Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Watt?
Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Watt? Like carbon for money Radio Far Side 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 ...