The State Department is set to replace the existing Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) in favor of a more "merit-based" structure, the agency exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Wednesday.
The FSOT will be replaced with a new formulation, scrapping the current iteration for a test not "riddled with [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] principles," a senior State Department official told the DCNF. The move is part of a larger push under Secretary Rubio and President Trump to revamp the agency by cutting wasteful spending and re-prioritizing the department's efforts toward U.S. national interests.
Saturday, September 06, 2025
'Merit-driven': State Department guts Foreign Service Test, dumps DEI questions * WorldNetDaily * by Wallace White, Daily Caller News Foundation
'Merit-driven': State Department guts Foreign Service Test, dumps DEI questions * WorldNetDaily * by Wallace White, Daily Caller News Foundation:
Incentivised medicine-----Do Doctors Make Money Off Vaccines? A Look at Incentives and Bonus Structures | The Epoch Times
In a 2020 paper, researchers found when analyzing three years’ worth of vaccination claims for five Colorado clinics that reimbursements averaged 125 percent of costs, making administering vaccines “financially favorable across the practices.” - Zachary StieberWhat About Those Bonuses?
Doctors can make extra money for vaccinating under incentive programs from insurers...
“Some pediatricians can make upwards to a million or more a year just in those incentives,” Hooker said...
“Some pediatricians can make upwards to a million or more a year just in those incentives,” Hooker said...
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Care Network of Michigan: $400 per child who receives a set of 24 or 25 vaccine doses on or before their second birthday.
- Aetna Better Health of Louisiana: $10–$25 per member, depending on level of COVID-19 vaccination coverage practice-wide.
- Molina Healthcare of Ohio: $100 incentive for COVID-19 vaccination...
History for September 6
History for September 6 - On-This-Day.com 
Marquis de Lafayette 1757
- 1819 - Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe.
- 1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.
- 1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
- 1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
- 1991 - The State Council of the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states.
- 2008 - The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) would be placed in government conservatorship (they went bust!).
Friday, September 05, 2025
Trump demands vaccine accountability, lefties demand blind conformity | Blaze Media
Trump demands vaccine accountability, lefties demand blind conformity | Blaze Media:
“So these are the people that they want you to trust. ... These are the same people, mind you, who brought you ... a 42% obesity rate, a 60% chronic disease rate,” she condemns.
These are the same people who told us to “trust the science” but are now telling us to not critically examine whether or not the science actually worked — even though systematic review is a cornerstone of science.
An interesting example of climate propaganda.
This is an example of the kind of propaganda that was once reserved for other matters, but since a group of people now considers climate to be that kind of matter, they will do the same thing. - Joe Bastardi|
The strategy, of course, is to say something that does have truth, but then leave out the rest of the picture...
The strategy, of course, is to say something that does have truth, but then leave out the rest of the picture...
- But here is how the propaganda works.
The pusher of the missive does not show the drop in 2025.
- (Another favorite idea is to scream about Greenland falling into the sea when there happens to be a season where there is more than normal melt, but ignoring all the other years that have been occurring that have more than average snow and ice.)...
A scam for the developers, crooked politicians and green-loons!-----A ‘Monster’ sized solar farm is planned for DeKalb County.
Nearly 2000 acres of valuable farmland will soon be covered by solar panels in portions of DeKalb County.DeKalb Illinois Issues is 
feeling shocked in DeKalb County, Illinois.
The 1,984 acre solar farm will be located in Afton, Squaw Grove, and Pierce Township’s in DeKalb county (see map...).
feeling shocked in DeKalb County, Illinois.The 1,984 acre solar farm will be located in Afton, Squaw Grove, and Pierce Township’s in DeKalb county (see map...).
- This project will contain 95 converters, which will create a “humming” sound nearby residents will have to endure permanently...
'I shouldn't be saying this': Video reveals school official suggesting parents skirt state law to put son in girls' sports * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
'I shouldn't be saying this': Video reveals school official suggesting parents skirt state law to put son in girls' sports * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The report continued, "This is disturbing on a number of levels. First, you have an assistant athletic director who is supposed to be protecting the safety of all students and athletes and looking out for their best interests, who is basically throwing those interests out the window for a particular cause. One wonders what would prompt her to do so. Second, school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis did a deeper dive into this coach and discovered she earns over $100,000 a year. She certainly gets paid well to be a traitor to her sex. Third, Duckworth's biography appears to show a woman who excels at her job, because her boys' team has won trophies and commendations. So, what gives?
Army Ditches Biden-Era Promotion System, Will Now Focus 'Only on Merit and Performance'
Army Ditches Biden-Era Promotion System, Will Now Focus 'Only on Merit and Performance':
A Biden-era system adopted by the Army to put fighting bias ahead of fighting wars has been dropped.
The Command Assessment Program was a pilot program for several years before being cemented into place by former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth as the Biden administration was leaving town, according to Military Times.
The program was designed to find conscious and unconscious biases as candidates for command positions were evaluated.
"No external funding"!!-----Sea level rise not caused by climate change, study claims
Voortman was shocked that no researcher before had performed an analysis of real-world local data. - Anthony Blair
- The research found that the average sea level rise in 2020 was only around 1.5mm per year, or 6 inches per century, according to the paper’s authors, Dutch engineering consultant Hessel Voortman and independent researcher Rob de Vos.
- “This is significantly lower than the 3 to 4 mm/year often reported by climate scientists in scientific literature and the media,” Voortman told independent journalist Michael Shellenberger.
“It is crazy that it had not been done. I started doing this research in 2021 by doing the literature review. ‘Who has done the comparison of the projections with the observations?’ And there were none,” he told Shellenberger.
The study was also unlike any of its kind in that it was carried out with no external funding...
Restaurant Loses Case After Denying Male Entry to Women’s Bathroom - Catherine Salgado
A Delaware restaurant has been ordered to pay up and put staff through woke reeducation after it refused to allow a biological male to use the women’s bathroom.
The Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille supposedly violated the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law and is being punished accordingly, Delaware Online reported...
The Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille supposedly violated the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law and is being punished accordingly, Delaware Online reported...
- Democrat-run states in America are beginning to bear a terrifying resemblance to Marxist dictatorships.
- They require everyone to bow and scrape before mentally ill leftists or else they treat them worse than actual criminals, especially illegal alien criminals.
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Abandoned Science on Gender Dysphoria
But the moment transgender ideology became untouchable, and all those warnings vanished.
- For decades, scientists and the Left warned about the dangers of powerful drugs like testosterone, estrogen, and SSRIs.
- They were linked to serious health risks, even death.
But the moment transgender ideology became untouchable, and all those warnings vanished.
What was once classified as a rare mental disorder is now celebrated as a trend.
Any criticism is branded as “transphobic.”
Peer-reviewed study confirms cheap, over-the-counter nasal spray often STOPS COVID! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Peer-reviewed study confirms cheap, over-the-counter nasal spray often STOPS COVID! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
For sure pharmaceutical companies made hundreds of billions of dollars during the COVID pandemic on their experimental shots, mostly mRNA creations that actually were "treatments" more than "vaccines," and ultimately have proven to carry with them a multitude of side effects, including multiple side effects that are fatal.
But now a newly released study from Germany, a peer-reviewed assessment, has shown that a cheap nasal spray, going for maybe $10 a bottle, used three times a day is mostly effective at stopping the China virus.
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