This is a very serious discussion about the state of aviation and the airline industry. I agree with the female Captain thoughts and experiences dealing with airline pilots DEI etc etc.

Quote:Sherry Walker has been a commercial airline pilot for almost 35 years. She says DEI has so completely undermined safety standards that pilots are sometimes afraid to leave the cockpit for fear of what their co-pilots will do unattended.

This is a whopper-doozy of an intriguing article...

Quote:Like carbon for money



UPDATE 24MAR25: As if on cue, more revelations about the deep, deep fraud that is the NGO circuit actually running the world, and if you’re American, you’ve been paying for almost all of it. Stick with Radio Far Side and be ahead of the news.

OK, I think I’ve figured at least part of the global hide-the-sausage game we are all unwillingly or unwittingly playing.

Care to take a little trip to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)? For this trip, I’ve adjusted the orbit to give us a bit higher apogee, so we can appreciate a little more of the Big Picture than usual.

As long-time readers know, a great part of my time is spent writing and editing high-level documents for NGOs and QGOs (quasi-governmental organisations). While the BRICS are trying to create a global trading currency based on a basket of national currencies, the Bumbledicks are trying to create a global currency based on electricity. Hear me out.

As best as I can piece all this together, the world has been operating with something called the PetroDollar (PD) since roughly the Nixon administration. While the US controls the PD, it is not the Federal Reserve Note (FRN), much less the Constitutional dollar most of us think of when we hear the word “dollar”.

The word "dollar" originates from the German word "Thaler," short for Joachimsthaler, which referred to silver coins minted in Joachimsthal (now in the Czech Republic) in the early 16th century. The term "Thaler" was widely used for large silver coins across Europe and evolved into various forms in different languages.

We are generations removed from that concept.

What seems to be going on is that NGOs will replace national and regional governments. These entities will act as local legislative, judicial and executive branches of a global UberCorp. Nation-states will vanish, with NGOs playing cops, judges, enforcers (executive), and legislators. They will take orders directly from UberCorp.

Keep in mind, this is “their” apparent concept. I’m just amalgamating what I read (and edit). Whatever UberCorp is, it is centered in the EU, and the EU is trying to create other EUs all over the planet.

If you’re wondering why the EU is in such a huff over Trumpism, this is why.

The global currency will be a kind of cryptocurrency based on generation, storage and use of electricity. The PetroDollar was based on petroleum, obviously, but the new currency is based on any fuel or device used to generate, transport, transform, or consume electricity. Hydrocarbons will only be a small part of this mix.

Carbon, the most ubiquitous element on the planet, will form the “small change” part of the new currency. Let’s call it Globobux for convenience, signified by REC. The flow of money, called “velocity” in our current markets, will be measures by electrons, or “physical electricity”. Capturing, storing and trading carbon will be the new Fort Knox to back Globobux.

Why RECs, I hear you ask. Good question. Gold star for you.

A REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) is a market-based instrument that represents proof that one megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated from a renewable energy source and fed into the power grid. Keep in mind that petroleum is a renewable resource created by electro-chemical processes — whether in the ground or in the lab.

It is essentially the “proof of work” (PoW) we discussed a week ago in “A Blockhead on Blockchain”. In other words, a REC is defined by the date the electrons entered the grid, plus data about the way those electrons were “created,” plus the time, place, fuel, and generator that created them. Sound familiar? Add SHA-256 encryption using a nonce and you have a block on the blockchain, very similar to Bitcoin.

The entire Climate Change/Global Warming/Energy Transition farce is all fabricated in order to: 1) create the REC system, 2) get you and me to buy into it, and 3) terrorize us with doomsday climate narradigms so we don’t back out.

The world has been divided into Regions (continents basically). The Regions are divided into Trade Zones (EU, NA, ECOWAS, ASEAN, MERCOSUR, etc.). The NGOs will eventually replace national governments. I don’t yet know what name these entities will have, but Local Issuers will become county/city/precinct subdivisions.

Essentially, I’m looking at a national government, replaced by corporate entities, with a global overlord running the show.

At the moment, the primary focus is on creating Global Standards (ISO, WTO, WHO, IFRS and the like), which are being “harmonized” at the Trade Zone level as we sit here.

The way is works is the global standards organizations create the rules, the QGOs generate synthesis at the regional level, and the NGOs install and operate the local functions.

