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Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2013 2:09 pm
Mexican billionaire Hugo Salinas Price in a 10 minute interview. He also thinks the rise in interest rates is the key.

• The rise in interest rates signals the beginning of the end of the world financial system.
• The people in power today are barbarians. They do not understand how civilization came into being and what is required to keep it going. They are comparable to monkeys flying an airplane.
• There are no true elites in charge today with the exception of Vladimir Putin. The rest of the world leaders have a level of learning and morals equivalent to the masses.
• The interest rate derivatives will set off a crisis that will bankrupt the world financial system. The only thing left standing will be gold. Many people will not survive.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:49 am

I think that we're going to see eventually a series of bankruptcies. And I think that the rise in the interest rate is probably the fatal sign which is going to ignite a derivatives crisis that is going to bring down the derivatives system. There is something like a quadrillion of derivatives and most of them are interest rate derivatives. The spiking of the interest rate in the United States may set that off. And I think that what is going to happen in the world is that eventually we're going to come to a moment where there's going to be massive bankruptcies around the world and what is going to be left when the dust settles is gold and some people are going to have it and some people are not. And then the problem will be to hold onto what you've got. Because it's not going to be a very pleasant world. That's what I see coming, my friend.

--Hugo Salinas Price (transcribed from the link above)

"In 1987 Ricardo succeeded his father Hugo Salinas Price as CEO of Grupo Elektra. He is the fourth richest person in Mexico behind Carlos Slim Helu and the 34th richest person in the world with a wealth of around US $17.4 billion in 2012."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Salinas_Pliego

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:49 am

And he was talking about the appearance on the world stage of individuals, and he was speaking to the growth of the population and the appearance of new individuals coming into the mass of humanity, and these individuals evidently are barbarians. They came too suddenly to be educated and for the knowledge of how to keep the Western way of life alive. And so these people have increased and now they have taken over power and so now we're in the hands of barbarians. They have no idea of how our society came to be and what is necessary to keep it going. And they're fiddling with the controls. You might think of a monkey flying a 747. They have no idea what they are doing and this is not going to end well with the barbarians at the controls.

We don't have people with a true background of education in history and economics and politics. They're all working on the spur of the moment. They're experimenting to see if this works and see if that works and I really have very serious doubts about the survival of our civilization under such people. I rather expect that a great crisis is coming when the grain will be sifted from the chaff. We're going to see a great separation. Some people are just not going to make it and the old truths are going to come back into fashion because of the need for survival.

The elites are really not elites. They're just as vulgar as the mass. We do not have elites anymore. The elites are really in their attitude and in their behavior they are not elites, they are mass. An elite does not just consent to anything, you know. An elite has his values and his firm convictions. He is striving for something better which he may not be able to achieve but at least he is making an attempt. We don't have anybody attempting anything. Nobody wants to risk anything.

We don't have an elite and I don't see an elite anywhere. Well, there's one guy who I consider to be elite and who is it? Vladimir Putin. There's a man who's got some backbone at least. But I don't see anybody else on the world stage.

And I think that's something that we need in the world. We can't just go on this way but we are going on this way and we shall go on, continue on this way.

--Hugo Salinas Price (transcribed from the link above)

"In 1987 Ricardo succeeded his father Hugo Salinas Price as CEO of Grupo Elektra. He is the fourth richest person in Mexico behind Carlos Slim Helu and the 34th richest person in the world with a wealth of around US $17.4 billion in 2012."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Salinas_Pliego

In another of your articles (“When Reality overthrows imagination”), you state that at no time in history has the human kind lived in this real, physically tangible world, relying so much on the human brain’s capacity for imagination. Is this a problem that affects lives of human beings? Do they rely too much on technology and erroneous economy theories? Why?

Imagination is a wonderful and beneficent ability of the human brain, no doubt. But imagination must find an anchor in Reality. If we have no anchor, we are adrift in a world of dreams. That is our world today, a Dream World, based on fictitious money which is now being created without any limit. See Japan’s fantastic plans to create vast, astronomical sums of fiat money to get out of an economic funk. We must have imagination, yes, but anchored in Reality, not in fantastic dreams. We are dreaming ourselves into a very real Hell, thanks to imaginary money, which is what we are forced to use – all money in banks is only imaginary money.

