocrisy”, saying that “it is violence”. “These are last resort times,” she said demanding “audacious” action to confront the government. “We must demand an end to capitalism. We must demand an end to white supremacy. We must demand black liberation. We must abolish prisons and the police,” she proclaimed.

“Our demands should not be toned down or palatable. They should worry, disrupt, and challenge the status quo,” Loach said. Prior to the demonstration, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg declared that “climate justice also means social justice and that we leave no one behind. So we’re inviting everyone, especially the workers striking in Glasgow, to join us.”

The end result of the negligence of which Kerry has spoken would be “failure,” the article adds, taking this in turn from the 18-year-old Swedish climate scold Greta Thunberg. Or, as Thunberg recently declared, the whole conference would be “blah, blah, blah.”

Despite apocalyptic forecasts from alarmists, climate-related disasters and deaths have actually been decreasing steadily over the last hundred years, climate expert Bjorn Lomborg writes, and 2021 is projected to see the fewest climate-related deaths in recorded history. Yearly weather-related damage is also decreasing as a percentage of global GDP, Lomborg notes. And that’s not “blah, blah, blah.”

The overarching premise of the book is that the kind of citizenship Americans have enjoyed for the past century is slowly being eroded from within. The villains of the piece are a conglomerate of nefarious forces, which are often intertwined. They include the “unelected,” the “globalists,” and what Hanson calls “evolutionaries.”

Hanson believes the American system is the nearest the world has to an ideal model, and therefore must be protected. Indeed, at the outset, he notes that today only “little more than half of the world’s seven billion people are citizens of fully constitutional governments enjoying constitutionally protected freedom.”

“In this elite worldview, there is no need for old-fashioned belief systems and religions,” he continued. “In fact, as they see it, religion, especially Christianity, only gets in the way of the society they hope to build.” In his critique of “cancel culture” and “political correctness,” Gomez said that “often what is being canceled and corrected are perspectives rooted in Christian beliefs — about human life and the human person, about marriage, the family, and more.”

In modern society, “The ‘space’ that the Church and believing Christians are permitted to occupy is shrinking,” he lamented. “Church institutions and Christian-owned businesses are increasingly challenged and harassed. The same is true for Christians working in education, health care, government, and other sectors,” he added. “Holding certain Christian beliefs is said to be a threat to the freedoms, and even to the safety, of other groups in our societies.”