Today most big companies rely on their sales to pay off their financing. Without this financing nearly every major corporation in America would fold almost overnight.
Think back to 2008, the main concern was the credit crunch: banks stopped loaning money in order to survive the crash, but this would have taken the enti…
Today most big companies rely on their sales to pay off their financing. Without this financing nearly every major corporation in America would fold almost overnight.
Think back to 2008, the main concern was the credit crunch: banks stopped loaning money in order to survive the crash, but this would have taken the entire system down with it because most major corporations rely on short term financing to make payroll, buy materials, and pay rent. They then pay off these loans and immediately apply for new ones. This occurs on a monthly, weekly, and even overnight basis.
It is an absolutely backwards system, but that's what having a currency unthethered from any real anchor (gold for example) gets you over time: When a Business starts by borrowing money, they will likely never stop.
Rather than using profits to end this cycle in order to escape this credit quicksand, profits instead are often pushed into dividends, stock buybacks, and bond interest/repayments (further enriching the company execs and the 1%). What remains is typically used as collateral for both capital expenditures and future OPEX loans, meanwhile the day to day operating expenses are mostly paid via the churning credit spiral described above.
Take away that punch bowl and all hell breaks loose.
For the NWO that's a feature not a bug. Fragility was deliberately woven into every aspect of our economy so that it can be demolished (and rebuilt to their sinister specifications) at will. Here is how the WEF will rewrite everything with DEI by controlling the financing of all of these companies:
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These DEI, CEI, & ESG policies are intentionally leading directly to scenarios such as this:
-Experienced pilots are dying in droves due to the blood clots caused by the COVID injections combined with repeated high altitude flying
-Unqualified DEI replacement pilots are hired
-In addition, unqualified DEI hires are also invading companies like Boeing and their suppliers where quality control and engineering competency are of the upmost importance
-Quality control nosedives, pilots are incompetent, airplanes become unsafe
-Fleets are grounded, airlines go bankrupt, get dismantled
-WEF meets its 2030 goals of ending air travel to “save the planet”
-You wake up to find you have yet another lock on your 15 minute prison city.
All of this is being forced on us through the central bank currency spigot.
I have no concerns about incompetent pilots. Young, inexperienced Air Traffic Controllers can simply Google flight instructions and relay them to the clueless pilot!
by the way - years ago I was a pilot. If you try to turn your base leg on a short approach when you are abeam the numbers there is a very good chance you can't make your landing, unless the runway is 5,000 feet or longer. Or you crash land...
I pretty closely follow ATC here in Southern California, I started doing it after TRACON began routinely shortcutting departures over our community (and then lied about it). I've been at it over ten years and have been pretty effective in holding them accountable.
In the last two years there has been a significant decline in quality. Some controllers don't seem to understand the intricacies of So Cal airspace, deviate from established routes randomly and for no good reason, and have many more aircraft separation issues. There are specific periods where it is just awful, likely due to a subpar controller or inadequate staffing and supervision. Sometimes it seems like they are winging it.
It's pretty clear controller quality has fallen off drastically for whatever the reason. There's going to be a disaster, it's just a matter if time.
I have a friend who was in ATC (he's now retired) in Aurora/Chicago and also worked Oshkosh during their air show - very busy arenas. He says he will no longer fly because the folks running ATC now are just a disaster waiting to happen. And when the system (people and processes mainly, but the IT ain't great either) breaks, it will take many years to rebuild correctly.
Yup, people don't realize how busy the airspace is over major metro areas, it's an incredibly complex system. It's has been generally safe because smart, thoughtful, and experienced people worked out a systemic method to maintain aircraft separation. These are documented in standard, published procedures (SIDs, STARs, etc.).
Add to that controllers that understood the system and recognized the importance of adhering to it unless required to deviate for an unforeseen situation. ATC also understood that in an urgent situation they were expected to use sound judgement regarding if/when to deviate. Pilots count on that consistency and judgement, and became accustomed to it, and it was why they usually don't second guess controllers. Their instructions were akin to the word of God.
That seems to be falling apart as some controllers have lost that process-oriented approach that worked so well for decades. I suspect it's a combination of lower intelligence candidates, lacksidasical attitude toward processes, poor institutional memory, and just lousy decision making under stress. Things are done a certain way for a reason, they can't just be cast aside because an individual doesn't see the immediate relevance. OTOH, a controller must be smart enough to recognize when a procedure isn't right for an urgent situation and act accordingly.
It's not a job for dummies, people with poor decision making skills, and immature emotional control. As with any complex system, managing it takes intelligence and skill. Those people don't grow on trees though, despite the desires of those who wish away reality.
And layer on top of the ATC issues...it is a ‘government agency’ and they likely were mandated to get the EUA mRNA Jabs...and you would have to been living out in the desert under rock for the past two years, to not be aware of that one of the myriad of ‘side effects’ of these Jabs, is a serious decline in people’s cognitive processing, their ability to take in information and respond accordingly...their brains are seriously on a ‘delay’ and not ‘firing properly’. Have you heard of the word ‘vaxxidents’ as an example? They just don’t have what was commonly referred to as ‘situational awareness’ any longer. (Well maybe some people surely never had SA, pre Jabs, but now it is rampant.)
Oh yes it has. For further information, consult the link(s) given perhaps using an anonymous PC, maybe that of your coworker you hate, when he's on lunch. Caution: very controversial issues at this web site: Racists, Anti-Semites, White Nationalists, oh my!
