Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

You have to shoot a cracker brew in the head to get in the gang. These people are stupid anyways top down to what is real.
Chicago has the illegals stacked in warehouse's.
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall,
only to be bitten by a snake. Amos

The cost of living in the US will skyrocket and what productivity that actually is left, will spiral down.
The US will become Venezuela overnight when the FX takedown executes the only fact
will be if you get to 2028 to have any actual implementation as the dead wood burn rate takes out so much
it cannot as supply chains implode. Cities will be a inferno as they cash burn underway simple melts what is not already
fiscally brain dead. Watch what they do not what they say.

[Higgenbotham]

‘Pig butchering’ is draining victims’ bank accounts. Here’s how to avoid being scammed

The Department of Justice has charged four men with perpetrating a scam that involved persuading victims to invest large sums of money into a fraudulent platform.

By Summer Lin
Staff Writer
Dec. 15, 2023 8:13 PM PT

Barely a day goes by without a scam of some kind popping up on our phones or in our email, trying to get us to download malware, reveal a password or pay for fraudulent goods. But there’s one bit of con artistry gaining traction that you definitely don’t want to fall for.

It’s called a “pig butchering” scheme, because the perpetrators will “fatten up” a victim to gain their trust before “butchering” them — typically by persuading them to invest large sums of money into a fraudulent investment, then making off with all of it.

Four men, three of them from Southern California, were recently charged in connection with such a scam, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The DOJ alleges that the con cost victims $80 million.

Alham Lu Zhang, 36, of Alhambra; Justin Walker, 31, of Cypress; Joseph Wong, 32, of Rosemead; and Hailong Zhu, 40, of Naperville, Ill., were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, international money laundering and concealment money laundering, the DOJ said. Zhang and Walker were arrested and appeared in court Wednesday. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

Pig butchering scammers often find their victims on dating sites or social media, or by calling and pretending to have dialed a wrong number, federal officials said in the release. The scams are largely carried out by criminal enterprises from Southeast Asia, which use human trafficking victims to reach out to millions of people around the world, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. Scammers create relationships with the victims to gain their trust and, in many cases, introduce the idea of using cryptocurrency to make a business investment.

In cases involving cryptocurrency, victims are directed to fraudulent platforms to make investments, unwittingly sending their money to scammer-controlled accounts. The platform falsely shows significant gains on the investment, and the victims are then encouraged to pony up more and more. However, when they eventually try to withdraw their money, the scammers stonewall them — or just disappear with the funds.

In the case announced Thursday, the feds allege that Zhang, Walker, Wong and Zhu conspired to open bank accounts and shell companies to launder money from a cryptocurrency investment scam. The four are accused of making hundreds of transactions that caused the victims to lose more than $80 million — more than $20 million of which ended up in the defendants’ bank accounts.

According to FBI spokesperson Laura Eimiller, pig butchering scammers are patient and will build a relationship with daily small talk to make the victim feel comfortable. They may also send photographs portraying themselves as wealthy and successful.

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... wtab-en-us

[aeden]

It will decline and get much uglier as we descend. The urbanites are trapped in vortex of the fatal deceit as Hayek warned.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1 ... 73x582.png possible to be baked in.
SDR issues will resurface. Check the M2 in the FDR no accidents in politics timeline. This was Bonhoeffer's reference when capital moved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdjP8XfU_0
Culture will eat strategy for breakfast.
Revenue cannot survive deflation.
Translation your going under the bus and Hit the wall like the reformed femnazi who realizes
deceived was a hell of a demonic drug.

[John]

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1 ... 73x582.png possible to be baked in.
SDR issues will resurface. Check the M2 in the FDR no accidents in politics timeline. This was Bonhoeffer's reference when capital moved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdjP8XfU_0
Culture will eat strategy for breakfast.
Revenue cannot survive deflation.
Translation your going under the bus and Hit the wall like the reformed femnazi who realizes
deceived was a hell of a demonic drug.

Comparing 1970s inflation to today's invlation is laughable and ridiculous.

[aeden]

I remember the they just tossed the chickens in the wood chipper as grain prices collapsed as the kids went to school hungry.
Lived it but we already left the City as they burned. We had livestock and depression raised parents. As we seen before they sleep walked some
years into this. CME numbers will entail the head winds as demand destruction seen coming. Contango is also understood into 2025.

