by Higgenbotham » Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:49 pm
Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 1:53 pm
This will be my next project in this Dark Age Hovel: to go through all 214 pages of this hovel and summarize the factual information regarding the outputs that the managerial elite class overseeing the United States has actually generated.
These are the outputs documented in the first 73 pages of the Dark Age Hovel. So I am about 1/3 through it. Once I get through the remainder of the hovel, it will be compiled and categorized to topics such as health, crime, economy, resources, etc.
1. "Walmart CEO Doug McMillon issued a stark warning Tuesday: If theft does not slow down, the retailer will close stores across the country."
2. "Now they (the Bank for International Settlements) are warning of a crash the scale of which we have never seen before, with a staggering $80trillion (£65trillion) at stake." "It'll wipe out every dollar in the world."
3. "At Target, year-to-date, incremental shortage (organized retail crime) has already reduced our gross margin by more than $400 million vs. last year," Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said on the earnings call, "and we expect it will reduce our gross margin by more than $600 million for the full year."
4. "A study that examined 18 preschools in the Bay Area found traces of per- and poly-flouroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in almost all of the preschools’ carpets." "Hundreds of laboratory studies link PFAS exposure to adverse health outcomes."
5. "Anti-government groups in the past two years began using online forums to urge followers to attack critical infrastructure, including the power grid. They have posted documents and even instructions outlining vulnerabilities and suggesting the use of high-powered rifles."
6. "The number of county households considered housing cost-burdened – or households which spend more than half of their income on rent and utilities – has increased 40 percent since 2019. In Travis County, 72,000 households are categorized this way." “Households in this category cannot afford all that they need including transportation, health care, child care, and even food,” Siegfried explained. “A household that is severely housing cost-burdened is not stable; paying that percentage of your income on rent and utilities cannot be sustained.” (This would mean about 15% of households in this county are in an unsustainable situation.)
7. "Acemoglu et al. systematically examined companies that had corporate ties to Geithner, had executives who served with him on other boards, or had other direct relationships. They found that "the quantitative effect is comparable to standard findings" in Third World countries with weak institutions and higher levels of corruption. In other words, markets react to government actions in the U.S. the same way they do in a corrupt developing country. Crony capitalism pays, and the market knows it."
8. "In today’s business climate, Home Depot may have been able to only open 15 or 16 stores, (Home Depot founder) Marcus said, compared to the 2,300 locations the retailer currently has scattered around the U.S."
9. "A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows."
10. "Goodhart cites a YouGov poll from 2011 that found 62% agreed with the proposition: “Britain has changed in recent times beyond recognition, it sometimes feels like a foreign country and this makes me uncomfortable.” Only 30% disagreed. "
11. "With no end in sight, legions of nurses have left the field, retired early, or switched jobs. Some 100,000 nurses left the industry between 2020 and 2021, according to an industry trade-journal estimate. Although there were 4.4 million registered nurses with active licenses as of 2021, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, only 3 million people were employed as nurses, according to the Department of Labor."
12. "Where life expectancy at birth was calculated at 79 in 2019, this dropped to 76.1 in 2021."
13. "The net inflow of high-net-worth individuals to the US plummeted 86% in 2022 from peak pre-pandemic levels, falling to just 1,500 people, according to a new wealth report by London-based consultancy Henley & Partners. That's compared to a net inflow that fluctuated between 6,400 and 10,800 wealthy people a year from 2013 to 2019."
14. "Eighth-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” fell by a jarring eight points since the test was last administered in 2019, while fourth-grade scores dropped by five points; both are the largest math declines ever recorded on the test."
15. "Gallup previously reported that trust in the judicial branch of the federal government has cratered in the past two years; it now sits at 47%, below the majority level for the first time in Gallup's polling history. At 43%, trust in the executive branch is just three percentage points above its record low from the Watergate era. Americans are even less trusting in the legislative branch, at 38%, but this figure has been as low as 28% in the past."
16. "Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons."
17. "According a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population. But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent."
18. "Florida once had 350 small citrus farmers, Janet Mixon said less than 20 remain."