Thanks, Doorknob; those stories give me the chills. Glad I have no reason that I feel I must fly anywhere. Reminds me of a comment my friend made once, about how you choose your surgeon but not your anesthesiologist, even though both hold your life in their hands. We don't exactly choose our commercial pilots, but we often don't even think about our air traffic controllers.
There's an old saying, "don't tear down a fence until you know why it was built". We are tearing down fences everywhere, at an increasingly reckless rate.
Each time I fly out of/into OHell I feel like I am heading into rush hour traffic, in the sky. There are so many aircraft swirling above that place, I am in awe there are not more disasters.
Yep, that headline is going straight into the article, Neil. That was the craziest conversation between a pilot and an air traffic controller I've ever heard about. My father was an ATC...
My brother as well. Chicago O'Hare... (President of PATCO, then fired). Took me into the Bear Pit one day... brilliant, hard workers! At the time, it was the world's busiest airport.
That must have been quite the experience Maggie, wish I could have been there. The stories my dad tells about the job always dazed me with wonderment. Anticipated separation mishaps, arrogant pilots power struggling with arrogant traffic controllers, close calls, wild weather, you name it...
The stories he told were monumental but "all in a days or nights work" for him. We noticed an unfamiliar couple at his funeral and walked over to introduce ourselves. He explained he too, had been an air traffic controller... "We were all family. I didn't know your brother but saw him on TV. When I read his obit, I told my wife we would take a detour on our trip south to honor him. I remember the pounding he took, it was reprehensible but typical government crap! Glad I came today. Your brother was quite a gentleman." And that he was!
Is your cousin still alive? My brother passed away in his sleep Nov 2019. He lost everything except his wife and 3 daughters, all very young. Dipped into his retirement and the IRS came calling. They garnished his wages for years. Retired in June 2019, his wife diagnosed
with Alzheimers the same month. Being fired in such a public way, he felt the weight of all of his fellow brothers who were ATCs.... He was the most humble, genuine, loving, forgiving, hard working man. I miss him every single day
I'm so sorry. Indeed, that must have been a terrible burden for him. My cousin is alive. He went into long-haul truck driving after he was fired, but when there was that amnesty thing, where they could go back on duty, he did that. He had learned to be an ATC when he was in the Air Force during Vietnam, so it was all he had ever done professionally until the strike.
My brother went in to training when he graduated college. Started at O'Hare. All he ever knew... he took went into long haul truck driving.... for Mayflower. I think a few of his fellow ATC did that. That was hard on his family... He never went back to ATC, I don't know why.
Unbelievable. I read all the way down the article and the story on CRT and how it (DEI, ESG) have destroyed South Africa is a terrifying glimpse into the future of Western countries if we don’t get rid of these idiot Marxist WEF policies immediately.
I've begun to suspect that the civilized, previous Western world is already circling the drain. Very depressing, and this is so pervasive that I don't know how we can reverse it.
"Short approach" appears exactly 3 times in the FAA Pilot/Controller glossary. Two of them refer to lighting systems and the third refers you to "Traffic Pattern." Nowhere in the "Traffic Pattern" entry does the glossary say that you have to turn base abeam the numbers when executing a "short approach."
My daughter is a pilot (part-time) and I had her listen to that. She was so confused trying to figure out how one would do what the ATC was talking about...
You can take your chance on that narrative if you like personally I'll skip it
Unqualified people are working everywhere. Quality and efficiency has gone downhill. But at least as compared to pilots, air traffic controllers and manufacturers of planes and parts, you are not risking lives
I won't even go to the medical or pharmaceutical industries
Yes, and although we don't often think of it, unequal weights and false scales applies to a lot of other things like DEI, college admissions, work hires, etc.
Did you read The Good Citizen’s substack article, ‘DIE at 35,000 Feet?”
Very frightening. If I had to fly, and I don’t, I’d at least bypass United.
“United Airlines’ latest corporate diversity report: Of the 51 students who graduated from United’s first class of pilots, nearly 80% were women or people of color.
Where are they getting so many “pilots” to squeeze into their DIE matrix?”
I applied to the VA for nursing, I am a vet w/disability, plus previous experience at the VA and yet didn't get hired, why? My husband pointed at one of their "come work here" posters at the entrance, it showed a black woman and a trans "female" and said because I wasn't one of them.
I agree, if they are showing their mental issues and demanding that everyone acknowledge it, which is against my beliefs, no thanks! Thats why I am not pursuing a job, I am not putting in another application and technically I could sue for reverse discrimination because with the 10-point hiring advantage plus vet plus previous experience, I should have had the job, as "desperate they are for nurses" as I hear they are. I am already in a govt position as a nurse in a prison, it does NOT take an act of congress to get me to be moved from one spot to the other! But if I have to work alongside and acknowledge or "accept" them for who they are when they don't even know who they are, no thanks, nor do I want them treating me either!
Twenty years ago, I would have trusted a "trans" caregiver. It was a difficult life for them back then. Now it's the latest fad. Unlike most fads, this one is dangerous.
My son (a former USAF pilot) now flies for Delta. After he was hired he repeatedly heard colleagues say "Delta: We're woke, but not as woke as United." It's common knowledge in the industry that United is destroying itself with DEI.
My best friend is a pilot for American and won’t catch hops on United. There is a direct flight between our homes and she rather do two legs than a United direct flight.
I have not read that, but will check it out if i can find the time, thanks Pamela, sounds crazy.
The reasons is because in order for all of us to own nothing and be happy about it while eating bugs locked in a prison city we cannot have any means of escape so self-reliance, employment, and small business has to go. So they gut the economy and we lose our means to support ourselves and then we all become their slave dependents. This is also why they're starting to ban seeds and personal gardens and are censoring everyone.
