Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

NARRATION: They are everywhere in our daily lives - often where we least expect them.

DR. PHILIP LANDRIGAN, CHAIRMAN, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, MT. SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment, and we are using our children as the experimental animals.

NARRATION: Not a single child today is born free of synthetic chemicals.

AL MEYERHOFF, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

NARRATION: We think we are protected but, in fact, chemicals are presumed safe - innocent - until proven guilty.

SANDY BUCHANAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OHIO CITIZEN ACTION: Years of documents have shown that they knew they were hurting people, much like the tobacco industry.

PROFESSOR GERALD MARKOWITZ Ph.D, JOHN JAY COLLEGE: Historians don't like to use broad political terms like "cover-up," but there's really no other term that you can use for this.

NARRATION: In this special investigation, we will reveal the secrets that a powerful industry has kept hidden for almost fifty years.

TRADE SECRETS: A Moyers Report

TEST RESULTS

NARRATION: Today, an average of twenty new chemicals enter the marketplace every week. We don't know much about them - and we don't know what they might be doing to us.

Back at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Michael McCally was ready to tell me if residues of the chemical revolution had been found in my blood.

BILL MOYERS: So what's the news?

DR. MICHAEL McCALLY, VICE-CHAIRMAN, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, MT. SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: We tested for 150 different industrial chemicals, and you have 84 of those 150.

BILL MOYERS: Wow. Eighty-four.

MICHAEL McCALLY: Eighty-four.

BILL MOYERS: If you had tested me sixty years ago when I was six years old, would you have found those chemicals?

MICHAEL McCALLY: No. No. With one exception.

BILL MOYERS: What's that?

MICHAEL McCALLY: Lead.

BILL MOYERS: Lead.

MICHAEL McCALLY: Lead. Lead's been around -- we've been -- we've been poisoning ourselves with lead since, you know, practically the cave ages.

BILL MOYERS: So 83 of these 84 chemicals you found in my blood are there because of the chemical revolution -

MICHAEL McCALLY: Yes.

BILL MOYERS: -- over the last sixty years.

MICHAEL McCALLY: That's correct. That's correct. And we didn't know this until we looked, but suddenly we find out that the industry has put a bunch of chemicals in our body that, you know, are not good for us, and we didn't have any say in that. That just happened.

BILL MOYERS: What kind of chemicals?

MICHAEL McCALLY: In the PCB case, you have 31 different PCBs of this whole family of similar chemicals. They are all over the place. And it's probably a function of where you lived. You lived in some locale where PCBs were in the environment, and you got them into you through the air you breathed. Some of them get down in groundwater. Some of them get coated on food. You didn't get them sort of in one afternoon because you ate a poisoned apple.

BILL MOYERS: And dioxins?

MICHAEL McCALLY: And dioxins, of all that we measured, you had 13, 13 different dioxins.

BILL MOYERS: You tested for some pesticides.

MICHAEL McCALLY: Yes. The organophosphates -- malathion is one we may have heard of because we're spraying it here in New York because of mosquitoes.

BILL MOYERS: I used to spray malathion on my house in Long -- on my yard in Long Island.

MICHAEL McCALLY: We also measured organochlorine pesticides. The best known is DDT. DDT hasn't been produced in this country for several decades.

BILL MOYERS: Yes. So where would I have gotten that?

MICHAEL McCALLY: Did you ever, you know, watch them spray the trees when you were a little kid?

BILL MOYERS: Young man.

MICHAEL McCALLY: A young man? Yes. Okay.

BILL MOYERS: And I lived around places that had used it.

MICHAEL McCALLY: Well, that's enough, because again, like PCBs, these are very persistent chemicals. They don't -- the body doesn't metabolize them, doesn't break them down into little pieces and get rid of them.

BILL MOYERS: How do the results of my test compare with others around the country?

MICHAEL McCALLY: I wish we had more data. I wish I could give you a clear answer to that. The burdens that you carry are probably biologically less important than if you were, you know, a 21-year-old woman who was in her ninth week of pregnancy. And then the fact that you were circulating some DDT might really be important.

BILL MOYERS: Have these chemicals been tested in terms of what happens when they are combined?

MICHAEL McCALLY: No. No. That is a complexity that we haven't even looked at.

BILL MOYERS: Have they been tested on vulnerable populations like children?

