Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

https://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=81508#p81508
Entanglement issue warned - Jefferson also warned early and often.
Structural internal brain rot from agency issues from 1844 and before from the café liberals.
Uniparty brain pan issues as Glubb called it as also to cycle walking into.
You never own dirt you rent from assholes looting us also now as read from 1974 bottom up issues
leveraged to omit border for incipient global control.
Death Cults as 10 Kings formatives and the Miry Clay period.
The comment no history can be written until 40 years passes has some merit.
Also the cycles admit Humans are as bad as Locusts that exhibit two interconvertible behavioral phases.
The current BRIC reorders of the totalitarians is 26.7% of the world's land surface and 41.5% of the global population.
This does not include the confused one who cannot define xx and xy retards.

https://joefahmy.com/wp-content/uploads ... -Chart.jpg
53 percent of housing needs 125,000 to buy. Good luck heading into this recalcitrant bear market.
Seasonal pullback until September is on the menu if records average correct also.
Retail into tech going to get wrecked is on the menu.
They want this implode. Uniparty is not on the taxpayers side period.

[Higgenbotham]

https://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=81508#p81508

This will be a little long-winded before getting to the point.

Back in 1985, I was working with an entitled little guy from the suburbs of Chicago in the cold northern winters and was telling him about how I wasn't running the furnace and just using a space heater in the bedroom at night. I wasn't doing it all winter, just for maybe 6 or 8 weeks after most people turned their furnaces on. I said something like it's kinda cold when you get up and get out into the rest of the apartment, but I get through it. He turned around from his desk and screamed at me, "I'm running my furnace; I want to be warm!" End of conversation. It was "Morning in America". I was doing the same thing about 20 years later but had a better way to do it, having picked an apartment with a sliding glass door that faced south. Got a knock on the door and it was the power company rep sent out to investigate why I was using so little gas. I took him on a tour and showed him how. He enjoyed it and, as he left, said, "More power to you!" Idea being this was so unusual they had to come out and take a look. In Austin, Texas from 2014 to 2016 the freon ran out in my car. I had a 45 minute commute during the hottest part of the day (about 5 pm here) and finally got it recharged the week I knew I'd have to take my boss somewhere. My thought had been that sweating a little bit at the end of a day in an office isn't a bad thing. Aside from a few oddballs like me, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike expect to be comfortable in America. That was illustrated at the end of my semi-fictitious story about Dale, the mobile auto mechanic who charged Ron a ridiculous sum of money to fix his AC in a suburb of Cleveland, with the note at the end of the story observing that as of 2023 it is not even possible to buy any model of car in America that does not come with air conditioning. That's the extreme we are at, at what could be the highest probability point in time that some years down the line Americans are junking their very last cars because they can't afford to fix the air conditioning or can't get the parts.

So I'm not Monday morning quarterbacking Abbott for his decision to transport the illegals in style to Martha's Vineyard or wherever he sent them or, for that matter, Trump for his promise to build a wall rather than use some other method to secure the border. It's what would be expected from any politician in present day America, as it appears to be the only politically expedient thing to do. How else could it be done in a country where everyone expects to be comfortable and, as Navigator observed in one of the write-ups on his site, "None Should Ever Die":

The contrast between the government response in the 1950’s and the response to the Covid epidemic today couldn’t be more drastic. During the Asian flu epidemic, people were told to use common sense (stay home if you are sick, cover your mouth when coughing, wash your hands), and that was about it. Today, as we all know, the government has shut down most of the economy, and quarantines are imposed for weeks if not months at a time.

The contrasting responses are due to a dramatic shift in the culture of the Health Care establishment, which, in turn, is mirroring a change in our national cultures. The change is in how we deal with death.

https://comingstorms.com/none-should-ever-die/

If Abbott had sent the illegals to the east coast in a bus without air conditioning or a boxcar and even one of them had arrived passed out or, perish the thought, dead, probably news outlets of every stripe would have descended on the scene and there would have been a national uproar. Abbott may have been labeled the next Derek Chauvin or something like that, snuffing the life out of an innocent fellow human by not providing air conditioning. Similarly, after my comment about not being vaxed for covid, I looked up the statistics. Current statistics say that 95% of the people in my age group (50-64) in America have been vaxed. I'm aware of what can happen in the small percentage of cases where people are seriously ill with covid, and it's not fun. https://www.wmur.com/article/pediatrici ... d/36373770 This was not an acceptable risk to ~95% of the people in my age group (I realize some had to take the vax to keep their jobs while some who didn't get the vax believed the whole thing was a hoax). An untested vax with unknown side effects at that. Given what was known at the time, throughout the long expanse of history, that percentage would have almost certainly been lower.

Having said all that, the manner in which Abbott is handling the border is a big jump in the needle. I didn't expect it at all. I thought he would just keep grandstanding, like all politicians do nowadays, without doing anything different or significant. Same with the bill that's been introduced in this legislative session for a gold backed digital currency issued by the State of Texas. Does Greg Abbott know or understand something that few others do? I wouldn't bet against him.

[Guest]

I live in Palo Alto -- just a few miles south from San Francisco on the peninsula. I've worked and visited the city countless times. Just before the pandemic, things began to change in regard to crime in the city. Without cops arresting perpetrators, would-be criminals were emboldened. My sister visited in 2019. Since it was her first visit to the city, I took her to all of the traditional tourist spots -- including Pier 39, Ghirardelli, Fisherman's Wharf, Lombard Street, a Giants game, etc. While we were at Fisherman's Wharf, a homeless man pulled down his fly and began urinating in front of both of us. My sister walked away. However, I went over and told the guy (while he was still urinating). He just responded, "What are you going to do -- arrest me?"

