If You Need A Final Consensus

 “The Wikipedians who write these articles aren’t focused on finding the truth. For our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth isn’t the best place to start. Reverence for the truth might have become a bit of distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”

-- Former 'boss' of the Wikimedia foundation and current CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher

Just some advice here....if you need to find the truth....you'd best center-in on facts and truth....to reach a final consensus. 

If you can't find facts....forget about this discussion at hand, and go back to mowing your lawn, or hauling hay.

Three Things

 1.  On Biden's pardons and  exec-orders?

Within a week after Trump comes to office....I expect  at least one state AG to challenge a pardon in his state.

The problem?  He's going to say Biden is suffering from mental decline/dementia.  

By the end of 2025, the court system will agree, and all of these individuals  who felt they got a legit pardon....find it cancelled-out.

2.  On buying  Greenland?

Tons of minerals sitting there, and if you don't make the move....China will bribe EU members to get contracts.

My deal?  I'd offer Denmark a $100-billion down-payment, with two $500 billion checks over a ten-year period. 

3.  On  retaking the Panama Canal?

Look....it's goofed-up in the Chinese design for the bigger locks....taking more water from the lake than it can handle.

The treaty says....if Panama can't efficiently operate it....the US takes it back.

Maybe they should offer Panama a deal....US territory....statehood....if you resolve or fix this.

Netflix Documentary Review

 This weekend, I watched the 3 episode series of MH370's disappearance (8 Mar 2014)....from Netflix.   If you have access to Netflix....it's worth watching.

So the two things I never realized from the whole story?

1.  Once it went 'dark'....about 90 minutes pass, and this satellite-communications device cranks up....giving a 'hand-shake' every hour....for seven hours.  More or less....a ping.

But here's the odd thing....it's in a 'bay' under the first-class section, and you HAD to go down into this area, to flip the switch (you can't do it from the cockpit).  Then adding mystery to this....it's not something that pilots are taught (it'd be a ground repair technician who'd usually mess with it).

So you have to physically turn it on.  Why leave a path of bread-crumbs at this point 90 minutes into the mystery flight?  

Does the ping indicate your position?   Not really....it can judge the ping time and say how far you are from last ping....that's  all. So it's either telling you a north projection or a south projection.  The assumption is...south.  

2.  They got into this last-minute add-on cargo.....two pallets of supposed electronics gear (with lithium batteries).....which was not x-rayed. 

No one could really explain why the x-ray deal was skipped....other than to meet the time issue. 

If you have 3 hours....yeah, it's worth watching.  

The End-Point of the Drone/UAP/UFO 'Saga'

 At some point in early 2025....the 'saga' will unfold, and it will start as a story told over energy wave-weapons, their use (illegally) and connected to the Maui fire of 2023.

The drone business?  All relating back to reverse technology gained by a limited group....mostly business-related and a handful  of gov't 'sources'.....dating back to the 1950s.

At some point, here in 2024....the 'bosses' who run the 'black sites' reached a point questioning the use of the technology and the illegal acts.  So they've chosen to play their own game, with the drones/UAPs....letting the higher-level of leadership know that something now has to change.

My general point?  Once you admit there were illegal acts (perhaps deaths were involved)....the trust level by the gov't will rapidly decline.  

So it's not only a moment where you admit aliens/UFOs exist....but that you deceived the public for over 70 years.  

This Trump-Panama Canal Chatter

 This week, Trump brought up the Canal, and how we should re-take it.  Since I lived there for 3 years....I have a fair amount of background in this discussion.

First, what the US should have done in 1904 as construction started up.....they should have said this is now a US territory, and the 45,000 in population....been promised some entry to statehood in 25 years (whenever the population reached 100,000).  That idea was never discussed.

Second, the running of the canal was absolutely dependent upon the man-made lake, and a general amount of rainfall each year.  Once the Chinese came in and enlarged the locks....the water was not there to ensure the functionality of the locks.  No one today wants to admit the enlargement was a goof-up.

Third, since the 1930s....the people of Panama have had this belief that the canal had a 'profit'. 

As ships passed through....they paid a fee.  But if you examine the money angle....the US gov't funneled millions each year....to the canal....to keep it functional and upgraded.  The fee simply paid for day-to-day operations cost. 

So this idea that it was a profit-machine....was forever a bogus-story.  People believed this, and became a political magnet for coup activity and political bickering.

Fourth, there's a fair amount of hype for a NEW canal to be built in Nicaragua, and once done....I'm likely to believe that 75-percent of the traffic through Panama will end.  Taking the canal back?  Why?

Finally, yeah....there's no doubt we goofed up in twenty-odd ways, but taking it back at this point.....serves no purpose.

Movie Review: Civil War (2024)

I've attempted three times this week to watch 'Civil War'.....first time, I got around 10 minutes into it, stopping it because it didn't make sense.

The 2nd  time?  I got to about the 24-minute point....stopping because it didn't make sense.

The 3rd time?  At the  35-minute point, I gave up.

Script-wise, it's crap.  It's like you got a couple of 7th-grade kids to attempt a movie-of-the-week situation.   

Selling this in an election year and hoping if either the left-wing fringe people or the right-wing crazies get hyped-up?  I imagine so.

My advice.....if you have to watch it with a date....buy a bottle of bourbon and fill your flask up....you will need to watch in a half-drunk state of mind.

The Weirdest UAP/UFO/Drone Theory I've Heard?

 In the past 3 days....I hear this one:

Rogue-military group who've had advanced UFO technology for several decades....have reached a point in 2024....where they are fed-up with the directives they've been handed over the years, and they've taken the 'toys' out of the 'garage', and are setting on a path in January to tell their entire story.

The pitch goes....that some gov't folks with a company of company bosses....have had this underground situation going on since the 1950s.  

Bad-boys versus bad-boys?  Yeah.

What makes this theory interesting?  The drones/UAPs over the past month....are absolutely said NOT TO BE of Pentagon ownership (I've heard this chatter over and over).

BS-factor?  Well...it just goes way out there and you have to give some pondering that a rogue-element would just dump their 'boss' and come clean.

What could be worrying the 'bosses'?  Well....if you want to protect your 'empire'...who exactly are you going to call for 'help'?  Pentagon?  I doubt it.