MICHAEL McCALLY: No. We are just beginning to do that science.

BILL MOYERS: Is it fair to say from all of this that we are, as human beings, being unwittingly exposed to hundreds of toxic chemicals which have been tested enough just to know that they're toxic, but not tested enough to know the risks?

MICHAEL McCALLY: That's a fine summary of the current state of affairs. We know enough now to know that it doesn't make a lot of sense to make chemicals that are carcinogenic and add them to our bodies and then argue about how much we are adding. It just isn't a good idea. Particularly when there are perfectly acceptable alternatives, and if the industry chose, it could change our exposures dramatically by its own actions.

NARRATION: Three years ago - on the eve of Earth Day - the Chemical Manufacturers Association promised that its member companies would begin to voluntarily test one hundred chemicals a year at an estimated cost of 26 million dollars.

FRED WEBBER, PRESIDENT, CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION: Our vision is that we will be highly valued by society for our leadership, for the benefits of our products and for the responsible and ethical way in which we conduct our business. It's as simple as that.

NARRATION: Today, we are still waiting for the results of even one of those tests. During those three years, the industry poured more than 33 million dollars into the election campaigns of friendly politicians.

NARRATION: As the secret documents reveal, the promise to test - voluntarily - was part of a strategy hatched almost a decade ago. September 15, 1992

"A general CMA policy on voluntary development of health, safety and environmental information will...potentially avert restrictive regulatory actions and legislative initiatives."

AL MEYERHOFF:The idea of a chemical company voluntarily testing its product is not unlike efforts to voluntarily regulate their products. It is an attempt to pre-empt effective government. It is an attempt to try to stop the government from doing its job by doing half-baked measures and then claiming that we're protecting the public.

DR. PHILIP LANDRIGAN, CHAIRMAN, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, MT. SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: There are 80,000 different man-made chemicals that have been registered with the EPA for possible use in commerce. Of those 80,000, there are about 15,000 that are actually produced each year in major quantities, and of those 15,000, only about 43 percent have ever been properly tested to see whether or not they can cause injury to humans.

NARRATION: The industry's own documents confirm just how little we know. Meeting of the CMA Board of Directors. Pebble Beach. Report of Health Effects Committee. "The chemical industry has contended that while a few substances pose a real risk to human health when sufficient exposure occurs, the vast majority of chemicals do not pose any substantial threat to health. However, the problem is, very little data exists to broadly respond to the public's perception and the charges of our opponents."

NARRATION: That is worth repeating. "The problem is, very little data exists." In other words, the industry itself acknowledged it could not prove the majority of chemicals safe.

https://billmoyers.com/content/trade-secrets/

https://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/proble ... bb_03.html

[Higgenbotham]

Ch-ch-changes

Eric Francis | 1st October 2008

Environmental toxins have given us lesbian seagulls and transgender crabs, but pollutants may also be causing gender ambiguity in humans, says Eric Francis

For all 17 years I’ve been writing about PCBs and dioxins, I’ve been reading about the subtle and not-so-subtle sexual effects of these chemicals and many others related to them. We all have.

Whereas once science worried about skin pustules and cancer, today the main concerns about pollution are its effects on sex hormones, and the way they blur the distinctions between the genders. During this same time we’ve been watching the transgender movement develop around the world – that is, people whose gender identity is consciously shifting, and many who are opting for gender reassignment surgery. Could there be a connection between the chemical and sexual environments?

Since the advent of the Kinsey scale, we have become more accepting of how gender and sexuality exist on a continuum, rather than as an either/or function. Studies on how environmental factors are influencing human gender identity are extremely rare. The topic seems shrouded in the general taboo on sexuality, and the more sensitive issues that surround homosexuality and transgender. Gay and transgender movements, for their part, seem unwilling to ascribe an environmental cause because of the presumption it suggests: that if the pollution is cleaned up, maybe they will go away.

On one level it seems impossible that there can be no connection between environmental factors and sexual fluctuations in humans. The articles on sexual effects of toxins come at us so fast, they go by in a blur. If only we had clipped or bookmarked them all.

Let’s see: there were the infamous lesbian seagulls. There were the adult crabs that switched genders. There were the male babies born to Asian PCB exposure victims whose penises were smaller. Sperm counts have declined by 40 per cent since our grandfathers’ generation. There was that study about the distance from the scrotum to the anus shrinking in boys, meaning that the male genital configuration is gradually becoming more like the female one.

