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Higgenbotham wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:52 pm

Christine Lindquist, executive director of the Washington Healthcare Access Alliance, which supports dozens of free clinics around the state, said the clinic’s closure is a symptom of broader problems facing the healthcare industry: increasing costs, staff shortages, privatization, closures and consolidation.

Valley Medical Center, for instance, closed two inpatient units and five clinics in Kent and Renton last year. Seattle Children’s laid off 150 staff members last year. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health also had layoffs. The impending federal cuts to Medicaid, signed by Trump last year, are expected to cost Washington hospitals $6 billion, according to Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office. Fourteen rural hospitals in Washington are at risk of closure, according to Democratic senators.

When the healthcare system as a whole is straining, Lindquist said, it becomes that much more difficult for free clinics to get things they need to operate, like lab testing, imaging, prescription drug services.

“There are too many parts to these systems that are failing at the same time,” Lindquist said.

She pointed to dental care as an area where there has been a lot of recent consolidation among practices that used to be individually operated now owned by private equity.

“So people can’t say ‘OK next Thursday and Friday we’re going to close down our office and we’re all going to go work at Seattle/King County Clinic’; people don’t have that kind of flexibility that they had even a decade ago,” Lindquist said. “You have to work so much harder to get enough dentists to fill 100 chairs.”

Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 4:14 pm Insurrection vs Insurgency in the New Dark Age

Could a large number of independent insurrections that operate under leaderless resistance have the same effect as a large organized insurgency?

AI Overview

Yes, a massive number of independent, leaderless cells can achieve the disruptive, psychological, and systemic effects of an organized insurgency. However, while they can inflict significant damage, they generally struggle to achieve the decisive, political end-goals of a unified insurgency.

Why Leaderless Resistance Can Equal an Organized Insurgency

Operational Security: Without a central command or communication networks, these cells are highly resistant to traditional intelligence gathering, infiltration, and the "leadership decapitation" that often cripples organized insurgencies.

Overwhelming Saturation: Even small-scale actions, when executed concurrently by thousands of independent actors across wide geographies, can completely overwhelm state security, policing, and economic resources.

Asymmetric Persistence: Without the structural vulnerabilities of a standing military force, these movements are notoriously difficult for established authorities to root out completely.

The Limits of Leaderless Resistance

Lack of a Political Endgame: Organized insurgencies often have overt political wings, provide social services, and offer a viable alternative government. Decentralized cells are usually limited to violence, mayhem, or protests without a clear path to taking or transitioning into power.

Tactical Incoherence: Independent actors may contradict each other's actions, target the wrong assets, or alienate the broader population through uncoordinated violence.

Vulnerability to Countermeasures: Because these cells operate without central command, they rely heavily on broad, ideological narratives to stay aligned. This means authorities can sometimes neutralize them by disrupting information pipelines, deploying algorithmic censorship, or initiating targeted counter-messaging campaigns.

This clarifies why these terms are being used interchangeably here in this dark age hovel. In the new dark age, it will likely not be possible to achieve the scale of a standard insurgency but a large number of independent insurrections can mimic that without any coherent endpoint, as would be expected in a dark age environment.

Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 2:49 pm

How likely is a localized domestic insurrection composed of small cells numbering under 300 total individuals within the United States in the next 12 months?

Federal intelligence assessments indicate that while the likelihood of a massive, organized uprising is very low, the threat of localized violence or targeted attacks by small, decentralized cells (numbering well under 300 individuals) is a persistent and escalating concern.

Security experts and threat analysts track this localized risk through several key frameworks:

Tactical Approach: Domestic violent extremists and anti-government groups increasingly favor "leaderless resistance" and compartmentalized, decentralized cells rather than large, centralized paramilitary formations.

Target Selection: Small cells typically avoid heavily fortified government installations, focusing instead on "soft targets", critical infrastructure, law enforcement personnel, or local civic and political events.

Federal Disruption: The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security heavily prioritize tracking and disrupting domestic terrorism. Because of sophisticated surveillance and undercover operations, large-scale coordinated plots are frequently detected and dismantled in the early planning phases. Tracking domestic extremism requires an understanding of both the ideology and the tactical methods of these actors. For more details on how threat levels are monitored nationwide, you can review the 2026 Homeland Threat Assessment provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

My tendency is still to think that not much happens until the financial system crashes, but, at the same time, it seems it is well past the "sell by" date for a crash. This increases the chances that a whole lot of things happen all at about the same time.

aedens wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2026 5:48 pm Our soil is clean.
Then these asshole worry about sugar and canned a swamp cow.
Orange cloud is nothing but a diseased vector.
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thread: 2019

October 23, 2026
The study tested samples from different Texas waterways for PFAS and found every single one of them to be contaminated.

Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels
2 August 2022

PFAS have been found in rain in Tibet

New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that "greatly exceed" safety levels.

These synthetic substances called PFAS are used in non-stick pans, fire-fighting foam and water-repellent clothes.

Dubbed 'forever chemicals', they persist for years in the environment.

Such is their prevalence now that scientists say there is no safe space on Earth to avoid them.

The researchers from Stockholm University say it is "vitally important" that the use of these substances is rapidly restricted.

Scientists fear PFAS may pose health risks including cancer, though research has so far been inconclusive. They have been growing increasingly concerned about the proliferation of PFAS in recent years.

PFAS stands for poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances.

There are around 4,500 of these fluorine-based compounds and they are found in almost every dwelling on Earth in hundreds of everyday products including food packaging, non-stick cookware, rain gear, adhesives, paper and paints.

Safety concerns about the presence of these long-lasting substances in drinking water have also been raised.

Earlier this year a BBC investigation found PFAS in water samples in England at levels that exceeded European safety levels, but did not exceed the current safety level in England and Wales.

This new study, which looks at four specific chemicals in the class, suggests that levels of one PFAS in rainwater around the globe often "greatly exceed" US drinking water advisory levels.

Soil around the world is similarly contaminated, evidence suggests.

The study's findings lead the authors to conclude that a planetary boundary has been crossed - that there simply is no safe space on Earth to avoid these substances.

Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2026 2:36 pm There will be a new set of winners who can be identified later. Kind of like how Joe Granville was the man in the 1970s.

What Happened: On this day in 1981, Joe Granville warned his newsletter readers to "Sell everything!"

Where The Market Was: The Dow closed at 1,004.69 and the S&P 500 traded at 138.12.

Granville's Bold Prediction: On Jan. 6, 1981, in his weekly newsletter, Granville warned investors that a stock market crash was on the horizon and they should dump all their stocks. The following day, the Dow tanked 4.2% on record trading volume of 92.9 million shares, making Granville look like a genius.

A year after Granville's call, the Dow was still down 14%, and Granville had become famous for calling the drop. At the time, Granville has 11,000 newsletter subscribers paying $250 per year for his insight. Others paid $500 for urgent phone alerts.

Granville's followers praised him for his 1981 call, his prediction of the bear market in the late 1970s and his bearish call ahead of the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000. Critics point out that he completely missed the bull market that started in 1982.

While Granville gained notoriety for his 1981 call, his overall performance was far from impressive. From 1980 through January 2005, Granville's stock picks for investors lost 0.5% on an annualized basis compared to an 11.9% average yearly gain from the market as a whole.

aedens wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2026 12:05 am Every five percent down one percent sell...