I left a book marker on page 197 chapter named whitewash from Benn Steil.

White instructed His team to stick of technical advisors to to engage with foreign delegates as much as possible , but "stick to party lines"...
We will see what surfaces and yes the debt saturation should posit your view.

Some may need a heads up on the Bretton's Woods standard to see what as in why.
As they told us the the coal people froze as the corn people starved.
Yes the blue collar guys jumping from building. Grandfather went back to College later some time later. The project that put them on the moon
as many did also.
Commodities and transport issue was real.

Today we see a landscape of Water, chow, ammo, fuel, maintenance and medical support will be all that we should plan for. From a smart guy.

[Higgenbotham]

It’s from within Spengler’s insights that Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s conversion might best be understood. Despite her origins in a nonindustrial nation, she belongs to the global intellectual class: a university-educated author, a minor celebrity among the intelligentsia, the kind of person that the corporate mass media notices and promotes. I don’t claim to know what was going on in her heart of hearts when she converted to Christianity, but her published essay on the subject scarcely mentions the spiritual dimension. It’s all about the ideological importance of Christianity as the basis for Western liberalism and as a battle flag for the cultural conflicts ahead. That is to say, she’s deftly made the transition from poster child for the New Atheists to poster child for the Western world’s Second Religiosity. It seems quite likely to me that when the historians of the future review the end of our age of reason and the return of religion to the center of the public square, they’ll use her conversion as a convenient marker for the date when it happened.

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-return-of-religion/

[Higgenbotham]

The second crime Spengler committed, the most important of the two reasons why he comes in for so much hostility from the approved thinkers of our time, is that he made predictions based on his findings—and those predictions so far have proved to be correct. He pointed out, for example, that other societies approaching the end of their ages of reason plunged into tremendous conflicts pitting a privileged class of plutocrats manipulating the political systems of an earlier era against what he called Caesarism, the rise of insurgent populist leaders who could rally the masses against their supposed betters.

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-return-of-religion/

List of Spengler's predictions:

https://avery.morrow.name/blog/2014/10/ ... ry-update/

[aeden]

CRT is taught under the name of SEL, Social Emotional Learning in schools. It is incorporated into virtually every class. Literacy, Spanish, English, PE, you name it. What they do now is give kids handouts from left wing sources and tell them to summarize the contents. Strictly no critical thinking.
All work collected, none makes it home. Parents none the wiser. Years now underway. Collapse eminent.
The unwinding of the federal/state government alliance, the federalist system, is inevitable,
it will be a process over a decade (my guess) as states must walk away to survive the implosion well underway.
May as well hand out PhD's for all Kensington Fent walkways with the advanced current burn rate of taxpayers being looted and liquidated.

Fed feral system implosion well underway.
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/troubl ... y-converse
The collapse is well past Biden advanced degenerated state of systems as DEI ferals finish what has not already imploded.
Into 2024 with $110/barrel plus the gasoline in the U.S. approached $6 as the consumer segment vanished and the planet
as paper tigers and DEI bankrupted and shattered what remained into 2024.
Half will not be missed as rest of the planet simply moved ahead and simply away from the advanced rot.
Once again, they learned capital was fungible. Rust belt politics went to rot belt taxed implosion.
They could not balance a check book or even read a clock at graduation. Record priced farmland acreage and collapsed grain prices
finished off the rural marginal cash flows in record time into 2025.

Adding to this pond swill exchanges and bonfire of the rising EU inflation due to the destruction brought by the lockdowns, followed swiftly
by the blowing up of Nord Stream, which has cemented European industry in a spiral of higher costs (inflationary) at the same time the bureaucrats attempt to kill demand with completely moronic “climate policies” with the rush to implement a CBDC as a kill shot unless they sprint Orban-esk reality to survive the Kalergi ruse of lies.