This is why we must do all that we can to stop them
Ha. I agree with Angela. Of all the women I know, there is a scarce handful I would want in the cockpit of my ride ... men are better in certain places. Yes a woman should be able to be a commercial pilot not she should need to compete head to head with men for the job without any special help or preference in hiring practices. Feels obvious?? Oh my goodness my husband is in the air right now from the Middle East and I sincerely hope his pilots are CAPABLE. Not that they are men or women but frankly capable pilots are most likely to be men
Same here. And male cops and firemen. I love being a woman but I know that, with exceptions, we have different gifts and abilities and I don’t have a problem with that.
I am a female Navy pilot ... I am retired now. I find this comment offensive. I also have female friends that I flew with in the Navy that I would rather fly with than some of our male counterparts. We worked harder to be treated as equals. We had to prove ourselves every single time we went to a new squadron or did a detachment. The male pilots were never held to the same standards. I prefer to fly with someone who is competent than a male because he is a male.
Something I just thought of - I'm concerned that the current DEI push will actually cause people to doubt the abilities of minorities in certain roles (roles where you wouldn't typically find that minority working). Could the DEI actually backfire in part because of this phenomenon? (If an individual doubts a minority because they may not have been the most qualified person hired for the position, only hired to fill a quota, etc.) This would be a travesty for highly qualified minority individuals!
WTF is wrong with you? You want the most qualified person flying the plane irrespective of gender or race! You prefer 6 time boosted male pilot over a non jabbed female pilot? Cut out the sexism. You clearly need called out here. Shame on you. Always most qualified over gender or race! You are as bad as a DEI obsessed person.
THAT is what is wrong! Too much emotionalism..the reason I have never respected my women bosses, especially when they are stressed and become hysterical in having to lash out at another woman to feel better.
I do , however, prefer women doctors for their ability to listen and empathize (and often to think outside the box), but Ibprefer a male to do surgery.
Just my own observations and preferences. It is a free country and I hate group think and political correctness.
Peace! ✌️🌞
Just my own observations. It doesnt mean that they are right all the time or even some of the time! 😉
You would pick a male pilot just because he is male. That is not a logical decision. Logical would be to have the most capable pilot male or female. Maybe you project your own emotional nature on to other women.
While sitting in a waiting area recently, the TV was showing an NBC segment on that “Squadron of Sisters” organization that United reportedly loves to hire from. They were interviewing a young diverse woman (maybe 18 yo) & she literally said “I’ve never had any experience before with learning to fly in my whole life.” I wanted to shout at the TV: Girl, you are still a child. Your whole life?” The best and the brightest.
Dana Hope, Out of college, into flight school? Sounds like she is well prepared for the work force. At least military pilots endure basic training learning discipline and how to take orders. I killed my television years ago.
At one point I remember hearing about how United had made a proud comment about how some frighteningly high percentage of their new recruits had to be DIE recruits. Basically, white men need not apply at United.
The oceanographer calls it EL Nino's. Kinda weird cuz round here the tv news meteorologist practice the forecast weather. I get the part about living near oceans as impacting the weather. Where does the meteor part fit in ? 🤔💭
Good one hahahahha, I do like the seasons, just not on the level of MN where winter is about 9 months then thrown into summer, virtually no spring or fall. Winter can come to NC and it just may this next week, I want to see it snow, just while not on the road, but would like it to be gone the next week at the latest.
Yes I like seeing snow. For a day or two when I don’t have to leave the house! 😆 I spent 3 years in Minot ND so I am familiar with that kind of weather. Yikes
The cyclic borrowing and repayment of the methods of exchange, known as money, by companies who engage in commerce has been going on since companies first engaged in commerce. Records of such have been found in Ancient Egypt and other early civilizations. It is the most efficient way to fully utilize the capital assets you have in place. Restrictions on this by modern banks to require meeting DEI or climate change goals is a diabolical way to enforce control and will probably lead to the collapse of our civilization as more and more controls such as these are put in place. Commerce needs the free flow of money to survive.
Yup. The economy is a motor and money is the oil that lets it move. Everything they do to sludge up the oil makes the motor run less efficiently, eventually ruining it altogether.
Yes! A reason for a high tax rates is so companies and individuals are forced to borrow, force to go have to pay tribute to their Master Usurers. Once upon a time in the Land of Liberty (before Liberty was crushed) companies could fund new projects, undertakings out of saved profits. Ditto for the rest of us. We used to be able to save up and then buy things. Today and for most, that is almost a hopeless dream.
Regulating the hell out of everyone, both individual and corporations, has the same effect as confiscatory taxation ... that being the regulatory cost soaks of profits that could otherwise be allocated to future growth, future cash flow streams. Corporations see the front loaded costs, for the consumer excessive high corporate costs are a hidden cost, hidden in the cost of the product. All of this Banker Usury system ends up making American manufacturing cost un competitive in international markets.
I first started thinking on this back in the 1980's when I was doing rentals in real estate. I'd look at a can of paint and wonder what is in a can of paint or stain that could possibly justify a cost per can of $40.00 to $50.00 (using approximate contemporary pricing). It could not be by any stretch of the imagination anything close to the cost of the ingredients and the can.
TriTorch, in my 36+ year career of government employment, the USAF starting in 1973 then city government in 1980, I determined that most workers will fall to the lowest common denominator in performance levels. Tragically, government keeps lowering the bar for hiring standards for reasons you state.
