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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Sat Jun 15, 2024 9:13 am

In the time of the flood and eclipse with to root social divides we hold the line in the hour seen.
peleg------- reu -------- serug-------- nahor-------- terah
Coded from the Book to events seen long before in the order of names.

Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:27 pm Coming online this past week was the Texas Capital Texas Oil Index ETF and the Texas Capital Texas Small Cap Equity Index ETF being brought to market by the Texas Capital Funds Trust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76EoPgcy9c

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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:41 am

Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:48 pm
Does Greg Abbott know or understand something that few others do? I wouldn't bet against him.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on new stock exchange: A place for companies whose only agenda is capitalism

Texas Governor Greg Abbott joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state’s plans to launch a new national stock exchange, President Biden’s executive order on the southern border, state of the 2024 race, and more.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/06/t ... alism.html

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:04 pm

Do you think that no one in the USA realizes what we are doing? This is madness.
https://rmx.news/article/german-stock-e ... lly-wrong/
Germany in free fall. For years we warned the greenmask and watermellons have now been effectivly ended with active measures.
Month and month ago the center imploded as catalyst cracker chemical products you must have for civilization left that zone.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:22 pm

Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:23 pm
Michael Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDtv6c631Ww

Generally, there is some truth to their allegations. But rarely do you see anything presented in a coherent, understandable fashion.
This is, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2-zYEldGc

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Fri Jun 14, 2024 2:45 pm

In my opinion, Ruppert is onto part of the reason that the empire holds together. It's just one reason, though. If supply chains break, the US government is everyone's best and last hope until proven otherwise.
Higgenbotham wrote:
Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:49 pm
My more specific predictions would be:
  • There will be a major global financial panic and crisis. Supply chains will break, resulting in unavailability of critical raw materials and components. Global trade will begin to shut down. As it begins to become apparent that the supply chain linkages are permanently broken, the global interlinked financial markets will shut down and cease to exist. This will all happen very quickly. It will not take years from the initial panic.
  • The focus of governments will turn to controlling their panicked and hungry populations. Due to lack of availability of imported goods and adequate storage "sufficient to reconstitute" a system consistent with nation state government, this will prove to be too little too late and most government will devolve to the local level as populations lose faith in their national governments and the national governments lose the resources and ability to control their populations.
  • There will be no large scale nuclear war. Instead, the population will be culled through starvation, local strife (including settling of long-standing scores) and disease. Wave after wave of pandemics will sweep the world.
  • Similar to national economies and governments, centralized utilities will fail or become so decrepit as to be unsafe and unusable. All centralized utilities including the power grid will shut down permanently.
  • The initial worldwide kill rate during the first couple decades following the financial panic will exceed 90%. The global population will be in the range of a few tens of millions when the bottom is hit in two or three centuries. Similar to the last dark age, the world's largest cities will have a population on the order of 25,000 and a large town will be 1,000.
  • Life during the coming dark age will be similar to the last dark age but worse due to environmental damage and pollution.
Given current and developing conditions right at the moment, there is only one alternative that I can identify:
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:48 pm
Does Greg Abbott know or understand something that few others do? I wouldn't bet against him.
As conditions change, Abbott's (or whoever's that I can't and probably haven't identified) window will close and somebody else's will open up. That somebody else could be radically different from what we are used to.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Fri Jun 14, 2024 2:10 pm

IN YOUR FACE

by Michael C. Ruppert
January 30, 2004
WHY ACTIVISTS FAIL

There are two reasons why activist efforts to halt the inertia of the Empire have failed and will continue to fail: human nature, and human nature.

Activists all over the political spectrum are flailing about in the post-9/11 world, spinning wheels, and throwing out idea after idea without a unifying principle or a clearly stated goal. As has happened so many times before with the victims of a dozen other instances of government criminality, the new victims like the New Jersey widows of 9/11 who are known for their persistence in challenging government lies make mistakes that have been made before, put their faith in strategies that have been tried before, and discount the wisdom and experience of those who have suffered before. Human nature says that it is wrong to criticize victims. Yet the new ones make a habit of ignoring the old ones, only to be replaced and forgotten when the next, inevitably greater, crime takes place.