When the pandemic hit a few months later, the entire city shut down. I visited several times. Given the number of rooftop terraces, some businesses were able to use them as a loophole for meetings (as they are considered "outdoor" areas in the city). I attended several meetings on those rooftop terraces. It was surprising to see the city so empty. However, with each trip to the city, I noticed more and more crime.

On my way to one meeting in 2020, I was riding a scooter from Caltrain (4th and King) along the Embarcadero to the Ferry Building. I crossed Embarcadero and made my way to California Street. I had never seen so many homeless and, yes, human waste on the streets. I had to be careful so that I didn't roll over either the homeless or their waste. Then, on California Street, a young homeless man (who was across the street) began throwing baseballs at me. I stopped because I was surprised. However, he continued to throw them and yell obscenities at me. I continued on my scooter to the destination (a work meeting at the Newhall Nest atop 260 California Street), I told an off-duty cop working security at the entrance. He told me that there was no point in calling the police because "their hands are tied."

By 2021, this was the "new normal." Between the high taxation, high crime rate (including non-reported or non-prosecuted crimes), unceasing odors and the growing homeless problem, San Francisco is now a shell of what it once was. Due to the pandemic, businesses discovered that it was cheaper and more cost-effective to do business outside of the city. So, white collar workers (especially tech workers) have left the downtown area. This has led to a loss of businesses that needed that business to afford the astronomical rent/lease payments. Criminals are so brazen now that shoplifting affected so many businesses. Moreover, non-criminals feel less safe. So, they don't frequent those businesses that are most affected by a perpetual criminal presence. The homeless have now shifted throughout the city -- panhandling at tourist areas along the Embarcadero from the Ferry Building to Fisherman's Wharf (and areas just off of those locales). However, at night, they move a little further inside the city -- into the business areas -- because it is warmer at night and the buildings block the cold wind.

At this point, I have no desire to visit the city. I have no desire to go to meetings in the city (which, I admit, used to be fun work excursions). Not only is it still expensive to go (by train or by parking), it's actually quite dangerous. It always feels that the city is on the cusp going from annoying crime to something worse (i.e., violence). Plus, and this is just a pet peeve, the entire downtown area between Caltrain to Ghirardelli Square is filled with the smells of human excrement mingled with strong skunk weed. Between the crime, odors, homelessness, human waste and occasional needles, I'd rather not walk or ride most places in San Francisco.

[aeden]

Conclusions and Policy Implications (pp. 262-284)
After the 1999 Kosovo conflict, it was widely argued that a new and different armament—the refugee as weapon—had entered the arsenals of the world. One scholar even went so far as to declare, ʺthe nature of war [itself] has changed; now the refugees are the war.ʺ¹ As I have demonstrated, however, the instrumental exploitation of engineered cross-border migrations is neither a new nor a particularly unusual phenomenon. Rather, such exploitation has a long and influential history that includes both war and peacetime use. Indeed, in this book I have identified at least fifty-six attempted cases of migration-driven coercion...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7v70q

[aeden]

Spring 2024 - South America economys collapses. Debt 100 percent of GDP.
Mexico food logistics as fifty percent collapsed and inputs for defense sectors in ruin as Peru collapsed.
August 2023. The list grew as the locust over run logistics on the border States.
Senate hearing only concern was passage of the summer of Marx festivals.
On one hand only they new Bezmenov was correct as the Senate Home Offices went up in flames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqVuZgkjAOk

[El Jefe]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -seat.html

Why I stopped going to movie theaters in America in 2006.

Why movie theaters will go bankrupt-->and should go bankrupt. Hopefully Hollywood will follow.

This is why the malls died; a certain segment of the population decided that raping and robbing was best done in mall parking lots.

This is the shocking moment a 63-year-old Florida man is brutally attacked in a movie theater after asking a couple to leave his pre-booked VIP seat.

Horrifying footage showed the victim being pounced on by the suspect before being repeatedly pummeled during the vicious attack in Pompano Beach.

The video shows the elderly white man and his wife approach the attacker, politely ask them to move - then be violently assaulted as he tried to escape

Cops said they have launched a hunt for the perpetrator, who is black, and released a security footage image of him after the event on July 10 at 10pm.

The American experiment is not working.

[aeden]

https://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=81296#p81296
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyeGLmEaUAI ... me=360x360
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-econ ... -vacancies

Sogo supply lines started years ago to assert survival supply lines.

I will do anything for these kids since they provide value added services to some folks. Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:53 pm
Sogo shosha are sufficiently diversified to withstand periodic downturns in certain sectors of the economy.
The network saved my Wife as noted here when the variant was identified and neutralized.
The investment was priceless.

viewtopic.php?p=52219#p52219
Waiting for evidence as we marvel at data fragility.
The reason my wife survived covid was the education our family had to that procured monoclonal to dissolve the virus.
They terminated the cure from the market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EbiRRpaYB4

Never give up find your tribe. The old men.

[aeden]

Twelve zones will collapse by 2024 and three just did.
Active measures ignored and the disease the democrats now worship.

The other firms that tend to still focus on competency are those that are small and private.
Consumers the ruthless arbiters will decide. Democrats lead the way down.
You will learn now what sticky wages is and the economic egg theory.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=4050165

[aeden]

1977 was the first operation in our view from the 1953 GATT files.
You should have seen it in color as we did.

Losing is Optional: Retail Option Trading
and Expected Announcement Volatility∗
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
June 8, 2023

Guess what it's your fault.

[aeden]

Read Sir Glubb for initial briefing.
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
Read Howe His new book is out also.

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-H ... 1982173734