Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

What put me off reading ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ for so long (I grew up with the title of the book and Solzhenitsyn’s name on my radar) was partly its daunting size. The original was published in three volumes: on archive.org, the “Unabridged original pdf scans” of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ total 671 pages for volume 1, 717 pages for the second, and 579 pages for the third. Jeez, that makes it a fairly significant investment in time (reading and writing!).The abridged version has 544 pages — that’s a hell of a lot more ‘doable’. It’s also the version that Jordan Peterson has written the Foreword to. https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true
They will be suffocated in ignorance since it was a feature of the intent to rule over the ashes.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... &_osacat=0
As the deracinated prisoner told they had no clue then or will in future as the Senate looks like the fools they are.
The current open border lunatic is simply that.

Mexican cartel reportedly flooded Montana with fentanyl, meth by targeting Native Americans: ‘Prey-predator situation’
By Social Links forKatherine Donlevy Published Feb. 10, 2024

Destroyed and Washington is a mental wasted land.

The whole reason he quit as a police officer was due to the danger posed by the cartels, and the tribe's complete reluctance to do anything about it.

Biden is past inept in years as another zone collapses.
More than disaster and recession is here.

[tim]

https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... denly.html

February 11, 2024
Respect for Authorities ‘Died Suddenly’
By J.B. Shurk

Well, I guess we know where the Federal Aviation Administration got the idea to fill cockpits with pilots suffering from psychological disorders and mental deficiencies. The FAA has been watching Dementia Joe Biden fly the United States directly into the ground for three years and decided to do for civil aviation what the White House has done for peace and prosperity. Nothing better reflects a “crash and burn” leadership style than elevating unqualified people into positions where they can do the most harm. It’s worked for the West Wing, the Pentagon, and the Treasury Department! Why not for the agency responsible for air traffic control and passenger safety? What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, sure, perhaps flyers will die more frequently in fiery collisions or when unbolted aircraft doors shoot off into the clouds, but at least they will leave this mortal coil knowing that the people who build and pilot consumer aircraft represent such an amazing infusion of “diversity” that even the dumbest and most temperamentally unstable among us have been “included” in the life-and-death trust exercise of not falling out of the sky. That’s what real “equity” requires — redistributing the earned responsibilities of those who have demonstrated merit and commitment to those who have demonstrated mediocrity and unreliability. It’s why the globalists’ forced DEI standard (diversity, equity, and inclusion — barf!) across the public and private sectors should be more accurately returned to DIE — because wherever the deadly acronym dilutes excellence, living safely becomes less likely.

Come to think of it, Joe Biden is DIE’s perfect mascot. Angry, confused, and incompetent Old Joe is the Chief Dolt and Grand Pooh-bah of an ass-backward system where the least capable in society thrive.

Given the U.S. government’s love affair with censorship and propaganda, I sometimes imagine future historians piecing through the shards of Western civilization in order to understand the reasons for its collapse. According to the prevailing “narrative,” everything right now is tremendously great! We are told that the economy is strong, that crime is under control, that our borders are secure, that paying twenty bucks for a fast-food hamburger is cheap, and that endless war produces endless peace. According to the news media, Americans have never had it so good! How then, third-millennium anthropologists might wonder, did everything go kaput so quickly?

Well, hopefully, someone in the future will stumble across a time capsule with Joe Biden’s linguistically challenged press conference from the other day, in which he angrily denounced the Potemkin special counsel’s legal conclusion that, while Decrepit Joe committed federal crimes damaging to America’s national security, he is nevertheless too senile to prosecute. “The alleged ‘president’ of the allegedly ‘most powerful nation’ in the world betrayed his country, was too incompetent to stand trial, but remained perfectly competent to run for re-election?” some future human chronicler might ask before letting out a high-pitched, “Eureka! Now I get why everything died suddenly!”

“Died suddenly” might just become the catchall epithet (or maybe epitaph) for our age. Right now the medical community continues to destroy what’s left of its reputation by refusing to connect the dots between increased rates of cancer and heart disease and the global rollout of the mostly mandated pharmaceutical injections not only falsely touted as cures to COVID, but also falsely labeled as “vaccines.” Every time a fourteen-year-old athlete “dies suddenly” on the gridiron or basketball court, the ethically compromised killers in white coats throw out all kinds of ludicrous explanations for why healthy young people are losing their lives. It was stress! It was red meat! It was racism! Or the increasingly ubiquitous it must have been climate change!