Exposed girls and women are susceptible to hormonal diseases such as endometriosis. Daughters of Agent Orange exposure victims have a higher chance of developing childhood vaginal cancer. The female reproductive system is particularly sensitive to illnesses from exposure, including birth defects and infertility.

In 1991, a group of scientists met in Racine, Wisconsin, to discuss the effects of living in what many describe as a sea of artificial oestrogens, and issued something called the Wingspread Statement: ‘The concentrations of a number of synthetic hormone agonists and antagonists measured in the US human population today are well within the range and dosages at which effects are seen in wildlife populations,’ the scientists warned.

‘Unless the environmental load of synthetic hormone disruptors is abated and controlled, large-scale dysfunction at the population level is possible’ – which would seem to imply that social sexual choices and behaviour could be affected by exposure.

‘Many wildlife populations are already affected by these compounds,’ the scientists continued. ‘The impacts include thyroid dysfunction in birds and fish; decreased fertility in birds, fish, shellfish and mammals; decreased hatching success in birds, fish and turtles; gross birth deformities in birds, fish and turtles; [...] demasculinization and feminization in male fish, birds and mammals; defeminization and masculinization of female fish and birds; and compromised immune systems in birds and mammals.’

Five years later, Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers came out with the book Our Stolen Future, establishing that hormone effects were not only well-documented, but also subtler and more widespread than anyone had anticipated.

A major federal study on the toxicity of dioxin in the mid-1990s concluded the same thing: hormone effects are what is the most devastating to humans and wildlife.

In these same years, what used to be the lesbian and gay movement grew into the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer movement (LGBTQ), which now seems to embrace everything but heterosexuality and self-sexuality. We’ve gone a bit past David Bowie’s idea of being ‘not sure if you’re a boy or a girl’; by one estimate, there are as many as 40,000 post-operative women currently living in the United States. Because health insurance pays for these surgeries in some places, sex changes are considered by some to be normative sexual behaviour. On web meeting spots like craigslist.org, phrases such as FTM (female-to-male transsexual) or MTF (male-to-female), pre-op and post-op are now common parlance.

Safer surgery, easier availability of the procedures and changing psychiatric definitions have helped raise the visibility of transsexuals.

https://theecologist.org/2008/oct/01/ch-ch-changes

[aeden]

As we noted they cannot fathom the circle they walk in and the actual price in it.
Outer darkness will be the result for them since once they go there is no way is back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZ-ReLiAEg
Truly they know what they are doing which makes every aspect that ties it together
as the outer darkness the final wages.

Also if you noticed the increase in the Cantillon effect of $400 billion for the transitional reset effect unleashed on the taxpayer
today it is clear America is to be taken down. The Senate is compliant and complaisant in this ending.
The inaction of the Legislation branch is past the lethal head wound also.

A candle is being sent to Europe. The last one sent to eastern Germany before the wall fell for His sake and our Brevity.
The unthinkable is here as are the maps to the 10 zones witnessed again also.
As I told the Pastor that stopped by I was told He was on the way. I have two confirmations sent. No one knows
but we are reminded to what will be done.

[Higgenbotham]

Texas moves to create gold-backed digital currency
Jordan Finneseth
Thursday April 06, 2023 14:31

(Kitco News) - As lawmakers in the U.S. introduce bills pushing back against the creation of a U.S.-dollar-based central bank digital currency (CBDC), Texas is opting to go a different route with the creation of a state-issued, gold-backed digital currency.

Based on the text of Senate Bill 2334, which was introduced by state Senator Bryan Huges (R), and House Bill 4903, which was introduced by state Representative Mark Dorazio (R), the legislators are looking to require the state comptroller to establish a digital currency that is fully backed by gold and fully redeemable in cash or gold.

https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/T ... rency.html

BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center
H.B. 2334

There has been great concern about out-of-control inflation of the United States dollar and the federal steps taken to adopt central bank digital currency (CBDC).

