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April 28, 2015

The Trouble with The Internet

         The internet and new modern technologies, a boon to mankind or Pandora's box about to let loose unimaginable horrors? In this the age of the computer, here are a few disturbing notes to this alleged boon to mankind. In this decadent society of instant gratification the use of the computer and the internet seems to lead to the support of laziness.  Human interaction with each other seems to be becoming a thing of the past.                                                                             
         Anyone who has bought a computer and is fairly new to it's use and language, and has had to use Micro soft's software on their computers will find that they have become virtual prisoners of the people who control the software. Those of us with certain types of laptops have seen our systems crash from various updates by windows updates that we never wanted, asked for, or are required to keep the present use of these devices. Then there is the saying "If it ain't broke don't fix it. Yet we still get these fix it updates. Hmm.                                                                         
         This crash of our computers, which sometimes ends up destroying the hard drive and even the function of other components, then forces most of us to buy a new computer, hmm there ought to be a law against this type of chicanery. But wait, it gets even better. As anyone of us knows, usage of ones computer requires that one employs some kind of security software to ones computer to prevent spying and viral infections. A shame that our fellow man is just not trustworthy to be upright and honest in his dealings on the computer and the Inter-net.                                                                                       

          If you have ever bought a security package from say McAfee or any of the myriads of systems that are available, they will point out that North America especially the U.S.A. and Canada are virtually the hottest spots for computer thievery, infections and general mayhem. Funniest thing though, is that the folks selling you protection from malware, spyware and viral infections are the very ones who are publishing the very things that they have you buying protection from. Hmm, there ought to be a law against this trickery.                                         
          Now for the catch 22 being forced on us all. Even if you are not an avid internet shopper,Banks, Auto insurance companies, Con Edison or whatever the name of your energy provider is, even most gyms, are now insisting that to have their services they are making it mandatory for you to use the computer to avail yourself of their services. this in turn makes everyone a target of the new age bandit, the computer hacker. Identity theft is now the highest crime taking place in America. Millions of people are now having their financial records hacked and stolen.                                                                                   

         Just who should be blamed? There is plenty enough to go around. First in the line of fire is the banks. Their aim as a tool for the Illuminati is to cut the flow of cash and introduce plastic transactions in an effort to enslave the vast majority of mankind. You don't have to believe it, just observe the way things are happening. Of course they are those who follow after every new fad, including jumping off the bridge if they see others doing so.                                                   
          Now why isn't there a law forbidding the opening of accounts, via the telephone, or the internet, without having the person opening such accounts present in front of the sales representative with valid identification to ensure that some poor soul who was robbed of their I.D. isn't taken to the cleaners by someone bogus???  Corporate greed has to take it's share of the blame by encouraging the use of easy access to the opening and granting of such sensitive items as credit cards and even the granting of loans.                                                             
           Gyms like Planet Fitness that insist that in order to be a member of their facilities one must give them access to one's bank account, is like letting a kid loose in the candy store. To the hacker that is expert at robbing bank accounts, that is a gift horse they just wont refuse. While the mass media tried to tell us that the Koreans were responsible for the computer hack job at Sony, it now turns out that this was done by expert American hackers as the fall of the head of Sony and her racist e-mails were exposed to the public.                                                  
          Even as this writing has gone into effect there are even health organizations that are now telling their clients, or, er, patients that their systems security has been breached and are being notified about it. Well according to life lock one of every three persons being notified by any company or organization that was breached, suffers from identity theft. If you have had millions and lost them due to illegal wire fraud or transfers, life lock only promises to spend up to a million in trying to restore your Identity. But what happens if your information is breached from a company like Life Lock? And who polices  this company?                                                                                                          
           While social media has it's advantages such as exposing the facts that white folks were in the middle of the looting's carried out in Baltimore, or beatings and other atrocities done to people of color not reported by "main stream media", the fact is, as per corporate greed and Illuminati control, "cookies" the new term for tracking devices attached to the software in your computers programs now track and trace everything that all computers do. This means that YOU, yep that's right, YOU, have no privacy and any and all postings and internet activity that you do is not only monitored but can and will be used against you in the search of a job, loan applications etc. Sounds far fetched? Think again.                                                                                         
          Every time that you use the computer to do online shopping, watch a Netflix movie or use a rival service, it's being recorded. Like the latest gadgets being shown on late night T.V. that is not sold in stores and you are told to order now to receive great discounts,? Give them your credit or debit card number and rest assured that it is now in a computer system just waiting for some fearless computer hacker bandit that's worse than Jesse James to come along and rob you blind.                                                                                                                  
          Again the dependence upon the computer by most service rendering companies, i.e. telephone service providers, airlines, fast food joints, and energy providers and hospitals show just how vulnerable we all are to the loss of these services whenever the computers lose electricity, satellite feeds or the systems inevitably crash. In power blackouts inner cities are in chaos. Traffic is haywire at major intersections refrigerated foods start to deteriorate and should communications collapse we are at a moments notice from the stone age.                                                                                                             
          So, whether or not you like playing games on your computer, ordering things on line, trolling E-bay or your friends face book page, rest assured that the cookies attached to these programs are being recorded to give insight to your shopping habits, your likes and dislikes, and in general to build up a psychological profile of you the user. Whether or not this is a good thing, it remains to be seen, just as the use of electronic cigarettes have yet to be proven to be a healthy fad.                                                                                                  
           Then there is the dating scene via the internet. By mandatory edict, all users must have an alias aka known as the user's name. this in turn leads to lying. Guess you know where this is going. Most men and women lie about themselves and post fake pictures of themselves on the I-net so as to meet others. Again here is where the human communication and interaction formula is quickly disappearing because by the time two people meet via the I-net, when they do so in person it usually is worse than a blind date yet most if not all are still enamored with this means of meeting others, makes me go hmm. And so friends until next time live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.