The NGOs are the foot soldiers running around bribing and cajoling individual de jure governments to pass implementing legislation and regulations, so that all the pieces snap together like a giant puzzle.

This is not a “conspiracy theory”. I’m reading and editing the policy papers, and watching the organizations at work. There’s a huge amount of detail behind all this, and I encourage the dear reader to select any term I’ve used here and do a little research. The only thing I am adding to it is my guess as to how it all fits together.

The Big Question is, what is UberCorp. There is obviously “something” planning and directing all this, but what it is is anyone’s guess at the moment. BlackRock, Vanguard and their cousins are at the Vice President level, but they aren’t the UberCorp.

Larry Fink is clever, but he’s not that smart. The term “idiot savant” comes to mind.

I spend a couple of pages in my book discussing all the academic theory, philosophy and reasoning behind the need for a global government, but I have yet to find a suitable candidate for it.

We are looking at a maelstrom of power and wealth flowing into a central vortex, but its exact nature and location are obscured by sea spray, rain, and clouds. It’s by design, of course. It doesn’t want to be seen until it’s too late to change course.

If you want to see the new economy coming online, look up RECs, TIGRs, RE markets, and the various mechanisms for monetizing and controlling the most basic forces in the Universe. Most of the news cycle is designed to keep you from doing exactly this, so it’s a radical act to educate yourself.
Let’s try to summarize the existing system in “their” own words:

Quote:“Voluntary international MRV frameworks like GHGP, RE100, and SBTi, are the most adopted systems for corporate electricity buyers. In addition, the market is currently witnessing the emergence of a new paradigm of regional and international compliance MRV systems that may use RECs and similar market-based instruments to substantiate compliance-level clean electricity claims. Notable examples include the EU’s CBAM, and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)’s International Financial Reporting Standards 1 and 2 (IFRS S1 and IFRS S2).”

Essentially, there’s a verification hierarchy, driven by the EU, in which units of energy in the form of electricity can be traced with precision back to the point and fuel of origin. In other words, a blockchain on which an energy-based currency can be traded and taxed.

Quote:“These systems respectively focus on addressing emissions associated with the trade of physical goods, as well as corporate disclosure of environmental performance.”

Here we see carbon, the most plentiful element on the planet and basis for all life, being monetized as the foundation for a currency. This functions in much the same way as the ancient “gold standard”.

Finally, we see this:

Quote:“Each EAC [Ed. - Energy Attribute Certificate] must have a unique tracking number and should only reside in one account at a time to prevent double counting. Clear procedures should be established to resolve disputes over the validity and enforceability of claims, particularly in complex markets with multiple instruments.”

This essentially defines every bank note and cryptocoin in use. Thus, we are seeing the creation of an energy-based currency using blockchain technology intended minimally for cross-border transactions. The second sentence is just another way of saying “all debts public and private” and “full faith and credit”. It’s judicial authority to enforce contracts, which is a governmental function vested here in a private entity.

Note that I withheld the citation because the work is not yet published. However, the information can be found from multiple public sources. Every link is to a primary “legitimate” source. No tin-foil hats and wild-eyed ravings. The real thing.

As we’ve noted before, “they” are building the pyramid from the top down. There is a clear effort to rearrange the world into economic, rather than political entities. The UN forms the legislative branch, the QGOs and NGOs are the executive branch, and a gaggle of corporate entities known for now as trade zones form the judicial branch.

Money, once based on the element gold, then on hydrocarbons, and now on electrons, is being recreated as we speak. Sections of the world are already trading the RECs, and more are coming online.

The social credit system, the neo-economic system being forced down our throats, is being installed at the corporate level. We commonly refer to it as the ESG/DEI system.

Since humas have resisted this system, it is being installed in our “jobs”. Since we rely on “jobs” for revenue, and the “jobs” are almost all from corporate entities, the social credit system is simply installed at the level where most of us maintain survival.

If you want to eat, buy clothes, pay for shelter, have transportation, then you will comply with “job” requirements. If you don’t comply, you are let go and eventually become unhireable. If you can’t get a “job,” then you become reliant on government “safety nets,” where you once again face compliance issues to maintain welfare, health care, unemployment benefits, and/or retirement income.

