Thanks To Leftist Corruption, U.S. Military Recruiting Is In Total Freefall

“Here I am as a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force,” then Lt. Gen Anthony Cotton whined to Air Force Magazine. “When I see what happened to Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks—and the list goes on and on.”

“That could be me,” he claimed.

Since Cotton was, unlike Breonna Taylor, probably not harboring an armed drug dealer who opened fire on police or, unlike George Floyd, overdosing on fentanyl during a struggle with police as the climax to a long criminal career, that was a disingenuous smear from a top officer.

The spectacle of successful black men like Obama, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, or Gen. Anthony Cotton falsely claiming that America is so racist that any of them could suffer the fate of career criminals simply because of an accident of skin color is pathetic and disgusting. The Merck CEO or the Air Force general are as likely to suffer the fate of George Floyd as their white counterparts are to end up like a dead white meth addict shot in a raid in Georgia.

But Cotton knew what he was doing. What he was doing was dishonorable and self-serving.

And it worked.

Two years after complaining about police lights flashing in his rearview mirror and someone challenging his parking spot, Cotton has been nominated by Biden to head U.S. Strategic Command.

Beware: 100% green energy could destroy the planet

The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favor).

Right now, the United States gets 70% of its energy from fossil fuels. To go to zero over the next 20 years would be economically catastrophic and cost tens of millions of jobs. With gas prices at nearly double their price back from when Trump left office and inflation up from 1.5% to 8% in just 15 months, we are already experiencing the economic damage from the green energy crusaders.

But we also have to ask whether green energy is even good for the environment. Some environmentalists are pointing to a little-noticed study by the World Bank showing that moving toward 100% solar, wind, and electric battery energy would be “just as destructive to the planet as fossil fuels.” This was precisely the conclusion of a story in Foreign Policy magazine, hardly a right-wing publication.

According to the Foreign Policy analysis, moving to a “carbon-free” energy future “requires massive amounts of energy, not to mention the extraction of minerals and metals at great environmental and social costs.”

Here are some of the numbers. Going all-in on batteries, solar, and wind would require

• Thirty-four million metric tons of copper,
• Forty million tons of lead,
• Fifty million tons of zinc,
• One hundred and sixty-two million tons of aluminum,
• Four-point-eight billion tons of iron.
• Those tens of millions of windmills, solar panels, and electric batteries for cars and trucks aren’t exactly biodegradable. So, we will have the most prominent energy graveyard with toxic pollutants that will be 100 times larger than any nuclear waste storage. And yet, the Left is worried about plastic straws!
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If you missed part one of this interview, you can find it here. 

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What are the two most important things you can do to protect yourself and your family in the event of an imminent nuclear attack? Wear your mask and practice social distancing, says the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Following reports this week that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had put his nuclear deterrent forces on high alert, FEMA updated its ready.gov website to include some additional COVID-19 guidance.

“If you are told by authorities to evacuate to a public shelter, try to bring items that can help protect yourself and your family from COVID-19, such as hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol, cleaning materials, and two masks per person,” FEMA said.

“When you have reached a safe place, try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household,” the agency continued. “If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household.”

FEMA also noted that some shelter locations might not be available to the public anymore because of the pandemic, which is encouraging.

Once the bombs hit, people should plan to stay inside for at least 24 hours, FEMA added, and wear their masks for the duration of this period. If someone is injured during the attack, people should contact medical emergency personnel (granted that they, too, were fortunate enough to survive a nuclear explosion), but only after making sure no one in their immediate group has COVID-19.

FEMA ended its apocalyptic guide with a helpful reminder: “Talk to someone if you are feeling upset. Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about COVID-19. The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress.”

Suffice to say, I doubt the federal government is going to be much help in the off-chance that Putin does decide to attack. Our bungling bureaucrats can’t even get their priorities straight.

Nolte: You Can Thank Environmentalists for the Invasion of Ukraine

It is the West’s wacko environmentalists who handed Russian President Vladimir Putin the leverage and money to invade Crimea in 2014 and Ukraine this week.

Without these wackos, Putin would be just another gangster in charge of a crumbling country, and maybe one on the verge of a revolution to depose him.

But the facts are the facts are the facts, and the facts are these… Thanks to the West’s environmentalists, those smug greenies who are more concerned with carbon output than world peace, this gangster controls much of the energy going to the European Union (E.U.). Per Statista, here are the countries most dependent on Russia for natural gas. The percentages tell us just how dependent:

• North Macedonia (100 percent)
• Finland (94 percent)
• Bulgaria (74 percent)
• Slovakia (70 percent)
• Germany (49 percent)
• Italy (46 percent)
• Poland (40 percent)
• France (24 percent).

It gets worse.

As of 2019, a full 27 percent of the European Union’s crude oil, 41 percent of its natural gas, and 47 percent of its solid fuel (mostly coal) come from Russia.

Why?

Well, it’s very simple. Russia is not stupid. Putin is not stupid. He drills and digs and fracks while Western countries pat themselves on the back for closing coal mines, refusing oil leases, and shuttering nuclear power plants. And in doing so, even at the expense of giving the gangster Putin leverage over them, these Western countries pat themselves on the back for decreasing their carbon footprints and going green…

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP)

Meanwhile, Putin is given control over the very thing that allows Western Civilization to remain Western Civilization: energy.

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