Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

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well, we end today show with a look more
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closely at United Health's policies uh
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Propublica has just published an expose
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looking at how United Health is
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aggressively trying to limit treatment
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for thousands of children with autism in
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an effort to cut costs the Propublica
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report is based on leaked documents from
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inside the company last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0lCTQnYSyc

With chronic conditions skyrocketing and it being too late to rein in the sources of the skyrocketing conditions, cuts will have to be made, whether private companies make the decisions or it is done in another way. I would personally not want to be involved in deciding who lives, who dies, who suffers less, who suffers more, etc.

[Higgenbotham]

Plastic chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide
A review of chemical exposures across 38 countries finds common plastic products are linked to millions of cases of heart disease and thousands of strokes
By Grace Wade
16 December 2024

Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of heart disease worldwide may be linked to chemicals in common plastic products, suggesting that more stringent regulations on such toxins could benefit public health.

Maureen Cropper at the University of Maryland and her colleagues assessed the public health impact of exposure to three types of chemicals primarily used in plastics: bisphenol A (BPA), di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). BPA and DEHP are found in plastic food packaging and PBDEs are flame retardants used in some household goods, such as furniture and electronics.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/24 ... worldwide/

[aeden]

Consumers will be imported to replace the diseased ones they produced. Same logic as term limits to feral bar tenders labeled Senators to progress.
The more laws the simply more corrupt. They will indeed stay irrational and do care less about MMT cult solvency annoyances.
https://site.manheim.com/en/services/co ... index.html

(a)The Government Accountability Office is an instrumentality of the United States Government independent of the executive departments.

(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that
the implementation of this section is intended to reshape the General Accounting Office workforce and not downsize the General
Accounting Office workforce.’’.

Thou shall continue the swamp rot and serve the Beast.
Thou shall and will be and already are Astroturfed.

They all turned into tyrants at the first sign of stress. The disease is baked in. They worship the allure to eliminate.

Our Pericles will continue on the narrower basis and they the callous swamp also knew.
Athens did not have to account for how the money was actually spent.

[vincecate]

Wondering if this is the start of a crash. Will be watching more than usual in the coming days.

[aeden]

sds hedged -0.51% for the day
Crash away.
After market fun time sds still cheap.

Gap fill then the dip buyers get wood chippered after new year.
Narrative will be nobody saw 1974 but vins puts, higgs math and we got another steer headed to the freezer
as JPOW tales them to the wood shed over bought.

[Higgenbotham]

Based on aeden's advice, I decided to get a cat first. I picked up this one up from a nearby farm.

Higgie,

I know this is a "working" cat, but I have to say, it's a very pretty one. But then again, we typically have three cats sleeping with us every night. Cats are all different, but they're generally great animals.

Spotty

She's a fabulous cat. No pests have bothered the garden in weeks. Tomatoes still coming in and there is no freeze in the 10 day forecast.

[Cool Breeze]

Based on aeden's advice, I decided to get a cat first. I picked up this one up from a nearby farm.

Higgie,

I know this is a "working" cat, but I have to say, it's a very pretty one. But then again, we typically have three cats sleeping with us every night. Cats are all different, but they're generally great animals.

Spotty

She's a fabulous cat. No pests have bothered the garden in weeks. Tomatoes still coming in and there is no freeze in the 10 day forecast.

Looking good, Higgie.

[aeden]

As Sapolsky put it “We don’t understand the mechanism of transmission… but the jerky new guys are obviously learning: We don’t do things like that around here.” So, at least by baboon standards, the garbage dump troop developed and enforced what I would call a “no asshole rule.”

Biologists Robert Sapolsky and Lisa Share have followed a troop of wild baboons in Kenya for over 20 years, starting in 1978. Sapolsky and Share called them “The Garbage Dump Troop” because they got much of their food from a garbage pit at a tourist lodge. But not every baboon was allowed to eat from the pit in the early 1980s: The aggressive, high status males in the troop refused to allow lower status males, or any females, to eat the garbage. Between 1983 and 1986, infected meat from the dump led to the deaths of 46% of the adult males in the troop.

The current swamp lesson will be ignored and is as the free shit army of alleged free being in another industrial processed sorted free shit army.
The water wheat weather lessons in the obvious lesson not learned. Don't trust your next PR campaign to baboons.

Anyways as we infered as covered the ex nihilo period into the 1871 of intent.
Prototype of the trading company of the early capitalistic era as the Fugger House ratios.
The current gamed intent is clear.
The cost ratios of labor as we rebalance value added.
Our basis is the unleveraged ratio of the 4 legs of the chair.
Bond-Metals-Real Estate-Stock.
The current ratio of rate inversion and leverage will end them.

No date needed here for the few.

[Higgenbotham]

Poll Tracker

Éric Grenier of TheWrit.ca breaks down where the polls stand in the lead up to a federal election.
Last Updated: Dec. 23, 2024, at 7:38 a.m.

Liberal slide continues as Conservatives open wider lead

The Conservatives have increased their lead over the Liberals to 23 points nationwide as support for Justin Trudeau's party took another tumble in the wake of Chrystia Freeland's resignation from cabinet. While the Conservatives are in a position to win a massive majority government, the Liberals are fighting with the Bloc Québécois to finish second in seats. The New Democrats, third in national polling, have not significantly benefited from the Liberal collapse.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/electio ... er/canada/

Soon we'll be learning the name Pierre Poilievre (PP), the conservative who will replace Trudeau and be heading our neighbor to the north.

[Higgenbotham]

DECEMBER 19, 2024
Plumbing poverty: More people living without running water in US cities since global financial crisis
by King's College London

More American cities—even those seen as affluent—are home to people living without running water as people are being "squeezed" by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, new research finds.

Published in Nature Cities, the study revealed the problem worsened following changes to the housing market triggered by the 2008 global crash. And since 2017, it has been "expanding in scope and severity" to affect a broader array of US cities including Portland (OR), Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Philadelphia, as well as large urban areas such as Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco.

From 1990, plumbing poverty shifted from being a mainly rural to urban issue and latest figures show 71 percent of those in plumbing poverty now live in cities.

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-plumbing- ... lobal.html

Eventually, exorbitant flat fees will grow more quickly than they already are due to a declining base of customers, and former customers learning the tricks of tapping off of one shared neighborhood connection to spread out the flat fee, or perhaps stealing by tapping into the system before the meter. Once that starts to really pick up speed, the whole public utility scheme may implode. So first they will try lots more gimmicks to keep the poor connected, as the article states.

2 Investigates: 150 people charged with stealing water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjspgb4cO2A

As I’ve pointed out in previous posts, the line of fracture between the senile elite and what Arnold Toynbee called the internal proletariat—the people who live within a failing civilization’s borders but receive essentially none of its benefits—eventually opens into a chasm that swallows what’s left of the civilization. Sometimes the tectonic processes that pull the chasm open are hard to miss, but there are times when they’re a good deal more difficult to sense in action, and this is one of these latter times. Listen to the whisper of the shutoff valve, and you’ll hear tens of thousands of Americans being cut off from basic services the rest of us, for the time being, still take for granted.

http://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/201 ... valve.html