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[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

The youth in Canada are getting it. Smart. My advice to all young smart kids, including my own.

Leave. The ship is sinking fast.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

These bills, along with C-22 and C-9 constitute a total erosion in Canada’s basic liberties. They interlock into making Canada essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

The two intellectual giants of our time.

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@grok @kieranwgoodwin @whyyounolikeeme Seems like they might be charging higher prices at vale resorts due to short seasons, and margins decreasing due to economic factors.

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@kieranwgoodwin @whyyounolikeeme @grok how many total ski resorts in the world have closed in the past 20 years?

[Mortimer @mortimer_1]

So we are going ship Natural Gas thousands of kilometers to Europe, but your own party is against people in BC and Vancouver using it. Your party makes zero sense.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In 1942, the Japanese rounded up all Chinese men in Singapore.

They were filtering out the healthy young ones to execute.

Lee Kuan Yew was 18. A guard pointed at him and said: "Go to that lorry."

He knew what that meant. The lorry went to the beaches. The beaches meant machine guns.

He asked: "Can I collect my other things?"

They said yes.

He walked away, found his family's gardener, and hid in his quarters for two days.

When they changed the screening inspectors, he tried again. This time, he got through.

The ones sent to that lorry were taken to the beaches and shot. Somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 didn't survive.

60 years later, he sat down at Harvard to explain how he built Singapore from a tiny island into one of the wealthiest nations on Earth:

On what the war did to him:

"We lived in happy, placid colonial Singapore in the 1920s and 30s. The British Empire would have lasted another thousand years, so we thought."

Then the Japanese came. In less than one and a half months, the British collapsed.

"Three and a half years of hell. Butchery. Brutality. Many didn't survive. I was fortunate. I did."

"But it changed us."

"What right did they have to do this to us? Why did the British let us down so badly?"

When the war ended, Lee went to Cambridge to study law. But he was watching with different eyes.

"Can they govern me better than I can govern myself? Because they scooted when the Japanese came in. And why shouldn't I be running the place?"

On learning languages to lead:

Lee was the best speaker in English. But only 20% of Singapore spoke English.

The masses spoke Hokkien, Mandarin, and Malay.

"So every day at lunchtime, instead of having lunch, I would sit down with a Hokkien teacher and laboriously and painfully learn to convert my Mandarin into Hokkien."

"Had I not mastered that, the battle would be lost by default."

His first speech in Hokkien, the kids laughed at him.

"I said, please don't laugh. Help me. I'm trying to get you to understanding."

By 6 months, he could get his ideas across. By 2 years, he was fluent.

"Believe it or not, at the end of two years I could speak better than most of them."

"That came respect."

It showed two things: how determined he was, and how sincere. Here was a man doing all these other things and still learning their language just to talk to them.

On fighting the Communists:

The Communists had been organizing since 1923. The year Lee was born.

"Here we were in the 1950s trying to beat them. And they are professionals at organization."

They had elimination squads. Guerrillas in the jungle. Killer squads in the towns.

Lee stood up and said no.

"They denied that they were Communists. 'We're just left-wing socialists.' So I did a series of 12 broadcasts to set the scene. And I made it in three languages."

English. Malay. Mandarin. 20 minutes each.

"When I finished each broadcast, the director of the station couldn't see me. Went into the room and found me lying on the floor trying to recover my breath."

"But it was a fight for survival. Life or death."

On where trust comes from:

"It's difficult to establish trust in times of calm. You just say, 'Well, it's an argument, therefore I'm a better guy than you.'"

"But when the chips are down and you can get eliminated in a very unpleasant way and you show that you're prepared for it and you'll fight for them, it makes a difference."

"Without that trust, we could not have built Singapore."

On IQ vs EQ:

Harvard asked him: would you prefer high IQ or high EQ in a leader?

"IQ, you can get beautiful paper done. Complex formulas worked out. Elegant solutions."

"But when you've got to get a team to work and put that formula into practice, you're dealing with human beings."

