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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.”

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.

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 wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 8:30 am https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/ ... -bombshell

Top Psychiatrist Drops Bombshell Testimony: Canadian Government QUIETLY EUTHANIZING MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS

Bombshell warning to lawmakers: alleged hidden approvals for mentally ill patients raise urgent concerns

A renowned psychiatrist has dropped a bombshell, warning lawmakers that the Canadian government has already begun euthanizing patients with serious mental illness, while hiding the practice from the public.

Mentally ill patients are now being steered toward state-sanctioned “assisted suicide” by the nation’s taxpayer-funded socialized healthcare system, even though it remains illegal under current law.

Oil-Rich Alberta Could Hold Independence Vote This October
Al Perrotta May 5, 2026

Alberta separatists said Monday they have collected more than enough signatures to force a referendum on whether the oil-rich province should split away from Canada.

Stay Free Alberta needed 178,000 signatures to put the referendum on the ballot. It claims to have garnered 302,000.

The world is heading for disaster; a recession, then a depression and a sense of despair of a nature never known before.

It’s all deliberate, of course. The destruction of the economy is being managed with great precision. In the UK, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Comrade Reeves has learnt from her mistakes and will, therefore, continue to repeat them until the British economy is in tatters. Inflation is too high (and likely to rise in the medium and long term) and interest rates need to go up so they’re going down instead – to benefit those with debts (e.g. the Government) and hurt those with savings.

In the UK, more than 1.2 million foreign born claimants are living on universal credit – and the figure is rising. Sickness (much of it self-diagnosed ‘anxiety’ or ‘autism spectrum disorder’, concerns which have been encouraged by politicians, journalists and members of the very entitled royal family) costs £212 billion a year and is rising. Taxes are soaring and red tape increasing so unemployment will inevitably reach record highs in 2026. Millions diagnosed as being ‘on the autism spectrum’ or ‘suffering’ from anxiety are content to live on benefits rather than working for a living. It is now officially possible to suffer from an illness within the autism spectrum called ‘rejection sensitivity dysphoria’ – a self-diagnosed disorder which occurs when an individual is rejected or criticised. I think it would be difficult to find anyone in the world who does not suffer from a disorder within the autism spectrum disorder.

The parasitic State is constantly expanding and only those who get their money from the State have financial security. Emigration is soaring, though the emigrants are neither those with Government jobs nor those on benefits. (Those who talk of net migration figures falling are presumably unaware that this is only because the number of people leaving the country is now close to the number arriving.)

The only people who can afford to have more than one child are billionaires and single mothers. People on benefits are the new ‘middle classes’. The former middle classes have been demoted. Six million Britons with jobs would be better off if they gave up working and accepted government benefits instead of wages or salaries.

Higgenbotham wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:49 pm During the descent into a dark age, it seems the social breakdown comes first, followed by the economic breakdown. One of the catalysts to the recent social breakdown was to uproot people from their established places and make their existence nomadic. This was promoted by slogans such as "you need to go where the opportunities are" or "get an education and a better life", things like that. This process sort of fed upon itself; for example, people are uprooted and, as a result, spend more dollars with corporations whose business models are indirectly based on uprooting people, which in turn results in even more people being uprooted. As an example, let's say you own or work for the general store in a small town, a unique store. You are probably going to be working and living in that small town your whole life. But if Wal-Mart comes into town and uproots that store, then you are likely to become one more corporate nomad moving from place to place and frequenting businesses whose names you recognize. I referred to that process a bit here:

Higgenbotham wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:32 pm Another thing that relates to that is there is a moral code in rural areas versus a moral code in urban areas. I witnessed this conflict as I grew up. My grandparents spent their entire lives in a rural area; my parents spent until age 18 in a rural area and 34 working years in a city. They couldn't wait to get the hell out. As kids, my sister and I went back to their home every year and were immersed in rural culture for a week. I think part of the huge divide in this country has to do with the fact that more and more families have spent several generations in the city and have not been exposed to rural culture in any meaningful way at all, as my sister and I were.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 1:06 am I said there are two opposite modes of living in the United States. The first is an expectation that you will spend your entire life in one area with other people who will spend their entire lives in that area. The second is an expectation that you will go to high school in one place, college in another place, then career in several places (no longer at one company) with sole focus on that. Everything else is something in between. The first mode engenders real connections while the second mode engenders transactional relationships. An example of a transactional relationship would be something like, "I have a buddy who is also 420 friendly. He finds me really good dope cheap and I fix all his computers." The best example of a transactional encounter I can think of is prostitution. Also, in a big city, encounters are briefer. That's not to say there isn't some overlap.

