Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[FullMoon]

RFK Jr. could win if they knock Trump out of the race

It's going to be the longest year that anyone can remember. We're only about 10% into it and there's been year's worth of shocking news. Shit, just a few years ago people on this forum talked about all this crazy stuff as though it would be sometime in the distant future. But that future has come earlier than perhaps we imagined it would. The frog is now getting boiled to death and can't get out...

[aeden]

Sold heavy into the call wall as the shorts got mangled and crushed. Oil Bulls have a snoopy happy dance for now.
Oil, DXY, Metal and very select inputs for what is still alive only. Conversation ended they paid 50k and 104 weeks
its 14k junk EV derp.

Ah nope, we did not move stops up. We left. The breadth as what not who will not cover the flash crash in O expires.
5.32 percent into first week May TBILL's
Seven P landscape looks here.
Piss poor planning precludes piss poor performance.7P
Not hating on casino coin since your bet is a bet.
We curbed enthusing in it after biti taproot operation to Frankfurt fork.
Good luck with those order flows if/then on ODTE flows.

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I’m a Mechanical Engineer. I have designed and invented new products in the automotive industry. Over the last 24 years, almost every project has involved China or being manufactured in China. Famous UK factories have closed and been demolished with housing estates built over them across the country. The long slow death of UK manufacturing is the story of our engagement with China. Multi nationals must go to low cost countries to be competitive, almost regardless the local regimes. My career(Ha!) is basically one of trying to stay employed on a low to mid salary, competing again Engineers in China (easy) and now India (bit more difficult)

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As for the rest of it, it's sort of like the discussion about Amazon openly supporting BLM and Defund the Police. They cannot not be aware that doing so will wreak havoc on bricks and mortar retail businesses. Many less directly connected to any vested interest might shrug their shoulders and say, oh, well, we can just order it online and pretty soon online retailers will be able to deliver via drone to my front porch in my gated community in less than 24 hours anyway. But if that wasn't possible or assumed to be possible, they might think a little harder and advocate for bricks and mortar retail businesses quite a bit more, perhaps enough to make a difference.

Under siege: Retailers flee cities as unarmed security, public authorities fail to curb theft

Businesses have cited the rise of online shopping and declining in-store profits for pulling out of urban centers from San Francisco to New York, but insiders see a deeper problem: Unarmed security staff’s inability to keep employees and merchandise safe is driving away workers and shoppers in big cities with soft-on-crime policies.

• Last week, armed thieves stabbed a loss prevention officer who attempted to stop them from looting a Safeway supermarket in Kensington, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia.

• In December, a thief fatally stabbed a Macy’s security guard in Philadelphia.

• In April, a Home Depot security guard in Pleasanton, California, was gunned down after he caught a woman stealing.

Walmart and Target each eclipsed $500 million in retail theft losses last year, so the retail giants’ store closures in cities “where theft has gotten out of control” are no surprise, said Kristin Moss, chief ambassador for DealAid.org, which offers online discounts for more than 10,000 U.S. retailers.

Last year, Target closed nine stores in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, over safety concerns. Ms. Moss pointed to data showing a concentration of Walmart stores with the highest retail losses in cities with the lowest prosecution rates for shoplifting.

“This is a trend common among retailers and small businesses that are forced to leave such areas,” she told The Washington Times.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... curity-pu/

I think you are right about Bezos and Amazon feeding the beasts to fuel the anarchy, HB.

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Last year, Target closed nine stores in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, over safety concerns. Ms. Moss pointed to data showing a concentration of Walmart stores with the highest retail losses in cities with the lowest prosecution rates for shoplifting.

We have already given up.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... curity-pu/

[aeden]

1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4sDk4LkAM
same tripe we heard in college
wonder why Humanities in universities are declining

(EAPPA) but funding for the activities and programs authorized has never been appropriated
since they would be out on their geriatric uniparty ass criminal looting spree

government statisticians and gaslighting academics and they’ll keep trashing regular Americans for posting
their grocery bills and mortgage payments

[Guest]

Meanwhile in London...

The tube is filthy, London streets scruffy and crime ridden.

Two broken bottles remained on the steps down to Bakerloo Trafalgar Square tube station, for an entire day on Tuesday. Multiple people told tube staff who were chatting at a booth. The staff directed them to call Westminster Council. The glass was 20 feet away from them. And the escalators are never machine cleaned to bring out the metallic shine of the grooves as they do in the first world. Asked the station manager in relatively new Tottenham Court Road and she gave me a passive aggressive lecture about how her station’s escalators are regularly cleaned. It doesn’t take a Swiss person to see the grooves are never cleaned, and heavily soiled black.

A picture would be worth a thousand words. Can you take some photos of what you are describing and post them?

I've been intending to document a similar situation and was prepared to take photos one day, but it was raining and the rain hid the filthy concrete. But it is coming very soon...

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

Black staff openly laugh at disabled white woman. If the races had been reversed, blacks would have screamed "racism" and been rioting and looting what few stores remain open on the high street.

I can't speak of Bakerloo Trafalgar Square tube station, but this is a reflection of the everyday behaviour of black staff in London.

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It's London. I can just imagine the sort of people who laughed. Most TfL staff are from a place where mocking the disabled is commonplace.

It's obvious.

[WPS]

The Oxford Migration Observatory has produced a new report about students immigrants to the United Kingdom, and the data paints an interesting picture.

24% of the student population in the UK is composed of foreign students, or some 680,000 students.

This means that nearly 700,000 British students are not admitted to universities in their own country.

And this process is deliberate. The Telegraph was able to disclose in this piece that British universities do not want native Britons and prefer foreigners.

A further 73,000 university students have extended their stays in Britain post-graduation under Rishi Sunak's new "opportunity" visa scheme, displacing nearly 100,000 British workers from the labour market in their own country.

The top countries of origin for international students in the UK were China (26%), India (23%), and Nigeria (9%).

The British government maintains a list of "skill shortages" which they claim they need migrants to fill, but migrants are only necessary because the British state and education system exclude native Brits.

Britons deserve access to the university system and labor market in their own country, foreigners should come last.

[aeden]

What put me off reading ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ for so long (I grew up with the title of the book and Solzhenitsyn’s name on my radar) was partly its daunting size. The original was published in three volumes: on archive.org, the “Unabridged original pdf scans” of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ total 671 pages for volume 1, 717 pages for the second, and 579 pages for the third. Jeez, that makes it a fairly significant investment in time (reading and writing!).The abridged version has 544 pages — that’s a hell of a lot more ‘doable’. It’s also the version that Jordan Peterson has written the Foreword to. https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true
They will be suffocated in ignorance since it was a feature of the intent to rule over the ashes.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... &_osacat=0
As the deracinated prisoner told they had no clue then or will in future as the Senate looks like the fools they are.
The current open border lunatic is simply that.

Mexican cartel reportedly flooded Montana with fentanyl, meth by targeting Native Americans: ‘Prey-predator situation’
By Social Links forKatherine Donlevy Published Feb. 10, 2024

Destroyed and Washington is a mental wasted land.

The whole reason he quit as a police officer was due to the danger posed by the cartels, and the tribe's complete reluctance to do anything about it.

Biden is past inept in years as another zone collapses.
More than disaster and recession is here.