"If you're not good at EQ, you can't sense that A doesn't get on with B, and you put them in the same team. It's no good."

He rated his own EQ as 7 or 8 out of 10. His IQ as "maybe 120."

But he had colleagues who could sense a person instantly.

"He shook hands with the man and said, 'I recoiled when I felt his palm. Evil man.' And he was. How does he know? I don't know."

"So I learned whenever I had to do interviews to choose people, I would get people who are very good at seeing through a candidate."

On corruption:

Singapore in the 1950s was full of deals, bribes, and organized crime.

"When we took over, we decided that this was the critical factor. If we did not make it so that every dollar put in at the top reaches the ground as one dollar, we're not going to succeed."

"We came in and made a symbolic act. We dressed in white shirts, white trousers, and said we will be what we represent."

He put the anti-corruption bureau under his personal portfolio.

"I gave the director the authority to investigate everybody and everything. All ministers. Including myself."

One of his own colleagues took half a million in bribes. When the investigation started, he asked to see Lee.

"I said, if I see you then I'll be a witness in court. So best not see me. Better see your lawyer."

The man committed suicide. Left a note saying: "As an oriental gentleman who believes in honor, I have to pay the supreme price."

"It's a heavy price. But it reminds every minister that there are no exceptions."

On consistency:

Lee had three journalists analyze 40 years of his speeches.

He asked them: what was the dominant theme?

All three said the same thing: consistency.

"What I said at the beginning, throughout all that period, the theme stayed loud and clear."

"That made it simple. Because you know where you stand with me. And you know what I want to do."

On delivering results:

"We deliver the homes, the schools, the jobs, the hospitals."

"Today, 98% of our people own their own homes. The smallest would be about $100,000 US. The biggest about $300,000."

"Once you own that amount of assets, you are not in favor of risking it with a crazy government. Your assets will go down in value."

"But that was planned."

Why? Because Singapore is small. Everyone does national service. If you're going to fight, you better be fighting for something you own.

"So we give everybody a stake."

On changing culture slowly:

Lee wanted Singapore to speak English. But he couldn't force it.

"Had I passed a law and said you will all learn English, we would have had mayhem. Riots."

Instead, he let parents watch who got the best jobs. The jobs were already there, from the multinationals and banks. They all used English.

"They watched and saw who got the best jobs. And they switched."

It took 16 years.

"I did not want to have said 16 years. Because in those 16 years I lost 20,000 Chinese graduates who had poor jobs. I wanted to make it shorter. I couldn't. I would have run into flack."

On whether leadership can be taught:

Lee quoted Isaac Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Yiddish literature.

Someone asked Singer: "Can you make a writer write great literature?"

He paused. Then said: "If he has the writer in him, I will make him a good writer in a shorter time."

Lee's version:

"Can you make a leader of anybody? I don't think so."

"He must have some of the ingredients. He must have that high energy level. He must have the ability to project himself, his ideas. He must have the desire, almost instinctively, to say 'let's do something better.' Of wanting to do something for his fellow men and not just for himself and his family."

"You can't teach those things. He's either got it or he hasn't got it."

"But if he's got that, then you can save him a lot of trouble."

On sustaining yourself:

Harvard asked how he managed despair over decades of leadership.

"If your message is one of despair, then you should not be a leader. You must give people hope."

"But there are moments when you feel very down. Either because you're physically down, or emotionally down, or because the world has turned adverse against you."

"When you are in that condition, the first thing you do is get a good night's sleep. Then get a swim or chase a ball. Get the cobwebs out of your mind."

"If you're not fit, you're going to make mistakes. Physically fit. You must stay physically and mentally fit."

In his later years, he learned to meditate.

"At the end of 20 minutes to half an hour, my pulse rate can go down from 100 to about 60. You can feel yourself subside. You still your mind. You empty your mind."

"Then when you are rested, you resume quietly. You still got the same problems. Maybe you sleep on it. Come back. Look at it for a few days. Then decide."

This 2 hour Harvard interview will teach you more about leadership than every business book you've read combined.