Each time a new tragedy strikes, whether it be 9/11, TWA 800 (a Navy shootdown), CIA involvement in drug trafficking, Iran-Contra, Waco, The Savings and Loan Scandal, the Enron shareholders, the Gander crash, or any of a dozen other events in recent history, a new crop of people is instantly and brutally transformed from people who once trusted the system into people who have been betrayed by it. Psychologically and emotionally raped, they rage. They vow to fight. The need to make the system that failed them work as they were taught becomes a new imperative for their sanity and emotional stability. They must believe that they can make people listen to them, that they can fix it.

When, therefore, others who have been brutalized before them present themselves with valuable experience and try to explain the lay of the land, the new victims are faced with the awful responsibility of acknowledging that they themselves had not listened or responded when their predecessors cried out for help. They had been just as quick to say I'm too busy or That's a bunch of b.s. It couldn't be that way. Yet it is. The new victims had once been as deaf as the rest of the world now appears to them. Still they clutch at straws and cling to the illusion that this time it will be different. For their own sanity they must ignore the reality of the people who came before them, when to listen and learn might provide a unifying, if terrifying, focus that might ensure success. All it takes is courage and a good map.

THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

But there is a deeper part of human nature which covers the planet in a sickly, light-sweet-crude blanket of denial. It is best exemplified from the closing lines of Sidney Pollack's 1975 Three Days of the Condor, perhaps the best spy movie ever made. As FTW has shown in recent stories using declassified CIA documents the CIA was well aware of Peak Oil in the mid 1970s. Three Days of the Condor took that awful truth and said then, what few in the post-9/11 world have had the courage to say. I can guarantee you that it is the overriding rationale in Dick Cheney's mind, in the mind of every senior member of the Bush administration, and in the mind of whomever it is that will be chosen as the 2004 Democratic Party nominee. Getting rid of Bush will not address the underlying causative factors of energy and money and any solution that does not address those issues will prove futile.

Turner (Robert Redford): "Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?"

Higgins (Cliff Robertson): "Are you crazy?"

Turner: "Am I?"

Higgins: "Look, Turner."

Turner: "Do we have plans?"

Higgins: "No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a régime? That's what we're paid to do."

Turner: "Go on. So Atwood just took the game too seriously. He was really going to do it, wasn't he?"

Higgins: "It was a renegade operation. Atwood knew 54-12 would never authorize it. There was no way, not with the heat on the Company."

Turner: "What if there hadn't been any heat? Supposing I hadn't stumbled on a plan? Say nobody had?"

Higgins: "Different ball game. The fact is there was nothing wrong with the plan. Oh, the plan was alright. The plan would have worked."

Turner: "Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"

Higgins: "No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In 10 or 15 years - food, Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?

Turner : "Ask them."

Higgins: "Not now - then. Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them when people who've never known hunger start going hungry. Do you want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it for them."

What do you want?
https://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/013004 ... _face.html

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Fri Jun 14, 2024 11:15 am

Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:23 pm
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:48 pm
Putin kills people but they don't do that so much here. A colleague of mine got turned into a vegetable. I talked about that here in these pages. Once they turned him into a vegetable, the personnel lawyers unilaterally gave him a disability check and health insurance for the rest of his life. There was no court case - they don't want the record of it. These people make Stalin look like an amateur. Aedens was right when he said they make the Soviets look like pussies.

You screw with anybody's head long enough and you can permanently turn them into a babbling idiot and they know how to do it. This guy is totally incapacitated for life and they can say, "There's no dead body - what's the big deal?"

My life was threatened - in so many words. But that's mostly just part of the process they use to turn someone into a vegetable.

My former colleague talks about the black helicopters and so on. He's totally gone. His head is spinning so fast that nothing that comes out of his mouth makes any sense.
Put simply, when punishing someone who gets out of line, the defaults are for hard regimes to target the body whereas soft regimes target the mind.