With this in mind, Texas must begin taking steps against such reckless and dangerous actions. S.B. 2334 would establish a Texas gold-backed digital currency and allow the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas the necessary tools needed to oversee and implement such a digital currency.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/a ... 02334I.htm

Texas GOP chair implicitly calls for secession

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Trump.html

I don't have any inside contacts, but I believe Texas has been preparing for secession for some time. Several years ago, Texas built its own gold depository and has been talking about moving its gold from out of state locations into the Texas depository. Kyle Bass was involved in this. Citizens of the State of Texas can also hold their gold there and have been encouraged to do so. I believe the reason Texas did this is so it can secede from the US and issue its own gold backed currency if the US dollar fails. With Biden/Harris as president, I would surmise that Texans believe that failure will be sometime in the next 4 or 8 years and are getting prepared. From listening to the politician's town hall meetings, which anyone in the state can access by phone for free, I would also surmise that Texas will shut its border and not allow anyone in from liberal states. Texas came too close to going blue in this presidential election and they aren't comfortable with this at all.

Texas just opened the nation's first state-run gold depository. Here's what that means.

Texas lawmakers signed off on building the country's first state-backed gold depository in 2015 after the project was reworked to ensure a private firm would absorb all the costs. Gov. Greg Abbott said at the time that the project would allow Texas to “repatriate” gold from New York.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/06 ... %20Leander

I've been listening to Governor Abbott's town halls. He was talking about the influx from California and was worried about Texas turning blue. In a subsequent town hall he was asked about this and Governor Abbott said we took a look at who is coming in from California and they are not Democrats.

The reason I reposted this from April - the point is that they're looking, they're watching. This is a big topic in the town halls - who is coming into Texas from other states and that they're not going to allow Texas to go blue.

The forces of chaos are trying to destroy Texas but Texans are fighting back hard. I believe the forces of chaos will win but am rooting for the Texans who are fighting the good fight.

[aeden]

You are not alone.

[Higgenbotham]

Ch-ch-changes

Eric Francis | 1st October 2008

In 1991, a group of scientists met in Racine, Wisconsin, to discuss the effects of living in what many describe as a sea of artificial oestrogens, and issued something called the Wingspread Statement: ‘The concentrations of a number of synthetic hormone agonists and antagonists measured in the US human population today are well within the range and dosages at which effects are seen in wildlife populations,’ the scientists warned.

‘Unless the environmental load of synthetic hormone disruptors is abated and controlled, large-scale dysfunction at the population level is possible’ – which would seem to imply that social sexual choices and behaviour could be affected by exposure.

https://theecologist.org/2008/oct/01/ch-ch-changes

https://news.gallup.com/poll/470708/lgb ... teady.aspx

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THE WINGSPREAD STATEMENT--PART 1: CHEMICALS IN ENVIRONMENT AFFECT SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT IN WILDLIFE.
AND HUMANS?
Gradually during recent years a new body of knowledge has developed showing that some chemicals in food and water can mimic hormones and disrupt the development of living things like fish, birds, and mammals, including their sexual development.

In some cases, the effects on wildlife have been dramatic. For example, male herring gulls on Lake Ontario, exposed to DDT and other organochlorine compounds, developed female sex organs. Female-female pairing has been observed in herring gulls on Lake Michigan and on Santa Barbara Island, California. Because humans share the same basic mechanisms of growth and development as wildlife, an increasing number of scientists has become concerned that humans may already be affected without recognizing it.

In July of this year an international group of 21 scientists met at Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin to assess what is known about these matters. They have now released a "consensus statement" containing information and opinions about the nature and possible causes of these problems. The five-page statement is called "Chemically Induced Alterations in Sexual Development: The Wildlife/Human Connection."

Background

Hormones are produced by the endocrine system--a bodily system consisting of specialized cells, tissues, and organs that create and secrete (usually into the blood) organic chemicals called hormones, which then regulate other kinds of cells in the body. Particular hormones only affect particular cells that contain "receptors" for those hormones. A small amount of a hormone attaches to a "receptor site" and the hormone-receptor pair then initiates a cascade of chemical changes, often with major and far-reaching consequences.

The endocrine system shares with the nervous system the job of adjusting the body's response to a changing external environment. The nervous system copes with environmental changes on an immediate basis, whereas the endocrine system copes with environmental changes on a sustaining basis. For example, when the body gets cold, the nervous system causes shivering, which raises the body's temperature. But each month it is the endocrine system that starts the human female menstrual cycle. In a developing fetus, it is the endocrine system that regulates cell division and organ differentiation. The endocrine system regulates pattern and timing of bird migration and of hibernation in mammals. Examples of endocrine glands in humans include the adrenal gland, pancreas, thyroid, pituitary, ovaries and testes.