Bookmark & give it 2 hours this weekend, no matter what.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

How @elonmusk thinks about money:

“Elon would always be at work on Sunday, and we had some chats where he laid out his philosophy.

He would say that everything we did was a function of our burn rate and that we were burning through a hundred thousand dollars per day.

It was this very entrepreneurial, Silicon Valley way of thinking that none of the aerospace engineers in Los Angeles were dialed into.

Sometimes he wouldn’t let you buy a part for $2,000 because he expected you to find it cheaper or invent something cheaper.

Other times, he wouldn’t flinch at renting a plane for $90,000 to get something to Kwaj because it saved an entire workday, so it was worth it.

He would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money.”

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

canada's putting out bangers

[Managed IT @Managedtech]

@Dave_Eby @netflix They can start by making a documentary on how you FUCKED this entire province to ruin.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

Researchers are expected to follow up with a study confirming that water is wet.

[David Levenson. I am increasing low beta leverage. @PolarityRadio]

We were comfortable shorting gold, silver and copper as their volatilities declined as their prices stayed elevated and even rise rose after the start of the February 27, 2026 war.

We degrossed a great deal after the first bomb dropped and through that first Monday on March 1, 2026 as we told our subscribers that I was comfortable degrossing meaningfully for myself.

Subscribe for timely insights about market risk and opportunities.

This morning silver was down 23% and we started to observe firmer volatility so we closed metals short positions just like we closed our leveraged bitcoin short on February 5th 2026 as Bitcoin stopped falling -15% that day and Bitcoin volatility broke out above 50 and rose 80% in 6 hours to 90.4 they day before MSTRs earnings report

People worried that MSTR might signal some coin sales to buy in shares that were down more than 75%

I will only get involved smaller much smaller until metals and crypto volatility stabilized at low levels

It was a great short buy now it’s a trades market for a while

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@BankofVol @grok who is the speaker?

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@KahlonRav Thank you for the consistent gas lighting that nothing is broken in BC.....

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

March 3, 2026 edition of FFTT: "Iran doesn't need to defeat the US military; just the UST market"

March 11, 2026: "S&P has warned that the Middle East conflict is beginning to strain credit channels across multiple sectors"

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

Canada has a weird civilizational glitch where extreme restrictions on traditional vices like drinking and smoking exist right beside extreme permissiveness over radical progressive social decay.

24-hour taxpayer-funded crack pipe vending machines are normal but liquor stores shut down at 11pm. Anti-smoking laws are among the strictest on earth yet a doctor can legally euthanize you on the same day of your request.

Puberty blockers for kids are treated as progressive healthcare that needs to be more accessible while they throw up huge barriers to access nicotine pouches.

It’s the strangest inversion of priorities imaginable. Sometimes I think it’s a combination of Anglo Protestant moralism and bureaucratic socialism, but whatever the root cause, Canada manages to be simultaneously puritanical and nihilistic in a way that almost no other country is

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@rparmar_BC @WeBuildBC Brother it is in fact your policies which are lowering wages...we aren't productive, and the regulatory environment you have created provides tooo much uncertainty. And the productive people are leaving, why would they give half their paycheck away when you mispend.

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@rparmar_BC Bro....we are bleeding jobs in this province, unions can't print money for these workers, we need energy projects moving forward.

[NoPaperLLC 🏰 @TRobertBenjamin]

@MS2PZ First red flag was she drives a Nissan Altima.....

[Wyatt Claypool @wyatt_claypool]

This is a really foolish dodge on the issue at hand.

Land title and control over activities that take place on the land.

Yes nobody thinks 1495 people are going to start kicking down doors and taking homes.

But because of the aboriginal title sitting overtop of everyone else’ title you may need to pay the Musqueam property taxes, get permission to develop property, and they could have veto on the other economic activity within the defined area.

It’s an insane decision. Don’t listen to people using the claim no homes will be taken away to then try and pretend this agreement is a nothing-burger.

It’s devastating.