Which brings up an interesting story. A mediator was brought into our government workplace and employees were offered the opportunity to use this mediator to resolve any disputes they were having with management. I asked for mediation regarding a dispute where a large corporation had libeled me in a letter, using my name 14 times. The letter was written by their law firm (Foley and Lardner). I wanted the mediator to make a determination as to whether management was obligated to send a written response to the corporation saying that their allegations were untrue. Early on, in front of the mediator, I told the management representative that, "I would rather you would beat me than to do the things you are doing." Later, I related the conversation to a colleague and asked whether I should have said that, as it indicated that their mental torture was effective, even more effective than if they were physically beating me. He said yes, because it exposed what they were doing in front of the mediator. The mediator did find in my favor.
After that, and I've discussed other facets of this years ago, the colleague mentioned above had contacted some local investigative reporters. This colleague called me and said one of the reporters was interested in talking to me and I should call him. I did and one thing the reporter said was he felt this colleague had something but he couldn't get enough concrete information to run a story. I said that I had 5,000 pages of documentation but that would probably be too much for him to go through, so I offered to send the best 100 pages out of those 5,000 pages. He thought that would work, so I sorted the 100 pages out and mailed copies to him. One of the items I sent to him was this letter Foley and Lardner had written on behalf of the company, my response, and management's response. This was a minor part of the overall package of information. When he got the 100 pages, he called me back and said they had enough now and they were going to run a story. As part of that, he called me again later and said he was on his way to the company's offices and, with the camera running and the letter in his possession, he was going to ask company representatives to give their opinion of me. He asked me what they were going to say. I said they will say all good things. When he finished talking to them, he called me back and confirmed that was what happened.

None of that is too relevant today because it happened 22-24 years ago. However, there was already a devolution occurring at that time behind the scenes and whistleblowers like Mike Ruppert were some of the first to recognize it.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:23 pm

Higgenbotham wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:23 pm
This is a list of the types of specialists who might think about collapse.

1. Archaeologists - Done enough digging to realize that much of what they are digging up resulted from the collapse of civilizations
2. Historians - Looked at enough history to conclude that there are patterns of rise and fall that civilizations follow
3. Systems Thinkers - Look at the world as a complex system that is inherently unstable and will break down as limits are hit
4. Theologians - Study religious prophecy and compare to current events to conclude that end times prophecy is being fulfilled
5. Ecologists - Look at population dynamics of other species and conclude that humans are on an unsustainable population trajectory
6. Environmentalists - Look at enough environmental measures (resources, health, climate, etc.) to think collapse is on the near term horizon
7. Whistleblowers - Believe that things are morally and ethically much worse than people realize based on perception of their personal experience
8. Traders - Have studied market collapses and believe these types of collapses are applicable harbingers and models of civilizational collapse
9. Dabblers - Often former professionals and retirees who are widely read and concerned about the future based on personal experience and study

It would take several lifetimes to cover all this ground even if one individual were constitutionally capable of doing it all.

One of the more interesting people who comes to mind is a retired Boeing engineer who was writing about collapse 15-20 years ago. I wonder if the seed that began to form his opinion was based on what he saw inside the company, the results of which are perhaps many years later being seen in the headlines.
Michael Ruppert (and probably Gary Webb) would be some of the whistleblowers. Many of the whistleblowers came along in the 1990s and early 2000s when the economy was pretty good and nobody really cared. Their warnings were early and most of them have faded away.

Michael Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDtv6c631Ww

Watching Ruppert talk and the discussion about the managerial elite class reminds me of this:
Higgenbotham wrote:
Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:48 pm
Putin kills people but they don't do that so much here. A colleague of mine got turned into a vegetable. I talked about that here in these pages. Once they turned him into a vegetable, the personnel lawyers unilaterally gave him a disability check and health insurance for the rest of his life. There was no court case - they don't want the record of it. These people make Stalin look like an amateur. Aedens was right when he said they make the Soviets look like pussies.

You screw with anybody's head long enough and you can permanently turn them into a babbling idiot and they know how to do it. This guy is totally incapacitated for life and they can say, "There's no dead body - what's the big deal?"

My life was threatened - in so many words. But that's mostly just part of the process they use to turn someone into a vegetable.

