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Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Sat Apr 18, 2026 11:44 am

Useful and cheerfully in spades.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31162#

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Sat Apr 18, 2026 10:38 am

Something came to mind as a result of reading the post about the 2 gay men who mocked and abused their surrogate baby. Which shows how abnormal behaviors such as these gay men typify are attempted to be quickly normalized and adopted using the Internet. The Internet gives groups who would have been shunned and ignored before its advent a way to gain attention and acceptance. Only in rare cases like this does it backfire but they can regroup and try again. Fringe groups can thus gain outsized influence.

Anyway, that led me to think about how learning to do things works in a similar way. Let's say it's the 1970s and you want to learn how to garden. Some sources of information might be:

1. Subscription to a gardening magazine,
2. Books from the library,
3. A local elderly person who has decades of gardening experience in the local area,
4. A grandparent who also has decades of gardening experience but who is not in the local area.

Now fast forward to the 2020s. Probably you go pretty exclusively to the Internet.

Having done both, the 1970s option is better. Again, the 2020s information sources can easily gain outsized influence just by showing up online. Better information sources like your elderly neighbor who is out tending her garden and the library need you to show up.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by tim » Sat Apr 18, 2026 8:39 am

https://www.collapselife.com/p/china-is ... nd-its-not
China is winning wars and it's not even fighting

Influencers, algorithms, and Western disillusionment are reshaping the battlefield.
What these trips, and others like them, achieve is more than viral entertainment. They work to actively rewrite the story of China that Americans know through the Tiananmen Square massacre, forced labor among the Uyghurs, the surveillance state, the social credit system, and more.

Pew research suggests that while most Americans still have negative views of China, the share with a favorable view has risen six percentage points since last year and nearly doubled since 2023. Younger Americans have more positive views of China than their older counterparts, with about a third of adults under 50 (34%) holding favorable opinions of China, compared to just 19% of those over 50.

By early 2026 the effect had a name: Chinamaxxing. On TikTok and Instagram, Gen Z users began posting videos of themselves “becoming Chinese” — drinking hot water for digestion, shuffling around in slippers, queuing for congee, even adopting the occasional floral quilted jacket. NPR, The New York Times, and CNN all ran explainers on the trend, noting it reflected not just curiosity about China but deep disillusionment with American hustle culture, crony capitalism, and political dysfunction.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by tim » Sat Apr 18, 2026 8:38 am

https://modernity.news/2026/04/17/depra ... acy-video/
“Depraved EVIL”: Gay Couple Mocks Baby’s Cry for ‘Mama’ In Viral Surrogacy Video
Steve Watson
17th April 2026
No comments
X recoils at two men laughing while their purchased infant begs for the mother they erased

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Fri Apr 17, 2026 9:39 am

Additional information marked below.
Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:24 pm
Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2026 4:33 pm
Chemical production outpacing world’s ability to understand the risk, study warns
Feb 16, 2022

With global chemical production increasing 50-fold since 1950 — and projected to triple again by 2050 compared to 2010 — its aggressive pace may outstrip society’s ability to adequately assess and monitor the risk, pushing the planet to the brink, a new study suggests.

There are an estimated 350,000 chemicals or mixtures on the global market, with nearly 70,000 registered in the past decade, and another 30,000 that have only been registered in emerging economies where chemical production has jumped beyond adequate disposal capacity, warns a team of 14 international researchers in the study published by the American Chemical Society.

The emergence of more and more new chemicals that aren’t fully understood puts humanity out of a “safe operating space,” the authors say.

“Chemical pollution has the potential to cause severe ecosystem and human health problems at different scales, (but also to alter vital Earth system processes on which human life depends),” begins the study’s introduction in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Plastic production alone increased 79% between 2000 and 2015, the team found.

The range of manufactured chemicals, from plastics to pesticides, industrial chemicals, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals, has pushed Earth beyond one of what scientists interpret as nine planetary boundaries that act as markers for the Earth’s health. These boundaries include greenhouse gas emissions, the ozone layer, forests, freshwater and biodiversity. However, chemical pollution may have breached the boundary referred to as “novel entities,” or things made by humans and introduced into the environment.