I told her in the second mode of living, people are taught from an early age to look to the next step in their progression and to primarily engage in transactional relationships as a means to get to that next step. A high school kid might be told to be friendly to the teachers because they will be writing college recommendations or whatever. They would not be encouraged to be friendly to teachers they genuinely like and not be friendly to teachers they genuinely do not like. And so on when the kid gets to college. I should add as an aside that girls are better at that than boys. I told her that while coping with the stress of getting from step to step, people who find themselves in the same boat will bond somewhat. But they know those bonds are likely temporary and will be broken when they get to the next step unless there is a practical reason to keep them. I also told her that people who have lived in transactional relationship mode for several generations do not even know how to live differently and can't. Many do not understand what a real connection is.

During the early stages of this breakdown, many of the new corporate nomads gathered together in suburbs of large cities and, being first generation nomads, attempted to re-create the kinds of social bonds that were present in the places they came from. This worked pretty well for a time, until those people died off and the second and third generations stopped doing this. I think this was described best in a book called Bowling Alone and thought it had been discussed here, but don't find anything offhand. I'll continue to look for that.

People are talking less than they used to. A lot less.

Between 2005 and 2019, the number of words the average person uttered in a day fell by 28%. That’s according to a recent study from a team of U.S.-based researchers.

“We estimated the difference at about 330 fewer words spoken per day for each year during that time period,” says Matthias Mehl, a professor of social psychology at the University of Arizona. That adds up to roughly 120,000 fewer words spoken during the course of a year, and millions of fewer words spoken during the 15-year study period. “It’s a substantial loss,” he says.

While the number of spoken words declined among all age groups, the drop was steeper among those under 25.

Put all these factors together, and you end up with societies where many forms of spoken human-to-human interaction become increasingly rare. That’s a problem, Mehl says.

When we replace verbal communication with text, we miss out on a lot of the nuance communicated by tone of voice, body language, and other verbal and non-verbal cues. “Text always has a lot of ambiguity,” he says. “We use emojis to reduce that uncertainty, but it’s clear that the facial expressions, the gestures, the prosodic elements of spoken communication—humans are designed to perceive all this as a gestalt, and these elements lend themselves to feelings of belonging and understanding.”

While a decline in idle chitchat among strangers in settings like grocery stores or restaurants may not seem as significant, research shows that, surprisingly, such small talk does a lot for our well-being.

“When we have these little interactions, it puts us in a good mood and helps us feel more connected,” says Gillian Sandstrom, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Sussex in the U.K.

Sandstrom is the author of a new book, Once Upon a Stranger, which explores the surprising benefits of small talk among unfamiliar people. She says that, historically, researchers in her field have tended to study the importance of close ties and “inner-circle” relationships among good friends and family members. But her work has focused on “outer-circle” interactions among acquaintances, neighbors, and even strangers. Far from being expendable, these impromptu and often fleeting conversations with people we don’t know contributes to our sense of belonging.

“When we have these interactions, they tend to go much better than we thought they would, and we come away from them with a sense that people are generally good,” she says. These seemingly trivial interactions strengthen our sense of community and faith in humanity, she adds.

It’s also true that the more we converse with other people—perhaps especially those with whom we’re not close—the more we feel at ease in other people’s company. “Social skills are a skill like any other,” she says. “If you don’t keep practicing the thing, you lose competency.”