Especially alarming to me is the airline industry, again as you cover. I spent 4 years as a crash/rescue specialist moving to city fire protection with a stint in land based marine fire protection. Living in the Pacific NW I watched, and continue to watch, all the developments with the Alaska Airlines flight that lost pressurization at 16,000 ft altitude. The flight crew did an amazing job of assessing their situation and taking evasive action to save the lives of all civilians and crew on board. All without emergency checklists that had been blown out of the cockpit when the cockpit door failed. I would like to add, Alaska Airlines holds little blame for this incident, they bought a lemon. Any customer could have ended up with that vehicle. The only shortcoming I have read is repeated deficiency reports on cabin pressure alarms that were not diagnosed properly and remedied. Granted, that is like diagnosing a 'funny' noise in your brand new car, not easy. But the results of overlooking a repeated problem in an aircraft can be catastrophic. Praise God this time catastrophe was averted, in air and on the ground.
This brings me to my last element of air safety and that is ATC, the air traffic controllers. Shortages and standards have been lowered to a dangerous level there also. In my opinion it will be an ATC oversight not caught by an aware flight crew that will cause the next major aircraft incident. Flight crews must be doubly aware of all instructions being given to and acknowledged by all aircraft at the field they are approaching and taxying on. No instruction can be taken for granted.
My apologies for the long response to your post, Jeff has a way of stirring up passion!
Very interesting and deeply concerning S.P.H, thank you for this insight. I fear we are in the final stages of a crumbling empire, only many of the wounds are inflicted by an external force which has greatly accelerated our demise. Only a major course correction can fix this.
If you haven't already, check out Neil K's comment under mine. His link actually prompted me to add the failures of the ATC to my article. The discussion following Neil's observations is a good one.
I will check out Neil K's comment. I'm captivated by large machines that seemingly defy physics, airplanes and ships. But neither will defy the greed or stupidity of man.
Very well said TriTorch. If you are inclined, I just watched this new report on the 737 Max-9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGujNq4bVM which brought up an interesting fact, the subcontractor installing the wi-fi antenna. As the author of this report states, he needs to confirm the authenticity of the picture, but it apparently shows the subcontractor accessing the aft interior via the 'plug' door.
Also of interest is the lawsuit against the subcontractor building the fuselage for the 737-9. I take first reports with a grain of salt, are suits sour grapes or true safety concerns? It looks though, Boeing was not pleased with product quality coming from Spirit Aerosystems.
That is interesting indeed. Having not watched the video or seen the evidence, as far as the lawsuit, good question, is Boeing attempting to use lawfare as a smoke screen to blind the public or their own failures or are their genuine grievances here?
I think this conundrum encapsulates the problem we are facing at a macro level: the ship is sinking, there are faults everywhere, water is pouring in from minor defects in hundreds to thousands of failed joints all over the ship because everyone has been distracted by DEI and LBGTQ+ concerns and have been half assing their work. Taken together these minor failures add up to a systemic fault. As the ship sinks everyone is pointing their fingers at everyone else and as a result nothing is getting repaired.
From Bad Cattitude
"woke and global boiling and covid and the ukraine and every form of hyper-aggressive inclusivity insanity are not ideologies of belief for elites, they are circuses to dismay, daze, and distract you because pretty much no one can pay attention to what’s really going on when they are watching their daughter get slide tackled by a 200 pound guy in a sports bra on a high school soccer field or they find out their 3rd grader is being read sexually explicit books by drag queens who give twerking lessons"
If true, then DEI, LBGTQ+, ESG, & CEI are blatant naked attack vectors from the WEF and we need to fix this fast because when our collective boat hits rock bottom their will be nothing left worth salvaging.
Excellent - what would happen to companies who "comply" with DEI but at the same time speak out against it and point out that the reason they are complying is because it's required of (whoever is requiring it)? I doubt they would try it, but would their funding be pulled if they complied but complained to the public about it at the same time?!
Regarding DEI (DIE):
Today most big companies rely on their sales to pay off their financing. Without this financing nearly every major corporation in America would fold almost overnight.
Think back to 2008, the main concern was the credit crunch: banks stopped loaning money in order to survive the crash, but this would have taken the entire system down with it because most major corporations rely on short term financing to make payroll, buy materials, and pay rent. They then pay off these loans and immediately apply for new ones. This occurs on a monthly, weekly, and even overnight basis.
It is an absolutely backwards system, but that's what having a currency unthethered from any real anchor (gold for example) gets you over time: When a Business starts by borrowing money, they will likely never stop.
Rather than using profits to end this cycle in order to escape this credit quicksand, profits instead are often pushed into dividends, stock buybacks, and bond interest/repayments (further enriching the company execs and the 1%). What remains is typically used as collateral for both capital expenditures and future OPEX loans, meanwhile the day to day operating expenses are mostly paid via the churning credit spiral described above.
Take away that punch bowl and all hell breaks loose.
For the NWO that's a feature not a bug. Fragility was deliberately woven into every aspect of our economy so that it can be demolished (and rebuilt to their sinister specifications) at will. Here is how the WEF will rewrite everything with DEI by controlling the financing of all of these companies:
---
These DEI, CEI, & ESG policies are intentionally leading directly to scenarios such as this:
-Experienced pilots are dying in droves due to the blood clots caused by the COVID injections combined with repeated high altitude flying
-Unqualified DEI replacement pilots are hired
-In addition, unqualified DEI hires are also invading companies like Boeing and their suppliers where quality control and engineering competency are of the upmost importance
-Quality control nosedives, pilots are incompetent, airplanes become unsafe
-Fleets are grounded, airlines go bankrupt, get dismantled
-WEF meets its 2030 goals of ending air travel to “save the planet”
-You wake up to find you have yet another lock on your 15 minute prison city.
