Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Open Comment Post. 26 Oct 2021

 

Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicle (EMAV)

 

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Justice Rees, an operations chief with 1st Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, operates an Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicle (EMAV) at Bogue Airfield, N.C., Oct. 23, 2021. The purpose of this training is to provide electronic warfare services utilizing the EMAV to support a unit commander as part of Strip Map, a specialized evaluation used to determine the efficacy of experimental ground formations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Virtue)

Sunday, October 24, 2021

British Army's latest scandal. British Soldier kills sex worker in Kenya.

 

The ‘Great Resignation’ goes global (Interesting economic article)

 via Washington Post

“This [pandemic] has been going on for so long, it’s affecting people mentally, physically,” Danny Nelms, president of the Work Institute, a consulting firm, told the Wall Street Journal. “All those things are continuing to make people be reflective of their life and career and their jobs. Add to that over 10 million openings, and if I want to go do something different, it’s not terribly hard to do.”

The “Great Resignation” in the United States was preceded by a far greater — decades-long, arguably — stagnation in worker wages and benefits. In lower-end jobs, earnings have not matched the pace of inflation, while work grew more informal and precarious. Workers’ rights activists now see a vital moment for a course correction. October has been a banner month for American organized labor, with major strikes across various industries sweeping the country.

“Workers are harder to replace and many companies are scrambling to manage hobbled supply chains and meet pandemic-fueled demand for their products. That has given unions new leverage, and made striking less risky,” my colleagues reported.

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Bottom line: Now is a great time to switch jobs.

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UN fears 'mass atrocity crimes' in Myanmar as troops gather in north

 via SBS News

The UN said on Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since a February coup.

"We should all be prepared, as the people in this part of Myanmar are prepared, for even more mass atrocity crimes. I desperately hope that I am wrong," said UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Tom Andrews.

More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in the country's bloody crackdown on dissent and more than 8,000 arrested since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.

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NATO eFP Battlegroup Lithuania begins Exercise Iron Wolf

VBTP-MR Guarani 6×6 IFV/APC of Brazil's Southern Military Command