19. "Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey, recently completed an annual tour of the 1,400 wells that tap into the Ogallala in western Kansas. He said overall levels dropped about 3.5 feet in January 2013 compared to last year. Declines in January 2012 averaged 4.25 feet, he said. Buchanan said even in a normal year, the aquifer only recharges at an annual rate of about a half-inch. But users in some sections are pumping water out at a rate of two to four feet per year -- sometimes more. That rate only increases during periods of prolonged drought, such as the one the region has been experiencing for the past year."
20. "According to Dr Kristine Nichols, a soil microbiologist and regenerative agriculture expert, of the 900 million arable acres in the U.S., only about 1.5% is being farmed regeneratively. Iowa soil, for instance, was once among the most fertile on the planet, but is now rapidly being depleted. The average topsoil depth has decreased from around 14-18 inches at the beginning of the 20th century, to 6-8 inches by the year 2000."
21. “Irrigation on 24% of the cultivated land produces 40% of the total global food supply,” Irmak points out. “If we stopped irrigating today, more people would suffer due to substantially reduced food, fiber, and feed production, especially in areas that are already experiencing a significant shortage of supplies.”
22. "A 66 percent majority of Republicans in 13 Southern states including Texas and Florida are in favor of seceding from the union, according to a poll released Wednesday by Bright Line Watch. Support for forming a breakaway country reached 47 percent among Democrats in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii."
23. "Even under average-flow conditions, some drinking-water plants use water containing more than 20 percent wastewater. Of the 11 drinking-water plant intakes in the U.S. with the highest percentage of such de facto reuse, eight are in Texas. So, many Texans are now, probably unknown to them, ingesting water that was recently municipal wastewater. Yes, natural processes in those rivers help clean the water, but those processes are generally slow, so the natural cleanup is minimal when the travel time between cities is only days."
24. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges it could be a problem nationwide. The agency cites research from Southern California showing that people who swam in areas near flowing storm drains were 50 percent more likely to get sick than those who swam farther from the same drains. This idea that the pathway from sewer pipes to storm drains might be a significant source of contamination even in areas with separate systems is new, as is the ability to track it."
25. "In the United States, life expectancy in 2021 was 79.1 years for women and 73.2 years for men. That 5.9-year difference is the largest gap in a quarter-century."
26. "The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years."
27.
28. "While the U.S. labor market remains incredibly tight — with the economy adding another 517,000 jobs in December — around 7 million “prime age” men between the ages of 25 and 54 are reportedly sitting it out."
29. "The finding that nearly half of prime age, NLF men take pain medication on any given day and that 40 percent report that pain prevents them from accepting a job suggests that pain management interventions could potentially be helpful."
30.
31. "John Schreiber @johnschreiber Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains."
32. "Online sales are nearly 15% of retail sales, a share that’s higher than pre-pandemic, which means more opportunities for “porch pirates” to strike. The annual amount lost to package theft is an estimated $19.5 billion, according to a report." (That looks to be about 2%.)
33. "94 percent of American workers say they’re stressed at work, and three-quarters believe they’re more stressed than their parents (and their parents)."
34. "A 2012 study by the American Medical Association found that the current generation may be the first to encounter parents outliving their children due to childhood obesity which in turn can cause adults in middle age to suffer from hypertension, osteoarthritis, diabetes, stroke, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. The number of young and middle-aged adults becoming obese at increasingly younger ages is resulting a greater incidence of chronic disease and shortened life expectancy. Research from the University of Michigan’s Joyce Lee, a pediatric endocrinologist, found that people born between 1966 and 1985 became obese at a much faster rate than previous generations."
35. "Ten out of 20 plants — built by Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, TSMC, Intel, Rapidus (Japanese chip consortium) and Chinese chipmakers — were rated “worrisome” in more than three categories. The Texas chip plant of Samsung Electronics had more than three hurdles to overcome, including high production costs and a lack of labor. The nine categories evaluated were: production cost; geopolitical and environmental risk; semiconductor equipment and facility delivery; future demand; subsidies and tax credits; water and electricity supply; governmental risks, such as excess profit sharing; and labor supply."
36. "“I not only believe, but know for a fact that the cost of manufacturing chips in the US will be at least 55% higher than in Taiwan,” Chang had said at a press meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of APEC."