All of this is being forced on us through the central bank currency spigot.
Excerpt from https://tritorch.substack.com/p/why-all-these-brands-ab-inbev-target
I have no concerns about incompetent pilots. Young, inexperienced Air Traffic Controllers can simply Google flight instructions and relay them to the clueless pilot!
https://revolver.news/2024/01/female-air-traffic-controller-tries-to-school-seasoned-airline-pilot-with-her-google-search-skills/
by the way - years ago I was a pilot. If you try to turn your base leg on a short approach when you are abeam the numbers there is a very good chance you can't make your landing, unless the runway is 5,000 feet or longer. Or you crash land...
I pretty closely follow ATC here in Southern California, I started doing it after TRACON began routinely shortcutting departures over our community (and then lied about it). I've been at it over ten years and have been pretty effective in holding them accountable.
In the last two years there has been a significant decline in quality. Some controllers don't seem to understand the intricacies of So Cal airspace, deviate from established routes randomly and for no good reason, and have many more aircraft separation issues. There are specific periods where it is just awful, likely due to a subpar controller or inadequate staffing and supervision. Sometimes it seems like they are winging it.
It's pretty clear controller quality has fallen off drastically for whatever the reason. There's going to be a disaster, it's just a matter if time.
Edit: typos
I have a friend who was in ATC (he's now retired) in Aurora/Chicago and also worked Oshkosh during their air show - very busy arenas. He says he will no longer fly because the folks running ATC now are just a disaster waiting to happen. And when the system (people and processes mainly, but the IT ain't great either) breaks, it will take many years to rebuild correctly.
Yup, people don't realize how busy the airspace is over major metro areas, it's an incredibly complex system. It's has been generally safe because smart, thoughtful, and experienced people worked out a systemic method to maintain aircraft separation. These are documented in standard, published procedures (SIDs, STARs, etc.).
Add to that controllers that understood the system and recognized the importance of adhering to it unless required to deviate for an unforeseen situation. ATC also understood that in an urgent situation they were expected to use sound judgement regarding if/when to deviate. Pilots count on that consistency and judgement, and became accustomed to it, and it was why they usually don't second guess controllers. Their instructions were akin to the word of God.
That seems to be falling apart as some controllers have lost that process-oriented approach that worked so well for decades. I suspect it's a combination of lower intelligence candidates, lacksidasical attitude toward processes, poor institutional memory, and just lousy decision making under stress. Things are done a certain way for a reason, they can't just be cast aside because an individual doesn't see the immediate relevance. OTOH, a controller must be smart enough to recognize when a procedure isn't right for an urgent situation and act accordingly.
It's not a job for dummies, people with poor decision making skills, and immature emotional control. As with any complex system, managing it takes intelligence and skill. Those people don't grow on trees though, despite the desires of those who wish away reality.
And layer on top of the ATC issues...it is a ‘government agency’ and they likely were mandated to get the EUA mRNA Jabs...and you would have to been living out in the desert under rock for the past two years, to not be aware of that one of the myriad of ‘side effects’ of these Jabs, is a serious decline in people’s cognitive processing, their ability to take in information and respond accordingly...their brains are seriously on a ‘delay’ and not ‘firing properly’. Have you heard of the word ‘vaxxidents’ as an example? They just don’t have what was commonly referred to as ‘situational awareness’ any longer. (Well maybe some people surely never had SA, pre Jabs, but now it is rampant.)
DEI? Hard to believe that has not creeped into ATC hiring.
Oh yes it has. For further information, consult the link(s) given perhaps using an anonymous PC, maybe that of your coworker you hate, when he's on lunch. Caution: very controversial issues at this web site: Racists, Anti-Semites, White Nationalists, oh my!
https://www.unz.com/isteve/die-in-the-air/
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/think-twice-before-you-fly/
Thanks, Doorknob; those stories give me the chills. Glad I have no reason that I feel I must fly anywhere. Reminds me of a comment my friend made once, about how you choose your surgeon but not your anesthesiologist, even though both hold your life in their hands. We don't exactly choose our commercial pilots, but we often don't even think about our air traffic controllers.
There's an old saying, "don't tear down a fence until you know why it was built". We are tearing down fences everywhere, at an increasingly reckless rate.
Each time I fly out of/into OHell I feel like I am heading into rush hour traffic, in the sky. There are so many aircraft swirling above that place, I am in awe there are not more disasters.
Yep, that headline is going straight into the article, Neil. That was the craziest conversation between a pilot and an air traffic controller I've ever heard about. My father was an ATC...
Yes, very different from the thousands I had when I was flying...
I would have responded with "It must be take your child to work day. Please put your father or mother back on the coms."
My brother as well. Chicago O'Hare... (President of PATCO, then fired). Took me into the Bear Pit one day... brilliant, hard workers! At the time, it was the world's busiest airport.
That must have been quite the experience Maggie, wish I could have been there. The stories my dad tells about the job always dazed me with wonderment. Anticipated separation mishaps, arrogant pilots power struggling with arrogant traffic controllers, close calls, wild weather, you name it...
The stories he told were monumental but "all in a days or nights work" for him. We noticed an unfamiliar couple at his funeral and walked over to introduce ourselves. He explained he too, had been an air traffic controller... "We were all family. I didn't know your brother but saw him on TV. When I read his obit, I told my wife we would take a detour on our trip south to honor him. I remember the pounding he took, it was reprehensible but typical government crap! Glad I came today. Your brother was quite a gentleman." And that he was!
