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There is no getting around the manpower shortage, Admiral Rob Bauer has said.

Kiev needs to mobilize more people to make up for battlefield losses, Admiral Rob Bauer, the chair of the NATO Military Committee, said on Thursday. 

Bauer, who headed the Dutch armed forces between 2017 and 2021, made the comments at the opening session of the Kiev Security Forum, organized annually by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk.

“You don’t only need new grenades and tanks and armored vehicles, you also need, unfortunately, new soldiers, because soldiers die and soldiers get wounded. And then you talk about mobilization, then you talk about conscription,” Bauer told the audience. 

While the West can provide money and ammunition, the Ukrainians have to provide the manpower, because their country is at stake, he added.

The government in Kiev has officially admitted to only 31,000 troops killed in action over the past two years, though unofficial estimates are at least an order of magnitude higher. According to Western media reports, Kiev’s frontline units were operating at one-third strength as of early last month.

There was talk in Kiev in December about the need for 500,000 new conscripts to replenish frontline brigades and form new ones. However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky later said there was no need to mobilize quite so many. The Ukrainian parliament has yet to vote on amendments to the mobilization law, which have sparked intense debate. 

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Ukraine has expended much of its weapons and ammunition as well, becoming almost entirely reliant on the US and its allies for logistics. Speaking on Thursday, Bauer admitted that the NATO response to the Ukraine conflict has been lacking in terms of production of weapons and ammunition. He advocated the same kind of approach as was employed during the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine production, arguing that all of society would need to make sacrifices.

“Pessimists don’t win wars,” Bauer said. “And if you look at the facts: there is every reason to be confident in Ukraine’s ability to achieve success.”

Just a short while later, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of Tonenkoye, a village in Donbass to which the Ukrainian forces routed from Avdeevka in February had attempted to fall back. Failed counterattacks have cost Kiev’s forces up to 400 men a day, as well as Western-supplied armor, such as American-made Abrams tanks, the Russian military said.

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Biden previously supported increasing the retirement age from 65 to 67 after bipartisan negotiations in 1983.

While at this point pretending that one can somehow stop or deflect the civilization-ending meteor that is the US debt load, rising by $30 billion every day on its way to a terminal reserve currency crisis, is at best rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic, Wednesday the largest caucus of House Republicans called for an increase in the Social Security retirement age up a clash with President Joe Biden over spending on popular entitlement programs.

According to Bloomberg, the Republican Study Committee, which comprises about 80% of House Republicans, called for the Social Security eligibility age to be tied to life expectancy in its fiscal 2025 budget proposal. As a reminder, the social security pension system was created in 1935 when the average life expectancy was 61 for white males and 65 for white females, about 20 years below where it is today. The proposal also suggests reducing benefits for top earners who aren’t near retirement, including a phase-out of auxiliary benefits for the highest earners.

The proposal sets the stage for an election-year fight with Biden, who accused Republicans of going after popular socialist entitlement programs during his State of the Union address.

“If anyone here tries to cut Social Security, Medicare, or raise the retirement age, I will stop you,” Biden said in his March 7 address to Congress. Spoiler alert: he won’t.

Amusingly, the Republican document notes that Biden previously supported increasing the retirement age from 65 to 67 after bipartisan negotiations in 1983.

Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), the caucus’s chairman, said the president’s opposition to Social Security policy changes would lead to automatic benefit cuts when the program’s trust fund is set for insolvency in 2033. A phased-in retirement age change was a standard feature of past negotiations, he said.

“Anytime there’s been any reforms in history – President Clinton, President Reagan – had a slow migration of age changes for people that are 18, 19 years old,” Hern told reporters Wednesday.

The caucus’s budget proposal is more aggressive than the recent proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), who advanced a budget resolution earlier this month that called for a bipartisan commission to negotiate Social Security and Medicare solvency but didn’t make specific policy recommendations. The Republican Study Committee, meanwhile, called for policy changes that would reduce spending on Social Security by $1.5 trillion and Medicare by $1.2 trillion over the next decade.

Republicans have said their proposals aren’t truly cuts and wouldn’t affect those at or near retirement. But Biden and congressional Democrats such as Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), ranking member of the Budget Committee, have said they won’t support an increase in the age of eligibility, which currently sits at 67 (and can start as early as 62 with penalties).

The caucus’s proposal leaves some details out. It calls “modest changes to the primary insurance amount” for those who aren’t near retirement and “earn more than the wealthiest” benefit level. It also proposes “modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy.” And it would “limit and phase out auxiliary benefits for high income earners.”