The new study, in part, reviews the evolution of the scientific discussion related to the planetary boundary for novel entities. The scientists acknowledged the data was sparse in many areas, but said the weight of evidence indicated a breach of the planetary boundary.
https://esemag.com/hazardous-materials/ ... boundaries
A few weeks ago I ran across a chart of these planetary boundaries that was updated for 2025.

https://www.stockholmresilience.org/res ... aries.html

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Novel entities: Technological developments introduce novel synthetic chemicals into the environment, mobilize materials in wholly new ways, modify the genetics of living organisms, and otherwise intervene in evolutionary processes and change the functioning of the Earth system. The amount of synthetic substances released into the environment without adequate safety testing places novel entities in the high-risk zone.
This is probably the greatest overlooked risk of our time. Some say that lead contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. What we are dealing with is probably hundreds of times more serious than lead. It has the potential to extend the coming dark age for a long time.
Additional Information:

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REVIEW article
Front. Endocrinol., 17 August 2021
Sec. Obesity
Volume 12 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.724989
A Review of Human Exposure to Microplastics and Insights Into Microplastics as Obesogens
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Krishnamoorthi Vimalkumar
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/en ... 24989/full

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Thu Apr 16, 2026 5:47 pm

As for what I am doing in the stock market. I have been in the S&P double inverse fund, SDS, for 4 years (approximately). With interest rates up, an SDS account with reinvested dividends has gained a little when the market is steady, about 4%. That's based on the volatility that has actually been experienced; due to volatility it doesn't gain as much as the advertised dividend.

When the market was going down or sometimes even when it dipped hard, I would take profits and withdraw them. That hasn't happened much since late 2023. Since late 2023, I've been almost 100% in SDS and only traded it a little last year. In that time since late 2023, my account has lost about half.

Now for the reason I am talking about this today. In the past day, I have added to my account for the first time in 4 years. Tomorrow morning I will be adding again. In all, I will be adding about 25% to my account this week and all of it will go into SDS. If the market stays steady or rises, I will continue adding, but less than this week. 5-10% per month, something like that.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Thu Apr 16, 2026 5:18 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Feb 01, 2026 6:18 pm Manipulation and fraud are the biggest businesses in America today, and waddling up to the window for a bailout is the most in-demand job skill in America today.

The market manipulation question

And then there is the question that social media is obsessed with: “market manipulation.” Sahm is careful with the term.

“That’s a very specific thing,” she said; it denotes whether or not someone on the inside can time trades based on the information they exclusively have.

And to be sure, insider trading may have been part of some of the big swings. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating at least two instances where oil futures volume surged in the minutes before Trump announced major Iran policy pivots, according to Bloomberg.

But broadly, of the question of jawboning, Sahm says it’s not so unusual.

“There is a conversation he’s having with markets, and he’s listening to markets,” she said of the president. Trump’s maximalist style—threaten annihilation, then walk it back, then threaten again—has trained investors to buy the dip on the retreat, because the retreat always comes.

“Investors who missed out on the post-Liberation Day recovery because they got scared don’t want to miss out this time,” Sahm said. “As soon as it looked like the worst case was off the table, the stock market was just off and running.”

But Sahm offered one note of caution that runs counter to the rally.

“I kind of worry about the day where markets completely ignore him,” she said, “because then we’re in a place where this has really gone off the road.”
This is from Claudia Sahm of the "Sahm Rule". So that's one aspect of it - training market participants to behave as and to be no smarter than Pavlov's Dogs. And in the last sentence she finds a way to imply that it is a very large part of the equation without having to say it.

In another part of the article the ramifications for the economy of it being a large part of the equation.
Who actually owns the rally

It’s also worth asking who, exactly, is long the S&P at 7,000. The wealthiest 10% of American households own roughly 93% of equities. Bank of America’s own research team published a chart this week that drew the K in its starkest terms: Discretionary spending among higher-income households is actually rising, buoyed by tax refunds from last year’s One Big Beautiful Budget Act...
Also,
Which raises another question: If the American consumer is running out of road, and the S&P’s forward earnings estimates assume she isn’t, what happens when the two have to meet? “We’re in a place where there’s enough broad-based slowing that I expect this to make a dent in consumer spending,” Sahm said. “That could be a speed bump for the stock market, and that is not my impression of what is baked into the earnings estimates.”
Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:48 pm No worries, just a speed bump. The Boomers have been hitting speed bumps at full speed since, oh, about the time of Woodstock.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets ... 76321&ei=9

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Wed Apr 15, 2026 9:33 am

US consumer sentiment just hit its lowest level since 1952. Not 2008. Not the stagflation of the 1970s. 1952. T

For those who seen this heading in and actually did something you are way ahead of these Socialist craven fools
who purported anything to value added.
Uniparty is and will increase your headwinds since they do do and will not do anything as value added or actually sane.
Lie cheat steal burn loot murder is all they provided. They are not democrats for much longer than you are deceived.
They cannot contend with the Watchmen. Proof that the 51 pole dancers are not in chains is the fact.
They serve darkness and they damned well know it.

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by aedens » Mon Apr 13, 2026 5:16 pm

The lipstick period.

Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:32 pm
Random samples from the alleged deplorables as they the Alinsky, Gramsci with the Kalergi fools took you out.
The Authoritarian Personality, which was written by Adorno and appeared in 1950. It was part of a series called Studies in Prejudice, produced by the Frankfurt school, which included titles like Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder. The Authoritarian Personality was particularly influential because, according to Prof. MacDonald, the American Jewish Committee heavily funded its promotion and because Jewish academics took up its message so enthusiastically.
The book's purpose is to make every group affiliation sound as if it were a sign of mental disorder. Everything from patriotism to religion to family -- and race -- loyalty are signs of a dangerous and defective "authoritarian personality." Because drawing distinctions between different groups is illegitimate, all group loyalties -- even close family ties! -- are "prejudice." As Christopher Lasch has written, the book leads to the conclusion that prejudice "could be eradicated only by subjecting the American people to what amounted to collective psychotherapy -- by treating them as inmates of an insane asylum."
The first attempt was 1986 on our group. It was a graduate student from Cornell. The internalized drones fell head first.
Baudrillard was absolutely correct. “Information devours its own content.

After teaching two years at the University of Frankfurt, Adorno immigrated to England in 1934 to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jews. He taught at the University of Oxford for three years and then went to the United States (1938), where he worked at Princeton (1938–41) and then was codirector of the Research Project on Social Discrimination at the University of California, Berkeley (1941–48). Adorno and his colleague Max Horkheimer returned to the University of Frankfurt in 1949. There they rebuilt the Institute for Social Research and revived the Frankfurt school of critical theory.
Originally it was located at the Institute for Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung), an attached institute at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. The Institute was founded in 1923 thanks to a donation by Felix Weil with the aim of developing Marxist studies in Germany.
As I checked the decades on the human toll from 1945 to 1955 the death count to facts from the 1935 to 1945 was fertile for the narratives say for instance the silent weapons of the silent war, or if so inclined the long march for those who wave banners of stupidity's.
They concluded a Marxist Communist revolution would likely not be possible in the West because of the Western culture and the Christian religion that dominated it.

They concluded both should be destroyed.

The paper of that period study was forwarded as the Keynesian Veil when the actual smart money was attacked as a liquidity pump failure.
The preservation of capital was ignored as multi faceted deprivation we listed had been pushed aside.
Numerous studies indicated this from NBER and Benn Steil and the planned democide recorded from Sean Mcmeekin.
Dr. Anthony Sutton work focused the intent and interpretation of the transitions debauchery's.
Keynes was unable and unwilling to negate Von Mises Tome of Human Action. From all intent and purposes even FDR supported the
point when and why to tap the brakes on imposition structural inflation. For those that stocked up for stagflation remember that some
are from the fact of a standard they cannot fathom and are not allowed to understand anyways.
Not saying the Fugger model is the best as it hinges on competency as forwarded 4 legs of the chair.
Bond-Metals-Real Estate-Stock.. They do not even pretend to care or even will.

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying,
we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our group was allowed in after the fall. First we buried the frozen dead since we fear God first.
I can say but it matters little in the Hour since Timothy said it best and they waxed cold.
They serve darkness and no they had no plan. The resurgence of the Waffen was as real as the cold still evil night
they had no plan other than the consequences the innocent suffered.

Klingberg cycle of political deviants dated as Uniparty destroyed all and any ability to negate the criminals as
the taxpayers are financially destroyed. This Cantillon effect under way is rather clear.
Tiny bubbles was a map not ignorance.

Operation white crow won the discussion and I will link it for our collective edification also.
I was reviewing OLD53 advise on a view and he was correct
in Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski real time study to survive policy strains released on a population.

There are times, men and events about which History alone can record the final judgments; contemporaries and individual observers must only write what they have seen and heard. The very truth demands it. Titus Livious.
Two links will cover it for know and it was a texture moment.
The pretext root of the discussion was Human Action. You can search that keyword on your query to effects.
And remember, there are some people who think the “UniParty” isn’t real.
Why is not even a thought and just when. Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:48 pm

thread: AA-1025, 270, isa55, peleg, white crow

water wheat weather

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

by Higgenbotham » Mon Apr 13, 2026 1:53 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2026 12:13 am One way for someone to wrap their head around just how big manipulation and fraud are in this economy is to read what the Austrian economists have to say. Before moving onto other discussion about manipulation and fraud, I will find the most relevant quotes from the Austrians that I am able to.

This is from Google AI, and I really should look up the specific quotes as intended...
"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." — Ludwig von Mises, Human Action (1949).
Door number 2 is where we're headed.

Looking at the archives, aeden quoted this from Mises in 2009 and 2020. Also we've discussed how the credit expansion was voluntarily abandoned in the 1930s.

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