The scientists gathered at Wingspread last July focused on the sex hormones--the androgens that make males look and act like males and the estrogens that make females look and act like females. The Wingspread Statement begins, "Many compounds introduced into the environment by human activity are capable of disrupting the endocrine system of animals, including fish, wildlife, and humans. The consequences of such disruption can be profound because of the crucial role hormones play in controlling development...."

"The following consensus was reached by participants at the workshop. "[1]. We are certain of the following:

"A large number of man-made chemicals that have been released into the environment, as well as a few natural ones, have the potential to disrupt the endocrine system of animals, including humans. Among these are the persistent, bioaccumulative, organohalogen compounds that include some pesticides (fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides) and industrial chemicals, other synthetic products, and some metals.[1]

"Many wildlife populations are already affected by these compounds. The impacts include thyroid dysfunction [impaired or abnormal functioning] in birds and fish; decreased fertility in birds, fish, shellfish, and mammals; decreased hatching success in birds, fish and turtles; gross birth deformities in birds, fish and turtles; metabolic abnormalities [impaired or abnormal use of energy, manufacture of tissue, or handling of resulting wastes] in birds, fish, and mammals; behavioral abnormalities in birds; demasculinization and feminization in male fish, birds, and mammals; defeminization and masculinization of female fish and birds; and compromised [impaired] immune systems in birds and mammals.

"The patterns of effects vary among species and among compounds. Four general points can nonetheless be made: (1) the chemicals of concern may have entirely different effects on the embryo, fetus, or perinatal [meaning "near the time of birth," from the 28th week of pregnancy through the first week of life, in humans] organism than on the adult; (2) the effects are most often manifested in offspring, not in the exposed parent; (3) the timing of exposure in the developing organism is crucial in determining its character and future potential; and (4) although critical exposure occurs during embryonic development [from conception through the end of the second month of pregnancy], obvious manifestations [effects] may not occur until maturity.

"Laboratory studies corroborate the abnormal sexual development observed in the field and provide biological mechanisms to explain the observations in wildlife.

"Humans have been affected by compounds of this nature, too. The effects of DES (diethylstilbesterol), a synthetic therapeutic agent, like many of the compounds mentioned [in footnote 1] are estrogenic [meaning they act like estrogen, a family of female sex hormones]. Daughters born to mothers who took DES now suffer increased rates of clear cell adenocarcinoma [cancer], various genital tract abnormalities, abnormal pregnancies, and some changes in immune responses. Both sons and daughters exposed in utero [while in the uterus] experience congenital anomalies of their reproductive system and reduced fertility. The effects seen in in utero DES-exposed humans parallel those found in contaminated wildlife and laboratory animals, suggesting that humans may be at risk to those same environmental hazards as wildlife."

The Wingspread Statement goes on: [2]. "We estimate with confidence that:

"Some of the developmental impairments reported in humans today are seen in adult offspring of parents exposed to synthetic hormone disruptors (agonists and antagonists) released in the environment. The concentrations of a number of synthetic hormone agonists and antagonists measured in the U.S. human population today are well within the range and dosages at which effects are seen in wildlife populations. [An agonist is a chemical that is not a hormone but mimics a natural hormone; an antagonist interferes with a natural hormone.] In fact, experimental results [in animals] are being seen at the low end of current environmental concentrations [in humans].

"Unless the environmental load of synthetic hormone disruptors is abated and controlled, large scale dysfunction at the population level is possible. The scope and potential hazard to wildlife and humans are great because of the probability of repeated and/or constant exposure to numerous synthetic chemicals that are known to be endocrine disruptors...."[3]. Current models predict that:

"... Both exogenous (external source) and endo-genous (internal source) androgens (male hormones) and estrogens (female hormones) can alter the development of brain function.

"Any perturbation [disturbance] of the endocrine system of a developing organism may alter the development of that organism: typically these effects are irreversible. For example, many sex-related characteristics are determined hormonally during a window of time in the early stages of development, and can be influenced by small changes in hormone balance. Evidence suggests that sex-related characteristics, once imprinted, may be irreversible."

The Wingspread statement then gives three reasons why these predictions are subject to "many uncertainties:" (1) effects of exposure of humans are not well understood, especially exposure of embryos; (2) data on reproductive problems in wildlife exist but data on behavior changes are not so readily available; (3) the potency of many synthetic [human-created] estrogenic chemicals is not well known.

