AF Suspends Bonuses and Personnel Moves Due to 'Funding Shortfall'; CA Dems Block Bill That Would Make Human Trafficking of a Minor a Serious Felony...more

Air Force Suspends Bonuses and Personnel Moves Due to 'Funding Shortfall'   The U.S. Air Force has suspended bonuses and promotions until the end of the fiscal year due to “higher-than-expected costs,” according to a statement from the service Monday. The suspensions could affect tens of thousands of service members, according to an Air Force official.

At the same time. the Congressional Research Service published data showing that nearly 40% of U.S. Navy attack submarines are out of commission, putting the U.S. in a perilous position vis-à-vis China. China has a numerically superior naval force, and the U.S. relies on its attack subs to make up the difference. The Naval Sea Systems Command said that “planning, material availability, and shipyard execution,” were at fault.

The FY 2024 defense budget is $842 billion, an increase of $26 billion over FY 2023 outlays and $100 billion more than FY 2022.

The U.S. Navy’s Personnel Crisis Is Only Getting Worse...What happens when the U.S. no longer possesses the manpower necessary to maintain its status as a global hegemon?

In April, The Military Times reported that the Navy is expected to miss its recruiting targets for fiscal year 2023 by roughly 6,000 sailors. The news came months after it was revealed the branch failed to meet its targets for new officers and reservists for fiscal year 2022, despite meeting its active-duty enlisted recruitment goal.

To combat its ongoing personnel crisis, the Navy also increased its maximum enlistment age from 39 to 41 in November “in an effort to allow more civilians to join its ranks.” Nearly a month later, it lowered its entrance test standards. And just last month, the branch announced further plans to extend the work week for its recruiters from five days to six to address existing shortfalls but backed away from the policy after facing backlash from sailors.

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CA Dems Block Bill That Would Make Human Trafficking of a Minor a Serious Felony

Democrats on the California Assembly’s Public Safety committee have made some terrible votes this session, which is saying a lot given the number of bad bills the supermajority has passed. This year, while the state is in the midst of a surge in violent crime and fentanyl deaths they’ve blocked bills which would classify domestic violence as a violent crime and increase penalties for fentanyl dealers, seemingly because Republicans either sponsored them or heavily supported them.

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‘Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye’: Archaeologist Claims He Has Found The Biblical City Of Sodom 

Trinity Southwest University’s Dean of Archaeology Steven Collins told host of the Rosenberg Report, Joel C. Rosenberg, that he and his team believe the Tell el-Hammam site in Jordan appears to have many of the markers of Sodom. The site is reportedly scattered with Bronze-age remains that appear to have been melted in a “flash heat” situation, matching the Biblical account of how Sodom burned to the ground.

“As soon as we get a few centimeters into that [Bronze Age] matrix, this piece of pottery, the shoulder of a storage jar, is facing up at us. And it looks like it’s glazed,” Collins told Rosenberg. Another member of Collins’ team remarked that the scars looked similar to those witnessed at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico where the first atomic bomb was detonated.

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Gavin Newsom: the President nobody needs... Delusional Democrats should spend a week in California   Yet Newsom’s sparkling ascendency might dim somewhat if the media bothered to consider what is actually happening in his fiefdom. Flicking through the mainstream press, one could be forgiven for realising that Newsom has presided over California’s fall from economic pre-eminence: the Golden State is now home to record homelessness, sub-par GDP growth, the nation’s highest poverty rate, a tech downturn fuelled by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and a consistently underperforming public education system. These factors have fuelled a powerful out-migration trend — up 135% in just two years. Recent polls find upwards of 40% of residents are considering leaving, while the rising tide of wealthy emigrees has already taken away $20 billion in adjusted income since 2018.

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Biden’s TOP Paid Staffer is Christ-Desecrating, Occultist ‘Monkeypox Co-ordinator’.

Daskalakis and his partner Michael MacNeal launched a “goth” gym together in New York, based in a former gay nightclub that in turn had taken over an old church in Manhattan: Monster Cycle. The duo often post Satanic imagery, as well as Christ-desecrating content. Daskalakis recently appeared for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as part of their “Out and Proud” event. 

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Pfizer warns of shortage of antibiotic used to fight syphilis

Reasons for scarcity of the long-acting injectable antibiotic include increasing demand because of the rising number of syphilis infections. The medication can also be used in place of amoxicillin to treat infections like strep throat and amoxicillin has also been scarce recently, the New York Times reported.

Among the concerns is congenital syphilis, which has a high fatality rate and can also lead to severe birth defects, the Times reported. Bicillin is the only recommended treatment for infected pregnant women.

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Jim Caviezel: I Lost Two Agents Over 'Sound of Freedom'

Not only has he endured withering, personal attacks from select journalists and film critics, Caviezel’s professional life took a turn for the worse.

The star of the summer’s indie smash “Sound of Freedom” is no stranger to bucking Hollywood wisdom. He’s an openly Christian actor in an industry that gets “freaked out” by people of faith. He starred in one of the most successful, and controversial films of the modern era with 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ.”

And he suspected that starring in a movie about child sex trafficking might come at a professional cost in Hollywood.  And, by his account, he was right.