Chapter 34 - The discohesion process

Less sociability

The futurologist John Naisbitt suggests that
teleworking, i.e. working from home via computer
links, is unlikely to be taken up on a large scale. He
says that people will continue going to the office
because they like being with other people.2840 In
coming to this viewpoint, he seems to be thinking
primarily of high achievers with interesting jobs.
Most ordinary workers are only too glad to give up
office politics and the stresses of rush hour travel.
Teleworking may not take off, but it will mainly be
for the practical reason of access to equipment, and
because employers wish to monitor what their
workers are doing.

The societies of the descent will be
characterised by growing loneliness and isolation.
Naisbitt is correct that humans are sociable
creatures and that they will always desire to mingle
and interact. Therefore, discohesion will not imply
the disappearance of social relationships as such.
Instead, it will involve the disappearance of
networks of interlocking relationships. There will
be a continuing breakdown of communities, the
milieux that shape behaviour.

In cohesive societies, people’s work is a
significant and permanent aspect of their lives. In
Japan, for instance, employees have traditionally
had an almost family-like orientation to the
company and supervisors have tended to look after
their staff even in matters not necessarily connected
with work.2841 This kind of employment culture is
able to locate people within a broader community
and can inculcate standardised values, attitudes and
beliefs. By contrast, in the future, individual careers
will be highly volatile and egocentric. People will
move easily from job to job, pursuing their own
interests. Those that can do so certainly will work
from home. More people will choose to go
freelance, using internet brokering services to put
them in touch with work opportunities. Notions of
loyalty between a company and its employees will
become wholly outmoded.

The growth of the team-building and
motivational industry, which lays on corporate
events ranging from casino evenings to abseiling
from cliffs, reflects companies’ rearguard effort to
retrieve their lost cohesion. These artificial
initiatives, however, cannot compare with the
cohesive effects of working for the same company
for decades, living side by side with one’s
colleagues in the same small town, sending one’s
children to the same local school, and meeting
regularly for leisure activities. Yet western
societies moved away from such a situation long
ago, and even in Japan that era is fast disappearing.
Young people, raised on internet culture and
computer games, are increasingly used to spending
large amounts of time alone, and unused to
suppressing their desires for the overall benefit of a
co-operative group. They will take readily to a
highly individualised employment culture centred
on electronic media. Some commentators have
even predicted that the whole notion of a
permanent job may disappear. People will
assemble for particular tasks and then disperse
again.

The changing nature of employment will be
just part of a wider syndrome of declining
sociability during the descent. It will become
increasingly common, for example, for people to
pursue friendships and romance by e-mail.
Traditional contexts such as school, university and
work are increasingly fraught as occasions for the
formation of relationships, given the possibility of
being accused of harassment. The dating agency
and the on-line chat room will be much more
attractive as venues in which people may meet.

While such electronic encounters certainly
constitute social relationships, they are established
outside any broader social context. The lovers who
meet on the internet may come from different sides
of the planet. In general, they will have no mutual
associates, nor any previous shared experience. An
encounter between such perfect strangers is
rootless and therefore all the more likely to be
transient. The partners have no one to please or to
disappoint but themselves. This is an essentially
selfish approach to sociality, devoid of obligations
to a community of relatives and friends. It means
that people’s social lives will be fragmented and
individualistic, and society itself will become a
porous tracery of bonds, easily broken apart.

Rampant de-legitimisation

Discohesion means de-legitimisation. It means
that fewer people will uphold familiar values, and
more people will be ready to denounce these values
as oppressive and unpleasant. Everything that
serves to propagate a shared culture will have its
faults systematically exposed and criticised. For
example, the de-legitimised royal family may be
excluded from public life and eventually removed
from Buckingham Palace. Other traditional
institutions will be attacked as incorrigibly racist
and sexist.

Anything that suggests advocacy for
characteristically British values and conduct will be
excised from the school curriculum. It will be
thought deplorable to suggest that western
civilisation has anything positive to offer or
deserves to be emulated by natives, let alone by
recent immigrants and their children. The lessons
of the future will be quite unfamiliar to anyone
educated in the twentieth century. Children will not
study French or German, say, but will be given a
generalised course in the languages of the world,
and they will be taught the importance of
preserving traditional tongues in the face of
western cultural imperialism.