The British publisher, Elsevier Applied Science, will publish a book on this subject by next fall. Until then, the best source of information is Theodora E. Colborn and others, GREAT LAKES GREAT LEGACY? available for $20.00 (plus $2.00 shipping) from: World Wildlife Fund, P.O. Box 4866, Hampden Post Office, Baltimore, MD 21211; phone (301) 516-6951.

For $3.00 plus stamped, self-addressed envelope, we can send you the Wingspread statement itself.

[More on this subject coming soon.]
--Peter Montague, Ph.D.

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[1] A footnote on page 1 of the Wingspread Statement says, "Chemicals known to disrupt the endocrine system include: DDT and its degradation products, DEHP (di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate), dicofol, HCB (hexachlorobenzene), kelthane, kepone, lindane and other hexachlorocyclohexane congeners, methoxychlor, octachlorostyrene, synthetic pyrethroids, triazine herbicides, EBDC fungicides, certain PCB congeners, 2,3,7,8-TCDD and other dioxins, 2,3,7,8-TCDF and other furans, cadmium, lead, mercury, tributyltin and other organo-tin compounds, alkyl phenols (non-biodegradable detergents and anti-oxidants present in modified polystyrene and PVCs), styrene dimers and trimers, soy products, and laboratory animal and pet food products."

Descriptor terms: endocrine disruptors; racine; wi; wildlife; sexual development; endocrine system; fish; birds; herring gulls; mammals; humans; reproductive hazards; reproductive disorders; ddt; des; pesticides; herbicides; insecticides; fungicides; theodora colborn;

https://www.ejnet.org/rachel/rhwn263.htm

This industrial civilization goes to great lengths to assess and identify individuals who have intelligence according to the criteria that generally lead to career success and put those people in positions of decision-making (within limits of intelligence), but has no processes in place to assess and identify individuals who have wisdom or to place them in any position of decision-making. Also, in our everyday conversations both public and private, there are constant references to those who are “smart” but somewhere between zero and a very small number of references to people who are “wise”. Therefore, it’s not possible to point to a group of wise people who have been identified by some tried and true process and know what that group thinks about the Federal Reserve, or anything else. The problem if the wise were to somehow get control of decision making at this time is that the position industrial civilization currently finds itself in is not a good one for the wise to grapple with. People with wisdom are good at keeping a civilization on the correct path but not so good at knowing what to do with it once it has deviated from that path for a long time. An example of that might be the question of whether the world should have gone down the path of R&D and manufacturing of synthetic chemicals. The wise probably would have determined not go down that path, but in this industrial civilization they weren’t in any position of authority to determine whether that was going to be done; the intelligent (at the approximate level of the 97th Percentile, but not the highest level) were. Now that we have gone down that path, the wise probably can’t help us. Similarly, now that the Federal Reserve boondoggle has been going on for a long time, assuming abolishing the Fed is a wise choice, the wise can’t help much with that either. However, there are “primitive” civilizations that do have processes to assess and identify individuals who have wisdom and put them into positions of responsibility and authority. Those are the villages and their elders. If the large and highly centralized governments in this industrial civilization were to collapse, followed by important decision-making being made at the town level, I believe there would be improvement in the quality of decisions being made. Probably not uniformly, but at a minimum in isolated pockets, and those pockets of good decision-making will be the areas that will prosper and become models for other places to follow as they try to regain their footing.

Having said that, intelligence clearly is an issue. It's pretty clear to me that intelligence correlates with wisdom, probably not strongly or linearly (r = perhaps 0.4 or 0.5 on average). It correlates with individual success and societal success using a wide range of definitions as to what success means. Having The 97th Percentile make decisions rather than the 99.7th percentile is a huge problem. Somehow boosting the level of The 97th Percentile (in other words, those who are the decision-makers) to the current level of the 99.7th percentile would result in huge positive benefits.

[Higgenbotham]

The big wild card is sperm counts.

Men's sperm rates have more than HALVED since the 1970s as experts warn trend could 'threaten mankind's survival'

Study warns the continued decline of sperm counts in men amounts to a crisis
Researchers tracked sperm counts from across the world from 1973 to 2018
They found sperm counts have more than halved in the last 46 years globally

By JOE DAVIES HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
UPDATED: 08:25 EDT, 15 November 2022

Plummeting sperm counts 'threaten mankind's survival', researchers dramatically warned today.

