The Navy will grant a clean slate to nearly 50,000 sailors with fitness failures in their records, part of new shakeup for fleet-wide fitness rules announced Thursday.
A new Navy-wide message instructs commands to immediately stop discharging sailors for fitness failures and to cancel any pending discharges for sailors slated to be kicked out after March 31. The change applies to both enlisted and officers.
The message also unveils a new set of rules for the Physical Fitness Assessment, bringing to an end the rules forcing sailors to leave the Navy if they failed two fitness assessment tests in a three-year period.
You can read the rest @
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/12/21/navy-grants-fitness-amnesty-to-48000-sailors-who-failed-test/
Face it - it's difficult to stay fit when you're living on a boat and eating bad food, especially when it's a submarine with cramped space and polluted air.
Maybe they just need to eat more spinach:
https://youtu.be/ny1I3kFM7iI
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Thought For The Day - 12/23/2017
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
- From bondage to spiritual faith;
- from spiritual faith to great courage;
- from courage to liberty;
- from liberty to abundance;
- from abundance to selfishness;
- from selfishness to complacency;
- from complacency to apathy;
- from apathy to dependence;
- from dependency back again into bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler
Friday, December 22, 2017
What Was Facebook Designed To Do ???
Every year, Facebook gets tens of thousands of requests for data from governments worldwide, including search warrants, subpoenas, or calls to restrict certain kinds of content. And, according to a new report, those requests are increasing at an alarming rate.
According to QZ.com, in the United States, the requests rose by 26% from the last six months of 2016 to the first six months of 2017, while globally, requests increased by about 21%. Since 2013, when the company first started providing data on government requests, the US number has been steadily rising - it has roughly tripled in a period of four years.
This is alarming many and causing a concern about privacy. Joe Joseph, from the Daily Sheeple, isn’t sugarcoating the reality of Facebook either. “Duh. This is exactly what Facebook was designed to do,” says Joseph.
“You have to remember that Zuckerberg had “seed money” and that seed money came from CIA front companies that put a lot of resources into this and ... basically think about it as like, sowing seeds; if you will. They knew that Facebook was gonna bear fruit. I don’t think they realized just how big it would become. But I can tell you that they get so much information and intel from social media: I don’t think that it would go away even if we wanted it to.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/facebook-handing-over-more-info-to-us-government-this-is-what-facebook-was-designed-to-do_12202017
And it's my understanding that Facebook continues to track you even if you cancel your account. It is a monster which cannot be destroyed.
According to QZ.com, in the United States, the requests rose by 26% from the last six months of 2016 to the first six months of 2017, while globally, requests increased by about 21%. Since 2013, when the company first started providing data on government requests, the US number has been steadily rising - it has roughly tripled in a period of four years.
This is alarming many and causing a concern about privacy. Joe Joseph, from the Daily Sheeple, isn’t sugarcoating the reality of Facebook either. “Duh. This is exactly what Facebook was designed to do,” says Joseph.
“You have to remember that Zuckerberg had “seed money” and that seed money came from CIA front companies that put a lot of resources into this and ... basically think about it as like, sowing seeds; if you will. They knew that Facebook was gonna bear fruit. I don’t think they realized just how big it would become. But I can tell you that they get so much information and intel from social media: I don’t think that it would go away even if we wanted it to.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/facebook-handing-over-more-info-to-us-government-this-is-what-facebook-was-designed-to-do_12202017
And it's my understanding that Facebook continues to track you even if you cancel your account. It is a monster which cannot be destroyed.
We Are BEYOND Peak Oil
The number of newly discovered oil fields has dropped in the current year to its lowest level in about 80 years, reports oilprice.com. This undershot the provisional low of 2016 once again.
Companies in the oil industry have therefore found crude oil reserves totaling less than 7 billion barrels (159 liters) this year. In 2016, the new discoveries amounted to about 8 billion barrels. At least as few new inventories were found as last in the 1940s. The figures for 2017 are still less than half of the approximately 15 billion barrels that were discovered in 2014 and 2015. In 2012, the total amount of inventories found worldwide was about 30 billion barrels.
You can read the rest @
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2017/12/22/zahl-der-neu-entdeckten-oelfelder-geht-rapide-zurueck/ [translation required]
And the US is doing little or nothing to cope with that fact.
At this rate, we will NEVER be "great again".
Companies in the oil industry have therefore found crude oil reserves totaling less than 7 billion barrels (159 liters) this year. In 2016, the new discoveries amounted to about 8 billion barrels. At least as few new inventories were found as last in the 1940s. The figures for 2017 are still less than half of the approximately 15 billion barrels that were discovered in 2014 and 2015. In 2012, the total amount of inventories found worldwide was about 30 billion barrels.
You can read the rest @
https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2017/12/22/zahl-der-neu-entdeckten-oelfelder-geht-rapide-zurueck/ [translation required]
And the US is doing little or nothing to cope with that fact.
At this rate, we will NEVER be "great again".
Jesus Died For Our Debts
As many people turn towards their Christian and Jewish faiths this Christmas and Hanukkah in an attempt to make sense of the year that was, at least one economist says we have been reading the bible in an anachronistic way.
In fact he has written an entire book on the topic. In ... And Forgive them their Debts: Credit and Redemption (available this spring on Amazon), Professor Michael Hudson makes the argument that far from being about sex, the bible is actually about economics, and debt in particular.
You can read all about it @
https://renegadeinc.com/he-died-for-our-debts-not-our-sins/
Makes sense to me.
And here is the Woody Guthrie version of the story:
https://youtu.be/EDS00Pnhkqk
In fact he has written an entire book on the topic. In ... And Forgive them their Debts: Credit and Redemption (available this spring on Amazon), Professor Michael Hudson makes the argument that far from being about sex, the bible is actually about economics, and debt in particular.
You can read all about it @
https://renegadeinc.com/he-died-for-our-debts-not-our-sins/
Makes sense to me.
And here is the Woody Guthrie version of the story:
https://youtu.be/EDS00Pnhkqk
Conspiracy Or Fact ???
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Here are ten "conspiracy theories" which turned out to be FACTS:
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/12/top-ten-conspiracy-theories-turned-fact-2017.html
Arthur Schopenhauer
Here are ten "conspiracy theories" which turned out to be FACTS:
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/12/top-ten-conspiracy-theories-turned-fact-2017.html
Shilling For War With Iran
Washington’s Pre-War Demonization Formula Is Targeting Iran, Again
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s grandiose performance in front of the UN on December 15 should send shivers down the spines of those who remember Colin Powell’s equally disturbing performance in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is just the beginning of the a new media campaign against Iran with regime change as the end goal.
You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-war-drums-beating-for-iran-again-what-youre-not-being-told/235833/
There is NO WAY this benefits We The People.
We should let the nations in the region sort this out for themselves. And if they wind up nuking each other, what's that to us?
You may consider that an extreme position, but ask yourself WHY the US has done nothing meaningful to eliminate the world's nuclear weapons. Does anyone REALLY think they protect us in any way?
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s grandiose performance in front of the UN on December 15 should send shivers down the spines of those who remember Colin Powell’s equally disturbing performance in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is just the beginning of the a new media campaign against Iran with regime change as the end goal.
You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-war-drums-beating-for-iran-again-what-youre-not-being-told/235833/
There is NO WAY this benefits We The People.
We should let the nations in the region sort this out for themselves. And if they wind up nuking each other, what's that to us?
You may consider that an extreme position, but ask yourself WHY the US has done nothing meaningful to eliminate the world's nuclear weapons. Does anyone REALLY think they protect us in any way?
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