My former colleague talks about the black helicopters and so on. He's totally gone. His head is spinning so fast that nothing that comes out of his mouth makes any sense.
Generally, there is some truth to their allegations. But rarely do you see anything presented in a coherent, understandable fashion. Also illustrates the differences between how the hard regimes operate compared to the soft regimes.
Most importantly, hard and soft managerial regimes differ in their approach to control. Hard managerial regimes default to the use of force, and are adept at using the threat of force to coerce stability and obedience. The state also tends to play a much more open role in the direction of the economy and society in hard systems, establishing state-owned corporations and taking direct control of mass media, for example, in addition to maintaining large security services. This can, however, reduce popular trust in the state and its organs.

In contrast, soft managerial regimes are largely inept and uncomfortable with the open use of force, and much prefer to instead maintain control through narrative management, manipulation, and hegemonic control of culture and ideas. The managerial state also downplays its power by outsourcing certain roles to other sectors of the managerial regime, which claim to be independent. Indeed they are independent, in the sense that they are not directly controlled by the state and can do what they want – but, being managerial institutions, staffed by managerial elites, and therefore stakeholders in the managerial imperative, they nonetheless operate in almost complete sync with the state. Such diffusion helps effectively conceal the scale, unity, and power of the soft managerial regime, as well as deflect and defuse any accountability. This softer approach to maintaining managerial regime dominance may lead to more day-to-day disorder (e.g. crime), but is no less politically stable than the hard variety (and arguably has to date proved more stable).

Despite these differences, every form of managerial regime shares the same fundamental characteristics and core values, including a devotion to technocratic scientism, utopianism, meliorism, homogenization, and one form or another of liberationism aimed at uprooting previous systems, norms, and values. They all pursue the same imperative of expanding mass organizations and the managerial elite, of growing and centralizing their bureaucratic power and control, and of systematically marginalizing managerialism’s enemies. They all have the same philosophical roots. And all their elites share similar deep anxieties about the public.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the- ... onvergence

Put simply, when punishing someone who gets out of line, the defaults are for hard regimes to target the body whereas soft regimes target the mind.

Which brings up an interesting story. A mediator was brought into our government workplace and employees were offered the opportunity to use this mediator to resolve any disputes they were having with management. I asked for mediation regarding a dispute where a large corporation had libeled me in a letter, using my name 14 times. The letter was written by their law firm (Foley and Lardner). I wanted the mediator to make a determination as to whether management was obligated to send a written response to the corporation saying that their allegations were untrue. Early on, in front of the mediator, I told the management representative that, "I would rather you would beat me than to do the things you are doing." Later, I related the conversation to a colleague and asked whether I should have said that, as it indicated that their mental torture was effective, even more effective than if they were physically beating me. He said yes, because it exposed what they were doing in front of the mediator. The mediator did find in my favor.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Thu Jun 13, 2024 7:42 pm

Guest wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:56 pm
Higgenbotham wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:22 pm
Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century
Dmitry Orlov
December 14, 2010
The Soviet Union was entirely self-sufficient when it came to labor. Both before and after the collapse, skilled labor was one of its main exports, along with oil, weapons, and industrial machinery. Not so with the United States, where not only is most of the manufacturing being carried out abroad, but a lot of service back home is being provided by immigrants as well. This runs the gamut from farm labor, landscaping, and office cleaning to the professions, such as engineering and medicine, without which society and its infrastructure would unravel. Most of these people came to the United States to enjoy the superior standard of living — for as long as it remains superior. Many of them will eventually head home, leaving a gaping hole in the social fabric.

I have had a chance to observe quite a few companies in the U.S. from the inside, and have spotted a certain constancy in the staffing profile. At the top, there is a group of highly compensated senior lunch-eaters. They tend to spend all of their time pleasing each other in various ways, big and small. They often hold advanced degrees in disciplines such as Technical Schmoozing and Relativistic Bean-counting. They are obsessive on the subject of money, and cultivate a posh country set atmosphere, even if they are just one generation out of the coal mines. Ask them to solve a technical problem — and they will politely demur, often taking the opportunity to flash their wit with a self-deprecating joke or two.

Somewhat further down the hierarchy are the people who actually do the work. They tend to have fewer social graces and communication skills, but they do know how to get the work done. Among them are found the technical innovators, who are often the company’s raison d’être.