If you can no longer buy food, pay for shelter, or get clothes without using e-funds, then eventually you will comply or be forced to live in the literal wilderness. If the only e-funds available to use for all your needs are based on gold, or oil, or carbon and electrons, then that is what you will use, or get used to fighting raccoons for nuts and berries.

In summary, the social credit/compliance system is being installed from the top down. We are being surrounded by it and eventually the switch will be thrown and no other system will exist. This is not a “conspiracy theory”. Once you know what to look for, it’s everywhere.

Once upon a time, salt and square nails were forms of currency, based on scarcity and need as a preservative for food, or fastener for construction. Those days have come and gone, replaced by other things. The one constant is that everyone uses a currency, or they starve in the cold, dark wilderness.

Today, the one thing everyone needs is electricity, and as long as “they” control the generation and transmission of it, “they” can make us dance on their strings.

Doulas Adams wrote about a civilization who used leaves for money, but there were so may leaves that inflation soon reared its ugly head. Their solution? Burn all the trees.

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Today’s cultural enrichment is selected both for its relevance, and because most folks here probably haven’t see it. The film is called The Platform (2019), a Spanish film about economic disparity and social capitulation. I think you’ll like this one. It’s got a “Cube” vibe to it.

Wow, imagine that! 

Quote:This may come as a shock, but it turns out that an astounding proportion of AI search results are flat-out incorrect, according to a new study published by the Columbia Journalism Review. We hope you were sitting down.

Conducted by researchers at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the analysis probed eight AI models including OpenAI's ChatGPT search and Google's Gemini, finding that overall, they gave an incorrect answer to more than 60 percent of queries. 

It should tell you something that the most accurate model to emerge from these tests, Perplexity from Perplexity AI, still answered 37 percent of its questions incorrectly. The village idiot award, meanwhile, goes to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok 3, which was wrong a staggering 94 percent of the time. Impressively bad.

"While traditional search engines typically operate as an intermediary, guiding users to news websites and other quality content, generative search tools parse and repackage information themselves, cutting off traffic flow to original sources," the authors warned. "These chatbots' conversational outputs often obfuscate serious underlying issues with information quality."

By now, of course, the proclivity of large language models to lie or wrongly report information is well documented. But that hasn't stopped tech companies from trying to supplant the traditional web search, with some releasing versions of their existing chatbots tailor-made to do just that, like ChatGPT search. Google has even debuted an "AI Mode" that only shows Gemini summaries instead of web links.

This latest study quantifies why this might be a bad idea. It was conducted by choosing ten random articles each from a pool of twenty publications, ranging from The Wall Street Journal to TechCrunch. In what should've been a softball, the chatbots were asked to identify an article's headline, its publisher, its publication date, and its URL. To make things even easier, the researchers made sure to only choose article excerpts that returned the original source within the first three results of an old-fashioned Google search.

In addition to showing the AI models were wrong over half the time, these tests exposed other idiot tendencies. A classic one? Passing off their dubious wisdom "with alarming confidence," by either not qualifying their responses or failing to decline questions they didn't know the answer to. 

This lines up with other research documenting how AI models would rather hallucinate — or make up — answers instead of admitting they're out of their depth. Maybe that's because a policy of honesty would betray just how useless the AI models can be; Microsoft's Copilot, for example, declined more questions than it answered, the researchers said.

The AI search tools were also terrible at citing their sources. ChatGPT Search linked to the wrong source article nearly 40 percent of the time, and straight up didn't bother to provide one in another 21 percent of cases. That's bad from a fact-checking point of view, and just as grim for publishers, who will be denied even the chance of getting traffic from an AI model that's scraped their content. Bodes well for the survival of our online media economy, doesn't it?

I started this thread over on the other side and wanted to share it here as well.



I have noticed that many people have a comprehension problem that I believe is due in large part to an online information overload. Apparently, the average attention span for any subject online is around eight seconds. This is what I refer to as the goldfish effect because goldfish have a nine-second attention span.



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So people will glance over the title of a topic and make a predetermined judgement about the content. They quickly presuppose whatever might actually be in an article, blog, or post, to save time for the higher-priority subjects where they can use up the full eight seconds of their attention span.



This isn't just something going on with people's online interactions, this happens in daily real-time conversations as well. Too often I have had people who interrupt me in mid-sentence and insert their predetermined assumptions like they can read minds. They are in such a hurry to reach a conclusion they don't listen for much more than half of that eight seconds before they have analyzed your partial statement, figured out the rest before you have finished, and have come to a conclusion. I've been interrupted so badly in this way as to just bow out and keep my actual thoughts to myself, as everyone seems to know what I'm saying before I even say it. Basically, no one takes the time to listen (or read) and understand what other people say because the data stream isn't condensed and fast enough.



This behavior leads people down avenues of skewed logic based on assumptions that are often political. These assumptions will also lead to mischaracterizations and misinformation to the point of libel and slander through rumors and gossip. This goldfish effect has been used for online propaganda to influence the goldfish, memes are a great example. Unfortunately, I don't have any memes I can use while having an in-person conversation. Maybe a t-shirt with memes for every occasion could work, then I could just point.



As a propaganda tool, this can be used to hijack a conversation. Cut someone off by cutting them to the chase. Just jump to some conclusions then take the conversation anywhere you want it to go.



I could start with myself as an example with this one. I would do this very thing until after annoying people like my better half far too much before I finally realized what I was doing. I have always tried to be a good listener, but what do I, or anyone else, actually hear?



I try to understand what people say more than I assume I know what they are talking about. So I listen to (or read) what they say carefully and I try to make myself as clear as my use of the English language will allow. One tactic I've been using lately is when I tell someone they have interrupted and they respond with, "Well what were you saying?", I tell them, as Oliver North would say, "I do not recall" because it was obviously not important enough for them to listen to it in the first place.

I like these content creators 

It seems to be a "THANG" with authoritarian idiots who proclaim fair and equal elections are a reality when actually those are just empty words.... as either jail or assassination will be used to stop the competition... Hummmm sound familiar ????????

Quote:Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets all over Turkey in another night of anti-government protests. They're demonstrating against the detention of a prominent opposition politician. Ekrem İmamoğlu has been in custody over corruption and terrorism related allegations since Wednesday. Today he was taken to court under police escort to answer questions by prosecutors. He denies the allegations against him. İmamoğlu supporters have been gathering in Istanbul and other cities for four nights in a row, defying a government-imposed ban on protests. Demonstrators accuse President Recep Tayipp Erdogan's government of trying to sideline his chief political rival in the run-up to presidential elections. 0:00 Protests grow across Turkey after Erdogan’s top rival has been detained 0:47 Dorian Jones, DW Istanbul correspondent 4:49 Gönul Tol, Director of Turkish Program, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.

Swatting incidents IMO are not a laughing matter and can turn deadly in a heart beat .... There really are some terribly sick people in this world IMO.



I do hope (without much faith) they can catch the person who made the call and endangered everyone's life....



Conservative talk radio host Joe Pagliarulo tells 'The Will Cain Show' about a 'swatting' incident at his home. #foxnews #fox

https://thelibertydaily.com/donald-trump...t-autopen/

Quote:
Donald Trump VOIDS Pardons Signed by President Autopen
By J.D. Rucker • Mar. 16, 2025
Justice appears to be back on the table for “pardoned” members of the January 6 Committee as well as other criminals let loose by Joe Biden in his final weeks in office.
President Trump declared on Truth Social that the pardons signed by “Crooked Joe Biden” are void. Here’s his post:

Quote:The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!

All of this was set in motion in early March when Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi questioning Biden’s ability to sign the documents he allegedly signed. As noted on The Liberty Daily:

Quote:Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether former President Joe Biden’s staff exploited his mental decline to implement far-left policies, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Biden’s executive actions — including last-minute clemency grants to violent criminals and sentence commutations for death row inmates — are “legally void” if he did not give his knowing approval, Bailey wrote Tuesday in a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

After that, it was discovered that the vast majority of documents “signed” by Biden were actually signed via Autopen.
Last week, Lindell TV’s Cara Castronuova asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the Autopen scandal, but Leavitt couldn’t offer an answer. She said she’s look into it. Conspicuously, President Trump started posting and talking about Autopen the very next day.

Pardons Granted by President Joseph Biden (2021-2025) once you reach the bottom of the first page there is the ability to Search All Pardons and Commutations

April 26, 2022 | December 30, 2022 | September 14, 2023 | December 20, 2023 | April 24, 2024 | July 26, 2024 | December 1, 2024 | December 12, 2024 | January 19, 2025


https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-g...025-pardon

Some gems amongst them.

   

Kind regards,

Bally)