Love this!!
Maggie, my cousin was fired out of O'Hare, too.
They would have known each other...
Absolutely.
Is your cousin still alive? My brother passed away in his sleep Nov 2019. He lost everything except his wife and 3 daughters, all very young. Dipped into his retirement and the IRS came calling. They garnished his wages for years. Retired in June 2019, his wife diagnosed
with Alzheimers the same month. Being fired in such a public way, he felt the weight of all of his fellow brothers who were ATCs.... He was the most humble, genuine, loving, forgiving, hard working man. I miss him every single day
I'm so sorry. Indeed, that must have been a terrible burden for him. My cousin is alive. He went into long-haul truck driving after he was fired, but when there was that amnesty thing, where they could go back on duty, he did that. He had learned to be an ATC when he was in the Air Force during Vietnam, so it was all he had ever done professionally until the strike.
My brother went in to training when he graduated college. Started at O'Hare. All he ever knew... he took went into long haul truck driving.... for Mayflower. I think a few of his fellow ATC did that. That was hard on his family... He never went back to ATC, I don't know why.
Unbelievable. I read all the way down the article and the story on CRT and how it (DEI, ESG) have destroyed South Africa is a terrifying glimpse into the future of Western countries if we don’t get rid of these idiot Marxist WEF policies immediately.
I've begun to suspect that the civilized, previous Western world is already circling the drain. Very depressing, and this is so pervasive that I don't know how we can reverse it.
I know how you feel. The ‘Deep State’ is alive world wide. Un-elected, powerful psychos pulling the strings of political puppets. 😞
Crazy and so SCARY!!!
"Short approach" appears exactly 3 times in the FAA Pilot/Controller glossary. Two of them refer to lighting systems and the third refers you to "Traffic Pattern." Nowhere in the "Traffic Pattern" entry does the glossary say that you have to turn base abeam the numbers when executing a "short approach."
look up "short approach video games" and I suspect you will find your answer...
ATC: "That's how XxX_ITSYABOI_MAVERICK_XxX does it on his YouTube, so I expect you to comply."
My daughter is a pilot (part-time) and I had her listen to that. She was so confused trying to figure out how one would do what the ATC was talking about...
You can take your chance on that narrative if you like personally I'll skip it
Unqualified people are working everywhere. Quality and efficiency has gone downhill. But at least as compared to pilots, air traffic controllers and manufacturers of planes and parts, you are not risking lives
I won't even go to the medical or pharmaceutical industries
Proverbs 20:23 (ESV)
"Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good."
Proverbs 13:23 (ESV)
"The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice."
Fiat money has inverted these principles and then weaponized them to enable these scenarios.
Yes, and although we don't often think of it, unequal weights and false scales applies to a lot of other things like DEI, college admissions, work hires, etc.
Tom, I was looking for the scripture reference for fiat money ;-)
Did you read The Good Citizen’s substack article, ‘DIE at 35,000 Feet?”
Very frightening. If I had to fly, and I don’t, I’d at least bypass United.
“United Airlines’ latest corporate diversity report: Of the 51 students who graduated from United’s first class of pilots, nearly 80% were women or people of color.
Where are they getting so many “pilots” to squeeze into their DIE matrix?”
I applied to the VA for nursing, I am a vet w/disability, plus previous experience at the VA and yet didn't get hired, why? My husband pointed at one of their "come work here" posters at the entrance, it showed a black woman and a trans "female" and said because I wasn't one of them.
Gross! I wouldn’t trust a “trans” caregiver to know anything about medical science. That just seems obvious!
I agree, if they are showing their mental issues and demanding that everyone acknowledge it, which is against my beliefs, no thanks! Thats why I am not pursuing a job, I am not putting in another application and technically I could sue for reverse discrimination because with the 10-point hiring advantage plus vet plus previous experience, I should have had the job, as "desperate they are for nurses" as I hear they are. I am already in a govt position as a nurse in a prison, it does NOT take an act of congress to get me to be moved from one spot to the other! But if I have to work alongside and acknowledge or "accept" them for who they are when they don't even know who they are, no thanks, nor do I want them treating me either!
Twenty years ago, I would have trusted a "trans" caregiver. It was a difficult life for them back then. Now it's the latest fad. Unlike most fads, this one is dangerous.
The VA ran much better under Trump.
agreed
My son (a former USAF pilot) now flies for Delta. After he was hired he repeatedly heard colleagues say "Delta: We're woke, but not as woke as United." It's common knowledge in the industry that United is destroying itself with DEI.
Thanks for the update. I knew nothing about all this until I read the article.
My best friend is a pilot for American and won’t catch hops on United. There is a direct flight between our homes and she rather do two legs than a United direct flight.
I have not read that, but will check it out if i can find the time, thanks Pamela, sounds crazy.
The reasons is because in order for all of us to own nothing and be happy about it while eating bugs locked in a prison city we cannot have any means of escape so self-reliance, employment, and small business has to go. So they gut the economy and we lose our means to support ourselves and then we all become their slave dependents. This is also why they're starting to ban seeds and personal gardens and are censoring everyone.
This is why we must do all that we can to stop them
As a woman, I prefer male pilots.