The world is enamored of Technology and thinks that the great triumphs of technology are sufficient for us to affirm in all confidence that technology can solve human problems. But the problem is that technology deals with the physical universe, which is subject to predictable responses. The sphere of human action is not amenable to technology, because humans have free will, which atoms do not have. It appears that our so-called “Economists” today forget this fact. They want to “manage” us to prosperity, forgetting that we have free-will and will inevitably frustrate their plans for us. But, they will go on attempting to “manage” us until we collapse into a new Dark Age. That is what lies ahead for humanity, unless….. you fill in the dots.

Thanks for your time and answers Mr. Salinas.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:21 pm

As a civilization declines, it becomes barbaric. Before the savages invade it from the outside, its own people have become savages. They enthusiastically welcome the savages. They are drawn to the culture and norms of the savages because these echo their own descent into barbarism.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2017/08 ... ation.html

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2026 11:26 am Bernanke was a drunken gambler and this is the result. Not my predicted result. Much worse.

So if AI told me, no, it's not really an adjunct because AI is now the economy, well...

A.I. buildout is becoming biggest economic bet in U.S. history: research

Jocelyn Fiset
Thu, September 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM CDT 2 min read

KTLA's David Lazarus said that sounds pretty exciting until you realize that much of this building is funded by borrowed money, and that makes the economy unusually vulnerable to any economic reversals, such as multi-billion dollar loans going unpaid.

Simply said, both the U.S. and financial markets are now reliant on A.I.'s rapid expansion, and any stumbles could lead to a recession or worse.

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/artic ... 57580.html

Higgenbotham wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2026 1:05 pm What does that mean? Well, what it means is that GDP gets cut by 2/3 and the stock market falls (as much as) 98%.

The psychopaths who control the system won't dial that extent in when they start the process.

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2019 10:10 pm It's starting to look like a massive misallocation of capital.

One thing I repeatedly observe is people today, both individually and as a group, reach too far. Their expectations are too high.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:56 am The Pretence of Knowledge

Friedrich August von Hayek
Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 11, 1974

In fact, in the case discussed, the very measures which the dominant "macro-economic" theory has recommended as a remedy for unemployment, namely the increase of aggregate demand, have become a cause of a very extensive misallocation of resources which is likely to make later large-scale unemployment inevitable. The continuous injection of additional amounts of money at points of the economic system where it creates a temporary demand which must cease when the increase of the quantity of money stops or slows down, together with the expectation of a continuing rise of prices, draws labour and other resources into employments which can last only so long as the increase of the quantity of money continues at the same rate - or perhaps even only so long as it continues to accelerate at a given rate. What this policy has produced is not so much a level of employment that could not have been brought about in other ways, as a distribution of employment which cannot be indefinitely maintained and which after some time can be maintained only by a rate of inflation which would rapidly lead to a disorganisation of all economic activity. The fact is that by a mistaken theoretical view we have been led into a precarious position in which we cannot prevent substantial unemployment from re-appearing; not because, as this view is sometimes misrepresented, this unemployment is deliberately brought about as a means to combat inflation, but because it is now bound to occur as a deeply regrettable but inescapable consequence of the mistaken policies of the past as soon as inflation ceases to accelerate.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ ... cture.html

I'm aware of the Austrian point of view but haven't extensively studied the writings. But in doing some research this morning and reading Hayek's speech, there is similarity to this speech and my own thoughts at this time as recorded here in recent days. What Hayek is saying here is obvious. If I can understand this, do the likes of Krugman, Bernanke, and Yellen really not understand it?

We have become extraordinarily practiced at looking at a dead child and asking first what his or her mother was going through. And abortion taught us how to do that. For decades, the defense of abortion has depended on shifting the moral center of the story away from the human being who dies and toward the human being experiencing the crisis. The mother’s suffering becomes the justification.

Johnson argued that culture has spent more than 50 years training itself to begin with a mother’s fear, financial stress, lack of support or depression until the child’s humanity nearly disappears—first in abortion and now in cases like this one.

A.I. buildout is becoming biggest economic bet in U.S. history: research

Jocelyn Fiset
Thu, September 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM CDT 2 min read

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and now more money is being poured into building A.I. than virtually all infrastructure projects.

A.I. is increasingly looking like it's going to be the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, bigger than the railroads, national highway system and all the infrastructure needed to make the internet work.

The Brookings Institution released an estimate saying that between 2025 and 2032, more than $10 trillion will be invested in data center buildings, power systems, networking infrastructure, and specialized chips and other equipment.

That represents 3.6% of gross domestic product annually.

If you're thinking that doesn't sound like a lot, that would be the most for a single industry in American history.

"The projected buildout would be larger relative to the economy than the major U.S. canal, railroad, electrification, highway, and telecommunications investment booms," wrote the author of the paper, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh of Columbia University.

KTLA's David Lazarus said that sounds pretty exciting until you realize that much of this building is funded by borrowed money, and that makes the economy unusually vulnerable to any economic reversals, such as multi-billion dollar loans going unpaid.

Simply said, both the U.S. and financial markets are now reliant on A.I.'s rapid expansion, and any stumbles could lead to a recession or worse.

And that's one reason why President Donald Trump reportedly opposes any guardrails that could slow down A.I.'s development because, according to the reports, he is afraid of what could happen to the economy.

We're seeing an unusual spate of what's known as circular financing, Lazarus explains. That means, for example, a big company like A.I. chip maker Nvidia making loans to smaller A.I. companies, fueling that ecosystem. So you have money going into a circle now, all chasing that goal.

The problem here is that goal, A.I.'s impact on society, is years down the road. So what we're doing now, Lazarus says, is gambling that all of this investment, trillions and trillions of dollars, will pay off later.

Will it?

That's why it's being called an economic bet, because it remains to be seen.

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2026 10:22 am But if she had thyroid issues before, proper electromagnetic treatment could have gotten her on the right path.

There is no strong clinical proof that pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy fixes thyroid disorders. While some alternative practitioners suggest low-frequency magnetic fields might lower inflammation or help cells, mainstream medical groups do not back PEMF as a proven fix for thyroid illness.

aedens wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2026 5:47 pm Impossible to fix idiots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrb7B_K5NI

The more I watch these debates at Oxford, the more it cements that universities do not produce intelligent adults.

Step-by-Step Litter Progression

Assuming a baseline where a mouse delivers her first litter at roughly 75 days of age:

First Litter: ~75 days old
Second Litter: ~105 days old
Third Litter (Middle): ~135 days old
Fourth Litter (Middle): ~165 days old
Fifth Litter: ~195 days old

Consequently, the peak reproductive output containing the median litters consistently centers between 4 and 6 months (120–180 days) of life.

Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:54 pm In what might be called the mainstream American culture, which includes exposures to synthetic chemicals, childhood vaccines, standard American diet

First generation: (born around 1960 plus or minus a few years) Parents were not exposed to synthetic chemicals until they were adults. Anecdotally there seem to be a few more obese kids, geeky kids, gay kids, kids with allergies, kids needing orthodontics, etc., but nothing too alarming and kids seem to grow out of some of these problems. The birth rate for this generation falls a bit when adulthood is reached but nothing too dramatic. There may be a few years decrease in life expectancy becoming evident.
Second generation: (born around 1985 plus or minus a few years) First transgenerational effects may be seen, in other words, parents who were exposed to these things during their own fetal and childhood development start to have kids. In addition to what plagues the first generation born around 1960, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, autism, more severe allergies, diabetes, and other disorders become more common and less curable. Some are now common enough to have names and to be screened for. This generation sees a dramatic fall in their birthrate upon reaching adulthood.
Third generation: (born around 2015 plus or minus a few more years) Now going out on a limb. Transgenerational effects are now quite noticeable and influence the culture and economy to a great extent. There are lots more lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults compared to generations born before World War II, so many in fact that an acronym to describe this phenomenon is thought to be needed, LGBT. It is rare for a child not to have some kind of disorder. Disorders become even more severe; for example whereas many children born in 1960 may have been a bit geeky, now many are severely autistic. The birth rate for this generation takes a dramatic fall to less than half of the birthrate of the generation born before World War II.
Fourth generation: (born around 2045 plus or minus a few more years) Now really going out on a limb. Transgenerational effects in the mainstream American culture are now so severe that fertility and lifespan are affected to the point that it is evident mainstream culture is no longer viable. In most cases, disorders are so severe as to be irreversible and in many cases untreatable.

In 2026, we’re running our own version; on a planetary scale. The question isn’t whether we’ll collapse like the mice. It’s whether we’ll wake up in time to measure what matters, question the dominant paradigm, and reclaim the electrodynamic harmony that life evolved within.

Science advances by confronting the invisible. Frequencies are real, measurable, and fundamental. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

We are living through a historic paradigm shift: from a purely biochemical medicine to an electromolecular medicine that finally acknowledges the electrical nature of life. The cell is not a chemical factory — it is a rechargeable battery. And when we learn to remove what discharges it and support what recharges it, health ceases to be a mystery and becomes an elegant, reproducible biophysical process.

“The Error of the Calhoun Experiment That Nobody Saw”

Frequencies affecting behaviour

ANDREAS KALCKER

JAN 24, 2026

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ethologist John B. Calhoun built what he called a “utopia” for mice. Known as Universe 25, this meticulously engineered enclosure offered unlimited food, water, nesting materials, no predators, and ample space—designed to support up to 4,000 residents.

A photograph of a white laboratory mouse in a cage, evoking the 1970s behavioral sink study.

Starting with just eight mice (four breeding pairs), the population exploded to around 2,200 before collapsing into chaos: aggression, social withdrawal, failed reproduction, infant neglect, and the rise of the infamous “beautiful ones”—mice that groomed obsessively but avoided all meaningful interaction. By 1973, the colony was extinct.

Key observations, stated plainly:

Social structures collapsed. Normal mating, parenting, and territorial behaviors failed.

Mothers abandoned or attacked their young.

Males became either hyper‑aggressive or completely withdrawn.

A subgroup Calhoun called “the beautiful ones” stopped mating entirely, focused only on grooming, and avoided social interaction.

Birth rates fell to zero, and the population went extinct even though resources were abundant.

Here’s one of the iconic images of Calhoun inside his experimental setup, standing amid the multi-level rodent metropolis that promised paradise but delivered dystopia:

And another view of the habitat’s intricate design—pens, tunnels, and compartments meant to mimic a perfect society:

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell? | Science History Institute

The standard story blames overcrowding and social stress: too many mice in too little functional space led to a “behavioural sink”—a total breakdown of normal behaviours. Calhoun himself saw it as a warning for humanity, a metaphor for overpopulation and urban decay.

But what if the experiment missed something huge? What if the real culprit wasn’t just density but an invisible, unnatural environment that disrupted the mice at a fundamental biophysical level—long before chemical or social stress became obvious?

The Forgotten Variable: An Electrodynamic Nightmare

Universe 25 wasn’t a natural habitat. It was a metal box: stainless steel walls, wire floors, and metal feeders, all potentially creating a Faraday-like cage with grounding issues and induced currents. Fluorescent lights with magnetic ballasts flickered at 100–120 Hz (twice the mains frequency), accompanied by constant 50/60 Hz fields from nearby AC wiring. These weren’t trivial details.

Mice are exquisitely sensitive to electromagnetic and light cues. Their visual systems detect flicker far beyond human limits (up to 100–200 Hz), and their nervous systems operate on microvolt scales. Circadian rhythms, reproduction, and social behaviour depend on stable natural cues—Schumann resonances (~7.83 Hz), geomagnetic fields, grounding, and unpolarised sunlight. Universe 25 replaced all that with artificial, polarised, high-frequency noise.

Flickering lights disrupt clock genes (Per1/Per2), melatonin, and stress hormones in rodents. Chronic artificial light at night increases anxiety and reduces reproductive success. Low-level ELF-EMFs alter behaviour, hormones, and fertility. Modern studies confirm flicker-free environments improve welfare dramatically.

Behaviorally, mice exposed to flickering or temporally unstable light show increased anxiety‑like behavior, reduced exploration, and impaired social interaction. Several studies report reduced mating success, altered estrous cycling in females, and diminished maternal care, including nest neglect and pup retrieval deficits. These are the same behavioral domains that failed in Calhoun’s colonies.

Neurologically, flicker exposure increases markers of neuronal excitation and oxidative stress in visual and limbic regions. There is also evidence of altered dopamine and serotonin signaling, which directly affects motivation, reward, and social bonding. Importantly, these effects accumulate; the nervous system does not fully adapt when the flicker is continuous and unavoidable.

Calhoun never measured or controlled for these factors. His focus was social dynamics, not bioelectricity. Yet life is electrodynamic: every cell maintains a membrane potential (-60 to -90 mV) that powers everything from nerve impulses to immune signalling. Rhythms and frequency-dependent signalling coordinate biology like software over hardware. Disrupt that, and dysfunction can appear long before chemical imbalances show up.

The human evidence:

The most cited case comes from U.S. correctional facilities in the 1970s–1990s, where fluorescent lighting with magnetic ballasts was standard. These lights flicker at twice the mains frequency, around 100–120 Hz. While most people do not consciously see this flicker, the visual system and brain still process it. This produces chronic visual stress, headaches, irritability, impaired concentration, and increased autonomic arousal.

The mechanism is neurophysiological, not psychological. Flicker causes constant micro-stimulation of retinal ganglion cells and the thalamus, increasing sympathetic nervous system tone. In confined populations under stress, this added load can push behaviour toward aggression. When flicker is removed, cortical stability improves and baseline arousal decreases, leading to calmer behaviour.

This aligns with broader findings in schools, offices, and hospitals. Children with attention disorders, migraine patients, and epileptic individuals are particularly known to be sensitive to flicker. Modern LED systems with poor drivers can reproduce the same problem if they use pulse-width modulation at low frequencies.

In short, changing from flickering to stable light does not “calm people psychologically”; it reduces an important continuous neuro-electrical stressor. That is basic biophysics. In closed systems like prisons, the effect becomes visible in behaviour statistics.

Fast-Forward to 2026: Are We Living in Our Own Universe 25?

Look around today. We’re immersed in an electromagnetic soup unimaginable in the 1970s:

Dense 5G networks, Wi-Fi everywhere, overlapping RF fields.
Constant screen flicker, blue light, and polarised artificial lighting.
Urban environments saturated with man-made ELF and RF signals.
The parallels are uncanny—and troubling.

Mental health is in freefall. In 2025–2026, over 1 billion people worldwide live with mental disorders, with anxiety and depression as the leading causes. In the U.S., roughly 18–21% of adults report recent symptoms of anxiety or depression, with youth hit hardest: over 40% of high schoolers experience persistent sadness or hopelessness, and rates among Gen Z remain alarmingly high. Social withdrawal, reduced meaningful connections, obsessive screen behaviours—these echo the “beautiful ones”.

Reproduction tells a similar story. While debates rage over the exact trajectory, multiple large-scale meta-analyses (including updates through the 2020s) show significant global declines in sperm concentration and quality, extending to regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Clear evidence suggests mRNA inoculations are linked to modern environmental factors, including potential endocrine and bioelectric disruptions from chronic EMF exposure.

Recent 2025–2026 research continues to probe RF-EMF effects: systematic reviews highlight ongoing concerns about oxidative stress, circadian disruption, and non-thermal biological impacts, even as official bodies like WHO and ICNIRP maintain no consistent harm below thermal thresholds. Independent critiques accuse some assessments of industry influence and omission of key data. The debate is far from settled, but the sheer density of signals in 2026—billions of devices, 5G+ rollouts—creates an unprecedented experiment on human biology.

Here are glimpses of our modern “utopia”: hyper-connected cities pulsing with screens, towers, and invisible fields, where convenience masks deeper disconnection.