More often than not, the senior lunch-eaters at the top are native-born Americans, and, more often than not, the ones lower down are either visiting foreigners or immigrants. These find themselves in a variety of situations, from the working visa holders who are often forced to choose between keeping their job and going home, to those who are waiting for a green card and must play their other cards just right, to those who have one, to citizens.

The natives at the top always try to standardize the job descriptions and lower the pay scale of the immigrants at the bottom, playing them against each other, while trying to portray themselves as super-achieving entrepreneurial mavericks who can’t be pinned down to a mere set of marketable skills. The opposite is often the case: the natives are often the commodity items, and would perform similar functions whether their business were biotechnology or salted fish, while those who work for them may be unique specialists, doing what has never been done before.

It is no surprise that this situation should have come about. For the last few generations, native-born Americans have preferred disciplines such as law, communications, and business administration, while immigrants and foreigners tended to choose the sciences and engineering. All their lives the natives were told to expect prosperity without end, and so they felt safe in joining professions that are mere embroidery on the fabric of an affluent society.

This process became known as "brain drain" — America’s extraction of talent from foreign lands, to its advantage, and to their detriment. This flow of brain power is likely to reverse direction, leaving the U.S. even less capable of finding ways to cope with its economic predicament. This may mean that, even in areas where there will be ample scope for innovation and development, such as restoration of rail service, or renewable energy, America may find itself without the necessary talent to make it happen.
https://www.permaculturenews.org/2010/1 ... n-century/

Though it's fair to say that a lot of this came about because we're in the maintenance phase of a declining civilization and instead of quality of technical talent, cost is paramount. His overall ideas seem correct, though.

Anyway, this is another way Americans lost contact with reality where the whole gamut of hands on jobs are done by immigrants.
Dmitry Orlov is a Putin shill and an America hater. He lies more often than he walks. He said in a deranged, wild eyed interview that the Crimean Tatars supported the annexation of the Crimea because 'they wanted to be with their Tartan brothers in Russia.' Yeah, right...
Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness site published Orlov's Post Soviet Lessons for a Post American Century in 3 parts in 2005. Ruppert is long gone, but not forgotten. My opinion is Orlov hit a home run with this analysis, but it can also be acknowledged that it was a one hit wonder which he never equaled.
Originally posted on From the Wilderness June 4, 2005

A decade and a half ago the world went from bipolar to unipolar, because one of the poles fell apart: The S.U. is no more. The other pole – symmetrically named the U.S. – has not fallen apart – yet, but there are ominous rumblings on the horizon. The collapse of the United States seems about as unlikely now as the collapse of the Soviet Union seemed in 1985. The experience of the first collapse may be instructive to those who wish to survive the second.

Reasonable people would never argue that that the two poles were exactly symmetrical; along with significant similarities, there were equally significant differences, both of which are valuable in predicting how the second half of the clay-footed superpower giant that once bestrode the planet will fare once it too falls apart.

I have wanted to write this article for almost a decade now. Until recently, however, few people would have taken it seriously. After all, who could have doubted that the world economic powerhouse that is the United States, having recently won the Cold War and the Gulf War, would continue, triumphantly, into the bright future of superhighways, supersonic jets, and interplanetary colonies?
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https://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/index.html

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:09 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuJdeAh914
300 percent inflation results
country for sale accusations
compromise doubtfull
the rate of socialism over the decades resulted in zero net growth

this was the same county years ago the family buried metals and after the total collapse
bought a floer mill to grinf grain for the village as they rebuilt now bakers who bartered with sane
people from the death spiral

they hide assets since they learned before lie cheat steal from those who produce

currently they are wiping out utah potato farmer
they will buy later as farmland is taken over as our govenment murders them economically
no adults exist as they sell the land to adversary governments

Schweikert Warns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-88jMq0bk
speak to empty room

few adults seen as we watched active measures for many decades

in real time from the 400 acre to 400000 acre farm collapses through bankrupts over the
many decades they think they think

the fruit fell from the tree and rots again

you done as your fools worhip fools

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... =0&_sop=15

you will not learn and your abandoned to repeat with fools

economic hardships of millions of middle-class Americans are going unseen by their government

by design

amos is correct

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