Ha. I agree with Angela. Of all the women I know, there is a scarce handful I would want in the cockpit of my ride ... men are better in certain places. Yes a woman should be able to be a commercial pilot not she should need to compete head to head with men for the job without any special help or preference in hiring practices. Feels obvious?? Oh my goodness my husband is in the air right now from the Middle East and I sincerely hope his pilots are CAPABLE. Not that they are men or women but frankly capable pilots are most likely to be men
Same here. And male cops and firemen. I love being a woman but I know that, with exceptions, we have different gifts and abilities and I don’t have a problem with that.
I am a female Navy pilot ... I am retired now. I find this comment offensive. I also have female friends that I flew with in the Navy that I would rather fly with than some of our male counterparts. We worked harder to be treated as equals. We had to prove ourselves every single time we went to a new squadron or did a detachment. The male pilots were never held to the same standards. I prefer to fly with someone who is competent than a male because he is a male.
Something I just thought of - I'm concerned that the current DEI push will actually cause people to doubt the abilities of minorities in certain roles (roles where you wouldn't typically find that minority working). Could the DEI actually backfire in part because of this phenomenon? (If an individual doubts a minority because they may not have been the most qualified person hired for the position, only hired to fill a quota, etc.) This would be a travesty for highly qualified minority individuals!
DEI is unfair to everyone equally but in different ways
Competence and calm are key.
Thanks for sharing. ✌️
WTF is wrong with you? You want the most qualified person flying the plane irrespective of gender or race! You prefer 6 time boosted male pilot over a non jabbed female pilot? Cut out the sexism. You clearly need called out here. Shame on you. Always most qualified over gender or race! You are as bad as a DEI obsessed person.
"WTF is wrong with you?"
THAT is what is wrong! Too much emotionalism..the reason I have never respected my women bosses, especially when they are stressed and become hysterical in having to lash out at another woman to feel better.
I do , however, prefer women doctors for their ability to listen and empathize (and often to think outside the box), but Ibprefer a male to do surgery.
Just my own observations and preferences. It is a free country and I hate group think and political correctness.
Peace! ✌️🌞
Just my own observations. It doesnt mean that they are right all the time or even some of the time! 😉
You would pick a male pilot just because he is male. That is not a logical decision. Logical would be to have the most capable pilot male or female. Maybe you project your own emotional nature on to other women.
While sitting in a waiting area recently, the TV was showing an NBC segment on that “Squadron of Sisters” organization that United reportedly loves to hire from. They were interviewing a young diverse woman (maybe 18 yo) & she literally said “I’ve never had any experience before with learning to fly in my whole life.” I wanted to shout at the TV: Girl, you are still a child. Your whole life?” The best and the brightest.
Dana Hope, Out of college, into flight school? Sounds like she is well prepared for the work force. At least military pilots endure basic training learning discipline and how to take orders. I killed my television years ago.
At one point I remember hearing about how United had made a proud comment about how some frighteningly high percentage of their new recruits had to be DIE recruits. Basically, white men need not apply at United.
It's always come down to Math. Follow the math. Then tally "THE AFTERMATH"!
That sums up a great many wretched topics about life in America. Eh?
Albeit aftermath or afterbirth, most all search to find our solutions, to the well lived life.
Take another deep breath to remember you are alive. Like the very first one did.
Hey baby it's cold outside! Winter has arrived. We are in Eski-mode in Minn. Hahaha
Minus 24 today in the Black Hills of SD.
No way OMG....Is that Jack Frost nipping at your nose?
Or Jack the Ripper tearing into your Clothes? AHHHHHH.........BRRRRR.....
We have had amazingly mild weather up to this past week. So I guess we were due.
We call that wimpy winter.
The oceanographer calls it EL Nino's. Kinda weird cuz round here the tv news meteorologist practice the forecast weather. I get the part about living near oceans as impacting the weather. Where does the meteor part fit in ? 🤔💭
I moved from there to NC, had enough of Minni so cold, would rather deal with rain, at least that doesn't stick with you for 6 months!!!
Good thing you chose NC and not WA where the rain really does stick with us for 6 months 😂 I couldn’t resist. LOL
Good one hahahahha, I do like the seasons, just not on the level of MN where winter is about 9 months then thrown into summer, virtually no spring or fall. Winter can come to NC and it just may this next week, I want to see it snow, just while not on the road, but would like it to be gone the next week at the latest.
Yes I like seeing snow. For a day or two when I don’t have to leave the house! 😆 I spent 3 years in Minot ND so I am familiar with that kind of weather. Yikes
When the song of life is "HAD ENOUGH OF THIS WEATHER HAD ENOUGH OF THE BLUES..
You move to the Carolinas. Blue and green grass. You'll be glad that you did! Hahaha
MN too
Hot mug of Green T with cinnamon stick, honey, and lemon! ( and no not Don Lemon)
The "X" and the old Twitter feed gang is about to recycle him again like a pop can.
MN here too
Headed East
I’ll take deep freeze over crappy, freezing rain any day
Anyone in central by chance?
The weather in Des Moines today 😱 sounds just like the weather EVERY winter when I was a kid in DM during the 50’s & 60’s 😂
The cyclic borrowing and repayment of the methods of exchange, known as money, by companies who engage in commerce has been going on since companies first engaged in commerce. Records of such have been found in Ancient Egypt and other early civilizations. It is the most efficient way to fully utilize the capital assets you have in place. Restrictions on this by modern banks to require meeting DEI or climate change goals is a diabolical way to enforce control and will probably lead to the collapse of our civilization as more and more controls such as these are put in place. Commerce needs the free flow of money to survive.
Yup. The economy is a motor and money is the oil that lets it move. Everything they do to sludge up the oil makes the motor run less efficiently, eventually ruining it altogether.
