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[John]

** 29-Oct-2019 World View: Homelessness and Suicide

> https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-fina ... -people-us

> “It’s concerning to people like us. And it’s not just me. It’s
> many other seniors we’ve talked to and some lower income
> people. They don’t know what they’re going to do, they can’t plan
> for the future. Can they stay, do they have to leave the state?
> And we’re in that same boat, we don’t know either.”

> Well, we have more and more homeless living under bridges down
> here in Austin, Texas (Northwest Austin), Until about 2 years ago,
> I saw no homeless in these locations (Northwest Austin). Today I
> saw a tent pitched here for the first time along a route I travel
> frequently.

> These homeless are all ages and all races, but many do appear to
> be retirees who may have been forced out of their homes.

And then people say they don't understand why more people are
committing suicide.

[Higgenbotham]

** 29-Oct-2019 World View: Homelessness and Suicide

> https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-fina ... -people-us

> “It’s concerning to people like us. And it’s not just me. It’s
> many other seniors we’ve talked to and some lower income
> people. They don’t know what they’re going to do, they can’t plan
> for the future. Can they stay, do they have to leave the state?
> And we’re in that same boat, we don’t know either.”

> Well, we have more and more homeless living under bridges down
> here in Austin, Texas (Northwest Austin), Until about 2 years ago,
> I saw no homeless in these locations (Northwest Austin). Today I
> saw a tent pitched here for the first time along a route I travel
> frequently.

> These homeless are all ages and all races, but many do appear to
> be retirees who may have been forced out of their homes.

And then people say they don't understand why more people are
committing suicide.

Most haven't truly contemplated how dire the situation is and how very dire it's going to be. To some extent, I would include myself in that.

Today a homeless tent was pitched under a bridge in my neighborhood for the first time as the stock market notched yet another all time high. Meanwhile, birth rates continue to hit all time lows and the majority of women under 30 who are giving birth are on Medicaid. We all know that this increasing disparity can't continue forever.

[Higgenbotham]

For those of you who day trade and watch the price action in real time, you probably noticed around 1:30 today, everything just kinda stopped moving for a few minutes - as if the charts were stuck. That was the machines being switched off. Now they're in sell mode. Just a heads up. tyler

Well, at 10:59 Chicago time today, a sell order for about 17,000 e-mini S&P contracts, apparently at market, hit the exchange all at once. It drove the S&P down about 8 points in one minute. There was no news that I could find that would have been responsible. Volumes are light at that time of day, somewhere around 500-1000 lots per minute. That one minute volume was the second highest of the day, exceeded only at the close.

[aeden]

Weapons to the enemy Pelosi and the abandonment of Mr. Stevens was the first United States ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979. As we read the actual accounts from the discharged Chaplin the Demsheviks should be exiled for 100 years from our soil. As your report H indicates our area also has many home and food insecure ranks growing. One comment from the current Church workers indicate the current trade issues have seen a influx of vegetables to be passed along. I will parse my words carefully. Its not getting better but also convey we are in the eye of the storm few witness.

https://www.foxnews.com/person/t/lucas-tomlinson

thread: erbil

Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:41 am
On Friday the so-called Sharia Court of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) reportedly executed 600 hostages from the Yezidi community of Shingal (Sinjar) in the Talafar district in northern Iraq.
The group piled the bodies into the well of Alo Antar on al-Ayyadiya highway, local sources reported.

Americans pretend to not understand just war theory or walking in circles as such.
Words cannot express what the lack of actual education unleashes.

[tim]

Key Birth Statistics
Data for United States in 2018

Number of births: 3,791,712
Birth rate: 11.6 per 1,000 population
Fertility rate: 59.1 births per 1000 women aged 15-44 years
Prenatal care initiated in the 1st trimester: 77.5%
Percent born preterm (less than 36 completed weeks of gestation): 10.02%
Percent cesarean delivery: 31.9%
Medicaid as source of payment for the delivery: 42.3%

Source: Births: Final Data for 2018 (In press)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm

You can't make shit up and have it look any worse than the facts on the ground.

What kinds of people are continuing to have children knowing that they can't afford them and need medicaid? Not high IQ intelligent people that build up civilization and produce....

Everything about the current system today is dysgenic and promotes the worst of humanity at the expense of the best.

[aeden]

There is no single US agenda, only a dual citizen agenda which does not put America first.
It would be redundant to list the cross boundary arbiter agendas.
The Keynesian veil is still the quest for Bancour.
As we can see the agency issues are circling the wagons as TBTF continue to shed all margin of safety
you would consider risk management and we would convey as socialism for the them and capitalism for you only
to pay.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly brexit
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... bev#p40052 operation 936

Sophisms of Free-Trade and Popular Political Economy Examined; American edition published 1872, by Henry Carey Baird. UK first edition 1849.
Nothing changes; the masses remain as naive as ever.