37. "From 2020 to 2021, death rates increased for each age group 1 year and over. Age-specific rates increased 10.1% for age group 1–4 (from 22.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2020 to 25.0 in 2021), 4.4% for 5–14 (13.7 to 14.3), 5.6% for 15–24 (84.2 to 88.9), 13.4% for 25–34 (159.5 to 180.8), and 16.1% for 35–44 (248.0 to 287.9). Rates increased 12.1% for 45–54 (473.5 to 531.0), 7.5% for 55–64 (1,038.9 to 1,117.1), 3.8% for 65–74 (2,072.3 to 2,151.3), 2.4% for 75–84 (4,997.0 to 5,119.4), and 3.5% for 85 and over (15,210.9 to 15,743.3)."
38. "NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading South" "New Yorkers are so worried about crime, sky-high housing costs and struggling schools, 27% percent of state residents said they want to move away in the next five years, a survey revealed Wednesday."
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This will be my next project in this Dark Age Hovel: to go through all 214 pages of this hovel and summarize the factual information regarding the outputs that the managerial elite class overseeing the United States has actually generated.[/quote]
These are the outputs documented in the first 73 pages of the Dark Age Hovel. So I am about 1/3 through it. Once I get through the remainder of the hovel, it will be compiled and categorized to topics such as health, crime, economy, resources, etc.
1. "Walmart CEO Doug McMillon issued a stark warning Tuesday: If theft does not slow down, the retailer will close stores across the country."
2. "Now they (the Bank for International Settlements) are warning of a crash the scale of which we have never seen before, with a staggering $80trillion (£65trillion) at stake." "It'll wipe out every dollar in the world."
3. "At Target, year-to-date, incremental shortage (organized retail crime) has already reduced our gross margin by more than $400 million vs. last year," Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said on the earnings call, "and we expect it will reduce our gross margin by more than $600 million for the full year."
4. "A study that examined 18 preschools in the Bay Area found traces of per- and poly-flouroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in almost all of the preschools’ carpets." "Hundreds of laboratory studies link PFAS exposure to adverse health outcomes."
5. "Anti-government groups in the past two years began using online forums to urge followers to attack critical infrastructure, including the power grid. They have posted documents and even instructions outlining vulnerabilities and suggesting the use of high-powered rifles."
6. "The number of county households considered housing cost-burdened – or households which spend more than half of their income on rent and utilities – has increased 40 percent since 2019. In Travis County, 72,000 households are categorized this way." “Households in this category cannot afford all that they need including transportation, health care, child care, and even food,” Siegfried explained. “A household that is severely housing cost-burdened is not stable; paying that percentage of your income on rent and utilities cannot be sustained.” (This would mean about 15% of households in this county are in an unsustainable situation.)
7. "Acemoglu et al. systematically examined companies that had corporate ties to Geithner, had executives who served with him on other boards, or had other direct relationships. They found that "the quantitative effect is comparable to standard findings" in Third World countries with weak institutions and higher levels of corruption. In other words, markets react to government actions in the U.S. the same way they do in a corrupt developing country. Crony capitalism pays, and the market knows it."
8. "In today’s business climate, Home Depot may have been able to only open 15 or 16 stores, (Home Depot founder) Marcus said, compared to the 2,300 locations the retailer currently has scattered around the U.S."
9. "A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows."
10. "Goodhart cites a YouGov poll from 2011 that found 62% agreed with the proposition: “Britain has changed in recent times beyond recognition, it sometimes feels like a foreign country and this makes me uncomfortable.” Only 30% disagreed. "
11. "With no end in sight, legions of nurses have left the field, retired early, or switched jobs. Some 100,000 nurses left the industry between 2020 and 2021, according to an industry trade-journal estimate. Although there were 4.4 million registered nurses with active licenses as of 2021, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, only 3 million people were employed as nurses, according to the Department of Labor."
12. "Where life expectancy at birth was calculated at 79 in 2019, this dropped to 76.1 in 2021."
13. "The net inflow of high-net-worth individuals to the US plummeted 86% in 2022 from peak pre-pandemic levels, falling to just 1,500 people, according to a new wealth report by London-based consultancy Henley & Partners. That's compared to a net inflow that fluctuated between 6,400 and 10,800 wealthy people a year from 2013 to 2019."