End Poverty in California (EPIC) was a political campaign started in 1934 by socialist writer Upton Sinclair (best known as author of The Jungle). The movement formed the basis for Sinclair's campaign for Governor of California in 1934. The plan called for a massive public works program, sweeping tax reform, and guaranteed pensions. It gained major popular support, with thousands joining End Poverty Leagues across the state. EPIC never came to fruition due to Sinclair's defeat in the 1934 election but is seen as an influence on New Deal programs enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

No such ability's was noted to exist today into 2024 since the succumbed to Marxist level deception of looting extensively documented before
in the results. Recently 9 billion simply vanished for a rail project of 62 billion and the hogs on Tammany redo corruption got another 100 billion for another public to nowhere unless you wanted to be stabbed or shot as law enforcement just dissolved under the banner of equity. malmisdis fify

Real times intel just sanctioned the end. Empire of deception. The enemy was the beltway.
'Completely Overrun!' US migrant crisis passes horror milestone as southern border sees highest single-day total ever.
Story by Georgina Cutler • 15h

All pre-invasions pathways are civilian displacements to implode inputs. All communist regimes clear all prisons and insane, thieves, murderers on a nation of sheep and fools. Skinning them was never the plan.
Synonym for dictator and totalitarian is socialism. The planet is being bulldozed. No date needed here.
Marx-Engels Gesaumtausgabe indicates the vision of a post-capitalist society to further specify the need to abolish private property
and “anarchic” exchange relations. The goal of socialism is communism. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

[aeden]

Here we see the sudden and predictable disappearance of so-called "progressive empathy." They want open borders, but they want migrants to stay in conservative regions where they serve a political purpose. They never intended for illegals to flood into their own blue neighborhoods. The outrage that leftist mayors like Brandon Johnson are feeling right now is of their own making. They did this to themselves.
The same Karens demanding lockdowns now mumble in lockstep Abbott is ruining Chicago, and don't dare mention the obvious Biden border failure.
And needless to say, the progressives in these places are not happy. Texas towns deal with millions of illegals every year due to the Biden Administration's asylum policies and open border policies. The issue is growing more out of control with each passing month and 2023 is set to become the worst year ever for migrant crossings. Yet, a handful of the same migrants are now crippling the welfare apparatus of multiple blue cities.
This is not a theory, this is an agenda leftists admit to.
If the Dems can't destabilize red states or turn those states blue, then the immigrants are of no use to them. In fact, the immigrants become a millstone dragging blue cities and states down into the economic depths.
The millstone they deny is the one they are too lazy to read up on in the 66 books.

Phase two dingbats are already here. “Here comes an avalanche of [Climate Change™] bullshit.” -Marla Singer

[Higgenbotham]

Ultimately, according to Spengler, Western or “Faustian” culture is characterized by its restless thrust toward the infinite and unattainable.

https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernisml ... -spengler/

I haven't read Spengler or paid much attention to anything written about him. But I have recognized this as perhaps the defining aspect of Western culture.

Mega-Bank CEOs Announce Cancellation of Stock Market Crash

October 6, 2015 - New York - For the seventh consecutive year, the US banking cartel has canceled an impending autumn stock market crash. During a press conference this morning, Goldman Sachs CEO Lllloyd Bllllankstare, flanked by JP Morgan and Bank of America mega-bank CEOs Jamie Diamondssss and Samuellll Rambullll, announced the impending cancellation of the traditional October crash. Bllllankstare, speaking on the condition that his comments be considered anonymous, stated that the traditional autumn crash is no longer necessary, “because we own most of the stock anyway.” He did note, however, that the autumn crash has not really disappeared, making the distinction between 2 new terms that have recently entered the mega-bank lexicon - “downcrash” and “upcrash”. “In the past, we traditionally engineered downcrashes so we could accumulate stock, but since we now own most of the stock it is actually more advantageous to engineer upcrashes,” Bllllankstare said. “Crashes themselves have not disappeared.” Rambullll, the Bank of America CEO who replaced Eddie Dropbear in 2008, the last year a stock market crash occurred, echoed those comments saying, “We ram the market up now, rather than drop the market. Ramming is considered by our strategists to be a quantum mechanical phenomenon, rather than a Newtonian phenomenon.” When asked by reporters why their names have recently changed to incorporate 4 identical letters in a row rather than the traditional 1 or 2, Bllllankstare and Rambullll replied in unison that, “Letters are free, like money.” “Really, it’s just another way to show that there are no limits to growth,” Rambullll elaborated. “People need to be thinking in terms of the infinite and - when they think in those terms - numbers, words and other metrics can really grow exponentially.” When asked if profits matter anymore, Diamondssss stated that when money and letters are free there is no need for profits. “It’s not like we need to use ink and paper to print all these letters or digits anymore,” he said. “We just create them out of thin air and everyone grows rich, either through trickle-down or, with our new techniques, trickle-up. Our cutting edge research has shown that the problems that occurred in the past due to printing too much money, such as stock market crashes and hyperinflations, were more related to the cost of the ink and paper. We don’t need to worry about that anymore. It really is a beautiful new era of unlimited wealth.”