The proposal projects to balance the federal budget by 2031, outlining $16.6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade, hardly the stuff a society addicted to fringe welfare benefits will be delighted to hear.

The proposal calls for Medicare spending reductions by implementing a “premium support model” in which private Medicare Advantage plans would compete with the federal Medicare plan. It proposes moving graduate medical education payments, which go to teaching hospitals for their residency programs, into a trust fund separate from Medicare.

As reported previously, Biden’s fiscal 2025 budget proposal, released March 11, called for an increase in the tax rate to support Medicare on those earning more than $400,000 a year, from 3.8% to 5%. It also broadly called for top earners to pay more to support Social Security, but didn’t make specific proposals. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young told reporters the Biden administration doesn’t like the current structure of the payroll tax — which only applies to the first $168,600 of an individual’s income.

One of the trust funds that supports Social Security is projected for insolvency in 2033, the program’s board of trustees said their most recent estimate in March 2023.

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Corporate media has largely ignored this sprawling tent city of illegals.

Democrats in New York City and their allies in leftist corporate media are keeping a massive migrant shelter hidden from the public, located at a previously operational airfield in southern Brooklyn. This comes as the metro area has been flooded with upwards of 175,000 illegals in just a few short years. 

According to a recent AFP News report, large white tents full of Central and South Americans, Africans, Chinese, and Russians are packed like cattle on one of the runways at Floyd Bennett Field. It’s hard to say how many migrants are in the tent city, but some figures put it at nearly 2,000. 

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Corporate media has largely ignored this sprawling tent city of illegals. Only a handful of articles have been published about it over the last three months.

Forget legacy media outlets whose journalists are bought and sold by mega-corporations and heavily influenced by Washisngton’s censorship-industrial complex because citizen journalists have revealed new footage of the migrant tent city. 

X user Henry Facey’s drone video of the tent city has been reposted by many on the free speech platform and has since gone viral. 

A separate investigation by Facey shows another tent city in the metro area. 

Elon Musk posted a quick two-minute video detailing the end goals of the migrant invasion facilitated by the White House, non-governmental organizations, and mega-corporations. 

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Population decline primarily attributed to falling birth rates.

For the first time since the bubonic plague pandemic of the mid-1300s, the world’s population is set to fall. Reports attribute the global population drop to a decline in women having children.

Alex Jones analyzes this significant trend, emphasizing its potential long-term consequences for humanity.

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Max’s ‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV’ has exposed the systemic predatory and abusive behavior that the child actors at Nickelodeon were forced to face, repeatedly.

For most of its history, Nickelodeon has been known as the fun, quirky kids channel full of sitcoms, cartoons and sketch shows.

Thanks to an ongoing docu-series taking the world by storm, that’s changed forever. From now on, the channel will be known for rampant child abuse.

Not only were men behind the scenes committing numerous horrific acts of abuse, but now, a recently released episode of the series maintains the Nickelodeon staff accused a concerned parent of being “homophobic” when he began noticing some inappropriate behavior on set.

The series — Max’s “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” — has exposed the systemic predatory and abusive behavior that the child actors at Nickelodeon were forced to face, repeatedly.

The main perpetrator purported to be behind much of the abusive behavior is Dan Schneider, the creator and producer of “The Amanda Show,” “iCarly,” “Drake & Josh” and “Zoey 101,” according to Forbes.

But for the worst of crimes revealed by the series, Schneider was not the primary perpetrator.

Instead, it was Brian Peck, a former actor and dialogue coach who worked on many of the channel’s top shows.

In 2004, Peck pleaded no contest to charges related to the sexual abuse of a child, per Forbes.

Thanks to “No Quiet on Set,” the world now knows who that child was — Drake Bell, the star of the wildly popular “Drake & Josh” show.

Bell’s father, Joe Bell, used to accompany and watch Drake every single day.

After noticing Peck was a little too touchy with his son, Joe notified the Nickelodeon staff, but was quickly dismissed.

“I went to production and said, ‘I really am very uncomfortable with this guy Brian Peck always being around my son,’” Joe Bell said in the docu-series’s third episode. “I go ‘I don’t see anything abnormal, but it just doesn’t… I don’t have a good feeling.’

“And she goes, ‘Oh, well, I don’t know if you knew it or not, but he’s gay. Maybe you’re just homophobic and you just… don’t understand that he’s a touchy-feely guy.’

“I was ostracized.”

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