14. "Eighth-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” fell by a jarring eight points since the test was last administered in 2019, while fourth-grade scores dropped by five points; both are the largest math declines ever recorded on the test."
15. "Gallup previously reported that trust in the judicial branch of the federal government has cratered in the past two years; it now sits at 47%, below the majority level for the first time in Gallup's polling history. At 43%, trust in the executive branch is just three percentage points above its record low from the Watergate era. Americans are even less trusting in the legislative branch, at 38%, but this figure has been as low as 28% in the past."
16. "Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons."
17. "According a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population. But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent."
18. "Florida once had 350 small citrus farmers, Janet Mixon said less than 20 remain."
19. "Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey, recently completed an annual tour of the 1,400 wells that tap into the Ogallala in western Kansas. He said overall levels dropped about 3.5 feet in January 2013 compared to last year. Declines in January 2012 averaged 4.25 feet, he said. Buchanan said even in a normal year, the aquifer only recharges at an annual rate of about a half-inch. But users in some sections are pumping water out at a rate of two to four feet per year -- sometimes more. That rate only increases during periods of prolonged drought, such as the one the region has been experiencing for the past year."
20. "According to Dr Kristine Nichols, a soil microbiologist and regenerative agriculture expert, of the 900 million arable acres in the U.S., only about 1.5% is being farmed regeneratively. Iowa soil, for instance, was once among the most fertile on the planet, but is now rapidly being depleted. The average topsoil depth has decreased from around 14-18 inches at the beginning of the 20th century, to 6-8 inches by the year 2000."
21. “Irrigation on 24% of the cultivated land produces 40% of the total global food supply,” Irmak points out. “If we stopped irrigating today, more people would suffer due to substantially reduced food, fiber, and feed production, especially in areas that are already experiencing a significant shortage of supplies.”
22. "A 66 percent majority of Republicans in 13 Southern states including Texas and Florida are in favor of seceding from the union, according to a poll released Wednesday by Bright Line Watch. Support for forming a breakaway country reached 47 percent among Democrats in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii."
23. "Even under average-flow conditions, some drinking-water plants use water containing more than 20 percent wastewater. Of the 11 drinking-water plant intakes in the U.S. with the highest percentage of such de facto reuse, eight are in Texas. So, many Texans are now, probably unknown to them, ingesting water that was recently municipal wastewater. Yes, natural processes in those rivers help clean the water, but those processes are generally slow, so the natural cleanup is minimal when the travel time between cities is only days."
24. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges it could be a problem nationwide. The agency cites research from Southern California showing that people who swam in areas near flowing storm drains were 50 percent more likely to get sick than those who swam farther from the same drains. This idea that the pathway from sewer pipes to storm drains might be a significant source of contamination even in areas with separate systems is new, as is the ability to track it."
25. "In the United States, life expectancy in 2021 was 79.1 years for women and 73.2 years for men. That 5.9-year difference is the largest gap in a quarter-century."
26. "The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years."
27. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/g0rTQDFz/Screenshot-2023-04-30-111401.png[/img]
28. "While the U.S. labor market remains incredibly tight — with the economy adding another 517,000 jobs in December — around 7 million “prime age” men between the ages of 25 and 54 are reportedly sitting it out."
29. "The finding that nearly half of prime age, NLF men take pain medication on any given day and that 40 percent report that pain prevents them from accepting a job suggests that pain management interventions could potentially be helpful."
30.
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/rwTfQ69f/federal-transfer-768x376.png[/img]
31. "John Schreiber @johnschreiber Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains."
32. "Online sales are nearly 15% of retail sales, a share that’s higher than pre-pandemic, which means more opportunities for “porch pirates” to strike. The annual amount lost to package theft is an estimated $19.5 billion, according to a report." (That looks to be about 2%.)
33. "94 percent of American workers say they’re stressed at work, and three-quarters believe they’re more stressed than their parents (and their parents)."
34. "A 2012 study by the American Medical Association found that the current generation may be the first to encounter parents outliving their children due to childhood obesity which in turn can cause adults in middle age to suffer from hypertension, osteoarthritis, diabetes, stroke, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. The number of young and middle-aged adults becoming obese at increasingly younger ages is resulting a greater incidence of chronic disease and shortened life expectancy. Research from the University of Michigan’s Joyce Lee, a pediatric endocrinologist, found that people born between 1966 and 1985 became obese at a much faster rate than previous generations."
