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[tim]

https://www.noticer.news/non-citizen-et ... ed-forces/

Ethnic infighting erupts in Canadian military amid influx of non-citizen recruits

Ethnic infighting has erupted at Canadian military basic training amid a massive recent influx of non-citizen recruits, according to a damning leaked internal report.

The Canadian Armed Forces first allowed permanent residents to join in 2022, and then relaxed vetting rules in October 2024, resulting in dramatic rise in foreign recruits. Aptitude tests have also been removed, and candidates can enrol with a set list of approved medical issues, including mental health problems.

But the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School report obtained by Juno News, titled “Initial Observations – Impact of Changes to Canadian Armed Forces Recruiting Policies at Basic Training Over 2025”, found the changes had a devastating effect on basic officer training at the Quebec centre.

The document, written by school Commandant and Lieutenant Colonel M.R. Kieley in January, stated that a cohort of more than 1,000 permanent residents arriving at the beginning of 2025 was a “challenging demographic to train”, and noted there were also a large number of recently naturalised Canadian citizens.

The influx of non-citizen candidates resulted in a French-language Basic Military Officer Qualification (BMOQ) platoon that was made up of 83% permanent residents, while English-language platoons were typically in the 30% range.

“These initial platoons were also made up of candidates with as little as three months residency in Canada, leading to a significant culture shock as candidates had not yet acclimatised to Canadian society, let alone military culture,” the report stated.

“[The Francophone] platoon was plagued by allegations of racism (from candidates against staff but equally candidates against other candidates) and constant infighting between cultural blocs within the platoon (ie. Cameroonian candidates against those from Cote D’Ivorie).

[tim]

The periphery of the Western world:

https://mises.org/mises-wire/britain-fr ... ississippi

The gap between US and European living standards has been noticeable for some time, and some European countries aren’t even keeping up with the poorest states in the United States. That is, when we look at measures of income, states like West Virginia and Mississippi compare favorably against European countries like France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

This has led to what some observers of international macroeconomics call the “Mississippi Question.” The question goes something like this: “is my country poorer than the poorest state in the United States?” The poorest state is presumably Mississippi, and if your country is worse off than Mississippi, that’s evidence that your country has nothing to brag about in terms of its standard of living.

Whether deserved or not, the Mississippi economy has been deemed by some as a benchmark for what not to be, and the comparison has become more popular over the past decade. About ten years ago, British journalist Fraser Nelson suggested that when we compare foreign GDP per capita between European countries and US states, we find that the United Kingdom is poorer than Mississippi. This idea has never set well with British policymakers, of course, and the matter has been debated for years with pundits and researchers suggesting different measures that help give us insight into whether or not Country X is indeed poorer than Mississippi. The Financial Times in 2023 asked the question, and concluded that the UK is still richer than Mississippi, but barely.

[aedens]

https://redstatenation.com/katie-potato ... e-exposed/
Gap is the only design of fact as these fools allow it and linger in it as they are destroyed.

[tim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-met ... a-republic

Mr. Gold says, “I have talked for years about how the entire world runs on credit. What we started this off with is the United States is officially a banana republic. It’s 100% debt to GDP..."

"When I was in school in the early 1980s, the definition of a banana republic is when it hit 100% debt to GDP.

In this instance, it is the issuer of the world’s reserve currency that is admitting it is officially a banana republic.

Everything runs on credit. The biggest issuer of credit is the United States, and if their credit card gets declined, then what does that do to the real economy?

Nothing will work. There will be nothing on shelves. Stores will be dark.

Should you store food?

The answer is yes because something really bad is right in front of us. It’s a credit collapse.”

[aedens]

The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
Anthropic's pre-IPO valuation surges to a record $1.2 trillion, rising another +20% in 7 days.

Vampire Squid "Semi-Irrational Chase Mode" as Uniparty swamp bleeds us out.

[tim]

https://www.compactmag.com/article/med ... out-merit/

Medicine Without Merit

When I applied to medical school in the midst of the pandemic and in the wake of the death of George Floyd, I had reason to think I was a competitive applicant, particularly for my state’s public medical school, which favors in-state candidates with strong academic records. I didn’t assume I was entitled to admission, but I thought I would get in somewhere. I didn’t.

So I did what failed applicants are told to do: I sought feedback. Eventually, I spoke with an admissions officer at one of the schools that rejected me. He told me that I was extremely qualified and had everything the school looked for in an applicant. He said he couldn’t give me a concrete reason I wasn’t accepted, other than that I didn’t fit the demographic the school was prioritizing, and that other applicants were viewed as having “traveled a longer distance” to medicine. My application, he said, was evaluated through that lens.

That conversation unsettled me in a way I didn’t immediately recognize. I was being told I was qualified, capable, and deserving but simultaneously that those qualities were not enough due to certain immutable characteristics. I had spent years learning about discrimination as something that happened to other people. Nothing in my education had prepared me to think that it could happen to people like me.