It’s funny, if not disturbing, to see all the people who changed their first name to “Doctor” struggle to reach the most obvious conclusion: that an experimental mRNA serum rushed to market without necessary testing or proper scrutiny might be to blame. Elementary school children with a rudimentary understanding of the Scientific Method and medical ethics would understand the potential harm from requiring healthy patients unlikely to die from COVID to nonetheless be “treated” with untested “vaccines.” Yet the “first, do no harm” swarm of group-thinkers, who have trouble realizing when pharmaceutical companies are using humans as guinea pigs to make billions in profits, jumped-to and insisted that the whole global population must be injected with possible poisons.

Why would you experiment on anybody unless it was absolutely necessary (and then done only with informed consent)? Why would you recklessly expand that experiment to the whole human race? Only the “scientific experts” could trip over such basic precepts of medical ethics on their way to creating a potential global catastrophe.

You would think that the same medical community that unwittingly conspired with evil pharmaceutical companies to hook millions of Americans on OxyContin and other opioids would have been more skeptical when magical COVID elixirs were quickly developed and marketed as cure-alls. Alas, the gullible are getting only more gullible. Perhaps this is why “climate change” is still the globalist boogeyman that haunts so many pliant imaginations around the world. The unscrupulous authorities who lied about the efficacy of lockdowns, masks, and experimental “vaccines” would never lie about “climate change,” right? What kind of monsters would tell the world that carbon is killing the planet if the science isn’t sound? Maybe the same globalist monsters who used COVID as a propaganda vehicle for establishing a “Great Reset” are also interested in using “climate change” hysteria to convince people that they must surrender their private property, privacy, and human rights in order to survive. Would an ethically challenged scientific community work with an even more ethically challenged political class to push a “climate change” hoax that justifies the erosion of individual liberties and the implementation of widespread communism prepackaged in an irrational fear of hydrocarbons? Duh, of course it would. When governments became the de facto funders of all academic research in the West, impartial, rigorous, and objective scientific inquiry “died suddenly,” too.

In the “died suddenly” era, authorities don’t seek truth; they seek politically convenient “narratives” that protect the entrenched power of the status quo. False “experts” fabricate false “realities” that serve as intellectual prisons for weak minds. The truly astounding thing is that some of today’s most “educated” people are the ones most susceptible to propaganda. Designer degrees reflect not a proven capacity for critical thinking, but rather a cerebral vulnerability to rigid programming.

Case in point: the “trans” movement. Nowhere in human history has any society struggled with the biological distinctions separating men from women. Only in our absurd present age have the most credentialed twisted their neurons into such knots that they know less than those who never had a written language. One psychologist informed doctors at a medical convention that parents who do not believe that their “trans” children should be pumped full of sterilizing puberty-blockers or have their bodies mutilated are the ones with a “mental illness.” Increasingly, the “expert class” insists that people not suffering from psychological delusions are the ones who should be branded as delusional and dangerous.

This State-sanctioned “trans” insanity reminds me of a recent “diversity” exhibition in London that pushed the preposterous lie that “Britain was black for 7,000 years” before any white people arrived. For the academics involved, fraudulent history is good if it advances politically useful narratives. For everyone else, DIE-obsessed “experts” just look crazy.

At some point, a critical mass of people will reject a governing system overrun by misanthropes, lunatics, sadists, and liars. Populations do not obey those undeserving of respect. When respect for authorities “dies suddenly,” old orders will not survive.

[aeden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B17R9vBOwlQ Be careful since you prosper until you curse His footstool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iCW5Lsd80&t=571s No allegory as the keys belong to the owner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS4wNr2cwlc Your tax dollars.

[aeden]

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[aeden]

flash-crashed over 7% from the close on a EU tech
rotation

Those with an ear and eye sort of knew when we parachuted out.
Stick with the usual suspects explanation they like you.
Good luck into x plus 40 heading our way.
No clue.
In 60 milliseconds your career was sealed in circa 2008 blow outs.
Structural inflation entered the equation too late for the asses of MMT masses appears
valid for now as they painted themselves in.