35. "Ten out of 20 plants — built by Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, TSMC, Intel, Rapidus (Japanese chip consortium) and Chinese chipmakers — were rated “worrisome” in more than three categories. The Texas chip plant of Samsung Electronics had more than three hurdles to overcome, including high production costs and a lack of labor. The nine categories evaluated were: production cost; geopolitical and environmental risk; semiconductor equipment and facility delivery; future demand; subsidies and tax credits; water and electricity supply; governmental risks, such as excess profit sharing; and labor supply."
36. "“I not only believe, but know for a fact that the cost of manufacturing chips in the US will be at least 55% higher than in Taiwan,” Chang had said at a press meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of APEC."
37. "From 2020 to 2021, death rates increased for each age group 1 year and over. Age-specific rates increased 10.1% for age group 1–4 (from 22.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2020 to 25.0 in 2021), 4.4% for 5–14 (13.7 to 14.3), 5.6% for 15–24 (84.2 to 88.9), 13.4% for 25–34 (159.5 to 180.8), and 16.1% for 35–44 (248.0 to 287.9). Rates increased 12.1% for 45–54 (473.5 to 531.0), 7.5% for 55–64 (1,038.9 to 1,117.1), 3.8% for 65–74 (2,072.3 to 2,151.3), 2.4% for 75–84 (4,997.0 to 5,119.4), and 3.5% for 85 and over (15,210.9 to 15,743.3)."
38. "NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading South" "New Yorkers are so worried about crime, sky-high housing costs and struggling schools, 27% percent of state residents said they want to move away in the next five years, a survey revealed Wednesday."
1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/walmart-ceo-warns-company-will-close-stores-if-theft-doesn-t-slow-down/ar-AA14YDxu?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=217caa69f85b4e1a83c1c68d70578f93
2. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/it-ll-wipe-out-every-dollar-in-the-world-new-crash-fears-as-80trillion-goes-missing/ar-AA14ZBgx?cvid=8152f27828294aa08a17098f9a140c70&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover
3. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-organized-retail-crime-400-million-profits-113006396.html
4. https://www.berkeleyside.org/2019/11/21/new-worry-for-parents-study-by-berkeley-science-institute-finds-toxic-substances-in-preschool-carpets
5. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/us/power-outage-moore-county-investigation-thursday/index.html
6. https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2022/11/eviction-rates-are-skyrocketing-in-travis-county-says-hhs/
7. https://reason.com/2012/02/09/warren-buffett-baptist-and-bootlegger/
8. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-supporting-billionaire-home-depot-founder-says-nobody-works-anymore-because-of-socialism/ar-AA15MKp9?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=097865b9bc144dbeaa552e259be365f6
9. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pharmaceuticals-lurking-u-s-drinking-water-flna1c9461352
10. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/22/the-road-to-somewhere-david-goodhart-populist-revolt-future-politics
11. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/14/nurses-strike-staffing-unions/?utm_campaign=wp_the7&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_the7&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38dd79c%2F63c53b73ef9bf67b235f5c9d%2F639eb4c6c5a38f5037d1639d%2F31%2F52%2F63c53b73ef9bf67b235f5c9d&wp_cu=469faff31dd6850fef2c878b019fbb0b%7C4a927eeb-1892-4110-abc1-008fa1a1bac4
12. https://www.statista.com/chart/20673/us-life-expectancy-higher/
13. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-s-millionaires-aren-t-leaving-the-us-to-avoid-taxes-they-re-trying-to-find-the-american-dream-somewhere-else-report-says/ar-AA17xXiy?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=7c603b5b0c2f4aa2a3e0076dc916959b
14. https://www.wvxu.org/education/2022-10-24/naep-scores-2022-drops-4th-8th-grade-math
15. https://news.gallup.com/poll/402737/trust-federal-government-branches-continues-falter.aspx
16. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/?sh=24ad2574791e
17. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-many-successful-millionaires-are-psychopaths-and-why-it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-bad-thing.html
18. https://www.fox13news.com/news/mixon-family-selling-mixon-fruit-farms
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