Then it did.

Perhaps I should have seen it coming. The requirements for admission into medical school vary markedly depending on who the applicant is. According to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the academic thresholds required for acceptance differ substantially between racial groups. The average MCAT score of a white applicant who is accepted into a medical school is 512.4, approximately the 85th percentile nationally. By contrast, the average MCAT score for accepted American Indian applicants is 502.2 (56th percentile), for accepted black applicants 505.7 (67th percentile), and for accepted Hispanic applicants 506.4 (69th percentile).

The disparities are even more pronounced when we look at the applicant pool as a whole. White applicants overall, including those who are rejected, have an average MCAT score of 507.8, roughly the 73rd percentile. In other words, accepted black, Hispanic, and American Indian medical students matriculate with lower MCAT scores, on average, than white applicants who have not yet been accepted to medical school. The same pattern appears when we turn to undergraduate GPA. White applicants apply with an average GPA of 3.7, but require an average GPA of 3.8 to gain admission, while accepted black, Hispanic, and American Indian applicants matriculate with average GPAs of 3.59, 3.66, and 3.64, respectively.

I ended that phone call with a realization: If I wanted to succeed in medicine, I couldn’t leave room for doubt. So I pursued a NIH research fellowship, received research training, published scientific papers, and obtained letters of recommendation from prominent virologists. When I reapplied, I was accepted to multiple medical schools and received significant scholarship offers to many of them. But once again, my state’s flagship institution rejected me. I don’t claim to know precisely why. But patterns are hard to ignore.

[aedens]

Ad captandum vulgus Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:11 pm
The trend was correct as we recently marked another. The are given over
and confirmation is evident.

[tim]

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/met ... ne-leftism

metastatic limousine leftism

and the path away from authoritarianism

i feel sort of stupid. for ages i’ve been puzzling with something and trying to figure it out: from soros to BO to biden to hil-dog and the WEF, the UN, IPCC, WHO, from groovy gavin to horrible hochul, these people seem like wreckers. they are bent on undermining and destroying systems that work from the electorate to elections to the economy, property rights, taxes, energy, public health, public services, the social contract, and the public purse.

you can see the flight from their cities and states, the damage done, and the virtue claimed for it. they stand proudly in front of 17 time felons who just killed again and tell you it’s simply unjust to keep them in prison. they swear no illegal gets welfare and medicaid, then pay to teach border jumpers to steal it. it’s so obviously, ostentatiously, dystopia wept wrong. and these people are not stupid. they must understand, must be able to think in second and third order systems. so what gives?

and i finally think i get it and it’s so fricking simple and so large and nose on your face obvious that i’ve been staring right at it and not quite seeing it:

they are deliberately wrecking things. the wreckage is not a bug, it’s the feature. they want to destroy the high function systems of the west because they want to rule the west in authoritarian fashion. that’s the only goal. and successful systems cannot be so ruled. they resist. they do not want or need such rulers. things are good. people want good things to continue. they are optimistic and replete.

so you need to create a problem for which the only answer is dictatorship and then get people to give such power to you out of desperation.

you need them poor, hungry, hurting, angry, unsafe, threatened, and envious of anyone better off.

you need to break their belief in a better future because people who believe in better futures do not accede republics to dictators.

so you must not only create problems that make life unpleasant, you must undermine belief that individuals can solve these problems for themselves. if you can do that, then all you need is an external enemy to unify them against and voila, you’ve got control and people will thank you for it.

(at least for a minute until they glean your true nature by which time it’s too late.)

[aedens]

Forer effect in the Ai space in the pretense of knowledge Hayek warned of.
The calm is not a friend. The asset strips are relentless masked follow the money.
You will get no respite since its plain to see one choke shows the cascading stupidity
in malinvest. The natural interest has consequences.

[aedens]

https://www.cooperative-individualism.o ... y-1755.pdf

First use money as they are left behind as it is right now.

When new money enters an economy, it doesn’t appear in every bank account simultaneously. It flows in through specific channels, typically banks, government contractors, and financial institutions, and then spreads outward over time. The people and institutions closest to that entry point get to spend the new money before prices adjust.
By the time the money reaches ordinary workers and consumers through wages, small business revenue, and everyday spending, prices have already risen to reflect the larger money supply. The later you receive the new money, the less it’s worth when it finally reaches you.

The domestics Job will never ever come back.
You will not compete because you cannot as the first use money eliminates those who did not compete.
They will suffer the end result as they deceive you in the ongoing Cantillon effect in the wasting.
The rate of extraction. Taxpayers are just targets and not even a subject.

Andreas Marquart, and Philipp Bagus, Blind Robbery! How the Fed, Banks, and Government Steal Our Money (Munich: FinanzBuch Verlag, 2016).