Counts have more than halved since the 1970s.

And the decline has only accelerated since the turn of the century, according to a global analysis.

Scientists tracking the data, taken from more than 50 countries, said 'we have a serious problem on our hands'.

Men's bulging waistlines are blamed for the worrying trend, as well as 'everywhere chemicals' in the environment.

Graph shows: The rate sperm concentration is falling globally from samples collected from 1972 to 2000 (orange) and since 2000 (red)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... 1970s.html

[aeden]

Electic cars are rotting in fields and car lots by the tens of thousands globally. Priced out and no amount of taxpayer subsidy theft matters.
Consumers the ruthless broke arbiters now charged being illegal not dealing with the sticky wage cult with illegals are drained out
by demshevik zone fools. Yes, we know what coming as vaporized zones maps known. I was told some of them will make it when it rains down fire
as that was the allowed point of those left behind. The blood bags are drained dry by the tens of thousands as taxed to homeless phase.
The mud huts are just endless rv and tent homeless now. Locally it is appearing as drifting up also. Snow was offered as they will drift elsewhere.
The only trend up is morning Toe Tags for the myriad of expectation and fault map reasons.
“We rely upon the stupidity of the American voter” ~ Johnathan Gruber.
Taxpayers are dumber than post turtles as the 35 percent we classified past village idiot ratchet phase now.
Many have escaped to less crushed areas. The mantra is burn loot murder it's the Bisquit eater's fault.
Senate went past captivated to just corrupted weak-minded castrated marx minded quislings.
As the lobbyist said 10k and they fold like a cheap card table against the taxpayers.
The economy blew past the indexed service sector economy is all that was seen was recently conveyed as holding
the cheerful and useful idiots into complete dialectic statist demolition. Market is not wall street. Putting matters was close enough.
No worries it was said the meat puppet in chief will have another five years to get them under tarps since the actual cost basis
has wiped them clean as the crushing phase was inclined to do. Plantation mop up operation as we discussed the Jonhson curse
as I mentioned Nixons point we are all simps as Keynesians now.
No one trusts the agency issue as fact. They went Unit 51 Stasi even in writing just on just the Steele operation and everyone knows it.
It would be safe to say since Paperclip they all embraced Serpent.
The warning is when east of the river falls so will you. The Salem file is correct to this evil under this Sun.

Miry Clay period as the educated pagans cannot change and will not as it was written.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inli ... k=h-M-7TZW
Former SBA Administrator Linda McMahon - the impact of crime on small businesses, is the U.S. is 'drifting into a lawless country.'
Your late lady, very late.

Also the Virologist had a clear point.
Those people who did avoid are healthy to levels that will be ignored and simply attacked.
Yes, they have productive ends under attack as the usual suspects affixed and charged as Luddites by fools.
Go Amish as food inputs and dependency for local sanity and healthy Children.
The events forwarded from wiser assures us what is already here as the educated pagan's demise to what these lunatics truly worship.

For the really slow to wit the obliteration of Babylon did come rapidly: so quickly that it could not be prevented, avoided, or grasped until everything is all over (Revelation 18:21). Both physically, through weapons of mass destruction, and economically, through rapid changes in commerce, an entire nation was struck down in a matter of moments. Harpaso.

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Neighbor, a doctor, with three kids under the age of 16, all got their boosters in the same week. 2 of 3 of them ended up face planting (fainted) in their kitchen on back to back nights within days of the booster. One of them almost lost a couple teeth in the process.
Ya thinks Dr. Daddy would put 2 and 2 together. Nope.

[aeden]

Hurst cycle suggests august first week for some statistical slippage down.
Max pain will suggest usual suspects. Strays will be dollar cost averaged in if appropriate.

Fud trade is considered dxy 94 until next fomo as its mocked for now.
No clue sweeps and tbill rolloff's could care less.
current 7:3 ratio as tbill to equity.
16 percent equity 64 percent tbill rest cash.
No concern about fully invested noise.
Peso went from 20 to 16 per$
https://www.x-rates.com/graph/?from=USD&to=MXN&amount=1
No accidents exist.

https://chartexchange.com/symbol/nyse-s ... n/summary/
Protect the rest of the year.