[Kflorance]

It's London. I can just imagine the sort of people who laughed. Most TfL staff are from a place where mocking the disabled is commonplace.

It's obvious.

Yes you are right!

[aeden]

https://twitter.com/Dr_Gingerballs/stat ... 27/photo/1 option food chain be careful.
Point to monitor if/then they run the stops then settlement.
Flash crash in EU tech and in 2008 H and I watched 60 millisecond flash crashes as they pointed in every direction
but risk management.

Pray for that poor soul in the trench. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS4wNr2cwlc

[aeden]

Flash mobs:
Delta-hedge using index and stocks.
Dispersion trade parameters.
Cumulative* 3yr qoq 1.72% 1.90% 6.35% 10.65% 11.46% 13.29% 8.13% 7.77% 10.32% 12.93% 14.00% 9.60% 11.40%

Dialing back beta as market compression increases.
Bonds Similar to Jamshidian (1989) for pricing bond
Equitys
Yes
Reset as dated for parachute day as noted.
Added: tltw today

Is it going to be the equity ai market, or the ai bond market? Yes.

Going back to the 1920s, the average annualized return in the S&P 500 is 9.80%.
Since it was expanded to include 500 stocks in 1957, the average annualized return in the S&P 500 is closer to 10.10%.
Will not adopt short-term trading strategies for 80 percent.
20 percent is data driven beta maps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcYbLwHrys

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[Guest]

The basics of civilization are now missing from the normal's belief system: ascension (improvement), order, fertility (virility), self-sufficiency, and heroic exploration. There remains only luxury, compassion, and safety.

[Higgenbotham]

Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics so small they can invade the body’s cells, study says

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
Updated 8:32 PM EST, Mon January 8, 2024

In a trailblazing new study, researchers have discovered bottled water sold in stores can contain 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than previously estimated — nanoparticles so infinitesimally tiny they cannot be seen under a microscope.

At 1,000th the average width of a human hair, nanoplastics are so teeny they can migrate through the tissues of the digestive tract or lungs into the bloodstream, distributing potentially harmful synthetic chemicals throughout the body and into cells, experts say.

One liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics, according to the new study.

“They suggest widespread human exposures to minuscule plastic particles posing largely unstudied risks,” said Houlihan in an email. “Infants and young children may face the greatest risks, as their developing brains and bodies are often more vulnerable to impacts from toxic exposures.”

Dangers to human health

Nanoplastics are the most worrisome type of plastic pollution for human health, experts say. That’s because the minuscule particles can invade individual cells and tissues in major organs, potentially interrupting cellular processes and depositing endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as bisphenols, phthalates, flame retardants, per- and polyfluorinated substances, or PFAS, and heavy metals.

“All of those chemicals are used in the manufacturing of plastic, so if a plastic makes its way into us, it’s carrying those chemicals with it. And because the temperature of the body is higher than the outside, those chemicals are going to migrate out of that plastic and end up in our body,” Mason explained.

“The chemicals can be carried to your liver and your kidney and your brain and even make their way across the placental boundary and end up in an unborn child,” Mason said.

In studies of pregnant mice, researchers have found plastic chemicals in the brain, heart, liver, kidney and lungs of the developing baby 24 hours after the pregnant mother ingested or breathed in plastic particles, said study coauthor Phoebe Stapleton, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Rutgers University’s Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy in Piscataway, New Jersey.

“Micro and nanoplastics have been found in the human placenta at this point, Stapleton said. “They’ve been found in human lung tissues. They’ve been found in human feces; they’ve been found in human blood.”

CNN reached out to the International Bottled Water Association, which represents the industry, for a response to the study’s findings.

“This new method needs to be fully reviewed by the scientific community and more research needs to be done to develop standardized methods for measuring and quantifying nanoplastics in our environment,” a spokesperson for the association told CNN via email.

“There currently is both a lack of standardized methods and no scientific consensus on the potential health impacts of nano- and microplastic particles. Therefore, media reports about these particles in drinking water do nothing more than unnecessarily scare consumers.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/health/b ... index.html