Outside of the financial industry, perhaps the best poster child for the infinite and its promotion is Jeff Bezos.

"I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired," recalled Bezos in a commencement speech he gave at his alma mater, Princeton, in 2010. "I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, 'That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.'"

Bezos did think about the decision carefully.

"That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot," said Bezos in his speech.

"I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all," he explained. So he "took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice," he said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/02/jeff-be ... lainternal

It's hard to overestimate the extent to which the "lottery economy" is promoted. The media always wants to interview the rare people who have won in the "lottery economy" instead of the multitudes who have lost. Why doesn't the media venture into the miles of homeless tents and interview a few dozen who ended up homeless after they put their last nickel into a failed venture?

Bezos believes that humans will colonize the solar system and number in the hundreds of billions.

Bezos starts this talk about his initiative into space exploration after a replay of the moon landing: "Wow! If that does not inspire you, you are at the wrong event. You don't choose your passions, your passions choose you. When I was five years old, I watched what you just rewatched and it had a huge impact on me. And it hasn't changed. None of that passion has gone away." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ98hGUe6FM The optimistic scenario began to be accepted and hard wired in at the age of 5.

Among other attributes, to be a wildly successful entrepreneur it helps a lot to be super smart and super, super optimistic. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are both super smart and super, super optimistic. But being overly optimistic never helps when attempting realistic analysis applied to complex societal problems.

Dreaming big isn’t something Jeff Bezos has a problem with.

And true to form, the multi-billionaire’s vision for the world that his great-grandchildren’s great-grandchildren will live in is pretty wild to imagine.

The Amazon and Blue Origin boss says a trillion people will live in space, there will be “a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts” and we’ll develop other planets, leaving Earth a beautiful place to be.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/jeff-be ... space.html

And in pop culture there was Casey Kasem, who for decades ended his popular weekly radio program (mostly listened to by kids) with, "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."

ENTERTAINMENT

Remembering Casey Kasem: 'Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars'

Updated: Jun. 16, 2014, 12:22 a.m.|Published: Jun. 15, 2014, 11:22 p.m.

By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In pop culture, Casey Kasem was as sweet and dependable as a glass of warm milk and a plate of chocolate chip cookies, which only made the ugliness of his last few years of life seem more bizarre and tragic.

The radio host of "American Top 40" and voice of animated television characters like Scooby-Doo's sidekick Shaggy died Sunday morning at a hospital in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was 82. He suffered from a form of dementia, and his three adult children from his first wife fought a bitter legal battle with Kasem's second wife, Jean, over control of his health care in his final months.

That made Kasem a fixture on news outlets that feed on the sleazier side of celebrity life at a time when it wasn't clear he was aware of it or even able to understand.

This wouldn't seem all that remarkable for a bad-behaving pop star or actor who shed spouses with the frequency of changing characters. But this was Casey Kasem, whose work epitomized the gentler, romantic side of pop culture, of a time when stars were admired for their celebrity and worshipped for their talent.

"American Top 40," with Kasem's soft, homey voice counting down the hits, was a refuge from shock jocks or the screaming big-city radio voices. It was dependable, broadcast on some 1,000 stations at its peak, so if you were driving in Connecticut or Kansas, California or Kentucky, you could always take a measure of the pop charts with Casey.

Kasem weaved stories around the songs, anecdotes about interactions with fans or gee-whiz tales about how stars got their starts. Seldom was heard a discouraging word, unless it was a starting point for a narrative about coming back from hardship, the darkness before the dawn.

Interspersed in the countdowns were the long-distance dedications, songs played for a long-lost or distant lover in the hope a heart would be stirred. You'd wince at some of the hokey song selections, but only the truly cynic would laugh at the emotion that spilled out of the letters Kasem read.

At the end of the show, always, would come Kasem's signature words of advice: "Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars."