Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 542101229X

We went another direction in 2019. Everyone knew.
We never allowed these criminals into our souls.
Still, they linger in darkness.

Practical Ideology 1925

[aeden]

After the 16th H in this push, we are going to the cave.
Check federal tax receipts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64T6ugyWXAA

[Higgenbotham]

https://youtu.be/PIuJ9Di512I?t=1525

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mean this is the way politics is manipulated um back in 1997 I actually
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had the Mandate from Hong Kong to negotiate with Australia and because
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it was going to be handed back to to China in '98 and they wanted me to negotiate because they knew I knew the
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Australian government so I went down and I met with former Prime Minister Paul
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Keating and everything I said let's give this this island off the side no uh let
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us go into the upper leftand corner no everything was no no no and I said I
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got a blank check here I can pay off your national debt what's the issue is
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this I thought it was racist I said you just don't like Chinese and he said no they were fleeing
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communism and if they were allowed into Australia they would vote conservative
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and he was a labor government this is what's going on with
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the the migration crisis in us and in Europe
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is this to change the politics

26:59 this election in 24 I'm telling you it is not going to be accepted uh you're looking at major
27:07 civil unrest

[Higgenbotham]

Dark Age Chronicles

Had a conversation tonight with a woman who had a boy close to 2 years of age with her. She said that shortly after getting vaxed for covid, she got pregnant. There was no heartbeat and she was given a drug to flush the fetus out of her system. This happened 2 more times in short succession. The fourth time she got pregnant, there was a normal heartbeat. When the boy was born (the one that was with her), he was unable to get suction to feed. Also, his eyes didn't move from side to side, just stared straight ahead, he didn't blink hardly at all, plus his eyes didn't close tightly and would dry out. An eye specialist said he has no nerve 6 and 7. A neurologist confirmed it. The woman did an Internet search and found a case where another child with no nerve 6 and 7 had a mother who had taken the same drug to flush the fetus out of her system. I asked her if she thought the covid shots were the reason for her 3 unsuccessful pregnancies. She said yes. The boy didn't walk until close to 19 months, but progressed quickly once he started to walk.

[Higgenbotham]

Video: The ‘excess mortality’ phenomenon: What does the future hold?

Dr. Edward Loniewski: With actuaries and all the stuff that Mary Pat does and what Josh has looked at and Teresa has looked at, that's all stuff that's all, again, history. I'm on the front lines, I'm seeing patients all the time, and in my other job that I have, I'm a medical officer for a pharmaceutical company that treats cancer. I am at the end; I'm the compassionate use doctor that patients who have had cancer, have had four or five treatments, they're not getting anywhere or their cancer comes back, they come back and they petition us to use our drug that's in trial. There's a new law that was passed about the right to try and those type of things so that the patients can actually access this. When we first started that, it was maybe one or two people a month who would contact us. Now it's four or five a week. They usually have the same story. Also, in my normal practice, where I see patients face-to-face, I will tell you that there are a lot of patients who come in and have other conditions — especially blood clots, strokes — that I just didn't see before. Those will take some time to become recorded. Especially with cancer, you won't see a death for maybe four or five years, so that's going to lag behind. You had to take two aspects of this — somebody who's actually looking at the numbers from behind, and people who are looking at trends that are occurring in their day-to-day practice. My personal feeling is I think that we really haven't hit bottom. I think we're going to see another spike.

Josh Stirling: I would love to show a quick chart, in part, just for your viewers. Here we go. Again, this is a chart that anybody can go to; the Department of Labor puts it out, and the St. Louis Federal Reserve has a great website called FRED where you can get all sorts of economic indicators and cool charting tools and whatever. Obviously, I was an analyst; this is the kind of thing I would look at. But this is a survey that the Department of Labor runs every month when they also call to figure out who's employed and who's not. Every first Friday, they update these numbers, or they started doing it in 2008. We don't have surveys older than that, but they've done it for a long time now. This is not a perfect study, it doesn't have a million different variables.

But this is the total number of people over the age of 16 in the United States who answered someone from the Department of Labor calling and asking whether there is someone in your home who's disabled right now, who has a certain number of criteria that makes them disabled. It's not about whether they're getting paid or not, on disability policies or anything like that. It's not a claim, it's just a self-reported survey. What you can see, this bar is at the end of the COVID recession, that's how the software puts it on there, is at 100. You can see that actually now we're about 113, so that means 13% higher. And there was a really big increase in the number of people, and I guess this is 2021 or 2022. It really increased a lot over that period of time. And if I could just flip to what's really interesting beyond that, this is now the civilian labor force.

These are only people who are disabled but still are either working or trying to work. The first group would've included either homemakers or people who are not in the labor force, retired, or on support social services or something. This is people who are working or trying to work. Look at the scale of this chart, it's a similar thing. It's a little bit delayed but stable. But this is 139, so 39% higher. That's nuts. Then they give it to us by gender, and I don't really know what to make of this, except that this is what the number is. If you look at it for just women, in the labor force or [inaudible 00:54:11] work, it's actually 158%. It's 58% higher than it was for the pandemic, from which for about 10 years before was really stable.

I don't know exactly what these numbers mean, but I have interpreted them as a measure that they update every month as a very, very rough gauge of the level of suffering and chronic health problems that people are having in this country. Those numbers represent about 34 million people.

Dr. Edward Loniewski: That's a great point, because what do you do? You get sick first, and then you die.

Steve Cyboran: Yeah, and the mortality for these disabled lives is a much higher than for the general population by a significant factor.

