Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

FBI's Detroit Field Office, echoed the sentiment, framing the charges as a "crucial advancement" in safeguarding national security. Even CBP's Marty Raybon chimed in, emphasizing the agency's role in stopping biological threats that could "devastate our agricultural economy."

Jian, now in custody and deemed a flight risk, appeared in a Detroit federal court on Tuesday, where a judge ordered her held without bond pending a hearing. Liu, meanwhile, was sent back to China after his airport interception; his current whereabouts are unknown. Both have a history with the fungus, having co-authored multiple papers on Fusarium graminearum since 2014, which raises questions about how long this scheme was in development. Denials of involvement appear to have crumbled under the weight of text messages suggesting Jian was already cultivating the pathogen in the Michigan lab before Liu's arrival.

Now, let's connect the dots the mainstream won't touch. The CCP's fingerprints are all over this.

Just like last time the assholes are still in denial.

[FullMoon]

Just like last time the assholes are still in denial.

They only denied everything because they were somehow complicit.

[aeden]

Cheep moisture sensors and shade screens H.
Nothing fancy. Also trim the tips and undeeded foilage.

[Higgenbotham]

What about security, Higgiebotham?

This issue is often ignored by half-baked preppers...

...One thing maybe worth mentioning that is a bit off the beaten track and in my plans. I plan to put what looks like a tool storage shed out back, but it's really going to be a small rental unit. I plan to rent it to retired military or a retired police officer or similar profile at a bargain rate...

The other day I was thinking about planting blackberries, which grow well in Texas. There are thornless blackberries and blackberries with thorns. Someone mentioned that the blackberries with thorns make a good security fence. Upon looking further, I ran across this old post on reddit:

Osage orange, thorny and fast growing, was used for fences before the invention of barbed wire. The wood is useful for crafting tool handles, fence posts, and bows.

Osage orange makes a great natural fence. They are said to be 'horse high, hog tight, and bull strong'. I'm planning on giving this a try at some point.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/c ... at_do_you/

[Higgenbotham]

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream
In her new book, Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

By Issie Lapowsky
June 9, 2025

https://lnkd.in/g2R7vGct

Previously discussed in the hovel here:
viewtopic.php?p=86085#p86085

And to a lesser extent in the story beginning here (after the series of quotes):
viewtopic.php?p=80965#p80965
followed by several posts to the conclusion of my semi-fictional story about how private equity operates vs the free market, especially this:
viewtopic.php?p=80974#p80974 and viewtopic.php?p=80976#p80976

Big picture:

As in the hall, in which there has been a sumptuous banquet, we perceive the fragments of a feast now become a prey to beggars and banditti; if, in some instances, the spectacle is less wretched and disgusting; it is, because the banquet is not entirely over, and the guests have not all yet risen from the table.

From this almost universal picture, we learn that the greatness of nations is but of short duration. We learn, also, that the state of a fallen people is infinitely more wretched and miserable than that of those who have never risen from their original state of poverty.

William Playfair
An inquiry into the permanent causes of the decline and fall of powerful and wealthy nations
1805