As we seen with AOC point blank the Handlers are in control.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... aoc#p47916

I will talk to Julie to see when She plans on going back home to check on Family.
Just a regular Gal and insight on the LITC issues and talent pool drain.
Armed escort when was last there by Family.

[aeden]

@sxdoc
Follow @sxdoc
Al-Baghdadi
The Compound
Special Ops found Cables going direct to DC State Department.
Must Watch/Listen this is Scary Crazy #FlynnFighters #PatriotsAwakened

unconfirmed so get some

[aeden]

https://southfront.org/iraqi-protests-c ... f-karbala/

conflicting reports

[aeden]

Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.

Strauss ---> Herbert Storing ---> Murray Dry ---> Suzanna Sherry

The basis of the project of the Tavistock Institute was explained by Round Tabler, Lord Bertrand Russell, is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's premier logicians. Russell offered a revealing glimpse into Frankfurt School’s mass social engineering efforts, in his 1951 book, The Impact of Science on Society:

The actual thread is - The alliance theory.
As it was put clearly before. A bent of mind contrary to the Book and the Letter.

https://www.transnotitia.com/subverting-the-church/
Beginning late in the 17th century, Jewish messianism mutated under the impetus of Sabbateanism. By the 18th century, Frankism was born.

The veil is lifted to what the office is up against.

Mr. Graham is not unfounded in his ire.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-graha ... an-process

NOUN anger.
"the plans provoked the ire of conservationists"

He is correct and an Ancient evil descends upon this land under this Judgement window as such.
We gave you the window to what ought and really is.
It pervades into replacement theology and debauchery as a right.

[Higgenbotham]

** 11-Oct-2019 Hiring

That's been my experience as well, and it's consistent with
a number of things I've read that if you want a job, then you have
to pretend to be as stupid as the Gen-Xer hiring you. I can't
get a job because I can't pretend to be stupid enough.

Acting stupid at work is a subtle art...there are some tactics that skilled practitioners of corporate stupidity use to get it just right.

One of the most common tactics is doing what everyone else is doing, even if it is wrong...

In a world where stupidity dominates, looking good is more important than being right. Advanced practitioners of corporate stupidity often spend less time on the content of their work and more on its presentation. They know that a decision-maker sees only the PowerPoint show and reads just the executive summary (if they’re lucky). They also realise that most stupid ideas are routinely accepted when they’re presented well. Decision-makers will likely forget much of the content by the time they walk out the door. And when things go wrong, they can say: ‘They didn’t read the fine-print.’

Negotiating corporate stupidity also requires assuming that the boss knows best. This means doing what your boss wants, no matter how idiotic. What is even more important is that you should do what your boss’s boss wants. You will look like you are loyal and it will save time arguing for your position. When things go wrong, you can blame your boss.

Working in a stupefied firm often means blinding others with bullshit. A very effective way to get out of doing anything real is to rely on a flurry of management jargon. Develop strategies, generate business models, engage in thought leadership. This will get you off the hook of doing any actual work. It will also make you seem like you are at the cutting edge. When things go wrong, you can blame the fashionable management idea.

The final piece of advice for any practitioner of corporate stupidity is to keep moving. It is vital to avoid being landed with your own mistakes. Take the glory that comes from short-term success and move on before you’re saddled with any longer-term costs. That way, when things go wrong, someone else is left to clean up the mess.

For the past two decades, management theorists have been convinced that organisations succeed or fail on the basis of their specialised knowledge. However, our close look at the corporate world showed quite a different picture: many large corporations seemed over-run by stupidity. What’s more, this stupidity is not just the accidental result of a few corporate buffoons. It is often intentionally created. This is much more than taking advantage of the various inbuilt cognitive biases with which behavioural economists are so obsessed. Rather, it involved organisations purposefully creating a kind of collective mindlessness.

We saw firms going out of their way to block employees from reflecting on their assumptions, to discourage them for thinking about their substantive goals, and to impede them from giving or asking for justifications for their decisions and actions. By doing this, organisations often create functional outcomes both for individuals (such as career progression) and the whole organisation (such as the ability to avoid conflict and focus on common goals). While these favourable outcomes dominate in the short term, collective stupidity can create disfunction in the longer term, including a lack of learning and an imperviousness to mistakes. Perhaps management thinkers need to stop clinging to knowledge-based theories of organisations and start developing a stupidity-based theory of how organisations are run.

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The author:
André Spicer is professor of organisational behaviour at the Cass Business School at City, University of London.