Yes! A reason for a high tax rates is so companies and individuals are forced to borrow, force to go have to pay tribute to their Master Usurers. Once upon a time in the Land of Liberty (before Liberty was crushed) companies could fund new projects, undertakings out of saved profits. Ditto for the rest of us. We used to be able to save up and then buy things. Today and for most, that is almost a hopeless dream.
Regulating the hell out of everyone, both individual and corporations, has the same effect as confiscatory taxation ... that being the regulatory cost soaks of profits that could otherwise be allocated to future growth, future cash flow streams. Corporations see the front loaded costs, for the consumer excessive high corporate costs are a hidden cost, hidden in the cost of the product. All of this Banker Usury system ends up making American manufacturing cost un competitive in international markets.
I first started thinking on this back in the 1980's when I was doing rentals in real estate. I'd look at a can of paint and wonder what is in a can of paint or stain that could possibly justify a cost per can of $40.00 to $50.00 (using approximate contemporary pricing). It could not be by any stretch of the imagination anything close to the cost of the ingredients and the can.
A.G.R.E.E.!
TriTorch, in my 36+ year career of government employment, the USAF starting in 1973 then city government in 1980, I determined that most workers will fall to the lowest common denominator in performance levels. Tragically, government keeps lowering the bar for hiring standards for reasons you state.
Especially alarming to me is the airline industry, again as you cover. I spent 4 years as a crash/rescue specialist moving to city fire protection with a stint in land based marine fire protection. Living in the Pacific NW I watched, and continue to watch, all the developments with the Alaska Airlines flight that lost pressurization at 16,000 ft altitude. The flight crew did an amazing job of assessing their situation and taking evasive action to save the lives of all civilians and crew on board. All without emergency checklists that had been blown out of the cockpit when the cockpit door failed. I would like to add, Alaska Airlines holds little blame for this incident, they bought a lemon. Any customer could have ended up with that vehicle. The only shortcoming I have read is repeated deficiency reports on cabin pressure alarms that were not diagnosed properly and remedied. Granted, that is like diagnosing a 'funny' noise in your brand new car, not easy. But the results of overlooking a repeated problem in an aircraft can be catastrophic. Praise God this time catastrophe was averted, in air and on the ground.
This brings me to my last element of air safety and that is ATC, the air traffic controllers. Shortages and standards have been lowered to a dangerous level there also. In my opinion it will be an ATC oversight not caught by an aware flight crew that will cause the next major aircraft incident. Flight crews must be doubly aware of all instructions being given to and acknowledged by all aircraft at the field they are approaching and taxying on. No instruction can be taken for granted.
My apologies for the long response to your post, Jeff has a way of stirring up passion!
Very interesting and deeply concerning S.P.H, thank you for this insight. I fear we are in the final stages of a crumbling empire, only many of the wounds are inflicted by an external force which has greatly accelerated our demise. Only a major course correction can fix this.
If you haven't already, check out Neil K's comment under mine. His link actually prompted me to add the failures of the ATC to my article. The discussion following Neil's observations is a good one.
I will check out Neil K's comment. I'm captivated by large machines that seemingly defy physics, airplanes and ships. But neither will defy the greed or stupidity of man.
So true, your words bring this quote to mind:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
Human frailties with no bottom: greed, myopia, stupidity
Human illusions with no ceiling: arrogance, conceit, assumption
Very well said TriTorch. If you are inclined, I just watched this new report on the 737 Max-9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSGujNq4bVM which brought up an interesting fact, the subcontractor installing the wi-fi antenna. As the author of this report states, he needs to confirm the authenticity of the picture, but it apparently shows the subcontractor accessing the aft interior via the 'plug' door.
Also of interest is the lawsuit against the subcontractor building the fuselage for the 737-9. I take first reports with a grain of salt, are suits sour grapes or true safety concerns? It looks though, Boeing was not pleased with product quality coming from Spirit Aerosystems.
That is interesting indeed. Having not watched the video or seen the evidence, as far as the lawsuit, good question, is Boeing attempting to use lawfare as a smoke screen to blind the public or their own failures or are their genuine grievances here?
I think this conundrum encapsulates the problem we are facing at a macro level: the ship is sinking, there are faults everywhere, water is pouring in from minor defects in hundreds to thousands of failed joints all over the ship because everyone has been distracted by DEI and LBGTQ+ concerns and have been half assing their work. Taken together these minor failures add up to a systemic fault. As the ship sinks everyone is pointing their fingers at everyone else and as a result nothing is getting repaired.
From Bad Cattitude
"woke and global boiling and covid and the ukraine and every form of hyper-aggressive inclusivity insanity are not ideologies of belief for elites, they are circuses to dismay, daze, and distract you because pretty much no one can pay attention to what’s really going on when they are watching their daughter get slide tackled by a 200 pound guy in a sports bra on a high school soccer field or they find out their 3rd grader is being read sexually explicit books by drag queens who give twerking lessons"
If true, then DEI, LBGTQ+, ESG, & CEI are blatant naked attack vectors from the WEF and we need to fix this fast because when our collective boat hits rock bottom their will be nothing left worth salvaging.
Sobering info TriTorch, thanks
Excellent post TriTorch. I always learn something from you.
Very kind, thank you Credenda
Excellent - what would happen to companies who "comply" with DEI but at the same time speak out against it and point out that the reason they are complying is because it's required of (whoever is requiring it)? I doubt they would try it, but would their funding be pulled if they complied but complained to the public about it at the same time?!