Josh Stirling: On Wall Street, you would call this a leading indicator.

Steve Cyboran: Yes.

https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle ... uture-hold

[Higgenbotham]

The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive.

After decades of progress, life expectancy — long regarded as a singular benchmark of a nation’s success — peaked in 2014 at 78.9 years, then drifted downward even before the coronavirus pandemic. Among wealthy nations, the United States in recent decades went from the middle of the pack to being an outlier. And it continues to fall further and further behind.

A year-long Washington Post examination reveals that this erosion in life spans is deeper and broader than widely recognized, afflicting a far-reaching swath of the United States.

While opioids and gun violence have rightly seized the public’s attention, stealing hundreds of thousands of lives, chronic diseases are the greatest threat, killing far more people between 35 and 64 every year, The Post’s analysis of mortality data found.

Sickness and death are scarring entire communities in much of the country. The geographical footprint of early death is vast: In a quarter of the nation’s counties, mostly in the South and Midwest, working-age people are dying at a higher rate than 40 years ago, The Post found. The trail of death is so prevalent that a person could go from Virginia to Louisiana, and then up to Kansas, by traveling entirely within counties where death rates are higher than they were when Jimmy Carter was president.

This phenomenon is exacerbated by the country’s economic, political and racial divides. America is increasingly a country of haves and have-nots, measured not just by bank accounts and property values but also by vital signs and grave markers. Dying prematurely, The Post found, has become the most telling measure of the nation’s growing inequality.

The mortality crisis did not flare overnight. It has developed over decades, with early deaths an extreme manifestation of an underlying deterioration of health and a failure of the health system to respond. Covid highlighted this for all the world to see: It killed far more people per capita in the United States than in any other wealthy nation.

Chronic conditions thrive in a sink-or-swim culture, with the U.S. government spending far less than peer countries on preventive medicine and social welfare generally. Breakthroughs in technology, medicine and nutrition that should be boosting average life spans have instead been overwhelmed by poverty, racism, distrust of the medical system, fracturing of social networks and unhealthy diets built around highly processed food, researchers told The Post.

The calamity of chronic disease is a “not-so-silent pandemic,” said Marcella Nunez-Smith, a professor of medicine, public health and management at Yale University. “That is fundamentally a threat to our society.” But chronic diseases, she said, don’t spark the sense of urgency among national leaders and the public that a novel virus did.

The best barometer of rising inequality in America is no longer income. It is life itself. Wealth inequality in America is growing, but The Post found that the death gap — the difference in life expectancy between affluent and impoverished communities — has been widening many times faster. In the early 1980s, people in the poorest communities were 9 percent more likely to die each year, but the gap grew to 49 percent in the past decade and widened to 61 percent when covid struck.

For more than a decade, academic researchers have disgorged stacks of reports on eroding life expectancy. A seminal 2013 report from the National Research Council, “Shorter Lives, Poorer Health,” lamented America’s decline among peer nations. “It’s that feeling of the bus heading for the cliff and nobody seems to care,” said Steven H. Woolf, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor and co-editor of the 2013 report.

In 2015, Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton garnered national headlines with a study on rising death rates among White Americans in midlife, which they linked to the marginalization of people without a college degree and to “deaths of despair.”

The grim statistics are there for all to see — and yet the political establishment has largely skirted the issue.

“We describe it. We lament it. We’ve sort of accepted it,” said Derek M. Griffith, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Men’s Health Equity.

Lohano, an endocrinologist whose practice sits a short drive north from Louisville, says he has “seen two worlds in my lifetime.”

He means not just Pakistan and the United States, but the past and the present. When he was in medical school in Pakistan, he was taught that a typical adult man weighs 70 kilograms — about 154 pounds. Today, the average man in the United States weighs about 200 pounds. Women on average weigh about 171 pounds — roughly what men weighed in the 1960s.

In 1990, 11.6 percent of adults in America were obese. Now, that figure is 41.9, according to the CDC.

The rate of obesity deaths for adults 35 to 64 doubled from 1979 to 2000, then doubled again from 2000 to 2019. In 2005, a special report in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that the rise of obesity would eventually halt and reverse historical trends in life expectancy. That warning generated little reaction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... _p001_f001

[spottybrowncow]

Higgie, I never knew you were a dirty rotten "sizeist" "fat shamer"
Why can't you accept people how they are - even if it's killing them (50 different ways)???
Ahem ...

[Higgenbotham]

Higgie, I never knew you were a dirty rotten "sizeist" "fat shamer"
Why can't you accept people how they are - even if it's killing them (50 different ways)???
Ahem ...

While admittedly I am not the greatest reader of PC tea leaves, the WaPo article seemed to indicate that fat shaming "deplorables" from rural red states is acceptable provided they did not sign up for and appropriately use Obama Care, did not right-size with the recommended bariatric surgery, etc. I should probably look to the comments section of the article for more guidance.

[aeden]

They got themselves a massively educated processed food genius to guide the wattages to early time.com logic dismissal.
Law enforcement desert matches the rate of infected food on the shelf for the actually observant.
Point being as we know here none will be able solve the Uncle Bob Bish zone logic of design.

Why did you pull the third grader out.
He tested as a middle school by a real testing standard.
Your system has a flaw.
He also has a problem eating fresh the green beans from the garden.
Guilty as charged I was caught also.

[Higgenbotham]

At the moment, natural population change in the US remains positive.

The trend will be for more deaths over the next 20 years due to the increasing number of births from the the early 1940s until 1961. Meanwhile, the number of births continues to trend down.