The Corps' New Plan Aims to Treat Marines 'Like Human Beings Instead of Inventory'

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/03/corps-new-plan-aims-treat-marines-human-beings-instead-of-inventory.html

Gen. David Berger, the Corps' top leader, said that the manpower system the branch has used for the last 35 years isn't working anymore.

"It was built on a set of conditions that were existing in the '80s and '70s. They don't exist today," he told reporters Tuesday.

The report announcing the new plan noted that the service currently holds onto a meager 25% of Marines after their first tour. A staggering 75%, or about 36,000 Marines per year, do not reenlist, and the service must recruit replacements.

Judge in Mexico orders ex-head of state oil company jailed

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/judge-mexico-orders-head-state-oil-company-jailed-80960015

The former head of Mexico's state-run oil company has finally been ordered to jail, a year after he was extradited from Spain but offered to turn state's evidence against other former officials

Lozoya offered testimony about bribery and corruption involving opposition legislators and former administration officials, and also acknowledged that he himself received bribes.

But a judge ruled Wednesday that Lozoya’s accusations have not done enough to help prosecutors, and that he represents a flight risk, and so should be held in jail while his legal process continues. He faces charges of corruption and money laundering, among others.

Lozoya had previously stayed out of jail because he was considered a cooperating witness. Lozoya's lawyers have also asked for seemingly endless extensions of his legal case.

The case has proved an embarrassment to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has made rooting out corruption the main theme of his presidency. Prosecutors have not yet managed to jail any of the top figures implicated in a big corruption case at the state-run oil company that almost bankrupted the firm.

In October, Lozoya was photographed dining out carefree at a luxury restaurant in Mexico City, drawing criticism.

“I believe it is legal, but is immoral that these things happen. It is imprudent, at the very least,” López Obrador said in October. “That is why there is so much indignation at him eating at a luxury restaurant. Even though he can legally do so, he is a witness to acts of corruption that damaged Mexico a lot.”

Lozoya fled to Spain, was arrested there and extradited back to Mexico in 2020.

Covid has caused 28m years of life to be lost, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/03/covid-has-caused-28m-years-of-life-to-be-lost-study-finds

Covid has caused the loss of 28m years of life, according to the largest-ever survey to assess the scale of the impact of the pandemic.

The enormous toll was revealed in research, led by the University of Oxford, which calculated the years of life lost (YLL) in 37 countries. The study measured the number of deaths and the age at which they occurred, making it the most detailed assessment yet of the impact of Covid-19.

Researchers said understanding the full impact of Covid, the worst public health crisis in a century, required not only the counting of excess deaths, but also analysing how premature those deaths were. Using the YLL measure, an international team of researchers, led by Oxford’s Islam, estimated the changes in life expectancy and excess years of life lost from all causes in 2020.